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21,818,735 | 21,818,130 | 1 | 2 | 21,812,597 | train | <story><title>France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-amf-bloomberg/frances-amf-watchdog-fines-bloomberg-5-million-over-vinci-hoax-idUSKBN1YK1VN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>privateprofile</author><text>Any guesses to why aren&#x27;t Super Micro or other affected parties taking legal action, if it was a hoax like what&#x27;s reported in this case?</text></item><item><author>wheybags</author><text>My trust of bloomberg has been pretty low since the spy chip story, that seems to have been just a hoax. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-10-04&#x2F;the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-10-04&#x2F;the-big-h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colejohnson66</author><text>Because the bar is really high if they’re a news outlet. You have to prove that they <i>knew</i> what they were saying was false, and did it with the intent to harm.<p>Besides, I’m sure SuperMicro just wants it to blow over and be done with it. Being in the news for a lawsuit will bring it up again and possibly harm them financially as people (managers who order) who don’t understand things have knee jerk reactions.</text></comment> | <story><title>France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-amf-bloomberg/frances-amf-watchdog-fines-bloomberg-5-million-over-vinci-hoax-idUSKBN1YK1VN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>privateprofile</author><text>Any guesses to why aren&#x27;t Super Micro or other affected parties taking legal action, if it was a hoax like what&#x27;s reported in this case?</text></item><item><author>wheybags</author><text>My trust of bloomberg has been pretty low since the spy chip story, that seems to have been just a hoax. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-10-04&#x2F;the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018-10-04&#x2F;the-big-h...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tick_tock_tick</author><text>Being in the news several more times for a case about &quot;spy chips&quot; in your hardware isn&#x27;t worth any money they&#x27;d get?</text></comment> |
3,372,101 | 3,371,974 | 1 | 2 | 3,371,938 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)</title><text>Hacker News -<p>I'm working on a mobile application called MinoMonsters. We are using a Ruby EventMachine backend to track behavior, persist user objects, and handle virtual good transactions.<p>I'm in a very sticky situation. Our user numbers are exploding off the charts and our backend is failing. It's silently crashing without leaving a trace. It's getting into some hard to reproduce states. The situation is not looking good.<p>And I need to get it fixed -tonight-.<p>I am looking for an experienced Ruby dev on a short term contract basis ASAP. I've set aside a budget to make this happen truly ASAP. Deep EventMachine experience is highly preferred, as that's the core source of my issues. San Francisco would be nice, but I'm willing to talk to anyone with the chops to help me fix this.<p>If you know someone who can help, please reach out. If you don't, you can help by sharing this post with someone who might.<p>I can be contacted at [email protected] or by phone (410) 236 - 2894<p>EDIT: This is now resolved! Thanks for your help, HN. You guys are the best.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teej</author><text>Hey guys, thanks a TON for reaching out and helping me get this fixed. Through the efforts of Aman Gupta and my friend Ryan Stout, we were able to track down the source of the problem.<p>I really appreciate your help!<p>I promise to write up a blog post talking about my unique setup and how I fucked it up to lead to this problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)</title><text>Hacker News -<p>I'm working on a mobile application called MinoMonsters. We are using a Ruby EventMachine backend to track behavior, persist user objects, and handle virtual good transactions.<p>I'm in a very sticky situation. Our user numbers are exploding off the charts and our backend is failing. It's silently crashing without leaving a trace. It's getting into some hard to reproduce states. The situation is not looking good.<p>And I need to get it fixed -tonight-.<p>I am looking for an experienced Ruby dev on a short term contract basis ASAP. I've set aside a budget to make this happen truly ASAP. Deep EventMachine experience is highly preferred, as that's the core source of my issues. San Francisco would be nice, but I'm willing to talk to anyone with the chops to help me fix this.<p>If you know someone who can help, please reach out. If you don't, you can help by sharing this post with someone who might.<p>I can be contacted at [email protected] or by phone (410) 236 - 2894<p>EDIT: This is now resolved! Thanks for your help, HN. You guys are the best.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shahed</author><text>Emailed you, hoping to help out in any way possible!</text></comment> |
26,766,641 | 26,766,619 | 1 | 2 | 26,764,067 | train | <story><title>Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3</title><url>https://emasquil.github.io/posts/multithreading-boto3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vtuulos</author><text>It is a bit of a hidden gem but Metaflow includes a Boto-based highly parallelized, error-tolerant S3 client that Netflix uses routinely to get 10-20Gbps throughput between EC2 and S3.<p>Technically it is independent from Metaflow, so you could use it as a stand-alone, high-performance S3 client.<p>See docs here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.metaflow.org&#x2F;metaflow&#x2F;data#store-and-load-objects-in-a-metaflow-flow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.metaflow.org&#x2F;metaflow&#x2F;data#store-and-load-objec...</a><p>And code here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Netflix&#x2F;metaflow&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;metaflow&#x2F;datatools" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Netflix&#x2F;metaflow&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;metaflow&#x2F;dat...</a><p>(I wrote it originally - AMA if curious)</text></comment> | <story><title>Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3</title><url>https://emasquil.github.io/posts/multithreading-boto3/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ak217</author><text>The AWS Go SDK now has a connection pool based S3 download&#x2F;upload manager API that allows saturating your (e.g. 40Gbit&#x2F;s EC2-S3) network connection using far less memory and CPU than is possible with Python.<p>A colleague of mine developed this tool to make this functionality available in a CLI: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chanzuckerberg&#x2F;s3parcp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chanzuckerberg&#x2F;s3parcp</a></text></comment> |
12,951,132 | 12,951,082 | 1 | 3 | 12,949,995 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you handle the business structure and taxes of side projects?</title><text>For those of you with income generating side projects, have you incorporated? Do you pay quarterly taxes? Do you list it as other, unreported income on your returns?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaheard</author><text>Lawyer and entrpreneur here. There are 2 main reasons to incorporate: liability protection and ease of administration.<p>You don&#x27;t say what your side project is, but you have to ask your self whether you need liability protection, that is what are the chances someone is going to sue you for damages. If you feel you need liability protection, then you should form an entity. I recommend an LLC in most cases. It is a pass-through entity for taxes which means you pay taxes on your individual return (though it still must file a business tax return). Also buy insurance.<p>The other reason is ease of administration. A legal entity will have some form of controlling document. In an LLC, it is the Operating Agreement. This spells out the rights and duties of the principals in the business. It also allows for common ownership of the business assets. As principals come and go, the LLC continues on. Finally, if you get big and you bring on investors, they will want to see a legal entity for their protection.<p>The drawbacks of forming an LLC are the time and effort of drafting and filing all the proper incorporating documents, paying the filing fees (in California $800 per year), and the extra tax forms.<p>This is a complicated topic and I have given a high level view. There are lots of resources on the internet and in bookstores on this topic. Nolo.com would be a good place to start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; The drawbacks of forming an LLC are the time and effort of drafting and filing all the proper incorporating documents, paying the filing fees (in California $800 per year), and the extra tax forms.<p>Bah. I briefly did a side project that did not end up making any money (it was more of a hobby with a partner), and that $800 a year was the biggest buzzkill. What a waste. By far our two biggest yearly expenses were 1. that $800 and 2. paying an accountant* a few hundred to do our 40 page tax return that said $0 at the bottom.<p>Noting that I am NOT a lawyer and my legal advice is worthless: I would not LLC again until whatever project I was working on actually was making money.<p>[*] Sure, I could have probably prepared the tax returns myself, but I was not willing to risk making a typo on page 34 and having the IRS after me for $N,000. No thanks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you handle the business structure and taxes of side projects?</title><text>For those of you with income generating side projects, have you incorporated? Do you pay quarterly taxes? Do you list it as other, unreported income on your returns?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaheard</author><text>Lawyer and entrpreneur here. There are 2 main reasons to incorporate: liability protection and ease of administration.<p>You don&#x27;t say what your side project is, but you have to ask your self whether you need liability protection, that is what are the chances someone is going to sue you for damages. If you feel you need liability protection, then you should form an entity. I recommend an LLC in most cases. It is a pass-through entity for taxes which means you pay taxes on your individual return (though it still must file a business tax return). Also buy insurance.<p>The other reason is ease of administration. A legal entity will have some form of controlling document. In an LLC, it is the Operating Agreement. This spells out the rights and duties of the principals in the business. It also allows for common ownership of the business assets. As principals come and go, the LLC continues on. Finally, if you get big and you bring on investors, they will want to see a legal entity for their protection.<p>The drawbacks of forming an LLC are the time and effort of drafting and filing all the proper incorporating documents, paying the filing fees (in California $800 per year), and the extra tax forms.<p>This is a complicated topic and I have given a high level view. There are lots of resources on the internet and in bookstores on this topic. Nolo.com would be a good place to start.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>no_protocol</author><text>&gt; paying the filing fees (in California $800 per year)<p>Wow, that seems super high. So if I was running a side project in California I might be stuck deciding between wasting 10% or more of my income on fees or putting my personal assets at risk in a sole proprietorship?<p>Since you mention you are a lawyer, can you comment at all on the limits (if any) of liability protection with an LLC. Is a single-person LLC going to be a solid shield over my personal assets, or are there still possible risks?<p>Edit: It looks like the fees to maintain an LLC in my locality would be less than 5% of the $800 fee mentioned for California. Does California just not like small businesses?</text></comment> |
12,697,628 | 12,697,695 | 1 | 3 | 12,697,009 | train | <story><title>It's time to reconsider going on-prem</title><url>http://gravitational.com/blog/time-to-reconsider-going-onprem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>I&#x27;m a huge believer in colocation&#x2F;on-prem in the post-Kubernetes era. I manage technical operations at a SaaS company and we migrated out of public cloud and into our own private, dedicated gear almost two years ago. Kubernetes and--especially--CoreOS has been a game changer for us. Our Kube environment achieves a density that simply isn&#x27;t possible in a public cloud environment with individual app server instances. We&#x27;re running 150+ service containers on each 12-core, 512 GB RAM server. Our Kubernetes farm--six servers configured like this--is barely at 10% capacity and I suspect that we will continue to grow on this gear for quite some time.<p>CoreOS, however, is the real game-changer for us. The automatic updates and ease of management is what took us from a mess of 400+ ill-maintained OpenStack instances to a beautiful environment where servers automatically update themselves and everything &quot;just works&quot;. We&#x27;ve built automation around our CoreOS baremetal deployment, our Docker container building (Jenkins + custom Groovy), our monitoring (Datadog-based), and soon, our F5-based hardware load balancing. I&#x27;m being completely serious when I say that this software has made it fun to be a sysadmin again. It&#x27;s disposed of the rote, shitty aspects of running infrastructure and replaced it with exciting engineering projects with high ROI, huge efficiency improvements and more satisfying work for the ops engineering team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tensor</author><text>There is a huge difference between managing your own cloud infrastructure and letting clients run your big SaaS app in their own data centre. I think &quot;on-prem&quot; in the context of SaaS usually refers to the latter.</text></comment> | <story><title>It's time to reconsider going on-prem</title><url>http://gravitational.com/blog/time-to-reconsider-going-onprem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrissnell</author><text>I&#x27;m a huge believer in colocation&#x2F;on-prem in the post-Kubernetes era. I manage technical operations at a SaaS company and we migrated out of public cloud and into our own private, dedicated gear almost two years ago. Kubernetes and--especially--CoreOS has been a game changer for us. Our Kube environment achieves a density that simply isn&#x27;t possible in a public cloud environment with individual app server instances. We&#x27;re running 150+ service containers on each 12-core, 512 GB RAM server. Our Kubernetes farm--six servers configured like this--is barely at 10% capacity and I suspect that we will continue to grow on this gear for quite some time.<p>CoreOS, however, is the real game-changer for us. The automatic updates and ease of management is what took us from a mess of 400+ ill-maintained OpenStack instances to a beautiful environment where servers automatically update themselves and everything &quot;just works&quot;. We&#x27;ve built automation around our CoreOS baremetal deployment, our Docker container building (Jenkins + custom Groovy), our monitoring (Datadog-based), and soon, our F5-based hardware load balancing. I&#x27;m being completely serious when I say that this software has made it fun to be a sysadmin again. It&#x27;s disposed of the rote, shitty aspects of running infrastructure and replaced it with exciting engineering projects with high ROI, huge efficiency improvements and more satisfying work for the ops engineering team.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurus3</author><text><i>post-Kubernetes era</i><p>Is it?</text></comment> |
37,470,839 | 37,468,181 | 1 | 3 | 37,439,732 | train | <story><title>The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines</title><url>https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Turskarama</author><text>The big risk is a bunch of transformers blow up, essentially taking the grid down. Since we would have to bootstrap the grid again without the advantage of the grid... this would likely set civilization back pretty far, a new dark age is far from impossible.</text></item><item><author>dskrepps</author><text>I&#x27;ve wondered for a while. Lots of people seem to think a Carrington Event will simply fry all small electronics and make everything stop working, but from my understanding all it&#x27;ll actually do is cause power surges in long transmission lines and disrupt wireless signals. Apparently telegraph lines sparked and shocked people. So what effect will that actually have now? Will a massive power surge go through my house and destroy everything plugged in, and thus indirectly my desktop computer? Will every house on the grid catch fire, destroying all modern cities? Or will substations and transformers be destroyed but shield homes themselves from catastrophic damage? Will wildfires destroy every forest anywhere near modern infrastructure?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ianburrell</author><text>I read that it is fairly easy to protect equipment by grounding it. But that requires properly grounding lots of gear, and the power companies aren&#x27;t willing to spend the money.<p>Also, the Carrington event has plenty of notice before arrives at Earth. It would be possible to shut down the grid, and maybe disconnect all the transformers. It would require a cold start, but better to shutdown for a day than forever. The problem is that this requires the power companies to practice for a shutdown and cold start.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines</title><url>https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Turskarama</author><text>The big risk is a bunch of transformers blow up, essentially taking the grid down. Since we would have to bootstrap the grid again without the advantage of the grid... this would likely set civilization back pretty far, a new dark age is far from impossible.</text></item><item><author>dskrepps</author><text>I&#x27;ve wondered for a while. Lots of people seem to think a Carrington Event will simply fry all small electronics and make everything stop working, but from my understanding all it&#x27;ll actually do is cause power surges in long transmission lines and disrupt wireless signals. Apparently telegraph lines sparked and shocked people. So what effect will that actually have now? Will a massive power surge go through my house and destroy everything plugged in, and thus indirectly my desktop computer? Will every house on the grid catch fire, destroying all modern cities? Or will substations and transformers be destroyed but shield homes themselves from catastrophic damage? Will wildfires destroy every forest anywhere near modern infrastructure?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hattmall</author><text>Don&#x27;t modern transformers have surge decoupling devices? The same thing happens with lightning and long transmission lines and isn&#x27;t that why lights will flicker during storms.</text></comment> |
24,097,057 | 24,096,179 | 1 | 2 | 24,091,709 | train | <story><title>Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people)</title><url>https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/38770</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thornjm</author><text>A bunch of app suggestions for reading reddit and watching youtube is terrible security advice and borderline dangerous. People should refrain from providing any (pseudo) security advice unless they know what they are talking about.<p>There may exist people with a genuine need for device hardening and I hope they do not read this article.<p>EDIT: I’ll leave my comment but I on second reading I notice that the author is specifically targeting normal people and is trying to make it accessible. Arguably should still not be called “hardening”.</text></comment> | <story><title>Smartphone Hardening non-root Guide 2.0 (for normal people)</title><url>https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/38770</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Havoc</author><text>&gt;iPhone does not allow you to have privacy due to its blackbox nature<p>This is a stupid argument. My mobile banking app isn&#x27;t open source either but I&#x27;m pretty sure it&#x27;s reasonably private. Privacy &lt;&gt; open source. Two entirely separate topics than aren&#x27;t mutually exclusive (or inclusive).<p>Besides I own &amp; use both iOS &amp; Android. My privacy worries are disproportionately on the android side. The respective pi-hole logs alone give me pause for thought. Canonical android seems OK, but the stuff that actually ships on specific manufacturers is infested for lack of better word. (Why did the pi-hole average block rate shoot up 400%? oh right friend with her android phone visited).</text></comment> |
8,456,083 | 8,456,020 | 1 | 2 | 8,455,651 | train | <story><title>W.H.O. Forecast for Ebola Worsens as Mortality Rate Rises</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/world/africa/ebola-epidemic-who-west-africa.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danieltillett</author><text>Not stopping this outbreak with all the resources we have is running a massive natural experiment in how well adapted Ebola can become for efficient human-to-human transmission. As a zoonotic virus Ebola in its wild state is very unlikely to be optimised for human-to-human transmission. Every new case is increasing the chance that a new strain will arise that will be efficiently transmitted between people. I am not too keen to see how well adapted Ebola can become to humans.</text></comment> | <story><title>W.H.O. Forecast for Ebola Worsens as Mortality Rate Rises</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/world/africa/ebola-epidemic-who-west-africa.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>I&#x27;m worried about the coming flu season. Many people will have the early symptoms shared by both flu and ebola (a fever and a headache). The medical establishment will need to find needles in the haystack.<p>Don&#x27;t skip the flu shot this (or any) year, folks.</text></comment> |
14,269,434 | 14,265,752 | 1 | 2 | 14,263,842 | train | <story><title>Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/roger-penrose-on-why-consciousness-does-not-compute</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deepnotderp</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly not sure why artificial intelligence comes up every time Penrose&#x27;s hypothesis is mentioned. The point of artificial intelligence is not ( at least in my and several other prominent AI scientist&#x27;s such as Andrew Ng&#x27;s opinion) to create a <i>conscious</i> intelligence, but to create intelligence that can do many of the useful tasks that we can do. Whether or not it&#x27;s conscious along the way is largely irrelevant.<p>That being said, I&#x27;m not sure why there&#x27;s quite so much vitriol towards Penrose and his hypothesis, the leveraging of quantum effects in photosynthesis and enzymes have been demonstrated and recent studies show that the sense of smell may also be based upon quantum phenomena. So it&#x27;s not all too unreasonable that there might be <i>something</i> quantum going on, even if it&#x27;s not Penrose and Hameroff&#x27;s microtubules.<p>Another interesting quantum hypothesis in neuroscience is Fisher&#x27;s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;20161102-quantum-neuroscience&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;20161102-quantum-neuroscience...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>&quot;Quantum effects&quot; is not the same as &quot;quantum computing&quot;. This is the same bullshit as the D-Wave marketing, just in a different domain.<p>Quantum computing happening in the brain is an extremely extraordinary hypothesis, and requires some very good evidence before it&#x27;s accepted. Quantum effects happening on the brain is a &quot;well, duh, and you&#x27;ll tell me water is wet later?&quot; hypothesis, and requires some good evidence not to believe in it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/roger-penrose-on-why-consciousness-does-not-compute</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deepnotderp</author><text>I&#x27;m honestly not sure why artificial intelligence comes up every time Penrose&#x27;s hypothesis is mentioned. The point of artificial intelligence is not ( at least in my and several other prominent AI scientist&#x27;s such as Andrew Ng&#x27;s opinion) to create a <i>conscious</i> intelligence, but to create intelligence that can do many of the useful tasks that we can do. Whether or not it&#x27;s conscious along the way is largely irrelevant.<p>That being said, I&#x27;m not sure why there&#x27;s quite so much vitriol towards Penrose and his hypothesis, the leveraging of quantum effects in photosynthesis and enzymes have been demonstrated and recent studies show that the sense of smell may also be based upon quantum phenomena. So it&#x27;s not all too unreasonable that there might be <i>something</i> quantum going on, even if it&#x27;s not Penrose and Hameroff&#x27;s microtubules.<p>Another interesting quantum hypothesis in neuroscience is Fisher&#x27;s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;20161102-quantum-neuroscience&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantamagazine.org&#x2F;20161102-quantum-neuroscience...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>&gt; The point of artificial intelligence is not ( at least in my and several other prominent AI scientist&#x27;s such as Andrew Ng&#x27;s opinion) to create a conscious intelligence, but to create intelligence that can do many of the useful tasks that we can do.<p>That&#x27;s only one school of AI (&quot;weak AI&quot;). The other school (&quot;strong AI&quot;) says that it&#x27;s certainly worthwhile to create an intelligence that is capable of thought the way humans are -- if only to get a better handle on what &quot;thought&quot; and &quot;intelligence&quot; really are. Currently weak AI is &quot;winning&quot; because the surveillance and online-advertising industries can get more use out of it. But that doesn&#x27;t put strong AI out of reach, nor render it wholly irrelevant.</text></comment> |
30,818,027 | 30,817,654 | 1 | 3 | 30,817,065 | train | <story><title>Kotlin for JavaScript</title><url>https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-overview.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esprehn</author><text>I&#x27;d be more interested if there was VSCode support. The JetBrains folks response was ridiculous and dismissive:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.kotlinlang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;official-support-for-visual-studio-code&#x2F;8242" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.kotlinlang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;official-support-for-visual...</a><p>Apparently they refuse to support the most popular web IDE because Kotlin for JS is really about selling IDEA licenses. Fair enough, but it means I don&#x27;t suggest Kotlin for anything except as a Java alternative and Android.<p>There&#x27;s better options from companies that are less adversarial to their community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>If I&#x27;m understanding correctly, the thing you found offensive in that comment was the JetBrains employee talking about &quot;dragging&quot; people to IDEA. If that&#x27;s the case, it&#x27;s important to note that the notion was first suggested by the OP:<p>&gt; This would not only be beneficial to developers using this editor, but could drag a lot of developers to IDEA when seeking out for a full-blown IDE eventually.<p>In this context, the JetBrains employee was not saying &quot;it won&#x27;t sell licenses and therefore we won&#x27;t do it&quot;, they were saying &quot;this won&#x27;t do what you think it will do&quot;.<p>JetBrains is a company, and like any other company their focus will tend to lean toward where the money is. But my experience with Kotlin over the last several years is that JetBrains is <i>very</i> responsive to the community and their needs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kotlin for JavaScript</title><url>https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-overview.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esprehn</author><text>I&#x27;d be more interested if there was VSCode support. The JetBrains folks response was ridiculous and dismissive:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.kotlinlang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;official-support-for-visual-studio-code&#x2F;8242" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.kotlinlang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;official-support-for-visual...</a><p>Apparently they refuse to support the most popular web IDE because Kotlin for JS is really about selling IDEA licenses. Fair enough, but it means I don&#x27;t suggest Kotlin for anything except as a Java alternative and Android.<p>There&#x27;s better options from companies that are less adversarial to their community.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meibo</author><text>I&#x27;m curious, how do you see this as being adversarial to their community? It&#x27;s not like they are taking down kotlin language servers, there are community language servers and extensions for kotlin in vscode and they&#x27;re linked here as well, by jetbrains employees.<p>They need users to pay for IDEA to survive, so being open about not wanting to spend developer time to make it easier for people not to use IDEA that could be used to make IDEA better seems sensible from a business perspective. Seems like the community stepped up regardless.</text></comment> |
27,625,970 | 27,626,042 | 1 | 2 | 27,625,511 | train | <story><title>EvalAI: An Open-Source Alternative to Kaggle</title><url>https://eval.ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thadk</author><text>This article &quot;50 Years of Data Science&quot; by David Donoho (2017) had a sharp point about Kaggle-like competitions being under-valued by stats:<p><pre><code> &quot;To my mind, the crucial but unappreciated methodology driving predictive modeling’s success is what computational linguist Mark Liberman (Liberman 2010) has called the Common Task Framework (CTF). An instance of the CTF has these ingredients:
(a) A publicly available training dataset involving, for each observation, a list of (possibly many) feature measure- ments, and a class label for that observation.
(b) A set of enrolled competitors whose common task is to infer a class prediction rule from the training data.
(c) A scoring referee,to which competitors can submit their prediction rule. The referee runs the prediction rule against a testing dataset, which is sequestered behind a Chinese wall. The referee objectively and automatically reports the score (prediction accuracy) achieved by the submitted rule.
...
The general experience with CTF was summarized by Liberman as follows:
1. Error rates decline by a fixed percentage each year, to an asymptote depending on task and data quality.
2. Progress usually comes from many small improvements; a change of 1% can be a reason to break out the champagne.
3. Shared data plays a crucial role—and is reused in unex- pected ways.
...
The author believes that the Common Task Framework is the single idea from machine learning and data science that is most lacking attention in today’s statistical training.
</code></pre>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;10618600.2017.1384734" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;10618600.2017.1...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>EvalAI: An Open-Source Alternative to Kaggle</title><url>https://eval.ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tmabraham</author><text>To me this looks more like a competitor to CodaLab than Kaggle, and seems to target the ML research competition market. It seems unlike Kaggle, it doesn&#x27;t seem to support things like notebooks, discussions, etc.<p>I might add that the comparison to Kaggle is added by the OP, I don&#x27;t see it mentioned on the website anywhere.</text></comment> |
18,429,602 | 18,429,291 | 1 | 2 | 18,426,853 | train | <story><title>A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette</title><url>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/intellectual-dark-web-quillette-claire-lehmann-221917</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mancerayder</author><text>A lot of people are going to compare this publication to &quot;bog Conservative&quot; -- or worse, &#x27;alt-right&#x27; -- online publications. A friend sent me an article for the first time today and it took the words out of my head - and it&#x27;s not at all what I would consider right-wing.<p>Does the word &#x27;white&#x27; in the headline of this piece make you nervous: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quillette.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;17&#x2F;a-closer-look-at-anti-white-rhetoric&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quillette.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;08&#x2F;17&#x2F;a-closer-look-at-anti-white...</a> ? Will you skim the headline, downvote this and fail to read the part that talks heavily about the new NYT editor and hundreds of her tweets, combines other examples and advances a thesis that there&#x27;s a new type of religious ideology that&#x27;s taken hold in the U.S., while traditional religion waned? If so, then you&#x27;re precisely what the conversation is about: people who sit idly by as a new dogmatism takes hold under the guise of righteousness.<p>As a traditionally Left person myself, I&#x27;m deeply troubled by the discourse in the U.S., where the Left and the extreme Right use the same phraseology and attitude, while the former feels vindicated and justified (because they are on the correct side). And throwing away due process in the interest of the Greater Good? If you&#x27;re not reminded of the Salem Witch Trials, you should be reminded of Stalin&#x27;s purges just the same.<p><i>Stepping out of right-versus-left politics, the idea is to remain skeptical of all group-think, regardless of where it comes from.</i><p>edit: grammar</text></comment> | <story><title>A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette</title><url>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/intellectual-dark-web-quillette-claire-lehmann-221917</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alanh</author><text>If you’ve ever read PG’s classic essay &quot;What You Can’t Say,&quot; Quillette may be recognizable as a publication unafraid to ask all of today’s unaskable questions.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;say.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;say.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quillette.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quillette.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
38,319,396 | 38,319,310 | 1 | 2 | 38,317,247 | train | <story><title>Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time</title><url>https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ironyman</author><text>- Starship got just below orbit<p>- Booster destroyed during hot staging<p>- SpaceX reporting that destruct system fired on upper stage towards end of burn<p>all in all a pretty good result: clean launch and separation, good performance on the booster during ascent (no engine mishaps this time)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>travisgriggs</author><text>Small correction, I think. The booster appeared to survive hot staging fine. It went through quite a bit of it&#x27;s flip back maneuver. It was awesome to watch. There were some interesting activations of engines in the booster engine ring at that point. It&#x27;s unclear to me if that was anticipated as an offset subset was what was desired for the off axis maneuver, or things were degrading at that point. And then it blowed up, rather instantly. That something happened to the booster during the separation that led to its RUD ~20 seconds later is likely, but technically it was &quot;long since separated&quot; (in rocket launch time) when it was destroyed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time</title><url>https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ironyman</author><text>- Starship got just below orbit<p>- Booster destroyed during hot staging<p>- SpaceX reporting that destruct system fired on upper stage towards end of burn<p>all in all a pretty good result: clean launch and separation, good performance on the booster during ascent (no engine mishaps this time)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixl97</author><text>Yea, I&#x27;ve not seen up close shots of the launch facility yet, but it looks like it&#x27;s all still there without massive amounts of destruction either.</text></comment> |
14,316,247 | 14,316,092 | 1 | 2 | 14,315,465 | train | <story><title>Ubuntu 17.04 review</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/ubuntu-17-04-review-this-is-unitys-true-swan-song/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamescostian</author><text>I never understood why Canonical&#x27;s attempts to be &quot;brave&quot; (as Apple would call it) result in Canonical pulling out, while attempts by other companies like Apple don&#x27;t.<p>For example, Canonical made a very brave decision to switch to Unity, and now they&#x27;re having to move away from Unity, which hints that there were enough users against it, and they pushed Canonical into this position (along with Canonical trying to allocate resources better).<p>But Apple &quot;killed skeuomorphism&quot; and there were tons of people complaining &quot;MY NOTES APP WHITE INSTEAD OF YELLOW EWWW&quot; (especially my parents), yet today they&#x27;re still getting more users and they have so many on recent versions of their OSes. I supported the removal of skeuomorphism, but seeing so many around me and on the internet complain, I thought Apple would be forced to put it back everywhere. Instead, people just moved on.<p>When Apple makes a &quot;pro&quot; laptop without any USB A ports, people laugh, but then buy it. When Ubuntu makes a phone, Ubuntu regrets it. Why?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addicted</author><text>Apple&#x27;s user base is one that wants Apple to do all their thinking for them as far as computer decisions are concerned. Often this may lead to sub optimal solutions for them, but they are ok with this because the overall lack of worry with Apple products, and the fact that they have a good track record of making good decisions, still leaves them ahead in the net (this may be changing with pro Macs though).<p>Linux users, OTOH, have an opinion on everything. Worse, a vocal minority is simply anti anything that is popular, which means Ubuntu&#x27;s goals were entirely in conflict with this segment of their base.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubuntu 17.04 review</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/ubuntu-17-04-review-this-is-unitys-true-swan-song/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamescostian</author><text>I never understood why Canonical&#x27;s attempts to be &quot;brave&quot; (as Apple would call it) result in Canonical pulling out, while attempts by other companies like Apple don&#x27;t.<p>For example, Canonical made a very brave decision to switch to Unity, and now they&#x27;re having to move away from Unity, which hints that there were enough users against it, and they pushed Canonical into this position (along with Canonical trying to allocate resources better).<p>But Apple &quot;killed skeuomorphism&quot; and there were tons of people complaining &quot;MY NOTES APP WHITE INSTEAD OF YELLOW EWWW&quot; (especially my parents), yet today they&#x27;re still getting more users and they have so many on recent versions of their OSes. I supported the removal of skeuomorphism, but seeing so many around me and on the internet complain, I thought Apple would be forced to put it back everywhere. Instead, people just moved on.<p>When Apple makes a &quot;pro&quot; laptop without any USB A ports, people laugh, but then buy it. When Ubuntu makes a phone, Ubuntu regrets it. Why?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jedd</author><text>There was a lovely TV show from the UK back in the 1980&#x27;s called Yes Prime Minister - one of the frequent exchanges between the senior public servant, and the PM, when the former wanted the latter to back down on something, was for the phrase &#x27;That&#x27;s very brave of you ...&#x27; to be uttered. Brave does not necessarily imply profound, good, worthwhile, etc. Canonical&#x27;s &#x27;brave decision&#x27; to go out and create their own DE (despite two very competent options already existing) does not imply it was a good decision.<p>&gt; When Apple makes a &quot;pro&quot; laptop without any USB A ports, people laugh, but then buy it.<p>This is the classic mixup of &#x27;people&#x27;. The people that scoffed at a laptop with a single USB port (or a phone without a headphone jack, etc etc) are NOT the same people that bought those items.<p>&gt; When Ubuntu makes a phone, Ubuntu regrets it.<p>The proverbial 800lb gorilla made a phone, and also regretted it. There are plenty of propositions explaining why two mobile phone platforms were all that the market could sustain.</text></comment> |
10,025,362 | 10,025,370 | 1 | 3 | 10,024,681 | train | <story><title>Why Rent Is So High and Pay So Low</title><url>https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/why-your-rent-is-so-high-and-your-pay-is-so-low-tom-streithorst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t answer the question and seems primary based on nostalgia.<p>My theory: the Fed&#x27;s zero interest rate policy is very good at inflating asset values: S&amp;P500, housing, you name it.<p>Rising income is a second-order effect: we hope that rising asset values will lead to increased wages. That used to be the case, but no longer is. Why? Because of automation and globalization probably.<p>So, the Fed has the pedal to the metal for seven whole years and we get mediocre job growth, no real wage growth, but screaming high housing costs and stock market. And who owns the most real-estate and stocks? The wealthy do, which is why inequality is growing.<p>Even though I&#x27;m critiquing the Fed&#x27;s policy, I don&#x27;t have the answers and would probably pursue the same policy. It&#x27;s a real conundrum. Perhaps basic income, or some other &quot;throw money from helicopters&quot; idea is the solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adam419</author><text>Here&#x27;s another solution:<p>Respect the wisdom of markets. Allow corrections to take place and don&#x27;t bury malinvestment under the rug only for it rear it&#x27;s ugly head worse later on by acting as if you have a better intuition on what the price of money should be.<p>Most people accept the virtue of free markets. Yet many don&#x27;t see that the actions the Fed has been taking destroys the concept of a market by artificially supplementing supply or demand in an unbounded way based on a perceived sense of greater understanding.<p>The problem is it&#x27;s really hard for most of these policy makers to build a platform based on &quot;Let&#x27;s do nothing and let the markets correct themselves&quot;. In such complex domains like an economy the action bias is very real, problematic, and the best thing to eliminate if you want to renormalize markets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Rent Is So High and Pay So Low</title><url>https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/why-your-rent-is-so-high-and-your-pay-is-so-low-tom-streithorst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This article doesn&#x27;t answer the question and seems primary based on nostalgia.<p>My theory: the Fed&#x27;s zero interest rate policy is very good at inflating asset values: S&amp;P500, housing, you name it.<p>Rising income is a second-order effect: we hope that rising asset values will lead to increased wages. That used to be the case, but no longer is. Why? Because of automation and globalization probably.<p>So, the Fed has the pedal to the metal for seven whole years and we get mediocre job growth, no real wage growth, but screaming high housing costs and stock market. And who owns the most real-estate and stocks? The wealthy do, which is why inequality is growing.<p>Even though I&#x27;m critiquing the Fed&#x27;s policy, I don&#x27;t have the answers and would probably pursue the same policy. It&#x27;s a real conundrum. Perhaps basic income, or some other &quot;throw money from helicopters&quot; idea is the solution.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>One thing nobody mentions is the increasing share of the GDP that the government consumes:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usgovernmentspending.com&#x2F;total_spending_chart" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usgovernmentspending.com&#x2F;total_spending_chart</a><p>That wealth has to come from somewhere.</text></comment> |
22,853,838 | 22,853,780 | 1 | 2 | 22,852,375 | train | <story><title>Luminus – A Clojure Web Framework</title><url>https://luminusweb.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vga805</author><text>&quot;Reagent is the recommended approach for building ClojureScript applications with Luminus.&quot;<p>Reagent is nice, but if you want global state management, re-frame adds most familiar concepts from redux but without as much boilerplate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;day8&#x2F;re-frame" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;day8&#x2F;re-frame</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>Clarification: Re-frame is not an alternative to reagent, it&#x27;s a framework or pattern utilizing reagent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Luminus – A Clojure Web Framework</title><url>https://luminusweb.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vga805</author><text>&quot;Reagent is the recommended approach for building ClojureScript applications with Luminus.&quot;<p>Reagent is nice, but if you want global state management, re-frame adds most familiar concepts from redux but without as much boilerplate: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;day8&#x2F;re-frame" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;day8&#x2F;re-frame</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hellofunk</author><text>re-frame still adds way too much boilerplate for my tastes, especially on solo projects. I personally greatly prefer to use reagent directly over using re-frame.</text></comment> |
14,106,348 | 14,106,173 | 1 | 2 | 14,105,785 | train | <story><title>All You Zombies</title><url>http://thedailywtf.com/articles/all-you-zombies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>exelius</author><text>HR at most companies is filled with people who are too terrible at anything else, so they get shoved into HR. This situation above (at a telecom turned business service provider) is a very common problem -- especially at companies with a large consumer-facing presence.<p>Because these companies need to hire large volumes of low-skilled workers, they implement rigid HR policies and procedures to streamline the process. Those workers make up probably 95% of their hiring volume -- turnover is high and there are tons of positions available.<p>These companies fall flat on their fucking face when they try to hire skilled workers. The same processes that make them efficient and streamlined at hiring call center reps make them <i>fucking terrible</i> at skilled labor hiring. They use low-skilled HR reps with zero domain knowledge to filter stuff, then HR always has to be involved in the process &quot;because policy&quot;. End result is it takes 4 months to get a resume, interview and extend an offer to someone -- in which time, the best candidates already have started other jobs.<p>Meanwhile, the engineering groups need to get things done. So when Accenture comes in and says &quot;We can get you a whole team of 50 people in India. And they can start next week.&quot; it&#x27;s hard to say no. And most of the full-time people working at the company are ex-consultants themselves (because that&#x27;s the only way to actually work at a lot of these companies).<p>Consultants are basically &quot;shadow HR&quot; at a lot of companies. They wouldn&#x27;t be so prevalent if these companies were competent at hiring people with relevant skill.</text></comment> | <story><title>All You Zombies</title><url>http://thedailywtf.com/articles/all-you-zombies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LeonM</author><text>We&#x27;ve all been there, recruiters calling you because you are the perfect applicant because of your skill with framework XYZ (even though you&#x27;ve never worked with it, nor claimed you have experience with it). And also because of your experience in Java (even though you are a javascript dev). They have the perfect job &#x27;opportunity&#x27; for you!
As long as you have at least 15 years experience in React and Angular and SCRUM and agile you should be fine. Oh, and you have to lower your hourly rate so the recruiter can make $20+ per hour of of your work.<p>Seriously, when does it stop?</text></comment> |
4,398,040 | 4,398,069 | 1 | 2 | 4,397,682 | train | <story><title>How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle</title><url>http://waynehale.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/how-we-nearly-lost-discovery/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jevinskie</author><text>"We informed the foam technicians at our plant in Michoud Louisiana that they were the cause of the loss of Columbia..."<p>That to me is pretty disgusting. In an incident like the loss of Columbia, there is no one, true "root cause". To assign blame to those foam technicians was disingenuous and just another instance of "passing the buck" that seems to happen so often in the post-mortem of NASA failures. NASA knew of earlier foam strikes (STS-112) yet chose to continue flying without diagnosing the problem. Even during the tragic STS-107 flight, engineers knew of foam strikes and their concerns were ignored. Even though they would have been almost completely powerless to remedy the situation on STS-107, the higher-ups decided to continue on with the mission instead of addressing the concerns with the heat shields. The article author states later in the article that he apologized to the foam technicians. Commendable, but I am still bothered by the fact that NASA was initially so eager to place the blame on a single contractor instead of owning up to their own culpability. Leadership and responsibility needs to come from the top, especially in such a prestigious organization!</text></comment> | <story><title>How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle</title><url>http://waynehale.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/how-we-nearly-lost-discovery/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>InclinedPlane</author><text>Every Shuttle in the fleet has had one or several extremely close scrapes with death. To look at the Shuttle record and see the history of calamity it's easy to think that we just had bad luck, but quite the opposite was the case. We were enormously lucky with the Shuttle, in a fairer world we would have lost more of them, and sooner. The Shuttle was plagued by many fundamental design flaws which combined to make it an inherently unsafe system. Within the last years of the program that knowledge finally started to sink in, which is why the Shuttle was essentially restricted to missions to the ISS.<p>Some of the achievements of the Shuttle program have been inspiring, and the vehicle itself is pretty to look at, but we should have canned that program long, long ago.</text></comment> |
34,656,478 | 34,656,518 | 1 | 2 | 34,653,843 | train | <story><title>The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>Many people with your net worth grind it out without any windfalls, the product of consistent hard work and reasonable choices over decades. It was always a possibility. Most people don&#x27;t require an IPO to achieve that. Luck can accelerate that outcome but it is not necessary in any meaningful sense.<p>It requires significantly greater extremes of wealth before luck plays a more frequent role. I know people well into 8-figures who were never anything more than blue-collar grinders. They worked hard and smart for decades with nothing that you could identify as being particularly lucky.</text></item><item><author>sidlls</author><text>Because few people are objective enough to put aside their deep emotional attachment to the notion that their particular bit of hard work and skill meant nothing without that luck.<p>I’m wealthy now: very wealthy by any standard (mid 7-figure net worth). I came from humble beginnings (nearly homeless frequently as a youth with a single mom), but I am quite intelligent (PhD in physics) and I worked hard. I would have retired with the same 401k any other white collar worker would have but for the sheer luck of choosing the right company at the right time to win an IPO lottery. I wouldn’t have got hired without the work I put in: but there’s no doubt in my mind that my wealth is the product of luck more than that work. Literally billions of people worked harder than I have in that same period of time and have nothing but poverty to show for it. But to hear my engineer peers talk you’d think luck was negligible. They simply don’t want to discount their hard work and bias toward putting much more weight on it than is merited</text></item><item><author>angarg12</author><text>Not accounting for luck as a factor of success is one of my pet peeves.<p>I&#x27;m reading &quot;So good they can&#x27;t ignore you&quot; and although I&#x27;m loving it, it&#x27;s also guilty of that.<p>Cal Newport tells the story of a Clean Tech VC and how he got the job using a personal connection to VC. But then he dismisses it by saying that &quot;such small breaks are relatively common&quot;.<p>Why is it so hard to admit that someone success is partially due to luck?</text></item><item><author>epistemer</author><text>It also disregards the type of lottery game that is a part of wealth accumulation.<p>Of course, it is not all luck but to believe wealth accumulation is a type of purely deterministic meritocratic game without a giant stochastic factor is ridiculous.<p>That might even be the dumbest aspect of our society. Believing the powerball lottery winner is a genius for picking the numbers they picked is obviously stupid. Yet we basically have that view with everything else besides the actual lottery.</text></item><item><author>solatic</author><text>Implicit is the presumption that the smartest people optimize for wealth, or that the smartest people are <i>good</i> at optimizing for wealth. Outside of Wall Street, &quot;smart&quot; people - academics, doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. - are just as likely to make bad personal finance decisions and&#x2F;or to stay in labor (rather than management) positions for most of their careers (leave aside the dual-track IC&#x2F;management ladder at a relatively small handful of companies). People don&#x27;t bother to max out their earning potential because, after you earn enough to meet your needs, it quite frankly doesn&#x27;t matter anymore compared to other means of personal fulfillment.<p>This is besides the point that the ranks of upper management are typically filled with people who are socially&#x2F;politically smart, and not necessarily STEM-style smart; the cognitive ability of whom may or may not be adequately captured by this study.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramphastidae</author><text>&gt; I know people well into 8-figures who were never anything more than blue-collar grinders.<p>Can you elaborate? I don’t see how that’s possible unless they started work in their early 20s, have been maxing their retirement, never had an accident or have been unemployed, made incredible investment decisions, and are now 60+? Even then I dont see how it’s possible for blue collar folks. Well into 8 figures is like … at least 30 million.</text></comment> | <story><title>The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners</title><url>https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrewrogers</author><text>Many people with your net worth grind it out without any windfalls, the product of consistent hard work and reasonable choices over decades. It was always a possibility. Most people don&#x27;t require an IPO to achieve that. Luck can accelerate that outcome but it is not necessary in any meaningful sense.<p>It requires significantly greater extremes of wealth before luck plays a more frequent role. I know people well into 8-figures who were never anything more than blue-collar grinders. They worked hard and smart for decades with nothing that you could identify as being particularly lucky.</text></item><item><author>sidlls</author><text>Because few people are objective enough to put aside their deep emotional attachment to the notion that their particular bit of hard work and skill meant nothing without that luck.<p>I’m wealthy now: very wealthy by any standard (mid 7-figure net worth). I came from humble beginnings (nearly homeless frequently as a youth with a single mom), but I am quite intelligent (PhD in physics) and I worked hard. I would have retired with the same 401k any other white collar worker would have but for the sheer luck of choosing the right company at the right time to win an IPO lottery. I wouldn’t have got hired without the work I put in: but there’s no doubt in my mind that my wealth is the product of luck more than that work. Literally billions of people worked harder than I have in that same period of time and have nothing but poverty to show for it. But to hear my engineer peers talk you’d think luck was negligible. They simply don’t want to discount their hard work and bias toward putting much more weight on it than is merited</text></item><item><author>angarg12</author><text>Not accounting for luck as a factor of success is one of my pet peeves.<p>I&#x27;m reading &quot;So good they can&#x27;t ignore you&quot; and although I&#x27;m loving it, it&#x27;s also guilty of that.<p>Cal Newport tells the story of a Clean Tech VC and how he got the job using a personal connection to VC. But then he dismisses it by saying that &quot;such small breaks are relatively common&quot;.<p>Why is it so hard to admit that someone success is partially due to luck?</text></item><item><author>epistemer</author><text>It also disregards the type of lottery game that is a part of wealth accumulation.<p>Of course, it is not all luck but to believe wealth accumulation is a type of purely deterministic meritocratic game without a giant stochastic factor is ridiculous.<p>That might even be the dumbest aspect of our society. Believing the powerball lottery winner is a genius for picking the numbers they picked is obviously stupid. Yet we basically have that view with everything else besides the actual lottery.</text></item><item><author>solatic</author><text>Implicit is the presumption that the smartest people optimize for wealth, or that the smartest people are <i>good</i> at optimizing for wealth. Outside of Wall Street, &quot;smart&quot; people - academics, doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. - are just as likely to make bad personal finance decisions and&#x2F;or to stay in labor (rather than management) positions for most of their careers (leave aside the dual-track IC&#x2F;management ladder at a relatively small handful of companies). People don&#x27;t bother to max out their earning potential because, after you earn enough to meet your needs, it quite frankly doesn&#x27;t matter anymore compared to other means of personal fulfillment.<p>This is besides the point that the ranks of upper management are typically filled with people who are socially&#x2F;politically smart, and not necessarily STEM-style smart; the cognitive ability of whom may or may not be adequately captured by this study.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SamoyedFurFluff</author><text>It is lucky they didn’t have a calamity that affected their personal finances, particularly in blue collar where injuries are relatively common. I’ve heard it takes 7 years of no unexpected expenses to grind oneself out of poverty. That means no healthcare scares, no dependents, no victim of crime, not even a car breaking down randomly.</text></comment> |
37,166,881 | 37,166,700 | 1 | 2 | 37,165,933 | train | <story><title>A look into the finances of SpaceX</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/behind-the-curtain-of-elon-musks-secretive-spacex-revenue-growth-and-rising-costs-2c828e2b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bell-cot</author><text>From Reuters...<p>&gt; In 2022, revenue doubled to $4.6 billion, helping the company reduce its loss last year to $559 million from $968 million, the WSJ reported.<p>&gt; The company reported about $5.2 billion in total expenses for 2022, up from $3.3 billion the year earlier, according to the report.<p>That $5.2B of expenses got 61 successful, production Falcon rocket launches in 2022. Vs. some pretty-reasonable estimates put the total cost of NASA&#x27;s &quot;Space Launch System&quot; at ~$5B <i>per individual launch</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>A look into the finances of SpaceX</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/tech/behind-the-curtain-of-elon-musks-secretive-spacex-revenue-growth-and-rising-costs-2c828e2b</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Leary</author><text>Its revenue will almost double again this year (2023) by looking at the number of launches[1]. Definitely the most exciting company Elon has (personal opinion)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spacexstats.xyz&#x2F;#launchhistory-per-year" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spacexstats.xyz&#x2F;#launchhistory-per-year</a></text></comment> |
39,256,432 | 39,253,846 | 1 | 2 | 39,251,909 | train | <story><title>Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token</title><url>https://shyam.blog/posts/beyond-self-attention/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tysam_and</author><text>Some of the topics in the parent post should not be a major surprise to anyone who has read <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.math.harvard.edu&#x2F;~ctm&#x2F;home&#x2F;text&#x2F;others&#x2F;shannon&#x2F;entropy&#x2F;entropy.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.math.harvard.edu&#x2F;~ctm&#x2F;home&#x2F;text&#x2F;others&#x2F;shanno...</a> ! If we do not have read the foundations of the field that we are in, we are doomed to be mystified by unexplained phenomena which arise pretty naturally as consequences of already-distilled work!<p>That said, the experiments seem very thorough, on a first pass&#x2F;initial cursory examination, I appreciate the amount of detail that seemed to go into them.<p>The tradeoff between learning existing theory, and attempting to re-derive it from scratch, I think, is a hard tradeoff, as not having the traditional foundation allows for the discovery of new things, but having it allows for a deeper understanding of certain phenomena. There is a tradeoff either way.<p>I&#x27;ve seen several people here in the comments seemingly shocked that a model that maximizes the log likelihood of a sequence given the data somehow does not magically deviate from that behavior when run in inference. It&#x27;s a density estimation model, do you want it to magically recite Shakespeare from the void?<p>Please! Let&#x27;s stick to the basics, it will help experiments like this make much more sense as there already is a very clear mathematical foundation which clearly explains it (and said emergent phenomena).<p>If you want more specifics, there are several layers, Shannon&#x27;s treatment of ergodic systems is a good start (though there is some minor deviation from that here, but it likely is a &#x27;close enough&#x27; match to what&#x27;s happening here to be properly instructive to the reader about the general dynamics of what is going on, overall.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token</title><url>https://shyam.blog/posts/beyond-self-attention/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kmeisthax</author><text>I had the exact same idea after seeing Google point out that you can[0] get ChatGPT to regurgitate verbatim training data by asking it to repeat the same word over and over again[1]. I&#x27;m glad to see someone else actually bring it to fruition.<p>This, of course, brings two additional questions:<p>1. Is this &quot;AI, hold the AI&quot; approach more energy-efficient than having gradient descent backpropagation compress a bunch of training data into a model that can then be run on specialized AI coprocessors?<p>2. Will this result wind up being evidence in the ongoing lawsuits against OpenAI and Stability AI?<p>[0] Could. OpenAI now blocks generation if you fill the context window with a single word.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2311.17035" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2311.17035</a></text></comment> |
29,631,924 | 29,630,572 | 1 | 2 | 29,630,293 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes</title><url>https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjice</author><text>Everytime I see this domain I know I&#x27;m in for a treat. I assume the Dev&#x27;s name is Justine, and they&#x27;re one hell of a programmer. Pretty sure Actually Portable Executables are from this dev as well, which are also incredibly interesting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes</title><url>https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>Very impressive.<p>&gt; SectorLISP uses what we call an ABC garbage collector and it took only 40 bytes of assembly.<p>&gt; [...]<p>&gt; Fast immediate garbage collection with zero memory overhead and perfect heap defragmentation is as easy as ABC when your language guarantees data structures are acyclic.<p>Neat, but my understanding was that even pure functional languages can&#x27;t generally make this guarantee, because things like <i>letrec</i> complicate matters. If SectorLISP can take this approach, why doesn&#x27;t Haskell? (Or does it?)</text></comment> |
33,650,628 | 33,649,186 | 1 | 3 | 33,648,618 | train | <story><title>Neocities: A platform that lets you create your own website/follow other's sites</title><url>https://neocities.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guu</author><text>Some technical details about the project you may find interesting:<p>- They were hosted on Digital Ocean but received a (probably invalid) DMCA takedown and all their servers were shut down by DO<p>- In response they bought an IPv4 block and built an Anycast CDN so complaints go to Neocities instead of the hosting provider<p>- People sometimes host spam or phishing sites on the domain which can cause google to flag it as malicious[0]<p>- There&#x27;s a geocities gallery by the same author kyle[1]<p>I interviewed kyle if you want to hear more about the project[2].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25803343" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25803343</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geocities.restorativland.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geocities.restorativland.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softwaresessions.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;bringing-geocities-back-with-kyle-drake&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.softwaresessions.com&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;bringing-geocities...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Neocities: A platform that lets you create your own website/follow other's sites</title><url>https://neocities.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Xeoncross</author><text>I feel like at this point neocities has been around almost as long as geocities was before it</text></comment> |
32,098,814 | 32,098,478 | 1 | 3 | 32,097,752 | train | <story><title>Gamedevs not baking in monetization are “fucking idiots”, says Unity CEO</title><url>https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource-john-riccitiello-marc-whitten-merger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the full context does him any favors. The way he talks of gamedevs that are not engaging in predatory behaviour (&quot;beautiful and pure, brilliant people&quot;) is incredibly condescending. Like, &quot;yes children, once you grow up you&#x27;ll realize how foolish your idealism has been and you&#x27;ll stuff your game full of gems you can overpay for!&quot;. These are his customers he&#x27;s talking about. And later talking about &quot;compulsion loops&quot;... just, no.<p>Unity used to be famous for being the game engine of choice for creative indies. Games like Hollow Knight, Return of the Obra Dinn, or Ori and the Blind Forest. It seems to me very clear that Riccitello has no understanding of the value of tools for making games like that. He sees Unity as a way of pumping out endless shitty Candy Crush clones stuffed with predatory microtransactions.<p>EDIT: by the way, for the full context, this is the question he&#x27;s answering:<p>&gt; &quot;Implementing monetisation earlier in the process and conversation is certainly an angle that has seen pushback from some developers.&quot;<p>The pushback the question is referring to is developers being disappointed in the ironSource merger. He&#x27;s literally being asked about Unity focusing too much on microtransactions and ad technology, and in his answer to the question he refers to his critics (which, again, are his customers!) as &quot;fucking idiots&quot;.<p>This guy should not be in charge of Unity.</text></item><item><author>morley</author><text>The full quote for context:<p>&gt; Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives. It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favourite people in the world to fight with – they’re the most beautiful and pure, brilliant people. They’re also some of the biggest fucking idiots.<p>Their CEO is certainly not calling everyone an idiot, just that there are some in that group of people. And personally, I greatly prefer this sort of frank talk to run-of-the-mill generic PR speak that usually comes from CEO interviews.<p>The next thing he says in the interview:<p>&gt; I’ve been in the gaming industry longer than most anybody – getting to the grey hair and all that. It used to be the case that developers would throw their game over the wall to the publicist and sales force with literally no interaction beforehand. That model is baked into the philosophy of a lot of artforms and medium, and it’s one I am deeply respectful of; I know their dedication and care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crayboff</author><text>I haven&#x27;t seen much of what he says in general so I don&#x27;t know if he has a really antagonistic trend in his he talks.<p>I interpreted what he said to mean &quot;I have respect for devs who approach this for just the art, but if you don&#x27;t consider monetization into your design from the beginning, you are self sabotaging your chance at business success&quot;.<p>He just said that with less politically correct talk, which is easily taken out of context.<p>Also there&#x27;s this assumption in this thread and in HN in general that &quot;monetization&quot; always means bleeding people out of their money. Sure much of the industry does that, but I don&#x27;t think that has to be the case</text></comment> | <story><title>Gamedevs not baking in monetization are “fucking idiots”, says Unity CEO</title><url>https://www.pocketgamer.biz/interview/79190/unity-ironsource-john-riccitiello-marc-whitten-merger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the full context does him any favors. The way he talks of gamedevs that are not engaging in predatory behaviour (&quot;beautiful and pure, brilliant people&quot;) is incredibly condescending. Like, &quot;yes children, once you grow up you&#x27;ll realize how foolish your idealism has been and you&#x27;ll stuff your game full of gems you can overpay for!&quot;. These are his customers he&#x27;s talking about. And later talking about &quot;compulsion loops&quot;... just, no.<p>Unity used to be famous for being the game engine of choice for creative indies. Games like Hollow Knight, Return of the Obra Dinn, or Ori and the Blind Forest. It seems to me very clear that Riccitello has no understanding of the value of tools for making games like that. He sees Unity as a way of pumping out endless shitty Candy Crush clones stuffed with predatory microtransactions.<p>EDIT: by the way, for the full context, this is the question he&#x27;s answering:<p>&gt; &quot;Implementing monetisation earlier in the process and conversation is certainly an angle that has seen pushback from some developers.&quot;<p>The pushback the question is referring to is developers being disappointed in the ironSource merger. He&#x27;s literally being asked about Unity focusing too much on microtransactions and ad technology, and in his answer to the question he refers to his critics (which, again, are his customers!) as &quot;fucking idiots&quot;.<p>This guy should not be in charge of Unity.</text></item><item><author>morley</author><text>The full quote for context:<p>&gt; Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives. It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favourite people in the world to fight with – they’re the most beautiful and pure, brilliant people. They’re also some of the biggest fucking idiots.<p>Their CEO is certainly not calling everyone an idiot, just that there are some in that group of people. And personally, I greatly prefer this sort of frank talk to run-of-the-mill generic PR speak that usually comes from CEO interviews.<p>The next thing he says in the interview:<p>&gt; I’ve been in the gaming industry longer than most anybody – getting to the grey hair and all that. It used to be the case that developers would throw their game over the wall to the publicist and sales force with literally no interaction beforehand. That model is baked into the philosophy of a lot of artforms and medium, and it’s one I am deeply respectful of; I know their dedication and care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zero_</author><text>Godot seems to gain popularity. Maybe it has a chance to become the choice for indies.</text></comment> |
19,920,994 | 19,920,781 | 1 | 2 | 19,917,786 | train | <story><title>YTMND is down for temporary maintenance</title><url>https://www.resetera.com/threads/looks-like-mid-00s-meme-factory-ytmnd-has-shut-down-for-good.116990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyllo</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard that dril on Twitter is actually Richard &quot;Lowtax&quot; Kyanka from SA, can anyone confirm&#x2F;deny?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dril" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dril</a></text></item><item><author>nostalgk</author><text>SA truly had a massive effect on Internet culture as a whole, something I rarely see attributed to them. Spent quite a lot of time on that site as an adolescent.</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>I hope someone accurately attributes SomethingAwful.com to these early iconic internet memories.<p>Image macros, the lowest form of comedy on SA, became memes and is still the lowest form of comedy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thomble</author><text>It&#x27;s not Lowtax, but some of the most prevalent &quot;weird twitter&quot; accounts, like @fart and @dril established their brand of humor at SA: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;nzg4yw&#x2F;fuck-you-and-die-an-oral-history-of-something-awful" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vice.com&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;article&#x2F;nzg4yw&#x2F;fuck-you-and-die-a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>YTMND is down for temporary maintenance</title><url>https://www.resetera.com/threads/looks-like-mid-00s-meme-factory-ytmnd-has-shut-down-for-good.116990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyllo</author><text>I&#x27;ve heard that dril on Twitter is actually Richard &quot;Lowtax&quot; Kyanka from SA, can anyone confirm&#x2F;deny?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dril" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;dril</a></text></item><item><author>nostalgk</author><text>SA truly had a massive effect on Internet culture as a whole, something I rarely see attributed to them. Spent quite a lot of time on that site as an adolescent.</text></item><item><author>ctvo</author><text>I hope someone accurately attributes SomethingAwful.com to these early iconic internet memories.<p>Image macros, the lowest form of comedy on SA, became memes and is still the lowest form of comedy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scaevolus</author><text>dril and many other Weird Twitter posters are migrants from the FYAD subforum on Something Awful, which had similarly absurdist memes.</text></comment> |
17,964,682 | 17,964,536 | 1 | 3 | 17,962,565 | train | <story><title>How America lost its love for the stick shift</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/audi-kills-manual-transmission-cars-america-lost-love-for-stick-shift.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t0mbstone</author><text>Speaking as someone who has owned a number of sports cars with manual transmissions, I can tell you why I finally made the switch to automatic:<p>Adaptive cruise control in stop and go traffic.<p>I used to have to deal with a six-speed manual transmission in stop and go traffic for an hour every day, and it was pure torture. I mean, sure, it was fun for a weekend drive in the mountains, but it sucked the rest of the time.<p>Oh, and as a side note, my new car with an automatic transmission and a 400+ HP engine accelerates from zero to 60 faster and smoother than any one of my previous cars. I will never go back! And I have paddle shifters, if I ever want to manually control the gears.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisdhoover</author><text>I just do like the truckers do, leave it in second and crawl. It helps to not be concerned with maintaining a 6 inch gap with the car ahead.<p>I truly believe that stop and go is caused by automatics. All of the brake tapping tends to bunch people up at the end of long lines forcing them to a complete stop. In a manual just let off on the gas a little and the engine brakes a little, no brake lights to create cascading braking</text></comment> | <story><title>How America lost its love for the stick shift</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/audi-kills-manual-transmission-cars-america-lost-love-for-stick-shift.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t0mbstone</author><text>Speaking as someone who has owned a number of sports cars with manual transmissions, I can tell you why I finally made the switch to automatic:<p>Adaptive cruise control in stop and go traffic.<p>I used to have to deal with a six-speed manual transmission in stop and go traffic for an hour every day, and it was pure torture. I mean, sure, it was fun for a weekend drive in the mountains, but it sucked the rest of the time.<p>Oh, and as a side note, my new car with an automatic transmission and a 400+ HP engine accelerates from zero to 60 faster and smoother than any one of my previous cars. I will never go back! And I have paddle shifters, if I ever want to manually control the gears.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>city41</author><text>My wife and I both have manuals and we sit in stop and go traffic every day. Having to shift in traffic doesn&#x27;t even register with my brain that it&#x27;s really anything at all. I simply don&#x27;t notice.</text></comment> |
31,276,090 | 31,275,329 | 1 | 2 | 31,273,989 | train | <story><title>Please stop disabling zoom</title><url>https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/please-stop-disabling-zoom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polotics</author><text>A simple rule:
Minimum font size &gt;= Age of oldest attendee</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>I&#x27;ve become &quot;that guy&quot; in presentations who constantly tells people &quot;fonts too small&quot;, &quot;can&#x27;t read cause the contrast isn&#x27;t enough&quot;, etc... My hope over time is that I stop being invited to meetings or people actually take the time to fix their presentations before it is presented to a wider audience.</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&gt; ... a small minority ... presbyopia ...<p>I think what you just indirectly pointed out is that software is largely written by young, ignorant people who don&#x27;t appreciate that <i>everyone</i> will get to experience presbyopia, and it happens sooner than you think. Maybe we should require product owners to be at least 40 years old ;-).</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>Unfortunately people see accessibility as a burden that a small minority puts on the rest of us, but really it is something that benefits everyone.<p>For instance, normally sighted people or even people with &quot;normal&quot; nearsightedness, farsightedness, or presbyopia benefit from adequate contrast.<p>Text &quot;size&quot; is another thing because people should be able to control it, particularly given the wide range of different devices that are out there.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>It’s not just accessibility. I’ve last track of the number of times I’ve seen a mobile website with a table that extends past the right side of the viewport and zoom disabled. You can’t scroll, and you can’t zoom, so you can’t read the table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwdisswordfish9</author><text>I think 20 years olds can read fonts smaller than 20 light years just fine. In facts, font that big may in fact be rather troublesome…</text></comment> | <story><title>Please stop disabling zoom</title><url>https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/please-stop-disabling-zoom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polotics</author><text>A simple rule:
Minimum font size &gt;= Age of oldest attendee</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>I&#x27;ve become &quot;that guy&quot; in presentations who constantly tells people &quot;fonts too small&quot;, &quot;can&#x27;t read cause the contrast isn&#x27;t enough&quot;, etc... My hope over time is that I stop being invited to meetings or people actually take the time to fix their presentations before it is presented to a wider audience.</text></item><item><author>rootusrootus</author><text>&gt; ... a small minority ... presbyopia ...<p>I think what you just indirectly pointed out is that software is largely written by young, ignorant people who don&#x27;t appreciate that <i>everyone</i> will get to experience presbyopia, and it happens sooner than you think. Maybe we should require product owners to be at least 40 years old ;-).</text></item><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>Unfortunately people see accessibility as a burden that a small minority puts on the rest of us, but really it is something that benefits everyone.<p>For instance, normally sighted people or even people with &quot;normal&quot; nearsightedness, farsightedness, or presbyopia benefit from adequate contrast.<p>Text &quot;size&quot; is another thing because people should be able to control it, particularly given the wide range of different devices that are out there.</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>It’s not just accessibility. I’ve last track of the number of times I’ve seen a mobile website with a table that extends past the right side of the viewport and zoom disabled. You can’t scroll, and you can’t zoom, so you can’t read the table.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agust</author><text>What about giving websites and web apps the ability to detect the font size preference of the user to automatically adjust the font size?<p>Just like native apps do...?</text></comment> |
24,918,338 | 24,917,681 | 1 | 2 | 24,914,501 | train | <story><title>Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ruined-my-life-after-going-all-in-on-amazon-a-merchant-says-he-lost-everything-20201028-p5697l.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomp</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people like you keep ranting about &quot;universal healthcare&quot; when obviously about 50% of your country so strongly opposes it that I think it&#x27;s sooner that hell freezes than US getting social healthcare.<p>Instead, why don&#x27;t you propose alternative solutions? E.g. in Switzerland, it&#x27;s illegal for your healthcare to be paid by the company, and also it&#x27;s obligatory to have healthcare insurance (probably the country pays for it if you&#x27;re poor). That way, you establish a thriving and competitive health insurance market, forcefully eliminate all the benefits corporations get that are unavailable to individuals, and also align interests (because individuals will be in the middle of money flow, they&#x27;ll have a vested interest in getting fairly- and transparently-priced health services). This would solve most of the problems US healthcare system has, while not triggering any anti-big-government sentiments.</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Yeah, you know, when people keep saying &quot;You aren&#x27;t as far from being homeless as you imagine you are&quot; this is what they mean. Just because <i>your</i> life has not come unraveled overnight doesn&#x27;t mean it can&#x27;t for reasons beyond your control having nothing to do with personal virtues or lack thereof.<p>We really need to get universal health care in the US, among other things, to limit how far people can fall when something crazy happens. We are making it far too easy to fall and far too hard to come back from it and this is why we also see headlines about how society is coming unraveled and the like.<p>Please don&#x27;t see this as some bizarre statistical outlier. Many homeless people were solidly middle class at one time and then things came apart and we are terrible about actively making it unnecessarily harder than it should be to get back on their feet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thedufer</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t understand why people like you keep ranting about &quot;universal healthcare&quot; when obviously about 50% of your country so strongly opposes it that I think it&#x27;s sooner that hell freezes than US getting social healthcare.<p>Maybe you mean something different than what I think of when I hear &quot;universal healthcare&quot; - could you share some data on that? The proposed Medicare For All policy, for example, is supported by around 70% of the US, including a (admittedly thin) majority of Republicans[1]. The problem isn&#x27;t popular support, it&#x27;s getting politicians to do what their constituents want.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;investigates&#x2F;special-report&#x2F;usa-election-progressives&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;investigates&#x2F;special-report&#x2F;usa-elec...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless</title><url>https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ruined-my-life-after-going-all-in-on-amazon-a-merchant-says-he-lost-everything-20201028-p5697l.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomp</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people like you keep ranting about &quot;universal healthcare&quot; when obviously about 50% of your country so strongly opposes it that I think it&#x27;s sooner that hell freezes than US getting social healthcare.<p>Instead, why don&#x27;t you propose alternative solutions? E.g. in Switzerland, it&#x27;s illegal for your healthcare to be paid by the company, and also it&#x27;s obligatory to have healthcare insurance (probably the country pays for it if you&#x27;re poor). That way, you establish a thriving and competitive health insurance market, forcefully eliminate all the benefits corporations get that are unavailable to individuals, and also align interests (because individuals will be in the middle of money flow, they&#x27;ll have a vested interest in getting fairly- and transparently-priced health services). This would solve most of the problems US healthcare system has, while not triggering any anti-big-government sentiments.</text></item><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Yeah, you know, when people keep saying &quot;You aren&#x27;t as far from being homeless as you imagine you are&quot; this is what they mean. Just because <i>your</i> life has not come unraveled overnight doesn&#x27;t mean it can&#x27;t for reasons beyond your control having nothing to do with personal virtues or lack thereof.<p>We really need to get universal health care in the US, among other things, to limit how far people can fall when something crazy happens. We are making it far too easy to fall and far too hard to come back from it and this is why we also see headlines about how society is coming unraveled and the like.<p>Please don&#x27;t see this as some bizarre statistical outlier. Many homeless people were solidly middle class at one time and then things came apart and we are terrible about actively making it unnecessarily harder than it should be to get back on their feet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wil421</author><text>You are looking at the healthcare coverage problem and you think it’s the only issue. Coverage is a big problem for some but not the biggest problem.<p>The biggest issue is arguably billing and pricing. You have no idea how much something will cost until it’s done. Medicade is paying over 80% more for prescription drugs than the EU.<p>&gt; In 2016 the U.S. spent 18% of its GDP on healthcare, whereas the next highest country (Switzerland) devoted 12% of its GDP to healthcare. The average amount spent on healthcare per person in comparable countries ($5,198) is half that of the U.S. ($10,348).<p>&gt; The average price per coronary bypass surgery in the U.S is 129% more than Switzerland’s next-highest average.<p>&gt; In 2014, the U.S. performed more MRI exams than most similarly wealthy countries at an average price of $1,119 per MRI. This was 42% more than the average price in the United Kingdom, 122% more than the average price in Switzerland, and 420% more than the average price in Australia.<p>&gt; While fewer appendectomies are performed on average in the United Kingdom compared to the U.S., the price per surgery in the U.S. is $15,930 – nearly double the price in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, in Australia and Switzerland, where far more appendectomies are performed on average than in comparable countries, the price of each surgery is even less, at only $3,814 in Australia and $6,040 in Switzerland.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthsystemtracker.org&#x2F;chart-collection&#x2F;how-do-healthcare-prices-and-use-in-the-u-s-compare-to-other-countries&#x2F;#item-the-average-price-of-an-angioplasty-or-bypass-in-the-u-s-is-higher-than-in-comparable-countries" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthsystemtracker.org&#x2F;chart-collection&#x2F;how-do-...</a></text></comment> |
18,644,609 | 18,644,665 | 1 | 3 | 18,642,635 | train | <story><title>Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/07/coinbase-dabbles-in-shitcoins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khuey</author><text>Piles of cow manure are readily verifiable but have comparatively little value.</text></item><item><author>dnautics</author><text>Gold&#x27;s value does not come from its beauty. It comes from its verifiability. If someone presents you a sample of gold you can very quickly verify its authenticity and approximate purity with very little technology.</text></item><item><author>CPLX</author><text>It’s nothing like buying gold. Gold is widely considered to be beautiful, and was considered a store of very high value in many cultures that were completely isolated from each other, and human desire for it has remained consistent for literally thousands of years.<p>Astonishingly, crypto even less defensible.</text></item><item><author>Moodles</author><text>Indeed Warren Buffet made a similar point: if you buy a farm, you&#x27;re buying the land, the potential to grow crops that people actually consume, etc. whereas cryptocurrency doesn&#x27;t really have a purpose except as a store of value. It&#x27;s not a productive asset; it doesn&#x27;t produce anything. It is a bit like buying gold.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LtITDtZPYEw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LtITDtZPYEw</a></text></item><item><author>muhneesh</author><text>Let&#x27;s call a spade a spade.<p>This market is a bust, and there&#x27;s no value-driven economic model to justify cryptos collectively being worth $50B-$100B.<p>With any startup, there is an expected future value of the company discounted back to the present. It then just becomes a risk-weighted probability question of whether that startup will achieve that expected future value in the expected timeframe.<p>Conversely, the valuations of the crypto market are driven mostly by momentum and prayers. It&#x27;s ultimately a case study of what happens when you mix unsophisticated investors, no regulation, frictionless market entry, memes as an investment philosophy (&quot;HODL&quot;) and the psychological highs of winning a lot of money. It&#x27;s gambling, not investing.<p>In terms of Coinbase - sure, they&#x27;re selling pickaxes during a gold rush, but gold rushes end and the pickaxe salesmen go out of business too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>While funny, it&#x27;s actually not easy to verify the <i>quality</i> of manure.<p>&gt; Animal manures are a valuable source of nutrients for crop growth. But, since every farm operation is different, each manure will have unique characteristics. Make regular laboratory manure analysis an important step in your manure and nutrient management planning. Understand that the total nutrient content in manure is not available the first year and that some nutrients may be lost depending on management practices.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extension.umn.edu&#x2F;manure-land-application&#x2F;manure-characteristics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extension.umn.edu&#x2F;manure-land-application&#x2F;manure-cha...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/07/coinbase-dabbles-in-shitcoins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khuey</author><text>Piles of cow manure are readily verifiable but have comparatively little value.</text></item><item><author>dnautics</author><text>Gold&#x27;s value does not come from its beauty. It comes from its verifiability. If someone presents you a sample of gold you can very quickly verify its authenticity and approximate purity with very little technology.</text></item><item><author>CPLX</author><text>It’s nothing like buying gold. Gold is widely considered to be beautiful, and was considered a store of very high value in many cultures that were completely isolated from each other, and human desire for it has remained consistent for literally thousands of years.<p>Astonishingly, crypto even less defensible.</text></item><item><author>Moodles</author><text>Indeed Warren Buffet made a similar point: if you buy a farm, you&#x27;re buying the land, the potential to grow crops that people actually consume, etc. whereas cryptocurrency doesn&#x27;t really have a purpose except as a store of value. It&#x27;s not a productive asset; it doesn&#x27;t produce anything. It is a bit like buying gold.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LtITDtZPYEw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=LtITDtZPYEw</a></text></item><item><author>muhneesh</author><text>Let&#x27;s call a spade a spade.<p>This market is a bust, and there&#x27;s no value-driven economic model to justify cryptos collectively being worth $50B-$100B.<p>With any startup, there is an expected future value of the company discounted back to the present. It then just becomes a risk-weighted probability question of whether that startup will achieve that expected future value in the expected timeframe.<p>Conversely, the valuations of the crypto market are driven mostly by momentum and prayers. It&#x27;s ultimately a case study of what happens when you mix unsophisticated investors, no regulation, frictionless market entry, memes as an investment philosophy (&quot;HODL&quot;) and the psychological highs of winning a lot of money. It&#x27;s gambling, not investing.<p>In terms of Coinbase - sure, they&#x27;re selling pickaxes during a gold rush, but gold rushes end and the pickaxe salesmen go out of business too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>There is a web service that sends animal manure to people if you would like to use it as a medium of exchange.</text></comment> |
26,301,583 | 26,301,515 | 1 | 2 | 26,300,583 | train | <story><title>Texas electric firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8B in claims</title><url>http://reuters.com/article/idUSKCN2AT1FE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonplackett</author><text>This is the side of privatisation that gets ignored. When private companies screw up, who gets left with the bill? Private companies have no incentive to be ready for really big problems because they know they’ll get bailed out, or just not have to pay.<p>Privatise the profit, socialise the losses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snidane</author><text>It&#x27;s actually well understood that privatisation for platform industries is bad, privatisation for businesses running on top of platforms is good.<p>Networks and infrastructure = little to no competition. Eg. networks naturally settle in a optimal geographical location and utilize economy of scale then. Can&#x27;t compete with that. So don&#x27;t privatise platforms. Rather - make them monopolistic and make them share the revenue with public using a monopoly tax. AT&amp;T model.<p>Translated to programmer speak: society&#x27;s OS (law,defence,policing,roads,energy,networks,sewers,etc.) should be uniform and near monopolistic to maximize economy of scale.<p>Society&#x27;s Apps (businesses) running in the ecosystem of the OS should be private, numerous and competitive as much as possible.<p>Occassionally you stumble upon a private business which develops a new network model and after some time it should be refactored from being an App to be part of the OS (eg. twitter).</text></comment> | <story><title>Texas electric firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8B in claims</title><url>http://reuters.com/article/idUSKCN2AT1FE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonplackett</author><text>This is the side of privatisation that gets ignored. When private companies screw up, who gets left with the bill? Private companies have no incentive to be ready for really big problems because they know they’ll get bailed out, or just not have to pay.<p>Privatise the profit, socialise the losses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phire</author><text>&gt; . When private companies screw up, who gets left with the bill?<p>In theory, the company is meant to declare bankruptcy (or seek more investment from shareholders) as soon as their books say they are insolvent. A company is Insolvent when it&#x27;s liabilities are higher than it&#x27;s assets, even by a single dollar.<p>The theory is that because the company is required to declare bankruptcy as soon as possible, it should only be slightly insolvent and should be able to repay creditors 80-95 cents on the dollar after liquidation.<p>Owners or shareholders might even put a company into bankruptcy while it&#x27;s still solvent (if they predict a future insolvency, or just want to wrap the company up). Creditors might get the full 100 cents on the dollar. Any money beyond that is paid as dividends to the owners&#x2F;shareholders.<p>In theory, if a company had incompetent or fraudulent accounting practices and didn&#x27;t know it was insolvent, or it deliberately traded while insolvent, then the liability of the company is pierced and the owner can find themselves on the hook to the creditors.<p>Companies are only meant to be liability shields if they are run correctly.<p>In reality, sometimes events cause a company to lose a whole lot of value overnight. A company could be 100% solvent one month and 20% solvent the next. But as long as the company was following best accounting practices, it&#x27;s legal. Sometimes the assets of a company can lose value after bankruptcy, or due to the bankruptcy. Especially when the company has put a lot of &quot;good will&quot; or &quot;brand recognition&quot; as assets on their books.<p>In reality, liquidators (who are also private companies) often don&#x27;t go after owners responsible for fraudulent accounting or mismanagement. They let it slide.<p>Perhaps because they didn&#x27;t detect it, or it was too minor to worry about. Perhaps they didn&#x27;t want to waste their time trying to prosecute. Perhaps they decided their creditors would get more cents on the dollar by not prosecuting, especially if the owner has very little of their own assets.<p>I also suspect there is a reputation factor. Owners get to select which liquidator handles their bankruptcy (unless it was court ordered) and if one liquidator gets a reputation for going after the owners for every mistake, then they might get less business.</text></comment> |
11,067,215 | 11,067,013 | 1 | 2 | 11,054,019 | train | <story><title>Saying 'no' to keep crap out of products</title><url>https://blog.orangecaffeine.com/the-art-of-saying-no-db012a22cd28#.sbmur7q01</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>Is it actually possible to know ahead of launching a feature that it&#x27;ll be crap, or is it that most features get launched and the ones that are receievd well by the users are deemed &quot;good&quot; while the ones that aren&#x27;t are considered &quot;crap&quot;?<p>We&#x27;ve all written things that we thought would be awesome that turned out to be disregarded by users, and deployed things we thought were pointless nonsense that turned out to be fantastically engaging features that users rave about. Can you <i>really</i> tell before you actually get proper feedback (eg the user seeing and using the feature, not just asking if they might like it because users say yes to everything)?</text></comment> | <story><title>Saying 'no' to keep crap out of products</title><url>https://blog.orangecaffeine.com/the-art-of-saying-no-db012a22cd28#.sbmur7q01</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dan353hehe</author><text>This reminds me a bit about what was mentioned in the book &quot;good to great&quot;. A company, or in this case a product, can do everything at a level a little above garbage, or it can focus on its core competencies and be the best at something.<p>The more features you add to a product, (in my mind) the worse it becomes.</text></comment> |
7,785,331 | 7,785,277 | 1 | 2 | 7,785,005 | train | <story><title>Send money to debit cards</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/send-money-to-debit-cards</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ianhawes</author><text>Balanced Payments&#x27; implementation[0] recently went into private beta. Interesting to note that between Stripe and Balanced, their fees are typically the same, however an important difference here is that Balanced is charging $1.00 versus 25c at Stripe.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.balancedpayments.com/push-to-card" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.balancedpayments.com&#x2F;push-to-card</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Send money to debit cards</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/send-money-to-debit-cards</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johne20</author><text>Is there a transaction&#x2F;monthly dollar limit to the amount you can send this way?</text></comment> |
20,952,044 | 20,952,066 | 1 | 2 | 20,950,468 | train | <story><title>Summer heat killed nearly 1,500 in France, officials say</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49628275</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zadkey</author><text>I live in Texas. The heat wave that France is experienced this summer is like maybe 1 or 2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than a normal summer for us.<p>Preparedness for summer is deeply ingrained in everyone&#x27;s minds here. Many Apartment complexes treat issues with AC units as emergency situations, reach out to on-call handymen and give high priority to their fix.<p>In the city of Dallas, city code requires that property owners provide refrigerated air to tenants from April 1 to Nov. 1.<p>&quot;According to state law, landlords must fix any condition that threatens a tenant&#x27;s health or safety. In Texas, that condition can include a sweltering day in a stuffy apartment with no air conditioning.&quot;<p>It is my hope that people in France look for ways to prepare and better safeguard the health and well-being of their citizens against the heat.<p>Some information taken from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dallasnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;dmn-problem-solver-renters-have-options-when-the-air-conditioner-doesn-t-get-fixed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dallasnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;dm...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalore</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t make sense to have AC preparedness when it&#x27;s only used for 1 week out of a year.<p>Also the environmental impact of everyone having an AC, that&#x27;s not good.<p>In France and the UK hardly any has an AC because it&#x27;s not really needed. Your suggestion is that they spend billions of dollars for this? Who buys everyone the AC?<p>I lived in PNG which is near the equator and hot. It&#x27;s not the temperature that&#x27;s the true problem, but humidity. We stayed cool by using the fan, resting, removing clothing, swimming.</text></comment> | <story><title>Summer heat killed nearly 1,500 in France, officials say</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49628275</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zadkey</author><text>I live in Texas. The heat wave that France is experienced this summer is like maybe 1 or 2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than a normal summer for us.<p>Preparedness for summer is deeply ingrained in everyone&#x27;s minds here. Many Apartment complexes treat issues with AC units as emergency situations, reach out to on-call handymen and give high priority to their fix.<p>In the city of Dallas, city code requires that property owners provide refrigerated air to tenants from April 1 to Nov. 1.<p>&quot;According to state law, landlords must fix any condition that threatens a tenant&#x27;s health or safety. In Texas, that condition can include a sweltering day in a stuffy apartment with no air conditioning.&quot;<p>It is my hope that people in France look for ways to prepare and better safeguard the health and well-being of their citizens against the heat.<p>Some information taken from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dallasnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;dmn-problem-solver-renters-have-options-when-the-air-conditioner-doesn-t-get-fixed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dallasnews.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;2009&#x2F;10&#x2F;07&#x2F;dm...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway5752</author><text>The people of France aren&#x27;t ignorant. They have just acclimated to a climate that is rapidly getting hotter.<p>It would be patronizing if French people offered basic advice on not building on floodplains and storm preparation after Harvey. People just plan based on their prior experiences.</text></comment> |
6,160,253 | 6,160,423 | 1 | 3 | 6,159,527 | train | <story><title>Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing</title><url>http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/05/latvia-blocking-extradition-of-gozi-writer-thanks-to-disproportionate-us-sentencing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwoah12</author><text>Just to play devil&#x27;s advocate, are you positive you&#x27;d have the same view if someone murdered your spouse? Sexually assaulted your daughter? Beat the hell out of your mother?</text></item><item><author>falk</author><text>Going to prison shouldn&#x27;t be about punishment. It should be about rehabilitation.</text></item><item><author>sigzero</author><text>Hmmm...I do not know anyone with the mentality of &quot;prison should be as harsh as possible&quot;. Prison shouldn&#x27;t be a &quot;cake walk&quot; either.</text></item><item><author>octo_t</author><text>Not just prison rape, but the very idea of &quot;prison should be as harsh as possible&quot; is absolutely awful.</text></item><item><author>kybernetikos</author><text>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, the US&#x27;s cultural acceptance of prison rape should be enough to stop any extradition to the US for any crime that would garner prison time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xylakant</author><text>This is exactly why society as a whole gets to decide instead of the victim or relatives of the victim. It&#x27;s human that harm done to you or a close person is hard to forgive, but societies goals differ from the goals of the individual: The individuals goal is revenge, the societies goal is to keep the crime rate low. Part of that is betterment of offenders since it keeps the rate of recidivism lower, thus creates less future victims. It&#x27;s certainly unfortunate that the two goals are not perfectly aligned. However, given human behaviour as it is your question is misleading the discussion: The answer is probably &quot;no&quot; and still, society should choose a different way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing</title><url>http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/05/latvia-blocking-extradition-of-gozi-writer-thanks-to-disproportionate-us-sentencing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwoah12</author><text>Just to play devil&#x27;s advocate, are you positive you&#x27;d have the same view if someone murdered your spouse? Sexually assaulted your daughter? Beat the hell out of your mother?</text></item><item><author>falk</author><text>Going to prison shouldn&#x27;t be about punishment. It should be about rehabilitation.</text></item><item><author>sigzero</author><text>Hmmm...I do not know anyone with the mentality of &quot;prison should be as harsh as possible&quot;. Prison shouldn&#x27;t be a &quot;cake walk&quot; either.</text></item><item><author>octo_t</author><text>Not just prison rape, but the very idea of &quot;prison should be as harsh as possible&quot; is absolutely awful.</text></item><item><author>kybernetikos</author><text>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, the US&#x27;s cultural acceptance of prison rape should be enough to stop any extradition to the US for any crime that would garner prison time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>girvo</author><text>I&#x27;m not the OP, but I discussed this in a philosophy class. My answer was yes back then.<p>Later in life, this belief was tested, badly. My answer was still yes.<p>According to the philosophy classes survey, I&#x27;m not in the majority for this view. I thought that was interesting.</text></comment> |
38,634,727 | 38,634,696 | 1 | 3 | 38,632,966 | train | <story><title>The Long Shadow of Checks</title><url>https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-long-shadow-of-checks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>e63f67dd-065b</author><text>I&#x27;m continually surprised by the political influence held by the thousands of tiny banks in the country. I must applaud the people behind the Check 21 Act: it&#x27;s the combination of a neat backwards compatibility trick (if you want paper, we&#x27;ll print it and send it to you) and political maneuvering that I must admire it.<p>&gt; Since the standard U.S. bank account is a checking account, even if it cannot write checks, it is necessarily a credit product.<p>Why is this the case? Checking accounts without the ability to overdraft and thus create credit risk exist; I&#x27;ve always wondered why they&#x27;re not more widespread. Is it a problem that people who are Chex blacklisted are unprofitable anyways?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>digging</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;ve always wondered why they&#x27;re not more widespread<p>Historically, it&#x27;s a major source of revenue for banks[1]. I used to use BOA, when I switched to a local credit union they at least offered me the choice of &quot;overdraft protection,&quot; which obviously I declined.<p>Fortunately, overdraft fees appear to be growing less profitable[2], so hopefully banks will phase them out.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerfinance.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;cfpb-research-shows-banks-deep-dependence-on-overdraft-fees&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerfinance.gov&#x2F;about-us&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;cfpb-resea...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerfinance.gov&#x2F;data-research&#x2F;research-reports&#x2F;banks-overdraft-nsf-fee-revenue-declines-significantly-compared-to-pre-pandemic-levels&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerfinance.gov&#x2F;data-research&#x2F;research-repor...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Long Shadow of Checks</title><url>https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-long-shadow-of-checks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>e63f67dd-065b</author><text>I&#x27;m continually surprised by the political influence held by the thousands of tiny banks in the country. I must applaud the people behind the Check 21 Act: it&#x27;s the combination of a neat backwards compatibility trick (if you want paper, we&#x27;ll print it and send it to you) and political maneuvering that I must admire it.<p>&gt; Since the standard U.S. bank account is a checking account, even if it cannot write checks, it is necessarily a credit product.<p>Why is this the case? Checking accounts without the ability to overdraft and thus create credit risk exist; I&#x27;ve always wondered why they&#x27;re not more widespread. Is it a problem that people who are Chex blacklisted are unprofitable anyways?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>&gt; political influence held by the thousands of tiny banks in the country<p>Car dealerships are pretty bad too.</text></comment> |
28,325,960 | 28,325,943 | 1 | 3 | 28,325,629 | train | <story><title>Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-authorities-say-overtime-996-policy-is-illegal-2021-08-27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_cramer</author><text>I once had a chinese colleague who came to europe for a few years. She always thought we were lazy for working so short and every argument i brought up about mental health and work efficiency was met with a: &quot;but it works for us&quot;.<p>What i did not understand back then is the absolute replaceability of personel in the chinese market. You work long and hard or tomorrow someone else does it.<p>Not only is this a big reason of the economical prowess of china in my opinion, i fear that this work-ethic will come back sooner or later to europe to &quot;stay competitive&quot;.<p>In the face of bankcruptcy or market pressure... managers tend to make irrational and&#x2F;or unethical decisions. And they will find a way to circumvent the laws.
I am also sure that chinese companies will find a way to circumvent the 996 ruling here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>They&#x27;ve swallowed an ideological fallacy that simply working your pants off for long hours means you will win. The USSR had the same disease, if they just worked their people 20% harder than the west did then they would inevitably be more productive and economically &#x27;win&#x27;. It&#x27;s variation of the lump of labour fallacy.<p>Don&#x27;t fall for it. It&#x27;s thinking like this that leads to managers optimising for the wrong metrics. Hours worked is clearly the wrong metric. Companies don&#x27;t exist to simply employ workers for long hours, and thinking that way leads you down the wrong path right from the start. You need to look at where the value actually comes from, and this is sometimes subtle and not at all obvious.<p>Here&#x27;s a challenge. A taxi driver in London earns about 4x what a taxi driver in Beijing does, in objective international value terms. Why? What factors might lead to that difference? If your value system can&#x27;t answer that question, then it&#x27;s wrong. They do quite legitimately earn 4x as much because the work they are doing is worth 4x as much, and there must be a reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chinese authorities say overtime '996' policy is illegal</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-authorities-say-overtime-996-policy-is-illegal-2021-08-27/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_cramer</author><text>I once had a chinese colleague who came to europe for a few years. She always thought we were lazy for working so short and every argument i brought up about mental health and work efficiency was met with a: &quot;but it works for us&quot;.<p>What i did not understand back then is the absolute replaceability of personel in the chinese market. You work long and hard or tomorrow someone else does it.<p>Not only is this a big reason of the economical prowess of china in my opinion, i fear that this work-ethic will come back sooner or later to europe to &quot;stay competitive&quot;.<p>In the face of bankcruptcy or market pressure... managers tend to make irrational and&#x2F;or unethical decisions. And they will find a way to circumvent the laws.
I am also sure that chinese companies will find a way to circumvent the 996 ruling here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stephen_g</author><text>Why would it come back? I don’t think any research has ever shown that working those kind of hours in “knowledge work” is sustainable or conducive to high productivity long-term.<p>I expect the “replaceability” that you mention isn’t just “work long and hard or somebody else will”, but also “work long and hard, because you can be easily replaced as soon as you have a breakdown”…</text></comment> |
29,265,287 | 29,264,965 | 1 | 3 | 29,264,374 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?</title><text>On a new side project I&#x27;m working on I need to have a fair amount of documentation for usage, implementation, options, etc. In the past I&#x27;ve used https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docsify.js.org hosted on Vercel, but I was curious if there is anything else out there people like. Looking for free or paid options. So long has I can host on a subdomain I&#x27;m indifferent.<p>Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>navaneethpk</author><text>We are using Docusaurus (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docusaurus.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docusaurus.io&#x2F;</a> ).<p><pre><code> - it is easy to configure&#x2F;customise
- looks really great out of the box
- solid documentation
- fast
</code></pre>
In our case, we just had to change the colors and font. Here is our Docusaurus code if that&#x27;s helpful: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ToolJet&#x2F;ToolJet&#x2F;tree&#x2F;develop&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ToolJet&#x2F;ToolJet&#x2F;tree&#x2F;develop&#x2F;docs</a> and here is the live documentation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tooljet.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tooljet.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daviesliu</author><text>Docusaurus is great! We migrated from Sphinx to Docusaurus[1] recently, the navigation is much better than before.<p>One thing that bothers us: we have not figure a way to name the anchor that both work in Github (`&lt;span id=&#x27;aws-s3&#x27;&#x2F;&gt;`) and Docusaurus (`{#aws-s3}`), for example [2]. Any ideas?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;juicefs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;community&#x2F;introduction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;juicefs.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;community&#x2F;introduction</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;juicedata&#x2F;juicefs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;how_to_setup_object_storage.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;juicedata&#x2F;juicefs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;how_t...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?</title><text>On a new side project I&#x27;m working on I need to have a fair amount of documentation for usage, implementation, options, etc. In the past I&#x27;ve used https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docsify.js.org hosted on Vercel, but I was curious if there is anything else out there people like. Looking for free or paid options. So long has I can host on a subdomain I&#x27;m indifferent.<p>Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>navaneethpk</author><text>We are using Docusaurus (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docusaurus.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docusaurus.io&#x2F;</a> ).<p><pre><code> - it is easy to configure&#x2F;customise
- looks really great out of the box
- solid documentation
- fast
</code></pre>
In our case, we just had to change the colors and font. Here is our Docusaurus code if that&#x27;s helpful: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ToolJet&#x2F;ToolJet&#x2F;tree&#x2F;develop&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ToolJet&#x2F;ToolJet&#x2F;tree&#x2F;develop&#x2F;docs</a> and here is the live documentation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tooljet.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tooljet.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelandfe</author><text>&gt; live documentation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tooljet.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.tooljet.io</a><p>The two separate hamburger menus were hard to parse at first on mobile. Do your social media links really deserve higher placement than the navigation?</text></comment> |
11,507,577 | 11,507,637 | 1 | 2 | 11,506,090 | train | <story><title>The Air Force Initiative to Replace the A-10 Warthog Is Vaporware</title><url>http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-air-force-initiative-to-replace-the-a-10-warthog-is-1771018719</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beloch</author><text>CAS is a job best done by relatively slow, but well armored aircraft flying low and slow. Pilots need to have time to develop awareness of both their allies and their enemies. Pilots of this type of mission are going to come under fire, which is something the air force is fundamentally unwilling to accept. Marines in planes, on the other hand, are likely to accept similar risk to marines on the ground if it reduces risk for all. Given that CAS pilots must work most closely with those on the ground, it makes little sense for them to be air force.<p>That being said, drones are probably the real A-10 killers. They can fly right down an enemy&#x27;s throat without risking their pilot&#x27;s lives. VR technology promises to give drone pilots a better field of view than any cockpit offers, and pilots could potentially switch control to a new drone when their previous drone is forced to return to base. This means one pilot could follow an engagement from start to finish, instead of multiple pilots trading off. This would greatly reduce the likelihood of pilot error and friendly fire incidents.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Air Force Initiative to Replace the A-10 Warthog Is Vaporware</title><url>http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-air-force-initiative-to-replace-the-a-10-warthog-is-1771018719</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awinter-py</author><text>If there&#x27;s a consensus on what&#x27;s wrong with pentagon procurement, the bullet points are:
(1) no &#x27;feasability feedback&#x27; mechanism to reject wishlist items that inflate complexity or delivery date,
(2) focus on &#x27;joint procurement&#x27;, i.e. one product that solves army &#x2F; air force &#x2F; navy problems, i.e. a flying submarine with wheels,
(3) lead times are too long for bespoke products (by the time it&#x27;s delivered your needs have changed).<p>A-10 was built based on CAS lessons that had been learned the hard way in Nam, where helicopters had to take the place of fixed-wing airplanes that couldn&#x27;t do the job. (meaning it was built to do one thing well). It wasn&#x27;t a swiss-army knife.<p>If you believe that it&#x27;s not practical to build a swiss-army knife aircraft, then you probably weren&#x27;t surprised by the crappy fighters we turned out in the 90s and 00s. The head airplane designer on china&#x27;s F-22 killer basically laughed when he was asked about the F-35, and said &#x27;the best thing that ever happened to us was when the US decided to put VTOL in their main fighter -- and not even in all of them.&#x27; China could never afford to do that but arguably the US can&#x27;t either. A post-IOC F-35C had its wings fall off (yes) and the pentagon lockheed liaison&#x27;s explanation was &#x27;the pilot was too heavy, we&#x27;re looking into it&#x27;.<p>Even more interesting than the A-10 is the F-16; it was a backburner project at lockheed and the pentagon tried to shut it down because they didn&#x27;t want it stealing any PR thunder from the bigger badder F-15. These days the F-16 is doing every job because it&#x27;s cheap, easy to maintain, lots of people can fly them. Lockheed just shut down the line for these but the aftermarket is booming.</text></comment> |
30,663,362 | 30,663,598 | 1 | 2 | 30,662,687 | train | <story><title>Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320717306201</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>Also stop using herbicide and plant some clover. My neighbors hate me but I (and the bees, bunnies, and other critters) love my almost white lawn in July. It smells great, and the clover keeps the grass healthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maguirre</author><text>Do you have a picture of what it looks like in full display? I have been thinking of trying clover on mine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320717306201</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>candiddevmike</author><text>Also stop using herbicide and plant some clover. My neighbors hate me but I (and the bees, bunnies, and other critters) love my almost white lawn in July. It smells great, and the clover keeps the grass healthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xahrepap</author><text>We’re planting clover in our park strip to augment the lawn.<p>We had some naturally move in last year and we really liked it So we’re going to help it out. It was soft, and keeping the lawn green&#x2F;alive&#x2F;pretty in the park strip is notoriously water wasteful.</text></comment> |
12,079,666 | 12,079,563 | 1 | 3 | 12,078,243 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What is the emerging state of the art in fuzzing techniques?</title><text>I&#x27;m fairly familiar with the popular tools such as afl and Codenomicon Defensics. But I find the academic literature very opaque and don&#x27;t really know where to start.<p>If I want to understand the cutting edge of fuzzing techniques, and what will be the emerging state of the art in the next few years - where should I look? Any good papers or books (with at least some for novices to understand), or research projects that are leading towards a new excellence?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wepple</author><text>in general, have a poke around <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fuzzing.info&#x2F;papers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fuzzing.info&#x2F;papers&#x2F;</a><p>First, I think the next big step in fuzzing will actually be a <i>complement</i> to fuzzing - solving.<p>AFL and friends can bitbang their way to massive code coverage, but can still fail on fairly simple testcases. Some recent research[1] by the authors of Angr[2] show that by pairing the brute-force coverage and exception discovery of a tool like AFL with constraint solving tools can really dig deep into a program, by actually solving the path to a given block of code. Microsoft&#x27;s infamous SAGE fuzzer does this IIRC.<p>Second, I think there are still massive oportunities for fuzzing closed-source programs, as well as programs with tricky state, such as browsers or network daemons.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.internetsociety.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;blogs-media&#x2F;driller-augmenting-fuzzing-through-selective-symbolic-execution.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.internetsociety.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;blogs-me...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;angr.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;angr.io</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What is the emerging state of the art in fuzzing techniques?</title><text>I&#x27;m fairly familiar with the popular tools such as afl and Codenomicon Defensics. But I find the academic literature very opaque and don&#x27;t really know where to start.<p>If I want to understand the cutting edge of fuzzing techniques, and what will be the emerging state of the art in the next few years - where should I look? Any good papers or books (with at least some for novices to understand), or research projects that are leading towards a new excellence?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robto</author><text>I&#x27;ve started using clojure.spec[0] in my regular day programming with an eye on using generative testing, which I understand is a form of fuzzing. I&#x27;m very new to this, but it feels incredibly practical in terms of bang for buck - like the &#x27;cutting edge&#x27; of practical use. I&#x27;m not sure what it&#x27;s academic background is, but I&#x27;d highly recommend reading and listening to what Rich Hickey has to say about it. He&#x27;s a smart guy.<p>[0]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clojure.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;spec" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clojure.org&#x2F;about&#x2F;spec</a>
[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cognitect.com&#x2F;cognicast&#x2F;103" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cognitect.com&#x2F;cognicast&#x2F;103</a></text></comment> |
17,103,594 | 17,101,781 | 1 | 3 | 17,100,539 | train | <story><title>Material UI v1 for React is out</title><url>https://medium.com/material-ui/material-ui-v1-is-out-e73ce13463eb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucasverra</author><text>I&#x27;m building my SaaS front-end on react-semantic ui [0]. (non dev builder here).<p>Besides population familiarity with material UI because of Google, am I missing something ?<p>Things I like about React semantic :<p>- very clean documentation : i can search, find , and tweek components<p>- Semantic is less opinionated visually than Material (IMO), and do appreciate lightweight.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;react.semantic-ui.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;react.semantic-ui.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zawerf</author><text>I switched from material design (react-toolbox) to semantic ui around a year or two ago for similar reasons.<p>Material design looks great by default but it infects the rest of your app really quickly since any custom components you build have to match it in visual style or it&#x27;ll look really out of place. This was pretty hard for a small project without a designer.<p>Semantic basically looks like bootstrap without being bootstrap and is much easier to work with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Material UI v1 for React is out</title><url>https://medium.com/material-ui/material-ui-v1-is-out-e73ce13463eb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucasverra</author><text>I&#x27;m building my SaaS front-end on react-semantic ui [0]. (non dev builder here).<p>Besides population familiarity with material UI because of Google, am I missing something ?<p>Things I like about React semantic :<p>- very clean documentation : i can search, find , and tweek components<p>- Semantic is less opinionated visually than Material (IMO), and do appreciate lightweight.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;react.semantic-ui.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;react.semantic-ui.com&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kochthesecond</author><text>I tried both at the beginning of 2016, and neither of them seemed very usable at that stage. Both look much better now, and I can&#x27;t wait to give them a shot.<p>Also noting that the semantic UI docs still give a horrible mobile experience (iOS 11).</text></comment> |
11,086,399 | 11,085,747 | 1 | 3 | 11,077,337 | train | <story><title>Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer</title><url>http://theconversation.com/overworked-good-habits-not-holidays-are-the-answer-17744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dota_fanatic</author><text>Imagine if all the 10x and 100x engineers were all on the same team.<p>Keep competition, but play for the same team. The losers are losers because they didn&#x27;t create the best solution, but the losers are winners because they get to enjoy the spoils, since they&#x27;re on the same team. Isn&#x27;t status everything, after a point? Why can&#x27;t the United States actually be united?<p>Develop universal human code, highly vetted, secure, and performant code; employable by everyone to satisfy the tedious data management and automation of everyday needs that arise as a consequence of our biology and community structure, like health care, administration, maker technology, infrastructure, education, and the creation of art. The amount of mediocre code getting created, and relied upon, is atrocious, and often the highest quality, most valuable software is completely inaccessible except for by some very small subset of the global population! It&#x27;s some kind of collective insanity.<p><i>&gt; bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.</i><p>I would say the worst of the present are written deeply into the structure of our societies, iterative processes spanning a very, very long time. These non-friendly, non-cooperative entities are very self-protective. It is only recently that it has been able to reap such unimaginable power.<p>How much harder does it become to create a better form of government, the longer this goes on? Our existing governments clearly can&#x27;t handle current problems in any kind of respectable schedule, much less the ones that will result from the increasing acceleration of technological change. Perhaps whatever comes after human is already here, and it&#x27;s eating us.</text></item><item><author>simplemath</author><text>Overworked?<p>Everyone is overworked. We live in a post scarcity industrial world, or very very close to it, and bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.<p>How much of the entire economy is predicated on grey money? How much of <i>your</i> time is indirectly consumed by this leviathan?<p>The more I think about it, the more i want to opt out of the entire fucking thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>&gt; Imagine if all the 10x and 100x engineers were all on the same team.<p>Yes, and imagine they were doing fundamental physics or medicine, instead of social media apps...</text></comment> | <story><title>Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer</title><url>http://theconversation.com/overworked-good-habits-not-holidays-are-the-answer-17744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dota_fanatic</author><text>Imagine if all the 10x and 100x engineers were all on the same team.<p>Keep competition, but play for the same team. The losers are losers because they didn&#x27;t create the best solution, but the losers are winners because they get to enjoy the spoils, since they&#x27;re on the same team. Isn&#x27;t status everything, after a point? Why can&#x27;t the United States actually be united?<p>Develop universal human code, highly vetted, secure, and performant code; employable by everyone to satisfy the tedious data management and automation of everyday needs that arise as a consequence of our biology and community structure, like health care, administration, maker technology, infrastructure, education, and the creation of art. The amount of mediocre code getting created, and relied upon, is atrocious, and often the highest quality, most valuable software is completely inaccessible except for by some very small subset of the global population! It&#x27;s some kind of collective insanity.<p><i>&gt; bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.</i><p>I would say the worst of the present are written deeply into the structure of our societies, iterative processes spanning a very, very long time. These non-friendly, non-cooperative entities are very self-protective. It is only recently that it has been able to reap such unimaginable power.<p>How much harder does it become to create a better form of government, the longer this goes on? Our existing governments clearly can&#x27;t handle current problems in any kind of respectable schedule, much less the ones that will result from the increasing acceleration of technological change. Perhaps whatever comes after human is already here, and it&#x27;s eating us.</text></item><item><author>simplemath</author><text>Overworked?<p>Everyone is overworked. We live in a post scarcity industrial world, or very very close to it, and bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.<p>How much of the entire economy is predicated on grey money? How much of <i>your</i> time is indirectly consumed by this leviathan?<p>The more I think about it, the more i want to opt out of the entire fucking thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jes5199</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure but I think part of the problem that you&#x27;re describing may be &quot;Baumol&#x27;s cost disease&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Baumol%27s_cost_disease" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Baumol%27s_cost_disease</a></text></comment> |
16,389,226 | 16,386,646 | 1 | 3 | 16,385,440 | train | <story><title>A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)</title><url>https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-brief-glance-at-how-5-text-editors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text><i>This is very efficient, but the consequence is Vi will become slow when working with huge files, because it has to traverse through a bigger linear array</i><p>To put &quot;bigger&quot; into perspective, a modern CPU can traverse and copy memory at over 10GB&#x2F;s.<p>This is why I&#x27;ve always found the argument for more &quot;efficient&quot; (and complex) text editor data structures a bit tenuous --- even if you have to move MBs of data with every insertion (as happens with a simple gapless buffer), computers truly are so fast that it wouldn&#x27;t look any different to the end-user; a 1ms and 1us delay upon each keystroke is, to the user, practically indistinguishable.<p>That&#x27;s not to say I&#x27;m one of those who preach against &quot;premature optimisation&quot; and don&#x27;t care about efficiency; far from that, in fact, but the popularity of and lack of speed-related complaints against the small DOS text editors and even syntax-highlighting IDEs on PCs in the 80s through early 90s which used the same &quot;one buffer&quot; paradigm, on machines with a fraction of the memory bandwidth of those today, suggest that the complexity of more &quot;clever&quot; data structures may not be worth it.<p>...and yet we somehow still manage to make editors that peg a single CPU core just blinking a cursor.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13940014" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13940014</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)</title><url>https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-brief-glance-at-how-5-text-editors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ScottBurson</author><text>&gt; [Sam] is one of the first editors to separate its UI from the actual editor - Sam can be used on both the command-line and as a graphical text editor.<p>Not even close to the first. TECO had both command-line and graphical editing in, ah, 1964: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TECO_(text_editor)#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;TECO_(text_editor)#History</a></text></comment> |
29,938,338 | 29,938,195 | 1 | 3 | 29,935,734 | train | <story><title>Woob: Web Outside of Browsers</title><url>https://woob.tech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Wow! I actually love the idea of being able to interact with websites via a standard API rather being forced to use web-based UI they provide. It opens up a whole lot of possibles for things like alternate clients, standard UIs for interacting across multiple sites, etc. Also eliminates the possibility of sites engaging in annoying or abusive behavior by putting users in full control of the client rather than the site operator. Obviously it can&#x27;t work for <i>every</i> site, but it&#x27;s quite the interesting concept.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smt88</author><text>&gt; <i>I actually love the idea of being able to interact with websites via a standard API rather being forced to use web-based UI they provide.</i><p>For a while, people were pitching this as Web 2.0. It&#x27;s also what RSS and podcasts still are.<p>Unfortunately, most of the websites we visit are revenue-generating and want to control their presentation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Woob: Web Outside of Browsers</title><url>https://woob.tech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Wow! I actually love the idea of being able to interact with websites via a standard API rather being forced to use web-based UI they provide. It opens up a whole lot of possibles for things like alternate clients, standard UIs for interacting across multiple sites, etc. Also eliminates the possibility of sites engaging in annoying or abusive behavior by putting users in full control of the client rather than the site operator. Obviously it can&#x27;t work for <i>every</i> site, but it&#x27;s quite the interesting concept.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpastuszak</author><text>In a way you’re describing how browsers should work.<p>&gt; Also eliminates the possibility of sites engaging in annoying or abusive behavior by putting users in full control of the client rather than the site operator. Obviously it can&#x27;t work for every site, but it&#x27;s quite the interesting concept.<p>That’s the job of the User Agent after all, acting on behalf of the user.</text></comment> |
9,481,993 | 9,481,490 | 1 | 2 | 9,481,026 | train | <story><title>Passport Index – How much power does your passport have?</title><url>http://www.passportindex.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluerobotcat</author><text>The number of countries that you can enter without a visa might not be the best metric.<p>For example, if you have a US or Signapore passport, you might be able to enter a lot of countries without a visa, but Brazil is not one of them. Brazil is obviously a hugely important country, so that seems like a notable disadvantage. EU citizens can enter Brazil without a visa.<p>Additionally, there are several countries that have special (higher) visa fees for processing US passports.<p>Having a Schengen passport is also pretty sweet if you want to <i>move</i> to a different Schengen country.<p>Finally, if you get kidnapped for a random, you don&#x27;t want to have to rely on a US passport! (Then again, if you get kidnapped by North Korea, Bill Clinton might personally fly over to negotiate your release.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avar</author><text>Passport goodwill is also another metric that&#x27;s often overlooked. Would you rather have to apply for a visa to enter a few obscure countries on the planet, or regularly have to deal with scorn from border guards because your country bombed theirs within living memory?<p>As an aside you&#x27;re misinformed about what Schengen is. Having a passport from a country in Schengen has nothing to do with being able to move to a different Schengen country per-se. You&#x27;re thinking of the European Economic Area. Schengen is a passport-control free zone, whereas the EEA guarantees your freedom of movement between any EEA countries, regardless of whether or not you have to show your passport on arrival.</text></comment> | <story><title>Passport Index – How much power does your passport have?</title><url>http://www.passportindex.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluerobotcat</author><text>The number of countries that you can enter without a visa might not be the best metric.<p>For example, if you have a US or Signapore passport, you might be able to enter a lot of countries without a visa, but Brazil is not one of them. Brazil is obviously a hugely important country, so that seems like a notable disadvantage. EU citizens can enter Brazil without a visa.<p>Additionally, there are several countries that have special (higher) visa fees for processing US passports.<p>Having a Schengen passport is also pretty sweet if you want to <i>move</i> to a different Schengen country.<p>Finally, if you get kidnapped for a random, you don&#x27;t want to have to rely on a US passport! (Then again, if you get kidnapped by North Korea, Bill Clinton might personally fly over to negotiate your release.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>China, Russia, India, Indonesia (With VOA) also require visas for Americans, often with retaliatory fees for the visa (they charge us what we charge them). I was surprised that I need a visa to go to austrailia, out of all places, though at least we can do it online...</text></comment> |
27,551,187 | 27,550,830 | 1 | 2 | 27,550,184 | train | <story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belval</author><text>I hate TikTok because it&#x27;s so good. It&#x27;s a frictionless content pump that we can open and doom-scroll for hours. I have never seen such a beautifully crafted user experience, from the recommendation algorithm that is top-notch the content that is catchy and highlights trends without overdoing it and the absence of political content if you don&#x27;t engage with it (or maybe there is none at all).<p>I don&#x27;t have it on my phone, but I truly see it as the pinnacle of the stupidly addictive social media app and it scares me because it means that Chinese companies are just as capable as us to spin the next Facebook and distribute propaganda to the next generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MasterScrat</author><text>It&#x27;s super interesting to compare it with Facebook&#x27;s attempt at the same mechanisms with Instagram Reels:<p>- terribly redundant content (as in, I see multiple times the exact same content from different accounts)<p>- content ripped off and reposted from original creators by spam accounts<p>- complete destruction of the original Instagram app to try to force-feed Reels down your throat<p>TikTok looks so simple when you use it because everything just works. Using Reels makes you realise all the ways there are to fuck it up!</text></comment> | <story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belval</author><text>I hate TikTok because it&#x27;s so good. It&#x27;s a frictionless content pump that we can open and doom-scroll for hours. I have never seen such a beautifully crafted user experience, from the recommendation algorithm that is top-notch the content that is catchy and highlights trends without overdoing it and the absence of political content if you don&#x27;t engage with it (or maybe there is none at all).<p>I don&#x27;t have it on my phone, but I truly see it as the pinnacle of the stupidly addictive social media app and it scares me because it means that Chinese companies are just as capable as us to spin the next Facebook and distribute propaganda to the next generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousllama</author><text>I&#x27;ve decided to outsource dopamine production to The Chinese Algorithm and honestly it&#x27;s going great</text></comment> |
16,653,985 | 16,653,920 | 1 | 2 | 16,653,671 | train | <story><title>Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-slipped-up-and-revealed-he-was-a-russian-intelligence-officer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geowwy</author><text>Relevent paragraphs:<p>&gt; [An intelligence researcher] led an investigation at ThreatConnect that tried to track down Guccifer from the metadata in his emails. But the trail always ended at the same data center in France. Ehmke eventually uncovered that Guccifer was connecting through an anonymizing service called Elite VPN, a virtual private networking service that had an exit point in France but was headquartered in Russia.<p>&gt; But on one occasion, The Daily Beast has learned, Guccifer failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company, according to a source familiar with the government’s Guccifer investigation. Twitter and WordPress were Guccifer 2.0’s favored outlets. Neither company would comment for this story, and Guccifer did not respond to a direct message on Twitter.<p>&gt; Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow. (The Daily Beast’s sources did not disclose which particular officer worked as Guccifer.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>Opsec is hard - you only need to fuck up once...</text></comment> | <story><title>Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-slipped-up-and-revealed-he-was-a-russian-intelligence-officer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geowwy</author><text>Relevent paragraphs:<p>&gt; [An intelligence researcher] led an investigation at ThreatConnect that tried to track down Guccifer from the metadata in his emails. But the trail always ended at the same data center in France. Ehmke eventually uncovered that Guccifer was connecting through an anonymizing service called Elite VPN, a virtual private networking service that had an exit point in France but was headquartered in Russia.<p>&gt; But on one occasion, The Daily Beast has learned, Guccifer failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company, according to a source familiar with the government’s Guccifer investigation. Twitter and WordPress were Guccifer 2.0’s favored outlets. Neither company would comment for this story, and Guccifer did not respond to a direct message on Twitter.<p>&gt; Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow. (The Daily Beast’s sources did not disclose which particular officer worked as Guccifer.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rbanffy</author><text>What I find unlikely is that it was possible for the officer to log into the account from anything but a computer connected to a secured network. The computers that could be connected directly should never have the constructed persona&#x27;s credentials.<p>These are not amateurs. They should know better.</text></comment> |
3,618,027 | 3,617,852 | 1 | 3 | 3,617,691 | train | <story><title>Is your startup idea already taken? </title><url>http://whittleidea.com/blog/is-your-start-up-idea-already-taken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>The difference between something merely <i>existing</i> and something <i>remarkable</i> existing. If you find that someone has already done your idea, and they've executed well, consider abandoning your idea. If they haven't solved the problem well enough then it doesn't matter that they <i>exist</i>.<p>One of the greatest sources of motivation in solving a problem is the anticipation to use the solution. If a good solution already exists then you're not going to have that.<p>Think of the Zune team. Those guys were trying to solve a problem that the iPod had already solved so well. Where's the excitement? They had to make up artificial problems for the Zune to solve (WiFi song sharing) just to get excited about it. The problem is that the market doesn't care about artificial problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is your startup idea already taken? </title><url>http://whittleidea.com/blog/is-your-start-up-idea-already-taken</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyPage</author><text>I just had this very epiphany today. After being rejected by two potential investors because of that reason ("Have you heard of X?"). It's frustrating to say "Yes, I have, and here is why we are different", but still get written off. The investor seems to stop listening after the "Yes", which stinks especially since the main problem I see with Company X is that no one is using it! (They are very loud and in the press, so it gives them an appearance of dominance). So, I will definitely try using that answer next time, if only to force the investor to realize that while the idea is out there, it hasn't won yet.</text></comment> |
20,985,910 | 20,985,071 | 1 | 3 | 20,984,731 | train | <story><title>EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed</title><url>https://easydns.com/blog/2019/09/16/fechner-law-of-germany-threatens-to-bring-criminal-complaint-for-shielding-client-privacy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cj</author><text>I&#x27;ve been harrassed by law firms in connection with photograph copyright claims.<p>In my case it was a law firm in France who also had a presence in the US.<p>It was a minor claim (they demanded $500). We took the image down immediately, but they continued to demand their cash &quot;settlement&quot; with multiple letters over a year (1 letter every 1-2 months, each one with increasingly aggressive wording).<p>I eventually got on the phone with the person sending the letters, and turns out they weren&#x27;t licensed to practice law (in any jurisdiction). I pointed out that it&#x27;s illegal to misrepresent yourself as an attorney. They hung up and I never received another letter after that.<p>Good on EasyDNS for refusing to turn over customer data. If they did, I assume their customer would be harassed in a similar manner.</text></comment> | <story><title>EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed</title><url>https://easydns.com/blog/2019/09/16/fechner-law-of-germany-threatens-to-bring-criminal-complaint-for-shielding-client-privacy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bonjurkes</author><text>The letter mentions the client&#x27;s name as Mr. Niemela, upon some Googling you can see that he sued Google and some other companies to remove his online presence and some news about him. So it looks like it&#x27;s just usual practice for him &amp; his law firm.<p>(This info wasn&#x27;t redacted so I assume it&#x27;s safe to mention it here)</text></comment> |
3,967,140 | 3,967,010 | 1 | 3 | 3,966,299 | train | <story><title>The 144 Million Dollar Button</title><url>http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/22958656041/the-144-146-165-button</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Tipping creates an incentive for service staff to do a good job. If you do a great job of keeping customers happy, you get paid more money.<p>It's a much tighter feedback loop than "if you suck, maybe your manager eventually notices, then complains to you, then fires you."</text></item><item><author>lunarscape</author><text>I don't see the need to tip either as I live in a country with a decent minimum wage. I worked in a bar as a student and tips were rare. As a result I see tipping as some kind of failure by businesses. If employees are paid fairly and the service is always good why should customers tip? (Honest question)</text></item><item><author>ticks</author><text>Not being from the States I really don't like tipping, I guess at least with this system it gets rid of the variables, like is tipping expected? How much is acceptable? etc.<p>To me, tipping is just a sign that a business isn't charging enough for the service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>todsul</author><text>I can't help but think tipping in the US is a false economy. Having arrived a couple of months ago, I've felt obliged to tip to subsidize wages rather than reward good service. I've been told off for not tipping enough rather than asked what was wrong with the service.</text></comment> | <story><title>The 144 Million Dollar Button</title><url>http://notes.unwieldy.net/post/22958656041/the-144-146-165-button</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Tipping creates an incentive for service staff to do a good job. If you do a great job of keeping customers happy, you get paid more money.<p>It's a much tighter feedback loop than "if you suck, maybe your manager eventually notices, then complains to you, then fires you."</text></item><item><author>lunarscape</author><text>I don't see the need to tip either as I live in a country with a decent minimum wage. I worked in a bar as a student and tips were rare. As a result I see tipping as some kind of failure by businesses. If employees are paid fairly and the service is always good why should customers tip? (Honest question)</text></item><item><author>ticks</author><text>Not being from the States I really don't like tipping, I guess at least with this system it gets rid of the variables, like is tipping expected? How much is acceptable? etc.<p>To me, tipping is just a sign that a business isn't charging enough for the service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tobias3</author><text>I would unconsciously give feedback for the whole experience, because I'm not able to discern who benefits from my tip, and what I'm really tipping. So the waitress gets punished for the bad food and atmosphere and the taxi driver for a horrible credit card interface.</text></comment> |
13,200,651 | 13,200,057 | 1 | 3 | 13,199,153 | train | <story><title>Venezuela Follows India’s Example and Voids Half of Its Cash</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/12/13/venezuela-follows-indias-example-and-voids-half-of-its-cash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firekvz</author><text>I really can&#x27;t understand how this article misses entirely the actual news here<p>&quot;Venezuela is issuing a full new set of notes and is replacing 100 VEF bills (the biggest we had) for a coin&quot;<p>So far we had this (in VEF):<p>- Coins for: 0.05, 0.1, 0.125, 0.5 and 1<p>- Bills for: 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100<p>now we will have (in VEF):<p>- Coins for: 10, 20, 50 and 100<p>- Bills for: 500, 1.000, 2.000, 5.000, 10.000 and 20.000<p>So thats about it, the gov is finally accepting that we have a huge inflation and the old bank notes can&#x27;t be used any more (in terms of convenience) so they are exchanging our current biggest bank note of 100 for other sizes but is nowhere mentioned in the article<p>Of course all the previous bank notes (from the old set) are being banned because they are being taking out of circulation mostly because the DESING IS THE SAME (just a recolore) and can cause confusions, here you can see a comparation:<p>- old desing: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;runrun.es&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;venezuela-bolivar-fuerte.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;runrun.es&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;venezuela-boliva...</a><p>- new desing: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgs.globovision.com&#x2F;2Io-ZrCgwYEjgOw-dGsi6ndh1WM=&#x2F;700x0&#x2F;smart&#x2F;e3ccb1d95ed74a8a919e4bec4f0c2375" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgs.globovision.com&#x2F;2Io-ZrCgwYEjgOw-dGsi6ndh1WM=&#x2F;700...</a><p>In resume this is actual good news for venezuelans because even tho we still suffer all the problems we have, at least we get to avoid carrying 1 kilo of 100 VEF notes to make a purchase, we can just pay with 1 20.000 bill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rafaelm</author><text>You conveniently miss the part where people are losing money and savings because they cannot exchange the bank notes they had at home before the deadline ends. 30% percent of the population here does not have access to a bank account and cannot deposit the bills.<p>Are the people living in the most remote parts of the country supposed to make the journey to Caracas to the Central Bank to deposit their money? What are they going to pay the bus ticket with? The worthless paper they are now holding? Are they supposed to travel with a bag full of cash in one of the most dangerous countries in the world?<p>If you live here in Venezuela you know most workers get paid on Fridays in cash. Now , most are left holding a bunch of worthless paper just because Maduro decided to play improvisation with the economy once again. Those workers now have no money to pay for food till monday.<p>Why did the government lie and say that the new bills would be in every bank on the 15th? Turns out they just arrived yesterday! The new bills weren&#x27;t even in the country. Just a small sampling of their incompetence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Venezuela Follows India’s Example and Voids Half of Its Cash</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/12/13/venezuela-follows-indias-example-and-voids-half-of-its-cash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firekvz</author><text>I really can&#x27;t understand how this article misses entirely the actual news here<p>&quot;Venezuela is issuing a full new set of notes and is replacing 100 VEF bills (the biggest we had) for a coin&quot;<p>So far we had this (in VEF):<p>- Coins for: 0.05, 0.1, 0.125, 0.5 and 1<p>- Bills for: 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100<p>now we will have (in VEF):<p>- Coins for: 10, 20, 50 and 100<p>- Bills for: 500, 1.000, 2.000, 5.000, 10.000 and 20.000<p>So thats about it, the gov is finally accepting that we have a huge inflation and the old bank notes can&#x27;t be used any more (in terms of convenience) so they are exchanging our current biggest bank note of 100 for other sizes but is nowhere mentioned in the article<p>Of course all the previous bank notes (from the old set) are being banned because they are being taking out of circulation mostly because the DESING IS THE SAME (just a recolore) and can cause confusions, here you can see a comparation:<p>- old desing: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;runrun.es&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;venezuela-bolivar-fuerte.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;runrun.es&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;venezuela-boliva...</a><p>- new desing: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgs.globovision.com&#x2F;2Io-ZrCgwYEjgOw-dGsi6ndh1WM=&#x2F;700x0&#x2F;smart&#x2F;e3ccb1d95ed74a8a919e4bec4f0c2375" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgs.globovision.com&#x2F;2Io-ZrCgwYEjgOw-dGsi6ndh1WM=&#x2F;700...</a><p>In resume this is actual good news for venezuelans because even tho we still suffer all the problems we have, at least we get to avoid carrying 1 kilo of 100 VEF notes to make a purchase, we can just pay with 1 20.000 bill.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>They did that exact thing in the USSR in 1991 - removed 50 and 100 ruble banknotes (the two largest) from circulation - presumably because there were a lot of fakes floating around, and the legitimate ones were heavily used in money laundering.<p>Except they gave people 3 days to exchange any that they had, and it was announced at 9pm on the day immediately preceding that 3-day period.<p>The end result is that they effectively took out 14 billion rubles from circulation - i.e. country residents were collectively robbed of that amount of money.<p>A similar thing was repeated in 1993, except with a 2 week timeframe to exchange.<p>When such procedure is done properly for legitimate reasons, the timeframe is usually set to several years.</text></comment> |
36,529,871 | 36,528,886 | 1 | 3 | 36,523,571 | train | <story><title>Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry</title><url>https://morepablo.com/2023/06/creatives-industries.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tecleandor</author><text>Question in good faith, from a non native English speaker...<p>What would be the difference between offshore and hiring internationally?</text></item><item><author>treeman79</author><text>20 years in industry. Typical Offshore people have almost always been a waste of time and just slowed down getting anything useful done.<p>Now, I’ve also hired internationally from all over world and that has usually been fine.</text></item><item><author>rqtwteye</author><text>I struggle with that all the time. We have a lot of offshore people and I am pretty sure that 3 experienced people could take on a project that requires 50 offshore people and get it done in less time at higher quality.</text></item><item><author>suzzer99</author><text>We had a huge project with about 20 devs that went on for a year and a half. We brought in a bunch of consultants. The leads basically spent all day herding cats, and all night coding. We all agreed we probably could have done it in half the time with just the 5 leads.</text></item><item><author>dagss</author><text>In my career I have seen almost identical systems being built by a) 6 developers in a startup in 1 year b) 100+ developers in a big company with a much much larger budget in 2 years.<p>Almost the same specs, but the one in the startup had better scalability and fewer serious bugs...<p>So, spend 10-50x less and get higher quality?<p>Worst is I now consider case b) quite lean and efficient compared to what I see tech consultancies doing towards public sector, banks, etc...<p>--
My point being: There definitely IS a room for &quot;rockstars&quot; (don&#x27;t like that term, but interpret this as developers competent enough to carry a lot of weight on their own and work in a smaller company) to deliver a lot of value.<p>The problem with the model is the lack of predictability (what if the few developers you trust don&#x27;t deliver), the bus factor if one of the few devs quits, etc<p>In a sense inefficiency is a goal, because otherwise you loose redundancy. It costs a lot to hire 100 to produce the output of 10, but much lower risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kamq</author><text>Offshore generally means you&#x27;re trying to slash costs. Say, hiring $10&#x2F;day devs from India. Now, there are great devs in India, but they don&#x27;t work for $10&#x2F;day.<p>It&#x27;s the same term that was used for transitioning textile and other factory work to third world sweatshops.<p>Hiring internationally is just that. You might get someone for a bit cheaper (somewhere in the neighborhood of 20ish percent), but that&#x27;s usually in exchange for the extra hassle of managing a remote team and dealing with timezone issues. You don&#x27;t usually crank through these people every quarter, they&#x27;re hired for the longterm (or, as longterm as anyone in a software job is hired for).</text></comment> | <story><title>Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry</title><url>https://morepablo.com/2023/06/creatives-industries.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tecleandor</author><text>Question in good faith, from a non native English speaker...<p>What would be the difference between offshore and hiring internationally?</text></item><item><author>treeman79</author><text>20 years in industry. Typical Offshore people have almost always been a waste of time and just slowed down getting anything useful done.<p>Now, I’ve also hired internationally from all over world and that has usually been fine.</text></item><item><author>rqtwteye</author><text>I struggle with that all the time. We have a lot of offshore people and I am pretty sure that 3 experienced people could take on a project that requires 50 offshore people and get it done in less time at higher quality.</text></item><item><author>suzzer99</author><text>We had a huge project with about 20 devs that went on for a year and a half. We brought in a bunch of consultants. The leads basically spent all day herding cats, and all night coding. We all agreed we probably could have done it in half the time with just the 5 leads.</text></item><item><author>dagss</author><text>In my career I have seen almost identical systems being built by a) 6 developers in a startup in 1 year b) 100+ developers in a big company with a much much larger budget in 2 years.<p>Almost the same specs, but the one in the startup had better scalability and fewer serious bugs...<p>So, spend 10-50x less and get higher quality?<p>Worst is I now consider case b) quite lean and efficient compared to what I see tech consultancies doing towards public sector, banks, etc...<p>--
My point being: There definitely IS a room for &quot;rockstars&quot; (don&#x27;t like that term, but interpret this as developers competent enough to carry a lot of weight on their own and work in a smaller company) to deliver a lot of value.<p>The problem with the model is the lack of predictability (what if the few developers you trust don&#x27;t deliver), the bus factor if one of the few devs quits, etc<p>In a sense inefficiency is a goal, because otherwise you loose redundancy. It costs a lot to hire 100 to produce the output of 10, but much lower risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdiupIGPWEfh</author><text>To me, &quot;offshore&quot; means acquiring developers from international shops that bid for US contracts, whereas hiring internationally just means hiring outside the country on an individual basis.<p>Speaking very broadly here, my impression is that those offshore development shops bidding for US contracts often don&#x27;t have the greatest working conditions. Those talented enough to know their worth and find better options will do so if the opportunity presents itself, which could mean either applying for international positions on their own or immigrating to where the jobs are. Thus there&#x27;s an outflow of talent away from those offshore companies.</text></comment> |
31,824,368 | 31,824,187 | 1 | 2 | 31,823,592 | train | <story><title>How we made data aggregation on PostgreSQL better and faster</title><url>https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-we-made-data-aggregation-better-and-faster-on-postgresql-with-timescaledb-2-7/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fabian2k</author><text>Materialized views that are updated efficiently when new rows are added or rows updated would be a really great feature to have in core Postgres. This certainly would be useful outside of timeseries data.</text></comment> | <story><title>How we made data aggregation on PostgreSQL better and faster</title><url>https://www.timescale.com/blog/how-we-made-data-aggregation-better-and-faster-on-postgresql-with-timescaledb-2-7/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterZaitsev</author><text>Nice to see comparison done to the previous version of TimescaleDB rather than comparison to other vendors, which always tends to be questionable and biased</text></comment> |
5,260,586 | 5,260,550 | 1 | 3 | 5,260,259 | train | <story><title>I'm Betting on Elon</title><url>http://danielodio.com/im-betting-on-elon?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjbprime</author><text>My problem with the "I'm betting on Elon" approach is that the market is clearly <i>already</i> betting on Elon, to the point of somewhere between 10-40x a sensible company valuation. If you buy now, you're betting on a clearly ridiculously-optimistic valuation being not quite ridiculously-optimistic enough. You're not the first person to have considered that the company might be successful and grow exponentially in the future -- that's already priced in to the stock!<p>Talking about long-term bets, it would be interesting to read about how the electric car future might tie into the driverless car future. My understanding is that we'll have many fewer cars around in the driverless future, even if the cars that we do have are electric.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sachingulaya</author><text>Investors are surprisingly pessimistic. I am heavily invested in TSLA. I got out right before earnings call because CEOs like Elon don't seem to care about meeting Wall Street's expectations. I'll buy more in a week or two when the market is more favorable.<p>Almost all of the criticism I read of TSLA is regarding their financials. There is a lot of room for sentiment and investor confidence to improve. Things I care about(like Elon's track record &#38; ridiculous amounts of ambition, improvements in battery technology, not using dealerships, the supercharger network, etc.) don't ever get mentioned.<p>Wall street seems to care about whether they'll be able to meet production goals, the amount of cash they have on hand to continue operations, etc.<p>Most importantly, as more consumers take delivery of their Model S' I'm expecting investor confidence and awareness to improve. They'll "see" the demand with their own eyes. My father is already mentioning to me that his friends are seeing Model S' pop up around town and people are talking about them. They want to know what it is. It's extremely common for retail investors to buy stock based on products that they see being used.<p>You're right in that I'm betting solely based on investor confidence improving. In my opinion, there is no other metric on which to price a stock.</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm Betting on Elon</title><url>http://danielodio.com/im-betting-on-elon?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cjbprime</author><text>My problem with the "I'm betting on Elon" approach is that the market is clearly <i>already</i> betting on Elon, to the point of somewhere between 10-40x a sensible company valuation. If you buy now, you're betting on a clearly ridiculously-optimistic valuation being not quite ridiculously-optimistic enough. You're not the first person to have considered that the company might be successful and grow exponentially in the future -- that's already priced in to the stock!<p>Talking about long-term bets, it would be interesting to read about how the electric car future might tie into the driverless car future. My understanding is that we'll have many fewer cars around in the driverless future, even if the cars that we do have are electric.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rthomas6</author><text>Exactly. Tesla being successful in the future doesn't necessarily tie in to making money on the stock, except over the scale of decades.</text></comment> |
24,064,741 | 24,064,284 | 1 | 2 | 24,063,781 | train | <story><title>Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200804/01231345032/twitter-about-to-be-hit-with-250-million-fine-using-your-two-factor-authentication-phone-numbers-emails-marketing.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24051665" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24051665</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Twitter to be fined $250M for using 2FA numbers for ads</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200804/01231345032/twitter-about-to-be-hit-with-250-million-fine-using-your-two-factor-authentication-phone-numbers-emails-marketing.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Timpy</author><text>I&#x27;m more paranoid about big companies selling me out for ad money than I am about phishing attacks. There&#x27;s a number of sites where I feel like I should add 2FA for security, but I won&#x27;t do it for privacy reasons. Logging into Microsoft Office for my job is a pain in the ass because they redirect me to the &quot;Add your phone number&quot; page twice for each app that I use. I have to click &quot;skip this step&quot; 4 times, since I&#x27;m using Teams and Outlook. Was the world a better place when every transaction you made in a retail store didn&#x27;t come with a request for tracking? &quot;Can we get your email? What&#x27;s a good phone number for you? Do you have a rewards card? Do you want one? Any way we can peg you with a unique id and sell it to a data broker?&quot;</text></comment> |
12,778,479 | 12,778,524 | 1 | 3 | 12,775,400 | train | <story><title>Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent</title><url>http://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-homeownership-rates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>I am a German CS-Student and currently renting in a shared flat with 4 other students. We call it WG (living-community) and its really popular not only with students, but i know a lot of young professionals and even middle aged ones that share an apartment (it gained popularity in the 60s, so i think its more of an culture thing that older do not share a flat). If you are in a partnership, you can move out and share a smaller one with your partner, but if your not in a partnership (or not that close yet) i wouldn&#x27;t want to miss living in a shared apartment. You come home, talk about your day, cook together and on the weekend you can go out together. There is always something going on. I can&#x27;t imagine living in my own apartment all by myself. Working long and then coming home into an empty, dead, dark apartment with no one to talk to.<p>Serious question: Why is it not very popular in other countries?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valine</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been the opposite. I can&#x27;t stand coming home to an apartment filled with people. After dealing with chaos all day, I want to know there&#x27;s a quiet, tidy place where I can relax. I dislike coming back and having to interact with people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Most Germans don’t buy their homes, they rent</title><url>http://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-homeownership-rates/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>I am a German CS-Student and currently renting in a shared flat with 4 other students. We call it WG (living-community) and its really popular not only with students, but i know a lot of young professionals and even middle aged ones that share an apartment (it gained popularity in the 60s, so i think its more of an culture thing that older do not share a flat). If you are in a partnership, you can move out and share a smaller one with your partner, but if your not in a partnership (or not that close yet) i wouldn&#x27;t want to miss living in a shared apartment. You come home, talk about your day, cook together and on the weekend you can go out together. There is always something going on. I can&#x27;t imagine living in my own apartment all by myself. Working long and then coming home into an empty, dead, dark apartment with no one to talk to.<p>Serious question: Why is it not very popular in other countries?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmc</author><text>&gt; <i>Serious question: Why is it not very popular in other countries? </i><p>Because some countries have much, much worse tenants rights.<p>I moved from Ireland to Germany and in Ireland:<p>* There is basically no protection for rent increases, some people are being told their rent is increasing by 50%<p>* Can&#x27;t change your apartment. Not allowed to paint the walls, nearly all come with furniture, better make sure you don&#x27;t damage any of it.<p>* Oh the landlord&#x2F;landlord&#x27;s relative wants to live in the apartment. Eviction time for you.<p>* You give your landlord your deposit. Let&#x27;s hope they can find it again if you move out.<p>* By default, no pets allowed. And many landlords will say no.<p>* Did I mention about the rent increases?</text></comment> |
26,901,511 | 26,901,237 | 1 | 3 | 26,899,100 | train | <story><title>Show HN: DbGate – open-source, cross-platform SQL+noSQL database client</title><url>https://dbgate.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user3939382</author><text>Tangentially related, if any macOS users are shopping for a DB client here’s my experience:<p>After many years Sequel Pro (MySQL only) started having problems so I tried every tool in this class for macOS and ended up standardizing on TablePlus.<p>It supports most common DBMSs, works on Mac and Windows, and apparently has a Linux alpha.<p>I still prefer Sequel Pro’s UI but TablePlus is ok. No critical bugs although import of massive or complex MySQL dumps still works more reliably on the official CLI client.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tornquist</author><text>Have you seen Sequel Ace? It’s a fork of the project that’s maintained again. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Sequel-Ace&#x2F;Sequel-Ace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Sequel-Ace&#x2F;Sequel-Ace</a><p>I also use Postico for Postgres <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eggerapps.at&#x2F;postico&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eggerapps.at&#x2F;postico&#x2F;</a> the UI there is nice as well. It’s the closest I could find to Sequel Pro.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: DbGate – open-source, cross-platform SQL+noSQL database client</title><url>https://dbgate.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user3939382</author><text>Tangentially related, if any macOS users are shopping for a DB client here’s my experience:<p>After many years Sequel Pro (MySQL only) started having problems so I tried every tool in this class for macOS and ended up standardizing on TablePlus.<p>It supports most common DBMSs, works on Mac and Windows, and apparently has a Linux alpha.<p>I still prefer Sequel Pro’s UI but TablePlus is ok. No critical bugs although import of massive or complex MySQL dumps still works more reliably on the official CLI client.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thenaturalist</author><text>+1 very happy Tableplus user. Keyboard shortcuts, clear UI, split pane... Much to love.<p>I am in no way affiliated with the product or it&#x27;s creators, but have seen many SQL clients and can recommend it.</text></comment> |
23,209,946 | 23,209,934 | 1 | 3 | 23,208,704 | train | <story><title>Modern universities are an exercise in insanity (2018)</title><url>http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2018/01/modern-universities-are-exercise-in.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamalek</author><text>The reason college is a requirement is because everyone who is in charge went to one, and believes it is necessary.<p>That&#x27;s a double-edged statement. On one hand, college is correlated with success (but that may be because college peddles networking). On the other hand, they are senselessly perpetuating a perceived important of college - which may not exist (at least for disciplines outside of medicine and so forth). There is no justification for the cost, it&#x27;s a very expensive printing press.<p>While I can understand both points of view, after my complete and utter cash grab &quot;degree&quot; where I learned nothing beyond what I already knew, I perceive it as a scam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KingOfCoders</author><text>I have studied computer science as master in Germany (Diplom) with the best possible final exam score (1,0) in databases, distributed systems, etc. That didn&#x27;t help me very much with my career. I&#x27;ve worked on the side in startups. That experience helped me found my first VC funded startup and helped my career later on as CTO in several companies. I&#x27;m now working as a CTO coach and looking back, my university days didn&#x27;t have much impact, if any at all.<p>Have I&#x27;ve learned anything useful? Yes. Was the outcome worth 6 years? No. I would have learned the same things watching excellent Youtube (Standford, MIT, ...) videos for one year.<p>EY [1] has shown several years ago that university had no impact on the career of their employees and dropped that requirement.<p>As someone who hired and managed many people I never looked at university degrees. And I never saw a difference.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;2016&#x2F;jan&#x2F;18&#x2F;penguin-ditches-the-need-for-job-seekers-to-have-university-degrees" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;2016&#x2F;jan&#x2F;18&#x2F;penguin-ditche...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Modern universities are an exercise in insanity (2018)</title><url>http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2018/01/modern-universities-are-exercise-in.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zamalek</author><text>The reason college is a requirement is because everyone who is in charge went to one, and believes it is necessary.<p>That&#x27;s a double-edged statement. On one hand, college is correlated with success (but that may be because college peddles networking). On the other hand, they are senselessly perpetuating a perceived important of college - which may not exist (at least for disciplines outside of medicine and so forth). There is no justification for the cost, it&#x27;s a very expensive printing press.<p>While I can understand both points of view, after my complete and utter cash grab &quot;degree&quot; where I learned nothing beyond what I already knew, I perceive it as a scam.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kgin</author><text>In many industries, a college degree (especially from a &quot;name&quot; school) is essentially used as an outsourced HR screening. It&#x27;s not about specific knowledge, but being able to start the process knowing that this person has certain attributes that impressed the admissions department of a selective school enough to let them in. Therefore, the HR department of company X can start with a base level of vetting already done.</text></comment> |
7,280,678 | 7,279,488 | 1 | 2 | 7,279,087 | train | <story><title>Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds</title><url>http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/20/voynich-manuscript-partially-decoded-text-hoax-scholar-finds/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Renaud</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why we only consider that this manuscript is either a hoax or a forgotten language. Why can&#x27;t it be an expression of whimsical fantasy?<p>When I was 12, as an introvert kid with too much imagination, I started inventing my own language. I would make up words, sometimes based off various other languages, sometime simply based on how they sounded.<p>It had a couple of different writing systems, one was a slightly modified version of Greek alphabet, another, more complex, was made of dots and small squiggles that were fast to write (I was fascinated with the Arabic writing system at the time and took inspiration from it even though it didn&#x27;t look anything like that).<p>I would write pages of nonsense in that writing system, just to see how it would flow or change over time, just to find patterns, just to have fun.<p>I even invented my own calendar, using the 88 day revolution of Mercury around the Sun as the year.<p>When I look at the Voynich Manuscript, all I see is the product of a fertile imagination that went a lot farther than my early teenage attempts at building a coherent world for myself.<p>I believe that these unconvincing attempts at finding meaning elsewhere -or degrading the object by calling it a hoax- are distracting us from the real beauty of this work of love and imagination.</text></comment> | <story><title>Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds</title><url>http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/20/voynich-manuscript-partially-decoded-text-hoax-scholar-finds/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bencollier49</author><text>The combination of the Voynich Manuscript&#x27;s history of translation claims, taken together with the origin of this work (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3326436/Is-this-the-worst-university-in-Britain.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;education&#x2F;educationnews&#x2F;3326436&#x2F;I...</a>), leads me to view this with at least something of an air of caution.</text></comment> |
35,167,085 | 35,167,082 | 1 | 3 | 35,166,317 | train | <story><title>Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know</title><url>https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>Docker the tool has been a massive benefit to software development, every now and then I have a moan about the hassle of getting something bootstrapped to run on Docker, but it&#x27;s still worlds better than the old ways of managing dependencies and making sure everyone on a project is aligned on what versions of things are installed.<p>Unfortunately Docker the company appears to be dying, this is the latest in a long line of decisions that are clearly being made because they can&#x27;t work out how to build a business around what is at it&#x27;s core a nice UI for Linux containers. My hope is that before the inevitable shuttering of Docker Inc another organisations (ideally a coop of some variety, but that&#x27;s probably wishful thinking) pops up to take over the bits that matter, and then hopefully we can all stop trying to keep up with the latest way in which our workflows have been broken to try and make a few dollars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>Docker should have been a neat tool made by one enthusiast, just like curl is.<p>Instead it has a multi-million dollar company behind it, and VC&#x27;s who demand profits from a thing that shouldn&#x27;t have ever had a business plan.</text></comment> | <story><title>Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know</title><url>https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>Docker the tool has been a massive benefit to software development, every now and then I have a moan about the hassle of getting something bootstrapped to run on Docker, but it&#x27;s still worlds better than the old ways of managing dependencies and making sure everyone on a project is aligned on what versions of things are installed.<p>Unfortunately Docker the company appears to be dying, this is the latest in a long line of decisions that are clearly being made because they can&#x27;t work out how to build a business around what is at it&#x27;s core a nice UI for Linux containers. My hope is that before the inevitable shuttering of Docker Inc another organisations (ideally a coop of some variety, but that&#x27;s probably wishful thinking) pops up to take over the bits that matter, and then hopefully we can all stop trying to keep up with the latest way in which our workflows have been broken to try and make a few dollars.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spicyusername</author><text><p><pre><code> ideally a coop of some variety
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This is the role I feel like podman, the tool developed by Red Hat, is filling.</text></comment> |
37,779,676 | 37,778,561 | 1 | 3 | 37,777,301 | train | <story><title>Krita fund has no corporate support</title><url>https://fund.krita.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raincole</author><text>I&#x27;m migrating from Krita to Photoshop lately.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love Krita. I used it for years and I wrote ~30+ bug reports. It&#x27;s a positive thing -- I won&#x27;t bother reporting bugs to Adobe cause I know they don&#x27;t care, unlike Krita devs.<p>However every time I need to collaborate with someone else, they use Photoshop. They use .psd like it&#x27;s an interchangeable format[1]. Out of 10+ artists I&#x27;ve only seen one who doesn&#x27;t use PS, and it&#x27;s not Krita.<p>[1]: I know Krita can read and write .psd.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>Not to detract from raincole&#x27;s point, and this is not relevant at all to their problem, but just a general reminder that in many ways Krita is not a direct competitor to Photoshop unless you&#x27;re using Photoshop as a digital painting tool -- and if you are, I would argue that Krita is arguably a better product in multiple ways.<p>I think that Photoshop is an <i>image manipulator</i> first and foremost, and Krita is a tool for drawing&#x2F;painting and maybe doing some light traditional animation (although even that is not its primary focus).<p>I think that CSP, Procreate, etc... are more direct competitors to Krita. Photoshop is a competitor to Gimp.<p>Again, does not change anything about raincole&#x27;s comment, and I don&#x27;t think that raincole was suggesting that they were direct competitors. It&#x27;s just that whenever Photosohp and Krita get mentioned in the same sentence I feel like the assumption from many readers is that they&#x27;re trying to do the same things, and I would personally say that I think they&#x27;re separate categories of software. There are things that Photosohp does that Krita doesn&#x27;t want to do and will probably never support, because it&#x27;s a painting app, not an image manipulation app.</text></comment> | <story><title>Krita fund has no corporate support</title><url>https://fund.krita.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raincole</author><text>I&#x27;m migrating from Krita to Photoshop lately.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I love Krita. I used it for years and I wrote ~30+ bug reports. It&#x27;s a positive thing -- I won&#x27;t bother reporting bugs to Adobe cause I know they don&#x27;t care, unlike Krita devs.<p>However every time I need to collaborate with someone else, they use Photoshop. They use .psd like it&#x27;s an interchangeable format[1]. Out of 10+ artists I&#x27;ve only seen one who doesn&#x27;t use PS, and it&#x27;s not Krita.<p>[1]: I know Krita can read and write .psd.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danjc</author><text>Seems that a near-perfect psd import&#x2F;export would be the killer feature that enables it to compete with Photoshop. That would be huge.</text></comment> |
12,457,018 | 12,456,044 | 1 | 2 | 12,453,298 | train | <story><title>Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/technology/airbnb-anti-discrimination-rules.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pascalmemories</author><text>If I understand correctly, you&#x27;re happy to be the one discriminating against disabled people, old people and people with children.<p>But you&#x27;re not happy if you&#x27;re on the receiving end of any discrimination.<p>Don&#x27;t you see the contradiction there ?<p>Anti-discrimination policies are about ensuring people have equal access to services and facilities (whether it&#x27;s contentious toilets or hotels or whatever).<p>You seem to indicate in your jurisdiction that renting an apartment without safety rails is OK, but in many others it&#x27;s not OK and you&#x27;d be in violation of safety laws (and also discrimination laws). It doesn&#x27;t matter that you live there sometime - you&#x27;re renting it as a facility and should be expected to comply with safety and whatever other laws apply. And if you do it via AirBnB, you also need to comply with their rules regardless of legal requirements. And AirBnB get to change the rules when they want and you either agree or stop using them.</text></item><item><author>nicolas_t</author><text>As an host, I&#x27;ll never discriminate on the basis of religion, sex orientation, color of skin, national origin or gender identity.<p>When it comes to disability, I might refuse someone whose disability would cause risk in using the apartment and might have an accident because the apartment is not safe for someone who&#x27;s disabled (the building is 300 years old, there&#x27;s no elevator, the stair in the duplex apartment doesn&#x27;t have handrails)... It&#x27;s a risk if the person then has an accident...<p>Similarly in term of age, I would not rent to couples with young children because it&#x27;s too risky.<p>So, it&#x27;s discrimination but it&#x27;s mostly because this is not an hotel, it&#x27;s an apartment in which I live part of the year and it&#x27;s not adapted for disabled people or couples with young children because I&#x27;m not in those categories.<p>That said, as someone whose wife is asian, I fully understand the problem. It&#x27;s annoying and painful when people discriminate based on race.<p>In our case, we show both my face and wife face on our Airbnb profile photo because we prefer to have a host refuse on the basis of wife&#x27;s nationality than to give money or stay at the house of a racist host. I&#x27;ve had a bad experience before that with a host who was nice to me when I met him and then wasn&#x27;t as nice 5 minutes later once my wife arrived... The fact that he earned money from our stay galls me...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicolas_t</author><text>The main thing, is that I&#x27;m not a professional renter. The primary use of the apartment is for myself almost half of the year. I also rent more than half of the time outside of airbnb on Homeaway...<p>In the jurisdiction where I&#x27;m renting, there&#x27;s no requirements for handrails. The requirements for short terms rental are basically the same as the requirements for renting an apartment long term and not all apartments are disabled friendly... It&#x27;s also in an historical district, even if we wanted to we would never get the permit to install an elevator...<p>Also, I&#x27;ve never said I wouldn&#x27;t accept old people. If they have no disabilities that would present a risk for them, they&#x27;re welcome.<p>If I owned a hotel, I would have rooms with disabled access of course. But, it&#x27;s different when you&#x27;re renting the apartment that is also your habitation (which is the original purpose of Airbnb)...<p>Now, that said, I fully support laws that force businesses to accommodate people with disabilities. I also think that any new buildings should be built with this in mind. But are we going to destroy historic old buildings because they don&#x27;t conform to the current regulations?</text></comment> | <story><title>Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/technology/airbnb-anti-discrimination-rules.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pascalmemories</author><text>If I understand correctly, you&#x27;re happy to be the one discriminating against disabled people, old people and people with children.<p>But you&#x27;re not happy if you&#x27;re on the receiving end of any discrimination.<p>Don&#x27;t you see the contradiction there ?<p>Anti-discrimination policies are about ensuring people have equal access to services and facilities (whether it&#x27;s contentious toilets or hotels or whatever).<p>You seem to indicate in your jurisdiction that renting an apartment without safety rails is OK, but in many others it&#x27;s not OK and you&#x27;d be in violation of safety laws (and also discrimination laws). It doesn&#x27;t matter that you live there sometime - you&#x27;re renting it as a facility and should be expected to comply with safety and whatever other laws apply. And if you do it via AirBnB, you also need to comply with their rules regardless of legal requirements. And AirBnB get to change the rules when they want and you either agree or stop using them.</text></item><item><author>nicolas_t</author><text>As an host, I&#x27;ll never discriminate on the basis of religion, sex orientation, color of skin, national origin or gender identity.<p>When it comes to disability, I might refuse someone whose disability would cause risk in using the apartment and might have an accident because the apartment is not safe for someone who&#x27;s disabled (the building is 300 years old, there&#x27;s no elevator, the stair in the duplex apartment doesn&#x27;t have handrails)... It&#x27;s a risk if the person then has an accident...<p>Similarly in term of age, I would not rent to couples with young children because it&#x27;s too risky.<p>So, it&#x27;s discrimination but it&#x27;s mostly because this is not an hotel, it&#x27;s an apartment in which I live part of the year and it&#x27;s not adapted for disabled people or couples with young children because I&#x27;m not in those categories.<p>That said, as someone whose wife is asian, I fully understand the problem. It&#x27;s annoying and painful when people discriminate based on race.<p>In our case, we show both my face and wife face on our Airbnb profile photo because we prefer to have a host refuse on the basis of wife&#x27;s nationality than to give money or stay at the house of a racist host. I&#x27;ve had a bad experience before that with a host who was nice to me when I met him and then wasn&#x27;t as nice 5 minutes later once my wife arrived... The fact that he earned money from our stay galls me...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saiya-jin</author><text>why the attack?<p>the fact that he didn&#x27;t put in enough safety in complicated apartment is the reason for you to attack him? Well maybe it technically challenging, would make the place ugly or is near impossible given the layout of the place or materials used to build it. You cannot just drill anywhere you want in buildings that are few hundred years old for example.<p>there is a distinction between sharing an apt and going to hotel. Latter is vastly more regulated, former is a bit wild west and exactly the reason why people are using it (because with this comes usually lower price if more people will be accommodated, more homely feel with more equipment ala full kitchen etc.).<p>Let&#x27;s not try to make private apartments hotels, because then we end up with... just more fugly hotels.</text></comment> |
18,766,456 | 18,764,968 | 1 | 2 | 18,764,770 | train | <story><title>Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us</title><url>https://spencerdailey.com/2018/12/26/in-2019-apple-needs-to-change-iphones-call-ui-because-robocalls-are-killing-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>AFAIK, it&#x27;s still the case that I can&#x27;t block everything <i>but</i> numbers in my contacts, right? That&#x27;s all I&#x27;m asking, and it can&#x27;t be that hard. Add that simple feature that should have been there ten years ago and the problem is solved for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dilap</author><text>Yes, this, exactly. It&#x27;s mind-boggling you can&#x27;t do this. (You can kind of, sort of approximate it w&#x2F; do-not-disturb mode, but turns off other notifications too, unfortunately. It needs to just be a separate option. I have zero interest in picking up calls from non-contacts in real-time.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us</title><url>https://spencerdailey.com/2018/12/26/in-2019-apple-needs-to-change-iphones-call-ui-because-robocalls-are-killing-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>AFAIK, it&#x27;s still the case that I can&#x27;t block everything <i>but</i> numbers in my contacts, right? That&#x27;s all I&#x27;m asking, and it can&#x27;t be that hard. Add that simple feature that should have been there ten years ago and the problem is solved for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javery</author><text>You can do this, just set your phone to Do Not Disturb and then set it to &quot;allow calls from my contacts&quot;</text></comment> |
18,253,362 | 18,251,492 | 1 | 2 | 18,239,835 | train | <story><title>Decision Tables</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/decision-tables/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pron</author><text>What I find most remarkable about the comments here is how quickly programmers try to jump to code (I&#x27;m not passing judgment, just making an observation). The goal of this post is to present a simple yet useful <i>specification</i> tool. Sure, a decision table implemented in Clojure would likely be more readable than one implemented in assembly, but figuring out <i>what</i> the decisions should be would be far, far more costly and significant (in all interesting cases) than implementing, or reading, either. Sometimes a specification is not even implemented in a single program, but in some distributed system, with no direct representation in code, and sometimes a specification specifies the environment the system interacts with, and is not even implemented by a computer at all. Coding is important, but specifying is usually much more so, as it is both more costly and has a higher impact. Developers should learn how to think about specification and use various aids -- like decision tables -- without thinking at the code level, which is often a distraction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Decision Tables</title><url>https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/decision-tables/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAsprngHacker</author><text>Programming languages that support pattern matching support decision tables. This is an OCaml port of the FizzBuzz example (fixing a mistake where the result of the modulo is compared with T and F):<p><pre><code> match n mod 3 = 0, n mod 5 = 0 with
| true, true -&gt; &quot;FizzBuzz&quot;
| true, false -&gt; &quot;Fizz&quot;
| false, true -&gt; &quot;Buzz&quot;
| false, false -&gt; string_of_int n
</code></pre>
This a &quot;cleaner&quot; version that takes advantage of wildcards (which appear in the article, but not in the FizzBuzz):<p><pre><code> match n mod 3, n mod 5 with
| 0, 0 -&gt; &quot;FizzBuzz&quot;
| 0, _ -&gt; &quot;Fizz&quot;
| _, 0 -&gt; &quot;Buzz&quot;
| _, _ -&gt; string_of_int n
</code></pre>
Note that the article states, &quot;two rows can’t overlap in what inputs they cover,&quot; but in case analyses expressions of PLs with pattern matching, two rows can share a non-empty set of common matches and the higher row will take precedence.</text></comment> |
28,463,789 | 28,463,831 | 1 | 2 | 28,462,151 | train | <story><title>MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zetalyrae</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered: why exactly is ITER so expensive, and slow? Is the engineering required at such a standard that it should takes decades of planning and construction and tens of billions of dollars? The timeline is so dilated (started in 1988, first plasma planned for 2025!) it feels like the kind of project that&#x27;s expected to be cancelled from the start.<p>It just doesn&#x27;t strike me as obvious that reducing the major radius by a few meters would have such a huge impact on cost&#x2F;timelines.</text></item><item><author>dfdx</author><text>Plenty of skepticism in these comments. I&#x27;ve been following CFS for a while and can present a point of view for why this time might be different.<p>Fusion energy was actually making rapid progress in the latter half of the twentieth century, going from almost no power output in the fifties and sixties to a power output equal to 67% of input power with the JET reactor in 1997. By the eighties there was plenty of experimental evidence to describe the relationships between tokamak parameters and power output. Particularly that the gain is proportional to the radius to the power of 1.3 and the magnetic field cubed. The main caveat to this relationship was that we only had magnets that would go up to 5.5 Tesla, which implied we needed a tokamak radius of 6 meters or so in order to produce net energy.<p>Well that 6 meter tokamak was designed in the eighties and is currently under construction. ITER, being so large, costs tens of billions of dollars and requires international collaboration; the size of the project has led to huge budget overruns and long delays. Recently however, there have been significant advances in high-temperature super conductors that can produce magnetic fields large enough that we (theoretically) only need a tokamak with a major radius of about 1.5 meters to produce net gain. This is where SPARC (the tokamak being built by the company in the article) comes in. The general idea is that since we have stronger magnets now, we can make a smaller, and therefore cheaper tokamak quickly.<p>Small tokamaks do have downsides, namely that the heat flux through the walls of the device is so large that it will damage the tokamak. There have been breakthroughs with various divertor designs that can mitigate this, but to the best of my knowledge I&#x27;m not sure that CFS has specified their divertor configuration.<p>This was just a short summary of the presentation by Dennis Whyte given here [0]. I do not work in the fusion community.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfdx</author><text>Anecdotally, ITER was the largest of few options for a fusion researcher to run their experiment in a new tokamak. Everybody wanted to put their work into it, and as more features were added, the more funding it sucked up, leaving less money for other experiments, leading to more people wanting to put their experiment into ITER. Here&#x27;s a presentation [0] that goes over why SPARC, being so much smaller and simpler than ITER could be more likely to succeed.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;library.psfc.mit.edu&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;online_pubs&#x2F;iap&#x2F;iap2016&#x2F;mumgaard.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;library.psfc.mit.edu&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;online_pubs&#x2F;iap&#x2F;iap2016...</a><p>This quote from the presentation summarizes it well:<p>“The more money that&#x27;s involved, the less risk people want to take. The less risk people want to take, the more they put into their designs, to make sure their subsystem is super-reliable. The more
things they put in, the more expensive the project gets. The more expensive it gets, the more instruments the scientists want to add, because the cost is getting so high that they&#x27;re afraid there won&#x27;t be
another opportunity later on- they figure this is the last train out of town. So little by little, the spacecraft becomes gilded. And you have these bad dreams about a spacecraft so bulky and so heavy it
won&#x27;t get off the ground- never mind the overblown cost.”<p>“That boils down to the higher the cost, the more you want to protect your investment, so the more money you put into lowering your risk. It becomes a vicious cycle.”
- Rob Manning, Chief spacecraft engineer, JPL</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zetalyrae</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered: why exactly is ITER so expensive, and slow? Is the engineering required at such a standard that it should takes decades of planning and construction and tens of billions of dollars? The timeline is so dilated (started in 1988, first plasma planned for 2025!) it feels like the kind of project that&#x27;s expected to be cancelled from the start.<p>It just doesn&#x27;t strike me as obvious that reducing the major radius by a few meters would have such a huge impact on cost&#x2F;timelines.</text></item><item><author>dfdx</author><text>Plenty of skepticism in these comments. I&#x27;ve been following CFS for a while and can present a point of view for why this time might be different.<p>Fusion energy was actually making rapid progress in the latter half of the twentieth century, going from almost no power output in the fifties and sixties to a power output equal to 67% of input power with the JET reactor in 1997. By the eighties there was plenty of experimental evidence to describe the relationships between tokamak parameters and power output. Particularly that the gain is proportional to the radius to the power of 1.3 and the magnetic field cubed. The main caveat to this relationship was that we only had magnets that would go up to 5.5 Tesla, which implied we needed a tokamak radius of 6 meters or so in order to produce net energy.<p>Well that 6 meter tokamak was designed in the eighties and is currently under construction. ITER, being so large, costs tens of billions of dollars and requires international collaboration; the size of the project has led to huge budget overruns and long delays. Recently however, there have been significant advances in high-temperature super conductors that can produce magnetic fields large enough that we (theoretically) only need a tokamak with a major radius of about 1.5 meters to produce net gain. This is where SPARC (the tokamak being built by the company in the article) comes in. The general idea is that since we have stronger magnets now, we can make a smaller, and therefore cheaper tokamak quickly.<p>Small tokamaks do have downsides, namely that the heat flux through the walls of the device is so large that it will damage the tokamak. There have been breakthroughs with various divertor designs that can mitigate this, but to the best of my knowledge I&#x27;m not sure that CFS has specified their divertor configuration.<p>This was just a short summary of the presentation by Dennis Whyte given here [0]. I do not work in the fusion community.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbierwagen</author><text>Here&#x27;s a render of the completed reactor: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iter.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;all&#x2F;content&#x2F;com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;media&#x2F;7%20-%20technical&#x2F;tkmandplant_2016_72dpi.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iter.org&#x2F;doc&#x2F;all&#x2F;content&#x2F;com&#x2F;gallery&#x2F;media&#x2F;7%20-...</a> Note human for size.<p>It&#x27;s all completely bespoke scientific equipment hand made for this project only. The cryostat will be the largest stainless steel vacuum vessel ever made-- all welded by hand.<p>After welding, a substantial number of in-vessel components have to be installed by threading them through access ports, which is also quite a task: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pt70mO2nQac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pt70mO2nQac</a></text></comment> |
13,952,721 | 13,952,655 | 1 | 3 | 13,952,140 | train | <story><title>Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros</title><url>http://serv.peterme.net/devlog/cross-platform-guis-and-nim-macros.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dom0</author><text>In 2012 I could pack a whole Python interpreter, Qt and various image-processing libraries into an InnoSetup installer that just-so scratched the 12 MB mark; I doubt this has changed significantly.<p>Contrary to what the linked (more interesting) survey article suggests, Qt <i>is</i> usually the answer to most issues when it comes to cross-platform UI.<p>Gtk is not bad, but Gtk is what it is: it was created because Qt couldn&#x27;t be used for licensing concerns (at the time) by people unexperienced with the matter (compared to the Trolltech staff), and is maintained by people who, for the most part, care about Linux. Qt on the other hand is supported commercially, and puts far more effort into supporting more platforms better. [Also the tooling and docs are really nice].</text></comment> | <story><title>Cross platform GUIs and Nim macros</title><url>http://serv.peterme.net/devlog/cross-platform-guis-and-nim-macros.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>norswap</author><text>Why does the fact that GTK &quot;looks non-native on Windows&quot; disqualify it? If it&#x27;s pretty enough for Linux, isn&#x27;t also good enough for Windows? (Also my personal opinion is that it doesn&#x27;t look too bad.)</text></comment> |
36,337,667 | 36,337,530 | 1 | 3 | 36,336,748 | train | <story><title>11 years of hosting a SaaS</title><url>https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/11-years-of-hosting-a-saas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speedgoose</author><text>I&#x27;m looking at the ansible playbooks to setup my favourite beefy baremetal Hetzner server (128GB ram, Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core, 450Gb fast NVME SSD, 3.5TB x2 NVME SSDs, 155€&#x2F;month):<p>- Install Debian 11 while booted in rescue mode.<p>- Setup the root file system encryption using cryptsetup and dropbear (to enter the key during the boot through SSH). Involves chroot and some fun commands.<p>- Setup ZFS encrypted mirror filesystem for the two additional SSDs.<p>- OpenSSH hardening and Teleport installation.<p>- Kubernetes installation (K3S)<p>- Connecting kubernetes to my Argo CD instance or an existing Kubernetes cluster.<p>And then through GitOps:<p>- Installation of openebs-zfspv<p>- Installation of kube-prometheus-stack helm chart<p>- Installation of (many) postgresql instances and other craps<p>I have been playing with Linux servers for 20 years and I find this fun and rewarding. But I do understand people saying that baremetal Hetzner is not for everyone. Especially if you start to have requirements such as &quot;data must be encrypted at rest&quot;.</text></item><item><author>Radim</author><text>It may be a generational thing, a matter of familiarity with computing and computers. For someone who&#x27;s lived through the 80s, &quot;handrolling postgres&quot; doesn&#x27;t sound nearly as scary as you imagine.<p>I expect the cost&#x2F;benefit analysis of &quot;handrolling postgres on a beefy Hetzner server&quot; vs &quot;navigating the menus and options of AWS services&quot; would be different for different teams.</text></item><item><author>rozenmd</author><text>&gt; Use managed services for as long as possible<p>Big agree here.<p>Yes, you can save stupid money by handrolling postgres on an extremely beefy Hetzner server, or you can pay someone else and keep building your product: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlineornot.com&#x2F;self-hosting-vs-managed-services-deciding-how-host-your-database#benefits-of-managed-services" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlineornot.com&#x2F;self-hosting-vs-managed-services-dec...</a><p>This isn&#x27;t to say, &quot;don&#x27;t bother learning how to do it yourself&quot;, but more &quot;learn to pick your battles&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maccard</author><text>Our terraform config for RDS is about 50 lines of configuration. We get a much smaller instance for our money, but ultimately figuring out all of what you posted isn&#x27;t a good use of my time (yet).</text></comment> | <story><title>11 years of hosting a SaaS</title><url>https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/11-years-of-hosting-a-saas</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speedgoose</author><text>I&#x27;m looking at the ansible playbooks to setup my favourite beefy baremetal Hetzner server (128GB ram, Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core, 450Gb fast NVME SSD, 3.5TB x2 NVME SSDs, 155€&#x2F;month):<p>- Install Debian 11 while booted in rescue mode.<p>- Setup the root file system encryption using cryptsetup and dropbear (to enter the key during the boot through SSH). Involves chroot and some fun commands.<p>- Setup ZFS encrypted mirror filesystem for the two additional SSDs.<p>- OpenSSH hardening and Teleport installation.<p>- Kubernetes installation (K3S)<p>- Connecting kubernetes to my Argo CD instance or an existing Kubernetes cluster.<p>And then through GitOps:<p>- Installation of openebs-zfspv<p>- Installation of kube-prometheus-stack helm chart<p>- Installation of (many) postgresql instances and other craps<p>I have been playing with Linux servers for 20 years and I find this fun and rewarding. But I do understand people saying that baremetal Hetzner is not for everyone. Especially if you start to have requirements such as &quot;data must be encrypted at rest&quot;.</text></item><item><author>Radim</author><text>It may be a generational thing, a matter of familiarity with computing and computers. For someone who&#x27;s lived through the 80s, &quot;handrolling postgres&quot; doesn&#x27;t sound nearly as scary as you imagine.<p>I expect the cost&#x2F;benefit analysis of &quot;handrolling postgres on a beefy Hetzner server&quot; vs &quot;navigating the menus and options of AWS services&quot; would be different for different teams.</text></item><item><author>rozenmd</author><text>&gt; Use managed services for as long as possible<p>Big agree here.<p>Yes, you can save stupid money by handrolling postgres on an extremely beefy Hetzner server, or you can pay someone else and keep building your product: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlineornot.com&#x2F;self-hosting-vs-managed-services-deciding-how-host-your-database#benefits-of-managed-services" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onlineornot.com&#x2F;self-hosting-vs-managed-services-dec...</a><p>This isn&#x27;t to say, &quot;don&#x27;t bother learning how to do it yourself&quot;, but more &quot;learn to pick your battles&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gog</author><text>If you skip Kubernetes the setup is not that complicated.</text></comment> |
1,796,777 | 1,796,451 | 1 | 3 | 1,795,141 | train | <story><title>Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee</title><url>http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/?page_id=193</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Unless you're at a non-profit, revenue/sales/profit are what drives the company. If you can duct tape a product that gets me $1B of yearly recurring revenue then I will take that over the cleanest architected product that no one wants to pay for.<p>In one of my other comments from a different thread I made the point that a lot of developers don't realize that they should understand the business. When you do understand it and the salesperson is in a tizzy about the "wrong thing", you can point out, "actually, that's not the real revenue driver. XYZ is. Why does the customer think ABC is? I'll tell you why, it's because DEF. But by doing XYZ we can deliver ABC in six months time."<p>I think you'll find when you can talk at the level of business a lot of things become clearer for you and the sales team.</text></item><item><author>dkarl</author><text><i>If you consistently deliver what the business needs most, and you do it well, it’s impossible not to get promoted. People tell me this isn’t true, that it’s all about the people you know and about “visibility.” I have no idea how to consistently deliver impactful business results without becoming visible as a side effect. I hate it when developers ask me how to become “more visible.” They hate it when I tell them to “do great work.” They think I’m mocking them.</i><p>You can think this way if your idea of "what the business needs most" is "what currently has the sales guys in a tizzy." Forget about everything else. Oh, and if your code only works for current customers, and has to have a bunch of tweaks and fixes applied for each new customer, then people will think your code is what <i>allows</i> them to sell to new customers. No kidding. If you write code that doesn't handle cases A, B, and C, then later you get credit for adding "support" for A, B, and C and making it possible to sell to customers X, Y, and Z. That's "visibility," because people from sales and marketing will mention your name appreciatively at high levels.<p>And for God's sake don't do any work on scaling or reliability, because a salesman never calls up your boss's boss and says, "It's been a long time since the scalability of your systems scotched a deal. I just want to say that's awesome and thank you." Wait until it breaks, make everyone thinks it's impossible, and then fix it.<p>EDIT: In a healthy organization, none of this will affect who gets promoted, but in an organization where people worry about "visibility," this is what they're talking about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WesleyJohnson</author><text>For those of you who think and operate this way, I'm sorry, but this WILL catch up with you eventually. At my last job our sales pitch was "Yes". I won't use the word "literally" here as it would be an outright lie, but it was pretty close. Our sales guys went into meetings with the assumption that we could pull off whatever the clients wanted in nearly any time frame they wanted. This was all decided on at sales time without any consultation of the actual development team on capabilities, cost or how long it would take to actually implement. Management would tell the IT/IS department (yes, we had to do both) that it was a show of faith in the abilities of our team and that we should be proud of the fact that sales and management were so confident in us. You know what that is? BS. That is sales "selling" IT. It's complete and utter BS.<p>Sure, we met those deadlines, we implemented those features and we made small fortunes for the company. But at what cost? The infrastructure starts to resemble Jenga more and more, your spaghetti code becomes harder to maintain, you end up with magic strings, magic numbers, client specific cases and conditions and your start eating into your IT budget by having to hire more programmers to support all of your crappy implementations and more hardware to handle the un-optimized pile of crap you're running.<p>What's worse is the very people you rely on to keep this tower from falling over, your programmers who have become so familiar with all the undocumented edge cases of your system, are also the very people you're basically forcing out. You're forcing them out because they become tired of not innovating, not refactoring and not progressing the technology OR the business, but instead spending all their time stressing over not "crossing the wires" of this delicate catastrophe. And when you finally lose them as a developer, and you will, it costs you severely in down-time and loses in productivity while you get your other developers and new hires up to speed. But not only do they have to learn the business, they also have to learn all the edge cases that were only known to your senior employee who was finally fed up and quit. And guaranteed, something, somewhere will be forgotten, that wire will get crossed and you'll pay dearly.<p>And while I do agree that making money and growing the business is the end goal of the business, don't assume that your IT guy isn't concerned with that and just wants to write "pretty code". Often times your IT guys understand the business more than sales, middle management and sometimes upper management because they deal with the logic, the clients, the sales team, and everyone in between day in and day out. When they're pleading with you to say "no" to a customer or ask for an extension to implement feature "x" properly, maybe you should take heed a little more often. Because the duct taped feature "x" that won over client "A" today, could be the same feature that loses you client "b" and "c" tomorrow because the only developer that new their system well enough to keep them running walked out after being forced to write yet another band-aid.<p>Of course when he quits and everything falls apart, everyone will just assume he was an overpaid, crappy programmer and his buggy code is what was the ultimate cause.</text></comment> | <story><title>Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee</title><url>http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/?page_id=193</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Unless you're at a non-profit, revenue/sales/profit are what drives the company. If you can duct tape a product that gets me $1B of yearly recurring revenue then I will take that over the cleanest architected product that no one wants to pay for.<p>In one of my other comments from a different thread I made the point that a lot of developers don't realize that they should understand the business. When you do understand it and the salesperson is in a tizzy about the "wrong thing", you can point out, "actually, that's not the real revenue driver. XYZ is. Why does the customer think ABC is? I'll tell you why, it's because DEF. But by doing XYZ we can deliver ABC in six months time."<p>I think you'll find when you can talk at the level of business a lot of things become clearer for you and the sales team.</text></item><item><author>dkarl</author><text><i>If you consistently deliver what the business needs most, and you do it well, it’s impossible not to get promoted. People tell me this isn’t true, that it’s all about the people you know and about “visibility.” I have no idea how to consistently deliver impactful business results without becoming visible as a side effect. I hate it when developers ask me how to become “more visible.” They hate it when I tell them to “do great work.” They think I’m mocking them.</i><p>You can think this way if your idea of "what the business needs most" is "what currently has the sales guys in a tizzy." Forget about everything else. Oh, and if your code only works for current customers, and has to have a bunch of tweaks and fixes applied for each new customer, then people will think your code is what <i>allows</i> them to sell to new customers. No kidding. If you write code that doesn't handle cases A, B, and C, then later you get credit for adding "support" for A, B, and C and making it possible to sell to customers X, Y, and Z. That's "visibility," because people from sales and marketing will mention your name appreciatively at high levels.<p>And for God's sake don't do any work on scaling or reliability, because a salesman never calls up your boss's boss and says, "It's been a long time since the scalability of your systems scotched a deal. I just want to say that's awesome and thank you." Wait until it breaks, make everyone thinks it's impossible, and then fix it.<p>EDIT: In a healthy organization, none of this will affect who gets promoted, but in an organization where people worry about "visibility," this is what they're talking about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonymous245</author><text>False dichotomy ($1B vs zero).<p>Actually, in my experience, developers understand the business quite well. It's the other business functions which doesn't understand development.<p>You <i>WILL</i> drive out (and keep out) good developers if you fail to treat developers as professionals whose inputs of how to develop software should be respected.</text></comment> |
34,502,232 | 34,502,127 | 1 | 2 | 34,501,173 | train | <story><title>Apple attempting to stop investigation into its practices involving browsers</title><url>https://twitter.com/openwebadvocacy/status/1617802614149894144</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xlii</author><text>I’m truly scared of Chrome.<p>It pushes proprietary features, from what I know it starts enforcing some analytics&#x2F;ads without possibility to block it out and there are other thing too, but since I’m not really an user I don’t track them deeply.<p>Based on my personal experiences with IE, ActiveX, Adobe Flash and not being able to fill my taxes without Microsoft license (that was around 800$ back then for me not adjusted for inflation) I am afraid the same will happen with Chrome once it gets enough ground.<p>“Hey, sorry but we can’t sell you toothbrush because you’re using Safari&#x2F;Firefox&#x2F;Vivaldi&#x2F;whatever. Please switch to Chrome and continue with your tracked and dissected purchase route.”<p>Is there any other anti-Chrome bastion than iOS’ Safari?<p>Old E2E runner installed Google Chrome on my machine (didn’t even ask but that’s user space on dev machine so whatever) which grew into my MacOS machine. It cannot run in background but there is another daemon that constantly updates it. Multiple times a day I get notification that new service has been installed to run in background.<p>I’m not sure if that’s something I want to fight for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple attempting to stop investigation into its practices involving browsers</title><url>https://twitter.com/openwebadvocacy/status/1617802614149894144</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xiphias2</author><text>,,In addition, Apple has been underfunding Safari for the past decade leading to missing critical functionality and a buggy experience for Web App developers thus ensuring that Native Apps, another Apple revenue source, are the only viable solution.&#x27;&#x27;<p>It&#x27;s not just funding. Apple changed webapps to delete indexedDB periodically even if they are inatalled on the home screen.<p>There&#x27;s no way to have a great experience if you can&#x27;t store data permanently.</text></comment> |
16,057,826 | 16,056,728 | 1 | 2 | 16,051,688 | train | <story><title>Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-the-bootstrap-physicists-uncover-geometry-of-theory-space-20170223</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenschwarz</author><text>I work directly in this field. This article covers a lot of a material that is at the forefront of theoretical high energy physics where we are neck-deep in the &#x27;fog of war.&#x27; Truthfully, I can think of few subjects more difficult to describe to people not in the field than the conformal bootstrap; there are a lot of technical details that are easy to get hung up on but are crucial for understanding the big picture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>Out of curiosity, was Robert B. Laughlins (Nobel price for Laughlin wavefunction explaining the fractional quantum Hall effect) on right track and is his work any way relevant to what is currently happening?<p>The Theory of Everything, R. B. Laughlin and David Pines
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;97&#x2F;1&#x2F;28.full" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;97&#x2F;1&#x2F;28.full</a><p>A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down, R. B. Laughlin
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Different-Universe-Reinventing-Physics-Bottom&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0465038298" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Different-Universe-Reinventing-Physic...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;large.stanford.edu&#x2F;publications&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;large.stanford.edu&#x2F;publications&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-the-bootstrap-physicists-uncover-geometry-of-theory-space-20170223</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenschwarz</author><text>I work directly in this field. This article covers a lot of a material that is at the forefront of theoretical high energy physics where we are neck-deep in the &#x27;fog of war.&#x27; Truthfully, I can think of few subjects more difficult to describe to people not in the field than the conformal bootstrap; there are a lot of technical details that are easy to get hung up on but are crucial for understanding the big picture.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slewis</author><text>Can you recommend some reading material, maybe a textbook, for folks who want to get into the details?</text></comment> |
18,910,974 | 18,910,288 | 1 | 2 | 18,909,552 | train | <story><title>China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46873526</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worldsayshi</author><text>Sure, becoming 100% self sufficient wouldn&#x27;t be a reasonable short term goal but I can&#x27;t imagine there being any product worth trading in the long term over such distance and given such cost for logistics?</text></item><item><author>simion314</author><text>But why should you have a 100% complete industry, a colony can trade with Earth like countries trade with each other, a colony could trade some rare resources and buy high tech stuff.<p>The main obstacle a colony will have is the initial buildings&#x2F;bunker with all the life support and safety tech, plus extra redundancy and a backup plan if something bad happens there or on Earth .<p>If the colony would manage to generate enough oxygen,food, water and energy for itself that is the important first step. Next step would probably be producing the heavy parts they need for expansions like metal or similar solid materials for walls and machinery, the lighter parts could be sent from Earth.</text></item><item><author>worldsayshi</author><text>To me it seems that the greatest obstacle to space colonization would be maintenance and production of materials and technology needed to sustain and expand the colony. Seems like the last step for truly becoming self sustaining.<p>You&#x27;d need extremely small scale factories that can build everything needed for a modern civilization.<p>I wonder what that would take. What the smallest amount of shipments and time would be. Would guess that electronics would be one of the last things you&#x27;d learn to make yourself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simion314</author><text>I imagine that in the beginning you will have mostly scientific facilities , like telescopes on the dark side of the moon(you will need scientist, technicians and other stuff around this big telescopes).<p>There could also be facilities for experiments that can&#x27;t be done on Earth, like things that can grow better on low gravity, there may be materials&#x2F;gases that are rare on Earth and we could grab from asteroids so having space stations and bases around the solar system would be helpful.</text></comment> | <story><title>China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46873526</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worldsayshi</author><text>Sure, becoming 100% self sufficient wouldn&#x27;t be a reasonable short term goal but I can&#x27;t imagine there being any product worth trading in the long term over such distance and given such cost for logistics?</text></item><item><author>simion314</author><text>But why should you have a 100% complete industry, a colony can trade with Earth like countries trade with each other, a colony could trade some rare resources and buy high tech stuff.<p>The main obstacle a colony will have is the initial buildings&#x2F;bunker with all the life support and safety tech, plus extra redundancy and a backup plan if something bad happens there or on Earth .<p>If the colony would manage to generate enough oxygen,food, water and energy for itself that is the important first step. Next step would probably be producing the heavy parts they need for expansions like metal or similar solid materials for walls and machinery, the lighter parts could be sent from Earth.</text></item><item><author>worldsayshi</author><text>To me it seems that the greatest obstacle to space colonization would be maintenance and production of materials and technology needed to sustain and expand the colony. Seems like the last step for truly becoming self sustaining.<p>You&#x27;d need extremely small scale factories that can build everything needed for a modern civilization.<p>I wonder what that would take. What the smallest amount of shipments and time would be. Would guess that electronics would be one of the last things you&#x27;d learn to make yourself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stubish</author><text>Maybe nothing worth shipping back to earth, but perhaps resources for shipping to orbit. Fuel, space ship components, or entire ships or satellites.<p>If nothing else, there is real estate. Might not be worth much, but there is a lot of it.</text></comment> |
11,885,879 | 11,885,601 | 1 | 2 | 11,883,699 | train | <story><title>Turn your handwriting into a font</title><url>http://www.myscriptfont.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>One of the charms of a printed book is the imperfection of the fonts and the impressions of the fonts. Each &#x27;a&#x27; impression is slightly different - maybe a little higher, a little lower, a little blotchier, etc. But if I read an ebook, the letters are always identical.<p>I&#x27;ve often thought that if I wrote an ebook reader, I&#x27;d use a font that mimics the imperfections in printed works. I&#x27;d have maybe 20-30 different &#x27;a&#x27; images, and select one randomly and then &#x27;jitter&#x27; its positioning a bit.<p>I&#x27;d also use a background that looks like paper, rather than the perfect white or sepia ones current readers do. Heck, it would be easy enough to scan a few dozen blank sheets of paperback paper, and then pick one randomly for each page.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattparcher</author><text>I realize that you’re referring to traditionally-typed text, but Monotype was recently commissioned to design a typeface for the illustrator of Roald Dahl’s books, and they did indeed include alternates for each letter (along with variations in kerning):<p>&gt;…He selected four subtly different alternates for each character that, combined, would make the text look random enough to look authentic while keeping the glyph set manageable<p>Article: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monotype.com&#x2F;expertise&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;a-bespoke-handwriting-typeface-for-sir-quentin-blake&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monotype.com&#x2F;expertise&#x2F;case-studies&#x2F;a-bespoke-han...</a><p>Visual comparison of the alternates: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monotype.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;1837&#x2F;quentin-alternates2.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monotype.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;1837&#x2F;quentin-alternates2.png</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Turn your handwriting into a font</title><url>http://www.myscriptfont.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>One of the charms of a printed book is the imperfection of the fonts and the impressions of the fonts. Each &#x27;a&#x27; impression is slightly different - maybe a little higher, a little lower, a little blotchier, etc. But if I read an ebook, the letters are always identical.<p>I&#x27;ve often thought that if I wrote an ebook reader, I&#x27;d use a font that mimics the imperfections in printed works. I&#x27;d have maybe 20-30 different &#x27;a&#x27; images, and select one randomly and then &#x27;jitter&#x27; its positioning a bit.<p>I&#x27;d also use a background that looks like paper, rather than the perfect white or sepia ones current readers do. Heck, it would be easy enough to scan a few dozen blank sheets of paperback paper, and then pick one randomly for each page.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>I should add that I buy paperbacks regularly, often paying more for them than the ebook. I then run &#x27;em through the scanner and read the scanned book on my tablet. I just like the imperfect look of a scanned paperback page than the perfect ebooks. I also like the paperback formatting better than the auto-flow ebook layouts.<p>I figure I get the best of ebook and hardcopy this way!</text></comment> |
8,704,995 | 8,704,684 | 1 | 3 | 8,704,318 | train | <story><title>Std::string half of all allocations in the Chrome browser process</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/EUqoIz2iFU4/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>The problem with std::string is that it&#x27;s named wrong. It should be called std::string_buffer, because that is what it is. Its performance characteristics are closer to a std::vector than a std::array (now available since C++11).<p>Many projects cannot copy around std::vector&lt;char&gt; in good conscience. They really want a copy-on-write string, an immutable string, a rope, a reference-counted string, or an always-in-place string. Or some combination of the above depending on the circumstance.<p>The problem is that std::string is <i>not</i> a good type to use as a parameter for various reasons. In addition to its aggressive allocation behavior, it&#x27;s also fairly inflexible. What are the alternatives?<p>1. boost::string_ref - available now, so use it<p>2. std::string_view - available starting in C++14 and works roughly like boost::string_ref<p>3. pass around pairs of iterators instead of single objects<p>3) is actually the most flexible, though it requires different kinds of overhead. The most obvious way would be to template all your string-accepting functions on two parameters: the type of your begin iterator and the type of your end iterator. But the benefit is that you can pass around any of the above to your heart&#x27;s content, plus more, like elements in tries.<p>std::string still has an important place, but it should generally be used as a private member variable, not as something you require in your interface. Pretty much the same thing goes for char* unless you are implementing a C ABI (plus a size, please). Even then, you can immediately convert to&#x2F;from a boost::string_ref and still have yourself a self-contained reference to a bounded character sequence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Std::string half of all allocations in the Chrome browser process</title><url>https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/EUqoIz2iFU4/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ctur</author><text>folly::fbstring, a drop-in replacement for std::string, is part of the folly library that we (Facebook) open sourced a while back. It allocates small strings in-line and larger strings on the heap and has optimizations for medium and large strings, too. It&#x27;s proven quite effective for us, particularly when used with jemalloc, which it conspires with for more optimal memory management. We use it <i>as</i> std::string for our C++ applications and libraries, completely replacing std::string both for our own code and third-party code.<p><a href="https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/FBString.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;folly&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;folly&#x2F;docs&#x2F;FBS...</a><p>In addition, it is worth noting folly::StringPiece (from folly&#x2F;Range.h), which is generally a better interface for working with in-memory ranges of bytes. Hardly a new idea (it&#x27;s inspired by similar libraries, such as in re2), but it permeates the APIs of many of our larger C++ systems, and folly itself, and often avoids passing std::string objects around at all.<p>Finally, there is also folly::fbvector, which offers similar improvements over std::vector.</text></comment> |
24,173,571 | 24,173,521 | 1 | 2 | 24,173,238 | train | <story><title>Oh Shit, Git?</title><url>https://ohshitgit.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThrowawayR2</author><text>Needs an entry for git submodules issues where the answer is to light the computer on fire and find a new profession.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I learned a long time ago never to invade Russia in winter and never to use git submodules.<p>Git doesn&#x27;t compose.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oh Shit, Git?</title><url>https://ohshitgit.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ThrowawayR2</author><text>Needs an entry for git submodules issues where the answer is to light the computer on fire and find a new profession.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tarkin2</author><text>Few things give me such a wonderful sense of a achievement than removing a git submodule from a repo, however.</text></comment> |
13,986,202 | 13,986,267 | 1 | 2 | 13,985,853 | train | <story><title>Iaito – A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework</title><url>https://github.com/hteso/iaito</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Insanity</author><text>&gt; I had never coded Qt nor C++ until I started Iaitō,<p>Well, a project like that is surely a good way to just jump right in and learn it! Kudos for that!</text></comment> | <story><title>Iaito – A Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework</title><url>https://github.com/hteso/iaito</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>martell</author><text>I just want to say this is awesome, have always been looking for examples of how to do QT ui that just looks right.<p>When you are adding windows support drop by the msys2 irc channel on OFTC. We have support for qt5 using mingw with premade packages available in pacman.<p>A lot of effort went into qt5 support by alexey.</text></comment> |
12,984,429 | 12,983,783 | 1 | 3 | 12,982,418 | train | <story><title>SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/spacex-plans-worldwide-satellite-internet-with-low-latency-gigabit-speed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icehawk219</author><text>Something I find interesting about this: what does it mean for countries who monitor and filter&#x2F;block content (think China)? Presumably since this isn&#x27;t using their national infrastructure they would lose all control of it, no? I wonder how those countries would respond to SpaceX wanting to let their citizens use the service. Unless I&#x27;m missing something it seems to me like they wouldn&#x27;t really be able to stop it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gozur88</author><text>Most likely SpaceX will do what those governments require. It&#x27;s trying to charge for the service, after all, and that means going through normal financial channels.</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latency, gigabit speed</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/spacex-plans-worldwide-satellite-internet-with-low-latency-gigabit-speed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icehawk219</author><text>Something I find interesting about this: what does it mean for countries who monitor and filter&#x2F;block content (think China)? Presumably since this isn&#x27;t using their national infrastructure they would lose all control of it, no? I wonder how those countries would respond to SpaceX wanting to let their citizens use the service. Unless I&#x27;m missing something it seems to me like they wouldn&#x27;t really be able to stop it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>talamown</author><text>A government still can get control practically. They cannot stop the service itself but can regulate payments from their citizens to the service. It is like online casino.<p>Of course, there may be some loopholes for payment and some citizens who access the service as well as online casino.</text></comment> |
41,358,204 | 41,355,426 | 1 | 2 | 41,348,844 | train | <story><title>Linux Pipes Are Slow</title><url>https://qsantos.fr/2024/08/25/linux-pipes-are-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koverstreet</author><text>One of my sideprojects is intended to address this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;976836&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;976836&#x2F;</a><p>The idea is a syscall for getting a ringbuffer for any supported file descriptor, including pipes - and for pipes, if both ends support using the ringbuffer they&#x27;ll map the same ringbuffer: zero copy IO, potentially without calling into the kernel at all.<p>Would love to find collaborators for this one :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phafu</author><text>At least for user space usage, I&#x27;m not sure a new kernel thing is needed. Quite a while ago I have implemented a user space (single producer &#x2F; single consumer) ring buffer, which uses an eventfd to mimic pipe behavior and functionality quite closely (i.e. being able to sleep &amp; poll for ring buffer full&#x2F;empty situations), but otherwise operates lockless and without syscall overhead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Pipes Are Slow</title><url>https://qsantos.fr/2024/08/25/linux-pipes-are-slow/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koverstreet</author><text>One of my sideprojects is intended to address this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;976836&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lwn.net&#x2F;Articles&#x2F;976836&#x2F;</a><p>The idea is a syscall for getting a ringbuffer for any supported file descriptor, including pipes - and for pipes, if both ends support using the ringbuffer they&#x27;ll map the same ringbuffer: zero copy IO, potentially without calling into the kernel at all.<p>Would love to find collaborators for this one :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>messe</author><text>&gt; and for pipes, if both ends support using the ringbuffer they&#x27;ll map the same ringbuffer<p>Is there planned to be a standardized way to signal to the other end of the pipe that ring buffers are supported, so this could be handled transparently in libc? If not, I don&#x27;t really see what advantage it gets you compared to shared memory + a futex for synchronization—for pipes that is.</text></comment> |
20,869,680 | 20,869,652 | 1 | 3 | 20,869,324 | train | <story><title>Go 1.13 Release Notes</title><url>https://golang.org/doc/go1.13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Honestly, and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m snarking (but would have to reflect a bit on it), &quot;0b&quot;, &quot;_&quot;, and signed shifts are probably going to make Go more pleasant for me than generics would have. This is my favorite release in years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skunkworker</author><text>It brought one of my favorite parts about writing numbers in languages such as Ruby over to Go. From 10000000 to 10_000_000 is such a readability improvement and should be no-cost.</text></comment> | <story><title>Go 1.13 Release Notes</title><url>https://golang.org/doc/go1.13</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Honestly, and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m snarking (but would have to reflect a bit on it), &quot;0b&quot;, &quot;_&quot;, and signed shifts are probably going to make Go more pleasant for me than generics would have. This is my favorite release in years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leetrout</author><text>I was really looking forward to this as well because, at least with `0b`, I get to keep more of my Python muscle memory.</text></comment> |
8,706,152 | 8,705,709 | 1 | 3 | 8,705,216 | train | <story><title>Why batteries both thrill and terrify the U.S. utility industry</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-12-05/musk-battery-works-fill-utilities-with-fear-and-promise.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>$6K&#x2F;year sounds really high no? My neighbor pays $100-150&#x2F;month for a 3200 sqft house.</text></item><item><author>djrogers</author><text>I installed a 10kw system ~15 months ago on my 3600sq ft house. Average electricity costs was ~$6k&#x2F;year before the panels, the first year on solar to total cost for the year was $300.<p>That $300 worth of electricity for the year is before I&#x27;ve been able to talk the wife in to replacing our incandescent bulbs, swapped out our old pool pump, etc etc - I could easily get that down to below 0 with a small investment in bulbs. So in my case at least, it was trivially easy to get to a net-zero usage.<p>A few $$ notes - the system cost $37k, I got 11.1k of that in a tax credit from the feds, so my net cost was 26k. I&#x27;m saving 5.7k&#x2F;yr, which means my break even point for the system is 5 years. In 5 freaking years I&#x27;m making money from my solar panels! And I don&#x27;t have to write a $500 check to PG&amp;E every month. It&#x27;s a beautiful thing...<p>BTW - the above numbers (plus my severe aversion to debt) are why I&#x27;m so against solar leases. If we had a solar lease, we&#x27;d still be stuck with monthly payments, would have trouble selling our house, and would be stuck for 20 years.</text></item><item><author>jarrettc</author><text>The article suggests that solar panels could be an &quot;existential threat&quot; to power companies. For those of you who are familiar with the math of solar panels, how realistic is that prediction? How much of a normal home&#x27;s energy needs could be supplied by solar panels, assuming the panels covered the entire surface area of the roof? How much is the ROI on solar panels likely to improve in the foreseeable future? (I&#x27;ve heard estimates of 5-8% annual return for 2014.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>Welcome to a fully regulated rate structure, throw in the combined weight of years and years of &quot;its for the environment&quot; and the costs go to the people who have the least voice and for many the least ability to pay.<p>The have so regulated pricing and punitive structures into service there that they have to have assistance programs just to alleviate the burden on middle income and lower consumers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why batteries both thrill and terrify the U.S. utility industry</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-12-05/musk-battery-works-fill-utilities-with-fear-and-promise.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>$6K&#x2F;year sounds really high no? My neighbor pays $100-150&#x2F;month for a 3200 sqft house.</text></item><item><author>djrogers</author><text>I installed a 10kw system ~15 months ago on my 3600sq ft house. Average electricity costs was ~$6k&#x2F;year before the panels, the first year on solar to total cost for the year was $300.<p>That $300 worth of electricity for the year is before I&#x27;ve been able to talk the wife in to replacing our incandescent bulbs, swapped out our old pool pump, etc etc - I could easily get that down to below 0 with a small investment in bulbs. So in my case at least, it was trivially easy to get to a net-zero usage.<p>A few $$ notes - the system cost $37k, I got 11.1k of that in a tax credit from the feds, so my net cost was 26k. I&#x27;m saving 5.7k&#x2F;yr, which means my break even point for the system is 5 years. In 5 freaking years I&#x27;m making money from my solar panels! And I don&#x27;t have to write a $500 check to PG&amp;E every month. It&#x27;s a beautiful thing...<p>BTW - the above numbers (plus my severe aversion to debt) are why I&#x27;m so against solar leases. If we had a solar lease, we&#x27;d still be stuck with monthly payments, would have trouble selling our house, and would be stuck for 20 years.</text></item><item><author>jarrettc</author><text>The article suggests that solar panels could be an &quot;existential threat&quot; to power companies. For those of you who are familiar with the math of solar panels, how realistic is that prediction? How much of a normal home&#x27;s energy needs could be supplied by solar panels, assuming the panels covered the entire surface area of the roof? How much is the ROI on solar panels likely to improve in the foreseeable future? (I&#x27;ve heard estimates of 5-8% annual return for 2014.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jere</author><text>Yea a $500 per month electricity bill sounds steep to me. When my bill hit $400 in the winter, I realized I had a problem with my water heater.</text></comment> |
15,002,962 | 15,002,732 | 1 | 3 | 15,001,502 | train | <story><title>Visualising High Frequency Trading in Bitcoin (2014)</title><url>http://parasec.net/transmission/order-book-visualisation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnordwick</author><text>This is really old, from around the end of 2014 it appears.<p>Also there is no HFT in cryptos: there is no colocation and not a single exchange can support either the market data dissemination or order processing capabilities right now. Every crypto exchange is horribly slow and appears to be terribly written.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visualising High Frequency Trading in Bitcoin (2014)</title><url>http://parasec.net/transmission/order-book-visualisation/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brooklyntribe</author><text>Plan B?<p>Just buy what you can afford each week. And don&#x27;t think about it. Come back in a year.<p>Retire to Goa. AKA A beach. :-)</text></comment> |
3,306,582 | 3,306,162 | 1 | 2 | 3,305,870 | train | <story><title>If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/if-everyone-else-is-such-an-idiot-how-come-youre-not-rich/249430/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sskates</author><text>If you've ever run a company or any sort of organization, you'll realize that walking around blind is the default. It takes effort to get information on what's going on. Because you can't wait forever for perfect information, you end up taking calculated risks like Netflix did with Qwikster where it's not clear in advance if it will pan out.<p>As the OP realized, this results in Monday morning armchair quaterbacking from people who ask "why didn't they make the right decision in advance, are they stupid or something?" When in fact, no, they are not stupid, they just don't have perfect information about what will happen.<p>Incidentally, this is the largest advantage of startups- the cost of a risky bet is much lower because you don't have to risk hemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of customers each time you make a bet. As a result, you can take many more risks and come to a better solution more quickly.<p>edit: downvotes? what?</text></comment> | <story><title>If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/if-everyone-else-is-such-an-idiot-how-come-youre-not-rich/249430/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joebadmo</author><text>One of the important points I've heard Clay Christensen make is that incumbent companies often get destroyed (disrupted) by small players not because they're incompetent, or even because they're making bad decisions. Each decision along the way seems perfectly rational. Christensen frames it ultimately as a problem of measurement, that people are measuring the wrong thing, therefore optimizing for or solving the wrong problem.<p>I think this article correctly points out that Hastings isn't stupid, but he's in a tight spot, just because of the circumstances.</text></comment> |
21,524,586 | 21,524,604 | 1 | 2 | 21,523,335 | train | <story><title>Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking accounts</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/next-in-googles-quest-for-consumer-dominancebanking-11573644601?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romanovcode</author><text>I just checked what it is. Isn&#x27;t it a bit expensive?<p>$70&#x2F;m for a mobile plan seems ridicilous.</text></item><item><author>dannyr</author><text>I have Google Fi and bought from Google Store. Their customer service has been fantastic.<p>Maybe my experience is one of the few exceptions but I know a bunch of people who also had a great experience with customer support by Google.</text></item><item><author>ckastner</author><text>Given Google&#x27;s reputation for avoiding any type of direct customer support, I&#x27;m perplexed as to why they are trying to do this.<p>It&#x27;s one thing to offer an online product suite without any support, it&#x27;s a completely other thing to offer a product that is as heavily regulated as banking services.<p>They&#x27;re probably not going to earn any significant amount from providing a checking account. I can only assume that they&#x27;re after the transaction data itself (looking for patterns, etc.), but I find it hard to believe that the payoff would be large enough to endure the pain that is the current regulatory environment surrounding banking. Especially when you&#x27;re notorious for avoiding personal interactions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>watwatinthewat</author><text>Everyone I know with it does the $20&#x2F;mo + $10&#x2F;gb plan.<p>If you don&#x27;t use more than a gig or two a month, that&#x27;s close to one of the cheapest plans around. There are some cheaper prepaid plans, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking accounts</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/next-in-googles-quest-for-consumer-dominancebanking-11573644601?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romanovcode</author><text>I just checked what it is. Isn&#x27;t it a bit expensive?<p>$70&#x2F;m for a mobile plan seems ridicilous.</text></item><item><author>dannyr</author><text>I have Google Fi and bought from Google Store. Their customer service has been fantastic.<p>Maybe my experience is one of the few exceptions but I know a bunch of people who also had a great experience with customer support by Google.</text></item><item><author>ckastner</author><text>Given Google&#x27;s reputation for avoiding any type of direct customer support, I&#x27;m perplexed as to why they are trying to do this.<p>It&#x27;s one thing to offer an online product suite without any support, it&#x27;s a completely other thing to offer a product that is as heavily regulated as banking services.<p>They&#x27;re probably not going to earn any significant amount from providing a checking account. I can only assume that they&#x27;re after the transaction data itself (looking for patterns, etc.), but I find it hard to believe that the payoff would be large enough to endure the pain that is the current regulatory environment surrounding banking. Especially when you&#x27;re notorious for avoiding personal interactions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>relaunched</author><text>said no one that lives in the US, ever!<p>It always blows my mind how that whenever you go anywhere in the world, you can get amazing mobile plans (data and call &#x2F; sms) for $10-$30 dollars per month.</text></comment> |
38,590,271 | 38,589,343 | 1 | 3 | 38,553,743 | train | <story><title>Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67635851</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>idk1</author><text>This comment was written with screen dictation so apologies if it reads like someone has said it out loud.<p>This is fantastic news. I&#x27;m making assumption about the design here, because it only has one control stick. You need two of these, one for them left joystick and one for the right joystick. That&#x27;s actually even better, if that is the case, because it means you can put the two control stick as far away from each other as possible if you want that set up. You could even buy a third of controller button with your foot. I hope that is the case.<p>I just like to call out Nintendo here for complete lack of disability access. There is no support for disabled controllers whatsoever for a Nintendo switch and it&#x27;s shocking from Nintendo. You have to buy some very expensive third-party gear if you want to have any sort of disabled access for the Nintendo switch.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67635851</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>It’s still very unfortunate that these platforms don’t just let people use custom USB inputs, instead of asking people to buy stuff over and over. There are obviously things that won’t work as well, but this is acceptable in many circumstances!</text></comment> |
23,063,312 | 23,060,981 | 1 | 3 | 23,059,389 | train | <story><title>Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot</title><url>https://stanfordstudentrobotics.org/pupper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspicer</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;XRobots&#x2F;miniDogV2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;XRobots&#x2F;miniDogV2</a><p>The code&#x27;s a bit of a mess -- James is clearly not a software engineer first. This is totally understandable, given that he does so many other things!<p>When I first saw the code, I thought about doing a refactoring pass and making a pull request. It would be painful to test correctness without the hardware, and I don&#x27;t want to make things worse, so I haven&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>andybak</author><text>&gt; the &quot;Nano Dog&quot; is probably a cheaper and more approachable option for the garage engineer.<p>Hard to find out much about that or OpenDog in general. I&#x27;ve found videos and 3d printer files but nothing that I can read to understand what it can do and why I might want to build it.<p>Or do I really have to watch a bunch of YouTube videos? I hate video.<p>Have I missed the actual project page somehow?</text></item><item><author>n0us</author><text>&gt; You can buy most of the parts directly from a reseller like Amazon or McMaster-Carr, but for some you’ll need to get them custom manufactured for you. The custom parts include the carbon fiber routed parts, the 3D printed parts, the power distribution printed circuit board, and the motors.<p>Very cool and I would like to build this, but the &quot;Nano Dog&quot; is probably a cheaper and more approachable option for the garage engineer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thingiverse.com&#x2F;thing:3145690" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thingiverse.com&#x2F;thing:3145690</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rlayton2</author><text>It&#x27;s probably also worth mentioning the project is a work in progress, and from the videos, it looks like OpenDog is likely to undergo at least one more major change before &quot;completion&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stanford Pupper: low-cost quadruped robot</title><url>https://stanfordstudentrobotics.org/pupper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rspicer</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;XRobots&#x2F;miniDogV2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;XRobots&#x2F;miniDogV2</a><p>The code&#x27;s a bit of a mess -- James is clearly not a software engineer first. This is totally understandable, given that he does so many other things!<p>When I first saw the code, I thought about doing a refactoring pass and making a pull request. It would be painful to test correctness without the hardware, and I don&#x27;t want to make things worse, so I haven&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>andybak</author><text>&gt; the &quot;Nano Dog&quot; is probably a cheaper and more approachable option for the garage engineer.<p>Hard to find out much about that or OpenDog in general. I&#x27;ve found videos and 3d printer files but nothing that I can read to understand what it can do and why I might want to build it.<p>Or do I really have to watch a bunch of YouTube videos? I hate video.<p>Have I missed the actual project page somehow?</text></item><item><author>n0us</author><text>&gt; You can buy most of the parts directly from a reseller like Amazon or McMaster-Carr, but for some you’ll need to get them custom manufactured for you. The custom parts include the carbon fiber routed parts, the 3D printed parts, the power distribution printed circuit board, and the motors.<p>Very cool and I would like to build this, but the &quot;Nano Dog&quot; is probably a cheaper and more approachable option for the garage engineer.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thingiverse.com&#x2F;thing:3145690" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thingiverse.com&#x2F;thing:3145690</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monocasa</author><text>Oh wow, you&#x27;re not joking. I&#x27;m getting flashbacks to when I supported a team of EEs.</text></comment> |
13,115,254 | 13,115,258 | 1 | 3 | 13,114,538 | train | <story><title>I'm giving up on PGP</title><url>https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psiconaut</author><text>I find very interesting the point about the split between what WoT was supposed to be, in theory, and what little it represents, in practice, in terms of practices about key verification.<p>It has been said many times that the lack of adoption of pgp in mail was due to the average user not being able to grasp the concepts behind the proper operation for key management, but the article points to common practices among &quot;power users&quot; that will drop the theoretical best practices and switch to fallback, unsecure modes, given the effort needed to properly verify a key binding. If the community that cares about encryption and privacy is not able to routinely verify keys, the whole system definitely has a weak link.<p>I wonder if pgp is fundamentally flawed, or we have a deep conceptual usability issue here.<p>And to me, assuming that the most usable thing we can use instead is something that relies on mobile phone identifiers, more often than not tied to a phisical world identity, is really something to worry about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dom0</author><text>&gt; I wonder if pgp is fundamentally flawed, or we have a deep conceptual usability issue here.<p>I don&#x27;t think the &quot;WoT&quot; is conceptually flawed, and frankly, the argument that &quot;people of average intelligence&quot; can&#x27;t grasp the concept comes from a very high horse and is also untrue. It&#x27;s simply that any and all software for PGP utterly fails in the UX and functionality department when it comes to key management.<p><i>Web of Trust</i> implies such a glaringly obvious visual metaphor that I am truly in awe that not a single program works that way.<p>Tabulations of keys are not a WoT, period.<p>I don&#x27;t verify keys one-by-one, that&#x27;s bullshit. I get one good key that&#x27;s part of a WoT, and then go from there, and can easily see <i>from the web structure</i> that other keys are good and what their relations are. None of that is accomplished by <i>any</i> PGP frontend.<p>Instead I get stupid and unhelpful error messages (&quot;no key available&quot; - I just downloaded it!) and some of the most terrible crypto UI I&#x27;ve seen (&quot;How much do you trust this key? [ ] Not at all [ ] A bit [ ] Fully [ ] Totally&quot; - w-t-f).<p>A technical criticism of PGP&#x2F;GPG is of course also possible. The whole thing is a museum of early 1990s crypto, with default ciphers like CAST5 and messages not being authenticated - and even if the message is authenticated most parts of the PGP protocol are not, meaning that you got that big bunch of C code maintained by that one German guy over there that parses unauthenticated bytes that you shipped through half the internet with a big neon-red sticker on it saying &quot;I&#x27;M PGP PLEASE TAMPER WITH ME&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm giving up on PGP</title><url>https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psiconaut</author><text>I find very interesting the point about the split between what WoT was supposed to be, in theory, and what little it represents, in practice, in terms of practices about key verification.<p>It has been said many times that the lack of adoption of pgp in mail was due to the average user not being able to grasp the concepts behind the proper operation for key management, but the article points to common practices among &quot;power users&quot; that will drop the theoretical best practices and switch to fallback, unsecure modes, given the effort needed to properly verify a key binding. If the community that cares about encryption and privacy is not able to routinely verify keys, the whole system definitely has a weak link.<p>I wonder if pgp is fundamentally flawed, or we have a deep conceptual usability issue here.<p>And to me, assuming that the most usable thing we can use instead is something that relies on mobile phone identifiers, more often than not tied to a phisical world identity, is really something to worry about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JulianMorrison</author><text>I&#x27;m going with fundamentally flawed. Or perhaps more exactly, a solution for a non-problem.<p>Things PGP can do:<p>- Hide the contents of a message. But not the fact of a message nor who it&#x27;s to. And it&#x27;s only as hidden as a key that your recipient has to keep secret indefinitely.<p>- Permanently be incriminating, since the message can be as easily opened a decade from now.<p>- Prove you&#x27;re you. Which is great for incriminating you. Also the proof is only good if your secret key is still secret, which probably isn&#x27;t the case if you&#x27;ve been arrested. At that point, it&#x27;s good for convincing people it&#x27;s you when it&#x27;s really the FBI.<p>- Authenticate keys through a trust mechanism so sparsely populated that unless you&#x27;re actually in a spy cell, the chances of having a valid trust path from A to B is astronomically small.<p>- Distribute keys through what is really only slightly more sophisticated than a world-writable Dropbox.</text></comment> |
31,452,576 | 31,451,713 | 1 | 3 | 31,450,713 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’</title><text>Over the past few years I&#x27;ve met people who are really good programmers when it comes to putting together a full back end system , creating a very nice front end or creating any kind of app for that matter.<p>Many of these people are fresh out of college and the ‘industry’ puts them through leetcode&#x2F;hackerrank style rounds that are needlessly hard. I’ve seen the kind of questions these rounds have and quite frankly, if I graduated this year, there’s no way I’m going to get a job.<p>Ever since &#x27;Cracking the coding interview&#x27; was released, every company&#x27;s interview process has become like Google&#x27;s and Google didn&#x27;t have a particularly great interview process to start with.[0][1]<p>Now, there are several GitHub repositories that prescribe 3-4 month grinds on leetcode questions to &quot;crack&quot; the interview. And people do go through this grind.<p>The people who do manage to crack these rounds are not necessarily good at programming either because the time they spent doing competitive programming stuff should have been spent learning to build actual things.<p>The no-whiteboard companies are very few, hardly ever seem to have openings and not hiring junior engineers.<p>What would be your advice be to fresh college graduates, or anybody for that matter, who are good at programming but not at leetcode? Surely there must be a way to demonstrate their understanding of algorithms without having to spend 3-4 months memorising riddles<p>[0] homebrew creator.. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en
[1] Zed Shaw gets offered a sys admin job
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=93984</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinmhayes</author><text>Here&#x27;s the thing, large tech companies aren&#x27;t looking to hire engineers, especially juniors, who are great at being an engineer because that&#x27;s incredibly hard to test for in an interview and almost impossible to scale fairly. They&#x27;re looking for people who will devote their life to the company and can quickly learn new skills. That&#x27;s exactly what leetcode tests for, so it really isn&#x27;t surprising at all that every tech company does leetcode interviews. Really the answer is either commit to the grind or go for a job at a non-tech company.</text></item><item><author>throwaway1777</author><text>I disagree with this take to an extent. Take it to the other extreme and you get folks who can’t even solve fizzbuzz. So some coding bar is good.<p>Leetcode is a very learnable skill, and I would argue any decent programmer can learn it well enough to pass an interview. I for years thought I wasn’t good at it, then I actually practiced and I got job offers at google and Facebook. I have also optimized code quite a few times using algorithm skills I picked up practicing for interviews so it’s not totally a waste.<p>There is a limit though, and some companies are pushing it with absurd questions that you couldn’t reasonably solve unless you had seen it before.<p>In summary, algorithms are useful and learnable, but some companies take it too far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hermitian909</author><text>&gt; They&#x27;re looking for people who will devote their life to the company and can quickly learn new skills<p>This doesn&#x27;t reflect my lived experience in SV. People I know who learned leetcode skills and got into big companies usually work less than people who passed more practical tests and get into smaller companies.<p>I&#x27;d say big companies are trying to hire employees who are a &quot;good&quot; mix of:<p>1. Smart<p>2. Conscientious &#x2F; willing to work hard on the right things<p>3. Existing CS knowledge you know well enough to explain and apply.<p>For some vague handwavy definition of &quot;good&quot;<p>(2) is probably worth expanding a bit. Many people are willing to work very hard on <i>the wrong thing</i>, this extends to engineering. As an example, a common failure pattern you might see is someone constantly struggling with how React works and what they really need to do is sit down and read the ~15 pages of documentation. But they never do, and just keep putting in 10 hour days with subpar output.<p>I&#x27;ve met some legit geniuses (think Putnam winner) for whom basically no studying was required to pass these interviews. Companies paying top dollar are happy to have them. For people like who are less smart and need to dedicate ~100-200 hours of focused studying and practice, companies paying top dollar are happy to take our mix of smarts and willingness to do that work. But once in the company I haven&#x27;t noticed any expectation to &quot;devote my life&quot; to it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’</title><text>Over the past few years I&#x27;ve met people who are really good programmers when it comes to putting together a full back end system , creating a very nice front end or creating any kind of app for that matter.<p>Many of these people are fresh out of college and the ‘industry’ puts them through leetcode&#x2F;hackerrank style rounds that are needlessly hard. I’ve seen the kind of questions these rounds have and quite frankly, if I graduated this year, there’s no way I’m going to get a job.<p>Ever since &#x27;Cracking the coding interview&#x27; was released, every company&#x27;s interview process has become like Google&#x27;s and Google didn&#x27;t have a particularly great interview process to start with.[0][1]<p>Now, there are several GitHub repositories that prescribe 3-4 month grinds on leetcode questions to &quot;crack&quot; the interview. And people do go through this grind.<p>The people who do manage to crack these rounds are not necessarily good at programming either because the time they spent doing competitive programming stuff should have been spent learning to build actual things.<p>The no-whiteboard companies are very few, hardly ever seem to have openings and not hiring junior engineers.<p>What would be your advice be to fresh college graduates, or anybody for that matter, who are good at programming but not at leetcode? Surely there must be a way to demonstrate their understanding of algorithms without having to spend 3-4 months memorising riddles<p>[0] homebrew creator.. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;mxcl&#x2F;status&#x2F;608682016205344768?lang=en
[1] Zed Shaw gets offered a sys admin job
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=93984</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>colinmhayes</author><text>Here&#x27;s the thing, large tech companies aren&#x27;t looking to hire engineers, especially juniors, who are great at being an engineer because that&#x27;s incredibly hard to test for in an interview and almost impossible to scale fairly. They&#x27;re looking for people who will devote their life to the company and can quickly learn new skills. That&#x27;s exactly what leetcode tests for, so it really isn&#x27;t surprising at all that every tech company does leetcode interviews. Really the answer is either commit to the grind or go for a job at a non-tech company.</text></item><item><author>throwaway1777</author><text>I disagree with this take to an extent. Take it to the other extreme and you get folks who can’t even solve fizzbuzz. So some coding bar is good.<p>Leetcode is a very learnable skill, and I would argue any decent programmer can learn it well enough to pass an interview. I for years thought I wasn’t good at it, then I actually practiced and I got job offers at google and Facebook. I have also optimized code quite a few times using algorithm skills I picked up practicing for interviews so it’s not totally a waste.<p>There is a limit though, and some companies are pushing it with absurd questions that you couldn’t reasonably solve unless you had seen it before.<p>In summary, algorithms are useful and learnable, but some companies take it too far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AshamedCaptain</author><text>&gt; Really the answer is either commit to the grind or go for a job at a non-tech company.<p>There is quite a world outside these mammoths Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Amazon&#x2F;(MS, depending on how their IBMization is going these days) and their minions&#x2F;wannabes. Personally I would not work for any of these even if they paid me in gold bars.</text></comment> |
18,004,145 | 18,004,096 | 1 | 2 | 17,998,315 | train | <story><title>So Good They Can't Ignore You</title><url>https://commoncog.com/blog/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baxtr</author><text>Reminds me of the “white suit consultant”: someone once told me that he wanted to be such a master in his skill that he could come visit clients the way he liked, like in a completely white suit with a white hat...</text></item><item><author>dwaltrip</author><text>My short synthesis&#x2F;summary:<p>Instead of trying to find a life passion, seek to master some valuable and useful skills. Leverage those skills to find work where you have more autonomy, control, and impact. This can help with personal fulfillment.<p>If you are lucky enough to develop a sense of larger purpose that your work contributes to, then great! But seeking this directly might be a mistake. Meaning seems to emerges from other efforts -- pursuit of excellence, indulging in curiosity, solving real problems, connecting with others, and so on.<p>I think this is a relatively practical and effective mindset, especially for many HNers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skrebbel</author><text>This works the other way too. I know a guy who used to have a mohawk. He also represented his company (a mobile chip maker that was later acquired by ARM) to customers as the chief technical guy. I once asked him if the mohawk wasn&#x27;t a problem with customers (who were mainly large, relatively traditional, tech bigco&#x27;s). He said that it gave the customers the idea that &quot;if he&#x27;s allowed to wear that mohawk on customer visits, then he must be very good&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>So Good They Can't Ignore You</title><url>https://commoncog.com/blog/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baxtr</author><text>Reminds me of the “white suit consultant”: someone once told me that he wanted to be such a master in his skill that he could come visit clients the way he liked, like in a completely white suit with a white hat...</text></item><item><author>dwaltrip</author><text>My short synthesis&#x2F;summary:<p>Instead of trying to find a life passion, seek to master some valuable and useful skills. Leverage those skills to find work where you have more autonomy, control, and impact. This can help with personal fulfillment.<p>If you are lucky enough to develop a sense of larger purpose that your work contributes to, then great! But seeking this directly might be a mistake. Meaning seems to emerges from other efforts -- pursuit of excellence, indulging in curiosity, solving real problems, connecting with others, and so on.<p>I think this is a relatively practical and effective mindset, especially for many HNers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patkai</author><text>That is funny! I thought about it the other way around: if I _have to_ put a tie on for a meeting - or conform in other ways - than how valuable am I as a consultant? I see a simile in visual design as well, e.g. Craigslist could be that white suit consultant...</text></comment> |
23,621,981 | 23,621,907 | 1 | 2 | 23,619,439 | train | <story><title>Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website</title><url>https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/06/21/journalists-phone-hacked-by-new-invisible-technique-all-he-had-to-do-was-visit-one-website-any-website.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roblabla</author><text>A code execution vulnerability isn&#x27;t enough. To work on truly any website, they need:<p>- A remote code execution vulnerability. There are almost certainly multiple vulnerabilities at play here, since long gone are the days where a single vuln gave arbitrary code execution.<p>- a way to bypass the encryption&#x2F;https, unless the remote code execution was on a layer before encryption (which seems unlikely). EDIT: Apparently the hack only works on non-encrypted websites.<p>- Once remote code is achieved, they most certainly need a way to elevate privileges in order to make the hack more persistent and tap into other apps.<p>There are most likely several CVEs at play here. The amount of effort that went into this hack is, frankly, terrifying.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I saw this discussed on reddit, and I was surprised that there was so much confusion about how this happened. It wasn&#x27;t just &quot;network injection&quot; - quite clearly (unfortunately very poorly described in the article) there was a vulnerability in iOS&#x2F;Safari that allowed remote code execution; network injection alone wouldn&#x27;t have been enough. Does anyone know what the CVE was that allowed this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afuchs</author><text>From my understanding, it is easy enough to bypass HTTPS encryption if you need to intercept traffic for an attack like this. You only need to intercept and modify the traffic for <i>a</i> website, not a specific website.<p>There are still websites that don&#x27;t use HTTPS.<p>For websites that do use HTTPS, if they haven&#x27;t configured something like HSTS, HPKP or Expect-CT, typing example.com into a web browser will make it will send an unencrypted HTTP request to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;example.com</a>. If the website&#x27;s content is served only HTTPS, the server will most likely respond with something that redirects the web browser to the HTTPS version of the website (most likely a HTTP 301 or 302 status code). The initial unencrypted HTTP request can be intercepted and modified.</text></comment> | <story><title>Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website</title><url>https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/06/21/journalists-phone-hacked-by-new-invisible-technique-all-he-had-to-do-was-visit-one-website-any-website.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roblabla</author><text>A code execution vulnerability isn&#x27;t enough. To work on truly any website, they need:<p>- A remote code execution vulnerability. There are almost certainly multiple vulnerabilities at play here, since long gone are the days where a single vuln gave arbitrary code execution.<p>- a way to bypass the encryption&#x2F;https, unless the remote code execution was on a layer before encryption (which seems unlikely). EDIT: Apparently the hack only works on non-encrypted websites.<p>- Once remote code is achieved, they most certainly need a way to elevate privileges in order to make the hack more persistent and tap into other apps.<p>There are most likely several CVEs at play here. The amount of effort that went into this hack is, frankly, terrifying.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I saw this discussed on reddit, and I was surprised that there was so much confusion about how this happened. It wasn&#x27;t just &quot;network injection&quot; - quite clearly (unfortunately very poorly described in the article) there was a vulnerability in iOS&#x2F;Safari that allowed remote code execution; network injection alone wouldn&#x27;t have been enough. Does anyone know what the CVE was that allowed this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>titanomachy</author><text>A huge amount of effort went into <i>developing</i> this hack. Then the company NSO productized the hack and sold it to governments.</text></comment> |
27,809,677 | 27,809,065 | 1 | 3 | 27,797,393 | train | <story><title>I Stopped Using Emojis</title><url>https://thistooshallgrow.com/blog/emoji-stop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sambeau</author><text>I don&#x27;t need to experiment with not using emoji. I am old enough to have a working life before they existed. In those days all online discussions became a huge argument very quickly. Passive-aggressive memos with bosses cc&#x27;ed in flew about constantly. In-person meetings were hastily convened on a regular basis to sort things out. Usually all that needed sorted out was a stupid misunderstanding, and the root cause was usually a misreading of tone followed by an emotional overreaction somewhere in the chain of emails.<p>My 18-year old son, who I mostly communicate through text messages, went cold on me recently. I assumed he was angry about something so I called him. No, he had decided to give up using &#x27;childish&#x27; emoji. I asked him to reconsider.<p>I am firmly of the opinion that emoji are incredibly useful and that normal speech is full of emotion and playfulness that hastily written text cannot convey. You should therefore be using them in your workplace. If you don&#x27;t use emoji you <i>will</i> be misunderstood. No matter how well written your prose is the recipients may only have time to skim-read it.<p>Using emoji are, in my opinion, <i>very</i> &#x27;professional&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashleyn</author><text>Some food for thought, the younger segment of the online neurodivergent community has come up with a solution to this problem: &quot;tone indicators&quot;[1]. They are semifrequently seen in the art spaces I hang out in. If you&#x27;ve seen &quot;&#x2F;s&quot; on Reddit, you&#x27;ve probably seen a tone indicator.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toneindicators.carrd.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;toneindicators.carrd.co&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I Stopped Using Emojis</title><url>https://thistooshallgrow.com/blog/emoji-stop</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sambeau</author><text>I don&#x27;t need to experiment with not using emoji. I am old enough to have a working life before they existed. In those days all online discussions became a huge argument very quickly. Passive-aggressive memos with bosses cc&#x27;ed in flew about constantly. In-person meetings were hastily convened on a regular basis to sort things out. Usually all that needed sorted out was a stupid misunderstanding, and the root cause was usually a misreading of tone followed by an emotional overreaction somewhere in the chain of emails.<p>My 18-year old son, who I mostly communicate through text messages, went cold on me recently. I assumed he was angry about something so I called him. No, he had decided to give up using &#x27;childish&#x27; emoji. I asked him to reconsider.<p>I am firmly of the opinion that emoji are incredibly useful and that normal speech is full of emotion and playfulness that hastily written text cannot convey. You should therefore be using them in your workplace. If you don&#x27;t use emoji you <i>will</i> be misunderstood. No matter how well written your prose is the recipients may only have time to skim-read it.<p>Using emoji are, in my opinion, <i>very</i> &#x27;professional&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>I agree that emojis (or emoticons or kaomojis) are incredibly helpful in text conversation. But I think there is another thing going on in the article, and that&#x27;s using emojis to replace text, instead of enhancing it. Sending just a heart or a thumbs up instead of a &quot;thank you :)&quot; or &quot;this made my day!&quot;. A practice that helps cutting the noise in busy social network posts, but is much less expressive and meaningful. An emoticon is like a smile: it&#x27;s much more meaningful when combined with words.</text></comment> |
31,446,940 | 31,446,672 | 1 | 2 | 31,445,822 | train | <story><title>9-Euro-Ticket</title><url>https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!”<p>These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich)<p>If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.<p>This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR&#x2F;liter fuel, not the kind of people who blithely paid 60 EUR to take the ICE. There does not appear to be any residency requirement, but remember, you’re not the target market for this (unless you live here and are struggling with fuel prices…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstummbillig</author><text>&gt; If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.<p>Well, that is not exactly true now, is it. REs do actually skip the vast majority of &quot;villages&quot; and are far from being the slow ones, comparatively.<p>Anyway, for comparisons sake here is some Hamburg -&gt; Berlin options:<p>- By car (with low traffic, according to GMaps): 3h20<p>- Regional Trains (the ones you can use with 9-eur-ticket): 4h10, including 1-3 train changes depending on connection<p>- All trains: 1h50 with no change<p>Given that going by car will be considerably more expensive than a regional ticket (even the none-9-eur version) I would say that +1h might be a reasonable trade-off for a lot of people.</text></comment> | <story><title>9-Euro-Ticket</title><url>https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MandieD</author><text>Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!”<p>These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich)<p>If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.<p>This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR&#x2F;liter fuel, not the kind of people who blithely paid 60 EUR to take the ICE. There does not appear to be any residency requirement, but remember, you’re not the target market for this (unless you live here and are struggling with fuel prices…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scarblac</author><text>Our Dutch Scouts of age 15-17 also plan their own camps and do so on a shoestring budget, and it turns out that yes you can get from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic with all your camping gear using only like fifteen different German regional trains :-)</text></comment> |
24,216,749 | 24,216,997 | 1 | 2 | 24,208,126 | train | <story><title>New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/aws_toyota_alliance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taftster</author><text>And here&#x27;s the thing. These types of driving habit trackers (not necessarily new in the auto-insurance industry) are touted as a means to reduce the cost of insurance for good drivers. But what qualifies as a &quot;good driver&quot; is likely to be more like 10% of drivers. For everyone else, this won&#x27;t reduce the insurance costs at all.<p>It&#x27;s frankly just a way for insurance companies to extort more profit from drivers. I don&#x27;t want a black box in my car of any type, even if I already qualify for the best possible insurance rates. Your driving habits are a huge privacy concern and we should all guard them very carefully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ultrarunner</author><text>I wonder how insurance mandates interact with this trend. When the state requires insurance, but insurance requires disclosure of all movements, what recourse is there? It seems the only party with an interest in privacy would be the purchaser who just wants to drive to work.<p>This sort of &quot;outsourcing of standards&quot; is really disconcerting.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/18/aws_toyota_alliance/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taftster</author><text>And here&#x27;s the thing. These types of driving habit trackers (not necessarily new in the auto-insurance industry) are touted as a means to reduce the cost of insurance for good drivers. But what qualifies as a &quot;good driver&quot; is likely to be more like 10% of drivers. For everyone else, this won&#x27;t reduce the insurance costs at all.<p>It&#x27;s frankly just a way for insurance companies to extort more profit from drivers. I don&#x27;t want a black box in my car of any type, even if I already qualify for the best possible insurance rates. Your driving habits are a huge privacy concern and we should all guard them very carefully.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Try making a left turn in a state with sub-par signals without tripping the accelerometer threshold for a bad driver. This will punish good drivers forced to deal with bad civil engineering.</text></comment> |
14,720,363 | 14,720,317 | 1 | 3 | 14,720,108 | train | <story><title>Most Waymo Patent Claims Dropped in Autonomous Car Fight with Uber</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-07/waymo-drops-most-patent-claims-in-autonomous-car-fight-with-uber</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mmanfrin</author><text>Title feels a little clickbaity, as it was a request from the Judge prior to going to a Jury:<p><pre><code> U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco has asked
Waymo to narrow its more than 100 trade secrets claims to
fewer than 10 to put in front of a jury.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Most Waymo Patent Claims Dropped in Autonomous Car Fight with Uber</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-07/waymo-drops-most-patent-claims-in-autonomous-car-fight-with-uber</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>idibidiart</author><text>Misleading title. Makes it sound like they were wrong and are backing off. The patents being dropped are those which Uber is no longer using but was using at some point in their prototypes. There remains one key patent that Uber is still using and Alphabet is still suing them for it.</text></comment> |
20,886,976 | 20,887,330 | 1 | 3 | 20,885,935 | train | <story><title>A hierarchy of software engineering discourse</title><url>https://uvwx.github.io/hierarchy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>&gt; I wonder if it would actually be better for software teams to build not the thing they want, but rather the thing that makes the thing they want.<p>Sounds so appealing to programmers, so much harder than it sounds. A dangerous fantasy many ships have broke upon.<p>The proposals of &quot;yagni&quot; and the &quot;mvp&quot; are in some sense a reaction to the danger.<p>On the other hand, when it works, it works. I&#x27;d say Rails is an example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>braindouche</author><text>Rails is <i>not</i> an example. Rails was extracted from a single project codebase, Basecamp. Extracting a Solution Factory out of the solutions we make is a great idea, but starting with a factory-first mindset is what distracts and then breaks programmers.</text></comment> | <story><title>A hierarchy of software engineering discourse</title><url>https://uvwx.github.io/hierarchy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>&gt; I wonder if it would actually be better for software teams to build not the thing they want, but rather the thing that makes the thing they want.<p>Sounds so appealing to programmers, so much harder than it sounds. A dangerous fantasy many ships have broke upon.<p>The proposals of &quot;yagni&quot; and the &quot;mvp&quot; are in some sense a reaction to the danger.<p>On the other hand, when it works, it works. I&#x27;d say Rails is an example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mannykannot</author><text>The &#x27;notation&#x27; level similarly seems to be promoting the use of DSLs, and everything you say here also applies there (maybe I&#x27;m jaded, but on more than one occasion, I have had to deal with the consequences of an incomplete DSL that had no real justification, and was clearly developed for egocentric reasons. I have also come across exactly one DSL (not mine) that was both justified and well-done.)<p>More generally, I agree with the author on the importance of seeing a hierarchy here.</text></comment> |
36,795,596 | 36,791,668 | 1 | 3 | 36,788,813 | train | <story><title>A glitch in the SEO matrix</title><url>https://www.izzy.co/blogs/a-glitch-in-the-seo-matrix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jklinger410</author><text>&gt; Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead<p>And then<p>&gt; Google&#x27;s visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane.<p>Ah, so they have all of the information and yet their ad products don&#x27;t work. They don&#x27;t know this?</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>From the point of view of someone who spent 10 years running an e-commerce store, and all its advertising, until a couple of years ago. Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead. The hay day of being able to play the game and make a tidy profit is long gone.<p>Google are playing every trick in the book to extract every possible cent from advertisers, spying on their business and sales to maximise their own profits. Google&#x27;s visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane. People complain about the tracking of users&#x2F;visitors, but the tracking of businesses is just as bad.<p>They probably have better insights into the economy and market trends than most governments and banks.<p>The penny is dropping, advertisers are noticing, my long term expectation of Google&#x27;s business are not what they were.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>You either play the Organic SEO game or you Pay to Play (Ads). Google as a search engine is now useless when it comes to searching for a tool&#x2F;software etc because everyone has gamed the &quot;Best software for xyz&quot; etc. But what&#x27;s the alternative ? None. There are these &quot;review&quot; websites like Capterra&#x2F;Software Advice&#x2F;G2 and again you have to pay to play. You can technically get a review from a customer and get listed BUT if you want to be shown on the main page for that category, you need to pay crazy PPC.<p>Source: I play this game since I run a software business. Would love an alternative but there are none. You either Play the game or you Die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drdaeman</author><text>&gt; They don&#x27;t know this?<p>Of course they do, but people pay crazy money for this and it plays the important role in Google&#x27;s market valuation, so it&#x27;s in Google&#x27;s best interests to continue chanting the Big Data Big Money mantra. It doesn&#x27;t help that the myth&#x2F;meme is strongly backed by the whole cyberpunk genre, as people love the dystopian themes of &quot;big corporations know everything about you, down to your most secret desires you don&#x27;t even realize yourself&quot;.<p>And it probably even work by some small but statistically significant margin, compared to some arbitrarily picked baseline, so they can even back this up if necessary.<p>The king is naked, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>A glitch in the SEO matrix</title><url>https://www.izzy.co/blogs/a-glitch-in-the-seo-matrix.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jklinger410</author><text>&gt; Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead<p>And then<p>&gt; Google&#x27;s visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane.<p>Ah, so they have all of the information and yet their ad products don&#x27;t work. They don&#x27;t know this?</text></item><item><author>samwillis</author><text>From the point of view of someone who spent 10 years running an e-commerce store, and all its advertising, until a couple of years ago. Both SEO and search result ads on Google are dead. The hay day of being able to play the game and make a tidy profit is long gone.<p>Google are playing every trick in the book to extract every possible cent from advertisers, spying on their business and sales to maximise their own profits. Google&#x27;s visibility of all transactions on every e-commerce website on the internet is insane. People complain about the tracking of users&#x2F;visitors, but the tracking of businesses is just as bad.<p>They probably have better insights into the economy and market trends than most governments and banks.<p>The penny is dropping, advertisers are noticing, my long term expectation of Google&#x27;s business are not what they were.</text></item><item><author>codegeek</author><text>You either play the Organic SEO game or you Pay to Play (Ads). Google as a search engine is now useless when it comes to searching for a tool&#x2F;software etc because everyone has gamed the &quot;Best software for xyz&quot; etc. But what&#x27;s the alternative ? None. There are these &quot;review&quot; websites like Capterra&#x2F;Software Advice&#x2F;G2 and again you have to pay to play. You can technically get a review from a customer and get listed BUT if you want to be shown on the main page for that category, you need to pay crazy PPC.<p>Source: I play this game since I run a software business. Would love an alternative but there are none. You either Play the game or you Die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>They appear to work just well enough to keep you hooked while they increasingly eat your margin.</text></comment> |
34,999,419 | 34,999,779 | 1 | 2 | 34,996,006 | train | <story><title>Square to no longer return processing fees when buyers are issued a refund</title><url>https://squareup.com/us/en/press/policy-and-pricing-updates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latchkey</author><text>This will affect businesses that do 3rd party merchant services, like events. If the event is cancelled, refunds are issued. Who pays that fee? It would be up to the business to try to claw back funds from the promoter of the event... who is now bankrupt from not being able to do their event. It gets ugly fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>I think that&#x27;s why (well one of the reasons along with generally poor behaviour) most ticketing sites tag on so many extra &quot;service&quot; charges. Some charge to even receive a digital copy of your ticket! I believe they don&#x27;t have to refund these charges when the event is cancelled.</text></comment> | <story><title>Square to no longer return processing fees when buyers are issued a refund</title><url>https://squareup.com/us/en/press/policy-and-pricing-updates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latchkey</author><text>This will affect businesses that do 3rd party merchant services, like events. If the event is cancelled, refunds are issued. Who pays that fee? It would be up to the business to try to claw back funds from the promoter of the event... who is now bankrupt from not being able to do their event. It gets ugly fast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jeremy1026</author><text>I&#x27;d think they&#x27;d just amend insurance policies to include the potential 3% revenue loss.</text></comment> |
12,936,684 | 12,936,378 | 1 | 3 | 12,935,362 | train | <story><title>Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/11/nintendowned-amazon-sells-out-of-nes-classic-editions-in-null-seconds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text><i>Clearly thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of gamers were sitting on the product page hammering the F5 key and some random selection thereof got their wish.</i><p>I highly doubt that. My guess is that third party resellers used bots to purchase them all.<p>Why wouldn&#x27;t tc come to the same conclusion?<p>Edit. yep here&#x27;s one on eBay for $500+:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;New-Nintendo-NES-Classic-Edition-Console-30-classic-Games-included-In-Hand-&#x2F;282251775042?hash=item41b7844c42%3Ag%3AdQgAAOSwB09YJQNg&amp;_trkparms=pageci%253A0eaa36dd-a868-11e6-b61e-74dbd18070b6%257Cparentrq%253A55c26f941580a5eb36147d47fffca634%257Ciid%253A1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;New-Nintendo-NES-Classic-Edition-Conso...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikiem</author><text>I can confirm that this is a thing... a bigger thing than one might think. I run an IaaS cloud provider and I know off the top of my head several customers of ours who each maintain a fleet of VMs to do this for a variety of products. Eg: Limited edition shoes, show tickets, etc. Some of our customers who do this keep the VMs running and some fire them up only when needed. Some use custom software and scripts and some use purchased software designed specifically for the sites and products they want to beat others to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/11/nintendowned-amazon-sells-out-of-nes-classic-editions-in-null-seconds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text><i>Clearly thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of gamers were sitting on the product page hammering the F5 key and some random selection thereof got their wish.</i><p>I highly doubt that. My guess is that third party resellers used bots to purchase them all.<p>Why wouldn&#x27;t tc come to the same conclusion?<p>Edit. yep here&#x27;s one on eBay for $500+:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;New-Nintendo-NES-Classic-Edition-Console-30-classic-Games-included-In-Hand-&#x2F;282251775042?hash=item41b7844c42%3Ag%3AdQgAAOSwB09YJQNg&amp;_trkparms=pageci%253A0eaa36dd-a868-11e6-b61e-74dbd18070b6%257Cparentrq%253A55c26f941580a5eb36147d47fffca634%257Ciid%253A1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;New-Nintendo-NES-Classic-Edition-Conso...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a_bonobo</author><text>In Australia, the NES Classic Edition came out on Thursday - the physical copies at Target etc. too were sold out in minutes, too. Some of the Facebook comments said that their local shop only got a few boxes which were gone mmediately: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;NintendoAUNZ&#x2F;videos&#x2F;714922218664914&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;NintendoAUNZ&#x2F;videos&#x2F;714922218664914...</a><p>As usual, Nintendo doesn&#x27;t get their customers and is completely unprepared.</text></comment> |
13,719,315 | 13,719,328 | 1 | 2 | 13,718,752 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_wmd</author><text>Step 1) MITM the entire Internet, undermining its SSL infrastructure, build a business around it<p>Step 2) leak cleartext from said MITM&#x27;d connections to the entire Internet<p>I recently noted that in some ways Cloudflare are probably the only entity to have ever managed to cause more damage to popular cryptography since the 2008 Debian OpenSSL bug (thanks to their &quot;flexible&quot; &quot;&quot;SSL&quot;&quot; &quot;&quot;&quot;feature&quot;&quot;&quot;), but now I&#x27;m certain of it.<p>&quot;Trust us&quot; doesn&#x27;t fly any more, this simply isn&#x27;t good enough. Sorry, you lost my vote. Not even once<p>edit: why the revulsion? This bug would have been caught with valgrind, and by the sounds of it, using nothing more complex than feeding their httpd a random sampling of live inputs for an hour or two</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hoorayimhelping</author><text>&gt;<i>edit: why the revulsion</i><p>I&#x27;d guess it&#x27;s because of the crude and reductive way you describe the service cloudflare provides. I don&#x27;t know what type of programming you do, but many small services don&#x27;t have the infrastructure to mitigate the kind of attacks cloudflare deals with and they wouldn&#x27;t be around without services like this.<p>I don&#x27;t like the internet becoming centralized into a few small places that mitigate DDOS attacks like this, but I like the alternative (being held ransom by anyone with access to a botnet) even less.<p>I&#x27;m going to take a more even handed approach than what you&#x27;re suggesting. Any time you work with a service like this you risk these kinds of things - it&#x27;s part of the implicit cost&#x2F;benefit analysis humans do every day. I&#x27;m not ready to throw out the baby with the bathwater because of one issue. I&#x27;m not sure what alternative you&#x27;re suggesting (I didn&#x27;t see any suggestions, just a lot of ranting, which might also contribute to the &#x27;revulsion&#x27;) but it doesn&#x27;t sound any better than what we have.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_wmd</author><text>Step 1) MITM the entire Internet, undermining its SSL infrastructure, build a business around it<p>Step 2) leak cleartext from said MITM&#x27;d connections to the entire Internet<p>I recently noted that in some ways Cloudflare are probably the only entity to have ever managed to cause more damage to popular cryptography since the 2008 Debian OpenSSL bug (thanks to their &quot;flexible&quot; &quot;&quot;SSL&quot;&quot; &quot;&quot;&quot;feature&quot;&quot;&quot;), but now I&#x27;m certain of it.<p>&quot;Trust us&quot; doesn&#x27;t fly any more, this simply isn&#x27;t good enough. Sorry, you lost my vote. Not even once<p>edit: why the revulsion? This bug would have been caught with valgrind, and by the sounds of it, using nothing more complex than feeding their httpd a random sampling of live inputs for an hour or two</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigiain</author><text>Step 0) Obtain black funding from NSA budget to start and &quot;VC invest&quot; in a global CDN company...<p>(Now I&#x27;m trawling Crunchbase to see if I can work out which investors are NSA front companies, then I&#x27;m gonna look to see what _else_ them and their partners have invested in...)</text></comment> |
22,272,471 | 22,268,087 | 1 | 3 | 22,266,722 | train | <story><title>Guide to the London Startup Ecosystem</title><url>https://startupsoflondon.com/london-startup-ecosystem-ultimate-report-2020/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>I can&#x27;t imagine why anyone would bother starting a new company in UK.<p>Brexit is looming and it is an almost certainty that a no-deal will happen. (UK wants it and EU won&#x27;t be able to get unanimous agreement from all member states&#x27; and their parliaments).<p>And in a no-deal Brexit companies will have to ensure EU data sovereignty which means duplicating infrastructure in the EU anyway. Not to mention all of the complexity around tariffs and digital&#x2F;internet taxes. Being in the UK you get all of the negatives of the EU without any of the benefits.</text></comment> | <story><title>Guide to the London Startup Ecosystem</title><url>https://startupsoflondon.com/london-startup-ecosystem-ultimate-report-2020/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brm</author><text>Random aside but this seems like a decent place to ask it...<p>Does anyone know what&#x27;s going on with the Startup and Innovator Visas? Most of the endorsing bodies don&#x27;t even have a process set up yet and the ones that do only endorse their incubatees or make you subscribe to their accounting services.<p>Anyone have any insight? Are any endorsing bodies actively approving Startup and Innovator visas? If I&#x27;m an entrepreneur with £50,000+ to invest in my internet startup and I want to locate it in London and I don&#x27;t want to go through Techstars, what is supposed to happen? Because as far as I can tell, the process of bringing a startup to London is currently very broken. &#x2F;endrant<p>But seriously? Anyone have any success or advice?</text></comment> |
23,555,245 | 23,554,394 | 1 | 3 | 23,552,967 | train | <story><title>Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/google-faces-5-billion-lawsuit-for-tracking-people-in-incognito-mode/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pacala</author><text>Does Google Chrome set DoNotTrack by default in incognito mode? If not, why not?</text></item><item><author>stiray</author><text>They dont need to invent their own header. They just need to obey existing ones: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Do_Not_Track" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Do_Not_Track</a><p>I would expect that no script would be loaded from google analytics&#x2F;tag manager domains once I turn it on. But this is obviously not the case.<p>The article is too vague to actually understand more about what this lawsuit is but regarding:<p><i>Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy,&quot; reads the complaint. The search giant surreptitiously collects data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, website plug-ins and other applications, including mobile apps, according to the complaint.</i><p>They are right. Google is doing that.<p>I think that incognito mode was mentioned due to this statement: <i>safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy</i>.<p>They will probably build the case that they tried to protect themselfs but google was still tracking them.<p>And if chrome is sending to google servers flag that user has turned on incognito mode (which I bet they are&#x2F;did), then they are having a serious problem.<p>&quot;Poor user, this little girl with cute blue eyes, tried to protect itself from invasion of her privacy, they knew that but were still tracking her&quot;<p>If this is the case they will have to pay or bribe the judge.<p>The law firm that is behind it is specialized into class action lawsuits with crew of around 300 lawyers so I expect a good show. I hope google wont settle outside the court.</text></item><item><author>jedieaston</author><text>It&#x27;d be impossible for Google Analytics to not collect data from a incognito tab without it knowing that it is incognito somehow (like if Chrome attached a header to all outgoing requests that said incognito=1 or something). But then websites would know you are in incognito, and find some other way to track you without leaving cookies on your box (like logging the IP address for the request and merging all incognito requests into one profile, which would be accurate enough).<p>What do they want Google to do? They warn you specifically of this anyway when you open an incognito tab:<p>&quot;<p>You&#x27;ve gone incognito<p>Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won&#x27;t see your activity. However, downloads and bookmarks will be saved. Learn more...<p>Chrome won&#x27;t save the following information:<p>Your browsing history<p>Cookies and site data<p>Information entered in forms<p>Your activity might still be visible to:<p>Websites you visit<p>Your employer or school<p>Your internet service provider<p>&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_-david-_</author><text>I am not a Google employee but Chrome does not send the dnt header in incognito mode. It only sends it when you have it turned on, in which case it will send it in both regular and incognito mode.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google faces $5B lawsuit for tracking people in incognito mode</title><url>https://www.cnet.com/news/google-faces-5-billion-lawsuit-for-tracking-people-in-incognito-mode/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pacala</author><text>Does Google Chrome set DoNotTrack by default in incognito mode? If not, why not?</text></item><item><author>stiray</author><text>They dont need to invent their own header. They just need to obey existing ones: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Do_Not_Track" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Do_Not_Track</a><p>I would expect that no script would be loaded from google analytics&#x2F;tag manager domains once I turn it on. But this is obviously not the case.<p>The article is too vague to actually understand more about what this lawsuit is but regarding:<p><i>Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy,&quot; reads the complaint. The search giant surreptitiously collects data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, website plug-ins and other applications, including mobile apps, according to the complaint.</i><p>They are right. Google is doing that.<p>I think that incognito mode was mentioned due to this statement: <i>safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy</i>.<p>They will probably build the case that they tried to protect themselfs but google was still tracking them.<p>And if chrome is sending to google servers flag that user has turned on incognito mode (which I bet they are&#x2F;did), then they are having a serious problem.<p>&quot;Poor user, this little girl with cute blue eyes, tried to protect itself from invasion of her privacy, they knew that but were still tracking her&quot;<p>If this is the case they will have to pay or bribe the judge.<p>The law firm that is behind it is specialized into class action lawsuits with crew of around 300 lawyers so I expect a good show. I hope google wont settle outside the court.</text></item><item><author>jedieaston</author><text>It&#x27;d be impossible for Google Analytics to not collect data from a incognito tab without it knowing that it is incognito somehow (like if Chrome attached a header to all outgoing requests that said incognito=1 or something). But then websites would know you are in incognito, and find some other way to track you without leaving cookies on your box (like logging the IP address for the request and merging all incognito requests into one profile, which would be accurate enough).<p>What do they want Google to do? They warn you specifically of this anyway when you open an incognito tab:<p>&quot;<p>You&#x27;ve gone incognito<p>Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won&#x27;t see your activity. However, downloads and bookmarks will be saved. Learn more...<p>Chrome won&#x27;t save the following information:<p>Your browsing history<p>Cookies and site data<p>Information entered in forms<p>Your activity might still be visible to:<p>Websites you visit<p>Your employer or school<p>Your internet service provider<p>&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmiller2</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if they do, but one potential reason not to do it is that setting DNT literally gives the server 1 additional bit of information about your configuration. This could be used to track you more effectively.</text></comment> |
22,913,246 | 22,913,213 | 1 | 2 | 22,909,366 | train | <story><title>Our Long Bets and Predictions about 02020</title><url>https://blog.longnow.org/02020/02/26/12-long-bets-and-predictions-about-02020/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnbiche</author><text>Not sure why they&#x27;re so quick to write off Long Bet #9. It&#x27;s highly likely we&#x27;ll reach 1,000,000 worldwide casualties from Covid-19 during a 6-month period before the end of year (defined in the bet&#x27;s terms as &quot;hospitalizations&quot;).<p>And if the hypothesis turns out to be true that it was an accidental release from one of Wuhan&#x27;s 2 laboratories doing bat virus research, that&#x27;s definitely a &quot;bioerror&quot; under the terms of the bet.<p>There&#x27;s significant circumstantial evidence it could have been a lab accident(early Chinese reporting about the index case, 1 lab location a few blocks away from seafood market, bat species, earlier lab accident, etc), but nothing more at this point. But we may know more by the end of the year.<p>Edit: This is <i>not</i> the wild conspiracy theory about a bioengineered virus in a weapons lab. This is a hypothesis about accidental bat pee on a lab worker conducting routine research, or some similar accident (such accidental releases are confirmed to have happened <i>twice</i> with SARS-Cov-1 virus in a Beijing lab). Laboratory-acquired infections do happen, sometimes with deadly consequences. In my mind, it&#x27;s the most feasible scenario at this point, given no one has provided proof that bats were even sold at the seafood market that was blamed. And we know that many officials were eager to cover this all up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our Long Bets and Predictions about 02020</title><url>https://blog.longnow.org/02020/02/26/12-long-bets-and-predictions-about-02020/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diebeforei485</author><text>&gt; By &quot;bioerror&quot;, I mean something which has the same effect as a terror attack, but rises from inadvertance rather than evil intent. [1]<p>It&#x27;s not clear that covid-19 isn&#x27;t bioerror. There is a lot of information[2] pointing in that direction, so I wouldn&#x27;t dismiss the theory outright the way the OP authors did. In any case it hasn&#x27;t killed a million people.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;longbets.org&#x2F;9&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;longbets.org&#x2F;9&#x2F;</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;project-evidence.github.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;project-evidence.github.io</a></text></comment> |
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