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36,107,244 | 36,107,431 | 1 | 3 | 36,106,942 | train | <story><title>Rust: The wrong people are resigning</title><url>https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/42da9378768aebef662dd26dddf04849</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluejekyll</author><text>I believe the reason they are saying it doesn’t matter, is that without a clear statement of what happened from the decision makers, people can speculate.<p>One of those things people will speculate on is if this was one of the reasons. The fact that it is also part of the equation means it can’t be outright ignored and so will also need to be addressed. On top of that, this is already an underrepresented group, and regardless of if it was a primary motivating factor, it does not help show that group that they are welcome and in fact harms any effort to do so.<p>It absolutely matters if it was or was not a factor in this decision, but without clear information about the decision making process, speculation will occur, and that in and of itself is harmful.</text></item><item><author>rustthrow</author><text>&gt; The recent incident with ThePHD’s keynote downgrade was not racially motivated, thankfully, but… if that’s what it looks like from the outside, and any form of official communication is still days or weeks away, does it really make a difference?<p>yes! it does!<p>we can&#x27;t keep framing everything as race, gender, or orientation related. people have to have basic filters for what the most important issue is in a situation. stop falling back to &quot;easy&quot; outs or making sweeping statements about the &quot;deeper systemic problem&quot;.<p>there are plenty of social problems which can&#x27;t be solved by attaching every motive to every situation</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rustthrow</author><text>I really don&#x27;t agree, reading the original poster&#x27;s experience, that we should walk away thinking that it was because they&#x27;re black. Nor should we by default assume that&#x27;s the case. Multiple follow-ups by people in the Rust community have said that the politics and behavior here are a wider issue with leadership.<p>If the takeaway or speculation is that what went wrong here was only an issue because the speaker is black, it cheapens their experience. It tells other minorities that when they flag a problem, the root cause is their race&#x2F;gender&#x2F;orientation; that the solution is then a code of conduct refresh, maybe diversity training, &quot;educating themselves&quot;, etc. But that is not, fundamentally, as far as we can see, what is wrong here. We are not respecting the deep issues that the OP actually did identify by projecting other speculative possibilities.<p>What happened here is a problem no matter who the speaker was. Let&#x27;s address that. If other evidence comes to light on the backing motivations, we can address those to, but it&#x27;s not helpful to voluntarily pull other bad behavior that there is no reason to suspect here. No one can disprove a negative, but it&#x27;s on all of us to not fall for that bait.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust: The wrong people are resigning</title><url>https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/42da9378768aebef662dd26dddf04849</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluejekyll</author><text>I believe the reason they are saying it doesn’t matter, is that without a clear statement of what happened from the decision makers, people can speculate.<p>One of those things people will speculate on is if this was one of the reasons. The fact that it is also part of the equation means it can’t be outright ignored and so will also need to be addressed. On top of that, this is already an underrepresented group, and regardless of if it was a primary motivating factor, it does not help show that group that they are welcome and in fact harms any effort to do so.<p>It absolutely matters if it was or was not a factor in this decision, but without clear information about the decision making process, speculation will occur, and that in and of itself is harmful.</text></item><item><author>rustthrow</author><text>&gt; The recent incident with ThePHD’s keynote downgrade was not racially motivated, thankfully, but… if that’s what it looks like from the outside, and any form of official communication is still days or weeks away, does it really make a difference?<p>yes! it does!<p>we can&#x27;t keep framing everything as race, gender, or orientation related. people have to have basic filters for what the most important issue is in a situation. stop falling back to &quot;easy&quot; outs or making sweeping statements about the &quot;deeper systemic problem&quot;.<p>there are plenty of social problems which can&#x27;t be solved by attaching every motive to every situation</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brickteacup</author><text>&gt; without a clear statement of what happened from the decision makers, people can speculate<p>People can always speculate whatever they want. And let&#x27;s be honest, the kind of people who like making utterly baseless claims about racism will do so regardless of any official statements or explanations. Unless there&#x27;s actual evidence of racial animus it&#x27;s best to just ignore these silly people.</text></comment> |
17,240,048 | 17,240,141 | 1 | 3 | 17,238,241 | train | <story><title>Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-messy-expensive-split-between-facebook-and-whatsapps-founders-1528208641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mycorrhizal</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m just not creative enough, but what is a better alternative?<p>Let&#x27;s say you have a subscriber model, but than what kind of world will it be where only the wealthy have access to these communication technologies and access to social information.<p>Or you have a hybrid ad model with the ability to opt out by paying some fee. Than what kind of world will that be when privacy is a luxury item limited to how much you can afford.<p>The best solution I can think of is keeping the current model, but adding regulation and government oversight to limit some of the most damaging effects i.e. creating platforms that abuse human psychology to keep people clicking and make them addicted to these platforms.<p>I&#x27;m genuinely interested in other models people suggest.</text></item><item><author>rm999</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a tremendous amount of respect for Mark Zuckerberg as a leader, and have gone out of my way to defend him in the past (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17128369" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17128369</a>). I always envisioned whatsapp as a defensive purchase that would stay true to its initial vision (perhaps being used to prop up their other products in an unintrusive manner). But this article makes me realize Mark is s a one-trick advertising pony like half the other tech leaders out there.<p>His speil about how he&#x27;s &quot;connecting the world&quot; is undermined by his clear attempts to build a monopoly of social+communication, with an inefficient layer of distracting ads. Imagine a future where every time you want to electronically communicate with someone you have to spend mental energy filtering out ads. It&#x27;s the equivalent of every road having a toll booth, directly paying into a rich person&#x27;s bank account. This is the &quot;connecting the world&quot; Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to hide from those of us who aren&#x27;t paying attention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>In the past the function of the &quot;phone company&quot; was a paid for service which provided for your communication needs. You didn&#x27;t have to listen to ads before you could talk to your friends but you did occasionally get unwanted calls.<p>This medium reached people rich and poor, all around the world.<p>The challenge here is greed.<p>One of the interesting topics in economics is the ability to subvert the supply-demand curve by extracting economic value without the participants awareness. In classical economics the equilibrium point is met when the buyer thinks they are paying too much and the seller thinks they are getting to little for a good or service. In the idealized experiment the buyer doesn&#x27;t have any other choice, nor does the seller have any other customer to turn to.<p>But in our internet connected world there is an &quot;invisible&quot; (to the buyer) stream of value which is personal information about the buyer. To date there hasn&#x27;t been a good way for the buyer to see or negotiate that value. GPDR helps that but it doesn&#x27;t go far enough in some ways.<p>What GPDR doesn&#x27;t supply (yet?) is the practical way of enforcing the theft of personally identifiable information for financial gain. So in your example of a hybrid ad model, if you &#x27;opt out&#x27; and now pay a fee, how do you know that they aren&#x27;t still just selling your data? And if they are selling your data to get extra value out of you being a customer, what recourse do you have when you discover it? What risk are they taking by pursuing that path and maximizing their revenue?<p>EDIT: From the article -- <i>At the time of the sale, WhatsApp was profitable with fee revenue, although it is unclear by how much.</i> (99 cents per year)</text></comment> | <story><title>Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-messy-expensive-split-between-facebook-and-whatsapps-founders-1528208641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mycorrhizal</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m just not creative enough, but what is a better alternative?<p>Let&#x27;s say you have a subscriber model, but than what kind of world will it be where only the wealthy have access to these communication technologies and access to social information.<p>Or you have a hybrid ad model with the ability to opt out by paying some fee. Than what kind of world will that be when privacy is a luxury item limited to how much you can afford.<p>The best solution I can think of is keeping the current model, but adding regulation and government oversight to limit some of the most damaging effects i.e. creating platforms that abuse human psychology to keep people clicking and make them addicted to these platforms.<p>I&#x27;m genuinely interested in other models people suggest.</text></item><item><author>rm999</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a tremendous amount of respect for Mark Zuckerberg as a leader, and have gone out of my way to defend him in the past (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17128369" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17128369</a>). I always envisioned whatsapp as a defensive purchase that would stay true to its initial vision (perhaps being used to prop up their other products in an unintrusive manner). But this article makes me realize Mark is s a one-trick advertising pony like half the other tech leaders out there.<p>His speil about how he&#x27;s &quot;connecting the world&quot; is undermined by his clear attempts to build a monopoly of social+communication, with an inefficient layer of distracting ads. Imagine a future where every time you want to electronically communicate with someone you have to spend mental energy filtering out ads. It&#x27;s the equivalent of every road having a toll booth, directly paying into a rich person&#x27;s bank account. This is the &quot;connecting the world&quot; Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to hide from those of us who aren&#x27;t paying attention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eitland</author><text>&gt; Maybe I&#x27;m just not creative enough, but what is a better alternative?<p>&gt; Let&#x27;s say you have a subscriber model,<p>There was a company with a subscriber model. It worked pretty well and we loved it. Facebook bought it and destroyed the very idea behind it.<p>&gt; but than what kind of world will it be where only the wealthy have access to these communication technologies and access to social information.<p>The same kind of world were all kinds of tech is expensive at first and then becomes cheaper and cheaper as it approaches and enter mainstream usage?<p>Nobody would argue today that we should have refused luxury cars to add airbags because &quot;what kind of world would it be where only the rich has access to safer cars&quot;.<p>In the same way we shouldn&#x27;t argue against people paying for better products.<p>That said, I think WhatsApp were planning to add other paid options like API access etc before they got eaten by Facebook.</text></comment> |
21,505,334 | 21,505,363 | 1 | 2 | 21,504,606 | train | <story><title>The 'Glass Floor' Is Keeping America's Richest Idiots at the Top</title><url>https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076?ri18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seibelj</author><text>There is no moral issue with inequality. The moral issue is with equality. There will always be people who are willing to work twice as hard as someone else, and there are always people who if given the choice will not work at all, even if able bodied. Therefore forcing absolute equality on everyone is a moral hazard.<p>It doesn’t take a computer simulation to show how free people wind up with different degrees of success. I want us to have more equality of opportunity but enforcing equality of outcomes with violence (government enforced equality, where violators are imprisoned) is a terrible evil.</text></item><item><author>Merrill</author><text>Is Inequality Inevitable?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;is-inequality-inevitable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;is-inequality-ine...</a><p>&gt;Wealth inequality is escalating in many countries at an alarming rate, with the U.S. arguably having the highest inequality in the developed world.<p>&gt;A remarkably simple model of wealth distribution developed by physicists and mathematicians can reproduce inequality in a range of countries with unprecedented accuracy.<p>&gt;Surprisingly, several mathematical models of free-market economies display features of complex macroscopic physical systems such as ferromagnets, including phase transitions, symmetry breaking and duality.<p>An interesting article that argues that wealth inequality is inevitable in a free market system which does not have non-market measures that counteract the tendency to oligarchy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FpUser</author><text><i>&quot;There is no moral issue with inequality&quot;</i><p>Well, there is. Thanks to legalized corruption ( lobbying ) the rich are able to twist laws and regulations more and more to their advantage. This is self feeding process and the final outcome does not look nice at all.<p><i>&quot;Therefore forcing absolute equality on everyone is a moral hazard.&quot;</i><p>Nice try at twisting the line, who is talking about absolute equality here? You know there are all kinds of shades between black and white.</text></comment> | <story><title>The 'Glass Floor' Is Keeping America's Richest Idiots at the Top</title><url>https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/the-glass-floor-is-keeping-americas-richest-idiots-at-the-top_n_5d9fb1c9e4b06ddfc516e076?ri18</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seibelj</author><text>There is no moral issue with inequality. The moral issue is with equality. There will always be people who are willing to work twice as hard as someone else, and there are always people who if given the choice will not work at all, even if able bodied. Therefore forcing absolute equality on everyone is a moral hazard.<p>It doesn’t take a computer simulation to show how free people wind up with different degrees of success. I want us to have more equality of opportunity but enforcing equality of outcomes with violence (government enforced equality, where violators are imprisoned) is a terrible evil.</text></item><item><author>Merrill</author><text>Is Inequality Inevitable?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;is-inequality-inevitable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;is-inequality-ine...</a><p>&gt;Wealth inequality is escalating in many countries at an alarming rate, with the U.S. arguably having the highest inequality in the developed world.<p>&gt;A remarkably simple model of wealth distribution developed by physicists and mathematicians can reproduce inequality in a range of countries with unprecedented accuracy.<p>&gt;Surprisingly, several mathematical models of free-market economies display features of complex macroscopic physical systems such as ferromagnets, including phase transitions, symmetry breaking and duality.<p>An interesting article that argues that wealth inequality is inevitable in a free market system which does not have non-market measures that counteract the tendency to oligarchy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gerbilly</author><text>Would it be a terrible evil to put measures in place to prevent people from ending up in grinding poverty though?<p>Reasonable financial&#x2F;social welfare regulations do not amount to violence by any reasonable definition.<p>If inequality is inevitable, then some people are going to end up on the bottom. If the bottom is not enough to live on, then <i>that</i> could be argued to be structural violence.</text></comment> |
36,111,436 | 36,111,527 | 1 | 2 | 36,110,527 | train | <story><title>Let us serve you, but don't bring us down</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-dont-bring-us-down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maksimur</author><text>Torrents have the habit of disappearing when no users keep them alive. It happened to me enough times to be wary of such solution. If there&#x27;s a way to keep them alive regardless of interest I&#x27;m all for it.</text></item><item><author>x-complexity</author><text>Unpopular opinion: Severely rate limit retrieving the files from the website &#x2F; HTTP endpoint, and loudly point towards downloading the files via torrents.<p>The torrent protocol was meant to relieve this level of server load in mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>5e92cb50239222b</author><text>How is that worse than serving files via HTTP? With HTTP archive.org is the only peer that can serve files to you, with BitTorrent it will be one of the (hopefully) many peers, and will degrade to the same level of redundancy as HTTP if all other peers leave.<p>BitTorrent also supports web seeds and they don&#x27;t even really have to keep a full client running, just embed an HTTP link into the .torrent file.</text></comment> | <story><title>Let us serve you, but don't bring us down</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-dont-bring-us-down/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maksimur</author><text>Torrents have the habit of disappearing when no users keep them alive. It happened to me enough times to be wary of such solution. If there&#x27;s a way to keep them alive regardless of interest I&#x27;m all for it.</text></item><item><author>x-complexity</author><text>Unpopular opinion: Severely rate limit retrieving the files from the website &#x2F; HTTP endpoint, and loudly point towards downloading the files via torrents.<p>The torrent protocol was meant to relieve this level of server load in mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chronogram</author><text>Have you tried an Archive.org torrent yet? It&#x27;s backed by the servers, but has the advantages of selecting which parts of the archive you want and being verifiable and being able to have more bandwidth on popular archives. The Archive.org servers show up on the &quot;HTTP sources&quot; tab next to the &quot;Peers&quot; tab for me.</text></comment> |
10,990,894 | 10,990,121 | 1 | 2 | 10,989,469 | train | <story><title>Fraternal Order of Police Data Dump</title><url>https://fop.thecthulhu.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&gt; <i>Don&#x27;t bother with legal threats or trying to get UK law enforcement to seek revenge. This is me playing nice.
If you want to go nuclear with me, feel free to do so, but trust me when I say you might want to think long and hard before you do.</i><p>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m not known for bluffing, and I know many more of your secrets. About 18TB all in all actually, all unpublished yet.</i><p>I wonder what&#x27;s in the unpublished docs, and why they&#x27;re remaining unpublished.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LordKano</author><text>I would guess that they&#x27;re remaining unpublished for leverage.<p>I would also guess that personal information about FOP members is in the unpublished data.<p>This is just idle speculation on my part.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fraternal Order of Police Data Dump</title><url>https://fop.thecthulhu.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&gt; <i>Don&#x27;t bother with legal threats or trying to get UK law enforcement to seek revenge. This is me playing nice.
If you want to go nuclear with me, feel free to do so, but trust me when I say you might want to think long and hard before you do.</i><p>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m not known for bluffing, and I know many more of your secrets. About 18TB all in all actually, all unpublished yet.</i><p>I wonder what&#x27;s in the unpublished docs, and why they&#x27;re remaining unpublished.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PantaloonFlames</author><text>Who has time to go through 18TB of data? The guy probably hasn&#x27;t even viewed the data. Maybe it includes information from PC hard drives and he doesn&#x27;t want to just release it without review.</text></comment> |
21,863,518 | 21,863,561 | 1 | 2 | 21,859,915 | train | <story><title>Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/microdosing-lsd-alzheimers-phase1-trial-results-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>If you&#x27;re reading this and thinking about trying microdosing, let me summarize for you - unless you have chronic depression or anxiety, this isn&#x27;t really worth it. You&#x27;ll have a harder time actually focusing and getting work done.<p>If you <i>do</i> have chronic depression &#x2F; anxiety though, and it&#x27;s affecting your life in a persistently detrimental way, it might be a really effective Aspirin against it (i.e. it&#x27;s not going to Cure it, but it will relieve it). LSD does this by interrupting Rumination, the shitty thoughts in the very back of your mind that loop during depression &#x2F; anxiety.<p>Breaking this cycle lets you have some relief, and might help you get your head above water enough that you can start to address some of the Bigger Problems, without some of the pretty significant drawbacks of SSRIs (as well as working nearly instantly, as opposed to having a month+ ramp-up)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortex</author><text>Add ADHD to that list. I and a few friends with similar meatware stacks have found it very effective. I don&#x27;t have hard data, but after one 3 month period I found a significant correlation with micro days and hours worked, number of LOC committed, and quality of that code.<p>I think anyone neurodivergent stands to benefit, and if they are not, well, sounds like they have a decent handle on life already.<p>&gt; Breaking this cycle lets you have some relief<p>+1<p>Edit: That&#x27;s not to say people living a content life would not benefit from doses, micro or otherwise. It&#x27;s just probably much harder to detect in a clinical setting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer’s proves safe in early human trial</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/microdosing-lsd-alzheimers-phase1-trial-results-safety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>If you&#x27;re reading this and thinking about trying microdosing, let me summarize for you - unless you have chronic depression or anxiety, this isn&#x27;t really worth it. You&#x27;ll have a harder time actually focusing and getting work done.<p>If you <i>do</i> have chronic depression &#x2F; anxiety though, and it&#x27;s affecting your life in a persistently detrimental way, it might be a really effective Aspirin against it (i.e. it&#x27;s not going to Cure it, but it will relieve it). LSD does this by interrupting Rumination, the shitty thoughts in the very back of your mind that loop during depression &#x2F; anxiety.<p>Breaking this cycle lets you have some relief, and might help you get your head above water enough that you can start to address some of the Bigger Problems, without some of the pretty significant drawbacks of SSRIs (as well as working nearly instantly, as opposed to having a month+ ramp-up)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OGWhales</author><text>I found microdosing greatly improved my productivity and ability to focus. I think it may be dose dependent and one would have to dial in to their appropriate dose. Also, the type of work one is doing may be an important factor.</text></comment> |
32,030,844 | 32,030,171 | 1 | 2 | 32,026,663 | train | <story><title>Amazon has a book piracy problem</title><url>https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1545477267932864512</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diamondap</author><text>Amazon kind of gave up on discovery, at least for books, when they realized they could make more money running ads. I sell books on Amazon. Years ago, their book pages had two carousels of &quot;similar titles&quot; on each book detail page. Similar titles were selected by some pretty helpful algorithms based on what purchasers of the current title had also purchased, as well as some other secret sauce.<p>At the time, ads weren&#x27;t very prominent, and they were profitable for authors. I could buy them for 5 cents a click and even if only one in fifty clicks resulted in a purchase, I made money.<p>Now, most of the algorithmic recommendations are gone, and for many ads, Amazon suggests bids of $2.50 or more per click. Those clicks bring in money whether Amazon makes a sale or not.<p>To some extent, they&#x27;ve given up on matching customers to the best or most suitable products. Why should they work that hard if ads are more profitable?<p>They&#x27;ve also had problems with piracy and counterfeits, as mentioned in this article. I heard a radio interview with a Target executive a couple years ago where a journalist said, &quot;Amazon is underpricing you on everything. How do you plan to stay in business?&quot;<p>She said, &quot;We vet every product on our shelves. We know who makes it and where, whether it&#x27;s legit, and whether it contains lead paint and parts kids can choke on. Try to find that info on Amazon.&quot;<p>The reporter didn&#x27;t seem too impressed at the time, but the Target woman clearly saw where things were going. As the quality, authenticity, and reliability of Amazon&#x27;s merchandise has declined, people are starting to notice.<p>I&#x27;m not sure this is a problem they will ever have the will to fix. While they break even or lose money on genuine goods they have to ship for free, profits from third party sellers and Chinese drop shippers keep the retail operation afloat.</text></item><item><author>elcapitan</author><text>With books, Amazon has become the opposite of a search engine for me. I have to use external resources to actually find the right titles, to enter them 1:1 into Amazon search to get to the books. Context based discovery has become next to impossible (which I used it before a lot for). Something must have changed in their indexing algorithm a while ago. Also many results are flooded with garbage, like some ridiculous &quot;notebooks&quot; with similar titles to the searched book or product name.</text></item><item><author>codeslave13</author><text>Amazon has a piracy&#x2F;counterfeit problem. And has for a very long time. I have basically stopped buying there as much as possible.
My current trend is to use them as a search engine then got to the companies site. At this point you might as well shop alibaba as thats where half the crap is from anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iends</author><text>Amazon used to have a great recommendation page that had a tab for new releases and coming soon. This was incredible for book discovery and they got so much money from me with these pages.<p>Amazon is currently recommending me shower heads and bathroom hardware from when I remodeled a month ago because I bought that stuff then. Pointless.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon has a book piracy problem</title><url>https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1545477267932864512</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diamondap</author><text>Amazon kind of gave up on discovery, at least for books, when they realized they could make more money running ads. I sell books on Amazon. Years ago, their book pages had two carousels of &quot;similar titles&quot; on each book detail page. Similar titles were selected by some pretty helpful algorithms based on what purchasers of the current title had also purchased, as well as some other secret sauce.<p>At the time, ads weren&#x27;t very prominent, and they were profitable for authors. I could buy them for 5 cents a click and even if only one in fifty clicks resulted in a purchase, I made money.<p>Now, most of the algorithmic recommendations are gone, and for many ads, Amazon suggests bids of $2.50 or more per click. Those clicks bring in money whether Amazon makes a sale or not.<p>To some extent, they&#x27;ve given up on matching customers to the best or most suitable products. Why should they work that hard if ads are more profitable?<p>They&#x27;ve also had problems with piracy and counterfeits, as mentioned in this article. I heard a radio interview with a Target executive a couple years ago where a journalist said, &quot;Amazon is underpricing you on everything. How do you plan to stay in business?&quot;<p>She said, &quot;We vet every product on our shelves. We know who makes it and where, whether it&#x27;s legit, and whether it contains lead paint and parts kids can choke on. Try to find that info on Amazon.&quot;<p>The reporter didn&#x27;t seem too impressed at the time, but the Target woman clearly saw where things were going. As the quality, authenticity, and reliability of Amazon&#x27;s merchandise has declined, people are starting to notice.<p>I&#x27;m not sure this is a problem they will ever have the will to fix. While they break even or lose money on genuine goods they have to ship for free, profits from third party sellers and Chinese drop shippers keep the retail operation afloat.</text></item><item><author>elcapitan</author><text>With books, Amazon has become the opposite of a search engine for me. I have to use external resources to actually find the right titles, to enter them 1:1 into Amazon search to get to the books. Context based discovery has become next to impossible (which I used it before a lot for). Something must have changed in their indexing algorithm a while ago. Also many results are flooded with garbage, like some ridiculous &quot;notebooks&quot; with similar titles to the searched book or product name.</text></item><item><author>codeslave13</author><text>Amazon has a piracy&#x2F;counterfeit problem. And has for a very long time. I have basically stopped buying there as much as possible.
My current trend is to use them as a search engine then got to the companies site. At this point you might as well shop alibaba as thats where half the crap is from anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>This is somewhat of an aside about Target, but I&#x27;ve noticed that their inventory has moved significantly upmarket in the last 10 years or so. Their long-term strategy appears to be distinguishing themselves from the &quot;bottom-of-the-barrel low-cost stuff&quot; market and settling in a &quot;low-cost but still decent stuff&quot; niche.</text></comment> |
25,485,083 | 25,485,040 | 1 | 3 | 25,483,010 | train | <story><title>Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V</title><url>https://erik-engheim.medium.com/apple-m1-foreshadows-risc-v-dd63a62b2562</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noizejoy</author><text>With all the discussion about what the “big trick” is that makes the M1 seem to be such a breakthrough, I can’t help but wonder, if the M1 is more like the iPhone: The sum of a large number of small engineering improvements, coupled with a lot of component integration detail work, topped off by some very shrewd supply chain arrangements.<p>Analogous to the iPhone being foreshadowed by the iPod without most experts believing Apple could make a mobile phone from that, the M1 was foreshadowed by the A1 for mobile devices with many(most?) experts not forecasting how much it could be the base for laptops and desktops.<p>It seems, the M1 includes numerous small engineering advances and the near term lockup of the top of the line fab in the supply chain also reminds me of how Apple had secured exclusivity for some key leading edge iPhone parts (was it the screens?).<p>So the M1 strikes me as the result of something that Apple has the ability to pull off from time to time.<p>And that is rather hard to pull off financially, organizationally and culturally. And it more than makes up for some pretty spectacular tactical mis-steps (I’m looking at you, puck mouse, cube mac, butterfly keyboard).<p>EDIT for typo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gchadwick</author><text>&gt; The sum of a large number of small engineering improvements, coupled with a lot of component integration detail work, topped off by some very shrewd supply chain arrangements.<p>I think the vertical integration they have is a major advantage too.<p>I used to work at arm on CPUs. One thing I worked on was memory prefetching which is critical to performance. When designing a prefetcher you can do a better job if you have some understanding or guarantees as to the behaviour of the wider memory system (better yet if you can add prefetching specific functionality to it). The issue I faced is the partners (Samsung, Qualcomm etc) are the ones implementing the SoC and hence controlling the wider memory system. They don&#x27;t give you detailed specs of how that works, nor is there an method where you can discuss with them appropriate ways to build things to enable better prefetching performance. You end up building something that&#x27;s hopefully adaptable for multiple scenarios and no one ever gets a chance to do some decent end to end performance tuning. I&#x27;m either working with a model of what the memory system might be and Qualcomm&#x2F;Samsung etc engineers are working with the CPU as a black box trying to tune their side of things to work better. Were we all under one roof I suspect we could easily have got more out of it.<p>You also get requirements based upon targets to hit for some specific IP, rather than requirements around the final product, e.g. silicon area. Generally arm will be keen to keep area increase low or improve performance &#x2F; area ratio without any huge shocks on overall area. If you&#x27;re apple you just care about the final end user experience and the potential profit margin. You can run the numbers and realise you can go big on silicon area and get where you want to be. With a multi-company&#x2F;vendor chain each link is trying to optimise for some number they control, even if that overal has a negative impact on the final product.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple M1 foreshadows Rise of RISC-V</title><url>https://erik-engheim.medium.com/apple-m1-foreshadows-risc-v-dd63a62b2562</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noizejoy</author><text>With all the discussion about what the “big trick” is that makes the M1 seem to be such a breakthrough, I can’t help but wonder, if the M1 is more like the iPhone: The sum of a large number of small engineering improvements, coupled with a lot of component integration detail work, topped off by some very shrewd supply chain arrangements.<p>Analogous to the iPhone being foreshadowed by the iPod without most experts believing Apple could make a mobile phone from that, the M1 was foreshadowed by the A1 for mobile devices with many(most?) experts not forecasting how much it could be the base for laptops and desktops.<p>It seems, the M1 includes numerous small engineering advances and the near term lockup of the top of the line fab in the supply chain also reminds me of how Apple had secured exclusivity for some key leading edge iPhone parts (was it the screens?).<p>So the M1 strikes me as the result of something that Apple has the ability to pull off from time to time.<p>And that is rather hard to pull off financially, organizationally and culturally. And it more than makes up for some pretty spectacular tactical mis-steps (I’m looking at you, puck mouse, cube mac, butterfly keyboard).<p>EDIT for typo</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ph_</author><text><i>The sum of a large number of small engineering improvements, coupled with a lot of component integration detail work, topped off by some very shrewd supply chain arrangements.</i><p>I think you precisely have it. There is no single magic reason the M1 is so good, just a lot of things coming together. They start with a better instruction set than x86, have of course the best process available, and perhaps the largest part, they have built up an increadible team over a decade. And they are extremely focussed in what they target. If anything, that is Apples &quot;magic&quot;. They are not making a chip which is built in an abstract manner to be sold to random customers. They have exactly their needs in mind and execute towards those.
In a sense AMD did that with the chips for the Playstation&#x2F;XBox. Like the M1 it is basically a SOC. There optimized for great graphics performance. Unfortunately, those chips are not sold separately for building your own PC.</text></comment> |
36,426,227 | 36,425,492 | 1 | 3 | 36,424,090 | train | <story><title>Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/a8c07365-f85d-47a0-98a4-b6f71da697ef</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rqtwteye</author><text>There is this pattern where things are always the opposite of their message:<p>- Dishonesty expert is dishonest<p>- Politicians who constantly talk about freedom want to restrict anything that doesn&#x27;t fit their world view<p>- Militant anti-gay preachers hire call boys<p>- Diversity teams are the least diverse</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstarfish</author><text>We like these fall-from-grace stories but there&#x27;s a subpattern to this that can&#x27;t be articulated so easily. Literal &quot;corruption&quot; comes close.<p>See also: every freedom fighter that launches a coup to overthrow a dictator, then becomes a dictator themselves within a decade. Or cops that get caught stealing child porn from the evidence locker, despite not being pedophiles by any definition.<p>Not all these types start this way, or are inherently hypocrites. Repeat exposure to something tends to rub off. You can&#x27;t rail against the evils of prostitution as the basis of your career without being forced to spend cycles processing what about them is so awful. Thinking about round tits on display, the mechanics of sex, etc. The unthinkable is literally on your mind 24&#x2F;7, which effectively normalizes the behavior and makes it less outrageous over time. It&#x27;s a weird cycle of grooming yourself to accept what you purport to hate.<p>I&#x27;m an anti-fraud professional. I&#x27;m surrounded by so much of it (seemingly without consequence) that I&#x27;m frequently tempted to break bad myself. I never will, but it&#x27;s a &quot;conscious&quot; decision (as an extremely stubborn Slav) and not because I&#x27;m a saint. Temptation just comes with the territory. It wears you down until you fail and make headlines in the most humiliating way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/a8c07365-f85d-47a0-98a4-b6f71da697ef</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rqtwteye</author><text>There is this pattern where things are always the opposite of their message:<p>- Dishonesty expert is dishonest<p>- Politicians who constantly talk about freedom want to restrict anything that doesn&#x27;t fit their world view<p>- Militant anti-gay preachers hire call boys<p>- Diversity teams are the least diverse</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered if ethics class impart any ethics at all. If you&#x27;re not an ethical person, why would you become one after taking such a class? If you&#x27;re already an ethical person, taking a class in it is pointless.</text></comment> |
37,408,396 | 37,408,406 | 1 | 3 | 37,403,799 | train | <story><title>Linux network performance parameters</title><url>https://github.com/leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klabb3</author><text>A random thing I ran into with the defaults (Ubuntu Linux):<p>- net.ipv4.tcp_rmem ~ 6MB<p>- net.core.rmem_max ~ 1MB<p>So.. the tcp_rmem value overrides by default, meaning that the TCP receive window for a vanilla TCP socket actually goes up to 6MB if needed (in reality - 3MB because of the halving, but let&#x27;s ignore that for now since it&#x27;s a constant).<p>But if I &quot;setsockopt SO_RCVBUF&quot; in a user-space application, I&#x27;m actually capped at a maximum 1MB, even though I already have 6MB. If I try to <i>reduce it</i> from 6MB to e.g. 4MB, it will result in 1MB. This seems very strange. (Perhaps I&#x27;m holding it wrong?)<p>(Same applies to SO_SNDBUF&#x2F;wmem...)<p>To me, it seems like Linux is confused about the precedence order of these options. Why not have core.rmem_max be larger and the authoritative directive? Is there some historical reason for this?</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux network performance parameters</title><url>https://github.com/leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>napkin</author><text>Just changing Linux&#x27;s default congestion control (net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control) to &#x27;bbr&#x27; can make a _huge_ difference in some scenarios, I guess over distances with sporadic packet loss and jitter, and encapsulation.<p>Over the last year, I was troubleshooting issues with the following connection flow:<p>client host &lt;-- HTTP --&gt; reverse proxy host &lt;-- HTTP over Wireguard --&gt; service host<p>On average, I could not get better than 20% theoretical max throughput. Also, connections tended to slow to a crawl over time. I had hacky solutions like forcing connections to close frequently. Finally switching congestion control to &#x27;bbr&#x27; gives close to theoretical max throughput and reliable connections.<p>I don&#x27;t really understand enough about TCP to understand why it works. The change needed to be made on both sides of Wireguard.</text></comment> |
12,473,921 | 12,473,953 | 1 | 2 | 12,472,905 | train | <story><title>Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)</title><url>http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>Most &quot;big data&quot; problems are really &quot;small data&quot; by the standards of modern hardware:<p>* Desktop PCs with up to 6TB of RAM and many dozens of cores have been available for over a year.[1]<p>* Hard drives with 100TB capacity in a 3.5-inch form factor were recently announced.[2]<p><i>CORRECTION: THE FIGURE IS 60TB, NOT 100TB. See MagnumOpus&#x27;s comment below. In a haste, I searched Google and mistakengly linked to an April Fool&#x27;s story. Now I feel like a fool, of course.</i> Still, the point is valid.<p>* Four Nvidia Titan X GPUs can give you up to 44 Teraflops of 32-bit FP computing power in a single desktop.[3]<p>Despite this, the number of people who have unnecessarily spent money and&#x2F;or complicated their lives with tools like Hadoop is pretty large, particularly in &quot;enterprise&quot; environments. A lot of &quot;big data&quot; problems can be handled by a single souped-up machine that fits under your desk.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphr.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;enterprise&#x2F;387196&#x2F;intel-xeon-e7-v2-servers-support-6tb-of-ram" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphr.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;enterprise&#x2F;387196&#x2F;intel-xeon-e7-v2...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.storagenewsletter.com&#x2F;rubriques&#x2F;hard-disk-drives&#x2F;incredible-record-of-100tb-into-3-5-inch-hdd-with-hamrhelium&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.storagenewsletter.com&#x2F;rubriques&#x2F;hard-disk-drives&#x2F;...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12141334" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12141334</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>Well basically as soon as big data hit the news everyone stopped doing data and started doing big data.<p>Same thing with data science. Opened a Jupyter notebook, loaded 100 rows, and displayed a graph - &quot;I am a data scientist&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)</title><url>http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cs702</author><text>Most &quot;big data&quot; problems are really &quot;small data&quot; by the standards of modern hardware:<p>* Desktop PCs with up to 6TB of RAM and many dozens of cores have been available for over a year.[1]<p>* Hard drives with 100TB capacity in a 3.5-inch form factor were recently announced.[2]<p><i>CORRECTION: THE FIGURE IS 60TB, NOT 100TB. See MagnumOpus&#x27;s comment below. In a haste, I searched Google and mistakengly linked to an April Fool&#x27;s story. Now I feel like a fool, of course.</i> Still, the point is valid.<p>* Four Nvidia Titan X GPUs can give you up to 44 Teraflops of 32-bit FP computing power in a single desktop.[3]<p>Despite this, the number of people who have unnecessarily spent money and&#x2F;or complicated their lives with tools like Hadoop is pretty large, particularly in &quot;enterprise&quot; environments. A lot of &quot;big data&quot; problems can be handled by a single souped-up machine that fits under your desk.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphr.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;enterprise&#x2F;387196&#x2F;intel-xeon-e7-v2-servers-support-6tb-of-ram" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alphr.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;enterprise&#x2F;387196&#x2F;intel-xeon-e7-v2...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.storagenewsletter.com&#x2F;rubriques&#x2F;hard-disk-drives&#x2F;incredible-record-of-100tb-into-3-5-inch-hdd-with-hamrhelium&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.storagenewsletter.com&#x2F;rubriques&#x2F;hard-disk-drives&#x2F;...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12141334" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12141334</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MagnumOpus</author><text>&gt; Hard drives with 100TB capacity in a 3.5-inch form factor were recently announced<p>That is an April Fools story.<p>(Of course you can still get a Synology DS2411+&#x2F;DX1211 24-bay NAS combo for a few thousand bucks, but it will take up a lot of space under your desk and keep your legs toasty...)</text></comment> |
22,741,641 | 22,741,511 | 1 | 3 | 22,741,012 | train | <story><title>Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmeka/whole-foods-employees-are-staging-a-nationwide-sick-out</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nn35</author><text><i>-Immediate shutdown of any location where a worker tests positive for COVID-19.</i><p>This seems likely to shut down the majority of Whole Foods stores in short order. An unreasonable request, IMO. Grocery stores are genuinely essential to society and the death rate for &lt; 40yo is very small. Put some masks on them and keep working.<p>I do think high-risk employees should basically be allowed to stay home, though.</text></item><item><author>elicash</author><text>Here&#x27;s what they&#x27;re asking for:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coworker.org&#x2F;petitions&#x2F;global-retail-worker-sick-out" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coworker.org&#x2F;petitions&#x2F;global-retail-worker-sick...</a><p>-Guaranteed paid leave for all workers who isolate or self-quarantine instead of coming to work.<p>-Reinstatement of health care coverage for part-time and seasonal workers.<p>-Increased FSA funds to cover coronavirus testing and treatment for all team members, including part-time and seasonal.<p>-Guaranteed hazard pay in the form of double pay during our scheduled hours.<p>-Implementation of new policies that can facilitate social distancing between workers and customers.<p>-Commitment to ensuring that all locations have adequate sanitation equipment and procedures in place.<p>-Immediate shutdown of any location where a worker tests positive for COVID-19. In such an event, all workers should continue to receive full pay until the store can safely reopen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elicash</author><text>I&#x27;d bet that if Amazon agreed to all demands but that one that the workers who organized this would be ECSTATIC.<p>There should be negotiation, back-and-forth. What&#x27;s frustrating, as somebody not affiliated with the organizing here but has been in similar circumstances, is when the company won&#x27;t even come to the table to bargain.</text></comment> | <story><title>Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out'</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmeka/whole-foods-employees-are-staging-a-nationwide-sick-out</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nn35</author><text><i>-Immediate shutdown of any location where a worker tests positive for COVID-19.</i><p>This seems likely to shut down the majority of Whole Foods stores in short order. An unreasonable request, IMO. Grocery stores are genuinely essential to society and the death rate for &lt; 40yo is very small. Put some masks on them and keep working.<p>I do think high-risk employees should basically be allowed to stay home, though.</text></item><item><author>elicash</author><text>Here&#x27;s what they&#x27;re asking for:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coworker.org&#x2F;petitions&#x2F;global-retail-worker-sick-out" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coworker.org&#x2F;petitions&#x2F;global-retail-worker-sick...</a><p>-Guaranteed paid leave for all workers who isolate or self-quarantine instead of coming to work.<p>-Reinstatement of health care coverage for part-time and seasonal workers.<p>-Increased FSA funds to cover coronavirus testing and treatment for all team members, including part-time and seasonal.<p>-Guaranteed hazard pay in the form of double pay during our scheduled hours.<p>-Implementation of new policies that can facilitate social distancing between workers and customers.<p>-Commitment to ensuring that all locations have adequate sanitation equipment and procedures in place.<p>-Immediate shutdown of any location where a worker tests positive for COVID-19. In such an event, all workers should continue to receive full pay until the store can safely reopen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rocha</author><text>Hospitalization rate is hovering between 10% and 20%<p>Edit: source <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covidtracking.com&#x2F;data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covidtracking.com&#x2F;data&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,574,137 | 40,572,994 | 1 | 2 | 40,572,289 | train | <story><title>Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>I&#x27;m definitely not one of those people who thinks Windows should stay frozen forever as Windows XP, I appreciate we&#x27;re finally getting 15-20 year old features like search filtering in the task manager.<p>But whoever&#x27;s bonus metric is tricking people to sign in with MS accounts is really making it a gross experience. I managed to finally get my new machines install on a local account using &quot;OOBE\BYPASSNRO&quot; although none of the instructions I found online worked for some reason, eventually found the script find myself. Then when trying to eventually register Windows it tricked me into converting to a MS account because the license troubleshooter forces you to login to do anything.<p>Next time I boot my machine its asking for my MS password instead of my local password... So that&#x27;s taught me to never enter my MS account into anything on the desktop because there is a risk it will silently do that.<p>You have a &quot;Home&quot; and a &quot;Pro&quot; version, really just wish for a world where they do this silly scammy behavior in the Home version and let the Pro version just be an actual tool to use hardware. I&#x27;m not using Windows because it&#x27;s a great operating system I&#x27;m only using it because it&#x27;s the only OS in the Venn diagram of &quot;Supports Nvidia GPUs&quot; and &quot;Runs Adobe CC&quot;, can&#x27;t they just be happy I use it at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nullabillity</author><text>&gt; You have a &quot;Home&quot; and a &quot;Pro&quot; version, really just wish for a world where they do this silly scammy behavior in the Home version and let the Pro version just be an actual tool to use hardware.<p>This &quot;it&#x27;s fine if they scam <i>other people</i> as long as they leave me alone&quot; attitude is really bizarre to me. If they keep showing you that they can&#x27;t be trusted… maybe believe them?</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts</title><url>https://www.pcworld.com/article/2354686/microsoft-blocks-windows-11-workaround-local-accounts.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>I&#x27;m definitely not one of those people who thinks Windows should stay frozen forever as Windows XP, I appreciate we&#x27;re finally getting 15-20 year old features like search filtering in the task manager.<p>But whoever&#x27;s bonus metric is tricking people to sign in with MS accounts is really making it a gross experience. I managed to finally get my new machines install on a local account using &quot;OOBE\BYPASSNRO&quot; although none of the instructions I found online worked for some reason, eventually found the script find myself. Then when trying to eventually register Windows it tricked me into converting to a MS account because the license troubleshooter forces you to login to do anything.<p>Next time I boot my machine its asking for my MS password instead of my local password... So that&#x27;s taught me to never enter my MS account into anything on the desktop because there is a risk it will silently do that.<p>You have a &quot;Home&quot; and a &quot;Pro&quot; version, really just wish for a world where they do this silly scammy behavior in the Home version and let the Pro version just be an actual tool to use hardware. I&#x27;m not using Windows because it&#x27;s a great operating system I&#x27;m only using it because it&#x27;s the only OS in the Venn diagram of &quot;Supports Nvidia GPUs&quot; and &quot;Runs Adobe CC&quot;, can&#x27;t they just be happy I use it at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erremerre</author><text>I was a user of several microsoft services that worked relatively well. On computer I used to have onenote and onedrive. On phone I also had the outlook app to manage all emails.<p>For exactly the very same reason you stated, I have stopped using them. Whilst I can still use them on my android phone, there is no point if they dont sync to my computer, and they don&#x27;t sync to my computer because I am afraid of putting my microsoft password in anything that is not firefox.<p>Hence, I already moved out from onenote to Joplin (still synced via onedrive), (I am not happy with the move) and I stopped syncing with Onedrive, and will have to move soon to something else.
On my phone I stopped having outlook, and I am back to use each app for each email.<p>As you, I am also trap on windows (tried fedora, it simply didn&#x27;t work).<p>Sad times for people who want just a computer that works.</text></comment> |
6,111,851 | 6,111,847 | 1 | 3 | 6,111,723 | train | <story><title>Zero Tolerance Policies Put Students In The Hands Of Bad Cops</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130722/18401023892/zero-tolerance-policies-put-students-hands-bad-cops.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>D9u</author><text>How about zero tolerance for police misconduct?
How about zero tolerance for appointed government servant&#x27;s lying to Congress?<p>After all, these individuals should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us if they want to impose their will upon us without our explicit approval.</text></item><item><author>darkchasma</author><text>I cannot think of a single occasion where zero tolerance is not the drum beat of the fool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheald</author><text>&gt; <i>police misconduct</i><p>How about an officer who has to break the law&#x2F;procedure to expose corruption or save someone&#x27;s life?<p>Life is rarely so black-and-white; zero tolerance strips us of our ability to use reason and discretion based on the arrogant assumption that our rules and procedures are perfect and infallible, which is just silly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zero Tolerance Policies Put Students In The Hands Of Bad Cops</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130722/18401023892/zero-tolerance-policies-put-students-hands-bad-cops.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>D9u</author><text>How about zero tolerance for police misconduct?
How about zero tolerance for appointed government servant&#x27;s lying to Congress?<p>After all, these individuals should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us if they want to impose their will upon us without our explicit approval.</text></item><item><author>darkchasma</author><text>I cannot think of a single occasion where zero tolerance is not the drum beat of the fool.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x0054</author><text>Even for a police officers, zero tolerance is a foolish standard. But in this case, even under the most lenient of systems, this cop should have been gone from the force a long time ago.<p>I have known a lot of cops over the years, and I can honestly say that there are a lot of awesome guys doing that job. But it also attracts these power hungry assholes, who could care less about law and order, and only care about pushing people around and compensating for what I can only presume their manhood inadequacies.<p>For instance, I knew a guy who was a very successful civil litigation attorney, very shitty attorney, but very successful. He worked part time as a patrol cop. Why? He did not need the money, he did not care about the law for a bit, and he could give two shits about helping people. But he loves the power. In his own words, he was bullied as a kid, and now it&#x27;s his turn. That man is still a cop to this day, and he absolutely should not be one.</text></comment> |
17,649,038 | 17,649,054 | 1 | 3 | 17,648,104 | train | <story><title>Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/ubers-self-driving-trucks-division-is-dead-long-live-uber-self-driving-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sincerely</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Uber Eats has any specific pros over the million other food delivery startups</text></item><item><author>swozey</author><text>&gt; Is Uber Eats next on the chopping block? That would probably be my choice.<p>Are you saying this because you don&#x27;t use Uber Eats and don&#x27;t see a value for it? I and people I know in my city heavily use Uber Eats and it provides Uber drivers who are already on the road (here in over abundance to the point that they&#x27;re barely making any money) additional income.</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>The new CEO continues to impress. When he took over, Kalanick had Uber in something like a hundred side-businesses, a massive waste of focus, effort, brand and capital. This isn&#x27;t the first or will be the last black hole side venture Dara is getting Uber out of. And he&#x27;s already established his 100x better at PR and building&#x2F;protecting the brand than Travis was.<p>Uber never needed to be in the automated trucks business, there are zero synergies with their core business, and it&#x27;s not even clear that will ever be a good business to be in. Is Uber Eats next on the chopping block? That would probably be my choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wskinner</author><text>It does on the supply side. It keeps drivers on the Uber network, which is good for both the rides business and the Eats business due to more consistent supply, and good for drivers due to higher total volume of work.<p>The eventual result is that Uber can operate more efficiently than competitors that only do rides or food, allowing them to compete better in both markets.<p>(I used to work at Uber)</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/30/ubers-self-driving-trucks-division-is-dead-long-live-uber-self-driving-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sincerely</author><text>I don&#x27;t think Uber Eats has any specific pros over the million other food delivery startups</text></item><item><author>swozey</author><text>&gt; Is Uber Eats next on the chopping block? That would probably be my choice.<p>Are you saying this because you don&#x27;t use Uber Eats and don&#x27;t see a value for it? I and people I know in my city heavily use Uber Eats and it provides Uber drivers who are already on the road (here in over abundance to the point that they&#x27;re barely making any money) additional income.</text></item><item><author>valuearb</author><text>The new CEO continues to impress. When he took over, Kalanick had Uber in something like a hundred side-businesses, a massive waste of focus, effort, brand and capital. This isn&#x27;t the first or will be the last black hole side venture Dara is getting Uber out of. And he&#x27;s already established his 100x better at PR and building&#x2F;protecting the brand than Travis was.<p>Uber never needed to be in the automated trucks business, there are zero synergies with their core business, and it&#x27;s not even clear that will ever be a good business to be in. Is Uber Eats next on the chopping block? That would probably be my choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s17n</author><text>The business case is that by using the same fleet for ride hailing and delivery they can provide the service for a lower cost than competitors that only do delivery.</text></comment> |
4,452,093 | 4,451,386 | 1 | 3 | 4,450,244 | train | <story><title>What killed the Linux desktop</title><url>http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diminish</author><text>To stress out again; OS/X has the poorest hardware support for 3rd parties; even compared to Linux. Just "think different" and buy some hardware and you ll see what I mean..</text></item><item><author>wheels</author><text>&#62; <i>I have two monitors on my Linux desktop. A month ago full screen on video stopped working. [...] In this regard, both Windows and OSX just work.</i><p>Just because it's never happened to <i>you</i> on OS X or Windows doesn't mean it doesn't happen. OS X 10.6.7 broke the output on my 13" Macbook for <i>either</i> of the two external displays I own. <i>Both</i> worked fine previously, when booted from the install CDs, <i>or</i> from Linux on the same machine.<p>Plugging in my Firewire audio interface on the same machine spun the CPU up to 100% and kept it pegged there. A lot of good having a nice mic pre-amp does when you get a high pitched fan whir added gratis to all of your recordings.<p>It's silly to pretend that Mac is somehow perfect in these matters. In my experience it's only been marginally better than Linux, if at all. And with Linux you have some hope of finding a solution, whereas for OS X you're pretty much hosed.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>This is the money quote:<p>&#62; The second dimension to the problem is that no two Linux distributions agreed on which core components the system should use.<p>Linux on the desktop suffered from a lack of coherent, strategic vision, consistency and <i>philosophy</i>. Every engineer I know likes to do things a particular way. They also have a distorted view on the level of customization that people want and need.<p>I like OSX. Out of the box it's fine. That's what I want. I don't want to dick around with Windows managers or the like. Some do and that's fine but almost no one really does.<p>Whereas Windows and OSX can (and do) dictate a topdown vision for the desktop experience, Linux can't do this. Or maybe there's been no one with the drive, conviction and gravitas to pull it off? Who knows? Whatever the case, this really matters for a desktop experience.<p>I have two monitors on my Linux desktop. A month ago full screen on video stopped working. Or I guess I should say it moved to the center of the two screens so is unusable. I have no idea why. It could be an update gone awry. It could be corp-specific modifications. It could be anything. But the point is: <i>I don't care what the problem is, I just want it to work</i>. In this regard, both Windows and OSX just work. In many others too.<p>I can't describe to you how much torture it always seems to be to get anything desktop-related to work on Linux. I loathe it with a passion. I've long since given up any idea that Linux will ever get anywhere on the desktop. It won't. That takes a topdown approach, the kind that anarchies can't solve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpatrianakos</author><text>Oh well now that you said it the argument is settled. You can't just say OS X has the poorest hardware support ever and not back it up with anything except "go buy some hardware and see what works and what doesn't". Is there maybe a table online that lists these incompatibilities you can link to? Please don't say "do some research" because the onus is on you to prove yourrself right, not on me to prove you right.<p>You also said "even compared to Linux". That's interesting. That statement there gives the impression that you're more interested in defending your own beliefs and/or choices rather than being truly interested in explaining to us what OS has objectively terrible hardware support. "even compared to Linux" sounds like something an apologist would say. Then when you added in the "think different" line you made it seem even more like your comment was based off some kind of blind loyalty to Linux rather than loyalty to facts.<p>Me? I've used Mac, a handful of Linux distros, and Windows for a long time. I don't know which has the best or worse hardware support but I do know when someone says something based on what camp they're in rather than what the facts are.</text></comment> | <story><title>What killed the Linux desktop</title><url>http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diminish</author><text>To stress out again; OS/X has the poorest hardware support for 3rd parties; even compared to Linux. Just "think different" and buy some hardware and you ll see what I mean..</text></item><item><author>wheels</author><text>&#62; <i>I have two monitors on my Linux desktop. A month ago full screen on video stopped working. [...] In this regard, both Windows and OSX just work.</i><p>Just because it's never happened to <i>you</i> on OS X or Windows doesn't mean it doesn't happen. OS X 10.6.7 broke the output on my 13" Macbook for <i>either</i> of the two external displays I own. <i>Both</i> worked fine previously, when booted from the install CDs, <i>or</i> from Linux on the same machine.<p>Plugging in my Firewire audio interface on the same machine spun the CPU up to 100% and kept it pegged there. A lot of good having a nice mic pre-amp does when you get a high pitched fan whir added gratis to all of your recordings.<p>It's silly to pretend that Mac is somehow perfect in these matters. In my experience it's only been marginally better than Linux, if at all. And with Linux you have some hope of finding a solution, whereas for OS X you're pretty much hosed.</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>This is the money quote:<p>&#62; The second dimension to the problem is that no two Linux distributions agreed on which core components the system should use.<p>Linux on the desktop suffered from a lack of coherent, strategic vision, consistency and <i>philosophy</i>. Every engineer I know likes to do things a particular way. They also have a distorted view on the level of customization that people want and need.<p>I like OSX. Out of the box it's fine. That's what I want. I don't want to dick around with Windows managers or the like. Some do and that's fine but almost no one really does.<p>Whereas Windows and OSX can (and do) dictate a topdown vision for the desktop experience, Linux can't do this. Or maybe there's been no one with the drive, conviction and gravitas to pull it off? Who knows? Whatever the case, this really matters for a desktop experience.<p>I have two monitors on my Linux desktop. A month ago full screen on video stopped working. Or I guess I should say it moved to the center of the two screens so is unusable. I have no idea why. It could be an update gone awry. It could be corp-specific modifications. It could be anything. But the point is: <i>I don't care what the problem is, I just want it to work</i>. In this regard, both Windows and OSX just work. In many others too.<p>I can't describe to you how much torture it always seems to be to get anything desktop-related to work on Linux. I loathe it with a passion. I've long since given up any idea that Linux will ever get anywhere on the desktop. It won't. That takes a topdown approach, the kind that anarchies can't solve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wsc981</author><text>Printer drivers seem fine. Scanner drivers seem fine. USB mouses and keyboards work fine. Most Apple products can't really be expanded in many other ways.<p>I'd say the hardware support is fine for what little customisability Apple allows on the hardware that they sell. Perhaps the Mac Pro might have some issues with internal cards (I honestly wouldn't know ...), but those devices are not affordable for 99% of the people.</text></comment> |
38,320,739 | 38,318,803 | 1 | 2 | 38,316,846 | train | <story><title>Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0</title><url>https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/sixteen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fluorescence</author><text>With a bit of fiddling, it can be quite elegant:<p>- dark theme and switch the icon theme to monstre<p>- remove toolbar buttons you don&#x27;t use like help&#x2F;donate&#x2F;news etc. so that it&#x27;s quite minimal and streamlined<p>- edit the ebook reader css to add some padding &#x2F; line-spacing to fit your taste and use a font like Libre Baskerville<p>- no splash-screen<p>The preference pages remain a bit of a headache to navigate but it&#x27;s not like you are fiddling with those too often and importantly, it does have plentiful configuration to do what you want.<p>And if you run into a problem, you&#x27;ll probably get a response from Kovid faster than any company. Overall, thank you Kovid for years of hard work!</text></item><item><author>ivolimmen</author><text>I use calibre as well and it&#x27;s excellent. The only thing I think should have some attention is the awful interface.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbowyer</author><text>Thank you! That looks so much better withh these changes. I couldn&#x27;t work out how to do this one though:<p>&gt; - edit the ebook reader css to add some padding &#x2F; line-spacing to fit your taste and use a font like Libre Baskerville<p>Where&#x2F;how do I find those options? I found other CSS in the Preference pages, but not the ebook reader css.</text></comment> | <story><title>Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0</title><url>https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/sixteen</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fluorescence</author><text>With a bit of fiddling, it can be quite elegant:<p>- dark theme and switch the icon theme to monstre<p>- remove toolbar buttons you don&#x27;t use like help&#x2F;donate&#x2F;news etc. so that it&#x27;s quite minimal and streamlined<p>- edit the ebook reader css to add some padding &#x2F; line-spacing to fit your taste and use a font like Libre Baskerville<p>- no splash-screen<p>The preference pages remain a bit of a headache to navigate but it&#x27;s not like you are fiddling with those too often and importantly, it does have plentiful configuration to do what you want.<p>And if you run into a problem, you&#x27;ll probably get a response from Kovid faster than any company. Overall, thank you Kovid for years of hard work!</text></item><item><author>ivolimmen</author><text>I use calibre as well and it&#x27;s excellent. The only thing I think should have some attention is the awful interface.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walteweiss</author><text>Would love to see that upstream!</text></comment> |
33,056,333 | 33,054,009 | 1 | 3 | 33,037,463 | train | <story><title>Great Works in Programming Languages (2004)</title><url>https://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ebcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hackandthink</author><text>The most influential paper (Bob Harper):<p>Per Martin-Löf: Constructive Mathematics and Computer Programming<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.tufts.edu&#x2F;~nr&#x2F;cs257&#x2F;archive&#x2F;per-martin-lof&#x2F;constructive-math.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.tufts.edu&#x2F;~nr&#x2F;cs257&#x2F;archive&#x2F;per-martin-lof&#x2F;co...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Great Works in Programming Languages (2004)</title><url>https://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ebcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>okasaki</author><text>The weird part about programming is that it&#x27;s possible to never attend a course, read a book (or especially an academic paper), and still be a very productive programmer.</text></comment> |
19,609,286 | 19,609,322 | 1 | 2 | 19,607,232 | train | <story><title>Fortnite and the Good Life</title><url>https://tinyletter.com/lmsacasas/letters/the-convivial-society-no-15-fortnite-and-the-good-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dna113</author><text>As someone who spent much their teens logged into World of Warcraft, I wish people would be a bit more open minded about this.<p>Someone like Prince Harry saying that Fortnite is a waste of time, is seriously damaging to the image someone might have of themselves playing it. I doubt Prince Harry has got the first clue, and his opinion of it being a waste of time is totally subjective.<p>It took me probably a decade until I realized that the large chunk of my teens I spent logged in to World of Warcraft were not a blemish on my life. The game had so much depth, it was incredibly challenging, and the social aspect was a huge part of it. My family and our societies negative view of the game encouraged a negative view of myself, seeing as I enjoyed it so much.<p>Of course you should encourage variety, but let your kid play the fuckin game!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brightball</author><text>Having spent a ton of my teens playing online games, I agree with you to a point.<p>It’s also a little dismissive to assume that this is just like every other game. There are so many psychological tricks going on to add a “feeder pellet” aspect to some games today that they are truly designed to be addictive. Games with in app purchases or ads, are usually built for it. Games that have timed reward systems to incentivize you to keep coming back at that same time every day are also part of it. You see these systems with most of the “free” games on touch screens and as a parent I can tell you that my children are significantly different playing them vs playing any other game with their friends (even online). It’s a noticeable enough and shocking enough behavioral change that you have to remove it.<p>When not having access to a game for a certain period of time creates anger or tears, it’s no longer just a game.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fortnite and the Good Life</title><url>https://tinyletter.com/lmsacasas/letters/the-convivial-society-no-15-fortnite-and-the-good-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dna113</author><text>As someone who spent much their teens logged into World of Warcraft, I wish people would be a bit more open minded about this.<p>Someone like Prince Harry saying that Fortnite is a waste of time, is seriously damaging to the image someone might have of themselves playing it. I doubt Prince Harry has got the first clue, and his opinion of it being a waste of time is totally subjective.<p>It took me probably a decade until I realized that the large chunk of my teens I spent logged in to World of Warcraft were not a blemish on my life. The game had so much depth, it was incredibly challenging, and the social aspect was a huge part of it. My family and our societies negative view of the game encouraged a negative view of myself, seeing as I enjoyed it so much.<p>Of course you should encourage variety, but let your kid play the fuckin game!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UnpossibleJim</author><text>Am I the only one who feels like this is another echo of moral panic of the great Dungeons &amp; Dragons scare of the mid eighties, which then morphed into the WoW scare of the early 2000&#x27;s, which has now morphed into the Fortnite scare of 2019? It seems like every 20ish years there is a new and terrible game for parents, media and establishment to find and reach perfect harmony about that coalesces into a cry of &quot;What about the children?!&quot; all the way t Capital Hill and beyond. Ugh.</text></comment> |
11,915,401 | 11,914,238 | 1 | 2 | 11,909,801 | train | <story><title>Roald Dahl – the storyteller as benevolent sadist (2010)</title><url>http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/67962/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>retrogradeorbit</author><text>I can&#x27;t recommend enough for kids who grew up reading Dahl like I did, who are now adults, to read his adult short story collections. &quot;The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar&quot;, &quot;Switch Bitch&quot; and &quot;Kiss Kiss&quot; are all excellent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>junto</author><text>Henry Sugar is a wonderful story. I spent ages staring into candles as a kid hoping that would work!</text></comment> | <story><title>Roald Dahl – the storyteller as benevolent sadist (2010)</title><url>http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/67962/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>retrogradeorbit</author><text>I can&#x27;t recommend enough for kids who grew up reading Dahl like I did, who are now adults, to read his adult short story collections. &quot;The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar&quot;, &quot;Switch Bitch&quot; and &quot;Kiss Kiss&quot; are all excellent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_mhr_</author><text>I had no idea The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar was for adults. I read that when I was only eight or so after reading other Dahl books like Matilda and The Witches. I loved the premise.</text></comment> |
36,266,351 | 36,266,551 | 1 | 3 | 36,262,821 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?</title><text>The current events of Reddit and Stack Exchange amplifying a thought that communities and users&#x27; contributions should be decentralized. The current structure of online communication poses a major risk.<p>1. There has to be a movement at both protocol and community-level to bring a Usenet like forum for general consumption. Different decetralized subgroups hosting and replicating the communities for others.<p>2. The model needs to be rethought to ensure that the thoughts and knowledge of communities and users belong to them.<p>3. These forums should encourage less anonymity and more persistent communication.<p>4. Trustworthy individuals should run these forums, chosen by the community. Individual groups, academia, organizations running the communities but easily redistributed across to people who want it. This was usenet.<p>Failure to address these issues allows mega companies to exploit data and control access against users&#x27; wishes.<p>Taking action is crucial to prevent unfavorable outcomes and hold ourselves accountable.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>myself248</author><text>The costs of transporting Usenet weren&#x27;t zero, they were simply borne by your ISP because it was understood as a necessary part of internet access.<p>I think that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re missing here. If we simply paid for this stuff as part of our regular internet bill again, we could solve a lot of the &quot;nothing works for free&quot; problems.</text></item><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>Usenet thrived in a time where most of us trusted each other, traffic was an order of magnitude lighter, trolls were few, spam was unheard of, and moderation - if any - was cheap and painless.<p>I honestly believe those times are past us. And I say that as someone that loved Usenet back in the day.<p>What you&#x27;re asking for, for <i>free</i>, isn&#x27;t possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigbillheck</author><text>&gt; The costs of transporting Usenet weren&#x27;t zero<p>Famously so. &quot;This message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?</title><text>The current events of Reddit and Stack Exchange amplifying a thought that communities and users&#x27; contributions should be decentralized. The current structure of online communication poses a major risk.<p>1. There has to be a movement at both protocol and community-level to bring a Usenet like forum for general consumption. Different decetralized subgroups hosting and replicating the communities for others.<p>2. The model needs to be rethought to ensure that the thoughts and knowledge of communities and users belong to them.<p>3. These forums should encourage less anonymity and more persistent communication.<p>4. Trustworthy individuals should run these forums, chosen by the community. Individual groups, academia, organizations running the communities but easily redistributed across to people who want it. This was usenet.<p>Failure to address these issues allows mega companies to exploit data and control access against users&#x27; wishes.<p>Taking action is crucial to prevent unfavorable outcomes and hold ourselves accountable.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>myself248</author><text>The costs of transporting Usenet weren&#x27;t zero, they were simply borne by your ISP because it was understood as a necessary part of internet access.<p>I think that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re missing here. If we simply paid for this stuff as part of our regular internet bill again, we could solve a lot of the &quot;nothing works for free&quot; problems.</text></item><item><author>joezydeco</author><text>Usenet thrived in a time where most of us trusted each other, traffic was an order of magnitude lighter, trolls were few, spam was unheard of, and moderation - if any - was cheap and painless.<p>I honestly believe those times are past us. And I say that as someone that loved Usenet back in the day.<p>What you&#x27;re asking for, for <i>free</i>, isn&#x27;t possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gorjusborg</author><text>So what you&#x27;re saying is that we should bring back AOL :)</text></comment> |
33,131,142 | 33,130,982 | 1 | 3 | 33,130,641 | train | <story><title>The Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin</title><url>https://serhack.me/articles/story-behind-alternative-genesis-block-bitcoin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Smaug123</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if the author is a programmer as such, but there are a few inferences which seem unjustified to me.<p>For example,<p>&gt; However, it is possible to reveal a very important detail about Satoshi Nakamoto’s personality. The fact that Satoshi chose the genesis block with a certain timestamp (which included the sentence in the UK Times article) makes one realize how much preparation and meticulousness was behind Satoshi’s identity.<p>This is immediately following a code snippet in which it is clear that <i>some</i> value must be hard-coded; it would be the work of seconds to think up a value that was funny or meaningful. I don&#x27;t see why this indicates any preparation or meticulousness.<p>Another example:<p>&gt; The other comment that arouses curiosity is this one: &#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F; is this all we want to do if there&#x27;s a file error like this?<p>&gt; Who was Satoshi referring to when speaking in the plural?<p>Isn&#x27;t this completely normal in programming? I only ever use the plural first person in code unless I&#x27;m specifically referring to myself as a human (in the same way that academic writing uses the plural).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>probably_wrong</author><text>&gt; <i>Isn&#x27;t this completely normal in programming?</i><p>It&#x27;s common in academic writing too. And many of those academics end up writing code too.<p>From Knut&#x27;s course [1] on mathematical writing:<p>&gt; <i>But this use of “we” should be used in contexts where it means “you and me together”, not a formal equivalent of “I”. Think of a dialog between author and reader. In most technical writing, “I” should be avoided, unless the author’s persona is relevant.</i><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jmlr.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;reviewing-papers&#x2F;knuth_mathematical_writing.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jmlr.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;reviewing-papers&#x2F;knuth_mathematic...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin</title><url>https://serhack.me/articles/story-behind-alternative-genesis-block-bitcoin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Smaug123</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if the author is a programmer as such, but there are a few inferences which seem unjustified to me.<p>For example,<p>&gt; However, it is possible to reveal a very important detail about Satoshi Nakamoto’s personality. The fact that Satoshi chose the genesis block with a certain timestamp (which included the sentence in the UK Times article) makes one realize how much preparation and meticulousness was behind Satoshi’s identity.<p>This is immediately following a code snippet in which it is clear that <i>some</i> value must be hard-coded; it would be the work of seconds to think up a value that was funny or meaningful. I don&#x27;t see why this indicates any preparation or meticulousness.<p>Another example:<p>&gt; The other comment that arouses curiosity is this one: &#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F; is this all we want to do if there&#x27;s a file error like this?<p>&gt; Who was Satoshi referring to when speaking in the plural?<p>Isn&#x27;t this completely normal in programming? I only ever use the plural first person in code unless I&#x27;m specifically referring to myself as a human (in the same way that academic writing uses the plural).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rajman187</author><text>As a funny aside, the author of one of the early works on wavelets [1] employed the first person plural pronoun with a footnote on the first page defining it as the “Royal we”<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arc.aiaa.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.2514&#x2F;6.1994-2280" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arc.aiaa.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.2514&#x2F;6.1994-2280</a></text></comment> |
22,340,832 | 22,340,793 | 1 | 3 | 22,339,596 | train | <story><title>A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world's population (2017)</title><url>https://www.cntraveler.com/story/more-than-half-the-worlds-population-lives-inside-this-circle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speedgoose</author><text>2500 miles ≈ 4000 km.<p>Guys, switch to metric units already. Thank you.<p>The rest of the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aldanor</author><text>While I live in Europe and I do agree, imagine how nice would it be if the entire world used the duodecimal system today for everything, i.e. 100 was preceded by BB (143). Greeks and Shumers were smart guys - 12 has 4 divisors (excluding itself and 1) while 10 has only 2. Same story with 100 and 144, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world's population (2017)</title><url>https://www.cntraveler.com/story/more-than-half-the-worlds-population-lives-inside-this-circle</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speedgoose</author><text>2500 miles ≈ 4000 km.<p>Guys, switch to metric units already. Thank you.<p>The rest of the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VvR-Ox</author><text>YMMD :D<p>I wonder when the day will come that humanity overcomes these issues without the need to convert values between several systems all the time.</text></comment> |
24,838,681 | 24,837,416 | 1 | 3 | 24,834,435 | train | <story><title>Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B</title><url>https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-to-acquire-intel-nand-memory-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathattack</author><text>It’s natural for large tech companies to enter the harvesting business when they can’t innovate anymore. Look at IBM. They just can’t innovate, so they do all kinds of financial engineering on the back of a robust customer audit program.<p>Eventually that money gets recycled into funding earlier stage companies. (If a company buys back stock, the old investors have to put the money somewhere)</text></item><item><author>bnt</author><text>The real shitshow starts when the CFO becomes the CEO (as is usually the case), so Intel is pretty much dead as is US tech innovation on this scale (until VCs do what China does and start pouring money into hard stuff, not just fluffy software).</text></item><item><author>lend000</author><text>Intel&#x27;s NAND flash was overshadowed by their Optane (not included in the sale) and lagging behind Hynix and Samsung, so I guess this isn&#x27;t such a bad move. The cynical take is that the CFO running Intel is attempting a bunch of standard corporate restructuring strategies to delay the effects of their slowing technical innovation. It is definitely concerning from a US technical superiority standpoint to consider that this same CFO may soon try to sell off some of their more competitive fabs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StillBored</author><text>Its not that large companies can&#x27;t innovate (re: IBM) its that they can&#x27;t cannibalize their high margin businesses on risky strategies until its too late.<p>This happens over and over, intel wasn&#x27;t willing to bet on low margin phone SoC&#x27;s at the expensive of their laptop&#x2F;server business. Now those low margin SoC providers are selling a billion chips a quarter and financing a manufacturing behemoth that intel can&#x27;t keep up with. Same thing with IBM, porting zos&#x2F;ztpf&#x2F;aix&#x2F;i5&#x2F;etc to x86 and making servers wasn&#x27;t something they could justify, so they spun the business off to lenovo which grew it 5x, and now IBM is stuck with hardware they can&#x27;t get enough volume on in a shrinking (but high margin!) business.<p>If they were selling POWER10 blue pi&#x27;s for $50 they might have a chance in the edge space or IoT, but that might cannibalize the business elsewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B</title><url>https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-to-acquire-intel-nand-memory-business/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mathattack</author><text>It’s natural for large tech companies to enter the harvesting business when they can’t innovate anymore. Look at IBM. They just can’t innovate, so they do all kinds of financial engineering on the back of a robust customer audit program.<p>Eventually that money gets recycled into funding earlier stage companies. (If a company buys back stock, the old investors have to put the money somewhere)</text></item><item><author>bnt</author><text>The real shitshow starts when the CFO becomes the CEO (as is usually the case), so Intel is pretty much dead as is US tech innovation on this scale (until VCs do what China does and start pouring money into hard stuff, not just fluffy software).</text></item><item><author>lend000</author><text>Intel&#x27;s NAND flash was overshadowed by their Optane (not included in the sale) and lagging behind Hynix and Samsung, so I guess this isn&#x27;t such a bad move. The cynical take is that the CFO running Intel is attempting a bunch of standard corporate restructuring strategies to delay the effects of their slowing technical innovation. It is definitely concerning from a US technical superiority standpoint to consider that this same CFO may soon try to sell off some of their more competitive fabs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>IBM&#x27;s chips seem pretty innovative to me. A large amount of IBM&#x27;s software is stagnant though.<p>OpenCAPI, SMT4... and POWER10 has those GDDR modules coming for ~1000GBps memory bandwidths.</text></comment> |
38,129,974 | 38,129,519 | 1 | 3 | 38,127,313 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare outage – 24 hours now</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112515</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sph</author><text>Looking forward to a more decentralised global Internet, with packets being routed through alternative paths, so outages like these become a non-event.<p>I understand we do not have the technology for that just yet, and DevOps able to configure TLS terminators on their own are worth their weight in gold.<p>Hard to imagine how the Internet could ever exist without Cloudflare.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare outage – 24 hours now</title><url>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112515</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Voloskaya</author><text>I never experienced a longer than 12 hours outage with any service provider over my ~13 years career (maybe I was lucky). But thanks to Cloudflare I have been able to enjoy not just one, but two ~24h outages in not even a month!<p>Jokes aside, it must be extremely stressful to be a SRE at CF recently. But something is clearly wrong over there. We have been burned so bad there is no chance we will touch CF ever again in the next decade once our migration off of it is complete.</text></comment> |
13,880,524 | 13,878,477 | 1 | 2 | 13,877,844 | train | <story><title>Genetic variant accelerates normal brain aging in older people by up to 12 years</title><url>http://neurosciencenews.com/genetics-brain-aging-6250</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csl</author><text>Note: The following is <i>complete</i> speculation and probably <i>bullshit</i>. Please correct me!<p>I can&#x27;t find the actual paper for this one. But reading <i>an older</i> study [0], also about TMEM106B, it seems they had already established an association between three SNPs and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) risk.<p>However, the surprise discovery back then seemed to be the large discrepancy between the controls and the subgroup FTLD-GNR (those with FTLD and GNR mutations) for TT rs6966915 and CC rs1990622. See table 2 in [0], and look at the odds ratios. They are remarkably low for TT&#x2F;CC, which invites further study that may lead to understand how to protect against FTLD (by understanding possible protective mechanisms, even therapies and so on).<p>As for listing out those odds ratios for your 23andMe genome, you can do it with arv [1]. For table 1 in the study (unless you know you have GNR mutations):<p><pre><code> import arv
genome = arv.load(&quot;genome.txt&quot;)
rsid = &quot;rs6966915&quot;
gt = genome.get_snp(rsid).genotype # plus orientation
print(&quot;%s %s&quot; % (rsid, arv.unphased_match(gt, {
&quot;CC&quot;: &quot;CC - OR 0.94&quot;,
&quot;CT&quot;: &quot;CT - OR 1.04&quot;,
&quot;TT&quot;: &quot;TT - OR 0.74&quot;})))
rsid = &quot;rs1990622&quot;
gt = ~genome.get_snp(rsid).genotype # minus orientation
print(&quot;%s %s&quot; % (rsid, arv.unphased_match(gt, {
&quot;TT&quot;: &quot;TT - OR 0.93&quot;,
&quot;CT&quot;: &quot;CT - OR 1.04&quot;,
&quot;CC&quot;: &quot;CC - OR 0.74&quot;})))
</code></pre>
Again, did I say that I&#x27;m a complete noob? Be very careful drawing conclusions from the program (or believing I know what I&#x27;m talking about --- I don&#x27;t!)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3034409&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3034409&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cslarsen&#x2F;arv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cslarsen&#x2F;arv</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Genetic variant accelerates normal brain aging in older people by up to 12 years</title><url>http://neurosciencenews.com/genetics-brain-aging-6250</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>calebm</author><text>Looks like the main SNP in consideration is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snpedia.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Rs1990622" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snpedia.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Rs1990622</a>. Anyone see the particular allele value that increases risk? My guess (looking at some genetic family data) is if you having an &quot;A&quot; instead of a &quot;G&quot; is the mutation - can anyone confirm?</text></comment> |
18,571,213 | 18,570,585 | 1 | 3 | 18,570,355 | train | <story><title>Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46363869</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>garenp</author><text>About 3 years ago (late 2015 now) I was quite overweight, had a knee injury that limited my mobility (stairs mostly) and had a fasting glucose and post-meal readings that indicated I was nearly pre-diabetic (T2).<p>So, I cut out out all sugary drinks, refined carbs, late night eating (!!) and tried various intermittent fasting &#x2F; time restricted feeding techniques (5:2, alternate day, one-meal-a-day) and after about 3.5 months my glucose readings returned to the &quot;normal&quot; range. (Which is WAY more tolerable than sticking to a low-calorie diet every single day IME. I still had pizza and cheeseburgers on occasion, just no soda, fries, &quot;junk&quot; etc.)<p>After around 6-7 months I&#x27;d lost 40+lbs, my knee stopped bothering me and no longer had to entertain the idea of fixing it with surgery. I&#x27;m now down well over 60+lbs without having put in hardly any effort to exercise (occasional walking) - pretty stunning to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46363869</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hirundo</author><text>I think that this is effective because it reduces the carbohydrate load. Protein and fat consumption also increase insulin response but not nearly as much. Type 2 diabetics could get most of the blood sugar reducing benefit of this by just removing&#x2F;replacing the carbs. That has been my N=1 experience with both fasting and carb restriction.</text></comment> |
7,750,270 | 7,750,291 | 1 | 2 | 7,750,036 | train | <story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpaavola</author><text>I don&#x27;t get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven&#x27;t paid attention).<p>Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.<p>Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers are not paying enough, raise the prices.<p>Why in the earth there is a need for slow&#x2F;fast lanes and data caps?<p>I&#x27;m four years old. So please keep that in mind when explaing this to me. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; Why in the earth there is a need for slow&#x2F;fast lanes<p>Because once the middleman has established himself as a monopoly and everybody <i>has</i> to go through him with no alternative, he can make bank by having everybody pay more.<p>&gt; and data caps?<p>Lets the ISP oversubscribe even more and extract even more money out of the system without providing any additional value whatsoever.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/15/fcc-approves-plan-to-allow-for-paid-priority-on-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hpaavola</author><text>I don&#x27;t get this whole net neautrality discussion that is going on in US (and maybe somewhere else, just haven&#x27;t paid attention).<p>Consumers pay based on speed of their connection. If ISP feels like the consumers are not paying enough, raise the prices.<p>Service providers (not ISPs, but the ones who run servers that consumers connect to) pay based on speed of their connection. If the ISP feels like service providers are not paying enough, raise the prices.<p>Why in the earth there is a need for slow&#x2F;fast lanes and data caps?<p>I&#x27;m four years old. So please keep that in mind when explaing this to me. :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adamio</author><text>Comcast: Video streaming services must pay 40x the base cost, or suffer from a data cap.<p>Amazon: OK, we&#x27;ll sign a 4 year contract for 30x the base cost.<p>Comcast: Great<p>Year 5 comes around, Amazon wants a discount. Comcast refuses. Comcast then blocks all Amazon IP Address traffic until they reach a deal.<p>Comcast: Customers, you cannot access Amazon video on our service, but here&#x27;s a $5 coupon to our own video on demand service</text></comment> |
20,317,779 | 20,317,506 | 1 | 2 | 20,314,036 | train | <story><title>PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services</title><url>https://github.com/nickspaargaren/pihole-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geokon</author><text>The problem is that JS Fonts and other CDNed stuff won&#x27;t load and websites will hang or work weird - particularly Stackoverflow. Bc it&#x27;s all over https you can&#x27;t MITM it and inject your own with OpenWRT&#x2F;piholes. Decentraleyes (a Firefox browser extension) fixes some of this, but not all. If anyone has any additional suggestions, please let me know (it makes life bearable in China without a VPN)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maccard</author><text>Are there any extensions that modify external resources and point them towards a &quot;trusted&quot; cdn? e.g. requesting
&lt;script src=&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajax.googleapis.com&#x2F;ajax&#x2F;libs&#x2F;jquery&#x2F;3.4.1&#x2F;jquery.min.js&quot;&gt;&lt;&#x2F;script&gt;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajax.googleapis.com&#x2F;ajax&#x2F;libs&#x2F;jquery&#x2F;3.4.1&#x2F;jquery.mi...</a><p>Would automatically remap to<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdnjs.cloudflare.com&#x2F;ajax&#x2F;libs&#x2F;jquery&#x2F;3.4.1&#x2F;jquery.min.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdnjs.cloudflare.com&#x2F;ajax&#x2F;libs&#x2F;jquery&#x2F;3.4.1&#x2F;jquery.m...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services</title><url>https://github.com/nickspaargaren/pihole-google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geokon</author><text>The problem is that JS Fonts and other CDNed stuff won&#x27;t load and websites will hang or work weird - particularly Stackoverflow. Bc it&#x27;s all over https you can&#x27;t MITM it and inject your own with OpenWRT&#x2F;piholes. Decentraleyes (a Firefox browser extension) fixes some of this, but not all. If anyone has any additional suggestions, please let me know (it makes life bearable in China without a VPN)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Remed</author><text>You can create a self-signed certificate for Google domains and trust it on your machines. Then you can MITM. This won&#x27;t work well if you want to do it at a scale, with a number of 3rd party users, but if the only user is you or your family, it should do the trick.</text></comment> |
6,630,998 | 6,631,043 | 1 | 2 | 6,630,566 | train | <story><title>Trial week: Our hiring secret</title><url>http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/akzj/trial-week-our-hiring-secret</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The point, I think, is that by the time you get to &quot;trial week&quot; phase you are pretty much set on joining, and it&#x27;s just to avoid complete disasters. So the odds of you burning through two of these is incredibly low, and it&#x27;s worth it anyway, since if you actually ended up not getting through trial week you are avoiding what could have been several years of a dysfunctional work environment, not to mention all the other opportunity costs of moving, etc.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>I tell people that the worst case scenario is that they use a week of vacation, but because of the extra pay they can take a nicer vacation later on.</i><p>I don&#x27;t know about you guys, but if you&#x27;re only getting 2 or 3 weeks of vacation a year, I think it&#x27;s pretty insane to waste up to <i>half</i> of it on testing out a job. You need your vacation days for, you know, <i>vacation</i>, for your long-term mental sanity.<p>For a candidate who&#x27;s already employed, that comes across as a completely unreasonable request. I mean, imagine if you interviewed at <i>two</i> companies like this -- you get no vacation that year! Ugh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>If that&#x27;s true, the companies running &quot;trial weeks&quot; and other temp-to-perm arrangements should be able to quote the retention rate they have from these programs. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to hear that they hover around 95%, or in some cases even 100%.<p>But then, I&#x27;d respond to that by asking what temp-to-perm is actually buying you, in exchange for the expense of filtering your candidate pool down to people willing to do you a favor in the hottest seller&#x27;s market for talent in 10 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trial week: Our hiring secret</title><url>http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/akzj/trial-week-our-hiring-secret</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gfodor</author><text>The point, I think, is that by the time you get to &quot;trial week&quot; phase you are pretty much set on joining, and it&#x27;s just to avoid complete disasters. So the odds of you burning through two of these is incredibly low, and it&#x27;s worth it anyway, since if you actually ended up not getting through trial week you are avoiding what could have been several years of a dysfunctional work environment, not to mention all the other opportunity costs of moving, etc.</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>I tell people that the worst case scenario is that they use a week of vacation, but because of the extra pay they can take a nicer vacation later on.</i><p>I don&#x27;t know about you guys, but if you&#x27;re only getting 2 or 3 weeks of vacation a year, I think it&#x27;s pretty insane to waste up to <i>half</i> of it on testing out a job. You need your vacation days for, you know, <i>vacation</i>, for your long-term mental sanity.<p>For a candidate who&#x27;s already employed, that comes across as a completely unreasonable request. I mean, imagine if you interviewed at <i>two</i> companies like this -- you get no vacation that year! Ugh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austinl</author><text>&quot;Our hire rate out of trial week is around 66%, which feels like the right level.&quot;<p>66% seems quite low for that kind of arrangement, enough to be discouraged from applying in the first place unless you&#x27;re currently jobless. I can definitely understand the 90-100% temp-permanent programs though.</text></comment> |
36,330,769 | 36,324,644 | 1 | 3 | 36,322,395 | train | <story><title>A 5.7 Terapixel Mosaic of the Surface of Mars</title><url>https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>q87b</author><text>It&#x27;s quite amazing and simultaneously ridiculous that we have a public 3D model of a distant planet at 5 meters resolution while the best available free and public models of Earth are at 30 meters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aannex</author><text>We actually don&#x27;t have a 5 meter global elevation for Mars. The imagery is 5 mpp but the elevation data used in the links is MOLA and is closer to 500 meters per pixel (with another merged product at 200 mpp). It is almost more weird&#x2F;cool that we have hundreds (thousands?) of 1 mpp elevation models for small areas of Mars from HiRISE (available for free from the PDS) and larger swaths at ~20 meters per pixel from CTX imagery used in this global mosaic, but still not close to a global product.<p>various sources:
1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astrogeology.usgs.gov&#x2F;search&#x2F;details&#x2F;Mars&#x2F;GlobalSurveyor&#x2F;MOLA&#x2F;Mars_MGS_MOLA_DEM_mosaic_global_463m" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astrogeology.usgs.gov&#x2F;search&#x2F;details&#x2F;Mars&#x2F;GlobalSurv...</a>
2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astrogeology.usgs.gov&#x2F;search&#x2F;map&#x2F;Mars&#x2F;Topography&#x2F;HRSC_MOLA_Blend&#x2F;Mars_HRSC_MOLA_BlendDEM_Global_200mp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;astrogeology.usgs.gov&#x2F;search&#x2F;map&#x2F;Mars&#x2F;Topography&#x2F;HRS...</a>
3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uahirise.org&#x2F;dtm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uahirise.org&#x2F;dtm&#x2F;</a>
4. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stac.astrogeology.usgs.gov&#x2F;docs&#x2F;data&#x2F;mars&#x2F;ctxdtms&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stac.astrogeology.usgs.gov&#x2F;docs&#x2F;data&#x2F;mars&#x2F;ctxdtms&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A 5.7 Terapixel Mosaic of the Surface of Mars</title><url>https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>q87b</author><text>It&#x27;s quite amazing and simultaneously ridiculous that we have a public 3D model of a distant planet at 5 meters resolution while the best available free and public models of Earth are at 30 meters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YetAnotherNick</author><text>WorldView-3 claims to be 31cm resolution: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldview3.digitalglobe.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldview3.digitalglobe.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
5,866,212 | 5,866,033 | 1 | 3 | 5,865,680 | train | <story><title>Fertile Ground</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2013/06/11/fertile-ground</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmduke</author><text>I don&#x27;t like the idea that four years is a prohibitively long time for a device that I spend hundreds of dollars on.</text></item><item><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>You mean the four year old non-retina iphone 3gs? I think it&#x27;s safe to take that device behind the barn to retire forever. Few tears will be shed.</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>Except for all those not so old iPhones that are stuck on iOS 6 forever.</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>It&#x27;s not fragmentation. Within a year, the vast majority of iOS users will be on iOS 7. It&#x27;s evolution.</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>It seems hypocritical to laud fragmentation when it happens in iOS and decry it in Android. These changes seem similar to the Android differences in gingerbread and post-honeycomb. The resulting effect on developers will be the same. iOS 7 has made it apparent which bloggers are unable or unwilling to be fair in their criticism when it comes to Apple. The mismatched gradients on the new icons are beautiful to them, the wire frame and confusing UI elements are revolutionary, and fragmentation is simply just creating fertile ground for change. Great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghshephard</author><text>The reality of Mobile Device evolution is that four-mobile-phone-years is roughly equivalent to ten-desktop-years or six-laptop-years.<p>And, let&#x27;s be clear - it&#x27;s only a prohibitively long time if you wish to continue to get the new <i>feature release</i> platforms - indeed, it&#x27;s only Today, June 11, 2013, that the original iPhone, released in 2007, is now being obsoleted by Apple [1], a full five years after it was discontinued.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;original-iphone-will-soon-be-obsolete-in-apple-retail-stores&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;original-iphone-will-soo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Fertile Ground</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2013/06/11/fertile-ground</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmduke</author><text>I don&#x27;t like the idea that four years is a prohibitively long time for a device that I spend hundreds of dollars on.</text></item><item><author>forrestthewoods</author><text>You mean the four year old non-retina iphone 3gs? I think it&#x27;s safe to take that device behind the barn to retire forever. Few tears will be shed.</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>Except for all those not so old iPhones that are stuck on iOS 6 forever.</text></item><item><author>chasing</author><text>It&#x27;s not fragmentation. Within a year, the vast majority of iOS users will be on iOS 7. It&#x27;s evolution.</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>It seems hypocritical to laud fragmentation when it happens in iOS and decry it in Android. These changes seem similar to the Android differences in gingerbread and post-honeycomb. The resulting effect on developers will be the same. iOS 7 has made it apparent which bloggers are unable or unwilling to be fair in their criticism when it comes to Apple. The mismatched gradients on the new icons are beautiful to them, the wire frame and confusing UI elements are revolutionary, and fragmentation is simply just creating fertile ground for change. Great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sosuke</author><text>Is there another company that is updating 4 year old phones? Is there an Android phone released with 2.2 that can run 4.2? I think Apple&#x27;s backwards compatibility track record is the best there is, but here&#x27;s to hoping for better!</text></comment> |
16,253,189 | 16,253,162 | 1 | 2 | 16,252,390 | train | <story><title>Intel Warned Chinese Companies of Chip Flaws Before U.S. Government</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-warned-chinese-companies-of-chip-flaws-before-u-s-government-1517157430</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zaxomi</author><text>&gt; It is a “near certainty” Beijing was aware of the conversations between Intel and its Chinese tech partners, because authorities there routinely monitor all such communications, Mr. Williams said.<p>Doesn&#x27;t that mean that it is a “near certainty” that the U.S. Government was aware of it, because authorities (NSA, etc) routinely monitor all such communications?</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Warned Chinese Companies of Chip Flaws Before U.S. Government</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-warned-chinese-companies-of-chip-flaws-before-u-s-government-1517157430</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>The US government is not a PC maker. The goal of the disclosure was to help companies figure out how to patch systems. Why would anyone expect the government to be notified first?</text></comment> |
33,663,399 | 33,663,584 | 1 | 3 | 33,663,191 | train | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/elizabeth-holmes-fraud-trial-prison-sentence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gopled</author><text>It seems odd to me how she&#x27;s being punished so much for defrauding investors, but not for endangering patients with fraudulent blood tests.<p>Is the latter just easier to prosecute because of the paper trail? Or is the law biased more towards punishing financial crimes?</text></comment> | <story><title>Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud</title><url>https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/elizabeth-holmes-fraud-trial-prison-sentence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bena</author><text>&quot;Little has been said about the innovation Elizabeth strived for&quot;<p>What the hell is this quote? &quot;Yeah, she defrauded people and lied to her customers, but guys, she really, really, really wanted it to work&quot;.<p>We might be talking about her striving if she had tried and failed. If she had tried and came close. But, no, that&#x27;s not what happened. She claimed she did something she didn&#x27;t, then took a lot of others&#x27; people money to build a business upon that lie.<p>So, no, we won&#x27;t be talking about her &quot;vision&quot; or whatever.</text></comment> |
34,809,371 | 34,808,822 | 1 | 2 | 34,807,904 | train | <story><title>Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80M ransom demand</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/15/under-no-circumstances-will-we-pay-that-absurd-amount-royal-mail-tells-hackers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>personjerry</author><text>It&#x27;s fucking ridiculous to hit the postal service, providing a practically-free function to a lot of people who really need it, and operating at barely even (in US and Canada too, so I imagine other countries are similar).<p>The ransomers sound like kids, &quot;speculating that the directors personally held 100m of crypto&quot;? What a disgusting amateur job.</text></comment> | <story><title>Royal Mail dismisses ‘absurd’ $80M ransom demand</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/15/under-no-circumstances-will-we-pay-that-absurd-amount-royal-mail-tells-hackers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ukoki</author><text>How is it even legal to pay ransoms? Surely this is transferring money to criminal enterprises. If it is not illegal it needs to be made illegal.</text></comment> |
18,344,263 | 18,344,247 | 1 | 3 | 18,341,993 | train | <story><title>Create your own dysfunctional single-page app</title><url>https://tinnedfruit.com/articles/create-your-own-dysfunctional-single-page-app.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>IMHO the whole advantage of single-page apps is about separating the UI and the data + using the browser as a cross-platform UI toolkit, runtime and deployment engine. The reason for SPAs to exist is that browsers are the only way to deploy an app that runs on every OS, looks pretty, automatically updates in an instant every time you run it and can be discovered and ran by everybody in a single click. Just imagine a world where something like WPF was made a truly free standard with full-featured 100%-compatible open-source implementations available on all the major OSes (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS) from the beginning and packed with efficient support for apps to be ran straight from a URL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boomlinde</author><text>In my experience, SPAs often grow to the point where the client-server boundary ends up being right in the middle of data, not between UI and data. The client-side starts to maintain its own complex state and set of data transformations not immediately concerned with UI given anything less than the perfect API.</text></comment> | <story><title>Create your own dysfunctional single-page app</title><url>https://tinnedfruit.com/articles/create-your-own-dysfunctional-single-page-app.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>IMHO the whole advantage of single-page apps is about separating the UI and the data + using the browser as a cross-platform UI toolkit, runtime and deployment engine. The reason for SPAs to exist is that browsers are the only way to deploy an app that runs on every OS, looks pretty, automatically updates in an instant every time you run it and can be discovered and ran by everybody in a single click. Just imagine a world where something like WPF was made a truly free standard with full-featured 100%-compatible open-source implementations available on all the major OSes (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS) from the beginning and packed with efficient support for apps to be ran straight from a URL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mosselman</author><text>There are cases where a SPA might be a good idea, I think those cases can be counted on one hand. I don’t mean the products, but use cases.<p>I could imagine it would be more complex to build Slack using traditional server-side rendered HTML than building it as an SPA.<p>Nowadays though you see blogs, CRM systems, etc being built as SPAs, which just makes it more complex to work on them.</text></comment> |
21,192,140 | 21,192,353 | 1 | 3 | 21,190,265 | train | <story><title>Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments</title><url>https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IanSanders</author><text>I agree 100% that we should boycott and sanction, however doubt there will be enough people who will, and enough people who care. And I don&#x27;t blame most for not caring, there are more things to worry about than we have time available. Maybe 1% of hearthstone players will see your comment. Similarly, there are other entities which need to be sanctioned, which you and me won&#x27;t find out about as it&#x27;s outside of our areas of interest.<p>Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted &quot;morality authority&quot;, which would process information similar to this and make informed decisions who to boycott, how and when. Less informed would be able to make an impact without having to do research (which not everyone would do equally well)<p>Obviously this authority must operate with complete transparency, so that we could verify its decision process when required.<p>Any hostile actions against it must be treated as a crime against humanity?<p>Somehow it must be immune from corruption. Perhaps some mechanism to revoke user trust in case of wrongdoings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ameister14</author><text>&gt;Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted &quot;morality authority&quot;, which would process information similar to this and make informed decisions who to boycott, how and when. Less informed would be able to make an impact without having to do research (which not everyone would do equally well)<p>You do realize how hilarious that is juxtaposed to the Chinese government, which is literally a &#x27;morality authority,&#x27; right?</text></comment> | <story><title>Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments</title><url>https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23179289/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IanSanders</author><text>I agree 100% that we should boycott and sanction, however doubt there will be enough people who will, and enough people who care. And I don&#x27;t blame most for not caring, there are more things to worry about than we have time available. Maybe 1% of hearthstone players will see your comment. Similarly, there are other entities which need to be sanctioned, which you and me won&#x27;t find out about as it&#x27;s outside of our areas of interest.<p>Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted &quot;morality authority&quot;, which would process information similar to this and make informed decisions who to boycott, how and when. Less informed would be able to make an impact without having to do research (which not everyone would do equally well)<p>Obviously this authority must operate with complete transparency, so that we could verify its decision process when required.<p>Any hostile actions against it must be treated as a crime against humanity?<p>Somehow it must be immune from corruption. Perhaps some mechanism to revoke user trust in case of wrongdoings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it needs to be a moral authority, it can just be an index of well defined problems to lists of the top couple actors responsible for those problems.<p>Such an organization need not say that you should boycott anything (i.e. be a moral authority) but instead can say that IF you think that American companies participating in the Chinese censorship machine regarding Hong Kong is bad THEN boycotting companies X Y and Z would be effective. The morality comes from the users. In order to organize against a common nebulous baddie we need a mapping from nebulous baddies to actionable targets.<p>As much as I hate that everything needs to be a social network these days, this probably needs a social aspect--a place where you can post evidence that you cut the power to Company X&#x27;s headquarters, or whatever, so you can check back occasionally and feel relevant when people attach metadata to your crime.<p>It would have to be careful to avoid being too specific to be liable for the actions of its users, while not being so vague that users can&#x27;t use it to channel their frustration towards actions that actually do harm the entities identified. Alternatively, it could be specific as hell but hard to take down.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m proposing is something like Kickstarter, but for civil unrest.</text></comment> |
14,657,553 | 14,657,647 | 1 | 2 | 14,655,389 | train | <story><title>Increasing Rust’s Reach</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/06/27/Increasing-Rusts-Reach.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wll</author><text>&gt; <i>Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective</i><p>The effort to reach underrepresented demographics seems to stem from last year&#x27;s survey results [0]. Increased diversity could lead to new project-wide perspectives and overall community enrichment, if solely due to life-experience-based heterogeneity.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;State-of-Rust-Survey-2016.html#survey-demographics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;State-of-Rust-Survey-2...</a></text></item><item><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>&gt; But there’s a bit of a bootstrapping problem here: if we want to reach new people, we can’t do it by relying solely on the skills and perspectives of our existing community.<p>Cool, so they are looking to make Rust more useful by involving people with different perspectives.<p>&gt; we would especially love insights from include women (cis &amp; trans), nonbinary folks, people of color<p>Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective
<i>Edit: explained in a comment <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14657507" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14657507</a> by wll</i><p>&gt; non-native English speakers, people who learned programming later in life (older, or only in college, or at a bootcamp as part of a midlife career change), people with disabilities, or people who have different learning styles.<p>Ah yes. This is what I expected to see.<p>I&#x27;m loving what Rust is currently bringing and is going to bring to the world, I want them to be really approachable, and I want it to be used in new ways - but it really reads like they are playing with going the way of Github.<p>EDIT: See earlier edit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>I see it as a way of investigating possible unconscious bias or even hostility towards minorities in the Rust developer community - from easily fixable things such as male-bias in documentation (e.g. examples using male pronouns disproportionately) - to vitriolic sexist and other abuse in chat and forum groups.<p>Fortunately the Rust community isn&#x27;t GamerGate, but if we can eliminate those attitudes sooner, then that&#x27;s in Rust&#x27;s long-term interests.</text></comment> | <story><title>Increasing Rust’s Reach</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/06/27/Increasing-Rusts-Reach.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wll</author><text>&gt; <i>Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective</i><p>The effort to reach underrepresented demographics seems to stem from last year&#x27;s survey results [0]. Increased diversity could lead to new project-wide perspectives and overall community enrichment, if solely due to life-experience-based heterogeneity.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;State-of-Rust-Survey-2016.html#survey-demographics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;30&#x2F;State-of-Rust-Survey-2...</a></text></item><item><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>&gt; But there’s a bit of a bootstrapping problem here: if we want to reach new people, we can’t do it by relying solely on the skills and perspectives of our existing community.<p>Cool, so they are looking to make Rust more useful by involving people with different perspectives.<p>&gt; we would especially love insights from include women (cis &amp; trans), nonbinary folks, people of color<p>Oh. Well this is weird. They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective
<i>Edit: explained in a comment <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14657507" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14657507</a> by wll</i><p>&gt; non-native English speakers, people who learned programming later in life (older, or only in college, or at a bootcamp as part of a midlife career change), people with disabilities, or people who have different learning styles.<p>Ah yes. This is what I expected to see.<p>I&#x27;m loving what Rust is currently bringing and is going to bring to the world, I want them to be really approachable, and I want it to be used in new ways - but it really reads like they are playing with going the way of Github.<p>EDIT: See earlier edit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Normal_gaussian</author><text>Awesome. I see now that this context is two links away on the main page.<p>Its particularly interesting to note that the respondents gave a figure for LGB that falls within most estimates for population percentage (and hence doesn&#x27;t form an underrepresented group here).</text></comment> |
21,052,971 | 21,052,967 | 1 | 3 | 21,049,822 | train | <story><title>Update from Chef</title><url>https://blog.chef.io/2019/09/23/an-important-update-from-chef/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tracker1</author><text>There are plenty of politicians and candidates advocating for abolishing CBP&#x2F;ICE.</text></item><item><author>happytoexplain</author><text>&gt;Police get a lot of hate on HN because of some obviously over-the-top policies that need to be corrected. But we would have major problems without law enforcement<p>This seems like a fantastic leap. I think there are zero or borderline zero instances of calls, <i>even implicitly</i>, for the abolishment of law due to individual horrors.</text></item><item><author>ARandomerDude</author><text>The problem with this is the mob too quickly concludes CBP provides <i>no</i> valuable service to the nation (i.e., service worth contract support) because of a policy I don&#x27;t like. That really is unjustified, I think.<p>The same is true of law enforcement generally. Police get a lot of hate on HN because of some obviously over-the-top policies that need to be corrected. But we would have major problems without law enforcement, including CBP.<p>We should address the issues without taking them to the extremes. This applies pretty broadly in politics these days, sadly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>Calls to abolish ICE are mostly based on the opinion that the current state of its management and culture irreparably harms its ability to lawfully pursue its mission. Agree or not with that opinion, but it&#x27;s not an opinion to cease law enforcement in general.</text></comment> | <story><title>Update from Chef</title><url>https://blog.chef.io/2019/09/23/an-important-update-from-chef/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tracker1</author><text>There are plenty of politicians and candidates advocating for abolishing CBP&#x2F;ICE.</text></item><item><author>happytoexplain</author><text>&gt;Police get a lot of hate on HN because of some obviously over-the-top policies that need to be corrected. But we would have major problems without law enforcement<p>This seems like a fantastic leap. I think there are zero or borderline zero instances of calls, <i>even implicitly</i>, for the abolishment of law due to individual horrors.</text></item><item><author>ARandomerDude</author><text>The problem with this is the mob too quickly concludes CBP provides <i>no</i> valuable service to the nation (i.e., service worth contract support) because of a policy I don&#x27;t like. That really is unjustified, I think.<p>The same is true of law enforcement generally. Police get a lot of hate on HN because of some obviously over-the-top policies that need to be corrected. But we would have major problems without law enforcement, including CBP.<p>We should address the issues without taking them to the extremes. This applies pretty broadly in politics these days, sadly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>ICE, not CBP.<p>And abolishing a particular enforcement agency isn&#x27;t abolishing law. Law around the border didn&#x27;t disappear when INS was dismantled.</text></comment> |
24,601,194 | 24,601,147 | 1 | 2 | 24,600,397 | train | <story><title>Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work</title><url>https://landemy.netlify.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them. For instance, maybe the person is into sci-fi or, for the coffee shop ones, maybe it&#x27;s someone who often goes to coffee shops with friends. I, particularly, like absolute silence. The quieter it is, the more relaxed I get. Is there any scientific explanation as to why some people like white noise whereas other people prefer silence?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>Coming from Germany my belief is that Americans grow with a lot of noise like air conditioning, TVs constantly on and housing walls generally being very thin. So maybe they are used to that and take comfort in it. I personally hate white noise but a it seems a lot of Americans get nervous in absolute silence and look for something to fill in. Whenever I go back to Germany I am always surprised how quiet the houses of my siblings are.<p>Just my non scientific theory.</text></comment> | <story><title>Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work</title><url>https://landemy.netlify.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aflag</author><text>I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them. For instance, maybe the person is into sci-fi or, for the coffee shop ones, maybe it&#x27;s someone who often goes to coffee shops with friends. I, particularly, like absolute silence. The quieter it is, the more relaxed I get. Is there any scientific explanation as to why some people like white noise whereas other people prefer silence?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mywacaday</author><text>I used to work in a noisy open plan office with multiple people around me on the same calls, it was very difficult to ignore 3&#x2F;4 of a conversation so I started listen to a thunderstorm with heavy rain to block the noise&#x2F;voices as white noise did nothing for me. Now that I work from home in an office on my own I still use the thunderstorm when I need to concentrate on one thing for a few hours. I think I&#x27;ve done some version of Pavlov&#x27;s dog on myself.</text></comment> |
40,211,556 | 40,211,561 | 1 | 2 | 40,209,382 | train | <story><title>Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team</title><url>https://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-conducting-more-layoffs-including-entire-supercharger-team/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfannkuchen</author><text>This might ironically be the downside of being less money driven and more principle driven. I think he legitimately thinks “the woke mind virus” is a bigger short term threat to (western) civilization than failing to transition to sustainable energy (Tesla) or failing to become a multi planetary species (SpaceX). If he was primarily financially driven I think he would have kept quiet and just focused on the existing companies, like most people probably would even if they privately held similarly controversial opinions.<p>I’m not saying he is correct by the way, just that it seems like he thinks that and it basically explains his behavior.</text></item><item><author>projectileboy</author><text>Agree 100%. The change in Musk’s public persona combined with his more recent business decisions are alarming. And you may say that his public persona shouldn’t matter, but when he willfully alienates a large portion of his traditional customer base, one wonders what he is even thinking.</text></item><item><author>Topfi</author><text>I&#x27;ve always considered the Supercharger network as their most valuable asset, besides arguably their mindshare, so I cannot see how losing the entire team could be a rational decision in the long term.<p>Also, after work on the Model 2 was canceled and reopened, I can&#x27;t see Daniel Ho and his teams departure as a long-considered choice, to put it mildly.<p>Feels all like emotionally driven decisions...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lenerdenator</author><text>The thing is, he’s never been paid to stay quiet and focus on the money.<p>Musk’s value add is as the celebrity CEO; the Jobsian ideal taken to its natural conclusion. He’s supposed to be this forward-looking visionary and having him at the helm of your company is supposed to make it forward-looking by proxy.<p>This is all well and good until the celebrity CEO fries his brain with Special K and builds a bubble of yes-men around him. Then it becomes a massive liability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team</title><url>https://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-conducting-more-layoffs-including-entire-supercharger-team/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfannkuchen</author><text>This might ironically be the downside of being less money driven and more principle driven. I think he legitimately thinks “the woke mind virus” is a bigger short term threat to (western) civilization than failing to transition to sustainable energy (Tesla) or failing to become a multi planetary species (SpaceX). If he was primarily financially driven I think he would have kept quiet and just focused on the existing companies, like most people probably would even if they privately held similarly controversial opinions.<p>I’m not saying he is correct by the way, just that it seems like he thinks that and it basically explains his behavior.</text></item><item><author>projectileboy</author><text>Agree 100%. The change in Musk’s public persona combined with his more recent business decisions are alarming. And you may say that his public persona shouldn’t matter, but when he willfully alienates a large portion of his traditional customer base, one wonders what he is even thinking.</text></item><item><author>Topfi</author><text>I&#x27;ve always considered the Supercharger network as their most valuable asset, besides arguably their mindshare, so I cannot see how losing the entire team could be a rational decision in the long term.<p>Also, after work on the Model 2 was canceled and reopened, I can&#x27;t see Daniel Ho and his teams departure as a long-considered choice, to put it mildly.<p>Feels all like emotionally driven decisions...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vundercind</author><text>A lot of it’s explained by drugs, incredible impulsivity, some magical thinking, and remarkably thin skin, plus (I think the rest are in plain evidence—this gets speculative) maybe some discontent over his personal life and especially his kids.</text></comment> |
22,067,622 | 22,066,848 | 1 | 2 | 22,065,523 | train | <story><title>Mistakes were made: ERP screwups</title><url>https://tedium.co/2020/01/14/sap-enterprise-vendors-mistakes-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wayoutthere</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever heard of an ERP implementation that <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> an absolute clusterfuck. My impression is that while most folks from the integrators know their segment of the product pretty well, they don&#x27;t have deep technical skills in a general sense or know much about other modules of the product. Also that the salespeople know almost nothing about the product and promise that it can do things it cannot. The customer eventually figures this out and ends up ripping out and re-implement tools from other vendors.<p>It&#x27;s a common joke for senior technology leaders at industrial companies to ask eachother &quot;so what was the first ERP implementation you got fired for?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text>I find it <i>impossible</i> to believe that an ERP implementation can ever &quot;go smoothly&quot;.<p>At best, even if the system does what it does perfectly, it&#x27;s still a classic &quot;diffusion of innovation&quot; (1) problem where you have multiple stakeholders with wildly varying levels of acceptance. This is always challenging. As those of you who make a living at this stuff recommend, it&#x27;s better to go 100% with the ERP&#x27;s way and not customize. Well, that can be extremely difficult or impossible in an environment filled with stubborn beancounter&#x2F;battle-axe personalities.<p>Most importantly, however, the people who make the purchasing and sign-off decisions ARE NOT the ones who use the thing. There are going to be problems and those problems will not usually bubble back up to the consultant&#x2F;vendor. People will just have their noses pushed to the grindstone until the job gets done-- never mind the tedium, never mind the countless little mistakes. New people don&#x27;t get trained, they just get put in front of the the thing to hunt and peck through it, sometimes with the assistance of a surly veteran of the system, sometimes with no one to help them. There are thousands upon thousands of people sitting in cubicles right now using Oracle EBS with it&#x27;s horrible grey java applet UI and ridiculous inscrutable query functionality. They&#x27;ve been sitting there suffering it since the 90&#x27;s. Who listens to their screams? Not Oracle, not exec that bought the thing! Or maybe they&#x27;re silent and they&#x27;ve resigned themselves to their fate?<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Diffusion_of_innovations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Diffusion_of_innovations</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mistakes were made: ERP screwups</title><url>https://tedium.co/2020/01/14/sap-enterprise-vendors-mistakes-history/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wayoutthere</author><text>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever heard of an ERP implementation that <i>wasn&#x27;t</i> an absolute clusterfuck. My impression is that while most folks from the integrators know their segment of the product pretty well, they don&#x27;t have deep technical skills in a general sense or know much about other modules of the product. Also that the salespeople know almost nothing about the product and promise that it can do things it cannot. The customer eventually figures this out and ends up ripping out and re-implement tools from other vendors.<p>It&#x27;s a common joke for senior technology leaders at industrial companies to ask eachother &quot;so what was the first ERP implementation you got fired for?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimnotgym</author><text>I have been on one that was pretty flawless. SAP at the time, with full costing&#x2F; manufacturing, multi-currency, multi- country. I should write a blog about that, shouldn&#x27;t I? I only recall two minor faults.</text></comment> |
19,983,611 | 19,982,043 | 1 | 2 | 19,981,327 | train | <story><title>Qualcomm Tumbles After Losing U.S. Antitrust Ruling</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-22/qualcomm-shares-drop-after-company-loses-u-s-antitrust-ruling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&quot;Qualcomm is a law firm with a few engineers&quot;<p>But seriously, Qualcomm is the worst company ever to work with (except maybe Oracle). They are like a gorilla - they won&#x27;t budge no matter how hard you push. Every little thing costs licensing money - from documents to tooling. We have a Qualcomm SoC for my current project, and support is abysmal.<p>They put in a minimal effort to provide support and only after you&#x27;ve completed the onerous requirements to submit a support ticket. It involves retrieving tons of dumps and logs and such using their various Q-tools (which are very buggy and half-baked; many of them cost $25k+&#x2F;year to license). Most of the time they&#x27;ll just shrug and say &quot;works on our setup&quot; and refuse to help. We&#x27;ll spend hundreds of man-hours debugging their crap until we find the issue in their kernel driver and then they won&#x27;t even acknowledge it was a problem and will say &quot;qmi_wwan is an open source driver. We do not support it.&quot; Right, so you expect <i>everyone else</i> to maintain and fix the bugs in qmi_wwan even though virtually ALL of your customers use it and you yourselves rely on it as a critical piece of your development platform. Good one, Qualcomm.</text></item><item><author>totalZero</author><text>This is the right ruling. These guys are the biggest IP bullies out there in tech. Their entire business model depends on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;Qualcomm is a law firm with a few engineers&quot;</i><p>I thought Oracle was the premier example of that :)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bonkersworld.net&#x2F;organizational-charts" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bonkersworld.net&#x2F;organizational-charts</a><p>&gt; <i>But seriously, Qualcomm is the worst company ever to work with</i> (except maybe Oracle).<p>OK, we&#x27;re on the same page ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Qualcomm Tumbles After Losing U.S. Antitrust Ruling</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-22/qualcomm-shares-drop-after-company-loses-u-s-antitrust-ruling</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>&quot;Qualcomm is a law firm with a few engineers&quot;<p>But seriously, Qualcomm is the worst company ever to work with (except maybe Oracle). They are like a gorilla - they won&#x27;t budge no matter how hard you push. Every little thing costs licensing money - from documents to tooling. We have a Qualcomm SoC for my current project, and support is abysmal.<p>They put in a minimal effort to provide support and only after you&#x27;ve completed the onerous requirements to submit a support ticket. It involves retrieving tons of dumps and logs and such using their various Q-tools (which are very buggy and half-baked; many of them cost $25k+&#x2F;year to license). Most of the time they&#x27;ll just shrug and say &quot;works on our setup&quot; and refuse to help. We&#x27;ll spend hundreds of man-hours debugging their crap until we find the issue in their kernel driver and then they won&#x27;t even acknowledge it was a problem and will say &quot;qmi_wwan is an open source driver. We do not support it.&quot; Right, so you expect <i>everyone else</i> to maintain and fix the bugs in qmi_wwan even though virtually ALL of your customers use it and you yourselves rely on it as a critical piece of your development platform. Good one, Qualcomm.</text></item><item><author>totalZero</author><text>This is the right ruling. These guys are the biggest IP bullies out there in tech. Their entire business model depends on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scoundreller</author><text>Do you ever point out some terrible design decision and they reply “working as designed” and then do nothing?</text></comment> |
18,994,250 | 18,994,197 | 1 | 2 | 18,987,642 | train | <story><title>Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/google-urged-the-u-s-to-limit-protection-for-activist-workers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Itaxpica</author><text>Funny how people only ever use &quot;entitled&quot; to describe labor demanding better treatment from management, but never to describe management demanding that labor do more for less.</text></item><item><author>Aunche</author><text>The difference is that software engineers, especially those at Google, have high social mobility and are well educated. I think that unions are inefficient, but I&#x27;m sympathetic towards or even support most of them because those workers don&#x27;t have a better option. Googlers just come off as entitled. They should be intelligent enough to acknowledge when they&#x27;re making clickbaity populist arguments that misrepresent complex issues, but they turn a blind eye to it. Calling out these arguments doesn&#x27;t mean I support large corporations trampling over the weak.</text></item><item><author>josephv</author><text>These comments read like a bunch of low-income retail shoppers defending Walmart because they provide something they otherwise couldn&#x27;t get.<p>I think these types of debates are bellwether for programmer&#x2F;IT professional unionization. These are the exact types of lawsuits brought against organized labor as it was trying to get organized to prevent exploitative behavior.<p>It&#x27;s disturbing to see these same anti-organization arguments rehashed simply for a new industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Funny how people only ever use &quot;entitled&quot; to describe labor demanding better treatment from management, but never to describe management demanding that labor do more for less.<p>“Entitled” is a term used by elites to describe their lessers seeking to be above their rightful station. It&#x27;s only ever used to punch down.<p>Other terms are used for the already powerful seeking to retain power including some that reflect the speaker&#x27;s perception that it is unjust power involved, but “entitled” just isn&#x27;t generally used in that direction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection for Activist Workers</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-24/google-urged-the-u-s-to-limit-protection-for-activist-workers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Itaxpica</author><text>Funny how people only ever use &quot;entitled&quot; to describe labor demanding better treatment from management, but never to describe management demanding that labor do more for less.</text></item><item><author>Aunche</author><text>The difference is that software engineers, especially those at Google, have high social mobility and are well educated. I think that unions are inefficient, but I&#x27;m sympathetic towards or even support most of them because those workers don&#x27;t have a better option. Googlers just come off as entitled. They should be intelligent enough to acknowledge when they&#x27;re making clickbaity populist arguments that misrepresent complex issues, but they turn a blind eye to it. Calling out these arguments doesn&#x27;t mean I support large corporations trampling over the weak.</text></item><item><author>josephv</author><text>These comments read like a bunch of low-income retail shoppers defending Walmart because they provide something they otherwise couldn&#x27;t get.<p>I think these types of debates are bellwether for programmer&#x2F;IT professional unionization. These are the exact types of lawsuits brought against organized labor as it was trying to get organized to prevent exploitative behavior.<p>It&#x27;s disturbing to see these same anti-organization arguments rehashed simply for a new industry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SquishyPanda23</author><text>Adam Smith discusses this asymmetry in Wealth of Nations. He basically says both business owners and labor try to organize, but business owners tend to win because it&#x27;s easier for them to make it illegal for labor to organize.<p>Edit: This is the passage I was thinking of<p>&quot;We rarely hear ... of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines ... that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate.... Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy till the moment of execution; and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people. Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen, who sometimes, too, without any provocation of this kind, combine, of their own accord, to raise the price of their labour.... But whether their combinations be offensive or defensive, they are always abundantly heard of. In order to bring the point to a speedy decision, they have always recourse to the loudest clamour, and sometimes to the most shocking violence and outrage. They are desperate, and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men, who must either starve, or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands. The masters, upon these occasions, are just as clamorous upon the other side, and never cease to call aloud for the assistance of the civil magistrate, and the rigorous execution of those laws which have been enacted with so much severity against the combination of servants, labourers, and journeymen. The workmen, accordingly, very seldom derive any advantage from the violence of those tumultuous combinations, which ... generally end in nothing but the punishment or ruin of the ringleaders.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;3300&#x2F;3300-h&#x2F;3300-h.htm#link2HCH0001" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;3300&#x2F;3300-h&#x2F;3300-h.htm#link2H...</a></text></comment> |
35,132,524 | 35,132,526 | 1 | 2 | 35,130,764 | train | <story><title>Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today</title><url>https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scarface74</author><text>&gt; Google Reader was a product that was crazy cheap to maintain (no way it had more than a dozen engineers working on it),<p>It’s hard to show “scope” and “impact” by maintaining a product with declining usage. No one who cared about their career would want to work on something that was in maintenance mode.</text></item><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>This always seemed like one of Google&#x27;s worst decisions to me, and given that I remember the time they tried to spend $6 billion to buy Groupon, that&#x27;s saying something. It was a plain unforced error.<p>Google Reader was a product that was crazy cheap to maintain (no way it had more than a dozen engineers working on it), and it was used primarily by the extremely online, especially journalists, bloggers, and other sorts of influencers. If they had viewed Reader as a marketing expense, keeping it online would&#x27;ve been a no-brainer.<p>But instead, they instead viewed it as a consumer tool that didn&#x27;t have a path to profitability, and they were 100% right, but then over the next few years, it became clear how many later Google efforts would&#x27;ve benefited from Reader existing. Google+ would&#x27;ve meshed well with it. That little Google &quot;stuff you maybe want to see&quot; panel on Android phones that would frequently make little notices like &quot;hey, we think you like this site, there&#x27;s a new article,&quot; and that was probably really involved to build, and also it absolutely sucked compared to just having Reader.<p>Ultimately I have to assume that it&#x27;s a business org problem. No engineer was going to get a promotion keeping Reader alive. No manager was going to be able to grow Reader&#x27;s audience 10x. No director would want to give up a half dozen of their engineers to keep Reader running just because it would significantly hurt Google to turn it off. And no executive cared about a product that small. The org structure didn&#x27;t lead to someone incentivized to want to keep Reader going, despite its popularity inside and outside the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raizer88</author><text>I never understood why Google doesn&#x27;t hire B teams to do the maintenance work, or outsource it. It&#x27;s normal that if you hire only top players that no one wants to be stuck doing tickets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today</title><url>https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scarface74</author><text>&gt; Google Reader was a product that was crazy cheap to maintain (no way it had more than a dozen engineers working on it),<p>It’s hard to show “scope” and “impact” by maintaining a product with declining usage. No one who cared about their career would want to work on something that was in maintenance mode.</text></item><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>This always seemed like one of Google&#x27;s worst decisions to me, and given that I remember the time they tried to spend $6 billion to buy Groupon, that&#x27;s saying something. It was a plain unforced error.<p>Google Reader was a product that was crazy cheap to maintain (no way it had more than a dozen engineers working on it), and it was used primarily by the extremely online, especially journalists, bloggers, and other sorts of influencers. If they had viewed Reader as a marketing expense, keeping it online would&#x27;ve been a no-brainer.<p>But instead, they instead viewed it as a consumer tool that didn&#x27;t have a path to profitability, and they were 100% right, but then over the next few years, it became clear how many later Google efforts would&#x27;ve benefited from Reader existing. Google+ would&#x27;ve meshed well with it. That little Google &quot;stuff you maybe want to see&quot; panel on Android phones that would frequently make little notices like &quot;hey, we think you like this site, there&#x27;s a new article,&quot; and that was probably really involved to build, and also it absolutely sucked compared to just having Reader.<p>Ultimately I have to assume that it&#x27;s a business org problem. No engineer was going to get a promotion keeping Reader alive. No manager was going to be able to grow Reader&#x27;s audience 10x. No director would want to give up a half dozen of their engineers to keep Reader running just because it would significantly hurt Google to turn it off. And no executive cared about a product that small. The org structure didn&#x27;t lead to someone incentivized to want to keep Reader going, despite its popularity inside and outside the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>Ok, that&#x27;s great, because those are the people most likely to break a good thing. Maybe we can instead hire at least a few people (and given that Google uses shared database storage, build engineering, deployment, etc. I can&#x27;t imagine we need many such people) who care more about things like a predictable schedule working on a low-stress product so they can have good work&#x2F;life balance, to essentially just keep working software working correctly?</text></comment> |
27,913,346 | 27,913,383 | 1 | 2 | 27,912,638 | train | <story><title>I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/21/magazine/i-just-learned-i-only-have-months-live-this-is-what-i-want-say/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BigHatLogan</author><text>That was quite nice. The writer seems to be in relative peace about the whole situation, or at least as peaceful as one can be knowing that the end is near.<p>Unrelated but related: How do we keep stories like this in the &quot;middle&quot; of our minds? I&#x27;ve noticed with myself--and many others--that we read articles and essays like this, contemplate them for a moment or two, think about how we should be more {appreciate, grateful, thankful} for what we have, but then--inevitably--somebody cuts you off in traffic, or the plumber is late, or your coworker does something annoying, and just like that, everything comes flooding in.<p>Is this just human nature (or my own nature)? While reading this essay, I became much less frustrated about a delayed shipment I&#x27;m waiting for, and thought to myself, &quot;ah what the hell! It&#x27;s just a small package! Life is too short to get worked up about things like this.&quot; But I know that tomorrow morning I won&#x27;t feel that way.<p>Anyways, I&#x27;m rambling. It would be helpful to somehow keep these things somewhere in our minds for longer periods of time--not the forefront because we need to get on with things, but probably not the dark recesses either, where we&#x27;ll inevitably forget them until we come across another one in a few months.</text></comment> | <story><title>I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say</title><url>https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/21/magazine/i-just-learned-i-only-have-months-live-this-is-what-i-want-say/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djohnston</author><text>&quot;EDITING THE FINAL DETAILS of one’s life is like editing a story for the final time. It’s the last shot an editor has at making corrections, the last rewrite before the roll of the presses. It’s more painful than I anticipated to throw away files and paperwork that seemed critical to my survival just two weeks ago, and today, are all trash. Like the manual for the TV that broke down four years ago, and notebooks for stories that will never be written, and from former girlfriends, letters whose value will plummet the day I die. Filling wastebasket after wastebasket is a regrettable reminder that I have squandered much of my life on trivia.&quot;<p>Hits pretty hard.</text></comment> |
23,578,386 | 23,578,556 | 1 | 3 | 23,574,072 | train | <story><title>Linear types are merged in GHC</title><url>https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-06-19-linear-types-merged</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greg7mdp</author><text>Incredible work, congrats, the evolution of GHC is quite impressive. A better description of what linear types can be useful for is at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tweag.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017-03-13-linear-types&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tweag.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017-03-13-linear-types&#x2F;</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linear types are merged in GHC</title><url>https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-06-19-linear-types-merged</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>This has been bugging me for a while: Why are type names what they are? I get why sum types and product types are named what they are.<p>But linear types? A value can be used only once? Cool. We call that &quot;linearity&quot;? Um, what? What&#x27;s <i>linear</i> about that?</text></comment> |
36,410,442 | 36,410,491 | 1 | 2 | 36,409,475 | train | <story><title>Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>misiti3780</author><text>no one died yet...</text></item><item><author>aredox</author><text>Even if that is the case, the ethos of the company was to dismiss safety concerns, use inappropriate hardware, stonewall and then fire the only person who cared.<p>People died. I do hope the CEO isn&#x27;t one of them, because he needs to be thrown in front of a court. Same with the other senior executives and HR.</text></item><item><author>mcpackieh</author><text>&gt; <i>According to the court documents, in a 2018 case, OceanGate employee David Lochridge, a submersible pilot, voiced concerns about the safety of the sub.</i><p>2018; this would make it the previous model, no? Not the same submarine that went missing. At least that&#x27;s the impression I get from this article (2020): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oceangate-raises-18m-build-bigger-submersible-fleet-get-set-titanic-trips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oceangate-raises-18m-build-big...</a><p>&gt; <i>&quot;That meant the Titanic trips — which had been planned at first for 2018, then 2019, then 2020 — had to be put off until mid-2021. By that time, Rush expects the new submersibles to be ready to enter service.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s my impression that one of those &quot;new submersibles&quot; is the one that&#x27;s lost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c00lio</author><text>Oxygen is just about running out in the next few hours, they don&#x27;t seem to have had any sonar contact, no cable or underwater phone. Getting something like a DSRV (which wouldn&#x27;t really help if they are at ground level there, because it cannot dive that deep) there will take at least a day. Even if they are still alive, their chances of rescue are nonexistent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to</title><url>https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>misiti3780</author><text>no one died yet...</text></item><item><author>aredox</author><text>Even if that is the case, the ethos of the company was to dismiss safety concerns, use inappropriate hardware, stonewall and then fire the only person who cared.<p>People died. I do hope the CEO isn&#x27;t one of them, because he needs to be thrown in front of a court. Same with the other senior executives and HR.</text></item><item><author>mcpackieh</author><text>&gt; <i>According to the court documents, in a 2018 case, OceanGate employee David Lochridge, a submersible pilot, voiced concerns about the safety of the sub.</i><p>2018; this would make it the previous model, no? Not the same submarine that went missing. At least that&#x27;s the impression I get from this article (2020): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oceangate-raises-18m-build-bigger-submersible-fleet-get-set-titanic-trips&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;oceangate-raises-18m-build-big...</a><p>&gt; <i>&quot;That meant the Titanic trips — which had been planned at first for 2018, then 2019, then 2020 — had to be put off until mid-2021. By that time, Rush expects the new submersibles to be ready to enter service.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s my impression that one of those &quot;new submersibles&quot; is the one that&#x27;s lost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jethro_tell</author><text>Well, it&#x27;s schrodinger&#x27;s submersible at this point.</text></comment> |
23,215,732 | 23,215,593 | 1 | 2 | 23,211,851 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?</title><text>Modern browsers these days are powerful things - almost an operating system in their own right. So I&#x27;m asking the community, should everything now be developed as &#x27;web first&#x27;, or is there still a place for native desktop applications?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Native desktop apps are great.<p>The reason that people don&#x27;t write them is because users aren&#x27;t on &quot;the desktop&quot;. &quot;The desktop&quot; is split between OS X and Windows, and your Windows-app-compiled-for-Mac is going to annoy Mac users and your Mac-app-compiled-for-Windows is going to annoy Windows users. Then you realize that most users of computing devices actually just use their phone for everything, and your desktop app can&#x27;t run on those. Then you realize that phones are split between Android and iOS, and there is the same problem there -- Android users won&#x27;t like your iOS UI, and iOS users won&#x27;t like your Android UI. Then there are tablets.<p>Meanwhile, your web app may not be as good as native apps, but at least you don&#x27;t have to write it 6 times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcelerier</author><text>&gt; Meanwhile, your web app may not be as good as native apps, but at least you don&#x27;t have to write it 6 times.<p>I must be living in a parallel world because I use a ton of desktop apps that aren&#x27;t &quot;written 6 times&quot; - and write a few, including a music &amp; other things sequencer (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ossia.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ossia.io</a>).<p>Just amongst the ones running on my desktop right now, Strawberry (Qt), Firefox (their own toolkit), QtCreator (Qt), Telegram Desktop (Qt), Bitwig Studio (Java), Kate (Qt), Ripcord (Qt), all work on all desktop platforms with a single codebase. I also often use Zim (GTK), which is also available on all platforms, occasionnally Krita (Qt) and GIMP (GTK), and somewhat rarely Blender. Not an HTML DOM in sight (except FF :-)).</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?</title><text>Modern browsers these days are powerful things - almost an operating system in their own right. So I&#x27;m asking the community, should everything now be developed as &#x27;web first&#x27;, or is there still a place for native desktop applications?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Native desktop apps are great.<p>The reason that people don&#x27;t write them is because users aren&#x27;t on &quot;the desktop&quot;. &quot;The desktop&quot; is split between OS X and Windows, and your Windows-app-compiled-for-Mac is going to annoy Mac users and your Mac-app-compiled-for-Windows is going to annoy Windows users. Then you realize that most users of computing devices actually just use their phone for everything, and your desktop app can&#x27;t run on those. Then you realize that phones are split between Android and iOS, and there is the same problem there -- Android users won&#x27;t like your iOS UI, and iOS users won&#x27;t like your Android UI. Then there are tablets.<p>Meanwhile, your web app may not be as good as native apps, but at least you don&#x27;t have to write it 6 times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpush</author><text>Concerning the desktop, I honestly don&#x27;t see Windows users caring much about non-native UIs. Windows apps to this day are a hodgepodge of custom UIs. From driver utilities to everyday programs, there&#x27;s little an average Windows user would identify as a &quot;Windows UI&quot;. And even if, deviations are commonplace and accepted.<p>Linux of course doesn&#x27;t have any standard toolkit, just two dominant ones. There&#x27;s no real expectation of &quot;looking native&quot; here, either.<p>Which leaves macOS. And even there, the amount of users really caring about native UIs are a (loud and very present online) minority.<p>So really, on the Desktop, the only ones holding up true cross-platform UIs are a subset of Mac users.</text></comment> |
5,786,985 | 5,787,004 | 1 | 2 | 5,786,554 | train | <story><title>Amazon Announces Login with Amazon</title><url>http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1824961&highlight=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hemancuso</author><text>I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL &#38; domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme.<p>That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US-focused companies who will be excited to have Google &#38; Amazon as the two default OAuth authentication providers. If nothing else, it's much more adult than Twitter/Facebook. Oh, and Amazon has your credit card info and a great platform for SaaS billing :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arscan</author><text>Regarding the URL: Amazon (and just about every public company in the US) outsources the investor relations portion of their site, because it is easier to do so than to integrate the feeds mandated by the SEC on their public site themselves (stock quote, press releases, sec filings, etc). There are 2 major competitors in this space, and the one that Amazon chose has these ugly URLs.<p>I'm surprised that they haven't made this better since that platform (phoenix) was designed in the mid-2000s. I presume that nobody really cares enough to put money into migrating it to a url scheme that is more sensible... the site exists to satisfy the SEC, and serious investors get their news/stock data from other sources anyhow.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Announces Login with Amazon</title><url>http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1824961&highlight=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hemancuso</author><text>I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL &#38; domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme.<p>That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US-focused companies who will be excited to have Google &#38; Amazon as the two default OAuth authentication providers. If nothing else, it's much more adult than Twitter/Facebook. Oh, and Amazon has your credit card info and a great platform for SaaS billing :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smackfu</author><text>&#62;I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL &#38; domain for the Amazon press releases.<p>It seems like it is outsourced investor relations. Funny thing is that if you go to the bare domain, it redirects you to ccbn.com, which doesn't work because CCBN (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network) got bought out in January and apparently killed their domain too. That's pretty shoddy.</text></comment> |
29,147,868 | 29,147,212 | 1 | 3 | 29,142,861 | train | <story><title>Your users will do what you make easy</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8208-when_making_things_easy_is_bad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hypertele-Xii</author><text>&gt; Your users will do what you make easy<p>This is why game designers must remove all repetitive, boring, yet effective strategies in order to make good games.<p>If there&#x27;s something the player can do to gain advantage, no matter how boring or tedious it is, they <i>will</i> do it and they <i>will</i> ruin their fun and they <i>will</i> assign all blame for it on you, the designer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ai_ia</author><text>I remember playing Pokemon GB games on an emulator and would actively battle with lower level pokemons in the wild or other NPC trainers to level up my own pokemons. Though, I enjoyed it, for some reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Your users will do what you make easy</title><url>https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8208-when_making_things_easy_is_bad</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hypertele-Xii</author><text>&gt; Your users will do what you make easy<p>This is why game designers must remove all repetitive, boring, yet effective strategies in order to make good games.<p>If there&#x27;s something the player can do to gain advantage, no matter how boring or tedious it is, they <i>will</i> do it and they <i>will</i> ruin their fun and they <i>will</i> assign all blame for it on you, the designer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryans</author><text>I really don&#x27;t see the connection you&#x27;re trying to make. There are huge swaths of the gaming industry which are based entirely on repetitive and boring tasks, including some of the most popular games in history, such as Bejeweled and all of its Candy Crush offspring. Or idle, incremental and clicker games. Or slot machines, for that matter. All of those gamers are perfectly happy to spend money on boring repetition -- sometimes for years on end.</text></comment> |
36,057,615 | 36,057,882 | 1 | 3 | 36,057,132 | train | <story><title>Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on business groups</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/meta-layoffs-latest-round-of-cuts-focuses-on-business-groups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bratao</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a burning question on my mind and I&#x27;d really appreciate some insights.<p>From what I can tell, the recent wave of startup layoffs seems largely driven by companies bracing for a potential economic downturn and using their own customer data to anticipate seriously bleak scenarios. But if that&#x27;s the case, are we basically still in the early innings of this crisis? Logically, the domino effect would mean that step two involves companies closing up shop and going belly up, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>specialp</author><text>Startup layoffs are very much related to the funding environment. I work for a startup that laid off half our staff. There have been very few series C and later this year. So if you are a startup you need to decrease burn now and get to having good MRR. You can&#x27;t aggressively grow at a loss and expect to get more funding for that with few exceptions. When VC money was much more plentiful people hired a lot without the pressure to become more sustainable. For further funding rounds they had to show that they were growing in some way. SVB collapse was huge in the startup world not just due to the people who had deposits there.<p>With larger companies like Meta, their multiples are also based on growth. So even though large tech shows no signs of being financially insolvent, they will have to still deliver growth in profit with flat to declining revenue. So the focus then is to decrease expenditures in lieu of revenue. There was a ton of hiring the last few year along with the tail wind of tons of money out there. Now it needs to rebalance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on business groups</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/meta-layoffs-latest-round-of-cuts-focuses-on-business-groups.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bratao</author><text>I&#x27;ve got a burning question on my mind and I&#x27;d really appreciate some insights.<p>From what I can tell, the recent wave of startup layoffs seems largely driven by companies bracing for a potential economic downturn and using their own customer data to anticipate seriously bleak scenarios. But if that&#x27;s the case, are we basically still in the early innings of this crisis? Logically, the domino effect would mean that step two involves companies closing up shop and going belly up, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxlamb</author><text>That’s just an excuse the CEO’s are using to avoid blame. They over-hired during 2020 and 2021 “because everyone was doing it” and now they realize they have 10’s of thousands of employees with nothing to do and huge salaries so it makes no sense to keep them.</text></comment> |
29,667,662 | 29,667,763 | 1 | 2 | 29,666,867 | train | <story><title>How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs</title><url>https://overemployed.com/set-low-expectations-at-your-two-remote-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>&gt; Real example: One person I know has 2 $150k jobs for a total of $300k. If they joined as a jr engineer at a FANGMULA or equivalent, they would be making $300k, not be fucking stressed about the duplicity that is working 2 jobs, learn more because it&#x27;s a better company and get promoed to sr engineer within a year or two and make $400-500k instead. If they have ambition, they can cross the leadership rubicon (either through becoming a staff engineer or manager) and make even more, reaching up to $700k-$1M eventually.<p>Sometimes I wonder if the people saying this stuff really even work there. It&#x27;s not impossible, but the kind of person who would be promoted that fast wouldn&#x27;t be working two crappy jobs to begin with.<p>Not to mention even if you were promoted you wouldn&#x27;t go from $300K to $500K. You think getting promoted at FAANG gives you an over 50% increase in total comp as the norm? (edit: If you&#x27;ve seen this, it&#x27;s almost due to the fact that FAANG stock increased drastically during COVID. If you look at 2012-2017 data for promotions a 50% increase is almost unheard of).<p>You should join one if you&#x27;re not already there and read about how people are complaining about less than 6.7% (last inflation report) raises during company meetings and less than 10% even when promoted.<p>Finally, background checks work on what you give them, they&#x27;re not exhaustive (unless you&#x27;re trying to work for the government). So many inaccuracies in this post I wonder if it&#x27;s satire. If so, I apologize.<p>lol</text></item><item><author>novok</author><text>A pattern I&#x27;ve noticed with double job workers:<p>1. They tend to work double jobs at frankly lower tier companies with lower standards and significantly lower pay. Because the companies are lower tier, they stagnate in their career growth because the company is not teaching them good skills. And you cannot put both jobs in your resume, only one on top of that, and this will show up in future background checks.<p>2. Because of double working, they are pretty much guaranteed to not get promoted beyond the standard terminal level.<p>3. They think that promos (like this article), are at most only %10, while promos are more like a x1.5 to x2 of your income.<p>4. You cannot work at proper startups and learn a ton, because the workload would be way too high for this strategy.<p>Real example: One person I know has 2 $150k jobs for a total of $300k. If they joined as a jr engineer at a FANGMULA or equivalent, they would be making $300k, not be fucking stressed about the duplicity that is working 2 jobs, learn more because it&#x27;s a better company and get promoed to sr engineer within a year or two and make $400-500k instead. If they have ambition, they can cross the leadership rubicon (either through becoming a staff engineer or manager) and make even more, reaching up to $700k-$1M eventually.<p>Maybe if your having a hard time breaking into startups or FANGMULA and your just starting out, this might be an ok strategy, but beyond that, it&#x27;s not a good idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aqme28</author><text>Agreed. I was a software engineer in New York, not SF (where salaries a _little_ higher), but salaries were nothing like this unless maybe you worked at a top-end hedge fund. The myth that every other random software engineer has this kind of pay is harmful.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs</title><url>https://overemployed.com/set-low-expectations-at-your-two-remote-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>&gt; Real example: One person I know has 2 $150k jobs for a total of $300k. If they joined as a jr engineer at a FANGMULA or equivalent, they would be making $300k, not be fucking stressed about the duplicity that is working 2 jobs, learn more because it&#x27;s a better company and get promoed to sr engineer within a year or two and make $400-500k instead. If they have ambition, they can cross the leadership rubicon (either through becoming a staff engineer or manager) and make even more, reaching up to $700k-$1M eventually.<p>Sometimes I wonder if the people saying this stuff really even work there. It&#x27;s not impossible, but the kind of person who would be promoted that fast wouldn&#x27;t be working two crappy jobs to begin with.<p>Not to mention even if you were promoted you wouldn&#x27;t go from $300K to $500K. You think getting promoted at FAANG gives you an over 50% increase in total comp as the norm? (edit: If you&#x27;ve seen this, it&#x27;s almost due to the fact that FAANG stock increased drastically during COVID. If you look at 2012-2017 data for promotions a 50% increase is almost unheard of).<p>You should join one if you&#x27;re not already there and read about how people are complaining about less than 6.7% (last inflation report) raises during company meetings and less than 10% even when promoted.<p>Finally, background checks work on what you give them, they&#x27;re not exhaustive (unless you&#x27;re trying to work for the government). So many inaccuracies in this post I wonder if it&#x27;s satire. If so, I apologize.<p>lol</text></item><item><author>novok</author><text>A pattern I&#x27;ve noticed with double job workers:<p>1. They tend to work double jobs at frankly lower tier companies with lower standards and significantly lower pay. Because the companies are lower tier, they stagnate in their career growth because the company is not teaching them good skills. And you cannot put both jobs in your resume, only one on top of that, and this will show up in future background checks.<p>2. Because of double working, they are pretty much guaranteed to not get promoted beyond the standard terminal level.<p>3. They think that promos (like this article), are at most only %10, while promos are more like a x1.5 to x2 of your income.<p>4. You cannot work at proper startups and learn a ton, because the workload would be way too high for this strategy.<p>Real example: One person I know has 2 $150k jobs for a total of $300k. If they joined as a jr engineer at a FANGMULA or equivalent, they would be making $300k, not be fucking stressed about the duplicity that is working 2 jobs, learn more because it&#x27;s a better company and get promoed to sr engineer within a year or two and make $400-500k instead. If they have ambition, they can cross the leadership rubicon (either through becoming a staff engineer or manager) and make even more, reaching up to $700k-$1M eventually.<p>Maybe if your having a hard time breaking into startups or FANGMULA and your just starting out, this might be an ok strategy, but beyond that, it&#x27;s not a good idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Sometimes I wonder if the people saying this stuff really even work there. It&#x27;s not impossible, but the kind of person who would be promoted that fast wouldn&#x27;t be working two crappy jobs to begin with.<p>In my experience, people often stumble into these situations by simply not quitting their old job when they get a new job.<p>The idea is to continue to collect paychecks from the old job until they lay you off with severance.<p>This usually catches up with people later on when someone puts two and two together or hears from a friend of a friend that the person is working at a certain company. Imagine being recruited to a new company and seeing your former company coworker in Slack and <i>he&#x27;s been there for months</i>. Word gets around.<p>This absolutely <i>destroys</i> reference checks. Another reason to always do reference checks and always confirm someone&#x27;s end dates with the other company.</text></comment> |
23,460,653 | 23,460,927 | 1 | 2 | 23,449,285 | train | <story><title>Forced social isolation causes neural craving similar to hunger</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/forced-social-isolation-causes-neural-craving-similar-to-hunger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericol</author><text>More or less for my entire life I&#x27;ve had the idea that my social needs were not on par with the rest of the people, and this quarantine seems to have proven just that.<p>Bear in mind <i>I do</i> enjoy social life; when I was living in Spain in my 30s (and single) I had a very active social life, and had a moderate (~30) amount of friends split in 2 groups with which I continuously interacted.<p>When I left Spain for my place of origin I had only a handful of friends, and then I moved to where I live now and have only one friend, whom I see sporadically.<p>Nowadays I mostly interact with my partner and daughter, and the people I work with (I&#x27;ve been working remotely for 13 years) and to be honest, I have no cravings for social life (Except that I miss going for a stroll every once in a while at nights).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briefcomment</author><text>Can you really call living with your family isolation? There are people out there who live with no one, aren&#x27;t near family, and can&#x27;t see friends because of the lockdowns.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forced social isolation causes neural craving similar to hunger</title><url>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/forced-social-isolation-causes-neural-craving-similar-to-hunger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericol</author><text>More or less for my entire life I&#x27;ve had the idea that my social needs were not on par with the rest of the people, and this quarantine seems to have proven just that.<p>Bear in mind <i>I do</i> enjoy social life; when I was living in Spain in my 30s (and single) I had a very active social life, and had a moderate (~30) amount of friends split in 2 groups with which I continuously interacted.<p>When I left Spain for my place of origin I had only a handful of friends, and then I moved to where I live now and have only one friend, whom I see sporadically.<p>Nowadays I mostly interact with my partner and daughter, and the people I work with (I&#x27;ve been working remotely for 13 years) and to be honest, I have no cravings for social life (Except that I miss going for a stroll every once in a while at nights).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>Yes, this has certainly solidified my understanding of myself as an introvert... I am stuck home with my wife and two young kids, and I mostly want more alone time... I don&#x27;t miss seeing other people.</text></comment> |
10,471,251 | 10,470,712 | 1 | 2 | 10,470,535 | train | <story><title>An update to UBlock Origin was rejected by the Chrome Web Store</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/880</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnhattan</author><text>Update: &quot;We apologize that the update was rejected due to an snag in the review system. The updated item will be available in the Chrome Web Store within 30 minutes.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>An update to UBlock Origin was rejected by the Chrome Web Store</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/880</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eli</author><text>Headline is wrong. An update to the plugin was rejected (with the option to resubmit), but the previous version is clearly still in the store: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;ublock-origin&#x2F;cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;ublock-origin&#x2F;cjpa...</a><p>I empathize with the developer, but Occam&#x27;s Razor suggests this isn&#x27;t anything more than a typically crummy vague Walled Garden app store rejection. I&#x27;d take their advice and re-submit.</text></comment> |
28,994,811 | 28,994,374 | 1 | 2 | 28,989,092 | train | <story><title>Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-promised-lucrative-tech-coding-career-low-job-placement-2021-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shakezula</author><text>Interestingly enough, all of these comments could have been said about my experience at $BOOTCAMP that I attended and then was later hired at as a mentor.<p>The degradation of quality from the removal of human presence is a common narrative, and the students react to it so much more than management ever realizes.<p>&gt; at no point did I feel like Lambda at its top level prioritized student wellbeing over PR, costs, or metrics to be sold to investors.<p>This is exactly how I would describe it. $BOOTCAMP was around for a few years, was purchased by private equity, immediately doubled it&#x27;s prices, gutted the mentoring team, and &quot;revamped&quot; the curriculum, which really meant they were just pushing everything to video learning.<p>They have made some minor curriculum improvements as of late, but they have a long way to go to get back to what the program was when it was just starting out - which was ironically much higher quality in my opinion.</text></item><item><author>bwing</author><text>I was at Lambda when they announced the switch from 9 to 6 months and the elimination of paid team leaders. The feedback was universally negative. In a channel for open student discussion, Austen Allred deleted a poll from Slack because of how lopsided the reaction was. He explained the deletion by saying the poll was &quot;misleading.&quot;<p>Students then got a survey &quot;explaining&quot; why the change was actually a good thing by asking questions such as &quot;Do you understand why companies value mentoring experience?&quot; Not just failing to reveal the truth (these were cost-cutting measures), but not even taking the effort to come up with a convincing lie.<p>It was destabilizing: Austen&#x27;s twitter account would read ambitious, hyperoptimistic; meanwhile, drastic changes would be made within the program with vague rationales (&quot;after speaking with hiring managers, we&#x27;ve made these changes...&quot;), and probing further simply got deflections or gaslighting surveys.<p>There were a ton of good people in the program, and I learned a lot there. But fundamentally there needs to be trust between institution and student when you&#x27;re asking people to make this level of time and financial commitment. And at no point did I feel like Lambda at its top level prioritized student wellbeing over PR, costs, or metrics to be sold to investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edgefield</author><text>Every time I’ve seen a company bought by private equity, it spells the beginning of the end. The strategy always seems to milk every last drop of cash from the business, without any long term sustainable plan. As an anecdotal case, I visited Sea World over the summer and half the concessions and shows were closed. It was still expensive and crowded and and there were service bottlenecks everywhere. Long lines for a bottle of water. Midday I said to myself, I bet this place was bought out by private equity. I looked up Sea World’s ownership structure when I got home and low and behold, private equity is involved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-promised-lucrative-tech-coding-career-low-job-placement-2021-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shakezula</author><text>Interestingly enough, all of these comments could have been said about my experience at $BOOTCAMP that I attended and then was later hired at as a mentor.<p>The degradation of quality from the removal of human presence is a common narrative, and the students react to it so much more than management ever realizes.<p>&gt; at no point did I feel like Lambda at its top level prioritized student wellbeing over PR, costs, or metrics to be sold to investors.<p>This is exactly how I would describe it. $BOOTCAMP was around for a few years, was purchased by private equity, immediately doubled it&#x27;s prices, gutted the mentoring team, and &quot;revamped&quot; the curriculum, which really meant they were just pushing everything to video learning.<p>They have made some minor curriculum improvements as of late, but they have a long way to go to get back to what the program was when it was just starting out - which was ironically much higher quality in my opinion.</text></item><item><author>bwing</author><text>I was at Lambda when they announced the switch from 9 to 6 months and the elimination of paid team leaders. The feedback was universally negative. In a channel for open student discussion, Austen Allred deleted a poll from Slack because of how lopsided the reaction was. He explained the deletion by saying the poll was &quot;misleading.&quot;<p>Students then got a survey &quot;explaining&quot; why the change was actually a good thing by asking questions such as &quot;Do you understand why companies value mentoring experience?&quot; Not just failing to reveal the truth (these were cost-cutting measures), but not even taking the effort to come up with a convincing lie.<p>It was destabilizing: Austen&#x27;s twitter account would read ambitious, hyperoptimistic; meanwhile, drastic changes would be made within the program with vague rationales (&quot;after speaking with hiring managers, we&#x27;ve made these changes...&quot;), and probing further simply got deflections or gaslighting surveys.<p>There were a ton of good people in the program, and I learned a lot there. But fundamentally there needs to be trust between institution and student when you&#x27;re asking people to make this level of time and financial commitment. And at no point did I feel like Lambda at its top level prioritized student wellbeing over PR, costs, or metrics to be sold to investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afsafsaf</author><text>Just going to add a positive anecdotal example since most of this thread is negative. I finished App Academy back in 2015 and 6 years later, most of my friends are a top tier software companies. In general our cohort did well, although there were definitely people who did not succeed. The experience was truly life changing for some of the folks.<p>I do agree that I&#x27;ve seen a LOT of bootcamps try to &quot;scale&quot; out their programs by removing human teachers and using video&#x2F;written content or by increasing student to teacher ratios. I&#x27;m curious if the experience I had still holds today at any bootcamps or if the drive to &quot;scale&quot; has messed up the industry</text></comment> |
37,776,639 | 37,776,564 | 1 | 2 | 37,775,649 | train | <story><title>US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells</title><url>https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/25/us-startup-begins-producing-40-efficient-thermophotovoltaic-cells/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbmonster</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why they go for storage with this. Storing a block of carbon or tungsten at 2000°C for hours or days does not sound like something that will ever be economical. A battery leaking energy this quickly (and it will leak₎ will need to be incredibly cheap to ever make sense.<p>I wonder if you could use this with parabolic mirrors, though. Build a large mirror array, focus sunlight onto a big carbon sphere (maybe coat it with one of those new materials that are transparent for visible light but pretty reflective for IR), cover the top of the sphere in those new panels. They are more efficient than practically all solar cells and get much more power out the same area than solar cells. This should beat a photovoltaic parabolic mirror setup, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>You won&#x27;t get the claimed efficiency that way: it only applies to an enclosed heat source. It&#x27;s critical that they&#x27;re reflecting light outside of the PV bandgap back into the thermal mass, where it&#x27;s re-absorbed and re-emitted again.<p>If you try that with solar radiation, you&#x27;ll lose most of it back into the sky.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-022-04473-y.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-022-04473-y.pdf</a><p>(Equation 1 and surrounding discussion, and the energy-flow diagrams in Figure 1).</text></comment> | <story><title>US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells</title><url>https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/01/25/us-startup-begins-producing-40-efficient-thermophotovoltaic-cells/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbmonster</author><text>I don&#x27;t get why they go for storage with this. Storing a block of carbon or tungsten at 2000°C for hours or days does not sound like something that will ever be economical. A battery leaking energy this quickly (and it will leak₎ will need to be incredibly cheap to ever make sense.<p>I wonder if you could use this with parabolic mirrors, though. Build a large mirror array, focus sunlight onto a big carbon sphere (maybe coat it with one of those new materials that are transparent for visible light but pretty reflective for IR), cover the top of the sphere in those new panels. They are more efficient than practically all solar cells and get much more power out the same area than solar cells. This should beat a photovoltaic parabolic mirror setup, right?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kolinko</author><text>Carbon or tungsten I don&#x27;t know, but sand as a thermal energy storage medium can be quite economical. Energy loss scales with the surface area (^2), energy stored with volume (^3).<p>With grid scale, above certain dimensions, you can store energy for months while maintaining economic viability.<p>Even for single days or weeks it makes sense. You need hot water in your home 24&#x2F;7, but sun doesn&#x27;t shine every day in most regions.</text></comment> |
9,305,313 | 9,305,283 | 1 | 2 | 9,301,724 | train | <story><title>Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity</title><url>http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044360/costa-rica-is-now-running-on-100-renewable-electricity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pluckytree</author><text>When a country accomplishes something really great, it’s not because they are small and the US is big. It’s because they are smart and we are dumb.<p>We hear this all the time. Portugal legalized drugs and it worked, but they’re small. Iceland forged their own path after the banking collapse, but they’re small. The Nordic countries have great education systems that cost less, but they’re small.<p>Always a great excuse when you really don’t want to learn from others.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oh_sigh</author><text>Actually, if USAians used as many watts per person as Costa Rica(8x fewer - 1683 wpp vs 207 wpp[1]), our renewable infrastructure would be able to support us entirely(currently 13% of total generation)[2], and infact we would have power to spare.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_electricit...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.cfm?id=427&amp;t=3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.cfm?id=427&amp;t=3</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity</title><url>http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044360/costa-rica-is-now-running-on-100-renewable-electricity</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pluckytree</author><text>When a country accomplishes something really great, it’s not because they are small and the US is big. It’s because they are smart and we are dumb.<p>We hear this all the time. Portugal legalized drugs and it worked, but they’re small. Iceland forged their own path after the banking collapse, but they’re small. The Nordic countries have great education systems that cost less, but they’re small.<p>Always a great excuse when you really don’t want to learn from others.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NittLion78</author><text>Maybe we&#x27;re dumb <i>because</i> we&#x27;re big. More people = more odds of an ignoramus group having critical mass.</text></comment> |
28,712,966 | 28,711,339 | 1 | 2 | 28,710,629 | train | <story><title>Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-enabling-ipv6-support-for-github-pages/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trevcanhuman</author><text>I don’t really understand the benefits, would you mind explaining them to me ?</text></item><item><author>an_d_rew</author><text>Thank you!<p>I know it’s all the rage to say “gee why no v6 yet?”, but that’s a LOT of infrastructure and testing to overhaul…<p>The effort is much appreciated!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&gt; <i>I don’t really understand the benefits, would you mind explaining them to me ?</i><p>Want to run a public service with end-to-end connectivity? Go to your RIR to request an IPv4 block and be put on a waiting list.<p>Or break out your cheque book and be prepared to cough up $35+&#x2F;IP for the privilege:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auctions.ipv4.global" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;auctions.ipv4.global</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipv4marketgroup.com&#x2F;ipv4-pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipv4marketgroup.com&#x2F;ipv4-pricing&#x2F;</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipv4connect.com&#x2F;marketplace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipv4connect.com&#x2F;marketplace</a><p>Or get an IPv6 address block right away for $0.</text></comment> | <story><title>Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2021-09-30-enabling-ipv6-support-for-github-pages/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trevcanhuman</author><text>I don’t really understand the benefits, would you mind explaining them to me ?</text></item><item><author>an_d_rew</author><text>Thank you!<p>I know it’s all the rage to say “gee why no v6 yet?”, but that’s a LOT of infrastructure and testing to overhaul…<p>The effort is much appreciated!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metalliqaz</author><text>the Internet is almost out of IPv4 addresses, and the ones that are left are becoming expensive to obtain. Rather than hide whole blocks of users behind NAT, they can just use IPv6.</text></comment> |
18,184,497 | 18,183,718 | 1 | 2 | 18,183,102 | train | <story><title>Stellar Smart Contracts</title><url>https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/walkthroughs/stellar-smart-contracts.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danielvf</author><text>If I&#x27;m reading the docs right, the Stellar smart contracts are extremely different from Ethereum smart contracts - in fact, it almost feels like a stretch to call them the same name. Like &quot;animals&quot; vs &quot;plants&quot;.<p>Ethereum smart contract are actual virtual machines. They are tiny computers that run whatever bytecode you want. You could calculate pi to a million decimal places in a smart contract, if you had the money for gas.<p>Stellar smart contracts, on the other hand, are simpler. A transaction can only choose from 13 operations (Buy, make offer, change trust, etc). On top of the operations, you can add some restrictions to the transaction - Stellar has support for built-in multi-sig, built-in start and end time limits, and built in transaction grouping. By combining these restrictions, grouping transactions, presigning this, and handing out that, you can make something that&#x27;s smarter than a single person doing a single transaction.<p>As an Ethereum blockchain developer, using Stellar smart contract feels very limiting, and outside the simple cases, very convoluted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stellar Smart Contracts</title><url>https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/walkthroughs/stellar-smart-contracts.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koalala</author><text>Stellar isn&#x27;t decentralized. Just like Ripple, it uses Federated Byzantine Agreement, which means that nodes use a list of other nodes they trust. The fact that this scheme has nothing to do with the concept of a decentralized cryptocurrency, aside from the hype train, doesn&#x27;t appear to have percolated into the collective mainstream or even geek consciousness yet.</text></comment> |
5,921,128 | 5,920,158 | 1 | 3 | 5,919,282 | train | <story><title>GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa?CMP=twt_gu</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This being more or less the entire stated mission of GCHQ, I wonder who&#x27;s actually surprised by this revelation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text><i>This being more or less the entire stated mission of GCHQ, I wonder who&#x27;s actually surprised by this revelation.</i><p>I&#x27;m truly appalled that the GCHQ see it as their job to collect network traffic from every communication passing through the UK, and pass that on to foreign intelligence agencies and politicians in the UK and abroad. The potential for corruption and abuse there is astounding, and no organisation or person should have anything like this amount of power over our lives. Politicians can be bribed, judges turned, legal cases undermined, corporate financials exposed, and leaders overthrown, all at the whim of any one of the millions of people with access to these databases, which apparently also have appallingly lax access controls and standards of oversight, along with their terrible standards for defining which signals they should intercept.<p>If complete surveillance of the population is the purpose of the GCHQ, it should be shut down in my opinion, but I think that&#x27;s a perversion of the role of signals intelligence in our society. The purpose of these agencies should be (and originally was) to defend the communications of our government from interception, to intercept communications from known enemies of the nation and to assist law enforcement and the judiciary in intercepting the communications of criminals, using all the standards of reasonable suspicion, judicial oversight etc that we hold so dearly to in collecting evidence in every other domain. Just because it&#x27;s easier and more practical for them to intercept everything and record it for later use, doesn&#x27;t make that extreme violation of many of our codes of privacy and law acceptable, predictable or desirable. It has enormous implications for our society, this is an essential debate when so much of our lives are now held in digital form, and <i>I&#x27;m surprised</i> that you try to blow it off as old news and of little consequence.</text></comment> | <story><title>GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications</title><url>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa?CMP=twt_gu</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This being more or less the entire stated mission of GCHQ, I wonder who&#x27;s actually surprised by this revelation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kryten</author><text>Not at all surprised.<p>In the late 1990s I worked for the UK subsidiary of a large US defence contractor. They had an international network which connected their subsidiaries to transfer documents, emails and engineering drawings. Most work was done for the US DoD. This was a typical leased ISDN system from BT.<p>It had cryptos at each end of a link (each in a literally a 2m by 2m room declared US soil by the then home secretary).<p>The biggest threat vector they had was actually listed as GCHQ and the line would suspiciously go down occasionally for a few ms resulting in the cryptos being &quot;red buttoned&quot; (key erasure).<p>A telling tale if any.</text></comment> |
38,555,489 | 38,554,280 | 1 | 2 | 38,552,789 | train | <story><title>Building end-to-end security for Messenger</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/06/security/building-end-to-end-security-for-messenger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contrarian1234</author><text>&quot;Why we’re bringing E2EE to Messenger<p>...
“<p>Okay, can someone give a good guess as to what&#x27;s the real reason to do this? Not like all the feel-good BS - what&#x27;s the business case? How is this gunna make them money?<p>It seems this just makes them lose access to a ton of data to mine for advertisement. I chat with a friend on IG about something and I immediately get ads for it. It&#x27;s a bit creepy, but I feel it&#x27;s working the way they&#x27;d want it to (never bring up watches, you will get watch ads for the next 6 months)<p>Are they bleeding a lot of user to Signal&#x2F;Telegram b&#x2F;c they lack encryption? (my impression is only nerds care about encryption)<p>Are they getting harassed by requests from law enforcement?<p>Are they in hot water b&#x2F;c of child porn?<p>Do they need plausible deniability?<p>I don&#x27;t really get why they&#x27;re rolling this out. Like what&#x27;s their angle. Seems like something users don&#x27;t care too much about and they lose a ton of valuable data</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>holmesworcester</author><text>Maybe they&#x27;re doing it because it&#x27;s the right thing to do, and because they&#x27;d like people to trust them.<p>Also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;11&#x2F;teen-and-mom-plead-guilty-to-abortion-charges-based-on-facebook-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;11&#x2F;teen-and-mom-plead-guilty-...</a><p>They must be able to do good targeted advertising without message contents, with public likes and other data on scrolling behavior, especially as AI tools improve. Maybe having this data is more trouble than it&#x27;s worth. Data is a liability as well as an asset.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building end-to-end security for Messenger</title><url>https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/06/security/building-end-to-end-security-for-messenger/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>contrarian1234</author><text>&quot;Why we’re bringing E2EE to Messenger<p>...
“<p>Okay, can someone give a good guess as to what&#x27;s the real reason to do this? Not like all the feel-good BS - what&#x27;s the business case? How is this gunna make them money?<p>It seems this just makes them lose access to a ton of data to mine for advertisement. I chat with a friend on IG about something and I immediately get ads for it. It&#x27;s a bit creepy, but I feel it&#x27;s working the way they&#x27;d want it to (never bring up watches, you will get watch ads for the next 6 months)<p>Are they bleeding a lot of user to Signal&#x2F;Telegram b&#x2F;c they lack encryption? (my impression is only nerds care about encryption)<p>Are they getting harassed by requests from law enforcement?<p>Are they in hot water b&#x2F;c of child porn?<p>Do they need plausible deniability?<p>I don&#x27;t really get why they&#x27;re rolling this out. Like what&#x27;s their angle. Seems like something users don&#x27;t care too much about and they lose a ton of valuable data</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>planb</author><text>Encryption is a great argument against messenger-interop regulations like the EU is planning.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;de&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;eu-digital-markets-acts-interoperability-rule-addresses-important-need-raises" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;de&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2022&#x2F;04&#x2F;eu-digital-markets-...</a></text></comment> |
4,820,284 | 4,820,134 | 1 | 3 | 4,819,972 | train | <story><title>Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women</title><url>http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/22/saudi-arabia-implements-electronic-tracking-system-for-women/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>"Women under male custody". Wow. I hadn't realized Saudi Arabia is so primitive. If the US Government is going to send them billions in aid (to buy weapons from US companies, and therefor indirectly subsidize them), can't it influence some of these decisions? Or does it prefer it when it's run by dictators?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arjunnarayan</author><text>The United States sends them billions of dollars worth of arms, surveillance tech and other tools to oppress the Saudi populace. It does this (and has done this for many decades now) in order to keep the oil flowing.<p>In other words, it props up an illegitimate dictatorial family, and in turn they keep the oil flowing at a fairly stable and cheap price.<p>And now you wonder why young Sauds who are oppressed by this situation hate the United States? The people's oil is taken out of the ground by an illegitimate government propped up by the people who buy the oil at what they perceive to be below the fair price.<p>Make no mistake, the source of the problem is the United States.</text></comment> | <story><title>Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women</title><url>http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/22/saudi-arabia-implements-electronic-tracking-system-for-women/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>"Women under male custody". Wow. I hadn't realized Saudi Arabia is so primitive. If the US Government is going to send them billions in aid (to buy weapons from US companies, and therefor indirectly subsidize them), can't it influence some of these decisions? Or does it prefer it when it's run by dictators?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zalew</author><text>You'd be very surprised to notice how often locals give less of a crap about stuff that enrages the western blogger crowd, or how many non-Americans don't share the feeling US needs to stick their nose into every other country's internal affairs.<p>Don't be fooled, if the US didn't care their BFF Pahlavi murdered and tortured Iranians, you shouldn't expect they care about women rights or whatever in SA.</text></comment> |
19,120,105 | 19,118,278 | 1 | 3 | 19,115,686 | train | <story><title>Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage</title><url>https://slab.com/blog/jeff-bezos-writing-management-strategy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>busyant</author><text>&gt; &quot;Writing is nature&#x27;s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.&quot;<p>Indeed!<p>Every so often, I have a coding question and I have an urge to ask that question on StackExchange.<p>Before I actually post the question, I write a draft question. I usually revise my draft a few times to make it as clear as possible. About 50% of the time, the process of revising my draft makes me realize an obvious solution to my own problem that I had overlooked.</text></item><item><author>jrauser</author><text>I&#x27;ve written documents for Jeff, and IMO, the six-page narrative memo is a key part of Amazon&#x27;s success. It&#x27;s so easy to fool both yourself and your audience with an oral presentation or powerpoint slides. With narrative text that has to stand on its own, there is no place for poor reasoning to hide. Amazon&#x27;s leadership makes better decisions than their competitors in part because they are routinely supplied with better arguments than their competitors.<p>&quot;Writing is nature&#x27;s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.&quot; -Dick Guindon, via Leslie Lamport</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zwayhowder</author><text>If only everyone did that.<p>A former colleague of mine had a teddy bear on his desk, before you could ask for his advice you had to take the teddy and explain your problem out loud to it. Easily 80% of the time you&#x27;d return the teddy and go back to your desk with the solution.<p>I found when I quit smoking my ability to solve complex problems took a dip, because I wasn&#x27;t taking the cognitive break to step back and reflect on problems. Once I replaced my smoke break with a walk around the building my work went back to it&#x27;s usual level.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage</title><url>https://slab.com/blog/jeff-bezos-writing-management-strategy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>busyant</author><text>&gt; &quot;Writing is nature&#x27;s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.&quot;<p>Indeed!<p>Every so often, I have a coding question and I have an urge to ask that question on StackExchange.<p>Before I actually post the question, I write a draft question. I usually revise my draft a few times to make it as clear as possible. About 50% of the time, the process of revising my draft makes me realize an obvious solution to my own problem that I had overlooked.</text></item><item><author>jrauser</author><text>I&#x27;ve written documents for Jeff, and IMO, the six-page narrative memo is a key part of Amazon&#x27;s success. It&#x27;s so easy to fool both yourself and your audience with an oral presentation or powerpoint slides. With narrative text that has to stand on its own, there is no place for poor reasoning to hide. Amazon&#x27;s leadership makes better decisions than their competitors in part because they are routinely supplied with better arguments than their competitors.<p>&quot;Writing is nature&#x27;s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.&quot; -Dick Guindon, via Leslie Lamport</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>module0000</author><text>The internet needs more of you. Thinking about your problem and a question to solve it leads to introspection, which is sorely lacking in most StackExchange questions. Most posters just let their stream of consciousness out, post it, and curse the lack of answers.</text></comment> |
36,484,983 | 36,484,989 | 1 | 2 | 36,483,445 | train | <story><title>P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)</title><url>https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=Unbroken&page=P1030680</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edent</author><text>My favourite Enigma message - as told to me by a tour guide at Bletchley Park - was thought to be a stream of indecipherable gibberish.<p>Until a WREN noticed that the message never contained the letter Z.<p>One weakness of that generation of Enigma was that it could not self-encode a letter. That is, A was never encrypted to A.<p>This had no letter Zs. A statistical improbability. Unless, so she reckoned, the <i>entire</i> message consisted of <i>only</i> the letter Z repeated.<p>Apparently, their best guess was that a bored soldier sent a stream of Zzzzzz to a friend. That was enough to crack that day&#x27;s key.<p>Of course, every guide at Bletchley has a range of stories they tell credulous geeks. But it is a delightful tale of how OpSec is everything.</text></comment> | <story><title>P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)</title><url>https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=Unbroken&page=P1030680</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfengel</author><text>At this point, how long would it take to brute-force an Enigma message on a modern home computer? Is it on the order of hours, or millennia?<p>I found this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;33628&#x2F;how-many-possible-enigma-machine-settings#:~:text=Wikipedia%20is%20your%20friend%3A%20%22Combining,159%20quintillion)%20different%20settings.%22" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;33628&#x2F;how-many-po...</a><p>which says the key space is something like 10^20 or 10^23.<p>A modern supercomputer does something like 10^18 FLOPS. I assume that an enigma decryption is considerably more than a single floating point operation, but presumably just a few orders of magnitude.<p>So... if I&#x27;m reading that right, we&#x27;re talking about months, perhaps?</text></comment> |
28,993,473 | 28,991,943 | 1 | 3 | 28,969,757 | train | <story><title>A Prototype Original iPod</title><url>https://panic.com/blog/a-prototype-original-ipod/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macNchz</author><text>Hard to believe it has been 20 years. When talking about the impact of the original iPod on the last two decades of Apple&#x27;s extraordinary success, I like to jump back to this forum thread from October 23rd 2001 (it is always easy to find because it is thread number 500!) and see the reactions from the time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.macrumors.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;apples-new-thing-ipod.500&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.macrumors.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;apples-new-thing-ipod.5...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>em500</author><text>During the heydays of the iPod craze, around 2005-2008, I was convinced that product line would be short lived. It was apparent that music playing was a trivial application of mobile phones, which were already becoming ubiquitous. In those days, Nokia was a far bigger cultural phenomenon outside of North America (where Nokia never gained much of a foothold). And it was truly global, not just European: even tiny villages in rural Asia, Africa and South America had Nokia vendors.<p>So in my straightforward projection, it was only a matter of time before the iPod would be crushed by the likes of Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Samsung, LG, etc. Never did I imagine that Apple would turn the tables on the phone manufacturers so dramatically after 2008...</text></comment> | <story><title>A Prototype Original iPod</title><url>https://panic.com/blog/a-prototype-original-ipod/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>macNchz</author><text>Hard to believe it has been 20 years. When talking about the impact of the original iPod on the last two decades of Apple&#x27;s extraordinary success, I like to jump back to this forum thread from October 23rd 2001 (it is always easy to find because it is thread number 500!) and see the reactions from the time: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.macrumors.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;apples-new-thing-ipod.500&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.macrumors.com&#x2F;threads&#x2F;apples-new-thing-ipod.5...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MBCook</author><text>It became so popular, especially after it was officially available on Windows in 2003. And it remained THE thing until the iPhone really exploded when unleashed from AT&amp;T around 2011.<p>It’s heyday was only about 8 years but it had such a MASSIVE effect on the technology and music industries.<p>Has any other product been so important but only been around for a relatively short amount of time?</text></comment> |
16,979,728 | 16,979,924 | 1 | 3 | 16,979,591 | train | <story><title>Containers</title><url>https://xkcd.com/1988/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yarosv</author><text>dupe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16979090" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16979090</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Containers</title><url>https://xkcd.com/1988/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tlb</author><text>I&#x27;d really like to have several dedicated iPads for fixed purposes. The problem is that they each require regular user interaction to upgrade apps or the OS. For instance, I have one mounted to my music stand to run Ultimate Guitar and Spotify. When I come back to it after a week, it often takes a few minutes to click through all the upgrade dialogs, or deal with Spotify being logged out, or whatever.<p>Apple: I&#x27;d buy more iPads if they required less frequent hoop jumping. As a goal, I should be required to do something only once a year.</text></comment> |
38,724,117 | 38,724,417 | 1 | 2 | 38,722,915 | train | <story><title>Why is my Mac trying to force me to enroll with Expedia Group upon installation?</title><url>https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/467625/why-is-my-mac-trying-to-force-me-to-enroll-with-expedia-group-upon-installation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runjake</author><text>We have some poor soul in Puerto Rico who has a MacBook Pro that is tied to our MDM system and, for whatever reason, it cannot be removed.<p>The closest we can tell is that he sent his MBP off to Apple for repair and they swapped the logic board with a refurb unit that was swapped from one of our machines. There is some internal tool that rewrites the serial number and apparently nobody ever overwrote the serial number on the removed unit.<p>So anyway, there&#x27;s two legitimate MBPs out there with the same serial number, although ours is probably decommissioned by now (I believe it was a 2015).<p>Was a funny journey figuring out what the hell was going on, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is my Mac trying to force me to enroll with Expedia Group upon installation?</title><url>https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/467625/why-is-my-mac-trying-to-force-me-to-enroll-with-expedia-group-upon-installation</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>annoyingcyclist</author><text>I had this happen with an iPad that I received as an exchange when I sent one in for a repair. I booted the new unit up and was prompted to enroll the device in MDM for a school district in Florida. Kind of a frustrating experience, but Apple support was eventually able to get it unenrolled after enough escalations (&quot;yes, I bought it from you&quot;, &quot;no, I&#x27;m not going to sign in to an MDM-enrolled device with my personal Apple ID&quot;, &quot;no, I&#x27;ve never heard of this school district and don&#x27;t know anyone in IT there who could unenroll the device&quot;, &quot;yes, I&#x27;m quite sure I didn&#x27;t buy it off a truck&quot;).<p>I never learned what caused the issue.</text></comment> |
2,862,390 | 2,862,398 | 1 | 2 | 2,862,003 | train | <story><title>Mark Cuban: What Business is Wall Street in?</title><url>http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/08/what-business-is-wall-street-in-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>T_S_</author><text>Simple solution. Penny a share transfer tax for all trades. Corresponding amounts on bonds and other instruments. Watch the amazing reduction in volume and volatility. Then watch the return to focus on value trading.<p>Like that idea? Next, open up public companies books. Not in the formal but phony SEC/GAAP way. No, I mean realtime journal entries. I will do the accounting myself. You can too. Link the trading tax to how often the company updates its numbers. Want more liquidity for your stock? Give more information.<p>Still on board? Ok, now if a company releases forecasts, they must release the model they used to generate the forecast. Yes, the code. Doesn't matter how simple or complex. Bullshit forecasts will be self-evident. Data for better ones will be more available.<p>Now all those things would make finance productive again by putting the focus back on capital allocation and moving it away from trading, speculation and lies. Make regulators focus on enforcing real transparency, since they don't know how to regulate behavior. This takes away the upside from the regulator/industry revolving door. It would be a great world for analysts and investors.<p>In olden days (1980) all this would have been technically infeasible. Now we have the computing power to handle it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mark Cuban: What Business is Wall Street in?</title><url>http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/08/what-business-is-wall-street-in-2/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dkarl</author><text><i>It is getting increasingly difficult to just invest in companies you believe in.</i><p>This is a key point, and he doesn't justify it at all. Are value investors negatively affected by someone making a penny when the value investor makes a $1000 trade? Or are they positively affected by liquidity? He is either unaware that it's a controversy with plenty of history, or he prefers to gloss over it. He seems bothered by the fact that there's a lot going on besides simple value investing, as if any other activity <i>must</i> be detrimental to the operation of the market. He seems to be implying that the other activities on Wall Street are preventing stock values from reflecting investors' rational estimates of the value of the underlying businesses. <i>Seems</i> to be, I can't be entirely sure. If that's his point, he needs to muster some evidence, because plenty of people claim the opposite.<p><i>Individual investors and the funds that just invest in stocks and bonds are not going to crash the market.</i><p>Individual investors are very much among those who panic and sell when the market goes down, or who establish stop-loss orders with their brokers that cause market losses to irrationally cascade. Plenty of individual investors are eager to turn into gold bugs at the faintest whiff of a downturn. If amateur investors or stock analysts are better at value investing than "traders", they should eat the traders' lunch when the market panics. If it's the other way around, then the traders aren't the ones crashing the market.</text></comment> |
11,264,157 | 11,263,729 | 1 | 2 | 11,262,318 | train | <story><title>Update on InfluxDB Clustering, High Availability and Monetization</title><url>https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-high-availability-and-monetization/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>23david</author><text>I&#x27;ve advocated for and implemented several InfluxDB installations in production over the last year+, and one of the considerations was always that non-alpha (prod-ready) clustering was always promised in the &#x27;next version&#x27; that was just around the corner.<p>Several months ago it seemed clear that the team was overly optimistic, and it&#x27;s just disappointing to see that now the clustering will be available only in a paid (minimum $400!) option or on their hosted service.<p>I understand the business considerations here, but it feels like a bait n&#x27; switch for all the people who evaluated&#x2F;used InfluxDB in single-node operation as a temporary measure while giving the team ample time to work out the clustering kinks.<p>Lesson learned I guess... but dang what an expensive lesson.</text></comment> | <story><title>Update on InfluxDB Clustering, High Availability and Monetization</title><url>https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-high-availability-and-monetization/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrv</author><text>This makes me think: an open-source project can be better off if it&#x27;s <i>not</i> controlled by any one company. While in Prometheus (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prometheus.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;prometheus.io</a>), we might still take a while before we have a clustered remote long-term storage, we&#x27;d never <i>prevent</i> it because the project is independent of any company and we&#x27;d want the open-source project to be as good as it can be.<p>Also, there were some tentative thoughts about using InfluxDB as the main long-term storage backend for Prometheus, but that has become pretty much uninteresting now that clustering support (needed for LTS and durability) is basically cancelled for the open-source version.<p>Still, I guess I can understand that when you&#x27;re a company, you need to focus on making money.</text></comment> |
20,333,126 | 20,333,036 | 1 | 2 | 20,332,262 | train | <story><title>Why Continuations Are Coming to Java</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/presentations/continuations-java/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twic</author><text>&gt; I serve as a technical lead for Project Loon. That is the project that&#x27;s intended to add continuations and fibers to the JDK.<p>&gt; However, actually, Project Loom, the goal of the project is to add continuations, fibers, and tail call elimination.<p>I&#x27;m guessing that the project is called either Loom or Loon (and i believe it&#x27;s the former), but i like the idea that there are actually two cooperating projects, each of which occasionally suspends and lets the other run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tharkun</author><text>It is indeed Loom, you know, because a loom is used to weave threads into cloth. It&#x27;s possibly also a loony project, but who am I to judge.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Continuations Are Coming to Java</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/presentations/continuations-java/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twic</author><text>&gt; I serve as a technical lead for Project Loon. That is the project that&#x27;s intended to add continuations and fibers to the JDK.<p>&gt; However, actually, Project Loom, the goal of the project is to add continuations, fibers, and tail call elimination.<p>I&#x27;m guessing that the project is called either Loom or Loon (and i believe it&#x27;s the former), but i like the idea that there are actually two cooperating projects, each of which occasionally suspends and lets the other run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>It&#x27;s probably Loom. It&#x27;s thematically connected to &quot;fibers&quot; and doesn&#x27;t make the immediate statement that you think your own project is doomed. Neither of those is true of Loon.</text></comment> |
24,381,974 | 24,379,945 | 1 | 3 | 24,378,055 | train | <story><title>What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.ifca.ai/pub/fc15/89750001.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dnprock</author><text>I think Satoshi didn&#x27;t know that Bitcoin would not be a medium of exchange. It will remain digital gold. Bitcoin cannot fulfill its original promise to be electronic cash. This is the hardest hurdle for bitcoiners to understand. They think that sky high value of Bitcoin would transform it into a medium of exchange. But I think it&#x27;s a false promise from Satoshi.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitflate.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;bitcoin-will-not-be-a-medium-of-exchange.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitflate.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;bitcoin-will-not-be-a-m...</a><p>The biggest hurdle for cryptocurrency adoption is a medium of exchange. Most investors waste their time playing around with buzzwords like DeFi.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uncletammy</author><text>&gt; Bitcoin cannot fulfill its original promise to be electronic cash.<p>Not as long as the Bitcoin core developers are actively sabotaging BTC&#x27;s development so Blockstream can sell you the solution. Bitcoin was hijacked and it may never recover.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.ifca.ai/pub/fc15/89750001.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dnprock</author><text>I think Satoshi didn&#x27;t know that Bitcoin would not be a medium of exchange. It will remain digital gold. Bitcoin cannot fulfill its original promise to be electronic cash. This is the hardest hurdle for bitcoiners to understand. They think that sky high value of Bitcoin would transform it into a medium of exchange. But I think it&#x27;s a false promise from Satoshi.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitflate.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;bitcoin-will-not-be-a-medium-of-exchange.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitflate.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;24&#x2F;bitcoin-will-not-be-a-m...</a><p>The biggest hurdle for cryptocurrency adoption is a medium of exchange. Most investors waste their time playing around with buzzwords like DeFi.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>specialist</author><text>An escrow vs a currency.<p>(File under &quot;hunch, but just guessing.&quot;)</text></comment> |
4,096,988 | 4,096,814 | 1 | 3 | 4,096,439 | train | <story><title>Chromium Blog: A Tale Of Two Pwnies (Part 2)</title><url>http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-2.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmillikin</author><text>Is anyone else dismayed by the implicit view of these sorts of articles, that browsers should be complicated and full of all these insecure features?<p>It reminds me strongly of PDF and Acrobat. PDF is great for mailing around print-ready documents, which are more-or-less guaranteed to look the same for every viewer. Writing a PDF renderer is not easy, but it is straightforward, and there are multiple stable implementations without significant security problems.<p>Then Adobe comes along and they add forms, and 3D charts, or Javascript, or multimedia, and Acrobat grows from a document viewer into what is essentially a backdoor on every Windows computer.<p>A similar thing is happening with browsers. The core purpose of a web browser is the ability to render HTML+CSS into a human-readable document. Then browser vendors added forms and Javascript, so XSS was invented. They added persistent data storage, so looking at cat pictures can compromise my bank account. And now, Chrome+Firefox are /competing/ to see who can add more features, security be damned.<p>WebGL exposes your graphics drivers (never security-audited before) to the internet. &#60;audio&#62; and &#60;video&#62; expose multimedia codecs, which in the past have caused numerous security problems. Flash is, essentially, a cross-platform way to let arbitrary people run exploits on your machine.<p>When will it stop? When will browser vendors take a collective breath, look around, and realize the insanity they've been perpetrating?</text></comment> | <story><title>Chromium Blog: A Tale Of Two Pwnies (Part 2)</title><url>http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/tale-of-two-pwnies-part-2.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kvnn</author><text>Google has changed the relationship between exploiters and themselves into something symbiotic and fun.<p>How refreshing it is to hear excitement and admiration when a large tech company speaks about an exploit made in one of its products.<p>Super awesome.<p>[ See <a href="http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/expanding-chromium-security-rewards.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/expanding-chromium-security...</a> ]</text></comment> |
34,859,075 | 34,858,545 | 1 | 3 | 34,843,965 | train | <story><title>Queues should be empty</title><url>http://joshvoigts.com/articles/queues-should-be-empty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>If a queue isn&#x27;t approaching empty, then its input is exceeding its output. Therefore it&#x27;s size is trending to infinity.<p>Since we don&#x27;t have infinite space, we can expect eventually to lose some messages in this scenario.</text></item><item><author>orf</author><text>No they shouldn’t.<p>The way I see it is that there are two opposing things you can optimise for that depend on queue depth: utilisation or latency.<p>If you care about processing each message as quickly as possible then queues should be empty. This often requires a higher cost and lower utilisation as you inevitably have idle workers <i>waiting</i> for new messages.<p>If you care about utilisation, then you never want your queue to be empty while something is polling it. This might be some background task that runs on a GPU - every second that sits idle is wasted cash, and those tasks usually benefit heavily from batching inputs together.<p>In this case you <i>want</i> it to <i>always</i> have something to read from the queue and shut it down the moment this isn’t the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klyrs</author><text>&gt; If a queue isn&#x27;t approaching empty, then its input is exceeding its output. Therefore it&#x27;s size is trending to infinity.<p>This is literally the slippery slope fallacy. You aren&#x27;t accounting for minor fluctuations or finite timescales. If you were driving a car, you might say &quot;if you aren&#x27;t steering into oncoming traffic then you&#x27;re steering towards the ditch&quot; and conclude that no cars will ever safely reach their destination.<p>If the only valid state for a queue is empty, then why waste time implementing a queue?</text></comment> | <story><title>Queues should be empty</title><url>http://joshvoigts.com/articles/queues-should-be-empty/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>If a queue isn&#x27;t approaching empty, then its input is exceeding its output. Therefore it&#x27;s size is trending to infinity.<p>Since we don&#x27;t have infinite space, we can expect eventually to lose some messages in this scenario.</text></item><item><author>orf</author><text>No they shouldn’t.<p>The way I see it is that there are two opposing things you can optimise for that depend on queue depth: utilisation or latency.<p>If you care about processing each message as quickly as possible then queues should be empty. This often requires a higher cost and lower utilisation as you inevitably have idle workers <i>waiting</i> for new messages.<p>If you care about utilisation, then you never want your queue to be empty while something is polling it. This might be some background task that runs on a GPU - every second that sits idle is wasted cash, and those tasks usually benefit heavily from batching inputs together.<p>In this case you <i>want</i> it to <i>always</i> have something to read from the queue and shut it down the moment this isn’t the case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>User23</author><text>The Little’s law[1] offers considerable guidance here. In the shortish term it’s safe to model the system as being stationary and then you need to provision for seasonality[2]. Upward or downward trending demand after correcting for seasonality indicates that the system isn’t stationary and your choices are either to scale up or reject requests. Nevertheless the optimal queue size is not necessarily zero except in cases where extremely low latency is necessary. The optimal queue capacity for most web service type applications is one that trends toward almost but not quite full when seasonal requests are higher.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Little%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Little%27s_law</a><p>[2] broadly construed. For example a service that gets a mass of requests at the top of every hour displays seasonality.</text></comment> |
19,945,906 | 19,943,388 | 1 | 2 | 19,943,008 | train | <story><title>Standards.REST: A Collection of HTTP/REST API Standards and Specs</title><url>http://standards.rest/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>somada141</author><text>I&#x27;m a little surprised I didn&#x27;t see the JSON:API spec [1] on there (no affiliation). While by no means a silver bullet my team has adopted it for both internal and public APIs and our clients have been quite happy having a standardised API like that.<p>In addition it is fairly-well supported by community packages (at least in Pythonland, e.g., marshmallow-jsonapi [2]) so it fit quite nicely in our stack while we could incrementally come up with v2 APIs that implement it.<p>Lastly, the spec does a semi-decent job, again no silver-bullet, of defining more advanced API features like filtering, sorting, field-selection, etc in a way that brings a lot of the GraphQL perks into REST.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonapi.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonapi.org&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marshmallow-code&#x2F;marshmallow-jsonapi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marshmallow-code&#x2F;marshmallow-jsonapi</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Standards.REST: A Collection of HTTP/REST API Standards and Specs</title><url>http://standards.rest/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jypepin</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t seem like it&#x27;s much helpful. If someone is building a new API and want a list of standard&#x2F;best practices to follow, something like OpenAPI[0] would be much more helpful.<p>Here, I&#x27;m not sure what one would do with a list of RFCs?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swagger.io&#x2F;resources&#x2F;open-api&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swagger.io&#x2F;resources&#x2F;open-api&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
32,642,990 | 32,642,936 | 1 | 2 | 32,628,562 | train | <story><title>On tea and the art of doing nothing</title><url>https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/on-tea-and-the-art-of-doing-nothing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thunkle</author><text>I&#x27;ve been extremely sensitive to caffeine and so coffee doesn&#x27;t work for me. Recently I&#x27;ve been enjoying the ritual of preparing white tea from one of those hard tea disks. I have a special tea knife that lets me pry away layers, I then put them in a small tea pot (8oz) do a first rinse, and add the specific water temp and the specific time. I&#x27;ve found the ritual itself to be quite tactile and pleasing and the caffeine to not be too overpowering. It&#x27;s a lovely way to wake up or take a work break.</text></comment> | <story><title>On tea and the art of doing nothing</title><url>https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/on-tea-and-the-art-of-doing-nothing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway1777</author><text>Truly a strange article, like the author has never tried breakfast tea which has almost as much caffeine as coffee and will definitely keep you awake…</text></comment> |
8,888,529 | 8,888,578 | 1 | 2 | 8,888,047 | train | <story><title>I Owe It All to Community College</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/opinion/tom-hanks-on-his-two-years-at-chabot-college.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brohoolio</author><text>Is it more efficient to have a whole complicated financial aid system or just provide discounted access to everyone.<p>Time is money.</text></item><item><author>danielweber</author><text>How much do you think community college costs these days after a Pell Grant?</text></item><item><author>brohoolio</author><text>$95 dollars a semester.<p>It shows you how society used to provide resources for people to bootstrap their lives.<p>The same individuals who benefited from this investment have not decided to pay it forward. They argue for lower taxes and support for education.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gajomi</author><text>I want to second this point. The percentage of young adults (this is the demographic that represents most fo the current community college population) living below the poverty level is about 40% [1]. So even in the absolute worst case scenario where the Pell grant only applied to those below the poverty level and all those above that level started taking advantage of the free community college your efficiency could drop by a factor of two. In reality, there is a significant fraction of those below the poverty level who don&#x27;t know about such Pell grant opportunities and the complexities of federal student aid and would never apply, but would jump at the opportunity for a free education. Also, a more realistic assessment of the efficiency question would require a better picture of how many people below the target of the Pell threshold would start taking advantage of the program. I would suspect that only a small fraction of people from the top 10% income bracket would pursue this, since they have other opportunities available. So lets say that we actually have something like a 50% reduction in efficiency to get the money to the target audience, and a side effect of a few tens of millions of people outside the target audience getting their education subsidized. There is obviously room for improvement, but I would support that scenario.<p>[1]<a href="http://www.ihep.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/pubs/brief_a_portrait_of_low-income_young_adults_in_education.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ihep.org&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;docs&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;br...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I Owe It All to Community College</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/opinion/tom-hanks-on-his-two-years-at-chabot-college.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brohoolio</author><text>Is it more efficient to have a whole complicated financial aid system or just provide discounted access to everyone.<p>Time is money.</text></item><item><author>danielweber</author><text>How much do you think community college costs these days after a Pell Grant?</text></item><item><author>brohoolio</author><text>$95 dollars a semester.<p>It shows you how society used to provide resources for people to bootstrap their lives.<p>The same individuals who benefited from this investment have not decided to pay it forward. They argue for lower taxes and support for education.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>Not to mention that the more complicated the financial aid system becomes, the less likely the people who need educational help from a community college will be able to actually get it. By requiring you to already have the skills to navigate it, the complexity forms a barrier to entry that just discounting the cost does not.</text></comment> |
36,064,058 | 36,064,238 | 1 | 2 | 36,061,407 | train | <story><title>PyPI Was Subpoenaed</title><url>https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-24-pypi-was-subpoenaed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>Civil rights, including those in the First Amendment, are not absolute. Regarding speech, you also can&#x27;t harass people, threaten them, defraud them, incite violence, distribute copyrighted information that isn&#x27;t yours, interfere with others&#x27; activities (sing loudly in a movie theater), etc. Private entities such as your employer can restrict your speech in many ways.<p>&gt; often there&#x27;s posts on HN about how the UK and all other Western European countries are totalitarian because they don&#x27;t have unrestricted free speech<p>I haven&#x27;t seen these posts. Do you have an example handy?</text></item><item><author>blibble</author><text>as a foreigner (in terms of the US), I&#x27;ve never understood how these gag orders are compatible with the First Amendment<p>often there&#x27;s posts on HN about how the UK and all other Western European countries are totalitarian because they don&#x27;t have unrestricted free speech<p>but then apparently the police (FBI) can restrict the free speech of Americans without any court involvement at all?<p>I really don&#x27;t understand</text></item><item><author>Loquebantur</author><text>What a weird way to think about such events.<p>Such subpoenas are clandestine surveillance of citizens by their state. The problem with such types of surveillance in particular is the lack of accountability.<p>How does the ethical use of this prolematic tool get ascertained? Where and how is the democratic oversight implemented? How is misuse treated and prevented?</text></item><item><author>samanator</author><text>Yep, I was thinking the same thing. What a beautiful way of communicating that.</text></item><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>&gt; We have waited for the string of subpoenas to subside, though we were committed from the beginning to write and publish this post as a matter of transparency, and as allowed by the lack of a non-disclosure order associated with the subpoenas received in March and April 2023.<p>That&#x27;s suspiciously specific. Sounds to me like they also received some other subpoenas they aren&#x27;t allowed to talk about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blibble</author><text>&gt; I haven&#x27;t seen these posts. Do you have an example handy?<p>here&#x27;s one from earlier in the week: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36000459" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36000459</a><p>they&#x27;re pretty common, here&#x27;s another one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35617773" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35617773</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PyPI Was Subpoenaed</title><url>https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-24-pypi-was-subpoenaed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>Civil rights, including those in the First Amendment, are not absolute. Regarding speech, you also can&#x27;t harass people, threaten them, defraud them, incite violence, distribute copyrighted information that isn&#x27;t yours, interfere with others&#x27; activities (sing loudly in a movie theater), etc. Private entities such as your employer can restrict your speech in many ways.<p>&gt; often there&#x27;s posts on HN about how the UK and all other Western European countries are totalitarian because they don&#x27;t have unrestricted free speech<p>I haven&#x27;t seen these posts. Do you have an example handy?</text></item><item><author>blibble</author><text>as a foreigner (in terms of the US), I&#x27;ve never understood how these gag orders are compatible with the First Amendment<p>often there&#x27;s posts on HN about how the UK and all other Western European countries are totalitarian because they don&#x27;t have unrestricted free speech<p>but then apparently the police (FBI) can restrict the free speech of Americans without any court involvement at all?<p>I really don&#x27;t understand</text></item><item><author>Loquebantur</author><text>What a weird way to think about such events.<p>Such subpoenas are clandestine surveillance of citizens by their state. The problem with such types of surveillance in particular is the lack of accountability.<p>How does the ethical use of this prolematic tool get ascertained? Where and how is the democratic oversight implemented? How is misuse treated and prevented?</text></item><item><author>samanator</author><text>Yep, I was thinking the same thing. What a beautiful way of communicating that.</text></item><item><author>wongarsu</author><text>&gt; We have waited for the string of subpoenas to subside, though we were committed from the beginning to write and publish this post as a matter of transparency, and as allowed by the lack of a non-disclosure order associated with the subpoenas received in March and April 2023.<p>That&#x27;s suspiciously specific. Sounds to me like they also received some other subpoenas they aren&#x27;t allowed to talk about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>Then following up on blibble&#x27;s question: What <i>is</i> the difference to the UK and other western countries that mostly also have free speech with what looks to me very similar restrictions?<p>Honest question, like blibble, I don&#x27;t really understand it either?</text></comment> |
39,661,438 | 39,661,251 | 1 | 2 | 39,660,780 | train | <story><title>How far are we from intelligent visual deductive reasoning?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04732</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgearhart</author><text>The Georgia Tech Knowledge Based AI course involved building a program to answer ravens progressive matrix questions. The course was offered in the online MS program, so thousands of students have taken the course. The most impressive result I saw was one student who got nearly perfect results in about 25 lines of Python code.<p>This may be a case where humans do well on the test, but you can do very well on the test without doing anything the way a human would. The fact that GPTs aren’t very good at the test isn’t probably evidence that they’re not really very smart, but it doesn’t really mean that if we fix them to do very well on the test that they’ve gotten any smarter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epups</author><text>How many libraries were included in these 25 lines of code?</text></comment> | <story><title>How far are we from intelligent visual deductive reasoning?</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04732</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cgearhart</author><text>The Georgia Tech Knowledge Based AI course involved building a program to answer ravens progressive matrix questions. The course was offered in the online MS program, so thousands of students have taken the course. The most impressive result I saw was one student who got nearly perfect results in about 25 lines of Python code.<p>This may be a case where humans do well on the test, but you can do very well on the test without doing anything the way a human would. The fact that GPTs aren’t very good at the test isn’t probably evidence that they’re not really very smart, but it doesn’t really mean that if we fix them to do very well on the test that they’ve gotten any smarter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjburgess</author><text>There are an infinite number of algorithms to compute A from Q, given a se tof (Q, A). Almost none, surely, are intelligent.<p>These proxy measure of intelligence are just arguments from ignorance, &quot;I don&#x27;t know how the machine computed A from Q, therefore...&quot;.<p>But of course some of us do know how the machine did it; we can quite easily describe the algorithm. It just turns out no one wants to because its really dumb.<p>Esp. if the alg is, as in all ML, &quot;start with billions&#x2F;trillions of data points in the (Q, A) space; generate a compressed representation ZipQA; and for novel Q&#x27; find decompressed A located close to Q similar to Q&#x27;&quot;<p>There are no theories of intelligence which would label <i>that</i> intelligence.<p>And let me say, most such &quot;theories&quot; are ad-hoc PR that are rigged to make whatever the latest gizmo &quot;intelligent&quot;.<p>Any plausible theory begins form the initial intuition, &quot;intelligence is what you do when you dont know what you&#x27;re doing&quot;.</text></comment> |
5,013,386 | 5,013,140 | 1 | 3 | 5,012,920 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Send SMS to your number for free from shell</title><url>https://github.com/oxplot/gcsms</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chintan</author><text><a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/website-uptime-monitor/21060/" rel="nofollow">http://www.labnol.org/internet/website-uptime-monitor/21060/</a><p>This Google doc script monitors your websites and sends an SMS to alert you when down. It uses the same "Calendar-&#62;SMS" feature.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Send SMS to your number for free from shell</title><url>https://github.com/oxplot/gcsms</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>killahpriest</author><text>Wish this worked through Google Voice.<p>EDIT: <a href="http://brettterpstra.com/2010/11/19/sms-from-the-command-line-with-google-voice/" rel="nofollow">http://brettterpstra.com/2010/11/19/sms-from-the-command-lin...</a></text></comment> |
18,548,361 | 18,547,976 | 1 | 2 | 18,547,714 | train | <story><title>Amazon DynamoDB Transactions</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-dynamodb-transactions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>abalone</author><text>Any experience with using Aurora in place of DynamoDB?<p>A couple years ago there was an interesting tidbit at re:Invent about customers moving from DynamoDB to Aurora to save significant costs.[1] The Aurora team made the point that DynamoDB suffers from hotspots despite your best efforts to evenly distribute keys, so you end up overprovisioning. Whereas with Aurora you just pay for I&#x2F;O. And the scalability is great. Plus you get other nice stuff with Aurora like, you know, traditional SQL multi-operation transactions.<p>It was kind of buried in a preso from the Aurora team and the high-level messaging from Amazon was still, NoSQL is the most scalable thing. Aurora was and is still seemingly positioned against other solutions within the SQL realm. I sort of get it in theory that NoSQL is still <i>theoretically</i> infinitely scalable whereas Aurora is bounded by 15 read replicas and one write master.. but in practice these days those limits are huge. I think one write master can handle like 100K transactions a second or something.<p>So, I&#x27;m really curious where this has gone in the past couple years if anywhere. Is NoSQL still the best approach?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;60QumD2QsF0?t=1021" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;60QumD2QsF0?t=1021</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon DynamoDB Transactions</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-dynamodb-transactions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>piinbinary</author><text>My wishlist for DynamoDB is now down to:<p>* Fast one-time data import without permanently creating a lot of shards (important if you are restoring from a backup)<p>* Better visibility into what causes throttling (e.g. was it a hot shard? Was it a brief but large burst of traffic?)<p>* Lower p99.9 latency. It occasionally has huge latency spikes.<p>* Indexes of more than 2 columns<p>* A solution for streaming out updates that is better than dynamodb streams</text></comment> |
32,983,995 | 32,982,993 | 1 | 3 | 32,980,141 | train | <story><title>Age – a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library</title><url>https://github.com/FiloSottile/age</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>upofadown</author><text>Age is great and all but it has a huge footgun. It encourages the user to encrypt material with a public key in a way that is entirely unauthenticated. So an attacker with access to that public key can simply overwrite the file with whatever they want. If ensuring that you end up with the same stuff as you encrypted is important than that can be a big problem. Fixing this involves the use of a separate signing utility and thus introduces an entirely different set of keys for the user to manually manage.<p>By doing the key management for the user, GPG actually ends up being a lot more usable...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I understand this comment: age doesn&#x27;t have authenticated encryption, but neither does PGP. The closest thing in PGP is the &quot;Modification Detection Code,&quot; which is hilariously broken[1].<p>Edit: On top of that, every PGP implementation that I&#x27;ve ever worked with happily streams unauthenticated, decrypted plaintext before completing MDC verification.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;latacora.micro.blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-pgp-problem.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;latacora.micro.blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;07&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-pgp-problem.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Age – a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library</title><url>https://github.com/FiloSottile/age</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>upofadown</author><text>Age is great and all but it has a huge footgun. It encourages the user to encrypt material with a public key in a way that is entirely unauthenticated. So an attacker with access to that public key can simply overwrite the file with whatever they want. If ensuring that you end up with the same stuff as you encrypted is important than that can be a big problem. Fixing this involves the use of a separate signing utility and thus introduces an entirely different set of keys for the user to manually manage.<p>By doing the key management for the user, GPG actually ends up being a lot more usable...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sixhobbits</author><text>One of the things I like most about Age is that it made the very deliberate choice to __not__ become a general tool like GPG, and focuses only on one thing: secure encryption. You can read some of the reasoning about specifically not supporting signing as well here [0], but TL;DR -- it&#x27;s a hard problem and age isn&#x27;t really designed for communication and doesn&#x27;t want to become a &quot;a worse version of signal&quot;.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FiloSottile&#x2F;age&#x2F;issues&#x2F;51" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FiloSottile&#x2F;age&#x2F;issues&#x2F;51</a></text></comment> |
2,682,645 | 2,682,522 | 1 | 2 | 2,682,394 | train | <story><title>Michael Abrash on Quake: "Finish the product and you’ll be a hero."</title><url>http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/chap70.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>I got the hero speech too, once. If anyone ever mentions the word "heroic" again and there isn't a burning building involved, I will start looking for new employment immediately. It seems that in our industry it is universally a code word for "We're about to exploit you because the project is understaffed and under budgeted for time and <i>that is exactly as we planned it</i> so you'd better cowboy up."<p>Maybe it is different if you're writing Quake, but I guarantee you the 43rd best selling game that year also had programmers "encouraged onwards" by tales of the glory that awaited after the death march.</text></comment> | <story><title>Michael Abrash on Quake: "Finish the product and you’ll be a hero."</title><url>http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/chap70.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>imurray</author><text>I liked the discussion of transmitting game state for network play. Quick summary: Doom sent differences of state, which <i>had</i> to be received and therefore acknowledged. Quake sent the whole game state each time, but compressed, so it wouldn't matter if a transmission was lost.<p>Neither approach seems optimal from an information theory point of view. The Doom approach needs feedback, but communicating at the optimal rate of noisy channel doesn't need feedback. The Quake approach sends the game state redundantly, but across time simply repeats information, and repetition codes aren't optimal.<p>It could turn out that in this application the Quake approach <i>is</i> best, because for latency reasons it might not be possible to send long enough blocks for Shannon's theory to apply. The Quake approach is also nice and simple. However, here's the approach I have in mind: send the stream of deltas protected by a code that can cope with some of them being erased, such as a Digital Fountain Code [1]. Each message would contain deltas stored slightly redundantly and XORed with previous deltas. If we have all previous deltas then we are set, otherwise we'll have to wait for another packet or two before we can infer the deltas, but we don't need to bother telling the receiver that we lost a packet.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code</a> — but a much better resource is chapter 50 of <a href="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html</a><p>EDIT: In response to replies by VMG and JoachimSchipper: I didn't mean to suggest they should have done anything differently. It worked well enough, and they got it out the door; agreed! I just think it's an interesting puzzle to think about.</text></comment> |
28,619,686 | 28,618,636 | 1 | 2 | 28,618,332 | train | <story><title>Fortnite will be blacklisted by Apple until all appeals exhausted</title><url>https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/1440711467888615431</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAdamist</author><text>...and if the final appeal goes against apple it will coincidentally be blacklisted for an entirely unrelated and new reason shortly thereafter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fortnite will be blacklisted by Apple until all appeals exhausted</title><url>https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/1440711467888615431</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twobitshifter</author><text>It appears Epic asked to be back to get Fortnite on the Mac App Store but wasn’t going to release an iOS version of Fortnite. The Mac App Store has different terms but uses the same developer account. I think epic may just be trying to prove a point with this action and didn’t expect to be reinstated.</text></comment> |
28,169,784 | 28,168,766 | 1 | 2 | 28,167,058 | train | <story><title>What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sabujp</author><text>there&#x27;s a 1:1 scale picture of the black hole fig 1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1909.11090.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1909.11090.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ISL</author><text>It is one of my most-favorite figures in a physics paper. I&#x27;m still bummed that PRL made them remove it in the final version.</text></comment> | <story><title>What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sabujp</author><text>there&#x27;s a 1:1 scale picture of the black hole fig 1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1909.11090.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1909.11090.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rob74</author><text>More precisely, a black hole five times as massive as the Earth. And it fits on a page. I think I have to print that out and pin it to a wall somewhere...</text></comment> |
3,790,655 | 3,789,780 | 1 | 3 | 3,789,243 | train | <story><title>A billion thanks to the open source community from Red Hat</title><url>http://opensource.com/business/12/3/billion-thanks-open-source-community-red-hat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmelton</author><text>I'm seeing a lot of comments that equate to nitpicking over how little RH is giving back to the community.<p>Despite how uninformed I might consider that opinion to be, given how many open source developers are on payroll, and how many projects get many of their patches from RH, the other little thing that RH has done was effectively legitimize Linux as a sellable resource.<p>Without the RedHat sales team getting RH in the doors of enterprises around the world, Linux would be significantly further back in terms of performance, compatibility, scalability, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>A billion thanks to the open source community from Red Hat</title><url>http://opensource.com/business/12/3/billion-thanks-open-source-community-red-hat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>To add a little perspective since people seem to be losing their heads at "one billion dollars!", their annual GAAP net income was only $146.6 million. [1] How much did omgpop get bought for again? Anyway, congrats RedHat. Who knows where Linux and FLOSS in general would be without them. I tip my...(•_•) ( •_•)&#62;⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) hat to them.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/3/red-hat-reports-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2012-results" rel="nofollow">http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/3/red-ha...</a></text></comment> |
1,629,956 | 1,629,673 | 1 | 2 | 1,629,624 | train | <story><title>Rapid prototyping as burnout antidote</title><url>http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/08/rapid-prototyping-as-burnout-antidote.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thibaut_barrere</author><text>I noticed a somewhat similar effect which I named "ProcrastinaBoost" (patent pending, obviously).<p>When working on a long/difficult project A, I keep one smaller but equally interesting (ROI-wise) project B on the side, and ensure I procrastinate in a time-boxed fashion on the useful project B only (vs. more classical procrastination).<p>The time-boxing ensure this stays at the hobby level, and regularly project B becomes difficult too to kick you back into project A.<p>It also gives me some times to relax and think about the issues on the other project.<p>To be used with careful time tracking of course :)<p>This removes a bit of the burn-out feeling, while still working on something that moves us along.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rapid prototyping as burnout antidote</title><url>http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/08/rapid-prototyping-as-burnout-antidote.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>riffer</author><text>Yes, this really works.<p>Sort of the way some teams seem to keep a set of blog posts on the shelf, ready to go, we have a list of small tangential projects.<p>These are all three-days-to-a-week type things where we are already pretty familiar with 80-90% such that we can move through it quickly, but also get exposure to something new that we've been meaning to pick up. That combination of quick tangible progress plus learning really clears out any negativity.</text></comment> |
12,384,029 | 12,384,215 | 1 | 2 | 12,383,722 | train | <story><title>How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles</title><url>https://medium.com/@SteveSasman/how-i-used-abused-my-tesla-what-a-tesla-looks-like-after-100-000-miles-a-48-state-road-trip-6b6ae66b3c10#.mgqlymg7c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; However, once people realize they can pay $35,000 for a killer car that can earn them $30,000 in a year by simply pressing a button and telling your car to go pick up passengers for you while you work or sleep <p>Long before that is the case, there&#x27;d be no incentive for the manufacturer to sell the car at all; they&#x27;d make more money just pushing the button themselves the minute the car rolled off the assembly line.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles</title><url>https://medium.com/@SteveSasman/how-i-used-abused-my-tesla-what-a-tesla-looks-like-after-100-000-miles-a-48-state-road-trip-6b6ae66b3c10#.mgqlymg7c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;Tesla also has an 8 year, unlimited mileage warranty for the Drive Train &amp; Battery. This was great, as I did have the drive train replaced at about 65,000 miles and the battery replaced at about 76,000 miles.&quot;
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You can read this as:<p><pre><code> &quot;Tesla also has an 8 year, unlimited mileage warranty for the engine and fuel tank. This was great, as I did have the engine replaced at about 65,000 miles and the fuel tank replaced at about 76,000 miles.&quot;
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That just makes it that much crazier. The most important and expensive components of this car actually do break down fairly quickly, but the manufacturer just covers them under a lifetime warranty!</text></comment> |
14,497,642 | 14,497,869 | 1 | 2 | 14,497,237 | train | <story><title>How some people stay motivated at work when they don’t love their jobs</title><url>https://qz.com/999209/how-some-people-stay-motivated-and-energized-at-work-even-when-they-dont-love-their-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasode</author><text>There&#x27;s the well-known Simpson&#x27;s image <i>&quot;do it for her&quot;</i>[1].<p>I&#x27;m confused as to who he&#x27;s writing for as it seems very obvious that many people get &quot;motivated&quot; for work they don&#x27;t enjoy because they have to support their family.<p>For example, every time the word <i>&quot;passion&quot;</i> is thrown around on HN, it will incite people to respond: <i>&quot;fuck passion... I just want to work my 40 hours and go home and spend time with my family.&quot;</i><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;7MkgTGT.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;7MkgTGT.jpg</a><p>episode wiki:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;And_Maggie_Makes_Three" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;And_Maggie_Makes_Three</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How some people stay motivated at work when they don’t love their jobs</title><url>https://qz.com/999209/how-some-people-stay-motivated-and-energized-at-work-even-when-they-dont-love-their-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>creepydata</author><text>I&#x27;m absolutely dumbfounded this is some sort of revelation to the author. It must be a new thing? Perhaps a product of the &quot;self esteem&#x2F;entitled generation?&quot; Whenever I hear people (including job ads) talk about &quot;passion&quot; at work I have to roll my eyes. I <i>never</i> though of work as a means to some sort of personal fulfillment, it&#x27;s a job, it&#x27;s purpose is to provide you money. That is it! If you get personal satisfaction out of your work that&#x27;s a nice bonus. Those &quot;passion&quot; people are going to become very dissatisfied with work and life - there&#x27;s very, very few jobs that have the ability to provide that. We should probably be looking at things in a more practical manner to avoid this.<p>I always thought jobs advertising that they are looking for someone with &quot;passion&quot; as a ploy to trick the bright eyed and naïve young into overworking before they become disillusioned.<p>I&#x27;ve actually enjoyed most of the &quot;menial&quot; jobs I&#x27;ve worked. The only unenjoyable job I worked was only unenjoyable due to piss poor management. Now I enjoy working as a software engineer, I like what I do, but it&#x27;s still just a job, just a way to earn a living.<p>I&#x27;m reminded of Office Space on career advice: &quot;[The question from a guidance counselor of what you would do if you had a million dollars] is bullshit to begin with. If everyone listened to her there would be no janitors because because nobody would clean up shit if they had a million dollars.&quot;</text></comment> |
18,935,396 | 18,935,554 | 1 | 2 | 18,933,919 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.32 released</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/01/17/Rust-1.32.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KeyboardFire</author><text>It&#x27;s funny that this is the first time I&#x27;ve seen a language explicitly condone &quot;print debugging.&quot; It&#x27;s one of those things that everyone says you&#x27;re not supposed to do and then does anyway.<p>Does any other language have a similar feature?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>root_axis</author><text>I think debuggers are not worth the cost for many kinds of debugging scenarios. They&#x27;re great for stepping through projects you&#x27;re not really familiar with or in situations where code seems to be in violation of baseline expectations, but fiddling around with breakpoints and watches and other UI particularities of the debugger carries more cognitive overhead than &quot;print debugging&quot;. Additionally, I think the problem is better solved by using thoughtful and contextualized logging with appropriate severity levels. Couple this with a TDD approach to development and you&#x27;ll end up in a workflow that is just <i>faster</i> than stepping through lines of code when you could have your assumptions verified through logs and test assertions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.32 released</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/01/17/Rust-1.32.0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KeyboardFire</author><text>It&#x27;s funny that this is the first time I&#x27;ve seen a language explicitly condone &quot;print debugging.&quot; It&#x27;s one of those things that everyone says you&#x27;re not supposed to do and then does anyway.<p>Does any other language have a similar feature?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>This &quot;print debugging is bad&quot; idea never made sense. Debugging is largely an effort to understand what&#x27;s going on inside a program - having the program &quot;talk back&quot; to you via prints can be a great way to do this.<p>Sometimes, print debugging is the only practical way to fix a bug. For example, very rare bugs which can only be reproduced by running many instances of the code for a long time, or situations where attaching a debugger is not feasible (as in live services).</text></comment> |
19,540,714 | 19,540,015 | 1 | 3 | 19,529,932 | train | <story><title>What Ruined Hanna-Barbera? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWgcizAgxOs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>tl;dw but I&#x27;m gonna guess it comes down to &quot;they sure did shit out a lot of cheap, terrible cartoons for a decade&quot;. I mean seriously Joe and Bill won an Oscar or two for their lovingly-animated Tom &amp; Jerry shorts at MGM but once the theatrical shorts market dried up they started making stuff with the fewest drawings humanly possible, that rested largely on voice work. &quot;Illustrated radio&quot; is a term that animation nerds throw around for the vast majority of their output.<p>Then Turner bought them I think, then WB bought Turner, and IIRC just kinda merged them into Cartoon Network because having two studios in the same city is kind of a waste or resources. Also the whole rise of sending work overseas to Asia where your dollar buys an order of more magnitude more pencil mileage; animation was at the forefront of hollowing out the American industry by substituting cheaper labor across the globe.<p>Or at least that&#x27;s what I recall from growing up in the seventies and being in the animation industry in the nineties&#x2F;00s.<p>People who were kids with no taste and a lot of time to fill during the time they dominated Saturday Morning have fond memories of their characters but that stuff really does not age well. It maybe ages slightly better than most Filmation work. Slightly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anyfoo</author><text>&gt; People who were kids with no taste and a lot of time to fill<p>Very true. I grew up in Germany, but we got most of the cartoons that were popular in the US (plus some Japanese stuff) as well, dubbed.<p>One particular situation from the late 80s or early 90s that I remember was when the channel that showed the Smurfs, which I liked, was somehow repeating the same episode over and over again. Maybe there was an error at the station (I wouldn&#x27;t be too surprised if nobody paid that close attention to the children&#x27;s programming), or maybe I just happened to catch all the reruns in strange coincidence. It&#x27;s hard to remember the specifics.<p>But what I do remember well is that I watched that episode, one that I actually did not like to begin with, over and over again, disliking it more and more each time. When the episode started playing and I realized that it was <i>that</i> episode <i>again</i> within the first few seconds, I got so disheartened and disappointed. And then I continued watching it.<p>Nowadays, that&#x27;s a pretty funny, if not somewhat bizarre, memory. As an adult, there is no way I would force myself through any show&#x27;s episode that I don&#x27;t like anyway repeatedly, why did I &quot;have to&quot; as a child? Similarly, I remember a few entire cartoons that I was not particularly fond off, or sometimes actively disliked, and I still watched those, too, &quot;because that&#x27;s what was on TV right now&quot;.<p>Apparently, realizing that I had agency over how I spend my own entertainment time was something I had to learn better growing up.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Ruined Hanna-Barbera? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWgcizAgxOs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egypturnash</author><text>tl;dw but I&#x27;m gonna guess it comes down to &quot;they sure did shit out a lot of cheap, terrible cartoons for a decade&quot;. I mean seriously Joe and Bill won an Oscar or two for their lovingly-animated Tom &amp; Jerry shorts at MGM but once the theatrical shorts market dried up they started making stuff with the fewest drawings humanly possible, that rested largely on voice work. &quot;Illustrated radio&quot; is a term that animation nerds throw around for the vast majority of their output.<p>Then Turner bought them I think, then WB bought Turner, and IIRC just kinda merged them into Cartoon Network because having two studios in the same city is kind of a waste or resources. Also the whole rise of sending work overseas to Asia where your dollar buys an order of more magnitude more pencil mileage; animation was at the forefront of hollowing out the American industry by substituting cheaper labor across the globe.<p>Or at least that&#x27;s what I recall from growing up in the seventies and being in the animation industry in the nineties&#x2F;00s.<p>People who were kids with no taste and a lot of time to fill during the time they dominated Saturday Morning have fond memories of their characters but that stuff really does not age well. It maybe ages slightly better than most Filmation work. Slightly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvtrn</author><text>I have fond memories of those characters from my childhood <i>and</i> my adult hood when [adult swim] came along and gave us fresh and absurdist&#x2F;adult-oriented versions of some of our favorite characters.<p>Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, The Brak Show, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Sealab 2021, many others.</text></comment> |
18,084,914 | 18,084,984 | 1 | 2 | 18,084,388 | train | <story><title>Hire people who aren’t proven</title><url>https://leonardofed.io/blog/startups-hiring.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>I think hiring has become more difficult now that programming has been discovered as a well paying mainstream career. When I started in the 90s most people I worked with had a passion for the craft but now I find we interview a lot of people who have a CS degree just for the career prospects but not out of interest for the craft.<p>I find it much easier to deal with someone who has no relevant experience but cares vs someone who had 10 years experience but doesn&#x27;t care. Now someone who has 10 years AND cares is rare but pure gold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>By all means, you should use whatever criteria you would like to hire your own staff.<p>But in general, I would encourage folks in computer tech industries to be hesitant to assume such a binary approach to evaluating prospects. &quot;Did you code for fun in high school?&quot; might be a useful question now, because software development as a field is so young that high school students can try out significant work easily.<p>But in most high-end professional fields, that&#x27;s not true. Imagine asking a prospective medical resident &quot;did you treat any diseases in high school?&quot; or &quot;how much surgery do you do in your spare time?&quot;<p>I think we should take it as a positive sign that people are approaching software and computer technology as a professional career that they can professionally pursue. That approach can produce great work too, and a growing field means a greater diversity in how people find and display their passion. Getting a CS degree is not easy, and requires some base level of interest and commitment to complete. Even a bootcamp is not free, and takes some focus and work.<p>Anyone above a certain age (like me) came into the industry sideways, as it was developing, as a result of personal passion and interest. Let&#x27;s not mistake that for an inherent property of a good tech employee... every industry on Earth started that way at some point.<p>Computer technology industries are maturing, just like railroads, oil development, aviation, telecommunications, and dozens of other industries have over time. That&#x27;s not bad, and we will have to take it into account as we consider the model employee.<p>Hiring people who are &quot;not proven&quot; might also mean hiring people who are well trained, but maybe have not yet proven their passion in a way you recognize.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hire people who aren’t proven</title><url>https://leonardofed.io/blog/startups-hiring.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>I think hiring has become more difficult now that programming has been discovered as a well paying mainstream career. When I started in the 90s most people I worked with had a passion for the craft but now I find we interview a lot of people who have a CS degree just for the career prospects but not out of interest for the craft.<p>I find it much easier to deal with someone who has no relevant experience but cares vs someone who had 10 years experience but doesn&#x27;t care. Now someone who has 10 years AND cares is rare but pure gold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>collyw</author><text>Cares about what though?<p>Building simple,solid, maintainable software that does what it is supposed to?<p>Or cares about chasing every new fad, has ten frameworks listed on their resume and is currently midway through the machine learning &#x2F; blockchain hype?<p>I care about the former, but plenty of people would see that as having little &quot;passion&quot;. For example, I don&#x27;t have any experience using NoSQL databases on my CV, because I haven&#x27;t had a use case for them and I could tell that they weren&#x27;t all that they were hyped up to be 5 years ago when those were peak hype cycle. (I can design a relational database properly and know how to index it and optimize queries).<p>Ten years is plenty of time for this industry to kill any passion you started with. I still care about producing good work.</text></comment> |
37,447,960 | 37,448,055 | 1 | 2 | 37,446,502 | train | <story><title>Learning Zig</title><url>https://www.openmymind.net/learning_zig/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>satvikpendem</author><text>What are the pros and cons of Zig vs Rust? I see Zig mentioned more and more here, especially with regards to threads about Bun, the largest &#x2F; most popular project in Zig currently, but I&#x27;m not sure why I should use it over Rust. Zig seems like it still does not solve the problem of memory safety, in that it has safety issues that would be caught by a borrow checker or other such memory safety checker [0]. You can still use after free, for example:<p><pre><code> var hello = try allocator.dupe(u8, &quot;hello world&quot;);
allocator.free(hello);
std.debug.print(&quot;{s}\n&quot;, .{hello});
</code></pre>
[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;how-safe-is-zig&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;how-safe-is-zig&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flohofwoe</author><text>In terms of safety, Zig is somewhere in the middle between C and C++ on one side, and Rust on the other side (e.g. it enforces much more correctness than C or C++, and has runtime spatial, but not temporal memory safety (but it has a debug allocator which doesn&#x27;t recycle memory (or rather: address ranges) and which should catch most temporal memory safety problems - like your example).<p>Zig doesn&#x27;t have separate sublanguages for macros and generics, instead these are all handled with regular &#x27;comptime&#x27; Zig (along with type reflection).<p>Zig has builtin syntax sugar for dealing with optionals and error unions, which makes code less noisy (although that may be subjective - and I think Rust also got some of that over time).<p>Zig&#x27;s interaction with the C world is excellent, and to a lesser degree also to the C++ and ObjC world (the Zig compiler can compile C++ and ObjC code, but still requires a C shim to sit between Zig and C++ or ObjC code).<p>Zig has much less influence from high level functional languages and less &quot;type system wankery&quot; compared to Rust, this again is a good thing for some people, while disliked by others.<p>A minor detail, but which I think demonstrates the Zig philosophy: the Zig compiler executable is also the build system and package manager. In Rust this is delegated to a separate tool (cargo).<p>...and my personal opinion: Zig is a lot more &#x27;elegant&#x27; than Rust which results in more joy when writing Zig code. Rust feels entirely too much like &#x27;designed by committee&#x27;. With Zig I &quot;grokked&quot; the language in a weekend of tinkering, while with Rust I never really had &quot;fun&quot; despite several attempts of trying to like it.<p>TL;DR: If I had to create an absolutely waterproof and critical isolated piece of code, I would probably write that in a &quot;simple Rust subset&quot;. For anything else I would definitely prefer Zig.</text></comment> | <story><title>Learning Zig</title><url>https://www.openmymind.net/learning_zig/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>satvikpendem</author><text>What are the pros and cons of Zig vs Rust? I see Zig mentioned more and more here, especially with regards to threads about Bun, the largest &#x2F; most popular project in Zig currently, but I&#x27;m not sure why I should use it over Rust. Zig seems like it still does not solve the problem of memory safety, in that it has safety issues that would be caught by a borrow checker or other such memory safety checker [0]. You can still use after free, for example:<p><pre><code> var hello = try allocator.dupe(u8, &quot;hello world&quot;);
allocator.free(hello);
std.debug.print(&quot;{s}\n&quot;, .{hello});
</code></pre>
[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;how-safe-is-zig&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scattered-thoughts.net&#x2F;writing&#x2F;how-safe-is-zig&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grayhatter</author><text>You shouldn&#x27;t use it over rust... that&#x27;s a nonsensical question. That&#x27;s like asking when you should use a hammer instead of a screwdriver.<p>I use zig because it&#x27;s enjoyable to use. I hate writing rust, it feels like the language is actively fighting me. I started writing zig, and started loving the process of simplify writing code again. Zig is nice because, to steal their quote. I&#x27;m able to spend my time debugging my code, and not debugging my understanding of the language. I&#x27;ve stepped on a use after free but because it&#x27;s <i>so</i> easy to write and use tests, I found it and fixed it in tests.<p>Bugs are undesirable, but I can write just as many bugs in rust. So I&#x27;m always so confused about why rust users are so panicked about use after free, or other memory bugs. Like somehow the only bugs rust has a handle on is the worst class of bug? Such an odd idea I can&#x27;t figure out...</text></comment> |
21,160,208 | 21,160,374 | 1 | 2 | 21,159,755 | train | <story><title>A Swiss Lesson in Enlightened Street Design</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/09/urban-planning-zurich-public-transit-street-design-traffic/599011/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>This happened in a country with direct democracy, instead of the political complexities in my country (US). It also took a long time to implement (another downfall of US policy making). It&#x27;s also a much smaller country. But I wish we could do this, but it seems unlikely in much of the US to ever move away from car central design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wereHamster</author><text>It was the canton&#x27;s decision. Direct democracy was involved [1], but at the local level, not nation-wide. People from other cantons in Switzerland had no say in this matter. The people of Zurich have decided that they want that. Zurich is not a big city, by global standards, but any city with similar size can make these decisions, if they want to pursue the same goals.<p>[1] Examples: in 2014 the people of Zurich decided (66% voted yes) to extend tram line 8, in 2017 that extension was opened. And just this year a the tram line 2 was extended to reach further into the suburbs of Zurich, and further work is planed for the next few years. People of Zurich also voted on these extensions, and will continue to in the coming years.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Swiss Lesson in Enlightened Street Design</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/09/urban-planning-zurich-public-transit-street-design-traffic/599011/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>This happened in a country with direct democracy, instead of the political complexities in my country (US). It also took a long time to implement (another downfall of US policy making). It&#x27;s also a much smaller country. But I wish we could do this, but it seems unlikely in much of the US to ever move away from car central design.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zhdc1</author><text>The Swiss take their roads seriously (I get to hear about it every night : ) ).<p>Other points not mentioned:<p>Switzerland has - effectively - no domestic car industry, so there were never any special interest groups with economic clout pushing to get rid of public transportation ala the US.<p>Zurich is not amenable to cars, and never will be because of how it&#x27;s laid out.<p>The highways outside of the city are also designed in a way that makes capacity expansion extremely expensive and unfeasible. The Swiss need a way to limit or stop automobile usage growth, and heavily pushing public transportation is an effective way to do this.</text></comment> |
18,119,146 | 18,119,062 | 1 | 2 | 18,118,641 | train | <story><title>Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/lone-engineer-spanks-waymo-in-lidar-patent-battle/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>discjockeydom</author><text>I have actually reviewed this man&#x27;s supposedly vigilante&#x27;s submission to the USPTO and it is clear that this story is not what it seems. The document is a highly professional 95+ page document of complex legal argumentation that only a law firm with a small team of lawyers with a lot of prior experience doing this could have put together. It contains lots of lawyer speak and contemporary argumentation that a lay person would simple not have knowledge of. As much as people are keen to believe the vigilante narrative, there is zero chance that is what happened here. Instead, he was used as a &#x27;strawman&#x27; by a company with much deeper pockets to attack Waymo&#x27;s key patent. I estimate that this actually cost around $100k to prepare and file.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vigilante engineer stops Waymo from patenting key lidar technology</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/lone-engineer-spanks-waymo-in-lidar-patent-battle/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twtw</author><text>Props to this guy.<p>I just took a look at the patent (highly recommended), and it&#x27;s fairly ridiculous. It&#x27;s a 101 design to control a diode with a transistor.</text></comment> |
19,254,307 | 19,253,934 | 1 | 3 | 19,253,072 | train | <story><title>Linux Desktop Setup</title><url>https://hookrace.net/blog/linux-desktop-setup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyproto</author><text>Until you switch to sway, which is basically i3, but for Wayland. Good bye X11!</text></item><item><author>virtualwhys</author><text>&gt; I love my lightweight i3 setup<p>It&#x27;s been so many years and I often take for granted what&#x27;s before my eyes -- i3 is solidly in the &quot;pry it from my cold dead hands&quot; category.</text></item><item><author>mseidl</author><text>I&#x27;m a veteran of Linux for 23 years, and been Windows free for 15 years or so. I love Linux. I love my lightweight i3 setup. Neovim, neomutt, weechat, ncmpcpp...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RandomGuyDTB</author><text>What&#x27;s the appeal behind Wayland? I&#x27;ve been using X for a while now (linux n00b) and I really enjoy having everything like this, there even are a couple apps I use specifically for X11.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux Desktop Setup</title><url>https://hookrace.net/blog/linux-desktop-setup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xyproto</author><text>Until you switch to sway, which is basically i3, but for Wayland. Good bye X11!</text></item><item><author>virtualwhys</author><text>&gt; I love my lightweight i3 setup<p>It&#x27;s been so many years and I often take for granted what&#x27;s before my eyes -- i3 is solidly in the &quot;pry it from my cold dead hands&quot; category.</text></item><item><author>mseidl</author><text>I&#x27;m a veteran of Linux for 23 years, and been Windows free for 15 years or so. I love Linux. I love my lightweight i3 setup. Neovim, neomutt, weechat, ncmpcpp...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spacenick88</author><text>Sadly it seems it currently can&#x27;t deal with rotated monitors ;-( I really do love my vertical 24&quot; monitor with full screen terminal.</text></comment> |
31,509,007 | 31,509,146 | 1 | 3 | 31,508,253 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?</title><text>Terrible UX, mostly useless answers (most replies to posts are either poorly sarcastic or not replying to the actual point). Before it wasn&#x27;t like this. Did the Reddit board voluntarily or involuntarily cause this via technical decisions, or it&#x27;s just unavoidable to get this degradation after the userbase grows too much?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xRusty</author><text>In terms of the UI&#x2F;UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don&#x27;t understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It&#x27;s literally impossible to use. It&#x27;s such a disaster I can&#x27;t understand how it ever passed testing.<p>The community itself when you get away from the big main subreddits isn&#x27;t too bad. The best experience is had when you unsub from all the main subreddits and only browse the smaller niche ones. Although they can be pretty toxic too. If you&#x27;re looking for better quality in depth discussion on a hobby or topic I&#x27;m sure you already know better forums, but if you want beginners guides and more superficial meme chat it&#x27;s a great resource on the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zhynn</author><text>It amuses me every time I do it, but my two most common browser prefixes when I want a break are:<p>old (resolves to old.reddit.com)
new (resolves to news.ycombinator.com)<p>It makes me chuckle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit?</title><text>Terrible UX, mostly useless answers (most replies to posts are either poorly sarcastic or not replying to the actual point). Before it wasn&#x27;t like this. Did the Reddit board voluntarily or involuntarily cause this via technical decisions, or it&#x27;s just unavoidable to get this degradation after the userbase grows too much?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xRusty</author><text>In terms of the UI&#x2F;UX use old.reddit.com - I honestly don&#x27;t understand how anyone uses the new default version. Comments are hidden, there are ads and other threads content on the page. It&#x27;s literally impossible to use. It&#x27;s such a disaster I can&#x27;t understand how it ever passed testing.<p>The community itself when you get away from the big main subreddits isn&#x27;t too bad. The best experience is had when you unsub from all the main subreddits and only browse the smaller niche ones. Although they can be pretty toxic too. If you&#x27;re looking for better quality in depth discussion on a hobby or topic I&#x27;m sure you already know better forums, but if you want beginners guides and more superficial meme chat it&#x27;s a great resource on the whole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KallDrexx</author><text>To offer an opposite argument, I hated reddit before the redesign and always take &quot;old.&quot; out of links.<p>Every reddit looked like a geocities offering to me, they were inconsistent in coloring and contrast and all the bullshit I don&#x27;t care about. Non-old reddit gave me a more consistent and less distracting way for me to quickly browse subreddits and posts I&#x27;m interested in and getting out.</text></comment> |
32,057,513 | 32,056,313 | 1 | 2 | 32,033,622 | train | <story><title>Tron changed cinema, predicted the future of tech</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/05/tron-steven-lisberger-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prawn</author><text>Slightly related, but I quite like Tron Legacy (plus its styling and soundtrack). It&#x27;s tame enough that you can watch with your kids. I&#x27;ve watched it with my young son, along with Interstellar and Inception, as things that encourage creatively think outside what we understand to be possible - even if just to have him thinking about story&#x2F;game&#x2F;play angles. Digital or dream worlds, time dilating&#x2F;bending, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>Tron:Legacy is one of my favorite movies. I probably like it more than the original. At the very least, I <i>watch</i> it more often than the original. It&#x27;s funny though: when I saw it in the theater the first time, I thought it was dragging a bit towards the middle, and was getting a little restless and wondering if this was really the Tron successor I wanted. But then I watched it again later and enjoyed it even more. I&#x27;ve only grown to appreciate it more and more with subsequent viewings. Go figure, right?</text></comment> | <story><title>Tron changed cinema, predicted the future of tech</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/05/tron-steven-lisberger-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prawn</author><text>Slightly related, but I quite like Tron Legacy (plus its styling and soundtrack). It&#x27;s tame enough that you can watch with your kids. I&#x27;ve watched it with my young son, along with Interstellar and Inception, as things that encourage creatively think outside what we understand to be possible - even if just to have him thinking about story&#x2F;game&#x2F;play angles. Digital or dream worlds, time dilating&#x2F;bending, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koonsolo</author><text>I&#x27;m probably going to be killed by my comment here, but Tron Legacy is my favorite movie!<p>The atmosphere, music, nostalgia and other things makes it the most enjoyable movie that I know. It&#x27;s more of a personal connection that really an objective &quot;this is the best movie ever made&quot;.</text></comment> |
13,854,775 | 13,854,787 | 1 | 3 | 13,853,150 | train | <story><title>How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xupybd</author><text>Yes you have to file an IR3 if you make other income.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ird.govt.nz&#x2F;income-tax-individual&#x2F;end-year&#x2F;ir3&#x2F;iit-what-is-ir3.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ird.govt.nz&#x2F;income-tax-individual&#x2F;end-year&#x2F;ir3&#x2F;ii...</a><p>My favourite part of our tax system is the advice to file if you have &quot;income from an illegal enterprise&quot;<p>EDIT:
Just as a reply to the original point. I&#x27;m not sure how complicated the US system is. I&#x27;m not trying to say it&#x27;s bad either, it just seems to me that we have a system similar to the one that is getting lobbied against. And I like our system, it works well for me..</text></item><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>It&#x27;s almost that simple in the US if your situation is that simple. What happens in NZ if you make $400 selling vintage cabbage patch dolls on eBay? What if you earned $1k in returns on your investment account? What if you are renting your place out on Airbnb?<p>If all you have is a simple income in the US, then the 1040ez is a single page and you can file it for free online if you make under a certain amount. You can pay a few dollars to file online if you make more.<p>Obamacare has added an extra level of complexity now, but that is also very simple if you don&#x27;t need or want the subsidy.</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>I live in New Zealand. I don&#x27;t have to file taxes if my income is a standard wage my tax payments are automatic. My employer deducts them from my wage and they are sent to the IRD (Our government tax dept). My student loan and super payments are also automatic. If there is anything wrong then at the end of the tax year I can file to correct things.<p>I also get donations rebates, this is a one page form that lists all my charitable donations. Very easy very quick.<p>All my details are available to me online. All transactions are there and it&#x27;s very transparent.<p>Why would anyone oppose a simple system like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwilliams</author><text><i>I&#x27;m not sure how complicated the US system is</i><p>FYI - At various stages of my life I&#x27;ve filed in New Zealand, Australia, UK, Switzerland and the US (California).<p>I can&#x27;t generalize to all persons, but I do have a decent spread of countries in my own experience - and the US was by some serious margin the most complicated.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xupybd</author><text>Yes you have to file an IR3 if you make other income.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ird.govt.nz&#x2F;income-tax-individual&#x2F;end-year&#x2F;ir3&#x2F;iit-what-is-ir3.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ird.govt.nz&#x2F;income-tax-individual&#x2F;end-year&#x2F;ir3&#x2F;ii...</a><p>My favourite part of our tax system is the advice to file if you have &quot;income from an illegal enterprise&quot;<p>EDIT:
Just as a reply to the original point. I&#x27;m not sure how complicated the US system is. I&#x27;m not trying to say it&#x27;s bad either, it just seems to me that we have a system similar to the one that is getting lobbied against. And I like our system, it works well for me..</text></item><item><author>jjeaff</author><text>It&#x27;s almost that simple in the US if your situation is that simple. What happens in NZ if you make $400 selling vintage cabbage patch dolls on eBay? What if you earned $1k in returns on your investment account? What if you are renting your place out on Airbnb?<p>If all you have is a simple income in the US, then the 1040ez is a single page and you can file it for free online if you make under a certain amount. You can pay a few dollars to file online if you make more.<p>Obamacare has added an extra level of complexity now, but that is also very simple if you don&#x27;t need or want the subsidy.</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>I live in New Zealand. I don&#x27;t have to file taxes if my income is a standard wage my tax payments are automatic. My employer deducts them from my wage and they are sent to the IRD (Our government tax dept). My student loan and super payments are also automatic. If there is anything wrong then at the end of the tax year I can file to correct things.<p>I also get donations rebates, this is a one page form that lists all my charitable donations. Very easy very quick.<p>All my details are available to me online. All transactions are there and it&#x27;s very transparent.<p>Why would anyone oppose a simple system like this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ragix</author><text>I&#x27;m also a kiwi and have been working for over 15 years and have a student loan. The only time I have to do anything is when I file an optional personal tax summary to see if i&#x2F;them owe anything. It takes less than 5 minutes online and is free.</text></comment> |
33,110,285 | 33,109,762 | 1 | 2 | 33,108,640 | train | <story><title>Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro</title><url>https://store.google.com/magazine/google_pixel_7?hl=en-US</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>When I visit that link I am asked to log into my Google account.<p>If I open the link in private mode, I get redirected to a region picker, where Google reluctantly lets me choose US (&quot;are you _sure_ you want to visit the US store?&quot;) From there I have to navigate to the new pixel phones, having completely lost where the link pointed.<p>I can&#x27;t believe how difficult Google, a company that claims to have its mission to organize the worlds information, makes it to access their marketing webpages!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>massysett</author><text>I sometimes log in to my child&#x27;s school Google account on my computer - the school holds school events by sending invites to the child&#x27;s account. When I &quot;log out&quot;, I&#x27;m not truly logged out, as shown by the popups on various websites encouraging me to log in using my child&#x27;s Google account.<p>When I clicked this link, it said my administrator has not allowed me to view this site.<p>The only way out of this that I&#x27;ve found is to clear Google&#x27;s cookies.<p>Correction - there is another way out: just don&#x27;t visit the site. Dealing with Google is just not worth the hassle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro</title><url>https://store.google.com/magazine/google_pixel_7?hl=en-US</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>When I visit that link I am asked to log into my Google account.<p>If I open the link in private mode, I get redirected to a region picker, where Google reluctantly lets me choose US (&quot;are you _sure_ you want to visit the US store?&quot;) From there I have to navigate to the new pixel phones, having completely lost where the link pointed.<p>I can&#x27;t believe how difficult Google, a company that claims to have its mission to organize the worlds information, makes it to access their marketing webpages!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onion2k</author><text>When I visit the page Google knows I&#x27;m in the UK, and correctly routes me to the UK product page with UK pricing, and in a bright blue bar across the top of the page it suggests I trade in my old phone ... and get USD$400.<p>Google always get <i>close</i> when they make things, but they never quite get it 100% right.</text></comment> |
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