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39,686,337 | 39,686,382 | 1 | 3 | 39,685,894 | train | <story><title>A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/2/13/24070864/samotsvety-forecasting-superforecasters-tetlock</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RugnirViking</author><text>This is very interesting. A discussion of the process of estimating and predicting future events, specifically going into their focus on &quot;base rates&quot;. Apparently they are significantly better than other groups that enter most predicting competitions. (who knew there was such a thing?)<p>I particularly liked the idea of base rates and averaging them. [1] I can see here that the idea of them is not to be on their own accurate (some of the methodologies individually are dumb), but do get an idea for the scales of numbers to talk about (the difference between a 5% event and a 10% event is very hard to notice as a human)<p>[1] &quot;One was the rate at which provinces claimed by China (like Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet) have eventually been absorbed, peacefully or by force; another was how often control of Taiwan has changed over the last few hundred years (twice; once when Japan took over from the Qing Empire in 1895 and once when the Chinese Nationalists did in 1945); the third base rate used Laplace’s rule. Laplace’s rule states that the probability of something that hasn’t happened before happening is 1 divided by N+2, where N is the number of times it hasn’t happened in the past. So the odds of the People’s Republic of China invading Taiwan this year is 1 divided by 75 (the number of years since 1949 when this has not happened) plus 2, or 1&#x2F;77, or 1.3 percent.<p>Sempere averaged his three base rates to get his initial prediction: 8 percent&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events</title><url>https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/2/13/24070864/samotsvety-forecasting-superforecasters-tetlock</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vlovich123</author><text>The base rate arguing seems like specious reasoning. For example, if you had a volcano that erupts roughly ever 100 years, base rate reasoning using the past 99 years of data would suggest that the probability is 0 and using 1000 years of data would suggest it&#x27;s ~10% when in reality your base rate in the year following an eruption is 0 with every passing year your probability of an eruption would increase &amp; increase past 10% for every year past 100 that goes without explosion. Same goes for something like war where pressures build up and war becomes more likely rather than less. So getting judged that you&#x27;re better at predicting by giving low probabilities for rare events isn&#x27;t that insightful because you&#x27;d be outperformed by someone who predicts a black swan event because the magnitude of the event matters.<p>&gt; The prediction got some press attention and earned rejoinders from nuclear experts like Peter Scoblic, who argued it significantly understated the risk of a nuclear exchange. It was a big moment for the group — but also an example of a prediction that’s very, very difficult to get right. The further you’re straying from the ordinary course of history (and a nuclear bomb going off in London would be straying very far), the harder this is.<p>Yup, the group got it right but predicting a rare event doesn&#x27;t happen isn&#x27;t that difficult, it&#x27;s just notable because everyone was overly freaked out, particularly in the media due to self-repeated sensationalism. Peter Scoblic is correct that the risk is significantly understated because it&#x27;s not correctly adjusting for the impact of the black swan event happening (e.g. if a nuclear explosion were to occur, you&#x27;d expect nuclear retaliations).</text></comment> |
14,444,287 | 14,443,959 | 1 | 3 | 14,443,533 | train | <story><title>Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/11464/intel-announces-skylakex-bringing-18core-hcc-silicon-to-consumers-for-1999</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbrown_</author><text>&gt; Intel hasn’t given many details on AVX-512 yet, regarding whether there is one or two units per CPU, or if it is more granular and is per core.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine it being more than one per core. For context Knights Landing has two per core but that&#x27;s a HPC focused product.<p>&gt; We expect it to be enabled on day one, although I have a suspicion there may be a BIOS flag that needs enabling in order to use it.<p>This seems odd.<p>&gt; With the support of AVX-512, Intel is calling the Core i9-7980X ‘the first TeraFLOP CPU’. I’ve asked details as to how this figure is calculated (software, or theoretical)<p>So lets work backwards here the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores but as of yet the clock speed is not specified.<p>A couple of assumptions:<p>- We&#x27;re talking double precision FLOPs<p>- We can theoretically do 16 double precision FLOPs per cycle<p>FLOPs per cycle * Cycles per second (frequency) * number of cores =~ 1TF<p>So we can guesstimate the clock frequency being ~3.47Ghz.<p>Edit: In review such a clock speed seems rather high for an 18 core part. I&#x27;m not sure if consumer parts will do 32DP FLOPs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gpderetta</author><text>32 full width vector ALUs running at 3.5 GHz is probably not realistic. I think that it is running around 2GHz at most [1]. The trick is that FMAs are normally counted as two FLOP.<p>[1] (* (&#x2F; 512 64) 2 2 18 2 1000 1000 1000) = 1152000000000 FLOPS
(512 unit over 64 bits double) times 2 for FMA times two units, over 18 cores at 2 GHz)<p>edit: the 10 core part has a base clock of 3.3GHz. The 18 core part will probably be in the 2.5 range at best (the best 18 core Broadwell I can find runs at 2.3, but it is a dual socket part). Running in full AVX512 mode will probably downclock the cpu further.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers</title><url>http://www.anandtech.com/show/11464/intel-announces-skylakex-bringing-18core-hcc-silicon-to-consumers-for-1999</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gbrown_</author><text>&gt; Intel hasn’t given many details on AVX-512 yet, regarding whether there is one or two units per CPU, or if it is more granular and is per core.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine it being more than one per core. For context Knights Landing has two per core but that&#x27;s a HPC focused product.<p>&gt; We expect it to be enabled on day one, although I have a suspicion there may be a BIOS flag that needs enabling in order to use it.<p>This seems odd.<p>&gt; With the support of AVX-512, Intel is calling the Core i9-7980X ‘the first TeraFLOP CPU’. I’ve asked details as to how this figure is calculated (software, or theoretical)<p>So lets work backwards here the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores but as of yet the clock speed is not specified.<p>A couple of assumptions:<p>- We&#x27;re talking double precision FLOPs<p>- We can theoretically do 16 double precision FLOPs per cycle<p>FLOPs per cycle * Cycles per second (frequency) * number of cores =~ 1TF<p>So we can guesstimate the clock frequency being ~3.47Ghz.<p>Edit: In review such a clock speed seems rather high for an 18 core part. I&#x27;m not sure if consumer parts will do 32DP FLOPs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>&gt;&gt; We expect it to be enabled on day one, although I have a suspicion there may be a BIOS flag that needs enabling in order to use it.<p>&gt;This seems odd.<p>When AES support was first introduced it was incredibly difficult to find a motherboard that would support it from the box, it almost universally required a BIOS update.</text></comment> |
2,804,199 | 2,803,697 | 1 | 3 | 2,803,307 | train | <story><title>Veteran developer Steve Lacey (Google, Microsoft) Killed in Auto Accident</title><url>http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/07/25/veteran-developer-steve-lacey-killed-in-driving-incident/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quizbiz</author><text>Tragic. Just a few days ago, he celebrated his tenth wedding anniversary... <a href="https://plus.google.com/108067740959569006573/posts/LJ1Z2BvhXCt" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/108067740959569006573/posts/LJ1Z2Bvh...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Veteran developer Steve Lacey (Google, Microsoft) Killed in Auto Accident</title><url>http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/07/25/veteran-developer-steve-lacey-killed-in-driving-incident/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amichail</author><text>It's time to have mandatory computer controlled cars.<p>Driving manually should be illegal unless done on a race track.</text></comment> |
19,736,722 | 19,736,609 | 1 | 3 | 19,736,309 | train | <story><title>QEMU v4.0.0 released</title><url>https://www.qemu.org/2019/04/24/qemu-4-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idoubtit</author><text>Last week, I intended to replace VirtualBox with QEMU for my personal use. The spartiate documentation made it really hard. I lack the competence to seriously contribute.<p>The official documentation just explains the numerous parameters. It also points to tutorials (wikibook, etc), which unfortunately are very basic and out of sync. Even Arch Linux does not provide a good documentation (lack of clarity, some obsolete syntax, &quot;Networking&quot; section is a mess...). Like often, Debian&#x27;s wiki is obsolete, and even their QEMU images are 5 years old. I had to combine the following 3 sources and a lot of try and guesses to build my VMs.<p>QEMU Gentoo : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;Options" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;Options</a><p>QEMU official : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&#x2F;doc&#x2F;qemu-doc.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&#x2F;doc&#x2F;qemu-doc.html</a><p>KVM Performance : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Tuning_KVM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Tuning_KVM</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kashyapc</author><text>Launching QEMU directly is not merely &quot;tricky&quot;, but incredibly inefficient and ineffective once you need something that&#x27;s beyond bare minimal.<p>E.g. here is a minimal QEMU command-line that gives you access to a serial console in the guest:<p>`qemu-system-x86_64 -display none -no-user-config -nodefaults -m 2048 -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi -device virtio-serial-pci -serial stdio -drive file=&#x2F;export&#x2F;cirros.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=virtio`<p>Simple, yeah? Now here (it&#x27;s too long to post in this comment) is a real world QEMU command-line (as launched by the libvirt[1]):<p>htttps:&#x2F;&#x2F;kashyapc.fedorapeople.org&#x2F;Fedora-28-QEMU-command-line-by-libvirt.txt<p>Compare and contrast the number of devices that libvirt adds.<p>FWIW, I strongly recommend to use libvirt to launch your QEMU-based guests. It is far more effective, and more importantly, provides security infrastructure like running the QEMU process as an unprivileged user, protecting the QEMU process (and its associated disk iamges) via the SELinux-based sVirt mechanism, and so forth.<p>Check out these[2] slides (recording is online, too) on &quot;Security in QEMU&quot; from one of the QEMU maintainers, Stefan Hajnoczi, at last year&#x27;s KVM Forum in Edinburgh.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;libvirt.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;libvirt.org&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vmsplice.net&#x2F;~stefan&#x2F;stefanha-kvm-forum-2018.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vmsplice.net&#x2F;~stefan&#x2F;stefanha-kvm-forum-2018.pdf</a></text></comment> | <story><title>QEMU v4.0.0 released</title><url>https://www.qemu.org/2019/04/24/qemu-4-0-0/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idoubtit</author><text>Last week, I intended to replace VirtualBox with QEMU for my personal use. The spartiate documentation made it really hard. I lack the competence to seriously contribute.<p>The official documentation just explains the numerous parameters. It also points to tutorials (wikibook, etc), which unfortunately are very basic and out of sync. Even Arch Linux does not provide a good documentation (lack of clarity, some obsolete syntax, &quot;Networking&quot; section is a mess...). Like often, Debian&#x27;s wiki is obsolete, and even their QEMU images are 5 years old. I had to combine the following 3 sources and a lot of try and guesses to build my VMs.<p>QEMU Gentoo : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;Options" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.gentoo.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;QEMU&#x2F;Options</a><p>QEMU official : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&#x2F;doc&#x2F;qemu-doc.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qemu.weilnetz.de&#x2F;doc&#x2F;qemu-doc.html</a><p>KVM Performance : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Tuning_KVM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linux-kvm.org&#x2F;page&#x2F;Tuning_KVM</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pm215</author><text>My recommendation for that sort of use would be to look at using a &#x27;management layer&#x27; app that sits above QEMU and handles all the fiddly command line details for you -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;virt-manager.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;virt-manager.org&#x2F;</a> (which uses&#x2F;is part of libvirt) is a popular one, I think. The QEMU project has kind of settled on the philosophy of being the low-level tool which provides you &quot;full manual control&quot; and interfaces for a higher-level UI to make use of. User-friendliness is not really our forte and so we let other projects provide that part.</text></comment> |
4,403,929 | 4,403,619 | 1 | 2 | 4,403,558 | train | <story><title>Your Words are Wasted</title><url>http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YourWordsAreWasted.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>So many things one could say. Maybe I'll try to blog some of them. If I can overwhelm my irritation at my blogging software.<p>Why does paying App.net a bit over four dollars a month make me a member of an elitist "country club", while paying <i>much more</i> than that for my own domain and hosting and backups and uptime monitoring and rapid application of security patches and the talent needed to manage all that makes me a salt-of-the-earth man of the people? Seems like that's only true from a very specific perspective.<p>I've made too much money setting up other people's blog software to pretend I don't understand why Twitter and Facebook and Tumblr (and even HN, for that matter) are better. People don't want to be publishers. They don't even want to be writers. They want to share things online with their friends.<p>I see a lot of complaints in this essay about archiving - you can't find old content, you can't save old content. Archiving is overrated. And I say that as someone who loves archives and archivists. It <i>is</i> important to save things, but most writing is not intended for the ages. Quite the opposite: The fact that one can spout some crazy in-jokes to one's friends on Twitter, and in a week from now nobody will be able to find those words, is a <i>feature</i>. And the fact that, in truth, Twitter and Facebook are almost certainly quietly archiving all your drunken rants forever, such that twenty years from now your neighbors will be able to pull them right up and show them to their dinner guests for a laugh, is a <i>terrifying bug</i>.<p>Again, most people don't want to be librarians, publishers, journalists, historians, ethnologists, typesetters, designers, promoters, SEO experts, or proud users of a piece of software. And even those of us who <i>do</i> want some of these things enjoy taking a break once in a while. We just want to socialize.</text></comment> | <story><title>Your Words are Wasted</title><url>http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YourWordsAreWasted.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grovulent</author><text>I really don't get the all or nothing attitude of this article.<p>I have a blog - and a facebook account and a g+ account. The blog gets my best content. But it's not easy to integrate a standalone blog into an existing social graph (social buttons notwithstanding).<p>G+ gets my less well thought out rants - short stuff. It allows me to cheaply signal to like minded people and hopefully establish new readers/relationships. I don't care if I offend people on G+ because I'm there to attract the like minded. So I say what I think.<p>And facebook is just a socialisation wheel greaser for local friendships. Here I'm much more guarded. I use content posted by people as conversation starters for when I see them in real life. I might have to deal with these people - so I keep it light, fluffy and fun. I personally don't care if facebook deletes all that content. (I see it as a medium risk since facebook isn't a particularly diversified business)<p>I decided a while ago that I need to engage on all these platforms - because concentrating solely on a blog only increases your overall isolation to your local life - cause it takes an enormous amount of time - and even your closest local friends aren't likely to even read it.<p>It might mean that I'll never put enough time into the blog for it be a standalone success. But the odds of that ever happening were slim to nil anyway - even if it did get 100 percent of my time. And there would have been a very high chance that I would have been miserable because such dedication would have led to a high degree of isolation.<p>This is the right balance for me. I don't expect everyone to have the same view - but then I'm not claiming it's right for everyone.</text></comment> |
20,199,910 | 20,199,771 | 1 | 2 | 20,199,349 | train | <story><title>uBlock Origin 1.20</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.20.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paul7986</author><text>Just read Microsoft will allow ad blocker extensions (May build one in) in their new Chromium browser. Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today).<p>Such a stupid move by the do no evil company! Now they do no stupid too.<p>EDIT: Here is link... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kateoflahertyuk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;microsoft-just-dealt-a-blow-to-googles-ad-blocking-plans&#x2F;#459c060c16ff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kateoflahertyuk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;micr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmoriarty</author><text>The bright side of Google&#x27;s anti-ad-blocking efforts is that ad-blocking is clearly no longer just an insignificant blip on their radar. There must be enough users of ad-blockers now to start to significantly affect their bottom line.<p>There might even be a critical mass of people who are against advertising to attempt to make some legal headway on this issue in Washington. Just as there has been legal action against telemarketers, there might be something on the legal front that can be done against online advertisers, who could be considered just as much or even more of a nuisance than telemarketers ever were. In addition, online advertising has repeatedly been a vector of malware, and perhaps companies which try to circumvent or forbid ad-blockers could have some legal consequences -- and, if not, perhaps laws could be introduced to make such consequences a reality.<p>IANAL, and this is just a pipe dream of mine at the moment -- but plenty of pro-consumer legislation has been made over the years. Perhaps the dawn of an unsolicited-advertising-free world is upon us.</text></comment> | <story><title>uBlock Origin 1.20</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.20.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paul7986</author><text>Just read Microsoft will allow ad blocker extensions (May build one in) in their new Chromium browser. Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today).<p>Such a stupid move by the do no evil company! Now they do no stupid too.<p>EDIT: Here is link... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kateoflahertyuk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;microsoft-just-dealt-a-blow-to-googles-ad-blocking-plans&#x2F;#459c060c16ff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kateoflahertyuk&#x2F;2019&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;micr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdcravens</author><text>&gt; Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years<p>Well if you had asked your typical HN developer a few years ago whether they&#x27;d be using a Microsoft code editor ...</text></comment> |
9,698,895 | 9,698,993 | 1 | 3 | 9,698,518 | train | <story><title>PolyConf 2015 – A multi-disciplinary conference for polyglot programmers</title><url>http://polyconf.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noir-york</author><text>Shouldn&#x27;t programmers be polyglot by <i>default</i>. It&#x27;s like saying there is a conference for golfers who play with more than one club!</text></comment> | <story><title>PolyConf 2015 – A multi-disciplinary conference for polyglot programmers</title><url>http://polyconf.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>artumi-richard</author><text>Does anyone know of a conference that takes a wider view of the job of programming? It has always felt to me like the focus is all about our tools, because tools can look cool, but I&#x27;m interested in the process of starting with a messy list of requirements and getting to a completed project in the most successful way, which is often the real challenge in my work.</text></comment> |
4,817,762 | 4,817,812 | 1 | 2 | 4,817,466 | train | <story><title>Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it's getting shut out</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-google-duckduckgobre8al00i-20121121,0,6650221.story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulsutter</author><text>This article is pure crybaby bullshit PR about a nonexistent problem. Does anyone care about DDG anyway? They're trying to solve a completely imaginary problem, and they haven't got a hope in hell of creating a viable search engine as that costs billions of dollars.<p>Why is this article even on HN?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javajosh</author><text>Why is your comment the #1 comment? I mean, I count 3, count them, <i>3</i> unsubstantiated claims:<p>1. Does anyone care about DDG anyway? I think it's safe to say, yes, there are some who do. I for one.<p>2. The problem DDG is solving is imaginary. Oh really? What precisely is that problem? Is it search itself that you're referring to, or the prospect of going up against Google? If the former, then you are delusional, and if the latter, there is nothing wrong with attempting to disrupt a monopoly.<p>3. A search engine costs billions of dollars. Actually, no. There is no rule of computer science that says that. If someone discovers a new, cheaper way to do search then cool!<p>In answer to your final question, perhaps the reason this article is on HN is to inspire comments like yours, which are wrong, and then comments like mine, which correct comments like yours.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it's getting shut out</title><url>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-google-duckduckgobre8al00i-20121121,0,6650221.story</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paulsutter</author><text>This article is pure crybaby bullshit PR about a nonexistent problem. Does anyone care about DDG anyway? They're trying to solve a completely imaginary problem, and they haven't got a hope in hell of creating a viable search engine as that costs billions of dollars.<p>Why is this article even on HN?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yegg</author><text>Hi, this is Gabriel Weinberg, the guy mentioned in the article.<p>The main issue I have is with duck.com. A lot of people remember that we are a search engine "duck something" and so naturally try duck.com. As a result, there is a lot of confusion, e.g.:<p>"I was telling someone about DuckDuckGo and they thought it was Duck.com and they went to Google. Is Google using this to find people who make the mistake to Duck.com instead of DuckDuckGo?"<p>"Can't you do something about this? I keep going to Duck.com when meaning to visit DuckDuckGo.com They are using the DuckDuckGo name to get people to search Google."<p>This only started happening after I asked about the domain name. It used to point to a history page about Duck Corporation (previous name of On2 -- <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100802014055/http://duck.com/" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20100802014055/http://duck.com/</a>), similar to <a href="http://www.on2.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.on2.com/</a>, which was acquired by Google in the same acquisition.<p>Google should legitimately not sell it to me, though it would have been of course nice to do so when I first asked in 2010. I think an appropriate remedy would be to either point it nowhere, point it to the original page it had been pointed to for many years, or point it to the acquisition page (as <a href="http://on2.com" rel="nofollow">http://on2.com</a> still does) -- all things they do in other cases if you look at past acquisitions.<p>Just to be clear, it is only anti-competitive because it causes confusion, and relates to their core search product. The facts of the situation (that it switched shortly after I asked, and only seemingly that one domain) make it appear to be deliberate. And if it were not deliberate, I've brought this up many times and there has been ample time (including now!) to correct the situation.<p>With regards to being easy to add search engines to Chrome, see <a href="http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/usability-issues-with-adding-search-engines-to-web-browsers.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/usability-issues...</a>. I've written up the differences extensively, with screenshots and explanatory notes.</text></comment> |
16,863,404 | 16,863,267 | 1 | 3 | 16,862,685 | train | <story><title>Fake Barack Obama delivers a PSA about “deep fakes” using a deep fake video</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2018/4/17/17247334/ai-fake-news-video-barack-obama-jordan-peele-buzzfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JeremyMorgan</author><text>The problem lies in the motive. News organizations are (not surprisingly) entirely motivated by profit. Breaking even is not enough. Doing well is not enough. Improving profit drastically quarter over quarter is the goal.<p>To do that, you cannot simply &quot;provide news&quot; anymore. You need conflict. You need confirmation bias. You need to create a wild, screaming echo chamber that induces panic and fear. You need conflict, even if you have to fudge the details to get it. You need to focus on some things and ignore others to increase it.<p>It&#x27;s no longer a partisan issue. I&#x27;m 40 years old. I remember when you had to really pay attention to catch bias in the news. Do this yourself: go back and look at newsreels from the 80s and 90s. It&#x27;s almost surreal. They were still biased, but presented information in a factual manner and then tossed in some emotional stuff. Many of them even... showed both sides of the argument. It&#x27;s weird to watch now.<p>A news network simply cannot run with this format in 2018. Fox News was the leader, they were using bias, fearmongering, and propaganda almost from the start. They enjoyed very high ratings because of it. Now the other side has caught up. Because they had to.<p>It&#x27;s a mess, but one thing is for sure: we can&#x27;t trust any of them anymore. Not 100%.</text></item><item><author>white-flame</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s a time when we need to rely on trusted news sources</i><p>That&#x27;s the rub, isn&#x27;t it? Who&#x27;s a &quot;trusted&quot; new source? All the major players have shown biases, corruption, and manipulation. Lots of people therefore consider some fly-by-night facebook feed that says what the majors don&#x27;t to be more &quot;trusted&quot; in response.<p>We shouldn&#x27;t &quot;rely&quot; on single points of perceived trust, especially in this massive for-profit, for-power media industry. We need to be broadly informed from various angles to have a better chance of piecing together a reasonable sense of what&#x27;s going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spellman</author><text>Go back even further and pretty much every news source was a propaganda machine. Most of the major &quot;trusted&quot; new sources today started primarily in yellow journalism and political attack ads. Pulitzer was not a particularly nice man. Neither was Hearst.<p>It was a brief modern period when news sources decided to take themselves seriously and rise up ethically and appear &quot;unbiased&quot; to the public. It made the landscape more consolidated and monolithic, but it also drove sources to present relatively whole stories with what limited bandwidth they had to the largest population possible.<p>That being said, at the same time, radio hosts quite willingly went into the base-pandering and echo chambers. Conservative Talk Radio didn&#x27;t crop up in the 2000s. They arrived after the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine from the FCC in 1987.<p>TV and print news only later realized if you insert just enough bias to make their viewers feel comfortable and to differentiate from their peers, they could make a WHOLE lot more money. And with the creation of a lot more time to sell news via 24hr channels and the Internet, you had to room to add in fluff, opinion, and other material.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fake Barack Obama delivers a PSA about “deep fakes” using a deep fake video</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2018/4/17/17247334/ai-fake-news-video-barack-obama-jordan-peele-buzzfeed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JeremyMorgan</author><text>The problem lies in the motive. News organizations are (not surprisingly) entirely motivated by profit. Breaking even is not enough. Doing well is not enough. Improving profit drastically quarter over quarter is the goal.<p>To do that, you cannot simply &quot;provide news&quot; anymore. You need conflict. You need confirmation bias. You need to create a wild, screaming echo chamber that induces panic and fear. You need conflict, even if you have to fudge the details to get it. You need to focus on some things and ignore others to increase it.<p>It&#x27;s no longer a partisan issue. I&#x27;m 40 years old. I remember when you had to really pay attention to catch bias in the news. Do this yourself: go back and look at newsreels from the 80s and 90s. It&#x27;s almost surreal. They were still biased, but presented information in a factual manner and then tossed in some emotional stuff. Many of them even... showed both sides of the argument. It&#x27;s weird to watch now.<p>A news network simply cannot run with this format in 2018. Fox News was the leader, they were using bias, fearmongering, and propaganda almost from the start. They enjoyed very high ratings because of it. Now the other side has caught up. Because they had to.<p>It&#x27;s a mess, but one thing is for sure: we can&#x27;t trust any of them anymore. Not 100%.</text></item><item><author>white-flame</author><text>&gt; <i>It&#x27;s a time when we need to rely on trusted news sources</i><p>That&#x27;s the rub, isn&#x27;t it? Who&#x27;s a &quot;trusted&quot; new source? All the major players have shown biases, corruption, and manipulation. Lots of people therefore consider some fly-by-night facebook feed that says what the majors don&#x27;t to be more &quot;trusted&quot; in response.<p>We shouldn&#x27;t &quot;rely&quot; on single points of perceived trust, especially in this massive for-profit, for-power media industry. We need to be broadly informed from various angles to have a better chance of piecing together a reasonable sense of what&#x27;s going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vollmond</author><text>As a political radio host I used to listen to once said (on air, paraphrased from a memory from the early 2000s): &quot;You should doubt and check everything I say. My job is not to inform you or tell you the truth. My job is to keep you listening so advertisers will pay my employer to run their ads.&quot;</text></comment> |
24,969,661 | 24,969,653 | 1 | 2 | 24,966,665 | train | <story><title>GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/github-warns-users-reposting-youtube-dl-they-could-be-banned-201102/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>I’ve heard this over and over, but I never understood it. How is Git supposed to be decentralized when you push and pull from one place? Would you just set up multiple “origins” with each one pointing to a head maintainer’s computer (and named appropriately)? Because that sounds like a massive pain compared to a centralized system like GitHub.<p>Of course, there is the benefit of a VCS built on the idea of decentralization: not having to be online to make commits (<i>cough</i> SVN <i>cough</i>). But, in theory, could a centralized system work in “offline mode” like Git?</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; &gt;&quot;Time for a decentralized version control system?&quot;<p>I have to laugh at this one. Git <i>is</i> a decentralized VCS, that was effectively re-centralized (via Github) for the sake of convenience.</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text>Some example comments in this thread:<p><i>&gt;&quot;People should move their youbube-dl repositories to servers hosted in Switzerland, &quot;</i><p><i>&gt;&quot;Time for a decentralized version control system?&quot;</i><p><i>&gt;&quot;The nice thing about fossil&quot;</i><p>... those well-meaning suggestions are missing the <i>true difficulty</i>: The community wants a (1) <i>Schelling Point</i>[0] for workflow&#x2F;issues&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;PRs that&#x27;s also (2) censorship resistant. So far, (1) and (2) contradict each other&#x27;s goals.<p>Nobody has come up with a technology solution that satisfies both goals. Yes, Fossil has has discussions built into the repo, but fossil is <i>not</i> a Schelling Point. Yes, one can run Gitlab on a self-hosted Raspberry Pi from a home internet connection but that&#x27;s also <i>not a stable Schelling Point</i> because ISP like Comcast can shut that IP down for DMCA violation.[1] And SMTP mailing lists also ultimately depend on a server that holds the discussion archive and a <i>well-known</i> address for new users to send a &quot;add my email&quot; request. Thus, the <i>existence of a well-known</i> server becomes a <i>specific target</i> for RIAA&#x2F;DMCA takedown.<p>As for other &quot;uncensorable&quot; technology ideas such as IPFS, Freenet, blockchain, etc. I haven&#x27;t seen any proof-of-concept from other projects that demonstrates similar easy-to-use collaboration of Github. Remember, it&#x27;s not about the raw git repo... it&#x27;s about the Focal Point for the <i>collaboration workflow</i>.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Focal_point_(game_theory)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Focal_point_(game_theory)</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xfinity.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;articles&#x2F;comcast-dmca-compliance-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xfinity.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;articles&#x2F;comcast-dmca-compli...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>With git, &quot;push&#x2F;pull from one place&quot; is merely a usage&#x2F;behavior convention by collaborators. Nothing about git requires push or pull, and nothing about git requires that you only use a single &quot;canonical&quot; repository.<p>The key point about git is that <i>every</i> copy of the repository is semantically equivalent to every other copy. The one on your local machine is a fully fledged repo just like the one on your colleague&#x27;s machine and just like the one on github or wherever else a &quot;canonical repo&quot; is hosted.<p>This is utterly different from older systems like svn or perforce, where the &quot;central server&quot; is semantically distinct from whatever you have on your machine.<p>At any time, you could decide that a different instance of the repo is canonical (shared push&#x2F;pull), and that&#x27;s what make git decentralized.</text></comment> | <story><title>GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/github-warns-users-reposting-youtube-dl-they-could-be-banned-201102/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>I’ve heard this over and over, but I never understood it. How is Git supposed to be decentralized when you push and pull from one place? Would you just set up multiple “origins” with each one pointing to a head maintainer’s computer (and named appropriately)? Because that sounds like a massive pain compared to a centralized system like GitHub.<p>Of course, there is the benefit of a VCS built on the idea of decentralization: not having to be online to make commits (<i>cough</i> SVN <i>cough</i>). But, in theory, could a centralized system work in “offline mode” like Git?</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; &gt;&quot;Time for a decentralized version control system?&quot;<p>I have to laugh at this one. Git <i>is</i> a decentralized VCS, that was effectively re-centralized (via Github) for the sake of convenience.</text></item><item><author>jasode</author><text>Some example comments in this thread:<p><i>&gt;&quot;People should move their youbube-dl repositories to servers hosted in Switzerland, &quot;</i><p><i>&gt;&quot;Time for a decentralized version control system?&quot;</i><p><i>&gt;&quot;The nice thing about fossil&quot;</i><p>... those well-meaning suggestions are missing the <i>true difficulty</i>: The community wants a (1) <i>Schelling Point</i>[0] for workflow&#x2F;issues&#x2F;discussions&#x2F;PRs that&#x27;s also (2) censorship resistant. So far, (1) and (2) contradict each other&#x27;s goals.<p>Nobody has come up with a technology solution that satisfies both goals. Yes, Fossil has has discussions built into the repo, but fossil is <i>not</i> a Schelling Point. Yes, one can run Gitlab on a self-hosted Raspberry Pi from a home internet connection but that&#x27;s also <i>not a stable Schelling Point</i> because ISP like Comcast can shut that IP down for DMCA violation.[1] And SMTP mailing lists also ultimately depend on a server that holds the discussion archive and a <i>well-known</i> address for new users to send a &quot;add my email&quot; request. Thus, the <i>existence of a well-known</i> server becomes a <i>specific target</i> for RIAA&#x2F;DMCA takedown.<p>As for other &quot;uncensorable&quot; technology ideas such as IPFS, Freenet, blockchain, etc. I haven&#x27;t seen any proof-of-concept from other projects that demonstrates similar easy-to-use collaboration of Github. Remember, it&#x27;s not about the raw git repo... it&#x27;s about the Focal Point for the <i>collaboration workflow</i>.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Focal_point_(game_theory)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Focal_point_(game_theory)</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xfinity.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;articles&#x2F;comcast-dmca-compliance-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xfinity.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;articles&#x2F;comcast-dmca-compli...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thethethethe</author><text>&gt; I’ve heard this over and over, but I never understood it. How is Git supposed to be decentralized when you push and pull from one place?<p>Git is a _distributed_ version control system, not a decentralized version control system. This simply means that users of the repository download the entire repository onto the machine they are making changes from. Distributed version control systems have no opinions on whether the source of truth for a given repository is decentralized, distributed, or centralized.</text></comment> |
39,648,460 | 39,648,219 | 1 | 2 | 39,648,218 | train | <story><title>Motorola's legal terms claim to strip owners of their right to sell their device</title><url>https://en-us.support.motorola.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Benjamin_Dobell</author><text>The no sale requirements in the &quot;contract&quot; is interesting. However, is the following actually legal in the US?<p>&gt; <i>You have only yourself to blame. Once you get the unlock code, your device is no longer covered by the Motorola warranty; in other words, please don&#x27;t blame us if things go wrong, even if they appear unrelated to unlocking the bootloader.</i><p>In Australia they can revoke the &quot;Motorola warranty&quot; all they want. However, <i>everything sold</i> comes with a warranty that can&#x27;t be revoked which entitles you to repair, replacement or refund for a reasonable time frame (yes it&#x27;s intentionally open ended). You have to be using the item as intended, but if the company lets you unlock the device, then that&#x27;s an intended use case. Even if you do &quot;unlock a device&quot; against a company&#x27;s wishes, you&#x27;re able to make warranty claims against the individual parts which are being used as intended. The company would have to demonstrate your tampering was responsible for the damage.<p>I&#x27;m aware the US does not have these same consumer rights, but can a company revoke a warranty?</text></comment> | <story><title>Motorola's legal terms claim to strip owners of their right to sell their device</title><url>https://en-us.support.motorola.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dns_snek</author><text>&gt; And now a word from our lawyers. Finally, in order to unlock your device, you need to agree to important legal terms[1], which can be found on the next page. Agreeing creates a binding legal agreement, so be sure to read them carefully.<p>From linked terms:<p>&gt; Devices that have been unlocked are for your personal use only. Once you unlock the device, you can only use it for our personal use, and may not sell or otherwise transfer the device.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en-us.support.motorola.com&#x2F;ci&#x2F;fattach&#x2F;get&#x2F;741421&#x2F;1385047216&#x2F;redirect&#x2F;1&#x2F;filename&#x2F;Boot_revised.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en-us.support.motorola.com&#x2F;ci&#x2F;fattach&#x2F;get&#x2F;741421&#x2F;138...</a><p>edit: Thank you to Louis Rossmann for bringing this to our attention: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=U2k9D81fbpA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=U2k9D81fbpA</a></text></comment> |
9,753,793 | 9,753,816 | 1 | 2 | 9,753,602 | train | <story><title>MySQL Bug #11472: Triggers not executed following foreign key updates/deletes</title><url>https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=11472</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pilif</author><text>if you rely on triggers for data integrity, then I guess this is one more case where MySQL is letting you down and allowing your data to get corrupted unless you&#x27;re really careful.<p>While it&#x27;s not always good design to use triggers for this, sometimes, it&#x27;s a valid reason to use them for integrity checking or enforcing. Having `on delete` triggers not run for some delete&#x27;s is violating the principle of least surprise.<p>When feature break this way, people start to distrust them and best practices get adopted that discourage using them, killing the features all together.<p>Using a database that does not have this misfeature, both triggers and foreign keys are perfectly safe to use, but because the one database that is the most widely used has issues like the one described here, you often hear the recommendation to not use triggers or even foreign keys.<p>Yes, you can potentially move the logic normally contained in either of them into the application, but as you deal with more concurrency and as you start accumulating bugs, sooner or later your data will be messy and you will need to add cleanup-scripts, or, heaven forbid, work around messy data in your application logic (don&#x27;t. do. that. it&#x27;s the path to the dark side of unmaintainability).<p>Or, of course, use a database system whose features work correctly and the principle of least surprise is in effect.<p>PostgreSQL is one of these, by the way.</text></comment> | <story><title>MySQL Bug #11472: Triggers not executed following foreign key updates/deletes</title><url>https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=11472</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Twirrim</author><text>It would be really awesome if MySQL crew could spend a few months (half a year?) working on paper-cuts:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;search.php?search_for=&amp;status=Active&amp;severity=&amp;limit=10&amp;order_by=&amp;cmd=display&amp;direction=ASC&amp;os=0&amp;phpver=&amp;bug_age=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;search.php?search_for=&amp;status=Active&amp;...</a><p>That&#x27;s all the active bugs against MySQL. Note that this 10 year old bug isn&#x27;t the oldest.<p>This is the oldest, from March 2003: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;bug.php?id=199" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;bug.php?id=199</a>
Note someone submitted a fix for that over a year ago (and verified under the OCA in November) but it still hasn&#x27;t shipped. This is a bug that should never have taken 11 years to fix.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;bug.php?id=3052" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.mysql.com&#x2F;bug.php?id=3052</a> This one is great. ROLLBACK in a stored procedure doesn&#x27;t close the cursor.<p>MySQL, for all its strengths, often feels like there is a bunch of typical geeks running the show. Lots of focus on the &#x27;sexy&#x27; new features, not so much focus on keeping the lights on.</text></comment> |
19,910,784 | 19,910,426 | 1 | 2 | 19,908,033 | train | <story><title>Ten Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans (2018)</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ab8</author><text>Plastic use has to be curtailed at source. If developed countries with lower populations are using many times more plastic than developing countries with larger populations, it is time to look in the mirror.<p>It is not fair to allow some countries to make decisions based on economics but expect others to be ecologically responsible. Let&#x27;s see how the US handles its own trash now, since China has stopped importing it.</text></item><item><author>yholio</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how this diminishes the fault of the countries. They took the garbage, got paid for it or profited from the valuable recyclables, then dumped the refuse into the rivers. 50% of the garbage comes from a single river that flows entirely within China.<p>I understand you can&#x27;t put the blame on a people as a whole and there are bad actors there, but a sovereign country needs to take responsibility.</text></item><item><author>sambeau</author><text>While reading this I think it&#x27;s worth taking into account that not all the plastic waste originates in these countries, some of it is western trash sent there for recycling. At one point China was importing more than half of the World&#x27;s plastic waste.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.co.uk&#x2F;environment-and-conservation&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;where-does-your-plastic-waste-end" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.co.uk&#x2F;environment-and-conserv...</a><p>And though China has now stopped accepting the West&#x27;s waste it still house mountains to deal with plus the problem has just shifted to Southeast Asia instead<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;china-ban-plastic-trash-imports-shifts-waste-crisis-southeast-asia-malaysia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;china...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>Let&#x27;s see how the US handles its own trash now, since China has stopped importing it.</i><p>Well, there was a New York Times article a few weeks ago about how the cardboard that used to be shipped to China for recycling is now being recycled domestically into Amazon boxes, and paper mills in Wisconsin are reopening, being retrofitted to handle recycled cardboard, and bringing workers back to run them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;22&#x2F;business&#x2F;cardboard.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;22&#x2F;business&#x2F;cardboard.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ten Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans (2018)</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ab8</author><text>Plastic use has to be curtailed at source. If developed countries with lower populations are using many times more plastic than developing countries with larger populations, it is time to look in the mirror.<p>It is not fair to allow some countries to make decisions based on economics but expect others to be ecologically responsible. Let&#x27;s see how the US handles its own trash now, since China has stopped importing it.</text></item><item><author>yholio</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how this diminishes the fault of the countries. They took the garbage, got paid for it or profited from the valuable recyclables, then dumped the refuse into the rivers. 50% of the garbage comes from a single river that flows entirely within China.<p>I understand you can&#x27;t put the blame on a people as a whole and there are bad actors there, but a sovereign country needs to take responsibility.</text></item><item><author>sambeau</author><text>While reading this I think it&#x27;s worth taking into account that not all the plastic waste originates in these countries, some of it is western trash sent there for recycling. At one point China was importing more than half of the World&#x27;s plastic waste.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.co.uk&#x2F;environment-and-conservation&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;where-does-your-plastic-waste-end" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.co.uk&#x2F;environment-and-conserv...</a><p>And though China has now stopped accepting the West&#x27;s waste it still house mountains to deal with plus the problem has just shifted to Southeast Asia instead<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;china-ban-plastic-trash-imports-shifts-waste-crisis-southeast-asia-malaysia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalgeographic.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;china...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nroets</author><text>Plastic does not need to be curtailed at source. As long as it ends up in well engineered landfills, there&#x27;s no problem.</text></comment> |
18,897,130 | 18,897,167 | 1 | 2 | 18,895,655 | train | <story><title>Toshi: An Elasticsearch competitor written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathcd</author><text>Neat! I hope this goes far, it&#x27;d be great to have a faster&#x2F;lighterweight Elastcsearch.<p>Something similar I&#x27;m really hoping to see is Tantivy in a Postgres extension, so I can stop playing the game of trying to keep my search engine and database in sync. Seeing pg-extend-rs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bluejekyll&#x2F;pg-extend-rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bluejekyll&#x2F;pg-extend-rs</a>) on HN the other week got me thinking about it again. Does anyone know whether this is feasible or if anyone is working on something in this vein?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>profquail</author><text>Out of curiosity —- have you looked at using Postgresql’s full text search functionality to implement your search engine (e.g. [1])? If so, what do you get out of the combination of Postgres + Elasticsearch that you chose it over just the Postgres full text search?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rachbelaid.com&#x2F;postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rachbelaid.com&#x2F;postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Toshi: An Elasticsearch competitor written in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathcd</author><text>Neat! I hope this goes far, it&#x27;d be great to have a faster&#x2F;lighterweight Elastcsearch.<p>Something similar I&#x27;m really hoping to see is Tantivy in a Postgres extension, so I can stop playing the game of trying to keep my search engine and database in sync. Seeing pg-extend-rs (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bluejekyll&#x2F;pg-extend-rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bluejekyll&#x2F;pg-extend-rs</a>) on HN the other week got me thinking about it again. Does anyone know whether this is feasible or if anyone is working on something in this vein?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lykr0n</author><text>ZoomDB (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zombodb&#x2F;zombodb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zombodb&#x2F;zombodb</a>) offers something like this.</text></comment> |
23,537,808 | 23,537,813 | 1 | 2 | 23,537,448 | train | <story><title>Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app</title><url>https://github.com/corona-warn-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kovah</author><text>It is still unbelievable, that the German government paid 20 Million Euro for these apps. Hopefully the request for details about the contracts[1] will be answered by the corresponding gov agency.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&#x2F;anfrage&#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona-tracing-app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&#x2F;anfrage&#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gspr</author><text>What I find far more unbelievable is that countries – at least European countries that through the EU have a common legal framework – did not get together and share the bill for the development of a common open source app. Perhaps each country would have to do some minor local customization, but surely the vast majority of the code could be shared?<p>I frequently find myself pondering this whenever my government announces yet another contract for (the admittedly decent) IT services for interacting with state entities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app</title><url>https://github.com/corona-warn-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kovah</author><text>It is still unbelievable, that the German government paid 20 Million Euro for these apps. Hopefully the request for details about the contracts[1] will be answered by the corresponding gov agency.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&#x2F;anfrage&#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona-tracing-app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fragdenstaat.de&#x2F;anfrage&#x2F;kostenaufstellung-der-corona...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yangminded</author><text>How much would you budget for this?<p>I am actually curious, because on the other hand you would have all the constraints like development in less than 3 months, need for the app to be waterproof in a legal sense (data protection), additional backend development and also development for both iOS and Android.</text></comment> |
12,389,251 | 12,389,026 | 1 | 3 | 12,388,486 | train | <story><title>CloudFlare, SSL and unhealthy security absolutism</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/cloudflare-ssl-and-unhealthy-security-absolutism/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Protection against &quot;passive attacks&quot; is mostly meaningless: if you can observe packets, you can hijack sessions. It&#x27;s only the certificate validation that Cloudflare apparently performs only in &quot;strict&quot; mode that prevents this attack.<p>In particular, the &quot;full&quot; TLS they offer that Hunt is taking advantage of (because he can&#x27;t deploy a working certificate) is grievously insecure: he&#x27;s essentially running his system on top of the equivalent of the &quot;goto fail&quot; vulnerability in Safari that the Internet was (justifiably) freaking out about two years ago.<p>Hunt is smart about a whole lot of things, but he&#x27;s wrong about this. There&#x27;s nothing &quot;unhealthy&quot; about the absolutism here: you either have end-to-end cryptographic security, or you&#x27;re vulnerable.</text></comment> | <story><title>CloudFlare, SSL and unhealthy security absolutism</title><url>https://www.troyhunt.com/cloudflare-ssl-and-unhealthy-security-absolutism/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>Not wanting the green padlock in the URL bar when traffic is being sent unencrypted and unauthenticated over the open internet is not unhealthy absolutism. It&#x27;s a basic necessity if the green padlock is to mean anything at all.<p>It is of course theoretically possible for any site operator to pass information that was submitted securely, insecurely over the open internet. It probably happens, and we should look for ways to eliminate that possibility. But the fact that we can&#x27;t eliminate all the possible ways that might happen is not a good reason for CloudFlare to make it very easy for site operators to do.<p>&quot;Flexible&quot; does prevent a small class of attacks that are possible against plain HTTP. But it does so at the cost of completely invalidating HTTPS URLs, padlock icons and so forth. Making it easier for small site operators to get a bit of security against the most simplistic attacks is not worth making it impossible for users who are serious about security to have good security. Worse, the benefits accrue to CloudFlare and their customers, but the costs are shared by all internet users. It is an antisocial practice and it needs to stop.</text></comment> |
21,070,459 | 21,068,765 | 1 | 2 | 21,067,391 | train | <story><title>The Most Misused SSN of All Time</title><url>https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>There is a guy who thinks he owns my mobile number. It generates all sort of nuisances for me (quotes for insurance) but also for him (his bank is now sending me notifications by txt). I called that bank to let them know but they did nothing about it...</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>&gt; They started using the number. They thought it was their own. I can&#x27;t understand how people can be so stupid. I can&#x27;t understand that.&quot;<p>Based on the number of emails I get because other people think my email address is their email address, I too can&#x27;t understand how people can be so stupid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lscotte</author><text>I was getting fraud alerts via SMS for somebody elses bank account for quite awhile. I always replied &quot;NO&quot; - I did not make the charge in question, which is true. Eventually I guess they got tired of getting their card locked or realized the contact info was wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Most Misused SSN of All Time</title><url>https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>There is a guy who thinks he owns my mobile number. It generates all sort of nuisances for me (quotes for insurance) but also for him (his bank is now sending me notifications by txt). I called that bank to let them know but they did nothing about it...</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>&gt; They started using the number. They thought it was their own. I can&#x27;t understand how people can be so stupid. I can&#x27;t understand that.&quot;<p>Based on the number of emails I get because other people think my email address is their email address, I too can&#x27;t understand how people can be so stupid.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vegardx</author><text>I ordered pizza to another guy that shares almost the exact same phone number as me, but the kicker is that we&#x27;ve both managed to choose the same PIN-number to log in. I noticed after placing the order that the delivery address was half way across the country.<p>Called the pizza place and it took them quite some time to understand what could have gone wrong. I had, after all, logged in, and was still logged in. We had a good laugh when we figured it out. Sales rep called the guy up, but I don&#x27;t think he cancelled the pizza. So free pizza, I guess.</text></comment> |
17,651,175 | 17,650,573 | 1 | 3 | 17,649,912 | train | <story><title>Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor</title><url>https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/meriton-to-pay-3-million-for-misleading-consumers-on-tripadvisor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RileyJames</author><text>The precedent this sets is interesting. From my interpretation, a business must request reviews from all customers, via all methods, for each platform, in order to not be considered ‘manipulating consumers’.<p>This will have impacts for all the saas review management products, as their key selling point is usually: get more reviews from your happy customers, or stop your unhappy customers posting reviews. Which is usually done by targeting or omitting either group.<p>Any Australian business using such product would now be on the hook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spauka</author><text>As other commenters have pointed out below, the issue the ACCC took was not that they didn&#x27;t request reviews from all customers, but rather that they specifically and actively excluded people who they suspected might have had bad experiences from a program where otherwise all other customers were included.<p>From the ruling [0]:<p>On a weekly basis, Meriton provided TripAdvisor with the email addresses of guests who had stayed at its properties and TripAdvisor sent email invitations to these guests to post a review. However, rather than sending TripAdvisor the email addresses of all guests who had stayed at its properties (other than those who had requested that their details not be provided), Meriton adopted the following two practices:<p>(a) The first practice was to add the letters “MSA” (which stand for Meriton Serviced Apartments) to the front of the email addresses of certain guests. This rendered the email address invalid. This practice was applied to guests who had made a complaint or were otherwise considered likely to have had a negative experience at a Meriton property. I will refer to this practice as the MSA-masking practice.<p>(b) The second practice was to withhold from TripAdvisor the email addresses of all the guests who had stayed at a property during a period of time when there had been a major service disruption (such as the lifts not working, no hot water, etc). I will refer to this practice as the bulk withholding practice.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.austlii.edu.au&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;au&#x2F;cases&#x2F;cth&#x2F;FCA&#x2F;2017&#x2F;1305.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.austlii.edu.au&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;au&#x2F;cases&#x2F;cth&#x2F;FCA&#x2F;2...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Australian firm Meriton fined $3M for misleading consumers on TripAdvisor</title><url>https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/meriton-to-pay-3-million-for-misleading-consumers-on-tripadvisor</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RileyJames</author><text>The precedent this sets is interesting. From my interpretation, a business must request reviews from all customers, via all methods, for each platform, in order to not be considered ‘manipulating consumers’.<p>This will have impacts for all the saas review management products, as their key selling point is usually: get more reviews from your happy customers, or stop your unhappy customers posting reviews. Which is usually done by targeting or omitting either group.<p>Any Australian business using such product would now be on the hook.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>Yeah, I&#x27;m hoping there was just some info missing from the article, but this decision seems all sorts of fucked up.<p>All Trip Advisor Review Express really does automate the process of requesting reviews on Trip Advisor. It&#x27;s not much harder to just email out requests to guests yourself. So is this decision saying if you only emailed requests to people who thought would give you a good review, but not a bad review, that you are guilty of something?<p>If so, literally 99% of businesses would be guilty of this. When someone calls to complain, every business tries to handle it in house. It&#x27;s not like they say &quot;Oh, I&#x27;m sorry you had a bad experience, let me get you the contact info for BBB so you can complain to them, and be sure to post a bad review on our Facebook page!&quot;<p>What about all those apps that pop up a dialog that says &quot;Do you love our app?&quot; and if you say yes it takes you to the app store, and if you say no it shows an internal complaint dialog?</text></comment> |
28,140,354 | 28,140,064 | 1 | 2 | 28,139,889 | train | <story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thoughty</author><text>Is it me or is there a clear pattern here. Seems like the major governments in the world are creating China-like surveillance under the guise of the trojan horse called CSAM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kypro</author><text>The default state (and almost universal state) of human societies throughout history has been authoritarianism.<p>Authoritarian&#x27;s universally believe individuals left to themselves make bad decisions either because they&#x27;re too stupid or too cruel so we need benevolent leaders like themselves to order society.<p>Only in the last few hundred years countries in Western Europe began to reject this and accept while some individuals may make bad decisions the cost of &quot;benevolent&quot; leaders is too great.<p>Today in the West we seem to be forgetting that freedom comes with costs and this can only lead in one direction. We should understand China isn&#x27;t the exception, they are the norm. It was in fact the West who was always more likely to revert to the mean than for China to embrace freedom. People like Orwell understood this very well.<p>The more freedom individuals have the more likely individuals will say and do things leaders don&#x27;t like and if our leaders no longer celebrate this disagreement as progress they will seek to restrict freedom. Of course, some actions are almost universally seen as bad and in these cases it&#x27;s worth carefully restricting freedoms, but this clearly isn&#x27;t one of those cases. And most attempts to limit freedom of speech also aren&#x27;t.</text></comment> | <story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thoughty</author><text>Is it me or is there a clear pattern here. Seems like the major governments in the world are creating China-like surveillance under the guise of the trojan horse called CSAM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvector</author><text>Surprise surprise, the cypherpunks and crypto-anarchists were right all along, but you&#x27;ll still find people that want to ban technologies like cryptocurrencies and Tor.</text></comment> |
9,722,373 | 9,722,356 | 1 | 2 | 9,721,767 | train | <story><title>Engineering Principles and Values</title><url>http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/our-engineering-values-and-principles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>Yet another team that seems to think the programmers should QA their own code. I learned that lesson 30 years ago, good QA people are worth their weight in gold. QA is a set of skills separate from the skills that programmers have; expecting a programmer to be good at both is asking for trouble. I never would hire an architect to wield a hammer and saw. You can&#x27;t be good at everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patmcguire</author><text>I used to ask in interviews if they had a QA team, because it was on the Joel on Software list <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000043.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000043.html</a><p>I stopped asking because the answers were always some variant on &quot;that encourages programmers to be lazy, because they know QA will be there to catch it&quot; and because it seemed like lot of companies treated that question as a culture fit red flag. The responses were pretty hostile, like I&#x27;d asked why none of the engineers were wearing suits.<p>I have no idea whether it&#x27;s a good idea, but the current tech culture seems pretty opposed to it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Engineering Principles and Values</title><url>http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/our-engineering-values-and-principles/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldcode</author><text>Yet another team that seems to think the programmers should QA their own code. I learned that lesson 30 years ago, good QA people are worth their weight in gold. QA is a set of skills separate from the skills that programmers have; expecting a programmer to be good at both is asking for trouble. I never would hire an architect to wield a hammer and saw. You can&#x27;t be good at everything.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edawerd</author><text>ZenPayroll CTO here. At least for the stage that we&#x27;re currently in, having high unit test coverage, high-level integration tests, a strong code-review process, and individual accountability for bugs has worked very well for us so far. So well, in fact, that we don&#x27;t feel we need a dedicated QA team.<p>It&#x27;s also worth mentioning that when coming up with our values&#x2F;principles, we started with the understanding they can and probably will change over time, especially as we grow. So while we don&#x27;t have dedicated QA team today, we&#x27;ll keep an open mind do whatever works best for us in the future.</text></comment> |
22,880,687 | 22,879,593 | 1 | 3 | 22,876,554 | train | <story><title>What does a Director of Engineering do?</title><url>https://www.hashtagcoder.dev/blog/director-of-engineering</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lliamander</author><text>&gt; I used to think hard work leads to promotion. This is because I didn&#x27;t understand why different positions exist outside of a title change. Now I see things a bit differently. If an individual on my team is working hard, I&#x27;m going to keep them where they are because they&#x27;re getting the job done. Rather, I&#x27;m looking to elevate my 10x engineer - not the one that&#x27;s the doing their job well but the one thats mentoring those around them to do their job well too.<p>An excellent point. This misconception that hard work leads to promotion is widespread, and management doesn&#x27;t often do enough to dispel it (if they are even aware of it themselves). I think an important step here is to identify the concrete behaviors and competencies needed to advance. In the words of Randall Koutnik: &quot;What does it take to succeed at [your] company beyond &#x27;hard work&#x27;?&quot;[0].<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkoutnik.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Questions-to-ask-your-interviewer.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkoutnik.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Questions-to-ask-your-intervie...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What does a Director of Engineering do?</title><url>https://www.hashtagcoder.dev/blog/director-of-engineering</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bojo</author><text>Good insights.<p>Small nitpick, I have no idea what the terms &quot;EOS&quot; and &quot;L10 meetings&quot; mean.</text></comment> |
31,467,312 | 31,467,366 | 1 | 2 | 31,465,628 | train | <story><title>Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally</title><url>https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(22)00209-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>Just having a regular fan helps a lot. Very little energy usage, very cheap. I bought a new fan a few weeks ago, one that is nearly soundless in its lowest setting. Even the slight breeze made by the lowest setting already makes a huge difference compared to stale hot air. It also uses an order of magnitude less energy than an A&#x2F;C, and costs an order of magnitude less to purchase+install (100 EUR vs 3000 EUR).</text></item><item><author>dsq</author><text>I definitely sleep less well in the hot, humid, summer than in winter. When it&#x27;s cold you can add layers. When it&#x27;s hot you reach a limit of zero layers of clothing&#x2F;coverings and then have to move the heat and humidity elsewhere artificially via A&#x2F;C.
I also think (this is my subjective opinion, I have no proof) that cold reduces swelling and inflammation, thus making for easier breathing during sleep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Brybry</author><text>When it&#x27;s very hot fans actually make you hotter[1][2] though the science isn&#x27;t yet settled on what exact conditions fans are not appropriate for[3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.health.ny.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;6594&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.health.ny.gov&#x2F;publications&#x2F;6594&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;disasters&#x2F;extremeheat&#x2F;faq.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;disasters&#x2F;extremeheat&#x2F;faq.html</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.st&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;31382270&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sci-hub.st&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;31382270&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally</title><url>https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(22)00209-3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FooBarWidget</author><text>Just having a regular fan helps a lot. Very little energy usage, very cheap. I bought a new fan a few weeks ago, one that is nearly soundless in its lowest setting. Even the slight breeze made by the lowest setting already makes a huge difference compared to stale hot air. It also uses an order of magnitude less energy than an A&#x2F;C, and costs an order of magnitude less to purchase+install (100 EUR vs 3000 EUR).</text></item><item><author>dsq</author><text>I definitely sleep less well in the hot, humid, summer than in winter. When it&#x27;s cold you can add layers. When it&#x27;s hot you reach a limit of zero layers of clothing&#x2F;coverings and then have to move the heat and humidity elsewhere artificially via A&#x2F;C.
I also think (this is my subjective opinion, I have no proof) that cold reduces swelling and inflammation, thus making for easier breathing during sleep.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eru</author><text>If you live in a place like London, where it gets hot in summer but many places still don&#x27;t have A&#x2F;C, a fan can work wonders.<p>Here&#x27;s the magic trick to cool your home down quickly:<p>During the day your house heats up. In the evening your home is likely warmer than the night air. Many people try to open the window and put the fan close to the window to blow cold air in.<p>What works much better is pointing the fan out of the window!</text></comment> |
29,559,815 | 29,559,875 | 1 | 2 | 29,559,462 | train | <story><title>When the government hides spy cameras on your land, fight back in court</title><url>https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2021/12/13/when-government-hides-spy-cameras-your-land-fight-back-court/6500524001/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ansil849</author><text>This article turns into a rant after the first few paragraphs, leaving me confused about the actual facts behind the story. Is it legal for the government to setup surveillance cameras on someone&#x27;s land, to monitor their land? From the article, it sounds like this is exactly what was done.</text></comment> | <story><title>When the government hides spy cameras on your land, fight back in court</title><url>https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2021/12/13/when-government-hides-spy-cameras-your-land-fight-back-court/6500524001/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rahimnathwani</author><text>The government&#x27;s justification for this is the open fields doctrine, which comes from a supreme court ruling that says that fourth amendment protections don&#x27;t apply to &#x27;open fields&#x27;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open-fields_doctrine" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open-fields_doctrine</a></text></comment> |
7,909,162 | 7,909,032 | 1 | 3 | 7,908,899 | train | <story><title>Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/bc-court-seeking-global-reach-orders-google-to-block-sites/article19212708/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>Some part of me wonders what would happen if they were to turn off Google to Canada for a day and list the judge&#x27;s phone number as the person to complain to.<p>(Probably one very angry judge, but I wonder...)</text></item><item><author>bambax</author><text>This is insane.<p>The plaintiff, Equustek Solutions Inc., says the main defendant, Morgan Jack, sells networking devices that infringe on their trademark.<p>The defendant sells these things online; the plaintiff wants his websites to be dereferenced from Google.<p>The court agreed and asked Google to remove the links on all its properties worldwide (not just google.ca).<p>But what does Google have to do with this?<p>Why does the plaintiff not go after the infringer, to shut his websites down and&#x2F;or fine him and&#x2F;or get him in prison?<p>Telling Google to remove the links (worldwide!!) is like issuing an injunction against all restaurants the world over to stop selling food to anyone called &quot;Morgan Jack&quot; in the remote chance it will have an effect on his business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>I&#x27;ve been party to a court session where the defendant tried to pull something like that. Let&#x27;s just say I would advise against it, &#x27;career limiting move&#x27; does not even begin to describe it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/bc-court-seeking-global-reach-orders-google-to-block-sites/article19212708/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>Some part of me wonders what would happen if they were to turn off Google to Canada for a day and list the judge&#x27;s phone number as the person to complain to.<p>(Probably one very angry judge, but I wonder...)</text></item><item><author>bambax</author><text>This is insane.<p>The plaintiff, Equustek Solutions Inc., says the main defendant, Morgan Jack, sells networking devices that infringe on their trademark.<p>The defendant sells these things online; the plaintiff wants his websites to be dereferenced from Google.<p>The court agreed and asked Google to remove the links on all its properties worldwide (not just google.ca).<p>But what does Google have to do with this?<p>Why does the plaintiff not go after the infringer, to shut his websites down and&#x2F;or fine him and&#x2F;or get him in prison?<p>Telling Google to remove the links (worldwide!!) is like issuing an injunction against all restaurants the world over to stop selling food to anyone called &quot;Morgan Jack&quot; in the remote chance it will have an effect on his business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempestn</author><text>Probably a lot of angry users, anti-trust proceedings, and a bunch of other stuff they don&#x27;t want.</text></comment> |
22,073,467 | 22,071,140 | 1 | 2 | 22,069,310 | train | <story><title>BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next</title><url>https://theconversation.com/blackrock-is-the-canary-in-the-coalmine-its-decision-to-dump-coal-signals-whats-next-129972</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtvanhest</author><text>Disclaimer: I worked for BlackRock for about 3 years on an investment team (but its been a while and I don&#x27;t have a dog in this fight)<p>BlackRock is a very simple business to understand. First, they only investment money on behalf of their clients and they take investment fees for making decisions on behalf of their clients (investing their money).<p>They break the business in to two parts:<p>Alpha: old school mutual funds, new school quant funds, real estate etc. Anything where managers get paid big bucks to make investment decisions on behalf of clients.<p>Beta: passive investment vehicles that blackrock tries to deliver for the lowest price with lowest tracking error (i.e. deliver as close to what the index returns as possible).<p>What BlackRock is doing here, is a VERY, VERY big deal. They are allowing clients to now pick passive investment strategies which exclude coal or other businesses that people find morally objectionable. What that means is that if you care about the environment you can move your money to these new passive investments. As more and more people do it, it will decrease demand for equity in those companies and increase their cost of capital.<p>On the active side, they already had that feature, and many of their clients already ask BlackRock to exclude investments from their active portfolios and were willing to accept less return. (BlackRock has offered that for a very long time).<p>I find very few things interesting that asset managers do, but I am going to look at all my passive investments and try to get them moved over. I bet passive funds without coal etc. will outperform while more and more people move money from vanilla S&amp;P500 to S&amp;P500 without coal.<p>Eventually those coal companies may fall out of indexes all together which will really increase their cost of capital.<p>Brilliant move by Fink, and I applaud it.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Matt Levine, as always, provides the most honest and direct commentary about this. Here&#x27;s the start, but the whole piece is interesting, as pointed out by a reply.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-01-14&#x2F;blackrock-has-green-plans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-01-14&#x2F;blackr...</a><p>&gt; Will BlackRock’s decision to send a strongly worded letter about environmental sustainability reshape how corporate America does business? Well, I remember two years ago when Larry Fink sent a strongly worded letter about how companies needed to make society better, and that too was supposedly “likely to cause a firestorm in the corner offices of companies everywhere,” and now, uh, same society really.<p>&gt; Now BlackRock will send a strongly worded letter to CEOs about the environment. It will arrive on the desk of the CEO of, I don’t know, giant state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco? A company where, according to Bloomberg data, BlackRock is the largest outside shareholder. A company that did a bond offering last year—after the Saudi government murdered and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi, after Fink sent that letter about making society better—in which BlackRock was also a big investor. “We wanted the Aramco bond to be much bigger,” Fink said, way back in April, when his public-relations goal was to butter up Saudi Arabia. Now it is January, and his public-relations goal is to butter up environmentalists, so BlackRock “will make investment decisions with environmental sustainability as a core goal.” Next time a big oil company is looking for money, presumably that will change again.<p>&gt; I could keep being cynical about this all day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blago</author><text>Or less environmentally-conscious investors will step in, take advantage, fill the gap, and keep the equilibrium. Obviously, there is a line where decrease demand for equity will not be compensated but we don&#x27;t know where it is and whether we&#x27;ll reach it.</text></comment> | <story><title>BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next</title><url>https://theconversation.com/blackrock-is-the-canary-in-the-coalmine-its-decision-to-dump-coal-signals-whats-next-129972</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtvanhest</author><text>Disclaimer: I worked for BlackRock for about 3 years on an investment team (but its been a while and I don&#x27;t have a dog in this fight)<p>BlackRock is a very simple business to understand. First, they only investment money on behalf of their clients and they take investment fees for making decisions on behalf of their clients (investing their money).<p>They break the business in to two parts:<p>Alpha: old school mutual funds, new school quant funds, real estate etc. Anything where managers get paid big bucks to make investment decisions on behalf of clients.<p>Beta: passive investment vehicles that blackrock tries to deliver for the lowest price with lowest tracking error (i.e. deliver as close to what the index returns as possible).<p>What BlackRock is doing here, is a VERY, VERY big deal. They are allowing clients to now pick passive investment strategies which exclude coal or other businesses that people find morally objectionable. What that means is that if you care about the environment you can move your money to these new passive investments. As more and more people do it, it will decrease demand for equity in those companies and increase their cost of capital.<p>On the active side, they already had that feature, and many of their clients already ask BlackRock to exclude investments from their active portfolios and were willing to accept less return. (BlackRock has offered that for a very long time).<p>I find very few things interesting that asset managers do, but I am going to look at all my passive investments and try to get them moved over. I bet passive funds without coal etc. will outperform while more and more people move money from vanilla S&amp;P500 to S&amp;P500 without coal.<p>Eventually those coal companies may fall out of indexes all together which will really increase their cost of capital.<p>Brilliant move by Fink, and I applaud it.</text></item><item><author>nostromo</author><text>Matt Levine, as always, provides the most honest and direct commentary about this. Here&#x27;s the start, but the whole piece is interesting, as pointed out by a reply.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-01-14&#x2F;blackrock-has-green-plans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2020-01-14&#x2F;blackr...</a><p>&gt; Will BlackRock’s decision to send a strongly worded letter about environmental sustainability reshape how corporate America does business? Well, I remember two years ago when Larry Fink sent a strongly worded letter about how companies needed to make society better, and that too was supposedly “likely to cause a firestorm in the corner offices of companies everywhere,” and now, uh, same society really.<p>&gt; Now BlackRock will send a strongly worded letter to CEOs about the environment. It will arrive on the desk of the CEO of, I don’t know, giant state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco? A company where, according to Bloomberg data, BlackRock is the largest outside shareholder. A company that did a bond offering last year—after the Saudi government murdered and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi, after Fink sent that letter about making society better—in which BlackRock was also a big investor. “We wanted the Aramco bond to be much bigger,” Fink said, way back in April, when his public-relations goal was to butter up Saudi Arabia. Now it is January, and his public-relations goal is to butter up environmentalists, so BlackRock “will make investment decisions with environmental sustainability as a core goal.” Next time a big oil company is looking for money, presumably that will change again.<p>&gt; I could keep being cynical about this all day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>I&#x27;d love to be able to buy something that was exactly like VTI but scrubbed clean of oil, coal, gas, and other sources of environmental damage.<p>There are some specialized ETFs like KRMA, but I don&#x27;t know anything that has environmental criteria that also follows the total market or some large cap index.</text></comment> |
3,491,108 | 3,490,844 | 1 | 3 | 3,490,716 | train | <story><title>SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill</title><url>http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jellicle</author><text>SOPA is not dead. This is an election year. One incumbent President, 33 Senators, and 435 Representatives all desperately need money. The President needs to raise upwards of $1,000,000,000. The Senators need to raise upwards of $10,000,000 each. The Representatives need to raise upwards of $2,000,000 each.<p>The media industry is awash in money.<p>This is how your government works: a bill that is either good or bad for a wealthy industry is proposed, and then the backers go to that industry and hold out their hands. If sufficient money is forthcoming, the good bill is passed or the bad bill is not passed. If sufficient money is not forthcoming, the reverse happens.<p>The bill will be redrafted, with some mitigating clauses added here and there. Implementation will be delayed a year or two, to make sure that you'll have forgotten who voted for it by the time any consequences occur. All of the Congresspeople who expressed reservations about it will be visited with large checks. And it will be resubmitted within a few months. A couple of folks who have been greased especially well will stand up and say, "My concerns about the bill have been addressed." The new bill will pass. Obama will not comment on the new bill and will sign it privately, without press coverage.<p>Your objections raised the cost of this bill for the media industry. Congratulations, you cost them some money. You in no way affected the final outcome. To affect the final outcome, you would need to signal that you represent a large enough sum of campaign money to counterbalance the money-weight of the media industry. You have not even come close to doing so.</text></comment> | <story><title>SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill</title><url>http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ypcx</author><text>While we all know that they will regroup and strike again, we also know that somebody, somewhere out there, has gotten a very powerful message that lead them to reevaluate the scope of the grip they thought they had on this society.<p>Something of a historical importance has happened this week, and we all were part of it.</text></comment> |
28,402,773 | 28,402,798 | 1 | 3 | 28,383,544 | train | <story><title>Drink less, exercise more – advice on pandemic living from an 18th-century poem</title><url>https://theconversation.com/drink-less-exercise-more-and-take-in-the-air-sage-advice-on-pandemic-living-from-a-long-forgotten-and-very-long-18th-century-poem-166085</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>optimusprinceps</author><text>The pandemic has been great for my personal health! I had complete control of my food environment, more time to exercise and more restful sleeps.<p>I&#x27;ve lost 22.5% of my bodyweight and reduced my waistline from 36 down to 32.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zz865</author><text>That&#x27;s great but you&#x27;re unusual. From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apa.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;press&#x2F;releases&#x2F;stress&#x2F;2021&#x2F;one-year-pandemic-stress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apa.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;press&#x2F;releases&#x2F;stress&#x2F;2021&#x2F;one-year...</a> :<p>&gt; A majority of adults (61%) reported experiencing undesired weight changes since the start of the pandemic, with more than 2 in 5 (42%) saying they gained more weight than they intended. Of this group, adults reported gaining an average of 29 pounds (with a typical gain of 15 pounds, which is the median).</text></comment> | <story><title>Drink less, exercise more – advice on pandemic living from an 18th-century poem</title><url>https://theconversation.com/drink-less-exercise-more-and-take-in-the-air-sage-advice-on-pandemic-living-from-a-long-forgotten-and-very-long-18th-century-poem-166085</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>optimusprinceps</author><text>The pandemic has been great for my personal health! I had complete control of my food environment, more time to exercise and more restful sleeps.<p>I&#x27;ve lost 22.5% of my bodyweight and reduced my waistline from 36 down to 32.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ravenstine</author><text>Most likely depends on the kind of person you are, since obesity definitely was not curbed during the pandemic.<p>But yes, as someone who has been working remote even before the pandemic, I have had a similar experience. It&#x27;s great being able to exercise between tasks, fast for most of the day, and overall have more control over my schedule. If I ever have to work in an office again, I know I will gain a minimum of 10 lbs. Group lunches, the desire of management to have you be there even if there&#x27;s no meetings, no real ability to exercise during the day without being a weirdo, and commute time would take its toll. For me, that environment is evil.</text></comment> |
32,362,561 | 32,354,959 | 1 | 2 | 32,354,035 | train | <story><title>Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED</title><url>https://www.asus.com/Laptops/For-Home/Zenbook/Zenbook-17-Fold-OLED-UX9702/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkteflon</author><text>Sure, I have an Innocn PU15-PRE. Just to reiterate that a 15.6” 4K is definitely the way to go. I also tried 14” 4K and 1440p panels but - on account of the way scaling and font rendering works in MacOS - they’re a big step down. Even moreso if you’re doing anything graphically intensive - you’ll want to use non-native scaling on a 14” 4K which is expensive for the GPU. The 15.6” panel doesn’t have this problem because the “effective 1080p resolution” divides cleanly into the native 4K panel resolution.<p>I spent ages working through this.</text></item><item><author>tokamak-teapot</author><text>Mind sharing which one you have please? I’d like to drop one in my laptop bag sometimes.</text></item><item><author>darkteflon</author><text>Slightly incidental, but after years of working out of hotel rooms, I’ve found that a 15.6” 4K portable display placed on a small tripod (Arca-Swiss mount) sitting directly above the main display of my 14” Macbook has been the perfect travel setup. It’s a dual-display setup, portable (similar area to the computer itself), similar desktop area and font resolution to the native panel, and prevents you from craning your neck.</text></item><item><author>byteflip</author><text>I’m unlikely to buy a foldable laptop, but a foldable monitor while traveling sounds kinda nice. I’m working from a hotel right now, so I can easily imagine it. Folding flat would offer protection from scratches in a bag&#x2F;backpack and take less space. Would be hard pressed to fit a 17” portable monitor in my bag, but if it folds in half that’s more tenable!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vosper</author><text>&gt; I also tried 14” 4K and 1440p panels but - on account of the way scaling and font rendering works in MacOS - they’re a big step down<p>You can probably fix this with BetterDisplay (formerly known as BetterDummy?). I used it with my 3440x1440 monitor. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;waydabber&#x2F;BetterDisplay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;waydabber&#x2F;BetterDisplay</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED</title><url>https://www.asus.com/Laptops/For-Home/Zenbook/Zenbook-17-Fold-OLED-UX9702/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darkteflon</author><text>Sure, I have an Innocn PU15-PRE. Just to reiterate that a 15.6” 4K is definitely the way to go. I also tried 14” 4K and 1440p panels but - on account of the way scaling and font rendering works in MacOS - they’re a big step down. Even moreso if you’re doing anything graphically intensive - you’ll want to use non-native scaling on a 14” 4K which is expensive for the GPU. The 15.6” panel doesn’t have this problem because the “effective 1080p resolution” divides cleanly into the native 4K panel resolution.<p>I spent ages working through this.</text></item><item><author>tokamak-teapot</author><text>Mind sharing which one you have please? I’d like to drop one in my laptop bag sometimes.</text></item><item><author>darkteflon</author><text>Slightly incidental, but after years of working out of hotel rooms, I’ve found that a 15.6” 4K portable display placed on a small tripod (Arca-Swiss mount) sitting directly above the main display of my 14” Macbook has been the perfect travel setup. It’s a dual-display setup, portable (similar area to the computer itself), similar desktop area and font resolution to the native panel, and prevents you from craning your neck.</text></item><item><author>byteflip</author><text>I’m unlikely to buy a foldable laptop, but a foldable monitor while traveling sounds kinda nice. I’m working from a hotel right now, so I can easily imagine it. Folding flat would offer protection from scratches in a bag&#x2F;backpack and take less space. Would be hard pressed to fit a 17” portable monitor in my bag, but if it folds in half that’s more tenable!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmikaeld</author><text>I was looking for a stand, but couldn&#x27;t find one that&#x27;s portable, what are you using?</text></comment> |
24,624,991 | 24,623,515 | 1 | 2 | 24,614,404 | train | <story><title>In Defense of XML</title><url>https://blog.frankel.ch/defense-xml/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tainnor</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit annoyed that the author of the article seems to be imply that the move away from XML is just due to hype.<p>Also the point about the ad-hoc client validation doesn&#x27;t seem right to me. If the server changes the XML response, the client may be able to fetch the updated schema (assuming the devs didn&#x27;t forget to publish the update...), but then what? You still have to handle the new or updated fields in code somehow.<p>My biggest gripes with XML are twofold:<p>- It&#x27;s as annoyingly verbose as Java is; I just get lost looking at all the tags (the namespaces don&#x27;t help).<p>- The community seems to have this obsession with solving every problem under the sun with more XML and more specifications. I believe, this is wrong. Trying to standardise across the whole range of data interchange and configuration needs is the wrong approach, IMHO. JSON wins here, because it gets out of the way. I do wish JSON had comments and that JSON schema was better (for when you really need it), but nobody ever had an expectation that keys are unique across all JSON documents in existence, something that XML somehow insists is necessary for its elements and attributes.<p>But what the author is right about is that YAML is an absolute nightmare, and I can&#x27;t understand why it continues to be so popular. Apart from the dozens of ways of writing booleans or strings, it&#x27;s also way, way too easy to forget what level of indentation you&#x27;re currently at, especially if you&#x27;re navigating large files like Kubernetes or CI configs.<p>I think more projects (at least larger ones) should adopt their own DSL for configuration. For example, I find the terraform config format much cleaner than any of the YAML stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Phrodo_00</author><text>My biggest gripe with XML has more to do with how data is structured: XML offers both tag attributes and child tags and when encoding data it&#x27;s not obvious which one to use. You can also use multiple child tags and it&#x27;s not obvious whether you should mix multiple kinds or not.<p>The usage is obvious when using XML as markup, but when used for data it&#x27;s left to the one creating the particular spec.<p>You can have style guidelines, but other data formats don&#x27;t really need that to answer those questions. More flexible is not always better, especially in languages.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Defense of XML</title><url>https://blog.frankel.ch/defense-xml/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Tainnor</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit annoyed that the author of the article seems to be imply that the move away from XML is just due to hype.<p>Also the point about the ad-hoc client validation doesn&#x27;t seem right to me. If the server changes the XML response, the client may be able to fetch the updated schema (assuming the devs didn&#x27;t forget to publish the update...), but then what? You still have to handle the new or updated fields in code somehow.<p>My biggest gripes with XML are twofold:<p>- It&#x27;s as annoyingly verbose as Java is; I just get lost looking at all the tags (the namespaces don&#x27;t help).<p>- The community seems to have this obsession with solving every problem under the sun with more XML and more specifications. I believe, this is wrong. Trying to standardise across the whole range of data interchange and configuration needs is the wrong approach, IMHO. JSON wins here, because it gets out of the way. I do wish JSON had comments and that JSON schema was better (for when you really need it), but nobody ever had an expectation that keys are unique across all JSON documents in existence, something that XML somehow insists is necessary for its elements and attributes.<p>But what the author is right about is that YAML is an absolute nightmare, and I can&#x27;t understand why it continues to be so popular. Apart from the dozens of ways of writing booleans or strings, it&#x27;s also way, way too easy to forget what level of indentation you&#x27;re currently at, especially if you&#x27;re navigating large files like Kubernetes or CI configs.<p>I think more projects (at least larger ones) should adopt their own DSL for configuration. For example, I find the terraform config format much cleaner than any of the YAML stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kanox</author><text>The biggest advantage of JSON and YAML is that it has a very straight-forward object model consisting of literals, lists and dicts. All of these constructs map very easily to native data structures in most languages: you can just &quot;load&quot; and &quot;save&quot; an arbitrary json or yaml document.<p>The XML DOM is very different and does not map in an obvious way to objects in any programming language: you either use a DomDocument or object serialization for a subset of XML.<p>This alien object model makes programming with XML painful and verbose for no gain.<p>Sure: standards for xml schema and xpath are pretty nice but there are json equivalents which don&#x27;t have to deal with elements and attributes. If standardization around YAML and XML was equally good would anyone pick XML?<p>&gt; way too easy to forget what level of indentation you&#x27;re currently at<p>This is easily solvable by tools. How is it worse than getting lost in braces or open&#x2F;close tags?<p>&gt; I think more projects (at least larger ones) should adopt their own DSL for configuration.<p>Please don&#x27;t. JSON, YAML and XML config files can be easily and safely manipulated in all programming languages, for custom DSLs people end up using brittle regexps. It&#x27;s not much better than putting config consts in a code file.</text></comment> |
3,851,986 | 3,852,029 | 1 | 3 | 3,851,515 | train | <story><title>PhoneGap vs. Native: Some Thoughts on Going Native</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phonegap/BFyBYjQp3a8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newhouseb</author><text>I spent an inordinate amount of time fighting webkit before switching all of our stuff to native. The four biggest problems, I think, with the state of webkit are:<p>1) Implicit memory management of large images/surfaces isn't reliable. There's basically nothing you can do (outside of not doing anything) to prevent your page from crashing webkit if you use too many (where too many is undefined) accelerated elements/total texture space. There's no "Running low on memory" callbacks or means to explicitly remove a recently drawn image from memory outside of removing it from the DOM and crossing your fingers.<p>2) Lack of proper prioritization in javascript. One of the things that IOS focuses on a lot is separating out user interaction on the main thread from everything else on background threads. In JS, if you're not careful and you do an innerHTML in the wrong spot, you can lock up a bunch of user interaction or delay an AJAX request that would otherwise be executing. Maybe the answer here is something like .updateInnerHTMLWithCallback(function foo(){}) to prevent breakage of JS that does expect the DOM to be consistent after an innerHTML update. (Edit: Oh I forgot, we actually did something similar to this by doing all of our innerHTML updates in setTimeout'ed functions with a 1ms delay). There's a lot of weird stuff around loading images and keeping UI responsiveness then as well.<p>3) No cache beyond pure source code between separate user sessions. One of the biggest issues for us was initial load time (parsing and calculating CSS, parsing and running JS, and blitting down accelerated DOM elements, etc). Once everything was loaded we could imitate a native-level experience, but this often would be 10-15 seconds in. Perhaps an intermediate cached file (kind of like python's pyc) would help alleviate this.<p>4) Debugging. This was covered, but ugh, what a nightmare. At a certain point I was booting up XCode instruments and tracing through webkit code to figure out what parts of our JS/CSS/etc to optimize.</text></comment> | <story><title>PhoneGap vs. Native: Some Thoughts on Going Native</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phonegap/BFyBYjQp3a8</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blago</author><text>I am equally productive with web as well as native development so it makes no difference to me. Not surprisingly, Phonegap never appealed much - same work, inferior results, single (but dubious) benefit: cross platform.<p>I was pleasantly surprised by Titanium mobile though when I had to evaluate it at my job 2 years ago. I set to reimplement one of our (non-trivial) apps and summarize my experience. I ended up writing 50% less code and it took about the same time as what I had spent on the native version. I consider this a compliment though as I was completely new to Titanium. On the flip side I was completely new to the app when I wrote it the first time :-)<p>The build/run/debug loop was unpleasant but I've heard that it has improved since then. As for performance, it was good - Titanium generates native UI, albeit with an interpreter in the middle.<p>I was quite surprised when it turned out that I have a 99% identical app. You see, from the very beginning I decided that I'll be hard on Titanium, my goal was no-compromise, high-fidelity clone. And it worked. The only problem was positioning a tooltip near a touch point - at the time there was no way to traverse the view hierarchy. But then again, maybe I could have implemented it in a different way.<p>I realize a lot has changed since than, but this is my 2 cents - sharing a real world/product experience.</text></comment> |
40,287,134 | 40,283,762 | 1 | 2 | 40,273,245 | train | <story><title>Decompiling Hyper-V Manager to rebuild it from source</title><url>https://awakecoding.com/posts/decompiling-hyper-v-manager-to-rebuild-it-from-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>magnat</author><text>&gt; Even if we&#x27;ve managed to rebuild and patch Hyper-V Manager from source, this is not enough for a real community project to take place. As much as I would like to just upload the decompiled source code to GitHub to start making significant changes to it, there&#x27;s no legal standing for this project<p>I did almost exactly the same thing with Microsoft Reporting Services &#x2F; ReportViewer several years ago, but decided to go a step further and published whole thing on a GitHub and uploaded packages for .NET Core&#x2F;5&#x2F;6&#x2F;7&#x2F;8 to NuGet - both platform controlled by Microsoft.<p>Both repo and packages are still up. Only legal inquires came from other companies asking if they can really use it. For reasons I cannot fathom, Microsoft MVPs and community managers direct anyone asking for .NET Core version of ReportViewer to my recompiled package and sources, with links all over Microsoft&#x27;s forums, reddit and Q&amp;A sites. GitHub analytics shows some visitors come via direct links from docs.microsoft.com.<p>I guess Microsoft just doesn&#x27;t care. Hell, they allow scripts for one-click product activation bypass to be hosted on GitHub.</text></comment> | <story><title>Decompiling Hyper-V Manager to rebuild it from source</title><url>https://awakecoding.com/posts/decompiling-hyper-v-manager-to-rebuild-it-from-source/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nuzzerino</author><text>&gt; Even if we&#x27;ve managed to rebuild and patch Hyper-V Manager from source, this is not enough for a real community project to take place. As much as I would like to just upload the decompiled source code to GitHub to start making significant changes to it, there&#x27;s no legal standing for this project. I can only go as far as streamlining the process of decompilation such that others can experiment making changes locally.<p>I don’t know what I’m missing here but something about this whole idea rubs me the wrong way. Who in their right mind is going to do this in a production environment where there is no apparent possibility to have a shared repository for the updates? And no possibility of any support or warranty (for what it’s worth). It’s worth about the price of whatever clicks the blog post generated.<p>It’s not like the software is that old. I don’t blame him for disliking the powershell interface but this isn’t the answer.</text></comment> |
6,179,088 | 6,179,034 | 1 | 2 | 6,178,873 | train | <story><title>Python for Android</title><url>http://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylangs1030</author><text>I don&#x27;t use Android devices, so I wouldn&#x27;t know, but is this the first instance of mobile Python on Android OS?<p>Jailbroken iPhones have had this capability for years...not to say iOS is better, just that I&#x27;d expected this would happen...sooner?<p>That said, the Python distro on iOS is only 2.6-ish, not even 2.7, and there&#x27;s no 3.x release there. It&#x27;s not very useful but I guess I did use it a lot for learning back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>myko</author><text>Python has been on Android for a long time. The first instances I know of is SL4A: <a href="https://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;android-scripting&#x2F;</a><p>Kivy for Android has been around awhile as well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Python for Android</title><url>http://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dylangs1030</author><text>I don&#x27;t use Android devices, so I wouldn&#x27;t know, but is this the first instance of mobile Python on Android OS?<p>Jailbroken iPhones have had this capability for years...not to say iOS is better, just that I&#x27;d expected this would happen...sooner?<p>That said, the Python distro on iOS is only 2.6-ish, not even 2.7, and there&#x27;s no 3.x release there. It&#x27;s not very useful but I guess I did use it a lot for learning back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fabriceleal</author><text>&gt; is this the first instance of mobile Python on Android OS?<p>Honestly, I have no idea. But I&#x27;m aware that there are multiple efforts to bring &quot;sane&quot; languages (such as C#, by Xamarin) to Android, others than Java.<p>&gt; Jailbroken iPhones have had this capability for years<p>I had no idea about this one, but I don&#x27;t follow iOS development either.<p>&gt; I&#x27;d expected this would happen...sooner?<p>I agree with you, but I believe this sort of thing should be backed by Apple (iOS) or Google (Android) themselves.<p>[EDIT]: formatting</text></comment> |
19,044,369 | 19,042,634 | 1 | 3 | 19,042,386 | train | <story><title>Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47033704</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jshprentz</author><text>The 1904 O. Henry short story &quot;The Cop and the Anthem&quot;[1][2] tells of a homeless New York City man who commits small crimes, preferring arest and jail to charity handouts.<p>&quot;But to one of Soapy&#x27;s proud spirit the gifts of charity are encumbered. If not in coin you must pay in humiliation of spirit for every benefit received at the hands of philanthropy. As Caesar had his Brutus, every bed of charity must have its toll of a bath, every loaf of bread its compensation of a private and personal inquisition. Wherefore it is better to be a guest of the law, which though conducted by rules, does not meddle unduly with a gentleman&#x27;s private affairs.&quot;<p>Soapy&#x27;s many attempts fail, but the story ends with a typical O. Henry twist. No spoiler here.<p>The story was filmed in 1952, one of five stories in &quot;O. Henry&#x27;s Full House.&quot; Charles Laughton played the vagrant. He briefly meets Marilyn Monroe. Watch this segment on YouTube[3] or enjoy the entire film.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanliterature.com&#x2F;author&#x2F;o-henry&#x2F;short-story&#x2F;the-cop-and-the-anthem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;americanliterature.com&#x2F;author&#x2F;o-henry&#x2F;short-story&#x2F;th...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Cop_and_the_Anthem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Cop_and_the_Anthem</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;temSJCZwUlU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;temSJCZwUlU</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47033704</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>whitepoplar</author><text>My parents are set to turn 70 next year and I worry so much about their wellbeing when they get older. My dad, in particular, is a generally happy person, but doesn&#x27;t have many friends. I worry that if my mom passes before him, he&#x27;s going to have a rough time. I feel guilty because I&#x27;m one of those children described in the article who moved to another city to chase economic + social activity.</text></comment> |
21,496,888 | 21,496,238 | 1 | 2 | 21,480,761 | train | <story><title>Expertise in the Age of YouTube</title><url>https://behavioralscientist.org/expertise-in-the-age-of-youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jnellis</author><text>As a finish carpenter for a number of years and having to deal with fixing homeowners attempts at doing their own remodel efforts based on them watching youtube videos, I&#x27;ve come to general law regarding expertise or &#x27;how to&#x27; videos. There&#x27;s an inverse relationship between quality of video and accuracy of information (or maybe just usefulness of information.)<p>The majority of good polished videos have the least accurate or useful information. These I&#x27;ve surmised are people that would rather be into video production or youtube stardom than they would being actually good at the subject they profess. Alternatively, some of the worst grainy, shaky cam videos I&#x27;ve seen, usually on the jobsite, are some of the best practices, tricks of the trade or just informational rich videos you can get. These are people that are not into being youtube stars and are just part of the &#x27;sharing community&#x27; as it maybe was originally envisioned. But as Rumsfeld said, there&#x27;s known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, and when you&#x27;re a homeowner watching how-to videos, its very difficult to know what you should know.... so most of them go by, instinctively, the quality of video production as their guide to what they should be doing.<p>Sure there are great craftsmen with great video quality and there are some really poor craftsmen with poor video quality but these are not the bulk of what&#x27;s out there. What rises to the top of search offerings seems to be equally what&#x27;s been marketed (poor craftsmen, high quality, &quot;please like,share, and subscribe&quot;) or what&#x27;s been organically liked (poor quality, high craftsmanship).<p>For the tradesmen out there dealing with homeowners, its now sometimes a bit of an uphill battle after homeowners have done their &#x27;youtube&#x27; research and have determined how hard the job they&#x27;ve asked you to bid is going to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I have the same hard-learned rule of thumb wrt. websites in general. The cleaner looking, the more up to date with current web trends a website, the worse information on it. I&#x27;ve also spotted an inverse correlation between the amount of ads on page and trustworthiness of the information on it.<p>I explain it to myself in a similar way: people with nice, clean, heavy websites, sprinkling ads in between the text, are content marketers. Their job isn&#x27;t to educate you. It&#x27;s to regurgitate whatever bullshit they can find on topic[0] in order to create SEO and social-share optimized vehicles they can then attach advertising or affiliate payload to.<p>--<p>[0] - I worked alongside content marketers few jobs back. There was zero verification or care about accuracy of what was posted, and a lot of copy-pasting+rewriting of similar content from competition.</text></comment> | <story><title>Expertise in the Age of YouTube</title><url>https://behavioralscientist.org/expertise-in-the-age-of-youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jnellis</author><text>As a finish carpenter for a number of years and having to deal with fixing homeowners attempts at doing their own remodel efforts based on them watching youtube videos, I&#x27;ve come to general law regarding expertise or &#x27;how to&#x27; videos. There&#x27;s an inverse relationship between quality of video and accuracy of information (or maybe just usefulness of information.)<p>The majority of good polished videos have the least accurate or useful information. These I&#x27;ve surmised are people that would rather be into video production or youtube stardom than they would being actually good at the subject they profess. Alternatively, some of the worst grainy, shaky cam videos I&#x27;ve seen, usually on the jobsite, are some of the best practices, tricks of the trade or just informational rich videos you can get. These are people that are not into being youtube stars and are just part of the &#x27;sharing community&#x27; as it maybe was originally envisioned. But as Rumsfeld said, there&#x27;s known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, and when you&#x27;re a homeowner watching how-to videos, its very difficult to know what you should know.... so most of them go by, instinctively, the quality of video production as their guide to what they should be doing.<p>Sure there are great craftsmen with great video quality and there are some really poor craftsmen with poor video quality but these are not the bulk of what&#x27;s out there. What rises to the top of search offerings seems to be equally what&#x27;s been marketed (poor craftsmen, high quality, &quot;please like,share, and subscribe&quot;) or what&#x27;s been organically liked (poor quality, high craftsmanship).<p>For the tradesmen out there dealing with homeowners, its now sometimes a bit of an uphill battle after homeowners have done their &#x27;youtube&#x27; research and have determined how hard the job they&#x27;ve asked you to bid is going to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>As a die hard Jack Of All Trades handyman, I can&#x27;t overstate how incredible a resource YouTube has been for me. You need to come at it with at least a small baseline of knowledge of what you&#x27;re trying to attempt, good shop hygiene&#x2F;safety habits, patience, a &quot;measure twice, cut once&quot; attitude, and so on. But once you get in the right mindset, there is just so much to learn there. I credit online resources for helping me to learn:<p>Basic carpentry. I&#x27;ve built several pieces of furniture around my home including a pretty nice poker table (so, upholstery too). I built a 12&#x27;x6&#x27; shed in my back yard on a foundation that&#x27;s not going to sink or slide over. Drywall and ceiling repair. Re-did a bunch of baseboard trim and only me and someone who knows what they&#x27;re doing can find the mistakes. I know my limit though. I&#x27;m probably not going to attempt kitchen cabinetry or replace my roof for example.<p>Basic plumbing. Gutted and replaced bathrooms and kitchens on multiple houses. Repaired a busted spa back to like new. Re-did sprinkler systems. Cautiously working my way up to gas lines--don&#x27;t want to blow up my home.<p>Basic car maintenance and repair. Everything from oil changes, brake pads up to replacing intake&#x2F;exhaust systems, replacing a power steering system, light bodywork.<p>Metal and fiberglass work. I&#x27;m building a single engine kit plane in my garage. Online resources have been vital, and there&#x27;s no way I&#x27;d have gotten anywhere on this project without them.<p>You need to have a good filter. You&#x27;re right that the highly polished &quot;Brought To You By Tool Company!&quot; productions with the generic 80s porn music soundtracks are pretty bad, and the &quot;Hey Guys! Like And Subscribe&quot; bros are always the worst. Find the videos without background music and with bad lighting and sound quality where the person is actually grunting and doing the work in real time along with you. They&#x27;re usually the best.</text></comment> |
37,185,328 | 37,185,460 | 1 | 2 | 37,175,432 | train | <story><title>Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing</title><url>https://news.gallup.com/poll/509543/saying-hello-linked-higher-wellbeing-limits.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>climb_stealth</author><text>What I learned is that it makes a huge difference to get a haircut from someone professional. Going to some cheap random mall hair place is a terrible experience. They don&#x27;t care about their work, it&#x27;s going to be awkward and it&#x27;ll look terrible.<p>I have been going to a fancy hair place in recent years. AUD $85 seems like a lot of money for a mens haircut, but it makes all the difference. It&#x27;s a proper craft. No &quot;what haircut would you like?&quot;, instead it&#x27;s pretty much at her discretion and suited to the actual person. Zero regrets.</text></item><item><author>NegativeK</author><text>Rationally, I know what you&#x27;ve said to be the truth.<p>In reality, I cut my own hair because it stresses me out to go to a Greatclips.</text></item><item><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>As a kid, I had extreme social anxiety. I had a hard time talking to people and making friends. I never felt like I “belonged.”<p>As an adult, I still have crippling social anxiety.<p>I can’t speak for everywhere, I’m pretty much only in the U.S., but I’ve noticed that most fellow adults I come across are chronically deprived of social interaction.<p>My social anxiety doesn’t actually matter. Me being awkward, and weird, and a little bit out there doesn’t actually matter. If you talk to people, ask them questions about themselves, laugh with them when they want to laugh, listen to them when they want to vent, rant with them when they want to rant, and feel pain with them when they’re vulnerable, a sweeping majority of the people I’ve met in the U.S. engage.<p>And the more you do it, the more you realize the world is actually full of amazing people. They’re all living their lives, making mistakes, getting things wrong, and making bad calls. But overwhelmingly they’re trying to figure life out and get through the best they can; and they want people with them on that journey.<p>I still have crippling social anxiety but my friend group is steadily growing and it feels good. I still play the fun game in my head of “haha did we all have a good time today or did I actually say something terrible and now everyone hates me or thinks I’m a fool?” on pretty much a daily basis. But I wouldn’t go back to being lonely. Not just for me, but for these amazing people who want more folks with them on their journey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mlinhares</author><text>Nah, you can definitely find great people that love their jobs even at places like that.<p>I used to cut at a Supercuts in PHL (the Rodin place one for those in the know) and there was this great lady there that was both very skillful and incredibly nice, we always had great conversations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing</title><url>https://news.gallup.com/poll/509543/saying-hello-linked-higher-wellbeing-limits.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>climb_stealth</author><text>What I learned is that it makes a huge difference to get a haircut from someone professional. Going to some cheap random mall hair place is a terrible experience. They don&#x27;t care about their work, it&#x27;s going to be awkward and it&#x27;ll look terrible.<p>I have been going to a fancy hair place in recent years. AUD $85 seems like a lot of money for a mens haircut, but it makes all the difference. It&#x27;s a proper craft. No &quot;what haircut would you like?&quot;, instead it&#x27;s pretty much at her discretion and suited to the actual person. Zero regrets.</text></item><item><author>NegativeK</author><text>Rationally, I know what you&#x27;ve said to be the truth.<p>In reality, I cut my own hair because it stresses me out to go to a Greatclips.</text></item><item><author>r3trohack3r</author><text>As a kid, I had extreme social anxiety. I had a hard time talking to people and making friends. I never felt like I “belonged.”<p>As an adult, I still have crippling social anxiety.<p>I can’t speak for everywhere, I’m pretty much only in the U.S., but I’ve noticed that most fellow adults I come across are chronically deprived of social interaction.<p>My social anxiety doesn’t actually matter. Me being awkward, and weird, and a little bit out there doesn’t actually matter. If you talk to people, ask them questions about themselves, laugh with them when they want to laugh, listen to them when they want to vent, rant with them when they want to rant, and feel pain with them when they’re vulnerable, a sweeping majority of the people I’ve met in the U.S. engage.<p>And the more you do it, the more you realize the world is actually full of amazing people. They’re all living their lives, making mistakes, getting things wrong, and making bad calls. But overwhelmingly they’re trying to figure life out and get through the best they can; and they want people with them on that journey.<p>I still have crippling social anxiety but my friend group is steadily growing and it feels good. I still play the fun game in my head of “haha did we all have a good time today or did I actually say something terrible and now everyone hates me or thinks I’m a fool?” on pretty much a daily basis. But I wouldn’t go back to being lonely. Not just for me, but for these amazing people who want more folks with them on their journey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pbourke</author><text>Counterpoint: I am much, much more comfortable at the cheapo place at the mall than at some fancy pants salon. Find what works for you.</text></comment> |
16,785,312 | 16,785,308 | 1 | 2 | 16,784,320 | train | <story><title>Show HN: React Pattern Book – A low maintenance pattern library/style guide</title><url>https://springload.github.io/pattern-book/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noway421</author><text>So is this a package which builds a page showing a design system based on your existing CSS? Interesting, I think the landing page could explain this better. The demo link above helps a lot, I think it should be more prominent in your copy.<p>Also name confused me to think it was an actual physical&#x2F;digital book i can buy off amazon...<p>Great work!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: React Pattern Book – A low maintenance pattern library/style guide</title><url>https://springload.github.io/pattern-book/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Kuraj</author><text>Sorry but I have a really hard time understanding what this does from the readme alone</text></comment> |
15,150,927 | 15,150,934 | 1 | 2 | 15,150,237 | train | <story><title>De-Anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry (2015) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-caliskan-islam.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hdhzy</author><text>Looks impressive, now only one question remains: did you find out what is the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto?</text></item><item><author>randomwalker</author><text>I&#x27;m a coauthor of this paper. It was published a couple of years ago; pleasantly surprised to see it here.<p>The paper shows that programmers have distinctive styles in their source code that can be extracted to create a fingerprint of coding style. It&#x27;s not just the obvious stuff like spaces vs. tabs -- parsing the code and looking at the Abstract Syntax Tree is what results in a powerful fingerprint.<p>We have a follow-up to this paper showing that surprisingly, coding style survives in compiled binaries (even with optimization turned on and debugging symbols removed): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.princeton.edu&#x2F;~aylinc&#x2F;papers&#x2F;caliskan-islam_when.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.princeton.edu&#x2F;~aylinc&#x2F;papers&#x2F;caliskan-islam_when...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randomwalker</author><text>I&#x27;ve been asked this a lot, especially since I also research and teach cryptocurrency technology [1]. I haven&#x27;t personally tried to do that. Satoshi clearly wished to maintain their pseudonymity, and I&#x27;d rather respect that. I also think Satoshi&#x27;s pseudonymity is a powerful statement about decentralized cryptocurrencies, namely that their viability rests on their technical merits, with no need to know or trust their creators.<p>That said, I don&#x27;t blame people for trying to uncover Satoshi&#x27;s identity, and it&#x27;s possible that the techniques in our paper can help. The big caveat, of course, is access to a corpus that includes Satoshi&#x27;s code labeled with their true identity.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomwalker.info&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomwalker.info&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>De-Anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry (2015) [pdf]</title><url>https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-caliskan-islam.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hdhzy</author><text>Looks impressive, now only one question remains: did you find out what is the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto?</text></item><item><author>randomwalker</author><text>I&#x27;m a coauthor of this paper. It was published a couple of years ago; pleasantly surprised to see it here.<p>The paper shows that programmers have distinctive styles in their source code that can be extracted to create a fingerprint of coding style. It&#x27;s not just the obvious stuff like spaces vs. tabs -- parsing the code and looking at the Abstract Syntax Tree is what results in a powerful fingerprint.<p>We have a follow-up to this paper showing that surprisingly, coding style survives in compiled binaries (even with optimization turned on and debugging symbols removed): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.princeton.edu&#x2F;~aylinc&#x2F;papers&#x2F;caliskan-islam_when.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.princeton.edu&#x2F;~aylinc&#x2F;papers&#x2F;caliskan-islam_when...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xdeadbeefbabe</author><text>Is it one person or many people who wrote that code? I think it is one, but stylometry probably knows better.</text></comment> |
40,450,754 | 40,450,202 | 1 | 3 | 40,438,510 | train | <story><title>Number 16 (spider)</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_16_(spider)</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>janalsncm</author><text>What amazes me about spiders is their complex unlearned behavior. No trapdoor spider learns how to build a trap. No orb weaver learns how to spin a web. Trap&#x2F;web building behavior is entirely programmed in their DNA.<p>I think about this a lot in the context of conversations about intelligence. If spiders can have complex behaviors hard-coded, humans certainly do too. (In other words, the Tabula Rasa theory is wrong.) The ability to learn language and emotion are certainly two examples. We are pretty good at certain things (learning language, picking up social cues) and relatively bad at others (calculating an 18% tip).<p>So if you’re going to measure “intelligence” the first thing you’ll need to do is choose what to measure. What questions do you ask? You might be inclined to pick things we humans think are important. But then that’s not an objective universal measurement, at best it’s yardstick for human cognitive abilities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Number 16 (spider)</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_16_(spider)</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bentcorner</author><text>While we&#x27;re talking spiders, here&#x27;s a book recommendation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Children_of_Time_(novel)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Children_of_Time_(novel)</a> (it&#x27;s a fantastic novel, if you have any interest at all don&#x27;t spoil it for yourself)</text></comment> |
31,632,446 | 31,632,192 | 1 | 2 | 31,628,886 | train | <story><title>I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)</title><url>https://www.facet.net/posts/i-cheated-on-my-microsoft-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>On the flip side, we questioned a candidate the usual way with pertinent technical challenges and so on. Then when driving in a van to lunch (our habit was to do a social segment as well as technical) I asked some puzzle questions - add 6 feet to a rope around the world, stretch it out and how far off the ground would it be? and suchlike. He was charmed, we brainstormed some answers and had a fun lunch.<p>Years later, now a senior Engineer at our place, he admitted he had been going to give us a miss that day, until that conversation in the car.</text></item><item><author>lrvick</author><text>One time a company I interviewed with asked me obscure algorithm questions about playing card shuffling. As a former professional magician I knew the optimal answers instantly and could jot them down straight away. They had allocated an hour for answers I wrote in a few minutes. I could have told them I had a massively unfair advantage, but I did not bother.<p>They were visibly impressed and told me I was moving on to the final interview stage right away. I declined, as I hate companies that select for algorithm puzzle skill instead of real world problem solving experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drewcoo</author><text>The rope question is more of a Fermi question[1]. Not that they aren&#x27;t commonly called [2] puzzlers, but I think the distinction is useful. Fermis are about estimating, and that&#x27;s an actual skill - innumeracy[3] is real.<p>What I would call puzzle problems usually involve some trick to getting the answer. If you can&#x27;t figure out the trick, you&#x27;re stumped. If you know the trick, you barely have to think to crank out the answer. Optimally solving the example in the article is one of those.<p>They weren&#x27;t widely banned because they were too novel and charming. They were banned because &quot;time to aha!&quot; in any given instance doesn&#x27;t tell you much about how someone solves problems. Also, because the bulk of the work at most jobs doesn&#x27;t really resemble seeking &quot;aha moments,&quot; these questions tend to select for people who thrive most on doing something other than the job at hand.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fermi_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fermi_problem</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;the-hardest-interview-puzzle-question-ever&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;the-hardest-interview-puzzle-q...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;innumeracy.net&#x2F;category&#x2F;estimation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;innumeracy.net&#x2F;category&#x2F;estimation&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)</title><url>https://www.facet.net/posts/i-cheated-on-my-microsoft-interview</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>On the flip side, we questioned a candidate the usual way with pertinent technical challenges and so on. Then when driving in a van to lunch (our habit was to do a social segment as well as technical) I asked some puzzle questions - add 6 feet to a rope around the world, stretch it out and how far off the ground would it be? and suchlike. He was charmed, we brainstormed some answers and had a fun lunch.<p>Years later, now a senior Engineer at our place, he admitted he had been going to give us a miss that day, until that conversation in the car.</text></item><item><author>lrvick</author><text>One time a company I interviewed with asked me obscure algorithm questions about playing card shuffling. As a former professional magician I knew the optimal answers instantly and could jot them down straight away. They had allocated an hour for answers I wrote in a few minutes. I could have told them I had a massively unfair advantage, but I did not bother.<p>They were visibly impressed and told me I was moving on to the final interview stage right away. I declined, as I hate companies that select for algorithm puzzle skill instead of real world problem solving experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akhmatova</author><text><i>I asked some puzzle questions - add 6 feet to a rope around the world, stretch it out and how far off the ground would it be?</i><p>I can only imagine being &quot;charmed&quot; by a question like if I was much younger in my career, eager to be seen as smart and in the company of like-minded folk.<p>Nowadays... my focus is on solving problems... as in real problems, not made-up ones. Thankfully I haven&#x27;t heard questions like this in years. But when I do, I take it as a sign that they probably don&#x27;t have actual, meaty problems to work on, that is, requiring higher-level cognitive skills (and actual experience). Not to mention that this was supposed to be lunch, and here they are asking filter questions, but pretending it&#x27;s just &quot;casual conversation&quot; when obviously it isn&#x27;t.<p>And so would probably pause for a second, and think of a way to tactfully end the interview, and thank the interviewer for their time.</text></comment> |
20,159,795 | 20,158,831 | 1 | 2 | 20,157,291 | train | <story><title>RAMBleed Attack – Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them</title><url>https://rambleed.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rsweeney21</author><text>Shortly after I joined Microsoft in 2004, all new feature work on Windows Longhorn (Vista) was halted. There had been yet another high profile computer virus on Windows XP caused by a buffer overflow. It was an all-hands-on-deck type moment. Everyone spent weeks adding SAL (source-code annotation language) annotations to the entire Windows code base. SAL annotations enabled automated source code analysis to identify potential buffer overflow bugs and other common security vulnerabilities. Once annotated, we identified and fixed who knows how many hundreds of security vulnerabilities in Windows.<p>This colossal security update was released as Windows XP Service Pack 2. This is the beauty of software.<p>Hardware vulnerabilities scare me. There are millions of Intel CPUs and DRAM modules installed in data centers and PCs around the world. When we find vulnerabilities in <i>hardware</i> how are we supposed to fix them?<p>The past few years have been really scary for me as a software engineer. I keep thinking that the next one will pop the software bubble.</text></comment> | <story><title>RAMBleed Attack – Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them</title><url>https://rambleed.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>musicale</author><text>Whenever you have sharing, you usually have side channels. We&#x27;re going to see more and more of this until we have much better hardware isolation.<p>This is a kind of obvious variant of Rowhammer, which hasn&#x27;t generally been fixed AFAIK.<p>Hardware in the late 2010s seems a bit like Windows in the late 1990s - a house of cards waiting to collapse, but the dominant vendors know that very few customers are willing to pay more for security and reliability vs. performance&#x2F;features&#x2F;new and shiny.<p>(So if we&#x27;re lucky then we&#x27;ll end up with a &quot;more secure&quot; version of hardware that is analogous to... Windows Vista.)</text></comment> |
37,038,374 | 37,038,462 | 1 | 2 | 37,036,566 | train | <story><title>Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence</title><url>https://kidswholovemath.substack.com/p/math-for-kids-outside-of-the-calculus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gnicholas</author><text>When I was in high school, I chose to take standard-level IB math instead of higher-level IB math. The standard-level math focused on probability and combinatorics, whereas higher-level was focused on calculus (you had to take calculus first).<p>I appreciate the opportunity to have learned about these other subjects, which are arguably more useful in everyday life (and I went on to be a lawyer and a startup founder, where advanced calculus would not have been especially useful). It also meant my schedule was somewhat easier, since the standard-level class was not as challenging, and I was more mature by the time I took calc AB as a senior. I&#x27;m glad my parents realized that getting as far down the calculus path as possible was not the only goal, and suggested this path for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence</title><url>https://kidswholovemath.substack.com/p/math-for-kids-outside-of-the-calculus</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ecshafer</author><text>Schools should honestly have two parallel tracks of math (which students should take at the same time). There should be the standard &quot;analysis&quot; mathematics of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus. But there should also be a track of (what I will shorthand to) Discrete mathematics, which focuses on proofs, combinatorics&#x2F; probability, number theory, graphs, etc. Discrete Mathematics used to very much be a niche mathematical field, who needs to know about number theory!? But computers has really made these other fields incredibly important to modern society. Plus writing proofs is a good exercise for anyone.</text></comment> |
20,460,298 | 20,460,155 | 1 | 2 | 20,458,493 | train | <story><title>Zelda Screen Transitions Are Undefined Behaviour</title><url>https://gridbugs.org/zelda-screen-transitions-are-undefined-behaviour/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It feels like programming used to be a much harder job in the past. You not only had to figure out the program logic, but you had to work within very tight hardware constraints.<p>Reading articles like this, or about the Atari and how the code would double as a sprite in pac-man, or how 3D was rendered in Wolfenstein, makes me think one had to be much more clever back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cdumler</author><text>The catch about developing things back then is that you were working with duct tape and chicken wire. The 6502 CPU was developed literally by creating a hand drawn design. Each transistor laid out created additional complexity that humans had to understand. Therefore, making it as simple as possible by reducing the gates used to a minimum was important. This also meant that not all combinations inputs were valid (or event checked).<p>The 6502 has a few &quot;undocumented&quot; instructions due the fact that if you have certain on&#x2F;off input pin set, you&#x27;re actually crossing gates used for multiple instructions. These may crash the chip or do non-useful things, but a few do something useful in vary specific circumstances. The trick to developing on these old systems is to experiment with the chips to understand what the system does in various circumstances.<p>What I liked about that time was that it was possible to truly understand everything about a system because nothing is hidden from you by software drivers. The were good times.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zelda Screen Transitions Are Undefined Behaviour</title><url>https://gridbugs.org/zelda-screen-transitions-are-undefined-behaviour/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedberg</author><text>It feels like programming used to be a much harder job in the past. You not only had to figure out the program logic, but you had to work within very tight hardware constraints.<p>Reading articles like this, or about the Atari and how the code would double as a sprite in pac-man, or how 3D was rendered in Wolfenstein, makes me think one had to be much more clever back then.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>im_down_w_otp</author><text>You still have to be clever like that today depending on what kind of problems you&#x27;re working on.<p>Which was also true back then. Not all programmers back then had to derive arcanely clever tricks to get their job done.<p>There&#x27;s also a part of it that is underappreciated, which is that sometimes the cool effect wasn&#x27;t necessarily an original design goal, but instead was sometimes something that was stumbled upon one way or another, and then it was having that little trick in one&#x27;s pocket which informed how the design would be.</text></comment> |
32,116,346 | 32,113,259 | 1 | 2 | 32,109,760 | train | <story><title>Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, reluctantly</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/science/greg-robinson-webb-telescope-nasa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>The obvious number to make is 5; currently we only have one at L2. What about L1, L3, L4 and L5?</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait for JWST 2.0, but we&#x27;re only talking about JWST #2. We&#x27;re not talking about upgrades, just another copy. I mean, it should be easy, right? It&#x27;s in the cloud so to speak, so just spin up another instance and push to a different region. No problemo.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure you&#x27;re correct.<p>Consider fabbing chips. Fabs spend an awful lot of time verifying the produced chips. I&#x27;ve seen estimates that verification cost exceeds fabrication cost.<p>How much of the development cost of JWST 2.0 would be spent on verification? I honestly don&#x27;t know but I would guess it&#x27;s high.<p>Another factor: part of making a production process is predicated on how many you&#x27;d build. We had a process for making Saturn-V rockets based on the number of Apollo missions we planned for. If you then up and decide you need 500 Saturn-Vs you might have to go through a whole new process for something that will scale that high.<p>Yet another factor: the launch vehicle. If you decide to do JWST 2.0 in 10 years, what launch vehicle will you use? The same one might not exist so the new mission will have to be designed for what is available.<p>And another: materials science changes. We don&#x27;t make the same materials that we did 50+ years ago for good reasons but those materials are a key part of the design of something like Saturn-V.<p>So I imagine JWST 2.0 would be cheaper but 90% cheaper? I&#x27;m not convinced.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>A while back I raised a bit of a furor here saying that a duplicate could be made and launched at a tenth of the cost. A lot of people said I don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;m talking about, that little money would be saved.<p>But it seems patently obvious. After all, 10 technologies don&#x27;t have to be reinvented. No research would need to be redone. No test rigs would need to be redesigned and duplicated. And on and on.<p>The most bizarre argument against building a duplicate was there wouldn&#x27;t be anything extra worth looking at. Yet I watched the NOVA episode on the scope last night, and everywhere they look where we thought there was &quot;nothing&quot; turns out to be crammed with 10,000 galaxies and stars.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>The cost of launch is relatively low, meaning several hundred million out of a a $15-20B budget.<p>But a given launch system is deeply intertwined with designing the mission. The size, the weight and the mass distribution.<p>Moving parts are a nightmare for reliability. Every moving part is something that can cease up and go wrong. It&#x27;s a motor that can fail and gears that can get jammed.<p>JWST has two key components that involve a lot of moving parts:<p>1. The mirror. Hubble was smaller enough to be deployed fully constructed in the Space Shuttle so didn&#x27;t have to deploy in space. JWST&#x27;s mirror is 3-4x larger an there&#x27;s no current launch vehicle that could launch it fully assembled. That&#x27;s why you have all the beryllium hex mirrors that had to deploy the mirror once in orbit. These motors, actuators, assemblies, etc need to be <i>incredibly</i> precise and reliable; and<p>2. The heat shield. JWST has to be incredibly cold to operate (5K IIRC). The only way to get rid of heat in space is to radiate it away. The heat shield separates JWST from the Sun, the Earth and Moon (each of which reflect enough light to interfere with operations). The shield is several layers and it&#x27;s large, like tennis-court sized. Obviously this too had to be deployed in space.<p>There were like 10 technologies for JWST that had to be invented to make the mission possible. That&#x27;s less than ideal. It adds to the cost, the complexity and the timelines.<p>In hindsight it probably would&#x27;ve been worth having a stepping stone between Hubble and JWST that proved some of these technologies in a cheaper and less risky way, probably with a smaller mirror. But here we are.</text></item><item><author>derekp7</author><text>Question -- Is the cost of projects such as Webb so high because of high launch costs, which in turn has a cascade effect on limiting the the projects that get launched to space, and therefore requiring that they be built to higher specifications because you only get one shot at it? If so, then will the lower cost of space access from future vehicle development (such as Star Ship, and others that may follow) make projects such as future James Webb scopes and deep space probes much cheaper, if they know they can easily launch replacements and iterate the designs? Or is this just fantasy at this moment? I haven&#x27;t really found much other than speculation comments (such as mine), but would like to see a professional&#x27;s opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmyeet</author><text>The other 4 Earth Lagrange points are unsuitable for various reasons:<p>L1: between the Sun and the Earth. The Sun reflecting off the Earth would interfere with instruments.<p>L3: This is suitable for positioning but impractical because of distance from a communication and perspective.<p>L4 &amp; L5: these are unsuitable because they&#x27;re <i>stable</i>. Distance is an issue too. Why are stable Lagrange points unsuitable? Because things tend to collect there. Over the eons a whole bunch of crap has built up there and will continue to do so. That&#x27;s not what you want when dealing with sensitive instuments.<p>Now you could say that you could orbit L4 or L5 like JWST orbits L2 and that&#x27;s true but you still expend energy for stationkeeping. At L2 you spend energy to stay around the L2 point. At L4 and L5 you spend energy to avoid falling into the Lagrange point.<p>According to [1][2] it&#x27;s more expensive (in delta-V terms) to get to L4&#x2F;L5 than L2 but not hugely so.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;27010&#x2F;how-does-the-delta-v-to-reach-and-orbit-l4-and-l5-compare-to-entering-orbit-arou" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;27010&#x2F;how-does-the...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;57463&#x2F;what-is-the-delta-v-required-for-insertion-to-sun-earth-l2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;57463&#x2F;what-is-the-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, reluctantly</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/science/greg-robinson-webb-telescope-nasa.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>saalweachter</author><text>The obvious number to make is 5; currently we only have one at L2. What about L1, L3, L4 and L5?</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait for JWST 2.0, but we&#x27;re only talking about JWST #2. We&#x27;re not talking about upgrades, just another copy. I mean, it should be easy, right? It&#x27;s in the cloud so to speak, so just spin up another instance and push to a different region. No problemo.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure you&#x27;re correct.<p>Consider fabbing chips. Fabs spend an awful lot of time verifying the produced chips. I&#x27;ve seen estimates that verification cost exceeds fabrication cost.<p>How much of the development cost of JWST 2.0 would be spent on verification? I honestly don&#x27;t know but I would guess it&#x27;s high.<p>Another factor: part of making a production process is predicated on how many you&#x27;d build. We had a process for making Saturn-V rockets based on the number of Apollo missions we planned for. If you then up and decide you need 500 Saturn-Vs you might have to go through a whole new process for something that will scale that high.<p>Yet another factor: the launch vehicle. If you decide to do JWST 2.0 in 10 years, what launch vehicle will you use? The same one might not exist so the new mission will have to be designed for what is available.<p>And another: materials science changes. We don&#x27;t make the same materials that we did 50+ years ago for good reasons but those materials are a key part of the design of something like Saturn-V.<p>So I imagine JWST 2.0 would be cheaper but 90% cheaper? I&#x27;m not convinced.</text></item><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>A while back I raised a bit of a furor here saying that a duplicate could be made and launched at a tenth of the cost. A lot of people said I don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;m talking about, that little money would be saved.<p>But it seems patently obvious. After all, 10 technologies don&#x27;t have to be reinvented. No research would need to be redone. No test rigs would need to be redesigned and duplicated. And on and on.<p>The most bizarre argument against building a duplicate was there wouldn&#x27;t be anything extra worth looking at. Yet I watched the NOVA episode on the scope last night, and everywhere they look where we thought there was &quot;nothing&quot; turns out to be crammed with 10,000 galaxies and stars.</text></item><item><author>jmyeet</author><text>The cost of launch is relatively low, meaning several hundred million out of a a $15-20B budget.<p>But a given launch system is deeply intertwined with designing the mission. The size, the weight and the mass distribution.<p>Moving parts are a nightmare for reliability. Every moving part is something that can cease up and go wrong. It&#x27;s a motor that can fail and gears that can get jammed.<p>JWST has two key components that involve a lot of moving parts:<p>1. The mirror. Hubble was smaller enough to be deployed fully constructed in the Space Shuttle so didn&#x27;t have to deploy in space. JWST&#x27;s mirror is 3-4x larger an there&#x27;s no current launch vehicle that could launch it fully assembled. That&#x27;s why you have all the beryllium hex mirrors that had to deploy the mirror once in orbit. These motors, actuators, assemblies, etc need to be <i>incredibly</i> precise and reliable; and<p>2. The heat shield. JWST has to be incredibly cold to operate (5K IIRC). The only way to get rid of heat in space is to radiate it away. The heat shield separates JWST from the Sun, the Earth and Moon (each of which reflect enough light to interfere with operations). The shield is several layers and it&#x27;s large, like tennis-court sized. Obviously this too had to be deployed in space.<p>There were like 10 technologies for JWST that had to be invented to make the mission possible. That&#x27;s less than ideal. It adds to the cost, the complexity and the timelines.<p>In hindsight it probably would&#x27;ve been worth having a stepping stone between Hubble and JWST that proved some of these technologies in a cheaper and less risky way, probably with a smaller mirror. But here we are.</text></item><item><author>derekp7</author><text>Question -- Is the cost of projects such as Webb so high because of high launch costs, which in turn has a cascade effect on limiting the the projects that get launched to space, and therefore requiring that they be built to higher specifications because you only get one shot at it? If so, then will the lower cost of space access from future vehicle development (such as Star Ship, and others that may follow) make projects such as future James Webb scopes and deep space probes much cheaper, if they know they can easily launch replacements and iterate the designs? Or is this just fantasy at this moment? I haven&#x27;t really found much other than speculation comments (such as mine), but would like to see a professional&#x27;s opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>It has to be L2, because Webb needs the shade.<p>That still leaves the L2s of Venus, Mars, Jupiter etc.<p>And you can probably fit a few more into Earth L2.</text></comment> |
31,757,925 | 31,754,806 | 1 | 3 | 31,751,298 | train | <story><title>Price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life</title><url>https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-price-shocks-in-formative-years-scar-consumption-for-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>I cannot understand not having at least a couple hundred cash on you, and much more at home. What are people’s plans if the power or payment networks go offline? Earthquake, hurricane, ice storm, volcano, etc.</text></item><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>We were surprised to discover after her death (in the late 80&#x27;s) that my great grandmother kept $1,000 in a pouch in her bra. I can understand not trusting the banks and wanting to always have some sort of cash on your person.</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>My grandma did this. Never left a penny on the sidewalk, always took the bread from a breadbasket home. Even my parents absorbed some of that behavior despite being born in the next generation.</text></item><item><author>cs137</author><text>I worked in a grocery store in the late &#x27;90s, and the older customers (who grew up in the Great Depression) always carried penny pouches, because they remembered a time when one had to keep track of cents to survive.<p>This is how I know that, even if we miraculously fixed our medical system tomorrow and outlawed private health insurance by a constitutional amendment, we&#x27;ll still have, thirty years from now, 60-year-old Millennials dropping dead of preventable causes. The American healthcare system has already killed millions, but it&#x27;s also killed future millions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Brybry</author><text>While having some cash is good, if you&#x27;re planning ahead for a disaster it&#x27;s better to have <i>stuff</i> than cash cause in the event of disaster your ability to buy things is likely to be decreased.<p>Or at least that&#x27;s my experience from living in an area where hurricanes sometimes take down power for 2+ weeks.<p>When things shut down for a long time the government usually sets up free distribution of MREs and water and already having gas in your tank is more valuable than having cash to buy gas at the theoretical gas station with power to pump but not payment network access.</text></comment> | <story><title>Price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life</title><url>https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-price-shocks-in-formative-years-scar-consumption-for-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>I cannot understand not having at least a couple hundred cash on you, and much more at home. What are people’s plans if the power or payment networks go offline? Earthquake, hurricane, ice storm, volcano, etc.</text></item><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>We were surprised to discover after her death (in the late 80&#x27;s) that my great grandmother kept $1,000 in a pouch in her bra. I can understand not trusting the banks and wanting to always have some sort of cash on your person.</text></item><item><author>tootie</author><text>My grandma did this. Never left a penny on the sidewalk, always took the bread from a breadbasket home. Even my parents absorbed some of that behavior despite being born in the next generation.</text></item><item><author>cs137</author><text>I worked in a grocery store in the late &#x27;90s, and the older customers (who grew up in the Great Depression) always carried penny pouches, because they remembered a time when one had to keep track of cents to survive.<p>This is how I know that, even if we miraculously fixed our medical system tomorrow and outlawed private health insurance by a constitutional amendment, we&#x27;ll still have, thirty years from now, 60-year-old Millennials dropping dead of preventable causes. The American healthcare system has already killed millions, but it&#x27;s also killed future millions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Red_Leaves_Flyy</author><text>You obviously have considerable wealth if you think most people have the savings to keep hundreds of dollars on them at all times and much more at home. A large percentage of Americans can’t afford a $500 emergency. Also, many people don’t carry cash because they’re worried, rightfully or not, about being robbed. Same idea behind leaving stuff in your vehicle.</text></comment> |
13,603,044 | 13,603,132 | 1 | 3 | 13,601,451 | train | <story><title>The web sucks if you have a slow connection</title><url>https://danluu.com/web-bloat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gabemart</author><text>Something I have had at the back of my mind for a long time: in 2017, what&#x27;s the correct way to present optional resources that will improve the experience of users on fast&#x2F;uncapped connections, but that user agents on slow&#x2F;capped connections can safely ignore? Like hi-res hero images, or video backgrounds, etc.<p>Every time a similar question is posed on HN, someone says &quot;If the assets aren&#x27;t needed, don&#x27;t serve them in the first place&quot;, but this is i) unrealistic, and ii) ignores the fact that while the typical HN user may like sparsely designed, text-orientated pages with few images, this is not at all true of users in different demographics. And in those demos, it&#x27;s often not acceptable to degrade the experience of users on fast connections to accommodate users on slow connections.<p>So -- if I write a web page, and I want to include a large asset, but I want to indicate to user agents on slow&#x2F;capped connections that they don&#x27;t _need_ to download it, what approach should I take?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curun1r</author><text>This seems like the thing that we&#x27;d want cooperation with the browser vendors rather than everyone hacking together some JS to make it happen. If browsers could expose the available bandwidth as a media query, it would be trivial to have different resources for different connections.<p>This would also handle the situation where the available bandwidth isn&#x27;t indicative of whether the user wants the high-bandwidth experience. For example, if you&#x27;re on a non-unlimited mobile plan, it doesn&#x27;t take that long to load a 10mb image over 4G, but those 10mb chunks add up to overage charges pretty quickly, so the user may want to set his browser to report a lower bandwidth amount.</text></comment> | <story><title>The web sucks if you have a slow connection</title><url>https://danluu.com/web-bloat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gabemart</author><text>Something I have had at the back of my mind for a long time: in 2017, what&#x27;s the correct way to present optional resources that will improve the experience of users on fast&#x2F;uncapped connections, but that user agents on slow&#x2F;capped connections can safely ignore? Like hi-res hero images, or video backgrounds, etc.<p>Every time a similar question is posed on HN, someone says &quot;If the assets aren&#x27;t needed, don&#x27;t serve them in the first place&quot;, but this is i) unrealistic, and ii) ignores the fact that while the typical HN user may like sparsely designed, text-orientated pages with few images, this is not at all true of users in different demographics. And in those demos, it&#x27;s often not acceptable to degrade the experience of users on fast connections to accommodate users on slow connections.<p>So -- if I write a web page, and I want to include a large asset, but I want to indicate to user agents on slow&#x2F;capped connections that they don&#x27;t _need_ to download it, what approach should I take?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tommorris</author><text>There is a proposed API for that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wicg.github.io&#x2F;netinfo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wicg.github.io&#x2F;netinfo&#x2F;</a><p>And like most such APIs, it has been kicked around for a long time and it has only been adopted by Chromium on Android, ChromeOS and iOS. It&#x27;d be great if it were more widely adopted...</text></comment> |
40,804,262 | 40,804,220 | 1 | 3 | 40,802,676 | train | <story><title>Figma Slides</title><url>https://www.figma.com/slides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoz</author><text>At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here&#x27;s why Figma Slides has me excited:<p>- I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It&#x27;s particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google&#x27;s are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.<p>- Consistency. Google Slides will sometimes render the same text object with wrapping at different points on different machines. I shouldn&#x27;t have to manually add line breaks to deal with this.<p>- Precision and flexibility. Google Slides just isn&#x27;t anywhere near as smooth at design work as Figma. I don&#x27;t even consider myself a designer and yet I regularly hit Google Slides&#x27;s limitations.<p>- Layer&#x2F;object lists. (Note: I don&#x27;t see this in the Figma Slides demos, but I assume it&#x27;s available in design mode?) Once you have a bunch of shapes on a slide, especially grouped, it makes selection so much easier. I don&#x27;t want to play click roulette when trying to select one object from a pile.<p>(If you&#x27;re wondering why I&#x27;m focused on Google Slides: Apple Keynote is great but can&#x27;t collaborate through Google Workspace. I haven&#x27;t used PowerPoint much, it&#x27;s okay.)<p>UPDATE: I&#x27;ve now done a little playing with Figma Slides.<p>The good news is that it has an object list. But it&#x27;s only in Design Mode. (So it won&#x27;t be available to free or non-designer accounts - that&#x27;s a Figma thing.)<p>The bad news is that <i>in this beta</i> the animation tools are even less flexible than Google Slides: you can only choose from a limited set of transitions; those transitions apply to the entire slide, not to individual objects; and there&#x27;s no way to change the timing or easing. However, &quot;smart animate&quot; is one of the transitions, which does a Magic-Move-like &quot;move the objects in slide 1 to their positions in slide 2&quot;.<p>(Note the emphasis on <i>this beta</i>. Figma Slides won&#x27;t be considered GA until next year, so I&#x27;m hoping that all the animation tools from regular Figma will be available by then.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timr</author><text>All of the things you mentioned (save maybe layer lists) are why I fell in love with Keynote, and wish I could use it for all presentations.<p>Sadly, 99% of my time is spent in Google slides, which is like banging rocks together. Keynote&#x27;s ability to do things like introspect into postscript&#x2F;vector objects and align on lines <i>within the object</i> is one of those things that makes you re-evaluate how software should work.<p>I just wanted to praise Keynote, since it gets so little love.</text></comment> | <story><title>Figma Slides</title><url>https://www.figma.com/slides/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yoz</author><text>At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here&#x27;s why Figma Slides has me excited:<p>- I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It&#x27;s particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google&#x27;s are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.<p>- Consistency. Google Slides will sometimes render the same text object with wrapping at different points on different machines. I shouldn&#x27;t have to manually add line breaks to deal with this.<p>- Precision and flexibility. Google Slides just isn&#x27;t anywhere near as smooth at design work as Figma. I don&#x27;t even consider myself a designer and yet I regularly hit Google Slides&#x27;s limitations.<p>- Layer&#x2F;object lists. (Note: I don&#x27;t see this in the Figma Slides demos, but I assume it&#x27;s available in design mode?) Once you have a bunch of shapes on a slide, especially grouped, it makes selection so much easier. I don&#x27;t want to play click roulette when trying to select one object from a pile.<p>(If you&#x27;re wondering why I&#x27;m focused on Google Slides: Apple Keynote is great but can&#x27;t collaborate through Google Workspace. I haven&#x27;t used PowerPoint much, it&#x27;s okay.)<p>UPDATE: I&#x27;ve now done a little playing with Figma Slides.<p>The good news is that it has an object list. But it&#x27;s only in Design Mode. (So it won&#x27;t be available to free or non-designer accounts - that&#x27;s a Figma thing.)<p>The bad news is that <i>in this beta</i> the animation tools are even less flexible than Google Slides: you can only choose from a limited set of transitions; those transitions apply to the entire slide, not to individual objects; and there&#x27;s no way to change the timing or easing. However, &quot;smart animate&quot; is one of the transitions, which does a Magic-Move-like &quot;move the objects in slide 1 to their positions in slide 2&quot;.<p>(Note the emphasis on <i>this beta</i>. Figma Slides won&#x27;t be considered GA until next year, so I&#x27;m hoping that all the animation tools from regular Figma will be available by then.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mintplant</author><text>Agreed with all your pain points. I push Google Slides pretty close to its limits for my talks, and it&#x27;s got its quirks and limitations, but other presentation software I&#x27;ve looked at doesn&#x27;t have the same flexibility in terms of drawing, shadowing, adding borders to arbitrary objects, etc. So I&#x27;m very excited to see this problem approached from a vector-illustration perspective.</text></comment> |
22,037,790 | 22,020,873 | 1 | 2 | 22,011,798 | train | <story><title>Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California worker law</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-california/uber-stops-upfront-ride-pricing-in-response-to-california-worker-law-idUSKBN1Z731Z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmaswell</author><text>So now people not in a city center will never get rides. Wonderful outcome, very progressive.</text></item><item><author>blendergeek</author><text>I am an Uber Driver. I have been wanting changes like this ever since I started driving. I saw people asking, &#x27;how does this make drivers less employee like?&#x27; I&#x27;ll tell you this. It makes us feel less like employees when we actually have enough information to choose whether or not we want to take a ride. Now we will be able to see the estimated fare before we take a specific ride. There will be no more driving 20 minutes to a ride only to discover that it will be a half mile ride that wastes another twenty minutes at a convenience store netting us $3 for 40 minutes of our time. I will simply skip any ride like that. We feel less like employees and more like the contractors we are supposed to be when we know why Uber gets a certain percentage of the fare. I wholeheartedly agree with the changes Uber is making.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Can you please not post in the snarky or flamewar style to HN? It&#x27;s against the rules, and evokes worse from others, as demonstrated below.<p>We&#x27;re trying for thoughtful conversation here. If you wouldn&#x27;t mind reviewing <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a> and taking that spirit to heart, we&#x27;d be grateful.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California worker law</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-california/uber-stops-upfront-ride-pricing-in-response-to-california-worker-law-idUSKBN1Z731Z</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmaswell</author><text>So now people not in a city center will never get rides. Wonderful outcome, very progressive.</text></item><item><author>blendergeek</author><text>I am an Uber Driver. I have been wanting changes like this ever since I started driving. I saw people asking, &#x27;how does this make drivers less employee like?&#x27; I&#x27;ll tell you this. It makes us feel less like employees when we actually have enough information to choose whether or not we want to take a ride. Now we will be able to see the estimated fare before we take a specific ride. There will be no more driving 20 minutes to a ride only to discover that it will be a half mile ride that wastes another twenty minutes at a convenience store netting us $3 for 40 minutes of our time. I will simply skip any ride like that. We feel less like employees and more like the contractors we are supposed to be when we know why Uber gets a certain percentage of the fare. I wholeheartedly agree with the changes Uber is making.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blendergeek</author><text>I drive in smallish city. I never drive more than ten minutes for a ride. This means that at night (when I&#x27;m the only one on the road) some people don&#x27;t get rides. I know it would be nice if we had people who could drive around on their own dime and give everybody rides, unfortunately that does not exist. I will happily go anywhere in a city where a ride will be worth my time and effort. We could increase the cost of short rides and pay the drivers (and charge the drivers) for the time spent driving to the rides. Then the drivers will come.<p>However, you are asking that drivers be willing to take 40 minutes out of their day to make 3 dollars. These drivers often barely make it by as it is. That is neither profitable or sustainable.</text></comment> |
12,656,201 | 12,655,662 | 1 | 2 | 12,655,114 | train | <story><title>Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602541/physicists-create-worlds-first-time-crystal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davesque</author><text>I figured this article would fly over my head (which it mostly did), but it was actually a very fun read. My main takeaway was the paradox that the interesting arrangement of matter could be in its lowest energy state, yet still moving. And that no energy could be extracted from this movement. I&#x27;m probably butchering the concept with my misuse of terminology but whatevs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602541/physicists-create-worlds-first-time-crystal/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dysfunctor</author><text>I don&#x27;t know anything about anything, but I want to enumerate some things I learned reading this article, and if someone actually knows what they&#x27;re talking about and sees fit to take pity on me, please correct me so that I can understand what this actually means.<p>So a time crystal appears to be made up of real matter. The article mentions ions that are arranged in a certain particular way, cooled in order to reduce their energy, and this still makes sense so far.<p>So, the idea is to create a closed loop of sorts from a temporal perspective. I&#x27;m imagining an object as a set of states that the object can be observed in, and if there was a loop, it&#x27;d be possible to observe a certain sequence of states over and over.<p>The arrangement of the ions is important, and one of the properties is the spin, which is possible to change with a laser beam, because obviously.<p>Anyways, I guess the frequency of the oscillation of the ions changing spin, since they interact with each other in a domino fashion, can be controlled with the frequency of the laser.<p>They did this, and observed the ions changing in such a way where there was no driving influence and it&#x27;s implied that the reason that this behavior was observed is because time symmetry was broken, which is just a fancy way of alleging that the universe is non-deterministic, I think.<p>Maybe this will eventually be useful?</text></comment> |
9,582,118 | 9,580,258 | 1 | 3 | 9,580,057 | train | <story><title>Jeri Ellsworth, self-taught engineer, talks about her career (2011) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLy0mVkoLio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gluelogic</author><text>Jeri Ellsworth is a wizard! A huge inspiration to me.<p>I always loved this floppy drive reverb she made: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Xpr7B-7BFP4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Xpr7B-7BFP4</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Jeri Ellsworth, self-taught engineer, talks about her career (2011) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLy0mVkoLio</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>radoslawc</author><text>I didn&#x27;t know her story. Amazing person.</text></comment> |
3,144,080 | 3,143,641 | 1 | 2 | 3,143,525 | train | <story><title>An analysis of Steve Jobs tribute messages displayed by Apple</title><url>http://www.neilkodner.com/2011/10/an-analysis-of-steve-jobs-tribute-messages-displayed-by-apple/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unreal37</author><text>Funny that most of the references to "Newton" seem to be Issac Newton and not the Apple product.</text></comment> | <story><title>An analysis of Steve Jobs tribute messages displayed by Apple</title><url>http://www.neilkodner.com/2011/10/an-analysis-of-steve-jobs-tribute-messages-displayed-by-apple/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thisduck</author><text>Wouldn't the regex for "mac" also match "macintosh" and "imac" and inflate the numbers?</text></comment> |
15,880,423 | 15,880,088 | 1 | 3 | 15,877,838 | train | <story><title>The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarkmoody</author><text>Government-issued currencies usually come with legal tender laws and citizens are required to pay taxes using the government money. Since taxes are not voluntary, this creates built-in demand for the fiat money. The creators of alternative competitor-money are punished as well. The libertarian position is that human interactions should be voluntary, so the coercion problem is where libertarians find issue first.<p>A side note here about capital controls: Bitcoin allows money to be borderless, which is natural. Capital controls are an artificial construct of the state, often used to prop up the perpetually failing fiat money.<p>The second issue is economic. When the money supply of your currency is not constrained (by gold, or otherwise), then it inevitably inflates, often unpredictably and uncontrollably. The death of a fiat money usually has disastrous effects on the people, especially on the poor. Unfortunately, fiat money has a short lifespan, on average.<p>The libertarian position on wealth inequality is that as long as the distribution of wealth was determined voluntarily (without state privilege, in particular), then there is no problem. Bitcoin is such a system: all participation in Bitcoin has been voluntary. Early adopters took a big risk on a fledgling technology, and some have been rewarded with handsome returns.<p>Early writing about cypherpunk money usually mentions anonymity, which Bitcoin does not have (yet).<p><i>&gt; Where is this experiment going in the long run?</i><p>Isn&#x27;t that the trillion-dollar question? :-)</text></item><item><author>sevensor</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to see how this is playing out. Libertarians have long argued that government-issued fiat currency is a tool of state oppression. Now we have a real-world experiment demonstrating on a grand scale what happens when you create a currency by consensual fiat. I&#x27;d be interested to hear what libertarians think about this: Is Bitcoin truly the kind of currency libertarians have been advocating? Have I mischaracterized the libertarian position? What do you think about the concentration of Bitcoins in the hands of a small number of people? Where is this experiment going in the long run?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Emma_Goldman</author><text>I&#x27;m not a moral realist so I think that libertarian philosophy is nothing but the most venal elements of capitalism congealed in thought, but I should add that the classical formulation of libertarianism is internally incoherent. You omit that for any transaction to be legitimate it must not only be voluntary but must also consist of the exchange of things legitimately acquired in the past, i.e. voluntarily acquired. This chain of voluntary exchange is what is supposed to grant one a title to that thing. But of course, in reality, that does not exist in the least. The distribution of things over history is primarily a function of brute coercion and happenstance. Nozick knew as much, and his suggestion is as pitiful as his scruples: we need to &#x27;reset&#x27; society according to the Rawlsian difference principle and <i>then</i> begin our libertarian accounting.<p>In any case, I can&#x27;t take seriously anyone who thinks that humans aren&#x27;t interested in freedom because they want to be free to <i>do</i> things, i.e. I want to be free to see my family not only in that I don&#x27;t want someone to stop me from doing so, but I also want the means to be able to do so. The one is more or less pointless without the other. And that obviously requires more than negative liberty. Or that, in another vein, that capitalist enterprises are not vehicles of accumulated power that sustain themselves by exploiting workers, ordered along hierarchical top-down principles. One only need step into sociological reality to see as much.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarkmoody</author><text>Government-issued currencies usually come with legal tender laws and citizens are required to pay taxes using the government money. Since taxes are not voluntary, this creates built-in demand for the fiat money. The creators of alternative competitor-money are punished as well. The libertarian position is that human interactions should be voluntary, so the coercion problem is where libertarians find issue first.<p>A side note here about capital controls: Bitcoin allows money to be borderless, which is natural. Capital controls are an artificial construct of the state, often used to prop up the perpetually failing fiat money.<p>The second issue is economic. When the money supply of your currency is not constrained (by gold, or otherwise), then it inevitably inflates, often unpredictably and uncontrollably. The death of a fiat money usually has disastrous effects on the people, especially on the poor. Unfortunately, fiat money has a short lifespan, on average.<p>The libertarian position on wealth inequality is that as long as the distribution of wealth was determined voluntarily (without state privilege, in particular), then there is no problem. Bitcoin is such a system: all participation in Bitcoin has been voluntary. Early adopters took a big risk on a fledgling technology, and some have been rewarded with handsome returns.<p>Early writing about cypherpunk money usually mentions anonymity, which Bitcoin does not have (yet).<p><i>&gt; Where is this experiment going in the long run?</i><p>Isn&#x27;t that the trillion-dollar question? :-)</text></item><item><author>sevensor</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting to see how this is playing out. Libertarians have long argued that government-issued fiat currency is a tool of state oppression. Now we have a real-world experiment demonstrating on a grand scale what happens when you create a currency by consensual fiat. I&#x27;d be interested to hear what libertarians think about this: Is Bitcoin truly the kind of currency libertarians have been advocating? Have I mischaracterized the libertarian position? What do you think about the concentration of Bitcoins in the hands of a small number of people? Where is this experiment going in the long run?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xg15</author><text>&gt; <i>The libertarian position on wealth inequality is that as long as the distribution of wealth was determined voluntarily (without state privilege, in particular), then there is no problem. Bitcoin is such a system: all participation in Bitcoin has been voluntary. Early adopters took a big risk on a fledgling technology, and some have been rewarded with handsome returns.</i><p>I could never really make sense of that position. Voluntarily <i>by whom</i>? Why would you ever voluntarily agree to a high-inequality society <i>where you are at the lower end</i>?<p>I don&#x27;t think bitcoin is a valid example because it&#x27;s something that (right now) you can choose to ignore completely without any negative consequences for you. Therefore, high inequality is not necessarily a problem.<p>The moment bitcoin would become the single dominating currency, the situation would be completely different.</text></comment> |
33,541,700 | 33,537,585 | 1 | 2 | 33,534,801 | train | <story><title>Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/11/thunderbird-supernova-preview-the-new-calendar-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>Looks nice to me, granted I have not been following Thunderbird, as I believed it to be dead[0] over a decade ago. Its nice to see that the community has keep it alive!<p>For Thunderbird users, do you find it interfaces well with Google Workspace Email (Gmail) and Calendar? I prefer native clients to their interface usually but Apple Mail isn&#x27;t the greatest so I&#x27;ve been using the web interface and I don&#x27;t particularly enjoy it.<p>I use BusyCal for calendar and I like it, but I&#x27;d love to have it in a &quot;suite&quot; like this, just makes things easier.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;7&#x2F;6&#x2F;3142046&#x2F;mozilla-halt-further-development-thunderbird" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;7&#x2F;6&#x2F;3142046&#x2F;mozilla-halt-furth...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnull</author><text>It works fine, unless you want to use Google Calendar and a non-Gmail email together. Then it goes nuts and makes your Gmail send out calendar invites instead of the email you use.</text></comment> | <story><title>Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design</title><url>https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/11/thunderbird-supernova-preview-the-new-calendar-design/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>no_wizard</author><text>Looks nice to me, granted I have not been following Thunderbird, as I believed it to be dead[0] over a decade ago. Its nice to see that the community has keep it alive!<p>For Thunderbird users, do you find it interfaces well with Google Workspace Email (Gmail) and Calendar? I prefer native clients to their interface usually but Apple Mail isn&#x27;t the greatest so I&#x27;ve been using the web interface and I don&#x27;t particularly enjoy it.<p>I use BusyCal for calendar and I like it, but I&#x27;d love to have it in a &quot;suite&quot; like this, just makes things easier.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;7&#x2F;6&#x2F;3142046&#x2F;mozilla-halt-further-development-thunderbird" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;7&#x2F;6&#x2F;3142046&#x2F;mozilla-halt-furth...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RachelF</author><text>I&#x27;ve used Thunderbird with GMail for years, using POP, not IMAP.<p>It works well. However, in the last few months, the GMail Spam filtering service has stopped working with POP. Items marked as Spam in GMail still get downloaded.<p>I guess Google wants us to use their web-client.</text></comment> |
6,776,232 | 6,776,036 | 1 | 2 | 6,775,871 | train | <story><title>Debugging Python Like a Boss</title><url>https://zapier.com/engineering/debugging-python-boss</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haberman</author><text>Debuggers are cool and often necessary, but I disagree with this often-expressed sentiment that print-debugging is a primitive hack for people who don&#x27;t know any better.<p>Debugging is determining the point at which the program&#x27;s <i>expected</i> behavior diverges from its <i>actual</i> behavior. You often don&#x27;t know where where&#x2F;when this is happening. Print-debugging can give you a transcript of the program&#x27;s execution, which you can look at to hone in on the moment where things go wrong. Stepping through a program&#x27;s execution line-by-line and checking your assumptions can be a lot slower in some cases. And most debuggers can&#x27;t go backwards, so if you miss the critical moment you have to start all over again.<p>These are two tools in the toolbox; using print debugging does not mean you are not &quot;a boss.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Debugging Python Like a Boss</title><url>https://zapier.com/engineering/debugging-python-boss</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>A good list of libraries, but please, don&#x27;t use this in the middle of your code to set a break point:<p><pre><code> import pdb; pdb.set_trace();
</code></pre>
There&#x27;s a chance you forget this, check-in, and it ends in production. Use pdb facilities instead:<p><pre><code> $ python -m pdb &lt;myscript&gt;
</code></pre>
Then set a breakpoint and continue:<p><pre><code> (Pdb) break &lt;filename.py&gt;:&lt;line&gt;
(Pdb) c
</code></pre>
This is trivial to automate from any editor or command line, so you don&#x27;t even have to guess the path to the file.<p>EDIT: For the lazy, here&#x27;s a script to set breakpoints from the command line and run your scripts:<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/hcarvalhoalves/7587621" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;hcarvalhoalves&#x2F;7587621</a></text></comment> |
23,258,082 | 23,257,907 | 1 | 2 | 23,257,645 | train | <story><title>How Nextdoor courts police and public officials</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/05/nextdoor-local-partnerships-police-government-privacy-app/611827/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blakesterz</author><text>Nextdoor seems to be one of those sites that divide people, especially here. I&#x27;m more or less on the fence with this one. It seems decent enough in my neighborhood. Just this week it was the only place I could look to find out what exploded in the middle of the night (It was a transformer). The posts and comments tend to be pretty decent, usually. We seem to be avoiding the things that seem to be a problem in other areas, at least so far. Like the article says &quot;Nextdoor has also been a hotbed of racial profiling and tattling.&quot; and I&#x27;ve not seen much of that here.<p>If anything this article says &quot;Nextdoor is doing the same thing as every other company&quot;, which doesn&#x27;t make me less likely to use the site from time to time.<p>I do agree with it though... “You want a police officer who has the best interests of their specific community at heart. You don’t want a police officer who’s brand loyal.”</text></comment> | <story><title>How Nextdoor courts police and public officials</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/05/nextdoor-local-partnerships-police-government-privacy-app/611827/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>everybodyknows</author><text>&gt;they’d stay at the Hilton Union Square, eat and drink at Cultivar, share a tour of Chinatown, and receive matching Uniqlo jackets. All costs — a projected $16,900 for the group,<p>&gt; “We look to you as influencers in your industry,”<p>So, turn local cops into part-time salespeople for Nextdoor, and its advertising clients. What could go wrong?</text></comment> |
37,719,738 | 37,719,787 | 1 | 2 | 37,718,472 | train | <story><title>54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy</title><url>https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-09-30/54-of-portugals-electricity-is-now-generated-by-renewable-energy/81840</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vmsp</author><text>I&#x27;d like to offer a more critical perspective as a Portuguese living in Portugal.<p>We&#x27;re a country with very severe economical, financial, social and health problems which have been unsolved for years. Living in Portugal is a hard and it&#x27;s expected it will get harder and harder. We have tons of young people leaving the country every year.<p>Our CO2 emissions are like 0.15% of the total and our per-capita emissions are already lower than for ex. Germany. We basically have no industry. If we could wave a magic wand and completely stop our CO2 emissions it wouldn&#x27;t move the needle on global warming at all.<p>Notwithstanding these facts, the government went all in on renewables and cutting down on emissions -- despite it not making any sense -- because it&#x27;s a popular measure across all age groups.<p>Energy companies had to invest in still unproven renewable tech which was very costly. As a result, energy companies then had to amortize this investment and now we have one the highest energy prices in all of Europe. Had we chosen to start investing in renewables more recently, like Brazil, we would be buying better and cheaper tech.<p>So, we -- the Portuguese -- are worse, overall, because of these short sighted measures. But, hey, at least we get good press.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dubcanada</author><text>A few things<p>&gt; If we could wave a magic wand and completely stop our CO2 emissions it wouldn&#x27;t move the needle on global warming at all.<p>Some people completely ignore the fact that it does help, it may not help the ozone above China, but having a country that is not pumping out ash and other byproducts into the air does make it citizens healthier. They live longer, they have less health issues, they pay more taxes (potentially longer job life span), and they are happier. So regardless of the short sighted &quot;we are too small to do anything&quot; statement. It does help.<p>&gt; Notwithstanding these facts, the government went all in on renewables and cutting down on emissions -- despite it not making any sense -- because it&#x27;s a popular measure across all age groups.<p>Another interesting statement, should it not make sense for a government to do what it&#x27;s citizens want?<p>&gt; Energy companies had to invest in still unproven renewable tech which was very costly.<p>Solar is fairly new, but wind is certainly not new in any fashion, along with water it is one of the oldest forms of energy generation that exist. If anything coal&#x2F;nuclear are newer than wind. And tidal assuming a stable tidal pattern is also an easy engineering issue to solve. I am not sure beyond solar you can argue &quot;unproven renewable tech&quot;.<p>&gt; Had we chosen to start investing in renewables more recently, like Brazil, we would be buying better and cheaper tech.<p>You can&#x27;t really say that, if that&#x27;s an argument then nobody would ever buy anything, because it could always be better and cheaper later.<p>I get the reasoning for your statement, because investing in natural gas or other oil methods like that can provide more faster for the general populace. But there is no reason that renewable cannot ALSO do that, it&#x27;s just nobody has an example of such case. And there are plenty of examples with gas.</text></comment> | <story><title>54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy</title><url>https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-09-30/54-of-portugals-electricity-is-now-generated-by-renewable-energy/81840</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vmsp</author><text>I&#x27;d like to offer a more critical perspective as a Portuguese living in Portugal.<p>We&#x27;re a country with very severe economical, financial, social and health problems which have been unsolved for years. Living in Portugal is a hard and it&#x27;s expected it will get harder and harder. We have tons of young people leaving the country every year.<p>Our CO2 emissions are like 0.15% of the total and our per-capita emissions are already lower than for ex. Germany. We basically have no industry. If we could wave a magic wand and completely stop our CO2 emissions it wouldn&#x27;t move the needle on global warming at all.<p>Notwithstanding these facts, the government went all in on renewables and cutting down on emissions -- despite it not making any sense -- because it&#x27;s a popular measure across all age groups.<p>Energy companies had to invest in still unproven renewable tech which was very costly. As a result, energy companies then had to amortize this investment and now we have one the highest energy prices in all of Europe. Had we chosen to start investing in renewables more recently, like Brazil, we would be buying better and cheaper tech.<p>So, we -- the Portuguese -- are worse, overall, because of these short sighted measures. But, hey, at least we get good press.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conjecTech</author><text>Something like 80% of Portugal&#x27;s solar has been installed since 2018[1], when solar was on-par with if not cheaper than any other form of electricity generation. And that&#x27;s from aggregate perspective, the economics are definitely better for Portugal. There were PPA being signed in similar geographies for 3c&#x2F;kwh that year. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the defrayed cost from lower fossil fuel usage just since the start of war in Ukraine has fully offset the cost of the installation. I&#x27;m not sure why you think this has been so costly for average citizens.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pv-tech.org&#x2F;portugal-installs-more-solar-pv-in-2022-so-far-than-all-of-2021&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pv-tech.org&#x2F;portugal-installs-more-solar-pv-in-2...</a></text></comment> |
15,636,315 | 15,634,412 | 1 | 3 | 15,633,852 | train | <story><title>Bitfinex never ‘repaid’ their tokens, they started a ponzi scheme</title><url>https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-never-repaid-their-tokens-bitfinex-started-a-ponzi-scheme-86a9291add29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisisit</author><text>Reading this article made me wonder - how much of the bitcoin rally is due to counterparty risks?<p>If I remember correctly the last ramp up happened during Mt. Gox era. They were having USD withdrawal issues which resulted in BTC prices being very high on the exchange. But it din&#x27;t deter them from publishing prices and making markets.<p>Now is the case of Bitfinex suffered from a hack like Mt. Gox and are trying to stay afloat. As per coinmarketcap, has nearly 15% of bitcoin volume which is pretty high to ensure market follows in-step to their market making. A quick search on Google turns up pages of people asking about Bitfinex withdrawals.<p>For people who are curious about this, there was an article yesterday about Zimbabwean Bitcoin soaring to 12k USD, which obviously hinges a lot on counterparty risks and resulting low liquidity:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15627608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15627608</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panarky</author><text>If this was true then you&#x27;d expect the exchange rate on Bitfinex to be much higher than other exchanges.<p>If you can&#x27;t get USD out of Bitfinex, you&#x27;d buy BTC and withdraw, pushing the exchange rate up on Bitfinex. Then you&#x27;d sell the BTC on another exchange, pushing the exchange rate down there.<p>We&#x27;re not seeing that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2vxV7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;2vxV7</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bitfinex never ‘repaid’ their tokens, they started a ponzi scheme</title><url>https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-never-repaid-their-tokens-bitfinex-started-a-ponzi-scheme-86a9291add29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thisisit</author><text>Reading this article made me wonder - how much of the bitcoin rally is due to counterparty risks?<p>If I remember correctly the last ramp up happened during Mt. Gox era. They were having USD withdrawal issues which resulted in BTC prices being very high on the exchange. But it din&#x27;t deter them from publishing prices and making markets.<p>Now is the case of Bitfinex suffered from a hack like Mt. Gox and are trying to stay afloat. As per coinmarketcap, has nearly 15% of bitcoin volume which is pretty high to ensure market follows in-step to their market making. A quick search on Google turns up pages of people asking about Bitfinex withdrawals.<p>For people who are curious about this, there was an article yesterday about Zimbabwean Bitcoin soaring to 12k USD, which obviously hinges a lot on counterparty risks and resulting low liquidity:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15627608" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=15627608</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>al_chemist</author><text>&gt; Now is the case of Bitfinex suffered from a hack like Mt. Gox and are trying to stay afloat.<p>They were hacked few years ago.</text></comment> |
5,102,325 | 5,102,240 | 1 | 2 | 5,102,000 | train | <story><title>Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan</title><url>http://www.scribd.com/doc/121737673/Colligan-Affidavit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philp</author><text>Appalling.<p>Maybe somebody with a legal education that eclipses mine can chime in here, but isn't this whole exchange just mired in liability landmines? For starters, Jobs is trying to coerce a non-compete clause out of Colligan. To the best of my knowledge, that is just flat out illegal in California. Then we have the pretty much blatant threat of unrelated patent litigation if Palm chooses not to cooperate with the aforementioned hiring policy. Shouldn't that be regarded as extortion?<p>Would love to hear an expert opinion on why this exchange even took place in any traceable from. I imagine an Apple lawyer would see Jobs type this up and just burn the whole place to the ground...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>will_brown</author><text>Philip let me address the three legal issues you seemed curious about.<p>1. Non-compete clauses are not exactly "illegal" in California rather unenforceable. They are put into agreements typically as boiler plate "I agree for a period of 'x' I will not work for a company that competes with employer or start my own." So if you were hired in California and went to work for a competing company in California, it would be safe to say if there was a non-compete" clause in the original contract the courts would not enforce it. However, these are multi-national corporations so non-compete clauses can be enforceable in a lot of jurisdictions outside California.<p>2. As it relates to the idea that Apple was trying to sign an agreement with Palm not to hire each others employees, anti-compete is between the employer/employee not two competing companies, so the companies have the contractual right to enter into these agreements. <i></i>*This may be a general rule, but your gut instinct is right on because there are a number of exceptions that would make agreements between competing companies illegal, for example if they had an effect of price fixing.<p>3. Apple's approach of "threatening lawsuit" for patent infringement is not tactful, but not extortion either. Laws on this point can be very strict, for example you cannot necessarily threaten lawsuit, but Apple is within its right to send cease and desist with formal demand when it feels its patents are being violated. Naturally, part of a demand is agreement to not pursue the lawsuit if the demand is met. It may sound like extortion, but do not forget Palm does not have to agree to the terms of the demand (Palm might not even be violating Apple patents) and Palm can always take its chances in court and even if they lost they could still hire Apple employees.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan</title><url>http://www.scribd.com/doc/121737673/Colligan-Affidavit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philp</author><text>Appalling.<p>Maybe somebody with a legal education that eclipses mine can chime in here, but isn't this whole exchange just mired in liability landmines? For starters, Jobs is trying to coerce a non-compete clause out of Colligan. To the best of my knowledge, that is just flat out illegal in California. Then we have the pretty much blatant threat of unrelated patent litigation if Palm chooses not to cooperate with the aforementioned hiring policy. Shouldn't that be regarded as extortion?<p>Would love to hear an expert opinion on why this exchange even took place in any traceable from. I imagine an Apple lawyer would see Jobs type this up and just burn the whole place to the ground...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajsharp</author><text>I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure what Jobs was suggesting was some form of collusion. I don't know that his threats could be held up as extortion, but collusion is a prosecutable offense. My question is, what might be the statute of limitations on something like this? Does it disappear with the passing of Jobs, or could Apple still be held responsible for this?</text></comment> |
32,133,525 | 32,127,604 | 1 | 2 | 32,127,363 | train | <story><title>Bear Blog – A privacy-first, fast blogging platform</title><url>https://bearblog.dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>&gt;no stylesheets<p>Well, there is a fair amount of css wrapped in &lt;style&gt; tags. Not sure I understand the upside of not putting it in a separate file.<p>Though the look is reasonably pleasant.<p>Edit: The example blog also loads js, despite the &quot;no javascript&quot; claim. Like: <i>&lt;script src=&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.usefathom.com&#x2F;script.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.usefathom.com&#x2F;script.js</a>&quot; data-site=&quot;WKWMFTPV&quot; defer&gt;&lt;&#x2F;script&gt;</i>. Perhaps that&#x27;s not a default thing, but it seems odd to link to an example blog that doesn&#x27;t match the sales pitch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HermanMartinus</author><text>Creator here. So it may be a bit pedantic, but yes, there are styles (pure HTML isn&#x27;t the most pleasant to read) but no external stylesheets.<p>I ran a bunch of tests when setting it up to see what loads faster and it turns out the &lt;style&gt; tag in the head, with such minimal styles outperformed external stylesheets (even though the browser can cache them). With styles so small once the html page is loaded (at 2-5kb gzipped) the styles are immediate, whereas even if retrieving from browser cache the html needs to load first before it can take effect.<p>The second bit with Fathom analytics is that users can optionally connect Fathom to their accounts (this is the only analytics tool you can connect since they have a track record of being trustworthy). But yes, it is technically included JS.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bear Blog – A privacy-first, fast blogging platform</title><url>https://bearblog.dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>&gt;no stylesheets<p>Well, there is a fair amount of css wrapped in &lt;style&gt; tags. Not sure I understand the upside of not putting it in a separate file.<p>Though the look is reasonably pleasant.<p>Edit: The example blog also loads js, despite the &quot;no javascript&quot; claim. Like: <i>&lt;script src=&quot;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.usefathom.com&#x2F;script.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.usefathom.com&#x2F;script.js</a>&quot; data-site=&quot;WKWMFTPV&quot; defer&gt;&lt;&#x2F;script&gt;</i>. Perhaps that&#x27;s not a default thing, but it seems odd to link to an example blog that doesn&#x27;t match the sales pitch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kaze404</author><text>Inline CSS has the benefit of not making a second HTTP request, as well as (if I recall correctly) rendering the page styled from the get go, as opposed to once unstyled and once again when the CSS has finished downloading.</text></comment> |
19,113,259 | 19,112,016 | 1 | 2 | 19,108,787 | train | <story><title>Why are we templating YAML?</title><url>https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2019/02/07/why-are-we-templating-yaml.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>&gt; Syntactic whitespace kills me.<p>Okay, I&#x27;m gonna be the asshole in the room, but how hard is it to just use consistent indentation? I can&#x27;t count how many times I&#x27;ve heard people complain about significant whitespace in languages.<p>Not only is it not difficult to begin with, but every code editor and IDE will show you where there&#x27;s a syntax error in your YAML. People are free to dislike YAML, even for its significant whitespace, but how does it &quot;kill you&quot;?<p>Look at this example from the article:<p>```<p>something: nothing<p><pre><code> hello: goodbye
</code></pre>
```<p>This is pure sloppiness, and anyone who has trouble carelessly adding pointless bytes to code, no matter the language, is sloppy. I don&#x27;t understand why people criticize YAML and Python because &quot;whitespace is hard&quot;.<p>P.S.: There&#x27;s a similar configuration language called ArchieML, which is similar to YAML but doesn&#x27;t have significant whitespace.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archieml.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archieml.org</a></text></item><item><author>BossingAround</author><text>I know I&#x27;m in a minority, but I really dislike YAML... I recently did a lot of Ansible and boy, at the beginning, I was just struggling a lot. Syntactic whitespace kills me.<p>I don&#x27;t like it in Python either, but for some reason, when I write Python, it&#x27;s a lot easier. Maybe YAML is just a bit more complex (and Python has better IDE support..?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Three big things that annoy me even though I&#x27;m happily writing Python:<p>- &quot;cut and paste and edit&quot; is broken. You can&#x27;t autoformat the pasted code into the right place, you have to go back and fix the whitespace. Since whitespace is semantically significant, this can introduce bugs.<p>- visually identical whitespace may not be textually identical whitespace. Unless you go around breaking the tab key off your colleague&#x27;s keyboards you&#x27;ll trip over this. Especially (again) if you paste. Occasionally seen in merges too.<p>- editors can no longer give you 100% correct indentation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are we templating YAML?</title><url>https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2019/02/07/why-are-we-templating-yaml.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ravenstine</author><text>&gt; Syntactic whitespace kills me.<p>Okay, I&#x27;m gonna be the asshole in the room, but how hard is it to just use consistent indentation? I can&#x27;t count how many times I&#x27;ve heard people complain about significant whitespace in languages.<p>Not only is it not difficult to begin with, but every code editor and IDE will show you where there&#x27;s a syntax error in your YAML. People are free to dislike YAML, even for its significant whitespace, but how does it &quot;kill you&quot;?<p>Look at this example from the article:<p>```<p>something: nothing<p><pre><code> hello: goodbye
</code></pre>
```<p>This is pure sloppiness, and anyone who has trouble carelessly adding pointless bytes to code, no matter the language, is sloppy. I don&#x27;t understand why people criticize YAML and Python because &quot;whitespace is hard&quot;.<p>P.S.: There&#x27;s a similar configuration language called ArchieML, which is similar to YAML but doesn&#x27;t have significant whitespace.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archieml.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archieml.org</a></text></item><item><author>BossingAround</author><text>I know I&#x27;m in a minority, but I really dislike YAML... I recently did a lot of Ansible and boy, at the beginning, I was just struggling a lot. Syntactic whitespace kills me.<p>I don&#x27;t like it in Python either, but for some reason, when I write Python, it&#x27;s a lot easier. Maybe YAML is just a bit more complex (and Python has better IDE support..?)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>In the YAML case: It&#x27;s hard if you don&#x27;t have editor support and good diagnostics. Not because you&#x27;re unusually sloppy, but because you make human mistakes and because you don&#x27;t know the syntax. (YAML syntax is surprisingly complex and poorly documented in the pedagogic sense). Also, the edit-debug cycle is slow with Ansible or YAML-using CI systems, so this is doubly painful.<p>In the Python case it&#x27;s much better, because people less often casually edit .py files without editor support, and because Python has good diagnostics and it&#x27;s much much harder to produce syntactically correct but semantically wrong Python by whitespace mixups.</text></comment> |
28,604,793 | 28,604,692 | 1 | 3 | 28,581,812 | train | <story><title>Rust on the MOS 6502: Beyond Fibonacci</title><url>https://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2021-09-18-rust_on_the_mos_6502__beyond_fibonacci/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>I haven&#x27;t looked at this closely, but 6502 <i>really</i> doesn&#x27;t lend itself to C compilation. Three registers, only one of which works with the ALU, awkward immovable stack, etc.<p>The 65816 is a better target (moveable direct page and stack and some wider registers), but also awkward with its register mode switching.</text></item><item><author>royjacobs</author><text>That is so cool. I saw some posts about LLVM-MOS a while ago, but at that point I thought it would be just another in a fairly long list of attempts to try and get LLVM to output 6502 instructions.<p>I never expected it to come together this well! Especially considering that the author of the article mentions there were so many issues with LLVM-AVR, you&#x27;d expect them to exist in LLVM-MOS as well. Apparently not! I guess the code quality will only improve from here on out, the loop at the bottom of the article does seem like it is not as optimal as it could be :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gergoerdi</author><text>From what I understand, LLVM-MOS treats large parts of the zero page as virtual (&quot;imaginary&quot;) registers, so you have no shortage of that (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm-mos.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Imaginary_registers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm-mos.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Imaginary_registers</a>). Then, <i>sufficiently advanced compiler</i> technology improves the stack situation (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm-mos.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;C_calling_convention" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm-mos.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;C_calling_convention</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Rust on the MOS 6502: Beyond Fibonacci</title><url>https://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2021-09-18-rust_on_the_mos_6502__beyond_fibonacci/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>I haven&#x27;t looked at this closely, but 6502 <i>really</i> doesn&#x27;t lend itself to C compilation. Three registers, only one of which works with the ALU, awkward immovable stack, etc.<p>The 65816 is a better target (moveable direct page and stack and some wider registers), but also awkward with its register mode switching.</text></item><item><author>royjacobs</author><text>That is so cool. I saw some posts about LLVM-MOS a while ago, but at that point I thought it would be just another in a fairly long list of attempts to try and get LLVM to output 6502 instructions.<p>I never expected it to come together this well! Especially considering that the author of the article mentions there were so many issues with LLVM-AVR, you&#x27;d expect them to exist in LLVM-MOS as well. Apparently not! I guess the code quality will only improve from here on out, the loop at the bottom of the article does seem like it is not as optimal as it could be :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text>Not only C, any language that thinks there’s other things than global state.<p>If all your functions are <i>void foo(void)</i> and you don’t use local variables (or your language doesn’t support recursion, in which case all locals can be given a fixed address), targeting 6502 is fine (it also helps if you avoid floating point, use 8-bit variables where possible, etc)<p>Not supporting recursion also means you can statically compute maximum stack depth. That way, you can avoid linking code that would overflow the stack.</text></comment> |
27,369,183 | 27,367,692 | 1 | 2 | 27,365,608 | train | <story><title>Why Prefetch Is Broken</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-prefetch-is-broken</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slver</author><text>If the cache is per domain, does that mean CDN-served dependencies like JQuery and React are in fact... useless in terms of cache reuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>Yes. Browsers and protocols have changed, and a lot of past performance best-practices have become actively harmful for performance.<p>A couple of related techniques are also useless: domain sharding and cookieless domains. HTTP&#x2F;2 multiplexing and header compression made them obsolete, and now they&#x27;re just an overhead for DNS+TLS, and often break HTTP&#x2F;2 prioritization.<p>You should be careful with prefetch too. Thanks to preload scanners and HTTP&#x2F;2 prioritization there are few situations where it is really beneficial. But there are many ways to screw it up and cause unnecessary or double downloads.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Prefetch Is Broken</title><url>https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-prefetch-is-broken</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slver</author><text>If the cache is per domain, does that mean CDN-served dependencies like JQuery and React are in fact... useless in terms of cache reuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eli</author><text>Honestly cache reuse was never as high as anyone hoped. There were so many versions of jQuery and so many different CDNs that very few first time visitors already had the one you wanted.</text></comment> |
28,464,580 | 28,463,957 | 1 | 3 | 28,462,151 | train | <story><title>MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dfdx</author><text>Anecdotally, ITER was the largest of few options for a fusion researcher to run their experiment in a new tokamak. Everybody wanted to put their work into it, and as more features were added, the more funding it sucked up, leaving less money for other experiments, leading to more people wanting to put their experiment into ITER. Here&#x27;s a presentation [0] that goes over why SPARC, being so much smaller and simpler than ITER could be more likely to succeed.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;library.psfc.mit.edu&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;online_pubs&#x2F;iap&#x2F;iap2016&#x2F;mumgaard.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;library.psfc.mit.edu&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;online_pubs&#x2F;iap&#x2F;iap2016...</a><p>This quote from the presentation summarizes it well:<p>“The more money that&#x27;s involved, the less risk people want to take. The less risk people want to take, the more they put into their designs, to make sure their subsystem is super-reliable. The more
things they put in, the more expensive the project gets. The more expensive it gets, the more instruments the scientists want to add, because the cost is getting so high that they&#x27;re afraid there won&#x27;t be
another opportunity later on- they figure this is the last train out of town. So little by little, the spacecraft becomes gilded. And you have these bad dreams about a spacecraft so bulky and so heavy it
won&#x27;t get off the ground- never mind the overblown cost.”<p>“That boils down to the higher the cost, the more you want to protect your investment, so the more money you put into lowering your risk. It becomes a vicious cycle.”
- Rob Manning, Chief spacecraft engineer, JPL</text></item><item><author>zetalyrae</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered: why exactly is ITER so expensive, and slow? Is the engineering required at such a standard that it should takes decades of planning and construction and tens of billions of dollars? The timeline is so dilated (started in 1988, first plasma planned for 2025!) it feels like the kind of project that&#x27;s expected to be cancelled from the start.<p>It just doesn&#x27;t strike me as obvious that reducing the major radius by a few meters would have such a huge impact on cost&#x2F;timelines.</text></item><item><author>dfdx</author><text>Plenty of skepticism in these comments. I&#x27;ve been following CFS for a while and can present a point of view for why this time might be different.<p>Fusion energy was actually making rapid progress in the latter half of the twentieth century, going from almost no power output in the fifties and sixties to a power output equal to 67% of input power with the JET reactor in 1997. By the eighties there was plenty of experimental evidence to describe the relationships between tokamak parameters and power output. Particularly that the gain is proportional to the radius to the power of 1.3 and the magnetic field cubed. The main caveat to this relationship was that we only had magnets that would go up to 5.5 Tesla, which implied we needed a tokamak radius of 6 meters or so in order to produce net energy.<p>Well that 6 meter tokamak was designed in the eighties and is currently under construction. ITER, being so large, costs tens of billions of dollars and requires international collaboration; the size of the project has led to huge budget overruns and long delays. Recently however, there have been significant advances in high-temperature super conductors that can produce magnetic fields large enough that we (theoretically) only need a tokamak with a major radius of about 1.5 meters to produce net gain. This is where SPARC (the tokamak being built by the company in the article) comes in. The general idea is that since we have stronger magnets now, we can make a smaller, and therefore cheaper tokamak quickly.<p>Small tokamaks do have downsides, namely that the heat flux through the walls of the device is so large that it will damage the tokamak. There have been breakthroughs with various divertor designs that can mitigate this, but to the best of my knowledge I&#x27;m not sure that CFS has specified their divertor configuration.<p>This was just a short summary of the presentation by Dennis Whyte given here [0]. I do not work in the fusion community.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>SPARC (as proposed this year, by CFS, which was founded in 2018) also has the benefit of 3 decades worth of advancement in materials science, computers, and other technologies over ITER, which was started sometime in the 1980&#x27;s. Sometimes being first to market takes a long time and is very expensive because you first have to invent all of the components yourself.<p>SpaceX&#x27;s advancement is impressive, but if NASA had never happened, I doubt SpaceX would even exist today.</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dfdx</author><text>Anecdotally, ITER was the largest of few options for a fusion researcher to run their experiment in a new tokamak. Everybody wanted to put their work into it, and as more features were added, the more funding it sucked up, leaving less money for other experiments, leading to more people wanting to put their experiment into ITER. Here&#x27;s a presentation [0] that goes over why SPARC, being so much smaller and simpler than ITER could be more likely to succeed.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;library.psfc.mit.edu&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;online_pubs&#x2F;iap&#x2F;iap2016&#x2F;mumgaard.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;library.psfc.mit.edu&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;online_pubs&#x2F;iap&#x2F;iap2016...</a><p>This quote from the presentation summarizes it well:<p>“The more money that&#x27;s involved, the less risk people want to take. The less risk people want to take, the more they put into their designs, to make sure their subsystem is super-reliable. The more
things they put in, the more expensive the project gets. The more expensive it gets, the more instruments the scientists want to add, because the cost is getting so high that they&#x27;re afraid there won&#x27;t be
another opportunity later on- they figure this is the last train out of town. So little by little, the spacecraft becomes gilded. And you have these bad dreams about a spacecraft so bulky and so heavy it
won&#x27;t get off the ground- never mind the overblown cost.”<p>“That boils down to the higher the cost, the more you want to protect your investment, so the more money you put into lowering your risk. It becomes a vicious cycle.”
- Rob Manning, Chief spacecraft engineer, JPL</text></item><item><author>zetalyrae</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered: why exactly is ITER so expensive, and slow? Is the engineering required at such a standard that it should takes decades of planning and construction and tens of billions of dollars? The timeline is so dilated (started in 1988, first plasma planned for 2025!) it feels like the kind of project that&#x27;s expected to be cancelled from the start.<p>It just doesn&#x27;t strike me as obvious that reducing the major radius by a few meters would have such a huge impact on cost&#x2F;timelines.</text></item><item><author>dfdx</author><text>Plenty of skepticism in these comments. I&#x27;ve been following CFS for a while and can present a point of view for why this time might be different.<p>Fusion energy was actually making rapid progress in the latter half of the twentieth century, going from almost no power output in the fifties and sixties to a power output equal to 67% of input power with the JET reactor in 1997. By the eighties there was plenty of experimental evidence to describe the relationships between tokamak parameters and power output. Particularly that the gain is proportional to the radius to the power of 1.3 and the magnetic field cubed. The main caveat to this relationship was that we only had magnets that would go up to 5.5 Tesla, which implied we needed a tokamak radius of 6 meters or so in order to produce net energy.<p>Well that 6 meter tokamak was designed in the eighties and is currently under construction. ITER, being so large, costs tens of billions of dollars and requires international collaboration; the size of the project has led to huge budget overruns and long delays. Recently however, there have been significant advances in high-temperature super conductors that can produce magnetic fields large enough that we (theoretically) only need a tokamak with a major radius of about 1.5 meters to produce net gain. This is where SPARC (the tokamak being built by the company in the article) comes in. The general idea is that since we have stronger magnets now, we can make a smaller, and therefore cheaper tokamak quickly.<p>Small tokamaks do have downsides, namely that the heat flux through the walls of the device is so large that it will damage the tokamak. There have been breakthroughs with various divertor designs that can mitigate this, but to the best of my knowledge I&#x27;m not sure that CFS has specified their divertor configuration.<p>This was just a short summary of the presentation by Dennis Whyte given here [0]. I do not work in the fusion community.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maccam94</author><text>This is also why it&#x27;s exciting to see the huge drop in satellite launch costs driven by SpaceX. Your satellite design is going to be much different if you have a few chances to launch on a $1B rocket per year, vs launching it for $10M anytime. Rather than one complicated reliable one, you might make 10 simpler ones and buy extra flights to do repairs if necessary.</text></comment> |
32,014,306 | 32,014,062 | 1 | 3 | 32,013,202 | train | <story><title>Taking action against scraping for hire</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/actions-against-scraping-for-hire/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mateuszbuda</author><text>In general I agree that harvesting <i>public</i> data is moral.
I think that in these particular cases it&#x27;s:
1) extracting data from profiles that opted for not being public (only available to logged in users) and
2) reposting scraped data (publicly?) as belonging to the guy who scraped it without users consent.</text></item><item><author>HeckFeck</author><text>Data harvesting is moral for me, but not for thee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kordlessagain</author><text>Facebook has hidden much of Instagram&#x27;s content behind logins, so that makes most of it &quot;not public&quot;.<p>At the same time, I don&#x27;t think all of Instagram&#x27;s users care if their images are hidden, or not.<p>It&#x27;s quite unfortunate Facebook&#x2F;Meta is using hostile language and the word &quot;scraping&quot; together in this case. Scraping is a legitimate process used by various business models to gather information from the Web, which itself was originally intended to be an open forum for people to share content.<p>Hostile business models have corrupted that intent and turned it into a competitive environment that is harming users and legitimate models which may not have the funding larger corporations can muster.<p>I have a &quot;scraper&quot; I&#x27;ve built that will either snapshot a page from a user&#x27;s browser or crawl it remotely with Selinium&#x2F;Firefox, on the user&#x27;s behalf, to save the content in an index for searching later, by that user. It&#x27;s not automated, nor does it parse and crawl URLs in the pages saved. It doesn&#x27;t use page content in a wider context, either.<p>I&#x27;ve spent a significant amount of time trying to &quot;work around&quot; anti-scraping efforts by various companies and it&#x27;s frustrating to see hostility instead of cooperation in certain types of use.</text></comment> | <story><title>Taking action against scraping for hire</title><url>https://about.fb.com/news/2022/07/actions-against-scraping-for-hire/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mateuszbuda</author><text>In general I agree that harvesting <i>public</i> data is moral.
I think that in these particular cases it&#x27;s:
1) extracting data from profiles that opted for not being public (only available to logged in users) and
2) reposting scraped data (publicly?) as belonging to the guy who scraped it without users consent.</text></item><item><author>HeckFeck</author><text>Data harvesting is moral for me, but not for thee.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slightwinder</author><text>From the article, it seems to be service for scrapping data you have access anyway. As long as they only handle those data to the requesting customer, whose login they used, I don&#x27;t see a difference between general public, and this users personalized &quot;public&quot;. If access is still limited to the people who have the access-rights, then I don&#x27;t see a difference between accessing through the official interface, or via scrapped data.</text></comment> |
26,328,984 | 26,328,637 | 1 | 2 | 26,327,446 | train | <story><title>Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide analyses of 475K people</title><url>https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01922-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dagorenouf</author><text>Just replying to your last point: sugar and carbohydrates make you fat more than anything else.<p>To fix that, most successful diets rely on increasing the ratio of protein you eat (wether it&#x27;s fish, meat or poultry). It gets you to the same satiety but eating less carbs, and you lose weight.<p>Now enter plant based &#x2F; animal free diets, how are people gonna get to satiety without all that dense meat &#x2F; fish &#x2F; chicken?<p>If you&#x27;re some amazing diet expert, I have no doubt you can figure out a way to get to satiety without relying on carbs. But most people, what are they gonna do? Just get two more slices of bread, or 50% more pasta.<p>If you strictly oppose a meat only diet VS a plant only diet, people will be leaner on the first one.</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text><i>When it was sugar all along?</i><p>Er no, people were told to stop eating fat but of course they didn&#x27;t and average calorie intake went up in all categories. Sugar intake in the US peaked years ago but Americans are fatter than ever. Chicken and cheese consumption is through the roof.<p>Like the article says, being overweight is very unhealthy and almost any diet that keeps you from gaining weight is going to reduce your risks of a lot of illness.<p>The advantage of a plant based diet is that it&#x27;s a lot kinder to the earth and to our animal cousins while also helping you avoid obesity.</text></item><item><author>dagorenouf</author><text>Since meat is seen as unhealthy nowadays, most people who still eat lots of it also tend to be part of the &quot;don&#x27;t care about health&quot; crowd (smokers, drinkers, people who don&#x27;t exercise...).<p>What if don&#x27;t drink, don&#x27;t smoke, do regular exercise, not obese... and eat lots of high quality meat? I haven&#x27;t seen anything that comes close to showing that this would be unhealthy.<p>These studies are quick to point to conclusions. Remember that time where every &quot;scientific&quot; study pointed at fat as the big culprit behind heart problems? When it was sugar all along?<p>30 years later the narrative has become: all animal products are bad for you. Stop eating eggs and meat, and eat grains, it&#x27;s better for the planet too!<p>People are getting duped, even on HN, it&#x27;s depressing.</text></item><item><author>pgt</author><text>The term &quot;positive association&quot; makes it hard to parse. The results state: &quot;most of the positive associations observed for meat consumption and health risks were substantially attenuated after adjustment for body mass index (BMI)&quot;, but the Conclusion says:<p>&gt; Higher unprocessed red meat, processed meat, and poultry meat consumption was associated with <i>higher risks</i> of several common conditions; higher BMI accounted for a substantial proportion of these increased risks suggesting that residual confounding or mediation by adiposity might account for some of these remaining associations. Higher unprocessed red meat and poultry meat consumption was associated with lower IDA risk.<p>So basically &#x27;Red meat is fine but we found a correlation between heart disease and obesity&#x27;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwd</author><text>&gt; To fix that, most successful diets rely on increasing the ratio of protein you eat (wether it&#x27;s fish, meat or poultry). It gets you to the same satiety but eating less carbs, and you lose weight.<p>Beans like chickpeas and lentils, or grains like quinoa, have some carbs, but a lot more fiber. Cook them with a solid dose of olive oil and they&#x27;re both healthy and filling. Or use coconut oil, which has more saturated fat (making it taste a bit better but be potentially a bit less healthy).<p>A few years ago my wife wanted to try the &quot;plant-based&quot; diet. I told her I don&#x27;t care what I eat as long as it tastes OK, fills me up, and has enough protein. We did it for a month, and I never had any problems feeling full, and I definitely didn&#x27;t load up on pasta. In the end she decided full plant-based wasn&#x27;t for her, but we still end up cooking some of the plant-based recipes we picked up from that time few times a week.<p>It&#x27;s the recipe &#x2F; workflow thing that&#x27;s really the issue. You can&#x27;t just eat what you were eating before but without meat, and making imitation meat things is generally a recipe for disappointment. Making a good-tasting meal with beans or grains takes a shift in mindset and a shift in equipment if you&#x27;re used to making food with meat. But once you get it figured out, it&#x27;s fine.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meat consumption and risk of 25 conditions: outcome-wide analyses of 475K people</title><url>https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01922-9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dagorenouf</author><text>Just replying to your last point: sugar and carbohydrates make you fat more than anything else.<p>To fix that, most successful diets rely on increasing the ratio of protein you eat (wether it&#x27;s fish, meat or poultry). It gets you to the same satiety but eating less carbs, and you lose weight.<p>Now enter plant based &#x2F; animal free diets, how are people gonna get to satiety without all that dense meat &#x2F; fish &#x2F; chicken?<p>If you&#x27;re some amazing diet expert, I have no doubt you can figure out a way to get to satiety without relying on carbs. But most people, what are they gonna do? Just get two more slices of bread, or 50% more pasta.<p>If you strictly oppose a meat only diet VS a plant only diet, people will be leaner on the first one.</text></item><item><author>cageface</author><text><i>When it was sugar all along?</i><p>Er no, people were told to stop eating fat but of course they didn&#x27;t and average calorie intake went up in all categories. Sugar intake in the US peaked years ago but Americans are fatter than ever. Chicken and cheese consumption is through the roof.<p>Like the article says, being overweight is very unhealthy and almost any diet that keeps you from gaining weight is going to reduce your risks of a lot of illness.<p>The advantage of a plant based diet is that it&#x27;s a lot kinder to the earth and to our animal cousins while also helping you avoid obesity.</text></item><item><author>dagorenouf</author><text>Since meat is seen as unhealthy nowadays, most people who still eat lots of it also tend to be part of the &quot;don&#x27;t care about health&quot; crowd (smokers, drinkers, people who don&#x27;t exercise...).<p>What if don&#x27;t drink, don&#x27;t smoke, do regular exercise, not obese... and eat lots of high quality meat? I haven&#x27;t seen anything that comes close to showing that this would be unhealthy.<p>These studies are quick to point to conclusions. Remember that time where every &quot;scientific&quot; study pointed at fat as the big culprit behind heart problems? When it was sugar all along?<p>30 years later the narrative has become: all animal products are bad for you. Stop eating eggs and meat, and eat grains, it&#x27;s better for the planet too!<p>People are getting duped, even on HN, it&#x27;s depressing.</text></item><item><author>pgt</author><text>The term &quot;positive association&quot; makes it hard to parse. The results state: &quot;most of the positive associations observed for meat consumption and health risks were substantially attenuated after adjustment for body mass index (BMI)&quot;, but the Conclusion says:<p>&gt; Higher unprocessed red meat, processed meat, and poultry meat consumption was associated with <i>higher risks</i> of several common conditions; higher BMI accounted for a substantial proportion of these increased risks suggesting that residual confounding or mediation by adiposity might account for some of these remaining associations. Higher unprocessed red meat and poultry meat consumption was associated with lower IDA risk.<p>So basically &#x27;Red meat is fine but we found a correlation between heart disease and obesity&#x27;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brigandish</author><text>&gt; Now enter plant based &#x2F; animal free diets, how are people gonna get to satiety without all that dense meat &#x2F; fish &#x2F; chicken?<p>I thought vegetarians were famous for eating lots of beans and tofu. Is this no longer part of the stereotype?</text></comment> |
5,844,580 | 5,844,532 | 1 | 3 | 5,844,440 | train | <story><title>Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/07/takeout/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Let&#x27;s all do a blogpost on PRISM and see how many eyeballs we can get.<p>Google takeout most likely has nothing whatsoever to do with PRISM or any other NSA programme, why go through a clunky one-user-at-a-time batch process when you can be comfortably sitting right where the action is, where updates are incremental and where information is available when it happens instead of when you ask for it.<p>Push over pull any day for the NSA and the likes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/07/takeout/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Udo</author><text>Exporting every account on a daily basis can&#x27;t possible work for Google <i>or</i> the government. To be scalable and useful, and to meet the &quot;no direct access to our servers&quot; mantra, they would instead need for Google to replicate all database updates straight onto the NSA servers.<p>That&#x27;s no small feat, and it certainly requires explicit engineering effort, but it&#x27;s not a hugely complex undertaking either. Maybe the infrastructure of Takeout can <i>also</i> be used to do that, but the data transmission itself would have to work differently. Again, I believe it has to be basically a data pipe that replicates every user action, probably in real time.</text></comment> |
23,439,464 | 23,438,406 | 1 | 3 | 23,427,303 | train | <story><title>Unicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal</title><url>https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sprash</author><text>I recently found out that XTerm supports sixels natively if started with the &quot;-ti 340&quot; option. For example gnuplot can make use of that feature using the command &quot;set terminal sixlegd&quot;.<p>It turns out because of the way sixels are encoded (six vertical pixels in a row using bitplanes) it packs better than png when used in conjunction with the bzip2 packer. Every image can simply be encoded to sixel with imagemagick using &quot;convert image.png sixel:- &gt; image.six&quot;<p>Personally I think sixels are genius should be used much more often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brutt</author><text>Sixels will be added to libvte (gnome-terminal): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&#x2F;GNOME&#x2F;vte&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;254" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&#x2F;GNOME&#x2F;vte&#x2F;-&#x2F;issues&#x2F;254</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Unicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal</title><url>https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sprash</author><text>I recently found out that XTerm supports sixels natively if started with the &quot;-ti 340&quot; option. For example gnuplot can make use of that feature using the command &quot;set terminal sixlegd&quot;.<p>It turns out because of the way sixels are encoded (six vertical pixels in a row using bitplanes) it packs better than png when used in conjunction with the bzip2 packer. Every image can simply be encoded to sixel with imagemagick using &quot;convert image.png sixel:- &gt; image.six&quot;<p>Personally I think sixels are genius should be used much more often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mongol</author><text>The Kitty terminal author also published a &quot;terminal graphics protocol&quot;. I don&#x27;t know what other terminal supports it, however.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sw.kovidgoyal.net&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;graphics-protocol.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sw.kovidgoyal.net&#x2F;kitty&#x2F;graphics-protocol.html</a></text></comment> |
30,411,761 | 30,411,737 | 1 | 2 | 30,410,856 | train | <story><title>Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?</title><url>https://vaghetti.dev/posts/times-are-great/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>I think it ends with everyone becoming a developer.<p>Making machines do things will never end. However, the tools for making machines do things is evolving very quickly.<p>The general art of being a developer will continue to get specialized and at some point specialists at any field would be expected to be able to program their machines.<p>Very few people are learning how to run their servers and much more are moving into AWS type of infrastructure and “cloud literacy” has become a thing.<p>I would expect layers of abstraction to continue to build up and programming to become something like using spreadsheets to do your actual task.<p>Eventually, “true programming” will scale back to building these tools. It would be rather niche, very high skill serious engineering - an elite, hard to get in profession that continues to fetch high salaries. They probably will have some kind of association similar to the lawyers&#x2F;doctors, the code they write will no longer tolerate bugs as a fact of life but they will be responsible as any other licensed professionals. Skipping unit test will land you in jail or very high fine due to malpractice if something goes wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HillRat</author><text>I think this tends to overestimate the amount of time folks who <i>aren&#x27;t</i> developers want to spend developing. Most spreadsheets, even of the complex variety, exist as steps in a chain of human decisions -- they basically replace notepaper and calculators. (Spreadsheets that act as inputs to software chains are usually created by developers.)<p>Having previously been involved in architecting and building enterprise low-code&#x2F;no-code solutions, and then working as a strategy consultant thereafter (including partnering with other major low-code&#x2F;no-code vendors), I can say that what the business wants to do is sketch out the rough plan of how a process works (with a couple of exception states) and have someone else go through not only the implementation, but the hard work of dealing with all the error states, data cleansing and ETL, deployment, and monitoring, while they get on with the hard work of actually doing their jobs. There just isn&#x27;t an appetite for people to do two jobs at once.<p>What the article seems to miss is that companies are currently being much more aggressive in nearshoring work -- there&#x27;s a huge boom in Mexico and LATAM development that&#x27;s pushing up salaries there (as has happened in Eastern and Central European states). One thing that&#x27;s distinct from the offshore boom is that, if you weren&#x27;t a major consulting org, your offshore folks probably weren&#x27;t colleagues, whereas with nearshore you&#x27;re much more likely to see them integrated into the organization (again, due to TZ and the ability to fly someone in at the last minute for meetings). It&#x27;ll be interesting to see what this does to the Mexican&#x2F;LATAM economies -- Costa Rica, for example, with only $5mm people, punches <i>way</i> above its weight in software services exports.</text></comment> | <story><title>Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?</title><url>https://vaghetti.dev/posts/times-are-great/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>I think it ends with everyone becoming a developer.<p>Making machines do things will never end. However, the tools for making machines do things is evolving very quickly.<p>The general art of being a developer will continue to get specialized and at some point specialists at any field would be expected to be able to program their machines.<p>Very few people are learning how to run their servers and much more are moving into AWS type of infrastructure and “cloud literacy” has become a thing.<p>I would expect layers of abstraction to continue to build up and programming to become something like using spreadsheets to do your actual task.<p>Eventually, “true programming” will scale back to building these tools. It would be rather niche, very high skill serious engineering - an elite, hard to get in profession that continues to fetch high salaries. They probably will have some kind of association similar to the lawyers&#x2F;doctors, the code they write will no longer tolerate bugs as a fact of life but they will be responsible as any other licensed professionals. Skipping unit test will land you in jail or very high fine due to malpractice if something goes wrong.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnBooty</author><text><p><pre><code> I would expect layers of abstraction to continue
to build up and programming to become something
like using spreadsheets to do your actual task.
</code></pre>
But in general, people have been saying this for 50+ years.<p>It hasn&#x27;t happened yet for (at least) two reasons.<p>1. Increased demands on programmers have increased <i>at least as quickly</i> as their productivity has skyrocketed.<p>2. Non-trivial systems will require some non-trivial encoding of business and data logic. You can simplify the tools all you like, but at some point the tools are no longer the limiting factor and some complex logic has got to be dictated to the dang computer, somehow, by somebody. It is then going to need to be tested and deployed. It is also going to have to be built in ways that are maintainable. Most programmers struggle with these things in 2022; we are nowhere near making this easy for laypeople. If anything I feel that infrastructure has gotten way more complicated in the last 10 years.<p>Something does need to change. The current situation is unsustainable, with programmers commanding insane salaries. At some point it becomes a limiting factor on the economy.<p>But our tools are decades away from being usable by non-programmers. I see no possible solution besides increasing the supply of programmers.</text></comment> |
27,386,003 | 27,385,366 | 1 | 3 | 27,384,911 | train | <story><title>A new ProtoBuf generator for Go</title><url>https://vitess.io/blog/2021-06-03-a-new-protobuf-generator-for-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jupp0r</author><text>Using CPU utilization as a performance metric can be extremely misleading. My favorite article on the subject is from Brendan Gregg:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brendangregg.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017-05-09&#x2F;cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brendangregg.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2017-05-09&#x2F;cpu-utilization-...</a><p>A much better way to test the influence of the new compiler would be to test the actual throughput at which saturation is achieved (which is what the benchmark in the C++ grpc library measure to assess their performance).</text></comment> | <story><title>A new ProtoBuf generator for Go</title><url>https://vitess.io/blog/2021-06-03-a-new-protobuf-generator-for-go/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jzelinskie</author><text>I hadn&#x27;t realized that Gogo was in such a bad spot with the upstream Go protobuf changes. There was lots of drama when the changes were made and I guess that overshadowed any optics I had on Gogo.<p>Making vtprotobuf an additional protoc plugin seems like the Right Thing™, although it&#x27;s a shame how complicated protoc commands end up becoming for mature projects. I&#x27;m pretty tempted to port Authzed over to this and run some benchmarks -- our entire service requires e2e latency under 20ms, so every little bit counts. The biggest performance win is likely just having an unintrusive interface for pooling allocated protos.</text></comment> |
14,121,486 | 14,121,303 | 1 | 2 | 14,120,796 | train | <story><title>Mini.css: Minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework</title><url>https://chalarangelo.github.io/mini.css/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jc4p</author><text>The framework being advertised as a minimal lightweight framework and having its size compared to the biggest frameworks is a bit off-putting to me.<p>I get that they wouldn&#x27;t want to advertise their competitors, but the comparison matrix on the page makes mini.css seem tiny, where as a google search shows it&#x27;s the biggest popular framework like this.<p>Mini.css is 7KB gzipped, Milligram[0] (the first google result I see for &quot;minimalist css framework&quot;, mini.css is second) is 2KB gzipped. Pure.css[1] (the third result) is 3.8KB gzipped.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;milligram.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;milligram.github.io&#x2F;</a>
[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;purecss.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;purecss.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mini.css: Minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework</title><url>https://chalarangelo.github.io/mini.css/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mwcampbell</author><text>To quote Joel Spolsky [1]:<p>&gt; For review: Bloatware and the 80&#x2F;20 myth. No matter how much it bothers you neat freaks, the market always votes for bloatware.<p>See also [2].<p>Basically, one peron&#x27;s bloat is another person&#x27;s necessary features.<p>Hell, I should have posted this on the Electron rant thread the other day.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2002&#x2F;04&#x2F;07&#x2F;20020407&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2002&#x2F;04&#x2F;07&#x2F;20020407&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000020.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fog0000000020.html</a></text></comment> |
23,481,667 | 23,479,741 | 1 | 2 | 23,475,594 | train | <story><title>After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered</title><url>https://forklog.media/after-10-years-in-tech-isolation-im-now-outsider-to-things-i-once-had-mastered/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9nGQluzmnq3M</author><text>FWIW, the rest of the world considers prison sentences in the US to be absurdly long. This guy apparently got 10 years for hacking; in much of Europe, you&#x27;d get less than that for murder.</text></item><item><author>annoyingnoob</author><text>I recently had someone in a restroom ask me how to flush the toilet. The toilets had IR sensors and flushed automatically. This person had been in prison for many years and had never seen that before.<p>I think part of the social reform that people are protesting for recently needs to extend to people in prison. Our system does nothing to rehabilitate people or to prepare them to re-enter society. We need to treat prisoners like humans and provide them with something, anything, to help them on the outside. Our system really tries to keep you in the system.<p>The OP got a harsh sentence but I don&#x27;t particularly feel much empathy. I could have gone the black hat route too, but I didn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VLM</author><text>Plea bargaining, for better or worse, is a uniquely American invention the rest of the world does not share.<p>Committing naughtiness level 5 on a scale of 1 to 10 crime in &quot;EU&quot; and in &quot;USA&quot; and you&#x27;ll get a punishment of X years for a level 5 conviction in EU. In the USA you&#x27;ll get a plea bargain offer of X years for agreeing to be guilty of a level 3 crime, or you can take your chances at a trial for a level 5 crime (with admittedly draconian punishment). About 90% to 98% of criminals take the plea.<p>The widely advertised injustice is that on paper, a level 5 crime in EU has the same punishment as a level 3 crime in the USA so the USA is draconian.<p>The actual real world injustice is if you&#x27;re innocent and demand your right to trial, we give level 8 punishments for level 5 crimes to encourage guilty pleas and &quot;save money&quot;. Because we value saving money over justice and fairness. Or maybe we take a weird statistical approach to injustice; yeah it would suck to do time for a level 5 crime but a level 1 punishment might not be worth the 10% odds of success.<p>This has a weird and horrible interaction with mandatory minimum sentences. Without mandatory mins, &quot;yeah he probably didn&#x27;t do it but he&#x27;s pleading out to a lessor charge&quot; can result in a very fair punishment like mere probation. But with mandatory mins you have to throw the guy in the slammer for decades or let him walk and thats kinda messy. OR being messy, does it encourage higher levels of care and research?<p>If you commit involuntary manslaughter in Germany, like in a fight in a bar off an army base like a case I know of (I&#x27;m not even tangentially involved in other than being in the Army at the same time), yeah, you&#x27;ll get like 3 years at most. And if you get convicted of manslaughter in the USA you&#x27;ll get like 8 or so years. That seems terrible.<p>The difference is you get convicted of manslaughter in the USA by doing actual first degree intentional homicide and its plea&#x27;d down to involuntary manslaughter. In Germany the laws are different but vaguely comparable to first degree would get you 15 years minimum, which is actually more draconian than the punishment you&#x27;d likely get in the USA due to overcrowding.</text></comment> | <story><title>After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered</title><url>https://forklog.media/after-10-years-in-tech-isolation-im-now-outsider-to-things-i-once-had-mastered/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>9nGQluzmnq3M</author><text>FWIW, the rest of the world considers prison sentences in the US to be absurdly long. This guy apparently got 10 years for hacking; in much of Europe, you&#x27;d get less than that for murder.</text></item><item><author>annoyingnoob</author><text>I recently had someone in a restroom ask me how to flush the toilet. The toilets had IR sensors and flushed automatically. This person had been in prison for many years and had never seen that before.<p>I think part of the social reform that people are protesting for recently needs to extend to people in prison. Our system does nothing to rehabilitate people or to prepare them to re-enter society. We need to treat prisoners like humans and provide them with something, anything, to help them on the outside. Our system really tries to keep you in the system.<p>The OP got a harsh sentence but I don&#x27;t particularly feel much empathy. I could have gone the black hat route too, but I didn&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stronglikedan</author><text>&gt; This guy apparently got 10 years for hacking; in much of Europe, you&#x27;d get less than that for murder.<p>Both of those things are problematic, IMHO.<p>As for US sentences being absurdly long, I attribute that to the privatized (profit-incentivized) prison system here. Abolishing that concept would be a good starting point, I think, because it would eliminate a very large chunk of the humanitarian problems in one fell swoop. Then we can work on the rest, starting with the perverse incentives of the legal system itself.</text></comment> |
38,261,553 | 38,261,239 | 1 | 3 | 38,260,815 | train | <story><title>Truth Social reports $73M net loss since launch</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/trumps-truth-social-reports-73-mln-net-loss-since-launch-2023-11-14/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>It can&#x27;t possibly cost that much to operate a mediocre mastodon server with under a million monthly users? What are they spending all that money on?</text></comment> | <story><title>Truth Social reports $73M net loss since launch</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/trumps-truth-social-reports-73-mln-net-loss-since-launch-2023-11-14/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Lutger</author><text>If its basically political advertisement its called a cost, not loss. But it helps to avoid tax I guess? Still sounds wasteful for what is basically a rebranded mastodon instance.</text></comment> |
9,145,712 | 9,145,531 | 1 | 2 | 9,145,284 | train | <story><title>Why the practical applications of Bitcoin will be limited</title><url>http://sidazhang.com/3-reasons-why-bitcoin-wont-be-the-new-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clavalle</author><text>I think this essay is top heavy: the conclusions can&#x27;t hold given the assumptions.<p>Take the first argument: for transactions to remain cheap one of three things has to happen, then those three things are painted as almost impossible.<p>But the second one; &quot;At the same fee level, transaction count must increase 250 folds.&quot; Seems completely possible.<p>If transactions remain relatively cheap then bitcoin can be very useful for microtransactions. And if they are useful for microtransactions then, by there nature, there will be many more transactions.<p>Then the author is all over the map in the second section. At one point saying decentralized entities are useless, then that they don&#x27;t provide value compared to traditional centralized entities, then than they &#x2F;are&#x2F; real competition for those traditional services but the only real beneficiaries of trustless decentralized transactions are people engaged in illegal activity.<p>They close out by saying since cyberpunks, drug dealers, and gamblers use bitcoin now, it will never find a place in the public sphere. But the blockchain idea is a good one and will find some sort of use.<p>TL:DR The first point was interesting but flawed. The rest was garbage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why the practical applications of Bitcoin will be limited</title><url>http://sidazhang.com/3-reasons-why-bitcoin-wont-be-the-new-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mahn</author><text>Despite the click-bait title, the article makes valid points which are very often overlooked or downright ignored by hardcore bitcoiners. As someone who&#x27;s been watching bitcoin for the past few years, this is in my opinion the plain reality.</text></comment> |
18,134,418 | 18,134,460 | 1 | 2 | 18,131,902 | train | <story><title>The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement</title><url>https://newfoodeconomy.org/imperfect-produce-ugly-food-waste-commodification-community-supported-agriculture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgift</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t get it. You could argue that the poor need food more than farmers need money. That same argument could be made to any business, though. Why are farmers more obligated to donate to the poor than anyone else?<p>One of the arguments for subsidies to farmers is that they are the &quot;feeders of people&quot;. Sounds to me like they want privileges, why not a few obligations for a change?</text></item><item><author>CivBase</author><text><i>This produce used to be readily available to food banks but now that “ugly” and “imperfect” produce can turn a profit, they are less available to those in need.</i><p>So the argument is as follows: Farmers were donating food to the poor because they couldn&#x27;t sell it. Imperfect Produce figured out how to sell that food, so now farmers are selling it instead of donating it. This is bad because now poor people get less food.<p>I don&#x27;t get it. You could argue that the poor need food more than farmers need money. That same argument could be made to any business, though. Why are farmers more obligated to donate to the poor than anyone else?<p>That is even assuming Imperfect Foods is negatively affecting these food banks. The New Food Economy seems to think so, but Imperfect Foods disagrees.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.imperfectproduce.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115004564574-Are-you-taking-produce-that-would-have-gone-to-food-banks-otherwise-Where-did-this-produce-go-before-Imperfect-started-" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.imperfectproduce.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;11500456...</a><p>I don&#x27;t know who to believe, but I also don&#x27;t think it matters. My takeaway is that the food bank model for donating to the poor is less viable now. We&#x27;ll have to find a better model moving forward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>Instead of adding opacity to the system, I would rather they remove the subsidies instead.</text></comment> | <story><title>The ugly truth about the ugly produce movement</title><url>https://newfoodeconomy.org/imperfect-produce-ugly-food-waste-commodification-community-supported-agriculture/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgift</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t get it. You could argue that the poor need food more than farmers need money. That same argument could be made to any business, though. Why are farmers more obligated to donate to the poor than anyone else?<p>One of the arguments for subsidies to farmers is that they are the &quot;feeders of people&quot;. Sounds to me like they want privileges, why not a few obligations for a change?</text></item><item><author>CivBase</author><text><i>This produce used to be readily available to food banks but now that “ugly” and “imperfect” produce can turn a profit, they are less available to those in need.</i><p>So the argument is as follows: Farmers were donating food to the poor because they couldn&#x27;t sell it. Imperfect Produce figured out how to sell that food, so now farmers are selling it instead of donating it. This is bad because now poor people get less food.<p>I don&#x27;t get it. You could argue that the poor need food more than farmers need money. That same argument could be made to any business, though. Why are farmers more obligated to donate to the poor than anyone else?<p>That is even assuming Imperfect Foods is negatively affecting these food banks. The New Food Economy seems to think so, but Imperfect Foods disagrees.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.imperfectproduce.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115004564574-Are-you-taking-produce-that-would-have-gone-to-food-banks-otherwise-Where-did-this-produce-go-before-Imperfect-started-" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.imperfectproduce.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;11500456...</a><p>I don&#x27;t know who to believe, but I also don&#x27;t think it matters. My takeaway is that the food bank model for donating to the poor is less viable now. We&#x27;ll have to find a better model moving forward.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bilbo0s</author><text>Hmm. Good point.<p>One question though, are there farmers out there who are <i>not</i> taking the famed agricultural subsidies we give out? Because if there are, (even if there are not that many such farmers), I think those guys should be able to monetize their &quot;ugly&quot; produce or fruit all they want. They&#x27;re not being supported by tax money at all.<p>But yes, if we are subsidizing a farmer, we certainly have the right to oblige him to give his scraps to us so we can feed our masses. There&#x27;s nothing unreasonable about that. After all, we&#x27;re only talking about the little food he&#x27;s able to sell only to the guys who literally only take &quot;scraps&quot;.</text></comment> |
4,081,138 | 4,080,138 | 1 | 2 | 4,079,572 | train | <story><title>Jetpants: a MySQL toolkit for managing billions of rows and hundreds of DBs</title><url>http://engineering.tumblr.com/post/24612921290/jetpants-a-toolkit-for-huge-mysql-topologies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notJim</author><text>Slightly OT, but Tumblr gave a great talk about their sharding architecture here: <a href="http://engineering.tumblr.com/post/12652551894/slides-from-our-velocity-europe-talk-on-mysql-sharding" rel="nofollow">http://engineering.tumblr.com/post/12652551894/slides-from-o...</a>.<p>It's really quite a good intro to the subject, I think.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jetpants: a MySQL toolkit for managing billions of rows and hundreds of DBs</title><url>http://engineering.tumblr.com/post/24612921290/jetpants-a-toolkit-for-huge-mysql-topologies</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ErrantX</author><text>This is excellent stuff; it fits a niggling problem I have (i.e. I'm a better programmer than sysadmin, so managing massive data shards is a pain)<p>It's an elegant implementation. From a ~30 minute read through I reckon I can use it to replace our current "hacked up" solution in just a few hours.<p>Kudos Tumblr.</text></comment> |
21,729,003 | 21,727,267 | 1 | 3 | 21,702,424 | train | <story><title>Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/03/google-funded-duolingo-first-1-billion-start-up-from-pittsburgh.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orliesaurus</author><text>They have users... but the tool(app), other than being really cute and well made, is super basic...
You can&#x27;t expect to be fluent enough in a language JUST with Duolingo, at most you will be able to read a few sentences and spit out a few basic sentences and words.<p>Is that enough? Definitely not. Not for me at least.
They basically give you the &#x27;hello world&#x27; of a language.<p>I speak 5 languages (learned through school and life choices) but when I tried to learn a 6th on Duolingo I felt like the experience was not good enough for me. A tutor or a class would probably be mandatory and using Duolingo just for re-affirming some basic concepts would be a nice to have, like a companion app..but they have to be able to let teachers create their own lessons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newguy1234</author><text>This is the big problem in edtech. If you want to gain tons of users in edtech then you just need to make a bunch of very basic type materials which allows users to not get frustrated (and leave) and allows the platform to create lots of easy to develop content. For anyone serious about edtech, this is a problem because only having a basic understanding of a subject is pretty much useless. At a certain point, you need high-quality (college-level equivalent) type content. For edtech companies, that content is both harder to make and thus more expensive. At the same time, the userbase interested in that level of material declines rapidly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/03/google-funded-duolingo-first-1-billion-start-up-from-pittsburgh.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>orliesaurus</author><text>They have users... but the tool(app), other than being really cute and well made, is super basic...
You can&#x27;t expect to be fluent enough in a language JUST with Duolingo, at most you will be able to read a few sentences and spit out a few basic sentences and words.<p>Is that enough? Definitely not. Not for me at least.
They basically give you the &#x27;hello world&#x27; of a language.<p>I speak 5 languages (learned through school and life choices) but when I tried to learn a 6th on Duolingo I felt like the experience was not good enough for me. A tutor or a class would probably be mandatory and using Duolingo just for re-affirming some basic concepts would be a nice to have, like a companion app..but they have to be able to let teachers create their own lessons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guptaneil</author><text>I agree that Duolingo is not sufficient to become fluent in a language, but I’d argue that no app could be. Immersion is generally the only way to become fluent.<p>Having said that, I’ve found the learning experience on Duolingo varies wildly depending on the language. French, for example, has an excellent curriculum with stories and live conversations with bots. Dutch or Hindi on the other hand are extremely lacking.</text></comment> |
38,580,375 | 38,580,032 | 1 | 3 | 38,576,530 | train | <story><title>Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/verizon-fell-for-fake-search-warrant-gave-victims-phone-data-to-stalker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>&gt; The documents are written on simple copy paper and lack any kind of security features.<p>Wait, sorry, sorry, sorry, hold up, full stop...could you repeat that again?<p>These orders arrive <i>AS GODDAMN PAPER PRINTOUTS?!?</i><p>Am I to understand that official orders that instruct telco providers to provide the private communication data of people, are transmitted as smushes of pigment on thin pieces of wood-paste, instead of a digitally signed file that the recipient can trivially verify with the ordering entities public key?</text></item><item><author>pseingatl</author><text>Forging a judicial order is trivial. There is no way Verizon or anyone else knows if there is a specific form used in one of the 1700+ counties that comprise the US. Federal subpoenae are even easier because they are uniform and are filed under seal. Verizon can&#x27;t call the Clerk&#x27;s office and ask, &quot;did the grand jury really issue a subpoena?&quot; The documents are written on simple copy paper and lack any kind of security features. Expect more of these as word gets out. Also, it&#x27;s easy enough to file a small claims case and have a subpoena issued. Usually, there&#x27;s no one to quash the subpoena. Civil subpoenas take a little longer than criminal ones and you have to pay to have them served, but so what?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wruza</author><text>It’s amusing how much HN expects from “the outer world”.<p>Companies can adopt new tech in 1-2 years. Industries have around 5-10 years inertia. Bureaucracies like courts still live in the past millenia. You should be happy that they are using email.<p>The best security measure they will implement after this article going wide is something like “only emails from @&lt;domain&gt; are valid, but we’ll destroy you anyway in case a judge mistakenly sends you an order from his own gmail”.</text></comment> | <story><title>Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/verizon-fell-for-fake-search-warrant-gave-victims-phone-data-to-stalker/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>&gt; The documents are written on simple copy paper and lack any kind of security features.<p>Wait, sorry, sorry, sorry, hold up, full stop...could you repeat that again?<p>These orders arrive <i>AS GODDAMN PAPER PRINTOUTS?!?</i><p>Am I to understand that official orders that instruct telco providers to provide the private communication data of people, are transmitted as smushes of pigment on thin pieces of wood-paste, instead of a digitally signed file that the recipient can trivially verify with the ordering entities public key?</text></item><item><author>pseingatl</author><text>Forging a judicial order is trivial. There is no way Verizon or anyone else knows if there is a specific form used in one of the 1700+ counties that comprise the US. Federal subpoenae are even easier because they are uniform and are filed under seal. Verizon can&#x27;t call the Clerk&#x27;s office and ask, &quot;did the grand jury really issue a subpoena?&quot; The documents are written on simple copy paper and lack any kind of security features. Expect more of these as word gets out. Also, it&#x27;s easy enough to file a small claims case and have a subpoena issued. Usually, there&#x27;s no one to quash the subpoena. Civil subpoenas take a little longer than criminal ones and you have to pay to have them served, but so what?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vintermann</author><text>&gt; instead of a digitally signed file that the recipient can trivially verify with the ordering entities public key?<p>They wouldn&#x27;t want that, because they don&#x27;t want it to be easy to prove that they demanded surrender either.</text></comment> |
29,327,166 | 29,326,604 | 1 | 3 | 29,326,287 | train | <story><title>How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/how-the-rosetta-stone-yielded-up-its-secrets-edward-dolnick-the-writing-of-the-gods</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmmayer1</author><text>It really makes you think about how many of the things we know today are based on very loose wisps of foundational information, and this makes knowledge both more precious (because it&#x27;s so hard to come by), and also should give us great pause to consider any knowledge so sacrosanct, given how it could take a very small piece of new uncovered information to completely change how we think about the world.<p>George Washington didn&#x27;t know about dinosaurs. What don&#x27;t we know about yet, and what do we think is true that will turn out not to be?</text></comment> | <story><title>How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/how-the-rosetta-stone-yielded-up-its-secrets-edward-dolnick-the-writing-of-the-gods</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&gt; Egypt fell to Rome in 30 B.C., after Caesar Augustus (at that time still called Octavian) defeated the forces of Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium,<p>Actually, the fall of Egypt is much earlier. Nectanebo II in 342 BC was the last native ruler of Egypt (and even he was part of a rebel dynasty that ruled for around 40 years after successfully revolting against the Persians who had conquered Egypt under Cambyses in the 500&#x27;s.<p>The Rosetta Stone, was probably the single greatest archeological discovery to date. It opened up the written history of arguably one of the oldest civilizations in the world and which was throughout much of history either one of or involved with the greatest empires in history.</text></comment> |
33,089,106 | 33,089,103 | 1 | 2 | 33,088,214 | train | <story><title>HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies</title><url>https://aspr.hhs.gov:443/newsroom/Pages/ARS-Oct2022.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>I&#x27;m appalled after decades of massive anti nuclear war protests and shuttle diplomacy that our &#x27;leaders&#x27; are now almost casually sliding into the abyss of nuclear wars</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>Attacking a much smaller neighboring country and failing so miserably that they have to start making nuclear threats is hardly casual. That&#x27;s a professional-tier fuckup. Given the apparently irrational decision making that&#x27;s going on in this situation, we can only prepare in whatever ways we can.</text></comment> | <story><title>HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies</title><url>https://aspr.hhs.gov:443/newsroom/Pages/ARS-Oct2022.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>I&#x27;m appalled after decades of massive anti nuclear war protests and shuttle diplomacy that our &#x27;leaders&#x27; are now almost casually sliding into the abyss of nuclear wars</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>The sentiment is understandable but probably has nothing to do with the story. The US routinely buys these kinds of drugs for preparedness programs, has done so long before Ukraine was an issue, and planned this specific acquisition last year, when the drug in question was approved for the purpose.</text></comment> |
22,315,513 | 22,315,608 | 1 | 3 | 22,314,853 | train | <story><title>The 2020 State of Remote Work</title><url>https://lp.buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2020</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dglass</author><text>Glad to see this data coming out. My company builds tools for remote workers so naturally, I speak with a lot of people who work remotely. I&#x27;d say most of the pain points I hear from remote workers line up fairly well with the data in this survey (and also my own pain points since I&#x27;ve worked remote for over a year now).<p>I&#x27;m not surprised to see that 97% of people would recommend working remote to others. Almost everyone I speak with says they would never go back to working in an office. While I can see myself going back to an office at some point in my career, right now the flexibility in my day far outweighs working in an office.<p>I hear a lot of similar downsides as well. I&#x27;m a bit surprised that only 20% of people responded that they struggled with loneliness while working remote. In my experience this number seems to be higher. My coworkers and I work out of coffee shops quite a bit and almost everyone who goes to work in a coffee shop is doing so in order to break out of the loneliness of their home and be around other people (next time you&#x27;re in a coffee shop, take note of how many people have laptops out). The problem though is that no one really interacts with people at coffee shops because everyone is at their own table on their laptops.<p>We heard this feedback so much that we started holding Work Clubs[0] at coffee shops where people can sit down with us at the same table and work together for a few hours. It&#x27;s not networking but it&#x27;s a way to meet other people during the workday while getting your work done. We&#x27;ve had people from many different industries, ages, and walks of life working together and forming business connections. It&#x27;s beneficial to the coffee shops too because when we all sit at the same table, order food and drinks, and it frees up other tables for more customers.<p>Our communities are growing in Portland, San Diego, and the SF Bay Area right now, so come work with us if you&#x27;re ever feeling lonely and need some IRL human interaction in your day! Mental health is an important factor for remote workers, and we&#x27;re hoping to alleviate some of those struggles for the remote community.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outofoffice.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outofoffice.app&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexCoventry</author><text>Now that I work from home, my cat basically lives on my lap, so I&#x27;m never lonely. He does keep me from using my fancy keyboard on my lap like I&#x27;m used to, but it&#x27;s a worthwhile trade.</text></comment> | <story><title>The 2020 State of Remote Work</title><url>https://lp.buffer.com/state-of-remote-work-2020</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dglass</author><text>Glad to see this data coming out. My company builds tools for remote workers so naturally, I speak with a lot of people who work remotely. I&#x27;d say most of the pain points I hear from remote workers line up fairly well with the data in this survey (and also my own pain points since I&#x27;ve worked remote for over a year now).<p>I&#x27;m not surprised to see that 97% of people would recommend working remote to others. Almost everyone I speak with says they would never go back to working in an office. While I can see myself going back to an office at some point in my career, right now the flexibility in my day far outweighs working in an office.<p>I hear a lot of similar downsides as well. I&#x27;m a bit surprised that only 20% of people responded that they struggled with loneliness while working remote. In my experience this number seems to be higher. My coworkers and I work out of coffee shops quite a bit and almost everyone who goes to work in a coffee shop is doing so in order to break out of the loneliness of their home and be around other people (next time you&#x27;re in a coffee shop, take note of how many people have laptops out). The problem though is that no one really interacts with people at coffee shops because everyone is at their own table on their laptops.<p>We heard this feedback so much that we started holding Work Clubs[0] at coffee shops where people can sit down with us at the same table and work together for a few hours. It&#x27;s not networking but it&#x27;s a way to meet other people during the workday while getting your work done. We&#x27;ve had people from many different industries, ages, and walks of life working together and forming business connections. It&#x27;s beneficial to the coffee shops too because when we all sit at the same table, order food and drinks, and it frees up other tables for more customers.<p>Our communities are growing in Portland, San Diego, and the SF Bay Area right now, so come work with us if you&#x27;re ever feeling lonely and need some IRL human interaction in your day! Mental health is an important factor for remote workers, and we&#x27;re hoping to alleviate some of those struggles for the remote community.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outofoffice.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;outofoffice.app&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cs02rm0</author><text>Perhaps they don&#x27;t consider themselves struggling with loneliness because it&#x27;s mitigated by such measures.<p>The remote company I work with will buy you a desk in a local co-working space for anyone who wants it.</text></comment> |
25,899,572 | 25,899,700 | 1 | 2 | 25,897,117 | train | <story><title>The RustyHermit Unikernel</title><url>https://rust-osdev.com/showcase/rusty-hermit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iampims</author><text>I find Unikernels fascinating, but I’m curious as to who is running unikernel based applications in production?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>Game consoles, and back in the day most MS-DOS, Amiga and Atari Games that only used hardware directly with OS services could in retrospective be considered some form of unikernels.<p>Amiga games used to be written such that they would boot the computer from floppy.</text></comment> | <story><title>The RustyHermit Unikernel</title><url>https://rust-osdev.com/showcase/rusty-hermit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iampims</author><text>I find Unikernels fascinating, but I’m curious as to who is running unikernel based applications in production?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fulafel</author><text>The MirageOS people at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirage.io&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;gallery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mirage.io&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;gallery</a> have a list titled &quot;unikernels that are used in production&quot;</text></comment> |
13,153,258 | 13,151,950 | 1 | 2 | 13,151,566 | train | <story><title>Run Unix processes inside your browser</title><url>https://browsix.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Looks like yet another example of the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Inner-platform_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Inner-platform_effect</a> ...when will this abstraction madness end?<p><i>Extended JavaScript runtimes for C, C++, Go, and Node.js that support running programs written in these languages as processes in the browser.</i><p>Does that mean it&#x27;s an interpreter? The main page doesn&#x27;t say much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nteon</author><text>Hi - main author here.<p>Browsix is not an interpreter. Browsix provides a shared kernel and primitives like system calls to _existing_ interpreters and runtimes that target JavaScript.<p>For example, we extended both the GopherJS and Emscripten compilers and runtimes to talk to our shared kernel, so that processes written in C and Go can run in parallel (on separate Web Workers) and communicate over pipes, sockets and the filesystem in the browser (much like they can in a standard Unix environment).</text></comment> | <story><title>Run Unix processes inside your browser</title><url>https://browsix.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>userbinator</author><text>Looks like yet another example of the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Inner-platform_effect" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Inner-platform_effect</a> ...when will this abstraction madness end?<p><i>Extended JavaScript runtimes for C, C++, Go, and Node.js that support running programs written in these languages as processes in the browser.</i><p>Does that mean it&#x27;s an interpreter? The main page doesn&#x27;t say much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>If you start the seed of an idea at least three emulators deep when the browser returns to the top level it thinks it originated that idea.</text></comment> |
28,463,819 | 28,463,842 | 1 | 2 | 28,462,151 | train | <story><title>MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rnhmjoj</author><text>&gt; But are they surmountable AND cheaper than existing nuclear or other energy sources?<p>DT fusion solves the two biggest arguments that are always raised by nuclear energy opponents: storage of nuclear waste (it doesn&#x27;t produce high-level waste) and safety (it&#x27;s not perfect but it can&#x27;t explode). I wouldn&#x27;t call it a &quot;meh&quot;, even if it comes off as much more expensive than fission.</text></item><item><author>anonuser123456</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s the catch this time?<p>This is D-T fusion. Which means you have to have T. Which currently comes from fission reactor and has a half life of 15 years.<p>So the plan is to use a molten salt blanket with Be to breed T. But Be isn’t scalable for consumption, so maybe lead eventually. That’s probably do-able, it just slows down the rate new reactors can come online since Pb is not as good a neutron multiplier.<p>Once they breed extra T, they have to capture and refine it. Hydrogen is very corrosive and hard to work with… and T is radioactive hydrogen. Again, probably doable. But guess what? Refining spent nuclear waste in fission reactors is also do-able. It’s also super expensive.<p>And they still need a containment vessel that will withstand the wear and tear from sitting next to a mini hydrogen bomb all day.<p>These challenges are likely all surmountable. But are they surmountable AND cheaper than existing nuclear or other energy sources? Meh?</text></item><item><author>shmageggy</author><text>These university press releases are always very positively framed. This one makes the new magnet seem incredibly promising and fusion seem like almost an inevitability now, but decades of failure have us conditioned for skepticism. What&#x27;s the catch this time?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danans</author><text>&gt; I wouldn&#x27;t call it a &quot;meh&quot;, even if it comes off as much more expensive than fission.<p>It&#x27;s not competing with fission, though. It&#x27;s competing with renewables + storage + load shifting + efficiency. Compared to those, it might indeed be &quot;meh&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy</title><url>https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rnhmjoj</author><text>&gt; But are they surmountable AND cheaper than existing nuclear or other energy sources?<p>DT fusion solves the two biggest arguments that are always raised by nuclear energy opponents: storage of nuclear waste (it doesn&#x27;t produce high-level waste) and safety (it&#x27;s not perfect but it can&#x27;t explode). I wouldn&#x27;t call it a &quot;meh&quot;, even if it comes off as much more expensive than fission.</text></item><item><author>anonuser123456</author><text>&gt; What&#x27;s the catch this time?<p>This is D-T fusion. Which means you have to have T. Which currently comes from fission reactor and has a half life of 15 years.<p>So the plan is to use a molten salt blanket with Be to breed T. But Be isn’t scalable for consumption, so maybe lead eventually. That’s probably do-able, it just slows down the rate new reactors can come online since Pb is not as good a neutron multiplier.<p>Once they breed extra T, they have to capture and refine it. Hydrogen is very corrosive and hard to work with… and T is radioactive hydrogen. Again, probably doable. But guess what? Refining spent nuclear waste in fission reactors is also do-able. It’s also super expensive.<p>And they still need a containment vessel that will withstand the wear and tear from sitting next to a mini hydrogen bomb all day.<p>These challenges are likely all surmountable. But are they surmountable AND cheaper than existing nuclear or other energy sources? Meh?</text></item><item><author>shmageggy</author><text>These university press releases are always very positively framed. This one makes the new magnet seem incredibly promising and fusion seem like almost an inevitability now, but decades of failure have us conditioned for skepticism. What&#x27;s the catch this time?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speed_spread</author><text>It sounds like the T production chain might itself be quite messy. Molten isotopes salt and lead? How much of that stuff would you need? What do you do with when it goes bad? It may not go boom Chernobyl-style, but it&#x27;s still far from the birds-in-the-sky deuterium-from-the-sea fusion dream.</text></comment> |
41,100,699 | 41,099,432 | 1 | 2 | 41,077,753 | train | <story><title>STS-93: We don’t need any more of those (2014)</title><url>https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/sts-93-we-dont-need-any-more-of-those/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zamorano_</author><text>So I suposse building an aircraft involves standard bolts, procedures, testing and much more standarized ways.<p>In contrast a spacecraft like the shuttle, faces much harsher conditions and, as not many of these were built, I expect more manual procedures and tinkering while building the thing.<p>In the end, it&#x27;s incredible these things didn&#x27;t crash more often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexpotato</author><text>NASA has incredibly detailed records about every piece of their spacecraft down to things like:<p>- material used to make a bolt<p>- what the torque used to tighten the bolt was<p>- who tightened the blot<p>- when it was tightened<p>- etc<p>This allows them trace back through the history of each vehicle for debugging purposes.<p>They also applied this to the Space Shuttle software. This article from 1996 does an amazing job of describing the process: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;28121&#x2F;they-write-right-stuff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;28121&#x2F;they-write-right-stuff</a><p>It&#x27;s interesting how modern some of the practices described are. Plus, some of the practices (E.g. the bug rate model), from my experience, only existed there.</text></comment> | <story><title>STS-93: We don’t need any more of those (2014)</title><url>https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/sts-93-we-dont-need-any-more-of-those/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_zamorano_</author><text>So I suposse building an aircraft involves standard bolts, procedures, testing and much more standarized ways.<p>In contrast a spacecraft like the shuttle, faces much harsher conditions and, as not many of these were built, I expect more manual procedures and tinkering while building the thing.<p>In the end, it&#x27;s incredible these things didn&#x27;t crash more often.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rachofsunshine</author><text>The risk of spaceflight is still very high. Wiki [1] lists 676 people as having traveled to space, of whom 19 have died in accidents as a result of that travel, meaning that going to space has about a 3% chance of killing you.<p>The average age of an astronaut is 34 [2], and most are male, so a look at an actuarial table [3] tells us that going to space is approximately as likely to kill you as literally every risk an ordinary person would take in their life up to that point (at 34 years of age, about 4.3% of men have died, and a large proportion of those deaths are due [4] to accidental injury).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Astronaut_Corps#Qualifications" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Astronaut_Corps#Qualifica...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssa.gov&#x2F;oact&#x2F;STATS&#x2F;table4c6.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssa.gov&#x2F;oact&#x2F;STATS&#x2F;table4c6.html</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;books&#x2F;NBK600454&#x2F;table&#x2F;ch2.tab4&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;books&#x2F;NBK600454&#x2F;table&#x2F;ch2.tab4&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
26,119,720 | 26,119,751 | 1 | 2 | 26,119,087 | train | <story><title>Short fat engineers are undervalued</title><url>https://nested.substack.com/p/short-fat-engineers-are-undervalued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whoisjuan</author><text>The argument of specialist vs generalist is futile. They simple fit in distinct parts of the journey and evolution of a software product.<p>Generalists are highly valuable for many types of orgs and projects especially nascent projects. But sometimes you need the precise output of a specialist to achieve something.<p>If my business has a product that is highly dependent of let&#x27;s say OpenGL, then an OpenGL specialist will generate more specific output that someone who knows a little of OpenGL and a lot of other things.<p>However, there&#x27;s always the counterargument that generalists can compensate with their holistic view and understanding of problems throughout the whole stack. I understand this and agree with it, but I think there&#x27;s a point in every innovation where the generalist contribution declines sharply. And I&#x27;m saying this as a generalist.<p>If you are a generalist and you feel undervalued, you&#x27;re likely in the wrong project or too involved in phases of a project where your contribution can&#x27;t move the needle significantly anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hinkley</author><text>Diversity.<p>I&#x27;ve had a conversation with a few bosses where at some point I stopped to say words to the effect of, &quot;It&#x27;s like you think I expect everyone a the project to be like me. I don&#x27;t.&quot; &lt;looks of surprise&gt; A project with just me would have problems too. But every project needs at least a couple of people who think like me, which we aren&#x27;t accomplishing.<p>This whole expert thing isn&#x27;t tenable on a long term project. The expert will get bored and wander off, at which point all the mistakes they avoided will just be explored in their absence. Unless they built up people, documentation and processes to take over the work.<p>My read of Kernighan&#x27;s Law, back-ported onto my own philosophy, is that most of the time you don&#x27;t want the most capable person working on a solution. You want the 2nd or 3rd most capable person on it, have them reach consensus with the other two. Maybe 10% of your code should be as clever as you can manage. Most of the rest should be so boring that only the junior people find it interesting. The bottom rungs of an orchard ladder everyone is trying to climb.</text></comment> | <story><title>Short fat engineers are undervalued</title><url>https://nested.substack.com/p/short-fat-engineers-are-undervalued</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whoisjuan</author><text>The argument of specialist vs generalist is futile. They simple fit in distinct parts of the journey and evolution of a software product.<p>Generalists are highly valuable for many types of orgs and projects especially nascent projects. But sometimes you need the precise output of a specialist to achieve something.<p>If my business has a product that is highly dependent of let&#x27;s say OpenGL, then an OpenGL specialist will generate more specific output that someone who knows a little of OpenGL and a lot of other things.<p>However, there&#x27;s always the counterargument that generalists can compensate with their holistic view and understanding of problems throughout the whole stack. I understand this and agree with it, but I think there&#x27;s a point in every innovation where the generalist contribution declines sharply. And I&#x27;m saying this as a generalist.<p>If you are a generalist and you feel undervalued, you&#x27;re likely in the wrong project or too involved in phases of a project where your contribution can&#x27;t move the needle significantly anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yumraj</author><text>As a generalist, I agree with bulk of what you&#x27;re saying but at least my personal experience seems to echo the fact that generalists in general are undervalued since when someone asks a person &quot;what can you do for me&quot;, a specialist always has a better and sharper answer than a generalist - and that makes all the difference.<p>Personally I&#x27;ll take a generalist any day since specialists suffer from the &quot;if you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail&quot; syndrome.<p>Having said that, my 1 career advice to anyone would be, become a specialist in 1-single thing, and then become a generalist in everything else. I&#x27;m not that, but I feel that that I would have been best served if I had been that.</text></comment> |
28,795,530 | 28,794,679 | 1 | 2 | 28,793,693 | train | <story><title>Samsung Foundry Forum announcements</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1-6</author><text>Samsung has a dishonorable marketing department. 3nm is not actually 3nm. I&#x27;m fed up... OLED is superior so they had to take the path of calling theirs QLED which is actually just an LCD screen with phosphors on top of a blue backlight (and it&#x27;s nothing new).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rendall</author><text>Their high-end phones have such dark patterns that I will flat-out not buy Samsung anything.<p>Even if you pay [€$]1000+ for one of their Smart Phones, you can look forward to:<p>* Uninstallable cruft, as if they were a telcom and you were on a contract and had not just handed over a grand<p>* ...like a confusingly-similar-looking competitor to Google Contacts that will upload your info to their servers<p>* GDPR? LOL<p>* A hard button on the side of your phone located just below the &quot;volume down&quot; button, easy to press accidentally, that is hard-coded and unconfigurable, that will launch their AI assistant Bixby. Don&#x27;t want to use Bixby? Tough shit. Nothing you can do about it.<p>* Constant badgering by the phone&#x27;s native notification to sign up for &quot;Samsung Members&quot;, a social media platform. No, you can&#x27;t turn that off.<p>* Other, similar bullshit.<p>3nm? These are such sketchy practices I cannot imagine it won&#x27;t affect, say, their high-end TVs (they would totally monitor your house and show you advertisements).<p>Seriously, avoid that company. No, paying for their high-end options will not insulate you from their nonsense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung Foundry Forum announcements</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>1-6</author><text>Samsung has a dishonorable marketing department. 3nm is not actually 3nm. I&#x27;m fed up... OLED is superior so they had to take the path of calling theirs QLED which is actually just an LCD screen with phosphors on top of a blue backlight (and it&#x27;s nothing new).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyattpeak</author><text>&gt; 3nm is not actually 3nm<p>It&#x27;s a stretch to blame that on Samsung, processor generations described in nanometres haven&#x27;t been based on actual component size for years now, by any manufacturer.</text></comment> |
38,334,574 | 38,334,062 | 1 | 2 | 38,333,116 | train | <story><title>datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated</title><url>https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/it-s-time-for-a-change-datetime-utcnow-is-now-deprecated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vegabook</author><text>I suspect a lot of financial data code is going to break. I&#x27;ve worked on a number of codebases where the explicit instructions were &quot;everything is UTC, all the time&quot;, and enforced at the entry edges of the code. Bringing in timezones was a definite NO for reasons of the unholy mess this would inevitably create:<p>* India has half-hour timezones<p>* Countries change their DST rules all the time.<p>* Conversion between timezones is an utter mess.<p>As Wes McKinney once said about python datetime: &quot;Welcome to Hell&quot;[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;13753918" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;13753918</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>albert_e</author><text>&gt; India has half-hour timezones<p>Not plural though;<p>The whole of India -- even though it is pretty vast in area -- has a single time-zone country-wide. I am very thankful for this. We already have a lot of other challenges -- including dozens of different languages -- that a single time zone is a relief.<p>But yes -- the +5:30 offset usually makes for a less-than-ideal factor to plan meetings or follow non local event schedules.<p>Did I mention we also hate the Summertime &#x2F; Daylight Saving time adjustments we have to accommodate twice a year when working with western teams -- more adjustment even after most people have already sacrificed on a sane 9-5 schedule to ensure they overlap with EU&#x2F;US teams for daily work meetings. We cant imagine why US that has multiple time-zones already in a single country, and EU whose countries are often smaller than states in India ... need so much adjustment. Why can&#x27;t they, for instance, simply declare that school&#x2F;offices open at 10am instead of 9am for six designated months every year instead of imposing this adjustment on the entire world.</text></comment> | <story><title>datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated</title><url>https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/it-s-time-for-a-change-datetime-utcnow-is-now-deprecated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vegabook</author><text>I suspect a lot of financial data code is going to break. I&#x27;ve worked on a number of codebases where the explicit instructions were &quot;everything is UTC, all the time&quot;, and enforced at the entry edges of the code. Bringing in timezones was a definite NO for reasons of the unholy mess this would inevitably create:<p>* India has half-hour timezones<p>* Countries change their DST rules all the time.<p>* Conversion between timezones is an utter mess.<p>As Wes McKinney once said about python datetime: &quot;Welcome to Hell&quot;[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;13753918" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;13753918</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jagged-chisel</author><text>For sharing between systems and representing dates to humans debugging a system, the following has worked well …<p>Planned local events: future date and time string including local time zone<p>Planned global events: future date and time string in UTC, with UTC timezone<p>Past events: date and time string in UTC with UTC time zone, unless there is a strong case to be made that these should be localized (see “planned local events” above)<p>Strings in the format specified by ISO-8601.<p>Of course, internal representation can be whatever it needs to be for efficiency. For example, maybe your database stores as integer microseconds since an epoch. Fine, but as soon as that leaves the database, ISO-8601 that date.</text></comment> |
9,767,915 | 9,767,382 | 1 | 2 | 9,766,017 | train | <story><title>Building Nuclide, a unified developer experience</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/397706937084869/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xienze</author><text>Well, I think the OP&#x27;s point is that it would be easier to bring Emacs&#x2F;VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards rather than build the whole thing from scratch, as a webapp no less.<p>But they didn&#x27;t, my guess is because NIH.</text></item><item><author>magicmu</author><text>I agree; with vim as well, gVim isn&#x27;t much help to those who still want to use a mouse &#x2F; don&#x27;t know the keybindings. Atom is really the most versatile open-source GUI text editor right now IMO.</text></item><item><author>superuser2</author><text>Yes, a native-feeling GUI. Emacs GUI for OSX is ugly and unpolished. Atom&#x27;s real competition is Sublime, but unlike Sublime it&#x27;s open source.</text></item><item><author>gamesbrainiac</author><text>Why are so many companies hacking on atom recently? First it was MS, and now FB? Anything special about Atom that you don&#x27;t get in something like Vim or Emacs? They&#x27;re both open source, and very hackable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Blackthorn</author><text>&gt; Well, I think the OP&#x27;s point is that it would be easier to bring Emacs&#x2F;VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards<p>I&#x27;ve been waiting for this for literally a decade with emacs. It hasn&#x27;t happened and I don&#x27;t have the expertise to do it, so nowadays I exclusively use IntelliJ for the languages I can. I&#x27;m probably going to start using CLion with it as well.<p>There are lots of aspects of Emacs that I miss but I hope that IntelliJ can take them over with future iterations of the vestigial &quot;IDE scripting console&quot;. They just need to put a lispy language in there like Clojure and bindings into the editor like Emacs Lisp has.</text></comment> | <story><title>Building Nuclide, a unified developer experience</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/397706937084869/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>xienze</author><text>Well, I think the OP&#x27;s point is that it would be easier to bring Emacs&#x2F;VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards rather than build the whole thing from scratch, as a webapp no less.<p>But they didn&#x27;t, my guess is because NIH.</text></item><item><author>magicmu</author><text>I agree; with vim as well, gVim isn&#x27;t much help to those who still want to use a mouse &#x2F; don&#x27;t know the keybindings. Atom is really the most versatile open-source GUI text editor right now IMO.</text></item><item><author>superuser2</author><text>Yes, a native-feeling GUI. Emacs GUI for OSX is ugly and unpolished. Atom&#x27;s real competition is Sublime, but unlike Sublime it&#x27;s open source.</text></item><item><author>gamesbrainiac</author><text>Why are so many companies hacking on atom recently? First it was MS, and now FB? Anything special about Atom that you don&#x27;t get in something like Vim or Emacs? They&#x27;re both open source, and very hackable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>is that it would be easier to bring Emacs&#x2F;VIM up to acceptable GUI editor standards</i><p>Perhaps but nobody has done it yet.</text></comment> |
33,017,223 | 33,011,601 | 1 | 3 | 33,009,715 | train | <story><title>Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/28/23375663/amazon-kindle-scribe-e-ink-tablet-stylus-event-price</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rchaud</author><text>Boox e-ink tabs do the same thing, but they&#x27;re Android underneath so it&#x27;s not locked down to Amazon and dependent on partnerships with Microsoft to add an export button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TwoNineFive</author><text>Reminder that Onyx&#x2F;Boox are well-known GPL IP thieves who won&#x27;t publish source for the Linux or Android code they took to use on their devices.<p>Amazon could score an easy win and force a lot of Boox owners into their direction by getting an import ban on Onyx devices.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/28/23375663/amazon-kindle-scribe-e-ink-tablet-stylus-event-price</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rchaud</author><text>Boox e-ink tabs do the same thing, but they&#x27;re Android underneath so it&#x27;s not locked down to Amazon and dependent on partnerships with Microsoft to add an export button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickspacek</author><text>I have a Boox that I&#x27;m quite happy with. It&#x27;s quite pleasant to write on, and the battery lasts a considerable amount of time. The calibration seems to sometimes go off slightly, but I&#x27;m still not sure if that is the device&#x27;s issue, the pen, or myself.</text></comment> |
30,814,701 | 30,814,192 | 1 | 2 | 30,813,331 | train | <story><title>I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid</title><url>https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/i-am-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-part-2-how-truckers-are-paid-de86ea419f2f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text><i>&gt; This industry literally won’t even pay for chassis they desperately need (and chassis are really cheap compared to trucks), doesn’t want to pay its workers, but they are supposedly going to pay for millions of robot trucks</i><p>Interesting perspective on autonomous freight. Even if self-driving trucks become <i>technologically</i> viable in the coming years, their economic viability may still significantly trail that of personal autonomous vehicles.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Am a Twenty Year Truck Driver, Part 2: How Truckers Are Paid</title><url>https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/i-am-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-part-2-how-truckers-are-paid-de86ea419f2f</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anonymousiam</author><text>A long time ago when I was in high school (late 1970&#x27;s), I knew some kids whose father was a truck driver. They were better off financially than my family (my dad was a high school teacher&#x2F;councilor). I asked one of them about it and learned that his dad earned twice as much as mine. (My father had a Masters degree and 35 years of tenure.)<p>Times have certainly changed since then. The trucking industry is now rife with exploitation.</text></comment> |
18,415,865 | 18,415,194 | 1 | 3 | 18,414,001 | train | <story><title>Why do all websites look the same?</title><url>https://medium.com/s/story/on-the-visual-weariness-of-the-web-8af1c969ce73</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>I think the redesigns in that article demonstrate why most websites look the same.<p>Let&#x27;s do a test. Go to a bookshop and buy a novel. Now go to a different bookshop, and buy a different novel from a different writer and a different publisher. Read them. Chances are they&#x27;re going to look very similar. Different cover maybe, but inside, mostly black letters in an unobtrusive font on a white page with sensible margins. No decorations or illustrations, nothing at weird angles or sizes. They all use the form that&#x27;s efficient at transferring the content, the story, to your head.<p>Some web sites are about their design, but most are about the content they present, and they want to present that content in an efficient manner. A design that distracts from the content is not practical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeveb</author><text><p><pre><code> t l i sya f t a
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I think that makes the point about why avant-garde style can be difficult to comprehend, no?<p>(read the columns up-and-down …)</text></comment> | <story><title>Why do all websites look the same?</title><url>https://medium.com/s/story/on-the-visual-weariness-of-the-web-8af1c969ce73</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcv</author><text>I think the redesigns in that article demonstrate why most websites look the same.<p>Let&#x27;s do a test. Go to a bookshop and buy a novel. Now go to a different bookshop, and buy a different novel from a different writer and a different publisher. Read them. Chances are they&#x27;re going to look very similar. Different cover maybe, but inside, mostly black letters in an unobtrusive font on a white page with sensible margins. No decorations or illustrations, nothing at weird angles or sizes. They all use the form that&#x27;s efficient at transferring the content, the story, to your head.<p>Some web sites are about their design, but most are about the content they present, and they want to present that content in an efficient manner. A design that distracts from the content is not practical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nindalf</author><text>Like Hacker News. Most of us are on this website right now via the browser. It&#x27;s the same interface it&#x27;s been for years, and that familiarity increases the efficiency of understanding. Re-imaginging everything is a great opportunity for designers to showcase their skills, but wouldn&#x27;t really improve users&#x27; efficiency.</text></comment> |
28,067,594 | 28,067,249 | 1 | 2 | 28,049,959 | train | <story><title>NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings</title><url>https://nypost.com/2021/08/03/nyc-to-mandate-proof-of-vaccination-for-many-indoor-settings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt; if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2.<p>Terrible first order logic. The threat from the virus is not only immediate risk to the individual, it is also further transmissions increasing the risk of creating new breakthrough variants. Every infected person is a gamble that risks nullifying the effectiveness of vaccines, so the goal must be to bring down infections as strongly as possible.<p>&gt;We have never before justified such intrusive government policies based on the risks faced by these individuals<p>we should have. Tolerating disease spread and threats to vulnerable populations when vaccines are available that are practically risk-free (or the risk being magnitudes smaller than the payoff) is ridiculous. Maybe this finally shakes people awake and puts public health and safety to the top of the agenda rather than people throwing tantrums like children about government incursion.<p>edit: and another point I forgot, with such a significant unvaccinated population we will very likely see surges in admissions in winter again. Public health resources are limited. Unnecessary Covid hospitalizations cause immense opportunity cost in the form of crowding out care and driving costs. Which in many cases other sick people and the public will have to carry.</text></item><item><author>timr</author><text>I am pro-vaccine (and fully vaccinated), but I don&#x27;t support this policy at all.<p>I don&#x27;t believe this will have much of a net effect on vaccination rate, I believe it will disproportionately negatively impact poor and minority populations in NYC who <i>already</i> have a bad&#x2F;mistrustful relationship with health care and government, and it is obviously a huge new governmental intrusion into our daily lives. It might well lead to anger and violence (as similar moves have across Europe).<p>These are my opinions, but I think the strongest arguments against it are facts: if you are fully vaccinated, <i>you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2</i>. And literally anyone who wants a vaccine can get one. Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a <i>choice</i>.<p>This policy comes from an almost hysterical fixation on &quot;cases&quot;, which are not a metric of any meaning. SARS-CoV2 is not going away. We should be reacting rationally to rates of hospitalization and deaths -- and right now, those are barely changed in NYC, thanks to the very high vaccination rate amongst the vulnerable population:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;doh&#x2F;covid&#x2F;covid-19-data-trends.page" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;doh&#x2F;covid&#x2F;covid-19-data-trends.pag...</a><p>One can certainly argue that there exist small groups of people for whom the vaccine is not perfect protection. This is true, but it&#x27;s no different than <i>all other viruses</i>, which have threatened immunocompromised people forever. We have never before justified such intrusive government policies based on the risks faced by these individuals. So while I empathize with them, this still seems like over-reach to me.</text></item><item><author>alecst</author><text>Pretty dismal discussion in here at the time of writing. Largely complaints about tyranny. Makes me sad that we can&#x27;t have a calm discussion about the merits of the policy.<p>From what I can tell, you might be opposed to this policy if:<p>1. You have fears about getting a vaccine, moreso than for coronavirus. If this is you, do you prefer a mask mandate? And if so, how do you enforce this in a restaurant, where anyone eating takes off their mask right away?<p>2. You have fears about the privacy implications. If so, what are those fears? Perhaps your vaccination status can lead people to make inferences about your health?<p>3. You are not particularly concerned about the community spread of coronavirus (and the implications of that)<p>There aren&#x27;t a lot of choices. You can 1) avoid high-risk areas and escape infection&#x2F;spreading disease, in which case, this policy doesn&#x27;t really directly affect you. Or 2) you can take your chances with coronavirus, which you will get sooner or later, and spread it. Or 3) you can &quot;take your chances&quot; with the vaccine which, statistically and biologically, is safer than getting coronavirus and reduces spread.<p>This policy allows people to choose from 1) and 3) but not 2), which is in all ways the worst decision. Unless, of course, you think that the vaccine is more dangerous than coronavirus. And then I don&#x27;t really know what to say.<p>(lightly edited for clarification)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timr</author><text>&gt; we should have. Tolerating disease spread and threats to vulnerable populations when vaccines are available that are practically risk-free (or the risk being magnitudes smaller than the payoff) is ridiculous. Maybe this finally shakes people awake and puts public health and safety to the top of the agenda rather than people throwing tantrums like children about government incursion.<p>You can certainly go down this path, and dismiss everyone who disagrees with you as &quot;children&quot;, but what you value is not the same as what everyone else values.<p>I am willing to balance the risk of never having a normal life again with an overall risk of illness and death that is on par with <i>every other year I have been alive.</i><p>Eventually, I too will become old and frail, and become vulnerable to some virus or another. If I ever become so afraid of death that I demand that other people give up their basic human rights to &quot;keep me safe&quot;, then I hope that illness takes me quickly after that. I don&#x27;t want to live in the world you propose.</text></comment> | <story><title>NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings</title><url>https://nypost.com/2021/08/03/nyc-to-mandate-proof-of-vaccination-for-many-indoor-settings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Barrin92</author><text>&gt; if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2.<p>Terrible first order logic. The threat from the virus is not only immediate risk to the individual, it is also further transmissions increasing the risk of creating new breakthrough variants. Every infected person is a gamble that risks nullifying the effectiveness of vaccines, so the goal must be to bring down infections as strongly as possible.<p>&gt;We have never before justified such intrusive government policies based on the risks faced by these individuals<p>we should have. Tolerating disease spread and threats to vulnerable populations when vaccines are available that are practically risk-free (or the risk being magnitudes smaller than the payoff) is ridiculous. Maybe this finally shakes people awake and puts public health and safety to the top of the agenda rather than people throwing tantrums like children about government incursion.<p>edit: and another point I forgot, with such a significant unvaccinated population we will very likely see surges in admissions in winter again. Public health resources are limited. Unnecessary Covid hospitalizations cause immense opportunity cost in the form of crowding out care and driving costs. Which in many cases other sick people and the public will have to carry.</text></item><item><author>timr</author><text>I am pro-vaccine (and fully vaccinated), but I don&#x27;t support this policy at all.<p>I don&#x27;t believe this will have much of a net effect on vaccination rate, I believe it will disproportionately negatively impact poor and minority populations in NYC who <i>already</i> have a bad&#x2F;mistrustful relationship with health care and government, and it is obviously a huge new governmental intrusion into our daily lives. It might well lead to anger and violence (as similar moves have across Europe).<p>These are my opinions, but I think the strongest arguments against it are facts: if you are fully vaccinated, <i>you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2</i>. And literally anyone who wants a vaccine can get one. Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a <i>choice</i>.<p>This policy comes from an almost hysterical fixation on &quot;cases&quot;, which are not a metric of any meaning. SARS-CoV2 is not going away. We should be reacting rationally to rates of hospitalization and deaths -- and right now, those are barely changed in NYC, thanks to the very high vaccination rate amongst the vulnerable population:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;doh&#x2F;covid&#x2F;covid-19-data-trends.page" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www1.nyc.gov&#x2F;site&#x2F;doh&#x2F;covid&#x2F;covid-19-data-trends.pag...</a><p>One can certainly argue that there exist small groups of people for whom the vaccine is not perfect protection. This is true, but it&#x27;s no different than <i>all other viruses</i>, which have threatened immunocompromised people forever. We have never before justified such intrusive government policies based on the risks faced by these individuals. So while I empathize with them, this still seems like over-reach to me.</text></item><item><author>alecst</author><text>Pretty dismal discussion in here at the time of writing. Largely complaints about tyranny. Makes me sad that we can&#x27;t have a calm discussion about the merits of the policy.<p>From what I can tell, you might be opposed to this policy if:<p>1. You have fears about getting a vaccine, moreso than for coronavirus. If this is you, do you prefer a mask mandate? And if so, how do you enforce this in a restaurant, where anyone eating takes off their mask right away?<p>2. You have fears about the privacy implications. If so, what are those fears? Perhaps your vaccination status can lead people to make inferences about your health?<p>3. You are not particularly concerned about the community spread of coronavirus (and the implications of that)<p>There aren&#x27;t a lot of choices. You can 1) avoid high-risk areas and escape infection&#x2F;spreading disease, in which case, this policy doesn&#x27;t really directly affect you. Or 2) you can take your chances with coronavirus, which you will get sooner or later, and spread it. Or 3) you can &quot;take your chances&quot; with the vaccine which, statistically and biologically, is safer than getting coronavirus and reduces spread.<p>This policy allows people to choose from 1) and 3) but not 2), which is in all ways the worst decision. Unless, of course, you think that the vaccine is more dangerous than coronavirus. And then I don&#x27;t really know what to say.<p>(lightly edited for clarification)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acituan</author><text>&gt; The threat from the virus is not only immediate risk to the individual, it is also further transmissions increasing the risk of creating new breakthrough variants<p>&gt; Tolerating disease spread and threats to vulnerable populations when vaccines are available that are practically risk-free (or the risk being magnitudes smaller than the payoff) is ridiculous<p>Those are very different justifications with very different policy implications, it is best not to conflate the two.<p>If breakthrough variants was the major concern (and it should have been) vaccine rollout should have been <i>fast</i> in addition to very high percentages, and vaccinated&#x2F;unvaccinated population mix should have been minimized with policy. Anything less gives the perfect arena for evolutionary algorithm to learn its way around the vaccine immunity.<p>Second issue is the fading immunity of current vaccines in comparison to natural immunity. Vaccines got disproportionate attention and funding at the expense of covid <i>treatment</i> bets, which would have helped with developing higher natural immunity levels. To what degree conflicts of interests due to EUA play in this, we don’t know. But once booster shots enter the “mandatory” territory, that will cause an additional drop in compliance. How many boosters can we really mandate, for how many years?</text></comment> |
15,460,345 | 15,460,199 | 1 | 2 | 15,459,262 | train | <story><title>Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-equifax-breach/equifax-takes-down-web-page-after-reports-of-new-hack-idUSKBN1CH2F3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Posibyte</author><text>I feel like this has to do with Equifax basically not being punished in any major way over the last breach. Their stocks are still priced reasonably well, most of their board is still intact, and US citizens are still required to work with them for credit reasons.<p>And the worst part is, I have no idea how I as a person could say &quot;I don&#x27;t want to do work with Equifax because I don&#x27;t trust them.&quot; And if anybody has suggestions on that, I&#x27;m totally open, because if Equifax was a dripping faucet, they&#x27;d be flooding the house by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&gt; Their stocks are still priced reasonably well,<p>Exactly. And everyone is watching and learning a lesson from it - &quot;If this goes unpunished, heck, we can get away with it too, screw all the security mumbo jumbo&quot;<p>In an investing and finance forum I saw people were gearing up to buy Equifax after the breach was announced. The idea was that price would dip then it would go back up. Maybe enough people did that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack</title><url>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-equifax-breach/equifax-takes-down-web-page-after-reports-of-new-hack-idUSKBN1CH2F3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Posibyte</author><text>I feel like this has to do with Equifax basically not being punished in any major way over the last breach. Their stocks are still priced reasonably well, most of their board is still intact, and US citizens are still required to work with them for credit reasons.<p>And the worst part is, I have no idea how I as a person could say &quot;I don&#x27;t want to do work with Equifax because I don&#x27;t trust them.&quot; And if anybody has suggestions on that, I&#x27;m totally open, because if Equifax was a dripping faucet, they&#x27;d be flooding the house by now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgbrenner</author><text>freeze your credit report with Equifax, and then if any company requests it, they&#x27;ll be denied (because you have to request it be unfrozen for them to receive it).<p>If any company uses Equifax, you&#x27;ll then be denied credit or they&#x27;ll ask you to unfreeze it.. either way, you can complain to them, and make it clear you won&#x27;t work with Equifax.<p>Of course, in practice, this will mean you&#x27;ll get denied credit from any company that has a contract with Equifax.</text></comment> |
41,150,142 | 41,149,532 | 1 | 2 | 41,148,517 | train | <story><title>How to build quickly</title><url>https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allenu</author><text>This is how I work on my projects as an indie dev. When I start working on something significant (a new feature, for instance), I&#x27;ll create a markdown file that has a summary of what I&#x27;m trying to achieve and then a TODOs section which turns into this massive outline of all the tasks that I&#x27;ll need to do to complete the work.<p>At first, the outline just has a few tasks that are fairly high-level, but as I dive into each one, I add more nested sub-tasks. The nesting keeps going until I end up with sort of leaf nodes that can be done without depending on other tasks. This gives me a nice visual of how complex some tasks are versus others.<p>I generally prototype and design the implementation at the same time, and having this outline gives me a place to &quot;dump&quot; tasks and other work I&#x27;ll need to do later, and you do often encounter more work than you expect, so an outline makes it easier to find a good &quot;parent&quot; for the task. Having a big outline also lets me jump around from high-level design to low-level implementation easily as well, which you need if you&#x27;re prototyping and trying to find the right shape for your solution.<p>It&#x27;s great as a motivator too since I can see when I complete something big when I check off a parent task that has a lot of nested children.<p>I find a simple text file outline like this is so much more convenient than say an app or a web UI since I can just jump around the file and cut and paste outlined sections and indent or un-indent them to re-parent them. (Having to use something like JIRA to do this would be way too slow, especially when you&#x27;re in a flow state.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkteflon</author><text>Same here. I wrote a little multitree-based TUI with vim-adjacent key bindings for exactly this purpose, since I find it generalises to all complex projects, software-related or not (and who can resist any excuse to write a TUI?), but a simple markdown file is just as good, really, and for software means you can keep it in the repo directly adjacent to other project docs.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to build quickly</title><url>https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>allenu</author><text>This is how I work on my projects as an indie dev. When I start working on something significant (a new feature, for instance), I&#x27;ll create a markdown file that has a summary of what I&#x27;m trying to achieve and then a TODOs section which turns into this massive outline of all the tasks that I&#x27;ll need to do to complete the work.<p>At first, the outline just has a few tasks that are fairly high-level, but as I dive into each one, I add more nested sub-tasks. The nesting keeps going until I end up with sort of leaf nodes that can be done without depending on other tasks. This gives me a nice visual of how complex some tasks are versus others.<p>I generally prototype and design the implementation at the same time, and having this outline gives me a place to &quot;dump&quot; tasks and other work I&#x27;ll need to do later, and you do often encounter more work than you expect, so an outline makes it easier to find a good &quot;parent&quot; for the task. Having a big outline also lets me jump around from high-level design to low-level implementation easily as well, which you need if you&#x27;re prototyping and trying to find the right shape for your solution.<p>It&#x27;s great as a motivator too since I can see when I complete something big when I check off a parent task that has a lot of nested children.<p>I find a simple text file outline like this is so much more convenient than say an app or a web UI since I can just jump around the file and cut and paste outlined sections and indent or un-indent them to re-parent them. (Having to use something like JIRA to do this would be way too slow, especially when you&#x27;re in a flow state.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ukuina</author><text>What do you do when an idea changes and now there are dozens of nested entries that need to be changed to match?</text></comment> |
18,164,530 | 18,164,507 | 1 | 3 | 18,164,188 | train | <story><title>How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos</title><url>https://ronaldlangeveld.com/deleting-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amirathi</author><text>I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying &#x2F; making my feed non-personal.<p>How?<p>I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in under 10 seconds. Over time my mind hated using FB and clicking on that app went away from my muscle memory without me trying to force any habit changes.<p>Why not just delete the account?
FB is still great to find old friends, ex-colleagues who I might have lost contact with. I also use it as my public mic to post stuff that I want to share as widely as I can.<p>It&#x27;s fun to take on the PMs who design addictive products that influence us at psychological level and beat them at their own game. Bring it on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitemice</author><text>I can attest that this would be an effective technique, because recently I accidentally did the opposite.<p>A while back, I did a big clean up of all my groups, likes and (most of my) friends, which greatly improved the signal to noise. Before that, I hardly ever checked FB because there just wasn&#x27;t anything I really cared about, and if there was it was too well buried.<p>Now, though I find myself checking it, just in case there is something worth seeing. I particularly started doing this after happening on two big surprise stories on there from small businesses that made me think &quot;Lucky I was scrolling through FB, otherwise I wouldn&#x27;t have known about that&quot;.<p>The signal to noise is better, but the problem remains the signal isn&#x27;t worth receiving most of the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos</title><url>https://ronaldlangeveld.com/deleting-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amirathi</author><text>I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying &#x2F; making my feed non-personal.<p>How?<p>I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in under 10 seconds. Over time my mind hated using FB and clicking on that app went away from my muscle memory without me trying to force any habit changes.<p>Why not just delete the account?
FB is still great to find old friends, ex-colleagues who I might have lost contact with. I also use it as my public mic to post stuff that I want to share as widely as I can.<p>It&#x27;s fun to take on the PMs who design addictive products that influence us at psychological level and beat them at their own game. Bring it on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ElCapitanMarkla</author><text>I found just deleting the app on my phone was a great way to cut the habit of opening it every time I looked at my phone. I thought I was about ready to delete it after a few days but then suddenly realised that without it I would lose touch with a heap of businesses around town, food trucks, nice takeaways etc, that I wouldn&#x27;t otherwise know about. Deleting the app has easily cut 90% of the time I was spending on facebook, but my hungry belly still has there :D</text></comment> |
16,057,373 | 16,057,098 | 1 | 3 | 16,056,156 | train | <story><title>Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spotify-lawsuit/spotify-hit-with-1-6-billion-copyright-lawsuit-idUSKBN1ER1RX</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agrippanux</author><text>I was one of the original engineers on MP3.com.<p>Shortly after our music locker service debuted, we got sued by all the major labels. I spent 4 months writing tools to pull all the discovery data for their lawsuits.<p>When it was apparent our court case was going south, the major music publishers sued us as well (lead by Harry Fox Agency). I spent another 4 months pulling discovery data for those lawsuits.<p>When those court cases trended badly for us, we got sued by every 2 bit operation that owned a partial percentage of the country-based rights to a song (ie, one company may of owned 4% the rights of a song in the United States and 10% in Mexico and 9.3% in Ireland, with another company owning 1.3%, 40%, .5% respectively). I spent another 4 months pulling discovery data for those lawsuits.<p>Finally, after we where acquired by Vivendi Universal and they took on our liabilities, I spent almost a year writing tools for them to pay these partial percentages. Have you ever had to split 1 cent via check between 3 parties? It&#x27;s not fun.<p>Moral of this boring story is Spotify better win this fast and clean or they are in a world of pain; I can never get those 2 years of my life back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>&gt; When it was apparent our court case was going south, the major music publishers sued us as well (lead by Harry Fox Agency).<p>From the OP:<p>&gt; Wixen also alleged that Spotify outsourced its work to a third party, licensing and royalty services provider the Harry Fox Agency, which was “ill-equipped to obtain all the necessary mechanical licenses”.<p>If there&#x27;s any justice, if they lose at all in court Spotify will be suing Harry Fox for damages too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spotify-lawsuit/spotify-hit-with-1-6-billion-copyright-lawsuit-idUSKBN1ER1RX</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>agrippanux</author><text>I was one of the original engineers on MP3.com.<p>Shortly after our music locker service debuted, we got sued by all the major labels. I spent 4 months writing tools to pull all the discovery data for their lawsuits.<p>When it was apparent our court case was going south, the major music publishers sued us as well (lead by Harry Fox Agency). I spent another 4 months pulling discovery data for those lawsuits.<p>When those court cases trended badly for us, we got sued by every 2 bit operation that owned a partial percentage of the country-based rights to a song (ie, one company may of owned 4% the rights of a song in the United States and 10% in Mexico and 9.3% in Ireland, with another company owning 1.3%, 40%, .5% respectively). I spent another 4 months pulling discovery data for those lawsuits.<p>Finally, after we where acquired by Vivendi Universal and they took on our liabilities, I spent almost a year writing tools for them to pay these partial percentages. Have you ever had to split 1 cent via check between 3 parties? It&#x27;s not fun.<p>Moral of this boring story is Spotify better win this fast and clean or they are in a world of pain; I can never get those 2 years of my life back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;we got sued by every 2 bit operation that owned a partial percentage of the country-based rights to a song&quot;<p>Were these these each each country&#x27;s performing rights societies then? I am confused on why these are partial percentages. I would have though that they would be 100% owned in each country. Does the performing right society divide up 1 pie amongst all its affiliates in each of the countries.<p>Do you have any idea what the final amount Vivendi paid out to straighten everything out? I am guessing they had good idea of that before the acquisition, so I am guessing it was still a good investment for them.</text></comment> |
23,542,571 | 23,540,289 | 1 | 3 | 23,537,388 | train | <story><title>Netgear 0-day vulnerability analysis and exploit</title><url>https://blog.grimm-co.com/2020/06/soho-device-exploitation.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sodman</author><text>The worst part is this isn&#x27;t even just going to affect folks that would never think to update their router firmware. The firmware they <i>do</i> push out is frequently a massive downgrade.<p>About a year ago, I tried to update the firmware on my Netgear router. It was the exact model from the article, the R7000. I assumed &quot;new update&quot; for router firmware would involve some critical security updates, and maybe some stability fixes, but it basically rendered the router unusable. It would crash every few hours with normal usage. I googled around and turns out it was a known issue, the only recommended fix was &quot;roll back to version x.x.x (2 versions prior). I found this fix months after it had been posted, and there had still been no new patch released to fix the issue.<p>When my relatives call me to fix their wifi, I now have to think twice about updating the firmware. These days I recommend the google wifi mesh router(s), because they just involve the least maintenance effort. They have less fine-tune controls and the wifi speed is slightly slower when you start approaching gigabit speeds (vs other high-end consumer routers), but it&#x27;s definitely worth the trade off for me. Plus, anyone calling me to help with their wifi won&#x27;t notice either of those things :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>&gt; <i>The worst part is this isn&#x27;t even just going to affect folks that would never think to update their router firmware. The firmware they do push out is frequently a massive downgrade.</i><p>I worked there a bit over 10 years ago, so things may have changed, but honestly I wouldn&#x27;t expect them to change all that much. For that kind of hardware (SOHO stuff), Netgear didn&#x27;t have any software developers in-house. It was all outsourced to dev shops in Asia. The software was usually whatever generic thing the dev house had built, with customization for branding and enabling&#x2F;disabling features Netgear wanted or didn&#x27;t want. Occasionally they would pay to add features that didn&#x27;t exist.<p>Netgear usually didn&#x27;t get source code, and would only get changelogs for new releases (which weren&#x27;t all that detailed). There were often many regressions, and all bug testing and feature verification was black-box. When something was wrong, it was often a fight to get the dev house to prioritize it, especially if they didn&#x27;t think it was a critical bug (declaring a bug a shipping showstopper was usually effective, but you can&#x27;t cry wolf all the time, and that only works for pre-release products, not updates).<p>I imagine things are better now; at the very least I expect these developers to have at least a <i>little</i> more awareness of common security issues and how to avoid them (definitely was not the case in the 00s), but I assume it&#x27;s still a mixed bag. On the plus side, most of the current-gen hardware is beefy enough to run Linux, which a lot more developers are familiar with (IIRC a lot of the stuff back then was running vxWorks), which hopefully makes it easier to hire better developers.<p>If you want high-quality software on your networking gear, go with a company that you know is actually a software company, and not an outsourced hw&#x2F;sw company. Products that are based on OpenWRT or Tomato or something like that are probably safer, assuming they haven&#x27;t broken it with their customizations... but don&#x27;t expect updates to new major releases. Having said that, I still buy Netgear switches and other stuff that&#x27;s internal to my network and are generally relatively &quot;dumb&quot;. They&#x27;re usually pretty reliable and reasonably priced.</text></comment> | <story><title>Netgear 0-day vulnerability analysis and exploit</title><url>https://blog.grimm-co.com/2020/06/soho-device-exploitation.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Sodman</author><text>The worst part is this isn&#x27;t even just going to affect folks that would never think to update their router firmware. The firmware they <i>do</i> push out is frequently a massive downgrade.<p>About a year ago, I tried to update the firmware on my Netgear router. It was the exact model from the article, the R7000. I assumed &quot;new update&quot; for router firmware would involve some critical security updates, and maybe some stability fixes, but it basically rendered the router unusable. It would crash every few hours with normal usage. I googled around and turns out it was a known issue, the only recommended fix was &quot;roll back to version x.x.x (2 versions prior). I found this fix months after it had been posted, and there had still been no new patch released to fix the issue.<p>When my relatives call me to fix their wifi, I now have to think twice about updating the firmware. These days I recommend the google wifi mesh router(s), because they just involve the least maintenance effort. They have less fine-tune controls and the wifi speed is slightly slower when you start approaching gigabit speeds (vs other high-end consumer routers), but it&#x27;s definitely worth the trade off for me. Plus, anyone calling me to help with their wifi won&#x27;t notice either of those things :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeffbee</author><text>The best thing about setting up Google wifi routers for your relatives is you can set yourself up as the manager of them, and manage them with the Google Wifi app from anywhere. So before Uncle Bob calls you about the wifi you&#x27;d already have got the notification that his cable service is down again.</text></comment> |
21,096,326 | 21,095,933 | 1 | 2 | 21,094,231 | train | <story><title>Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarnowski</author><text>Living in Germany&#x2F;Berlin and can confirm. Our tap water is excellent and is way cleaner than all bottled water you can buy. Keep in mind, bottled water is also kept around way longer and has the time to „breed“. In tests, the tap water is consistently less contaminated. I recommend everyone to just stick to it.<p>As an anecdote: you can let your tap water be tested for free if you have a newborn to ensure and confirm that you can use it for baby food without doubt.</text></item><item><author>afiori</author><text>In at least a couple of European countries it is well known that unless your city has specific problems tap water is better than bottled water.<p>The reason being that (except some cases of corruption...) legal limit are much stricter for tap water.<p>Better in impurities at the very least, the taste is usually quite worse.</text></item><item><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was:<p>&gt; Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics.<p>Worse... it&#x27;s worse than tap water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geggam</author><text>Having spent 5 months in Germany recently I can say without a doubt the entire food chain in that nation is something I miss. Tap water tasted great and the food was super high quality.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bottled-water-microplastics-1.4575045</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sarnowski</author><text>Living in Germany&#x2F;Berlin and can confirm. Our tap water is excellent and is way cleaner than all bottled water you can buy. Keep in mind, bottled water is also kept around way longer and has the time to „breed“. In tests, the tap water is consistently less contaminated. I recommend everyone to just stick to it.<p>As an anecdote: you can let your tap water be tested for free if you have a newborn to ensure and confirm that you can use it for baby food without doubt.</text></item><item><author>afiori</author><text>In at least a couple of European countries it is well known that unless your city has specific problems tap water is better than bottled water.<p>The reason being that (except some cases of corruption...) legal limit are much stricter for tap water.<p>Better in impurities at the very least, the taste is usually quite worse.</text></item><item><author>slowmovintarget</author><text>Went looking to see what the comparison to tap water was:<p>&gt; Orb found on average there were 10.4 particles of plastic per litre that were 100 microns (0.10 mm) or bigger. This is double the level of microplastics in the tap water tested from more than a dozen countries across five continents, examined in a 2017 study by Orb that looked at similar-sized plastics.<p>Worse... it&#x27;s worse than tap water.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zwaps</author><text>Berlin, of course, has a website in English language with all the information regarding tap water:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bwb.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;index.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bwb.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;index.php</a></text></comment> |
21,125,130 | 21,125,159 | 1 | 2 | 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>program_whiz</author><text>Sure, the kid was swinging at the officer, and I suppose that warrants the officer acting in self-defense. But another question is, what are the protesters supposed to do? The government has all the power, and can simply snuff out any resistence. If you just stand in the streets, they really don&#x27;t care, they are going to take your freedom. Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator that just decided they were going to take all property rights and freedoms like that -- I think taking to the streets, and even resorting to violence might be necessary (otherwise the powers-that-be have no reason to listen to a bunch of people standing in a street hundreds of miles away).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schuke</author><text>I’m from the mainland and totally with HK’s cause. But I do think the violence is at least unnecessary if not detrimental to the movement. If tanks roll in, there’s no point using violence as they’ll be crushed. If they don’t, it seems to me there’s enough space for peaceful protests, which can be even more effectual in many ways. And the people of Hong Kong have shown an incredible amount of creativity in non-violent protests. The kid is so young he shouldn’t be involved in such violence. I hope he will make a full recovery.</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>program_whiz</author><text>Sure, the kid was swinging at the officer, and I suppose that warrants the officer acting in self-defense. But another question is, what are the protesters supposed to do? The government has all the power, and can simply snuff out any resistence. If you just stand in the streets, they really don&#x27;t care, they are going to take your freedom. Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator that just decided they were going to take all property rights and freedoms like that -- I think taking to the streets, and even resorting to violence might be necessary (otherwise the powers-that-be have no reason to listen to a bunch of people standing in a street hundreds of miles away).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mc32</author><text>Obviously this is very complicated. Protesters have rights but so do police officers —we hope both operate within the bounds of the law and then that politicians would do the work for a compromise.<p>But, it becomes really complicated rather fast when rights get eroded.<p>When the Russians were caught unprepared for war, it wasn’t “right” to send their young conscripts to war with antiquated arms against a modernized force. But what was the alternative to certain carnage? Supplicant carnage? I don’t condone what the Soviets did to their own, but at the same time they had little alternative, though it was due to negligence at the highest office at the time.</text></comment> |
9,636,156 | 9,636,160 | 1 | 3 | 9,635,037 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer in JavaScript</title><url>http://amid.fish/javascript-karplus-strong/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pierrec</author><text>KS is one of the most interesting algorithms to experiment with. You can modify, multiply and recombine it with itself in a huge variety of ways, and always get new and weird sounds out of it.<p>In fact it forms the basis of a large branch of DSP for sound effects and synthesis, physical modeling. Of course many techniques can be used in physical modeling, but often it&#x27;s actually delay lines all the way down, and delay lines are really a generalization of the KS algorithm with a better interpolation. Many crucial effects in digital music such as chorus, phaser&#x2F;flanger, and algorithmic reverbs are also just delay lines fed into each other.<p>Then there are masters of the genre that create jaw-dropping effects and instruments by making massive use of delay lines - I&#x27;m looking at xoxos:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xoxos.net&#x2F;vst&#x2F;vst.html#nature" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xoxos.net&#x2F;vst&#x2F;vst.html#nature</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer in JavaScript</title><url>http://amid.fish/javascript-karplus-strong/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hiphopyo</author><text>1. Combine with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.io&#x2F;drummer" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.io&#x2F;drummer</a>
2. Record to cassette tape
3. Send to major label</text></comment> |
23,193,449 | 23,191,385 | 1 | 2 | 23,190,885 | train | <story><title>Five Years of Rust</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/05/15/five-years-of-rust.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>Now that there&#x27;s been 5 years since v1.0, is there any consensus on design mistakes that Rust made? Any mistakes that people wish they could turn back time and do differently but can&#x27;t because it would break compatibility with too much existing code out there? That&#x27;s the more interesting list to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>There isn&#x27;t much. Rust has deprecated some mistakes (like Error::cause). The editions mechanism allowed fixing some issues (like unintuitive module paths).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues?q=label%3Arust-2-breakage-wishlist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues?q=label%3Arust-2-br...</a><p>• Struct literal syntax should have used C99 syntax. The language uses `name:type` everywhere except struct literals which use `name:value`, and this gets in the way of adding new syntax (type ascriptions).<p>• `Box` is semi-magical. Maybe it could have been a regular struct. Or maybe magical all the way to allow placement new and destructuring.<p>• Types are in borrowed, owned-fixed-size and owned-growable variants, but naming of them is a bit ad-hoc. There&#x27;s str&#x2F;String, but Path&#x2F;PathBuf (instead of e.g. String&#x2F;StringBuf or path&#x2F;Path).<p>• Split between libcore and libstd is awkward to manage and not a good fit for WASM. It could have been one libstd with feature toggles (this might still happen).<p>• Some people think split between Eq and PartialEq is an overkill, and just makes floats annoying.<p>There are things that are still unsolved in Rust, like umovable types and self-referential structs. But it&#x27;s hard to say they&#x27;re a mistake — as far as we know, they&#x27;re a necessary limitation to make other useful features work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Five Years of Rust</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/05/15/five-years-of-rust.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>Now that there&#x27;s been 5 years since v1.0, is there any consensus on design mistakes that Rust made? Any mistakes that people wish they could turn back time and do differently but can&#x27;t because it would break compatibility with too much existing code out there? That&#x27;s the more interesting list to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>The &quot;2018 edition&quot; of Rust made breaking changes to the syntax (but the core stayed compatible, so 2015 edition and 2018 edition Rust can be used simultaneously on the same project).<p>They then said that they&#x27;d probably do the same thing in 2021.<p>Now they&#x27;re debating whether a 2021 edition is needed since there aren&#x27;t any breaking changes with broad support except for the removal of deprecated syntax and APIs.<p>This is strong evidence that the answer to your question is &quot;no&quot;.</text></comment> |
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