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4,933,494 | 4,933,246 | 1 | 3 | 4,932,700 | train | <story><title>Why I learned to "make things"</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3370-why-i-learned-to-make-things</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kyllo</author><text>Yes. And this is in a company where many other people are programmers.<p>If you are in a corporate environment surrounded by people who don't know how to write code, or even barely know how to use Excel, it cannot be overstated how valuable a basic knowledge of even something like VBA, and a little SQL, can make you.<p>I started learning to program because I was tired of being faced with the same business problems and productivity drags over and over again. Like being asked to log into a legacy system, look up some performance numbers, copy/paste them into a spreadsheet and e-mail it to management. I've even seen people summing numbers together with a calculator and then typing the sum into an spreadsheet because they didn't know about formulas in Excel. That knowledge could free up at least an hour of that person's time per day, which really adds up over many years on the job.<p>Not everyone needs to actually be a hacker, but everyone who's even remotely curious about programming should learn some basic skills in order to automate tasks and make oneself more productive, if nothing else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I learned to "make things"</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3370-why-i-learned-to-make-things</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>diego</author><text>I find it sad when someone talks about "learning to making things" as if he had discovered the moon. Humans have been "making things" since the dawn of times out of necessity. Going through life without the need to "make things" is a relatively recent phenomenon.</text></comment> |
38,000,581 | 37,995,797 | 1 | 2 | 37,995,155 | train | <story><title>Unified versus Split Diff</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/10/23/unified-vs-split-diff.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knubie</author><text>A third (fourth?) option worth mentioning here is difftastic[0], which uses &quot;structural&quot; diffing (as opposed to line diffing) for more granular diff highlighting.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Wilfred&#x2F;difftastic">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Wilfred&#x2F;difftastic</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mega_dean</author><text>A fourth (fifth?) option worth mentioning is patdiff: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.janestreet.com&#x2F;patdiff&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensource.janestreet.com&#x2F;patdiff&#x2F;</a> From what I remember, it sometimes (35%) made diffs easier to read, usually (60%) made no difference, and rarely (5%) made them harder to read. I used it a few years ago though, so I don&#x27;t remember specifically what the problem was. The only reason I stopped using it was because I started using magit for git diffs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Unified versus Split Diff</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/10/23/unified-vs-split-diff.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knubie</author><text>A third (fourth?) option worth mentioning here is difftastic[0], which uses &quot;structural&quot; diffing (as opposed to line diffing) for more granular diff highlighting.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Wilfred&#x2F;difftastic">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Wilfred&#x2F;difftastic</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eviks</author><text>This is a great approach indeed, pity it&#x27;s not integrated widely enough (think it only recently got a proper structured json output other tools could use)</text></comment> |
37,450,924 | 37,449,831 | 1 | 2 | 37,448,005 | train | <story><title>Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations</title><url>https://github.com/Ads-cmu/WhatsApp-Llama</url><text>Hello HN!<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept&#x27;s appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this!<p>I&#x27;ve just released a fork of the facebookresearch&#x2F;llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can train the model (using QLoRA) to respond in a way that&#x27;s eerily similar to your own texting style.<p>What I&#x27;ve figured out so far:<p>Quick Learning: The model quickly adapts to personal nuances, emoji usage, and phrases that you use. I&#x27;ve trained just 1 epoch on a P100 GPU using QLoRA and 4 bit quantization, and its already captured my mannerisms<p>Turing Tests: As an experiment, I asked my friends to ask me 3 questions, and responded with 2 candidate responses (one from me and one from llama). My friends then had to guess which candidate response was mine and which one was Llama&#x27;s. Llama managed to fool 10% of my friends, but with more compute, I think it can do way better.<p>Here&#x27;s the GitHub repository: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ads-cmu&#x2F;WhatsApp-Llama&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ads-cmu&#x2F;WhatsApp-Llama&#x2F;</a><p>Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, and any cool experiences if you decide to give it a try! I&#x27;d love to see how far we can push this by training bigger models for more epochs (I ran out of compute credits)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brap</author><text>I wonder if my clone will also respond 3 days later as if nothing happened</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations</title><url>https://github.com/Ads-cmu/WhatsApp-Llama</url><text>Hello HN!<p>I&#x27;ve been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept&#x27;s appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this!<p>I&#x27;ve just released a fork of the facebookresearch&#x2F;llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can train the model (using QLoRA) to respond in a way that&#x27;s eerily similar to your own texting style.<p>What I&#x27;ve figured out so far:<p>Quick Learning: The model quickly adapts to personal nuances, emoji usage, and phrases that you use. I&#x27;ve trained just 1 epoch on a P100 GPU using QLoRA and 4 bit quantization, and its already captured my mannerisms<p>Turing Tests: As an experiment, I asked my friends to ask me 3 questions, and responded with 2 candidate responses (one from me and one from llama). My friends then had to guess which candidate response was mine and which one was Llama&#x27;s. Llama managed to fool 10% of my friends, but with more compute, I think it can do way better.<p>Here&#x27;s the GitHub repository: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ads-cmu&#x2F;WhatsApp-Llama&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ads-cmu&#x2F;WhatsApp-Llama&#x2F;</a><p>Would love to hear feedback, suggestions, and any cool experiences if you decide to give it a try! I&#x27;d love to see how far we can push this by training bigger models for more epochs (I ran out of compute credits)</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dools</author><text>&gt; The concept&#x27;s appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige)<p>How is your most notable example not when Gilfoyle does exactly this so he doesn’t have to talk to Dinesh in Silicon Valley??</text></comment> |
17,294,762 | 17,294,343 | 1 | 3 | 17,293,157 | train | <story><title>The Quant King, the Drug Hunter, and the Quest to Unlock New Cures</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-12/a-quant-king-and-a-drug-hunter-join-in-a-quest-to-find-new-cures</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arandr0x</author><text>For this stage of drug discovery (finding potential hits off of ligand databases, finding potential targets, and refining ligands in silico without running real high-throughput lab work) machine learning may work better at lesser cost. It&#x27;s the direction (some) research is going right now.<p>Of course the real cost of drug development is running clinical trials, and losing something like 90% of ligands because they don&#x27;t make it into the bloodstream, can&#x27;t be synthesized at scale, or wind up having no efficacy in vivo for no reason anyone can fathom.<p>(Even making &quot;copycat drugs&quot; where you pick a known target, known ligand class, and try to minimally alter the synthesis process to get a newly-patentable product can sometimes have odd surprises, including the kind of odd surprise where being more specific to the identified target leads to diminished efficacy.)<p>This goes to show that fundamental research in biochemistry is still needed and we are nowhere near having &quot;cracked the code&quot;, genomics notwithstanding.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Quant King, the Drug Hunter, and the Quest to Unlock New Cures</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-12/a-quant-king-and-a-drug-hunter-join-in-a-quest-to-find-new-cures</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tehchops</author><text>I see you there, Ubuntu desktop :)<p>Interesting he&#x27;s using a mbp box as a monitor stand.<p>On to a more serious note: is this kind of computing work sped up with GPUs?</text></comment> |
26,597,085 | 26,595,257 | 1 | 2 | 26,590,234 | train | <story><title>How to implement a hash table in C</title><url>https://benhoyt.com/writings/hash-table-in-c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>It’s usually not the right call to use a hash table like you’re describing. You’re not saving any work (all keys have to be migrated sooner or later) and by doing it like this you incur a non-trivial amount of overhead on most operations.<p>Hash tables generally work on the assumption that operations are O(1) in the amortized sense, that individual inserts might be expensive because of rehashing, but in aggregate they are very cheap. In practice, this is almost always a fine assumption, and it is how the vast majority of hash tables in all programming languages work.<p>The kinds of hash tables you are talking about have their uses in places where you have soft real-time constraints, but that is honestly a pretty niche use case.</text></item><item><author>thamer</author><text>&gt; When the hash table gets too full, we need to allocate a larger array and move the items over. This is absolutely required when the number of items in the hash table has reached the size of the array, but usually you want to do it when the table is half or three-quarters full.<p>Yes, but <i>how</i> you resize is important too: if you have a threshold size (like 3&#x2F;4 full) at which you block and re-distribute all elements into a new array, you will incur a significant pause when this happens, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;log.kv.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;leaky-hashtables" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;log.kv.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;leaky-hashtables</a><p>Instead, when you reach the threshold amount you can create the new array and then gradually migrate the keys in small batches either with each operation or with a background thread. So on `get` if we&#x27;re in the process of resizing: first check the new table, then the old one, and before returning migrate N keys from the old table to the new one. Free the old array once all the keys are migrated.<p>I wrote a small hash table implementation with gradual re-hashing a while back, search for DICT_MAX_LOAD and dict_rehash here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nicolasff&#x2F;ht&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;dict.c#L193" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nicolasff&#x2F;ht&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;dict.c#L193</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjam</author><text>The progressive rehashing described in the article is very similar to what Redis does [1].<p>Just thought I&#x27;d share a example of a use case where the incremental rehashing logic makes sense.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;redis&#x2F;redis&#x2F;blob&#x2F;unstable&#x2F;src&#x2F;dict.c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;redis&#x2F;redis&#x2F;blob&#x2F;unstable&#x2F;src&#x2F;dict.c</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to implement a hash table in C</title><url>https://benhoyt.com/writings/hash-table-in-c/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OskarS</author><text>It’s usually not the right call to use a hash table like you’re describing. You’re not saving any work (all keys have to be migrated sooner or later) and by doing it like this you incur a non-trivial amount of overhead on most operations.<p>Hash tables generally work on the assumption that operations are O(1) in the amortized sense, that individual inserts might be expensive because of rehashing, but in aggregate they are very cheap. In practice, this is almost always a fine assumption, and it is how the vast majority of hash tables in all programming languages work.<p>The kinds of hash tables you are talking about have their uses in places where you have soft real-time constraints, but that is honestly a pretty niche use case.</text></item><item><author>thamer</author><text>&gt; When the hash table gets too full, we need to allocate a larger array and move the items over. This is absolutely required when the number of items in the hash table has reached the size of the array, but usually you want to do it when the table is half or three-quarters full.<p>Yes, but <i>how</i> you resize is important too: if you have a threshold size (like 3&#x2F;4 full) at which you block and re-distribute all elements into a new array, you will incur a significant pause when this happens, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;log.kv.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;leaky-hashtables" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;log.kv.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;15&#x2F;leaky-hashtables</a><p>Instead, when you reach the threshold amount you can create the new array and then gradually migrate the keys in small batches either with each operation or with a background thread. So on `get` if we&#x27;re in the process of resizing: first check the new table, then the old one, and before returning migrate N keys from the old table to the new one. Free the old array once all the keys are migrated.<p>I wrote a small hash table implementation with gradual re-hashing a while back, search for DICT_MAX_LOAD and dict_rehash here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nicolasff&#x2F;ht&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;dict.c#L193" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nicolasff&#x2F;ht&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;dict.c#L193</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffffff</author><text>iirc memcached either uses or used to use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Linear_hashing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Linear_hashing</a> to avoid rehashing induced pauses. it definitely makes sense for that use case but you&#x27;re correct that it&#x27;s not the right call for a general purpose hash table implementation.</text></comment> |
9,298,835 | 9,296,867 | 1 | 2 | 9,296,431 | train | <story><title>After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/395829446/after-snowden-the-nsa-faces-recruitment-challenge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bazillion</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t truly address such a large claim -- it basically could be titled &quot;After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge from 3 College Students&quot;.<p>The NSA has nearly unlimited hiring potential with just the pool of military folks alone that work there. There are constant hiring freezes for a year at a time, because a lot of buildings are over capacity.<p>If one of these college students were to apply to the NSA through NSA.gov (mandated as the only way someone is allowed into the agency), they would have to apply a minimum of 2-4 times, because the application stays good for about 90 days, and the average applicant waits 6 months to a year to get accepted. This is assuming they&#x27;re applying straight through without having someone with hiring power pull their application from the queue. After that, the process to get a clearance could take anywhere from another 6 months to 2 years (possibly more in some exceptional cases) and costs the agency about 250k.<p>So, it goes without saying that bringing onboard a fresh college student who isn&#x27;t going to even get to walk through the door at least a year after applying, can pale in comparison to bringing on someone who already has a clearance and training. The article assumes that the NSA relies heavily on its external recruitment, but the vast majority of folks working there just change out of a uniform into jeans and a shirt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HillRat</author><text>I do think the real issue is not whether the NSA can fill cubes, but whether they can stay ahead of the threat curve. NSA competes with, but not for, the employees of foreign intelligence services; likewise, they used to compete for the same talent pool as top tech companies, but not <i>against</i> those companies.<p>Then they decided to turn the Big Ear inwards and go to war with US tech companies. Now firms like Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. are building active defenses against the NSA, which means that they&#x27;re hiring for the same problem domain, with better salaries and benefits, no security checks or polys, and no stigma (and a lot of prestige) attached to the position. As a result, NSA is threatened with losing precisely those talents necessary to keep ahead of foreign adversaries.<p>The savage irony of this is that both the NSA and tech companies are at a Nash equilibrium that is non-Pareto optimal; NSA loses top-tier candidates, and tech companies have to expend resources to protect themselves from NSA and other threats. An ideal scenario would be for a trusted NSA to work <i>with</i> tech companies to support strong crypto and security, but that&#x27;s a nonstarter in the political and bureaucratic climate.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d like to see the defensive aspects of the NSA broken out into a separate agency, preferably either cabinet-level or independent, with the singular mission of protecting the security and privacy of all Americans, covering everything from crypto to vulnerability discovery to privacy recommendations and (where applicable) rulemaking. You would assume that NSA would still be in competition with a hypothetical Information Security Assurance Agency for discovering vulnerabilities, but the ISAA would not have the balancing test of &quot;does this vulnerability threaten Americans more than it helps us listen on our adversaries?&quot; Think of it as a FEMA for the cybersecurity age.</text></comment> | <story><title>After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge</title><url>http://www.npr.org/2015/03/31/395829446/after-snowden-the-nsa-faces-recruitment-challenge</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bazillion</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t truly address such a large claim -- it basically could be titled &quot;After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge from 3 College Students&quot;.<p>The NSA has nearly unlimited hiring potential with just the pool of military folks alone that work there. There are constant hiring freezes for a year at a time, because a lot of buildings are over capacity.<p>If one of these college students were to apply to the NSA through NSA.gov (mandated as the only way someone is allowed into the agency), they would have to apply a minimum of 2-4 times, because the application stays good for about 90 days, and the average applicant waits 6 months to a year to get accepted. This is assuming they&#x27;re applying straight through without having someone with hiring power pull their application from the queue. After that, the process to get a clearance could take anywhere from another 6 months to 2 years (possibly more in some exceptional cases) and costs the agency about 250k.<p>So, it goes without saying that bringing onboard a fresh college student who isn&#x27;t going to even get to walk through the door at least a year after applying, can pale in comparison to bringing on someone who already has a clearance and training. The article assumes that the NSA relies heavily on its external recruitment, but the vast majority of folks working there just change out of a uniform into jeans and a shirt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drzaiusapelord</author><text>Salaries and pensions are no joke either. I was reading about how recruitment works. It seems they have a relationship with many CS and Math professors who recommend bright students directly to NSA headhunters. I imagine working on some of the problems they do can be very exciting. Not everyone feels this need to publish publicly.<p>I find it hard to believe there&#x27;s any sort of recruitment shortage. The NSA does today what it did 5, 10, 15, etc years ago. People interviewing for those positions know exactly what they&#x27;re getting into then the same way they know what they&#x27;re getting into today. The whole &quot;OMGZ SPYING ON MY MAY-MAYS&quot; sells on here on reddit, but apparantly lots of people don&#x27;t take that view and instead see sigint as a legitimate need, like having a standing military with nuclear weapons or intervening into foreign countries. Arguably, good sigint means less conflicts and more wins. Hitler&#x27;s Germany was damaged greatly by sigint hero Alan Turing. Funny how we celebrate Turing, but a modern Turing today would be vilified instantly. The world, if anything, is much more dangerous today than in the 30s considering how many nations have nuclear weapons. Honestly, if I had the choice I&#x27;d rather work there than find new ways to deliver annoying click-bait ads at a place like Facebook or get kids hooked on some milquetoast WoW-clone.<p>The Chinese, Iranian, and Russian sigint guys aren&#x27;t taking some moral stand either. They&#x27;re just getting their assess to work the same way we do.</text></comment> |
39,347,359 | 39,343,028 | 1 | 2 | 39,337,923 | train | <story><title>Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)</title><url>https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/why-software-engineers-like-woodworking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carabiner</author><text>Rock climbing is the new golf, and tech workers are the new big shots that have replaced stodgy investment bankers. I never mention that I&#x27;m a rock climber anymore. It brands you as a techfuck these days.<p>No evidence has been presented that woodworking is disproportionately popular among programmers. I bet if you go to some carpentry meetups you will not find a high number of programmers. Programmers are not special for having hobbies. If you talk to a non-programmer some day, you may find that they have hobbies as well, such as cooking, writing, music, and gardening. Most people have hobbies.</text></item><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>I was once asked: &quot;Are you a rock climbing mathematician or a cat mathematician?&quot;. It was a joke designed to break the ice, but it turns out that 3&#x2F;5 of that class were climbers, the others were enthusiastic cat owners. No outliers.<p>I&#x27;ll add software engineering and woodworking to the list.<p>I wonder what other surprising relationships there are out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>If there&#x27;s something to be embarrassed about that&#x27;s coincidentally associated with code and climbing (like, idk, so few scruples that were willing to work against the interests of our users) maybe we should address that head on rather than being ashamed of enjoying both code and climbing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)</title><url>https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/why-software-engineers-like-woodworking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carabiner</author><text>Rock climbing is the new golf, and tech workers are the new big shots that have replaced stodgy investment bankers. I never mention that I&#x27;m a rock climber anymore. It brands you as a techfuck these days.<p>No evidence has been presented that woodworking is disproportionately popular among programmers. I bet if you go to some carpentry meetups you will not find a high number of programmers. Programmers are not special for having hobbies. If you talk to a non-programmer some day, you may find that they have hobbies as well, such as cooking, writing, music, and gardening. Most people have hobbies.</text></item><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>I was once asked: &quot;Are you a rock climbing mathematician or a cat mathematician?&quot;. It was a joke designed to break the ice, but it turns out that 3&#x2F;5 of that class were climbers, the others were enthusiastic cat owners. No outliers.<p>I&#x27;ll add software engineering and woodworking to the list.<p>I wonder what other surprising relationships there are out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aftoprokrustes</author><text>&quot;Rock climbing is the new golf&quot;: I never thought about it in this way, but it makes a lot of sense. In both sports, most of the time is spent waiting&#x2F;resting. This makes golf clubs and climbing gyms as much places for social contact as places where you go to train.</text></comment> |
29,514,666 | 29,514,655 | 1 | 2 | 29,512,281 | train | <story><title>Leaked Scripps records reveal automated mark-ups for hospital care</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-10/column-healthcare-billing-markups</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tastyfreeze</author><text>This is what happens when the buyer doesn&#x27;t care what the price is because its not their money and the seller doesn&#x27;t publish prices to allow comparison. Insurance companies only care if a price is outside of &quot;normal&quot; as they can just increase premiums as hospitals push &quot;normal&quot; continually higher.<p>Hospitals make ridiculous profit. Insurance companies make ridiculous profit. Neither of them care at all what the real customer gets charged.<p>See also Federally guaranteed student loans</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>&gt; <i>Hospitals make ridiculous profit.</i><p>&quot;It depends.&quot;<p>Non-trauma hospitals in affluent areas that perform lots of elective procedures make a lot of profit.<p>Trauma centers in less-affluent, usually urban or rural, areas that deliver emergency care almost always run at a loss, and are subsidized by city &#x2F; state &#x2F; federal funds to maintain capability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaked Scripps records reveal automated mark-ups for hospital care</title><url>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-10/column-healthcare-billing-markups</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tastyfreeze</author><text>This is what happens when the buyer doesn&#x27;t care what the price is because its not their money and the seller doesn&#x27;t publish prices to allow comparison. Insurance companies only care if a price is outside of &quot;normal&quot; as they can just increase premiums as hospitals push &quot;normal&quot; continually higher.<p>Hospitals make ridiculous profit. Insurance companies make ridiculous profit. Neither of them care at all what the real customer gets charged.<p>See also Federally guaranteed student loans</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>handrous</author><text>&gt; This is what happens when the buyer doesn&#x27;t care what the price is because its not their money and the seller doesn&#x27;t publish prices to allow comparison.<p>The norm in most systems (in developed states, anyway) is that the buyer doesn&#x27;t care what the price is, to <i>at least</i> the same degree that they don&#x27;t in ours. Yet they&#x27;re <i>all</i> much cheaper than our system.</text></comment> |
18,609,452 | 18,609,382 | 1 | 3 | 18,608,658 | train | <story><title>Facebook's seized files published by MPs</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46456695</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fosco</author><text>holy smokes...<p>&gt;Michael LeBeau – ‘He guys, as you know all the growth team is planning on shipping a permissions update on Android at the end of this month. They are going to include the ‘read call log’ permission, which will trigger the Android permissions dialog on update, requiring users to accept the update. They will then provide an in app opt in NUX for a feature that lets you continuously upload your SMS and call log history to Facebook to be used for improving things like PYMK, coefficient calculation, feed ranking etc. This is a pretty high risk thing to do from a PR perspective but it appears that the growth team will charge ahead and do it.’<p>&gt;Yul Kwon - ‘The Growth team is now exploring a path where we only request Read Call Log permission, and hold off on requesting any other permissions for now. ‘Based on their initial testing, it seems this would allow us to upgrade users without subjecting them to an Android permissions dialog at all.<p>This is huge, doesn&#x27;t this make google guilty as well?<p>&gt;‘It would still be a breaking change, so users would have to click to upgrade, but no permissions dialog screen.<p>EDIT: formatting</text></item><item><author>Trill-I-Am</author><text>Here is a direct link to the files themselves:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;commons-committees&#x2F;culture-media-and-sport&#x2F;Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;commons-committees&#x2F;cultu...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arminiusreturns</author><text>Now remember that Facebook has made agreements with phone manufacturers to have fb installed by default <i>and made un-uninstallable</i>, with all the default permissions to share the users data whether they ever log in and use the app or not!<p>Sidenote: I&#x27;ve noticed via umatrix that Netflix on pc, during a show, is attempting to load fb js... Netflix wtf!</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook's seized files published by MPs</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46456695</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fosco</author><text>holy smokes...<p>&gt;Michael LeBeau – ‘He guys, as you know all the growth team is planning on shipping a permissions update on Android at the end of this month. They are going to include the ‘read call log’ permission, which will trigger the Android permissions dialog on update, requiring users to accept the update. They will then provide an in app opt in NUX for a feature that lets you continuously upload your SMS and call log history to Facebook to be used for improving things like PYMK, coefficient calculation, feed ranking etc. This is a pretty high risk thing to do from a PR perspective but it appears that the growth team will charge ahead and do it.’<p>&gt;Yul Kwon - ‘The Growth team is now exploring a path where we only request Read Call Log permission, and hold off on requesting any other permissions for now. ‘Based on their initial testing, it seems this would allow us to upgrade users without subjecting them to an Android permissions dialog at all.<p>This is huge, doesn&#x27;t this make google guilty as well?<p>&gt;‘It would still be a breaking change, so users would have to click to upgrade, but no permissions dialog screen.<p>EDIT: formatting</text></item><item><author>Trill-I-Am</author><text>Here is a direct link to the files themselves:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;commons-committees&#x2F;culture-media-and-sport&#x2F;Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.parliament.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;commons-committees&#x2F;cultu...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikejb</author><text>&gt; This is huge, doesn&#x27;t this make google guilty as well?<p>I&#x27;m not sure I follow. An app can request permissions, and the user can allow or deny them. I don&#x27;t understand how this puts guilt on Google. Can you elaborate?</text></comment> |
23,855,393 | 23,854,155 | 1 | 2 | 23,837,109 | train | <story><title>Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence</title><url>https://www.genome.gov/news/news-release/NHGRI-researchers-generate-complete-human-x-chromosome-sequence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ReaLNero</author><text>Dumb question: is there a x_chromosome.txt with the sequence in order? Why do geneticists not talk about it this way?</text></comment> | <story><title>Researchers generate complete human X chromosome sequence</title><url>https://www.genome.gov/news/news-release/NHGRI-researchers-generate-complete-human-x-chromosome-sequence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skunkworker</author><text>The article doesn’t mention but now I’m curious what kind of read length and error rate they are achieving. This could have huge impacts across all sequencing.</text></comment> |
21,441,858 | 21,441,729 | 1 | 2 | 21,440,526 | train | <story><title>I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cieplak</author><text>I’m curious what sort of due diligence these companies must do to authenticate you as a person prior to satisfying an information retrieval request. Given that the exchange is entirely digital, it seems plausible that there are bad actors who would pose as someone else to gain access to their personal information. What sort of liability does one of these data controllers bear when they fail to properly authenticate a person prior to handing over all their data? Is it limited to tort liability, in which there needs to be proof that the transgression ultimately led to some particular damage? Given that this data is being traded on the free market, what’s to stop abusive employers, ex-spouses and criminals from exploiting this information?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Frost1x</author><text>I suspect we as a society need new legislation to deal with these sort of issues. Before, much of this was incredibly difficult to impossible so legislation and regulation was entirely avoidable and relatively rare occurence could be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.<p>At this point, technology has enabled this sort of behavior at mass scale, now revealing far more personal and useful information about individuals.<p>A feasible model to work from may be go look at the healthcare industry and HIPPA requirements&#x2F;liabilities and adapt as needed. Certainly not perfect but it&#x27;s a good starting point for widespread data laws.<p>The question is, will our representatives actually give teeth to real data protection legislation (not a facade with no teeth only enacted by name) in the US or are they too deeply in bed with industry that they&#x27;ll protect business rights over real people who suffer real direct damages.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cieplak</author><text>I’m curious what sort of due diligence these companies must do to authenticate you as a person prior to satisfying an information retrieval request. Given that the exchange is entirely digital, it seems plausible that there are bad actors who would pose as someone else to gain access to their personal information. What sort of liability does one of these data controllers bear when they fail to properly authenticate a person prior to handing over all their data? Is it limited to tort liability, in which there needs to be proof that the transgression ultimately led to some particular damage? Given that this data is being traded on the free market, what’s to stop abusive employers, ex-spouses and criminals from exploiting this information?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astura</author><text>This is already a big (and largely unaddressed) problem with the big 3 credit CRAs, if you know enough about a person you can very easily request their credit report and get the keys to the kingdom (so-to-speak) - everything you didn&#x27;t already know.<p>I mean, I already request credit reports for my husband without issue, for example (with his permission! - he finds it much easier to just ask me to do those things for him rather than doing them himself).<p>In this case, since email address is part of the report they could only send the report to the email address on file for &quot;security,&quot; which would be a big improvement over what the big three CRAs are doing with annualcreditreport.com.</text></comment> |
19,447,190 | 19,447,258 | 1 | 2 | 19,441,396 | train | <story><title>AirPods with Wireless Charging Case</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MRXJ2AM/A/airpods-with-wireless-charging-case</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exergy</author><text>To me, that blows big holes in the argument that Airpods are better than wired earphones. It&#x27;s compromises up and down the chart with the sole benefit being wirelessness? Are people nowadays really that rich that they can dump 150 USD EVERY two to three years just to get rid of a wire?!<p>Also, I just can&#x27;t fathom people&#x27;s willingness to let <i>so much tech</i> into their lives. Laptops, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches, airpods... all of which need to be constantly charged, and replaced once their batteries die, because they cannot be swapped out, meaning the rest of the apparatus lies impotent in a dumpster for a thousand years or more, never to biodegrade... it&#x27;s depressing and wearisome to picture.</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>I really wish I could put myself into the shoes of people who think that <i>fifteen minutes</i> of using only one earbud is a big deal, but I honestly just can&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>That&#x27;s all well and good if using one were the same as using two. Of course, it isn&#x27;t...</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>&gt; and can&#x27;t be charged while being used<p>I&#x27;ll just address this point, because it is categorically incorrect and something <i>many</i> people misunderstood when they were first released.<p>There are two of them. You can use them independently from one another. When you hear the &quot;low battery&quot; tone, it&#x27;s trivial to remove one and continue to use the other. By the time the tone plays again in the one you continued to use (signaling critically low battery), you just swap which earbud is in the case. The one that was in the case will be almost fully charged at this point.<p>The effect is that you can pretty much use them indefinitely without a full interruption. And using only one at a time is mostly unnoticeable.</text></item><item><author>brucemoose</author><text>I honestly can&#x27;t say I understand the draw to drop significant money on a new set of headphones that need to be charged at least as often as a my phone, and can&#x27;t be charged while being used.<p>I&#x27;ve had the same set of high quality in-ear wired headphones for the last 5 years or longer and have zero issues with them (I just replace the foam every so often for about $5). What is the improvement I am missing here?</text></item><item><author>pwthornton</author><text>If Apple does in fact release AirPower, and it works well, I&#x27;ll probably upgrade to these. A better charging situation is one of the things that could improve the AirPods.<p>Just today my AirPods case wasn&#x27;t charging because lint got into my lightning port. I didn&#x27;t realize the case wasn&#x27;t charging until I realized my AirPods were low on power despite me charging the case a lot the last few days. Inductive charging is a lot more durable in a lot of ways.<p>I take my AirPods everywhere with me. They fit perfectly into a pair of jeans. They are one of Apple&#x27;s best products in years.<p>I find myself listening to way more audiobooks and podcasts because of this. If I have a minutes to burn, I can just pull them out and listen. Also, AirPods are great for phone calls. I use them for almost every phone call, and having them always on me has changed how I interact with computing devices. If the Apple Watch ever really gets full featured (with more robust cellular features in particular), I could see myself often just having a Watch and AirPods with me, while leaving my phone behind.<p>The other things I would like to see Apple do are: Official water resistance ratings to better work for athletics and in the rain; and the ability to have different tips on them to increase fit for more people and to provide the option of sealing out outside noise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stouset</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s compromises up and down the chart<p><i>What</i> compromises?<p>They&#x27;re literally always on my person. At all times. Without even having to think about it, because they just come along with my phone and keys whenever they change pockets.<p>I can wear them all day and basically forget they&#x27;re there, even when pausing audio to have conversations with people physically in front of me.<p>For phone calls, they&#x27;re measurably more convenient since I can just leave my phone on my desk and continue whatever it was I was previously doing.<p>The &quot;compromises&quot; I have to make, on the other hand are completely insignificant. Sometimes I have to take one earbud out. Sometimes the case is low on battery so I plug it in at the nearest cable on my desk or nightstand. The audio quality is perfectly fine, I have never noticed a difference unless I was explicitly trying to look for one.<p>&gt; Are people nowadays really that rich that they can dump 150 USD EVERY two to three years just to get rid of a wire?!<p>Why do you seem to believe that these will only last two or three years? Mine are 2.5 years in and I can&#x27;t say I&#x27;ve noticed any kind of battery degradation. Surely they won&#x27;t continue to last indefinitely, but every other wired headphone I&#x27;ve used has had the wire fray sooner or later anyway.<p>&gt; Also, I just can&#x27;t fathom people&#x27;s willingness to let <i>so much tech</i> into their lives.<p>I can&#x27;t reply to the other comment you made, but I find it telling that you&#x27;ve decided that <i>you</i> get to be the gatekeeper for what is &quot;too much tech&quot; and what&#x27;s not. From that comment, &quot;Every person deserves... a laptop... and a smartphone&quot;. And headphones too, apparently. But <i>wireless</i> headphones are where we as a society should draw the line?<p>Somehow I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d be surprised to find you having this same conversation ten years ago deriding how rich people must be to afford a $1,000 cell phone every few years, when flip phones are just as good and aren&#x27;t full of compromises like software keyboards.</text></comment> | <story><title>AirPods with Wireless Charging Case</title><url>https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MRXJ2AM/A/airpods-with-wireless-charging-case</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exergy</author><text>To me, that blows big holes in the argument that Airpods are better than wired earphones. It&#x27;s compromises up and down the chart with the sole benefit being wirelessness? Are people nowadays really that rich that they can dump 150 USD EVERY two to three years just to get rid of a wire?!<p>Also, I just can&#x27;t fathom people&#x27;s willingness to let <i>so much tech</i> into their lives. Laptops, tablets, smartphones, smartwatches, airpods... all of which need to be constantly charged, and replaced once their batteries die, because they cannot be swapped out, meaning the rest of the apparatus lies impotent in a dumpster for a thousand years or more, never to biodegrade... it&#x27;s depressing and wearisome to picture.</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>I really wish I could put myself into the shoes of people who think that <i>fifteen minutes</i> of using only one earbud is a big deal, but I honestly just can&#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>That&#x27;s all well and good if using one were the same as using two. Of course, it isn&#x27;t...</text></item><item><author>stouset</author><text>&gt; and can&#x27;t be charged while being used<p>I&#x27;ll just address this point, because it is categorically incorrect and something <i>many</i> people misunderstood when they were first released.<p>There are two of them. You can use them independently from one another. When you hear the &quot;low battery&quot; tone, it&#x27;s trivial to remove one and continue to use the other. By the time the tone plays again in the one you continued to use (signaling critically low battery), you just swap which earbud is in the case. The one that was in the case will be almost fully charged at this point.<p>The effect is that you can pretty much use them indefinitely without a full interruption. And using only one at a time is mostly unnoticeable.</text></item><item><author>brucemoose</author><text>I honestly can&#x27;t say I understand the draw to drop significant money on a new set of headphones that need to be charged at least as often as a my phone, and can&#x27;t be charged while being used.<p>I&#x27;ve had the same set of high quality in-ear wired headphones for the last 5 years or longer and have zero issues with them (I just replace the foam every so often for about $5). What is the improvement I am missing here?</text></item><item><author>pwthornton</author><text>If Apple does in fact release AirPower, and it works well, I&#x27;ll probably upgrade to these. A better charging situation is one of the things that could improve the AirPods.<p>Just today my AirPods case wasn&#x27;t charging because lint got into my lightning port. I didn&#x27;t realize the case wasn&#x27;t charging until I realized my AirPods were low on power despite me charging the case a lot the last few days. Inductive charging is a lot more durable in a lot of ways.<p>I take my AirPods everywhere with me. They fit perfectly into a pair of jeans. They are one of Apple&#x27;s best products in years.<p>I find myself listening to way more audiobooks and podcasts because of this. If I have a minutes to burn, I can just pull them out and listen. Also, AirPods are great for phone calls. I use them for almost every phone call, and having them always on me has changed how I interact with computing devices. If the Apple Watch ever really gets full featured (with more robust cellular features in particular), I could see myself often just having a Watch and AirPods with me, while leaving my phone behind.<p>The other things I would like to see Apple do are: Official water resistance ratings to better work for athletics and in the rain; and the ability to have different tips on them to increase fit for more people and to provide the option of sealing out outside noise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icanhackit</author><text>People collect cars, watches, shoes, expensive clothing. On the extreme end there&#x27;s figurines, paintings, antiques -- at least the former items have utility, the latter are mere articles for signalling to others.<p>Does it really blow your mind that the ability to move freely without being tethered to a phone is a selling point? I can give an example where it really helps for me: I&#x27;m a nudist.<p>But even when clothed I like walking around able to take a call or listen to music without snagging a cable on one of the many protrusions in this world like door handles, kitchen cupboard handles etc which can also lead to an expensive phone launching from my pocket onto the floor.<p>If you&#x27;re worried about pollution, Airpods should be on the low end of the concerns list.</text></comment> |
25,871,963 | 25,868,925 | 1 | 2 | 25,868,713 | train | <story><title>Loon’s final flight</title><url>https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96?gi=b913b3d1667e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>I think the days of Google Moonshots are coming to a close. In general Google hasn&#x27;t been very good at shooting for the moon. They&#x27;ve lost their leadership and vision and all that&#x27;s left is a giant advertising behemoth.<p>Did any of their moonshots really hit the mark or even come close?</text></item><item><author>Mistri</author><text>People often make fun of Google&#x2F;Alphabet for their graveyard of failed initiatives&#x2F;products. While some of it might be warranted, projects like this—that strive to solve a large, global issue through somewhat charitable actions—are generous and have only increased my respect for the Google&#x2F;Alphabet&#x2F;X team. I hope they don&#x27;t get flamed for this, and hopefully some of their research and donation funds can live on and solve the issue that Loon originally intended to one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptero</author><text>I think the main problem is they lost the edge on execution. Traditional &quot;vision&quot; is not strictly needed for moonshot projects; the vision for moonshots is provided by a small team working on their idea. But should the technology start panning out, the company needs to focus aggressively on finding a commercial home for this technology.<p>And this is where I think google (and many big companies) fail. Technologically, Loons worked. I did not believe it when I read about those, but looking at the trajectories in public ADS-B data (those balloons self-advertise) it is clear that they move as designed, doing 2D positioning using only vertical control and can stay afloat for months. Wow! Mission accomplished. But commercially, nothing happened.<p>I do not know if it was because business types were not sold on it and did not build a commercial case; did the technical team simply live in their own bubble not talking to the outside; something else? But a 10-year &quot;moonshot&quot; project that pans out technologically and fails commercially indicates that the right hand (&quot;internal VC&quot;) does not know or care what the left hand (techies) is doing, which is the problem at the company. My 2c.</text></comment> | <story><title>Loon’s final flight</title><url>https://blog.x.company/loons-final-flight-e9d699123a96?gi=b913b3d1667e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ogre_codes</author><text>I think the days of Google Moonshots are coming to a close. In general Google hasn&#x27;t been very good at shooting for the moon. They&#x27;ve lost their leadership and vision and all that&#x27;s left is a giant advertising behemoth.<p>Did any of their moonshots really hit the mark or even come close?</text></item><item><author>Mistri</author><text>People often make fun of Google&#x2F;Alphabet for their graveyard of failed initiatives&#x2F;products. While some of it might be warranted, projects like this—that strive to solve a large, global issue through somewhat charitable actions—are generous and have only increased my respect for the Google&#x2F;Alphabet&#x2F;X team. I hope they don&#x27;t get flamed for this, and hopefully some of their research and donation funds can live on and solve the issue that Loon originally intended to one day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antupis</author><text>Brain is doing great and Waymo probably at least hits close.</text></comment> |
15,450,270 | 15,448,436 | 1 | 2 | 15,446,206 | train | <story><title>Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said</title><url>http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/10/google-nerfing-home-minis-mine-spied-everything-said-247/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wizzzzzy</author><text>I&#x27;m in two minds about Google home, alexa etc.
On one hand, the novelty &#x2F; utility of these devices makes me half inclined to get one but the fundamental idea of having a device in my house, connected to the internet that is sat there listening to me 24&#x2F;7 leaves me feeling slightly uneasy at best. The idea makes me feel like I&#x27;d be treating all the things I&#x27;ve read in the past few years about tech companies, privacy etc with complete contempt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsync</author><text>&quot;I&#x27;m in two minds about Google home, alexa etc. On one hand, the novelty &#x2F; utility of these devices makes me half inclined to get one but the fundamental idea of having a device in my house, connected to the internet that is sat there listening to me 24&#x2F;7 leaves me feeling slightly uneasy at best.&quot;<p>I am totally opposed to these devices in my home and am, frankly, aghast at the notion that they would see wide deployment or that &quot;voice is the future ... blah blah&quot;.<p>However, I <i>do</i> have the ability to consider other viewpoints and when I do, I am completely underwhelmed by the proposed use-cases of these devices. According to Amazon themselves, the things I could do with Alexa include:<p>&quot;What&#x27;s on sale today ?&quot;<p>&quot;Find me a Chinese restaurant&quot;<p>&quot;What&#x27;s the weather&quot;<p>These are use-cases that suggest a user who either has no particular preferences or is satisfied with extremely simple, non-nuanced information (or both). These use-cases are the literal manifestation of dumbing yourself down far enough for the computer to pass your (very easy) turing test.<p>Other use-cases like &quot;play my party playlist&quot; are a wash in terms of simplicity or speed vs. just (pressing whatever play button you have in the system you use).<p>Are there any examples that I would find interesting or nuanced or definitive improvements over existing tools ?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said</title><url>http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/10/google-nerfing-home-minis-mine-spied-everything-said-247/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wizzzzzy</author><text>I&#x27;m in two minds about Google home, alexa etc.
On one hand, the novelty &#x2F; utility of these devices makes me half inclined to get one but the fundamental idea of having a device in my house, connected to the internet that is sat there listening to me 24&#x2F;7 leaves me feeling slightly uneasy at best. The idea makes me feel like I&#x27;d be treating all the things I&#x27;ve read in the past few years about tech companies, privacy etc with complete contempt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subsubsub</author><text>Honest question. Why do you feel this way about a hub, and not about your smartphone?<p>(assuming you have one)<p>Is it because, although your smartphone has the ability to listen to you in the same way, it is not the stated aim of the device?</text></comment> |
23,937,798 | 23,936,117 | 1 | 2 | 23,925,661 | train | <story><title>Nvidia will build 700-petaflop supercomputer for University of Florida</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/21/nvidia-collaborates-with-the-university-of-florida-to-build-700-petaflop-ai-supercomputer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OffensiveTomato</author><text>One of Nvidia&#x27;s confounders is actually a UF alumnus. Good way to give back!</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia will build 700-petaflop supercomputer for University of Florida</title><url>https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/21/nvidia-collaborates-with-the-university-of-florida-to-build-700-petaflop-ai-supercomputer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boulos</author><text>Sigh, I wish people wouldn’t say “peta<i>flop</i>” for these.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nvidia.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;data-center&#x2F;a100&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nvidia.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;data-center&#x2F;a100&#x2F;</a> is the most official reference. If you scroll to the bottom, you’ll see that an A100 part can do ~20 Teraflops (either FP32 or FP64 in little-matrix aka tensor mode). When they say “each A100 can do 5 petaflops”, they mean each DGX which has 8 such cards and thus they mean 600-ish something-ops per card. The generous assumption is that’s FP16 or bfloat16 for sparse ops, and therefore they are “flops”.<p>The reality is that if someone says “supercomputer” in the general sense, they mean scientific computing and so mean a double-precision LINPACK benchmark. The 1120 A100 parts (8x140) doing 20 “real” teraflops each has an absolute peak of about 22 Petaflops (and older code without tensor mode would be half that on FP64).<p>tl;dr: ML isn’t scientific computing, and those are different flops, but “10 petaflops” just doesn’t sound as impressive.</text></comment> |
20,989,594 | 20,987,518 | 1 | 2 | 20,982,479 | train | <story><title>Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/09/volkswagen-audi-porsche-vw-group-plans-one-os-to-rule-them-all/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spanktheuser</author><text>I&#x27;m also aware of a project from a major automotive supplier to attempt the same thing. From my understanding it&#x27;s unlikely to succeed because manufacturers view suppliers as commodity producers of components they find boring like brakes, steering systems, sensors, transmissions, safety systems, fuel pumps, etc. Not as anything resembling a true partner. Not to mention that it would require competitors to collaborate closely in the production of a highly complex piece of software.<p>That said, how many times have we seen this story in other industries?<p>1 Legacy corporation is warned that an integrated, consumer-friendly software architecture for [multi-billion product line] is needed, and failure to produce one creates an opportunity for an insurgent competitor and&#x2F;or commodification by adjacent supply chain players.<p>2 Leadership laughs and ignores mounting evidence of just such a threat emerging for up to a decade.<p>3 Lo and behold, prophesied competitor finally emerges and finds immediate market success.<p>4 Legacy company announces that they&#x27;ll bring a competing solution to market, promising investors that they&#x27;ll produce a similar quality OS, but across 39 models, uniting 457 separate component suppliers AND the entire post-purchase product support infrastructure. They&#x27;re starting today and promise to launch in 12 months.<p>5 Legacy company lights billion dollar bonfire to distract investors while CTO frantically tries to source a robust embedded operating system with consumer-grade interfaces and feature set.<p>6 Best case, no one who has such an OS will license it. Worst case, Google will.<p>7 Leadership jumps ship, legacy company craters or slowly slides into irrelevance, and CEO later gives interviews about how absolutely no one could have seen this coming, with a sidebar complaining about software engineering salaries.<p>Honestly, this whole narrative is becoming a bit boring at this point. VW is at stage 5. The fact that its leadership consists entirely of charlatans is self-evident.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clouddrover</author><text>&gt; <i>VW is at stage 5.</i><p>No. Volkswagen is at the stage that four years after deciding to bet the company on going electric, deliveries of their new EVs based on their new EV platforms will start next year.<p>Their new software plan goes hand in hand with their EV push. Volkswagen is going to be the world&#x27;s biggest producer of EVs because they&#x27;re spending the most money to be it and they have the scale to execute it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-volkswagen-electric-insight-idUSKCN1PV0K4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-volkswagen-electric-insig...</a><p>Your narrative doesn&#x27;t match the reality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/09/volkswagen-audi-porsche-vw-group-plans-one-os-to-rule-them-all/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spanktheuser</author><text>I&#x27;m also aware of a project from a major automotive supplier to attempt the same thing. From my understanding it&#x27;s unlikely to succeed because manufacturers view suppliers as commodity producers of components they find boring like brakes, steering systems, sensors, transmissions, safety systems, fuel pumps, etc. Not as anything resembling a true partner. Not to mention that it would require competitors to collaborate closely in the production of a highly complex piece of software.<p>That said, how many times have we seen this story in other industries?<p>1 Legacy corporation is warned that an integrated, consumer-friendly software architecture for [multi-billion product line] is needed, and failure to produce one creates an opportunity for an insurgent competitor and&#x2F;or commodification by adjacent supply chain players.<p>2 Leadership laughs and ignores mounting evidence of just such a threat emerging for up to a decade.<p>3 Lo and behold, prophesied competitor finally emerges and finds immediate market success.<p>4 Legacy company announces that they&#x27;ll bring a competing solution to market, promising investors that they&#x27;ll produce a similar quality OS, but across 39 models, uniting 457 separate component suppliers AND the entire post-purchase product support infrastructure. They&#x27;re starting today and promise to launch in 12 months.<p>5 Legacy company lights billion dollar bonfire to distract investors while CTO frantically tries to source a robust embedded operating system with consumer-grade interfaces and feature set.<p>6 Best case, no one who has such an OS will license it. Worst case, Google will.<p>7 Leadership jumps ship, legacy company craters or slowly slides into irrelevance, and CEO later gives interviews about how absolutely no one could have seen this coming, with a sidebar complaining about software engineering salaries.<p>Honestly, this whole narrative is becoming a bit boring at this point. VW is at stage 5. The fact that its leadership consists entirely of charlatans is self-evident.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weinzierl</author><text>&gt; The fact that its leadership consists entirely of charlatans is self-evident.<p>Charlatans maybe but the real problem is that they are old men with ballpoint pens who proudly claim that they have <i>&quot;petrol in their blood&quot;</i>.<p>The real tragedy is that most German automotive managers have no clue about the complexity of modern software and I&#x27;d bet most of them would answer the question: <i>&quot;What is more complex, the mechanics or the the software?&quot;</i> with <i>&quot;Mechanics, of course!</i>&quot;
without a blink.</text></comment> |
11,938,031 | 11,937,735 | 1 | 3 | 11,937,467 | train | <story><title>LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service</title><url>http://locationiq.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buckhx</author><text>I&#x27;m glad to see more geocoding offerings, but if you need more than a few thousand addresses, you&#x27;ll find no offering will. Running your own geocoding really shouldn&#x27;t be that scary of thing to do.<p>The biggest pain in running your own OSM geocoder (nominatim) is kind of a bear to set up. I imagine there docker images that could make things a bit easier and allow you to grab a region extract, but I could be wrong there.<p>On a side note, I was working on an open source geocoder based on OSM that was easy to build as part of a mapping util I&#x27;ve been working on (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;buckhx&#x2F;diglet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;buckhx&#x2F;diglet</a>). I lost some traction on the geocoding side of things and have been focusing more on map building&#x2F;serving, but did get a stable version for US addresses. There are lot&#x27;s of interesting problems that come along with geocoding.</text></comment> | <story><title>LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service</title><url>http://locationiq.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>caleblloyd</author><text>This is fantastic. I talked to Google for their geocoding API a couple years ago and was quoted $17,500 per year for a pretty basic package that included up to 10 requests per second and 100,000 geocodes per day if I remember correctly.<p>I looked at hosting OSM myself but it seemed like a lot of work. Huge data files for the initial import and setting up daily increment jobs. Glad to see a managed service emerging!</text></comment> |
17,741,190 | 17,740,855 | 1 | 2 | 17,740,622 | train | <story><title>Bulma – Flexbox CSS framework</title><url>https://bulma.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcbetz</author><text>If you are looking for light-weight (no Jquery) and flexible alternatives to Bootstrap, you might also like utility toolkit (combine classes for flexible design systems) like Tachyon (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tachyons.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tachyons.io&#x2F;</a>) or TailwindCSS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailwindcss.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailwindcss.com&#x2F;</a>). These toolkits have sped up my webdev while make me feel like really controlling what I do (Bootstrap always felt like working against the system when customizing stuff)</text></comment> | <story><title>Bulma – Flexbox CSS framework</title><url>https://bulma.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koboll</author><text>Bulma is great. But it occupies an awkward position sandwiched between Bootstrap and CSS grid.<p>If you only need to support modern browsers, grid is the most attractive and powerful option. And if you need to support old IE, you probably need a pre-flexbox solution. So the use case for Bulma is a bit limited these days. Or at least that&#x27;s the conclusion I reached when pondering using it.</text></comment> |
29,042,862 | 29,042,872 | 1 | 3 | 29,041,782 | train | <story><title>Comparing Nginx performance in bare metal and virtual environments</title><url>https://www.nginx.com/blog/comparing-nginx-performance-bare-metal-and-virtual-environments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>I recently moved a smallish business application from two bare-metal servers onto Azure VMs. It&#x27;s a standard PHP 7.4 application, MySQL, Redis, nginx. Despite the VMs costing more and having twice the spec of the bare-metal servers, it has consistently performed slower and less reliably throughout the stack. The client&#x27;s budget is too small to spend much time looking into it. Instead, they upped the spec even further, and what used to cost £600 per month now costs £2000.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hhw</author><text>(Disclaimer) As a bare metal provider, I hope more people become aware what I&#x27;ve been saying for years: cloud is great for scaling down, but not that great for scaling up. If you want to have lots of VM&#x27;s that don&#x27;t warrant their own hardware that you can conveniently turn up and down, then cloud is fantastic. If you have a big application that needs to scale, you can get further vertically with bare metal, and if you need to scale horizontally, you need to optimize better higher up in the stack anyway, and the much lower cost for equivalent resources (without even taking any virtualization performance hit into account), more flexibility and thus more&#x2F;better fitted performance of bare metal should have the clear advantage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comparing Nginx performance in bare metal and virtual environments</title><url>https://www.nginx.com/blog/comparing-nginx-performance-bare-metal-and-virtual-environments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>I recently moved a smallish business application from two bare-metal servers onto Azure VMs. It&#x27;s a standard PHP 7.4 application, MySQL, Redis, nginx. Despite the VMs costing more and having twice the spec of the bare-metal servers, it has consistently performed slower and less reliably throughout the stack. The client&#x27;s budget is too small to spend much time looking into it. Instead, they upped the spec even further, and what used to cost £600 per month now costs £2000.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speedgoose</author><text>Did you throw money at the storage layer? The IOs are ridiculously slow by default.</text></comment> |
4,571,603 | 4,571,233 | 1 | 2 | 4,570,600 | train | <story><title>NoPassword</title><url>https://nopassword.alexsmolen.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eCa</author><text>I hope that Mozilla Persona[1] (or similar) will solve this problem soon.<p>[1] <a href="https://login.persona.org/" rel="nofollow">https://login.persona.org/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>callahad</author><text>We do, too. Please try Persona out and let us know what does and doesn't work for you. We're trying to solve this thing once, for the whole web.<p>Also, if you've been waiting for Persona to hit "beta" before trying it out, well, check back Thursday morning. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>NoPassword</title><url>https://nopassword.alexsmolen.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eCa</author><text>I hope that Mozilla Persona[1] (or similar) will solve this problem soon.<p>[1] <a href="https://login.persona.org/" rel="nofollow">https://login.persona.org/</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmahemoff</author><text>I think it's an admirable goal, but they have a huge task ahead to convince both developers and other browsers to pick the standard up.<p>Realistically, I expect most people/services will converge on Single Sign On via one of Twitter, Google, Facebook, and maybe a couple others. Hopefully all offering 2-factor authentication. So you'll only need a handful of passwords anyway.</text></comment> |
1,050,806 | 1,050,732 | 1 | 2 | 1,050,522 | train | <story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eries</author><text>I was expecting the "The Holocaust We Will Not See" to be the one that will obviously take place after the film ends. The native people have driven the imperialists off their planet. But, the imperialists have space weapons and the natives do not. Plus, the imperialists only want inert matter that exists underground. And, they are so evil they have no respect for life in any form.<p>I assume a kinetic bombardment is imminent: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kf</author><text>I thought about that and assumed it was a plot hole in the movie. A neutron bomb seemed like such an obvious solution.<p>The scriptment fills in some of the gaps though. First, corporations are banned from using weapons of mass destruction in space. Second, the planetary consciousness convinces the humans to leave and not return by threatening them with a virus that will kill all of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eries</author><text>I was expecting the "The Holocaust We Will Not See" to be the one that will obviously take place after the film ends. The native people have driven the imperialists off their planet. But, the imperialists have space weapons and the natives do not. Plus, the imperialists only want inert matter that exists underground. And, they are so evil they have no respect for life in any form.<p>I assume a kinetic bombardment is imminent: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seldo</author><text>[Warning: spoiler-heavy]<p>I have to say the exact same thing occurred to me at the end of the movie. "And so the aliens returned to their dying world." ...yeah, to get more ammo.<p>Of course, the counter-argument might be that the Na'vi managed to defeat a heavily-armed base using a skeleton force, before most of the tribes had even turned up, so by the time they got back Pandora could be too well-prepared to resist for them to be successful. Kinetic bombardment is all very well, but you need to get down to the surface to pick the stuff up -- unless you completely destroy every living thing on the planet, in which case you develop a very serious logistical problem (they were growing their own food on the surface).</text></comment> |
5,381,638 | 5,381,633 | 1 | 2 | 5,381,572 | train | <story><title>Mailbox Is Joining Dropbox</title><url>http://www.mailboxapp.com/reservations/?p=1#to-grow-even-faster-mailbox-is-joining-dropbox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomschlick</author><text>GOD DAMNIT NOT AGAIN!<p>I really do hope that they progress on the path they started instead of just acquiring mailbox for the talent. I know they said that they would but thats what we heard about Sparrow when they were bought by Google and the results sucked.<p>Good luck to everyone on the mailbox team, I love your product, please don't kill it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamiequint</author><text>Did you not RTFA?<p>&#62; " To be clear, Mailbox is not going away. The product needs to grow fast, and we believe that joining Dropbox is the best way to make that happen. Plus, imagine what cool things you could do if your Mailbox was connected to your Dropbox…"</text></comment> | <story><title>Mailbox Is Joining Dropbox</title><url>http://www.mailboxapp.com/reservations/?p=1#to-grow-even-faster-mailbox-is-joining-dropbox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomschlick</author><text>GOD DAMNIT NOT AGAIN!<p>I really do hope that they progress on the path they started instead of just acquiring mailbox for the talent. I know they said that they would but thats what we heard about Sparrow when they were bought by Google and the results sucked.<p>Good luck to everyone on the mailbox team, I love your product, please don't kill it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smalter</author><text>No, they were pretty up front that Sparrow was a talent acquisition. They said that the product would continue to exist but they weren't going to update it and they were going to work on new projects at Google.</text></comment> |
18,923,278 | 18,922,301 | 1 | 2 | 18,920,438 | train | <story><title>Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/agf5c8/cleaning_restaurant_floor_for_1000_per_night/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbob2000</author><text>The lesson here is to do your job with passion. This man loves his job, otherwise he wouldn’t be posting and making videos about it.<p>It’s the same in tech. If you don’t have passion, you’ll bounce around tech companies, never moving up, always making money, but never enough. But it’s the passion that gives you the edge to deliver something 1% better than the next guy, and so you get the big bucks.<p>Be passionate and the money will follow.<p>Edit: uhh did I say something wrong? Why the downvotes?</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>I am a master diesel engine mechanic by trade, and $100&#x2F;hr is the lowest shop rate ive seen for a journeyman mechanic. I havent earned less than $150&#x2F;hr since getting my ASE certs.<p>That having been said, it (like floor cleaning) is not easy work. Personal protection and safety is critical. Slips, trips, and falls are the #1 killer in these jobs<p>The video talks about de-greasers and gloves but shows the guy wandering around in a pool of degreaser with tennis shoes, no gloves and short sleeves, so im guessing he hasnt had a major accident yet. Degreaser is a base, so it is very slick. It reacts with fats to form soaps, so it only gets slicker. Do not wear keys on slick surfaces, or youll be picking them out of your leg after a fall.<p>The idea that any of these blue-collar jobs &quot;print money&quot; is laughable. We get overtime, sure, but we can also get canned quickly if we dont agree to take it on. Expect to work nothing but third shift as a floor cleaner. expect guys like me to yell at you when you move a rack or a tool chest and dont put it back exactly where it was before.<p>To anyone whos thinking of doing this, Scrub your driveway every day for a week and see if its still appealing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>humbleMouse</author><text>You&#x27;re probably getting downvoted because the idea that a passionless developer can&#x27;t deliver good solutions is stupid. Lots of developers are passionless about software development and deliver software &quot;better than the next guy&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/agf5c8/cleaning_restaurant_floor_for_1000_per_night/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbob2000</author><text>The lesson here is to do your job with passion. This man loves his job, otherwise he wouldn’t be posting and making videos about it.<p>It’s the same in tech. If you don’t have passion, you’ll bounce around tech companies, never moving up, always making money, but never enough. But it’s the passion that gives you the edge to deliver something 1% better than the next guy, and so you get the big bucks.<p>Be passionate and the money will follow.<p>Edit: uhh did I say something wrong? Why the downvotes?</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>I am a master diesel engine mechanic by trade, and $100&#x2F;hr is the lowest shop rate ive seen for a journeyman mechanic. I havent earned less than $150&#x2F;hr since getting my ASE certs.<p>That having been said, it (like floor cleaning) is not easy work. Personal protection and safety is critical. Slips, trips, and falls are the #1 killer in these jobs<p>The video talks about de-greasers and gloves but shows the guy wandering around in a pool of degreaser with tennis shoes, no gloves and short sleeves, so im guessing he hasnt had a major accident yet. Degreaser is a base, so it is very slick. It reacts with fats to form soaps, so it only gets slicker. Do not wear keys on slick surfaces, or youll be picking them out of your leg after a fall.<p>The idea that any of these blue-collar jobs &quot;print money&quot; is laughable. We get overtime, sure, but we can also get canned quickly if we dont agree to take it on. Expect to work nothing but third shift as a floor cleaner. expect guys like me to yell at you when you move a rack or a tool chest and dont put it back exactly where it was before.<p>To anyone whos thinking of doing this, Scrub your driveway every day for a week and see if its still appealing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>Passion gets you shitcanned when your desire to get stuff done conflicts with office politics. Unless you are a founder, and actually are a unicorn or can provide a much needed service, fuck passion. Do it for the money.</text></comment> |
23,419,307 | 23,419,428 | 1 | 2 | 23,416,705 | train | <story><title>SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/03/spacex-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-and-records-a-reusability-record-for-a-falcon-9-booster/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sontek</author><text>As someone who lives in the mountains of Puerto Rico and has to rely on &quot;unlimited&quot; cell phone coverage that data caps me and satellite internet that also has data caps.... I can&#x27;t wait until starlink is up and running and we may have an option for high speed, low latency, internet for us who hate cities and love nature :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pier25</author><text>We lived for a year in some mountains in Mexico in an off-the-grid cabin. We became accustomed to everything (energy starvation, driving 30 mins to the nearest village, 2 hours to the nearest city, etc) except the lack of connectivity.<p>I bought one of those huge Wifi antenna to connect to an open Wifi of a rural school a couple of kilometers away. It was empty after 2pm so we had 4Mbps just for ourselves all afternoon and night (if we had a sunny day and our batteries were full). That lasted about 8 months until someone built a barn or something and installed some electricity poles. We weren&#x27;t able to connect anymore.<p>After that we drove almost daily to the village and spent a couple of hours in a café with a flaky 2Mbps connection but it became unpractical. We went back to civilization 2 months later or so.<p>If Starlink would have been available back then maybe we&#x27;d still be living in the mountains!</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/03/spacex-launches-60-more-starlink-satellites-and-records-a-reusability-record-for-a-falcon-9-booster/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sontek</author><text>As someone who lives in the mountains of Puerto Rico and has to rely on &quot;unlimited&quot; cell phone coverage that data caps me and satellite internet that also has data caps.... I can&#x27;t wait until starlink is up and running and we may have an option for high speed, low latency, internet for us who hate cities and love nature :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Reedx</author><text>Yeah, if it really does deliver ~25ms latency and up to 1GBPS, work from anywhere becomes much more literal. Currently a lot of remote work and things like multiplayer games are limited to areas with reliable broadband.<p>But if you can get that anywhere... it&#x27;ll be amazing and have a profound effect.</text></comment> |
34,659,356 | 34,659,479 | 1 | 2 | 34,657,811 | train | <story><title>Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework</title><url>https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bouvin</author><text>I have the honour of having met Douglas Engelbart, as well as attending a keynote he gave at a Hypertext conference. He struck me as such a gentle and wise man, and the disappointment palpable in his keynote that we, as a species, had not progressed further in augmenting the human intellect haunts me still.<p>Many years later, I noted in a hypertext conference presentation of my own that I thought the future would be cooler. But here we are.</text></comment> | <story><title>Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework</title><url>https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickmerwin</author><text>For anyone interested in more contemporaenous context around Engelbart&#x27;s Augmentation Research Center, the book &quot;What the Dormouse Said&quot; closely follows Engelbart&#x27;s trials and tribulations amongst the other early personal computing visionaries of 1960&#x27;s Stanford and the Mid-Peninsula, leading up to the Homebrew Computer Club:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What_the_Dormouse_Said" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What_the_Dormouse_Said</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homebrew_Computer_Club" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homebrew_Computer_Club</a></text></comment> |
6,684,327 | 6,684,064 | 1 | 2 | 6,683,822 | train | <story><title>Lifestyle programming</title><url>http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/11/06/lifestyle-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hermitcrab</author><text>Lifestyle business, micropreneur, microisv, indie. None of them are great terms. I am still waiting for someone to come up with a better term for what I do.</text></item><item><author>yesimahuman</author><text>Strange that this dropped off the page so quickly, I think it&#x27;s an interesting post.<p>I&#x27;d like to add that it&#x27;s quite possible to have a high growth company that does not take on institutional investment. My company is neither a Lifestyle business (I also hate that term, I think it&#x27;s an awesome thing) or a VC-backed startup, but we have lots of users and are making really nice revenue.<p>The costs have gone down so much, that I think the reason people still think fundraising is required is because they can&#x27;t afford to live or hire in SF without it, and there is a lot of pressure by successful investors for young founders to make the &quot;big&quot; bets.<p>My goal is to have an id software, 37signals, MailChimp, Atlassian, GitHub, Campaign Monitor, etc. kind of company. Now <i>those</i> companies are&#x2F;were fucking cool. Plus, they&#x27;ve actually stuck around for more than a few years!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patja</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been fond of the label &quot;living the dream.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Lifestyle programming</title><url>http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/11/06/lifestyle-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hermitcrab</author><text>Lifestyle business, micropreneur, microisv, indie. None of them are great terms. I am still waiting for someone to come up with a better term for what I do.</text></item><item><author>yesimahuman</author><text>Strange that this dropped off the page so quickly, I think it&#x27;s an interesting post.<p>I&#x27;d like to add that it&#x27;s quite possible to have a high growth company that does not take on institutional investment. My company is neither a Lifestyle business (I also hate that term, I think it&#x27;s an awesome thing) or a VC-backed startup, but we have lots of users and are making really nice revenue.<p>The costs have gone down so much, that I think the reason people still think fundraising is required is because they can&#x27;t afford to live or hire in SF without it, and there is a lot of pressure by successful investors for young founders to make the &quot;big&quot; bets.<p>My goal is to have an id software, 37signals, MailChimp, Atlassian, GitHub, Campaign Monitor, etc. kind of company. Now <i>those</i> companies are&#x2F;were fucking cool. Plus, they&#x27;ve actually stuck around for more than a few years!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yesimahuman</author><text>You&#x27;re a hacker, challenging the norms of what it means to start and grow a business. If software is eating the world, it&#x27;s surely eating the capital requirements to starting software companies.</text></comment> |
17,960,019 | 17,959,966 | 1 | 2 | 17,959,523 | train | <story><title>The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/the-us-has-spent-1point5-trillion-on-war-since-september-11-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desdiv</author><text>&quot;All that we have to do is to send two Mujahedin to the farthest point East to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qa&#x27;ida in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human economic and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits to their private companies. This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers as we alongside the Mujahedin bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat. All Praise is due to Allah.<p>So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.&quot;[0]<p>-Osama bin Laden<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-dyn&#x2F;articles&#x2F;A16990-2004Nov1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-dyn&#x2F;articles&#x2F;A16990-2004Nov...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>It makes me sad that over a decade later, we still fall for that trap.<p>My rule of thumb to explain things is &quot;follow the money&quot;. Several industries have handsomly profited over this situation, but don&#x27;t believe anybody else gained from that: not us Americans as a whole, certainly not those who had to deal with war in their own place.</text></comment> | <story><title>The US has spent $1.5 trillion on war since Sept 11 attacks</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/the-us-has-spent-1point5-trillion-on-war-since-september-11-attacks.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desdiv</author><text>&quot;All that we have to do is to send two Mujahedin to the farthest point East to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qa&#x27;ida in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human economic and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits to their private companies. This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers as we alongside the Mujahedin bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat. All Praise is due to Allah.<p>So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.&quot;[0]<p>-Osama bin Laden<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-dyn&#x2F;articles&#x2F;A16990-2004Nov1.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-dyn&#x2F;articles&#x2F;A16990-2004Nov...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>almost_usual</author><text>I’m skeptical Russia’s financial woes were solely caused by this strategy.</text></comment> |
20,431,752 | 20,430,150 | 1 | 3 | 20,429,462 | train | <story><title>Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy</title><url>https://boredhacking.com/tor-webscraping-proxy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>While this is intellectually interesting, I&#x27;m troubled by the fact that the author seems not to have given the slightest thought that he&#x27;s breaking the site&#x27;s T&amp;C, or of how much this abuse costs the service.<p>I&#x27;m particularly sensitive to this because I&#x27;m constantly dealing with scraper bots from competitors that are trying to monitor our pricing. Without our ongoing policing, and a fair amount of developer time going into it, the traffic coming from these bots - and hence the amount it costs us to operate the site - is significantly larger than that of actual customers. Let me say that again: scraper bots account for more traffic on our sites than do legitimate customers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meritt</author><text>&gt; breaking the site&#x27;s T&amp;C<p>T&amp;C&#x27;s have absolutely no bearing on publicly accessible information [1][2][3]. They only apply to registered users accessing login-required portions of your website or application. Browsewrap does not represent a legally binding contract, no matter how much you pay your lawyers to write up your irrelevant T&amp;C&#x27;s.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;scraping-just-automated-access-and-everyone-does-it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;scraping-just-automate...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;dc-court-accessing-public-information-not-computer-crime" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;dc-court-accessing-pub...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;ninth-circuit-doubles-down-violating-websites-terms-service-not-crime" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;ninth-circuit-doubles-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy</title><url>https://boredhacking.com/tor-webscraping-proxy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CWuestefeld</author><text>While this is intellectually interesting, I&#x27;m troubled by the fact that the author seems not to have given the slightest thought that he&#x27;s breaking the site&#x27;s T&amp;C, or of how much this abuse costs the service.<p>I&#x27;m particularly sensitive to this because I&#x27;m constantly dealing with scraper bots from competitors that are trying to monitor our pricing. Without our ongoing policing, and a fair amount of developer time going into it, the traffic coming from these bots - and hence the amount it costs us to operate the site - is significantly larger than that of actual customers. Let me say that again: scraper bots account for more traffic on our sites than do legitimate customers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vbezhenar</author><text>Another problem is that blocking tor nodes is very easy. And with abusing tor nodes as free proxies, it makes a huge disservice to the Tor network, because more websites will ban it and ordinary users won&#x27;t be able to use it.</text></comment> |
22,514,232 | 22,514,224 | 1 | 3 | 22,513,741 | train | <story><title>The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3531171</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>Anecdotally, the Starbucks at the very center of downtown Austin usually has a couple of homeless people in it. They&#x27;ll come in, use the bathroom, get some AC, maybe even take a nap in a chair. The baristas happily refill their cups with clean water.<p>As a customer, there&#x27;s sometimes a smell, and you tend to sit where you can keep an eye out (since you never know the mental state of people in that situation), but I&#x27;ve never witnessed any real problems.<p>Honestly, it&#x27;s heartwarming. It&#x27;s dystopian, of course, that the provision of basic needs like these falls to a private coffee chain, but regardless of that I admire what they&#x27;re doing (even though it&#x27;s probably PR-driven, if we&#x27;re being honest). It&#x27;s not unpleasant enough for me as a customer that I&#x27;d refuse to go to that location (or even walk half a dozen blocks to the next one).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>c0nsilienc3</author><text>As you said, it&#x27;s an anecdote. And it&#x27;s nice that it works out in that one location.<p>Alternatively, I&#x27;ve seen how this has affected Starbucks in the nicer parts of San Francisco and the East Bay. Some Starbucks locations smell horrible, some of the restrooms are trashed and there is toilet paper everywhere. In one Starbucks on Market Street, a homeless person decided to hole up in the restroom and take a nap on the nice, cool floor with the a&#x2F;c going.<p>I can never support forcing a private business into offering a public utility.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3531171</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>Anecdotally, the Starbucks at the very center of downtown Austin usually has a couple of homeless people in it. They&#x27;ll come in, use the bathroom, get some AC, maybe even take a nap in a chair. The baristas happily refill their cups with clean water.<p>As a customer, there&#x27;s sometimes a smell, and you tend to sit where you can keep an eye out (since you never know the mental state of people in that situation), but I&#x27;ve never witnessed any real problems.<p>Honestly, it&#x27;s heartwarming. It&#x27;s dystopian, of course, that the provision of basic needs like these falls to a private coffee chain, but regardless of that I admire what they&#x27;re doing (even though it&#x27;s probably PR-driven, if we&#x27;re being honest). It&#x27;s not unpleasant enough for me as a customer that I&#x27;d refuse to go to that location (or even walk half a dozen blocks to the next one).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scoundreller</author><text>And while it&#x27;s hard to measure, a lot of people <i>do</i> &quot;support&quot; Starbucks with their wallet because of that.<p>Some don&#x27;t, but on average, it can be a net positive.<p>It&#x27;s the kind of thing you need a scientific study with randomization to tease out. You can control for all the confounders you want, but you can never control for unknown&#x2F;difficult to estimate confounders, like human emotion.</text></comment> |
6,732,195 | 6,731,749 | 1 | 2 | 6,731,492 | train | <story><title>Is the universe fundamentally deterministic?</title><url>http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/63811/is-the-universe-fundamentally-deterministic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spodek</author><text>&gt; &quot;<i>Is the universe fundamentally deterministic?</i>&quot;<p>The best answer we have to date is &quot;Nobody knows,&quot; to which I would add, &quot;nor do we know how to find out.&quot;<p>I see no shame in that answer. I&#x27;m surprised nobody suggested that answer so far, unless I missed it. That doesn&#x27;t mean we&#x27;ll never find out or make any progress, but we don&#x27;t know now. Personally, I see value in such a direct answer.<p>If the question is &quot;Are the laws of physics as we know them deterministic?&quot; that&#x27;s a question about human knowledge and the most effective equations and interpretations of them we have. We can answer that question definitively, but that doesn&#x27;t answer the original question about the universe itself.<p>If the question is about the universe itself, all we can offer is the laws of physics we know, which brings us back to the first point.<p>We have incomplete knowledge of the universe. No experiment has been done yet to conclusively answer the question, so all we have is opinion. Anyone suggesting otherwise either knows of an experiment I don&#x27;t (I&#x27;d be overjoyed to find out), or stating mere opinion. Opinion is nice, but it answers the question &quot;Do you <i>think</i> the universe is deterministic,&quot; which is not the question asked.<p>Edit: I see someone put this answer on the original site.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is the universe fundamentally deterministic?</title><url>http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/63811/is-the-universe-fundamentally-deterministic</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jblow</author><text>In the answers I do not see any mention of the Second Time Around Problem, which conclusively answers the question with &quot;there is no way to know&quot;.<p>The idea is: suppose there is a universe that has elements that are fundamentally random. It is nondeterministic. Well, let that universe run for its lifetime, and record everything that happens. Then make a deterministic universe that just plays back the recording (this is the &quot;second time around&quot;).<p>From the viewpoint of someone living inside the universe, there is no way to tell whether it is the first time around or the second time around.<p>...<p>But the other thing to point out is that this question presumes an old idea about the passage of time, which is that things happen in a sequence A, B, C, D, ... and that if you are at C then D &quot;has not happened yet&quot;. But if you look at relativity, this appears to be a naïve viewpoint. In relativity, the time at a faraway point in space that you would consider &quot;simultaneous&quot; with your own clock depends on the relative speed between you and that point. As you speed up and slow down, you can make a faraway point &quot;go forward or backward in time&quot; with regard to which moment there you would consider &quot;now&quot;. The crazy thing is that for angular movements the relative speed is amplified by distance, so when you are moving around at everyday speeds the &quot;now&quot; on planets across the galaxy is going back and forth by thousands or millions of years. (This is hard to observe because you are viewing tiny amounts of light from very very far away that have been traveling for a very long time, and the light that you are about to see was very close to you when you did the angular movement so it will not be much affected, etc, but hey, the math says what it says, you either believe what physics tells you or you don&#x27;t.)<p>So when you make a distant &quot;now&quot; go forward, then backward, then forward again, do you expect the two forwards to be the same, or not?</text></comment> |
28,509,302 | 28,509,133 | 1 | 2 | 28,503,546 | train | <story><title>Transmission torrent client ported to C++</title><url>https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/1787</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>STL has a lot of weird pitfalls. There was <i>std::vector&lt;bool&gt;</i>. Here you can see some pitfalls of <i>std::unordered_map</i>: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ncHmEUmJZf4?t=2220" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ncHmEUmJZf4?t=2220</a>&gt;. The whole talk is interesting to watch. In the beginning you can also see the puzzling design of <i>std::unordered_map</i> (puzzling because of the number of indirections).<p>I&#x27;d reach for abseil first: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abseil.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abseil.io&#x2F;</a>&gt;.</text></item><item><author>qalmakka</author><text>I think it&#x27;s a sensible choice. I&#x27;ve seen way too many C codebases rewriting half of the STL or using clunky macro hacks (or worse, half-assed linked lists) when basically every single platform out there has a copy on the STL available which includes containers and algorithms with excellent performances and are well tested.<p>It&#x27;s complicated but it&#x27;s the only reasonable choice. You can then write your code C-style while compiling it as C++ and nobody will bat an eye.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjfd</author><text>These pitfalls really aren&#x27;t that bad. An extra copy here and there only matters in the tight loops. Some of the examples in the talk are really contrived. Am I going to insert the empty string many times as a string in a hash map? No, in most cases I am going to make sure that almost all of the keys that I generate are different. Sure, google can save on its electricity bill by doing micro-optimizations. For me trying that would be a bad trade.<p>Every language has its pitfalls and I tend to prefer C++ pitfalls to some other pitfalls. Lately I having been doing some python. Turns out a python -m venv is different from a virtualenv. Turns out pytest some&#x2F;specific&#x2F;test&#x2F;file.py is different from python -m pytest some&#x2F;specific&#x2F;test&#x2F;file.py. I am wishing quite hard this code base consisted of all C++. And of course mypying this is still on the TODO list so the type annotations that are there might well lie.</text></comment> | <story><title>Transmission torrent client ported to C++</title><url>https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/1787</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yakubin</author><text>STL has a lot of weird pitfalls. There was <i>std::vector&lt;bool&gt;</i>. Here you can see some pitfalls of <i>std::unordered_map</i>: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ncHmEUmJZf4?t=2220" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ncHmEUmJZf4?t=2220</a>&gt;. The whole talk is interesting to watch. In the beginning you can also see the puzzling design of <i>std::unordered_map</i> (puzzling because of the number of indirections).<p>I&#x27;d reach for abseil first: &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abseil.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abseil.io&#x2F;</a>&gt;.</text></item><item><author>qalmakka</author><text>I think it&#x27;s a sensible choice. I&#x27;ve seen way too many C codebases rewriting half of the STL or using clunky macro hacks (or worse, half-assed linked lists) when basically every single platform out there has a copy on the STL available which includes containers and algorithms with excellent performances and are well tested.<p>It&#x27;s complicated but it&#x27;s the only reasonable choice. You can then write your code C-style while compiling it as C++ and nobody will bat an eye.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qalmakka</author><text>&gt; STL has a lot of weird pitfalls<p>everything that&#x27;s old and has legacy is doomed to have several. It&#x27;s just a fact of life.<p>The C++ committee doesn&#x27;t and can&#x27;t just throw away stuff like `std::vector&lt;bool&gt;`, despite it being a whole fractal of bad ideas, because people have already used that piece of dung in uncountable projects. It would be nice to have a way to get a _normal_ vector of booleans (even though vector&lt;char&gt; just suffices most of the time), but that&#x27;s life I guess.</text></comment> |
41,392,805 | 41,392,585 | 1 | 3 | 41,392,142 | train | <story><title>New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-smaller-die-30-idle-power-savings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alxjsn</author><text>I rather just buy used Lenovo Thinkcentere PCs on eBay. Way more power, cheaper and relatively small. There’s a lot of different CPU&#x2F;RAM&#x2F;DISK configurations you can find.<p>I’ve been buying these, throwing Fedora IoT, docker, and Tailscale on them and running them from different locations for personal projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/new-2gb-pi-5-has-33-smaller-die-30-idle-power-savings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quaintdev</author><text>Genuine question what is the use case for such configuration I mean less RAM and powerful CPU?<p>I use my Pi for self hosting so I need more memory and more CPU is always better for my case. If they need less power consumption then they could have used Pi 4 or other lower version.<p>Besides low cost I don&#x27;t see other advantage of such configuration. Please enlighten me.</text></comment> |
28,756,516 | 28,756,563 | 1 | 2 | 28,755,257 | train | <story><title>Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work environment, racism</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-ex-worker-over-hostile-work-environment-racism.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trabant00</author><text>Nobody wants to touch this story with a comment in 3 hours? I wonder why.<p>I&#x27;ll go ahead and say that if no important detail is left out of the story, 137 millions being awarded for verbal abuse during 1 year of employment is insane and clearly shows why the company has mandatory arbitration agreements.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Large? Excessive? Yes. Insane? No. The system isn&#x27;t just about compensation. The amount needs to be high enough to actually influence the wrongdoer, to dissuade repeat behavior. Maybe this jury thought this the smallest number that would cause Tesla to make actual changes to its workplace.<p>I do chuckle at how much money from each subsequent tesla sale will be going to pay down this lawsuit. 127mil &#x2F; 500k = 254$ per car for a year. Given the price of a new Tesla that doesn&#x27;t actually seem very big, and will certainly be reduced on appeal.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work environment, racism</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/tesla-must-pay-137-million-to-ex-worker-over-hostile-work-environment-racism.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>trabant00</author><text>Nobody wants to touch this story with a comment in 3 hours? I wonder why.<p>I&#x27;ll go ahead and say that if no important detail is left out of the story, 137 millions being awarded for verbal abuse during 1 year of employment is insane and clearly shows why the company has mandatory arbitration agreements.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwiswell</author><text>These jury awards are usually reduced at appeal.<p>Some examples:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;amp&#x2F;idUSKCN1UA2CH" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;amp&#x2F;idUSKCN1UA2CH</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.morellilaw.com&#x2F;the-biggest-injury-verdict-reductions-of-2020&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.morellilaw.com&#x2F;the-biggest-injury-verdict-reduct...</a></text></comment> |
19,409,167 | 19,408,264 | 1 | 3 | 19,407,847 | train | <story><title>A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine</title><url>https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jws</author><text>The author is concerned about the embodied energy cost of a larger battery, so has a smallish battery which only lasts about a day.<p>For my small solar powered installations I generally use a lead acid battery with a <i>zero</i> embodied energy cost. When I pull a starter battery out of a vehicle, instead of immediately recycling it I use it as a storage battery for one of my remote solar installations, sometimes adding it in parallel to an existing one. They can then perform for years as a bad, but useful, low current storage battery. Eventually something horrific¹ happens or a cell goes completely² and I recycle the battery.<p>So the lead and the sulphur spend a few years longer between reincarnations as batteries, but the embodied energy is zero for my use.<p>␄<p>¹ A camera&#x2F;weather sensor station went offline after an unusually strong storm from the south. I suspect there was unprecedented wave erosion and dropped it off the embankment. When the site becomes accessible again I&#x27;ll probably find it in a heap at the shoreline with ruined batteries from freezing. (Sometimes I lose the sulphur, but there is a world sulphur glut so I don&#x27;t feel too bad.) Other causes of demise are failed solar chargers or stuck on loads, usually from wiring failures. (darned rodents)<p>² I&#x27;d like to make a lead acid charge controller which can detect a shorted cell and just call it a 10V battery instead of a loss, that would extend their lives. There is DC&#x2F;DC conversion already happening at charge and discharge, so it shouldn&#x27;t hurt efficiency significantly.</text></comment> | <story><title>A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine</title><url>https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&gt; Only one weight (regular) of a font is used, demonstrating that content hierarchy can be communicated without loading multiple typefaces and weights.<p>This point has nothing to do with energy use (or very, very little) but is a really great graphic design tip for those looking to make a site more pleasant to browse.<p>The other weight that&#x27;s not being used in favor of regular is &quot;bold&quot;. Instead of bolding, the font size attribute is changed to establish hierarchy. Faux small caps are also used.<p>From the CSS:<p>h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-weight: normal;
}</text></comment> |
28,074,426 | 28,074,787 | 1 | 2 | 28,073,768 | train | <story><title>Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/05/arkansas-covid-burnout-savidge-dnt-ebof-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>Good for them. Despite the mantras of &quot;support our frontline workers&quot; many of these employees have been treated like shit by their employers[1], their government who refused to take measures to limit the spread, and their patients - some of whom will continue to actively deny COVID even as they die from it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nwahomepage.com&#x2F;knwa&#x2F;mercy-employees-frustrated-about-not-receiving-covid-19-bonus-pay&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nwahomepage.com&#x2F;knwa&#x2F;mercy-employees-frustrated-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MattGaiser</author><text>If a company cares about you, it is shown in money. The People and Culture guy is a snake oil salesman meant to scam you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/05/arkansas-covid-burnout-savidge-dnt-ebof-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>Good for them. Despite the mantras of &quot;support our frontline workers&quot; many of these employees have been treated like shit by their employers[1], their government who refused to take measures to limit the spread, and their patients - some of whom will continue to actively deny COVID even as they die from it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nwahomepage.com&#x2F;knwa&#x2F;mercy-employees-frustrated-about-not-receiving-covid-19-bonus-pay&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nwahomepage.com&#x2F;knwa&#x2F;mercy-employees-frustrated-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taylor_OD</author><text>Yeah the fact that companies spend money (lots of money) on advertising dollars instead of handing that money to the workers they supposedly support in hazard pay is wild.</text></comment> |
36,574,282 | 36,574,552 | 1 | 2 | 36,573,664 | train | <story><title>Pay-frozen Microsofties not happy to hear of 'landmark year'</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/pay_freeze_microsoft_landmark_year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hippocrates</author><text>They are right to be mad, but Nadella did cite “the labor market” as one factor in the pay freeze. That’s another way of saying “we won’t pay you more because we don’t need to”<p>At the end of the day I don’t think the justification or excuse is important. It’s a “vote with your feet” scenario.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Even if they think their employees couldn&#x27;t find more money somewhere else, &quot;We had a great year and you get an effective pay cut due to inflation&quot; isn&#x27;t going to inspire people to work hard even if they don&#x27;t quit over it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pay-frozen Microsofties not happy to hear of 'landmark year'</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/pay_freeze_microsoft_landmark_year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Hippocrates</author><text>They are right to be mad, but Nadella did cite “the labor market” as one factor in the pay freeze. That’s another way of saying “we won’t pay you more because we don’t need to”<p>At the end of the day I don’t think the justification or excuse is important. It’s a “vote with your feet” scenario.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>That’s exactly it. They won’t raise salaries if Google and Microsoft aren’t in a rush to hire their top engineers anymore. They will when those companies are.<p>Companies rarely pay based on contribution. They pay based on what it takes to keep someone from hiring you away.</text></comment> |
15,774,895 | 15,774,505 | 1 | 3 | 15,772,056 | train | <story><title>In search of the perfect writing font</title><url>https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_xhok</author><text>I used to tell myself I couldn&#x27;t code or write without the perfect font. I&#x27;d spend hours looking for it, and end up not getting any work done. When I finally did get around to actually working, five minutes in and I&#x27;d forget about the font completely.<p>I have a (rather lazy) friend who&#x27;s been asking me to help him start a blog for years now. I&#x27;ve promised to after he
produces his first block of content, and he keeps saying he can&#x27;t write if he doesn&#x27;t feel the design is aesthetically pleasing. If he&#x27;d spent his time writing instead of worrying about this, he&#x27;d have a crappy initial draft, several revised drafts, and probably something decent by now. But no, that prohibitively unattractive font!<p>It was nice of iA to write this up, and design posts are a fun read, but does anyone who&#x27;s busy actually writing care about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgt</author><text>I recently converted my dynamic DB-driven blog to a static website. I did not predict how badly the added latency between having an idea, writing down the first flawed paragraph, saving a draft, reading what I wrote, then revising and publishing would reduce my writing output. Sure, I can write in Google Docs, but because it&#x27;s not on my site one click away from being &quot;out there&quot; I am far less compelled to write down my fleeting ideas. Over time I have learned that fleeting ideas are the best ones because they exist at the limit of your understanding. Maybe if you help set up his blog, he&#x27;ll be more likely to write?</text></comment> | <story><title>In search of the perfect writing font</title><url>https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_xhok</author><text>I used to tell myself I couldn&#x27;t code or write without the perfect font. I&#x27;d spend hours looking for it, and end up not getting any work done. When I finally did get around to actually working, five minutes in and I&#x27;d forget about the font completely.<p>I have a (rather lazy) friend who&#x27;s been asking me to help him start a blog for years now. I&#x27;ve promised to after he
produces his first block of content, and he keeps saying he can&#x27;t write if he doesn&#x27;t feel the design is aesthetically pleasing. If he&#x27;d spent his time writing instead of worrying about this, he&#x27;d have a crappy initial draft, several revised drafts, and probably something decent by now. But no, that prohibitively unattractive font!<p>It was nice of iA to write this up, and design posts are a fun read, but does anyone who&#x27;s busy actually writing care about this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>discoursism</author><text>I&#x27;d guess in almost any trade, the craftspeople care about their tools, even aspects that are mostly aesthetic. I consider myself pretty busy, but I still spend a half an hour every few months reviewing the space of available fonts, looking for something that appeals even more than my current favorite.<p>(FWIW that&#x27;s PT Mono for the last few months, after almost a decade of using Ubuntu Mono exclusively.)</text></comment> |
8,585,866 | 8,585,988 | 1 | 3 | 8,585,597 | train | <story><title>An Update on Hacker News</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>readerrrr</author><text>If I understand the rules correctly, downvoting is used for not agreeing with a comment, and flags are used for inappropriate comments.<p>But is fading the comment really the correct behaviour. Isn&#x27;t the position on the page deciding whether the community agrees with the comment?<p>My suggestion is: remove the fading; let downvoting only move the comments down, since the comment is appropriate yet the community doesn&#x27;t agree with it; and let flagging remove inappropriate comments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackuser</author><text>&gt; downvoting is used for not agreeing with a comment<p>I hope downvoting has nothing to do with agreement; I thought it was for comments that aren&#x27;t valuable to the conversation (e.g., not substantive, poorly reasoned, false, or poorly communicated).<p>I want to see many more comments that are valuable and challenge the community (and challenge my thinking too). The groupthink is already well known and if not, will certainly be posted by someone.<p>In practice, I do see downvoting used on comments that are valuable but challenging. It&#x27;s disappointing.<p>EDIT: remove embarrassing typo</text></comment> | <story><title>An Update on Hacker News</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-hacker-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>readerrrr</author><text>If I understand the rules correctly, downvoting is used for not agreeing with a comment, and flags are used for inappropriate comments.<p>But is fading the comment really the correct behaviour. Isn&#x27;t the position on the page deciding whether the community agrees with the comment?<p>My suggestion is: remove the fading; let downvoting only move the comments down, since the comment is appropriate yet the community doesn&#x27;t agree with it; and let flagging remove inappropriate comments.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>As far as I can tell, there are no guidelines or FAQs about what downvoting should be &quot;used for&quot; on HN.<p>On Reddit, the Reddiquette [1] standard is that you should only downvote if a comment <i>doesn&#x27;t contribute to the conversation.</i> I think is is an excellent standard. It&#x27;s been suggested in the past that a similar standard should be present on HN. [2]<p>Considering that flagging is a privilege that can be lost if someone decides that you&#x27;re abusing it, ideally it should be reserved for the egregious cases that are unquestionably bad. Downvoting on HN should be for comments that truly don&#x27;t contribute to the conversation, though the comments in question may not rise to the level of flagging.<p>As an example: Say you have a comment expressing an opinion with no support, no references, and factual errors. Is it &quot;inappropriate&quot;? Arguable. Does it contribute to the conversation? Not in any positive way. I would suggest downvoting that comment would be the right answer, <i>even if you agree with the sentiment</i>, because it doesn&#x27;t positively contribute to the conversation. But flagging wouldn&#x27;t be appropriate considering the comment is on topic and not spam (which <i>are</i> given as criteria in the HN Guidelines).<p>If you encourage downvoting because you disagree with an opinion, then minority opinions get buried. And sometimes it&#x27;s useful to see that an opinion isn&#x27;t unanimous, and that there&#x27;s another side to an argument, even if you disagree.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;reddiquette</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=721314" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=721314</a></text></comment> |
27,454,246 | 27,451,854 | 1 | 3 | 27,431,627 | train | <story><title>Kelly Criterion – how to calculate optimal bet sizes</title><url>https://fhur.github.io/notes/articles/the-kelly-criterion/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>YossarianFrPrez</author><text>It&#x27;s well worth implementing and testing out the Kelly Criterion. It&#x27;s super simple to code up in a Jupyter Notebook so that you get to enter an amount to bet each time. When I tried it, I found my own psychology changing as the bets continued, even when I knew the coin&#x27;s bias. It&#x27;s a really great demonstration of the difference between a) intellectually knowing the optimal strategy, and b) what actually happens.<p>A bet on a biased coin paradigm was actually tried in the real world with finance professionals, with a cap on the maximum payout. The results are described here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1701.01427.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;1701.01427.pdf</a>
It&#x27;s pretty interesting. (Note though that the &quot;average returns&quot; reported hide a lot of variation.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Kelly Criterion – how to calculate optimal bet sizes</title><url>https://fhur.github.io/notes/articles/the-kelly-criterion/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fairity</author><text>Perhaps I&#x27;m misunderstanding, but the post says that the optimal bet size f = 1-2p (where p is the probability of winning). But, this seems backwards. As p goes up, you should be betting more.<p>Shouldn&#x27;t the optimal bet size, f, be 2p-1?</text></comment> |
33,648,190 | 33,648,149 | 1 | 3 | 33,645,710 | train | <story><title>Plants use their epigenetic memories to adapt to climate change</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221117135539.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adriand</author><text>Why doesn’t this process lead to much faster natural spread of plant life into more northern climates? Isn’t the process of “planting” seeds a bit further away exactly how any seed-producing plant spreads? Or is it just that humans are able to accelerate the process?</text></item><item><author>shagie</author><text>&gt; During the first half of the twentieth century, Soviet citrologists grew (sub)tropical plants in temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius – outdoors, and without the use of glass or any fossil fuel-powered assistance.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solar.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;fruit-trenches-cultivating-subtropical-plants-in-freezing-temperatures.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solar.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;fruit-trenches-cul...</a><p>The most relevant part of that article...<p>&gt; “Progressive cold-hardening”<p>&gt; Imported citrus varieties only survived in a few isolated points along the Black Sea coast, which enjoyed a particularly favourable microclimate. To better prepare citrus fruits for cold, Soviet citrologists followed a method called “progressive cold-hardening”. It allowed them to create new varieties which were adapted to local ecological conditions, a cultivation strategy which had originally been developed for apricot trees and grapes.<p>&gt; The method consists of planting a seed of a highly valued tree a bit further north of its original location, and then waiting for it to give seeds. Those seeds are then planted a bit further north, and with the process repeated further, slowly but steadily pushing the citrus variety towards less hospitable climates. Using this method, apricot trees from Rostov could eventually be grown in Mitchurinsk, 650 km further up north, where they developed apricot seeds that were adapted to the local climate. On the other hand, directly planting the seed of the Rostov apricot tree in Mitchurinsk proved unsuccessful.</text></item><item><author>acchow</author><text>Care you elaborate?</text></item><item><author>giantg2</author><text>Not really surprising when you look at the history of the USSR&#x27;s process of growing citrus, among other historical instances.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>syockit</author><text>I&#x27;d say being outcompeted by already thriving local flora. When &quot;planting&quot; they must have made sure that the conditions were optimal for survival (soil condition, no competing crops etc.).</text></comment> | <story><title>Plants use their epigenetic memories to adapt to climate change</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221117135539.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adriand</author><text>Why doesn’t this process lead to much faster natural spread of plant life into more northern climates? Isn’t the process of “planting” seeds a bit further away exactly how any seed-producing plant spreads? Or is it just that humans are able to accelerate the process?</text></item><item><author>shagie</author><text>&gt; During the first half of the twentieth century, Soviet citrologists grew (sub)tropical plants in temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius – outdoors, and without the use of glass or any fossil fuel-powered assistance.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solar.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;fruit-trenches-cultivating-subtropical-plants-in-freezing-temperatures.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;solar.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;fruit-trenches-cul...</a><p>The most relevant part of that article...<p>&gt; “Progressive cold-hardening”<p>&gt; Imported citrus varieties only survived in a few isolated points along the Black Sea coast, which enjoyed a particularly favourable microclimate. To better prepare citrus fruits for cold, Soviet citrologists followed a method called “progressive cold-hardening”. It allowed them to create new varieties which were adapted to local ecological conditions, a cultivation strategy which had originally been developed for apricot trees and grapes.<p>&gt; The method consists of planting a seed of a highly valued tree a bit further north of its original location, and then waiting for it to give seeds. Those seeds are then planted a bit further north, and with the process repeated further, slowly but steadily pushing the citrus variety towards less hospitable climates. Using this method, apricot trees from Rostov could eventually be grown in Mitchurinsk, 650 km further up north, where they developed apricot seeds that were adapted to the local climate. On the other hand, directly planting the seed of the Rostov apricot tree in Mitchurinsk proved unsuccessful.</text></item><item><author>acchow</author><text>Care you elaborate?</text></item><item><author>giantg2</author><text>Not really surprising when you look at the history of the USSR&#x27;s process of growing citrus, among other historical instances.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>It seems to me there is a step missing: plant seeds further north, some plants survive better than others even reproduce, take those survivors and repeat further north.<p>So not the fruit from all trees but from the ones that are better adapted. This could happen naturally but probably more slowly and also would naturally have to compete with local species.</text></comment> |
9,046,202 | 9,046,281 | 1 | 3 | 9,045,305 | train | <story><title>Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/fuck-it-im-going-back-to-firefox-1685425815</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nvk</author><text>The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it&#x27;s been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I&#x27;ve lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID.<p>Please Google, understand this; I don&#x27;t want my browser linked with my Google account.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnTHaller</author><text>You absolutely <i>must</i> link your Google Chrome install to your Google ID on Windows or you will lose data.<p>Google Chrome now has a &quot;feature&quot; that will automatically reset your homepage, search settings, wipe all extensions and wipe all extension data whenever it detects an unexpected change to any of your settings files or they do not match up to the PC they are locked to.<p>The goal was to prevent third parties from hijacking your search engine within Chrome. Things like bundleware installers on Windows that switch it.<p>The actual result is that all your settings are now locked to a specific PC and will be reset anytime anything changes. As the developer of Google Chrome Portable, this means only your bookmarks move with you as you move PCs unless you&#x27;re logged in. This also means that even if you backup your Chrome install, if your PC dies, you can not restore that Chrome install on another PC. Your bookmarks will be restored, but you will lose your settings, extensions, and passwords since your profile was moved to a new PC.<p>This stands in stark contrast to Firefox which is completely self-contained. If a third party bundleware installer hijacks your search engine or homepage, you can simply set them back as they should be. All your extensions, extension settings, etc will continue working as expected whether or not you opt to use Firefox Sync.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox</title><url>http://gizmodo.com/fuck-it-im-going-back-to-firefox-1685425815</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nvk</author><text>The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it&#x27;s been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I&#x27;ve lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID.<p>Please Google, understand this; I don&#x27;t want my browser linked with my Google account.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>austenallred</author><text>You should probably understand this: Google doesn&#x27;t give a shit.<p>The total market share of people who care about whether or not their browser is linked with their Google account is probably less than one percent. The value they get from knowing everything you do online? I&#x27;m not sure how you&#x27;d calculate that, but I&#x27;m positive it&#x27;s greater than losing the tiny number of hackers who are protective of their personal data.<p>Google will continue to build the browser under the assumption that your browser will be linked with your Google account. If you don&#x27;t link, you&#x27;ll be a permanent edge case.<p>If you don&#x27;t want to link your account, it&#x27;s much easier to just switch browsers.</text></comment> |
10,823,686 | 10,823,697 | 1 | 3 | 10,822,861 | train | <story><title>Where are we in the Python 3 transition?</title><url>http://www.snarky.ca/the-stages-of-the-python-3-transition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eiopa</author><text>This kills it for me too. I rely on pypy, and I just can&#x27;t see myself sacrificing my productivity by using Six.<p>Also, Python 3 neglected to fix one of the most annoying things about the language - default arg value<p><pre><code> def foo(x=[]):
x.append(1)
print x
foo() # 1
foo() # 1 1
</code></pre>
Why is this still busted??</text></item><item><author>sitkack</author><text>I moved last month and I have been using Python since 1.5.2<p>What prevents me from recommending it to everyone I pass on the street is that the PyPy 3.x line is back on 3.2.5 which makes it not compatible with many libs which have a 3.3 minimum, which is most. Yes, I give to pypy.org <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypy.org&#x2F;py3donate.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypy.org&#x2F;py3donate.html</a><p>Recommendations to folks<p><pre><code> * switch your daily interpreter to Python3
* use tox, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;tox
* use six, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;six
* when you go native, go cffi, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;cffi</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nbadg</author><text>Are you referring persistence of mutable default args? Which then potentially leads to bugs when you treat it as a new variable on each function call?<p>This is intentional behavior. It&#x27;s the result of one-time evaluation of default args, which is important for memoization. It&#x27;s also really useful in combination with late-binding closures. For example, using a lambda as a generator function:<p><pre><code> def create_multipliers():
return [lambda x : i * x for i in range(5)]
</code></pre>
This doesn&#x27;t work, you&#x27;ll get all 8&#x27;s. Instead you need to:<p><pre><code> def create_multipliers():
return [lambda x, i=i : i * x for i in range(5)]
</code></pre>
Late-binding closures and memoization strategies are pretty core language features; I wouldn&#x27;t expect them to change (and many python devs would be pretty pissed if they did). Yes, this can be confusing with mutable default objects, but the alternative is to have disparate behavior depending on the mutability of the defaults, which would be an utter catastrophe.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python-guide.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;writing&#x2F;gotchas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python-guide.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;writing&#x2F;gotchas&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Where are we in the Python 3 transition?</title><url>http://www.snarky.ca/the-stages-of-the-python-3-transition</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eiopa</author><text>This kills it for me too. I rely on pypy, and I just can&#x27;t see myself sacrificing my productivity by using Six.<p>Also, Python 3 neglected to fix one of the most annoying things about the language - default arg value<p><pre><code> def foo(x=[]):
x.append(1)
print x
foo() # 1
foo() # 1 1
</code></pre>
Why is this still busted??</text></item><item><author>sitkack</author><text>I moved last month and I have been using Python since 1.5.2<p>What prevents me from recommending it to everyone I pass on the street is that the PyPy 3.x line is back on 3.2.5 which makes it not compatible with many libs which have a 3.3 minimum, which is most. Yes, I give to pypy.org <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypy.org&#x2F;py3donate.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypy.org&#x2F;py3donate.html</a><p>Recommendations to folks<p><pre><code> * switch your daily interpreter to Python3
* use tox, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;tox
* use six, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;six
* when you go native, go cffi, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;cffi</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway91919</author><text>Can you (or someone) clarify what problem you&#x27;re talking about? This seems to work as expected for me:<p><pre><code> def foo(x=[]):
sum = 0
for a in x: sum += a
return sum
print foo([3,5]) # 8
print foo(x=[3]) # 3
print foo([]) # 0
print foo() # 0
</code></pre>
Is it the fact that kwargs are required to have defaults? Or what?</text></comment> |
38,013,035 | 38,013,006 | 1 | 2 | 37,974,743 | train | <story><title>V0: Generative UI</title><url>https://vercel.com/blog/announcing-v0-generative-ui</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torartc</author><text>It works well with a very specific stack of chosen tools. Not to say it won’t scale to others but if you aren’t a react dev using tailwind and shadcn it’s useless for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toddmorey</author><text>After playing with both, I’m currently more impressed by the output of Visual Copilot by Builder.io. [1]<p>It builds UI from Figma as the starting point, but the UI can then be iterated with prompting or made interactive, etc.<p>It’s based on their work with mitosis so it can already create components in a variety of frameworks.<p>I’d say you still have to know front end dev to do anything useful with it, but it can be a decent accelerator.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.builder.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;figma-to-code-visual-copilot" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.builder.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;figma-to-code-visual-copilot</a></text></comment> | <story><title>V0: Generative UI</title><url>https://vercel.com/blog/announcing-v0-generative-ui</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>torartc</author><text>It works well with a very specific stack of chosen tools. Not to say it won’t scale to others but if you aren’t a react dev using tailwind and shadcn it’s useless for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>da4id</author><text>You should check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;makedraft.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;makedraft.com</a>.<p>It&#x27;s like v0 but for HTML and TailwindCSS +&#x2F;- vanilla JavaScript.</text></comment> |
24,037,519 | 24,037,531 | 1 | 2 | 24,036,638 | train | <story><title>Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-adt-stake-idUSKBN24Z1A6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpwright</author><text>Lots of the comments don&#x27;t trust Google, but I&#x27;m not sure I would trust ADT. I was looking to buy a house, which had an ADT system installed. I just called them up, asked about the address, how much monitoring would cost, etc. and they told me what kind of panel, sensors, etc. were installed at the house. No verification at all. Clearly this would help with their sales, but from the perspective of someone who owns the system; I would not want them to give out details of my security system to anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selykg</author><text>These types of home security systems are more a deterrent than they are anything else. In fact, the ONLY reason I think I&#x27;d personally invest in would be automated alerts for fire or emergency situations.<p>If someone wants into your house, they will get into your house. There&#x27;s giant glass windows in most homes these days and door locks are hardly much more than a speed bump.<p>All you should look at ADT for is simply making you not the easiest house to get into. But if someone wants into your house, a security system is unlikely to be something that stops them.<p>Edit: to be more clear, I think the deterrent part is the equivalent of putting an ADT sign in a window or nearby. THAT is the deterrent, not the system itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google to buy 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-adt-stake-idUSKBN24Z1A6</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpwright</author><text>Lots of the comments don&#x27;t trust Google, but I&#x27;m not sure I would trust ADT. I was looking to buy a house, which had an ADT system installed. I just called them up, asked about the address, how much monitoring would cost, etc. and they told me what kind of panel, sensors, etc. were installed at the house. No verification at all. Clearly this would help with their sales, but from the perspective of someone who owns the system; I would not want them to give out details of my security system to anyone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure a run-of-the-mill burglar would be able to do anything with panel information. Any burglar sophisticated enough to alter their plans based on type of security panel is going to be going after diamonds and art, not a smash and grab for a used television.<p>Releasing sensor data at all seems like a pretty big flaw, though. Lack of window sensors and number or existence of motion detectors seems like a dataset you wouldn&#x27;t want getting out without some sort of ID verification (or at all).</text></comment> |
33,504,351 | 33,500,024 | 1 | 2 | 33,499,079 | train | <story><title>How the US can stop wasting billions of dollars on each transit project</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgym5j/heres-how-the-us-can-stop-wasting-billions-of-dollars-on-each-transit-project</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JCM9</author><text>The environmental review process is also horribly broken in the US. In practice it does relatively little to protect the environment and adds enormous cost and complexity to projects. Important needed infrastructure is held up for years, sometimes decades, in lengthy court battles that frequently don’t meaningfully alter the proposals. In the end the same project is built but at 2-3x the cost.<p>We should, of course, protect the environment but we’ve gotta find a way to do that which is efficient and doesn’t waste public funds (where that current waste ironically could then be diverted into meaningful projects to protect the environment!).</text></comment> | <story><title>How the US can stop wasting billions of dollars on each transit project</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgym5j/heres-how-the-us-can-stop-wasting-billions-of-dollars-on-each-transit-project</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onphonenow</author><text>Watch McDonald’s put up a restaurant.<p>I went to school and they changed zoning along this big road where I lived. When I can back from winter break it was unrecognizable and the stores were open.<p>Now in CA - voted for high speed rail and was absolutely promised it would not go over budget. The first contractor quit in disgust SNCF and started doing projects in Africa saying they were less dysfunctional :)<p>Most recent audit committee reports are that everything is on track. We will see<p>One argument on ballot was 10 years of planning went into project before ballot - so starting 1998 or so - 24 years later now</text></comment> |
13,462,229 | 13,462,214 | 1 | 2 | 13,461,244 | train | <story><title>A Story of a Fraudulent Coder</title><url>https://shakycode.com/the-story-of-the-fraudulent-coder-d4c6fcf273f7#.6c4pnbe4x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohstopitu</author><text>A few friends of mine did exactly the same. They still have their jobs (btw, both are Software Engineers).<p>1. He had 0 idea of coding, or why something was done - basically copy paste from github&#x2F;stackoverflow and call it a day.<p>2. She has some basic understanding, but basically got into CS because she had heard that SE&#x2F;CS Majors made &quot;big bucks&quot; and she thought she &quot;knew computers&quot;<p>Both graduated 4 years later, just as clueless but with degrees. When it came to interviews, both had 0 idea of the questions asked - to the point that I gave up helping them (if you can&#x27;t do fizzbuzz, linked lists etc in any language or even psudocode, then you should really learn that first).<p>So they decided to do exactly what &quot;Brian&quot; did - downloaded a few of my public repos, uploaded as their own (btw it&#x27;s funny because my name and email is on the README, and on almost every file - autogenerated with IntelliJ&#x2F;Webstorm).<p>Somehow they land interviews, and both of them gets jobs at this fancy startup (making way more than me). One of them realizes that she&#x27;s way over and since I was not helping, she decided to outsource it to Fiverr. She&#x27;s been there 2 months and no one seems to raise any issues.<p>At times like this I kinda loose a bit of faith in our community - If that was what was needed, Why am I getting paid less to do more honest work? :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>csydas</author><text>Don&#x27;t be disheartened - most industries are like this, and it even has an idiom &quot;fake it till you make it&quot;.<p>My current work allows me a pretty decent look at literally thousands of different IT infrastructure set ups by this point only half a year in, and I&#x27;m still explaining the basics of IT administration, infrastructure, SQL queries, and so on to people with the title &quot;Senior ______&quot; and a list of certifications that adds a good 4 MB to each of their emails for all the banners.<p>Try not to worry about it, and don&#x27;t enable them either. Be professional, but be firm. I won&#x27;t promise that they will get their comeuppance or that you will be rewarded, but you can at least leave every day not having to look over your shoulder or double checking that you covered all your bases. In the long run, you&#x27;ll have the knowledge to do what is necessary for future growth in your career, they will have to keep inventing new ways to fake it.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Story of a Fraudulent Coder</title><url>https://shakycode.com/the-story-of-the-fraudulent-coder-d4c6fcf273f7#.6c4pnbe4x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ohstopitu</author><text>A few friends of mine did exactly the same. They still have their jobs (btw, both are Software Engineers).<p>1. He had 0 idea of coding, or why something was done - basically copy paste from github&#x2F;stackoverflow and call it a day.<p>2. She has some basic understanding, but basically got into CS because she had heard that SE&#x2F;CS Majors made &quot;big bucks&quot; and she thought she &quot;knew computers&quot;<p>Both graduated 4 years later, just as clueless but with degrees. When it came to interviews, both had 0 idea of the questions asked - to the point that I gave up helping them (if you can&#x27;t do fizzbuzz, linked lists etc in any language or even psudocode, then you should really learn that first).<p>So they decided to do exactly what &quot;Brian&quot; did - downloaded a few of my public repos, uploaded as their own (btw it&#x27;s funny because my name and email is on the README, and on almost every file - autogenerated with IntelliJ&#x2F;Webstorm).<p>Somehow they land interviews, and both of them gets jobs at this fancy startup (making way more than me). One of them realizes that she&#x27;s way over and since I was not helping, she decided to outsource it to Fiverr. She&#x27;s been there 2 months and no one seems to raise any issues.<p>At times like this I kinda loose a bit of faith in our community - If that was what was needed, Why am I getting paid less to do more honest work? :&#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstanley</author><text>&gt; Why am I getting paid less to do more honest work? :&#x2F;<p>You&#x27;re optimising for doing good work. They&#x27;re optimising for landing high-paying jobs.</text></comment> |
9,965,429 | 9,962,830 | 1 | 3 | 9,961,613 | train | <story><title>Stop pushing the web forward</title><url>http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushing_th.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>Do you know PPK and his work? He&#x27;s been at the cutting edge of web-standards and implementations for at least 12 years if my memory serves me correctly.<p>&gt;And you&#x27;ll get exactly what you want. &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>If he wants to avoid the web being badly negatively effected by short term views of current browser companies and standards bodies then he won&#x27;t get what he wants by sticking his head in the sand and ignoring the direction he sees things going.<p>If this were the writing of a small time web-dev (like myself) then I think your comment would work; but I&#x27;m assuming PPK is coming from a position of experience that&#x27;s given him an almost unique overview of the direction of browser and standards development vs. the historic &quot;feel&quot; and integrity of the web.<p>PPK is doing the equivalent of saying &quot;let&#x27;s stop and ask for directions [on our car journey]&quot; and you&#x27;re saying &quot;no, let&#x27;s just keep driving I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll get to where we want to go&quot;.<p>He&#x27;s up against it as, to my mind, cautious development doesn&#x27;t serve the needs of corporations and so won&#x27;t happen.<p>&gt;&quot;We’re pushing the web forward to emulate native more and more, but we can’t out-native native.&quot; (OP) &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>I find it funny that web pages are trying to be native apps and many mobile apps are shipping when they&#x27;re ostensibly just web pages.<p>tl;dr I think the OP has more to say, and that it&#x27;s more important, than you&#x27;re giving credit for.</text></item><item><author>rgbrenner</author><text><i>We need a break. We need an opportunity to learn to the features we already have responsibly — without tools! Also, we need the time for a fundamental conversation about where we want to push the web forward to.</i><p>How about this.. YOU take a break. Stop trying to keep up with every little new thing that comes out. Wait a while.<p>And you&#x27;ll get exactly what you want.<p>The tools that it turns out were a bad idea will die. And those that are good will thrive.<p>And you&#x27;ll get more time to learn the actually useful ones... and you&#x27;ll get to learn from the mistakes others made early on.<p>Yes, you&#x27;ll be a bit behind.. but you&#x27;re apparently already ok with that anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bcheung</author><text>&gt; PPK is doing the equivalent of saying &quot;let&#x27;s stop and ask for directions [on our car journey]&quot; and you&#x27;re saying &quot;no, let&#x27;s just keep driving I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll get to where we want to go&quot;.<p>Just because one person is lost doesn&#x27;t mean everyone else in the vehicle is. Those who know where they are going don&#x27;t need to stop and ask for directions. Don&#x27;t force them to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop pushing the web forward</title><url>http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushing_th.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbhjpbhj</author><text>Do you know PPK and his work? He&#x27;s been at the cutting edge of web-standards and implementations for at least 12 years if my memory serves me correctly.<p>&gt;And you&#x27;ll get exactly what you want. &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>If he wants to avoid the web being badly negatively effected by short term views of current browser companies and standards bodies then he won&#x27;t get what he wants by sticking his head in the sand and ignoring the direction he sees things going.<p>If this were the writing of a small time web-dev (like myself) then I think your comment would work; but I&#x27;m assuming PPK is coming from a position of experience that&#x27;s given him an almost unique overview of the direction of browser and standards development vs. the historic &quot;feel&quot; and integrity of the web.<p>PPK is doing the equivalent of saying &quot;let&#x27;s stop and ask for directions [on our car journey]&quot; and you&#x27;re saying &quot;no, let&#x27;s just keep driving I&#x27;m sure we&#x27;ll get to where we want to go&quot;.<p>He&#x27;s up against it as, to my mind, cautious development doesn&#x27;t serve the needs of corporations and so won&#x27;t happen.<p>&gt;&quot;We’re pushing the web forward to emulate native more and more, but we can’t out-native native.&quot; (OP) &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>I find it funny that web pages are trying to be native apps and many mobile apps are shipping when they&#x27;re ostensibly just web pages.<p>tl;dr I think the OP has more to say, and that it&#x27;s more important, than you&#x27;re giving credit for.</text></item><item><author>rgbrenner</author><text><i>We need a break. We need an opportunity to learn to the features we already have responsibly — without tools! Also, we need the time for a fundamental conversation about where we want to push the web forward to.</i><p>How about this.. YOU take a break. Stop trying to keep up with every little new thing that comes out. Wait a while.<p>And you&#x27;ll get exactly what you want.<p>The tools that it turns out were a bad idea will die. And those that are good will thrive.<p>And you&#x27;ll get more time to learn the actually useful ones... and you&#x27;ll get to learn from the mistakes others made early on.<p>Yes, you&#x27;ll be a bit behind.. but you&#x27;re apparently already ok with that anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>&gt; I find it funny that web pages are trying to be native apps and many mobile apps are shipping when they&#x27;re ostensibly just web pages.<p>Which provides some insight into what&#x27;s missing from the web. It&#x27;s almost good enough for most companies. They just need a little something extra so that they can &quot;own the experience.&quot; But soon the browsers will catch up and then websites will be able to own your experience, too.</text></comment> |
13,898,059 | 13,897,911 | 1 | 2 | 13,896,780 | train | <story><title>Building Safe AI: A Tutorial on Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning</title><url>https://iamtrask.github.io/2017/03/17/safe-ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>This is basically DRM for deep learning. While that may be useful, it&#x27;s not about safety.<p>The big problems involved in building safe AI are about predicting consequences of actions. (The deep learning automatic driving systems which go directly from vision to steering commands don&#x27;t do that at all. They&#x27;re just mimicking a human driver. There&#x27;s no explicit world model. That&#x27;s scary.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Building Safe AI: A Tutorial on Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning</title><url>https://iamtrask.github.io/2017/03/17/safe-ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antognini</author><text>I&#x27;ve wondered before about whether Taylor series can allow one to impose the non-linearities of a NN on homomorphically encrypted data, but I&#x27;ve never been quite convinced. I work with deep learning, but I&#x27;m certainly no expert on homomorphic encryption, so hopefully someone here who knows more can tell me whether this is valid or not.<p>The reason the Taylor series argument makes me uncomfortable is that pretty much any function can be written as a Taylor series. But my understanding is that homomorphic encryption only works for a very specific set of functions.<p>In a little more detail, if you&#x27;re computing tanh(x), the unencrypted number needs only the first few terms of the Taylor series. But I could imagine that to get the decrypted number back, you actually need many terms of the Taylor series, because if you&#x27;re off by even a little bit, you could end up with a very different answer after decryption.<p>To put it a little more formally, if we have that y = encrypt(x)<p>tanh(x) \approx x - x^3 &#x2F; 3 + 2 x^5 &#x2F; 15,<p>tanh(y) \approx y - y^3 &#x2F; 3 + 2 y^5 &#x2F; 15,<p>and<p>tanh(x) = decrypt(tanh(y)),<p>but it doesn&#x27;t necessarily follow to me that<p>tanh(x) \approx decrypt(y - y^3 + 2 y^5 &#x2F; 15)<p>Is this worry unfounded? I suppose if you have a limited number of decimal places and you can guarantee that your Taylor approximation is valid to that precision then this wouldn&#x27;t be a problem.</text></comment> |
10,773,186 | 10,773,006 | 1 | 2 | 10,771,627 | train | <story><title>Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/12/21/introducing-lektor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>My feeling is that every serious programmer will end up inventing tools like this simply because the overhead of incorporating other people&#x27;s tools eventually starts to overtake the overhead of maintaining one&#x27;s own system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>currysausage</author><text>Let&#x27;s not forget that Lektor solves actual problems. Show me another CMS that offers:<p>- Static HTML export with elegant dependency tracking by design (reducing attack vectors and maintenance cost on the frontend server)<p>- Admin interface (I can&#x27;t tell a non-techie to connect via SSH, fire up vi and run Jekyll)<p>- Flexible content structure (Title&#x2F;Author&#x2F;Content doesn&#x27;t really scale beyond a simple blog)<p>- Elegant design and implementation (I could do anything with WordPress and half a dozen plugins, but I fail to even find a bare-bones theme without kilobytes of code that I will never need; the whole ecosystem revolves around the novice user who understandably prefers &quot;quick and dirty&quot; over touching code)<p>I have been looking for a CMS that fulfills these exact criteria for quite some time. Lektor looks ideal for projects where the developer prepares a non-trivial page structure (think book listings, music albums, anything that goes beyond <i>bold</i> and <i>italic</i>), but the client should be able to edit content. Thank you, Armin!</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python</title><url>http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2015/12/21/introducing-lektor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vinceguidry</author><text>My feeling is that every serious programmer will end up inventing tools like this simply because the overhead of incorporating other people&#x27;s tools eventually starts to overtake the overhead of maintaining one&#x27;s own system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_mitsuhiko</author><text>I think that&#x27;s why we have so many static site generators. However programmers typically end up just making the static site generator which is why there was nothing like Lektor before (to the best of my knowledge at least).</text></comment> |
5,015,403 | 5,015,327 | 1 | 2 | 5,013,596 | train | <story><title>Why I Program in Go</title><url>http://tech.t9i.in/2013/01/why-program-in-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>estavaro</author><text>You need to be commended for defending Go.<p>I don't think the Go developers hide the fact that they mean go as a Systems level programming language. It has higher level features, but the developers don't really mind the fact that Go isn't going to be delivering a whole lot of high level features. Maybe if they come in the form of libraries...<p>Funny thing about Go is that as a compiled language, folks often need to send the source-code to the deployment servers to compile on them too. I seem to recall that deployment servers shouldn't need to have development tools which were themselves exposing the servers to bad intention by bad folks. It's just hard to keep the separation I guess.<p>Go error handling is not to be taken lightly just because you can ignore error codes or just print the error and be done with it. I seem to recall that the core developers of Go demanding that Go users try harder to handle errors. Something the compiler doesn't really "enforce".<p>I prefer Dart to Go because Dart starts from a higher level of abstraction already. Also Dart has been the result of two years of development even if many of the Dart developers also had plenty of experience with developing past languages and tools.<p>OOP already gives us a lot of bondage and discipline. No need for more incentive by the compiler. Sometimes a couple of extra tools can help our hands without it being forced by the compiler with every run. Say a tool that helps to tell us which methods or variables aren't being used. Go forces us to deal with that on every compiler run. (Even if it can be disabled, but the Go developers prefer to avoid proliferation of config options.)<p>It's good to have Go and Dart around. So it's not just legacy (Java) and Microsoft (C#) dictating the standards.</text></item><item><author>zaphar</author><text>My day job involves working with Java and C++ on 10+ year old systems. All of my hobby or side projects are in Go these days with occasional diversions into haskell, ML or various Lisps.<p>So I'll try to impart some understanding of why I would switch to Go from Java or C++.<p>First lets get some things out of the way. Go is fast enough and getting faster very quickly and it definitely has a smaller memory footprint. So when compared to java and C++ in those dimensions it holds up just fine but that might not be enough to sway someone over to the Go camp.<p>It's about what else Go has:<p>* Go is a batteries included language. The stdlib has almost everything you need to get started much like python does.<p>* Go is fast for development. I mean really fast. I mean like using Lisp in a REPL fast (almost). I really can't express how fast it's development speed is adequately just trust me its really really fast. This is not just about how fast it compiles although that's part of it. (I've literally been able to write, compile, and run a go "script" faster than an equivalent python script.)<p>* Go makes concurrency easy to get right. I haven't seen any other language get this so right since Erlang.<p>* Go is concise. There is no wasted typing. It's easy to read and it's easy to write. Every feature of the language is orthoganal. And it tells you quickly when you've done it wrong.<p>* Go does OO right. Code reuse through composition not inheritance. Polymorphism through interfaces not inheritance. I never have to worry about it with Go. C++ or java? yeah I've got some inheritance related war stories there.<p>All of these things exist in other languages but Go is the only language where they all exist together. This is reason enough to switch to Go but there's more.<p>Go's future is bright. I don't say this because it has celebrity tech people behind it. I say this because the foundation they are laying demonstrates the core team knows what they are doing. Here's some examples.<p>* Go comes with all the tools you need to programmatically understand Go code. Parser, Type checking, Static analysis is all available via the stdlib. As a result GoCode which adds IDE functionality to the EDITOR of your choice came on the scene very quickly. Java doesn't have this. C++ doesn't have this. Go made it possible to create an IDE as a service with minimal effort. Besides Gocode you also have gofmt. Never worry about code formatting again. gofmt will reformat it for you and it will <i>never</i> break your code. It's 100% safe. I am aware of no other language excepting lisp with this functionality.<p>Lastly I want to address your "a lot less powerful" comment. I think it's false. In now way is Go less powerful than Java. It's fast enough to be in the same league as java. It has a lower memory footprint than java. It compiles faster than java. And the language itself is if anything more powerful and expressive than java. It has closures, It has interfaces that are just as typesafe and yet easier to use than java.<p>In fact I'll sum it up in one word: Go is <i>relaxing</i>.</text></item><item><author>pron</author><text>For the life of me I can't understand why anyone would give up the power (in terms of profiling, monitoring and ecosystem, and somewhat better performance, too) of the JVM, for a language marginally more convenient than Java, and arguably less expressive than other JVM languages. The only thing I could think of is a smaller RAM footprint, if you care about that sort of thing.<p>Whenever Go is compared to Java, the arguments in its favor seem kind of fuzzy. After all, one of the motivations behind Go was a C-like language with far better compilation time than C++. And Java already fits the bill. So, yeah, Go is leaner and more modern -- but certainly not by an order of magnitude, like other JVM languages. Here, too, the author says that he didn't like Java's IDEs (really? does Go have better tooling? Because Java IDEs really get the job done), frameworks etc. But those things are simply the result of years of changing fashions. Newer Java "frameworks" are just as lean-and-mean as Go.<p>There are so many new and exciting languages around, but Go seems to carry the least "oomph" of the lot. It's basically Java. A little nicer; a little slower; a lot less powerful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text><i>Funny thing about Go is that as a compiled language, folks often need to send the source-code to the deployment servers to compile on them too. I seem to recall that deployment servers shouldn't need to have development tools which were themselves exposing the servers to bad intention by bad folks. It's just hard to keep the separation I guess.</i><p>This is what systems administrators with grey beards thought in the 1990s. A moment's thought about what an attacker who can run a compiler can do instead of running a compiler should be enough to inform you about how silly the idea is in practice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I Program in Go</title><url>http://tech.t9i.in/2013/01/why-program-in-go/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>estavaro</author><text>You need to be commended for defending Go.<p>I don't think the Go developers hide the fact that they mean go as a Systems level programming language. It has higher level features, but the developers don't really mind the fact that Go isn't going to be delivering a whole lot of high level features. Maybe if they come in the form of libraries...<p>Funny thing about Go is that as a compiled language, folks often need to send the source-code to the deployment servers to compile on them too. I seem to recall that deployment servers shouldn't need to have development tools which were themselves exposing the servers to bad intention by bad folks. It's just hard to keep the separation I guess.<p>Go error handling is not to be taken lightly just because you can ignore error codes or just print the error and be done with it. I seem to recall that the core developers of Go demanding that Go users try harder to handle errors. Something the compiler doesn't really "enforce".<p>I prefer Dart to Go because Dart starts from a higher level of abstraction already. Also Dart has been the result of two years of development even if many of the Dart developers also had plenty of experience with developing past languages and tools.<p>OOP already gives us a lot of bondage and discipline. No need for more incentive by the compiler. Sometimes a couple of extra tools can help our hands without it being forced by the compiler with every run. Say a tool that helps to tell us which methods or variables aren't being used. Go forces us to deal with that on every compiler run. (Even if it can be disabled, but the Go developers prefer to avoid proliferation of config options.)<p>It's good to have Go and Dart around. So it's not just legacy (Java) and Microsoft (C#) dictating the standards.</text></item><item><author>zaphar</author><text>My day job involves working with Java and C++ on 10+ year old systems. All of my hobby or side projects are in Go these days with occasional diversions into haskell, ML or various Lisps.<p>So I'll try to impart some understanding of why I would switch to Go from Java or C++.<p>First lets get some things out of the way. Go is fast enough and getting faster very quickly and it definitely has a smaller memory footprint. So when compared to java and C++ in those dimensions it holds up just fine but that might not be enough to sway someone over to the Go camp.<p>It's about what else Go has:<p>* Go is a batteries included language. The stdlib has almost everything you need to get started much like python does.<p>* Go is fast for development. I mean really fast. I mean like using Lisp in a REPL fast (almost). I really can't express how fast it's development speed is adequately just trust me its really really fast. This is not just about how fast it compiles although that's part of it. (I've literally been able to write, compile, and run a go "script" faster than an equivalent python script.)<p>* Go makes concurrency easy to get right. I haven't seen any other language get this so right since Erlang.<p>* Go is concise. There is no wasted typing. It's easy to read and it's easy to write. Every feature of the language is orthoganal. And it tells you quickly when you've done it wrong.<p>* Go does OO right. Code reuse through composition not inheritance. Polymorphism through interfaces not inheritance. I never have to worry about it with Go. C++ or java? yeah I've got some inheritance related war stories there.<p>All of these things exist in other languages but Go is the only language where they all exist together. This is reason enough to switch to Go but there's more.<p>Go's future is bright. I don't say this because it has celebrity tech people behind it. I say this because the foundation they are laying demonstrates the core team knows what they are doing. Here's some examples.<p>* Go comes with all the tools you need to programmatically understand Go code. Parser, Type checking, Static analysis is all available via the stdlib. As a result GoCode which adds IDE functionality to the EDITOR of your choice came on the scene very quickly. Java doesn't have this. C++ doesn't have this. Go made it possible to create an IDE as a service with minimal effort. Besides Gocode you also have gofmt. Never worry about code formatting again. gofmt will reformat it for you and it will <i>never</i> break your code. It's 100% safe. I am aware of no other language excepting lisp with this functionality.<p>Lastly I want to address your "a lot less powerful" comment. I think it's false. In now way is Go less powerful than Java. It's fast enough to be in the same league as java. It has a lower memory footprint than java. It compiles faster than java. And the language itself is if anything more powerful and expressive than java. It has closures, It has interfaces that are just as typesafe and yet easier to use than java.<p>In fact I'll sum it up in one word: Go is <i>relaxing</i>.</text></item><item><author>pron</author><text>For the life of me I can't understand why anyone would give up the power (in terms of profiling, monitoring and ecosystem, and somewhat better performance, too) of the JVM, for a language marginally more convenient than Java, and arguably less expressive than other JVM languages. The only thing I could think of is a smaller RAM footprint, if you care about that sort of thing.<p>Whenever Go is compared to Java, the arguments in its favor seem kind of fuzzy. After all, one of the motivations behind Go was a C-like language with far better compilation time than C++. And Java already fits the bill. So, yeah, Go is leaner and more modern -- but certainly not by an order of magnitude, like other JVM languages. Here, too, the author says that he didn't like Java's IDEs (really? does Go have better tooling? Because Java IDEs really get the job done), frameworks etc. But those things are simply the result of years of changing fashions. Newer Java "frameworks" are just as lean-and-mean as Go.<p>There are so many new and exciting languages around, but Go seems to carry the least "oomph" of the lot. It's basically Java. A little nicer; a little slower; a lot less powerful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stock_toaster</author><text><p><pre><code> &#62; Funny thing about Go is that as a compiled language, folks often need
&#62; to send the source-code to the deployment servers to compile on them too.
</code></pre>
They do? Why not build as part of a CI run? Or via cross compile?<p>It is generally much easier to deploy a <i>versioned</i> statically compiled binary, compared to rolling out code to production in some languages (ruby, python, etc).</text></comment> |
9,047,069 | 9,046,846 | 1 | 2 | 9,046,526 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/02/13/Final-1.0-timeline.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlyssaRowan</author><text>Rust looks interesting.<p>One thing I&#x27;m not clear on it if can do, and that I&#x27;m interested in, is secure destructors.<p>Say I&#x27;m handling crypto, and I&#x27;m carting around an ephemeral key. When this goes out of scope, I definitely no matter what, want this <i>zeroised</i> by its destructor - as opposed to just having it (or a temporary copy made by a compiler optimisation!) zombling around the heap, stack or forgotten unused xmm registers because the compiler figured since I don&#x27;t reference it again, the memory&#x27;s contents are no longer important.<p>Current approaches to this involve explicit_bzero(), or other similar memset(0)-and-I-really-mean-it-don&#x27;t-optimise-this-out techniques. (And a fair bit of testing and prayer when it comes to potential temporary copies or registers.) But unless you&#x27;re doing it in assembly language, you don&#x27;t really <i>know</i>. (The stack beneath you, such as the OS, any hypervisors, SMM, AMT, SGX, µcode etc, aside, of course!)<p>I&#x27;m not quite clear what Rust&#x27;s behaviour with this scenario is. If it can do this easily, even potentially, I am <i>very</i> interested…?</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline</title><url>http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/02/13/Final-1.0-timeline.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jarrettc</author><text>Even though 1.0 isn&#x27;t out yet, today you can use Rust for many real projects. I&#x27;m unsure whether I&#x27;d bet my business on it yet, but I&#x27;d be open to the idea. And I&#x27;m usually a very late adopter.<p>I&#x27;ve been building a 3d game with Rust and OpenGL, ported from a C++ codebase. So far, my experience has been very positive. Despite Rust&#x27;s supposed immaturity, it feels more polished than C++ in many ways. Forward progress has been much faster than it was with C++.<p>Does anyone else have a story (positive or negative) about using Rust in real projects?</text></comment> |
32,248,282 | 32,248,130 | 1 | 3 | 32,246,987 | train | <story><title>Under anesthesia, where do our minds go?</title><url>https://nautil.us/under-anesthesia-where-do-our-minds-go-20845/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonh</author><text>How to approach loss of consciousness is one of the problems I have with non-materialist theories of consciousness like dualism and panpsychism. If consciousness is not generated by my physical brain, how come physical chemicals can manipulate my conscious state? If the brain is a receiver for consciousness, surely my consciousness should exist independently of my brain? Interfering with a radio doesn’t change what’s happening in the recording studio. Why does the state of my brain affect my conscious state at all? If consciousness is fundamental, how can it ever stop?<p>It just seems that the brain is a physical system, and consciousness is a result of its physical processes. If you change the operation of those processes then you change states of consciousness. All the attempts to explain it otherwise seem inconsistent with the behaviour we observe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otikik</author><text>Pick 3 random stones and arrange them so that they form a straight line. Does the line &quot;exist&quot;?<p>If you consider that only the atoms &quot;count&quot; for existing, then the line does not exist. (Neither do the stones, by the way - since they are constantly exchanging minor quantities of atoms and electrons with the rest of the environment, the set that defines what each stone is is constantly changing. But let&#x27;s ignore that bit). The line is a &quot;mathematical abstraction&quot;, layered on top of the &quot;real&quot; world.<p>Now consider that you measure and define exactly where that line is, according to the system of coordinates that you prefer.<p>Now imagine that you remove the three stones. Now there&#x27;s no atoms &quot;sustaining&quot; that the line any more. But in a sense the line is &quot;still there&quot;, it&#x27;s defined by the coordinates you wrote. It can be argued that it has always &quot;existed&quot; - before you put the stones there, before Earth existed, that particular line in space already &quot;was&quot;, in the same sense that numbers &quot;are&quot; - that the line has existed in some way or another since Space itself started existing.<p>You now pick 3 bottle caps and put them on top of the line again. Now the line is again defined by 3 clumps of matter. Does it &quot;exist&quot; any more than it existed in the previous two cases?<p>It all comes down to how we use the verb &quot;exist&quot; - it means several things depending on the context. &quot;Exist&quot; in the atoms world, or &quot;exist&quot; as information.<p>I believe that mind and consciousness is a bit of the same thing, just many orders of magnitude bigger. Instead of 3 stones what defines a mind is trillions of neurons arranged in a certain way. I am materialistic, but I believe in the be encoding of information. To me this means that each mind, at some point in time, can absolutely be &quot;encoded&quot; into a big enough number (huge, billions of trillions of digits). So in that sense minds are &quot;defined by atoms&quot; but also &quot;exist independently of atoms, and are eternal&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Under anesthesia, where do our minds go?</title><url>https://nautil.us/under-anesthesia-where-do-our-minds-go-20845/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonh</author><text>How to approach loss of consciousness is one of the problems I have with non-materialist theories of consciousness like dualism and panpsychism. If consciousness is not generated by my physical brain, how come physical chemicals can manipulate my conscious state? If the brain is a receiver for consciousness, surely my consciousness should exist independently of my brain? Interfering with a radio doesn’t change what’s happening in the recording studio. Why does the state of my brain affect my conscious state at all? If consciousness is fundamental, how can it ever stop?<p>It just seems that the brain is a physical system, and consciousness is a result of its physical processes. If you change the operation of those processes then you change states of consciousness. All the attempts to explain it otherwise seem inconsistent with the behaviour we observe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strogonoff</author><text>Mind-body dualism strikes me as possibly the least elegant and magic-leap-proof alternative to physicalism, so it’s unfortunate that people who explore this question get stuck on it.<p>In fact, non-material monist views exist! See, for example, Kant and Schrödinger. Some of Wolfram’s ideas[0] at first approach seem to be interpretable from this angle.<p>I’m not going to do the entirety of monism justice in a paragraph, but as one take: perhaps interacting with other conscious entities involves changes in yours <i>and</i> tends to manifest itself as physical changes within time-space, a lossy map constructed as a shortcut&#x2F;interface to the otherwise overwhelming underlying territory? This does not require conjuring an entire universe, with its arbitrary laws and constants, to explain perception supplied by consciousness (the only thing we have direct access to, that physicalists nevertheless tend to treat as a magic side-effect of magically existing reality).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writings.stephenwolfram.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;alien-intelligence-and-the-concept-of-technology&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writings.stephenwolfram.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;06&#x2F;alien-intelligen...</a></text></comment> |
35,254,099 | 35,247,709 | 1 | 3 | 35,247,242 | train | <story><title>MySQL for Developers</title><url>https://planetscale.com/courses/mysql-for-developers/introduction/course-introduction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aarondf</author><text>Hey HN, I made this course :D<p>The course is a bit more than 7 hours long split over 64 videos.<p>I was always frustrated by the lack of intermediate database content, it seemed like it was mostly intro stuff, or straight to DBA level. So I read as many database books as I could, read through the official docs, and made this course specifically for application developers.<p>If yall have any feedback I&#x27;d love to hear it. I&#x27;ll be making updates soon, but not before I take a nice long break from editing video.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reactordev</author><text>I’ve been using MySQL since 1998. I know the source code very well. I’ve designed large platforms with MySQL but I run postgres in production. I also wrote my own SQL engine.<p>This is very VERY well done. Kudos. I’m loving that we have a contender for mongo atlas with planetscale. Keep this kind of content coming and you’ll be the next snowflake.</text></comment> | <story><title>MySQL for Developers</title><url>https://planetscale.com/courses/mysql-for-developers/introduction/course-introduction</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aarondf</author><text>Hey HN, I made this course :D<p>The course is a bit more than 7 hours long split over 64 videos.<p>I was always frustrated by the lack of intermediate database content, it seemed like it was mostly intro stuff, or straight to DBA level. So I read as many database books as I could, read through the official docs, and made this course specifically for application developers.<p>If yall have any feedback I&#x27;d love to hear it. I&#x27;ll be making updates soon, but not before I take a nice long break from editing video.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geekodour</author><text>Thanks for making this Aaron. content looks so good! just in time for me. Unfortunately getting &quot;Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here.&quot;, unsure what&#x27;s up.</text></comment> |
13,888,184 | 13,887,896 | 1 | 2 | 13,887,428 | train | <story><title>20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them</title><url>https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiot_stick</author><text>&gt;<i>How is society improved by taking them down?</i><p>First of all, I agree with you. I think most others do as well.<p>The problem is, we can look at a case like this and say, &quot;Obviously we shouldn&#x27;t lose access to this.&quot; Then there&#x27;s a next time, and a next time, and a next time. And eventually the deaf are at a measurable informational disadvantage to those who <i>can</i> hear. That&#x27;s why these laws exist.<p>So, everyone should take a step back and figure out a reasonable solution. I hope that&#x27;s the reason for the judgment.</text></item><item><author>bmcusick</author><text>While I understand wanting to make things available to the deaf, making them unavailable to everyone else is nuts. It&#x27;s crazy that the law put UC Berkeley in the position of having to choose between bearing the expense of close-captioning all these videos, and taking them down.<p>How is society improved by taking them down?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naasking</author><text>&gt; Then there&#x27;s a next time, and a next time, and a next time. And eventually the deaf are at a measurable informational disadvantage to those who can hear. That&#x27;s why these laws exist.<p>While I can sympathize, I&#x27;m not sure holding back the progress of an entire society just to not disadvantage a subset of it is as reasonable as you seem to think. I agree that a better solution would be ideal though.<p>Perhaps they should just fund a machine learning program for closed captioning, instead of punishing people who are advancing social interests.</text></comment> | <story><title>20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them</title><url>https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idiot_stick</author><text>&gt;<i>How is society improved by taking them down?</i><p>First of all, I agree with you. I think most others do as well.<p>The problem is, we can look at a case like this and say, &quot;Obviously we shouldn&#x27;t lose access to this.&quot; Then there&#x27;s a next time, and a next time, and a next time. And eventually the deaf are at a measurable informational disadvantage to those who <i>can</i> hear. That&#x27;s why these laws exist.<p>So, everyone should take a step back and figure out a reasonable solution. I hope that&#x27;s the reason for the judgment.</text></item><item><author>bmcusick</author><text>While I understand wanting to make things available to the deaf, making them unavailable to everyone else is nuts. It&#x27;s crazy that the law put UC Berkeley in the position of having to choose between bearing the expense of close-captioning all these videos, and taking them down.<p>How is society improved by taking them down?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weddpros</author><text>Next: how will they make their content easy enough to grasp for the guy with an IQ of 60? He&#x27;s disabled too, after all...<p>...says the guy who&#x27;s partially blind after a stroke<p>If it feels insane, it&#x27;s because it is insane</text></comment> |
7,462,965 | 7,460,488 | 1 | 3 | 7,459,234 | train | <story><title>Building and modifying Linux Kernel with Visual Studio</title><url>http://visualkernel.com/tutorials/kernel/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>csense</author><text>Isn&#x27;t being able to build Linux on a Microsoft toolchain one of the Seven Signs of the Apocalypse? The universe is clearly descending into madness...<p>This is right up there with having Sega games on Nintendo consoles, or the release of Duke Nukem Forever...</text></comment> | <story><title>Building and modifying Linux Kernel with Visual Studio</title><url>http://visualkernel.com/tutorials/kernel/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stinos</author><text>Pretty impressive if it works as flawlessly as in the article. Anyone know how the debugging capabilities compare to the standard VS ones? And the standard gdb + whatever gui frontend ones?</text></comment> |
36,392,089 | 36,392,182 | 1 | 2 | 36,387,939 | train | <story><title>Comparison of different Lemmy Instances</title><url>https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>What is the practical effect on the user of an instance being &quot;defederated?&quot;<p>People compare these federated social platforms to email, as there are many email providers and they can all exchange mail with each other. But there&#x27;s no concept of being &quot;defederated&quot; in email. Or is there? I just don&#x27;t understand the term.</text></item><item><author>mikae1</author><text><i>&gt; They say the instance you choose doesn&#x27;t matter that much</i><p>I would way that&#x27;s not true.<p>Mostly speaking from a Mastodon perspective, but should be true for Lemmy&#x2F;Kbin too. Healthy small ones with active moderation should be a good choice as they have a lesser chance of being defederated. Many smaller instances recently defederated mastodon.social because of spam. You should also choose one that doesn&#x27;t defederate other instances left and right (if that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re not after).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedidb.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;lemmy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedidb.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;lemmy</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedidb.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;kbin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedidb.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;kbin</a> might be helpful.</text></item><item><author>NoboruWataya</author><text>What instances are people here using? I recently decided to give Lemmy a try. From what I had been seeing I was planning to sign up to BeeHaw, only to find that they had defederated two of the largest instances due to their lax sign-up policies. I can understand their reasoning and it looks like it was relatively well handled, but it still makes that instance impractical. I ended up going to VLemmy as it was one of the recommended ones, seems fairly general purpose and doesn&#x27;t seem to have much &quot;baggage&quot; (political or otherwise).<p>They say the instance you choose doesn&#x27;t matter that much, but if even large instances are going to start defederating then there is a kind of Keynesian beauty contest to choosing the right instance - you might not care what an instance looks like if you&#x27;re just using it as a gateway to the fediverse, but you need to choose an instance that doesn&#x27;t repulse the <i>other</i> instances too much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xffff2</author><text>There is, it&#x27;s just not talked about much. It is incredibly hard to run your own email server today because even if you follow all of the rules the big players will often refuse to accept your emails (i.e. defederate your email server).</text></comment> | <story><title>Comparison of different Lemmy Instances</title><url>https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>What is the practical effect on the user of an instance being &quot;defederated?&quot;<p>People compare these federated social platforms to email, as there are many email providers and they can all exchange mail with each other. But there&#x27;s no concept of being &quot;defederated&quot; in email. Or is there? I just don&#x27;t understand the term.</text></item><item><author>mikae1</author><text><i>&gt; They say the instance you choose doesn&#x27;t matter that much</i><p>I would way that&#x27;s not true.<p>Mostly speaking from a Mastodon perspective, but should be true for Lemmy&#x2F;Kbin too. Healthy small ones with active moderation should be a good choice as they have a lesser chance of being defederated. Many smaller instances recently defederated mastodon.social because of spam. You should also choose one that doesn&#x27;t defederate other instances left and right (if that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re not after).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedidb.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;lemmy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedidb.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;lemmy</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedidb.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;kbin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedidb.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;kbin</a> might be helpful.</text></item><item><author>NoboruWataya</author><text>What instances are people here using? I recently decided to give Lemmy a try. From what I had been seeing I was planning to sign up to BeeHaw, only to find that they had defederated two of the largest instances due to their lax sign-up policies. I can understand their reasoning and it looks like it was relatively well handled, but it still makes that instance impractical. I ended up going to VLemmy as it was one of the recommended ones, seems fairly general purpose and doesn&#x27;t seem to have much &quot;baggage&quot; (political or otherwise).<p>They say the instance you choose doesn&#x27;t matter that much, but if even large instances are going to start defederating then there is a kind of Keynesian beauty contest to choosing the right instance - you might not care what an instance looks like if you&#x27;re just using it as a gateway to the fediverse, but you need to choose an instance that doesn&#x27;t repulse the <i>other</i> instances too much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NoMoreNicksLeft</author><text>&gt; What is the practical effect on the user of an instance being &quot;defederated?&quot;<p>The entire instance is sort of &quot;shadow banned&quot;. Everyone on it can post, but no one will ever read it (except for the few dozen people on that instance). Since forums have some minimum number of users&#x2F;readers that if the number falls below this people just give up and go away, it will be dead within a month.<p>Not only is it like being shadow-banned, but you get to be shadow-banned for what the other people on the instance are posting.<p>The Fediverse might be a good model for a Twitter-alike (it&#x27;s debatable), but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a good model at all for a reddit-alike.<p>Conversations aren&#x27;t meant to always be civil. If you enforce that harshly, it turns into a place to post cat pictures.</text></comment> |
17,205,234 | 17,204,997 | 1 | 2 | 17,203,304 | train | <story><title>How to get rich without getting lucky</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002103360646823936.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>The highest probability for success for the &#x27;everyday person&#x27;:<p>- Earn as much as you can from your own work. Take a 2nd job, change to a higher paying job, ask for more responsibility and a raise at your current job, go back to school for a more lucrative degree, ...<p>- Spend much less than you earn. Economize, share an apartment, buy an inexpensive car, shop at Trader Joe&#x27;s and Costco, ....<p>- Learn how to invest. This is really important. The most deliberate and highest probability of ultimate success is likely mutual funds. Individual stocks can goose it, but should only a small portion of your wealth, as they start to bring a luck factor into the mix ...<p>- Protect your investments. Health insurance is really a must in the US, might be a must elsewhere. Work for a company that offers health insurance. Car insurance is a must. Other insurance is probably wise.<p>- Be patient. The compounding effect of investing takes a long time, but once it gets rolling, it&#x27;s pretty much unstoppable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>falcolas</author><text>Counterpoint: Your chances of dying before &quot;making it big&quot; and retiring are somewhere in the 1-in-10 range. Investing works mostly because of the current trend of artificially propping up the stock market. Any failure in your investment strategy leave you in the same boat as the current boomer retirees who are trying to get back in the workforce.<p>Not to mention, your life is going to be pretty miserable if you&#x27;re working two jobs and spending a lot of effort on living frugal. There&#x27;s just something off-putting about the thought of spending decades living frugally and working yourself to the bone so you can retire and finally have fun.<p>The exemplar folks who advocate doing this, a&#x27;la Mr. Money Mustache, are real pieces of work too. They tend to hide the fact that they went into the process with an inheritance to fund their their nest egg and are working nearly full time in their &quot;retirement&quot; as paid frugal advocates.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to get rich without getting lucky</title><url>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1002103360646823936.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>The highest probability for success for the &#x27;everyday person&#x27;:<p>- Earn as much as you can from your own work. Take a 2nd job, change to a higher paying job, ask for more responsibility and a raise at your current job, go back to school for a more lucrative degree, ...<p>- Spend much less than you earn. Economize, share an apartment, buy an inexpensive car, shop at Trader Joe&#x27;s and Costco, ....<p>- Learn how to invest. This is really important. The most deliberate and highest probability of ultimate success is likely mutual funds. Individual stocks can goose it, but should only a small portion of your wealth, as they start to bring a luck factor into the mix ...<p>- Protect your investments. Health insurance is really a must in the US, might be a must elsewhere. Work for a company that offers health insurance. Car insurance is a must. Other insurance is probably wise.<p>- Be patient. The compounding effect of investing takes a long time, but once it gets rolling, it&#x27;s pretty much unstoppable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nojvek</author><text>Health insurance is a must in US because the entire country systematically doesn’t give a shit about how inefficient it is. I guess some people make fat bucks at the expense of people’s lives.<p>My pay + company benefit == $650&#x2F;month to Anthem.<p>I still end up paying $5000 for all pre-pregnancy costs out of pocket and the baby isn’t even here yet.<p>In Australia it would be 10% of that, purely because they got their shit together a long time ago.</text></comment> |
10,328,467 | 10,327,923 | 1 | 2 | 10,327,707 | train | <story><title>Microsoft acquires Havok</title><url>http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/10/02/havok-to-join-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brobinson</author><text>A piece of middleware used in seemingly every single AAA game in the last decade... seems like a solid investment!<p>That said, when I see a Havok splash screen when a game is launching, it means &quot;prepare for unrealistic ragdolls&quot; to me. I wish they would tone down how loose the physics on ragdolls are and end up with something more like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Qi5adyccoKI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Qi5adyccoKI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>That&#x27;s a consequence of using impulse-constraint contact simulation on ragdolls. If you use spring-damper contact simulation, the motion is better, but the compute cost is higher. Impulse-constraint simulations have instantaneous velocity changes, which looks wrong for large objects. I call this the &quot;boink&quot; problem. Here&#x27;s what it looks like with nonlinear spring-damper contact simulation.[1][2]<p>I did those animations back in 1996-1997. Havok licensed the patent rights from me, but switched over to impulse-constraint because it was faster and could be done on the 32-bit FPUs of game consoles. Spring-damper simulation has a reputation for failing badly under high forces (&quot;Trespasser&quot;, an early Jurassic Park game, was a disaster because of this), but I figured out how to fix that. (You have to use nonlinear simulated springs, and then, having created an insanely stiff system of differential equations, figure out how to integrate them. This can be done well, but it&#x27;s hard to do it in fixed time, which is a problem for games.)<p>Havok didn&#x27;t do too well in their first years. They overexpanded, more or less went broke, a new group of investors and management took over and downsized, and a few years later the new investors exited by selling the company to Intel. The founders didn&#x27;t come out of it very well.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5lHqEwk7YHs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5lHqEwk7YHs</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-DaWIHc1VLY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-DaWIHc1VLY</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft acquires Havok</title><url>http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/10/02/havok-to-join-microsoft/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brobinson</author><text>A piece of middleware used in seemingly every single AAA game in the last decade... seems like a solid investment!<p>That said, when I see a Havok splash screen when a game is launching, it means &quot;prepare for unrealistic ragdolls&quot; to me. I wish they would tone down how loose the physics on ragdolls are and end up with something more like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Qi5adyccoKI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Qi5adyccoKI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reubenmorais</author><text>If you look for videos of people actually getting hit by high powered weapons, or high speed cars, you&#x27;ll realize that what&#x27;s unrealistic is your expectation. People in those cases behave a lot like ragdolls, we just don&#x27;t see it in real life very often (or at all), so don&#x27;t know what to expect.<p>Now this is just me making up theories, but I think that effect is exacerbated by the fact that kinetic energy scales with the square of velocity, and humans tend to think linearly.</text></comment> |
41,616,994 | 41,617,161 | 1 | 2 | 41,614,663 | train | <story><title>Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB</title><url>https://github.com/VadimBoev/FlappyBird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onlyforthat</author><text>I remember there was a publisher in Play Store who had very small apps like single digit kb flashlight, sudoku, calender, etc. I can&#x27;t find them now. Those apps were really small all within &lt;200kb</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Really wish the app store had a &quot;only apps under 10MB&quot; filter.<p>The fastest, least ad-filled and micropayment filled apps are usually the small ones. By downloading a 3 megabyte thermometer app you&#x27;ll be much happier than a 150 megabyte thermometer app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>butz</author><text>Google Play probably kicked them off for not using latest Android SDK or something. So many tiny and high quality apps were lost.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flappy Bird for Android, only C, under 100KB</title><url>https://github.com/VadimBoev/FlappyBird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onlyforthat</author><text>I remember there was a publisher in Play Store who had very small apps like single digit kb flashlight, sudoku, calender, etc. I can&#x27;t find them now. Those apps were really small all within &lt;200kb</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Really wish the app store had a &quot;only apps under 10MB&quot; filter.<p>The fastest, least ad-filled and micropayment filled apps are usually the small ones. By downloading a 3 megabyte thermometer app you&#x27;ll be much happier than a 150 megabyte thermometer app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>azthecx</author><text>I use the minesweeper, sudoku and solitaire apps from dustland design (search pub:Dustland Design) they&#x27;re very minimalistic and clean.<p>There&#x27;s also currency &#x2F; unit converter and calendar by Sam Ruston which are in the same vein very good and clean.</text></comment> |
12,081,410 | 12,080,854 | 1 | 2 | 12,080,767 | train | <story><title>Pokemon Go – Permissions Update</title><url>https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/222648408-Permissions-update</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>matt_wulfeck</author><text>I&#x27;m glad they involved google to make sure the change happens to anyone and also to verify their claims about access. This is the type of response we should expect&#x2F;demand from other companies. Well done.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pokemon Go – Permissions Update</title><url>https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/222648408-Permissions-update</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>This is the same message that was released to the press yesterday.<p>I&#x27;m surprised Google itself has not said anything, as they are also at fault for not showing the permissions workflow in the first place.</text></comment> |
13,558,340 | 13,558,066 | 1 | 3 | 13,556,914 | train | <story><title>Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/snap-commits-2-billion-over-5-years-for-google-cloud-infrastructure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevenj</author><text>Yes.<p>If anyone wants to bet against them existing, I&#x27;ll take the bet.</text></item><item><author>georgeott</author><text>Will Snap exist in 5 years?</text></item><item><author>hemancuso</author><text>So they hit $400m of revenue in 2016 and have committed to spend at least that much on infrastructure each year for the next 5 years? After all the costs for staffing and everything else they better I hope they achieve amazing growth if they ever intend to profit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>partiallypro</author><text>They&#x27;ll exist, doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;ll be relevant, or profitable. If I were asked to bet against the stock, I probably would. Everything about their valuation and IPO smells to high heavens.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/snap-commits-2-billion-over-5-years-for-google-cloud-infrastructure/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevenj</author><text>Yes.<p>If anyone wants to bet against them existing, I&#x27;ll take the bet.</text></item><item><author>georgeott</author><text>Will Snap exist in 5 years?</text></item><item><author>hemancuso</author><text>So they hit $400m of revenue in 2016 and have committed to spend at least that much on infrastructure each year for the next 5 years? After all the costs for staffing and everything else they better I hope they achieve amazing growth if they ever intend to profit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patrickg_zill</author><text>I would bet that they don&#x27;t end up completing the terms of the Google contract as signed; and that it would be heavily modified by year 3 of the contract.</text></comment> |
15,229,219 | 15,228,363 | 1 | 3 | 15,228,074 | train | <story><title>Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in U.S. Middle-Aged and Older Adults</title><url>http://annals.org/aim/article/2653704/patterns-sedentary-behavior-mortality-u-s-middle-aged-older-adults</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>swframe2</author><text>I changed my primary work goal 2 years ago.
Now I try to minimize stress as the most important goal of the work day.
I redefined my job; it now is to solve problems in the lowest stressful way.
In other words, my employer is not paying me to kill myself.<p>I walk 10 mins every 1 to 2 hours and use that time to review.
I try to find ways to solve problems in ways that are more fun, easier, and effective.
So to me a 10 min break is a work requirement.
Solving a stressful problem and not reducing the stress first is wrong.
It isn&#x27;t just something I do for my health, it is the way people are supposed to work because it produces much better solutions.<p>After 50 mins working on something very difficult my mind gets so mucked up.
Often I discover a simpler solution during the break and end up getting my work done much faster.<p>Sometimes stress can peak and when that happens I just take a nap until it dissipates. Usually just 30 mins but there are times when it can take an hour or more. Again, I view the nap as doing work because often I wake up with a simpler solution that also has much less stress. If I can&#x27;t find one, then I escalate the issue. Again, it isn&#x27;t my job to absorb stress to the point where it degrades my effectiveness.<p>Please note, I don&#x27;t work on production system being used by 100s of millions of users. I&#x27;ve done it; it was fun; it is not possible to reduce stress in that work so it is not worth the effort. I now make 2x as much and have almost no stress.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in U.S. Middle-Aged and Older Adults</title><url>http://annals.org/aim/article/2653704/patterns-sedentary-behavior-mortality-u-s-middle-aged-older-adults</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>overcast</author><text>This should be obvious, however people still refuse to get up, and just walk around every hour for a minute. I spend a silly amount of time behind a computer, but I&#x27;ll do 10-20 pushups &#x2F; jumping jacks, every hour or so. After hours, I&#x27;ll bang out six miles on the hiking trails.<p>Get up, go get a drink, do a lap around the office. Get a stand&#x2F;sit desk. Do some simple exercises. Pushups can be done anywhere, and will alleviate lower back pain.</text></comment> |
31,298,010 | 31,298,123 | 1 | 2 | 31,293,066 | train | <story><title>Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23059064/eve-online-fanfest-microsoft-excel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rektide</author><text>Worth noting that EVE already has a fairly competent API[1]!<p>It&#x27;s been a long time since I played but there was also a good range of tools to snarf in world data. For example as you navigated your spaceship around &amp; looked at the various regional markets, the game would download effectively csv files, which were easy to look for &amp; read. This lead to a market-data-gathering service called Eve Market Data Relay[2] where these files would be shared. And a website EVE Central for viewing. A couple years latter EVE created official API endpoints for this, but there still are third party services for market data[3]- tbh Im not sure why. Notably this wiki page already has advice for Excel integration!<p>Creating game-worlds which, like the real world, can often expose &amp; share &amp; make connectible their data &amp; mechanisms is a frontier I keep hoping we see expand. Being able to modify &amp; expand our experiences of gaming feels like a more unbounded creativity that I hope we get to play with.<p>I do wish CCP would make a server where people were free to explore bots &amp; hacking the game client. For a while the python interpretter running the game client could be accessed &amp; you could directly script you ship. &quot;Go to this warp gate. Jump. Approach this enemy. Lock. Fire.&quot; The idea that we could learn programming &amp; explore artificial agency in such a rich universe was hughly compelling to me, is a vision I hope eve or some.other game eventually offers options in.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.eveuniversity.org&#x2F;EVE_Swagger_Interface" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.eveuniversity.org&#x2F;EVE_Swagger_Interface</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gtaylor&#x2F;EVE-Market-Data-Relay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gtaylor&#x2F;EVE-Market-Data-Relay</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.eveuniversity.org&#x2F;API_access_to_market_data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.eveuniversity.org&#x2F;API_access_to_market_data</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23059064/eve-online-fanfest-microsoft-excel</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justusthane</author><text>Eve is a game that I love to read about, but have never played and probably never will. Same with DF.</text></comment> |
16,793,331 | 16,793,040 | 1 | 3 | 16,789,321 | train | <story><title>Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/business/credit-card-signatures.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>criddell</author><text>I was just looking for a chip-and-pin card that I (as an American) could get for traveling to the UK and apparently there really isn&#x27;t much out there. I think all of the US cards that support chip and pin prioritize signature over pin.<p>I also found this Visa page explaining that PIN isn&#x27;t used in the US because it&#x27;s too expensive:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;visa-everywhere&#x2F;security&#x2F;the-cost-of-pin.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;visa-everywhere&#x2F;security&#x2F;the-cost-of-pi...</a></text></item><item><author>jimnotgym</author><text>In the UK cards moved to &#x27;chip and pin&#x27; in 2006! Fraud in a &#x27;customer present&#x27; scenario is very low at our stores. The last fraud in fact was a foreign card that didn&#x27;t support chip and pin. I can&#x27;t believe Visa and MasterCard have not made it mandatory world wide...<p>...except card fraud lossed are recharged to the merchant so perhaps they don&#x27;t care?<p>Out of interest there is a special exception for disabled people who cannot use a pin pad btw...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>I recently traveled to the states from Canada and was amazed at the number of places that didn&#x27;t even have the infrastructure for chip &amp; pin - I was at a popular tourist spot and it was all iPads &amp; Square Readers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Credit Card Signatures Are About to Become Extinct in the U.S</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/business/credit-card-signatures.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>criddell</author><text>I was just looking for a chip-and-pin card that I (as an American) could get for traveling to the UK and apparently there really isn&#x27;t much out there. I think all of the US cards that support chip and pin prioritize signature over pin.<p>I also found this Visa page explaining that PIN isn&#x27;t used in the US because it&#x27;s too expensive:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;visa-everywhere&#x2F;security&#x2F;the-cost-of-pin.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usa.visa.com&#x2F;visa-everywhere&#x2F;security&#x2F;the-cost-of-pi...</a></text></item><item><author>jimnotgym</author><text>In the UK cards moved to &#x27;chip and pin&#x27; in 2006! Fraud in a &#x27;customer present&#x27; scenario is very low at our stores. The last fraud in fact was a foreign card that didn&#x27;t support chip and pin. I can&#x27;t believe Visa and MasterCard have not made it mandatory world wide...<p>...except card fraud lossed are recharged to the merchant so perhaps they don&#x27;t care?<p>Out of interest there is a special exception for disabled people who cannot use a pin pad btw...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davepage</author><text>FWIW, I set an ATM PIN for a US issued CC and found the PIN worked for retail terminals in NZ. YMMV</text></comment> |
3,769,784 | 3,769,797 | 1 | 3 | 3,769,533 | train | <story><title>I'm sick to death of Android</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/im-sick-to-death-of-android/20242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makecheck</author><text>I had an Android phone for roughly a year, after having a not-smart flip-phone for about 7 years! And even though I found real value in my old phone for 7 years, I tossed the Android for an iPhone 4S almost as soon as the new iPhone came out.<p>When I first bought the Android phone (HTC Hero) I thought it was amazing. It really had some neat features, and there were things the iPhone couldn't do (like totally change the home screen manager).<p>But it was never updated. Not once. It took just months to start seeing apps in the Android Market that only worked with newer OS versions.<p>I'd also discovered battery issues; it was <i>abundantly</i> clear that the carrier, Sprint, had the phone pre-loaded with apps (<i>in the ROM</i> so they <i>could not be removed</i>). Not only did ALL of these stupid things auto-start when the phone was powered on, but they were apparently set up to <i>start themselves</i> every hour or so because even with an app-killer I'd still see this junk back in memory sooner or later.<p>Say what you will about Apple, but they keep the crap off your phone. Carriers can't put a <i>damn</i> thing on there that you don't want. I've also <i>already</i> received 2 OS updates from Apple, which is 2 more updates than I ever received with Android.<p>I also realized that even though Apple doesn't let you customize as much, their UI is also <i>not broken</i> the way Android's is. For instance, some of the default HTC Sense UI did really stupid things in my opinion. Sure I was able to "fix" problems by downloading replacement keyboards, etc. but with iOS I don't even feel the <i>need</i> for that because Apple's UI is by default more sensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CrazedGeek</author><text>Two things:<p><i>Say what you will about Apple, but they keep the crap off your phone. Carriers can't put a damn thing on there that you don't want.</i><p>True, but they do a damn fine job of keeping things off:<p>iPad 3G video downscaled, blocked over AT&#38;T network: <a href="http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/ipad-3g-video-downscaled-blocked-over-att-network/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/ipad-3g-video...</a><p>AT&#38;T and Apple Admit Deal to Block VoIP on iPhone: <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170661/atandt_and_apple_admit_deal_to_block_voip_on_iphone.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/170661/atandt_...</a><p>AT&#38;T cracking down unofficial tethering apps like MyWi: <a href="http://www.intomobile.com/2011/03/18/att-blocking-unofficial-tethering-apps-like-mywi/" rel="nofollow">http://www.intomobile.com/2011/03/18/att-blocking-unofficial...</a><p>(Granted, Google's complicit to the carrier's requests here too -- however, I'm still perfectly able to install anything I want on my phone.)<p><i>But it was never updated. Not once. It took just months to start seeing apps in the Android Market that only worked with newer OS versions. [...] I've also already received 2 OS updates from Apple, which is 2 more updates than I ever received with Android.</i><p>No, it isn't. The Sprint HTC Hero got an official upgrade from 1.6 to 2.1, roughly eight months after the phone came out and five months after 2.1 came out. <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/sprint-htc-hero-android-2-1-update-released-1986138/" rel="nofollow">http://www.slashgear.com/sprint-htc-hero-android-2-1-update-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I'm sick to death of Android</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/im-sick-to-death-of-android/20242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makecheck</author><text>I had an Android phone for roughly a year, after having a not-smart flip-phone for about 7 years! And even though I found real value in my old phone for 7 years, I tossed the Android for an iPhone 4S almost as soon as the new iPhone came out.<p>When I first bought the Android phone (HTC Hero) I thought it was amazing. It really had some neat features, and there were things the iPhone couldn't do (like totally change the home screen manager).<p>But it was never updated. Not once. It took just months to start seeing apps in the Android Market that only worked with newer OS versions.<p>I'd also discovered battery issues; it was <i>abundantly</i> clear that the carrier, Sprint, had the phone pre-loaded with apps (<i>in the ROM</i> so they <i>could not be removed</i>). Not only did ALL of these stupid things auto-start when the phone was powered on, but they were apparently set up to <i>start themselves</i> every hour or so because even with an app-killer I'd still see this junk back in memory sooner or later.<p>Say what you will about Apple, but they keep the crap off your phone. Carriers can't put a <i>damn</i> thing on there that you don't want. I've also <i>already</i> received 2 OS updates from Apple, which is 2 more updates than I ever received with Android.<p>I also realized that even though Apple doesn't let you customize as much, their UI is also <i>not broken</i> the way Android's is. For instance, some of the default HTC Sense UI did really stupid things in my opinion. Sure I was able to "fix" problems by downloading replacement keyboards, etc. but with iOS I don't even feel the <i>need</i> for that because Apple's UI is by default more sensible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextparadigms</author><text>It's quite amazing how besides charging carriers the <i>full retail price</i> for an iPhone, which gives them like $350 in profit per phone, they also don't allow them to install any of their apps. If only Google had the same negotiation skills.<p>There are so many things that Google could do for the benefit of their users, not necessarily for themselves, if only they took a tougher stance with the carriers, or convince them somehow that letting the customer be the #1 priority, and not the carrier itself, is actually a good thing in the long-term for the carrier. And a good example of that is the iPhone, which even though had the customer (and Apple itself) as the priority, the carrier still benefited a lot from all the customers and more expensive plans.</text></comment> |
24,794,452 | 24,794,284 | 1 | 2 | 24,792,413 | train | <story><title>FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230</title><url>https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1316808733805236226</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>post_below</author><text>The most concerning thing about the tweet to me is the popular replies which support Pai&#x27;s statement.<p>The media, and those of us who understand what Pai did to net neutrality, need to do a better job of communicating to the general public exactly what Pai is, and what he&#x27;s there to do.<p>It would also be nice if people understood that section 230 protections allow the internet as we know it (not just the social media giants) to exist, but I&#x27;d settle for just the bit about Pai as a start.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC to move ahead with 'rulemaking' on Section 230</title><url>https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1316808733805236226</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsnigrutin</author><text>I think that every company should decide if they&#x27;re a &quot;publisher&quot; or a &quot;platform&quot;.<p>If you&#x27;re a platform, you&#x27;re not responsible for what your users say (except directly illegal stuff, eg. child porn), and have no say in what stays on, or gets removed&#x2F;hidden (except, again, illegal stuff).<p>If you&#x27;re a publisher, you have a say what is posted on your site, and you carry full responsibility for all the onsite content.<p>Walking the line, and not wanting to take responsibility in some cases, but still deletin in other cases should be forbidden</text></comment> |
17,946,363 | 17,946,464 | 1 | 2 | 17,946,145 | train | <story><title>GNU nano 3.0 released</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-nano/2018-09/msg00000.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ktpsns</author><text>I&#x27;m a Linux&#x2F;Unix &quot;devop&quot; since 15 years and I still use nano every day or second. It&#x27;s the default $EDITOR in Debian and derivates and at some machines I did not consequently set EDITOR=vim.<p>Congratulations to the developers of nano. It&#x27;s a timeless modern terminal editor which can be operated by novices as well as experts.</text></comment> | <story><title>GNU nano 3.0 released</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-nano/2018-09/msg00000.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marius_k</author><text>I moved to micro[0] editor a while ago. It saves me a couple of seconds every time I need to edit something in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;* (especially when copy-pasting some text sections in the middle of the file). But it is not adopted by all distributions yet.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;micro-editor.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;micro-editor.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
24,553,462 | 24,553,633 | 1 | 3 | 24,551,808 | train | <story><title>Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54239180</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethanwillis</author><text>I recently had my own host of cable internet issues.<p>So about 3 months ago the RJ45 cable in my cable modem <i>melted</i>. I thought it was a freak accident. I checked all of my networking equipment, checked my outlets, etc. No problems. So I installed a new cable and then everything was fine.<p>Cue 2 weeks ago. Connectivity became intermittent and then finally I had no internet for almost a week. Comcast wouldn&#x27;t be able to send anyone out for a month. So I started digging around for the problem. A little over a year ago they sent out techs to work on my neighbors internet and in the process foolishly <i>cut</i> my coax. So I started from the cable tap and worked my way backwards.<p>There wasn&#x27;t a continuity problem from what I could tell, no one either intentionally or unintentionally cut the cable. Then I look on the back of my house where the coax from the street is bonded to my home&#x27;s grounding rod. Everything to the right of the bond was completely melted and still super hot. NOT GOOD.<p>So I did some testing of the bonding wire to the ground, the resistance was 37 ohms (should be much less than this). And there were no other electrical problems. My thought at the time was somehow power was being backfed from the cable tap to my home. So I removed the cable from the street and disconnected everything inside that was touch this cable.<p>Almost immediately I start getting voltage drops in my house, can&#x27;t even run the microwave. That&#x27;s when I realized what was <i>really</i> going on. The cable line was being used as a return path because the neutral for my neighborhood was at least partially severed.<p>It was so bad that if I increased voltage load in my home past a certain point then the streetlights in the front of my home would completely turn off.. Yes I could turn city infrastructure off and on by toggling the voltage load in my home.<p>The power company within a few hours had a crew come out to diagnose and fix the issue since it&#x27;s actually potentially dangerous. They confirmed for me it was indeed a bad neutral. As soon as they replaced it I spliced my coax line, reconnected it, and everything worked perfectly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mnw21cam</author><text>A few years back, when we had a load of wet weather, we had a power cut. It lasted about an hour before the power came back on again, only to go off after about 30 seconds. This time it was off for about 5 minutes, then back on for 30 seconds again.<p>On a whim, I wandered down the road. It had stopped raining. About 50m down the road there was a dry patch of pavement and a smell of burning plastic. Another 100m down the road was the electricity substation, with a guy from the electric company who said he was trying yet another 300A fuse. He said that often the cable can be shorted out by ground water, but connecting it up again may heat it enough to drive the water out and make it fine. I asked him after breaking three fuses already, how he thought another one would solve the problem, and would he like to know where the short was? Took a bit of persuading to get him to walk 100m up the road to where the dry patch and smell of burning plastic was, and of course by then the smell had worn off a bit. Another electric company guy arrived with a smelling device, which they bashed into the tarmac to try to identify the location of the break, eventually settling with exactly where I told them it was.<p>Within a couple of hours after that, a team had ripped up the pavement, dug down to the cable, spliced it, wrapped it up in waterproofing, refilled the hole, and relaid the pavement.<p>But I think your story wins.</text></comment> | <story><title>Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54239180</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethanwillis</author><text>I recently had my own host of cable internet issues.<p>So about 3 months ago the RJ45 cable in my cable modem <i>melted</i>. I thought it was a freak accident. I checked all of my networking equipment, checked my outlets, etc. No problems. So I installed a new cable and then everything was fine.<p>Cue 2 weeks ago. Connectivity became intermittent and then finally I had no internet for almost a week. Comcast wouldn&#x27;t be able to send anyone out for a month. So I started digging around for the problem. A little over a year ago they sent out techs to work on my neighbors internet and in the process foolishly <i>cut</i> my coax. So I started from the cable tap and worked my way backwards.<p>There wasn&#x27;t a continuity problem from what I could tell, no one either intentionally or unintentionally cut the cable. Then I look on the back of my house where the coax from the street is bonded to my home&#x27;s grounding rod. Everything to the right of the bond was completely melted and still super hot. NOT GOOD.<p>So I did some testing of the bonding wire to the ground, the resistance was 37 ohms (should be much less than this). And there were no other electrical problems. My thought at the time was somehow power was being backfed from the cable tap to my home. So I removed the cable from the street and disconnected everything inside that was touch this cable.<p>Almost immediately I start getting voltage drops in my house, can&#x27;t even run the microwave. That&#x27;s when I realized what was <i>really</i> going on. The cable line was being used as a return path because the neutral for my neighborhood was at least partially severed.<p>It was so bad that if I increased voltage load in my home past a certain point then the streetlights in the front of my home would completely turn off.. Yes I could turn city infrastructure off and on by toggling the voltage load in my home.<p>The power company within a few hours had a crew come out to diagnose and fix the issue since it&#x27;s actually potentially dangerous. They confirmed for me it was indeed a bad neutral. As soon as they replaced it I spliced my coax line, reconnected it, and everything worked perfectly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smichel17</author><text>Just FYI, I really enjoyed your story but I <i>almost</i> closed the tab and didn&#x27;t read it due to &quot;Read on to find out&quot; in the first paragraph. It sets off all the clickbait alarms in my head, which make me expect to find a bunch of low-quality content. The rj45 cable melting is just as good of a hook (and is actually why I continued reading). I&#x27;d suggest sticking the first sentence onto the front of the second paragraph and removing the rest of the first paragraph.</text></comment> |
19,421,089 | 19,420,584 | 1 | 2 | 19,417,797 | train | <story><title>To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/04/to-build-cities-of-the-future-stop-driving-cars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptero</author><text>&gt; US car manufacturers are doubling down on large trucks and SUVs<p>Manufacturers are building lots of SUVs because this is what people in the US <i>prefer</i> to buy. If manufacturers build tons of subcompacts instead they would have to drop prices and probably sell those subcompacts at a loss.<p>If you wanted to sell more small cars instead you should convince <i>consumers</i> to buy them (e.g., via end user incentives), which would make it profitable for car companies to build lots of them.</text></item><item><author>mtberatwork</author><text>&gt; the US went to the other extreme and is only slowly turning around.<p>US car manufacturers are doubling down on large trucks and SUVs and the current administration continues to thwart progress on tackling climate change and other societal concerns. I would say the US, at least on a macro level, is still on the &quot;other extreme&quot; path.</text></item><item><author>Tepix</author><text>Not exactly rocket science. Many cities around the world have figured it out already. To me it seems that the US went to the other extreme and is only slowly turning around.<p>I remember reading &quot;Das neue Universum&quot;² in the early 80s where they proposed large skyscrapers connected by tubes. No cars in sight.<p>Oh and don&#x27;t miss &quot;Das Neue Universum Volume 84 (1967)&quot;: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;klausbuergle.de&#x2F;buergle_verkehr1.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;klausbuergle.de&#x2F;buergle_verkehr1.htm</a> -<p>Click on the bottom left image - looks a lot like Hyperloop, doesn&#x27;t it? The text even mentions that the tubes contain a vacuum!<p>--<p>² <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Das_Neue_Universum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Das_Neue_Universum</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amalcon</author><text>Is this really surprising? The benefits of driving a large vehicle are all internal (comfort, safety of vehicle occupants, cargo capacity, range between fueling). The costs, however, are mostly external (road maintenance, emissions, safety of non occupants, space consumed for parking).<p>You&#x27;d need to substantially incentivize smaller vehicles to overcome these things, but we actually incentivize larger vehicles (through looser emissions standards).</text></comment> | <story><title>To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars</title><url>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/04/to-build-cities-of-the-future-stop-driving-cars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptero</author><text>&gt; US car manufacturers are doubling down on large trucks and SUVs<p>Manufacturers are building lots of SUVs because this is what people in the US <i>prefer</i> to buy. If manufacturers build tons of subcompacts instead they would have to drop prices and probably sell those subcompacts at a loss.<p>If you wanted to sell more small cars instead you should convince <i>consumers</i> to buy them (e.g., via end user incentives), which would make it profitable for car companies to build lots of them.</text></item><item><author>mtberatwork</author><text>&gt; the US went to the other extreme and is only slowly turning around.<p>US car manufacturers are doubling down on large trucks and SUVs and the current administration continues to thwart progress on tackling climate change and other societal concerns. I would say the US, at least on a macro level, is still on the &quot;other extreme&quot; path.</text></item><item><author>Tepix</author><text>Not exactly rocket science. Many cities around the world have figured it out already. To me it seems that the US went to the other extreme and is only slowly turning around.<p>I remember reading &quot;Das neue Universum&quot;² in the early 80s where they proposed large skyscrapers connected by tubes. No cars in sight.<p>Oh and don&#x27;t miss &quot;Das Neue Universum Volume 84 (1967)&quot;: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;klausbuergle.de&#x2F;buergle_verkehr1.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;klausbuergle.de&#x2F;buergle_verkehr1.htm</a> -<p>Click on the bottom left image - looks a lot like Hyperloop, doesn&#x27;t it? The text even mentions that the tubes contain a vacuum!<p>--<p>² <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Das_Neue_Universum" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;de.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Das_Neue_Universum</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>The deck is stacked, though. CUV&#x27;s are considered trucks for the purposes of CAFE regulation. If they were considered the cars that they really are, they would be more fuel efficient, more expensive and manufacturers would be pushing small cars a lot harder to bring those averages down.</text></comment> |
40,724,468 | 40,724,573 | 1 | 2 | 40,723,150 | train | <story><title>Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2024/06/18/off-path-tcp-hijacking-in-nat-enabled-wi-fi-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>egberts1</author><text>A whitepaper detailing this CVE-2022-32296 attack.<p>Vulnerability is in Double-Hash Port Selection (DHPS, IETF RFC 6056)<p>Fixed in Linux 5.17.9 and above using a variant of DHPS.<p>Linux sysctl:<p>net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1<p>net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1<p>Also Firefox Only HTTPS must be enabled to prevent JavaScript from performing dwell on hidden unsecure HTTP DOM frame.<p>----<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;mk&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1359401" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;mk&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1359401</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2209.12993" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2209.12993</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;0xkol&#x2F;rfc6056-device-tracker">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;0xkol&#x2F;rfc6056-device-tracker</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfc-editor.org&#x2F;rfc&#x2F;rfc6056.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rfc-editor.org&#x2F;rfc&#x2F;rfc6056.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks</title><url>https://blog.apnic.net/2024/06/18/off-path-tcp-hijacking-in-nat-enabled-wi-fi-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blahgeek</author><text>Is it common for routers to create a new mapping for TCP packets that is NOT SYN (in figure 3 in this article)? Is there a legit use case for this behavior? Wouldn&#x27;t it be simpler and more secure not to do that?</text></comment> |
27,613,100 | 27,613,263 | 1 | 3 | 27,612,894 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?</title><text>I&#x27;ve been a paying customer from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F; since 2017 with my company. In the early days, I even exchanged emails with the founders giving detailed feedback.<p>Around 3 months ago, I started having issues with their &quot;Export&quot; feature. Basically, you request to export all your data on Notion, and you&#x27;re supposed to receive a link to download it. But the link never arrives.<p>I contacted them about this, and that&#x27;s what they said at the time:<p>&gt; Our engineering team is currently working through a large backlog, and there is no immediate fix for this issue...<p>I explained this wasn&#x27;t a &quot;nice to have&quot; feature. It was a critical function that locks us with them and goes against their selling message of &quot;you own your data&quot;.
I was ignored, with the same robotic tone.<p>So today, 3 months later, I contacted them again to say I&#x27;m having the same issue. They replied with the same message:<p>&gt; Please accept my sincere apologies for the ongoing difficulties with this. Our engineering team is currently working through a large backlog, and there is no immediate fix for this issue. I’ve already alerted them to the issue and told them of your particular situation, and we’ll certainly follow up if there are any developments! Really appreciate your patience with us as we continue to improve. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help with in the meantime.<p>I&#x27;m again explaining the same thing - If the feature isn&#x27;t working, this is a critical function that they should at least try to generate manually as per my request.<p>They are basically locking me in. They, again, replied with scripted messages:<p>&gt; Unfortunately, our engineering team is working through quite a backlog at the moment, and there isn&#x27;t an immediate fix for this issue....<p>Any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I&#x27;m not a Notion customer, but frankly with a response like this I would never, ever be one.<p>It&#x27;s one thing to make a <i>new feature request</i> and have the response be &quot;sorry, we&#x27;ll get to it when we get to it.&quot; It&#x27;s quite another to have a <i>bug</i> in an advertised, previously working feature, with no workaround, and say &quot;sorry, our engineers have a big backlog.&quot;<p>Imagine if a bank said &quot;sorry, we know the withdrawal feature to get your money is broken, but our engineers have a big backlog.&quot; Unbelievable!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eugeniub</author><text>&gt; Imagine if a bank said &quot;sorry, we know the withdrawal feature to get your money is broken, but our engineers have a big backlog.&quot; Unbelievable!<p>The Mt. Gox story.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?</title><text>I&#x27;ve been a paying customer from https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notion.so&#x2F; since 2017 with my company. In the early days, I even exchanged emails with the founders giving detailed feedback.<p>Around 3 months ago, I started having issues with their &quot;Export&quot; feature. Basically, you request to export all your data on Notion, and you&#x27;re supposed to receive a link to download it. But the link never arrives.<p>I contacted them about this, and that&#x27;s what they said at the time:<p>&gt; Our engineering team is currently working through a large backlog, and there is no immediate fix for this issue...<p>I explained this wasn&#x27;t a &quot;nice to have&quot; feature. It was a critical function that locks us with them and goes against their selling message of &quot;you own your data&quot;.
I was ignored, with the same robotic tone.<p>So today, 3 months later, I contacted them again to say I&#x27;m having the same issue. They replied with the same message:<p>&gt; Please accept my sincere apologies for the ongoing difficulties with this. Our engineering team is currently working through a large backlog, and there is no immediate fix for this issue. I’ve already alerted them to the issue and told them of your particular situation, and we’ll certainly follow up if there are any developments! Really appreciate your patience with us as we continue to improve. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help with in the meantime.<p>I&#x27;m again explaining the same thing - If the feature isn&#x27;t working, this is a critical function that they should at least try to generate manually as per my request.<p>They are basically locking me in. They, again, replied with scripted messages:<p>&gt; Unfortunately, our engineering team is working through quite a backlog at the moment, and there isn&#x27;t an immediate fix for this issue....<p>Any suggestions on what I can do? Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I&#x27;m not a Notion customer, but frankly with a response like this I would never, ever be one.<p>It&#x27;s one thing to make a <i>new feature request</i> and have the response be &quot;sorry, we&#x27;ll get to it when we get to it.&quot; It&#x27;s quite another to have a <i>bug</i> in an advertised, previously working feature, with no workaround, and say &quot;sorry, our engineers have a big backlog.&quot;<p>Imagine if a bank said &quot;sorry, we know the withdrawal feature to get your money is broken, but our engineers have a big backlog.&quot; Unbelievable!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>&gt; Imagine if a bank said &quot;sorry, we know the withdrawal feature to get your money is broken, but our engineers have a big backlog.&quot; Unbelievable!<p>That happens a bit more than we would want to.<p>There was an (several?) incident with Mizuho bank in Japan. During system errors they&#x27;d swallow clients cards and wouldn&#x27;t give them back until a the client asks for it in person at the counter (so, a few days later when it happens on the weekend)</text></comment> |
26,967,438 | 26,966,764 | 1 | 3 | 26,962,536 | train | <story><title>AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16645/amd-reports-q1-2021-earnings-firing-on-all-cylinders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slowwriter</author><text>I think you’re underestimating the trouble Intel is in. They are being absolutely stomped on by both AMD and Apple in terms of performance&#x2F;efficiency, and if it wasn’t for such high demand it would reflect heavily on sales. Also, AMD has begun R&amp;D for ARM processors whereas that is nowhere to be found in Intel’s roadmap.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>Consumer CPU, APU, Server CPU, Semi-Custom ( Consoles ), are all doing great as expected. What is missing is the GPU big picture. I dont see evidence of AMD discrete GPU winning any market shares and seems to be dominated by Nvidia.<p>AMD only have two more years to enjoy their advantage from Intel&#x27;s multiple missteps. After that it is going to be tough. And that is excluding the threat from ARM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>That would have been true if Pat Gelsinger didn&#x27;t became CEO. Worth pointing out Intel&#x27;s R&amp;D didn&#x27;t stopped, all their CPU uArch design were done, only to be let down by their 10nm fiasco. That <i>single</i> misstep caused Intel years of setback. ( My calculation is somewhere around four years, they had 2 years lead at the time, so now they are about 2 years behind )<p>As some have pointed out, TSMC is the real competitor, not really Apple or AMD. So I was surprised how quickly Pat managed to open up Foundry <i>with</i> industry standard tools and ecosystem. I have been saying this since 2012 even before the original Intel custom foundry were announced. ( And constantly being attacked and abused by Intel Fans online) But to actually see Intel announcing it is a completely different thing. Especially knowing their strong inertia. In hindsight, it probably took that beating from 10nm before they could really go all in with Custom Foundry. ( &quot;All in&quot; as in with industry tools, they are still an IDM, not Pure Play )<p>And how the tide has turned. All of a sudden Leading Edge Foundry becomes a national security concern. And Intel <i>should</i> rip all the benefits from it.<p>It was Andy Grove first started moving away from DRAM in the late 1980s, and may be his disciple will be the one who start to move away from x86 as core business.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/16645/amd-reports-q1-2021-earnings-firing-on-all-cylinders</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slowwriter</author><text>I think you’re underestimating the trouble Intel is in. They are being absolutely stomped on by both AMD and Apple in terms of performance&#x2F;efficiency, and if it wasn’t for such high demand it would reflect heavily on sales. Also, AMD has begun R&amp;D for ARM processors whereas that is nowhere to be found in Intel’s roadmap.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>Consumer CPU, APU, Server CPU, Semi-Custom ( Consoles ), are all doing great as expected. What is missing is the GPU big picture. I dont see evidence of AMD discrete GPU winning any market shares and seems to be dominated by Nvidia.<p>AMD only have two more years to enjoy their advantage from Intel&#x27;s multiple missteps. After that it is going to be tough. And that is excluding the threat from ARM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blackoil</author><text>Intel runway got extended a lot due to current silicon crisis. There isn&#x27;t enough o&#x2F;p for people to completely stop buying the 14nm chips, which Intel can produce with high profitability.</text></comment> |
512,616 | 512,646 | 1 | 2 | 512,491 | train | <story><title>Please read if you have any information about Tony Morris</title><url>http://www.nabble.com/-scala--URGENT%3A-Please-read-if-you-have-any-information-about-Tony-Morris-to22462911.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sidsavara</author><text>[Edit] I just realized this reads as if I think we should only save people who are worthwhile hackers. That is not what I meant. What I mean is that I think it is appropriate to post to HN, because based on his CV, many of his peers would likely see it if it was on HN. We are not an amber alert service, but if a well-known developer is missing, HN is where I would turn to. [/edit]<p>Why this matters to Hacker News (in addition to it being a person in need):<p><a href="http://cv.tmorris.net/" rel="nofollow">http://cv.tmorris.net/</a><p>A small sampling from that page reads as follows:<p>Tony actively participates and contributes to the open source software community.<p><pre><code> * Scala core libraries §
* ScalaCheck §
* Scalaz §</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>Please read if you have any information about Tony Morris</title><url>http://www.nabble.com/-scala--URGENT%3A-Please-read-if-you-have-any-information-about-Tony-Morris-to22462911.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelneale</author><text>I know him, and I know others who are closer to him are looking into it (who all live nearby) - so I can assure you lots of people are chasing this up (I won't say any more). (of course any more information would be welcomed).</text></comment> |
21,258,863 | 21,258,528 | 1 | 3 | 21,258,345 | train | <story><title>Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers</title><url>https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/switzerland-vs-silicon-valley</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lukeqsee</author><text>I&#x27;m an American expat in Switzerland working as an independent software developer and startup founder. I can agree with a lot of the points listed in the article, but they apply universally to almost all jobs (not just to software developers).<p>I would raise a few points it doesn&#x27;t mention:<p>- Negatively, it is <i>much</i> harder to find meetups close to you that apply to you. Unless you&#x27;re based in Zürich (the tech hub of the region), expect any meetups to be irregular and if you don&#x27;t go to the next one, it might be the last one.<p>- Positively, I work from home. I have four providers I could get 1Gbps symmetrical, unmetered, business-class FTTH for less than 100,- CHF &#x2F; month. It&#x27;s hard to go wrong with that.<p>- Positively, the outdoor culture in much of the country really helps you get out of your chair and outdoors. The natural beauty doesn&#x27;t hurt. :-)<p>Happy to answer any more questions if you have them—or I&#x27;m more than happy to connect if you&#x27;re also in Switzerland!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>victor106</author><text>&gt; Positively, I work from home. I have four providers I could get 1Gbps symmetrical, unmetered, business-class FTTH for less than 100,- CHF &#x2F; month. It&#x27;s hard to go wrong with that.<p>I pay 79.99 USD a month for Verizon Fios 1 gbps in nyc. That is before a $200.00 credit. Fios is FTTH. That’s a good 20-25% discount to what you pay in Switzerland.<p>Plus I heard from several colleagues and friends who are people of color that they faced more racism in Switzerland (and a few European countries) than in the US. I know this is subjective and everyone’s experience is different. But you can’t ignore the fact that the CEO’s of two of the largest tech companies in the US are Indians. I don’t know of any large European companies that are being run by people of color. Maybe they are but I just don’t know.</text></comment> | <story><title>Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers</title><url>https://swissdevjobs.ch/blog/switzerland-vs-silicon-valley</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lukeqsee</author><text>I&#x27;m an American expat in Switzerland working as an independent software developer and startup founder. I can agree with a lot of the points listed in the article, but they apply universally to almost all jobs (not just to software developers).<p>I would raise a few points it doesn&#x27;t mention:<p>- Negatively, it is <i>much</i> harder to find meetups close to you that apply to you. Unless you&#x27;re based in Zürich (the tech hub of the region), expect any meetups to be irregular and if you don&#x27;t go to the next one, it might be the last one.<p>- Positively, I work from home. I have four providers I could get 1Gbps symmetrical, unmetered, business-class FTTH for less than 100,- CHF &#x2F; month. It&#x27;s hard to go wrong with that.<p>- Positively, the outdoor culture in much of the country really helps you get out of your chair and outdoors. The natural beauty doesn&#x27;t hurt. :-)<p>Happy to answer any more questions if you have them—or I&#x27;m more than happy to connect if you&#x27;re also in Switzerland!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>How was the process of obtaining a work visa &#x2F; citizenship?</text></comment> |
38,946,076 | 38,946,090 | 1 | 2 | 38,945,437 | train | <story><title>Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5y37j/thousands-of-software-engineers-say-the-job-market-is-getting-much-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcarr</author><text>This 1000%. As an investor, if interest rates aren&#x27;t zero, why would you put your money in a risky startup when you could park it in a load of other places and still get a decent return? It&#x27;s also not 2007 anymore, the low hanging fruit has been picked, most things that can be digitised and turned into services have been. You&#x27;re going to have to come up with something extremely original and brilliant or utilising some kind of new tech in order to succeed on a big scale.<p>It&#x27;s got very little to do with AI. Other industries are far more affected by AI than software engineering e.g in my opinion, the amount of graphic designers and copy writers are both going to shrink massively.</text></item><item><author>fruchtose</author><text>The article&#x27;s claim that AI is responsible for a shrinking job market is tenuous at best. Economic factors are much more relevant. Rising interest rates make tech companies less attractive to investors, and this filters through companies as smaller hiring budgets.[0] And we&#x27;re seeing relatively high interest rates compared to a few years ago. I am far from convinced that efficiency gains from AI correlate with—much less cause—software engineering job cuts.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;23&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-interest-rates-layoffs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;23&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-interest-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apitman</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s also not 2007 anymore, the low hanging fruit has been picked, most things that can be digitised and turned into services have been<p>I think there&#x27;s plenty of low hanging fruit left, especially when it comes to improving current systems that we assume inherently have to suck simply because they always have.<p>Plus there&#x27;s new fruit growing every day. There&#x27;s potentially huge opportunities in improving social media right now. Who would have guessed 5 years ago we could see legitimate vulnerability in the major platforms?</text></comment> | <story><title>Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5y37j/thousands-of-software-engineers-say-the-job-market-is-getting-much-worse</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcarr</author><text>This 1000%. As an investor, if interest rates aren&#x27;t zero, why would you put your money in a risky startup when you could park it in a load of other places and still get a decent return? It&#x27;s also not 2007 anymore, the low hanging fruit has been picked, most things that can be digitised and turned into services have been. You&#x27;re going to have to come up with something extremely original and brilliant or utilising some kind of new tech in order to succeed on a big scale.<p>It&#x27;s got very little to do with AI. Other industries are far more affected by AI than software engineering e.g in my opinion, the amount of graphic designers and copy writers are both going to shrink massively.</text></item><item><author>fruchtose</author><text>The article&#x27;s claim that AI is responsible for a shrinking job market is tenuous at best. Economic factors are much more relevant. Rising interest rates make tech companies less attractive to investors, and this filters through companies as smaller hiring budgets.[0] And we&#x27;re seeing relatively high interest rates compared to a few years ago. I am far from convinced that efficiency gains from AI correlate with—much less cause—software engineering job cuts.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;23&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-interest-rates-layoffs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;01&#x2F;23&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-interest-...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrumlow</author><text>If anything I would expect a pop in demand for software engineers from ai. Those who know, know you can’t just ask chat gpt to integrate with the business by wiring a prompt.<p>Hi, can you please integrate your self into my business and increase my revenue by 20% and cut cost of workforce by 30%. Here are the master passwords to our aws account, jira, and payroll. Thanks! See you when in back from my 3 month vacation!</text></comment> |
26,958,251 | 26,955,771 | 1 | 2 | 26,955,344 | train | <story><title>Print Debugging Should Go Away</title><url>https://robert.ocallahan.org/2021/04/print-debugging-should-go-away.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falsaberN1</author><text>You can pry my debug prints from my cold, dead hands.<p>I get the point this person is making, but at times (and depending on language) it&#x27;s the fastest and most efficient option. &quot;Oh, the value is not what I expected&quot; -&gt; fix -&gt; &quot;value is good after testing, can remove the debug print&quot;.
It&#x27;s not elegant, yes, but it does the job with zero preparation and <i>works for every language</i>.
Now if things are so hopeless the debug print doesn&#x27;t even work, then yes, get a proper debugger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>&gt; You can pry my debug prints from my cold, dead hands.<p>I clicked on this about to type exactly that phrase.<p>Here&#x27;s why: the <i>CORE PROBLEM</i> of debugging has nothing to do with process, it&#x27;s the need for the human developer to understand the operation of machine code when faced with a specific set of runtime conditions.<p>You can&#x27;t debug by just reading code, because the bug only shows up at runtime. Most people agree with this.<p>Likewise, you can&#x27;t debug just by <i>WATCHING</i> a program, for the same reason. You need to be reasoning about the operation of the abstracted code at the same time. And almost always you need to be inspecting and reasoning about the internal states driving the behavior.<p>Debugging tools, as nice as they might be, can only do the &quot;watching&quot; part. They are a fine way to do it, but you still need to be making the decision, based on careful analysis of the code, on which elements to watch.<p>So... given that you&#x27;re staring at code in your editor and thinking about how to extract the needed internal state to validate your predictions... why not just print it?<p>That is: print&#x2F;console debugging isn&#x27;t a hard task you &quot;have to do&quot; in the absence of a fancy debugger, it&#x27;s <i>exactly the task that you must do</i> if you&#x27;re going to solve the problem. The fancy debugger, at best, is only saving your the time taken to <i>TYPE</i> the printf() expression. And in practice even that tends to parallelize with the analysis in my experience, as you realize things while typing out their expression.</text></comment> | <story><title>Print Debugging Should Go Away</title><url>https://robert.ocallahan.org/2021/04/print-debugging-should-go-away.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falsaberN1</author><text>You can pry my debug prints from my cold, dead hands.<p>I get the point this person is making, but at times (and depending on language) it&#x27;s the fastest and most efficient option. &quot;Oh, the value is not what I expected&quot; -&gt; fix -&gt; &quot;value is good after testing, can remove the debug print&quot;.
It&#x27;s not elegant, yes, but it does the job with zero preparation and <i>works for every language</i>.
Now if things are so hopeless the debug print doesn&#x27;t even work, then yes, get a proper debugger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>db48x</author><text>&gt; it works for every language<p>This is really the problem. Nobody has spent time and money to make debugging _good_ in the languages you use. Few people pay for good tools any more, and only a tiny fraction of users ever contribute improvements to the open–source tools they use (paid or otherwise). So the average debugger hasn’t gotten better since the 90s.<p>I do programming in multiple languages too. In those where I can use RR and Pernosco, I use them every time. In those where I can’t, I miss RR and Pernosco every single time.</text></comment> |
35,125,340 | 35,123,772 | 1 | 2 | 35,119,914 | train | <story><title>Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitate brain invasion</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05753-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>Rabies is generally fatal and is not new or genetically novel, and like the article linked, is a CNS infection that travels the peripheral nervous system. First recorded case was 4000 years ago, suggesting it’s likely ancient through pre-history.</text></item><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>This brings up an important point many folks may not realize: our immune system a robust multilayered, highly redundant response against any normal bacterium or virus. Thus, Any pathogen that currently still causes disease by definition has to code multiple specialized workarounds that hack these immune responses.<p>And importantly, pathogens that cause fatal diseases are typically not very old in evolutionary time scales, it’s generally considered to be a bad idea evolutionarily speaking to kill hosts you infect, and most of these pathogens are considered to be in the path towards evolving into more benign invaders of their hosts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>Viruses like rabies are interesting because they are actually not as serious in the species they evolved to infect; just turns out they rapidly kill some other species (us) that they don’t care about.<p>Make no mistake, rabies virus also has multiple immune evading mechanisms that are unluckily supercharged in humans.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bacteria hijack a meningeal neuroimmune axis to facilitate brain invasion</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05753-x</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>Rabies is generally fatal and is not new or genetically novel, and like the article linked, is a CNS infection that travels the peripheral nervous system. First recorded case was 4000 years ago, suggesting it’s likely ancient through pre-history.</text></item><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>This brings up an important point many folks may not realize: our immune system a robust multilayered, highly redundant response against any normal bacterium or virus. Thus, Any pathogen that currently still causes disease by definition has to code multiple specialized workarounds that hack these immune responses.<p>And importantly, pathogens that cause fatal diseases are typically not very old in evolutionary time scales, it’s generally considered to be a bad idea evolutionarily speaking to kill hosts you infect, and most of these pathogens are considered to be in the path towards evolving into more benign invaders of their hosts.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevviiinn</author><text>AFAIK is also isn&#x27;t super contagious, less opportunity for it to evolve</text></comment> |
20,651,250 | 20,651,347 | 1 | 2 | 20,627,274 | train | <story><title>History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of |</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/typography/comments/aqcesg/history_of_the_broken_vertical_bar_being_the_form/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ncmncm</author><text>For anybody who has used a Vt52, H19, or similar terminal, there is no mystery. Before we had bitmap graphics, we had fill-in forms with ASCII graphics. A vertical line made with solid bars looked uneven, but the gap in the bar was the same height as the gap between a bar and the one above or below it, so it made a pleasing vertical dashed line to match the horizontal lines of actual hyphens and equal signs.<p>Nowadays, of course, if you want a line, you draw a line, so the gap no longer has a purpose.</text></comment> | <story><title>History of the broken vertical bar, being the ¦ form of |</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/typography/comments/aqcesg/history_of_the_broken_vertical_bar_being_the_form/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>I always hated the Windows product key font which you&#x27;d have to type in to register Windows. The B looked like 8 and the D looked like O.<p>I&#x27;d have to break out a magnifying glass to figure it out.<p>That font seems to be popular for serial numbers and any other use case where the user has to type in a series of characters.<p>I call it the IH8USRS font.</text></comment> |
25,268,928 | 25,267,593 | 1 | 2 | 25,266,170 | train | <story><title>Randall Munroe is learning new things from Google</title><url>https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1333529967079120896</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>finnthehuman</author><text>&gt;I agree but simple things it&#x27;s really nice ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯<p>Not to pick on this person is particular, but this is why I am so against surfacing untrustworthy information as trustworthy.<p>Google&#x27;s AI &quot;knows&quot; that Austin is the capital of Texas with the same system that thinks the Wright Brothers flew through the core of the earth. So why the fuck would anyone trust google that the capital of Texas is Austin? Because you think you can intuit the boundaries of what their AI will and won&#x27;t fuck up? [0] And that&#x27;s a reasonable burden to put on dummies who already think search engine results are somehow more authoritative than the simple text matching they&#x27;re based on at their core?<p>How is anyone at google with a brain comfortable with this feature being live?<p>But these low hanging, blatantly obvious, wrong things are actually a good thing. Because once the obvious things are fixed the un-obvious ones will linger as even more unwarranted trust is be placed in the feature. And it will become even harder to get it though people&#x27;s thick skulls how goddamn stupid it is to outsource reasoning to machines that can&#x27;t fucking reason.<p>[0] Sure, xkcd asked fundamentally unanswerable questions, but google notoriously spent years getting &quot;how long does it take to caramelize onions&quot; wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Wowfunhappy</author><text>I think this is a UI problem. Google ought to re-state the question they&#x27;re answering, which may be slightly or entirely different from what was asked.<p>In other words, if I Google &quot;What year did Tom Hanks land on the moon&quot;, the answer box should say &quot;US astronauts landed on the moon in 1970&quot; (not just &quot;1970&quot;). Give users the ability to assess whether the AI was correct.</text></comment> | <story><title>Randall Munroe is learning new things from Google</title><url>https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1333529967079120896</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>finnthehuman</author><text>&gt;I agree but simple things it&#x27;s really nice ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯<p>Not to pick on this person is particular, but this is why I am so against surfacing untrustworthy information as trustworthy.<p>Google&#x27;s AI &quot;knows&quot; that Austin is the capital of Texas with the same system that thinks the Wright Brothers flew through the core of the earth. So why the fuck would anyone trust google that the capital of Texas is Austin? Because you think you can intuit the boundaries of what their AI will and won&#x27;t fuck up? [0] And that&#x27;s a reasonable burden to put on dummies who already think search engine results are somehow more authoritative than the simple text matching they&#x27;re based on at their core?<p>How is anyone at google with a brain comfortable with this feature being live?<p>But these low hanging, blatantly obvious, wrong things are actually a good thing. Because once the obvious things are fixed the un-obvious ones will linger as even more unwarranted trust is be placed in the feature. And it will become even harder to get it though people&#x27;s thick skulls how goddamn stupid it is to outsource reasoning to machines that can&#x27;t fucking reason.<p>[0] Sure, xkcd asked fundamentally unanswerable questions, but google notoriously spent years getting &quot;how long does it take to caramelize onions&quot; wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Seirdy</author><text>This reminds me of something I once wrote in a conversation about the phrase &quot;when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&quot; wrt web technologies:<p>When a tool&#x27;s convenience grows faster than its reliability and quality, this is what often happens (assuming the tool needs to be more than just convenient). This is just one example.</text></comment> |
3,451,557 | 3,451,541 | 1 | 2 | 3,451,145 | train | <story><title>This Photograph Is Not Free</title><url>http://www.petapixel.com/2012/01/10/this-photograph-is-not-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>The machinery needed to produce a ballpoint pen costs the best part of $10m. A ballpoint pen costs 20 cents.<p>Cameras are expensive. Photographs are almost worthless. Supply utterly outstrips demand, especially for shots like landscapes that have great appeal for amateur photographers but little commercial utility.<p>Ten years ago, you could name every paparazzo working in London. They were a small circle of time-served photogs who knew everyone, and whom everyone knew. There was an infrastructure of couriers and darkrooms to get images from film to press in time. They spent years cultivating relationships with celebrities, doormen and nightclub owners. Today, there are countless PJ students and teenagers hurtling around Soho on scooters. With a cheap DSLR and a smartphone, an image can be on the front page of dailymail.com in 20 minutes.<p>The new breed see their work as a more exciting alternative to working weekends in a shop. Most of them are happy to get a quarter of what images used to sell for. They shoot using the modern equivalent of "f/8 and be there" and need practically no technical skill. Rather than cultivating relationships and building sources, many of them rely on Twitter. Unlike the previous generation, many of them are happy to tip each other off and share information. It's now scarcely possible to make a proper living and most of the old-timers are shooting commercial work or weddings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hellweaver666</author><text>&#62; It's now scarcely possible to make a proper living and most
&#62; of the old-timers are shooting commercial work or weddings.<p>Strange you should say that, as we actually hired an ex photo-journalist to do our wedding photos as we didn't want any posed nonsense, just genuine photos of people as they naturally were. The photos that we received were amazing and we were really happy with the results.<p>I spoke to him on the day of the wedding and he gave me almost the exact same story you've just posted.<p>It seems to me that every industry that relies on technology gets seriously disrupted when the technology becomes cheap enough - printing, publishing, photography and I'm sure there are many more.</text></comment> | <story><title>This Photograph Is Not Free</title><url>http://www.petapixel.com/2012/01/10/this-photograph-is-not-free/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>The machinery needed to produce a ballpoint pen costs the best part of $10m. A ballpoint pen costs 20 cents.<p>Cameras are expensive. Photographs are almost worthless. Supply utterly outstrips demand, especially for shots like landscapes that have great appeal for amateur photographers but little commercial utility.<p>Ten years ago, you could name every paparazzo working in London. They were a small circle of time-served photogs who knew everyone, and whom everyone knew. There was an infrastructure of couriers and darkrooms to get images from film to press in time. They spent years cultivating relationships with celebrities, doormen and nightclub owners. Today, there are countless PJ students and teenagers hurtling around Soho on scooters. With a cheap DSLR and a smartphone, an image can be on the front page of dailymail.com in 20 minutes.<p>The new breed see their work as a more exciting alternative to working weekends in a shop. Most of them are happy to get a quarter of what images used to sell for. They shoot using the modern equivalent of "f/8 and be there" and need practically no technical skill. Rather than cultivating relationships and building sources, many of them rely on Twitter. Unlike the previous generation, many of them are happy to tip each other off and share information. It's now scarcely possible to make a proper living and most of the old-timers are shooting commercial work or weddings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prof_hobart</author><text>That's all fine, but then there's no excuse for a publication to use a specific photo without the photographer's permission and without payment. If the photographer wants to charge $6.6K for that photo, and it's not worth $6.6K to you because you can get a Creative Commons one for free that's almost as good, then use the CC one.</text></comment> |
37,874,577 | 37,873,358 | 1 | 3 | 37,867,635 | train | <story><title>Text embeddings reveal almost as much as text</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06816</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>One classic old estimate of the amount of information per English word, from Claude Shannon, is 11.82 bits per word. So very roughly, a 32-token text – the length they highlight to demonstrate their technique – should be representable in about 379 bits.<p>One of the embeddings they demonstrate the use of their technique against is the `text-embedding-ada-002` OpenAI offering, which gives back a 1,536-dimension representation, where every dimension is a floating-point number.<p>So as a matter of theory, just in the <i>sign-bits</i> of those vectors, there&#x27;s enough raw state to potentially encode 32-word texts, and more.<p>If those float-dimensions are 4-byte floats, as are common, a single `text-embedding-ada-002` text vector takes (1536 * 4 bytes =) 6,144 bytes of storage (49,152 bits), While the dense&#x2F;continuous nature of these values, and all the desirable constraints&#x2F;uses packed into them, means you won&#x27;t be getting that much precise&#x2F;lossless text-representation from the values, it&#x27;s plenty spacious for capturing a pretty-good compression of some pretty-long texts.<p>The interesting thing here is how often that short texts can be perfectly or nearly-perfectly recovered, via the authors&#x27; iterative method – even without that being an intended designed-in capability of the text embedding.<p>You could also see the result as an example of the old saw, &quot;compression is intelligence&quot; (or vice-versa) – an insight which has motivated, among other things, the Hutter Prize.<p>Some interesting questions for future work on the same codebase could be:<p>• at what text length does accuracy peak, and at what length does it precipitously decline?<p>• are even the failures still reasonable summaries of the original text?<p>• if for some applications such recovery is undesirable – in many it&#x27;s no problem – are there ways to change the models, with different&#x2F;extra training&#x2F;ablation&#x2F;whatever, that retains other aspects of the embeddings&#x27; usefulness but impairs verbatim text recovery?</text></comment> | <story><title>Text embeddings reveal almost as much as text</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06816</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>esafak</author><text>Why wouldn&#x27;t they? If you think of embeddings as a learned hash, and your hash space is wide enough, the embedding would simply be another, lossless representation of the input. The challenge, of course, is that inverting hashes is difficult. Except in machine learning, the hashes are typically intended not to be so; to preserve semantic and syntactic relationships, as word2vec famously demonstrated. And there are even text embeddings that use sub-word information like character n-grams, which can trivially represent rare words, like the kind embodied by personal information.<p>edit: Given the author agrees, I suppose the research question is how well and cheaply you can do it, across different embedding algorithms. For practitioners, the lesson is to treat embeddings like personally identifiable information, as the authors state in the conclusion.</text></comment> |
35,502,892 | 35,503,085 | 1 | 3 | 35,502,238 | train | <story><title>The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/internet-archive-libraries-federal-court-ruling/673615/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>It&#x27;s a bit amusing that copyright law supporters always go to the &#x27;think of the authors who need to get paid&#x27; when at present, copyright extends to 70 years AFTER the author&#x27;s death IIRC, or 95 years after date of publication if it was a contract job.<p>In contrast, patents are only valid for 20 years after patent publication, for good reasons (a limited period encourages technological development and prevents patent squatting).<p>Right now, we have large corporate publishers squatting on copyright to prevent dissemination of works that should really have been in the public domain decades ago. Cutting copyright periods in half (at least) makes a lot of sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/internet-archive-libraries-federal-court-ruling/673615/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trinsic2</author><text>&gt; But with CDL, the IA does not loan out more digital or physical copies than the IA has purchased. The Internet Archive also argues that there’s no evidence this lending has affected the publishers’ profits, which the judge concluded was irrelevant to the underlying legal matter.<p>This is true. The judge is saying that the legal matter is different from the actual possibility of harm.<p>Has anyone considered the possibility of bringing a &quot;suit in equity&quot; petition against these companies to provide proof that there are profits lost and then requesting that case regarding the legal matter of copyright violation be put on hold pending the petition? Since the matter of profit loss is the center piece to the argument, why cant there be some kind of conformation of loss to make these kinds of cases lose merit?</text></comment> |
11,786,936 | 11,786,503 | 1 | 2 | 11,785,097 | train | <story><title>A new Curl logo</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/27/a-new-curl-logo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnkhMorporkian</author><text>That reminds me that I had been using sudo for close to 15 years before I realized that it was a combination of &#x27;su&#x27; and &#x27;do.&#x27; I&#x27;m still not sure if it&#x27;s properly pronounced &#x27;pseudo&#x27; or &#x27;sue-doo&#x27;, but it really blew my mind once I figured out the name.<p>Edit: Changed &#x27;sue-do&#x27; to &#x27;sue-doo&#x27; to make it less ambiguous.</text></item><item><author>mrow84</author><text>That was too traumatic to contemplate, so I referred to the FAQ and found relief in section 1.1:<p>&quot;We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl].&quot;<p>They do, however, note that the &quot;fact it can also be pronounced &#x27;see URL&#x27; also helped&quot; [to choose the name].</text></item><item><author>8ig8</author><text>I just realized after all these years, I think I&#x27;ve been saying the name wrong.<p>In my head, I say &quot;curl&quot; as in curly hair. It&#x27;s really &quot;see-url&quot;!? I think it&#x27;s too late for my brain to correct that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hsod</author><text>I know it&#x27;s not actually true, but I choose to believe that &quot;su&quot; stands for superuser and &quot;sudo&quot; is a witty pun which means both &quot;superuser do&quot; and &quot;pseudo&quot; because you&#x27;re pretending to be a superuser.</text></comment> | <story><title>A new Curl logo</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/27/a-new-curl-logo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnkhMorporkian</author><text>That reminds me that I had been using sudo for close to 15 years before I realized that it was a combination of &#x27;su&#x27; and &#x27;do.&#x27; I&#x27;m still not sure if it&#x27;s properly pronounced &#x27;pseudo&#x27; or &#x27;sue-doo&#x27;, but it really blew my mind once I figured out the name.<p>Edit: Changed &#x27;sue-do&#x27; to &#x27;sue-doo&#x27; to make it less ambiguous.</text></item><item><author>mrow84</author><text>That was too traumatic to contemplate, so I referred to the FAQ and found relief in section 1.1:<p>&quot;We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl].&quot;<p>They do, however, note that the &quot;fact it can also be pronounced &#x27;see URL&#x27; also helped&quot; [to choose the name].</text></item><item><author>8ig8</author><text>I just realized after all these years, I think I&#x27;ve been saying the name wrong.<p>In my head, I say &quot;curl&quot; as in curly hair. It&#x27;s really &quot;see-url&quot;!? I think it&#x27;s too late for my brain to correct that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tetraodonpuffer</author><text>in the days of yore when I learned to program in basic before learning English I pronounced goto with the second o rhyming with the first one, it embarassignly also took some time after learning English to figure out that goto was &quot;go to&quot; as my brain had made the programming association and wasn&#x27;t treating it as a language construct at all...<p>Speaking about sudo, learned that before living in an English speaking country, so everybody pronounced rhyming with su-go (say) not su-do and I still pronounce it that way (which I guess it&#x27;s wrong!)<p>ah, the joys of learning English as a written language first, even now after living in North America for nearly 20 years occasionally I find words I completely mispronounce due to having learned them from books</text></comment> |
18,046,534 | 18,046,496 | 1 | 2 | 18,045,339 | train | <story><title>For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/technology/defcon-hackers-privacy-anonymity.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munin</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to blow the whistle anonymously, people seem to react poorly to anonymous accusations. There is even an amendment in the US constitution that mentions this. And even today on the Internet, if there is reporting of anonymous accusations against someone or a company for wrongdoing, people will ask (on this very message board) &quot;oh if it was real, why won&#x27;t the accusers come forward and be named?&quot;</text></item><item><author>Tharkun</author><text>If anything, now that the internet has effectively become mankind&#x27;s long-term memory, anonymity feels more important than ever. If you got into a regrettable flame war on some mailing list back in 2001, it&#x27;s still out there, waiting to be used against you, out of context and in a different era.<p>People need to be able to make mistakes - or voice uncomfortable truths, blow whistles etc - without having to worry about repurcussions in some unknown future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt; And even today on the Internet, if there is reporting of anonymous accusations against someone or a company for wrongdoing, people will ask (on this very message board) &quot;oh if it was real, why won&#x27;t the accusers come forward and be named?&quot;<p>An anonymous accusation has no weight. But that&#x27;s not what they&#x27;re for. They&#x27;re a suggestion to investigate something. Because if it&#x27;s real then there should be <i>other</i> evidence -- third party witnesses, documents, phone records, surveillance footage, a pattern of behavior where a more recent incident can actually be proven, etc.<p>No one should take them seriously as evidence but journalists should take them seriously as tips. And if the journalists following the lead actually find something that can stand on its own, it&#x27;s only then (and not before) that you have a real story instead of an unsubstantiated anonymous accusation.<p>Anonymous tips are not <i>worthless</i> -- they&#x27;re actually really important -- they&#x27;re just not <i>evidence</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/technology/defcon-hackers-privacy-anonymity.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>munin</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to blow the whistle anonymously, people seem to react poorly to anonymous accusations. There is even an amendment in the US constitution that mentions this. And even today on the Internet, if there is reporting of anonymous accusations against someone or a company for wrongdoing, people will ask (on this very message board) &quot;oh if it was real, why won&#x27;t the accusers come forward and be named?&quot;</text></item><item><author>Tharkun</author><text>If anything, now that the internet has effectively become mankind&#x27;s long-term memory, anonymity feels more important than ever. If you got into a regrettable flame war on some mailing list back in 2001, it&#x27;s still out there, waiting to be used against you, out of context and in a different era.<p>People need to be able to make mistakes - or voice uncomfortable truths, blow whistles etc - without having to worry about repurcussions in some unknown future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sparkie</author><text>Uh, that&#x27;s completely the opposite scenario that I&#x27;ve seen over the past several years, where any accusation made against a white male are met by hoards of keyboard warriors quickly pointing the finger on social media, handing out a metaphorical death sentence before any trial has occurred.<p>The need to ask for somebody to go public before investigating their claims is so that you can attempt to discredit their claim by discrediting their person.</text></comment> |
27,312,277 | 27,311,712 | 1 | 2 | 27,310,349 | train | <story><title>QUIC is now RFC 9000</title><url>https://www.fastly.com/blog/quic-is-now-rfc-9000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaaarrgh</author><text>&gt; The internet transport ecosystem has been ossified for decades now, and QUIC breaks out of this ossification<p>But it&#x27;s still just a layer on top of UDP, and still implemented at the application, like in the past. So how is the ossification broken?<p>Every app has to implement it itself rather than calling a syscall and letting the OS deal with its complexities (same as for TLS, making fewer apps implement it without a lot of extra work). Which also increases context switching. In the future more protocols will be built on top of QUIC, expanding the user-space stack, increasing fragmentation of application-space IP stacks. And are network cards now going to start implementing it?<p>It&#x27;s painful to watch us stride headlong into the future depending on band-aids because surgery is too complicated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cormacrelf</author><text>The “ossification” that QUIC deals with is primarily about internet routers who decide to dig into their IP packets. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http3-explained.haxx.se&#x2F;en&#x2F;why-quic&#x2F;why-ossification" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;http3-explained.haxx.se&#x2F;en&#x2F;why-quic&#x2F;why-ossification</a> Many have optimisations around TCP and long-standing TCP characteristics, which they are able to do because the TCP headers are unencrypted. This led to TCP being difficult to improve, because of all the implementations out there making assumptions and doing these optimisations that weren’t compatible with new developments, or worse, dropping traffic with new, unrecognised TCP options.<p>In comparison QUIC is almost 100% encrypted, and exposes comparatively little data for routers to ossify on. So even if network cards start optimising, they can only do so much damage because they are given very little information. For example, there is no way for them to do their own special per-stream flow control, because the stream identifier is encrypted. The only things visible are the UDP src&#x2F;dest port, the QUIC connection ID, and a minimal set of flags. Most important is that the flow control information is encrypted, which is one of the main things TCP couldn’t improve on due to ossification.<p>That’s not to say the number of implementations stops being a problem — just means that you can actually use QUIC version numbers and negotiate features at the endpoints and ignore anybody along the routes. So you can get adoption of new ideas much more quickly.<p>Quick illustration of the things no longer visible to network operators: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.apnic.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;quic-fig2.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.apnic.net&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;quic-fig2....</a>, from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.apnic.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;04&#x2F;a-quick-look-at-quic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.apnic.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;04&#x2F;a-quick-look-at-quic&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>QUIC is now RFC 9000</title><url>https://www.fastly.com/blog/quic-is-now-rfc-9000</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaaarrgh</author><text>&gt; The internet transport ecosystem has been ossified for decades now, and QUIC breaks out of this ossification<p>But it&#x27;s still just a layer on top of UDP, and still implemented at the application, like in the past. So how is the ossification broken?<p>Every app has to implement it itself rather than calling a syscall and letting the OS deal with its complexities (same as for TLS, making fewer apps implement it without a lot of extra work). Which also increases context switching. In the future more protocols will be built on top of QUIC, expanding the user-space stack, increasing fragmentation of application-space IP stacks. And are network cards now going to start implementing it?<p>It&#x27;s painful to watch us stride headlong into the future depending on band-aids because surgery is too complicated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>&gt; Every app has to implement it itself rather than calling a syscall and letting the OS deal with its complexities (same as for TLS, making fewer apps implement it without a lot of extra work). Which also increases context switching<p>Nowhere does RFC9000 say that it <i>has</i> to be implemented in user-space. A kernel-space implementation of QUIC would be conforming. Any OS kernel project (whether open source or proprietary) which would like to develop one is free to do so.</text></comment> |
18,188,374 | 18,186,168 | 1 | 3 | 18,184,697 | train | <story><title>Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kareemsabri</author><text>This doesn’t seem to be a reasonable conclusion. There is no reason to assume the AI’s assessment methods will mirror those of the recruiters. If Amazon did most of it’s hiring when programming was a task primarily performed by men, and so Amazon didn’t receive many female applicants, they could be unbiased while still amassing a data set that skewed heavily male. The machine would then just correctly assess that female resumes don’t match, as closely, the resumes of successful past candidates. Perhaps I’m ignorant about AI, but I don’t see why the number of candidates of each gender shouldn’t increase the strength of the signal. “Aggressiveness” in the resume may be correlated but not causal. If the AI was fed the heights of the candidates, it might reject women for being too short, but that would not indicate height is a criteria of Amazon recruiters hiring.</text></item><item><author>fuscy</author><text>The eye opening thing here is not that the AI failed, but why it failed.<p>At start the AI is like a baby, it doesn&#x27;t know anything or have any opinions. By teaching it using a set of data, in this case a set of resumes and the outcome then it can form an opinion.<p>The AI becoming biased tells that the &quot;teacher&quot; was biased also. So actually Amazon&#x27;s recruiting process seems to be a mess with the technical skills on the resume amounting to zilch, gender and the aggressiveness of the resume&#x27;s language being the most important (because that&#x27;s how the human recruiters actually hired people when someone put a resume).<p>The number of women and men in the data set shouldn&#x27;t matter (algorithms learn that even if there was 1 woman, if she was hired then it will be positive about future woman candidates). What matters is the rejection rate which it learned from the data.. The hiring process is inherently biased against women.<p>Technically one could say that the AI was successful because it emulated the current Amazon hiring status.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danShumway</author><text>This is a subtle point but worth stating -- AI does not mirror or copy human reasoning.<p>AI is designed to get the same <i>results</i> as a human. How it gets to those results is often very, very different. I&#x27;m having trouble finding it, but there was an article a while back trying to do focus tracking between humans and computers for image recognition. What they found was that even when computers were relatively consistent with humans in results, they often focused on different parts of the image and relied on different correlations.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean that Amazon isn&#x27;t biased. I mean, let&#x27;s be honest, it probably is; there&#x27;s no way a company this large is going to be able to perfectly filter or train every employee and on average tech bias trends against women. BUT, the point is that even if Amazon were to completely eliminate bias from every single hiring decision it used in its training data, an AI still might introduce a racial or gendered bias on its own if the data were skewed or had an unseen correlation that researchers didn&#x27;t intend.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kareemsabri</author><text>This doesn’t seem to be a reasonable conclusion. There is no reason to assume the AI’s assessment methods will mirror those of the recruiters. If Amazon did most of it’s hiring when programming was a task primarily performed by men, and so Amazon didn’t receive many female applicants, they could be unbiased while still amassing a data set that skewed heavily male. The machine would then just correctly assess that female resumes don’t match, as closely, the resumes of successful past candidates. Perhaps I’m ignorant about AI, but I don’t see why the number of candidates of each gender shouldn’t increase the strength of the signal. “Aggressiveness” in the resume may be correlated but not causal. If the AI was fed the heights of the candidates, it might reject women for being too short, but that would not indicate height is a criteria of Amazon recruiters hiring.</text></item><item><author>fuscy</author><text>The eye opening thing here is not that the AI failed, but why it failed.<p>At start the AI is like a baby, it doesn&#x27;t know anything or have any opinions. By teaching it using a set of data, in this case a set of resumes and the outcome then it can form an opinion.<p>The AI becoming biased tells that the &quot;teacher&quot; was biased also. So actually Amazon&#x27;s recruiting process seems to be a mess with the technical skills on the resume amounting to zilch, gender and the aggressiveness of the resume&#x27;s language being the most important (because that&#x27;s how the human recruiters actually hired people when someone put a resume).<p>The number of women and men in the data set shouldn&#x27;t matter (algorithms learn that even if there was 1 woman, if she was hired then it will be positive about future woman candidates). What matters is the rejection rate which it learned from the data.. The hiring process is inherently biased against women.<p>Technically one could say that the AI was successful because it emulated the current Amazon hiring status.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>Control question for if you&#x27;re making a certain intellectual mistake.<p>The data set will also have skewed heavily against people named &quot;David&quot;. Probably only ~1% of the successful applicants.<p>Would you also expect the machine to be biased against candidates named David?</text></comment> |
3,947,088 | 3,946,357 | 1 | 2 | 3,945,740 | train | <story><title>Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans</title><url>https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/5/3/crane_the_new_50_per_month_production_database_/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jstin</author><text>Heroku sells convenience, and resells EC2 instances to you. Their previous dedicated database option, Ronin, cost $200/month. When you connect the dots that this DB has a 1.7GB cache and that a small instance on EC2 has 1.7GB memory[1], you start to realize what you're really paying for.<p>While paying 3.3 times more[2] may be ok for the added simplicity, you have to wonder if your 'dedicated' database is really just a small instance on EC2? If it is a larger instance, then you are sharing it with other users.<p>However, even a small instance is far from not being shared. EC2 has performance issues, especially small instances. Disk IO is the worst.[3]<p>Disclaimer: These are all just my observations, and I don't how Heroku actually configure their Ronin databases. I'd love to be proven wrong, and to have someone from Heroku explain. But from personal experience with both EC2 and Heroku's Ronin database, if my conclusions are wrong, the results are not. I've seen very slow performance on the simplest of queries on both configurations.<p>[1] <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/</a>
[2] <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/</a>
[3] <a href="http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2011/12/27/why-ec2-still-sux-on-disk-io/" rel="nofollow">http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2011/12/27/why-ec2-still-sux...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Heroku's new $50 and $100 per month database plans</title><url>https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2012/5/3/crane_the_new_50_per_month_production_database_/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shaggyfrog</author><text>If anyone from Heroku is reading, that page is a great example of how poor contrast results in poor readability. Blue-on-blue text makes me close the browser tab, and not actually see what you're trying to sell.</text></comment> |
8,785,876 | 8,785,799 | 1 | 2 | 8,784,386 | train | <story><title>Google Self-Driving Car Project's first vehicle prototype</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+GoogleSelfDrivingCars/posts/9WBWP2E4GDu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wahsd</author><text>Forget your kids... I&#x27;m baffled. I&#x27;m baffled that people are willing to squander so much money on cars, especially people who have relatively little of it. If you think about it I&#x27;m sure you pay tens of thousands of dollars on a thing that moves you around but ultimately, sits around way more than not.<p>I am somewhat anxious to see how this plays out financially and economically otherwise. Will these cars cost the same as a car that every person now buys for themselves with maybe a little higher cost of maintenance and operation (M&amp;O)? Will there essentially be one manufacturer because one vehicle can support 10 people and we don&#x27;t need millions of these things pumped out? And will the collapse of competition mean that there will be a monopoly (dare I say it, Über) that over-charges all of humanity after they have essentially captured the market in the exact way that an evil empire like Über would?<p>An even bigger question I have, will this kind of development essentially mean the doom for anonymous movements? We can all imagine that there will essentially be no way that you will be able to ride in one of these without identifying yourself and at some point manual vehicles will be banned; very likely in most of our lifetimes. At which point you, the guy who rides his bike or walks will be highly suspect if you are even able to at all, since you must be hiding something since you don&#x27;t want to use the government tracker transporter.</text></item><item><author>nichodges</author><text>My initial reaction was dismay that Google seemingly didn&#x27;t consult any decent auto designers on this. But then I wonder if that&#x27;s actually fine.<p>My kids will likely be baffled by the idea that we attached so much of our own identity to our cars. The financial investment in cars to make a statement about ourselves (over and above getting us from A to B) is immensely irrational.<p>With self driving cars ownership will likely disappear, and be replaced with time sharing. At that point the connection between our view of ourselves, and the car we ride in disappears.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that completely excuses the lack of modern car aesthetic here, but it could go some way to explaining it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brc</author><text>All possessions are fundamentally irrational. I&#x27;m baffled why people would collect vinyl, buy overpriced designer clothing, pay for expensive tickets to sport, buy expensive kitchen implements - and on and on and on.<p>I like cars. I like driving. There are some cars I&#x27;d be happy to own, even if they didn&#x27;t go. I spend money on buying, maintaining and driving cars because it&#x27;s something I like doing.<p>This is no more or less irrational than any number of other discretionary spends. So you shouldn&#x27;t be baffled anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Self-Driving Car Project's first vehicle prototype</title><url>https://plus.google.com/+GoogleSelfDrivingCars/posts/9WBWP2E4GDu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wahsd</author><text>Forget your kids... I&#x27;m baffled. I&#x27;m baffled that people are willing to squander so much money on cars, especially people who have relatively little of it. If you think about it I&#x27;m sure you pay tens of thousands of dollars on a thing that moves you around but ultimately, sits around way more than not.<p>I am somewhat anxious to see how this plays out financially and economically otherwise. Will these cars cost the same as a car that every person now buys for themselves with maybe a little higher cost of maintenance and operation (M&amp;O)? Will there essentially be one manufacturer because one vehicle can support 10 people and we don&#x27;t need millions of these things pumped out? And will the collapse of competition mean that there will be a monopoly (dare I say it, Über) that over-charges all of humanity after they have essentially captured the market in the exact way that an evil empire like Über would?<p>An even bigger question I have, will this kind of development essentially mean the doom for anonymous movements? We can all imagine that there will essentially be no way that you will be able to ride in one of these without identifying yourself and at some point manual vehicles will be banned; very likely in most of our lifetimes. At which point you, the guy who rides his bike or walks will be highly suspect if you are even able to at all, since you must be hiding something since you don&#x27;t want to use the government tracker transporter.</text></item><item><author>nichodges</author><text>My initial reaction was dismay that Google seemingly didn&#x27;t consult any decent auto designers on this. But then I wonder if that&#x27;s actually fine.<p>My kids will likely be baffled by the idea that we attached so much of our own identity to our cars. The financial investment in cars to make a statement about ourselves (over and above getting us from A to B) is immensely irrational.<p>With self driving cars ownership will likely disappear, and be replaced with time sharing. At that point the connection between our view of ourselves, and the car we ride in disappears.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that completely excuses the lack of modern car aesthetic here, but it could go some way to explaining it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krapp</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m baffled that people are willing to squander so much money on cars, especially people who have relatively little of it.<p>Yes, but if you have to have a car, and some people do (to commute to work, etc) then what a car costs is what you have to pay. It&#x27;s not squandered money if there aren&#x27;t any other options.<p>If you pay too little, chances are you end up with a lemon that will just die on you after a week, and then where are you?</text></comment> |
8,114,954 | 8,114,722 | 1 | 2 | 8,113,889 | train | <story><title>S.&P. Says Argentina Has Defaulted</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/s-p-says-argentina-has-defaulted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>I just edited my comment to double down due to downvotes, but this ruling will ultimately damage the US more than Argentina. If we establish that it will be impossible to restructure debt if you issue your bonds in the US, we&#x27;ve established that there&#x27;s no reason to issue your bonds in the US.<p>edit: it&#x27;s important to keep in mind that 93% of bondholders have agreed to the restructuring. The courts look like they&#x27;re saying that the decision must be unanimous. That&#x27;s completely unworkable.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>I can see both sides here. What surprised me is not that <i></i><i>a</i><i></i> judge has decided, but that a US judge has decided. It looks like an American judge decided in an American corporation&#x27;s favour, and against a poorer country, to hell with the damage it will do the world&#x27;s economy.<p>On the other hand, if the US doesn&#x27;t uphold the law, then the world economy would be damaged because lending would become more unpredictable.<p>As it stands, though, it&#x27;s easy to portray this as the US bullying Argentina in the interests of a small group of rich American citizens who behave like loan sharks. It just seems like it would be better to have an international body of law under which all international lending takes place, and when there is a dispute, a judge is chosen from an independent third party. Is there any serious effort to make that happen? I have no idea.</text></item><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>That&#x27;s what it would be like if this were anything but a holdup. The US government is intervening in the market and preventing bondholders who have agreed on a change in rules from receiving their bond payments, rather than letting the market set the prices. That&#x27;s the opposite of what you describe here.<p>edit: What I&#x27;m saying is only crazy within the bubble of this thread. It&#x27;s also the opinion of the US government and the American Bankers Association.<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-04/bankers-group-supports-bond-trustee-in-argentina-appeal-1-.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013-01-04&#x2F;bankers-group-suppo...</a><p>&quot;&#x27;Permitting injunctions against these trustees that preclude them fulfilling their pre-existing obligations whenever expedient to enforce a judgment against the debtor will have significantly adverse consequences for the financial system,&#x27; the ABA said in its brief.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/13/argentina-debt-usa-idUSL1E8NDFJJ20121213" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;13&#x2F;argentina-debt-usa...</a><p>&quot;U.S. government lawyers reiterated their position that the court&#x27;s interpretation of the &#x27;equal treatment&#x27; clause in Argentina&#x27;s defaulted bonds &#x27;may adversely affect future voluntary sovereign debt restructurings, the stability of international financial markets, and the repayment of loans extended by international financial institutions.&#x27;&quot;</text></item><item><author>smackfu</author><text>It&#x27;s more like, if you keep defaulting on bonds by saying you don&#x27;t have to pay them because you changed the rules, eventually no on will buy them unless you let someone else set the rules.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>&gt; Argentina issued bonds under New York law.<p>Until I read this, I assumed that international bonds were issued under international law, with the World Bank as the arbitrator. With the US as both lender and arbitrator, it seems to give them a lot of power.</text></item><item><author>sciurus</author><text>To understand background and potential implication, I found <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/q-a-whats-behind-the-battle-over-argentinas-debt/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dealbook.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;q-a-whats-behind-the-...</a> helpful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>&gt;I just edited my comment to double down due to downvotes, but this ruling will ultimately damage the US more than Argentina. If we establish that it will be impossible to restructure debt if you issue your bonds in the US, we&#x27;ve established that there&#x27;s no reason to issue your bonds in the US.<p>Every country in the world knows that it is going to be easier to restructure if you issue bonds under local law. No one selects New York law for its bonds out of some naive inertia. Argentina <i>specifically</i> went out of its way to select New York law and deliberately put in a pari passu clause because it had a history of defaulting on debt, and it thought it wouldn&#x27;t be able to raise money, or at least not at the same rate, if it issued bonds under local law.<p>I can&#x27;t think of any possible reason to relieve a country of obligations that were deliberately and knowingly undertaken to tie its own hands in order to make its debt more credible.<p>If you want collective action on restructured debt put in a collective action clause. If you want a sweetheart interpretation of your debt clauses issue it under local law. Every country that is issuing debt knows these things, they aren&#x27;t rocket science. The reason they sometimes choose not to is because they want to pay a lower coupon and&#x2F;or be sure that the whole issue will be purchased.</text></comment> | <story><title>S.&P. Says Argentina Has Defaulted</title><url>http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/s-p-says-argentina-has-defaulted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>I just edited my comment to double down due to downvotes, but this ruling will ultimately damage the US more than Argentina. If we establish that it will be impossible to restructure debt if you issue your bonds in the US, we&#x27;ve established that there&#x27;s no reason to issue your bonds in the US.<p>edit: it&#x27;s important to keep in mind that 93% of bondholders have agreed to the restructuring. The courts look like they&#x27;re saying that the decision must be unanimous. That&#x27;s completely unworkable.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>I can see both sides here. What surprised me is not that <i></i><i>a</i><i></i> judge has decided, but that a US judge has decided. It looks like an American judge decided in an American corporation&#x27;s favour, and against a poorer country, to hell with the damage it will do the world&#x27;s economy.<p>On the other hand, if the US doesn&#x27;t uphold the law, then the world economy would be damaged because lending would become more unpredictable.<p>As it stands, though, it&#x27;s easy to portray this as the US bullying Argentina in the interests of a small group of rich American citizens who behave like loan sharks. It just seems like it would be better to have an international body of law under which all international lending takes place, and when there is a dispute, a judge is chosen from an independent third party. Is there any serious effort to make that happen? I have no idea.</text></item><item><author>pessimizer</author><text>That&#x27;s what it would be like if this were anything but a holdup. The US government is intervening in the market and preventing bondholders who have agreed on a change in rules from receiving their bond payments, rather than letting the market set the prices. That&#x27;s the opposite of what you describe here.<p>edit: What I&#x27;m saying is only crazy within the bubble of this thread. It&#x27;s also the opinion of the US government and the American Bankers Association.<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-04/bankers-group-supports-bond-trustee-in-argentina-appeal-1-.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013-01-04&#x2F;bankers-group-suppo...</a><p>&quot;&#x27;Permitting injunctions against these trustees that preclude them fulfilling their pre-existing obligations whenever expedient to enforce a judgment against the debtor will have significantly adverse consequences for the financial system,&#x27; the ABA said in its brief.&quot;<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/13/argentina-debt-usa-idUSL1E8NDFJJ20121213" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2012&#x2F;12&#x2F;13&#x2F;argentina-debt-usa...</a><p>&quot;U.S. government lawyers reiterated their position that the court&#x27;s interpretation of the &#x27;equal treatment&#x27; clause in Argentina&#x27;s defaulted bonds &#x27;may adversely affect future voluntary sovereign debt restructurings, the stability of international financial markets, and the repayment of loans extended by international financial institutions.&#x27;&quot;</text></item><item><author>smackfu</author><text>It&#x27;s more like, if you keep defaulting on bonds by saying you don&#x27;t have to pay them because you changed the rules, eventually no on will buy them unless you let someone else set the rules.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>&gt; Argentina issued bonds under New York law.<p>Until I read this, I assumed that international bonds were issued under international law, with the World Bank as the arbitrator. With the US as both lender and arbitrator, it seems to give them a lot of power.</text></item><item><author>sciurus</author><text>To understand background and potential implication, I found <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/q-a-whats-behind-the-battle-over-argentinas-debt/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dealbook.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;07&#x2F;30&#x2F;q-a-whats-behind-the-...</a> helpful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>Well no, if we estabilish what you say, then we&#x27;ve only found out that US jurisdiction is friendly to creditors and less friendly to debtors, and nothing else.<p>It doesn&#x27;t mean that there&#x27;s no reason to issue your bonds in the US, on the contrary - it means that if you have a debt-reputation problem but feel safe in your ability to repay, then you&#x27;ll want to issue your bonds in US to &#x27;put your money where your mouth is&#x27; and get a better price. Or, in cases like Argentina, the potential investors will say &#x27;either US jurisdiction or no deal&#x27;.</text></comment> |
24,504,955 | 24,504,986 | 1 | 2 | 24,504,562 | train | <story><title>Six months in, N95 mask shortages persist</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/913093387/why-cant-america-make-enough-n95-masks-6-months-into-pandemic-shortages-persist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Because &#x27;anti price gouging&#x27; laws prevent the price going high enough to make it worth someone going to extreme efforts to upscale production.<p>Without those laws, the price going from $1 per mask to $10 per mask would still be very much affordable for everyone who <i>really</i> needs a mask, and factories who can successfully get decent production underway will earn lots, making it worthwhile to take on the risk of chasing a (possibly short lived) demand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nradov</author><text>Removing price gouging laws wouldn&#x27;t fix the problem. Setting up new N95 mask production lines takes huge capital investment. Manufacturers won&#x27;t make that investment unless they have assurance of long term sales beyond the current pandemic. State and federal governments could solve that by issuing long-term purchase contracts to build up stockpiles.</text></comment> | <story><title>Six months in, N95 mask shortages persist</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/913093387/why-cant-america-make-enough-n95-masks-6-months-into-pandemic-shortages-persist</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>Because &#x27;anti price gouging&#x27; laws prevent the price going high enough to make it worth someone going to extreme efforts to upscale production.<p>Without those laws, the price going from $1 per mask to $10 per mask would still be very much affordable for everyone who <i>really</i> needs a mask, and factories who can successfully get decent production underway will earn lots, making it worthwhile to take on the risk of chasing a (possibly short lived) demand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Without those laws, the price going from $1 per mask to $10 per mask would still be very much affordable for everyone who really needs a mask, and factories who can successfully get decent production underway will earn lots</i><p>Friend owns a textile factory in India. They immediately began production of masks, which they sold at something like a 10,000% premium. (Re-tooling is expensive, so their profits weren’t exorbitant. Though they were larger than normal, which incentivises the work.) Once the premium diminished, they went back to making clothes.<p>India has anti-gouging laws. But they are loosely enforced to the point of non-existence. In America, we not only have such laws, we also have a media circus and cancel subculture that strongly discourages such responses.</text></comment> |
11,840,204 | 11,838,954 | 1 | 2 | 11,838,017 | train | <story><title>Anypixel.js</title><url>http://googlecreativelab.github.io/anypixel/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CraigJPerry</author><text>Theres a guy publishing yt vids about his installations of this nature<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;9Qlmywxjau0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;9Qlmywxjau0</a><p>The attention to detail, I find the details fascinating. He&#x27;s a really bright guy but designing the protocol, making software so that the creative agency can program the lighting without him in the loop, writing firmware that protects the installation from damage even if they&#x27;re ham fisted with the lighting sequence they design etc etc</text></comment> | <story><title>Anypixel.js</title><url>http://googlecreativelab.github.io/anypixel/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jc4p</author><text>This is rad! I have a bunch of LED matrices I currently use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hzeller&#x2F;rpi-rgb-led-matrix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hzeller&#x2F;rpi-rgb-led-matrix</a> for, I need to spend some quality time with Anypixel to see how it compares &#x2F; if I can combine the two.<p>I wish that &quot;in browser previewer&quot; link actually led to a usable in browser thing rather than just a folder on GitHub.</text></comment> |
27,934,430 | 27,934,515 | 1 | 2 | 27,928,307 | train | <story><title>Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_IKsz0GdgyLlO9-MAtpTPQ7vnfpN8Ng/view?usp=drivesdk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metaprogram</author><text>Prophetic words from John von Neumann in 1955:<p><i>&quot;The carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by
industry&#x27;s burning of coal and oil-—more than half of it
during the last generation—may have changed the atmosphere&#x27;s composition sufficiently to account for a
general warming of the world by about one degree
Fahrenheit.&quot;</i> (Page 512 &#x2F; 666 &#x2F; 9)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d4mi3n</author><text>He was such a visionary and had such a way with words. This may be nostalgia talking, but I&#x27;ve struggled to find more contemporary writing on the level of Neumann&#x27;s imagination. If anyone is aware of someone today doing similar work I&#x27;d love to hear about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can we survive technology? (1955) [pdf]</title><url>https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_IKsz0GdgyLlO9-MAtpTPQ7vnfpN8Ng/view?usp=drivesdk</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>metaprogram</author><text>Prophetic words from John von Neumann in 1955:<p><i>&quot;The carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by
industry&#x27;s burning of coal and oil-—more than half of it
during the last generation—may have changed the atmosphere&#x27;s composition sufficiently to account for a
general warming of the world by about one degree
Fahrenheit.&quot;</i> (Page 512 &#x2F; 666 &#x2F; 9)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tim333</author><text>He was also the originator of the term singularity in the sense of tech:<p>“The ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.”<p>which some people worry about.</text></comment> |
9,447,681 | 9,447,328 | 1 | 2 | 9,447,080 | train | <story><title>Ghostery and NoScript-like add-ons frequently phone home</title><url>https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2015-April/015236.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rockdoe</author><text>So what would the author prefer? That security sensitive software doesn&#x27;t check for updates? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG.<p>Somewhat later there is this remark:
<i>Why are these add-ons? Why are they not designed-in and built-in to the browser?</i><p>Well, this <i>is</i> actually built-into Firefox Nightly. It&#x27;s called Tracking Protection...and it updates its lists using the exact same SafeBrowsing the original author whines about.<p>It&#x27;s hard to take these people seriously, which is bad, because privacy is a serious problem. Not worthy to be left over to whiners that offer no solutions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arbitrage</author><text>&gt; Not worthy to be left over to whiners that offer no solutions.<p>This is not a fair criticism. I can tell someone, &quot;Hey dude, your house is on fire&quot; without having to offer them either a bucket of water or a new house.<p>This type of argument is frequently used to forestall any criticism whatsoever. Bad supervisors often say things like, &quot;don&#x27;t give me complaints without also giving me a solution.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s sloppy thinking, and rejects valuable feedback.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ghostery and NoScript-like add-ons frequently phone home</title><url>https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2015-April/015236.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rockdoe</author><text>So what would the author prefer? That security sensitive software doesn&#x27;t check for updates? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG.<p>Somewhat later there is this remark:
<i>Why are these add-ons? Why are they not designed-in and built-in to the browser?</i><p>Well, this <i>is</i> actually built-into Firefox Nightly. It&#x27;s called Tracking Protection...and it updates its lists using the exact same SafeBrowsing the original author whines about.<p>It&#x27;s hard to take these people seriously, which is bad, because privacy is a serious problem. Not worthy to be left over to whiners that offer no solutions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>travjones</author><text>It seems that the authors tone is not &quot;whiny,&quot; but maybe that was my interpretation. He is raising a serious concern: tools that people think are keeping them safe&#x2F;anonymous are actually not 100% anonymous. I think this is always important to consider. Most of us on HN are technical, and we are already aware of (even worse) privacy &quot;violations&quot; than those described in the article. Nonetheless, most people who use the internet are not aware of this and it will be important to keep the layman informed for his&#x2F;her own sake and for the future of the net.</text></comment> |
22,240,429 | 22,240,416 | 1 | 2 | 22,240,289 | train | <story><title>Amazon Dating: The Future of Dating</title><url>https://amazondating.co/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>From a technical perspective, this is a lot of effort for a parody. I&#x27;m impressed.<p>Where did they source the fake reviews from? (you can click the review title to get a review, although it doesn&#x27;t always match)</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Dating: The Future of Dating</title><url>https://amazondating.co/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Hamuko</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s about time Amazon enter the one market where there&#x27;s even more counterfeiting than what they now have.</text></comment> |
1,804,661 | 1,804,087 | 1 | 2 | 1,803,751 | train | <story><title>Programming is for Stupid People</title><url>http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/10/programming-is.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keyist</author><text>"Instead we reward people for being smart -- for learning more and more details about trivial libraries that will be deprecated in ten years' time."<p>I get what the author is trying to convey in this post, but I feel he is unintentionally attacking a strawman.<p>I don't think many developers set out to memorize small details of libraries -- it's just something they pick up naturally over time with more usage.<p>My take is: on the surface, knowledge based on experience often <i>seems</i> like memorization. That's because when say Alice brings up a better way/library/tool, she's acting as a layer of abstraction.<p>You don't immediately get to see the internal processing Alice is doing to decide which library to use and why it is the best choice for your specific task. All you see is her output: "here's what you use in this situation". This isn't about knowing trivial details of libraries. It isn't about rote learning. It is the practical application of knowledge borne out of experience.<p>That experience is what is being rewarded, not the memorization. How to tell the difference? The best developers come with introspection tools: they are able and very willing to explain the reasoning behind their recommendations in detail.</text></comment> | <story><title>Programming is for Stupid People</title><url>http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/10/programming-is.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kls</author><text>I think there are two mind sets when it comes to programming, those that relish in learning every detail in a particular technology and those that find beauty in simplicity.
(technically there is probably a third which is just a hack).<p>I don't think that these two programmer see eye to eye. One looks to apply the chains of functions to a problem to simplify the task at hand. While the other looks to creatively attack the problem with a minimalistic approach to writing code. They find beauty in recursion and abstraction, through interfacing things so that common logic can provide different results based on plug-able interfaces.<p>They are different mind sets entirely, where one looks to reuse existing library code the other looks to not write as little code as possible through creativity. Both are very valid programmer types and both can achieve mastery, it is more just a matter of how ones mind works. I myself am the latter, I love abstracting problems away till they just seem to disappear. I love closures and delegates, interfaces and anonymous functions. These are my utensils of mastery.<p>One thing I have noticed though is that programmers tend to work better with other programmer of the same type. For most of my career I have worked with the same development team. Many of the guys I trained and then they trained others. We are like a caravan of programming gypsies one of us would find a position at a start-up or find backing and the rest would follow in time.<p>Anyway, after the sale of the last company we where at I had to go out and find a real job. I did, and the entire team was of the other type it seems that they had amassed in a similar fashion as my group of developers and ended up there. Anyways, I have to say, for the first time in my life I was a drag on the team it just seemed that my code and their code just never jived, i mean it all worked properly but when I would have to work on one of their code or they would have to work on my code it was just hours of lost productivity. I eventually resigned because it was clear that for the first time in my life I was not working out as a developer. I was just mediocre at doing it there way.<p>Anyway, just food for thought, maybe you are like me Daniel and see the elegance of code. While the other guy sees the robustness.</text></comment> |
36,692,291 | 36,692,377 | 1 | 2 | 36,690,320 | train | <story><title>Chiplet ASIC supercomputers for LLMs like GPT-4</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02666</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alain94040</author><text>The key point:<p><i>A key architectural feature to achieve this is the ability to fit all model parameters inside the on-chip SRAMs of the chiplets to eliminate bandwidth limitations. Doing so is non-trivial as the amount of memory required is very large and growing for modern LLMs</i><p>...<p><i>On-chip memories such as SRAM have better read latency and read&#x2F;write energy than external memories such as DDR or HBM but require more silicon per bit. We show this design choice wins in the competition of TCO per performance for serving large generative language models but requires careful consideration with respect to the chiplet die size, chiplet memory capacity and total number of chiplets to balance the fabrication cost and model performance (Sec.3.2.2) We observe that the inter-chiplet communication issues can be effectively mitigated through proper software-hardware co- design leveraging mapping strategies such as tensor and pipeline model parallelism</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>senttoschool</author><text>SRAM has stopped scaling based on TSMC&#x27;s upcoming N3E specs and their planned N2 node specs. So if models are tens of GB large, then I don&#x27;t see how their proposed chips can be done in an economical way.<p>Also, a GPU is already an ASIC but with a fancy name.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chiplet ASIC supercomputers for LLMs like GPT-4</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02666</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alain94040</author><text>The key point:<p><i>A key architectural feature to achieve this is the ability to fit all model parameters inside the on-chip SRAMs of the chiplets to eliminate bandwidth limitations. Doing so is non-trivial as the amount of memory required is very large and growing for modern LLMs</i><p>...<p><i>On-chip memories such as SRAM have better read latency and read&#x2F;write energy than external memories such as DDR or HBM but require more silicon per bit. We show this design choice wins in the competition of TCO per performance for serving large generative language models but requires careful consideration with respect to the chiplet die size, chiplet memory capacity and total number of chiplets to balance the fabrication cost and model performance (Sec.3.2.2) We observe that the inter-chiplet communication issues can be effectively mitigated through proper software-hardware co- design leveraging mapping strategies such as tensor and pipeline model parallelism</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JonChesterfield</author><text>Graphcore got up to a gigabyte or so of on chip memory with the same plan of keeping the model in that memory. Does work really well if the data fits.<p>Recent x64 chips are at about that amount of L3 cache which might be pretty similar. I&#x27;ve lost track of GPU hardware specs.<p>That proper hardware software co-design to mitigate communication? Viciously difficult bordering on imaginary.</text></comment> |
3,870,543 | 3,870,487 | 1 | 3 | 3,869,985 | train | <story><title>Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition</title><url>http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-2nd-edition</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>airlair</author><text>Beginner here, I'm a mechanical engineer with very little experience with programming. I tried to follow the book this week but found it little bit difficult to follow. Question: Should I go learn the basics of Ruby first or should I power through hoping to learn everything along the way? If you think that I should learn the basics first, would you recommend learnrubythehardway or something else? Thanks in advance!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pook1e</author><text>As others have mentioned, there are plenty of good Ruby tutorials around. Personally, I thought "why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby"[1] was pretty great. It goes off topic quite a lot, but I think it's a joy to read while still learning the core concepts.<p>[1] <a href="http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/" rel="nofollow">http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition</title><url>http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-2nd-edition</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>airlair</author><text>Beginner here, I'm a mechanical engineer with very little experience with programming. I tried to follow the book this week but found it little bit difficult to follow. Question: Should I go learn the basics of Ruby first or should I power through hoping to learn everything along the way? If you think that I should learn the basics first, would you recommend learnrubythehardway or something else? Thanks in advance!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>escalona</author><text>I started learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails a few months ago. I've found it much easier to learn the basics of Ruby before diving into Rails. I started with reading Learn to Program by Chris Pines. The book is aimed at someone new to programming. Does a great explaining programming and Ruby.</text></comment> |
40,765,335 | 40,765,403 | 1 | 2 | 40,764,816 | train | <story><title>visionOS thermally throttles based on how much it hears the fans in the mics</title><url>https://twitter.com/ShinyQuagsire/status/1804688365905756564</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rickdeckard</author><text>Quite smart idea, not for throttling when the fans are heard, but SPEEDING THEM UP while they are NOT heard, based on the noise floor of the current environment.<p>This, combined with an assessment how much of the environment the user currently hears (i.e. maybe he is watching a movie), could provide a lot of headroom for additional cooling without bothering the user.</text></comment> | <story><title>visionOS thermally throttles based on how much it hears the fans in the mics</title><url>https://twitter.com/ShinyQuagsire/status/1804688365905756564</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dvh</author><text>Another trick is not to use constant RPM because you can hit some mechanical resonance point, but constantly varying RPM around target RPM so that the system even if it hits resonance stays there only for a brief moment and won&#x27;t start vibrating.</text></comment> |
1,181,685 | 1,181,504 | 1 | 3 | 1,180,698 | train | <story><title>How to Quit Your Job</title><url>http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/10/how-to-quit-your-job/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j_baker</author><text>"Job hoppers NEVER make good employees."<p>I don't agree with this. I think the author can make the case that job hoppers aren't good employees in his experience. And maybe he can even say that job hoppers are <i>generally</i> bad. But human beings are quirky animals. Any statement about human behavior that contains the word "always" or "never" is almost certainly wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ible</author><text>I suspect that in many, especially larger, organizations excellent people need to hop to advance. Think about how co-workers and bosses react to a junior employee who quickly outstrips more experienced colleagues. Promoting someone junior rapidly past other people can cause resentment, or be structurally unavailable. The company may have policies about maximum annual raise, so an excellent person may advance in responsibility but not in pay. When taking a new job your position and pay are determined by your capabilities to a greater degree.<p>There are definitely alternatives to 'job hopping' including consulting/contracting to get rid of the stigma while essentially doing the same thing. Alternatively you can get a job with (or start) a start-up so you can have 'measurement and leverage'.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Quit Your Job</title><url>http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/10/how-to-quit-your-job/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j_baker</author><text>"Job hoppers NEVER make good employees."<p>I don't agree with this. I think the author can make the case that job hoppers aren't good employees in his experience. And maybe he can even say that job hoppers are <i>generally</i> bad. But human beings are quirky animals. Any statement about human behavior that contains the word "always" or "never" is almost certainly wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javajones</author><text>Good point. What if a "job hopper" is someone who is looking for a good fit and won't settle for less? I don't see that as a negative.</text></comment> |
1,402,626 | 1,402,388 | 1 | 2 | 1,402,384 | train | <story><title>Facebook privacy issue: Google search reveals email addresses in Facebook</title><url>http://corywatilo.com/a-real-facebook-privacy-issue-email-addresses</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blakeross</author><text>Hey all,<p>I work at Facebook, but this is not an official media statement.<p>This doesn't appear to be a Facebook bug that leaks anyone's private email address. It appears that all the examples indexed in Google exist in Google because they were already published publicly on other Internet sites. We're committing a fix right now to stop indexing this page in Google, but even that wouldn't prevent email addresses from being published because it appears that users are already republishing their addresses in other non-Facebook venues.<p>For example, if you see <a href="http://www.facebook.com/o.php?k=afc4a7&#38;u=1018862530&#38;mid=21f667bG3cba9bc2G0G8" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/o.php?k=afc4a7&#38;u=1018862530&#38;...</a> in isolation, it appears to be divulging private information.<p>However, the original Facebook email that links to that page and contains the user's email address was republished publicly on a mailing list archive by the owner of the email address: <a href="http://games.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/Living_Greyhawk/message/98175" rel="nofollow">http://games.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/Living_Greyhawk/mess...</a><p>Does anyone see an example where this is not the case that constitutes a privacy leak?<p>Blake Ross</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook privacy issue: Google search reveals email addresses in Facebook</title><url>http://corywatilo.com/a-real-facebook-privacy-issue-email-addresses</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a4agarwal</author><text>Google is indexing Facebook's "Opt out of emails from Facebook" page for email addresses that were submitted using the "Find a friend" feature.<p>I checked out the Google site and saw a few addresses in the format [email protected], which indicates these are the SECRET email addresses people use to post to their blogger sites. Pretty bad.</text></comment> |
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