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31,524,518 | 31,522,418 | 1 | 3 | 31,521,721 | train | <story><title>Major discoveries made by mathematicians past age 50 (2010)</title><url>https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-advances-past-age-fifty</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wanderingmind</author><text>Yiting Zhang as discussed in the comments of the MO thread, is one of the most important contemporary examples. He worked as a temporary lecturer and being aged 58 produced one of the finest works in number theory. He solved the long-standing problem infinitely re-occuring consecutive prime numbers (a weaker formulation of twin prime conjecture) [0]. This will be regarded as one of the most important breakthroughs of 21st century in mathematics. New Yorker had an in depth article about him[1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annals.math.princeton.edu&#x2F;2014&#x2F;179-3&#x2F;p07" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;annals.math.princeton.edu&#x2F;2014&#x2F;179-3&#x2F;p07</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;pursuit-beauty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2015&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;pursuit-beauty</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Major discoveries made by mathematicians past age 50 (2010)</title><url>https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-advances-past-age-fifty</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JJMcJ</author><text>Attributing &quot;young man&#x27;s game&quot; to G. H. Hardy, he&#x27;d had a heart attack the year before he published <i>A Mathematician&#x27;s Apology</i>, and by all accounts, had lost much of his drive and energy.<p>The whole book has something of a sad tone to it.</text></comment> |
41,387,917 | 41,387,760 | 1 | 2 | 41,338,124 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Firebuilder: A complete Firefox customization tool</title><url>https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/firebuilder</url><text>Hi HN! I&#x27;ve been working lately on unifying firefox configuration. Many people work on creating custom `userChrome.css` files and modules, browser user scripts, etc, but it&#x27;s hard to actually use these a lot of the time. It usually involves cloning a repo, finding a folder and lots of copy paste.<p>My tool (firebuilder) has an interactive CLI to select what to apply, (e.g. firefox hardening, custom CSS, etc) then creates a brand new profile folder for you. You can also seamlessly port from an existing profile folder to preserve all of your history, bookmarks, extensions, etc.<p>For those more interested in using it programmatically everything is compiled from a config.json file which contains all the config necessary to build the said firefox profile. It currently supports:
- userChrome tweaks
- user.js (usually hardening related tweaks)
- fx-autoconfig scripts
- extending existing profiles. You can copy custom files or presets like history, bookmarks, extensions, etc<p>Also its defaults (if you just have a blank config.json) do the following:
- Apply hardening that removes telemetry, sponsors, some mozilla features
- Keeps the browser very usable, doesn&#x27;t remove unnecessary features or make things break
- Adds vibrancy for macOS<p>Firebuilder also supports whatever firefox tool you&#x27;ve been currently working on. It can install custom features from any git based repo, including downloading from releases, and keeping resources as well (so even if your theme sets custom icons you&#x27;re still good!). Additionally if whatever you&#x27;ve created for firefox has about:config based settings these can be defined in the repo&#x27;s json file as well.<p>The codebase is mainly JavaScript, and is then compiled and run with Bun. I&#x27;ve intentionally tried to make it easy to add new features via PR and easy to extend via configuration. See the examples folder for lots of examples.<p>Feel free to give any feedback, ask questions, etc, and drop a star if you like the project!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryann_wisc</author><text>Good effort. If it works the way you&#x27;re saying, I&#x27;ll be using it a lot</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Firebuilder: A complete Firefox customization tool</title><url>https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/firebuilder</url><text>Hi HN! I&#x27;ve been working lately on unifying firefox configuration. Many people work on creating custom `userChrome.css` files and modules, browser user scripts, etc, but it&#x27;s hard to actually use these a lot of the time. It usually involves cloning a repo, finding a folder and lots of copy paste.<p>My tool (firebuilder) has an interactive CLI to select what to apply, (e.g. firefox hardening, custom CSS, etc) then creates a brand new profile folder for you. You can also seamlessly port from an existing profile folder to preserve all of your history, bookmarks, extensions, etc.<p>For those more interested in using it programmatically everything is compiled from a config.json file which contains all the config necessary to build the said firefox profile. It currently supports:
- userChrome tweaks
- user.js (usually hardening related tweaks)
- fx-autoconfig scripts
- extending existing profiles. You can copy custom files or presets like history, bookmarks, extensions, etc<p>Also its defaults (if you just have a blank config.json) do the following:
- Apply hardening that removes telemetry, sponsors, some mozilla features
- Keeps the browser very usable, doesn&#x27;t remove unnecessary features or make things break
- Adds vibrancy for macOS<p>Firebuilder also supports whatever firefox tool you&#x27;ve been currently working on. It can install custom features from any git based repo, including downloading from releases, and keeping resources as well (so even if your theme sets custom icons you&#x27;re still good!). Additionally if whatever you&#x27;ve created for firefox has about:config based settings these can be defined in the repo&#x27;s json file as well.<p>The codebase is mainly JavaScript, and is then compiled and run with Bun. I&#x27;ve intentionally tried to make it easy to add new features via PR and easy to extend via configuration. See the examples folder for lots of examples.<p>Feel free to give any feedback, ask questions, etc, and drop a star if you like the project!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>361994752</author><text>Because of the hassle of configuring Firefox, I&#x27;ve been using Floorp for quite some time. But it is also not perfect.. This is definitely interesting. If Mozilla can also sync userChrome between machines it will be perfect...</text></comment> |
15,099,005 | 15,098,961 | 1 | 2 | 15,098,706 | train | <story><title>Aetna accidentally exposed customer HIV statuses in clear envelope windows</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/25/aetna-accidentally-exposed-customer-hiv-statuses-in-clear-envelope-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Oh neat, I just signed up for Aetna (first time working in America since ACA).<p>Is this normal for them? Am I an idiot?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yebyen</author><text>If you know how to &quot;don&#x27;t take no for an answer&quot; I&#x27;ll say optimistically, you&#x27;ll be alright.<p>My experience with my wife&#x27;s health care (Aetna) has been that she will call, try to get an issue resolved, be told &quot;there is no resolution possible&quot; enough times by enough different people that she is ready to give up. Then we call together, and suddenly the story changes.<p>The particular issue we were dealing with, is not really important, but tl;dr I almost wound up with two health insurances because I tried to stay insured and cover my bases when I was changing jobs, and nobody needs two health insurances.<p>They tried to tell us we couldn&#x27;t cancel when I got a new job that came with better coverage for less. I thought that was a qualifying event! But, through some nonsense technicality we would not be allowed to cancel during the plan year, and even though I&#x27;d never made a claim and we were making quarterly payments, we&#x27;d be on the hook for the remainder of payments for the whole year. (This is illegal, I&#x27;m sure of it.)<p>The best advice I can give you is, know your rights and how to assert them. Good luck with that though, health care in this country is byzantine and I had the benefit of people in my family that work in health care administration who could help me understand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Aetna accidentally exposed customer HIV statuses in clear envelope windows</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/25/aetna-accidentally-exposed-customer-hiv-statuses-in-clear-envelope-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mabbo</author><text>Oh neat, I just signed up for Aetna (first time working in America since ACA).<p>Is this normal for them? Am I an idiot?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sqeaky</author><text>You shouldn&#x27;t be downvoted for normal and reasonable questions, or even for self doubt.<p>Aetna is terrible. The lobby against healthcare reform at every turn. They didn&#x27;t want obamacare&#x2F;ACA they didn&#x27;t want to compete accross state lines, they want to be able to exempt people from pre-existing conditions, they want to give people the run-around.<p>They are not trustworthy and they are run by bad people. (don&#x27;t beat up on their phone agents though, they are just trying to make ends meets).</text></comment> |
19,672,798 | 19,672,593 | 1 | 3 | 19,671,983 | train | <story><title>GNU Awk 5.0</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-04/msg00002.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stevekemp</author><text>In 2016 I fuzzed awk and found a bunch of segfaults. Sadly it seems still not fixed:<p><pre><code> $ .&#x2F;bin&#x2F;gawk -V | head -n 1
GNU Awk 5.0.0, API: 2.0
$ .&#x2F;bin&#x2F;gawk &#x27;for (i = ) in steve kemp rocks&#x27;
gawk: cmd. line:1: for (i = ) in steve kemp rocks
gawk: cmd. line:1: ^ syntax error
gawk: cmd. line:1: for (i = ) in steve kemp rocks
gawk: cmd. line:1: ^ syntax error
gawk: cmd. line:1: fatal error: internal error
Aborted (core dumped)
</code></pre>
I&#x27;ll have to forward bugs from the Debian-tracker to the maintainers directly I guess.</text></comment> | <story><title>GNU Awk 5.0</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-04/msg00002.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fs111</author><text>I remember the days when I was working in a data company and one of the product check tools was a 2000 line GNU awk script with some korn shell in the mix. It was both scary and awesome at the same time..</text></comment> |
27,651,098 | 27,650,536 | 1 | 2 | 27,648,809 | train | <story><title>World’s smallest, best acoustic amplifier emerges from 50-year-old hypothesis</title><url>https://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/labnews/articles/2021/06-18/acoustic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlnthws</author><text>Their device is tiny. I don&#x27;t understand how it works with low frequency &#x2F; large wavelength sound wave. Do you?</text></item><item><author>mikewarot</author><text>Surface Acoustic Wave filters are used in RF signal processing. They work by converting an electrical signal to a sound wave on the surface of a piezoelectric material, then using mechanical resonance effects to filter the signal to a very narrow band before converting it back to an electrical signal.<p>In this setup, they have figured out how to amplify the sound waves without having to convert them back to electrical signals first. The first prototype got hot, so they could only run it in pulses... the second device worked continuously, and delivered about a modest amount of power.<p>Eventually this technology will work its way down into all of our communications gear, making it even smaller, and more efficient.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>Your instinct is spot on - it does not, and just does high frequencies in the RF range using acoustic resonance to amplify instead of using electrical amplification. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acoustic_resonance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acoustic_resonance</a><p>One big aspect of this is that is from what can tell, has lower noise and with that a pre-amp&#x2F;amp that has less noise in the RF domain is epic, it will allow lower power to be used for transmit and also offer longer range at the same power used today. But an amplification that has less noise than existing electrical only options has so many uses that for discovery - I&#x27;d rank this up there with graphite.</text></comment> | <story><title>World’s smallest, best acoustic amplifier emerges from 50-year-old hypothesis</title><url>https://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/labnews/articles/2021/06-18/acoustic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jlnthws</author><text>Their device is tiny. I don&#x27;t understand how it works with low frequency &#x2F; large wavelength sound wave. Do you?</text></item><item><author>mikewarot</author><text>Surface Acoustic Wave filters are used in RF signal processing. They work by converting an electrical signal to a sound wave on the surface of a piezoelectric material, then using mechanical resonance effects to filter the signal to a very narrow band before converting it back to an electrical signal.<p>In this setup, they have figured out how to amplify the sound waves without having to convert them back to electrical signals first. The first prototype got hot, so they could only run it in pulses... the second device worked continuously, and delivered about a modest amount of power.<p>Eventually this technology will work its way down into all of our communications gear, making it even smaller, and more efficient.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikewarot</author><text>I should have clarified &quot;acoustic&quot; just means a vibration, like sound, but in this case 274 megahertz, about 14,000 times higher pitch than human hearing... twice FM radio transmissions.<p>It eventually should result in devices that work past WiFi frequencies.</text></comment> |
34,247,458 | 34,246,729 | 1 | 3 | 34,245,102 | train | <story><title>Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources</title><url>https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/awesome-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>Something I&#x27;ve always wondered: when you sign up for a proprietary &quot;intelligence management&quot; platform like Palantir Gotham, do they give you access to a bunch of OSINT datasets they scrape and manage themselves, to combine with your proprietary intelligence dataset for enhanced understanding? Sort of like how BigQuery has &quot;BigQuery public datasets&quot;?<p>If not, seems like a missed opportunity for value-add &#x2F; lock-in.<p>And if they <i>do</i> provide such data, it&#x27;d be nice if one such platform would make either the scrapers, or the scraped data, open-source. It&#x27;s all just cleaned+normalized forms of already-public data, after all. (Like how the Yellow Pages could always be seen as a cleaned+normalized form of phone numbers listed in public view on shop windows.)<p>This is on my mind recently after noticing that there&#x27;s actually no public dataset of &quot;all WHOIS data for every domain on the Internet&quot;, despite WHOIS data being something explicitly designed for public querying. Almost certainly, intelligence agencies compile such a dataset themselves in order to fill in some gaps in cybercrime network-analysis graphs. Almost certainly <i>multiple</i> of them do, such that the number of crawlers doing it probably hurts the WHOIS services. Almost certainly the WHOIS services would be better off partnering with one of them to act as an &quot;official crawler&quot; to build such an index for everyone&#x27;s use.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intelligence – A good collection of great OSINT Resources</title><url>https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/awesome-intelligence</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ameliorees</author><text>The list is cool and full of interesting things. But as someone who has done OSINT a lot for journalism and legal investigations and built tools for the space I can say that people rely most on custom internal tools or the simplest&#x2F; most popular tooling among the community!</text></comment> |
16,981,344 | 16,979,258 | 1 | 3 | 16,975,096 | train | <story><title>I've spent the last two years building a new email client</title><url>https://ivelope.com/invite/InviteHNv0914</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomc1985</author><text>My compute resources are not an all-you-can-eat buffet. I&#x27;m sick of inconsiderate developers writing software in wasteful frameworks that waste my electricity and time.<p>You can make pretty x-platform apps in JavaFX, QT Quick, GTK, hell even Lazarus, and they don&#x27;t eat CPU and memory like Electron does.<p>It is a shame that nearly every app released in the latter half of this decade is just wasteful Electron garbage. Don&#x27;t forget your 300+mb needs to sit along side Slack&#x27;s 300mb, Discord&#x27;s 300mb, and so on... fuck even my Crashplan Backup client eats up three processes and another 300mb. It&#x27;s inconsiderate as hell.</text></item><item><author>dhruvb14</author><text>I find it crazy that everyone is harping on Electron instead of the cool features that this clearly has that most clients do not. Demo looked pretty polished dude. Don&#x27;t let the typical HN crowd rain on your parade. The fact that you posted an actual product out to the public is more than most can say.<p>Also: If you can&#x27;t spare Max 300MB ram and you are complaining on HN wtf computer do you use?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laumars</author><text>I would normally agree with you but I can actually see the point of Electron for email because you&#x27;d need a HTML renderer anyway to display emails (assuming you want the ability to view HTML emails, if not then you&#x27;re better off with a console client and save yourself even more RAM :p)<p>Plus Gmail and a few others big names in webmail require a HTTP client for authentication if you want to use their proprietary sync (granted there&#x27;s also POP3 and IMAP. But while IMAP is good in a number of ways it&#x27;s still far from perfect).</text></comment> | <story><title>I've spent the last two years building a new email client</title><url>https://ivelope.com/invite/InviteHNv0914</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomc1985</author><text>My compute resources are not an all-you-can-eat buffet. I&#x27;m sick of inconsiderate developers writing software in wasteful frameworks that waste my electricity and time.<p>You can make pretty x-platform apps in JavaFX, QT Quick, GTK, hell even Lazarus, and they don&#x27;t eat CPU and memory like Electron does.<p>It is a shame that nearly every app released in the latter half of this decade is just wasteful Electron garbage. Don&#x27;t forget your 300+mb needs to sit along side Slack&#x27;s 300mb, Discord&#x27;s 300mb, and so on... fuck even my Crashplan Backup client eats up three processes and another 300mb. It&#x27;s inconsiderate as hell.</text></item><item><author>dhruvb14</author><text>I find it crazy that everyone is harping on Electron instead of the cool features that this clearly has that most clients do not. Demo looked pretty polished dude. Don&#x27;t let the typical HN crowd rain on your parade. The fact that you posted an actual product out to the public is more than most can say.<p>Also: If you can&#x27;t spare Max 300MB ram and you are complaining on HN wtf computer do you use?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lilyball</author><text>300mb? You&#x27;re lucky. Slack is taking up 763mb for me right now, and it&#x27;s not uncommon to see it cross the 1GB threshold.</text></comment> |
35,977,639 | 35,977,783 | 1 | 2 | 35,965,824 | train | <story><title>I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20080220175358/http://www.andrew-turnbull.net/tech/windows95.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Windows 95 was developed over several years with a lot of research and user studies. The primary objective of all this work was so that a person without prior exposure to computers could figure out how to use it. The software was designed to help the user accomplish the tasks they have set out to do before sitting down at the computer.<p>Today, both the audience and the objectives have changed. The overwhelming majority of the audience is now computer-literate and can be counted on to figure out how to use the basic features regardless of how poorly designed or inefficient they may be. And the priorities for many interfaces have changed, with the user&#x27;s tasks relegated to a side quest.<p>Another factor is that Windows 95 was developed for &quot;install it and leave it&quot; operation, with the next upgrade coming in a year or two. Giving more attention to detail was unavoidable because you could not patch a bug a week after release. And Microsoft was offering phone support for its products, so every UI flaw would increase support costs.<p>Also, one of the design requirements was to fully support only-keyboard operation as a first-class access method, and a lot of QA effort went into ensuring this was true. This parallel access method resulted in a UI which was much more thoroughly evaluated for its efficiency.<p>Finally, I think a higher portion of people in the UI field were there for personal and passion reasons, and would have been embarrassed to have anything to do with the type of blundering buffoon of an interface that is common in today&#x27;s computing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;strategy-letter-ii-chicken-and-egg-problems&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;strategy-letter-ii...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2001&#x2F;07&#x2F;31&#x2F;hard-assed-bug-fixin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2001&#x2F;07&#x2F;31&#x2F;hard-assed-bug-fix...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35932340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35932340</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stereolambda</author><text>&gt; Today, both the audience and the objectives have changed. The overwhelming majority of the audience is now computer-literate and can be counted on to figure out how to use the basic features regardless of how poorly designed or inefficient they may be.<p>Not sure if I agree, and anyway this doesn&#x27;t seem to be the assumption of mainstream modern UI design. Rather we have extreme simplification justified by the need not to overwhelm the users and isolate them from (arbitrarily) &quot;less needed&quot; features and technical considerations. I don&#x27;t know if UI departments base this on research and studies, but anecdotally both for me and non-technical people I know smartphones have become black boxes due to this. We often discover features by accident, not sure how we even triggered them. Many simple tasks have to be googled, because there seems to be little logic in where they&#x27;re hidden. Maybe very young people are better at this - though on the other hand we hear about them being less PC platform-literate - and this knowledge still feels like a random collection of incantations rather than a system you could master.<p>Maybe I wouldn&#x27;t hold up Windows registry, Office 2000 etc. as paragons of mental tractability, but I would posit that 1. the filing cabinet mental model was useful in learning generalizable, organized knowledge of using computers, 2. it has been destroyed by tech corporations for the mass audience. I don&#x27;t believe that we are fundamentally dumber compared to 1990s, we could figure this out if given a chance.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20080220175358/http://www.andrew-turnbull.net/tech/windows95.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>Windows 95 was developed over several years with a lot of research and user studies. The primary objective of all this work was so that a person without prior exposure to computers could figure out how to use it. The software was designed to help the user accomplish the tasks they have set out to do before sitting down at the computer.<p>Today, both the audience and the objectives have changed. The overwhelming majority of the audience is now computer-literate and can be counted on to figure out how to use the basic features regardless of how poorly designed or inefficient they may be. And the priorities for many interfaces have changed, with the user&#x27;s tasks relegated to a side quest.<p>Another factor is that Windows 95 was developed for &quot;install it and leave it&quot; operation, with the next upgrade coming in a year or two. Giving more attention to detail was unavoidable because you could not patch a bug a week after release. And Microsoft was offering phone support for its products, so every UI flaw would increase support costs.<p>Also, one of the design requirements was to fully support only-keyboard operation as a first-class access method, and a lot of QA effort went into ensuring this was true. This parallel access method resulted in a UI which was much more thoroughly evaluated for its efficiency.<p>Finally, I think a higher portion of people in the UI field were there for personal and passion reasons, and would have been embarrassed to have anything to do with the type of blundering buffoon of an interface that is common in today&#x27;s computing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;strategy-letter-ii-chicken-and-egg-problems&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;strategy-letter-ii...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2001&#x2F;07&#x2F;31&#x2F;hard-assed-bug-fixin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2001&#x2F;07&#x2F;31&#x2F;hard-assed-bug-fix...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35932340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35932340</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ranger_danger</author><text>&gt; The overwhelming majority of the audience is now computer-literate and can be counted on<p>HIGHLY disagree. From what I have seen in the professional world and in school systems, just being able to type on a regular keyboard and use a mouse seems to be premium features to ask of a human, let alone navigate completely alien user interfaces and concepts they were never taught like files and folders, or what the hell the save icon is even depicting (or what it means).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.weforum.org&#x2F;agenda&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;a-quarter-of-adults-can-t-use-a-computer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.weforum.org&#x2F;agenda&#x2F;2017&#x2F;02&#x2F;a-quarter-of-adults-c...</a></text></comment> |
31,925,984 | 31,924,988 | 1 | 3 | 31,891,780 | train | <story><title>How Websites Die</title><url>https://notebook.wesleyac.com/how-websites-die/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fleddr</author><text>I&#x27;d like to call out the somewhat related problem of website rot. Meaning, the websites is online, it once worked perfectly, but becomes increasingly dysfunctional due to technical deprecations.<p>The soft obligation to use HTTPS these days has deranked old HTTP-only websites in search, making them hard to find. These websites are also &quot;defaced&quot; with browser warnings or some subresources may not load at all.<p>Embedded maps no longer work, since Google regularly breaks their API.<p>Facebook login or other FB plugins no longer work, since it needs a yearly checkup of your account and there&#x27;s the new requirement of needing to have a privacy policy.<p>Those are just some examples of websites partially breaking through no fault of its creator, if you&#x27;d agree that the web should be backwards-compatible.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Websites Die</title><url>https://notebook.wesleyac.com/how-websites-die/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spc476</author><text>It comes down to the person running the website <i>has</i> to care. That&#x27;s it. It doesn&#x27;t matter how simple it is if the person doesn&#x27;t care.<p>In my own case, I&#x27;ve been running my own website for 24 years now [1]. The URLs I started out with have remained the same (although some have gone, and yes, I return 410 for those) and the technology hasn&#x27;t changed much either (it was Apache 24 years ago, it&#x27;s still Apache today; my blog engine [2] was a C-based CGI program, and it&#x27;s still a C-based CGI program. The rest of the site is static, and there&#x27;s no Javascript (except for one page). I can see it lasting at least six more years, and probably more. But I care.<p>[1] Started out on a physical server (an AMD 586) and a few years later on a virtual server.<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;spc476&#x2F;mod_blog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;spc476&#x2F;mod_blog</a></text></comment> |
23,191,083 | 23,191,178 | 1 | 3 | 23,190,447 | train | <story><title>New Munich city government agrees to use open source software where possible</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acd</author><text>Governments should develop and run opensource systems. That way different governments can collaborate to build better systems through open innovation. Not wasting tax payers money on closed source.<p>I bet tax and pension systems have the same basic requirements cross countries with some local specifics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NalNezumi</author><text>&gt;Governments should develop and run opensource systems.
I&#x27;m for this proposal too, but for different reason.<p>opensource system can create much needed transparency in government project and organization effort. In my home country the unemployment agency spent atrocious amount of money to create an unusable job-posting app; something private companies do for fraction of the cost. More surprisingly, they doubled down on it; instead of scrapping it when it wasn&#x27;t delivering. My guess it that some nepotism&#x2F;favoritism was at play, and if the project was at least open source it could&#x27;ve been examined by others.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Munich city government agrees to use open source software where possible</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acd</author><text>Governments should develop and run opensource systems. That way different governments can collaborate to build better systems through open innovation. Not wasting tax payers money on closed source.<p>I bet tax and pension systems have the same basic requirements cross countries with some local specifics.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skinkestek</author><text>&gt; Governments should develop and run opensource...<p>Happy to say that I am working on such a project. Heavy (and unnecessary NDA) so I cannot say in cleartext but it is in use in one Nordic country already, it is opensource and already I hear that the Dutch found it to be a good starting point and probably will be using it too.<p>Some more details, the company I work for is owned by one country but doesn&#x27;t compete as much as cooperate - I am a consultant from another company. And we both use open source software and libraries and publish as open source most of what we create.<p>I hate it that I can&#x27;t talk about it.</text></comment> |
33,007,006 | 33,006,787 | 1 | 3 | 33,001,391 | train | <story><title>Integrating with Fastmail</title><url>https://www.fastmail.com/developer/integrating-with-fastmail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacooper</author><text>The problem with Fastmail is its based in Australia.
A big no no if you care about your privacy.<p>They need to backdoor every session to comply with Australian rules, and every Australian is forced legally to comply, even if in an international company.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-australia-security-data-idUSKBN1O42SR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-australia-security-data-i...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tutanota.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;australia-surveillance-bill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tutanota.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;australia-surveillance-bill</a></text></item><item><author>exolymph</author><text>Amazing to reflect on how much goodwill Fastmail has cultivated with me just by being a reasonably priced, full-featured, competent-support-having service. I&#x27;m unlikely to ever do anything with the Fastmail API, but I still upvoted mainly because I&#x27;m enthusiastic about the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>It&#x27;s really disappointing to see this comment second on a page despite the fact that yet again... <i>the law has no impact on Fastmail and never has</i>. This is the unfortunate impact of FUD, where clueless comments will carry forward wrong views for years, even in the face of overwhelming truth around it.<p><i>Fastmail is not an end-to-end encrypted service.</i> There is no requirement to backdoor it, like nearly every other non-E2E service, the Australian government can just... send a legal request. Like they always could. Or like they can do with nearly every other email service.</text></comment> | <story><title>Integrating with Fastmail</title><url>https://www.fastmail.com/developer/integrating-with-fastmail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacooper</author><text>The problem with Fastmail is its based in Australia.
A big no no if you care about your privacy.<p>They need to backdoor every session to comply with Australian rules, and every Australian is forced legally to comply, even if in an international company.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-australia-security-data-idUSKBN1O42SR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-australia-security-data-i...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tutanota.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;australia-surveillance-bill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tutanota.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;australia-surveillance-bill</a></text></item><item><author>exolymph</author><text>Amazing to reflect on how much goodwill Fastmail has cultivated with me just by being a reasonably priced, full-featured, competent-support-having service. I&#x27;m unlikely to ever do anything with the Fastmail API, but I still upvoted mainly because I&#x27;m enthusiastic about the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Intermernet</author><text>This is correct. Fastmail have actually spoken about this, and their silence on any particular topic can possibly be seen as a canary. They&#x27;re a great company trying to survive in a hostile environment. I really hope that the new Australian federal government will get around to winding back some of the draconian laws the previous mob brought in, but I&#x27;m not holding my breath.</text></comment> |
34,547,031 | 34,546,537 | 1 | 2 | 34,544,367 | train | <story><title>Omega-3s: Are “Brain-Boosting” Effects Scientifically Backed?</title><url>https://abouttolearn.substack.com/p/omega-3s-are-brain-boosting-effects</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>permo-w</author><text>why is it that no one wants to study the effects of nootropics?</text></item><item><author>mistercow</author><text>I don’t understand the author’s reading of the literature they cite. They refer to “isolated studies” and then link to a systematic review of 25 studies. They also linked to the same review twice for both memory and attention, which I assume is a mistake, because the review only supports the claim about memory.<p>But none of these studies are about “brain-boosting”. They’re about preventing or reversing cognitive decline, which is perhaps related, but ultimately different.<p>No fault to the author of this post for being unable to find evidence focused on healthy adults; anyone who has looked into the evidence around nootropics can tell you that pretty much nobody wants to study that. But it’s important to be clear about what the evidence actually says, and what it doesn’t speak to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>omginternets</author><text>Because most of the time, interest in a topic is a function of plausibility. Most nootropics have little or nothing to indicate they work — not even a hint of something plausible.<p>Of course, it’s possible the scientific community is overlooking something promising. This has happened before. But that’s a dangerous bet for a career scientist to take.<p>Practically, if you want nootropics that work, and if you want to consume something whose long term side-effects are actually known, get an adderall prescription. (Or, stop trying to neurotically optimize every detail of your life and go outside.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Omega-3s: Are “Brain-Boosting” Effects Scientifically Backed?</title><url>https://abouttolearn.substack.com/p/omega-3s-are-brain-boosting-effects</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>permo-w</author><text>why is it that no one wants to study the effects of nootropics?</text></item><item><author>mistercow</author><text>I don’t understand the author’s reading of the literature they cite. They refer to “isolated studies” and then link to a systematic review of 25 studies. They also linked to the same review twice for both memory and attention, which I assume is a mistake, because the review only supports the claim about memory.<p>But none of these studies are about “brain-boosting”. They’re about preventing or reversing cognitive decline, which is perhaps related, but ultimately different.<p>No fault to the author of this post for being unable to find evidence focused on healthy adults; anyone who has looked into the evidence around nootropics can tell you that pretty much nobody wants to study that. But it’s important to be clear about what the evidence actually says, and what it doesn’t speak to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazypyro</author><text>Because people buy it without it being proven and proving anything related to cognitive ability is both difficult and expensive.<p>This makes doing studies on their effectiveness a neutral to losing scenario.<p>Either:<p>The nootropic works. Great, you probably spent a decent amount of money and... The results are still going to be hard to quantify and measure. It may not be good enough results to convince people who already weren&#x27;t convinced. Might as well not do it and keep making money off people who buy it without scientific studies.<p>Or<p>The nootropic doesn&#x27;t work. Shit. Bury the results and never publish or risk losing a money maker.</text></comment> |
35,916,318 | 35,915,948 | 1 | 2 | 35,910,201 | train | <story><title>How to do distributed locking (2016)</title><url>https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>Please note that I replied to this blog post, when it was published. You may be interested in reading the counter arguments. The author of the original post acknowledged that at least one of his claim was wrong, but I don&#x27;t know if they modified the post later. Anyway we gained some time perspective, too: Redlock was massively used in the last 10 years, and I have never heard of its properties failing in the practice: that is, no incidents so far.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;antirez.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;101" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;antirez.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;101</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to do distributed locking (2016)</title><url>https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danrl</author><text>Did a simple Paxos implementation a while ago which I turned into educational code, well documented and coming with a talk and a workshop. May it be useful for anyone wanting to learn about distributed locking from first principles.<p>Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;danrl&#x2F;skinny">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;danrl&#x2F;skinny</a><p>Talks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;nyNCSM4vGF4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;nyNCSM4vGF4</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;gAGGPaFDfwE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;gAGGPaFDfwE</a></text></comment> |
15,038,161 | 15,037,019 | 1 | 3 | 15,036,438 | train | <story><title>Ericsson is reportedly planning to cut 25,000 jobs in response to crisis</title><url>http://nordic.businessinsider.com/ericsson-is-reportedly-planning-to-cut-25000-jobs-in-brutal-response-to-crisis-2017-8/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TorKlingberg</author><text>I used to work for Ericsson R&amp;D, so I am sad to see this, especially for my previous colleagues. There are some very sharp and dedicated engineers there.<p>At least this cut seems to mostly affect Managed Services. That is the division that basically manages telcos networks for them. It was a big growth area a couple of years ago, but turned out to be very low margin.<p>Ericssons fundamental problem is that their only customers are the telecom operators, and the telcos aren&#x27;t going to invest in infrastructure unless they have to. 4G rollout is mostly done in developed nations, and 5G is just a buzzword at the moment. Even if Ericsson invents some amazing technology that improves the end users experience, it doesn&#x27;t mean they will make much money from it.<p>Of course the price pressure from Chinese competitors has not helped, even if Ericsson has held on to its marketshare.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ericsson is reportedly planning to cut 25,000 jobs in response to crisis</title><url>http://nordic.businessinsider.com/ericsson-is-reportedly-planning-to-cut-25000-jobs-in-brutal-response-to-crisis-2017-8/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Exuma</author><text>Well, I just started learning Erlang... hopefully this doesn&#x27;t affect that D;</text></comment> |
41,494,284 | 41,494,077 | 1 | 2 | 41,490,143 | train | <story><title>Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector</title><url>https://jacobfilipp.com/hammer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huitzitziltzin</author><text>‘’’
Reach out to me (email “jacob” at this website) if:<p>You can do economic analysis of pricing data, and especially the interaction&#x2F;correlation of multiple streams of prices across time
‘’’<p>The item in that quote is significantly, <i>significantly</i> harder than the author is giving it credit for. Canada has a competition policy agency. They are (almost surely) entitled to demand data from firms as part of an investigation. Their data will be better than the data here.<p>You can rarely <i>if ever</i> prove these cases on the basis of data analysis alone. (Indeed if you could the world’s antitrust agencies would just monitor such data! And anyone engaging in collusion would attack the monitoring adversarially - not that hard to predict!)<p>In grocery data you will be looking at thousands and <i>thousands</i> of prices of different goods from different suppliers with different costs who are exposed to different shocks due to variation in the costs of their inputs or god knows what else.<p>Not to be negative bc the idea is nice, but this is a complete waste of time.<p>~ an actual antitrust guy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surgicalcolor</author><text>Conversely, I think you&#x27;re overestimating the technical capailities of Canadian federal or provincial regulatory organizations.<p>Government departments notoriously have serious technical debt, so while they might entitled to demand this kind of data, I sincerely doubt they are doing it with anything resembling modern data analysis. These orgs aren&#x27;t going to have working data lakes, spark clusters or data warehouses on cloud infrastructure. They maybe have legacy SQL databases being pulled into spreadsheets.<p>So, while their data access might be better theoretically, I doubt they truly are able to even remotely analyze the data effectively. Data science in govt is notoriously poor outside of Statscan or other tech heavy departments.</text></comment> | <story><title>Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector</title><url>https://jacobfilipp.com/hammer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huitzitziltzin</author><text>‘’’
Reach out to me (email “jacob” at this website) if:<p>You can do economic analysis of pricing data, and especially the interaction&#x2F;correlation of multiple streams of prices across time
‘’’<p>The item in that quote is significantly, <i>significantly</i> harder than the author is giving it credit for. Canada has a competition policy agency. They are (almost surely) entitled to demand data from firms as part of an investigation. Their data will be better than the data here.<p>You can rarely <i>if ever</i> prove these cases on the basis of data analysis alone. (Indeed if you could the world’s antitrust agencies would just monitor such data! And anyone engaging in collusion would attack the monitoring adversarially - not that hard to predict!)<p>In grocery data you will be looking at thousands and <i>thousands</i> of prices of different goods from different suppliers with different costs who are exposed to different shocks due to variation in the costs of their inputs or god knows what else.<p>Not to be negative bc the idea is nice, but this is a complete waste of time.<p>~ an actual antitrust guy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfil</author><text>Hey man, I&#x27;m just creating the hammer - you can throw it in the lake, make a treehouse for your kid, smash a window, up to you :-D</text></comment> |
7,392,987 | 7,392,662 | 1 | 3 | 7,392,404 | train | <story><title>How We Make Trello</title><url>http://blog.fogcreek.com/how-we-make-trello/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edwinnathaniel</author><text>I&#x27;m more interested to know the actual technical details of the build and testing process than the &quot;Task-List&quot; software development based approach because that can be done by any software project management tools (even JIRA).<p>What&#x27;s missing in this article is the whole Continuous Delivery technical aspect of it.<p>What do you guys use to build the NodeJS app?<p>What do you guys use to test the NodeJS app?<p>What do you guys use to check the code coverage of the NodeJS app?<p>What do you guys use to test the front-end?<p>What is the automated testing strategy?<p>How do you store artifacts of builds, schema migration (if using RDBMS) or handle different model versions, how do you rollback (what&#x27;s the rollback strategy)?</text></comment> | <story><title>How We Make Trello</title><url>http://blog.fogcreek.com/how-we-make-trello/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>badman_ting</author><text>It&#x27;s almost comical how nobody at my company would ever take a project this seriously. Good for them, Trello is awesome.</text></comment> |
28,916,780 | 28,915,791 | 1 | 2 | 28,915,544 | train | <story><title>Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors</title><url>https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-build-hat-lego-education/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meibo</author><text>Sadly, LEGO keeps discontinuing great and simple systems like this and replacing them with &quot;smart&quot; versions that you <i>have</i> to use a phone with, since they don&#x27;t want to ship remotes anymore. Giving an 8 year old a phone to play with their LEGO sets kinda defeats the point(they&#x27;ll want to play Minecraft instead, from personal experience).<p>There&#x27;s not even any features like Mindstorms that offer customization&#x2F;programming, it&#x27;s literally just a clunky touchscreen remote that doesn&#x27;t pair with the model half of the time. I guess phones on the box sell better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors</title><url>https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-build-hat-lego-education/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rsre</author><text>When I was young I always enjoyed playing with Mindstorms. It was my first experience programming. For me it was amusing that I could build some robot with Lego and make it retrieve a ball from our living room.<p>Sadly jumping from the block oriented programming to &quot;real&quot; programming of the Hitachi H8 microcontroller was not very straight forward, so I kind of hit a wall in that regard. Maybe this collaboration will act as a better gateway to &quot;real&quot; programming.</text></comment> |
23,306,708 | 23,306,444 | 1 | 3 | 23,306,104 | train | <story><title>Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation</title><url>https://tanay.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-stock-based</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cletus</author><text>So people have a tendency to read a headline&#x2F;submission title like this and without reading the article they launch onto their soapbox about their pet issue like, for example, equity compensation at startups should be treated as being worth $0 if the company is not listed.<p>The article isn&#x27;t about that. It&#x27;s about companies misrepresenting their expenses by not accounting for stock-based compensation (&quot;SBC&quot;) costs, which is completely fair. Google and Facebook (quoted in the article) do. Others (eg Workday, Splunk, Okta and Atlassian are quoted) seem to muddy the waters by stating they&#x27;re unprofitable on a GAAP basis (which includes SBC since 2004) but profitable on a non-GAAP basis (where SBC isn&#x27;t treated as an expense, I assume?).<p>So, caveat emptor for investors, basically.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation</title><url>https://tanay.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-stock-based</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>otoburb</author><text>We should be glad that public companies are forced to comply with FASB and issue GAAP financials that (since 2004) mandate that stock-based compensation be classified as a non-cash expense. By definition, non-GAAP figures are up to the company to specify and state, which indeed means that investors should be <i>actively</i> updating their own models when making investment decisions if looking at non-GAAP.</text></comment> |
11,177,640 | 11,176,283 | 1 | 2 | 11,174,076 | train | <story><title>Swift Ported to Android</title><url>https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1442</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fargren</author><text>I love Kotlin, but being able to develop libraries in one language and use them in both Android and iOS is huge. I have been using J2Objc for this until now, and while it&#x27;s a great tool, it forces me to use Java, which I don&#x27;t love. I would prefer being able to use Kotlin on iOS, but using Swift for Android development is a great boon.</text></item><item><author>V-2</author><text>Surprised noone mentions Kotlin. It&#x27;s quite Swift-like, backed by JetBrains (Android Studio is based on their IntelliJ Idea), and 1.0 has only just been released. It has full interoperability with Java.<p>Given the above, I don&#x27;t see much point in using Swift, unless it&#x27;s one of these projects that are about proving a point (nothing wrong with that and often very interesting).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephearl</author><text>AFAIK there&#x27;s nothing stopping you using Kotlin on iOS with RoboVM since it is a JVM language - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robovm.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robovm.com</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Swift Ported to Android</title><url>https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1442</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fargren</author><text>I love Kotlin, but being able to develop libraries in one language and use them in both Android and iOS is huge. I have been using J2Objc for this until now, and while it&#x27;s a great tool, it forces me to use Java, which I don&#x27;t love. I would prefer being able to use Kotlin on iOS, but using Swift for Android development is a great boon.</text></item><item><author>V-2</author><text>Surprised noone mentions Kotlin. It&#x27;s quite Swift-like, backed by JetBrains (Android Studio is based on their IntelliJ Idea), and 1.0 has only just been released. It has full interoperability with Java.<p>Given the above, I don&#x27;t see much point in using Swift, unless it&#x27;s one of these projects that are about proving a point (nothing wrong with that and often very interesting).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>Could you develop libraries that way, though? It would have to be absolutely pure Swift, not using any iOS libraries, like NSURL etc. etc. - surely incredibly limiting.</text></comment> |
37,559,047 | 37,557,904 | 1 | 3 | 37,556,605 | train | <story><title>Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers</title><url>https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-accidentally-exposed-by-microsoft-ai-researchers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mymac</author><text>Pentests where people actually get out of bed to do stuff (read code, read API docs etc) and then try to <i>really</i> hack your system are rare. Pentests where people go through the motions, send you report with a few unimportant bits highlit while patting you on the back for your exemplary security so you can check the box on whatever audit you&#x27;re going through are common.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>The article tries to play up the AI angle, but this was a pretty standard misconfiguration of a storage token. This kind of thing happens shockingly often, and it’s why frequent pentests are important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nbk_2000</author><text>If you&#x27;re a large company that&#x27;s actually serious about security, you&#x27;ll have a Red Team that is intimately familiar with your tech stacks, procedures, business model, etc. This team will be far better at emulating motivated attackers (as well as providing bespoke mitigation advice, vetting and testing solutions, etc.).<p>Unfortunately, compliance&#x2F;customer requirements often stipulate having penetration tests performed by <i>third parties</i>. So for business reasons, these same companies, will also hire low-quality pen-tests from &quot;check-box pen-test&quot; firms.<p>So when you see that $10K &quot;complete pen-test&quot; being advertised as being used by [INSERT BIG SERIOUS NAME HERE], good chance this is why.</text></comment> | <story><title>Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers</title><url>https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-accidentally-exposed-by-microsoft-ai-researchers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mymac</author><text>Pentests where people actually get out of bed to do stuff (read code, read API docs etc) and then try to <i>really</i> hack your system are rare. Pentests where people go through the motions, send you report with a few unimportant bits highlit while patting you on the back for your exemplary security so you can check the box on whatever audit you&#x27;re going through are common.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurusx</author><text>The article tries to play up the AI angle, but this was a pretty standard misconfiguration of a storage token. This kind of thing happens shockingly often, and it’s why frequent pentests are important.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iamflimflam1</author><text>Yep, most pentests go through the OWASP list and call it done.</text></comment> |
33,178,329 | 33,178,533 | 1 | 3 | 33,177,034 | train | <story><title>Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/apple-is-quietly-pushing-a-tv-ad-product-with-media-agencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I’ve wondered recently if we’re going to see in the next 10 or 20 years a split generation of people who are susceptible to ads. I heard anecdotally someone talking about his kids who weren’t exposed to ads much because they (as a family) buy the ad free experiences - when they did see an ad, it was extremely effective and they were explaining to their father how much they needed this thing.<p>Alternatively, are the poorer kids going to be the ones inoculated against advertising because they are exposed to it constantly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rglullis</author><text>Do you really think it works that way? People might develop banner blindness, but subconsciously they are being bombarded with messages anyway. They are being trained to consume, to associate the sites they like to visit with certain brands, pushed products by influencers...<p>If ads didn&#x27;t work, companies wouldn&#x27;t be paying billions of dollars per year. The only way to fight it is by being vigilant and block them at the source and become truly allergic to them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies</title><url>https://digiday.com/media/apple-is-quietly-pushing-a-tv-ad-product-with-media-agencies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sircastor</author><text>I’ve wondered recently if we’re going to see in the next 10 or 20 years a split generation of people who are susceptible to ads. I heard anecdotally someone talking about his kids who weren’t exposed to ads much because they (as a family) buy the ad free experiences - when they did see an ad, it was extremely effective and they were explaining to their father how much they needed this thing.<p>Alternatively, are the poorer kids going to be the ones inoculated against advertising because they are exposed to it constantly?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jerf</author><text>Anecdotally... since that&#x27;s all we have right now anyhow... my kids grew up in a similar situation, where I paid money for things and refused to pay money for ad-laden content, and they&#x27;re almost oblivious to the ads. So far the only ads that have resulted in me being asked for things are things we would have ended up with anyhow. E.g., they both played and enjoyed Mario vs. Rabbids on the Switch, and they ended up seeing an ad for it and were interested. But I already knew about it and it was going to end up purchased anyhow. (Though I&#x27;ve told them I am likely to wait for it to go on sale.) I have not been bombarded with a laundry list of requests when they go to the grandparents (where they end up watching hours of TV, alas) or something.<p>(Note I set the bar at &quot;I was asked for something.&quot; I&#x27;m not claiming they&#x27;re 100% mathematically immune to ads, anymore than I or anyone else is. Just that it wasn&#x27;t like a forest fire charging through rich ground for the first time.)</text></comment> |
23,668,812 | 23,668,754 | 1 | 2 | 23,668,110 | train | <story><title>The CDC lost control of the coronavirus pandemic, then the agency disappeared</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cdc-coronavirus-containment-redfield</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icegreentea2</author><text>I think you&#x27;d make a stronger argument by instead of making a military or other things argument, and just make a &#x27;fund other things more&#x27; argument.<p>The reason I think you should stay away from pointing fingers, especially at a relatively divisive issue like military or especially aircraft carrier funding is because then you shift a question of &quot;should American be world leading in commercial air travel regulation, pandemic prevention and control, and medical development&quot; to a far more complex one of what America&#x27;s role in the world should be.<p>The combined CDC, FDA and FAA budget is something like 35 billion dollars a year. Overall DOD budget is is nearly 700 billion, making up nearly half of annual discretionary spending (roughly 1.5 trillion). You could literally double the funding of those three agencies and barely budge the overall calculus of the budget.<p>Edit&#x2F;Add-on: I think the whole sub-thread under my comment (my bad =&#x2F; - I get the irony...) is an example of the types of distractions that might be avoidable if you don&#x27;t scope military spending into discussions.</text></item><item><author>vikramkr</author><text>Over the past few years a series of American agencies have lost their reputation and world standing. The FAA with the 737 max, the CDC with the test, the FDA with testing regulation and hydroxychloroquine. Its important to have institutions that work, but we&#x27;ve spent years deliberately gutting them and undervaluing them. All that money spent on the military and homeland security, and in the end we were caught utterly unprepared for the greatest national security threat of the past few decades. Even though we have more aircraft carriers than makes sense to have, we&#x27;d rather build another one than invest in crucial infrastructure such as strong regulatory agencies and science infrastructure. And we get to pay the price of those misplaced priorities as we barrel towards 200,000 dead. Hopefully this serves as a sort of wakeup call.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EGreg</author><text>There is a huge disparity here that needs to be addressed.<p>The Pentagon can’t pass an audit for decades, $7 Trillion just in the last 10 years unaccounted for. Yet we <i>increased the annual military budget by $100B a year</i> in 2018 alone.<p>Meanwhile we say we can’t afford these other programs.<p>If national security is a priority then why this mentality? Given such a mentality, the military should probably just subsume the CDC or something, just so the politicians can fund CDC as part of “the military”.<p>The root cause though is this obsession with growing the largest fighting force and largest employer on the planet. We have 30x more bases than the rest of the world combined! The same people who say they want to see smaller government and hate central planning tell us to open our pocketbooks to keep giving more, more, more to continuously operate in 80 other countries.<p>Then when we ask why can’t we have money for better education and healthcare to cover <i>all our own citizens</i> like European countries, they turn around and tell us the reason those countries can afford it is that we protect them. Well if that’s true, how is that America first, I wonder?<p>Nothing makes sense.</text></comment> | <story><title>The CDC lost control of the coronavirus pandemic, then the agency disappeared</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cdc-coronavirus-containment-redfield</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>icegreentea2</author><text>I think you&#x27;d make a stronger argument by instead of making a military or other things argument, and just make a &#x27;fund other things more&#x27; argument.<p>The reason I think you should stay away from pointing fingers, especially at a relatively divisive issue like military or especially aircraft carrier funding is because then you shift a question of &quot;should American be world leading in commercial air travel regulation, pandemic prevention and control, and medical development&quot; to a far more complex one of what America&#x27;s role in the world should be.<p>The combined CDC, FDA and FAA budget is something like 35 billion dollars a year. Overall DOD budget is is nearly 700 billion, making up nearly half of annual discretionary spending (roughly 1.5 trillion). You could literally double the funding of those three agencies and barely budge the overall calculus of the budget.<p>Edit&#x2F;Add-on: I think the whole sub-thread under my comment (my bad =&#x2F; - I get the irony...) is an example of the types of distractions that might be avoidable if you don&#x27;t scope military spending into discussions.</text></item><item><author>vikramkr</author><text>Over the past few years a series of American agencies have lost their reputation and world standing. The FAA with the 737 max, the CDC with the test, the FDA with testing regulation and hydroxychloroquine. Its important to have institutions that work, but we&#x27;ve spent years deliberately gutting them and undervaluing them. All that money spent on the military and homeland security, and in the end we were caught utterly unprepared for the greatest national security threat of the past few decades. Even though we have more aircraft carriers than makes sense to have, we&#x27;d rather build another one than invest in crucial infrastructure such as strong regulatory agencies and science infrastructure. And we get to pay the price of those misplaced priorities as we barrel towards 200,000 dead. Hopefully this serves as a sort of wakeup call.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x86_64Ubuntu</author><text>The fact that &quot;military&quot; is a &quot;divisive&quot; issue proves the point of how we got to this point in the first place.</text></comment> |
18,545,835 | 18,546,109 | 1 | 2 | 18,544,547 | train | <story><title>How to balance full-time work with creative projects</title><url>https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-balance-full-time-work-with-creative-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloomca</author><text>My experience is that if you can afford it, allow yourself 2–3 months sabbatical, and after some time (for me it is about 2 weeks), you&#x27;ll start to produce creative projects.<p>I personally write down all ideas and when I have time to implement them, choose what looks the most interesting (and feasible).<p>With this strategy, in the last couple months, I was able to implement:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2018.bloomca.me&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2018.bloomca.me&#x2F;en</a> – just a website showing how bloated web is<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;real-local-food.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;real-local-food.com&#x2F;</a> – project about local food<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nameless-hamlet-12227.herokuapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nameless-hamlet-12227.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a> – check your allergies application, built for a hackathon.<p>Now, you can notice they are not perfect, and by no means are finished, but before I was not able to produce that much.<p>edit: formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RickS</author><text>Yes! The most important bit of this comment IMO is the &quot;about two weeks&quot; part. There&#x27;s a trough of uselessness in vacations – 14-21 days is the minimum in my experience.<p>In week 1, I&#x27;m annoyed by my vacation. I don&#x27;t care about sitting on a beach, I&#x27;m bored, I want to get back to solving problems.<p>In week two, I&#x27;m aghast at the mundane routines I&#x27;ve fallen into, bullshit hangouts, errands, and reddit.<p>Something weird happens in week 3 where all the books you read, all the ideas you have, start to take on this new lightness and optimism and interestingness. Hang out in that vacation mode for as long as you can afford to.<p>I wish I had more insight into that last state, but it&#x27;s a very rare day that I take more than a month off work.<p>For me at least, vacations under 3 weeks are somewhat useless from a &quot;recover your health&quot; standpoint, and I&#x27;m much better off spreading a week or two of vacation around in a way that makes many 3 day weeks, giving room to run errands and make non-work life more relaxed across the board, rather than oscillating between tire fires and mandatory relaxation.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to balance full-time work with creative projects</title><url>https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-balance-full-time-work-with-creative-projects/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bloomca</author><text>My experience is that if you can afford it, allow yourself 2–3 months sabbatical, and after some time (for me it is about 2 weeks), you&#x27;ll start to produce creative projects.<p>I personally write down all ideas and when I have time to implement them, choose what looks the most interesting (and feasible).<p>With this strategy, in the last couple months, I was able to implement:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2018.bloomca.me&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;2018.bloomca.me&#x2F;en</a> – just a website showing how bloated web is<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;real-local-food.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;real-local-food.com&#x2F;</a> – project about local food<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nameless-hamlet-12227.herokuapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nameless-hamlet-12227.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a> – check your allergies application, built for a hackathon.<p>Now, you can notice they are not perfect, and by no means are finished, but before I was not able to produce that much.<p>edit: formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanmarsh</author><text>This cannot be overstated. I&#x27;ve been working on a professional thesis of sorts, a capstone if you will, for YEARS.<p>I&#x27;m on a sabbatical now and in the past month I feel like I&#x27;ve gotten more done on the capstone than in the past 3 years.<p>In September I was so burned out that when my client abruptly ended our contract (meh, it happens) I didn&#x27;t look for a new one. I&#x27;ve been coasting on my cash cushion for two months now. It was a little scary at first but in my downtime I sold a bunch of short-term high paying gigs that begin in the new year.<p>I&#x27;m SO. GLAD. I. DID. THIS.<p>Here&#x27;s my 20&#x2F;20 hindsight. Fuck working in your spare time and getting little to nothing done on your side projects and taking time away from your family and your health. Figure out how to make as much money as possible and spend as little as possible so that you can take a few months off at some point. Maybe you can game your employers leave policy, maybe do some contracting on the side, maybe don&#x27;t buy that new car or house and instead put that money into a sabbatical fund. I don&#x27;t know what will work for you. We all have very different lives and options.<p>I wish I could have back most of that &quot;spare time&quot; I wasted getting little to nothing done.<p>Also, read Deep Work by Cal Newport. If I can&#x27;t change your mind on how to approach this, maybe he will. Maybe you&#x27;ll understand why you&#x27;re not getting anywhere with your side thing and realize it&#x27;s not you, it&#x27;s your situation. Once you understand that, you can know what to do to rectify the situation. Seriously, this has been a game changer for me.<p>Oh, and don&#x27;t be surprised if for the first month of your sabbatical you get absolutely nothing done. That&#x27;s because you&#x27;re burned out and you didn&#x27;t take care of yourself for all those years. That&#x27;s the price you&#x27;re going to have to pay before you can sprint again. Knowledge workers are like athletes. Rest and recovery is as important as exercise.</text></comment> |
39,584,102 | 39,584,227 | 1 | 3 | 39,583,473 | train | <story><title>I'll refrain from providing code that involve concepts as you're under 18</title><url>https://gemini.google.com/share/238032386438?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cfr2023</author><text>I laughed out loud. Is this actually a common sentiment in some circles, or just someone blowing off steam?<p>The question occurs to me because I feel like I just spent 30 years on forums like HN reading nothing but effusive praise for the cleverness and elegance of C and Unix.</text></item><item><author>vkou</author><text>&gt; 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;james-iry.blogspot.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;james-iry.blogspot.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;brief-incomplete-and-m...</a></text></item><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>This is definitely an age gate I’ll stand behind. C++ has unimaginable power to ruin the minds of our young children.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nopakos</author><text>This hilarious book was published 30 years ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;unixhatershandbo0000unse_c3g9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;unixhatershandbo0000unse_c3g9</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I'll refrain from providing code that involve concepts as you're under 18</title><url>https://gemini.google.com/share/238032386438?hl=en</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cfr2023</author><text>I laughed out loud. Is this actually a common sentiment in some circles, or just someone blowing off steam?<p>The question occurs to me because I feel like I just spent 30 years on forums like HN reading nothing but effusive praise for the cleverness and elegance of C and Unix.</text></item><item><author>vkou</author><text>&gt; 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;james-iry.blogspot.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;james-iry.blogspot.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;05&#x2F;brief-incomplete-and-m...</a></text></item><item><author>saagarjha</author><text>This is definitely an age gate I’ll stand behind. C++ has unimaginable power to ruin the minds of our young children.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zer00eyz</author><text>&gt;&gt; reading nothing but effusive praise for the cleverness and elegance of C and Unix<p>It isnt that these are GOOD ideas, it&#x27;s just that no one has come up with better ones.</text></comment> |
11,000,080 | 10,999,781 | 1 | 3 | 10,999,335 | train | <story><title>Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard bricking via 'rm'</title><url>https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>The comments by Lennart Poettering, IMO, are a prime example of the schism between what is needed for reaching &quot;the year of Linux on the desktop&quot; and what some hackers think is best.<p>Nobody sells a chainsaw with safeties disabled, remarking &quot;you can always attach the chain catcher&quot; if people report a couple of accidents, but Lennart thinks requiring almost every user to change the default install (<i>(note that you can remount it readonly at boot, simply by adding an entry for it into &#x2F;etc&#x2F;fstab, that is marked &quot;ro&quot;</i>) is a better idea than mounting it read-only, and requiring those few who need to write these variables to do some extra work by remounting it read-write.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>That is an extremely uncharitable reading of what he wrote, and I don&#x27;t think it captures the essence of his intent at all. He said:<p>&gt; Well, there are tools that actually want to write it.<p>It needs to be accessible in some manner.<p>&gt; The ability to hose a system is certainly reason enought to make sure it&#x27;s well protected and only writable to root.<p>Agreement it needs to be guarded, because it&#x27;s a problem if it can hose a system.<p>&gt; But beyond that: root can do anything really.<p>This is a truism for Unix, and altering this is much more of a problem than the occasional bricked machine. This is free software, and the ability to use it to control our hardware to the fullest extent possible is part of that freedom. Root cannot and should not be restricted from doing what it needs. It <i>can</i>, have hurdles put in place to make it harder to accidentally do something it doesn&#x27;t mean to do though.<p>So, agreement on the problem, and agreement that something needs to be done to fix it, and a caution that access can&#x27;t be entirely closed off without consequences, so root needs access. What&#x27;s so horrible about that?</text></comment> | <story><title>Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard bricking via 'rm'</title><url>https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone</author><text>The comments by Lennart Poettering, IMO, are a prime example of the schism between what is needed for reaching &quot;the year of Linux on the desktop&quot; and what some hackers think is best.<p>Nobody sells a chainsaw with safeties disabled, remarking &quot;you can always attach the chain catcher&quot; if people report a couple of accidents, but Lennart thinks requiring almost every user to change the default install (<i>(note that you can remount it readonly at boot, simply by adding an entry for it into &#x2F;etc&#x2F;fstab, that is marked &quot;ro&quot;</i>) is a better idea than mounting it read-only, and requiring those few who need to write these variables to do some extra work by remounting it read-write.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>If you mount efivarsfs read-only, efibootmgr can&#x27;t make your system bootable. So at a minimum, you can&#x27;t <i>just</i> remount the filesystem read-only; you need distribution integration so efibootmgr can still write to it.<p>There&#x27;s no point in mounting efivarsfs read-only; you might as well not mount it at all.</text></comment> |
2,808,777 | 2,808,516 | 1 | 2 | 2,807,817 | train | <story><title>Ask Patrick McKenzie (patio11) anything</title><url>http://www.anyasq.com/227-i-made-bingo-card-creator</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bh42222</author><text>I used to poor, like seriously, food was an issue, poor.<p>Both of my parents and other close relatives started many businesses. They all failed. They are all intelligent people but they all suck, and I mean SUCK at running/growing a business.<p>I'm a pessimist. I have zero risk appetite, and I mean 0, zip, zilch, no thank you. And as an experienced software engineer, I make a quite a bit of money.....<p>....but darn it, Patrick's going to push me into staying up late, starting one side business after another, until one of them catches on, and I can quit my day job.<p>And I've never even met the guy!<p>Thanks Patrick!</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask Patrick McKenzie (patio11) anything</title><url>http://www.anyasq.com/227-i-made-bingo-card-creator</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kloncks</author><text>His answer for why he lives in Ogaki is amazing. Excerpt:<p><i>By total accident, that job was in Ogaki. I'm not much of a poet but I would write love sonnets for this town. I love the air, I love the water, I love my friends, I love my community, I love my little church, I love the little sushi shop I've been going to for seven years where everybody knows my name, and I love my girlfriend.<p>Tokyo is a nice place. New York is a nice place. Chicago is a nice place. But I want to live in Ogaki.</i></text></comment> |
19,038,009 | 19,038,223 | 1 | 3 | 19,035,834 | train | <story><title>Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rock_hard</author><text>Wonder what’s gonna happen to Google and others who distribute their research apps the same way?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;audiencemeasurement&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7573812?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=7574346" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;audiencemeasurement&#x2F;answer&#x2F;757381...</a></text></item><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>This seems entirely legitimate. Facebook were using Apple&#x27;s support for enterprise distribution based on having a corporate certificate on your device, designed to allow distributing internal apps that don&#x27;t make sense on the App Store proper, to distribute an app to their users - presumably because they knew it wouldn&#x27;t make it through the approval process for doing distribution using TestFlight, which is what is meant to be used for this sort of app release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheKarateKid</author><text>Google and others have not been flagrantly caught breaking the rules in the past and warned directly by Apple, like Facebook has.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rock_hard</author><text>Wonder what’s gonna happen to Google and others who distribute their research apps the same way?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;audiencemeasurement&#x2F;answer&#x2F;7573812?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=7574346" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;audiencemeasurement&#x2F;answer&#x2F;757381...</a></text></item><item><author>jon-wood</author><text>This seems entirely legitimate. Facebook were using Apple&#x27;s support for enterprise distribution based on having a corporate certificate on your device, designed to allow distributing internal apps that don&#x27;t make sense on the App Store proper, to distribute an app to their users - presumably because they knew it wouldn&#x27;t make it through the approval process for doing distribution using TestFlight, which is what is meant to be used for this sort of app release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidewaysloading</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;01&#x2F;30&#x2F;googles-also-peddling-a-da...</a><p>TechCrunch at least caught on.</text></comment> |
10,855,934 | 10,855,872 | 1 | 2 | 10,850,205 | train | <story><title>Idris, a language that will change the way you think about programming (2015)</title><url>http://crufter.com/2015/01/01/idris-a-language-which-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vosper</author><text>As a Python programmer who doesn&#x27;t understand this notation - what am I looking at, and what&#x27;s amazing about it?</text></item><item><author>bojo</author><text><p><pre><code> app : Vect n a -&gt; Vect m a -&gt; Vect (n + m) a
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That is pretty amazing if you ask me. I look forward to the day when we all use languages which save programmers from themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badsock</author><text>The &quot;Vector m a&quot; means that it&#x27;s a vector (like a Python list) that can only be m elements long, and those elements can only be of type a. E.g. &quot;Vector 3 Int&quot; will always be a Vector with three integers in it. If you try to treat it like a vector of any other length it will refuse to compile (e.g. pass it to a function that requires that it have 4 or more elements).<p>The whole line is the type declaration for a function (app) that takes a Vector of length m, and a Vector of length n, and produces a Vector of length (m+n). Which is to say, the compiler knows at compile time what length the resulting Vector will be, and will fail to compile if the function you&#x27;ve written doesn&#x27;t - provably - always meet that requirement.<p>From a Haskeller&#x27;s perspective it&#x27;s amazing because container types are famous loopholes for code that produces runtime errors. For instance, if you call the &quot;head&quot; function (returns the first element) on an empty list it will halt the program at run time with an error, despite the fact that it passed the type check (because an empty list and a full one have the same type).<p>As someone who learned Haskell and subsequently have been writing a lot of Python, I keep a mental tally of how many of my bugs (some of which took ages to track down) would have been caught immediately by a type system like Haskell or Idris&#x27;. I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s well over half.<p>In Haskell those kind of errors are drastically reduced, but a few still slip through. Languages like Idris can catch even more of them, in a clever way, which is awesome.</text></comment> | <story><title>Idris, a language that will change the way you think about programming (2015)</title><url>http://crufter.com/2015/01/01/idris-a-language-which-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vosper</author><text>As a Python programmer who doesn&#x27;t understand this notation - what am I looking at, and what&#x27;s amazing about it?</text></item><item><author>bojo</author><text><p><pre><code> app : Vect n a -&gt; Vect m a -&gt; Vect (n + m) a
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That is pretty amazing if you ask me. I look forward to the day when we all use languages which save programmers from themselves.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tunesmith</author><text>You have two parameters - a vector of size &quot;m&quot;, and a vector of size &quot;n&quot;. The function signature then expects to get back a vector of size &quot;m + n&quot;.<p>Contrast that with a language with method signatures that can only return types like &quot;Vector&quot; or &quot;List&quot;, without any information that is dependent on the incoming parameters.<p>So then, the logic is checked - if the method returns a vector that is anything other than the size of the two incoming parameter vector sizes added together, it won&#x27;t compile.<p>In other words, even more behavior that would normally be a runtime bug is checked at compile time, which is a good thing if you are working in a domain where correctness is important and want to avoid runtime bugs.</text></comment> |
40,693,218 | 40,690,627 | 1 | 3 | 40,688,505 | train | <story><title>'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/15/the-big-problem-is-water-uk-ebike-owners-plagued-by-failing-motors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>serf</author><text>it&#x27;s not surprising to me that the bosch mid-drives are failing, they&#x27;re typically placed at an angle that catches all the run off from every tube at the lowest point on the bike (except on recumbents), and the controller is (usually) integrated.<p>mid-drives are great, the gear advantage rocks; the bosch units suck but unfortunately they had so much industry sway that <i>a lot</i> of ebike frames are coming out built around the unit -- which is absolutely unlike any other unit out there aside from vague similarities to the bafang units in the same range -- so it forces replacement with the same garbage, or a total re-engineer of the gear train; a big pain.<p>one thing to be said about the bosch unit : it looks sleek and it integrates well. This is likely a lot of the reason behind the mass adoption, aside from Bosch&#x27;s presence itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>I can&#x27;t see how mid-drives are significantly superior. An electric motor doesn&#x27;t need any gear advantage and sending more force to the rear wheel seems like it&#x27;s actually a disadvantage since it put more stress on bicycle components that are often designed for just human levels of force.<p>As far as I can tell, the mid-drives became dominant just &#x27;cause people wanted to have something the looked more &quot;seamless&quot;.<p>I have rear drive ebike (Avanton Pace 300 v1) and I&#x27;m very happy with it (it was also cheap as a show room model). It&#x27;s responsive and I can pedal up any hill to about a 25% grade. The controller is still mid-frame and the battery inset into the down tube. Thinking about it, my ideal ebike would be a heavy duty frame with all the components just bolting on (plus could use power tool batteries).</text></comment> | <story><title>'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/15/the-big-problem-is-water-uk-ebike-owners-plagued-by-failing-motors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>serf</author><text>it&#x27;s not surprising to me that the bosch mid-drives are failing, they&#x27;re typically placed at an angle that catches all the run off from every tube at the lowest point on the bike (except on recumbents), and the controller is (usually) integrated.<p>mid-drives are great, the gear advantage rocks; the bosch units suck but unfortunately they had so much industry sway that <i>a lot</i> of ebike frames are coming out built around the unit -- which is absolutely unlike any other unit out there aside from vague similarities to the bafang units in the same range -- so it forces replacement with the same garbage, or a total re-engineer of the gear train; a big pain.<p>one thing to be said about the bosch unit : it looks sleek and it integrates well. This is likely a lot of the reason behind the mass adoption, aside from Bosch&#x27;s presence itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dgacmu</author><text>The gear advantage of a mid-drive rocks but I was quite surprised that I chewed through a rear cassette in under a year &#x2F; about 1k miles -- a 250W motor + heavy cargo bike + kid passenger + a large and pretty strong rider exert an awful lot of force. And with the assist, I almost never use the larger cogs, so all the wear gets concentrated. (This compares to many, many thousand miles on my road bike.)<p>Still love the thing, though.</text></comment> |
11,581,292 | 11,580,806 | 1 | 3 | 11,579,676 | train | <story><title>GCC 6.1 Released</title><url>https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-04/msg00244.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jason_slack</author><text>Honest question: on OS X, Apple has embraced clang and not gcc anymore. When I use linux clang is also available.<p>Can anyone chime in about how a developer would choose gcc over clang (and vice versa). I have to admit that even though I write in c++, I seldom pay attention to which compiler I would use for x vs y feature, etc. Compilers feel like a black-box to me. I don&#x27;t go inside it.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t know about Windows, I know gcc is available. I haven&#x27;t looked if clang is.<p>Edit 2: Intel also makes compilers, to which I own, but never use. I guess I feel like I am not doing anything specific to Intel</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandmeyer</author><text>Right now, clang is missing several features that I care about, but most of the industry doesn&#x27;t[1]. Clang is a 90% or maybe 95% solution, and my use cases aren&#x27;t covered. So I don&#x27;t use it. That said, I am grateful for the competition: GCC has definitely been getting better thanks to clang.<p>[1] Namely, -Wdouble-promotion, big-endian ARM interrupt handlers, -fstack-usage, -Og, -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks, -falign-functions</text></comment> | <story><title>GCC 6.1 Released</title><url>https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-04/msg00244.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jason_slack</author><text>Honest question: on OS X, Apple has embraced clang and not gcc anymore. When I use linux clang is also available.<p>Can anyone chime in about how a developer would choose gcc over clang (and vice versa). I have to admit that even though I write in c++, I seldom pay attention to which compiler I would use for x vs y feature, etc. Compilers feel like a black-box to me. I don&#x27;t go inside it.<p>Edit: I don&#x27;t know about Windows, I know gcc is available. I haven&#x27;t looked if clang is.<p>Edit 2: Intel also makes compilers, to which I own, but never use. I guess I feel like I am not doing anything specific to Intel</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>gcc generally provides somewhat better code than clang, both in runtime and in object size. Clang has traditionally done better at warnings and diagnostics, although gcc has definitely closed that space in the past few years (since 4.9 or so).</text></comment> |
19,316,082 | 19,316,088 | 1 | 2 | 19,315,715 | train | <story><title>FDA approves intranasal esketamine formulation</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/health/depression-treatment-ketamine-fda.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomacct3847</author><text>Actually I just read that Esketamine is patented while Ketamine is not, even though it’s essentially the same thing. So JNJ can charge these ridiculous prices because they changed one small thing about the drug so they could slapped a patent on it.</text></item><item><author>mirimir</author><text>You&#x27;re paying for their patent on the delivery system ;)<p>Edit: It&#x27;s a common delusion that pharmaceuticals are sold for therapeutic uses. Actually, they&#x27;re a mechanism to monetize intellectual property.<p>Edit: Oops. For having just the active isomer.<p>Edit: That comment about monetizing intellectual property comes from an expert economist :)</text></item><item><author>randomacct3847</author><text>Interesting that there doesn’t seem to be a therapy component to the treatment...meaning you’re just going to a clinic to sort of watch over you as you take it.<p>The price of $3k for 8 doses is so high compared to regular ketamine. I wonder if there is any real difference or if you’re really just paying for the comfort of doing it legally under the guidance of a doctor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>09bjb</author><text>Welcome to pharmaceuticals in general (and many of the biggest biotech companies, come to think of it). I didn&#x27;t find the exact number in a cursory search, but I&#x27;ve read that a fairly preposterous proportion of the drugs that have ever been produced are (unpatentable) plant molecules that were deliberately reverse-engineered and tweaked for patentability.</text></comment> | <story><title>FDA approves intranasal esketamine formulation</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/health/depression-treatment-ketamine-fda.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randomacct3847</author><text>Actually I just read that Esketamine is patented while Ketamine is not, even though it’s essentially the same thing. So JNJ can charge these ridiculous prices because they changed one small thing about the drug so they could slapped a patent on it.</text></item><item><author>mirimir</author><text>You&#x27;re paying for their patent on the delivery system ;)<p>Edit: It&#x27;s a common delusion that pharmaceuticals are sold for therapeutic uses. Actually, they&#x27;re a mechanism to monetize intellectual property.<p>Edit: Oops. For having just the active isomer.<p>Edit: That comment about monetizing intellectual property comes from an expert economist :)</text></item><item><author>randomacct3847</author><text>Interesting that there doesn’t seem to be a therapy component to the treatment...meaning you’re just going to a clinic to sort of watch over you as you take it.<p>The price of $3k for 8 doses is so high compared to regular ketamine. I wonder if there is any real difference or if you’re really just paying for the comfort of doing it legally under the guidance of a doctor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marssaxman</author><text>&quot;Esketamine&quot; is just the S-isomer of ketamine (thus &quot;S-ketamine&quot;), which has conventionally been an equal (&quot;racemic&quot;) mixture of the S- and R-isomers. It&#x27;s not so much that they&#x27;ve changed anything about the drug as that they&#x27;ve isolated the variant which is more psychoactive.</text></comment> |
38,632,072 | 38,630,582 | 1 | 2 | 38,621,270 | train | <story><title>US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-agency-will-not-reinstate-900-mln-subsidy-spacex-starlink-unit-2023-12-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>Starlink (and Musk in general) have been over-promising and under-delivering for years now. Starlink claimed 150Mbps back in 2020 and that speeds would double to 300Mbps by the end of 2021.[1] Instead, speeds have halved.[2]<p>At this point, T-Mobile is likely serving more rural high speed internet customers with greater speeds (T-Mobile has 4.2M home internet customers and Ookla&#x27;s stats show 34% to be rural for 1.4M; Starlink has 2M customers and assuming two-thirds are in the US and of those 83% are rural would make for 1.1M).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;elon-musk-promises-to-double-starlink-satellite-broadband-speeds-this-year" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;elon-musk-promises-to-double-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ookla.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;us-satellite-performance-q3-2023" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ookla.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;us-satellite-performance-q3-2...</a></text></item><item><author>I_Am_Nous</author><text>When applying for RDOF you say what service tier you are targeting and instead of shooting for the minimum 25&#x2F;3, Starlink applied for 100&#x2F;20. When they didn&#x27;t reach those speeds[1], they were ineligible but not <i>just</i> because they didn&#x27;t hit the required speeds on their existing network. There are more details here[2] but the jist is that Starlink bid to supply 100&#x2F;20 internet to over half a million subscribers and the FCC was required to assess if Starlink was reasonably, technically capable of supplying those speeds by 2025. Starlink reportedly argued that once they can properly launch Starship, they can surely hit the required speeds. As of yet Starship hasn&#x27;t had a successful launch. On top of this, the statistics that were available at the time showed that Starlink transfer speeds were already trending down and the network is a lot less utilized than it would be in 2025. There are technical challenges that need to be solved before Starlink is remotely capable of meeting that obligation and the challenges don&#x27;t appear to be resolved yet. Giving Starlink money is a gamble and the FCC would rather play it safe.<p>&gt;RDOF rules set speeds of 25&#x2F;3 Mbps as the minimum allowed for broadband service delivered by winners. However, participants were permitted to bid at four different performance tiers: 25&#x2F;3 Mbps, 50&#x2F;5 Mbps, 100&#x2F;20 Mbps and 1 Gbps&#x2F;500 Mbps. When the auction closed, the FCC noted 99.7% of locations were bid at 100&#x2F;20 or higher, with 85% bid at the gigabit tier. That means Starlink will need to provide speeds of at least 100&#x2F;20 in order to meet its obligations.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiercetelecom.com&#x2F;broadband&#x2F;what-do-starlinks-latest-ookla-results-mean-its-886m-rdof-winnings" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiercetelecom.com&#x2F;broadband&#x2F;what-do-starlinks-la...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-23-105A1.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-23-105A1.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101c</author><text>&gt; […] <i>(and Musk in general) have been over-promising and under-delivering for years now.</i><p>Related, &quot;Tesla FSD Timeline&quot;:<p>&gt; <i>September 2014: They will be a factor of 10 safer than a person [at the wheel] in a six-year time frame</i><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfrunker.ca&#x2F;fsd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;motherfrunker.ca&#x2F;fsd&#x2F;</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38625380">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38625380</a> (earlier today)</text></comment> | <story><title>US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-agency-will-not-reinstate-900-mln-subsidy-spacex-starlink-unit-2023-12-13/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>Starlink (and Musk in general) have been over-promising and under-delivering for years now. Starlink claimed 150Mbps back in 2020 and that speeds would double to 300Mbps by the end of 2021.[1] Instead, speeds have halved.[2]<p>At this point, T-Mobile is likely serving more rural high speed internet customers with greater speeds (T-Mobile has 4.2M home internet customers and Ookla&#x27;s stats show 34% to be rural for 1.4M; Starlink has 2M customers and assuming two-thirds are in the US and of those 83% are rural would make for 1.1M).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;elon-musk-promises-to-double-starlink-satellite-broadband-speeds-this-year" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomsguide.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;elon-musk-promises-to-double-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ookla.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;us-satellite-performance-q3-2023" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ookla.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;us-satellite-performance-q3-2...</a></text></item><item><author>I_Am_Nous</author><text>When applying for RDOF you say what service tier you are targeting and instead of shooting for the minimum 25&#x2F;3, Starlink applied for 100&#x2F;20. When they didn&#x27;t reach those speeds[1], they were ineligible but not <i>just</i> because they didn&#x27;t hit the required speeds on their existing network. There are more details here[2] but the jist is that Starlink bid to supply 100&#x2F;20 internet to over half a million subscribers and the FCC was required to assess if Starlink was reasonably, technically capable of supplying those speeds by 2025. Starlink reportedly argued that once they can properly launch Starship, they can surely hit the required speeds. As of yet Starship hasn&#x27;t had a successful launch. On top of this, the statistics that were available at the time showed that Starlink transfer speeds were already trending down and the network is a lot less utilized than it would be in 2025. There are technical challenges that need to be solved before Starlink is remotely capable of meeting that obligation and the challenges don&#x27;t appear to be resolved yet. Giving Starlink money is a gamble and the FCC would rather play it safe.<p>&gt;RDOF rules set speeds of 25&#x2F;3 Mbps as the minimum allowed for broadband service delivered by winners. However, participants were permitted to bid at four different performance tiers: 25&#x2F;3 Mbps, 50&#x2F;5 Mbps, 100&#x2F;20 Mbps and 1 Gbps&#x2F;500 Mbps. When the auction closed, the FCC noted 99.7% of locations were bid at 100&#x2F;20 or higher, with 85% bid at the gigabit tier. That means Starlink will need to provide speeds of at least 100&#x2F;20 in order to meet its obligations.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiercetelecom.com&#x2F;broadband&#x2F;what-do-starlinks-latest-ookla-results-mean-its-886m-rdof-winnings" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fiercetelecom.com&#x2F;broadband&#x2F;what-do-starlinks-la...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-23-105A1.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.fcc.gov&#x2F;public&#x2F;attachments&#x2F;FCC-23-105A1.pdf</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisco255</author><text>I regularly get 150+ Mbps on my Starlink terminal. Don&#x27;t really care that they didn&#x27;t hit the ambitious goal of providing 300+, it is already more than 15x better than the next best option available for me.<p>T-Mobile has a three decade head start (maybe four if you count their Sprint Wireless acquisition&#x27;s history), so hardly surprising if there is currently more T-Mobile home internet users than Starlink users. But I also doubt that their rural base is as large as Starlink&#x27;s currently is. Mobile broadband speeds heavily depend on the strength of the signal available in area, and in many rural areas, the 5G coverage is extremely spotty, or non-existent.</text></comment> |
39,346,541 | 39,344,637 | 1 | 2 | 39,334,542 | train | <story><title>The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-surreal-life-of-a-professional-bridesmaid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>focusedone</author><text>I worked at a wedding supply business during college and later as a photographer. I&#x27;ve probably been paid to attend a couple hundred weddings total.<p>It&#x27;s a great way to see a wide cross section of people in a very stressful situation. Some people get <i>so</i> wound up on every little detail and even minor deviations from an unattainable perfection result in an avalanche of emotion.<p>Other people are totally chill and just there to celebrate something special with family and friends.<p>Either way, I can 100% see the need &#x2F; benefit of having a professional (or seasoned wedding attender) in the wedding party. Someone who&#x27;s <i>seen some stuff</i> and stays calm when whatever nutso thing happens.<p>Even perfectly reasonable, chill couples will have that one crazy aunt projecting expectations on everyone around them. Having someone close to the party who can identify and firewall the crazy can keep a wonderful day from becoming a stress fest.<p>Anyway, the professional in the article identified a real felt need she could address and found a way to get paid fixing it. Good for her!</text></comment> | <story><title>The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid</title><url>https://thehustle.co/the-surreal-life-of-a-professional-bridesmaid/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Not an entirely new profession. In the past, this sort of thing used to happen more often with funerals and professional mourners; now <i>that</i> has well and truly gone in the West.<p>There is an anecdote in <i>Naples 44</i> about how the narrator&#x27;s &quot;fixer&quot; in Naples had had a side gig as an &quot;uncle from Rome&quot; at funerals. By turning up in the right suit with the right accent and social graces this would enhance the social status of the deceased.<p>There used to be something of a market for &quot;professional token Westerner&quot; in Chinese events. I&#x27;ve no idea if that&#x27;s still a thing.</text></comment> |
18,140,815 | 18,140,414 | 1 | 2 | 18,135,771 | train | <story><title>Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/artificial-sweeteners-are-toxic-to-digestive-gut-bacteria-study.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t say which sweeteners did they study and this is a very bad style. Fortunately it links to an article on EurekAlert which in its turn links to the actual scientific paper (doi.org&#x2F;10.3390&#x2F;molecules23102454). It says aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame and acesulfame potassium-k (ace-k) (BTW at least saccharine and ace-k are already known to be carcinogenic AFAIK) were tested against Escherichia Coli (I would rather be interested in testing them against Lactobacillaceae).<p>Lactulose is a great prebiotic (not widely known infortunately) very good for gut bacteria (AFAIK), has geroprotective properties, is a mild osmotic laxative, has zero calories, doesn&#x27;t affect blood sugar&#x2F;insulin and tastes great. I use it instead of maple syrup. As far as I also know erythritol (looks, feels and cooks almost exactly like sugar) and palatinose (same, but has calories yet doesn&#x27;t kick insulin and doesn&#x27;t feed mouth bacteria so is safe for teeth) are good for gut bacteria too. We could also mention inulin (which is a well-known prebiotic very beneficial for gut microbiome) but it&#x27;s sweetness is weaker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>escherplex</author><text><i>BTW at least saccharine and ace-k are already known to be carcinogenic AFAIK</i><p>It would appear that the US FDA and European FSA disagree with you on that subject.<p>Concerning saccharin:<p><i>In a December 14, 2010 release, the EPA stated that saccharin is no longer considered a potential hazard to human health</i><p>Wikipedia link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Saccharin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Saccharin</a><p>Concerning Acesulfame potassium<p><i>Critics say acesulfame potassium has not been studied adequately and may be carcinogenic, although these claims have been dismissed by the European Food Safety Authority and FDA</i><p>Wikipedia link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acesulfame_potassium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Acesulfame_potassium</a><p>Plus a report that lactobacillus concentration may actually be enhanced by artificial sweeteners:<p><i>In vitro analyses of Lactobacillus 4228 growth characteristics showed that presence of NHDC significantly reduces the lag phase of growth and enhances expression of specific sugar transporters, independently of NHDC metabolism. This study suggests that sensing of NHDC by a bacterial plasma membrane receptor underlies sweetener-induced growth of a health promoting gut bacterium.<p>Bacterial sensing underlies artificial sweetener-induced growth of gut Lactobacillus</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;278045609_Bacterial_sensing_underlies_artificial_sweetener-induced_growth_of_gut_Lactobacillus_Sweetener-induced_growth_of_gut_Lactobacillus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;publication&#x2F;278045609_Bacterial...</a><p>Plus one of the last hold-outs to declassification of saccharin as carcinogenic was Health Canada which based the original prohibition on University of Nebraska studies but later concluded:<p><i>Such sodium salts, the council said, “produce tumours only when administered at high doses and only in rats,” thus “the mechanism by which the rats develop cancer is not present in humans.” </i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.agcanada.com&#x2F;daily&#x2F;saccharin-cleared-for-use-in-foods-in-canada" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.agcanada.com&#x2F;daily&#x2F;saccharin-cleared-for-use-in-...</a><p>Appears the jury is still out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/artificial-sweeteners-are-toxic-to-digestive-gut-bacteria-study.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwerty456127</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t say which sweeteners did they study and this is a very bad style. Fortunately it links to an article on EurekAlert which in its turn links to the actual scientific paper (doi.org&#x2F;10.3390&#x2F;molecules23102454). It says aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame and acesulfame potassium-k (ace-k) (BTW at least saccharine and ace-k are already known to be carcinogenic AFAIK) were tested against Escherichia Coli (I would rather be interested in testing them against Lactobacillaceae).<p>Lactulose is a great prebiotic (not widely known infortunately) very good for gut bacteria (AFAIK), has geroprotective properties, is a mild osmotic laxative, has zero calories, doesn&#x27;t affect blood sugar&#x2F;insulin and tastes great. I use it instead of maple syrup. As far as I also know erythritol (looks, feels and cooks almost exactly like sugar) and palatinose (same, but has calories yet doesn&#x27;t kick insulin and doesn&#x27;t feed mouth bacteria so is safe for teeth) are good for gut bacteria too. We could also mention inulin (which is a well-known prebiotic very beneficial for gut microbiome) but it&#x27;s sweetness is weaker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quantumwoke</author><text>&gt;BTW at least saccharine ad ace-k are already known to be carcinogenic AFAIK<p>Not according to the National Cancer Institute [1]. The amount of misinformation in nutrition is frustrating at times.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.gov&#x2F;about-cancer&#x2F;causes-prevention&#x2F;risk&#x2F;diet&#x2F;artificial-sweeteners-fact-sheet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.gov&#x2F;about-cancer&#x2F;causes-prevention&#x2F;risk&#x2F;d...</a></text></comment> |
14,676,693 | 14,674,756 | 1 | 3 | 14,669,913 | train | <story><title>Beating Floating Point at Its Own Game: Posit Arithmetic [pdf]</title><url>http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>&gt; There are no “NaN” (not-a-number) bit representations with posits; instead, the calculation is interrupted, and the interrupt handler can be set to report the error and its cause, or invoke a workaround and continue computing, but posits do not make the logical error of assigning a number to something that is, by definition, not a number. This simplifies the hardware considerably.<p>What a strange claim. Outputting a NaN is easier than raising an interrupt, or could be done within an interrupt, and detecting a NaN input requires a handful of gates or less.<p>This is not to say that NaNs are a good or bad method, but they&#x27;re definitely not expensive to implement.<p>&gt; posits lack a separate ∞ and −∞ [...] “negative zero” is another defiance of mathematical logic that exists in IEEE floats.<p>I will note that the IEEE standard almost had a projective infinity mode, and x87 has that mode.<p>&gt; floats are asymmetric and use those bit patterns for a vast and unused cornucopia of NaN values<p>If we want to ignore languages like javascript and lua, sure.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beating Floating Point at Its Own Game: Posit Arithmetic [pdf]</title><url>http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>copperx</author><text>Here&#x27;s a C&#x2F;C++ partial implementation of posits:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libcg&#x2F;bfp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;libcg&#x2F;bfp</a></text></comment> |
22,337,662 | 22,336,193 | 1 | 2 | 22,335,738 | train | <story><title>Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)</title><url>https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnkarahalis</author><text>Feature addiction is real.<p>This post points to perverse economic incentives as being one possible cause, but I have also seen this happen in open-source projects. It&#x27;s a matter of listening to the wrong people, in my view. User feedback is incredibly valuable, but when user feedback comes in the form of GitHub issues rather than careful testing and conversation, the team will inevitably find themselves building more and more and more for no real benefit.<p>I&#x27;ve quoted this before, but what Don Norman says in The Invisible Computer still applies:<p>&quot;Don’t ask people what they want. Watch them and figure out their needs. If you ask, people usually focus on what they have and ask for it to be better: cheaper, faster, smaller. A good observer might discover that the task is unnecessary, that it is possible to restructure things or provide a new technology that eliminates the painstaking parts of their procedures. If you just follow what people ask for, you could end up making their lives even more complicated.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>undefined1</author><text>A useful metaphor we use in game dev: Players are the patient, you are the doctor. They&#x27;re great at finding pain, but not at knowing how to heal it. It&#x27;s on you to figure out what the underlying problem is and how to solve it.<p>Also, some of my favorite quotes on this subject:<p><i>You listen to all your fans and they always say &quot;You should add this&quot; or &quot;You should add that.&quot; They never say &quot;Take this out, take that out.&quot; They say &quot;add more, add more!&quot; There&#x27;s an old saying that I love about design, it&#x27;s about Japanese gardening actually, that &quot;Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else that you can remove.&quot; I think a lot of designers think the opposite way - &quot;What else can we add to the game to make it better?&quot;</i> -Will Wright<p><i>&quot;People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”</i> -Steve Jobs<p><i>&quot;Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being; that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment; things with which we can fill 20 minutes, half an hour, while we’re waiting to die.<p>It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.&quot;</i> -Alan Moore</text></comment> | <story><title>Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)</title><url>https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnkarahalis</author><text>Feature addiction is real.<p>This post points to perverse economic incentives as being one possible cause, but I have also seen this happen in open-source projects. It&#x27;s a matter of listening to the wrong people, in my view. User feedback is incredibly valuable, but when user feedback comes in the form of GitHub issues rather than careful testing and conversation, the team will inevitably find themselves building more and more and more for no real benefit.<p>I&#x27;ve quoted this before, but what Don Norman says in The Invisible Computer still applies:<p>&quot;Don’t ask people what they want. Watch them and figure out their needs. If you ask, people usually focus on what they have and ask for it to be better: cheaper, faster, smaller. A good observer might discover that the task is unnecessary, that it is possible to restructure things or provide a new technology that eliminates the painstaking parts of their procedures. If you just follow what people ask for, you could end up making their lives even more complicated.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex3917</author><text>Most times when users say they won&#x27;t use a product because it&#x27;s missing a feature:<p>- Those specific users won&#x27;t use it anyway even if you add it<p>- The problem they identified is a legitimate problem that was preventing other people from using it<p>- Whether your metrics actually go up depends on where that feature was in the critical path of your funnel. All else being equal, fixing legitimate problems with your product is unlikely to move your metrics much, because most (randomly distributed) problems aren&#x27;t at the frontier of the critical path.<p>It&#x27;s a mistake to think that adding features that customers ask for will immediately improve your core metrics, but it&#x27;s also a mistake to think that features that don&#x27;t visibly improve your core metrics were a mistake to add.</text></comment> |
11,644,849 | 11,643,186 | 1 | 2 | 11,641,743 | train | <story><title>When code is suspiciously fast: adventures in dead code elimination</title><url>http://jeffq.com/blog/when-code-is-suspiciously-fast-adventures-in-dead-code-elimination/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>In the book Permutation City, rich people could upload their brains into computers, but they were running very slowly. A billionaire loaded a copy of his brain into a supercomputer and ran an optimizer on it. After a few years it spit out an empty file and said, &quot;This program produces no output&quot;. I liked that book!</text></comment> | <story><title>When code is suspiciously fast: adventures in dead code elimination</title><url>http://jeffq.com/blog/when-code-is-suspiciously-fast-adventures-in-dead-code-elimination/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Athas</author><text>My experience with benchmarking is that the benchmark program must actually <i>do</i> something with the result (like, printing it). Not only because you cannot trust a benchmark to do self-validation, but also because you otherwise end up fighting the optimiser.<p>You don&#x27;t have to print the result within the body of code that you are timing (which would skew the result), but you must have some confidence that the benchmarking setup is sufficiently close to real-world usage conditions. This usually involves the computation now knowing how its result is going to be used.<p>(In a similar vein, I am also very skeptical about benchmark programs that hard-code their input, rather than read it at runtime.)</text></comment> |
29,647,570 | 29,647,463 | 1 | 3 | 29,645,762 | train | <story><title>Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/scientists-find-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>It sounds like you have an objection with the term “perfectly preserved”?<p>Words can have different meanings in different contexts.<p>In the context of dinosaurs “perfectly preserved” means that even fine details can be discerned in the fossils. And yes fossils are rocks. Someone who knows the minimal amount about dinos will know this, and even if it’s the first time you encounter the concept the article explains it nicely.<p>Titles are titles. They are short and thus they can’t provide a treatrise on the sum of all human knowledge. You need common sense to parse them.</text></item><item><author>konart</author><text>The title sound like they have found an embryo in some sort of permafrost with DNA and everything else.</text></item><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I don’t understand what you find clickbaity about the title. For reference now when I’m reading the article the title is: “Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird”.<p>It is a clear and concise description of what the article is about.</text></item><item><author>fvold</author><text>This &quot;perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo&quot; is a rock.<p>It&#x27;s in the perfectly preserved <i>shape</i> of a dinosaur embryo, but chemically, it&#x27;s a rock. Generally speaking, that&#x27;s what fossils are.<p>I bet Young Earth Creationists will be quoting this article for decades now. Thanks, Guardian, for the clickbait-y headline. Cheeses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edgyquant</author><text>I think the title is fine but they are right I will be seeing this article shared on Facebook in a day or so and people will assume they mean it was preserved as an organism not turned into a rock. I knew what they meant from the title and I’m sure so will most intellectually inclined individuals but there is a huge market of people who eat up pop sci (or their titles at least) articles and it perpetuates fake science even if the article isn’t actually doing that.<p>It’s basically like those articles that say “scientist proves existence of higher dimensions” where everyone who tends to read scientific literature figures they mean “has solved some physics equation using 4 dimensions instead of 3” but the majority who see it only through popsci articles and groups think the scientist has found physical evidence of another universe.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/21/scientists-find-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-preparing-to-hatch-like-a-bird</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krisoft</author><text>It sounds like you have an objection with the term “perfectly preserved”?<p>Words can have different meanings in different contexts.<p>In the context of dinosaurs “perfectly preserved” means that even fine details can be discerned in the fossils. And yes fossils are rocks. Someone who knows the minimal amount about dinos will know this, and even if it’s the first time you encounter the concept the article explains it nicely.<p>Titles are titles. They are short and thus they can’t provide a treatrise on the sum of all human knowledge. You need common sense to parse them.</text></item><item><author>konart</author><text>The title sound like they have found an embryo in some sort of permafrost with DNA and everything else.</text></item><item><author>krisoft</author><text>I don’t understand what you find clickbaity about the title. For reference now when I’m reading the article the title is: “Scientists find perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird”.<p>It is a clear and concise description of what the article is about.</text></item><item><author>fvold</author><text>This &quot;perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo&quot; is a rock.<p>It&#x27;s in the perfectly preserved <i>shape</i> of a dinosaur embryo, but chemically, it&#x27;s a rock. Generally speaking, that&#x27;s what fossils are.<p>I bet Young Earth Creationists will be quoting this article for decades now. Thanks, Guardian, for the clickbait-y headline. Cheeses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>I agree with you on &quot;perfectly preserved&quot;.<p>&gt; fossils are rocks<p>Not always, especially in paleontology. Any kind of preservation counts, e.g. amber: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fossil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fossil</a></text></comment> |
38,511,989 | 38,511,933 | 1 | 2 | 38,508,779 | train | <story><title>Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect</title><url>https://github.com/mattwparas/steel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>Turing-completeness in a config file is an anti-pattern. Write an external program to generate the config file instead.</text></item><item><author>CooCooCaCha</author><text>Why? The properties of lisp make it suitable for both a config file, and an extension language. It can be easily embedded into existing languages and is extremely flexible.</text></item><item><author>nikolay</author><text>That&#x27;s ridiculous!</text></item><item><author>_nalply</author><text>Helix Editor plans to use Steel as a plugin language [0].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;helix-editor&#x2F;helix&#x2F;pull&#x2F;8675">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;helix-editor&#x2F;helix&#x2F;pull&#x2F;8675</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zambyte</author><text>Putting arbitrary bounds on how people use their computers is an anti-pattern.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steel – An embeddable and extensible Scheme dialect</title><url>https://github.com/mattwparas/steel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zozbot234</author><text>Turing-completeness in a config file is an anti-pattern. Write an external program to generate the config file instead.</text></item><item><author>CooCooCaCha</author><text>Why? The properties of lisp make it suitable for both a config file, and an extension language. It can be easily embedded into existing languages and is extremely flexible.</text></item><item><author>nikolay</author><text>That&#x27;s ridiculous!</text></item><item><author>_nalply</author><text>Helix Editor plans to use Steel as a plugin language [0].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;helix-editor&#x2F;helix&#x2F;pull&#x2F;8675">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;helix-editor&#x2F;helix&#x2F;pull&#x2F;8675</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeutralForest</author><text>Why? Emacs has Emacs Lisp and Neovim has Lua, it&#x27;s great to be able to configure, write plugins and helper functions, in the same language.</text></comment> |
21,893,179 | 21,892,716 | 1 | 3 | 21,891,890 | train | <story><title>A charity that spends a sliver of its money on those it purports to serve</title><url>https://publicintegrity.org/politics/iupa-leorf-police-union-charity-telemarketers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffdavis</author><text>Although this particular case is egregious, I&#x27;d like to point out that donors should not be overly focused on a simplistic view of a charity&#x27;s finances.<p>A charity that only moves money around should of course be pretty efficient about it. But a charity that actually <i>does</i> things faces the same kinds of inefficiencies as any business.<p>For instance, The Nature Conservancy is a charity I like (I&#x27;m not necessarily recommending them -- do your own research). About 2&#x2F;3 of the raised funds go to their actual programs, and the rest is administrative and fundraising.<p>However, they are one of the few large environmental charities that <i>actually does stuff to help the environment, and attracts the expertise to do it well</i>. The rest are lobbyists and money-shufflers, which I have little patience for when it comes to charities.<p>In other words, I&#x27;m much more tolerant of inefficiency when actually doing something. I think anyone who actually does things would agree that it&#x27;s not always efficient when observed from afar. But in reality it&#x27;s much more efficient to go straight to the people who can do stuff than what other charities do: buy time with Congress, hoping that they will pass laws that will either (a) move some money around in such a way that someone (perhaps someone without much expertise) will do something; or (b) force someone to stop doing something, hoping that they won&#x27;t find a much worse thing to do instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>A charity that spends a sliver of its money on those it purports to serve</title><url>https://publicintegrity.org/politics/iupa-leorf-police-union-charity-telemarketers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jc01480</author><text>This same scheme applies to any “charity” that does not overtly state 100% of their proceeds are donated. And it’s not limited to law enforcement associations. Those commercials you see on TV about starving children, abused animals, suffering refugees, etc. are all complicit. What really happens: executive level and staff salaries are set at the market level for the association. All donations go to cover these “costs” throughout the year. Whatever is left over from these “costs” actually gets donated to their target group. The donations usually equal about 10% or less of their received funds. Correlate the executives that run these to other donation groups and you’ll see a pattern of people running them. Unless 100% of the proceeds go toward the target group is clearly communicated, all you’re doing is paying someone’s salary to run a feel-good effort that actually contributes very little to their target. And I’m a cop. Do your research.</text></comment> |
8,086,409 | 8,086,369 | 1 | 2 | 8,086,105 | train | <story><title>Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect tasks</title><url>http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014330/smarter-second-grader</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randall</author><text>Another researcher thinks effects like this are due to language in humans. (Maybe not directly linked, but somewhat related)<p>Basically the experiment was to have a rectangular room with 4 white walls, and then another box with one blue wall.<p>Researchers put some food in the room to the left of the blue wall, showed it to a rat, then spun the rat around, and the rat got it right 50% of the time. (IE random chance.)<p>Researchers did the same experiment with kids, and kids under 6 failed every time. Though after age 6, kids start using spacial language and can say the phrase &quot;left of the blue wall&quot;, which implies to the researcher we use language to connect different disparate parts of the brain.<p>More on this during this radiolab episode:
<a href="http://www.radiolab.org/story/91725-words/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.radiolab.org&#x2F;story&#x2F;91725-words&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect tasks</title><url>http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014330/smarter-second-grader</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blendergasket</author><text>Just last night I watched a really, really great documentary on crow intelligence called &quot;A Murder of Crows&quot;. I highly, highly recommend it. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s472GjbLKQ4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=s472GjbLKQ4</a></text></comment> |
14,603,378 | 14,603,449 | 1 | 2 | 14,599,530 | train | <story><title>Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy</title><url>http://news.rice.edu/2017/06/19/freshwater-from-salt-water-using-only-solar-energy-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stult</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t salt water in toilets require two sets of pipes leading into each home? Seems like an expensive proposition unless you&#x27;re building a new community from scratch.</text></item><item><author>Kayou</author><text>I thought 130 litres&#x2F;person was quiet high and probably included things like water to grow vegetables, but no, one shower is between 30 et 50 litres and each time you go to the bathroom, it&#x27;s 10 litres of drinkable water.<p>Of course, I you have saltwater and no freshwater, you would probably use saltwater in your toilets, so that could reduce the daily usage of at least 20 litres. But then, if you consider agriculture and manufacturing, I guess that the number of 130litres&#x2F;person would blow up completely.</text></item><item><author>bencollier49</author><text>6 litres &#x2F; metre-squared per hour.<p>We require 130 litres &#x2F; person per day in Europe. A town of 10,000 people would require 1,300,000 litres &#x2F; day = ~54,000 litres &#x2F; hour = 9000 metres-squared.<p>A facility of 100 x 100 x 1 m seems feasible. Based on those calculations, this all seems quite practical. I do wonder how frequently the filters need to be changed, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jedd</author><text>It does, but it isn&#x27;t.<p>Similarly multiple out-going pipes to split off various levels of grey waste (some direct to garden, others, to soakways, or to septic processing systems).<p>Capex for these kinds of systems is ultimately dwarfed by savings on opex - just like we find with mandatory double-glazing &amp; other insulation regulations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy</title><url>http://news.rice.edu/2017/06/19/freshwater-from-salt-water-using-only-solar-energy-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stult</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t salt water in toilets require two sets of pipes leading into each home? Seems like an expensive proposition unless you&#x27;re building a new community from scratch.</text></item><item><author>Kayou</author><text>I thought 130 litres&#x2F;person was quiet high and probably included things like water to grow vegetables, but no, one shower is between 30 et 50 litres and each time you go to the bathroom, it&#x27;s 10 litres of drinkable water.<p>Of course, I you have saltwater and no freshwater, you would probably use saltwater in your toilets, so that could reduce the daily usage of at least 20 litres. But then, if you consider agriculture and manufacturing, I guess that the number of 130litres&#x2F;person would blow up completely.</text></item><item><author>bencollier49</author><text>6 litres &#x2F; metre-squared per hour.<p>We require 130 litres &#x2F; person per day in Europe. A town of 10,000 people would require 1,300,000 litres &#x2F; day = ~54,000 litres &#x2F; hour = 9000 metres-squared.<p>A facility of 100 x 100 x 1 m seems feasible. Based on those calculations, this all seems quite practical. I do wonder how frequently the filters need to be changed, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shivetya</author><text>Well at the commercial level we certainly could and it has been done though most of the uses I have seen are to golf courses and certain parks. certainly large commercial buildings could have a separate set of pipes to provide toilets with water.<p>now what should be more easily done is require building codes to insure large complexes have separate gray and black water pipes so that easier to treat water is routed better.</text></comment> |
41,262,430 | 41,262,144 | 1 | 2 | 41,261,986 | train | <story><title>CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-15/starbucks-victoria-s-secret-are-part-of-broader-trend-of-remote-ceos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>I think it&#x27;s more important for CEOs to be located in the same city as the company HQ than it is for any randomly selected employee to be. When VIPs visit the company, they expect the CEO to be present, not on Zoom. Plus, there used to be this thing where leadership had a more than tenuous connection to the legacy and culture of the businesses they ran, and even to the cities their companies were a part of. That&#x27;s harder to pass off if you can&#x27;t be bothered to go there. Imagine hearing a CEO say something like &quot;I care about Company X&quot; but they&#x27;re saying it from a thousand miles away, over a Zoom call, while all their employees are on site and hating being there. That says something about work today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lazyasciiart</author><text>&gt; Imagine hearing a CEO say something like &quot;I care about Company X&quot; but they&#x27;re saying it from a thousand miles away, over a Zoom call, while all their employees are on site and hating being there. That says something about work today.<p>Wow, it&#x27;s like you&#x27;ve been in our company Zoom calls.</text></comment> | <story><title>CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-15/starbucks-victoria-s-secret-are-part-of-broader-trend-of-remote-ceos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>I think it&#x27;s more important for CEOs to be located in the same city as the company HQ than it is for any randomly selected employee to be. When VIPs visit the company, they expect the CEO to be present, not on Zoom. Plus, there used to be this thing where leadership had a more than tenuous connection to the legacy and culture of the businesses they ran, and even to the cities their companies were a part of. That&#x27;s harder to pass off if you can&#x27;t be bothered to go there. Imagine hearing a CEO say something like &quot;I care about Company X&quot; but they&#x27;re saying it from a thousand miles away, over a Zoom call, while all their employees are on site and hating being there. That says something about work today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ceejayoz</author><text>They&#x27;ll be there when the VIPs are.<p>&gt; Both executives have agreed to commute frequently for their role. Starbucks will allow Niccol to use its corporate plane, and Victoria’s Secret will cover Super’s travel expenses.<p>They&#x27;ll probably be ferrying the VIPs on said jet, making a brief appearance, then golf and a fancy dinner.</text></comment> |
34,297,544 | 34,296,953 | 1 | 2 | 34,295,863 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How to move from traditional tech into game dev?</title><text>Hey all,<p>I&#x27;m keen to learn how you can move from &#x27;traditional&#x27; tech roles into game development. I <i>love</i> games and, while I know there are some issues re: salary &amp; hours worked, still think I&#x27;d regret not trying it myself.<p>What are the usual sideways paths one can take to go that way? My tech stack is almost definitely irrelevant; Python, JS, Rust, Haskell, etc...<p>Any tips from the game devs out there?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>theshrike79</author><text>Backend. Do the game backend stuff for online&#x2F;mobile games.<p>Everyone and their sister wants to be the one that does the pretty graphics and UI with Unity or whatever. Nobody wants to be the one who does the backend code that actually makes the game work.<p>It&#x27;s actually challenging when you work with games that might have a million daily users or even more. If it&#x27;s a competitive game, people <i>will</i> try to cheat and you can&#x27;t trust anything the client sends you. The code also needs to be cost-effective to run, if your game makes $10k a day, but the backend costs $5k a day to run - that&#x27;s kinda bad.<p>Also especially mobile games need a custom frontend for customer service so they can do refunds, check player purchase history etc. Those are done with JS and Python etc.<p>Source: Moved from traditional tech to making CS tools and backend for games. My salary went up hilarious amounts, as did bonuses and options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fckgnad</author><text>&gt;Nobody wants to be the one who does the backend code that actually makes the game work.<p>This is only true for a certain class of games that rely on multiplayer. Many games are singleplayer where the meat exists on the game engine. There&#x27;s two sub sections of this as well. Real time and non-real time.<p>Realtime means streaming updates from all users. Games like fortnight or pubg are like this. Non-realtime means like checkers or multiplayer chess. If you are doing the later rather then the former I would say you&#x27;re still in traditional web development where shit is still relatively easy because an HTTP server is good enough.<p>The former is what is really hard, and that kind of thing is what I would refer to as backend game development. If you are doing that, then likely you&#x27;re not a traditional web developer anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How to move from traditional tech into game dev?</title><text>Hey all,<p>I&#x27;m keen to learn how you can move from &#x27;traditional&#x27; tech roles into game development. I <i>love</i> games and, while I know there are some issues re: salary &amp; hours worked, still think I&#x27;d regret not trying it myself.<p>What are the usual sideways paths one can take to go that way? My tech stack is almost definitely irrelevant; Python, JS, Rust, Haskell, etc...<p>Any tips from the game devs out there?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>theshrike79</author><text>Backend. Do the game backend stuff for online&#x2F;mobile games.<p>Everyone and their sister wants to be the one that does the pretty graphics and UI with Unity or whatever. Nobody wants to be the one who does the backend code that actually makes the game work.<p>It&#x27;s actually challenging when you work with games that might have a million daily users or even more. If it&#x27;s a competitive game, people <i>will</i> try to cheat and you can&#x27;t trust anything the client sends you. The code also needs to be cost-effective to run, if your game makes $10k a day, but the backend costs $5k a day to run - that&#x27;s kinda bad.<p>Also especially mobile games need a custom frontend for customer service so they can do refunds, check player purchase history etc. Those are done with JS and Python etc.<p>Source: Moved from traditional tech to making CS tools and backend for games. My salary went up hilarious amounts, as did bonuses and options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jayd16</author><text>Actually game graphics people are hard to find but no one is going to hire into that role with no experience.<p>That said, you can leverage your normal tech chops to get a foot in the door. Games do need backend and database people, etc.</text></comment> |
14,277,580 | 14,277,473 | 1 | 2 | 14,271,576 | train | <story><title>Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds</title><url>http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2017/language-shapes-how-the-brain-perceives-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Swizec</author><text>The first thing I learned in the US: nobody says half past or ten to or any of those things. They only make sense on analog round clocks.<p>What people say is stuff like &quot;six twenty&quot;, &quot;four fiftyfive&quot; etc</text></item><item><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>I can understand how this happens.<p>For example, telling time in Norwegian took me viewing time differently. English tends to place importance on the last whole hour that passed: Half past six, six thirty-five, six twenty. It isn&#x27;t until we approach the next whole hour that we give it any credit: Quarter &#x27;til seven.<p>Norwegian, on the other hand, seems to focus more on the &quot;now&quot; and the future, orientated around the nearest 15-minute mark and the next whole hour, only focusing on the hour that has passed for the first 15 minute. <i>it is quite possible I&#x27;ve flubbed on the exact phrasing: While my Norwegian is on the upper end of adequate and passed the state tests, I am still far from truly fluent</i><p>6:20? Ten &#x27;til half seven.
6:30? Half seven.
6:35? Five over half seven.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikkwong</author><text>I think that&#x27;s beside the point though. I think the point being presented is more: if you are visualizing what time it is in your head, what is the visual representation of time that you have, as presented by your language? In english, if it&#x27;s 4:23, I feel as though I&#x27;m &quot;in&quot; the 4:00 hour, 23 minutes past it. 4:45? Well then I feel like I&#x27;m still &quot;in&quot; the 4:00 hour but now 45 minutes into it. Even 4:59 still feels like the 4:00 hour!<p>The very construct of how a different language presents that time may cause that perception to differ. At least that&#x27;s how I think of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds</title><url>http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/articles/2017/language-shapes-how-the-brain-perceives-time/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Swizec</author><text>The first thing I learned in the US: nobody says half past or ten to or any of those things. They only make sense on analog round clocks.<p>What people say is stuff like &quot;six twenty&quot;, &quot;four fiftyfive&quot; etc</text></item><item><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>I can understand how this happens.<p>For example, telling time in Norwegian took me viewing time differently. English tends to place importance on the last whole hour that passed: Half past six, six thirty-five, six twenty. It isn&#x27;t until we approach the next whole hour that we give it any credit: Quarter &#x27;til seven.<p>Norwegian, on the other hand, seems to focus more on the &quot;now&quot; and the future, orientated around the nearest 15-minute mark and the next whole hour, only focusing on the hour that has passed for the first 15 minute. <i>it is quite possible I&#x27;ve flubbed on the exact phrasing: While my Norwegian is on the upper end of adequate and passed the state tests, I am still far from truly fluent</i><p>6:20? Ten &#x27;til half seven.
6:30? Half seven.
6:35? Five over half seven.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; The first thing I learned in the US: nobody says half past or ten to or any of those things.<p>I hear people say those all the time. Somewhat less with people under 30 or so.<p>&gt; They only make sense on analog round clocks.<p>Actually, 10 minutes til &lt;hour&gt; makes perfect sense as a description of time independent of any mechanism of displaying the time.<p>It&#x27;s not a natural way to <i>read</i> a digital clock, but not all discussion of time proceeds from reading clocks. Also, analog round wall clocks (and watches, and digital faces for smart watches that simulate them) still exist, and aren&#x27;t that uncommon, taken together.</text></comment> |
3,169,548 | 3,169,612 | 1 | 2 | 3,168,966 | train | <story><title>Tesla’s Musk Says Model S Sold Out; Should Turn Profit in 2013</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/tesla-s-musk-says-model-s-sold-out-should-turn-profit-in-2013.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pork</author><text>For those who doubted Tesla's ability to turn a profit, this is my anecdote. I used to be one of you. Selling an absurdly priced boutique sports car that can only run 250 miles did not seem like a viable business strategy. The battery packs had their issues. The range was terrible. The car was tiny and cramped, even smaller than some small sports cars.<p>And then I chanced upon a LivingSocial deal that let me drive a Roadster S for a day. For the record, I've driven a handful of supercars and more than my share of regular sports cars. I have almost <i>never</i> felt what I did in the Tesla (with the exception of the Gallardo), mainly because of the instant thrust available at any RPM. It was not like anything I ever felt before. As I drove, I felt inexplicably that this was the car of the future -- as a tech aficionado, I was finally driving a car that <i>felt</i> like the future. The lack of an engine roar was strangely soothing (and I LOVE engine roars!). The pickup meant that I could smoke most Maseratis on the 0-60. The thrill of pressing down on the accelerator and feeling the thrust in your chest was unparalleled (again, with the exception of the Gallardo). As I drove past clubs in San Francisco with their Porsches and Bentleys outside, I felt above it all in my tiny all-electric sports car. <i>They</i> were stupid flash-mongers; <i>I</i> was one with my machine. There is something pure and beautiful about driving a Tesla Roadster, well beyond the gas-free aspect. This was the thoroughly impractical car that my inner child always wanted from the future.<p>It thrilled me to drive that car in a way that I cannot fully describe. I am an eminently rational man. I have children, and am not prone to being wild and reckless. But now, as a result of driving that beautiful machine, as soon as my GOOG stocks vest, I will be driving down to Menlo Park, CA with my checkbook in hand to drive out with a Roadster.<p>That, dear friends, is how Tesla will turn a profit, in the face of ridiculous product shortcomings like range. They enchant, and they delight, and because of that I will gladly open my pocketbook for Elon Musk.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla’s Musk Says Model S Sold Out; Should Turn Profit in 2013</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/tesla-s-musk-says-model-s-sold-out-should-turn-profit-in-2013.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>steve8918</author><text>I really hope that Tesla can actually become a profitable company, because it's time we had some real innovation in terms of car technology. I'm not a car buff or an environmental buff, but having a real zero-emissions car that will help get rid of our dependence on oil just makes sense.<p>However, can any experts educate me on the status of the Li-ion battery? My understanding is that Li-ion batteries lose 30% of their capacity over 2-3 years. So what does that mean for the range of the Tesla cars? My Honda Accord lasted 11 years and 200k miles, it doesn't sound like Teslas have nearly the same durability and range. Is this a ticking time bomb, or is there a solution to this?</text></comment> |
19,638,545 | 19,637,886 | 1 | 2 | 19,637,219 | train | <story><title>Rust 1.34.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/04/11/Rust-1.34.0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Perceptes</author><text>The history of TryFrom&#x2F;TryInto has spanned 3 years, from when it was originally proposed as an RFC in 2016. For a seemingly simple API, it&#x27;s gone through a lot. Especially unusual was that it was stabilized a few releases ago and then had to be destabilized when a last-minute issue was discovered with the never type (`!`). The never type had been the primary blocker for stabilizing these APIs for the last year or so, but it was finally decided to simply use this temporary `Infallible` type, which would be mostly forwards compatible with the never type itself.<p>I&#x27;ve followed the issue closely because it&#x27;s one of the features used in Ruma, my Matrix homeserver and libraries. In fact, for the library components of the project, it was the last unstable feature. With the stabilization of these APIs, I&#x27;ll finally be able to release versions of the libraries that work on stable Rust. This will happen later today!</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust 1.34.0</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/04/11/Rust-1.34.0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>korethr</author><text>Hmm, fn before_exec strikes me as a thing that should be gotten rid of entirely in favor of unsafe fn before_exec if the former indeed turned out to actually have the potential to cause undefined behavior. But that&#x27;d probably be a breaking change which would require a major version number bump, so deprecation is absolutely the right thing IMO. And it also sets the stage to get rid of it outright come the next major version bump.<p>This is the first such instance of &quot;oops, turns out that wasn&#x27;t safe after all, that should have been unsafe&quot; that I&#x27;ve heard of in Rust. Is that because this is the first such mistake since the 1.0 milestone (the rest of `unsafe` having been nailed down before 1.0), or have there been other such mistakes that I didn&#x27;t hear about because I haven&#x27;t read the notes for all of the prior releases of Rust?</text></comment> |
40,630,971 | 40,631,073 | 1 | 2 | 40,626,807 | train | <story><title>Designing a Lego orrery</title><url>https://marian42.de/article/orrery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hubraumhugo</author><text>Whenever I see a project like this that involves hundreds of hours of engineering and craftsmanship, I think: Doing nothing after retirement doesn&#x27;t appeal to me, so this is how I&#x27;d love to spend my time (even sooner if circumstances allow).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>What do you think retirement <i>is</i>?</text></comment> | <story><title>Designing a Lego orrery</title><url>https://marian42.de/article/orrery/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hubraumhugo</author><text>Whenever I see a project like this that involves hundreds of hours of engineering and craftsmanship, I think: Doing nothing after retirement doesn&#x27;t appeal to me, so this is how I&#x27;d love to spend my time (even sooner if circumstances allow).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HenryBemis</author><text>Retirement = you bought (pension&#x2F;savings&#x2F;investments) yourself time in your 20-30 last years in life to enjoy. You are paying yourself to do what pleases you.</text></comment> |
8,539,213 | 8,538,436 | 1 | 3 | 8,538,281 | train | <story><title>Making Connections to Facebook More Secure</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike_hearn</author><text>Nothing, and it&#x27;s interesting that they have enough computational power to do that for a relatively trivial project.<p>Meanwhile, whilst I applaud Facebook going above and beyond here, this doesn&#x27;t set a good precedent.<p>Firstly, Onion service are very slow. There is no need to pay this cost for a service whose ownership is not actually hidden. If the Tor project made it easier to reliably identify traffic from Tor exit nodes, Facebook could apply whatever rules they wanted to Tor traffic without needing to slow things down for everyone.<p>Secondly, by doing this, there&#x27;s now a risk that other firms who want to be on the cutting edge of privacy will try to copycat this approach, even though it makes no sense and is very complex and expensive to set up. Worse, users might think it&#x27;s some kind of &quot;gold standard&quot;.<p>Thirdly, it doesn&#x27;t actually solve any of the reasons why Tor traffic is routinely discriminated against and harassed: Tor is effectively a &quot;bulletproof ISP&quot; that shields a lot of abuse and hacking. Merely making a Tor hidden service specifically for Facebook doesn&#x27;t solve that, at all.</text></item><item><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>It concerns me that they were able to brute force a key for facebookcorewwwi.onion. If they can do that, what&#x27;s to stop somebody else coming along and brute forcing a key for the same hostname.<p>Looks like Tor hidden services are now broken to me...<p>[edit] What&#x27;s to stop Facebook from brute forcing a key for any of the existing hidden services?<p>[edit2] If Facebook can brute force keys like this, so can the NSA and GCHQ. Tor hidden services are officially broken.<p>[edit3] A colleague of mine suggested that this might be simply Facebooks way of making it public knowledge that Tor hidden services can no longer be relied upon.<p>[edit4] Facebook are saying (on the Tor Talk list) that they generated a load of keys starting &quot;facebook&quot; and then just picked the one which looked most memorable, and were extremely lucky to get such a good one:<p><a href="http://archives.seul.org/tor/talk/Oct-2014/msg00433.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archives.seul.org&#x2F;tor&#x2F;talk&#x2F;Oct-2014&#x2F;msg00433.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bostik</author><text>&gt; <i>Worse, users might think it&#x27;s some kind of &quot;gold standard&quot;.</i><p>That may be the worst unexpected consequence. Once onion services become more mainstream, I fear FB&#x27;s example - no matter how well intentioned - will turn into an engineering nightmare. After all, after one of the best known online brands does something clever, you can expect copycats to follow.<p>First, we&#x27;ll get clueless PHB types demanding long vanity names.<p>Second, some services will happen upon neat onion addresses and ride the wave. Their very existence will act as a goal post for the others.<p>Third, a vocal segment of users becomes accustomed to seeing &quot;perfect&quot; vanity names. After all, such name means that the entity behind the name has enough resources to actually get a proper vanity name.<p>Amidst all that, somewhere between stages #2 and #3, we will see (horribly misguided) vanity onion service name markets. A bit like domain name squatting from the late 90&#x27;s, but with far worse consequences: at least with domain names the only thing transferred was the control over the DNS entry. Because onion service names are directly mapped to the private keys, selling a $VANITY.onion address is the same as selling <i>a copy of the private key.</i><p>Caveat emptor, indeed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making Connections to Facebook More Secure</title><url>https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-facebook-more-secure/1526085754298237</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mike_hearn</author><text>Nothing, and it&#x27;s interesting that they have enough computational power to do that for a relatively trivial project.<p>Meanwhile, whilst I applaud Facebook going above and beyond here, this doesn&#x27;t set a good precedent.<p>Firstly, Onion service are very slow. There is no need to pay this cost for a service whose ownership is not actually hidden. If the Tor project made it easier to reliably identify traffic from Tor exit nodes, Facebook could apply whatever rules they wanted to Tor traffic without needing to slow things down for everyone.<p>Secondly, by doing this, there&#x27;s now a risk that other firms who want to be on the cutting edge of privacy will try to copycat this approach, even though it makes no sense and is very complex and expensive to set up. Worse, users might think it&#x27;s some kind of &quot;gold standard&quot;.<p>Thirdly, it doesn&#x27;t actually solve any of the reasons why Tor traffic is routinely discriminated against and harassed: Tor is effectively a &quot;bulletproof ISP&quot; that shields a lot of abuse and hacking. Merely making a Tor hidden service specifically for Facebook doesn&#x27;t solve that, at all.</text></item><item><author>mike-cardwell</author><text>It concerns me that they were able to brute force a key for facebookcorewwwi.onion. If they can do that, what&#x27;s to stop somebody else coming along and brute forcing a key for the same hostname.<p>Looks like Tor hidden services are now broken to me...<p>[edit] What&#x27;s to stop Facebook from brute forcing a key for any of the existing hidden services?<p>[edit2] If Facebook can brute force keys like this, so can the NSA and GCHQ. Tor hidden services are officially broken.<p>[edit3] A colleague of mine suggested that this might be simply Facebooks way of making it public knowledge that Tor hidden services can no longer be relied upon.<p>[edit4] Facebook are saying (on the Tor Talk list) that they generated a load of keys starting &quot;facebook&quot; and then just picked the one which looked most memorable, and were extremely lucky to get such a good one:<p><a href="http://archives.seul.org/tor/talk/Oct-2014/msg00433.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archives.seul.org&#x2F;tor&#x2F;talk&#x2F;Oct-2014&#x2F;msg00433.html</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justcommenting</author><text>&gt; Firstly, Onion service are very slow. There is no need to pay this cost for a service whose ownership is not actually hidden.<p>As long as you don&#x27;t have to use it, I don&#x27;t see why offering users a choice is a problem.<p>&gt;If the Tor project made it easier to reliably identify traffic from Tor exit nodes, Facebook could apply whatever rules they wanted to Tor traffic without needing to slow things down for everyone.<p>ExoneraTor does this quite well in my opinion, and I don&#x27;t follow how&#x2F;why you think this will slow things down for everyone. Surely you&#x27;re not referring to the entire Tor network?<p>The main value in using this, in my opinion, is reducing the potential attack surface associated with MITM attacks--including CDNs--after your traffic exits Tor. Attacks on Facebook users involving Akamai have been documented by NSA, for example; Facebook is a PRISM partner, but this would arguably still stack the deck in favor of &quot;going through the front door&quot; to access Facebook user data.</text></comment> |
14,563,707 | 14,563,646 | 1 | 3 | 14,561,134 | train | <story><title>The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)</title><url>http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nannal</author><text>&gt; The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders...<p>Bitcoin<p>Silkroad<p>The crypto wars<p>The crypto wars 2: The empire strikes back<p>and that&#x27;s just one poignant sentence in the fairly small but very accurate manifesto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matt4077</author><text>It&#x27;s quite funny to see people promoting such conspiracy theories, considering they&#x27;ve already been proven wrong by reality.<p>Apart from some banana republics, governments around the world have been incredibly relaxed with regards to Bitcoin. The rules that have been established are as favourable as anyone could imagine (i. e. trading being exempt from VAT etc.).<p>Yes, they have insisted on existing rules, mostly of the know-your-customer variety. It&#x27;s funny you&#x27;re citing &quot;national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders&quot;, as if those were just talking points to hide the real reasons. Because for the life of me I can&#x27;t think of any other, legal, activity governments are trying to suppress by regulating bitcoin. What exactly is that killer app of bitcoin that so frightens the establishment?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)</title><url>http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nannal</author><text>&gt; The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders...<p>Bitcoin<p>Silkroad<p>The crypto wars<p>The crypto wars 2: The empire strikes back<p>and that&#x27;s just one poignant sentence in the fairly small but very accurate manifesto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Also this bit:<p>&gt; An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.<p>See Silk Road, Bitcoin, Monero</text></comment> |
9,942,654 | 9,942,447 | 1 | 2 | 9,941,712 | train | <story><title>Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013)</title><url>https://medium.com/@maradydd/okay-feminism-its-time-we-had-a-talk-about-empathy-bd6321c66b37</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The &quot;shut up and build things&quot; position embodies the tacit assumption that the world naturally pushes itself to an equillibrium that is fair and just. The assumption that racism and sexism result in elastic deformation of society that will go away as soon as you remove whatever force is warping it.<p>I don&#x27;t think history bears that out. Society is a soft ductile metal. If you bend it, it&#x27;ll stay bent. You have to hammer it back into straightness. Talking (and browbeating and prosecuting when necessary) is how you do that.<p>PS: I don&#x27;t disagree with the author that not everyone needs to be on the front line of every culture war. But I think someone needs to be.</text></item><item><author>vonklaus</author><text>This was awesome. Not because it dispels a meme that is negative in the industry, not because it is some sort of proof a woman can succeed in tech, or any other of this tropic nonsense. It was such an amazing message that was totally gender neutral:<p>&quot;I like building things because I am curious and I pursue knowledge for its own sake&quot;<p>With all the confirmation bias and name calling (which I am certainly guilty of from time to time) it is refreshing to hear someone talking about how they just want[0] to focus on building something exciting and not focusing on politics.<p>[0]this originally said <i>&quot;both sides to shut up to they can get back to building and hacking.&quot;</i>, which was not meant literally, but to convey the sentiment the edited section now reflects.<p>edit: If you strongly disagree with me, and I am being sincere here, I can promise your energy will be much better spent building&#x2F;doing&#x2F;creating&#x2F;enjoying something than engaging in a debate with me. If you are up to the challenge, go out and do. If you take some time to go out and do something awesome and you still feel like you would like to converse, I would like to talk about your projects&#x2F;etc and my email is listed.<p>Cheers.<p>[final edit:] I have been doing a lot of thinking about cultural problems. I have began a change in perspective that has lead to personal growth, asking not why something matters but when&#x2F;contextually something matters. Maybe whatever is being argued down thread is the single biggest issue you find fault with in our society or maybe it is the 5th, 10th issue, etc. I can only reiterate that &quot;creating&quot; will better your cause but this is not the context or the &quot;when&quot;. Go start a scholarship, teach people to code, work on a product, call your senator, etc. Doing something is much better than talking about something and if there was a place to reasonably have meaningful discourse, I assure you this is not that place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimbokun</author><text>&quot;The &quot;shut up and build things&quot; position embodies the tacit assumption that the world naturally pushes itself to an equillibrium that is fair and just.&quot;<p>It does not. It embodies the tacit assumption that some people prefer to spend their time building something tangible rather than devoting their lives tilting at the windmills of eradicating racism, sexism, and all the other bigotries endemic to our society.<p>Tilting at those windmills is important, and might be a cause worthy of devoting your life to it, but it&#x27;s not everyone&#x27;s calling.<p>Lastly, the author of the original article is arguably doing more to advance the cause of women in technology by participating in and engaging with the community, than many of the people writing articles and complaining about the problems.</text></comment> | <story><title>Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013)</title><url>https://medium.com/@maradydd/okay-feminism-its-time-we-had-a-talk-about-empathy-bd6321c66b37</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>The &quot;shut up and build things&quot; position embodies the tacit assumption that the world naturally pushes itself to an equillibrium that is fair and just. The assumption that racism and sexism result in elastic deformation of society that will go away as soon as you remove whatever force is warping it.<p>I don&#x27;t think history bears that out. Society is a soft ductile metal. If you bend it, it&#x27;ll stay bent. You have to hammer it back into straightness. Talking (and browbeating and prosecuting when necessary) is how you do that.<p>PS: I don&#x27;t disagree with the author that not everyone needs to be on the front line of every culture war. But I think someone needs to be.</text></item><item><author>vonklaus</author><text>This was awesome. Not because it dispels a meme that is negative in the industry, not because it is some sort of proof a woman can succeed in tech, or any other of this tropic nonsense. It was such an amazing message that was totally gender neutral:<p>&quot;I like building things because I am curious and I pursue knowledge for its own sake&quot;<p>With all the confirmation bias and name calling (which I am certainly guilty of from time to time) it is refreshing to hear someone talking about how they just want[0] to focus on building something exciting and not focusing on politics.<p>[0]this originally said <i>&quot;both sides to shut up to they can get back to building and hacking.&quot;</i>, which was not meant literally, but to convey the sentiment the edited section now reflects.<p>edit: If you strongly disagree with me, and I am being sincere here, I can promise your energy will be much better spent building&#x2F;doing&#x2F;creating&#x2F;enjoying something than engaging in a debate with me. If you are up to the challenge, go out and do. If you take some time to go out and do something awesome and you still feel like you would like to converse, I would like to talk about your projects&#x2F;etc and my email is listed.<p>Cheers.<p>[final edit:] I have been doing a lot of thinking about cultural problems. I have began a change in perspective that has lead to personal growth, asking not why something matters but when&#x2F;contextually something matters. Maybe whatever is being argued down thread is the single biggest issue you find fault with in our society or maybe it is the 5th, 10th issue, etc. I can only reiterate that &quot;creating&quot; will better your cause but this is not the context or the &quot;when&quot;. Go start a scholarship, teach people to code, work on a product, call your senator, etc. Doing something is much better than talking about something and if there was a place to reasonably have meaningful discourse, I assure you this is not that place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>droopyEyelids</author><text>I think you&#x27;re right about the ductile nature of society, but at the same time I think you&#x27;re on a fine line about how to change it.<p>I really believe that only love can overcome hate- you can&#x27;t fight personal negativity with more negativity or disparagement. It only makes people dig their heels in deeper. I know this is a controversial and probably offensive opinion, but it&#x27;s a core part of who I am so I feel I should say it and take whatever comes.</text></comment> |
40,736,082 | 40,734,593 | 1 | 2 | 40,733,615 | train | <story><title>Nobody knows what's going on</title><url>https://www.raptitude.com/2024/06/nobody-knows-whats-going-on/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheAlchemist</author><text>A perfect example of this, is stock market reporting. On a daily basis, stocks move, sometimes a lot - but apart from the people who make them move (and even then, it can be impossible for them to know it&#x27;s them !), nobody knows why.<p>But a lot of people, without knowledge of finance or economics, want to know *why* stocks moved. And so, we have an entire industry reporting on a daily basis, without any direct knowledge about the thing they are reporting about !<p>As the author said, there are few penalties for bullshit, and many rewards !</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lextuto</author><text>Here&#x27;s a potentially relevant quote from &quot;The Man Who Solved the Market&quot; by Gregory Zuckerman[0].<p>&quot;One day, a data-entry error caused the fund to purchase five times as many wheat-futures contracts as it intended, pushing prices higher. Picking up the next day’s Wall Street Journal, sheepish staffers read that analysts were attributing the price surge to fears of a poor wheat harvest, rather than Renaissance’s miscue. [...] “Any time you hear financial experts talking about how the market went up because of such and such—remember it’s all nonsense,” [Peter] Brown [CEO of Renaissance Technologies] later would say.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gregoryzuckerman.com&#x2F;the-books&#x2F;the-man-who-solved-the-market&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gregoryzuckerman.com&#x2F;the-books&#x2F;the-man-who-solve...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nobody knows what's going on</title><url>https://www.raptitude.com/2024/06/nobody-knows-whats-going-on/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheAlchemist</author><text>A perfect example of this, is stock market reporting. On a daily basis, stocks move, sometimes a lot - but apart from the people who make them move (and even then, it can be impossible for them to know it&#x27;s them !), nobody knows why.<p>But a lot of people, without knowledge of finance or economics, want to know *why* stocks moved. And so, we have an entire industry reporting on a daily basis, without any direct knowledge about the thing they are reporting about !<p>As the author said, there are few penalties for bullshit, and many rewards !</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kjkjadksj</author><text>The day of stock reports are such crap its actually entertaining to read. Especially when the market whiplashes a couple minutes after the midday report and they need to come up with a narrative. Most of the moves could honestly be summed up with “it was noon so a bunch of hft cron jobs turned on right then and bought or sold” or “nice numbers ending in 0 or 5 have their own gravity pull”</text></comment> |
39,088,710 | 39,087,848 | 1 | 2 | 39,086,106 | train | <story><title>GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much</title><url>https://iter.ca/post/gpt-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n2d4</author><text>This is a glitch token [1]! As the article hypothesizes, they seem to occur when a word or token is very common in the original, unfiltered dataset that was used to make the tokenizer, but then removed from there before GPT-XX was trained. This results in the LLM knowing nothing about the semantics of a token, and the results can be anywhere from buggy to disturbing.<p>A common example is usernames that participated on the r&#x2F;counting subreddit, where some names appear hundreds of thousands of times. OpenAI has fixed most of them for the hosted models (not sure how, I could imagine by tokenizing them differently), but looks like you found a new one!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg&#x2F;solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg&#x2F;solidgoldm...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rastonbury</author><text>Thanks for the link, the outputs really reminded me of Westworld&#x27;s &quot;Doesn&#x27;t look like anything to me&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much</title><url>https://iter.ca/post/gpt-crash/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n2d4</author><text>This is a glitch token [1]! As the article hypothesizes, they seem to occur when a word or token is very common in the original, unfiltered dataset that was used to make the tokenizer, but then removed from there before GPT-XX was trained. This results in the LLM knowing nothing about the semantics of a token, and the results can be anywhere from buggy to disturbing.<p>A common example is usernames that participated on the r&#x2F;counting subreddit, where some names appear hundreds of thousands of times. OpenAI has fixed most of them for the hosted models (not sure how, I could imagine by tokenizing them differently), but looks like you found a new one!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg&#x2F;solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg&#x2F;solidgoldm...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awestroke</author><text>Using &#x2F;r&#x2F;counting to train an LLM is hilarious.</text></comment> |
19,932,695 | 19,932,775 | 1 | 2 | 19,931,977 | train | <story><title>Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-recruit-since-cambridge-analytica-scandal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allthecybers</author><text>This is not a surprising headline. If you have values about privacy, decency, civil discourse, honesty or integrity you wouldn’t want to work there. Also, if you feel the company was collusive or willingly complicit in the dissemination of fake news and Russian propaganda efforts during our elections, it’d be a big fat “no” to working there. And it’s not just our democracy that is undermined by FB. There’s a litany of abuses that they have either been horribly naive too or downright negligent in addressing.<p>If you are bright-eyed optimistic about Facebook I&#x27;d be interested to hear your counterpoint to all of the scandal. I don&#x27;t think there is any company in the FAANG that is an altruistic enterprise but it isn&#x27;t surprising that FB would have a decline in hiring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t think there is any company in the FAANG that is an altruistic enterprise<p>I feel like Google started that way, and then lost its way sometime between 2009-2012.<p>Projects like Google Scholar, Google Books, Google Summer of Code, Google Reader, Google Open Source, Google.org, and pulling out of China didn&#x27;t really have much of a business justification, but were simply something good that they could do. Unfortunately they&#x27;re a public company, and when you start struggling to meet analysts&#x27; (perpetually inflating) estimates, being good - or at least not evil - is usually the first thing on the chopping block.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-recruit-since-cambridge-analytica-scandal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allthecybers</author><text>This is not a surprising headline. If you have values about privacy, decency, civil discourse, honesty or integrity you wouldn’t want to work there. Also, if you feel the company was collusive or willingly complicit in the dissemination of fake news and Russian propaganda efforts during our elections, it’d be a big fat “no” to working there. And it’s not just our democracy that is undermined by FB. There’s a litany of abuses that they have either been horribly naive too or downright negligent in addressing.<p>If you are bright-eyed optimistic about Facebook I&#x27;d be interested to hear your counterpoint to all of the scandal. I don&#x27;t think there is any company in the FAANG that is an altruistic enterprise but it isn&#x27;t surprising that FB would have a decline in hiring.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>merpnderp</author><text>Forget the election, just what social networking is doing to young people&#x27;s minds. They&#x27;re making money by making a lot of people miserable - just not how I&#x27;d want to make a living.</text></comment> |
24,477,502 | 24,476,667 | 1 | 2 | 24,476,469 | train | <story><title>How HTTPS Works</title><url>https://howhttps.works/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jwcrux</author><text>I love seeing comics like this that aim to show concepts in simple ways. Kudos!<p>Worth noting that &quot;The Handshake&quot; episode [0] covers the key exchange using RSA. This has the downside that it doesn&#x27;t support forward secrecy, meaning if an attacker ever compromises the server&#x27;s private key they can retroactively decrypt traffic they previously captured.<p>It&#x27;s more common these days to use an ECDHE exchange in which the client and server exchange keys that are generated just for this session (or at least, they should be [1]) and use those to generate the &quot;shared secret&quot;.<p>In fact, in TLS 1.3 ECDHE is the only key exchange mechanism. [2]<p>The server then uses its long term keypair corresponding to the certificate to sign all the handshake messages that were seen previously [3].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;howhttps.works&#x2F;the-handshake&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;howhttps.works&#x2F;the-handshake&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raccoon-attack.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raccoon-attack.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;rfc-8446-aka-tls-1-3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;rfc-8446-aka-tls-1-3&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8446#section-4.4.3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc8446#section-4.4.3</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How HTTPS Works</title><url>https://howhttps.works/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kzrdude</author><text>Unsolicited constructive criticism is that I think the comic could do with a bit more spacing between the panels, it gets easier to read feels less dense that way - that&#x27;s what I think.</text></comment> |
22,149,443 | 22,149,531 | 1 | 2 | 22,145,943 | train | <story><title>Retailers are turning to facial recognition software (2018)</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/retail-companies-are-testing-out-facial-recognition-at</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>I want the law to allow such things, because it is extremely useful to me as a consumer and a customer if the system can automatically identify me and attach me to my past history with the company.<p>This dimension of privacy is still open for debate.</text></item><item><author>neiman</author><text>&quot;privacy advocates and industry stakeholders are debating ... how shoppers should be informed about when their faces are scanned&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t want to be informed when my face are being scanned, in the same way that I don&#x27;t want to be informed when a website is about to sell my data. What I want is for the law not to allow such things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teflodollar</author><text>Strongly disagree. While I can accept that it&#x27;s supposedly valuable for you as a consumer to be &quot;identified and attached&quot; to a company—even though it&#x27;s something that I want nothing to do do with and consider a net bad for society—the notion that whole-scale identification of persons entering a store may be an acceptable default behavior is absurd, even before considering the so-called &quot;dimension of privacy.&quot;<p>As the other child comment mentioned, there are many ways to identify yourself to a store that don&#x27;t require facial recognition. The YMCA for example has a system that lets users track their exercise history; there&#x27;s no reason Macy&#x27;s couldn&#x27;t do the same for your purchases. If indiscriminate ID&#x27;ing is the default position, then you have decided that _your convenience is more important than the freedom of every other person in the store._ It should be the responsibility of the person who wants this convenience to opt in, not the responsibility of the rest of us to opt out.<p>The desire to not have PiD stored by anyone should be reason enough to close the debate. But if it&#x27;s not, we fortunately have hundreds (thousands?) of cases of corporate consumer abuse and irresponsible data storage to point to.</text></comment> | <story><title>Retailers are turning to facial recognition software (2018)</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/retail-companies-are-testing-out-facial-recognition-at</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>I want the law to allow such things, because it is extremely useful to me as a consumer and a customer if the system can automatically identify me and attach me to my past history with the company.<p>This dimension of privacy is still open for debate.</text></item><item><author>neiman</author><text>&quot;privacy advocates and industry stakeholders are debating ... how shoppers should be informed about when their faces are scanned&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t want to be informed when my face are being scanned, in the same way that I don&#x27;t want to be informed when a website is about to sell my data. What I want is for the law not to allow such things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krick</author><text>Get their member card if you want. Your consent shouldn&#x27;t affect other people.</text></comment> |
40,918,032 | 40,917,468 | 1 | 2 | 40,913,736 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Crawlee for Python – a web scraping and browser automation library</title><url>https://crawlee.dev/python/</url><text>Hey all,<p>This is Jan, the founder of Apify (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apify.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apify.com&#x2F;</a>) — a full-stack web scraping platform. After the success of Crawlee for JavaScript (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apify&#x2F;crawlee&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apify&#x2F;crawlee&#x2F;</a>) and the demand from the Python community, we&#x27;re launching Crawlee for Python today!<p>The main features are:<p>- A unified programming interface for both HTTP (HTTPX with BeautifulSoup) &amp; headless browser crawling (Playwright)<p>- Automatic parallel crawling based on available system resources<p>- Written in Python with type hints for enhanced developer experience<p>- Automatic retries on errors or when you’re getting blocked<p>- Integrated proxy rotation and session management<p>- Configurable request routing - direct URLs to the appropriate handlers<p>- Persistent queue for URLs to crawl<p>- Pluggable storage for both tabular data and files<p>For details, you can read the announcement blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crawlee.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;launching-crawlee-python" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crawlee.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;launching-crawlee-python</a><p>Our team and I will be happy to answer here any questions you might have.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mdaniel</author><text>You&#x27;ll want to prioritize documenting the <i>existing</i> features, since it&#x27;s no good having a super awesome full stack web scraping platform if only you can use it. I ordinarily would default to a &quot;read the source&quot; response but your cutesy coding style makes that a non-starter<p>As a concrete example: command-f for &quot;tier&quot; on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crawlee.dev&#x2F;python&#x2F;docs&#x2F;guides&#x2F;proxy-management" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crawlee.dev&#x2F;python&#x2F;docs&#x2F;guides&#x2F;proxy-management</a> and tell me how anyone could possibly know what `tiered_proxy_urls: list[list[str]] | None = None` should contain and why?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Crawlee for Python – a web scraping and browser automation library</title><url>https://crawlee.dev/python/</url><text>Hey all,<p>This is Jan, the founder of Apify (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apify.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apify.com&#x2F;</a>) — a full-stack web scraping platform. After the success of Crawlee for JavaScript (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apify&#x2F;crawlee&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apify&#x2F;crawlee&#x2F;</a>) and the demand from the Python community, we&#x27;re launching Crawlee for Python today!<p>The main features are:<p>- A unified programming interface for both HTTP (HTTPX with BeautifulSoup) &amp; headless browser crawling (Playwright)<p>- Automatic parallel crawling based on available system resources<p>- Written in Python with type hints for enhanced developer experience<p>- Automatic retries on errors or when you’re getting blocked<p>- Integrated proxy rotation and session management<p>- Configurable request routing - direct URLs to the appropriate handlers<p>- Persistent queue for URLs to crawl<p>- Pluggable storage for both tabular data and files<p>For details, you can read the announcement blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crawlee.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;launching-crawlee-python" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crawlee.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;launching-crawlee-python</a><p>Our team and I will be happy to answer here any questions you might have.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Findecanor</author><text>Does it have support for web scraping opt-out protocols, such as Robots.txt, HTTP and content tags?
These are getting more important now, especially in the EU after the DSM directive.</text></comment> |
7,706,267 | 7,704,138 | 1 | 3 | 7,703,585 | train | <story><title>Fat JSON</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/05/05/Fat-JSON</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drachel</author><text>I&#x27;m a little surprised not to hear any mention of JSON Pointer (RFC 6901). It deals with exactly this:<p><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6901" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc6901</a><p>With JSON Pointer syntax, it would be something like:<p><pre><code> JWalk.getStringPtr(user, &quot;&#x2F;them&#x2F;public_keys&#x2F;primary&#x2F;bundle&quot;);
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s concise, complete&#x2F;unambiguous, and has implementations in a growing number of environments, so I think it could be worth mentioning as an approach. It also defines a useful URL fragment syntax for referencing nodes within documents, which would be a good thing for the JSON world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timbray</author><text>Oh dear, I’ve probably hurt some feelings for having missed 6901. Interesting that when I googled around for JSON analogues of XPath, I didn’t turn that up. Having said that, it’s not obvious that <i>any</i> syntax is a win; an list of strings is an excellent selector that hits an 80&#x2F;20 point &amp; meets all my needs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fat JSON</title><url>https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/05/05/Fat-JSON</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drachel</author><text>I&#x27;m a little surprised not to hear any mention of JSON Pointer (RFC 6901). It deals with exactly this:<p><a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6901" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc6901</a><p>With JSON Pointer syntax, it would be something like:<p><pre><code> JWalk.getStringPtr(user, &quot;&#x2F;them&#x2F;public_keys&#x2F;primary&#x2F;bundle&quot;);
</code></pre>
It&#x27;s concise, complete&#x2F;unambiguous, and has implementations in a growing number of environments, so I think it could be worth mentioning as an approach. It also defines a useful URL fragment syntax for referencing nodes within documents, which would be a good thing for the JSON world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mpk</author><text>That works very well combined with RFC 6902 - JSON-PATCH for partial changes to JSON objects, which in turn works nicely with HTTP PATCH method, RFC 5789.</text></comment> |
1,931,561 | 1,931,149 | 1 | 2 | 1,931,015 | train | <story><title>How to Catch a Cheater</title><url>http://nerdlife.net/how-to-catch-a-cheater/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WillyF</author><text>During my Freshman year of college (2002), I was taking Econ 101. It was a class of probably 500 students, and our tests were multiple choice. By the time I got back to my dorm room, the answers to the test were always up on the course website (I'm not sure when they actually were posted).<p>After the first two tests, the professor must have noticed that something wasn't right. I finished the third test quickly, and was pretty confident that I had done extremely well. We used scantron sheets for our answers, so we got to take the paper with the questions home after the test. I had marked all of my answers on both sheets, so I loaded the course website and started checking my answers.<p>My heart sank as I went through the answers. Somehow I had managed to get every single question wrong. I figured that there must have been something wrong with the answers, and when I matched the answers (not the letters), I realized that I had actually gotten every question right.<p>The prof swapped the letters, so the kids whose friends were texting them the "answers" got screwed. It was pretty funny, even if it increased my blood pressure for a little bit.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Catch a Cheater</title><url>http://nerdlife.net/how-to-catch-a-cheater/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wwortiz</author><text>&#62; We were explicitly told that searching online for answers to homeworks was forbidden.<p>I might be in the minority but I am of the opinion that if you are grading students on something that can be easily obtained through a google search you probably shouldn't be grading them on that.</text></comment> |
4,013,003 | 4,011,854 | 1 | 2 | 4,011,687 | train | <story><title>Google's HTML5 synthesizer for Moog's 78th birthday</title><url>http://www.google.com?moog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moocow01</author><text>I feel a little bit mixed being that Google seems to be using this to market Chrome.<p>I have the latest version of Firefox and Safari and Google is informing me that I need a modern browser to experience it, which actually seems to just be Chrome.<p>Seems pretty passive aggressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phoboslab</author><text>Thing is, sound support (WebAudio or HTML5 &#60;audio&#62; alone) is not a priority for most browsers, Firefox included. I like that Google is so aggressive - maybe some of the other browser vendors will begin to care.<p>I ranted about the &#60;audio&#62; element quite a while ago[1] and many points are still valid. Also, &#60;audio&#62; can't be used for "dynamic" sound at all. Chrome's/Safari's WebAudio is the way to and Mozilla agrees, but hasn't done anything implementation wise.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audio" rel="nofollow">http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audi...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google's HTML5 synthesizer for Moog's 78th birthday</title><url>http://www.google.com?moog</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moocow01</author><text>I feel a little bit mixed being that Google seems to be using this to market Chrome.<p>I have the latest version of Firefox and Safari and Google is informing me that I need a modern browser to experience it, which actually seems to just be Chrome.<p>Seems pretty passive aggressive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EastSmith</author><text>Agree. Google nuked Firefox is what really just happened. It was really fun, while Google was using its home page powers to mock IE for missing features, but I am on Firefox Beta Update channel and they tell me to "upgrade to a modern browser". It is disappointing.</text></comment> |
38,831,568 | 38,831,166 | 1 | 2 | 38,830,194 | train | <story><title>Git Things</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/12/31/git-things.html#Git-Things</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gverrilla</author><text>I&#x27;m a beginner dev and I find it very odd both that vscode tries to limit my commit messages to 50 or 55 characters, and also that python linters want to make my lines of code so small. What&#x27;s the reason behind this? Old small monitors of the past?<p>I also don&#x27;t get why fediverse, mastodon seem to limit characters on a post, mimicking the stupid twitter, which is a niche social network. I way be wrong about the limit (never tried), but these platforms feel for ignorant outsiders like twitter-clones with a different infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heads</author><text>There are plenty of good reasons for short line lengths. Two factors constrain the max line length down to something not much more than 80 columns: side-by-side diffs and waning eyesight.<p>In-line diffs mix the flow of change in with the flow of execution, both going down the page. Side-by-side diffs makes those two axes orthogonal. With decorations (either in a terminal or a code review tool) even 80 column code requires a fairly small font. Editing two panes of code only needs 161 columns but a decorated patch might be more like 170.<p>The point font size is its height in increments of 1&#x2F;72”, and most fonts are half as wide as their point height. The largest font one can use on a 27” monitor (24” wide) is 20pt. My eyes get knackered at anything smaller than 18pt.</text></comment> | <story><title>Git Things</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/12/31/git-things.html#Git-Things</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gverrilla</author><text>I&#x27;m a beginner dev and I find it very odd both that vscode tries to limit my commit messages to 50 or 55 characters, and also that python linters want to make my lines of code so small. What&#x27;s the reason behind this? Old small monitors of the past?<p>I also don&#x27;t get why fediverse, mastodon seem to limit characters on a post, mimicking the stupid twitter, which is a niche social network. I way be wrong about the limit (never tried), but these platforms feel for ignorant outsiders like twitter-clones with a different infrastructure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JimBlackwood</author><text>Hah, this reminds me of my C++ professor requiring a max line width of 80 characters. My first question was “why not more!?” aswell.<p>He would have the homework submissions compiled to LaTeX and printed out - then he would write comments by hand. 80 characters was what would fit on a line. If you had more characters, lines wrapped wrongly and you’d get incorrect looking code - so he refused to grade.<p>I’ve since warmed up to the max line width idea. It’s nice to be able to read code on a small width window (I’ll rarely have a single full screen window with just code) and ensure each line is a valid syntax (and not unreadable due to softwrap in the editor). But I still think 80 chars is a bit extreme. 120 is nicer in my opinion.</text></comment> |
32,411,155 | 32,408,557 | 1 | 3 | 32,407,873 | train | <story><title>Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>withinboredom</author><text>I worked at a startup (now fairly popular in the US) where we had tables for each thing (users, companies, etc) and a “relationship” table that described each relationship between things. There were no foreign keys, so making changes were pretty cheap. It was actually pretty ingenious (the two guys who came up with the schema went on to get paid to work on k8s).<p>It was super handy to simply query that table to debug things, since by merely looking for a user, you’d discover everything. If Mongo was more mature and scalable back then (2012ish), I wonder if we would have used it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vivegi</author><text>This is quite similar to the RDF triples model. Everything is a &#x27;thing&#x27; including &#x27;relationships&#x27; between things. So you just need a thing table and a relation table.<p>The issue with this is schema management and rules gets pushed to the application layer. You also need to deal with very massive tables (in terms of # of rows) for the relationships table which leads to potential performance issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)</title><url>https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>withinboredom</author><text>I worked at a startup (now fairly popular in the US) where we had tables for each thing (users, companies, etc) and a “relationship” table that described each relationship between things. There were no foreign keys, so making changes were pretty cheap. It was actually pretty ingenious (the two guys who came up with the schema went on to get paid to work on k8s).<p>It was super handy to simply query that table to debug things, since by merely looking for a user, you’d discover everything. If Mongo was more mature and scalable back then (2012ish), I wonder if we would have used it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>&gt; tables for each thing (users, companies, etc) and a “relationship” table that described each relationship between things<p>Sounds like objects and associations in the Tao model:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.fb.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;core-data&#x2F;tao-the-power-of-the-graph&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;engineering.fb.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;core-data&#x2F;tao-the-powe...</a></text></comment> |
22,114,026 | 22,113,928 | 1 | 2 | 22,113,745 | train | <story><title>The Cruise Origin</title><url>https://www.getcruise.com/origin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nition</author><text>Is there a rule these days that your startup isn&#x27;t allowed to clearly describe what its product is?<p>Anyway, I guess this is an unmanned self-driving taxi service. Looks good, honestly. If it&#x27;s significantly cheaper than a taxi with human driver, then maybe it really could help people not need to own a car. Especially if they can optimise routes to get more people riding at once.<p>Having to hunt for what the thing actually is also got me to notice the small disclaimer though:<p>&gt; All on-road images of the Origin are renderings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unlinked_dll</author><text>One distinct variety of company culture is one where the employees can&#x27;t fathom a world where no one has ever heard of them.<p>That&#x27;s ok though, especially if you target your marketing towards early adopters who would know who you are. I doubt some of these companies could handle the hype or scale of being a household name.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cruise Origin</title><url>https://www.getcruise.com/origin/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nition</author><text>Is there a rule these days that your startup isn&#x27;t allowed to clearly describe what its product is?<p>Anyway, I guess this is an unmanned self-driving taxi service. Looks good, honestly. If it&#x27;s significantly cheaper than a taxi with human driver, then maybe it really could help people not need to own a car. Especially if they can optimise routes to get more people riding at once.<p>Having to hunt for what the thing actually is also got me to notice the small disclaimer though:<p>&gt; All on-road images of the Origin are renderings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yingw787</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;hackernoon&#x2F;for-the-love-of-god-please-tell-me-what-your-company-does-c2f0b835ab92" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;hackernoon&#x2F;for-the-love-of-god-please-tel...</a></text></comment> |
29,066,617 | 29,063,101 | 1 | 2 | 29,062,798 | train | <story><title>The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years</title><url>https://www.cato.org/commentary/patriot-act-has-threatened-freedom-20-years</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smitty1e</author><text>We The People should hate on, not only the Patriot Act, but every other &quot;we have to pass it to see what&#x27;s in it&quot; piece of vast legislation that is:<p>- rammed through substantially unread;<p>- despite its prolix nature, is hardly more than a requirements outline to be filled in by un-elected, faceless Executive Branch bureaucrats as &quot;regulations&quot;;<p>- continues to place financial burdens on unborn generations with gusto--&quot;Taxation without representation&quot; turned up to eleventy.<p>Rather than offer a standard spleen dump, the broader point for this audience that&#x27;s being made is that the government isn&#x27;t scalable.<p>The 1787 Constitution (while brilliant) is as a script that ran more-or-less well on a single instance, but has not forklifted into the cloud gracefully.<p>And people are not software, but the readers of this site can make some important recommendations about how to capture the liberty we hold dear and avoid the various tyranny traps.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years</title><url>https://www.cato.org/commentary/patriot-act-has-threatened-freedom-20-years</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>canjobear</author><text>I&#x27;m confused because as far as I can tell the Patriot Act is not currently in force, having expired in 2020[0]. But it seems that everyone is proceeding as if it is still in force, as if waiting on Congress to actually renew it is just a formality? Is this really how things work?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;section-215-expired-year-review-2020" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;section-215-expired-ye...</a></text></comment> |
11,958,981 | 11,958,770 | 1 | 3 | 11,958,728 | train | <story><title>What’s up with nano?</title><url>http://www.asty.org/2016/06/23/whats-up-with-nano/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>catskull</author><text>This is something I was pondering the other day: given nano&#x27;s proliferation, I wonder how many devs use it in a regular basis? My suspicion is that nano is more popular than vim or emacs, just used less. Many devs who do not primarily use a command line editor use nano when they have to. It&#x27;s like a screwdriver: it&#x27;s nobody&#x27;s favorite tool, but it&#x27;s probably the most popular.</text></comment> | <story><title>What’s up with nano?</title><url>http://www.asty.org/2016/06/23/whats-up-with-nano/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>Related discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11953044" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11953044</a></text></comment> |
14,751,036 | 14,749,167 | 1 | 2 | 14,744,279 | train | <story><title>Fedora 26 released</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-26-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>Please don&#x27;t do this to yourself : I tried Fedora 25 KDE a few weeks ago and it was the buggiest POS I ever ran on my PC. Just customizing the taskbar gave me a black screen that even a reboot didn&#x27;t solve.<p>For the record Fedora Gnome was rock stable on the same machine. The only reason I didn&#x27;t keep it is that I need what I call a &#x27;pinnable taskbar&#x27; (like Windows 7).<p>If you really want KDE you could try KDE Neon, still a bit buggy for my taste but at least it&#x27;s usable.<p>After a few more distros I settled on Mint Cinnamon. Not bad but frankly I miss Windows.</text></item><item><author>reitanqild</author><text>I would have worded this a bit different than you did.<p>But I too have shyed away from fedora the last few years.<p>I&#x27;m primarily a KDE user but I guess now is a good time to try fedora again if I get some time. (On my test vm now: latest Ubuntu with gnome. Also hoping to give solus&#x2F;budgie a little more time.)</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>I used Fedora years ago at 19 and 20 and it was great then. It worked and... Worked. The desktop came with sane defaults. It... Worked.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>I am mainly a macOS user, but I keep around a Dell workstation for work that needs a lot of memory or cores. After years of primarily running Debian and Ubuntu, I switched the machine to Fedora 25 and upgraded to Fedora 26 during the beta cycle.<p>I was surprised how good Fedora is these days. The GNOME desktop is buttery smooth with Wayland and the Nouveau drivers on the relatively old Quadro that the machine has. Audio and suspend&#x2F;resume worked out-of-the-box without any problems. Upgrades are very fast thanks to DNF and delta RPMs. Software also seems to get minor release updates within a release (e.g., I had some vim updates).<p>The Fedora installer also put &#x2F; on a separate btrfs subvolume as it should (Ubuntu didn&#x27;t do that in 16.04, not sure if they fixed that).<p>Great work Fedora folks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yrio</author><text>Other than the &quot;Dash to Panel&quot; extension mentioned by another user, you can also use the &quot;Dash to Dock&quot; extension to get pinnable taskbar (can be set to always visible &#x2F; auto hide).<p>I no longer use them though (to get more screen space)</text></comment> | <story><title>Fedora 26 released</title><url>https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-26-is-here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>Please don&#x27;t do this to yourself : I tried Fedora 25 KDE a few weeks ago and it was the buggiest POS I ever ran on my PC. Just customizing the taskbar gave me a black screen that even a reboot didn&#x27;t solve.<p>For the record Fedora Gnome was rock stable on the same machine. The only reason I didn&#x27;t keep it is that I need what I call a &#x27;pinnable taskbar&#x27; (like Windows 7).<p>If you really want KDE you could try KDE Neon, still a bit buggy for my taste but at least it&#x27;s usable.<p>After a few more distros I settled on Mint Cinnamon. Not bad but frankly I miss Windows.</text></item><item><author>reitanqild</author><text>I would have worded this a bit different than you did.<p>But I too have shyed away from fedora the last few years.<p>I&#x27;m primarily a KDE user but I guess now is a good time to try fedora again if I get some time. (On my test vm now: latest Ubuntu with gnome. Also hoping to give solus&#x2F;budgie a little more time.)</text></item><item><author>api</author><text>I used Fedora years ago at 19 and 20 and it was great then. It worked and... Worked. The desktop came with sane defaults. It... Worked.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>I am mainly a macOS user, but I keep around a Dell workstation for work that needs a lot of memory or cores. After years of primarily running Debian and Ubuntu, I switched the machine to Fedora 25 and upgraded to Fedora 26 during the beta cycle.<p>I was surprised how good Fedora is these days. The GNOME desktop is buttery smooth with Wayland and the Nouveau drivers on the relatively old Quadro that the machine has. Audio and suspend&#x2F;resume worked out-of-the-box without any problems. Upgrades are very fast thanks to DNF and delta RPMs. Software also seems to get minor release updates within a release (e.g., I had some vim updates).<p>The Fedora installer also put &#x2F; on a separate btrfs subvolume as it should (Ubuntu didn&#x27;t do that in 16.04, not sure if they fixed that).<p>Great work Fedora folks!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jburgess777</author><text>I have used Fedora + KDE for the past 5 years. Yes there are occasional issues but they are normally common to all distros which happen to use the same combination of components.<p>For me, I ran into a regression with compositing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.kde.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=354146" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.kde.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=354146</a><p>After I disabled the desktop effects Fedora 25 was rock solid.<p>I haven&#x27;t upgraded to F26, I normally wait a week or two to shake out any big issues.</text></comment> |
28,934,401 | 28,933,036 | 1 | 3 | 28,931,687 | train | <story><title>Museum Starts OnlyFans Account After Its TikTok Is Banned for Posting Nudes</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/93b995/museum-starts-onlyfans-account-after-its-tiktok-is-banned-for-posting-nudes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text><i>Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28887142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28887142</a> - Oct 2021 (147 comments)</text></comment> | <story><title>Museum Starts OnlyFans Account After Its TikTok Is Banned for Posting Nudes</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/93b995/museum-starts-onlyfans-account-after-its-tiktok-is-banned-for-posting-nudes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>savant_penguin</author><text>If onlyfans execs change their minds again the museum will be kicked out by posting nudes again<p>What a time to be alive</text></comment> |
9,107,154 | 9,106,100 | 1 | 2 | 9,105,902 | train | <story><title>Gemalto's findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM cards</title><url>http://www.gemalto.com/press/Pages/Gemalto-presents-the-findings-of-its-investigations-into-the-alleged-hacking-of-SIM-card-encryption-keys.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scintill76</author><text>Can anyone elaborate on why it&#x27;s supposedly only a problem for 2G? &quot;If someone intercepted the encryption keys used in 3G or 4G SIMs they would not be able to connect to the networks and consequently would be unable to spy on communications.&quot; Why not? I feel like there is a &quot;merely&quot; missing from this sentence -- if so, what more than keys do they need to spy?<p>Are they basing this on the specific type of key discussed in the documents? I don&#x27;t know a lot about it, but I&#x27;m inclined to believe there are valuable keys burned-in to 3G+ cards too.<p>I also wonder if there is a downgrade attack to force 2G, so that those keys are not completely worthless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pja</author><text>I had a chat to a friend who&#x27;s worked in the mobile industry for decades. He said that 4G phones (possibly 3G too, I don’t recall) only use the shared secret key for the initial sign-on to the parent mobile network. Thereafter, new keys are generated and stored at both ends and it&#x27;s these keys that are used to authenticate the end points and bootstrap encrypted connections. New keys are re-issued at intervals, although I don’t know what the interval time is.<p>So whilst it would be possible to decrypt phone connections if you had your hands on the original secret Ki stored in the SIM, you&#x27;d have to record every connection between the phone and the network in order to obtain all the subsequent keys as well &amp; if you miss out on the initial sign-on, or any individual re-keying then you’ll be shut out of that phone’s radio communications thereafter.<p>I imagine the NSA would be willing to try and do this for some target networks, but where they already have internal network access (US&#x2F;UK&#x2F;Five Eyes, any other network they&#x27;ve hacked into) it would be a lot of pointless effort.<p>The fake base station attack presumably works by forcing a downgrade to 2G, which is another approach, but one that requires local assets on the ground within phone range (unless you can do something with high gain antennas pointed at a specific target phone from a distance? That sounds hard, but the NSA likes hard as we know - throwing resources at something isn’t a problem for them.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Gemalto's findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM cards</title><url>http://www.gemalto.com/press/Pages/Gemalto-presents-the-findings-of-its-investigations-into-the-alleged-hacking-of-SIM-card-encryption-keys.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scintill76</author><text>Can anyone elaborate on why it&#x27;s supposedly only a problem for 2G? &quot;If someone intercepted the encryption keys used in 3G or 4G SIMs they would not be able to connect to the networks and consequently would be unable to spy on communications.&quot; Why not? I feel like there is a &quot;merely&quot; missing from this sentence -- if so, what more than keys do they need to spy?<p>Are they basing this on the specific type of key discussed in the documents? I don&#x27;t know a lot about it, but I&#x27;m inclined to believe there are valuable keys burned-in to 3G+ cards too.<p>I also wonder if there is a downgrade attack to force 2G, so that those keys are not completely worthless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thornjm</author><text>Hopefully someone more knowledgable can weigh in, but as I understand the key stored on a 3G sim is more useful for authentication&#x2F;identification rather than encryption.<p>3G&#x2F;4G somehow uses random, short lived keys for encrypted communication, which change frequently enough to be a pain.<p>EDIT: It has been a while since I studied this, but I believe the shared key is used for trust - that this isn&#x27;t a fake base station and the client is who they say they are. Then they use the equivalent of public key cryptography to establish short lived encryption keys. Stealing keys would probably enable a MitM only?</text></comment> |
30,137,221 | 30,134,840 | 1 | 2 | 30,112,906 | train | <story><title>Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback</title><url>https://blog.reverberate.org/2020/05/29/hoares-rebuttal-bubble-sorts-comeback.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>&gt; <i>the final surprise is that Bubble Sort takes the crown for small arrays</i><p>This didn&#x27;t need to be a surprise! It was a commonplace bit of wisdom in the microcomputer era, when sorting always came with questions about the application. You can&#x27;t beat it for locality— but you also can&#x27;t beat it for mostly-sorted, small collections.<p>Rather than sorting arrays, the area where bubblesort shines (ok. where bubblesort can still be considered!) is <i>keeping linked lists sorted</i>, especially where the sort order is important rather than critical. So event queues: you want to float the highest priority to the top, but it&#x27;s ok if occasionally #2 is launched before #1, because events aren&#x27;t guaranteed an execution order. We&#x27;re using an intrusive linked list because the scheduler has to take what it&#x27;s given, it can&#x27;t lay out memory.<p>Also, any time spent tinkering with an event queue is wasted time. So every round, walk the event queue and perform one (1) bubble sort. This takes the time it takes to traverse the list, effectively. So if you&#x27;ve placed exactly one event at the end of the queue (head of the list), it ends up precisely where it should be. Two? You leave one of them behind for the next pass.<p>It&#x27;s easy to reason out that when the sort starts performing badly, the problem you have is event congestion, not a poor big-O complexity for your queue sort.<p>Bubblesort is sometimes treated as a pessimal joke like bogosort, it isn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s just that the reason it&#x27;s treated as a basic sort pedagogically has been lost, as the profession&#x27;s center of gravity moves away from these kinds of system-level constructs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hoare’s Rebuttal and Bubble Sort’s Comeback</title><url>https://blog.reverberate.org/2020/05/29/hoares-rebuttal-bubble-sorts-comeback.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>...<i>It’s easy to see that the above loop can be implemented without conditional branches. The conditional swapping can be implemented by conditional moves and the conditional pointer increase could be implemented as a unconditional</i><p><pre><code> p += (*it &lt; pivot)
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Does that really guarantee that it is branchless? Surely a compiler is free to turn that into a comparison and jump?<p>Or, to put it another way, the compiler was also free to turn the original &#x27;if&#x2F;then&#x27; structure into branchless code using conditional instructions. My point is, surely neither version <i>guarantees</i> that the generated code is branchless, it&#x27;s all still up to the compiler.</text></comment> |
29,365,038 | 29,364,529 | 1 | 2 | 29,363,897 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?</title><text>I have been searching for a solution to e-sign some lease agreements. It is something that I need to do maybe once a year and the only thing I need is a legally binding way to put signatures and timestamps on a PDF. I do not need any fancy features.<p>I was doing research, and it seems like most document signature companies all charge monthly subscription fees! This does not work for me as I am not using the platform on a monthly basis.<p>Are there free, open source alternatives to Docusign? If so, why do more companies not use them?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>My guess - DocuSign has a hard to penetrate moat: It&#x27;s known and accepted in courts. Everything else doesn&#x27;t really matter.<p>Imagine you&#x27;re a legal department. You have to choose between DocuSign, which you know the court will accept, or a competitor. DocuSign costs 10x as much as the competitor. But that&#x27;s nothing compared to the cost of litigation, or worse, the cost of losing litigation. So you will likely choose DocuSign anyways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snowwrestler</author><text>I don’t think this premise is correct; I don’t know of any evidence that courts accord any special status to Docusign’d documents, over other ways of electronically signing contracts.<p>The concept doesn’t even make sense to me… Docusign is not attesting to the contracts they manage. They’re not an automated notary. They’re just facilitating something that anyone can do themselves: electronically sign a contract.<p>There probably is a “nobody got fired for buying Docusign” effect, but it would be supported by their mindshare, not some special status in courts. The vast, vast majority of Docusigned docs will never end up in a court anyway (most contracts are never litigated).</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?</title><text>I have been searching for a solution to e-sign some lease agreements. It is something that I need to do maybe once a year and the only thing I need is a legally binding way to put signatures and timestamps on a PDF. I do not need any fancy features.<p>I was doing research, and it seems like most document signature companies all charge monthly subscription fees! This does not work for me as I am not using the platform on a monthly basis.<p>Are there free, open source alternatives to Docusign? If so, why do more companies not use them?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgsovlerkhgsel</author><text>My guess - DocuSign has a hard to penetrate moat: It&#x27;s known and accepted in courts. Everything else doesn&#x27;t really matter.<p>Imagine you&#x27;re a legal department. You have to choose between DocuSign, which you know the court will accept, or a competitor. DocuSign costs 10x as much as the competitor. But that&#x27;s nothing compared to the cost of litigation, or worse, the cost of losing litigation. So you will likely choose DocuSign anyways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adventured</author><text>&gt; DocuSign has a hard to penetrate moat<p>It&#x27;s the same reason Coinbase, Square, Stripe, Airbnb (among many others) are worth what they are (ie rich multiples on sales). Their domains are extraordinarily difficult to do very well and now that large competitors are in place (in those segments) it&#x27;s borderline impossible to take a big chunk of the market away from them. They&#x27;re entrenched, potential future monopolist tech monsters.<p>The market loves these types of stories, right up until the growth inevitably declines to&#x2F;near single digits and then they get a boring eBay valuation (circa ~2003-2019).<p>The short of it is, a lot of the future returns have been pulled forward.</text></comment> |
28,937,385 | 28,936,199 | 1 | 3 | 28,934,833 | train | <story><title>Bioelektryczność – Polish Robotics (1968) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjrYk546uBA</url><text>I&#x27;m curious what was the state of an art in robotics area in 60s in different countries, feel free to post links to videos and pictures.<p>Here is my country - Poland:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NjrYk546uBA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NjrYk546uBA</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>abraxas</author><text>Awesome blast from the past. I wonder if this was ever featured on the legendary Polish TV program called &quot;Sonda&quot; (English title would &quot;The Probe&quot;)? &quot;Sonda&quot; was a great pop-science show when those were much more science and much less pop. Just two dudes sitting and discussing new and future technology and its implications.<p>Damn, I miss &quot;Sonda&quot; so much and this clip took me right down that memory lane.<p>Here&#x27;s the amazingly great intro music clip from the start of that show <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pHT8u52bSVE&amp;ab_channel=Dukatovny" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pHT8u52bSVE&amp;ab_channel=Dukat...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>q3k</author><text>You might enjoy this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;sonda" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;sonda</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bioelektryczność – Polish Robotics (1968) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjrYk546uBA</url><text>I&#x27;m curious what was the state of an art in robotics area in 60s in different countries, feel free to post links to videos and pictures.<p>Here is my country - Poland:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NjrYk546uBA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NjrYk546uBA</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>abraxas</author><text>Awesome blast from the past. I wonder if this was ever featured on the legendary Polish TV program called &quot;Sonda&quot; (English title would &quot;The Probe&quot;)? &quot;Sonda&quot; was a great pop-science show when those were much more science and much less pop. Just two dudes sitting and discussing new and future technology and its implications.<p>Damn, I miss &quot;Sonda&quot; so much and this clip took me right down that memory lane.<p>Here&#x27;s the amazingly great intro music clip from the start of that show <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pHT8u52bSVE&amp;ab_channel=Dukatovny" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pHT8u52bSVE&amp;ab_channel=Dukat...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heyitsme</author><text>I was just a kid in the 80s, but indeed remember watching &quot;Sonda&quot; - it was fantastic! Going through some episodes now on youtube, does bring back memories. There was another show in the late 80s called &quot;Bliżej świata&quot; (English: &quot;Closer to the World&quot;), which would run for an hour or so on a Sunday night and show snippets from western tv shows. The contrast to the (usually) very bleak communist Polish TV, was striking.
For me, back then, watching both of these shows felt like looking through a window into a different world.</text></comment> |
32,950,380 | 32,949,115 | 1 | 2 | 32,945,858 | train | <story><title>Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster</title><url>https://www.datafantic.com/how-much-time-do-we-waste-waiting-for-websites-to-load/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>I believe we are almost at peak GUI. The endgame here is that all these crappy GUIs that are getting worse every year will be relegated to a role of being APIs for AI agents.<p>Instead of clicking around and filling out forms and waiting for loading spinners all the time, we&#x27;ll just tell a large language model what we want to do in English, and it will go off and screen-scrape a bunch of apps and websites, do all the clicking for us, and summarize the results in a much simpler UI designed to actually be fast and useful, vs. designed to optimize the business metrics of some company as interpreted by a gaggle of product managers.<p>This isn&#x27;t unprecedented. Plaid screen scrapes terrible bank websites and turns them into APIs, though without AI. Google Duplex uses AI to turn restaurant phone numbers into an API for making reservations. DeepMind&#x27;s Sparrow[1], just announced today, answers factual questions posed in plain English by performing Google searches and summarizing the results. But it&#x27;s going to be a revolution when it becomes much more general and able to take actions rather than just summarize information. It isn&#x27;t far off! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adept.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adept.ai</a> is pretty much exactly what I&#x27;m talking about, and I expect there are a lot more people working on similar things that are still in stealth mode.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepmind.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-safer-dialogue-agents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepmind.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-safer-dialogue-agents</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>makeitdouble</author><text>You mention it in your response, but this whole paradigm looks like an extension of what we have with Google Search.<p>And Google Search is so utterly weak. Not just because of the neutering of search options or the weird priority conflict inside Google, but just because even with litteraly all the data in the world about a specific user it doesn&#x27;t seems like it can wrangle what a request actually means.<p>It can tell me the time in Chicago, but not what computer would actually be the best for my work. That search will only be spam, irrelevant popular results and paid reviews.<p>Same if I asked for a _good_ pizza recipe, it would probably not understand what that actually means for me.<p>The whole model of &quot;throwing a request in the box and expecting a result&quot; seems broken to me, I mean even between humans it doesn&#x27;t work that way, why would it work with an advanced AI ?<p>PS: even with more back and forth, I&#x27;m imagining what we have now with customer support over chat, and while more efficient than by phone, it&#x27;s definitely not the interface I want by default</text></comment> | <story><title>Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster</title><url>https://www.datafantic.com/how-much-time-do-we-waste-waiting-for-websites-to-load/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>I believe we are almost at peak GUI. The endgame here is that all these crappy GUIs that are getting worse every year will be relegated to a role of being APIs for AI agents.<p>Instead of clicking around and filling out forms and waiting for loading spinners all the time, we&#x27;ll just tell a large language model what we want to do in English, and it will go off and screen-scrape a bunch of apps and websites, do all the clicking for us, and summarize the results in a much simpler UI designed to actually be fast and useful, vs. designed to optimize the business metrics of some company as interpreted by a gaggle of product managers.<p>This isn&#x27;t unprecedented. Plaid screen scrapes terrible bank websites and turns them into APIs, though without AI. Google Duplex uses AI to turn restaurant phone numbers into an API for making reservations. DeepMind&#x27;s Sparrow[1], just announced today, answers factual questions posed in plain English by performing Google searches and summarizing the results. But it&#x27;s going to be a revolution when it becomes much more general and able to take actions rather than just summarize information. It isn&#x27;t far off! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adept.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;adept.ai</a> is pretty much exactly what I&#x27;m talking about, and I expect there are a lot more people working on similar things that are still in stealth mode.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepmind.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-safer-dialogue-agents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepmind.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-safer-dialogue-agents</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0asd</author><text>I have a web app that is essentially a full OS GUI in the browser. The load time in Chrome with state restoration is almost exactly 0.3 seconds, which includes asynchronous gathering of file system artifacts and rendering display thereof.<p>At the same many primarily text sites struggle, such as news and social media, struggle to load in 15 seconds.<p>My connection measures about 920mbps down so 15 seconds is really ridiculously slow. This is certainly not a technology problem evidenced by my own app that is doing so much more is such shorter time.</text></comment> |
23,063,534 | 23,063,633 | 1 | 2 | 23,062,723 | train | <story><title>YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/david-icke-man-behind-coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-has-youtube-channel-shuttered-sharing-1501641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knzhou</author><text>Do you have a standard in mind that&#x27;s better than the WHO? Would you prefer content prohibited on the basis of whether it sounds right or wrong to a random Google employee?</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>I&#x27;m not going to shed a tear for David Icke, but this quote is very concerning:<p>&gt; YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 <i>as described by the WHO [World Health Organization] and the NHS [the U.K&#x27;s healthcare system]</i> [emphasis added]<p>The WHO at least has been flat out wrong several times during this pandemic, such as telling people not to wear masks. Anointing one agency as the sole source of truth and censoring anything that contradicts it is not going to lead to a good outcome. People need to be able to question authorities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imgabe</author><text>I would prefer <i>content</i> not to be prohibited at all. Content is not a problem. Actions are a problem. Watch all the videos you like telling you to burn down a cell tower. Once you <i>do</i> burn down a cell tower, then you go to jail. Perhaps we should also then hold the people telling people to burn down cell towers responsible, criminally and civilly, for the people who listen to them.<p>David Icke might not be so cavalier about telling people to burn down cell towers if he could be sued and&#x2F;or jailed after people took him up on it.<p>As a general principle, I think we should focus on <i>actual</i> consequences, not imagined, potential consequences.<p>This has the effect of also encouraging useful dissent. If you disagree with WHO and you turn out to be right, you can be properly credited with it. You are not automatically punished for the crime of daring to disagree with the WHO, and we all benefit from having more accurate, useful information.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/david-icke-man-behind-coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-has-youtube-channel-shuttered-sharing-1501641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>knzhou</author><text>Do you have a standard in mind that&#x27;s better than the WHO? Would you prefer content prohibited on the basis of whether it sounds right or wrong to a random Google employee?</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>I&#x27;m not going to shed a tear for David Icke, but this quote is very concerning:<p>&gt; YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 <i>as described by the WHO [World Health Organization] and the NHS [the U.K&#x27;s healthcare system]</i> [emphasis added]<p>The WHO at least has been flat out wrong several times during this pandemic, such as telling people not to wear masks. Anointing one agency as the sole source of truth and censoring anything that contradicts it is not going to lead to a good outcome. People need to be able to question authorities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6nf</author><text>Nobody should be above scrutiny, that&#x27;s the point!</text></comment> |
11,987,553 | 11,987,689 | 1 | 2 | 11,987,032 | train | <story><title>New Cities</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidw</author><text>I think &quot;old cities&quot; are pretty good too: the kind where they were built for people, rather than cars, and where you could build things without a dense thicket of regulations almost entirely unrelated to safety. Another thing that seems to work well is limiting the amount of up-front large scale projects and growing incrementally. No one can plan for everything ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_calculation_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_calculation_problem</a> ) .<p>Recommended reading:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketurbanism.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketurbanism.com&#x2F;</a><p>The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;28W6et9" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;28W6et9</a><p><i>Edit</i> - I&#x27;ll add that I think it&#x27;s great that YC is spending some money to look into this, as it&#x27;s a huge issue for many desirable, productive cities these days. Huge as in billions of dollars:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-07&#x2F;here-s-how-much-new-york-and-san-francisco-s-tight-housing-markets-are-hurting-the-economy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-07&#x2F;here-s-how...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sama</author><text>Cars have a place in cities but maybe they should be in tunnels underground or something.<p>I view money locked up in real estate as money in a very suboptimal place. We pay too much &#x27;rent&#x27; in general; it&#x27;d be far better to try to make housing&#x2F;office space cheap and have people invest the extra money in productive assets.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Cities</title><url>http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-cities</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davidw</author><text>I think &quot;old cities&quot; are pretty good too: the kind where they were built for people, rather than cars, and where you could build things without a dense thicket of regulations almost entirely unrelated to safety. Another thing that seems to work well is limiting the amount of up-front large scale projects and growing incrementally. No one can plan for everything ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_calculation_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_calculation_problem</a> ) .<p>Recommended reading:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.strongtowns.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketurbanism.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketurbanism.com&#x2F;</a><p>The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;28W6et9" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;28W6et9</a><p><i>Edit</i> - I&#x27;ll add that I think it&#x27;s great that YC is spending some money to look into this, as it&#x27;s a huge issue for many desirable, productive cities these days. Huge as in billions of dollars:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-07&#x2F;here-s-how-much-new-york-and-san-francisco-s-tight-housing-markets-are-hurting-the-economy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2015-05-07&#x2F;here-s-how...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antr</author><text>For anyone interested in this research subject should watch all the talks at the Architecture IO conference: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.architecture.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.architecture.io&#x2F;</a><p>Talks include subjects such as walkability, city design, urban data visualisation, crowd modelling, new transportation systems, etc.</text></comment> |
35,735,573 | 35,734,187 | 1 | 2 | 35,731,898 | train | <story><title>NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/nasa-power-hack-extends-voyager-2-mission-science-1850378890</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bruce511</author><text>Everything about Voyager is just mind-blowing. These are 45 year old electronic devices, using 70&#x27;s tech, with zero maintenance, operating 22 light hours away.<p>At that range they can still send messages detectable on earth. 9 out of 10 instruments are still working. People just leaving school when they launched are already retired.<p>This is one time when the adage &quot;they don&#x27;t make them like they used to&quot; is well applied.<p>Hat tip to all involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shagie</author><text>Btw, you can see the occasional communication with Voyager at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eyes.nasa.gov&#x2F;dsn&#x2F;dsn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eyes.nasa.gov&#x2F;dsn&#x2F;dsn.html</a><p>As I write this, one of the dishes at Madrid just went to &quot;Setup&quot; for communication with VGR1.<p>(late edit - some of the stats from the &#x27;more info&#x27; at the bottom of the spacecraft panel)<p><pre><code> DATA RATE 160.0 b&#x2F;sec
POWER RECEIVED -160 dBm (1.0 x 10-22 kW)</code></pre></text></comment> | <story><title>NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/nasa-power-hack-extends-voyager-2-mission-science-1850378890</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bruce511</author><text>Everything about Voyager is just mind-blowing. These are 45 year old electronic devices, using 70&#x27;s tech, with zero maintenance, operating 22 light hours away.<p>At that range they can still send messages detectable on earth. 9 out of 10 instruments are still working. People just leaving school when they launched are already retired.<p>This is one time when the adage &quot;they don&#x27;t make them like they used to&quot; is well applied.<p>Hat tip to all involved.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schmichael</author><text>Agreed, but I believe Voyager is 18.5 light hours away, not 22. The article says it is 20 billion km away which is 18.5 light hours.<p>However the article also states signals take 22 hours to reach the spacecraft. Do radio waves travel slower than the speed of light even in the vacuum of space? I assume the waves do not spend the extra 3.5 hours in Earth&#x27;s atmosphere!</text></comment> |
26,741,349 | 26,741,550 | 1 | 2 | 26,740,323 | train | <story><title>EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video</title><url>https://www.eff.org/ar/document/eff-letter-re-virtual-coachella-video</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rozab</author><text>Here&#x27;s the actual video:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=67sfZfreOrU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=67sfZfreOrU</a><p>These guys have a lot of relevant content for HN types, they&#x27;re really funny.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grenoire</author><text>The goddam microservices video is an absolute masterpiece.</text></comment> | <story><title>EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video</title><url>https://www.eff.org/ar/document/eff-letter-re-virtual-coachella-video</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rozab</author><text>Here&#x27;s the actual video:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=67sfZfreOrU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=67sfZfreOrU</a><p>These guys have a lot of relevant content for HN types, they&#x27;re really funny.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beaconstudios</author><text>I knew I recognised the name KRAZAM from somewhere These guys are hilarious.</text></comment> |
7,061,739 | 7,061,125 | 1 | 2 | 7,060,385 | train | <story><title>Rails Consulting for Fun and Profit</title><url>http://joshsymonds.com/blog/2014/01/14/rails-consulting-for-fun-and-profit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leknarf</author><text>Great article overall. I particularly liked the three mistakes you pointed out:<p><i>I nickled-and-dimed a client on change requests, alienating that client and making myself appear less professional. ... I would have been better served by her loving me than making a little more money.</i><p>I completely agree. In fact, this is part of the reason new freelancers often regret setting their hourly rate too low. It&#x27;s important that you set a high enough rate that you can throw in unbillable work now and then without destroying your earnings. The best freelancers consistently under-promise and over-deliver.<p><i>For pricing my services, I need to start high and work my way down. I generally start client conversations on my hourly rate at what I would consider a reasonable ultimate number, and then allow myself to be driven down from there — generally because the client wants a long-term contract and expects to save on my hourly based on the length of the engagement.</i><p>Constant haggling will make every new project a frustrating experience. I usually recommend setting a fair rate and then holding the line when clients ask for a discount. That&#x27;s tough to do with your first few projects, but becomes easier once you&#x27;re more confident about your rate and abilities.<p><i>More projects, less hourly. When starting as a consultant, I was really selling only my hours. Now Symonds &amp; Son is a business in its own right, and I’ve hired designers and developers to help with my workload. Working with other talented individuals makes much more sense on a project basis, where I can package their (and my) hours together.</i><p>This depends on what type of projects you&#x27;re looking to take on. Landing pages and presentation work will probably pay more if you charge per project (since clients won&#x27;t believe you can more 10x faster than cheaper devs), but building new product features for startups is probably better at an hourly rate (since startup clients always change what they&#x27;re looking to build).<p>If anyone is looking to get started as a freelancer&#x2F;consultant or just looking to expand their existing business, take a look at our startup: <a href="http://getlambda.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getlambda.com</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dworin</author><text>Great additional advice, two other thoughts building on it:<p>1) Make sure the client knows that you&#x27;re doing work that&#x27;s out of scope, but that you&#x27;re not charging for. Otherwise they just think it&#x27;s part of the package, and will expect it next time. I&#x27;ve seen consultants get upset that clients didn&#x27;t appreciate all the extra work they were doing, when the clients didn&#x27;t even know it was extra.<p>2) Stay firm on your rates, but offer discounts to clients for things that cost them nothing and help your business. Knock 10% off if they pay up front: it gives you cash in hand, saves you from having to follow up with accounts payable, and makes it harder for them to cancel the project. Offer a discount as part of a retainer or an ongoing support contract. Show them where there are opportunities for someone on their team to do the work, rather than engaging you. If you show them that you&#x27;re a partner in helping them reduce costs, they&#x27;ll value your services more.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rails Consulting for Fun and Profit</title><url>http://joshsymonds.com/blog/2014/01/14/rails-consulting-for-fun-and-profit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>leknarf</author><text>Great article overall. I particularly liked the three mistakes you pointed out:<p><i>I nickled-and-dimed a client on change requests, alienating that client and making myself appear less professional. ... I would have been better served by her loving me than making a little more money.</i><p>I completely agree. In fact, this is part of the reason new freelancers often regret setting their hourly rate too low. It&#x27;s important that you set a high enough rate that you can throw in unbillable work now and then without destroying your earnings. The best freelancers consistently under-promise and over-deliver.<p><i>For pricing my services, I need to start high and work my way down. I generally start client conversations on my hourly rate at what I would consider a reasonable ultimate number, and then allow myself to be driven down from there — generally because the client wants a long-term contract and expects to save on my hourly based on the length of the engagement.</i><p>Constant haggling will make every new project a frustrating experience. I usually recommend setting a fair rate and then holding the line when clients ask for a discount. That&#x27;s tough to do with your first few projects, but becomes easier once you&#x27;re more confident about your rate and abilities.<p><i>More projects, less hourly. When starting as a consultant, I was really selling only my hours. Now Symonds &amp; Son is a business in its own right, and I’ve hired designers and developers to help with my workload. Working with other talented individuals makes much more sense on a project basis, where I can package their (and my) hours together.</i><p>This depends on what type of projects you&#x27;re looking to take on. Landing pages and presentation work will probably pay more if you charge per project (since clients won&#x27;t believe you can more 10x faster than cheaper devs), but building new product features for startups is probably better at an hourly rate (since startup clients always change what they&#x27;re looking to build).<p>If anyone is looking to get started as a freelancer&#x2F;consultant or just looking to expand their existing business, take a look at our startup: <a href="http://getlambda.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getlambda.com</a>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mgkimsal</author><text>&gt; I completely agree. In fact, this is part of the reason new freelancers often regret setting their hourly rate too low. It&#x27;s important that you set a high enough rate that you can throw in unbillable work now and then without destroying your earnings. The best freelancers consistently under-promise and over-deliver.<p>I agree with your agreement, but... it&#x27;s hard for new clients to understand that you will not nickel and dime them. My rate is rather high for my market, but I do not nickel and dime. But it takes people a while to learn that, no, I don&#x27;t bill for that 10 minute phone call. No, I don&#x27;t itemize parking costs when I come to a meeting downtown. No, I don&#x27;t charge them double time for tackling an emergency on the weekend.<p>And... some times clients end up going with someone else with a &#x27;cheaper&#x27; rate, and I know they end up paying probably just about as much as I&#x27;d be charging them with an hourly or daily rate (I have both, but most people still prefer hourly, and I don&#x27;t turn them down yet because of that).<p>EDIT: &quot;nickel and diming&quot; on things I outlined above I don&#x27;t do. Full on changes - &quot;we need 3 new forms&quot; - still get charged for.</text></comment> |
31,060,527 | 31,059,421 | 1 | 2 | 31,058,283 | train | <story><title>Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games</title><url>https://www.miniclip.com/games/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jterrys</author><text>It&#x27;s really a shame that Adobe&#x27;s absolute garbage treatment of Flash ended up causing, in my opinion, roughly a decade and a half or so of young childrens&#x27; and teens&#x27; disinterest in making video games. That niche was somewhat filled partly by Roblox and Minecraft, and today it&#x27;s getting easier and easier to spin something up in Unity, but there&#x27;s never been anything quite comparable to the level of simplicity of just making some bullshit in Fireworks and fiddling around with Flash for a few hours while recording audio on a shitty microphone and splicing up old pictures to make a dumb joke. Ah nostalgia</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>End of the day the people at the top of Adobe only really saw Flash as owning the web video delivery mechanism.<p>Also it was pretty disgusting how little effort they put into optimization until it threatened them being on iOS. I was knee deep in working with Flash and suddenly one day all the code was running as fast on Mac as it did on Windows. After years of it usually being 30% slower.</text></comment> | <story><title>Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games</title><url>https://www.miniclip.com/games/en/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jterrys</author><text>It&#x27;s really a shame that Adobe&#x27;s absolute garbage treatment of Flash ended up causing, in my opinion, roughly a decade and a half or so of young childrens&#x27; and teens&#x27; disinterest in making video games. That niche was somewhat filled partly by Roblox and Minecraft, and today it&#x27;s getting easier and easier to spin something up in Unity, but there&#x27;s never been anything quite comparable to the level of simplicity of just making some bullshit in Fireworks and fiddling around with Flash for a few hours while recording audio on a shitty microphone and splicing up old pictures to make a dumb joke. Ah nostalgia</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wodenokoto</author><text>On one hand, I kinda stand by being against flash, but on the other hand, we aren&#x27;t really at a better place today than when Flash was all over the place.</text></comment> |
20,941,710 | 20,941,924 | 1 | 3 | 20,939,903 | train | <story><title>Day Trading for a Living?</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423101</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgespencer</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t you need a basis for believing that day trading Brazilian futures has unique properties not present in other markets to assert this? E.g. the volatility or spread is significantly larger than European futures or the information flow is more tightly de&#x2F;regulated etc.<p>Is there a basis for believing this?</text></item><item><author>DSingularity</author><text>Because that is not a representative sampling of the day trader population. Assuming the techniques of the study were sound, at best we can conclude whether or not day trading Brazilian futures is a sustainably profitable undertaking.</text></item><item><author>soneca</author><text>Why weird?</text></item><item><author>davidu</author><text>I don&#x27;t doubt the headline, but &quot;We observe all individuals who began to day trade between 2013 and 2015 in the Brazilian equity futures market&quot; seems like a weird way to come to that conclusion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teawrecks</author><text>Making an assumption about the population based on a small non-random sample is usually the belief that needs to be justified by evidence.</text></comment> | <story><title>Day Trading for a Living?</title><url>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423101</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>georgespencer</author><text>Wouldn&#x27;t you need a basis for believing that day trading Brazilian futures has unique properties not present in other markets to assert this? E.g. the volatility or spread is significantly larger than European futures or the information flow is more tightly de&#x2F;regulated etc.<p>Is there a basis for believing this?</text></item><item><author>DSingularity</author><text>Because that is not a representative sampling of the day trader population. Assuming the techniques of the study were sound, at best we can conclude whether or not day trading Brazilian futures is a sustainably profitable undertaking.</text></item><item><author>soneca</author><text>Why weird?</text></item><item><author>davidu</author><text>I don&#x27;t doubt the headline, but &quot;We observe all individuals who began to day trade between 2013 and 2015 in the Brazilian equity futures market&quot; seems like a weird way to come to that conclusion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>C1sc0cat</author><text>Kind of not all exchanges are equal, professional investors still don&#x27;t trust the main Chinese exchange.</text></comment> |
14,207,662 | 14,207,632 | 1 | 2 | 14,205,997 | train | <story><title>The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/26/heres-the-fccs-plan-to-undo-its-own-net-neutrality-rules</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>splintercell</author><text>In past I&#x27;ve seen comments and incendiary language like this be given warning from the mods.<p>I come to this site because despite of being more liberal leaning, I can have calm conversations with people.</text></item><item><author>__jal</author><text>He&#x27;s just spewing bullshit to get past the decision becoming final.<p>Engaging on a level of logic with someone who is seeking an outcome and just says whatever they think will support their view. This is about the exercise of power.<p>And as has happened since Reagan, when the clownshow in office is finally shown the door, the D&#x27;s get to clean up the mess, work towards fixing economy yet again, and the cycle of life is complete.<p>Sigh.</text></item><item><author>outsidetheparty</author><text>&gt; Pai argued that rolling back the rules will encourage ISPs to spend more on their broadband networks<p>How? How on earth does letting ISPs milk more money out of their existing network incentivize those ISPs to expand that network? It&#x27;s just so frustrating that these guys no longer even bother to pretend that their arguments make any logical sense at all. &quot;We&#x27;ll protect user privacy by eliminating these rules that protect user privacy!&quot; &quot;We&#x27;ll boost competition and choice, by giving the existing entrenched players more control and power!&quot;<p>This is just such a naked demonstration of regulatory capture. It boggles my mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__jal</author><text>What specifically do you find incendiary? I&#x27;m not using Washington political euphemisms, but I honestly fail to see anything &quot;rabble-rousing, seditious or subversive&quot; about what I&#x27;ve said. I&#x27;m calling it like I see it. Please do explain.</text></comment> | <story><title>The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/04/26/heres-the-fccs-plan-to-undo-its-own-net-neutrality-rules</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>splintercell</author><text>In past I&#x27;ve seen comments and incendiary language like this be given warning from the mods.<p>I come to this site because despite of being more liberal leaning, I can have calm conversations with people.</text></item><item><author>__jal</author><text>He&#x27;s just spewing bullshit to get past the decision becoming final.<p>Engaging on a level of logic with someone who is seeking an outcome and just says whatever they think will support their view. This is about the exercise of power.<p>And as has happened since Reagan, when the clownshow in office is finally shown the door, the D&#x27;s get to clean up the mess, work towards fixing economy yet again, and the cycle of life is complete.<p>Sigh.</text></item><item><author>outsidetheparty</author><text>&gt; Pai argued that rolling back the rules will encourage ISPs to spend more on their broadband networks<p>How? How on earth does letting ISPs milk more money out of their existing network incentivize those ISPs to expand that network? It&#x27;s just so frustrating that these guys no longer even bother to pretend that their arguments make any logical sense at all. &quot;We&#x27;ll protect user privacy by eliminating these rules that protect user privacy!&quot; &quot;We&#x27;ll boost competition and choice, by giving the existing entrenched players more control and power!&quot;<p>This is just such a naked demonstration of regulatory capture. It boggles my mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>F2</author><text>How exactly is the comment you&#x27;re replying to &quot;incendiary&quot;?</text></comment> |
24,153,870 | 24,153,713 | 1 | 2 | 24,153,263 | train | <story><title>Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hb0jl8/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kanobo</author><text>Apple and Google are similar to China and America. Apple has more restrictive policies within a walled garden. Google gives more freedoms but its platform is wild and open. It&#x27;s easy for Apple to take advantage of Google&#x27;s ecosystem and open policies, but very difficult for Google to do the same to Apple. It&#x27;s similar to how US companies don&#x27;t get a fair shake in China. And in both, the citizens get taken advantage of and the little people have no power. Did any of what I just said make any sense?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid Google's 30% cut</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hb0jl8/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>copp</author><text>The usual discussion on this topic goes like this:<p>Apple defenders - It is their right to do it, since Android store allows them.<p>Others - Apple is being a hypocrite. While they maintain that app store must be compensated for all the services they do to developers, When given a chance they do not agree with their above statement.<p>I feel w.r.t app stores, Google is User-centric, but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers. They use users as pawns, to bully the best for Apple, rather than their customers (you and I).<p>edit: To explain &quot;user centric&quot; better<p>Because of Apple&#x27;s rules, you cannot just sign-up from Netflix app in iOS. You have to sign up in their Browser and then sign in. And Netflix is not allowed to even specify that in the app. Absolutely confusing, for normal users. Very bad user experience.<p>That is what I say when they are holding you as pawns. Apple is okay for you and I to go through that confusing experience, instead of allowing Netflix to tell them that users have to sign up in the browser.</text></comment> |
24,888,736 | 24,888,486 | 1 | 2 | 24,887,381 | train | <story><title>Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kungito</author><text>Are Bing and DDG using those algorithms? Because every 6-8 months I give one of them a try and they are horrible. First I force myself a week of no falling back to Google when I cannot find anything and then slowly I just give up again. Did they misunderstand something elementary?</text></item><item><author>lumost</author><text>Who says apple hasn&#x27;t built a viable alternative already? 12 billion might just be the cost of keeping them out of the search market.<p>It&#x27;s not 2000 anymore. Building a web scale search engine no longer requires novel distributed systems work, and the most viable search algorithms have strong open source implementations. It&#x27;s still a very hard problem to get right, but you can create an &quot;interesting&quot; poc in a few weeks. Recent work on unspervised content based recommenders can help reduce click stream data requirements.</text></item><item><author>sparker72678</author><text>The irony of the suit will be when Google is barred from paying for preferential treatment, then everyone chooses them as the default anyway, saving Google billions of dollars per year while leaving their 95% market share untouched.<p>Who had Apple down on their betting sheet as the biggest loser from a Google anti-trust lawsuit?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weareallcowards</author><text>I&#x27;ve used DDG search exclusively for about 9 months now, and I&#x27;ve never used the !g flag. Comments like this completely baffle me.<p>In my anecdotal experience, it&#x27;s every bit as good as google, and I simply did not notice a difference in the results when I switched.<p>It must be down to what people search for, or maybe how heavily Google has customized their personal results to fit their behaviors. I mostly use web searches for looking up technical documentation, and 5-second tasks like weather forecasts and unit conversions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kungito</author><text>Are Bing and DDG using those algorithms? Because every 6-8 months I give one of them a try and they are horrible. First I force myself a week of no falling back to Google when I cannot find anything and then slowly I just give up again. Did they misunderstand something elementary?</text></item><item><author>lumost</author><text>Who says apple hasn&#x27;t built a viable alternative already? 12 billion might just be the cost of keeping them out of the search market.<p>It&#x27;s not 2000 anymore. Building a web scale search engine no longer requires novel distributed systems work, and the most viable search algorithms have strong open source implementations. It&#x27;s still a very hard problem to get right, but you can create an &quot;interesting&quot; poc in a few weeks. Recent work on unspervised content based recommenders can help reduce click stream data requirements.</text></item><item><author>sparker72678</author><text>The irony of the suit will be when Google is barred from paying for preferential treatment, then everyone chooses them as the default anyway, saving Google billions of dollars per year while leaving their 95% market share untouched.<p>Who had Apple down on their betting sheet as the biggest loser from a Google anti-trust lawsuit?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>Bing and DDG don&#x27;t fall prey to being inundated by SEO blog spam like Google does.<p>Either way, I use Searx[1], which is a search engine aggregator that you can self-host or use one of the public instances[2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;searx&#x2F;searx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;searx&#x2F;searx</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searx.space&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searx.space&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
2,606,618 | 2,606,214 | 1 | 3 | 2,606,096 | train | <story><title>"I trust Redis-on-disk every day less." --Salvatore</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/redis-db/browse_thread/thread/7019b7dbfa9718a8/fa4bcca492eedc40</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>antirez</author><text>A message from the same thread that possibly better explains my point:<p>For Redis on disk to work well, you need:<p>1) Very biased data access.<p>2) Mostly reads.<p>3) Dataset consisting of key-&#62;value data where values are small.<p>4) A dataset that is big enough to really pose memory/cost problems on the ever growing RAM you find in a entry level server.<p>What is left of Redis semantics and advantages here? The intersection of 1+2+3+4 is small and fits exactly in the case where
Redis for metadata, or as a cache, plus another datastore designed to
work on disk is the right pick. So why should not we focus, instead,
into doing what we already do (the in-memory but persistent data
structure server) better? It would be already an huge success to
enhance what we already have (not to say that Redis is so important, just that Redis can do his small part in the big picture providing something simple that works well, instead of trying to do everything and save the world).</text></comment> | <story><title>"I trust Redis-on-disk every day less." --Salvatore</title><url>http://groups.google.com/group/redis-db/browse_thread/thread/7019b7dbfa9718a8/fa4bcca492eedc40</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xpaulbettsx</author><text>So if Redis is purely in-memory, then (and I'm asking in a positive way), how can it be used in any production system effectively? If something like a spontaneous reboot or Redis crash occurs, or some other event, don't you lose everything?</text></comment> |
27,766,448 | 27,764,969 | 1 | 3 | 27,761,334 | train | <story><title>Npm Audit: broken by design?</title><url>https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonathonW</author><text>A regex &quot;denial of service&quot; &quot;vulnerability&quot; <i>could</i> be important, if it shows up in code that processes untrusted input from end users.<p>But NPM Audit has no idea of context-- a &quot;critical&quot; bug in `browserlist`, which, in this context, is never used outside the development process and never takes input outside of what&#x27;s in my package.json, gets the same prominence (or more so, since it&#x27;s early in alphabetical order) as a &quot;critical&quot; bug in Express, potentially allowing my server to be compromised.<p>I&#x27;m not really sure what the solution is here; NPM&#x27;s just a package manager and doesn&#x27;t know <i>how</i> you&#x27;re using a given package. A simple heuristic distinguishing development dependencies and runtime dependencies in NPM Audit might be a start, but that doesn&#x27;t help with situations like create-react-app&#x27;s react-scripts where <i>everything</i>, runtime or dev dependency, is a transitive dependency of one package declared as a runtime dependency.</text></item><item><author>esens</author><text>I found that much of the underlying cause is those mass reporting regex denial of services as being high severity bugs.<p>So many people are reporting these in tons of different projects: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?q=regex+denial+of+service&amp;type=issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?q=regex+denial+of+service&amp;type=iss...</a><p>Anyhow it is just annoying and they broke NPM Audit based on these reports.<p>It is good to fix all possible bugs, but many of these are not anywhere close to the level of bad that the reports are making them to be.<p>But maybe this is needed to just get rid of these issues in genera? So a wave of regex vulnerability reports and then we build this type of checking into prettier or similar and we do not have these in the future?<p>EDIT: It appears there as a project that found 100s of CVE reported Regex vulnerabilities in npm projects -- this is maybe one of the sources of mass reports. See the bottom of this resume: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yetingli.github.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yetingli.github.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IggleSniggle</author><text>Agreed!<p>A “Critical” bug in a dev context should mean something very different from a “Critical” bug in a prod context. A “Critical” devDependency bug should be either a direct threat to the developer’s context, either by infecting the dev machine or by injecting a supply-chain problem, worming it’s way into downstream contexts.<p>npm audit is just not granular OR careful enough to address these issues appropriately.</text></comment> | <story><title>Npm Audit: broken by design?</title><url>https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JonathonW</author><text>A regex &quot;denial of service&quot; &quot;vulnerability&quot; <i>could</i> be important, if it shows up in code that processes untrusted input from end users.<p>But NPM Audit has no idea of context-- a &quot;critical&quot; bug in `browserlist`, which, in this context, is never used outside the development process and never takes input outside of what&#x27;s in my package.json, gets the same prominence (or more so, since it&#x27;s early in alphabetical order) as a &quot;critical&quot; bug in Express, potentially allowing my server to be compromised.<p>I&#x27;m not really sure what the solution is here; NPM&#x27;s just a package manager and doesn&#x27;t know <i>how</i> you&#x27;re using a given package. A simple heuristic distinguishing development dependencies and runtime dependencies in NPM Audit might be a start, but that doesn&#x27;t help with situations like create-react-app&#x27;s react-scripts where <i>everything</i>, runtime or dev dependency, is a transitive dependency of one package declared as a runtime dependency.</text></item><item><author>esens</author><text>I found that much of the underlying cause is those mass reporting regex denial of services as being high severity bugs.<p>So many people are reporting these in tons of different projects: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?q=regex+denial+of+service&amp;type=issues" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?q=regex+denial+of+service&amp;type=iss...</a><p>Anyhow it is just annoying and they broke NPM Audit based on these reports.<p>It is good to fix all possible bugs, but many of these are not anywhere close to the level of bad that the reports are making them to be.<p>But maybe this is needed to just get rid of these issues in genera? So a wave of regex vulnerability reports and then we build this type of checking into prettier or similar and we do not have these in the future?<p>EDIT: It appears there as a project that found 100s of CVE reported Regex vulnerabilities in npm projects -- this is maybe one of the sources of mass reports. See the bottom of this resume: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yetingli.github.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yetingli.github.io</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Angius</author><text>IMHO one solution would be to categorize vulnerabilities separately for prod dependencies and dev dependencies, and bubble that categorization up.<p>For example, a RegEx DDoS vulnerability in Express would show up as high severity, while the same would not show in the bundler you use, or any package that your bundler has in its dependency tree.</text></comment> |
4,122,927 | 4,122,866 | 1 | 3 | 4,122,783 | train | <story><title>Chinese RFC proposes separate, independent, national internets and DNS roots</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diao-aip-dns-00</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kijin</author><text>"Internet autonomy" = we want to have our own <i>intranet</i> so we can cut off the rest of the world from our population without causing technical trouble.<p>"Unilateral action" = we're gonna do this whether you like it or not.<p>But you know what, the Chinese already have the means to do this. Just block anything that doesn't end in ".cn", and block port 53 on all foreign DNS servers. Then what's the point of this internet draft? Just something that somebody can cite later to lend an appearance of support when China does break away from the internet?</text></comment> | <story><title>Chinese RFC proposes separate, independent, national internets and DNS roots</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diao-aip-dns-00</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmb</author><text>We like this Internet, but we would like one without the "Inter", and possibly without the "net".</text></comment> |
19,913,842 | 19,913,433 | 1 | 3 | 19,912,065 | train | <story><title>A Single Component Can Brick Older Teslas</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/27945/a-single-component-can-brick-older-teslas-and-tesla-wont-fix-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BluSyn</author><text>This issue is best explained on Rich Rebuilds&#x27; recent video here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=o-7b1waoj9Q&amp;t=525" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=o-7b1waoj9Q&amp;t=525</a><p>This has been a known issue for some time, and it&#x27;s amazing Tesla hasn&#x27;t fixed it yet. As explained in the video, the issue is simply the base linux OS has full syslog&#x27;s still enabled, which over time burn own the eMMC chip used for storage. Currently Tesla just replaces the entire media unit when this happens, which is extremely expensive for them. In reality they only need to replace a tiny part instead of tossing entire boards.<p>The GOOD news is this issue is almost fully solvable through a software update. They just need to disable base syslogs, or at least only store logs in RAM while car is running (if they need those logs for debugging purposes, which I doubt). Long term, they should replace this eMMC with a proper SSD, or removable SD card that&#x27;s easily serviced when it goes bad (as is the case in other parts of the car).<p>I think this must be an issue of visibility in the company, and the right engineer just isn&#x27;t aware of this issue yet. I hope this gets more visibility and gets patched in a future software update.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>&quot;Replacing a tiny part&quot; is trivializing the work necessary to do this, in my opinion.<p>eMMC flash is typically a ball-grid array part and it&#x27;s soldered down hard to the motherboard of the processor. Almost every mobile device has the same setup and it&#x27;s tricky and expensive to rework this chip.<p>You need to carefully desolder it off the board, reball the part with the correct masking stencil, then reapply it without torching the rest of the board, missing a solder connection, or zapping any other component with static electricity.<p>You can see a similar process done on an iPhone here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y4M9uAZlbK4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y4M9uAZlbK4</a><p>You can understand why Tesla would rather replace&#x2F;refurbish the board than try to field-repair it.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Single Component Can Brick Older Teslas</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/27945/a-single-component-can-brick-older-teslas-and-tesla-wont-fix-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BluSyn</author><text>This issue is best explained on Rich Rebuilds&#x27; recent video here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=o-7b1waoj9Q&amp;t=525" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=o-7b1waoj9Q&amp;t=525</a><p>This has been a known issue for some time, and it&#x27;s amazing Tesla hasn&#x27;t fixed it yet. As explained in the video, the issue is simply the base linux OS has full syslog&#x27;s still enabled, which over time burn own the eMMC chip used for storage. Currently Tesla just replaces the entire media unit when this happens, which is extremely expensive for them. In reality they only need to replace a tiny part instead of tossing entire boards.<p>The GOOD news is this issue is almost fully solvable through a software update. They just need to disable base syslogs, or at least only store logs in RAM while car is running (if they need those logs for debugging purposes, which I doubt). Long term, they should replace this eMMC with a proper SSD, or removable SD card that&#x27;s easily serviced when it goes bad (as is the case in other parts of the car).<p>I think this must be an issue of visibility in the company, and the right engineer just isn&#x27;t aware of this issue yet. I hope this gets more visibility and gets patched in a future software update.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rush340</author><text>&gt; Currently Tesla just replaces the entire media unit when this happens, which is extremely expensive for them. In reality they only need to replace a tiny part instead of tossing entire boards.<p>Do you know that they toss the old media units? Are you sure they don&#x27;t swap the entire media unit to simplify service procedures, and have have the old units inspected and refurbished (i.e. eMMC module replaced) for future repairs?<p>That sounds way more efficient than training all of the shop workers to diagnose and swap out individual parts of the media unit.</text></comment> |
4,850,147 | 4,850,025 | 1 | 2 | 4,849,890 | train | <story><title>Google cuts Cloud Storage prices another 10% after Amazon S3 price cut</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/29/in-response-to-amazons-price-cuts-google-cuts-cloud-storage-prices-by-another-10-for-a-total-of-30/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mtgx</author><text>Google is basically telling Amazon: "You do <i>not</i> want to play this price-cutting game with us".<p>It's a great strategy from Google especially if they think they can match any move from Amazon in this way, and if they can sustain it for a long period of time.<p>It's basically game theory, and at this point, Amazon would be smart to <i>stop</i> cutting prices just for the sake of out-competing Google on price. And if they do that, Google might also stop doing it, because as in game theory, they know continuing an aggressive price war in this manner is only going to hurt both of them, because they are both very resilient and they won't take each other out in this way anyway.<p>Amazon, the market leader, trying to beat Google on price, would be like Coca-Cola trying to beat Pepsi on price, and racing to the bottom. Coca-Cola has learned a long time ago that it's okay if Pepsi is slightly cheaper. Same goes for Verizon and AT&#38;T.<p>I think they will both still continue to cut their prices at a regular time period, as hardware prices fall, but only for the sake of <i>expanding the market</i> and getting new classes of customers that otherwise wouldn't use their services, and not just to try and steal from each other.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google cuts Cloud Storage prices another 10% after Amazon S3 price cut</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/11/29/in-response-to-amazons-price-cuts-google-cuts-cloud-storage-prices-by-another-10-for-a-total-of-30/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>recuter</author><text>OP is showing the old prices for Amazon. New prices:
<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing-effective-december-2012/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing-effective-december-2012/</a><p>Google went to $0.095 a few days ago.
S3 went from $0.125 to $0.095 per gig.<p>Google has undercut again by going to $0.085.<p>I like this very much. Hey Amazon, I heard Google also called your mamma fat, are you just going to take it?</text></comment> |
24,557,010 | 24,557,192 | 1 | 2 | 24,555,689 | train | <story><title>DOS Subsystem for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/haileys/doslinux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plus</author><text>There are a ton of comments here that seem to be misunderstanding what this software is. This creates a WSL-like environment on a DOS host system. It does not create a DOS environment on a Linux host. I&#x27;m not sure where this misunderstanding even comes from; the name is perfectly analogous to WSL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iherbig</author><text>I would imagine it&#x27;s because WSL is a terribly confusing name itself for a lot of people.<p>There are two ways to read &quot;Windows Subsystem for Linux&quot;:<p>1. This is a subsystem that runs on Windows that enables Linux binaries.<p>2. This is a subsystem that runs on Linux that enables Windows binaries.<p>The confusion comes in the fact that when I write those two sentences, I naturally want to write &quot;This is a subsystem FOR Windows...&quot; or &quot;This is a subsystem FOR Linux... .&quot; I had to consciously avoid using &quot;for&quot; in that sentence to highlight the problem.<p>So when someone who doesn&#x27;t know what the thing does reads &quot;Windows Subsystem for Linux&quot; they may walk away with the false impression that the subsystem allows Windows binaries to run on Linux. Likewise, what you&#x27;re seeing now is that people are seeing &quot;DOS Subsystem for Linux&quot; and thinking that this enables you run DOS on Linux.</text></comment> | <story><title>DOS Subsystem for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/haileys/doslinux</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>plus</author><text>There are a ton of comments here that seem to be misunderstanding what this software is. This creates a WSL-like environment on a DOS host system. It does not create a DOS environment on a Linux host. I&#x27;m not sure where this misunderstanding even comes from; the name is perfectly analogous to WSL.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rcoveson</author><text>They&#x27;re both phrased unnaturally, IMO.<p>The suffix &quot;for Linux&quot; strongly implies it&#x27;s software for use on Linux. It&#x27;s like the &quot;4j&quot; and &quot;4win&quot; suffixes, implying software built for the Java and Windows environments, respectively.<p>What&#x27;s more, Windows or DOS as an adjective of subsystem bind more tightly than &quot;for Linux&quot;. So if you were to start dropping parts of the name, you&#x27;d drop &quot;for Linux&quot; first. Except you can&#x27;t, because then it&#x27;s just the Windows Subsystem.<p>LSW would have been a much more natural name. In a conversation about Windows subsystems, you could refer to it as the Linux Subsystem. If other operating systems picked up on the idea, they would have their own Linux subsystems, e.g. Linux Subsystem for macOS. If you wanted to check if your OS had anything like it, you could search &quot;is there a Linux subsystem for FreeBSD?&quot; Which might turn up results about the Linux ABI in FreeBSD. Speaking of which, imagine if it had been named the FreeBSD ABI for Linux. What an awful pattern! You can&#x27;t even repeat the pattern unless both modifiers are proper nouns! Could you have called the VFS Subsystem the &quot;FreeBSD Subsystem for VFS&quot;?</text></comment> |
10,186,293 | 10,185,858 | 1 | 2 | 10,185,435 | train | <story><title>Why I'm walking away from one of the best jobs in academia</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/9/8/9261531/professor-quitting-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seunosewa</author><text>He&#x27;s leaving a well paid job that gives him considerable influence because there are serious problems in academia that cant be solved easily. I find it difficult to imagine that he will find a alternate career path without that issue. Every profession&#x2F;industry has serious systemic problems. I think the author needs to either search his heart more deeply to find out the real reason why he&#x27;s leaving his job, or reconsider his decision to leave it if it&#x27;s not too late.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>Academics do not have large salaries. They have two primary things that make up for it: freedom in what they do, and the feeling of having a positive impact on their students specifically, and society in general. So, if we consider his entire compensation, think of it as <i>salary</i> + <i>freedom</i> + <i>positive impact</i>.<p>This essay is explaining why he thinks that the <i>freedom</i> and <i>positive impact</i> parts of his compensation are significantly less than he initially thought. When that&#x27;s the case, the next obvious question is: is this worth it? He&#x27;s answering no. All occupations have problems, but he may find another occupation where he feels all aspects of his compensation (not just monetary) are worth it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I'm walking away from one of the best jobs in academia</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/9/8/9261531/professor-quitting-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seunosewa</author><text>He&#x27;s leaving a well paid job that gives him considerable influence because there are serious problems in academia that cant be solved easily. I find it difficult to imagine that he will find a alternate career path without that issue. Every profession&#x2F;industry has serious systemic problems. I think the author needs to either search his heart more deeply to find out the real reason why he&#x27;s leaving his job, or reconsider his decision to leave it if it&#x27;s not too late.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby</author><text>Completely agree with you<p>&gt; I think the author needs to either search his heart more deeply<p>That&#x27;s the problem with graduating so early and following your initial studying path. You didn&#x27;t have time to think about what you were doing, was it the right thing, was it what you wanted, etc...<p>I always wondered how that kind of case usually ends. The people who&#x27;ve been doing one thing only in life, and ends up in a job right away. I guess your world can crumble in your mid-life.</text></comment> |
36,442,040 | 36,439,622 | 1 | 3 | 36,431,493 | train | <story><title>Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ancient-maya-city-discovered-mexican-jungle-2023-06-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_nahual</author><text>Not as much as you&#x27;d think! In many places in the yucatan peninsula topsoil is only a few inches deep; it&#x27;s not rare to see <i>no</i> topsoil at all! The limestone bedrock is exposed to air.<p>Most mayan ruins have vast sections that are un-execavated, and you can just <i>see</i> the shape of walls&#x2F;buildings&#x2F;roads under the plants and foliage.<p>In the words of Fray Diego de Landa, a spanish bishop (and monster) that was in charge of the church in Yucatan in the 16th century:<p><i>Yucatán es una tierra la de menos tierra que yo he visto</i><p>(&quot;Yucatán is a land with the least amount of land I&#x27;ve ever seen&quot;, where in spanish &quot;tierra&quot; means both &quot;land&quot; and &quot;dirt&#x2F;soil&quot;)</text></item><item><author>UberFly</author><text>I often reflect on the massive amount of stuff that is constantly falling out of the trees on my property, and then wonder just how deep places like this must be buried with a jungle growing on top of them for 1000 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elpakal</author><text>I remember flying over some parts of Chiapas as a young boy thinking for sure that every mound or hill was an undiscovered temple of some kind, waiting for someone to stumble on. There’s a lot of uncovered magic there, a lot
like all of the wild dinosaur bones being accidentally found in the construction debris of booming humanity.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ancient-maya-city-discovered-mexican-jungle-2023-06-21/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>el_nahual</author><text>Not as much as you&#x27;d think! In many places in the yucatan peninsula topsoil is only a few inches deep; it&#x27;s not rare to see <i>no</i> topsoil at all! The limestone bedrock is exposed to air.<p>Most mayan ruins have vast sections that are un-execavated, and you can just <i>see</i> the shape of walls&#x2F;buildings&#x2F;roads under the plants and foliage.<p>In the words of Fray Diego de Landa, a spanish bishop (and monster) that was in charge of the church in Yucatan in the 16th century:<p><i>Yucatán es una tierra la de menos tierra que yo he visto</i><p>(&quot;Yucatán is a land with the least amount of land I&#x27;ve ever seen&quot;, where in spanish &quot;tierra&quot; means both &quot;land&quot; and &quot;dirt&#x2F;soil&quot;)</text></item><item><author>UberFly</author><text>I often reflect on the massive amount of stuff that is constantly falling out of the trees on my property, and then wonder just how deep places like this must be buried with a jungle growing on top of them for 1000 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bedobi</author><text>&gt; Yucatán es una tierra la de menos tierra que yo he visto<p>complete side note but is that what he would have said verbatim or a rendition in modern Spanish? super curious</text></comment> |
12,988,571 | 12,985,553 | 1 | 2 | 12,985,074 | train | <story><title>Kaspersky OS</title><url>https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2016/11/15/finally-our-own-os-oh-yes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kriro</author><text>No word on if this is FLOSS or not in the article so I&#x27;m assuming it&#x27;ll be something closed. Which essentially renders the entire exercise moot form my POV.
I also don&#x27;t like how they mentioned Linux. They make it sound as if<p>(a) Linux is very insecure...I&#x27;m no expert but I&#x27;d like to see them prove their system is more secure than a Linux distro dedicated to security.<p>(b) Linux is the only viable option. There&#x27;s plenty of other operating systems, some even focus on security (starting with the list of existing microkernels).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peterkelly</author><text>&gt; I also don&#x27;t like how they mentioned Linux<p>I do. Every time I read an article on a new &quot;operating system&quot; someone has released, it turns out to basically just be another Linux distribution, or a new gui&#x2F;runtime environment running on top of the Linux kernel. Kaspersky took a step back and thought about their requirements, and decided to go with a microkernel architecture because they felt that was a better approach for security (a choice I agree with).<p>It&#x27;s refreshing to see <i>genuinely</i> new OSs built from the ground up (open source or not), because it shows that not everyone is stuck in the mindset of Linux when they want to innovate in the OS space. That&#x27;s not to say that Linux is necessarily a bad choice for many scenarios, just that it&#x27;s great to see projects that don&#x27;t restrict themselves based on the design of Linux (and, more generally, Unix).</text></comment> | <story><title>Kaspersky OS</title><url>https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2016/11/15/finally-our-own-os-oh-yes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kriro</author><text>No word on if this is FLOSS or not in the article so I&#x27;m assuming it&#x27;ll be something closed. Which essentially renders the entire exercise moot form my POV.
I also don&#x27;t like how they mentioned Linux. They make it sound as if<p>(a) Linux is very insecure...I&#x27;m no expert but I&#x27;d like to see them prove their system is more secure than a Linux distro dedicated to security.<p>(b) Linux is the only viable option. There&#x27;s plenty of other operating systems, some even focus on security (starting with the list of existing microkernels).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pabloski</author><text>&quot;Anticipating your questions: not even the slightest smell of Linux. All the popular operating systems aren’t designed with security in mind, so it’s simpler and safer to start from the ground up and do everything correctly.&quot;<p>It looks like a realistic assessment. General purpose operating systems ( at least the 3 most famous ones ) are built with ease of use in mind, not security. Even Torvalds admits it, saying that he sees performance as a top priority, and not security.<p>If Kaspersky OS is more secure or not, we will see in the future.</text></comment> |
27,580,676 | 27,580,547 | 1 | 2 | 27,571,873 | train | <story><title>Path Tracing Quake in Blender</title><url>http://matthewearl.github.io/2021/06/20/quake-blender/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ogurechny</author><text>A lot of valuable work on Blender side, but the main goal is questionable, and author explains why.<p>Pre-calculated lighting had very little to do with physical correctness, it was purely an artistic placement of light sources in a specific map processed with a specific tool (official or third party) with specific defaults. Two adjacent rooms could be lit in a very different manner because map maker decided it looked good; two maps coming from different sources could not be expected to share any common lighting principles. Quirks like overbright values were not even consistent among officially supported renderers, and were inherited by later Quake and Source engines (which would add their own quirks and light processing options). To put it shortly, there was no reference for the final result except the final result itself, and it often was unstable (changing textures, geometry, or processing constants would shift the look too much, and require fixes).<p>To make the game look as intended, you have to somehow rely on original lightmaps that are tightly coupled with original low resolution geometry and textures. Given that people still argue which of the original renderers gives the “true” picture, I have my doubts about making a new one that pretends some average light model is good enough for everything. Even for episode 1, hand-placed lights had to be reintroduced into the system, and ad-hoc fixes had to be done, but manual fixes are not an option for all the existing maps.</text></comment> | <story><title>Path Tracing Quake in Blender</title><url>http://matthewearl.github.io/2021/06/20/quake-blender/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klodolph</author><text>&gt; Texture coordinates can be encoded as Blender UV maps.<p>Will note that one minor detail about the Quake map format you may find interesting... Quake does not encode the texture coordinates for vertexes in the map. Instead, Quake encodes the coordinate <i>system</i> for textures of each face. This is transformed to screen-space during rendering.<p>This is different from modern renderers, which record the texture coordinates of vertexes.<p>Quake&#x27;s system is less flexible, can&#x27;t be used for character models, and can be inconvenient during asset creation, but it is a bit faster and more convenient at run-time. When you&#x27;re rendering, you want to know the gradient of texture coordinates in the X and Y direction on screen, which is easy to calculate using Quake&#x27;s system.<p>(Obviously the author knows this, but it wasn&#x27;t spelled out in the article.)</text></comment> |
14,254,446 | 14,254,504 | 1 | 2 | 14,253,827 | train | <story><title>International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/international-travel-guide.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klausjensen</author><text>Technically, only ~57% of eligible voters actually voted. Of those, about half voted for Trump. So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. That is pretty standard for a US presidential election.<p>Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;10&#x2F;13587462&#x2F;trump-election-2016-voter-turnout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;10&#x2F;13587462&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>bkor</author><text>Around half did want him? That&#x27;s a significant of people to me, no matter if they have the majority or not.</text></item><item><author>ItendToDisagree</author><text>The majority of US citizens did not vote for Trump. Just thought I&#x27;d point out that most people DO NOT want this president.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington.<p>Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump&#x27;s travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political&#x2F;security climate improves.<p>Semi-related: we were in the market for a new car. One of the factors we decided to go for a European car this time (we had a Ford Focus before) is that we&#x27;d like to support Trump America as little as possible.<p>Before you say that this is overreacting, hear me out: the US belongs to US citizens. If you want this president, fine. But some of his policies, such as denying climate change and undermining journalism is going te have a large influence on the rest of us.</text></item><item><author>8draco8</author><text>I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I&#x27;m Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost no reason. It&#x27;s sad but from where I sits US starts to look like all of those countries they was fighting with &quot;for the freedom&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danieldk</author><text><i>So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump.</i><p>The remaining 43% voted for &#x27;I&#x27;ll take whoever wins&#x27;. So, ~72% of the eligible voters can be held accountable for him becoming president.<p><i>Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president.</i><p>Definitely, it is legitimate, even if we don&#x27;t like the outcome ;).</text></comment> | <story><title>International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/international-travel-guide.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klausjensen</author><text>Technically, only ~57% of eligible voters actually voted. Of those, about half voted for Trump. So only about 27% of all eligible voters actually voted for Trump. That is pretty standard for a US presidential election.<p>Those are the rules for democracy, so he is the legitimately elected president.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;10&#x2F;13587462&#x2F;trump-election-2016-voter-turnout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;policy-and-politics&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;10&#x2F;13587462&#x2F;...</a></text></item><item><author>bkor</author><text>Around half did want him? That&#x27;s a significant of people to me, no matter if they have the majority or not.</text></item><item><author>ItendToDisagree</author><text>The majority of US citizens did not vote for Trump. Just thought I&#x27;d point out that most people DO NOT want this president.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>We had serious plans to go on holiday to the US this year. I have been in the US at least a dozen of times, and absolutely love the desert states, Oregon, and Washington.<p>Entering the US was already a large hassle, but with Trump&#x27;s travel bans, rumors of phone, laptop, and social media checks, we have decided to postpone our travel plans until the political&#x2F;security climate improves.<p>Semi-related: we were in the market for a new car. One of the factors we decided to go for a European car this time (we had a Ford Focus before) is that we&#x27;d like to support Trump America as little as possible.<p>Before you say that this is overreacting, hear me out: the US belongs to US citizens. If you want this president, fine. But some of his policies, such as denying climate change and undermining journalism is going te have a large influence on the rest of us.</text></item><item><author>8draco8</author><text>I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I&#x27;m Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost no reason. It&#x27;s sad but from where I sits US starts to look like all of those countries they was fighting with &quot;for the freedom&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woof</author><text>A large number of Democrats voted for Trump by not voting at all.<p>They made a choice to let Trump win, just to tell Hillary (and the Democratic Party) that they didn&#x27;t like her!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;omribenshahar&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-non-voters-who-decided-the-election-trump-won-because-of-lower-democratic-turnout&#x2F;#2d0d5ce053ab" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;omribenshahar&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;17&#x2F;the-no...</a></text></comment> |
30,566,052 | 30,563,729 | 1 | 3 | 30,552,988 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Kaedim – API for 3D User Generated Content</title><text>Hi HN, I am Konstantina from Kaedim (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaedim.com). Kaedim is using ML to transform 2D art, sketches or photos into 3D content. We make it easy to integrate 3D User Generated Content in game or metaverses, with our API.<p>Creating digital 3D objects is getting increasingly difficult and expensive. There is a very limited supply of people who are good 3D artists, and the cost of training one is very big. It usually involves years of learning difficult 3D software. However, more and more of the digital experiences around us are turning into 3D.<p>I needed this product myself. The idea for Kaedim was born from a personal frustration when, 2 years ago, I was working on a project for re-creating a cathedral in 3D software for my university degree. Before being hands-on, the concept seemed straightforward to me, “the same way you draw on a piece of paper, you can also draw in 3D, how hard can it be?”. The reality shocked me. Having completely underestimated the task I found myself needing hours to model each 3D object (chairs, tables, walls) using really complicated and steep learning curve 3D software.<p>Every time I wanted to model something new I had to start from a cube and do all the necessary operations on it to achieve the desired shape. Over and over again. Moreover, there were many times when I would bin my creations and start from scratch for better luck. The reality with 3D modelling software is that it’s almost always easier to start from scratch than to try and fix a modelled object.<p>After my personal experience of the problem, I started thinking about game devs. “Game developers have this problem at scale, they need to build whole 3D worlds with millions of objects. How do they do it?”. So we started talking to them. Only to discover, there is no secret. 3D asset production is a big bottleneck for them too. There is a very limited supply of people who are really good 3D artists, and the cost of training one is very big. It usually involves years of training on difficult 3D software.<p>Our solution is an ML algorithm that creates 3D models out of 2D images. We are constantly training on more and more data points to improve the accuracy and we have added a Quality Control step to always guarantee a standard level of quality. We then use the QC results to train our algorithms further.<p>Artists and game devs have used Kaedim so far to quickly prototype, create and iterate their 3D art, in a cost effective way. However, talking to a lot of game developers, we realised something <i>key</i>. For the same reason games like Minecraft and Roblox are very popular, more and more people want the opportunity to customise and contribute 3D content inside their favourite games&#x2F;metaverses.<p>This is why we created the Kaedim API. Within your app, enable your players to upload their 2D inspiration and easily create their own 3D content for customising and populating the game.<p>Kaedim API Demo Video: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=k976GJWQrKw<p>Documentation: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.archbee.io&#x2F;public&#x2F;m370vHO-M7WGXJQLRlIte&#x2F;AU-DhH6mX0e1sb_FRXH3i#lk-useful-links<p>For signup and more information about onboardings get in touch with us here<p>Discord Server: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;4wN8NSUr<p>Thanks a lot for reading this! We are adding more and more features over time and would love to hear your feedback and ideas on what you’d like to see from the API.<p>If you have any cool app ideas that can be built by using Kaedim, drop them in the comments!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lasagna_coder</author><text>From the video I gather that texturing is still a manual step? I&#x27;m a little confused how your editor showed the model without a texture, then you were able to do a perfect color fill on the different parts of the model. One of the most difficult parts of modeling is the texturing, (bump&#x2F;normal map, albedo&#x2F;lighting, color, etc) with lots of trade offs for how big your texture is, how much can be re-used, not to mention the actual mapping stage, which even the best &quot;smart&quot; auto-mapping tools do just OK.<p>I&#x27;m impressed by the model demo, but a lot of the time comes from determining the style (conceptual design), then implementing that style within the details (which is the baking, painting aspects of creating the model textures). You mention Robolox&#x2F;Minecraft and the demo uses a kind of low poly metaverse social app, which your demo fits well, so I&#x27;m wondering who your target market is, I assume its games&#x2F;apps with high volume, low detail models at the moment, is this correct?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Kaedim – API for 3D User Generated Content</title><text>Hi HN, I am Konstantina from Kaedim (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kaedim.com). Kaedim is using ML to transform 2D art, sketches or photos into 3D content. We make it easy to integrate 3D User Generated Content in game or metaverses, with our API.<p>Creating digital 3D objects is getting increasingly difficult and expensive. There is a very limited supply of people who are good 3D artists, and the cost of training one is very big. It usually involves years of learning difficult 3D software. However, more and more of the digital experiences around us are turning into 3D.<p>I needed this product myself. The idea for Kaedim was born from a personal frustration when, 2 years ago, I was working on a project for re-creating a cathedral in 3D software for my university degree. Before being hands-on, the concept seemed straightforward to me, “the same way you draw on a piece of paper, you can also draw in 3D, how hard can it be?”. The reality shocked me. Having completely underestimated the task I found myself needing hours to model each 3D object (chairs, tables, walls) using really complicated and steep learning curve 3D software.<p>Every time I wanted to model something new I had to start from a cube and do all the necessary operations on it to achieve the desired shape. Over and over again. Moreover, there were many times when I would bin my creations and start from scratch for better luck. The reality with 3D modelling software is that it’s almost always easier to start from scratch than to try and fix a modelled object.<p>After my personal experience of the problem, I started thinking about game devs. “Game developers have this problem at scale, they need to build whole 3D worlds with millions of objects. How do they do it?”. So we started talking to them. Only to discover, there is no secret. 3D asset production is a big bottleneck for them too. There is a very limited supply of people who are really good 3D artists, and the cost of training one is very big. It usually involves years of training on difficult 3D software.<p>Our solution is an ML algorithm that creates 3D models out of 2D images. We are constantly training on more and more data points to improve the accuracy and we have added a Quality Control step to always guarantee a standard level of quality. We then use the QC results to train our algorithms further.<p>Artists and game devs have used Kaedim so far to quickly prototype, create and iterate their 3D art, in a cost effective way. However, talking to a lot of game developers, we realised something <i>key</i>. For the same reason games like Minecraft and Roblox are very popular, more and more people want the opportunity to customise and contribute 3D content inside their favourite games&#x2F;metaverses.<p>This is why we created the Kaedim API. Within your app, enable your players to upload their 2D inspiration and easily create their own 3D content for customising and populating the game.<p>Kaedim API Demo Video: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=k976GJWQrKw<p>Documentation: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.archbee.io&#x2F;public&#x2F;m370vHO-M7WGXJQLRlIte&#x2F;AU-DhH6mX0e1sb_FRXH3i#lk-useful-links<p>For signup and more information about onboardings get in touch with us here<p>Discord Server: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;4wN8NSUr<p>Thanks a lot for reading this! We are adding more and more features over time and would love to hear your feedback and ideas on what you’d like to see from the API.<p>If you have any cool app ideas that can be built by using Kaedim, drop them in the comments!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andybak</author><text>Can we see more examples?<p>(Including some less successful ones and some failure cases ideally)</text></comment> |
20,111,671 | 20,111,095 | 1 | 3 | 20,103,642 | train | <story><title>The Perpetual Diamond: Contrast Reversal Along Edges Create Appearance of Motion</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2041669518815708</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twiceaday</author><text>I&#x27;ve recreated the illusion in 139 characters* of Javascript: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dwitter.net&#x2F;d&#x2F;14459" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dwitter.net&#x2F;d&#x2F;14459</a><p>* Dwitter has a built-in `R` for RGB color, `S` for Math.sin, and `x` for the 2d context of the canvas.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Perpetual Diamond: Contrast Reversal Along Edges Create Appearance of Motion</title><url>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2041669518815708</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aasasd</author><text>So I guess this is the trick behind those trippy gifs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;4oZyQFx.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;4oZyQFx.gif</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;2eDISOQ.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;2eDISOQ.gif</a></text></comment> |
9,060,459 | 9,059,857 | 1 | 2 | 9,057,996 | train | <story><title>The Software Revolution</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/the-software-revolution</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>I disagree with this:<p>&quot;The previous one, the industrial revolution, created lots of jobs&quot;<p>That industrial revolution caused massive unemployment in India, in the Ottoman empire, in China... almost everywhere that had once been a famous textile center. The idea that the industrial revolution did not cause unemployment is an illusion that is caused by looking at only one nation state. But Britain was the winner of the early industrial revolution, and it was able to export its unemployment. And because of this, a breathtaking gap opened up between wages in the West and wages everywhere else. The so-called Third World was summoned into existence. You can get some sense of this by reading Fernand Braudel&#x27;s work, &quot;The Perspective of the World&quot;<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520081161/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=1944687742&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0520081145&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=1SNDA9Y3ZZY1RSP7SSE3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;0520081161&#x2F;ref=pd_lpo_sbs_d...</a><p>The software revolution will be similar with some nations winning and many others losing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>I&#x27;m fairly convinced that eventually there will be two and only two choices: universal income and a shortened work week, or such extreme wealth divisions that stability demands a totalitarian police state resembling the worst sort of comic book cyberpunk dystopia. Age of abundance or feudal hellhole. Your pick. There simply will not be enough economically viable work to sustain any system that demands labor to maintain cash flows. Automation will be too efficient, programmable, adaptable.<p>... I suppose there is a third option: an anti-technology crusade that bans automation to restore employment. But a make-work economy sucks, and is not likely to succeed in the long term.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Software Revolution</title><url>http://blog.samaltman.com/the-software-revolution</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>I disagree with this:<p>&quot;The previous one, the industrial revolution, created lots of jobs&quot;<p>That industrial revolution caused massive unemployment in India, in the Ottoman empire, in China... almost everywhere that had once been a famous textile center. The idea that the industrial revolution did not cause unemployment is an illusion that is caused by looking at only one nation state. But Britain was the winner of the early industrial revolution, and it was able to export its unemployment. And because of this, a breathtaking gap opened up between wages in the West and wages everywhere else. The so-called Third World was summoned into existence. You can get some sense of this by reading Fernand Braudel&#x27;s work, &quot;The Perspective of the World&quot;<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520081161/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=1944687742&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0520081145&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=1SNDA9Y3ZZY1RSP7SSE3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;0520081161&#x2F;ref=pd_lpo_sbs_d...</a><p>The software revolution will be similar with some nations winning and many others losing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwweston</author><text>It&#x27;s not so much that the industrial revolution <i>net</i> created jobs -- like you, I&#x27;m not sure it did (even domestically). It&#x27;s that the industrial revolution not only created jobs, it created the modern <i>labor market</i>.<p>Before it happened you had a much more distributed economy with many much smaller centers of production (many at the household level or close) in agriculture, trades, and craft manufacturing.<p>Afterwards in any domestic industry where economy of scale was a competitive advantage, you had a small number of much larger centralized producers. Almost certainly with many fewer jobs in actual production (consolidation corresponding to efficiencies of scale). If there was any net gain over time since it would have been in new products being made and some new support positions needed. It is not clear to me there was ever a trend to a net gain over timescales longer than a two decades or so.<p>So by and large it moved us to an economy with a profusion of increasingly competitively manufactured products to buy, and selling labor itself is the de facto form of subsistence rather than direct production.<p>I think you&#x27;re correct that there&#x27;s always been some externalization of unemployment and a lot of the visibility depended on industry specifics. This isn&#x27;t new. But what is new is that software gives us essentially a higher order of automation that means (a) it sure looks like we&#x27;re automating out old jobs even faster than we&#x27;re creating new ones and (b) with more unemployment we get fewer places to externalize it. :&#x2F;</text></comment> |
10,491,770 | 10,490,969 | 1 | 2 | 10,490,517 | train | <story><title>Ten years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment</title><url>https://medium.com/@cdixon/it-s-hard-to-believe-today-but-10-years-ago-wikipedia-was-widely-considered-a-doomed-experiment-a7a0dfd27b8b#.9bk1kti56</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swang</author><text>When the SOPA&#x2F;PIPA protests happened in 2012, I was really surprised to learn that students were upset since all they used as a resource was Wikipedia.<p>I mean for the most part I agree with the quoted articles in that Wikipedia is hard to &quot;verify&quot; other than what you believe sounds true. And sometimes this happens.<p>1) Someone write something on Wikipedia
2) Person changes it
3) Another person reverts, citing source X. Source X is &quot;Celebrity Magazine&quot; which may or may not have actually checked that fact on Wikipedia.
5) Repeat<p>It is a bit scary how much our source of information is just this one site source without decent &quot;fact&quot; checking other than turf war related reasons.<p>Here is one: I am pretty certain that Alicia Keys was born in 1980 and not 1981 as her Wikipedia article says. I have no way to prove this based on Wikipedia standards and if you look on &quot;the Internet&quot; you sometimes see 1980 and sometimes see 1981. The editors who turfed her page at the time sided with the 1981 timeline.<p>And how did they &quot;prove&quot; it was 1981? They showed links to some music related websites with articles about her saying she was born in that year. Completely ignoring alternative sources that said she was born in 1981.<p>I mean there are certain explanations on why this happened:
1) A major publication cited her DOB as 1981, others followed suit.
2) Alicia keys&#x27; handlers want her to be a year younger than she is, so she told her PR people to make sure everyone says she was born a year younger.
3) Someone misheard she was born in 1981, wrote that down on Wikipedia, then everyone else just used Wikipedia as a reference.<p>The problem I&#x27;m trying to get at is, Wikipedia is so popular its hard to figure out if people are just lazy and using it as a source, which perpetuates this cycle of &quot;Fact F on Article A is true because of source S, Source S it turns out, used article A to look up Fact F and reprinted it without really fact checking F.<p>So yeah, popular, but hard to determine how accurate. &#x2F;rant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikekchar</author><text>Now try to follow the same thought process for other sources of information. Ever see a citation in a newspaper? How do you check the facts on the evening news? What is the sequence of events leading to something being reported (and believed by the vast majority of people reading it)?<p>1) Reporter discovers something (how???) 2) Reporter submits it 3) Some editor approves&#x2F;rejects it (how&#x2F;why???) 4) A very good looking person presents it to you on TV along with audio and visual designed to make it look plausible.<p>If it turns out to be untrue, is it reported? What if you discover that it is untrue yourself? How do you correct it?<p>So yeah, even more popular that wikipedia, but hard to determine how accurate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ten years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment</title><url>https://medium.com/@cdixon/it-s-hard-to-believe-today-but-10-years-ago-wikipedia-was-widely-considered-a-doomed-experiment-a7a0dfd27b8b#.9bk1kti56</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>swang</author><text>When the SOPA&#x2F;PIPA protests happened in 2012, I was really surprised to learn that students were upset since all they used as a resource was Wikipedia.<p>I mean for the most part I agree with the quoted articles in that Wikipedia is hard to &quot;verify&quot; other than what you believe sounds true. And sometimes this happens.<p>1) Someone write something on Wikipedia
2) Person changes it
3) Another person reverts, citing source X. Source X is &quot;Celebrity Magazine&quot; which may or may not have actually checked that fact on Wikipedia.
5) Repeat<p>It is a bit scary how much our source of information is just this one site source without decent &quot;fact&quot; checking other than turf war related reasons.<p>Here is one: I am pretty certain that Alicia Keys was born in 1980 and not 1981 as her Wikipedia article says. I have no way to prove this based on Wikipedia standards and if you look on &quot;the Internet&quot; you sometimes see 1980 and sometimes see 1981. The editors who turfed her page at the time sided with the 1981 timeline.<p>And how did they &quot;prove&quot; it was 1981? They showed links to some music related websites with articles about her saying she was born in that year. Completely ignoring alternative sources that said she was born in 1981.<p>I mean there are certain explanations on why this happened:
1) A major publication cited her DOB as 1981, others followed suit.
2) Alicia keys&#x27; handlers want her to be a year younger than she is, so she told her PR people to make sure everyone says she was born a year younger.
3) Someone misheard she was born in 1981, wrote that down on Wikipedia, then everyone else just used Wikipedia as a reference.<p>The problem I&#x27;m trying to get at is, Wikipedia is so popular its hard to figure out if people are just lazy and using it as a source, which perpetuates this cycle of &quot;Fact F on Article A is true because of source S, Source S it turns out, used article A to look up Fact F and reprinted it without really fact checking F.<p>So yeah, popular, but hard to determine how accurate. &#x2F;rant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drinchev</author><text>If you are talking about the &quot;news&quot;-articles, you are right. With the same arguments I could argue that &gt;almost every&lt; historical fact&#x2F;source is somehow modified, according to political&#x2F;moral&#x2F;memory problems.<p>Just to mention the total media collapse these days, where Russia &amp; &quot;The West&quot; have so different facts put out in the wild, that you actually can&#x27;t find what happened, by only reading and selecting a source. What&#x27;s interesting is that both media don&#x27;t provide any evidence of what actually happened, they just spread out opinions by other people, which are in most cases subjective.<p>What Wikipedia did ( and is doing very good ), though is that it gathered multiple knowledge bases under one roof - very general, sometimes, but accurate enough. For example, I&#x27;ve graduated law and could claim that what I can find as articles on that topic is very basic, but true. Also I&#x27;m professionally working as a web-dev and still can claim that most articles I find are precisely moderated and reflect the science-books.<p>It&#x27;s so funny I always like to &quot;Let&#x27;s check wikipedia&quot; and people usually reply &quot;That&#x27;s not an accurate source of information&quot;, which IMHO is wrong. Wikipedia is still the most accurate (general) knowledge base to me.</text></comment> |
26,275,831 | 26,275,954 | 1 | 2 | 26,275,400 | train | <story><title>Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971367875/why-is-facebook-launching-an-all-out-war-on-apples-upcoming-iphone-update?t=1614351654558</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jahlove</author><text>&gt; Some apps, like Facebook, allow for some data tracking to be manually disabled. But by default, it is turned on. That gives the company reams of personal data on who we are and what we are doing, which it then vacuums up, packages and sells.<p>My understanding is that Facebook does not sell this data, but rather lets advertisers create hyper-targeted ads, which are only possible because of this data.<p>Edit: Certainly not trying to defend Facebook here (in the slightest). Just trying to correct an inaccuracy in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whoisburbansky</author><text>It&#x27;s a nice bit of semantic ju-jitsu to say &quot;they take this data and sell a service that wouldn&#x27;t be possible without it&quot; isn&#x27;t the same as &quot;selling this data,&quot; isn&#x27;t it? Especially given that the targeting mechanisms don&#x27;t have any k-anonymity guarantees, and I&#x27;m aware of at least one paper showing information leaks through the ad portal [1]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public_events&#x2F;1223263&#x2F;p155407privacyconmislove_1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;documents&#x2F;public_events&#x2F;122...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971367875/why-is-facebook-launching-an-all-out-war-on-apples-upcoming-iphone-update?t=1614351654558</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jahlove</author><text>&gt; Some apps, like Facebook, allow for some data tracking to be manually disabled. But by default, it is turned on. That gives the company reams of personal data on who we are and what we are doing, which it then vacuums up, packages and sells.<p>My understanding is that Facebook does not sell this data, but rather lets advertisers create hyper-targeted ads, which are only possible because of this data.<p>Edit: Certainly not trying to defend Facebook here (in the slightest). Just trying to correct an inaccuracy in the article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>&quot;We never sell your data&quot; is a meaningless statement. It&#x27;s the online service equivalent of saying that a bottle of water is &quot;fat free&quot;. It is consistently and prominently written because it is a definitive statement. Facebook used to feature it on the signup screen with some other statements that sound principled like &quot;We don&#x27;t charge for Facebook, and we never will&quot;, etc.<p>But when you parse out what it means you are left with something more accurately stated as: &quot;&lt;Company&gt; will not sell its proprietary assets.&quot;<p>It sort of like the operator of a hotel saying &quot;I don&#x27;t sell rooms&quot;.</text></comment> |
22,324,668 | 22,324,602 | 1 | 3 | 22,324,393 | train | <story><title>Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)</title><url>http://morrick.me/archives/8760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chalst</author><text>Also worth reading John Gruber&#x27;s complaints, over and above bugs:<p>&gt; But I don’t know a single expert Mac user who is not seriously annoyed by the heavy-handed security design of Catalina. Not one. Every single expert user I know is annoyed. That is a bad place for MacOS to be. MacOS 10.16 needs a serious course correction to fix this, and if 10.16 goes the opposite way — growing even more heavy-handed in restricting professional Mac users from just using their machines as they want and expect to — I genuinely fear for the future of the Mac as a platform for serious computer users.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;my_2019_apple_report_card" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;my_2019_apple_report_card</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>musicale</author><text>I&#x27;m kind of OK with &quot;macOS Vista.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve wanted more restrictive and granular permissions for a long time. Web browsers don&#x27;t need unrestricted access to the entire file system. Neither do games. Preview doesn&#x27;t need to access the microphone. Word doesn&#x27;t usually need to record the screen. PowerPoint should not be sending email or accessing the camera. TextEdit doesn&#x27;t need access to my contacts or calendar. And I don&#x27;t want any of these programs interrupting me with stupid notifications. Maybe some people want to give these extra permissions, but I want them to be off by default.<p>My complaint is that permissions don&#x27;t go far enough; for example I never want to be interrupted by software update notifications, but there&#x27;s no way to turn them off.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)</title><url>http://morrick.me/archives/8760</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chalst</author><text>Also worth reading John Gruber&#x27;s complaints, over and above bugs:<p>&gt; But I don’t know a single expert Mac user who is not seriously annoyed by the heavy-handed security design of Catalina. Not one. Every single expert user I know is annoyed. That is a bad place for MacOS to be. MacOS 10.16 needs a serious course correction to fix this, and if 10.16 goes the opposite way — growing even more heavy-handed in restricting professional Mac users from just using their machines as they want and expect to — I genuinely fear for the future of the Mac as a platform for serious computer users.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;my_2019_apple_report_card" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;my_2019_apple_report_card</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spoondan</author><text>There’s an important point to be made here about the gap between theoretical and practical security. Overly elaborate password policies (excessive complexity demands, passwords expiring, no reusing last five passwords) end up causing annoyed users to make bad decisions that compromise password security.<p>Similarly, an excess of popups doesn’t increase security. It annoys users to the point they stop thinking about individual security decisions.<p>There’s an important intersection of security research and HCI that doesn’t get discussed as much as it needs to be.</text></comment> |
28,088,426 | 28,088,322 | 1 | 2 | 28,086,836 | train | <story><title>Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming</title><url>https://matt-rickard.com/reflections-on-10-000-hours-of-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlisle_</author><text>&gt;Know when to break the rules. For rules like &quot;don&#x27;t repeat yourself,&quot; sometimes a little repetition is better than a bit of dependency.<p>Glad to see DRY called out here. I&#x27;ve seen so much crazy code simply to avoid breaking, The Rule.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jtsummers</author><text>What&#x27;s frustrating is that DRY is often paired with something like &quot;The Rule of Three&quot;. <i>Do</i> repeat yourself about three times until you actually understand what it is that&#x27;s being repeated (or whether it&#x27;s just coincidental) so it can be refactored. But a lot of people forget that part and focus only on DRY.<p>Is the magic number 1024 the same in all instances, for example. Or is it merely a coincidence that it&#x27;s the same in a few places. Is the apparently repetitious code:<p><pre><code> context = create_context();
context.action(params);
</code></pre>
In several places <i>really</i> the same? Or is it a coincidence that <i>right now</i> none of them pass any parameters to <i>create_context</i> and use the same params in their call to <i>action</i>?<p>Avoiding the repetition makes it hard to even ask that question. And disentangling the different cases later is riskier than keeping a few pieces of repeated code around for a while to understand the situation better.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming</title><url>https://matt-rickard.com/reflections-on-10-000-hours-of-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carlisle_</author><text>&gt;Know when to break the rules. For rules like &quot;don&#x27;t repeat yourself,&quot; sometimes a little repetition is better than a bit of dependency.<p>Glad to see DRY called out here. I&#x27;ve seen so much crazy code simply to avoid breaking, The Rule.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctvo</author><text>Trade-offs are the heart of this profession. Developers who stick blindly to DRY, SOLID, any dogma really, come off as inexperienced.</text></comment> |
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