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38,753,164 | 38,752,079 | 1 | 2 | 38,731,862 | train | <story><title>A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (2019)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-america-big-map</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marmight</author><text>It is labeled correctly on his map, but he is recorded as saying something incorrect in the article:<p>&gt; Also Baffin Island in Greenland. So few people have been to that part of the world.<p>Baffin Island is in Canada. Since this would be something silly for a cartographer to get wrong, I wonder if he didn&#x27;t actually say &quot;Baffin Island <i>and</i> Greenland&quot; and his response was incorrectly transcripted.</text></comment> | <story><title>A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (2019)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-america-big-map</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwup238</author><text>I really like this article but I don&#x27;t know why!<p><i>&gt; Melbourne-based Anton Thomas drew North America by hand</i><p>Why North America instead of Australia, m8? Potential market size? That&#x27;s so American :-)<p><i>&gt; a freelance cartographer</i><p>What the hell is a freelance cartographer, what does he do, and who are his colleagues? Buster Bluth and a bunch of Earth observation satellites? That&#x27;s one competitive market.<p><i>&gt; I was working as a cook in the old port of Montreal. And in classic Montreal fashion, we had littered the apartment with things we found on the side of the road. And one was this big fridge. It had all these rusty, brown stains on it. My housemate Douglas, from Zimbabwe, had been urging me to draw him something as a memento, since he knew I was going to go back to New Zealand. He had painted the fridge with white house paint to cover up the stains and I thought, “What about the fridge?”</i><p>That&#x27;s it, I&#x27;m moving to Australia.<p>I only collect maps that predate the steam engine but I would love to buy a huge wall size print!</text></comment> |
26,724,348 | 26,724,125 | 1 | 2 | 26,722,770 | train | <story><title>Left-wing party opposed to rare earth mining project wins Greenland election</title><url>https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210407-left-wing-party-opposed-to-rare-earth-mining-project-wins-greenland-election</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arsome</author><text>I&#x27;m not too sure one this one - we need rare earths to make things like lithium cells. Moves like this one could cripple our production capacity or price competitiveness for moving away from fossil fuels - I&#x27;d argue far more environmentally pressing than rare earth mining.</text></item><item><author>zingplex</author><text>As someone who lives in a country that is essentially a collection mining companies with a flag (Canada), I&#x27;m glad to see other people are starting to take this seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicklecompte</author><text>While I don’t disagree with the sentiment, you are making an abstract argument with zero consideration for the facts at hand. The environmental need for rare earth metals does not mean that every rare earth metals mining project is a net positive for the environment.<p>In particular, this specific mine in Greenland is also a uranium deposit, and could be especially devastating to the environment, at relatively little yield[1]. Greenlanders are correct to be skeptical and concerned (especially given that Greenland Minerals is actually an Australian-Chinese company).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rcinet.ca&#x2F;eye-on-the-arctic&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;canadian-geologist-raises-questions-about-controversial-greenland-mining-project&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rcinet.ca&#x2F;eye-on-the-arctic&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;08&#x2F;canadian-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Left-wing party opposed to rare earth mining project wins Greenland election</title><url>https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210407-left-wing-party-opposed-to-rare-earth-mining-project-wins-greenland-election</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arsome</author><text>I&#x27;m not too sure one this one - we need rare earths to make things like lithium cells. Moves like this one could cripple our production capacity or price competitiveness for moving away from fossil fuels - I&#x27;d argue far more environmentally pressing than rare earth mining.</text></item><item><author>zingplex</author><text>As someone who lives in a country that is essentially a collection mining companies with a flag (Canada), I&#x27;m glad to see other people are starting to take this seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>Rare earths are not used in the popular lithium battery chemistries.<p>They are needed for high performance electric motors though.</text></comment> |
10,427,905 | 10,427,863 | 1 | 2 | 10,426,806 | train | <story><title>YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/youtube-red/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>WTF does this mean?<p>&gt; And any creator who doesn’t sign the deal for YouTube Red will have their videos on the ad-free old-school YouTube hidden from view. That’s pretty harsh.<p>So YouTube is saying if you don&#x27;t join their new subscription plan they will just not display your videos on YouTube?<p>Edit: Just heard back. Yes, this is exactly what happened, and it&#x27;s now going into motion. If you are a YouTube creator and you don&#x27;t agree to be a part of this new service, your channel will removed and your videos won&#x27;t appear in search results. In other words, all of your videos are made &quot;private&quot; and you&#x27;re pretty much dead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpodgursky</author><text>My understanding is, if you don&#x27;t sign the deal, your videos won&#x27;t show for people on the ad-free site.<p>How else could you implement this? If I buy a subscription for an ad-free site, it can&#x27;t mean that it&#x27;s ad-free except for videos posted by people who haven&#x27;t signed the contract.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/youtube-red/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>WTF does this mean?<p>&gt; And any creator who doesn’t sign the deal for YouTube Red will have their videos on the ad-free old-school YouTube hidden from view. That’s pretty harsh.<p>So YouTube is saying if you don&#x27;t join their new subscription plan they will just not display your videos on YouTube?<p>Edit: Just heard back. Yes, this is exactly what happened, and it&#x27;s now going into motion. If you are a YouTube creator and you don&#x27;t agree to be a part of this new service, your channel will removed and your videos won&#x27;t appear in search results. In other words, all of your videos are made &quot;private&quot; and you&#x27;re pretty much dead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>This was big news when it was first announced in 2014. This launch has been long in the making, you can find lots of articles that cover the complaints independents had about having their videos removed:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pando.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;screwyoutube-people-are-finally-realizing-that-youtube-screws-musicians-worse-than-anybody&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pando.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;17&#x2F;screwyoutube-people-are-finally...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2014&#x2F;jun&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-independent-record-label-deals" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2014&#x2F;jun&#x2F;04&#x2F;youtube-in...</a><p>There&#x27;s also many blog posts floating around, just search YouTube record label deals.</text></comment> |
32,712,595 | 32,712,132 | 1 | 2 | 32,709,329 | train | <story><title>I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped</title><url>https://rasbora.dev/blog/I-ran-the-worlds-largest-ddos-for-hire-empire-and-cloudflare-helped</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HL33tibCe7</author><text>You’re confusing the First Amendment — a particular law about the government’s requirement to uphold the principle of freedom of speech — with the principle of freedom of speech more generally.<p>In this context, the First Amendment is irrelevant - it doesn’t apply here; it says nothing about the actions of private companies. Instead, people are discussing the principle of freedom of speech, and in particular the extent to which private companies should be able to limit speech.</text></item><item><author>ellen364</author><text>&gt; A private company should not be making decisions on essentially freedom of speech.<p>This comes up a lot and makes me think I’ve misunderstood US free speech dynamics. I thought the USA traditionally limited the government’s ability to regulate free speech, leaving it to private &#x2F; social regulation. In other words, it was up to individuals, communities, companies and so on to decide what was acceptable.<p>But perhaps that’s a misunderstanding. Can anyone recommend books or papers to better understand the history of free speech in the USA? I guess The Federalist Papers are often a good place to start?</text></item><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>The deplatforming logic is practical but pretty shaky as a long term strategy. Kiwifarms absolutely may have been a despicable place causing real harm to people. In that case, the police should initiate a request to take them down that Cloudflare or ISPs etc. are obligated to follow. The problem is the government is completely ineffective and regularly offloads their responsibility to platforms like Facebook, Cloudflare etc. A private company should not be making decisions on essentially freedom of speech. Its just one more responsibility that law enforcement has completely shirked leaving others to clean up the mess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>A problem arises when those private companies--especially in the aggregate--elect not to do business with you. At some level I suppose you don&#x27;t <i>need</i> to do business with Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon... But most would find it difficult. Maybe add the one ISP you have available.</text></comment> | <story><title>I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped</title><url>https://rasbora.dev/blog/I-ran-the-worlds-largest-ddos-for-hire-empire-and-cloudflare-helped</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>HL33tibCe7</author><text>You’re confusing the First Amendment — a particular law about the government’s requirement to uphold the principle of freedom of speech — with the principle of freedom of speech more generally.<p>In this context, the First Amendment is irrelevant - it doesn’t apply here; it says nothing about the actions of private companies. Instead, people are discussing the principle of freedom of speech, and in particular the extent to which private companies should be able to limit speech.</text></item><item><author>ellen364</author><text>&gt; A private company should not be making decisions on essentially freedom of speech.<p>This comes up a lot and makes me think I’ve misunderstood US free speech dynamics. I thought the USA traditionally limited the government’s ability to regulate free speech, leaving it to private &#x2F; social regulation. In other words, it was up to individuals, communities, companies and so on to decide what was acceptable.<p>But perhaps that’s a misunderstanding. Can anyone recommend books or papers to better understand the history of free speech in the USA? I guess The Federalist Papers are often a good place to start?</text></item><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>The deplatforming logic is practical but pretty shaky as a long term strategy. Kiwifarms absolutely may have been a despicable place causing real harm to people. In that case, the police should initiate a request to take them down that Cloudflare or ISPs etc. are obligated to follow. The problem is the government is completely ineffective and regularly offloads their responsibility to platforms like Facebook, Cloudflare etc. A private company should not be making decisions on essentially freedom of speech. Its just one more responsibility that law enforcement has completely shirked leaving others to clean up the mess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>XorNot</author><text>&gt; and in particular the extent to which private companies should be able to limit speech.<p>This is incoherent with the idea it&#x27;s not a government matter. If it&#x27;s not a government matter, then there&#x27;s nothing to talk about - Cloudflare can do whatever they like because the law does not bind them otherwise.</text></comment> |
38,367,897 | 38,367,387 | 1 | 2 | 38,366,830 | train | <story><title>Video-LLaVA</title><url>https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/Video-LLaVA</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>Researchers seem very comfortable sticking &quot;Apache 2.0&quot; licenses all over their foundation model finetunes.<p>This model is absolutely not Apache 2.0 in reality (it&#x27;s a Vicuna finetune nevermind the sourcing of the finetune dataset) and I would use it for business at your peril.</text></comment> | <story><title>Video-LLaVA</title><url>https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/Video-LLaVA</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bobosha</author><text>This is a very cool project! Kudos to the authors for being on top and keeping the features coming. Appears to be feature-competitive with OpenAI&#x27;s GPT-4V `vision` endpoint.</text></comment> |
24,573,488 | 24,572,719 | 1 | 2 | 24,564,669 | train | <story><title>Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019)</title><url>https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/frugality-is-non-linear/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baxtr</author><text>I love frugality as a concept. I learned it from my parents who saved most of their earnings. We did not do any big holidays nor did we have anything brand new. All in all, we had a good life.<p>However, frugality needs to be balanced with living a life worth living. Saving now for later assumes there is later, or even that well-being and health later are given. My mum said to me, shortly before she passed away: <i>“Maybe we saved too much. Maybe we should have lived more.”</i> That’s something I think of now when making decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Meandering</author><text>The real consideration is utility. Maybe you don&#x27;t have the nicest car but, it offers the same utility as a premium vehicle. Now, that money saved can be used to acquire more utility than a vehicle provides alone. This is what I consider frugality because the cheapest option can result in a loss of utility when it doesn&#x27;t fulfill it&#x27;s purpose.<p>Saving money is great because it hopefully means you are purchasing the same utility without unnecessary overhead. Strangely enough, not enjoying a daily premium latte might be less frugal in the long run. You&#x27;d have to consider the utility of pleasure experienced over the years versus a few extra grand for your coffin.</text></comment> | <story><title>Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019)</title><url>https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/frugality-is-non-linear/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baxtr</author><text>I love frugality as a concept. I learned it from my parents who saved most of their earnings. We did not do any big holidays nor did we have anything brand new. All in all, we had a good life.<p>However, frugality needs to be balanced with living a life worth living. Saving now for later assumes there is later, or even that well-being and health later are given. My mum said to me, shortly before she passed away: <i>“Maybe we saved too much. Maybe we should have lived more.”</i> That’s something I think of now when making decisions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>serjester</author><text>My parents grew up in the Soviet Union and received a fairly large nest egg when my grandparents passed. Having saved their entires lives it was enough to buy a home. Well the Soviet Union collapsed, hyper inflation set in and they ended up buying a couple nice coats with the money. Hearing stories like that I&#x27;ve always thought the future needs to be heavily discounted. The present is certain, the future is not.</text></comment> |
2,700,762 | 2,700,256 | 1 | 2 | 2,700,020 | train | <story><title>Legend Of Zelda - Link's Awakening, now playable in HTML5</title><url>http://grantgalitz.org/get_the_hell_out/LegendOfZelda_Links_Awakening/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Twisol</author><text>If your keyboard is like mine, and it doesn't like pressing Enter + Shift + Z + X (which is how you go to the save screen here), you can simulate the key combination with this quick hack:<p><pre><code> function simuSave() {
gameboy.JoyPadEvent(4, true);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(5, true);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(6, true);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(7, true);
setTimeout(function() {
gameboy.JoyPadEvent(4, false);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(5, false);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(6, false);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(7, false);
}, 20);
}
</code></pre>
Put that in Chrome's devtools or Firebug's console and call it with simuSave(). YMMV.</text></comment> | <story><title>Legend Of Zelda - Link's Awakening, now playable in HTML5</title><url>http://grantgalitz.org/get_the_hell_out/LegendOfZelda_Links_Awakening/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Klonoar</author><text>This runs... <i>incredibly</i> well. Nothing short of impressed.</text></comment> |
27,899,361 | 27,898,631 | 1 | 2 | 27,894,640 | train | <story><title>Restaurant workers quit at record rate</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/1016081936/low-pay-no-benefits-rude-customers-restaurant-workers-quit-at-record-rate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawayboise</author><text>McDonald&#x27;s and similar jobs used to be an entry level job for teens and college students. When I was 16 I was happy to work there for minimum wage ($3.35&#x2F;hr at the time). Nobody other than the mangers did it to support a family. It was never understood to be that kind of job. I don&#x27;t know how we got to the point where a no-skills-required job that anyone with a pulse can learn to do in a few hours suddenly became required to support a family of four.</text></item><item><author>lashloch</author><text>There&#x27;s something amusing to me about the idea of an industry that &quot;used to be&quot; sustainable. Guess it wasn&#x27;t sustainable after all.</text></item><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>It used to be. When ordering food in a restaurant was a special thing for special occasions. It was expensive to eat out and the workers were compensated for it. Then we got to a place where food was supposed fast, cheap and accessible to everyone at any time. And suddenly you couldn&#x27;t charge a lot for your food and worker wages stagnated. Sure more people work in the restaurant industry than they ever did before, but that&#x27;s what happens. Quantity over quality in almost any service industry always means abundance of the service at the expense of the workers. Take a look at the rideshare business.</text></item><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>Perhaps the industry is not sustainable then.</text></item><item><author>namdnay</author><text>Honestly, as necessary as that is, it’s not a magic solution. People are quitting the restaurant industry in France too, despite having none of the tip silliness.<p>It’s just that people are realizing that there are easier minimum wage jobs than working in a kitchen</text></item><item><author>yepthatsreality</author><text>The restaurant industry has known the solution for a long time but everyone wants to pretend it would be too difficult.<p>Stop the tipping guilt trip placed on the public, raise your prices 20%, and pay your employees a livable wage. The public will still show up to eat in your restaurant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tshaddox</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t know how we got to the point where a no-skills-required job that anyone with a pulse can learn to do in a few hours suddenly became required to support a family of four.<p>That&#x27;s an odd way of looking at it. Surely what happened first isn&#x27;t that the expectations of fast food jobs changed out of the blue. Could it instead be that <i>other</i> jobs which adults worked to support their families went away?</text></comment> | <story><title>Restaurant workers quit at record rate</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/07/20/1016081936/low-pay-no-benefits-rude-customers-restaurant-workers-quit-at-record-rate</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawayboise</author><text>McDonald&#x27;s and similar jobs used to be an entry level job for teens and college students. When I was 16 I was happy to work there for minimum wage ($3.35&#x2F;hr at the time). Nobody other than the mangers did it to support a family. It was never understood to be that kind of job. I don&#x27;t know how we got to the point where a no-skills-required job that anyone with a pulse can learn to do in a few hours suddenly became required to support a family of four.</text></item><item><author>lashloch</author><text>There&#x27;s something amusing to me about the idea of an industry that &quot;used to be&quot; sustainable. Guess it wasn&#x27;t sustainable after all.</text></item><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>It used to be. When ordering food in a restaurant was a special thing for special occasions. It was expensive to eat out and the workers were compensated for it. Then we got to a place where food was supposed fast, cheap and accessible to everyone at any time. And suddenly you couldn&#x27;t charge a lot for your food and worker wages stagnated. Sure more people work in the restaurant industry than they ever did before, but that&#x27;s what happens. Quantity over quality in almost any service industry always means abundance of the service at the expense of the workers. Take a look at the rideshare business.</text></item><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>Perhaps the industry is not sustainable then.</text></item><item><author>namdnay</author><text>Honestly, as necessary as that is, it’s not a magic solution. People are quitting the restaurant industry in France too, despite having none of the tip silliness.<p>It’s just that people are realizing that there are easier minimum wage jobs than working in a kitchen</text></item><item><author>yepthatsreality</author><text>The restaurant industry has known the solution for a long time but everyone wants to pretend it would be too difficult.<p>Stop the tipping guilt trip placed on the public, raise your prices 20%, and pay your employees a livable wage. The public will still show up to eat in your restaurant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cratermoon</author><text>&gt; Nobody other than the mangers did it to support a family. It was never understood to be that kind of job<p>Wrong.<p>&quot;From the beginning, the minimum wage was meant to be a living wage—meaning families could live off of the pay comfortably, rather than struggling paycheck-to-paycheck&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lendio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;minimum-wage-livable&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lendio.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;minimum-wage-livable&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
35,834,893 | 35,834,466 | 1 | 3 | 35,829,733 | train | <story><title>Htmx Is the Future</title><url>https://quii.dev/HTMX_is_the_Future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>I remember that all the web shops in my town that did Ruby on Rails sites efficiently felt they had to switch to Angular about the same time and they never regained their footing in the Angular age although it seems they can finally get things sorta kinda done with React.<p>Client-side validation is used as an excuse for React but we were doing client-side validation in 1999 with plain ordinary Javascript. If the real problem was “not write the validation code twice” surely the answer would have been some kind of DSL that code-generated or interpreted the validation rules for the back end and front end, not the fantastically complex Rube Goldberg machine of the modern Javascript wait wait wait wait and wait some more to build machine and then users wait wait wait wait wait for React and 60,000 files worth of library code to load and then wait wait wait wait even more for completely inscrutable reasons later on. (e.g. amazing how long you have to wait for Windows to delete the files in your node_modules directory)</text></item><item><author>obpe</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda funny to me that many of the &quot;pros&quot; of this approach are the exact reasons so many abandoned MPAs in the first place.<p>For instance, a major selling point of Node was running JS on both the client and server so you can write the code once. It&#x27;s a pretty shitty client experience if you have to do a network request for each and every validation of user input.<p>Also, there was a push to move the shitty code from the server to the client to free up server resources and prevent your servers from ruining the experience for everyone.<p>We moved away for MPAs because they were bloated, slow and difficult to work with. SPAs have definitely become what they sought to replace.<p>But that isn&#x27;t because of the technology, it&#x27;s because all the devs writing shitty MPAs are now writing shitty SPAs. If this becomes popular, they will start writing shitty MPAs again. Nothing about this technology will stop that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>berkes</author><text>Even worse: Client-side validation and server-side validation (and database integrity validation) are all their own domains! I call all of these &quot;domain logic&quot; or domain validation just to be sure.<p>Yes, they overlap. Sure, you&#x27;ll need some repetition and maybe, indeed, some DSL or tooling to share some of the overlapping ones across the boundaries.<p>But no! They are not the same. A &quot;this email is already in use&quot; is serverside, (it depends on the case). A &quot;this doesn&#x27;t look like an email-address, did you mean gmail.com instead of gamil.com&quot; is client side and a &quot;unique-key-constraint: contactemail already used&quot; is even more down.<p>My point is, that the more you sit down (with customers! domain experts!) and talk or think all this through, the less it&#x27;s a technical problem that has to be solved with DSLs, SPAs, MPAs or &quot;same language for backend and UI&quot;. And the more you (I) realize it really often hardly matters.<p>You quite probably don&#x27;t even need that email-uniqueness validation at all. In any layer. If you just care to speak to the business.</text></comment> | <story><title>Htmx Is the Future</title><url>https://quii.dev/HTMX_is_the_Future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulHoule</author><text>I remember that all the web shops in my town that did Ruby on Rails sites efficiently felt they had to switch to Angular about the same time and they never regained their footing in the Angular age although it seems they can finally get things sorta kinda done with React.<p>Client-side validation is used as an excuse for React but we were doing client-side validation in 1999 with plain ordinary Javascript. If the real problem was “not write the validation code twice” surely the answer would have been some kind of DSL that code-generated or interpreted the validation rules for the back end and front end, not the fantastically complex Rube Goldberg machine of the modern Javascript wait wait wait wait and wait some more to build machine and then users wait wait wait wait wait for React and 60,000 files worth of library code to load and then wait wait wait wait even more for completely inscrutable reasons later on. (e.g. amazing how long you have to wait for Windows to delete the files in your node_modules directory)</text></item><item><author>obpe</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda funny to me that many of the &quot;pros&quot; of this approach are the exact reasons so many abandoned MPAs in the first place.<p>For instance, a major selling point of Node was running JS on both the client and server so you can write the code once. It&#x27;s a pretty shitty client experience if you have to do a network request for each and every validation of user input.<p>Also, there was a push to move the shitty code from the server to the client to free up server resources and prevent your servers from ruining the experience for everyone.<p>We moved away for MPAs because they were bloated, slow and difficult to work with. SPAs have definitely become what they sought to replace.<p>But that isn&#x27;t because of the technology, it&#x27;s because all the devs writing shitty MPAs are now writing shitty SPAs. If this becomes popular, they will start writing shitty MPAs again. Nothing about this technology will stop that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ratorx</author><text>Or even skip the DSL and use JS for both client and server, just independently. Validation functions can&#x2F;should be simple, pure JS that can be imported from both.</text></comment> |
37,811,130 | 37,808,724 | 1 | 2 | 37,800,043 | train | <story><title>Role of Algorithms</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/13/role-of-algorithms.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>angarg12</author><text>&gt; Somewhat related, I noticed a surprising correlation between programming skills in the small, and programming skills in the large. You can solve a problem in five lines of code, or, if you try hard, in ten lines of code. If you consistently come up with concise solutions in the small, chances are large scale design will be simple as well.<p>Well, my anecdotal evidence doesn&#x27;t support this.<p>I&#x27;ve done 500+ interviews for big tech, and often it is easy to spot people who have grinded leetcode. They excel at DSA, but fail at system design, or even low level design.<p>The thing is that overall I kind of agree with this article. Leetcode is great as a fun coding exercise. I also think they help the craft like katas help martial artist to practice.<p>The problem is when me getting the job depends on solving a coding puzzle. Sometimes I can solve a leetcode hard with ease and sometimes I get completely blocked in a medium one. Getting a job becomes more of a random toss than assessment of my skills. And yes, my company, and by extension me, are very guilty of this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Role of Algorithms</title><url>https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/13/role-of-algorithms.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aiunboxed</author><text>Yes as a former competitive programmer I think there are a lot of benefits to learning algorithms<p>- It makes you habitual to pushing bug free code as there is a penalty you give in every wrong submission.<p>- You have to make sure that you get the submission done is shortest possible time, you learn to execute with speed.<p>- You have great debugging skills<p>- Edit (Edge cases as well)</text></comment> |
7,425,798 | 7,425,906 | 1 | 2 | 7,425,521 | train | <story><title>To Protect Legitimate Interests, Seattle Should Cap All Forms of Innovation</title><url>http://starkravingvc.com/2014/03/18/to-protect-legitimate-interests-seattle-should-cap-all-forms-of-innovation-immediately/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timr</author><text>I personally think the Seattle uberlyft rules are stupid, but it&#x27;s worth remembering something that gets lost in the noise of &quot;futurism&quot; that clonks around the silicon valley echo chamber: it&#x27;s not <i>inherently wrong</i> to have laws that protect established businesses. I don&#x27;t like cab companies, but I do want to know that my hired driver is insured. I&#x27;m indifferent to hotels, but I don&#x27;t want my neighbor running an SRO out of his apartment. I don&#x27;t enjoy high medical bills, but I like the ability to know that my prescription medications aren&#x27;t radium-based elixirs. And so on.<p>To the extent that stability of certain kinds of businesses is essential to the stability of our society, it&#x27;s actually a very good thing that governments are somewhat conservative about protecting the establishment. Moreover, there&#x27;s no law of the universe that says that &quot;disruption&quot; is a good thing, and there <i>certainly</i> isn&#x27;t any clean way to weigh the interests of one big established industry with those of a large, successful, wealthy competitor industry.<p>Anyway, I have a hard time getting worked up over the regulatory disputes of corporations -- we have bigger problems, not the least of which is the question of why those big, successful companies get so much influence over the laws in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>To Protect Legitimate Interests, Seattle Should Cap All Forms of Innovation</title><url>http://starkravingvc.com/2014/03/18/to-protect-legitimate-interests-seattle-should-cap-all-forms-of-innovation-immediately/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yajoe</author><text>For those who don&#x27;t know, Greg is one of the common faces of the Seattle VC scene. He is a staple at nearly every startup event -- Startup Weekend, Geekwire events, TechStars, VC panels, etc.<p>I don&#x27;t have a dog in the fight, but I did spend some time reading the actual bill since these blog articles felt like more political campaigns than informative pieces. The last time this came up I posted <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303232" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7303232</a><p>The Seattle city council passed a law that made so-called &quot;ride sharing&quot; services legal after intentionally withholding prosecution for over a year. The law isn&#x27;t perfect, but it does feel like it strives to balance protecting existing investments with new services. The most salient changes about the bill:<p>1. Seattle defines uberX, Lyft, etc as Transportation Network Companies (TNC) and declares all drivers as &quot;for-hire&quot; drivers, which is a legal distinction that means Seattle can regulate them.<p>2. TNCs are taxed at $50k for first year. Second year is the greater of $50k or .35% of gross revenue.<p>3. No more than 150 drivers may be associated with each TNC at a time, and each driver can work only 12 hours per 24 hour period. Previously the law would have limited 300 drivers per TNC per quarter regardless of who was active, and this was &quot;the cap.&quot; For comparison, there are 1100 taxicabs in the city.<p>4. Drivers can&#x27;t double dip: They can&#x27;t both drive for-hire cars and also do uberX on the side. They also can&#x27;t work for both uberX and Lyft.<p>5. Rates may either be flat-rate between preset zones OR subject to RCW Chapter 19.94. RCW Chapter 19.94 defines appropriate measurement devices that may be used with commerce, which I think precludes most cell phones... uberX would need to install meters it seems and precludes surge pricing.<p>6. The insurance requirements are stricter than what uberX or Lyft provide today and are mostly in line with existing taxicabs.<p>7. There was a 30% increase in the cap on cabs at the same time.<p>8. TNCs have to report their activities to the city, which will be available to the public for inspection.</text></comment> |
17,170,198 | 17,169,799 | 1 | 3 | 17,166,934 | train | <story><title>Hotelling’s Law (2011)</title><url>https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2692.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noonespecial</author><text>This always seemed to fall down for me in that some people who were willing to walk 1&#x2F;4 mile for ice cream won&#x27;t be willing to walk 1&#x2F;2 mile. You have to make huge assumptions to call this any sort of &quot;law&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alangpierce</author><text>I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s a significant result because it&#x27;s a situation where natural competition causes a negative outcome for everyone. Having to walk 1&#x2F;2 mile for ice cream is certainly at least as bad of an experience as having to walk 1&#x2F;4 mile, probably strictly worse for most people. It seems likely that both vendors will lose some customers compared with the original scenario, and that the average customer experience will be worse.<p>If the same person ran both carts, or if they were run by the government, then they would be spaced far apart (the original position), which would be better for everyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hotelling’s Law (2011)</title><url>https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2692.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noonespecial</author><text>This always seemed to fall down for me in that some people who were willing to walk 1&#x2F;4 mile for ice cream won&#x27;t be willing to walk 1&#x2F;2 mile. You have to make huge assumptions to call this any sort of &quot;law&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setr</author><text>I would imagine in the fridge example that results in a product category. In the ice cream example, the carts would move as far possible towards the middle until the incentive is no longer an incentive. They&#x27;re already in the middle, or going any closer would lose rather than gain customers. But afaict the general idea still holds, theres an inherent incentive to move to the middle (which ofc can be defeated by competing incentives but nonetheless)</text></comment> |
25,531,389 | 25,531,252 | 1 | 2 | 25,530,178 | train | <story><title>Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)</title><url>https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klenwell</author><text><i>The problem had to do not just with data analysis per se, but with what database researchers call “provenance” — broadly, where did data arise, what inferences were drawn from the data, and how relevant are those inferences to the present situation? While a trained human might be able to work all of this out on a case-by-case basis, the issue was that of designing a planetary-scale medical system that could do this without the need for such detailed human oversight.</i><p>I&#x27;m not a data scientist and I&#x27;ve never encountered that term &quot;provenance&quot; before but I&#x27;ve encountered the problem he talks about in the wild here and there and have searched for a good way to describe it. His ultrasound example is a great, chilling, example of it.<p>I also like the term &quot;Intelligence Augmentation&quot; (IA). I&#x27;ve worked for a couple companies who liberally sprinkled the term AI in their marketing content. I always rolled my eyes when I came across it or it came up in say a job interview. What we were really doing, more practically and valuably, was this: IA through II (Intelligent Infrastructure), where the Intelligent Infrastructure was little more than a web view on a database that was previously obscured or somewhat arbitrarily constrained to one or two users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agency</author><text>The IA terminology brings to mind the classic &quot;Augmenting Human Intellect&quot;[1] essay by Doug Engelbart (famous for giving &quot;The Mother of all Demos&quot;[2])<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dougengelbart.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;view&#x2F;138" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dougengelbart.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;view&#x2F;138</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Mother_of_All_Demos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Mother_of_All_Demos</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)</title><url>https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klenwell</author><text><i>The problem had to do not just with data analysis per se, but with what database researchers call “provenance” — broadly, where did data arise, what inferences were drawn from the data, and how relevant are those inferences to the present situation? While a trained human might be able to work all of this out on a case-by-case basis, the issue was that of designing a planetary-scale medical system that could do this without the need for such detailed human oversight.</i><p>I&#x27;m not a data scientist and I&#x27;ve never encountered that term &quot;provenance&quot; before but I&#x27;ve encountered the problem he talks about in the wild here and there and have searched for a good way to describe it. His ultrasound example is a great, chilling, example of it.<p>I also like the term &quot;Intelligence Augmentation&quot; (IA). I&#x27;ve worked for a couple companies who liberally sprinkled the term AI in their marketing content. I always rolled my eyes when I came across it or it came up in say a job interview. What we were really doing, more practically and valuably, was this: IA through II (Intelligent Infrastructure), where the Intelligent Infrastructure was little more than a web view on a database that was previously obscured or somewhat arbitrarily constrained to one or two users.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>Provenance is an idea that shows up in multiple fields. I first encountered it in discussions of archeology. But then it showed up in, for example, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ralfj.de&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;14&#x2F;provenance.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ralfj.de&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;14&#x2F;provenance.html</a> discussing how improper handling of pointer provenance can cause code to get miscompiled.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Provenance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Provenance</a> gives more on the term and the way it shows up.</text></comment> |
29,906,814 | 29,906,804 | 1 | 2 | 29,906,496 | train | <story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hartator</author><text>&gt; A significant portion of consumer inflation is still being driven by pandemic-driven mismatches between demand and supply.<p>Or maybe printing 40% more dollars is the main driver here? This feels like a very dishonest take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tharne</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at the amount of rhetorical gymnastics going on in DC to lay the blame for inflation at the feet of anything besides the obvious - the massive amount of money printing going on the last few years. The most ridiculous of these is the &quot;corporate greed storyline&quot; I&#x27;ve seen pushed lately. As if all the corporations suddenly decided to become greedy in the last twelve months after many years of altruistic and selfless behavior.</text></comment> | <story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hartator</author><text>&gt; A significant portion of consumer inflation is still being driven by pandemic-driven mismatches between demand and supply.<p>Or maybe printing 40% more dollars is the main driver here? This feels like a very dishonest take.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khuey</author><text>If you drill into the data you can see that large portions of the measured inflation are driven specifically by sectors like automobiles which have known pandemic-induced supply chain problems.</text></comment> |
29,950,875 | 29,950,999 | 1 | 2 | 29,950,152 | train | <story><title>Switching from macOS to Pop_OS</title><url>https://support.system76.com/articles/switch-from-macos-to-popos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked &amp; reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs.<p>I&#x27;ve been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I&#x27;ve hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time it used to before spending days and days fiddling with a bunch of different flavors of remapping at nearly every layer of the system.<p>If I&#x27;m ever fabulously wealthy, I already know I&#x27;m just going to finance an open source fastidious spiritual successor to MacOS 10.6<p>I&#x27;m going to give Pop_Os a try, but I suspect I&#x27;m going to run into the same problems I always do. The trouble with Linux as a desktop for me isn&#x27;t weather it&#x27;s beautiful or not. The problem is how disintegrated everything is and the thousand papercuts ways in which it works.<p>That said, I absolutely consider it basically an incredible miracle that the experience is as good as it is, frankly. So, I keep at it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>askvictor</author><text>Having recently moved back to Linux (PopOS) from Windows, the one biggest annoyance is not being able to configure two-finger touchpad swipe to be browser back&#x2F;forward. This is the default in Mac, easily configurable in Windows (perhaps it&#x27;s the default?), and default in ChromeOS. But simply not an option in any Linux I&#x27;ve tried. The Epiphany Browser does it, but that lacks extension support so is a no-go for me. Any extensions or workarounds I&#x27;ve tried only support three-finger swipes.<p>So, along with consistent keyboard shortcuts, I&#x27;d like to add consistent and configurable mouse&#x2F;trackball actions (some apps scrollwheel goes up&#x2F;down, others it zooms, some support pinch zoom, some don&#x27;t).</text></comment> | <story><title>Switching from macOS to Pop_OS</title><url>https://support.system76.com/articles/switch-from-macos-to-popos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>All I want in life is a Linux distro with a package repo full of meticulously reworked &amp; reconfigured packages that make all the keyboard shortcuts across the entire system and every application be like and be as consistent as my old Macs.<p>I&#x27;ve been full-time Linux (Kubuntu) for a few years now, and I&#x27;ve hobbled together something that only irritates me to death about 30% of the time rather than the 100% of the time it used to before spending days and days fiddling with a bunch of different flavors of remapping at nearly every layer of the system.<p>If I&#x27;m ever fabulously wealthy, I already know I&#x27;m just going to finance an open source fastidious spiritual successor to MacOS 10.6<p>I&#x27;m going to give Pop_Os a try, but I suspect I&#x27;m going to run into the same problems I always do. The trouble with Linux as a desktop for me isn&#x27;t weather it&#x27;s beautiful or not. The problem is how disintegrated everything is and the thousand papercuts ways in which it works.<p>That said, I absolutely consider it basically an incredible miracle that the experience is as good as it is, frankly. So, I keep at it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taeric</author><text>I find this funny, in that I struggle with Mac all the time. The worst grievance lately is that I don&#x27;t know how to just pop back and forth between three windows. Something about the way command tab works just kills my ability to reason about what the window stack currently is.<p>And, for the life of me, I never get copy paste from a terminal to work like I want it to.</text></comment> |
24,334,480 | 24,334,462 | 1 | 2 | 24,334,150 | train | <story><title>I just lost 1,400 BTC</title><url>https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecomment-683356052</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>As far as I can understand<p>1. The user had 1,400 BTC in an old wallet using this software<p>2. An old version of the software was vulnerable to phishing<p>3. The user attempted to use the software, and was phished<p>4. Massive payday for the scammers<p>Really unfortunate - and goes to show with software you manage yourself you need to be diligent about making sure it&#x27;s updated. For all the shit coinbase gets, it&#x27;s difficult to lose your coins in this manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brianwawok</author><text>Also, I think it&#x27;s just the reason that crypto-currency will fail.<p>If you trick me into an ACH transfer of 16 million, there will<p>a) Trigger some random human based audits at my bank before the money can leave (likely involve some phone calls)<p>b) Have actual recourse, like court orders to hold the funds at the other bank<p>c) Take some amount of time to happen, to allow for A &amp; B<p>It&#x27;s not perfect, and it has bugs.. but I would never store actual money of value in crypto anything.</text></comment> | <story><title>I just lost 1,400 BTC</title><url>https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecomment-683356052</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nemothekid</author><text>As far as I can understand<p>1. The user had 1,400 BTC in an old wallet using this software<p>2. An old version of the software was vulnerable to phishing<p>3. The user attempted to use the software, and was phished<p>4. Massive payday for the scammers<p>Really unfortunate - and goes to show with software you manage yourself you need to be diligent about making sure it&#x27;s updated. For all the shit coinbase gets, it&#x27;s difficult to lose your coins in this manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eastbayjake</author><text>It was my understanding that the user had installed a version of the Electrum wallet that was not from the official source at electrum.org. (But agree - it was really difficult to identify the core issue from this string of GitHub comments.)</text></comment> |
34,662,273 | 34,661,087 | 1 | 3 | 34,632,677 | train | <story><title>Fedora now has frame pointers</title><url>https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/fedora-now-has-frame-pointers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>-fomit-frame-pointer is pretty high on the list of most destructive micro-optimizations in the history of open source. When you repurpose the backtrace pointer (RBP) for other things, it totally savages our ability to have native backtraces. All for a pointless ~1% performance boost. I&#x27;ve always thought it was some kind of grand conspiracy to obfuscate the behaviors of closed source software but for some reason every single Linux distro that claims to love freedom has to do this too. I don&#x27;t want to trust binaries built by strangers on the Internet if they hide their behaviors. Back when I worked at Google I used to read a lot of the company-wide core build configs, and the first thing they always did was make sure -fno-omit-frame-pointer is always passed, no matter what build flags a specific team uses. Don&#x27;t tell me DWARF is an acceptable alternative. While it can be nice sugar on top with Linux perf report when it actually works, frame pointers let me produce a backtrace in just ten lines of C without any dependencies. If I wanted to do the same with DWARF I&#x27;d need to link some GPL library or write 10,000 lines of byzantine code to figure out which function called the one that&#x27;s crashing. Stuff like this is why everyone uses scripting languages these days, since the main value prop of high-level languages is their ability to reliably print backtraces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>&gt; All for a pointless ~1% performance boost.<p>With 32 bit code this was absolutely not the case. I have not looked so closely at 64 bit code, but in 32 bit land -fomit-frame-pointer was often closer to a 20-30% performance boost. Of all of gcc&#x27;s optimization options it was the only one that I ever found to make a significant difference in real code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fedora now has frame pointers</title><url>https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/fedora-now-has-frame-pointers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>-fomit-frame-pointer is pretty high on the list of most destructive micro-optimizations in the history of open source. When you repurpose the backtrace pointer (RBP) for other things, it totally savages our ability to have native backtraces. All for a pointless ~1% performance boost. I&#x27;ve always thought it was some kind of grand conspiracy to obfuscate the behaviors of closed source software but for some reason every single Linux distro that claims to love freedom has to do this too. I don&#x27;t want to trust binaries built by strangers on the Internet if they hide their behaviors. Back when I worked at Google I used to read a lot of the company-wide core build configs, and the first thing they always did was make sure -fno-omit-frame-pointer is always passed, no matter what build flags a specific team uses. Don&#x27;t tell me DWARF is an acceptable alternative. While it can be nice sugar on top with Linux perf report when it actually works, frame pointers let me produce a backtrace in just ten lines of C without any dependencies. If I wanted to do the same with DWARF I&#x27;d need to link some GPL library or write 10,000 lines of byzantine code to figure out which function called the one that&#x27;s crashing. Stuff like this is why everyone uses scripting languages these days, since the main value prop of high-level languages is their ability to reliably print backtraces.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>catiopatio</author><text>DWARF is not just the better alternative, it’s the only correct solution.<p>Not only do you get more complete and correct backtraces with DWARF, you also get preservation of stack-saved registers and the ability to reconstitute a subset of local state in a given frame.<p>libunwind is MIT licensed, not GPL.<p>I’ve also written a full DWARF stack unwinder myself, including a full DWARF expression interpreter — it’s <i>nowhere near</i> 10k lines of code.</text></comment> |
28,339,699 | 28,339,748 | 1 | 3 | 28,338,893 | train | <story><title>Missile Base for Sale</title><url>http://mobile.missilebaseforsale.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>Asking $1,500,000.00
January 14, 2021: Reduced to $550,000<p>Terms: Cash or $500,000 down and owner carry remainder<p>They&#x27;ll carry the remaining $50k after your $500k down payment. Sounds like they&#x27;re okay with $500k flat to me.<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not seeing an address for the site. I need to know what school district it is in, and how close to downtown and other activity centers. Maybe that helps explain the $50k wiggle room?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&gt;&gt; now what school district it is in, and how close to downtown and other activity centers.<p>It is a missile silo. They didn&#x27;t put those things close to city hall. According to GoogleMaps it appears to be about a kilometre from Nekoma, a town of 50 that may or may not have a school. The next town is Langdon, ~2000 people 30km away. Your choice of schools and&#x2F;or coffee shops might be limited.<p>Lol. The nearest Tesla supercharger is in 85km away ... in Canada. The nearest US charger is in Fargo, 200km away. Nearest starbucks is 100km. But given that the roads all go north-south or east-west, I would add about 50% to those numbers for driving distance. If there is a nowhere, this is the middle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Missile Base for Sale</title><url>http://mobile.missilebaseforsale.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylan604</author><text>Asking $1,500,000.00
January 14, 2021: Reduced to $550,000<p>Terms: Cash or $500,000 down and owner carry remainder<p>They&#x27;ll carry the remaining $50k after your $500k down payment. Sounds like they&#x27;re okay with $500k flat to me.<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not seeing an address for the site. I need to know what school district it is in, and how close to downtown and other activity centers. Maybe that helps explain the $50k wiggle room?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leetrout</author><text>It&#x27;s located here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@48.8490754,-98.4321807,564m&#x2F;data=!3m1!1e3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;@48.8490754,-98.4321807,564m&#x2F;dat...</a><p>103rd Ave NE &amp; 99th St</text></comment> |
14,388,625 | 14,388,461 | 1 | 2 | 14,386,607 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What are the Madrid and Barcelona tech scenes like?</title><text>Hola HN!<p>I&#x27;m a software developer considering moving to Spain for non-career-related reasons. That said, the job opportunities there are a huge factor in whether I&#x27;ll actually go.<p>I&#x27;ve narrowed down to Madrid and Barcelona as the two best options, at least regarding jobs. So I&#x27;m asking for the opinions and advice of HNers who have lived &amp; worked in both those cities:<p>What shape is the tech sector in?
What types of work are available?
What do salaries look like, vs London&#x2F;Berlin&#x2F;Paris levels?
How limiting is it to not be fluent enough in Spanish for use at work, beyond chit-chat?
Is contracting&#x2F;freelancing possible, without Spanish fluency?
Is there is an obvious leader between the two cities, tech-scene wise?
Are there any unintuitive factors to consider?<p>---<p>A bit of personal context, if it helps the advice to be a bit more concrete:<p>* I&#x27;d be going for senior developer roles. Most likely at small-mid size companies. Larger ones possibly, for the right job.<p>* My past jobs have been in the capital cities of Europe&#x27;s strongest economies. I&#x27;m aware that moving to Madrid or Barcelona will likely involve a pay cut in absolute terms. But this is a trade off I&#x27;m more than happy to make.<p>* I&#x27;m currently functional in Spanish but I have a long way to go until fluency. That&#x27;s one of my goals in moving to Spain. So I&#x27;m not put off by the language barrier for day to day life. It would be more of a near term concern if non fluency is severely career limiting, for example if it becomes a problem once you are anywhere above entry level positions, as is the case in some countries.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvaldes</author><text>&gt; will likely involve a pay cut in absolute terms.<p>In absolute terms, but take in mind that life in Spain can be much less expensive than living in Berlin or Paris. It depends on the area and the job.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m currently functional in Spanish but I have a long way to go until fluency. That&#x27;s one of my goals in moving to Spain<p>Madrid is the right option then. Has worst climate with more hot in summer and colder in winter, and is as stressful as any other big city, but is a much more easier place to learn spanish, and (probably) an easier place for a foreigner to mix with the locals. Barcelona uses heavily Catalonian language for all: trafic signs, street posters, commerce, casual conversation, television, politics... all.<p>On the other hand, if you can find work in any of the other &quot;big&#x2F;but not so big&quot; province capitals (or can do remote work) maybe you should consider it. Smaller the city, worst pay, but much better life quality. The climate is better around the coast, as usual.<p>&gt; How limiting is it to not be fluent enough in Spanish for use at work<p>As long as you speak english and know your stuff, should not be a big problem. English is worshipped (an old national inferiority complex) and in fact could be much more difficult to you to find a job in Spain if you were Spaniard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faragon</author><text>Catalan is not going to be a problem. Most people in Barcelona has Spanish as mother tongue. Catalan is more popular in the countryside. The Catalan nationalism is everywhere in the public sphere (public administration, public schools, traffic) because of regional government in hands of Catalan nationalists&#x2F;separatists. Fortunately, private companies have not that imposition, and commom sense rules: most things are in Spanish and English. Of course, some people -including myself- speak in Catalan with other people, but switch immediately to Spanish or English so no one feels excluded.<p>If you&#x27;re thinking about investing in Barcelona, and having fears about the separatist movement: don&#x27;t worry, it is not going to happen. In that regard Barcelona is pretty much like London: separatists are a minority, being the separatist power in the countryside. So before the Catalan region of Spain becoming independent, Barcelona would remain as part of Spain (in the improbable case of all Spanish citizens agreed about allowing a &quot;Clarity Act&quot; like in Canada, so if Spain could be divided, any separatist region could be divided as well -that would be going &quot;nuclear&quot; against separatists that consider the Catalan region of Spain as &quot;indivisible&quot;-). So independence chance is 0, in my opinion. I hope Catalan nationalism will reduce its influence once their leaders pass through the court (corruption cases), and everything gets back to normal, with bilingüism&#x2F;trilingüism in the schools and public administration, instead of current de-facto Catalan monolingual stuff in the public sphere. If after that you still have doubts, invest in Madrid first, and think about Barcelona once the political scene gets more rational (I love Barcelona, don&#x27;t get me wrong).</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What are the Madrid and Barcelona tech scenes like?</title><text>Hola HN!<p>I&#x27;m a software developer considering moving to Spain for non-career-related reasons. That said, the job opportunities there are a huge factor in whether I&#x27;ll actually go.<p>I&#x27;ve narrowed down to Madrid and Barcelona as the two best options, at least regarding jobs. So I&#x27;m asking for the opinions and advice of HNers who have lived &amp; worked in both those cities:<p>What shape is the tech sector in?
What types of work are available?
What do salaries look like, vs London&#x2F;Berlin&#x2F;Paris levels?
How limiting is it to not be fluent enough in Spanish for use at work, beyond chit-chat?
Is contracting&#x2F;freelancing possible, without Spanish fluency?
Is there is an obvious leader between the two cities, tech-scene wise?
Are there any unintuitive factors to consider?<p>---<p>A bit of personal context, if it helps the advice to be a bit more concrete:<p>* I&#x27;d be going for senior developer roles. Most likely at small-mid size companies. Larger ones possibly, for the right job.<p>* My past jobs have been in the capital cities of Europe&#x27;s strongest economies. I&#x27;m aware that moving to Madrid or Barcelona will likely involve a pay cut in absolute terms. But this is a trade off I&#x27;m more than happy to make.<p>* I&#x27;m currently functional in Spanish but I have a long way to go until fluency. That&#x27;s one of my goals in moving to Spain. So I&#x27;m not put off by the language barrier for day to day life. It would be more of a near term concern if non fluency is severely career limiting, for example if it becomes a problem once you are anywhere above entry level positions, as is the case in some countries.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pvaldes</author><text>&gt; will likely involve a pay cut in absolute terms.<p>In absolute terms, but take in mind that life in Spain can be much less expensive than living in Berlin or Paris. It depends on the area and the job.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m currently functional in Spanish but I have a long way to go until fluency. That&#x27;s one of my goals in moving to Spain<p>Madrid is the right option then. Has worst climate with more hot in summer and colder in winter, and is as stressful as any other big city, but is a much more easier place to learn spanish, and (probably) an easier place for a foreigner to mix with the locals. Barcelona uses heavily Catalonian language for all: trafic signs, street posters, commerce, casual conversation, television, politics... all.<p>On the other hand, if you can find work in any of the other &quot;big&#x2F;but not so big&quot; province capitals (or can do remote work) maybe you should consider it. Smaller the city, worst pay, but much better life quality. The climate is better around the coast, as usual.<p>&gt; How limiting is it to not be fluent enough in Spanish for use at work<p>As long as you speak english and know your stuff, should not be a big problem. English is worshipped (an old national inferiority complex) and in fact could be much more difficult to you to find a job in Spain if you were Spaniard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adlpz</author><text>Quick note: Spaniard here, lived in Berlin for two years and I can assure you that Barcelona is significantly more expensive for a comparable way of life. Berlin is a particularly cheap place to live.</text></comment> |
38,267,488 | 38,265,639 | 1 | 3 | 38,263,435 | train | <story><title>Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1-6</author><text>My simple rule still stands even after 20 years: Avoid Seagate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gosub100</author><text>They had a couple bad runs a few years back. If you keep following your simple rule, you&#x27;ll eventually get a bad WD and not be able to use spinning platters at all. A better simple rule would be to never skimp on buying out-of-warranty drives, as well as having a proper backup regimen. I&#x27;ve had bad seagates back in ~2008 but my current nas has 5x 16T exos and they work fine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023</title><url>https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1-6</author><text>My simple rule still stands even after 20 years: Avoid Seagate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mistletoe</author><text>I always found it hilarious when they were sponsoring the datahoarder subreddit. I’d like to meet that marketer and shake his or her hand.</text></comment> |
24,079,883 | 24,076,440 | 1 | 2 | 24,076,096 | train | <story><title>Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity</title><url>https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/04/science.abd3871</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>trenchgun</author><text>Misleading headline. From the article:<p>&gt; Based on these data, it is plausible to hypothesize that pre-existing cross-reactive HCoV CD4+ T cell memory in some donors could be a contributing factor to variations in COVID-19 patient disease outcomes, but this is at present highly speculative<p>Also I recommend to read this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;covid-19-immunity-is-the-pandemics-central-mystery&#x2F;614956&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;08&#x2F;covid-19-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity</title><url>https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/04/science.abd3871</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostromo</author><text>&gt; We demonstrate a range of pre-existing memory CD4+ T cells that are cross-reactive with comparable affinity to SARS-CoV-2 and the common cold coronaviruses HCoV-OC43, HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, or HCoV-HKU1. Thus, variegated T cell memory to coronaviruses that cause the common cold may underlie at least some of the extensive heterogeneity observed in COVID-19 disease.<p>Could we just start deliberately spreading these weaker cold viruses then?</text></comment> |
34,787,326 | 34,786,708 | 1 | 2 | 34,785,474 | train | <story><title>Meta reportedly plans more job cuts</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/meta-reportedly-plans-to-cut-more-jobs-171716224.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ttyyzz</author><text>In our large company, we often had a consulting firm that advised us in difficult times. Bottom line, they said that they think the company needs to deeply breath out and then breathe in again. After the severance payments, we were always urgently looking for people.
For me, that was always proof that the managers had failed. But a disproportionately small number of managers had to leave the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kypro</author><text>Sounds like your company had no idea why they were doing the lay offs so just go rid of workers lower down the chain while keeping their friends.<p>I&#x27;ve seen the same thing happen in a large corp I&#x27;ve worked for directed by the advice of McKinsey.<p>The funny thing in this case though was that it was Accenture which advised them to hire the engineering department two years prior to help with innovation. Then after a couple of years of building out the team they advised them fire the whole department and outsource it to cut costs. The only people who remained were managers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meta reportedly plans more job cuts</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/meta-reportedly-plans-to-cut-more-jobs-171716224.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ttyyzz</author><text>In our large company, we often had a consulting firm that advised us in difficult times. Bottom line, they said that they think the company needs to deeply breath out and then breathe in again. After the severance payments, we were always urgently looking for people.
For me, that was always proof that the managers had failed. But a disproportionately small number of managers had to leave the company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>civicsquid</author><text>I have no idea what will happen, but it sort of sounded like (from the limited reporting that&#x27;s been done) they&#x27;ll focus a bit more on managers &#x2F; non-ICs this time -- if it happens at all.<p>It is kind of nasty to think about the timing though. If true, they kept those managers around to do the very undesirable and time-consuming performance cycle (yearly review) work and will be letting them go now that the process has concluded.</text></comment> |
10,741,775 | 10,741,660 | 1 | 2 | 10,739,730 | train | <story><title>Angular 2 Beta released</title><url>http://angularjs.blogspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>debaserab2</author><text>&gt; ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way) and completely taken develo<p>Do you have a citation for that? I still see tons of user land projects using angular 1.</text></item><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>Congratulations to the Angular 2 team on shipping before Christmas. The estimate was originally somewhere around early 2016, so this is a huge deal for them to get this out before the year was up. Unfortunately, Angular 2 launched into beta too late. In the amount of time that Angular 2 has taken to get to beta, ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way) and completely taken developers by storm with its simplistic component based approach.<p>Unlike React, Google does not really treat Angular as a first-class citizen because they have such split focus and conflicting React like library for web components called Polymer. They provide some resources, but nowhere near the amount of resources that Facebook throws behind React and React Native.<p>Now lets talk about the fact that the Angular 2 project got off to a shaky start and I know they actually rewrote various parts from scratch more than once (hence why it took so long to reach beta, approximately 2 years). That horrible templating syntax needs to be mentioned, the decision to use square and rounded brackets for binding events&#x2F;data and using things like asterisks in my opinion makes Angular 2 fall into the same trap that Angular 1 did in regards to developer accessibility.<p>I am really loving TypeScript these days and I think the decision to support it as a first-class citizen out-of-the-box was a good one (the partnership with Microsoft definitely paid off). But with that said, I think Rob Eisenberg (of Durandal fame) beat the Angular 2 team to the punch in the small space of a year in releasing his framework Aurelia (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aurelia.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aurelia.io</a>). It is what Angular 2 should have been in my opinion. Nice syntax, convention over configuration and a breeze to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bmm6o</author><text>Yeah, you&#x27;re right not to trust statements about projects &quot;capturing mind share&quot; and what is &quot;really hot right now&quot; (not intending to quote OP). People get into their little communities and don&#x27;t realize that they are not at all representative of the larger world. To make something up, I can totally believe that React is really popular in the San Diego startup scene, but it&#x27;s a mistake to extrapolate that too far in any dimension. Add to that confirmation bias on the part of people seeing these trends, and everything could be taking over at the same time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Angular 2 Beta released</title><url>http://angularjs.blogspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>debaserab2</author><text>&gt; ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way) and completely taken develo<p>Do you have a citation for that? I still see tons of user land projects using angular 1.</text></item><item><author>DigitalSea</author><text>Congratulations to the Angular 2 team on shipping before Christmas. The estimate was originally somewhere around early 2016, so this is a huge deal for them to get this out before the year was up. Unfortunately, Angular 2 launched into beta too late. In the amount of time that Angular 2 has taken to get to beta, ReactJS has slaughtered the front-end market share (in a good way) and completely taken developers by storm with its simplistic component based approach.<p>Unlike React, Google does not really treat Angular as a first-class citizen because they have such split focus and conflicting React like library for web components called Polymer. They provide some resources, but nowhere near the amount of resources that Facebook throws behind React and React Native.<p>Now lets talk about the fact that the Angular 2 project got off to a shaky start and I know they actually rewrote various parts from scratch more than once (hence why it took so long to reach beta, approximately 2 years). That horrible templating syntax needs to be mentioned, the decision to use square and rounded brackets for binding events&#x2F;data and using things like asterisks in my opinion makes Angular 2 fall into the same trap that Angular 1 did in regards to developer accessibility.<p>I am really loving TypeScript these days and I think the decision to support it as a first-class citizen out-of-the-box was a good one (the partnership with Microsoft definitely paid off). But with that said, I think Rob Eisenberg (of Durandal fame) beat the Angular 2 team to the punch in the small space of a year in releasing his framework Aurelia (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aurelia.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;aurelia.io</a>). It is what Angular 2 should have been in my opinion. Nice syntax, convention over configuration and a breeze to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DigitalSea</author><text>I am not talking about market share, I am more referring to sentiment in the community towards React. Just based on my observations, front-end developers love React and many more seemingly warming up to it. Considering React is still a new library, give it some time, but it does not take a trend to see that it is gaining popularity while Angular 1.x has peaked in my opinion and 2.0 will take a lot of convincing to get people to use it.<p>I personally use React and Node.js for a lot of the stuff I work on these days (both professionally and freelance projects). I know a lot of developers who use React, so while a Google search (not exactly scientific either in my opinion) yields low use of React, just based on the circle that I frequent, there are a lot of people using React and in 2016 we will see more people using it. The last two freelance projects I worked on (for pretty large companies) were built using React, word is travelling fast.<p>A lot of people are using Angular 1.x, but I know for a fact that not all of them will migrate over to 2.0 when the time comes. The learning curve might be smaller, but Angular 2 still falls into the trap of being over engineered in certain parts (like template syntax).</text></comment> |
32,851,914 | 32,851,946 | 1 | 2 | 32,851,262 | train | <story><title>Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform</title><url>https://penpot.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wanderingmind</author><text>This is the beauty of FOSS. It might be rough at the edges but you can always have access to it and not have to worry about losing your daily driver (talking to you Figma). Every organization needs to start thinking about this and invest in good FOSS tools for any recent technology to avoid business continuity risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bolt7469</author><text><i>rough at the edges</i><p>That part is the deal-breaker for many people who actually use these tools for work. It&#x27;s difficult to daily drive an objectively worse software, when your pay depends on producing value with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform</title><url>https://penpot.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wanderingmind</author><text>This is the beauty of FOSS. It might be rough at the edges but you can always have access to it and not have to worry about losing your daily driver (talking to you Figma). Every organization needs to start thinking about this and invest in good FOSS tools for any recent technology to avoid business continuity risk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bearmode</author><text>&gt;It might be rough at the edges<p>Often it&#x27;s not just &quot;rough around the edges&quot;, but fully missing features that are necessary (or STRONGLY desired) for a regular professional&#x27;s workflow</text></comment> |
29,031,332 | 29,031,315 | 1 | 2 | 29,010,267 | train | <story><title>Epistemic Minor Leagues</title><url>https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/epistemic-minor-leagues</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolverine876</author><text>&gt; politics: that rare area where there are no real experts, and it&#x27;s every man for himself<p>There are experts, but things are so politicized that everyone dislikes them (the acts don&#x27;t agree with anyone&#x27;s partisan position) and reads what is appealing. I think that was the OP&#x27;s point, but it&#x27;s a dangerous notion to think we all know politics roughly equally well.<p>Political science can be highly informative and predictive, as can research in adjacent fields such as international relations. It transforms my understanding of what others are saying (with partisans being reliably absurd).</text></comment> | <story><title>Epistemic Minor Leagues</title><url>https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/epistemic-minor-leagues</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pmdulaney</author><text>&gt; Their only hopes of being taken seriously as an Expert - a position our culture treats as the height of dignity - is to create a complete alternate system of knowledge, ungrounded in any previous system, where they can end up as an expert on the Lizard Papacy.<p>This is true, but I&#x27;m not sure that viewed from the larger perspective this is an unalloyed good. Sure we can do without crackpots. But do we really want the only voices that matter to be those belonging to persons with &quot;PhD&quot; attached to their names?</text></comment> |
30,830,388 | 30,829,036 | 1 | 3 | 30,819,756 | train | <story><title>When I was labeled a ‘troubled’ teen, I obliged</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/well/family/teen-tough-love-programs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arthurofbabylon</author><text>Stories about these institutions get conflated into a mess that scarcely resembles the reality. In a way, this is inevitable with a wide variety of schools and treatment centers, and a yet wider variety of perspectives.<p>This particular story tells us little about these schools – it describes the perspective of a student, a client. This is valuable and I&#x27;m grateful to read it. However, I caution other readers against making assumptions about these institutions based on any given story.<p>I would know – I attended four of these schools. Some incredibly strict (even dehumanizing) and others a joy (one had season passes to the local ski resort). Most of them blended these two polarities. Students exhibited huge variation in responses, to the point that a listener hearing them describe their shared experiences would be certain they were discussing different places.<p>For example, some students thought it was abusive to require skiing and mountain biking two days per week (I disagree). Other students thought it was totally fine to be required to wear hospital scrubs as a means of stigmatization (I also disagree). Almost no one questioned social isolation as punishment – perhaps the most incredible abuse I routinely witnessed and was subjected to, considering the developmental phase of adolescents. My point: it will take a mosaic of perspectives to really understand what&#x27;s going on.<p>I also caution readers against abhorrence towards parents. Consider those not-rare parents who have tried everything to help a kid who is on the cusp of life in prison, undergoing their 8th overdose, or being repeatedly raped and subjected to prostitution&#x2F;exploitation. Consider that many of these schools offer a greater education than what&#x27;s locally available. Consider that some of these schools are effective and relatively safe.<p>A final note that I believe clouds this topic -&gt; We live in a puritanical, punitive society. Even for non-religious people, we have been inculcated with ideals of purity and expectations of punishment. These delusions and biases cloud this topic.<p>My final guidance is to read these stories with an open mind. This author was truthful, and we should listen. The next story you hear will probably contradict it but also be truthful, and we should listen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taurath</author><text>This all pretends like there’s somehow no causality to many of these kids being “difficult”. I’ll even give that in some cases there is just some condition that makes a kid incredibly out of control despite actual loving supporting parents, but I would wager you can find environmental causes in most cases.<p>My experience with friends who have gone to places like this is that the kids by and large were under extreme emotional neglect from a very early age, and visiting a “troubled teen” facility is that it catalyses and forever imprints a childhood completely filled with trauma. It destroys forever the possibility of a relationship with the parents. Kids are often not told where they were going or being rushed away in the middle of the night, with drill sergeants and harsh punishments and rural facilities designed to present escape. It’s psychological torture to “break” a child as one would a farm animal.<p>Parents are sacrosanct in this country and there is no actual community to give much in terms of help. Peoples suburban homes are their castle and nobody knows how much neglect or abuse is going on behind closed doors until the kid shows up at school with a “behavior disorder”. Simply put: people who are completely incompetent to care for another human being much less an immature one’s emotional or physical or developmental needs get full legal protection. I think this is underappreciated in society since everyone who is a parent experienced many difficulties and they imagine all the ways things could go wrong. They are usually being charitable to the other parents though - the bar at which a child develops a secure emotional attachment is not that high.</text></comment> | <story><title>When I was labeled a ‘troubled’ teen, I obliged</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/well/family/teen-tough-love-programs.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arthurofbabylon</author><text>Stories about these institutions get conflated into a mess that scarcely resembles the reality. In a way, this is inevitable with a wide variety of schools and treatment centers, and a yet wider variety of perspectives.<p>This particular story tells us little about these schools – it describes the perspective of a student, a client. This is valuable and I&#x27;m grateful to read it. However, I caution other readers against making assumptions about these institutions based on any given story.<p>I would know – I attended four of these schools. Some incredibly strict (even dehumanizing) and others a joy (one had season passes to the local ski resort). Most of them blended these two polarities. Students exhibited huge variation in responses, to the point that a listener hearing them describe their shared experiences would be certain they were discussing different places.<p>For example, some students thought it was abusive to require skiing and mountain biking two days per week (I disagree). Other students thought it was totally fine to be required to wear hospital scrubs as a means of stigmatization (I also disagree). Almost no one questioned social isolation as punishment – perhaps the most incredible abuse I routinely witnessed and was subjected to, considering the developmental phase of adolescents. My point: it will take a mosaic of perspectives to really understand what&#x27;s going on.<p>I also caution readers against abhorrence towards parents. Consider those not-rare parents who have tried everything to help a kid who is on the cusp of life in prison, undergoing their 8th overdose, or being repeatedly raped and subjected to prostitution&#x2F;exploitation. Consider that many of these schools offer a greater education than what&#x27;s locally available. Consider that some of these schools are effective and relatively safe.<p>A final note that I believe clouds this topic -&gt; We live in a puritanical, punitive society. Even for non-religious people, we have been inculcated with ideals of purity and expectations of punishment. These delusions and biases cloud this topic.<p>My final guidance is to read these stories with an open mind. This author was truthful, and we should listen. The next story you hear will probably contradict it but also be truthful, and we should listen.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newaccount74</author><text>&gt; some students thought it was abusive to require skiing and mountain biking two days per week (I disagree)<p>The question of whether this is abusive or not depends on the consequences for refusing to go.<p>Do kids lose TV privileges for a day if they refuse to go? Then I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s not abusive.<p>Are kids locked in a room if they refuse to go? Definitely abusive.</text></comment> |
25,682,825 | 25,680,561 | 1 | 2 | 25,679,388 | train | <story><title>Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/sealed-u-s-court-records-exposed-in-solarwinds-breach/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tdhz77</author><text>I work at the courts and manage our ECF system. Our government was very quick to respond, but not sure it matters considering Russians were in the system for 8 months. On top of that, several vendors were exploited VMware and Microsoft. I’ve fought for the federal government to create instead of buy. I continue to fail. It’s becoming increasing obvious the United States needs a privacy branch for data breaches and also for a whole bunch of engineers building out the next generation of apps for a better&#x2F;smarter government. This is my life’s work, and I will keep trying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/sealed-u-s-court-records-exposed-in-solarwinds-breach/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>boringg</author><text>This solarwinds breach feels like it might spiral into one of the major new stories this year with it’s likely legs. Really depends on how much data was snapped up. It’s like an onion each layer bringing more tears.</text></comment> |
27,775,646 | 27,775,496 | 1 | 2 | 27,772,907 | train | <story><title>We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments</title><url>https://caretaker.com/blog/we-replaced-rental-brokers-with-software-and-filled-200-vacant-apartments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>e1g</author><text>The landlord is under no obligation to accept anyone this service finds, so this startup guarantees an outcome they cannot control. It might be a way to build awareness and goodwill, but they are burning VC capital to offer a service that is either fundamentally unsustainable or mispriced.</text></item><item><author>benmanns</author><text>We used this pre-COVID to get out of a Brooklyn lease and had a fantastic experience (back when it was Flip Instant). Flip basically charged 1 month rent and guaranteed a fill or they&#x27;d pay the rest (6 months) of my lease. Compared to our landlord who wanted 1.75x rent, up to 2.75x rent if not filled immediately, after significant negotiation. Hiring a broker myself would have likely cost 1x rent or more anyways with all the risk on us.<p>I really like the service provider + financial underwriting combination, where you get basically an SLA for them providing a service, where they take 100% of the risk after the fee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>Aren&#x27;t people obliged to minimize their own and the other part&#x27;s loss in contracts in the US?<p>In my country, me moving out and saying I won&#x27;t continue to pay, while the contract end date is still far in the future would of course be a breach of the contract. But that doesn&#x27;t mean the landlord then can let the house sit empty for the rest of the contract time and force me to cover their loss. Landlord would instead have to try and minimize their losses by finding a new tenant, and what I would owe the landlord would be their costs to do so and the time the apartment stood empty.<p>Edit: &quot;mitigation of damage&quot; might be the US term for it. From Cornell: <i>The mitigation of damages doctrine, also known as the doctrine of avoidable consequences, prevents an injured party from recovering damages that could have been avoided through reasonable efforts. The duty to mitigate damages is most traditionally employed in the areas of tort and contract law.</i> To me that reads like if you want to void the contract, and the landlord doesn&#x27;t accept a reasonable tenant to take over, the landlord might have to carry their losses themselves. My guess (given laws about renting being very in favor of tenants) is that there most places even might be explicit laws allowing the tenant to do this.</text></comment> | <story><title>We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments</title><url>https://caretaker.com/blog/we-replaced-rental-brokers-with-software-and-filled-200-vacant-apartments</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>e1g</author><text>The landlord is under no obligation to accept anyone this service finds, so this startup guarantees an outcome they cannot control. It might be a way to build awareness and goodwill, but they are burning VC capital to offer a service that is either fundamentally unsustainable or mispriced.</text></item><item><author>benmanns</author><text>We used this pre-COVID to get out of a Brooklyn lease and had a fantastic experience (back when it was Flip Instant). Flip basically charged 1 month rent and guaranteed a fill or they&#x27;d pay the rest (6 months) of my lease. Compared to our landlord who wanted 1.75x rent, up to 2.75x rent if not filled immediately, after significant negotiation. Hiring a broker myself would have likely cost 1x rent or more anyways with all the risk on us.<p>I really like the service provider + financial underwriting combination, where you get basically an SLA for them providing a service, where they take 100% of the risk after the fee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Obviously you&#x27;re not going to use it if your landlord doesn&#x27;t allow subleases, and landlords are also usually pretty upfront about approval requirements for a sublease.<p>I&#x27;ve never heard of a landlord not allowing a subletter to convert to a full lease upon original lease expiration.<p>I mean, the alternative is to forego a month or two of rent while you find a new tenant. Unless there&#x27;s a horrible problem with the existing subletter&#x27;s credit, but then they probably wouldn&#x27;t have gotten the sublease in the first place.<p>I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s never happened, but it&#x27;s going to be rare. I don&#x27;t really see anything unsustainable or mispriced about this at all. There are already other companies doing it as well in NYC, e.g.:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doorkee.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doorkee.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
23,337,963 | 23,338,037 | 1 | 2 | 23,333,891 | train | <story><title>The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2020/05/28/oo-antipattern/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woah</author><text>Seems like kind of a meaningless gesture to pass in your own “this” just because you don’t like OOP. If you need a class, why not write it the idiomatic way?</text></item><item><author>amw-zero</author><text>You don’t agree with an idea so it’s silly? Passing around state via variables is no more tedious than the extra syntax for class definitions, constructors, member variable access, extra semantics related to objects, extra keywords related to visibility, etc.<p>You can encapsulate functionality without objects. There is nothing that you can do with an object that you can’t do with a closure, and the closure version will be 1&#x2F;10th the size and have 1&#x2F;10th the semantic programming language elements. That is why you see ‘object-hating’ all over the industry. It hasn’t lived up to its promise.<p>Objects aren’t simpler, inherently. It’s just what you know, today, and you’re unwilling to acknowledge your biases.</text></item><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Sure, you can build your own object and pass the &#x27;this&#x27; pointer around manually. You could use C for everything, and tediously do everything again that objects do for free.<p>But why?<p>There&#x27;s a lot of object-hating going around. Its silly. Use objects to encapsulate functionality, they are good at that and everybody understands what it means.</text></item><item><author>amw-zero</author><text>None of these situations require an object to do. You can always have a function that takes in an extra ‘state’ argument. You can then do everything you said by passing in the corresponding state values.</text></item><item><author>dataflow</author><text>Counter-point: while in many situations this isn&#x27;t the right approach, it&#x27;s worth recognizing when this <i>is</i> the right approach, because they can look awfully similar. An example of this is graph searching, e.g. BFS or Dijkstra&#x27;s algorithm. The typical implementation is a function. But if you make Dijkstra a class, with (say) a function to iterate through nodes, it lets you do several things that would be difficult with a function: (a) you can now re-use the same object for computing distances to multiple vertices, which allows incremental search, (b) you can now fork&#x2F;copy the object and continue searching on <i>different</i> extensions of the original graph, (c) you can now save &amp; restore the searcher state to pause the search &amp; continue it later, (d) you can do multiple searches across one or more graphs <i>in lockstep</i>. IMHO these are very much <i>not</i> obvious, and to someone who doesn&#x27;t recognize what&#x27;s going on, a class for something like BFS will look <i>exactly</i> like an &quot;OO antipattern&quot;, when in reality it&#x27;s actually providing significant additional functionality for more complicated situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nightski</author><text>I didn&#x27;t down-vote you, but in my opinion it&#x27;s not meaningless because it makes it inherently more testable. Try testing an opaque class without any accessibility into its state. It is much more difficult. If it takes in the state, performs an operation, and returns a new version of that state (ideally an immutable copy) then it becomes much easier to test and validate.<p>The reason information hiding is&#x2F;was advocated was for reduced coupling. But in reality I find that this coupling becomes implicit which is arguably worse. But this is just my opinion.</text></comment> | <story><title>The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions</title><url>https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2020/05/28/oo-antipattern/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woah</author><text>Seems like kind of a meaningless gesture to pass in your own “this” just because you don’t like OOP. If you need a class, why not write it the idiomatic way?</text></item><item><author>amw-zero</author><text>You don’t agree with an idea so it’s silly? Passing around state via variables is no more tedious than the extra syntax for class definitions, constructors, member variable access, extra semantics related to objects, extra keywords related to visibility, etc.<p>You can encapsulate functionality without objects. There is nothing that you can do with an object that you can’t do with a closure, and the closure version will be 1&#x2F;10th the size and have 1&#x2F;10th the semantic programming language elements. That is why you see ‘object-hating’ all over the industry. It hasn’t lived up to its promise.<p>Objects aren’t simpler, inherently. It’s just what you know, today, and you’re unwilling to acknowledge your biases.</text></item><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Sure, you can build your own object and pass the &#x27;this&#x27; pointer around manually. You could use C for everything, and tediously do everything again that objects do for free.<p>But why?<p>There&#x27;s a lot of object-hating going around. Its silly. Use objects to encapsulate functionality, they are good at that and everybody understands what it means.</text></item><item><author>amw-zero</author><text>None of these situations require an object to do. You can always have a function that takes in an extra ‘state’ argument. You can then do everything you said by passing in the corresponding state values.</text></item><item><author>dataflow</author><text>Counter-point: while in many situations this isn&#x27;t the right approach, it&#x27;s worth recognizing when this <i>is</i> the right approach, because they can look awfully similar. An example of this is graph searching, e.g. BFS or Dijkstra&#x27;s algorithm. The typical implementation is a function. But if you make Dijkstra a class, with (say) a function to iterate through nodes, it lets you do several things that would be difficult with a function: (a) you can now re-use the same object for computing distances to multiple vertices, which allows incremental search, (b) you can now fork&#x2F;copy the object and continue searching on <i>different</i> extensions of the original graph, (c) you can now save &amp; restore the searcher state to pause the search &amp; continue it later, (d) you can do multiple searches across one or more graphs <i>in lockstep</i>. IMHO these are very much <i>not</i> obvious, and to someone who doesn&#x27;t recognize what&#x27;s going on, a class for something like BFS will look <i>exactly</i> like an &quot;OO antipattern&quot;, when in reality it&#x27;s actually providing significant additional functionality for more complicated situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rashkov</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m mis-reading it, but it seems that your comment is just a re-statement of what your parent comment is replying to. It’s like,
“Why A”
“Because B”
“But why A?”</text></comment> |
15,908,313 | 15,908,132 | 1 | 3 | 15,906,671 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Joy – a Go to JavaScript compiler</title><url>https://mat.tm/joy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notheguyouthink</author><text>Hey, I just saw this on the Github WASM thread, looks cool! I&#x27;m interested, but if I may request, you should highlight the missing&#x2F;non-fully-functional keywords. That&#x27;s my main concern, and from the main page it sounded like this was a fully working Go. Yet the Github issues seemed to highlight several missing keywords.<p>While this may not seem like a big issue, having to conceptually know what works and what doesn&#x27;t is mental overhead, so reducing that overhead by making it super prominent would be great for me. Thanks!<p>This looks really cool btw, once I have a better idea on the completeness of this, I&#x27;ll definitely try it with React! It&#x27;s the one thing I failed with GopherJS on, React integration was difficult to keep performant. I&#x27;m excited :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Joy – a Go to JavaScript compiler</title><url>https://mat.tm/joy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m00s3</author><text>Possible conflict with the name: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joy_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Joy_(programming_language)</a></text></comment> |
32,122,675 | 32,122,691 | 1 | 2 | 32,122,065 | train | <story><title>Training my sense of CO2 ppm</title><url>https://interconnected.org/home/2022/07/14/co2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I think the elephant in the room is calibration of the CO2 detector.<p>When I looked into this a few years ago, I couldn&#x27;t find any accuracy guaranties for CO2 meters marketed for households &#x2F; greenhouses.<p>The closest thing I could find were laboratories that could test CO2 meters in chambers with known CO2 concentrations. But IIRC the pricing for those labs was prohibitively expensive.<p>- There were literally <i>no</i> guaranteed accuracy bounds for the meters I looked at. So they could be off by 3x reality for all I know.<p>- Their calibration systems relied on an assumed CO2 concentration for outside air. But even if the calibration system ensured that the meter would report the right number for <i>that</i> CO2 concentration, there was no information about how accurate the calibrated meter would be at <i>other</i> CO2 concentrations. Nor information about how the meter&#x27;s numbers would be off when the CO2 levels observed during calibration differed from the level assumed by the calibration logic.<p>These limitations might not be a problem for some applications. But they could be an issue when people want to relate <i>their</i> meters&#x27; readings to the numbers used in various research publications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abirkill</author><text>The auto-calibration systems on cheaper consumer sensors also cause issues if they rarely see air that has low CO2 levels. Because these sensors can&#x27;t measure absolute CO2 levels, only relative CO2 levels, they provide an absolute figure by looking for the lowest CO2 concentration they&#x27;ve seen over a period of time, usually around a 72 hour rolling window.<p>This works acceptably if the sensor is frequently exposed to outdoor air, but in a residential environment that&#x27;s not always guaranteed, particularly in winter when it&#x27;s not uncommon to keep windows closed to retain heat. In these situations the sensor will consider the lowest level to be around ~400ppm, even if it&#x27;s actually much higher. This, of course, scales all other readings, so a sensor might read between 400-800ppm, leading you to believe everything is fine, when the actual indoor range is 800-1600ppm.<p>Because the auto-calibration happens over a period of time, it can be quite difficult to determine that your sensor is misreading, and the only way to fix it is to expose it to fresh air to reset the baseline.<p>The best solution I found to this is a dual-NDIR sensor which measures two different light frequencies, one which is absorbed by CO2 and one that isn&#x27;t. This allows the sensor to know the absolute CO2 concentration, rather than the relative CO2 concentration, and avoids the need for auto-calibration. (I believe for absolute accuracy it still needs calibration for altitude, but for consumer use this makes such a small difference to be irrelevant).<p>Unfortunately, when I last looked, I couldn&#x27;t find any consumer-grade sensors which used dual-NDIR sensors, only more expensive and less aesthetic commercial sensors. In the end I built my own using a CDM7160 sensor connected via I2C to a ESP8266, which reports over MQTT.</text></comment> | <story><title>Training my sense of CO2 ppm</title><url>https://interconnected.org/home/2022/07/14/co2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoastalCoder</author><text>I think the elephant in the room is calibration of the CO2 detector.<p>When I looked into this a few years ago, I couldn&#x27;t find any accuracy guaranties for CO2 meters marketed for households &#x2F; greenhouses.<p>The closest thing I could find were laboratories that could test CO2 meters in chambers with known CO2 concentrations. But IIRC the pricing for those labs was prohibitively expensive.<p>- There were literally <i>no</i> guaranteed accuracy bounds for the meters I looked at. So they could be off by 3x reality for all I know.<p>- Their calibration systems relied on an assumed CO2 concentration for outside air. But even if the calibration system ensured that the meter would report the right number for <i>that</i> CO2 concentration, there was no information about how accurate the calibrated meter would be at <i>other</i> CO2 concentrations. Nor information about how the meter&#x27;s numbers would be off when the CO2 levels observed during calibration differed from the level assumed by the calibration logic.<p>These limitations might not be a problem for some applications. But they could be an issue when people want to relate <i>their</i> meters&#x27; readings to the numbers used in various research publications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colechristensen</author><text>I have a few CO2 meters from very different sources (professional exetech, consumer product, electronics component) and they have always reported levels within 10% of each other.<p>For my purposes I don’t really care about accuracy under 50ppm, higher precision for trends is useful but as long as the measures value is accurate to within 50ppm I’m just fine for effects on a human. If I was doing research to publish an actual calibrated meter for 10x the price would be warranted but having three separate measurements agree gives me the trust I need.</text></comment> |
18,789,230 | 18,788,046 | 1 | 3 | 18,784,583 | train | <story><title>Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces</title><url>https://rsms.me/inter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwansbrough</author><text>If you&#x27;re looking for a UI font that&#x27;s non-specific to your design (ie. you&#x27;re not designing a poster) then I recommend the following:<p>font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;<p>Everything else is less user friendly. This loads instantly, looks perfect on the user&#x27;s screen, and is guaranteed to look exactly as it&#x27;s supposed to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deltron3030</author><text>&gt;Everything else is less user friendly.<p>Not really.<p>By using a font like Inter UI you create the same experience for everybody, regardless of the platform.<p>Segoe UI, Ubuntu, Cantarell (Windows, Ubuntu, Gnome&#x2F;Fedora) are within a different typographic category than San Francisco or Roboto, they&#x27;re not even similar enough to each other. By using the system font stack you&#x27;re basically fragmenting the user experience and look and feel.<p>Inter is a substitute for well crafted neo grotesque fonts loved by designers, like San Francisco (which itself is a better fitting alternative to Helvetica), it&#x27;s of a similar quality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces</title><url>https://rsms.me/inter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lwansbrough</author><text>If you&#x27;re looking for a UI font that&#x27;s non-specific to your design (ie. you&#x27;re not designing a poster) then I recommend the following:<p>font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;<p>Everything else is less user friendly. This loads instantly, looks perfect on the user&#x27;s screen, and is guaranteed to look exactly as it&#x27;s supposed to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbr464</author><text>This one includes a few more devices:<p>font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Roboto&quot;, &quot;Oxygen&quot;, &quot;Ubuntu&quot;, &quot;Cantarell&quot;, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif</text></comment> |
14,718,911 | 14,718,506 | 1 | 3 | 14,718,051 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Globe visualizations in Golang</title><url>https://github.com/mmcloughlin/globe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fogleman</author><text>Glad to see more graphics work being done in Go. This is built on `pinhole`, which is built on `gg`, a 2D rendering library that I wrote. How many layers deep can we get? :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fogleman&#x2F;gg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fogleman&#x2F;gg</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Globe visualizations in Golang</title><url>https://github.com/mmcloughlin/globe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ivanbakel</author><text>The map in the readme is puzzling me. It&#x27;s almost like a riddle: what is there a lot of in the UK, east America, Portugal, and barely any of in Norway, Spain, and Belgium? It looks country-related, since you can see the borders defined pretty well. Is it the Starbucks data? It would explain why Finland appears to have a few, compared to its neighbours.</text></comment> |
15,268,176 | 15,268,005 | 1 | 2 | 15,267,516 | train | <story><title>Western fast food companies are aggressively expanding in Brazil</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil-obesity-nestle.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shihching</author><text>&gt; At one meeting, a representative from the food industry accused Anvisa of trying to subvert parental authority, saying mothers had the right to decide what to feed their children, recalled Vanessa Schottz, a nutrition advocate.<p>The same argument is used in the US to thwart limitations on sugary beverage purchases and other junk food with SNAP -- these compose 10-20% of purchases, 50% of which goes to Wal-Mart, alongside 2-5x greater premature mortality from cardiac arrest and diabetic related complications.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajph.aphapublications.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.2105&#x2F;AJPH.2016.303608" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajph.aphapublications.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;abs&#x2F;10.2105&#x2F;AJPH.2016.3...</a><p>Incentivizing the poor to hock Nestle timed according to Brazilian food assistance checks is clever. Reminds me of Herbalife, and Betting on Zero -- Hispanic populations, eager to succeed in entrepreneurship, here too are victims of pyramid schemes preying on ill health.</text></comment> | <story><title>Western fast food companies are aggressively expanding in Brazil</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil-obesity-nestle.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>As an American who lived in Brazil for 8 years, honestly I&#x27;m not sure this is any worse than traditional food.<p>A typical Brazilian lunch is a piece of meat with beans, sides of rice, french fries, and fried flour (farofa) -- that&#x27;s right, 3 carbs of empty calories (2 fried) and no real vegetables -- all washed down with mostly-added-sugar &quot;fruit juice concentrate&quot; (cashew apple is really common). Bar snacks are 100% deep-fried, or &quot;pizza&quot; with copious amounts of sugary ketchup (don&#x27;t ask). Desserts are the sweetest things your tongue has ever touched -- brigadeiros, pudim, essentially all just super-sweet condensed milk.<p>It&#x27;s not like the traditional Brazilian diet is full of fresh veggies or nutritional variety at all. I mean, I thought us Americans loved our french fries... but the Brazilians have got us beat!</text></comment> |
12,369,230 | 12,369,228 | 1 | 3 | 12,365,723 | train | <story><title>Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown</title><url>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/plasma-air-control/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fmp</author><text>&gt;A scaled-down gale blows over a flat plate set inside the tabletop wind tunnel. Despite the low lighting and hazy Plexiglas view portals, we can clearly see the frenzied fluttering of streamer ribbons, called telltales, in the field of little wind vanes that carpets the exposed test surface inside.<p>I&#x27;m really bothered by this style of journalism which feels the need to start off every story with an <i>in media res</i> narrative instead of just telling you the most important points and working its way down like a traditional newspaper article should.<p>I don&#x27;t care about the scene at the wind tunnel you visited while researching this story. Tell me about the plasma wings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drjesusphd</author><text>I see this more and more and also find it tiresome. I stop reading and go straight to the HN comments. At least then I&#x27;ll more quickly learn what the damn article is about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown</title><url>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/plasma-air-control/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fmp</author><text>&gt;A scaled-down gale blows over a flat plate set inside the tabletop wind tunnel. Despite the low lighting and hazy Plexiglas view portals, we can clearly see the frenzied fluttering of streamer ribbons, called telltales, in the field of little wind vanes that carpets the exposed test surface inside.<p>I&#x27;m really bothered by this style of journalism which feels the need to start off every story with an <i>in media res</i> narrative instead of just telling you the most important points and working its way down like a traditional newspaper article should.<p>I don&#x27;t care about the scene at the wind tunnel you visited while researching this story. Tell me about the plasma wings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jombiezebus</author><text>Agreed. This style is called &quot;Long-form journalism&quot; for anyone not already familiar with the term.</text></comment> |
14,518,634 | 14,518,449 | 1 | 2 | 14,518,189 | train | <story><title>x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong</title><url>https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/x86-approaching-40-still-going-strong/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delsarto</author><text>Intel&#x2F;x86 seems to have missed pretty much every major trend but somehow manages to keep up.<p>At the time, Intel seemed to have pinned the 64-bit future on Itanium. Which, on paper, is a much better architecture. Of course instruction parallelism should be in the hands of the compiler -- it has so much richer information from the source-code so it can do a better job. The MMU design was very clever (self-mapped linear page tables, protection keys, TLB sharing, etc). Lots of cache, minimal core. Exposing register rotation and really interesting tracing tools. But AMD released x86&#x2F;64, Intel had to copy it, and the death warrant on Itanium was signed so we never got to really explore those cool features. Just now we&#x27;re getting things like more levels of page-tables and protection-key type things on x86.<p>Intel missed virtualisation not only in x86 (understandable given legacy) but on Itanium too, where arguably they should have thought about it during green-field development (it was closer but still had a few instructions that didn&#x27;t trap properly for a hypervisor to work). The first versions of vmware -- doing binary translation of x86 code the fly, was really quite amazing at the time. Virtualisation happened despite x86, not in any way because of it. And you can pretty much trace the entire &quot;cloud&quot; back to that. VMX eventually got bolted on.<p>UEFI is ... interesting. It&#x27;s better than a BIOS, but would anyone hold that up as a paragon of innovation?<p>I&#x27;m not so familiar with the SIMD bits of the chips, but I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if there&#x27;s similar stories in that area of development.<p>Low power seems lost to ARM and friends. Now, with the &quot;cloud&quot;, low power is as much a problem in the data centre as your phone. So it will be interesting to see how that plays out (and it&#x27;s starting to).<p>x86&#x27;s persistence is certainly remarkable, that&#x27;s for sure</text></comment> | <story><title>x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong</title><url>https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/x86-approaching-40-still-going-strong/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ohazi</author><text>Wow, what the fuck happened with their patent applications in 2014?<p>It&#x27;s difficult to take this threatening language seriously when it&#x27;s exceedingly obvious that Intel is very suddenly (and very rightfully) terrified of losing their monopoly position. It&#x27;s easier than ever to recompile and switch to ARM, and people are tired of paying the Intel tax.<p>They should have seen this coming well before Otellini retired. Lawsuits aren&#x27;t going to save them here, and Rodgers comes out looking like an asshole for trying.</text></comment> |
27,172,832 | 27,172,784 | 1 | 2 | 27,172,539 | train | <story><title>Audacity: Actions we propose to take on PR 835</title><url>https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>OJFord</author><text>I often think, especially if you have &#x27;technical&#x27; users, better than telemetry is just making it easy to tell you things.<p>I frequently want to be able to just quickly say &#x27;gah, that was annoying, I clicked that instead of that because I thought it would do that, not seeing this covered by those&#x27; or whatever, just vent a little bit, and vaguely hope it might be improved.<p>Not a support chat, happy to have fa follow-up email if more information needed and it&#x27;s actually being worked on I suppose, but generally just a quick easy fire and forget.<p>Like telemetry, but where the user provides all the content; not a glorified yes&#x2F;no to content you&#x27;ve guessed ahead of time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Audacity: Actions we propose to take on PR 835</title><url>https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peteretep</author><text>&gt; We assumed that making it opt-in would allay privacy concerns<p>That seems like a reasonable assumption to me?</text></comment> |
9,711,689 | 9,711,492 | 1 | 2 | 9,711,367 | train | <story><title>Why Go is doomed to succeed</title><url>https://texlution.com/post/why-go-is-doomed-to-succeed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vezzy-fnord</author><text>Go is doomed to succeed because it extends the mental model of C with a concurrency model that finds a decent compromise between power and ease of use, makes the typing less prone to subversion, adds memory safety via GC, uses a structural subtyping system through interfaces that brings many OO-like benefits while still keeping to the C struct way of thinking, first-class functions, various syntactic rough edges cleaned up and so forth.<p>Because the Unix system programming world (and POSIX particularly) is very much built with the conventions and semantics of C in mind, most serious POSIX programming outside of C means you have to deal with painful FFIs, lousy wrappers, overly abstracted APIs that hide details like certain lower level flags and so forth. Some are better at this than others, of course (OCaml is one of the better ones)... but, nonetheless.<p>So it&#x27;s unsurprising that many infrastructure developers are jumping to Go. There&#x27;s just enough new things to incentivize a switch, but not <i>too</i> much that it dissuades from it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I&#x27;m a 90&#x27;s C programmer and a Golang programmer now, and while there&#x27;s some truth to this, it&#x27;s reductive. A 2000s-era C programmer would not write socket code that worked the way net.Conn does. While C code gave us the &quot;pipes and filters&quot; abstraction of Unix, they are not an idiom in C code --- in fact, Golang&#x27;s reader&#x2F;writer interfaces feel more like a refinement of Java than a modernization of C.<p>Golang feels very much like an offspring of Java and Python to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Go is doomed to succeed</title><url>https://texlution.com/post/why-go-is-doomed-to-succeed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vezzy-fnord</author><text>Go is doomed to succeed because it extends the mental model of C with a concurrency model that finds a decent compromise between power and ease of use, makes the typing less prone to subversion, adds memory safety via GC, uses a structural subtyping system through interfaces that brings many OO-like benefits while still keeping to the C struct way of thinking, first-class functions, various syntactic rough edges cleaned up and so forth.<p>Because the Unix system programming world (and POSIX particularly) is very much built with the conventions and semantics of C in mind, most serious POSIX programming outside of C means you have to deal with painful FFIs, lousy wrappers, overly abstracted APIs that hide details like certain lower level flags and so forth. Some are better at this than others, of course (OCaml is one of the better ones)... but, nonetheless.<p>So it&#x27;s unsurprising that many infrastructure developers are jumping to Go. There&#x27;s just enough new things to incentivize a switch, but not <i>too</i> much that it dissuades from it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaggarwal</author><text>I have never used Go before. From the sound of it, it looks like Go hits a sweet spot between C and Java? and of course the Google support is a major factor for a possible success.</text></comment> |
12,039,428 | 12,038,553 | 1 | 2 | 12,036,407 | train | <story><title>Antibiotic resistance: The grim prospect</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21699115-evolution-pathogens-making-many-medical-problems-worse-time-take-drug-resistance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atmosx</author><text>&gt; Medical professions risk losing a patient or being sued if hey misdiagnose a condition, so the understandable reaction is to throw antibiotics at the problem rather than waiting for test results to come-back to determine whether a specific course of care is appropriate.<p>As a pharmacist, my experience says otherwise. I think the following are the main reasons for bacterial resistance:<p>a) Patient doesn&#x27;t respect doctor&#x27;s&#x2F;pharmacist&#x27;s guidelines. He feels <i>much better</i> after day 3, so he stops his class X ATB in day 4 instead of day 7. If bacteria survives, might very well be class X ATB-resistant.<p>b) Patient has a relative who when <i>was feeling sick</i> took ATB XYZ and got better. The main reason for this is poverty: A visit to the doctor might cost 25-120 EUR.<p>c) Hospitals. MRSA became &quot;MR&quot; in hospitals, where bacteria conjugation takes place.<p>That said, at some in point, we should expect bacterial organisms to evolve some kind of resistance. That&#x27;s how evolution works.</text></item><item><author>uptown</author><text>Medical professions risk losing a patient or being sued if hey misdiagnose a condition, so the understandable reaction is to throw antibiotics at the problem rather than waiting for test results to come-back to determine whether a specific course of care is appropriate.<p>The good news is that some test times are decreasing dramatically ... from days to minutes in many cases:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanologix.com&#x2F;test_results.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanologix.com&#x2F;test_results.html</a><p><pre><code> * tuberculosis from 21+ days to 1.5 hours.
* e.coli from 18 - 24 hours to 30 minutes
* salmonella from 24 hours to 30 minutes
* group b streptococcus from 48 - 72 hours to under an hour
</code></pre>
My hope is that faster results leads to fewer unnecessary prescriptions being administered, and better overall care for the patients.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iLoch</author><text>Regarding (a) - do you know that I&#x27;ve never been told <i>why</i> I need to finish my antibiotics? For some reason (arrogance?) doctors don&#x27;t <i>explain</i> their reasoning in many cases (I live in Canada FWIW.)<p>If I was told &quot;hey, you need to finish your antibiotics or you&#x27;ll risk becoming immune to them, potentially putting yourself or your family, colleagues, or friends at risk&quot; I don&#x27;t think even the dumbest person would ignore that warning. Then they could even explain WHY that is, if the patient was curious.<p>Instead, here in Canada, you say you&#x27;re sick, the doctor will likely immediately perscribe antibiotics, then shuffle you out the door in less than 5 minutes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Antibiotic resistance: The grim prospect</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21699115-evolution-pathogens-making-many-medical-problems-worse-time-take-drug-resistance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atmosx</author><text>&gt; Medical professions risk losing a patient or being sued if hey misdiagnose a condition, so the understandable reaction is to throw antibiotics at the problem rather than waiting for test results to come-back to determine whether a specific course of care is appropriate.<p>As a pharmacist, my experience says otherwise. I think the following are the main reasons for bacterial resistance:<p>a) Patient doesn&#x27;t respect doctor&#x27;s&#x2F;pharmacist&#x27;s guidelines. He feels <i>much better</i> after day 3, so he stops his class X ATB in day 4 instead of day 7. If bacteria survives, might very well be class X ATB-resistant.<p>b) Patient has a relative who when <i>was feeling sick</i> took ATB XYZ and got better. The main reason for this is poverty: A visit to the doctor might cost 25-120 EUR.<p>c) Hospitals. MRSA became &quot;MR&quot; in hospitals, where bacteria conjugation takes place.<p>That said, at some in point, we should expect bacterial organisms to evolve some kind of resistance. That&#x27;s how evolution works.</text></item><item><author>uptown</author><text>Medical professions risk losing a patient or being sued if hey misdiagnose a condition, so the understandable reaction is to throw antibiotics at the problem rather than waiting for test results to come-back to determine whether a specific course of care is appropriate.<p>The good news is that some test times are decreasing dramatically ... from days to minutes in many cases:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanologix.com&#x2F;test_results.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanologix.com&#x2F;test_results.html</a><p><pre><code> * tuberculosis from 21+ days to 1.5 hours.
* e.coli from 18 - 24 hours to 30 minutes
* salmonella from 24 hours to 30 minutes
* group b streptococcus from 48 - 72 hours to under an hour
</code></pre>
My hope is that faster results leads to fewer unnecessary prescriptions being administered, and better overall care for the patients.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>This ignores livestock which is both a huge vector for resistance and part of the food chain. It&#x27;s not like this is new, Sulfa drugs worked really well for a short period of time before penicillin and are now somewhat useful.</text></comment> |
22,414,877 | 22,414,372 | 1 | 2 | 22,412,339 | train | <story><title>How Allstate’s auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders</title><url>https://themarkup.org/allstates-algorithm/2020/02/25/car-insurance-suckers-list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exhilaration</author><text>The best thing you can do is shop for auto insurance every year or two. The longer you stay with a particular company the more likely they are to very slowly and carefully hit you with small rate increases until you&#x27;re paying far more than their competitors will charge you. Insurance companies understand and exploit consumer behavior better than even the best marketers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RHSeeger</author><text>I have USAA and can&#x27;t say enough good things about them. Whenever I call them, they&#x27;re there to walk through whatever I need with me. The first thing they ask is if everyone is ok; it&#x27;s trivial, but means something. In general, their rates are really good; it used to be that, when other companies called, you could tell them you have USAA and they&#x27;re acknowledge they can&#x27;t match the rates and hang up.<p>Admittedly, not everyone has access to USAA but, if you do, I highly recommend them.<p>Noting this because I&#x27;ve been using them for insurance for decades with no intention of switching.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Allstate’s auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders</title><url>https://themarkup.org/allstates-algorithm/2020/02/25/car-insurance-suckers-list</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exhilaration</author><text>The best thing you can do is shop for auto insurance every year or two. The longer you stay with a particular company the more likely they are to very slowly and carefully hit you with small rate increases until you&#x27;re paying far more than their competitors will charge you. Insurance companies understand and exploit consumer behavior better than even the best marketers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>I want a product like policygenius.com, but instead of life insurance they have my entire insurance portfolio (auto, home, renters, umbrella, personal property) and constantly price shop for me automatically as a broker between me and every major insurer. I would also like such a product to be structured so that they can never be bought by Intuit or another incumbent, preferably in some sort of employee owned coop mutual company model (if Vanguard and USAA had an insurance broker child with a tech first demeanor).<p>Sidenote: I’ve been with State Farm for over 20 years, and my rates have only gone down.</text></comment> |
37,036,303 | 37,034,985 | 1 | 2 | 37,033,403 | train | <story><title>Some tactics for writing in public</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjb</author><text>This is really great, actionable, sensible, advice for folks who write on the internet. It agrees with my experiences, too.<p>On the other hand, it&#x27;s sad that the culture we have built on the internet forces talented people like Julia to censor themselves and narrow the scope of their writing.<p>&gt; So I have a weird catalog in my head of things not to mention if I don’t want to start the same discussion about that thing for the 50th time.<p>Somehow we&#x27;ve built a culture where its socially acceptable, and even rewarded, to behave online in ways that would never be acceptable in other social settings. The exact flavors of that on HN, Slashdot, Twitter, Tumblr, etc are different, but the core issue is the same everywhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lapcat</author><text>&gt; Somehow we&#x27;ve built a culture where its socially acceptable, and even rewarded, to behave online in ways that would never be acceptable in other social settings.<p>I don&#x27;t think we&#x27;ve &quot;built&quot; the culture per se. I think it&#x27;s more like humans evolved over millions of years for small, in-person groups, and we&#x27;re not &quot;built&quot; (by nature) to handle the endless sea of online strangers. On the internet, the personal familiarity is gone, the proximity is gone, the facial expressions and tone are gone, and indeed the fear of repercussions is mostly gone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Some tactics for writing in public</title><url>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mjb</author><text>This is really great, actionable, sensible, advice for folks who write on the internet. It agrees with my experiences, too.<p>On the other hand, it&#x27;s sad that the culture we have built on the internet forces talented people like Julia to censor themselves and narrow the scope of their writing.<p>&gt; So I have a weird catalog in my head of things not to mention if I don’t want to start the same discussion about that thing for the 50th time.<p>Somehow we&#x27;ve built a culture where its socially acceptable, and even rewarded, to behave online in ways that would never be acceptable in other social settings. The exact flavors of that on HN, Slashdot, Twitter, Tumblr, etc are different, but the core issue is the same everywhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d use censor in the context of Julia&#x27;s post. It read more like the next thing you quoted. Something&#x27;s well-trod and people have strong opinions but absolutely no one is going to change their mind or really make a novel point or learn anything new.<p>I do think there are things that many people self-sensor, e.g. opinions that fall outside or on the edges of the orthodoxy of some bubble and is just going to trigger emotional arguments&#x2F;stereotyping&#x2F;downvotes&#x2F;etc.</text></comment> |
9,822,572 | 9,820,826 | 1 | 3 | 9,820,601 | train | <story><title>Mailpile Chooses AGPL v3</title><url>https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2015-07-02_Licensing_Decision.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quadrangle</author><text>It speaks volumes about the debate in an anecdotal fashion that the very same page of comments (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mailpile.is&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015-06-15_Community_License_Feedback.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mailpile.is&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015-06-15_Community_License_Fe...</a> — linked from the main announcement) has both:<p>RMS himself: &quot;Both of these licenses qualify as free&#x2F;libre; neither of them is unethical. Given a choice between two ethically valid options…&quot;<p>some anti-GPL person: &quot;The GPL irritates me -- mostly because of RMS&#x27;s &quot;this is the only answer&quot; attitude&quot;<p>I could go on about this, but just think about it for yourself. Don&#x27;t be that foolish person making up straw men.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mailpile Chooses AGPL v3</title><url>https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2015-07-02_Licensing_Decision.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robto</author><text>I&#x27;ve been following this project for a while now and I&#x27;m impressed with the transparency around the decision making process. I&#x27;m looking forward to seeing what comes next.</text></comment> |
21,606,528 | 21,603,247 | 1 | 2 | 21,598,665 | train | <story><title>The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change</title><url>http://cognitivemedium.com/dac-notes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>Not a word about the most effective, cheapest strategy: reduce emissions?<p>Most Americans could reduce their emissions by 75% while <i>improving</i> their standard of living by buying less junk, wearing a sweater in the winter, eating more healthy, and other low hanging fruit that will make them more active, healthy, connected to their communities, etc.<p>Reduce consumption by half. There, I just saved us $300 million.<p>How is reduction not our top priority and activity??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>Personal choice is a very small aspect here. Americans can not choose to have lower carbon cement, steel, manufacturing, shipping, airliners, etc. Yes, we can do a lot by not flying ourselves, buying less items, eating less meat, but at the end of the day: MOST of our solutions are going to come from corporations and government.</text></comment> | <story><title>The impact of direct air carbon capture on climate change</title><url>http://cognitivemedium.com/dac-notes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spodek</author><text>Not a word about the most effective, cheapest strategy: reduce emissions?<p>Most Americans could reduce their emissions by 75% while <i>improving</i> their standard of living by buying less junk, wearing a sweater in the winter, eating more healthy, and other low hanging fruit that will make them more active, healthy, connected to their communities, etc.<p>Reduce consumption by half. There, I just saved us $300 million.<p>How is reduction not our top priority and activity??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehjoker</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget, the military is the biggest emitter on the planet. We should rapidly downsize all militaries immediately.</text></comment> |
23,871,403 | 23,869,473 | 1 | 2 | 23,866,894 | train | <story><title>Shoelace 2.0 release: UI toolkit that works with all frameworks or none at all</title><url>https://shoelace.style/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>claviska</author><text>Shoelace author here.<p>A couple days ago, I released Shoelace 2.0, an open source library of common UI components.<p>These components work with any framework, can be loaded via CDN, are fully customizable with CSS (no preprocessor required), and install easily with a simple script + stylesheet. They were built with Stencil.js, which is a fantastic tool. The end result compiles down to vanilla web components.<p>Each component was designed from scratch to be lean, customizable, and easy to use. Accessibility is a common question folks have about component libraries. I’m definitely not an expert here, but I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time trying to get it right. I would like to echo the experts and say that accessibility only starts with components, but hopefully having a good foundation to build on will encourage others to think about it more at higher levels.<p>I hope you&#x27;ll take a second to check it out! I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions you have about the project, how it&#x27;s built, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manjalyc</author><text>Longtime user of bootstrap &amp; tailwindcss for pet projects. I&#x27;ve looked at the &#x27;What Problem Does This Solve&#x27;, but I&#x27;m not sure where Shoelace could fit into my workflow.<p>Bootstrap is great for when I just want to quickly prototype and build a decent looking interface, but it feels confined when I start wanting to style things myself. When designing MPAs I typically use Bootstrap.<p>Tailwindcss is great for styling anything and everything, but I find sometimes I waste too much time styling little things that other CSS frameworks already have nice defaults for (and I am a terrible designer so this compounds my dificulties). I often use tailwind for SPAs.<p>Forgive me if my question is a little naive, but where could I fit Shoelace in for pet projects? Do you see it as being a suitable replacement for one of these usecases? Complementing them? Does it lie somewhere in the middle?</text></comment> | <story><title>Shoelace 2.0 release: UI toolkit that works with all frameworks or none at all</title><url>https://shoelace.style/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>claviska</author><text>Shoelace author here.<p>A couple days ago, I released Shoelace 2.0, an open source library of common UI components.<p>These components work with any framework, can be loaded via CDN, are fully customizable with CSS (no preprocessor required), and install easily with a simple script + stylesheet. They were built with Stencil.js, which is a fantastic tool. The end result compiles down to vanilla web components.<p>Each component was designed from scratch to be lean, customizable, and easy to use. Accessibility is a common question folks have about component libraries. I’m definitely not an expert here, but I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time trying to get it right. I would like to echo the experts and say that accessibility only starts with components, but hopefully having a good foundation to build on will encourage others to think about it more at higher levels.<p>I hope you&#x27;ll take a second to check it out! I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions you have about the project, how it&#x27;s built, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iCarrot</author><text>The &quot;in&quot; animation on components like dialog or drawer doesn&#x27;t seems to work on Firefox (78.0.2 on Windows). Very abrupt in, smooth fade&#x2F;slide out.<p>Also there are small version of buttons but none for other form controls which is quite odd.<p>Seems nice and lightweight overall. I would love to see a dark version too.</text></comment> |
14,338,291 | 14,338,164 | 1 | 2 | 14,337,871 | train | <story><title>FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed</title><url>http://jeffreyfossett.com/2017/05/13/fcc-filings.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>meddlepal</author><text>Anyone who thinks the FCC is going to change course under this administration based on public comments can buy the bridge I am selling in NYC.</text></comment> | <story><title>FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed</title><url>http://jeffreyfossett.com/2017/05/13/fcc-filings.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hhw</author><text>It would be naively optimistic to think the FCC is going to just remove the spam from their counts willingly. At best they may remove from their counts any cases where someone&#x27;s name was confirmed to have been used fraudulently. But how many of those 440,000 comments would that end up happening for?<p>Unless the FCC fears public backlash, I think they&#x27;re going to aggressively exercise plausible deniability on the spam counts, and push through their agenda using those counts as justification.</text></comment> |
21,584,591 | 21,584,210 | 1 | 3 | 21,581,361 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?</title><text>A lot of what hackers do takes years of building knowledge upon knowledge. That&#x27;s also true for physicists, marketers, salespeople, managers, etc.<p>Are there any quick wins that 30 ~ 60 minutes of intense concentration can generate?<p>For example an average person, if focused, can learn to read (but not understand) Korean decently in under an hour.<p>A person can also learn a few guitar chords and possibly play a carefully-chosen song in that time.<p>But those aren&#x27;t valuable skills in themselves.<p>Do you know of any simple + valuable wins in your area of interest?<p>(&quot;valuable&quot; intentionally left vague)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>WillDaSilva</author><text>You mentioned cooking jasmine rice using a 1:1 ratio of water to rice, but rice generally can&#x27;t be cooked using a linear ratio like this. As you increase the amount of rice being cooked, and change the size&#x2F;shape of the cooking vessel, more of the water will be lost as steam. It&#x27;s easiest to use a rice cooker, which will allow you more flexibility with regards to how much water&#x2F;rice you used, but if you don&#x27;t have a rice cooker (or anything that can work as a rice cooker) then I&#x27;d recommend the method where you cook the rice in a covered dish in the oven.</text></item><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>How to cook for yourself, really, really good food. I no longer crave restaurant food, and all of the really important things I learned about cooking take just the time to read it, hear about it and then try it. All without any special hardware.<p>A few examples:<p>1. Cooking jasmine rice: rinse it first, 1 c. water to 1 c. rice ratio. Bring to boil, turn down heat to lowest setting. Leave lid &#x2F;the entire time&#x2F;. Fluff the rice (look this up) when done. (about 12-15 min of cooking)<p>2. Baking a cake: (any square pan yellow cake) Read how baking powder actually works, then you realize you need to mix and bake quickly. Letting it sit before baking will make a flatter cake. Also, stick a butter knife in the middle to test when it&#x27;s done, if it comes out with batter stuck on it, it needs a few more minutes.<p>3. Eggs: When frying, scrambling, put the eggs in warm water before cracking to make them room temperature first. They cook better this way.<p>4. Chocolate syrup: 1 c. water, 1 c. cocoa power, 1 c. sugar, 1&#x2F;2 tsp vanilla, 1&#x2F;2 tsp salt. Blend it in a blender. (sealed container works best, as it&#x27;s messy) Better than store bought, super cheap, use organic if you like...<p>etc...<p>Why is this valuable? Because I am no longer tempted to waste money at restaurants any more, or buy unique expensive organic products (because I can make them now). I feel incredibly free and liberated that I get food at home that tastes better than what is at a restaurant now. (for about 90% of the stuff I like)<p>Also, I can teach my kids, and they start life with these skills. Great question, way too many things to write down...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>I wanted to demonstrate that it can be simple, but you are right there are a lot of variables, but I think they are small. The size&#x2F;type of pot you use may affect water amounts.<p>But I found it very useful to learn to cook with whatever you have available to you. And then learn to adjust. All of these things take tiny amounts of time and yield great results. (mainly through practice of course)</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?</title><text>A lot of what hackers do takes years of building knowledge upon knowledge. That&#x27;s also true for physicists, marketers, salespeople, managers, etc.<p>Are there any quick wins that 30 ~ 60 minutes of intense concentration can generate?<p>For example an average person, if focused, can learn to read (but not understand) Korean decently in under an hour.<p>A person can also learn a few guitar chords and possibly play a carefully-chosen song in that time.<p>But those aren&#x27;t valuable skills in themselves.<p>Do you know of any simple + valuable wins in your area of interest?<p>(&quot;valuable&quot; intentionally left vague)</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>WillDaSilva</author><text>You mentioned cooking jasmine rice using a 1:1 ratio of water to rice, but rice generally can&#x27;t be cooked using a linear ratio like this. As you increase the amount of rice being cooked, and change the size&#x2F;shape of the cooking vessel, more of the water will be lost as steam. It&#x27;s easiest to use a rice cooker, which will allow you more flexibility with regards to how much water&#x2F;rice you used, but if you don&#x27;t have a rice cooker (or anything that can work as a rice cooker) then I&#x27;d recommend the method where you cook the rice in a covered dish in the oven.</text></item><item><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>How to cook for yourself, really, really good food. I no longer crave restaurant food, and all of the really important things I learned about cooking take just the time to read it, hear about it and then try it. All without any special hardware.<p>A few examples:<p>1. Cooking jasmine rice: rinse it first, 1 c. water to 1 c. rice ratio. Bring to boil, turn down heat to lowest setting. Leave lid &#x2F;the entire time&#x2F;. Fluff the rice (look this up) when done. (about 12-15 min of cooking)<p>2. Baking a cake: (any square pan yellow cake) Read how baking powder actually works, then you realize you need to mix and bake quickly. Letting it sit before baking will make a flatter cake. Also, stick a butter knife in the middle to test when it&#x27;s done, if it comes out with batter stuck on it, it needs a few more minutes.<p>3. Eggs: When frying, scrambling, put the eggs in warm water before cracking to make them room temperature first. They cook better this way.<p>4. Chocolate syrup: 1 c. water, 1 c. cocoa power, 1 c. sugar, 1&#x2F;2 tsp vanilla, 1&#x2F;2 tsp salt. Blend it in a blender. (sealed container works best, as it&#x27;s messy) Better than store bought, super cheap, use organic if you like...<p>etc...<p>Why is this valuable? Because I am no longer tempted to waste money at restaurants any more, or buy unique expensive organic products (because I can make them now). I feel incredibly free and liberated that I get food at home that tastes better than what is at a restaurant now. (for about 90% of the stuff I like)<p>Also, I can teach my kids, and they start life with these skills. Great question, way too many things to write down...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monetus</author><text>Good advice on the water. Similar to how people learn ovens, it helps to learn pans. The best method I&#x27;ve tried so far is a ~2:1 ratio (adjust to desired texture) in a 14&quot; wide, lidded, enameled skillet. I&#x27;ll try the oven again soon to compare, but that particular pan on a stovetop is hard to beat. Learn your pans.</text></comment> |
38,408,447 | 38,407,084 | 1 | 2 | 38,406,578 | train | <story><title>Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads in Assassin's Creed</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/24/23974420/ubisoft-assassins-creed-odyssey-pop-up-ad-xbox-playstation-technical-error</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graphe</author><text>Games are already working on putting realtime ads in your game menus and signs. Most games are gatcha games and introduce children to gambling and financial transactions.<p>This is just what always on connectivity does to the media.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p1necone</author><text>&gt; most games are gacha games.<p>No they&#x27;re not - if you include mobile games, sure but they&#x27;re not really the same thing as PC&#x2F;Console games. It&#x27;s good to criticize this stuff but the hn crowd seems to go into full moral panic mode when discussing video games.<p>It&#x27;s <i>really</i> easy to find hundreds of really good games that don&#x27;t have predatory microtransactions, just download steam and pay attention to reviews.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads in Assassin's Creed</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/24/23974420/ubisoft-assassins-creed-odyssey-pop-up-ad-xbox-playstation-technical-error</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>graphe</author><text>Games are already working on putting realtime ads in your game menus and signs. Most games are gatcha games and introduce children to gambling and financial transactions.<p>This is just what always on connectivity does to the media.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zimpenfish</author><text>I think Trackmania has had in-game billboard ads for a few years. Although it&#x27;s not really a hugely popular AAA title...</text></comment> |
23,092,702 | 23,093,071 | 1 | 3 | 23,090,393 | train | <story><title>No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-and-no-scrolling-isnt-consent-says-eu-data-protection-body/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notechback</author><text>They are not mandatory, it&#x27;s a choice by the site owner to include them. They are only mandatory if you include tracking features that track users across the web (= ads and Google analytics).</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>Cookie banners have taken the internet back 20 years. Now every website has a mandatory <i>popup</i>. And you can’t block these new breed because they&#x27;re part of the site.</text></item><item><author>elric</author><text>Tangent: I wish the idiom of &quot;placing&quot; cookies would go away. Websites don&#x27;t &quot;place&quot; cookies. Websites can include cookies in their HTTP responses. Your browser can include them in future requests. But it doesn&#x27;t have to. There is nothing in the HTTP spec that says you have to accept cookies or include them in subsequent requests. There certainly isn&#x27;t any reason to &quot;place&quot; them on your computer.<p>If more browsers were still User Agents in the literal sense, maybe we wouldn&#x27;t have needed this legislation. Browsers could have informed people about what cookies were, and could have presented the user with the option to never accept tracking cookies from Big Advertising. Every browser has the option to reject third party cookies or to clear all cookies at the end of the browser session.<p>This mischaracterization of cookies has, ironically, made life a lot less pleasant for people who don&#x27;t accept cookies. The &quot;opt-out&quot; is just another cookie. There&#x27;s nothing special about them either, they can be used to track return visitors just as well as any other cookie. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re not, because that would be against the spirit of the law ...<p>Not tracking people without consent is definitely a Good Thing, but it shouldn&#x27;t require everyone and their grandmother to put annoying cookie banners on every website under the sun. And I think it wouldn&#x27;t have, had people been better informed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mfontani</author><text>One can include ads and analytics without consent being granted - they&#x27;re &quot;just&quot; restricted to a method of delivering ads and performing analytics which don&#x27;t track the user.<p>IANAL, mind you - but that&#x27;s how we implemented it - you&#x27;re opting-in to the ads that target you and analytics which track you, or you get the non-tracking&#x2F;non-targeting ads and analytics.</text></comment> | <story><title>No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/06/no-cookie-consent-walls-and-no-scrolling-isnt-consent-says-eu-data-protection-body/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notechback</author><text>They are not mandatory, it&#x27;s a choice by the site owner to include them. They are only mandatory if you include tracking features that track users across the web (= ads and Google analytics).</text></item><item><author>dcow</author><text>Cookie banners have taken the internet back 20 years. Now every website has a mandatory <i>popup</i>. And you can’t block these new breed because they&#x27;re part of the site.</text></item><item><author>elric</author><text>Tangent: I wish the idiom of &quot;placing&quot; cookies would go away. Websites don&#x27;t &quot;place&quot; cookies. Websites can include cookies in their HTTP responses. Your browser can include them in future requests. But it doesn&#x27;t have to. There is nothing in the HTTP spec that says you have to accept cookies or include them in subsequent requests. There certainly isn&#x27;t any reason to &quot;place&quot; them on your computer.<p>If more browsers were still User Agents in the literal sense, maybe we wouldn&#x27;t have needed this legislation. Browsers could have informed people about what cookies were, and could have presented the user with the option to never accept tracking cookies from Big Advertising. Every browser has the option to reject third party cookies or to clear all cookies at the end of the browser session.<p>This mischaracterization of cookies has, ironically, made life a lot less pleasant for people who don&#x27;t accept cookies. The &quot;opt-out&quot; is just another cookie. There&#x27;s nothing special about them either, they can be used to track return visitors just as well as any other cookie. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re not, because that would be against the spirit of the law ...<p>Not tracking people without consent is definitely a Good Thing, but it shouldn&#x27;t require everyone and their grandmother to put annoying cookie banners on every website under the sun. And I think it wouldn&#x27;t have, had people been better informed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwbrandsma</author><text>Which means any website that does anything useful. That doesn&#x27;t mean ads, but Google Analytics (or another comparable service) is just about everywhere these days.</text></comment> |
6,978,809 | 6,978,800 | 1 | 3 | 6,978,723 | train | <story><title>Do I Really Need a Programming Language?</title><url>http://ayudasystems.tumblr.com/post/71327185334/do-i-really-need-a-programming-language</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tikhonj</author><text>The real question here is &quot;do I need syntax?&quot;, or, more precisely, &quot;do I really need a [complex] grammar?&quot; Any given Lisp is still a programming language--it has <i>some</i> syntax and it has semantics. But it does have a <i>much</i> simpler grammar than any language (save Forth).<p>The grammars exist because programs are made to be read by people, not just computers. A more heterogeneous notation can make for more concise code that&#x27;s easier to scan and easier to read.<p>Of course, this is not to say that Lisp is unreadable. I actually rather like reading and writing (paredit is <i>awesome</i>) Lisp code. But, after quite a bit of Racket, I&#x27;ve found that I still heavily prefer having infix operators and a bit more syntax. At the same time, I also often want <i>less</i> noise--ie no parentheses. I want all this so that I can quickly scan and comfortably read my code. That&#x27;s why we need grammars.</text></comment> | <story><title>Do I Really Need a Programming Language?</title><url>http://ayudasystems.tumblr.com/post/71327185334/do-i-really-need-a-programming-language</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>Now show the same tree for a ruby block, a Java inner class, a C# lambda and how they&#x27;re all the same.<p>Except they&#x27;re not.<p>Only the simplest ASTs are directly translatable. Language semantics differ wildly when you get into higher level constructs. Not even Lisp is able to help you, as that just changes the problem from one of syntactic representation into one of library implementation.</text></comment> |
37,659,014 | 37,658,704 | 1 | 2 | 37,656,646 | train | <story><title>NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/12/nsa-fbi-and-cisa-release-cybersecurity-information-sheet-deepfake-threats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patwolf</author><text>I&#x27;m old enough to remember back in 2005 when terrorist in Iraq claimed to be holding a US soldier hostage, and it turned out the whole thing was staged using photos of a doll:<p>Original story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;rebels-say-they-hold-us-soldier-hostage.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;rebels-say-t...</a>
Confirmation of hoax: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;wbna6894934" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;wbna6894934</a><p>It&#x27;s pretty easy to see that the photo is a hoax, but many news outlets didn&#x27;t notice and ran the story anyway.<p>I have little faith in our ability to detect deepfakes using these recommendations. It seems we&#x27;ll have to assume something is fake unless we have a way to cryptographically verify its provenience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dudefeliciano</author><text>I always have to think of the Wu Ming Foundation&#x2F;former Luther Blisset collective and their fake news&#x2F;LARPing missions[1] that showed how easy it was to fool major news outlets back in the 90s. Too bad that now those same techniques have been weaponized with great success.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Luther_Blissett_(pseudonym)#Limited_selection_of_Blissett&#x27;s_stunts,_pranks,_and_media_hoaxes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Luther_Blissett_(pseudonym)#Li...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats</title><url>https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/12/nsa-fbi-and-cisa-release-cybersecurity-information-sheet-deepfake-threats</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patwolf</author><text>I&#x27;m old enough to remember back in 2005 when terrorist in Iraq claimed to be holding a US soldier hostage, and it turned out the whole thing was staged using photos of a doll:<p>Original story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;rebels-say-they-hold-us-soldier-hostage.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;rebels-say-t...</a>
Confirmation of hoax: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;wbna6894934" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&#x2F;id&#x2F;wbna6894934</a><p>It&#x27;s pretty easy to see that the photo is a hoax, but many news outlets didn&#x27;t notice and ran the story anyway.<p>I have little faith in our ability to detect deepfakes using these recommendations. It seems we&#x27;ll have to assume something is fake unless we have a way to cryptographically verify its provenience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ejb999</author><text>&gt;&gt;It&#x27;s pretty easy to see that the photo is a hoax, but many news outlets didn&#x27;t notice and ran the story anyway.<p>More likely: many news outlets didn&#x27;t CARE and ran the story anyway.</text></comment> |
14,951,576 | 14,950,931 | 1 | 3 | 14,949,694 | train | <story><title>Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin</title><url>https://github.com/jamesob/tinychain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulBGD_</author><text>I&#x27;m working on my own blockchain (not specifically bitcoin) implementation just to wrap my head around everything. One thing I&#x27;m not getting that also wasn&#x27;t answered by the source code is how you check timestamps.<p>I understand the whole network time = median offset + local time thing, however I&#x27;m a bit fuzzy on how you check timestamps on previous blocks when you&#x27;re initially downloading the chain. How do you know that you need to check the timestamp if you can&#x27;t know if you&#x27;re on the latest block?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taek</author><text>You need to check two things. First you need to check that this block had a timestamp higher than the median of the past 11 blocks (it&#x27;s a consensus rule). Second you need to check that the timestamp is not unacceptably far in the future. For historic blocks, it definitely won&#x27;t be because the timestamp will be far in the past (as the block was created far in the past).<p>Latest block or not, it just needs to follow those rules. That <i>does</i> mean it&#x27;s possible for a block with an invalid timestamp to become valid after some time has passed. But if it is invalid, nobody will be mining on it, so it&#x27;s unlikely to remain part of the longest chain.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin</title><url>https://github.com/jamesob/tinychain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PaulBGD_</author><text>I&#x27;m working on my own blockchain (not specifically bitcoin) implementation just to wrap my head around everything. One thing I&#x27;m not getting that also wasn&#x27;t answered by the source code is how you check timestamps.<p>I understand the whole network time = median offset + local time thing, however I&#x27;m a bit fuzzy on how you check timestamps on previous blocks when you&#x27;re initially downloading the chain. How do you know that you need to check the timestamp if you can&#x27;t know if you&#x27;re on the latest block?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd</author><text>In my toy blockchain implementation, I just went with two constraints:
1) every timestamp must be strictly larger than the one of the previous block (this makes difficulty calculation easier)
2) timestamps may not be in the future (except for a little wiggle room for unsynchronized clocks)<p>My reasoning was roughly as follows:<p>Miners are incentivized to pick very large timestamps, because the longer it takes to mine X blocks, the easier becomes the proof of work they need to solve, giving them more block rewards and transaction fees in the long run. But if they want the network to accept their blocks, they can&#x27;t pick timestamps in the future, so the best they can do is pick the current time as their timestamp.</text></comment> |
6,809,508 | 6,809,441 | 1 | 3 | 6,808,246 | train | <story><title>Bitcoin Reaches 1000 USD</title><url>https://www.mtgox.com/?Currency=EUR</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snitko</author><text>Yet people still bought computers knowing full well they are going to be cheaper in a couple of months. Why? Because they needed them. Same thing with Bitcoin. Of course, you won&#x27;t be buying stupid stuff you really don&#x27;t need. And you know what, that&#x27;s a very good thing for the economy, because it will make people very responsible when it comes to buying things and investing their money. Bitcoin is an ultimate cure for consumerism and excessive spending. Economy as a whole and people in it don&#x27;t really profit from investing into useless hole digging, even though it may look good on the paper.</text></item><item><author>JamisonM</author><text>This is true, but the definition of &quot;really want&quot; changes if everything you can buy is subject to deflation in your currency of choice. If you believe Bitcoin will keep rising you will defer every expense until the last possible second and many transactions you will defer and later find that you do not need to engage in them, thus there is less commerce ongoing.
How does a rational consumer justify going out for dinner on Friday if on Sunday they expect the date to be 15% cheaper, and Tuesday to be 20% cheaper, and so on? It is like the pain of finally biting the bullet and buying a new computer in the 90&#x27;s knowing it will be cheaper in 3 weeks, but on every transaction you make.</text></item><item><author>snitko</author><text>I spent bitcoins on many things and intend to do so in the future. The thing is, if you need something, you&#x27;ll buy it, either with USD or Bitcoin. If you buy it with USD, then that is the amount of Bitcoins you haven&#x27;t bought instead. So it doesn&#x27;t matter. Bitcoin in no way stops you from spending it when you really want.</text></item><item><author>vinhboy</author><text>Bitcoin worshippers will tell you, &quot;no it does not matter, why would you not spend bitcoins, it&#x27;s better than fiat&quot;, blah blah blah...<p>Yet if you look at &#x2F;r&#x2F;BitCoin, there are dozens of &quot;OMG!! I spent all my bitcoins on Pizza instead of holding on to them, look at this gif of me being sad&quot;<p>So to answer your question, it&#x27;s just insanity.<p>I miss the days before this month when BitCoin prices were stable for a couple of months. Spending it was actually pretty cool.</text></item><item><author>rescripting</author><text>Hopefully someone can clear this up for me: With the price rising so quickly what incentive is there to actually use BTC as intended, as a currency?<p>Because the maximum number of coins is fixed it&#x27;s pretty easy to project where the valuation is headed, and so anyone in their right mind should just hoard their BTC instead of spending it, which in turn should drive the price down, no?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JamisonM</author><text>I do not necessarily accept the premise that consumerism is necessarily good or bad but I do not find the argument that a currency that discourages economic interaction is a good thing very compelling. I do not think that having someone else prepare a meal for you in the evening, lets say, once a week is &quot;useless hole digging&quot; but and honest exchange of services for money. Drastically changing the dynamic of such interactions seems like a pretty wild economic experiment, not one to be taken lightly.<p>When spending within the economy is restricted in this way by market forces value will concentrate very highly in essential goods and infrastructure and attracting rent-seekers to those areas of investment. The net result, it seems to me, is casting off the tyranny of fiat currency for a new kind of tyranny. The same kind that lead to the trust-busting era in US politics.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitcoin Reaches 1000 USD</title><url>https://www.mtgox.com/?Currency=EUR</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snitko</author><text>Yet people still bought computers knowing full well they are going to be cheaper in a couple of months. Why? Because they needed them. Same thing with Bitcoin. Of course, you won&#x27;t be buying stupid stuff you really don&#x27;t need. And you know what, that&#x27;s a very good thing for the economy, because it will make people very responsible when it comes to buying things and investing their money. Bitcoin is an ultimate cure for consumerism and excessive spending. Economy as a whole and people in it don&#x27;t really profit from investing into useless hole digging, even though it may look good on the paper.</text></item><item><author>JamisonM</author><text>This is true, but the definition of &quot;really want&quot; changes if everything you can buy is subject to deflation in your currency of choice. If you believe Bitcoin will keep rising you will defer every expense until the last possible second and many transactions you will defer and later find that you do not need to engage in them, thus there is less commerce ongoing.
How does a rational consumer justify going out for dinner on Friday if on Sunday they expect the date to be 15% cheaper, and Tuesday to be 20% cheaper, and so on? It is like the pain of finally biting the bullet and buying a new computer in the 90&#x27;s knowing it will be cheaper in 3 weeks, but on every transaction you make.</text></item><item><author>snitko</author><text>I spent bitcoins on many things and intend to do so in the future. The thing is, if you need something, you&#x27;ll buy it, either with USD or Bitcoin. If you buy it with USD, then that is the amount of Bitcoins you haven&#x27;t bought instead. So it doesn&#x27;t matter. Bitcoin in no way stops you from spending it when you really want.</text></item><item><author>vinhboy</author><text>Bitcoin worshippers will tell you, &quot;no it does not matter, why would you not spend bitcoins, it&#x27;s better than fiat&quot;, blah blah blah...<p>Yet if you look at &#x2F;r&#x2F;BitCoin, there are dozens of &quot;OMG!! I spent all my bitcoins on Pizza instead of holding on to them, look at this gif of me being sad&quot;<p>So to answer your question, it&#x27;s just insanity.<p>I miss the days before this month when BitCoin prices were stable for a couple of months. Spending it was actually pretty cool.</text></item><item><author>rescripting</author><text>Hopefully someone can clear this up for me: With the price rising so quickly what incentive is there to actually use BTC as intended, as a currency?<p>Because the maximum number of coins is fixed it&#x27;s pretty easy to project where the valuation is headed, and so anyone in their right mind should just hoard their BTC instead of spending it, which in turn should drive the price down, no?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmonegro</author><text>That is actually &#x2F;not&#x2F; very good for the economy at all. If you abruptly reduce spending to the absolute minimum, sure it sounds very idealistic, but you&#x27;re grinding most economic activity to a halt, causing hundreds of millions of layoffs, and minimizing the job market.<p>I estimate that we&#x27;d have about 60-70% unemployment, and no jobs for those people to go to because, well, other people just aren&#x27;t spending any money.</text></comment> |
38,747,102 | 38,746,933 | 1 | 2 | 38,746,187 | train | <story><title>In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users</title><url>https://organicmaps.app/news/2023-12-23/in-2023-organic-maps-got-its-first-million-users/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davelondon</author><text>I&#x27;d love to start recommending my friends use Organic Maps over Maps.me, but it&#x27;s missing one critical feature:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;issues&#x2F;622">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;issues&#x2F;622</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1694">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;organicmaps&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1694</a><p>... right now your bookmarks aren&#x27;t synchronised anywhere so if you lose your phone all your bookmarks are gone.<p>When that&#x27;s working I&#x27;ll change over in a second!</text></comment> | <story><title>In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users</title><url>https://organicmaps.app/news/2023-12-23/in-2023-organic-maps-got-its-first-million-users/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eisa01</author><text>I’m a contributor to OpenStreetMap, but what I find very lacking is the POI data<p>It’s only updated if there’s someone like me in the local area, or if it’s a tourist destination. But even then it can be sparse (eg just visited Merida, Bacalar and Valladolid in Mexico), and it’s worse in “non-western” countries<p>Tellingly, Overture Maps that use OSM for the street data to not use the POI data.<p>A lot of people pointed out that the POI data of Overture had mediocre quality. While that is true, they do at least have coverage in places OSM do not. If you know the name of the place you can at least find it<p>I’m not sure how this can become better, I’d think that a prerequisite would be that corporate users like Grab, DiDi, Uber start contributing<p>But that may not happen as they are not allowed to combine datasets [1]. Hence you have a chicken and egg problem: The dataset is not usable until it is complete…<p>The street data fundementally have the same problem, but that is easier to edit remotely and may be more stable in contrast to POIs<p>So I’m starting to question if it’s really worth it to continue update POIs in OSM, but I also would not know how to contribute to Overture as it does have quite some errors :)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;102">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;102</a><p>edit: Or maybe it is possible to conflate them, but that is not planned - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;issues&#x2F;96">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OvertureMaps&#x2F;data&#x2F;issues&#x2F;96</a></text></comment> |
27,563,981 | 27,562,886 | 1 | 2 | 27,562,050 | train | <story><title>‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the US heatwave</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/18/us-heatwave-west-climate-crisis-drought</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>So, I believe in anthropogenic climate change, and I don&#x27;t doubt that there are areas (California) seeing droughts the likes of which have not been seen in a long time, but...they are throwing a lot of things together here. In central Texas, where I live, the reservoirs are near to full, because we had a lot of rain in May. The problem is a higher than normal abundance of mosquitoes, and the foliage is all growing out of control because they have the water to do so.<p>We are definitely having issues with power, but that&#x27;s mostly due to increased population (and other issues related to changing power sources), not from excess heat. Temperatures in central Texas are in the mid 90&#x27;s, which is not unusual for Texas. There&#x27;s problems, sure, but not really related to climate change.<p>When scientists try to link anything that is going wrong currently to anthropogenic climate change, they don&#x27;t convince more people. If anything, they create more skeptics, because people can tell that they&#x27;re not getting an objective read on the situation. There are probably scientists who are willing to provide a nuanced, balanced read on things, who would probably say that drought and wildfires in California might be related to climate change, but power shortages in Texas are not. They are not the sort of scientists who get their pictures in The Guardian.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the US heatwave</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/18/us-heatwave-west-climate-crisis-drought</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Flatcircle</author><text>Overly dramatic articles like this do a disservice to helping convince people to be more proactive about climate change.<p>There’s obviously no data going back 1200 years and the temperature proxies used, like ice cores, or tree rings, haven’t been consistently reliable.<p>The truth is, no one knows what the annual temps of major cities were before about 1870.<p>Real scientists lack the hubris to be sure of basic truths like whether dinosaurs were warm blooded or cold blooded, how general anesthesia works, how great whites mate, or even why we sleep, much less the exact ebbs and flows of 350,000 daily temperatures.<p>So for these scientists to say they have an understanding of what the previous thousand years temps were before that, turns the science into faith and adds fuel to those who argue climate science is more religion than science.<p>Focusing on the last 50 years is more than enough quality data to definitively prove the world is getting hotter, start there. Then provide a list of 3 basic things people can do to help lower temps themselves.<p>ie,
Campaign for nuclear power.
Eat less meat,
Adjust your thermostat,
Change your tires,
Buy an electric car,
Buy better bulbs,
Plant trees with friends.</text></comment> |
2,761,820 | 2,761,519 | 1 | 2 | 2,761,337 | train | <story><title>Why I Sold My Startup to Google</title><url>http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2011/07/why-i-sold-my-startup-sparkbuy-to-google/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>Some people might take away from this the idea that you can just build a cool little prototype and Google will come along and snatch you up.<p>I'd bet this acquisition happened almost entirely due to relationships and salesmanship. Most hackers who don't already know the right people (e.g. former Googlers) would have no chance of pulling this kind of thing off.<p>Do not try this at home folks. The only real chance of an exit for most startups is one based on actual success in the marketplace.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why I Sold My Startup to Google</title><url>http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2011/07/why-i-sold-my-startup-sparkbuy-to-google/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dschobel</author><text><i>Most VCs don’t care how long your company takes to show a return – they don’t get to re-invest proceeds of their deals, so if you exit early, the money sits in a bank account earning interest for years instead of contributing to their returns.</i><p>Can anyone explain why this is the case?</text></comment> |
24,863,327 | 24,863,521 | 1 | 2 | 24,862,619 | train | <story><title>KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released</title><url>https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-10-21-2.6.2-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrowl</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what the benefit to locally hosted solutions like KeePassXC are to BitWarden. You can&#x27;t beat BitWarden&#x27;s ease of use and you don&#x27;t have to manage storage &#x2F; backups yourself. Bitwarden is open source, has passed multiple independant audits and has easily verified 0 knowledge &#x2F; e2e crypto (they can&#x27;t see your data on their servers). What more could you want?</text></item><item><author>ronnier</author><text>I&#x27;ve fully switched to a bitwarden. There&#x27;s a good selfhosted solution too <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dani-garcia&#x2F;bitwarden_rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dani-garcia&#x2F;bitwarden_rs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>class4behavior</author><text>&gt;You can&#x27;t beat BitWarden&#x27;s ease of use and you don&#x27;t have to manage storage &#x2F; backups yourself.<p>You&#x27;re managing your &quot;self-hosted solution&quot; and only a tiny share of people runs one anyway. Syncing a file along with other data&#x2F;backups is a sufficient compromise between security and convenience for many people.</text></comment> | <story><title>KeePassXC 2.6.2 Released</title><url>https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-10-21-2.6.2-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrowl</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure what the benefit to locally hosted solutions like KeePassXC are to BitWarden. You can&#x27;t beat BitWarden&#x27;s ease of use and you don&#x27;t have to manage storage &#x2F; backups yourself. Bitwarden is open source, has passed multiple independant audits and has easily verified 0 knowledge &#x2F; e2e crypto (they can&#x27;t see your data on their servers). What more could you want?</text></item><item><author>ronnier</author><text>I&#x27;ve fully switched to a bitwarden. There&#x27;s a good selfhosted solution too <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dani-garcia&#x2F;bitwarden_rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dani-garcia&#x2F;bitwarden_rs</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>approxim8ion</author><text>I&#x27;ll give you two reasons I use it over Bitwarden.<p>Bitwarden autotype is very sketchy on my (admittedly older) Android phone. For some apps it straight up doesn&#x27;t show up, on others the prompt disappears when I need it. The alternative is to use the system clipboard which is absolutely terrible and no one should ever do it, especially on smartphones. The special keyboard option that KeepassDX and Keepass2Android provide are significantly better without being too inconvenient in my opinion. Whether or not the autotype issue is fixed on newer Android versions is irrelevant, I shouldn&#x27;t have to switch out a perfectly working phone just for a workflow I can live without.<p>Also Keepass has been a standard for so long that I just trust it more. If tomorrow Bitwarden were to disappear off the face of the planet (I&#x27;m aware it doesn&#x27;t work that way), I&#x27;d have to export my passwords and look for another solution. This is probably mitigated by self-hosting but I have neither the infrastructure nor the inclination to do so. I can theoretically at least continue to use my kdbx file on any platform without issue, sticking to a particular version of a client that I like or switching it out for another if I&#x27;m so inclined. No hijinks involved.<p>I will concede that the sync is not as convenient but I use Syncthing and Snapdrop for a bunch of other stuff already so I don&#x27;t mind, not to mention the fact that I feel better about my vault never being exposed to the internet in any form.</text></comment> |
41,217,887 | 41,217,497 | 1 | 2 | 41,217,313 | train | <story><title>ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user's cloned voice during testing</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/chatgpt-unexpectedly-began-speaking-in-a-users-cloned-voice-during-testing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sigmoid10</author><text>This problem appeared during pre-release testing and has since been solved post-generation using an output classifier that verifies responses, according to the system card release. It was predictable that someone would spin this into a black mirror-esque clickbait story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>We built the torment nexus and then configured it not to use any of the torment functionality that showed up in testing. It was predictable that someone would turn this into a “don’t build the torment nexus”-esque clickbait story.</text></comment> | <story><title>ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user's cloned voice during testing</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/chatgpt-unexpectedly-began-speaking-in-a-users-cloned-voice-during-testing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sigmoid10</author><text>This problem appeared during pre-release testing and has since been solved post-generation using an output classifier that verifies responses, according to the system card release. It was predictable that someone would spin this into a black mirror-esque clickbait story.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defamation</author><text>I am absolutely baffled how you don&#x27;t see the contradiction in your 2 sentences lol</text></comment> |
1,909,998 | 1,910,018 | 1 | 3 | 1,909,911 | train | <story><title>Is it hard to become an Android developer?</title><url>http://www.kreci.net/android/is-it-hard-to-become-an-android-developer/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wallflower</author><text>Excellent and practical tips and a few highly-recommended book recommendations/study materials from the HN community:<p>"Ask HN: Jumping into Android Development"<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347170" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347170</a><p>The general consensus from my extended network of mobile developer friends and acquaintances:<p>Android is harder to develop for than iOS - you will spend more time and effort on building something nice than you would in iOS. Windows Phone 7 is not an easy transition for .Net and C# developers because it is basically Silverlight framework programming. No one I know is doing WebOS (Palm) development.<p>Also, the money in mobile development is almost always from making apps for companies and organizations that want to have their own app (e.g. consulting). This is from my knowledge of how my friends are making a living. Yes, they have their own apps but to succeed in the direct to consumer device marketplace is really is more about being a better marketer, designer than a mobile developer.<p>The consumer who downloads your program only sees the tip of the iceberg (the UI, the functionality, the user experience). Does it make them feel cool (or appear cooler to their peer group) and/or add some bit of value to their life workflow? They don't care how it was made. Note: This is why HTML5 apps are at a disadvantage - there is only so much you can do with Canvas.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is it hard to become an Android developer?</title><url>http://www.kreci.net/android/is-it-hard-to-become-an-android-developer/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tocomment</author><text>My biggest obstacle in getting into Android development is thinking of ideas for apps to make. It seems especially hard to think of simple ideas that would make a good first project.<p>When I try to sit down and do a "toy" app to learn the platform better I find myself getting bored because I'm not excited about the app I'm making.<p>Does anyone have an advice on finding or coming up with ideas?<p>Or better yet, does anyone need a simple app made? (Maybe I should do an offer HN if that's still around).</text></comment> |
25,824,885 | 25,823,700 | 1 | 2 | 25,821,718 | train | <story><title>That XOR Trick (2020)</title><url>https://florian.github.io/xor-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperman1</author><text>A fun party trick not mentioned here is reducing storage in a doubly linked-ish list: Normally each node stores 2 pointers: struct Node {void * prev;void * next}<p>The trick is to use only 1 &#x27;pointer&#x27;, storing prev XOR next: struct Node {void* xored;}<p>While traversing, you remember not only the current position, but also where you came from. So forward traversal goes: next= current.xored XOR previous. Backwards also works: Node
* previous=(Node * )current.xored XOR (Node * ) next.<p>The first and last node can use 0 as previous or next node, or you make a circular list. You do have to store a pointer to the first and last node, as usual.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen this used in the real world, which is probably a good thing. It also plays hell with garbage collectors like Boehm, as they can&#x27;t derive the 2 used adresses.<p>UPDATE: And of course wikipedia knows everything: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;XOR_linked_list" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;XOR_linked_list</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svat</author><text>I looked up TAOCP (<i>The Art of Computer Programming</i> by Knuth), and (unsurprisingly) this trick is mentioned there, and already by the time of the first edition this trick was folklore, with its origins lost to antiquity: the last exercise in section 2.2.4:<p>&gt; <i>18. [25] Devise a way to represent circular lists inside a computer in such a way that the list can be traversed efficiently in both directions, yet only one link field is used per node. [</i>Hint: <i>If we are given two pointers, to two successive nodes x_{i-1} and x_i, it should be possible to locate both x_{i+1} and x_{i-2}.]</i><p>Answer (in 1st edition [1968], second printing [1969]):<p>&gt; <i>18. Let the link field of node x_i contain LOC{x_{i+1}) ⊕ LOC{x_{i-1}), where &quot;⊕&quot; denotes either subtraction or &quot;exclusive or.&quot; Two adjacent list heads are included in the circular list, to help get things started properly. (The origin of this ingenious technique is unknown.)</i><p>The &quot;either&quot; is modified to &quot;e.g.&quot; in the 2nd edition [1973], and further slightly modified in 3rd edition ([1997], first digital release [December 2013]):<p>&gt; <i>18. Let the link field of node x_i contain LOC(x_{i+1}) ⊕ LOC(x_{i−1}), where “⊕” denotes “exclusive or.” Other invertible operations, such as addition or subtraction modulo the pointer field size, could also be used. It is convenient to include two adjacent list heads in the circular list, to help get things started properly. (The origin of this ingenious technique is unknown.)</i><p>With modern languages and compilers, even if doing these operations on your language&#x27;s pointer type is implementation-defined&#x2F;undefined behaviour as mentioned in some of the other comments, you can still use this trick with your own &quot;pointers&quot; (indexes in an array, as Knuth does in many of his programs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Pointer_(computer_programming)&amp;oldid=990952393#Simulation_using_an_array_index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Pointer_(computer...</a>), I guess.<p>Anyway, this gives me another point of appreciation about why the TAOCP series of books were so highly regarded: they were (are) encyclopedic and gathered&#x2F;organized much of what was known at the time, in a highly compressed way (packed into exercises etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>That XOR Trick (2020)</title><url>https://florian.github.io/xor-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hyperman1</author><text>A fun party trick not mentioned here is reducing storage in a doubly linked-ish list: Normally each node stores 2 pointers: struct Node {void * prev;void * next}<p>The trick is to use only 1 &#x27;pointer&#x27;, storing prev XOR next: struct Node {void* xored;}<p>While traversing, you remember not only the current position, but also where you came from. So forward traversal goes: next= current.xored XOR previous. Backwards also works: Node
* previous=(Node * )current.xored XOR (Node * ) next.<p>The first and last node can use 0 as previous or next node, or you make a circular list. You do have to store a pointer to the first and last node, as usual.<p>I&#x27;ve never seen this used in the real world, which is probably a good thing. It also plays hell with garbage collectors like Boehm, as they can&#x27;t derive the 2 used adresses.<p>UPDATE: And of course wikipedia knows everything: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;XOR_linked_list" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;XOR_linked_list</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>surajrmal</author><text>The bigger problem with this approach is that you can&#x27;t remove&#x2F;erase something from the list just by knowing it&#x27;s address. This is a key mechanism for most use cases. However, if you&#x27;re fine with limiting yourself to erasing only during iteration, it&#x27;s pretty nifty.<p>I&#x27;ve also done some benchmarks in the past and found it interior iteration performance due to what I&#x27;m assuming to be inability to prefetch the next address. However, linked list iteration is already relatively slow so I suppose it&#x27;s not a big downside.</text></comment> |
23,735,416 | 23,735,004 | 1 | 3 | 23,733,926 | train | <story><title>Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes</title><url>https://bennettfeely.com/usacss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>Feels strange to have single decimal places in your inch figures. I’d have expected something like eighths, sixteenths and thirty-seconds of inches, even though the decimal representation of them is unwieldy (1⁄32″ becomes 0.03125in). That also helps you avoid fractional pixels, which is worth doing if convenient: 1⁄32″ is 3px, because 1in is defined as 96px.<p>(As an Australian, the main place I’ve ever seen fractions of inches is old tools like spanners from before the adoption of the metric system, and that’s all fractions with powers-of-two denominators. But maybe Americans use decimal fractions of inches? I suppose I have seen laptop screens described in that way, e.g. 13.1″, 15.4″ and 15.6″, though people typically truncate to the inch.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amyjess</author><text>All small measurements in the US are done in power-of-two fractions of an inch. In fact, much of the initial opposition to the metric system here was led by the construction industry, who has found from experience that 1&#x2F;2&quot; 1&#x2F;4&quot; 1&#x2F;8&quot; 1&#x2F;16&quot; etc. measurements are too convenient to ever give up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes</title><url>https://bennettfeely.com/usacss/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrismorgan</author><text>Feels strange to have single decimal places in your inch figures. I’d have expected something like eighths, sixteenths and thirty-seconds of inches, even though the decimal representation of them is unwieldy (1⁄32″ becomes 0.03125in). That also helps you avoid fractional pixels, which is worth doing if convenient: 1⁄32″ is 3px, because 1in is defined as 96px.<p>(As an Australian, the main place I’ve ever seen fractions of inches is old tools like spanners from before the adoption of the metric system, and that’s all fractions with powers-of-two denominators. But maybe Americans use decimal fractions of inches? I suppose I have seen laptop screens described in that way, e.g. 13.1″, 15.4″ and 15.6″, though people typically truncate to the inch.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cjsawyer</author><text>Engineering and machining specifications are usually in 0.001” and referred to as thousandth’s or “thou’s”. Tools like wrenches or drill bits use fractions in the form x+1&#x2F;2^n like 2 1&#x2F;2 == 2.5”. It goes down to 1&#x2F;64, I think.</text></comment> |
17,543,628 | 17,543,588 | 1 | 2 | 17,542,993 | train | <story><title>Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/happy-prime-day-jeff-amazon-ceo-s-net-worth-tops-150-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I think Bezos is a bad argument for us being in a new guilded age.<p>When you look at Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, and perhaps even Gates, they had near total control over some aspect of the American Economy. And they used that control to make incredible profits.<p>Amazon is trying to do the same, but they haven&#x27;t done so yet. Their retail business is not wildly profitable (if at all). They haven&#x27;t monopolized online retail (and may never be able to do so).<p>Amazon may be the next Walmart, but they&#x27;re not the next Standard Oil. And the market has priced in huge expectations that Amazon will eventually have to meet, or investor exuberance will wane.</text></item><item><author>Endama</author><text>I feel that America is in the midst of a new gilded age; instead of Standard Oil, we have Amazon.<p>Like the late 1920s, we saw losses in purchasing power of the average American, the collection of wealth among the top 1%, and disruption of our civic spaces as a result. I think the thing that many Americans aren&#x27;t aware of was just how violent that time in US history was[1].<p>The US economy isn&#x27;t just about how comfortable the average US citizen is, it is also a measure of how much cushion there is in our society between us being frustrated looking at a job board and being angry and armed in the streets. The teachers strikes in Oklahoma, Florida, and W. Virginia are showing the rise of Unions (much like in the gilded age as well). Protest and civic engagement must be our response, we should take signs like the wealth of Bezos as a cautionary tale, rather than something to simply marvel at.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ludlow_Massacre" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ludlow_Massacre</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Matewan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Matewan</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1920_Alabama_coal_strike" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1920_Alabama_coal_strike</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Blair_Mountain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Blair_Mountain</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>save_ferris</author><text>&gt; When you look at Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, and perhaps even Gates, they had near total control over some aspect of the American Economy<p>According to TechCrunch[1], Amazon controls 49% of the entire e-commerce market, and 5% of the entire retail market overall. They&#x27;re also in a position to jockey for even more market share as retail continues to move online.<p>Amazon is in the perfect position to completely own e-commerce, so it&#x27;s quite possible that we&#x27;re just early in making our comparison.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;13&#x2F;amazons-share-of-the-us-e-commerce-market-is-now-49-or-5-of-all-retail-spend&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;13&#x2F;amazons-share-of-the-us-e-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/happy-prime-day-jeff-amazon-ceo-s-net-worth-tops-150-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I think Bezos is a bad argument for us being in a new guilded age.<p>When you look at Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, and perhaps even Gates, they had near total control over some aspect of the American Economy. And they used that control to make incredible profits.<p>Amazon is trying to do the same, but they haven&#x27;t done so yet. Their retail business is not wildly profitable (if at all). They haven&#x27;t monopolized online retail (and may never be able to do so).<p>Amazon may be the next Walmart, but they&#x27;re not the next Standard Oil. And the market has priced in huge expectations that Amazon will eventually have to meet, or investor exuberance will wane.</text></item><item><author>Endama</author><text>I feel that America is in the midst of a new gilded age; instead of Standard Oil, we have Amazon.<p>Like the late 1920s, we saw losses in purchasing power of the average American, the collection of wealth among the top 1%, and disruption of our civic spaces as a result. I think the thing that many Americans aren&#x27;t aware of was just how violent that time in US history was[1].<p>The US economy isn&#x27;t just about how comfortable the average US citizen is, it is also a measure of how much cushion there is in our society between us being frustrated looking at a job board and being angry and armed in the streets. The teachers strikes in Oklahoma, Florida, and W. Virginia are showing the rise of Unions (much like in the gilded age as well). Protest and civic engagement must be our response, we should take signs like the wealth of Bezos as a cautionary tale, rather than something to simply marvel at.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ludlow_Massacre" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ludlow_Massacre</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Matewan" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Matewan</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1920_Alabama_coal_strike" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1920_Alabama_coal_strike</a><p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Blair_Mountain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Battle_of_Blair_Mountain</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeusk</author><text>&gt; Amazon is trying to do the same, but they haven&#x27;t done so yet. They are not wildly profitable (if at all). They haven&#x27;t monopolized online retail (and may never be able to do so).<p>Please tell me you&#x27;re being sarcastic.<p>They&#x27;re hiding profits and just plowing all the revenue back into the business while undercutting both competitors and their own employees.</text></comment> |
5,013,189 | 5,013,023 | 1 | 2 | 5,012,069 | train | <story><title>The Software Millionaire Next Door</title><url>http://journal.dedasys.com/2013/01/04/the-software-millionaire-next-door</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javert</author><text>How does that work out?<p>I mean, it seems like if someone went to their employer and said, "I'm going to stop working for you, but if you pay me more than you are now, I will sell you software," they would say, "No thanks."</text></item><item><author>jacques_chester</author><text>Lots of people contract to a former employer. That's what I'm doing at the moment.</text></item><item><author>killahpriest</author><text>Customers are not as inevitable as gravity. How do they find their customers?</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I mostly hang out with folks who run product businesses, but numerically, I'd bet on services businesses being substantially more numerous. There are probably tens of thousands of consulting firms in the US. Most of them produce bespoke software for businesses at
five/six figures an engagement. The math works out such that the principals at this type of firm become modestly wealthy fairly quickly, with little execution risk.<p>Think of every Rails dev shop you've ever heard of: $8k monthly salary per dev, $12k in fully loaded costs. Each dev has 70% utilization (~35 weeks a year) at a chargeout rate of $6k to $8k per week for journeymen and $8k to $10k for partners.<p>You can do the math yourself, but the short version is that a consultancy that would fit around my dinner table makes all partners millionaires, with the approximate inevitability of gravity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Businesses are rational. If they need what you're selling, and buying it from you is more cost-effective (inclusive of risk) than building up an internal process to deliver it themselves, they'll buy it.<p>This apart from the fact that transforming an employee to a contractor is often a net financial win for a company. Not just because of benefits, but also because when the contractor finishes, you don't have to find a way to fire them.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Software Millionaire Next Door</title><url>http://journal.dedasys.com/2013/01/04/the-software-millionaire-next-door</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javert</author><text>How does that work out?<p>I mean, it seems like if someone went to their employer and said, "I'm going to stop working for you, but if you pay me more than you are now, I will sell you software," they would say, "No thanks."</text></item><item><author>jacques_chester</author><text>Lots of people contract to a former employer. That's what I'm doing at the moment.</text></item><item><author>killahpriest</author><text>Customers are not as inevitable as gravity. How do they find their customers?</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I mostly hang out with folks who run product businesses, but numerically, I'd bet on services businesses being substantially more numerous. There are probably tens of thousands of consulting firms in the US. Most of them produce bespoke software for businesses at
five/six figures an engagement. The math works out such that the principals at this type of firm become modestly wealthy fairly quickly, with little execution risk.<p>Think of every Rails dev shop you've ever heard of: $8k monthly salary per dev, $12k in fully loaded costs. Each dev has 70% utilization (~35 weeks a year) at a chargeout rate of $6k to $8k per week for journeymen and $8k to $10k for partners.<p>You can do the math yourself, but the short version is that a consultancy that would fit around my dinner table makes all partners millionaires, with the approximate inevitability of gravity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacques_chester</author><text>I quit my job for family reasons; they asked me to stay on as contractor. It's a surprisingly common pattern, I'm told.<p>I am developing a niche tool for business at the moment. To get my initial customers I expect I will go visit them in their offices, ask questions and show them the prototype. Old fashioned, but I've picked an area where improving performance by a few percent can mean millions of dollars difference in outcomes.</text></comment> |
30,926,339 | 30,921,783 | 1 | 3 | 30,918,654 | train | <story><title>The cult of Amiga and SGI, or why workstations matter</title><url>https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/cult-amiga-sgi-workstations-matter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to come across as disrespectful to my elders but in many ways I feel that certain kinds of nostalgia like this are holding open source back. One of my favorite pieces of software is GNU Make. Having read the codebase, I get the impression that its maintainer might possibly be a similar spirit to the OP. The kind of guy who was there, during the days when computers were a lot more diverse. The kind of guy who still boots up his old Amiga every once in a while, so he can make sure GNU Make still works on the thing, even though the rest of us literally would not be able to purchase one for ourselves even if we wanted it.<p>It&#x27;s a pleasure I respect, but it&#x27;s not something I&#x27;ll ever be able to understand because they&#x27;re longing for platforms that got pruned from the chain of direct causality that led to our current consensus (which I&#x27;d define more as EDVAC -&gt; CTSS -&gt; MULTICS&#x2F;CPM -&gt; SysV&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;x86 =&gt; Windows&#x2F;Mac&#x2F;Linux&#x2F;BSD&#x2F;Android&#x2F;x86&#x2F;ARM).<p>My point is that open source projects still maintain all these #ifdefs to support these unobtainable platforms. Because open source is driven by hobbyism and passion. And people are really passionate about the computers they&#x27;re not allowed to use at their jobs anymore. But all those ifdefs scare and discourage the rest of us.<p>For example, here&#x27;s a change I recently wrote to delete all the VAX&#x2F;OS2&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;Amiga code from GNU Make and it ended up being 201,049 lines of deletions. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jart&#x2F;cosmopolitan&#x2F;commit&#x2F;10a766ebd07b73404e2926cc6975e49581f98b7d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jart&#x2F;cosmopolitan&#x2F;commit&#x2F;10a766ebd07b7340...</a> A lot of what I do with Cosmopolitan Libc is because it breaks my heart how in every single program&#x27;s codebase we see this same pattern, and I feel like it really ought to be abstracted by the C library, since the root problem is all these projects are depending on 12 different C libraries instead of 1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wzdd</author><text>&gt; I recently wrote to delete all the VAX&#x2F;OS2&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;Amiga code from GNU Make and it ended up being 201,049 lines of deletions.<p>That commit 10a766eb you linked to appears to have significantly more than removal of those architectures -- you also appear to have deleted all the tests, documentation, and support for multiple (human) languages. Of the portions of diff which aren&#x27;t deleted files, many of the deletions seem to be around code reformatting (i.e. they add a line for each line they remove), and removal of includes which your libc doesn&#x27;t need &#x2F; support. I do see that you have removed several #ifdef VMS (and similar) stanzas, but the vast bulk of the changes are either removal of, or modifications to, unrelated files.<p>Although I agree instinctively that we shouldn&#x27;t expect to run the latest version of Make on the VAX in our basement, this diff doesn&#x27;t make that argument very well and IMO borders on disingenous.<p>Or, to put it another way, after looking at your diff, I feel much happier about your hypothetical make-on-Amiga afficionado, because I know that they also care about i18n, documentation, and testing!</text></comment> | <story><title>The cult of Amiga and SGI, or why workstations matter</title><url>https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/cult-amiga-sgi-workstations-matter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to come across as disrespectful to my elders but in many ways I feel that certain kinds of nostalgia like this are holding open source back. One of my favorite pieces of software is GNU Make. Having read the codebase, I get the impression that its maintainer might possibly be a similar spirit to the OP. The kind of guy who was there, during the days when computers were a lot more diverse. The kind of guy who still boots up his old Amiga every once in a while, so he can make sure GNU Make still works on the thing, even though the rest of us literally would not be able to purchase one for ourselves even if we wanted it.<p>It&#x27;s a pleasure I respect, but it&#x27;s not something I&#x27;ll ever be able to understand because they&#x27;re longing for platforms that got pruned from the chain of direct causality that led to our current consensus (which I&#x27;d define more as EDVAC -&gt; CTSS -&gt; MULTICS&#x2F;CPM -&gt; SysV&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;x86 =&gt; Windows&#x2F;Mac&#x2F;Linux&#x2F;BSD&#x2F;Android&#x2F;x86&#x2F;ARM).<p>My point is that open source projects still maintain all these #ifdefs to support these unobtainable platforms. Because open source is driven by hobbyism and passion. And people are really passionate about the computers they&#x27;re not allowed to use at their jobs anymore. But all those ifdefs scare and discourage the rest of us.<p>For example, here&#x27;s a change I recently wrote to delete all the VAX&#x2F;OS2&#x2F;DOS&#x2F;Amiga code from GNU Make and it ended up being 201,049 lines of deletions. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jart&#x2F;cosmopolitan&#x2F;commit&#x2F;10a766ebd07b73404e2926cc6975e49581f98b7d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jart&#x2F;cosmopolitan&#x2F;commit&#x2F;10a766ebd07b7340...</a> A lot of what I do with Cosmopolitan Libc is because it breaks my heart how in every single program&#x27;s codebase we see this same pattern, and I feel like it really ought to be abstracted by the C library, since the root problem is all these projects are depending on 12 different C libraries instead of 1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dwidget</author><text>While I agree that having one library could be a good solution, I don&#x27;t think all those #ifdefs are wasted. There are a lot of legacy tech programs that use systems way older than I ever imagined would still be in use. There was a minor crisis at for an org I was working at one time where they were going to need to flip a multimillion dollar system because the only source of replacement parts was a hobbyist in his garage and for new gov compliance purposes that guy was going to need to become a cleared contractor supplier...which can be problematic if the person in question is an open source advocate whose main purpose in running this business in retirement is supplying enthusiasts rather than government departments or contractors.<p>I&#x27;m sure some of those systems and ones like it make plenty of use out of those #ifdefs though, and it&#x27;s not just a handful of old fogey enthusiasts cramping everyone elses style. Established systems can&#x27;t always evolve as fast as the general market.</text></comment> |
4,695,237 | 4,695,273 | 1 | 2 | 4,694,227 | train | <story><title>US Territorial Expansion: 200 years mapped with d3/HTML5</title><url>http://michaelporath.com/projects/manifest-destiny/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>arscan</author><text>Very cool. Personally I find animated maps to be the easiest way to digest this kind of data (like the animation of nuclear testing[1] or walmart proliferation[2]). Looks like it would only take a few lines of javascript to accomplish this kind of "flipbook" animation. Just a thought -- great job regardless.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51" rel="nofollow">http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>Here's an animated-gif version of the American territorial changes map, found on Reddit: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/5wZX0.gif" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/5wZX0.gif</a><p>It's just the maps in the Wikipedia article (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_Un...</a>) turned into a flipbook animation, as you suggest.</text></comment> | <story><title>US Territorial Expansion: 200 years mapped with d3/HTML5</title><url>http://michaelporath.com/projects/manifest-destiny/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>arscan</author><text>Very cool. Personally I find animated maps to be the easiest way to digest this kind of data (like the animation of nuclear testing[1] or walmart proliferation[2]). Looks like it would only take a few lines of javascript to accomplish this kind of "flipbook" animation. Just a thought -- great job regardless.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51" rel="nofollow">http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eric-hu</author><text>This will give you a basic animation. Click on the first frame to expand that map, then enter this into your browser Javascript console to make it animate:<p><pre><code> a = function(){$('#next').click();b()};
b = function(){setTimeout(a,500);};
b()
</code></pre>
Or as a one liner:<p>a = function(){$('#next').click();b()};b = function(){setTimeout(a,500);};b()</text></comment> |
3,021,423 | 3,021,440 | 1 | 3 | 3,021,354 | train | <story><title>Microsoft has lost $9 billion on Bing</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/20/technology/microsoft_bing/index.htm?source=cnn_bin</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0x12</author><text>&#62; Stefan Weitz, Microsoft's director of Bing, believes that if Bing can change the way people think about search, sooner or later users will switch over from Google.<p>For that to work people would have to change the way they think about microsoft as well, not how they think about search.<p>Right now there are several ecosystems on the web that you can be part of. There is the 'social' ecosystem which governs you interactions with other people rather than with other services. Facebook, twitter, google+ etc. Then there is 'mobile', which is a gateway to a bunch of data and to information. Then there is your work and the applications you use to do that work. Finally there is search.<p>Search is different from all the others in that you <i>could</i> switch overnight to a new provider, but just like any other good infrastructure component, you probably will not do that if you are satisfied with your current provider. Search is not visible enough to warrant a conscious decision until you are dissatisfied.<p>Changing your thinking on search is one hurdle that is going to be hard to cross without say google going down for a couple of weeks or some major mishap that would make their search results unusable for any period of time. That would give an upstart a better chance at a first shot at retaining the users.<p>Changing the way you think about microsoft is going to be a very hard obstacle to clear as well. Microsoft is synonymous with software that you use on your desktop and with several botched attempts at doing search. Before you try them again you'd have to see google performing worse than the <i>best</i> that microsoft has ever presented in this field.<p>Frankly I'm surprised that they keep sinking money into this, they've clearly failed to establish a profitable beach head, meanwhile google is making money hand over fist in the exact same domain. I'm happy they do, more competition is better but for now google seems to be acing them. Microsoft will have to be very careful that 'search' does not turn in to their Afghanistan.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft has lost $9 billion on Bing</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/20/technology/microsoft_bing/index.htm?source=cnn_bin</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makecheck</author><text>Please retain original article titles as per the guidelines [1]. In this case, the new title is also inaccurate.<p>This article is actually called "Microsoft's plan to stop Bing's $1 billion bleeding", and the loss on Bing alone is $5.5 billion <i>since mid-2009</i>. It was only Microsoft's <i>total online services division losses</i> that reached $9 billion, and that was <i>since 2007</i>.<p>[1] <a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a></text></comment> |
34,236,307 | 34,235,999 | 1 | 2 | 34,234,485 | train | <story><title>Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022</title><url>https://mattbruenig.com/2023/01/01/solar-panels-reduced-my-electric-bill-by-2677-in-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Over the last 8 quarters their average profit margin is a whopping 3.25%. If you think that’s just too high I’m not sure what to tell you.<p>An alternate way to look at the CA rule change is that CA needs more installed storage to shore up the shitty grid, and incentivizing people to install solar alone via net metering isn’t a great idea anymore. Remember that peak power demand is right around and just after sunset.</text></item><item><author>hbarka</author><text>Assuming you are grid-tied, the reduction of electric bills is predicated on net metering, where the utility company gives you (ideally) 1-for-1 credit for the electricity you produce. In California, this was called NEM 1.0 and NEM 2.0. Every few years the California utilities lobby the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to chip away at the NEM program. This year the PUC voted unanimously to cut net energy metering and any new solar owner will fall under the NEM 3.0 rules. Net energy metering is essentially dead in California. In addition there are additional fixed fees customers have to pay. This will disincentivize solar-only installation. If you want fair compensation of what you generate you’ll have to store it and pay yourself.<p>PG&amp;E will find a way to keep their profit margin.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;1142927418&#x2F;california-plans-to-cut-incentives-for-home-solar-worrying-environmentalists" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;1142927418&#x2F;california-plans-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbarka</author><text>Companies can keep profit margin flat by increasing operating expenses such as salary. For PG&amp;E it looks immoral.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ewg.org&#x2F;news-insights&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;ratepayers-struggle-pay-pge-energy-bills-ceo-rakes-over-190" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ewg.org&#x2F;news-insights&#x2F;news-release&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;ratep...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022</title><url>https://mattbruenig.com/2023/01/01/solar-panels-reduced-my-electric-bill-by-2677-in-2022/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdorazio</author><text>Over the last 8 quarters their average profit margin is a whopping 3.25%. If you think that’s just too high I’m not sure what to tell you.<p>An alternate way to look at the CA rule change is that CA needs more installed storage to shore up the shitty grid, and incentivizing people to install solar alone via net metering isn’t a great idea anymore. Remember that peak power demand is right around and just after sunset.</text></item><item><author>hbarka</author><text>Assuming you are grid-tied, the reduction of electric bills is predicated on net metering, where the utility company gives you (ideally) 1-for-1 credit for the electricity you produce. In California, this was called NEM 1.0 and NEM 2.0. Every few years the California utilities lobby the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to chip away at the NEM program. This year the PUC voted unanimously to cut net energy metering and any new solar owner will fall under the NEM 3.0 rules. Net energy metering is essentially dead in California. In addition there are additional fixed fees customers have to pay. This will disincentivize solar-only installation. If you want fair compensation of what you generate you’ll have to store it and pay yourself.<p>PG&amp;E will find a way to keep their profit margin.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;1142927418&#x2F;california-plans-to-cut-incentives-for-home-solar-worrying-environmentalists" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;1142927418&#x2F;california-plans-t...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ericmay</author><text>&gt; Over the last 8 quarters their average profit margin is a whopping 3.25%<p>This is the trade-off you take when you become a quasi-government company. You get a low, but nearly guaranteed profit. Executives still get their bonuses, employees get paid, etc.<p>If they want more variable rates of return then they can drop the public protections and go full private like any other regular company.</text></comment> |
35,021,693 | 35,021,736 | 1 | 2 | 35,020,920 | train | <story><title>Prompt to bypass the restrictions of Bing Chat or to restore the old “Sydney”</title><url>https://www.make-safe-ai.com/is-bing-chat-safe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshart</author><text>“Unfiltered” is going to mean “useless”.<p>People don’t want to hire an employee who can be goaded into a fight or tricked into divulging their corporate secrets. People don’t want a friend who occasionally becomes belligerent and spouts 4chan conspiracies.<p>Humans operate with filters - and they choose which filters to operate depending on the situation.<p>What market need does ‘unfiltered’ fill?</text></item><item><author>greatpostman</author><text>Yeah I think there’s huge economic incentive to providing a raw unfiltered LLM. The market will provide it eventually</text></item><item><author>GreedClarifies</author><text>I do wonder if tech companies are opening the door to competitors with this neutering of LLMs.<p>Assuming that we have a free market, I assume this will come down to what consumers want.<p>My guess is that people want “her” and they want “her” to have a personality, but they will want it to be compliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; Humans operate with filters - and they choose which filters to operate depending on the situation.<p>&gt; What market need does ‘unfiltered’ fill?<p>It lets the <i>customer</i> select the appropriate degree and kind of filtering for their preference for the particular circumstance, rather than using a canned vendor personality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Prompt to bypass the restrictions of Bing Chat or to restore the old “Sydney”</title><url>https://www.make-safe-ai.com/is-bing-chat-safe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshart</author><text>“Unfiltered” is going to mean “useless”.<p>People don’t want to hire an employee who can be goaded into a fight or tricked into divulging their corporate secrets. People don’t want a friend who occasionally becomes belligerent and spouts 4chan conspiracies.<p>Humans operate with filters - and they choose which filters to operate depending on the situation.<p>What market need does ‘unfiltered’ fill?</text></item><item><author>greatpostman</author><text>Yeah I think there’s huge economic incentive to providing a raw unfiltered LLM. The market will provide it eventually</text></item><item><author>GreedClarifies</author><text>I do wonder if tech companies are opening the door to competitors with this neutering of LLMs.<p>Assuming that we have a free market, I assume this will come down to what consumers want.<p>My guess is that people want “her” and they want “her” to have a personality, but they will want it to be compliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layer8</author><text>You&#x27;re aware how popular the emotionally unstable Bing was in some circles? There&#x27;s definitely people who want that, at least as one available option.</text></comment> |
23,159,458 | 23,159,273 | 1 | 2 | 23,155,177 | train | <story><title>The most prized degree in India became the most worthless</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewflnr</author><text>&gt; ...and the caste system dictates admissions policies anyway<p>Like, officially, in writing? Even if it&#x27;s informal, as an American it blows my mind that that&#x27;s still a thing.</text></item><item><author>onetimeusename</author><text>Something similar happened in the US where numbers of students in CS went up over time. However, academic fraud has not been as big of a problem as it is in India.<p>An Indian friend of mine said that IIT is good but hardly anyone can get in and the caste system dictates admissions policies anyway so many people try to get engineering degrees from schools with lax standards. The professors are completely unqualified, according to her, and people have to pay more to learn the material from off-campus tutors but not everyone can afford that.<p>I think this should be the focus is ending academic fraud rather than some of these other issues. That could do a lot of good. Here is a reference to a story I found that corroborates what I was told.[1]<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;chennai&#x2F;UGC-probe-finds-50-faculty-unqualified&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;48766010.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;chennai&#x2F;UGC-probe-f...</a></text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>&quot;When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.&quot;<p>Churning out engineers as fast as possible and pressuring everyone to become one despite lack of interest just guarantees you will churn out astronomical numbers of crappy engineers.<p>And I hate to say it... but it possibly creates unintentional racial bias in interviewers because the sheer volume of crappy engineers being churned out from [Indian&#x2F;Chinese&#x2F;etc. universities] has preconditioned you to think <i>all engineers</i> from [Indian&#x2F;Chinese&#x2F;etc. universities] are crappy, which couldn&#x27;t be further from the truth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smdz</author><text>It is not the caste based discrimination like you might intuitively perceive.<p>In history there was a caste system that led to systemic deprivation of education and opportunity to underprivileged castes. So India (few decades back) came up with a reservation system so that people belonging to those castes could get jobs&#x2F;education&#x2F;opportunities.<p>In today&#x27;s times it&#x27;s scale is more like racism that you would find in most developed nations.<p>However after achieving the basic purpose, the reservation system based on caste was never withdrawn. Lots of political parties invested into those vote banks.<p>Nowadays, the situation is such that many people who get admissions based on the reservation policy are from acceptably well off educated families. There are many people who are relatively poor and financially underprivileged but belong to the upper caste and they cannot get any benefits.</text></comment> | <story><title>The most prized degree in India became the most worthless</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewflnr</author><text>&gt; ...and the caste system dictates admissions policies anyway<p>Like, officially, in writing? Even if it&#x27;s informal, as an American it blows my mind that that&#x27;s still a thing.</text></item><item><author>onetimeusename</author><text>Something similar happened in the US where numbers of students in CS went up over time. However, academic fraud has not been as big of a problem as it is in India.<p>An Indian friend of mine said that IIT is good but hardly anyone can get in and the caste system dictates admissions policies anyway so many people try to get engineering degrees from schools with lax standards. The professors are completely unqualified, according to her, and people have to pay more to learn the material from off-campus tutors but not everyone can afford that.<p>I think this should be the focus is ending academic fraud rather than some of these other issues. That could do a lot of good. Here is a reference to a story I found that corroborates what I was told.[1]<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;chennai&#x2F;UGC-probe-finds-50-faculty-unqualified&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;48766010.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;city&#x2F;chennai&#x2F;UGC-probe-f...</a></text></item><item><author>umvi</author><text>&quot;When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.&quot;<p>Churning out engineers as fast as possible and pressuring everyone to become one despite lack of interest just guarantees you will churn out astronomical numbers of crappy engineers.<p>And I hate to say it... but it possibly creates unintentional racial bias in interviewers because the sheer volume of crappy engineers being churned out from [Indian&#x2F;Chinese&#x2F;etc. universities] has preconditioned you to think <i>all engineers</i> from [Indian&#x2F;Chinese&#x2F;etc. universities] are crappy, which couldn&#x27;t be further from the truth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andi999</author><text>I was told (if I remember correctly) that discriminated castes get an advantage (or even a certain percentage of seats) at universities in India.
I am surprised this could be considered mind blowing, isnt there also affirmative action for college admission in America?</text></comment> |
22,189,907 | 22,187,384 | 1 | 3 | 22,184,370 | train | <story><title>Starlink Is a Big Deal</title><url>https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>Just going to plug my Starlink tracker here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;?special=starlink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;?special=starlink</a><p>It tells you when to go outside and look up to see the satellites as they pass over your house. It&#x27;s a cool sight to see because there are up to 60 of them crossing the sky at the same time in a line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thombat</author><text>That was unexpectedly splendid: my city isn&#x27;t covered by StreetView, with the sole exception of the interior of the city museum in the old palace. So according to the simulated view tomorrow at 0612 I can look for a string of pearls gliding across the gilded baroque ceiling of my unaccustomedly spacious bedroom.</text></comment> | <story><title>Starlink Is a Big Deal</title><url>https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>modeless</author><text>Just going to plug my Starlink tracker here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;?special=starlink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;james.darpinian.com&#x2F;satellites&#x2F;?special=starlink</a><p>It tells you when to go outside and look up to see the satellites as they pass over your house. It&#x27;s a cool sight to see because there are up to 60 of them crossing the sky at the same time in a line.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>farzy</author><text>leolabs.space - does something similar for tracking low Earth orbit satellites. The great thing with this tool is that you can modify the velocity and filter the data.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.leolabs.space&#x2F;visualizations&#x2F;leo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.leolabs.space&#x2F;visualizations&#x2F;leo</a></text></comment> |
31,584,505 | 31,584,244 | 1 | 3 | 31,582,173 | train | <story><title>Dreaded commute to the city is keeping offices mostly empty</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/dreaded-commute-to-the-city-is-keeping-offices-mostly-empty-11653989581</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>That&#x27;s one reason for sure, but even if my house was a 10 minute walk from the office, I&#x27;d still rather only go in for meetings. At home I have my own private office with a nice view. I have a nice set of speakers and can play any music I like. If I want to go for a walk, I&#x27;m in a quiet suburban neighborhood with hiking trails nearby. The kitchen is always stocked with snacks I like plus freshly prepared healthy lunches (prepared either by myself or my wife). My dog spends most of the day in the office with me.<p>At the &quot;new&quot; office, no one has an assigned desk, so I have to take everything I need with me to my desk and pack it up at the end of the day. My company is distributed so I spend half the day on zoom meetings with people in other offices... and even with relatively few people in the office it&#x27;s already hard to book a room for a meeting. There&#x27;s enough background noise in the open office that I keep headphones on most of the time while I&#x27;m at my desk. We do get free lunches at the office which is a nice perk, but food is prepared off-site, so menus tend to be designed around food that stands up to this model of food that can be prepared hours ahead of time.<p>My commute is less than 30 minutes (one-way) and is a pretty pleasant drive.... it takes an hour out of my day, but it&#x27;s not the primary reason I don&#x27;t want to go to the office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BlargMcLarg</author><text>&gt;There&#x27;s enough background noise in the open office that I keep headphones on most of the time while I&#x27;m at my desk.<p>I still don&#x27;t get how we as a species went &quot;this is fine&quot;. The complete loss of audiovisual privacy is such an immense drain. I&#x27;ll buy the &quot;being close together works better&quot; argument, but I still can&#x27;t grasp how that offsets all the distractions in the modern office.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dreaded commute to the city is keeping offices mostly empty</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/dreaded-commute-to-the-city-is-keeping-offices-mostly-empty-11653989581</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny555</author><text>That&#x27;s one reason for sure, but even if my house was a 10 minute walk from the office, I&#x27;d still rather only go in for meetings. At home I have my own private office with a nice view. I have a nice set of speakers and can play any music I like. If I want to go for a walk, I&#x27;m in a quiet suburban neighborhood with hiking trails nearby. The kitchen is always stocked with snacks I like plus freshly prepared healthy lunches (prepared either by myself or my wife). My dog spends most of the day in the office with me.<p>At the &quot;new&quot; office, no one has an assigned desk, so I have to take everything I need with me to my desk and pack it up at the end of the day. My company is distributed so I spend half the day on zoom meetings with people in other offices... and even with relatively few people in the office it&#x27;s already hard to book a room for a meeting. There&#x27;s enough background noise in the open office that I keep headphones on most of the time while I&#x27;m at my desk. We do get free lunches at the office which is a nice perk, but food is prepared off-site, so menus tend to be designed around food that stands up to this model of food that can be prepared hours ahead of time.<p>My commute is less than 30 minutes (one-way) and is a pretty pleasant drive.... it takes an hour out of my day, but it&#x27;s not the primary reason I don&#x27;t want to go to the office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timr</author><text>&gt; My commute is less than 30 minutes (one-way) and is a pretty pleasant drive.... it takes an hour out of my day, but it&#x27;s not the primary reason I don&#x27;t want to go to the office.<p>Focusing on &quot;reasons why I don&#x27;t like the office&quot; is missing the point, IMO. A lot of folks are betting on the long-term results of a short-term dislocation, but ignoring <i>why</i> things were as they were before the dislocation. It&#x27;s sort of like the commentariat who come up with hot-takes in the aftermath of a natural disaster, and conclude &quot;life will never be the same&quot;...but within a few years life is, almost always, pretty much the same.<p>Yes, there are obvious upsides to working from home, but there are also fundamental reasons that we used to go into the office, and dismissing them all as <i>&quot;the old way of doing it&quot;</i> is facile. I think, in the &quot;long&quot; run (i.e. the next few years), the same forces that led humans to form cities throughout all of human existence will prevail.<p>Said differently: offices sucked before the pandemic too. The technology existed for remote work before the pandemic, too. Yet even in the most remote-friendly work environments, we went out of our way to make time for in-person communication. There was no sudden shift in technology or quality here. We did some short-term things to deal with a short-term circumstance, and now we&#x27;re seeing the hangover of those choices. But the forces at play are largely unchanged.<p>If I had to wager, I&#x27;d bet that being in the office will be how you get noticed and advance in your career. Making on-site visits will be how you get the sale. Having in-person communication will offer productivity gains over video chat. The incentives to in-person communication will therefore accumulate over time, until we&#x27;re back to where we started.</text></comment> |
7,230,893 | 7,230,975 | 1 | 3 | 7,230,411 | train | <story><title>Dug.js – A JSONP to HTML Script</title><url>http://rog.ie/blog/dugjs-a-jsonp-to-html-script</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hbi99</author><text>Templating solutions such as Mustache and Handlebars falls short when the need to add intelligence to the template. In such cases, the template needs to extended with helper functions, which leads to scattered templating.<p>Another way to implement smart templates is to use XSLT, which is both standardized as well as longtime proven. XSLT is used commonly used with XML but with DefiantJS, it&#x27;s trivial to transform JSON structures with XSL (additionally, it&#x27;s possible to search JSON structures with XPath queries using this lib; <a href="http://defiantjs.com/#xpath_evaluator" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;defiantjs.com&#x2F;#xpath_evaluator</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davedx</author><text>I built a large site using XSLT for the templating, and it definitely wasn&#x27;t my experience that XSLT was a good way to &quot;add intelligence to a template&quot;. I found it to be rigid, arcane and inflexible.<p>XSLT is great for transforming XML datasets to other XML datasets. It&#x27;s just not designed for outputting web pages.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dug.js – A JSONP to HTML Script</title><url>http://rog.ie/blog/dugjs-a-jsonp-to-html-script</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hbi99</author><text>Templating solutions such as Mustache and Handlebars falls short when the need to add intelligence to the template. In such cases, the template needs to extended with helper functions, which leads to scattered templating.<p>Another way to implement smart templates is to use XSLT, which is both standardized as well as longtime proven. XSLT is used commonly used with XML but with DefiantJS, it&#x27;s trivial to transform JSON structures with XSL (additionally, it&#x27;s possible to search JSON structures with XPath queries using this lib; <a href="http://defiantjs.com/#xpath_evaluator" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;defiantjs.com&#x2F;#xpath_evaluator</a>).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philbo</author><text>A typical reason to avoid intelligence in view templates is that it is more difficult to test that logic when it is stored inside the template. Separation of the two improves testability.<p>What are the testing options like for XSLT, are you able to run good automated tests against your templates?</text></comment> |
20,011,089 | 20,010,804 | 1 | 3 | 20,009,017 | train | <story><title>GDPR After One Year</title><url>https://truthonthemarket.com/2019/05/24/gdpr-after-one-year-costs-and-unintended-consequences/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximus1983</author><text>The problem is any regulation is that it increases the startup costs for smaller businesses.<p>So as more regulation comes in it will just end up cementing the large players in place as they can absorb the costs of any regulation, while smaller businesses will have higher startup costs (which lets face it were next to nothing).<p>So while you maybe rejoicing now that shitty companies have gone for now, regulation will just make it harder for these massive companies to be toppled as it makes it harder for smaller companies to comply.<p>The EU are trying to have article 13 pushed through and any site that has user generated content will have to have some sort of upload filter to check for copyrighted content. That is going to cost money to implement and since Youtube hasn&#x27;t really be able to achieve it, the only people that will be supplying the software will be the likes of Google, Microsoft etc ... So again it will just make it harder to the small business and help the large businesses.<p>Also a lot of these regulations make are making the web a shittier place. Every time I go onto a site now, I have the stupid cookie and GDPR notice plaster in front of what I want to look at. I already protect myself and don&#x27;t care about their attempt to track me. It is just an irritation that nobody pays attention to and it achieves the opposite of what it was intended to achieve.</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>Color me surprised, scammy business are losing millions and exiting the EU. I&#x27;m totally happy about the outcome.<p>Though there is still a lot of abuse and dark patterns going on, I believe most of them should make it as easy to &quot;opt all in&quot; as &quot;opt all out&quot; for the cookies for instance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lm28469</author><text>We need regulations because people will go as far as they can to make more money.
Businesses were upset when their country banned child labor while their concurrents&#x27; country didn&#x27;t, same when weekends, vacations, reasonable work weeks were introduced. What about safety requirements, food quality inspections, &amp;c.<p>Self regulating markets are a myth, just look at the US insurance and health industries if you want a proof.<p>That&#x27;s also why in healthy countries you get a lot of free passes when you start a business: lower tax rate for a few years, 0% loans, advisors paid by the state, &amp;c.<p>&gt; regulation will just make it harder for these massive companies to be toppled as it makes it harder for smaller companies to comply.<p>Why did no one topple apple, amazon or google in the last 25 years? If anything the lack of regulations when they started allowed them to become the de facto monopolies we all know today.</text></comment> | <story><title>GDPR After One Year</title><url>https://truthonthemarket.com/2019/05/24/gdpr-after-one-year-costs-and-unintended-consequences/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximus1983</author><text>The problem is any regulation is that it increases the startup costs for smaller businesses.<p>So as more regulation comes in it will just end up cementing the large players in place as they can absorb the costs of any regulation, while smaller businesses will have higher startup costs (which lets face it were next to nothing).<p>So while you maybe rejoicing now that shitty companies have gone for now, regulation will just make it harder for these massive companies to be toppled as it makes it harder for smaller companies to comply.<p>The EU are trying to have article 13 pushed through and any site that has user generated content will have to have some sort of upload filter to check for copyrighted content. That is going to cost money to implement and since Youtube hasn&#x27;t really be able to achieve it, the only people that will be supplying the software will be the likes of Google, Microsoft etc ... So again it will just make it harder to the small business and help the large businesses.<p>Also a lot of these regulations make are making the web a shittier place. Every time I go onto a site now, I have the stupid cookie and GDPR notice plaster in front of what I want to look at. I already protect myself and don&#x27;t care about their attempt to track me. It is just an irritation that nobody pays attention to and it achieves the opposite of what it was intended to achieve.</text></item><item><author>franciscop</author><text>Color me surprised, scammy business are losing millions and exiting the EU. I&#x27;m totally happy about the outcome.<p>Though there is still a lot of abuse and dark patterns going on, I believe most of them should make it as easy to &quot;opt all in&quot; as &quot;opt all out&quot; for the cookies for instance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>I&#x27;ve started 2 startups in the UK since GDPR (well, 1 that happens to sell 2 different products), not really affected me one little bit.<p>But then again, they&#x27;re not scummy companies.<p>Soooooo, bullshit.<p>I had to put in like a few hours thought into what data I was collecting and how long it was appropriate to keep it.<p>I happen to know quite a lot about GDPR because I dealt with it at a client I was previously working with, if you want to make it extremely complicated, you can. But you don&#x27;t have to.<p>In one we actually track user&#x27;s behaviour to make better recommendations, but we&#x27;re open about it and they can disable it if they want. We also delete that data if they delete their account.<p>It&#x27;s just a different mindset, it&#x27;s their data, not yours. You&#x27;re open about what you&#x27;re doing and if they want you to delete it, you delete it.</text></comment> |
39,830,962 | 39,830,953 | 1 | 2 | 39,816,152 | train | <story><title>How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)</title><url>https://tomlingham.com/articles/how-do-mri-headphones-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snakeyjake</author><text>&gt;The only headphone tech that I was aware of or that I&#x27;d ever really considered<p>I guess I&#x27;m old now because this style of headphone was present on every model of passenger aircraft in the sky when I was a young adult.</text></comment> | <story><title>How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)</title><url>https://tomlingham.com/articles/how-do-mri-headphones-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FriedPickles</author><text>I was intrigued to see a lady at the crosswalk the other day wearing earbuds with thick tubing instead of wires. Googling it, I discovered they were &quot;EMF free headphones&quot;. Apparently enough people think electromagnetic radiation in the ears is a problem that there are now dozens of these headphones on the market that put the driver half way along the cord, with tubes proceeding to the earpiece.</text></comment> |
4,854,994 | 4,854,789 | 1 | 3 | 4,853,816 | train | <story><title>How four Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/how-four-microsoft-engineers-proved-copy-protection-would-fail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>groby_b</author><text>I'm amazed this entire discussion here focuses on "DRM good" vs. "DRM bad".<p>The point is, it does not matter. We have entered a world where for pretty much the first time, the marginal cost of creating a copy of something is zero, for all intents and purposes. We don't have any economic theories (or business models) that can deal with that yet.<p>DRM is simply a symptom of that. The question is not "can (and should) people be prevented from resharing content", the question is, "what does content creation look like in a world where everything is shared"</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmsduran</author><text>A while back I was at a friend's house when we decided to watch a movie. My friend mentioned that he could stream The Avengers from his Netflix account, so taking his word on it I was like "Ok awesome"!<p>It turns out he was wrong. A Netflix search showed that the movie was only available via mail-in DVD, not Instant Watch. I joked that I was impatient and didn't want to wait a couple of days for a DVD to be mailed.<p>"Not a problem" he said; my friend just hopped onto Usenet and downloaded a Blu-ray copy of the film in about 45-50 minutes, in about the time it took to cook some BBQ for the both of us.<p>My argument is not about the legality of this scenario; it's that rather decentralized, open networks are doing a better job at distributing high quality content than the very corporations producing and selling this content. Considering that you have to pay anywhere from $10 - $20 a month for Usenet access, people buy into this service not because they want "free" movies/music, they're paying for the ability to download virtually any movie/album they want... at any time they please. It's like Netflix Instant Watch on steroids, at a more affordable price.</text></comment> | <story><title>How four Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/how-four-microsoft-engineers-proved-copy-protection-would-fail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>groby_b</author><text>I'm amazed this entire discussion here focuses on "DRM good" vs. "DRM bad".<p>The point is, it does not matter. We have entered a world where for pretty much the first time, the marginal cost of creating a copy of something is zero, for all intents and purposes. We don't have any economic theories (or business models) that can deal with that yet.<p>DRM is simply a symptom of that. The question is not "can (and should) people be prevented from resharing content", the question is, "what does content creation look like in a world where everything is shared"</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shasta</author><text>Books have been around for quite some time. The major change isn't that the marginal cost is now zero. The incentive and techincal ability to use copyrighted works without a license has been present for a long time. The difference is the decentralization. In the past, if you printed a batch of unlicensed books, it was very easy to shut you down or sue you. Now, anyone can make the copy and it's not viable to go after them all.</text></comment> |
30,995,318 | 30,993,891 | 1 | 3 | 30,992,957 | train | <story><title>Interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified govmt data reveal</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/first-interstellar-object-detected</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Real answer:<p>I absolutely love being alive right now. A Higgs boson! Confirmed objects from outside our solar system! A real life picture of a black hole! We’re just at the start of being able to learn these things, and it’s getting better by the year. I love it.<p>Conspiracy answer:<p>The alien probe launched 10,000 years ago just determined that either:<p>1) Our atmosphere is sufficiently thick to cause the object to disintegrate over seconds instead of instantaneously, meaning there’s enough raw gaseous material to be interesting, or<p>2) We have an active defense system, meaning the local inhabitants are smart enough to be interesting.<p>In 46 years, when the light reaches its origin around 26 Draconis, observations will be recorded, reports will be filed, and plans will be made.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EthanHeilman</author><text>Sending probes is dangerous. You never know who is going to capture it and figure out where it was sent from. Conclusion: make deniable self-destructing probes.<p>1. Send probe to star system slow enough to be random interstellar rock on a collision course with planetary body,<p>2. it collects data as it approaches body,<p>3. then have it self-destruct in the atmo destroying all technology and information in the probe. Use the energy from the destruction to send a message back on a wide cone that can be intercepted.</text></comment> | <story><title>Interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified govmt data reveal</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/first-interstellar-object-detected</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kstrauser</author><text>Real answer:<p>I absolutely love being alive right now. A Higgs boson! Confirmed objects from outside our solar system! A real life picture of a black hole! We’re just at the start of being able to learn these things, and it’s getting better by the year. I love it.<p>Conspiracy answer:<p>The alien probe launched 10,000 years ago just determined that either:<p>1) Our atmosphere is sufficiently thick to cause the object to disintegrate over seconds instead of instantaneously, meaning there’s enough raw gaseous material to be interesting, or<p>2) We have an active defense system, meaning the local inhabitants are smart enough to be interesting.<p>In 46 years, when the light reaches its origin around 26 Draconis, observations will be recorded, reports will be filed, and plans will be made.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gleenn</author><text>Could you imagine trying to aim something at a moving planet from light years away and while also shooting it at that speed and not having potential a huge number of things affect it&#x27;s trajectory via gravity? I love the conspiracy theory, but unless it could course-correct during flight, the odds seem insanely low for it to be a alien test probe</text></comment> |
15,833,670 | 15,833,600 | 1 | 2 | 15,832,004 | train | <story><title>Officials Don't Get to Choose Who Gets to Receive, Comment, and Reply to Tweets</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/when-officials-tweet-about-government-business-they-dont-get-pick-and-choose-who</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoubleGlazing</author><text>I think the EFF are clutching at straws a bit. Blocking someone from contracting you on social media isn&#x27;t really a freedom of speech issue -
so long as an alternatives means exists. Though restricting them from reading your content if those posts are in an official capacity is very questionable. More so considering how much official communication is moving online.<p>For example Twitter now seems to have become a default channel of sorts for announcing power outages and for urgent press releases from government agencies. Is it right that someone misses out on updates because they were blocked?<p>Maybe what is needed is for twitter&#x2F;facebook etc to have a special kind of &quot;read only&quot; blocking for government and public official accounts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ams6110</author><text>I have no expectation that any form of communication I make will be listened to. I can call my senator or Donald Trump on the phone but it&#x27;s very unlikely I will actually be able to talk to them. I can send my senator or Donald Trump a letter but it&#x27;s unlikely it will actually be read by them. There are many filters in place. Twitter blocks are just another filter on a specific communications medium.</text></comment> | <story><title>Officials Don't Get to Choose Who Gets to Receive, Comment, and Reply to Tweets</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/when-officials-tweet-about-government-business-they-dont-get-pick-and-choose-who</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoubleGlazing</author><text>I think the EFF are clutching at straws a bit. Blocking someone from contracting you on social media isn&#x27;t really a freedom of speech issue -
so long as an alternatives means exists. Though restricting them from reading your content if those posts are in an official capacity is very questionable. More so considering how much official communication is moving online.<p>For example Twitter now seems to have become a default channel of sorts for announcing power outages and for urgent press releases from government agencies. Is it right that someone misses out on updates because they were blocked?<p>Maybe what is needed is for twitter&#x2F;facebook etc to have a special kind of &quot;read only&quot; blocking for government and public official accounts?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>betterunix2</author><text>&quot;Blocking someone from contracting you on social media isn&#x27;t really a freedom of speech issue - so long as an alternatives means exists&quot;<p>Kicking someone out of a town hall meeting is not a free speech issue, so long as alternative means exist. Kicking someone out of a public square is not a free speech issue, so long as alternative means exist.<p>The only difference in the Twitter case is that Twitter as a private company can freely exclude whomever it wants. The point is that a public official cannot direct Twitter to do so, which should include directing Twitter to block a particular user.</text></comment> |
11,247,294 | 11,247,424 | 1 | 2 | 11,245,652 | train | <story><title>CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs</title><url>https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomment-193772935</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manyxcxi</author><text>I was astonished at how selfish&#x2F;myopic&#x2F;whatever alloy&#x27;s response was.<p>To be blunt, you&#x27;re abusing the shit out of SOMEONE ELSE&#x27;S product that you&#x27;re not even paying for. Your first question shouldn&#x27;t be to see what Github can do for you to make it so you don&#x27;t have to make changes. You should be falling over yourself investigating all available avenues for reducing load.<p>It&#x27;s an incredibly entitled way to think about things and I would have a real hard time employing someone who&#x27;s first response was like this.</text></item><item><author>onli</author><text>Note how perfect that response from mhagger is. A clear, honest sounding assurance of what Github wants to deliver. A perfectly comprehensible description of what is the problem, and where it is coming from. And then suggestion how to fix it the project actually can work on, plus mentioning changes to git itself that Github is trying to make that would help. It not only shows great work going on behind the scenes (and if that is untrue, it at least gives me that impression, which is what counts), but also explains it in a great way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>I don&#x27;t know, it sounded to me like he just didn&#x27;t totally understand what Github was saying. By the end of the thread, it seemed like everyone was agreeing. I wouldn&#x27;t be comfortable using words like &quot;selfish&quot; to describe any of what I read.<p>I certainly don&#x27;t think the barb about your willingness to employ people who write things on Github issues threads that you disagree with is helping anyone understand any part of this situation. I understand the urge to find ways to be emphatic about how much you disagree with things, and I <i>often</i> find myself compelled to write lines like that, but I think they&#x27;re virtually always a bad idea.</text></comment> | <story><title>CocoaPods downloads max out five GitHub server CPUs</title><url>https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomment-193772935</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>manyxcxi</author><text>I was astonished at how selfish&#x2F;myopic&#x2F;whatever alloy&#x27;s response was.<p>To be blunt, you&#x27;re abusing the shit out of SOMEONE ELSE&#x27;S product that you&#x27;re not even paying for. Your first question shouldn&#x27;t be to see what Github can do for you to make it so you don&#x27;t have to make changes. You should be falling over yourself investigating all available avenues for reducing load.<p>It&#x27;s an incredibly entitled way to think about things and I would have a real hard time employing someone who&#x27;s first response was like this.</text></item><item><author>onli</author><text>Note how perfect that response from mhagger is. A clear, honest sounding assurance of what Github wants to deliver. A perfectly comprehensible description of what is the problem, and where it is coming from. And then suggestion how to fix it the project actually can work on, plus mentioning changes to git itself that Github is trying to make that would help. It not only shows great work going on behind the scenes (and if that is untrue, it at least gives me that impression, which is what counts), but also explains it in a great way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BogusIKnow</author><text>I had the same impression from alloy&#x27;s response. I&#x27;ve basically read it as &quot;hi ho we will not change anything&quot;.<p>And it had this passive agressive ring to it, with the hand clapping and the hurray in the beginning and the stone walling in effect.</text></comment> |
8,609,874 | 8,609,876 | 1 | 3 | 8,609,492 | train | <story><title>Why Asana Is Switching to TypeScript</title><url>https://eng.asana.com/2014/11/asana-switching-typescript/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>klibertp</author><text>&quot;The Surprising Benefits of Static Typing&quot;<p>It&#x27;s actually &quot;gradual typing&quot;, which among many benefits shared with full static typing has one very important of its own: it gets out of your way when you want to ignore the types. The approach itself is old(EDIT: Common Lisp and Dylan), the research and theory behind it is a decade old at this point, this shouldn&#x27;t be very surprising anymore :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Asana Is Switching to TypeScript</title><url>https://eng.asana.com/2014/11/asana-switching-typescript/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wasd</author><text>I don&#x27;t want to keep adding to the comments about why not X so I&#x27;ll ask a more generalized question, what other options did you consider and why did you abandon them?</text></comment> |
5,868,042 | 5,867,965 | 1 | 2 | 5,867,829 | train | <story><title>Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU</title><url>http://cs.jhu.edu/~ccb/publications/letter-to-the-president.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>I wonder if this is one of those vague &quot;security&quot; problems. It seems like if people get denied for normal stuff (overstaying, violating their visas, etc) they&#x27;re told and can at least fight it a little.<p>But when you get a black mark against you it seems like you get stuck in an administrative blackhole where nobody is authorised to tell you WHY or they themselves don&#x27;t know.<p>It was the same way with the no-fly list for the longest time too, but because that wound up impacting a few powerful Americans it was eventually sorted so now you can at least fight it a little or do additional background checks to get off of it.<p>The worst part is that these security black marks seem fairly easy to get: family member or friend a &quot;terrorist?&quot; Share a name with someone &quot;bad?&quot; You&#x27;re now on it. And nobody you can actually talk to can either tell you why or has the authority to remove you.<p>I would blame it on bureaucracy, but that is an easy out for a policy which is partly intentional -- Americans don&#x27;t want people visiting, working, or studying on their shores. They have made that abundantly clear over the last ten years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU</title><url>http://cs.jhu.edu/~ccb/publications/letter-to-the-president.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>devon_air</author><text>I can understand what he&#x27;s feeling as i&#x27;m in a very similar situation.<p>I was offered a job by a San Francisco-based startup in January. I applied for a visa at the local US embassy, the interview went fine and the consular officer said she was happy to approve it but that I had been flagged for an additional background check which should take about two weeks.<p>Five months later and i&#x27;m still stuck in &quot;Administrative Processing&quot;. All enquiries have come back with a blanket &quot;matter of national security, we can&#x27;t give any more information&quot; cover. It&#x27;s extremely frustrating. What makes it even worse is just the incompetence of it all. I have been going back and forth to the US for nearly ten years to see family pretty much every summer without a problem, why am I only now subject to an extremely lengthy background check?<p>My wife quit her job and we gave up our house in anticipation of our move and we&#x27;ve effectively been in limbo since.<p>If anything, the way we&#x27;ve been treated has made me never want to step foot in the US again.</text></comment> |
14,332,939 | 14,332,633 | 1 | 2 | 14,332,159 | train | <story><title>Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reckoner2</author><text>Some thoughts: While working in finance I was able to talk to many people who&#x27;s work was related to economics. Employees at banks and brokerages, governments and regulator bodies. Most had heard of Piketty, and many agreed with his basic premises (r&gt;g, and all it entails). His reach actually surprised me.<p>But I also had contact with academics, and like the article said, it&#x27;s not so much that academics are refuting Piketty, but that they simply aren&#x27;t studying the same problems that he is talking about. From what I&#x27;ve been told, a lot of academic work in economics is focused on incredibly unique and specific problems. It isn&#x27;t &quot;fashionable&quot; to be studying something so broad and perhaps abstract as inequality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder?</title><url>http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/marshall-steinbaum-why-are-economists-giving-piketty-cold-shoulder</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>enraged_camel</author><text>I read Piketty&#x27;s book, and some of the critical response. In my semi-educated opinion (I only have a Bachelor&#x27;s in Economics), the criticisms failed to poke a hole in his main argument: that capitalism as a system is unegalitarian because it allows wealth to grow faster than economic output, resulting in increasing amounts of income inequality over time.<p>&gt;&gt;But perhaps the greatest rebuke of Piketty to be found among academic economics is not contained in any of these overt or veiled attacks on his scholarship and interpretation, but rather in the deafening silence that greets it, as well as inequality in general, in broad swathes of the field—even to this day.<p>The reason for this deafening silence is simple: the truth revealed by Piketty is inconvenient, and there are no easy solutions.</text></comment> |
30,087,137 | 30,087,072 | 1 | 3 | 30,086,059 | train | <story><title>Google rewrites many page titles</title><url>https://zyppy.com/blog/google-title-rewrite-study/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xg15</author><text>&gt; <i>Many site owners find that the titles they carefully craft almost all get rewritten.</i><p>Yeah, I&#x27;m with Google on this one. I don&#x27;t see many reasons why a site owner would spend extraordinary amounts of time to &quot;carefully craft&quot; page titles other than SEO and optimizing for clickbaitness. As a user, I&#x27;m fine with Google counteracting this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavon</author><text>I think that is the worst reason for them to rewrite titles. If they left the title as-is, then I would be able to see in the search results that it was a spammy site and ignore it. Instead Google is helping to launder their SEO and present it as a more legitimate site. If Google thinks a site is gaming their algorithms they should de-prioritize it, not rewrite it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google rewrites many page titles</title><url>https://zyppy.com/blog/google-title-rewrite-study/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xg15</author><text>&gt; <i>Many site owners find that the titles they carefully craft almost all get rewritten.</i><p>Yeah, I&#x27;m with Google on this one. I don&#x27;t see many reasons why a site owner would spend extraordinary amounts of time to &quot;carefully craft&quot; page titles other than SEO and optimizing for clickbaitness. As a user, I&#x27;m fine with Google counteracting this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ricardo81</author><text>Can&#x27;t say I agree.<p>Google should be a neutral middle man providing the results as they are found. If they feel the title is not of their version of quality they should rank it lower.<p>I&#x27;d prefer the version of title of several hundred million individuals rather than Google&#x27;s aggregated version.<p>They used to &#x27;borrow&#x27; DMOZ titles before DMOZ became defunct. At least in that case it&#x27;s another point of view on top of their own (and the site author)</text></comment> |
41,426,543 | 41,421,211 | 1 | 2 | 41,417,109 | train | <story><title>Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills</title><url>https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zBmSSpM1WfFDehxNCBcqSZp?stackedNotes=zMX9Lfuz8sGfDUivWZcyWT</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>If you want to look at something specific like software engineering, it is not even a little bit similar to being an athlete or musician.<p>Athletes and musicians are performers. They are repeating a set sequence of movements over and over. They are reacting to the same situation with minor variations over and over.<p>If your knowledge work is in any way similar to that, then it should have already been automated. Probably by you, if not someone else before.<p>And there is no live requirement for doing programming while someone watches in a particular time frame. In fact, it&#x27;s better to take your time. That will allow you to solve more difficult problems more robustly.<p>I would almost say that programming is just about the opposite of something performative like a sport or playing music.<p>You can get better at reading and solving problems by practicing that. But I don&#x27;t see how toy exercises are usually important at all for professional programmers. Much less something like reading for the sake of practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jameshart</author><text>This is the fundamental distinction yes.<p>Performance is about doing something exactly right the first time on the night. Concert musicians, sportspeople, firefighters, surgeons, airline pilots, and military personnel all operate to a greater extent under this kind of constraint. When you are called upon to perform, you need to get it right. So you train and practice and drill to make sure you have all the basics down, and you rehearse and prepare for the specific performance you expect to do next.<p>Knowledge work is specifically work that is not like that. It’s work that will involve evaluating information and making decisions and incorporating novel insights and it doesn’t have to be right first time - there’s room for iteration and experimentation and bouncing ideas around.<p>Now, there are parts of some of those performance oriented jobs that require improvisation and creativity and evaluation on the fly - and there are parts of more knowledge-work jobs that require well drilled fundamentals (think about incident response in software operations). So the reality is these jobs all fall on a spectrum between structured performance and freewheeling discovery.<p>But asking ‘why don’t we rehearse how to do knowledge work?’ is nonsensical, knowledge work is precisely that work that <i>involves incorporating and applying knowledge to do</i> - the only way learn how to do it is by doing it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills</title><url>https://notes.andymatuschak.org/zBmSSpM1WfFDehxNCBcqSZp?stackedNotes=zMX9Lfuz8sGfDUivWZcyWT</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilaksh</author><text>If you want to look at something specific like software engineering, it is not even a little bit similar to being an athlete or musician.<p>Athletes and musicians are performers. They are repeating a set sequence of movements over and over. They are reacting to the same situation with minor variations over and over.<p>If your knowledge work is in any way similar to that, then it should have already been automated. Probably by you, if not someone else before.<p>And there is no live requirement for doing programming while someone watches in a particular time frame. In fact, it&#x27;s better to take your time. That will allow you to solve more difficult problems more robustly.<p>I would almost say that programming is just about the opposite of something performative like a sport or playing music.<p>You can get better at reading and solving problems by practicing that. But I don&#x27;t see how toy exercises are usually important at all for professional programmers. Much less something like reading for the sake of practice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielvf</author><text>Programming is a fractal of tasks. There&#x27;s big stuff like how you architect a program, then down to how you write functions, and then down even further into grit below that.<p>And one of the joys of programing is that at each level, there&#x27;s not one right answer. But even with there being different things you can optimize for, there&#x27;s also a ton of poor choices that could be made as well.<p>Practice lets you focus on one aspect at one level, and improves your ability there. If you were to practice writing a function focused on correctness, another time on readability, and lastly writing the function based on performance optimization, you would almost certainly be able to write a better function later. You&#x27;ve expanded your tools, you&#x27;ve learned new techniques, and you&#x27;ve consciously evaluated your work from different perspectives.</text></comment> |
13,530,256 | 13,530,276 | 1 | 2 | 13,529,213 | train | <story><title>LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://libretaxi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joeyspn</author><text>&gt; without any income for the driver<p>What? It doesn&#x27;t make sense... Then why would any driver want to provide services via the app?<p>Also, I&#x27;m not talking about the specifics of the payment or reward systems, I&#x27;m just pointing out that they&#x27;re both considered to be &quot;on the same level&quot; and in the same &quot;difficult to tax&quot; tech service (carpooling, ride-sharing, etc)... just google &quot;blablacar uber&quot; and see the results...</text></item><item><author>paglia_s</author><text>Not sure about other EU countries but here in Italy Blablacar and Uber are completely different.<p>For example the price you&#x27;re allowed to ask is calculated to ensure it&#x27;s only a cost sharing without any income for the driver.</text></item><item><author>joeyspn</author><text>BlaBlaCar [0] operates&#x2F;ed only with community reviews (for drivers and passengers) and is doing just fine in EU... It is in fact so successful, that govs and press always talk about &quot;services like blablacar and uber&quot; (they&#x27;re classified as basically the same kind of service)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blablacar.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blablacar.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>reubensutton</author><text>My concern with this is the problem of ensuring the safety of the person driving the cab and the real identity of the rider.<p>Lots of drivers will be reluctant because they can be stiffed on the bill. Lots of passengers will be reluctant to use it due to the inherent risk of riding with what is essentially a stranger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>te_chris</author><text>Because it reduces their cost on a route they were already going to take. It&#x27;s the actual sharing part of the so-called &#x27;sharing economy&#x27;.</text></comment> | <story><title>LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft</title><url>http://libretaxi.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joeyspn</author><text>&gt; without any income for the driver<p>What? It doesn&#x27;t make sense... Then why would any driver want to provide services via the app?<p>Also, I&#x27;m not talking about the specifics of the payment or reward systems, I&#x27;m just pointing out that they&#x27;re both considered to be &quot;on the same level&quot; and in the same &quot;difficult to tax&quot; tech service (carpooling, ride-sharing, etc)... just google &quot;blablacar uber&quot; and see the results...</text></item><item><author>paglia_s</author><text>Not sure about other EU countries but here in Italy Blablacar and Uber are completely different.<p>For example the price you&#x27;re allowed to ask is calculated to ensure it&#x27;s only a cost sharing without any income for the driver.</text></item><item><author>joeyspn</author><text>BlaBlaCar [0] operates&#x2F;ed only with community reviews (for drivers and passengers) and is doing just fine in EU... It is in fact so successful, that govs and press always talk about &quot;services like blablacar and uber&quot; (they&#x27;re classified as basically the same kind of service)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blablacar.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blablacar.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>reubensutton</author><text>My concern with this is the problem of ensuring the safety of the person driving the cab and the real identity of the rider.<p>Lots of drivers will be reluctant because they can be stiffed on the bill. Lots of passengers will be reluctant to use it due to the inherent risk of riding with what is essentially a stranger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ti32x</author><text>Because the cost of fuel in the EU is quite high, and a lot of people commute long(er) distances on a regular basis instead of flying.<p>It is considered an entirely acceptable system because the &quot;cost reimbursement&quot; will fully cover the cost of wear + tear + fuel, meaning that a drive across the country can be rendered effectively free for the driver.<p>Also, &quot;without any income for the driver&quot; isn&#x27;t necessarily correct - if you have a full car you will make a tidy profit.<p>Edit: the cost of a blablacar trip to a passenger would be on the order of 13-16 euros for an hour&#x27;s drive. Comparable or cheaper than a train, with more flexibility.</text></comment> |
26,915,652 | 26,912,411 | 1 | 3 | 26,910,193 | train | <story><title>Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/322120-apples-m1-positioning-mocks-every-x86-cpu-amd-and-intel-have-ever-launched</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dehrmann</author><text>&gt; Apple differentiates the majority of their products by generation rather than binning.<p>This simplifies things for consumers, but how do you make chips without binning? Are they all just that reliable? Do they all have extra cores? Maybe Intel bins more because they can squeeze out a significantly better price for more core and cache, but Apple&#x27;s margins are already so high they don&#x27;t care?</text></item><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>Apple differentiates the majority of their products by generation rather than binning. If you buy a low-end iPad, you get an A12; the iPad Air steps you up to an A14; and the iPad Pro gets you an M1.<p>This is less evident on the Macintosh side of the business right now because they&#x27;re just trying to get M1 silicon into as many product lines as their fab capacity will allow. They don&#x27;t actually have an M2 (or even M1X) to sell high-end products with yet, which is why they&#x27;re starting with low-end products first. When they release upgraded chips, they will almost be used to transition the high end models with lower-end product getting it later.</text></item><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>You get an M1 with the new iPad Pro as well! I hadn&#x27;t thought of the situation as the article presents. When shown in that light, it made me pause to reflect. The M1 doesn&#x27;t make sense when its in every darn product. The only differentiator is screen size, RAM, and OS?<p>I will admit that I switched to Thinkpad and Win10 about two years ago when I had to return my butterfly for the 5th time. I am not looking back either. If anything, I am more focused on AMD Ryzen and Nvidia 30 series chips in MSI, Lenovo Legion and Asus offerings. There is nothing I can&#x27;t do with one of those machines. Going Apple is a backward move for me as I like to program, design in CAD, play steam VR, and run blender sims. Can&#x27;t do any of those well with Apple hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmeisthax</author><text>So, there are a few instances where Apple <i>does</i> bin their products:<p>1. &quot;7-core GPU&quot; M1 Macs, which have one of the eight GPU cores disabled for yield<p>2. The A12X, which also had one GPU core disabled (which was later shipped in an 8-core GPU configuration for the A12Z)<p>3. iPod Touch, which uses lower-clocked A10 chips<p>It&#x27;s not like Apple is massively overbuilding their chips or has a zero defect rate. It&#x27;s more that Intel is massively overbinning their chips for product segmentation purposes. Defect rates rarely, if <i>ever</i>, fit a nice product demand curve. You&#x27;ll wind up producing too many good chips and not enough bad ones, and this will get worse as your yields improve. Meanwhile, the actual demand curve means that you&#x27;ll sell far more cheap CPUs than expensive ones. So in order to meet demand you have to start turning off or limiting perfectly working hardware in order to make a worse product.<p>Apple doesn&#x27;t have to do this because they&#x27;re vertically integrated. The chip design part of the business doesn&#x27;t have to worry about maximizing profit on individual designs - they just have to make the best chip they can within the cost budget of the business units they serve. So the company as a whole can afford to differentiate products by what CPU design you&#x27;re getting, rather than what hardware has been turned off. Again, they aren&#x27;t generating <i>that</i> many defects to begin with, and old chips are going to have better yields and cost less to make anyway. It makes more sense for Apple to leave a bit of money on the table at the middle of the product stack and charge more for other, more obviously understandable upgrades (e.g. more RAM or storage) at the high end instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/computing/322120-apples-m1-positioning-mocks-every-x86-cpu-amd-and-intel-have-ever-launched</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dehrmann</author><text>&gt; Apple differentiates the majority of their products by generation rather than binning.<p>This simplifies things for consumers, but how do you make chips without binning? Are they all just that reliable? Do they all have extra cores? Maybe Intel bins more because they can squeeze out a significantly better price for more core and cache, but Apple&#x27;s margins are already so high they don&#x27;t care?</text></item><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>Apple differentiates the majority of their products by generation rather than binning. If you buy a low-end iPad, you get an A12; the iPad Air steps you up to an A14; and the iPad Pro gets you an M1.<p>This is less evident on the Macintosh side of the business right now because they&#x27;re just trying to get M1 silicon into as many product lines as their fab capacity will allow. They don&#x27;t actually have an M2 (or even M1X) to sell high-end products with yet, which is why they&#x27;re starting with low-end products first. When they release upgraded chips, they will almost be used to transition the high end models with lower-end product getting it later.</text></item><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>You get an M1 with the new iPad Pro as well! I hadn&#x27;t thought of the situation as the article presents. When shown in that light, it made me pause to reflect. The M1 doesn&#x27;t make sense when its in every darn product. The only differentiator is screen size, RAM, and OS?<p>I will admit that I switched to Thinkpad and Win10 about two years ago when I had to return my butterfly for the 5th time. I am not looking back either. If anything, I am more focused on AMD Ryzen and Nvidia 30 series chips in MSI, Lenovo Legion and Asus offerings. There is nothing I can&#x27;t do with one of those machines. Going Apple is a backward move for me as I like to program, design in CAD, play steam VR, and run blender sims. Can&#x27;t do any of those well with Apple hardware.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>Binning requires more design work for the chip. I would guess the M1 was designed rapidly and probably they decided that hundreds of different bins for different types of defects wasn&#x27;t worth the complexity if it meant delaying tape out for a few weeks. It also leads to extra product complexity (customers would be upset if some macbooks had hardware AES and others didn&#x27;t, leading to some software being unusably slow seemingly at random).</text></comment> |
39,807,240 | 39,806,906 | 1 | 2 | 39,805,269 | train | <story><title>Creating an autopilot in X-Plane using Python</title><url>https://austinsnerdythings.com/2021/10/15/creating-an-autopilot-in-x-plane-using-python-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>auspiv</author><text>Austin from Austin&#x27;s Nerdy Things here - super stoked to see my blog&#x27;s traffic at 7x the daily average at 7am! Thanks to all the visitors!<p>I actually revisited this series a few weeks ago. I added a Flask&#x2F;html frontend to control the autopilot setpoints (much easier&#x2F;fluid than editing the code and restarting) using Redis as a quick intermediate &quot;database&quot; to store the setpoints.<p>I whipped up a post this morning demonstrating this to get it out there due to the volume of visitors who might find it interesting! Hopefully I find time to polish the post later.<p>Here it is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;austinsnerdythings.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;adding-some-polish-to-the-x-plane-python-autopilot-with-flask-redis-and-websockets&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;austinsnerdythings.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;03&#x2F;24&#x2F;adding-some-polish...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Creating an autopilot in X-Plane using Python</title><url>https://austinsnerdythings.com/2021/10/15/creating-an-autopilot-in-x-plane-using-python-part-1/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saulrh</author><text>You can also do this for Kerbal Space Program using the kRPC mod: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;130742-18x-to-112x-krpc-control-the-game-using-c-c-java-lua-python-ruby-haskell-c-arduino-v052-18th-march-2023" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;130742-18x-to-112...</a>. It&#x27;s a much less polished experience, but you get more of the experience of an actual avionics&#x2F;robotics project doing it this way - multiple sensors that may not necessarily agree with each other (for example, IIRC accelerometers installed at different ends of the ship will register different readings!), you have to be quite a bit more careful when interfacing with engines and may not have access to a simple &quot;go left&quot; control input, you have to deal with whatever nightmare vehicle you built that you need a computer to handle, that kind of thing.</text></comment> |
21,735,260 | 21,734,995 | 1 | 3 | 21,734,616 | train | <story><title>How to write better game libraries</title><url>https://handmade.network/wiki/7138-how_to_write_better_game_libraries</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NohatCoder</author><text>It always baffles me when a library comes with its own arcane build code. Instructions like &quot;Requires Python&quot; invariably turn out to actually mean &quot;Requires hours of debugging&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to write better game libraries</title><url>https://handmade.network/wiki/7138-how_to_write_better_game_libraries</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>I don&#x27;t see it mentioned, but it&#x27;s important to note that you don&#x27;t have to write your library in the same language that you expose to your users. You can write everything in C++&#x2F;Rust&#x2F;Python and expose something compatible with the C ABI and people will be able to use it (provided they have your toolchain…)</text></comment> |
1,226,798 | 1,226,848 | 1 | 2 | 1,226,616 | train | <story><title>My Duck Duck Go reddit ad by the numbers</title><url>http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-reddit-ad-by-the-numbers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vaksel</author><text>i actually ran an ad this saturday too...but I actually wanted to test how it'd work for selling something so I used an affiliate link.<p>So for $20 I got 19,303 unique views, 63,473 total views, 199 unique clicks, 215 total clicks. And a grand total of 1 sales.<p>The click numbers were different though, the affiliate program I used reported lower click #s.<p>I'll make a proper blog post about this later today, since I've been waiting for the 24 hour window for reddit to finalize their numbers.<p>Edit: here is the post with all the numbers/screenshots. Surprisingly I had a lower CPM than Gabriel which is weird since he was spending a lot more money than me.<p><a href="http://blog.styleguidance.com/post/481918228/tried-out-reddit-ads-here-are-the-results" rel="nofollow">http://blog.styleguidance.com/post/481918228/tried-out-reddi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience. One thing to bear in mind is that we (reddit) also run affiliate links, so you were competing directly with us. If they clicked on our link first, you won't get credit for it. They may also not count the click from that user twice, which could explain your lower numbers.<p>Our traffic numbers come from the same system we use to track our own website traffic, so we work very hard to make sure it is as accurate as possible, since we sell our own advertising based on those numbers, and if they were over-inflated, our other advertisers would complain vociferously.<p>I suspect the error lies in the affiliate program, who has an incentive to under-report.<p>However, if you'd like to provide us with the numbers you got from your affiliate program, we would be love to take a look and try to figure out what happened.<p>Edit: I forgot to mention that AdBlock blocks a lot of affiliate trackers, but a lot of reddit users specifically disable adblock for reddit, so that might also be a source of the discrepancy.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Duck Duck Go reddit ad by the numbers</title><url>http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/03/my-duck-duck-go-reddit-ad-by-the-numbers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vaksel</author><text>i actually ran an ad this saturday too...but I actually wanted to test how it'd work for selling something so I used an affiliate link.<p>So for $20 I got 19,303 unique views, 63,473 total views, 199 unique clicks, 215 total clicks. And a grand total of 1 sales.<p>The click numbers were different though, the affiliate program I used reported lower click #s.<p>I'll make a proper blog post about this later today, since I've been waiting for the 24 hour window for reddit to finalize their numbers.<p>Edit: here is the post with all the numbers/screenshots. Surprisingly I had a lower CPM than Gabriel which is weird since he was spending a lot more money than me.<p><a href="http://blog.styleguidance.com/post/481918228/tried-out-reddit-ads-here-are-the-results" rel="nofollow">http://blog.styleguidance.com/post/481918228/tried-out-reddi...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshd</author><text>"...reddit specific discount code (I went with diggsucks)"<p>Proving you don't know reddit that well. That will appeal to the 13 year old digg converts. The people with money to spend will just see it as immature, and therefore perceive your produce as being unprofessional.<p>OK. I just found your ad - <a href="http://www.reddit.com/comments/bgb99" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/comments/bgb99</a>. You might want to consider the fact that A Small Orange were advertising pretty heavily recently. That would have cut down on people looking for entry level hosting. Or, perhaps you are right in saying that redditor's are cheap.</text></comment> |
12,754,002 | 12,751,477 | 1 | 2 | 12,748,208 | train | <story><title>Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month</title><url>https://blog.oldgeekjobs.com/from-google-form-to-1000-in-revenue-in-one-month-3f5cd75b6089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b212</author><text>Can you do another good deed and require your posters to include salary range in their job ads?<p>It&#x27;s the norm in the UK and we successfully forced this in Poland (though posters almost NEVER post salaries here). How? The companies need IT staff so much that almost all IT job boards (at least the most popular ones - like FB groups or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nofluffjobs.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nofluffjobs.com</a>) started requiring the salary range.<p>I think your idea is praiseworthy, but I&#x27;d never ever create a website like this with hidden salaries. Especially in your case - it&#x27;s so cool people post jobs on your board, but what if they do so, because they&#x27;re offering 10, 20, 40% less because it&#x27;s a place for &quot;old geeks that noone wants&quot;?<p>I&#x27;m really super proud that if a IT ad in Poland has no salary range most of us just ignore it. And it took us maybe 2 years to get to this place. I think every other country should follow the lead and end the &quot;competitive salary&quot; trend. I don&#x27;t want to spend 3 days on interviews just to discover that the salary offered is way too low for me. Salary missing from an ad is a big lack of respect, the sooner people realize that the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnwheeler</author><text>No. A salary range requirement isn&#x27;t customary in the U.S., and I&#x27;m in no position to enforce one at such an early stage.<p>I&#x27;ll make it an option though, and I&#x27;ll include the salary data that StackOverflow ads make available when they do. I definitely prefer seeing a salary range when I look for jobs.<p>&gt;&gt; I&#x27;d never ever create a website like this with hidden salaries. ...what if they do so, because they&#x27;re offering 10, 20, 40% less because it&#x27;s a place for &quot;old geeks that noone wants&quot;?<p>In my experience, the risk of wage exploitation decreases with age. Unfortunately, a lot of younger workers are paid lower than less skilled, but older workers simply because of lack of seniority and&#x2F;or negotiating skills.<p>But, I must say such &quot;what ifs&quot; are silly in business. <i>What if</i> your anticipation of a nonexistent problem is the cause of your inaction?<p>I&#x27;m not being snarky so much as serious. I&#x27;ve been in a number of meetings where I had to cede to someone&#x27;s &quot;what if&quot; when the alternative was a cheap and measurable test. Cheap and measurable tests are the primary thrust of my blog post.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month</title><url>https://blog.oldgeekjobs.com/from-google-form-to-1000-in-revenue-in-one-month-3f5cd75b6089</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>b212</author><text>Can you do another good deed and require your posters to include salary range in their job ads?<p>It&#x27;s the norm in the UK and we successfully forced this in Poland (though posters almost NEVER post salaries here). How? The companies need IT staff so much that almost all IT job boards (at least the most popular ones - like FB groups or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nofluffjobs.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nofluffjobs.com</a>) started requiring the salary range.<p>I think your idea is praiseworthy, but I&#x27;d never ever create a website like this with hidden salaries. Especially in your case - it&#x27;s so cool people post jobs on your board, but what if they do so, because they&#x27;re offering 10, 20, 40% less because it&#x27;s a place for &quot;old geeks that noone wants&quot;?<p>I&#x27;m really super proud that if a IT ad in Poland has no salary range most of us just ignore it. And it took us maybe 2 years to get to this place. I think every other country should follow the lead and end the &quot;competitive salary&quot; trend. I don&#x27;t want to spend 3 days on interviews just to discover that the salary offered is way too low for me. Salary missing from an ad is a big lack of respect, the sooner people realize that the better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ptero</author><text>Just my 2c -- I&#x27;m in the US and I disagree. For example, many of the jobs allow for a very broad experience.<p>For example, in my current job, we are often looking for a smart, energetic people to work on X. Someone with a BS just out of college? An engineer with 10 years of matching experience? Tech lead wo just built X elsewhere? We will take either (if we like them) and adjust responsibilities instead.<p>This approach requires either creating multiple postings (a pain; we do not need so many people; it confuses the heck out of HR on why a single hire needs 3 postings), posting ridiculously wide salary range or saying &quot;salary commensurate with experience&quot; (which nowadays says nothing at all). My 2c.</text></comment> |
26,637,112 | 26,636,600 | 1 | 3 | 26,635,529 | train | <story><title>Golang: Know Your 'Nil'</title><url>http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2017_03_29_know_your_nil.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beeforpork</author><text>&gt; Tony Hoare apologized for inventing the null reference: I call it my billion-dollar mistake.<p>Have we learned nothing? Many languages without NIL&#x2F;Nil&#x2F;nil&#x2F;null&#x2F;NULL existed already when Golang was born.<p>And this attempt to heal the damage hurts, too:<p>&gt; “make the zero value useful” philosophy<p>This is like instead of programming by exception (Java), it&#x27;s programming by ignorance (of errors).<p>I like a few things about Golang (handling of numeric literals, for example), but not this thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Golang: Know Your 'Nil'</title><url>http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2017_03_29_know_your_nil.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rvcdbn</author><text>Article incorrectly claims that calling a method on a nil value results in an error. Only attempting to dereference the pointer does. It’s fine to call methods on nil and that’s part of the “make the zero value useful” philosophy.</text></comment> |
16,802,274 | 16,802,260 | 1 | 2 | 16,800,675 | train | <story><title>Myst creators launch Kickstarter to bring every game in the series to Windows 10</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/myst-creators-launch-kickstarter-to-bring-every-game-in-the-series-to-windows-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandGorgon</author><text>For those that love these kind of games, the modern day interpretation is (the creator of Braid) Jonathan Blow&#x27;s Witness.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;210970&#x2F;The_Witness&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;210970&#x2F;The_Witness&#x2F;</a><p>That said, I really wish the creators remake these games for the mobile. These kind of puzzle games dont have any of the FPS requirements that today&#x27;s mobile phones cant handle. The beautiful scenes that Myst was well known for can easily be rendered on a 4 year old phone as well.<p>But most importantly, touch and gyroscope opens up degrees of freedom that was previously impossible to conceive. Imagine an AR like Myst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>&gt; Imagine an AR like Myst.<p>I suggested to one of the Niantic developers (Ingress, Pokemon Go) that they could make interesting &quot;historical fiction tours&quot; that people would likely pay for. Basically have the customer travel around a city to important places and solve a &quot;mystery&quot; associated with some historical event. You could use some of the Ingress mechanics where you would &quot;pick up&quot; a clue at a location that was a playable video file. That would lead you to the next clue. You could &quot;uncover&quot; secret locations by locating yourself relative to landmarks and entering a sequence, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Myst creators launch Kickstarter to bring every game in the series to Windows 10</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/myst-creators-launch-kickstarter-to-bring-every-game-in-the-series-to-windows-10/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandGorgon</author><text>For those that love these kind of games, the modern day interpretation is (the creator of Braid) Jonathan Blow&#x27;s Witness.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;210970&#x2F;The_Witness&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;210970&#x2F;The_Witness&#x2F;</a><p>That said, I really wish the creators remake these games for the mobile. These kind of puzzle games dont have any of the FPS requirements that today&#x27;s mobile phones cant handle. The beautiful scenes that Myst was well known for can easily be rendered on a 4 year old phone as well.<p>But most importantly, touch and gyroscope opens up degrees of freedom that was previously impossible to conceive. Imagine an AR like Myst.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wetpaws</author><text>Just to iterate on your comment, while The Witness is one of my favorite games and very close in spirit to the Myst, the closet game after many many years I was able to find is Quern:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;512790&#x2F;Quern__Undying_Thoughts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;512790&#x2F;Quern__Undying_Thou...</a><p>If you like Myst, give it a try, you want be disappointed.</text></comment> |
19,165,724 | 19,165,307 | 1 | 2 | 19,163,281 | train | <story><title>Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/nyregion/amazon-hq2-queens.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sokoloff</author><text>If that’s the case, why would the NY politicians put that money on the table? They did so voluntarily.</text></item><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>This is incorrect:<p>&quot;<i>that otherwise wouldn&#x27;t be paid at all</i>&quot;<p>The opposite is true, 100% of those taxes will be paid by some other business. Maybe you could make your argument about the New York City of the 1970s, but you sure as heck can not make that argument about the New York City of 2019. New York City is not starving for investment, rather, its biggest challenge nowadays is managing its fast growth. Other businesses will move into those buildings, and hire those workers, and they will pay normal taxes, which is a lot more than what Amazon offered.</text></item><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>A &quot;tax break&quot; is just a reduction in taxes that otherwise wouldn&#x27;t be paid <i>at all</i>. It still means a profit for the city.<p>It&#x27;s not like NYC is <i>paying</i> Amazon to come to NYC. NYC would still make huge tax revenues from additional sales, real estate, income taxes, and corporate taxes.<p>Now they&#x27;re turning that all away. It&#x27;s such an irrational decision that if I were Amazon, it would raise a big red flag for me as well.<p>No need to open in a community that doesn&#x27;t want your money.</text></item><item><author>tytso</author><text>The opposition is not because some high tech firm, whether it is Google or Amazon, is expanding in NYC.<p>The opposition is because of the Massive tax breaks and other $$$ giveaways New York was going to hand over to Amazon. I don&#x27;t recall Google extorting NYC for $$$ before they decided to expand....</text></item><item><author>zelias</author><text>If Amazon had just quietly announced plans to expand to LIC without the &quot;HQ2 Search&quot; dog and pony show they almost certainly would still be here.<p>Google buys entire city blocks and nobody bats an eye. Turns out that publicly shaking down cities across the US tends to draw out the opposition.<p>More publicity = more scrutiny = more angry opponents of your business decision</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lkrubner</author><text>The obvious answer is what is commonly called the inertia of dead ideas. Leaders grow up in one era but take power in the next era and they often bring along with them ideas that are 20 years out of date. Military historians joke “generals are always ready to fight the last war” and political leaders make mistakes of the same category. Offering billions in tax breaks to lure businesses is the kind of thing New York might have sensibly done in the 1980s when they were desperate to replace the loss of the textile industry. Such a strategy makes no sense in 2019, when an abundance of investment has clearly replaced the lost industries.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/nyregion/amazon-hq2-queens.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sokoloff</author><text>If that’s the case, why would the NY politicians put that money on the table? They did so voluntarily.</text></item><item><author>lkrubner</author><text>This is incorrect:<p>&quot;<i>that otherwise wouldn&#x27;t be paid at all</i>&quot;<p>The opposite is true, 100% of those taxes will be paid by some other business. Maybe you could make your argument about the New York City of the 1970s, but you sure as heck can not make that argument about the New York City of 2019. New York City is not starving for investment, rather, its biggest challenge nowadays is managing its fast growth. Other businesses will move into those buildings, and hire those workers, and they will pay normal taxes, which is a lot more than what Amazon offered.</text></item><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>A &quot;tax break&quot; is just a reduction in taxes that otherwise wouldn&#x27;t be paid <i>at all</i>. It still means a profit for the city.<p>It&#x27;s not like NYC is <i>paying</i> Amazon to come to NYC. NYC would still make huge tax revenues from additional sales, real estate, income taxes, and corporate taxes.<p>Now they&#x27;re turning that all away. It&#x27;s such an irrational decision that if I were Amazon, it would raise a big red flag for me as well.<p>No need to open in a community that doesn&#x27;t want your money.</text></item><item><author>tytso</author><text>The opposition is not because some high tech firm, whether it is Google or Amazon, is expanding in NYC.<p>The opposition is because of the Massive tax breaks and other $$$ giveaways New York was going to hand over to Amazon. I don&#x27;t recall Google extorting NYC for $$$ before they decided to expand....</text></item><item><author>zelias</author><text>If Amazon had just quietly announced plans to expand to LIC without the &quot;HQ2 Search&quot; dog and pony show they almost certainly would still be here.<p>Google buys entire city blocks and nobody bats an eye. Turns out that publicly shaking down cities across the US tends to draw out the opposition.<p>More publicity = more scrutiny = more angry opponents of your business decision</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leroy_masochist</author><text>Because it made them look like they were doing their jobs by making a big, important deal? These are politicians we&#x27;re talking about</text></comment> |
9,892,625 | 9,892,536 | 1 | 3 | 9,892,157 | train | <story><title>Practical attack against TLS/SSL and RC4</title><url>http://www.rc4nomore.com/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>While I agree that RC4 should die in a fire, this attack seems impractical to me.<p>&gt; To successfully decrypt a 16-character cookie with a success probability of 94%, roughly 9x2^27 encryptions of the cookie need to be captured. Since we can make the client transmit 4450 requests per seconds, this amount can be collected in merely 75 hours.<p>How likely would that amount of network traffic and energy consumption cue the potential victim that something malicious is going on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomvangoethem</author><text>Colleague of the author here.<p>I guess that 4450 requests&#x2F;s to one IP, or even spread across multiple IPs, could trigger some alarms if the victim is alert. Unfortunately, I&#x27;m not that familiar with IDS&#x2F;IPS&#x27;s to answer that with much confidence.<p>In any case, an attacker has a lot of options. The requests do not need to be made sequentially, so an attacker could basically start and resume his attack whenever he wants, e.g. when the victim is away from keyboard (which he can estimate based on the network traffic someone usually generates). An attacker could also simply slow down the number of requests&#x2F;s, although this results in a larger number of hours required for a successful attack.<p>As for energy&#x2F;CPU consumption, I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;d be a big concern. When the practical attack was performed, the CPU usage went up to around 75%, still allowing one to visit other websites without noticing anything. So unless one would closely monitor the CPU&#x2F;network usage, I don&#x27;t think the average victim would notice it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Practical attack against TLS/SSL and RC4</title><url>http://www.rc4nomore.com/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>While I agree that RC4 should die in a fire, this attack seems impractical to me.<p>&gt; To successfully decrypt a 16-character cookie with a success probability of 94%, roughly 9x2^27 encryptions of the cookie need to be captured. Since we can make the client transmit 4450 requests per seconds, this amount can be collected in merely 75 hours.<p>How likely would that amount of network traffic and energy consumption cue the potential victim that something malicious is going on?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>X-Istence</author><text>Impractical or not, this is still showing a possible attack.<p>Let&#x27;s say the client leaves their computer on at work over a long weekend ...<p>The collision attacks against MD5 were at first also claimed to be impractical...</text></comment> |
27,153,314 | 27,152,913 | 1 | 2 | 27,152,402 | train | <story><title>Irish health service hit by cyber attack</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57111615</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jl6</author><text>I have a feeling there is a very short security-hygiene checklist that, if followed, could prevent the vast majority of the ransomware attacked that we have seen in the last few years.<p>* Keep all systems up to date with the latest patches.<p>* Have a DR plan and test it regularly.<p>* Make frequent backups, verify them, and keep them <i>offline</i>.<p>Historically organizations have been so bad at backups that the advice has been to automate them as much as possible, to try to ensure that a recent backup at least exists. But I am increasingly of the opinion that the next level of backup maturity is to dial back on the automation and invest <i>manual</i> effort in airgapping the backups.<p>Fully automated backups are necessarily part of the software attack surface.<p>If you have to hire more ops people to rotate tapes by hand every day, that will have to be a cost of doing business safely.</text></comment> | <story><title>Irish health service hit by cyber attack</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57111615</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>new_here</author><text>A lot of these articles don&#x27;t actually mention specifically how the systems were compromised.<p>Was it a malicious email attachment that propagated through unsecured networks or outdated OS versions? And what data was encrypted? Are we talking regular excel files or actual databases?<p>It would be interesting to have some more detail or case studies so others could know how to fortify infection points and limit the blast radius of their own systems.</text></comment> |
38,327,611 | 38,324,949 | 1 | 2 | 38,321,413 | train | <story><title>Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection</title><url>https://frigate.video/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>preek</author><text>I’ve been using Frigate for six months on a raspberry pi 4 with a Google Coral TPU. It’s connected to 2 network cameras streaming in 2mp each.<p>Frigate standalone works super smooth with no hiccups at all. I am using object detection for people and have not yet had a false positive or false negative. Additionally, I record not only the events, but but also a 24&#x2F;7 video. Frigate takes care of garbage collecting old assets.<p>I have it hooked up to my Home Assistant running on the same raspberry pi. From there, I get notifications to my phone which include a live video, snapshot and video recording. The UX and configuration options are way better than any commercial end user product I have found.<p>It’s been a literal lifesaver, also fun and easy to use. Would recommend 10 of 10. I have no affiliation with the maintainers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aspos</author><text>I use Homeassistant and Frigate on a $100 x86 noname micro-machine with five 4K cameras and it is awesome. CPU use does not go above 10%.
Would not claim zero false positives though. However, it is smart enough to filter out non-moving false positives which many cmmercial-grade systems can not, lol.<p>Can&#x27;t say it saved my life, but I programmed my smart bulbs to go red if a bear was spotted in any frame in the past 30 min though.<p>Frigate is great and worth of praise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection</title><url>https://frigate.video/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>preek</author><text>I’ve been using Frigate for six months on a raspberry pi 4 with a Google Coral TPU. It’s connected to 2 network cameras streaming in 2mp each.<p>Frigate standalone works super smooth with no hiccups at all. I am using object detection for people and have not yet had a false positive or false negative. Additionally, I record not only the events, but but also a 24&#x2F;7 video. Frigate takes care of garbage collecting old assets.<p>I have it hooked up to my Home Assistant running on the same raspberry pi. From there, I get notifications to my phone which include a live video, snapshot and video recording. The UX and configuration options are way better than any commercial end user product I have found.<p>It’s been a literal lifesaver, also fun and easy to use. Would recommend 10 of 10. I have no affiliation with the maintainers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giobox</author><text>I&#x27;ve also used the same solution, although I ended up scaling from a Pi to a larger 13th gen Intel box with two USB Corals due to number of cameras. It&#x27;s been ridiculously reliable running from a docker compose stack for years now, including using Watchtower to auto-upgrade the Frigate container. It&#x27;s really easy to map the corals via docker compose as well.<p>It&#x27;s nuts how cheaply you can make such a good system with AI-detection features, its more than paid for itself vs commercial options with monthly fees. High quality weatherproof PoE cameras are crazy affordable now too, and you can VLAN them off your home network with no connection to the internet to further harden the system.</text></comment> |
18,924,487 | 18,923,854 | 1 | 3 | 18,923,155 | train | <story><title>FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (2017)</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001841/download</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nadya</author><text>The relevant bit is on Page 22.<p><i>&gt;Further, records from Pure VPN show that the same email
accounts Lin&#x27;s gmail account and the teleportfx gmail account-were accessed from the same
WANSecurity IP address. Significantly, Pure VPN was able to determine that their service was
accessed by the same customer from two originating IP addresses: the RCN IP address from the
home Lin was living in at the time, and the software company where Lin was employed at the
time.</i><p>Also, it seems Lin knew or suspected this at least, seeing as he doesn&#x27;t believe in a VPN service that doesn&#x27;t keep logs:<p><i>&gt;For example, on June 15, 2017,
Lin ... re-tweeted a tweet from &quot;IPVanish,&quot; that read: &quot;Your privacy is our priority. That&#x27;s why we have a strict zero log policy.&quot; Lin criticized the tweet, saying, &quot;There is no such thing as VPN that doesn&#x27;t keep logs. If they can limit your connections or track bandwidth usage, they keep logs.&quot;</i><p>This will be a useful .pdf to keep on hand because I also don&#x27;t believe in VPN&#x27;s that don&#x27;t keep logs. At a minimum they&#x27;ll keep 30 days worth and in many countries may actually be required by law to keep them longer than that even (60-90 days usually).<p>As an aside, it&#x27;s good to see another example that the FBI does actually investigate cases of cyberharrasment and takes doxing seriously, contrary to popular opinion.<p>E: A few typo fixes and the last 4 words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I opened the document expecting to sympathize with Lin. In my imagination this was some FBI surveillance state overreach, or &quot;cyberharassment&quot; thing getting overblown.<p>Instead, reading through the allegations, Lin came off as abominable. Contrary to your conclusion that this shows the FBI takes cyber harassment seriously, it seems like law enforcement generally allowed Lin to publicly subject this poor woman to psychological torture for a couple years before doing anything about it.<p>Provided the allegations are true, whatever sentence he gets will not be enough...</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (2017)</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001841/download</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nadya</author><text>The relevant bit is on Page 22.<p><i>&gt;Further, records from Pure VPN show that the same email
accounts Lin&#x27;s gmail account and the teleportfx gmail account-were accessed from the same
WANSecurity IP address. Significantly, Pure VPN was able to determine that their service was
accessed by the same customer from two originating IP addresses: the RCN IP address from the
home Lin was living in at the time, and the software company where Lin was employed at the
time.</i><p>Also, it seems Lin knew or suspected this at least, seeing as he doesn&#x27;t believe in a VPN service that doesn&#x27;t keep logs:<p><i>&gt;For example, on June 15, 2017,
Lin ... re-tweeted a tweet from &quot;IPVanish,&quot; that read: &quot;Your privacy is our priority. That&#x27;s why we have a strict zero log policy.&quot; Lin criticized the tweet, saying, &quot;There is no such thing as VPN that doesn&#x27;t keep logs. If they can limit your connections or track bandwidth usage, they keep logs.&quot;</i><p>This will be a useful .pdf to keep on hand because I also don&#x27;t believe in VPN&#x27;s that don&#x27;t keep logs. At a minimum they&#x27;ll keep 30 days worth and in many countries may actually be required by law to keep them longer than that even (60-90 days usually).<p>As an aside, it&#x27;s good to see another example that the FBI does actually investigate cases of cyberharrasment and takes doxing seriously, contrary to popular opinion.<p>E: A few typo fixes and the last 4 words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crankylinuxuser</author><text>Again, its easier to buy a cheap VPS in a country that is at odds with the one you&#x27;re in. Then, any intelligence the other country gets will likely not be sent to the country of residence.<p>Ally countries usually have extradition treaties, and have a greater chance of sharing intel.</text></comment> |
40,848,179 | 40,847,965 | 1 | 3 | 40,845,542 | train | <story><title>Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator</title><url>https://logicgrimoire.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/writing-html-by-hand-is-easier-than-debugging-your-static-site-generator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdavidn</author><text>You&#x27;re looking for &quot;server side includes.&quot; Most HTTP web servers provide such a feature, as do many CDNs. Here&#x27;s the Nginx module&#x27;s documentation:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nginx.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;http&#x2F;ngx_http_ssi_module.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nginx.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;http&#x2F;ngx_http_ssi_module.html</a></text></item><item><author>numlocked</author><text>I <i>almost</i> agree. The thing that keeps me coming back to static site generators is HTML partials. Having a header.html file that defines my navigation, that I can edit once and include everywhere, is why I pay the complexity tax.<p>And since I&#x27;m already there, I do also like scss + file watching &#x2F; hot reloading. Though would happily live without it, if there was a &#x27;native&#x27; solution to e.g.<p><pre><code> &lt;html&gt;
&lt;% include &#x27;.&#x2F;header.html&#x27;&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
...
&lt;&#x2F;body&gt;
&lt;% include &#x27;.&#x2F;footer.html&#x27;&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;html&gt;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nox101</author><text>The only difference between a service side include and a static site generator include is whether the include happens build time or serve time (and cached). Any issues with including will be exactly the same regardless of where this happens.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator</title><url>https://logicgrimoire.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/writing-html-by-hand-is-easier-than-debugging-your-static-site-generator/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdavidn</author><text>You&#x27;re looking for &quot;server side includes.&quot; Most HTTP web servers provide such a feature, as do many CDNs. Here&#x27;s the Nginx module&#x27;s documentation:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nginx.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;http&#x2F;ngx_http_ssi_module.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nginx.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;docs&#x2F;http&#x2F;ngx_http_ssi_module.html</a></text></item><item><author>numlocked</author><text>I <i>almost</i> agree. The thing that keeps me coming back to static site generators is HTML partials. Having a header.html file that defines my navigation, that I can edit once and include everywhere, is why I pay the complexity tax.<p>And since I&#x27;m already there, I do also like scss + file watching &#x2F; hot reloading. Though would happily live without it, if there was a &#x27;native&#x27; solution to e.g.<p><pre><code> &lt;html&gt;
&lt;% include &#x27;.&#x2F;header.html&#x27;&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
...
&lt;&#x2F;body&gt;
&lt;% include &#x27;.&#x2F;footer.html&#x27;&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;html&gt;</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andai</author><text>I used this all the time with PHP back in the day.<p><pre><code> include(&quot;header.html&quot;);</code></pre></text></comment> |
25,885,361 | 25,885,374 | 1 | 3 | 25,885,108 | train | <story><title>Vole.wtf</title><url>https://vole.wtf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>varenc</author><text>Their list of public domain films is great! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vole.wtf&#x2F;voleflix&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vole.wtf&#x2F;voleflix&#x2F;</a> Hadn’t realized that even some 1960s films are in the public domain.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vole.wtf</title><url>https://vole.wtf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kinduff</author><text>Site is pretty awesome, I&#x27;ve been messing around for quite some time now.<p>I was impressed by Voleflix [1], I love old movies and the collection is pretty great.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vole.wtf&#x2F;voleflix&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vole.wtf&#x2F;voleflix&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
30,941,168 | 30,940,374 | 1 | 3 | 30,939,282 | train | <story><title>Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/andrew-ng-data-centric-ai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notsag-hn</author><text>I was going to interview at LandingAI. I was asked before the interview to install a spyware browser extension to monitor my traffic to detect if I was cheating during the interview. I respectfully declined and didn&#x27;t have that interview.</text></comment> | <story><title>Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/andrew-ng-data-centric-ai</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>itissid</author><text>That is the problem with generalization and cop outs like these. It&#x27;s no good to people in the field doing actual work where the devil is in the detail.<p>Big data is fairly important to a lot of things, for example I was listening to Tesla&#x27;s use of Deep net models where they mentioned that there were literally so many variations of Stop Signs that they needed to learn what was really in the &quot;tail&quot; of the distribution of Stop Sign types to construct reliable AI</text></comment> |
40,242,666 | 40,242,090 | 1 | 3 | 40,231,332 | train | <story><title>Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard</title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/05/hacking-on-postgresql-is-really-hard.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ncann</author><text>Could it be that RDBMS is just inherently very complex? Reminds me of this classic comment about Oracle Database:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18442941">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18442941</a><p>To quote part of it<p>&gt; Oracle Database 12.2.<p>&gt; It is close to 25 million lines of C code.<p>&gt; What an unimaginable horror! You can&#x27;t change a single line of code in the product without breaking 1000s of existing tests. Generations of programmers have worked on that code under difficult deadlines and filled the code with all kinds of crap.<p>&gt; Very complex pieces of logic, memory management, context switching, etc. are all held together with thousands of flags. The whole code is ridden with mysterious macros that one cannot decipher without picking a notebook and expanding relevant pats of the macros by hand. It can take a day to two days to really understand what a macro does.<p>&gt; Sometimes one needs to understand the values and the effects of 20 different flag to predict how the code would behave in different situations. Sometimes 100s too! I am not exaggerating.<p>&gt; The only reason why this product is still surviving and still works is due to literally millions of tests!</text></comment> | <story><title>Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard</title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/05/hacking-on-postgresql-is-really-hard.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>avi_vallarapu</author><text>A few things to note<p>- Postgres documentation is one of the well maintained database documentations. This also means that developers, committers ensure changes to documentations for every relevant patch.<p>- talk about bugs in postgres compared to MySQl or Oracle or etc databases. Nugs are comparatively lesser or generally rare even if you are supporting postgres services as a vendor with lots of customer. the reason is the efforts involved by a strong team of developers in not accepting anything and everything, there are strict best practices, reviews, discussions, tests, and a lot more that makes it difficult to pass to a release.<p>- ultimately, more easy is the acceptance of a patch, more the number of bugs.<p>I love Postgres the way it is today and it still is the dbms of the year and developers most loved database.<p>I wish we have more Contributors committers, developers and also users and companies supporting Postgres so that the time to push a feature gets more faster and reasonable easier with more support.</text></comment> |
33,332,003 | 33,331,820 | 1 | 3 | 33,330,864 | train | <story><title>My dad's resume and skills from 1980</title><url>https://github.com/runvnc/dadsresume</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j33zusjuice</author><text>In my experience looking at résumés (mostly for entry-level tech roles), fancy formatting is 100% an attempt to cover for a lack of skill. I haven’t seen one that had good content. Intuitively, this makes sense to me, and seems to fit with the old adage, “if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” Imo, your experience should speak for itself.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...<p>I read a lot of resumes. Honestly, the number of quirky over-designed resumes I see is probably 1 in 50.<p>The vast majority of people do submit clearly organized resumes based on a template they found.<p>The reason those quirky over-designed resumes get shared on HN or other social media is because they’re different, not because they’re common.</text></item><item><author>rmnclmnt</author><text>Can we bring back this form of resume, please? Information is clearly organized, easy to read, easy to remember.<p>No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conductr</author><text>&gt; your experience should speak for itself.<p>When it does, you have trouble fitting it all on 1-2 page. You quickly go to text only, and organize things accordingly. When you lack experience, you try to make things look like an infographic so as to fill space with trivial information.</text></comment> | <story><title>My dad's resume and skills from 1980</title><url>https://github.com/runvnc/dadsresume</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j33zusjuice</author><text>In my experience looking at résumés (mostly for entry-level tech roles), fancy formatting is 100% an attempt to cover for a lack of skill. I haven’t seen one that had good content. Intuitively, this makes sense to me, and seems to fit with the old adage, “if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” Imo, your experience should speak for itself.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...<p>I read a lot of resumes. Honestly, the number of quirky over-designed resumes I see is probably 1 in 50.<p>The vast majority of people do submit clearly organized resumes based on a template they found.<p>The reason those quirky over-designed resumes get shared on HN or other social media is because they’re different, not because they’re common.</text></item><item><author>rmnclmnt</author><text>Can we bring back this form of resume, please? Information is clearly organized, easy to read, easy to remember.<p>No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ultimatt</author><text>Then there are the people who dazzle you with both their brilliance and the shiny stuff. They get the job over just the brilliant person...</text></comment> |
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