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21,557,354 | 21,557,372 | 1 | 3 | 21,557,057 | train | <story><title>Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019</title><url>http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>It’s the second time i see this language mentioned on HN. Reading about it made me feel it was coming straight from the 80s, and i must say i didn’t find anything special in its feature set (but i didn’t spend a lot of time). Could anyone provide more info on what makes this language interesting ?</text></comment> | <story><title>Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019</title><url>http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kryptiskt</author><text>Compared to the Oberon in <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectoberon.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectoberon.com</a> this is like Oberon++. I mean, it&#x27;s still a pretty bare bones language, but it has added quite a few fancy features.</text></comment> |
39,469,949 | 39,469,640 | 1 | 3 | 39,447,603 | train | <story><title>Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight</title><url>https://news.delta.com/eclipse-viewing-30000-feet-delta-offer-path-totality-flight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mackman</author><text>Story time. In the last total eclipse, I was commuting from Boston to San Francisco a bunch and planned my flight to coincide with the path of totality. I brought enough eclipse glasses for the entire flight. The flight attendants were kind enough to distribute them and even gave them to the pilot and copilot. The flight crew was excited about it and actually got approval a change to their flight plan so that they could bank the plane so that people on both sides of the plane could actually look out the window to see the eclipse. This is back in the days of Virgin America, and as a thank you they sent me a little desk statue of a Virgin America plane. I keep it on my desk in fond memory of my favorite airline. Also got some cool photos of the flight crew and passengers all wearing eclipse glasses. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mackman.net&#x2F;va.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mackman.net&#x2F;va.jpg</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>Banking the plane for people to see is a safety thing.<p>If people think they <i>won&#x27;t</i> get a chance to see, they might all crowd to one side of the plane, causing enough weight imbalance so as to cause a crash.<p>It&#x27;s a big problem on boats, and there are countless stories of someone on a crowded boat seeing a dolphin, shouting about it, everyone crowds to one side to get closer, and the whole boat capsizes.<p>Regulations now require that boats stay afloat if everyone stands on one side, but the regulations aren&#x27;t perfectly adhered to and that still doesn&#x27;t prevent people crowding to one side enough to push&#x2F;knock others overboard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eclipse viewing at 30k feet: Delta to offer path-of-totality flight</title><url>https://news.delta.com/eclipse-viewing-30000-feet-delta-offer-path-totality-flight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mackman</author><text>Story time. In the last total eclipse, I was commuting from Boston to San Francisco a bunch and planned my flight to coincide with the path of totality. I brought enough eclipse glasses for the entire flight. The flight attendants were kind enough to distribute them and even gave them to the pilot and copilot. The flight crew was excited about it and actually got approval a change to their flight plan so that they could bank the plane so that people on both sides of the plane could actually look out the window to see the eclipse. This is back in the days of Virgin America, and as a thank you they sent me a little desk statue of a Virgin America plane. I keep it on my desk in fond memory of my favorite airline. Also got some cool photos of the flight crew and passengers all wearing eclipse glasses. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mackman.net&#x2F;va.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mackman.net&#x2F;va.jpg</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seper8</author><text>That is so cool, honestly you have probably contributed to a core memory of everyone on that flight... Really no words.</text></comment> |
31,179,858 | 31,180,060 | 1 | 2 | 31,176,138 | train | <story><title>SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/selinux-unmanageable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tristor</author><text>Honestly, the bigger issue is that most SWEs just aren’t very good. It’s extremely telling that when you spend time in tech forums most people dread system design questions as the harder side of interviewing for senior level SWE roles…<p>System design, though, is the actual point of SW ENGINEERING. That’s the part that is responsible for creating a foundation of quality to build on.<p>The other side is that sysadmins have largely become DevOps or SRE roles, which means most folks left as a sysadmin are those that couldn’t hack it in the other roles. In the end, as we grow the number of people in tech, the number of software and systems, and the complexity we experience a regression to the mean across the board.<p>It’s always been a pet peeve of mine that I can count on my hand the number of SWEs in my ~20yr career that had similar understanding of the system they worked with as their SRE counterparts… but this should be table stakes.</text></item><item><author>fefe23</author><text>The problem is not so much that selinux is too complicated (it is as complicated as it needs to be), but that we all run software we don&#x27;t understand.<p>The whole IT ecosystem has become a hail mary. Even admins usually have no idea what a certain program actually wants to do. If the admin knows how to install the app so that it actually runs, you call them a good admin.<p>From a security point of view, an application is like a nuclear power plant. It&#x27;s good if it works as planned, but if something blows up it endangers your whole enterprise.<p>The whole container movement can be seen as putting the apps in a sarcophagus like Chernobyl. That way the radiation hopefully stays in, but history has shown that it really doesn&#x27;t. Also, the wheel of history has just turned one more iteration and now admins just view the sarcophagus as something you deploy as you previously deployed the app. Who is responsible that it is air tight? Well, uh, nobody, really.<p>You can&#x27;t even blame the applications for that. Let&#x27;s say you want to build a good, secure application. How do you know what files your application will try to open? What syscalls it wants to call? Library and framework functions tend to not document that properly.<p>Obscure files like &#x2F;etc&#x2F;localtime, &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf, &#x2F;etc&#x2F;ld.so.conf, &#x2F;dev&#x2F;zero ... how can you expect devs to build well documented and well sandboxable applications if they don&#x27;t know which files their library functions will open?<p>You may have heard of &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf ... but have you heard of &#x2F;etc&#x2F;gai.conf? &#x2F;etc&#x2F;nsswitch.conf? &#x2F;etc&#x2F;host.conf? Wouldn&#x27;t it be great if the man page of getaddrinfo mentioned those (mine only mentions gai.conf)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattgreenrocks</author><text>&gt; It’s extremely telling that when you spend time in tech forums most people dread system design questions as the harder side of interviewing for senior level SWE roles…<p>Yes. It&#x27;s absurd that anyone that can talk about this stuff at a basic level is seen as some sort of ultra-skilled professional. See also: the relatively small amount of chatter about this stuff in the blogosphere, where there&#x27;s a million tutorials that amount to &quot;here&#x27;s how you run create-react-app&quot; and about 3 that talk about even moderate system design topics.</text></comment> | <story><title>SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/selinux-unmanageable.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tristor</author><text>Honestly, the bigger issue is that most SWEs just aren’t very good. It’s extremely telling that when you spend time in tech forums most people dread system design questions as the harder side of interviewing for senior level SWE roles…<p>System design, though, is the actual point of SW ENGINEERING. That’s the part that is responsible for creating a foundation of quality to build on.<p>The other side is that sysadmins have largely become DevOps or SRE roles, which means most folks left as a sysadmin are those that couldn’t hack it in the other roles. In the end, as we grow the number of people in tech, the number of software and systems, and the complexity we experience a regression to the mean across the board.<p>It’s always been a pet peeve of mine that I can count on my hand the number of SWEs in my ~20yr career that had similar understanding of the system they worked with as their SRE counterparts… but this should be table stakes.</text></item><item><author>fefe23</author><text>The problem is not so much that selinux is too complicated (it is as complicated as it needs to be), but that we all run software we don&#x27;t understand.<p>The whole IT ecosystem has become a hail mary. Even admins usually have no idea what a certain program actually wants to do. If the admin knows how to install the app so that it actually runs, you call them a good admin.<p>From a security point of view, an application is like a nuclear power plant. It&#x27;s good if it works as planned, but if something blows up it endangers your whole enterprise.<p>The whole container movement can be seen as putting the apps in a sarcophagus like Chernobyl. That way the radiation hopefully stays in, but history has shown that it really doesn&#x27;t. Also, the wheel of history has just turned one more iteration and now admins just view the sarcophagus as something you deploy as you previously deployed the app. Who is responsible that it is air tight? Well, uh, nobody, really.<p>You can&#x27;t even blame the applications for that. Let&#x27;s say you want to build a good, secure application. How do you know what files your application will try to open? What syscalls it wants to call? Library and framework functions tend to not document that properly.<p>Obscure files like &#x2F;etc&#x2F;localtime, &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf, &#x2F;etc&#x2F;ld.so.conf, &#x2F;dev&#x2F;zero ... how can you expect devs to build well documented and well sandboxable applications if they don&#x27;t know which files their library functions will open?<p>You may have heard of &#x2F;etc&#x2F;resolv.conf ... but have you heard of &#x2F;etc&#x2F;gai.conf? &#x2F;etc&#x2F;nsswitch.conf? &#x2F;etc&#x2F;host.conf? Wouldn&#x27;t it be great if the man page of getaddrinfo mentioned those (mine only mentions gai.conf)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rr808</author><text>&gt; Honestly, the bigger issue is that most SWEs just aren’t very good. It’s extremely telling that when you spend time in tech forums most people dread system design questions as the harder side of interviewing for senior level SWE roles…<p>I think this is a bit unfair, the software industry is so big now there are lots of different sub-sectors. Big Tech companies have huge scale problems that are kind of unique. Most developers work on products that only have a few hundred users at a time.<p>Your 20 years experience is a bit telling. I&#x27;m the same age, back then SWEs usually had full access to production environments. Now everything is segregated and devs can&#x27;t experiment in prod and end up getting detached.</text></comment> |
35,350,377 | 35,346,068 | 1 | 2 | 35,325,634 | train | <story><title>Tectonic – A modern, complete, self-contained Tex engine with Unicode support</title><url>https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>I used it a bit recently and it is brilliant. Instead of lugging a huge TeX installation around you have a single reasonably sized binary. When you run ’tectonic file.tex’ it will download everything it needs on the fly. If you want to run it without internet access you can sort of freeze the downloaded files and run tectonic with your *.tex plus the frozen bundle.<p>It also claims reasonable error messages but I only ran it on error-free files, so I cannot tell.<p>One small downside is that in my direct comparison with lualatex it was always marginally slower.<p>Another one is that it is not a rewrite but still based on the old TeX code.<p>I think tectonic is a great project but generally speaking I find it quite disappointing that we do not have 100% compatible LaTeX with a modern codebase. And that is not even because the old code is bad - not at all. It&#x27;s just that a pure Rust or Java implementation would make it so much easier to integrate into other projects. An audited TeX core we could run on untrusted input would be another benefit.<p>Which brings me to my last point: When researching tectonic I found a fork that attempted a pure Rust port and it <i>nearly</i> worked with examples. There is hope...*</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alerighi</author><text>Why rewrite TeX? To me TeX is one of the example of what a software project should aim to be, arrive to a stable version where it does what it should do and it work reasonably well. That was the initial idea of Knuth (in fact the version is a number that approaches PI one decimal at a time).<p>This is the contrary of the &quot;modern&quot; philosophy that says that we need to constantly modify, update or rewrite a software in &quot;modern&quot; languages even if it&#x27;s a huge effort and risks introducing bugs that were not present in the original version.<p>Well, at least if we want to rewrite it let&#x27;s just have to wait 10 years, then we can fed all the codebase to ChatGPT and ask for a new fancy Rust version!<p>Regarding of integration, TeX follows the (to me still relevant) UNIX philosophy that a software can be called by another software and the input&#x2F;output communicates in a pipe. Nowadays we have even containers that let us distribute the software as a single unit so we don&#x27;t have to worry about installing multiple files on a system. Not a big deal, in the end.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tectonic – A modern, complete, self-contained Tex engine with Unicode support</title><url>https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>I used it a bit recently and it is brilliant. Instead of lugging a huge TeX installation around you have a single reasonably sized binary. When you run ’tectonic file.tex’ it will download everything it needs on the fly. If you want to run it without internet access you can sort of freeze the downloaded files and run tectonic with your *.tex plus the frozen bundle.<p>It also claims reasonable error messages but I only ran it on error-free files, so I cannot tell.<p>One small downside is that in my direct comparison with lualatex it was always marginally slower.<p>Another one is that it is not a rewrite but still based on the old TeX code.<p>I think tectonic is a great project but generally speaking I find it quite disappointing that we do not have 100% compatible LaTeX with a modern codebase. And that is not even because the old code is bad - not at all. It&#x27;s just that a pure Rust or Java implementation would make it so much easier to integrate into other projects. An audited TeX core we could run on untrusted input would be another benefit.<p>Which brings me to my last point: When researching tectonic I found a fork that attempted a pure Rust port and it <i>nearly</i> worked with examples. There is hope...*</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>convolvatron</author><text>I&#x27;ve been looking at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typst.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typst.app</a><p>not tex based, but uses CM fonts. I really think that trying to update the programming parts of TeX is necessary. sadly I&#x27;m struggling with fonts in svg figures.<p>but to suddenly see applying effort in this area and getting real traction is treat. so many thanks for the luminaries that put up the last one, but maybe its time for some rework after 40 years.</text></comment> |
31,175,789 | 31,175,485 | 1 | 2 | 31,154,522 | train | <story><title>Esports stars have shorter careers than NFL players</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/esports/2022/04/19/esports-age-retirement/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karmakaze</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe it mentioned StarCraft without mentioning some well known players as sample points.<p>- Maru[0] (age 24) 2010-present<p>- DRG[1] (age 30) 2011-present (minus 2 years off for military service)<p>So arguably Maru could have another 6 years in him or more.<p>Interesting trivia: One reason StarCraft 1: BroodWar is more popular in S.Korea (despite it having janky motion even with the Remastered graphics) is because many took to the game during a major economic downturn. [Can&#x27;t remember where I watched that reported, maybe a Netflix documentary.]<p>There&#x27;s hope that Microsoft&#x2F;ActivisionBlizzard may figure out how to monetize the free-to-play game to sustain &amp; grow it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;starcraft2&#x2F;Maru" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;starcraft2&#x2F;Maru</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;starcraft2&#x2F;DongRaeGu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;starcraft2&#x2F;DongRaeGu</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kirrent</author><text>For the longer careers I think you have to look into BW players. Off the top of my head Bisu might be the standout, starting in 2005 and still competing at a decently high level in ASL aged 32. Flash&#x27;s career is slightly shorter, starting in 2007. He was very young so he&#x27;s only 29 now, but he&#x27;s still the best in the world. Even Stork (33) made a (less impressive) comeback recently and with Jaedong (32) in the last ASL, every member of TBLS can make it to ASL which is just astonishing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Esports stars have shorter careers than NFL players</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/esports/2022/04/19/esports-age-retirement/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karmakaze</author><text>I can&#x27;t believe it mentioned StarCraft without mentioning some well known players as sample points.<p>- Maru[0] (age 24) 2010-present<p>- DRG[1] (age 30) 2011-present (minus 2 years off for military service)<p>So arguably Maru could have another 6 years in him or more.<p>Interesting trivia: One reason StarCraft 1: BroodWar is more popular in S.Korea (despite it having janky motion even with the Remastered graphics) is because many took to the game during a major economic downturn. [Can&#x27;t remember where I watched that reported, maybe a Netflix documentary.]<p>There&#x27;s hope that Microsoft&#x2F;ActivisionBlizzard may figure out how to monetize the free-to-play game to sustain &amp; grow it.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;starcraft2&#x2F;Maru" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;starcraft2&#x2F;Maru</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;starcraft2&#x2F;DongRaeGu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;liquipedia.net&#x2F;starcraft2&#x2F;DongRaeGu</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>Maru is a SCII player which might not be a thing in 6 years seeing the diminishing prize pools etc. Meanwhile Morten Andersen did 25 years in the NFL which isn’t going away anytime soon.<p>Beyond game longevity, each game can only support a tiny number of professionals and the games balance is often changed in response to overly dominant strategies. On top of this as you gain fame people will prepare to counter you specifically. Combined with injuries or other out of game issues and it’s extremely uncommon for people to be self sufficient for very long.</text></comment> |
22,121,859 | 22,121,043 | 1 | 2 | 22,119,760 | train | <story><title>I2C in a Nutshell</title><url>https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/i2c-in-a-nutshell</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fra</author><text>I think I2C and SPI have very different use cases. Over I2C, you can interact with 127 devices with just 2 pins. To do the same with SPI, you&#x27;d need 130 (4 + an additional CS for every device on the bus).<p>You may think of the extra pins as not a problem, but on every product I&#x27;ve worked on we&#x27;ve been pin-limited on the MCU.</text></item><item><author>Ives</author><text>I really don&#x27;t like I2C. Yes, in principle it&#x27;s pretty simple, but if you consider NACKS, slaves holding SCK low, what happens if your master resets while the slave is trying to send a 0 bit (hint: power cycle!), etc, it&#x27;s so easy for the peripheral to get stuck.<p>SPI is much easier to write correctly, and pretty much only has the extra wire (usually not a problem) and the phase polarity issues as a negative point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarry</author><text>&gt; Over I2C, you can interact with 127 devices with just 2 pins.<p>In practice, I don&#x27;t see that many chips offering 7 bits of address configuration. You buy a chip, it has a hardwired address. Maybe a pin or two for selecting another address.</text></comment> | <story><title>I2C in a Nutshell</title><url>https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/i2c-in-a-nutshell</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fra</author><text>I think I2C and SPI have very different use cases. Over I2C, you can interact with 127 devices with just 2 pins. To do the same with SPI, you&#x27;d need 130 (4 + an additional CS for every device on the bus).<p>You may think of the extra pins as not a problem, but on every product I&#x27;ve worked on we&#x27;ve been pin-limited on the MCU.</text></item><item><author>Ives</author><text>I really don&#x27;t like I2C. Yes, in principle it&#x27;s pretty simple, but if you consider NACKS, slaves holding SCK low, what happens if your master resets while the slave is trying to send a 0 bit (hint: power cycle!), etc, it&#x27;s so easy for the peripheral to get stuck.<p>SPI is much easier to write correctly, and pretty much only has the extra wire (usually not a problem) and the phase polarity issues as a negative point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ives</author><text>Agreed, but most I2C busses only have 2 or 3 devices on them. There are some boards with 16 or so devices on the same bus, but much more than that and you&#x27;d better hope you can either program their addresses or order them with a specific address, or you might end up with 2 chips with the same address.</text></comment> |
33,112,432 | 33,112,430 | 1 | 2 | 33,109,070 | train | <story><title>Celsius Execs Cashed Out $40M in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/celsius-execs-cashed-out-bitcoin-price-crypto-ponzi-1849623526</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tossl568</author><text>You can&#x27;t steal my Bitcoin if I don&#x27;t deposit them with a custodian. This is like blaming gold itself if the owners of a gold bank run off with the gold.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Oh hey look the consequences of a monetary system that isn&#x27;t backed by a legal system (that is backed up by people with guns).<p>The reason fiat money works is because at the end of the day if you run into trouble you have the legal system to make things right. And if the perpetrator of the crime doesn&#x27;t listen to the legal system, there are people with guns&#x2F;violence to back that up. That&#x27;s why the whole system works -- because of the threat of violence.<p>Crypto doesn&#x27;t have that. It has a lot of advantages (I use crypto myself) but it also has a big disadvantage, for now.<p>When the USA starts issuing it&#x27;s own crypto they might solve this problem by requiring KYC to get the coins, but then of course you loose the anonymity aspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karamanolev</author><text>&gt; You can&#x27;t steal my Bitcoin if I don&#x27;t deposit them with a custodian.<p>Many people have lost their BTC and other coins to hacks, phishes, hardware failures, software failures and so on. So in the sense of the people from the general public, yes, I can steal your Bitcoin.<p>&gt; This is like blaming gold itself if the owners of a gold bank run off with the gold.<p>You can keep it under the mattress and expose yourself to one kind of failure mode. You can also keep it with the bank with the clear expectation that the owners will <i>not</i> run off with the gold and also expect the state to go after the owners if they do. Which is not happening here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Celsius Execs Cashed Out $40M in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers</title><url>https://gizmodo.com/celsius-execs-cashed-out-bitcoin-price-crypto-ponzi-1849623526</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tossl568</author><text>You can&#x27;t steal my Bitcoin if I don&#x27;t deposit them with a custodian. This is like blaming gold itself if the owners of a gold bank run off with the gold.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Oh hey look the consequences of a monetary system that isn&#x27;t backed by a legal system (that is backed up by people with guns).<p>The reason fiat money works is because at the end of the day if you run into trouble you have the legal system to make things right. And if the perpetrator of the crime doesn&#x27;t listen to the legal system, there are people with guns&#x2F;violence to back that up. That&#x27;s why the whole system works -- because of the threat of violence.<p>Crypto doesn&#x27;t have that. It has a lot of advantages (I use crypto myself) but it also has a big disadvantage, for now.<p>When the USA starts issuing it&#x27;s own crypto they might solve this problem by requiring KYC to get the coins, but then of course you loose the anonymity aspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smachiz</author><text>Except that we have regulations for banks and brokerages for how they must operate, what sort of cash reserves they have, and how they must conduct audits. And they pay into an insurance program (FDIC&#x2F;SIPC) to return money to depositors if they collapse.</text></comment> |
6,170,544 | 6,170,600 | 1 | 2 | 6,170,117 | train | <story><title>Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/08/06/announcing-0-9-1.aspx</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sdevlin</author><text>I sometimes find myself torn between dynamic typing (great for rapid prototyping) and static typing (great for tooling and compile-time error checks).<p>I&#x27;m a big fan of TypeScript&#x27;s approach, which gives you the best of both worlds. Start with fully dynamic code to explore the problem space, then add more static guarantees as you firm up your design.<p>I haven&#x27;t had occasion to write a big web app recently, but I&#x27;m itching to find one so I can put TypeScript through its paces.</text></comment> | <story><title>Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/08/06/announcing-0-9-1.aspx</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sluukkonen</author><text>Does anyone have experience with using TypeScript with existing libraries like Angular.js?<p>I know that there are definition files for it [1] (and many other popular libraries), but unfortunately I haven&#x27;t had the time to check out their quality.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/angularjs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;borisyankov&#x2F;DefinitelyTyped&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;a...</a></text></comment> |
28,416,321 | 28,416,307 | 1 | 2 | 28,415,249 | train | <story><title>PayPal Mafia</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>11thEarlOfMar</author><text>How much of their many successes is due to abilities versus timing? The period they invested their initial PayPal fortunes in was in the nasccent Web 2.0 era. They had the benefit of capital from the PayPal exit, plus an up to date understanding of modern web capabilities, plus the initial open source platforms and leverage, plus a great deal of learning about what didn&#x27;t work in the .COM 1.0 bubble.<p>Plus intelligence, inventiveness and drive.</text></comment> | <story><title>PayPal Mafia</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>numair</author><text>All of the conspiracy theories and hero-worshipping etc ignore the basic, boring reality of how these concentrations of power emerge: half the work is showing up.<p>There was a time that you had to beg and plead with people to take websites and the Internet seriously. Nobody wanted to show up. These guys showed up. The rest is history.</text></comment> |
27,311,337 | 27,311,224 | 1 | 3 | 27,299,363 | train | <story><title>The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower</title><url>https://japan-forward.com/goodbye-to-the-future-the-last-days-of-tokyos-nakagin-capsule-tower/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>A fantastic article from the last time this topic came up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;failedarchitecture.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;a-year-in-the-metabolist-future-of-1972&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;failedarchitecture.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;a-year-in-the-metabol...</a> It goes over the history of the tower, the experience of the author living there, and has better shots of the interiors featuring a variety of tenants.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower</title><url>https://japan-forward.com/goodbye-to-the-future-the-last-days-of-tokyos-nakagin-capsule-tower/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cody_ellingham</author><text>I published a photobook &#x27;Danchi Dreams&#x27; in 2018 that captured the massive Japanese apartment blocks from the same era as Nakagin. The apartment buildings, known as &#x27;danchi&#x27;, were constructed from the 1960s - 1980s to replace burnt-out cities and house a booming population. Though they might not be quite as spectacular as what the Metabolists dreamed up I think they shared a forward-looking vision for what the modern world could be. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danchi-dreams.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danchi-dreams.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
15,101,036 | 15,100,865 | 1 | 3 | 15,098,882 | train | <story><title>Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/23/climate/alaska-permafrost-thawing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryananderson</author><text>I&#x27;ve become convinced that decisive action will never be taken as long as it requires a decrease in the standard of living (that is, less energy use).<p>I am out of ideas for how to convince the world to drastically draw down our fossil fuel use. Everything has been tried.<p>It has become a cliche that our problems cannot be solved by technology alone, but this one really may be up to technology alone. Human nature is not going to change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Recurecur</author><text>My stance is that if society has decided it&#x27;s serious about CO2, it is necessary to put a whole lot more effort into next-gen nuclear than has been done so far. Even so, small companies like ThorCon, Terrestrial Energy and others are making good progress. The next step is a plan for a major, worldwide rollout of (mostly modular) nuclear reactors.<p>That avoids the issue of a possible decrease in the standard of living, and provides an affordable mechanism that doesn&#x27;t involve coal for India, Indonesia and other countries that need to build out their electric grid.<p>Lots of good info here:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;news" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thorconpower.com&#x2F;news</a><p>Video from ThorCon CEO making his case:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q4xjQWBw7i0&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Q4xjQWBw7i0&amp;feature=youtu.be</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/23/climate/alaska-permafrost-thawing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bryananderson</author><text>I&#x27;ve become convinced that decisive action will never be taken as long as it requires a decrease in the standard of living (that is, less energy use).<p>I am out of ideas for how to convince the world to drastically draw down our fossil fuel use. Everything has been tried.<p>It has become a cliche that our problems cannot be solved by technology alone, but this one really may be up to technology alone. Human nature is not going to change.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atomi</author><text>There&#x27;s a great Documentary[1] about the recent mass Coral Reef bleaching too. Our leaders who do nothing about this and those of us who elect them are screwing up royally.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b6fHA9R2cKI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=b6fHA9R2cKI</a></text></comment> |
14,387,443 | 14,387,460 | 1 | 3 | 14,385,805 | train | <story><title>JavaScript Concurrency Model and Event Loop</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/EventLoop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twic</author><text>One thing this doesn&#x27;t touch on is the different handling of microtasks and macrotasks:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakearchibald.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;tasks-microtasks-queues-and-schedules&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jakearchibald.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;tasks-microtasks-queues-and-s...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c-sharpcorner.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;overview-of-micro-tasks-in-knockoutjs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.c-sharpcorner.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;overview-of-micro-tasks...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>JavaScript Concurrency Model and Event Loop</title><url>https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/EventLoop</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>Side topic :<p>The event loop architecture is also heavily used in iOS &#x2F; Cocoa, although it is often not well understood by developper. Each thread has an event loop, including the main UI thread, and many weird behaviors can be understood better once you know a bit about them.<p>Which made me wonder if a simple implementation of agent based concurrency in swift server couldn&#x27;t simply be one agent - one event loop, plus a way to prevent direct calls across agent boundaries. Server is not iOS, but i suppose some language facilities should already be there and make it easier to implement.<p>&#x2F;side topic</text></comment> |
8,842,676 | 8,841,977 | 1 | 3 | 8,841,337 | train | <story><title>How Software in Half of NYC Cabs Generates $5.2M a Year in Extra Tips</title><url>http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/107245431809/how-software-in-half-of-nyc-cabs-generates-5-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickstefan12</author><text>I just ran into this last night: I took a cab home from the airport. One: he had no gps and took a wrong freeway change getting home. Two he barely spoke English. Three I basically had to navigate him back on track and painfully turn by turn.<p>End of the trip I go pay, and he&#x27;s sad that I want to pay with a credit card. Then the tip meter only has 20% or other. I hit other with a much lower tip. He cancels the transaction from the front, and says that the ride is actually 150 not 100, and that&#x27;s why I need to tip. So I say fine and end up tipping him the 20% at 100.<p>But seriously isn&#x27;t a tip like a bonus!? Why are we all required to give 20% tips even when the service sucks?<p>Next time I&#x27;ll just uber.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Software in Half of NYC Cabs Generates $5.2M a Year in Extra Tips</title><url>http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/107245431809/how-software-in-half-of-nyc-cabs-generates-5-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>infinotize</author><text>I thought this was a pretty blatant cheap trick the first time I saw it (similar to restaurants putting tip calculations on bills from 18-25% (which are usually post-tax no less!!)) and on the occasion I am in a cab always punch in &quot;Other,&quot; or best option pay cash. Automatic deduction for cabbies who often tip themselves and hand you less change without asking - give me my change in full and I&#x27;ll tip you, thanks.<p>To add a data point on tipping amounts I would say I usually tip 10-15% for a good cab ride or less for a bad one, or even zero if the driver &quot;screened&quot; my fare (common from yellow cabs in Queens - keeping the doors locked and asking where you are going before letting you in, which is illegal) or takes unnecessary routes, blatantly excessive slowing to hit red lights, etc. I might venture into 20%+ for a good service ride to&#x2F;from an airport.<p>Restaurants I stay around 15% for fair or better service, 20% for good, much less than 15% requires the server to be noticably rude or inattentive. Sometimes I do feel like an outlier or cheapskate as the &quot;norm&quot; service for anything feels like it has become 20%, which I find a little ridiculous. I won&#x27;t not tip because I don&#x27;t &quot;believe&quot; in the culture of tipping, because all I would be doing is hurt mostly decent workers; at the same time I won&#x27;t default to a high tip for average service just because other people are doing it. I try to find a middle ground.</text></comment> |
15,360,912 | 15,359,995 | 1 | 2 | 15,357,584 | train | <story><title>Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/three-paths-in-the-tech-industry-founder-executive-or-employee/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidlls</author><text>I have a different (admittedly controversial) take, having been on the &quot;tech ladder&quot; for some time now (as a Senior SWE and Lead Engineer): most individual contributors overestimate how much value they actually provide, especially in the Bay Area. That isn&#x27;t to say we&#x27;re not under-appreciated and under-compensated (we are both). But realistically much of the time work we do is easily done by literally thousands of other people just as well. The same just isn&#x27;t true of product development, sales and marketing. Any one of those three teams, staffed well, will account for well more than the value of the entire engineering organization.<p>Mostly this is a self-inflicted problem. Especially in the Bay Area, where developers tend to value CS ability signaling rather than the ability to work well with product teams and the ability to engage in practical engineering.<p>There&#x27;s too much focus by developers on shallow things, like fad-following the latest frameworks, on pseudo-intellectualism or technology-purism (e.g. &quot;coding is doing math&quot;, code &quot;elegance&quot;, whether&#x2F;how FP is just so much better than anything else, etc.), and trivia like programming language choice.</text></item><item><author>nichochar</author><text>This is rather true in practice, but I find it tremendously depressing.<p>I have found that the executive path is actually the one that most of the scumbags take, it is the one that attracts the most people, and those people are usually not likable, they&#x27;re salespeople that sell themselves all day.<p>The third group, the one that actually creates value, is accurately represented as not as successful both in terms of money and prestige. I think this is a damn shame, and we should be striving to stop that.
This is a good painting of how bad things are today, but instead of &quot;tricks to game the system&quot; i wish it layed out a path of how to build an industry that doesn&#x27;t attract all those ambitious selfish (executives) people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kartan</author><text>&gt; The same just isn&#x27;t true of product development, sales and marketing. Any one of those three teams, staffed well, will account for well more than the value of the entire engineering organization.<p>Why is it not true for them? Sales are not magic, it is a profession that can be learned. I have seen a lot of companies stating how important is sales, and how unique they are. It can&#x27;t be true for all companies. It is like everyone thinking that they are above average, it is just not possible.<p>If your product is software, literally it is impossible that sales add more value than the engineering organization that builds the product. Without engineering organization, you don&#x27;t have anything to sell. Without sales and marketing, you will also have a hard time. It is collaboration what brings success.<p>&gt; There&#x27;s too much focus by developers on shallow things, like fad-following the latest frameworks, on pseudo-intellectualism or technology-purism<p>This is usually a problem with recruiting. You get what you pay for. If your interviews are about technical expertise and you ignore basic persona-values evaluation and fit to build valuable features, you get that. And it jeopardizes the viability of a company. You need some really good experts, but you don&#x27;t need everyone to be one.</text></comment> | <story><title>Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/three-paths-in-the-tech-industry-founder-executive-or-employee/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidlls</author><text>I have a different (admittedly controversial) take, having been on the &quot;tech ladder&quot; for some time now (as a Senior SWE and Lead Engineer): most individual contributors overestimate how much value they actually provide, especially in the Bay Area. That isn&#x27;t to say we&#x27;re not under-appreciated and under-compensated (we are both). But realistically much of the time work we do is easily done by literally thousands of other people just as well. The same just isn&#x27;t true of product development, sales and marketing. Any one of those three teams, staffed well, will account for well more than the value of the entire engineering organization.<p>Mostly this is a self-inflicted problem. Especially in the Bay Area, where developers tend to value CS ability signaling rather than the ability to work well with product teams and the ability to engage in practical engineering.<p>There&#x27;s too much focus by developers on shallow things, like fad-following the latest frameworks, on pseudo-intellectualism or technology-purism (e.g. &quot;coding is doing math&quot;, code &quot;elegance&quot;, whether&#x2F;how FP is just so much better than anything else, etc.), and trivia like programming language choice.</text></item><item><author>nichochar</author><text>This is rather true in practice, but I find it tremendously depressing.<p>I have found that the executive path is actually the one that most of the scumbags take, it is the one that attracts the most people, and those people are usually not likable, they&#x27;re salespeople that sell themselves all day.<p>The third group, the one that actually creates value, is accurately represented as not as successful both in terms of money and prestige. I think this is a damn shame, and we should be striving to stop that.
This is a good painting of how bad things are today, but instead of &quot;tricks to game the system&quot; i wish it layed out a path of how to build an industry that doesn&#x27;t attract all those ambitious selfish (executives) people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mo1ok</author><text>I agree and both disagree. I&#x27;m working right now for a client that is a large corporation that didn&#x27;t do any of those &quot;fad&quot; things - and it is _tremendously_ costly.<p>For example, one team has spent several weeks and thousands of dollars to get another team&#x27;s SOAP integration working correctly, when it would have taken five minutes in REST.<p>The codebase did not follow a &quot;elegant&quot; practice and is an absolute spaghetti mess. Things that should take 30 minutes take one week and this add tremendously to personnel cost.<p>I agree though that working together is tremendously undervalued. A decently smart person can be taught anything (which is part of the replacability problem you mentioned), but how to not be an entitled ass is nearly impossible to teach in a workplace environment.</text></comment> |
27,083,822 | 27,082,950 | 1 | 3 | 27,080,314 | train | <story><title>Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/993821945/goodwill-doesnt-want-your-broken-toaster</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This phenomenon also happens when people think that their physical goods donations (usually mailed&#x2F;shipped) to distant places after natural disasters = helping.<p>Often in fact, it&#x27;s called the 2nd disaster -- the flood of useless, disorganized junk that people send, thinking they&#x27;re helping but actually adding work to the system. Dirty blankets, old shoes, random toys.<p>Charities&#x2F;NGOs really don&#x27;t want your disorganized stuff. They need $. Money. Funds that they can just spend on buying exactly what they need, in bulk, that can be distributed in an organized way.<p>Hard to get random people to understand that, or prefer to give money over sentimental junk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ralph84</author><text>In general they also don&#x27;t need your sporadic untrained volunteer time either. The volunteering events that HR departments love to organize where employees earning six figures spend hours on make work always strike me as an incredibly inefficient way to actually help people in need.</text></comment> | <story><title>Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/993821945/goodwill-doesnt-want-your-broken-toaster</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>supernova87a</author><text>This phenomenon also happens when people think that their physical goods donations (usually mailed&#x2F;shipped) to distant places after natural disasters = helping.<p>Often in fact, it&#x27;s called the 2nd disaster -- the flood of useless, disorganized junk that people send, thinking they&#x27;re helping but actually adding work to the system. Dirty blankets, old shoes, random toys.<p>Charities&#x2F;NGOs really don&#x27;t want your disorganized stuff. They need $. Money. Funds that they can just spend on buying exactly what they need, in bulk, that can be distributed in an organized way.<p>Hard to get random people to understand that, or prefer to give money over sentimental junk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>This would be a great scene in a dystopian star warsesque universe.<p>Planet is bombed, human suffering, etc. Then, because of light speed travel, minutes later broken lamps and broken toasters fall from run down ’good will’ ships that finish off the planet.</text></comment> |
19,869,530 | 19,868,562 | 1 | 2 | 19,862,486 | train | <story><title>Scanning the fintech landscape: disruptive models</title><url>https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/banking-matters/scanning-the-fintech-landscape</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sarcasmic</author><text>I didn&#x27;t see &#x27;cash management accounts&#x27; on the list, but I think these are among the best products. They&#x27;re not too common, but more are appearing now.<p>There&#x27;s the classic ones that combine various investment products and slush balance that&#x27;s insured by a bank sweep in the same interface, and the new ones that abstract completely away from the underlying storage of the money, and provide some familiar features (debit card, bill pay, ACH transfers) and perks (high interest rate, no fees).<p>The latter kind is a great, low-risk, low-effort store of spending money for people with unpredictable income and&#x2F;or spending who have little time or cushion to invest in products with higher returns and need the liquidity. It&#x27;s a compelling alternative to a traditional US checking account at a large bank, where most of this demographic has their money.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scanning the fintech landscape: disruptive models</title><url>https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/banking-matters/scanning-the-fintech-landscape</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>venantius</author><text>We [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;griffin.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;griffin.sh</a>] are building a bank-as-a-platform in the UK due to the friendlier regulatory environment compared to the US. We see a huge opportunity in this space and most of the existing incumbent institutions have stumbled into the space rather than building a purpose-built company to solve the issues that a platform bank can solve.</text></comment> |
23,417,169 | 23,395,345 | 1 | 2 | 23,394,671 | train | <story><title>“Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-j-aveni_blacklivesmatter-activity-6673316720993824768-q_dU/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>somecommit</author><text>After all the shitty things facebook did in the whole world, inducing depression, suicidal behaviors for the most fragile etc... this person resigns because the CEO refused to censor the elected POTUS. I have a hard time to figure what&#x27;s going on in his head, and how he thinks it&#x27;s helping democraty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newbie578</author><text>Now that you say it that way, that is actually a pretty good point.<p>He was fine with Facebook breaking users privacy, aggregating data, spying on users over smartphone mics, but a Tweet cuts the line?<p>Admirable of him, but I have a pretty big feeling that although he is working(ed) at Facebook, he is quite green for the real world.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Today, I submitted my resignation to Facebook”</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-j-aveni_blacklivesmatter-activity-6673316720993824768-q_dU/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>somecommit</author><text>After all the shitty things facebook did in the whole world, inducing depression, suicidal behaviors for the most fragile etc... this person resigns because the CEO refused to censor the elected POTUS. I have a hard time to figure what&#x27;s going on in his head, and how he thinks it&#x27;s helping democraty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CharlesW</author><text>&gt; <i>I have a hard time to figure what&#x27;s going on in his head, and how he thinks it&#x27;s helping democraty.</i><p>Interesting. I have a hard time understanding out how it could be any clearer.</text></comment> |
27,720,038 | 27,719,465 | 1 | 3 | 27,719,290 | train | <story><title>Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement</title><url>https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oliwarner</author><text>Interesting. I use full Vue for this quite a lot, mount onto specific DOM points, replace their content with (most commonly) an enhanced form, or a data table. Works well, costs 30Kb plus compat layers. You can argue all day long about the cost of 30Kb, but then you put a 200Kb image in your header.<p>Anyway, looking at the docs, my approach wouldn&#x27;t be as easy in vue-petite. It looks like Components have been functionally gutted. You can still approximate something, but you seem to lose a lot of ecosystem benefits of Vue. Theirs looks great for<p>Ultimately, this all seems like something coverage and tree-shaking <i>should</i> be able to do. If you&#x27;re only using 5Kb of Vue, only 5Kb should be bundled. One day, eh? Until then, is the additional 25Kb actually hurting your users?</text></comment> | <story><title>Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement</title><url>https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>This progressive enhancement is exactly why I prefer Vue and find it so productive. 95% of apps are best built as server-side rendered with reactivity on top of each page as needed (instead of the JS&#x2F;SPA monstrosities we have today).<p>Nice to see an even lighter version optimized for this use-case.</text></comment> |
30,992,978 | 30,992,035 | 1 | 3 | 30,987,885 | train | <story><title>DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla</title><url>https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/04/09/check-out-this-deepminds-new-language-model-chinchilla-70b-parameters-which-significantly-outperforms-gopher-280b-and-gpt-3-175b-on-a-large-range-of-downstream-evaluation-tasks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ritwikgupta</author><text>Off-topic to Chinchilla, but relevant to the source site: MarkTechPost consistently borderline plagiarizes articles and shares them on their website as &quot;paper summaries&quot;. They copy-paste from the source material and change some of the wording around as to appear original. My work, as well as other work from Berkeley AI Research, has been posted in this manner on their site.<p>This seems highly unethical, and I&#x27;m surprised how they continue to operate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andreyk</author><text>To add to this - they do this regularly, multiple times per week. While they do link to and acknowledge the source work, they do not make clear their writing is quoted or nearly quoted.</text></comment> | <story><title>DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla</title><url>https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/04/09/check-out-this-deepminds-new-language-model-chinchilla-70b-parameters-which-significantly-outperforms-gopher-280b-and-gpt-3-175b-on-a-large-range-of-downstream-evaluation-tasks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ritwikgupta</author><text>Off-topic to Chinchilla, but relevant to the source site: MarkTechPost consistently borderline plagiarizes articles and shares them on their website as &quot;paper summaries&quot;. They copy-paste from the source material and change some of the wording around as to appear original. My work, as well as other work from Berkeley AI Research, has been posted in this manner on their site.<p>This seems highly unethical, and I&#x27;m surprised how they continue to operate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parhamn</author><text>I don’t know about this site, and I agree its unethical. But it does make me realize that I much prefer using language of the paper directly as opposed to having a non-expert poorly
translate what your paper said. Especially given how papers put a lot of time in the accuracy and specificity of their language and word choices.<p>Would it also annoy you if they screwed up the interpretation of what you wrote? Is the alternative less reach of your work? For hard core research the tradeoffs are tougher it seems. If it is just a matter of non-nevermind, thats strictly messed up.</text></comment> |
33,488,302 | 33,487,677 | 1 | 2 | 33,487,598 | train | <story><title>NASA puts jet propulsion lab on blast over Psyche mission failures</title><url>https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-jpl-psyche-independent-review</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>&gt; VERITAS Venus Mission is going to have to be delayed from 2028 to 2031 due to issues caused by JPL&#x27;s failure to launch Psyche<p>That&#x27;s extremely disappointing. Venus is easily the 2nd most interesting planet &quot;close&quot; to us besides Mars. I was really looking forward to that one.<p>&gt; From the standpoint of total mass delivered to Venus, the best launch opportunities occur in 2029 and 2031.<p>It&#x27;s too bad Russia&#x27;s ambitious space programs are mosty vaporware. They pinoeered Venus exploration and have their own (pretend) Venus program that AFAIK isn&#x27;t going anywhere.<p>&gt; a proposed Russian space mission to Venus that would include an orbiter and a lander to be launched in 2029.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Venera-D?wprov=sfti1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Venera-D?wprov=sfti1</a></text></comment> | <story><title>NASA puts jet propulsion lab on blast over Psyche mission failures</title><url>https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-jpl-psyche-independent-review</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cardamomo</author><text>NASA put out a press release as well. It has similar details and a link to the report itself. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;as-psyche-mission-moves-forward-nasa-responds-to-independent-review" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;as-psyche-mission-moves-f...</a></text></comment> |
4,260,470 | 4,259,675 | 1 | 3 | 4,259,421 | train | <story><title>Dotcom judge quits the case</title><url>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10820496</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Joakal</author><text>More: Pro-Copyright Judges Never Drop Cases Over Conflicts, So Why Does Megaupload Judge Have To Step Down? <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/00503119739/pro-copyright-judges-never-drop-cases-over-conflicts-so-why-does-megaupload-judge-have-to-step-down.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/00503119739/pro-co...</a><p>A better translation of TPB here: Aftermath of The Pirate Bay Trial: Peter Sunde’s Plea – In His Own Words - Falkvinge on Infopolicy. <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/06/aftermath-of-the-pirate-bay-trial-peter-sundes-plea-in-his-own-words/" rel="nofollow">http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/06/aftermath-of-the-pirate-bay-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Dotcom judge quits the case</title><url>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10820496</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>What the title does not make clear is the judge did this to himself.<p>You have to be careful when you are a judge, you're human so you probably have a bias, but you need to keep it a secret.</text></comment> |
22,768,099 | 22,767,803 | 1 | 2 | 22,766,665 | train | <story><title>The Object Model of Self</title><url>https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/articles/tree/master/SelfObjectModel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artemonster</author><text>Really nice explanation. Having read almost all papers on this endless debate &quot;Classes vs Prototypes&quot; you&#x27;d get a feeling that prototype-based object system wins in any aspects (expressiveness, flexibility, whatever), and yet almost all prototype-based languages in the end include crude class implementations (as Class for a signle namespace to contain all related traits, constructor method and&#x2F;or prototypical instance for cloning) - interesting, why so? Is this model ingrained in our brains by our education or we do really think that way (i.e. with sets of related entities).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symmetry</author><text>Classes are less flexible so they&#x27;re easier for programmers to reason about. That makes them better in any situation where you don&#x27;t need that extra flexibility, which is most of them.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Object Model of Self</title><url>https://github.com/pavel-krivanek/articles/tree/master/SelfObjectModel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>artemonster</author><text>Really nice explanation. Having read almost all papers on this endless debate &quot;Classes vs Prototypes&quot; you&#x27;d get a feeling that prototype-based object system wins in any aspects (expressiveness, flexibility, whatever), and yet almost all prototype-based languages in the end include crude class implementations (as Class for a signle namespace to contain all related traits, constructor method and&#x2F;or prototypical instance for cloning) - interesting, why so? Is this model ingrained in our brains by our education or we do really think that way (i.e. with sets of related entities).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text><i>”wins in any aspects (expressiveness, flexibility, whatever)”</i><p>One ‘whatever’ where it doesn’t win is in robustness. Code will make assumptions about various kinds of animal and fail when meeting a sheep with 5 legs, or a pig that can fly.<p>You can solve that by testing for capabilities, but you would have to do that in many places, and make sure to cover all of them.<p>And yes, that comes at the cost of flexibility. Your class model won’t support flying pigs until you consciously add such support.</text></comment> |
41,330,496 | 41,330,703 | 1 | 3 | 41,329,505 | train | <story><title>SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99</title><url>https://github.com/dpjudas/SurrealEngine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>I just ported Quake III to the web with multiplayer and mobile support: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thelongestyard.link&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thelongestyard.link&#x2F;</a>. I was hoping I could use this project to do Unreal Tournament as well, but it seems like it&#x27;s not that playable yet.<p>I wish Epic had GPL&#x27;d their old releases the way id Software did. I&#x27;d especially like to have UT2k4. I played a lot of ONS-Torlan in college.<p>Instead of UT I may do Serious Sam next. Serious Engine was open sourced and there&#x27;s already a web port (without multiplayer): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wasm.builders&#x2F;martinmullins&#x2F;serious-sam-in-the-browser-33f6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wasm.builders&#x2F;martinmullins&#x2F;serious-sam-in-the-b...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99</title><url>https://github.com/dpjudas/SurrealEngine</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsheard</author><text>My immediate thought was &quot;this is like that project which hosts UE1 games inside UE5&quot; and it turns out it&#x27;s the same project, they&#x27;ve just rebranded from DXU24 to Surreal, and they now seem to have their own open-source frontend in addition to the license-encumbered UE5 frontend.<p>The developer has a bunch of WIP videos on YouTube: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@dxu2424&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@dxu2424&#x2F;videos</a></text></comment> |
2,778,295 | 2,778,013 | 1 | 2 | 2,777,118 | train | <story><title>Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-deals-massive-patent-blow-to-htc-android-in-serious-trouble/13714</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>alain94040</author><text>Except I don't believe in a free lunch.<p>Explain to me again, slowly. Apple is spending $1B in R&#38;D to design the iPhone. Google is spending the same amount to design Android. Where is this money coming from and is it a sustainable investment from Google?</text></item><item><author>martythemaniak</author><text>Oft-quoted: "Android May Be the Greatest Legal Destruction of Wealth in History"<p>It's actually a transfer of wealth from the coffers of Apple, RIM and MS to mostly developing-nation consumers who can now afford the same advanced phones as people in developed countries. The trio is doing everything in their power to kill Android, but I do hope it survives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>You understandably suffer from the mistaken impression that Android is 'free.' when the reality is that the kernel is 'free' but the 'Apps' which most phones have (mail, dialer, appstore, browser, maps, etc etc) are actually licensed for actual cash. It's not entirely clear how much that costs (and it benefits Google for that not to be clear).<p>In terms of business advantage, Android seems to me to be fairly unique. Google created a lower barrier to entry into the 'smartphone' market than either Apple, Microsoft, or RIM. Folks who took advantage of that were people early on were people who had the most to gain (low end carriers like T-mobile, Chinese ODMs who wanted to move up the value chain like HTC). They captured a large (if somewhat chaotic) developer market by making much of the source code for the system available for download, and they did create the ability for an individual to create a nearly complete phone 'stack' for certain types of hardware.<p>The established players greatly underestimated the impact of capturing the 'hobbiest' phone market. (Much like the established data processing players missed completely the impact of the hobbiest computer market).<p>Google generates anywhere from two to three billion dollars <i>a quarter</i> in free cash flow, which accounts for any and all R&#38;D investment in Android, so its a classic example of being able to take huge profits from your cash-cow market (Search advertising) and disrupt a different market (smartphones) which is the fastest growing channel for advertising (Mobile ads).<p>Not to mention that Google probably has a better network than any phone carrier today, and they have a voice calling product (Google Voice), its entirely possible at some point for them to create a 'phone' system based entirely on WiFi (like, maybe something with this new whitespace bandwidth that is available or a bunch of hotspots) which gives you a device which can replace AT&#38;T or Vodaphone or whomever.<p>Ultimately Google understands that nobody bought a smart phone because they 'wanted to be a customer of AT&#38;T', rather they bought it because as a tool it made them more productive. If Google can back into owning that whole stack then their company becomes just that much more valuable.<p>Worth throwing a bit of pocket change at is it not?</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-deals-massive-patent-blow-to-htc-android-in-serious-trouble/13714</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>alain94040</author><text>Except I don't believe in a free lunch.<p>Explain to me again, slowly. Apple is spending $1B in R&#38;D to design the iPhone. Google is spending the same amount to design Android. Where is this money coming from and is it a sustainable investment from Google?</text></item><item><author>martythemaniak</author><text>Oft-quoted: "Android May Be the Greatest Legal Destruction of Wealth in History"<p>It's actually a transfer of wealth from the coffers of Apple, RIM and MS to mostly developing-nation consumers who can now afford the same advanced phones as people in developed countries. The trio is doing everything in their power to kill Android, but I do hope it survives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Daniel14</author><text>Android pays for itself, in lots of different ways, among them and by far most importantly: Being the default search provider on 550k additional phones/day. That's worth a billion $ to Google any day.</text></comment> |
28,083,194 | 28,082,924 | 1 | 2 | 28,082,348 | train | <story><title>Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/scientist-says-cleaning-indoor-air-could-make-us-healthier-and-smarter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>I&#x27;m all for cleaner air (especially reducing dangerous gases and pollutants), but at what point does the over-sterilization of our environment (specifically with regard to microbes) do more harm than good? People in my family suffer from various allergies, and many suspect there may be at least some link to <i>not</i> being exposed to enough allergens at an early age (father was a surgeon and our home was always clean – nearly to the level of an O.R.).</text></item><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>I’ve been harping on this since learning covid was aerosol based early 2020.<p>I like to tell new parents a trick that worked well for us: use a nice filter-based air purifier for white noise. It has deep bass, and it keeps the air near the child extremely clean. We have been doing this for our kids for almost 10 years now since birth.<p>A fun experiment for kids: if you have a laser pointer, shine it close to the ground indoors and kick up dust near the floor. If you see any light in the air, that is all stuff you are breathing in (works really well on carpet)…<p>Air quality associated with:<p>Alzheimers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-new-alzheimers-air-pollution-link&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-new-alzheimer...</a><p>Cancers, plural: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aacr.org&#x2F;patients-caregivers&#x2F;progress-against-cancer&#x2F;air-pollution-associated-cancer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aacr.org&#x2F;patients-caregivers&#x2F;progress-against-ca...</a><p>Sperm Quality: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4443398&#x2F;#sec99552title" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4443398&#x2F;#sec995...</a><p>Female Fertility: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2207560-exposure-to-air-pollution-seems-to-negatively-affect-womens-fertility&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2207560-exposure-to-air...</a><p>Autism: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;particulate-matter-in-air-pollution-raises-autism-risks-in-the-first-few-years" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;particulate-matter-in-air-pollu...</a><p>Bipolar&#x2F;Depression: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;article&#x2F;air-pollution-linked-to-bipolar-disorder-depression" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;article&#x2F;air-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>It’s not just about the #’s. There is a huge difference between indoor air composition (which humans haven’t evolved for millions of years to account for) and outdoor air composition for the same, say, PM2.5 metric. E.g. indoor air might be mostly dead skin and dust mites, outdoor air might be mostly burned ash and bacteria, etc.<p>Unfortunately, the fact is that most people are now spending something like 20 hours a day inside… there is no easy answer. I sometimes wonder how much the sterilization hypothesis is wrapped up in the effect of prolonged indoor air exposure.</text></comment> | <story><title>Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter</title><url>https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/scientist-says-cleaning-indoor-air-could-make-us-healthier-and-smarter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dperfect</author><text>I&#x27;m all for cleaner air (especially reducing dangerous gases and pollutants), but at what point does the over-sterilization of our environment (specifically with regard to microbes) do more harm than good? People in my family suffer from various allergies, and many suspect there may be at least some link to <i>not</i> being exposed to enough allergens at an early age (father was a surgeon and our home was always clean – nearly to the level of an O.R.).</text></item><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>I’ve been harping on this since learning covid was aerosol based early 2020.<p>I like to tell new parents a trick that worked well for us: use a nice filter-based air purifier for white noise. It has deep bass, and it keeps the air near the child extremely clean. We have been doing this for our kids for almost 10 years now since birth.<p>A fun experiment for kids: if you have a laser pointer, shine it close to the ground indoors and kick up dust near the floor. If you see any light in the air, that is all stuff you are breathing in (works really well on carpet)…<p>Air quality associated with:<p>Alzheimers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-new-alzheimers-air-pollution-link&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;the-new-alzheimer...</a><p>Cancers, plural: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aacr.org&#x2F;patients-caregivers&#x2F;progress-against-cancer&#x2F;air-pollution-associated-cancer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aacr.org&#x2F;patients-caregivers&#x2F;progress-against-ca...</a><p>Sperm Quality: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4443398&#x2F;#sec99552title" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4443398&#x2F;#sec995...</a><p>Female Fertility: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2207560-exposure-to-air-pollution-seems-to-negatively-affect-womens-fertility&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newscientist.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2207560-exposure-to-air...</a><p>Autism: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;particulate-matter-in-air-pollution-raises-autism-risks-in-the-first-few-years" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencealert.com&#x2F;particulate-matter-in-air-pollu...</a><p>Bipolar&#x2F;Depression: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;article&#x2F;air-pollution-linked-to-bipolar-disorder-depression" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;article&#x2F;air-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpm</author><text>The particulate matter that I worry about isn&#x27;t microbes, it&#x27;s all the crap that we&#x27;re creating and putting into our environment with things like power generation and vehicles, which makes up the majority of the small particulate matter.<p>Sorry for the crappy source, but I&#x27;m short on time right now to find you a better one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;laqm.defra.gov.uk&#x2F;public-health&#x2F;pm25.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;laqm.defra.gov.uk&#x2F;public-health&#x2F;pm25.html</a></text></comment> |
12,297,179 | 12,297,318 | 1 | 2 | 12,296,616 | train | <story><title>We're Bullish on AMP</title><url>https://trackchanges.postlight.com/were-bullish-on-amp-abfc6e1f10a1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>I thought AMP was an anti-ad-blocking play. It smells to me like Google is trying to use its dominant position in search to reduce consumer control of the browser; it&#x27;s a risky road to go down for everyone, including Google.<p>For me, as long as I disable javascript, the modern mobile web is plenty fast enough. That is, the bits of the web I want to use on the move: mostly text, occasional pictures. It takes real effort to break this with javascript disabled. Most JS on e.g. news sites, blogs, aggregators etc. is tracking and ad related, dynamically adding links to viral content, all that stuff you don&#x27;t need and dramatically slows down sites through repeated reflow.</text></comment> | <story><title>We're Bullish on AMP</title><url>https://trackchanges.postlight.com/were-bullish-on-amp-abfc6e1f10a1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lllr_finger</author><text>Working at a media conglomerate I probably have a different take than some - I love AMP, compared to the alternatives. For personal sites I don&#x27;t see it as a big deal, but for news sites it&#x27;s amazing.<p>The devs working on news sites understand the current state of bloated pages is bad and are eager to create fast, sexy pages. Unfortunately there are entities such as BizDev and AdOps that want to add more stuff to the pages to make more money, and it&#x27;s easier to quantify ROI for a new ad placement compared to shaving 100ms off page load times. So we end up with dozens of scripts and script loaders and all sorts of other things. Editors and product managers want responsive pages with ad placements and enhanced functionality.<p>Along comes AMP, and all of the above are freaking out at the loss of control while I&#x27;m gleefully looking at super fast loading times and pages that still have most of the important functionality and ads.<p>Yes, the script size is large, but it will be cached amongst all AMP pages and it&#x27;s refreshing to not have to think about implementing responsive pages, lazy loading, etc. because AMP handles all that.</text></comment> |
24,693,924 | 24,694,076 | 1 | 2 | 24,693,824 | train | <story><title>Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21503421/apple-stop-selling-bose-sonos-logitech-headphones-speakers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>croissants</author><text>Is &quot;quietly&quot; really the appropriate word here? Do stores typically put out announcements when they stop stocking certain products? If not, &quot;quietly&quot; just seems to be a way to create an air of vague menace and treachery without saying it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple quietly stops selling Bose, Sonos and some Logitech gear</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21503421/apple-stop-selling-bose-sonos-logitech-headphones-speakers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>I guess it shows that they are confident their own over-ear noise canceling headphones will mimic some of AirPods&#x27; success. HomePod is still trash though, so not sure what their plan for that is.</text></comment> |
13,724,373 | 13,723,318 | 1 | 3 | 13,720,507 | train | <story><title>Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs</title><url>http://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/02/23/video-pros-moving-from-mac-to-windows-for-high-end-gpus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I wish Apple would just admit the trash can Mac Pro was a mistake and bring back the &quot;cheese grater&quot; Mac.<p>Some people just need or want a beefy desktop built with upgradable components (in addition to a laptop).<p>Or, crazy idea here, they could licence their OS if they don&#x27;t want to make pro gear anymore.</text></item><item><author>outworlder</author><text>Big surprise. Video Pros now, developers next, common users last.<p>While Apple is focusing on trying to create the thinnest notebook on every generation, other companies are actually making useful computers, laptops or otherwise.<p>Right now, I&#x27;ve decided to take the money I&#x27;d spend on the cheapest Macbook to buy a desktop system, plus a chromebook. I can have mobility and a lot of performance, for a fraction of the price.<p>Even Windows is becoming more viable again, ubuntu core and all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>headShrinker</author><text>&gt; Or, crazy idea here, they could licence their OS if they don&#x27;t want to make pro gear anymore.<p>Maybe some are too young to remember &#x27;Power Computing&#x27;, the company that licensed MacOS in the 90s. That was juuuuust before Apple ran in to major problems, and had to file bankruptcy. The first thing Jobs did when he came back was borrow 55 million dollars from Bill Gates and buy back all the licenses and shut down production of all mac clones. One of the only true things Apple has is its reputation for quality. You want to bleed that out, you would do it by allowing clones, thus bringing about the destruction of the brand as a whole.</text></comment> | <story><title>Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs</title><url>http://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/02/23/video-pros-moving-from-mac-to-windows-for-high-end-gpus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nostromo</author><text>I wish Apple would just admit the trash can Mac Pro was a mistake and bring back the &quot;cheese grater&quot; Mac.<p>Some people just need or want a beefy desktop built with upgradable components (in addition to a laptop).<p>Or, crazy idea here, they could licence their OS if they don&#x27;t want to make pro gear anymore.</text></item><item><author>outworlder</author><text>Big surprise. Video Pros now, developers next, common users last.<p>While Apple is focusing on trying to create the thinnest notebook on every generation, other companies are actually making useful computers, laptops or otherwise.<p>Right now, I&#x27;ve decided to take the money I&#x27;d spend on the cheapest Macbook to buy a desktop system, plus a chromebook. I can have mobility and a lot of performance, for a fraction of the price.<p>Even Windows is becoming more viable again, ubuntu core and all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mpweiher</author><text>&gt; crazy idea here, they could licence their OS<p>Another one to chime in that I don&#x27;t consider this crazy...any more.<p>It didn&#x27;t work the first time around partly because the cloners had much smaller volume and could therefore always scoop Apple on the most profitable high-end gear, which didn&#x27;t have component availability.<p>The licensing model was always a gamble, with the hope that the loss of margin would be offset by an increased base. The problem was that it was &quot;bet the company&quot; stakes at the time, and when it didn&#x27;t quite work out as hoped they had to shut it down or shut down the company.<p>Now the Mac line in general and the pro line in particular is a sufficiently insignificant part of the overall business that they could afford the gamble.</text></comment> |
33,862,205 | 33,860,851 | 1 | 2 | 33,860,648 | train | <story><title>Nibbler 4 Bit CPU (2013)</title><url>https://www.bigmessowires.com/nibbler/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>omgtehlion</author><text>A couple of years ago I have built a copy of this project with my son on a breadboard with real (made in &#x27;80s and &#x27;90s) 74-series chips.<p>It was a very fun experience. And we liked the project very much.<p>It has a very small and concise schematics which makes it very easy and clear how CPU really works.<p>P.S.: the original simulator is written in C++&#x2F;CLI (a .net flavour of c++), so I decided to refresh the project (to c#, it was easier to translate than to port to native c++), and added a real 1602-display simulator which looks nicer and support a “graphic” mode. You can play with it here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;omgtehlion&#x2F;nibbler-sim" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;omgtehlion&#x2F;nibbler-sim</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Nibbler 4 Bit CPU (2013)</title><url>https://www.bigmessowires.com/nibbler/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>It&#x27;s worth noting that 4-bit microcontrollers are still in widespread use in ultra-low cost high-volume applications, where they use mask ROM and are usually in the form of a COB mount. Remote controls, 4-function calculators, and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Handheld_electronic_game" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Handheld_electronic_game</a> are some examples of where they can be found.</text></comment> |
15,552,206 | 15,551,118 | 1 | 2 | 15,550,196 | train | <story><title>Thruster for Mars mission breaks records</title><url>http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/25192-thruster-for-mars-mission-breaks-records</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gravityloss</author><text>It&#x27;s not so easy to make space nuclear power light and reliable. Most likely a nuclear powered spacecraft with electric thrusters would be a dog.<p>Nuclear thermal rockets aren&#x27;t that great either, the temperature and thus the specific impulse is not very high, and they have high dry mass and would be really expensive to develop and hard to make reliable.<p>In space you have 1.3 kW per square meter sun power constantly without the atmosphere or clouds in the way, and solar cells improve constantly.</text></item><item><author>nickik</author><text>The hole of Space exploration is really hindered by the approach to nuclear power. Many missions that could fly with nuclear batteries don&#x27;t use them. Rosetta would have been a far better mission with one.<p>On a larger scale we should have nuclear reactors in space. If we ever want a mars colony, nuclear is way, way better then solar. Elon Musk is gone try with solar but he really doesn&#x27;t have any other options.<p>NASA is the one place there can actually be progress on this stuff, no private company can reasonable attempted this stuff because of regulation. We need more nuclear batteries, we need small reactors for space and we need nuclear thermal rockets engines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philipkglass</author><text>Nuclear thermal rockets have low specific impulse compared to electrical propulsion, but better ISP than any chemical rockets. They also provide orders of magnitude more thrust than electrical propulsion does. I don&#x27;t think that they are in the sweet spot for uncrewed probe missions, but the combination of higher-than-chemical ISP and higher-than-electrical thrust seems like a good match for crewed missions to Mars or beyond.<p>Regarding the many comments in this discussion about accidents during initial launch: if nuclear thermal rockets are fueled with uranium 235, and don&#x27;t reach criticality until <i>after</i> the risky chemical-booster ascent out of atmosphere, they should be quite safe. Uranium 235 has a 700 million year half life, hence very low radioactivity. The fission products from a live reactor of course include very-short-lived, very-high-radioactivity nuclides. But you can have nuclear power in space with extremely low risks to the terrestrial environment if you use it only for missions that leave Earth orbit, and turn on the reactor only after the risky initial ascent on chemical boosters.<p>That said, I agree that it would be expensive to develop nuclear thermal rockets. It&#x27;s very expensive to test them on Earth, since the exhaust carries away some small amount of fission products and people don&#x27;t just tolerate such radioactive pollution like back in the 1960s. You&#x27;d need some very expensive&#x2F;elaborate test facility that can capture the hot, radioactive exhaust, or you&#x27;d need to do all the actual testing in space (also expensive&#x2F;elaborate).</text></comment> | <story><title>Thruster for Mars mission breaks records</title><url>http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/25192-thruster-for-mars-mission-breaks-records</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Gravityloss</author><text>It&#x27;s not so easy to make space nuclear power light and reliable. Most likely a nuclear powered spacecraft with electric thrusters would be a dog.<p>Nuclear thermal rockets aren&#x27;t that great either, the temperature and thus the specific impulse is not very high, and they have high dry mass and would be really expensive to develop and hard to make reliable.<p>In space you have 1.3 kW per square meter sun power constantly without the atmosphere or clouds in the way, and solar cells improve constantly.</text></item><item><author>nickik</author><text>The hole of Space exploration is really hindered by the approach to nuclear power. Many missions that could fly with nuclear batteries don&#x27;t use them. Rosetta would have been a far better mission with one.<p>On a larger scale we should have nuclear reactors in space. If we ever want a mars colony, nuclear is way, way better then solar. Elon Musk is gone try with solar but he really doesn&#x27;t have any other options.<p>NASA is the one place there can actually be progress on this stuff, no private company can reasonable attempted this stuff because of regulation. We need more nuclear batteries, we need small reactors for space and we need nuclear thermal rockets engines.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>snerbles</author><text>At Earth orbit, yes. Recall that the inverse square law applies for light emitted by the sun.<p>On Mars, solar power per square meter is a bit over 550W.</text></comment> |
26,108,556 | 26,106,847 | 1 | 2 | 26,106,080 | train | <story><title>Kubernetes Failure Stories</title><url>https://k8s.af</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tutfbhuf</author><text>The current trend goes to multi-cluster environments, because it&#x27;s way too easy to destroy a single k8s cluster due to bugs, updates or human mistake. Just like it&#x27;s not an very unlikely event to kill a single host in the network e.g. due to updates&#x2F;maintenance.<p>For instance, we had several outages when upgrading the kubernetes version in our clusters. If you have many small cluster it&#x27;s much easier and more save to apply cluster wide updates, one cluster at a time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colllectorof</author><text>The tech churn cycle is getting more and more insane. It&#x27;s the same process repeating endlessly.<p>1. Identify one problem you want to fix and ignore everything else.<p>2. Make a tool to manage the problem while still ignoring everything else.<p>3. Hype the tool up and shove it in every niche and domain possible.<p>4. Observer how &quot;everything else&quot; bites you in the ass.<p>5. Identify the worst problem from #4, use it to start the whole process again.<p>Microservices will save us! Oh no, they make things complicated. Well, I will solve that with containers! On no, managing containers is a pain. Container orchestration! Oh no, our clusters fail.<p>Meanwhile, the complexity of our technology goes up and its reliability <i>in practice</i> goes down. Plus, the concepts we operate with are less and less tethered to reality, which makes even talking about certain issues really hard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kubernetes Failure Stories</title><url>https://k8s.af</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tutfbhuf</author><text>The current trend goes to multi-cluster environments, because it&#x27;s way too easy to destroy a single k8s cluster due to bugs, updates or human mistake. Just like it&#x27;s not an very unlikely event to kill a single host in the network e.g. due to updates&#x2F;maintenance.<p>For instance, we had several outages when upgrading the kubernetes version in our clusters. If you have many small cluster it&#x27;s much easier and more save to apply cluster wide updates, one cluster at a time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superbcarrot</author><text>Sounds like madness. Should we expect a new tool that orchestrates all of your Kubernetes clusters?</text></comment> |
19,930,661 | 19,915,418 | 1 | 2 | 19,914,838 | train | <story><title>Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost-Cutting Sacrificed Safety</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-09/former-boeing-engineers-say-relentless-cost-cutting-sacrificed-safety</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mekane8</author><text>Man Boeing sounds like such a disgusting place to work. Granted, I&#x27;m sure many, many large publicly-traded companies are like this. But the way the article lays it out these executive initiatives reminds me of mobster movies where they move in and milk an honest citizen&#x27;s store for all it&#x27;s worth.<p>That profits and executive bonuses should take precedence over the safety of human lives is horrible. I&#x27;m curious to hear more about why the unions formed, since it sounds like there was a very contentious relationship there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost-Cutting Sacrificed Safety</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-09/former-boeing-engineers-say-relentless-cost-cutting-sacrificed-safety</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phkahler</author><text>TFA mentions shareholder value. How exactly do unsafe planes help shareholder value?</text></comment> |
31,185,881 | 31,181,394 | 1 | 3 | 31,180,379 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?</title><text>I can host my own Mastodon server, or all kinds of other novelty &#x2F; fun things which don&#x27;t seem easily decentralized.<p>Email feels like one of the most decentralized internet concepts, and ironically it&#x27;s seemingly the one thing I <i>can&#x27;t</i> self-host unless, from what I&#x27;ve heard, I enjoy being permanently marked as spam &#x2F; blacklisted. What&#x27;s going on? How do we fix this?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>post-it</author><text>Prediction: Any distributed social media (like Mastodon) that gains mainstream popularity will share the same fate. Sure, you&#x27;ll be able to host your own Mastodon instance, but 99% of people will be on the top 10 hosts and they won&#x27;t peer with you.<p>I think the only way to make distributed social media practical is to have an extremely inexpensive turnkey self-hosting solution for the average person. A Chromecast-like device that they plug into their TV that backs up all their photos, plays music, and also hosts a Mastodon instance. Some kind of very friendly backup solution where you make an &quot;emergency contacts&quot; list, and the device encrypts all of your data and stores it on your emergency contacts&#x27; devices as a backup, and vice-versa.</text></item><item><author>zcdziura</author><text>The problem is that spam was&#x2F;is so bad that extreme measures were taken to curb it. There are all kinds of invisible forces that you abutt that can be difficult to figure out, such as IP blacklists and the like. And even if you set everything up properly and host your email with a responsible host, Microsoft will still mark your mail as spam.<p>I host my own email server with Vultr on an OpenBSD VM using OpenSMTPD and Dovecot, relaying all outbound mail through SMTP2Go (their free tier more than meets my needs). I have all of the necessary DNS entries set to mark my mail as legit, and I sign all outgoing mail using strong 2048-bit RSA keys. Thus far, I&#x27;m able to send mail and not have it marked as spam (at least to everyone that I&#x27;ve corresponded with thus far). It was a lot of work to get to that point, but not terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanp2k2</author><text><i>cough</i> XMPP federation <i>cough</i><p>Not only did Facebook and GChat refuse to peer with little players, they refused to peer among the big players too. We could have had something like IRC for the masses, peered chat servers with bring-your-own-client. Instead, we waited decades for iMessage to get Android support which only happened long after everyone moved on to IG, Messenger, WeChat, etc.<p>Email is probably one of the last great open[ish] distributed systems we’ll ever see. There are just too many incentives to build walled gardens instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?</title><text>I can host my own Mastodon server, or all kinds of other novelty &#x2F; fun things which don&#x27;t seem easily decentralized.<p>Email feels like one of the most decentralized internet concepts, and ironically it&#x27;s seemingly the one thing I <i>can&#x27;t</i> self-host unless, from what I&#x27;ve heard, I enjoy being permanently marked as spam &#x2F; blacklisted. What&#x27;s going on? How do we fix this?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>post-it</author><text>Prediction: Any distributed social media (like Mastodon) that gains mainstream popularity will share the same fate. Sure, you&#x27;ll be able to host your own Mastodon instance, but 99% of people will be on the top 10 hosts and they won&#x27;t peer with you.<p>I think the only way to make distributed social media practical is to have an extremely inexpensive turnkey self-hosting solution for the average person. A Chromecast-like device that they plug into their TV that backs up all their photos, plays music, and also hosts a Mastodon instance. Some kind of very friendly backup solution where you make an &quot;emergency contacts&quot; list, and the device encrypts all of your data and stores it on your emergency contacts&#x27; devices as a backup, and vice-versa.</text></item><item><author>zcdziura</author><text>The problem is that spam was&#x2F;is so bad that extreme measures were taken to curb it. There are all kinds of invisible forces that you abutt that can be difficult to figure out, such as IP blacklists and the like. And even if you set everything up properly and host your email with a responsible host, Microsoft will still mark your mail as spam.<p>I host my own email server with Vultr on an OpenBSD VM using OpenSMTPD and Dovecot, relaying all outbound mail through SMTP2Go (their free tier more than meets my needs). I have all of the necessary DNS entries set to mark my mail as legit, and I sign all outgoing mail using strong 2048-bit RSA keys. Thus far, I&#x27;m able to send mail and not have it marked as spam (at least to everyone that I&#x27;ve corresponded with thus far). It was a lot of work to get to that point, but not terrible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mypalmike</author><text>On Mastodon, I believe it&#x27;s currently somewhat backwards from this. The largest instances are filled with Japanese anime porn, and the smaller instances end up blacklisting them.</text></comment> |
13,202,816 | 13,202,004 | 1 | 3 | 13,201,341 | train | <story><title>Management theory is becoming a compendium of dead ideas</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/business/21711909-what-martin-luther-did-catholic-church-needs-be-done-business-gurus-management</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anotherhacker</author><text>The problem lies in business schools and degrees like the MBA.<p>Check out the faculty list at Harvard Business school [link below]. I randomly looked at profiles of 14 of them and <i>not a single one had real world business experience</i>. If there are any who do have real world experience, it&#x27;s often superficial.<p>To carry on this article&#x27;s analogy, business schools are the Catholic church of 1500: incestuous, detached, and self-serving.<p>Harvard Busisness school faculty: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hbs.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;browse.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hbs.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;browse.aspx</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lordnacho</author><text>I went to business school (top European) as part of my engineering degree.<p>They actually do make a point of mentioning that there&#x27;s more than one philosophy of management. For instance, in the Germanic world, it&#x27;s common to promote managers from the ranks of whatever business is being managed, whereas it&#x27;s a bit of an anglo thing to have a &quot;manager&quot; who is somewhat business agnostic.<p>But of course there&#x27;s a problem. If you tell people they need specific experience in the car industry to be a car industry manager, or as a software dev to manage devs, then WTF are you doing in a business school? Especially as an undergrad? You gonna manage the student bar?<p>So then when it comes to all the case studies, you have to kid yourself that what happened to Betamax in the 1980s is going to be relevant to you in 2016. It&#x27;s interesting to read all this historical &quot;strategy&quot; stuff, but the students I hung out with (being engineers, technically competent and skeptical of BS) tended to see them as something akin to a history class. Sure there are lessons, but a lot of it is just interpretation and conjecture. Nothing in it with the rigour of an engineering course.<p>As to why MBAs are useful, it seems it&#x27;s really a question of signalling. If you pay a few hundred grand in fees, rent, and opportunity cost to do an MBA, you probably have some motivation. And there is some value in generic management; not every line of business requires deep technical knowledge, and those are fine for hiring some guy who&#x27;s happy to work long hours and fly around a lot. It&#x27;s a problem for something like software dev though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Management theory is becoming a compendium of dead ideas</title><url>http://www.economist.com/news/business/21711909-what-martin-luther-did-catholic-church-needs-be-done-business-gurus-management</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anotherhacker</author><text>The problem lies in business schools and degrees like the MBA.<p>Check out the faculty list at Harvard Business school [link below]. I randomly looked at profiles of 14 of them and <i>not a single one had real world business experience</i>. If there are any who do have real world experience, it&#x27;s often superficial.<p>To carry on this article&#x27;s analogy, business schools are the Catholic church of 1500: incestuous, detached, and self-serving.<p>Harvard Busisness school faculty: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hbs.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;browse.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hbs.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;Pages&#x2F;browse.aspx</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danielrhodes</author><text>You see this same thing happening at law schools as well.<p>If you look at the faculty of Harvard Law [1], many of the professors have not served in a professional capacity as lawyers.<p>In fact, many firms have to train their new associates in the actual practice of law because law school itself has become so detached from the reality of being a lawyer. [2]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hls.harvard.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;index.html?s=15" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hls.harvard.edu&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;index.html?s=15</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;business&#x2F;after-law-school-associates-learn-to-be-lawyers.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.nytimes.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;11&#x2F;20&#x2F;business&#x2F;after-law-scho...</a></text></comment> |
28,793,382 | 28,792,016 | 1 | 2 | 28,790,930 | train | <story><title>Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-pauses-use-moderna-covid-19-vaccine-young-men-2021-10-07/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The number of C19 fatalities under 30 in the US appears to easily exceed the number of vaccine-related myocarditis cases. The overwhelming majority of those myocarditis cases followed a benign course.<p><i>Later</i><p>Another thing to consider is that the myocarditis rate from C19 itself may exceed that of the vaccine, which would basically refute the argument against vaccination.<p>(By all means, pick vaccines strategically.)</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>It seems like if you take everything into account, taking the vaccine might not provide any benefit from men under 30. Any medical intervention must be beneficial to justify the use. If it&#x27;s so and so, or equal risk, then it&#x27;s not done.<p>EDIT: The alternative is not stopping vaccinations. Men under 30 are given Pfizer.</text></item><item><author>yes_man</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thl.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;web&#x2F;thlfi-en&#x2F;-&#x2F;thl-monitoring-myocarditis-after-covid-19-vaccination-are-rare-in-finland-and-also-occur-in-those-infected-with-covid-19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thl.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;web&#x2F;thlfi-en&#x2F;-&#x2F;thl-monitoring-myocarditis-...</a><p>According to Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, an additional 4 cases per 100k men under the age of 30.<p>They also note that having covid is a risk factor for myocarditis. So perhaps still worth it to take the shot.<p>Possibly they are doing this to put out the antivax wildfires in social media by reacting to statistical information about risks. So as to show that when there are scientifically established risks, there will be reaction to that as well.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; &quot;A Nordic study involving Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark found that men under the age of 30 who received Moderna Spikevax had a slightly higher risk than others of developing myocarditis,&quot; he said.<p>I find it frustrating that we’re still not putting numbers on statements like this in news articles. How slight?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bjourne</author><text>Even if the benefits outweigh the drawbacks for society you cannot make that calculation. You cannot administer a vaccine to a healthy person just because it doesn&#x27;t increase their risk of dying as much as it decreases someone else&#x27;s risk of surviving. Young healthy men should not be coerced into accepting an elevated risk because getting to herd immunity or whatever might save old and at risk persons.<p>For children and healthy young people below the age of 30, Covid is mostly harmless (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-57766717" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-57766717</a>). The risk of vaccination may actually be higher since the vaccines currently used aren&#x27;t fully researched nor fully approved yet. The situation is not black or white. Vaccination may be very useful for people aged 50 and above but at the same time counterproductive for children.</text></comment> | <story><title>Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-pauses-use-moderna-covid-19-vaccine-young-men-2021-10-07/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The number of C19 fatalities under 30 in the US appears to easily exceed the number of vaccine-related myocarditis cases. The overwhelming majority of those myocarditis cases followed a benign course.<p><i>Later</i><p>Another thing to consider is that the myocarditis rate from C19 itself may exceed that of the vaccine, which would basically refute the argument against vaccination.<p>(By all means, pick vaccines strategically.)</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>It seems like if you take everything into account, taking the vaccine might not provide any benefit from men under 30. Any medical intervention must be beneficial to justify the use. If it&#x27;s so and so, or equal risk, then it&#x27;s not done.<p>EDIT: The alternative is not stopping vaccinations. Men under 30 are given Pfizer.</text></item><item><author>yes_man</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thl.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;web&#x2F;thlfi-en&#x2F;-&#x2F;thl-monitoring-myocarditis-after-covid-19-vaccination-are-rare-in-finland-and-also-occur-in-those-infected-with-covid-19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thl.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;web&#x2F;thlfi-en&#x2F;-&#x2F;thl-monitoring-myocarditis-...</a><p>According to Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, an additional 4 cases per 100k men under the age of 30.<p>They also note that having covid is a risk factor for myocarditis. So perhaps still worth it to take the shot.<p>Possibly they are doing this to put out the antivax wildfires in social media by reacting to statistical information about risks. So as to show that when there are scientifically established risks, there will be reaction to that as well.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&gt; &quot;A Nordic study involving Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark found that men under the age of 30 who received Moderna Spikevax had a slightly higher risk than others of developing myocarditis,&quot; he said.<p>I find it frustrating that we’re still not putting numbers on statements like this in news articles. How slight?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zosima</author><text>But the vast majority of covid fatalities under 30, would be in people with comorbidities.<p>You could easily argue for vaccinating everyone with comorbidities &lt;30, without arguing for vaccinating everyone.<p>Also, even in apparently benign myocarditis, there may be heart damage which will not become apparent for many years.</text></comment> |
39,414,626 | 39,414,681 | 1 | 2 | 39,381,704 | train | <story><title>The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)</title><url>https://publishingperspectives.com/2009/10/the-strange-world-of-yakuza-fan-magazines/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xrd</author><text>This is tangentially related but fascinating. A terrific movie called Minbo came out in Japan thirty or so years ago. It&#x27;s about the Yakuza and not very flattering. The director was stabbed at the premier. Then, later, died of suicide in very suspicious circumstances.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Minbo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Minbo</a><p>All his movies were terrific.</text></comment> | <story><title>The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)</title><url>https://publishingperspectives.com/2009/10/the-strange-world-of-yakuza-fan-magazines/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>You can watch a fictional(ized?) series (Tokyo Vice) about and produced by the author Jake Adelstein on HBO. I’ve watched the first season, season 2 recently released.</text></comment> |
33,194,503 | 33,192,899 | 1 | 3 | 33,190,851 | train | <story><title>Most PPP loans have been forgiven, despite signs of possible fraud</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128207464/ppp-loans-loan-forgiveness-small-business</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josefresco</author><text>Anecdotally (of course) of the handful of business owners that I know (personally) who received PPP funds, 75% of them didn&#x27;t need the loan and all of them had their loans forgiven. Some of these businesses had their best years ever (revenue).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChainOfFools</author><text>As someone whose own consultancy provides services to a couple dozen of these small businesses, primarily ones which happened to fall under the rubric of &quot;essential services&quot;, I noted that nearly all of them received outsize PPP awards (on the order of half a million and up for 30-ish person companies, which had no shortage of income due to being among the aforementioned essential businesses). These were almost immediately forgiven.<p>In most cases the businesses were able to apply twice and get two separate awards. I&#x27;m not sure what the mechanism was for this as our business itself never applied for these loans.<p>In the aftermath of all of this there has been a distinct pattern emerging in which these small business owners have developed a kind of amnesia about the money they&#x27;ve received from these loans and have assigned the upward balance sheet inflection to their own &quot;hard work&quot; commitment and demonstrated acumen in negotiating the covid crisis.<p>I suppose this isn&#x27;t exactly untrue, but there is no internalized recognition that this success was a one-time phenomenon due to a one-time windfall from the government.<p>Another anecdote somewhat unrelated is that the number of family-run (i.e. father and son&#x2F;s) trades businesses in my local suburb all seem to have decided they need brand new work trucks at the same time. These vehicles are uniformly the upper end luxury trim levels of the line, lifted and stanced to absurdly aggressive proportions, and show no signs of being put to any of the actual work for which they would be utterly impractical anyway. The number of rear window stickers with Sparta helmets or some sort of depiction of an automatic weapon suggests the PPP loans may end up having inadvertently helped equip and arm a future informal militia.</text></comment> | <story><title>Most PPP loans have been forgiven, despite signs of possible fraud</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128207464/ppp-loans-loan-forgiveness-small-business</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josefresco</author><text>Anecdotally (of course) of the handful of business owners that I know (personally) who received PPP funds, 75% of them didn&#x27;t need the loan and all of them had their loans forgiven. Some of these businesses had their best years ever (revenue).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boole1854</author><text>Since we&#x27;re sharing anecdotes...<p>Anecdotally of the handful of business owners that I know personally who received PPP funds (3 businesses total), all needed the loan, used it to maintain payroll, and all of them had their loans forgiven.</text></comment> |
14,641,256 | 14,641,246 | 1 | 2 | 14,639,487 | train | <story><title>Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/26/infarm/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nom</author><text>I had to blink twice after reading &quot;heads of lettuce for $3&quot;, then I googled &quot;US fresh produce price&quot;.<p>Wow. Indoor farming actually makes sense in the US market.<p>Edit: yes, I&#x27;m from Europe, obviously. And now I&#x27;m sad :&#x2F;</text></item><item><author>condiment</author><text>Real estate is cheap, power is cheap, personnel are cheap, equipment is cheap.<p>A few years ago I was pursuing aquaponics as a hobby over the summer. It was clear then that economies of scale were rapidly driving down the costs of indoor horticulture. My aquaponics project failed, but the basic economics of grocery-attached farms make a lot of sense. I built a business model to determine the economics of running a farm in a shipping container that could be deployed to an underutilized Whole Foods parking lot.<p>The model accounted for a 81m3 shipping container being filled top-to-bottom with fruiting plants, like tomatoes, but it&#x27;s easily adjustable to other plants, like lettuces. The model is pretty sensitive to things like the productive life of the plant, lead time to productivity, and sale price.<p>Selling heads of lettuce for $3 each yields around $6000&#x2F;yr in gross revenue per container per year.<p>This was $17k net less $720 in labor, $6k in equipment, $3k in real estate and $1k in electricity. Lots of room for optimizations that could push this business over the $1B mark.<p>The model, in case anyone&#x27;s interested:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1DkjOIs7hXyxIiN_iWXK0M21Rjd4L0lTCTHaolR8LwTs&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1DkjOIs7hXyxIiN_iWXK0...</a></text></item><item><author>peterjlee</author><text>This may work for a few Whole Foods customers who pay $5 for a bottle of herb infused water but I wonder if the cost is going to be reasonable enough for most people. Real estate cost alone may trump every other cost savings. Even if that &quot;farm&quot; can produce 10x more per square foot from vertical farming, the real estate cost of a grocery store in a city is a lot more expensive than a farmland in the middle of no where.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gabrielcsapo</author><text>In America we are not locally self sufficient. California is a large producer of fruit and vegetables for most of the year. We used to be focused on small towns that could be self sufficient now we just accept getting packaged garbage and the price we pay for it.<p>That&#x27;s why we have people eating mcdonalds everyday.</text></comment> | <story><title>Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/26/infarm/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nom</author><text>I had to blink twice after reading &quot;heads of lettuce for $3&quot;, then I googled &quot;US fresh produce price&quot;.<p>Wow. Indoor farming actually makes sense in the US market.<p>Edit: yes, I&#x27;m from Europe, obviously. And now I&#x27;m sad :&#x2F;</text></item><item><author>condiment</author><text>Real estate is cheap, power is cheap, personnel are cheap, equipment is cheap.<p>A few years ago I was pursuing aquaponics as a hobby over the summer. It was clear then that economies of scale were rapidly driving down the costs of indoor horticulture. My aquaponics project failed, but the basic economics of grocery-attached farms make a lot of sense. I built a business model to determine the economics of running a farm in a shipping container that could be deployed to an underutilized Whole Foods parking lot.<p>The model accounted for a 81m3 shipping container being filled top-to-bottom with fruiting plants, like tomatoes, but it&#x27;s easily adjustable to other plants, like lettuces. The model is pretty sensitive to things like the productive life of the plant, lead time to productivity, and sale price.<p>Selling heads of lettuce for $3 each yields around $6000&#x2F;yr in gross revenue per container per year.<p>This was $17k net less $720 in labor, $6k in equipment, $3k in real estate and $1k in electricity. Lots of room for optimizations that could push this business over the $1B mark.<p>The model, in case anyone&#x27;s interested:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1DkjOIs7hXyxIiN_iWXK0M21Rjd4L0lTCTHaolR8LwTs&#x2F;edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.google.com&#x2F;spreadsheets&#x2F;d&#x2F;1DkjOIs7hXyxIiN_iWXK0...</a></text></item><item><author>peterjlee</author><text>This may work for a few Whole Foods customers who pay $5 for a bottle of herb infused water but I wonder if the cost is going to be reasonable enough for most people. Real estate cost alone may trump every other cost savings. Even if that &quot;farm&quot; can produce 10x more per square foot from vertical farming, the real estate cost of a grocery store in a city is a lot more expensive than a farmland in the middle of no where.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slackingoff2017</author><text>Not sure where you got that price, a head of lettuce is less that a dollar here in the Midwest US</text></comment> |
34,437,174 | 34,436,981 | 1 | 2 | 34,436,625 | train | <story><title>Short, friendly base32 slugs from timestamps</title><url>https://brandur.org/fragments/base32-slugs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wahern</author><text>For my current project I decided to try out 120-bit&#x2F;15-byte identifiers. 120 is evenly divisible by 4 (hex), 5 (base32), 6 (base64), and 8. Neither base32 nor base64 encodings need padding. You can usually leave padding out regardless, but with 120 bits it&#x27;s not even a choice you have to worry about, and there are no wasted bits.</text></comment> | <story><title>Short, friendly base32 slugs from timestamps</title><url>https://brandur.org/fragments/base32-slugs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kijin</author><text>If you&#x27;re going to change the order defined in RFC 4648, you might as well change the character set, too. Since one of the goals is to minimize the use of characters that can be confused for another, I would add back 8 and 9 and remove two of i, l and o.</text></comment> |
12,835,933 | 12,835,278 | 1 | 3 | 12,834,815 | train | <story><title>Free for students: Professional developer tools from JetBrains</title><url>https://www.jetbrains.com/student/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xCMP</author><text>That also includes Reshaper, PyCharm, Webstorm, and CLion. These tools are awesome for students.<p>Somewhere else mentioned if students really need these kinds of tools? To write code? Probably not, it&#x27;s better if they spent the time to use Vim&#x2F;Emacs or just got going with Atom&#x2F;VSCode&#x2F;Sublime. But none of those editors support the ease of clicking on something and seeing what that is. A class, a function, etc. Jetbrain&#x27;s support for this in any language they support is probably the best anywhere and the editor itself is damn good. I try my very best to get rid of it and I always find myself coming back. Rarely can anything match it&#x27;s features which once you learn how to use them you&#x27;ll often need on a day to day basis.</text></comment> | <story><title>Free for students: Professional developer tools from JetBrains</title><url>https://www.jetbrains.com/student/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hulahoof</author><text>Jetbrains are my IDE of choice, I started with phpStorm when I was doing webdev and have used most flavours during my studies - I recommend anyone studying to give this offer a try it is incredible value.<p>Edit: I&#x27;d like to add all that&#x27;s needed to get the student licence is a valid university email, at least for myself.</text></comment> |
36,669,097 | 36,667,388 | 1 | 3 | 36,663,060 | train | <story><title>Kubernetes SidecarContainers feature is merged</title><url>https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116429</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nrmitchi</author><text>While this is a very welcome improvement in terms of functionality, I can&#x27;t help by feel that the re-use of &quot;restartPolicy&quot; to mean something similar, but different, when used in a different context, is a very poor decision.<p>Kubernetes already has an issue with having a (perceived) high barrier to entry, and I&#x27;m not sure that &quot;restartPolicy on a container means this, unless isn&#x27;t used in <i>this</i> list of containers, in which case it means this&quot;.<p>I would have preferred to see a separate attribute (such as `sidecar: true`), rather than overloading (and in my opinion, abusing) the existing `restartPolicy`.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kubernetes SidecarContainers feature is merged</title><url>https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116429</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jauntywundrkind</author><text>On the one hand, great.<p>The other hand, one of the main criticisms of Kubernetes is that it has no composition or orchestration capabilities. It&#x27;s great about defining pieces of state, but managing blocks of state &amp; multiple things at once is left almost entirely to external tools.<p>The ability to compose &amp;sequence multiple containers feels like a very specific example of a much broader general capability. There&#x27;s bedevilling infinite complexity to trying to figure out a fully expressive state of state management system - I get why refining a couple specialized existing capabilities is the way - but it does make me a little sad to see a lack of appetite for the broader crosscutting system problem at the root here.</text></comment> |
21,788,891 | 21,788,915 | 1 | 2 | 21,785,354 | train | <story><title>The Cybertruck is not brutalist</title><url>https://www.inverse.com/article/61479-cybertruck-brutalism-not-really</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>&gt; but everyone has equal legitimacy in their opinion on this.<p>Why is everyone&#x27;s opinion equal? When building a bridge, is the opinion of a civil engineer equal to that of a cook? No, clearly not - but we only recognize this because the effects of building faulty bridges are obvious and immediately noticeable, whereas the effects of cultural ignorance are far more subtle and wide-reaching.<p>The fields of art and aesthetics have a long, complex history and have been studied and written upon by thousands of intelligent scholars, designers, artists, philosophers, and religious figures. Unfortunately, the default opinion among society today (which you yourself are echoing) is just a sort of ignorant relativism - everyone&#x27;s opinion on art (and anything else that isn&#x27;t &#x27;practical&#x27;) has the same value and the topic is fundamentally just a popularity contest.<p>Worse yet, this opinion wasn&#x27;t arrived at by carefully considering all the approaches to art and choosing subjectivity as the best option, which it may actually be (but that isn&#x27;t my point.) Instead, it was arrived at by simple ignorance.</text></item><item><author>endorphone</author><text>&quot;As a person with personal interest in visual arts&quot;<p>With all due respects, isn&#x27;t this an entirely meaningless saying? Everyone has an interest in aesthetics and visual appeal, and has a subjective opinion on what they find appealing. We are a social species so invariably people infect each other&#x27;s opinion so we have trends and movements towards&#x2F;from opinions, but everyone has equal legitimacy in their opinion on this.<p>As to the CyberTrck it&#x27;s worth noting that its design seems a restriction of material limitations rather than an intentional pursuit. As with the Delorean before, they started with the conclusion that they would use stainless steel and virtually every design decision was bound by that beginning.</text></item><item><author>loa_in_</author><text>As a person with personal interest in visual arts I never have seen the appeal of appearance of many popular &quot;great looking&quot; cars of today&#x27;s variety. Even muscle cars and luxury models.<p>Cars up to 70&#x27;s and 80&#x27;s were really nice and aesthetically pleasing, and I find the Elon Musk&#x27;s vision to be really nice and refreshing.<p>It might be that I&#x27;m partial to science fiction in general, but I really would like to see this vision developed further.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>murgindrag</author><text>It&#x27;s not about practicality. A Formula 1 car or high-performance sailboat has no practical value, but I trust engineers far more than kindergartners about Formula 1 or yacht design. On the other hand, I&#x27;ve seen gifted kindergartners draw things which I thought were pretty good -- on par with some respected artists.<p>It&#x27;s about having real-world validation. Anyone can have an opinion about art and literature. If your opinion happens to mirror the opinions of English department academics -- just clever enough to be a new twist, but not so brilliant as to go outside of the culture -- you can get a position as a scholar, and keep writing papers within a mutual appreciation society of academics all thinking roughly the same thoughts. Eventually, the whole crew goes down one rabbithole or other.<p>A group of thousands of self-supporting, mutually reaffirming &quot;intelligent scholars, designers, artists, philosophers, and religious figures&quot; doesn&#x27;t make that opinion any more right or valid than my own.<p>On the other hand, if an engineer can make the fastest sailboat, that&#x27;s external real-world validation that they got something right.<p>As a subtle point, I&#x27;ll trust the opinion of filmmakers who receive public acclaim (external validation). I&#x27;ll trust the opinion of filmmakers of niche artistic films a lot less. That is to say, I&#x27;ll trust them about the technical aspects (what aperture means, or how to edit a video), but not about the artistic aspects: how you use film as a medium for communication, expression, and so on. A big part of communication and art is understanding the audience, and they haven&#x27;t demonstrated they can do that, at least outside of their own clique.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cybertruck is not brutalist</title><url>https://www.inverse.com/article/61479-cybertruck-brutalism-not-really</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keiferski</author><text>&gt; but everyone has equal legitimacy in their opinion on this.<p>Why is everyone&#x27;s opinion equal? When building a bridge, is the opinion of a civil engineer equal to that of a cook? No, clearly not - but we only recognize this because the effects of building faulty bridges are obvious and immediately noticeable, whereas the effects of cultural ignorance are far more subtle and wide-reaching.<p>The fields of art and aesthetics have a long, complex history and have been studied and written upon by thousands of intelligent scholars, designers, artists, philosophers, and religious figures. Unfortunately, the default opinion among society today (which you yourself are echoing) is just a sort of ignorant relativism - everyone&#x27;s opinion on art (and anything else that isn&#x27;t &#x27;practical&#x27;) has the same value and the topic is fundamentally just a popularity contest.<p>Worse yet, this opinion wasn&#x27;t arrived at by carefully considering all the approaches to art and choosing subjectivity as the best option, which it may actually be (but that isn&#x27;t my point.) Instead, it was arrived at by simple ignorance.</text></item><item><author>endorphone</author><text>&quot;As a person with personal interest in visual arts&quot;<p>With all due respects, isn&#x27;t this an entirely meaningless saying? Everyone has an interest in aesthetics and visual appeal, and has a subjective opinion on what they find appealing. We are a social species so invariably people infect each other&#x27;s opinion so we have trends and movements towards&#x2F;from opinions, but everyone has equal legitimacy in their opinion on this.<p>As to the CyberTrck it&#x27;s worth noting that its design seems a restriction of material limitations rather than an intentional pursuit. As with the Delorean before, they started with the conclusion that they would use stainless steel and virtually every design decision was bound by that beginning.</text></item><item><author>loa_in_</author><text>As a person with personal interest in visual arts I never have seen the appeal of appearance of many popular &quot;great looking&quot; cars of today&#x27;s variety. Even muscle cars and luxury models.<p>Cars up to 70&#x27;s and 80&#x27;s were really nice and aesthetically pleasing, and I find the Elon Musk&#x27;s vision to be really nice and refreshing.<p>It might be that I&#x27;m partial to science fiction in general, but I really would like to see this vision developed further.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Isinlor</author><text>You take position of authority, criticize, but you are not educating.<p>&gt; The fields of art and aesthetics have a long, complex history and have been studied and written upon by thousands of intelligent scholars, designers, artists, philosophers, and religious figures.<p>So, let me ask you, why should I care?<p>I care about design e.g. &quot;The Design of Everyday Things&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yY96hTb8WgI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yY96hTb8WgI</a><p>But what is it about aesthetics that is not subjective?</text></comment> |
20,656,145 | 20,654,944 | 1 | 3 | 20,652,145 | train | <story><title>Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Yeah, as a vegetarian I can do some awesome things with lentils, but I remember the days when I could rub some spice on a pork chop and throw it on the grill and then have something boxed and starchy on the side and have a pretty decent meal.<p>Meanwhile, a good lentil stew is a much more involved project. Much less home-made veggie burger patties which have dozens of ingredients and elaborate preparation processes.<p>Going full vegan is even harder, because cheese is a pretty good shortcut to making hearty food.</text></item><item><author>TheBeardKing</author><text>We&#x27;ve been trying to cut our meat consumption, but the cooking complexity is exactly my issue. We&#x27;re lazy but healthy eaters, meaning our regular entrees are a meat and a couple veggie sides. We also do low carb, mainly because it&#x27;s just easier to limit calorie intake that way. Most of the dinner work is usually cutting and preparing vegetables. When we cut meat, it cuts the main portion of the entree, which can sometimes be filled with baked potato, corn on the cob, some quinoa thing, but it&#x27;s not as satisfying and gets boring. We don&#x27;t like buying processed foods, and soups without meat are nearly a no-go for me. But hey, I&#x27;m limiting consumption so I guess I&#x27;m doing my part.</text></item><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>At least in the USA, this could in principle be fixed by ending the corporate welfare state. Old news, but All major industries like the beef industry get huge tax breaks, free water and other giveaways at the general taxpayer’s expense.<p>Fixing the corruption (both democratic and republican parties) in our our political would end up helping the environment a lot. That said, we have zero chance of fixing our corrupt political system. It will never happen, the elites have won that war.<p>One problem with reducing meat consumption is the general low skill level for cooking. Vegetarian food can taste better than meat dishes but you need skill and good ingredients. I have mixed feelings about Beyond Meat: my wife and I love the hot Italian sausage and burgers, but it is really not that healthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alisonatwork</author><text>I felt similarly to you when i first decided to try eating mostly vegan a few years back. One of my go-to meals was a cheese sandwich. It tastes great, you can&#x27;t beat the speed of prep and it&#x27;s not completely unhealthy. But now i realize there are plenty of other fast things that hit the spot that actually i already knew how to make but i never really saw as go-to meals before.<p>Here are some examples.<p>I know it&#x27;s a punchline these days, but i grew up in the 80s eating avocado toast. You want more flavor? Just spread some marmite or vegemite.<p>The Tex-Mex take is to smash that avo with corn chips and salsa. Miss the cheese? Put some silky tofu. Think of it like queso fresco. Hey, you can also slice it on tomato with vinegar to make caprese salad.<p>What about beans on toast? If you&#x27;re not a bread person, something i used to cook in my student days is can of beans, can of creamed corn, garlic, chili, soy, the end. It&#x27;s hearty. It only takes 10 minutes. I still cook variations on that, sometimes with no corn or different beans. I like using sesame seeds to thicken it up, or pumpkin seeds for a different texture.<p>I also leverage peanut butter when i am feeling lazy. Spread it on some seaweed rice crackers for savory. You can put it on bread with sliced banana for sweet.<p>Real peanuts are great too. They are literally the first thing i throw in the wok. Oil. Peanuts. Garlic, ginger, chilis. Then the vegetable or mushroom or tofu or whatever. Or not, because just seasoned peanuts will go fine on top of whatever other vegan thing where you feel you&#x27;re missing some crispy, oily, goodness.<p>There really is so much, and i think a lot of it is stuff most people already eat. I think the problem is that people tend to think of incidentally vegan dishes as somehow not being &quot;real&quot; meals, but that&#x27;s a cultural bias that can be unlearned.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Yeah, as a vegetarian I can do some awesome things with lentils, but I remember the days when I could rub some spice on a pork chop and throw it on the grill and then have something boxed and starchy on the side and have a pretty decent meal.<p>Meanwhile, a good lentil stew is a much more involved project. Much less home-made veggie burger patties which have dozens of ingredients and elaborate preparation processes.<p>Going full vegan is even harder, because cheese is a pretty good shortcut to making hearty food.</text></item><item><author>TheBeardKing</author><text>We&#x27;ve been trying to cut our meat consumption, but the cooking complexity is exactly my issue. We&#x27;re lazy but healthy eaters, meaning our regular entrees are a meat and a couple veggie sides. We also do low carb, mainly because it&#x27;s just easier to limit calorie intake that way. Most of the dinner work is usually cutting and preparing vegetables. When we cut meat, it cuts the main portion of the entree, which can sometimes be filled with baked potato, corn on the cob, some quinoa thing, but it&#x27;s not as satisfying and gets boring. We don&#x27;t like buying processed foods, and soups without meat are nearly a no-go for me. But hey, I&#x27;m limiting consumption so I guess I&#x27;m doing my part.</text></item><item><author>mark_l_watson</author><text>At least in the USA, this could in principle be fixed by ending the corporate welfare state. Old news, but All major industries like the beef industry get huge tax breaks, free water and other giveaways at the general taxpayer’s expense.<p>Fixing the corruption (both democratic and republican parties) in our our political would end up helping the environment a lot. That said, we have zero chance of fixing our corrupt political system. It will never happen, the elites have won that war.<p>One problem with reducing meat consumption is the general low skill level for cooking. Vegetarian food can taste better than meat dishes but you need skill and good ingredients. I have mixed feelings about Beyond Meat: my wife and I love the hot Italian sausage and burgers, but it is really not that healthy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LargeWu</author><text>I think the trick to reducing food prep labor is larger batches. Maybe that means you eat the same thing 4 or more times in a week. Or maybe that means you freeze some of it for later. But it doesn&#x27;t really take any more work to make a 3x batch of lentil stew than it does to make the regular sized batch.</text></comment> |
31,911,337 | 31,911,254 | 1 | 2 | 31,910,622 | train | <story><title>Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed</title><url>https://legiblenews.com/speed</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on building &quot;the fastest news website&quot; for a few reasons:<p>1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines.<p>2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript.<p>3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc.<p>I put together the speed page at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed</a> to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it&#x27;s also interesting to see how fast other news websites are (or in most cases, are not).<p>Some feedback I&#x27;m interested in receiving:<p>1. What&#x27;s your take both on the speed ranking methodology for Legible News?<p>2. Are my descriptions of the metrics for a non-web developer reasonable? Example of that at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;websites&#x2F;associated-press" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;websites&#x2F;associated-press</a>, and if you click through the links on that table, you see a description like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;audits&#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;audits&#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift</a><p>Sorry ahead of time, but I can&#x27;t fit all news websites on the speed report. I had to target general news websites, not ones for specific niches like HN for Tech. If there&#x27;s something you think that&#x27;s missing please post it, but I can&#x27;t promise that I&#x27;ll add it.<p>If you like it, please consider subscribing! Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>notjustanymike</author><text>Back in my Newsweek days, we rebuilt the entire site with a blisteringly fast homepage. Proper caching, lazy loading where needed, and fully optimized CSS, images, and javascript. Then the sales team sold a 600px wide takeover ad for scabies medication showing an old dudes infected back.<p>So it doesn’t matter how fast you build the site. You don’t have control over the things that make it bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guestbest</author><text>Advertising is related to technology in much the same way a parasite is related to the host</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed</title><url>https://legiblenews.com/speed</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on building &quot;the fastest news website&quot; for a few reasons:<p>1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines.<p>2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript.<p>3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc.<p>I put together the speed page at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed</a> to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it&#x27;s also interesting to see how fast other news websites are (or in most cases, are not).<p>Some feedback I&#x27;m interested in receiving:<p>1. What&#x27;s your take both on the speed ranking methodology for Legible News?<p>2. Are my descriptions of the metrics for a non-web developer reasonable? Example of that at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;websites&#x2F;associated-press" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;websites&#x2F;associated-press</a>, and if you click through the links on that table, you see a description like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;audits&#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;legiblenews.com&#x2F;speed&#x2F;audits&#x2F;cumulative-layout-shift</a><p>Sorry ahead of time, but I can&#x27;t fit all news websites on the speed report. I had to target general news websites, not ones for specific niches like HN for Tech. If there&#x27;s something you think that&#x27;s missing please post it, but I can&#x27;t promise that I&#x27;ll add it.<p>If you like it, please consider subscribing! Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>notjustanymike</author><text>Back in my Newsweek days, we rebuilt the entire site with a blisteringly fast homepage. Proper caching, lazy loading where needed, and fully optimized CSS, images, and javascript. Then the sales team sold a 600px wide takeover ad for scabies medication showing an old dudes infected back.<p>So it doesn’t matter how fast you build the site. You don’t have control over the things that make it bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradgessler</author><text>I was hoping some folks would chime in who built these websites!<p>Yes, I&#x27;ve run big websites and they&#x27;re kind of like sea faring vessels -- given enough time with a large enough team, they tend to collect barnacles and become slower over time.<p>I made the speed rankings so that Legible News wouldn&#x27;t lose site that speed matters.</text></comment> |
22,426,431 | 22,425,946 | 1 | 2 | 22,425,834 | train | <story><title>CouchDB 3.0</title><url>https://blog.couchdb.org/2020/02/26/3-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>splatcollision</author><text>CouchDB is awesome, full stop.<p>While it&#x27;s missing some popularity from MongoDB and having wide adoption of things like mongoose in lots of open source CMS-type projects, it wins for the (i believe) unique take on map &#x2F; reduce and writing custom javascript view functions that run on every document, letting you really customize the way you can query slice and access parts of your data...<p>Example: I&#x27;m building a document analysis app that does topic + keyword frequency vectorization of a corpus of documents, only a few thousand for now.<p>I end up with a bunch of documents that have &quot;text&quot;: &quot;here is my document text...&quot; and &quot;vector&quot;: [ array of floating point values ...].<p>What I can do with couchdb is store that 20d vector and emit integers of it as a query key:<p><pre><code> var intVectors = doc.vector.map(function(val){
return Math.floor(val)
})
emit(intVectors, 1);
</code></pre>
Then I can match an input document&#x27;s vector (calculated the same as corpus documents), calculate a &#x27;range&#x27; of those vectors, pass it as start and end keys, and super quickly get a result from the database of &#x27;here are documents that have vectors similar to your input&#x27;...<p>Super fun, quick and flexible to work with!</text></comment> | <story><title>CouchDB 3.0</title><url>https://blog.couchdb.org/2020/02/26/3-0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newfeatureok</author><text>One interesting thing you can do with CouchDB is that you can have a webapp where a user can specify their own database and credentials and it works over HTTP(s). That&#x27;s pretty unique. I&#x27;d love to see a SaaS using CouchDB and their &quot;on-premise&quot; offering just means the user provides their own database. I&#x27;m not sure how payment would work though - perhaps some verification proxy?<p>Firebase is the gold-standard for offline apps (as a service). CouchDB replaces Cloud Firestore, and Keycloak replaces Authentication. I haven&#x27;t seen OSS equivalents of Cloud Functions, ML Kit, and the other things (e.g. In-App messaging, and Cloud Messaging). It&#x27;d be nice to have the entire stack of Firebase bundled as a group of OSS projects, including CouchDB.<p>Sad to see that per doc access control didn&#x27;t make it in 3.0. Hopefully it&#x27;ll be in 3.1.</text></comment> |
32,455,078 | 32,455,107 | 1 | 2 | 32,449,846 | train | <story><title>“Logistics”, an 857-hour movie, tracks a pedometer from shop back to factory</title><url>https://readpassage.com/i-watched-an-857-hour-movie-to-encounter-capitalisms-extremes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ed</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately<p>What’s the argument against capitalism&#x2F;international trade in this context? Trade increases the cost of war, which is a good thing, right?</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>That&#x27;s a great perspective to have on what it takes to make even the simplest things, like a pencil. Unfortunately, (but not unsurprising), Friedman makes the grand claim that capitalism crates harmony in the world at the end of the video, but besides that, it was a interesting and quick watch. Thanks for sharing it.</text></item><item><author>7373737373</author><text>I, Pencil: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=67tHtpac5ws" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=67tHtpac5ws</a></text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>The crazy part is that this journey is only the tip of the iceberg for this pedometer. It is made of many components, all of which follow similar journeys to the pedometer factory from their respective factories. And the components are made of raw materials, which are also shipped around in a similar manner after being mined. And the mining itself displaces those who live in that space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>It depends on what someone means by “capitalism”. Some people use a definition which is more specific than just “trade”. So for example we tend to see firms owned by individuals who are materially separate from most of the workers, and some people see this phenomenon as part of what we ultimately call “capitalism”. Control of firms by a small number of people can lead to choices which are good for the leadership but bad for most of the workers. If you have a larger economy made up of firms with this structure, then you can see a great number of choices made that benefit a small number of people to the detriment of a large number of people. Essentially, this arrangement has a tendency to enrich a minority, concentrating capital in a way that perpetuates this cycle. Eventually you end up with a whole lot of people living in desperation barely able to survive while a small number of people are unfathomably wealthy.<p>One might ask if such an arrangement is good for society if most people are left struggling to survive.<p>However this is all based on a rhetorical question: does “capitalism” the word include this arrangement of firms? Is unrestricted free trade likely to lead to this arrangement of firms? Would a different structure of firms, like cooperative ownership, alleviate some of those problems? You could still have “trade” in an economy of cooperatives. But would that still be “capitalism” or would this be considered something else?<p>People are divided on whether it should be called something else. But a lot of people who think we should “move beyond capitalism” do not want to eliminate free trade, just the societal norm where most firms are controlled by a small number of people.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Logistics”, an 857-hour movie, tracks a pedometer from shop back to factory</title><url>https://readpassage.com/i-watched-an-857-hour-movie-to-encounter-capitalisms-extremes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ed</author><text>&gt; Unfortunately<p>What’s the argument against capitalism&#x2F;international trade in this context? Trade increases the cost of war, which is a good thing, right?</text></item><item><author>capableweb</author><text>That&#x27;s a great perspective to have on what it takes to make even the simplest things, like a pencil. Unfortunately, (but not unsurprising), Friedman makes the grand claim that capitalism crates harmony in the world at the end of the video, but besides that, it was a interesting and quick watch. Thanks for sharing it.</text></item><item><author>7373737373</author><text>I, Pencil: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=67tHtpac5ws" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=67tHtpac5ws</a></text></item><item><author>forgotmypw17</author><text>The crazy part is that this journey is only the tip of the iceberg for this pedometer. It is made of many components, all of which follow similar journeys to the pedometer factory from their respective factories. And the components are made of raw materials, which are also shipped around in a similar manner after being mined. And the mining itself displaces those who live in that space.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ClumsyPilot</author><text>Pollution - shipping basic goods around the globe 3 times to make the simples itema creates a lot of unnessesary pollition.<p>Fragility - one byte from a bat, one lockdown in China and United Kingdom runs out of toilet paper.</text></comment> |
22,564,113 | 22,564,154 | 1 | 2 | 22,563,348 | train | <story><title>TSA officers who tested positive for coronavirus did pat-downs at SJC airport</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-infected-tsa-employees-at-mineta-san-jose-airport-patted-down-passengers-put-hands-on-travel-documents/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heimidal</author><text>They aren’t testing most people with symptoms. No way will they start testing random people without.</text></item><item><author>wool_gather</author><text>The part that&#x27;s missing here:<p>Public announcement of when exactly these folks were on duty in the last two weeks so that travellers who came into contact with them <i>can self-identify and get tested</i>.<p>Or better, just announcement that any traveller that passed through their checkpoint recently can get tested, regardless of the timeframe.<p>The virus has no interest in helping TSA or politicians save face. We have to start testing and publishing the results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alamortsubite</author><text>You&#x27;re being really generous here. In most cases, we aren&#x27;t even testing people who are symptomatic and whose BioFire panels come back negative, unless they also happen to have a travel history that includes an affected area overseas.</text></comment> | <story><title>TSA officers who tested positive for coronavirus did pat-downs at SJC airport</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-infected-tsa-employees-at-mineta-san-jose-airport-patted-down-passengers-put-hands-on-travel-documents/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>heimidal</author><text>They aren’t testing most people with symptoms. No way will they start testing random people without.</text></item><item><author>wool_gather</author><text>The part that&#x27;s missing here:<p>Public announcement of when exactly these folks were on duty in the last two weeks so that travellers who came into contact with them <i>can self-identify and get tested</i>.<p>Or better, just announcement that any traveller that passed through their checkpoint recently can get tested, regardless of the timeframe.<p>The virus has no interest in helping TSA or politicians save face. We have to start testing and publishing the results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>They have started testing people who had contact specifically with people who are known to be infected. So there is a chance.</text></comment> |
26,817,626 | 26,817,602 | 1 | 2 | 26,814,748 | train | <story><title>Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/the-rise-and-fall-of-missed-calls-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aembleton</author><text>When I was a teenager in the 90s in the UK, if I wanted my parents to collect me from somewhere then I could let them know by calling the operator from a payphone and asking for a reverse charge to my parents landline. Calls to the operator were free but reverse charged calls cost a lot to those who accepted them.<p>When asked for my name I would usually use my first name and use my last name as the place to pick me up from. If that gave them enough information then they could reject the call, which would cost them nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>furyg3</author><text>This trick was so well known that a famous ad was made about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India</title><url>https://restofworld.org/2021/the-rise-and-fall-of-missed-calls-in-india/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aembleton</author><text>When I was a teenager in the 90s in the UK, if I wanted my parents to collect me from somewhere then I could let them know by calling the operator from a payphone and asking for a reverse charge to my parents landline. Calls to the operator were free but reverse charged calls cost a lot to those who accepted them.<p>When asked for my name I would usually use my first name and use my last name as the place to pick me up from. If that gave them enough information then they could reject the call, which would cost them nothing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>When I went to sleep away camp one summer when I was 11, it required me to take an airplane by myself. To let my parents know I had arrived, they told me to call collect, use my regular name, and they would reject the call.<p>If it was an actual emergency, I was to immediately call back again and then they would accept the call. It was a great way to get free messages.</text></comment> |
33,738,557 | 33,738,445 | 1 | 2 | 33,716,429 | train | <story><title>Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arglebargle123</author><text>Well I certainly didn&#x27;t have &quot;Tumblr becomes culturally relevant in 2023 after adding federated content cross-compatibility with foss platforms&quot; on my bingo card, but here we are I guess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aliqot</author><text>Where are these bingo cards issued? I hear this often, curious what prize there may be out there. Sorry if a stupid question, I&#x27;m assuming it&#x27;s a blockchain thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arglebargle123</author><text>Well I certainly didn&#x27;t have &quot;Tumblr becomes culturally relevant in 2023 after adding federated content cross-compatibility with foss platforms&quot; on my bingo card, but here we are I guess.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kweingar</author><text>Not sure what federation with FOSS platforms has to do with cultural relevance.</text></comment> |
18,225,708 | 18,225,612 | 1 | 2 | 18,223,645 | train | <story><title>Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid</title><url>https://www.twilio.com/press/releases/release_twilio_acquires_sendgrid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ttul</author><text>A spam company. Not a terrible analysis. But perhaps what he missed is that the company that figures out how to send email well despite having horrible spammers as customers will make millions.</text></item><item><author>tim333</author><text>Ah, YC&#x27;s one that got away - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-was-SendGrid-rejected-from-YCombinator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-was-SendGrid-rejected-from-YCombin...</a><p>&gt;Apparently, only one partner, Robert Morris, reviewed the SendGrid application, and he gave it a highly negative score, calling it a &quot;spam company.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tlb</author><text>I think what we missed is that there would be two tiers of email senders, differentiated by price. There would be $100&#x2F;MM email senders that would appeal to spammers, and $500&#x2F;MM senders that would appeal to companies that manage their communications well. They’d have different delivery rates through spam filters. The bottom tier is bad for the world and a low-margin business. The top tier is OK for the world and a profitable business. SendGrid seems to have found the sweet spot.</text></comment> | <story><title>Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid</title><url>https://www.twilio.com/press/releases/release_twilio_acquires_sendgrid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ttul</author><text>A spam company. Not a terrible analysis. But perhaps what he missed is that the company that figures out how to send email well despite having horrible spammers as customers will make millions.</text></item><item><author>tim333</author><text>Ah, YC&#x27;s one that got away - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-was-SendGrid-rejected-from-YCombinator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Why-was-SendGrid-rejected-from-YCombin...</a><p>&gt;Apparently, only one partner, Robert Morris, reviewed the SendGrid application, and he gave it a highly negative score, calling it a &quot;spam company.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hannasanarion</author><text>The purpose of y-combinator is not to make tons of money, neither should that be the default purpose of a company. &quot;Business ethics&quot; is a thing.</text></comment> |
40,131,171 | 40,131,208 | 1 | 2 | 40,130,768 | train | <story><title>Claude 3 beats Google Translate</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13813</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacebanana7</author><text>I still find it amazing how LLM translation capabilities are an almost accidental feature. Yet they still managed to leapfrog decades of research and billions of investment dollars in traditional machine translation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>herculity275</author><text>Didn&#x27;t &quot;Attention Is All you Need&quot; bill transformers primarily as a translation model?</text></comment> | <story><title>Claude 3 beats Google Translate</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13813</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spacebanana7</author><text>I still find it amazing how LLM translation capabilities are an almost accidental feature. Yet they still managed to leapfrog decades of research and billions of investment dollars in traditional machine translation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dartos</author><text>Translation is the reason transformer models exist.<p>Every other use case is basically an accidental feature</text></comment> |
31,849,669 | 31,849,626 | 1 | 2 | 31,845,968 | train | <story><title>New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published</title><url>https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2022/06/new-tolkien-book-the-fall-of-numenor-to-be-published/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>This might be blasphemous among LOTR fans, but I wish the Tolkien family would work with other authors to complete these stories. You can still publish all the drafts and notes you want, but I would love to see them written in a more digestible format. There is so much potential in all these stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DeusExMachina</author><text>As a Tolkien fan I have absolutely zero interest in any of these, no matter how well they could be written (and given what is happening with Amazon&#x27;s The Rings of Power, that&#x27;s not a given).<p>A fan of Tolkien&#x27;s original stories is exactly that, not a fan of any story written by a random author with the same characters in it. There are plenty of fantasy novels that don&#x27;t enjoy the same level of success for that reason.<p>There is no lack of elfves, dwarves, wizards, and dragons. What is lacking is Tolkien&#x27;s talent.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published</title><url>https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2022/06/new-tolkien-book-the-fall-of-numenor-to-be-published/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vlunkr</author><text>This might be blasphemous among LOTR fans, but I wish the Tolkien family would work with other authors to complete these stories. You can still publish all the drafts and notes you want, but I would love to see them written in a more digestible format. There is so much potential in all these stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ren_engineer</author><text>&gt;There is so much potential in all these stories<p>potential for what? Making more money? I&#x27;m glad Tolkien&#x27;s son actually had the decency to not squeeze his father&#x27;s legacy for every penny. Within months of him stepping down at age 93 whoever is in charge of it now signed the contract with Amazon</text></comment> |
4,695,215 | 4,694,624 | 1 | 3 | 4,693,655 | train | <story><title>Facebook, I want my friends back</title><url>http://dangerousminds.net/comments/facebook_i_want_my_friends_back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ry0ohki</author><text>So what? Annoying pages can get un-liked, and the problem will work itself out. But if someone is a "Fan" of the brand and wants to see all of their 15 posts in a day, it's frustrating they can't. The default in Facebook is always "Most Popular", and even when I change it to "Most Recent" (to see the long tail of my friends activities, since I don't trust Facebook), Facebook always sets it back.</text></item><item><author>chaz</author><text>If you're posting 10-16 posts a day and you forcibly put each of these into 100% of your fans, you're going to shrink your base. If you did that to me, I'm going to hide or Unlike your page. If you emailed me those posts, I'd be hitting unsubscribe in half a day. The Facebook News Feed isn't an RSS reader, and the Like button isn't Subscribe.<p>I would suggest just posting once a day, and using the Promoted Posts for the occasional big news that you want to make sure everyone reads.<p>Facebook pages isn't a panacea for brands or publishers -- not by a long shot. That panacea is one of those Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaz</author><text>The author is expecting that all 54k fans should see the page's posts, and that fewer impressions are feeling like extortion. That expectation is both incorrect and unreasonable. There will always be users who don't log in each day. Even if FB queued up the News Feed to show the post, the impression will never be driven because they haven't scrolled far enough down.<p>I do agree about the sort preference -- I wish it was sticky.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook, I want my friends back</title><url>http://dangerousminds.net/comments/facebook_i_want_my_friends_back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ry0ohki</author><text>So what? Annoying pages can get un-liked, and the problem will work itself out. But if someone is a "Fan" of the brand and wants to see all of their 15 posts in a day, it's frustrating they can't. The default in Facebook is always "Most Popular", and even when I change it to "Most Recent" (to see the long tail of my friends activities, since I don't trust Facebook), Facebook always sets it back.</text></item><item><author>chaz</author><text>If you're posting 10-16 posts a day and you forcibly put each of these into 100% of your fans, you're going to shrink your base. If you did that to me, I'm going to hide or Unlike your page. If you emailed me those posts, I'd be hitting unsubscribe in half a day. The Facebook News Feed isn't an RSS reader, and the Like button isn't Subscribe.<p>I would suggest just posting once a day, and using the Promoted Posts for the occasional big news that you want to make sure everyone reads.<p>Facebook pages isn't a panacea for brands or publishers -- not by a long shot. That panacea is one of those Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>As a rule, I don't "Like" sites, but I was unaware that it actually meant "subscribe me to this."</text></comment> |
2,298,826 | 2,298,839 | 1 | 3 | 2,298,593 | train | <story><title>Google Voice Now Offers SIP Addresses For Calling Directly Over IP</title><url>http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2011/03/google-voice-now-offers-sip-addresses-for-calling-directly-over-ip.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gst</author><text>Amazing that they use Yate (which is unfortunately not that widely known).<p>Years ago I've examined different VoIP engines for a project:<p>While Asterisk is one of the most widely used VoIP engines the source code and the whole architecture (at least few years ago) was ugly as hell. Instead of designing the whole system for concurrency there were some pretty ugly workarounds. In addition, it was trivial to crash the system with a little bit of SIP fuzzing (and some of those crashes may have been exploitable).<p>Yate on the other hand - while not having as many features as Asterisk - was just beautiful. A really nice architecture and extremely good readable C++ source code. In fact, it was a real joy to study the source.<p>Unfortunately I didn't really had a chance to study Freeswitch, as it was pretty new at this time and therefore not an option. From what I've seen it seems better architected and more stable than Asterisk. The main difference to Yate is that Yate only has few external dependencies, while Freeswitch tries to utilize as many external libraries as possible (e.g., instead of implementing SIP itself it uses an external library).<p>If I'd had to choose a VoIP engine today (and if a simple SIP proxy wouldn't be sufficient), Yate would be pretty much at the top of the list.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Voice Now Offers SIP Addresses For Calling Directly Over IP</title><url>http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2011/03/google-voice-now-offers-sip-addresses-for-calling-directly-over-ip.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MatthewRayfield</author><text>If you want a round about way of receiving inbound Google Voice calls through SIP (for free) you can do the following:<p>1. Get free SIP service from IPTel (<a href="http://www.iptel.org/service" rel="nofollow">http://www.iptel.org/service</a>).<p>2. Get a free phone number in the Washington area with IPKall (<a href="http://www.ipkall.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ipkall.com/</a>).<p>3. Add your new IPKall number to your Google Voice account.<p>Now when someone rings your GV number it will call your IPKall number which will in turn call your IPTel SIP account.</text></comment> |
29,881,202 | 29,881,127 | 1 | 3 | 29,880,115 | train | <story><title>New Year, New CEO</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbenson</author><text>This post, and how it explains that there&#x27;s 30 people working there now, made me realize that if I care about signal continuing (and I do, since I really like it, especially that it has a dedicated desktop client), that I should see how it makes money and whether that&#x27;s sustainable. Turns out it&#x27;s donations, and now I&#x27;m a donor through monthly charges through the mobile app. I actually opted for that specifically because their web site noted that they can&#x27;t give you a badge in the app if you donate online, and I thought showing the badge would be a good way for other people to see and inquire about, and hopefully realize they can donate too if they care to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conroy</author><text>While this is true, remember that the Signal Foundation was started with a sizeable investment from their new interim CEO Brian Acton.<p>&gt; In February of 2018, Acton invested $50 million of his own money to start the Signal Foundation alongside Moxie Marlinspike
&gt;
&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalfoundation.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalfoundation.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a><p>He&#x27;s worth at least a billion dollars, so one imagines that Signal will continue as long as he&#x27;s involved.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Year, New CEO</title><url>https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kbenson</author><text>This post, and how it explains that there&#x27;s 30 people working there now, made me realize that if I care about signal continuing (and I do, since I really like it, especially that it has a dedicated desktop client), that I should see how it makes money and whether that&#x27;s sustainable. Turns out it&#x27;s donations, and now I&#x27;m a donor through monthly charges through the mobile app. I actually opted for that specifically because their web site noted that they can&#x27;t give you a badge in the app if you donate online, and I thought showing the badge would be a good way for other people to see and inquire about, and hopefully realize they can donate too if they care to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Turns out it&#x27;s donations</i><p>Are they still doing the crypto scheme? I stopped donating when that started, but would be more than happy to pick it back up if they reversed course.</text></comment> |
22,888,726 | 22,888,496 | 1 | 2 | 22,887,349 | train | <story><title>Rämixx500 – An Open Hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ mainboard</title><url>https://github.com/SukkoPera/Raemixx500</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>Is this really &#x27;open hardware&#x27;? The licence has complex and seemingly imprecise restrictions on right-to-sell.<p>The terms even become more restrictive as the Euro inflates!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>As an outsider looking in for some reason this seems endemic to the Amiga community more than other retro systems. On the Atari ST even though it is a smaller community we have a completely open source GPL implementation of the operating system plus (EmuTOS) extensions for it (FreeMint, fVDI, etc.), and several hardware projects etc. with pretty open communities, if less of them.<p>On the Amiga side every project seems to have licensing which seems to always be defined such that someone thinks they&#x27;re going to make a successful commercial project out of it Any Day Now. It&#x27;s strange.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rämixx500 – An Open Hardware remake of the Commodore Amiga 500+ mainboard</title><url>https://github.com/SukkoPera/Raemixx500</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>Is this really &#x27;open hardware&#x27;? The licence has complex and seemingly imprecise restrictions on right-to-sell.<p>The terms even become more restrictive as the Euro inflates!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>Having the license drive the max sales price is a little tricky. I can&#x27;t tell what you would be allowed to do if you sold them (fully or partially) populated and assembled with the right chips and components.</text></comment> |
20,806,395 | 20,805,459 | 1 | 3 | 20,800,115 | train | <story><title>Credit cards have a privacy problem</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/26/spy-your-wallet-credit-cards-have-privacy-problem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dehrmann</author><text>Yup, do-no-evil Google buys your credit card data for advertising purposes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-08-30&#x2F;google-and-mastercard-cut-a-secret-ad-deal-to-track-retail-sales" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-08-30&#x2F;google-an...</a><p>Companies need to start thinking of this less in the lens of &quot;evil&quot; and more principle of least astonishment. Would users be surprised and angry to learn you do this? Then don&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Credit cards have a privacy problem</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/26/spy-your-wallet-credit-cards-have-privacy-problem/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mLuby</author><text>&gt;&quot;We don&#x27;t <i>sell</i> your data, we <i>share</i> it.&quot; -all the companies involved<p>Am I the only one thinking there might be some Clapper-level double-speak going on here? Why would these company share admittedly valuable data without being compensated?<p>A question for contract lawyers: can I sell something (say an API or quarterly report) that &quot;incidentally&quot; includes customer data and get away with saying I&#x27;m not &quot;selling customer data&quot;?</text></comment> |
37,583,231 | 37,581,365 | 1 | 2 | 37,580,123 | train | <story><title>Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/19/badlib/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmytucson</author><text>&gt; author decided it was a good idea to prepend the message with the message length encoded as a varint.<p>&gt; WHY? Oh, why?!<p>Uh oh. Is this my HN moment?<p>This is exactly how I implemented it at my company. We had to write many protobuf messages to one file in bulk (in parallel). I did a fair amount of research before designing this and didn’t find any standard for separating protobuf messages (in fact, found that there explicitly isn’t a standard in that protobuf doesn’t care). So I thought rather than using some “special” control character, like a null byte, which would inevitably be not-so-special and collide with somebody else’s (like Schema Registry’s “magic byte”), I’d use something meaningful like the number of bytes the following record is.<p>As for why I chose varint instead of just picking an interger size, well for one I got nerd-sniped by varint encoding and thought it would be cool to try and implement it in Scala. Secondly, I thought if I chose a fixed size integer, no matter what size I pick, my users will always surprise me and exceed it at least once, and when that happens, kaboom! I wanted to future proof this without wasting 64 goddamn bytes in front of each message, and also I got nerd-sniped, OK?!?<p>Someone on my team recently shared one of these files outside the company and so I really hope she’s not talking about me but that’s a crazy coincidence if not!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>Congrats :) you perfectly re-created the actual Protobuf stream format. [1]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protobuf.dev&#x2F;reference&#x2F;java&#x2F;api-docs&#x2F;com&#x2F;google&#x2F;protobuf&#x2F;Parser#parseDelimitedFrom-java.io.InputStream-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protobuf.dev&#x2F;reference&#x2F;java&#x2F;api-docs&#x2F;com&#x2F;google&#x2F;prot...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/19/badlib/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmytucson</author><text>&gt; author decided it was a good idea to prepend the message with the message length encoded as a varint.<p>&gt; WHY? Oh, why?!<p>Uh oh. Is this my HN moment?<p>This is exactly how I implemented it at my company. We had to write many protobuf messages to one file in bulk (in parallel). I did a fair amount of research before designing this and didn’t find any standard for separating protobuf messages (in fact, found that there explicitly isn’t a standard in that protobuf doesn’t care). So I thought rather than using some “special” control character, like a null byte, which would inevitably be not-so-special and collide with somebody else’s (like Schema Registry’s “magic byte”), I’d use something meaningful like the number of bytes the following record is.<p>As for why I chose varint instead of just picking an interger size, well for one I got nerd-sniped by varint encoding and thought it would be cool to try and implement it in Scala. Secondly, I thought if I chose a fixed size integer, no matter what size I pick, my users will always surprise me and exceed it at least once, and when that happens, kaboom! I wanted to future proof this without wasting 64 goddamn bytes in front of each message, and also I got nerd-sniped, OK?!?<p>Someone on my team recently shared one of these files outside the company and so I really hope she’s not talking about me but that’s a crazy coincidence if not!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NavinF</author><text>&gt; didn’t find any standard for separating protobuf messages<p>The fact that protobufs are not self-delimiting is an endless source of frustration, but I know of 2 standards for doing this:<p>- SerializeDelimited* is part of the protobuf library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;protocolbuffers&#x2F;protobuf&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;google&#x2F;protobuf&#x2F;util&#x2F;delimited_message_util.cc">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;protocolbuffers&#x2F;protobuf&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;src&#x2F;go...</a><p>- Riegeli is &quot;a file format for storing a sequence of string records, typically serialized protocol buffers. It supports dense compression, fast decoding, seeking, detection and optional skipping of data corruption, filtering of proto message fields for even faster decoding, and parallel encoding&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;riegeli">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;riegeli</a></text></comment> |
5,889,354 | 5,889,189 | 1 | 2 | 5,888,393 | train | <story><title>Terms of Service; Didn't Read</title><url>http://tosdr.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnnygoods</author><text>Be wary of installing this extension, and this is why:<p>It&#x27;s not lost on the legal world that no one reads Terms of Service. As a result, TOS are rarely enforceable in court, except inasmuch as they comply with broad industry standards.<p>However, compliance requirements are much MORE strict for parties who demonstrably should be aware of their legal obligations. Lawyers, for example, can&#x27;t really argue that they didn&#x27;t read a legal document they executed because of the manner in which it was delivered (in an inscrutable TOS doc, at the entrance to an amusement park, etc).<p>If you install this extension, you might actually be making yourself MORE bound to crappy terms of service, since you will not be able to make the case that obviously you didn&#x27;t read them terms and therefore should not be held to some non-standard provision.<p>The reviews&#x2F;ratings provided by tosdr.org are awesome, and I hope you guys continue this project, but I, for one, will be covering my ass and not installing this extension.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikegagnon</author><text>&gt; If you install this extension, you might actually be making yourself MORE bound to crappy terms of service, since you will not be able to make the case that obviously you didn&#x27;t read them terms and therefore should not be held to some non-standard provision.<p>I estimate the likelihood of me ending up in court over a TOS violation extremely low. In the history of the Web, how many times has a consumer been the recipient of a lawsuit over a TOS violation?<p>However, the likelihood is very high that I will encounter TOS provisions on the Web that are objectionable to me. I would like to know what these provisions are, even if I am forced to click accept because I want to use the service anyway.<p>I am not a fan of maintaining ignorance for the sake of plausible deniability.</text></comment> | <story><title>Terms of Service; Didn't Read</title><url>http://tosdr.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnnygoods</author><text>Be wary of installing this extension, and this is why:<p>It&#x27;s not lost on the legal world that no one reads Terms of Service. As a result, TOS are rarely enforceable in court, except inasmuch as they comply with broad industry standards.<p>However, compliance requirements are much MORE strict for parties who demonstrably should be aware of their legal obligations. Lawyers, for example, can&#x27;t really argue that they didn&#x27;t read a legal document they executed because of the manner in which it was delivered (in an inscrutable TOS doc, at the entrance to an amusement park, etc).<p>If you install this extension, you might actually be making yourself MORE bound to crappy terms of service, since you will not be able to make the case that obviously you didn&#x27;t read them terms and therefore should not be held to some non-standard provision.<p>The reviews&#x2F;ratings provided by tosdr.org are awesome, and I hope you guys continue this project, but I, for one, will be covering my ass and not installing this extension.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jancborchardt</author><text>Jan from ToS;DR here: Rating the websites and making these ratings easily available is only the first step.<p>Raising people’s awareness of bad terms and then getting services to actually use proper terms is the actual goal.</text></comment> |
28,007,865 | 28,004,304 | 1 | 2 | 27,996,321 | train | <story><title>Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>From my point of view as a peasant without any shares anywhere, multibillion dollar vaporware companies have very little impact. We could argue this investment could have gone into better companies who could have made the world a better place, but it&#x27;s purely hypothetical (the money could have gone to a worse company, or political lobbying as well...). Basically, from afar, it&#x27;s a &quot;rich people lost some money&quot; drama.</text></item><item><author>jdminhbg</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure creating a multibillion dollar vaporware fraud shell company and being a dick on Twitter are comparable sins.</text></item><item><author>anyfactor</author><text>I browse through a lot of niche investing social media groups. One of the more liked posts on a Nikola investment group was, &quot;If &quot;they&quot; cared about the future, the earth and the renewable energy issue, they would let whatever Trevor did slide.&quot;<p>Surprisingly, I saw similar posts about Musk on the Thailand rescuer tweet and the price too high tweet. You are not betting against the fundamentals or the realities of the stock, you are betting against these people.</text></item><item><author>_game_of_life</author><text>This should not be surprising to anyone. Arstechnica has followed Nikola&#x27;s terrible and obvious fraud(s) for years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making-inaccurate-statements-under-disgraced-founder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-after-cancellation-of-major-garbage-truck-order&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-af...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stolen-truck-design-tesla-claims-in-legal-response&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stole...</a><p>And many more...<p>The speculation around this stock has been insane for many years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-after-confused-investors-think-gm-deal-has-closed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-afte...</a><p>Top quote: &quot;The market can remain irrational longer than you can roll your eyes at it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>I don&#x27;t think you can discount the fact this money could have been used more productively that easily. It could have funded a lot of jobs for ordinary working people and developed new technology. That&#x27;s an awful lot of good that didn&#x27;t get done. I can&#x27;t point to the working people that lost out from this, but they do exist.<p>It&#x27;s not like if without Nikola all of this money would have gone to one other thing. Sure some of it might have got wasted, but realistically most of it would have gone to productive uses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/us-prosecutors-charge-trevor-milton-founder-of-electric-carmaker-nikola-with-three-counts-of-fraud.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>makeitdouble</author><text>From my point of view as a peasant without any shares anywhere, multibillion dollar vaporware companies have very little impact. We could argue this investment could have gone into better companies who could have made the world a better place, but it&#x27;s purely hypothetical (the money could have gone to a worse company, or political lobbying as well...). Basically, from afar, it&#x27;s a &quot;rich people lost some money&quot; drama.</text></item><item><author>jdminhbg</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure creating a multibillion dollar vaporware fraud shell company and being a dick on Twitter are comparable sins.</text></item><item><author>anyfactor</author><text>I browse through a lot of niche investing social media groups. One of the more liked posts on a Nikola investment group was, &quot;If &quot;they&quot; cared about the future, the earth and the renewable energy issue, they would let whatever Trevor did slide.&quot;<p>Surprisingly, I saw similar posts about Musk on the Thailand rescuer tweet and the price too high tweet. You are not betting against the fundamentals or the realities of the stock, you are betting against these people.</text></item><item><author>_game_of_life</author><text>This should not be surprising to anyone. Arstechnica has followed Nikola&#x27;s terrible and obvious fraud(s) for years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making-inaccurate-statements-under-disgraced-founder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2021&#x2F;02&#x2F;nikola-admits-to-making...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-after-cancellation-of-major-garbage-truck-order&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;nikola-stock-craters-af...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stolen-truck-design-tesla-claims-in-legal-response&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;nikola-patented-a-stole...</a><p>And many more...<p>The speculation around this stock has been insane for many years now:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-after-confused-investors-think-gm-deal-has-closed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;cars&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;nikola-stock-soars-afte...</a><p>Top quote: &quot;The market can remain irrational longer than you can roll your eyes at it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xapata</author><text>What do you think funds our union pension plans?</text></comment> |
39,983,038 | 39,983,026 | 1 | 2 | 39,981,550 | train | <story><title>Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries</title><url>https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ponorin</author><text>So they finally seemed to have come up with their original design after 3 years of selling non-repairable TWS earbuds, great. I genuinely appreciate that they are trying to give users more sustainable options. Perhaps they can walk back the decision to remove the headphone jack as well so that people can use wired headphones directly which doesn&#x27;t use battery in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zer00eyz</author><text>Please can we get jacks back.<p>The audio quality on these battery powered blue tooth headphones is fucking awful. IM not a purist by any stretch, but a decent pair of head phones is a whole other world of music vs anything AirPods like.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fairbuds: In-ear with replaceable batteries</title><url>https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ponorin</author><text>So they finally seemed to have come up with their original design after 3 years of selling non-repairable TWS earbuds, great. I genuinely appreciate that they are trying to give users more sustainable options. Perhaps they can walk back the decision to remove the headphone jack as well so that people can use wired headphones directly which doesn&#x27;t use battery in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orthecreedence</author><text>I don&#x27;t really consider new devices that don&#x27;t have headphone jacks. This wireless-everything craze is so obnoxious.</text></comment> |
41,426,943 | 41,421,276 | 1 | 2 | 41,418,301 | train | <story><title>The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving</title><url>https://www.righto.com/2024/08/pentium-navajo-fairchild-shiprock.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tithe</author><text>That&#x27;s some serious...multithreading!<p>(I applaud others for resisting such cringe, but I just couldn&#x27;t help myself.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drivers99</author><text>“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.”<p>– Ada Lovelace, 1843</text></comment> | <story><title>The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving</title><url>https://www.righto.com/2024/08/pentium-navajo-fairchild-shiprock.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tithe</author><text>That&#x27;s some serious...multithreading!<p>(I applaud others for resisting such cringe, but I just couldn&#x27;t help myself.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>The entirety would have complete faster if they only used green threads.</text></comment> |
38,465,515 | 38,458,656 | 1 | 3 | 38,454,735 | train | <story><title>Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free</title><url>https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-11-17/massachusetts-becomes-fifth-state-in-nation-to-make-prison-calls-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qingcharles</author><text>When I first went to jail (for being poor) it was costing me $1.50&#x2F;min to call my family.<p>Six years later, when I was still locked up, my mother was dying of cancer and I could only afford to call her for five minutes a day.<p>Illinois at least dropped the prices of its prison calls to 1¢&#x2F;min.<p>Amazing that this bill includes the county jails. Often jail and prison regulations are totally separate and jails usually get the short end of the stick.<p>And remember, it is never the prisoners that pay for the calls. It is always the friends and family having to put money onto the phone or commissary accounts. Often a male prisoner has left behind a woman and children and they have lost their primary income, but now they are being burdened with paying for phone calls, hygiene products, clothing and food for their loved one too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>q1w2</author><text>I&#x27;d love to hear the details of your situation.<p>When a judge sets bail bond (which is what you&#x27;re referring to in your prior comments - yes I read back because I was curious), it is either to ensure the accused returns for trial, or they set it very high to keep them in jail because they are a significant flight-risk.<p>I suspect you being a UK citizen was a big factor there - but I&#x27;m very surprised that your case is taking TEN YEARS and that you&#x27;ve been in jail the majority of that time. How does that happen? Are you appealing a prior case outcome?<p>You also got 1.5 additional years for violating a court gag order on your own case? Is that right?</text></comment> | <story><title>Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free</title><url>https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-11-17/massachusetts-becomes-fifth-state-in-nation-to-make-prison-calls-free</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qingcharles</author><text>When I first went to jail (for being poor) it was costing me $1.50&#x2F;min to call my family.<p>Six years later, when I was still locked up, my mother was dying of cancer and I could only afford to call her for five minutes a day.<p>Illinois at least dropped the prices of its prison calls to 1¢&#x2F;min.<p>Amazing that this bill includes the county jails. Often jail and prison regulations are totally separate and jails usually get the short end of the stick.<p>And remember, it is never the prisoners that pay for the calls. It is always the friends and family having to put money onto the phone or commissary accounts. Often a male prisoner has left behind a woman and children and they have lost their primary income, but now they are being burdened with paying for phone calls, hygiene products, clothing and food for their loved one too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvektor</author><text>qingcharles I keep running into you in HN threads, I&#x27;m just gonna leave this here:<p>[email protected]<p>hit me up sometime</text></comment> |
8,702,061 | 8,701,964 | 1 | 2 | 8,699,870 | train | <story><title>Uber vs. Lyft: From The Driver’s Seat</title><url>https://medium.com/life-learning/uber-vs-lyft-an-insiders-view-fb14ba0a3dbb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>filmgirlcw</author><text>I understand why Uber&#x27;s culture might be less popular with drivers and I certainly wish they seemed less smarmy - to echo another commenter - but this description totally underscores why I prefer Uber to Lyft as a customer.<p>Nothing against Lyft per se (though getting hit on by drivers twice, including a text after the fact, my last trip to SF didn&#x27;t help), but the &quot;we&#x27;re all friends&quot; culture sounds ok on paper but when I&#x27;m paying for car service, maybe I&#x27;m just a bitch, but I don&#x27;t want to be your friend.<p>I get there is a difference between liveries and ride sharing in some cities, I do. But I live in New York. I don&#x27;t want to sit in the front. I don&#x27;t want to bump your fist. I don&#x27;t always want to talk (though I&#x27;ve maintained a diary of sorts of many of my favorite Uber driver conversations). I&#x27;k primarily using the app because I need a car and couldn&#x27;t get a taxi. Having a warm and fuzzy relationship is fine, but most of the time I&#x27;m trying to do work on my laptop or iPad. As a result, I&#x27;m more incline to use the service that treats it as a business than a lark.<p>But I do appreciate that Lyft drivers feel more appreciated there. That&#x27;s important. I hope Lyft continues to treat it&#x27;s drivers well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber vs. Lyft: From The Driver’s Seat</title><url>https://medium.com/life-learning/uber-vs-lyft-an-insiders-view-fb14ba0a3dbb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>As a (full-time) driver for both: I am biased towards lyft - I make more money on their platform weekly, they take less commission, I have a good friend who works for lyft.<p>There is certainly a difference between the two, but the two corporate cultures are converging. The cutthroat competition, and possibly growth demands put on them by VC has forced lyft to &#x27;play catch up&#x27; against uber in many ways.<p>It shows up in superficial ways: For example, especially hilarious was the week that uber&#x27;s and lyft&#x27;s driver-side UI for accepting and completing rides swapped (uber went from tap and confirm to swipe in&#x2F;swipe out; lyft went the opposite way).<p>Lyft communication with drivers, while always upbeat, is often very very slow and occasionally they are borderline negligent in dealing with pay issues.<p>And as is always the case, it&#x27;s very difficult to measure the supply and demand, and so in my market at least there is a gross oversupply of drivers; as the drivers tail off and stop driving because they aren&#x27;t making money, lyft finds itself needing to go on a hiring drive before major events (halloween, etc)... And then everyone shows up on the road for the few weeks after that and takehome goes sharply down.<p>I have doubts lyft will ever get caught in a major dustup like Uber did with its executive-level idiocy, but it&#x27;s not a perfect company, and there are certainly more points of similarity (in bad ways) between the two companies than this review points out.<p>Still having said that, I do like contracting with lyft. It&#x27;s (and to a less extent uber) given me runway for setting up my nonprofit and I&#x27;ll be launching a for-profit after I move up to the bay area next week.... While we&#x27;re seeking capital for it, I&#x27;ll be lyfting around, if you use lyft you might see me.</text></comment> |
34,589,173 | 34,583,123 | 1 | 2 | 34,579,175 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?</title><text>I was helping my son learn to write and realized I’ve been holding the pencil wrong when I write. When I changed my grip to match how my son was learning, it was more comfortable. What have you learned that is different and better than something you’ve always done?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blahedo</author><text>I&#x27;ve known this one for years and years but it always surprises a few of my students (who come from warmer climates) when I mention it:<p>The scarf goes on the <i>inside</i> of the coat.<p>If you put the scarf on the outside, like you think you&#x27;ve seen in TV and movies, it&#x27;s just decoration. Put it on the inside and it&#x27;s an insulation layer and it blocks the cold air from blowing down your front. Absolutely game-changing. (Also, have a good coat, but that one seems more obvious to people.)</text></item><item><author>mtlynch</author><text>Staying warm.<p>In the winter, I used to stay warm by turning up the thermostat. Then I discovered (via HN) the Low-Tech Magazine article, &quot;Insulation: first the body, then the home.&quot; [0] The article argued that it&#x27;s much more efficient to focus on heating yourself rather than your whole living space.<p>I invested in high-quality wool clothes that I wear in layers and warm slippers. Now, I keep my home about 5 degrees F cooler than I used to for the same comfort, and it&#x27;s a big reduction in oil and wood consumption for home heat.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;body-insulation-thermal-underwear.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;body-insulation-ther...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dghughes</author><text>As a Canadian my tips are:<p>At my local college there are a lot of people from the Bahamas. They often wear hoodies and sandals with socks in the winter! It can get to -20C here and hoodies just won&#x27;t cut it and sandals with socks could very quickly mean frost bite.<p>Yes scarfs are great since necks are a prime spot to loose heat during winter. A scarf or even a hood both together are even better. Long coats too none of these waits level ones get a coat at least past your waist preferably past your butt.<p>Layers are important more for temperature control. Even a hoodies and some sweaters can be warm if you have enough and one outside with wind protection.<p>Boots not sneakers to keep warm and the grip. So many people wear sneakers all winter now it blows me away. They&#x27;re slippery, cold, and they probably cost more than winter boots these days.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?</title><text>I was helping my son learn to write and realized I’ve been holding the pencil wrong when I write. When I changed my grip to match how my son was learning, it was more comfortable. What have you learned that is different and better than something you’ve always done?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blahedo</author><text>I&#x27;ve known this one for years and years but it always surprises a few of my students (who come from warmer climates) when I mention it:<p>The scarf goes on the <i>inside</i> of the coat.<p>If you put the scarf on the outside, like you think you&#x27;ve seen in TV and movies, it&#x27;s just decoration. Put it on the inside and it&#x27;s an insulation layer and it blocks the cold air from blowing down your front. Absolutely game-changing. (Also, have a good coat, but that one seems more obvious to people.)</text></item><item><author>mtlynch</author><text>Staying warm.<p>In the winter, I used to stay warm by turning up the thermostat. Then I discovered (via HN) the Low-Tech Magazine article, &quot;Insulation: first the body, then the home.&quot; [0] The article argued that it&#x27;s much more efficient to focus on heating yourself rather than your whole living space.<p>I invested in high-quality wool clothes that I wear in layers and warm slippers. Now, I keep my home about 5 degrees F cooler than I used to for the same comfort, and it&#x27;s a big reduction in oil and wood consumption for home heat.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;body-insulation-thermal-underwear.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;02&#x2F;body-insulation-ther...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phyzome</author><text>That makes sense, sort of like a gasket. But for biking, I wear it on the outside so I can keep it over my mouth, allowing me to retain some warmth in my breath.</text></comment> |
25,750,096 | 25,750,206 | 1 | 3 | 25,749,380 | train | <story><title>The Lies that can Undermine Democracy</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/articles/202101-lies-and-democracy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>A lie is intentional. If a person legitimately believes the election was fraudulent, even if it was not, it&#x27;s not a lie. It&#x27;s a mistaken belief.<p>Calling the other side liars is precisely the kind of polarizing rhetoric that can undermine democracy. They are not liars if they legitimately believe what they are saying. 70% of Republican voters and some 10% of Democrat voters actually do believe there was election fraud [1].<p>The way to combat mistaken beliefs is to allow them to voice their views, then refute their arguments, not to call them liars and suppress their views. And even if they do not accept the refutation, the arguments should be left up for people to read and make their informed choice.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;republicans-free-fair-elections-435488" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;republicans-free-fa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>charlesu</author><text>&gt; The way to combat mistaken beliefs is to allow them to voice their views, then refute their arguments, not to call them liars and suppress their views. And even if they do not accept the refutation, the arguments should be left up for people to read and make their informed choice.<p>I don’t think this a good approach.<p>It takes real effort to refute a bad faith untruthful claim, but just it takes a single breath of air to make one. Lies scale better than the truth. And the people making bad faith arguments <i>know</i> this.<p>Maybe ridicule isn’t the answer but it’s something more than just facts and truth. Perhaps shame?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Lies that can Undermine Democracy</title><url>https://martinfowler.com/articles/202101-lies-and-democracy.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>igammarays</author><text>A lie is intentional. If a person legitimately believes the election was fraudulent, even if it was not, it&#x27;s not a lie. It&#x27;s a mistaken belief.<p>Calling the other side liars is precisely the kind of polarizing rhetoric that can undermine democracy. They are not liars if they legitimately believe what they are saying. 70% of Republican voters and some 10% of Democrat voters actually do believe there was election fraud [1].<p>The way to combat mistaken beliefs is to allow them to voice their views, then refute their arguments, not to call them liars and suppress their views. And even if they do not accept the refutation, the arguments should be left up for people to read and make their informed choice.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;republicans-free-fair-elections-435488" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;republicans-free-fa...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baumandm</author><text>Republicans have been voicing their views on the election since November, and countless refutations have been made for many if not all of their claims. I&#x27;m not arguing for suppression, but it&#x27;s clear that many people are not interested in changing their minds.<p>Calling the average voter-fraud-believing American a liar is obviously counterproductive. But that&#x27;s not the same as a politician who should know better and doesn&#x27;t appear to be operating in good faith.</text></comment> |
22,080,258 | 22,080,291 | 1 | 2 | 22,079,174 | train | <story><title>PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/amazon-bullying-tactics-popsockets-hearing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Marsymars</author><text>I was recently searching for 1TB flash drives. Currently, when I search for &quot;1tb flash drive&quot; on amazon.com, after ads and an Amazon&#x27;s Choice banner, the top result is a listing for a $20 product: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Flash-Memory-Rotatable-Laptop-Computer&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B07NY9WR28&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Flash-Memory-Rotatable-Laptop-Compute...</a></text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>Amazon is extremely shady and it doesn&#x27;t just hurt companies like PopSockets. Amazon has a counterfeits problem and it&#x27;s bad for customers. It is totally obvious now that Amazon embraces cheap Chinese knockoffs, and I&#x27;m sick of having to send them back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrtksn</author><text>This was my prime reason to cancel my Amazon Prime. For 20$ of revenue, people are willing to destroy other people&#x27;s work and memories.<p>In my case, it was a fake Kingston SD Card and luckily used it only for a Rasberry pi. It cost me only a day of figuring out what I am doing wrong but easily it could have cost me my photos from a trip to a remote place.<p>Of course, Amazon would deal with that as if it was 20$(or whatever) issue and everything is supposed to be O.K. when you get a refund.</text></comment> | <story><title>PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee</title><url>https://mashable.com/article/amazon-bullying-tactics-popsockets-hearing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Marsymars</author><text>I was recently searching for 1TB flash drives. Currently, when I search for &quot;1tb flash drive&quot; on amazon.com, after ads and an Amazon&#x27;s Choice banner, the top result is a listing for a $20 product: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Flash-Memory-Rotatable-Laptop-Computer&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B07NY9WR28&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Flash-Memory-Rotatable-Laptop-Compute...</a></text></item><item><author>metalliqaz</author><text>Amazon is extremely shady and it doesn&#x27;t just hurt companies like PopSockets. Amazon has a counterfeits problem and it&#x27;s bad for customers. It is totally obvious now that Amazon embraces cheap Chinese knockoffs, and I&#x27;m sick of having to send them back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wnevets</author><text>On a related note John Carmack recently ran into this issue<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ID_AA_Carmack&#x2F;status&#x2F;1215844056091320321" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ID_AA_Carmack&#x2F;status&#x2F;1215844056091320321</a></text></comment> |
26,478,834 | 26,478,846 | 1 | 3 | 26,477,855 | train | <story><title>Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics</title><url>https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin?its-the-same-url-but-the-content-has-changed-thank-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sinistersnare</author><text>Why aren&#x27;t there any bold laptop manufacturers? This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily, a meh panel, and no particular standout design features. Why do I have to get a mac if I want actually good design?<p>System76 should take a risk and truly make an interesting laptop. leaving the standard, boring design to the big name companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinay427</author><text>System76 is probably one of the least bold laptop manufacturers because they can&#x27;t afford to be. As other comments have noted, much of their hardware are largely rebadged devices from other manufacturers such as Clevo, because the main selling point of System76 appears to be the software experience and hardware integration.<p>If you want great design that matches a Mac (overall, better in some areas, worse in others), look at the flagship ThinkPad models, Microsoft Surface devices, etc. There are many laptops that have &quot;standout design features&quot; such as convertible designs, novel display and input options including pen-and-touch, etc. If anything, I think Macs lag behind in these innovations, although they have other benefits.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics</title><url>https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin?its-the-same-url-but-the-content-has-changed-thank-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sinistersnare</author><text>Why aren&#x27;t there any bold laptop manufacturers? This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily, a meh panel, and no particular standout design features. Why do I have to get a mac if I want actually good design?<p>System76 should take a risk and truly make an interesting laptop. leaving the standard, boring design to the big name companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minhazm</author><text>Reminds me of this medium post [1]. Apple might make it look easy but all those little things they do are really difficult and require massive scale to get at a reasonable cost.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beneinstein.medium.com&#x2F;no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beneinstein.medium.com&#x2F;no-you-cant-manufacture-that-...</a></text></comment> |
13,374,342 | 13,373,677 | 1 | 2 | 13,372,985 | train | <story><title>The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack</title><url>https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/812265182646927361</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jarwain</author><text>My school is actually rolling out optional 2-factor auth. I&#x27;m not a fan of the system they use^, but it&#x27;s neat that a University is taking advantage of some security best practices.<p>^Instead of using &quot;standard&quot; 2-factor that generates a code on-the-fly within an app like GAuth or Authy, users receive a text message with 10 codes. The first digit of every code increases sequentially (0972,1042,2512,etc), must be used in that order (0 code on first login, 1 code on second, etc.), and the page informs the user which number they&#x27;re on.</text></item><item><author>colinbartlett</author><text>Requiring 2-factor auth would prevent this from being exploitable, right? Probably impossible in a school environment but in an enterprise situation, more palatable perhaps.</text></item><item><author>jhardcastle</author><text>Sysadmin at a school: we use GMail for our students and faculty, and we got hit by this hard right before the holiday break. Three employees and a handful of students all got hit by the attack within a two hour period. It&#x27;s the most sophisticated attack I&#x27;ve seen. The attackers log in to your account immediately once they get the credentials, and they use one of your actual attachments, along with one of your actual subject lines, and send it to people in your contact list.<p>For example, they went into one student&#x27;s account, pulled an attachment with an athletic team practice schedule, generated the screenshot, and then paired that with a subject line that was tangentially related, and emailed it to the other members of the athletic team.<p>They were using bit.ly to obscure the address (in Russia). We had to take our whole mail system down for a few hours while we cleaned it up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonoberheide</author><text>Sorry to hear about your experience, Jarwain!<p>Duo offers a choice of authentication methods, depending on the usability and security requirements of your application or organization.<p>Duo Push is actually one of the easiest (and most secure) authentication methods, as one of the commenters pointed out:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tPLxe9HUDjY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tPLxe9HUDjY</a><p>It might be worth pinging your IT&#x2F;security dept to ask about enabling Duo Push as an option or to change the policy for SMS passcodes (eg. you can just have one passcode sent instead of ten).<p>- Jon Oberheide, Co-Founder &amp; CTO @ Duo</text></comment> | <story><title>The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack</title><url>https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/812265182646927361</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jarwain</author><text>My school is actually rolling out optional 2-factor auth. I&#x27;m not a fan of the system they use^, but it&#x27;s neat that a University is taking advantage of some security best practices.<p>^Instead of using &quot;standard&quot; 2-factor that generates a code on-the-fly within an app like GAuth or Authy, users receive a text message with 10 codes. The first digit of every code increases sequentially (0972,1042,2512,etc), must be used in that order (0 code on first login, 1 code on second, etc.), and the page informs the user which number they&#x27;re on.</text></item><item><author>colinbartlett</author><text>Requiring 2-factor auth would prevent this from being exploitable, right? Probably impossible in a school environment but in an enterprise situation, more palatable perhaps.</text></item><item><author>jhardcastle</author><text>Sysadmin at a school: we use GMail for our students and faculty, and we got hit by this hard right before the holiday break. Three employees and a handful of students all got hit by the attack within a two hour period. It&#x27;s the most sophisticated attack I&#x27;ve seen. The attackers log in to your account immediately once they get the credentials, and they use one of your actual attachments, along with one of your actual subject lines, and send it to people in your contact list.<p>For example, they went into one student&#x27;s account, pulled an attachment with an athletic team practice schedule, generated the screenshot, and then paired that with a subject line that was tangentially related, and emailed it to the other members of the athletic team.<p>They were using bit.ly to obscure the address (in Russia). We had to take our whole mail system down for a few hours while we cleaned it up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxguy3</author><text>Oh my god that&#x27;s awful, what&#x27;s the point of making it so counterintuitive?? I&#x27;ll never understand the motivation of companies that roll their own 2FA instead of just using TOTP or Authy.</text></comment> |
37,845,879 | 37,845,383 | 1 | 2 | 37,843,855 | train | <story><title>I'm sorry I bit you during my job interview (2011)</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-sorry-i-bit-you-during-my-job-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>This made my day. Bursted out laughing while waiting in line in an immigration office.<p>Many years ago, I interviewed somewhere where the HR manager gave me hell. It was a roller coaster emotions. She would say something funny, I would laugh and then she&#x27;d take note seriously. Out of the blue, she would ask about my childhood, then switch to why do I look stressed. I had 6 technical interviews before her that went well. I had just lost a family member, talking with her was a nail in my coffin. I was surprised when they called me back.<p>Two years at the job, a deranged guy accosted us at lunch with my team. He made everyone feel uncomfortable before leaving. Turns out, this was the guy I had replaced. After he was hired he turned into a lunatic who would threaten anyone who questioned his code. The stress test HR made me go through was designed to filter these people out.<p>I&#x27;d like to believe I&#x27;m not a psycho since I passed the test, but I don&#x27;t think it did what it was designed to do. Two of my coworkers are now convicted murderers. One of them with a famous televised trial that just ended last month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>Seems like a lot of us have worked with that &quot;deranged guy.&quot; We had a guy who would _mostly_ keep to himself, do his programming job, eat lunch by himself, but then, every so often, he&#x27;d come up to you by the water cooler and just say something random and moderately disturbing, like &quot;You know, I sleep with a gun under the pillow and a bullet in the chamber&quot; and then just turn around and walk out of the break room. He would also stand in your cubicle doorway blocking your exit, and talk at length about his background in the military and intelligence agencies, and keen interest in Russian sensor technology, or some other unhinged topic--for hours or until you forcibly walked under his arm to leave. He was eventually fired for taking something too far (it wasn&#x27;t disclosed to the rest of the office). He had to be escorted out by security while he yelled that he was going to come back to the office with one of his AK-47s and mow it down. We had a cop stationed outside the office for a few weeks after that just in case. Fun times!</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm sorry I bit you during my job interview (2011)</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-sorry-i-bit-you-during-my-job-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>This made my day. Bursted out laughing while waiting in line in an immigration office.<p>Many years ago, I interviewed somewhere where the HR manager gave me hell. It was a roller coaster emotions. She would say something funny, I would laugh and then she&#x27;d take note seriously. Out of the blue, she would ask about my childhood, then switch to why do I look stressed. I had 6 technical interviews before her that went well. I had just lost a family member, talking with her was a nail in my coffin. I was surprised when they called me back.<p>Two years at the job, a deranged guy accosted us at lunch with my team. He made everyone feel uncomfortable before leaving. Turns out, this was the guy I had replaced. After he was hired he turned into a lunatic who would threaten anyone who questioned his code. The stress test HR made me go through was designed to filter these people out.<p>I&#x27;d like to believe I&#x27;m not a psycho since I passed the test, but I don&#x27;t think it did what it was designed to do. Two of my coworkers are now convicted murderers. One of them with a famous televised trial that just ended last month.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tibbetts</author><text>Many years ago I had a job interview that included a personality test. I didn’t take the job, for other reasons. But I always wondered what had gone wrong in the past such that a personality test for engineers was in order. I’m now glad to know. I also wonder how many problematic malcontents I would have found had I gone to work there.</text></comment> |
26,531,549 | 26,531,636 | 1 | 2 | 26,529,852 | train | <story><title>Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpyqm/amazon-keeps-getting-sued-for-paying-drivers-less-than-minimum-wage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SpicyLemonZest</author><text>But on the Amazon side of the fence, they <i>are</i> using their power to change that; they pay all employees at least $15, and are lobbying to get the federal minimum wage raised to that level from $7.25. So this can&#x27;t just be a simple story of a company paying as little as they can get away with. Something&#x27;s gone wrong to make them not care about (or not think they&#x27;re responsible for) these delivery drivers.</text></item><item><author>ModernMech</author><text>At some point we have to admit that the richest corporations and people in the world, with the most power to change the system, are not just playing in the system but are a part of what makes it broken. From their perspective the system is not broken at all — it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do, which is to make shareholders (themselves) fabulously rich at the expense of laborers.<p>On one side of the equation we have people being paid poverty wages, on the other side we have the richest man in the world with the power to change that. This isn’t a coincidence or just a strange, second-order, unintended byproduct of the system. It’s cause and effect. It’s what the system was designed explicitly to do. The system is in fact working to spec.</text></item><item><author>adamcstephens</author><text>The latter, and this is the accepted practice in modern corporations. How many times have the Gap or Apple been caught using child labor, only to terminate the contract and move on? If they don’t push these boundaries they’re considered irresponsible fiduciaries and may be replaced.<p>Amazon is just playing in the same broken system.</text></item><item><author>Frost1x</author><text>&gt;“Amazon does not tolerate violations of labor laws,&quot; Leah Seay, an Amazon spokesperson told Motherboard. &quot;Where we find repeated violations, or an inability to correct labor violations, we terminate contracts with DSP program participants.”<p>At some point you can&#x27;t pass blame for repeated violations through contract vehicles. The general population are becoming aware of these practices. Amazon may not have directly committed the violation but they&#x27;ve created and shaped an environment ripe for rampantly abusive labor practices.<p>If Amazon is serious about fixing the problem and committed to good labor practices, stop contracting out services and take control of the issue. Set policies in place with teeth that remove managers and middle managers caught pushing such work conditions. Don&#x27;t just leverage cheaper labor from labor abuse until it gets public attention and then terminate a contract set in place to pass blame and responsibility.<p>Are you really outsourcing labor or are you outsourcing the risks associated with abuses of labor needed to meet your demands?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aboringusername</author><text>They don&#x27;t care. The only reason they have an interest&#x2F;stake at $15 min wage is so they can crush anyone who might challenge them. Essentially solidify their position.<p>A rival might not be able to afford that so they let everyone go, or Amazon gobbles them up for dinner.<p>There&#x27;s <i>always</i> an ulterior motive when lobbying is involved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Keeps Getting Sued for Paying Drivers Less Than Minimum Wage</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpyqm/amazon-keeps-getting-sued-for-paying-drivers-less-than-minimum-wage</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SpicyLemonZest</author><text>But on the Amazon side of the fence, they <i>are</i> using their power to change that; they pay all employees at least $15, and are lobbying to get the federal minimum wage raised to that level from $7.25. So this can&#x27;t just be a simple story of a company paying as little as they can get away with. Something&#x27;s gone wrong to make them not care about (or not think they&#x27;re responsible for) these delivery drivers.</text></item><item><author>ModernMech</author><text>At some point we have to admit that the richest corporations and people in the world, with the most power to change the system, are not just playing in the system but are a part of what makes it broken. From their perspective the system is not broken at all — it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do, which is to make shareholders (themselves) fabulously rich at the expense of laborers.<p>On one side of the equation we have people being paid poverty wages, on the other side we have the richest man in the world with the power to change that. This isn’t a coincidence or just a strange, second-order, unintended byproduct of the system. It’s cause and effect. It’s what the system was designed explicitly to do. The system is in fact working to spec.</text></item><item><author>adamcstephens</author><text>The latter, and this is the accepted practice in modern corporations. How many times have the Gap or Apple been caught using child labor, only to terminate the contract and move on? If they don’t push these boundaries they’re considered irresponsible fiduciaries and may be replaced.<p>Amazon is just playing in the same broken system.</text></item><item><author>Frost1x</author><text>&gt;“Amazon does not tolerate violations of labor laws,&quot; Leah Seay, an Amazon spokesperson told Motherboard. &quot;Where we find repeated violations, or an inability to correct labor violations, we terminate contracts with DSP program participants.”<p>At some point you can&#x27;t pass blame for repeated violations through contract vehicles. The general population are becoming aware of these practices. Amazon may not have directly committed the violation but they&#x27;ve created and shaped an environment ripe for rampantly abusive labor practices.<p>If Amazon is serious about fixing the problem and committed to good labor practices, stop contracting out services and take control of the issue. Set policies in place with teeth that remove managers and middle managers caught pushing such work conditions. Don&#x27;t just leverage cheaper labor from labor abuse until it gets public attention and then terminate a contract set in place to pass blame and responsibility.<p>Are you really outsourcing labor or are you outsourcing the risks associated with abuses of labor needed to meet your demands?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DangitBobby</author><text>My guess is that most of the labor cost is due to delivery and not the warehouse. If they advocate for higher wages in the warehouse, regulators and the general public will be less suspicious of the policies that drive the lion&#x27;s share of their labor costs.<p>I&#x27;m sure if they thought they could get away with &quot;subcontracting (wink wink)&quot; all of their labor positions so that they are not liable for the wage theft that must occur to meet the contracts, they would do so.</text></comment> |
3,419,049 | 3,418,983 | 1 | 2 | 3,417,033 | train | <story><title>Richard Stallman Was Right All Along</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/25469/Richard_Stallman_Was_Right_All_Along</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Predicting DRM phoning home in 1997 does not seem startlingly prescient. Nor locked down systems; those already existed.<p>The only novel idea I see here is the point that copyright, which was originally a restriction on publishers, has now become a restriction on consumers. But that doesn't seem so dystopian. Everyone is a publisher now.</text></item><item><author>jaekwon</author><text><i>From the "Right to Read" 1997-02...</i><p>"Dan had learned that each book had a copyright monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing." -&#62; <i>Streaming content, DMCA tech</i><p>"It was also possible to bypass the copyright monitors by installing a modified system kernel." -&#62; <i>Jailbreaking</i><p>"But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that." -&#62; <i>trusted computing</i><p>"But ordinary users started using [free debugging tools] to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge ruled that this had become their principal use in actual practice. This meant they were illegal; the debuggers' developers were sent to prison." -&#62; <i>DeCSS, Sony</i><p>----<p><i>From "The Dangers of Software Patents" 2004-05-24...</i><p>"Copyright covers a work of authorship. A patent covers an idea. ...... But a patent is an absolute monopoly on the use of an idea. Even if you could prove that you had the idea yourself, that would be irrelevant: you're still not allowed to use it." -&#62;<p><i>Apple filed U.S. application Ser. No. 10/842,862 entitled “Multipoint Touchscreen,” filed on 2004-05-04 and published as U.S. Published Application No. 2006/0097991 on 2006-05-11.</i><p>---<p><i>From "Copyright and Globalization" 2001-04-19...</i> (Selected bits that were interesting to me)<p>"In the ancient world, books were written by hand with a pen, …… you could copy a part of a book, then write some new words, copy some more and write some new words and on and on. This was called “writing a commentary” — that was a common thing to do — and these commentaries were appreciated. …… Now copyright was developed along with the use of the printing press and given the technology of the printing press, it had the effect of an industrial regulation. It didn't restrict what readers could do; it restricted what publishers and authors could do. …… copyright law no longer acts as an industrial regulation; it is now a Draconian restriction on a general public. It used to be a restriction on publishers for the sake of authors. Now, for practical purposes, it's a restriction on a public for the sake of publishers. …… To enforce it requires surveillance — an intrusion — and harsh punishments, and we are seeing these being enacted into law in the U.S. and other countries." -&#62; <i>NAFTA which is mentioned in the talk, SOPA, Protect IP, etc</i></text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>Can you give me some examples of specific predictions he made that you feel are most prescient?</text></item><item><author>Joakal</author><text>"Right to read" <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-becomes-dreaded-insane-reality/" rel="nofollow">http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-...</a> (Related: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20069648-264/richard-stallman-break-free-of-e-book-chains/" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20069648-264/richard-stall...</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Read" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Read</a>)<p>Here's a lot more in the articles: <a href="http://stallman.org/#politics" rel="nofollow">http://stallman.org/#politics</a><p>Edit: IFSO: Richard Stallman: The Dangers of Software Patents; 2004-05-24 (transcript) <a href="http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html</a><p>Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.h...</a><p>2nd edit: You are a Terrorist (Du bist Terrorist) German, English Subtitles - YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdIA0jeW-24" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdIA0jeW-24</a></text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>This article doesn't seem to give any examples of specific predictions Stallman made that have turned out to be correct. All the article seems to be saying is that Stallman seemed paranoid, and present events seem to justify paranoia.<p>(Incidentally, people always feel that.)<p>Can anyone give some examples of specific predictions Stallman made that seemed surprising at the time, but that have come true? I'm not saying there haven't been any, just that such a list would be more useful than this article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>&#62; <i>But that doesn't seem so dystopian. Everyone is a publisher now.</i><p>When you think it through, it does seem dystopian. Imagine that e-ink matures, and paper isn't that useful any more. That we no longer purchase dead-tree copies of our books, magazines, and so on. I think that can happen. I read right now a novel on my electronic reader, even though I have a dead-tree copy, because my reader is lighter and slimmer than my book.<p>Now, how do I lend you a book for which I have no dead-tree copy? I can't give you such a piece of dead-tree (and naturally lose it for myself). All I can do is make a copy and give it to you. And then I'm a publisher. And then what I'm doing is forbidden. And then I can't even lend you my book.<p><i>(One could imagine laws/DRM that would erase the copy I own if I ever give another copy to someone else. However, I don't think the IP Lords would want even that. They'd say it harms their revenue.)</i><p>But that's not dystopian enough. True dystopia is when the means of enforcing it kick in: the only know way right now is a "total surveillance" regime, where free software itself is forbidden.</text></comment> | <story><title>Richard Stallman Was Right All Along</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/25469/Richard_Stallman_Was_Right_All_Along</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pg</author><text>Predicting DRM phoning home in 1997 does not seem startlingly prescient. Nor locked down systems; those already existed.<p>The only novel idea I see here is the point that copyright, which was originally a restriction on publishers, has now become a restriction on consumers. But that doesn't seem so dystopian. Everyone is a publisher now.</text></item><item><author>jaekwon</author><text><i>From the "Right to Read" 1997-02...</i><p>"Dan had learned that each book had a copyright monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing." -&#62; <i>Streaming content, DMCA tech</i><p>"It was also possible to bypass the copyright monitors by installing a modified system kernel." -&#62; <i>Jailbreaking</i><p>"But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that." -&#62; <i>trusted computing</i><p>"But ordinary users started using [free debugging tools] to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge ruled that this had become their principal use in actual practice. This meant they were illegal; the debuggers' developers were sent to prison." -&#62; <i>DeCSS, Sony</i><p>----<p><i>From "The Dangers of Software Patents" 2004-05-24...</i><p>"Copyright covers a work of authorship. A patent covers an idea. ...... But a patent is an absolute monopoly on the use of an idea. Even if you could prove that you had the idea yourself, that would be irrelevant: you're still not allowed to use it." -&#62;<p><i>Apple filed U.S. application Ser. No. 10/842,862 entitled “Multipoint Touchscreen,” filed on 2004-05-04 and published as U.S. Published Application No. 2006/0097991 on 2006-05-11.</i><p>---<p><i>From "Copyright and Globalization" 2001-04-19...</i> (Selected bits that were interesting to me)<p>"In the ancient world, books were written by hand with a pen, …… you could copy a part of a book, then write some new words, copy some more and write some new words and on and on. This was called “writing a commentary” — that was a common thing to do — and these commentaries were appreciated. …… Now copyright was developed along with the use of the printing press and given the technology of the printing press, it had the effect of an industrial regulation. It didn't restrict what readers could do; it restricted what publishers and authors could do. …… copyright law no longer acts as an industrial regulation; it is now a Draconian restriction on a general public. It used to be a restriction on publishers for the sake of authors. Now, for practical purposes, it's a restriction on a public for the sake of publishers. …… To enforce it requires surveillance — an intrusion — and harsh punishments, and we are seeing these being enacted into law in the U.S. and other countries." -&#62; <i>NAFTA which is mentioned in the talk, SOPA, Protect IP, etc</i></text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>Can you give me some examples of specific predictions he made that you feel are most prescient?</text></item><item><author>Joakal</author><text>"Right to read" <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-becomes-dreaded-insane-reality/" rel="nofollow">http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/03/stallmans-the-right-to-read-...</a> (Related: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20069648-264/richard-stallman-break-free-of-e-book-chains/" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20069648-264/richard-stall...</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Read" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Read</a>)<p>Here's a lot more in the articles: <a href="http://stallman.org/#politics" rel="nofollow">http://stallman.org/#politics</a><p>Edit: IFSO: Richard Stallman: The Dangers of Software Patents; 2004-05-24 (transcript) <a href="http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html</a><p>Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.h...</a><p>2nd edit: You are a Terrorist (Du bist Terrorist) German, English Subtitles - YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdIA0jeW-24" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdIA0jeW-24</a></text></item><item><author>pg</author><text>This article doesn't seem to give any examples of specific predictions Stallman made that have turned out to be correct. All the article seems to be saying is that Stallman seemed paranoid, and present events seem to justify paranoia.<p>(Incidentally, people always feel that.)<p>Can anyone give some examples of specific predictions Stallman made that seemed surprising at the time, but that have come true? I'm not saying there haven't been any, just that such a list would be more useful than this article.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__alexs</author><text>&#62; Predicting DRM phoning home in 1997 does not seem startlingly prescient.<p>Since when was being prescient the sole marker of an ideas value?<p>What's interesting about Stallman is that he's been repeating the same material since the 80's, and it only gets more relevant. He might be a paranoid weirdo but he does seem to at least be paranoid about something that has it's roots in reality.<p>We might have increasing equality, and perhaps some additional freedom over our own bodies, but at the same time the wide spread deployment of mass surveillance tech has come at the same time.<p>&#62; But that doesn't seem so dystopian. Everyone is a publisher now.<p>This is only not a dystopia if those publishers have sufficiently uncorrelated output and distribution channels. I'm not sure that's the case.</text></comment> |
26,544,581 | 26,544,253 | 1 | 2 | 26,541,481 | train | <story><title>Gitlab 13.10 Released</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/03/22/gitlab-13-10-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>I am curious, at what point will the features stop? Do we keep adding features until Gitlab becomes impossibly complex to use or onboard anyone? Why isn&#x27;t Gitlab built like a modular app - add what you want but core should be simple as possible and feature complete. I am afraid but this is how a lot of applications die. Gitlab is starting to get bulky and obese already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sytse</author><text>We want to increase both features and usability. It is easier to make something with few features easier to use but we think we can drive both at the same time. For usability we use the System Usability Scale <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;handbook&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;ux&#x2F;performance-indicators&#x2F;system-usability-scale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;handbook&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;ux&#x2F;performance...</a> and increasing it is a target for this quarter &quot;CEO KR: Achieve System Usability (SUS) target of 75. Issue 10314&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;okrs&#x2F;fy22-q1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.gitlab.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;okrs&#x2F;fy22-q1&#x2F;</a><p>Regarding user interface modularity you can already turn on and off many parts in the front end <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;aIRkDmt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;aIRkDmt</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gitlab 13.10 Released</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/03/22/gitlab-13-10-released/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>systemvoltage</author><text>I am curious, at what point will the features stop? Do we keep adding features until Gitlab becomes impossibly complex to use or onboard anyone? Why isn&#x27;t Gitlab built like a modular app - add what you want but core should be simple as possible and feature complete. I am afraid but this is how a lot of applications die. Gitlab is starting to get bulky and obese already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zertrin</author><text>Yeah, I was an avid user of self hosted gitlab previously, but the pace of added bloat^Wfeatures was just too much and I ditched it for gitea about 1 year ago.<p>I feel gitlab&#x27;s is now mainly aiming at large enough companies which actually use all of these features.</text></comment> |
18,578,490 | 18,578,547 | 1 | 3 | 18,577,934 | train | <story><title>What Startups Really Mean by “Why Should We Hire You?”</title><url>https://angel.co/blog/what-startups-really-mean-by-why-should-we-hire-you</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zwkrt</author><text>As the interview was further and further analyzed by both The Company and the proletariat, an arms race developed. The Company asked esoteric questions and the proles studied. The proles learned to FizzBuzz and The Company developed FooBaz. Whiteboards gave way to take home interviews which gave way to probationary offers. Personal questions were supplanted by a form of subtextual sparring in which small facial movements, pauses, and hand movements spoke volumes.<p>By 2034 the majority of proles were on illegal performance-evaluation enhancing drugs, necessitated by the fact that the average prole was also on The Company&#x27;s indefinite performance improvement probation. They occupied over 20% of their working hours proving their worth to The Company, which had hired Prefects to wander the endless halls. The Prefects started administering the Voight-Kampf employee aptitude tests on proles, but soon began testing each other on their own effectiveness in administering the test.<p>Before The Fall, the end state of the system was that The Company existed only to vet its own employees, all of whom were in charge of secretly monitoring other groups of employees. They had their nominal tasks such as programming or planning, but employee evaluation was based solely on the ability to evaluate others in their nominal tasks.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Startups Really Mean by “Why Should We Hire You?”</title><url>https://angel.co/blog/what-startups-really-mean-by-why-should-we-hire-you</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aristus</author><text>If you forgive the self-post:<p><i>&quot;The theme is familiar to anyone who&#x27;s tried to join a country club or high-school clique. It&#x27;s not supposed to make sense. You are expected to conform to the rules of The Culture before you are allowed to demonstrate your actual worth. What wearing a suit really indicates is —I am not making this up— non-conformity, one of the gravest of sins. For extra excitement, the rules are unwritten and ever-changing, and you will never be told how you screwed up.&quot;</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;carlos.bueno.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;mirrortocracy.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;carlos.bueno.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;mirrortocracy.html</a></text></comment> |
31,452,792 | 31,452,710 | 1 | 2 | 31,452,030 | train | <story><title>Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k</title><url>https://fullstackeconomics.com/how-policy-punishes-disabled-people-who-save-more-than-2000/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwright</author><text>I most recently saw that with some criticisms of Section 8 housing.<p>I&#x27;m paraphrasing but basically to be eligible for Section 8 housing you can&#x27;t have too many assets. Good financial planning would say to scrimp and save so that you can get make a downpayment to get a mortgage but you&#x27;ll be kicked out of the section 8 housing long before you&#x27;ve saved enough to get out yourself.<p>Catch-22</text></item><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Seen this kind of thing several times.<p>&quot;Assistance&quot; programs meant to prop people up with so many reporting requirements and perverse incentives that punish you for improving your situation to the extent that the best path is to not even try to improve your situation and be entirely dependent on the program because when you do start earning income or saving anything, they take so much away from you that there is a significant cost to any amount of improvement until well after you&#x27;d be self-sufficient. i.e. it is more expensive to earn any income than it is to earn none, and the constant threat of losing support of the program (explicit threats) is much more anxiety inducing for the most vulnerable populations often than the situation they were trying to exit.<p>Being homeless, getting into a program to help the homeless, and then constantly being threatened with a return to homelessness if somebody doesn&#x27;t do the paperwork exactly right is just crazy, but I&#x27;ve seen it first hand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m paraphrasing but basically to be eligible for Section 8 housing you can&#x27;t have too many assets. Good financial planning would say to scrimp and save so that you can get make a downpayment to get a mortgage but you&#x27;ll be kicked out of the section 8 housing long before you&#x27;ve saved enough to get out yourself.<p>The progression would be Section 8 -&gt; Renting -&gt; Home Ownership<p>The purpose of programs like Section 8 isn&#x27;t to subsidize people while they save up to purchase expensive assets and leapfrog past non-subsidized renters. It&#x27;s to backstop people who couldn&#x27;t afford normal rents.</text></comment> | <story><title>Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k</title><url>https://fullstackeconomics.com/how-policy-punishes-disabled-people-who-save-more-than-2000/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwright</author><text>I most recently saw that with some criticisms of Section 8 housing.<p>I&#x27;m paraphrasing but basically to be eligible for Section 8 housing you can&#x27;t have too many assets. Good financial planning would say to scrimp and save so that you can get make a downpayment to get a mortgage but you&#x27;ll be kicked out of the section 8 housing long before you&#x27;ve saved enough to get out yourself.<p>Catch-22</text></item><item><author>colechristensen</author><text>Seen this kind of thing several times.<p>&quot;Assistance&quot; programs meant to prop people up with so many reporting requirements and perverse incentives that punish you for improving your situation to the extent that the best path is to not even try to improve your situation and be entirely dependent on the program because when you do start earning income or saving anything, they take so much away from you that there is a significant cost to any amount of improvement until well after you&#x27;d be self-sufficient. i.e. it is more expensive to earn any income than it is to earn none, and the constant threat of losing support of the program (explicit threats) is much more anxiety inducing for the most vulnerable populations often than the situation they were trying to exit.<p>Being homeless, getting into a program to help the homeless, and then constantly being threatened with a return to homelessness if somebody doesn&#x27;t do the paperwork exactly right is just crazy, but I&#x27;ve seen it first hand.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alistairSH</author><text>Eh. Why should the jump from Section 8 (subsidized rent) be straight to home ownership (and not renting with your own income)?<p>Section 8 might have some inefficient cliffs. But not allowing savings for a mortgage doesn’t strike me as one of them.</text></comment> |
27,283,211 | 27,280,463 | 1 | 3 | 27,280,174 | train | <story><title>Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/856819/c865652ad4dc06d0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smabie</author><text>So I used to be a big proponent of Julia, and in some ways, I still am. But I very recently tried to write a high performance production system in it, and was sorely disappointed. The tooling is just so buggy and it&#x27;s clear that the community isn&#x27;t really interested in using it for anything besides modeling&#x2F;research in a Jupyter notebook.<p>Things that kind of suck about using Julia for production:<p>1. Never could get Revise to work, had to restart my REPL everytime I changed any code. Even though Julia 1.6 was a lot faster than 1.5, it still took too long.<p>2. Couldn&#x27;t find a static type checker that actually worked (I tried JET and StaticLint). I feel like static typing is just so important for a production system, but of course the community isn&#x27;t really interested because of the research focus.<p>3. Editor tooling. The LSP server absolutely sucks. I first tried using it with emacs (both lsp-mode and eglot mode), but it would crash constantly. I think switched to VSCode (much to my chagrin), and that worked marginally better though still very poorly. It was clear that the LSP server had no idea what was going on in my macro heavy code. It couldn&#x27;t jump to definitions or usages much of the time. It could never correctly determine whether a variable was unused or misspelled either. Coupled with the lack of static type checking, this was <i>extremely</i> frustrating.<p>4. Never felt like the community could answer any of my questions. If you have some research or stats question, they were great, but anything else, forget about it.<p>Will all of that being said, I do still use Julia for research and I find it works really well. The language is very nicely designed.<p>All and all, I decided to ditch Julia and decided to go with Rust (after some consideration of OCaml, but unfortunately the multi-core story still isn&#x27;t there yet) and am a <i>lot</i> happier.</text></comment> | <story><title>Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/856819/c865652ad4dc06d0/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Buttons840</author><text>I&#x27;m a big fan of Julia. It does live up to its speed claims. I&#x27;ve implemented the board game Go in Python, Rust, and Julia and Julia is definitely closer to Rust in speed. Same algorithms were used for all implementations.<p>Julia&#x27;s time to first plot still has some problems. The Plots library can build animations, but the time to first animation on my computer is like 10 minutes, and the time to second animation is another 10 minutes. Probably just a bug, I haven&#x27;t found any other case that takes so long.<p>I&#x27;ve also mentioned before that a reinforcement learning algorithm I ported from Python&#x2F;PyTorch to Flux was faster, not because of training times, but because of all the other stuff (and RL has more &quot;other stuff&quot; than supervised learning) that goes on outside the core training loop is so much faster.</text></comment> |
40,038,840 | 40,038,742 | 1 | 2 | 40,038,549 | train | <story><title>Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-lay-off-more-than-10-its-staff-electrek-reports-2024-04-15/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thecupisblue</author><text>Seems like another way to avoid the death spiral trap Elon has set up for himself.<p>- Bought Twitter with Tesla stock as collateral<p>- Tesla faces falling EV sales and external competition<p>- Unionisation pressures, declining product quality, Elon losing his reach and audience&#x27;s good graces<p>- Stock price falling too low can trigger a margin call on his loans<p>- Starts actual marketing, price cuts<p>- Price cuts chew into profits, stock falls<p>- Announces &quot;real FSD&quot; for 100th time<p>- Announces &quot;robotaxis&quot;<p>- Layoffs happening<p>While this might end up with a small bump in the price to avoid the margin calls, it might also end up being part of a downward spiral for Tesla in the end, depending on where and what they are cutting.<p>It would be unfortunate to see Tesla crash after everything due to his wish to buy Twitter and I think we might see him ousted in the following year or so. Before it was &quot;Elon is Tesla&#x27;s marketing driver so we can&#x27;t kick him out&quot;, nowadays it seems way less so with him being more of a detractor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-lay-off-more-than-10-its-staff-electrek-reports-2024-04-15/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ineedaj0b</author><text>The coming Chinese EV storm will cause Tesla to struggle. All car manufacturers will struggle.<p>I wonder if the Chinese will pull a Toyota (high quality, and cheap) or if they’ll end up being a different flavor</text></comment> |
3,334,481 | 3,334,199 | 1 | 3 | 3,333,939 | train | <story><title>Motorola wins patent suit against Apple in Germany, iPhone/iPad to be banned</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/12/09/motorola-wins-patent-suit-against-apple-in-germany-iphoneipad-to-be-banned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewDucker</author><text>It does feel that Apple is reaping the whirlwind here.<p>For a long time the major players have all held loaded guns pointed at each other's heads, with nobody willing to fire a shot because they knew it would be more trouble than it was worth.<p>And then Apple decided to take the first shot. The big question now, is whether the politicians will let this drag out, costing everyone a fortune, or step in and call an end to it by changing the patent system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ellyagg</author><text>What on earth are you talking about? Nokia sued Apple first after it became clear they weren't going to be able to compete with the things Apple was doing. Nokia was able to successfully extort money from Apple. Apple was taught that this is how you play the game. If people want the system to change, they need to lobby for it, but please remember your history. Apple didn't start this and <i>everyone</i> is doing it. Who is playing offense and who is playing defense depends on how well you remember the timeline and which "team" you side with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Motorola wins patent suit against Apple in Germany, iPhone/iPad to be banned</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/12/09/motorola-wins-patent-suit-against-apple-in-germany-iphoneipad-to-be-banned/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewDucker</author><text>It does feel that Apple is reaping the whirlwind here.<p>For a long time the major players have all held loaded guns pointed at each other's heads, with nobody willing to fire a shot because they knew it would be more trouble than it was worth.<p>And then Apple decided to take the first shot. The big question now, is whether the politicians will let this drag out, costing everyone a fortune, or step in and call an end to it by changing the patent system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fleitz</author><text>I think German politicians have bigger issues to worry about right now than a patent dispute between Apple and Motorola, something about Greece, Italy, and Spain.<p>This court case is just a proxy war fought by Motorola as a client company of Google.</text></comment> |
30,828,639 | 30,828,719 | 1 | 3 | 30,825,429 | train | <story><title>Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program</title><url>https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fps-hero</author><text>I love solvespace, the UI is quick, minimal and easy to come up to speed with.<p>I use it as a 2D parametric sketch pad, for 2D designs for laser cutting, making 3D models for kicad, and a few basic 3D printed fixtures, but it is in no way a replacement for even Freecad.<p>The constraints are feature complete, but minimal. Some basic geometry is often a pain to get setup. Once you hit 3D you’ll realise that your basically limited to extruding and revoking sketches. Still a powerful tool but not suitable for serious mechanical design.<p>What world really needs is for FreeCad to be as usable is it’s paid equivalents. I don’t understand why free software always neglects the UI. How hard is it to even simply copy the time tested work flows in proprietary software. Once you learn Solidworks, Inventor, or Fusion 360, you can pickup any other parametric modeller.<p>Code as CAD as an idea I believe is flawed. It doesn’t solve any of the hard problems of mechanical design. Designing physical objects requires good visualisations and iterative feedback. I.e changing this dimension solves this interference in a complex assembly. Besides, most mechanical engineering are not proficient coders.</text></item><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>“Code-cad” as they put it clearly appeals to a lot of people, and more CAD is good. But as a long time mechanical engineer and robotics engineer what I really want is a completely open source parametric cad program that is as good as Solidworks or OnShape. FreeCAD is an impressive project but clearly needs more resources to ever compete. Solvespace seems cool and I want to play with it more, but I can’t comment on how good it is as I have only tinkered. I do wish the Solvespace UI was more akin to tools I am familiar with (OnShape or Solidworks).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>regularfry</author><text>&gt; What world really needs is for FreeCad to be as usable is it’s paid equivalents. I don’t understand why free software always neglects the UI.<p>My observation is that the problem isn&#x27;t that the UI is neglected, it&#x27;s that almost any suggestion to improve it gets bogged down in community objections. There&#x27;s always <i>someone</i> on the forums who&#x27;ll defend some aspect of the status quo (usually a vocal minority), either on the basis that &quot;the problem is intrinsically complicated so a complicated UI is inevitable, so stop complaining&quot; (which is, for the record, utter nonsense), or &quot;we can&#x27;t know if the change breaks someone&#x27;s workflow&quot;, or &quot;we need to expose the implementation details so you know what&#x27;s going on&quot; (again, nonsense).<p>What you end up with is evangelists on Twitter calling out for more contributions, and the community shouting down contributions which would actually help. The whole thing&#x27;s fundamentally broken not because the code can&#x27;t be written, or because the ideas aren&#x27;t out there, but because it&#x27;s incredibly hard to make progress unless you&#x27;re already a core developer (which, yes, there are too few of).</text></comment> | <story><title>Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program</title><url>https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fps-hero</author><text>I love solvespace, the UI is quick, minimal and easy to come up to speed with.<p>I use it as a 2D parametric sketch pad, for 2D designs for laser cutting, making 3D models for kicad, and a few basic 3D printed fixtures, but it is in no way a replacement for even Freecad.<p>The constraints are feature complete, but minimal. Some basic geometry is often a pain to get setup. Once you hit 3D you’ll realise that your basically limited to extruding and revoking sketches. Still a powerful tool but not suitable for serious mechanical design.<p>What world really needs is for FreeCad to be as usable is it’s paid equivalents. I don’t understand why free software always neglects the UI. How hard is it to even simply copy the time tested work flows in proprietary software. Once you learn Solidworks, Inventor, or Fusion 360, you can pickup any other parametric modeller.<p>Code as CAD as an idea I believe is flawed. It doesn’t solve any of the hard problems of mechanical design. Designing physical objects requires good visualisations and iterative feedback. I.e changing this dimension solves this interference in a complex assembly. Besides, most mechanical engineering are not proficient coders.</text></item><item><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>“Code-cad” as they put it clearly appeals to a lot of people, and more CAD is good. But as a long time mechanical engineer and robotics engineer what I really want is a completely open source parametric cad program that is as good as Solidworks or OnShape. FreeCAD is an impressive project but clearly needs more resources to ever compete. Solvespace seems cool and I want to play with it more, but I can’t comment on how good it is as I have only tinkered. I do wish the Solvespace UI was more akin to tools I am familiar with (OnShape or Solidworks).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ur-whale</author><text>&gt;Code as CAD as an idea I believe is flawed.<p>Strongly disagree, the typical problems one has with designing objects and mechanisms in CAD tools are <i>extremely</i> similar to the problems software engineers have.<p>Parametric design, for example, is nothing but a program whose inputs change and whose outputs are 3D model.<p>Versioning is another obvious example.<p>Parts reuse yet another.<p>Test driven design.<p>Automated testing.<p>The list is very long.<p>&gt; Designing physical objects requires good visualisations and iterative feedback<p>True, but I fail to see how that is incompatible with code as CAD.<p>&gt; Besides, most mechanical engineering are not proficient coders.<p>In the 80&#x27;s most traditional film animators had never touched a computer. These folks are now either out of a job or have switched to using computers.<p>The fact that mechanical engineers aren&#x27;t proficient coders is a symptom of the fact that proper &#x27;code as CAD&#x27; tools don&#x27;t exist yet, not a law of physics.<p>When such tools start to reach maturity, you will see - just like it happened in film animation - a whole new generation of mechanical engineer pick up the new tools and beat the pants of the old way of doing things.</text></comment> |
37,155,986 | 37,155,541 | 1 | 2 | 37,154,939 | train | <story><title>Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard</title><url>https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Artificial-Intelligence-AI/Intel-QuickAssist-Technology-Zstandard-Plugin-an-External/post/1509818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>berbec</author><text>A massive power and CPU load decrease in Zstandard is a big win for Intel. AMD has been racking up major pluses in the enterprise space, with RAM, PCIE and core count advantage. Showing that <i>any</i> Intel is faster at such a major CPU load task is a big deal.<p>That&#x27;s not to detract from everything AMD has done, but hardware is only the first step. Software that properly uses the features your hardware provides is just, if not more, important.<p>I love the fact AMD is pushing Intel so much. Pre-C2D days were amazing because we had two vibrant, innovative companies pushing to the edge of possible; trying to out-do each other. Pre-Ryzen was a horrible time. Do you want to spend $500 to upgrade from a 4-core intel 4000-cpu to an intel 5000-cpu? You&#x27;ll get DDR4 and 1% IPC.<p>Now we get massive IPC, clock speed, ram and PCIE improvements on a regular basis. Competition is great, especially for the consumer.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard</title><url>https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Artificial-Intelligence-AI/Intel-QuickAssist-Technology-Zstandard-Plugin-an-External/post/1509818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffbee</author><text>I love the QAT libraries and I feel their abilities are overlooked. Intel also has the igzip library that does not even require QAT and it radically faster than zlib, which is handy in older applications where gzip is unavoidable despite its obsolescence.<p>The major downside of course is it is quite tricky to use this stuff in practice. In the cloud, you need a bare metal instance that exposes the QAT peripheral, and they are relatively scarce. And this whole generation of hardware is only just beginning to land in public clouds. For machines you own, you will need to scrutinize Intel&#x27;s somewhat ridiculous product matrix in order to acquire a Xeon that has QAT.</text></comment> |
23,847,757 | 23,847,840 | 1 | 2 | 23,846,103 | train | <story><title>Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/google-lawsuit-app-tracking-without-permission-reuters-2020-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Interesting. Between this and the Incognito Mode lawsuit, it seems some lawyers are trying to make a case that companies have the burden of making their systems plain-language understandable to the consumer, not technically understandable. &quot;Incognito mode&quot; has never meant &quot;Third party sites can&#x27;t track you,&quot; but one could argue its plain-language understanding should be that. Similarly, disabling &quot;Web &amp; App Activity&quot; actually means Android&#x27;s built-in tracking is disabled, but does nothing about third-party site tracking (which is what Firebase is; it&#x27;s a framework for third parties building usage tracking into apps that <i>happens</i> to be owned by Google but doesn&#x27;t drop its data into the same hopper as the Android project&#x27;s tracking). One can clearly see how turning off Web &amp; App Activity tracking could cause a person to assume systems like Firebase are also disabled, but it doesn&#x27;t.<p>I don&#x27;t know what the right answer is yet. Manufacturer responsibility v. personal responsibility is an old question, and it&#x27;s why we have court systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strictnein</author><text> &gt; &quot;third-party site tracking (which is what Firebase is; it&#x27;s a framework for third parties building usage tracking into apps&quot;<p>Firebase isn&#x27;t that at all. It can be used to build such things, but so can PHP and CSV files.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/google-lawsuit-app-tracking-without-permission-reuters-2020-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shadowgovt</author><text>Interesting. Between this and the Incognito Mode lawsuit, it seems some lawyers are trying to make a case that companies have the burden of making their systems plain-language understandable to the consumer, not technically understandable. &quot;Incognito mode&quot; has never meant &quot;Third party sites can&#x27;t track you,&quot; but one could argue its plain-language understanding should be that. Similarly, disabling &quot;Web &amp; App Activity&quot; actually means Android&#x27;s built-in tracking is disabled, but does nothing about third-party site tracking (which is what Firebase is; it&#x27;s a framework for third parties building usage tracking into apps that <i>happens</i> to be owned by Google but doesn&#x27;t drop its data into the same hopper as the Android project&#x27;s tracking). One can clearly see how turning off Web &amp; App Activity tracking could cause a person to assume systems like Firebase are also disabled, but it doesn&#x27;t.<p>I don&#x27;t know what the right answer is yet. Manufacturer responsibility v. personal responsibility is an old question, and it&#x27;s why we have court systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>Never mind where the blurry line might be. Can we just get a bare minimum working as expected? Going incognito in google maps shouldn&#x27;t then bombard me with notifications to rate the places I&#x27;ve been to, let alone send me smug emails listing my recent history!</text></comment> |
21,557,354 | 21,557,399 | 1 | 2 | 21,557,057 | train | <story><title>Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019</title><url>http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bsaul</author><text>It’s the second time i see this language mentioned on HN. Reading about it made me feel it was coming straight from the 80s, and i must say i didn’t find anything special in its feature set (but i didn’t spend a lot of time). Could anyone provide more info on what makes this language interesting ?</text></comment> | <story><title>Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019</title><url>http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ainar-g</author><text>(Only tangentially related to the OP, but what the hell.)<p>Does anyone here have an experience programming in Oberon-07? One of
the most interesting features of the language for me is the fact that it
doesn&#x27;t have a BREAK statement. Which means that one must use a form of
WHILE for linear searches. Probably to force people to think in terms
of structured programming instead of the logic of “hidden GOTOs”. Does
it ever bother you? Did you ever had a thought like “Sheesh, this would
be so much better with a FOR and a BREAK.”?</text></comment> |
16,200,473 | 16,199,678 | 1 | 2 | 16,199,382 | train | <story><title>Show HN: On-disk B+ tree for Python 3</title><url>https://github.com/NicolasLM/bplustree</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>laurencerowe</author><text>ZODB has a mature B+Tree implementation for on disk use in the BTrees package. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;BTrees" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.python.org&#x2F;pypi&#x2F;BTrees</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: On-disk B+ tree for Python 3</title><url>https://github.com/NicolasLM/bplustree</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dimatura</author><text>Nice, I&#x27;m a big user of various data stores for scientific work. How does this compare to LMDB (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lmdb.tech&#x2F;doc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lmdb.tech&#x2F;doc&#x2F;</a>), which uses B-trees (and has a Python interface)?</text></comment> |
37,152,981 | 37,153,191 | 1 | 2 | 37,152,133 | train | <story><title>Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store</title><url>https://blog.trampolinetales.com/luck-be-a-landlord-is-now-banned-in-13-countries-on-the-google-play-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tspike</author><text>Why is there not even lip service paid to consistent enforcement?</text></item><item><author>johndhi</author><text>As someone who makes decisions like the one Google made here at work, sorry, dude, but arguing about it publicly isn&#x27;t going to change much.<p>Almost certainly Google has received pressure from these countries on this issue and their business there is more important to google than your single app. Google likely isn&#x27;t being unreasonable - but the governments of these countries are. Sorry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>janoc</author><text>Because they enforce when someone complains. They aren&#x27;t going to proactively ban stuff unless they really have to (e.g. something that is very obviously illegal&#x2F;scam&#x2F;etc.)<p>So if nobody complained about the other apps, they didn&#x27;t get banned. It is that easy.<p>That someone else does something that violates those policies&#x2F;laws too doesn&#x27;t mean that you get a free pass, unfortunately.</text></comment> | <story><title>Luck be a Landlord is now banned in 13 countries on the Google Play Store</title><url>https://blog.trampolinetales.com/luck-be-a-landlord-is-now-banned-in-13-countries-on-the-google-play-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tspike</author><text>Why is there not even lip service paid to consistent enforcement?</text></item><item><author>johndhi</author><text>As someone who makes decisions like the one Google made here at work, sorry, dude, but arguing about it publicly isn&#x27;t going to change much.<p>Almost certainly Google has received pressure from these countries on this issue and their business there is more important to google than your single app. Google likely isn&#x27;t being unreasonable - but the governments of these countries are. Sorry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>graypegg</author><text>Consistant enforcement means “local laws are consistently applied”. There isn’t one globally recognized list of content moderation standards.</text></comment> |
18,556,762 | 18,555,170 | 1 | 2 | 18,554,401 | train | <story><title>Math and Analogies</title><url>https://betterexplained.com/articles/math-and-analogies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>butisaidsudo</author><text>For Roman numerals to make sense you need to remove access to convenient writing tools. In a world without paper and pens, Arabic numerals are the ones that seem unwieldy.<p>I was on a multi-day hiking trip with a friend where we just had a pack of cards and some spiced rum to keep ourselves entertained in the evening. The first night we decided to play cribbage, but we didn&#x27;t have paper or the like to keep score on.<p>At first I tried using a stick to scratch out numbers in the dirt. It was doable, but very awkward. The low light of the camp fire made it hard to see, and I quickly ran out of undisturbed soil within arms reach.<p>I then gathered a few twigs to shape into numbers, using the patterns you&#x27;d see on an LED clock. That worked reasonably well, but took more effort than I liked.<p>I switched to Roman numerals thinking that the simpler shapes would be easier to work with. This turned out to be true, but I discovered it had the added benefit of being really easy to increment numbers.<p>In most cases, incrementing is incredibly simple. To go from 0 -&gt; 1 -&gt; 2 -&gt; 3, you simply add a stick each time. To go from 3 -&gt; 4, you pinch together the bottoms of the 2nd and 3rd sticks. Then you take the first stick away, then later drop it on the other side of the V. Add another stick, cross some sticks, etc.<p>There are a lot of things that seem poorly done at first glance, but make total sense when you understand the environment they were developed in. I&#x27;ve heard younger folks wonder why old TV shows are so poorly written. When you&#x27;ve always been able to watch on demand (or rent episodes on DVD), it&#x27;s hard to understand the restrictions on writing when there was no way for your audience to watch previous episodes if they hadn&#x27;t seen them when they had aired. And of course this is true for most software I&#x27;ve ever worked on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sovietmudkipz</author><text>I like your thought experiment to illustrate why Roman numerals make sense for the time. I think you&#x27;re right! It is more practical given the tools than Arabic numerals.<p>To respond to the hiking story; I would opt to use binary if I were in the same situation. I think it&#x27;s a superior system to use especially out in the woods. It&#x27;s hard to read for many folk unexposed to binary but it allows you to encode lots of base 10 numbers using a few items. For example, a twig rotated 0 degrees could signify 0, and a twig rotated 90 degrees could be 1. 5 twigs gets you 0 - 31!<p>To bring it back to the Romans... I realize Binary wasn&#x27;t commonly used in the Ancient World and that is something I find a little baffling. Base 2 seems like it would be more useful in a pre-pen and paper world, especially when you have to etch something. The closest thing I can find is the Inca Quipu (&quot;talking knots&quot;) but even that encodes base 10 numbers into base 4 knots.<p>If base 2 was widely used by human beings our fingers could have encoded up to 1024 digits.<p>How did base n &gt; base 2 evolve?</text></comment> | <story><title>Math and Analogies</title><url>https://betterexplained.com/articles/math-and-analogies/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>butisaidsudo</author><text>For Roman numerals to make sense you need to remove access to convenient writing tools. In a world without paper and pens, Arabic numerals are the ones that seem unwieldy.<p>I was on a multi-day hiking trip with a friend where we just had a pack of cards and some spiced rum to keep ourselves entertained in the evening. The first night we decided to play cribbage, but we didn&#x27;t have paper or the like to keep score on.<p>At first I tried using a stick to scratch out numbers in the dirt. It was doable, but very awkward. The low light of the camp fire made it hard to see, and I quickly ran out of undisturbed soil within arms reach.<p>I then gathered a few twigs to shape into numbers, using the patterns you&#x27;d see on an LED clock. That worked reasonably well, but took more effort than I liked.<p>I switched to Roman numerals thinking that the simpler shapes would be easier to work with. This turned out to be true, but I discovered it had the added benefit of being really easy to increment numbers.<p>In most cases, incrementing is incredibly simple. To go from 0 -&gt; 1 -&gt; 2 -&gt; 3, you simply add a stick each time. To go from 3 -&gt; 4, you pinch together the bottoms of the 2nd and 3rd sticks. Then you take the first stick away, then later drop it on the other side of the V. Add another stick, cross some sticks, etc.<p>There are a lot of things that seem poorly done at first glance, but make total sense when you understand the environment they were developed in. I&#x27;ve heard younger folks wonder why old TV shows are so poorly written. When you&#x27;ve always been able to watch on demand (or rent episodes on DVD), it&#x27;s hard to understand the restrictions on writing when there was no way for your audience to watch previous episodes if they hadn&#x27;t seen them when they had aired. And of course this is true for most software I&#x27;ve ever worked on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; To go from 0 -&gt; 1 -&gt; 2 -&gt; 3, you simply add a stick each time. To go from 3 -&gt; 4, you pinch together the bottoms of the 2nd and 3rd sticks.<p>The subtractive part of Roman numerals is an innovation the Romans generally didn&#x27;t use. (Which is why clocks say IIII and not IV.) It adds significant complexity for no benefit.</text></comment> |
39,204,209 | 39,204,184 | 1 | 2 | 39,203,315 | train | <story><title>Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1aesrm3/dont_use_namecheap_for_the_fr_tld/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsoto</author><text>So you got sold a subdomain? That&#x27;s a new one for me.</text></item><item><author>p4bl0</author><text>The worst domain name story that happened to me was with my .name domain name, the one I still use for my personal web page.<p>When I got it, it was only allowed to register subdomains in the form of <i>firstname</i>.<i>lastname</i>.name and I even had to provide my ID card to be able to register the domain name. The deal then was that I could use DNS zone of the subdomain, and in addition got an email redirection from <i>firstname</i>@<i>lastname</i>.name to whatever email address I would choose.<p>A few years after that, VeriSign suddenly stopped supporting the email redirection feature, with <i>not even a single warning sent to customers like me</i>. From one day to another, I lost the main email address I used to communicate and for all of my online accounts. It was a <i>mess</i> to deal with this.<p>To this day, I was never able to get hold of my <i>lastname</i>.name, to be able to restore my email address. Even though I&#x27;m the only one in the world using a subdomain of it. The only solution that has ever been suggested to me by VeriSign customer support would be to let it expire, and hope that no squatting bots get it before me so once the grace period expires, I can try to register the first-level domain. But that would mean several weeks where my website would be down, and all that with the uncertainty of actually being able to actually get it back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badgersnake</author><text>That was the original idea behind .name. You buy firstname.lastname.name. When it wasn’t a huge success they got bored and it reverted to a regular tld.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1aesrm3/dont_use_namecheap_for_the_fr_tld/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rsoto</author><text>So you got sold a subdomain? That&#x27;s a new one for me.</text></item><item><author>p4bl0</author><text>The worst domain name story that happened to me was with my .name domain name, the one I still use for my personal web page.<p>When I got it, it was only allowed to register subdomains in the form of <i>firstname</i>.<i>lastname</i>.name and I even had to provide my ID card to be able to register the domain name. The deal then was that I could use DNS zone of the subdomain, and in addition got an email redirection from <i>firstname</i>@<i>lastname</i>.name to whatever email address I would choose.<p>A few years after that, VeriSign suddenly stopped supporting the email redirection feature, with <i>not even a single warning sent to customers like me</i>. From one day to another, I lost the main email address I used to communicate and for all of my online accounts. It was a <i>mess</i> to deal with this.<p>To this day, I was never able to get hold of my <i>lastname</i>.name, to be able to restore my email address. Even though I&#x27;m the only one in the world using a subdomain of it. The only solution that has ever been suggested to me by VeriSign customer support would be to let it expire, and hope that no squatting bots get it before me so once the grace period expires, I can try to register the first-level domain. But that would mean several weeks where my website would be down, and all that with the uncertainty of actually being able to actually get it back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmurray</author><text>Is it any different from getting a .co.uk domain, really?</text></comment> |
21,125,894 | 21,125,783 | 1 | 3 | 21,124,115 | train | <story><title>Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dbqgb0/protester_shot_in_chest_by_live_police_round/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx87</author><text>Not to defend what the police have been doing overall during this protest, but in this specific incident you can see the protestors beating a police officer on the ground, and the protestor who got shot was swinging a metal pipe at the police officer that shot him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woutr_be</author><text>I&#x27;ve been fairly critical of protestors before, but in this instance, you can see the police going in for a fight, already heavily outnumbered. I&#x27;m not sure what they expected to happen, but the officer drew his gun almost instantly and shot a high school kid at point blank range.<p>There&#x27;s been other instances today where police was just looking to fight protestors, and as soon as they realized protestors weren&#x27;t having any of it, they drew their guns and shot in the air. There&#x27;s a difference between an officers&#x27; life being in danger, and the officer stupidly putting his life in danger.</text></comment> | <story><title>Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/dbqgb0/protester_shot_in_chest_by_live_police_round/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dx87</author><text>Not to defend what the police have been doing overall during this protest, but in this specific incident you can see the protestors beating a police officer on the ground, and the protestor who got shot was swinging a metal pipe at the police officer that shot him.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vnchr</author><text>The police are allowed to shoot someone in the leg. Lethal force is not the only option with a firearm.</text></comment> |
21,291,035 | 21,291,167 | 1 | 2 | 21,289,832 | train | <story><title>Four kinds of documentation</title><url>https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protomikron</author><text>My pet peeve is auto-generated documentation from configuration files or source code. It is absolutely useless and I would rather prefer no documentation than auto-generated.<p>Some time ago Swagger (nowadays OpenAPI) got really popular and many projects &quot;had an API&quot; and pointed users to their green autogenerated API documentation clusterfuck. When time went on this green page would become an indicator for me, that the project does not work and I should be very sceptical - I am sure there are projects that do it better, but for me <i>no-content</i> auto-generated documentation is a real code smell.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dtech</author><text>I do not share your experience, because in my experience the auto-generated docs will be kept in sync with the code&#x2F;API while a separate specification will become outdated over time.<p>This does of course require human-readable description in all the endpoints. But that&#x27;s the same as only an autogenerated function signature in code documentation vs an added human-readable description.</text></comment> | <story><title>Four kinds of documentation</title><url>https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protomikron</author><text>My pet peeve is auto-generated documentation from configuration files or source code. It is absolutely useless and I would rather prefer no documentation than auto-generated.<p>Some time ago Swagger (nowadays OpenAPI) got really popular and many projects &quot;had an API&quot; and pointed users to their green autogenerated API documentation clusterfuck. When time went on this green page would become an indicator for me, that the project does not work and I should be very sceptical - I am sure there are projects that do it better, but for me <i>no-content</i> auto-generated documentation is a real code smell.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xtiansimon</author><text>I&#x27;ve been trying to get my head around a particular Swagger project. Here is a funny email exchange from my request for documentation:<p>...
Hi, I reaching out to to ask if I could get my hands on some documentation because the API is somewhat a black box to me.<p>...
The api documentation for [product] can be found here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.[product].com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.[product].com&#x2F;</a><p>...
Sorry. That&#x27;s not what I mean by &quot;documentation&quot;. It&#x27;s certainly non-linear. I don&#x27;t know how to &quot;read&quot; this site to gain an understanding. It&#x27;s kinda sparse:<p><pre><code> GET &#x2F;v2&#x2F;adjustments &gt; Implementation Notes: Fetches a list of adjustments.
GET &#x2F;v2&#x2F;reportCategories &gt; Implementation Notes: Fetches a list of report categories.
</code></pre>
...
Hm, I think swagger documentation is pretty standard among APIs I&#x27;ve worked with before. I&#x27;m pretty sure it&#x27;s all they have.<p>...
&quot;Swagger Documentation&quot; is a special class of documentation for sure; Nobody likes writing documentation.<p>Talk about insider (them)&#x2F;outsider (me).</text></comment> |
31,116,445 | 31,115,834 | 1 | 2 | 31,111,220 | train | <story><title>The Birth of Tcl</title><url>http://www.tcl.tk/about/history.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>Interesting to read how Expect came so soon out of TCL (TCL: 1988, Expect: 1990)<p>Expect remains an essential tool for dealing with interactive (but not TUI) terminal application, and in usage really fits its TCL roots perfectly. In contrast, I&#x27;ve found the Perl and Python ports of Expect to be somewhat awkward, not fitting those languages paradigms as well.<p>In the 2020s, I still think Expect is TCL&#x27;s killer app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wrenky</author><text>Aw man I love Expect. We have a bunch of legacy stuff and Tcl&#x2F;Expect powers most of it. Every few years people try to replace it with python and pexpect, there was a nodejs implementation, and perl. They sorta worked, but anytime you had to something more complicated than a single session or simple parsing they fell apart.<p>now I have it wrapped in a starpack and just dont tell them the language unless they ask lol</text></comment> | <story><title>The Birth of Tcl</title><url>http://www.tcl.tk/about/history.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>Interesting to read how Expect came so soon out of TCL (TCL: 1988, Expect: 1990)<p>Expect remains an essential tool for dealing with interactive (but not TUI) terminal application, and in usage really fits its TCL roots perfectly. In contrast, I&#x27;ve found the Perl and Python ports of Expect to be somewhat awkward, not fitting those languages paradigms as well.<p>In the 2020s, I still think Expect is TCL&#x27;s killer app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrapdx3</author><text>Expect has had remarkable longevity, though I&#x27;d say the greatest impact of Tcl has been though *sqlite* which started as a Tcl extension and still uses Tcl in its development. Sqlite is used so very widely, hard to find any major software that doesn&#x27;t incorporate it. I guess Tcl is nearly everywhere, under the hood anyway.</text></comment> |
25,179,484 | 25,178,844 | 1 | 3 | 25,178,439 | train | <story><title>ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin compatible with ESP8266</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/22/esp32-c3-wifi-ble-risc-v-processor-is-pin-to-pin-compatible-with-esp8266/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ducktective</author><text>Just recently, Bouffalo Lab introduced BL602 which is a RISC-V WiFi-BLE chip with ESP8266 price. I guess Espressif had other plans for the competition!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24877335" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24877335</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24916086" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24916086</a><p>Skimming over C3 datasheet, it seems it doesn&#x27;t have DAC but has one I2S. BL602 has DAC but no I2S!</text></comment> | <story><title>ESP32-C3 WiFi and BLE RISC-V processor is pin-to-pin compatible with ESP8266</title><url>https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/11/22/esp32-c3-wifi-ble-risc-v-processor-is-pin-to-pin-compatible-with-esp8266/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makapuf</author><text>This is really nice, riscv plus Wifi and BT will be a dream for hackers provided the chip and firmware is well documented. The datasheet is also in the comments (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mega.nz&#x2F;file&#x2F;nk41mSAL#R_d0njlKRb-aIoGuX6JXUB5eeflAdyruz_11tiuvNF4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mega.nz&#x2F;file&#x2F;nk41mSAL#R_d0njlKRb-aIoGuX6JXUB5eeflAdy...</a> )(chinese pdf) : 160MHz 400k sram apparently single core.</text></comment> |
21,631,190 | 21,631,315 | 1 | 3 | 21,629,227 | train | <story><title>The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses</title><url>https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-November/001712.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>All it means is the free lunch is over and people have to start buying their IPs off of an informal market.<p>Theoretically we could have transitioned to IPv6 instead and avoided this hassle, but too many incumbents are dragging their feet on the whole IPv6 issue.</text></item><item><author>eb0la</author><text>ARIN (North America) and APNIC (Asia-Pacific) ran out of addresses some time ago (2015 I guess).<p>Game over IPv4.</text></item><item><author>amingilani</author><text>There are five regional internet registries (RIRs), and Ripe NCC is one of them. Here&#x27;s a map of which services what region[0]<p>Does this mean we&#x27;ve finally run out of new allocatable IPv4 addresses with the RIRs?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Regional_Internet_registry#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Regional_Internet_Registries_world_map.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Regional_Internet_registry#&#x2F;me...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>They don&#x27;t need an &quot;informal market&quot; when there&#x27;s a perfectly good formal market. You can sell some of your IPv4 allocation to another LIR party which needs the addresses, the only case that you can&#x27;t do through the formal mechanism is speculation. You can&#x27;t buy a &#x2F;16 and then sit on it hoping to sell it later when the prices are highest before a collapse. Good.<p>One thing you don&#x27;t see enough of yet is providers charging for the IPv4 address their customers probably don&#x27;t need. Those have a real cost, and economics 101 tells us if something has a cost, even a small cost, and you surface that cost to your customers, suddenly they&#x27;re a lot more interested in helping avoid that cost than they were when you just ate it as part of the service. Plastic carrier bags weren&#x27;t free back when grocery stories didn&#x27;t charge for them -- they just absorbed the financial cost and externalised the environmental cost. Charge for the bags and suddenly customers remember they already have a bag, they don&#x27;t need a bag. Same with IPv4.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses</title><url>https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-November/001712.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>All it means is the free lunch is over and people have to start buying their IPs off of an informal market.<p>Theoretically we could have transitioned to IPv6 instead and avoided this hassle, but too many incumbents are dragging their feet on the whole IPv6 issue.</text></item><item><author>eb0la</author><text>ARIN (North America) and APNIC (Asia-Pacific) ran out of addresses some time ago (2015 I guess).<p>Game over IPv4.</text></item><item><author>amingilani</author><text>There are five regional internet registries (RIRs), and Ripe NCC is one of them. Here&#x27;s a map of which services what region[0]<p>Does this mean we&#x27;ve finally run out of new allocatable IPv4 addresses with the RIRs?<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Regional_Internet_registry#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Regional_Internet_Registries_world_map.svg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Regional_Internet_registry#&#x2F;me...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Apofis</author><text>I&#x27;m seeing IPv6 popping up more and more lately, so I don&#x27;t think it will be much longer.</text></comment> |
37,872,479 | 37,868,840 | 1 | 2 | 37,868,106 | train | <story><title>GPSJam: Daily maps of possible GPS interference</title><url>https://gpsjam.org/?lat=45.00000&lon=35.00000&z=3.0&date=2023-10-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjwiseman</author><text>Hello, HN. I made this site. Link to previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32245346">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32245346</a><p>I&#x27;m curious about HN&#x27;s take on a couple things:<p>1. Why haven&#x27;t FlightRadar24, FlightAware, or any of the other flight trackers done this? Not enough people actually interested? I know there are companies that use GPSJAM to help brief their pilots.<p>2. Monetization! I can&#x27;t really justify spending more time to work on projects like this one when they don&#x27;t make money, and do cost (a little) money. But I absolutely do not want to turn these projects into another another job--I don&#x27;t want contracts, obligations, deadlines. Do I try to get (very niche, but I bet they exist) advertisers to cover site costs and some of my time? Do I crowdfund for general development? Let me know your thoughts. And this isn&#x27;t just for GPSJAM; I have other projects. For example...<p>A couple other aviation related projects I&#x27;ve done recently:<p>1. The Global Aircraft Event Viewer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aircraft.social&#x2F;events&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aircraft.social&#x2F;events&#x2F;</a> A near real-time map of higher level aircraft behaviors around planet Earth: Circling, &quot;near misses&quot; (RAs), takeoffs, landings, emergency squawks, and other stuff. A very early experiment, but I think it&#x27;s kind of neat (especially the RAs!).<p>2. Closest Points of Approach: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skycircl.es&#x2F;cpa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skycircl.es&#x2F;cpa&#x2F;</a> An analysis tool for checking to see just how close two (or more) aircraft got. For example, if you saw the New York Times Story &quot;How a Series of Air Traffic Control Lapses Nearly Killed 131 People&quot;[1], here&#x27;s a link that visualizes and animates the scenario that happened in Austin, where a Fedex jet almost landed on a Southwest passenger jet: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skycircl.es&#x2F;cpa&#x2F;?kmlurl=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;wiseman&#x2F;b28e76fbadad13193db5cbd28956988a&#x2F;raw&#x2F;5ce33f0ca300fd3751fce054a6476787875e7d6e&#x2F;FDX1432-SWA708.kml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;skycircl.es&#x2F;cpa&#x2F;?kmlurl=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.githubuserconten...</a> My tool estimates they got within about 150 feet (assuming idealized point aircraft without volume!)–The NTSB said they got &quot;within 200 feet&quot;.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;air-traffic-control-austin-airport-fedex-southwest.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;business&#x2F;air-traffic-cont...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>GPSJam: Daily maps of possible GPS interference</title><url>https://gpsjam.org/?lat=45.00000&lon=35.00000&z=3.0&date=2023-10-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>Just a note from the sites FAQ: the data is actually showing places where airplanes report LOW NAVIGATION ACCURACY via their ADS-B transponders.<p>Since planes tend to default to INS navigation with use GPS, GLONASS, Galileo or other systems to supplement the drift, it may be subject to certain data skew (e.g. if there&#x27;s an area on the world where most planes aren&#x27;t equipped with GPS navigation system, have poor quality navigation tech or you might be seeing &quot;jamming&quot; where there might just be a common place on airline route where INS drifts).</text></comment> |
13,847,868 | 13,847,569 | 1 | 2 | 13,846,083 | train | <story><title>Build a digital clock in Conway's Life</title><url>http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/88783/build-a-digital-clock-in-conways-game-of-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I went through a period of intense study of cellular automata. It it a deep, deep, rabbit hole of interesting bits. One of the things I contributed early was a simple &#x27;two species&#x27; variation where the rules for dual species were encoded in three matrices. I used it as a demo on one of the Fred Fish Amiga disks (it used pretty much every Intuition window call in the book on purpose).<p>The clock has me thinking I need to get out my FPGA based simulator again and to hook it up to a nice 720P display :-).</text></item><item><author>jonknee</author><text>Digging throught the Conway&#x27;s Life rabbit hole is a fun trip back to what the WWW used to be like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&#x2F;~eppstein&#x2F;ca&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&#x2F;~eppstein&#x2F;ca&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&#x2F;~lipa&#x2F;mec&#x2F;lesson6.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&#x2F;~lipa&#x2F;mec&#x2F;lesson6.html</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kaytdek.trevorshp.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;computer&#x2F;neuralNetworks&#x2F;gameOfLife2.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kaytdek.trevorshp.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;computer&#x2F;neuralNetwork...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psoup.math.wisc.edu&#x2F;mcell&#x2F;rullex_life.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psoup.math.wisc.edu&#x2F;mcell&#x2F;rullex_life.html</a><p>I love it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biot</author><text>If you turned that into into an actual clock with half decent accuracy, I&#x27;d seriously buy one. Even if the only way to set the time was to wait until noon or midnight to plug it in. It would probably also function well as a space heater in winter. :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Build a digital clock in Conway's Life</title><url>http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/88783/build-a-digital-clock-in-conways-game-of-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I went through a period of intense study of cellular automata. It it a deep, deep, rabbit hole of interesting bits. One of the things I contributed early was a simple &#x27;two species&#x27; variation where the rules for dual species were encoded in three matrices. I used it as a demo on one of the Fred Fish Amiga disks (it used pretty much every Intuition window call in the book on purpose).<p>The clock has me thinking I need to get out my FPGA based simulator again and to hook it up to a nice 720P display :-).</text></item><item><author>jonknee</author><text>Digging throught the Conway&#x27;s Life rabbit hole is a fun trip back to what the WWW used to be like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&#x2F;~eppstein&#x2F;ca&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ics.uci.edu&#x2F;~eppstein&#x2F;ca&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&#x2F;~lipa&#x2F;mec&#x2F;lesson6.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&#x2F;~lipa&#x2F;mec&#x2F;lesson6.html</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kaytdek.trevorshp.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;computer&#x2F;neuralNetworks&#x2F;gameOfLife2.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kaytdek.trevorshp.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;computer&#x2F;neuralNetwork...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psoup.math.wisc.edu&#x2F;mcell&#x2F;rullex_life.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psoup.math.wisc.edu&#x2F;mcell&#x2F;rullex_life.html</a><p>I love it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhbadger</author><text>Me too. CAs are fun. But obviously people like Wolfram take them <i>way</i> too seriously (assuming &quot;A New Kind of Science&quot; was sincere and not just a way to convince hobbyists to buy Mathematica)</text></comment> |
27,699,707 | 27,699,746 | 1 | 3 | 27,698,955 | train | <story><title>Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39</title><url>https://onlinedomain.com/2021/02/12/domain-name-news/verisign-will-increase-the-com-price-from-7-85-to-8-39/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rovr138</author><text>The link is not just about the amount,<p>A section,<p>&gt; There are about 152 million domain name registrations .com today so Verisign will make about $82 million more in the next year following the price increase out of thin air.<p>&gt; Verisign will be able to increase the price of .com in the next 3 years as well.<p>&gt; Verisign will suck about $3 billion dollars out of the world economy just by having some powerful friends at ICANN.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gunapologist99</author><text>Agree with all of these statements except this one:<p>&gt; Verisign will suck about $3 billion dollars out of the world economy just by having some powerful friends at ICANN.<p>It&#x27;s not a zero-sum game.<p>If Verisign manages to extract $3B from the poverty-stricken folks who are buying up .com domains, it doesn&#x27;t just disappear (unless, of course, Verizon takes it in cash and sets it on fire in the basement.)<p>That $3B will then be spent on whatever pet projects Verizon feels like spending it on, thus re-injecting into the global economy.<p>I personally think that Verisign should have to compete to run the .com registry, just like how we do FCC spectrum auctions, but hand-wavy statements like &quot;suck about $3 billion dollars out of the world economy&quot; do not help make that case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39</title><url>https://onlinedomain.com/2021/02/12/domain-name-news/verisign-will-increase-the-com-price-from-7-85-to-8-39/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rovr138</author><text>The link is not just about the amount,<p>A section,<p>&gt; There are about 152 million domain name registrations .com today so Verisign will make about $82 million more in the next year following the price increase out of thin air.<p>&gt; Verisign will be able to increase the price of .com in the next 3 years as well.<p>&gt; Verisign will suck about $3 billion dollars out of the world economy just by having some powerful friends at ICANN.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>missedthecue</author><text>Suck it out of the world economy? Does Verisign collect their profits and throw it all in a furnace?</text></comment> |
4,908,306 | 4,906,192 | 1 | 2 | 4,906,098 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/sjkaliski/numbers.js</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>angersock</author><text>First of all, good work!<p>A couple of observations:<p>1. You should probably go ahead and implement at least LU decomposition, QR factorization, and maybe some eigenvalue/eigenvector stuff if you want to claim "advanced".<p>2. You should use the recursive definition of the determinant in the &#62;3x3 matrix case.<p>3. You should consider adding some vector methods of the form: ax+by (for scalar a &#38; b, and vector x &#38; y). This can be useful for doing linear interpolation and whatnot.<p>4. You should add cross products/outer products for vectors.<p>5. You should have a mechanism for generating a Gaussian or normal distribution, or at least supply some standard mappings from your (presumably uniform) random function to something more useful (Gaussian, Possoin, Weibull, whatever).<p>6. An FFT would be nice. :)<p>7. Quaternions would also be handy for graphics folks, or motion folks.<p>8. Complex number support would be cool.<p>9. Support for optimization, like integer programming, linear programming, or even least-squares or whatever would be nice.<p>~<p>Again, great work--I look forward to seeing how this project evolves!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/sjkaliski/numbers.js</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Xcelerate</author><text>This is pretty cool. I've been using CoffeeScript to post-process MD simulation results because it's such an easy language to get things done in. Tools like this will make it even easier.<p>Although, could someone clarify for me the floating point issues mentioned by Steve? I wasn't aware there were issues...</text></comment> |
21,880,905 | 21,880,214 | 1 | 2 | 21,879,374 | train | <story><title>An introduction to machine learning through polynomial regression</title><url>https://rickwierenga.com/blog/machine%20learning/polynomial-regression.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geoalchimista</author><text>I&#x27;m really not so amused by the bloating of words like &quot;machine learning through polynomial regression&quot;. People have been doing polynomial regression for centuries (almost as old as linear regression) and how does it become a new thing under the umbrella of machine learning? And not to mention, normal equation is vastly superior to gradient descent in solving out the coefficients for polynomial regression. (The criticism is not directed to OP but to the field in general.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rickdeveloper</author><text>As others have mentioned I did not intend to bloat by using the word &#x27;machine learning.&#x27; Polynomial regression is taught as first concept in many machine learning courses so I figured it might be a good way to introduce newcomers to the field. Many of the posts currently available only show how to make another neural network for MNIST, but do not cover the background theory. I know that polynomial regression is a concept of statistics, but I would argue most of machine learning is too. That is the reason I choose this concept as an intro to machine learning (and consequently statistics).<p>Thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it. I have added a paragraph on the normal equation (should be online anytime) and why you might&#x2F;might not want to use it.</text></comment> | <story><title>An introduction to machine learning through polynomial regression</title><url>https://rickwierenga.com/blog/machine%20learning/polynomial-regression.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geoalchimista</author><text>I&#x27;m really not so amused by the bloating of words like &quot;machine learning through polynomial regression&quot;. People have been doing polynomial regression for centuries (almost as old as linear regression) and how does it become a new thing under the umbrella of machine learning? And not to mention, normal equation is vastly superior to gradient descent in solving out the coefficients for polynomial regression. (The criticism is not directed to OP but to the field in general.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousgal</author><text>&quot;Machine Learning&quot; these days is people rediscovering statistics.<p>It&#x27;s always amusing how stats are underappreciated. I was at a career fair the other day talking to a manager at HSBC, he was surprised to know that a stats curriculum includes stochastic calculus...</text></comment> |
14,870,327 | 14,869,938 | 1 | 3 | 14,863,594 | train | <story><title>In the Face of Constant Censorship, Bulgakov Kept Writing</title><url>http://lithub.com/in-the-face-of-constant-censorship-bulgakov-kept-writing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acomjean</author><text>I read the The Master and Margarita for a literature class at University. It was a fascinating but confusing book, but lots of references which made it ideal to get some help by someone who scope and historical context (USSR being at its end when I read it).<p>Of course now with the internet there is help from wikipedia:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Master_and_Margarita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Master_and_Margarita</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aleyan</author><text>Readers may find the Master and Margarita website[1] to be very thorough in providing the background information, plot and character summaries, and other supplementary materials. It is the best resource I know on the subject<p>There is also an active Bulgakov facebook page [2] with things like fan art and informations about upcoming adaptations.<p>As a matter of disclosure, I created the facebook page in 2008, but it has been run for many years now by Jan Vanhellemont, the man who is also responsible for [1]. I consider him to be the foremost fan of Master and Margarita on the English language internet.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masterandmargarita.eu&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.masterandmargarita.eu&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;m.a.bulgakov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;m.a.bulgakov&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>In the Face of Constant Censorship, Bulgakov Kept Writing</title><url>http://lithub.com/in-the-face-of-constant-censorship-bulgakov-kept-writing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acomjean</author><text>I read the The Master and Margarita for a literature class at University. It was a fascinating but confusing book, but lots of references which made it ideal to get some help by someone who scope and historical context (USSR being at its end when I read it).<p>Of course now with the internet there is help from wikipedia:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Master_and_Margarita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Master_and_Margarita</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abecode</author><text>The Master and Margarita also has a lot of details from biblical history that help making sense of it... I read it when I was taking a class from a Dead Sea Scroll archaeologist about how the bible was written and modern interpretations of it. So we read some of Gilgamesh, Old Testament, Dead Sea scrolls, Paradise Lost, and The Master and Margarita, among others (here&#x27;s some version of the syllabus: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web-app.usc.edu&#x2F;soc&#x2F;syllabus&#x2F;20111&#x2F;60056.doc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web-app.usc.edu&#x2F;soc&#x2F;syllabus&#x2F;20111&#x2F;60056.doc</a>)</text></comment> |
15,364,122 | 15,362,811 | 1 | 2 | 15,361,197 | train | <story><title>The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends”</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressive-authoritarian-soul-of-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-friends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkregister</author><text>This analysis, while novel and interesting to me, is not supported by the bulk of events in the early Old Testament. I will name some examples of God personally meting out the death sentence <i>en masse</i> as punishment for sin in various books of the Old Testament.<p>1. The Great Flood (Genesis),<p>2. Sodom (Genesis),<p>3. The Plagues of Egypt (Exodus),<p>4. The Exile of the Israelites from the Promised Land (Exodus).<p>Redemption, mercy, and forgiveness are primary themes in the Gospels, and further continue as major themes in the rest of the New Testament. Aside from the Lake of Fire (Hell), which is worse than being killed for being a first-born Egyptian child, references to punishment are secondary.<p>As for Paul&#x27;s opinion of the Old Testament, that is fine, he wrote that opinion. There is no shortage of contradictory and conflicting opinions and facts in the Bible since it is a work compiled, edited, and written by humans.<p>That said, the mainstream Christian opinion that the Old Testament is vengeful and the New Testament is merciful is prevalent for a reason. Paul cannot retcon, try as he might, the events of the Old Testament.</text></item><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>I think the New Testament disagrees with your characterization of the Old Testament. Pretty much the entire New Testament goes on about how the Old Testament is a series of stories about how cycles of rule making and rule breaking do <i>not</i> lead to real justice, peace, or life. In particular, both Romans and Hebrews (though not exclusively those books) cite Old Testament stories to make the case that the Old Testament (a.k.a. the law and the prophets) is largely misunderstood to be about a world full of crime and punishment.<p>For example, Romans 1 talks about how people (not a vengeful God) set up the worst consequences for themselves. God&#x27;s &quot;wrath&quot; is unfiltered humanity. Romans 2 goes on about how there&#x27;s plenty of blame to pass around (so there&#x27;s no room for &quot;good people&quot; to blame &quot;bad&quot; ones). And Romans 4 holds up Abraham, an Old Testament character, as an example of how life should be lived, in faithfulness to a forgiving God. All through this passage, and in the rest of the book, a case is built from the Old Testament itself.<p>Anyway, I don&#x27;t have strong feelings about Shining Time Station, but I think the Old Testament is more humane, sensible, and subtle than people seem to appreciate. At least the apostle Paul seemed to think so.</text></item><item><author>dmlorenzetti</author><text>The comparison with Mr. Rogers is instructive. Both shows seem rooted in a minister&#x27;s desire to encapsulate ideals derived from the Bible. But while Mr. Rogers is New Testament, the Thomas books are Old Testament.<p>Henry, for example, gets punished for the sin of VANITY -- he doesn&#x27;t stop in the tunnel in order to shirk work, but rather to avoid getting his nice new paint messed up.<p>To see the difference between the shows, just try to imagine Mr. Rogers presenting a puppet show about bricking a character up in his room as punishment for not wanting to get his new suit wet in the rain. And imagine him, in that Mr Rogers voice, saying &quot;I think he deserved that punishment, don&#x27;t you?&quot;</text></item><item><author>paulddraper</author><text>Thomas &amp; Friends is gold.<p>The show is dignified and wholesome. It is always about respect, diligence, and humility.<p>It isn&#x27;t there for stupid antics and wacky laughs. It doesn&#x27;t blast color explosions and ADHD-fueled off-the-charts mind-numbing exuburance to capture kids attention. And it&#x27;s been doing that for decades (pretty much eternity, as far as kids TV goes).<p>Not since Mr. Rogers has there been a better kids TV show.<p>&gt; Fat Controller<p>Better known as Sir Topham Hatt since the 1950s.<p>&gt; Henry must be punished—for life<p>Even in the old non-US version (modern one makes it explicit), it was still evident that he wasn&#x27;t left in their forever, as he showed up again next time.<p>Blue Mountain Mystery [1] A little green engine hides in the blue hills. Thomas learns that long ago, the engine accidentally caused another engine to roll overboard into the sea. He has been hiding ever since, in guilt and fear and shame. Thomas convinces him to return, and the story shows how silly the little engine&#x27;s worries were. It&#x27;s a moral of forgiveness and redemption. (Also, there&#x27;s a great surprise about who that overboard engine actually is.)<p>This crap makes me mad. I have to stop reading stuff on the internet. Go back to watching Sponge Bob or Family Guy or whatever crap you watch with your kids.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ttte.wikia.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blue_Mountain_Mystery" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ttte.wikia.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blue_Mountain_Mystery</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>humanrebar</author><text>&gt; This analysis, while novel and interesting to me, is not supported by the bulk of events in the early Old Testament.<p>Fair enough. But my point was that the analysis was the analysis of the New Testament authors. People are free to provide their own critical analysis, but they&#x27;re disagreeing with Peter, Paul, and the Jesus of the Gospels even. I think people that hold this viewpoint and care to be rigorous about it would do well to review their arguments.<p>Regarding your first three examples, in each case the story is about God saving an imperfect group who trusts God:<p>1. Noah and his family<p>2. Lot and his family<p>3. Moses and the Israelites<p>...to back up to Romans 1, the reward for people who want to run their own show is often... their own show to run. They&#x27;ll just be doing it on their own. Earth before the flood, Sodom, and recalcitrant Egyptians are all examples of this pattern. But in each of these cases, God decides not to end the story in just desserts but give people another shot to redeem themselves.<p>I&#x27;m refraining from commenting on example 4 mostly because I don&#x27;t know exactly which even you&#x27;re referring to (Israel ends up in the Promised Land). But the narrative of the Old Testament is generally Israel deciding to do its own thing over and over, asking for another chance, and getting one.<p>So <i>one</i> thing people usually have a problem with is the idea that God judges people <i>at all</i>. This usually stems from a belief that loving people don&#x27;t judge people. This is clearly contradictory to certain tenets of the Bible, including the text of the New Testament. But I think most people, if they stop and think about it, disagree with this sentiment as well. Consider:<p>- A grown man kicks a toddler. The father of the toddler acts like nothing happened. Dad is a loving guy and wants peace more than judgement. No, a loving father is <i>angry</i> when his family is abused. He expects justice, even.<p>- A teacher doesn&#x27;t particularly like a student so he ignores the student. The mother thinks this is messed up but understands the teacher is his own person and makes his own decisions. No, a loving mother gets <i>angry</i> when her kids aren&#x27;t nurtured and taught properly. She expects corrective action.<p>In the interest of not writing a novella in an HN comment, I&#x27;ll wrap it up here, so thanks for reading if you got this far. I appreciate the civil discussion.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends”</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-repressive-authoritarian-soul-of-thomas-the-tank-engine-and-friends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>linkregister</author><text>This analysis, while novel and interesting to me, is not supported by the bulk of events in the early Old Testament. I will name some examples of God personally meting out the death sentence <i>en masse</i> as punishment for sin in various books of the Old Testament.<p>1. The Great Flood (Genesis),<p>2. Sodom (Genesis),<p>3. The Plagues of Egypt (Exodus),<p>4. The Exile of the Israelites from the Promised Land (Exodus).<p>Redemption, mercy, and forgiveness are primary themes in the Gospels, and further continue as major themes in the rest of the New Testament. Aside from the Lake of Fire (Hell), which is worse than being killed for being a first-born Egyptian child, references to punishment are secondary.<p>As for Paul&#x27;s opinion of the Old Testament, that is fine, he wrote that opinion. There is no shortage of contradictory and conflicting opinions and facts in the Bible since it is a work compiled, edited, and written by humans.<p>That said, the mainstream Christian opinion that the Old Testament is vengeful and the New Testament is merciful is prevalent for a reason. Paul cannot retcon, try as he might, the events of the Old Testament.</text></item><item><author>humanrebar</author><text>I think the New Testament disagrees with your characterization of the Old Testament. Pretty much the entire New Testament goes on about how the Old Testament is a series of stories about how cycles of rule making and rule breaking do <i>not</i> lead to real justice, peace, or life. In particular, both Romans and Hebrews (though not exclusively those books) cite Old Testament stories to make the case that the Old Testament (a.k.a. the law and the prophets) is largely misunderstood to be about a world full of crime and punishment.<p>For example, Romans 1 talks about how people (not a vengeful God) set up the worst consequences for themselves. God&#x27;s &quot;wrath&quot; is unfiltered humanity. Romans 2 goes on about how there&#x27;s plenty of blame to pass around (so there&#x27;s no room for &quot;good people&quot; to blame &quot;bad&quot; ones). And Romans 4 holds up Abraham, an Old Testament character, as an example of how life should be lived, in faithfulness to a forgiving God. All through this passage, and in the rest of the book, a case is built from the Old Testament itself.<p>Anyway, I don&#x27;t have strong feelings about Shining Time Station, but I think the Old Testament is more humane, sensible, and subtle than people seem to appreciate. At least the apostle Paul seemed to think so.</text></item><item><author>dmlorenzetti</author><text>The comparison with Mr. Rogers is instructive. Both shows seem rooted in a minister&#x27;s desire to encapsulate ideals derived from the Bible. But while Mr. Rogers is New Testament, the Thomas books are Old Testament.<p>Henry, for example, gets punished for the sin of VANITY -- he doesn&#x27;t stop in the tunnel in order to shirk work, but rather to avoid getting his nice new paint messed up.<p>To see the difference between the shows, just try to imagine Mr. Rogers presenting a puppet show about bricking a character up in his room as punishment for not wanting to get his new suit wet in the rain. And imagine him, in that Mr Rogers voice, saying &quot;I think he deserved that punishment, don&#x27;t you?&quot;</text></item><item><author>paulddraper</author><text>Thomas &amp; Friends is gold.<p>The show is dignified and wholesome. It is always about respect, diligence, and humility.<p>It isn&#x27;t there for stupid antics and wacky laughs. It doesn&#x27;t blast color explosions and ADHD-fueled off-the-charts mind-numbing exuburance to capture kids attention. And it&#x27;s been doing that for decades (pretty much eternity, as far as kids TV goes).<p>Not since Mr. Rogers has there been a better kids TV show.<p>&gt; Fat Controller<p>Better known as Sir Topham Hatt since the 1950s.<p>&gt; Henry must be punished—for life<p>Even in the old non-US version (modern one makes it explicit), it was still evident that he wasn&#x27;t left in their forever, as he showed up again next time.<p>Blue Mountain Mystery [1] A little green engine hides in the blue hills. Thomas learns that long ago, the engine accidentally caused another engine to roll overboard into the sea. He has been hiding ever since, in guilt and fear and shame. Thomas convinces him to return, and the story shows how silly the little engine&#x27;s worries were. It&#x27;s a moral of forgiveness and redemption. (Also, there&#x27;s a great surprise about who that overboard engine actually is.)<p>This crap makes me mad. I have to stop reading stuff on the internet. Go back to watching Sponge Bob or Family Guy or whatever crap you watch with your kids.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ttte.wikia.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blue_Mountain_Mystery" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ttte.wikia.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blue_Mountain_Mystery</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geowwy</author><text>&gt; ...the mainstream Christian opinion that the Old Testament is vengeful and the New Testament is merciful...<p>That&#x27;s not mainstream Christian opinion. It&#x27;s called Marcionism and it&#x27;s universally condemned by mainstream Christianity.</text></comment> |
24,172,816 | 24,172,877 | 1 | 2 | 24,170,531 | train | <story><title>The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all</title><url>https://psyche.co/ideas/the-best-way-to-exercise-self-control-is-not-to-exercise-it-at-all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ApolloFortyNine</author><text>&gt;Research in my own lab and others suggests that, if you want to improve your self-control, what you should do instead is focus on proactively reducing, rather than reactively overpowering temptation. Fortunately, there are several ways and opportunities to do this.<p>Am I the only one who has, many times, encountered people who say &quot;I don&#x27;t buy junk food because if I do I&#x27;ll end up eating it?&quot;<p>This is one of my gripes with psychology articles&#x2F;self help books. So so many topics are simple &#x27;revelations&#x27; that many of us have figured out by the time we are 20. Can&#x27;t eat a cookie if you don&#x27;t have any cookies.<p>I&#x27;ve read some good psychology books (&quot;Thinking fast and slow&quot; was great), but most of the others I&#x27;ve read I could have have read the one page summary and realized I don&#x27;t need to read it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>labster</author><text>&gt; This is one of my gripes with psychology articles&#x2F;self help books. So so many topics are simple &#x27;revelations&#x27; that many of us have figured out by the time we are 20. Can&#x27;t eat a cookie if you don&#x27;t have any cookies.<p>I recall Scott Alexander talking about this on one of the SSC posts -- can&#x27;t remember which -- about the fact that people miss developmental milestones for reasons. And you can ask the question: What developmental milestones am I missing? Or: which cognitive tools do I need for my toolbox?<p>It&#x27;s good to teach things that &quot;you should already know&quot;, because maybe you&#x27;re one of today&#x27;s lucky 10000.</text></comment> | <story><title>The best way to exercise self-control is not to exercise it at all</title><url>https://psyche.co/ideas/the-best-way-to-exercise-self-control-is-not-to-exercise-it-at-all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ApolloFortyNine</author><text>&gt;Research in my own lab and others suggests that, if you want to improve your self-control, what you should do instead is focus on proactively reducing, rather than reactively overpowering temptation. Fortunately, there are several ways and opportunities to do this.<p>Am I the only one who has, many times, encountered people who say &quot;I don&#x27;t buy junk food because if I do I&#x27;ll end up eating it?&quot;<p>This is one of my gripes with psychology articles&#x2F;self help books. So so many topics are simple &#x27;revelations&#x27; that many of us have figured out by the time we are 20. Can&#x27;t eat a cookie if you don&#x27;t have any cookies.<p>I&#x27;ve read some good psychology books (&quot;Thinking fast and slow&quot; was great), but most of the others I&#x27;ve read I could have have read the one page summary and realized I don&#x27;t need to read it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afarrell</author><text>&gt; many of us<p>But not all. What is condescending to one is a necessary insight to another. Personally, I am very grateful to people who are willing to say obvious things.<p>I also occasionally re-listen to the audio of self-help books in order to remember things I learned which are simple yet hard.</text></comment> |
15,219,044 | 15,219,210 | 1 | 2 | 15,217,965 | train | <story><title>Break Up the Tech Giants? No, Just Level the Field</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-11/break-up-the-tech-giants-no-just-level-the-field</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>payne92</author><text>TL;DR <i>The tech monopoly problem is because Silicon Valley has convinced regulators these firms are entirely new things, not subject to existing rules. Google+Facebook+Amazon+Uber+etc should (a) pay their full corporate taxes and (b) be treated like utilities. For example, if Facebook were a media company, they&#x27;d be liable for user content.</i><p>Uber flaunting taxi regulations is a special case (IMHO).<p>Outside of that, be careful what you ask for. In the US, certain utilities are absolutely NOT liable for user content. If you use a cell phone to plan a crime, Verizon is not liable for what is said or written.<p>I do think the emerging tech monopoly is a problem (Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook), but it&#x27;s not because of lack of application of old regulations to new use cases.<p>It&#x27;s because: technology moves quickly, there are strong network effects, and law+regulations have failed to adapt quickly enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>I definitely qgree that safe harbor is important<p>I think the main thing about tech is that it makes accessing the global market easier than ever. Monopolies in one sector can now extremely easily hop into another market. If anything it feels like an accelerated version of the railroad barons<p>It sure feels like antitrust laws could be used effectively. Ultimately monopolies do have a lot of money and lobbying power though. Imagine being big enough to basically absorb the billions in fines from the EU. You&#x27;re either a bank or Google.<p>How do you fix that apart from ripping the company up into small pieces like with AT&amp;T</text></comment> | <story><title>Break Up the Tech Giants? No, Just Level the Field</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-11/break-up-the-tech-giants-no-just-level-the-field</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>payne92</author><text>TL;DR <i>The tech monopoly problem is because Silicon Valley has convinced regulators these firms are entirely new things, not subject to existing rules. Google+Facebook+Amazon+Uber+etc should (a) pay their full corporate taxes and (b) be treated like utilities. For example, if Facebook were a media company, they&#x27;d be liable for user content.</i><p>Uber flaunting taxi regulations is a special case (IMHO).<p>Outside of that, be careful what you ask for. In the US, certain utilities are absolutely NOT liable for user content. If you use a cell phone to plan a crime, Verizon is not liable for what is said or written.<p>I do think the emerging tech monopoly is a problem (Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook), but it&#x27;s not because of lack of application of old regulations to new use cases.<p>It&#x27;s because: technology moves quickly, there are strong network effects, and law+regulations have failed to adapt quickly enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwenzek</author><text>I don&#x27;t think the article advocates for b):<p>&gt; How can these benign, universally loved innovators be stopped from turning into evil, soulless corporate behemoths? Break up companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon, (...) Or perhaps recognize them as utilities (...) Neither makes sense in most cases.<p>In fact they advocate for c):
Tech giants should be treated as classical business. Amazon like a retailer, Uber like a taxi comp, Airbnb like an hotel brand, …<p>For Facebook they talk more about the fact if it was treated as a media company they should keep track of who is running ads and follow regulations on political ads.</text></comment> |
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