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32,296,209 | 32,296,291 | 1 | 2 | 32,295,766 | train | <story><title>Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (2017)</title><url>https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-transit-driving-times.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomjen3</author><text>I live in Denmark, have pretty much ideal public transport for my work (one bus, very little walking on either end) and it still takes about twice as long.<p>Which would be fine, except when you bring this up lots of people start talking about how to make cars take more time, or making public transport free.<p>Neither of which solves the problem.<p>I probably would be more willing to take the bus if wasn&#x27;t also less comfy than my car. Not only does my car have better seats than the bus, but I am guaranteed one.</text></item><item><author>matsemann</author><text>I think this problem is bigger in many US cities compared to Europe, because of the urban sprawl. There is almost no way to make it efficient to go from most people&#x27;s houses to the city using public transport, since the area to cover is so great.<p>To me, the solution is to re-think why everyone needs to go somewhere by car to get anything done. Why not have a grocery store closer? Some restaurants? Everyone having to travel from their house to the city centre to do basically anything is so wasteful. Most of this is because of zoning laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>But why does the bus take twice as long? Because it&#x27;s stuck in traffic, take a different route, too many stops?<p>I do think the best way of course is to make public transport a viable option by itself. But it&#x27;s hard to do without actually limiting the use of cars as well. It&#x27;s a chicken-and-hen problem, as long as too many rely on cars, it&#x27;s hard to have a very good public transport. For instance because of what I mentioned, people choosing places to live based on cars making it hard to cover with public transport.<p>Also, disincentivise car usage makes the city much better for those living there. I hate that people outside the city drive to work every day. Those cars are loud, takes so much space (which could&#x27;ve been cozy instead of asphalt), are a danger to kids, pedestrians, cyclists etc, pollutes the local air.</text></comment> | <story><title>Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (2017)</title><url>https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-transit-driving-times.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomjen3</author><text>I live in Denmark, have pretty much ideal public transport for my work (one bus, very little walking on either end) and it still takes about twice as long.<p>Which would be fine, except when you bring this up lots of people start talking about how to make cars take more time, or making public transport free.<p>Neither of which solves the problem.<p>I probably would be more willing to take the bus if wasn&#x27;t also less comfy than my car. Not only does my car have better seats than the bus, but I am guaranteed one.</text></item><item><author>matsemann</author><text>I think this problem is bigger in many US cities compared to Europe, because of the urban sprawl. There is almost no way to make it efficient to go from most people&#x27;s houses to the city using public transport, since the area to cover is so great.<p>To me, the solution is to re-think why everyone needs to go somewhere by car to get anything done. Why not have a grocery store closer? Some restaurants? Everyone having to travel from their house to the city centre to do basically anything is so wasteful. Most of this is because of zoning laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peoplefromibiza</author><text>&gt; Not only does my car have better seats than the bus, but I am guaranteed one<p>at the expenses of everybody else.<p>there is nothing more wasteful than turning up a very heavy, powerful and polluting machine to transport a single non disabled human for a few kms.<p>anyway, your seat would be guaranteed also on a bike, a moped, a horse, a donkey, a 20 tons truck, a bulldozer and an helicopter. Doesn&#x27;t mean they are all equally good options.
Doesn&#x27;t mean city planning should consider the comfort of your bum a priority.</text></comment> |
35,402,080 | 35,401,020 | 1 | 3 | 35,400,253 | train | <story><title>The roots of Japan's Indian curry</title><url>https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/indo-curry/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anuraj</author><text>&quot;Now to be clear, India has no such dish as a curry. No self-respecting Indian restaurant has a &quot;curry&quot; on their menu. They would have a Palak Paneer or a Malai Kofta or a Murgh Makhani - all of which we lump into &quot;curry&quot; - but no &quot;curry&quot;<p>- This is patently wrong. Curry is a South Indian word referring to vegetables originally (Malakkarry means vegetables). Come to Kerala - you have Moru Curry (Butter Milk Curry) , Erachi Curry (Beef Curry), Tharavu Curry (Duck Curry) etc. The author is a North Indian oblivious of curry history.<p>&quot;കറി വെപ്പാനെന്തുള്ളത് കാട്ടിൽ,
വിറകിന് മാത്രം മുട്ടില്ലിവിടെ&quot;<p>[kari veppaanenthullathu kaattil,
virakinu maathram muttillivide]<p>&quot;What is there to make curry in the forest?
Only firewood is available here&quot; - Kiraatham Thullal by Kunchan Nambiar, Malayalam poet Circa 1750 AD.</text></comment> | <story><title>The roots of Japan's Indian curry</title><url>https://one-from-nippon.ghost.io/indo-curry/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brigandish</author><text>&gt; So if you are craving for spice in Japan, try one of the two thousand &quot;Indian&quot; restaurants and you will not be disappointed.<p>Erm, if you&#x27;ve had a proper curry recently then you probably will be. Like everywhere else, foreign foods get tailored to their locality or they die. If you fancy a naan filled with sugar and some pretty bland dishes then try an &quot;Indian&quot; restaurant in Japan. Which should come as no surprise, because plenty of other so-called spicy foods here are a) not spicy, and b) surprisingly&#x2F;sadly, overly sweet.<p>That&#x27;s not to say that you can&#x27;t get a decent curry here, but you&#x27;ll have to try harder than just walking into a random curry house. And this…<p>&gt; Indian restaurants outnumber the top 3 pizza chains of the country put together!<p>I think the only food more maligned by localisation in Japan than pizza could be Mexican food, which leads us back to spice and sugar. I&#x27;m not sure what having more curry houses than pizza huts <i>in Japan</i> proves. It would mean something in the US or Italy, but in Japan?<p>Tastes differ.</text></comment> |
17,436,581 | 17,436,448 | 1 | 2 | 17,433,822 | train | <story><title>Are we stuck with cement?</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/5124/are-we-stuck-with-cement-environmental-impact</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text><i>The report exposes quite the paradox: We desperately need these infrastructure projects to transition to a carbon-neutral world, but in doing so we will have to emit a massive amount of carbon.</i><p>Massive compared to <i>what</i>? This article highlights that a single wind turbine uses a lot of concrete. But per the latest IPCC assessment, wind power over its life cycle already has the <i>lowest</i> median CO2 emissions of any electricity source. Sure, look for even cleaner ways to make materials, but this rhetoric is terrible. It lets fossil shills bludgeon you with your own words later: &quot;see, environmentalists say coal burning emits massive amounts of carbon dioxide, but they say the same about switching to wind power, so there&#x27;s no rush to change things.&quot;<p>Here&#x27;s a recent review article about curbing CO2 emissions from cement:<p><i>Global strategies and potentials to curb CO2 emissions in cement industry</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;academia.edu.documents&#x2F;39977040&#x2F;1-s2.0-S0959652612006129-main.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&amp;Expires=1530469511&amp;Signature=iO7NNWFleA6%2F%2F8NF2ta4wIRigTA%3D&amp;response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DGlobal_strategies_and_potentials_to_curb.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;academia.edu.documents&#x2F;39977040&#x2F;1-s...</a><p>It provides actual numbers and suggestions. Only half of cement&#x27;s CO2 emissions per ton come from the chemistry inherent in calcining calcium carbonate to produce calcium oxide and carbon dioxide. The rest comes from the fossil sources of energy used to process materials. Like most industrial processes, it can cut emissions significantly just by switching input energy sources. Also, as someone else mentioned, concrete absorbs atmospheric CO2 as it cures. It&#x27;s mostly the fossil combustion embedded in its production that drives emissions over its full life cycle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Are we stuck with cement?</title><url>https://theoutline.com/post/5124/are-we-stuck-with-cement-environmental-impact</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>madaxe_again</author><text>This article talks as though Portland cement is the only cement. It isn’t.<p>I’ve spent the past few years working in my free time on the restoration of several old buildings, under the guidance of my wife, who is a conservation mason, much of which has comprised removing cement and gypsum plaster and replacing them with lime mortar, lime plaster, and other lime products as appropriate.<p>While it’s true that most lime products aren’t as strong as cement, and are permeable to water vapour, their CO2 impact is much, much smaller - and many applications which currently see the use of Portland could as easily use appropriate lime-based products. Breathability is a <i>good</i> thing in most structures - most damp that you see in buildings arises from impermeable materials and condensation.<p>As to strength, lime-Portland blends exist which can create impermeable and strong concrete with less environmental footprint, and I’ve been experimenting with mixing lime with various different aggregates and plasticising agents - resulting in some interesting materials - ground pumice and slate in varying proportions produce very strong (high tensile and compressive properties) and impermeable materials - I was inspired by Roman concrete.<p>Here’s a tiny bit of further info on CO2 footprints, from a company I’ve bought several tonnes of NHL from:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ecolime.co.uk&#x2F;c02-quick-facts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ecolime.co.uk&#x2F;c02-quick-facts&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
35,301,456 | 35,294,695 | 1 | 2 | 35,293,101 | train | <story><title>OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-tech-gives-microsofts-bing-boost-search-battle-with-google-2023-03-22/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danans</author><text>&gt; Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I&#x27;m sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of &quot;big company that lost its way<p>Former Googler, opinions are my own. They haven&#x27;t lost their way technologically - as you mentioned they invented the Transformer - and internally Google has long had language models that rival ChatGPT in sheer size and coherence of responses (hallucinations and all). Bard is an intentionally toned down version of LamDa.<p>The reason they didn&#x27;t release their LLM earlier was likely due to the serious brand risk associated with making it part of Google search. Bing&#x2F;ChatGPT had no such brand risk, and released their LLMs using the &quot;There&#x27;s no such thing as bad publicity&quot; logic. That works great as a wrecking ball, but it&#x27;s not a long term product strategy.<p>So the real institutional problem at Google isn&#x27;t lack of technological innovation, it&#x27;s the inability to take major product risks, especially in anything adjacent to Search.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I agree with a bunch of other comments that are interested to see what happens in the long term, to me, all of this points to some <i>profound</i> organizational and cultural problems at Google. I base that statement on things I see as an external observer, from posts I&#x27;ve seen from current&#x2F;ex-Googlers here on HN, and from some (albeit brief) conversations I&#x27;ve had with some of these folks.<p>If a decade ago you told me Microsoft would leapfrog Google in the AI race (obviously albeit through OpenAI, but I think that separate org structure was key in the first place), I would have thought you were insane. Google <i>invented</i> the transformer architecture just 6 years ago. I recently compared ChatGPT (on the free, 3.5 version mind you, not even the 4 version) with Bard, and it wasn&#x27;t even close - ChatGPT was the &quot;Google&quot; to Bard&#x27;s &quot;AltaVista&quot; circa 2000 or so.<p>Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I&#x27;m sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of &quot;big company that lost its way&quot;. I can&#x27;t express enough how much admiration and amazement I had for Google that started to tarnish about 10 years ago (I think it was when the whole first page became ads for any remotely commercial search, whenever that started). I honestly hope they are able to course correct (heck, Microsoft had their decade+ of &quot;the Ballmer years&quot; before they turned around).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nopinsight</author><text>GPT-4 got much better results on many benchmarks than PaLM, Google&#x27;s largest published model [1]. PaLM itself is probably quite a bit better than LamDa in several tasks, according to a chart and a couple of tables here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2204.02311" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2204.02311</a><p>It&#x27;s unclear that Google currently has an internal LLM as good as GPT-4. If they do, they are keeping quiet about it, which seems quite unlikely given the repercussion.<p>[1] GPT-4&#x27;s benchmark results vs PaLM: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;gpt-4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openai.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;gpt-4</a></text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-tech-gives-microsofts-bing-boost-search-battle-with-google-2023-03-22/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danans</author><text>&gt; Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I&#x27;m sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of &quot;big company that lost its way<p>Former Googler, opinions are my own. They haven&#x27;t lost their way technologically - as you mentioned they invented the Transformer - and internally Google has long had language models that rival ChatGPT in sheer size and coherence of responses (hallucinations and all). Bard is an intentionally toned down version of LamDa.<p>The reason they didn&#x27;t release their LLM earlier was likely due to the serious brand risk associated with making it part of Google search. Bing&#x2F;ChatGPT had no such brand risk, and released their LLMs using the &quot;There&#x27;s no such thing as bad publicity&quot; logic. That works great as a wrecking ball, but it&#x27;s not a long term product strategy.<p>So the real institutional problem at Google isn&#x27;t lack of technological innovation, it&#x27;s the inability to take major product risks, especially in anything adjacent to Search.</text></item><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I agree with a bunch of other comments that are interested to see what happens in the long term, to me, all of this points to some <i>profound</i> organizational and cultural problems at Google. I base that statement on things I see as an external observer, from posts I&#x27;ve seen from current&#x2F;ex-Googlers here on HN, and from some (albeit brief) conversations I&#x27;ve had with some of these folks.<p>If a decade ago you told me Microsoft would leapfrog Google in the AI race (obviously albeit through OpenAI, but I think that separate org structure was key in the first place), I would have thought you were insane. Google <i>invented</i> the transformer architecture just 6 years ago. I recently compared ChatGPT (on the free, 3.5 version mind you, not even the 4 version) with Bard, and it wasn&#x27;t even close - ChatGPT was the &quot;Google&quot; to Bard&#x27;s &quot;AltaVista&quot; circa 2000 or so.<p>Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I&#x27;m sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of &quot;big company that lost its way&quot;. I can&#x27;t express enough how much admiration and amazement I had for Google that started to tarnish about 10 years ago (I think it was when the whole first page became ads for any remotely commercial search, whenever that started). I honestly hope they are able to course correct (heck, Microsoft had their decade+ of &quot;the Ballmer years&quot; before they turned around).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jatins</author><text>Microsoft has been really smart in this regard because they are invested in OpenAI but OpenAI does not have to suffer from any Big tech organizational nonsense the way Google&#x27;s AI probably has to</text></comment> |
20,424,816 | 20,422,680 | 1 | 3 | 20,422,337 | train | <story><title>Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10</title><url>https://stripe.com/rcas/2019-07-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vjagrawal1984</author><text>In the face of so many outages from big companies, I wonder how Visa&#x2F;MasterCard is so resilient.<p>Is it because they are over the curve and don&#x27;t make &quot;any&quot; changes to their system. As opposed to other companies, we are still maturing?</text></comment> | <story><title>Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10</title><url>https://stripe.com/rcas/2019-07-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>laCour</author><text>&quot;[Four days prior to the incident] Two nodes became stalled for yet-to-be-determined reasons.&quot;<p>How did they not catch this? It&#x27;s super surprising to me that they wouldn&#x27;t have monitors for this.</text></comment> |
20,988,135 | 20,988,102 | 1 | 2 | 20,985,875 | train | <story><title>The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)</title><url>https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcroll</author><text>I ran a small company like this quite successfully earlier in my career. If you think this is awesome what goes unmentioned is how lonely it can get. Also, any issues you have (business or technology) you bear the brunt of alone. A coworking space doesn&#x27;t really help either imo, if you like working with others you will miss having coworkers. Just something I think worth mentioning if you think this is something you might want to pursue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spiderfarmer</author><text>This feels like bragging but I also run a one man company and the loneliness is what I enjoy most. Granted, I only work from 08:45 to 14:30 and some hours in the evening, because I bring my kids to school and I pick them up in the afternoon, but the hours when I’m alone, I am 100% productive. When the kids are at home I mostly do some kind of manual labor to get some sort of exercise. Right now I’m building a shed. Last year I built my home office&#x2F;guest house.<p>To make up for the missing social interaction I play football with friends, do some consultancy jobs on the side and I help where I can with my son’s football club.<p>This really is my dream job and I enjoy it thoroughly. I have no problems staying motivated and every day I have loads of inspiration.<p>The moment I lose motivation will be a sign for me to sell everything and start something new. I ran an online marketing company before this and that was really exhausting for an introvert like me. Selling that company was the best decision I ever made, apart from marrying my wife.</text></comment> | <story><title>The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)</title><url>https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcroll</author><text>I ran a small company like this quite successfully earlier in my career. If you think this is awesome what goes unmentioned is how lonely it can get. Also, any issues you have (business or technology) you bear the brunt of alone. A coworking space doesn&#x27;t really help either imo, if you like working with others you will miss having coworkers. Just something I think worth mentioning if you think this is something you might want to pursue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wenbin</author><text>(author of this blog post here)<p>The hardest part of building this business is to keep motivated for a relatively long period of time. I&#x27;m still early in this startup journey. This is only the 2nd year of me working full-time on Listen Notes.<p>I think it would be helpful to surround yourself with like-minded people (online or offline) -- we are social animals. Indie Hackers is pretty good: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&#x2F;</a><p>I live in San Francisco and I used to work for companies, so at least I can often hang out with some friends&#x2F;former coworkers who are doing startups or working in tiny startups.<p>In my coworker space, people from different companies rarely talk to each other...</text></comment> |
33,806,598 | 33,805,217 | 1 | 2 | 33,803,692 | train | <story><title>Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests?</title><url>https://twitter.com/msmelchen/status/1597807914395500545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;A significant proportion of our society has become totally OK with censorship, cancellation<p>This specific phrasing jumped out to me because being against both censorship and cancellation should be a contradiction. Cancellation is an example of the exercising of free speech.<p>Should I not have the freedom to organize a protest of my local theater for hosting a controversial figure that I think is worthy of cancellation? Isn&#x27;t that a very basic and fundamental example of free speech?<p>Comments like yours seems to reveal a lack of a consistent principle underlying your argument. Instead, you seem to be defining free speech as some narrow window of speech that you agree with and speech outside that isn&#x27;t worth protecting. Ironically it ends up making your comment a good example of the exact thing you were decrying.</text></item><item><author>throwaway23597</author><text>The thing I&#x27;m starting to get increasingly scared about is what these US companies will do with the data that&#x27;s <i>already there</i>. A significant proportion of our society has become totally OK with censorship, cancellation, and ostracizing of those who they politically disagree with. One could easily imagine a situation where this intensifies and suddenly political ideologues are analyzing all the voice recordings Alexa ever made in order to out political enemies. Keeping all this data around, in my view, means it will inevitably get misused over a long time scale.</text></item><item><author>Vt71fcAqt7</author><text>And people wonder why the US has blocked Huawei infrastructure in the US. They have no qualms silencing their own population and invest heavily in surveillance technology. Why would anyone want their equipment?<p>What worries me is that the US itself will go in the same direction. The surveillance is already there, but it is not acted on for the most part in everyday life. But there may be a clock on how long that will last.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vt71fcAqt7</author><text>&gt;you seem to be defining free speech<p>GP didn&#x27;t mention free speach anywhere. Yet you still take the liberty of defining words they didn&#x27;t use for them.<p>&gt;Comments like yours seems to reveal a lack of a consistent principle underlying your argument<p>cancellation is a societal issue, free speech is a legal issue. GP didn&#x27;t say &quot;we should make cancellation illegal&quot; they said cancellation, which &quot;a significant proportion of our society has become totally OK with&quot; combined with surveilance, will cause even more cancelation. That is bad. (And I agree, btw.)<p>You can have fair laws and still have an unfair population obsessed with censorship and cancellation. That&#x27;s bad, but doesn&#x27;t mean we should make it illegal. Complaining about societal failaings does not have to mean advocating for those people&#x27;s views to be made illegal. That seems to be something that censorship and cancellation advocates can&#x27;t seem to understand.<p>&gt;Should I not have the freedom to organize a protest of my local theater for hosting a controversial figure that I think is worthy of cancellation?<p>You have complete freedom to do that, but it doesn&#x27;t mean you should or shouldn&#x27;t. That&#x27;s what GP is saying. And cancellation can be over extremely petty or unfounded things. Obviously there is a line but people have taken a &quot;cancel first, ask questions later&quot; approach, and over increasingly petty reasons. One can advocate against that without being against free speech, which means that the government cannot make speech illegal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests?</title><url>https://twitter.com/msmelchen/status/1597807914395500545</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>&gt;A significant proportion of our society has become totally OK with censorship, cancellation<p>This specific phrasing jumped out to me because being against both censorship and cancellation should be a contradiction. Cancellation is an example of the exercising of free speech.<p>Should I not have the freedom to organize a protest of my local theater for hosting a controversial figure that I think is worthy of cancellation? Isn&#x27;t that a very basic and fundamental example of free speech?<p>Comments like yours seems to reveal a lack of a consistent principle underlying your argument. Instead, you seem to be defining free speech as some narrow window of speech that you agree with and speech outside that isn&#x27;t worth protecting. Ironically it ends up making your comment a good example of the exact thing you were decrying.</text></item><item><author>throwaway23597</author><text>The thing I&#x27;m starting to get increasingly scared about is what these US companies will do with the data that&#x27;s <i>already there</i>. A significant proportion of our society has become totally OK with censorship, cancellation, and ostracizing of those who they politically disagree with. One could easily imagine a situation where this intensifies and suddenly political ideologues are analyzing all the voice recordings Alexa ever made in order to out political enemies. Keeping all this data around, in my view, means it will inevitably get misused over a long time scale.</text></item><item><author>Vt71fcAqt7</author><text>And people wonder why the US has blocked Huawei infrastructure in the US. They have no qualms silencing their own population and invest heavily in surveillance technology. Why would anyone want their equipment?<p>What worries me is that the US itself will go in the same direction. The surveillance is already there, but it is not acted on for the most part in everyday life. But there may be a clock on how long that will last.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway23597</author><text>You&#x27;re reading too much into my comment. I specifically tried to stay neutral because this sort of tactical escalation could come from either side. In no way am I attempting to &quot;define free speech as some narrow window of speech that I agree with&quot;. I&#x27;m specifically talking about people using seemingly private data to comb over people&#x27;s private statements, which is a bad thing regardless of the content of those private statements.</text></comment> |
26,667,709 | 26,665,251 | 1 | 2 | 26,644,838 | train | <story><title>Signed Char Lotte</title><url>https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/03/30/signed-char-lotte.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aasasd</author><text>There&#x27;s a vaguely entertaining esolang ‘Shakespeare’ in which programs look like plays: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shakespeare_Programming_Language" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...</a><p>BTW, in the spirit of art that uses two mediums with one source, there&#x27;s this thing ‘oscilloscope music’: as far as I understand, the same signal goes to the speakers and the display, so it likely doesn&#x27;t get more raw than that. Though, most of it is abstract shapes.<p>E.g.:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_6a_nz4uRd0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_6a_nz4uRd0</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Y04LBDTsGIk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Y04LBDTsGIk</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Signed Char Lotte</title><url>https://nickdrozd.github.io/2021/03/30/signed-char-lotte.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>karatinversion</author><text>&gt; love 1s *!(not= atoi(let<p>Probably my all time favourite C fragment.</text></comment> |
29,359,056 | 29,358,947 | 1 | 2 | 29,356,874 | train | <story><title>No U PNP</title><url>https://computer.rip/2021-11-26-no-u-pnp.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyounkins</author><text>&gt; I am actually somewhat skeptical of the security advantages of disabling UPnP for this purpose. The concern is usually that malware on a machine in the local network will use UPnP to map inbound ports...<p>For me the concern is not malware but crappy&#x2F;insecure software proudly exposing itself on the internet.<p>Many IP cameras will use UPnP to make their web interface publicly accessible. Because of the long history of opening router ports, seeing a random open port on my public IP was quite surprising. If you haven&#x27;t recently, check your own public IP in Shodan.io .<p>The cameras I&#x27;ve used run crappy web interfaces that almost certainly do not get security updates. If an attack was successful on the camera, from there the attacker would have access to my internal network.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beermonster</author><text>They go on to say “ The point is that I would agree that it&#x27;s a good idea to disable UPnP, but not because of what UPnP does, and not just on your router. Instead, it&#x27;s a good idea to be very skeptical of UPnP because of defective implementations in many embedded devices, especially routers, but also all of your IoT nonsense.”</text></comment> | <story><title>No U PNP</title><url>https://computer.rip/2021-11-26-no-u-pnp.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cyounkins</author><text>&gt; I am actually somewhat skeptical of the security advantages of disabling UPnP for this purpose. The concern is usually that malware on a machine in the local network will use UPnP to map inbound ports...<p>For me the concern is not malware but crappy&#x2F;insecure software proudly exposing itself on the internet.<p>Many IP cameras will use UPnP to make their web interface publicly accessible. Because of the long history of opening router ports, seeing a random open port on my public IP was quite surprising. If you haven&#x27;t recently, check your own public IP in Shodan.io .<p>The cameras I&#x27;ve used run crappy web interfaces that almost certainly do not get security updates. If an attack was successful on the camera, from there the attacker would have access to my internal network.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genewitch</author><text>jokes on them, i have CGNAT!</text></comment> |
3,915,304 | 3,914,877 | 1 | 2 | 3,914,638 | train | <story><title>Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen</title><url>http://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-faster-than-sending-a-pixel-to-the-screen/419167#419167</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>I know fanboy gushing isn't really productive. But I'd just like to say that it's so awesome to live in a time when we can start a topic of conversation about someone of note, and there's a chance that this individual will join the conversation personally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmelton</author><text>I remember once upon a time WAAAAY back in the mid-90s I think, when I was having a problem with my Voodoo2 graphics driver and Quake.<p>I posted the problem on one of the Newsgroups at the time and got my reply back from John Carmack himself (which naturally fixed the problem pretty quickly.)<p>I remember being extremely excited then, as I'm sure the questioner is now on SO.</text></comment> | <story><title>Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen</title><url>http://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-faster-than-sending-a-pixel-to-the-screen/419167#419167</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CodeCube</author><text>I know fanboy gushing isn't really productive. But I'd just like to say that it's so awesome to live in a time when we can start a topic of conversation about someone of note, and there's a chance that this individual will join the conversation personally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klmr</author><text>I pinged John on Twitter with a link to elicit an answer. I have to agree with you, having this proximity and immediacy through things like Twitter, Stack Overflow and services like HN is quite exciting. Just a few years ago this would have been almost unheard of (exceptions always prove the rule).</text></comment> |
13,451,456 | 13,451,089 | 1 | 2 | 13,450,383 | train | <story><title>ClojureScript is the most-used functional language that compiles to JavaScript</title><url>https://sekao.net/blog/industry.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delegate</author><text>&quot;Ok the app works now!&quot;<p>I say this after running the last command in the REPL - it&#x27;s what I&#x27;ve been doing for the last 2 hours. I haven&#x27;t looked at the browser since I started.<p>I switch to the browser and sure enough, the whole thing works perfectly.<p>This is the Clojure(script) experience - it&#x27;s a different method of developing applications. Combined with the brilliant weirdness of the language itself, it sucks you into the REPL and persists even after you&#x27;ve finished coding.<p>The most suitable word for this experience is &quot;hacking&quot;. You don&#x27;t code your program, you hack it.<p>The only drawback of Clojure&#x2F;Clojurescript is the high learning curve.<p>Maybe the 20 years of OO programming have really left a dent on my brain or maybe it was because of the young age of the ecosystem, or maybe because tooling wasn&#x27;t quite there yet, but I found it quite a challenge, before I could write even basic programs.<p>Even now, after having spent months learning it, I still find it intimidating.<p>Oh and did I mention how much clearer it is to write C++ after learning Clojure ?<p>Pure functions, immutable data, data vs code.. just some of the concepts that help a lot when you bring them to an OO language.</text></comment> | <story><title>ClojureScript is the most-used functional language that compiles to JavaScript</title><url>https://sekao.net/blog/industry.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshlemer</author><text>This article provides zero data to back up its claim that ClojureScript is the most-used functional compile-to-JS language, just a list of companies that use it.</text></comment> |
18,815,507 | 18,815,415 | 1 | 2 | 18,815,125 | train | <story><title>Coconut: Pythonic functional programming</title><url>http://coconut-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diarmuidc</author><text>Looking at the example code, it seems that this is perl-ifying Python. And I&#x27;m not saying that as a good thing. The code is more terse and less readable &amp; understandable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>It&#x27;s haskellfying it.<p>Some of those are very needed constructions (like algebraic data types with pattern matching), but it&#x27;s adding an entire sub-language into a language that is built on the goal of being simple. I&#x27;m not sold into it either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coconut: Pythonic functional programming</title><url>http://coconut-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diarmuidc</author><text>Looking at the example code, it seems that this is perl-ifying Python. And I&#x27;m not saying that as a good thing. The code is more terse and less readable &amp; understandable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orblivion</author><text>I&#x27;d like to see an actually pythonic Haskell. Needs the right designer.</text></comment> |
41,554,131 | 41,553,545 | 1 | 3 | 41,552,642 | train | <story><title>Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>slippy</author><text>The simple answer to this:
Tax the #### out of the greenhouse gas emitting energy sources.<p>If we as a planet need to be using better sources of power so that our planet literally doesn&#x27;t melt our food sources, and then us, then our governments need to make it more cost effective to use better sources. Carbon credits or energy swaps don&#x27;t work to actually reduce the amount of polluting energy produced.</text></comment> | <story><title>Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrweasel</author><text>Obviously data centers shouldn&#x27;t lie about the emissions, but it would be interesting to know how e.g. Amazon compares to the on-prem setup their offerings frequently replaces. Apple and Meta is a little different, in that none of their data center capacity directly replaces anything, it&#x27;s all &quot;extra&quot;.<p>Internally we had an interesting discussion, about travelling. Some one brought up that it might not look good that we fly to frequently, or at all. That&#x27;s true, but it&#x27;s also a very visible and easy to understand thing to focus on. One engineer does some quick napkin math and suggests that we optimize our code instead, as that would save more CO2 yearly, compared to us not flying. To me that&#x27;s a really good indication of something that&#x27;s wrong in the industry, we&#x27;re not optimizing our code anymore, we&#x27;re barely able to get rid of rarely used code and infrastructure, because keeping it running isn&#x27;t really that expensive anymore.<p>Again, data centers shouldn&#x27;t lie about emissions, but what difference would it make it they didn&#x27;t? We&#x27;re the ones buying the capacity, rather than moving to on-device computing, rather than an always running cloud. We spin up way more infrastructure than we should, because it&#x27;s easy, and it doesn&#x27;t cost that much.</text></comment> |
31,875,095 | 31,875,217 | 1 | 2 | 31,873,440 | train | <story><title>I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2</title><url>https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10396-i-finally-found-a-solid-debian-tablet-the-surface-go-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwighttk</author><text>As a person who has tried setting up Linux like 5-10 times over the years this sounds exactly like my experience and basically what I assume Linux use is always like.<p>It’s just like cars, there are people who are super comfortable just tinkering around with cars and fixing crap and say “this car is great” and if I tried to drive it it’d break down 5 minutes in and I would consider it a total loss.</text></item><item><author>highwaylights</author><text>It doesn’t sound solid reading the author’s post.<p>- EFI didn’t work.<p>- The camera doesn’t work.<p>- The SSD is too small so needed to be topped up with a MicroSD (awful).<p>- Not lap-friendly for travelling (type cover).<p>- Windows 11 needed to be kept around despite not being used (and sometimes rewrote the boot menu, if I’m reading this correctly).<p>This sounds like a downright painful experience. I’m not sure why you’d want this, and it sounds like the author might be trying to force a tablet to be a laptop when they’d have just been better of with a laptop to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza234</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Linux professionally for a decade, on many machines (desktop&#x2F;laptop), and the compatibility is really hardware-dependent. It&#x27;s &quot;for tinkerers&quot; on some hardware, and &quot;fully mainstream&quot; on other.<p>Choosing a Microsoft laptop to use Linux is asking for trouble :) I had two of them, and Microsoft had this awful idea of the connected standby, which caused standby&#x2F;suspend problems (power-hungry standby, which is a very serious problem on a laptop). At least the older machines should now have a good upstream support, in other words, everything working out of the box, with the exception of touch (Linux is just not there).<p>Regarding other brands, it depends. I remember IBM&#x2F;Lenovo (Thinkpads) as always just working out of the box. Dell used to be also very compatible, but paradoxically, the Dell XPS developer edition is marketing garbage (it&#x27;s not very compatible as they claim).<p>I&#x27;ve installed Linux on a couple of budget computers and they worked fine. I suspect that low-end laptops tend to be much more compatible, since they use more common&#x2F;cheap components.<p>Bluetooth has started to be compatible just in the last couple of years - bluez is poor software (and Ubuntu has been sloppy in handling it), but it finally reached a usable level.<p>I don&#x27;t remember having to do any tweak on desktop machine, except the time where I had a very modern Ryzen that was supported by very recent kernels only.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2</title><url>https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10396-i-finally-found-a-solid-debian-tablet-the-surface-go-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dwighttk</author><text>As a person who has tried setting up Linux like 5-10 times over the years this sounds exactly like my experience and basically what I assume Linux use is always like.<p>It’s just like cars, there are people who are super comfortable just tinkering around with cars and fixing crap and say “this car is great” and if I tried to drive it it’d break down 5 minutes in and I would consider it a total loss.</text></item><item><author>highwaylights</author><text>It doesn’t sound solid reading the author’s post.<p>- EFI didn’t work.<p>- The camera doesn’t work.<p>- The SSD is too small so needed to be topped up with a MicroSD (awful).<p>- Not lap-friendly for travelling (type cover).<p>- Windows 11 needed to be kept around despite not being used (and sometimes rewrote the boot menu, if I’m reading this correctly).<p>This sounds like a downright painful experience. I’m not sure why you’d want this, and it sounds like the author might be trying to force a tablet to be a laptop when they’d have just been better of with a laptop to begin with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vanviegen</author><text>I teach a university course for which we require students to install Linux on their Windows laptops, all of them different. These are overwhemingly inexperienced students that we give a short manual, mostly about tweaking a few bios settings before you insert the installation medium.<p>Of the 35 students in my class, 25 completed the installation without issue, with all hardware (never asked about fingerprint scanners) running fine. The rest required some help from expert googlers like me and some patience, in most cases related to Nvidia drivers. We got all but two to work fine or well enough in the end.<p>Having 5 to 10 consecutive bad experiences sounds like a fluke to me, given the 70% instant success rate I&#x27;ve seen.</text></comment> |
12,864,416 | 12,864,326 | 1 | 2 | 12,864,151 | train | <story><title>Silicon Valley’s “megacommute” even worse than L.A</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/02/job-boom-intensifies-traffic-and-housing-woes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moultano</author><text>Literally everyone I know in the bay area who doesn&#x27;t already own a house is considering leaving.<p>As extreme as the shortage of housing is the shortage of childcare. 150 person waitlists for 50 kid day-cares are common.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DannyBee</author><text>Yeah, you aren&#x27;t kidding on childcare. I recently got the last spot for at a daycare that literally won&#x27;t even finish being constructed for 6 months (and at the time we did it, it was 9 months).</text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Valley’s “megacommute” even worse than L.A</title><url>http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/02/job-boom-intensifies-traffic-and-housing-woes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moultano</author><text>Literally everyone I know in the bay area who doesn&#x27;t already own a house is considering leaving.<p>As extreme as the shortage of housing is the shortage of childcare. 150 person waitlists for 50 kid day-cares are common.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cx1000</author><text>When I visited the Seattle area, locals were complaining about all the Bay Area people moving up there and driving the rent up. I wonder how big a problem that might become for places that are appealing to Bay Area residents like Seattle, Austin, Denver, etc.</text></comment> |
1,957,818 | 1,957,515 | 1 | 3 | 1,957,514 | train | <story><title>How to destroy your business with one email</title><url>http://www.yelp.com/biz/epic-data-recovery-labs-new-york</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plusbryan</author><text>It it just me, or does the mob mentality of this scare anyone else just a little? With no real evidence and certainly no trial, a one-sided tale told on reddit led to the destruction of a small business.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to destroy your business with one email</title><url>http://www.yelp.com/biz/epic-data-recovery-labs-new-york</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>loewenskind</author><text>Background story found here: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/edxyk/submitted_a_negative_yelpcom_review_and_now_im/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/edxyk/submitted_a...</a></text></comment> |
29,490,686 | 29,490,658 | 1 | 3 | 29,488,641 | train | <story><title>Groups never admit failure</title><url>https://nav.al/failure</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>A group will never admit they were wrong. A group will never admit, “We made a mistake,” because a group that tries to change its mind falls apart. I’m hard pressed to find examples in history of large groups that said, “We thought A, but the answer’s actually B.”</i><p>Now that is a useful insight.<p>It&#x27;s a big problem for voluntary associations. Companies can sometimes change their culture, but it usually requires replacing the CEO.<p>This has come up a few times in military history. &quot;L&#x27;audace, toujours l&#x27;audace&quot; was a WWI French slogan. It took a huge number of casualties before high command got it that charging into machine guns does not work. Courage does not help. In WWII, a big change was discovering that battleships are not useful once the enemy has torpedo bombers. The resistance of the battleship admirals was overcome by Congress, not the Navy. Congress ordered that the captains of aircraft carriers must be qualified to fly aircraft. Sidelining the &quot;Gun Club&quot; took major political effort.<p>Now, the US military is struggling with the &quot;Fighter Mafia&quot;, which tends to run the USAF despite the ascendancy of drones and the usefulness of the A-10.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kashyapc</author><text>Probably that can be a useful insight in some specific circumstances as you describe, but it falls flat as a generalization. Allow me a snark: maybe a group of <i>venture capitalists</i> (many of whom call themselves &quot;angels&quot;) might not admit a mistake. But many groups (not as grandiose as the military, though) <i>jolly well</i> admit and own up non-trivial mistakes.<p>I participate in several open source projects over 13 years now. And as <i>jancsika</i> mentions in this thread, various times I&#x27;ve seen mature groups of contributors and maintainers admit, and <i>articulate</i>, really difficult mistakes in public. Granted, these are small groups ranging from six to twenty-ish. Still, it takes courage and wisdom to do it gracefully.</text></comment> | <story><title>Groups never admit failure</title><url>https://nav.al/failure</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>A group will never admit they were wrong. A group will never admit, “We made a mistake,” because a group that tries to change its mind falls apart. I’m hard pressed to find examples in history of large groups that said, “We thought A, but the answer’s actually B.”</i><p>Now that is a useful insight.<p>It&#x27;s a big problem for voluntary associations. Companies can sometimes change their culture, but it usually requires replacing the CEO.<p>This has come up a few times in military history. &quot;L&#x27;audace, toujours l&#x27;audace&quot; was a WWI French slogan. It took a huge number of casualties before high command got it that charging into machine guns does not work. Courage does not help. In WWII, a big change was discovering that battleships are not useful once the enemy has torpedo bombers. The resistance of the battleship admirals was overcome by Congress, not the Navy. Congress ordered that the captains of aircraft carriers must be qualified to fly aircraft. Sidelining the &quot;Gun Club&quot; took major political effort.<p>Now, the US military is struggling with the &quot;Fighter Mafia&quot;, which tends to run the USAF despite the ascendancy of drones and the usefulness of the A-10.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bell-cot</author><text>Similar to the &quot;Gun Club&quot; (and also in the U.S. in the WWII era) was the Bomber Mafia - convinced that lots of long-range heavy bombers could win any war:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bomber_Mafia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bomber_Mafia</a><p>They were profoundly resistant to reality (such as sustained &quot;unsustainable&quot; loss rates in un-escorted daytime bomber attacks on Germany), or even ideological compromises (such as long-range fighter escorts for those bombers)...up to the point where the en-mass sacking of mafia members, or massive &quot;de-emphasis&quot; of their branch of the armed forces were clear and present dangers.</text></comment> |
11,939,610 | 11,939,683 | 1 | 2 | 11,939,055 | train | <story><title>Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration</title><url>https://blog.docker.com/2016/06/docker-1-12-built-in-orchestration/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>d33</author><text>I chose Docker for my project with hope that it would help me create an easily reproducible development environment... And I&#x27;m not really sure if it was a good idea. There&#x27;s so many moving parts and I can&#x27;t name one that actually works well. Configuring storage is a hell (running out of disk space can lead to errors that are really difficult to debug), the dance with bridges makes configuring firewall a terrible experience. I definitely wouldn&#x27;t recommend it as a stable container solution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration</title><url>https://blog.docker.com/2016/06/docker-1-12-built-in-orchestration/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csears</author><text>Just based on the details mentioned in the keynote, the services API and swarm features look very similar to what&#x27;s offered by Kubernetes... service discovery, rolling updates, load balancing, health checks, auto-healing, advanced scheduling.<p>I guess this was to be expected, but it&#x27;s also kind of sad. I think it would have been a more strategic move to embrace Kubernetes instead of trying to compete with it.</text></comment> |
31,208,744 | 31,203,981 | 1 | 3 | 31,203,557 | train | <story><title>Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2022-04-25-git-io-deprecation/?#changelog-64536</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Recent and related:<p><i>Git.io deprecation</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31162829" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31162829</a> - April 2022 (106 comments)</text></comment> | <story><title>Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state</title><url>https://github.blog/changelog/2022-04-25-git-io-deprecation/?#changelog-64536</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pygy_</author><text>This is very good, but...<p><i>&gt; As we continue our analysis, we may remove individual links that point to spammy, malicious or 404 links.</i><p>Please be careful with 404 errors. They can be the result of temporary server misconfiguration.</text></comment> |
33,307,563 | 33,307,512 | 1 | 2 | 33,306,168 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?</title><text>Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?<p>It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the &#x27;wrong&#x27; people make use of them for the &#x27;wrong&#x27; purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?<p>So is there anyone working in this field who isn&#x27;t worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Roark66</author><text>For anyone who actually used those models for more than few days and learns their strengths and weaknesses it is completely obvious all this talk of &quot;societal impact&quot;, or as you called it self imposed limits are 100% bulls**. Everyone in the field knows it.<p>99% of those using this tactics use it to justify not releasing their models to avoid giving competition a leg up(Google, openAI) and to pretend they are for &quot;open research&quot;. As I said this is 100% bull.<p>The remaining 1% are either doing this to inflate their egos (&quot;hey look how considerate and enlightened we are in everything we do!&quot;), or they pander to media&#x2F;silly politicians&#x2F;various clueless commentators whose level of knowledge about this technology is null. They regurgitate the same set of &quot;what ifs and horror stories&quot; to scare the public into standing by when they attempt to over regulate another field so they can be kingmakers within it(if you want an example how it works look at the energy sector).<p>All this sillyness accomplishes is to raise a barrier to entry for potential commercial competition. Bad actors will have enough money&#x2F;lack scruples to train their own models or to steal your best ones regardless how &quot;impact conscious&quot; your company it.<p>Now, I don&#x27;t claim everyone should be forced to publish their AI models. No, if you spent lots of money on training your model it is yours. But you can&#x27;t lock all your work behind closed doors and call yourself open. It doesn&#x27;t work like this. One important point is that there is value even in just publishing a paper demonstrating some achievements of a proprietary model, but if the experiment can&#x27;t be reproduces based on description given that is not science and for sure it is not open.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>no-dr-onboard</author><text>As someone who has worked for OpenAI and with Google as a consultant, I completely and wholeheartedly agree.<p>1. This is absolutely a gatekeeping, ladder pulling measure.
2. The commercial face of this industry is rife with dogmas of self importance. It’s nearly comical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is Anyone Else Tired of the Self Enforced Limits on AI Tech?</title><text>Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?<p>It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the &#x27;wrong&#x27; people make use of them for the &#x27;wrong&#x27; purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?<p>So is there anyone working in this field who isn&#x27;t worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Roark66</author><text>For anyone who actually used those models for more than few days and learns their strengths and weaknesses it is completely obvious all this talk of &quot;societal impact&quot;, or as you called it self imposed limits are 100% bulls**. Everyone in the field knows it.<p>99% of those using this tactics use it to justify not releasing their models to avoid giving competition a leg up(Google, openAI) and to pretend they are for &quot;open research&quot;. As I said this is 100% bull.<p>The remaining 1% are either doing this to inflate their egos (&quot;hey look how considerate and enlightened we are in everything we do!&quot;), or they pander to media&#x2F;silly politicians&#x2F;various clueless commentators whose level of knowledge about this technology is null. They regurgitate the same set of &quot;what ifs and horror stories&quot; to scare the public into standing by when they attempt to over regulate another field so they can be kingmakers within it(if you want an example how it works look at the energy sector).<p>All this sillyness accomplishes is to raise a barrier to entry for potential commercial competition. Bad actors will have enough money&#x2F;lack scruples to train their own models or to steal your best ones regardless how &quot;impact conscious&quot; your company it.<p>Now, I don&#x27;t claim everyone should be forced to publish their AI models. No, if you spent lots of money on training your model it is yours. But you can&#x27;t lock all your work behind closed doors and call yourself open. It doesn&#x27;t work like this. One important point is that there is value even in just publishing a paper demonstrating some achievements of a proprietary model, but if the experiment can&#x27;t be reproduces based on description given that is not science and for sure it is not open.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>f0e4c2f7</author><text>There is a move large companies do where after innovating they pull the ladder up behind them by trying to drag regulators into the space. Regulation establishes a moat and allows them to cruise on that innovation until enough external pressure builds up that the dam breaks (people innovating in countries without that regulation for example).<p>I&#x27;m not quite sure what the solution is to this by the way. I don&#x27;t think the answer is no regulation, but how to improve the quality of regulation.</text></comment> |
4,256,138 | 4,255,753 | 1 | 2 | 4,255,589 | train | <story><title>Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132918-the-laser-powered-bionic-eye-that-gives-576-pixel-grayscale-vision-to-the-blind</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kellishaver</author><text>This is so very exciting. For the longest time, treatment of eye diseases has gone a little like this:<p>Refractive errors? Wear some glasses, contacts, or have LASIK<p>Corneal diseases? Tricker because you need a donor, but corneal transplant.<p>Glaucoma? There's a handful surgeries for that depending on type, and a plethora of drugs.<p>Cataract? I'll take an interocular lens, please.<p>Partially detached retina? There are moderately successful surgeries to reattach it, rates of success depending a lot on the health of the retina.<p>Retinal diseases? Sorry, you're screwed.<p>My left eye was removed when I was in my teens, and the retina of my right eye is damaged fairly extensively due to retinopathy (from being born 2mo premature). It's lead to various complications over the years, as well.<p>My biggest fear is going blind. I nearly am, and I think I still have a little PTSD from the last round of eye problems.<p>Now, 576 greyscale pixels isn't much, but it's only going to improve over time.<p>It's really exciting to think that people in my situation, and possibly even myself someday, will not have to face the prospect of total blindness from retinal disease.</text></comment> | <story><title>Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132918-the-laser-powered-bionic-eye-that-gives-576-pixel-grayscale-vision-to-the-blind</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marvin</author><text>Is there anyone on Hacker News who works with this kind of technology, and knows what is holding this technology back from (1) higher resolution and (2) color vision? Obviously that this gets approved is a great achievement, but there is _huge_ room for improvement.</text></comment> |
39,585,562 | 39,585,617 | 1 | 3 | 39,584,984 | train | <story><title>Using a solar oven as a radiant refrigerator at night</title><url>http://solarcooking.org/radiant-fridge.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>contemporary343</author><text>If you insulate it in vacuum with an IR transparent window (unfortunately $$$) you can get substantially cooler than ambient: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ncomms13729" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ncomms13729</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Using a solar oven as a radiant refrigerator at night</title><url>http://solarcooking.org/radiant-fridge.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonblack</author><text>Many years ago, I had an indoor swimming pool with solar heating. Some days in the middle of summer that water got too warm. So I&#x27;d run the water through the black plastic solar collectors at night-time to throw away that excess heat.</text></comment> |
2,978,941 | 2,979,029 | 1 | 2 | 2,978,598 | train | <story><title>Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our internship earnings (Part 3)</title><url>http://blog.fiplab.com/bootstrapping-a-30k-profitmonth-company-from-18973</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doomlaser</author><text>I love these posts, and I am rooting for you guys, but find it a little depressing that you first started making real money by <i>cloning</i> someone else's crappy novelty fluff app.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bootstrapping a $30k profit/month company from our internship earnings (Part 3)</title><url>http://blog.fiplab.com/bootstrapping-a-30k-profitmonth-company-from-18973</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joelhaus</author><text>HN discussions for parts 1 &#38; 2...<p>Part 1: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955214" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2955214</a><p>Part 2: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965929" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965929</a></text></comment> |
27,957,570 | 27,956,951 | 1 | 2 | 27,952,575 | train | <story><title>Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.</title><url>https://www.eclogiselle.com/2021/07/the-hot-new-thing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sfvisser</author><text>Not all car usage is a problem.<p>I’m from the Netherlands which is incredibly bicycle friendly. Small country, highly urban, great cycling infra, great public transport, nearly everyone walks or cycles whenever it makes sense.<p>Still, cars are everywhere. There are just tons of trips where the alternative doesn’t really make sense.<p>Municipalities try everything to make the life of car owners miserable to force them into using alternatives. The only outcome is miserable drivers. They are in the car for a reason and won’t just switch.</text></item><item><author>sudosysgen</author><text>Sorry, no. Cars are the problem. The reason why other transit modes are a solution isn&#x27;t because they in particular are the best option, generally it&#x27;s because they aren&#x27;t cars.<p>Cars aren&#x27;t individual choices. They are a societal choice that costs a trillion dollars a year to make work. The issue is cars. No matter which way you slice it, we need to remove cars, and that will necessarily mean making driving a car worse.<p>I don&#x27;t think that hiding your goals or intentions is politically a good option. Don&#x27;t argue something you don&#x27;t believe in. If you (correctly) identify that cars and car-supporting infrastructure is one of the biggest problems in North America, you have to call it like it is.<p>We don&#x27;t actually want <i>other options</i>. We want <i>better other options</i>. The only way to get that is to de-incentivize cars. That&#x27;s the reason why cars suck to begin with, the proliferation of cars makes every other mode of transport worse, except for inter-city rail, if only by sheer mass effect.<p>Now I agree that we shouldn&#x27;t other people by putting them in categories and identifying them with the car. That doesn&#x27;t mean that we stop opposing the real policies that make cars a good personal option and counter them with policies that make alternatives better, generally at their expense in some way or another. I agree that inter-personally the matter can be approached better, but that does not carry to changing your policy positions or goals, and that should never justify lying about what those are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yuri91</author><text>But your public transport is not great, really.
It is pretty expensive, to the point that renting a car is cheaper than taking the train if you are 2 people.
And trains are painfully slow too.
Public transport inside cities is better (but still expensive), but less needed because biking infrastructure is really really good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.</title><url>https://www.eclogiselle.com/2021/07/the-hot-new-thing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sfvisser</author><text>Not all car usage is a problem.<p>I’m from the Netherlands which is incredibly bicycle friendly. Small country, highly urban, great cycling infra, great public transport, nearly everyone walks or cycles whenever it makes sense.<p>Still, cars are everywhere. There are just tons of trips where the alternative doesn’t really make sense.<p>Municipalities try everything to make the life of car owners miserable to force them into using alternatives. The only outcome is miserable drivers. They are in the car for a reason and won’t just switch.</text></item><item><author>sudosysgen</author><text>Sorry, no. Cars are the problem. The reason why other transit modes are a solution isn&#x27;t because they in particular are the best option, generally it&#x27;s because they aren&#x27;t cars.<p>Cars aren&#x27;t individual choices. They are a societal choice that costs a trillion dollars a year to make work. The issue is cars. No matter which way you slice it, we need to remove cars, and that will necessarily mean making driving a car worse.<p>I don&#x27;t think that hiding your goals or intentions is politically a good option. Don&#x27;t argue something you don&#x27;t believe in. If you (correctly) identify that cars and car-supporting infrastructure is one of the biggest problems in North America, you have to call it like it is.<p>We don&#x27;t actually want <i>other options</i>. We want <i>better other options</i>. The only way to get that is to de-incentivize cars. That&#x27;s the reason why cars suck to begin with, the proliferation of cars makes every other mode of transport worse, except for inter-city rail, if only by sheer mass effect.<p>Now I agree that we shouldn&#x27;t other people by putting them in categories and identifying them with the car. That doesn&#x27;t mean that we stop opposing the real policies that make cars a good personal option and counter them with policies that make alternatives better, generally at their expense in some way or another. I agree that inter-personally the matter can be approached better, but that does not carry to changing your policy positions or goals, and that should never justify lying about what those are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>&gt; <i>Still, cars are everywhere.</i><p>I don&#x27;t think cars will ever disappear, they&#x27;re useful in many ways. But saying &quot;cars are everywhere&quot; in NL seems a bit of an overstatement, no? Cars are so much less dominant in NL than in other European countries (even Denmark).<p>&gt; <i>try everything to make the life of car owners miserable</i><p>Are they miserable because of inherent challenges of car ownership that other countries try to mitigate or is it really municipalities actively causing their misery?</text></comment> |
11,586,388 | 11,586,366 | 1 | 2 | 11,583,900 | train | <story><title>CV of Failures [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>encoderer</author><text>What is the appropriate answer, for the aspiring accountants among us?</text></item><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>That&#x27;s quite a list! I can&#x27;t really compete at all, apart from to say that I too was rejected by Deloitte, in somewhat amusing circumstances - having negotiated the necessary hoops to get to a final interview, the very nice lady interviewing me asked what should, really, have been a very simple question: &quot;Why do you want to become an accountant?&quot; Sadly some sort of terrible realisation hit me at this point and I froze, looked at her in horror, paused for an eternity before finally answering, &quot;Well, I&#x27;ve always liked numbers!&quot; She looked baffled. I started laughing. She started laughing too (probably, in retrospect, nervously). That was the end of my fledgling career as an accountant.</text></item><item><author>secfirstmd</author><text>Ha, this reminds me of my own track record in applying for jobs...<p>I must have possibly the widest number of rejections by many of the most prestigious companies, NGOs and government institutions in the world.<p>Prestigious names like Google, Apple, Facebook, McKinsey, Stripe, The Guardian, BBC, UN, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Shell, Statoil, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, US Embassy London, UK Labour Party, UK Foreign Office, Stroz Freidberg, Billiter, Mandiant, Portland PR, KPMG, Deloitte - that&#x27;s just a sample!<p>After awhile I decided I was just better off setting up my own company - and haven&#x27;t looked back since. Now some of them work with and have to hire my company instead. :)<p>If anyone feels bored and wants to add your name to such an illustrious list, drop me an email with a job description, I&#x27;ll make a fake application and you too can reject with the stars... :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nxzero</author><text>Something like...<p>&quot;Accounting is the language of business. Accurate, precise, and timely financial information is vital to the success of any business.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>CV of Failures [pdf]</title><url>https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>encoderer</author><text>What is the appropriate answer, for the aspiring accountants among us?</text></item><item><author>bshimmin</author><text>That&#x27;s quite a list! I can&#x27;t really compete at all, apart from to say that I too was rejected by Deloitte, in somewhat amusing circumstances - having negotiated the necessary hoops to get to a final interview, the very nice lady interviewing me asked what should, really, have been a very simple question: &quot;Why do you want to become an accountant?&quot; Sadly some sort of terrible realisation hit me at this point and I froze, looked at her in horror, paused for an eternity before finally answering, &quot;Well, I&#x27;ve always liked numbers!&quot; She looked baffled. I started laughing. She started laughing too (probably, in retrospect, nervously). That was the end of my fledgling career as an accountant.</text></item><item><author>secfirstmd</author><text>Ha, this reminds me of my own track record in applying for jobs...<p>I must have possibly the widest number of rejections by many of the most prestigious companies, NGOs and government institutions in the world.<p>Prestigious names like Google, Apple, Facebook, McKinsey, Stripe, The Guardian, BBC, UN, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Shell, Statoil, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, US Embassy London, UK Labour Party, UK Foreign Office, Stroz Freidberg, Billiter, Mandiant, Portland PR, KPMG, Deloitte - that&#x27;s just a sample!<p>After awhile I decided I was just better off setting up my own company - and haven&#x27;t looked back since. Now some of them work with and have to hire my company instead. :)<p>If anyone feels bored and wants to add your name to such an illustrious list, drop me an email with a job description, I&#x27;ll make a fake application and you too can reject with the stars... :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tenismyanswer</author><text>I love money</text></comment> |
19,416,511 | 19,416,424 | 1 | 2 | 19,415,983 | train | <story><title>Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003)</title><url>http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/doc_kay_oop_en</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisseaton</author><text>I still don&#x27;t really understand what the big idea of message passing compared to a method call is.<p>Is it supposed to be asynchronous? It never seems to be so in practice. It it supposed to be remotable? So are method calls. Are languages like Objective C and Ruby message passing to some extent? Why is that message passing rather than a method call? What&#x27;s the essential difference? Is Java message passing?</text></comment> | <story><title>Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (2003)</title><url>http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/doc_kay_oop_en</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text><i>&quot;I&#x27;m not against types, but I don&#x27;t know of any type systems that aren&#x27;t a complete pain, so I still like dynamic typing.)&quot;</i><p>That&#x27;s probably more controversial here than his views on OO.</text></comment> |
5,889,997 | 5,889,935 | 1 | 2 | 5,889,357 | train | <story><title>Linux has better hardware support than OS X</title><url>http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/06/16/linux-has-better-hardware-support-than-os-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Interestingly, I run Ubuntu on a MacBook and a MacBook Air. As they are a &quot;fixed&quot; target, I figured that at least one developer would have made sure that they &quot;just worked&quot;. And, indeed, they did.<p>The installation tutorial was comprehensive, the out of the box experience was great, and upgrades have gone smoothly.<p>The only thing to note was that I was able to <i>manually</i> update the WiFi drivers for (supposedly) better performance if I wanted. Power consumption seems marginally higher, but I don&#x27;t run the same profile of programs in OSX.<p>Having a fixed target is really good for Linux to show how it can shine - and I hope that Dell and Ubuntu continue to make perfectly matched hardware and software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>Exactly. If there is any hardware platform that should be a &quot;reference&quot; platform for Linux (or FreeBSD) it should be the mac. It&#x27;s a very tightly focused hardware ecosystem with broad adoption <i>and</i> of higher quality - inside and out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux has better hardware support than OS X</title><url>http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/06/16/linux-has-better-hardware-support-than-os-x/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Interestingly, I run Ubuntu on a MacBook and a MacBook Air. As they are a &quot;fixed&quot; target, I figured that at least one developer would have made sure that they &quot;just worked&quot;. And, indeed, they did.<p>The installation tutorial was comprehensive, the out of the box experience was great, and upgrades have gone smoothly.<p>The only thing to note was that I was able to <i>manually</i> update the WiFi drivers for (supposedly) better performance if I wanted. Power consumption seems marginally higher, but I don&#x27;t run the same profile of programs in OSX.<p>Having a fixed target is really good for Linux to show how it can shine - and I hope that Dell and Ubuntu continue to make perfectly matched hardware and software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathnode</author><text>What about over heating?<p>I tried ubuntu 12.04, and 12.10 on a 2011 macbook air 4,2.
I followed the information here, some of the tweaks weren&#x27;t needed on 12.10:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ubuntu.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;MacBookAir4-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ubuntu.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;MacBookAir4-2</a><p>But the fans were spinning almost constantly. This was with just firefox and vim usage.<p>OS X seems to do a better job of running Apple hardware at a sensible temperature.</text></comment> |
27,860,789 | 27,860,157 | 1 | 2 | 27,858,630 | train | <story><title>Why we're blind to the color blue</title><url>https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selestify</author><text>As someone who hasn&#x27;t seen it in the flesh yet, and doesn&#x27;t &quot;get&quot; modern art unless someone explicitly spells it out for me, could you elaborate more on why it&#x27;s so spectacular?<p>For example, Blue Monochrome [1] seems to my uneducated eye to be just a layer of pure blue that every wall painter recreates every time they paint a wall blue. Why is the Blue Monochrome piece more than just a wall painted blue?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moma.org&#x2F;collection&#x2F;works&#x2F;80103" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moma.org&#x2F;collection&#x2F;works&#x2F;80103</a></text></item><item><author>drcongo</author><text>One of my favourite series in art is Yves Klein&#x27;s blue work. For anyone unfamiliar, he found a blue that he considered the bluest possible blue [1], and went on a journey painting everything in that blue. I loved that he did this, and then eventually managed to get to an exhibition of his work at the Tate Modern and was absolutely blown away by it - it really needs to be seen in the flesh to appreciate it. There&#x27;s something about his blue, that when painted on to a sculpture, almost makes the 3D disappear and the sculpture looks 2 dimensional. Extremely beautiful.<p>As a side note, some (many?) cultures around the world have no word for blue, blue is just other shades of green.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Klein_Blue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Klein_Blue</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Klein blue is outside the color gamut that can be represented on normal monitors, so it&#x27;s physically impossible to get the full impact of it through a picture. It just looks .. deeper.<p>There are a few flowers that have this property; fuscias, and others with strong UV fluorescence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why we're blind to the color blue</title><url>https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selestify</author><text>As someone who hasn&#x27;t seen it in the flesh yet, and doesn&#x27;t &quot;get&quot; modern art unless someone explicitly spells it out for me, could you elaborate more on why it&#x27;s so spectacular?<p>For example, Blue Monochrome [1] seems to my uneducated eye to be just a layer of pure blue that every wall painter recreates every time they paint a wall blue. Why is the Blue Monochrome piece more than just a wall painted blue?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moma.org&#x2F;collection&#x2F;works&#x2F;80103" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moma.org&#x2F;collection&#x2F;works&#x2F;80103</a></text></item><item><author>drcongo</author><text>One of my favourite series in art is Yves Klein&#x27;s blue work. For anyone unfamiliar, he found a blue that he considered the bluest possible blue [1], and went on a journey painting everything in that blue. I loved that he did this, and then eventually managed to get to an exhibition of his work at the Tate Modern and was absolutely blown away by it - it really needs to be seen in the flesh to appreciate it. There&#x27;s something about his blue, that when painted on to a sculpture, almost makes the 3D disappear and the sculpture looks 2 dimensional. Extremely beautiful.<p>As a side note, some (many?) cultures around the world have no word for blue, blue is just other shades of green.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Klein_Blue" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Klein_Blue</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>Consider the time period and the historical context. It&#x27;s modern times, Cold War is occurring, and WW1 and WW2 left scars across Western Europe and caused major changes in the art world, including being a boon to abstraction and fragmenting styles into many eclectic directions.<p>Chemistry has DRASTICALLY altered painting from the Renaissance to the World War era. New pigments have been constantly highlighted and displayed in artwork. Finally, an insanely blue blue has been invented, bluer than any other blue paint in the past.<p>The artist highlighted above attempts to showcase the new technology in its purest form. Though, despite this strive for purity of blue, the application is inherently uneven. If you look into the painted canvas up close, you will see imperfections and patterns in &quot;just a wall&quot;. It&#x27;s also a statement, it may cause reactions and cause viewers to question the boundary between art and not-art.<p>It&#x27;s not my cup of tea compared to masterworks of Van Gogh or Homer or any of the legendary painters, but art goes through many phases and is used to express many different ideas. What I do think is bonkers is that modern artists (who are well-connected) may be paid millions of dollars for these works, which to me don&#x27;t showcase skill and talent, but which reward creative ideation and concepts.</text></comment> |
2,602,390 | 2,602,325 | 1 | 2 | 2,602,172 | train | <story><title>Resources are being utterly and completely wasted on mining bitcoins</title><url>http://www.colorfulwolf.com/blog/2011/05/31/resources-are-being-utterly-and-completely-wasted-on-mining-bitcoins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladd</author><text>Any system of checks and balances will have its price. Look at what we do with gold: we dig it from a hole in Africa, we transport it in other countries, we dug holes or build vaults and throw it there. Like Warren Buffett said, it has no utility, if Martians were to look at the process they would scratch their heads.<p>Except for the guarantee of uniqueness. Which is one of the most powerful invariants against corruption and government-sponsored inflation, goals which are worth these effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&#62; Except for the guarantee of uniqueness.<p>There are a few more actually: gold is one of the least putrescible materials out there (it's one of the least reactive elements available and as one of the royal metals very few acids can attack it), it has a distinctive look, and it has a very high density (most denser metals were only discovered in or after the 19th century, and are generally more valuable) which makes it easy to differentiate pure and impure golds (such as fake coinage). It also used to strike a good balance between rarity (which ensures the market won't be flooded) and availability (which actually made it usable as money).<p>Of course, most of this broke down as new, very productive, mines were found (e.g. in South America) and mining techniques improved. And nowadays we have the opposite issue: gold mining output declines, and is unable to follow the value growth of the world itself. This is one of the reasons why most countries moved first to fractional gold standards and then to convertible currency.</text></comment> | <story><title>Resources are being utterly and completely wasted on mining bitcoins</title><url>http://www.colorfulwolf.com/blog/2011/05/31/resources-are-being-utterly-and-completely-wasted-on-mining-bitcoins/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladd</author><text>Any system of checks and balances will have its price. Look at what we do with gold: we dig it from a hole in Africa, we transport it in other countries, we dug holes or build vaults and throw it there. Like Warren Buffett said, it has no utility, if Martians were to look at the process they would scratch their heads.<p>Except for the guarantee of uniqueness. Which is one of the most powerful invariants against corruption and government-sponsored inflation, goals which are worth these effort.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gus_massa</author><text>Gold also is usefull in the industry and electronics:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Industry" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Industry</a><p><a href="http://www.gold.org/technology/uses/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gold.org/technology/uses/</a></text></comment> |
12,312,843 | 12,312,908 | 1 | 2 | 12,311,433 | train | <story><title>US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37114313</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muninn_</author><text>I&#x27;m probably the minority here, but I&#x27;d rather it just stay in the hands of the U.S. . Unless there is some sort of malice and ongoing misuse I don&#x27;t really see how this improves the system.<p>Open to any explanation about how this will improve the system aside from &quot;more involvement from other countries&quot;. Not that I&#x27;m discounting that as a good or bad reason, but I&#x27;d just like to see more information about why this would be good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phicoh</author><text>Note that in the past the USG abused its power to seize domains belonging to foreign companies. See for example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20110201&#x2F;10252412910&#x2F;homeland-security-seizes-spanish-domain-name-that-had-already-been-declared-legal.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20110201&#x2F;10252412910&#x2F;homel...</a><p>So they cannot be trusted.<p>Of course, in practice, what goes into the root zone is controlled by ICANN. The whole oversight has been mostly theoretical for many years now.</text></comment> | <story><title>US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37114313</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muninn_</author><text>I&#x27;m probably the minority here, but I&#x27;d rather it just stay in the hands of the U.S. . Unless there is some sort of malice and ongoing misuse I don&#x27;t really see how this improves the system.<p>Open to any explanation about how this will improve the system aside from &quot;more involvement from other countries&quot;. Not that I&#x27;m discounting that as a good or bad reason, but I&#x27;d just like to see more information about why this would be good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exabrial</author><text>I&#x27;m with you. America is far from perfect in so many ways, but the freedom of speech is one of the most heavily defended rights here.</text></comment> |
11,031,273 | 11,031,232 | 1 | 2 | 11,030,739 | train | <story><title>The F-35’s Terrifying Bug List</title><url>http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/02/f-35s-terrifying-bug-list/125638</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doodlebugging</author><text>This is the loudest fighter plane in our inventory. You can hear this thing coming at least a minute before it gets near you and for several minutes after depending on flight direction. I can tell from the sound which of our planes is passing near and this one, the first time I heard it, was clearly not one with which I was familiar. Beautiful plane but obviously a troubled build history.<p>With all the problems noted over the last few years I&#x27;m surprised that anyone wants it. The F-22 has had its problems and production was cut at a very low number (I think I read that they wanted to shift gears and go with the F-35). The complexity of these two planes could make them more of a liability in a conflict.<p>It makes more sense to me (as a taxpayer) to spend the defense dollar on things that can be built quickly and for minimal initial cost so that many can be built to replace those lost to attrition in conflict. They should also be purpose-built for specific missions just as we built planes in WW2. We have the technology and we don&#x27;t need a fleet of flying super-computers that can&#x27;t fight their way out of the battlespace. Planes are great support tools for infantry and armored units who actually win the wars by taking and holding territory from the enemy. They won&#x27;t win wars by themselves. Sorry &#x27;bout that, Air Force.</text></comment> | <story><title>The F-35’s Terrifying Bug List</title><url>http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/02/f-35s-terrifying-bug-list/125638</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noselasd</author><text>Report is here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dote.osd.mil&#x2F;pub&#x2F;reports&#x2F;FY2015&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;dod&#x2F;2015f35jsf.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dote.osd.mil&#x2F;pub&#x2F;reports&#x2F;FY2015&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;dod&#x2F;2015f35js...</a></text></comment> |
36,926,671 | 36,925,925 | 1 | 3 | 36,920,622 | train | <story><title>If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity</title><url>https://streets.mn/2023/07/19/if-we-want-a-shift-to-walking-we-need-to-prioritize-dignity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sershe</author><text>Subjectively worse, not objectively worse. I think driving is much more convenient and nice for most things I like to do. The only exceptions I can think of are if I were a kid in a car-centric area (strangely, the thinking in the US is usually reversed, kids supposedly need to be in the burbs), or if I was drunk. I don&#x27;t often get drunk, so I&#x27;d prefer to drive for everything from minor groceries to outdoor activities ~100% of the time.</text></item><item><author>tvaughan</author><text>&gt; I often find myself trying to explain to people back home just how miserable and even humiliating the pedestrian experience is here.<p>Same. I’ve lived in Los Ángeles and Amsterdam, and it is impossible to explain to my friends and family just how awful the quality of life is in LA precisely because of the difference in attitudes and priorities over cars. Perhaps some have “nicer” (aka bigger) houses in LA than they would have in Ámsterdam, but once they leave their front door everything is objectively worse</text></item><item><author>degrews</author><text>I moved from Spain to the US, and I often find myself trying to explain to people back home just how miserable and even humiliating the pedestrian experience is here.<p>Here are some other examples of things that I think contribute to the hostile walking experience in the US:<p>* Cars parked in short driveways often extend all the way across the sidewalk. Even if you can easily step off onto the road to walk around them (not all pedestrians can), it just feels like a slap in the face to have to do that.<p>* Cars have much higher and stronger headlights, with the high beams often left on, and drivers are generally much less mindful of them. As a pedestrian walking at night on under-lit streets, you are constantly getting blinded.<p>* Tinted windows (even the mild level of tint that most cars in the US have). The whole experience of being a lone vulnerable pedestrian among a sea of cars is made even worse when you can&#x27;t see the people in the cars (but you know they can see you).<p>* Often the only option to get food late at night are fast food places, which become drive-thru only after a certain time. Having to go through the drive-thru on foot is obviously a terrible experience, and they will often refuse to even serve you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aesclepius</author><text>Jesus it&#x27;s objectively worse. NY&#x2F;Chicago&#x2F;London&#x2F;Paris&#x2F;Tokyo you can conceivably and easily nip out to a grocer&#x27;s, bodega, cafe or pub within 10 minutes of where you are. LA? Outside of certain certain pockets like DTLA, KTown, WeHo or similar walking is tough and if your friend is across town you&#x27;re SoL without a car.</text></comment> | <story><title>If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity</title><url>https://streets.mn/2023/07/19/if-we-want-a-shift-to-walking-we-need-to-prioritize-dignity/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sershe</author><text>Subjectively worse, not objectively worse. I think driving is much more convenient and nice for most things I like to do. The only exceptions I can think of are if I were a kid in a car-centric area (strangely, the thinking in the US is usually reversed, kids supposedly need to be in the burbs), or if I was drunk. I don&#x27;t often get drunk, so I&#x27;d prefer to drive for everything from minor groceries to outdoor activities ~100% of the time.</text></item><item><author>tvaughan</author><text>&gt; I often find myself trying to explain to people back home just how miserable and even humiliating the pedestrian experience is here.<p>Same. I’ve lived in Los Ángeles and Amsterdam, and it is impossible to explain to my friends and family just how awful the quality of life is in LA precisely because of the difference in attitudes and priorities over cars. Perhaps some have “nicer” (aka bigger) houses in LA than they would have in Ámsterdam, but once they leave their front door everything is objectively worse</text></item><item><author>degrews</author><text>I moved from Spain to the US, and I often find myself trying to explain to people back home just how miserable and even humiliating the pedestrian experience is here.<p>Here are some other examples of things that I think contribute to the hostile walking experience in the US:<p>* Cars parked in short driveways often extend all the way across the sidewalk. Even if you can easily step off onto the road to walk around them (not all pedestrians can), it just feels like a slap in the face to have to do that.<p>* Cars have much higher and stronger headlights, with the high beams often left on, and drivers are generally much less mindful of them. As a pedestrian walking at night on under-lit streets, you are constantly getting blinded.<p>* Tinted windows (even the mild level of tint that most cars in the US have). The whole experience of being a lone vulnerable pedestrian among a sea of cars is made even worse when you can&#x27;t see the people in the cars (but you know they can see you).<p>* Often the only option to get food late at night are fast food places, which become drive-thru only after a certain time. Having to go through the drive-thru on foot is obviously a terrible experience, and they will often refuse to even serve you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badtension</author><text>Objectively we are still animals that need at least some movement. The environment described by the parent is hostile to our most basic needs.</text></comment> |
7,562,680 | 7,562,135 | 1 | 2 | 7,562,111 | train | <story><title>Andrew Warner's Mixergy Celebrates 1,000th interview</title><url>http://mixergy.com/1000interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewWarner</author><text>One of the reasons Mixergy took off is the Hacker News community helped me.<p>I used to call up people who complained about my work on HN. I wasn&#x27;t mad at them. I really wanted to get feedback, and I knew there were smart people on this site.<p>I got my guests from here too. Somewhere in the comment archive, you&#x27;ll see Derek Sivers agreeing to do an interview because I responded to his HN comment about offering to help people in this community.<p>When I moved to Argentina and didn&#x27;t know anyone, I organized a Hacker News meetup. I made more than startup&#x2F;work friends. I met people like Chad DePue, whose family became close with me and my wife.<p>I know we talk about improving the comments on HN, and I&#x27;m always for improvement, but there&#x27;s a huge amount of value here right now. And there has been for years.<p>I know this could sound sappy, but thank you Hacker News.</text></comment> | <story><title>Andrew Warner's Mixergy Celebrates 1,000th interview</title><url>http://mixergy.com/1000interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jl</author><text>Congratulations to Andrew for all your wonderful interviews since 2008! Glad to be a part of the celebration. I meant to ask you during my interview: what have you found is a secret to getting people to open up and share their most interesting stories&#x2F;insights?</text></comment> |
4,774,158 | 4,773,282 | 1 | 2 | 4,772,495 | train | <story><title>Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters</title><url>http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/2012/11/12/microsoft-sends-two-million-null-characters-hangs-opera</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brudgers</author><text>The author's choice of title somewhat implies malfeasance on Microsoft's part. In general, the article seems intended to spread FUD regarding Skydrive.<p>I would point out that if Opera is just now debugging their interaction with Skydrive, it is indicative of how few people use it. While I appreciate the motivations behind it and its rich feature set, I gave up on Opera for Firefox after a year. In part this was the fatigue of experiencing broken websites, in part because of low quality plugins comparable to noscript.<p>Opera would be great if it handled nonstandard html gracefully for me instead of telling me about its high horse and the shoddiness of the websites I use.</text></item><item><author>andrewcooke</author><text>is it actually sending 2M characters over the wire (ie uncompressed)? you could imagine seeing something like this via a glitch in compression (2 million of anything, run length encoded, doesn't take much space).<p>(i guess it's also possible that this really is 2M nulls at a lower level and compression just happens to save you from an embarrassing waste of bandwidth).<p>it's not clear to me what the URL is to check myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hoppipolla</author><text>&#62; Opera would be great if it handled nonstandard html gracefully for me<p>We put a huge amount of effort into handling "nonstandard" html, including fixing the standards so that they represent the reality of what browsers have to handle.<p>In this case our failure is clearly a bug that we should fix. I don't think anyone disputes that.<p>In general, site-compatibility is a hard problem. People often depend – intentionally or not – on the specific behaviour of particular browsers. When this causes sites to break in Opera we try to analyse the breakage and adopt some strategy to fix it. Hallvord is one of the people responsible for this and, if you read his blog you'll see that it's not a trivial undertaking; pinpointing an error in tens of thousands of lines of closure-compiled, minified JS makes for an interesting challenge, for example.<p>If we find the problem's a bug in Opera we obviously try to fix that bug. If it is the site doing something broken we typically try to contact the site owner to get it fixed. In either case we may also try using our browser.js system to make a short-term "sitepatch"; a hack using a combination of UA string manipulation, javascript and CSS that changes the behaviour for a specific site and which can be rapidly deployed. In this instance sitepatching likely isn't reasonable, so we will have to work to find the solution that will unbreak the site as quickly as practical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters</title><url>http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/2012/11/12/microsoft-sends-two-million-null-characters-hangs-opera</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brudgers</author><text>The author's choice of title somewhat implies malfeasance on Microsoft's part. In general, the article seems intended to spread FUD regarding Skydrive.<p>I would point out that if Opera is just now debugging their interaction with Skydrive, it is indicative of how few people use it. While I appreciate the motivations behind it and its rich feature set, I gave up on Opera for Firefox after a year. In part this was the fatigue of experiencing broken websites, in part because of low quality plugins comparable to noscript.<p>Opera would be great if it handled nonstandard html gracefully for me instead of telling me about its high horse and the shoddiness of the websites I use.</text></item><item><author>andrewcooke</author><text>is it actually sending 2M characters over the wire (ie uncompressed)? you could imagine seeing something like this via a glitch in compression (2 million of anything, run length encoded, doesn't take much space).<p>(i guess it's also possible that this really is 2M nulls at a lower level and compression just happens to save you from an embarrassing waste of bandwidth).<p>it's not clear to me what the URL is to check myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hallvors</author><text>Skydrive's main page worked fine in Opera last week, I assume an update caused this. I've made many stupid mistakes myself (sometimes very public ones - <a href="http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/2012/08/04/bumpy-road-to-outlook-com-patching" rel="nofollow">http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/2012/08/04/bumpy-road-to-o...</a> ), so I have no <i>intention</i> of implying malfeasance or spreading FUD about Skydrive. It is however a surprising and amusing error, hopefully soon fixed.</text></comment> |
30,045,045 | 30,045,174 | 1 | 3 | 30,013,025 | train | <story><title>Everything must be paid for twice</title><url>https://www.raptitude.com/2022/01/everything-must-be-paid-for-twice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yojo</author><text>The author is framing consumption as having two pools of currency:<p>1) money<p>2) time<p>It costs money to get access to the good you are consuming, and hours to unlock the value. Whether or not you enjoyed reading Moby Dick, you have 16 less hours in the time bank.<p>If you do enjoy it (I did not), you have paid 16 hours out of the time bank and reaped the reward of 16 hours of pleasurable reading.<p>There are “cheaper” thrills. I am told you can spend 5 minutes on TickTock and receive some quick gratification. The up front cost is low. The cumulative payoff of spending 16 hours watching cat videos may not be as ultimately rewarding to you as plowing through some classic literature.</text></item><item><author>BEEdwards</author><text>But that&#x27;s not a price, I enjoy reading, that what I paid for.<p>It is not something that costs me anything other than time, however that&#x27;s not the &quot;price&quot; he&#x27;s talking about. Otherwise &quot;low price pleasures&quot; wouldn&#x27;t be a category, if you enjoy that time it&#x27;s not marginally better than nothing.</text></item><item><author>gjm11</author><text>The author <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> say that you don&#x27;t get the return on reading Moby Dick until you have paid the 16-hour price of reading it. What he actually says is subtly but importantly different:<p>&quot;Only once the second price is being paid do you see any return on the first one.&quot;<p>So he agrees with you: you start getting the benefits as soon as the &quot;second price&quot; is <i>being</i> paid.<p>And I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s quite right to say that the sixteen hours <i>are</i> the actual reward. They&#x27;re the space in which some of the actual reward occurs, so to speak. You <i>pay</i> the price of using 16 hours of your time to read <i>Moby-Dick</i>. You <i>get</i> the reward of 16 enjoyably-spent hours, and also the reward of having your brain reshaped in whatever way reading <i>Moby-Dick</i> does for you -- deepening your ideas about friendship or obsession or sailing or whales, etc.<p>The 16 hours you have to spend are still a price, even though you enjoy spending those hours. (Some people enjoy spending money. They&#x27;re still paying when they do.) The 16 hours you spend reading <i>Moby-Dick</i> are 16 hours you aren&#x27;t spending reading <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> or sleeping or doing lucrative consultancy or talking with your friends.</text></item><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>This makes sense for some things, but the examples the author uses don&#x27;t make sense to me.<p>Take the Moby Dick example... the author says you don&#x27;t get the return on it until you have paid the 16 hour price of reading it... but isn&#x27;t those sixteen hours the actual reward? You don&#x27;t read a book to be finished with it, you read it because you like the reading process. The reward starts the first minute you start reading the book.<p>Not only that, but you don&#x27;t have to finish the book to get something out of reading it. If you enjoyed the time you spent reading, that is enough.<p>This attitude seems very &quot;completionist&quot;, where you only get value after you finish something. That isn&#x27;t how I view things.<p>Also, why does he think mindless apps and games are the same as doing nothing? The idea is you enjoy the time spent playing the game. Sure, you don&#x27;t end up with anything after, but you enjoyed the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unixhero</author><text>Tiltok is surprisingly good. I get: really beautiful girls (bordering on softporn), advice on home DIY, cooking howtos, HIGH end cooking howtos, bartending recipes, vegan recipes, meat BBQ recipes, life motivational videos, really funny short sketches from funny regular people (in several languages), relationship advice, psychologists<p>All original content. It has its own twist to it. All in 5 to 10 minutes. Everything just flows, I never use any browsing. Just swipe.<p>EDIT:
I also need to mention that TikTok is host to many, not just one, many emergent properties. Trends take off, people from around the world do the weirdest things which become super popular. Such as ASMR videos, example: whispering secretary</text></comment> | <story><title>Everything must be paid for twice</title><url>https://www.raptitude.com/2022/01/everything-must-be-paid-for-twice/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yojo</author><text>The author is framing consumption as having two pools of currency:<p>1) money<p>2) time<p>It costs money to get access to the good you are consuming, and hours to unlock the value. Whether or not you enjoyed reading Moby Dick, you have 16 less hours in the time bank.<p>If you do enjoy it (I did not), you have paid 16 hours out of the time bank and reaped the reward of 16 hours of pleasurable reading.<p>There are “cheaper” thrills. I am told you can spend 5 minutes on TickTock and receive some quick gratification. The up front cost is low. The cumulative payoff of spending 16 hours watching cat videos may not be as ultimately rewarding to you as plowing through some classic literature.</text></item><item><author>BEEdwards</author><text>But that&#x27;s not a price, I enjoy reading, that what I paid for.<p>It is not something that costs me anything other than time, however that&#x27;s not the &quot;price&quot; he&#x27;s talking about. Otherwise &quot;low price pleasures&quot; wouldn&#x27;t be a category, if you enjoy that time it&#x27;s not marginally better than nothing.</text></item><item><author>gjm11</author><text>The author <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> say that you don&#x27;t get the return on reading Moby Dick until you have paid the 16-hour price of reading it. What he actually says is subtly but importantly different:<p>&quot;Only once the second price is being paid do you see any return on the first one.&quot;<p>So he agrees with you: you start getting the benefits as soon as the &quot;second price&quot; is <i>being</i> paid.<p>And I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s quite right to say that the sixteen hours <i>are</i> the actual reward. They&#x27;re the space in which some of the actual reward occurs, so to speak. You <i>pay</i> the price of using 16 hours of your time to read <i>Moby-Dick</i>. You <i>get</i> the reward of 16 enjoyably-spent hours, and also the reward of having your brain reshaped in whatever way reading <i>Moby-Dick</i> does for you -- deepening your ideas about friendship or obsession or sailing or whales, etc.<p>The 16 hours you have to spend are still a price, even though you enjoy spending those hours. (Some people enjoy spending money. They&#x27;re still paying when they do.) The 16 hours you spend reading <i>Moby-Dick</i> are 16 hours you aren&#x27;t spending reading <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> or sleeping or doing lucrative consultancy or talking with your friends.</text></item><item><author>cortesoft</author><text>This makes sense for some things, but the examples the author uses don&#x27;t make sense to me.<p>Take the Moby Dick example... the author says you don&#x27;t get the return on it until you have paid the 16 hour price of reading it... but isn&#x27;t those sixteen hours the actual reward? You don&#x27;t read a book to be finished with it, you read it because you like the reading process. The reward starts the first minute you start reading the book.<p>Not only that, but you don&#x27;t have to finish the book to get something out of reading it. If you enjoyed the time you spent reading, that is enough.<p>This attitude seems very &quot;completionist&quot;, where you only get value after you finish something. That isn&#x27;t how I view things.<p>Also, why does he think mindless apps and games are the same as doing nothing? The idea is you enjoy the time spent playing the game. Sure, you don&#x27;t end up with anything after, but you enjoyed the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zuminator</author><text>Rather than two separate pools, I see it more as that every good&#x27;s value is a complex number. The &quot;real&quot; part is the sticker price and the &quot;imaginary&quot; part is the time spent to consume or enjoy the good. So while we usually just assume the sticker price is the value of the good, in reality you have to calculate the length of the complex vector.<p>When you&#x27;re young and poor, the sticker price seems very close to the actual value, but as you get older and richer, you come to see the time spent as by far the most significant scalar quantity.</text></comment> |
14,597,444 | 14,595,978 | 1 | 2 | 14,595,486 | train | <story><title>Casync – A tool for distributing file system images</title><url>http://0pointer.net/blog/casync-a-tool-for-distributing-file-system-images.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tkfu</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I buy the embedded&#x2F;IoT use case; OSTree is a really good model there and is more featureful. The &quot;well, if your filesystem image delta happens to be in the form of a lot of very small files it&#x27;s not so great for CDNs&quot; doesn&#x27;t strike me as a terribly good reason to give up everything OSTree gives you (especially with stuff like the meta-updater [1] Yocto integration).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;advancedtelematic&#x2F;meta-updater" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;advancedtelematic&#x2F;meta-updater</a><p>(Full disclosure: I work for Advanced Telematic, the creators and maintainers of the meta-updater Yocto layer.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Casync – A tool for distributing file system images</title><url>http://0pointer.net/blog/casync-a-tool-for-distributing-file-system-images.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dom0</author><text>If you read the internals description it could just as well be about Borg, very similar principles here, though the application is very different.<p>By the way, both buzhash and SHA-256 are kinda poor choices for a new system, especially one that targets servers.</text></comment> |
16,248,017 | 16,247,256 | 1 | 2 | 16,246,093 | train | <story><title>What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/reader-center/arctic-winter-night.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rypskar</author><text>At least in my opinion the best part about living north of the Arctic circle is the months where it don&#x27;t get dark</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>Funny how people are different; my experience is the exact opposite - summers are tolerable once you&#x27;ve got yourself a decent set of blinds. Just.<p>Winters? Love it.<p>The polar night is eerily beautiful; much of it isn&#x27;t pitch black, but rather blue-ish, thanks to refraction in the atmosphere - we get lots and lots of twilight hours!<p>Also, there is something soothing (to this guy, anyway) about the relative quiet outside - snow mutes much noise, birds don&#x27;t chirp as much, most people spend more time indoors...<p>Summer? Well, at times it is convenient to have, say, a barbecue at two AM while working on your tan - but mostly I&#x27;ve found the midnight sun to be an annoyance more than a bonus.<p>(Full disclosure - I am not born and raised in the Arctic, I just sort of stumbled into a couple of summers and winter seasons in various places up north (from 68 to 79 degrees latitude); the locals are overwhelmingly in favour of summer!)</text></comment> | <story><title>What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/reader-center/arctic-winter-night.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rypskar</author><text>At least in my opinion the best part about living north of the Arctic circle is the months where it don&#x27;t get dark</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maaaats</author><text>As a student I would often walk home in the middle if the night, bright as day.<p>Pretty weird when taking summer holidays in southern Europe, and it gets dark like 8 or so in the evening.</text></comment> |
16,816,689 | 16,815,487 | 1 | 2 | 16,813,823 | train | <story><title>Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash</title><url>http://abc7news.com/automotive/exclusive-tesla-issues-strongest-statement-yet-blaming-driver-for-deadly-crash/3325908/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patcheudor</author><text>&gt;t&#x27;s a tool to help attentive drivers avoid accidents that might have otherwise occurred.<p>This needs far more discussion. I just don&#x27;t buy it. I don&#x27;t believe that you can have a car engaged in auto-drive mode and remain attentive. I think our psychology won&#x27;t allow it. When driving, I find that I must be engaged and on long trips I don&#x27;t even enable cruise control because taking the accelerator input away from me is enough to cause my mind to wander. If I&#x27;m not in control of the accelerator and steering while simultaneously focused on threats including friendly officers attempting to remind me of the speed limit I space out fairly quickly. In observing how others drive, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m alone. It&#x27;s part of our nature. So then, how is it that you can have a car driving for you while simultaneously being attentive? I believe they are so mutually exclusive as to make it ridiculous to claim that such a thing is possible.</text></item><item><author>tc</author><text>Tesla probably shouldn&#x27;t be saying anything about this at all, even just to avoid giving it more news cycles. But if they were going to say something, here&#x27;s what they should have said the first time.<p>----<p>We take great care in building our cars to save lives. Forty thousands Americans die on the roads each year. That&#x27;s a statistic. But even a single death of a Tesla driver or passenger is a tragedy. This has affected everyone on our team deeply, and our hearts go out to the family and friends of Walter Huang.<p>We&#x27;ve recovered data that indicates Autopilot was engaged at the time of the accident. The vehicle drove straight into the barrier. In the five seconds leading up to the crash, neither Autopilot nor the driver took any evasive action.<p>Our engineers are investigating why the car failed to detect or avoid the obstacle. Any lessons we can take from this tragedy will be deployed across our entire fleet of vehicles. Saving other lives is the best we can hope to take away from an event like this.<p>In that same spirit, we would like to remind all Tesla drivers that Autopilot is not a fully-autonomous driving system. It&#x27;s a tool to help attentive drivers avoid accidents that might have otherwise occurred. Just as with autopilots in aviation, while the tool does reduce workload, it&#x27;s critical to always stay attentive. The car cannot drive itself. It can help, but you have to do your job.<p>We do realize, however, that a system like Autopilot can lure people into a false sense of security. That&#x27;s one reason we are hard at work on the problem of fully autonomous driving. It will take a few years, but we look forward to some day making accidents like this a part of history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperbole</author><text>I don&#x27;t buy this either nor should we it&#x27;s not how the feature is marketed.<p>&quot;The system is designed to be able to conduct short and long distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat.&quot;<p>The result of this statement and the functionality that matches it is it creates a re-enforced false sense of security.<p>Does it matter whether the driver of the model X whose auto pilot drove straight into a center divider had his hands on the wheel if the outcome of applying autopilot is drivers focus less on the road? What is the point of two drivers one machine one human? You cannot compare car auto pilot to airplane they&#x27;re not even in the same league. How often does a center divider just pop up at 20k ft?<p>Usually machinery either augments human capabilities by enhancing them, or entirely replaces them. This union caused by both driver and car piloting the vehicle has no point especially when it&#x27;s imperfect.<p>I&#x27;m not opposed to Tesla&#x27;s sale of such functionality, sell whatever you want, but I am opposed to the marketing material selling this in a way that contradicts the legal language required to protect Tesla...<p>There&#x27;s risks in everything you do, but don&#x27;t market a car as having the hardware to do 2x your customers driving capability and then have your legal material say: * btw don&#x27;t take your hands off the steering wheel... especially when there&#x27;s a several minute video showing exactly that.<p>Tesla customers must have the ability to make informed choices in the risks they take.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash</title><url>http://abc7news.com/automotive/exclusive-tesla-issues-strongest-statement-yet-blaming-driver-for-deadly-crash/3325908/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patcheudor</author><text>&gt;t&#x27;s a tool to help attentive drivers avoid accidents that might have otherwise occurred.<p>This needs far more discussion. I just don&#x27;t buy it. I don&#x27;t believe that you can have a car engaged in auto-drive mode and remain attentive. I think our psychology won&#x27;t allow it. When driving, I find that I must be engaged and on long trips I don&#x27;t even enable cruise control because taking the accelerator input away from me is enough to cause my mind to wander. If I&#x27;m not in control of the accelerator and steering while simultaneously focused on threats including friendly officers attempting to remind me of the speed limit I space out fairly quickly. In observing how others drive, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m alone. It&#x27;s part of our nature. So then, how is it that you can have a car driving for you while simultaneously being attentive? I believe they are so mutually exclusive as to make it ridiculous to claim that such a thing is possible.</text></item><item><author>tc</author><text>Tesla probably shouldn&#x27;t be saying anything about this at all, even just to avoid giving it more news cycles. But if they were going to say something, here&#x27;s what they should have said the first time.<p>----<p>We take great care in building our cars to save lives. Forty thousands Americans die on the roads each year. That&#x27;s a statistic. But even a single death of a Tesla driver or passenger is a tragedy. This has affected everyone on our team deeply, and our hearts go out to the family and friends of Walter Huang.<p>We&#x27;ve recovered data that indicates Autopilot was engaged at the time of the accident. The vehicle drove straight into the barrier. In the five seconds leading up to the crash, neither Autopilot nor the driver took any evasive action.<p>Our engineers are investigating why the car failed to detect or avoid the obstacle. Any lessons we can take from this tragedy will be deployed across our entire fleet of vehicles. Saving other lives is the best we can hope to take away from an event like this.<p>In that same spirit, we would like to remind all Tesla drivers that Autopilot is not a fully-autonomous driving system. It&#x27;s a tool to help attentive drivers avoid accidents that might have otherwise occurred. Just as with autopilots in aviation, while the tool does reduce workload, it&#x27;s critical to always stay attentive. The car cannot drive itself. It can help, but you have to do your job.<p>We do realize, however, that a system like Autopilot can lure people into a false sense of security. That&#x27;s one reason we are hard at work on the problem of fully autonomous driving. It will take a few years, but we look forward to some day making accidents like this a part of history.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fapjacks</author><text>I have to preface my post to say that I think developing self-driving automobiles is so important that it&#x27;s worth the implied cost of potentially tens of thousands of lives in order to perfect the technology, because that&#x27;s what people do; make sacrifices to improve the world we live in so that future generations don&#x27;t have to know the same problem. But I think you&#x27;re right. I think the &quot;best&quot; way to move forward until we have perfected the technology is not something that drives for you, but something that will completely take over the millisecond the car detects that something terrible is about to happen. People will be engaged because they <i>have</i> to be engaged, to drive the car. The machine can still gather all the data and ship it off to HQ to improve itself (and compare its own decisions to those of the human driver, which IMO is infinitely more valuable). But if there&#x27;s one thing the average person is terrible at, it&#x27;s reacting quickly to terrible situations. You&#x27;re absolutely right that people can&#x27;t be trusted to remain actively engaged when something else is doing the driving. Great example with the cruise control, too.</text></comment> |
5,834,127 | 5,832,632 | 1 | 3 | 5,832,308 | train | <story><title>How the Robots Lost: High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Fall</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robots-lost-high-frequency-tradings-rise-and-fall</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lagged2Death</author><text><i>One of HFT’s objectives has always been to make the market more efficient. Speed traders have done such an excellent job of wringing waste out of buying and selling stocks that they’re having a hard time making money themselves.</i><p>One of its <i>objectives</i>?<p>Those philanthropic high-frequency traders just wanted to make the market more efficient for everyone? Sure they did. Sure they did.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Robots Lost: High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Fall</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robots-lost-high-frequency-tradings-rise-and-fall</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mikeb85</author><text>HFT basically involves an arbitrage. The more competition there is, the less profits are made. It's simply a case of the market becoming more efficient, so the arbitrage opportunity is gone.<p>Meanwhile, consumers of market makers (ie. normal investors) benefit from being able to make any trade in a split second, for very little cost. In the end, it still requires a human element.</text></comment> |
2,868,387 | 2,868,458 | 1 | 3 | 2,867,935 | train | <story><title>Captchas To Keep Idiots Out Of Comment Threads</title><url>http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/captchas_to_keep_idiots_out_of_comment_threads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>Here’s my test for whether you’re qualified to post to Hacker News.<p>Pair the following five comments with their corresponding definitions:<p>1. “Raganwald is a blowhard whose pathetic attempts to score karma reveal him as an insecure dweeb who can’t get over being kicked around in grammar school. He and his mumblings should be should be flushed down the toilet bowl like the turds that they are.”<p>2. “What, raganwald is talking about beauty in code? Have you seen some of <i>his</i> code? Ignore him.”<p>3. “Raganwald sounds a lot like a Ruby fanbody, and we all know how <i>those</i> people think."<p>4. “Anyone who has spent that much time on Java clearly has no taste in software and cannot be relied upon for sound reasoning. Ignore raganwald.”<p>5. "Of <i>course</i> raganwald would say that there’s something wrong with Waterfall, he’s a Certified Scrum Master, he’s just pimping his own credentials.”<p>And the definitions:<p>A. Fallacy: Ad Hominem Abuse<p>B. Fallacy: Circumstantial Ad Hominem<p>C. Fallacy: Tu Quoque (“You Also”)<p>D: Fallacy: Guilt by Association<p>E: Not a Fallacy: Insults<p><i>Example: 1-E, This is an insult, but not fallacious.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corin_</author><text>I know people smarter than the vast majority of HN users (how can this really be judged, sure, but I'd place money on it, certainly far, far smarter than me) who wouldn't know those, and I know many, many people who are damn smart (just not fitting them into the "smarter than most people here", but definitely smart enough to belong here if they wanted to) who also wouldn't know them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Captchas To Keep Idiots Out Of Comment Threads</title><url>http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/captchas_to_keep_idiots_out_of_comment_threads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>raganwald</author><text>Here’s my test for whether you’re qualified to post to Hacker News.<p>Pair the following five comments with their corresponding definitions:<p>1. “Raganwald is a blowhard whose pathetic attempts to score karma reveal him as an insecure dweeb who can’t get over being kicked around in grammar school. He and his mumblings should be should be flushed down the toilet bowl like the turds that they are.”<p>2. “What, raganwald is talking about beauty in code? Have you seen some of <i>his</i> code? Ignore him.”<p>3. “Raganwald sounds a lot like a Ruby fanbody, and we all know how <i>those</i> people think."<p>4. “Anyone who has spent that much time on Java clearly has no taste in software and cannot be relied upon for sound reasoning. Ignore raganwald.”<p>5. "Of <i>course</i> raganwald would say that there’s something wrong with Waterfall, he’s a Certified Scrum Master, he’s just pimping his own credentials.”<p>And the definitions:<p>A. Fallacy: Ad Hominem Abuse<p>B. Fallacy: Circumstantial Ad Hominem<p>C. Fallacy: Tu Quoque (“You Also”)<p>D: Fallacy: Guilt by Association<p>E: Not a Fallacy: Insults<p><i>Example: 1-E, This is an insult, but not fallacious.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>&#60;3 it. Reminds me of all the good reads on the multitudes of logical fallacies out on the net:<p><a href="http://duckduckgo.com/?q=list+of+logical+fallacies" rel="nofollow">http://duckduckgo.com/?q=list+of+logical+fallacies</a></text></comment> |
4,136,781 | 4,134,402 | 1 | 3 | 4,133,609 | train | <story><title>China Plans To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days</title><url>http://designtaxi.com/news/352814/China-Plans-To-Build-The-World-s-Tallest-Building-In-90-Days/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuahedlund</author><text>My bias wants to make some remark about unions and/or regulations inhibiting construction innovation in the US, but I have no idea if that's actually true... is there progress being made in the US (faster construction? more prefab? etc) or does China's progress simply come with quality sacrifices that are pretty unacceptable in the US?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>netcan</author><text>If you want some explanation that probably fits with your biases, this might be responsible for some part :)<p>Warren Buffet, 2009 <a href="http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2009ltr.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2009ltr.pdf</a><p><i>The second reason that manufactured housing is troubled is specific to the industry: the punitive differential in mortgage rates between factory-built homes and site-built homes. Before you read further, let me underscore the obvious: Berkshire has a dog in this fight, and you should therefore assess the commentary that follows with special care. That warning made, however, let me explain why the rate differential causes problems for both large numbers of lower-income Americans and Clayton.<p>The residential mortgage market is shaped by government rules that are expressed by FHA, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Their lending standards are all-powerful because the mortgages they insure can typically be securitized and turned into what, in effect, is an obligation of the U.S. government. Currently buyers of conventional site-built homes who qualify for these guarantees can obtain a 30-year loan at about 5 1⁄4%. In addition, these are mortgages that have recently been purchased in massive amounts by the Federal Reserve, an action that also helped to keep rates at bargain-basement levels.<p>In contrast, very few factory-built homes qualify for agency-insured mortgages. Therefore, a meritorious buyer of a factory-built home must pay about 9% on his loan. For the all-cash buyer, Clayton’s homes offer terrific value. If the buyer needs mortgage financing, however – and, of course, most buyers do – the difference in financing costs too often negates the attractive price of a factory-built home.<p>..<p>We have tried to qualify more of our customers’ loans for treatment similar to those available on the
site-built product. So far we have had only token success</i></text></comment> | <story><title>China Plans To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days</title><url>http://designtaxi.com/news/352814/China-Plans-To-Build-The-World-s-Tallest-Building-In-90-Days/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuahedlund</author><text>My bias wants to make some remark about unions and/or regulations inhibiting construction innovation in the US, but I have no idea if that's actually true... is there progress being made in the US (faster construction? more prefab? etc) or does China's progress simply come with quality sacrifices that are pretty unacceptable in the US?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>I think some credit has to be given to the Chinese for innovating in this area as well; it's not <i>just</i> safety/quality corner-cutting, though there might be some of that. The article notes the much longer time it took Dubai to build its similarly sized building, and Dubai is not exactly known for worker-friendly labor laws or European/American levels of workplace-safety regulations.</text></comment> |
10,602,083 | 10,602,153 | 1 | 3 | 10,600,592 | train | <story><title>Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Questions on Go</title><url>http://features.slashdot.org/story/15/11/18/1748247/interviews-alan-donovan-and-brian-kernighan-answer-your-questions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agentultra</author><text>Kernighan&#x27;s response to the C question was rather odd -- where is this myth that C is only used in embedded systems and drivers coming from?<p>The Linux kernel is still written in C.<p>Ben Klemens, author of 21st Century C, leads the statistical computing group for the research arm of the U.S. Census Bureau. He models complex systems and computations in C.<p>The entire Python scientific computing stack is resting on C.<p>A huge portion of the GHC compiler is written in C.<p>Many AAA game developer studios are writing their engines in C (with vendor supplied C++ compilers, but C none-the-less).<p>And do people really write C89 for greenfield projects today? C99 is pretty amazing and has added some great features to the language. C11 <i>might</i> be the trivial change having only added some atomic operators (depending on whether you think this is trivial) and rescinding VLAs (though most compilers will probably continue to support them anyway).<p>I think Go is a perfectly fine language but it seems like perhaps the group is a little out of touch with the rest of the world judging by replies to questions like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>Kernighan wasn&#x27;t the one claiming that C was mostly used for embedded systems and drivers; that was the guy who posed the question. Kernighan only agreed that C is still popular in that space.<p>As for C99, I would love to see some hard stats about rate of adoption. Personally I can&#x27;t imagine starting out on a new project and <i>not</i> use C99, but then the hard-core C contingency is a pretty conservative bunch. (Are there still systems where you can&#x27;t get a C99 compiler?)</text></comment> | <story><title>Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Questions on Go</title><url>http://features.slashdot.org/story/15/11/18/1748247/interviews-alan-donovan-and-brian-kernighan-answer-your-questions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agentultra</author><text>Kernighan&#x27;s response to the C question was rather odd -- where is this myth that C is only used in embedded systems and drivers coming from?<p>The Linux kernel is still written in C.<p>Ben Klemens, author of 21st Century C, leads the statistical computing group for the research arm of the U.S. Census Bureau. He models complex systems and computations in C.<p>The entire Python scientific computing stack is resting on C.<p>A huge portion of the GHC compiler is written in C.<p>Many AAA game developer studios are writing their engines in C (with vendor supplied C++ compilers, but C none-the-less).<p>And do people really write C89 for greenfield projects today? C99 is pretty amazing and has added some great features to the language. C11 <i>might</i> be the trivial change having only added some atomic operators (depending on whether you think this is trivial) and rescinding VLAs (though most compilers will probably continue to support them anyway).<p>I think Go is a perfectly fine language but it seems like perhaps the group is a little out of touch with the rest of the world judging by replies to questions like this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>Also of course Python itself is in C as well. Other language VM&#x2F;runtimes are developed in C as well (Erlang, Lua?)</text></comment> |
9,148,354 | 9,148,409 | 1 | 3 | 9,147,958 | train | <story><title>Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000</title><url>http://blogmaverick.com/2015/03/04/why-this-tech-bubble-is-worse-than-the-tech-bubble-of-2000/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>So Cuban started (what became) Broadcast.com, ramped it up to $13.5 Million revenue per quarter [1], and sold it to Yahoo for $5.7 billion (in stock, but we&#x27;ll disregard that fact for now). On track to do $54 million in a year, means he sold for 1,000x one year&#x27;s revenue.<p>15 years later, Facebook brings in $3.2 Billion in revenue and has a market cap of ~$41 Billion, or about 12.8 times one year&#x27;s revenue. [2]<p>And we won&#x27;t mention Google, despite the fact that they&#x27;re the most obvious tech company to compare the likes of AOL to, because they make more money than God, and it would harm the argument. Uber, Twitter, etc. may be overvalued, but they bring in cold hard cash, and they&#x27;re barely getting started.<p>Things are frothy right now, for sure; there are some really high rounds being raised that are justified by portfolio theory, and some no-product seed rounds at really high valuations. There will be some major catastrophes, and people will lose a lot of money.<p>But I have no idea how Cuban could possibly make the argument that <i>it&#x27;s worse than 1999</i>.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban#Business_career" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_Cuban#Business_career</a>
[2] <a href="http://ycharts.com/companies/FB/market_cap" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;FB&#x2F;market_cap</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eroo</author><text>He isn&#x27;t arguing firms are overvalued by a greater degree now relative to 1999. He&#x27;s arguing that investments in private firms, which are far more popular now, are worse for small players due to their lack of liquidity.<p>If things start going south in a private investment, a share holder may not be able to exit even at a large loss.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000</title><url>http://blogmaverick.com/2015/03/04/why-this-tech-bubble-is-worse-than-the-tech-bubble-of-2000/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>So Cuban started (what became) Broadcast.com, ramped it up to $13.5 Million revenue per quarter [1], and sold it to Yahoo for $5.7 billion (in stock, but we&#x27;ll disregard that fact for now). On track to do $54 million in a year, means he sold for 1,000x one year&#x27;s revenue.<p>15 years later, Facebook brings in $3.2 Billion in revenue and has a market cap of ~$41 Billion, or about 12.8 times one year&#x27;s revenue. [2]<p>And we won&#x27;t mention Google, despite the fact that they&#x27;re the most obvious tech company to compare the likes of AOL to, because they make more money than God, and it would harm the argument. Uber, Twitter, etc. may be overvalued, but they bring in cold hard cash, and they&#x27;re barely getting started.<p>Things are frothy right now, for sure; there are some really high rounds being raised that are justified by portfolio theory, and some no-product seed rounds at really high valuations. There will be some major catastrophes, and people will lose a lot of money.<p>But I have no idea how Cuban could possibly make the argument that <i>it&#x27;s worse than 1999</i>.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban#Business_career" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_Cuban#Business_career</a>
[2] <a href="http://ycharts.com/companies/FB/market_cap" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ycharts.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;FB&#x2F;market_cap</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CyberDildonics</author><text>Mark Cuban is the lottery winner who thinks he&#x27;s Jim Clark.</text></comment> |
23,445,451 | 23,440,872 | 1 | 3 | 23,439,234 | train | <story><title>Free user space for non-graphics drivers</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/821817/d2e8e5c253b68ce6/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pabs3</author><text>It would be nice if Linux kernel devs also had some leverage they could use to increase the amount of open source firmware out there. There is precious little open source firmware and most of it is hardware specific so it becomes less useful as newer generations of hardware come out.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;Firmware&#x2F;Open" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;Firmware&#x2F;Open</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Free user space for non-graphics drivers</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/821817/d2e8e5c253b68ce6/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NickGerleman</author><text>How did Qualcomm get on the &quot;naughty companies list&quot;?</text></comment> |
30,676,662 | 30,675,389 | 1 | 2 | 30,672,527 | train | <story><title>RP2040 Doom</title><url>https://kilograham.github.io/rp2040-doom/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gchadwick</author><text>Awesome! A huge amount of work must have gone into this.<p>I did some playing around with VGA graphics from the Pico when it first came out (wrote a simple library to produce SNES like graphics, wrote it all up on my blog <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gregchadwick.co.uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;playing-with-the-pico-pt6&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gregchadwick.co.uk&#x2F;blog&#x2F;playing-with-the-pico-pt6&#x2F;</a>). It felt like Doom should be doable but I figured you&#x27;d need an off chip RAM expansion interfaced via the PIO. Clearly not.<p>The Pico really is a very fun board to play around with. Could be a great target for a retro style mini console thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>RP2040 Doom</title><url>https://kilograham.github.io/rp2040-doom/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WithinReason</author><text>This thing even has networked multiplayer! In about 256K of RAM and 2MB flash! (It&#x27;s the Raspberry Pi Pico board)<p>Carmack would be proud!</text></comment> |
23,712,243 | 23,712,190 | 1 | 2 | 23,711,977 | train | <story><title>Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53263310</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&gt; Ran a hastily arranged surveillance detection route<p>What did this entail?</text></item><item><author>secfirstmd</author><text>This story is surprising as there were rumours about 18 months ago that EncroChat had been vulnerable. Esp when other similar services had been taken down and targeted.<p>Random side story:
Governments have become much more aware of the purposes of these sorts of phones and seller.<p>About 18 months ago I was asked to meet with the sales people from a specialist phone company like this one, they were interested in selling them to the NGO&#x2F;journalist market. I&#x27;m always happy to chat and test the utility of interesting security tech and compare versus more common setups (locked down phones, Signal etc). I&#x27;ve met a load of these sort of companies at trade shows etc as I&#x27;m sure many here have but they wanted to meet in person as they were in town talking to various potential clients. The product was decent enough but way beyond the price of anyone in the sector would be able to afford. Anyways the guys were nice and I genuinely didn&#x27;t get a sense they particularly up to anything bad...<p>However when I left the meeting (in a European capital) I had physical surveillance all over me. Not a particularly good team, hence I detected them. Totally caught me by surprise. Ran a hastily arranged surveillance detection route and managed to confirm a few (no doubt there may have been more). At first I thought it might be the company I had met doing it to me for some weird reason. However as I thought through the tactics, people profile and operational reason for doing it to me I can only assume that whoever the local police were had been watching closely anyone who was meeting with the secure phone providers (they were foreign to the country in question, so probably came under more suspicion). No doubt this was because of the connection between a lot of these sort of companies and the criminal underworld. (Again, I didn&#x27;t get the sense these particular sellers were up to no good, I just thought it was an interesting perspective)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Benjammer</author><text>I was so curious about this that I did some googling and read this article about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protectioncircle.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;surveillance-detection-on-yourself&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protectioncircle.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;25&#x2F;surveillance-detecti...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53263310</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>have_faith</author><text>&gt; Ran a hastily arranged surveillance detection route<p>What did this entail?</text></item><item><author>secfirstmd</author><text>This story is surprising as there were rumours about 18 months ago that EncroChat had been vulnerable. Esp when other similar services had been taken down and targeted.<p>Random side story:
Governments have become much more aware of the purposes of these sorts of phones and seller.<p>About 18 months ago I was asked to meet with the sales people from a specialist phone company like this one, they were interested in selling them to the NGO&#x2F;journalist market. I&#x27;m always happy to chat and test the utility of interesting security tech and compare versus more common setups (locked down phones, Signal etc). I&#x27;ve met a load of these sort of companies at trade shows etc as I&#x27;m sure many here have but they wanted to meet in person as they were in town talking to various potential clients. The product was decent enough but way beyond the price of anyone in the sector would be able to afford. Anyways the guys were nice and I genuinely didn&#x27;t get a sense they particularly up to anything bad...<p>However when I left the meeting (in a European capital) I had physical surveillance all over me. Not a particularly good team, hence I detected them. Totally caught me by surprise. Ran a hastily arranged surveillance detection route and managed to confirm a few (no doubt there may have been more). At first I thought it might be the company I had met doing it to me for some weird reason. However as I thought through the tactics, people profile and operational reason for doing it to me I can only assume that whoever the local police were had been watching closely anyone who was meeting with the secure phone providers (they were foreign to the country in question, so probably came under more suspicion). No doubt this was because of the connection between a lot of these sort of companies and the criminal underworld. (Again, I didn&#x27;t get the sense these particular sellers were up to no good, I just thought it was an interesting perspective)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>secfirstmd</author><text>Well being trained properly is the best advice as there is nothing more risky than thinking you are clean and are not. It was on foot in a busy city so it&#x27;s way too much to write up here but if your interested in reading basic stuff from a general security guide follow the link in my bio.</text></comment> |
24,462,958 | 24,462,342 | 1 | 2 | 24,461,157 | train | <story><title>All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL</title><url>https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jghn</author><text>I struggle with this whenever I think about it. On one hand I agree with all of the points you make. But on the other hand, it didn&#x27;t have to be this way. Python 3 has been out for 12 years now. If people hadn&#x27;t dragged their feet on converting the mess wouldn&#x27;t be nearly as large as it wound up being.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>About every other month I have to help a biologist who has pulled down an older program from Github debug why it broke in their data only to find that they were trying to run in Python 3 instead of Python 2. These are people that can write shell scripts, but don&#x27;t program. It makes me aware of all the old code out there that is not used super frequently, but still solves people&#x27;s problems, and would continue to if there hadn&#x27;t been breaking changes.<p>As I write Python 3 now, I am less than impressed with the reasons for breaking compatibility. I&#x27;m told that it was necessary for proper bug-free Unicode code, but there&#x27;s enough difficulty when using, say, gzip, and little enough documentation about the &quot;proper&quot; way to handle Unicode that I doubt that it will actually reduce Unicode-related bugs.<p>Python is still a great tool, but Python 3 really took the shine off for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>disown</author><text>The problem is why should people be &quot;converting the mess&quot; in the first place. Backward compatibility, especially when it comes to programming languages, should be a given. If anything, this is reason that people should stop using python.</text></comment> | <story><title>All Python versions less than 3.6 are now EOL</title><url>https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jghn</author><text>I struggle with this whenever I think about it. On one hand I agree with all of the points you make. But on the other hand, it didn&#x27;t have to be this way. Python 3 has been out for 12 years now. If people hadn&#x27;t dragged their feet on converting the mess wouldn&#x27;t be nearly as large as it wound up being.</text></item><item><author>epistasis</author><text>About every other month I have to help a biologist who has pulled down an older program from Github debug why it broke in their data only to find that they were trying to run in Python 3 instead of Python 2. These are people that can write shell scripts, but don&#x27;t program. It makes me aware of all the old code out there that is not used super frequently, but still solves people&#x27;s problems, and would continue to if there hadn&#x27;t been breaking changes.<p>As I write Python 3 now, I am less than impressed with the reasons for breaking compatibility. I&#x27;m told that it was necessary for proper bug-free Unicode code, but there&#x27;s enough difficulty when using, say, gzip, and little enough documentation about the &quot;proper&quot; way to handle Unicode that I doubt that it will actually reduce Unicode-related bugs.<p>Python is still a great tool, but Python 3 really took the shine off for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>I am not sure why the length of time matters.<p>They were spending the time doing other important things. They were making the rational decision to work on something that was important and WASN&#x27;T already working. The python 2 code was working fine, it didn&#x27;t have bugs and it didn&#x27;t need any new features. Other code either didn&#x27;t exist and needed to be written or had bugs that needed to be fixed.<p>It makes sense that changing working code never made it high enough on the priority list to get worked on.</text></comment> |
18,024,374 | 18,023,064 | 1 | 2 | 18,012,732 | train | <story><title>Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-white-shark-lair-discovered-in-13234068.php?t=5c043f9ce3&f?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CalChris</author><text>It&#x27;s a good article but existence of the <i>White Shark Café</i> has been known for quite some time. I first read about it in <i>The Devil&#x27;s Teeth</i>, a book (the only one?) about the Farallon Islands (20 miles west of San Francisco) where they actively study Great Whites.<p>They&#x27;ve known it was there since satellite tracker data indicated that in the 2000s. I guess what the article is talking about discovering is the <i>Café</i> part. They didn&#x27;t know that there was food there or rather they didn&#x27;t understand the food there.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;White_Shark_Caf%C3%A9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;White_Shark_Caf%C3%A9</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-white-shark-lair-discovered-in-13234068.php?t=5c043f9ce3&f?</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bitL</author><text>Sometimes I think it&#x27;s better if some mysteries remained unsolved; can&#x27;t wait until this is leaked to shark hunters and the &quot;secret&quot; habitat is decimated; humans are &quot;wonderful&quot; and &quot;surprising&quot; all the time...</text></comment> |
4,778,673 | 4,778,515 | 1 | 2 | 4,777,924 | train | <story><title>Google Nexus 4 Review</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peeters</author><text>I've already decided I'm buying this phone, but I have to ask:<p>Why should I care about wireless charging? I can't see this feature enriching my life in the slightest. Ok, it looks cool sitting there. But docks look cool too. Is it more convenient? I would argue no (saves maybe two seconds of effort per charge). Is it more portable? Definitely not.<p>Is this only hyped up because of the "coolness" factor?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klausa</author><text>I have HP Touchpad tablet with Touchstone wireless dock - and I can't stress how <i>awesome</i> it is to be able to just put it down on a stand near my bed and not have to look for one of the two USB cables (because tablet requires more power than my phone, I need to pick the right one), just plop it down and it charges.<p>And same thing in the morning - I don't have to carefully pick it up, trying not to yank cord from charger, disconnect charging cable - just grab it, and go to bathroom.<p>And when I'm out of home, I can charge it with regular microUSB plug, but believe me, I curse it every single time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Nexus 4 Review</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peeters</author><text>I've already decided I'm buying this phone, but I have to ask:<p>Why should I care about wireless charging? I can't see this feature enriching my life in the slightest. Ok, it looks cool sitting there. But docks look cool too. Is it more convenient? I would argue no (saves maybe two seconds of effort per charge). Is it more portable? Definitely not.<p>Is this only hyped up because of the "coolness" factor?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Maakuth</author><text>I think the manufacturers are trying to make restaurants, public transport and maybe even office furniture companies to add those charging surfaces everywhere. That way your phone would pick up some power here and there.</text></comment> |
18,938,634 | 18,936,651 | 1 | 2 | 18,936,177 | train | <story><title>New Ethereum Dev Tools from 0x</title><url>https://blog.0xproject.com/new-ethereum-dev-tools-from-0x-db80ee9e802</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>q3k</author><text>Can we talk about how a modern language designed to handle money transfers did not have basic tooling like this until now, yet was used multiple times to make millions of dollars of income?</text></comment> | <story><title>New Ethereum Dev Tools from 0x</title><url>https://blog.0xproject.com/new-ethereum-dev-tools-from-0x-db80ee9e802</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>woah</author><text>This is great! Solidity tooling has been rather lacking. Truffle is better than nothing but it’s a mediocre and frequently buggy offering.</text></comment> |
33,883,616 | 33,883,778 | 1 | 2 | 33,881,818 | train | <story><title>Apple launches Self Service Repair in Europe</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-self-service-repair-in-europe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I&#x27;ve been recently trying to resurrect my mom&#x27;s old 2015 MacBook Air and there&#x27;s a special excitement in being able to follow the clues on the logic board as to where there&#x27;s a problem, and then being able to fix it.<p>When I was going through my father&#x27;s stuff after he died, I came across a Television manual that had come with the product. It included a full schematic of the TV. Every resistor, capacitor, transistor, and diode. I marveled at the idea that the company who made this TV was more interested in your having confidence in the product than protecting their next sale...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kube-system</author><text>&gt; I marveled at the idea that the company who made this TV was more interested in your having confidence in the product than protecting their next sale...<p>Because back then a TV cost an arm and a leg and they broke more often. Being maintainable was a requirement for <i>the initial</i> sale.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple launches Self Service Repair in Europe</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-launches-self-service-repair-in-europe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I&#x27;ve been recently trying to resurrect my mom&#x27;s old 2015 MacBook Air and there&#x27;s a special excitement in being able to follow the clues on the logic board as to where there&#x27;s a problem, and then being able to fix it.<p>When I was going through my father&#x27;s stuff after he died, I came across a Television manual that had come with the product. It included a full schematic of the TV. Every resistor, capacitor, transistor, and diode. I marveled at the idea that the company who made this TV was more interested in your having confidence in the product than protecting their next sale...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>It included a full schematic of the TV.</i><p>For you and other young &#x27;uns, Apple and other early computer makers did this as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downloads.reactivemicro.com&#x2F;Apple%20II%20Items&#x2F;Hardware&#x2F;II_&amp;_II+&#x2F;Schematic&#x2F;Apple%20II%20Schematics.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downloads.reactivemicro.com&#x2F;Apple%20II%20Items&#x2F;Hardw...</a></text></comment> |
9,771,587 | 9,771,309 | 1 | 2 | 9,770,020 | train | <story><title>Supreme Commander – Graphics Study</title><url>http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/06/23/supreme-commander-graphics-study/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>test1235</author><text>This blows my mind - how many years of programming must you have under your belt before you can even comprehend writing something like this?<p>Are these established methods that you can google and pick up anywhere, or is there a lot of experimentation going on to see what works?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>Not exactly years of programming. But years of studying computer graphics, as applied to games.<p>I bet I could show this article to myself back when I started CompSci and be able to comprehend most of it. But I was a Gamedev.Net addict, tried my hand at competitions and tried to write my own 3d engine. At some point, my mathematical knowledge became the bottleneck.<p>There are a lot of established methods, you can pick a lot by reading SIGGRAPH, but that&#x27;s too heavy early on. If you are truly interested, you should start by learning how to put simple 3d geometry on screen. Then, when trying to figure out how to make things look better, you&#x27;ll naturally gravitate to learning what you need.<p>Nowadays, it is much easier to start, since we have WebGL and all you need is a browser and javascript. On the other hand, shaders are now a mandatory part of the rendering pipeline, so you need to learn those.<p>When trying to apply these techniques in real games, there&#x27;s indeed lots of experimentation. And many times game developers come up with novel techniques. See papers by Valve, for instance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Supreme Commander – Graphics Study</title><url>http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/06/23/supreme-commander-graphics-study/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>test1235</author><text>This blows my mind - how many years of programming must you have under your belt before you can even comprehend writing something like this?<p>Are these established methods that you can google and pick up anywhere, or is there a lot of experimentation going on to see what works?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>It&#x27;s not <i>that</i> mindblowing, although it does require a chunk of maths. It&#x27;s only really the shadows that are complicated. And yes, it&#x27;s a stack of established methods which have been built up over decades. SIGGRAPH is a good place to start, and there are open source 3D engines (including the ID software ones) to refer to.<p>&quot;Mindblowing&quot; are the demoscene people who fit this (or something more complex with procedural generation) into 64k or 4k binaries.</text></comment> |
23,599,709 | 23,599,724 | 1 | 2 | 23,598,830 | train | <story><title>The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal propulsion</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/the-us-military-is-getting-serious-about-nuclear-thermal-propulsion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Knufen</author><text>The idea was considered before and showed great promise:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu...</a>
Of course there is always the backside, imagine a rocket exploding in the upper atmosphere leaving nuclear waste and rocket parts over vast areas of land.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>NERVA <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NERVA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NERVA</a> was way more practical. They actually built these things and experimentally confirmed specific impulse, they just never launched them.<p>It&#x27;s so sad to listen to the documentaries and hear how NERVA &quot;is on track to propel mankind to mars by the late 1970s or early 1980s.&quot; Ah well. At least we&#x27;re starting to care about space again!</text></comment> | <story><title>The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal propulsion</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/the-us-military-is-getting-serious-about-nuclear-thermal-propulsion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Knufen</author><text>The idea was considered before and showed great promise:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu...</a>
Of course there is always the backside, imagine a rocket exploding in the upper atmosphere leaving nuclear waste and rocket parts over vast areas of land.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>proaralyst</author><text>Nuclear pulse propulsion (Project Orion) is a different concept to nuclear thermal. Pulse works by using bombs to generate your energetic reaction mass in bursts, whereas thermal uses a more normal fission reactor to superheat some reaction mass that then passes through an ordinary rocket nozzle.<p>You&#x27;re right that both are worrying until they&#x27;re out of atmosphere.</text></comment> |
7,825,613 | 7,825,500 | 1 | 2 | 7,825,460 | train | <story><title>Mt Everest in 3D: Everest Avalanche Tragedy</title><url>http://everestavalanchetragedy.com/mt-everest-journey.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davidjohnstone</author><text>This is the thing that I was wishing existed a couple of months ago when I read &quot;Into Thin Air&quot;. It&#x27;s a fantastic read about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster where eight climbers died, but I often had difficulty visualising what was going on. (There&#x27;s also a film, Everest, due out next year.)<p>To be better convey what it&#x27;s like to climb Everest, I think this visualisation would be improved if it had more annotations about what makes climbing difficult and the dangers involved. For example, the Khumbu Icefall is a fast moving glacier with many crevasses and ice towers, and has a habit of hosting avalanches and falling ice towers. Climbers try to limit the amount of time they spent here due to the danger, although Sherpa guides tend to cross it many times to stock Camp 1 in preparation for their clients.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mt Everest in 3D: Everest Avalanche Tragedy</title><url>http://everestavalanchetragedy.com/mt-everest-journey.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trevyn</author><text>I am deeply frustrated that there is absolutely zero sense of scale in this visualization. How big are people? How big are the camps? I have no idea.</text></comment> |
37,993,097 | 37,992,595 | 1 | 2 | 37,990,990 | train | <story><title>Mazda slaps developer with cease-and-desist for DIY smart home integration</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/mazda-slaps-developer-with-cease-and-desist-for-diy-smart-home-integration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mirkules</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked for a large OEM, dealing with a large Japanese megacorp that is not Mazda for about two years (actually Mazda was one of our customers too, but I didn&#x27;t get to work with them directly). This does not amaze me anymore.<p>We spent <i>months</i> agonizing over an interior temperature sensor, which was only used to display the information to the user on a smartphone app. We built both the hardware and software, and it was offered as an add-on at the dealerships. After months of negotiations, after the hardware was already built and the packages assembles, they decided temperature sensors were too inaccurate (+&#x2F;- 5 degrees F) to use, and that it could present a legal liability. Again, this was nothing else but displaying the information on the app - and the user could then make a decision whether to remote start the car to cool it or heat it (no automatic process took place either).<p>This was at the height of &quot;unintended accelerator&quot; issue in Toyotas, so everyone was walking on egg shells playing it ultra safe to not invite any more lawsuits.<p>What surprises me is that this culture of &quot;playing it safe&quot; remained to this day, some 10 years later (but maybe it shouldn&#x27;t).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wutwutwat</author><text>Idk about everyone else but when it comes to anything running in my car, _anything_, there is no such thing as excessive &quot;playing it safe&quot;. It&#x27;s a 2 ton mass of steel barreling down the highway at 70+ mph next to other unpredictable 2 ton masses, please for the love of God, fight to maintain that culture of &quot;playing it safe&quot;, regardless of what you&#x27;re working on and for what purpose.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mazda slaps developer with cease-and-desist for DIY smart home integration</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/mazda-slaps-developer-with-cease-and-desist-for-diy-smart-home-integration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mirkules</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked for a large OEM, dealing with a large Japanese megacorp that is not Mazda for about two years (actually Mazda was one of our customers too, but I didn&#x27;t get to work with them directly). This does not amaze me anymore.<p>We spent <i>months</i> agonizing over an interior temperature sensor, which was only used to display the information to the user on a smartphone app. We built both the hardware and software, and it was offered as an add-on at the dealerships. After months of negotiations, after the hardware was already built and the packages assembles, they decided temperature sensors were too inaccurate (+&#x2F;- 5 degrees F) to use, and that it could present a legal liability. Again, this was nothing else but displaying the information on the app - and the user could then make a decision whether to remote start the car to cool it or heat it (no automatic process took place either).<p>This was at the height of &quot;unintended accelerator&quot; issue in Toyotas, so everyone was walking on egg shells playing it ultra safe to not invite any more lawsuits.<p>What surprises me is that this culture of &quot;playing it safe&quot; remained to this day, some 10 years later (but maybe it shouldn&#x27;t).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mardifoufs</author><text>Woah I&#x27;d have guessed that temperature sensors would be more accurate than that! Is it just an issue of cost, or are most affordable temp sensors that inaccurate and I&#x27;ve never realised it? That would explain a lot though!</text></comment> |
9,745,854 | 9,745,668 | 1 | 2 | 9,745,310 | train | <story><title>Hosteurope.de shut down our servers due to “political incorrectness”</title><url>https://voat.co/v/announcements/comments/146757</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tetrep</author><text>Regardless of how the hosting provider feels about the content they&#x27;re hosting, it&#x27;s very unprofessional to terminate a contract so absolutely with no warning. They could have easily given the site a few days, if not weeks, to migrate to another service, but they instead chose to immediately kill not just the hosts of voat.co but all of the hosts under the account, which included an entirely unrelated blog with scientific papers.<p>I find it scary that so many commenters find this to be a natural course of action for a hosting provider to take. A hosting provider caring about what I host, other than whether or not it&#x27;s legal, is just as absurd as my ISP caring about what packets I send (once again, other than the legality of them). While a hosting provider&#x27;s role isn&#x27;t nearly as &quot;utility&quot; as an ISP, it&#x27;s certainly close and I would be appalled if the majority of hosting providers actually took stances like this. A minority is to be expected, no different than a book publisher only publishing Christian books, but if the average book publisher was expected to publish only Christian books, I would be quite frightened.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hosteurope.de shut down our servers due to “political incorrectness”</title><url>https://voat.co/v/announcements/comments/146757</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danko</author><text>For those who need the context -- when Reddit had that big bust-up last week about banning subreddits like &#x2F;r&#x2F;fatepeoplehate, aggrieved commenters were recommending that others migrate to voat.co. That effectively means that voat.co recently absorbed the slimy runoff of Reddit&#x27;s worst element.<p>Given that, it isn&#x27;t wholly surprising that their hosting service wanted no part of them.</text></comment> |
35,183,871 | 35,183,580 | 1 | 3 | 35,183,038 | train | <story><title>Rust – Are We Game Yet?</title><url>https://arewegameyet.rs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dimitropoulos</author><text>There are two significant games I just found out about by looking at this list:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;2198150&#x2F;Tiny_Glade&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;2198150&#x2F;Tiny_Glade&#x2F;</a> which looks AMAZING<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;veloren.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;veloren.net&#x2F;</a> which looks really cool<p>Good to know there are some legit non-toy things being made. I remember back in the mid 2000s pretty much the only thing you could play on Linux was TuxRacer, and the state of Rust game development (right now) kinda reminds me of that period.<p>Then steam happened and now I can play Civilization: Beyond Earth all I please!</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust – Are We Game Yet?</title><url>https://arewegameyet.rs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsheard</author><text>What&#x27;s the situation with running Rust on consoles nowadays? Last I heard it was a non-starter for Playstation development, because Sony decrees which compilers you&#x27;re allowed to use and they hadn&#x27;t blessed rustc yet. Even if you did the legwork to add a Playstation target to Rust, using it would be grounds for failing certification.</text></comment> |
21,170,456 | 21,168,577 | 1 | 2 | 21,167,595 | train | <story><title>Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/three-big-things-the-most-important-forces-shaping-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptica</author><text>About &#x27;information access&#x27;, I think the new barrier to socioeconomic mobility is going to be misinformation and regulation.<p>Those who have power will do anything to keep that power; with abundant and free information, fake news and misinformation will be used to control the masses.<p>Probably the world will be in such a state that:<p>1. Most of the rules in society will not make sense but you will accept them anyway simply because everyone else accepts them and there will be a lot of myths and misinformation to justify the rules.<p>2. Not believing the myths and not following the rules will get you imprisoned or killed (as has typically been the case throughout human history).<p>I think &#x27;government regulation&#x27; is increasingly taking the place of religious doctrine when it comes to protecting the interests of the rich and powerful. There are a lot of arbitrary laws which were introduced under some vague pretext whose real purpose is to create a moat to protect corporate interests.</text></comment> | <story><title>Three Big Things: Important forces shaping the world</title><url>https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/three-big-things-the-most-important-forces-shaping-the-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gatsky</author><text>Demography is rightly placed first. Youth is short and life is long, therefore the political and economic implications of an ageing population are huge. In Australia for example, the biggest ticket item for government spending is ‘assistance to the aged’, $70 billion out of a total budget of $500 billion. This is distinct from the money spent on health, which is also heavily skewed towards the elderly. I am not making a value judgement on government spending, but the numbers suggest we will be locked in a cycle where spending on the elderly will continue to be a dominant factor in government spending for the next 30 years.<p>What will be interesting to see is how the governments keep finding the money.</text></comment> |
30,142,272 | 30,142,530 | 1 | 3 | 30,141,192 | train | <story><title>Don't forget Microsoft</title><url>https://luttig.substack.com/p/dont-forget-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logshipper</author><text>This is a good and thorough article. The author got down to brass tacks pretty quickly and brings up interesting hypothesis about $MSFT.<p>That said, I do have one gripe:<p>&gt; To oversimplify Notion to its demographics, it is Office 365 for people below age 35.<p>I recognize this is an oversimplification, but even so, it seems like a stretch. Notion is a decent product, and I have used it for a few small-scale team projects in uni (mainly for Kanban-related stuff) - but to call it a replacement for O365 is an exaggeration at best.<p>Yes, you can have pretty, nested documents in Notion and that&#x27;s great, but a tabular database in Notion is by no means a replacement for Excel or even Google Sheets. The velocity that is afforded by Excel in terms of formulas is unmatched and there&#x27;s a reason it has yet to be unseated as the kingpin of modern finance.<p>Most young people I know use a combination of Discord + Google Suite to collaborate. I am aware this is slightly anecdotal, but I am also having a hard time imagining myself as a founder and then asking my CFO to use Notion to prepare investor pitches.<p>Source: Am 23 :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tester756</author><text>&gt; Discord + Google Suite<p>I use shitton of MS products, but I cannot switch from Google&#x27;s gmail, docs and drive to anything.<p>I hate MS login page and endless redirects between their services<p>I cannot explain what puts me off, but Google&#x27;s (gmail) login page and way better switching between apps feels way better.<p>Also I have feeling that MS account is more &quot;formal&quot;, idk how to explain it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't forget Microsoft</title><url>https://luttig.substack.com/p/dont-forget-microsoft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>logshipper</author><text>This is a good and thorough article. The author got down to brass tacks pretty quickly and brings up interesting hypothesis about $MSFT.<p>That said, I do have one gripe:<p>&gt; To oversimplify Notion to its demographics, it is Office 365 for people below age 35.<p>I recognize this is an oversimplification, but even so, it seems like a stretch. Notion is a decent product, and I have used it for a few small-scale team projects in uni (mainly for Kanban-related stuff) - but to call it a replacement for O365 is an exaggeration at best.<p>Yes, you can have pretty, nested documents in Notion and that&#x27;s great, but a tabular database in Notion is by no means a replacement for Excel or even Google Sheets. The velocity that is afforded by Excel in terms of formulas is unmatched and there&#x27;s a reason it has yet to be unseated as the kingpin of modern finance.<p>Most young people I know use a combination of Discord + Google Suite to collaborate. I am aware this is slightly anecdotal, but I am also having a hard time imagining myself as a founder and then asking my CFO to use Notion to prepare investor pitches.<p>Source: Am 23 :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notjustanymike</author><text>Lotta people make this mistake. They think Notion, or Google Sheets, or Slides is the only tool they need. In truth they need all three, depending on the task at hand.<p>Lots of product managers seem only capable of thinking in slides when Notion would be better for documentation. I&#x27;ve received 500 pages of content for review written into CSV file for some insane reason. And yes, I&#x27;ve seen people struggle to run mathematical models in Notion when Excel is right there.<p>I try and remind people not to use a hammer when you need a screwdriver, but sometimes that&#x27;s all they know.</text></comment> |
19,045,640 | 19,045,410 | 1 | 2 | 19,044,653 | train | <story><title>A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health</title><url>https://www.salon.com/2019/01/30/a-gold-standard-study-finds-deleting-facebook-is-great-for-your-mental-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Brigadirk</author><text>I quite liked facebook. I don&#x27;t have the urge to constantly check it, nor post much on it, but it was useful for events, casually keeping up with life events of acquaintances, and keeping a rolodex of semi-friends (e.g. people I met on holiday and would like to run into again).<p>I deleted it because the company seems thoroughly evil and doesn&#x27;t respect my privacy. But if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alternative I&#x27;d be more than happy to become on of their first adopters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RankingMember</author><text>The problem with the alternatives is they don&#x27;t have the budget and installed user base Facebook has. Sure, you&#x27;ll get techie people to jump on board at first (remember Google+?), but all the family members who don&#x27;t know a Twitter from an Amazon will stick with Facebook because the constant negative Facebook press isn&#x27;t enough to get them to leave and no longer see pictures of their baby grandson. I&#x27;m not sure what the solution to this is.</text></comment> | <story><title>A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health</title><url>https://www.salon.com/2019/01/30/a-gold-standard-study-finds-deleting-facebook-is-great-for-your-mental-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Brigadirk</author><text>I quite liked facebook. I don&#x27;t have the urge to constantly check it, nor post much on it, but it was useful for events, casually keeping up with life events of acquaintances, and keeping a rolodex of semi-friends (e.g. people I met on holiday and would like to run into again).<p>I deleted it because the company seems thoroughly evil and doesn&#x27;t respect my privacy. But if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alternative I&#x27;d be more than happy to become on of their first adopters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>have_faith</author><text>&gt; if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alternative<p>I&#x27;m working on something at the moment. More experiment than anything else for the time being but the purpose of it is to have a minimal &quot;social network&quot; for keeping in touch with people, and that&#x27;s about it. Very little in the way of notifications and most facebook-like features. Just a way to keep in touch and keep contact details for people you care about.<p>Question for anyone who would be interested in such a thing: How would you suggest monetising or funding such a project?</text></comment> |
2,343,120 | 2,342,907 | 1 | 2 | 2,342,824 | train | <story><title>Reddit Is Down To One Developer</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/18/reddit-is-down-to-one-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trotsky</author><text>I took a job some time ago (back around when the internet was morphing from uucp to ppp) as a consultant to an "independent agency of the United States government" which seems to enjoy placing big blue boxes all over the landscape.<p>It was my first real job outside of the university system, so it is safe to say that I was rather green. This job basically involved being an apprentice to someone who oversaw the code supplied by vendors that sorted a tremendous amount of non machine readable mail, i.e. it assisted humans using chord keyboards sorting mail with pneumatic arms and big chains and slots. Back then, a fair amount of mail traveled this way - stuff your grandmother wrote that couldn't be OCR'd, postcards, etc. The whole apparatus was similar in size to a semi trailer [1]. Each station dealt with a piece of mail every second (give or take), with two fifteen minute breaks and a half hour for lunch. This was around the time of the postal shootings [2].<p>Two weeks into the job, my boss quit. Just never showed up again. Not exactly sure what happened. Apparently, I had become the most knowledgeable person in the organization on this software which was currently being rolled out widely.<p>Unsurprisingly, there were some serious code quality issues. This was QNX real time sorta unix in C and ASM with RTOS daughter boards. The vendor's code jockeys, apparently, had become unavailable.<p>Main takeaways: <i>Systems seem to keep working despite everything looking very fragile. Read tons of code. If it's working, don't poke it.</i><p>A year later I was able to make some form of industrial dance music by coordinating the openings and closings of the mail slots and the chain with the software. Bad situations can sometimes lead to greater clarity and new opportunities.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/images/photogallery/equipmentpix/APPP136_fuji280cropped.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/images/photogallery/equipm...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Going_postal" rel="nofollow">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Going_postal</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit Is Down To One Developer</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/18/reddit-is-down-to-one-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>I wish the TC article had done more than merely mention that keltranis is "joining Alexis". Hipmunk now has both reddit cofounders, their first hire in keysersosa, and their most senior programmer in keltranis. I wouldn't be surprised to see jedberg join them before too long, and then hipmunk would have almost all of the old reddit team on board.</text></comment> |
27,589,649 | 27,588,459 | 1 | 3 | 27,586,978 | train | <story><title>Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1007938067/cargo-is-piling-up-everywhere-and-its-making-inflation-worse</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>agrocrag</author><text>We&#x27;re definitely feeling the shortage of containers on the business side. Average prices of $3000 a container are now anywhere from $15,000 to $18,000 (from Shanghai to Los Angeles). We&#x27;ve had luck actually getting the containers, the harder part is just getting them on ships (as the article states, ships can pull the rug out from under you whenever, even days before your supposed to be loaded out).<p>A gut punch to your operating margin but still not remotely close to flipping the economics to move production.<p>A fun side effect we&#x27;ve seen is the wild routing being done to find ways to move containers. Rail to this place, ship from a smaller less busy port to the opposite side of the country and rail back. Goods still arrive faster for basically the same increased price.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/06/21/1007938067/cargo-is-piling-up-everywhere-and-its-making-inflation-worse</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>juskrey</author><text>So it is not inflation, it is a congestion, a squeeze. When things settle, we&#x27;ll see lots of supply w&#x2F;o demand (due to economic players overreacting and new players trying to take advantage) and price drop</text></comment> |
12,745,506 | 12,743,235 | 1 | 3 | 12,742,978 | train | <story><title>Minimal Raspberry Pi VPU firmware</title><url>https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrlambchop</author><text>I wrote the BootROM and 2nd stage loader used in VC3 and VC4 - way back in ~2005. And the interrupt controller, VPU sync block and various other things used in this open FW.<p>This is pretty awesome to see how much context the community has reverse engineered from the design - I remember making the first BCM2835 based project (the Roku 2) and spending _A LOT_ of time getting the ARM to startup reliably and boot into Linux as fast as possible. I&#x27;ve spotted 2 concepts in the open FW so far that misunderstood the implementation of the HW but are still working which is fun!<p>One advantage of the having the GPU start first (maybe the only advantage :) is that it can play a video for a splash screen instead of a static image. If you&#x27;ve ever used a Roku 2&#x2F;3 or newer, this is a feature I hacked together for a demo to hide boot-up latency - now its a standard part of RokuOS (and is quite hard to replicate on traditional ARM&#x2F;MIPS SoC&#x27;s).</text></comment> | <story><title>Minimal Raspberry Pi VPU firmware</title><url>https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/README.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>erikb</author><text>What can one do with it? Is it like a bootloader? Sorry really not enough know-how.</text></comment> |
25,195,629 | 25,195,693 | 1 | 3 | 25,173,522 | train | <story><title>Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards</title><url>http://paskpiano.org/about/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>&gt; How do you look at that and figure out where C is?<p>The same way you know which C is &quot;middle C&quot;.<p>Alternatively, color the keys differently.<p>Alternatively, shape the keys differently, or add a distinguishing part to some, like the nubs most computer keyboards put on f and j keys.<p>&gt; We need some patterns in order for our brains to be oriented to the instrument.<p>Yes, but they don&#x27;t need to be messy ones. Consider a guitar: excluding the two thinnest strings, each string is tuned exactly 5 semitones up from the last. Each fret is one half-step up. Guitar players don&#x27;t get lost!<p>&gt; You seem to think that making the keyboard more symmetrical, or more uniform, or different somehow, makes it easier to learn.<p>Yes, and for good reason. It means the student can skip learning 11&#x2F;12ths of the required muscle memory. That&#x27;s a very significant, and very measurable gain.<p>&gt; The field of music and music instrument technology is alive and well and waiting for your invention.<p>That remains to be seen. In fact, the very article we are discussing shows how difficult it is to make the world-changing introduction of <i>a piano with slightly smaller keys</i>.<p>&gt; Also, altered dominants and the various minor modes, in addition to the major scale modes I mentioned. Yes that adds up to probably 300 or 400 scales. Which takes a lot of work, regardless of whether you have a standard keyboard or a WWWWWWWWWWWW keyboard.<p>And then you multiply that 400 by <i>twelve</i>, and you learn just how much muscle memory is required to play the piano.<p>Since you seem to think this is such an impossible task, note that it has already been accomplished: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w</a><p>The only way Janko&#x27;s keyboard is not fundamentally superior is that it isn&#x27;t widely available.</text></item><item><author>sporkologist</author><text>&gt; Everything is made more arbitrarily complicated when it&#x27;s represented by its departure from the Ionian mode. It would be much more efficient to use the chromatic scale as a base instead.<p>Your approach is simply not feasible. Let me demonstrate.<p>Here are some options:<p>The newly chromatic keyboard is all white&#x2F;black&#x2F;white&#x2F;black alternated keys, WBWBWBWBWBWB for one octave.<p>How do you look at that and figure out where C is?<p>Likewise, a new keyboard can be all white keys. WWWWWWWWWWWW<p>How do you know where anything is?<p>We need <i>some</i> patterns in order for our brains to be oriented to the instrument. The pattern of WBWBWWBWBWBW (standard 12-note sequence on keyboards), is a well-understood one that makes it practical for keyboardists to make music.<p>If there exists a 3rd option which makes orientability and fast muscle memory easier than it is, it needs to be innovated.<p>You seem to think that making the keyboard more symmetrical, or more uniform, or different somehow, makes it easier to learn. It doesn&#x27;t work that way. However if you in fact have an improvement not obvious to those in the industry, many players would be thankful for your work. The field of music and music instrument technology is alive and well and waiting for your invention.<p>Now to address your mode concept..... Your presumption that everything is just Ionian mode transposed is absolutely incorrect. Each different mode (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian (those are all modes of <i>just</i> the major scale)) has its own identity. I&#x27;m surprised that you as a musician are unaware&#x2F;blind to this, or consider it &quot;needless complexity imposed by the vain professional musician community&quot;. Also, altered dominants and the various minor modes, in addition to the major scale modes I mentioned. Yes that adds up to probably 300 or 400 scales. Which takes a lot of work, regardless of whether you have a standard keyboard or a WWWWWWWWWWWW keyboard.</text></item><item><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>I&#x27;m coming from a place where I <i>do</i> know the jargon. That doesn&#x27;t mean I have to like it.<p>There is obvious room for improvement. The syntax is not nearly as efficient as it could be.<p>Everything is made more arbitrarily complicated when it&#x27;s represented by its departure from the Ionian mode. It would be much more efficient to use the chromatic scale as a base instead.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s complex, because simple music is for children.<p>Oh, I&#x27;m a child now? I&#x27;m talking about &quot;simple&quot; music? Get of your high horse. I wish I could say that your attitude was rare in music. Unfortunately, it represents the majority in professional circles.<p>The <i>status quo</i> is protected by this vain professionalism at a heavy cost.</text></item><item><author>sporkologist</author><text>&gt; The same goes for notation and theory verbiage. It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re stuck in a codebase that was started centuries ago, and everyone is too afraid to commit a bugfix, let alone a major refactor.<p>There is no simple way of saying Gbmin7&#x2F;B. It&#x27;s just complex. It takes years of learning. The syntax is as efficient as it can be, it&#x27;s not like millions of musicians aren&#x27;t thinking about this stuff. It&#x27;s complex, because simple music is for children. Music has its jargon, as does medicine, geology, or programming, and you should stop thinking about it like it&#x27;s a secret language meant to keep you pesky programmers out of it.</text></item><item><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>Where are the pianists for nonstandard keyboards?<p>The traditional layout is terrible for so many more reasons than size. In order to become a proficient pianist, you must learn (create muscle memory for) every scale and chord 11 unnecessary times. 1 pattern for C, 1 for C#&#x2F;Db, one for D, and so on.<p>If we dropped the &quot;white keys are for C Ionian and black keys are for &#x27;accidentals&#x27;&quot; layout for a chromatic one, a pianist would only need to learn every scale and chord once, and playing in a different key would involve nothing more than moving their hands.<p>The same goes for notation and theory verbiage. It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re stuck in a codebase that was started centuries ago, and everyone is too afraid to commit a bugfix, let alone a major refactor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sporkologist</author><text>&gt; Guitar players don&#x27;t get lost!<p>What an extraordinary claim.<p>&gt; Yes, and for good reason. It means the student can skip learning 11&#x2F;12ths of the required muscle memory. That&#x27;s a very significant, and very measurable gain.<p>That seems to make sense. Unfortunately you can&#x27;t provide any proof or evidence. I could claim that my one-key keyboard with 88 transposition buttons was superior, but I don&#x27;t, because it&#x27;s not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards</title><url>http://paskpiano.org/about/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>&gt; How do you look at that and figure out where C is?<p>The same way you know which C is &quot;middle C&quot;.<p>Alternatively, color the keys differently.<p>Alternatively, shape the keys differently, or add a distinguishing part to some, like the nubs most computer keyboards put on f and j keys.<p>&gt; We need some patterns in order for our brains to be oriented to the instrument.<p>Yes, but they don&#x27;t need to be messy ones. Consider a guitar: excluding the two thinnest strings, each string is tuned exactly 5 semitones up from the last. Each fret is one half-step up. Guitar players don&#x27;t get lost!<p>&gt; You seem to think that making the keyboard more symmetrical, or more uniform, or different somehow, makes it easier to learn.<p>Yes, and for good reason. It means the student can skip learning 11&#x2F;12ths of the required muscle memory. That&#x27;s a very significant, and very measurable gain.<p>&gt; The field of music and music instrument technology is alive and well and waiting for your invention.<p>That remains to be seen. In fact, the very article we are discussing shows how difficult it is to make the world-changing introduction of <i>a piano with slightly smaller keys</i>.<p>&gt; Also, altered dominants and the various minor modes, in addition to the major scale modes I mentioned. Yes that adds up to probably 300 or 400 scales. Which takes a lot of work, regardless of whether you have a standard keyboard or a WWWWWWWWWWWW keyboard.<p>And then you multiply that 400 by <i>twelve</i>, and you learn just how much muscle memory is required to play the piano.<p>Since you seem to think this is such an impossible task, note that it has already been accomplished: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=cK4REjqGc9w</a><p>The only way Janko&#x27;s keyboard is not fundamentally superior is that it isn&#x27;t widely available.</text></item><item><author>sporkologist</author><text>&gt; Everything is made more arbitrarily complicated when it&#x27;s represented by its departure from the Ionian mode. It would be much more efficient to use the chromatic scale as a base instead.<p>Your approach is simply not feasible. Let me demonstrate.<p>Here are some options:<p>The newly chromatic keyboard is all white&#x2F;black&#x2F;white&#x2F;black alternated keys, WBWBWBWBWBWB for one octave.<p>How do you look at that and figure out where C is?<p>Likewise, a new keyboard can be all white keys. WWWWWWWWWWWW<p>How do you know where anything is?<p>We need <i>some</i> patterns in order for our brains to be oriented to the instrument. The pattern of WBWBWWBWBWBW (standard 12-note sequence on keyboards), is a well-understood one that makes it practical for keyboardists to make music.<p>If there exists a 3rd option which makes orientability and fast muscle memory easier than it is, it needs to be innovated.<p>You seem to think that making the keyboard more symmetrical, or more uniform, or different somehow, makes it easier to learn. It doesn&#x27;t work that way. However if you in fact have an improvement not obvious to those in the industry, many players would be thankful for your work. The field of music and music instrument technology is alive and well and waiting for your invention.<p>Now to address your mode concept..... Your presumption that everything is just Ionian mode transposed is absolutely incorrect. Each different mode (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian (those are all modes of <i>just</i> the major scale)) has its own identity. I&#x27;m surprised that you as a musician are unaware&#x2F;blind to this, or consider it &quot;needless complexity imposed by the vain professional musician community&quot;. Also, altered dominants and the various minor modes, in addition to the major scale modes I mentioned. Yes that adds up to probably 300 or 400 scales. Which takes a lot of work, regardless of whether you have a standard keyboard or a WWWWWWWWWWWW keyboard.</text></item><item><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>I&#x27;m coming from a place where I <i>do</i> know the jargon. That doesn&#x27;t mean I have to like it.<p>There is obvious room for improvement. The syntax is not nearly as efficient as it could be.<p>Everything is made more arbitrarily complicated when it&#x27;s represented by its departure from the Ionian mode. It would be much more efficient to use the chromatic scale as a base instead.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s complex, because simple music is for children.<p>Oh, I&#x27;m a child now? I&#x27;m talking about &quot;simple&quot; music? Get of your high horse. I wish I could say that your attitude was rare in music. Unfortunately, it represents the majority in professional circles.<p>The <i>status quo</i> is protected by this vain professionalism at a heavy cost.</text></item><item><author>sporkologist</author><text>&gt; The same goes for notation and theory verbiage. It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re stuck in a codebase that was started centuries ago, and everyone is too afraid to commit a bugfix, let alone a major refactor.<p>There is no simple way of saying Gbmin7&#x2F;B. It&#x27;s just complex. It takes years of learning. The syntax is as efficient as it can be, it&#x27;s not like millions of musicians aren&#x27;t thinking about this stuff. It&#x27;s complex, because simple music is for children. Music has its jargon, as does medicine, geology, or programming, and you should stop thinking about it like it&#x27;s a secret language meant to keep you pesky programmers out of it.</text></item><item><author>thomastjeffery</author><text>Where are the pianists for nonstandard keyboards?<p>The traditional layout is terrible for so many more reasons than size. In order to become a proficient pianist, you must learn (create muscle memory for) every scale and chord 11 unnecessary times. 1 pattern for C, 1 for C#&#x2F;Db, one for D, and so on.<p>If we dropped the &quot;white keys are for C Ionian and black keys are for &#x27;accidentals&#x27;&quot; layout for a chromatic one, a pianist would only need to learn every scale and chord once, and playing in a different key would involve nothing more than moving their hands.<p>The same goes for notation and theory verbiage. It&#x27;s like we&#x27;re stuck in a codebase that was started centuries ago, and everyone is too afraid to commit a bugfix, let alone a major refactor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sporkologist</author><text>&gt; messy<p>God forbid that complex things are messy. They are, until you learn the system and can have mastery over it. You only have 1&#x2F;12th the work to do as us normal musicians, so it should be much easier for you.</text></comment> |
33,468,431 | 33,468,496 | 1 | 3 | 33,464,494 | train | <story><title>Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent</title><url>https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-alameda-research-insolvent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kennend3</author><text>&gt; First very simple point, to become insolvent you have to actually take a loss somewhere.<p>This has absolutely NOTHING to do with being insolvent.<p>&quot;Insolvency<p>In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company, at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be insolvent. There are two forms: cash-flow insolvency and balance-sheet insolvency. &quot;<p>Insolvency deals with the inability to repay your debts (insufficient cash flow is the most common).</text></item><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>As someone in the industry, it&#x27;s almost certainly <i>not</i>.<p>First very simple point, to become insolvent you have to actually take a loss somewhere. They may have a lot of junk tokens on their balance sheet, and these tokens may be overmarked, but Alameda&#x27;s cost basis (most of them were from seed rounds) is still <i>way</i> below their current value.<p>With Three Arrows it was very obvious where the loss was from, they were hyper-bullish and doubling down on BTC all the way from $69,000 to $18,000 using leverage. By contrast Alameda is notorious for being dollar maxis, constantly taking money off the table, and very rarely having any sort of long-term major beta exposure. (A big reason they have a reputation as mercenaries in the space.)<p>The second point is that the bulk of their liabilities are in the same tokens on their balance sheet. This is particularly true for the FTT token, almost certainly the FTT on their balance sheet is simply a loan from FTX (which is essentially the same org) to Alameda to make a market on FTT on FTX. Regardless if FTT collapses, it wouldn&#x27;t matter cause insolvency both the asset and liability side of the balance sheet would go down.<p>Most likely this is true for much of the rest of their liabilities. Crypto trading firms like Alameda make a huge proportion of their revenue from being &quot;paid market makers&quot; for specific token projects. It&#x27;s very hard for new tokens to bootstrap liquidity. So the typical arrangement is a token project will &quot;lend&quot; Alameda something like 5% of the supply, which Alameda will use to be a market maker in that token at all of the major venues. Most of the liabilities on their balance sheet are probably these token deals, rather than loans made in hard currency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deetsb</author><text>I&#x27;d argue balance sheet insolvency is really the most colloquial definition insolvency. You can always sell assets (at a haircut of course) to evade cash flow insolvency (arguably that&#x27;s closer to illiquidity really), but you can&#x27;t do anything to get out of balance sheet insolvency except restructure your liabilities.<p>Alameda being in balance sheet insolvency would depend on their assets taking enough of a hit to wipe out the equity buffer.<p>To Doug&#x27;s point the junk tokens are likely at book value on their balance sheet</text></comment> | <story><title>Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent</title><url>https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-alameda-research-insolvent</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kennend3</author><text>&gt; First very simple point, to become insolvent you have to actually take a loss somewhere.<p>This has absolutely NOTHING to do with being insolvent.<p>&quot;Insolvency<p>In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company, at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be insolvent. There are two forms: cash-flow insolvency and balance-sheet insolvency. &quot;<p>Insolvency deals with the inability to repay your debts (insufficient cash flow is the most common).</text></item><item><author>dcolkitt</author><text>As someone in the industry, it&#x27;s almost certainly <i>not</i>.<p>First very simple point, to become insolvent you have to actually take a loss somewhere. They may have a lot of junk tokens on their balance sheet, and these tokens may be overmarked, but Alameda&#x27;s cost basis (most of them were from seed rounds) is still <i>way</i> below their current value.<p>With Three Arrows it was very obvious where the loss was from, they were hyper-bullish and doubling down on BTC all the way from $69,000 to $18,000 using leverage. By contrast Alameda is notorious for being dollar maxis, constantly taking money off the table, and very rarely having any sort of long-term major beta exposure. (A big reason they have a reputation as mercenaries in the space.)<p>The second point is that the bulk of their liabilities are in the same tokens on their balance sheet. This is particularly true for the FTT token, almost certainly the FTT on their balance sheet is simply a loan from FTX (which is essentially the same org) to Alameda to make a market on FTT on FTX. Regardless if FTT collapses, it wouldn&#x27;t matter cause insolvency both the asset and liability side of the balance sheet would go down.<p>Most likely this is true for much of the rest of their liabilities. Crypto trading firms like Alameda make a huge proportion of their revenue from being &quot;paid market makers&quot; for specific token projects. It&#x27;s very hard for new tokens to bootstrap liquidity. So the typical arrangement is a token project will &quot;lend&quot; Alameda something like 5% of the supply, which Alameda will use to be a market maker in that token at all of the major venues. Most of the liabilities on their balance sheet are probably these token deals, rather than loans made in hard currency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dchftcs</author><text>Given the assumption that their balance sheet is liquid enough or they have the cash flow to pay the debts, it&#x27;s reasonable to say that they have take losses as a trading firm to be potentially insolvent.<p>In fact you could turn your argument around to critize the article too, as they are based on the assumption that some of the assets should marked to zero, rather than examining empirically whether those assets could be either collateral or be used to pay the debt.</text></comment> |
22,328,413 | 22,328,343 | 1 | 2 | 22,328,109 | train | <story><title>Founders share the challenges of running a tech business</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-biggest-challenges-of-running-a-tech-business-ea87797f6d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taylorhou</author><text>enjoy how there&#x27;s perspective given from the responders with their current MRR as well. as a founder of a bootstrapped tech-enabled service startup with $135k+ MRR is cash flow. Accounts Receivable is a PITA and it still hasn&#x27;t been solved (even with the likes of bill.com, harvest, stripe, paypal, qbo, etc...) - i&#x27;d almost pay for a company to outsource our AR to completely to represent us on initial AR, 30-90 day AR, collections, demand letters, and ultimately lawsuits if needed. bleh.</text></comment> | <story><title>Founders share the challenges of running a tech business</title><url>https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-biggest-challenges-of-running-a-tech-business-ea87797f6d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>taylorjacobson</author><text>wow, love the honesty of some of these, killer compilation<p>really liked this --&gt; &quot;From the start, I was aware that I was taking on a huge project that other companies have devoted entire teams to, but I chose to look at it as more of a mental challenge than a technical one. I knew I had the skillset to pull it off, I just had to keep myself motivated and on track.&quot;</text></comment> |
33,125,924 | 33,122,110 | 1 | 3 | 33,119,801 | train | <story><title>Reality is just a game now</title><url>https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombcar</author><text>The &quot;customized feed for you&quot; is not as unique as you&#x27;d expect. It basically is the algorithm fitting you into some number of buckets and then serving you that content.<p>And speaking of shared experiences, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XqZsoesa55w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XqZsoesa55w</a> has been watched 11 <i>billion</i> times.<p>However, I suspect 10 billion of those may be my kids ...</text></item><item><author>alexpotato</author><text>Back in the mid 90&#x27;s as the Internet was starting to become more accessible to the general public, I remember reading an article that made the following point:<p>The telegraph effectively killed many newspapers as everyone moved to newspapers to printed national and global news. That was bad b&#x2F;c it lowered the options people had for consuming news and dramatically reduced the diversity of ideas and opinions. The Internet was going to do the same to the point that we all read the same big websites and therefore had the same thoughts, opinions etc. &lt;end of the point&gt;<p>I remember reading this and thinking &quot;that kind of makes sense&quot;. Revisiting the idea recently, Pandora, YouTube, TikTok etc have all made a business out of building a customized feed for YOU. It&#x27;s become the exact opposite of what the original article predicted. It&#x27;s not surprising that we&#x27;ve become so divided when you can &quot;build&quot; your own reality by choosing the information streams that you want to consume.<p>PS In terms of mass media shared experiences, 120 MILLION people watched the series finale of the TV show MASH. Hard to imagine a similar event today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basch</author><text>In fact, the &quot;customized feed for you&quot; does one thing really well. It treats you exactly like it learned to treat someone &quot;like you&quot; from the past. So what it really does is regurgitate an old, stale, pattern. In some sense, it prevents you from finding new experiences, keeping society frozen in time, repeating the behavior sequences of those before them, the pioneers and trailblazers that define the relationships early.<p>Im a broken record with how often I cite this article, but any chance I get where it is relevant it is worth exposing people to. And this thread is that moment. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;adamcurtis&#x2F;entries&#x2F;78691781-c9b7-30a0-9a0a-3ff76e8bfe58" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;adamcurtis&#x2F;entries&#x2F;78691781-c9b7...</a><p>The other thing algorithmic feeds, and even some sites like buzzfeed do, is generate strings of nonsense. This isnt quite a new phenomenon, but started in the 80s with MTV. &quot;Whereas variety shows and televised concerts in the 1960s and 70s provided context and structure to the music they presented, MTV instead gave viewers a rapid succession of wildly different sounds and visual accompaniments to those sounds, without any logic connecting one video to another.&quot;
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;5&#x2F;20&#x2F;5730762&#x2F;buzzfeeds-founder-used-to-write-marxist-theory-and-it-explains" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;5&#x2F;20&#x2F;5730762&#x2F;buzzfeeds-founder-used...</a> Compare America&#x27;s funniest home videos, with a host, callbacks, and even a basic narrative structure to tiktok. At least Tiktok accomplishes SOME of the culture missing from prior products on the market in the last decade by inviting people to remix videos with the same audio.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reality is just a game now</title><url>https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombcar</author><text>The &quot;customized feed for you&quot; is not as unique as you&#x27;d expect. It basically is the algorithm fitting you into some number of buckets and then serving you that content.<p>And speaking of shared experiences, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XqZsoesa55w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XqZsoesa55w</a> has been watched 11 <i>billion</i> times.<p>However, I suspect 10 billion of those may be my kids ...</text></item><item><author>alexpotato</author><text>Back in the mid 90&#x27;s as the Internet was starting to become more accessible to the general public, I remember reading an article that made the following point:<p>The telegraph effectively killed many newspapers as everyone moved to newspapers to printed national and global news. That was bad b&#x2F;c it lowered the options people had for consuming news and dramatically reduced the diversity of ideas and opinions. The Internet was going to do the same to the point that we all read the same big websites and therefore had the same thoughts, opinions etc. &lt;end of the point&gt;<p>I remember reading this and thinking &quot;that kind of makes sense&quot;. Revisiting the idea recently, Pandora, YouTube, TikTok etc have all made a business out of building a customized feed for YOU. It&#x27;s become the exact opposite of what the original article predicted. It&#x27;s not surprising that we&#x27;ve become so divided when you can &quot;build&quot; your own reality by choosing the information streams that you want to consume.<p>PS In terms of mass media shared experiences, 120 MILLION people watched the series finale of the TV show MASH. Hard to imagine a similar event today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magic_hamster</author><text>While billions might watch a video on YouTube, it&#x27;s not truly a shared experience unless it happens at the same time. And at least for me, even with live chat scrolling in the speed of light to the side, it still doesn&#x27;t feel the same as &quot;Live TV&quot; did. But as I commented elsewhere in the discussion, I still prefer the current experience.</text></comment> |
16,639,634 | 16,639,977 | 1 | 2 | 16,638,570 | train | <story><title>Guide to Slack import and export tools</title><url>https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204897248-guide-to-slack-data-exports</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterkelly</author><text>If two people want to have a private conversation, they&#x27;ll just find another means by which to do it. In the long run, abusing your privileged access to conversations intended to be private (however justified you may consider it to be) will just breed mistrust among employees. I would quit a job that treated me as a child which must be supervised in such a manner.</text></item><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong--it&#x27;s not like I <i>want</i> to read your messages and very likely won&#x27;t. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern accounts into multi-channel guests after that. Compare that to our email, where I can go into anyone&#x27;s messages immediately if need-be. This is all very standard corporate IT stuff that you need for HR and legal reasons.<p>Edit: I&#x27;ll say this is still not an ideal solution. I don&#x27;t go into private communications unless I have to, and I&#x27;d rather have the option to review specific DMs &#x2F; private channels than dump everything. I really don&#x27;t want <i>everything</i>; that&#x27;s more than I care to see. Also, to clarify, I&#x27;m in the US and our employees are well aware that communications on company-operated platforms should not be considered private. I <i>want</i> them to be careful how they communicate in writing, not because they should be worried about me, but because they should be worried about Slack getting hacked&#x2F;leaked. With the recent Facebook news, I should have thought that sort of concern was obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedivm</author><text>I hate to tell you this but if you would quit a job for this reason you probably can&#x27;t work in the US. The US has laws about corporate compliance, and it has requirements for things like dealing with sexual harassment. There is no such thing as a &quot;private conversation&quot; that takes place over a corporate network.<p>For example, in the US sexual harassment is taken seriously. If a company gets a complaint of sexual harassment on Slack they are legally obligated to look into it, and if they refuse to the individual managers could personally be held liable for it. This includes situations where the person being harassed isn&#x27;t directly in the conversation- the above example of harassment over slack could have evidence of coordination in a different private channel than the ones the harassment target is in.</text></comment> | <story><title>Guide to Slack import and export tools</title><url>https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204897248-guide-to-slack-data-exports</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterkelly</author><text>If two people want to have a private conversation, they&#x27;ll just find another means by which to do it. In the long run, abusing your privileged access to conversations intended to be private (however justified you may consider it to be) will just breed mistrust among employees. I would quit a job that treated me as a child which must be supervised in such a manner.</text></item><item><author>tvanantwerp</author><text>As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong--it&#x27;s not like I <i>want</i> to read your messages and very likely won&#x27;t. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern accounts into multi-channel guests after that. Compare that to our email, where I can go into anyone&#x27;s messages immediately if need-be. This is all very standard corporate IT stuff that you need for HR and legal reasons.<p>Edit: I&#x27;ll say this is still not an ideal solution. I don&#x27;t go into private communications unless I have to, and I&#x27;d rather have the option to review specific DMs &#x2F; private channels than dump everything. I really don&#x27;t want <i>everything</i>; that&#x27;s more than I care to see. Also, to clarify, I&#x27;m in the US and our employees are well aware that communications on company-operated platforms should not be considered private. I <i>want</i> them to be careful how they communicate in writing, not because they should be worried about me, but because they should be worried about Slack getting hacked&#x2F;leaked. With the recent Facebook news, I should have thought that sort of concern was obvious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspillett</author><text><i>&gt; If two people want to have a private conversation</i><p>You response is based on a false fact: that anything you use official company communication channels for should be considered private.<p>HR functions can and will access such communication to investigate complaints about behaviour and similar. Compliance and legal functions can and will access such communication to investigate complaints relevant to them. They can, will, and often <i>must</i> provide access to such communication to relevant external bodies (legal authorities, regulators) under some circumstances too. Heck, in some regulated environments compliance functions are <i>required</i> not just to view your communications for specific reasons but to <i>actively monitor</i> them for certain activity (if they fail to do so they could be liable for punishments for a due diligence failing). For instance our email is monitored to block distribution of client data, accidental or otherwise.<p>If you want a private conversation, use a truly private channel not an employer provided&#x2F;related one.<p><i>&gt; they&#x27;ll just find another means by which to do it</i><p>The fact that people will find away around rules, restrictions, and monitoring, is not a good reason for not implementing such rules, restrictions, and monitoring in the first place.<p>If the private conversation is in no way a problem then, well, there isn&#x27;t a problem.<p>If it is something that would cause the participants trouble if performed over an official channel then when&#x2F;if the matter does come to light it shows malice of forethought and planning (i.e. that the participants knew they were in the wrong and took specific action to hide their behaviour rather than correct it).<p><i>&gt; I would quit a job</i><p>In many (most?) industries you would not even <i>get</i> a job without explicitly agreeing to the fact that your communications using employer provided&#x2F;related services can be accessed by some functions of the organisation and distributed to external authorities, so you would not be in a position to need to quit.</text></comment> |
19,575,336 | 19,575,311 | 1 | 2 | 19,573,893 | train | <story><title>Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report</title><url>http://www.ecaa.gov.et/documents/20435/0/Preliminary+Report+B737-800MAX+%2C%28ET-AVJ%29.pdf/4c65422d-5e4f-4689-9c58-d7af1ee17f3e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>Per the article a combination of things put them in that situation. Not just MCAS. Why is everyone so wedded to the narrative that this is the fault of MCAS and nothing else? Complex systems that have millions of man hours spent making them safer don&#x27;t usually have back to back failures because of one faulty subsystem. We&#x27;ve incrementally refined commercial air travel to the point where single source accidents are basically nonexistent.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that MCAS isn&#x27;t mostly to blame but the fact that the maximum inputs from the pilot is still lesser than the control authority from the trim raises some serious questions MCAS or not. Had &quot;extend flaps&quot; been at the bottom of the checklist that would have disabled MCAS and likely prevented this crash.</text></item><item><author>fgonzag</author><text>So MCAS put them in a hard to recover position which required electric trim to recover, and as soon as they turned on the electric trim MCAS turned on again and forced them into a crash?<p>Then this is much worse than initially suggested, it means a pilot can be aware of MCAS and still be put in a extremely dangerous position due to the extreme control authority of the module.</text></item><item><author>mhandley</author><text>Indeed looks like they did disable MCAS using the stabilizer trim cutout switches, but the aircraft was trimmed nose down when they did so. Aerodynamic loading prevented manual trimming using the trim wheels. They eventually turned electric trim back on, as they didn&#x27;t really have any other options, but didn&#x27;t trim back enough, and left it turned on. At this point the right airspeed indicator (which should be more reliable) reads 365 knots. VMO is 340, so they&#x27;re already in big trouble. 5 seconds later, MCAS kicked back in, and then it was all over. Very sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fgonzag</author><text>It&#x27;s true there were aggravating factors, like the inability to manually rectify trim, which (would seem to me) would be a aerodynamic or design issue.<p>The point still stands, the root cause was MCAS, without it this would never have happened. MCAS would not have pitched them into a dive, and even if they were pitched into a dive by some non MCAS system, they would have been able to turn on electric trim and recover. MCAS both caused the situation, and made fixing it impossible, so it was the root cause of the crash.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report</title><url>http://www.ecaa.gov.et/documents/20435/0/Preliminary+Report+B737-800MAX+%2C%28ET-AVJ%29.pdf/4c65422d-5e4f-4689-9c58-d7af1ee17f3e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>Per the article a combination of things put them in that situation. Not just MCAS. Why is everyone so wedded to the narrative that this is the fault of MCAS and nothing else? Complex systems that have millions of man hours spent making them safer don&#x27;t usually have back to back failures because of one faulty subsystem. We&#x27;ve incrementally refined commercial air travel to the point where single source accidents are basically nonexistent.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that MCAS isn&#x27;t mostly to blame but the fact that the maximum inputs from the pilot is still lesser than the control authority from the trim raises some serious questions MCAS or not. Had &quot;extend flaps&quot; been at the bottom of the checklist that would have disabled MCAS and likely prevented this crash.</text></item><item><author>fgonzag</author><text>So MCAS put them in a hard to recover position which required electric trim to recover, and as soon as they turned on the electric trim MCAS turned on again and forced them into a crash?<p>Then this is much worse than initially suggested, it means a pilot can be aware of MCAS and still be put in a extremely dangerous position due to the extreme control authority of the module.</text></item><item><author>mhandley</author><text>Indeed looks like they did disable MCAS using the stabilizer trim cutout switches, but the aircraft was trimmed nose down when they did so. Aerodynamic loading prevented manual trimming using the trim wheels. They eventually turned electric trim back on, as they didn&#x27;t really have any other options, but didn&#x27;t trim back enough, and left it turned on. At this point the right airspeed indicator (which should be more reliable) reads 365 knots. VMO is 340, so they&#x27;re already in big trouble. 5 seconds later, MCAS kicked back in, and then it was all over. Very sad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quenstionsasked</author><text>MCAS issues nose-down, speed increases and nose pitches down. Nose never pitches back up. Plane crashes.<p>Sure, maybe some complex combination of maneuvers could have helped them out of this but there&#x27;s really everything pointing the blame at this one system. Pilots did what the boeing manual suggested (even included at the end of this report).</text></comment> |
25,281,921 | 25,276,394 | 1 | 2 | 25,275,588 | train | <story><title>National parks of New Zealand in 3D</title><url>https://felixpalmer.github.io/new-zealand-3d/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codeulike</author><text>The Department of Conservation (DOC) that look after the National Parks in NZ are brilliant. I drove all over NZ in a campervan about twelve years ago - as many do - literally every second vehicle you see is a campervan - and everything is really well signposted. You pull off the road into a layby, and there will be a wooden sign saying &quot;Waterfall - 30 min walk&quot; and then you follow a well kept path for 30 min and then you find a waterfall. Simple! And there are unstaffed DOC campsites in very beautiful places with very basic facilities (tap, compost loo). You just stay the night and then drop an envolope of cash into a box. And the huts in the middle of nowhere that take days to hike to, somehow they keep them maintained too.</text></comment> | <story><title>National parks of New Zealand in 3D</title><url>https://felixpalmer.github.io/new-zealand-3d/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>It looks a bit weird for me - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;rC3wXOw.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;rC3wXOw.png</a><p>I take that&#x27;s not normal, is it?</text></comment> |
36,581,049 | 36,580,719 | 1 | 2 | 36,580,417 | train | <story><title>Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild</title><url>https://labs.hakaioffsec.com/nginx-alias-traversal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evgpbfhnr</author><text>FWIW gixy (nginx configuration checker) catches this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yandex&#x2F;gixy&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;aliastraversal.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yandex&#x2F;gixy&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;docs&#x2F;en&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;a...</a><p>(and nixos automatically runs gixy on a configuration generated through it, so the system refuses to build &lt;3)</text></comment> | <story><title>Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild</title><url>https://labs.hakaioffsec.com/nginx-alias-traversal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>542458</author><text>At risk of asking a dumb question, is there any good reason that you’d <i>want</i> nginx to allow traversing into “..” from a URL path? It just seems like problems waiting to happen.<p>Edit: Actually, I’m a bit lost as to what’s happening in the original vuln. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost&#x2F;foo..&#x2F;secretfile.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost&#x2F;foo..&#x2F;secretfile.txt</a> gets interpreted as &#x2F;var&#x2F;www&#x2F;foo&#x2F;..&#x2F;secretfile.txt or whatever… but why wouldn’t a server without the vulnerability interpret <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost&#x2F;foo&#x2F;..&#x2F;secretfile.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost&#x2F;foo&#x2F;..&#x2F;secretfile.txt</a> the same way? Why does “..” in paths only work <i>sometimes</i>?</text></comment> |
26,338,104 | 26,337,990 | 1 | 3 | 26,337,046 | train | <story><title>It Can Happen to You</title><url>https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2021-03-01-happen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkeeter</author><text>Blog author here! Thanks to HN for warning me about sscanf at <i>exactly</i> the right time – within a day of me trying to load some ASCII STLs and noticing it was slow...<p>Linked deep in the Twitter replies [1], there&#x27;s an open glibc issue about this, dating back to 2014:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;bugzilla&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=17577" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;bugzilla&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=17577</a><p>C doesn&#x27;t have any <i>requirements</i> on the complexity of sscanf, so it might not be a bug per se, but it&#x27;s certainly... a pitfall.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;impraxical&#x2F;status&#x2F;1367194430835425283" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;impraxical&#x2F;status&#x2F;1367194430835425283</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>I love the format of this blog post. Perfect length. Perfect detail. You don&#x27;t waste words. A good number of images.</text></comment> | <story><title>It Can Happen to You</title><url>https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2021-03-01-happen/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkeeter</author><text>Blog author here! Thanks to HN for warning me about sscanf at <i>exactly</i> the right time – within a day of me trying to load some ASCII STLs and noticing it was slow...<p>Linked deep in the Twitter replies [1], there&#x27;s an open glibc issue about this, dating back to 2014:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;bugzilla&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=17577" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceware.org&#x2F;bugzilla&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=17577</a><p>C doesn&#x27;t have any <i>requirements</i> on the complexity of sscanf, so it might not be a bug per se, but it&#x27;s certainly... a pitfall.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;impraxical&#x2F;status&#x2F;1367194430835425283" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;impraxical&#x2F;status&#x2F;1367194430835425283</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BenFrantzDale</author><text>IMO the lack of a complexity requirement is a bug in the C standard. And really it’s a bug in the implementation(s?) too. If it can be done on O(1), shame on library authors for doing it in O(n). If you want programmers to trust library authors, don’t do this to us. Maybe std::from_chars FTW?</text></comment> |
32,059,071 | 32,047,285 | 1 | 2 | 32,043,026 | train | <story><title>Technical overview of Kandria, a game and game engine developed in Common Lisp</title><url>https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Shinmera</author><text>Heya, I&#x27;m the author of the article. I&#x27;ve been working on Kandria full time for close to two years now, and on-and-off for some years while I was doing my Master&#x27;s at ETH. The engine it&#x27;s running on, Trial, is a few years older still, and initially just started out of the good ole university boredom and curiosity. Games is how I got into programming when I was about 6, and that particular fever hasn&#x27;t left me yet it seems, ha ha!<p>Kandria itself started as a &quot;more serious&quot; attempt at a game after I&#x27;d been making jam games with Trial for some years. I wanted to create something bigger, and had just finished playing through Celeste, so I just set out to replicate its mechanics in my own way. You can still find some demos of those very early days on my YouTube channel, if you&#x27;re curious. In any case, the project went through several big changes until it turned into what it is now. During the pandemic in 2020 I finally decided to drop out of my Master&#x27;s to pursue the project full time. At that point I also brought on a couple more people to help with the writing, art, and sound.<p>We&#x27;re currently also running a Kickstarter to get us some extra funds for the project. It ends on Thursday 14th, 12:00 CEST, so there&#x27;s not that much time left in it. If you&#x27;d like to support our work, please have a look: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;shinmera&#x2F;kandria" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;shinmera&#x2F;kandria</a>
The campaign page has a lot more details on the project and the team, if you&#x27;re curious about that.<p>In the article I primarily cover the programming parts, giving a surface overview of the technologies involved and at least giving a brief hint at the methodology I employ to create games. I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;ve left out a lot of details that you might be curious about, so if you have any questions, please feel free to ask and I&#x27;ll try my best to answer!</text></comment> | <story><title>Technical overview of Kandria, a game and game engine developed in Common Lisp</title><url>https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whartung</author><text>This is a nice write up.<p>The dark side is that they&#x27;ve put years into developing the core infrastructure to empower their Lisp game journey. Ideally that&#x27;s all usable by others to &quot;stand on the shoulders&quot;, so to speak, but that&#x27;s always a challenge.<p>I honestly have never had to work on a &quot;running image&quot; of any consequence. I&#x27;ve never worked on anything more than a few thousand lines of code. I&#x27;ve never needed any kind of source level &quot;step&quot; debugging. The ability to redefine a function quickly, I just throw in some prints to figure something out.<p>Reloading the entire source file was always fast enough to now warrant hunting down any of the more interactive mechanisms available. This is all across using simple vi, or emacs, or even LispWorks.<p><pre><code> (defun l () (load &quot;src.lisp&quot;))
</code></pre>
Just save the file, and type that.<p>All that said, my current low level fantasy is something akin to Electron, only with Common Lisp. First class DOM, first class event hooks, into a CL runtime that you can deploy cross platform. Dunno if that exists or not.<p>I&#x27;m sure at some point my codebase will grow to the point where I would need to &quot;level up&quot; and become more intimate with SLIME, packages, system definitions, etc.<p>I&#x27;ve just not crossed that threshold yet.</text></comment> |
11,440,350 | 11,439,889 | 1 | 3 | 11,439,462 | train | <story><title>How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-national-security-powers-are-underpinning-some-ordinary-criminal-cases/2016/04/05/1a7685f4-fa36-11e5-80e4-c381214de1a3_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SeanDav</author><text>If, during the entire history of the USA, some FBI agents had never been proven to be corrupt, if judges had never been proven to be corrupt, if evidence had never been proved to be planted by authorities, then maybe, just maybe this would be justified.<p>In the real world, however, this is very, very scary and I consider myself lucky I am not subject to this travesty.<p>Since there does not appear to be any proof that he downloaded the images, or was involved in any way, other than pictures being found on various hard drives, it is quite plausible to me that the FBI&#x2F;NSA&#x2F;CIA planted evidence in order to blackmail him.</text></comment> | <story><title>How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-national-security-powers-are-underpinning-some-ordinary-criminal-cases/2016/04/05/1a7685f4-fa36-11e5-80e4-c381214de1a3_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mholt</author><text>The main problem I see is this:<p>&gt; His attorney said his defense was hampered by an inability to obtain basic information about how the evidence was obtained and on what specific grounds the warrant was issued.<p>Authorities can obtain secret warrants and conduct ordinary criminal investigations with it, conveniently withholding the evidence from the defense attorney on the grounds that it was obtained under FISA. So now a man who is innocent of the crime they got a warrant to investigate is unable to defend himself for another, more ordinary, crime.<p>Not saying that crime is excusable and that jail time isn&#x27;t justified for child porn, but the inability to defend himself seems unfair.</text></comment> |
40,197,918 | 40,198,037 | 1 | 2 | 40,197,346 | train | <story><title>What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)</title><url>https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/nonplussed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slibhb</author><text>First they came for literally and I did nothing because I wasn&#x27;t a pedant.<p>Then they came for nonplussed and I still did nothing because I&#x27;m still not a pedant.<p>I sure hope they don&#x27;t come for pedant next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huygens6363</author><text>You are literally nonplussed.</text></comment> | <story><title>What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)</title><url>https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/nonplussed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slibhb</author><text>First they came for literally and I did nothing because I wasn&#x27;t a pedant.<p>Then they came for nonplussed and I still did nothing because I&#x27;m still not a pedant.<p>I sure hope they don&#x27;t come for pedant next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobarian</author><text>That begs the question, what will you do about it?</text></comment> |
9,267,823 | 9,267,794 | 1 | 2 | 9,266,540 | train | <story><title>ComponentKit by Facebook: A React-Inspired View Framework for iOS</title><url>http://componentkit.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i_s</author><text>This technology looks great.<p>It is too bad Facebook doesn&#x27;t have their own platform like iOS or Android. It&#x27;s becoming pretty clear that they have a much better handle on UI technology than Apple, Google, Microsoft, or anyone really. Them creating a logical functional UI API on top of messy imperative APIs is very helpful, but even better would be if that was not necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eddieplan9</author><text>&gt; <i>a logical functional UI API on top of messy imperative APIs</i><p>But without the &quot;messy&quot; imperative API, the functional UI cannot be built. This applies to all functional UI frameworks.<p>It&#x27;s funny that one of React&#x27;s core ideas is to ditch the now old functional&#x2F;declarative paradigm that is template languages and allows you to use imperative JavaScript to directly build up a virtual DOM.</text></comment> | <story><title>ComponentKit by Facebook: A React-Inspired View Framework for iOS</title><url>http://componentkit.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i_s</author><text>This technology looks great.<p>It is too bad Facebook doesn&#x27;t have their own platform like iOS or Android. It&#x27;s becoming pretty clear that they have a much better handle on UI technology than Apple, Google, Microsoft, or anyone really. Them creating a logical functional UI API on top of messy imperative APIs is very helpful, but even better would be if that was not necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cgcardona</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s becoming pretty clear that they have a much better handle on UI technology than Apple, Google, Microsoft, or anyone really.<p>Can you explain what you&#x27;re thinking here? In what way(s) specifically? Thanks.</text></comment> |
37,696,329 | 37,692,266 | 1 | 2 | 37,691,057 | train | <story><title>Airliner Repair, 24/7 Boeing’s traveling fix-it team (2008)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/airliner-repair-247-9974457/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>It costs $200,000 a day to have an airplane-on-ground. The AOG crew is Boeing&#x27;s best engineers and mechanics. An airplane flying is earning money. An airplane on the ground loses money at a prodigious rate. Boeing&#x27;s job, from design to AOG, is all about keeping the airplane in the air earning money as much as possible.<p>I read that Microsoft also has an &quot;AOG&quot; crew, to fix broken critical software systems. It&#x27;s a big reason why companies by Microsoft software rather than open source. If a company&#x27;s software stops working, the company stops making money, and they want it fixed ASAP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>I work in video games, for one of the largest publishers in the business - I can vouch for the Xbox part of that. If you have a game out there with a critical bug that makes it crash or interrupt gameplay for hundreds of thousands of players, you get direct access to the Xbox team, all the way to people behind the OS. Most intense 3 days of my life, fixing something that ultimately ended up being an unannounced change in their API behaviour that maybe looked harmless on paper but caused our game to be unplayable for about 2 million players. Basically Microsoft gave us direct line to their best teams so we got the fix in as quickly as we could.</text></comment> | <story><title>Airliner Repair, 24/7 Boeing’s traveling fix-it team (2008)</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/airliner-repair-247-9974457/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>It costs $200,000 a day to have an airplane-on-ground. The AOG crew is Boeing&#x27;s best engineers and mechanics. An airplane flying is earning money. An airplane on the ground loses money at a prodigious rate. Boeing&#x27;s job, from design to AOG, is all about keeping the airplane in the air earning money as much as possible.<p>I read that Microsoft also has an &quot;AOG&quot; crew, to fix broken critical software systems. It&#x27;s a big reason why companies by Microsoft software rather than open source. If a company&#x27;s software stops working, the company stops making money, and they want it fixed ASAP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Not just aerospace, I vividly remember the first, and last, time I saw an An-124 in person. They were hired to fly some 60 ton heavy mining equipment, a gearbox for a ore mill if I remember correctly, from Munich to some place in Asia. All in all, from hiring the Antonov to it leaving loaded for Asia, tool 3 days. That included sourcing and transportimg the equipment from the manufacturer to the airport.<p>Sometime time is so much money, that money is a seemingly second thought. Still the economics work out.<p>Side note, I was sure to see you under this submission before clicking on it! A pleasure as always!</text></comment> |
36,447,905 | 36,447,095 | 1 | 3 | 36,445,278 | train | <story><title>Big VC, Tech Got Backstop for Billions in Uninsured SVB Deposits</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-23/fdic-insured-billions-in-deposits-for-sequoia-other-top-svb-customers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lesuorac</author><text>When you&#x27;re paid millions of dollars its your job to hedge risks.<p>When you&#x27;re just a small renter, it&#x27;s fine for when the handyman doesn&#x27;t show up the apartment keeps flooding. When you&#x27;re a 200 unit apartment owner, you better have a list of a dozen handymen that you can go down when the first one doesn&#x27;t show up.<p>These banks are the equivalent of the apartment owner. They are expected to be able to survive any decision the FED makes short of the FED shutting them down and even in that case they should have known ahead of time and been working on an appeal.</text></item><item><author>fosk</author><text>The Fed first said it would not increase rates, then it said inflation was transitory, then all of a sudden they did a 360 and increased the rates the highest in more than a decade, then they are saying they will keep increasing, then something will inevitably break, and then they will start cutting again despite their original plans.<p>Sure the banks should have managed risks better and this whole fiasco falls on SVB, but to be fair the Fed is doing a horrible job at setting expectations. Whoever trusted them in the past, got screwed. They are fundamentally a reactive organism that for some unknown reason talks as if they are the ones in charge.<p>Obviously they are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epistasis</author><text>There is absolutely no hedge that can stop a bank run, there is literally not a single financial invention that allows both banking and enough liquidity to stop the run.<p>Except for insurance on that sort of bank run.<p>Really it comes down to irrational VCs starting this bank run, which inevitably led to the destruction of the only bank that really understands tech startups. And now the same folks are making fools of themselves doubting all economic data (public or private, they all agree) that shows that most sectors are doing fantastically, just not tech. They are also backing a presidential candidate that thinks WiFi causes cancer, and has some of the worst anti-science views out there; in addition these same VCs are pretty much solely responsible for the community backlash against tech, the change from appreciation of tech to hate of tech, as they are outliers with their weird political obsessions that don&#x27;t even match the rest of the industry.<p>The result of the interest rate hikes was that there were going to be some bank failures, that&#x27;s the whole point of trying to cool things off. That it happened in tech and not elsewhere is due to a few bad actors that have more economic power than wisdom to wield it well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Big VC, Tech Got Backstop for Billions in Uninsured SVB Deposits</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-23/fdic-insured-billions-in-deposits-for-sequoia-other-top-svb-customers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lesuorac</author><text>When you&#x27;re paid millions of dollars its your job to hedge risks.<p>When you&#x27;re just a small renter, it&#x27;s fine for when the handyman doesn&#x27;t show up the apartment keeps flooding. When you&#x27;re a 200 unit apartment owner, you better have a list of a dozen handymen that you can go down when the first one doesn&#x27;t show up.<p>These banks are the equivalent of the apartment owner. They are expected to be able to survive any decision the FED makes short of the FED shutting them down and even in that case they should have known ahead of time and been working on an appeal.</text></item><item><author>fosk</author><text>The Fed first said it would not increase rates, then it said inflation was transitory, then all of a sudden they did a 360 and increased the rates the highest in more than a decade, then they are saying they will keep increasing, then something will inevitably break, and then they will start cutting again despite their original plans.<p>Sure the banks should have managed risks better and this whole fiasco falls on SVB, but to be fair the Fed is doing a horrible job at setting expectations. Whoever trusted them in the past, got screwed. They are fundamentally a reactive organism that for some unknown reason talks as if they are the ones in charge.<p>Obviously they are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpodgursky</author><text>OK but the banks were punished. Their shareholders got their equity zero&#x27;d out. I&#x27;m not sure what more you want. The question was whether to punish the <i>account holders</i> at the bank.<p>By your analogy, that&#x27;s saying the apartment <i>renters</i> needed to have handymen oncall in case the landlord couldn&#x27;t manage it!</text></comment> |
1,148,781 | 1,148,794 | 1 | 3 | 1,148,707 | train | <story><title>Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act</title><url>http://startupvisa.com/2010/02/24/kerry-lugar-startup-visa-act/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a bill that proposes to give US venture capitalists the overt ability to terminate the residency status of founders and their families.<p>Not only do you have to get sponsored by an effectively arbitrary class of financiers (it is possible that Warren Buffet wouldn't qualify under these terms, depending on whether he has <i>personally</i> made 2 equity investments last year), but even if your company creates 10 US jobs and is cash-flow-positive, if you don't raise $1MM in capital or make $1MM in revenue, you're out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lionhearted</author><text>&#62; This is a bill that proposes to give US venture capitalists the overt ability to terminate the residency status of founders and their families.<p>False.<p>"To make visas available, we would amend immigration law to create a new EB-6 category for immigrant entrepreneurs. We would draw from existing visas under the EB-5 category. The EB-5 permits foreign nationals who invest at $1 million in the U.S., and thereby creates 10 jobs, to obtain a green card. In areas where unemployment is high, foreign nationals only need to invest $500,000 to obtain residency. Though roughly 10,000 visas are annually allocated for the EB-5 category, less than half were used in FY 2009, so the addition of immigrant entrepreneurs should not present an unreasonable burden."<p>Green card is permanent residency - once they've got it, they've got it. This looks pretty awesome.<p><a href="http://startupvisa.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/dc-startup-visa-act-2-24-10.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://startupvisa.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/dc-startup-vi...</a><p>It was a pdf and I coudln't figure out how to highlight so I retyped it myself - apologies if there's a minor grammar/spelling error.</text></comment> | <story><title>Senators Kerry & Lugar Introduce the Startup Visa Act</title><url>http://startupvisa.com/2010/02/24/kerry-lugar-startup-visa-act/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This is a bill that proposes to give US venture capitalists the overt ability to terminate the residency status of founders and their families.<p>Not only do you have to get sponsored by an effectively arbitrary class of financiers (it is possible that Warren Buffet wouldn't qualify under these terms, depending on whether he has <i>personally</i> made 2 equity investments last year), but even if your company creates 10 US jobs and is cash-flow-positive, if you don't raise $1MM in capital or make $1MM in revenue, you're out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jbooth</author><text>So, in your estimation, would that be "better" or "worse" than "you cannot get a visa to come to the US and start a company at all, ever" (the status quo)</text></comment> |
11,738,488 | 11,738,191 | 1 | 3 | 11,737,961 | train | <story><title>Fox 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/fox-stole-a-game-clip-used-it-in-family-guy-dmcad-the-original-160520/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ascagnel_</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it before, and it bears repeating here: ContentID is not, has not been, and will never be the DMCA. It was developed by YouTube so Viacom would drop the suit that would likely have stripped YouTube&#x27;s safe harbor protections under the DMCA.<p>ContentID takedowns are not DMCA takedowns. They operate on a different, much less strict standard. Anyone that works with YouTube can flag any video for any reason (see Scripps taking down a public-domain NASA video[0]), and the content is removed immediately without giving the initial uploader a right to contest it (it can be restored laterº. A YouTube user has way fewer rights under ContentID than they do under the DMCA. If you are found in violation of ContentID, you must fight both YouTube and the claimant to have your case heard under the DMCA.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dmca-takedown" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherboard.vice.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-i...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Fox 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/fox-stole-a-game-clip-used-it-in-family-guy-dmcad-the-original-160520/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>just_observing</author><text>Until there is a financial penalty for wrongful use of the DMCA this type of thing will continue.<p>They use robots to create reports (maybe not in this case) because for them there is simply zero downside.<p>That downside needs to exist.</text></comment> |
6,877,736 | 6,877,395 | 1 | 2 | 6,875,352 | train | <story><title>Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list</title><url>http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/governments-admit-they-carry-out-false-flag-terror/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>recuter</author><text>It is actually incredibly easy to see how smart people tasked with solving complicated societal problems arrive at false flag operations as a viable solution:<p>Imagine you have a credible imminent threat to your society posted by a danger to which the society is not familiar enough with to fully grasp and take seriously.<p>Do you wait for the threat to play out and take your chances with the society sufficiently changing its attitude towards it in time? Or do you galvanize things with a false flag operation that will cause less damage than the real threat but induce the much needed urgent action against it? Almost like a vaccine. Innocent people will die either way.<p>It is incredibly paternalistic in a way, and a morally gray area. Ultimately it is a lack of faith in the people the operation is trying to protect, a lot of times it is flat out wrong or backfires in unpredictable and uncontrollable ways - for example Iran.<p>And yet. And yet, not always. And when it works you&#x27;ll never hear about it.<p>Thought exercise: You are a marine biologist who has become convinced that over fishing is about to cause a sudden, sharp, and potentially irreversible collapse in the sea food supply. Millions will starve. But meanwhile tuna cans remain cheap and abundant in supermarkets across the world.<p>This is a long standing serious issue but <i>now</i> it is coming to a head, do you wait for the crisis to unfold and hope international politics find a way to avoid it in time or..?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heynk</author><text>Imagine you were a US intelligence officer with an extremely in-depth knowledge of socioeconomic momentum around the world. You are aware that oil is a relatively irreplaceable dependency and that most oil is controlled by foreign regimes that are not allies of the US. You realize that if things keep going this way, those in control of oil will have huge advantages in the future. <i>You</i> have the ability to recognize that perhaps in the long term, this could result in these countries overtaking the US economically and culturally. These regimes have religious connections to organizations who are militarily anti-american, too!<p>But the society is not familiar enough with the threat to fully grasp and take seriously. Do you wait for the threat to play out and take your chances with the society sufficiently changing its attitude towards it in time? Or do you galvanize things with a false flag operation that will cause less damage than the real threat but induce the much needed urgent action against it? Almost like a vaccine. Innocent people will die either way.</text></comment> | <story><title>Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list</title><url>http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/12/governments-admit-they-carry-out-false-flag-terror/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>recuter</author><text>It is actually incredibly easy to see how smart people tasked with solving complicated societal problems arrive at false flag operations as a viable solution:<p>Imagine you have a credible imminent threat to your society posted by a danger to which the society is not familiar enough with to fully grasp and take seriously.<p>Do you wait for the threat to play out and take your chances with the society sufficiently changing its attitude towards it in time? Or do you galvanize things with a false flag operation that will cause less damage than the real threat but induce the much needed urgent action against it? Almost like a vaccine. Innocent people will die either way.<p>It is incredibly paternalistic in a way, and a morally gray area. Ultimately it is a lack of faith in the people the operation is trying to protect, a lot of times it is flat out wrong or backfires in unpredictable and uncontrollable ways - for example Iran.<p>And yet. And yet, not always. And when it works you&#x27;ll never hear about it.<p>Thought exercise: You are a marine biologist who has become convinced that over fishing is about to cause a sudden, sharp, and potentially irreversible collapse in the sea food supply. Millions will starve. But meanwhile tuna cans remain cheap and abundant in supermarkets across the world.<p>This is a long standing serious issue but <i>now</i> it is coming to a head, do you wait for the crisis to unfold and hope international politics find a way to avoid it in time or..?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mercurial</author><text>&gt; It is actually incredibly easy to see how smart people tasked with solving complicated societal problems arrive at false flag operations as a viable solution:<p>The end justifies the means. And we surely shouldn&#x27;t be naive about it. And if we don&#x27;t do it first, the opposition will no doubt get ahead. And that&#x27;s all that matter in the end. It&#x27;s a pissing contest taking place in a graveyard.</text></comment> |
32,158,903 | 32,158,455 | 1 | 2 | 32,156,581 | train | <story><title>Use `Python -m Pip`</title><url>https://snarky.ca/why-you-should-use-python-m-pip/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwilk</author><text>Beware that &quot;python -m&quot; is insecure in untrusted cwd:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.python.org&#x2F;issue33053" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.python.org&#x2F;issue33053</a><p>E.g.:<p><pre><code> $ echo &#x27;import os; os.execvp(&quot;cowsay&quot;, [&quot;-&quot;, &quot;pwned&quot;])&#x27; &gt; pip.py
$ python -m pip --version
_______
&lt; pwned &gt;
-------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\&#x2F;\
||----w |
|| ||</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Use `Python -m Pip`</title><url>https://snarky.ca/why-you-should-use-python-m-pip/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gammalost</author><text>Python is a fun language but the ecosystem around it is horrible.
It&#x27;s a shame. I just want to pip install like I would a package manager</text></comment> |
35,647,991 | 35,642,886 | 1 | 3 | 35,638,362 | train | <story><title>US could soon approve MDMA therapy</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01296-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Starcrunch</author><text>I&#x27;m glad to hear from someone else who&#x27;s honest about their negative experience.<p>Psychedelics seem to somehow have simply amazing PR: plentiful testimonies of their life-changing abilities, encouraging us to try them, but very little acknowledgement of their dark side. The subculture is very quick to brush away anything that goes against the narrative of the &quot;mind-opening wonder drugs that big pharma doesn&#x27;t want you to know about.&quot;<p>My experiences with psilocybin over a few months started with awe and wonder and spiritual awakening (or what seemed to be at the time), and ended with horrifying lasting harm. Insomnia, constant vivid nightmares, sleep paralysis, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, tics, and all kinds of weirdness at the periphery of conscious experience that I can&#x27;t really explain.<p>It feels like I flashed my brain&#x27;s firmware with no way to undo it. I took all the precautions I thought I was supposed to. I wish someone had warned me.</text></item><item><author>wnolens</author><text>Nice to read your journey. Glad you found a way through.<p>I had a similar experience to the first half of your story. Was so unfulfilled in tech that I ended up quitting and took time off not working, trying lots of different things, getting very frustrated and depressed along the way.<p>I did try LSD (ok, a lot of LSD) and instead of it helping me process&#x2F;sort through&#x2F;integrate some of my troubles it added new ones and created recurring intrusive thoughts. Overall, bad experience &amp; wish I didn&#x27;t do that.<p>After ~2y outside of full time employment (i did some contract work eventually), I found myself more depressed than when I left. I had tried a lot of things (hobbies for joy, tech in non-FTE ways, entrepreneurship, travel, classes, intimate relationships..) but found no grander meaning or goals at the end of it, just some isolated interesting experiences (some were peak positive, others a pit). So back to tech. I don&#x27;t love it, but having an external demand of me was sufficient to lift me out of the pit of despair i was in.</text></item><item><author>Glench</author><text>Personally, I left tech in large part to become a therapist doing psychedelic-assisted clinical work when it becomes legal. It really does seem like it can be a potent tool for relieving great suffering. You can read a little about my story here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.com&#x2F;WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.com&#x2F;WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kimukasetsu</author><text>I had a similar experience. I took psylocibin a few times, but after the last one I started getting panic attacks and feeling derealization quite often. This led to negative recurring thoughts and I felt really bad for a while. Got better after a year of cognitive behavioral therapy and six months taking a light dosage of antidepressants. Routine exercises and zen meditation helped tremendously as well. Get help, it is possible. Your brain can heal itself with your help.</text></comment> | <story><title>US could soon approve MDMA therapy</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01296-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Starcrunch</author><text>I&#x27;m glad to hear from someone else who&#x27;s honest about their negative experience.<p>Psychedelics seem to somehow have simply amazing PR: plentiful testimonies of their life-changing abilities, encouraging us to try them, but very little acknowledgement of their dark side. The subculture is very quick to brush away anything that goes against the narrative of the &quot;mind-opening wonder drugs that big pharma doesn&#x27;t want you to know about.&quot;<p>My experiences with psilocybin over a few months started with awe and wonder and spiritual awakening (or what seemed to be at the time), and ended with horrifying lasting harm. Insomnia, constant vivid nightmares, sleep paralysis, intrusive thoughts, anxiety, tics, and all kinds of weirdness at the periphery of conscious experience that I can&#x27;t really explain.<p>It feels like I flashed my brain&#x27;s firmware with no way to undo it. I took all the precautions I thought I was supposed to. I wish someone had warned me.</text></item><item><author>wnolens</author><text>Nice to read your journey. Glad you found a way through.<p>I had a similar experience to the first half of your story. Was so unfulfilled in tech that I ended up quitting and took time off not working, trying lots of different things, getting very frustrated and depressed along the way.<p>I did try LSD (ok, a lot of LSD) and instead of it helping me process&#x2F;sort through&#x2F;integrate some of my troubles it added new ones and created recurring intrusive thoughts. Overall, bad experience &amp; wish I didn&#x27;t do that.<p>After ~2y outside of full time employment (i did some contract work eventually), I found myself more depressed than when I left. I had tried a lot of things (hobbies for joy, tech in non-FTE ways, entrepreneurship, travel, classes, intimate relationships..) but found no grander meaning or goals at the end of it, just some isolated interesting experiences (some were peak positive, others a pit). So back to tech. I don&#x27;t love it, but having an external demand of me was sufficient to lift me out of the pit of despair i was in.</text></item><item><author>Glench</author><text>Personally, I left tech in large part to become a therapist doing psychedelic-assisted clinical work when it becomes legal. It really does seem like it can be a potent tool for relieving great suffering. You can read a little about my story here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.com&#x2F;WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;glench.com&#x2F;WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phonescreen_man</author><text>People seem to think they can just take a load of mushies and it can solve all lives problems. The great art requires a lot of hard heart work and suffering.</text></comment> |
11,510,665 | 11,510,678 | 1 | 2 | 11,510,176 | train | <story><title>Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout If Congress Passes 9/11 Bill</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-warns-ofeconomic-fallout-if-congress-passes-9-11-bill.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>What does the bill actually, you know, do? The article has neither a link to its text nor an identifying number, and the name, &quot;9&#x2F;11 bill&quot;, is not a good enough search term to be able to easily find it. It&#x27;s kind of absurd to try to discuss the bill, or political machinations surrounding it, without getting that basic information down first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakebaker</author><text>It appears to be the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism act:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;114th-congress&#x2F;senate-bill&#x2F;2040&#x2F;text" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;114th-congress&#x2F;senate-bill&#x2F;204...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout If Congress Passes 9/11 Bill</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-warns-ofeconomic-fallout-if-congress-passes-9-11-bill.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimrandomh</author><text>What does the bill actually, you know, do? The article has neither a link to its text nor an identifying number, and the name, &quot;9&#x2F;11 bill&quot;, is not a good enough search term to be able to easily find it. It&#x27;s kind of absurd to try to discuss the bill, or political machinations surrounding it, without getting that basic information down first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HillRat</author><text>It amends the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to allow the bringing of suits against foreign states for terrorist-related claims where the entirety of the alleged activity did not take place on American soil. Basically, KSA had gotten some civil cases tossed based on FSIA immunity, so this is a bill to remove that bar.</text></comment> |
7,904,708 | 7,903,176 | 1 | 3 | 7,901,991 | train | <story><title>FlatBuffers: a memory efficient serialization library</title><url>http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/06/flatbuffers-memory-efficient.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>Huh. So Google is releasing a competitor to Cap&#x27;n Proto. As the former maintainer of Protobufs (at Google) and author of Cap&#x27;n Proto (after Google), I&#x27;m pretty surprised that I hadn&#x27;t heard about this. I also don&#x27;t recognize any of the names, so this is not from the people who were working on Protobufs at the time I left.<p>I&#x27;m the main competitor, so take me with a grain of salt here.<p>The docs don&#x27;t look very detailed, but taking a quick look through...<p>&gt; &quot;On purpose, the format leaves a lot of details about where exactly things live in memory undefined, e.g. fields in a table can have any order... To be able to access fields regardless of these uncertainties, we go through a vtable of offsets. Vtables are shared between any objects that happen to have the same vtable values.&quot;<p>Hrm, that sounds like a lot of complexity and a big performance hit. In order to read a field from a struct, you have to do a vtable lookup to find the offset? Maybe you can still get that done in an inline accessor, but it will make the optimizer sad.<p>How is de-duping of vtables accomplished? It doesn&#x27;t look like the API exposes any details about vtables, meaning you&#x27;d have to do it magically behind the scenes, which seems expensive?<p>It looks like the authors may have been trying to maintain the concept of &quot;optional fields&quot; from Protobufs, where if you don&#x27;t set an optional field, it takes zero bytes on the wire. But the main use of optional fields in practice is to implement unions -- i.e. a list of fields where only one should be filled in at a time.<p>Cap&#x27;n Proto&#x27;s solution to this was just to build unions into the language, something Protobufs should have done a long time ago.<p>&gt; &quot;FlatBuffers relies on new field declarations being added at the end, and earlier declarations to not be removed, but be marked deprecated when needed. We think this is an improvement over the manual number assignment that happens in Protocol Buffers.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not an improvement at all. Declarations should be ordered semantically, so that related things go together. More importantly, even if you say that they can&#x27;t be, developers will still do it, and will accidentally introduce incompatibilities. To make matters worse, it tends to be hard to detect these issues in testing, because your tests are probably build from the latest code. Simply adding field numbers as in Protobufs and Cap&#x27;n Proto has proven an effective solution to this in practice.<p>Very surprised to see Google get this wrong, since they have more experience with this than anyone.<p>&gt; Benchmarks<p>I couldn&#x27;t find the benchmark code in the github repo, so it&#x27;s hard to say what they may be measuring here. FlatBuffers presumably shares Cap&#x27;n Proto&#x27;s property that encodes and decodes take zero time, which makes it hard to create a meaningful benchmark in the first place. Indeed the numbers they put up kind of look like they&#x27;re timing a noop loop. I can&#x27;t see how the &quot;traverse&quot; time could be so much better than with protobufs, which makes me think the code might be written in such a way that the compiler was able to optimize away all the traverse time for FlatBuffers because it thought the results were unused anyway -- a mistake that&#x27;s easy to make.<p>But I&#x27;d love to see the code to verify. Hopefully I just missed it when digging through the repo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aardappel</author><text>Hi. I designed most of FlatBuffers, so let me see if I can clarify:<p>Clearly, FlatBuffers seeks a different design tradeoff than Cap&#x27;n Proto. We wanted to retain all the flexibility of Protobufs, while having the advantages of the &quot;zero parsing &#x2F; zero allocation&quot; approach. That brought us to the vtable design.<p>In use cases where performance matters, i.e. you are churning through a large amount of data, you will be accessing the same vtable repeatedly, and the cost of the extra indirection (and the code associated with it) will be masked by the memory latency of the main data you&#x27;re going through. It will be (close to) &quot;for free&quot;. Even in cases where that isn&#x27;t the case, whether or not it is able to match Cap&#x27;n Proto&#x27;s accessor code is less interesting than it being endlessly faster than Protobuf and most other serializers out there, given that it is just as flexible.<p>vtables are de-duped on the fly during construction. It is typically not expensive.<p>Note this tiny overhead holds for &quot;tables&quot;, we also have naked &quot;structs&quot;, which do not have the indirection overhead, but have no forwards&#x2F;backwards compatability. Useful for things like 2d&#x2F;3d vector types, colors, and other small POD types that are used a lot.<p>FlatBuffers also has unions, which you should use instead of optionals when appropriate. We feel optionals have a lot of uses beyond just mere unions and forwards&#x2F;backwards compatibility, however. Game objects can have a LOT of fields, many of which are often at their default value, and thus not stored on the wire. This gives significant compression. The zero-byte compression in Cap&#x27;n Proto is cool, but we prefer to not have to use additional buffers when reading. Optionals also give a lot of design freedom, i.e. you can add a field that you know is only needed for very few instances without fear of bloating your binaries, as an alternative to &quot;subclassing&quot;, or indeed unions.<p>On field declaration order: to each his own, I guess. That said, the omission of explicit field id&#x27;s is something that&#x27;s handled at the level of the schema compiler, we could easily allow optional id declarations in the schema for people who want the flexibility of declaring things in an arbitrary order. Noted.<p>We should clean up the benchmark code, so it can be included, yes. It is not running a noop loop, we made sure of that. I haven&#x27;t verified what makes Protobuf traversal that much slower, I am guessing it&#x27;s causing a memory allocation somewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>FlatBuffers: a memory efficient serialization library</title><url>http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/06/flatbuffers-memory-efficient.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kentonv</author><text>Huh. So Google is releasing a competitor to Cap&#x27;n Proto. As the former maintainer of Protobufs (at Google) and author of Cap&#x27;n Proto (after Google), I&#x27;m pretty surprised that I hadn&#x27;t heard about this. I also don&#x27;t recognize any of the names, so this is not from the people who were working on Protobufs at the time I left.<p>I&#x27;m the main competitor, so take me with a grain of salt here.<p>The docs don&#x27;t look very detailed, but taking a quick look through...<p>&gt; &quot;On purpose, the format leaves a lot of details about where exactly things live in memory undefined, e.g. fields in a table can have any order... To be able to access fields regardless of these uncertainties, we go through a vtable of offsets. Vtables are shared between any objects that happen to have the same vtable values.&quot;<p>Hrm, that sounds like a lot of complexity and a big performance hit. In order to read a field from a struct, you have to do a vtable lookup to find the offset? Maybe you can still get that done in an inline accessor, but it will make the optimizer sad.<p>How is de-duping of vtables accomplished? It doesn&#x27;t look like the API exposes any details about vtables, meaning you&#x27;d have to do it magically behind the scenes, which seems expensive?<p>It looks like the authors may have been trying to maintain the concept of &quot;optional fields&quot; from Protobufs, where if you don&#x27;t set an optional field, it takes zero bytes on the wire. But the main use of optional fields in practice is to implement unions -- i.e. a list of fields where only one should be filled in at a time.<p>Cap&#x27;n Proto&#x27;s solution to this was just to build unions into the language, something Protobufs should have done a long time ago.<p>&gt; &quot;FlatBuffers relies on new field declarations being added at the end, and earlier declarations to not be removed, but be marked deprecated when needed. We think this is an improvement over the manual number assignment that happens in Protocol Buffers.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not an improvement at all. Declarations should be ordered semantically, so that related things go together. More importantly, even if you say that they can&#x27;t be, developers will still do it, and will accidentally introduce incompatibilities. To make matters worse, it tends to be hard to detect these issues in testing, because your tests are probably build from the latest code. Simply adding field numbers as in Protobufs and Cap&#x27;n Proto has proven an effective solution to this in practice.<p>Very surprised to see Google get this wrong, since they have more experience with this than anyone.<p>&gt; Benchmarks<p>I couldn&#x27;t find the benchmark code in the github repo, so it&#x27;s hard to say what they may be measuring here. FlatBuffers presumably shares Cap&#x27;n Proto&#x27;s property that encodes and decodes take zero time, which makes it hard to create a meaningful benchmark in the first place. Indeed the numbers they put up kind of look like they&#x27;re timing a noop loop. I can&#x27;t see how the &quot;traverse&quot; time could be so much better than with protobufs, which makes me think the code might be written in such a way that the compiler was able to optimize away all the traverse time for FlatBuffers because it thought the results were unused anyway -- a mistake that&#x27;s easy to make.<p>But I&#x27;d love to see the code to verify. Hopefully I just missed it when digging through the repo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlrobinson</author><text>Incidentally, the first time I saw the Cap&#x27;n Proto homepage I thought the whole thing was a joke because I saw the &quot;cerealization protocol&quot; tagline and &quot;infinitely faster&quot; badge and stopped reading after the first paragraph...<p>EDIT: Oh yeah, and when I skimmed the rest of the page this &quot;confirmed&quot; my suspicions: <i>&quot;Time-traveling RPC: Cap’n Proto features an RPC system implements time travel such that call results are returned to the client before the request even arrives at the server!&quot;</i>. I&#x27;m familiar with promise pipelining but that sentence (and diagram) made it sound like a complete joke.</text></comment> |
29,865,137 | 29,864,983 | 1 | 2 | 29,864,014 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you start contracting?</title><text>I&#x27;m a developer and product manager, about ten years into my career and making pretty good money.<p>I&#x27;m curious to explore if contracting makes sense as an alternative to full time employment. How do I start? How do I position and price myself?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lucasoato</author><text>&gt; Don’t underestimate how good a stable, big company job is right now.<p>This. Also don&#x27;t underestimate how hard it is to get the money from a client if they decide not to pay you, even if you did a good job.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Finding clients is basically the hardest part.<p>Not going to lie: Most of my clients come from my network and their referrals. Most of my freelancer friends’ clients come from their network and their network referring clients to them. While it is possible to find clients organically through advertising, it’s much easier if you can build a network to pull from.<p>You can start by simply contacting people you know and asking if their companies need any help. Let them know you’re available. Then, when they ask, be available and solve their problems ASAP.<p>It’s actually quite a challenge to hold down a full-time job and to freelance at the same time. You might be lucky enough to find clients who don’t care much about how long it takes and are fine to communicate asynchronously through e-mail at your convenience. However, most clients will want to get on video calls throughout the day and will expect the work to be done quickly. Realistically, it <i>will</i> start competing with your day job at some point. You should decide now how you’re going to handle that.<p>Whatever you do, don’t use your work computer for any freelancing tasks. Neither party may ever find out, but if you get into a situation where it matters then it’s terrible to have intermingled the two.<p>Finally: Don’t underestimate how good a stable, big company job is right now. Freelancing isn’t really the easy money that some people make it out to be, especially if you’re not actually free during the day because you have a job. If you’re looking for something different, consider just getting a different job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickjj</author><text>&gt; This. Also don&#x27;t underestimate how hard it is to get the money from a client if they decide not to pay you, even if you did a good job.<p>It&#x27;s not too bad in my opinion. I&#x27;ve been freelancing for close to 20 years on my own with no 3rd party platforms. I&#x27;ve had assorted clients from around the world.<p>I&#x27;ve only been legit ripped off once out of issuing hundreds of invoices and working with a bunch of individuals and businesses.<p>The amount I got cheated out of was 2 hours of work where the client requested work, agreed to pay but didn&#x27;t pay. Other than that one time it&#x27;s been smooth sailing where mostly everyone pays on time without issues. I&#x27;ve only had a handful of cases where someone forgot to pay within 30 days and a single follow up email resulted in them apologizing and paying. In some cases they even gave an unrequested tip because they genuinely felt sorry for missing the first email. These were all cases of people being busy and forgetting by accident.<p>I&#x27;m also very lax with how I request payments too. I send out an invoice at the start of every month because it&#x27;s more convenient for everyone involved. Sometimes with new clients this means doing let&#x27;s say 5 hours of work on the 3rd of the month but not invoicing them until the following month.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you start contracting?</title><text>I&#x27;m a developer and product manager, about ten years into my career and making pretty good money.<p>I&#x27;m curious to explore if contracting makes sense as an alternative to full time employment. How do I start? How do I position and price myself?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lucasoato</author><text>&gt; Don’t underestimate how good a stable, big company job is right now.<p>This. Also don&#x27;t underestimate how hard it is to get the money from a client if they decide not to pay you, even if you did a good job.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>Finding clients is basically the hardest part.<p>Not going to lie: Most of my clients come from my network and their referrals. Most of my freelancer friends’ clients come from their network and their network referring clients to them. While it is possible to find clients organically through advertising, it’s much easier if you can build a network to pull from.<p>You can start by simply contacting people you know and asking if their companies need any help. Let them know you’re available. Then, when they ask, be available and solve their problems ASAP.<p>It’s actually quite a challenge to hold down a full-time job and to freelance at the same time. You might be lucky enough to find clients who don’t care much about how long it takes and are fine to communicate asynchronously through e-mail at your convenience. However, most clients will want to get on video calls throughout the day and will expect the work to be done quickly. Realistically, it <i>will</i> start competing with your day job at some point. You should decide now how you’re going to handle that.<p>Whatever you do, don’t use your work computer for any freelancing tasks. Neither party may ever find out, but if you get into a situation where it matters then it’s terrible to have intermingled the two.<p>Finally: Don’t underestimate how good a stable, big company job is right now. Freelancing isn’t really the easy money that some people make it out to be, especially if you’re not actually free during the day because you have a job. If you’re looking for something different, consider just getting a different job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ushakov</author><text>find better clients, ask for money first and never share the source code before you got paid</text></comment> |
31,972,224 | 31,972,146 | 1 | 3 | 31,971,901 | train | <story><title>Is the Ride over for Uber?</title><url>https://www.smartcompany.com.au/opinion/adam-schwab-is-the-ride-over-for-uber/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aetherson</author><text>The problem with Uber Eats is exactly the same as the problem with Uber&#x27;s rideshare: there&#x27;s no difficult-to-copy element of it. It&#x27;s been clear for at least seven years that it&#x27;s easy to spin up a food delivery service, just the same way it&#x27;s easy to spin up a rideshare service. The basic technology is something a small team can conjure up out of nowhere in a few months, the two sided marketplace is heavily incented to abandon a given platform if another platform gives a better deal, and all the bells and whistles that a large development team can add to it don&#x27;t really move the needle in terms of value, enough to make the marketplace sticky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addicted</author><text>Let’s say there was just 1 delivery service.<p>Could they charge enough delivery fees to actually build a sustainable business?<p>How much fees would you need to charge? $4&#x2F;delivery means having to make a delivery in 15 mins to be able to pay the delivery person minimum wage. Plus Uber’s profit, plus the cost of the car and maintenance expenses + tickets, accidents, etc,<p>It’s hard to see how a monopoly can also make money, without charging so much that people would rather pick up and restaurants would rather offer their own delivery.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is the Ride over for Uber?</title><url>https://www.smartcompany.com.au/opinion/adam-schwab-is-the-ride-over-for-uber/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aetherson</author><text>The problem with Uber Eats is exactly the same as the problem with Uber&#x27;s rideshare: there&#x27;s no difficult-to-copy element of it. It&#x27;s been clear for at least seven years that it&#x27;s easy to spin up a food delivery service, just the same way it&#x27;s easy to spin up a rideshare service. The basic technology is something a small team can conjure up out of nowhere in a few months, the two sided marketplace is heavily incented to abandon a given platform if another platform gives a better deal, and all the bells and whistles that a large development team can add to it don&#x27;t really move the needle in terms of value, enough to make the marketplace sticky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bamboozled</author><text>Which wouldn&#x27;t have been a problem if they hadn&#x27;t spent such an obscene amount of money building it?<p>If it was a small team of good engineers, designers humbly building a product, then keeping it attractive to investment would&#x27;ve been a lot easier.<p>Now as you said, there&#x27;s so much competition, it&#x27;s not really sustainable at it&#x27;s current size.</text></comment> |
8,986,579 | 8,986,621 | 1 | 2 | 8,985,496 | train | <story><title>DirectX 11 vs. DirectX 12 oversimplified</title><url>http://www.littletinyfrogs.com/article/460524/DirectX11vsDirectX12_oversimplified</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>It really is oversimplified.<p>&quot;Creating dozens of light sources simultaneously on screen at once is basically not doable unless you have Mantle or DirectX 12. Guess how many light sources most engines support right now? 20? 10? Try 4. Four. Which is fine for a relatively static scene. &quot;<p>For my Masters degree project at uni I had a demo written in OpenGL with over 500 dynamic lights, running at 60fps on a GTX580. Without Mantle, or DX12. How? Deffered rendering, that&#x27;s how. You could probably add a couple thousand and it would be fine too.<p>&quot;Every time I hear someone say “but X allows you to get close to the hardware” I want to shake them. None of this has to do with getting close to the hardware. It’s all about the cores&quot;<p>Also not true. I work with console devkits every single day and the reason why we can squeeze so much performance out of relatively low-end hardware is that we get to make calls which you can&#x27;t make on PC. A DirectX call to switch a texture takes a few thousand clock cycles. A low-level hardware call available on Playstation Platform will do the same texture switch in few dozen instruction calls. The numbers are against DirectX, and that&#x27;s why Microsoft is slowly letting devs access the GPU on the Xbox One without the DirectX overhead.</text></comment> | <story><title>DirectX 11 vs. DirectX 12 oversimplified</title><url>http://www.littletinyfrogs.com/article/460524/DirectX11vsDirectX12_oversimplified</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jra101</author><text>&quot;Last Fall, Nvidia released the Geforce GTX 970. It has 5.2 BILLION transistors on it. It already supports DirectX 12. Right now. It has thousands of cores in it. And with DirectX 11, I can talk to exactly 1 of them at a time.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not how it works, the app developer has no control over individual GPU cores (even in DX12). At the API level you can say &quot;draw this triangle&quot; and the GPU itself splits the work across multiple GPU cores.</text></comment> |
23,311,047 | 23,311,325 | 1 | 2 | 23,310,430 | train | <story><title>I won’t buy ebooks anymore</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/i-wont-buy-ebooks-anymore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wilwade</author><text>I refused to buy Amazon ebooks when I learned that I didn&#x27;t own them. I only owned a right to read them (dependent on many legal things).<p>The price of an ebook has so far been the same as the price of a physical book. Considering the resale value of a book is on average about 50% of the original price, the real price of an ebook for the user with this limitation should be ~50% less than the cost of the paper book. (Not taking into account shipping costs, etc...)<p>This became real to me when my aunt died. She had purchased thousands of dollars worth of ebooks. Had she purchased physical books, those books would have been donated or resold. At a loss to the publisher, but a gain to the original purchaser and secondary purchaser. (or estate in this case).<p>Unless I as the purchaser am at least partially compensated for this loss of value by a price decrease, I cannot buy ebooks with a resale limitation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>The resale value of most books is nowhere near 50% of the original price. The more popular the title and the bigger the print run the less it&#x27;s worth - until you get to remainder mountain title like 50 Shades of Grey, which are literally worthless, except perhaps as fuel for a wood stove.<p>I had a library with thousands (and thousands) of books. When I moved I decided to get rid of many of them, because decluttering. Long story short - by the time you&#x27;ve allowed for post&#x2F;carriage, listing time, packaging, and so on, you&#x27;re more likely to be left with 5-10% of the nominal cover price - and that only after endless hours of work.<p>I donated most of mine, and I still got complaints from the local recycling facility that they were worthless because they were &quot;too obscure&quot; (i.e. pop science, math, stats, and such.)</text></comment> | <story><title>I won’t buy ebooks anymore</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/i-wont-buy-ebooks-anymore.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wilwade</author><text>I refused to buy Amazon ebooks when I learned that I didn&#x27;t own them. I only owned a right to read them (dependent on many legal things).<p>The price of an ebook has so far been the same as the price of a physical book. Considering the resale value of a book is on average about 50% of the original price, the real price of an ebook for the user with this limitation should be ~50% less than the cost of the paper book. (Not taking into account shipping costs, etc...)<p>This became real to me when my aunt died. She had purchased thousands of dollars worth of ebooks. Had she purchased physical books, those books would have been donated or resold. At a loss to the publisher, but a gain to the original purchaser and secondary purchaser. (or estate in this case).<p>Unless I as the purchaser am at least partially compensated for this loss of value by a price decrease, I cannot buy ebooks with a resale limitation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foob4r</author><text>For that reason, I mostly get books from not the most legal sources, and then buy a copy from a local bookstore. I either donate that book to a library or give it to a friend as a gift.<p>I get what I want while supporting a local bookstore and the author.</text></comment> |
8,282,825 | 8,282,545 | 1 | 2 | 8,282,124 | train | <story><title>Al-Jazari</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jazari</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walterbell</author><text>Can anyone recommend books on the cross-cultural history of mathematics? I&#x27;ve found these:<p>1) Georges Ifrah, &quot;Universal History of Numbers&quot;, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Universal-History-Numbers-Prehistory-Invention/dp/0471375683/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Universal-History-Numbers-Prehistory-I...</a><p><i>&quot;the first complete account of the invention and evolution of numbers the world over ... Dubbed the &quot;Indiana Jones of numbers,&quot; Georges Ifrah traveled all over the world for ten years to uncover the little-known details of this amazing story. From India to China, and from Egypt to Chile, Ifrah talked to mathematicians, historians, archaeologists, and philosophers.&quot;</i><p>2) Paul Calter, &quot;Squaring the Circle: Geometry in Art &amp; Architecture&quot;, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Squaring-Circle-Geometry-Art-Architecture/dp/0470412127/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Squaring-Circle-Geometry-Art-Architect...</a><p><i>&quot;the combination of the subject knowledge of design, architecture, art, geometry, philospohy, music theory, and mathematics ... Calter includes the basic lessons and explanations of a regular Geometry course in his book, but then he interweaves an integrated classical curriculum (based on deductive reasoning)&quot;</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Al-Jazari</title><url>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jazari</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nux</author><text>The Islamic Golden Age is pretty fantastic, not the first time I heard about it and usually a cause of pride among my muslim friends (and for good reason).<p>Too bad we&#x27;re witnessing the Islamic Dark Ages right now.</text></comment> |
22,422,438 | 22,422,302 | 1 | 2 | 22,422,077 | train | <story><title>Assange Hearing Day 2</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndyMcConachie</author><text>&gt; Julian had twice been stripped naked and searched, eleven times been handcuffed, and five times been locked up in different holding cells. On top of this, all of his court documents had been taken from him by the prison authorities, including privileged communications between his lawyers and himself, and he had been left with no ability to prepare to participate in today’s proceedings.<p>Still barely any mention of this case in the mainstream American or UK press. Until recently Amnesty International refused to even recognize Assange as a political prisoner, and the only thing they had said about him was that he was &quot;not a political prisoner&quot;. They&#x27;ve since changed their tune, but it sure took them long enough.<p>A man is being tortured in plain sight in the UK and no one in the media cares to report on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mnem</author><text>A quick search using Google news in the UK shows that all the main broadsheets and many of the tabloids have Assange related stories over the past several days at least. I don’t think it’s fair to characterise the media as disinterested.</text></comment> | <story><title>Assange Hearing Day 2</title><url>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndyMcConachie</author><text>&gt; Julian had twice been stripped naked and searched, eleven times been handcuffed, and five times been locked up in different holding cells. On top of this, all of his court documents had been taken from him by the prison authorities, including privileged communications between his lawyers and himself, and he had been left with no ability to prepare to participate in today’s proceedings.<p>Still barely any mention of this case in the mainstream American or UK press. Until recently Amnesty International refused to even recognize Assange as a political prisoner, and the only thing they had said about him was that he was &quot;not a political prisoner&quot;. They&#x27;ve since changed their tune, but it sure took them long enough.<p>A man is being tortured in plain sight in the UK and no one in the media cares to report on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>It won&#x27;t make the US press, because all of that is a pretty typical US jail experience, sadly.</text></comment> |
37,847,536 | 37,845,495 | 1 | 2 | 37,843,946 | train | <story><title>Vulkan Documentation</title><url>https://docs.vulkan.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rossant</author><text>Nice, much better than the old website which was basically unusable.<p>I&#x27;ve been strongly attracted to Vulkan since it was announced in 2015. Being annoyed by the limitations of OpenGL for scientific visualizations, it seemed like a significant improvement. When the specification was released, I was both fascinated and terrified by its extreme complexity. I understood mostly nothing at first. I took it as a personal challenge to learn it and do something with it.<p>After dozens of times reading the documentation and experimenting with the code (tutorials were scarce at the time), I started to understand the most basic functionality. I spent much of the Covid lockdowns playing with Vulkan and developing prototypes of a scientific visualization library in C [1].<p>In the process, I wrote a thin wrapper in C on top of Vulkan to make it less painful to use [2]. It turns out this wrapper is quite similar to WebGPU. I&#x27;ll explore interoperability avenues later.<p>Datoviz is still an experimental project. I&#x27;m actively working on the next version of Datoviz which I hope to release in a few months.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cyrille.rossant.net&#x2F;datoviz&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cyrille.rossant.net&#x2F;datoviz&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datoviz.org&#x2F;howto&#x2F;standalone_vklite&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datoviz.org&#x2F;howto&#x2F;standalone_vklite&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Vulkan Documentation</title><url>https://docs.vulkan.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dcow</author><text>I don’t know what the old site was like so maybe this is actually an improvement, but I find this site really difficult to use and possibly even broken.<p>First off it’s really weird to start with a page that links back to the main site and then explains how to navigate the site. If it’s not obvious how to use your nav bar then you’re off to a really bad start. The home page should describe Vulkan and give me enough info to figure out where I need to go next. It should not be a mini tutorial on how to navigate.<p>Further, when I click on Education from the home page for example, it doesn&#x27;t go anywhere (scrolls to the top of the page). When I click on the Vulkan Proposals link, it goes to a one paragraph thing that says it’s a cross link and when I click the link it goes back to the homepage. I’m so confused. I’m using mobile right now maybe it’s not broken on desktop?</text></comment> |
41,759,416 | 41,759,280 | 1 | 2 | 41,748,738 | train | <story><title>Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/congress-fights-to-keep-am-radio-in-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Modern cars in the US, especially EVs it seems, are not only dropping AM radio but also now SiriusXM satellite radio. I was shocked to discover that the &quot;Sirius&quot; radio on many cars I have been looking at recently was merely an app that streamed over the cellular connection.<p>I find this mildly terrifying. In an emergency, cellular will be the first to go. It doesn&#x27;t even work reliably when everything is well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwbas1c</author><text>I think it&#x27;d be fine if Sirius didn&#x27;t require a subscription. The subscription nature turned it into a niche business.<p>(And gosh Sirius&#x27;s salesmen are annoying a-holes when they call you up to get you to subscribe. The last time I bought a car with a Sirius radio I had to insist that I wouldn&#x27;t get any calls from Sirius to subscribe.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars</title><url>https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/congress-fights-to-keep-am-radio-in-cars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeoPanthera</author><text>Modern cars in the US, especially EVs it seems, are not only dropping AM radio but also now SiriusXM satellite radio. I was shocked to discover that the &quot;Sirius&quot; radio on many cars I have been looking at recently was merely an app that streamed over the cellular connection.<p>I find this mildly terrifying. In an emergency, cellular will be the first to go. It doesn&#x27;t even work reliably when everything is well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>Yea, even if the major space powers Kesslerize all the satellites (like Starlink) in low-Earth orbit, the civilian geostationary sats like Sirius XM will likely be flying. (Geostationary sats can, I think, only be brought down individually with anti-satellite weapons, and that would presumably be prohibitively expensive for all of them.)</text></comment> |
38,431,994 | 38,431,431 | 1 | 2 | 38,425,067 | train | <story><title>Build your own hi-fi ear defenders</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/hi-fi-ear-defenders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ulnarkressty</author><text>Someone needs to invent something similar for sleeping. I would pay good money to have a completely silent sleep environment. Right now ear plugs are the best way, and not at all comfortable to sleep with.<p>Traffic, neighbors, construction - there&#x27;s always something going on in a big city. Even having a detached house in the suburbs is not guarantee of a quiet night. Sleep interruption due to noise can have disproportionate impact later in life [0].<p>I had some ideas about a &#x27;room within a room&#x27; spanning just the bed, and I couldn&#x27;t find a good source of materials. Best bet would be to fill the whole thing with concrete and hope it&#x27;s acoustically isolated from the building itself.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sleepreviewmag.com&#x2F;sleep-health&#x2F;sleep-whole-body&#x2F;brain&#x2F;slight-reductions-deep-sleep-skyrocket-dementia-risk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sleepreviewmag.com&#x2F;sleep-health&#x2F;sleep-whole-body&#x2F;bra...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>There&#x27;s some things you can do to quieten a bedroom passively at least. Closed windows, noise muffling vents (because fresh air is also important during sleep). Thick and heavy curtains will muffle a lot of sounds and prevent it from bouncing around, the bigger the better (wall to wall, floor to ceiling). You can have another layer of that around your bed, old style curtain beds. Carpet on the floors instead of laminate or something else.<p>Next level would be adding noise insulation to the walls and the like, but that&#x27;s a bigger time&#x2F;money&#x2F;effort investment.<p>Moving to the suburbs or the countryside is an option, but won&#x27;t be a panacea; you&#x27;ll have different sounds, sound travels further, houses won&#x27;t be built with city noise in mind, and they&#x27;re likely to be older so less well insulated to begin with.<p>Anyway, passive noise insulation first, I wouldn&#x27;t use earbuds or anything covering &#x2F; plugging the ears, and things like white or pink noise generators are a last ditch effort (they will put constant sound pressure on your ears instead of silence, idk if that&#x27;s harmful but it&#x27;s something to keep in mind)</text></comment> | <story><title>Build your own hi-fi ear defenders</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/hi-fi-ear-defenders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ulnarkressty</author><text>Someone needs to invent something similar for sleeping. I would pay good money to have a completely silent sleep environment. Right now ear plugs are the best way, and not at all comfortable to sleep with.<p>Traffic, neighbors, construction - there&#x27;s always something going on in a big city. Even having a detached house in the suburbs is not guarantee of a quiet night. Sleep interruption due to noise can have disproportionate impact later in life [0].<p>I had some ideas about a &#x27;room within a room&#x27; spanning just the bed, and I couldn&#x27;t find a good source of materials. Best bet would be to fill the whole thing with concrete and hope it&#x27;s acoustically isolated from the building itself.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sleepreviewmag.com&#x2F;sleep-health&#x2F;sleep-whole-body&#x2F;brain&#x2F;slight-reductions-deep-sleep-skyrocket-dementia-risk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sleepreviewmag.com&#x2F;sleep-health&#x2F;sleep-whole-body&#x2F;bra...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmahemoff</author><text>There&#x27;s probably going to be a growing market of active noise-cancelling earpods. QuietOn is pioneering this category (quieton.com - no affiliation), but I guess at some point we&#x27;ll see it combined with a personally moulded solution.</text></comment> |
37,811,130 | 37,800,333 | 1 | 3 | 37,800,043 | train | <story><title>Role of Algorithms</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/13/role-of-algorithms.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>angarg12</author><text>&gt; Somewhat related, I noticed a surprising correlation between programming skills in the small, and programming skills in the large. You can solve a problem in five lines of code, or, if you try hard, in ten lines of code. If you consistently come up with concise solutions in the small, chances are large scale design will be simple as well.<p>Well, my anecdotal evidence doesn&#x27;t support this.<p>I&#x27;ve done 500+ interviews for big tech, and often it is easy to spot people who have grinded leetcode. They excel at DSA, but fail at system design, or even low level design.<p>The thing is that overall I kind of agree with this article. Leetcode is great as a fun coding exercise. I also think they help the craft like katas help martial artist to practice.<p>The problem is when me getting the job depends on solving a coding puzzle. Sometimes I can solve a leetcode hard with ease and sometimes I get completely blocked in a medium one. Getting a job becomes more of a random toss than assessment of my skills. And yes, my company, and by extension me, are very guilty of this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Role of Algorithms</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/13/role-of-algorithms.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raunakchhatwal</author><text>I definitely agree that it improves writing fewer bugs. When I first began using leetcode, I was proud that I was able to begin at leetcode medium and even solve the hard ones because the tip was to grind the easy ones before progressing to medium and hard problems. However, reading up on how DSA interviews are conducted, I realized that I probably would be penalized for not getting my solution right the first few times, whereas my style of solving leetcode problems at first was to get it right only after like the sixth+ try. Also, leetcode problems are also a good way to learn new languages, I&#x27;m currently using it to learn Rust, and learning Haskell probably would&#x27;ve been smoother if leetcode supported it.</text></comment> |
12,484,846 | 12,482,049 | 1 | 2 | 12,481,047 | train | <story><title>Fighting Corruption in Brazil with Machine Learning</title><url>https://github.com/datasciencebr/serenata-de-amor/blob/master/README-en.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmsaksida</author><text>I was a bit disappointed by this because it feels more like people trying to get press and make a name for themselves than an actual serious endeavor at digging through open government data with ML. The first thing you see in the README is links to numerous social media profiles, followed by a Kickstarter link and a BTC address. Zero technical info. Looking into the Kickstarter (well, Catarse, the Brazilian copycat), apparently there&#x27;s a young company behind this - &quot;Data Science Brigade&quot;. So I guess this is partly a publicity stunt.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but if you guys are serious about building this <i>open</i> you should make it entirely technical and keep any press&#x2F;social media&#x2F;financial bullshit out of it. Entirely separated. In addition, if the project is sponsored by a company, make that clear in a notice somewhere. It just doesn&#x27;t feel honest to do it any other way. I&#x27;m not going to contribute with time or money to a project that claims to be about &quot;fighting corruption&quot; but might have all sorts of unknown interests behind it. I&#x27;d be pleased to contribute otherwise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fighting Corruption in Brazil with Machine Learning</title><url>https://github.com/datasciencebr/serenata-de-amor/blob/master/README-en.md</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asimov42</author><text>I&#x27;ve thought about this a lot for India as well. To be realistic we would need unprecedented levels of transparency to get the amount of data needed to get usable results. With the amount of nepotism around even constructing a simple network of party heads of each state and related companies and contracts awarded for public work would be valuable.<p>At this stage we really should think of it more in terms of <i>documenting</i> corruption rather than <i>stopping</i> corruption. When (and if) the system is ready to change the data would be extremely useful to see why things are happening the way they are and work out if solutions would just move the corruption-bottleneck rather than eliminate it.</text></comment> |
29,479,613 | 29,479,556 | 1 | 2 | 29,478,375 | train | <story><title>You Can't Buy Integration</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/articles/cant-buy-integration.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>I got bounced off a front-end job once, for not being good enough at React.<p>Mind you I&#x27;ve been building SPA&#x27;s since they weren&#x27;t &quot;a thing&quot; and today I mostly use Vue.<p>But for that role, they didn&#x27;t like my lack of .env variables in the front-end (such as for things that end up in the HTML), after a 3 hours coding test, and a couple of minor React-y tid bits they couldn&#x27;t even clarify. Basically, not &quot;idiomatic&quot;.<p>Meanwhile, none of them could tell me how React actually works, beyond throwing jargon vomit. They couldn&#x27;t write a web application without React. The recruiter, which we had to go through, basically had no empathy and saw me as a failed resume. I felt pretty helpless, even though I&#x27;ve said many times to both parties that I wasn&#x27;t a &quot;React developer&quot;.<p>That is the sad state of affairs today; and I&#x27;m finding it&#x27;s not just in the front-end, where you could argue that you need sanity on this pile of rubbles. It&#x27;s also in the backend, especially on the auto-magic &quot;DevOps!&quot;</text></item><item><author>jefflombardjr</author><text>Really great read. Long but worth it.<p>This is a good critique of low-code&#x2F;no-code in general. The root problem I see of &quot;Unfortunately, when we frame the problem space that way, we have allowed our tools to think for us.&quot; is that in reality there are just not enough qualified software engineers out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdevonoes</author><text>&gt; Meanwhile, none of them could tell me how React actually works, beyond throwing jargon vomit. They couldn&#x27;t write a web application without React. The recruiter, which we had to go through, basically had no empathy and saw me as a failed resume. I felt pretty helpless, even though I&#x27;ve said many times to both parties that I wasn&#x27;t a &quot;React developer&quot;.<p>But they don&#x27;t make money by knowing &quot;how React works&quot;. They make money by &quot;writing good-enough React code that pushes features to production&quot;. I think get you, and in some sense I feel identified with you, it&#x27;s just that the industry has shifted from &quot;let&#x27;s care about our craft&quot; to &quot;let&#x27;s write good-enough code to make more money&quot;... makes me sad, but hey, it&#x27;s business I suppose.<p>I couldn&#x27;t care less that a candidate knows what &quot;React hooks&quot; are (that&#x27;s probably gonna be outdated in 1 or 2 years). I care if they know how to write modular code. Management doesn&#x27;t have the same opinion, though: employees usually work for 1 to 2 years at the same company... so knowing what &quot;React hooks&quot; are now, matters for them.</text></comment> | <story><title>You Can't Buy Integration</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/articles/cant-buy-integration.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>I got bounced off a front-end job once, for not being good enough at React.<p>Mind you I&#x27;ve been building SPA&#x27;s since they weren&#x27;t &quot;a thing&quot; and today I mostly use Vue.<p>But for that role, they didn&#x27;t like my lack of .env variables in the front-end (such as for things that end up in the HTML), after a 3 hours coding test, and a couple of minor React-y tid bits they couldn&#x27;t even clarify. Basically, not &quot;idiomatic&quot;.<p>Meanwhile, none of them could tell me how React actually works, beyond throwing jargon vomit. They couldn&#x27;t write a web application without React. The recruiter, which we had to go through, basically had no empathy and saw me as a failed resume. I felt pretty helpless, even though I&#x27;ve said many times to both parties that I wasn&#x27;t a &quot;React developer&quot;.<p>That is the sad state of affairs today; and I&#x27;m finding it&#x27;s not just in the front-end, where you could argue that you need sanity on this pile of rubbles. It&#x27;s also in the backend, especially on the auto-magic &quot;DevOps!&quot;</text></item><item><author>jefflombardjr</author><text>Really great read. Long but worth it.<p>This is a good critique of low-code&#x2F;no-code in general. The root problem I see of &quot;Unfortunately, when we frame the problem space that way, we have allowed our tools to think for us.&quot; is that in reality there are just not enough qualified software engineers out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qxmat</author><text>I&#x27;ve worked with people of varying skill-levels but personally gravitate towards those who can code idiomatically. For me it&#x27;s important I write idiomatic code and follow the language&#x2F;framework&#x2F;api guidelines to the letter so I don&#x27;t become a maintenance burden to my team.<p>In the fast-paced world of frontend dev, the last thing I want to do is revisit &quot;complete&quot; work, be it a lack of env parametrisation or something bigger. We make assumptions based on idiomatic implementation - failing to conform means work-items can slip (&quot;This story will slip into the next sprint because the I had to convert the callback into an idiomatic action&#x2F;reducer first&quot;).</text></comment> |
7,282,556 | 7,282,432 | 1 | 2 | 7,281,964 | train | <story><title>Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/ubuntu-desktop-moving-application-menus-back-into-application-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>Very slightly-off topic:<p>So, I have this theory. The theory is that Microsoft and&#x2F;or Apple somehow infiltrated the Ubuntu organization and got their men in as developers and made big changes to sabotage and undermine the Ubuntu project. And they&#x27;ve done great.<p>Let me tell you about the Unity Launcher: <a href="http://www.bomski.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/screenshot.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bomski.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;screenshot....</a><p>The awesome thing about it is the microscale indicator that is supposed to tell you what window is open. Yeah, that small little triangle on right&#x2F;left side of icons. It gets even better when you have many windows open (the icon menu folds) or have more than one window open of a certain application (the triangle becomes an elongated thin icon which is now twice as difficult to make out in full-view): <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-36ZlfS5qyI0/TZREYHuo56I/AAAAAAAAArw/oGdahPyxiNQ/s1600/Screenshot-11.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-36ZlfS5qyI0&#x2F;TZREYHuo56I&#x2F;AAAAAAAAAr...</a>. Basically, the most perfect applications panel design to get my mom to stop using Ubuntu (it worked, too!) When on a high resolution screen, I can&#x27;t quite make them out either (so it got me to stop using Ubuntu as well)! Also, changing windows (e.g., if you have two or three document processing files open), how do you quickly and efficiently switch to the right one? I don&#x27;t know! Give Ubuntu a chance yourself to see more gems like this. Man, I really have to give kudos to whoever is behind this, to have convinced their &#x27;dedicated UI team&#x27; that this shit is anything less than a joke. Bravo Apple&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;whoever you are, I&#x27;m impressed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spittie</author><text>I have a different theory: the Ubuntu &quot;core&quot; and &quot;design&quot; teams have their vision of what Ubuntu will be, and just don&#x27;t listen for feedback from the community.<p>It&#x27;s fine to just push changes, otherwise we would be stuck in the 80s and the 90s (everyone hates changes), but it&#x27;s not fine to not listen to any kind of feedback from the community, even after years.<p>The unity sidebar is the biggest example. They refused to let users change the size of the icons for years. Even now, you&#x27;re still limited by a small range they&#x27;ve decided on. They removed used, small features because it would make the codebase &quot;harder to mantain&quot;.<p>The global menu is an usability nightmare on Ubuntu (the HUD instead is a pretty cool concept). I don&#x27;t really like global menus, but Canonical managed to make it even worse - It&#x27;s hidden by default, and get showed only on mouse hover. I&#x27;ve been using Linux with various DE for years, and the last time I tried Ubuntu it took me 5 minutes to remember where is the menu (I can only wonder what would my parents do). Obviously, they didn&#x27;t change this at all.<p>I could go on and complain about Ubuntu all day (and not only about Unity - I&#x27;d like to talk about their tendency to patch everything downstream) but the message is &quot;Canonical shot themself in the foot&quot;. I can only hope this is a &quot;new beginning&quot; and they&#x27;ll start to listen their userbase.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/ubuntu-desktop-moving-application-menus-back-into-application-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>Very slightly-off topic:<p>So, I have this theory. The theory is that Microsoft and&#x2F;or Apple somehow infiltrated the Ubuntu organization and got their men in as developers and made big changes to sabotage and undermine the Ubuntu project. And they&#x27;ve done great.<p>Let me tell you about the Unity Launcher: <a href="http://www.bomski.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/screenshot.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bomski.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2012&#x2F;10&#x2F;screenshot....</a><p>The awesome thing about it is the microscale indicator that is supposed to tell you what window is open. Yeah, that small little triangle on right&#x2F;left side of icons. It gets even better when you have many windows open (the icon menu folds) or have more than one window open of a certain application (the triangle becomes an elongated thin icon which is now twice as difficult to make out in full-view): <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-36ZlfS5qyI0/TZREYHuo56I/AAAAAAAAArw/oGdahPyxiNQ/s1600/Screenshot-11.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;4.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-36ZlfS5qyI0&#x2F;TZREYHuo56I&#x2F;AAAAAAAAAr...</a>. Basically, the most perfect applications panel design to get my mom to stop using Ubuntu (it worked, too!) When on a high resolution screen, I can&#x27;t quite make them out either (so it got me to stop using Ubuntu as well)! Also, changing windows (e.g., if you have two or three document processing files open), how do you quickly and efficiently switch to the right one? I don&#x27;t know! Give Ubuntu a chance yourself to see more gems like this. Man, I really have to give kudos to whoever is behind this, to have convinced their &#x27;dedicated UI team&#x27; that this shit is anything less than a joke. Bravo Apple&#x2F;Microsoft&#x2F;whoever you are, I&#x27;m impressed!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>streptomycin</author><text>My conspiracy theory is that it was all a practical joke by Shuttleworth, bringing us so close to the ideal of a usable Linux desktop that everyone could get behind, and then randomly moving shit around and creating division within the Linux community. We went from Ubuntu clearly being the market leader and providing a consistent UI, to a clusterfuck of different distributions and DEs.</text></comment> |
30,270,408 | 30,270,142 | 1 | 2 | 30,269,725 | train | <story><title>UK.gov to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/08/age_verification_for_social_media_ukgov_plans/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oxfordmale</author><text>This needs to be seen in the context of the political situation in the UK. Boris Johnson, the current PM, is currently on this 9th and last political live. During the strictest period of lockdown, when UK citizens where not able to say goodbye to loved ones dying in hospitals, several parties were organised at his residence . It is alleged he attended two of them himself and was photographed drinking beer. In attempt to rescue his political career, he has announced several &quot;red meat&quot; measures and this appears to be one of them.<p>Over the years several attempts have been made to introduce this. Just like past attempts it will face a heavy lobby from the adult content industry and social media companies. More importantly this government will likely not be around long enough to actually introduce it (the consensus is that Boris will be gone after the May local elections). It will almost certainly drop off the radar of a subsequent government as there are much bigger and more important issues to tackle after Covid.<p>In the unlikely event it will get introduced, it will be delayed for years. For past measures Ofcom, the media regulator, was asked to classify all adult websites to determine if they fall in a category that requires age verification, and as you can imagine, this can take a while. In addition age verification is only required for websites that allow users to upload content, not commercially sourced content. There are endless loopholes here, however, likely adult websites will just block user content from UK visitors. It is not like there is a shortage of commercial content. Of course VPN providers will do well out of this too.</text></comment> | <story><title>UK.gov to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/08/age_verification_for_social_media_ukgov_plans/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>habosa</author><text>People don’t realize how invasive the UK govt is when it comes to internet monitoring.<p>Today if you try to access adult content on a UK mobile device you get blocked by age verification. You have to call your mobile provider and prove your age (it’s a once-per-contract thing). One of the ways you can prove your age is with a credit card. But I imagine it’s a large deterrent because not many people want to call Vodafone and ask permission to look at pornography. They’d probably just rather get a VPN.</text></comment> |
38,135,337 | 38,135,471 | 1 | 2 | 38,133,279 | train | <story><title>Appeals court denies judicial immunity to judge who personally searched home</title><url>https://ij.org/press-release/victory-appeals-court-unanimously-denies-judicial-immunity-to-west-virginia-judge-who-personally-searched-home-ordered-items-removed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand (from watching the video from outside the house) is why the cop helped the judge enter the house after the owner of the house pointed out she didn&#x27;t have a warrant, and didn&#x27;t prevent the ex from taking thiings from the house.<p>I would have expected- naively, of course- that once it was pointed out that the judge was trespassing, didn&#x27;t have a warrant, and wasn&#x27;t allowed to do this, the cop would have stopped her.</text></item><item><author>ddoolin</author><text>Most relevant bit:<p>&gt; During divorce proceedings between Matthew and his ex-wife, Raleigh County family-court judge Louise Goldston personally forced her way into Matthew’s home under threats of arrest to search for items that were in dispute. Accompanied by Matthew’s ex-wife, her attorney, and a bailiff (among others), Goldston walked barefoot through the house, ordering Matthew’s ex-wife to seize DVDs, yearbooks, and pictures off the wall. Some of the items didn’t even belong to Matthew’s ex-wife. And when Matthew tried to record the encounter, the judge threatened him with arrest.<p>This sounds like the ex-wife was close friend with the judge and this was very personal. Pretty insane either way though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qingcharles</author><text>LOL. No officer wants to fight a contempt charge from an angry judge. A judge ordered me arrested without issuing a warrant and it cost me three years. Only yesterday did I try a FOIA to get a copy of the non-existent warrant, here was the reply:<p>&quot;Please be advised that we conducted a diligent search based on the information you provided. However, no records were found in response to your request.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Appeals court denies judicial immunity to judge who personally searched home</title><url>https://ij.org/press-release/victory-appeals-court-unanimously-denies-judicial-immunity-to-west-virginia-judge-who-personally-searched-home-ordered-items-removed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dekhn</author><text>What I don&#x27;t understand (from watching the video from outside the house) is why the cop helped the judge enter the house after the owner of the house pointed out she didn&#x27;t have a warrant, and didn&#x27;t prevent the ex from taking thiings from the house.<p>I would have expected- naively, of course- that once it was pointed out that the judge was trespassing, didn&#x27;t have a warrant, and wasn&#x27;t allowed to do this, the cop would have stopped her.</text></item><item><author>ddoolin</author><text>Most relevant bit:<p>&gt; During divorce proceedings between Matthew and his ex-wife, Raleigh County family-court judge Louise Goldston personally forced her way into Matthew’s home under threats of arrest to search for items that were in dispute. Accompanied by Matthew’s ex-wife, her attorney, and a bailiff (among others), Goldston walked barefoot through the house, ordering Matthew’s ex-wife to seize DVDs, yearbooks, and pictures off the wall. Some of the items didn’t even belong to Matthew’s ex-wife. And when Matthew tried to record the encounter, the judge threatened him with arrest.<p>This sounds like the ex-wife was close friend with the judge and this was very personal. Pretty insane either way though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giantg2</author><text>&quot;is why the cop helped the judge enter the house after the owner of the house pointed out she didn&#x27;t have a warrant,&quot;<p>Because judges can ruin cops lives too. There&#x27;s virtually no oversight of judges. They granted themselves such secrecy that even if their disciplinary files have exculpatory evidence, you&#x27;re not allowed to subpoena it. And the discipline is usually only related to egregious acts of misconduct. Stuff like incompetence or bending the rules or being inconsistent is basically ignored.<p>Plenty of videos online of judges being let out of reaffic stops and such while being assholes about it too.</text></comment> |
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