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7,148,381 | 7,145,855 | 1 | 2 | 7,145,219 | train | <story><title>SymPy Gamma: an open-source, Python-based alternative to Wolfram Alpha</title><url>http://www.sympygamma.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asmeurer</author><text>(I am the lead developer of SymPy)<p>The important thing to note about SymPy Gamma is that it does <i>only</i> the mathematics part of WolframAlpha. It&#x27;s also relatively new. There is no natural language input. There are no non-mathematical capabilities. The syntax should match Python syntax for the most part, though there are extensions to allow things like &quot;sin x&quot; or &quot;x^2&quot; or &quot;2 x&quot;. All this will hopefully improve in the future (and pull requests are welcome!).<p>Most of the code was written by David Li (who is actually a high school student). You can watch a presentation about it here: <a href="http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/presentation_detail.php?id=183" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;conference.scipy.org&#x2F;scipy2013&#x2F;presentation_detail.ph...</a>. It started out as a &quot;because we can&quot; toy, and it&#x27;s gotten much better.<p>The real benefit of SymPy Gamma over WolframAlpha is that there are no barriers around it, since it&#x27;s entirely (BSD) open source. For example, if you start computing something interesting and want to try more, you can move to SymPy Live (<a href="http://live.sympy.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;live.sympy.org&#x2F;</a>) and compute in a more session like environment. Or you can use SymPy locally on your own computer.<p>Regarding the comments that wolfram is mostly used for play, I&#x27;m not so sure about it. Wolfram is invaluable to students as a calculator. Sure Google can compute 100 * pi, but it falls apart when you try to compute integrate(sin(x) * x, x). When I was in college (which was last year), I saw people use it all the time. It&#x27;s been very successful in making computer algebra accessible to virtually everyone.<p>By the way, probably the best feature of SymPy Gamma right now is the integration steps. See for instance the &quot;integral steps&quot; section of <a href="http://www.sympygamma.com/input/?i=integrate%28sin%28x%29*x%29" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sympygamma.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=integrate%28sin%28x%29*x%...</a>. This is a feature that used to be free at WolframAlpha, and it&#x27;s extremely useful if you are learning integration in calculus. It doesn&#x27;t work for all integrals, because not all integrals are computed the way you would by hand.</text></comment> | <story><title>SymPy Gamma: an open-source, Python-based alternative to Wolfram Alpha</title><url>http://www.sympygamma.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>primitivesuave</author><text>I used to work at Wolfram Research on Wolfram Alpha&#x27;s backend, and one of the most challenging technical problems we faced was free-form input. Although W|A has by no means perfected this, this is hardly an alternative - queries like &quot;factor the number 100&quot; fail because there is only the beginnings of a free-form transformer. Obviously, the usefulness of being able to answer &quot;factor one hundred&quot; is questionable, but W|A solved it out of Stephen Wolfram&#x27;s aspiration to be able to &quot;compute everything&quot;. Right now, this is just a programming language you can run on the web.<p>The other thing is that W|A has trillions of data points and what I am only allowed to describe as the beginnings of a semantic network for inferring relations between them. It was a vastly overcomplicated system that was difficult to work with, so I am quite confident that some day there will be an open-source alternative that anyone can contribute to.<p>The other thing to take into account is how this affects the future. Wolfram Research thought they were going to &quot;disrupt the calculator&quot; (I heard this ridiculous statement once at a meeting). In reality, Wolfram Alpha queries are more often for the sake of fun than for the sake of discovery (I know this because there was a big TV in the break room that would keep displaying things that people searched on Wolfram Alpha). Is it really that useful to be able to have a computer give you an answer to &quot;I have two apples, Jill has three apples. How many apples do we both have?&quot;<p><a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=I+have+two+apples%2C+Jill+has+three+apples.+How+many+apples+do+we+both+have%3F" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=I+have+two+apples%2C+Ji...</a><p>Or is it more useful to make something that can take in symptoms of your current ailment and tell you which disease you are most likely to have? Wolfram Alpha does this as well.<p><a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=I+have+a+fever+and+a+runny+nose" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wolframalpha.com&#x2F;input&#x2F;?i=I+have+a+fever+and+a+ru...</a><p>Although the results are difficult to interpret. In my time at Wolfram Research, I was certainly convinced by the idea of knowledge engines and their ultimate emergence, but I think the way this will be accomplished is in more in a Google-esque fashion where their knowledge engine results are displayed alongside a real search algorithm. Best of luck to the people on this project, I hope you make the first step into creating an open source knowledge engine.</text></comment> |
32,024,442 | 32,024,367 | 1 | 2 | 32,023,868 | train | <story><title>Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59931.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjg59</author><text>There is such a firmware setting, hence &quot;by default&quot;. That doesn&#x27;t make it acceptable - the default security settings on a general purpose PC should not prevent booting alternative operating systems that don&#x27;t compromise the security model.</text></item><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>&gt; &quot;by default&quot;<p>Hit Enter or F1 at the red Lenovo boot screen, go into the BIOS settings and find the setting and change it.<p>Until someone confirms that there is no such BIOS setting, there is no story here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Stratoscope</author><text>So they are protecting your ordinary everyday users, while still giving any of us who need to boot from a USB stick or another partition the ability to do that with a simple BIOS setting.<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem much different from the F12 menu that lets you select an alternate boot device.<p>How exactly does this mean they &quot;prevent booting alternative operating systems&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default</title><url>https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59931.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjg59</author><text>There is such a firmware setting, hence &quot;by default&quot;. That doesn&#x27;t make it acceptable - the default security settings on a general purpose PC should not prevent booting alternative operating systems that don&#x27;t compromise the security model.</text></item><item><author>Stratoscope</author><text>&gt; &quot;by default&quot;<p>Hit Enter or F1 at the red Lenovo boot screen, go into the BIOS settings and find the setting and change it.<p>Until someone confirms that there is no such BIOS setting, there is no story here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw1230</author><text>I think it&#x27;s perfectly acceptable that a device ships with a secure default as long as it lets you override it</text></comment> |
38,884,890 | 38,885,011 | 1 | 3 | 38,866,170 | train | <story><title>9 years of Apple text editor solo dev</title><url>https://papereditor.app/dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>All the &quot;fringes&quot; stuff is where the magic is. The author suggests that no one notices some of the refinements, well this may be true on day one, but people discover these touches as they grow more familiar. Those subtle thoughtful additions are what makes the difference between an app I like using, and one I love using. They help me feel a couple of things:<p>1) A connection; I feel like I noticed something just for those who care
2) Assurance the product is well cared for
3) A feeling that the dev understands me<p>This stuff is gold for a product. I am thinking of Procreate when I think of the king of this sort of thing. That app is just so ridiculously clever. I don&#x27;t know how they managed to take the plethora of UI that other illustration apps have and squeeze it down into ~6 menu items. Somehow it works beautifully and there are so many subtle touches and hidden workflow gestures just waiting to be discovered. It&#x27;s usable out of the box, and the more you use it the more you naturally learn how to use it more efficiently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbn</author><text>Apple has a lot of niceties like this in their software. I&#x27;ve had so many times I thought &quot;I wonder if I can do this?&quot; and it just works because a designer thought of it before me.<p>Prime example I stumbled upon recently: In Apple Music, you can press+hold an album or song to pop open an action menu. I use this a lot for adding songs to the queue. There&#x27;s an item to add it next in the queue, and another to add it last in queue. Usually if I want it somewhere specific in the queue, I&#x27;d just add it next and then move the song where I wanted it, but if I&#x27;m adding an album partway through the queue, that means you&#x27;ll be dragging a bunch of tracks manually. So I thought, &quot;it&#x27;d be nice if I could just drag things exactly where I want in the queue and drop it there.&quot; And then I figured I&#x27;d actually try it. If you press and hold a song&#x2F;album and yank it from its place, it stays under your thumb. You can then either operate with another finger to open up the queue, or hold your thumb over it to pop it open, and then just drop it exactly where you want in the queue.<p>Not the first time I&#x27;ve come across something like this, but it&#x27;s the kind of thing I only find on Apple platforms, particularly with their own apps. As much as I liked Google Play Music, you couldn&#x27;t do it there, and I just checked Spotify and it doesn&#x27;t let you do that either.</text></comment> | <story><title>9 years of Apple text editor solo dev</title><url>https://papereditor.app/dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>All the &quot;fringes&quot; stuff is where the magic is. The author suggests that no one notices some of the refinements, well this may be true on day one, but people discover these touches as they grow more familiar. Those subtle thoughtful additions are what makes the difference between an app I like using, and one I love using. They help me feel a couple of things:<p>1) A connection; I feel like I noticed something just for those who care
2) Assurance the product is well cared for
3) A feeling that the dev understands me<p>This stuff is gold for a product. I am thinking of Procreate when I think of the king of this sort of thing. That app is just so ridiculously clever. I don&#x27;t know how they managed to take the plethora of UI that other illustration apps have and squeeze it down into ~6 menu items. Somehow it works beautifully and there are so many subtle touches and hidden workflow gestures just waiting to be discovered. It&#x27;s usable out of the box, and the more you use it the more you naturally learn how to use it more efficiently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fsckboy</author><text>&gt; <i>people discover these touches as they grow more familiar</i><p>people discover these touches in the breech, when they need to move on for some reason or other, and all that&#x27;s familiar is lost. in the words of Joni Mitchell, &quot;you don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;ve got till it&#x27;s gone&quot;</text></comment> |
34,235,159 | 34,232,752 | 1 | 2 | 34,230,641 | train | <story><title>Modules, not microservices</title><url>http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gunnarmorling</author><text>I really like modular designs, but this article is missing some key limitations of monolithic applications, also if they are really well modularized (this is written mostly from the perspective of a Java developer):<p>* they force alignment on one language or at least runtime<p>* they force alignment of dependencies and their versions (yes, you can have different versions e.g. via Java classloaders, but that&#x27;s getting tricky quickly, you can&#x27;t share them across module boundaries, etc.)<p>* they can require lots of RAM if you have many modules with many classes (semi-related fun fact: I remember a situation where we hit the maximum number of class files a JAR could have you loaded into WebLogic)<p>* they can be slow to start (again, classloading takes time)<p>* they may be limiting in terms of technology choice (you probably don&#x27;t want ot have connections to an RDBMS and Neo4j and MongoDB in one process)<p>* they don&#x27;t provide resource isolation between components: a busy loop in one module eating up lots of CPU? Bad luck for other modules.<p>* they take long to rebuild an redeploy, unless you apply a large degree of discipline and engineering excellence to only rebuild changed modules while making sure no API contracts are broken<p>* they can be hard to test (how does DB set-up of that other team&#x27;s component work again?)<p>I am not saying that most of these issues cannot be overcome; to the contrary, I would love to see monoliths being built in a way where these problems don&#x27;t exist. I&#x27;ve worked on massive monoliths which were extremely well modularized. Those practical issues above were what was killing productivity and developer joy in these contexts.<p>Let&#x27;s not pretend large monoliths don&#x27;t pose specific challenges and folks moved to microservices for the last 15 years without good reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kerblang</author><text>Mostly valid, but...<p>On the RAM front, I am now approaching terabyte levels of services for what would be gigabyte levels of monolith. The reason is that I have to deal with mostly duplicate RAM - the same 200+ MB of framework crud replicated in every process. In fact a lot of microservice advocates insist &quot;RAM is cheap!&quot; until reality hits, especially forgetting the cost is replicated in every development&#x2F;testing environment.<p>As for slow startup, a server reboot can be quite excruciating when all these processes are competing to grind &amp; slog through their own copy of that 200+ MB and get situated. In my case, each new &amp; improved microservice alone boots slower than the original legacy monolith, which is just plain dumb, but it&#x27;s the tech stack I&#x27;m stuck with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Modules, not microservices</title><url>http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gunnarmorling</author><text>I really like modular designs, but this article is missing some key limitations of monolithic applications, also if they are really well modularized (this is written mostly from the perspective of a Java developer):<p>* they force alignment on one language or at least runtime<p>* they force alignment of dependencies and their versions (yes, you can have different versions e.g. via Java classloaders, but that&#x27;s getting tricky quickly, you can&#x27;t share them across module boundaries, etc.)<p>* they can require lots of RAM if you have many modules with many classes (semi-related fun fact: I remember a situation where we hit the maximum number of class files a JAR could have you loaded into WebLogic)<p>* they can be slow to start (again, classloading takes time)<p>* they may be limiting in terms of technology choice (you probably don&#x27;t want ot have connections to an RDBMS and Neo4j and MongoDB in one process)<p>* they don&#x27;t provide resource isolation between components: a busy loop in one module eating up lots of CPU? Bad luck for other modules.<p>* they take long to rebuild an redeploy, unless you apply a large degree of discipline and engineering excellence to only rebuild changed modules while making sure no API contracts are broken<p>* they can be hard to test (how does DB set-up of that other team&#x27;s component work again?)<p>I am not saying that most of these issues cannot be overcome; to the contrary, I would love to see monoliths being built in a way where these problems don&#x27;t exist. I&#x27;ve worked on massive monoliths which were extremely well modularized. Those practical issues above were what was killing productivity and developer joy in these contexts.<p>Let&#x27;s not pretend large monoliths don&#x27;t pose specific challenges and folks moved to microservices for the last 15 years without good reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lightbendover</author><text>&gt; they force alignment on one language or at least runtime<p>How is this possibly a down-side from an org perspective? You don&#x27;t want to fracture knowledge and make hiring&#x2F;training more difficult even if there are some technical optimizations possible otherwise.</text></comment> |
40,666,608 | 40,665,348 | 1 | 2 | 40,656,747 | train | <story><title>Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27</title><url>https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/06/12/elixir-v1-17-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elbasti</author><text>I love elixir. I use it for basically everything. And LiveBook has become my go-to place to start building toy software.<p>I just can&#x27;t do liveview. I have a very hard time grokking it, and it has a lot of footguns. (ex: if you need to remember to perform auth checks both doing a `pipe_through` in a router <i>and</i> using the `on_mount` callback in a LiveView, see [0].)<p>In fact, the fact that the above sentence has zero meaning to a new-to-phoenix-and-liveview dev is proof enough to me that liveview should <i>not</i> be the default way of doing things.<p>It creates a very steep learning curve where, crucially <i>none is required</i>. elixir&#x2F;phoenix are <i>easy</i>.<p>I would even say that the correct learning order for a new-to-elixir&#x2F;phoenix dev should be:<p>- Phoenix with deadviews (MVC style).<p>- &quot;Elixir in action&quot; to learn the basics of OTP. This book is was both easy and utterly eye-opening to me and changed the way I code basically everything.<p>- Then, and only then, LiveView.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;phoenix_live_view&#x2F;security-model.html#live_session-and-live_redirect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;phoenix_live_view&#x2F;security-model.html#liv...</a></text></item><item><author>mike1o1</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Elixir as a backend for a side project (with a Remix frontend) and it&#x27;s been really pleasant and productive to work with on the backend. I appreciate how productive LiveView can be, but for my specific case I needed to handle poor network connections and LiveView was (as expected) a poor experience.<p>I wish Elixir was able to decouple itself from LiveView in a sense in the minds of developers. Even without LiveView and realtime&#x2F;channels, just using Elixir as a backend for a simple API has been really fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josevalim</author><text>Thanks for the link. This is my fault because the sentence is ambiguous. Where it tries to explain that &quot;you need to remember to perform auth checks both&quot;, it rather means that you need to protect controller routes and LiveView routes the same way, but for a single LiveView, you don&#x27;t need to do both. I will try to clarify it!<p>If you have other footguns in mind, feel to shot me an email at jose dot valim on gmail!</text></comment> | <story><title>Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27</title><url>https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/06/12/elixir-v1-17-0-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elbasti</author><text>I love elixir. I use it for basically everything. And LiveBook has become my go-to place to start building toy software.<p>I just can&#x27;t do liveview. I have a very hard time grokking it, and it has a lot of footguns. (ex: if you need to remember to perform auth checks both doing a `pipe_through` in a router <i>and</i> using the `on_mount` callback in a LiveView, see [0].)<p>In fact, the fact that the above sentence has zero meaning to a new-to-phoenix-and-liveview dev is proof enough to me that liveview should <i>not</i> be the default way of doing things.<p>It creates a very steep learning curve where, crucially <i>none is required</i>. elixir&#x2F;phoenix are <i>easy</i>.<p>I would even say that the correct learning order for a new-to-elixir&#x2F;phoenix dev should be:<p>- Phoenix with deadviews (MVC style).<p>- &quot;Elixir in action&quot; to learn the basics of OTP. This book is was both easy and utterly eye-opening to me and changed the way I code basically everything.<p>- Then, and only then, LiveView.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;phoenix_live_view&#x2F;security-model.html#live_session-and-live_redirect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;phoenix_live_view&#x2F;security-model.html#liv...</a></text></item><item><author>mike1o1</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Elixir as a backend for a side project (with a Remix frontend) and it&#x27;s been really pleasant and productive to work with on the backend. I appreciate how productive LiveView can be, but for my specific case I needed to handle poor network connections and LiveView was (as expected) a poor experience.<p>I wish Elixir was able to decouple itself from LiveView in a sense in the minds of developers. Even without LiveView and realtime&#x2F;channels, just using Elixir as a backend for a simple API has been really fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>birdfood</author><text>I&#x27;ve been having a similar experience trying to build an app with liveview. I&#x27;ve been simultaneously building the same app with Phoenix + LiveView and Dream (OCaml) + HTMX. With the OCaml stack I&#x27;m finding it really easy to follow the data flow through the whole app thanks to the compiler. With the Phoenix app I&#x27;m struggling to internalise how all the code fits together and having to navigate the code base off searching for strings alone (vscode editor tooling seems to just not work for me?). I&#x27;m also struggling to grasp how state is stored in a liveview and it isn&#x27;t helped that a lot of the resources I&#x27;ve found online are now out of date. Going with a simpler approach of MVC sounds promising - I do want to get to the point where I&#x27;m actually taking advantage of the BEAM (I&#x27;m aiming for long running processes + user interactivity + maybe multi-user editing).<p>I&#x27;d be keen to hear your development workflow for building an MVC style app, what you use for the front end, and how you go about refactoring, e.g. when editing a struct which is stored in the DB and shown in a view is when I particularly feel like I&#x27;m flying blind.</text></comment> |
41,664,306 | 41,664,021 | 1 | 3 | 41,663,465 | train | <story><title>End of an era: Landsat 7 mission takes final images</title><url>https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-historic-landsat-7-mission-takes-final-images</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmsan</author><text>Dang, hits home. When I was a senior in high school, I was lucky to able to volunteer under Dr. Eric Brown De Colstoun at NASA Goddard, checking error rates for tree cover estimates using Landsat data^. Many hours that fall spent trudging around parks and forests, looking at the sky through a PVC pipe. It still kind of blows my mind at how much is able to be gained from images where each pixel is 15mx15m of ground-level area (and, I believe, with an important component of Landsat 7&#x27;s imaging system broken for most of its lifespan).<p>I also wasn&#x27;t aware that Landsat program imagery had been made free to access a few years later. Nice.<p>^(A massive thank you to him, since I wouldn&#x27;t have graduated without being able to participate in that project. And a massive apology for going on to get a fine arts degree.)</text></comment> | <story><title>End of an era: Landsat 7 mission takes final images</title><url>https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-historic-landsat-7-mission-takes-final-images</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tiffanyh</author><text>In the Las Vegas slider, the Lake Mead before&#x2F;after difference is startling.</text></comment> |
14,375,994 | 14,376,266 | 1 | 2 | 14,373,885 | train | <story><title>The State of Go – Where we are in May 2017</title><url>https://talks.golang.org/2017/state-of-go-may.slide#1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickcw</author><text>&gt; vendor directories are ignored by the go tool #19090:<p>Hooray!<p>No more Makefile spaghetti like this (well a bit less anyway!)<p><pre><code> GO_FILES := $(shell go list .&#x2F;... | grep -v &#x2F;vendor&#x2F; )
go test $(GO_FILES)
go tool vet . 2&gt;&amp;1 | grep -E -v vendor&#x2F; ; test $$? -eq 1
errcheck $(GO_FILES)
find . -name \*.go | grep -v &#x2F;vendor&#x2F; | xargs goimports -d | grep . ; test $$? -eq 1
go list .&#x2F;... | grep -v &#x2F;vendor&#x2F; | xargs -i golint {} | grep . ; test $$? -eq 1
</code></pre>
should become<p><pre><code> go test .&#x2F;...
go tool vet .&#x2F;...
errcheck .&#x2F;...
goimports -d .
golint .&#x2F;...
</code></pre>
I assume the `.&#x2F;...` changes will just work in `errcheck` and `golint` but I suspect `goimports` might need a bit of work.</text></comment> | <story><title>The State of Go – Where we are in May 2017</title><url>https://talks.golang.org/2017/state-of-go-may.slide#1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>heyts</author><text>Video of the presentation on youtube <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=giUatBmmb_Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=giUatBmmb_Y</a></text></comment> |
6,483,310 | 6,482,301 | 1 | 3 | 6,481,881 | train | <story><title>Global celebration for the GNU System's 30th anniversary</title><url>http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/global-celebration-for-the-gnu-systems-30th-anniversary</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whydo</author><text>The work of the FSF and GNU is one of the most important in the history of computing. We benefit daily from the values of freedom, respect, and choice it presents. We also benefit from the abundance of knowledge and technologies that is openly available to all.<p>However, these rights and privileges must not be taken for granted and must continue to be protected. It is also in our interest to choose solutions and businesses that respect their users and their liberties.</text></comment> | <story><title>Global celebration for the GNU System's 30th anniversary</title><url>http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/global-celebration-for-the-gnu-systems-30th-anniversary</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ianstallings</author><text>RMS and company, changed the way I not only look at software, but at my life and my freedoms.</text></comment> |
21,515,146 | 21,515,014 | 1 | 2 | 21,513,871 | train | <story><title>Telling users why their content was removed reduces future issues [pdf]</title><url>https://shagunjhaver.com/files/research/jhaver-2019-transparency.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bchimp</author><text>The paper (and I only read the abstract) is interesting, but as others have noted, fairly obvious.<p>One thing that seems to be an assumption is that the &quot;company&quot; needs to provide the explanation. I think it is even better if the user provides the explanation. The assumption a user can&#x27;t provide it is probably because we&#x27;ve all seen Terms of Service agreements that are totally opaque.<p>Back in the day when I was doing a bit of admin work, I decided to simplify our TOS, and then when I had to block someone, I just kicked the ball back into their court: &quot;If you would like your account restored, please point out in the TOS what rule you violated.&quot; It worked better than expected. People that cared enough about their access to the system usually figured it out pretty quickly, and we got the knowledge that they actually read the TOS to some degree. They got their account restored and that was the end of it. Repeat offenders at that point were willfully causing problems, so we just left them blocked.<p>Obviously this only works if a human can understand your TOS. Another interesting line of questioning might be &quot;at what complexity level is your TOS useful in shaping behavior and where does it just become a legal shield.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coreyp_1</author><text>I&#x27;m going through a related situation right now, but I&#x27;m the one who is the recipient of the negative action.<p>I posted a video of me playing the piano on YouTube. I got a copyright notification, that I was playing the melody to a song that someone else held the copyright for.<p>What&#x27;s the problem? Well, the melody was published in 1886 (133 years ago) under the exact name identified in the copyright claim. The composer died in 1901 (118 years ago). It is not under copyright protection in any jurisdiction! Now, I&#x27;m having to appeal the copyright claim... not to YouTube, but to ASCAP (the company who is claiming the copyright in the first place)!!!! In fact, because it was MY arrangement and MY performance and MY production, <i>I</i> own the copyright to that video in every way legally recognized! In my mind, this is THEFT... from ME!<p>My point is, if YouTube had not at least told me what I&#x27;m being accused of, there is no way that I would have figured this out! I haven&#x27;t done anything wrong! Someone else (ASCAP, ICE_CS) is fraudulently claiming copyright!<p>Under your system, I would have to &quot;invent&quot; things to confess to.<p>Of course, now the problem is that I have no power in this situation. ASCAP must agree that they don&#x27;t want to monitize my video, and they have no incentive to do that. I have no protection or recourse. :(<p>And, for anyone who&#x27;s interested, this still isn&#x27;t resolved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Telling users why their content was removed reduces future issues [pdf]</title><url>https://shagunjhaver.com/files/research/jhaver-2019-transparency.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bchimp</author><text>The paper (and I only read the abstract) is interesting, but as others have noted, fairly obvious.<p>One thing that seems to be an assumption is that the &quot;company&quot; needs to provide the explanation. I think it is even better if the user provides the explanation. The assumption a user can&#x27;t provide it is probably because we&#x27;ve all seen Terms of Service agreements that are totally opaque.<p>Back in the day when I was doing a bit of admin work, I decided to simplify our TOS, and then when I had to block someone, I just kicked the ball back into their court: &quot;If you would like your account restored, please point out in the TOS what rule you violated.&quot; It worked better than expected. People that cared enough about their access to the system usually figured it out pretty quickly, and we got the knowledge that they actually read the TOS to some degree. They got their account restored and that was the end of it. Repeat offenders at that point were willfully causing problems, so we just left them blocked.<p>Obviously this only works if a human can understand your TOS. Another interesting line of questioning might be &quot;at what complexity level is your TOS useful in shaping behavior and where does it just become a legal shield.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JimboOmega</author><text>I assume most TOS are just a blob of legalese, and not a &quot;this is what it means to behave on this server&quot;.<p>It feels like the trend has been in the other direction. In most services I&#x27;ve interacted with recently, the service often doesn&#x27;t even tell you that the content has been removed, let alone why. One example is Discord - if a mod removes a comment you made, it just disappears. You might try to repost it, thinking it failed to send. Similarly if you are removed from a server, it simply disappears from your list. This kind of thing is very frustrating&#x2F;confusing - not that I expect a mod to necessarily provide explanation (though, that&#x27;s nice) but at least the service saying &quot;hey, that got removed&quot; prevents me from trying to repost it.<p>The usual explanation involves spammers&#x2F;scammers. Something like, if they know they got removed for violating some rule or the other, they can use that information to work around it in their next attempt. But for actual human users it can be very frustrating.</text></comment> |
24,910,431 | 24,910,197 | 1 | 3 | 24,908,729 | train | <story><title>Next.js 10</title><url>https://nextjs.org/blog/next-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamazizi</author><text>I understand this is a Vercel framework and probably a great distribution channel for new business and increasing overall revenue. But, I&#x27;m a bit disappointed the &quot;next&quot; version is more about Vercel&#x27;s own internal business agenda. Promoted as amazing &quot;DX&quot; is not really true. It had a better DX compared to the other tools, that&#x27;s why it grew so popular, but not seeing anything real DX related in version &quot;10&quot;. Other tools are starting to do things a bit better.<p>Analytics, great idea, is a huge disappointment. It&#x27;s just a Vercel thing and not NextJS, not to mention a &quot;pro&#x2F;enterprise&quot; paid feature, not cheap either.<p>A few days ago I saw the YT videos of &quot;future of Svelte&quot; and that video was really about &quot;DX&quot; with no non-sense no BS that just focused on the real next evolution on web&#x2F;app dev. That DX really resonated with me.<p>My opinion, I&#x27;m not sold on NextJS 10, the &quot;commercial&quot; move kind of turned me off and scares me of platform lock-in, but I&#x27;m getting more and more interested into Svelte (v4?) and I&#x27;m seriously looking to switch to it from NextJS.<p>Note: &quot;DX&quot; stands for &quot;Developer eXperience&quot;, meaning how joyful, easy it is to get started with the tool and feeling productive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindrun</author><text>Whenever the Next.js + Vercel combo gains a new feature, Vercel ensures that it&#x27;s available in standalone Next.js too – even when deployed to other providers.<p>That&#x27;s true for all the features mentioned in the Next.js 10 blog post: Image optimization, Internationalization, but also Analytics.<p>Since you mentioned the latter: Did you notice that we wrote a detailed documentation page about how to report those metrics to any service of your choice?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;advanced-features&#x2F;measuring-performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nextjs.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;advanced-features&#x2F;measuring-performa...</a><p>Sure, there&#x27;s obviously a whole UI piece to this as well – but since you interact with Next.js programmatically and there&#x27;s a quite sophisticated data storage that needs to back all of this as well, Vercel optionally provides you with a pre-built solution.<p>But again, to be clear: If you want to use Analytics + Next.js elsewhere, Next.js supports reporting them natively – even if not hosted on Vercel.</text></comment> | <story><title>Next.js 10</title><url>https://nextjs.org/blog/next-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamazizi</author><text>I understand this is a Vercel framework and probably a great distribution channel for new business and increasing overall revenue. But, I&#x27;m a bit disappointed the &quot;next&quot; version is more about Vercel&#x27;s own internal business agenda. Promoted as amazing &quot;DX&quot; is not really true. It had a better DX compared to the other tools, that&#x27;s why it grew so popular, but not seeing anything real DX related in version &quot;10&quot;. Other tools are starting to do things a bit better.<p>Analytics, great idea, is a huge disappointment. It&#x27;s just a Vercel thing and not NextJS, not to mention a &quot;pro&#x2F;enterprise&quot; paid feature, not cheap either.<p>A few days ago I saw the YT videos of &quot;future of Svelte&quot; and that video was really about &quot;DX&quot; with no non-sense no BS that just focused on the real next evolution on web&#x2F;app dev. That DX really resonated with me.<p>My opinion, I&#x27;m not sold on NextJS 10, the &quot;commercial&quot; move kind of turned me off and scares me of platform lock-in, but I&#x27;m getting more and more interested into Svelte (v4?) and I&#x27;m seriously looking to switch to it from NextJS.<p>Note: &quot;DX&quot; stands for &quot;Developer eXperience&quot;, meaning how joyful, easy it is to get started with the tool and feeling productive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erokar</author><text>I feel the same way. We&#x27;ve switched from React to Svelte at work. Going back to React would be a step backwards for us, so much feels needlessly overengineered with awkward APIs. React was a great improvement on Angular, but luckily things are still moving forward.</text></comment> |
11,910,062 | 11,908,084 | 1 | 3 | 11,907,060 | train | <story><title>What is Differential Privacy?</title><url>http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/06/what-is-differential-privacy.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ianmiers</author><text>This is something Apple really needs to release all the details of. Even if they got the crypto exactly right, they could have picked a privacy budget&#x2F; security parameters that just leaks everything.<p>And there is every reason to be skeptical about Apple&#x27;s ability to design even mildly complex crypto given iMessage&#x27;s flaws. Although the break in iMessage wasn&#x27;t practically exploitable, that was luck and the fact that the only way to detect if a mulled ciphertext decrypted required attachment messages. The cryptographic mistakes were bad. Given any way to detect decryption of mulled ciphertexts for standard messages (e.g. sequence numbers, timing, actively synching messages between devices, delivery receipts from iMessage instead of APSD), Apple&#x27;s crypto design bugs would have eliminated nearly all of the E2E security of iMessage.<p>Remember, this isn&#x27;t a boon for user privacy. Apple is now collecting far more invasive data about users under the claim that they have protections in place. At best it preserves the status quo and does so only if Apple both picked the parameters correctly and implemented it correctly.<p>At this point Apple&#x27;s position should be best summed up as: we have drastically reduced your privacy except not because magic that we (i.e. Apple) do not fully understand.</text></comment> | <story><title>What is Differential Privacy?</title><url>http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/06/what-is-differential-privacy.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cromwellian</author><text>Some dissenting views on the utility of differential privacy: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Practical&#x2F;differential-privacy-considered-harmful-f420ce717846" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@Practical&#x2F;differential-privacy-considere...</a><p>Also, Apple is woefully low on details, theoretical privacy should be accompanied by openly published research papers that are peer reviewed. I understand they won&#x27;t release the source, but would you trust Apple if they said they invented a new encryption algorithm, but refuse to publish an academic paper on it? I&#x27;d be interested precisely in what they&#x27;re doing. Are they claiming they&#x27;re doing federated learning, by gathering anonymous image data from photos, uploading it to their cloud, training DNNs on it, and then shipping the results back down to clients for local recognition? Surely they&#x27;re not training on device, as this is very RAM and CPU intensive.</text></comment> |
11,797,115 | 11,796,655 | 1 | 3 | 11,796,557 | train | <story><title>Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979)</title><url>https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your-breath-away-5b903624ca5f#.3d80xpzgv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vanderZwan</author><text>You know, I&#x27;m wondering: could part of Dijkstra&#x27;s reputed arrogance be due to a cultural difference? I&#x27;m Dutch, and bluntly calling out flaws in each other&#x27;s work is not considered all that rude over here; it&#x27;s almost the opposite: not calling someone out on their flaws implies we either consider them a lost cause or not worth the hassle of educating.<p>I almost got fired from a teaching position in Sweden because I told my 3rd year bachelor students that many did not bother to add their names or the assignment number, or using paragraphs and in some cases even basic interpunction on their assignments. And that this was well below the level required to to pass secondary school, and that I expect better from them.<p>This was apparently too confrontational, and a few upset students later I got chewed out and almost fired. Meanwhile, from my point of view, I was just doing my job and already sugarcoating it by Dutch standards.<p>Having said that, yes, even by Dutch standards I would say that Dijkstra liked to troll people a bit.<p>PS: I really like the following insight from Dijkstra&#x27;s review: <i>But whereas machines must be able to execute programs (without understanding them), people must be able to understand them (without executing them).</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979)</title><url>https://medium.com/@acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your-breath-away-5b903624ca5f#.3d80xpzgv</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>This is a series of cell phone shots of an exchange of letters between Backus and Dijkstra. There is no transcript and some of the letters are hard to read, especially the handwritten ones.<p>I only skimmed it but it is definitely an interesting read.
I didn&#x27;t interpret their stance as arrogant though. In my book both are enthusiastic about their subject and think the other party is misguided. Both take some effort not to hurt the others feelings while still bringing their point across.</text></comment> |
14,580,128 | 14,580,117 | 1 | 2 | 14,578,807 | train | <story><title>Debian 9 Stretch released</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lamby</author><text>&gt; I align more with arch<p>Could you briefly outline why? :)</text></item><item><author>agumonkey</author><text>I don&#x27;t use debian anymore, was my first linux distro, I align more with arch but I&#x27;m very happy to see you walking steadily.<p>Happy distrofathersday</text></item><item><author>lamby</author><text>Chris Lamb here, Debian Project Leader for 2017. Would love to get your feedback on the parallel &quot;Ask HN&quot; thread here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14579080" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14579080</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agumonkey</author><text>These are not perfectly sensical reasons:<p>- old arch single config file, with &#x27;@&#x27; syntax for parallelism got me hooked; sure it&#x27;s different in systemd days<p>- early problem free systemd adoption<p>- simplified, close to upstream distribution (don&#x27;t want to dig for src, dev, docs etc)<p>- their wiki is the one that speaks the most to my mind, I try to be gentle and objective, but every time, I find solutions in a short amount of time, and even more ideas. They hit a very very sweet spot to me. (gentoo was like that before the data loss)<p>- no installer, might seem stupid but it&#x27;s a bit easier to reason with it; I don&#x27;t have to learn an install framework, it&#x27;s very bare and unixy.<p>- very thin tooling from arch, debian does a lot, but it&#x27;s too heavy for my mind. Things might have changed since I last live in debian but I run a few debian live isos and derivatives and it always feels like &quot;too much&quot;, administrative (as the debian documentation)<p>- rolling by default, debian has testing but it feels riskier<p>- AUR felt simpler (again) than custom apt repos<p>Also I might add that I distanced myself from the OS quest (or if I could I&#x27;d run a lisp or smalltalk fork or something similar). I&#x27;d be happy to hear your suggestions about my points if you have time for that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Debian 9 Stretch released</title><url>https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lamby</author><text>&gt; I align more with arch<p>Could you briefly outline why? :)</text></item><item><author>agumonkey</author><text>I don&#x27;t use debian anymore, was my first linux distro, I align more with arch but I&#x27;m very happy to see you walking steadily.<p>Happy distrofathersday</text></item><item><author>lamby</author><text>Chris Lamb here, Debian Project Leader for 2017. Would love to get your feedback on the parallel &quot;Ask HN&quot; thread here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14579080" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14579080</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrimbault</author><text>Not the OP. But also in the same case, Debian was my first distro, these days I align more with Arch.<p>The ArchWiki is a gift to all the community. Rolling releases, not testing. With Arch there&#x27;s a feeling of <i>owning</i> your OS without going full LFS. I am currently planning a summer reformatting for a laptop and I can&#x27;t imagine not using Arch.<p>But those are concerns only for my personal computers. On my servers or quick VMs I still prefer Debian.</text></comment> |
35,215,104 | 35,215,119 | 1 | 2 | 35,191,706 | train | <story><title>Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.osta.org/technology/pdf/cdr_cdrw.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sn_master</author><text>A year or so ago I made a post on reddit&#x2F;TIL that referenced CD-R and it got deleted by a mod because &quot;CD-R is not a known thing&quot; or something like that. The mod must&#x27;ve been too young to ever used a CD-R. That was kind of shocking to me, but then I haven&#x27;t used CD-R myself in almost a decade.</text></comment> | <story><title>Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf]</title><url>http://www.osta.org/technology/pdf/cdr_cdrw.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nu11ptr</author><text>I still recall very well how frustrating &quot;buffer under-runs&quot; were...in a day and an age when we really need a real-time OS, but we simply weren&#x27;t running them.<p>I can&#x27;t decide if I love this doc or if it gives me post traumatic stress. This is another subject I haven&#x27;t thought about in years as it has faded out, but having dealt with all the different permutations of CD writable I had forgotten just how many different variations there actually were, and how long the industry kept trying to improve the tech.</text></comment> |
21,928,128 | 21,927,839 | 1 | 3 | 21,927,009 | train | <story><title>Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)</title><url>https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>calderarrow</author><text>This was the book that got me into programming. About three years ago, I was an auditor looking for ways to automate the more mundane tasks of my job, and stumbled a across this book.<p>I had no prior experience with programming, and at the time I only wanted to learn how to write enough code to help me with my job. This book was perfect for that goal.<p>It took me a couple of weeks to get through it all and write the program I needed to write, but when it worked, I was amazed. I remember going to grab coffee to celebrate and on my walk I started thinking about other job tasks I could automate. Most of public accounting deals with comparing PDF reports and Excel data, so I genuinely believed I could write programs to automate the majority of tasks at my job.<p>I started to learn on my own with some common online resources. I would get so excited to come home from work so I could dive further into my studies, and the more I learned, the more opportunities I saw: what if there was a way for a computer to perform all the analysis and statistical processing for an audit? What if a program could monitor financial transactions and automatically complete taxes for clients?<p>Flash forward a few months and I went all-in on software development. Quit my job as a public accountant, finished a boot camp, and started working as a developer.<p>It was the best decision of my life and this book was the catalyst. I’m so grateful that Al wrote this, and I highly recommend it for people whose jobs have a lot of boring stuff —- especially public accountants :).</text></comment> | <story><title>Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)</title><url>https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monkeydust</author><text>Got hardcopy of this book for Xmas from my 3 year old (yea OK the wife!) about a 1&#x2F;3 into it.<p>Have programmed c++ about a decade ago.. Nice to get back into it I have to say, there is an instant gratification from solving something in code, perhaps is the binary nature of something working or not, it&#x27;s very black and white versus dealing with management issues, which is more like my day job, where your constantly in some grey area or dealing with noise, emails, endless directionless meetings.<p>Anyway highly recommend this book for non programmers, MU is also a very nice and clean IDE but prefer VS Code.</text></comment> |
39,509,060 | 39,509,054 | 1 | 2 | 39,508,257 | train | <story><title>Home Screen Advantage</title><url>https://infrequently.org/2024/02/home-screen-advantage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JimDabell</author><text>&gt; Removing persistent storage<p>They aren’t making any policy changes relating to storage.<p>Apple have been progressively locking down methods websites use to persistently track people for privacy reasons. All forms of permanent storage (e.g. cookies, local storage) are limited to a seven day lifetime unless the user interacts with that website &#x2F; web app. If the user keeps visiting the website &#x2F; web app at least once a week, the storage remains.<p>Another thing Apple have been doing is using the act of installing a PWA as a signal that it should be trusted more than anything you happen to come across in a browser. So the seven day lifecycle doesn’t apply to PWAs that you install to the home screen.<p>What is happening now is that because PWAs installed to the home screen are no longer available in the EU, people use those PWAs through a web browser. And due to this, the seven days lifetime without user interaction starts to apply.<p>It’s a problem, but this <i>specific</i> thing isn’t a recent policy change from Apple regarding storage, it’s fallout from PWAs not having the elevated privileges from being installed to the home screen.</text></item><item><author>phartenfeller</author><text>I think removing persistent storage and the ability to add websites to the home screen makes it obvious what their strategy is. The EU shows that they want interoperability for big players like they do with messenger interoperability in the DMA. The web is such a fundamental standard and its interoperability is so important I guess the EU will fine Apple for such behavior. The question is how soon this will happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_gipsy</author><text>So - <i>effectively</i>, apple is crippling PWAs exactly as being said. Got it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Home Screen Advantage</title><url>https://infrequently.org/2024/02/home-screen-advantage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JimDabell</author><text>&gt; Removing persistent storage<p>They aren’t making any policy changes relating to storage.<p>Apple have been progressively locking down methods websites use to persistently track people for privacy reasons. All forms of permanent storage (e.g. cookies, local storage) are limited to a seven day lifetime unless the user interacts with that website &#x2F; web app. If the user keeps visiting the website &#x2F; web app at least once a week, the storage remains.<p>Another thing Apple have been doing is using the act of installing a PWA as a signal that it should be trusted more than anything you happen to come across in a browser. So the seven day lifecycle doesn’t apply to PWAs that you install to the home screen.<p>What is happening now is that because PWAs installed to the home screen are no longer available in the EU, people use those PWAs through a web browser. And due to this, the seven days lifetime without user interaction starts to apply.<p>It’s a problem, but this <i>specific</i> thing isn’t a recent policy change from Apple regarding storage, it’s fallout from PWAs not having the elevated privileges from being installed to the home screen.</text></item><item><author>phartenfeller</author><text>I think removing persistent storage and the ability to add websites to the home screen makes it obvious what their strategy is. The EU shows that they want interoperability for big players like they do with messenger interoperability in the DMA. The web is such a fundamental standard and its interoperability is so important I guess the EU will fine Apple for such behavior. The question is how soon this will happen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rictic</author><text>&quot;I didn&#x27;t delete your files, I moved them from the bucket where they aren&#x27;t deleted to the bucket where they are deleted, and then according to my own policies, I deleted them. This change is mandatory.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a policy change that impacts storage and has the practical effect that PWAs on iOS in the EU have had the persistent storage feature removed with no replacement.<p>Seems fair to gloss that as &quot;Removing persistent storage.&quot;</text></comment> |
17,015,237 | 17,015,493 | 1 | 3 | 17,014,807 | train | <story><title>Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/uber-vehicle-reportedly-saw-but-ignored-woman-it-struck/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GenerocUsername</author><text>And welcome to why self-driving cars will always be 3 years away.<p>I think we should be targeting self driving for long-haul freeway scenarios where the rules are relatively simple and predictable. Trying to control for the infinite number of scenarios in cities is a nightmare which will ultimately bog down the development of any company which makes that its goal.</text></item><item><author>freditup</author><text>I&#x27;m curious what degree of &quot;cultural context&quot; is built into automated cars - I feel that there has to be a lot of locale-specific techniques for driving.<p>For example, in NYC, there&#x27;s nothing at all uncommon about a pedestrian beginning to cross the street in front of you and approaching the area of your lane where you will shortly be. Pedestrians typically then stop about a foot away from your lane, let you drive past them, and then continue walking. If a car slammed on the brakes in this situation, it would likely cause more accidents than not braking would cause.<p>On the contrary, in Tempe, a pedestrian starting to do the exact same thing as above is likely much more a case of them not realizing your car is coming at all, in which case slamming on the brakes is appropriate.<p>This isn&#x27;t to defend Uber, clearly their car did do the wrong thing in the Tempe situation (though I make no judgment on who was at fault). And clearly cars need to be able to handle the variety of unwritten, localized driving quirks different regions have. But it seems like a very non-trivial problem to do this correctly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joncrane</author><text>&gt; And welcome to why self-driving cars will always be 3 years away.<p>It&#x27;s also possible that human&#x2F;pedestrian behavior will adapt to the consistent behavior of driverless cars.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/uber-vehicle-reportedly-saw-but-ignored-woman-it-struck/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GenerocUsername</author><text>And welcome to why self-driving cars will always be 3 years away.<p>I think we should be targeting self driving for long-haul freeway scenarios where the rules are relatively simple and predictable. Trying to control for the infinite number of scenarios in cities is a nightmare which will ultimately bog down the development of any company which makes that its goal.</text></item><item><author>freditup</author><text>I&#x27;m curious what degree of &quot;cultural context&quot; is built into automated cars - I feel that there has to be a lot of locale-specific techniques for driving.<p>For example, in NYC, there&#x27;s nothing at all uncommon about a pedestrian beginning to cross the street in front of you and approaching the area of your lane where you will shortly be. Pedestrians typically then stop about a foot away from your lane, let you drive past them, and then continue walking. If a car slammed on the brakes in this situation, it would likely cause more accidents than not braking would cause.<p>On the contrary, in Tempe, a pedestrian starting to do the exact same thing as above is likely much more a case of them not realizing your car is coming at all, in which case slamming on the brakes is appropriate.<p>This isn&#x27;t to defend Uber, clearly their car did do the wrong thing in the Tempe situation (though I make no judgment on who was at fault). And clearly cars need to be able to handle the variety of unwritten, localized driving quirks different regions have. But it seems like a very non-trivial problem to do this correctly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aurailious</author><text>Essentially make the freeways &quot;car trains&quot; as the autobahn implies. Eventually over time you add automation to other kinds of roads.</text></comment> |
24,002,483 | 24,002,406 | 1 | 3 | 23,999,542 | train | <story><title>Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/apple-considered-taking-40-cut-from-subscriptions-emails-show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thephyber</author><text>Yes, but it&#x27;s relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:<p>&gt; During a hearing before the House antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook testified that “we apply the rules to all developers evenly” when it comes to the App Store. But documents revealed by the subcommittee’s investigation show Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered Amazon a unique deal in 2016: Apple would only take a 15 percent fee on subscriptions that signed up through the app, compared to the standard 30 percent that most developers must hand over.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;7&#x2F;30&#x2F;21348108&#x2F;apple-amazon-prime-video-app-store-special-treatment-fee-subscriptions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;7&#x2F;30&#x2F;21348108&#x2F;apple-amazon-pri...</a></text></item><item><author>CubsFan1060</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this pretty average business? Amazon (and the others) are bringing more business and get a discount.<p>AWS does this. So does monoprice (volume pricing). My local landscaping place does this (contractors buying more tons of rock get a better price). Home depot has &quot;contractor pricing&quot; when you buy multiples of things.</text></item><item><author>taylorhou</author><text>interesting how bigger players are able to negotiate discounts&#x2F;preference when arguably they are more suited to not need the discount - whereas 15% could be the difference between bankruptcy and breakeven or ramen profitability for a small startup&#x2F;business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sah2ed</author><text>&gt; <i>Yes, but it&#x27;s relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:</i><p>You have a unfortunate typo in your first sentence (since your excerpted text mentions the correct person: Tim Cook).</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/apple-considered-taking-40-cut-from-subscriptions-emails-show</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thephyber</author><text>Yes, but it&#x27;s relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:<p>&gt; During a hearing before the House antitrust subcommittee on Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook testified that “we apply the rules to all developers evenly” when it comes to the App Store. But documents revealed by the subcommittee’s investigation show Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered Amazon a unique deal in 2016: Apple would only take a 15 percent fee on subscriptions that signed up through the app, compared to the standard 30 percent that most developers must hand over.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;7&#x2F;30&#x2F;21348108&#x2F;apple-amazon-prime-video-app-store-special-treatment-fee-subscriptions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;7&#x2F;30&#x2F;21348108&#x2F;apple-amazon-pri...</a></text></item><item><author>CubsFan1060</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this pretty average business? Amazon (and the others) are bringing more business and get a discount.<p>AWS does this. So does monoprice (volume pricing). My local landscaping place does this (contractors buying more tons of rock get a better price). Home depot has &quot;contractor pricing&quot; when you buy multiples of things.</text></item><item><author>taylorhou</author><text>interesting how bigger players are able to negotiate discounts&#x2F;preference when arguably they are more suited to not need the discount - whereas 15% could be the difference between bankruptcy and breakeven or ramen profitability for a small startup&#x2F;business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpeterson</author><text>I think you mean Tim Apple.</text></comment> |
20,842,009 | 20,841,612 | 1 | 2 | 20,839,870 | train | <story><title>Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children</title><url>https://sugarlabs.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blowski</author><text>For all the adults moaning about it on here, I showed it to my 5 year old (British&#x2F;Brazilian) son and he loved it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sugar: Open-source software learning platform for children</title><url>https://sugarlabs.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VikingCoder</author><text>I absolutely love the mission of OLPC, and I hate literally every decision they made. I think they sucked all of the oxygen out of the room, and I think Sugar is possibly the worst part.</text></comment> |
12,334,152 | 12,333,495 | 1 | 3 | 12,330,573 | train | <story><title>What Golang Is and Is Not</title><url>http://danmux.com/posts/what_golang_isnt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>divan</author><text>&gt; Go is a language that pushes remembering corner cases and failure conditions onto the programmer<p>Can you elaborate on this? I write go for 3+ years and I have no idea what corner cases and failure conditions do you mean.</text></item><item><author>codygman</author><text>As someone who writes Go every day for work, I can&#x27;t agree that Go is simple. Using a language for analytics without generics can be quite painful and error prone.<p>Go is a language that pushes remembering corner cases and failure conditions onto the programmer rather than the language and runtime itself.<p>When you already have to remember a myriad of corner cases for business logic, also remembering so many corner cases for your code hurts productivity.<p>I also believe that languages exist to make getting to an end result in given domains easier. Go does not make my life easier.<p>I really hope it gets generics. I wish it would do away with nil&#x2F;null.<p>Nim is a very good language that actually accomplishes the simplicity Go wanted imo.<p>Go affords simplicity to the Go compiler writers at the cost of burdening Go users with having to remember inane things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oconnor663</author><text>Examples that bother me sometimes. YMMV of course.<p>Writing to a closed channel panics, but writing to a nil channel blocks forever.<p>Appending to a nil slice works fine, but inserting into a nil map panics.<p>If you have a function that returns an error struct, and you wrap it with another function that returns the error interface, nil returns from the inner function will no longer test equal to nil.<p>Defining a method with a receiver type of Foo, rather than &lt;star&gt;Foo, means all modifications to the Foo get silently dropped. This can also happen to methods that correctly take a pointer receiver, if their <i>caller</i> incorrectly takes a value receiver.<p>Maps are not threadsafe&#x2F;goroutine-safe.<p>Expression evaluation order is not defined, and varies between compilers. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;golang&#x2F;go&#x2F;issues&#x2F;15905" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;golang&#x2F;go&#x2F;issues&#x2F;15905</a>)</text></comment> | <story><title>What Golang Is and Is Not</title><url>http://danmux.com/posts/what_golang_isnt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>divan</author><text>&gt; Go is a language that pushes remembering corner cases and failure conditions onto the programmer<p>Can you elaborate on this? I write go for 3+ years and I have no idea what corner cases and failure conditions do you mean.</text></item><item><author>codygman</author><text>As someone who writes Go every day for work, I can&#x27;t agree that Go is simple. Using a language for analytics without generics can be quite painful and error prone.<p>Go is a language that pushes remembering corner cases and failure conditions onto the programmer rather than the language and runtime itself.<p>When you already have to remember a myriad of corner cases for business logic, also remembering so many corner cases for your code hurts productivity.<p>I also believe that languages exist to make getting to an end result in given domains easier. Go does not make my life easier.<p>I really hope it gets generics. I wish it would do away with nil&#x2F;null.<p>Nim is a very good language that actually accomplishes the simplicity Go wanted imo.<p>Go affords simplicity to the Go compiler writers at the cost of burdening Go users with having to remember inane things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kornish</author><text>I presume an example would be something like remembering to check `rows.Err()` in `package sql` at the end of iterating through all rows. If you check the error each iteration while calling `rows.Scan()` but forget to check the `rows.Err()` at the end, it could potentially be much, much later that you find out something went wrong.</text></comment> |
18,938,552 | 18,937,832 | 1 | 2 | 18,937,009 | train | <story><title>Problems plagued U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald before fatal collision</title><url>https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/worse-than-you-thought-inside-the-secret-fitzgerald-probe-the-navy-doesnt-want-you-to-read/#.XEFOvOop_SM.twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dba7dba</author><text>&gt; The probe exposes how personal distrust led the officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock, to avoid communicating with the destroyer’s electronic nerve center — the combat information center, or CIC — while the Fitzgerald tried to cross a shipping superhighway.<p>I was shocked to read above. You don&#x27;t personally trust someone or people in CIC so you just don&#x27;t communicate with CIC when you are crossing the most congested patch of ocean on the planet?<p>What is this? High school??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>Distrust of management is extremely common. I cannot stress enough just how common it is both in the military and the corporate world or how potentially toxic this is. Most people outside of management are absolutely incapable of seeing it, even when its excessively rampant, because they don&#x27;t recognize the symptoms. The common reasons for not recognizing such symptoms, even when immediately apparent and excessive, are due to: self-centered desires, incompetence, and perceptions of hostility.<p>Trust issues can occur from top down as well as bottom up. I have observed management not trusting their people far more commonly than opposed to people not trusting their management. When management does not trust their staff the staff will not be used or properly developed. It may be that the leadership believes it takes less effort to do the job themselves than watch their staff struggle and fail. This is a benign form of toxic leadership. Staff must be made to do their jobs and properly mentored to just before the point where the incompetence is likely to result in criminal&#x2F;policy violations or immediate harms.</text></comment> | <story><title>Problems plagued U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald before fatal collision</title><url>https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/01/14/worse-than-you-thought-inside-the-secret-fitzgerald-probe-the-navy-doesnt-want-you-to-read/#.XEFOvOop_SM.twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dba7dba</author><text>&gt; The probe exposes how personal distrust led the officer of the deck, Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock, to avoid communicating with the destroyer’s electronic nerve center — the combat information center, or CIC — while the Fitzgerald tried to cross a shipping superhighway.<p>I was shocked to read above. You don&#x27;t personally trust someone or people in CIC so you just don&#x27;t communicate with CIC when you are crossing the most congested patch of ocean on the planet?<p>What is this? High school??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chopin</author><text>I was more shocked of the pee-filled bottles on the bridge. This hints to deep cultural problems being present and an utterly incompetent upper management.</text></comment> |
9,276,028 | 9,276,037 | 1 | 2 | 9,275,771 | train | <story><title>Why Baidu Has Been Hijacked to Attack GitHub</title><url>https://archive.today/KtgpS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RA_Fisher</author><text>Assuming this is the Chinese government, what&#x27;s their end game here? They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will and remove Greatfire or block it from China. Permanently? That seems incredibly naive. Also, have they not considered the Streisand effect? Also, assuming they see Baidu as effectively a state asset, why poison that brand for such a temporary gain? It doesn&#x27;t make sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelt</author><text><p><pre><code> They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will
[...] That seems incredibly naive.
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Plenty of technology companies would. Of course, they would call it &quot;complying with local laws in all countries in which we operate&quot;.<p>The only way to find out if Github is such a company is a few months of successful attacks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Baidu Has Been Hijacked to Attack GitHub</title><url>https://archive.today/KtgpS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RA_Fisher</author><text>Assuming this is the Chinese government, what&#x27;s their end game here? They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will and remove Greatfire or block it from China. Permanently? That seems incredibly naive. Also, have they not considered the Streisand effect? Also, assuming they see Baidu as effectively a state asset, why poison that brand for such a temporary gain? It doesn&#x27;t make sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text><i>They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will and remove Greatfire or block it from China. Permanently?</i><p>Well, yes? Extraterritorial law enforcement works fine for the US, they&#x27;re quite happy to shut down gambling, copyright infringement, and so on regardless of where you are in the world.<p>In this case, it&#x27;s git. It&#x27;s inherently distributed. It&#x27;s fairly easy to force Chinese users onto a local equivalent and block all those suspicious outgoing https&#x2F;ssh connections to github.</text></comment> |
32,567,684 | 32,567,631 | 1 | 2 | 32,566,123 | train | <story><title>How to communicate why your startup is worth joining</title><url>https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2022/08/15/how-to-communicate-why-your-startup-is-worth-joining</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wnolens</author><text>Doing a job hunt right now and im trying to assess &quot;what&#x27;s my day to day like&quot; and it comes down to two factors: what are the people like, and what is the actual work.<p>I want to really like the people, as I&#x27;ve discovered my life is way more boring otherwise. I spend 8-10h&#x2F;day working, I need to be able to laugh and make other people laugh and have interesting conversations. I&#x27;d love to make friends out of it. People often tell me don&#x27;t rely on work for that, but the time investment is too steep not to use it as a social outlet.<p>I also want to know the actual work. Not the buzzwords, or the product name, or fast paced industry, but the actual initiatives for the next year. Crank out new features for mobile app? Not my skill set. Typical oncall rotation? Nah.<p>I&#x27;m shocked how many companies are willing to start the interview process immediately. I decline until I have at least an hour convo with who would be my manager.<p>As per the article, yes more blogging helps but how do I know it&#x27;s genuine and not marketing bs? I don&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to communicate why your startup is worth joining</title><url>https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2022/08/15/how-to-communicate-why-your-startup-is-worth-joining</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>&gt; <i>“If I haven’t responded to something that you’ve sent me, that’s probably because I’ve read it and don’t feel particularly strongly - so just make a call on what to do if you don’t hear back in a reasonable time frame.”</i><p>Surely there&#x27;s a more effective protocol that works for an exec?<p>Even make a macro button for the exec that responds &quot;dfps&quot;, so that:<p>1. sender is immediately unblocked and empowered when they get the &quot;dfps&quot;, and<p>2. avoid accidents in which the exec would need to say something but didn&#x27;t get the message, but sender assumed an &quot;implicit dfps&quot;.</text></comment> |
972,342 | 972,311 | 1 | 2 | 972,248 | train | <story><title>Why I chose Common Lisp over Python, Ruby, and Clojure</title><url>http://postabon.posterous.com/why-i-chose-common-lisp-over-python-ruby-and</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ricree</author><text><i>The fact that he proposed removing map, reduce, filter, and lambda from Python 3.</i><p>In the case of map and filter, is there any compelling reason to use either of those instead of list comprehensions or generator expressions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riobard</author><text>A single, non-nested list comprehension or generator exp is basically map(filter). You need nesting to get filter(map).<p>e.g.<p><pre><code> map(expensive_call, filter(cond, seq))
</code></pre>
equals<p><pre><code> [expensive_call(each) for each in seq if cond(each)]
</code></pre>
but<p><pre><code> filter(cond, map(expensive_call, seq))
</code></pre>
equals<p><pre><code> [each for each in [expensive_call(x) for x in seq] if cond(each)]
</code></pre>
note because of "expensive_call", it's inefficient (and silly) to do<p><pre><code> [expensive_call(each) for each in seq if cond(expensive_call(each))]
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So map/filter combination gives more flexibility than list comprehension, and for functional-thinking minds, it's just so natural to think in abstract terms of passing functions around. List comprehension is pretty syntactical sugar to do similar things, but it forces you think about the "how to do" instead of "what to do".<p>That said, it's not really "compelling" though -- there is no real "compelling" reason to switch from one Turing-complete language to another given that you can do the same thing eventually. But hey, it's the itches that drive us nuts, isn't it? :)<p>Just my 2 cents</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I chose Common Lisp over Python, Ruby, and Clojure</title><url>http://postabon.posterous.com/why-i-chose-common-lisp-over-python-ruby-and</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ricree</author><text><i>The fact that he proposed removing map, reduce, filter, and lambda from Python 3.</i><p>In the case of map and filter, is there any compelling reason to use either of those instead of list comprehensions or generator expressions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smanek</author><text>Nope - just a style thing. You don't need lambdas either - named functions are just as powerful.<p>But I often think 'functionally.' Since I have options, I'd rather go with a language that allows me to program how I think - instead of being forced to translate my thought into its semantics.</text></comment> |
9,187,715 | 9,187,158 | 1 | 2 | 9,185,356 | train | <story><title>How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News</title><url>http://melodykramer.github.io/how-betty-who-is-89-gets-her-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>I&#x27;m barely a third of Betty&#x27;s age, and I have the same problems browsing the web on mobile devices.<p>I click on things by accident, I have trouble scrolling on some websites, sometimes the text is too small and crammed into a column that is too small for it, pop-ups and strange noises happen constantly.<p>I too would like it if more web documents were available as simply formatted blocks of text and pictures, with links that I didn&#x27;t accidentally click constantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vlunkr</author><text>I think the biggest problem I have is clicking or the wrong link because some banner thing finally loaded at the top of the page and pushed everything down. (I don&#x27;t have great internet at home.) It drives me crazy, because then I have to back up and wait for the page to reload again.<p>Another tip for helping people with slow internet: don&#x27;t break your article into multiple pages! I think the primary reason for doing this to get more ad traffic, but I promise I will leave when I see that your list of ten items is separated into ten pages.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News</title><url>http://melodykramer.github.io/how-betty-who-is-89-gets-her-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>I&#x27;m barely a third of Betty&#x27;s age, and I have the same problems browsing the web on mobile devices.<p>I click on things by accident, I have trouble scrolling on some websites, sometimes the text is too small and crammed into a column that is too small for it, pop-ups and strange noises happen constantly.<p>I too would like it if more web documents were available as simply formatted blocks of text and pictures, with links that I didn&#x27;t accidentally click constantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>My parents go out of their way to install iPhone apps on their iPad. With retina assets (and the fact they still have non-retina screens), it&#x27;s not crufty looking anymore.<p>Problem is many apps have universal binaries now so you can&#x27;t force the lower-res (larger touch target) UIs.</text></comment> |
15,108,431 | 15,108,479 | 1 | 2 | 15,107,967 | train | <story><title>The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro</title><url>https://chuqui.com/2017/08/the-life-and-death-of-the-touch-bar-revisiting-the-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taf2</author><text>Do either of you use vim?</text></item><item><author>na85</author><text>That&#x27;s interesting because I expected to hate mine but am rather ambivalent towards the touch bar.<p>I&#x27;ve never had the touch bar malfunction, nor do I find it distracting or too bright at night, even on a lakeside dock in cottage country.<p>I agree, though, that occasionally I will switch the input language to French due accidentally hitting the the bar. It&#x27;s too sensitive.<p>The biggest surprise for me, though, was that I don&#x27;t miss the physical F keys nor Escape, even a little bit.</text></item><item><author>Finbarr</author><text>Just got a new MBP with touchbar and am finding it quite annoying for these reasons:<p>- there seems to be no way to dim it and it&#x27;s way too bright in the dark.<p>- the context specific functions appearing and disappearing make it really eye catching and distracting. There also seems to be a slight lag before it updates with the latest context. (I ended up switching it to only show some small subset of default controls).<p>- I&#x27;m hardly using it at all, but sometimes it just stops responding. Hitting the buttons doesn&#x27;t do anything.<p>- it&#x27;s too easy to accidentally tap one of the buttons.<p>All in all I think it&#x27;s a gimmick and I&#x27;d much rather have a physical escape key.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justanotherbody</author><text>I use it, and have a mb with touch bar.<p>Using solely the laptop keyboard was fine. Transitioning between the laptop keyboard and an external was not.<p>I ended up adding a binding for &quot;jk&quot; to exit editing mode. Very pleased</text></comment> | <story><title>The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro</title><url>https://chuqui.com/2017/08/the-life-and-death-of-the-touch-bar-revisiting-the-macbook-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>taf2</author><text>Do either of you use vim?</text></item><item><author>na85</author><text>That&#x27;s interesting because I expected to hate mine but am rather ambivalent towards the touch bar.<p>I&#x27;ve never had the touch bar malfunction, nor do I find it distracting or too bright at night, even on a lakeside dock in cottage country.<p>I agree, though, that occasionally I will switch the input language to French due accidentally hitting the the bar. It&#x27;s too sensitive.<p>The biggest surprise for me, though, was that I don&#x27;t miss the physical F keys nor Escape, even a little bit.</text></item><item><author>Finbarr</author><text>Just got a new MBP with touchbar and am finding it quite annoying for these reasons:<p>- there seems to be no way to dim it and it&#x27;s way too bright in the dark.<p>- the context specific functions appearing and disappearing make it really eye catching and distracting. There also seems to be a slight lag before it updates with the latest context. (I ended up switching it to only show some small subset of default controls).<p>- I&#x27;m hardly using it at all, but sometimes it just stops responding. Hitting the buttons doesn&#x27;t do anything.<p>- it&#x27;s too easy to accidentally tap one of the buttons.<p>All in all I think it&#x27;s a gimmick and I&#x27;d much rather have a physical escape key.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dobbs</author><text>I use Vim with a MBP Touchbar. A half decade or more ago I swapped caps lock and control, I then started using &#x27;ctrl-[&#x27; as escape. This is the actual escape code for the &#x27;esc&#x27; key. Super easy to press, just uses both pinkies, and it doesn&#x27;t require stretching for the escape key.</text></comment> |
15,669,719 | 15,669,326 | 1 | 3 | 15,669,119 | train | <story><title>Halfbakery</title><url>http://www.halfbakery.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnnyforeigner</author><text>Half Bakery is some awesome old-skool internet stuff. Back in the late 90s it was one of my favourite haunts. Sadly they lost all their content somehow and didn&#x27;t have a full backup so, funny though it is now, there was some epic stuff on the old site that is lost forever.</text></comment> | <story><title>Halfbakery</title><url>http://www.halfbakery.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wooptoo</author><text>Gold stuff right here <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.halfbakery.com&#x2F;idea&#x2F;Fake_20Failure_20Agency" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.halfbakery.com&#x2F;idea&#x2F;Fake_20Failure_20Agency</a></text></comment> |
2,664,837 | 2,664,816 | 1 | 2 | 2,664,717 | train | <story><title>Sex with someone from the future is hazardous to your health - with experiments</title><url>http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/06/16/sex-with-someone-from-the-future-can-be-hazardous-to-your-health/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>&#62; When the male traveled 22 years to mate with a female, her life was cut short on average by 12%.<p>Am I misunderstanding something? Wouldn't she be <i>better</i> positioned to resist the effects of the male? She has had 22 years worth of advances, and is dealing with a "primitive" male.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sex with someone from the future is hazardous to your health - with experiments</title><url>http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/06/16/sex-with-someone-from-the-future-can-be-hazardous-to-your-health/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>espo</author><text>There is also a link to some very kinky ducks in that article. Worth a read:
<a href="http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/12/22/kinkiness-beyond-kinky/" rel="nofollow">http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/12/22/kinkiness...</a></text></comment> |
16,371,877 | 16,371,726 | 1 | 2 | 16,371,030 | train | <story><title>Don't use VPN services</title><url>https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>infodroid</author><text>This seems like bad advice because it doesn&#x27;t address the legitimate need for keeping your browsing history private from overzealous, data-mining ISP&#x27;s [1].<p>And even in the case of a known-hostile ISP that engages in invasive practices like supercookies or ad injection, it&#x27;s unrealistic to ask users to set up and maintain their own VPS servers.<p>For the average internet user, a &quot;glorified proxy&quot; service that is hassle-free to set up is a simple and effective means of protection against such a menace.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;29&#x2F;everything-you-need-to-know-about-congress-decision-to-expose-your-data-to-internet-providers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;29&#x2F;everything-you-need-to-kno...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hug</author><text>It seems like bad advice because it is, frankly, just bad advice. Nearly all of his arguments fall down, even within his own post.<p>He says that VPN providers don&#x27;t provide more security. They do, and he mentions this himself when it comes to the public wifi argument.<p>He says that VPN providers don&#x27;t provide more encryption. They do. Another layer of transport encryption is another layer of transport encryption.[1]<p>He says that VPN providers don&#x27;t provide more privacy. They do. Turns out a lot of networks do things like log DNS, which a decent VPN client can tunnel.[2]<p>He says there are two use cases for VPNs: There are a lot more.<p>He says that tunneling all of your traffic is a <i>worse</i> case for obfuscating your identity to a third party service. It&#x27;s not, or at least I can&#x27;t imagine how it would be.<p>He says that instead of a VPN, you can use a VPS with a VPN: That&#x27;s just a VPN. It does all of the same things, including being outsourced to a third-party provider, except you lose a ton of the functionality of a real VPN service like geographical redundancy and spread.<p>He asks why VPN services exist, if for any other purpose than stealing traffic or data, but fails to understand any way in which a VPN service could be useful.<p>The entire piece is just the opinions of someone who is failing to see that other people have significantly different use-cases and threat models than he does.<p>-<p>[1] Especially if you think of &quot;local -&gt; internet&quot; as easier to intercept than &quot;somewhere internet -&gt; otherwhere internet&quot;. Which it usually is. One involves something dumb simple like ARP poisoning. Another involves compromising a telco or the VPN provider itself, which is a teensy bit harder. All of this is even sillier if you consider the hostile-network scenario as well.<p>[2] Yes, you are offloading &#x27;trust&#x27; that the VPN provider doesn&#x27;t <i>also</i> log your DNS. There&#x27;s more chance that they don&#x27;t when they say they don&#x27;t, than your corporate network doesn&#x27;t when they say they do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't use VPN services</title><url>https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>infodroid</author><text>This seems like bad advice because it doesn&#x27;t address the legitimate need for keeping your browsing history private from overzealous, data-mining ISP&#x27;s [1].<p>And even in the case of a known-hostile ISP that engages in invasive practices like supercookies or ad injection, it&#x27;s unrealistic to ask users to set up and maintain their own VPS servers.<p>For the average internet user, a &quot;glorified proxy&quot; service that is hassle-free to set up is a simple and effective means of protection against such a menace.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;29&#x2F;everything-you-need-to-know-about-congress-decision-to-expose-your-data-to-internet-providers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;03&#x2F;29&#x2F;everything-you-need-to-kno...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__jal</author><text>It was addressed, indirectly, at the end - &quot;You are on a known-hostile network&quot;. In my case, one of my links is Comcast, a known-hostile network.<p>I agree it should have been much more prominent, because this is exactly why I use one, and why many folks I know use one.</text></comment> |
40,741,149 | 40,740,735 | 1 | 2 | 40,737,901 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Midday – Run your business smarter (open-source)</title><url>https://midday.ai</url><text>My best friend and I are building an open-source platform for micro businesses, freelancers, and contractors to manage their operations more efficiently. Our platform offers tools for financial insights, time tracking, invoicing, and more.<p>It&#x27;s fully open-source, and we are adopting an open startup approach with public metrics.<p>We&#x27;d love to hear your thoughts!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steventey</author><text>I know HN frowns upon sappy positive comments, but I have to say:<p>I have been using Midday for a few months now and it&#x27;s been an incredible experience – from the &quot;ask AI&quot; feature to the product notifications, every part of this product is crafted with tender loving care (TLC).<p>The fact that they&#x27;re fully open-source and self-hostable is just cherry on top :D</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Midday – Run your business smarter (open-source)</title><url>https://midday.ai</url><text>My best friend and I are building an open-source platform for micro businesses, freelancers, and contractors to manage their operations more efficiently. Our platform offers tools for financial insights, time tracking, invoicing, and more.<p>It&#x27;s fully open-source, and we are adopting an open startup approach with public metrics.<p>We&#x27;d love to hear your thoughts!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>INTPenis</author><text>This is great, of course I would only use this offline selfhosted if possible.<p>One suggestion is be more clear about what it does in the Github description. People will star it and might search for it and if they search for invoice or financial they won&#x27;t get this up.</text></comment> |
8,696,587 | 8,696,467 | 1 | 2 | 8,696,255 | train | <story><title>Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting</title><url>http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/12/01/extending-van-goghs-starry-night-with-inpainting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maho</author><text>Mathematica demos sure look pretty [0]. But I recently tried to get actual work done with Mathematica and found the experience utterly ridiculous.<p>The high level functions, while nice for demos, never quite do what you need. Want to display data vs. time with errorbars around the data? Sorry, no function for this completely exotic use case, please hack a DateListPlot on top of an ErrorListPlot [1].<p>The WolframAlpha integration &quot;transparently&quot; interprets code for you in the background. This interpretation can change any day [2] and leaves you guessing why your notebook doesn&#x27;t run anymore.<p>The bugs I encountered were severe: One of the output function swallows the &quot;-&quot; sign if the result is between -1 and 0 [3]. Currently I am battling file corruption of notebooks that are saved on network drives and open while the drive is disattached&#x2F;reattached.<p>Had it not been for the awesome support by the mathematica. stackexchange.com community, I would have quit Mathematica completely. Now I vowed to use it only for small hacks. And, if I want to impress someone, for demos.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCWdsrVcBM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EjCWdsrVcBM</a><p>[1] <a href="http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/18962" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathematica.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;18962</a><p>[2] The input<p><pre><code> Quantity[1, &quot;Kelvins&quot;]
</code></pre>
is interpreted by Mathematica itself and yields an object equivalent to &quot;1 Kelvins&quot;. The input<p><pre><code> Quantity[1, &quot;Kelvin&quot;]
</code></pre>
however is interpreted &quot;transparently&quot; by Wolfram Alpha. A few weeks ago it evaluated to &quot;1 KelvinsDifference&quot;, but now has changed to &quot;1 Kelvins&quot;. Don&#x27;t get me started on the KelvinsDifference vs. Kelvins thing, which are both represented by the same symbol to maximize your confusion when your unit conversions are failing...<p>[3] <a href="http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/65600" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathematica.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;65600</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting</title><url>http://blog.wolfram.com/2014/12/01/extending-van-goghs-starry-night-with-inpainting/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwise0</author><text>I wish that the Wolfram articles would describe a little more about what their algorithms do, rather than the mechanics of how to use their primitives. The articles remind me some of the era of web engines optimized for a specific task -- there were plenty of MVC frameworks that work really really well for writing a todo list in 25 lines, but doing anything more complicated than a todo list meant dissecting the guts of the framework.<p>It&#x27;d be great to hear how they did an efficient implementation of texture synthesis. But if you want to read at least about the basics, the dissertation they linked [1] gets into the details on page 18, anyway, in section 2.2 (and beyond).<p>[1] <a href="http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh-files/thesis/dissertation.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.logarithmic.net&#x2F;pfh-files&#x2F;thesis&#x2F;dissertation.pdf</a></text></comment> |
13,595,253 | 13,595,238 | 1 | 2 | 13,593,333 | train | <story><title>India floats the idea of a universal basic income</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21716064-powerful-idea-unfeasible-now-india-floats-idea-universal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffdavis</author><text>I think you are ignoring some bad things that could come out of UBI.<p>The greatest danger is that people may be comfortable near the BI level until they are about 30, and not really work or educate themselves much (lacking motivation). Then, they want to have a family, and all of a sudden their desires for consumption skyrocket. They can&#x27;t just join the workforce then, because it will be 10 years before they advance enough to get what they want.<p>Then you have a bunch of undereducated, inexperienced people who want a lot of stuff.<p>I&#x27;m not saying it will happen, but we have to be careful.</text></item><item><author>whack</author><text>The reasoning you&#x27;re using is very flawed. Yes, we&#x27;ll never get to a state where a small number end up with 100% of the wealth. Yes, there will be an equilibrium reached between the wealthy and the middle class. But this equilibrium point can shift more and more towards the wealthy. In fact, this has already been happening in the past few decades, as illustrated in books such as Capital.<p>And as this equilibrium shifts in favor of the wealthy, you&#x27;ll see the effects of inequality get more and more exacerbated. You might even get to a point where the inequality is so extreme, that the &quot;masses&quot; have much more to gain through wealth appropriation, as opposed to wealth creation. And when that point comes, democracy will collapse and give way to a communist or fascist revolution.<p>Basic income offers an escape valve to the corrosive effects of inequality. It distributes more fairly the fruits of globalisation and automation. It gives every citizen a share in the national prosperity. It gives us all a reason to cheer for the greater good, and not just our own advancement.</text></item><item><author>felipeccastro</author><text>I used to think a universal basic income would make sense, especially in developed countries, only for the near future scenario of machines taking ever more jobs. We know that this has always happened in history, and new jobs were always created, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that the rate of job creation vs destruction will remain the same, forever. What made me change my mind about UBI was to realize that a) human desires are infinite, and there&#x27;ll always be more work to be done and b) the more work is done by machines, the richer the population as a whole will be, as products and services automated tend to be cheaper. I do expect the work dynamic to change a lot, and that in the future we&#x27;ll see a lot more gigs and maybe freelancing for a few hours each week will be enough to sustain a reasonable lifestyle (for whatever that means). That said, I believe our political efforts are best invested in removing all the artificial constraints that make it hard for new jobs to be created, like excessive regulations for example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitJericho</author><text>Ubi should never be about owning anything. It should be about providing housing, food, healthcare, clothes, and nothing more. It should be for all citizens, including children. This way you can have a family. But if you want a tv, phone, car, you&#x27;re going to have to work. Since people are living to their 70s plus, lounging around isn&#x27;t a big deal. I think you&#x27;ll find people become very creative too, or focus on high level education.</text></comment> | <story><title>India floats the idea of a universal basic income</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21716064-powerful-idea-unfeasible-now-india-floats-idea-universal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeffdavis</author><text>I think you are ignoring some bad things that could come out of UBI.<p>The greatest danger is that people may be comfortable near the BI level until they are about 30, and not really work or educate themselves much (lacking motivation). Then, they want to have a family, and all of a sudden their desires for consumption skyrocket. They can&#x27;t just join the workforce then, because it will be 10 years before they advance enough to get what they want.<p>Then you have a bunch of undereducated, inexperienced people who want a lot of stuff.<p>I&#x27;m not saying it will happen, but we have to be careful.</text></item><item><author>whack</author><text>The reasoning you&#x27;re using is very flawed. Yes, we&#x27;ll never get to a state where a small number end up with 100% of the wealth. Yes, there will be an equilibrium reached between the wealthy and the middle class. But this equilibrium point can shift more and more towards the wealthy. In fact, this has already been happening in the past few decades, as illustrated in books such as Capital.<p>And as this equilibrium shifts in favor of the wealthy, you&#x27;ll see the effects of inequality get more and more exacerbated. You might even get to a point where the inequality is so extreme, that the &quot;masses&quot; have much more to gain through wealth appropriation, as opposed to wealth creation. And when that point comes, democracy will collapse and give way to a communist or fascist revolution.<p>Basic income offers an escape valve to the corrosive effects of inequality. It distributes more fairly the fruits of globalisation and automation. It gives every citizen a share in the national prosperity. It gives us all a reason to cheer for the greater good, and not just our own advancement.</text></item><item><author>felipeccastro</author><text>I used to think a universal basic income would make sense, especially in developed countries, only for the near future scenario of machines taking ever more jobs. We know that this has always happened in history, and new jobs were always created, but that doesn&#x27;t mean that the rate of job creation vs destruction will remain the same, forever. What made me change my mind about UBI was to realize that a) human desires are infinite, and there&#x27;ll always be more work to be done and b) the more work is done by machines, the richer the population as a whole will be, as products and services automated tend to be cheaper. I do expect the work dynamic to change a lot, and that in the future we&#x27;ll see a lot more gigs and maybe freelancing for a few hours each week will be enough to sustain a reasonable lifestyle (for whatever that means). That said, I believe our political efforts are best invested in removing all the artificial constraints that make it hard for new jobs to be created, like excessive regulations for example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xedrac</author><text>I think you hit on one of the biggest risks in my opinion. Right now there is a strong motive to educate yourself, because it will likely result in a more comfortable future. Having a highly educated population is hugely beneficial. I suppose if UBI provided just enough to keep you alive, then it might not be so bad.</text></comment> |
15,105,059 | 15,104,899 | 1 | 2 | 15,103,654 | train | <story><title>Is There Any Point to Protesting?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paganel</author><text>It depends on how you protest and who does the protesting. The lame-ass protests you see happening in most of the United States are ineffectual because they don&#x27;t threaten those in power, because they&#x27;re either holiday-looking marches or they&#x27;re staged by students&#x2F;young people, who are easy to ignore.<p>The only way you can change something by protesting is by projecting power. You do that either by the way you do the protesting, i.e. by actively engaging the police forces in trying to reach the seats of power (Parliament, Government&#x27;s buildings) or by taking up in the streets the people who have the most power come election day, i.e. lots and lots of middle class people.<p>Movements like BLM are ineffectual when protesting because they do neither of the 2 things I mentioned above: they don&#x27;t actively engage the powers in Washington and they are not joined by lots and lots of middle class people. As such, they&#x27;ll remain ineffectual as long as nothing changes.<p>Source: me, a guy living in Eastern Europe who has grown-up by watching protests toppling Governments and who has actively joined those kind of protests once I grew up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>will_brown</author><text>Well the article mentions one of my favorite protests, the Montgomery bus protests&#x2F;boycott, that was ultimately started by Rosa Parks, history may remember her as some grand civil rights leader, but that wasn&#x27;t her intent she was just a tired black woman going home from work who refused to give up her seat to a white person. That was a successful protest&#x2F;boycott without a bunch of middle class people or engaging Washington.<p>The majority of the article is about the Vietnam War, but do a search and you won&#x27;t find either Muhammad Ali or even the word &quot;draft&quot;. Muhammad Ali was an outspoken, black, Muslim who refused the draft, again history might pretend he had the love and support of the people, but he didn&#x27;t at least at the time. The War still had the full support of the American people, and Ali was persecuted, striped of his championship title&#x2F;livelihood, labeled Anti-American in the media, he was also prosecuted by the Government, and convicted of draft dodging and sentenced to 5 years of prison. But he continued to fight, the Country began shifting its attitude about the War and the draft, and Ali prevailed in the Courts.<p>Obviously Ali wasn&#x27;t alone, just look at some of the most famous 1st Amendment cases at the time. The Government prosecuting a guy for wearing a jacket that read &quot;Fuck the Draft&quot; in a Courtroom trying to chill his speech, eventually the Supreme Court agreed that was protected speech. Or the Government prosecuting protesters for burning their draft cards, ultimately they lost and the Supreme Court ruled burning draft cards is not protected speech. All these anti-war protests were done majorly by students, granted to your point their message and goal was much clearer than protests of today. Never mind the individual wins and loses, they were done by students, not middle class, and still they won overall because there hasn&#x27;t been a draft in the US since, because its become politically untenable. Students, racial minorities, religious minorities...not the middle class.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is There Any Point to Protesting?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paganel</author><text>It depends on how you protest and who does the protesting. The lame-ass protests you see happening in most of the United States are ineffectual because they don&#x27;t threaten those in power, because they&#x27;re either holiday-looking marches or they&#x27;re staged by students&#x2F;young people, who are easy to ignore.<p>The only way you can change something by protesting is by projecting power. You do that either by the way you do the protesting, i.e. by actively engaging the police forces in trying to reach the seats of power (Parliament, Government&#x27;s buildings) or by taking up in the streets the people who have the most power come election day, i.e. lots and lots of middle class people.<p>Movements like BLM are ineffectual when protesting because they do neither of the 2 things I mentioned above: they don&#x27;t actively engage the powers in Washington and they are not joined by lots and lots of middle class people. As such, they&#x27;ll remain ineffectual as long as nothing changes.<p>Source: me, a guy living in Eastern Europe who has grown-up by watching protests toppling Governments and who has actively joined those kind of protests once I grew up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>puranjay</author><text>Protests are only effective if they affect economic structures.<p>One of the most effective protests in Indian history was the Gandhi-led boycott of British-made goods. This directly impacted British economic structures.<p>A handful of people blocking a highway for a few hours isn&#x27;t going to impact anything much.</text></comment> |
21,244,503 | 21,244,264 | 1 | 2 | 21,242,857 | train | <story><title>Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>Not just young people. As in other creative arts, if the tooling is over-complex or high-friction it can simply kill the creative flow. We should aim to make things pleasant to use for experts as well as beginners. There is a great deal of philosophical resistance to this idea hiding just under the surface, driven perhaps by a sense that difficult interfaces are a test of worthiness. Consider the barrier to entry to create a &#x27;hello world&#x27; mobile app - it seems awesomely, perversely difficult compared to the intrinsic simplicity of the task. I would argue that this is <i>deliberate gatekeeping</i> - if ordinary people could create content, this would threaten an awful lot of business models, including and especially the business models of people who run app stores and take a cut of the profits. Can&#x27;t have the techno-serfs <i>programming</i>, can we?</text></item><item><author>hunta2097</author><text>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m an old git.<p>I think you have deftly described a bigger problem, as the whole industry gets more and more sophisticated and complex. The barrier for entry is so high now that I think it stifles young people&#x27;s interest too quickly.<p>The great thing about Flash was the developer tool. Part animation studio, part simple programming IDE. It was a great balance.<p>Maybe there is a place in the market for framework to implement a flash-a-like in a HTML5 Canvas?</text></item><item><author>l_t</author><text>I had a formative experience with Flash as a middle schooler. I loved Albino Blacksheep, Newgrounds, etc. I thought the videos were hilarious and the stick-figure-style animation was approachable. So I acquired Flash, and I was blown away by how easy it was to create these silly animations. Automatic tweening was a miracle to me.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve done a lot of video editing with different tools, but I still think back to Macromedia Flash and how I, a child with no ability to code and no knowledge of HTML or Web tech, was able to make my imagination come to life on the screen.<p>I believe it&#x27;s that powerful experience <i>for novices</i> that we&#x27;re missing. I&#x27;m not sure how we should get it back.<p>(edit: phrasing)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strken</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s gatekeeping. I think it&#x27;s because experts need different tools to beginners, and have louder voices when a tool doesn&#x27;t meet their needs.<p>Consider Ruby on Rails. It was the most beginner-friendly way to create a web app when it was popular, but the very things that made it that way - opinionated design, sacrificing speed&#x2F;correctness&#x2F;scale by using Ruby, &quot;batteries included&quot;, and a cultish fanbase that drew new users to it - made it the target of justified criticism from experts who wanted flexibility, type safety, speed, lightweight design, fewer CVEs, and fewer annoying fanboys. Flash came under fire for similar things: performance issues, poor UX when used in the wrong place, constant security vulnerabilities, being a proprietary standard.<p>These are actually good criticisms! There&#x27;s no shadowy cabal who arranged feigned outrage over flash vulnerabilities, people were genuinely upset that a proprietary piece of software was turning their browser security into a sieve and stopping screenreaders from working. The criticisms just failed to ask why it was so popular with beginners anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3awk7/flash-is-responsible-for-the-internets-most-creative-era</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>Not just young people. As in other creative arts, if the tooling is over-complex or high-friction it can simply kill the creative flow. We should aim to make things pleasant to use for experts as well as beginners. There is a great deal of philosophical resistance to this idea hiding just under the surface, driven perhaps by a sense that difficult interfaces are a test of worthiness. Consider the barrier to entry to create a &#x27;hello world&#x27; mobile app - it seems awesomely, perversely difficult compared to the intrinsic simplicity of the task. I would argue that this is <i>deliberate gatekeeping</i> - if ordinary people could create content, this would threaten an awful lot of business models, including and especially the business models of people who run app stores and take a cut of the profits. Can&#x27;t have the techno-serfs <i>programming</i>, can we?</text></item><item><author>hunta2097</author><text>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m an old git.<p>I think you have deftly described a bigger problem, as the whole industry gets more and more sophisticated and complex. The barrier for entry is so high now that I think it stifles young people&#x27;s interest too quickly.<p>The great thing about Flash was the developer tool. Part animation studio, part simple programming IDE. It was a great balance.<p>Maybe there is a place in the market for framework to implement a flash-a-like in a HTML5 Canvas?</text></item><item><author>l_t</author><text>I had a formative experience with Flash as a middle schooler. I loved Albino Blacksheep, Newgrounds, etc. I thought the videos were hilarious and the stick-figure-style animation was approachable. So I acquired Flash, and I was blown away by how easy it was to create these silly animations. Automatic tweening was a miracle to me.<p>Since then I&#x27;ve done a lot of video editing with different tools, but I still think back to Macromedia Flash and how I, a child with no ability to code and no knowledge of HTML or Web tech, was able to make my imagination come to life on the screen.<p>I believe it&#x27;s that powerful experience <i>for novices</i> that we&#x27;re missing. I&#x27;m not sure how we should get it back.<p>(edit: phrasing)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>Of all of the areas where there is legitimate gatekeeping, like with the AMA and residency limits, software is one of the worst examples you could have picked.<p>Software is one of those spaces where there is an <i>incredible</i> amount of capital invested in making things easy for the lowest common denominator.<p>There are <i>so many</i> resources for people of any age and background to learn practical skills in this field. There are summer camps where 7 year old kids learn to program.</text></comment> |
23,431,462 | 23,431,528 | 1 | 2 | 23,429,959 | train | <story><title>Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxma3/slack-blog-post-worked-with-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceilingcorner</author><text>It&#x27;s a witch-hunt, plain and simple. Of course the police needs reform, demilitarization, higher standards, more accountability, and better educational requirements.<p>How you get any of those things by demonizing the police and making it a left-vs-right political issue is beyond me.</text></item><item><author>jeffdavis</author><text>Are we saying that:<p>(a) police are a net good, but slack is aiding&#x2F;encouraging particular bad behaviors; or<p>(b) police are a net bad and we should just deny them anything that enables them to do their jobs; or<p>(c) police are a net good, but it&#x27;s bad PR to associate with them</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcinzm</author><text>&gt;How you get any of those things by demonizing the police and making it a left-vs-right political issue is beyond me.<p>These aren&#x27;t new issues, practically speaking every attempt at less radical solutions hasn&#x27;t worked and there have been many. In the end, the solution will be filled with political compromise and the weaker your starting position the more compromise there will be.</text></comment> | <story><title>Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxma3/slack-blog-post-worked-with-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceilingcorner</author><text>It&#x27;s a witch-hunt, plain and simple. Of course the police needs reform, demilitarization, higher standards, more accountability, and better educational requirements.<p>How you get any of those things by demonizing the police and making it a left-vs-right political issue is beyond me.</text></item><item><author>jeffdavis</author><text>Are we saying that:<p>(a) police are a net good, but slack is aiding&#x2F;encouraging particular bad behaviors; or<p>(b) police are a net bad and we should just deny them anything that enables them to do their jobs; or<p>(c) police are a net good, but it&#x27;s bad PR to associate with them</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&gt; How you get any of those things by demonizing the police and making it a left-vs-right political issue is beyond me.<p>I get this vibe as well. I want to interpret this charitably, but this seems antithetical to good faith participation. It feels like these people don&#x27;t actually care about police brutality--any arbitrary partisan issue would suffice. Of course, I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m misreading the situation (even though social psychology&#x27;s most replicable studies predict exactly this sort of hyper-partisanship).</text></comment> |
19,310,128 | 19,309,440 | 1 | 2 | 19,308,250 | train | <story><title>Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spotify-india-idUSKCN1QL22C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanketskasar</author><text>Pretty sure a high percentage of these listeners are using free tier. And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify.<p>Their music collection is one of the worst among all services present in India. Lots of major international records are not available. Regional music collection is not good. Only the mainstream&#x2F;popular content is available.
Bought the premium subscription on very first day of launch. Tried using it for few days. Found major stuff missing.<p>Cancelled and got the refund. Kudos to them for prompt service on this.<p>But very bad in comparison to Apple Music and other Indian services.
Apple Music costs similar for individual account and much cheaper with a family account, has much better International and Indian collection and really good playlists collections, at least in India.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>I used to pay for GrooveShark (which clearly was sketchy lol) and then Spotify, since I subscribed to Google All Music Access I have never had to pirate music just to get access to it. I can cache all the music I like (download it for offline listening) and it works on my iPad too. I wish they had an official desktop client for offline sync, but Google seems allergic to non-web desktop solutions.<p>I try to avoid getting sucked into Google&#x27;s Ecosystem, but GAMA is pretty damn good. Sadly I don&#x27;t know what the situation for GAMA looks like outside of the USA.<p>Edit:<p>But my point is, I hated Spotify, I still found myself forced to &quot;acquire&quot; music. This is the digital age, sell me digital music I fully own. People who don&#x27;t want to pay for music will not pay for it no matter what you do. At least with Google when I buy music I can sync it to my local machine, but with GAMA I don&#x27;t have to. The other upside is I get no ads on YouTube since I got grandfathered into YouTube Premium. Yes, I know, AdBlock, but I got grandfathered in to no ads, why would I care about AdBlock?</text></comment> | <story><title>Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spotify-india-idUSKCN1QL22C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanketskasar</author><text>Pretty sure a high percentage of these listeners are using free tier. And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify.<p>Their music collection is one of the worst among all services present in India. Lots of major international records are not available. Regional music collection is not good. Only the mainstream&#x2F;popular content is available.
Bought the premium subscription on very first day of launch. Tried using it for few days. Found major stuff missing.<p>Cancelled and got the refund. Kudos to them for prompt service on this.<p>But very bad in comparison to Apple Music and other Indian services.
Apple Music costs similar for individual account and much cheaper with a family account, has much better International and Indian collection and really good playlists collections, at least in India.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blocked_again</author><text>&gt; And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify.<p>1 million people using Spotify and wasting data pack to brag to their friends? Seriously?</text></comment> |
5,521,716 | 5,521,288 | 1 | 2 | 5,520,261 | train | <story><title>The Quickest Wins in SEO</title><url>https://segment.io/academy/the-quickest-wins-in-seo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelrunyon</author><text>Also a quick win (ironically), don't use the .io extension unless you're actively targeting the indian ocean territory because Google doesn't include it in it's list of Generic TLDs.<p>See <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38;answer=1347922" rel="nofollow">http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lubos</author><text>This is no longer true.<p>I have .IO domain for more than 2 years. 2 years ago, I remember the country for domain on Google Webmaster Tools has been "locked" to Indian Ocean Territory. But at least for last 6 months, I'm now able to change it to any country or leave it unspecified which indicates that .IO is now treated as generic TLD by google.<p>The article you have quoted is simply out of date.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Quickest Wins in SEO</title><url>https://segment.io/academy/the-quickest-wins-in-seo</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelrunyon</author><text>Also a quick win (ironically), don't use the .io extension unless you're actively targeting the indian ocean territory because Google doesn't include it in it's list of Generic TLDs.<p>See <a href="http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38;answer=1347922" rel="nofollow">http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ianstormtaylor</author><text>Good point, although I assume this will be fixed by Google pretty soon. I visit lots of .io sites every day and I don't think I've ever hit one that was indian ocean territory specific. Seeing as it's all the rage with developer-focused projects, it makes sense that it will join the ranks of .me and .co</text></comment> |
28,590,433 | 28,588,687 | 1 | 3 | 28,587,825 | train | <story><title>How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017)</title><url>https://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2020/11/25/how-to-make-80000.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alecthomas</author><text>I just did a quick search for &quot;Virus Scanner&quot; and this was in the first 10 results:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;au&#x2F;app&#x2F;phone-protection&#x2F;id1282949977" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;au&#x2F;app&#x2F;phone-protection&#x2F;id1282949977</a><p>Pretty clearly fake reviews, what it provides seems like a complete scam, in app subscriptions - ticks all the boxes from that article!<p>Four years on and it&#x27;s still happening. Pretty incredible. Apple largely justifies its 30% cut as providing a curated experience, which is hard to reconcile with this reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017)</title><url>https://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2020/11/25/how-to-make-80000.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>librish</author><text>This seems like a really big counterpoint to the corner stone of Apple&#x27;s &quot;30% is reasonable&quot; take - that the App Store is a safe and curated experience.<p>It&#x27;s one thing for a one off app to slip through, but to have it make its way to the top charts with so many positive reviews is a really, really bad look.</text></comment> |
18,352,851 | 18,352,134 | 1 | 3 | 18,349,847 | train | <story><title>The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/10/31/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>I always wondered why &quot;directories&quot; were renamed to &quot;folders&quot;.<p>Now, in Win7, I bring up file explorer. Click on &quot;Documents&quot;. It says at the top it is located in &quot;Libraries -&gt; Documents&quot;. But that isn&#x27;t where it is. It&#x27;s in c:\users\name\documents&quot;.<p>I never understood why there are two separate file systems mapping to the same files. It&#x27;s madness.</text></item><item><author>jcfrei</author><text>Files, directories and paths are such a fundamental concept, yet I am surprised how few computer users are actually familiar with them. To me it seems that most computer classes at the high school level can be divided in two groups: One which is basically a class for typists, where you learn how to type fast and how to edit documents. And then another one which directly (and often exclusively) teaches coding.<p>However what&#x27;s often missing is a class which teaches basic computing concepts. Files and directories are just some of them. The basic von Neumann architecture (a CPU changing ram), what a program is, how the internet protocol and the domain name system work, different parts of a URL, how a frame buffer determines what is shown on the screen, how colors are encoded with RGB values, etc. These are all very interesting concepts that could be taught at the high school level. There&#x27;s a lot to be learned even without going into the technical details and I am confident that these students would then find (desktop) computers much more accessible. Smartphones and their touch interfaces have been a runaway success and I think this is in part because most people never got comfortable with traditional desktop computers (and their GUIs) due to decades of misguided computer classes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SiVal</author><text>I think &quot;folder&quot; is a more practical name than &quot;directory&quot;. Group or fileset or collection, etc., would probably work, too. The problem with directory is that it is describing the implementation instead of the result.<p>The result you&#x27;re after as an ordinary user is a container holding a group of files, not a &quot;directory&quot; that lets you look up a filename and be told where to go find it. As an implementation, of course, the latter is closer to what a file system &quot;directory&quot; really does, but that&#x27;s not the most useful metaphor to present to the ordinary user.<p>And does a phone directory contain individual listings plus other phone directories? No, but that&#x27;s what &quot;directory&quot; meant to most people back when the name was changed to &quot;folder&quot;. And the name change happened when GUIs were first created and needed icons to represent a thing to drop files into. You don&#x27;t drop files into directories, you drop them into folders or file drawers or something. (Of course, my father can&#x27;t stop calling a folder a &quot;file&quot;, because file folders were so often called &quot;files&quot; at the office way back when. Oh, well.)<p>I&#x27;ve called them &quot;directories&quot; since before the Mac existed, so the word was long ago defined in my head by the thing itself and could be called a watermelon for all the difference it would make to me, but if I look at it with a beginner&#x27;s mind, &quot;directory&quot; doesn&#x27;t seem like a very good name.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students</title><url>https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/10/31/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>I always wondered why &quot;directories&quot; were renamed to &quot;folders&quot;.<p>Now, in Win7, I bring up file explorer. Click on &quot;Documents&quot;. It says at the top it is located in &quot;Libraries -&gt; Documents&quot;. But that isn&#x27;t where it is. It&#x27;s in c:\users\name\documents&quot;.<p>I never understood why there are two separate file systems mapping to the same files. It&#x27;s madness.</text></item><item><author>jcfrei</author><text>Files, directories and paths are such a fundamental concept, yet I am surprised how few computer users are actually familiar with them. To me it seems that most computer classes at the high school level can be divided in two groups: One which is basically a class for typists, where you learn how to type fast and how to edit documents. And then another one which directly (and often exclusively) teaches coding.<p>However what&#x27;s often missing is a class which teaches basic computing concepts. Files and directories are just some of them. The basic von Neumann architecture (a CPU changing ram), what a program is, how the internet protocol and the domain name system work, different parts of a URL, how a frame buffer determines what is shown on the screen, how colors are encoded with RGB values, etc. These are all very interesting concepts that could be taught at the high school level. There&#x27;s a lot to be learned even without going into the technical details and I am confident that these students would then find (desktop) computers much more accessible. Smartphones and their touch interfaces have been a runaway success and I think this is in part because most people never got comfortable with traditional desktop computers (and their GUIs) due to decades of misguided computer classes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rasz</author><text>Neither some people at Microsoft, as evidenced by recent 10 update delete fiasco.</text></comment> |
3,343,583 | 3,343,325 | 1 | 3 | 3,341,641 | train | <story><title>Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2011/12/11/why-spotify-can-never-be-profitable-the-secret-demands-of-record-labels/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worldvoyageur</author><text>Forget the labels, Spotify is dead. The corpse just hasn't hit the ground yet:<p>"I am paid $0.00029 per stream of a song on Spotify, and even this amount depends on whether the song is being streamed by a paid user or someone using the service for free. This means it will take upwards of 3,500 streams of a single song on Spotify to earn $1.00 versus that same revenue for one iTunes song purchase...I’ll go even further to say that I actually prefer illegal downloading over Spotify because when you get music illegally it’s at least implicit in the transaction that what you’re doing is potentially harmful to the artist. But with Spotify, your conscience is clear because you’re either enduring ads or paying to use the service and access the music. But from the blue-collar artist’s perspective...there’s little discernible difference between $0.00029 and $0.00...which is why I will withhold any new releases from Spotify in the future."<p><a href="http://derekwebb.tumblr.com/post/13503899950/giving-it-away-how-free-music-makes-more-than-sense" rel="nofollow">http://derekwebb.tumblr.com/post/13503899950/giving-it-away-...</a><p>Read the whole blog, it jam packed with more than enough insight to make it worth multiple readings.<p>Even absent the labels, Spotify is a lousy deal for individual music makers.<p>The search for a viable, sustainable online business model for music is still underway, but unlimited streaming for a low monthly fee is not it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>&#62; Forget the labels, Spotify is dead.<p>Let me guess, Netcraft confirms it? I'll believe it when I see it.<p>Spotify (and similar services) is transforming the way we can listen to music, and, at least for me, I vastly prefer the Spotify experience over anything else I've tried. Also, with Spotify, I'm spending more money on music than I ever did before, and I'm not even considering bothering with piracy. I'm living the promise that if only accessing music legally is easy enough, the pirate will stop being pirates.<p>So small artists are getting screwed over. Is that in Spotifys interests to sustain that? I would not think so, because the value proposition falls apart if the available collection isn't comprehensive. But right now, they're preoccupied in a land grab, for which they need to focus on the big labels, as the land grab will be possible without small indies, but not without Rihannas full back catalogue.<p>If you're an artist and you don't think Spotify is a good deal, feel free to withdraw your music - that will push them to think about how to adjust their business model to better accommodate indies.<p>Spotify is nowhere near having finalised their business model. Declaring the whole thing dead on the back of a few blog posts is just a little bit premature.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2011/12/11/why-spotify-can-never-be-profitable-the-secret-demands-of-record-labels/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worldvoyageur</author><text>Forget the labels, Spotify is dead. The corpse just hasn't hit the ground yet:<p>"I am paid $0.00029 per stream of a song on Spotify, and even this amount depends on whether the song is being streamed by a paid user or someone using the service for free. This means it will take upwards of 3,500 streams of a single song on Spotify to earn $1.00 versus that same revenue for one iTunes song purchase...I’ll go even further to say that I actually prefer illegal downloading over Spotify because when you get music illegally it’s at least implicit in the transaction that what you’re doing is potentially harmful to the artist. But with Spotify, your conscience is clear because you’re either enduring ads or paying to use the service and access the music. But from the blue-collar artist’s perspective...there’s little discernible difference between $0.00029 and $0.00...which is why I will withhold any new releases from Spotify in the future."<p><a href="http://derekwebb.tumblr.com/post/13503899950/giving-it-away-how-free-music-makes-more-than-sense" rel="nofollow">http://derekwebb.tumblr.com/post/13503899950/giving-it-away-...</a><p>Read the whole blog, it jam packed with more than enough insight to make it worth multiple readings.<p>Even absent the labels, Spotify is a lousy deal for individual music makers.<p>The search for a viable, sustainable online business model for music is still underway, but unlimited streaming for a low monthly fee is not it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ecaradec</author><text>Corrolary : if piracy leads to anything above 1 sell for 3500 illegally downloaded songs, it is actually more beneficial to majors that Spotify is.</text></comment> |
41,300,521 | 41,300,601 | 1 | 2 | 41,262,010 | train | <story><title>When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)</title><url>https://teresaelsey.medium.com/when-nothing-ever-goes-out-of-print-maintaining-backlist-ebooks-fcd63e680667</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djoldman</author><text>&gt; And sometimes we’re not sure if what we’re seeing even is an error. The following passage, from Philip K. Dick, displays a lot of creative use of language, but the “zommed” in the third line — while matching the print book — seems a bit suspect. Should it be “zoomed”? How can we know?<p>Strictly for possible typos: if the author is alive, ask them, otherwise leave it.<p>&gt; Sometimes a book is completely accurate at the time of publication, but becomes factually inaccurate over time, giving the wrong dates for the beginning of daylight saving time or an incorrect planetary status for Pluto.<p>&gt; Should we fix these factual errors? Do we need the author’s input? What if the author is dead, the agent is retired, and the editor has left the company? Should we fix them silently or with some kind of editorial note?<p>&gt; Then there’s the case where the content of a book is not incorrect, per se, but may have become outmoded or offensive.... What do you do here? Do you update the language that’s incidental to the content of the book? Does it matter who you think is buying this — whether it’s people who want the diet advice or people who are researching the historic participation of Asian Americans in diet programs?<p>No. A book should capture an author&#x27;s intent&#x2F;concept&#x2F;idea at the time it was written and those intents&#x2F;concepts&#x2F;ideas should be frozen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shagie</author><text>Back in college, I recall a professor saying that German students of philosophy would learn English to be able to read Nietzsche in translation rather than as it was written. (Upon reflection, it might have been Kant - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;philosophy.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;28743" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;philosophy.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;28743</a> )<p>My latin was too rusty to be able to read Meditations on First Philosophy as it was written. ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;23306" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gutenberg.org&#x2F;ebooks&#x2F;23306</a> ).<p>A translation from Latin to English ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikisource.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Meditations_on_First_Philosophy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikisource.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Meditations_on_First_Philosop...</a> ) necessarily changes those intents&#x2F;concepts&#x2F;ideas into those that the reader is more familiar with.<p>A translation from English of 1000 AD to 2000 AD has the same necessary changes <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hieronymus.us.com&#x2F;latinweb&#x2F;Mediaevum&#x2F;Beowulf.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hieronymus.us.com&#x2F;latinweb&#x2F;Mediaevum&#x2F;Beowulf.htm</a><p>Is it ok to read Liu Cixin&#x27;s work 三体 as Ken Liu&#x27;s translation known to the English speaking word as The Three-Body Problem? Or should I learn Chinese and immerse myself in the culture of China in order to read it with those intents &#x2F; concepts &#x2F; ideas as things frozen on paper?<p>There are two problems - the book captured at its time may not be accessible anymore. Secondly, even if you can read the words it may be that the words those concepts map to in today&#x27;s language are not the concepts that the author intended.<p>So... how short of a time frame is not <i>not</i> acceptable to read the work in translation?<p>I hold that a translation across time is not really any different than a translation of a modern work across languages and cultures.</text></comment> | <story><title>When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)</title><url>https://teresaelsey.medium.com/when-nothing-ever-goes-out-of-print-maintaining-backlist-ebooks-fcd63e680667</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>djoldman</author><text>&gt; And sometimes we’re not sure if what we’re seeing even is an error. The following passage, from Philip K. Dick, displays a lot of creative use of language, but the “zommed” in the third line — while matching the print book — seems a bit suspect. Should it be “zoomed”? How can we know?<p>Strictly for possible typos: if the author is alive, ask them, otherwise leave it.<p>&gt; Sometimes a book is completely accurate at the time of publication, but becomes factually inaccurate over time, giving the wrong dates for the beginning of daylight saving time or an incorrect planetary status for Pluto.<p>&gt; Should we fix these factual errors? Do we need the author’s input? What if the author is dead, the agent is retired, and the editor has left the company? Should we fix them silently or with some kind of editorial note?<p>&gt; Then there’s the case where the content of a book is not incorrect, per se, but may have become outmoded or offensive.... What do you do here? Do you update the language that’s incidental to the content of the book? Does it matter who you think is buying this — whether it’s people who want the diet advice or people who are researching the historic participation of Asian Americans in diet programs?<p>No. A book should capture an author&#x27;s intent&#x2F;concept&#x2F;idea at the time it was written and those intents&#x2F;concepts&#x2F;ideas should be frozen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>allturtles</author><text>&gt; Sometimes a book is completely accurate at the time of publication, but becomes factually inaccurate over time, giving the wrong dates for the beginning of daylight saving time or an incorrect planetary status for Pluto.<p>&gt; Should we fix these factual errors? Do we need the author’s input? What if the author is dead, the agent is retired, and the editor has left the company? Should we fix them silently or with some kind of editorial note?<p>I think it&#x27;s bizarre to call the &quot;factual errors&quot; at all. Would you alter a book from 1958 that &quot;incorrectly&quot; refers to Eisenhower as the current U.S. President? Such &quot;fixes&quot; would be a defacement of the historical record, flattening all of time into a perpetual now.</text></comment> |
28,004,724 | 28,004,176 | 1 | 2 | 27,999,720 | train | <story><title>Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”</title><url>https://i.postimg.cc/CLBCNx0Q/D4Hg99zw.jpg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dove</author><text>Facebook is removing content because they wanted to make money with a website, and the job of statecraft fell in their laps in the process. They didn&#x27;t volunteer, they aren&#x27;t qualified, nobody told them they were signing up to run a kingdom, let alone the world. So they don&#x27;t produce lofty, philosophical, well-thought-out positions on free speech and human rights. They don&#x27;t carefully manage the public square with the long term good of humanity in mind. They make the same expedient, best-effort, unenlightened, sounds-good-to-me decisions that literally every poorly qualified there-for-the-wrong-reasons ruler in all of history has made. Your majesty, people are dying because cats are vessels of Satan! By royal decree, kill the cats. That&#x27;s all this is.<p>I think they are trying, and I wish they had a Thomas Jefferson on staff and saw themselves as needing one. But they don&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>Facebook is removing content because that is ground they want to stand on. Removing content feels like censorship, so it lends itself to political grandstanding in their favor. Millions of people get upset and demand that Facebook handle all content neutrally, which is exactly what Facebook wanted everyone to think in the first place.<p>The real issue with Facebook is the editorial decisions they make about promoting some content over others. It’s totally optional and is also a powerful form of censorship. A link that shows up in no one’s “algorithmic timeline” is worthless, even if it is not actually removed from the platform.<p>The essential lie is that the algorithm is neutral. It’s not; it is intentionally biased to favor Facebook’s goals: increase ad inventory and the data used to target ads.</text></item><item><author>gunapologist99</author><text>Facebook seems to be censoring so much because Facebook believes that most people will actually believe whatever bits of misinformation are floating around out there.<p>But is everyone that easily manipulated? More importantly, does everyone actually believe that they can be easily manipulated, or do they just think that everyone <i>else</i> is so easily manipulated, but somehow they&#x27;re above the fray?<p>And at what point does the censorship to protect me from manipulation become manipulation itself?<p>Facebook is fighting a losing battle if they think they will survive a battle with their own users. This is way past censoring Alex Jones. You can&#x27;t possibly censor every crackpot conspiracy theorist. Actually, we&#x27;re probably <i>all</i> crackpot conspiracy theorists in some way. We probably all believe some conspiracy about 9&#x2F;11 or the NSA or elections or vaccines or masks or aliens or royal families or whatever.<p>The rate of censoring is almost certainly accelerating faster than facebook&#x27;s growth, and once you&#x27;ve been censored once, you&#x27;re likely to radically curb your use of that platform. I can&#x27;t imagine that FB doesn&#x27;t have stats on how many people keep using FB after they&#x27;ve been censored just once.<p>FB only works when you and 99% of your social group are on there.<p>And the network effect works in reverse, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>They chose to do algorithmic timelines.<p>They could do a chronological timeline. They could choose to not do any editorializing. They chose instead to get into the content promotion business.<p>Their active choices lead to this result</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”</title><url>https://i.postimg.cc/CLBCNx0Q/D4Hg99zw.jpg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dove</author><text>Facebook is removing content because they wanted to make money with a website, and the job of statecraft fell in their laps in the process. They didn&#x27;t volunteer, they aren&#x27;t qualified, nobody told them they were signing up to run a kingdom, let alone the world. So they don&#x27;t produce lofty, philosophical, well-thought-out positions on free speech and human rights. They don&#x27;t carefully manage the public square with the long term good of humanity in mind. They make the same expedient, best-effort, unenlightened, sounds-good-to-me decisions that literally every poorly qualified there-for-the-wrong-reasons ruler in all of history has made. Your majesty, people are dying because cats are vessels of Satan! By royal decree, kill the cats. That&#x27;s all this is.<p>I think they are trying, and I wish they had a Thomas Jefferson on staff and saw themselves as needing one. But they don&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>Facebook is removing content because that is ground they want to stand on. Removing content feels like censorship, so it lends itself to political grandstanding in their favor. Millions of people get upset and demand that Facebook handle all content neutrally, which is exactly what Facebook wanted everyone to think in the first place.<p>The real issue with Facebook is the editorial decisions they make about promoting some content over others. It’s totally optional and is also a powerful form of censorship. A link that shows up in no one’s “algorithmic timeline” is worthless, even if it is not actually removed from the platform.<p>The essential lie is that the algorithm is neutral. It’s not; it is intentionally biased to favor Facebook’s goals: increase ad inventory and the data used to target ads.</text></item><item><author>gunapologist99</author><text>Facebook seems to be censoring so much because Facebook believes that most people will actually believe whatever bits of misinformation are floating around out there.<p>But is everyone that easily manipulated? More importantly, does everyone actually believe that they can be easily manipulated, or do they just think that everyone <i>else</i> is so easily manipulated, but somehow they&#x27;re above the fray?<p>And at what point does the censorship to protect me from manipulation become manipulation itself?<p>Facebook is fighting a losing battle if they think they will survive a battle with their own users. This is way past censoring Alex Jones. You can&#x27;t possibly censor every crackpot conspiracy theorist. Actually, we&#x27;re probably <i>all</i> crackpot conspiracy theorists in some way. We probably all believe some conspiracy about 9&#x2F;11 or the NSA or elections or vaccines or masks or aliens or royal families or whatever.<p>The rate of censoring is almost certainly accelerating faster than facebook&#x27;s growth, and once you&#x27;ve been censored once, you&#x27;re likely to radically curb your use of that platform. I can&#x27;t imagine that FB doesn&#x27;t have stats on how many people keep using FB after they&#x27;ve been censored just once.<p>FB only works when you and 99% of your social group are on there.<p>And the network effect works in reverse, too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>13years</author><text>Excellent post!<p>Yes, Facebook has found itself wielding power that it could have never imagined. Nobody is prepared or qualified for that kind of power. That&#x27;s why it took 700 years from the Magna Carta until the US Constitution to formulate a reasonable contract to limit such power.<p>Now you have the most dangerous combination of all. The two ingredients which when combined has resulted in horrific atrocities.<p>The paradox of tyranny
1) The desire to make the world a better place
2) The power and means to actually do so</text></comment> |
6,321,429 | 6,321,381 | 1 | 3 | 6,321,003 | train | <story><title>Rackspace Launches Developer Discount</title><url>http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/developer-love-welcome-to-the-rackspace-cloud-developer-discount.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DjangoReinhardt</author><text>WHAT THE HELL, RACKSPACE?!<p>You emailed me just because I semi-filled in your form? I didn&#x27;t even click SUBMIT! o_O<p>Why would you assume that if I semi-filled a form I would probably go ahead and register? Maybe I don&#x27;t want to register at this very moment?<p>Did you even consider that my NOT submitting the form was a conscious decision? Maybe I realized halfway through filling the form that my skill-set wasn&#x27;t good enough to make me want to sign up now? Or my finances wouldn&#x27;t allow me to maintain an account on your platform after six months? Or maybe, just maybe, I just didn&#x27;t want to sign up right now?<p>Why would you take my email ID from a non-submit-clicked form and NOT tell me that you had taken it? Why? o_O<p>Even worse, why would you email me asking &#x27;did I forget to take my cloud&#x27;? How do I know you are not going to spam me with your promotional offers in the future? How do Iknow you are not going to sell (or worse, &#x27;inadvertently leak&#x27;) my email address to some third party?</text></comment> | <story><title>Rackspace Launches Developer Discount</title><url>http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/developer-love-welcome-to-the-rackspace-cloud-developer-discount.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clicks</author><text>Pretty nifty.<p>One thing, while I have the ears of you Rackspace people: offer more documentation maybe? Kind of like how Linode does: <a href="https://library.linode.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;library.linode.com&#x2F;</a> Common things like how to run a mail server, how to get a LAMP&#x2F;LEMP&#x2F;LNPP&#x2F;$XYZ setup going on, etc. Not full books or anything, just stuff to get things off the ground more easily when playing around. This is one of the reasons why I was so attracted to Linode, the docs, and the support whenever I&#x27;d join their IRC channel. It was good stuff, to get things running even though this is not my field by trade.</text></comment> |
30,588,661 | 30,588,296 | 1 | 3 | 30,586,740 | train | <story><title>The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability</title><url>https://dirtypipe.cm4all.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staticassertion</author><text>Another example of a vulnerability that is purposefully obfuscated in the commit log. It is an insane practice that needs to die. The Linux kernel maintainers have been doing this for decades and it&#x27;s now a standard practice for upstream.<p>This gives attackers an advantage (they are incentivized to read commits and can easily see the vuln) and defenders a huge disadvantage. Now I have to rush to patch whereas attackers have had this entire time to build their POCs and exploit systems.<p>End this ridiculous practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregkh</author><text>I&#x27;ve described how we (the kernel security team) handles this type of things many times, and even summarized it in the past here:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kroah.com&#x2F;log&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;05&#x2F;linux-kernel-release-model&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kroah.com&#x2F;log&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2018&#x2F;02&#x2F;05&#x2F;linux-kernel-releas...</a>
Scroll down to the section entitled &quot;Security&quot; for the details.<p>If you wish to disagree with how we handle all of this, wonderful, we will be glad to discuss it on the mailing lists. Just don&#x27;t try to rehash all the same old arguments again, as that&#x27;s not going to work at all.<p>Also, this was fixed in a public kernel last week, what prevented you from updating your kernel already? Did you need more time to test the last release?<p>Edit: It was fixed in a public release 12 days ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability</title><url>https://dirtypipe.cm4all.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staticassertion</author><text>Another example of a vulnerability that is purposefully obfuscated in the commit log. It is an insane practice that needs to die. The Linux kernel maintainers have been doing this for decades and it&#x27;s now a standard practice for upstream.<p>This gives attackers an advantage (they are incentivized to read commits and can easily see the vuln) and defenders a huge disadvantage. Now I have to rush to patch whereas attackers have had this entire time to build their POCs and exploit systems.<p>End this ridiculous practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amluto</author><text>Do you have actual evidence of that in a case like this?<p>(This is not a rhetorical question. I can possibly influence this policy, but unsubstantiated objections won’t help.)</text></comment> |
10,750,468 | 10,750,033 | 1 | 3 | 10,749,189 | train | <story><title>What You Believe Affects What You Achieve</title><url>http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-of-Success</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jondubois</author><text>I think this is an inversion of cause and effect. The reality is much less inspiring; It&#x27;s &quot;What you achieve affects what you believe&quot; not so much the other way around.<p>I know this for a fact because as I become more sceptical&#x2F;pessimistic over time, my achievements increase. If I was a blind optimist, I would probably fail as soon as reality reared its ugly head.<p>If someone is really lucky throughout their lives, they will have an optimistic view about the world and the people around them.<p>Unfortunate people might find a statement like this offensive because they know for a fact (based on their own experiences) that this isn&#x27;t true - It&#x27;s almost like saying &quot;It&#x27;s your fault for being poor; it&#x27;s all in your head!&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anupshinde</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this means an inversion<p>What comes first? - belief or achievement or self-confidence?<p>You won&#x27;t achieve something if you don&#x27;t believe in it. You just won&#x27;t persevere and will give up or find workarounds.<p>But if you believe in it and keep failing consistently, your self-confidence will go down and so will your trust in self. It gets to that miserable &quot;I&#x27;m no good&quot; belief until one breaks out of that.<p>Once you achieve something, it will boost your self-confidence and trust in self will rise and your belief is validated. Then your belief will make you try more and achieve more. Sometimes it leads to overconfidence and bouts of overconfidence will break that trust within oneself - and we just need avoid getting into that downward spiral.<p>Many times &quot;starters&quot; define limits that are just self-imposed limits. People fall into the ugly &#x27;I can&#x27;t do that&#x27; loop without trying. And they have to be forcibly, inconveniently and painfully pushed out of that. This quote from Star Trek sounds so true &quot;stallion has to be broken to reach it&#x27;s potential&quot;<p>I&#x27;m a pessimist but I don&#x27;t believe that pessimism motivated achievements can make one happy unless it is a side-effect. Such achievements root from a negative inner rebellion behaviour. And if we aren&#x27;t truly happy with those achievements, that makes us doubt and kill our own inner beliefs that led to those achievements. I&#x27;m not saying we should be a blind-optimist but stay close to reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>What You Believe Affects What You Achieve</title><url>http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Mindset-The-New-Psychology-of-Success</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jondubois</author><text>I think this is an inversion of cause and effect. The reality is much less inspiring; It&#x27;s &quot;What you achieve affects what you believe&quot; not so much the other way around.<p>I know this for a fact because as I become more sceptical&#x2F;pessimistic over time, my achievements increase. If I was a blind optimist, I would probably fail as soon as reality reared its ugly head.<p>If someone is really lucky throughout their lives, they will have an optimistic view about the world and the people around them.<p>Unfortunate people might find a statement like this offensive because they know for a fact (based on their own experiences) that this isn&#x27;t true - It&#x27;s almost like saying &quot;It&#x27;s your fault for being poor; it&#x27;s all in your head!&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hayksaakian</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s anyone&#x27;s fault for starting out poor, or becoming poor from outside factors (war, medical condition, etc.)<p>But barring all those factors, if you don&#x27;t make a deliberate choice to change something, the world around you will keep you down.</text></comment> |
8,902,971 | 8,902,816 | 1 | 3 | 8,899,966 | train | <story><title>What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5168718/what-blocks-ruby-python-to-get-javascript-v8-speed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text><p><pre><code> Put on hold as too broad by rene, davidism, vaultah, Sam, iCodez 2 hours ago
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Meta: It&#x27;s interesting that 5 users thought that it would benefit the SO community to put this question on hold, while 100+ thought it was an interesting question. In one way, SO does keep the noise down pretty well, but this doesn&#x27;t feel to me like noise. Does avoiding questions like these actually make SO a better place? Is there a reworded version of this question that would actually elicit better responses? Or is this just the joy of playing the enforcer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirkules</author><text>I&#x27;m not a moderator, but I agree that the question is not really constructive in the scope of what stack overflow is supposed to do: answer questions to specific problems. The question itself is interesting as are the answers, and the whole discussion around it is great, but it doesn&#x27;t belong on that site.<p>Why is python not as fast as JavaScript is a completely different question than &quot;An internal error occurred during updating maven project&quot;. The later seeks a solution to a problem while the former only encourages discussion but is impossible to solve (because it&#x27;s not a solvable question).<p>So, I feel this question was appropriately tagged, or perhaps even not aggressively enough.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5168718/what-blocks-ruby-python-to-get-javascript-v8-speed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text><p><pre><code> Put on hold as too broad by rene, davidism, vaultah, Sam, iCodez 2 hours ago
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Meta: It&#x27;s interesting that 5 users thought that it would benefit the SO community to put this question on hold, while 100+ thought it was an interesting question. In one way, SO does keep the noise down pretty well, but this doesn&#x27;t feel to me like noise. Does avoiding questions like these actually make SO a better place? Is there a reworded version of this question that would actually elicit better responses? Or is this just the joy of playing the enforcer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Liru</author><text>I would say it&#x27;s the latter. A majority of questions that I&#x27;ve found on SO that helped me solve a problem or answer a question have been marked as non-constructive. I don&#x27;t know why people would do that from a logical perspective, but I can see how having the ability to moderate discussion would make one overzealous with this sort of thing.</text></comment> |
16,212,939 | 16,212,843 | 1 | 2 | 16,212,299 | train | <story><title>Hetzner Cloud</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/cloud</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pulse7</author><text>If they open a DC in the US, then - by the US laws - their US company will have to provide the data even from German DCs when requested by the US government. So it is maybe better not to enter the US...</text></item><item><author>mythz</author><text>Been using Hetzner for years, their hardware&#x27;s has been rock solid, predictable pricing with sweet price&#x2F;performance ratio resulting in large savings from consolidating existing AWS EC2 instances.<p>Still using AWS for Apps which rely on cloud features, e.g. SES&#x2F;RDS&#x2F;etc but for static servers Hetzner is now our goto.<p>Super exciting to see them entering the cloud space and offering easy snapshots + backups, should open it to hosting more stuff on there.<p>The one difference is noticeable latency from their DC in Germany vs the instant response times I was getting from AWS&#x27;s N.Virgina DC. Would obviously love it if Hetzner could open a DC in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>Perhaps Canada could be a location that&#x27;s beyond US jurisdiction but mostly solves the SoL problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hetzner Cloud</title><url>https://www.hetzner.com/cloud</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pulse7</author><text>If they open a DC in the US, then - by the US laws - their US company will have to provide the data even from German DCs when requested by the US government. So it is maybe better not to enter the US...</text></item><item><author>mythz</author><text>Been using Hetzner for years, their hardware&#x27;s has been rock solid, predictable pricing with sweet price&#x2F;performance ratio resulting in large savings from consolidating existing AWS EC2 instances.<p>Still using AWS for Apps which rely on cloud features, e.g. SES&#x2F;RDS&#x2F;etc but for static servers Hetzner is now our goto.<p>Super exciting to see them entering the cloud space and offering easy snapshots + backups, should open it to hosting more stuff on there.<p>The one difference is noticeable latency from their DC in Germany vs the instant response times I was getting from AWS&#x27;s N.Virgina DC. Would obviously love it if Hetzner could open a DC in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>revelation</author><text>Actually, Microsofts challenge is still pending at the Supreme Court, no?</text></comment> |
32,695,536 | 32,695,188 | 1 | 3 | 32,694,753 | train | <story><title>USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps</title><url>https://www.angstronomics.com/p/usb4-v2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmalynin</author><text>When are we going to hear about USB4.1 2x2 Gen 1 V2? Surely that will be compatible with existing cables.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshstrange</author><text>I was SURE they had learned their lesson after the clusterfuck that was 3.1&#x2F;3.2 but no, right back at the same shit again.<p>It&#x27;s hard to see this as anything but purpose-built to make it harder to tell what a cable is capable of (a huge boon to scammers, aka: 90% of cable sellers). If the USB-IF had half a brain between them all (clearly they don&#x27;t) they would require the data&#x2F;charging&#x2F;etc specs to be printed on the cable. Instead they spend their time coming up with confusing standards that are indecipherable to the average person which lead to a shitty world where everyone needs a cable tester to know what a cable is capable of, or they have constant bad experiences with a cable that fits the port but underperforms if it works at all.<p>I&#x27;ve heard some people say this is because it&#x27;s all marketing-driven vs engineering-driven, if that&#x27;s the case the fire the whole department because they suck at marketing. It&#x27;s gotten to the point the only cables I can trust are from Anker and even those suffer from lack of labeling on them.</text></comment> | <story><title>USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps</title><url>https://www.angstronomics.com/p/usb4-v2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmalynin</author><text>When are we going to hear about USB4.1 2x2 Gen 1 V2? Surely that will be compatible with existing cables.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bxparks</author><text>I <i>think</i> you are joking about &quot;USB4.1 2x2 Gen 1 V2&quot;, but I can&#x27;t tell. USB naming is messed up.</text></comment> |
2,077,785 | 2,077,804 | 1 | 2 | 2,077,312 | train | <story><title>NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pchristensen</author><text>I'm the rare defender of Tim Ferriss on HN. A lot of what he says is common sense, a lot of it is crazy, a lot of it is probably wrong, but here's why I think he doesn't deserve the scorn given to him:<p>Everything he says is backed up by this premise: "Don't just accept this - try it! I'm only recommending it because I found it to work."<p>I've done his slow-carb diet before and am doing it again now. I lost 25 pounds in two months the first time, and I've lost 5 pounds this week since I restarted it. These results, which are on par with what he claimed, make me hesitant to flatly deny anything else he recommends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I basically agree with you. The 4 Hour Body <i>is</i> chock full of a bunch of stuff that isn't scientifically proven, which I'm always suspicious of. But, the science is solid on a lot of the stuff he really pushes hard.<p>The slow-carb diet <i>is</i> an excellent diet for weight loss and does avoid some of the problems of other rapid weight loss diets; it controls calorie intake without forcing you to count calories. I counted calories for the first week or so I was on it (in vegetarian form, which is a little bit of a challenge, to get enough protein without resorting to soy and wheat gluten products), and found I was eating about 200-300 below my resting metabolic rate every day, while eating enough to never feel hungry or get snacky. There's no way I could avoid losing weight if I'm eating significantly fewer calories than what I burn just sitting at my desk, and there is pretty solid science that the ingredients in the diet encourage loss of fat rather than loss of muscle...you're getting plenty of the stuff you need to maintain muscle mass, and adding some things to increase burning of fat for fuel.<p>As an aside, I've found the easily testable bits (particularly the "boost testosterone and libido" chapter) to have very evident results. That may be just because I was deficient in a few of the vital nutrients, and returning to nominal made things better, but I definitely saw a change. I plan to keep Brazil nuts in the house at all times, henceforth, regardless.</text></comment> | <story><title>NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pchristensen</author><text>I'm the rare defender of Tim Ferriss on HN. A lot of what he says is common sense, a lot of it is crazy, a lot of it is probably wrong, but here's why I think he doesn't deserve the scorn given to him:<p>Everything he says is backed up by this premise: "Don't just accept this - try it! I'm only recommending it because I found it to work."<p>I've done his slow-carb diet before and am doing it again now. I lost 25 pounds in two months the first time, and I've lost 5 pounds this week since I restarted it. These results, which are on par with what he claimed, make me hesitant to flatly deny anything else he recommends.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>symesc</author><text>I read it . . . loved parts of it . . . and simultaneously thought it was most random book ever.<p>He does give a disclaimer at the beginning, where he says the book is not meant to be read from beginning to end. When looked at that way, the work is somewhat more coherent.<p>I bought the Kindle version, and when reading on the iPad, this work really comes into its own: it's more of a collection of linked content than a book proper. The chapter notes are important, and the links to YouTube and content on his website are useful. One the iPad, I can access that content quickly and then return to where I was reading.<p>I will say that whatever the flaws in this work, Tim Ferris has changed two important aspects of my life forever with his two books: how I work, and now how I eat.</text></comment> |
10,005,217 | 10,005,288 | 1 | 3 | 10,002,889 | train | <story><title>An Ex-Cop's War on Lie Detectors</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-doug-williams-war-on-lie-detector/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JamesBarney</author><text>The most despicable use of lie detectors I&#x27;ve ever seen was on the Dr. Phil show. Dr. Phil asked a man who cheated on his wife whether he diddled his kids while he was hooked up to a lie detector. He answered no but obviously a question that is as emotionally charged at that will appear as a lie. This man&#x27;s relationship with his family, friends and probably any future work relationships were all ruined by a stupid magic trick. The man turned to Dr. Phil and the the former FBI agent who administered the polygraph and start pleading and begging for any reason why the lie detector would give a false positive. Dr. Phil and the former FBI agent were smart enough to know why it wasn&#x27;t working but they continued be evasive as the man&#x27;s past and future relationships with his children, family, friend, and coworkers went up in flames.</text></comment> | <story><title>An Ex-Cop's War on Lie Detectors</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-doug-williams-war-on-lie-detector/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rl3</author><text>Since fMRIs are likely the future for this type of thing, this is probably the most disturbing job posting I&#x27;ve ever seen:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acfei.com&#x2F;forensic_services&#x2F;jobsearch&#x2F;job-236170.xhtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acfei.com&#x2F;forensic_services&#x2F;jobsearch&#x2F;job-236170....</a><p>-<p><i>Title: PhD COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGISTS<p>Date Posted: 05&#x2F;03&#x2F;2012 [...]<p>[...] seeking contract physiologists to provide technical expertise in central nervous system (CNS) studies related to credibility assessment. [...]<p>Candidates will provide expertise in the use of CNS technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), [...]<p>A Top Secret security clearance is highly desirable. Candidates without a security clearance who possess superior qualifications may be processed for the required USG security clearance before commencing work.</i></text></comment> |
15,866,726 | 15,866,254 | 1 | 3 | 15,861,952 | train | <story><title>PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem</title><url>https://gocardless.com/blog/incident-review-api-and-dashboard-outage-on-10th-october/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobarbazetc</author><text>I’ve been involved in various Postgres roles (developer on it, consultant for it for BigCo, using it at my startup now) for around 18 years.<p>I’ve never in that time seen a pacemaker&#x2F;corosync&#x2F;etc&#x2F;etc configuration go well. Ever. I have seen corrupted DBs, fail overs for no reason, etc. The worst things always happen when the failover doesn’t go according to plan and someone accidentally nukes the DB at 2am.<p>The lesson I’ve taken from this is it’s better to have 15-20 minutes of downtime in the unlikely event a primary goes down and run a manual failover&#x2F;takeover script then it is to rely on automation. pgbouncer makes this easy enough.<p>That said, there was a lot of bad luck involved in this incident.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scurvy</author><text>Our PostgreSQL failover plan is very pedestrian, but it works well (even across datacenters). We run streaming replication off of the primary to a pair of replicas, with one replica in another datacenter. The primary write DB advertises a loopback IP out OSPF into a top-of-rack switch, where it&#x27;s aggregated by BGP and distributed throughout our network. There&#x27;s a health check script [0] running every 3 seconds that makes sure PG is happy and that it is still writeable.<p>If we want to failover (nothing automatic), we stop the primary (or it&#x27;s already dead) and the route is withdrawn. An operator touches the recovery file on new primary, the health checker sees that, and the IP is announced back into the network. Yes, it&#x27;s a &quot;VIP&quot;, but it&#x27;s one controlled by our operations team, not automation software. One nice things about this is that you can failover across datacenters (remember it&#x27;s advertised into our network over BGP) without reconfiguring DNS or messing with application servers.<p>While the mechanisms are different, we do something very similar for MySQL with MHA. It&#x27;s still an operator running scripts intentionally though (which is what we want).<p>I will definitely agree with you that manual operator intervention is better than automated failover.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unixsurfer&#x2F;anycast_healthchecker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;unixsurfer&#x2F;anycast_healthchecker</a></text></comment> | <story><title>PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem</title><url>https://gocardless.com/blog/incident-review-api-and-dashboard-outage-on-10th-october/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobarbazetc</author><text>I’ve been involved in various Postgres roles (developer on it, consultant for it for BigCo, using it at my startup now) for around 18 years.<p>I’ve never in that time seen a pacemaker&#x2F;corosync&#x2F;etc&#x2F;etc configuration go well. Ever. I have seen corrupted DBs, fail overs for no reason, etc. The worst things always happen when the failover doesn’t go according to plan and someone accidentally nukes the DB at 2am.<p>The lesson I’ve taken from this is it’s better to have 15-20 minutes of downtime in the unlikely event a primary goes down and run a manual failover&#x2F;takeover script then it is to rely on automation. pgbouncer makes this easy enough.<p>That said, there was a lot of bad luck involved in this incident.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thijsvandien</author><text>I&#x27;d generalize this to many kinds of failover setups, DB or non-DB. Practically each and every one I&#x27;ve seen is in itself less reliable than the thing it&#x27;s covering for.</text></comment> |
35,316,586 | 35,316,661 | 1 | 3 | 35,314,755 | train | <story><title>Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-26/apple-reality-headset-details-pro-features-top-100-meeting-watch-like-start-lfpgdgdb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Where was this persistent iteration and overnight success with Homepod, Airpower, butterfly keyboards, touchbar, force touch, MobileMe, Ping?<p>Apple has had its share of failures like any other company, and kills products like any other company. There is plenty of precedence for their AR headset to just fizzle out.</text></item><item><author>voisin</author><text>Initial product will be weak, just like the original iPhone (no App Store, slow, poor battery life, etc) and Apple Watch (no development, no health tracking, small screen, poor battery life).<p>The thing about Apple is not to judge based on v.1 but to watch the iteration. They are the most persistent company in the world. Compare to Google which seems to have ADHD. Apple will iterate and iterate and in 5 years we’ll all be shocked that it is an “overnight success” and undisputed market leader with an unassailable ecosystem.<p>If their stock tanks after the release I’ll see it as a good buying opportunity!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dagmx</author><text>HomePod<p>Getting more successful with the Mini. The OG Homepod was a very V1 product like the person you replied to was saying<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appleinsider.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;22&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;homepod-mini-was-the-single-best-selling-smart-speaker-in-q1-2022" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appleinsider.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;22&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;homepod-mini-was-...</a><p>AirPower: never released<p>Butterfly keyboards&#x2F;Touch Bar&#x2F;force touch: all features. The person you’re replying to is talking about product lines. You might as well list cd&#x2F;devs drives and FireWire as well because things come and go.<p>MobileMe: The majority of MobileMe features still exist under iCloud so I’m not sure what you’re getting at there.<p>Ping: this was always just a feature for iTunes and not much more. It wasn’t a product in and of itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-26/apple-reality-headset-details-pro-features-top-100-meeting-watch-like-start-lfpgdgdb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Where was this persistent iteration and overnight success with Homepod, Airpower, butterfly keyboards, touchbar, force touch, MobileMe, Ping?<p>Apple has had its share of failures like any other company, and kills products like any other company. There is plenty of precedence for their AR headset to just fizzle out.</text></item><item><author>voisin</author><text>Initial product will be weak, just like the original iPhone (no App Store, slow, poor battery life, etc) and Apple Watch (no development, no health tracking, small screen, poor battery life).<p>The thing about Apple is not to judge based on v.1 but to watch the iteration. They are the most persistent company in the world. Compare to Google which seems to have ADHD. Apple will iterate and iterate and in 5 years we’ll all be shocked that it is an “overnight success” and undisputed market leader with an unassailable ecosystem.<p>If their stock tanks after the release I’ll see it as a good buying opportunity!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spike021</author><text>Interestingly enough to me, all the things you mentioned are &quot;accessories&quot;. Not full-fledged products (arguably Ping was right around when social media like MySpace&#x2F;Facebook really were going full-steam so I think Apple was just trying it out).<p>The first-class products have all been launched like the parent comment said, along with iterations that build upon them.<p>So to me it seems Apple is still putting some level of priority on its main products and just less so on accessories.</text></comment> |
12,753,699 | 12,753,435 | 1 | 2 | 12,748,863 | train | <story><title>All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now-have-full-self-driving-hardware</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aerovistae</author><text>I laughed out loud when I googled &quot;tsla&quot; after watching the video and the top headline in the news section of the google results was &quot;Analyst doubts the new move by Tesla Motors.&quot;<p>Clicking on the article for humor&#x27;s value, I continued to read:<p>&gt; However, Edmunds.com, Inc. analyst Jessica Caldwell questions the value of purchasing a self-driving car before regulations catch up. Caldwell said that, meanwhile, competitors could introduce better solutions, potentially making Tesla’s hardware “obsolete almost as soon as it’s activated for prime time.”<p>It&#x27;s just hilarious the contortions of logic people will go to in order to put Musk down.<p>Having the equipment ready and in action first is somehow a <i>disadvantage</i> by this argument, and now you&#x27;re better off being <i>later</i> to market.<p>These same people have written that Tesla will be left in the dust as its competitors beat it to the market because it can&#x27;t keep up with their manufacturing, and thus being first to market is only an advantage if you&#x27;re not Tesla.<p>You can&#x27;t win.</text></item><item><author>hipshaker</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this hackernews??<p>So many &quot;but what if this and that and this...&quot; &amp; &quot;and yeah let&#x27;s see if it can handle X &amp; Y&quot;<p>This is the iPhone 1 of self-driving cars!
That&#x27;s akin to saying Apple should have waited to release their phone until iPhone 7 &quot;because of this &amp; that &amp; this...&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t we have to start <i>somewhere</i>??
Aren&#x27;t there supposed to be a big user base here who understands that it&#x27;s an evolutionary process - we build the plane before we build the rocket before we shoot people into space?<p><i>Oviously</i> the perfect self-driving car is still some way off, but I for one am thrilled this race is on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fitzroy</author><text>No surprise since Edmunds makes money off of everyone <i>except</i> Tesla (no advertising, no dealers, no comparison shopping that converts to lead gen).<p>&quot;How does Edmunds make money?
Edmunds sells advertising to marketers who have contextually relevant messages for site visitors. Also, car-shoppers who visit Edmunds have the opportunity to request price quotes from dealers and providers of insurance, financing and extended warranties. Edmunds is paid by the automakers, dealers and other service providers for the lead referrals.&quot;
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edmunds.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;faqs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.edmunds.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;faqs.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware</title><url>https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now-have-full-self-driving-hardware</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aerovistae</author><text>I laughed out loud when I googled &quot;tsla&quot; after watching the video and the top headline in the news section of the google results was &quot;Analyst doubts the new move by Tesla Motors.&quot;<p>Clicking on the article for humor&#x27;s value, I continued to read:<p>&gt; However, Edmunds.com, Inc. analyst Jessica Caldwell questions the value of purchasing a self-driving car before regulations catch up. Caldwell said that, meanwhile, competitors could introduce better solutions, potentially making Tesla’s hardware “obsolete almost as soon as it’s activated for prime time.”<p>It&#x27;s just hilarious the contortions of logic people will go to in order to put Musk down.<p>Having the equipment ready and in action first is somehow a <i>disadvantage</i> by this argument, and now you&#x27;re better off being <i>later</i> to market.<p>These same people have written that Tesla will be left in the dust as its competitors beat it to the market because it can&#x27;t keep up with their manufacturing, and thus being first to market is only an advantage if you&#x27;re not Tesla.<p>You can&#x27;t win.</text></item><item><author>hipshaker</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this hackernews??<p>So many &quot;but what if this and that and this...&quot; &amp; &quot;and yeah let&#x27;s see if it can handle X &amp; Y&quot;<p>This is the iPhone 1 of self-driving cars!
That&#x27;s akin to saying Apple should have waited to release their phone until iPhone 7 &quot;because of this &amp; that &amp; this...&quot;<p>Don&#x27;t we have to start <i>somewhere</i>??
Aren&#x27;t there supposed to be a big user base here who understands that it&#x27;s an evolutionary process - we build the plane before we build the rocket before we shoot people into space?<p><i>Oviously</i> the perfect self-driving car is still some way off, but I for one am thrilled this race is on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodpanel</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s just hilarious the contortions of logic people will go to in order to put Musk down.<p>As much as I anticipate more cool stuff from Tesla, one could say the same about akin-ness of people to find everything that Tesla does &quot;super innovative&quot; and &quot;revolutionary&quot; while the same features already existed in other cars for quite some time.<p>I actually laughed out loud when I saw the Headline of this submission &quot;Tesla released a video of a car driving itself&quot; being the number one entry on HN - sorry but this speaks volumes about the &quot;neutrality&quot; of HN regarding Tesla.</text></comment> |
33,034,020 | 33,031,468 | 1 | 3 | 33,028,300 | train | <story><title>Why modern software is slow</title><url>https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2022/09/29/why-modern-software-is-slow-windows-voice-recorder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>I&#x27;m a game developer and game performance is better than ever. 144 Hz monitor? 4k? We got you covered. Even ray tracing and VR is on the way.<p>Most games render frames of a 3D world in less than 17ms, but most websites take 3-7 seconds to load because of all the ads and bloat, and things shift around on you for another 20 seconds after that, so when you go to tap a link you accidentally tap an ad that finally loaded under your finger. If you optimize those websites, they run super fast though, but it&#x27;s quite a pain to do with the dependency bloat in modern tech stacks...<p>(note: games lag as well when you drag in a million dependencies you don&#x27;t need)<p>The thing is, most sites and web apps try to solve a user problem, and if you are the only company in town that solves that problem, then performance barely matters - what matters is solving the problem. The users will put up with some pain because the problem is even more painful.<p>With games, it&#x27;s all about the experience of interacting with the software - so performance is (hopefully, depending on your team and budget) amazing.<p>That, and... performance tuning is hard work, and I think most people don&#x27;t know much about it. It&#x27;s a fractal rabbit hole. Cache misses, garbage collection, streaming, object pooling, dealing with stale pointers, etc. Even I have a ton to learn, and no matter how much I learn, I probably still will have a lot more to learn. It&#x27;s easier for many teams to hand wave it I guess as long as they aren&#x27;t losing too many customers because of it.</text></item><item><author>klabb3</author><text>Alternative hypothesis: (brace yourselves) people don&#x27;t care enough. Any vendor will prioritize requirements, if performance is not in there, that CPU and memory is going to be used if in any way it helps the developers. Conversely, by looking at a system you can infer its requirements.<p>For commercial airplanes it may be safety first, ticket price second (passenger capacity, fuel efficiency) and speed third. For most software, functionality, signing up for a subscription, platform availability etc are usually prioritized higher than response times and keyboard shortcuts.<p>Game devs worry a lot about latency and frame rates and professional software care a lot about keyboard shortcuts. This proves (anecdotally) that performance isn&#x27;t unacheivable at all, but rather deprioritized. Nobody wants slow apps but it&#x27;s just that developer velocity, metrics, ads etc etc are higher priorities, and that comes with a cpu and memory cost that the vendor doesn&#x27;t care about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>Older readers will remember when you&#x27;d buy a computer magazine printed on paper and at least 80% of it was ads. Which often didn&#x27;t change from month to month.<p>Massive slabs of wood pulp had to be printed and shipped to all to the stores that stocked them, at huge cost, just so you could manhandle one of them home.<p>And the content was mostly physical bloat.<p>That&#x27;s the modern web. Except that you don&#x27;t just get the ads, you get some of the machinery that serves them - at you, specifically, based on your browsing profile, which is used to decide which ads you see.<p>I always refuse all cookies. When I forget to do that for some reason it&#x27;s obvious just how much slower the experience gets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why modern software is slow</title><url>https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2022/09/29/why-modern-software-is-slow-windows-voice-recorder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>I&#x27;m a game developer and game performance is better than ever. 144 Hz monitor? 4k? We got you covered. Even ray tracing and VR is on the way.<p>Most games render frames of a 3D world in less than 17ms, but most websites take 3-7 seconds to load because of all the ads and bloat, and things shift around on you for another 20 seconds after that, so when you go to tap a link you accidentally tap an ad that finally loaded under your finger. If you optimize those websites, they run super fast though, but it&#x27;s quite a pain to do with the dependency bloat in modern tech stacks...<p>(note: games lag as well when you drag in a million dependencies you don&#x27;t need)<p>The thing is, most sites and web apps try to solve a user problem, and if you are the only company in town that solves that problem, then performance barely matters - what matters is solving the problem. The users will put up with some pain because the problem is even more painful.<p>With games, it&#x27;s all about the experience of interacting with the software - so performance is (hopefully, depending on your team and budget) amazing.<p>That, and... performance tuning is hard work, and I think most people don&#x27;t know much about it. It&#x27;s a fractal rabbit hole. Cache misses, garbage collection, streaming, object pooling, dealing with stale pointers, etc. Even I have a ton to learn, and no matter how much I learn, I probably still will have a lot more to learn. It&#x27;s easier for many teams to hand wave it I guess as long as they aren&#x27;t losing too many customers because of it.</text></item><item><author>klabb3</author><text>Alternative hypothesis: (brace yourselves) people don&#x27;t care enough. Any vendor will prioritize requirements, if performance is not in there, that CPU and memory is going to be used if in any way it helps the developers. Conversely, by looking at a system you can infer its requirements.<p>For commercial airplanes it may be safety first, ticket price second (passenger capacity, fuel efficiency) and speed third. For most software, functionality, signing up for a subscription, platform availability etc are usually prioritized higher than response times and keyboard shortcuts.<p>Game devs worry a lot about latency and frame rates and professional software care a lot about keyboard shortcuts. This proves (anecdotally) that performance isn&#x27;t unacheivable at all, but rather deprioritized. Nobody wants slow apps but it&#x27;s just that developer velocity, metrics, ads etc etc are higher priorities, and that comes with a cpu and memory cost that the vendor doesn&#x27;t care about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Test0129</author><text>I wish more game developers optimized for space. I stopped playing video games almost altogether because I&#x27;m not going to download 70 GB every time I want to play something. The size has gotten absurd.</text></comment> |
18,683,771 | 18,682,661 | 1 | 3 | 18,680,617 | train | <story><title>Snowboarding for Geeks</title><url>https://www.xfive.co/blog/snowboarding-ultimate-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bendixso</author><text>Some of the geekiest people I know have become the best skiers&#x2F;snowboarders on the mountain. I know a guy who used to regularly show up to the terrain park and do double frontflips over 60 foot jumps. He&#x27;s got a PHD in physics now.<p>I know another guy who used to compete in big air competitions. Senior iOS developer.<p>My friend Brian does double cork 10s. Medical doctor.<p>This sport is for nerds. If you&#x27;re nerdy, you have an even greater chance of being successful at it because you know how to focus on getting great at something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuB-42</author><text>Senior iOS developer, medical doctor,...<p>The common ground is not just geekiness, it is money. Skiing is expensive, and in order to get good, you need to practice a lot.<p>I am curious to know how nerdy skateboarders are. Skateboarding and snowboarding share some similarities, but the former is much more affordable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snowboarding for Geeks</title><url>https://www.xfive.co/blog/snowboarding-ultimate-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bendixso</author><text>Some of the geekiest people I know have become the best skiers&#x2F;snowboarders on the mountain. I know a guy who used to regularly show up to the terrain park and do double frontflips over 60 foot jumps. He&#x27;s got a PHD in physics now.<p>I know another guy who used to compete in big air competitions. Senior iOS developer.<p>My friend Brian does double cork 10s. Medical doctor.<p>This sport is for nerds. If you&#x27;re nerdy, you have an even greater chance of being successful at it because you know how to focus on getting great at something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulcole</author><text>&gt; This sport is for nerds.<p>Having a lot of disposable income helps, too.<p>Or if you&#x27;re a dirtbag, the ability to live as cheaply as possible so you can spend as much time as possible on the mountain.</text></comment> |
18,541,154 | 18,539,061 | 1 | 2 | 18,536,249 | train | <story><title>Half of lonely people think no one will notice if something bad happens to them</title><url>https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/3439832/half-of-lonely-people-think-no-one-will-notice-if-something-bad-happens-to-them-experts-say/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thinkharder</author><text>I had a good friend who just had open &quot;hang out&quot; time every day after work in his garage. There was a group of about 30 friends who might stop by any time between 5 and 8 PM, have a beer, hang out and BS. Sometimes it was just Paul and 1 or 2 others, sometimes 15 people showed up, sometimes Paul wasn&#x27;t even there, but the garage was always open (if you had the code). I used to go almost every day between work and home, it&#x27;s how i made about half the friends I have now. It was also where weekend plans got made and many a hunting&#x2F;fishing&#x2F;camping trip got planned there.<p>That&#x27;s over now and I really miss it. Buddy had some health problems and ended up with an overwhelming opiate addiction and just stopped hanging out with anyone. Some of the friends still get together for a weekend poker game but it&#x27;s not the same. It was so cool to have a place you could go hang out after work where you knew everyone was fun to be around and they liked having you around. You never know who would be there or what the conversation would be but it was always a good time.<p>I&#x27;ve tried to get the same thing going myself, but have never been successful. I&#x27;m not sure how you get that started. Once it&#x27;s going, it&#x27;s self-sustaining, but you have to reach a critical mass of participants and has to occur really regularly, even daily. I think maybe it takes a very specific kind of person to be the host.<p>Anyway, that&#x27;s what the OP&#x27;s campfire analogy made me think of. I really miss it...</text></item><item><author>waffle_ss</author><text>Could you elaborate more concretely about this campfire model?<p>edit: Asking because I&#x27;m having a hard time visualizing the metaphor applied to reality. Do you find&#x2F;make friends (&quot;campers&quot;?) differently? Would they consider you a friend, or are these relationships more broad with less depth? How does maintaining the fire relate to maintaining friendships? Are you just a support person handing out favors with little expectation of reciprocity? If so does that feel fulfilling compared to deeply investing in a smaller number of people?</text></item><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>Sometimes I feel that it can be a lucrative trap to become invested in a single person, and then accumulate expectations that far outweigh the responsible obligations of any friendship.<p>As I have gotten older, a pattern that is working much better for me is the campfire model - I just try to keep a metaphorical campfire going, for people traveling through this life to stop and warm themselves upon while I tend it. I cannot know which direction people are traveling from, or to, or how long their journey has been or will be. But all people need to warm their calloused hands and feet, and I can keep this fire with a bed of rosy coals.<p>Sometimes someone will stop at my fire and warm themselves without my ever having paid attention, but to them it may have meant all the difference in the world. By keeping this obligation in mind, to simply expect people to need a place to sit a spell, I can at least believe I am helping.<p>The campfire is a nice way for me to remember we&#x27;re all suffering, that not a one of us is unique to loneliness. Because sometimes that person who sits down at your fire is the person you have been waiting for, and only by making a seat for them were you able to ever meet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaidf</author><text>I feel like I have this setup. For the last 3 years, I’ve been going to a cafe in downtown SF. Over the course of this time, I’ve met people who’ve become best friends, roommates, ppl to do side projects with and much more. Friends know if they want to talk to me they can very reliably just walk in and find me there 8&#x2F;10 times.<p>The cool thing about this set up is that you make new friends on a rolling basis which is key because friends you hang with will occasionally move elsewhere or change lifestyles. Over the course of the 3 years, I think the following implicit principles have worked really well:<p>- We have no expectations of finding each other.<p>- We don’t make plans.<p>- On the rare occasion that we make plans, it is very informal. You’re free to flake &#x2F; be late without being nagged or feeling like you’ve someone waiting on you (they aren’t.)<p>- Very concrete plans are reserved for events (sad and happy) like a breakup or career chat — in those cases, I’ll make sure to be there at the time I expect the friend.</text></comment> | <story><title>Half of lonely people think no one will notice if something bad happens to them</title><url>https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/3439832/half-of-lonely-people-think-no-one-will-notice-if-something-bad-happens-to-them-experts-say/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thinkharder</author><text>I had a good friend who just had open &quot;hang out&quot; time every day after work in his garage. There was a group of about 30 friends who might stop by any time between 5 and 8 PM, have a beer, hang out and BS. Sometimes it was just Paul and 1 or 2 others, sometimes 15 people showed up, sometimes Paul wasn&#x27;t even there, but the garage was always open (if you had the code). I used to go almost every day between work and home, it&#x27;s how i made about half the friends I have now. It was also where weekend plans got made and many a hunting&#x2F;fishing&#x2F;camping trip got planned there.<p>That&#x27;s over now and I really miss it. Buddy had some health problems and ended up with an overwhelming opiate addiction and just stopped hanging out with anyone. Some of the friends still get together for a weekend poker game but it&#x27;s not the same. It was so cool to have a place you could go hang out after work where you knew everyone was fun to be around and they liked having you around. You never know who would be there or what the conversation would be but it was always a good time.<p>I&#x27;ve tried to get the same thing going myself, but have never been successful. I&#x27;m not sure how you get that started. Once it&#x27;s going, it&#x27;s self-sustaining, but you have to reach a critical mass of participants and has to occur really regularly, even daily. I think maybe it takes a very specific kind of person to be the host.<p>Anyway, that&#x27;s what the OP&#x27;s campfire analogy made me think of. I really miss it...</text></item><item><author>waffle_ss</author><text>Could you elaborate more concretely about this campfire model?<p>edit: Asking because I&#x27;m having a hard time visualizing the metaphor applied to reality. Do you find&#x2F;make friends (&quot;campers&quot;?) differently? Would they consider you a friend, or are these relationships more broad with less depth? How does maintaining the fire relate to maintaining friendships? Are you just a support person handing out favors with little expectation of reciprocity? If so does that feel fulfilling compared to deeply investing in a smaller number of people?</text></item><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>Sometimes I feel that it can be a lucrative trap to become invested in a single person, and then accumulate expectations that far outweigh the responsible obligations of any friendship.<p>As I have gotten older, a pattern that is working much better for me is the campfire model - I just try to keep a metaphorical campfire going, for people traveling through this life to stop and warm themselves upon while I tend it. I cannot know which direction people are traveling from, or to, or how long their journey has been or will be. But all people need to warm their calloused hands and feet, and I can keep this fire with a bed of rosy coals.<p>Sometimes someone will stop at my fire and warm themselves without my ever having paid attention, but to them it may have meant all the difference in the world. By keeping this obligation in mind, to simply expect people to need a place to sit a spell, I can at least believe I am helping.<p>The campfire is a nice way for me to remember we&#x27;re all suffering, that not a one of us is unique to loneliness. Because sometimes that person who sits down at your fire is the person you have been waiting for, and only by making a seat for them were you able to ever meet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>The happiest guy I know has this exact setup at his place. It’s a group of about 15 people of which at least 5-6 show up daily to have a beer, plays cards, and generally pass the evening hours.<p>Coming from a fast paced corporate world, it’s a uniquely beautiful experience.</text></comment> |
22,609,548 | 22,607,380 | 1 | 2 | 22,606,733 | train | <story><title>Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy</title><url>http://feeds.hbr.org/~r/harvardbusiness/~3/6jA8uy6spIQ/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for-the-economy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>&gt; <i>Taking on debt to finance buybacks, however, is bad management, given that no revenue-generating investments are made that can allow the company to pay off the debt.</i><p>This seems to be the crux of the article, and it appears to be completely unsubstantiated.<p>First of all, this article isn&#x27;t about just stock buybacks -- the argument of the article applies broadly to dividends just as much, save for minor details.<p>The point the article is making is that profits ought to be reinvested rather than paid out. But <i>obviously</i> mature firms often can&#x27;t find ways to reliably re-invest. They don&#x27;t <i>need</i> to grow any further, nor should they. So investors <i>want</i> them not to re-invest, and throw off dividends or buybacks instead. This way <i>investors</i> can fund the next generation of companies.<p>And taking on debt to do it isn&#x27;t inherently irresponsible. In fact, it&#x27;s just a wise financial decision when interest rates are low. New revenue streams aren&#x27;t required to be generated -- it&#x27;s just shifting a subset of future revenue to the present.<p>So I really don&#x27;t get this article at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy</title><url>http://feeds.hbr.org/~r/harvardbusiness/~3/6jA8uy6spIQ/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for-the-economy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>High corporate debt isn&#x27;t caused by buybacks, it&#x27;s caused by low interest rates. Low interest rates <i>cause</i> buybacks because it becomes more attractive to raise capital through borrowing than selling shares.<p>It&#x27;s the same reason both consumer and government debt are also high. But anybody who thinks now is the time for higher interest rates is a bit confused.<p>If anything now is the time to print a bunch of new money to counteract the existing deflationary forces caused by the coronavirus, which in the long term is what allows interest rates to rise, since once the deflationary forces wane the printed money would start to cause inflation which could be counteracted by at that point raising interest rates.</text></comment> |
13,609,992 | 13,610,090 | 1 | 2 | 13,609,541 | train | <story><title>PostgreSQL 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16 and 9.2.20 released</title><url>https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1733/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gsylvie</author><text>I find their branching model interesting (no merges ever!):<p><pre><code> $ git log --graph --oneline --decorate --date-order --all
* 86d911ec0f (HEAD -&gt; master, origin&#x2F;master, origin&#x2F;HEAD) Allow index...
* 7c5d8c16e1 Add explicit ORDER BY to a few tests that exercise hash-...
| * 1888fad440 (origin&#x2F;REL9_4_STABLE) Fix roundoff problems in float8...
| | * 7786b98482 (origin&#x2F;REL9_5_STABLE) Fix roundoff problems in float8...
| | | * 404756fe89 (origin&#x2F;REL9_6_STABLE) Fix roundoff problems in float8...
* | | | 8f93bd8512 Fix roundoff problems in float8_timestamptz() and make...
* | | | a507b86900 Add WAL consistency checking facility.
* | | | 115cb31597 Fix relcache leaks in get_object_address_publication_rel()
* | | | e35bbea7dd doc: Some improvements in CREATE SUBSCRIPTION ref page
* | | | c3c4f6e174 Revise the way the element allocator for a simplehash...
* | | | 242066cc8e Speed up &quot;brin&quot; regression test a little bit.
* | | | ac8eb972f2 Avoid redefining simplehash_allocate&#x2F;simplehash_free.
* | | | 565903af47 Allow the element allocator for a simplehash to be specified.
* | | | 94708c0e8c Fix compiler warning.
* | | | 293e24e507 Cache hash index&#x27;s metapage in rel-&gt;rd_amcache.
| | | | * 903bfef382 (tag: REL9_2_20, origin&#x2F;REL9_2_STABLE) Correct thinko...
| | | | | * 4dd4e3fe10 (origin&#x2F;REL9_3_STABLE) Correct thinko in last-minute...
| * | | | | cd898769cb Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.
| | * | | | 13b30ada99 Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.
| | | * | | ae8a602c32 Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.
* | | | | | 39c3ca5161 Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>PostgreSQL 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16 and 9.2.20 released</title><url>https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1733/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>afarrell</author><text>&gt; Users should plan to apply this update at the next scheduled downtime.<p>Folks who are looking for ways to upgrade PostgreSQL without downtime might want to take a look at this setup using pacemaker: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gocardless&#x2F;our-postgresql-setup" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gocardless&#x2F;our-postgresql-setup</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.interdb.jp&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pgsql&#x2F;pg_pacemaker_01&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.interdb.jp&#x2F;blog&#x2F;pgsql&#x2F;pg_pacemaker_01&#x2F;</a> digs into playing with the vagrant box a tiny bit.<p>EDIT-- ah, found the talk explaining it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SAkNBiZzEX8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SAkNBiZzEX8</a></text></comment> |
36,630,097 | 36,629,897 | 1 | 2 | 36,629,085 | train | <story><title>32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)</title><url>https://projecteink.com/pages/about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>konschubert</author><text>I make a similar product, with a smaller screen and at a lower price point.<p>It’s very cool what you have done, let’s maybe collaborate or join forces?<p>My product is an e-paper calendar:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.invisible-computers.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;invisible-calendar" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.invisible-computers.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;invisible-cale...</a></text></item><item><author>alexandernl</author><text>I&#x27;m a news junkie, and the power and allure of a newspaper&#x27;s front page have always fascinated me. When I stumbled upon an article written by a Google engineer who had built an e ink device with the front page of his favorite daily newspaper prominently displayed on his wall, I was a bit jealous. So, I worked with a e-ink company called Visionect in Slovenia to build a version that comes shipped ready to put on your wall. The screen isn&#x27;t cheap ($2500) because it&#x27;s a huge 32&quot; e-ink display. The beautiful glass screen is connected to wifi and we made it easy to choose your favorite newspaper frontpages to put on display. It&#x27;s a bit like an ever changing artwork.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>garvield</author><text>Hi! This looks like a useful product at a good price point. Are you based in Germany? How come you only ship to Australia, Canada, China, India, UK and USA?<p>Also, you should look through your privacy policy. Its straight up copy&#x2F;pasted from Shopifys template now with all the &quot;ADD CASES THAT APPLY FOR YOUR STORE&quot;, &quot;REMOVE THIS TEXT IF THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO YOUR STORE&quot; text remaining. And apparently you sell your customers information to display targeted ads?</text></comment> | <story><title>32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)</title><url>https://projecteink.com/pages/about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>konschubert</author><text>I make a similar product, with a smaller screen and at a lower price point.<p>It’s very cool what you have done, let’s maybe collaborate or join forces?<p>My product is an e-paper calendar:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.invisible-computers.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;invisible-calendar" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.invisible-computers.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;invisible-cale...</a></text></item><item><author>alexandernl</author><text>I&#x27;m a news junkie, and the power and allure of a newspaper&#x27;s front page have always fascinated me. When I stumbled upon an article written by a Google engineer who had built an e ink device with the front page of his favorite daily newspaper prominently displayed on his wall, I was a bit jealous. So, I worked with a e-ink company called Visionect in Slovenia to build a version that comes shipped ready to put on your wall. The screen isn&#x27;t cheap ($2500) because it&#x27;s a huge 32&quot; e-ink display. The beautiful glass screen is connected to wifi and we made it easy to choose your favorite newspaper frontpages to put on display. It&#x27;s a bit like an ever changing artwork.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JonChesterfield</author><text>Can it display arbitrary stuff? Maybe whatever is streaming over the network?</text></comment> |
9,028,368 | 9,026,617 | 1 | 3 | 9,025,812 | train | <story><title>Reapp – hybrid apps, fast</title><url>http://reapp.io</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nwienert</author><text>Hey hackers, Nate with Reapp here. I&#x27;ll add some technical background. This has been a solo project of mine for the last five months. I actually was relatively green to npm and React in general at the beginning, but I&#x27;ve been working on this full-time since. I think it&#x27;s a great testament to React&#x27;s power and ease of understanding.<p>I spent a large part of the development on the animations. Reapp has a custom animation mixin designed for React that works through props. It&#x27;s really cool and I&#x27;ll be writing a blog post on it this week. It&#x27;s what drives all the animations you see including the fully interactive &quot;swipe view from edge to go back&quot;, as well as modals and popovers. You can see the animations here:<p><a href="https://github.com/reapp/reapp-ui/blob/master/themes/ios/animations.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reapp&#x2F;reapp-ui&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;themes&#x2F;ios&#x2F;ani...</a><p>Another thing I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time on was getting the view animations to match iOS. Notice how the TitleBar text animates, while the icons remain in the same position. This took quite a bit of effort and resulted in several refactors of the animation library.<p>Finally, theming. The theme system is quite robust, though the iOS theme itself needs work. It&#x27;s fully JS-powered CSS, and we use Flexbox for the default theme. It uses two teirs: Constants and Styles. You can override any of our constants or styles to make your own theme, or load an entire new one. I&#x27;ll also be writing about this more because it&#x27;s really a big feature. Here&#x27;s an example of loading a custom theme:<p><a href="https://github.com/reapp/hacker-news-app/blob/master/app/theme/theme.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reapp&#x2F;hacker-news-app&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;app&#x2F;the...</a><p>That folder also contains more interesting usage.<p>Feel free to ask me any questions you all have, I&#x27;m happy to answer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reapp – hybrid apps, fast</title><url>http://reapp.io</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shoq</author><text>At first glance it looks nice. I played around with Ionic Framework and if Reapp is going in a similar direction and gets enough traction I can imagine using it in the future. Let&#x27;s see what React Native brings to the table.</text></comment> |
28,577,728 | 28,576,788 | 1 | 2 | 28,576,090 | train | <story><title>WAGI: WebAssembly Gateway Interface</title><url>https://github.com/deislabs/wagi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinray</author><text>This is awesome to see!<p>I have been working on something like this for a while too. But it uses GraalVM and it&#x27;s &quot;Polyglot&quot; runtime to provide support for JS&#x2F;Ruby&#x2F;Python&#x2F;WASM&#x2F;LLVM languages.<p>It&#x27;s packaged as a single binary using graal-native + Quarkus, or if you don&#x27;t care about that (faster startup time&#x2F;lower memory use&#x2F;no JVM needed) but need maximum performance, you can run it as a regular JVM service as well.<p>It was born out of a need for a polyglot Functions-as-a-Service platform but without the weight of container orchestration -- I needed something I could deploy as a single binary.<p>Essentially OpenFaaS&#x2F;OpenWhisk, minus containers.<p>It doesn&#x27;t use CGI as a request&#x2F;response specification though, it uses Vert.x &quot;RoutingContext&quot; interface which has methods like <i>&quot;.getBodyAsJson()&quot;</i>, <i>&quot;.params(&#x27;something&#x27;)&quot;</i>, <i>&quot;.header(&#x27;foo&#x27;)&quot;</i>, etc.<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vertx.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;apidocs&#x2F;io&#x2F;vertx&#x2F;ext&#x2F;web&#x2F;RoutingContext.html
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An open standard like CGI probably would have been better, but Graal has marshalling facilities for sharing object types between languages, so the most user-friendly&#x2F;ergonomic thing to do was to share the underlying web request object itself across language boundaries, including all the methods you can call on it.<p>---<p>This has given me motivation to finally finish it so I can publish + open-source it!</text></comment> | <story><title>WAGI: WebAssembly Gateway Interface</title><url>https://github.com/deislabs/wagi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>Does WebAssembly even make sense as a standalone runtime, like the JVM? Is &quot;server-side WebAssembly&quot; going to be &quot;a thing&quot;, or is it just a compatibility kludge?<p>And what of all these languages that compile to JS, like Typescript, Reason, Kotlin, et al? Is JS a sound &quot;IR&quot; between the frontend and WebAssembly? Or would it be better to compile things directly to WebAssembly?</text></comment> |
39,186,879 | 39,179,957 | 1 | 2 | 39,178,753 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely</title><text>Hi, HN. We (Adam, Micah and Ben) are excited to show you Dashdive (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dashdive.com&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dashdive.com&#x2F;</a>), which calculates the cloud cost incurred by each user action taken in your product. There’s a demo video at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dashdive.com&#x2F;#video">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dashdive.com&#x2F;#video</a> and an interactive demo here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.dashdive.com">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.dashdive.com</a>.<p>We talked to dozens of software engineers and kept hearing about three problems caused by poor cloud cost observability:<p>(1) <i>Cost anomalies are slow to detect and hard to diagnose.</i> For example, a computer vision company noticed their AWS costs spiking one month. Costs accrued until they identified the culprit: one of their customers had put up a life-size cutout of John Wayne, and they were running non-stop facial recognition on it.<p>(2) <i>No cost accountability in big orgs.</i> For example, a public tech company’s top priority last year was to increase gross margin. But they had no way to identify the highest cost managers&#x2F;products or measure improvement despite tagging efforts.<p>(3) <i>Uncertain and variable per-customer gross margins.</i> For example, a SaaS startup had one customer generating &gt;50% of its revenue. That customer’s usage of certain features had recently 1,000x’ed, and they weren’t sure the contract was still profitable.<p>(If you’ve had an experience like this, we’d love to hear about it in the comments.)<p>We built Dashdive because none of the existing cloud cost dashboard products solves all three of these problems, which often requires <i>sub-resource</i> cost attribution.<p>Existing tools combine AWS, GCP, Datadog, Snowflake, etc. cost data in a single dashboard with additional features like alerting and cost cutting recommendations. This is sufficient in many cases, but it falls short when a company (a) wants per-customer, per-team or per-feature cost visibility and (b) has a multitenant architecture.<p>By contrast, Dashdive uses observability tools to collect granular cloud usage data at the level of individual user actions (e.g. each API call or database transaction). We attribute this activity to the corresponding feature, the responsible customer and team and estimate its cost based on the applicable rate. The result is more detailed cost and usage data than can be obtained with tagging. This information can be used to detect anomalies in real-time and identify costly teams, features and customers. One of our customers is even using Dashdive to charge customers for their cloud usage.<p>We use Kafka to ingest large volumes (&gt;100m&#x2F;day) of product usage events, and our web dashboard supports real-time querying thanks to ClickHouse. This makes it fast and easy to answer questions like: “Over the past 14 days, how much vCPU time did customer X use on Kubernetes cluster A, and how much did that cost me?” You can answer such questions even when the same container or pod is shared by multiple customers, features and&#x2F;or teams.<p>You can test drive the product with example data here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.dashdive.com&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.dashdive.com&#x2F;</a>. Given the high per-customer cost of our infrastructure and the manual steps required for setup on our part, we don’t offer self-serve onboarding or a public “free tier” to monitor your own cloud usage, but this demo gives a basic view of our product.<p>Right now, Dashdive supports S3 and S3-compatible object storage providers. We’re working to add support for other providers and services, particularly compute services (EC2, GCP VMs, ECS, EKS, GKE, etc.).<p>If there’s any service in particular you want to see supported, please tell us in the comments. We’re eager to see your comments, questions, concerns, etc.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danpalmer</author><text>How do you aim to attribute cost for multi-tenant services like databases?<p>For example, if I have a database costing $100&#x2F;m, and 4 equal sized customers (by data volume, compute, requests), you could say that each is costing $25&#x2F;m. However if I&#x27;m over provisioned by 50%, then an incremental user is only actually $12.50. To understand this difference requires understanding resource utilisation, which particularly for compute can be really hard. There&#x27;s also a difference between desired headroom (for redundancy) and undesired headroom (due to inefficiencies), and these will be nuanced per company or service deployment.<p>This could also be taken in reverse – rather than the cost for an incremental user, the savings from removing a user. Given 2x $100&#x2F;m databases with 2 customers, one accounting for 60% and one for 40%, losing the larger one would allow a 50% reduction on cost, but losing the smaller one would not.<p>What&#x27;s your thinking here? Are you trying to communicate the incremental cost of a user? Are you trying to communicate the cost of a user against the current infrastructure, whatever that infrastructure might be?</text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely</title><text>Hi, HN. We (Adam, Micah and Ben) are excited to show you Dashdive (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dashdive.com&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dashdive.com&#x2F;</a>), which calculates the cloud cost incurred by each user action taken in your product. There’s a demo video at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dashdive.com&#x2F;#video">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dashdive.com&#x2F;#video</a> and an interactive demo here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.dashdive.com">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.dashdive.com</a>.<p>We talked to dozens of software engineers and kept hearing about three problems caused by poor cloud cost observability:<p>(1) <i>Cost anomalies are slow to detect and hard to diagnose.</i> For example, a computer vision company noticed their AWS costs spiking one month. Costs accrued until they identified the culprit: one of their customers had put up a life-size cutout of John Wayne, and they were running non-stop facial recognition on it.<p>(2) <i>No cost accountability in big orgs.</i> For example, a public tech company’s top priority last year was to increase gross margin. But they had no way to identify the highest cost managers&#x2F;products or measure improvement despite tagging efforts.<p>(3) <i>Uncertain and variable per-customer gross margins.</i> For example, a SaaS startup had one customer generating &gt;50% of its revenue. That customer’s usage of certain features had recently 1,000x’ed, and they weren’t sure the contract was still profitable.<p>(If you’ve had an experience like this, we’d love to hear about it in the comments.)<p>We built Dashdive because none of the existing cloud cost dashboard products solves all three of these problems, which often requires <i>sub-resource</i> cost attribution.<p>Existing tools combine AWS, GCP, Datadog, Snowflake, etc. cost data in a single dashboard with additional features like alerting and cost cutting recommendations. This is sufficient in many cases, but it falls short when a company (a) wants per-customer, per-team or per-feature cost visibility and (b) has a multitenant architecture.<p>By contrast, Dashdive uses observability tools to collect granular cloud usage data at the level of individual user actions (e.g. each API call or database transaction). We attribute this activity to the corresponding feature, the responsible customer and team and estimate its cost based on the applicable rate. The result is more detailed cost and usage data than can be obtained with tagging. This information can be used to detect anomalies in real-time and identify costly teams, features and customers. One of our customers is even using Dashdive to charge customers for their cloud usage.<p>We use Kafka to ingest large volumes (&gt;100m&#x2F;day) of product usage events, and our web dashboard supports real-time querying thanks to ClickHouse. This makes it fast and easy to answer questions like: “Over the past 14 days, how much vCPU time did customer X use on Kubernetes cluster A, and how much did that cost me?” You can answer such questions even when the same container or pod is shared by multiple customers, features and&#x2F;or teams.<p>You can test drive the product with example data here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.dashdive.com&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.dashdive.com&#x2F;</a>. Given the high per-customer cost of our infrastructure and the manual steps required for setup on our part, we don’t offer self-serve onboarding or a public “free tier” to monitor your own cloud usage, but this demo gives a basic view of our product.<p>Right now, Dashdive supports S3 and S3-compatible object storage providers. We’re working to add support for other providers and services, particularly compute services (EC2, GCP VMs, ECS, EKS, GKE, etc.).<p>If there’s any service in particular you want to see supported, please tell us in the comments. We’re eager to see your comments, questions, concerns, etc.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ericb</author><text>Very cool!<p>Feature request: I have really struggled with turning the thing costing me money <i>off</i> in AWS.<p>If, with the right master credentials, I could consistently and easily do that somehow, that&#x27;d be a 10x feature. If you made that use-case free, you&#x27;d get tons of installations from people who desperately need this in the top of your sales funnel.<p>edit: This used to say &quot;in your app&quot; and that wasn&#x27;t quite what I want, so I changed that language, but jedberg&#x27;s objections in the comments below were, and are, valid concerns with what I was stating and any implementation.</text></comment> |
20,567,419 | 20,567,418 | 1 | 2 | 20,564,382 | train | <story><title>Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49165946</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>It seems like peoples hatred for Google is leaking over to how they think vulnerability disclosures should happen.<p>Reading through the comments is disorientating - people are angry that researchers are.. <i>gasp</i>... researching vulnerabilities. It&#x27;s not some faceless Google Incarnate monstrosity, they are paid researchers (humans, too!). If it was Cure53 that did this, for free, and made the exact same announcement no one would bat an eye.<p>Good on <i>whatever</i> company does vulnerability research, follows established protocols in disclosure, and makes the world a safer place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>When I read these comments I also feel like people must believe P0 is some kind of new thing that Google came up with. In fact, vulnerability research labs have been A Thing in the security field since the mid-1990s (I worked at what I believe to be the first commercial vulnerability lab, at Secure Networks, from &#x27;96-&#x27;98, along with much smarter people like Tim Newsham and Ivan Arce). And they&#x27;ve always been taking this kind of (dumb) flak regardless of which company they&#x27;re attached to.<p>If companies like Apple or Microsoft are alarmed by the optics of Project Zero, they are free to stand up their own vulnerability research labs; they have the resources and they would immediately find takers in the research community.<p>End-users, meanwhile, should have nothing but gratitude for P0, since that project essentially represents Google donating fairly expensive and scarce specialized resources to public interest work. Vulnerabilities that P0 finds are vulnerabilities that aren&#x27;t being sold through brokers to the global intelligence community. Message board talk about the &quot;black market&quot; alternative to bug bounties is almost always overblown, but P0 traffics in <i>exactly</i> the small subset of vulnerabilities that do have substantial, liquid markets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49165946</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>It seems like peoples hatred for Google is leaking over to how they think vulnerability disclosures should happen.<p>Reading through the comments is disorientating - people are angry that researchers are.. <i>gasp</i>... researching vulnerabilities. It&#x27;s not some faceless Google Incarnate monstrosity, they are paid researchers (humans, too!). If it was Cure53 that did this, for free, and made the exact same announcement no one would bat an eye.<p>Good on <i>whatever</i> company does vulnerability research, follows established protocols in disclosure, and makes the world a safer place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nova22033</author><text>People are complaining about quality security research...on hacker news!!</text></comment> |
29,695,217 | 29,695,295 | 1 | 2 | 29,692,848 | train | <story><title>Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/25-anti-mimetic-tactics-for-living-a-counter-cultural-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>&quot;To learn more about [anti-memetic counter-culture] my website and be notified when we release new content sign up here.&quot;<p>OK.<p>I&#x27;m going with Mark Fisher on this one. This is absolutely generic and unoriginal cut-and-paste Californian lifestyle advice trying to package itself as something deeper - which is something generic and unoriginal Californian lifestyle advice <i>always</i> does, as part of its own branding™.<p>But it does raise the question: what would a genuine online counter-culture look like?<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure going to museums and restaurants and playing golf at off-peak times wouldn&#x27;t be part of it.<p>But what would?</text></item><item><author>eat_veggies</author><text>It&#x27;s hilarious that this is standard self-help advice designed to make you a better worker, packaged up as something subversive or &quot;anti-mimetic.&quot; I am reminded of Mark Fisher:<p>&quot;Witness, for instance, the establishment of settled &#x27;alternative&#x27; or &#x27;independent&#x27; cultural zones, which endlessly repeat older gestures of rebellion and contestation as if for the first time. &#x27;Alternative&#x27; and &#x27;independent&#x27; don&#x27;t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact <i>the</i> dominant styles, within the mainstream.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liaukovv</author><text>Something like 4chan in the past</text></comment> | <story><title>Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life</title><url>https://www.epsilontheory.com/25-anti-mimetic-tactics-for-living-a-counter-cultural-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>&quot;To learn more about [anti-memetic counter-culture] my website and be notified when we release new content sign up here.&quot;<p>OK.<p>I&#x27;m going with Mark Fisher on this one. This is absolutely generic and unoriginal cut-and-paste Californian lifestyle advice trying to package itself as something deeper - which is something generic and unoriginal Californian lifestyle advice <i>always</i> does, as part of its own branding™.<p>But it does raise the question: what would a genuine online counter-culture look like?<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure going to museums and restaurants and playing golf at off-peak times wouldn&#x27;t be part of it.<p>But what would?</text></item><item><author>eat_veggies</author><text>It&#x27;s hilarious that this is standard self-help advice designed to make you a better worker, packaged up as something subversive or &quot;anti-mimetic.&quot; I am reminded of Mark Fisher:<p>&quot;Witness, for instance, the establishment of settled &#x27;alternative&#x27; or &#x27;independent&#x27; cultural zones, which endlessly repeat older gestures of rebellion and contestation as if for the first time. &#x27;Alternative&#x27; and &#x27;independent&#x27; don&#x27;t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact <i>the</i> dominant styles, within the mainstream.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>turminal</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m pretty sure going to museums and restaurants and playing golf at off-peak times wouldn&#x27;t be part of it.<p>Why not?</text></comment> |
24,108,926 | 24,108,119 | 1 | 3 | 24,107,497 | train | <story><title>CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/opinion/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-gig-workers-deserve-better.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>undecisive</author><text>Most people are looking at this cynically, and I agree that it&#x27;s a stall for time, he&#x27;s trying to justify paying people the minimum because otherwise all the other greedy pigs would undercut him, etc etc.<p>However, my cynicism goes a level deeper. It is in Uber&#x27;s best interests for laws to change and make the scene more complicated, so that all operators in this space - including Uber - have to pay more to their workers and have more encumbrances.<p>Why? Well, Uber is an established operator. They have made their bucketloads of money off the back of underpaying their workers, got themselves out of startup status in a way that - if they play their cards right - no other gig operator will be able to replicate. Less competition, less disruption.<p>I think there is an argument that says that &quot;gig economy&quot; should be enveloped in laws that protect the gig worker rights and ensure fair pay and a safety net, without introducing laws that enforce restrictions on the workers. Governments should work to simplify the burdens on individuals, without creating new loopholes for the wealthy. &quot;It&#x27;s hard&quot; is a valid statement, but not a reason to reject the concept.<p>But I would continue to be fully cynical of any solution that has the top gig economy CEO&#x27;s seal of approval.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asn0</author><text>Didn&#x27;t Uber disrupt an industry that was already very well protected by government regulation, and seems much more exploitative?<p>It costs around $100,000[1] to be allowed (by the city) to drive a taxi in New York ($1.3MM in 2014), for a job that pays on average $43,000[2] per year - which involves driving an average of 70,000 miles per year - which at an average speed of 4.7mph[3] works out to $3&#x2F;hr (not counting waiting time).<p>It&#x27;s still not a living wage, but making $9&#x2F;hr[4] just by owning a decent car seems like progress.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citylimits.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;need-to-know-taxi-medallions-in-new-york&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;citylimits.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;need-to-know-taxi-medallio...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salary.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;salary&#x2F;benchmark&#x2F;taxi-driver-salary&#x2F;new-york-ny" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.salary.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;salary&#x2F;benchmark&#x2F;taxi-driver...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;nation&#x2F;la-na-new-york-traffic-manhattan-20180124-story.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;nation&#x2F;la-na-new-york-traffic-manhat...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestreet.com&#x2F;personal-finance&#x2F;education&#x2F;how-much-do-uber-lyft-drivers-make-14804869" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thestreet.com&#x2F;personal-finance&#x2F;education&#x2F;how-muc...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/opinion/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-gig-workers-deserve-better.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>undecisive</author><text>Most people are looking at this cynically, and I agree that it&#x27;s a stall for time, he&#x27;s trying to justify paying people the minimum because otherwise all the other greedy pigs would undercut him, etc etc.<p>However, my cynicism goes a level deeper. It is in Uber&#x27;s best interests for laws to change and make the scene more complicated, so that all operators in this space - including Uber - have to pay more to their workers and have more encumbrances.<p>Why? Well, Uber is an established operator. They have made their bucketloads of money off the back of underpaying their workers, got themselves out of startup status in a way that - if they play their cards right - no other gig operator will be able to replicate. Less competition, less disruption.<p>I think there is an argument that says that &quot;gig economy&quot; should be enveloped in laws that protect the gig worker rights and ensure fair pay and a safety net, without introducing laws that enforce restrictions on the workers. Governments should work to simplify the burdens on individuals, without creating new loopholes for the wealthy. &quot;It&#x27;s hard&quot; is a valid statement, but not a reason to reject the concept.<p>But I would continue to be fully cynical of any solution that has the top gig economy CEO&#x27;s seal of approval.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>That&#x27;s usually referred to as &quot;building a regulatory moat&quot;.</text></comment> |
35,750,287 | 35,749,556 | 1 | 2 | 35,745,293 | train | <story><title>Startup Playbook</title><url>https://playbook.samaltman.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monero-xmr</author><text>Safest way to start an enterprise SaaS startup is to have a buyer lined up before it’s founded.<p>The way to have a buyer before founding is to have worked at an established, profitable firm that has that exact problem, cannot build a solution themselves, and get a signed agreement from them to buy your future product. If you leave that firm and have that document, you can raise money, then use that money to hire a team, then build the product and fulfill the contract.<p>Getting into such a position requires an established career. Therefore safe, reliable entrepreneurs cannot possibly be college drop outs - they need to be established careerists with good connections who have entrepreneurial ambitions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Startup Playbook</title><url>https://playbook.samaltman.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alberth</author><text>Some unsolicited advice …<p>You can succeed in achieving everything in that playbook, and still fail.<p>Life can be brutal.<p>Appreciate the importance of timing &amp; luck.<p>Stars need to align &amp; lots of things are out of your control. Like an unexpected global pandemic, a persons health turning bad, or simply a key customer not paying timely - are all things that can tank your perfect business and more.</text></comment> |
24,921,021 | 24,920,417 | 1 | 2 | 24,919,569 | train | <story><title>Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab</title><url>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation#Outcome</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zzzeek</author><text>I think I have some relevant experience here.<p>We host all of our projects on github:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sqlalchemy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sqlalchemy&#x2F;</a><p>yet we also use gerrit!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gerrit.sqlalchemy.org&#x2F;</a><p>users send us pull requests, and they never have to deal with Gerrit ever. We use a custom integration, the source code to which is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sqlalchemyorg&#x2F;publishthing&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;publishthing&#x2F;apps&#x2F;prtogerrit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sqlalchemyorg&#x2F;publishthing&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;pu...</a> and then we mostly bidirectional synchronization between Gerrit and Github pull requests (code changes can move freely from Github PR -&gt; gerrit, comments and code review comments are posted bidirectionally, Gerrit status changes are synchronized into the PR - example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sqlalchemy&#x2F;sqlalchemy&#x2F;pull&#x2F;5662" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sqlalchemy&#x2F;sqlalchemy&#x2F;pull&#x2F;5662</a><p>I continue to find Gerrit&#x27;s code review to be vastly better than Githubs. Gitlab would take tremendous server resources to run internally and I like Github much better for the front-facing experience.<p>I wrote about an earlier form of our integration here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techspot.zzzeek.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;gerrit-is-awesome&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techspot.zzzeek.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;04&#x2F;21&#x2F;gerrit-is-awesome&#x2F;</a><p>to sum up:<p>1. your project benefits massively by being on Github<p>2. Gerrit is awesome (for me)<p>3. gitlab is not very appealing to me UX-wise and self-hosting wise<p>4. you can still use pull requests from outside users and use gerrit for code reviews.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab</title><url>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation#Outcome</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jancsika</author><text>Anyone thinking of moving to their own Gitlab instance with Gitlab CE-- either stay on Github or prepare to waste your time dealing with user spam bots that pollute your site&#x27;s search results.<p>In other words-- if you want the common use case for a FOSS project:<p>1. publicly viewable main repository with publicly viewable issue tracker<p>2. requirement to log in to view all snippets, user profiles, perhaps even other repos as enforced by administrator settings (otherwise SEO bots will leverage these features to eat your search results)<p>3. anyone with an email can sign up to post issues to the main repo&#x27;s issue tracker<p>There is no combination of settings in Gitlab CE to achieve this. Any sane approach has to leave out step #2. That means that your Gitlab instance gets hammered with user spam from bots which then get indexed in Google search results for your site.<p>Worse, Gitlab has no tools to make it easy to remove the user spam (and obviously no tools to prevent it from happening).<p>Just run a public-facing Gitlab CE instance for a few days. Search for one of the spam snippets you collect, and you&#x27;ll find results for all the FOSS projects out there running their own Gitlab instances.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen any solutions offered by Gitlab for this, nor frankly any interest in the myriad bug reports about them addressing this at all.<p>Edit: typo</text></comment> |
36,443,447 | 36,442,834 | 1 | 3 | 36,442,209 | train | <story><title>UW CSE 391 – System and Software Tools</title><url>https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse391/23sp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>b215826</author><text>The first video lecture [1] is titled &quot;Introduction to Linux&quot;, yet, ironically, the instructor conducts the entire lecture using macOS. I guess the main purpose of this course is to teach uninitiated kids a thing or two about the *nix CLI, but for some reason the instructor has decided to call it the &quot;Linux CLI&quot;. He also teaches some terrible shell scripting practices [2] such as parsing the output of ls [3] and not quoting variables.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hTHAe-m56Vw">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=hTHAe-m56Vw</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rOxJW7PtA5s&amp;t=169s">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rOxJW7PtA5s&amp;t=169s</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mywiki.wooledge.org&#x2F;ParsingLs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mywiki.wooledge.org&#x2F;ParsingLs</a></text></comment> | <story><title>UW CSE 391 – System and Software Tools</title><url>https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse391/23sp/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xyx0826</author><text>Quite surprised to see UW materials on HN. I took the non-major equivalent of this course; it was an introduction to C, Bash, Linux, and assembly. It was quite helpful back then, although the web helped me expand on what I know as with most computer science topics.<p>I wish I could’ve taken the major version but, alas, I wasn’t offered a spot in UW’s CSE program despite all my passion and effort. I will refrain from turning this comment into a lament of the university’s capacity constrained major system.</text></comment> |
29,801,375 | 29,800,982 | 1 | 3 | 29,798,712 | train | <story><title>The UX on this small child is terrible</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>&gt;who is asking for these features??<p>The project managers have had a look at some of the competing products, and felt that matching features would be more competitive vs fixing existing bugs.</text></comment> | <story><title>The UX on this small child is terrible</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpursley</author><text>Can somebody explain the &quot;won&#x27;t eat vegetables&quot; thing? The only place I&#x27;ve heard about this being in issue is in America.</text></comment> |
24,905,675 | 24,905,640 | 1 | 2 | 24,904,676 | train | <story><title>A Youtube video downloader written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/kkdai/youtube</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oefrha</author><text>As others have pointed out, this is very misleadingly editorialized due to ytdl’s vastly expanded scope. The submission title should be changed to the actual title, “Download Youtube Video in Golang”. (Edit: the title was something like &quot;youtube-dl in golang, actively maintained&quot; when the comment was posted.)<p>Btw, I should point out there&#x27;s no shortage of web video downloader projects that support YouTube as well as different, often reduced (compared to ytdl) collections of sites, with different focuses and ergonomics. For instance, two projects I&#x27;ve used&#x2F;contributed to, both active, YouTube-supporting, and with a focus on Chinese sites:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soimort&#x2F;you-get" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soimort&#x2F;you-get</a> (Python, 8 years old, 35.8k stars)<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;iawia002&#x2F;annie" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;iawia002&#x2F;annie</a> (Golang, 2-3 years old, 12.7k stars)<p>(Not trying to diminish the project posted; what I&#x27;m saying is you can find quite a few actively maintained projects with reduced scope if you look around.)</text></comment> | <story><title>A Youtube video downloader written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/kkdai/youtube</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akerro</author><text>youtube-dl supports like 600+ websites, not just youtube</text></comment> |
6,735,939 | 6,734,220 | 1 | 2 | 6,733,773 | train | <story><title>We just open sourced Flanker, our Python email address and Mime parsing library</title><url>http://blog.mailgun.com/post/we-just-open-sourced-flanker-our-python-email-address-and-mime-parsing-library/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Erwin</author><text>Note that MIME is also used for multipart uploads. I&#x27;m currently still using the builtin-parser.<p>Looking at a 100mb multipart upload I can see that email module takes 3.7s and allocates 265 extra MB to parse it, while flanker.mime takes 0.22s and allocates 0.2mb extra memory.</text></comment> | <story><title>We just open sourced Flanker, our Python email address and Mime parsing library</title><url>http://blog.mailgun.com/post/we-just-open-sourced-flanker-our-python-email-address-and-mime-parsing-library/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grinich</author><text>I&#x27;m working on a new email platform,[1] and we&#x27;ve been testing Flanker quite a bit. It&#x27;s awesome!<p>Dealing with MIME has always been an issue in Python, and the last move was Zed Shaw&#x27;s Lamson project a few years ago. The native email.parser module is crazy slow once you start doing heavy processing.<p>Flanker&#x27;s addresslib also is a no-brainer to use. These are the sorts of things which should be bundled with the Python email module.<p>Thanks for open sourcing them!<p>--<p>[1] This isn&#x27;t announced yet, and will deserve a much longer post. You can sign-up for news here: <a href="https://www.inboxapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inboxapp.com</a>.</text></comment> |
30,772,504 | 30,772,501 | 1 | 2 | 30,770,206 | train | <story><title>Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times</title><url>https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TameAntelope</author><text>I don&#x27;t think we should lose sight of just how batshit insane the NYT editorial was.<p>We can continue to talk about Cancel Culture, but the opening assertion of the editorial was that we have a right to, &quot;...speak [our] minds and voice [our] opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned.&quot; That&#x27;s gobsmackingly wrong.<p>It&#x27;s the kind of sentence that, to me at least, grinds my mental gears to a halt. I just... I have a very hard time thinking generously about the author of that sentence.<p>I&#x27;m glad people like Ken exist, to put into words something more coherent than what I&#x27;d ever be able to create.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The comments on this thread seem to be quite wildly missing White&#x27;s point. Many of the arguments taking place here seem premised on the idea that Ken White has attempted to solve, once and for all, the &quot;cancel culture&quot; problem --- or somehow write a dispositive argument that &quot;cancel culture&quot; isn&#x27;t real.<p>He&#x27;s not doing any of these things. He&#x27;s responding to a specific NYT staff editorial.<p>White agrees with many of you that disproportionate responses to speech happen, are harmful, and are occurring regularly. He cites several instances, from both sides of the American political spectrum. You don&#x27;t have to come up with an elaborate argument about how White is wrong about how harmful &quot;cancel culture&quot; is; White almost certainly agrees with you (at least in a general sense; maybe not in your particulars).<p>His point is that you have to discuss something more particular than &quot;the right to speak your mind without fear of shame or shunning&quot;. You&#x27;ve never had that right. You can&#x27;t have it. To be free of shame or shunning is to be free of other people&#x27;s speech. If you&#x27;re saying something provocative, you are almost certainly responding in a sense to something someone else said; if you think you have the right to speak without shame or shunning, so does the person you&#x27;re effectively responding to. At best, you&#x27;re arguing for what White has in the past mockingly referred to as a &quot;replevin of feels&quot;; at worst, what you&#x27;re asking for is totally incoherent.<p>This Substack post would be bigger news if Ken White had, Solomonically, worked out the whole problem of disproportionate responses to speech. He has not, and I think he&#x27;s probably much too smart to try. He&#x27;s just critiquing someone else&#x27;s bad argument. That&#x27;s all you really have to engage with here; you don&#x27;t have to let cortisol trick you into believing this is an amassing of the forces of &quot;cancel culture isn&#x27;t real&quot; that you must mobilize against.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeemug</author><text>From TFA:<p>&gt; Americans don’t have, and have never had, any right to be free of shaming or shunning. The First Amendment protects our right to speak free of government interference. It does not protect us from other people saying mean things in response to our speech.<p>First, the term &quot;free speech&quot; is overloaded-- it means a legal right to speak free of government interference, and it also means a cultural environment of pluralism where opposing views are welcomed and debate is encouraged. Here Ken conflates the two meanings.<p>Second, unlike legal norms, cultural norms are continuous rather than discrete. There are maybe 3-5 definitions of murder (premeditated, involuntary, etc.), but saying mean things is a continuum. You can live in a society like Soviet Union c 1930 where your coworker who wants your position calls for &quot;the people&#x27;s court&quot; because of a joke you made-- a completely informal struggle session that doesn&#x27;t involve the government. Or you can live in a society where you can express anything whatsoever and not get fired. Or at a million points in between.<p>Third, legal norms follow cultural norms. See gay marriage.<p>When people talk about cancel culture they talk about cultural norms shifting toward struggle sessions (the word &quot;culture&quot; is in the term!), and concerns that some day legal norms may follow this cultural shift. In this context the word &quot;right&quot; is used colloquially. Obviously nobody has a legal right to speak without fear of shaming.<p>We want to live in a culture where a joke on the internet doesn&#x27;t lead to a struggle session at work. It isn&#x27;t batshit insane, it isn&#x27;t gobsmackingly wrong, and it isn&#x27;t that difficult to understand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times</title><url>https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-shame-and</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TameAntelope</author><text>I don&#x27;t think we should lose sight of just how batshit insane the NYT editorial was.<p>We can continue to talk about Cancel Culture, but the opening assertion of the editorial was that we have a right to, &quot;...speak [our] minds and voice [our] opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned.&quot; That&#x27;s gobsmackingly wrong.<p>It&#x27;s the kind of sentence that, to me at least, grinds my mental gears to a halt. I just... I have a very hard time thinking generously about the author of that sentence.<p>I&#x27;m glad people like Ken exist, to put into words something more coherent than what I&#x27;d ever be able to create.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The comments on this thread seem to be quite wildly missing White&#x27;s point. Many of the arguments taking place here seem premised on the idea that Ken White has attempted to solve, once and for all, the &quot;cancel culture&quot; problem --- or somehow write a dispositive argument that &quot;cancel culture&quot; isn&#x27;t real.<p>He&#x27;s not doing any of these things. He&#x27;s responding to a specific NYT staff editorial.<p>White agrees with many of you that disproportionate responses to speech happen, are harmful, and are occurring regularly. He cites several instances, from both sides of the American political spectrum. You don&#x27;t have to come up with an elaborate argument about how White is wrong about how harmful &quot;cancel culture&quot; is; White almost certainly agrees with you (at least in a general sense; maybe not in your particulars).<p>His point is that you have to discuss something more particular than &quot;the right to speak your mind without fear of shame or shunning&quot;. You&#x27;ve never had that right. You can&#x27;t have it. To be free of shame or shunning is to be free of other people&#x27;s speech. If you&#x27;re saying something provocative, you are almost certainly responding in a sense to something someone else said; if you think you have the right to speak without shame or shunning, so does the person you&#x27;re effectively responding to. At best, you&#x27;re arguing for what White has in the past mockingly referred to as a &quot;replevin of feels&quot;; at worst, what you&#x27;re asking for is totally incoherent.<p>This Substack post would be bigger news if Ken White had, Solomonically, worked out the whole problem of disproportionate responses to speech. He has not, and I think he&#x27;s probably much too smart to try. He&#x27;s just critiquing someone else&#x27;s bad argument. That&#x27;s all you really have to engage with here; you don&#x27;t have to let cortisol trick you into believing this is an amassing of the forces of &quot;cancel culture isn&#x27;t real&quot; that you must mobilize against.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akhmatova</author><text><i>It&#x27;s the kind of sentence that, to me at least, grinds my mental gears to a halt.</i><p>This is the cortisone rush that tptacek was referring to. You need to let it go through you (or past you) until you feel your mental gears loosen up again. Then step back and look at the bigger picture.<p>What the editorial author meant was not some kind of <i>absolute</i> freedom from the threat of being shamed or shunned. But that, once upon a time, and it wasn&#x27;t too long ago, there was a thing known as &quot;civil discourse&quot; in this country. In which (and granted the boundaries are fuzzy hear) -- in itself the mere fact of having an unpopular (or difficult) opinion on the state of the world ... did not run such an alarmingly and dysfunctional risk of getting you shut down in form or another as it does today.<p>Note that this don&#x27;t mean &quot;unpopular or difficult&quot; in the anything-goes sense. Spouting sheer idiocy can (and should) get you shunned and shamed, along with threats of implications of violence, and a whole lot of other things I don&#x27;t need to mention.<p>But taking unpopular &#x2F; difficult (or even simply naïve) stances within the boundaries of plausibility and reason, by themselves, should not merit such a reaction. And yet increasingly they do. That is what is meant by a breakdown in the standards of civil discourse. And it this breakdown of standards -- and the creeping climate of &quot;better hold your tongue&quot; that has taken over this country -- that is the main concern of the editorial piece. Not absolutist notions of freedom or freedom-from.<p>Nuance. That&#x27;s the key takeaway here.</text></comment> |
26,247,284 | 26,247,359 | 1 | 2 | 26,246,435 | train | <story><title>Fry's Electronics is closing all stores</title><url>https://twitter.com/bill0004/status/1364407906192424964</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>I graduated college in 1985 and moved cross country to Sunnyvale for work. Fry&#x27;s was a supermarket chain, and at the time there was one and only one location that was trying out carrying computer stuff, on the east side of Lawrence Ave I think, before they moved to the west side of Lawrence.<p>They weren&#x27;t yet fully committed to it. Half the store was produce and such -- milk, eggs, lettuce, etc, and the other half was rows of TTL parts, memory chips, diodes, capacitors, and resistors. It blew my mind. I bought a 68000 CPU, 128KB of DRAM chips (64Kx1 density back then), a perf board, wirewrap wire and a wrapping tool, EPROMs, sockets, and built my first computer all from parts I bought at that Fry&#x27;s.<p>About 60 seconds away from Fry&#x27;s was Computer Literacy -- a really great bookstore that, as the name implies, had nothing but computer related books. It wasn&#x27;t 20 copies of &quot;Computers for Dummies&quot; books. The vast majority of inventory were single copies of the most arcane stuff -- all sorts of college level CS textbooks, and you could ask the desk to order just about anything if you knew the title of it.<p>I sent a lot of money and time in both locations. Silicon Valley felt like a magical place back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snapetom</author><text>I lived near the Palo Alto Fry&#x27;s around the same time when I was a kid, and I always remembered it as a supermarket with some electronics. It wasn&#x27;t until college that I got interested in computers and electronics and started to go back to Fry&#x27;s again. I was always sort of puzzled - did I remember the supermarket correctly? Was it a Fry&#x27;s? Whenever I said to people, &quot;Fry&#x27;s was a supermarket,&quot; they looked at me like I was indeed crazy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fry's Electronics is closing all stores</title><url>https://twitter.com/bill0004/status/1364407906192424964</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>I graduated college in 1985 and moved cross country to Sunnyvale for work. Fry&#x27;s was a supermarket chain, and at the time there was one and only one location that was trying out carrying computer stuff, on the east side of Lawrence Ave I think, before they moved to the west side of Lawrence.<p>They weren&#x27;t yet fully committed to it. Half the store was produce and such -- milk, eggs, lettuce, etc, and the other half was rows of TTL parts, memory chips, diodes, capacitors, and resistors. It blew my mind. I bought a 68000 CPU, 128KB of DRAM chips (64Kx1 density back then), a perf board, wirewrap wire and a wrapping tool, EPROMs, sockets, and built my first computer all from parts I bought at that Fry&#x27;s.<p>About 60 seconds away from Fry&#x27;s was Computer Literacy -- a really great bookstore that, as the name implies, had nothing but computer related books. It wasn&#x27;t 20 copies of &quot;Computers for Dummies&quot; books. The vast majority of inventory were single copies of the most arcane stuff -- all sorts of college level CS textbooks, and you could ask the desk to order just about anything if you knew the title of it.<p>I sent a lot of money and time in both locations. Silicon Valley felt like a magical place back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtviewdave</author><text>&gt; on the east side of Lawrence Ave I think, before they moved to the west side of Lawrence.<p>541 Lakeside Drive, Sunnyvale, to be exact. That was the original location of the original Fry&#x27;s. That location moved across Lawrence Expy. sometime in the fall of 1990.</text></comment> |
21,418,776 | 21,417,450 | 1 | 3 | 21,416,790 | train | <story><title>Surviving Software Dependencies</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3344149</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wwarner</author><text>Good read, I like that he expanded on the assumptions we make when we include a dependency. However, I think his treatment of dependency upgrades is a bit confused. Of course Equifax should have upgraded their struts dependency, but that is not the result of relying on software reuse, as security vulnerabilities are found in all code. If they had built their own framework, the team that produced it could just as easily published a security patch that was ignored.
So to me the point is that important upgrades, whether proprietary or FOSS, should be made as backwardly compatible as possible. Fortunately, they usually are.<p>A related issue that wasn&#x27;t mentioned in the article is the problem of forced upgrades. Dependencies can arbitrarily introduce incompatibilities that don&#x27;t align with your own priorities, so that you end up spending a lot of time keeping current with package releases that your users really don&#x27;t care about. Publicly facing services with a broad attack surface should choose their dependencies carefully, as they&#x27;ll be forced to upgrade often. Services behind a secure firewall are less urgent.</text></comment> | <story><title>Surviving Software Dependencies</title><url>https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3344149</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>I just spent two weeks trying to figure out code at work that required 8 dev dependencies from npm locked down to certain version numbers not specified in the package.json.<p>That ends up being hundreds of total dependencies to run two build steps and 1 http service. What a waste of time and code.<p>How did we get so drug addicted to shitty outside code? Had I not been completely new to the team I could written a better solution in about an hour directly with Node.</text></comment> |
15,889,669 | 15,889,235 | 1 | 2 | 15,888,827 | train | <story><title>Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>njarboe</author><text>Modern dumps can be very environmentally friendly. The bottom can be clay sealed with leak monitoring to protect the ground water. With a little extra effort they can designed for methane capture to prevent problematic off gassing. Maybe aluminum and other purish metal scrap gets taken out of the waste stream and the rest goes back to the Earth. Some carbon capture happens and the site can be mined in the future if it seems worthwhile. Add video monitoring of what goes in for future prospectors to evaluate the ore body and call it a day.<p>Recycling does not make much environmental sense and considering it is sort of like a little ritual that washes away your consumption sins, maybe a net negative on getting people to consume less. Even mass compost is a problem, potentially spreading plant diseases and, in the Bay Area, getting poison oak in your mulch is a real downside. Oakland is now charging more for compost disposal than for garbage, so some kind of problem is going on with it. Plus one one truck zooming around waking people up in the morning instead of the current three.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsj_hn</author><text>There is a virtuous fervor to recycling -- it&#x27;s a type of middle class moral purification ritual, something that counterbalances high levels of consumption, even when it wastes more scarce resources than putting trash in a landfill.<p>This is a great article:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;the-reign-of-recycling.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;the-reign-...</a><p>Certainly recycling some things makes a lot of sense. For example, scrap metal. But the push to recycle <i>everything</i> has lead to exploding costs and mounting subsidies. For example, the article cites New York spending $300 million on subsidizing recycling, about half the park department budget, rather than what it would cost to put waste into landfills.<p>By lowering recycling costs, China has played the role of enabler, allowing many middle class households to continue to obtain consumption indulgences at below market rates. If China stops subsidizing this stuff, I hope there is some pushback from communities, or at least from most communities, because we&#x27;ve gone full crazy on recycling.</text></comment> | <story><title>Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2017/12/09/568797388/recycling-chaos-in-u-s-as-china-bans-foreign-waste</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>njarboe</author><text>Modern dumps can be very environmentally friendly. The bottom can be clay sealed with leak monitoring to protect the ground water. With a little extra effort they can designed for methane capture to prevent problematic off gassing. Maybe aluminum and other purish metal scrap gets taken out of the waste stream and the rest goes back to the Earth. Some carbon capture happens and the site can be mined in the future if it seems worthwhile. Add video monitoring of what goes in for future prospectors to evaluate the ore body and call it a day.<p>Recycling does not make much environmental sense and considering it is sort of like a little ritual that washes away your consumption sins, maybe a net negative on getting people to consume less. Even mass compost is a problem, potentially spreading plant diseases and, in the Bay Area, getting poison oak in your mulch is a real downside. Oakland is now charging more for compost disposal than for garbage, so some kind of problem is going on with it. Plus one one truck zooming around waking people up in the morning instead of the current three.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aloha</author><text>Shipping your garbage half way around the world does indeed make little sense. But Recycling itself is a good idea - we used to do this, AT&amp;T did it with everything they made, milk and soda came in reusable bottles, other products like instant coffee, creamer, ovaltine, and others also came in glass instead of plastic - yes, reuse does cost the manufacturer more, but right now, those costs are still present, they&#x27;re just being passed down to an unknown party, at an unknown point in the future.<p>We should be trying reduce plastic use to places where really nothing else can do the job - and use more glass, metal, , and paper instead.</text></comment> |
472,795 | 472,487 | 1 | 3 | 472,389 | train | <story><title>How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes</title><url>http://www.secretgeek.net/6min_program.asp</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Bjoern</author><text>Why a article with such a provocative headline (and so little content) makes the top here at HN is a riddle for me. Might have something to do with the fact that the HN Rules have been floating around too, namely alot of new people around. (Sorry for digressing.)<p>Coming back to the article I want to mention some points.
(Maybe some things are biased..)<p>Ref. 1.)
While a bigger font size is good for your eyes (hope you guys don't stare to long in one session on the screen) it is bad to understand the bigger picture in my opinion.
Sure you are "forced" to write good code, but that is a standard mantra which you should follow anyway. People who like TDD (BDD) aso. have embraced this deeply. Doesn't that huge font size rather reduce your productivity? Please consider this: <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000012.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000012.html</a><p>"Its better to have more screen space, not less."<p>Ref. 2.)
Making a syntax element like hard coded strings so much stand out is contra productive in my opinion. It would be much smarter to focus on emphasizing the important aspects of your code rather than over-highlighting strings. No?
I mean sure, everybody has a different taste and style, but where is the harm in hard coding certain strings? Firstly its fast, secondly this is a typical flame of how far can we eliminate certain things from our code? (instead of embedding SQL use ActiveRecord, etc.) If you want to go so far great, start by embracing e.g. gettext, and put everything is a DB. Oh wait, why is my code so slow?<p>Ref. 3.)
I fully agree, though why does this whole article sound like a sales story for .net ?
"Here are lists for a few .net languages: C#, VB.net, F#."<p>Ref. 4.)
Basically I agree but "Ghoulish regular expressions"? If you define it by "ghoulish", how about rewriting it to make it more clear anyway? Increase tests by 1%? Uh, well I think with proper input verification you can eliminate alot of problems. I mean its great to work with unittests but a good advice would probably have been, hey please work with unittests its has shown to make code better but if you are too lazy at least use assertions?<p>Ref. 5.)
Interesting advice, good idea though but if you look at code from "an open source project" than it might make you scream and run away. I think this advice is maybe better:
<a href="http://norvig.com/21-days.html" rel="nofollow">http://norvig.com/21-days.html</a>
This is btw. the perfect article to outline why this whole "How to manage x in y &#60;time unit&#62;." is stupid.<p>Ref. 6.)
Good advice. ".. distraught at just how much room you've got for improvement." Hm, depends on what my goal is.<p>Ref. 7.)
Interesting advice, though wouldn't a "cruicial to your application method" be rather well programmed? Often it is probably better to refactor the whole function because if its so long that you have problems just writing it from scratch again, then there is too much code in it in the first place.<p>Ref. 8.)
"And don't just write. Write a compiler!"
WTH. Please Mr. Justice Gray, could I remind you that the article title is "8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes." ? I mean the whole idea of this article is rubbish, (see peter norvig link) but compiler, 6 minutes, what?<p>While I generally agree than understanding "a" compiler and what it does. (Scanning, lexing, parsing etc.) Then also implementing one, is very good for your education but it should rather be in your next article of "how to be a better .net programmer in x years."<p>General comment:<p>I really like HN, the quality coming from reddit is great, but posts like this are a waste of time. (At least in my opinion.)</text></comment> | <story><title>How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes</title><url>http://www.secretgeek.net/6min_program.asp</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Jebdm</author><text>"Sometimes, when I'm looking at the code of a complete stranger, I get that same, weird feeling I get when I'm creeping through my neighbour's house. Picking up their stuff, looking through their fridge."<p>Um...</text></comment> |
33,839,857 | 33,838,243 | 1 | 2 | 33,835,815 | train | <story><title>Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting-us-back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hcurtiss</author><text>Man, I may be in the minority here, but I find recreation.gov to be one of the very few <i>excellent</i> government websites. We use it every summer for whitewater rafting and camping reservations. You can disagree with how permits&#x2F;reservations are offered (e.g., lottery, first-come, etc.), but none of those decisions are made by BAH. They were given a task and, unlike so many government contractors, did it very well and relatively rapidly. The fee structure can be changed, but whatever the magic was, I wish it were repeated throughout government at every level.<p>I think the biggest issue with recreation.gov is that so very many people are desperate to use public lands. Population levels in the western US have exploded in the last twenty years and we&#x27;ve developed almost <i>no</i> additional recreation opportunities. For so long as that&#x27;s true, the scarcity and price problems are only going to increase. But at least we have a well-functioning website with which to tackle the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aunche</author><text>&gt; Population levels in the western US have exploded in the last twenty years and we&#x27;ve developed almost no additional recreation opportunities.<p>There are <i>a lot</i> of great places for hiking and camping. The problem is that everyone wants to go to &quot;the best&quot; places, so you end up with a lot of people competing for a permit for Mt. Whitney rather than go for a similar alternative like Mt. Langley.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting-us-back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hcurtiss</author><text>Man, I may be in the minority here, but I find recreation.gov to be one of the very few <i>excellent</i> government websites. We use it every summer for whitewater rafting and camping reservations. You can disagree with how permits&#x2F;reservations are offered (e.g., lottery, first-come, etc.), but none of those decisions are made by BAH. They were given a task and, unlike so many government contractors, did it very well and relatively rapidly. The fee structure can be changed, but whatever the magic was, I wish it were repeated throughout government at every level.<p>I think the biggest issue with recreation.gov is that so very many people are desperate to use public lands. Population levels in the western US have exploded in the last twenty years and we&#x27;ve developed almost <i>no</i> additional recreation opportunities. For so long as that&#x27;s true, the scarcity and price problems are only going to increase. But at least we have a well-functioning website with which to tackle the problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prescriptivist</author><text>I&#x27;m glad it works for you but man I am peeved that they instituted it in the katahdin woods and waters national monument area of the east branch of the penobscot in maine. People have been just heading down that waterway on trips since time immemorial and it&#x27;s generally not a problem finding a site, but if it&#x27;s particularly busy you would pull up and ask someone if they don&#x27;t mind sharing. I&#x27;ve never turned a person down and I never will, but also I&#x27;ve never paid for a campsite on a river. I feel like paying to book a site just changes the dynamic of a shared waterway so much.</text></comment> |
16,207,609 | 16,207,318 | 1 | 2 | 16,206,874 | train | <story><title>Y Combinator is accepting applications for S18</title><url>http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/#Summer2018</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>To anybody considering applying: I&#x27;ve applied twice and been rejected both times.<p>Just the application process itself was hugely valuable. The questions really make you think out your model. It helped us identify some [now] obvious flaws in the way we were trying to solve our problem.<p>You&#x27;re not wasting anybody&#x27;s time by applying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Y Combinator is accepting applications for S18</title><url>http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/#Summer2018</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>YC is still the best and most open gateway to Silicon Valley investors.<p>But that&#x27;s only true because they have no real competition and it&#x27;s a closed system. An open system wouldn&#x27;t require gateways. There wouldn&#x27;t be a need to be walked into a private party by a trusted club member.<p>It looks like the answer to even this huge roadblock is new technology. Amazingly, it&#x27;s not even theoretical at this point, it has actually begun.<p>These new decentralized protocols and &quot;ICOs&quot; are going to all but eliminate Silicon Valley as a center of orbit. All startup funding will move onto the internet, where it belongs.</text></comment> |
12,983,993 | 12,983,378 | 1 | 2 | 12,980,440 | train | <story><title>U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/17/internal-document-supports-argument-that-u-s-chicken-prices-have-been-artificially-inflated-for-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>This is classic red state governance.<p>Strip the organization of resources over time, put politically appointed people in charge of work that should be performed by civil servants, and create a situation where the inmates run the asylum.<p>Even if nobody applies pressure, there&#x27;s an implied threat of reprisal when the an appointed former garden blogger turned director of whatever gives an undesired answer. That job should be a civil service gig protected from direct reprisal.<p>Compare this ridiculous methodology compared to something more robust like the CPI calculations performed by the US DOL.</text></item><item><author>jackmoore</author><text>“We trust the companies we work with,” Alec Asbridge, director of regulatory compliance at Georgia Department of Agriculture, said earlier this month. “We don’t see any reason they would submit information that wasn’t truthful.”<p>I feel like this statement makes Asbridge unsuited for his job as director of regulatory compliance. Willful obliviousness implies a conflict of interest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WillPostForFood</author><text>From 1872 to 2002 Georgia elected 37 Democrat Governors in a row. The Georgia dock chicken pricing goes back at least 56 years. So you might as well call it classic blue state governance.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/17/internal-document-supports-argument-that-u-s-chicken-prices-have-been-artificially-inflated-for-years/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>This is classic red state governance.<p>Strip the organization of resources over time, put politically appointed people in charge of work that should be performed by civil servants, and create a situation where the inmates run the asylum.<p>Even if nobody applies pressure, there&#x27;s an implied threat of reprisal when the an appointed former garden blogger turned director of whatever gives an undesired answer. That job should be a civil service gig protected from direct reprisal.<p>Compare this ridiculous methodology compared to something more robust like the CPI calculations performed by the US DOL.</text></item><item><author>jackmoore</author><text>“We trust the companies we work with,” Alec Asbridge, director of regulatory compliance at Georgia Department of Agriculture, said earlier this month. “We don’t see any reason they would submit information that wasn’t truthful.”<p>I feel like this statement makes Asbridge unsuited for his job as director of regulatory compliance. Willful obliviousness implies a conflict of interest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Yeah, Georgia, what a shit hole. With its triple-AAA bond rating, below-average debt per capita, and solvent pension system!</text></comment> |
5,479,795 | 5,479,773 | 1 | 2 | 5,479,337 | train | <story><title>We are Switching to Dart</title><url>http://www.ramen.io/post/46936028144/we-are-switching-to-dart-why</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelwww</author><text>I think a few points are worth emphasizing. Dart produces JavaScript that is closer to being correct
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424680" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424680</a><p>Dart can produce JavaScript that is faster
<a href="http://news.dartlang.org/2013/03/why-dart2js-produces-faster-javascript.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.dartlang.org/2013/03/why-dart2js-produces-faster...</a><p>The JavaScript output of Dart2js works across all modern browsers (IE9 and above, among others.) No browser hacks required.<p>Having said that, I wish they would stop working on advancing Dart and ship a 1.0 version. It's been 1.5 years since it was announced. Make the advancements in the 1.1 or 2.0 and give the tool developers a solid target to optimize for in 1.0. Let us not have to sell clients on a beta development system, even though that's what I'm doing and it's working, despite some panic when Dart developers break things with breaking changes (which is often.)</text></comment> | <story><title>We are Switching to Dart</title><url>http://www.ramen.io/post/46936028144/we-are-switching-to-dart-why</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trimbo</author><text>Assuming this is not April 1 con'd.<p>Dart is really cool. Awesome, in fact. I want this project to do well.<p>But there's just no way I am going to base my business on it when not even Google uses it for their own stuff. It's just way too early.</text></comment> |
27,641,621 | 27,640,731 | 1 | 2 | 27,640,002 | train | <story><title>US Fed Official Calls Tether a ‘Challenge’ to Financial Stability</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/us-fed-official-calls-tether-a-challenge-to-financial-stability-2021-06-25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onethought</author><text>How can you be “long BTC” - it’s a currency not a stock. You might say “I’m long USD” but then you are really saying you believe the US economy will grow, and the value of its currency will strengthen.<p>Given Bitcoin isn’t attached to anything… what does long mean?</text></item><item><author>oarsinsync</author><text>I remember a lot of people (including myself) saying the same thing a few years ago, and selling a bunch of BTC at ~$8000.<p>&quot;The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a good thing I was simply closing positions instead of taking a short position, cuz boy oh boy was I wrong.<p>That was before institutional money started going into BTC. Will be interesting to see if the &#x27;little guy&#x27; individual investor will be enabled to take large amounts of early stage profits and saddling the &#x27;big guy&#x27; institutional investor (which is in a lot of cases, essentially just lots of &#x27;little guys&#x27; money pooled together while the managers skim the profits off the top) with the late stage losses.<p>(I am long BTC)</text></item><item><author>garyclarke27</author><text>Tether is bound to collapse soon and will likely take the whole crypto market with it.
There is no doubt in my mind that Tether is as scam, they blatantly lied that they had USD cash backing of 100% of Tethers, their recent amateurish pie chart reveal of assets was a farce, no doubt these bond assets were created out of thin air, just like the Billions of Tethers they regularly print whenever they feel like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lazare</author><text>&gt; How can you be “long BTC”<p>By owning BTC, or equivalent economic exposure to owning BTC, ie, you will profit if BTC becomes relatively more valuable, and lose if it becomes relatively less valuable.<p>&gt; it’s a currency not a stock. You might say “I’m long USD”<p>People take long position in currencies <i>all the time</i>. That is just a perfectly normal thing that people do, all the time. I have no idea why you think a currency is somehow different than any other financial asset here; it is not (except, perhaps in some cases, taxes).<p>&gt; but then you are really saying you believe the US economy will grow, and the value of its currency will strengthen.<p>No. That&#x27;s not how exchange rates work. The US economy is growing all the time (...well, outside of recessions), but so is everyone&#x27;s else. A thousand factors go into determining relative strength.<p>&gt; Given Bitcoin isn’t attached to anything… what does long mean?<p>It means you have a positive exposure to an increase in it&#x27;s price, probably by owning some, or something that closely approximates that. Same as being long anything else. Why would it be different? What did <i>you</i> think being long meant?</text></comment> | <story><title>US Fed Official Calls Tether a ‘Challenge’ to Financial Stability</title><url>https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/us-fed-official-calls-tether-a-challenge-to-financial-stability-2021-06-25</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onethought</author><text>How can you be “long BTC” - it’s a currency not a stock. You might say “I’m long USD” but then you are really saying you believe the US economy will grow, and the value of its currency will strengthen.<p>Given Bitcoin isn’t attached to anything… what does long mean?</text></item><item><author>oarsinsync</author><text>I remember a lot of people (including myself) saying the same thing a few years ago, and selling a bunch of BTC at ~$8000.<p>&quot;The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent&quot;<p>It&#x27;s a good thing I was simply closing positions instead of taking a short position, cuz boy oh boy was I wrong.<p>That was before institutional money started going into BTC. Will be interesting to see if the &#x27;little guy&#x27; individual investor will be enabled to take large amounts of early stage profits and saddling the &#x27;big guy&#x27; institutional investor (which is in a lot of cases, essentially just lots of &#x27;little guys&#x27; money pooled together while the managers skim the profits off the top) with the late stage losses.<p>(I am long BTC)</text></item><item><author>garyclarke27</author><text>Tether is bound to collapse soon and will likely take the whole crypto market with it.
There is no doubt in my mind that Tether is as scam, they blatantly lied that they had USD cash backing of 100% of Tethers, their recent amateurish pie chart reveal of assets was a farce, no doubt these bond assets were created out of thin air, just like the Billions of Tethers they regularly print whenever they feel like it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foota</author><text>The US dollar isn&#x27;t really tied to the strength of the economy either, it&#x27;s about the supply and demand for dollars on the international market. Generally, dollars are in high demand as a result of their status as a worldwide reserve currency, but otherwise the strength of the dollar should be tied to the trade deficit. Having a trade deficit, all else the same, exhibits downward pressure on the dollar because people buying foreign things in dollars give their money to people that need to then trade those dollars back to someone for their own currency.</text></comment> |
20,282,594 | 20,282,536 | 1 | 2 | 20,282,178 | train | <story><title>Introducing people.kernel.org</title><url>https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/introducing-people-kernel-org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neonate</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20190626060140&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.kernel.org&#x2F;monsieuricon&#x2F;introducing-people-kernel-org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20190626060140&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.ke...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing people.kernel.org</title><url>https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/introducing-people-kernel-org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>They say when introducing yourself, first impressions matter.<p>EDIT: after it finally loaded, looks like it&#x27;s not kernel.org&#x27;s fault for the hug of death per se, it seems to be hosted by a third party, write.as[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write.as&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;write.as&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
8,998,014 | 8,997,866 | 1 | 2 | 8,997,615 | train | <story><title>FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/fcc-chairman-wheeler-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radioact1ve</author><text>Same here. It almost seems to good to be true. I don&#x27;t want to sound gloomy doomy when this is excellent news, but I can&#x27;t help but think what are we missing. I keep waiting for the &quot;but...&quot;.</text></item><item><author>mikegioia</author><text><p><pre><code> Using this authority, I am submitting to my colleagues the strongest
open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC. These enforceable,
bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and
throttling of lawful content and services. I propose to fully
apply—for the first time ever—those bright-line rules to mobile
broadband. My proposal assures the rights of internet users to go
where they want, when they want, and the rights of innovators to
introduce new products without asking anyone’s permission.
</code></pre>
I can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m reading those words!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>revscat</author><text>Ok, here it comes: but AT&amp;T and Verizon are going to bring lawsuits immediately in response to this action, and due to years of stonewalling judicial appointments by Republicans, this suit is very likely to land in a court that is corporation-friendly, even if it does not wind up in the (also corporate friendly) Supreme Court.<p>There is also the separate-but-related <i>political</i> reality that the Internet, as a vehicle of basically free information, is opposed by those who depend upon their influence over the flow of news and information in order to maintain political and economic power. This policy shift will make it more difficult for them to keep their influence, and will therefore be fought against by very powerful people who face a long-term threat from its continuation.<p>Satisfied? :)</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/02/fcc-chairman-wheeler-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radioact1ve</author><text>Same here. It almost seems to good to be true. I don&#x27;t want to sound gloomy doomy when this is excellent news, but I can&#x27;t help but think what are we missing. I keep waiting for the &quot;but...&quot;.</text></item><item><author>mikegioia</author><text><p><pre><code> Using this authority, I am submitting to my colleagues the strongest
open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC. These enforceable,
bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and
throttling of lawful content and services. I propose to fully
apply—for the first time ever—those bright-line rules to mobile
broadband. My proposal assures the rights of internet users to go
where they want, when they want, and the rights of innovators to
introduce new products without asking anyone’s permission.
</code></pre>
I can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m reading those words!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gtaylor</author><text>I think the most likely possibility is that the telcos attack this to the point where it gets de-fanged or turned away entirely. Part of congress is already mobilizing against this movement.</text></comment> |
12,909,926 | 12,908,855 | 1 | 3 | 12,906,119 | train | <story><title>Elm is Wrong</title><url>http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/elm-is-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Singletoned</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m a Python programmer. I fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitrary objects.<p>I&#x27;m a Python programmer too, and I also fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitary objects, and I get really frustrated with the fact that they can&#x27;t be arbitary objects. They have to be hashable objects, and the hash function refuses to hash certain objects that it has decided aren&#x27;t allowed.</text></item><item><author>sametmax</author><text>I&#x27;m not particularly interested in Elm, but basically this post is about one problem in the language. One. This doesn&#x27;t make the language a pile of garbage as the author seems to let you think.<p>I&#x27;m a Python programmer. I fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitrary objects. But after coding a lot in JS, I realized I could live without it. It&#x27;s nice, but it&#x27;s not a show stopper if I don&#x27;t have it.<p>Same goes here. Yes, typing is not as good as you wish it was, but Elm is a young language, give it time to evolve. In the meantime, what about the innovative things in it ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Erwin</author><text>Well, you cannot use a mutable object as a key without some help. What would you expect to happen if the object is modified after being inserted into the dictionary?<p>If you have a list or dictionary you want to use a key, you can convert it into a tuple which would make it immutable.<p>If you don&#x27;t care about performance for larger collections you could just use a list instead of a dictionary, which does not require hashing. Changes to the original mutable object will also be reflected in your list.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elm is Wrong</title><url>http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/elm-is-wrong</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Singletoned</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m a Python programmer. I fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitrary objects.<p>I&#x27;m a Python programmer too, and I also fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitary objects, and I get really frustrated with the fact that they can&#x27;t be arbitary objects. They have to be hashable objects, and the hash function refuses to hash certain objects that it has decided aren&#x27;t allowed.</text></item><item><author>sametmax</author><text>I&#x27;m not particularly interested in Elm, but basically this post is about one problem in the language. One. This doesn&#x27;t make the language a pile of garbage as the author seems to let you think.<p>I&#x27;m a Python programmer. I fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitrary objects. But after coding a lot in JS, I realized I could live without it. It&#x27;s nice, but it&#x27;s not a show stopper if I don&#x27;t have it.<p>Same goes here. Yes, typing is not as good as you wish it was, but Elm is a young language, give it time to evolve. In the meantime, what about the innovative things in it ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ccapndave</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;package.elm-lang.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;eeue56&#x2F;elm-all-dict&#x2F;latest" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;package.elm-lang.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;eeue56&#x2F;elm-all-dict&#x2F;lat...</a></text></comment> |
28,865,105 | 28,865,124 | 1 | 3 | 28,864,619 | train | <story><title>After two hours zinc oxide sunscreen loses effectiveness, becomes toxic: study</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hours-sunscreen-zinc-oxide-effectiveness.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drcode</author><text>Putting together all the messaging I&#x27;ve gotten recently: Regular sunscreen is bad, zinc oxide sunscreen is bad, getting sun is bad, not getting sun is bad (Vitamin D).</text></comment> | <story><title>After two hours zinc oxide sunscreen loses effectiveness, becomes toxic: study</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hours-sunscreen-zinc-oxide-effectiveness.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>at_a_remove</author><text>As someone with a severe photosensitivity disorder, I have relied on zinc oxide as a &quot;physical&quot; blocker as opposed to various chemicals that often seem to be banned in the EU.<p>But digging into the article, which is a little short on specifics, it appears that the zinc oxide is catalyzing a reaction with the &quot;organic&quot; compounds which <i>also</i> are blockers. Zinc oxide is already a pretty good UVA blocker, especially with a smaller particulate size. My guess is that this is for sunscreens with a mix of organic UVA blockers and zinc oxide, but not so much zinc oxide that you look like you are training for mime school.<p>My preferred (aka &quot;least objectionable&quot;) blend is only zinc oxide, so I may not have to worry.<p>I wish I had access to a UV-VIS spectrophotometer and various defined particle sizes of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. My suspicion is that a careful formulation -- probably arrived at via linear algebra -- of different particle sizes should allow for a sunscreen that almost has a step function at around 410 nanometers: invisible at longer wavelengths, a complete block at anything shorter than 410 nm. This way, one could avoid the ghost whiteness.</text></comment> |
36,945,717 | 36,945,682 | 1 | 2 | 36,944,978 | train | <story><title>Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock</title><url>https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2023/07/pay-dirt-for-ice-core-scientists-in-east-greenland-as-they-reach-bedrock/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdfghswe</author><text>Can&#x27;t believe they don&#x27;t show a photo of what appears to be a 10 meter in diameter, 2.7km deep hole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealPomax</author><text>Ice cores are a few inches across. The photo at the top of the article is not of the drill hole but of the hole they had to dig in the snow to get to the ice they actually drilled.<p>See the photo of the final ice core [1] to see how miniscule the actual drill hole is.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.ku.dk&#x2F;english&#x2F;press&#x2F;news&#x2F;2023&#x2F;pay-dirt-for-ice-core-scientists-in-east-greenland-as-they-reach-bedrock&#x2F;billedinformationer&#x2F;20230721_SteffTrevor__photo_Sepp_Kipfstuhl_.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;science.ku.dk&#x2F;english&#x2F;press&#x2F;news&#x2F;2023&#x2F;pay-dirt-for-i...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock</title><url>https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2023/07/pay-dirt-for-ice-core-scientists-in-east-greenland-as-they-reach-bedrock/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdfghswe</author><text>Can&#x27;t believe they don&#x27;t show a photo of what appears to be a 10 meter in diameter, 2.7km deep hole.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FredPret</author><text>There&#x27;s a bright future in big holes.<p>Imagine what we can get our hands on if we could find a nice, cheap way to dig 10+ km down all over the place. The mantle is 2000+km thick. Our deepest mines are 3-4 km deep.<p>We could also harvest a ton of heat this way - and maybe even use it for garbage disposal. Master Of Orion 2 had the Deep Core Mines and Core Waste Dumps - maybe that&#x27;s the way to go!</text></comment> |
39,721,294 | 39,718,322 | 1 | 2 | 39,711,725 | train | <story><title>Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right</title><url>https://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lefstathiou</author><text>My two cents (as an owner of a Vision Pro): 1) This is a beta product and I wouldnt recommend it to anyone that is not a developer or in a position to create apps for it, 2) this is going to have as big of an impact on humanity as the computer or the internet did and every engineer or aspiring entrepreneur should pay it attention.<p>This device is magical. Yes it&#x27;s too heavy, yes there are not enough apps, yes sharing it with other people is a hassle. Every one of those issues will be solved in the next 2 generations.<p>When the screen is 50% better and it weighs 50% less, 20% of knowledge workers will be tuned in daily. Technology isnt a zero sum game, but I genuinely believe the impact will be bigger than AI. AI changes the way you work, Apple Vision will change the way you live, which will change the things you consume, which will impact the work that needs to be done to serve you. Empires will rise and fall. Travel to beaches will go up, travel to tier 3 towns and cities with minor attractions could get obliterated. Most TVs will disappear. My grand children will be able to experience memories with me long after I&#x27;m dead. After this, looking at my smartphone seems so analog. Anyway, I could go on for hours<p>Lastly, on the topic of pricing, there is a great book titled Positioning by Al Reiss that highlights the rational behind Apple&#x27;s strategy on pricing. They are a second mover in this space, they needed to come out of the gate as the absolute gold standard of this technology and position it as the best money can buy. They delivered on both the tech and pricing. Long after the price comes down, they&#x27;ll still own that position of being the best money can buy. When you own the position, it takes a lot to lose it. It will be almost impossible for Meta to take that from them now. Big mistake on Meta&#x27;s part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archagon</author><text>Having tried the VP out for a week, I categorically disagree that VR is going to have remotely this level of impact on humanity. Having to wear something on your head to compute is fatiguing and isolating. You can’t bring your existing peripherals and audio equipment unless they’re proprietary and wireless. Passthrough video is nauseating and blurry even at the highest refresh rates. The paradigm is also intrinsically inaccessible to the blind and disabled.<p>The immersiveness for entertainment is neat, but this seems like a relatively minor use case in the grand scheme of things. And with gesture based controls, gaming is pretty much a non-starter.<p>Do you really envision a future of families hanging out together on the couch, each member with their own VR goggles…? Halfway through my return period, I realized that I much preferred reality.<p>FWIW, I love my Quest for the occasional gaming romp, but little else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right</title><url>https://hugo.blog/2024/03/11/vision-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lefstathiou</author><text>My two cents (as an owner of a Vision Pro): 1) This is a beta product and I wouldnt recommend it to anyone that is not a developer or in a position to create apps for it, 2) this is going to have as big of an impact on humanity as the computer or the internet did and every engineer or aspiring entrepreneur should pay it attention.<p>This device is magical. Yes it&#x27;s too heavy, yes there are not enough apps, yes sharing it with other people is a hassle. Every one of those issues will be solved in the next 2 generations.<p>When the screen is 50% better and it weighs 50% less, 20% of knowledge workers will be tuned in daily. Technology isnt a zero sum game, but I genuinely believe the impact will be bigger than AI. AI changes the way you work, Apple Vision will change the way you live, which will change the things you consume, which will impact the work that needs to be done to serve you. Empires will rise and fall. Travel to beaches will go up, travel to tier 3 towns and cities with minor attractions could get obliterated. Most TVs will disappear. My grand children will be able to experience memories with me long after I&#x27;m dead. After this, looking at my smartphone seems so analog. Anyway, I could go on for hours<p>Lastly, on the topic of pricing, there is a great book titled Positioning by Al Reiss that highlights the rational behind Apple&#x27;s strategy on pricing. They are a second mover in this space, they needed to come out of the gate as the absolute gold standard of this technology and position it as the best money can buy. They delivered on both the tech and pricing. Long after the price comes down, they&#x27;ll still own that position of being the best money can buy. When you own the position, it takes a lot to lose it. It will be almost impossible for Meta to take that from them now. Big mistake on Meta&#x27;s part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>Did you own prior VR headsets? If so, what is different about this one?<p>I also have been telling people that VR is magical and that while both current hardware and the current software has issues it will get better and that this stuff is going to have a big impact on humanity... only, I&#x27;ve been telling people this for just shy of a decade now ;P. I don&#x27;t see the Apple Vision Pro as either the product that made any of this magical nor is it the product that made any of this viable... it is just yet another incrementally-improved product in a category that has been on the verge of getting it right for, well, forever.</text></comment> |
40,359,252 | 40,359,514 | 1 | 3 | 40,357,724 | train | <story><title>Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck</title><url>https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/archibald-alabama-prisoners-organs-vanish-and-theres-a-whole-lot-of-passing-the-buck-and-the-bodies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>It crossed my mind, because it is strongly suspected that China does that to low-level political prisoners and members of despised minority groups.<p>2018: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;363&#x2F;bmj.k5250" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;363&#x2F;bmj.k5250</a><p>2019: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2019&#x2F;jun&#x2F;17&#x2F;china-is-harvesting-organs-from-detainees-uk-tribunal-concludes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2019&#x2F;jun&#x2F;17&#x2F;china-is-harve...</a></text></item><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>&gt;<i>The title seems to willfully invoke the far more sinister “organ-harvesting”</i><p>No place on earth is more annoyingly finicky about headlines than HN.<p>Black market organ harvesting of live prisoners didn&#x27;t even cross my mind when reading this headline. What makes you think they are willfully invoking that trope? The use of &quot;vanish&quot;?<p>Could you illustrate a better, but still concise, title?</text></item><item><author>alwa</author><text>And also to be clear, “vanish” from people who died in state custody, post-autopsy—not from people who are currently prisoners. And “vanish” to the same medical training uses as non-prisoners’ donated organs.<p>The (very reasonable) question being whether it’s appropriate for the warden rather than the family to authorize the donation, when family is in the picture.<p>The title seems to willfully invoke the far more sinister “organ-harvesting” trope that’s alarmingly a live issue in other carceral systems to this day [0], but that’s not what the article’s actual allegations describe.<p>[0] e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ohchr.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;china-un-human-rights-experts-alarmed-organ-harvesting-allegations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ohchr.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;china-un-hum...</a></text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>To be very clear: not for transplants, but for training med students.<p>&gt; The students were told the removal of organs were part of autopsies required by law for prisoners. They were told that using them for teaching future physicians “benefits future patients,” and if organs weren’t used they’d be thrown away and would serve no useful purpose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woooooo</author><text>It&#x27;s confirmed that, if you&#x27;re executed by the state for treason there, you become an organ donor as part of that deal. Waste not and all that.<p>The speculative part is where people start making organs the main point of the whole thing, it has a great ick factor if you&#x27;re doing nationalist flamewars.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck</title><url>https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/archibald-alabama-prisoners-organs-vanish-and-theres-a-whole-lot-of-passing-the-buck-and-the-bodies.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsr_</author><text>It crossed my mind, because it is strongly suspected that China does that to low-level political prisoners and members of despised minority groups.<p>2018: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;363&#x2F;bmj.k5250" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bmj.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;363&#x2F;bmj.k5250</a><p>2019: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2019&#x2F;jun&#x2F;17&#x2F;china-is-harvesting-organs-from-detainees-uk-tribunal-concludes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2019&#x2F;jun&#x2F;17&#x2F;china-is-harve...</a></text></item><item><author>ziddoap</author><text>&gt;<i>The title seems to willfully invoke the far more sinister “organ-harvesting”</i><p>No place on earth is more annoyingly finicky about headlines than HN.<p>Black market organ harvesting of live prisoners didn&#x27;t even cross my mind when reading this headline. What makes you think they are willfully invoking that trope? The use of &quot;vanish&quot;?<p>Could you illustrate a better, but still concise, title?</text></item><item><author>alwa</author><text>And also to be clear, “vanish” from people who died in state custody, post-autopsy—not from people who are currently prisoners. And “vanish” to the same medical training uses as non-prisoners’ donated organs.<p>The (very reasonable) question being whether it’s appropriate for the warden rather than the family to authorize the donation, when family is in the picture.<p>The title seems to willfully invoke the far more sinister “organ-harvesting” trope that’s alarmingly a live issue in other carceral systems to this day [0], but that’s not what the article’s actual allegations describe.<p>[0] e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ohchr.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;china-un-human-rights-experts-alarmed-organ-harvesting-allegations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ohchr.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;press-releases&#x2F;2021&#x2F;06&#x2F;china-un-hum...</a></text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>To be very clear: not for transplants, but for training med students.<p>&gt; The students were told the removal of organs were part of autopsies required by law for prisoners. They were told that using them for teaching future physicians “benefits future patients,” and if organs weren’t used they’d be thrown away and would serve no useful purpose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>No, it&#x27;s constantly accused of such by the Falun Gong (a religious cult that officially believes that David Copperfield is a real wizard), and a lot of western governments looking for something to attack China with amplify the accusation without any evidence. A good way to do that is to cite the conclusions of an &quot;independent tribunal&quot; that no one had heard of, whose only concerns are spreading the consensus about the evils of China and the Chinese, and who are mysteriously funded.<p>Western governments attack enemy regimes by funding religious cults (with associated militias) like MEK and Falun Gong (which are allowed to have multiple OTA TV channels while the Chinese government are banned from most of the internet.) They also fund fundamentalist Islam in northern Africa, and neo-Nazis in central Asia and eastern Europe.<p>It&#x27;s important to dismiss &quot;strong suspicions&quot; from semi-anonymous sources and ask for actual evidence, circumstantial or not. <i>Propaganda is supposed to be what we dislike about China.</i> We shouldn&#x27;t help spread innuendo if that&#x27;s actually a value we have.</text></comment> |
20,971,535 | 20,971,196 | 1 | 3 | 20,970,664 | train | <story><title>Show HN: WhatFreeWords: Open-Source Geocoding for What3Words</title><url>https://whatfreewords.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noname120</author><text>What3words is patented[1]. If you compare the explanation of their free implementation[2] with the claims section of the patent, it seems very possible that it breaches the patent. In particular, the equations that are described in claim number 7 of the patent are exactly the same as in their explanations.<p>I&#x27;m not a lawyer so I can&#x27;t talk about whether it can be enforced in practice. But still, the fact that this open-source implementation doesn&#x27;t reference the patent anywhere suggests that they didn&#x27;t consider the legal implications properly.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;WO2014170646A1&#x2F;fr?oq=WO%2f2014%2f170646+" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;WO2014170646A1&#x2F;fr?oq=WO%2f...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatfreewords.org&#x2F;about.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;whatfreewords.org&#x2F;about.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: WhatFreeWords: Open-Source Geocoding for What3Words</title><url>https://whatfreewords.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philshem</author><text>Here&#x27;s a list of other alternatives to w3w<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What3words#Alternatives" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openstreetmap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What3words#Alternatives</a></text></comment> |
32,392,524 | 32,392,004 | 1 | 2 | 32,390,526 | train | <story><title>I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2</title><url>https://deephaven.io/blog/2022/08/08/AI-generated-blog-thumbnails/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WheelsAtLarge</author><text>&gt;&quot;While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. &quot;<p>Not, yet. While it&#x27;s cheap relative to stock images, it&#x27;s time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will continue to be valuable.<p>It will be interesting to see if a specialized job will rise where people will get paid to generate just the right image. It might be called &quot;A.I. image artist &quot; This individual will generate an image with an A.I. but use graphic tools to finalize it for use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deltree7</author><text>Also there is nothing preventing Stock Image Sites themselves using Dall-E to generate additional images. Heck they can use their own existing images for training (which the other&#x27;s can&#x27;t due to copyright issues) to increase the portfolio, but the Stock Image Sites can access free public images.<p>So, counter-intuitively it may strengthen Stock Image Sites value</text></comment> | <story><title>I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2</title><url>https://deephaven.io/blog/2022/08/08/AI-generated-blog-thumbnails/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WheelsAtLarge</author><text>&gt;&quot;While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. &quot;<p>Not, yet. While it&#x27;s cheap relative to stock images, it&#x27;s time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will continue to be valuable.<p>It will be interesting to see if a specialized job will rise where people will get paid to generate just the right image. It might be called &quot;A.I. image artist &quot; This individual will generate an image with an A.I. but use graphic tools to finalize it for use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andreyk</author><text>Agreed - having played around with DALL-E 2 a fair bit and having made a lot of usage of stock images over the years (for blog posts with specific subjects), I would say the former takes more work&#x2F;time than the latter. With stock images I can just do a quick search on Shutterstock and find a lot of high quality options (usually), whereas with DALL-E 2 I need to figure out the exact prompt I want and iterate on it for a while. Stock images are not that expensive -- if you buy many it&#x27;s as low as $2 per image, or on the high end (if you pay to just download a few per month) it&#x27;s more like $10 per image. It does cost more, but time is money, so...</text></comment> |
16,306,344 | 16,306,225 | 1 | 2 | 16,302,570 | train | <story><title>Pipenv: One Year Later and a Call for Help</title><url>https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/pipenv-one-year-later-a-call-for-help</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>coleifer</author><text>I find it very straightforward and obvious to use virtualenvs, which support everything this project purports to do. What is this, then? Some porcelain and convention around virtualenvs? Why do I need this?</text></comment> | <story><title>Pipenv: One Year Later and a Call for Help</title><url>https://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/pipenv-one-year-later-a-call-for-help</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thalesmello</author><text>Pipenv solved the most annoying problem Python had before: inconvenient version isolation. Dependencies were installed globally by default, and virtualenv was too cumbersome to use easily. Pipenv solves all of those headaches.</text></comment> |
12,762,277 | 12,762,259 | 1 | 2 | 12,761,407 | train | <story><title>'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/10/21/498734538/black-mirror-is-back-reflecting-our-technological-fears</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>What makes it so good is the fact that it is so believable. I wished I could come up with a &#x27;white mirror&#x27; alternative where all our tech is used for good but it wouldn&#x27;t be nearly as believable. Human nature being what it is you&#x27;d hope the future isn&#x27;t even darker than what black mirror shows, it easily could be.</text></item><item><author>krylon</author><text>Black Mirror is really, really, really good. The writing, the cast, it is just incredible.<p>But it is also incredibly depressing. Maybe depressing is the wrong word. Emotionally exhausting, you might say. Well worth watching once, but I recently could not bring myself to re-watch it because it so dark. And not even dark humor, which I like, just dark. Maybe in the spring, I&#x27;ll come around...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewrv</author><text>Star Trek TNG is as close to &#x27;white mirror&#x27; as we&#x27;ll ever get. A universe where human nature advances alongside technology. It&#x27;s obviously way more far fetched and the show hasn&#x27;t aged well though.</text></comment> | <story><title>'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2016/10/21/498734538/black-mirror-is-back-reflecting-our-technological-fears</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>What makes it so good is the fact that it is so believable. I wished I could come up with a &#x27;white mirror&#x27; alternative where all our tech is used for good but it wouldn&#x27;t be nearly as believable. Human nature being what it is you&#x27;d hope the future isn&#x27;t even darker than what black mirror shows, it easily could be.</text></item><item><author>krylon</author><text>Black Mirror is really, really, really good. The writing, the cast, it is just incredible.<p>But it is also incredibly depressing. Maybe depressing is the wrong word. Emotionally exhausting, you might say. Well worth watching once, but I recently could not bring myself to re-watch it because it so dark. And not even dark humor, which I like, just dark. Maybe in the spring, I&#x27;ll come around...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rimantas</author><text>And the tech is also very believable. Not overdone, nothing gimmicky, feels very real.</text></comment> |
3,685,870 | 3,685,866 | 1 | 2 | 3,685,643 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Airgram - Send iOS/Android notifications, without building an app</title><url>http://www.airgramapp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>there</author><text>Congrats on the app, it looks nice.<p>I launched Pushover (<a href="https://pushover.net/" rel="nofollow">https://pushover.net/</a>) this week, which looks to be pretty much the same exact product as yours: an HTTP API to push messages to an iOS and Android client.<p>I built it over the past 4 weeks to replace my use of Notifo, which shut down last year. There are a few other apps already available, like Prowl, Boxcar, and NotifyMyAndroid, but none were cross-platform, so I built Pushover.<p>I am charging for my app as a way to pay for the server costs, as I'm not sure how else these types of apps can make money and stay around. Notifo had a lot of users but their apps were free and I don't know if they even had any paying content providers pushing large amounts of messages. How do you plan to make money with yours?</text></item><item><author>navneetloiwal</author><text>Push notifications are a great way to consume time-sensitive information, like price/airfare,
sports, stocks, app reviews, etc. Airgram makes it dead-simple to deliver these alerts <i>without</i>
having to build your own app, so that you can focus on building interesting services.<p>Give it a spin! <a href="http://www.airgramapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.airgramapp.com</a><p>"I think notifications will become the primary way that we consume on the mobile device and may be
the reason we move away from downloadable software and back to web based software on our mobile
devices." - Fred Wilson (<a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/mobile-notifications.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/mobile-notifications.html</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joering2</author><text>there, I like your design better, since I am comparing to Airgram right now: immediately I can see how it looks on the mobile device screen because you provide an image, AND I see the code in different languages, which is easy for my eyes to match to languages I am writing in. So, if I would need this kind of functionality today, I would go with yours.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Airgram - Send iOS/Android notifications, without building an app</title><url>http://www.airgramapp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>there</author><text>Congrats on the app, it looks nice.<p>I launched Pushover (<a href="https://pushover.net/" rel="nofollow">https://pushover.net/</a>) this week, which looks to be pretty much the same exact product as yours: an HTTP API to push messages to an iOS and Android client.<p>I built it over the past 4 weeks to replace my use of Notifo, which shut down last year. There are a few other apps already available, like Prowl, Boxcar, and NotifyMyAndroid, but none were cross-platform, so I built Pushover.<p>I am charging for my app as a way to pay for the server costs, as I'm not sure how else these types of apps can make money and stay around. Notifo had a lot of users but their apps were free and I don't know if they even had any paying content providers pushing large amounts of messages. How do you plan to make money with yours?</text></item><item><author>navneetloiwal</author><text>Push notifications are a great way to consume time-sensitive information, like price/airfare,
sports, stocks, app reviews, etc. Airgram makes it dead-simple to deliver these alerts <i>without</i>
having to build your own app, so that you can focus on building interesting services.<p>Give it a spin! <a href="http://www.airgramapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.airgramapp.com</a><p>"I think notifications will become the primary way that we consume on the mobile device and may be
the reason we move away from downloadable software and back to web based software on our mobile
devices." - Fred Wilson (<a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/mobile-notifications.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/mobile-notifications.html</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>So did Notifo actually shut down or not? I mean, it still works for me, and the web page is up. I offered many times to pay for the service.</text></comment> |
21,260,457 | 21,260,761 | 1 | 2 | 21,258,899 | train | <story><title>Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefoxs-new-websocket-inspector/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jchw</author><text>Oh my God, this has been such a long time coming. Debugging WebSocket connections has been one of the main reasons I’ve had to open up Chrome in recent memory. There might not be full feature parity but I think now Firefox’s dev tools are at least complete for my uses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefoxs-new-websocket-inspector/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pimterry</author><text>This is really cool, but I&#x27;m slightly sad that it looks like they&#x27;ve taken the same approach as Chrome: treat the whole websocket connection as a single item in the list of requests, and then show the frames within separately when it&#x27;s selected.<p>Imo, it&#x27;d be much better to have a UI that interleaved full HTTP requests with websocket frames, so you can see the comparative timing of the both (and of frames across multiple WSs) rather than having to look at all of them separately.</text></comment> |
24,055,824 | 24,055,700 | 1 | 2 | 24,049,676 | train | <story><title>TikTok and the Sorting Hat</title><url>https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dirtyid</author><text>IMO TikTok&#x27;s draw is that it&#x27;s the anthithesis to American &#x2F; western social media culture. It&#x27;s algorithmic bias towards mainstream, playful, feel good content is a byproduct of Chinese style censorship.<p>What you see on TikTok reflects content that survives the crucibles of Chinese internet filtering. &quot;Creative and Joyful&quot; opiate for the masses. This is an often overlooked aspect of Chinese social media &#x2F; content filtering philosophy that has coalesced over time - block out the bad and divisive while elevating mundane joys. It&#x27;s how the 50c operates, it floods the airwaves with small happy platitudes and avoids debates because engaging and challenging controversial topics is how toxicity is produced. It&#x27;s counterproductive to even try. The last thing Chinese social media platforms is designed to do is to start revolutions, encourage radicalization or sectarianism among impressionable audiences, things western social media platforms are dealing with now, and why they were blocked in China in the first place. Of course, politics and toxicity exist all over Chinese internet as well, they just get filtered &#x2F; harmonized over time or never reach many eyes in the first place. It maybe a bad unitary model for governing cyberspace policy for an entire country, but it&#x27;s has merits when applied to certain audiences &#x2F; networks and the west should learn from it even if TikTok gets banned.</text></item><item><author>mgraczyk</author><text>&gt; How did an app designed by two guys in Shanghai managed to run circles around U.S. video apps<p>Part of the explanation is that they weren&#x27;t in Shanghai. The founders both worked full time at US tech companies in California when musical.ly was founded. musical.ly may have been founded while they were temporarily in Shanghai, but the founders were not some random people who didn&#x27;t understand US culture.<p>This is important to the article&#x27;s thesis. At least part of the early insight into the US market comes from the founders living and working in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>That&#x27;s hardly &quot;nonwestern&quot; or unique.<p>Big part of the appeal of snapchat was that you could be silly and send goofy shit without leaving a permanent record of it on your feed...</text></comment> | <story><title>TikTok and the Sorting Hat</title><url>https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2020/8/3/tiktok-and-the-sorting-hat</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dirtyid</author><text>IMO TikTok&#x27;s draw is that it&#x27;s the anthithesis to American &#x2F; western social media culture. It&#x27;s algorithmic bias towards mainstream, playful, feel good content is a byproduct of Chinese style censorship.<p>What you see on TikTok reflects content that survives the crucibles of Chinese internet filtering. &quot;Creative and Joyful&quot; opiate for the masses. This is an often overlooked aspect of Chinese social media &#x2F; content filtering philosophy that has coalesced over time - block out the bad and divisive while elevating mundane joys. It&#x27;s how the 50c operates, it floods the airwaves with small happy platitudes and avoids debates because engaging and challenging controversial topics is how toxicity is produced. It&#x27;s counterproductive to even try. The last thing Chinese social media platforms is designed to do is to start revolutions, encourage radicalization or sectarianism among impressionable audiences, things western social media platforms are dealing with now, and why they were blocked in China in the first place. Of course, politics and toxicity exist all over Chinese internet as well, they just get filtered &#x2F; harmonized over time or never reach many eyes in the first place. It maybe a bad unitary model for governing cyberspace policy for an entire country, but it&#x27;s has merits when applied to certain audiences &#x2F; networks and the west should learn from it even if TikTok gets banned.</text></item><item><author>mgraczyk</author><text>&gt; How did an app designed by two guys in Shanghai managed to run circles around U.S. video apps<p>Part of the explanation is that they weren&#x27;t in Shanghai. The founders both worked full time at US tech companies in California when musical.ly was founded. musical.ly may have been founded while they were temporarily in Shanghai, but the founders were not some random people who didn&#x27;t understand US culture.<p>This is important to the article&#x27;s thesis. At least part of the early insight into the US market comes from the founders living and working in the US.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ontifica</author><text>This doesn&#x27;t make any sense, I use tiktok and there&#x27;s plenty of content I wouldn&#x27;t expect china or america to endorse. There are lots of videos dedicated to communism, capitalism, uyghur muslims, BLM, etc. It&#x27;s actually fairly open and this type of content gets noticeably boosted by the algorithm if you express interest in it, and gets a ton of likes too. There is also plenty of happy cat videos as well if that&#x27;s your thing.<p>Also, ugly people get a lot of attention. I would expect china&#x27;s social credit system to discredit those who are less attractive, but on tiktok you see less than conventionally attractive creators get a big following. They don&#x27;t even need to be freak shows, it&#x27;s just an app that&#x27;s full of regular people openly talking about regular things. Very much the opposite of what I have heard about the way media works in china.</text></comment> |
12,256,723 | 12,256,758 | 1 | 3 | 12,256,270 | train | <story><title>Building fast.com</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/building-fastcom.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greenspot</author><text>First, I thought why another speed test, then I saw that they link their results directly to speedtest.net (the reference) and finally, I realized that fast.com is so much faster in detecting the download speed (but lacks upload and ping).<p>Not bad.<p>EDIT: And they secured a fantastic domain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twinkletwinkle</author><text>I think the point was they conduct the speed test from the same servers that deliver video content. So ISPs can&#x27;t throttle video streaming without it showing up in this speed test.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building fast.com</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/building-fastcom.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greenspot</author><text>First, I thought why another speed test, then I saw that they link their results directly to speedtest.net (the reference) and finally, I realized that fast.com is so much faster in detecting the download speed (but lacks upload and ping).<p>Not bad.<p>EDIT: And they secured a fantastic domain.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greenspot</author><text>Since they took this precious domain, I was wondering about the purchase price and if it was worth to buy this awesome domain—we are talking here about a mid six digit at least, rather seven digits.<p>Then, I checked how much traffic speedtest.net is getting on SimilarWeb: wow, 150m visits per month, I didn&#x27;t know that speed testing can be so popular.<p>Conclusion: Yes, it was right to buy this domain and if fast.com gets a large part of speedtest.net&#x27;s traffic in the long term, Netflix has a neat free Marketing channel.</text></comment> |
14,728,955 | 14,728,875 | 1 | 2 | 14,727,417 | train | <story><title>Steve Jobs and the Missing “Intel Inside” Sticker</title><url>http://kensegall.com/2017/06/steve-jobs-and-the-missing-intel-inside-sticker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sblank</author><text>The Intel Inside campaign wasn&#x27;t just a consumer branding strategy. First and foremost it was a predatory marketing campaign that turned into exclusionary behavior. PC firms that used Intel chips and put Intel Inside on their PC&#x27;s were given funds to use in advertising and were reimbursed for &quot;marketing expenses&quot;. In reality these marketing funds were actually a subsidy&#x2F;discount (some would say kickback) on Intel chips. As Intel&#x27;s power grew they would only give the PC manufacturers rebates if they would buy 95% of their Microprocessors from Intel. If they used AMD or other microprocessors - all the Intel rebates would disappear. By the end of the 1990s, Intel had spent more than $7 billion on the Intel Inside campaign and had 2,700 PC firms locked up. By 2001 these rebates were running $1.5 billion a year.<p>Intel was sued in Japan (for offering money to NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi,) in the EU (for paying German retailers to sell Intel PC&#x27;s only) and in the U.S. for predatory (pricing), exclusionary behavior, and the abuse of a dominant position (HP, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway and Hitachi.) The legal record is pretty clear that Intel used payments, marketing loyalty rebates and threats to persuade computer manufacturers, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP), to limit their use of AMD processors. U.S. antitrust authorities have focused on whether the loyalty rebates used by Intel were a predatory device in violation of the Sherman Act. The European Commission (EC) brought similar charges and imposed a 1.06 billion Euros fine on Intel for abuse of a dominant position.<p>The sum of these efforts not only killed competitors but it killed innovation in microprocessor design outside of Intel for decades.<p>Ironically Intel&#x27;s lack of innovation in the 21st century is a direct result of its 20th century policy of being a monopolist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flomo</author><text>Not to disagree with your point about monopolism, but &quot;Intel Inside&quot; came about in that weird period of PC history where IBM had been dethroned, but nobody had taken charge. PC companies were manufacturing &quot;clones&quot; of increasingly outdated systems, and the pain-points were numerous and obvious. It really was a &quot;unique branding opportunity&quot; for someone to step-up and define the post-IBM PC market.<p>Which Intel did. They were largely the one who turned primitive PC ATs + 57 different hacks into the modern PC platform. APIC PCI USB etc. (AMD gets credit for 64-bit largely because Intel refused to do so.) &quot;Intel Inside&quot; wasn&#x27;t just marketing kickbacks, it was a badly-needed standardization program.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Jobs and the Missing “Intel Inside” Sticker</title><url>http://kensegall.com/2017/06/steve-jobs-and-the-missing-intel-inside-sticker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sblank</author><text>The Intel Inside campaign wasn&#x27;t just a consumer branding strategy. First and foremost it was a predatory marketing campaign that turned into exclusionary behavior. PC firms that used Intel chips and put Intel Inside on their PC&#x27;s were given funds to use in advertising and were reimbursed for &quot;marketing expenses&quot;. In reality these marketing funds were actually a subsidy&#x2F;discount (some would say kickback) on Intel chips. As Intel&#x27;s power grew they would only give the PC manufacturers rebates if they would buy 95% of their Microprocessors from Intel. If they used AMD or other microprocessors - all the Intel rebates would disappear. By the end of the 1990s, Intel had spent more than $7 billion on the Intel Inside campaign and had 2,700 PC firms locked up. By 2001 these rebates were running $1.5 billion a year.<p>Intel was sued in Japan (for offering money to NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi,) in the EU (for paying German retailers to sell Intel PC&#x27;s only) and in the U.S. for predatory (pricing), exclusionary behavior, and the abuse of a dominant position (HP, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway and Hitachi.) The legal record is pretty clear that Intel used payments, marketing loyalty rebates and threats to persuade computer manufacturers, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP), to limit their use of AMD processors. U.S. antitrust authorities have focused on whether the loyalty rebates used by Intel were a predatory device in violation of the Sherman Act. The European Commission (EC) brought similar charges and imposed a 1.06 billion Euros fine on Intel for abuse of a dominant position.<p>The sum of these efforts not only killed competitors but it killed innovation in microprocessor design outside of Intel for decades.<p>Ironically Intel&#x27;s lack of innovation in the 21st century is a direct result of its 20th century policy of being a monopolist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kobeya</author><text>&gt; Ironically Intel&#x27;s lack of innovation in the 21st century is a direct result of its 20th century policy of being a monopolist.<p>That&#x27;s not ironic at all. Monopolies are bad for innovation.</text></comment> |
33,977,819 | 33,977,459 | 1 | 2 | 33,976,166 | train | <story><title>After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to being millionaires</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/after-spending-20-years-simulating-reality-the-dwarf-fortress-devs-have-to-get-used-to-a-new-one-being-millionaires/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jujube3</author><text><i>&gt; They are definitely in &#x27;set for life if we make wise choices&#x27; territory</i><p>Sure it seems that way now, but what happens when a volcano appears under their house and it floods with lava? Or they go to war with the elves?</text></item><item><author>TrevorJ</author><text>They are definitely in &#x27;set for life if we make wise choices&#x27; territory. In another month I&#x27;m betting they will be in &#x27;set for life even if we make foolish choices&#x27; territory. I&#x27;m really happy for them. They really stayed true to their passion and I&#x27;m happy to see them rewarded for this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>technically, they are still &quot;set for life&quot; assuming that they are in the house when it floods with lava.<p>Remember: Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for one night; light a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.</text></comment> | <story><title>After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to being millionaires</title><url>https://www.pcgamer.com/after-spending-20-years-simulating-reality-the-dwarf-fortress-devs-have-to-get-used-to-a-new-one-being-millionaires/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jujube3</author><text><i>&gt; They are definitely in &#x27;set for life if we make wise choices&#x27; territory</i><p>Sure it seems that way now, but what happens when a volcano appears under their house and it floods with lava? Or they go to war with the elves?</text></item><item><author>TrevorJ</author><text>They are definitely in &#x27;set for life if we make wise choices&#x27; territory. In another month I&#x27;m betting they will be in &#x27;set for life even if we make foolish choices&#x27; territory. I&#x27;m really happy for them. They really stayed true to their passion and I&#x27;m happy to see them rewarded for this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoubleFree</author><text>They&#x27;ll just have to remember that losing is fun</text></comment> |
3,710,380 | 3,710,450 | 1 | 3 | 3,710,183 | train | <story><title>My Git Habits</title><url>http://blog.plover.com/prog/git-habits.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Osiris</author><text>I'm fairly new to git. I've only been using it for about two months. It seems like this is a lot of work with the end result only being that the commit log is cleaner and perhaps makes cherry-picking a feature/fix a bit easier.<p>I can understand the need for this kind of cleanup when pushing a fix to an open-source repository that needs pull requests to be self-contained, but for an internal company repo, how important is it to keep the commit history this clean?<p>If I have changes I'm not ready to commit and need to switch branches to work on another issue, I find that doing a STASH is an easier way to go. I can just stash my working copy changes, switch branches, then come back and apply the stash and keep going and then make one final commit with just the final changes I want to commit.<p>Other DVCS actually believe that being able to modify commit history is a bad thing and lean toward immutable commit history (e.g., Veracity). Git makes it pretty easy to modify commit history which is ok for local branches but can be easily misunderstood to break your branch if you're trying to modify commits that have already been pushed to a remote repo.<p>I like the idea of keeping the commit history clean but I'm not sure that it's worth the effort that it takes to manage the process. In the end, only your final good code is going to be merged into an integration or master branch anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Git Habits</title><url>http://blog.plover.com/prog/git-habits.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidWoof</author><text>This seems like a pretty terrible workflow to me, do others here actually work like this?<p>I only use git-add -p when I've screwed up and didn't commit when I should have, so I have to split the current commit into two. It seems to me that rebase -i and merge --squash are better suited to re-writing history in the way that's being done here. I'm especially distrustful of any workflow that includes the line "I eyeball the diff".<p>But I'm no git guru. Is this a common way to work? Are there advantages over the alternatives?</text></comment> |
21,341,840 | 21,341,602 | 1 | 2 | 21,341,057 | train | <story><title>Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220721-scientists-have-trained-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-to-collect-food/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperpallium</author><text>The story is not rats driving cars. This story is not that rats in enriched environments acquire driving skills more quickly.<p>The story is that learning to drive <i>relaxes</i> rats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>intenex</author><text>&quot;Just like us humans, learning to drive and navigate seemed to have a relaxing effect on the rats. In a control experiment, they found rats had higher levels of cortisol when being driven around in remote-controlled cars than when they were allowed to steer themselves.&quot;<p>From the futurism post <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;futurism.com&#x2F;the-byte&#x2F;scientists-rats-drive-tiny-cars" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;futurism.com&#x2F;the-byte&#x2F;scientists-rats-drive-tiny-car...</a><p>Seems like a terrible control imo for me to say driving intrinsically has a relaxing effect. A better control would be rats doing nothing vs rats driving and seeing if the rats doing nothing were more stressed than the driving rats, meaning the driving rats were actually lowering their baseline stress.<p>In this experiment the control of being a passenger in a terrifying vehicle moving all by itself with no autonomy or control over the situation can quite likely be the thing causing elevated stress, rather than rats driving depressing levels of stress. Imagine if someone suddenly strapped you into a bubble that started moving by itself and you have no idea why this is happening, no control over the situation, or where you&#x27;re going or what&#x27;s going to happen to you. Stressful af. Hell, people get stressed just being in the passenger seat watching someone else drive.<p>The vast majority of people prefer having autonomy and control over their own motion vs being helplessly navigated by someone else you don&#x27;t know&#x2F;trust with zero context and no idea what&#x27;s going on. A little misleading if this reflects the actual study.</text></comment> | <story><title>Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars</title><url>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220721-scientists-have-trained-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-to-collect-food/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperpallium</author><text>The story is not rats driving cars. This story is not that rats in enriched environments acquire driving skills more quickly.<p>The story is that learning to drive <i>relaxes</i> rats.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajna91</author><text>Furthermore, the rats that lived in enriched environments drove for the joy of driving, whereas the standard caged rats only drove for the food rewards.<p>&quot;As hypothesized, the animals living in the enriched environment performed better at the driving test, indicating that they did a better job at learning a new complex skill. The enriched rats also maintained a strong interest in the car, even after the reward of food was removed.<p>On the other hand, the researchers were surprised at the lack of interest shown by the non-enriched rats and their level of underachievement shown in the driving task. &quot;</text></comment> |
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