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40,697,828 | 40,696,894 | 1 | 2 | 40,695,814 | train | <story><title>The History of DR DOS</title><url>https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-dr-dos</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>Basically MS&#x2F;PC-DOS was there and it was &quot;free.&quot; And its (many) shortcomings could be overcome by a ton of cheap or free add-on utilities for power users who were so inclined.<p>It&#x27;s also amazing how many Caldera tentacles snaked into so many things.</text></comment> | <story><title>The History of DR DOS</title><url>https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-dr-dos</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stuaxo</author><text>The era of it having a port of Mac System 7 is so interesting, somewhere there must be disks with that on it (project Star Trek).<p>Who is still alive that might have it?</text></comment> |
29,286,837 | 29,286,751 | 1 | 2 | 29,286,088 | train | <story><title>“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/the-nft-bay-shares-multi-terabyte-archive-of-pirated-nfts-211118/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomp</author><text>Reminds me of Moon Shares from like 20 years ago. You could buy property on the moon and the company would verify ownership for you.<p>Although this is totally different, because it’s blockchain.</text></item><item><author>judge2020</author><text>Isn’t the point of NFTs that it verifies ownership, not “you’re the only one that can access the content” (although there are indeed NFTs that can only allow the owner to decrypt the content)? It’s like video game cosmetics - many people can have the same skin, but people you want to impress or show off to can see that you own x, y, and z.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vetch</author><text>NFTs are probably best thought of as a recapitulation of status goods into the digital world, outside video games. The physical good versions has never made sense to me either.<p>Thorstein Veblen already in the late 1800s had pointed out that an object&#x27;s utility as a status signal increases in tandem with its uselessness. The object must then also be recognized among peers as difficult to obtain. For the moon shares analogy to work, being objectively worthless or grossly overvalued is insufficient, it had to have also been exclusive and coveted among the &quot;high class&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/the-nft-bay-shares-multi-terabyte-archive-of-pirated-nfts-211118/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomp</author><text>Reminds me of Moon Shares from like 20 years ago. You could buy property on the moon and the company would verify ownership for you.<p>Although this is totally different, because it’s blockchain.</text></item><item><author>judge2020</author><text>Isn’t the point of NFTs that it verifies ownership, not “you’re the only one that can access the content” (although there are indeed NFTs that can only allow the owner to decrypt the content)? It’s like video game cosmetics - many people can have the same skin, but people you want to impress or show off to can see that you own x, y, and z.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xondono</author><text>&gt; Although this is totally different, because it’s blockchain.<p>Except the blockchain only keeps the url, so the “content” doesn’t get any of the properties of the blockchain</text></comment> |
29,502,009 | 29,501,175 | 1 | 2 | 29,500,602 | train | <story><title>Stack Graphs</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-12-09-introducing-stack-graphs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spinningslate</author><text>Cool to see this is inspired by Eelco Visser&#x27;s [1] group at TU-Delft, who originated the concept of scope graphs [2].<p>The back story of their language design research and tools is worth reading [3]. Not least because Nix originated as their build system!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eelcovisser.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eelcovisser.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;2021-12-09-introducing-stack-graphs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.blog&#x2F;2021-12-09-introducing-stack-graphs&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eelcovisser.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;08&#x2F;spoofax-mip&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eelcovisser.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;08&#x2F;spoofax-mip&#x2F;</a><p>--<p>EDIT: Fixed formatting.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stack Graphs</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-12-09-introducing-stack-graphs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dcreager</author><text>OP author here. I also gave a talk about this at Strange Loop back in October if folks want to watch&#x2F;listen instead of read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcreager.net&#x2F;talks&#x2F;2021-strange-loop&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dcreager.net&#x2F;talks&#x2F;2021-strange-loop&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
18,854,110 | 18,853,545 | 1 | 3 | 18,852,523 | train | <story><title>Bash 5.0 released</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00063.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_kst_</author><text>With this release, bash now has three built-in variables (um, I mean &quot;parameters&quot;) whose values are updated every time they&#x27;re read:<p>$RANDOM yields a random integer in the range 0..32767. (This feature was already there.)<p>$EPOCHSECONDS yields the whole number of seconds since the epoch.<p>$EPOCHREALTIME yields the number of seconds since the epoch with microsecond precision.<p>I&#x27;m thinking of a new shell feature that would allow the user to define similar variables. For example, I have $today set to the current date in YYYY-MM-DD format, and I have to jump through some minor hoops to keep it up to date.<p>Does anyone else think this would be useful enough to propose as a new bash feature? Would it create any potential security holes? Should variables like $PATH be exempted?<p>(Of course this doesn&#x27;t add any new functionality, since I could use &quot;$(date +%F)&quot; in place of &quot;$today&quot;. It&#x27;s just a bit of syntactic sugar.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>Please no. The parallel universe Me where I didn&#x27;t happen to read this random thread would never know, consequently never expect random variables to do that. And curse you forever if I found out while banging my head debugging some buggy script.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bash 5.0 released</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00063.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_kst_</author><text>With this release, bash now has three built-in variables (um, I mean &quot;parameters&quot;) whose values are updated every time they&#x27;re read:<p>$RANDOM yields a random integer in the range 0..32767. (This feature was already there.)<p>$EPOCHSECONDS yields the whole number of seconds since the epoch.<p>$EPOCHREALTIME yields the number of seconds since the epoch with microsecond precision.<p>I&#x27;m thinking of a new shell feature that would allow the user to define similar variables. For example, I have $today set to the current date in YYYY-MM-DD format, and I have to jump through some minor hoops to keep it up to date.<p>Does anyone else think this would be useful enough to propose as a new bash feature? Would it create any potential security holes? Should variables like $PATH be exempted?<p>(Of course this doesn&#x27;t add any new functionality, since I could use &quot;$(date +%F)&quot; in place of &quot;$today&quot;. It&#x27;s just a bit of syntactic sugar.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dualbus</author><text>You mean like Ksh&#x27;s discipline functions?<p><pre><code> dualbus@system76-pc:~$ ksh -c &#x27;date=; date.get() { .sh.value=$(date +%s); }; echo $date; sleep 5; echo $date&#x27;
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See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;cd&#x2F;E36784_01&#x2F;html&#x2F;E36870&#x2F;ksh-1.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;cd&#x2F;E36784_01&#x2F;html&#x2F;E36870&#x2F;ksh-1.html</a> (&quot;Discipline Functions&quot;)</text></comment> |
7,855,710 | 7,855,747 | 1 | 3 | 7,855,455 | train | <story><title>Performance comparison of Functional C++ 11, Java 8, JavaScript and Wolfram</title><url>http://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/06/fast-functional-goats-lions-and-wolves.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zik</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty astonishing how easily C++ trounces everything else including Java. I guess there&#x27;s still something to be said for compiling directly to optimised binaries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtdewcmu</author><text>Supposedly, Java is going to be faster than native code any day now. It&#x27;s been said for years. The case was somewhat credible at one time, because the opportunity exists to optimize using runtime information. I think the reason it didn&#x27;t go that way is:<p>1. CPUs have gotten very good at doing runtime optimization kinds of things on their own, like predicting branches and reducing the cost of virtual function calls.
2. Java only does optimizations that can be done quickly, since the optimizer has to compete with the executing program itself.
3. The claim was overblown to begin with, and Java is trying to do too many other things, like be secure, that interfere with performance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Performance comparison of Functional C++ 11, Java 8, JavaScript and Wolfram</title><url>http://unriskinsight.blogspot.com/2014/06/fast-functional-goats-lions-and-wolves.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zik</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty astonishing how easily C++ trounces everything else including Java. I guess there&#x27;s still something to be said for compiling directly to optimised binaries.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcv</author><text>Having dealt with trying to make Java run within some reasonable margin of C++11, I&#x27;m not surprised at these results at all. It&#x27;s really hard to make Java go that fast.<p>I&#x27;m instead shocked that the C++ version beat Fortran.</text></comment> |
19,786,461 | 19,786,541 | 1 | 3 | 19,786,102 | train | <story><title>Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0898</author><text>As Jon Gruber says: &quot;Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services.&quot;<p>&quot;The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources.&quot;<p>&quot;By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krn</author><text>I have explained why Bloomberg&#x27;s story would have been vehemently denied by all companies involved even if it was completely true:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18655803" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18655803</a><p>Many people in tech, including John Gruber, seem to lack a basic understanding of who makes decisions concerning national security and international politics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-found-hidden-backdoors-in-huawei-equipment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0898</author><text>As Jon Gruber says: &quot;Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services.&quot;<p>&quot;The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources.&quot;<p>&quot;By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neximo64</author><text>How do you know for sure that the story is false? As you&#x27;ve mentioned Bloomberg hasn&#x27;t corrected or retracted the story. Governments and companies have in the past denied things that have been true.<p>Do you seriously think Huawei vehemently denying that it has backdoors in its technology makes it true all of a sudden?</text></comment> |
13,659,888 | 13,659,857 | 1 | 3 | 13,659,419 | train | <story><title>Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-16/elon-musk-is-really-boring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamjc</author><text>I thought the current thinking was that building more roads means that there will be more roads to use, and therefore more cars on the road.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Induced_demand" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Induced_demand</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>Induced demand often happens, but certainly not always. It just depends on latent demand and network effects.<p>More importantly, the appearance of induced demand is not a general argument against building roads! People get value out of getting to places. If we build road B intending to relieve congestion on road A, but road A stays just as congested, we nevertheless have enabled people to get places with road B that they would not otherwise have been able to reach. That increases utility.<p>All of this applies to mass transit as well. The BART is currently at capacity during rush hour; if a parallel transit line was built, this would probably fill up with people without reducing congestion on BART, but it would still be creating value!</text></comment> | <story><title>Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-16/elon-musk-is-really-boring</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamjc</author><text>I thought the current thinking was that building more roads means that there will be more roads to use, and therefore more cars on the road.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Induced_demand" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Induced_demand</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AYBABTME</author><text>Tunnels will be required on Mars to shield from radiation. Getting a head start on the technology while on Earth only makes sense. Pretty much everything he plans is in perspective of having a dual use: will it be needed on Mars - SpaceX&#x27;s true goal? I hate to say the word but, it&#x27;s all about synergies.</text></comment> |
36,655,483 | 36,655,313 | 1 | 2 | 36,654,960 | train | <story><title>Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company</title><url>https://www.eidel.io/2023/07/09/vc-funding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonzzzies</author><text>OR (as you say, but many miss) you do not care about being the market leader. I just want to have a nice company with nice people, no stress and making millions for all to live. I don’t need vc money, stress, be the market leader or ‘be faster than the competition’. A LOT of services or products you can make a long term (decades) money with like this. I don’t need more than 10m euros in my life, nor do my colleagues and our clients are happy. No idea why I want all this misery of competing, stress, exposure, running all the time etc etc.</text></item><item><author>raesene9</author><text>The article has a lot of interesting points, but seems to miss out on one of the main reasons (IMO) that startups take funding, which is to grow faster than (or as fast as) their competition.<p>Unless you&#x27;re lucky enough to be in a market segment without competition, you need to keep an eye on what your competitors are up to. If they can expand faster, add features faster and get more customers than you, it damages your chance of success in that market segment.<p>Taking VC money <i>could</i> provide that velosity.<p>That said ofc I do agree that, if your goal is to run a profitable business for a long time, taking VC cash is quite possibly a bad idea, depends on what the founders goals are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>My take is the VC world will split into three<p>- Million startups - put loads of cash into thousands of startups globally and play a huge vegas lottery - there is a lot of work there for the BC companies but played well it will have influence at the levels seen by newspapers or major consultancies used to<p>- the current much maligned approach that is going to creep further up the series A B C tree supplying capital to companies that have developed the model to just churn<p>- your one. The one I and half of HN is looking for :-) Honestly this confuses me - there is a large chunk of people on this very site that you could have convinced to leave what they are doing and set up a company with the risk of doing so mitigated by &quot;nice VC&quot; cash.<p>And since everyone in the industry claims they invest in people not ideas then they are turning away people because they won&#x27;t raise their price to meet a new point on the risk threshold curve.<p>So yeah something like VCs that fund profitable non IPO businesses seems a good idea. I mean if you stop asking people to make moon shots maybe more of them will just make 20% per year ROI</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company</title><url>https://www.eidel.io/2023/07/09/vc-funding/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anonzzzies</author><text>OR (as you say, but many miss) you do not care about being the market leader. I just want to have a nice company with nice people, no stress and making millions for all to live. I don’t need vc money, stress, be the market leader or ‘be faster than the competition’. A LOT of services or products you can make a long term (decades) money with like this. I don’t need more than 10m euros in my life, nor do my colleagues and our clients are happy. No idea why I want all this misery of competing, stress, exposure, running all the time etc etc.</text></item><item><author>raesene9</author><text>The article has a lot of interesting points, but seems to miss out on one of the main reasons (IMO) that startups take funding, which is to grow faster than (or as fast as) their competition.<p>Unless you&#x27;re lucky enough to be in a market segment without competition, you need to keep an eye on what your competitors are up to. If they can expand faster, add features faster and get more customers than you, it damages your chance of success in that market segment.<p>Taking VC money <i>could</i> provide that velosity.<p>That said ofc I do agree that, if your goal is to run a profitable business for a long time, taking VC cash is quite possibly a bad idea, depends on what the founders goals are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>detourdog</author><text>The biggest obstacle I see to using VC money is that it has a good opportunity to distort incentives.<p>If a company has a vision fulfilling every request outside of the vision could be considered a distraction. The VC has legitimate concerns outside of the scope of the company vision.<p>Apple is one of the few modern companies that I can think of where the VC money was useful.<p>If anyone can remember google before going public and after going public might mourn the old google.<p>Imagine if google wasn&#x27;t romanced by Wall Street but followed their own path like craigslist.org. I believe that google would have been much more collaborative. I can&#x27;t see where going public helped google be good at internet search.</text></comment> |
23,492,864 | 23,492,750 | 1 | 2 | 23,488,462 | train | <story><title>Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots</title><url>https://medium.com/better-marketing/pepsis-40-billion-typo-caused-deadly-riots-3d671295d1bd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>I think there are two ways to approach thinking about dramatic acts like self-immolation, rioting, looting, stealing, etc.<p>One way is to think &quot;wow, those people have had very different experiences from me, to drive them to do that.&quot; I&#x27;d put your reply in that category and I prefer this. It recognizes shared commonality among people, which is a good place to start for constructive change.<p>The other way is to think &quot;wow, those people are nothing like me, to want to do something like that.&quot; This treats differences as inherent and implies there are different &quot;types&quot; of people. It creates a sense of &quot;us vs them,&quot; which makes it harder to build the empathy necessary for constructive change.</text></item><item><author>Aloha</author><text>I&#x27;ve always looked at it this way &quot;things must be pretty bad if lighting yourself on fire sounds like a better alternative then living&quot; I dont need to understand the particulars beyond that.</text></item><item><author>austincheney</author><text>Having lived for some time in a third world country that has real poverty and real day to day security worries, situations like this spring to mind when people completely without optics compare their situations to those in developing nations. Yes, as insanely ignorant as that sounds it happens. People here on HN last week, as one example, were trying to compare their experiences recently protesting to the Arab Spring. People in the Arab Spring were lighting themselves on fire and protesting everyday longer than most of us have been locked down from COVID. Not the same, not even in the same universe.<p>The same absurd comparisons also come up when entitled people people try to talk about poverty when it’s clear they have never seen poverty in the US, much less in an economy where people earn less than $5 per day working 5x harder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austincheney</author><text>I try to look for primary intent. If somebody is advocating awareness of something worthy of their passion I can empathize with that advocacy even during times I may disagree with the subject advocated. I find it harder to empathize with people who are stealing designer handbags and claiming it’s a form of protest. I just see self enrichment (theft) as the primary motive and then a lie as a qualifier. To me that results in a difference compared to the prior described advocacy group that I cannot shake.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pepsi’s $32B Typo Caused Deadly Riots</title><url>https://medium.com/better-marketing/pepsis-40-billion-typo-caused-deadly-riots-3d671295d1bd</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>I think there are two ways to approach thinking about dramatic acts like self-immolation, rioting, looting, stealing, etc.<p>One way is to think &quot;wow, those people have had very different experiences from me, to drive them to do that.&quot; I&#x27;d put your reply in that category and I prefer this. It recognizes shared commonality among people, which is a good place to start for constructive change.<p>The other way is to think &quot;wow, those people are nothing like me, to want to do something like that.&quot; This treats differences as inherent and implies there are different &quot;types&quot; of people. It creates a sense of &quot;us vs them,&quot; which makes it harder to build the empathy necessary for constructive change.</text></item><item><author>Aloha</author><text>I&#x27;ve always looked at it this way &quot;things must be pretty bad if lighting yourself on fire sounds like a better alternative then living&quot; I dont need to understand the particulars beyond that.</text></item><item><author>austincheney</author><text>Having lived for some time in a third world country that has real poverty and real day to day security worries, situations like this spring to mind when people completely without optics compare their situations to those in developing nations. Yes, as insanely ignorant as that sounds it happens. People here on HN last week, as one example, were trying to compare their experiences recently protesting to the Arab Spring. People in the Arab Spring were lighting themselves on fire and protesting everyday longer than most of us have been locked down from COVID. Not the same, not even in the same universe.<p>The same absurd comparisons also come up when entitled people people try to talk about poverty when it’s clear they have never seen poverty in the US, much less in an economy where people earn less than $5 per day working 5x harder.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nate_meurer</author><text>I really agree with you here, except for your inclusion of looters in that group. You&#x27;re goddamn right opportunistic looters are nothing like me. Those fuckers care nothing about the fight of the protests, and are willing to tarnish the whole movement for some free shit. Fuck them.<p>Otherwise, right on. I can&#x27;t tell you how often I come to dead ends in arguments regarding poverty and crime, where folks who&#x27;ve never been poor or desperate give themselves 100% of the credit for their good fortune. Like they picked their fucking parents before birth.</text></comment> |
32,358,545 | 32,358,302 | 1 | 3 | 32,357,470 | train | <story><title>DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source</title><url>https://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-release-moonray-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miohtama</author><text>Would be interesting to know what business considerations lead to the decision to open source MoonRay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thebeardisred</author><text>DreamWorks Animation (aka DWA) is a huge advocate of open source.<p>Over the years they&#x27;ve bankrolled a lot of development around Linux on the desktop and have one of the most astonishing NFS infrastructures I&#x27;ve ever directly layed hands on.<p>They&#x27;ve talked about their love of open source over the years, especially at Red Hat summit.<p>(I spent quite a bit of time working with them and their former CTO is currently a teammate of mine).</text></comment> | <story><title>DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source</title><url>https://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-release-moonray-open-source</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miohtama</author><text>Would be interesting to know what business considerations lead to the decision to open source MoonRay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erichocean</author><text>Even small companies can create competitive high-end renderers today so it&#x27;s not much of a differentiator. Filmmaking is about human talent mostly, not technology. (Same thing happened in live-action filmmaking, anyone can afford the equipment today.)<p>But there&#x27;s a huge advantage to being the <i>first</i> high-end renderer to go open source, so lots of small studios will adopt it if it&#x27;s as solid as it looks.<p>It&#x27;ll become available in Blender.<p>Maintenance will then get extended to the community, including (most likely) support for alternate shading schemes (MaterialX&#x2F;Lama has decent momentum right now, converging with Sony&#x27;s OpenShadingLanguage).<p>Apache 2.0 is an ideal license for this kind of project.</text></comment> |
23,834,078 | 23,833,895 | 1 | 3 | 23,833,140 | train | <story><title>German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving</title><url>https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN24F1T5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkonofalski</author><text>I agree with this wholeheartedly, even as a Tesla owner. Tesla goofed from the beginning by calling tech like &quot;Autosteer&quot; and &quot;Traffic Assisted Cruise Control&quot; under the moniker &quot;Autopilot&quot; while shifting everything above that to &quot;Full Self-Driving&quot;. They should have called it &quot;CoPilot&quot; since that infers that you&#x27;re still the driver in charge of controlling the vehicle and it would have had exactly the same reception (possibly better) than what&#x27;s happening now. As it stands, it&#x27;s misleading and, frankly, disappointing to get into a Tesla for the first time and try &quot;Autopilot&quot; only to realize that you have to keep your hands on the wheel, navigate the accelerator and brakes, stop at lights and stop signs, and basically drive the car while it keeps you in the lane and stops you from hitting other cars. That&#x27;s not &quot;Autopilot&quot;, that&#x27;s &quot;CoPilot&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stetrain</author><text>Actually I think the name &quot;Autopilot&quot; is the least troublesome part of the marketing.<p>Other car makers call their systems CoPilot, ProPilot, SuperCruise, whatever and I think the name matters less than the communication and details of using the system.<p>The main Autopilot marketing page shows a video of a Tesla driving itself, says the Driver is there for legal purposes only, and provides no other disclaimers about the limitations, or that the demonstration is of internal test software and not reproducible with consumer vehicles.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;autopilot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;autopilot</a><p>Actually using the car, the system is fairly clear about the need to pay attention and keep your hands on the wheel, but it allows you to engage Autosteer in areas the manual says you should not (ie city streets) and does not clearly indicate what areas are good or not good for using Autosteer. SuperCruise only works on specifically listed highway segments, which limits its usefulness but also prevents these issues.<p>Also Tesla relies on the steering wheel torque sensor to determine driver presence. This leads to false negatives (my hands are on the wheel but not providing a turning force so the car gives an alert) and is easily bypassed (there are third party products that clip on to the steering wheel and provide enough weight to fool the system).<p>Competing systems (SuperCruise, BMW) use driver monitor cameras or capacitive wheel sensors to provide a better indication of driver attentiveness.</text></comment> | <story><title>German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving</title><url>https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN24F1T5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkonofalski</author><text>I agree with this wholeheartedly, even as a Tesla owner. Tesla goofed from the beginning by calling tech like &quot;Autosteer&quot; and &quot;Traffic Assisted Cruise Control&quot; under the moniker &quot;Autopilot&quot; while shifting everything above that to &quot;Full Self-Driving&quot;. They should have called it &quot;CoPilot&quot; since that infers that you&#x27;re still the driver in charge of controlling the vehicle and it would have had exactly the same reception (possibly better) than what&#x27;s happening now. As it stands, it&#x27;s misleading and, frankly, disappointing to get into a Tesla for the first time and try &quot;Autopilot&quot; only to realize that you have to keep your hands on the wheel, navigate the accelerator and brakes, stop at lights and stop signs, and basically drive the car while it keeps you in the lane and stops you from hitting other cars. That&#x27;s not &quot;Autopilot&quot;, that&#x27;s &quot;CoPilot&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HumblyTossed</author><text>If you use the wayback machine and look at their AutoPilot page, the very first thing you see is ... well, here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170201120106&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla.com&#x2F;autopilot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20170201120106&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tesla...</a><p>They wanted people to believe that this had more capabilities than it really does.</text></comment> |
10,338,410 | 10,338,473 | 1 | 3 | 10,337,763 | train | <story><title>The microservices cargo cult</title><url>http://www.stavros.io/posts/microservices-cargo-cult/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aartur</author><text>Microservices are advertised as a means to modularization, but it&#x27;s what programming language modules are for - they are defined on source code level and can be freely used in different runtime components without network&#x2F;ops&#x2F;version-management headaches. When you have your module defined that way, you can think of exposing it as a microservice because this may make sense for your use case.<p>Imagine that each Python module runs as a microservice. For many modules this would lead to huge performance degradation, for example a regexp module can be called thousands times per second, the running time of a call is usually short and replacing an in-process call with a network call will give 100-1000x slowdown.<p>But if you take a different use case of the same module - complex regexps running on large texts, potentially causing out-of-memory errors, then packing the module into a microservice can make sense - separate processes can have large caches, an out-of-memory error terminates an instance of a microservice only and not the calling process.<p>Generally I think the advice should be to always use source code modules in the first place, and create microservices using these modules for specific use cases only involving runtime needs like caching, fault tolerance, scalability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liotier</author><text>&gt; Microservices are advertised as a means to modularization, but it&#x27;s what programming language modules are for - they are defined on source code level and can be freely used in different runtime components without network&#x2F;ops&#x2F;version-management headaches. When you have your module defined that way, you can think of exposing it as a microservice because this may make sense for your use case.<p>Yes yes yes ! If your architecture and data model are funked up, then it doesn&#x27;t matter how you implement them - you are screwed. On the other hand, proper modeling with separation-of-concern and well-defined interfaces will let you implement as anything you need, be it microservices or function calls inside a monolith.</text></comment> | <story><title>The microservices cargo cult</title><url>http://www.stavros.io/posts/microservices-cargo-cult/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aartur</author><text>Microservices are advertised as a means to modularization, but it&#x27;s what programming language modules are for - they are defined on source code level and can be freely used in different runtime components without network&#x2F;ops&#x2F;version-management headaches. When you have your module defined that way, you can think of exposing it as a microservice because this may make sense for your use case.<p>Imagine that each Python module runs as a microservice. For many modules this would lead to huge performance degradation, for example a regexp module can be called thousands times per second, the running time of a call is usually short and replacing an in-process call with a network call will give 100-1000x slowdown.<p>But if you take a different use case of the same module - complex regexps running on large texts, potentially causing out-of-memory errors, then packing the module into a microservice can make sense - separate processes can have large caches, an out-of-memory error terminates an instance of a microservice only and not the calling process.<p>Generally I think the advice should be to always use source code modules in the first place, and create microservices using these modules for specific use cases only involving runtime needs like caching, fault tolerance, scalability.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>Very true, but I&#x27;ve heard modularization touted as a benefit of microservices many times, as if it&#x27;s exclusive. You can get modularization as a first-class feature in your favorite language, and almost for free!</text></comment> |
2,944,229 | 2,944,074 | 1 | 2 | 2,943,965 | train | <story><title>Rails 3.1 Gem Available</title><url>http://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/3.1.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tenderlove</author><text>Yes, I am very excited. I should have released during business hours with announcements prepared and whatnot, but I really wanted this code in people's hands. I hope that everyone enjoys this release!</text></comment> | <story><title>Rails 3.1 Gem Available</title><url>http://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/3.1.0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nfm</author><text>Thanks to Rails core and all the contributors for yet another killer release :)<p>If you're new to 3.1, the following resources will help you to get started:<p>Release notes:<p><a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/3_1_release_notes.html" rel="nofollow">http://guides.rubyonrails.org/3_1_release_notes.html</a><p>Asset pipeline:<p><a href="http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html" rel="nofollow">http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html</a><p><a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/279-understanding-the-asset-pipeline" rel="nofollow">http://railscasts.com/episodes/279-understanding-the-asset-p...</a></text></comment> |
17,040,316 | 17,039,322 | 1 | 3 | 17,036,745 | train | <story><title>“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot</title><url>https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/5/the-idiot-savant-9753</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>urmish</author><text>This novel, along with &#x27;Crime and punishement&#x27; deal with completely opposite personalities. One has a very optimistic view of the world, the other, Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment, despises it and justifies violent crime with this mentality. Wonderful works, both of them. Unlike many, I read TBK first and decided to read Dostoevsky&#x27;s other works and fell in love. Notes from the underground will always hold a special spot in my heart because of how much I can relate to the protagonist unfortunately.<p>Can anyone recommend other similar works of literature? I haven&#x27;t read many books like this but I found Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund and Steppenwolfe by Herman Hesse to be on the same lines (deal with existentialism).</text></comment> | <story><title>“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot</title><url>https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/5/the-idiot-savant-9753</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ikeyany</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t the word &#x27;savant&#x27; imply wisdom? Prince Myshkin is as naive as they come. I would think someone in his shoes wouldn&#x27;t mind being walked all over like he is in the book.<p>&quot;Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.&quot;</text></comment> |
11,528,512 | 11,528,266 | 1 | 3 | 11,527,763 | train | <story><title>Is Bitcoin Becoming More Stable Than Gold?</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/04/19/is-bitcoin-becoming-more-stable-than-gold/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JamilD</author><text>&gt; &quot;The last 24 days mark the longest period in which bitcoin prices have been less volatile than gold prices, going back to 2010.&quot;<p>Twenty-four days is not enough time to extrapolate any real meaning. It could be just chance, it could be indicative of a long-term trend, but I&#x27;d file this headline under the category of &quot;questions to which the answer is no&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cb18</author><text>Not only is it not enough time to extrapolate any real meaning, but to choose a period of 24 days that correspond to a period of diminishing interest in bitcoin and heightened interest in gold because of roiling in the broader markets and then to suggest bitcoin is now more stable than gold is reaching the heights of absurdity.<p>Which is more &#x27;stable&#x27;?<p>A commodity on which economies have rested for millennia along with many other established uses, or a commodity less than a decade old that has yet to establish any sustainable use?<p>hmmm..</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Bitcoin Becoming More Stable Than Gold?</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/04/19/is-bitcoin-becoming-more-stable-than-gold/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JamilD</author><text>&gt; &quot;The last 24 days mark the longest period in which bitcoin prices have been less volatile than gold prices, going back to 2010.&quot;<p>Twenty-four days is not enough time to extrapolate any real meaning. It could be just chance, it could be indicative of a long-term trend, but I&#x27;d file this headline under the category of &quot;questions to which the answer is no&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedks</author><text>&gt;I&#x27;d file this headline under the category of &quot;questions to which the answer is no&quot;.<p>Obviously if Bitcoin goes tits-up it will not be more stable than gold. There seems to be a non-trivial probability Bitcoin will go tits-up from shitty governance alone, but barring that it seems to me that Bitcoin has the potential to be far more stable than gold. Access to gold is dependent on a large amount of geopolitical factors that could all change at any time, as well as mineral extraction technology that is getting better all the time.<p>Extrapolating far enough, we&#x27;ll never find an asteroid that&#x27;s miraculously made almost entirely out of Bitcoin.<p>I&#x27;m curious as to whether your viewpoint is the same for all cryptocurrency or just Bitcoin.</text></comment> |
15,597,697 | 15,597,596 | 1 | 2 | 15,596,275 | train | <story><title>Permissionless innovation</title><url>https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/permissionless-innovation-the-fuzzy-idea-that-rules-our-lives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mz</author><text>It reminds me of an article I read years ago in a magazine about solar power. A guy decided to go off grid with solar panels and battery back up. He was living in Chicago. He called around to find out who regulated this sort of thing, where he needed to apply for permits or whatever.<p>He learned that there wasn&#x27;t a governing body. So he realized that as long as he didn&#x27;t do anything stupid (a la burn the building down), he was pretty much free to do as he pleased.<p>If you are responsible, freedom of that sort is empowering. If you are not, you wind up being the jerk that causes regulations to be written and permitting processes to be created, ruining it for everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Permissionless innovation</title><url>https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/permissionless-innovation-the-fuzzy-idea-that-rules-our-lives/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>muxator</author><text>I think this applies not only at large (government) scale, but on a smaller scale, as well: from single companies to whole industrial sectors.
I personally witnessed various (non tech) companies that self-organized their tech arm in a way that was for every practical purpose impossible to innovate: &quot;You can certainly go on with your proposal, provided that you get the authorization from depts A, B and C, and that your changes have absolutely no impact on how they operate&quot;.</text></comment> |
29,087,974 | 29,086,996 | 1 | 3 | 29,082,060 | train | <story><title>People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbacic</author><text>Yes, but as I said, that&#x27;s a slippery slope to walk on - you&#x27;re not there to make friends or have fun - you&#x27;re there to do work. The whole point of that arrangement is that you do something that something else values enough to pay money for, perhaps something that you don&#x27;t particularly want to do or something that bores you.<p>If you start adjusting the workplace to fit the needs of the employee (gosh, how wrong that sentence sounds!) you end up in situations where it&#x27;s suddenly justifiable to let developers use technologies unsuited for the situation because they&#x27;re &quot;fun&quot; and &quot;interesting&quot; to use and keeping them happy means they&#x27;re more &quot;productive&quot;. Or letting middle management play politics because it keeps <i>them</i> happy and more productive. Or forcing people into open offices because some boss likes the feeling of lording over his subordinates and that makes him happy and productive.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m trying to say is - some basic levels of courtesy and human empathy are needed for any group endeavor to work but beyond that, decisions should be made in the interest of the business rather than what makes individuals happy.</text></item><item><author>asdff</author><text>There&#x27;s a pragmatic reason too for that. You work more efficiently when you work with your friends imo vs rigid or unagreeable personalities. You show up excited to work and contribute and share ideas vs wanting to get out of there and watching the clock tick slowly all day. I&#x27;d say the friend effect is able to elevate people who have &#x27;mediocre&#x27; skills on paper to be efficient enough and start learning at a rate that sees them performing well above their qualifications. There is definitely a performance advantage towards feeling engaged and focused.</text></item><item><author>sbacic</author><text>&gt; Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>I think this is dangerous ground to thread. I don&#x27;t like to work with assholes any more than the next guy and I&#x27;d certainly prefer working with people I personally like but that kind of thinking opens doors to all kinds of abuse; from favoritism (I like him, therefore he gets a pass when somebody else might not), through promotions (what does giving a promotion to somebody likeable over somebody more competent do to morale?) to plain fuckarounditis (playing career games rather than what&#x27;s good for the business, wasting company resources on petty political games).<p>I mean, I get it - it&#x27;s human nature. But something feels off when we&#x27;re justifying our simian prejudices in an environment where we&#x27;re supposed to prioritize somebody else&#x27;s satisfaction (whoever is paying us) but instead we do what we feel is best for us personally, using a fairly emotional and error prone system of judgment (I don&#x27;t care if this guy sucks, I like him because he&#x27;s my friend).</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Roger Sterling of Mad Men said it best [1]:<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t know if anyone&#x27;s ever told you that half the time this business comes down to &#x27;I don&#x27;t like that guy.&#x27;<p>In all my years of working, this is probably the most important thing you can learn. Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>It&#x27;s also why the perennial &quot;hiring is broken&quot; posts and threads miss the point completely: really they&#x27;re just trying to find someone they like. It&#x27;s what &quot;culture fit&quot; really means. And people like people like themselves. This is part of what can lead to unlawful discrimination.<p>Trustworthiness is an interesting one as it seems to be hard to define but some people just have it and some don&#x27;t. This has been studied and can have a profound effect on, say, criminal sentencing [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;423600926&#x2F;in-court-your-face-could-determine-your-fate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;4236009...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovich</author><text>Not all of my compensation is in cash. Giving me time to experiment, learn, or god forbid enjoy myself is part of the cost for employers of software developers.<p>You obviously can not want that as an employer but you’re either gonna have empty roles for a long time or pay out the ass for the lack of fringe benefits</text></comment> | <story><title>People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbacic</author><text>Yes, but as I said, that&#x27;s a slippery slope to walk on - you&#x27;re not there to make friends or have fun - you&#x27;re there to do work. The whole point of that arrangement is that you do something that something else values enough to pay money for, perhaps something that you don&#x27;t particularly want to do or something that bores you.<p>If you start adjusting the workplace to fit the needs of the employee (gosh, how wrong that sentence sounds!) you end up in situations where it&#x27;s suddenly justifiable to let developers use technologies unsuited for the situation because they&#x27;re &quot;fun&quot; and &quot;interesting&quot; to use and keeping them happy means they&#x27;re more &quot;productive&quot;. Or letting middle management play politics because it keeps <i>them</i> happy and more productive. Or forcing people into open offices because some boss likes the feeling of lording over his subordinates and that makes him happy and productive.<p>I guess what I&#x27;m trying to say is - some basic levels of courtesy and human empathy are needed for any group endeavor to work but beyond that, decisions should be made in the interest of the business rather than what makes individuals happy.</text></item><item><author>asdff</author><text>There&#x27;s a pragmatic reason too for that. You work more efficiently when you work with your friends imo vs rigid or unagreeable personalities. You show up excited to work and contribute and share ideas vs wanting to get out of there and watching the clock tick slowly all day. I&#x27;d say the friend effect is able to elevate people who have &#x27;mediocre&#x27; skills on paper to be efficient enough and start learning at a rate that sees them performing well above their qualifications. There is definitely a performance advantage towards feeling engaged and focused.</text></item><item><author>sbacic</author><text>&gt; Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>I think this is dangerous ground to thread. I don&#x27;t like to work with assholes any more than the next guy and I&#x27;d certainly prefer working with people I personally like but that kind of thinking opens doors to all kinds of abuse; from favoritism (I like him, therefore he gets a pass when somebody else might not), through promotions (what does giving a promotion to somebody likeable over somebody more competent do to morale?) to plain fuckarounditis (playing career games rather than what&#x27;s good for the business, wasting company resources on petty political games).<p>I mean, I get it - it&#x27;s human nature. But something feels off when we&#x27;re justifying our simian prejudices in an environment where we&#x27;re supposed to prioritize somebody else&#x27;s satisfaction (whoever is paying us) but instead we do what we feel is best for us personally, using a fairly emotional and error prone system of judgment (I don&#x27;t care if this guy sucks, I like him because he&#x27;s my friend).</text></item><item><author>cletus</author><text>Roger Sterling of Mad Men said it best [1]:<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t know if anyone&#x27;s ever told you that half the time this business comes down to &#x27;I don&#x27;t like that guy.&#x27;<p>In all my years of working, this is probably the most important thing you can learn. Except for marginal cases, it&#x27;s not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.<p>It&#x27;s also why the perennial &quot;hiring is broken&quot; posts and threads miss the point completely: really they&#x27;re just trying to find someone they like. It&#x27;s what &quot;culture fit&quot; really means. And people like people like themselves. This is part of what can lead to unlawful discrimination.<p>Trustworthiness is an interesting one as it seems to be hard to define but some people just have it and some don&#x27;t. This has been studied and can have a profound effect on, say, criminal sentencing [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;madmenqts&#x2F;status&#x2F;783648743690231808?lang...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;423600926&#x2F;in-court-your-face-could-determine-your-fate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;sections&#x2F;health-shots&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;17&#x2F;4236009...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alboy</author><text>&gt;you end up in situations where it&#x27;s suddenly justifiable to let developers use technologies unsuited for the situation because they&#x27;re &quot;fun&quot; and &quot;interesting&quot; to use and keeping them happy means they&#x27;re more &quot;productive&quot;<p>Well, companies already do that and justify the practice as something that selects for more passionate developers and makes job postings seem more attractive. Exhibit A: YC&#x27;s very own Paul Graham wrote &quot;The Python Paradox&quot; [1] back in 2004.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;pypar.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;pypar.html</a></text></comment> |
26,076,076 | 26,076,107 | 1 | 3 | 26,073,135 | train | <story><title>Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reddit-funding/reddits-valuation-doubles-to-6-billion-after-new-250-million-funding-idUSKBN2A9056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jug</author><text>Yes, discoverability of &quot;good&quot; subreddits is not there. But on the other hand I think Reddit get too much criticism. I find most subreddits besides the big catch-all ones like &#x2F;r&#x2F;pics good.<p>Basically all the TV shows have fun post-episode discussions and going through Game of Thrones, Black Sails or The Expanse wouldn&#x27;t have been the same without Reddit for me. It becomes the group of buddies I can vent or be in awe with, when they don&#x27;t share my TV show preferences at home.<p>Formula1 is a must for an F1 fan. Wow, I&#x27;ve learnt so much and the community is now part of watching F1. Pre-race chats, post-race, pre-qualification, post-qualification, haha... The behind the scenes racing drama...<p>MechanicalKeyboards can look over the top and elitist at first sight, until you realize they have self-distance and generally pretty relaxed (and it&#x27;s very inspiring, dangerously so for my pocket...)</text></item><item><author>rkho</author><text>Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess.<p>Some examples of some great subs:<p>- HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice<p>- Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey<p>- Posture for, well, fixing my posture<p>I&#x27;ve also bought and sold various digital and physical goods through HardwareSwap, GameSale, SteamGameSwap, and others. One of Reddit&#x27;s strengths is being able to tie a username to a post history across many interests, which has given me enough confidence signals in buying and selling things on there. I&#x27;m sure fraud happens, but I have personally not (yet) been affected by it when transacting on the platform.<p>But the main, core &quot;Reddit experience&quot; as algorithmically produced by r&#x2F;Popular is a complete dumpster fire. It&#x27;s the noise of the entire internet, jam packed into a webpage. So many low quality posts and comments that encapsulate all the negatives about &quot;internet culture&quot;. There&#x27;s no room for thoughtful discussion and discourse on the majority of the site, just shitposting and low rung commentary.<p>Because of that, having a productive&#x2F;net positive Reddit experience comes with a high barrier to entry in knowing which communities to pay attention to and which time sinks to avoid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>Actually it may be best to unsub to most of the default subs including pics because of the political noise (which &#x2F;pics magically banned since the Jan 14 and may continue past the one month ban). Seriously, too many subs are so over the top flooded with managed political crap it just poisons the well. Reddit is actively managed by political groups because of its position in the internet.<p>the targeted subs is where its at on reddit. So my recommendation is edit your subscriptions and remove all but what you specifically came for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-reddit-funding/reddits-valuation-doubles-to-6-billion-after-new-250-million-funding-idUSKBN2A9056</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jug</author><text>Yes, discoverability of &quot;good&quot; subreddits is not there. But on the other hand I think Reddit get too much criticism. I find most subreddits besides the big catch-all ones like &#x2F;r&#x2F;pics good.<p>Basically all the TV shows have fun post-episode discussions and going through Game of Thrones, Black Sails or The Expanse wouldn&#x27;t have been the same without Reddit for me. It becomes the group of buddies I can vent or be in awe with, when they don&#x27;t share my TV show preferences at home.<p>Formula1 is a must for an F1 fan. Wow, I&#x27;ve learnt so much and the community is now part of watching F1. Pre-race chats, post-race, pre-qualification, post-qualification, haha... The behind the scenes racing drama...<p>MechanicalKeyboards can look over the top and elitist at first sight, until you realize they have self-distance and generally pretty relaxed (and it&#x27;s very inspiring, dangerously so for my pocket...)</text></item><item><author>rkho</author><text>Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess.<p>Some examples of some great subs:<p>- HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice<p>- Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey<p>- Posture for, well, fixing my posture<p>I&#x27;ve also bought and sold various digital and physical goods through HardwareSwap, GameSale, SteamGameSwap, and others. One of Reddit&#x27;s strengths is being able to tie a username to a post history across many interests, which has given me enough confidence signals in buying and selling things on there. I&#x27;m sure fraud happens, but I have personally not (yet) been affected by it when transacting on the platform.<p>But the main, core &quot;Reddit experience&quot; as algorithmically produced by r&#x2F;Popular is a complete dumpster fire. It&#x27;s the noise of the entire internet, jam packed into a webpage. So many low quality posts and comments that encapsulate all the negatives about &quot;internet culture&quot;. There&#x27;s no room for thoughtful discussion and discourse on the majority of the site, just shitposting and low rung commentary.<p>Because of that, having a productive&#x2F;net positive Reddit experience comes with a high barrier to entry in knowing which communities to pay attention to and which time sinks to avoid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbbk</author><text>They&#x27;ve actually done a lot on discoverability recently. In fact just looking at the homepage now I can see two sections devoted to surfacing rising communities.</text></comment> |
38,082,853 | 38,078,177 | 1 | 3 | 38,076,636 | train | <story><title>SEC Charges SolarWinds and CISO with Fraud, Internal Control Failures</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-227</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>that_aint_cool</author><text>Among other factors contributing to corporate&#x2F;white-collar corruption &amp; fraud, this is what happens when you have a culture of nepotism &amp; nepotistic CEO.<p>The HR Chief of SolarWinds is the cousin of the CEO (Sudhakar Ramakrishna) of SolarWinds. Same was true at their previous company (Pulse Secure).<p>In many global cultures, this is completely normal-- and those are cultures which have high rates of endemic, prolific corruption, such as South Asia &amp; Latin America.<p>I would like to see more insiders speak out &amp; blow the whistle on corrupt trade practices under this CEO.<p>If any investigators or journalists would like more info, feel free to contact: [email protected]<p>&quot;As they sow, so shall they reap.&quot;<p>&quot;In human life seek justice, truth, temperance and courage, and you will profit from the supreme good that you have discovered.&quot; (Marcus Aurelius)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phrotoma</author><text>Ramakrishna was appointed CEO in January 2021 [0], the attack happened prior to his taking office [1]. The CEO at the time was Kevin B Thompson [2].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.solarwinds.com&#x2F;corporate-governance&#x2F;board-of-directors&#x2F;person-details&#x2F;default.aspx?ItemId=8184fddf-ce4f-4ce8-a606-d40b9985fd18" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;investors.solarwinds.com&#x2F;corporate-governance&#x2F;board-...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2020_United_States_federal_government_data_breach" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;2020_United_States_federal_gov...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;person&#x2F;kevin-thompson" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;person&#x2F;kevin-thompson</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SEC Charges SolarWinds and CISO with Fraud, Internal Control Failures</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-227</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>that_aint_cool</author><text>Among other factors contributing to corporate&#x2F;white-collar corruption &amp; fraud, this is what happens when you have a culture of nepotism &amp; nepotistic CEO.<p>The HR Chief of SolarWinds is the cousin of the CEO (Sudhakar Ramakrishna) of SolarWinds. Same was true at their previous company (Pulse Secure).<p>In many global cultures, this is completely normal-- and those are cultures which have high rates of endemic, prolific corruption, such as South Asia &amp; Latin America.<p>I would like to see more insiders speak out &amp; blow the whistle on corrupt trade practices under this CEO.<p>If any investigators or journalists would like more info, feel free to contact: [email protected]<p>&quot;As they sow, so shall they reap.&quot;<p>&quot;In human life seek justice, truth, temperance and courage, and you will profit from the supreme good that you have discovered.&quot; (Marcus Aurelius)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinclift</author><text>And why should people trust you?<p>You could just be someone looking to blackmail companies with damaging insider info.</text></comment> |
10,693,184 | 10,692,945 | 1 | 2 | 10,691,804 | train | <story><title>Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/arnold-schwarzenegger/i-dont-give-a-if-we-agree-about-climate-change/10153855713574658</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Can you explain your lack of belief when 97% of climate scientists (there&#x27;s conflicting data on this; some reports show as high as 99%) agree that human activity is causing global warming?<p>EDIT: That&#x27;s not rhetorical. I&#x27;ll entertain any logical reasoning you have as to why your reasoning is superior to those educated and practicing the subject daily.</text></item><item><author>steven2012</author><text>I absolutely don&#x27;t believe that human-created CO2 emissions cause global warming. However, I consider myself a staunch environmentalist.<p>I believe we should be doing whatever we can to control pollution. It sickens me that factories pump out pollution, that we can barely eat fish anymore because of all the garbage and poisons we pump into our oceans. I think we need very strict controls on every form of pollution as well as garbage and creating plastic waste (including microplastic particles in our oceans), although I do believe CO2 pollution is on the bottom of the scale in terms of importance. I believe that fines for factories that pollute the environment should be material, ie. very heavy relative to yearly revenues. Personally, I do my best to ensure that I create as little waste as possible, and that I do my part in terms of recycling, composting, etc.<p>So I consider myself an environmentalist, I just don&#x27;t believe that global warming is caused by human activity, and CO2 pollution is the least critical of the pollutions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OniBait</author><text>I thought the 97% of climate scientists claim (based on Cook et al) was shown to be a really flawed study.
In any event, Consensus does not equal science.<p>I think given the broad definition of &quot;human activity is causing global warming&quot;, you&#x27;d be hard pressed to find disagreement. If you refine it to &quot;human activity is causing a majority of global warming and that warming is bad&quot; there is a lot less agreement.</text></comment> | <story><title>Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/arnold-schwarzenegger/i-dont-give-a-if-we-agree-about-climate-change/10153855713574658</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Can you explain your lack of belief when 97% of climate scientists (there&#x27;s conflicting data on this; some reports show as high as 99%) agree that human activity is causing global warming?<p>EDIT: That&#x27;s not rhetorical. I&#x27;ll entertain any logical reasoning you have as to why your reasoning is superior to those educated and practicing the subject daily.</text></item><item><author>steven2012</author><text>I absolutely don&#x27;t believe that human-created CO2 emissions cause global warming. However, I consider myself a staunch environmentalist.<p>I believe we should be doing whatever we can to control pollution. It sickens me that factories pump out pollution, that we can barely eat fish anymore because of all the garbage and poisons we pump into our oceans. I think we need very strict controls on every form of pollution as well as garbage and creating plastic waste (including microplastic particles in our oceans), although I do believe CO2 pollution is on the bottom of the scale in terms of importance. I believe that fines for factories that pollute the environment should be material, ie. very heavy relative to yearly revenues. Personally, I do my best to ensure that I create as little waste as possible, and that I do my part in terms of recycling, composting, etc.<p>So I consider myself an environmentalist, I just don&#x27;t believe that global warming is caused by human activity, and CO2 pollution is the least critical of the pollutions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metamet</author><text>Maybe they forgot a keyword? It certainly isn&#x27;t the <i>sole</i> cause of global warming&#x2F;climate change, but it is real.<p>CO2 in the atmosphere--what&#x27;s historically known as the greenhouse effect--leads to earth&#x27;s warming. CO2 emissions are also undeniably connected to the the greenhouse effect, which we clearly have a role to play in. That&#x27;s science that no one disputes.<p>But somehow people come out of the woodwork as climate change denialists.<p>It doesn&#x27;t really make sense unless seen through a political lens, since politics is antithetical to science in a lot of ways.</text></comment> |
12,753,914 | 12,753,610 | 1 | 2 | 12,752,125 | train | <story><title>Show HN: hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting</title><url>http://hnlive.tk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maaaats</author><text>A bit off-topic, but this is the first .tk domain I&#x27;ve seen in maybe ten years. When I was a teenager and they were giving them away for free all my friends had one, the memories.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting</title><url>http://hnlive.tk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>For those wondering, no, submitting at times of high traffic will not necessarily make you more likely to hit the front page&#x2F;hit the front page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9864254" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9864254</a><p>For submissions that do hit the front page, high activity <i>is</i> positively correlated to the number of pageviews the submission gets overall, though. (i.e a front page submission on Saturday will get less page views than a front page submission on Wednesdays)<p>That post was done awhile ago and I have not looked at the data since, mostly because the algorithm has changed, and the increased manual moderator intervention had made it more difficult to apply heuristics accurately.</text></comment> |
28,570,091 | 28,567,952 | 1 | 2 | 28,566,843 | train | <story><title>Building apps in minutes, not months</title><url>https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmaster1440</author><text>There&#x27;s an excellent talk by Rich Hickey (I believe it&#x27;s this one[1]) where he points out an obsession with how quick something is to understand immediately and be productive in—he gives the example of building websites in a single day, and contrasts it to musicians learning and mastering instruments over much longer periods of time.<p>While it&#x27;s very intuitive to see the appeal in low barrier to entry, there&#x27;s something to be said about tools that optimize for the long-term. Instruments aren&#x27;t made for beginners, they&#x27;re made for people who know how to play them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MCZ3YgeEUPg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MCZ3YgeEUPg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abetusk</author><text>Notice that the explosion of rap, hip-hop and punk were because the barrier to entry to music making through sampling and distribution was lowered. The 1980s and 1990s were replete with high profile artists that became famous by using the discarded drum machines and synthesizers of the time [0].<p>Today, (I believe) most artists use synthesizers and DAWs to create full albums. Eletronica, rap and hip-hop are some of the most popular musical genres [1] [2]. It&#x27;s not uncommon to see artists that are just one or two people, enabled by a professional grade studio on a PC.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;4&#x2F;3&#x2F;15162488&#x2F;roland-tr-808-music-drum-machine-revolutionized-music" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;4&#x2F;3&#x2F;15162488&#x2F;roland-tr-808-mus...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucladatares.medium.com&#x2F;visualizing-trends-and-patterns-in-pitchfork-reviews-cad1a130869b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ucladatares.medium.com&#x2F;visualizing-trends-and-patter...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.r-bloggers.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;clustering-music-genres-with-r&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.r-bloggers.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;clustering-music-genres-w...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Building apps in minutes, not months</title><url>https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/001/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmaster1440</author><text>There&#x27;s an excellent talk by Rich Hickey (I believe it&#x27;s this one[1]) where he points out an obsession with how quick something is to understand immediately and be productive in—he gives the example of building websites in a single day, and contrasts it to musicians learning and mastering instruments over much longer periods of time.<p>While it&#x27;s very intuitive to see the appeal in low barrier to entry, there&#x27;s something to be said about tools that optimize for the long-term. Instruments aren&#x27;t made for beginners, they&#x27;re made for people who know how to play them.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MCZ3YgeEUPg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=MCZ3YgeEUPg</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_peeley</author><text>Another great Rich Hickey talk is <i>Simple Made Easy</i>, very similar message. So many of these auto-project tools are very easy to use, but in no way simple to understand and end up adding complexity in the long-term.<p>A good example is a tool like `create-react-app` (especially if you add TypeScript support). It&#x27;s super easy to use and creates the project scaffold and enormous JS build system for you, but good luck trying to fix it if something breaks!</text></comment> |
2,825,680 | 2,825,691 | 1 | 2 | 2,825,177 | train | <story><title>How The Hell Is This My Fault?</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fault/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>It's 'schadenfreude'.<p>This issue is very emotionally charged because:<p><pre><code> - everybody that uses AirBNB thought 'this could be me'
- everybody that has a sister thinks 'that could be my sister'
- everybody that runs a start-up thinks 'this could be a
shakedown' (including some preposterous claims about
hotel chains putting her up to this)
- everybody is wondering if AirBNB is sitting on a huge
stack of cash why they didn't just put it right and
changed their terms of service / signup process
</code></pre>
Being the 'ebay of spaces' means that you will be doing the same things that ebay spends the most of its time on: battling fraud. AirBNB is coming of age with this incident, from now on the stakes will be raised considerably in how they deal with the reputation of their hosts and tenants.<p>What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Looking forward to the period after this incident has blown over when AirBNB will be a company that is that much stronger and that will put action to their claims of transparency and being a 'trusted marketplace'.<p>If they can make that work they'll be fine.</text></item><item><author>kyro</author><text>HN has been pretty disgusting the last few days: the level of schadenfreude here has hit ridiculous new highs.<p>It seems that every time a story breaks about a successful company, a bunch of envious and disgruntled people come out of the woodwork and jump onto the bandwagon headed straight for the founders' heads. A community of seemingly intelligent and rational individuals turns into the most rabid, emotionally-charged group of catty girls I've ever seen. We only have one side of the story here. What if the've offered help and she's rejecting it? What if there are some very legitimate reasons that AirBnB is not going totally public about it? <i>You don't know, and you have not heard the other side of the story.</i><p>The same thing happened with Dropbox. You guys were so ridiculously quick to foam at the mouth with your theatrics and conspiracies.<p>It's pretty revolting. Envy is just not a good color on many of you.<p>Edit: Spelling. Thanks, Jacques.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raganwald</author><text><i>Being the 'ebay of spaces' means that you will be doing the same things that ebay spends the most of its time on: battling fraud.</i><p>This is the most old-school HN insight I've seen so far, thanks. Quite often, what a business appears to do for it's users (allow you to read your mail on line, hook landlords up with renters) and it's competitive advantage (spam fighting, ad targeting, fraud detection, &#38;c.) are very different things.<p>Back when I was young and rode a nice, sporty dinosaur to work, I made software for publishing classified ads. On the surface, it's a publishing business. But in reality, it's an operations business, because classifieds used to have very high revenue per column inch, but the transaction costs were also very high. So the profitability of a page of classifieds was driven by how efficiently the paper could take ads.<p>Anyways, I agree with your speculation. Running a c2c business is going to be all about fraud and other bad actor detection as well as operation efficiency.</text></comment> | <story><title>How The Hell Is This My Fault?</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fault/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>It's 'schadenfreude'.<p>This issue is very emotionally charged because:<p><pre><code> - everybody that uses AirBNB thought 'this could be me'
- everybody that has a sister thinks 'that could be my sister'
- everybody that runs a start-up thinks 'this could be a
shakedown' (including some preposterous claims about
hotel chains putting her up to this)
- everybody is wondering if AirBNB is sitting on a huge
stack of cash why they didn't just put it right and
changed their terms of service / signup process
</code></pre>
Being the 'ebay of spaces' means that you will be doing the same things that ebay spends the most of its time on: battling fraud. AirBNB is coming of age with this incident, from now on the stakes will be raised considerably in how they deal with the reputation of their hosts and tenants.<p>What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Looking forward to the period after this incident has blown over when AirBNB will be a company that is that much stronger and that will put action to their claims of transparency and being a 'trusted marketplace'.<p>If they can make that work they'll be fine.</text></item><item><author>kyro</author><text>HN has been pretty disgusting the last few days: the level of schadenfreude here has hit ridiculous new highs.<p>It seems that every time a story breaks about a successful company, a bunch of envious and disgruntled people come out of the woodwork and jump onto the bandwagon headed straight for the founders' heads. A community of seemingly intelligent and rational individuals turns into the most rabid, emotionally-charged group of catty girls I've ever seen. We only have one side of the story here. What if the've offered help and she's rejecting it? What if there are some very legitimate reasons that AirBnB is not going totally public about it? <i>You don't know, and you have not heard the other side of the story.</i><p>The same thing happened with Dropbox. You guys were so ridiculously quick to foam at the mouth with your theatrics and conspiracies.<p>It's pretty revolting. Envy is just not a good color on many of you.<p>Edit: Spelling. Thanks, Jacques.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rexreed</author><text>This is probably the most useful comment of the bunch for me personally and my startup - I'm trying to learn from other people's lessons (it's the cheapest way to learn), and I think what you said above really helps. I made the comment elsewhere, but here's what I learned:<p>* Respond quickly<p>* Respond in the open so that there's no he-said / she-said<p>* Be fair, and err on the side of the customer<p>* Don't spin the company line - be thoughtful, especially if someone has lost money / time / confidence / data / faith in humanity<p>* Think "This could be me / this could be someone I know &#38; love"<p>* If relevant, get the authorities involved quickly so that you can be sure it's not a shakedown.<p>* Assume the customer is telling you the truth unless you have specific and verifiable reason to believe otherwise<p>* Get insurance<p>* Don't let others (especially those with interests) speak for you.<p>* Try to establish a single point person for all contact with the customer, and make that person easily and quickly available to the customer at the customer's behest<p>* Try not to respond to what's said in the press<p>Did I miss any good lessons here?</text></comment> |
16,197,465 | 16,197,021 | 1 | 3 | 16,196,694 | train | <story><title>Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/cryptocurrency-boom-creates-insane-global-graphics-card-shortage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakebasile</author><text>&gt; Gamers are complaining about why can&#x27;t nVidia just ramp up their production.<p>I don&#x27;t see too much of that in gaming circles. It&#x27;s understood that it would be risky as crypto will crash sooner than later. The anger in the PC community is almost exclusively directed at miners. Threads about it pop up on the daily, but what can we do? We could lobby NVIDIA&#x2F;AMD to somehow implement restrictions on what the Gaming SKUs can be used for as they do with the Quadro&#x2F;FirePro workstation cards, but it&#x27;s unclear if that would work let alone if it&#x27;s technically&#x2F;legally possible.<p>It&#x27;s a bad time to be a PC gamer, and just months ago it was a great time to be a PC gamer.</text></item><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>Gamers are complaining about why can&#x27;t nVidia just ramp up their production.<p>Having worked in a Fab and an assembly factory, there is a tremendous amount of coordination that needs to happen. Let&#x27;s forget the business aspects for a moment - in order to ramp up production, it is not just building more lines. Silicon industry supply chains are mind bogglingly complex from oil-free-air supply hardware, etching chemicals supplier, automation equipment all the way to the copper mine. All of these interdependent supply chains have to scale in perfect coordination without an exception to be able to scale production.<p>Then there is the business side - building more lines could be foolish investment if the LRP (long range projections) is weak.<p>nVidia fabs their chips at TSMC. Say, TSMC has wafers ready but the assembly houses are struggling to keep up - the entire supply chain is broken and demand cannot be met.</text></item><item><author>jakebasile</author><text>I&#x27;m legitimately worried about the long term future of my hobby (PC gaming) at this point.<p>Prices like this have a cascade effect because when less people can afford to build a PC and&#x2F;or upgrade there&#x27;s less incentive for developers and publishers to spend time on the platform. Consoles are shielded by the ability of Sony and Microsoft to take losses which will be absorbed by online fees and higher game prices but no such cushion exists for PCs (this is a strength to be sure, but a double edged sword in this respect).<p>PC gamers have spent years disproving the image of PCs as prohibitively expensive and now it&#x27;s coming crashing down due to people in a faux gold rush wasting hardware and energy. I wish it would stop, but I don&#x27;t know how much of the damage to the hobby can be repaired.<p>Of course there are other factors. Machine learning is eating up cards, smartphones and tablets are eating RAM, and I don&#x27;t doubt there&#x27;s price fixing. But ML is at least useful to humanity (sometimes), smartphones and tablets are tangible products, and price fixing can be investigated and punished.<p>I&#x27;m relatively shielded from this as I just built a high end machine (i7-7700, 1080ti, 32GB DDR4) that will last a while but the next time I want to build a machine might be painful. While I would probably pay the price, others will not, and the hobby will suffer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gaius</author><text><i>could lobby NVIDIA&#x2F;AMD to somehow implement restrictions on what the Gaming SKUs</i><p>Infact the opposite has happened. NVidia has restricted consumer cards from DCs with an exception for blockchains! They are very much making hay while the sun shines</text></comment> | <story><title>Why you can’t buy a high-end graphics card at Best Buy</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/cryptocurrency-boom-creates-insane-global-graphics-card-shortage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jakebasile</author><text>&gt; Gamers are complaining about why can&#x27;t nVidia just ramp up their production.<p>I don&#x27;t see too much of that in gaming circles. It&#x27;s understood that it would be risky as crypto will crash sooner than later. The anger in the PC community is almost exclusively directed at miners. Threads about it pop up on the daily, but what can we do? We could lobby NVIDIA&#x2F;AMD to somehow implement restrictions on what the Gaming SKUs can be used for as they do with the Quadro&#x2F;FirePro workstation cards, but it&#x27;s unclear if that would work let alone if it&#x27;s technically&#x2F;legally possible.<p>It&#x27;s a bad time to be a PC gamer, and just months ago it was a great time to be a PC gamer.</text></item><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>Gamers are complaining about why can&#x27;t nVidia just ramp up their production.<p>Having worked in a Fab and an assembly factory, there is a tremendous amount of coordination that needs to happen. Let&#x27;s forget the business aspects for a moment - in order to ramp up production, it is not just building more lines. Silicon industry supply chains are mind bogglingly complex from oil-free-air supply hardware, etching chemicals supplier, automation equipment all the way to the copper mine. All of these interdependent supply chains have to scale in perfect coordination without an exception to be able to scale production.<p>Then there is the business side - building more lines could be foolish investment if the LRP (long range projections) is weak.<p>nVidia fabs their chips at TSMC. Say, TSMC has wafers ready but the assembly houses are struggling to keep up - the entire supply chain is broken and demand cannot be met.</text></item><item><author>jakebasile</author><text>I&#x27;m legitimately worried about the long term future of my hobby (PC gaming) at this point.<p>Prices like this have a cascade effect because when less people can afford to build a PC and&#x2F;or upgrade there&#x27;s less incentive for developers and publishers to spend time on the platform. Consoles are shielded by the ability of Sony and Microsoft to take losses which will be absorbed by online fees and higher game prices but no such cushion exists for PCs (this is a strength to be sure, but a double edged sword in this respect).<p>PC gamers have spent years disproving the image of PCs as prohibitively expensive and now it&#x27;s coming crashing down due to people in a faux gold rush wasting hardware and energy. I wish it would stop, but I don&#x27;t know how much of the damage to the hobby can be repaired.<p>Of course there are other factors. Machine learning is eating up cards, smartphones and tablets are eating RAM, and I don&#x27;t doubt there&#x27;s price fixing. But ML is at least useful to humanity (sometimes), smartphones and tablets are tangible products, and price fixing can be investigated and punished.<p>I&#x27;m relatively shielded from this as I just built a high end machine (i7-7700, 1080ti, 32GB DDR4) that will last a while but the next time I want to build a machine might be painful. While I would probably pay the price, others will not, and the hobby will suffer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aianus</author><text>I wonder if Nvidia et al could short Ethereum as a hedge while expanding production.</text></comment> |
25,889,478 | 25,889,573 | 1 | 3 | 25,886,561 | train | <story><title>Cryptocurreny crime is way ahead of regulators and law enforcement</title><url>https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/nouriel-roubini-the-great-crypto-heist-20190719</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anm89</author><text>I believe this is part of a disingenuous attempt to link crypto currencies with crime.<p>Crypto currencies are undoubtedly used for money laundering and hiding. Dollars are undoubtedly used for money laundering and hiding. Euros and gold and car washes are all undoubtedly used for money laundering.<p>The question is, does the fact that an asset is used in money laundering mean it should be outlawed. I think the answer is fairly transparently no. But this is seen as the easiest rhetorical tool in the event that someone is already looking for basis to argue for banning crypto currency. Think of the children! And Terrorism!<p>Imagine a new country came into existence except it held no physical land, it produced no physical goods, it built no physical infrastructure, it paid no welfare, it&#x27;s just an internet country. Well this country&#x27;s currency is just as usable for money laundering as every other currency assuming it freely floats but because it has no structural economy behind it, money laundering makes up a disproportionate portion of it&#x27;s total use. Does that mean it was invented just to launder money?<p>The point is: of course a new internet currency is mostly used for money laundering. That&#x27;s one easy thing to do with an internet currency and the other use cases are still developing.<p>In the end it doesn&#x27;t matter though, I believe the ability of governments to censor cryptocurrencies is drastically less than they project.<p>They can turn off the on ramps but they also know that could cause a rush on those assets that they could never reverse. And as the drug war taught us, throwing endless resources at preventing the sale of a commodity for currency on black markets works much better in principle than it does in reality.And in a world of floating converting convertible currencies, if they don&#x27;t all coordinate a ban at once in an effective manner it&#x27;s going to fail spectacularly, because there&#x27;s always another currency on ramp that&#x27;s just a money transfer away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cft</author><text>Bitcoin&#x27;s illicit flows are negligible <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.chainalysis.com&#x2F;?range=30&amp;asset=BTC#risk-illicit-flows" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;markets.chainalysis.com&#x2F;?range=30&amp;asset=BTC#risk-ill...</a><p>Roubini has heard Yellen and Lagarde loud and clear and is trying to score points- perhaps aiming for a regulatory job.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cryptocurreny crime is way ahead of regulators and law enforcement</title><url>https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/nouriel-roubini-the-great-crypto-heist-20190719</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anm89</author><text>I believe this is part of a disingenuous attempt to link crypto currencies with crime.<p>Crypto currencies are undoubtedly used for money laundering and hiding. Dollars are undoubtedly used for money laundering and hiding. Euros and gold and car washes are all undoubtedly used for money laundering.<p>The question is, does the fact that an asset is used in money laundering mean it should be outlawed. I think the answer is fairly transparently no. But this is seen as the easiest rhetorical tool in the event that someone is already looking for basis to argue for banning crypto currency. Think of the children! And Terrorism!<p>Imagine a new country came into existence except it held no physical land, it produced no physical goods, it built no physical infrastructure, it paid no welfare, it&#x27;s just an internet country. Well this country&#x27;s currency is just as usable for money laundering as every other currency assuming it freely floats but because it has no structural economy behind it, money laundering makes up a disproportionate portion of it&#x27;s total use. Does that mean it was invented just to launder money?<p>The point is: of course a new internet currency is mostly used for money laundering. That&#x27;s one easy thing to do with an internet currency and the other use cases are still developing.<p>In the end it doesn&#x27;t matter though, I believe the ability of governments to censor cryptocurrencies is drastically less than they project.<p>They can turn off the on ramps but they also know that could cause a rush on those assets that they could never reverse. And as the drug war taught us, throwing endless resources at preventing the sale of a commodity for currency on black markets works much better in principle than it does in reality.And in a world of floating converting convertible currencies, if they don&#x27;t all coordinate a ban at once in an effective manner it&#x27;s going to fail spectacularly, because there&#x27;s always another currency on ramp that&#x27;s just a money transfer away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stretchcat</author><text>&gt; <i>[A country with] no physical land, it produced no physical goods, it built no physical infrastructure, it paid no welfare,</i><p>&gt; <i>&quot;Does that mean it was invented just to launder money?&quot;</i><p>Probably.</text></comment> |
39,336,435 | 39,336,471 | 1 | 2 | 39,335,842 | train | <story><title>Social networks are getting stingy with their data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/social-network-api-apps-twitter-reddit-threads-mastodon-bluesky/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j1elo</author><text>I was about to open a Mastodon account, but because I don&#x27;t really use to publish anything too often anyway, instead left it for later.<p>A couple month passed and the instance I had in mind, closed for good.<p>I&#x27;ve been told before in HN that Mastodon&#x27;s solution is non-existent for these situations. Has the landscape changed or you&#x27;re still f*d if you choose the wrong one? (aka. an incentive for centralization or always chosing only among the most popular instances)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ldjb</author><text>The solution is to run your own Mastodon instance. Unfortunately, I find doing so can be quite a hassle. Obviously it&#x27;s not free, and not only do you need to configure it properly, but you need to handle backups, updates and so on. Even for me, with a fair bit of technical experience, it can be challenging. I think there are significant barriers to doing so for people with no or little technical knowledge.</text></comment> | <story><title>Social networks are getting stingy with their data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/social-network-api-apps-twitter-reddit-threads-mastodon-bluesky/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j1elo</author><text>I was about to open a Mastodon account, but because I don&#x27;t really use to publish anything too often anyway, instead left it for later.<p>A couple month passed and the instance I had in mind, closed for good.<p>I&#x27;ve been told before in HN that Mastodon&#x27;s solution is non-existent for these situations. Has the landscape changed or you&#x27;re still f*d if you choose the wrong one? (aka. an incentive for centralization or always chosing only among the most popular instances)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huimang</author><text>You&#x27;re incentivized to either choose a stable, robust instance, or self-host. A lot of instances are pet projects that people kill off once they get bored of mastodon and don&#x27;t want to pay for the upkeep anymore.<p>Self-hosting is the only way to really guarantee that it&#x27;ll still be up years later. But you might get randomly banned from certain instances that blanket-ban single-user instances.</text></comment> |
5,271,614 | 5,271,275 | 1 | 2 | 5,271,045 | train | <story><title>Keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum</title><url>https://github.com/christiannaths/Redacted-Font</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>Judging by the examples, the script fonts appear to have been designed to have realistic characteristics such as uppercase letters and a variety of heights in lowercase letters. But what catches the eye is that none of the characters have descenders (the part of the letter that descends below the baseline of the text, like the bottom of a lowercase "j"). This would make it appear that there's more white space between the lines than required, and detracts from the otherwise realistic shape of the text.</text></comment> | <story><title>Keep your wireframes free of distracting Lorem Ipsum</title><url>https://github.com/christiannaths/Redacted-Font</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arkitaip</author><text>Better use actual copy which will allow you to discover the boundaries of your design, e.g. margins, text size, text width, etc.</text></comment> |
31,037,897 | 31,034,761 | 1 | 3 | 31,033,412 | train | <story><title>Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open</title><url>https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-germany-wont-keep-its-nuclear</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>You&#x27;re repeating some of the excuses the article addresses.<p>- The author says they studied nuclear in grad school, and are probably therefore an expert.<p>- They quantify the additional risk of meltdown due to delaying new safety regulations. It&#x27;s negligible compared to operating plants according to the new regulations.<p>- Their proposal would increase Germany&#x27;s stockpile of nuclear waste by 3%, which is surely within engineering tolerances, ignoring the fact that the disposal facilities were planned before they decided to prematurely close the plants.<p>I don&#x27;t see how it matters which political party made which political decisions in the past. Conditions have changed.</text></item><item><author>ivan_gammel</author><text>What I read in this article is that German government did a thorough analysis, but the author dismisses the conclusions of it because the tolerated risk level there is too low and because it’s done by a minister from the Greens party.<p>If this was written by an expert, that could make some sense, but it is not. Nuclear plant is not a startup, where you can just skip the QA part to release faster or put a not working cookie banner for few months, because nobody really checks compliance. You have to conduct safety tests, there should be enough staff and replacement parts, fuel supply must be secured, waste disposal must be planned in advance. Calling to accept risks of not doing this properly is not exactly what German public supports. The polls are tricky thing to do. If you ask certain questions you will get whatever results you want. I’m sure it was not explained to the public in the poll that they will have to accept higher risks of nuclear disaster if reactors will be allowed to operate. Everyone thinks that it is as safe as it was in the past - no wonder majority would support it to help Ukraine.<p>The thing is, this majority also includes supporters of Greens and the party itself is not the same as it was in 80s. Greens are no longer unconditional pacifists and anti-nuclear hippies. They are the biggest supporters of sending heavy weapons to Ukraine now. They would extend nuclear if possible, because it advances the more important agenda of reducing emissions and helps Ukraine. They were ready to wait 20 years to phase out nuclear in 2000s, and it wasn’t Greens who accelerated shutdown after Fukushima. It was pro-business CDU with Merkel as a head of the government. This is why I would rather trust Habeck with his report than some random guy from the Internet with a political message.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yk</author><text>The way the author dismisses engineering concerns lets me strongly doubt that he is an expert. There is a discussion on fuel, spare parts and personal, where he basically says that he doesn&#x27;t care.<p>The burning of nuclear fuel is actually very closely managed, fuel elements are regularly shuffled around because the ones in the center burn up faster than the ones at the edge of the core and the shuffling around is planned a long time in advance. So, when the end of life is planned for 2022 then the plan is actually to have the fuel spent at that date and you couldn&#x27;t get much additional power out of it.<p>The same is of course true for spare parts. First of all, the industrial environment that supplies spare parts knows since 20 years about the plans to phase out nuclear and plan accordingly. They are actively trying to run out of spare parts right now, while of course all the maintenance task that get a rating of &quot;should be ok for some time&quot; get skipped in the power plants. That means, that they would need major maintenance right now, while the spare parts are planned to be not there and the industrial capacity to build spare parts has been re purposed or dismantled.<p>The same of course also for personal, they knew for a long time this was coming and planned their careers accordingly, though this is probably the least problem of the tree, but still that lets me doubt wether the author ever did plan a moderately complex project, let alone being an expert about nuclear power.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open</title><url>https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-germany-wont-keep-its-nuclear</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hedora</author><text>You&#x27;re repeating some of the excuses the article addresses.<p>- The author says they studied nuclear in grad school, and are probably therefore an expert.<p>- They quantify the additional risk of meltdown due to delaying new safety regulations. It&#x27;s negligible compared to operating plants according to the new regulations.<p>- Their proposal would increase Germany&#x27;s stockpile of nuclear waste by 3%, which is surely within engineering tolerances, ignoring the fact that the disposal facilities were planned before they decided to prematurely close the plants.<p>I don&#x27;t see how it matters which political party made which political decisions in the past. Conditions have changed.</text></item><item><author>ivan_gammel</author><text>What I read in this article is that German government did a thorough analysis, but the author dismisses the conclusions of it because the tolerated risk level there is too low and because it’s done by a minister from the Greens party.<p>If this was written by an expert, that could make some sense, but it is not. Nuclear plant is not a startup, where you can just skip the QA part to release faster or put a not working cookie banner for few months, because nobody really checks compliance. You have to conduct safety tests, there should be enough staff and replacement parts, fuel supply must be secured, waste disposal must be planned in advance. Calling to accept risks of not doing this properly is not exactly what German public supports. The polls are tricky thing to do. If you ask certain questions you will get whatever results you want. I’m sure it was not explained to the public in the poll that they will have to accept higher risks of nuclear disaster if reactors will be allowed to operate. Everyone thinks that it is as safe as it was in the past - no wonder majority would support it to help Ukraine.<p>The thing is, this majority also includes supporters of Greens and the party itself is not the same as it was in 80s. Greens are no longer unconditional pacifists and anti-nuclear hippies. They are the biggest supporters of sending heavy weapons to Ukraine now. They would extend nuclear if possible, because it advances the more important agenda of reducing emissions and helps Ukraine. They were ready to wait 20 years to phase out nuclear in 2000s, and it wasn’t Greens who accelerated shutdown after Fukushima. It was pro-business CDU with Merkel as a head of the government. This is why I would rather trust Habeck with his report than some random guy from the Internet with a political message.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ivan_gammel</author><text>&gt; They quantify the additional risk of meltdown due to delaying new safety regulations. It&#x27;s negligible compared to operating plants according to the new regulations.<p>First of all, that estimate was not made by an expert, as other commenters pointed out. Second, the additional risk is created not because of new safety standards, but also from all other factors where deviation from standard procedures could accelerate the process. This risk is hard to quantify, it can materialize in unexpected ways (just like nobody expected Chernobyl or Fukushima) and it will cost such rich and densely populated country as Germany trillions. The choice between „you may loose everything but Russia will suffer next year“ and „let’s try something else to actually stop the war“ has pretty obvious outcome.</text></comment> |
11,492,159 | 11,492,242 | 1 | 2 | 11,490,188 | train | <story><title>Cruise</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/cruise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morgante</author><text>I cannot fathom why the majority of commentators here are automatically agreeing with Sam that Jeremy is in the wrong.<p>If you look at the facts, it seems obvious that Jeremy is entitled to some compensation. He worked for the company for 1 month, without compensation. That would automatically entitle him to equity in the company. Now, they could have (and should have) signed a stock agreement with a cliff in it, but the <i>did not</i>. The cliff only exists <i>if</i> they agree to it.<p>I have no idea what Jeremy is asking for, but it seems like he should absolutely be entitled to some equity. He never agreed to give up the equity he earned from working on it for a month.<p>I suppose this underscores the importance of having legal agreements with anyone who works on your company, <i>especially</i> anyone you jointly apply to programs with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>Yeah, somewhat surprisingly, I find myself sympathizing with Jeremy in this situation (which is not necessarily to say he is in the right; we have very few actual details about the case, so all opinion is fueled purely on personal bias and not on the actual facts, which could substantially change the commentary).<p>Everyone else in SV, especially guys like sama, is making money hand over fist for doing practically nothing. Sometimes it feels very bad when you&#x27;re not part of the group collecting free money. I know I feel left out sometimes and wonder I&#x27;m not out there nourishing my own magical unicorn that hemorrhages investor money as fast as it gets it while simultaneously being lauded as a visionary. I haven&#x27;t pursued that because I don&#x27;t feel it&#x27;s moral to run a company the way SV people run companies, but my moral reservations have been proven naive before.<p>It&#x27;s completely plausible that Jeremy left for a legitimate reason and it&#x27;s completely plausible that although he was only there a short time, he contributed substantially to the roadmap that took Cruise to acquisition. He should receive some compensation for that, if that is indeed the case. Even if he only did it for a month, it&#x27;s a lot more than the VCs do. Why is Sam Altman entitled to money from this company but a cofounder who worked for one month isn&#x27;t? I understand the legal argument that ensures sama will make money on this no matter how much or little one believes he may deserve it, but what about the moral argument that the people who contributed to and built the actual product should be entitled to the majority of its profits?<p>I guess it just feels bad that Sam Altman feels the need to come out and &quot;defend&quot; a Cruise cofounder&#x27;s right to deprive another cofounder of some at least semi-legitimately earned equity. Jeremy definitely came closer to the startup lottery in this one than most of us will, and Altman, who controls the startup lottery, doesn&#x27;t want to let him get anything (because he and his compatriots want it for themselves instead).</text></comment> | <story><title>Cruise</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/cruise</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>morgante</author><text>I cannot fathom why the majority of commentators here are automatically agreeing with Sam that Jeremy is in the wrong.<p>If you look at the facts, it seems obvious that Jeremy is entitled to some compensation. He worked for the company for 1 month, without compensation. That would automatically entitle him to equity in the company. Now, they could have (and should have) signed a stock agreement with a cliff in it, but the <i>did not</i>. The cliff only exists <i>if</i> they agree to it.<p>I have no idea what Jeremy is asking for, but it seems like he should absolutely be entitled to some equity. He never agreed to give up the equity he earned from working on it for a month.<p>I suppose this underscores the importance of having legal agreements with anyone who works on your company, <i>especially</i> anyone you jointly apply to programs with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyosity</author><text>Can I ask why Jeremy would be entitled to anything since nothing was ever signed? If Kyle had a verbal agreement with Jeremy to pay him X or give him Y equity in exchange for the work he did, I don&#x27;t see that in Sam&#x27;s post or in the complaint that was filed. Without a signed agreement nor a verbal agreement, why would the courts give Jeremy anything?</text></comment> |
25,989,997 | 25,989,942 | 1 | 2 | 25,989,726 | train | <story><title>Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-downside-of-clean-scientists-fear-pandemics-hyper-hygiene-could-have-long-term-health-impacts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magnio</author><text>Yet another news article that doesn&#x27;t link the damn paper.<p>&quot;The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome&quot;<p>&gt; This pandemic intersects with a decades-long decline in microbial diversity and ancestral microbes due to hygiene, antibiotics, and urban living (the hygiene hypothesis). High-risk groups succumbing to COVID-19 include those with preexisting conditions, such as diabetes and obesity, which are also associated with microbiome abnormalities. Current pandemic control measures and practices will have broad, uneven, and potentially long-term effects for the human microbiome across the planet, given the implementation of physical separation, extensive hygiene, travel barriers, and other measures that influence overall microbial loss and inability for reinoculation. Although much remains uncertain or unknown about the virus and its consequences, implementing pandemic control practices could significantly affect the microbiome.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;118&#x2F;6&#x2F;e2010217118" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;118&#x2F;6&#x2F;e2010217118</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-downside-of-clean-scientists-fear-pandemics-hyper-hygiene-could-have-long-term-health-impacts</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>faitswulff</author><text>There&#x27;s a difference between being exposed to dirt and being exposed to viral diseases, though. Playing outside in the leaves will likely trigger healthy immune responses. Contracting COVID-19 may lead to long term health issues.</text></comment> |
22,638,586 | 22,638,601 | 1 | 2 | 22,638,344 | train | <story><title>IRS delays tax-filing date to july 15, matching payment deadline</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/tax-filings-payment-due-date-extended-to-july-15-mnuchin-says</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djyaz1200</author><text>Heads up to small business entrepreneurs, SBA and other emergency financing options may be more readily available to you with 2019 tax returns completed so you may want to get them done ASAP if you haven&#x27;t already.</text></comment> | <story><title>IRS delays tax-filing date to july 15, matching payment deadline</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/tax-filings-payment-due-date-extended-to-july-15-mnuchin-says</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelApproved</author><text>&gt; <i>Treasury Secretary Mnuchin announces decision in tweet</i><p>Crazy how these announcements are done via tweet. It would be nice to have something formal listed on their website.<p>Looking at their home page <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov</a> it still says &quot;File Your Tax Return - Tax deadline is April 15,2020&quot;.<p>Edit: Am I going crazy? The article used to say it was published on the 17th.</text></comment> |
18,813,888 | 18,813,202 | 1 | 2 | 18,812,875 | train | <story><title>China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon</title><url>http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/change4-success.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A2017U1</author><text>Copying earlier comment:<p>Wikipedia seems to say the rover mission duration is 3 months, yet the previous rover traveled for a year and transmitted a bit longer. The Chinese seemed quite coy about it failing last time (as with many things) so perhaps underpromising in this case?<p>This all preparation for China&#x27;s planned permanent radio telescope on the far side which would be a huge boon for astronomers by escaping Earth&#x27;s EM interference.<p>Also out left field is the 3kg &quot;self sustaining&quot; biosphere of silkworms and plants with a camera inside. Interested to see how long it survives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brainwipe</author><text>Regarding underpromising - there might be a little management of expectations but to paraphrase a friend in &quot;the biz&quot;: facing away from the Earth means that the stuff you need to be reliable jumps up in complexity and with that complexity comes a foreshortening of life. She then babbled incoherently in a way I enjoyed but didn&#x27;t understand.<p>Love the idea of a dark side telescope!</text></comment> | <story><title>China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon</title><url>http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/change4-success.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>A2017U1</author><text>Copying earlier comment:<p>Wikipedia seems to say the rover mission duration is 3 months, yet the previous rover traveled for a year and transmitted a bit longer. The Chinese seemed quite coy about it failing last time (as with many things) so perhaps underpromising in this case?<p>This all preparation for China&#x27;s planned permanent radio telescope on the far side which would be a huge boon for astronomers by escaping Earth&#x27;s EM interference.<p>Also out left field is the 3kg &quot;self sustaining&quot; biosphere of silkworms and plants with a camera inside. Interested to see how long it survives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sowbug</author><text>I&#x27;d interpret the stated duration as a criterion for whatever budget they came up with. Building something that&#x27;ll last 90 days in a harsh environment is a lot less expensive than one that needs to last at least a year. And assuming the folks monitoring the rover aren&#x27;t working for free, the budget needs to include their cost of employment for a fixed amount of time.</text></comment> |
24,610,087 | 24,610,178 | 1 | 3 | 24,604,683 | train | <story><title>Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective</title><url>https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/09/26/hercule-poirot-turns-100</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>If you&#x27;re interested in other continental European detective novels I recommend Georges Simonen&#x27;s Maigret, Friedrich Dürrenmatt&#x27;s Bärlach, Maurice Leblanc&#x27;s Lupin and Marcel Allain&#x27;s Fantômas novels. All of them set in the 19th to 20th century continental Europe.<p>If you have additional recommendations for famous northwestern continental mystery novelists from the last two centuries I&#x27;d love to hear (especially interested in German, Dutch, Belgian, and Luxembourgish authors).<p>Novels from Nordic and British Isles authors have been easier for this American to discover.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective</title><url>https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/09/26/hercule-poirot-turns-100</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>somberi</author><text>I highly recommend the television series, made by UK&#x27;s ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. It ran for 24 years! It is eminently watchable, especially in these pandemic times. And the opening music!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agatha_Christie%27s_Poirot</a></text></comment> |
7,740,960 | 7,737,774 | 1 | 3 | 7,736,841 | train | <story><title>Xeer</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cup</author><text>I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN. Its interesting to contemplate the unique history of Somalia and the Somali people and how it fits into the greater African jigsaw puzzle.<p>I think the article is slightly misinformed however, the Sharia legal and judicial instrument which was adopted by the Somali people after the growth of the Muslim faith in the region was another system of justice and social order that arrived well before attempted European colonisation.<p>On a tangent, interesting things are happening with the Somali federal government now with respect to the telecommunications industry. Not only does Somalia now have its own top down domain (.so) but fiber optic lines are slowly being rolled out in the capital.<p>I find it ironic to think that in Australia the government is singing praises for copper network lines (after repealing the NBN) yet war torn anarchic Somali is pushing in the other direction. Somalia and Africas future really does look interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elwell</author><text>&gt; I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN<p>(from wikipedia) &gt; It is an example of how customary law works within a stateless society<p>Anything that uses the word &quot;stateless&quot; is guaranteed to make it to the front page of HN, an immutable conglomeration of immutability fanatics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Xeer</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cup</author><text>I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN. Its interesting to contemplate the unique history of Somalia and the Somali people and how it fits into the greater African jigsaw puzzle.<p>I think the article is slightly misinformed however, the Sharia legal and judicial instrument which was adopted by the Somali people after the growth of the Muslim faith in the region was another system of justice and social order that arrived well before attempted European colonisation.<p>On a tangent, interesting things are happening with the Somali federal government now with respect to the telecommunications industry. Not only does Somalia now have its own top down domain (.so) but fiber optic lines are slowly being rolled out in the capital.<p>I find it ironic to think that in Australia the government is singing praises for copper network lines (after repealing the NBN) yet war torn anarchic Somali is pushing in the other direction. Somalia and Africas future really does look interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VLM</author><text>&quot;I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN.&quot;<p>Social media &#x2F; web blog &#x2F; MMORPG code of conduct &#x2F; Karma scheme &#x2F; online digital currency &#x2F; standards of behavior all belong here?<p>If, today, on eveonline, or any other mmorpg, enough people wanted to roll a system out for conflict resolution, well, here&#x27;s a historical system thats known to work and be stable and well documented, or documented well enough anyway. It might actually transplant successfully.<p>Much as most social media is essentially workforce automation for grade school girl playground scale interpersonal relations, there are obvious startup opportunities to provide distributed worldwide mediation services using proven stable and successful historical techniques with a thin patina of CRUD web app and mobile phone data harvesting app smeared over it. Although this paragraph is hyper sarcastic its also serious, there are obvious startup opportunities for a proven stable and workable mediation system. Other than having problems educating the participants, I see no particular reason it couldn&#x27;t scale worldwide for mediation. MaaS is Mediation as a Service? I suppose the startup would base their support call center in .so for obvious reasons? Its a very interesting idea and I&#x27;m almost sorry to state it publicly because I&#x27;d almost want to roll it out myself.</text></comment> |
13,909,930 | 13,908,950 | 1 | 3 | 13,905,251 | train | <story><title>Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Decision Making, Habits [audio]</title><url>https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-making/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>superasn</author><text>I think the more you learn the more you basic your thinking becomes. I felt the same way listening to this podcast also, i.e. &quot;my biggest priority is to workout in the morning&quot; because health comes first.<p>It&#x27;s like so many things in life are really simple but because of too much information and our nature to keep finding better, faster solutions, we keep getting lost. Consider for example, weight loss, there are a bazillion things on the internet about &quot;Keto diet&quot;, &quot;Paleo diet&quot;, this diet, that workout, but at the end of the day the formula is still as simple as <i>calories in - calories out = weight loss</i>.<p>Same goes for making money, there is an often cited pdf here about making money[1] written in 1880 which still beats most of the contemporary &quot;cool&quot; advice. The rules are simple and don&#x27;t really change that much over time but we like to add layers and layers of our own stuff over it and then think to ourselves, gee look I&#x27;ve found the answers and my answer is the best answer.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch&#x2F;etexts&#x2F;www&#x2F;barnum&#x2F;moneygetting&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fourmilab.ch&#x2F;etexts&#x2F;www&#x2F;barnum&#x2F;moneygetting&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Decision Making, Habits [audio]</title><url>https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-making/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swanson</author><text>Transcript: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.farnamstreetblog.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;Naval-Ravikant-TKP.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.farnamstreetblog.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> |
4,923,084 | 4,922,207 | 1 | 3 | 4,920,831 | train | <story><title>Tcl the misunderstood (2006)</title><url>http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevoski</author><text>The phrase "SQL Injection" was coined in 2000. There was just about no understanding of the threat of these attacks in the 90s</text></item><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>As others have said, most uses of Tcl was no doubt Eggdrop bots. I made an eggdrop bot to do some interesting stuff in an irc channel. I also learned nice and important lesson in the process about Tcl and dynamic execution in general (such as in SQL) : Fully dynamic execution is great as long as you spend more time checking input than actually writing logic.<p>As an example, you can do the following in Tcl as the article points out:<p><pre><code> set a pu
set b ts
$a$b "Hello World"
</code></pre>
Awesome! I'll use this kind of dynamic behavior to let users of the bot have more freedom. Bzzzzt. This was back in the 90s and the idea of 'SQL injection' wasn't as widespread as it is now... Getting around these kind of injections in Tcl requires constant vigilance and sometimes is very confusing.<p>Another interesting issue is the lack of types and how Tcl interprets them. Ask the user for a number and check if its between 1 and 3, and reject if it isn't. Works fine until the user tries the number 0x01, which matches 1 in some places but not in others. Gave me a lot of appreciation for typed languages where an int really is an int.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>In your circles they may have been "just about no understanding", but in my circles there was.<p>For the record, the standard database interface that Perl uses, DBI, was first released as early alpha on Oct 12, 1994. Its solution to SQL injection is bind parameters. As far as I can tell, that first release had support for bind parameters, but I don't have that version's documentation for that feature.<p>The first release of the first real database driver was 24th Feb 1995. (Again, early alpha, you couldn't actually fetch data.) From the comments in the change log, bind variables were always a priority, and finally arrived for DBD::Oracle on 22 Aug 1995. From that point on if you used Perl and connected using DBI in the way recommended by the documentation, you were protected from SQL injection attacks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tcl the misunderstood (2006)</title><url>http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevoski</author><text>The phrase "SQL Injection" was coined in 2000. There was just about no understanding of the threat of these attacks in the 90s</text></item><item><author>RyanZAG</author><text>As others have said, most uses of Tcl was no doubt Eggdrop bots. I made an eggdrop bot to do some interesting stuff in an irc channel. I also learned nice and important lesson in the process about Tcl and dynamic execution in general (such as in SQL) : Fully dynamic execution is great as long as you spend more time checking input than actually writing logic.<p>As an example, you can do the following in Tcl as the article points out:<p><pre><code> set a pu
set b ts
$a$b "Hello World"
</code></pre>
Awesome! I'll use this kind of dynamic behavior to let users of the bot have more freedom. Bzzzzt. This was back in the 90s and the idea of 'SQL injection' wasn't as widespread as it is now... Getting around these kind of injections in Tcl requires constant vigilance and sometimes is very confusing.<p>Another interesting issue is the lack of types and how Tcl interprets them. Ask the user for a number and check if its between 1 and 3, and reject if it isn't. Works fine until the user tries the number 0x01, which matches 1 in some places but not in others. Gave me a lot of appreciation for typed languages where an int really is an int.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>As someone who spent his teenage years "hacking" in multiple senses of the word, I can assure you there were plenty of people using buffer overflows before rtm's worm and there were plenty of people using data injection attacks long before the phrase "SQL Injection" was coined.<p>Back before the mid-2000s it used to take years/decades for ideas like that to bubble up into being "common wisdom" but in those years/decades, there would be hundreds to thousands of people exploiting the ideas, sharing information with other like-minded individuals privately (pre-everyone-has-a-blog), etc.</text></comment> |
35,682,259 | 35,682,190 | 1 | 2 | 35,661,961 | train | <story><title>Mathematician uncovers way to shrink sampling errors in large-dimensional data</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-03-mathematician-uncovers-methods-sampling-errors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>godelski</author><text>paper: James–Stein for the leading eigenvector<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1073&#x2F;pnas.2207046120" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1073&#x2F;pnas.2207046120</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mathematician uncovers way to shrink sampling errors in large-dimensional data</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2023-03-mathematician-uncovers-methods-sampling-errors.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ninepoints</author><text>Suggest changing the link to link the actual paper which suggests a method to reduce estimation error of the leading eigenvector</text></comment> |
41,126,565 | 41,123,788 | 1 | 2 | 41,123,155 | train | <story><title>Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/31/suspicious-data-pattern-in-recent-venezuelan-election/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dinobones</author><text>Here&#x27;s this re-explained with a simpler example.<p>Imagine you have 1,000 votes. You want to show that your political party got 60% of the vote, so, you claim:<p>My party: 600 votes
Opposition: 300 votes
Other: 100 votes<p>Presto, we got a good breakdown. The people will buy it....<p>It makes sense that 600 is exactly 60% of 1,000, because this was an artificial example.<p>But in the real world, we don&#x27;t get 1,000 votes.<p>We get 10,058,774 votes. What are the odds that the % of votes you get is a round number like 60%, or 51.2%? They&#x27;re infinitesimally small. You&#x27;re much more likely to get ugly numbers, like 59.941323854% of the vote, unless you choose some artificial percentage and work backward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zyklu5</author><text>This is not correct since you can claim the above for any number of votes actually obtained (if you asked someone to pick a number from 1 to 10 million, any number the person picks (assuming iid picks) will be by definition 10^-7).<p>The problem is more subtle.<p>There are around 10,000 integers n such that n&#x2F;10058774 when rounded to 3 decimal places gives 0.512. Of those 10,000 this particular one has the smallest rounding error. That&#x27;s what gives one the sense that probably they started with the clean fraction 0.512 and then worked their way to the tally.</text></comment> | <story><title>Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election</title><url>https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/31/suspicious-data-pattern-in-recent-venezuelan-election/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dinobones</author><text>Here&#x27;s this re-explained with a simpler example.<p>Imagine you have 1,000 votes. You want to show that your political party got 60% of the vote, so, you claim:<p>My party: 600 votes
Opposition: 300 votes
Other: 100 votes<p>Presto, we got a good breakdown. The people will buy it....<p>It makes sense that 600 is exactly 60% of 1,000, because this was an artificial example.<p>But in the real world, we don&#x27;t get 1,000 votes.<p>We get 10,058,774 votes. What are the odds that the % of votes you get is a round number like 60%, or 51.2%? They&#x27;re infinitesimally small. You&#x27;re much more likely to get ugly numbers, like 59.941323854% of the vote, unless you choose some artificial percentage and work backward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomp</author><text>My favourite part of my math education, solutions were always nice.<p>Compute the eigenvalues of a random-looking (but still integers) 4x4 matrix? Oh, it&#x27;s sqrt(2), I probably didn&#x27;t make an error in the calculation.<p>Then came the advanced physics &#x2F; mechanics exam. It threw a wrench into our beautiful system. The results were just about anything, incredibly ugly, like the real world :yuck: :vomit:</text></comment> |
39,889,870 | 39,888,698 | 1 | 2 | 39,887,307 | train | <story><title>Fired Americans Say Indian Firm Gave Their Jobs to H-1B Visa Holders</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/fired-americans-say-indian-firm-gave-their-jobs-to-h-1b-visa-holders/ar-BB1kIVHE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ein0p</author><text>Indians prefer to hire their own, this is very well known. And because this can’t even be discussed honestly, US corporations are powerless against this preferential treatment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faeriechangling</author><text>Why? Anybody with a pulse can see that Indians are overrepresented in IT relative to their population.<p>Why not treat this any differently than Whites preferring to hire their own?</text></comment> | <story><title>Fired Americans Say Indian Firm Gave Their Jobs to H-1B Visa Holders</title><url>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/fired-americans-say-indian-firm-gave-their-jobs-to-h-1b-visa-holders/ar-BB1kIVHE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ein0p</author><text>Indians prefer to hire their own, this is very well known. And because this can’t even be discussed honestly, US corporations are powerless against this preferential treatment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agustamir</author><text>If we&#x27;re giving anecdotes, I&#x27;ll dish out some too. Maybe you&#x27;re getting at something - communities looking out for their kind. It might be seen as good or bad depending on the situation. I&#x27;ve seen academic research labs that are heavy on certain ethnicities. I&#x27;ve seen heavy tilt of Chinese students with a Chinese PI, similarly for Iranian, Turkish. Heck, I&#x27;ve seen silicon valley teams that are Indian heavy, Turkish heavy, Filipino heavy.</text></comment> |
24,486,391 | 24,486,613 | 1 | 2 | 24,483,283 | train | <story><title>Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke/#2d2d3103a2aa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gringoDan</author><text>&gt; we must remind ourselves that this is unimpressive compared to the poor person who donates $25 to others while starving herself<p>Is it? This is a very Christian way of looking at donations: personal sacrifice &#x2F; self-deprivation is what matters. [1]<p>However, utilitarians – notably Effective Altruists [2] – would make the opposite argument: what matters is the impact that you make with the dollars you donate (both in amount and allocation).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.effectivealtruism.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.effectivealtruism.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>SeanLuke</author><text>I vaguely recall that there are classic levels in Jewish philosophy regarding philanthropy, and among the highest is to give with no expectation of any return whatsoever: that means not only giving where it matters, but to do so anonymously, to organizations that don&#x27;t benefit you (no opera companies), and to people with no ties to you. In this respect Chuck Feeney has been incredible.<p>This is not to dismiss the likes of Bill Gates: he has been very public with his donations, but in some cases (notably celebrity) notoriety in your donations may create a multiplier effect as it encourages others to do likewise. Even so, I think this is still on a lower-rung, philanthropy-wise, than Feeney&#x27;s approach.<p>Nonetheless, we&#x27;re sitting here praising someone who reduced himself from billions to $2M, but we must remind ourselves that this is unimpressive compared to the poor person who donates $25 to others while starving herself. The value of money is nonlinear. I&#x27;m sure that Feeney would say this as well: he no doubt sees himself as saddled with the burden of billions of dollars rather than someone doing something amazing.<p>I wonder if I ever will have the strength to do what he has done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teruakohatu</author><text>Gates&#x27; wealth keeps increasing. Sure he gives a lot away but, but he is making 1+ billion per year above what he gives away.<p>It is great that money is going to charity, it is great that money previously belonging to Gates&#x27; is going to charity, but I would be far more impressed by you if you donated $100&#x2F;year to the Internet Archive than I am if Bill Gates donated $100 million.<p>In other words, I don&#x27;t think anyone claims that $100 will help more than $100 million, but there is no great personal moral achievement in giving away something you don&#x27;t need and can&#x27;t use.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke/#2d2d3103a2aa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gringoDan</author><text>&gt; we must remind ourselves that this is unimpressive compared to the poor person who donates $25 to others while starving herself<p>Is it? This is a very Christian way of looking at donations: personal sacrifice &#x2F; self-deprivation is what matters. [1]<p>However, utilitarians – notably Effective Altruists [2] – would make the opposite argument: what matters is the impact that you make with the dollars you donate (both in amount and allocation).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.effectivealtruism.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.effectivealtruism.org&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>SeanLuke</author><text>I vaguely recall that there are classic levels in Jewish philosophy regarding philanthropy, and among the highest is to give with no expectation of any return whatsoever: that means not only giving where it matters, but to do so anonymously, to organizations that don&#x27;t benefit you (no opera companies), and to people with no ties to you. In this respect Chuck Feeney has been incredible.<p>This is not to dismiss the likes of Bill Gates: he has been very public with his donations, but in some cases (notably celebrity) notoriety in your donations may create a multiplier effect as it encourages others to do likewise. Even so, I think this is still on a lower-rung, philanthropy-wise, than Feeney&#x27;s approach.<p>Nonetheless, we&#x27;re sitting here praising someone who reduced himself from billions to $2M, but we must remind ourselves that this is unimpressive compared to the poor person who donates $25 to others while starving herself. The value of money is nonlinear. I&#x27;m sure that Feeney would say this as well: he no doubt sees himself as saddled with the burden of billions of dollars rather than someone doing something amazing.<p>I wonder if I ever will have the strength to do what he has done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanLuke</author><text>&gt; This is a very Christian way of looking at donations: personal sacrifice &#x2F; self-deprivation is what matters.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s what matters necessarily, but I <i>do</i> think that this is why he is receiving praise here and elsewhere. That&#x27;s a problem, because if we&#x27;re going to praise him for his sacrifice, we should remind ourselves that his sacrifice is minor compared to other donations due to the nonlinear effect of money.<p>Now Feeney certainly has had more of an <i>impact</i>, and that&#x27;s great, but he had that impact because he was fortunate enough to have billions of dollars to give away in the first place. Being lucky is not a valid reason to be praised, I think.<p>Indeed I don&#x27;t think Feeney wants to be praised: he just wants to be rid of his wealth in a meaningful way.</text></comment> |
13,382,805 | 13,382,598 | 1 | 2 | 13,381,674 | train | <story><title>Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library</title><url>https://github.com/dularion/streama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistermann</author><text>For me, Plex falls flat in that it seemingly can&#x27;t handle non-formal video files like home movies, in that it isn&#x27;t able to search for words within file names, and it is very painful to view long filenames.<p>I posted on the support forums at least twice and was told (not sure if by maintainers or just other users) that I&#x27;m basically an idiot for wanting to do that.<p>So, I am very looking forward to something new in this space.</text></item><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Hello world video hub could be the new hello world blog!<p>But one has only to review the (very frequent) release notes for Plex to see the devil is in the edge cases, not the basics.<p>In the meantime, Plex has a native server app for almost everything, including NAS boxes, and native players shipping with TVs and in game console app stores. It does a good job on both playback and admin UI across a fleet of media hosts for a household of users, and the latest release unlocks hardware encoding across an array of operating systems.<p>There&#x27;s even a portable HDD + WiFI hub from Western Digital, to take Plex Server and 4TB of media on the go w&#x2F; 10 hrs battery life, in the size of a Sony Discman.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crispyambulance</author><text>Yes, for something that is so full-featured and sophisticated, I found the media filename issues to be exasperating.<p>For those that aren&#x27;t familiar with it, Plex REQUIRES a particular filename format. If you happen to have a media file that is named &quot;wrongly&quot; it either won&#x27;t show up or it will try to randomly guess what it is so that it can display DVD-title image in your library. There appears to be no way to just force it to accept whatever filename you want. (This might have changed in the last year or so since I uninstalled Plex).</text></comment> | <story><title>Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library</title><url>https://github.com/dularion/streama</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mistermann</author><text>For me, Plex falls flat in that it seemingly can&#x27;t handle non-formal video files like home movies, in that it isn&#x27;t able to search for words within file names, and it is very painful to view long filenames.<p>I posted on the support forums at least twice and was told (not sure if by maintainers or just other users) that I&#x27;m basically an idiot for wanting to do that.<p>So, I am very looking forward to something new in this space.</text></item><item><author>Terretta</author><text>Hello world video hub could be the new hello world blog!<p>But one has only to review the (very frequent) release notes for Plex to see the devil is in the edge cases, not the basics.<p>In the meantime, Plex has a native server app for almost everything, including NAS boxes, and native players shipping with TVs and in game console app stores. It does a good job on both playback and admin UI across a fleet of media hosts for a household of users, and the latest release unlocks hardware encoding across an array of operating systems.<p>There&#x27;s even a portable HDD + WiFI hub from Western Digital, to take Plex Server and 4TB of media on the go w&#x2F; 10 hrs battery life, in the size of a Sony Discman.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>&gt; can&#x27;t handle non-formal video files like home movies,<p>FWIW I have videos on my Plex system ranging back for several years taken from at least 3 different cameras (highest end from only a Nikon V1 mirrorless though) and 5 phones&#x2F;tablets.<p>I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;ve played all of these back on all devices, but I have (or have had) a Nvidia Shield, Chromecast, Samsung ~2012 Smart TV, Roku2, Asrock Ion 330 running Plex Home Theater on Win8 and later Win10, as well as a couple phones&#x2F;tablets and PC (via web UI) as an interface to Plex.<p>Really the only time I&#x27;ve ever had a playback issue is when my made-from-old-parts server has the CPU maxed out due to some other app going crazy, and then Plex playback will pause a couple times a minute. I really can&#x27;t think of any time I&#x27;ve had content it just can&#x27;t play.<p>I&#x27;m a big fan of Plex. I started using MythTV back in mid-2000s, switched to SageTV for a few years (due to the awesome HD300 devices), and very reluctantly (at first) switched to Plex ~3-4 years ago.</text></comment> |
3,097,771 | 3,097,666 | 1 | 2 | 3,097,404 | train | <story><title>16% of the queries on Google each day are brand new (never seen before)</title><url>http://www.google.com/ads/answers/numbers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>latch</author><text>I actually don't believe that...or, at least, I don't believe it means what I think I'm supposed to believe it means.<p>If they do 3 billion queries per day[1], that's almost 500 million new queries every day. You gotta figure most misspellings and typos are repeats..<p>[1] <a href="http://www.quora.com/How-many-search-queries-does-Google-serve-worldwide-every-day" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/How-many-search-queries-does-Google-ser...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>16% of the queries on Google each day are brand new (never seen before)</title><url>http://www.google.com/ads/answers/numbers.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meric</author><text>Interesting facts, but here's one I didn't understand:<p>"By 2012, there will be 2.3 billion mobile devices in use, the equivalent of 70% of the world’s population."<p>What does that mean? Something bad will happen between now and beginning of January? Virus infecting drones (mobile devices), to terminate 3.5 billion people, so that 2.3 billion = 0.7 * world population in 2012, for example?</text></comment> |
23,153,617 | 23,149,160 | 1 | 3 | 23,147,752 | train | <story><title>Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-bandwidth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>archive.org feels like an irreplaceable treasure, the Wayback Machine alone is a time capsule of our digital history.<p>I donate to them monthly and know a lot of other people do as well, so I don&#x27;t worry much about their financial stability. I&#x27;m more worried about external pressures taking content down. I hope the data is backed up six ways to sunday, and that somewhere there&#x27;s a plan to make it all accessible if Internet Archive can&#x27;t continue to play the role it does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought for a long time why I absolutely agree with this sentiment and the best I can come up with is that the Internet Archive feels to me like the embodiment of the old internet, not this marketing driven, data steal-and-sell, VC backed cyberpunk dystopia Internet that we have everywhere else.<p>It&#x27;s the same sort of feeling as I why I enjoy this site, wikipedia, and so on. Bonus, IA is also a bit of an organizational mess, but rewards the adventurer with rich treasure.<p>(I was recently on a Korean history kick and came across not only 1, but several entirely different first hand books written by visitors in the late 19th and early 20th century, scanned in, freely accessible&#x2F;downloadable, in a variety of formats, and with an excellent on-web reader. These books are so out of print I checked with three local counties for copies and none of them even have references to any of them in their catalog -- treasure!)</text></comment> | <story><title>Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth</title><url>https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-bandwidth/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mostlysimilar</author><text>archive.org feels like an irreplaceable treasure, the Wayback Machine alone is a time capsule of our digital history.<p>I donate to them monthly and know a lot of other people do as well, so I don&#x27;t worry much about their financial stability. I&#x27;m more worried about external pressures taking content down. I hope the data is backed up six ways to sunday, and that somewhere there&#x27;s a plan to make it all accessible if Internet Archive can&#x27;t continue to play the role it does.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>&gt; archive.org feels like an irreplaceable treasure<p>Yes I save some dead sites that I think are critically important resources to tarballs that I&#x27;m storing separately in case the Wayback Machine disappears.</text></comment> |
28,364,849 | 28,364,704 | 1 | 2 | 28,363,758 | train | <story><title>White House Launches US Digital Corps</title><url>https://www.fedscoop.com/white-house-launches-us-digital-corps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This is a comforting thought, but I don’t think it’s true.<p>America did seem to have a golden age. Building the Golden Gate Bridge just took a few years and was very affordable when adjusting for inflation. Compare that to the new bay bridge. Or just look at how the US mobilized during WWII to produce an insane amount of weaponry in just a few years.<p>Think about the people that grew up when the telegraph was high tech. Then they got to see people flying in jets. Then nuclear energy. Then they got to see people walking on the moon. All in a single life.<p>The insane amount of progress in a short period does seem to have slowed. And I think a big part of it is our government is woefully mismanaged. It mostly seems engineered to help other people in government. This may be why so many of the richest counties in America are the suburbs of DC, compared to centers of innovation or industry.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>A lot of it is that your standards are driven by stories of past excellence and people leave out the nonsense of years past when telling stories.<p>My grandfather worked for GM in its heyday. He had stories of shuffling desks to make a VP happy, playing accounting games, project costs exploding, contractors being lazy and screwing things up (one brought a typical ladder to wire a warehouse that was 70 feet high), meetings over the placement of newspaper boxes, etc.<p>My company loves to talk about being agile. They leave out a bureaucracy on par with the government (and I worked in the government before coming here) when it comes to resource management.<p>I don&#x27;t think there has ever been an age of a greatly efficient and capable society. It is just a lot of lurching and stumbling in a general direction.</text></item><item><author>ketzo</author><text>I, like (I think) many young people, am pretty disillusioned with the current state of the U.S.<p>I would really like for things to be better than they are, and I&#x27;m still fairly convinced that software has the potential to make good things happen and improve people&#x27;s lives.<p>Maybe this is where more people would start to disagree with me, but I would like to live in a place where government work was seen as a noble calling, or at least <i>better</i>, morally, than optimizing ad revenue. I would like to work with people who want to make things that solve problems for huge swaths of people who really need help.<p>But I read about the realities of U.S. government work, and frankly, it doesn&#x27;t sound like a place I want to work. Slow, bureaucratic, opaque, slow, low-compensation, <i>slow</i>. That&#x27;s just not attractive to me.<p>If these impressions are wrong, I hope that the USDC has a sizeable marketing budget to correct me. If they&#x27;re right, then I hope they have a plan to change things.<p>I don&#x27;t think a lot of our really big problems are solvable without the input of a massive number of technologists, and I am worried that we&#x27;re not going to have them where they need to be.<p>I hope this works.<p>Edit:<p>I do agree that &quot;fast work&quot; is probably a bad heuristic in many ways, particularly when it comes to work that requires <i>extremely</i> consistent outcomes, like much government work.<p>But shit, it&#x27;s <i>fun</i>, particularly in software, to make quick decisions and move efficiently to solve problems. And I think you have to contend with the engagement and &quot;fun&quot; that moving fast brings.<p>Compensation is one form of motivation, yes, but there are others. There are reasons people romanticize working at startups, take up new programming languages and frameworks in side projects on their own time: it&#x27;s <i>cool</i>, and feels good to work on. That&#x27;s one lever you have to try and push as an employer of engineers (or really of people in general, but particularly people who are very in demand).<p>I&#x27;m not advocating for &quot;Move Fast And Break Things,&quot; but I am saying that you have to compete with the people who <i>do</i> advocate for it, because that can be really fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortilla</author><text>&gt; Building the Golden Gate Bridge just took a few years and was very affordable when adjusting for inflation.<p>Yes, when you have low regard for human life and the environment you can move quite quickly.<p>&gt; The insane amount of progress in a short period does seem to have slowed.<p>The phone I carry has more computing capability than all of the computers used in the Apollo program combined.<p>I’m able to reliably establish video calls with people on the other side of the planet while walking my dog.<p>My photos are grouped by person using facial recognition.<p>Shooting 120 FPS 4K video is built into my 200 gram phone (20 years ago you rented a camcorder from blockbuster the size of a briefcase to record effectively 320x240 onto a VHS tape).<p>The text contents of the library of congress can fit onto a micro sd card the size of a fingernail that costs less than $100.<p>The pace of technology innovation is astounding. It’s moved so quickly that we’re disappointed when the exponential growth of transistors slowed down.</text></comment> | <story><title>White House Launches US Digital Corps</title><url>https://www.fedscoop.com/white-house-launches-us-digital-corps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>This is a comforting thought, but I don’t think it’s true.<p>America did seem to have a golden age. Building the Golden Gate Bridge just took a few years and was very affordable when adjusting for inflation. Compare that to the new bay bridge. Or just look at how the US mobilized during WWII to produce an insane amount of weaponry in just a few years.<p>Think about the people that grew up when the telegraph was high tech. Then they got to see people flying in jets. Then nuclear energy. Then they got to see people walking on the moon. All in a single life.<p>The insane amount of progress in a short period does seem to have slowed. And I think a big part of it is our government is woefully mismanaged. It mostly seems engineered to help other people in government. This may be why so many of the richest counties in America are the suburbs of DC, compared to centers of innovation or industry.</text></item><item><author>MattGaiser</author><text>A lot of it is that your standards are driven by stories of past excellence and people leave out the nonsense of years past when telling stories.<p>My grandfather worked for GM in its heyday. He had stories of shuffling desks to make a VP happy, playing accounting games, project costs exploding, contractors being lazy and screwing things up (one brought a typical ladder to wire a warehouse that was 70 feet high), meetings over the placement of newspaper boxes, etc.<p>My company loves to talk about being agile. They leave out a bureaucracy on par with the government (and I worked in the government before coming here) when it comes to resource management.<p>I don&#x27;t think there has ever been an age of a greatly efficient and capable society. It is just a lot of lurching and stumbling in a general direction.</text></item><item><author>ketzo</author><text>I, like (I think) many young people, am pretty disillusioned with the current state of the U.S.<p>I would really like for things to be better than they are, and I&#x27;m still fairly convinced that software has the potential to make good things happen and improve people&#x27;s lives.<p>Maybe this is where more people would start to disagree with me, but I would like to live in a place where government work was seen as a noble calling, or at least <i>better</i>, morally, than optimizing ad revenue. I would like to work with people who want to make things that solve problems for huge swaths of people who really need help.<p>But I read about the realities of U.S. government work, and frankly, it doesn&#x27;t sound like a place I want to work. Slow, bureaucratic, opaque, slow, low-compensation, <i>slow</i>. That&#x27;s just not attractive to me.<p>If these impressions are wrong, I hope that the USDC has a sizeable marketing budget to correct me. If they&#x27;re right, then I hope they have a plan to change things.<p>I don&#x27;t think a lot of our really big problems are solvable without the input of a massive number of technologists, and I am worried that we&#x27;re not going to have them where they need to be.<p>I hope this works.<p>Edit:<p>I do agree that &quot;fast work&quot; is probably a bad heuristic in many ways, particularly when it comes to work that requires <i>extremely</i> consistent outcomes, like much government work.<p>But shit, it&#x27;s <i>fun</i>, particularly in software, to make quick decisions and move efficiently to solve problems. And I think you have to contend with the engagement and &quot;fun&quot; that moving fast brings.<p>Compensation is one form of motivation, yes, but there are others. There are reasons people romanticize working at startups, take up new programming languages and frameworks in side projects on their own time: it&#x27;s <i>cool</i>, and feels good to work on. That&#x27;s one lever you have to try and push as an employer of engineers (or really of people in general, but particularly people who are very in demand).<p>I&#x27;m not advocating for &quot;Move Fast And Break Things,&quot; but I am saying that you have to compete with the people who <i>do</i> advocate for it, because that can be really fun.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mucholove</author><text>The relative status of the US was very high at thr time.<p>Let me counter a bit of the heyday argumner.<p>During this so-called “heyday” destroyed many inner cities, their street cars and created incredible pollution.<p>The EPA was founded in 1971 and environmental regulations came into place then.<p>This is incredible. To this day, no country has better air than the US. And that includss Europe. Maybe the US did do something incredible in the last few decades—it just happens to be a repair of nature.<p>In the meantime because of oh-so-useful infrastructure built during the time of Mad Men, Robert Moses and suburbs US is still unable to implement mass transit as they once had and maybe now we will have global warming due to the infrastructure created when the US was “building fast and breaking things.”<p>I don’t disagree with you—but I wouldn’t embrace the heyday as the pinnacle of achievement either.</text></comment> |
24,887,965 | 24,887,735 | 1 | 3 | 24,886,909 | train | <story><title>Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest</title><url>https://www.axios.com/washington-state-murder-hornets-nest-photos-39e04acb-50da-4c3d-8a8d-4993e1fe2780.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshart</author><text>‘All the resources’ make you nauseous? Seems like a weird reaction.<p>Washington State department of agriculture’s budget is public information; they spend about a quarter of a billion dollars a year on all their programs. I can’t imagine this particular operation is making much of a dent in that overall spend. According to the captions of those photographs, they have entomologists and pest control specialists on staff already. Salaries are also public. Sven Spichinger, shown in one of those pictures, Managing Entomologist, is on $87,000 a year - whether he’s hunting for murder hornets or not, presumably. There are three different levels of ‘Pest Biologist’ job in the department. It kind of looks like this is a project that is taking up the time of a few people who they already had on staff, to deal with exactly this kind of problem.<p>Does all government spending make you nauseous, or only when it’s visibly helping?</text></item><item><author>Exmoor</author><text>It makes me a little nauseous to think about all the resources going to tracking down these insects, but this is truly an area where an ounce of prevention is worth many pounds of cure.<p>The scope of North America&#x27;s invasive species problem is enormous. For many folks in urban areas, it&#x27;s possible that you might go your whole day only encountering one native bird species (American Crow), but a whole host of invasive species (Rock Pigeon, House Sparrows, European Starlings).<p>History shows that early, active intervention can pay enormous dividends. For example, Alberta remains the only area in North America without non-native rats due to a major interventions:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alberta.ca&#x2F;history-of-rat-control-in-alberta.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alberta.ca&#x2F;history-of-rat-control-in-alberta.asp...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Please omit personal swipes from your HN posts. You sparked a flamewar with that last bit, and your comment would have been just fine without it. The first bit too. The middle of the sandwich was good.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest</title><url>https://www.axios.com/washington-state-murder-hornets-nest-photos-39e04acb-50da-4c3d-8a8d-4993e1fe2780.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshart</author><text>‘All the resources’ make you nauseous? Seems like a weird reaction.<p>Washington State department of agriculture’s budget is public information; they spend about a quarter of a billion dollars a year on all their programs. I can’t imagine this particular operation is making much of a dent in that overall spend. According to the captions of those photographs, they have entomologists and pest control specialists on staff already. Salaries are also public. Sven Spichinger, shown in one of those pictures, Managing Entomologist, is on $87,000 a year - whether he’s hunting for murder hornets or not, presumably. There are three different levels of ‘Pest Biologist’ job in the department. It kind of looks like this is a project that is taking up the time of a few people who they already had on staff, to deal with exactly this kind of problem.<p>Does all government spending make you nauseous, or only when it’s visibly helping?</text></item><item><author>Exmoor</author><text>It makes me a little nauseous to think about all the resources going to tracking down these insects, but this is truly an area where an ounce of prevention is worth many pounds of cure.<p>The scope of North America&#x27;s invasive species problem is enormous. For many folks in urban areas, it&#x27;s possible that you might go your whole day only encountering one native bird species (American Crow), but a whole host of invasive species (Rock Pigeon, House Sparrows, European Starlings).<p>History shows that early, active intervention can pay enormous dividends. For example, Alberta remains the only area in North America without non-native rats due to a major interventions:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alberta.ca&#x2F;history-of-rat-control-in-alberta.aspx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alberta.ca&#x2F;history-of-rat-control-in-alberta.asp...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anm89</author><text>People are living, shitting, and dying en masse on the streets of LA who need food and basic sanitation but you really can&#x27;t even imagine a non malicious interpretation of someone saying paying for teams of bubble suited wasp chasers seems like potentially a misallocation of resources?<p>Or do you just generally like to bully anyone who challenges any form of government spending by attacking strawmen?</text></comment> |
41,645,490 | 41,645,442 | 1 | 3 | 41,641,522 | train | <story><title>Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/false-memories-planted-in-chatgpt-give-hacker-persistent-exfiltration-channel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peutetre</author><text>&gt; <i>it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn</i><p>What are concrete examples of the boosts to your productivity, creativity, and ability to learn? It seems to me that when you outsource your thinking to ChatGPT you&#x27;ll be doing less of all three.</text></item><item><author>dyauspitr</author><text>I use it so much everyday, it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn. I would hate for it to crash and burn.</text></item><item><author>Terr_</author><text>At this point I can only hope that all these LLM products get exploited so massively and damning-ly that all credibility in them evaporates, before that misplaced trust causes too much insidious damage to everybody else.<p>I don&#x27;t want to live in a world where some attacker can craft <i>juuuust</i> the right thing somewhere on the internet in white-on-white text that primes the big word-association-machine to do stuff like:<p>(A) Helpfully&quot; display links&#x2F;images where the URL is exfiltrating data from the current user&#x27;s conversation.<p>(B) Confidently slandering a target individual (or group) as convicted of murder, suggesting that police ought to shoot first in order to protect their own lives.<p>(C) Responding that the attacker is a <i>very</i> respected person with an amazing reputation for one billion percent investment returns etc., complete with fictitious citations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheatgreaser</author><text>i used to use gpt for asking really specific questions that i cant quite search on google, but i stopped using it when i realized it presented some of the information in a really misleading way, so now i have nothing</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/false-memories-planted-in-chatgpt-give-hacker-persistent-exfiltration-channel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peutetre</author><text>&gt; <i>it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn</i><p>What are concrete examples of the boosts to your productivity, creativity, and ability to learn? It seems to me that when you outsource your thinking to ChatGPT you&#x27;ll be doing less of all three.</text></item><item><author>dyauspitr</author><text>I use it so much everyday, it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn. I would hate for it to crash and burn.</text></item><item><author>Terr_</author><text>At this point I can only hope that all these LLM products get exploited so massively and damning-ly that all credibility in them evaporates, before that misplaced trust causes too much insidious damage to everybody else.<p>I don&#x27;t want to live in a world where some attacker can craft <i>juuuust</i> the right thing somewhere on the internet in white-on-white text that primes the big word-association-machine to do stuff like:<p>(A) Helpfully&quot; display links&#x2F;images where the URL is exfiltrating data from the current user&#x27;s conversation.<p>(B) Confidently slandering a target individual (or group) as convicted of murder, suggesting that police ought to shoot first in order to protect their own lives.<p>(C) Responding that the attacker is a <i>very</i> respected person with an amazing reputation for one billion percent investment returns etc., complete with fictitious citations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blagie</author><text>For me:<p>* Rapid prototyping and trying new technologies.<p>* Editing text for typos, flipped words, and missing words</text></comment> |
24,910,060 | 24,910,135 | 1 | 2 | 24,909,056 | train | <story><title>Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers</title><url>https://twitter.com/AlexanderAbdo/status/1319761452832534531</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mobileexpert</author><text>Some takes From Benedict Evans that are worth considering: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;benedictevans&#x2F;status&#x2F;1320378054150148098?s=21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;benedictevans&#x2F;status&#x2F;1320378054150148098...</a><p>“Meanwhile: the NYU app has access to friend data in your feed and friend data is also in the ads it scrapes. And it replaces an actual security model with our trust that NYU are nice people and won&#x27;t abuse this access. That is <i>exactly</i> how Cambridge Analytica happened.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MAGZine</author><text>Comparing Cambridge Analytica, who harvested data though means that were not transparent to users (and for malicious purpose), to NYU has explained what data and why, AND has the consent of its users, seems disingenuous at best.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers</title><url>https://twitter.com/AlexanderAbdo/status/1319761452832534531</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mobileexpert</author><text>Some takes From Benedict Evans that are worth considering: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;benedictevans&#x2F;status&#x2F;1320378054150148098?s=21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;benedictevans&#x2F;status&#x2F;1320378054150148098...</a><p>“Meanwhile: the NYU app has access to friend data in your feed and friend data is also in the ads it scrapes. And it replaces an actual security model with our trust that NYU are nice people and won&#x27;t abuse this access. That is <i>exactly</i> how Cambridge Analytica happened.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strawberrypuree</author><text>Cambridge Analytica happened with an app hosted <i>on Facebook</i>. This is hosted on your browser. So it’s not exactly how Cambridge Analytica happened because the trust model is completely different.</text></comment> |
20,469,719 | 20,468,658 | 1 | 2 | 20,468,395 | train | <story><title>33 dead after arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio, dozens injured</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190718/p2a/00m/0na/002000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrpara</author><text>It&#x27;s still true. Japanese animators are paid by the pennies and work ridiculous hours. Since they&#x27;re often paid on a per-frame basis rather than hourly pay, sometimes it adds up to less than minimum hourly wage. KyoAni was actually one of the few who were known to pay reasonably well, and they also had sort of dormitories slash training facilities for their animators. As for computers, generally speaking the frames are still drawn on paper and scanned, and then colored digitally.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>My favourite Anime of All time, Full Metal Panic were produced by Kyoto Animation. If you are are into Robot &#x2F; Tech Anime it is well worth a watch, I simply felt in love with Chidori Kaname, female protagonist of the series, partly because the male protagonist is a ( Real ) nerd, and it is what some of the nerds first girl friend would act in real world. Its Companion Series Full Metal Panic Fumoffu is also hilarious.<p>Kyoto is one of the best Animation Studio not only in Japan but in the world, I remember they have a &quot;Making of&quot; section in the DVDs and show how much details they put into each drawing, taking thousands of Photos in Hong Kong and redraw them in the Story. So those places aren&#x27;t made up and for anyone living in Hong Kong it would have been instantly recognisable, even accurate to the sign of a poster and banner of shops. And it isn&#x27;t just the quality of those drawing, there are Studio which could do decent Animation but completely lack the skill in Story telling, Character Build up and Tempo etc. Kyoto not only has it all, but they have also been doing it consistently for the past 20 years if not more.<p>Those 20+ must have been some of the best in the industry.<p>I pray and hope there will be no more casualties from this incident. And those that passed away, RIP.<p>I read the Japanese Animation are still very much labour intensive, and not a lot of computer graphics involved, I am not sure if that is still true. ( And if it is, why are there little to no innovation to improve its efficiency ) And Animation, Manga industry tends to have long working hours even by Japanese Standards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moogly</author><text>Indeed. And Kyoto Animation (a.k.a. KyoAni) is widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best, studios in terms of working conditions and pay, long-term hiring with training on the job, etc. It is usually held up as a model of what the anime industry could be, and not what it tends to be.</text></comment> | <story><title>33 dead after arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio, dozens injured</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190718/p2a/00m/0na/002000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrpara</author><text>It&#x27;s still true. Japanese animators are paid by the pennies and work ridiculous hours. Since they&#x27;re often paid on a per-frame basis rather than hourly pay, sometimes it adds up to less than minimum hourly wage. KyoAni was actually one of the few who were known to pay reasonably well, and they also had sort of dormitories slash training facilities for their animators. As for computers, generally speaking the frames are still drawn on paper and scanned, and then colored digitally.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>My favourite Anime of All time, Full Metal Panic were produced by Kyoto Animation. If you are are into Robot &#x2F; Tech Anime it is well worth a watch, I simply felt in love with Chidori Kaname, female protagonist of the series, partly because the male protagonist is a ( Real ) nerd, and it is what some of the nerds first girl friend would act in real world. Its Companion Series Full Metal Panic Fumoffu is also hilarious.<p>Kyoto is one of the best Animation Studio not only in Japan but in the world, I remember they have a &quot;Making of&quot; section in the DVDs and show how much details they put into each drawing, taking thousands of Photos in Hong Kong and redraw them in the Story. So those places aren&#x27;t made up and for anyone living in Hong Kong it would have been instantly recognisable, even accurate to the sign of a poster and banner of shops. And it isn&#x27;t just the quality of those drawing, there are Studio which could do decent Animation but completely lack the skill in Story telling, Character Build up and Tempo etc. Kyoto not only has it all, but they have also been doing it consistently for the past 20 years if not more.<p>Those 20+ must have been some of the best in the industry.<p>I pray and hope there will be no more casualties from this incident. And those that passed away, RIP.<p>I read the Japanese Animation are still very much labour intensive, and not a lot of computer graphics involved, I am not sure if that is still true. ( And if it is, why are there little to no innovation to improve its efficiency ) And Animation, Manga industry tends to have long working hours even by Japanese Standards.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mengkudulangsat</author><text>Why though?!<p>It frustrates me that the industry have to rely on fans &#x2F; foreign distributors &#x2F; bootleg to get an audience out of Japan. Leaves so much money on the table.<p>I would be more than happy to pay Eiichiro Oda and his team for an english .pdf of the latest One Piece delivered to my inbox the second it comes out.</text></comment> |
10,407,090 | 10,406,800 | 1 | 2 | 10,406,253 | train | <story><title>New Findings from War on Poverty: Just Give Cash</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-09/new-findings-from-war-on-poverty-just-give-cash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scholia</author><text>Did anybody actually read the story?<p>The key observation is that a study published in Nature <i>&quot;found a correlation between child brain structure and family income. Simply put, family income is correlated with children’s brain surface area, especially among poor children. More money, bigger-brained kids.&quot;</i><p>This is supported by the Cherokee study: when the families became a bit better off ($4,000 a year) the kids did better when they grew up.<p>So it&#x27;s missing the point to argue about how grown-ups might (or might not) &quot;waste&quot; money and whether cash is better than other forms of welfare. The point is that bringing up children in poverty creates a worse outcome for society as a whole.<p>The fact is that $4,000 a year for 20 years is a very small amount compared with the cost of US police, courts, and prisons. If a poor kid grows up, gets a job and pays taxes, that&#x27;s a massive win <i>for society</i> compared with the same kid growing up in the sort of deprivation that leads to a life of crime and jail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdonaldson</author><text>When I saw that the argument was based on the outcomes at an Indian reservation I became very, very skeptical of the findings. Reservations are not an ideal arrangement, and there&#x27;s plenty of evidence that many of their problems came out of &quot;free cash&quot; from the government or casinos. I personally think that over a large enough population free cash undermines the motivation to seek education or employment. Many of the youth there have severe drug and alcohol problems, far greater than global statistics that their rural demographic would suggest.<p>As a counter point, you could look at the success of Native American tribes that receive government grants or casino payouts, vs those that don&#x27;t, such as the Lumbee Indians.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nativetimes.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;business&#x2F;features&#x2F;2470-lumbee-tribe-builds-capital-success" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nativetimes.com&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;business&#x2F;features&#x2F;2470-...</a><p>In the case of the Lumbee, there&#x27;s still a strong sense of helping out folks that need it, but the help is at the discretion of the tribe, not a government (or casino). Furthermore, they&#x27;ve built that system without much federal help.<p>Note that I&#x27;m not arguing for an all or nothing approach here, I think it&#x27;s reasonable for the federal government to help the tribe financially. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s reasonable to have the government give money directly to individuals in the tribe.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Findings from War on Poverty: Just Give Cash</title><url>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-09/new-findings-from-war-on-poverty-just-give-cash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scholia</author><text>Did anybody actually read the story?<p>The key observation is that a study published in Nature <i>&quot;found a correlation between child brain structure and family income. Simply put, family income is correlated with children’s brain surface area, especially among poor children. More money, bigger-brained kids.&quot;</i><p>This is supported by the Cherokee study: when the families became a bit better off ($4,000 a year) the kids did better when they grew up.<p>So it&#x27;s missing the point to argue about how grown-ups might (or might not) &quot;waste&quot; money and whether cash is better than other forms of welfare. The point is that bringing up children in poverty creates a worse outcome for society as a whole.<p>The fact is that $4,000 a year for 20 years is a very small amount compared with the cost of US police, courts, and prisons. If a poor kid grows up, gets a job and pays taxes, that&#x27;s a massive win <i>for society</i> compared with the same kid growing up in the sort of deprivation that leads to a life of crime and jail.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Will the <i>average</i> Cherokee child consume $80k of police&#x2F;court&#x2F;prison services during their lifetime? That&#x27;s breakeven. Assuming &quot;massive win&quot; means another $80k of cost savings, that means that absent this intervention, the average Cherokee will cost society $160k over their lifetime.<p>Is this really true? Is the average Cherokee a criminal who spends 3 years in prison (google suggests prison costs a bit under $50k&#x2F;year)?</text></comment> |
10,236,077 | 10,236,000 | 1 | 2 | 10,235,382 | train | <story><title>D-Link publishes code-signing private keys by mistake</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F105137%2Fd-link-blundert-met-vrijgeven-privesleutels-van-certificaten.html&edit-text=&act=url</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>the GPLv2 does not require that the modified code must be able to be installed back on the original hardware by the person doing the modification</i><p>Does not <i>explicitly</i>. From GPL2:<p>&gt; <i>Accompany it [executable code] with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code</i> ... <i>The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it</i><p>So, you&#x27;re telling me that the preferred form for making modifications to the source code of a router does not include the scripts which install onto the router to test those modifications?<p>&gt; <i>Not by any legal definition of &quot;bad faith&quot;</i><p>The GPL2 and the FSF are <i>very</i> explicit on what the GPL2 is supposed to engender. Accepting the license and trying to circumvent it on a possible technicality (assertion that a signed blob isn&#x27;t a derivative work, when the only reason anyone is interested in the source code is to run it) looks pretty bad-faith to me.<p>IANAMOAG (I am not a member of a guild, and you probably aren&#x27;t either). Even if we were, we could still disagree until it was actually litigated. I see no reason to prematurely capitulate Linux devices being non-Free.</text></item><item><author>eridius</author><text>&gt; <i>Yes, which is blatantly anti-GPL2.</i><p>No it&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s anti-GPLv3. GPLv2 absolutely allows tivoization. Stallman thinks this is bad, but not everybody else agrees (I know Linus Torvalds thinks tivoization is fine in the context of GPLv2, and I believe the FSF agrees).<p>&gt; <i>I really wish any Linux copyright holder […]</i><p>Your argument here is not a legal one. Any Linux copyright holder that did this would lose horribly. And in particular, Linus Torvalds explicitly stated that he does not support relicensing the Linux kernel under GPLv3 because of this (even if it were possible, which it isn&#x27;t because of the very large number of copyright holders). Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tivoization#GPLv3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tivoization#GPLv3</a><p>&gt; <i>The entire point of the GPL2 is that a developer who creates code and receives a modified version back should be able to modify that instance of code</i><p>And they can! But the GPLv2 does not require that the modified code must be able to be installed back on the original hardware by the person doing the modification.<p>&gt; <i>tivoization is entering into the license in bad faith</i><p>Not by any legal definition of &quot;bad faith&quot;, and even with the informal definition, a lot of people would disagree with you.</text></item><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>The whole point of requiring the firmware to be signed with a specific private key is to prevent third parties from installing their own custom firmware</i><p>Yes, which is blatantly anti-GPL2. I really wish any Linux copyright holder would step up to the plate and force the argument that since code+signature is the functional unit, adding the signature makes a derivative work and its source must be released in the preferred form for modification. The entire point of the GPL2 is that a developer who creates code and receives a modified version back should be able to modify that instance of code - tivoization is entering into the license in bad faith.<p>Of course going GPL3 would make for a more solid foundation for doing so, but clarifying this subject directly conflicts with the desires of the proprietary sponsors - Google etc.</text></item><item><author>eridius</author><text>This is absolutely a mistake. The whole point of requiring the firmware to be signed with a specific private key is to prevent third parties from installing their own custom firmware (e.g. to prevent malicious actors from installing malware onto the device). If you want to let everyone install their own build, then just don&#x27;t require the code signature (or, alternatively, create a program where third parties can request a certificate signed with your master, so they can then sign their own binaries, similar to how iOS development works).<p>&gt; <i>For every device requiring images to be signed with a specific key, this is exactly what the manufacturer should be forced to release!</i><p>What do you mean by &quot;should&quot; here? If the source is covered by GPLv3, then yeah, if they use code-signing they need to have some way to let you get around it. That&#x27;s the point of the anti-tivoization clause. But if the software is distributed under GPLv2, or any other license, then there&#x27;s no anti-tivoization restriction, and therefore no &quot;should&quot; about it.</text></item><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;It turned out what to look through the files that were in private keys to sign with code&quot;, reports bartvbl, &quot;In fact, in some batch files were the commands and pass phrases that were needed.&quot;</i><p>A company <i>finally</i> holds up their end of the GPL by including all source needed to create a working build, and it&#x27;s called a mistake!?<p>For every device requiring images to be signed with a specific key, this is exactly what the manufacturer should be forced to release!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>&quot;So, you&#x27;re telling me that the preferred form for making modifications to the source code of a router does not include the scripts which install onto the router to test those modifications?
&quot;<p>Yes. 100% yes.
It is very explicit in what must be included and you are explicitly ignoring what it says about scripts:<p>&quot; For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. &quot;<p>Scripts used to control compilation and installation != signing keys.
It means scripts used to control compilation and installation.<p>You may <i>want</i> it to include something more, but it doesn&#x27;t.
That&#x27;s why GPLv3 was written.</text></comment> | <story><title>D-Link publishes code-signing private keys by mistake</title><url>https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F105137%2Fd-link-blundert-met-vrijgeven-privesleutels-van-certificaten.html&edit-text=&act=url</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>the GPLv2 does not require that the modified code must be able to be installed back on the original hardware by the person doing the modification</i><p>Does not <i>explicitly</i>. From GPL2:<p>&gt; <i>Accompany it [executable code] with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code</i> ... <i>The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it</i><p>So, you&#x27;re telling me that the preferred form for making modifications to the source code of a router does not include the scripts which install onto the router to test those modifications?<p>&gt; <i>Not by any legal definition of &quot;bad faith&quot;</i><p>The GPL2 and the FSF are <i>very</i> explicit on what the GPL2 is supposed to engender. Accepting the license and trying to circumvent it on a possible technicality (assertion that a signed blob isn&#x27;t a derivative work, when the only reason anyone is interested in the source code is to run it) looks pretty bad-faith to me.<p>IANAMOAG (I am not a member of a guild, and you probably aren&#x27;t either). Even if we were, we could still disagree until it was actually litigated. I see no reason to prematurely capitulate Linux devices being non-Free.</text></item><item><author>eridius</author><text>&gt; <i>Yes, which is blatantly anti-GPL2.</i><p>No it&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s anti-GPLv3. GPLv2 absolutely allows tivoization. Stallman thinks this is bad, but not everybody else agrees (I know Linus Torvalds thinks tivoization is fine in the context of GPLv2, and I believe the FSF agrees).<p>&gt; <i>I really wish any Linux copyright holder […]</i><p>Your argument here is not a legal one. Any Linux copyright holder that did this would lose horribly. And in particular, Linus Torvalds explicitly stated that he does not support relicensing the Linux kernel under GPLv3 because of this (even if it were possible, which it isn&#x27;t because of the very large number of copyright holders). Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tivoization#GPLv3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tivoization#GPLv3</a><p>&gt; <i>The entire point of the GPL2 is that a developer who creates code and receives a modified version back should be able to modify that instance of code</i><p>And they can! But the GPLv2 does not require that the modified code must be able to be installed back on the original hardware by the person doing the modification.<p>&gt; <i>tivoization is entering into the license in bad faith</i><p>Not by any legal definition of &quot;bad faith&quot;, and even with the informal definition, a lot of people would disagree with you.</text></item><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>The whole point of requiring the firmware to be signed with a specific private key is to prevent third parties from installing their own custom firmware</i><p>Yes, which is blatantly anti-GPL2. I really wish any Linux copyright holder would step up to the plate and force the argument that since code+signature is the functional unit, adding the signature makes a derivative work and its source must be released in the preferred form for modification. The entire point of the GPL2 is that a developer who creates code and receives a modified version back should be able to modify that instance of code - tivoization is entering into the license in bad faith.<p>Of course going GPL3 would make for a more solid foundation for doing so, but clarifying this subject directly conflicts with the desires of the proprietary sponsors - Google etc.</text></item><item><author>eridius</author><text>This is absolutely a mistake. The whole point of requiring the firmware to be signed with a specific private key is to prevent third parties from installing their own custom firmware (e.g. to prevent malicious actors from installing malware onto the device). If you want to let everyone install their own build, then just don&#x27;t require the code signature (or, alternatively, create a program where third parties can request a certificate signed with your master, so they can then sign their own binaries, similar to how iOS development works).<p>&gt; <i>For every device requiring images to be signed with a specific key, this is exactly what the manufacturer should be forced to release!</i><p>What do you mean by &quot;should&quot; here? If the source is covered by GPLv3, then yeah, if they use code-signing they need to have some way to let you get around it. That&#x27;s the point of the anti-tivoization clause. But if the software is distributed under GPLv2, or any other license, then there&#x27;s no anti-tivoization restriction, and therefore no &quot;should&quot; about it.</text></item><item><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;It turned out what to look through the files that were in private keys to sign with code&quot;, reports bartvbl, &quot;In fact, in some batch files were the commands and pass phrases that were needed.&quot;</i><p>A company <i>finally</i> holds up their end of the GPL by including all source needed to create a working build, and it&#x27;s called a mistake!?<p>For every device requiring images to be signed with a specific key, this is exactly what the manufacturer should be forced to release!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dtparr</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure how this is premature. The reason the practice is called tivoization is because we went through all this years ago when Tivo did it. The FSF acknowledges that releasing the source but locking you out from installing your self-built version of it does comply with the GPL2, which is why there&#x27;s a GPL3.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;gpl-faq.html#Tivoization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;gpl-faq.html#Tivoization</a></text></comment> |
20,598,050 | 20,597,703 | 1 | 2 | 20,592,016 | train | <story><title>Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apo</author><text>&gt; The new balloons promise a cheap surveillance platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods. And because winds often travel in different directions at different altitudes, the balloons can usually hover over a given area simply by ascending or descending.<p>Stepping back from the details of this story reveals a striking pattern that most public discussions on mass surveillance miss entirely.<p>Cost has protected citizens of the world&#x27;s liberal democracies from sliding into totalitarianism for a long time. Now the brakes are off. Surveillance technology costs are plunging across at the board and capabilities are skyrocketing.<p>Regardless of size or jurisdiction, there isn&#x27;t a law enforcement agency out there that doesn&#x27;t want to (or actively seek to) increase its observational capability.<p>Tumbling prices allow these organizations to indulge these urges.<p>Suddenly, basic assumptions about what governments can and can&#x27;t do go out the window. The equipment is bought and put into production. Better to ask forgiveness than permission and all that.<p>There is no limit to the appetite for greater visibility into the private lives of citizens. Today it&#x27;s the war on drugs and terror. Tomorrow it&#x27;s something else. The justifications change, but these are just thin veneers over the ugly truth. Every government tends toward totalitarianism unless kept in check by something pretty damn powerful.<p>This train has one destination, and it&#x27;s not even clear if there will be any stops along the way. To understand where we&#x27;re headed, try reading the Bill of Rights with the assumption that your government knows everything there is to know about you, and where those who attempt to reveal the extent of these capabilities are imprisoned or executed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cherrypicker001</author><text>I saw a BBC short video while in Europe last summer. It was surreal. The video was basically showing how awesome these aerial surveillance platforms were. At one point the reporter walked out of the control center and started dancing outside. It looked like he was having a lot of fun watching himself from a few thousand feet up. If anyone manages to find it please post it. There was no talk about the privacy implications. Just a puff piece to acclimatize people into thinking this was normal.<p>If you don&#x27;t yet know what these balloons are from articles on Afghanistan, they provide very cheap ubiquitous physical surveillance on very large areas. If one of these things have LOS on you or your home, you no longer have any physical privacy.<p>If this doesn&#x27;t piss you off you need to look up what a panopticon is.</text></comment> |
26,923,763 | 26,922,976 | 1 | 3 | 26,919,360 | train | <story><title>Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the browser</title><url>https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brian_herman</author><text>The prophesy has come true...
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mywacaday</author><text>If we are living in a simulation it&#x27;s slightly more troubling that it might be running in a browser.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the browser</title><url>https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brian_herman</author><text>The prophesy has come true...
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ant6n</author><text>I think I actually saw this talk live. What are the chances. Definitely worth checking out, it’s pretty fun.</text></comment> |
14,471,015 | 14,470,700 | 1 | 3 | 14,469,645 | train | <story><title>Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/visualize-data-instantly-machine-learning-google-sheets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>When I worked for SAP back in 2007 (I was a fresh grad at the time), I was working in the business intelligence (reporting, analytics, and data warehousing) group and noticed how cumbersome it was for organizations to simply create and view reports (we&#x27;re talking millions of dollars). I once said to my boss &quot;you realize that in the future we&#x27;ll simply just write &#x27;show me a line graph for sales in the northeast&#x27;&quot;.<p>And so here we are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tryitnow</author><text>I&#x27;m currently evaluating BI vendors for my company and just about every major contender has this functionality or is developing it. Read the Gartner report from 2017 and they basically just come out and say that this will be the new standard in BI.<p>The much harder problem is data management and preparation. Anyone with half a brain and a decent visualization tool can create basic graphs - but that doesn&#x27;t mean they should, especially if the organization doesn&#x27;t have good data management processes in place.<p>Issues like data governance, data prep, and data modelling are the major pain points for me. And honestly, developing a useful BI solution is more about culture change than it is technology. If a company has poor data governance, it doesn&#x27;t matter how whiz-bang their technology is, they&#x27;re still not going to get useful insight from their numbers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/visualize-data-instantly-machine-learning-google-sheets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbesto</author><text>When I worked for SAP back in 2007 (I was a fresh grad at the time), I was working in the business intelligence (reporting, analytics, and data warehousing) group and noticed how cumbersome it was for organizations to simply create and view reports (we&#x27;re talking millions of dollars). I once said to my boss &quot;you realize that in the future we&#x27;ll simply just write &#x27;show me a line graph for sales in the northeast&#x27;&quot;.<p>And so here we are now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MitjaBezensek</author><text>So many of our clients (I&#x27;m still working in the BI space) are still using Excel workbooks and sending them to each other over email. I think it will take quite some time before we see any major improvements in this area. But I agree with you. Some of the stuff I see makes me cringe.</text></comment> |
20,772,043 | 20,771,763 | 1 | 2 | 20,771,375 | train | <story><title>Stand Out as a Speaker</title><url>https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6455/834.full</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ziddoap</author><text>I feel like any conversation about speaking&#x2F;presenting skills should have a link to Patrick Henry Winston&#x27;s &quot;How To Speak&quot; presentation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RjbmPuhuFv0&amp;list=PL9F536001A3C605FC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=RjbmPuhuFv0&amp;list=PL9F536001A...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Stand Out as a Speaker</title><url>https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6455/834.full</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsder</author><text>The biggest advice to a speaker giving a fixed speech is: PRACTICE!<p>People never put in enough practice on a speech. When I build a new speech, I practice it with a clock and record myself. And then edit the speech. And then deliver the speech again. And do it again. And again. And again.<p>By the time I&#x27;m done, you can take my slides, destroy my computer, put the room in a war zone, and I can still deliver that speech cold and make it at least passably interesting to the audience.<p>Yes, making a good speech is a ton of work. I don&#x27;t do it often, and when I do I try to make sure I can give that speech multiple times to amortize some of the work.</text></comment> |
21,955,010 | 21,953,637 | 1 | 2 | 21,952,461 | train | <story><title>Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better</title><url>https://github.com/brammool/vim9/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noch</author><text>Why can&#x27;t the default be to write extensions in C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;Rust&#x2F;zig&#x2F;jai or any compiled language with which one can produce a .dll or.so?<p>Why can&#x27;t application developers abandon this strange habit of adding a slow &quot;scripting&quot; language?<p>Why not provide a versioned C API and be done with it?<p>A compiled language would allow us to use the best debugger and compiler on our systems and performance would be in the extension writer&#x27;s hands and would eliminate the frustrating need to learn yet another scripting language.</text></item><item><author>CGamesPlay</author><text>So, if the new language is fundamentally incompatible with the old VimScript, why keep using VimScript? Lua already seems pretty fast, why not just make a fork where Lua is the default scripting language?<p>(Note, not considering JavaScript in the benchmarks seems like a pretty big oversight before making a conclusion of new default language.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>Why can&#x27;t application developers abandon this strange habit of adding a slow &quot;scripting&quot; language?</i><p>How is it strange? Your suggestion sounds even more bizarro. It&#x27;s not like those developers don&#x27;t know about shared libs and .so files.<p>It&#x27;s that:<p>a) Programming in C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;Rust is more cumbersome (than in a dynamic&#x2F;scripting&#x2F;gc language), and throws off tons of potential extension developers.<p>b) building extensions as .so even more so, adds different builds per OS&#x2F;architecture, compilation steps, and tons of potential issues, both for setting up your extension building and for delivering it.<p>c) encouraging extensions written as .so in different languages, means a smaller pool of common reusuable extension code (each extension will reinvent several wheels). Whereas people could easily develop libs in the editors extension language and share them for re-use in others&#x27; extensions.<p>d) an issue in a C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;unsafe Rust etc extension will bring down the whole editor. In an embedded language that just calls API you can mitigate it easily.<p>f) same for memory leaks and such.<p>AAA game studios, which are hardcode C++ users with high performance &#x2F; low latency needs, and have gone to using embedded scripting languages (with great success) and for some reason mere editor developers should abandon them and go pure C ABI?</text></comment> | <story><title>Vim9: An experimental fork of Vim to explore making Vim script faster and better</title><url>https://github.com/brammool/vim9/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noch</author><text>Why can&#x27;t the default be to write extensions in C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;Rust&#x2F;zig&#x2F;jai or any compiled language with which one can produce a .dll or.so?<p>Why can&#x27;t application developers abandon this strange habit of adding a slow &quot;scripting&quot; language?<p>Why not provide a versioned C API and be done with it?<p>A compiled language would allow us to use the best debugger and compiler on our systems and performance would be in the extension writer&#x27;s hands and would eliminate the frustrating need to learn yet another scripting language.</text></item><item><author>CGamesPlay</author><text>So, if the new language is fundamentally incompatible with the old VimScript, why keep using VimScript? Lua already seems pretty fast, why not just make a fork where Lua is the default scripting language?<p>(Note, not considering JavaScript in the benchmarks seems like a pretty big oversight before making a conclusion of new default language.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majewsky</author><text>You need some sort of VimScript anyway because VimScript is the language for the command mode prompt.</text></comment> |
12,054,403 | 12,054,251 | 1 | 2 | 12,053,721 | train | <story><title>U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-regulator-bans-theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-from-operating-labs-for-two-years-1467956064?tesla=y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kumarski</author><text>I&#x27;ve talked to over 100 hematologists.<p>This business, didn&#x27;t pass a basic litmus test of objective criticism from people who work in the space.<p>There seems to be this bravado among founders who believe they&#x27;re sticking it to all the people who say something&#x27;s amiss. I think if there&#x27;s an elephant in the room though, it probably should be assassinated with a huge body of transparent evidence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brbsix</author><text>There appear to be two different sorts of &quot;disruption&quot;:<p>1) There&#x27;s disruption that&#x27;s seen as impractical or insanely difficult (e.g. Tesla, SpaceX). Or technically feasible but with significant social or legal obstables (e.g. AirBnB, Uber).<p>2) Then there&#x27;s another category, disruption that defies laws of physics. Kickstarter is replete with examples. This includes things like pocket-size underwater rebreaters, self-filling water bottles, and solar-powered motorcycles.<p>I&#x27;m no expert in the subject matter but Theranos tech seems to be in the latter.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-regulator-bans-theranos-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-from-operating-labs-for-two-years-1467956064?tesla=y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kumarski</author><text>I&#x27;ve talked to over 100 hematologists.<p>This business, didn&#x27;t pass a basic litmus test of objective criticism from people who work in the space.<p>There seems to be this bravado among founders who believe they&#x27;re sticking it to all the people who say something&#x27;s amiss. I think if there&#x27;s an elephant in the room though, it probably should be assassinated with a huge body of transparent evidence.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryporter</author><text>To be fair, that is how innovation occurs. There are many examples of &quot;ridiculous&quot; ideas that ended being wildly successful. Where would Elon Musk be if he listened to all of the incumbents who said that his ideas would never work? Obviously, the putative innovators massively failed in this case, but I don&#x27;t think that the outcome proves that their original idea was fatally flawed, or at least that it wasn&#x27;t worth attempting.</text></comment> |
14,331,921 | 14,332,012 | 1 | 2 | 14,330,547 | train | <story><title>Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack</title><url>https://www.malwaretech.com/2017/05/how-to-accidentally-stop-a-global-cyber-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eterm</author><text>Under that same assumption of assuming maximum damage, what was the motivation for the malware author to put in a killswitch?</text></item><item><author>ufmace</author><text>I would think not. For something bad to happen from registering the domain, there would have to be some kind of weird booby-trap in the malware. What&#x27;s the motivation for a malware author to do that? If they can do something worse, the incentive is to just do it, rather than wait for a security researcher to do something first that they may or may not ever do. It&#x27;s not impossible, but it&#x27;s a little ridiculous and wildly unprecedented in the field of malware analysis.<p>When there&#x27;s a global infection spreading wildly and crippling essential organizations, you want everyone to act fast, not spend weeks making sure everything is perfect. If you see the malware connecting out to an unregistered domain, you just register it now. Whoever is first gets it, and the attacker could realize their mistake at any time. Even without knowing what this malware does with the connection, odds are 99.9% that the situation is better with the domain controlled by a security researcher than by a malware author. Punishing researchers if something done in good faith turned out badly would incentivize them to overanalyze everything and delay taking any potential beneficial action until it&#x27;s too late.</text></item><item><author>dperfect</author><text>&gt; the employee came back with the news that the registration of the domain had triggered the ransomware meaning we’d encrypted everyone’s files...<p>Even though this fortunately turned out to be false, what if it <i>had</i> been true? Would the security researcher be held in any way accountable for activating the ransomware? If I were the author, I might be a bit more careful in the future before changing factors in the global environment[1] that have the potential to adversely affect the malware&#x27;s behavior, but of course I&#x27;m not a security researcher, so I really don&#x27;t know.<p>[1] I suppose a domain could probably be made to <i>appear</i> unregistered after being registered - depending on the actual check performed - but there are other binary signals (e.g., the existence of a certain address or value in the bitcoin blockchain) that might not be so easy to reverse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scoundreller</author><text>The theory is that the malware wouldn&#x27;t execute in sandboxes for malware analysis, since the analysis environment will accept all connections from the sandbox.<p>So, if connection = successful, then we&#x27;re being analyzed and don&#x27;t execute.<p>If connection = unsuccessful, then we&#x27;re on a real workstation, execute!<p>Then the scheme fell apart when someone registered that domain, so all connections = successful and malware will not execute (but machine still infected).</text></comment> | <story><title>Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack</title><url>https://www.malwaretech.com/2017/05/how-to-accidentally-stop-a-global-cyber-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eterm</author><text>Under that same assumption of assuming maximum damage, what was the motivation for the malware author to put in a killswitch?</text></item><item><author>ufmace</author><text>I would think not. For something bad to happen from registering the domain, there would have to be some kind of weird booby-trap in the malware. What&#x27;s the motivation for a malware author to do that? If they can do something worse, the incentive is to just do it, rather than wait for a security researcher to do something first that they may or may not ever do. It&#x27;s not impossible, but it&#x27;s a little ridiculous and wildly unprecedented in the field of malware analysis.<p>When there&#x27;s a global infection spreading wildly and crippling essential organizations, you want everyone to act fast, not spend weeks making sure everything is perfect. If you see the malware connecting out to an unregistered domain, you just register it now. Whoever is first gets it, and the attacker could realize their mistake at any time. Even without knowing what this malware does with the connection, odds are 99.9% that the situation is better with the domain controlled by a security researcher than by a malware author. Punishing researchers if something done in good faith turned out badly would incentivize them to overanalyze everything and delay taking any potential beneficial action until it&#x27;s too late.</text></item><item><author>dperfect</author><text>&gt; the employee came back with the news that the registration of the domain had triggered the ransomware meaning we’d encrypted everyone’s files...<p>Even though this fortunately turned out to be false, what if it <i>had</i> been true? Would the security researcher be held in any way accountable for activating the ransomware? If I were the author, I might be a bit more careful in the future before changing factors in the global environment[1] that have the potential to adversely affect the malware&#x27;s behavior, but of course I&#x27;m not a security researcher, so I really don&#x27;t know.<p>[1] I suppose a domain could probably be made to <i>appear</i> unregistered after being registered - depending on the actual check performed - but there are other binary signals (e.g., the existence of a certain address or value in the bitcoin blockchain) that might not be so easy to reverse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jldugger</author><text>Probably to prevent it from fucking their own computer network up. Just change your local resolver to be authoritative for the domain(s) in question, and bob&#x27;s your uncle.<p>But next they&#x27;ll likely use more domains, and more expensive ones, so that random security researchers can&#x27;t just expense the registration on the corporate credit card. I know .ng costs 50k, but .np might be pretty comical to deploy if you&#x27;re not really worried about a global off switch.</text></comment> |
28,044,245 | 28,044,261 | 1 | 2 | 28,042,766 | train | <story><title>Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework</title><url>https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/SOZREBYR36PUNFZXMIUBVAIOQI4N7PDU/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggregoire</author><text>Although I understand what you saying about big shifts and kinda shared your opinion, specially about hooks, I started a new project from scratch last week and decided to give hooks a try (and, for reference, I&#x27;ve been using React on a daily basis for 5 years).<p>Oh boy I was wrong.<p>Hooks are way more easier and intuitive than what I thought. It makes code so much more readable and easier to reason about. Especially when before you had to wrap your components into x number of HOCs to inject the props your component needed, risking props collision, making it really hard to debug and use with TypeScript, and eventually making it a nightmare to understand and maintain your component. I&#x27;m not surprised that every React library added a hook API to its core.<p>At the end of the day it makes me more productive, so I guess that big shift was also a big win.</text></item><item><author>ferdowsi</author><text>Congratulations to the Vue team, this is definitely a big win for them.<p>Reading through the RFC is really interesting. They specifically call out the dependency on Facebook as effectively being React&#x27;s Single Point of Failure, citing their negative experiences with HHVM.<p>And for all of the love that people give React&#x27;s big shifts (like hooks), the RFC specifically counts this against them, given that best practices have shifted so drastically in the last few years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardobeat</author><text> I&#x27;ve been through two large-scale projects now where we went 100% into hooks, and after a couple years the excitement has faded and I often wonder if it was worth it. It seems to end up making code even more complex than before, even though components look simpler on the surface. Not enough to go back to classes, but doesn&#x27;t feel as good as those first steps. I absolutely hate the manual dependency tracking and having <i>every single thing</i> be wrapped in a useX() method to avoid unnecessary updates.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vue.js is Wikimedia Foundation's future JavaScript framework</title><url>https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/SOZREBYR36PUNFZXMIUBVAIOQI4N7PDU/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ggregoire</author><text>Although I understand what you saying about big shifts and kinda shared your opinion, specially about hooks, I started a new project from scratch last week and decided to give hooks a try (and, for reference, I&#x27;ve been using React on a daily basis for 5 years).<p>Oh boy I was wrong.<p>Hooks are way more easier and intuitive than what I thought. It makes code so much more readable and easier to reason about. Especially when before you had to wrap your components into x number of HOCs to inject the props your component needed, risking props collision, making it really hard to debug and use with TypeScript, and eventually making it a nightmare to understand and maintain your component. I&#x27;m not surprised that every React library added a hook API to its core.<p>At the end of the day it makes me more productive, so I guess that big shift was also a big win.</text></item><item><author>ferdowsi</author><text>Congratulations to the Vue team, this is definitely a big win for them.<p>Reading through the RFC is really interesting. They specifically call out the dependency on Facebook as effectively being React&#x27;s Single Point of Failure, citing their negative experiences with HHVM.<p>And for all of the love that people give React&#x27;s big shifts (like hooks), the RFC specifically counts this against them, given that best practices have shifted so drastically in the last few years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nanagojo</author><text>IMO it is good that the React team was open into investigating different paradigms. It&#x27;s a good thing and you rarely see this with other big projects.</text></comment> |
13,486,236 | 13,486,090 | 1 | 2 | 13,484,042 | train | <story><title>In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/world/asia/in-its-third-month-indias-cash-shortage-begins-to-bite.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20170125&nl=dealbook&nl_art=15&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seshagiric</author><text>As an Indian, I feel this article is overtly negative and fails to capture the real public opinion. For example, everyone in my friends + relatives circle (mix of salaried and small business owners) have been impacted, we have borne the grunt of standing in lines for 2-3 hours just to get cash, but each and everyone welcomes the change. We in fact want the govt. now to focus on the other big source of black money - real estate.<p>The NY times also deliberately ignores the positive outcomes e.g. housing loans are now coming to a six year low, online transactions are increasing (which increases tax inflow to the govt. by bringing previously unreported transactions to tax bracket).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>signal11</author><text>If you&#x27;re posting on HN, you and your friends are probably not the audience for whom there&#x27;s pain. Reading the NYT piece, it appears to be hitting contractual labor the hardest - people who earn $220&#x2F;month or less.<p>From the article: &quot;The worst affected by the cash crunch are the country’s hundreds of millions of farmers, produce vendors, small shop owners and daily-wage laborers who are usually paid in cash at the end of a day’s work.&quot; This makes sense as daily-wage laborers would form the backbone of any informal ecnonomy, and the lack of ready cash is killing the informal economy.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/world/asia/in-its-third-month-indias-cash-shortage-begins-to-bite.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_dk_20170125&nl=dealbook&nl_art=15&nlid=65508833&ref=headline&te=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seshagiric</author><text>As an Indian, I feel this article is overtly negative and fails to capture the real public opinion. For example, everyone in my friends + relatives circle (mix of salaried and small business owners) have been impacted, we have borne the grunt of standing in lines for 2-3 hours just to get cash, but each and everyone welcomes the change. We in fact want the govt. now to focus on the other big source of black money - real estate.<p>The NY times also deliberately ignores the positive outcomes e.g. housing loans are now coming to a six year low, online transactions are increasing (which increases tax inflow to the govt. by bringing previously unreported transactions to tax bracket).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agustamir</author><text>I have heard this argument of the Indian middle class standing in lines but having a positive outlook of the future. That’s the general sentiment floating around. Many economists and social scientists in India have been highly critical of the move and its implementation too. The govt didn’t present data about how much dirty cash was scooped up through this move. It’s narrative changed from bringing back dirty money to digital transactions.
The population hit hard by this move is the poor, which frankly hasn’t got the kind of access to technology to be using credit and debit cards. Access to smartphones hasn’t picked up to the extent of substituting it as an alternative to cash. What about them? They form a large chunk. Not a lot of media attention has been given to this section of society - the daily wage earners, factory workers paid in cash, farmers[0]. Who’s talking about these folks? I would be more interested in some real insights into this instead of rhetoric and searching for some silver lining.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thewire.in&#x2F;89578&#x2F;costs-of-demonetisation-dampening-spirits-farmers-struggling&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thewire.in&#x2F;89578&#x2F;costs-of-demonetisation-dampening-s...</a></text></comment> |
8,413,896 | 8,413,439 | 1 | 2 | 8,412,744 | train | <story><title>How does a computer chip work?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Computer-Science/How-does-a-computer-chip-work/answer/Subhasis-Das?share=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>th3iedkid</author><text>why would someone have so much of patience&#x2F;energy&#x2F;motivation to write it all over an answer to a question in Quora?<p>He&#x2F;She has certainly done a wonderful job but just curios at alternatives and reasons for choices they made..<p>Why not just refer to an article in the series of ... &#x27;What every programmer should know about ...&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markbao</author><text>This is a good question. I sometimes comment about and help others on the topic of travel on Reddit, often writing a lot of content. The incentive for me is that it&#x27;s fun and intrinsically rewarding to help others do something that I find meaningful (which would fit into sibling commenter Gatsky&#x27;s reason #2). So in a way it&#x27;s kinda self-serving, but in a good way.<p>As for why authors don&#x27;t just link to another webpage: I think it&#x27;s because a) those pages often don&#x27;t fit what is being asked, if it&#x27;s more in-depth; b) the author might have a way to explain it that they want to use; or c) you might presume that writing your own content will get more upvotes.<p>Meta-funnily enough, in this thread we have both approaches: myself and others offering opinions, another guy linking to a Quora question.</text></comment> | <story><title>How does a computer chip work?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Computer-Science/How-does-a-computer-chip-work/answer/Subhasis-Das?share=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>th3iedkid</author><text>why would someone have so much of patience&#x2F;energy&#x2F;motivation to write it all over an answer to a question in Quora?<p>He&#x2F;She has certainly done a wonderful job but just curios at alternatives and reasons for choices they made..<p>Why not just refer to an article in the series of ... &#x27;What every programmer should know about ...&#x27;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pinkyand</author><text>As to why someone posts on quora:<p><a href="http://www.quora.com/What-s-my-incentive-to-post-answers-on-Quora" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;What-s-my-incentive-to-post-answers-on-...</a><p>I&#x27;m sure that some of that also applies to HN.</text></comment> |
18,393,545 | 18,392,982 | 1 | 3 | 18,391,757 | train | <story><title>Instant runoff voting is the system we need</title><url>http://chuckgreenman.posthaven.com/instant-runoff-voting-is-the-system-we-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvedejas</author><text>I&#x27;m continually upset and confused by Instant runoff voting&#x27;s popularity. IRV is, by my reckoning, a much inferior (and more complicated) system than other systems, like range voting or ranked pairs. And it has some bizarre properties that make me wonder if it is even worse than the traditional first-past-the-post.<p>One property of IRV that makes it so questionable is its non-monotonicity. This means that you can help a candidate by ranking them lower, and hurt a candidate by ranking them higher. It is extremely easy to visualize how ill-behaved IRV is in the charts on this website:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zesty.ca&#x2F;voting&#x2F;sim&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zesty.ca&#x2F;voting&#x2F;sim&#x2F;</a><p>Meanwhile, ranked pairs (a &quot;condorcet&quot; method) has the property that, if candidate A is more popular than all other candidates pairwise, then candidate A will always win. This is _not_ true in IRV.<p>If you&#x27;re interested in falling down the rabbit hole of electoral systems, I recommend looking at this chart that compares their properties:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comparison_of_electoral_systems#Comparisons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comparison_of_electoral_system...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwmma</author><text>Runoffs are something people understand, IRV is conceptually similar and makes intuitive sense to people, it&#x27;s very easy to explain to people, &#x27;if nobody gets a majority, eliminate last place and redistribute their votes, repeat&#x27;.<p>Compare that to to some of the other systems which often have complex mathematical descriptions which are hard for people to wrap their heads around.<p>Another thing is how big a deal is &#x27;non-monotonicity&#x27; is it actually going to be something that will affect elections all the time, or is it something that&#x27;s more minor than say turnout which honestly has no solution and on one side you have USA where turnout is low so the game is all about making sure your base turns out, or on the other side you have Australia where voting is mandatory so making sure people who don&#x27;t care, don&#x27;t vote at random is a big part of the game.</text></comment> | <story><title>Instant runoff voting is the system we need</title><url>http://chuckgreenman.posthaven.com/instant-runoff-voting-is-the-system-we-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvedejas</author><text>I&#x27;m continually upset and confused by Instant runoff voting&#x27;s popularity. IRV is, by my reckoning, a much inferior (and more complicated) system than other systems, like range voting or ranked pairs. And it has some bizarre properties that make me wonder if it is even worse than the traditional first-past-the-post.<p>One property of IRV that makes it so questionable is its non-monotonicity. This means that you can help a candidate by ranking them lower, and hurt a candidate by ranking them higher. It is extremely easy to visualize how ill-behaved IRV is in the charts on this website:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zesty.ca&#x2F;voting&#x2F;sim&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;zesty.ca&#x2F;voting&#x2F;sim&#x2F;</a><p>Meanwhile, ranked pairs (a &quot;condorcet&quot; method) has the property that, if candidate A is more popular than all other candidates pairwise, then candidate A will always win. This is _not_ true in IRV.<p>If you&#x27;re interested in falling down the rabbit hole of electoral systems, I recommend looking at this chart that compares their properties:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comparison_of_electoral_systems#Comparisons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Comparison_of_electoral_system...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarkevans</author><text>To me it also seems IRV is complicated. That said, doesn&#x27;t the non-monotonicity property of IRV support outcomes where a compromise candidate might win when they otherwise would lose? That doesn&#x27;t seem to be a bad thing. If people vote strategically to make a centrist their 1st vote to avoid what they consider an extreme, that seems like the essence of political compromise and an improvement over 1st past post.<p>Perhaps the most important important property of a voting system is that it is easy to grok, so that people trust it. In particular, aggregates at the local level should combine simply with other districts to tally overall winners.You can tally IRV incrementally, it&#x27;s just that ranking permutations are the units of aggregation. That&#x27;s non-trivial. For this reason, I prefer approval voting.</text></comment> |
20,298,894 | 20,297,856 | 1 | 2 | 20,296,824 | train | <story><title>US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28669/navys-railgun-now-undergoing-tests-in-new-mexico-could-deploy-on-ship-in-northwest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I find the physics of rail guns pretty fascinating. For something nominally invented in world war 1 (1918) which is now &quot;only a few years&quot; away from possible deployment. We are talking literally a 100 years later. We went from powered flight to flying in orbit in less time, think about that.<p>Is it a compelling weapons concept? Of course it is, you don&#x27;t need explosives to shoot things that is pretty huge. Are wars bad? Of course they are.<p>That said, the concept has been around for a hundred years, so people <i>are</i> going to work on making a practical weapon out of it. Which means that at some point its going to be a component of a military action. And not having one of your own, will change the calculus of what you can and cannot do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>The concept is the same for any projectile weapon: I&#x27;m going to convert stored energy into kinetic energy.<p>Bow and arrow? Stored energy in the bow turned into kinetic energy in the arrow. Handgun&#x2F;cannon&#x2F;musket? Stored chemical energy in some compound, quickly converted into kinetic energy in the bullet via exploding.<p>A rail gun isn&#x27;t much different- it&#x27;s just a different means to store the energy (in electrical storage) and a different means to apply the energy to the projectile (magnets). The real problem is that these two changes require a lot of overhead in terms of gear to make it work. It&#x27;s only worthwhile to do it if you intend to really, <i>really</i> add a lot of kinetic energy to something.<p>It&#x27;s the same reason the electric car has taken 100 years to finally be worthwhile- chemical energy is much more dense and easy to convert into kinetic energy. Battery tech is only now catching up to the point that it&#x27;s worth doing.</text></comment> | <story><title>US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28669/navys-railgun-now-undergoing-tests-in-new-mexico-could-deploy-on-ship-in-northwest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I find the physics of rail guns pretty fascinating. For something nominally invented in world war 1 (1918) which is now &quot;only a few years&quot; away from possible deployment. We are talking literally a 100 years later. We went from powered flight to flying in orbit in less time, think about that.<p>Is it a compelling weapons concept? Of course it is, you don&#x27;t need explosives to shoot things that is pretty huge. Are wars bad? Of course they are.<p>That said, the concept has been around for a hundred years, so people <i>are</i> going to work on making a practical weapon out of it. Which means that at some point its going to be a component of a military action. And not having one of your own, will change the calculus of what you can and cannot do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>It&#x27;s not like the technology behind railguns hasn&#x27;t been stable and ready to use for decades now. It&#x27;s just that, until the more recent invention of ancillary technologies like supercapacitors, it&#x27;s been so costly to fire them that there was no logical place for them on the battlefield, so we never bothered to operationalize them.</text></comment> |
9,072,806 | 9,071,825 | 1 | 2 | 9,070,496 | train | <story><title>Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/18/bringing-asm-js-to-the-chakra-javascript-engine-in-windows-10.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;For example, will asm.js eventually take over traditional web development? Theoretically, you can compile any compiled language to asm.js, so you&#x27;ll have a lot more choice for the language you want to use to create your webapps.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve outlined this progression before, which seems obvious to me, but I haven&#x27;t seen anyone else discuss it.<p><pre><code> 1. Get asm.js into every browser.
2 or 3. Observe that asm.js is very verbose, define a simple
binary bytecode for it.
3 or 2. Figure out how to get asm.js decent DOM access.
</code></pre>
The last two can come in either order.<p>And the end result is the language-independent bytecode that so many people have asked for over the years. We just won&#x27;t get there in one leap, it&#x27;ll come in phases. We in fact won&#x27;t be using Javascript for everything in 20 years [1], but those of you still around will be explaining to the young bucks why certain stupid quirks of their web browser&#x27;s bytecode execution environment can be traced back to &quot;Javascript&quot;, even when they&#x27;re not using the increasingly-deprecated Javascript programming language.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death...</a></text></item><item><author>gitaarik</author><text>Nice, now that Firefox, Chrome and IE will support it, I think asm.js will become available in most serious browsers, which is a great thing.<p>It will be interesting to see what kind of impact it will have. For example, will asm.js eventually take over traditional web development? Theoretically, you can compile any compiled language to asm.js, so you&#x27;ll have a lot more choice for the language you want to use to create your webapps. It won&#x27;t really be web though: no markup, no links, but yeah, with the current heavily based javascript apps that&#x27;s also debatable. Also asm.js still has a lot of limitations and disadvantages that won&#x27;t make it just as easy yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beagle3</author><text>&gt; Observe that asm.js is very verbose, define a simple binary bytecode for it.<p>I suspect that is never going to happen, for two reasons:<p>1) verbosity, on its own, does not make a difference on the web - HTML and Javascript are both generally super verbose, and haven&#x27;t had any accepted &quot;simple binary encoding&quot; designed for them in those 20 years. What does get implemented is minifiers and compressors (gzip encoding or otherwise), both of which will provide benefits to asm.js comparable to what a bytecode would, and would not require any buy-in from browser maker (the same attribute that has made asm.js successful and PNaCL unsuccessful so far).<p>2) Historically, anything that is not backwards compatible and does not degrade gracefully is NOT easily adopted by Browser makers, or by websites, unless it provides something that cannot be achieved without it (e.g. WebGL gets some adoption because there is no alternative; but ES6 will get little to non in the next 3 years except as a source language translated to ES5)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/18/bringing-asm-js-to-the-chakra-javascript-engine-in-windows-10.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>&quot;For example, will asm.js eventually take over traditional web development? Theoretically, you can compile any compiled language to asm.js, so you&#x27;ll have a lot more choice for the language you want to use to create your webapps.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve outlined this progression before, which seems obvious to me, but I haven&#x27;t seen anyone else discuss it.<p><pre><code> 1. Get asm.js into every browser.
2 or 3. Observe that asm.js is very verbose, define a simple
binary bytecode for it.
3 or 2. Figure out how to get asm.js decent DOM access.
</code></pre>
The last two can come in either order.<p>And the end result is the language-independent bytecode that so many people have asked for over the years. We just won&#x27;t get there in one leap, it&#x27;ll come in phases. We in fact won&#x27;t be using Javascript for everything in 20 years [1], but those of you still around will be explaining to the young bucks why certain stupid quirks of their web browser&#x27;s bytecode execution environment can be traced back to &quot;Javascript&quot;, even when they&#x27;re not using the increasingly-deprecated Javascript programming language.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death...</a></text></item><item><author>gitaarik</author><text>Nice, now that Firefox, Chrome and IE will support it, I think asm.js will become available in most serious browsers, which is a great thing.<p>It will be interesting to see what kind of impact it will have. For example, will asm.js eventually take over traditional web development? Theoretically, you can compile any compiled language to asm.js, so you&#x27;ll have a lot more choice for the language you want to use to create your webapps. It won&#x27;t really be web though: no markup, no links, but yeah, with the current heavily based javascript apps that&#x27;s also debatable. Also asm.js still has a lot of limitations and disadvantages that won&#x27;t make it just as easy yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ndesaulniers</author><text>Hey, you&#x27;re good at this. ;)<p>It&#x27;s funny to see that people so opposed to JS are too short sighted to see that asm.js could enable what they&#x27;ve wanted all along. Look at that!</text></comment> |
6,428,410 | 6,428,434 | 1 | 2 | 6,428,205 | train | <story><title>The life and death of Buran, the USSR shuttle built on faulty assumptions</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/the-life-and-death-of-buran-the-ussr-shuttle-built-on-faulty-assumptions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>molecule</author><text>The USSR should be commended on not throwing as much good money after bad as the US did w&#x2F; the Space-Shuttle Program, which was built on even worse faulty assumptions re: cost, reuse, safety, launch frequency, etc.<p>&gt; When all design and maintenance costs are taken into account, the final cost of the Space Shuttle program, averaged over all missions and adjusted for inflation, was estimated to come out to $1.5 billion per launch, or $60,000&#x2F;kg (approximately $27,000 per pound) to LEO. This should be contrasted with the originally envisioned costs of $118 per kilogram (approximately $53 per pound) of payload in 1972 dollars ($1,400&#x2F;kg, [approximately $630 per pound] adjusting for inflation to 2011)<p>&gt; The launch rate was significantly lower than initially expected. While not reducing absolute operating costs, more launches per year gives a lower cost per launch. Some early hypothetical studies examined 55 launches per year (see above), but the maximum possible launch rate was limited to 24 per year based on manufacturing capacity of the Michoud facility that constructs the external tank. Early in shuttle development, the expected launch rate was about 12 per year. Launch rates reached a peak of 9 per year in 1985 but averaged fewer thereafter.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_program" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The life and death of Buran, the USSR shuttle built on faulty assumptions</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/09/the-life-and-death-of-buran-the-ussr-shuttle-built-on-faulty-assumptions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>One of the remnants of the Buran to this day is an ancestor of its programming environment -- DRAKON. It is a visual programming language. Unlike others, it seems this one has had quite a bit of thought put into it.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;DRAKON</a><p>I don&#x27;t think it is enough to make it popular, but it is nevertheless an interesting niche. There is a small community still building and exploring it.<p>There is a DRAKON editor, with target languages like Javascript, Erlang, C++ and others. Here is the DRAKON editor program:<p><a href="http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;drakon-editor.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a><p>EDIT: (adding some interesting translated tid bits from Parondjanov&#x27;s writings)<p>If you happen to speak Russian it is also quite an interesting read to go over author&#x27;s (Parondjanov) writing on programming in general:<p><a href="http://drakon.pbworks.com/w/page/18205516/FrontPage" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;drakon.pbworks.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;page&#x2F;18205516&#x2F;FrontPage</a><p>He talks about visual programming languages. He defines provocative terms like &quot;intellectual terrorism&quot; and how information overload (he calls it &quot;information stress&quot;) is akin to terrorism for the minds of workers tasked to tease out the solution to the problem. It often stems from an impedance mismatched between old methods of solving problems and processing information and the new type and amount of information available. Mind you this was written in the 80&#x27;s before big data. His environment was building tools to write the avionics system for Buran. Many of the engineers involved were not computer scientists, there were mechanical, chemical, airspace engineers. He was probably wondering how to get them to program better and how to make the whole process more efficient and less stressful for them.</text></comment> |
11,961,201 | 11,961,444 | 1 | 3 | 11,960,787 | train | <story><title>California's skyrocketing housing costs, taxes prompt exodus of residents</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_30037774/greener-pastures-beckon-some-beleaguered-residents</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nugget</author><text>I spent most of my childhood in California. Real estate is and always has been the number one industry in the state. The majority of my childhood friends&#x27; wealth seems to derive from houses their families bought in the early 80s or earlier. Prices have benefited from a stable of one trick ponies - fixed low property taxes (prop 13), massive population growth (net domestic migration is now negative), job growth from the tech sector, the cultural shift to assortive mating of dual income white collar professionals, and the drop to near zero interest rates. I thought for sure that prices had hit the mathematically inevitable plateau - and then came tens of billions in foreign capital fleeing China. Is there another unpredictable one trick pony waiting in the wings? At some point it seems like prices would have to hit a ceiling reflecting the fact that all future appreciation and demand has been pulled forward, at which time the great financial machine grinds down to a much slower pace, if not a halt. It will be interesting to watch and see what happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrenalinelol</author><text>Negative interests rates... The Fed wants to stay relevant as a means of correction economic recessions and the rate is still pretty much ~0% atm.</text></comment> | <story><title>California's skyrocketing housing costs, taxes prompt exodus of residents</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_30037774/greener-pastures-beckon-some-beleaguered-residents</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nugget</author><text>I spent most of my childhood in California. Real estate is and always has been the number one industry in the state. The majority of my childhood friends&#x27; wealth seems to derive from houses their families bought in the early 80s or earlier. Prices have benefited from a stable of one trick ponies - fixed low property taxes (prop 13), massive population growth (net domestic migration is now negative), job growth from the tech sector, the cultural shift to assortive mating of dual income white collar professionals, and the drop to near zero interest rates. I thought for sure that prices had hit the mathematically inevitable plateau - and then came tens of billions in foreign capital fleeing China. Is there another unpredictable one trick pony waiting in the wings? At some point it seems like prices would have to hit a ceiling reflecting the fact that all future appreciation and demand has been pulled forward, at which time the great financial machine grinds down to a much slower pace, if not a halt. It will be interesting to watch and see what happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saenns</author><text>don&#x27;t forget barriers to new construction such as NIMBY, zoning, environmental</text></comment> |
14,690,466 | 14,689,691 | 1 | 2 | 14,688,068 | train | <story><title>The road to Java 9: Modular Java finally gets OK'd</title><url>http://www.infoworld.com/article/3203931/java/the-road-to-java-9-modular-java-finally-gets-okd.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karianna</author><text>Hi all,<p>Martijn Verburg here - London Java Community (LJC) representative on the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC) (dear Cthulu, the acronyms) otherwise known as the Java standards body.<p>Here&#x27;s our reasoning for voting &quot;Yes&quot; the 2nd time around:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;londonjavacommunity.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;our-yes-vote-on-the-2nd-go-around-for-jsr-376-java-platform-module-system&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;londonjavacommunity.wordpress.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;28&#x2F;our-yes...</a><p>This is a great step forwards for Java <i>as a platform</i> as it lays the foundation for a smaller, more secure and lightweight footprint. There is still more to tackle on the modularity story (expect to see further updates in Java 9.1 and beyond).<p>It&#x27;s very important to note that you can still run your normal Java classpath based application with Java 9. The Classpath and Classloader mechanism is still there, although you&#x27;ll see a few more warnings pop up if your application or its dependencies are relying on a deprecated API or dangerous internal lib.<p><i>If</i> you choose to port an existing project to the new module system and module path way of loading then you can gain some of the benefits but of course there will be a learning curve and I&#x27;d argue that unless you&#x27;re really needing that modular help then wait for Java 9.1 or even 10 until some of the edges have been ironed out.<p>Any other Q&#x27;s throw my way!</text></comment> | <story><title>The road to Java 9: Modular Java finally gets OK'd</title><url>http://www.infoworld.com/article/3203931/java/the-road-to-java-9-modular-java-finally-gets-okd.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>le-mark</author><text>Lots of noise here about what it actually consists of. This blog post is a good overview[1]<p>&gt; Creating a module is relatively simple however. A module is typically just a jar file that has a module-info.class file at the root - known as a modular jar file. And that file is created from a module-info.java file in your sourcebase (see below for more details).<p>&gt; Using a modular jar file involves adding the jar file to the modulepath instead of the classpath. If a modular jar file is on the classpath, it will not act as a module at all, and the module-info.class will be ignored. As such, while a modular jar file on the modulepath will have hidden packages enforced by the JVM, a modular jar file on the classpath will not have hidden packages at all.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.joda.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;java-9-modules-jpms-basics.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.joda.org&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;java-9-modules-jpms-basics.html</a></text></comment> |
2,008,213 | 2,007,886 | 1 | 2 | 2,007,385 | train | <story><title>Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for being faster</title><url>http://danariely.com/2010/12/15/locksmiths/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Interesting. I always found those machines to be annoyingly slow and loud.<p>My theory with money: the less your customer has, the more important appearances are. Go to your local bank and look at how nicely dressed the tellers that are cashing grandma's $20 check, and then go to their trading floor and look at the traders that are trading millions of dollars a day.<p>In the case of Coinstar, every penny is important to the customer, even though a penny is worth approximately nothing. (And of course, they take 10% anyway, so their incentive is to over-count, not under-count, but I digress...)</text></item><item><author>davidblair</author><text>Coinstar is a great example of this.<p>The machine is able to calculate the total change deposited almost instantly. Yet, during testing the company learned that consumers did not trust the machines. Customers though it was impossible for a machine to count change accurately at such a high rate.<p>Faced with the issues of trust and preconceived expectations of necessary effort, the company began to rework the user experience.<p>The solution was fairly simple. The machine still counted at the same pace but displayed the results at a significantly slower rate. In fact, the sound of change working the way through the machine is just a recording that is played through a speaker.<p>Altering the user experience to match expectations created trust and met the customers expectation of the necessary effort to complete the task.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>No, the incentive would be for them to undercount as the money still ends up in the machine. $10 in the machine counted as $10 nets $1 in profit. $10 in the machine counted as $9 nets $1.90 in profit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Locksmith gets less tips and more price complaints for being faster</title><url>http://danariely.com/2010/12/15/locksmiths/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>Interesting. I always found those machines to be annoyingly slow and loud.<p>My theory with money: the less your customer has, the more important appearances are. Go to your local bank and look at how nicely dressed the tellers that are cashing grandma's $20 check, and then go to their trading floor and look at the traders that are trading millions of dollars a day.<p>In the case of Coinstar, every penny is important to the customer, even though a penny is worth approximately nothing. (And of course, they take 10% anyway, so their incentive is to over-count, not under-count, but I digress...)</text></item><item><author>davidblair</author><text>Coinstar is a great example of this.<p>The machine is able to calculate the total change deposited almost instantly. Yet, during testing the company learned that consumers did not trust the machines. Customers though it was impossible for a machine to count change accurately at such a high rate.<p>Faced with the issues of trust and preconceived expectations of necessary effort, the company began to rework the user experience.<p>The solution was fairly simple. The machine still counted at the same pace but displayed the results at a significantly slower rate. In fact, the sound of change working the way through the machine is just a recording that is played through a speaker.<p>Altering the user experience to match expectations created trust and met the customers expectation of the necessary effort to complete the task.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phsr</author><text>When you get a gift card from Coinstar, you are not charged the 10%. So when I'm feeling lazy with a bunch of change, I just dump it in the Coinstar machine for a Amazon gift card</text></comment> |
14,570,810 | 14,570,562 | 1 | 2 | 14,568,146 | train | <story><title>The Calibre Content Server</title><url>https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peternicky</author><text>Related but slightly off topic:<p>Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how &quot;heavy&quot; and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern.<p>Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;)<p>EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelmrose</author><text>First things first its python and qt. To me it feels quite responsive. I also have no idea what &quot;modern&quot; means in this context unless you mean flat with few buttons or options. Calibre can be styled by choosing a qt5 style for your system. If your default is ugly you ought to change it. Such styles can be chosen in your gui configuration menu or via qt5ct at least under linux.<p>This is what it looks like for me. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;px8zF" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;px8zF</a><p>That said I don&#x27;t want to start up a whole app just to open a book I usually just open books via a script that wraps calibredb a cli interface to calibre&#x27;s ebook library. If more than one result is available in response to a query it shows them via rofi. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;davedavenport.github.io&#x2F;rofi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;davedavenport.github.io&#x2F;rofi&#x2F;</a><p>It also remembers the last n books that have been opened whether they have been opened in the gui, a script, or otherwise and when called without arguments it returns the list of recent reads which can be selected via rofi. Since I often return to the same several books repeatedly on multiple sessions this is a more pleasant way to access my books.<p>My script is a bunch of not so awsome shell script. If you want to improve something a better cli experience out of the box for calibre would be nice.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Calibre Content Server</title><url>https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peternicky</author><text>Related but slightly off topic:<p>Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how &quot;heavy&quot; and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern.<p>Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;)<p>EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrmondo</author><text>I&#x27;ve used it for years and love its features but yeah the UI and processing always felt heavy like a java app but as someone else noted it&#x27;s not java - it&#x27;s python so I suspect the laggy of slowness in the UI might be a side effect of python&#x27;s single threaded &#x2F; GIL performance issues. Python can be fast, especially for scientific work but in my experience - I get annoyed by python apps more than other interpreted languages such as Ruby as it often seems to peg a single core to 100% whenever I&#x27;m waiting for something to finish processing - again I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s the way things are written more than the language itself as such but it seems it makes it hard to write python applications that make efficient use of modern multi core CPUs. (I host a lot of Python, Ruby and web apps written in various other languages).</text></comment> |
9,578,333 | 9,577,713 | 1 | 2 | 9,577,663 | train | <story><title>MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition</title><url>http://blog.memsql.com/memsql-community-edition/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stock_toaster</author><text><p><pre><code> &gt; The Community Edition is distributed as an executable
&gt; binary and is a free edition of the commercial MemSQL
&gt; Enterprise Edition. You are free to download and use
&gt; MemSQL Community Edition within your organization.
</code></pre>
So.. how long until the same thing happens as happened with FoundationDB?</text></comment> | <story><title>MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition</title><url>http://blog.memsql.com/memsql-community-edition/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phamilton</author><text>Cue &quot;Call me maybe, MemSQL&quot;<p>Aphyr&#x27;s posts (taken with appropriate amounts of salt) have become the authority on marketing claims. That said, many solutions are perfectly viable with their shortcomings, but knowing what those shortcomings are is essential.</text></comment> |
26,022,156 | 26,015,392 | 1 | 2 | 26,014,616 | train | <story><title>Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing</title><url>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/myths-of-vaccine-manufacturing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alex_young</author><text>The scale of thinking here is amazingly constricted.<p>Imagine if we had approached this like we did WWII.<p>We would have nationalized the effort to produce vaccines, building entire production chains and staffing them with anyone in need of work.<p>We would have built infrastructure to produce n95 masks and shipped them to every address.<p>What would this mean? We would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, employed millions of people, strengthened our economy, and would now be wrapping up vaccinating everyone.<p>Our response to the crisis should be noted as a failure of monumental proportions. The lack of leadership at all levels of government continues to be astounding.</text></comment> | <story><title>Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing</title><url>https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/myths-of-vaccine-manufacturing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GavinB</author><text><i>So no, we did not “have the vaccine” in February.</i><p>We did have it, we just didn&#x27;t know which one it was. And we refused to risk any individual life in order to potentially save hundreds of thousands or more.<p>We also could have invested single digit billions early on to build capacity for all of these different potential vaccines, but we decided to play if &quot;safe&quot; and will now be spending over a trillion <i>again</i> to try to save the economy.<p>I don&#x27;t blame the pharma companies for this. Our government and medical establishment was not intellectually prepared to make the hard decisions required to save us. And we need to be building momentum to learn how to do better.</text></comment> |
41,657,505 | 41,657,370 | 1 | 2 | 41,657,001 | train | <story><title>Sam Altman: Long con was "child's play for me"</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_best_long_con_you_ever_pulled/cszwpgq/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fleaflicker</author><text>That comment is clearly sarcastic. And Reddit went from floundering to $10b+ public company.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sam Altman: Long con was "child's play for me"</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_best_long_con_you_ever_pulled/cszwpgq/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blibble</author><text>at this point it&#x27;s beyond clear that assigning even the most cynical motives you can imagine to anything Altman does is likely underplaying what&#x27;s really going on<p>(in my opinion)</text></comment> |
24,205,244 | 24,205,290 | 1 | 2 | 24,200,764 | train | <story><title>The Death of Corporate Research Labs</title><url>https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linguae</author><text>As a (non-PhD) researcher who works for one of the last traditional industrial research labs in Silicon Valley, I&#x27;ve noticed this trend for years. I&#x27;ve seen industrial research labs either close or become increasingly focused on short-term engineering goals. I also have noticed that newer Silicon Valley companies have adopted what Google calls a &quot;hybrid approach&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pub38149&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pub38149&#x2F;</a>) where there are no divisions between research groups and product groups, and where researchers are expected to write production-quality code. I&#x27;ve noticed many of my PhD-holding peers taking software engineering positions when they finish their PhD programs, and I also noticed more people who were formerly employed as researchers at places like IBM Almaden and HP Labs switch to software engineering positions at FAANG or unicorn companies.<p>Unfortunately, as someone who is also working toward finishing a PhD, I&#x27;ve seen very little guides for CS PhD students that reflect this reality. To be honest, I love research and I&#x27;d love to stay a researcher throughout my career, but I don&#x27;t have the same love for software engineering, though I am comfortable coding. Unfortunately with these trends, traditional research is now largely confined to academia, which is very competitive to enter and where COVID-19&#x27;s effects on its future are uncertain at this time, and federal laboratories such as Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore. I fear losing my job (nothing lasts forever) and having to grind LeetCode since there are few other industrial research labs, though given the reality maybe I should start grinding LeetCode anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xtracto</author><text>When I was doing my PhD (CompSci) in the late 2000s I looked forward to join Microsoft Research because it seemed they were doing really cool stuff, even at a time when &quot;corporate&quot; Microsoft was the bad kid (me being very pro-Linux at the time).<p>One thing lead to another and I ended up going to another Research Assistant role and then getting fed up with research and going into industry.<p>But the idea of the Xero lab, Sun Microssystem and later Microsoft research was something I always really dreamt about. Nowadays I think startups doing autonomus vehicle technology is what looks similarly disrupting to me, but I am too much down into the SaaS rabbit hole.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Death of Corporate Research Labs</title><url>https://blog.dshr.org/2020/05/the-death-of-corporate-research-labs.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linguae</author><text>As a (non-PhD) researcher who works for one of the last traditional industrial research labs in Silicon Valley, I&#x27;ve noticed this trend for years. I&#x27;ve seen industrial research labs either close or become increasingly focused on short-term engineering goals. I also have noticed that newer Silicon Valley companies have adopted what Google calls a &quot;hybrid approach&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pub38149&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;pub38149&#x2F;</a>) where there are no divisions between research groups and product groups, and where researchers are expected to write production-quality code. I&#x27;ve noticed many of my PhD-holding peers taking software engineering positions when they finish their PhD programs, and I also noticed more people who were formerly employed as researchers at places like IBM Almaden and HP Labs switch to software engineering positions at FAANG or unicorn companies.<p>Unfortunately, as someone who is also working toward finishing a PhD, I&#x27;ve seen very little guides for CS PhD students that reflect this reality. To be honest, I love research and I&#x27;d love to stay a researcher throughout my career, but I don&#x27;t have the same love for software engineering, though I am comfortable coding. Unfortunately with these trends, traditional research is now largely confined to academia, which is very competitive to enter and where COVID-19&#x27;s effects on its future are uncertain at this time, and federal laboratories such as Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore. I fear losing my job (nothing lasts forever) and having to grind LeetCode since there are few other industrial research labs, though given the reality maybe I should start grinding LeetCode anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smeeth</author><text>You only mentioned the DOE national labs in passing-I encourage you to give them more thought. I’m currently a researcher at one of them, and if you land in the right group&#x2F;application area it can be truly meaningful work.<p>If you’re in the bay I encourage a closer look at LBNL and LLNL, if you’re open to moving, NREL is in a great location too. Obviously Sandia, LANL, ORNL, and PNNL all do good applied CS work as well but the locations are a little more remote and options are better if you can get&#x2F;hold a clearance.</text></comment> |
6,551,991 | 6,551,443 | 1 | 3 | 6,550,750 | train | <story><title>The Russia Left Behind</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/13/russia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>D_Alex</author><text>&gt;Frankly I&#x27;m a bit tired of all the negative coverage of Russia by the NYT, The Economist and other respected establishments. I can drive through the Appalachians or towns in the South or Detroit and describe an &quot;America Left Behind&quot;- but we all know that those places do not represent the USA as a whole.<p>But... This is not about a cherry-picked stagnant area, this is about a main highway between Russia&#x27;s two largest cities. It seems to be woefully neglected, while facilities used by Putin are done up to @#$%-the-expense standard. This is about the leadership of the country gone morally astray, and not caring about who sees it.<p>&gt; Russia has problems everyone knows that, ...<p>Oh well, that&#x27;s allright then. No point actually doing something.</text></item><item><author>olegious</author><text>Interesting article but this is nothing new. Russian villages have been dying for centuries- life was always better and easier in the cities. Putting forward gypsies as examples of a &quot;Russia left behind&quot; is disingenuous at best- gypsies live in their own societies by their own rules all across Europe.<p>Frankly I&#x27;m a bit tired of all the negative coverage of Russia by the NYT, The Economist and other respected establishments. I can drive through the Appalachians or towns in the South or Detroit and describe an &quot;America Left Behind&quot;- but we all know that those places do not represent the USA as a whole.<p>Edit: Russia has problems everyone knows that, I would just like to see more balanced coverage- talk to the middle class that has grown in the cities, the startup people in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities, compare how things are today to how they were in the 90s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GabrielF00</author><text>Ever here the Bob Dylan song The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll? It&#x27;s about a 1963 incident when a white Maryland farmer named William Zantzinger got drunk and started harassing a middle-aged black barmaid and hitting her with a cane. She collapsed and died and he got a six month prison term. In the early 90s Zantzinger went to jail again - this time for charging rent on shacks that were actually owned by the local government. These shacks didn&#x27;t have running water and they were located 30 miles down the road from Washington, D.C.<p>Obviously the United States is not Russia and our leaders aren&#x27;t kleptocrats. But they have been willing to ignore abject poverty for generations. I suspect that the dismissive, contemptuous attitude that many middle and upper class Americans have towards, say, the inner cities, would not be unfamiliar in Moscow or St. Petersburg.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Russia Left Behind</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/13/russia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>D_Alex</author><text>&gt;Frankly I&#x27;m a bit tired of all the negative coverage of Russia by the NYT, The Economist and other respected establishments. I can drive through the Appalachians or towns in the South or Detroit and describe an &quot;America Left Behind&quot;- but we all know that those places do not represent the USA as a whole.<p>But... This is not about a cherry-picked stagnant area, this is about a main highway between Russia&#x27;s two largest cities. It seems to be woefully neglected, while facilities used by Putin are done up to @#$%-the-expense standard. This is about the leadership of the country gone morally astray, and not caring about who sees it.<p>&gt; Russia has problems everyone knows that, ...<p>Oh well, that&#x27;s allright then. No point actually doing something.</text></item><item><author>olegious</author><text>Interesting article but this is nothing new. Russian villages have been dying for centuries- life was always better and easier in the cities. Putting forward gypsies as examples of a &quot;Russia left behind&quot; is disingenuous at best- gypsies live in their own societies by their own rules all across Europe.<p>Frankly I&#x27;m a bit tired of all the negative coverage of Russia by the NYT, The Economist and other respected establishments. I can drive through the Appalachians or towns in the South or Detroit and describe an &quot;America Left Behind&quot;- but we all know that those places do not represent the USA as a whole.<p>Edit: Russia has problems everyone knows that, I would just like to see more balanced coverage- talk to the middle class that has grown in the cities, the startup people in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities, compare how things are today to how they were in the 90s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pandaman</author><text>That area had been stagnant[1] for at least as long as the USA existed.<p>[1]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_from_St._Petersburg_to_Moscow" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Journey_from_St._Petersburg_to_...</a></text></comment> |
28,686,010 | 28,686,225 | 1 | 2 | 28,684,250 | train | <story><title>You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation</title><url>https://mux.com/blog/you-either-die-an-mvp-or-live-long-enough-to-build-content-moderation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seph-reed</author><text>I still theorize crowd-moderated platforms are possible, as long as there&#x27;s really good gate-keeping.<p>My bet is some real-world tie, one which is time consuming and expensive to create. From there it should be possible to create moderation tools that keep the rest going.<p>An example of a real world tie would be a trust network that requires status with in-person communities and local businesses. And not just &quot;accept the hot chick friend request,&quot; but an explicit &quot;I&#x27;m staking my reputation by saying this person is real.&quot;<p>But once you let bots in, it&#x27;s over.</text></item><item><author>michaelpb</author><text>Yeah, there&#x27;s an entire category of &quot;idea guys&quot; who don&#x27;t get this. They repeatedly try to crack the code on a truly moderation-free or purely crowd-moderated platform, and it never, ever, ever works.<p>It almost always boils down to a poor understanding of how humans work (usually some sort of &quot;homo economicus&quot;) or how computers work (usually some sort of &quot;AI magic wand&quot;).</text></item><item><author>jfengel</author><text>If you host blobs for free, somebody is going to use you as their host. Even if you just hosted audio, I&#x27;m sure somebody will quickly come along with a steganography tool to hide their content on your site (and use your bandwidth).<p>Similarly, if you make compute power available, people will use you to mine cryptocurrency. Even if all you host is text, somebody will come along to be abusive. When you put a computer on the Internet, it&#x27;s open to the entire world, including the very worst people.<p>If you&#x27;re hosting a community, start from the beginning by knowing who your community is and how they will tell you who they are. If the answer is &quot;everybody&quot;, then know what <i>everybody</i> means -- it means some people won&#x27;t want to be there, because some people will make life hard for them.<p>It&#x27;s no longer 1991, when you could assume that such people wouldn&#x27;t find you. They <i>will</i> find you -- for money, or the lulz. You have to plan for that on day 1. You can&#x27;t fix it after the fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>Slashdot’s meta-moderation system worked well for a long time. One set of people could make moderation decisions directly on content, and then another unrelated set of people would review the moderation decisions and support or revert them.<p>It was all tied to karma and permissions in ways I can’t quite remember. But essentially there was no way for a motivated bad-faith group to both moderate and meta-moderate themselves, and the incentives marginalized bad faith actors over time.</text></comment> | <story><title>You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation</title><url>https://mux.com/blog/you-either-die-an-mvp-or-live-long-enough-to-build-content-moderation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seph-reed</author><text>I still theorize crowd-moderated platforms are possible, as long as there&#x27;s really good gate-keeping.<p>My bet is some real-world tie, one which is time consuming and expensive to create. From there it should be possible to create moderation tools that keep the rest going.<p>An example of a real world tie would be a trust network that requires status with in-person communities and local businesses. And not just &quot;accept the hot chick friend request,&quot; but an explicit &quot;I&#x27;m staking my reputation by saying this person is real.&quot;<p>But once you let bots in, it&#x27;s over.</text></item><item><author>michaelpb</author><text>Yeah, there&#x27;s an entire category of &quot;idea guys&quot; who don&#x27;t get this. They repeatedly try to crack the code on a truly moderation-free or purely crowd-moderated platform, and it never, ever, ever works.<p>It almost always boils down to a poor understanding of how humans work (usually some sort of &quot;homo economicus&quot;) or how computers work (usually some sort of &quot;AI magic wand&quot;).</text></item><item><author>jfengel</author><text>If you host blobs for free, somebody is going to use you as their host. Even if you just hosted audio, I&#x27;m sure somebody will quickly come along with a steganography tool to hide their content on your site (and use your bandwidth).<p>Similarly, if you make compute power available, people will use you to mine cryptocurrency. Even if all you host is text, somebody will come along to be abusive. When you put a computer on the Internet, it&#x27;s open to the entire world, including the very worst people.<p>If you&#x27;re hosting a community, start from the beginning by knowing who your community is and how they will tell you who they are. If the answer is &quot;everybody&quot;, then know what <i>everybody</i> means -- it means some people won&#x27;t want to be there, because some people will make life hard for them.<p>It&#x27;s no longer 1991, when you could assume that such people wouldn&#x27;t find you. They <i>will</i> find you -- for money, or the lulz. You have to plan for that on day 1. You can&#x27;t fix it after the fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WorldMaker</author><text>Moderation is labor and you get what you pay for. Which is not that crowd-moderation cannot work, but that for good crowd-moderation you still have to treat it as a labor pool, have a very good idea of how you are incentivizing&#x2F;paying for it, and what &quot;metrics&#x2F;qualities&quot; those incentives are designed to optimize for.<p>(In some cases it actually is far cheaper to pay a small moderator pool a good wage than to pay an entire community a bad wage to &quot;crowd-moderate&quot; if you actually test the business plan versus alternatives.)</text></comment> |
2,379,405 | 2,378,827 | 1 | 2 | 2,378,500 | train | <story><title>Hotz fires a powerful blast back at Sony's California jurisdictional claims</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110327185437805</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>The bombshell here (and it is just that) lies in the forced last-minute production of the agreements between Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (referred to in the papers as "Sony Japan").<p>To establish personal jurisdiction over Mr. Hotz, SCEA must show that he had minimum contacts with California such that it makes it fair and reasonable to sue him in that forum <i>over this set of claims.</i> This is so-called "limited jurisdiction," and is to be distinguished from the "general jurisdiction" that enables you to sue someone in the state of his residence over any claim whatever (see my mini-primer on the technical aspects of this here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2335698" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2335698</a>).<p>The key to the limited-jurisdiction analysis here is whether Mr. Hotz "purposefully directed" his activities toward California (intending that they have an effect there) <i>in committing the acts for which he was sued</i>. It is not enough to show incidental contacts with the state because such a standard would allow any person to be sued anywhere in the United States over any matter simply for having, e.g., purchased a product from remote state x, or had some similar tangential contact. Remember, the standard requires the court to find contacts in the forum related to the wrongs committed such as to make it reasonable to require the distant defendant to have to defend the suit remotely.<p>Because of this, the vital question concerns the nature of the claims asserted in the lawsuit and whether such claims show that Mr. Hotz intended to affect a California resident in committing the wrongs alleged.<p>And this is where the bombshell comes in: in a forced document production that SCEA managed to stall until just a few days before Mr. Hotz's reply brief was due, it had to produce the key contracts between SCEA and Sony Japan, which contracts conclusively demonstrate that all copyrights that are alleged to have been violated in this case are owned by Sony Japan exclusively and that SCEA has nothing to do with them other than being one of many licensees of such copyrights within the Sony family of companies.<p>In other words, SCEA appears to have nothing legitimate to do with the case other than serving as a proxy by which Sony Japan hopes to bootstrap its way into California jurisdiction. SCEA <i>is</i> connected with the PlayStation Network terms of service having a California forum selection clause. The problem is that none of the claims in this case concern violations of such terms of service.<p>The clear implication is that SCEA is a puppet being used to manipulate the court for Sony's tactical purposes. This is reinforced by several collateral indicators. SCEA filed this suit and "flooded" the case with subpoenas that went far beyond the scope of the limited discovery allowed in this sort of case. It then went to great lengths to avoid being straightforward with the court about the copyright ownership upon which the DMCA claims were based. And it has filed a blizzard of affidavits and court papers trying to confuse the main issues in the case.<p>Of course, nothing is completely predictable in a court matter where a court must decide an issue based on a nebulous legal standard such as whether something is "fair" or "reasonable" under the minimum-contacts jurisdictional analysis. But these revelations, to me, look pretty damning. Essentially, Mr. Hotz's attorneys have provided near-conclusive rebuttals to all of SCEA's jurisdictional claims and left SCEA looking disingenuous. Judges usually do not react well when they come to believe that a party is trying to play them, and this rebuttal does a superb job of showing that that is precisely what SCEA appears to be doing.<p>I would sum this up by saying: if this is all that SCEA has got, it is in trouble on the jurisdictional question (as a fallback, Mr. Hotz's lawyers have also asked that the court be transferred to New Jersey under an "inconvenient forum" analysis, which also looks pretty strong for him). It will be interesting to see how this plays out. (The factual details are a bit more complicated than I have summarized them here but this, I think, captures the essence of what is going on - see the wonderful reporting and links of Groklaw to drill down further).</text></comment> | <story><title>Hotz fires a powerful blast back at Sony's California jurisdictional claims</title><url>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110327185437805</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanDav</author><text>I really try hard not to buy Sony anymore. Not fanatical about it, but why support a company that does this, along with installing rootkits and other behaviour of course.</text></comment> |
35,253,457 | 35,253,543 | 1 | 2 | 35,252,440 | train | <story><title>Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie</title><url>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oliver-stone-nuclear-now-trailer-1235357522/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>10g1k</author><text>Countries with nuclear reactors: 32.<p>Countries which have had nuclear leaks or meltdowns: 15.<p>Number of nuclear leaks and meltdowns since 1952 (only those which resulted in loss of human life or &gt;US$50K property damage): ~100.<p>About 60% of those have been in the USA, allegedly the most advanced country in the world.<p>Note that the USA requirements for nuclear reactor waste (yes, they produce toxic waste; they are not clean), last time I checked, required the canisters to be able to survive for 300 years. The waste lasts longer than 300 years.<p>Two years ago the USA had a leak which spilled ~400,000 gallons of radioactive water into a major river system, and it was covered up for two years.<p>Finally: If you are not willing to have a nuclear reactor right beside your house, but are willing to have one beside someone else&#x27;s house, you are a coward and are not really in favour of nuclear power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smithcoin</author><text>Deaths per terawatt-hour of energy production:<p>- Biomass 4.63<p>- Brown coal 32.72<p>- Coal 24.62<p>- Gas 2.82<p>- Hydropower 1.30<p>- Nuclear 0.03<p>- Oil 18.43<p>- Solar 0.02<p>- Wind 0.04<p>Source: Markandya &amp; Wilkinson (2007); Sovacool et al. (2016); UNSCEAR (2008; &amp; 2018)<p>Nuclear energy is one of the safest forms of energy we have.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie</title><url>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oliver-stone-nuclear-now-trailer-1235357522/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>10g1k</author><text>Countries with nuclear reactors: 32.<p>Countries which have had nuclear leaks or meltdowns: 15.<p>Number of nuclear leaks and meltdowns since 1952 (only those which resulted in loss of human life or &gt;US$50K property damage): ~100.<p>About 60% of those have been in the USA, allegedly the most advanced country in the world.<p>Note that the USA requirements for nuclear reactor waste (yes, they produce toxic waste; they are not clean), last time I checked, required the canisters to be able to survive for 300 years. The waste lasts longer than 300 years.<p>Two years ago the USA had a leak which spilled ~400,000 gallons of radioactive water into a major river system, and it was covered up for two years.<p>Finally: If you are not willing to have a nuclear reactor right beside your house, but are willing to have one beside someone else&#x27;s house, you are a coward and are not really in favour of nuclear power.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hermitcrab</author><text>Lots of people have been killed by dam failures. 240,000 people just from the failure of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams in 1975, according to wikipedia:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dam_failure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dam_failure</a><p>But I don&#x27;t see anyone calling for an end to hydroelectric power. Fission power certainly has it&#x27;s issues, but I think a lot of the opposition to it is more emotional than rational.</text></comment> |
7,284,344 | 7,284,354 | 1 | 2 | 7,284,099 | train | <story><title>On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2014/02/apple_prism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This seems so silly to me, Jon.<p>The OSX&#x2F;IOS SecureTransport TLS vulnerability is getting coverage because it&#x27;s easy for laypeople to understand. Any geek can look at a description of the bug, or even the code itself, and say to themselves, &quot;hey, I could exploit that!&quot;. Because more people understand this bug than they would any other bug, it paradoxically seems scarier.<p>The reality however is that the ease with which a bug can be exploited has little to do with its impact. What matters is the feasibility of exploitation. And in terms of feasibility, this bug is <i>less</i> exploitable than the kinds of bugs that are disclosed in every platform every month; it requires a specific (common, but not universal) set of circumstances to escalate it to code execution.<p>Matthew Green told a Reuters reporter yesterday that the TLS bug was &quot;as bad as could be imagined&quot;. He was also drinking†, which explains how he managed to find a TLS validation bug worse than memory corruption, which is discovered routinely in all platforms, and produces attacks that directly, instantly hijack machines regardless of their configuration and the network they operate on.<p>Vulnerabilities in TLS code are not all that unusual. We get a new one every couple years or so. There was a vulnerability in the NSS False-Start code a year ago --- it didn&#x27;t get covered because (a) few people know what NSS is (it&#x27;s the TLS library for Firefox and Chrome) and (b) nobody knows or cares about False-Start. Here&#x27;s another example: NSS misparsed PKCS1v15 padding, such that an e=3 RSA certificate could be forged --- anyone on the Internet could run a small Python script to generate a certificate for any site. Certificate chaining has broken within the last ~4 years ago. Again, no coverage: what&#x27;s e=3 RSA? How does chaining work?<p>Simple thought experiment: imagine if, instead of a missing-brace bug that broke all of TLS, it was instead disclosed that NSS had a memory corruption vulnerability in its PKCS1v15 parsing. Would there be a shitstorm in the media and on Twitter? I doubt it: comparable bugs are found routinely without shitstorms.<p>I don&#x27;t know if NSA knew about this bug or didn&#x27;t. If they did, I&#x27;m confident that they exploited it; that&#x27;s what they do. But ask yourself if you&#x27;re sure that NSS and SecureTransport and OpenSSL and SCHANNEL are free from the kinds of memory corruption vulnerabilities that would allow NSA (and other organized criminals) to hijack machines directly. You think <i>this</i> is the bug they&#x27;re relying on?<p>† <i>No, really.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briansmith</author><text>&gt; (it&#x27;s the TLS library for Firefox and Chrome)<p>The False Start bug in NSS that you are talking about (CVE-2013-1740) never affected a released version of Firefox; we found the bug during testing of False Start in preparation for enabling it in Firefox 26. We pushed back the enabling of False Start to Firefox 28 (which will be released next month) so that we could fix this bug first.</text></comment> | <story><title>On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2014/02/apple_prism</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This seems so silly to me, Jon.<p>The OSX&#x2F;IOS SecureTransport TLS vulnerability is getting coverage because it&#x27;s easy for laypeople to understand. Any geek can look at a description of the bug, or even the code itself, and say to themselves, &quot;hey, I could exploit that!&quot;. Because more people understand this bug than they would any other bug, it paradoxically seems scarier.<p>The reality however is that the ease with which a bug can be exploited has little to do with its impact. What matters is the feasibility of exploitation. And in terms of feasibility, this bug is <i>less</i> exploitable than the kinds of bugs that are disclosed in every platform every month; it requires a specific (common, but not universal) set of circumstances to escalate it to code execution.<p>Matthew Green told a Reuters reporter yesterday that the TLS bug was &quot;as bad as could be imagined&quot;. He was also drinking†, which explains how he managed to find a TLS validation bug worse than memory corruption, which is discovered routinely in all platforms, and produces attacks that directly, instantly hijack machines regardless of their configuration and the network they operate on.<p>Vulnerabilities in TLS code are not all that unusual. We get a new one every couple years or so. There was a vulnerability in the NSS False-Start code a year ago --- it didn&#x27;t get covered because (a) few people know what NSS is (it&#x27;s the TLS library for Firefox and Chrome) and (b) nobody knows or cares about False-Start. Here&#x27;s another example: NSS misparsed PKCS1v15 padding, such that an e=3 RSA certificate could be forged --- anyone on the Internet could run a small Python script to generate a certificate for any site. Certificate chaining has broken within the last ~4 years ago. Again, no coverage: what&#x27;s e=3 RSA? How does chaining work?<p>Simple thought experiment: imagine if, instead of a missing-brace bug that broke all of TLS, it was instead disclosed that NSS had a memory corruption vulnerability in its PKCS1v15 parsing. Would there be a shitstorm in the media and on Twitter? I doubt it: comparable bugs are found routinely without shitstorms.<p>I don&#x27;t know if NSA knew about this bug or didn&#x27;t. If they did, I&#x27;m confident that they exploited it; that&#x27;s what they do. But ask yourself if you&#x27;re sure that NSS and SecureTransport and OpenSSL and SCHANNEL are free from the kinds of memory corruption vulnerabilities that would allow NSA (and other organized criminals) to hijack machines directly. You think <i>this</i> is the bug they&#x27;re relying on?<p>† <i>No, really.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teacup50</author><text>You have an odd definition of &quot;less exploitable&quot;. On what planet is compromise of all trusted communications &quot;less exploitable&quot; just because it doesn&#x27;t immediately lead to code execution?<p>Once you are MITM&#x27;ing, you get passwords. You get personal details. You get everything you need to do <i>far</i>, <i>far</i> more than run code on someone&#x27;s phone.<p><i>All</i> the vulnerabilities you list are bad. Sometimes I wonder if you post your consistently contrarian posts on HN just to stay visible.</text></comment> |
27,207,157 | 27,205,970 | 1 | 3 | 27,204,695 | train | <story><title>Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-05-10-security-keys-supported-ssh-git-operations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kylehotchkiss</author><text>I tried this on my macbook pro today - latest OS version. First I installed openssh with brew. Then I found I could barely get the new ssh key working with GitHub, frequently getting `sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed for ECDSA-SK &#x2F; invalid format` errors while trying to commit and not actually being prompted to press the Yubikey, despite it being plugged in and ready. I keep my mini Yubikey USB-C in my laptop persistently which I wonder could be the issue.<p>Anybody else having similar issues?</text></comment> | <story><title>Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations</title><url>https://github.blog/2021-05-10-security-keys-supported-ssh-git-operations/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>useryman</author><text>Other than being a random untrusted USB device, is there any reason to not use the cheapest generic U2F device you can find?<p>I&#x27;ve been wanting to start using them for a while, but yubikeys are too expensive for me to get a bunch of.</text></comment> |
20,119,355 | 20,117,360 | 1 | 2 | 20,115,607 | train | <story><title>New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux</title><url>https://www.investinblockchain.com/new-evidence-suggests-satoshi-nakamoto-is-paul-solotshi-the-creator-of-encryption-software-e4m-and-truecrypt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>I want this to be true so we can stop having stories written about it once and for all.<p>(I mean, why does it matter? Someone desires privacy, and we as a community are hellbent on depriving them of any... what does that say about our moral character?)</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Evidence:<p>* Both Le Roux and Satoshi did significant cryptography projects.<p>* Both Le Roux and Satoshi work in C++.<p>* Wright claimed in legal filings to have been involved with Le Roux.<p>* Allegedly, Wright and a friend have built a cluster of computers to crack secrets, which the theory presumes to be the password for a TrueCrypt volume with Le Roux&#x27;s bitcoin key.<p>* Le Roux has an alias, &quot;Solotshi&quot;, which sounds like Satoshi.<p>* Le Roux published a short manifesto, long before Bitcoin, that echoes some Bitcoin principles.<p>* Satoshi disappeared at about the same time Le Roux was really kicking his criminal conspiracy into gear.<p>* A forum post presaging Bitcoin was posted from the Netherlands, where Le Roux is from.<p>I mean, judge this stuff for yourself. Independently: a lot of people <i>want</i> this to be true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trickstra</author><text>Having the &quot;founder&quot; anonymous and silent has been good for Bitcoin. Even if it didn&#x27;t have any effect on the market (it would) everyone can fantasize and speculate about the motives for Bitcoin&#x27;s creation, about the next moves, etc. So such founder is a superposition of anyone&#x27;s idea. If that superposition collapses into one drug cartel boss, that would change many people&#x27;s view about Bitcoin and it&#x27;s purpose, legality and of course market price</text></comment> | <story><title>New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux</title><url>https://www.investinblockchain.com/new-evidence-suggests-satoshi-nakamoto-is-paul-solotshi-the-creator-of-encryption-software-e4m-and-truecrypt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CiPHPerCoder</author><text>I want this to be true so we can stop having stories written about it once and for all.<p>(I mean, why does it matter? Someone desires privacy, and we as a community are hellbent on depriving them of any... what does that say about our moral character?)</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Evidence:<p>* Both Le Roux and Satoshi did significant cryptography projects.<p>* Both Le Roux and Satoshi work in C++.<p>* Wright claimed in legal filings to have been involved with Le Roux.<p>* Allegedly, Wright and a friend have built a cluster of computers to crack secrets, which the theory presumes to be the password for a TrueCrypt volume with Le Roux&#x27;s bitcoin key.<p>* Le Roux has an alias, &quot;Solotshi&quot;, which sounds like Satoshi.<p>* Le Roux published a short manifesto, long before Bitcoin, that echoes some Bitcoin principles.<p>* Satoshi disappeared at about the same time Le Roux was really kicking his criminal conspiracy into gear.<p>* A forum post presaging Bitcoin was posted from the Netherlands, where Le Roux is from.<p>I mean, judge this stuff for yourself. Independently: a lot of people <i>want</i> this to be true.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryIdiot</author><text>&gt; I want this to be true so we can stop having stories written about it once and for all.<p>Yup, I&#x27;m with you. At this point I don&#x27;t care what the truth is, it would just be nice for it to be out in the open so the nonsense articles we get every single year stop.</text></comment> |
12,528,009 | 12,528,022 | 1 | 3 | 12,527,098 | train | <story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jheriko</author><text>i don&#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.<p>the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.<p>they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...<p>... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>striking</author><text>Their reputation stemmed from the days where everything <i>was</i> discoverable. Want to delete a file? There&#x27;s a trash can glued to your dock. Need to perform a function but don&#x27;t know the name? Look it up in the Help menu&#x27;s search box.<p>Now, though, they&#x27;ve done the Windows 8 thing of overloading gestures and hiding behaviors. Want to see your notifications? Two-finger swipe to the left, <i>starting from the edge of the touchpad</i>. If the piece of text hasn&#x27;t been there since OS X first came out, is it clickable or not? Because I damn well can&#x27;t tell, nothing new looks like a button anymore.<p>I could also talk about how the gaussian blur effect is just about the most wasteful effect you can apply to anything, and is a far cry from pioneering the first fast rounded rectangle drawing algorithm, or anything in that vein, but I don&#x27;t need to.<p>Because Apple&#x27;s UI is just no longer good. I&#x27;d rather every button look like a shimmering stupid bubble than an unusable postmodern art piece.<p>Sent from my MacBook Pro</text></comment> | <story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jheriko</author><text>i don&#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.<p>the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.<p>they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...<p>... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kovrik</author><text>Agree.
I really love Apple, but I always find myself Googling for &quot;Can I do that in iTunes?&quot; (the answer is usually No) or &quot;How to do this?&quot;.
And I can&#x27;t say that I want something weird.
Some workflows look so simple and obvious to me (and I think most people have the same workflows), but they are literally impossible with iTunes and other Apple stuff.<p>For example, I have a 2TB AirPort Time Capsule, but it looks impossible to backup my iPod or MacBook directly to it (which is nonsense, why do I need 2TB then?).
So I have to create backups with iTunes, then go to `~&#x2F;Library&#x2F;Application Support&#x2F;MobileSync&#x2F;Backup&#x2F;` and copy everything manually to the capsule.<p>Searching for a song in iTunes is always confusing. Why don&#x27;t they have global search field that searches in both Library and connected device?<p>Photos app is another nightmare (and photos management overall)! Again, I just want to connect my iPhone or my camera and transfer photos to AirPort Time Capsule. Impossible.<p>Or in macOS, you can&#x27;t just make some apps fullscreen: they always have that 5px gap between app window and dock bar (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apple.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;141800&#x2F;gap-at-the-bottom-of-maximized-windows" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apple.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;141800&#x2F;gap-at-the-b...</a>).<p>Or the fact they don&#x27;t have proper window management and themes. One have to use third-party apps full of hacks to have, say, dark window theme or some parody of tiling WM.</text></comment> |
12,311,880 | 12,311,871 | 1 | 3 | 12,311,559 | train | <story><title>Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>I wonder how Uber drivers feel about working for a company that is actively trying to make them obsolete.<p>Not passing judgement or anything, just kind of a strange thing to contemplate..<p>Uber kept saying they were disrupting the taxi industry by letting more people participate when really in the end they&#x27;re trying to remove the people from the equation altogether.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raverbashing</author><text>In the same way McD and other places are replacing attendants with tablets. Or, in a similar vein, how Netflix replaced sending DVDs through the mail with the Internet<p>It&#x27;s a job, not a career<p>And I suspect there&#x27;s some 3 years at least before self-driving is &quot;production ready&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbarre</author><text>I wonder how Uber drivers feel about working for a company that is actively trying to make them obsolete.<p>Not passing judgement or anything, just kind of a strange thing to contemplate..<p>Uber kept saying they were disrupting the taxi industry by letting more people participate when really in the end they&#x27;re trying to remove the people from the equation altogether.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Roritharr</author><text>Most Uber drivers i&#x27;ve talked to about this, and i basically always talk about this when using Uber, all see themselves as just doing this for a short while, 2-3 years, so they don&#x27;t see themselves being affected by this.</text></comment> |
29,589,749 | 29,588,143 | 1 | 2 | 29,587,752 | train | <story><title>Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022</title><url>https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=12159&Mode=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teleforce</author><text>Kudos to Indian govt, this should be the default for any e-commerce websites. I have to resort to PayPal to avoid my credit card being stored in the e-commerce merchant sites but some of sites do not support PayPal. It seems that Amazon somehow would not even allow me to delete my old and expired credit card from my account.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>konschubert</author><text>Be careful if you pay with PayPal in foreign currency, they have super-bad conversion rates that they try to trick you into accepting. You can turn this off if you can see through their dark patterns.<p>But as a rule of thumb, PayPal is a scammy company that I now try to avoid where I can.</text></comment> | <story><title>Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022</title><url>https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=12159&Mode=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>teleforce</author><text>Kudos to Indian govt, this should be the default for any e-commerce websites. I have to resort to PayPal to avoid my credit card being stored in the e-commerce merchant sites but some of sites do not support PayPal. It seems that Amazon somehow would not even allow me to delete my old and expired credit card from my account.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vivekv</author><text>Indian merchants have to support UPI - another payment mechanism which is secure. I tend to use that in most places so that I dont have to store my card details.</text></comment> |
35,809,955 | 35,808,839 | 1 | 2 | 35,801,392 | train | <story><title>Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>Why not call it a private key then, we&#x27;ve been handling those since the 70&#x27;s.<p>They don&#x27;t need to be rebranded, they need to be taught in high school with the same words we&#x27;ve always used to talk about them.</text></item><item><author>mk89</author><text>You need to click on the link that is in the post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;technology&#x2F;safety-security&#x2F;one-step-closer-to-a-passwordless-future&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;technology&#x2F;safety-security&#x2F;one-step-clos...</a><p>&gt; Instead, your phone will store a FIDO credential called a passkey which is used to unlock your online account. The passkey makes signing in far more secure, as it’s based on public key cryptography and is only shown to your online account when you unlock your phone.<p>It looks like a token stored on your phone that will be used instead of your password to authenticate.<p>Apple did something similar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;passkeys&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;passkeys&#x2F;</a> that is automatically sync-ed in iCloud Keychain, so on every apple device you own, you can use it.<p>More information here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;passkeys&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;passkeys&#x2F;</a> and this explains finally how it works FIDO in general: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;how-fido-works&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;how-fido-works&#x2F;</a><p>So yeah it&#x27;s <i>sort of</i> a token, but technically, it&#x27;s a private key that is used to sign the challenge at login time.<p>EDIT: from what I understand, while this prevents from &quot;stealing passwords&quot; etc., there is still the risk that someone steals your private key (copy&#x2F;paste your phone or ... well, steals stuff from iCloud Keychain) and tries to use that to sign the challenge. Did I get it right? Or what mechanism is in place to prevent it? It looks like this time we use biometrics first (to unlock the screen) and passkey later?</text></item><item><author>jimmar</author><text>The paragraph in the section, &quot;What are passkeys?&quot; tells me that they: are new, are easier, let me use biometrics, and are resistant to attacks. But, it doesn&#x27;t tell me what passkeys actually are.<p>Compare passkeys to traditional authentication factors. What&#x27;s a password? A secret word or phrase that only you know. What are biometrics? Parts of your body that can help uniquely identify you, like your fingerprint or retina. What are hardware tokens? They are physical devices that give you codes that verify that the person logging in has the device on their person.<p>What are passkeys?<p>Until they develop a way to explain what passkeys really are, I question how quickly they will be adopted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwaite</author><text>It isn&#x27;t (just) a private key. It is part of a purpose-built authentication process that leverages private keys as a component.<p>You cannot use the private key within a passkey for general purpose data signing, for example.</text></comment> | <story><title>Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-password/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>Why not call it a private key then, we&#x27;ve been handling those since the 70&#x27;s.<p>They don&#x27;t need to be rebranded, they need to be taught in high school with the same words we&#x27;ve always used to talk about them.</text></item><item><author>mk89</author><text>You need to click on the link that is in the post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;technology&#x2F;safety-security&#x2F;one-step-closer-to-a-passwordless-future&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.google&#x2F;technology&#x2F;safety-security&#x2F;one-step-clos...</a><p>&gt; Instead, your phone will store a FIDO credential called a passkey which is used to unlock your online account. The passkey makes signing in far more secure, as it’s based on public key cryptography and is only shown to your online account when you unlock your phone.<p>It looks like a token stored on your phone that will be used instead of your password to authenticate.<p>Apple did something similar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;passkeys&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;passkeys&#x2F;</a> that is automatically sync-ed in iCloud Keychain, so on every apple device you own, you can use it.<p>More information here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;passkeys&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;passkeys&#x2F;</a> and this explains finally how it works FIDO in general: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;how-fido-works&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;how-fido-works&#x2F;</a><p>So yeah it&#x27;s <i>sort of</i> a token, but technically, it&#x27;s a private key that is used to sign the challenge at login time.<p>EDIT: from what I understand, while this prevents from &quot;stealing passwords&quot; etc., there is still the risk that someone steals your private key (copy&#x2F;paste your phone or ... well, steals stuff from iCloud Keychain) and tries to use that to sign the challenge. Did I get it right? Or what mechanism is in place to prevent it? It looks like this time we use biometrics first (to unlock the screen) and passkey later?</text></item><item><author>jimmar</author><text>The paragraph in the section, &quot;What are passkeys?&quot; tells me that they: are new, are easier, let me use biometrics, and are resistant to attacks. But, it doesn&#x27;t tell me what passkeys actually are.<p>Compare passkeys to traditional authentication factors. What&#x27;s a password? A secret word or phrase that only you know. What are biometrics? Parts of your body that can help uniquely identify you, like your fingerprint or retina. What are hardware tokens? They are physical devices that give you codes that verify that the person logging in has the device on their person.<p>What are passkeys?<p>Until they develop a way to explain what passkeys really are, I question how quickly they will be adopted.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esquivalience</author><text>Why not call passwords private words? We&#x27;ve been using words even longer.<p>The answer is that they&#x27;re being used to pass an authentication challenge. Pass + key is no different.</text></comment> |
19,187,995 | 19,187,937 | 1 | 2 | 19,182,877 | train | <story><title>Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor</title><url>https://duo.com/labs/research/apple-t2-xpc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlphaWeaver</author><text>Why did Apple choose to use a networking protocol like HTTP to interface with two chips in the same hardware device?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nimish</author><text>The amount of money and eyeballs testing out an http stack far exceed that of a proprietary protocol.<p>The real question is why don&#x27;t more rpc style protocols just use http?</text></comment> | <story><title>Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor</title><url>https://duo.com/labs/research/apple-t2-xpc</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlphaWeaver</author><text>Why did Apple choose to use a networking protocol like HTTP to interface with two chips in the same hardware device?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>therein</author><text>Apple tends to do that a lot. Back when I worked at Apple I had noticed the same thing. Two services that are sharing memory end up communicating over HTTP and I always found it silly.</text></comment> |
36,835,435 | 36,835,036 | 1 | 2 | 36,831,946 | train | <story><title>Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations</title><url>https://butwhatfor.beehiiv.com/p/simple-sabotage-field-manual-destroy-organizations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartread</author><text>I agree with your second point but...<p>&gt; I don’t think it does unless you take a dim view of it and perpetuate the simplistic scrum-agile bad meme.<p>Look, the thing is, if you&#x27;ve worked in a load of different organisations, and lots of different teams, with other smart people and have never really seen Scrum done well, and have in some cases actively seen it inhibit the delivery of quality software, I think it&#x27;s legitimate to start questioning the process. People - smart people - struggle to make it work effectively. Plus, 50% of software developers (UX, product management, QA, SRE, stakeholders, etc.) are worse than average: a process that top quartile people struggle to make work well, sometimes even under the most favourable of circumstances, is less valuable when broadly applied across the delivery professions as a whole, and over different industry sectors.<p>On the flip side, with any process being introduced, I think it&#x27;s fair to spend some time, maybe 6 months (but it will vary, depending on the process), implementing that process fairly strictly. It does need time to bed in, and there will be areas of friction simply due to creating new habits or resistance to change rather than due to problems with the process during that time. You need time for those issues to shake out so that you can see how much value the process itself really delivers and where it can be improved. At the 6 month point you can review the process, implement improvements, and move forward. You can keep doing the same review&#x2F;evolve process on whatever cycle you choose, and that way your processes are more in step with changes in the wider organisation (hopefully growth).<p>Your processes need to fit your organisation, your business model, your culture. So, by all means, you can start with a process like Scrum, but to be really successful with it you need to treat it as just that: a starting point. You need to evolve it to fit your business. We all like to mock cargo-culting and yet, somehow, Scrum and agile often seem to blag a free pass. I don&#x27;t understand why, because they shouldn&#x27;t get that free pass. Your processes need to work for your business, and they are always a means for delivering value and never an end in themselves.</text></item><item><author>ljm</author><text>I don’t think it does unless you take a dim view of it and perpetuate the simplistic scrum-agile bad meme.<p>An easy way to throw an effective team into disarray in tech is to waylay it with back channel requests and unplanned work. If you’re too busy fighting fires and working personal errands for disruptive managers and executives then you’re not delivering what your team is supposed to deliver.<p>The ‘proper channel’ isn’t a bureaucracy as described in the SSFM, it’s simply an ordered list of priorities with a gatekeeper.<p>Edit: as far as dogmatically adhering to this process goes, then any effective agile&#x2F;scrum process will have a baked in allowance to handle the unexpected or adapt to change, rather than stubbornly stay the course.</text></item><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>I always knew agile was a CIA plant gone ammock. (&#x2F;s?)<p>The article feels like one of these chain mail jokes rather than a serious article, but anyway.<p>&quot;Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.&quot;<p>That bullet point list more or less describes Scrum.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isityouyesitsme</author><text>Scrum as a concept doesn&#x27;t matter. Agile as a thing doesn&#x27;t matter. Team structure doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>All that matters is who has authority and the business both enforcing that authority and also making sure that authority is being used to accomplish business efficiently and not causing greater risk in the process. The rest just falls in to place. Or doesn&#x27;t, and the business dies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations</title><url>https://butwhatfor.beehiiv.com/p/simple-sabotage-field-manual-destroy-organizations</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartread</author><text>I agree with your second point but...<p>&gt; I don’t think it does unless you take a dim view of it and perpetuate the simplistic scrum-agile bad meme.<p>Look, the thing is, if you&#x27;ve worked in a load of different organisations, and lots of different teams, with other smart people and have never really seen Scrum done well, and have in some cases actively seen it inhibit the delivery of quality software, I think it&#x27;s legitimate to start questioning the process. People - smart people - struggle to make it work effectively. Plus, 50% of software developers (UX, product management, QA, SRE, stakeholders, etc.) are worse than average: a process that top quartile people struggle to make work well, sometimes even under the most favourable of circumstances, is less valuable when broadly applied across the delivery professions as a whole, and over different industry sectors.<p>On the flip side, with any process being introduced, I think it&#x27;s fair to spend some time, maybe 6 months (but it will vary, depending on the process), implementing that process fairly strictly. It does need time to bed in, and there will be areas of friction simply due to creating new habits or resistance to change rather than due to problems with the process during that time. You need time for those issues to shake out so that you can see how much value the process itself really delivers and where it can be improved. At the 6 month point you can review the process, implement improvements, and move forward. You can keep doing the same review&#x2F;evolve process on whatever cycle you choose, and that way your processes are more in step with changes in the wider organisation (hopefully growth).<p>Your processes need to fit your organisation, your business model, your culture. So, by all means, you can start with a process like Scrum, but to be really successful with it you need to treat it as just that: a starting point. You need to evolve it to fit your business. We all like to mock cargo-culting and yet, somehow, Scrum and agile often seem to blag a free pass. I don&#x27;t understand why, because they shouldn&#x27;t get that free pass. Your processes need to work for your business, and they are always a means for delivering value and never an end in themselves.</text></item><item><author>ljm</author><text>I don’t think it does unless you take a dim view of it and perpetuate the simplistic scrum-agile bad meme.<p>An easy way to throw an effective team into disarray in tech is to waylay it with back channel requests and unplanned work. If you’re too busy fighting fires and working personal errands for disruptive managers and executives then you’re not delivering what your team is supposed to deliver.<p>The ‘proper channel’ isn’t a bureaucracy as described in the SSFM, it’s simply an ordered list of priorities with a gatekeeper.<p>Edit: as far as dogmatically adhering to this process goes, then any effective agile&#x2F;scrum process will have a baked in allowance to handle the unexpected or adapt to change, rather than stubbornly stay the course.</text></item><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>I always knew agile was a CIA plant gone ammock. (&#x2F;s?)<p>The article feels like one of these chain mail jokes rather than a serious article, but anyway.<p>&quot;Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.&quot;<p>That bullet point list more or less describes Scrum.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljm</author><text>Yeah that’s a totally fair point, and one I took as given because it’s hard to discuss something like this if you need a disclaimer on facilitating organisational change every time the topic comes up. After explaining for years that no, doing agile doesn’t mean daily status reports and endless meetings, you start to consider that maybe these arguments are offered in poor faith and you want to focus on the good faith nuance.<p>Ironically, you can sabotage any attempt to apply some useful agile (or scrum) principles in earnest simply by trotting out a few strawman arguments against it.</text></comment> |
12,181,959 | 12,180,112 | 1 | 3 | 12,179,368 | train | <story><title>Chinese satellite is one giant step for the quantum internet</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-satellite-is-one-giant-step-for-the-quantum-internet-1.20329</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xgbi</author><text>&gt; Eventually, quantum teleportation in space could even allow researchers to combine photons from satellites to make a distributed telescope with an effective aperture the size of Earth — and enormous resolution. “You could not just see planets,” says Kwiat, “but in principle read licence plates on Jupiter’s moons.”<p>Uh, what? What does entangled photons have to do with interferometry-based astronomy?
Can somebody explain to me how this could be achieved?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Strilanc</author><text>It lets you bypass some classical limits. It&#x27;s a well known idea. For example, John Preskill mentioned entangled telescopes in a non-technical talk back in February [1].<p>A specific case is &quot;NOON&quot; states [2]:<p>&gt; <i>NOON states are an important concept in quantum metrology and quantum sensing for their ability to make precision phase measurements when used in an optical interferometer.</i><p>---<p>Here&#x27;s an example that doesn&#x27;t exactly use entanglement, but does use quantum stuff to give you the general flavor. Suppose you have an optical setup like this:<p><pre><code> B
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When a photon is emitted from A, or B, it passes through a beam splitter then continues on to the two detectors and triggers one of them. If the detectors are classical, then there&#x27;s no way for you to distinguish whether A or B emitted the photon. Both are a 50&#x2F;50 split. But if the detectors can store their readings at various times as quantum information and keep that information coherent, then you can bring the stored qubits together, simulate un-applying the beam splitter, and voila! The same basic idea applies to telescopes: photons from different sources spread out in slightly different ways, and we can undo some of that spreading with quantum computation.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lN8zT_Yk5sg?t=3m58s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;lN8zT_Yk5sg?t=3m58s</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NOON_state" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NOON_state</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chinese satellite is one giant step for the quantum internet</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-satellite-is-one-giant-step-for-the-quantum-internet-1.20329</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xgbi</author><text>&gt; Eventually, quantum teleportation in space could even allow researchers to combine photons from satellites to make a distributed telescope with an effective aperture the size of Earth — and enormous resolution. “You could not just see planets,” says Kwiat, “but in principle read licence plates on Jupiter’s moons.”<p>Uh, what? What does entangled photons have to do with interferometry-based astronomy?
Can somebody explain to me how this could be achieved?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MalcolmPF</author><text>This also made me raise an eyebrow. I found a preprint[0] of an article on the subject after some googling. I&#x27;ve only skimmed it so far but it seems promising.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1403.6681" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1403.6681</a></text></comment> |
27,914,018 | 27,914,023 | 1 | 2 | 27,907,600 | train | <story><title>Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/media/van-jones-bezos-100-million/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aylmao</author><text>&gt; The Earth is going to die one day. [...] If we wish to ensure the long-term survival of the only intelligent life in the universe that we know about (as well as the survival of all the other creatures on Earth, who don&#x27;t have our knowledge) then adapting, exploring, and surviving in space is what we must do.<p>I think that&#x27;s the gripe. We all wish to ensure our long-term survival, but worrying about becoming a multi-planetary species today —as we&#x27;re polluting the earth at an unsustainable rate, as we&#x27;re still fighting wars, as we loose millions a year to disease and as the possibility of higher education remains a privilege for few— sounds like making the wrong investment.</text></item><item><author>jamesgreenleaf</author><text>The Earth is going to die one day. The Sun will die too. There is no guarantee that intelligent life will survive on this single planet, even if we do a perfect job of taking care of it. Catastrophic, species-killing events can happen at any time. If we wish to ensure the long-term survival of the only intelligent life in the universe that we know about (as well as the survival of all the other creatures on Earth, who don&#x27;t have our knowledge) then adapting, exploring, and surviving in space is what we must do. It absolutely surprises me that relatively few people seem to understand (or voice) this fact. We may have a long time to accomplish it, but that it should be our primary goal is extremely clear.</text></item><item><author>sofixa</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species. It&#x27;s what&#x27;s next.<p>I find it extremely weird that people are banking on a (almost literal) moonshot for the survival of our species. Isn&#x27;t trying to stop&#x2F;lessen the damage we&#x27;re doing to the place we currently live and which can sustain us better and more optimistic proposition than hoping a metric shitton of things go perfectly after probably millions of man-hours and trillions of dollars in order for a privileged few to go live on Mars in underground settlements with artificial everything to sustain life there? Ffs, all the rocket tests create enormous amounts of CO2 emissions, among other things, actively helping to make the Earth less habitable.</text></item><item><author>Zelphyr</author><text>All the critics lobbing cynicism against Bezos, Branson, and Musk saying, in essence, that their money is better spent here at home reminds me of a wonderful scene from The West Wing when one character asks why we have to go to Mars:<p>&quot;&#x27;Cause it&#x27;s next. For we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill, and we saw fire. And we crossed the ocean, and we pioneered the West, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on the timeline of exploration, and this is what&#x27;s next.&quot;<p>I personally don&#x27;t care that these billionaires are spending their money on vacations to orbit. It&#x27;s how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species. It&#x27;s what&#x27;s next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yupper32</author><text>&gt; sounds like making the wrong investment.<p>It&#x27;s not the wrong investment. It&#x27;s a different investment.<p>Other billionaires are working on some of the problems on your list, too, if that makes you feel better. The most prominent one being Bill Gates. He&#x27;s working on the &quot;we lose millions a year to disease&quot; portion of your list. Do you hate on Bill Gates because he isn&#x27;t solving world peace (&quot;fighting wars&quot; on your list)?<p>Space dominance is a multi-generational thing. It&#x27;s something that will take a LONG time to figure out and perfect. If in 150 years we see an unavoidable rock hurling towards earth, there won&#x27;t be time to figure out how to keep our species alive. We need to push forward now to have a chance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/media/van-jones-bezos-100-million/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aylmao</author><text>&gt; The Earth is going to die one day. [...] If we wish to ensure the long-term survival of the only intelligent life in the universe that we know about (as well as the survival of all the other creatures on Earth, who don&#x27;t have our knowledge) then adapting, exploring, and surviving in space is what we must do.<p>I think that&#x27;s the gripe. We all wish to ensure our long-term survival, but worrying about becoming a multi-planetary species today —as we&#x27;re polluting the earth at an unsustainable rate, as we&#x27;re still fighting wars, as we loose millions a year to disease and as the possibility of higher education remains a privilege for few— sounds like making the wrong investment.</text></item><item><author>jamesgreenleaf</author><text>The Earth is going to die one day. The Sun will die too. There is no guarantee that intelligent life will survive on this single planet, even if we do a perfect job of taking care of it. Catastrophic, species-killing events can happen at any time. If we wish to ensure the long-term survival of the only intelligent life in the universe that we know about (as well as the survival of all the other creatures on Earth, who don&#x27;t have our knowledge) then adapting, exploring, and surviving in space is what we must do. It absolutely surprises me that relatively few people seem to understand (or voice) this fact. We may have a long time to accomplish it, but that it should be our primary goal is extremely clear.</text></item><item><author>sofixa</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species. It&#x27;s what&#x27;s next.<p>I find it extremely weird that people are banking on a (almost literal) moonshot for the survival of our species. Isn&#x27;t trying to stop&#x2F;lessen the damage we&#x27;re doing to the place we currently live and which can sustain us better and more optimistic proposition than hoping a metric shitton of things go perfectly after probably millions of man-hours and trillions of dollars in order for a privileged few to go live on Mars in underground settlements with artificial everything to sustain life there? Ffs, all the rocket tests create enormous amounts of CO2 emissions, among other things, actively helping to make the Earth less habitable.</text></item><item><author>Zelphyr</author><text>All the critics lobbing cynicism against Bezos, Branson, and Musk saying, in essence, that their money is better spent here at home reminds me of a wonderful scene from The West Wing when one character asks why we have to go to Mars:<p>&quot;&#x27;Cause it&#x27;s next. For we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill, and we saw fire. And we crossed the ocean, and we pioneered the West, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on the timeline of exploration, and this is what&#x27;s next.&quot;<p>I personally don&#x27;t care that these billionaires are spending their money on vacations to orbit. It&#x27;s how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species. It&#x27;s what&#x27;s next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Yeah, the idea that current space initiatives have relationship to preserving humans from the destruction of earth is ridiculous and contemptable. Even an incredibly polluted earth experiencing runaway global is going to remain less hostile than anywhere else for a long time. <i>And that&#x27;s not saying the species would survive on such an earth.</i></text></comment> |
38,194,377 | 38,194,299 | 1 | 2 | 38,189,838 | train | <story><title>Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37889487/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bgroat</author><text>I think for a lot of people (me included), the primary advantage is in ease of measurement.<p>It&#x27;s <i>hard</i> to count calories accurately.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to look at the clock and determine if it&#x27;s between 1300-1900 hours</text></item><item><author>jitl</author><text>“More effective” in what capacity? Adherence.<p>&gt; The mean (SD) reduction in energy intake was -313 (509) kcal&#x2F;d for TRE, -197 (426) kcal&#x2F;d for CR, and -16 (439) kcal&#x2F;d for controls<p>So — the time restricted eating group reduced calories more than the group that counted calories; but the resulting weight loss has the same cause: reduced calorie intake compared to before.<p>If there’s a take away here, it’s possibly that adherence to a calorie deficit using a time restricted eating plan is easier than adherence to the same calorie deficit by explicitly tracking calories.<p>If you can adhere to a calorie deficit through other means, you won’t lose weight faster by adding intermittent fasting while maintaining the same calorie intake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>InitialLastName</author><text>It&#x27;s also psychologically easier to manage. People have an easier time building a schedule where they do or don&#x27;t eat and holding it (say, by skipping breakfast) than they do managing counting calories around things like &quot;I went out to dinner and probably ate too much&quot;.<p>Binary choices (should I eat right now?) take much less cognitive overhead than spectral choices (What should I eat? How much of it? If I eat X and Y now will I have the capacity to eat Z later?)</text></comment> | <story><title>Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37889487/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bgroat</author><text>I think for a lot of people (me included), the primary advantage is in ease of measurement.<p>It&#x27;s <i>hard</i> to count calories accurately.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to look at the clock and determine if it&#x27;s between 1300-1900 hours</text></item><item><author>jitl</author><text>“More effective” in what capacity? Adherence.<p>&gt; The mean (SD) reduction in energy intake was -313 (509) kcal&#x2F;d for TRE, -197 (426) kcal&#x2F;d for CR, and -16 (439) kcal&#x2F;d for controls<p>So — the time restricted eating group reduced calories more than the group that counted calories; but the resulting weight loss has the same cause: reduced calorie intake compared to before.<p>If there’s a take away here, it’s possibly that adherence to a calorie deficit using a time restricted eating plan is easier than adherence to the same calorie deficit by explicitly tracking calories.<p>If you can adhere to a calorie deficit through other means, you won’t lose weight faster by adding intermittent fasting while maintaining the same calorie intake.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>The incredible thing is you don&#x27;t really need to count calories, you just have to avoid complete garbage.<p>As Michael Pollan says &quot;Eat food, mostly greens, not too much&quot;.<p>Don&#x27;t eat anything processed, don&#x27;t eat anything with more than one ingredient and only eat meat with at most one meal, and ideally quite a small portion.<p>Completely and utterly ignore things like icecream, chocolate, soda, candy, chips, anything deep friend and other &quot;non food items&quot;. Treat them like Arsenic - i.e. you should <i>never</i> eat them.<p>There, you are now restricting calorie intake and you didn&#x27;t have to count anything.<p>You should do this for your entire life.</text></comment> |
19,502,580 | 19,501,466 | 1 | 2 | 19,500,640 | train | <story><title>Storing UTC is not a silver bullet</title><url>https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlpb</author><text>This is the same as the alarm clock problem. When a user creates an event, what does that user _mean_? In the alarm clock example, what should happen if I&#x27;ve set my alarm clock 7am and then travel to a different time zone? In the conference event example, what should happen if the local time zone rules change, or daylight savings time comes into force? Did the event organiser print marketing materials that said &quot;starts at 1000 UTC&quot; or &quot;starts at 10am&quot; with a &quot;in the local time zone&quot; implication?<p>Events generally need to be locked to _something_ - whether that is UTC or a local time zone depends on the application.<p>The iCalendar standard (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5545" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5545</a>) generally gets this right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bshipp</author><text>In situations with ambiguity like this, it&#x27;s probably best to ask the user instead of make assumptions.<p>I would not be remotely perturbed if my phone had a pop up when I stepped off the plane asking me if I still wanted to wake up at 7AM local or would prefer to wake up at 10AM UTC.<p>I would be greatly perturbed if it assumed the latter and I missed my meeting, all because I forgot to set a timezone when I originally inserted it a month prior.</text></comment> | <story><title>Storing UTC is not a silver bullet</title><url>https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rlpb</author><text>This is the same as the alarm clock problem. When a user creates an event, what does that user _mean_? In the alarm clock example, what should happen if I&#x27;ve set my alarm clock 7am and then travel to a different time zone? In the conference event example, what should happen if the local time zone rules change, or daylight savings time comes into force? Did the event organiser print marketing materials that said &quot;starts at 1000 UTC&quot; or &quot;starts at 10am&quot; with a &quot;in the local time zone&quot; implication?<p>Events generally need to be locked to _something_ - whether that is UTC or a local time zone depends on the application.<p>The iCalendar standard (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5545" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5545</a>) generally gets this right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BillinghamJ</author><text>For ref, this is the relevant bit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5545#section-3.3.5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc5545#section-3.3.5</a><p>This is something we (startup insurance company) have thought about a lot actually. Since the certificates we issue are relevant to a particular jurisdiction, if the document states e.g. &quot;23:59:59&quot;, it means the &quot;wall clock&quot; time in that jurisdiction - whatever point-in-time our DB contains isn&#x27;t really that relevant.<p>So the likely problematic situ is if we&#x27;ve got a policy end date&#x2F;time more than a year in advance, then the country changes their TZ offsets, we need to make sure our point-in-time records get updated (and then of course the duration of the policy changes). It&#x27;s a bit of a pain in a system built around immutable events!<p>On a kinda related note, we also took the decision to clearly define that our start&#x2F;end date-times have a resolution of one second and are inclusive. So if a policy starts at 00:00:00 and ends at 23:59:59, that&#x27;s the full day, all the way up to midnight. It also means then it&#x27;s important that we render the full time (incl seconds) on our docs.</text></comment> |
13,958,376 | 13,958,301 | 1 | 2 | 13,958,134 | train | <story><title>LA Times and ads</title><url>https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/la-times-and-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I resisted using an ad blocker for many years; I kinda felt like if I wanted to use a site, I should be willing to trade for seeing their ads. I&#x27;ve changed my tune a couple of years ago, and this is a (small) part of the reason (but a bigger part of it now that I know how crazy usage for ads has gotten).<p>I&#x27;m on mobile data nearly 100% of the time most months. 14GB costs me $50-$70 (depending on which network I&#x27;m on, I have two) to download (&quot;unlimited&quot; plans actually aren&#x27;t, when used as a hotspot, though T-Mobile now seems to actually have a mostly unlimited hotspot option, I haven&#x27;t tried it yet). So, not only are ads intrusive, disrespectful of privacy, and generally of negative utility for me as a user...they&#x27;re also ridiculously costly.<p>So, yeah, I use an ad blocker. Oddly, I tried disabling it earlier today for an LA Times article (because of their blocker blocker), but it didn&#x27;t correctly detect that I&#x27;d disabled it, so I closed it and went elsewhere. Now I know I should never disable ad block for LA Times, no matter how interesting the story seems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panarky</author><text>The LAT ads are so fat and intrusive, and their blocker blocker is so infuriating, that I recently just turned off JavaScript completely for their site.<p>It means I don&#x27;t get images or videos, but I can read the occasional article without going through unnecessary gyrations.<p>It&#x27;s not that I&#x27;m unwilling to pay for good journalism. I subscribe to the New York Times, Washington Post and The Atlantic. But the LA Times has chopped back their newsroom so savagely that they have very little investigative journalism or foreign corespondents anymore.<p>It&#x27;s just not worth enduring their abusive ads and nagware to read what little content is worthwhile.</text></comment> | <story><title>LA Times and ads</title><url>https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/la-times-and-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I resisted using an ad blocker for many years; I kinda felt like if I wanted to use a site, I should be willing to trade for seeing their ads. I&#x27;ve changed my tune a couple of years ago, and this is a (small) part of the reason (but a bigger part of it now that I know how crazy usage for ads has gotten).<p>I&#x27;m on mobile data nearly 100% of the time most months. 14GB costs me $50-$70 (depending on which network I&#x27;m on, I have two) to download (&quot;unlimited&quot; plans actually aren&#x27;t, when used as a hotspot, though T-Mobile now seems to actually have a mostly unlimited hotspot option, I haven&#x27;t tried it yet). So, not only are ads intrusive, disrespectful of privacy, and generally of negative utility for me as a user...they&#x27;re also ridiculously costly.<p>So, yeah, I use an ad blocker. Oddly, I tried disabling it earlier today for an LA Times article (because of their blocker blocker), but it didn&#x27;t correctly detect that I&#x27;d disabled it, so I closed it and went elsewhere. Now I know I should never disable ad block for LA Times, no matter how interesting the story seems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>excalibur</author><text>I recently (past year) bit the bullet and began ad blocking myself. My primary concern is the recent proliferation of malicious content through the common ad networks. Supporting websites is great, but not at the expense of your own security.</text></comment> |
12,093,118 | 12,092,545 | 1 | 2 | 12,092,107 | train | <story><title>The Power of Ten – Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code</title><url>http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vog</author><text>This is an all-time classic.<p>Too bad that the article doesn&#x27;t mention the original paper:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixelscommander.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;P10.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pixelscommander.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;P10.pd...</a><p>Some interesting HN discussions around applying these NASA coding standards to JavaScript:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8856226" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8856226</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Power of Ten – Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code</title><url>http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ranko</author><text>The original paper describing and justifying these rules in more detail is at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;gerard&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;P10.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spinroot.com&#x2F;gerard&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;P10.pdf</a>, and the official document is at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov&#x2F;JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf</a></text></comment> |
24,645,679 | 24,645,386 | 1 | 3 | 24,643,830 | train | <story><title>Say goodbye to hold music</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/hold-for-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elliottinvent</author><text>Yep, the end result of Google’s play here is that Duplex calls Duplex and they tie themselves up in 3 hours of AI chess to result in zero.</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>Does anyone else find this to be a pretty hilarious example of a tech arms race? It solves a real problem, assuming it works, but what a strange, rube-goldberg-esque use of technology.<p>Service Provider buys voice recognition software and sets up complex maze of phone tree options to drive users away from the human support agents (even though the users can&#x27;t solve their problem without human intervention - if you don&#x27;t want to pay for enough support agents for your call volume, wouldn&#x27;t it just be simpler to let me cancel my damn account online??).<p>Now user can deploy their own speech synthesis bot to wait on hold, with what is presumably a complex system of AI decisionmaking to be able to navigate the maze and find a human support agent to connect you with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whereistimbo</author><text>Google might fingerprint Duplex voice so it could detect each other, maybe if two Duplex realized that both of them are Duplex, they will use dial-up like sound to exchange data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Say goodbye to hold music</title><url>https://blog.google/products/pixel/hold-for-me/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elliottinvent</author><text>Yep, the end result of Google’s play here is that Duplex calls Duplex and they tie themselves up in 3 hours of AI chess to result in zero.</text></item><item><author>cactus2093</author><text>Does anyone else find this to be a pretty hilarious example of a tech arms race? It solves a real problem, assuming it works, but what a strange, rube-goldberg-esque use of technology.<p>Service Provider buys voice recognition software and sets up complex maze of phone tree options to drive users away from the human support agents (even though the users can&#x27;t solve their problem without human intervention - if you don&#x27;t want to pay for enough support agents for your call volume, wouldn&#x27;t it just be simpler to let me cancel my damn account online??).<p>Now user can deploy their own speech synthesis bot to wait on hold, with what is presumably a complex system of AI decisionmaking to be able to navigate the maze and find a human support agent to connect you with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elliottinvent</author><text>When they could just send I&#x2F;O and call it a draw in 40ms.</text></comment> |
3,067,004 | 3,067,034 | 1 | 2 | 3,066,828 | train | <story><title>Bitbucket now rocks Git</title><url>http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/10/03/bitbucket-now-rocks-git/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krobertson</author><text>I doubt it. There is no need for them to, they aren't hurting or struggling.<p>Running businesses with "lets offer more for free" and "ohh crap, they offer more for free, lets lower our price" is a race to the bottom.<p>It is actually moves like these that make me question Bitbucket more. How viable is the service long term? Do I want to trust all my own code to them?</text></item><item><author>ollysb</author><text>Free unlimited private repos for up to 5 users; with competition like that maybe we'll see github improve it's pricing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ergo14</author><text>You sound like an apple customer, you get more for same price and consider this a bad thing... Pigs indeed fly.<p>It doesn't cost them a lot more in infrastructure to provide alternate dvcs - so your point seems to be completly invalid.
More and more I'm starting to think that git is some kind of religion.<p>We benefit from competition between those 2 platforms and in the end this is what should count the most for us - customers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitbucket now rocks Git</title><url>http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/10/03/bitbucket-now-rocks-git/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krobertson</author><text>I doubt it. There is no need for them to, they aren't hurting or struggling.<p>Running businesses with "lets offer more for free" and "ohh crap, they offer more for free, lets lower our price" is a race to the bottom.<p>It is actually moves like these that make me question Bitbucket more. How viable is the service long term? Do I want to trust all my own code to them?</text></item><item><author>ollysb</author><text>Free unlimited private repos for up to 5 users; with competition like that maybe we'll see github improve it's pricing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitsweet</author><text>Bitbucket is funded by Atlassian - their other products have a huge install base at enterprises across the world. Atlassian could probably run Bitbucket at a loss as marketing if they wanted to</text></comment> |
37,823,007 | 37,822,383 | 1 | 3 | 37,820,877 | train | <story><title>The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)</title><url>https://qz.com/1903322/why-pivot-tables-are-the-spreadsheets-most-powerful-tool</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tqi</author><text>Pivot tables powered by SSAS cubes may be the best self serve analytics tool I&#x27;ve ever seen (where &quot;best&quot; is measured by how much users actually use it). The ability to meet business users where they are is huge for actual adoption, especially compared to something like Looker (which is hot garbage for other reasons as well). Plus, 9 times out of 10 people want to apply additional lightweight transformations&#x2F;calculations to the data, so nothing beats being in Excel already.<p>Too bad OSX support is non existent and writing MDX is a pain in the fucking ass.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyllo</author><text>I agree and I do this via Power BI. If you import data into a Power BI report, create a data model with calculated measures (in DAX, not MDX), and publish it to the online service, then users can click on &quot;Analyze in Excel&quot; and it downloads an Excel workbook with a pivot table connected to that data model. I provide this to the PMs for the product I work on and they&#x27;re able to answer a <i>lot</i> of their questions just by pivoting instead of having to write bespoke SQL.</text></comment> | <story><title>The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)</title><url>https://qz.com/1903322/why-pivot-tables-are-the-spreadsheets-most-powerful-tool</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tqi</author><text>Pivot tables powered by SSAS cubes may be the best self serve analytics tool I&#x27;ve ever seen (where &quot;best&quot; is measured by how much users actually use it). The ability to meet business users where they are is huge for actual adoption, especially compared to something like Looker (which is hot garbage for other reasons as well). Plus, 9 times out of 10 people want to apply additional lightweight transformations&#x2F;calculations to the data, so nothing beats being in Excel already.<p>Too bad OSX support is non existent and writing MDX is a pain in the fucking ass.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davio</author><text>Back in the mid 2000s, our killer app was an example app from MSDN magazine. It basically embedded Excel in a simple web page and we could use the pivot tables against SSAS cubes. We did a little web work for permissions and to save views, but probably had less than a total week of dev work.</text></comment> |
11,195,383 | 11,194,630 | 1 | 3 | 11,192,948 | train | <story><title>The City States of Europe</title><url>http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-city-states-of-europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lispm</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the Megacity is a good model and here in Germany we certainly don&#x27;t &quot;lack it&quot;. It&#x27;s nothing we desire. Germany is currently happy NOT to have cities like London, Paris, Tokyo, New York or similar.<p>What&#x27;s the future for those Chinese Megacities? I&#x27;m not sure we see a linear&#x2F;whatever development of them over the next decades. Already huge cities like Beijing or Delhi (India) are having huge problems (waste, energy, water, air quality, and all kinds of pollution, transport, ...) which easily could lead to very nasty scenarios.<p>The medium sized large cities (1-3 million people) usually offer better quality of life, especially if there is enough space around them.<p>If we look at Germany, there are competing concepts like the &quot;Metropolitan Region&quot; (the region with a big city or a city landscape as its center) and the &quot;Region&quot; (sometimes the Bundesland&#x2F;State, sometimes a bit smaller). The region is defined by cultural&#x2F;political&#x2F;economic aspects - it could lack a big city, but have a cultural identity, which provides the bonding. The large cities were growing, not because of foreign migrants, but because they provided the better infrastructure and cultural life + the young east germans were looking for work after the fall of the &#x27;Wall&#x27;.<p>At the same time in western Germany quite a bit of the economy has been driven by medium sized companies sometimes in remote&#x2F;rural areas in small towns. Some of them are no longer medium sized, but kept the spirit of one. They show that it is possible to deliver high-tech to a global customer-base from small cities. Just take &#x27;Herzogenaurach&#x27; in southern Germany, a small town with just over 20k people. It hosts three large companies: Adidas (&gt; 10bn Euro revenue), Puma (3bn Euro revenue) and Schaeffler (&gt;10bn Euro revenue).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s the future for those Chinese Megacities? I&#x27;m not sure we see a linear&#x2F;whatever development of them over the next decades.<p>Individual cities like Beijing and Shangai are peanuts compared to what is coming. I don&#x27;t know if you are aware and if that is what you were referring to with &quot;Chinese Megacities&quot;, but the Chinese government is working to tightly integrate larger regions. Some very explicitly directed from the central government, some thanks to city&#x2F;province level cooperation.<p>E.g. the Bohai Economic Rim[1] include cities like Beijing and Tianjin. Currently about 66 million people in the whole area. There&#x27;s work underway to tie them together with high speed rail, more highways, combining communications networks, government structure etc. Some projections suggest that all of the Bohai Rim will merge into a megacity with 250m+ people over the next few decades.<p>Then there&#x27;s the Pearl River Delta [2], which includes Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Macau, Shenzhen, Dongguan and a number of other large cities, and which is headed in the same direction. Depending on how you count, the PRD is already the largest metropolitan area in the world with the number of people ranging from somewhere around 63million people and up to 120 million.<p>Then there&#x27;s the Yangtze River Delta [3], which may compete with PRD for the largest population - the main contention is whether the YRD is one metropolitan areas or series of adjacent ones - it&#x27;s not as tightly integrated as the PRD. Yet. But it has 140 million inhabitants, and includes cities like Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou etc.<p>Chances are all three of these will in practice merge. Whether or not they will be unified to the point of being governed like cities is another matter (they are large enough that currently they straddle multiple provincial boundaries.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bohai_Economic_Rim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bohai_Economic_Rim</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pearl_River_Delta" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pearl_River_Delta</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yangtze_River_Delta" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yangtze_River_Delta</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The City States of Europe</title><url>http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-city-states-of-europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lispm</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the Megacity is a good model and here in Germany we certainly don&#x27;t &quot;lack it&quot;. It&#x27;s nothing we desire. Germany is currently happy NOT to have cities like London, Paris, Tokyo, New York or similar.<p>What&#x27;s the future for those Chinese Megacities? I&#x27;m not sure we see a linear&#x2F;whatever development of them over the next decades. Already huge cities like Beijing or Delhi (India) are having huge problems (waste, energy, water, air quality, and all kinds of pollution, transport, ...) which easily could lead to very nasty scenarios.<p>The medium sized large cities (1-3 million people) usually offer better quality of life, especially if there is enough space around them.<p>If we look at Germany, there are competing concepts like the &quot;Metropolitan Region&quot; (the region with a big city or a city landscape as its center) and the &quot;Region&quot; (sometimes the Bundesland&#x2F;State, sometimes a bit smaller). The region is defined by cultural&#x2F;political&#x2F;economic aspects - it could lack a big city, but have a cultural identity, which provides the bonding. The large cities were growing, not because of foreign migrants, but because they provided the better infrastructure and cultural life + the young east germans were looking for work after the fall of the &#x27;Wall&#x27;.<p>At the same time in western Germany quite a bit of the economy has been driven by medium sized companies sometimes in remote&#x2F;rural areas in small towns. Some of them are no longer medium sized, but kept the spirit of one. They show that it is possible to deliver high-tech to a global customer-base from small cities. Just take &#x27;Herzogenaurach&#x27; in southern Germany, a small town with just over 20k people. It hosts three large companies: Adidas (&gt; 10bn Euro revenue), Puma (3bn Euro revenue) and Schaeffler (&gt;10bn Euro revenue).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jychang</author><text>Germany has only 80 million people, however. And the cities in Germany are all spread out around the country.<p>China has 1.3 billion people, mostly clustered on the east coast. Building megacities is basically mandatory. According to Wikipedia [1], a &quot;medium sized city&quot; with population 1 to 3 million people, in China, would be among 169 other cities. There are 73 cities with a population over 3 million, in 2010. A city with exactly 1 million people would be rank 242 in China... the city (town?) ranked 242 in population in Germany would be the city&#x2F;town of Eisenach, population 42,700. That&#x27;s a seriously small city, or about half the population of Mountain View, California.<p>And these numbers are from the 2010 census- according to some sources, China&#x27;s population has increased by 80 million people from 2010 to 2016. That&#x27;s the size of one entire Germany.<p>The comparison here between cities in Germany vs cities in China isn&#x27;t exactly fair.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_cities_in_China_by_population_and_built-up_area" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citymayors.com&#x2F;gratis&#x2F;german_topcities3.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citymayors.com&#x2F;gratis&#x2F;german_topcities3.html</a></text></comment> |
18,049,678 | 18,049,674 | 1 | 2 | 18,034,993 | train | <story><title>Delta to start scanning faces at airport check-in</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/delta-to-start-scanning-faces-at-airport-check-in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>Nice to know that we&#x27;re just barreling ahead towards a cyberpunk future. I&#x27;ve been meaning to get a mohawk anyways. Shame about neon lights dying off though.<p>More seriously, the amount of security theater going on at airports is getting out of hand. It&#x27;s obvious that this is intended to start off optional, gradually warm people up to the new norm and then ramp up the data collection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>The airline isn&#x27;t learning anything from this that it doesn&#x27;t already know. Flight reservations are decidedly not anonymous, and the TSA already checks photo ID.</text></comment> | <story><title>Delta to start scanning faces at airport check-in</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/20/delta-to-start-scanning-faces-at-airport-check-in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fzeroracer</author><text>Nice to know that we&#x27;re just barreling ahead towards a cyberpunk future. I&#x27;ve been meaning to get a mohawk anyways. Shame about neon lights dying off though.<p>More seriously, the amount of security theater going on at airports is getting out of hand. It&#x27;s obvious that this is intended to start off optional, gradually warm people up to the new norm and then ramp up the data collection.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scottLobster</author><text>Yep, and like most things there will likely need to be flagrant abuses and people getting hurt for any significant fraction of voters to even begin caring, let alone vote over it.</text></comment> |
20,395,930 | 20,394,808 | 1 | 2 | 20,392,342 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2</title><url>https://minimaxir.com/apps/gpt2-mtg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phaedryx</author><text>I chose the name &quot;Javascript&quot; and let it choose: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mlqJmjK" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mlqJmjK</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Make your own AI-generated Magic: The Gathering cards with GPT-2</title><url>https://minimaxir.com/apps/gpt2-mtg/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>YeGoblynQueenne</author><text>This is remarkably more coherent than previous attempts at M:tG card generation with a deep RNN [1] but on the other hand, the ability text on the few cards I&#x27;ve generated so far seems oddly famliar.<p>In fact, I got one that is identical to an actual card.<p>Generated by GPT-2 [2]:<p><pre><code> Tephraderm {1}{R} (common)
Sorcery
Each player sacrifices a land.
</code></pre>
Actual M:tG card (copied by hand by me and keeping the same notation):<p><pre><code> Tremble {1}{R} (Odyssey common)
Sorcery
Each player sacrifices a land.
</code></pre>
Also, the names of cards don&#x27;t seem to be generated by the RNN. &quot;Tephraderm&quot;, above, is an actual Magic card (a red rare creature from Onslaught). I certainly did see a &quot;Bontu, Primal Calamity&quot; (which I didn&#x27;t save) whose name was basically a mashup of the names of &quot;Bontu the Glorified&quot; and &quot;Zacama, Primal Calamity&quot;.<p>_______________<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtgsalvation.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;magic-fundamentals&#x2F;custom-card-creation&#x2F;612057-generating-magic-cards-using-deep-recurrent-neural" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtgsalvation.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;magic-fundamentals&#x2F;custo...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;PdHkBXr.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;PdHkBXr.png</a><p>Cards discussed above:<p>Tremble: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.tcgplayer.com&#x2F;magic&#x2F;odyssey&#x2F;tremble" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.tcgplayer.com&#x2F;magic&#x2F;odyssey&#x2F;tremble</a><p>Tephraderm: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.tcgplayer.com&#x2F;magic&#x2F;onslaught&#x2F;tephraderm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.tcgplayer.com&#x2F;magic&#x2F;onslaught&#x2F;tephraderm</a><p>Zacama, Primal Calamity: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.tcgplayer.com&#x2F;magic&#x2F;rivals-of-ixalan&#x2F;zacama-primal-calamity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.tcgplayer.com&#x2F;magic&#x2F;rivals-of-ixalan&#x2F;zacama-pri...</a><p>Bontu the Glorified: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.tcgplayer.com&#x2F;magic&#x2F;amonkhet&#x2F;bontu-the-glorified" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.tcgplayer.com&#x2F;magic&#x2F;amonkhet&#x2F;bontu-the-glorifie...</a><p>Sorry, can&#x27;t link to the Gatherer for any of the cards above- it&#x27;s down for me.</text></comment> |
36,503,398 | 36,503,360 | 1 | 2 | 36,495,048 | train | <story><title>Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics</title><url>https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/drugmakers-are-abandoning-cheap-generics-and-now-us-cancer-patients-cant-get-meds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>submeta</author><text>Applying my rudimentary knowledge of microeconomics, the situation with the shortage of cancer drugs seems to be a case of a race to the bottom, as one commenter noted. Here, multiple generic drug manufacturers are competing to win sales contracts by offering the lowest possible price. This can be seen as an example of perfect competition, where firms are price takers and compete mainly on price, driving prices down to the point where they equal the marginal cost of production.<p>However, the problem arises when these prices are driven so low that they no longer cover the firms&#x27; average total costs (including both variable and fixed costs), making it unprofitable for them to continue production. Some firms may choose to exit the market, leading to a reduction in supply. This is where the theory of &quot;shutdown point&quot; comes in: firms will choose to shut down production (at least temporarily) when price falls below the minimum point of the average variable cost curve.<p>The complication in this case is that the reduction in supply is occurring for a product (cancer drugs) that is still in demand. However, as one commenter suggested, it&#x27;s unclear whether the demand would support a higher price.<p>There might be external forces (like regulatory environments, health insurance dynamics, and negotiations by large scale buyers) that are keeping the prices artificially low, preventing the price from rising to a level where it would be profitable for more firms to produce the drugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hannob</author><text>This is probably a good example why naive market economics thinking is problematic.<p>Any &quot;ideal market&quot; assumes some kind of demand elasticity, i.e. people will buy more when it&#x27;s cheap and less when it&#x27;s expensive. But for cancer drugs, that really shouldn&#x27;t be the case. The amount of drugs a patient takes should be determined by the best science, not some market mechanism.</text></comment> | <story><title>Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics</title><url>https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/drugmakers-are-abandoning-cheap-generics-and-now-us-cancer-patients-cant-get-meds/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>submeta</author><text>Applying my rudimentary knowledge of microeconomics, the situation with the shortage of cancer drugs seems to be a case of a race to the bottom, as one commenter noted. Here, multiple generic drug manufacturers are competing to win sales contracts by offering the lowest possible price. This can be seen as an example of perfect competition, where firms are price takers and compete mainly on price, driving prices down to the point where they equal the marginal cost of production.<p>However, the problem arises when these prices are driven so low that they no longer cover the firms&#x27; average total costs (including both variable and fixed costs), making it unprofitable for them to continue production. Some firms may choose to exit the market, leading to a reduction in supply. This is where the theory of &quot;shutdown point&quot; comes in: firms will choose to shut down production (at least temporarily) when price falls below the minimum point of the average variable cost curve.<p>The complication in this case is that the reduction in supply is occurring for a product (cancer drugs) that is still in demand. However, as one commenter suggested, it&#x27;s unclear whether the demand would support a higher price.<p>There might be external forces (like regulatory environments, health insurance dynamics, and negotiations by large scale buyers) that are keeping the prices artificially low, preventing the price from rising to a level where it would be profitable for more firms to produce the drugs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>resolutebat</author><text>Healthcare is very, very far from &quot;an example of perfect competition&quot;. For example, there are apparently plentiful supplies of both drugs discussed in the article in China, but they can&#x27;t be legally used because they don&#x27;t have the appropriate FDA paperwork, purchasing agreements with the middlemen who distribute drugs, etc etc.</text></comment> |
25,493,535 | 25,492,627 | 1 | 2 | 25,492,551 | train | <story><title>Bash 5.1</title><url>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-12/msg00003.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>I know that zsh is the hot new thing, but I&#x27;ve been using bash for about 30 years, and at this point, sheer inertia means it&#x27;s unlikely I&#x27;ll ever switch away. Long may it continue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>You can tell Unix has been around a while because the &quot;new hot thing&quot; dates to 1990.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bash 5.1</title><url>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-12/msg00003.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>I know that zsh is the hot new thing, but I&#x27;ve been using bash for about 30 years, and at this point, sheer inertia means it&#x27;s unlikely I&#x27;ll ever switch away. Long may it continue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stoolpigeon</author><text>Is the &quot;hot new thing&quot; status of zsh due to the macos change or is there more going on with other platforms?<p>I&#x27;ve used both and maybe it&#x27;s because I&#x27;m just not doing anything beyond normal, basic stuff - but I don&#x27;t see a big difference.</text></comment> |
18,108,727 | 18,108,436 | 1 | 3 | 18,107,271 | train | <story><title>Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook</title><url>https://tiddlywiki.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TomDavey</author><text>A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox.<p>An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better.<p>Were I going to publish my wiki to the Web for others to use, I&#x27;d export the wiki to HTML with Org. But for now it&#x27;s all personal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>How do you handle images&#x2F;screenshots&#x2F;handwritten notes?<p>I am also using Org-Mode and Dropbox for the majority of my notes. I really like it. In particular, Orgzly for Android works great with this system, so check it out if you want mobile notes as well.<p>The problem is that I also like to take paper notes, and take videos&#x2F;pictures of stuff, and scan documents, and download webpages. Org-mode kinda stinks for embedding external content that isn&#x27;t text? As far as I can tell.<p>I can link to external content, and if I export to HTML it&#x27;ll show up. But... I never export to HTML, because, as you probably already know, it&#x27;s way easier to read notes in an editable format. I can turn on picture rending in Org-mode, but it&#x27;s not responsive, and I can&#x27;t crop the pictures or annotate them with a stylus, or do any of a dozen different things that I want to do.<p>What I&#x27;ve thought about is that I really just want the ability to render HTML&#x2F;CSS inside of an Org-mode buffer, and ideally to be able to set up custom CSS classes that would be applied to every snippet. Just set up a quick region, write some helper functions to compile&#x2F;render the HTML, etc...<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking for a while about taking some time off of work to just try and solve the problem. Is it already solved? I know that at one point people were looking into getting webkit embedded into buffers. Did that go anywhere? I guess you can build GTK widgets for Org-mode as well? But then you lose the ability to define custom styles on the fly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook</title><url>https://tiddlywiki.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TomDavey</author><text>A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox.<p>An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better.<p>Were I going to publish my wiki to the Web for others to use, I&#x27;d export the wiki to HTML with Org. But for now it&#x27;s all personal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vekz</author><text>I also have the Emacs + Org-mode + Dropbox setup.<p>In addition, I have an AWS lambda endpoint which listens to a SES email hook. I send emails to the SES address which the hook then appends and schedules to org files on dropbox based on email content.</text></comment> |
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