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27,544,723 | 27,540,494 | 1 | 2 | 27,539,368 | train | <story><title>The collapse of the IRON stable coin</title><url>https://irony-97882.medium.com/the-melting-of-iron-89469b01e083</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thebean11</author><text>&gt; There is no court or lawyer who can interpret the spirit of the contract.<p>That&#x27;s obviously the point, though. You are trading one set of risks for a completely different set of risks that might suit your use case much better; your counterparty being able to contest a contract in court could very well be a &quot;bad&quot; thing for you.</text></item><item><author>georgyo</author><text>This has always been the problem with smart contracts. They are infact dumb contacts.<p>To program one you need to think about all the edge cases. The programmers here likely did want &gt;0 here. The possibility that the thing feeding price data return zero incorrectly was higher than the price legitimately being zero in their minds.<p>There is no court or lawyer who can interpret the spirit of the contract.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmilcin</author><text>&gt; That&#x27;s obviously the point, though. You are trading one set of risks for a completely different set of risks.<p>But that&#x27;s exactly <i>the</i> point.<p>People are not able to interpret &quot;smart&quot; contracts. For normal contracts most people can understand the contract and if there is a dispute you have laws and courts who can interpret in every case.<p>In case of &quot;smart&quot; contracts even the contract developers more often than not seem to not be able to understand all consequences.<p>So if we are trading one set of risks for another it kinda seems to me to be a a really shitty tradeoff.</text></comment> | <story><title>The collapse of the IRON stable coin</title><url>https://irony-97882.medium.com/the-melting-of-iron-89469b01e083</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thebean11</author><text>&gt; There is no court or lawyer who can interpret the spirit of the contract.<p>That&#x27;s obviously the point, though. You are trading one set of risks for a completely different set of risks that might suit your use case much better; your counterparty being able to contest a contract in court could very well be a &quot;bad&quot; thing for you.</text></item><item><author>georgyo</author><text>This has always been the problem with smart contracts. They are infact dumb contacts.<p>To program one you need to think about all the edge cases. The programmers here likely did want &gt;0 here. The possibility that the thing feeding price data return zero incorrectly was higher than the price legitimately being zero in their minds.<p>There is no court or lawyer who can interpret the spirit of the contract.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>&gt; your counterparty being able to contest a contract in court could very well be a &quot;bad&quot; thing for you.<p>Evading the law (whether the court or a regulatory body such as the SEC [civil] or DOJ [criminal]) is typically a &quot;bad thing&quot; for the person or people intending to or successfully doing so.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;spotlight&#x2F;cybersecurity-enforcement-actions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sec.gov&#x2F;spotlight&#x2F;cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...</a> (SEC Cyber Enforcement Actions, control-f &quot;blockchain&quot; | &quot;crypto&quot;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ropesgray.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;alerts&#x2F;2021&#x2F;March&#x2F;The-CFTC-Signals-New-Era-in-Enforcement-of-Cryptocurrency-Trading-with-Action-Against-Antivirus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ropesgray.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;alerts&#x2F;2021&#x2F;March&#x2F;The-...</a> (The CFTC Signals New Era in Enforcement of Cryptocurrency Trading with Action Against Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jdsupra.com&#x2F;legalnews&#x2F;doj-activity-on-cryptocurrency-a-six-1846233&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jdsupra.com&#x2F;legalnews&#x2F;doj-activity-on-cryptocurr...</a> (DOJ Activity on Cryptocurrency: A Six-Month Review)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;us-court-authorizes-irs-seek-identities-taxpayers-who-have-used-cryptocurrency-2021-05-05&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;us-court-authorizes-irs-see...</a> (U.S. court authorizes IRS to seek identities of taxpayers who have used cryptocurrency)</text></comment> |
28,054,708 | 28,054,675 | 1 | 3 | 28,050,750 | train | <story><title>NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]</title><url>https://media.defense.gov/2021/Aug/03/2002820425/-1/-1/1/CTR_KUBERNETES%20HARDENING%20GUIDANCE.PDF</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sound1</author><text>I am mostly non technical person but why do we need to resort to firewalls etc. if we can employ UNIX like file permission system for network access? Wouldn&#x27;t it be awesome if we can allow any installed software to contact ONLY whitelisted domains? Of course this excludes web browsers but you get the idea.<p>How about our mainstream OSes incorporate that kind of permission system similar to what we have in mobile OSes already have today?</text></item><item><author>beprogrammed</author><text>- Scan containers and Pods for vulnerabilities or misconfigurations.<p>- Run containers and Pods with the least privileges possible.<p>- Use network separation to control the amount of damage a compromise can
cause.<p>- Use firewalls to limit unneeded network connectivity and encryption to protect
confidentiality.<p>- Use strong authentication and authorization to limit user and administrator
access as well as to limit the attack surface.<p>- Use log auditing so that administrators can monitor activity and be alerted to
potential malicious activity.<p>- Periodically review all Kubernetes settings and use vulnerability scans to help
ensure risks are appropriately accounted for and security patches are applied.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bennysaurus</author><text>It&#x27;s a fair question and certainly is possible to have firewalls on a per-server basis. We do that for incoming traffic primarily. The catch is if that server itself gets compromised then you can&#x27;t count on those rules still being enforced.<p>Having dedicated network appliances acting as firewalls means from a security perspective you need to compromise the local machine and then also compromise a dedicated, hardened external system as well. It vastly ups the difficulty barrier.</text></comment> | <story><title>NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf]</title><url>https://media.defense.gov/2021/Aug/03/2002820425/-1/-1/1/CTR_KUBERNETES%20HARDENING%20GUIDANCE.PDF</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sound1</author><text>I am mostly non technical person but why do we need to resort to firewalls etc. if we can employ UNIX like file permission system for network access? Wouldn&#x27;t it be awesome if we can allow any installed software to contact ONLY whitelisted domains? Of course this excludes web browsers but you get the idea.<p>How about our mainstream OSes incorporate that kind of permission system similar to what we have in mobile OSes already have today?</text></item><item><author>beprogrammed</author><text>- Scan containers and Pods for vulnerabilities or misconfigurations.<p>- Run containers and Pods with the least privileges possible.<p>- Use network separation to control the amount of damage a compromise can
cause.<p>- Use firewalls to limit unneeded network connectivity and encryption to protect
confidentiality.<p>- Use strong authentication and authorization to limit user and administrator
access as well as to limit the attack surface.<p>- Use log auditing so that administrators can monitor activity and be alerted to
potential malicious activity.<p>- Periodically review all Kubernetes settings and use vulnerability scans to help
ensure risks are appropriately accounted for and security patches are applied.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeroxfe</author><text>Think of them as a defence-in-depth that protect from accidental misconfiguration, software bugs, local exploits, etc.</text></comment> |
13,980,769 | 13,980,612 | 1 | 2 | 13,980,274 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects?</title><text>Sure enough, not all side projects are meant to make money. But among those that do, what is your business model?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>david_shaw</author><text>Google Adsense + organic (non-paid) traffic == &quot;passive&quot; money.<p>Not an insane amount of money, of course, but enough that you can consider the project successful if you&#x27;re getting a solid amount of views.<p>My largest project, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sleepyti.me" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sleepyti.me</a>, gets about 1.5 million unique views per month. The revenue Google Adsense brings in is not nearly enough support myself, but it&#x27;s enough to make the effort feel solidly &quot;worth it&quot; in terms of development time and hosting costs (which are very low at this point).<p>How (or if) you should be monetizing depends on the nature of your side project. If your &quot;side project&quot; is a business -- say, designing WordPress themes -- then you should sell your product! If it&#x27;s something that gets 50 views per month, maybe it&#x27;s not the best candidate for monetization (and is instead a portfolio&#x2F;resume builder). Either way, gaining experience building things is almost always a good thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yeukhon</author><text>Sorry, but I don&#x27;t see any ads displayed. Am I missing something?</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects?</title><text>Sure enough, not all side projects are meant to make money. But among those that do, what is your business model?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>david_shaw</author><text>Google Adsense + organic (non-paid) traffic == &quot;passive&quot; money.<p>Not an insane amount of money, of course, but enough that you can consider the project successful if you&#x27;re getting a solid amount of views.<p>My largest project, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sleepyti.me" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sleepyti.me</a>, gets about 1.5 million unique views per month. The revenue Google Adsense brings in is not nearly enough support myself, but it&#x27;s enough to make the effort feel solidly &quot;worth it&quot; in terms of development time and hosting costs (which are very low at this point).<p>How (or if) you should be monetizing depends on the nature of your side project. If your &quot;side project&quot; is a business -- say, designing WordPress themes -- then you should sell your product! If it&#x27;s something that gets 50 views per month, maybe it&#x27;s not the best candidate for monetization (and is instead a portfolio&#x2F;resume builder). Either way, gaining experience building things is almost always a good thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clockwork_189</author><text>Wow, that is so cool! I remember using sleepyti.me in university to get decent sleep and found it pretty helpful.</text></comment> |
33,398,369 | 33,397,633 | 1 | 2 | 33,395,857 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Spectrum is blocking TCP/UDP 5060 at my home</title><text>For several years, I&#x27;ve run 3 VOIP phones from my house. About a week ago they stopped working. SIP REGISTER started failing.<p>Turns out Spectrum now blocks TCP&#x2F;UDP port 5060. My workaround is to use a VPN. After that, everything is fine.<p>This reddit thread https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;networking&#x2F;comments&#x2F;t8nulq&#x2F;spectrum_is_rate_limiting_voipsip_traffic_port&#x2F; suggests Spectrum was rate limiting 5060 on 300mbps plans, but not on the 100mbps plans.<p>I have the 100mbps plan, and it is definitely affected now.<p>So if you are in SoCal, using Spectrum, and your VOIP phones suddenly stopped working in the last week or so, maybe this will help you.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>The opt-out is buy business-class service[0].<p>My guess is that the 2x price increase Xs4all was charging for their plan was a bridge too far for most customers. It&#x27;s important to keep in mind that the vast majority of people rent their modem, don&#x27;t know or care what a &#x2F;29 is, and is calling tech support because the plug is loose or the modem needs a power cycle. Bulk-blocking SMTP happened because open ports are botnet ports, and the average customer does not know how to identify and shut down zombies on their network.<p>[0] Assuming your provider isn&#x27;t stupidly committed to &quot;you can&#x27;t have business class because you&#x27;re in a residential area, WFH doesn&#x27;t exist, and the zoning code is gospel, all hail Robert Moses&quot;</text></item><item><author>nousermane</author><text>Ah, yes. The classic &quot;all our customers are morons&quot; approach, with no opt-out for those 0.1% who, in fact, are not. Very typical among ISPs&#x2F;Telcos.<p>Where I am, we used to have a different, &quot;nerdy&quot; ISP [0], where customer was allowed to bring their own modem; they also provided real IPv4&#x2F;v6 dual-stack since forever, easy to request a &#x2F;29, tech-support that&#x27;s realistic to reach, and staffed with people who know what they are talking about, no bulk-firewalling port-25, etc... All for a modest 2x price increase over market average. Alas, they&#x27;re out of business now.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xs4all" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xs4all</a></text></item><item><author>_wldu</author><text>They are probably trying to reduce SIP abuse. It&#x27;s a big problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bombcar</author><text>Even if the provider is stupid AF you can usually get around the residential restriction by <i>starting</i> the discussion with the business side of the company; once the salesman has a nibble he&#x27;s not gonna cut you free if he can help it.<p>And then get a 2 year term on whatever seems a &quot;good deal&quot; at the time (I had cable speeds and 5 IPs) and once that is up call them and &quot;drop down&quot; to whatever you actually <i>need</i> (cable speeds and 1 IP) - you&#x27;ll find that at that point there will be various &quot;packages&quot; that were never advertised but the system is quite capable of supporting.<p>If all else fails, find a company that works with the provider and offers service over their &quot;last mile&quot;.<p>You&#x27;ll pay for all the above, but not as much as you might think, and business support is <i>actually good</i> in many, many cases. Fabled evil Comcast rolled a truck twice until they tracked down a problem, at no charge.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Spectrum is blocking TCP/UDP 5060 at my home</title><text>For several years, I&#x27;ve run 3 VOIP phones from my house. About a week ago they stopped working. SIP REGISTER started failing.<p>Turns out Spectrum now blocks TCP&#x2F;UDP port 5060. My workaround is to use a VPN. After that, everything is fine.<p>This reddit thread https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;networking&#x2F;comments&#x2F;t8nulq&#x2F;spectrum_is_rate_limiting_voipsip_traffic_port&#x2F; suggests Spectrum was rate limiting 5060 on 300mbps plans, but not on the 100mbps plans.<p>I have the 100mbps plan, and it is definitely affected now.<p>So if you are in SoCal, using Spectrum, and your VOIP phones suddenly stopped working in the last week or so, maybe this will help you.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmeisthax</author><text>The opt-out is buy business-class service[0].<p>My guess is that the 2x price increase Xs4all was charging for their plan was a bridge too far for most customers. It&#x27;s important to keep in mind that the vast majority of people rent their modem, don&#x27;t know or care what a &#x2F;29 is, and is calling tech support because the plug is loose or the modem needs a power cycle. Bulk-blocking SMTP happened because open ports are botnet ports, and the average customer does not know how to identify and shut down zombies on their network.<p>[0] Assuming your provider isn&#x27;t stupidly committed to &quot;you can&#x27;t have business class because you&#x27;re in a residential area, WFH doesn&#x27;t exist, and the zoning code is gospel, all hail Robert Moses&quot;</text></item><item><author>nousermane</author><text>Ah, yes. The classic &quot;all our customers are morons&quot; approach, with no opt-out for those 0.1% who, in fact, are not. Very typical among ISPs&#x2F;Telcos.<p>Where I am, we used to have a different, &quot;nerdy&quot; ISP [0], where customer was allowed to bring their own modem; they also provided real IPv4&#x2F;v6 dual-stack since forever, easy to request a &#x2F;29, tech-support that&#x27;s realistic to reach, and staffed with people who know what they are talking about, no bulk-firewalling port-25, etc... All for a modest 2x price increase over market average. Alas, they&#x27;re out of business now.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xs4all" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Xs4all</a></text></item><item><author>_wldu</author><text>They are probably trying to reduce SIP abuse. It&#x27;s a big problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>I <i>still</i> get emails from Comcrap because once I had a business internet plan with them in a residential area -- an apartment no less.<p>When it comes to internet service, &quot;giving a crap about the customer&quot; is a premium add-on from Comcast, but once you commit to opening your wallet for that, they do deliver.</text></comment> |
27,193,128 | 27,192,918 | 1 | 3 | 27,192,152 | train | <story><title>Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-tax-avoidance-50-dutch-shell-companies-5-billion-revenue-2021-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dstick</author><text>I&#x27;m getting more and more frustrated by my own country&#x27;s willingness to facilitate this. It just doesn&#x27;t make any sense. From what I can tell it&#x27;s all based on old-fashioned debunked economic theories in the same vain as &quot;trickle-down-economy&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s a growing resistance to the Netherlands as a &quot;Doorsluisland&quot;, and our current administration&#x27;s political turmoil will hopefully provide the momentum for actual change - so hopefully things will change.<p>Here&#x27;s a nice (Dutch) article on it. The big take-away with other tax &quot;havens&quot; is that the money doesn&#x27;t reside &#x2F; stay in the Netherlands, it&#x27;s just passed through it. Like Uber did.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groene.nl&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;doorsluisland" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groene.nl&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;doorsluisland</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speleding</author><text>I&#x27;m also Dutch, but I&#x27;m mainly frustrated that the press does a very poor job of explaining what is going on.<p>Uber has its corporate head quarters for the EU in Amsterdam. For a company the size of Uber to have 50 different entities is not particularly special, you will find several other multinationals there with the same number. It makes sense to have one for each jurisdiction they operate in, for example. The term &quot;shell companies&quot; seems to imply something nefarious, and that may very well be the case, but in itself having 50 entities in The Netherlands is not really a sign of that.<p>It&#x27;s also important to point out that they do not choose The Netherlands for low corporate tax rates, they are not the lowest in the EU by far, but because of &quot;tax rulings&quot;. Those are agreements they can make with the tax authorities that ascertain them how much tax they will pay this year as long as revenue, costs, etc, stay within a certain bandwidth. In the US it can take over a year for them to get any certainty on what their tax bill would be for the previous year, and shareholders hate that uncertainty.<p>No one thinks it&#x27;s a good idea to compete in a &quot;race to the bottom&quot; of attractive tax laws, but as far as I&#x27;m concerned competing on better service is fair game. Many politicians screaming at The Netherlands tend to conveniently forget the part where their own country just delivers very poor service tax-wise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-tax-avoidance-50-dutch-shell-companies-5-billion-revenue-2021-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dstick</author><text>I&#x27;m getting more and more frustrated by my own country&#x27;s willingness to facilitate this. It just doesn&#x27;t make any sense. From what I can tell it&#x27;s all based on old-fashioned debunked economic theories in the same vain as &quot;trickle-down-economy&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s a growing resistance to the Netherlands as a &quot;Doorsluisland&quot;, and our current administration&#x27;s political turmoil will hopefully provide the momentum for actual change - so hopefully things will change.<p>Here&#x27;s a nice (Dutch) article on it. The big take-away with other tax &quot;havens&quot; is that the money doesn&#x27;t reside &#x2F; stay in the Netherlands, it&#x27;s just passed through it. Like Uber did.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groene.nl&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;doorsluisland" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.groene.nl&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;doorsluisland</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>It&#x27;s a mistake to think of it as based on ideas or economic theory, debunked or otherwise. &quot;Trickle-down-economy&quot; is a marketing term, intended for rhetoric.<p>Tax policies, and other corporate friendly loophole machines are all about detail. At the detail level, both rhetorical slogans and technical theories have no meaning. Any given legislation can only be understood as accounting spreadsheets and scenario plans. There&#x27;s no way to &quot;narrate&quot; it.<p>One side thinks in terms of objects that have independent moral implications, like shell companies. The other thinks in terms of objects that are a collection of accounting details, like pass-through entities.<p>There&#x27;s an old business adage: &quot;you name the price, I&#x27;ll name the terms.&quot; In a startup context, that could mean investing in a company at valuation X, but with terms (eg liquidations preferences, performance goals, etc.) that make a mockery of X as a valuation. Many a vein founder has been scheisted this way. Proudly boasting their impressive, $X valuation and paper-wealth, while giving away the farm.<p>In corporate law and tax codes, one side has been consistently been winning this game.</text></comment> |
12,211,272 | 12,211,356 | 1 | 3 | 12,209,704 | train | <story><title>Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust</title><url>https://medium.com/@raphlinus/inside-the-fastest-font-renderer-in-the-world-75ae5270c445#.uttzi87qp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>Neat. I can&#x27;t help but wonder if this will fall victim to the &quot;last 10% is the hardest&quot; rule? Will going from tech demo to production ready remove the performance gain?<p>It sounds like you&#x27;re claiming that FreeType is slower because the parsing&#x2F;accumulation implementations are slower. It&#x27;s far from my area of expertise, but wouldn&#x27;t 20 y&#x2F;o open source software as prevalent as FreeType have optimized those code paths?<p>Edit: Author is a heavyweight in font rendering circles. Excuse my ignorance. Just wary of &quot;10x faster with 90% of functionality!&quot; benchmarks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elcapitan</author><text>Author:<p>&gt; The current state of the code is quite rough. The code isn&#x27;t well organized, and it&#x27;s basically not ready for prime time.<p>From what I can see in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;font-rs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;font.rs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;font-rs&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;font.rs</a>, this is what is missing:<p>* support of CFF-based fonts (that is &quot;postscript-flavored outlines&quot; (i.e. cubic) OTF files)<p>* &quot;Advanced Typographic Tables&quot; (see Opentype spec: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;typography&#x2F;otspec&#x2F;otff.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;typography&#x2F;otspec&#x2F;otff.htm</a>), this is what is needed to render more complex non-latin languages like Arabic etc, because it defines context-specific replacements and positioning, but also opentype-level kerning<p>* support for the kerning table<p>* support for slightly more exotic TTF variations like EOT and WOFF for webfonts<p>* hinting support for smaller rendering sizes<p>Most of these things are supported by Freetype, and are probably a considerable amount of work to add. Once you add them into the rendering calculations, the abstractions in the code would have to be refactored and the code would become more complex and probably slower.<p>Having said that, it&#x27;s still a nice implementation and easy to read, something I wouldn&#x27;t necessarily say about Freetype ;)</text></comment> | <story><title>Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust</title><url>https://medium.com/@raphlinus/inside-the-fastest-font-renderer-in-the-world-75ae5270c445#.uttzi87qp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nathancahill</author><text>Neat. I can&#x27;t help but wonder if this will fall victim to the &quot;last 10% is the hardest&quot; rule? Will going from tech demo to production ready remove the performance gain?<p>It sounds like you&#x27;re claiming that FreeType is slower because the parsing&#x2F;accumulation implementations are slower. It&#x27;s far from my area of expertise, but wouldn&#x27;t 20 y&#x2F;o open source software as prevalent as FreeType have optimized those code paths?<p>Edit: Author is a heavyweight in font rendering circles. Excuse my ignorance. Just wary of &quot;10x faster with 90% of functionality!&quot; benchmarks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brohee</author><text>&gt; wouldn&#x27;t 20 y&#x2F;o open source software as prevalent as FreeType have optimized those code paths?<p>The tradeoffs that made the most sense 20 years ago are not those that would lead to the fastest implementation on current hardware. This is not so much the Freetype is unoptimized, it&#x27;s that old, possibly wrong optimizations are pretty much baked in now...<p>Modern CPU have massively more cache and have vectorization instructions, which make the optimal solution very different from the one optimal for the Pentium II that was top of the line when Freetype was first conceived... It&#x27;s also acceptable to use vastly more memory, Freetype dates from a time where a beefy desktop machine had maybe 32Mb of RAM...</text></comment> |
32,863,744 | 32,858,465 | 1 | 2 | 32,856,333 | train | <story><title>The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cryptokitties</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaic</author><text>&gt; What Went Wrong?<p>It&#x27;s in the title of the article. It&#x27;s a &quot;Blockchain Game&quot;. That&#x27;s what went wrong. It was a flawed concept from its inception. Blockchains are pretty cool from a math&#x2F;cryptography standpoint, but they really do not provide added value in <i>most</i> areas people try to apply them to.<p>CryptoKitties is a digital trading card game. You get cards, you can &quot;breed&quot; cards together to make new cards, you trade&#x2F;buy&#x2F;sell cards. That&#x27;s it. Nowhere at any point in this &quot;game&quot; is a blockchain necessary. Nowhere at any point does a blockchain add any value whatsoever. In fact, due to transaction fees, I&#x27;d argue the blockchain actively detracts from the game.<p>The idea of an artist signing their work in a cryptographically unique way is not new or revolutionary, and it <i>certainly</i> doesn&#x27;t need a blockchain. There&#x27;s a reason the general sentiment the art community has towards NFTs is overwhelmingly negative: it&#x27;s because they literally <i>actively harm us</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>animal531</author><text>Also as Morty would say, it just seems like a pyramid scheme with extra steps.</text></comment> | <story><title>The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/cryptokitties</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkaic</author><text>&gt; What Went Wrong?<p>It&#x27;s in the title of the article. It&#x27;s a &quot;Blockchain Game&quot;. That&#x27;s what went wrong. It was a flawed concept from its inception. Blockchains are pretty cool from a math&#x2F;cryptography standpoint, but they really do not provide added value in <i>most</i> areas people try to apply them to.<p>CryptoKitties is a digital trading card game. You get cards, you can &quot;breed&quot; cards together to make new cards, you trade&#x2F;buy&#x2F;sell cards. That&#x27;s it. Nowhere at any point in this &quot;game&quot; is a blockchain necessary. Nowhere at any point does a blockchain add any value whatsoever. In fact, due to transaction fees, I&#x27;d argue the blockchain actively detracts from the game.<p>The idea of an artist signing their work in a cryptographically unique way is not new or revolutionary, and it <i>certainly</i> doesn&#x27;t need a blockchain. There&#x27;s a reason the general sentiment the art community has towards NFTs is overwhelmingly negative: it&#x27;s because they literally <i>actively harm us</i>.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reidjs</author><text>More accurately it can be described as a digital trading card game built on Ethereum.</text></comment> |
27,285,157 | 27,280,271 | 1 | 2 | 27,276,547 | train | <story><title>The Button Cheat Sheet</title><url>https://www.buttoncheatsheet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>Am I the only one who thinks CSS + JS on top of HTML broke the conceptual model beyond hope?<p>The fact you can make any element look and behave the almost the same way – ignoring compatibility and usability issues – is a minefield. We could create a guide like this for basically everything and demonstrate 99% of the web isn&#x27;t compliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>naikrovek</author><text>&gt; Am I the only one who thinks CSS + JS on top of HTML broke the conceptual model beyond hope?<p>no. developers everywhere (but nowhere near &quot;all developers&quot;) are forgetting the fundamental advantages of hypertext and are often commanding high salaries despite their staggering ignorance about how to build user interfaces.<p>we should be trending toward mostly perfect UI paradigms in certain use cases, yet every few months, for no reason at all, user interface designers make huge changes and wreck everything. only rarely do user interfaces get better with such changes.<p>where is the UI which made large, sensible changes early in its life, favoring smaller and smaller changes as the perfect interface for a particular set of data and actions makes itself obvious? I can&#x27;t remember the last time I saw one. some games, probably.<p>I maintain that games probably produce the most usable UIs today, in many ways. they are usually very well thought out, each page usually has a single purpose, and each screen provides all information needed to make a decision or change on a single page, whenever possible. and game UIs are FAST.<p>I&#x27;d love to see a motivated game designer have a go at Service Now or any other contemporary enterprise software, really.<p>it&#x27;s very much like web designers are learning less as the study of electronic user interfaces matures. if you judge this by web or mobile user interfaces, you have likely lost all hope that a single semi-sensible design will ever emerge.<p>designers are very good at making things look good, don&#x27;t misinterpret me. usability does not seem to be getting better, though.<p>I welcome counter-examples.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Button Cheat Sheet</title><url>https://www.buttoncheatsheet.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>Am I the only one who thinks CSS + JS on top of HTML broke the conceptual model beyond hope?<p>The fact you can make any element look and behave the almost the same way – ignoring compatibility and usability issues – is a minefield. We could create a guide like this for basically everything and demonstrate 99% of the web isn&#x27;t compliant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anticristi</author><text>I wonder how much &quot;HTML non-compliance&quot; is lack of education and how much dark patterns. Remember the time clean URLs were a thing? Don&#x27;t tell me Facebook engineers haven&#x27;t heard about it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.facebook.com&#x2F;events&#x2F;2805322196445083&#x2F;?event_time_id=2811694019141234&amp;acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22permalink%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22child_time_series%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A[]%7D]%22%7D&amp;ref=page_internal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.facebook.com&#x2F;events&#x2F;2805322196445083&#x2F;?event_time_i...</a><p>Like seriously. It&#x27;s almost like someone learned HTML&#x2F;HTTP best practices, then did the exact opposite.</text></comment> |
25,943,117 | 25,943,018 | 1 | 2 | 25,942,240 | train | <story><title>WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore</title><url>https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/rwallstreetbets-vs-wallstreet-its</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willis936</author><text>I have seen very little evidence of people investing money in the stock market that is not budgeted as “gambling” (ie disposable income). WSB embraces the idea that memetrading is gambling. This is not a surprise to anyone but a few outsiders.</text></item><item><author>ghaff</author><text>So they&#x27;re going to show Wall Street who&#x27;s boss by gambling away their grocery money? (Some will make out but I suspect the vast majority will lose big--money at least some can&#x27;t really afford to lose.) I have trouble conjuring up a lot of sympathy but that&#x27;s almost certainly uncharitable as I&#x27;m sure there will be stories of serious individual loss.</text></item><item><author>Beefin</author><text>People have had enough, it&#x27;s not just WSB anymore. The community of retail investors in GME is far beyond WSB. It&#x27;s people that are frustrated with the 1% getting bailed out time and time again and them not seeing a dime at their tax dollar expense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TameAntelope</author><text>Then you have not been paying attention to WSB for very long. It&#x27;s full of degenerate gamblers, so many loss porn posts come from people saying, &quot;How will I pay my rent this month?&quot;<p>Most of the time, WSB is a community to commiserate about losses and lie about gains.</text></comment> | <story><title>WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore</title><url>https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/rwallstreetbets-vs-wallstreet-its</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willis936</author><text>I have seen very little evidence of people investing money in the stock market that is not budgeted as “gambling” (ie disposable income). WSB embraces the idea that memetrading is gambling. This is not a surprise to anyone but a few outsiders.</text></item><item><author>ghaff</author><text>So they&#x27;re going to show Wall Street who&#x27;s boss by gambling away their grocery money? (Some will make out but I suspect the vast majority will lose big--money at least some can&#x27;t really afford to lose.) I have trouble conjuring up a lot of sympathy but that&#x27;s almost certainly uncharitable as I&#x27;m sure there will be stories of serious individual loss.</text></item><item><author>Beefin</author><text>People have had enough, it&#x27;s not just WSB anymore. The community of retail investors in GME is far beyond WSB. It&#x27;s people that are frustrated with the 1% getting bailed out time and time again and them not seeing a dime at their tax dollar expense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>afavour</author><text>But it kind of goes against the story that this is “the people” against Wall Street. “The people”, by and large, do not have a ton of spare gambling money sitting around. “Upper middle class folks with spare disposable income vs Wall Street” isn’t quite as persuasive a hook, though.</text></comment> |
19,936,623 | 19,934,321 | 1 | 2 | 19,930,923 | train | <story><title>SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/sat-adversity-score.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>remote_phone</author><text>I already talked to my wife about this. I would retire, we would divorce, and I would rent a shitty apartment in East Palo Alto all the while
living in our house.<p>If they think they can boil my kids into a single number without bothering to find the context of who my kids are then I will game it to as much as possible.<p>I don’t know why my family should be punished because my wife and I worked our asses off to get ahead. It’s an insult to hard working people across the spectrum.</text></item><item><author>Glyptodon</author><text>This seems likely to end up being ugly. For example wealthy people could buy or rent addresses in &quot;adverse&quot; neighborhoods, or charter schools might locate offices there, in order to attempt to improve scores on this metric. At the same time this won&#x27;t be able to identify many adverse life circumstances like abusive parents, cancer, etc.<p>What it does do is outsource components of admissions decisions the colleges may want to distance themselves from and wrap it up in an opaque package so that they&#x27;re not actually considering anything legally risky in their admissions decisions. This is potentially valuable to institutions that want to have affirmative action style admissions without risking the ire of state legislators.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robotresearcher</author><text>I understand the feeling, but how about if we rephrase it from another viewpoint:<p>I don’t know why I should be punished because my parents didn’t succeed financially. I work hard in highschool but don’t have extra private tutoring or parents who can help me with calculus homework. I’m hard working and bright but how can I compete with kids from Saratoga High School where everyone’s parents went to MIT&#x2F;Penn and work at Apple&#x2F;Google[1]? I read library books and watch Khan Academy, but no one in my family ever went to college. Why does my parents’ achievement have a fundamental impact on my opportunities?<p>Somehow we have to aim for equality of opportunity. It’s difficult to achieve but can’t we agree on this as a goal? Opportunity should not be inherited. My kids are as good as yours, as the next person’s, independent of how hard we worked.<p>[1] hyperbole. Saratoga parents from UCLA&#x2F;CMU who work at Netflix&#x2F;NVIDIA I’m talking about you too.</text></comment> | <story><title>SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/sat-adversity-score.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>remote_phone</author><text>I already talked to my wife about this. I would retire, we would divorce, and I would rent a shitty apartment in East Palo Alto all the while
living in our house.<p>If they think they can boil my kids into a single number without bothering to find the context of who my kids are then I will game it to as much as possible.<p>I don’t know why my family should be punished because my wife and I worked our asses off to get ahead. It’s an insult to hard working people across the spectrum.</text></item><item><author>Glyptodon</author><text>This seems likely to end up being ugly. For example wealthy people could buy or rent addresses in &quot;adverse&quot; neighborhoods, or charter schools might locate offices there, in order to attempt to improve scores on this metric. At the same time this won&#x27;t be able to identify many adverse life circumstances like abusive parents, cancer, etc.<p>What it does do is outsource components of admissions decisions the colleges may want to distance themselves from and wrap it up in an opaque package so that they&#x27;re not actually considering anything legally risky in their admissions decisions. This is potentially valuable to institutions that want to have affirmative action style admissions without risking the ire of state legislators.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sjy</author><text>Choosing to get a fake divorce so that you can game the system as much as possible isn&#x27;t punishment; it&#x27;s probably fraud. You could also choose to relax and let your children enjoy all the other benefits of a great upbringing, and accept that &quot;the children of hardworking parents should be more likely to be admitted&quot; isn&#x27;t a design goal of the admissions system.</text></comment> |
18,739,784 | 18,739,615 | 1 | 2 | 18,734,808 | train | <story><title>Star Control II</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/star-control-ii/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mratzloff</author><text>When I look back at my favorite games of all time, they all evoke this feeling of &quot;I can go anywhere and do anything. There&#x27;s so much to do and see, and I&#x27;m a little nervous to venture out because I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ll be able to find my way back.&quot;<p>Star Control II is that game. So is Ultima VII, and several Infocom games that filled my
imagination and seemed bigger than they were. Before the era of a complete walkthrough a click away that will lead you by the nose.<p>The turning point was voiced dialogue. Once that became the norm, content became exponentially more expensive to produce, and so the size of the worlds shrank.</text></item><item><author>evdev</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s my favorite game of all time. No, I&#x27;m not sure you can really &quot;get&quot; the experience today. One thing older games were able to do was use time and boredom(!) for effect in a way that mostly doesn&#x27;t exist nowadays with so many more well-made games with &quot;optimized&quot; reward systems.<p>I think of Grim Fandango, where a lot of the effect of the narrative comes in the way scrounging for clues by trial and error makes it feel as if you <i>really were</i> stuck in that town for a year. Play through quickly with a strategy guide and you won&#x27;t actually get the effect of the environment.<p>Or take the difference between the original Zelda and the later games: I&#x27;d say the fact that the original completely lacked the well-marked trail of where you were supposed to be going and what you were supposed to be interacting with made it seem as if you had &quot;found&quot; a smaller part of a wider world, and you were reacting to its logic.<p>Star Control II did both of these things as well as any game has. The reasons for your actions were always intrinsic (not to make &quot;1&#x2F;5&quot; go to &quot;3&#x2F;5&quot; and then &quot;5&#x2F;5&quot;, quest completed!) and your course through the game was meaningful because it took place in an economy of choice, effort, and time that was consistent and weighty.<p>Beyond navel gazing, I think the real upshot is when something like Breath of the Wild is so universally adored, part of what you&#x27;re seeing is all the potential being left on the table by the current paradigm of gerbil wheels with scrolling backdrops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hjek</author><text>Star Control II <i>has</i> voiced dialog[0].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packages.debian.org&#x2F;jessie&#x2F;uqm-voice" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;packages.debian.org&#x2F;jessie&#x2F;uqm-voice</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Star Control II</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/star-control-ii/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mratzloff</author><text>When I look back at my favorite games of all time, they all evoke this feeling of &quot;I can go anywhere and do anything. There&#x27;s so much to do and see, and I&#x27;m a little nervous to venture out because I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ll be able to find my way back.&quot;<p>Star Control II is that game. So is Ultima VII, and several Infocom games that filled my
imagination and seemed bigger than they were. Before the era of a complete walkthrough a click away that will lead you by the nose.<p>The turning point was voiced dialogue. Once that became the norm, content became exponentially more expensive to produce, and so the size of the worlds shrank.</text></item><item><author>evdev</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s my favorite game of all time. No, I&#x27;m not sure you can really &quot;get&quot; the experience today. One thing older games were able to do was use time and boredom(!) for effect in a way that mostly doesn&#x27;t exist nowadays with so many more well-made games with &quot;optimized&quot; reward systems.<p>I think of Grim Fandango, where a lot of the effect of the narrative comes in the way scrounging for clues by trial and error makes it feel as if you <i>really were</i> stuck in that town for a year. Play through quickly with a strategy guide and you won&#x27;t actually get the effect of the environment.<p>Or take the difference between the original Zelda and the later games: I&#x27;d say the fact that the original completely lacked the well-marked trail of where you were supposed to be going and what you were supposed to be interacting with made it seem as if you had &quot;found&quot; a smaller part of a wider world, and you were reacting to its logic.<p>Star Control II did both of these things as well as any game has. The reasons for your actions were always intrinsic (not to make &quot;1&#x2F;5&quot; go to &quot;3&#x2F;5&quot; and then &quot;5&#x2F;5&quot;, quest completed!) and your course through the game was meaningful because it took place in an economy of choice, effort, and time that was consistent and weighty.<p>Beyond navel gazing, I think the real upshot is when something like Breath of the Wild is so universally adored, part of what you&#x27;re seeing is all the potential being left on the table by the current paradigm of gerbil wheels with scrolling backdrops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>malkia</author><text>Sierra Quest games were like this - one pixel to the left, and you have to reload your last save :)<p>In contrast with Lucasart ones - but both were fun, just in different way!<p>Then came... &quot;The Day of the Tentacle&quot; - OMG!!!</text></comment> |
25,478,441 | 25,478,211 | 1 | 2 | 25,477,734 | train | <story><title>Facebook: Free as in Bullshit</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/facebook_free_as_in_bullshit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samizdis</author><text>I fail to understand Facebook&#x27;s strategy&#x2F;reasoning for running this campaign against Apple. It is generating a newsworthy backlash which serves only to draw attention to FB&#x27;s practice of tracking users across domains&#x2F;apps, when many of said users were unaware of this, and might not be comfortable with it.<p>I would be really interested to hear arguments opposing my assumptions. There must be something that I am overlooking - Facebook isn&#x27;t a stupid company, not by a long chalk. What is the strategy&#x2F;reasoning behind this campaign?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I think it&#x27;s pretty simple: the potential revenue loss to Facebook is much larger than the expected costs of cleaning up a PR mess.<p>And I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re right. It&#x27;s important to remember that Facebook can precisely measure the impact of news articles like this. And even without messing with the newsfeed algorithms, they have way more influence over consumer perception of Facebook than a few news articles do. For example, they could introduce some new &quot;privacy&quot; feature and talk it up in in-app notifications. Or they have you review your privacy settings, something most people will glance at and move on, thinking they are in control. And they can do things like this whenever consumer confidence flags.<p>If Facebook loses a few more users of the sort that are tech-savvy and informed enough that this pushes them over the edge, that&#x27;s fine. In fact, it might be even better, as the remaining population is more easily wrangled.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook: Free as in Bullshit</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/2020/12/facebook_free_as_in_bullshit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samizdis</author><text>I fail to understand Facebook&#x27;s strategy&#x2F;reasoning for running this campaign against Apple. It is generating a newsworthy backlash which serves only to draw attention to FB&#x27;s practice of tracking users across domains&#x2F;apps, when many of said users were unaware of this, and might not be comfortable with it.<p>I would be really interested to hear arguments opposing my assumptions. There must be something that I am overlooking - Facebook isn&#x27;t a stupid company, not by a long chalk. What is the strategy&#x2F;reasoning behind this campaign?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>Kara Swisher thinks its part of piling onto apple anti-trust by the US Government, which kinda? makes sense.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;facebook-apple-ads.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;facebook-apple-ad...</a><p>&quot;The regulatory and legal questions around Apple’s practices are behind Facebook’s strategy that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In its attack ads on Apple, Facebook added that it would help antitrust regulators and others — like the Fortnite parent company Epic Games — on the App Store issue.&quot;<p>......<p>But both companies have issues:<p>&quot;But the cracks we are seeing this week are the most significant — and could spell trouble for both companies. Apple, pointing out Facebook’s data gluttony, and Facebook, in turn, noting Apple’s hegemony over mobile, make one thing clear: These tech companies have too much power. And no matter how you slice it, they are all in dire need of government regulation.&quot;</text></comment> |
14,376,960 | 14,376,201 | 1 | 3 | 14,374,697 | train | <story><title>Facebook blocks Pulitzer-winning reporter over Malta government exposé</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/19/facebook-blocks-malta-journalist-joseph-muscat-panama-papers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phantom_oracle</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it before and I&#x27;ll say it again, the real issue here is that in 2017 (and beyond), the only way&#x2F;place that you will be able to reach an audience is via these walled-gardens known as Facebook&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;etc.<p>This is the same company that fought against US legislature (SOPA or whatever it was called) but created its own non-neutral <i>internet.org</i> for the third-world.<p>The only race that these giant advertising media&#x2F;companies are in is the race for: total-observation<p>and unlike the <i>evil government from 1984</i> , these leech-like data-harvesting entities are celebrated by their peers for re-inventing MySpace and IRC over and over again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook blocks Pulitzer-winning reporter over Malta government exposé</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/19/facebook-blocks-malta-journalist-joseph-muscat-panama-papers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>johnnydoe9</author><text>A friend posted screenshots from the movie Spotlight, before the credits the list of churches and it got deleted for hurting religious sentiments. He tried to fight it but didn&#x27;t win. The caption was just &quot;something needs to be done about this&quot;</text></comment> |
33,808,681 | 33,808,400 | 1 | 2 | 33,801,973 | train | <story><title>The Casino-Chip Society</title><url>https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akira2501</author><text>If money only exists in the mind of people, how could there truly ever be a &quot;science&quot; of it? It strikes me, from a somewhat cynical point of view, that &quot;economics&quot; is a somewhat confused and lower resolution study of &quot;psychology,&quot; which I think offers a the workable explanation for your final sentence.</text></item><item><author>jrm4</author><text>This is <i>so good.</i> I was in another thread suggesting that, even if you hate crypto, it&#x27;s still valuable to understand and accept the &quot;fiat is all made up&quot; idea, even if it&#x27;s often badly stated and argued.<p>I have a degree in economics, but I confess I really didn&#x27;t understand the whole thing until much later in life, when I was able to look at it through the lens of e.g. video game design. Which is to say, there are real consequences and real effects of actions -- but the economy still isn&#x27;t something like &quot;nature&quot; or &quot;scientific&quot; despite what many would have you believe. It&#x27;s much more like a <i>designed game</i> who&#x27;s rules can be tweaked, sometimes arbitrary, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>felix318</author><text>Numbers also only exist in our minds but that doesn&#x27;t make mathematics a branch of psychology. There is a rational side to economics because money can be measured and the measurements are reliable.<p>The unpredictable side of economics is of course the behaviour of the various economical agents, and regarding this I think economics is closer to astrology than to psychology.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Casino-Chip Society</title><url>https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akira2501</author><text>If money only exists in the mind of people, how could there truly ever be a &quot;science&quot; of it? It strikes me, from a somewhat cynical point of view, that &quot;economics&quot; is a somewhat confused and lower resolution study of &quot;psychology,&quot; which I think offers a the workable explanation for your final sentence.</text></item><item><author>jrm4</author><text>This is <i>so good.</i> I was in another thread suggesting that, even if you hate crypto, it&#x27;s still valuable to understand and accept the &quot;fiat is all made up&quot; idea, even if it&#x27;s often badly stated and argued.<p>I have a degree in economics, but I confess I really didn&#x27;t understand the whole thing until much later in life, when I was able to look at it through the lens of e.g. video game design. Which is to say, there are real consequences and real effects of actions -- but the economy still isn&#x27;t something like &quot;nature&quot; or &quot;scientific&quot; despite what many would have you believe. It&#x27;s much more like a <i>designed game</i> who&#x27;s rules can be tweaked, sometimes arbitrary, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattnewton</author><text>&gt; economics&quot; is a somewhat confused and lower resolution study of &quot;psychology,&quot;<p>Maybe sociology, since money matter because it can be exchanged between people, but personally I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;d be wrong for thinking about economics as a narrow but important branch of sociology&#x2F;psychology, in the same way you might think of biology as a narrow but important branch of chemistry and physics.</text></comment> |
21,566,541 | 21,566,308 | 1 | 2 | 21,565,391 | train | <story><title>Completing Racket's relicensing effort</title><url>https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/11/completing-racket-s-relicensing-effort.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dumbmatter</author><text><i>Two people declined to re-license their contributions to Racket. We therefore removed their contributions and, where appropriate, replaced them with new code and&#x2F;or documentation.</i><p>Is that actually allowed by the GPL? I thought it was more like the &quot;Ship of Theseus&quot; - that even if you eventually replace all the original GPL code, the entire work remains GPLed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;260347&#x2F;ship-of-theseus-applied-to-gpl-can-i-relicense-my-program-if-i-replace-all-of" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2603...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chubot</author><text>The GPL relies on copyright as far as I understand.<p>The two declining authors don&#x27;t have copyright on the new replacement code, because they didn&#x27;t write it. So their choice of license can&#x27;t possibly have any bearing on the license of the rest of the project.<p>A similar thing happened when the busybox maintainer forked the project to toybox.<p>busybox is a GPLv2 project (not LPGL), and so all his contributions were licensed as such. But he forked his own code to a Apache 2 License. He is able to do that because he owns the copyright. But of course he can&#x27;t relicense code to which he doesn&#x27;t own the copyright.<p>toybox isn&#x27;t a derivative work of busybox in that sense. It&#x27;s just a bunch of code that someone wrote (and automatically gets copyright for), and chose to license in a certain way.<p>Basically you get the copyright first, then you decide to license it. If it&#x27;s clearer to think about, the authors could have started a new project called &quot;Zacket&quot; that&#x27;s not a derivative work of Racket, as long as they own all the copyrights. But the name doesn&#x27;t matter here, and they can keep using &quot;Racket&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s my understanding anyway.</text></comment> | <story><title>Completing Racket's relicensing effort</title><url>https://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/11/completing-racket-s-relicensing-effort.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dumbmatter</author><text><i>Two people declined to re-license their contributions to Racket. We therefore removed their contributions and, where appropriate, replaced them with new code and&#x2F;or documentation.</i><p>Is that actually allowed by the GPL? I thought it was more like the &quot;Ship of Theseus&quot; - that even if you eventually replace all the original GPL code, the entire work remains GPLed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;260347&#x2F;ship-of-theseus-applied-to-gpl-can-i-relicense-my-program-if-i-replace-all-of" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwareengineering.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2603...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xiaq</author><text>IANAL, but I think of the relicensing effort as conceptually equivalent to starting from scratch and asking everyone to re-contribute their code towards the new codebase, because these contributors never relinquished their copyright in the first place. For people who said no, you just leave out their contributions.</text></comment> |
24,510,588 | 24,507,853 | 1 | 2 | 24,507,423 | train | <story><title>Nvidia Broadcast App</title><url>https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-broadcast-app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tsumnia</author><text>Overall I&#x27;m very impressed and plan to incorporate the Background Blur into my lecture videos (since I had to create a &#x27;decorative&#x27; background for them anyway).<p>So everyone can see how it looks with a makeshift lighting setup (kitchen lights, overhead lights, and a 3 bulb lamp).<p>Background Removal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;e3y4kwX.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;e3y4kwX.png</a><p>Background Replacement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;AajgJIf.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;AajgJIf.png</a><p>Background Blur - Low Setting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;CeXmneX.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;CeXmneX.png</a><p>Background Blur - Max Setting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;OoJ76ow.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;OoJ76ow.png</a><p>Frame Tracking - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;wQ8IOq1.mp4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;wQ8IOq1.mp4</a><p>Full Album: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;RWECpd4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;RWECpd4</a><p>EDIT: As a followup to a question my friend asked - memory wise it is sitting idly at 105MB; running OBS it went to 670MB.<p>EDIT2: The blur effect holds even if you move to the background as well without sharpening the objects in the background. It did look a little &quot;off&quot; but that&#x27;s mostly because a sharply rendered body interacting with a blurred environment looks off.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia Broadcast App</title><url>https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-broadcast-app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>resoluteteeth</author><text>&gt; For those of you that want to try out the AI noise removal capabilities but aren’t ready to upgrade to an RTX GPU yet, we have also patched RTX Voice with support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs. Though, of course, your mileage may vary on older cards.<p>That&#x27;s a strange way to say &quot;yeah we admit that we were just blocking older GPUs in the installer and you guys noticed so decided to stop.&quot;</text></comment> |
28,610,789 | 28,610,719 | 1 | 3 | 28,609,223 | train | <story><title>Introducing Age Verification</title><url>https://blog.roblox.com/2021/09/introducing-age-verification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kosei</author><text>Though I applaud the effort to get age right and protect players, I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ll ever be comfortable having me or my child scan our photo ID and selfie to upload it as part of a login flow to an application.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tialaramex</author><text>I would much prefer my <i>government</i> to take on responsibility for providing this sort of service as they do e.g. driver qualification.<p>Once upon a time the usual thing to get OK&#x27;d to rent a van (e.g. for students who are moving house) is you rock up to the rental place with the legal documents showing you&#x27;re entitled to drive. You&#x27;re relying on the fact that the person renting you a van doesn&#x27;t much care and isn&#x27;t keeping the exact details from those documents.<p>But although you can do this today, obviously the documents get scanned into a permanent data repository, so, that&#x27;s not great. But, the UK government added a site so you can prove you&#x27;re you, and get codes, which for a limited period show someone that yup, this person is legal to drive and so on.<p>They do this for right to work too. Although, annoyingly <i>only for foreigners</i>. If you&#x27;re a citizen, you can&#x27;t prove right to work this way, you need to be like &quot;Look, I&#x27;m a citizen, here&#x27;s proof&quot; to your employer. But if you are foreign you can just go &quot;Check this URL, your government says I&#x27;m entitled to work here&quot; and they needn&#x27;t know whether that&#x27;s because your husband is a &quot;Cultural Attaché&quot; to the Russian Embassy, or you&#x27;ve got special refugee status, or you&#x27;re actually an Italian and you just speak and look Russian for some reason, just that you&#x27;re entitled to work here.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Age Verification</title><url>https://blog.roblox.com/2021/09/introducing-age-verification/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kosei</author><text>Though I applaud the effort to get age right and protect players, I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ll ever be comfortable having me or my child scan our photo ID and selfie to upload it as part of a login flow to an application.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nomel</author><text>My full name, physical address, and IP address were leaked with another game my kids play. I&#x27;m excited for my drivers license and picture to be leaked as well.</text></comment> |
31,073,928 | 31,074,253 | 1 | 2 | 31,072,202 | train | <story><title>TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/turbotax-free-file-online-ftc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigbacaloa</author><text>In Spain I log onto the tax agency website using my digital certificate. It tells me what I have been paid during the year, what I own, how big my mortgage is, etc. If I agree I click a button and pay whatever I owe. If I don&#x27;t agree, or some info is missing, I add it in and then click the button.<p>It&#x27;s astronomically easier than filing the same tax information in the US and takes far less time even though the tax code is less clearly written and user support is almost totally nonexistent.<p>The nonexistence of a national ID system makes digital identification unnecessarily difficult. The idea that an individual has to redeclare to the IRS what has already been declared to the IRS on W2s and 1099s is just stupid.<p>The US tax filing system is simply primitive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chucksta</author><text>It is not primitive, it is intentionally complex and riddled with loop holes so it can be manipulate by those who know how to creating all kinds of new markets for law, filing, and enforcement.</text></comment> | <story><title>TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing</title><url>https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/turbotax-free-file-online-ftc.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigbacaloa</author><text>In Spain I log onto the tax agency website using my digital certificate. It tells me what I have been paid during the year, what I own, how big my mortgage is, etc. If I agree I click a button and pay whatever I owe. If I don&#x27;t agree, or some info is missing, I add it in and then click the button.<p>It&#x27;s astronomically easier than filing the same tax information in the US and takes far less time even though the tax code is less clearly written and user support is almost totally nonexistent.<p>The nonexistence of a national ID system makes digital identification unnecessarily difficult. The idea that an individual has to redeclare to the IRS what has already been declared to the IRS on W2s and 1099s is just stupid.<p>The US tax filing system is simply primitive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AviationAtom</author><text>The reason the US lacks a national ID system ties back to a strongly held belief about state&#x27;s rights, and that a national ID system would violate those rights, IIRC. I think it&#x27;s already somewhat happened though, as I understand REAL ID to more or less be that.</text></comment> |
11,471,383 | 11,471,406 | 1 | 3 | 11,470,979 | train | <story><title>What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population</title><url>http://ramiro.org/notebook/income-software-engineers-countries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frogpelt</author><text>Is it meaningful to compare the <i>median</i> annual income of software engineers to the <i>average</i> annual income of the general population?<p>I&#x27;m legitimately curious, what is the statistical significance of an average versus a median?</text></comment> | <story><title>What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population</title><url>http://ramiro.org/notebook/income-software-engineers-countries/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>option_greek</author><text>While this is interesting, its conclusions should be taken with a grain of salt as the average median income of general population in India tends to be aggressively underestimated. This is because less than 5% of the populace pays&#x2F;declares tax. The ones in private&#x2F;government employment happens to be the ones paying tax while any one having &quot;business&quot; income tend to lets say &quot;downplay&quot; their income to get various subsidies or to just hoard money.</text></comment> |
19,435,990 | 19,435,012 | 1 | 2 | 19,433,344 | train | <story><title>Pika/web: Web Apps Without the Bundler</title><url>https://www.pikapkg.com/blog/pika-web-a-future-without-webpack/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>segphault</author><text>This solution pulls in 155 packages from npm, including multiple versions of bullshit packages like &quot;kind-of&quot; that it can&#x27;t deduplicate. One of the direct dependencies is a library that renders a loading spinner in command line interfaces, which itself pulls in over 20 transitive dependencies.<p>The reason that JavaScript build tooling is so complex and introduces so much overhead is that the ecosystem&#x27;s culture is fundamentally broken. Every single one of these tools is a raging dumpster fire because it&#x27;s built on top of all of these layers of low-quality interdependent crap.<p>I&#x27;m increasingly moving towards module-type script tags and standard ES modules everywhere, with no build step during development. It&#x27;s still challenging to use node-targeted modules in this fashion, so I really do appreciate that people are working on finding ways to make it work. I just wish that we could do it without pulling in so much third-party code and the large surface area for failure and security problems that go with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pika/web: Web Apps Without the Bundler</title><url>https://www.pikapkg.com/blog/pika-web-a-future-without-webpack/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>est31</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure why this would be desirable. Sure, bundlers are slow, but that&#x27;s what projects like pax [1] are for. Bundlers create one single file instead of the browser having to download your entire possibly huge dependency tree. Sure, with HTTP&#x2F;2.0 and the upcoming QUIC or HTTP&#x2F;3.0 overhead of this is minimized, but it&#x27;s still not <i>zero</i>. There is also a cognitive overhead of having to configure the server to push all the deps to clients otherwise you have constant back &amp; forth where the client is fetching a file, then the server is answering, then the client is finding out it needs those other files, etc etc. Unless you are using global CDNs, expect latencies to be &gt; 50ms for each such step, if not hundreds of ms, and this times the depth of your dependency graph. Bundlers also do dead code analysis.<p>There are really two solutions to this: either avoid using js dependencies, at which point you won&#x27;t need npm or pika or whatever, or use bundlers.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nathan&#x2F;pax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nathan&#x2F;pax</a></text></comment> |
11,704,373 | 11,703,608 | 1 | 2 | 11,702,267 | train | <story><title>Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/05/updating-a-classic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Baghard</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~robins&#x2F;YouAndYourResearch.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~robins&#x2F;YouAndYourResearch.html</a><p><i>Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don&#x27;t know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect sequence because you might say, ``The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind.&#x27;&#x27; I don&#x27;t know. But I can say there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but enough that they miss fame.</i> -- Richard Hamming</text></item><item><author>thedevil</author><text>I&#x27;m a career changer from actuary to software developer. The most shocking part of the career change was open office arrangements.<p>Both careers are technical and require both concentration and collaboration. Actuaries tend to have their own cubicles (offices for mid-level and higher).<p>Software developers require much more concentration. So I just assumed that the virtually all software developers would have their own offices because a solo cubicle seemed inadequate for most developer jobs. And of course, who would be dumb enough to use open office for developers? ... well, I got a little surprise.<p>Everyone tries to undo the damage of a bad floor design with expensive headphones, but it&#x27;s just not adequate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nnq</author><text>It&#x27;s slightly amusing that everyone seem to miss the huge difference between:<p><pre><code> A. Individual office with open door
B. Open plan office
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I&#x27;d imagine the ideal would be individual offices with no doors:<p>This would create a good enough sense of intimacy and would be obvious to people that when they pass the space of you non-existing door they are entering <i>your space</i> so they should have <i>a reason to do it and you acceptance.</i> And of course, having an actual <i>separate</i> ceiling atop your office is important - the visual part matters, we need the feeling of &quot;private cave&quot; even if we agree to share it most of the time. And open space above only brings anxiety and makes you feel that you are in an open savannah and a predator can jump at you from behind the bushes anytime.<p>But of course, we live in a <i>plentiful</i> age, <i>obsessed with efficiency</i> (oh, the bitter irony of the contradiction...), so all that <i>wasted space</i> and <i>extra paid on rent</i> because open-office spaces are probably cheaper is a no-no...</text></comment> | <story><title>Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques</title><url>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/05/updating-a-classic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Baghard</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~robins&#x2F;YouAndYourResearch.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.virginia.edu&#x2F;~robins&#x2F;YouAndYourResearch.html</a><p><i>Another trait, it took me a while to notice. I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don&#x27;t know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. Now I cannot prove the cause and effect sequence because you might say, ``The closed door is symbolic of a closed mind.&#x27;&#x27; I don&#x27;t know. But I can say there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing - not much, but enough that they miss fame.</i> -- Richard Hamming</text></item><item><author>thedevil</author><text>I&#x27;m a career changer from actuary to software developer. The most shocking part of the career change was open office arrangements.<p>Both careers are technical and require both concentration and collaboration. Actuaries tend to have their own cubicles (offices for mid-level and higher).<p>Software developers require much more concentration. So I just assumed that the virtually all software developers would have their own offices because a solo cubicle seemed inadequate for most developer jobs. And of course, who would be dumb enough to use open office for developers? ... well, I got a little surprise.<p>Everyone tries to undo the damage of a bad floor design with expensive headphones, but it&#x27;s just not adequate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arvinjoar</author><text>I&#x27;ve been thinking about that quote from time to time for a while now, and what strikes me is that his generalization does sound very plausible, but we have to remember that his experience is from a very specific context. To me it seems like having an open door at Los Alamos or Bell Labs back then, is akin to hanging around HN, certain IRC&#x2F;Slack channels, and so on, today. At least for the vast majority of us, who wouldn&#x27;t be exposed to such bright people otherwise.<p>Although I wouldn&#x27;t count myself as successful by any metric, I still think I&#x27;ve picked up a lot of interesting and useful stuff though osmosis, stuff that a lot of people not exposed to the same things only realize a few years later when it hits the mainstream and becomes part of the zeitgeist of Western culture (and so much else that never hits a more general audience but still holds promise within their respective niches if one can connect the dots).</text></comment> |
41,545,486 | 41,545,479 | 1 | 2 | 41,543,805 | train | <story><title>Why Scrum is stressing you out</title><url>https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/why-scrum-is-stressing-you-out</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximumgeek</author><text>I think back to the early 2000&#x27;s, and there are other factors in play as well. Back then, I worked with a team of engineers that stayed together for over 4 years. In that time, we did not have Project Managers telling us to do daily standups. We met as an engineering team.<p>We often would go days without having a formal meeting.<p>But, software was different then as well. Everything is interconnected now. One team dropping the ball affects countless other teams. Deployments were whenever we felt a new one was due or at a multi month cadence. Did this introduce problems, yes, but at the same time, they came in controlled release cycles.<p>Nothing against CI&#x2F;CD and continuous delivery, but the hamster wheel has gotten to a point where we have to release all the time. Corners are cut on everything, and testing is given lip service.<p>At this point, I am a manager, and SCRUM stresses me out. Either let us work from a queue, or give us a project with a deadline. Give me back a stupid gant or pert chart. At least then it was, is this done to allow XYZ, not we are going to accomplish this in the next 2 (arbitrary) weeks.<p>So much more to say, but I am toast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gregmac</author><text>&gt; Nothing against CI&#x2F;CD and continuous delivery, but the hamster wheel has gotten to a point where we have to release all the time. Corners are cut on everything, and testing is given lip service.<p>Just to call it out: Having CI&#x2F;CD doesn&#x27;t mean you have to do all these things, or do scrum. It&#x27;s imho just good engineering practice. I have it in my side projects, and I&#x27;ve had it at work on a Kanban-driven team (as well as on scrum).<p>It removes disputes over build process (eg, nobody can ever say &quot;well, it complies on my machine&quot;). It is a form of build&#x2F;deploy documentation. It removes bottlenecks (&quot;only Tom knows how to deploy that service, but he&#x27;s on vacation&quot;) and stupid mistakes (&quot;whoever deployed this last did it wrong and left a bunch of old files around&quot;).<p>I also have found deploying regularly is stress-<i>reducing</i>. For one, with CD the development environment is running the same steps, and we know it works because we do it dozens of times a week. The longer it&#x27;s been since last prod deploy, the less confident we can be it&#x27;ll go smoothly, whereas when it gets deployed every few days it becomes a non-event.<p>When something breaks, having only 1 or 3 changes makes it really easy to figure out why. Recovering after a big release with 40 PRs in it is absolutely painful.<p>None of this means you have to release <i>everything</i> on a regular schedule (like a sprint). You can still do long running branches or feature-flag things off, Just try not to go too long without deploying <i>something</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Scrum is stressing you out</title><url>https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/why-scrum-is-stressing-you-out</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maximumgeek</author><text>I think back to the early 2000&#x27;s, and there are other factors in play as well. Back then, I worked with a team of engineers that stayed together for over 4 years. In that time, we did not have Project Managers telling us to do daily standups. We met as an engineering team.<p>We often would go days without having a formal meeting.<p>But, software was different then as well. Everything is interconnected now. One team dropping the ball affects countless other teams. Deployments were whenever we felt a new one was due or at a multi month cadence. Did this introduce problems, yes, but at the same time, they came in controlled release cycles.<p>Nothing against CI&#x2F;CD and continuous delivery, but the hamster wheel has gotten to a point where we have to release all the time. Corners are cut on everything, and testing is given lip service.<p>At this point, I am a manager, and SCRUM stresses me out. Either let us work from a queue, or give us a project with a deadline. Give me back a stupid gant or pert chart. At least then it was, is this done to allow XYZ, not we are going to accomplish this in the next 2 (arbitrary) weeks.<p>So much more to say, but I am toast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moribvndvs</author><text>In the nearly 30 years of doing this, I’ve had more success delivering good quality software that meets business requirements under waterfall than any of the SCRUM implementations I’ve worked with, and I am saying that without disagreeing that waterfall has its problems. In the agile space, kanban is the only one I’ve felt is productive, but it has trouble scaling to multiple teams.</text></comment> |
14,554,478 | 14,554,149 | 1 | 2 | 14,552,616 | train | <story><title>The Hidden Cost of Privatization</title><url>https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-business-of-government</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subverter</author><text>The problem in Keynes thinking on &quot;social services&quot; is that it&#x27;s impossible to gather all of the knowledge necessary to ascertain what those would be. That knowledge is dispersed among ~320m citizens (in the U.S.) who each have particular wants and needs. And even if you could somehow attain that knowledge in one place, the likelihood of finding consensus on how a particular &quot;social service&quot; should be offered is next to zero. The end result? Nearly everyone disagrees with some of what government implements, which breeds resentment and causes gridlock much like we&#x27;re seeing today in the U.S.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have to be that way. By decentralizing decision making down to a level closer to the individual (if not the individual), more people get what they want. For example, right now there&#x27;s a federal mandate for health insurance. Not everyone agrees with this mandate, so why not <i>at least</i> push it down a level to the states? California can still have a mandate for health insurance, and Alabama can decide not to. And then, why not push it to the city&#x2F;county level? If you don&#x27;t agree with San Francisco&#x27;s mandate for health insurance, simply move to Oakland. You don&#x27;t even have to move states, let alone countries.<p>Why do so many oppose such a solution where everyone can much more easily find a place where they agree with the &quot;social services&quot; offered (or not)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&gt; Why do so many oppose such a solution where everyone can much more easily find a place where they agree with the &quot;social services&quot; offered (or not)?<p>Because it creates collective action problems. Countries can exercise their sovereign powers to control commerce and the flow of people so as to reinforce their chosen social welfare systems. If they offer universal healthcare, for example, they can control immigration to manage the burden on their system (and keep out people who only move in when they get sick or to retire). U.S. states are precluded by the Constitution from doing that. Say Marylanders decide to pay higher taxes to support generous social services, and Virginians decide to stick to lower taxes and no service. There is nothing Maryland can do about free-loading Virginians who cross the border as soon as they get sick.[1] Likewise, say Virginia decides to reintroduce child labor, which gives Virginia a competitive advantage in producing cheap consumer goods. There is nothing Maryland can do to stop the flow of trinkets from Virginia undermining good Maryland companies whose prices are higher because they don&#x27;t use child labor.<p>It&#x27;s helpful to view the Constitution&#x27;s Commerce Clause and Privileges and Immunities Clause as a two-pronged economic construct. One prong says that the U.S. is a totally free market internally for goods and labor. The other says that the federal government can intervene to address any collective problem actions that creates. To the extent that the provision of social services has knock-on economic effects (and it has major knock-on effects), it comports with the Constitution&#x27;s design for those things to get kicked up to the Federal government.<p>[1] See: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-srv&#x2F;national&#x2F;longterm&#x2F;supcourt&#x2F;stories&#x2F;court051899.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-srv&#x2F;national&#x2F;longterm&#x2F;supco...</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hidden Cost of Privatization</title><url>https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-business-of-government</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subverter</author><text>The problem in Keynes thinking on &quot;social services&quot; is that it&#x27;s impossible to gather all of the knowledge necessary to ascertain what those would be. That knowledge is dispersed among ~320m citizens (in the U.S.) who each have particular wants and needs. And even if you could somehow attain that knowledge in one place, the likelihood of finding consensus on how a particular &quot;social service&quot; should be offered is next to zero. The end result? Nearly everyone disagrees with some of what government implements, which breeds resentment and causes gridlock much like we&#x27;re seeing today in the U.S.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have to be that way. By decentralizing decision making down to a level closer to the individual (if not the individual), more people get what they want. For example, right now there&#x27;s a federal mandate for health insurance. Not everyone agrees with this mandate, so why not <i>at least</i> push it down a level to the states? California can still have a mandate for health insurance, and Alabama can decide not to. And then, why not push it to the city&#x2F;county level? If you don&#x27;t agree with San Francisco&#x27;s mandate for health insurance, simply move to Oakland. You don&#x27;t even have to move states, let alone countries.<p>Why do so many oppose such a solution where everyone can much more easily find a place where they agree with the &quot;social services&quot; offered (or not)?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ErikVandeWater</author><text>It would work this way if the supreme court hadn&#x27;t killed federalism over time by ignoring the 10th ammendment.<p>People don&#x27;t really oppose federalism, but national level politicians win elections by promising benefits to interest groups to justify their existence. Promising to sit on your hands will never win an election.</text></comment> |
29,178,009 | 29,174,780 | 1 | 2 | 29,174,280 | train | <story><title>Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-implant-enables-paralyzed-man-to-communicate-thoughts-via-imaginary-handwriting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GOONIMMUNE</author><text>&gt; In tests, the man was able to achieve writing speeds of 90 characters per minute (about 18 words per minute), with approximately 94 percent accuracy (and up to 99 percent accuracy with autocorrect enabled).<p>I&#x27;d be interested in knowing how this metric changes over time as the user gains more experience with the BCI device. The article mentions that researchers recorded his neural activity while he was thinking about writing letters. Would the man eventually find that the system is more accurate or faster when he instead learns how to think &quot;the thought that generates the letter A in my BCI device&quot;? Fascinating stuff all around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xFreebie</author><text>Long ago, the accuracy would decline as scar tissue formed around implanted electrodes. Not sure if that&#x27;s changed in recent years as techniques improved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy</title><url>https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-implant-enables-paralyzed-man-to-communicate-thoughts-via-imaginary-handwriting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GOONIMMUNE</author><text>&gt; In tests, the man was able to achieve writing speeds of 90 characters per minute (about 18 words per minute), with approximately 94 percent accuracy (and up to 99 percent accuracy with autocorrect enabled).<p>I&#x27;d be interested in knowing how this metric changes over time as the user gains more experience with the BCI device. The article mentions that researchers recorded his neural activity while he was thinking about writing letters. Would the man eventually find that the system is more accurate or faster when he instead learns how to think &quot;the thought that generates the letter A in my BCI device&quot;? Fascinating stuff all around.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>striking</author><text>The article mentions that<p>&gt; electrodes implanted in his motor cortex recorded signals of his brain activity<p>so I&#x27;m assuming other thoughts and interactions had little to no effect.</text></comment> |
10,838,937 | 10,838,617 | 1 | 2 | 10,837,907 | train | <story><title>Is there any point to the 12 times table?</title><url>http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/06/26/is-there-any-point-to-the-12-times-table/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>Easy divisibility is the reason why when we switched to metric, the one thing that didn&#x27;t switch is time. Which means that, for example, converting from m&#x2F;s to km&#x2F;h is a mess. (You have to multiply by 3.6, can you easily do that in your head?)<p>With a base 12 version of everything you would have 1&#x2F;12 of a day being 2 hours, 1&#x2F;144 of a day is 10 minutes, and 1&#x2F;1728 of a day is 50 seconds. These units would give us both easy divisibility and are close enough to existing time units to make sense.<p>This change would mean we have to memorize a 12 times table rather than a 10 times table. But in base 10 a 10 times table has easy patterns for 1, 2, 5, 9 and 10. A 12 times table has repeating patterns for 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12. The result is that a 12 times table in base 12 is actually less work to memorize than a 10 times table in base 10.<p>In the long run this transition would be a clear win. But it isn&#x27;t enough of one compared to the transition to ever make sense to initiate.</text></item><item><author>zeveb</author><text>Twelve has more divisors than ten (1, 2, 3, 4, 6 &amp; 12 vs 1, 2, 5 &amp; 10). If we were really smart, we&#x27;d switch from base 10 to base 12: many more &#x27;decimals&#x27; (really duodecimals) would be non-repeating. One can very quickly count by twelves on the joints of one&#x27;s fingers, using the thumb as an index (0-143 is a much larger range than 0-10, and it&#x27;s easier to hold one&#x27;s hands in the shape necessary). If we were really smart, we&#x27;d switch from base 10 to base 12: many more &#x27;decimals&#x27; (really duodecimals) would be non-repeating.<p>And then there are measures like a gross (144) and a great gross (1,728). Part of the reason for these traditional measures is that they are more flexible than base-10 measures: an eighth-gross or a third-gross are both integer quantities, unlike an eighth-hundred or third-hundred.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark-r</author><text>In high school I calculated a system of decimal time periods and equated them to hours&#x2F;minutes&#x2F;seconds, just for fun. I realized it would never work when 1&#x2F;100 of a day came out to 14.4 minutes; the TV stations would need to remove 72 seconds of advertising from every half hour show, something they would <i>never</i> do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Is there any point to the 12 times table?</title><url>http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/06/26/is-there-any-point-to-the-12-times-table/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>Easy divisibility is the reason why when we switched to metric, the one thing that didn&#x27;t switch is time. Which means that, for example, converting from m&#x2F;s to km&#x2F;h is a mess. (You have to multiply by 3.6, can you easily do that in your head?)<p>With a base 12 version of everything you would have 1&#x2F;12 of a day being 2 hours, 1&#x2F;144 of a day is 10 minutes, and 1&#x2F;1728 of a day is 50 seconds. These units would give us both easy divisibility and are close enough to existing time units to make sense.<p>This change would mean we have to memorize a 12 times table rather than a 10 times table. But in base 10 a 10 times table has easy patterns for 1, 2, 5, 9 and 10. A 12 times table has repeating patterns for 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 12. The result is that a 12 times table in base 12 is actually less work to memorize than a 10 times table in base 10.<p>In the long run this transition would be a clear win. But it isn&#x27;t enough of one compared to the transition to ever make sense to initiate.</text></item><item><author>zeveb</author><text>Twelve has more divisors than ten (1, 2, 3, 4, 6 &amp; 12 vs 1, 2, 5 &amp; 10). If we were really smart, we&#x27;d switch from base 10 to base 12: many more &#x27;decimals&#x27; (really duodecimals) would be non-repeating. One can very quickly count by twelves on the joints of one&#x27;s fingers, using the thumb as an index (0-143 is a much larger range than 0-10, and it&#x27;s easier to hold one&#x27;s hands in the shape necessary). If we were really smart, we&#x27;d switch from base 10 to base 12: many more &#x27;decimals&#x27; (really duodecimals) would be non-repeating.<p>And then there are measures like a gross (144) and a great gross (1,728). Part of the reason for these traditional measures is that they are more flexible than base-10 measures: an eighth-gross or a third-gross are both integer quantities, unlike an eighth-hundred or third-hundred.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yes_or_gnome</author><text>I am in the process of reading &#x27;The Story of French&#x27; by Nadeau and Barlow. There&#x27;s a chapter on how France was able to push their influence, during the renaissance, to get the world to switch to the metric system. Prior to developing the metric system, France had no standard for the pound; unlike England. This was the height of enlightenment in France, so the reformers wanted to replace the Gregorian Calendar with a metric time. I believe they wanted to call it the Republic Calendar; rather, the equivalent in french. So, they commissioned a poet to rename the months of the year, keeping twelve months of 30 days, with 5 or 6 ambiguous days at the end of the year. However, the major downfall was moving to a 10-day week which reduced the &#x27;weekend&#x27; (not that it was called that) from 1 day out of a 7 day week to a 1-in-10. The plan was to have poetic names for the days of the week, but they felt that they were push their luck so instead they went with ordinal numbers.<p>The only country to actually use the calendar was, of course, France for 16(!?) years until Napoleon repealed it during his imperial reign.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metric_time" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metric_time</a><p>Anyone, feel free to correct me. I, literally, just read about this (fascinating) subject a couple nights ago. I haven&#x27;t had time to independently follow up on the topic, but I plan to do so soon.<p>Amendum: A better link, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Decimal_time#France" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Decimal_time#France</a></text></comment> |
12,435,662 | 12,435,677 | 1 | 3 | 12,435,425 | train | <story><title>Getting to Bootstrap v4</title><url>https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20631</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonkester</author><text>Seems entirely reasonable.<p>The response to this highlights something I&#x27;ve noticed watching Open Source stuff for a while: this attitude that a piece of software can never simply be <i>finished</i>, but that it must constantly be changing to be alive.<p>This is a good example of that. Bootstrap 3 has been out for a while and it mostly works for the things it was designed to work for. If you look hard enough, you can find bugs and situations where it&#x27;s not suitable to use. But that&#x27;s fine. It&#x27;s a super valuable thing that we all get for free. The new site I&#x27;m building on it looks way prettier than it ever would if I was designing it myself, and will remain so indefinitely, even if these guys never commit anything else to the project.<p>I don&#x27;t see anything wrong with the guys who built it stamping it &quot;done&quot; and moving on to the next thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting to Bootstrap v4</title><url>https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20631</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>silversmith</author><text>On one hand, at least browsers are good about maintaining backwards-compatibility of CSS, so that pages that look okay with bootstrap 3 will continue looking okay for a good time.<p>On the other hand, slapping &quot;Don&#x27;t care&quot; label on all the issues of the current stable version seems... bit excessive.<p>All in all, makes me happy I only use bootstrap for the CSS, and not the JS-based interactions.</text></comment> |
35,058,905 | 35,058,091 | 1 | 2 | 35,055,417 | train | <story><title>Mailed asthma, cancer, erectile drugs are seized the most, despite opioid claims</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtop3</author><text>Our prescription drug system needs an overhaul. This isn&#x27;t a matter of all drugs are illegal to import because of quality control issues. You can import aspirin, if you are so inclined. This is asthma and cancer medication being seized because of an overly tight control of prescription drugs. I understand that some drugs sold overseas are not suitable for human consumption. I understand that some drugs require close supervision. I argue that many medications are quite safe to take without supervision and using doctors as gatekeepers functions primarily to increase the billings generated by sick people. I think the bar for what medications are prescription and which medications are OTC needs to be reevaluated. Perhaps the way in which we market drugs and disclose there risks should be reevaluated simultaneously.<p>Imagine taking away someone&#x27;s asthma medication and thinking you are making America a safer, better place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sithadmin</author><text>&gt; I understand that some drugs sold overseas are not suitable for human consumption<p>Frankly, a lot of FDA-approved drugs sold in the US aren&#x27;t suitable for consumption, especially generics manufactured outside the US. The FDA simply doesn&#x27;t have the resources to enforce good manufacturing practices and product consistency, so a lot of subpar medication manages to slip under the radar and into the US market. The situation is much more grim for non-US buyers, who often get products of significantly worse quality.<p>&#x27;Bottle of Lies&#x27; by Katherine Eban[1] provides a thorough and very unsettling exposé on the issue.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;books&#x2F;review&#x2F;bottle-of-lies-katherine-eban.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;books&#x2F;review&#x2F;bottle-of-li...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mailed asthma, cancer, erectile drugs are seized the most, despite opioid claims</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/health/fda-drug-shipments-khn-partner/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gtop3</author><text>Our prescription drug system needs an overhaul. This isn&#x27;t a matter of all drugs are illegal to import because of quality control issues. You can import aspirin, if you are so inclined. This is asthma and cancer medication being seized because of an overly tight control of prescription drugs. I understand that some drugs sold overseas are not suitable for human consumption. I understand that some drugs require close supervision. I argue that many medications are quite safe to take without supervision and using doctors as gatekeepers functions primarily to increase the billings generated by sick people. I think the bar for what medications are prescription and which medications are OTC needs to be reevaluated. Perhaps the way in which we market drugs and disclose there risks should be reevaluated simultaneously.<p>Imagine taking away someone&#x27;s asthma medication and thinking you are making America a safer, better place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tozen</author><text>&gt; This is asthma and cancer medication being seized because of an overly tight control of prescription drugs.<p>Actually, many of these are medications (even life saving ones) being seized to protect inflated pharmaceutical pricing and profits at the expense of poorer Americans (and those lacking health care). Significant numbers of people are ordering the medications out of desperation.</text></comment> |
40,729,845 | 40,729,371 | 1 | 2 | 40,724,774 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?</title><text>They say to find someone who’s done what you want to do. We’ll, I want to re-launch a successful progressive web app (PWA). I had some success ($500 MRR) with shareware, 20 years ago, but those methods probably don’t work anymore. What does work?<p>If you’ve had success, maybe you would be willing to exchange some email?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9143</author><text>I&#x27;ll give you a hard-earned tip: expect to fight Apple every step of the way. They will randomly erase <i>all local data</i> (cookies, localstorage, push subscription tokens, etc) in your PWA without warning. They say they don&#x27;t do this, but I have the receipts. They want PWAs to suffer, and you will go insane trying to make workarounds on iPhone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metadat</author><text>Are you saying the Safari browser on iOS intentionally cripples web applications by randomly erasing &#x2F; deleting browser data (cookies, localStorage, etc)? And this happens on purpose because apple wants to boost App Store Apps usage?<p>If there is evidence of the veracity of this claim, this topic deserves a whole lot more attention. Especially considering Apple&#x27;s stance on 3rd party mobile web browser engines - Apple forbids them, although EU regulation may force this to change.<p>I searched a bit and found no smoking gun, the closest hit was:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Safari&#x2F;comments&#x2F;185cra6&#x2F;safari_nuking_cookies_and_local_storage_randomly&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;Safari&#x2F;comments&#x2F;185cra6&#x2F;safari_nuki...</a><p>But it seems more likely caused by legitimate bugs than any intentional campaign.<p>Have I been nerdsniped here by a nutter? :-s</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?</title><text>They say to find someone who’s done what you want to do. We’ll, I want to re-launch a successful progressive web app (PWA). I had some success ($500 MRR) with shareware, 20 years ago, but those methods probably don’t work anymore. What does work?<p>If you’ve had success, maybe you would be willing to exchange some email?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway9143</author><text>I&#x27;ll give you a hard-earned tip: expect to fight Apple every step of the way. They will randomly erase <i>all local data</i> (cookies, localstorage, push subscription tokens, etc) in your PWA without warning. They say they don&#x27;t do this, but I have the receipts. They want PWAs to suffer, and you will go insane trying to make workarounds on iPhone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bob1029</author><text>My most recent workaround for this is to put a session identifier in the URL somewhere and keep literally everything else on the server.<p>You essentially have to build your app from zero with these limitations in mind if you want any chance at getting around them.<p>This is a large part of why I am not a fan of frameworks and other popular design patterns. Having total control over how state is managed and communicated is really important if you don&#x27;t want to get trapped in various tar pits.</text></comment> |
16,230,976 | 16,230,906 | 1 | 3 | 16,230,532 | train | <story><title>The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-states.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesblonde</author><text>This video from Anaheim (California) is reminiscent of travelling around Dehli (from 39&#x27; in - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KF7hWzqdPDk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KF7hWzqdPDk</a>). The level&#x2F;amount of poverty in this video is shocking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yters</author><text>It certainly looks bad to our eyes. But, beggars in Dehli would probably love to live in that sort of tent city, and have access to all the benefits available to the poor in the US.</text></comment> | <story><title>The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-states.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jamesblonde</author><text>This video from Anaheim (California) is reminiscent of travelling around Dehli (from 39&#x27; in - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KF7hWzqdPDk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KF7hWzqdPDk</a>). The level&#x2F;amount of poverty in this video is shocking.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>odonnellryan</author><text>Probably worse in CA, but this exists on some level in every state. Here in NJ we have the same exact thing, just not along a bike path.</text></comment> |
31,358,235 | 31,357,780 | 1 | 3 | 31,356,896 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?</title><text>I don&#x27;t know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages&#x2F;apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well.<p>Who came up with this? It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling&#x2F;formatting into an email, where there is no guarantee (indeed, little chance) that it will mesh well. It&#x27;s just baffling.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombledmonk</author><text>In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v. Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work.<p>Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.digikey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-everywhere-slack-excel-outlook-kicad-and-more&#x2F;13405" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.digikey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanoz</author><text><i>&gt; In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v.</i><p>Sometimes that trick just stops working for no reason at all, then there&#x27;s nothing else for it but to paste into notepad.exe and re-copy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?</title><text>I don&#x27;t know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages&#x2F;apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well.<p>Who came up with this? It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling&#x2F;formatting into an email, where there is no guarantee (indeed, little chance) that it will mesh well. It&#x27;s just baffling.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bombledmonk</author><text>In many, but not all programs on windows you can paste plain text by using ctrl+shift+v. Outlook desktop is one of the few places where this hotkey does not work.<p>Before I knew there was a native hotkey combo, I created a autohotkey script that would do that and had a mini-tutorial that showed how.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.digikey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-everywhere-slack-excel-outlook-kicad-and-more&#x2F;13405" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.digikey.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;add-a-digi-key-search-hotkey-eve...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>On Mac you can do shift+option+command+v to paste with formatting removed.</text></comment> |
16,381,888 | 16,381,317 | 1 | 2 | 16,380,767 | train | <story><title>Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed</title><url>http://www.kguttag.com/2018/02/14/magic-leap-one-video-diffractive-waveguides-confirmed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>Very interesting insight from a former GPU developer at Magic Leap:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;hIXTQ#e6Vdo3B" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;hIXTQ#e6Vdo3B</a><p>He believes they should have focused on making the headset and gone with integrating with a mobile device instead of an integrated SoC...That said there&#x27;s usually a reason (low-level) engineers are engineers and not product people... but he makes some good points.<p>The one I most disagree with is &quot;why develop Apps with ML when you could develop apps on Apple (iOS)&quot;<p>Well one good reason is that a) game developers and VR&#x2F;AR devs aren&#x27;t necessarily developing on iOS already yet and b) it&#x27;s an entirely new (potentially large) new market where you could become a top developer more easily. And they&#x27;d still have to build a significant part of their SDK on top of iOS or Android, no?</text></comment> | <story><title>Magic Leap One Video – Diffractive Waveguides Confirmed</title><url>http://www.kguttag.com/2018/02/14/magic-leap-one-video-diffractive-waveguides-confirmed/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>olympus</author><text>There seems to be several people with a tech hardware background that doubt that Magic Leap can deliver on their promises. But somehow they have no problem raising money or getting publicity. Either they have something that is real and <i>extremely</i> convincing to investors that they have been able to keep very secret, or they have a really slick slide deck made of lies.<p>We’ll know for sure if&#x2F;when the first production devices go on sale, but if Shaq was wearing a real pair then I don’t want them.</text></comment> |
22,682,263 | 22,681,924 | 1 | 3 | 22,681,417 | train | <story><title>Waffle House closes 365 locations across the U.S.</title><url>https://www.wafb.com/2020/03/24/waffle-house-closes-locations-across-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>OK, <i>now</i> we&#x27;re fucked[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waffle_House_Index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waffle_House_Index</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baxtr</author><text><i>&gt; While more than 300 locations have closed, 1,627 remain open.</i></text></comment> | <story><title>Waffle House closes 365 locations across the U.S.</title><url>https://www.wafb.com/2020/03/24/waffle-house-closes-locations-across-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>OK, <i>now</i> we&#x27;re fucked[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waffle_House_Index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waffle_House_Index</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mark-r</author><text>To be fair, many of those closures may be legally mandated. These are crazy times.</text></comment> |
22,202,331 | 22,200,070 | 1 | 2 | 22,190,815 | train | <story><title>JVM Anatomy Quarks</title><url>https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jnordwick</author><text>I have been reading Aleksey Shipilev for a decade now, and his insight in high performance Java was been a well worth the time. He is also the maintainer of JMH, Java Microbenchmarking Harness, a tool I miss in about every other language especially Go. Because writing microbenchmarks is really difficult especially on a JIT that wants to rewritw and optimize things behind your back a couple times. Hotspot can be both brilliant and maddening.<p>Thanks to much of his writings and the rest of the Java performance community (pretty large in the fintech sector), I can write faster Java than most people can with C++. It just takes some effort, but the control and performance you can get from Java is really impressive.<p>I&#x27;ve had to deep dive into Go a little more lately, and I really miss some of the Java support. I&#x27;ve found Go to be much slower when you have to do anything interesting. In high performance Java you often rewrite a lot of the base libraries in a very different style that gives you tight control over escape analysis, GC, call site inlining, etc. You actually have a decent amount of control for such a high-level language.<p>In Go, I haven&#x27;t been able to find that control. The Go team seems to have taken an opposite approach and removed your control (I often joke about Go just being short for &quot;Go Fuck Yourself&quot; because of its attitude against developer control and the teams&#x27;s &quot;if we don&#x27;t need it you don&#x27;t need it&quot; attitude).<p>It is resources like this that really make Java shine in its pro high performance developer attitude. (Current Go issue, getting select and channels to operate anywhere remotely efficiently and trying to find a way to keep high CPU goroutines on different OS threads - so far not much luck).</text></comment> | <story><title>JVM Anatomy Quarks</title><url>https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ajkjk</author><text>This is good stuff. I wish it existed for a lot of other things -- like python and v8. Or maybe it does? Where can I find deep technical knowledge in bite-size form?</text></comment> |
4,216,311 | 4,216,300 | 1 | 3 | 4,216,152 | train | <story><title>Divine intervention: Google's Nexus 7 is a fantastic $200 tablet</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/divine-intervention-googles-nexus-7-is-a-fantastic-200-tablet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phaus</author><text>Google seems to be getting all of the credit, yet the device's manufacturer, Asus, has consistently made the best Android tablets all along.<p>The Transformer tablets have all enjoyed an excellent build quality, great design aesthetics, and cutting edge hardware. They aren't perfect, but what tablet is?</text></comment> | <story><title>Divine intervention: Google's Nexus 7 is a fantastic $200 tablet</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/divine-intervention-googles-nexus-7-is-a-fantastic-200-tablet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monkeyfacebag</author><text>"Paired with a keyboard, the Nexus 7 could easily serve as a mobile work solution just as the iPad can."<p>I'd really like to believe this (and thus justify getting one), but I can't picture it. How would one prop up the screen? What keyboards are available and are they any good?<p>I feel like Apple has reached a local maximum with the iPad as a consumption-oriented device and I'm just waiting to see who delivers the first tablet geared towards getting things done. MS appears to be promising this with Surface, but it remains to be seen how successful they are.<p>To anyone on HN who has used an Android tablet for productivity purposes (writing, coding, etc), how has it gone?</text></comment> |
28,593,978 | 28,594,077 | 1 | 3 | 28,593,070 | train | <story><title>Google Docs in a clean-room browser</title><url>https://www.ekioh.com/devblog/google-docs-in-a-clean-room-browser/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>*Closed source browser.<p>Flow is yet another project pulling on open source resources, and the browser market created from open browsers, and trying to privatize it. Imagine if google could just make whatever internal changes to chromium and nobody knew about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>breakfastduck</author><text>&gt; &quot;yet another project pulling on open source resources&quot;<p>Erm, yeah. Isn&#x27;t that the point of making something open source with a permissive license? So that other people are able to use it in their own projects?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Docs in a clean-room browser</title><url>https://www.ekioh.com/devblog/google-docs-in-a-clean-room-browser/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>devwastaken</author><text>*Closed source browser.<p>Flow is yet another project pulling on open source resources, and the browser market created from open browsers, and trying to privatize it. Imagine if google could just make whatever internal changes to chromium and nobody knew about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SahAssar</author><text>&gt; Imagine if google could just make whatever internal changes to chromium and nobody knew about it.<p>If you use chrome, they do. Chrome has a lot of changes and additions that are not in the open-source chromium codebase.</text></comment> |
1,419,954 | 1,419,576 | 1 | 2 | 1,419,388 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How do I become smarter?</title><text>my situation:<p>I'm 19 years old and I go to a not so great (according to Macleans university rankings) university in Canada. I would like to make a transfer to Waterloo and then go to graduate school at Stanford or MIT. These are just some of the goals that I'd like to achieve in my academic career. I would just like to prove to myself that I have what it takes and I would like to be in that academic environment (Sorry if I worded it poorly).<p>At the moment I know I definitely am not trying as hard as I should..I don't remember the last time I engaged myself with hard problems or where to start. I've been feeling pretty lost in what I've wanted to do with my life so I just decided to follow Paul Grahams advice and just go with what gives me the most options (http://paulgraham.com/hs.html).<p>When it comes to learning new things or building off old concepts, I feel like I have a poor foundation and I just don't know where to start. How can build a great foundation where I can understand the concepts intuitively?<p>In short, how can I become smarter?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmaunder</author><text>I have great news for you. The brain is extremely plastic. Read about neuroplasticity here:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity</a><p>Rest assured that your capacity to acquire new skills and knowledge is massive.<p>You don't just get smarter. You get smarter at something in particular. Playing chess, doing IQ tests, running the 100m dash, programming, social skills, public speaking, etc. So you need to pick a particular skill or set of skills or vocation and decide to get smarter at that.<p>There are some general rules for improving brain function though. Here are a few:<p>1. Read books. Reading trains your brain to concentrate for long periods of time without fatigue or distraction. There is a growing school of thought that the short bursts of reading and frequent distractions we experience online are harming our ability for deep contemplation, introspection and concentration. See Nicholas Carr, The Shallows. <a href="http://n.pr/bnAfRV" rel="nofollow">http://n.pr/bnAfRV</a><p>2. Try to get 10 hours of sleep a night. Sleep improves mental and athletic performance. <a href="http://n.pr/9wQsXr" rel="nofollow">http://n.pr/9wQsXr</a><p>3. Maintain your cardiovascular fitness. I highly recommend running. After years of cycling, swimming, hiking, etc I've found that running gives my brain function the biggest boost and provides me with sustained mental energy through the day. A good cardiovascular system supplies your brain with plenty of healthy oxygen rich blood. It's like putting racing fuel in your car.<p>4. Eat well. Cook your own food. Avoid processed or pre-prepared foods and non-organic foods (mainly due to the pesticides). Fish is awesome, but watch out for mercury.<p>5. Don't drink anything stronger than wine. Don't do drugs. (just like your mom told you)<p>6. Watch your weight. I find the biggest source of mental fatigue is when I've gained a few pounds.<p>Good luck, and congratulations on making the decision at a relatively young age to focus on your mental fitness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stcredzero</author><text>#2 - Some researchers think there is wide variability in the optimal amount of sleep. Some even think that you can get too much sleep. The thing to do is to pay attention and experiment. I sleep in two sessions, one 4 hours, the second three. Getting more sleep makes me feel a little worse. The good news, is that there are cheap sleep monitoring smartphone apps.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How do I become smarter?</title><text>my situation:<p>I'm 19 years old and I go to a not so great (according to Macleans university rankings) university in Canada. I would like to make a transfer to Waterloo and then go to graduate school at Stanford or MIT. These are just some of the goals that I'd like to achieve in my academic career. I would just like to prove to myself that I have what it takes and I would like to be in that academic environment (Sorry if I worded it poorly).<p>At the moment I know I definitely am not trying as hard as I should..I don't remember the last time I engaged myself with hard problems or where to start. I've been feeling pretty lost in what I've wanted to do with my life so I just decided to follow Paul Grahams advice and just go with what gives me the most options (http://paulgraham.com/hs.html).<p>When it comes to learning new things or building off old concepts, I feel like I have a poor foundation and I just don't know where to start. How can build a great foundation where I can understand the concepts intuitively?<p>In short, how can I become smarter?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmaunder</author><text>I have great news for you. The brain is extremely plastic. Read about neuroplasticity here:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity</a><p>Rest assured that your capacity to acquire new skills and knowledge is massive.<p>You don't just get smarter. You get smarter at something in particular. Playing chess, doing IQ tests, running the 100m dash, programming, social skills, public speaking, etc. So you need to pick a particular skill or set of skills or vocation and decide to get smarter at that.<p>There are some general rules for improving brain function though. Here are a few:<p>1. Read books. Reading trains your brain to concentrate for long periods of time without fatigue or distraction. There is a growing school of thought that the short bursts of reading and frequent distractions we experience online are harming our ability for deep contemplation, introspection and concentration. See Nicholas Carr, The Shallows. <a href="http://n.pr/bnAfRV" rel="nofollow">http://n.pr/bnAfRV</a><p>2. Try to get 10 hours of sleep a night. Sleep improves mental and athletic performance. <a href="http://n.pr/9wQsXr" rel="nofollow">http://n.pr/9wQsXr</a><p>3. Maintain your cardiovascular fitness. I highly recommend running. After years of cycling, swimming, hiking, etc I've found that running gives my brain function the biggest boost and provides me with sustained mental energy through the day. A good cardiovascular system supplies your brain with plenty of healthy oxygen rich blood. It's like putting racing fuel in your car.<p>4. Eat well. Cook your own food. Avoid processed or pre-prepared foods and non-organic foods (mainly due to the pesticides). Fish is awesome, but watch out for mercury.<p>5. Don't drink anything stronger than wine. Don't do drugs. (just like your mom told you)<p>6. Watch your weight. I find the biggest source of mental fatigue is when I've gained a few pounds.<p>Good luck, and congratulations on making the decision at a relatively young age to focus on your mental fitness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeleeorg</author><text>+1 for a great response. I totally agree. I would like to expand upon one of the points and add a few more too.<p>Expanding on #3:<p>Team sports &#38; activities can increase not just mental acuity, but social acuity as well. Being academically intelligent will get you far, but being socially &#38; emotionally intelligent as well will get you even further.<p>Also, martial arts, dancing, and any kind of activity that requires fine coordination can significantly build new neural patterns. If you enjoy doing them, then the overall mental health you gain is a total bonus.<p>#7:<p>Learning a new language and/or travel outside of your country. Different languages and cultures can actually affect the way you perceive the world in subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways. They expand your understanding &#38; view of the world, thereby allowing you to see an issue from multiple viewpoints.<p>A quick example is national and global politics. I don't really care for politicians, but I try to follow the shifts in the world climate as much as I can. And I'm always impressed by how my European friends seem to have such a keen understanding of US politics, while I'm scratching my head about European politics.<p>#8:<p>Foster many interests. If you have a random interest in birds, feed it. Read books on birds. Go bird watching. Join a bird watching group.<p>One of the reasons people are cited as geniuses is because they are able to engage in lateral thinking. They can see patterns in seemingly unrelated topics. This is a powerful mental mechanism that can help in all facets of life - especially in solving difficult problems.<p>#9:<p>Engage in critical thinking. Practice the art of asking "Why?" Don't always accept what you see and hear at face value. Question it, probe behind it, and get at the underlying truth.<p>The news media is a great place to practice this. I used to work in this industry and even studied subjects like communication, propaganda, and marketing in college.<p>Allow your curiosity to take over as you read the news or watch a TV show. If something doesn't make sense, try searching for more information about it online. Read about it until you've satisfied that itch of curiosity.<p>One word of caution here: this can be taken too far. I think it's a fine practice to think critically about the declarations people tend to make. I have many friends who say things that seem to be full of questionable assumptions. I want nothing more than to question their statements and challenge them. But doing so can easily cross the line into obnoxiousness. For friends who like to debate, I'll jump right into it. But I pick those battles carefully. Some can take it, some can't.<p>I hope this helps. It's great that you're asking this question. Wish I had asked it when I was 19. Good luck!</text></comment> |
23,118,302 | 23,115,151 | 1 | 3 | 23,113,661 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management</title><url>https://github.com/doctorn/micro-mitten</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on implementing the compile-time approach to memory management described in this thesis (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf) for some time now - some of the performance results look promising! (Although some less so...) I think it would be great to see this taken further and built into a more complete functional language.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>&gt; This means that it maintains the ability to insert freeing code at appropriate program points, without putting restrictions on how you write your code.<p>How does the approach in mitten compare to Automatic Reference Counting in Objective-C (and I think Swift too)? From my experience, ARC can still add a surprising amount of memory management overhead to a program and needs a lot of hand-holding to keep that overhead down to an acceptable level (e.g. low single-digit percentage of overall execution time in programs that talk to Obj-C APIs a lot). I would be surprised if a &quot;traditional GC&quot; can do any worse in that regard (maybe reference counting smears the overhead over a wider area, e.g. no obvious spikes, but instead &quot;death by a thousand cuts&quot;).<p>One thing I&#x27;d like to see in modern languages is to encourage and simplify working with an (almost) entirely static memory layout, and make manipulations inside this static memory layout safe. This static memory layout doesn&#x27;t need to be magically derived by the compiler as long as the language offers features to easily describe this memory layout upfront.<p>A lot of data structures in applications don&#x27;t need to live in &quot;short-lived&quot; memory regions, but they often do because that&#x27;s what today&#x27;s languages either encourage (e.g. when built on the OOP philosophy), or what happens under the hood without much control from the code (e.g. in &quot;reference-heavy&quot; languages like Javascript, Java or C# - or even &quot;modern C++&quot; if you do memory management via smart pointers).<p>Minimizing data with dynamic lifetime, and maximing data with static lifetime could mean less complexity in the language and runtime (e.g. lifetime tracking by the compiler, or runtime memory management mechanisms like refcounting or GCs).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcguire</author><text>&quot;<i>How does the approach in mitten compare to Automatic Reference Counting in Objective-C (and I think Swift too)? From my experience, ARC can still add a surprising amount of memory management overhead to a program and needs a lot of hand-holding to keep that overhead down to an acceptable level (e.g. low single-digit percentage of overall execution time in programs that talk to Obj-C APIs a lot). I would be surprised if a &quot;traditional GC&quot; can do any worse in that regard (maybe reference counting smears the overhead over a wider area, e.g. no obvious spikes, but instead &quot;death by a thousand cuts&quot;).</i>&quot;<p>The reference counts have to be incremented when a new reference is made and decremented when one is deleted; freeing the memory when the count goes to zero. (This activity is cache- and atomicity-unfriendly (in the presence of threads).) A sufficiently smart compiler can omit many if not most of the count activity, but this kind of static analysis promises to remove all of it.<p>Further, reference counting has difficulty with circular references as the counts never go to zero. This should also be able to handle that.<p>Both this and reference counting are likely victims of the &quot;death by a thousand cuts&quot; you mention, as well as &quot;drop the last pointer to a large structure and wait for a long time while the pieces are deleted&quot;---the reference counting equivalent of a stop-the-world-and-trace garbage collection.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management</title><url>https://github.com/doctorn/micro-mitten</url><text>I&#x27;ve been working on implementing the compile-time approach to memory management described in this thesis (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf) for some time now - some of the performance results look promising! (Although some less so...) I think it would be great to see this taken further and built into a more complete functional language.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>flohofwoe</author><text>&gt; This means that it maintains the ability to insert freeing code at appropriate program points, without putting restrictions on how you write your code.<p>How does the approach in mitten compare to Automatic Reference Counting in Objective-C (and I think Swift too)? From my experience, ARC can still add a surprising amount of memory management overhead to a program and needs a lot of hand-holding to keep that overhead down to an acceptable level (e.g. low single-digit percentage of overall execution time in programs that talk to Obj-C APIs a lot). I would be surprised if a &quot;traditional GC&quot; can do any worse in that regard (maybe reference counting smears the overhead over a wider area, e.g. no obvious spikes, but instead &quot;death by a thousand cuts&quot;).<p>One thing I&#x27;d like to see in modern languages is to encourage and simplify working with an (almost) entirely static memory layout, and make manipulations inside this static memory layout safe. This static memory layout doesn&#x27;t need to be magically derived by the compiler as long as the language offers features to easily describe this memory layout upfront.<p>A lot of data structures in applications don&#x27;t need to live in &quot;short-lived&quot; memory regions, but they often do because that&#x27;s what today&#x27;s languages either encourage (e.g. when built on the OOP philosophy), or what happens under the hood without much control from the code (e.g. in &quot;reference-heavy&quot; languages like Javascript, Java or C# - or even &quot;modern C++&quot; if you do memory management via smart pointers).<p>Minimizing data with dynamic lifetime, and maximing data with static lifetime could mean less complexity in the language and runtime (e.g. lifetime tracking by the compiler, or runtime memory management mechanisms like refcounting or GCs).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>From the ASAP dissertation (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cl.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;techreports&#x2F;UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf</a>):<p>&gt; Reference counting, like asap, is a safe, synchronous memory management strategy. However, rc
approximates waste by unreachability which is less timely than asap’s approximation by Access.<p>I think a more careful reading of the work is required to distinguish the precise meanings of &quot;unreachability&quot; and &quot;access&quot; in this context.</text></comment> |
18,728,320 | 18,728,105 | 1 | 2 | 18,727,372 | train | <story><title>John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/john-giannandrea-named-to-apples-executive-team/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starshadowx2</author><text>9 women can&#x27;t make a baby in a month but 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months instead of 1 woman making 1 in 9 months.<p>More people can work on more&#x2F;different things in the same period of time, thereby increasing total work done. (Parallel vs sequential and all that..)</text></item><item><author>e1ven</author><text>They can&#x27;t just throw more random people at the problem - Adding too many developers can slow projects down and make them less likely to work.
(9 women can&#x27;t make a baby in a month, and all that..)<p>The guy this post is about just came from Google, where he lead on the stuff you&#x27;re praising. He can push these efforts in the right direction, and help make other strategic hires..<p>Isn&#x27;t this exactly what you want?</text></item><item><author>m0zg</author><text>It&#x27;s just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best in order to fix the very thing that will kill their cash cow in the next 5 years. I&#x27;m on iOS myself (and have been faithful since the first iPhone), but $30 Google Home puck feels like it&#x27;s from the future. Understands me perfectly, comes up with decent answers, doesn&#x27;t require rigid commands, etc. Whereas Siri is so bad I use it only to set alarms and timers. Not even setting of reminders is reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smileysteve</author><text>Sure, but then you try to make the children be playmates, and only 3 might work for a while, 1 might be a jerk that hurts the others; and 5 years down the road, you move anyway, so you only have 1 baby.<p>^ Sticking to the analogy when it comes to integrating into business; competing products, and which one actually maintains adoption.<p>9 babies in 9 months is basically what Google has done with its messaging apps.</text></comment> | <story><title>John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/john-giannandrea-named-to-apples-executive-team/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starshadowx2</author><text>9 women can&#x27;t make a baby in a month but 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months instead of 1 woman making 1 in 9 months.<p>More people can work on more&#x2F;different things in the same period of time, thereby increasing total work done. (Parallel vs sequential and all that..)</text></item><item><author>e1ven</author><text>They can&#x27;t just throw more random people at the problem - Adding too many developers can slow projects down and make them less likely to work.
(9 women can&#x27;t make a baby in a month, and all that..)<p>The guy this post is about just came from Google, where he lead on the stuff you&#x27;re praising. He can push these efforts in the right direction, and help make other strategic hires..<p>Isn&#x27;t this exactly what you want?</text></item><item><author>m0zg</author><text>It&#x27;s just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best in order to fix the very thing that will kill their cash cow in the next 5 years. I&#x27;m on iOS myself (and have been faithful since the first iPhone), but $30 Google Home puck feels like it&#x27;s from the future. Understands me perfectly, comes up with decent answers, doesn&#x27;t require rigid commands, etc. Whereas Siri is so bad I use it only to set alarms and timers. Not even setting of reminders is reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>Sorry, but is there some kind evidence that Giannandeea is incabale of the strategy and logistics needed to manage multiple projects in parallel?</text></comment> |
24,082,439 | 24,082,427 | 1 | 2 | 24,080,378 | train | <story><title>Mac keyboard shortcuts</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awakeasleep</author><text>macOS has discoverability features that obviate the need for the &quot;press alt&quot; feature. You don&#x27;t even need to know what menu contains your target.<p>Command-? (command shift &#x2F;) opens the help menu with fast incremental search through all menubar items, showing you the shortcut of what you&#x27;re interested in, and also allowing you to tap return to substitute the shortcut.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>On Windows (and mostly in Linux too), I can navigate the entire system, application menus and UI controls without touching the mouse or trackpad, relying only on the keyboard.</i><p>It&#x27;s also far more discoverable --- if you press Alt, accidentally or otherwise, the menu highlights and you can immediately use the arrow keys to navigate it. The underlined letters (sadly missing by default in later Windows versions) also make things more obvious.<p>There&#x27;s also this oddity:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;59007&#x2F;enter-to-open-a-file-in-finder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;59007&#x2F;enter-to-open-a-file-i...</a><p>In just about every other graphical file explorer I&#x27;ve ever used, including the DOS ones, Enter opens the selected item. In the Mac Finder, it&#x27;s <i>Command-O</i>. Yes, I get the fact that it&#x27;s mnemonic with the others in that list, but it&#x27;s completely contrary to the customary and rapidly learned behaviour of navigating using the arrow keys and Enter ---which is located very close to the arrow keys, and requires only one hand to operate easily.</text></item><item><author>AnonHP</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems.<p>I agree with your other points (including easier customizability), but have to completely disagree with this quoted sentence.<p>In my experience of using macOS&#x2F;OS X&#x2F;Mac OS X as well as Windows and Linux, macOS is one OS where a user cannot avoid using the mouse or trackpad!<p>On Windows (and mostly in Linux too), I can navigate the entire system, application menus and UI controls without touching the mouse or trackpad, relying only on the keyboard. The same on a Mac would be frustrating because keyboard navigation, especially for menus, is cumbersome. There are many Apple apps that cannot be completely controlled just using the keyboard either. There are many UI controls (including in dialogs) that just need a mouse or keyboard. When I find these instances, for me it&#x27;s like death by a thousand paper cuts (note: I do have preferences set to navigate through all controls when hitting Tab).<p>If you disagree with my assessment, please try this using only the keyboard (no mouse or trackpad) and see how cumbersome it is (not to mention inconsistent in certain ways with the rest of the system too):<p>* Open System Preferences<p>* Open the Keyboard settings (just an example)<p>* Navigate from one tab to another within the settings<p>Of course, I&#x27;d like to know how something like this can be done faster using the keyboard.</text></item><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>It&#x27;s shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems. There absolutely has been some people there who deeply care and think long and hard about how experts use their systems even if the actual main company doesn&#x27;t care so much about that segment anymore.<p>Everything just makes sense logically and mnemonically like using shift to invert actions like cmd+z and cmd+shift+z rather than having ctrl+z and ctrl+y for undo&#x2F;redo.<p>Then add to this the ability to rebind any shortcuts in any app at an OS level. It&#x27;s a little frustrating because I&#x27;m trying to move my computing away from Apple because I&#x27;m no longer convinced they care about Macs in the long term but just really wish either Microsoft would have the guts to throw a lot of their legacy out and fix all this stuff or that there were some way to actually achieve this level of coherence across the whole system on Linux.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>It’s a nice feature; a shame that it’s not discoverable (i.e. something people would think to look for when they need it, if they hadn&#x27;t used it before.)<p>Personally, if I were designing it, I wouldn&#x27;t have exposed it as a separate bar in the Help menu of the app; but rather just made it an API provider to the OS (sort of like how drag-and-drop data sources work), such that the OS search (Spotlight) could be made a &quot;universal&quot; search, capable of searching <i>both</i> the OS generally, <i>and</i> the currently-focused application specifically.<p>While I&#x27;m dreaming, imagine if you could go into Mission Control and start typing, and it&#x27;d highlight&#x2F;focus the set of windows that &quot;have&quot; the text you&#x27;re looking for (even if not necessarily scrolled into their viewport.) Like the search you can do in Safari&#x27;s &quot;tab overview&quot; by pressing Cmd+F there, but across all windows of all apps. Once you&#x27;ve narrowed it down to one window, press Enter and that window will pop to the foreground—perhaps with that text pre-selected as if you had done a Cmd+F search within the app.<p>Or, something even less likely to happen: imagine if you could move your mouse by searching across the corpus of text <i>visibly on-screen</i> (presumably via interaction with the OS text-rendering layer), such that you could jump the cursor to a specific button; or even to the checkbox with a specific label.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mac keyboard shortcuts</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awakeasleep</author><text>macOS has discoverability features that obviate the need for the &quot;press alt&quot; feature. You don&#x27;t even need to know what menu contains your target.<p>Command-? (command shift &#x2F;) opens the help menu with fast incremental search through all menubar items, showing you the shortcut of what you&#x27;re interested in, and also allowing you to tap return to substitute the shortcut.</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text><i>On Windows (and mostly in Linux too), I can navigate the entire system, application menus and UI controls without touching the mouse or trackpad, relying only on the keyboard.</i><p>It&#x27;s also far more discoverable --- if you press Alt, accidentally or otherwise, the menu highlights and you can immediately use the arrow keys to navigate it. The underlined letters (sadly missing by default in later Windows versions) also make things more obvious.<p>There&#x27;s also this oddity:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;59007&#x2F;enter-to-open-a-file-in-finder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;superuser.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;59007&#x2F;enter-to-open-a-file-i...</a><p>In just about every other graphical file explorer I&#x27;ve ever used, including the DOS ones, Enter opens the selected item. In the Mac Finder, it&#x27;s <i>Command-O</i>. Yes, I get the fact that it&#x27;s mnemonic with the others in that list, but it&#x27;s completely contrary to the customary and rapidly learned behaviour of navigating using the arrow keys and Enter ---which is located very close to the arrow keys, and requires only one hand to operate easily.</text></item><item><author>AnonHP</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems.<p>I agree with your other points (including easier customizability), but have to completely disagree with this quoted sentence.<p>In my experience of using macOS&#x2F;OS X&#x2F;Mac OS X as well as Windows and Linux, macOS is one OS where a user cannot avoid using the mouse or trackpad!<p>On Windows (and mostly in Linux too), I can navigate the entire system, application menus and UI controls without touching the mouse or trackpad, relying only on the keyboard. The same on a Mac would be frustrating because keyboard navigation, especially for menus, is cumbersome. There are many Apple apps that cannot be completely controlled just using the keyboard either. There are many UI controls (including in dialogs) that just need a mouse or keyboard. When I find these instances, for me it&#x27;s like death by a thousand paper cuts (note: I do have preferences set to navigate through all controls when hitting Tab).<p>If you disagree with my assessment, please try this using only the keyboard (no mouse or trackpad) and see how cumbersome it is (not to mention inconsistent in certain ways with the rest of the system too):<p>* Open System Preferences<p>* Open the Keyboard settings (just an example)<p>* Navigate from one tab to another within the settings<p>Of course, I&#x27;d like to know how something like this can be done faster using the keyboard.</text></item><item><author>whywhywhywhy</author><text>It&#x27;s shocking to me how far ahead MacOS is in terms of keyboard shortcuts compared to all other operating systems. There absolutely has been some people there who deeply care and think long and hard about how experts use their systems even if the actual main company doesn&#x27;t care so much about that segment anymore.<p>Everything just makes sense logically and mnemonically like using shift to invert actions like cmd+z and cmd+shift+z rather than having ctrl+z and ctrl+y for undo&#x2F;redo.<p>Then add to this the ability to rebind any shortcuts in any app at an OS level. It&#x27;s a little frustrating because I&#x27;m trying to move my computing away from Apple because I&#x27;m no longer convinced they care about Macs in the long term but just really wish either Microsoft would have the guts to throw a lot of their legacy out and fix all this stuff or that there were some way to actually achieve this level of coherence across the whole system on Linux.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>Also: The menu opened by Command-? can be browsed using Ctrl+P and Ctrl+N, like emacs, instead of the up and down keys if you want to move your hands less.<p>It&#x27;s a killer combination, allowing you to run menu items with merely a vague notion of their name rather than a memorized jumble of modifier keys.</text></comment> |
32,902,203 | 32,902,098 | 1 | 2 | 32,900,108 | train | <story><title>I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion</title><url>https://minimaxir.com/2022/09/stable-diffusion-ugly-sonic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cercatrova</author><text>Anyone else getting bored of generating images? I used Stable Diffusion even before the public release (there was a guide on 4chan with leaked weights) and I&#x27;d been using it for a few weeks. I just feel like I&#x27;ve generated all the images I want to for now, and I just don&#x27;t have any more interesting concepts I want to explore anymore. When you have so much variety in images, I got acclimatized to them and they all became the same and uninteresting after a while.<p>It&#x27;s like a hedonic treadmill but for AI image generation. I assume this will have the most usage as a once in a while tool for artists to get inspired from, and also a tool for commercial usage such as in a Photoshop or Figma plugin for designers. The lay person who wants to generate images will get bored after a while.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>illubots</author><text>The first human who discovered that they could draw something on a wall probably also got bored after a while.<p>And thought &quot;I assume this will have the most usage as a once in a while tool to decorate my cave with funny animals&quot;.<p>But then drawing animals turned into writing. Turned into printing. Turned into emails and the web and the web 2.0 and now here we are, sending our thoughts across the world with the speed of light. Using software that we wrote to tell computers how to do this for us.<p>It might be similar with AI driven image generation. That it evolves in ways that are currently hard to foresee. Maybe one day, our thoughts are translated in realtime into images and send across the galaxy with the speed of light. Or faster?</text></comment> | <story><title>I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion</title><url>https://minimaxir.com/2022/09/stable-diffusion-ugly-sonic/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cercatrova</author><text>Anyone else getting bored of generating images? I used Stable Diffusion even before the public release (there was a guide on 4chan with leaked weights) and I&#x27;d been using it for a few weeks. I just feel like I&#x27;ve generated all the images I want to for now, and I just don&#x27;t have any more interesting concepts I want to explore anymore. When you have so much variety in images, I got acclimatized to them and they all became the same and uninteresting after a while.<p>It&#x27;s like a hedonic treadmill but for AI image generation. I assume this will have the most usage as a once in a while tool for artists to get inspired from, and also a tool for commercial usage such as in a Photoshop or Figma plugin for designers. The lay person who wants to generate images will get bored after a while.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spywaregorilla</author><text>No particular reason to think this is suddenly going to make you want to be an artist</text></comment> |
16,716,676 | 16,715,147 | 1 | 3 | 16,712,719 | train | <story><title>Facebook-Linked Marketer Acxiom Plunges After Policy Shift</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/facebook-linked-marketer-plunges-as-policy-shift-may-sap-profit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glibgil</author><text>Any thoughts on why OP is getting downvotes? It’s insightful and shares a perspective that only a local would have.<p>It <i>is</i> possible for a company to have a nice work culture even while doing exploitive work. Doing good by the local community seems even easier to believe</text></item><item><author>paulie_a</author><text>They are just yet another data mining&#x2F;privacy invading marketing company<p>That type of company should be shunned, not touted as big tech</text></item><item><author>zengid</author><text>As an Arkansas resident, I can say that Acxiom is a one of the big tech companies for the state. Their company culture seems pretty great; they also do a lot for the community too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teirce</author><text>Like most companies, team culture depends on what division you&#x27;re working in. I hear some teams there can be great. Overall culture of the company is a different matter.<p>The downvotes are likely because, much as the other reply to the OP outlines, they&#x27;re not really right. While Acxiom _has_ been a staple in the AR tech community for decades, they have also garnered a pretty horrible reputation over the last ~10 years or so. The company is a slow-moving monolith with frequent layoffs, stagnant (low) pay, and no real direction. People are leaving in droves.<p>They actually recently sold off (or announced a plan to) the portion of the business that exists in AR[1]. Instead they will focus on some startup-ish company they acquired in the SFBA, which seems to be their only profitable venture at the moment (or the only one the CA-based CEO is interested in).<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;katv.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;axciom-to-spin-off-or-sell-its-traditional-marketing-division-realign-into-2-core-units" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;katv.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;axciom-to-spin-off-or-sell-its-tr...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook-Linked Marketer Acxiom Plunges After Policy Shift</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/facebook-linked-marketer-plunges-as-policy-shift-may-sap-profit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>glibgil</author><text>Any thoughts on why OP is getting downvotes? It’s insightful and shares a perspective that only a local would have.<p>It <i>is</i> possible for a company to have a nice work culture even while doing exploitive work. Doing good by the local community seems even easier to believe</text></item><item><author>paulie_a</author><text>They are just yet another data mining&#x2F;privacy invading marketing company<p>That type of company should be shunned, not touted as big tech</text></item><item><author>zengid</author><text>As an Arkansas resident, I can say that Acxiom is a one of the big tech companies for the state. Their company culture seems pretty great; they also do a lot for the community too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_mitsuhiko</author><text>I’m sure a lot of companies that do horrible things have great work culture. That should not be a reason for such companies to exist.</text></comment> |
9,214,201 | 9,214,048 | 1 | 2 | 9,213,753 | train | <story><title>Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an informant</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/portland-man-tortured-uae-behest-of-fbi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryoshon</author><text>More evidence of the US supporting torture in its backwards client regimes. This evidence has piled up for years and years, starting from well before the School of the Americas.<p>On the topic of schools and supporting torture in client regimes, remember that someone had to both negotiate with the UAE in order to convince them that it would be in their best interest to do as the US says on the topic of torturing foreigners, as well as teach UAE&#x27;s security forces how to torture in the US-approved way. That way, when someone the US wants information from comes along, they can be tortured by the UAE so that US can keep its PR.<p>Think about that for a minute. The US is teaching third parties how to torture effectively on its behalf because it wants the torturing done to the proper standard and because it is afraid of the backlash that will occur when torture is exposed. From this thought, we can say that the US has extensive internal standards regarding what methods of torture are acceptable and useful for clients to know, which are likely influenced by how bad and how directly attributable these torture techniques will look when exposed.<p>A speculation: the US still tortures people directly in addition to third party torture. They already have the secrecy, infrastructure, training, standards, incentive, and targets in hand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Portland Man: I was tortured in UAE for refusing to become an informant</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/16/portland-man-tortured-uae-behest-of-fbi</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lowleveldrone</author><text>This really should never happen, but sadly has happened before - famously to Maher Arar, a dual-Syrian&#x2F;Canadian citizen who was detained in the US and then sent to Syria to be tortured (rather than returned to Canada, his destination) [1]<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Maher_Arar</a></text></comment> |
6,213,619 | 6,213,042 | 1 | 3 | 6,211,029 | train | <story><title>How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane</title><url>https://medium.com/war-is-boring/5c95d45f86a5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conformal</author><text>the F-35 is one of the largest wastes of government money that is publicly known. by the time the aircraft has all the bugs ironed out, it will have cost USD 1 tln and be easily destroyed by much cheaper drones. the entire contract should be converted into drone development, which will actually pay dividends.<p>trying to argue that we need the F-35 or that it will provide any kind of strategic military value is absurd.</text></item><item><author>dkhenry</author><text>I understand the point the article is trying to make, but its not realistic. Having worked with the Navy for a few years I know that the biggest use of airplanes is not air to air combat ( which is what this article is complaining about ) It is air to land bombing. So why are we complaining about making an air force that serves our needs rather then one that might be useful for some other task.<p>As a note he says this will be the &quot;new mainstay of the air force&quot; however we still have the F-22 as our air superiority fighter which is still believed to be better then anything out there, and indeed in their simulation the only limitation to the F-22 was there were too few of them. So this isn&#x27;t really about America losing air superiority its about a few analysts not taking into account the entire mission of the three branches of the military. Maybe this plane doesn&#x27;t stack up well against the F-16 or F-22, but It sure beats the Harrier and the F-18.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>demallien</author><text>&quot;easily destroyed by much cheaper drones&quot;<p>To a certain extent, this has been true for more than two decades. I used to work as a radar engineer for the RAAF, and every time we went on exercises against US forces (both teams flying F 18s, but with different missile payloads, we had AIM9s, the Americans had AMRAAM), we would see our aircraft swatted from the sky before we could even get the bogeys on weapons-system radar. Talk about dog-fighting maneuverability and visibility is just ridiculous - if you&#x27;re using those characteristics, you&#x27;ve already lost the battle. In the control room we used to joke that the USN could have sent P51s equipped with AMRAAMs and AWACS support and they would still win.<p>Modern fighter aircraft need to:<p>a) not be seen
b) be fast (time to target is still important!)
c) carry a decent payload of weapons.<p>Ideally target selection should be provided by AWACS, and missile-sensors provide the final kill guidance, allowing the fighter (AKA missile-launch platform) to remain stealthy. In the absence of AWACS, the fighter will need to carry it&#x27;s own sensor suite.<p>Modern air warfare is all about sensors, ECM and stealth. The airframe is almost inconsequential.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane</title><url>https://medium.com/war-is-boring/5c95d45f86a5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conformal</author><text>the F-35 is one of the largest wastes of government money that is publicly known. by the time the aircraft has all the bugs ironed out, it will have cost USD 1 tln and be easily destroyed by much cheaper drones. the entire contract should be converted into drone development, which will actually pay dividends.<p>trying to argue that we need the F-35 or that it will provide any kind of strategic military value is absurd.</text></item><item><author>dkhenry</author><text>I understand the point the article is trying to make, but its not realistic. Having worked with the Navy for a few years I know that the biggest use of airplanes is not air to air combat ( which is what this article is complaining about ) It is air to land bombing. So why are we complaining about making an air force that serves our needs rather then one that might be useful for some other task.<p>As a note he says this will be the &quot;new mainstay of the air force&quot; however we still have the F-22 as our air superiority fighter which is still believed to be better then anything out there, and indeed in their simulation the only limitation to the F-22 was there were too few of them. So this isn&#x27;t really about America losing air superiority its about a few analysts not taking into account the entire mission of the three branches of the military. Maybe this plane doesn&#x27;t stack up well against the F-16 or F-22, but It sure beats the Harrier and the F-18.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mparr4</author><text>&gt; the entire contract should be converted into drone development, which will actually pay dividends<p>...or, maybe, education?</text></comment> |
25,081,986 | 25,082,005 | 1 | 2 | 25,081,350 | train | <story><title>Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing</title><url>https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/2020/11/12/google-photos-hooked-users-with-free-unlimited-storage-now-thats-changing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j7ake</author><text>Is google mining photos for profit?<p>What kind of profits are there to mine data in google photos?</text></item><item><author>elmo2you</author><text>&gt; To be fair, Google&#x27;s pricing on storage is more than reasonable<p>That probably depends, on whether you factor in the profit Google makes from mining your data. That should be subtracted from their operating costs and only then compared to what they charge for the storage. My guess is that they&#x27;ll make quite a killing on the thing, as a whole.<p>Even besides the morally questionable aspects (of the data mining), considering their position and leverage they might very well be slapped with some anti-trust rulings in the future.<p>Unlikely to happen in the US, since the meaning of anti-trust there has been systematically eroded and limited to where it has become all but a complete farce (compared to its original meaning&#x2F;intentions). However, that&#x27;s what you get when large corporations can pump vast amounts of money into politics, as if they were a voting citizen. But there is still some hope in other places. Either way, it shouldn&#x27;t take rocket science to see how Google has a tremendous (unfair) advantage over any competition in this regard (which is what anti-trust really is about; not just avoiding&#x2F;regulating absolute monopolies).</text></item><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>To be fair, Google&#x27;s pricing on storage is more than reasonable. I pay £2.50&#x2F;month for 200gb of storage which more than covers my lifetimes worth of photos so far (in full res with a fair few RAW photos in there too).<p>And they&#x27;re not deleting any photos that users already uploaded. I think Google deserve all the criticism they get for shutting down services. But this one seems to have been handled quite well.</text></item><item><author>part1of2</author><text>&gt; Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.”<p>Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait &amp; switch, and I saythat with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeflight</author><text>I would be very surprised if Google is not data mining everything they can, it&#x27;s always been their main business model.<p>With the photos it could be as simple as merging the meta data from those photos together with a user profile for even more targeted advertising.<p>Somebody making a lot of photos of certain things might be more interested in buying these things.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure the real data wizards can think of quite a few more, and better, ways to monetize such data, particularly at the scale that Google is collecting it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing</title><url>https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/2020/11/12/google-photos-hooked-users-with-free-unlimited-storage-now-thats-changing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j7ake</author><text>Is google mining photos for profit?<p>What kind of profits are there to mine data in google photos?</text></item><item><author>elmo2you</author><text>&gt; To be fair, Google&#x27;s pricing on storage is more than reasonable<p>That probably depends, on whether you factor in the profit Google makes from mining your data. That should be subtracted from their operating costs and only then compared to what they charge for the storage. My guess is that they&#x27;ll make quite a killing on the thing, as a whole.<p>Even besides the morally questionable aspects (of the data mining), considering their position and leverage they might very well be slapped with some anti-trust rulings in the future.<p>Unlikely to happen in the US, since the meaning of anti-trust there has been systematically eroded and limited to where it has become all but a complete farce (compared to its original meaning&#x2F;intentions). However, that&#x27;s what you get when large corporations can pump vast amounts of money into politics, as if they were a voting citizen. But there is still some hope in other places. Either way, it shouldn&#x27;t take rocket science to see how Google has a tremendous (unfair) advantage over any competition in this regard (which is what anti-trust really is about; not just avoiding&#x2F;regulating absolute monopolies).</text></item><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>To be fair, Google&#x27;s pricing on storage is more than reasonable. I pay £2.50&#x2F;month for 200gb of storage which more than covers my lifetimes worth of photos so far (in full res with a fair few RAW photos in there too).<p>And they&#x27;re not deleting any photos that users already uploaded. I think Google deserve all the criticism they get for shutting down services. But this one seems to have been handled quite well.</text></item><item><author>part1of2</author><text>&gt; Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.”<p>Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait &amp; switch, and I saythat with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>&gt; What kind of profits are there to mine data in google photos?<p>Are you asking why data is valuable or what data can be found in photos? They could pour over every detail captured on camera taking note of locations, any products seen the background of your shots, the types of clothes you and your family&#x2F;friends wear, who wears or doesn&#x27;t wear makeup, etc) then they can use facial recognition to identify everyone in your pictures (photographed intentionally or not) and determine their relationships to you and each other then update everyone&#x27;s dossiers with whatever new information they managed to gather from your pics.<p>Or they could just jerk off to your nudes. Who knows.</text></comment> |
26,317,906 | 26,317,178 | 1 | 2 | 26,314,756 | train | <story><title>How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me became a TypeScript fan</title><url>https://chiragswadia.medium.com/how-an-anti-typescript-javascript-developer-like-me-became-a-typescript-fan-a4e043151ad7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>It&#x27;s probably worth taking a step back and interrogating why the actual &quot;Why was I Anti-TypeScript?&quot; a little bit more and use it as an opportunity for broader self development.<p>The author didn&#x27;t use and understand something, and rather than trying to they instead just defaulted to rejection. It&#x27;s midly disapointing seeing this in people who label themselves as &quot;Senior&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>Ironically, as someone who has experience w&#x2F; both fast-and-loose JS and with &quot;properly&quot; statically typed languages, my beef with typescript is precisely that it allows people to be fast and loose, sometimes in ways that are not super obvious. For example:<p><pre><code> type Thing = {
name: string,
};
function getThing(): Thing {
return JSON.parse(&#x27;{&quot;error&quot;: &quot;invalid id&quot;}&#x27;)
}
const thing: Thing = getThing(); &#x2F;&#x2F; lie to me!
console.log(thing.name);
</code></pre>
This is a trivial example to illustrate the idea that it&#x27;s relatively easy to make a type that cascades through a very large app but which is backed by a complete lie.<p>I definitely think that there&#x27;s also something to be said about meta-programming yak shaving (e.g. people wasting hours trying to write a &quot;function&quot; that takes an enum and outputs another enum w&#x2F; a fixed prefix, when simply writing out the enums would&#x27;ve taken 30 seconds w&#x2F; VSCode&#x27;s multiple cursor feature)<p>Personally, the value I see in TS is in cementing documentable facts about a system: e.g. such and such function takes such and such well-defined entity, dot not treat this `options` argument as a generic bucket for pass-through garbage.</text></comment> | <story><title>How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me became a TypeScript fan</title><url>https://chiragswadia.medium.com/how-an-anti-typescript-javascript-developer-like-me-became-a-typescript-fan-a4e043151ad7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>madeofpalk</author><text>It&#x27;s probably worth taking a step back and interrogating why the actual &quot;Why was I Anti-TypeScript?&quot; a little bit more and use it as an opportunity for broader self development.<p>The author didn&#x27;t use and understand something, and rather than trying to they instead just defaulted to rejection. It&#x27;s midly disapointing seeing this in people who label themselves as &quot;Senior&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cosmotic</author><text>I think the skepticism of new shiny things is healthy. Of the set of things that exist, most things are worse than the things one already uses&#x2F;prefers. Most new things solve a specific problem that may not overlap with the problems one is trying to solve. With software development, a huge part of the puzzle is tooling (as the article points out), so even if typescript is obviously superior as a language, the tooling needs to catch up before it&#x27;s a reasonable&#x2F;useful alternative. In this case, the tooling quality, enabled by the static typing, shot typescript way past the thing it was replacing.</text></comment> |
35,449,882 | 35,449,787 | 1 | 2 | 35,437,070 | train | <story><title>Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux</title><url>https://boilingsteam.com/liberating-the-macbook-air-2013-with-linux-complete-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toastal</author><text>So Apple <i>doesn’t</i> have a monopoly on “good” trackpads and most things are fixed with software? But hardware is the arguments they make for their Apple purchases!</text></item><item><author>mikae1</author><text>Just gave Fedora a go on my 2015 MacBook Air. The most frustrating thing was how bad the trackpad suddenly sucked.<p>I haven&#x27;t tried <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;howchoo.com&#x2F;linux&#x2F;the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settings-on-linux-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;howchoo.com&#x2F;linux&#x2F;the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settin...</a> yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Toutouxc</author><text>As a customer I don’t really care if it’s hardware or software, Apple delivers where others don’t.</text></comment> | <story><title>Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux</title><url>https://boilingsteam.com/liberating-the-macbook-air-2013-with-linux-complete-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toastal</author><text>So Apple <i>doesn’t</i> have a monopoly on “good” trackpads and most things are fixed with software? But hardware is the arguments they make for their Apple purchases!</text></item><item><author>mikae1</author><text>Just gave Fedora a go on my 2015 MacBook Air. The most frustrating thing was how bad the trackpad suddenly sucked.<p>I haven&#x27;t tried <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;howchoo.com&#x2F;linux&#x2F;the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settings-on-linux-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;howchoo.com&#x2F;linux&#x2F;the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settin...</a> yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pseudostem</author><text>Not exactly, I tried to configure the trackpad open-source (driver?) ages ago.<p>The hardware itself has so many features&#x2F;switches which are not open and hence not available to the software.<p>The hardware and software go hand in hand IMO.<p>Maybe things have changed now, this was at least 7+ years ago.</text></comment> |
39,647,784 | 39,647,733 | 1 | 2 | 39,643,981 | train | <story><title>Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-says-apple-will-reinstate-developer-account-clearing-path-for-epic-games-store-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>That only makes sense if we assume Apple’s world class legal team didn’t see what every lay person could. Rolling back the decision is not going to get them out of the eyes of the regulators and they must have assumed that going into it. Why give the EU even more ammo against you.<p>My guess is that they saw that all happening but Epic provided them a letter saying they double pinky promised, cross their hearts, will obey by the rules this time, which Apple will later try to use in court later on. Otherwise it doesn’t seem worth the risk prompting clearly foreseeable regulator action.</text></item><item><author>agust</author><text>Yes, the EU immediately stepped in and explained them what the consequences of breaking the law would be, and Apple budged, caved, backed down. Not getting out of this one.</text></item><item><author>mike_d</author><text>This needs to be higher up. Apple didn&#x27;t budge, or cave, and regulators did not get involved.<p>Epic could have avoided all this by just responding to Apple and signing the EU Addendum affirming they would stick to the laws. Instead they wanted to get into the news cycle.<p>This is the policy they have to agree to: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;contact&#x2F;request&#x2F;download&#x2F;alternate_eu_terms_addendum.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;contact&#x2F;request&#x2F;download&#x2F;alterna...</a></text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>From the article<p>&gt; “Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.”</text></item><item><author>astlouis44</author><text>Amazing how fast this decision was reversed. It&#x27;s truly awesome to see regulators standing up to walled gardens. This will greatly benefit both developers and consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agust</author><text>Or maybe Apple is not infallible, they took a shot because they are very arrogant and thought they could get away with it, and it failed miserably because now there is a law which makes their abusive behaviors illegal?</text></comment> | <story><title>Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-says-apple-will-reinstate-developer-account-clearing-path-for-epic-games-store-on-iphone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LeafItAlone</author><text>That only makes sense if we assume Apple’s world class legal team didn’t see what every lay person could. Rolling back the decision is not going to get them out of the eyes of the regulators and they must have assumed that going into it. Why give the EU even more ammo against you.<p>My guess is that they saw that all happening but Epic provided them a letter saying they double pinky promised, cross their hearts, will obey by the rules this time, which Apple will later try to use in court later on. Otherwise it doesn’t seem worth the risk prompting clearly foreseeable regulator action.</text></item><item><author>agust</author><text>Yes, the EU immediately stepped in and explained them what the consequences of breaking the law would be, and Apple budged, caved, backed down. Not getting out of this one.</text></item><item><author>mike_d</author><text>This needs to be higher up. Apple didn&#x27;t budge, or cave, and regulators did not get involved.<p>Epic could have avoided all this by just responding to Apple and signing the EU Addendum affirming they would stick to the laws. Instead they wanted to get into the news cycle.<p>This is the policy they have to agree to: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;contact&#x2F;request&#x2F;download&#x2F;alternate_eu_terms_addendum.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;contact&#x2F;request&#x2F;download&#x2F;alterna...</a></text></item><item><author>nielsbot</author><text>From the article<p>&gt; “Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.”</text></item><item><author>astlouis44</author><text>Amazing how fast this decision was reversed. It&#x27;s truly awesome to see regulators standing up to walled gardens. This will greatly benefit both developers and consumers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jensson</author><text>&gt; That only makes sense if we assume Apple’s world class legal team didn’t see what every lay person could.<p>Apple banned Epic the day before DMA came into effect when doing this sort of thing was still legal, they 100% saw this. They did probably bet on the chance EU would overlook it if they did it before the law came into effect, they lost that bet but they thought it was worth a try.</text></comment> |
23,199,309 | 23,199,008 | 1 | 2 | 23,192,264 | train | <story><title>Pretending OOP Never Happened</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/05/15/pretending-oop-never-happened/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uryga</author><text>if it&#x27;s a function, what are the inputs&#x2F;outputs? do you mean that in the way of &quot;an object is a poor person&#x27;s closure&quot;?<p>in case anyone&#x27;s unfamiliar, here&#x27;s one basic way to emulate objects with closures. i think i saw it in SICP (?), reproducing it here because i just love how simple it is:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; might be easier to first look at
&#x2F;&#x2F; the usage example at the bottom
let Point = (x, y) =&gt; {
let self = (message, args=null) =&gt; {
switch (message) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; getters
case &#x27;x&#x27;: return x;
case &#x27;y&#x27;: return y;
&#x2F;&#x2F; some operations
&#x2F;&#x2F; (immutable, but that&#x27;s not required)
case &#x27;toString&#x27;:
return `Point(x=${x}, y=${y})`;
case &#x27;move&#x27;:
let [dx, dy] = args;
&#x2F;&#x2F; use our getters
return Point(self(&#x27;x&#x27;)+dx, self(&#x27;y&#x27;)+dy);
&#x2F;&#x2F; let&#x27;s get DRY!
case &#x27;plus&#x27;:
let [other] = args;
return self(&#x27;move&#x27;, other(&#x27;x&#x27;), other(&#x27;y&#x27;));
default:
throw Error(`unknown message: ${message} ${JSON.stringify(args)}`);
}
};
return self;
};
let p1 = Point(3, 5);
&#x2F;&#x2F; sending messages
p1(&#x27;x&#x27;) === 3;
p1(&#x27;y&#x27;) === 5;
p1(&#x27;move&#x27;, [1, 2])(&#x27;toString&#x27;);
&#x2F;&#x2F; --&gt; &quot;Point(x=4, y=7)&quot;
let p2 = Point(1, 2);
p1(&#x27;plus&#x27;, [p2])(&#x27;toString&#x27;);
&#x2F;&#x2F; --&gt; &quot;Point(x=4, y=7)&quot;
</code></pre>
dynamic dispatch &amp; message passing, just like that! and you can easily do `__getattr__&#x2F;method_missing`-style dynamicism just by looking at `message`.<p>for the other way around, see how Java lambdas desugar to objects with a &quot;call&quot; method and closed-over variables as members.</text></item><item><author>ipnon</author><text>An object is in some ways a function that defines its own parameters (fields and methods) and arguments (state). This then is injected into another such function.</text></item><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>These conversations aren&#x27;t helped by the fact that OOP isn&#x27;t well-defined, and observations about &#x27;typical&#x27; OOP--the banana that has a reference to the gorilla and transitively the entire jungle, or the pervasive abuse of inheritance--are &quot;aren&#x27;t really OOP and you can write bad code in any paradigm!&quot; even though other paradigms (for whatever reason) don&#x27;t share these issues at nearly the scale as OOP. Inheritance and god objects were certainly how OOP was taught at universities and in the predominate literature when I was in school circa 2010. And if these (mis)features aren&#x27;t part of the definition of OOP, then what distinguishes it from functional and&#x2F;or data oriented paradigms? Encapsulation? Seems like FP has encapsulation and DO is orthogonal. Certainly localization of state is common to both FP and DO--it&#x27;s not an OOP innovation.<p>If OOP is so abstract as to be indistinguishable from other paradigms, then what value does it add?</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>Usually when I see somebody arguing against object-oriented programming, I don&#x27;t see them arguing for functional programming, but instead arguing for procedural (like Cobol, Basic, or Pascal) programming. What they usually miss is that there&#x27;s a reason procedural programming was abandoned some time around the mid-90&#x27;s, and for good reason: you can&#x27;t realistically develop useful software in pure-procedural way without introducing a lot of global state. Even if you look at well-designed non-OO code like, say the Linux kernel, you&#x27;ll see that there are object oriented concepts like information hiding and polymorphism all over the place; they just don&#x27;t formalize them with the &quot;class&quot; or &quot;private&quot; keywords. Unfortunately, what I see most programmers do is give up on OO design (and never even consider FP) and instead create global state that they call &quot;singletons&quot; to pretend that they didn&#x27;t just create a global variable. Because, as we all know, global variables are bad, but too few of us actually remember why.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text><i>do you mean that in the way of &quot;an object is a poor person&#x27;s closure&quot;?</i><p>Objects are a poor man&#x27;s closures. And closures are a poor man&#x27;s objects.<p>Modern languages have both. And they serve different purposes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pretending OOP Never Happened</title><url>https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/05/15/pretending-oop-never-happened/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>uryga</author><text>if it&#x27;s a function, what are the inputs&#x2F;outputs? do you mean that in the way of &quot;an object is a poor person&#x27;s closure&quot;?<p>in case anyone&#x27;s unfamiliar, here&#x27;s one basic way to emulate objects with closures. i think i saw it in SICP (?), reproducing it here because i just love how simple it is:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; might be easier to first look at
&#x2F;&#x2F; the usage example at the bottom
let Point = (x, y) =&gt; {
let self = (message, args=null) =&gt; {
switch (message) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; getters
case &#x27;x&#x27;: return x;
case &#x27;y&#x27;: return y;
&#x2F;&#x2F; some operations
&#x2F;&#x2F; (immutable, but that&#x27;s not required)
case &#x27;toString&#x27;:
return `Point(x=${x}, y=${y})`;
case &#x27;move&#x27;:
let [dx, dy] = args;
&#x2F;&#x2F; use our getters
return Point(self(&#x27;x&#x27;)+dx, self(&#x27;y&#x27;)+dy);
&#x2F;&#x2F; let&#x27;s get DRY!
case &#x27;plus&#x27;:
let [other] = args;
return self(&#x27;move&#x27;, other(&#x27;x&#x27;), other(&#x27;y&#x27;));
default:
throw Error(`unknown message: ${message} ${JSON.stringify(args)}`);
}
};
return self;
};
let p1 = Point(3, 5);
&#x2F;&#x2F; sending messages
p1(&#x27;x&#x27;) === 3;
p1(&#x27;y&#x27;) === 5;
p1(&#x27;move&#x27;, [1, 2])(&#x27;toString&#x27;);
&#x2F;&#x2F; --&gt; &quot;Point(x=4, y=7)&quot;
let p2 = Point(1, 2);
p1(&#x27;plus&#x27;, [p2])(&#x27;toString&#x27;);
&#x2F;&#x2F; --&gt; &quot;Point(x=4, y=7)&quot;
</code></pre>
dynamic dispatch &amp; message passing, just like that! and you can easily do `__getattr__&#x2F;method_missing`-style dynamicism just by looking at `message`.<p>for the other way around, see how Java lambdas desugar to objects with a &quot;call&quot; method and closed-over variables as members.</text></item><item><author>ipnon</author><text>An object is in some ways a function that defines its own parameters (fields and methods) and arguments (state). This then is injected into another such function.</text></item><item><author>throwaway894345</author><text>These conversations aren&#x27;t helped by the fact that OOP isn&#x27;t well-defined, and observations about &#x27;typical&#x27; OOP--the banana that has a reference to the gorilla and transitively the entire jungle, or the pervasive abuse of inheritance--are &quot;aren&#x27;t really OOP and you can write bad code in any paradigm!&quot; even though other paradigms (for whatever reason) don&#x27;t share these issues at nearly the scale as OOP. Inheritance and god objects were certainly how OOP was taught at universities and in the predominate literature when I was in school circa 2010. And if these (mis)features aren&#x27;t part of the definition of OOP, then what distinguishes it from functional and&#x2F;or data oriented paradigms? Encapsulation? Seems like FP has encapsulation and DO is orthogonal. Certainly localization of state is common to both FP and DO--it&#x27;s not an OOP innovation.<p>If OOP is so abstract as to be indistinguishable from other paradigms, then what value does it add?</text></item><item><author>commandlinefan</author><text>Usually when I see somebody arguing against object-oriented programming, I don&#x27;t see them arguing for functional programming, but instead arguing for procedural (like Cobol, Basic, or Pascal) programming. What they usually miss is that there&#x27;s a reason procedural programming was abandoned some time around the mid-90&#x27;s, and for good reason: you can&#x27;t realistically develop useful software in pure-procedural way without introducing a lot of global state. Even if you look at well-designed non-OO code like, say the Linux kernel, you&#x27;ll see that there are object oriented concepts like information hiding and polymorphism all over the place; they just don&#x27;t formalize them with the &quot;class&quot; or &quot;private&quot; keywords. Unfortunately, what I see most programmers do is give up on OO design (and never even consider FP) and instead create global state that they call &quot;singletons&quot; to pretend that they didn&#x27;t just create a global variable. Because, as we all know, global variables are bad, but too few of us actually remember why.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uryga</author><text>also, i just made a possibly interesting connection with JS methods (and their weirdness). in the above implementation, a message is first class, so you can send the same message to multiple objects:<p><pre><code> let moveUp = [&#x27;move&#x27;, [0, 1]];
p1(...moveUp)
p2(...moveUp)
</code></pre>
but you can&#x27;t get a `move` that&#x27;s &quot;bound&quot; to a particular object¹ – the &quot;receiver&quot; is decided when you &quot;send&quot; the message. which reminds me of how JS methods work: `this` is bound to what&#x27;s &quot;to the left of the dot&quot; when you <i>call</i> a method, so unlike Python,<p><pre><code> obj.foo(1)
</code></pre>
is not the same as<p><pre><code> let f = obj.foo
f(1) &#x2F;&#x2F; Error: &#x27;this&#x27; is undefined
</code></pre>
maybe there&#x27;s a connection to some language that inspired JS&#x27; OO model, with prototypes and all that?<p>---<p>¹ well, unless you explicitly wrap it in another closure like<p><pre><code> (args) =&gt; p1(&#x27;move&#x27;, args)</code></pre></text></comment> |
9,319,409 | 9,319,413 | 1 | 2 | 9,318,977 | train | <story><title>Let’s Build a Web Server. Part 1</title><url>http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbaws-part1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_asummers</author><text>Why is for(;;) used instead of while(true)? I&#x27;ve seen this idiom used many times but never understood the reasoning why. According to this[0] SO, there are no performance gains, so why would one prefer the for version?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2288856&#x2F;when-implementing-an-infinite-loop-is-there-a-difference-in-using-while1-vs-f" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2288856&#x2F;when-implementing...</a></text></item><item><author>corysama</author><text>Pretty much the same minimal http server in C:<p><pre><code> #include &lt;WinSock.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#pragma comment(lib, &quot;wsock32.lib&quot;)
int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
WSADATA wsadata;
WSAStartup(2, &amp;wsadata);
sockaddr_in address;
memset(&amp;address, 0, sizeof(address));
address.sin_family = AF_INET;
address.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(&quot;0.0.0.0&quot;);
address.sin_port = htons(80);
int sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&amp;address, sizeof(address));
for(;;) {
listen(sock, 0);
int connection = accept(sock, NULL, NULL);
char recvBuffer[1024];
int recvSize = recv(connection, recvBuffer, sizeof(recvBuffer)-1, 0);
recvBuffer[recvSize]=0;
printf(recvBuffer);
char response[] = &quot;HTTP&#x2F;1.1 200 OK\nContent-Type: text&#x2F;html\n\nlol&quot;;
send(connection, response, sizeof(response), 0);
closesocket(connection);
}
return 0;
}</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corysama</author><text>They are equivalent. It&#x27;s just a matter of personal preference. I like it because it&#x27;s shorter and it doesn&#x27;t read as a loop that evaluates the value &#x27;true&#x27; on each iteration. Even though you know the evaluation optimizes away trivially if you think about it, I don&#x27;t even want to think that far when I&#x27;m scanning code.</text></comment> | <story><title>Let’s Build a Web Server. Part 1</title><url>http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbaws-part1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_asummers</author><text>Why is for(;;) used instead of while(true)? I&#x27;ve seen this idiom used many times but never understood the reasoning why. According to this[0] SO, there are no performance gains, so why would one prefer the for version?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2288856&#x2F;when-implementing-an-infinite-loop-is-there-a-difference-in-using-while1-vs-f" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2288856&#x2F;when-implementing...</a></text></item><item><author>corysama</author><text>Pretty much the same minimal http server in C:<p><pre><code> #include &lt;WinSock.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#pragma comment(lib, &quot;wsock32.lib&quot;)
int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
WSADATA wsadata;
WSAStartup(2, &amp;wsadata);
sockaddr_in address;
memset(&amp;address, 0, sizeof(address));
address.sin_family = AF_INET;
address.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(&quot;0.0.0.0&quot;);
address.sin_port = htons(80);
int sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&amp;address, sizeof(address));
for(;;) {
listen(sock, 0);
int connection = accept(sock, NULL, NULL);
char recvBuffer[1024];
int recvSize = recv(connection, recvBuffer, sizeof(recvBuffer)-1, 0);
recvBuffer[recvSize]=0;
printf(recvBuffer);
char response[] = &quot;HTTP&#x2F;1.1 200 OK\nContent-Type: text&#x2F;html\n\nlol&quot;;
send(connection, response, sizeof(response), 0);
closesocket(connection);
}
return 0;
}</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nchelluri</author><text>I had a professor who gave some reasoning about this. He&#x27;s written a paper: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plg.uwaterloo.ca&#x2F;~pabuhr&#x2F;papers&#x2F;MELoop.ps" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;plg.uwaterloo.ca&#x2F;~pabuhr&#x2F;papers&#x2F;MELoop.ps</a><p>I haven&#x27;t read the whole thing but I like this bit:<p>&gt; There are many algorithms that are best written using an exit from the middle of a loop. If not written in this fashion, techniques such as the traditional “priming” of a loop must be used. For example, in reading a file:<p><pre><code> read(a, b, c)
WHILE NOT eof DO
{ process a, b, &amp; c }
read(a, b, c)
END WHILE
LOOP
read(a, b, c)
WHEN eof EXIT
{ process a, b, &amp; c }
END LOOP
</code></pre>
&gt; The example on the left [top] shows the priming of a loop. This requires duplication of the READ statement or, in other cases, creation of a subprogram to eliminate the duplication, both of which are undesirable. As well, loop priming can be done an arbitrary distance before the beginning of the loop making the program difficult to read as the priming statement(s) is critical to the understanding of the loop.</text></comment> |
23,851,547 | 23,850,894 | 1 | 2 | 23,848,039 | train | <story><title>Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study</title><url>https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>One trend I&#x27;ve noticed that is markedly different from when I started programming in 1998, is how dependent we&#x27;ve become to program via Google&#x2F;StackExchange searches.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I know how to write anything from scratch anymore, because I just search&#x2F;read&#x2F;alter&#x2F;test. The breadth of what I work on is 100x wider than it used to be, and so I&#x27;ve become absolutely dependent on quickly reading docs, copying code found online, and then deep diving into testing and rolling it out the door.<p>I deliver a TON more, but I&#x27;m convinced I&#x27;d bomb literally every interview I go to today. Today, for example, I updated our firewall rules, updated some Java business logic, tweaked some javascipt and PHP on the site, reversed an odd macro email-phishing virus we got, configured a new RDS server VM for clients, and updated some network GPOs. 20 years ago, I would have never worked on ALL of those things in the same week - let alone the same day.<p>Maybe we should interview with small take-home tasks to be submitted with some write-ups to test how people research, reason, and write-up problems, rather than writing code on the spot on a whiteboard. ...but maybe that&#x27;s just me.</text></item><item><author>lrem</author><text>People bomb, including good people. That is sadly part of the system.<p>Once I had this candidate. Damn, I know my questions are deceptively simple on purpose, but he literally couldn&#x27;t do anything. Not even a trivial brute force. Not even any related simple knowledge questions. Couldn&#x27;t tell an average from a median. The only good thing I could write in the feedback was &quot;seems to know some basic syntax&quot;.<p>It was quite a learning moment to read that everyone else was praising how this was the most brilliant candidate they&#x27;ve seen in years. Well, mine was the interview just before lunch, in a schedule that was atypically later than usual. I guess starting an interview after most people start their lunch break was asking for it. He also got hired - apparently the committee agreed that &quot;can&#x27;t think when hungry&quot; is not really that important a flaw.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OliverJones</author><text>I&#x27;ve been doing this for a LOOONG time. Early on, the core skill for a programmer was intensive in-depth knowledge of the language being used. We all talked a good game about what we called &quot;reusable software,&quot; but yeah. Talk.<p>Now things are TOTALLY different. Doing a good job requires extensive, encyclopedic, knowledge of what&#x27;s out there, how well it works, and how to integrate it. npm, nuget, maven, anaconda, we all know the drill. In a day&#x27;s work it&#x27;s much less necessary to implement an algorithm from memory.<p>What should programmers know from memory? Simple stuff like fizzbuzz. The difference between TCP and UDP. What DNS is for. If SQL data&#x27;s involved the difference between JOIN and LEFT JOIN.<p>And, if they&#x27;re experienced, they must be able to describe intelligently how their own stuff fit into the bigger system they worked on. Because there&#x27;s always a bigger system.<p>If they&#x27;re being hired to be a tech rep to an *sshole customer, possibly their performance under pressure matters a lot. Otherwise, not.<p>This business of high stakes quiz questions serves just one purpose: feeding the ego of the interviewer. &quot;We have high standards!&quot;<p>Yeah, so high that we wouldn&#x27;t hire Jesus of Nazareth to be a storyteller.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study</title><url>https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>koheripbal</author><text>One trend I&#x27;ve noticed that is markedly different from when I started programming in 1998, is how dependent we&#x27;ve become to program via Google&#x2F;StackExchange searches.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I know how to write anything from scratch anymore, because I just search&#x2F;read&#x2F;alter&#x2F;test. The breadth of what I work on is 100x wider than it used to be, and so I&#x27;ve become absolutely dependent on quickly reading docs, copying code found online, and then deep diving into testing and rolling it out the door.<p>I deliver a TON more, but I&#x27;m convinced I&#x27;d bomb literally every interview I go to today. Today, for example, I updated our firewall rules, updated some Java business logic, tweaked some javascipt and PHP on the site, reversed an odd macro email-phishing virus we got, configured a new RDS server VM for clients, and updated some network GPOs. 20 years ago, I would have never worked on ALL of those things in the same week - let alone the same day.<p>Maybe we should interview with small take-home tasks to be submitted with some write-ups to test how people research, reason, and write-up problems, rather than writing code on the spot on a whiteboard. ...but maybe that&#x27;s just me.</text></item><item><author>lrem</author><text>People bomb, including good people. That is sadly part of the system.<p>Once I had this candidate. Damn, I know my questions are deceptively simple on purpose, but he literally couldn&#x27;t do anything. Not even a trivial brute force. Not even any related simple knowledge questions. Couldn&#x27;t tell an average from a median. The only good thing I could write in the feedback was &quot;seems to know some basic syntax&quot;.<p>It was quite a learning moment to read that everyone else was praising how this was the most brilliant candidate they&#x27;ve seen in years. Well, mine was the interview just before lunch, in a schedule that was atypically later than usual. I guess starting an interview after most people start their lunch break was asking for it. He also got hired - apparently the committee agreed that &quot;can&#x27;t think when hungry&quot; is not really that important a flaw.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blisterpeanuts</author><text>It&#x27;s not just you :)
A much more realistic way to test people is to tell them to bring their laptop, point to a problem on the whiteboard and say &quot;here, solve it, and use whatever resources you need.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m somewhat like you; I do a wide variety of tasks every day and simply can&#x27;t keep all the different rules and syntaxes in my head. I&#x27;m terrible at tests anyway and would probably bomb a FAANG interview badly because of my lousy memory.<p>As an interviewer, I would rather someone be generally smart, have a good work ethic and lots of experience solving problems. In the long run that seems more useful than being able to write computer programs on a piece of paper in a conference room.</text></comment> |
13,617,042 | 13,616,463 | 1 | 2 | 13,615,959 | train | <story><title>UK Teen Hacked 150,000 Printers</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/this-teen-hacked-150000-printers-to-show-how-the-internet-of-things-is-shit?utm_source=mbnl</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OJFord</author><text>This deserves a better, less clickbaity (which I think has the opposite to intended affect with this audience) title.<p>Particularly towards the end, s&#x2F;he comes across extremely self-aware, and makes some salient points around the state of school CS education in the UK. It certainly resonated with my experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ihatestylometry</author><text>He&#x27;s way too young for this attitude.
I&#x27;ve hacked things in my teenage years too
and was obsessed with hacking for many years
before I started to do freelance work
- the feeling of being superior is a common problem
for all types of skills if you&#x27;re young, no matter what,
so he definitely shares wisdom with his last paragraphs.<p>But I don&#x27;t think the problem is not that society has problems finding
interesting challenges for highly skilled young people like him.
It&#x27;s unfortunate his school doesn&#x27;t have hackathons and other
activities, but he&#x27;s not dependent on such circumstances.
I think his problem is that he doesn&#x27;t recognize
that he&#x27;s in full control of his life.<p>I&#x27;ve talked with several security researchers who hack IoT gadgets and other things
for a living - they write their own ROP chains, hack web applications
and test software for airlines with very high security standards
- and they told me that they take every talent they can get.
They&#x27;re getting 4 to 5-digit daily rates for penetration test gigs and are
well-respected.
So there&#x27;s demand and there are great people who want to share their knowledge.<p>So my question:
Instead of hacking printers, why not talk to companies who are searching for his talent?<p>I&#x27;m not defending the current state of CS education, it&#x27;s really bad and decoupled from reality,
but it&#x27;s no excuse for gifted people to give up and justify blackhat hacking - which is just
another word for being criminal.<p>Edit: Absolutely agree on the click-baity title!</text></comment> | <story><title>UK Teen Hacked 150,000 Printers</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/this-teen-hacked-150000-printers-to-show-how-the-internet-of-things-is-shit?utm_source=mbnl</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>OJFord</author><text>This deserves a better, less clickbaity (which I think has the opposite to intended affect with this audience) title.<p>Particularly towards the end, s&#x2F;he comes across extremely self-aware, and makes some salient points around the state of school CS education in the UK. It certainly resonated with my experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcole2929</author><text>I agree. It says a lot about society that someone who has clearly found his thing, due to some admittedly poor decision on his&#x2F;her part, has basically zero options with which to pursue his interests in a controlled environment. I&#x27;m not from the UK so I will refrain from commenting on the state of their education system, but I&#x27;ve definitely seen this scenario play out here in the states. I&#x27;m not an educator but it&#x27;s obvious that people are slipping through the cracks and that&#x27;s something that should be deeply disturbing to most.</text></comment> |
22,663,103 | 22,663,076 | 1 | 3 | 22,661,946 | train | <story><title>On Killing Tanks</title><url>https://mwi.usma.edu/on-killing-tanks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>KineticLensman</author><text>You don&#x27;t necessarily need to kill tanks, just make them hide. The NATO air mission against the Serbs [0] in 1999 only destroyed 93 out of 600 Serbian tanks but had the effect of preventing the Serbs from using them effectively. This helped level the playing field between the well-trained Serbian army and the Kosovo Liberation Army.<p>After the surrender, when the Serbs drove their undamaged tanks home, the &quot;look how many you missed&quot; attitude missed the point. They were undamaged because they had effectively suppressed, and hidden in underground car parks, etc.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia</a></text></comment> | <story><title>On Killing Tanks</title><url>https://mwi.usma.edu/on-killing-tanks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keiferski</author><text>The link isn&#x27;t loading, but: recently I was reading about the Mongol Empire (started circa ±1200) and how their military tactics were extremely innovative for the time, specifically for their method of operating as separate, independent units across vast distances. Apparently, this method of warfare was ignored for hundreds of years and only came into use again when mechanized transports (like tanks) became widely adopted. The Soviets developed this into &quot;Deep Battle&quot; which was extensively used on the Eastern Front during WW2.<p><i>Deep Battle doctrine bore a heavy resemblance to Mongol strategic methods, substituting tanks, motorized troop carriers, artillery, and airplanes for Mongol horse archers, lancers, and field artillery. The Red Army even went so far as to copy Subutai&#x27;s use of smokescreens on the battlefield to cover troop movements.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Subutai#Legacy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Subutai#Legacy</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Deep_operation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Deep_operation</a></text></comment> |
40,240,709 | 40,239,909 | 1 | 2 | 40,239,164 | train | <story><title>Making a 3D modeler in C in a week</title><url>https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/shapeup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netule</author><text>I agree entirely with the author on the limitations of Raylib. I&#x27;m currently working on a tower-defense style game that I started in Raylib, but I&#x27;m running into many of the same limitations (and more). Things such as toggling fullscreen not working consistently across platforms, not being able to enumerate screen modes, toggling rendering features at runtime, saving compiled shaders etc., etc. Having said that, I appreciate Ray&#x27;s work on this library and will continue to sponsor him. Raylib is great for quickly banging out a prototype, but not much beyond that unless you&#x27;re okay with living with severe limitations.<p>Lesson learned, for sure, but I&#x27;m too far into the development to swap all of the Raylib stuff out for SDL (or something else) now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oersted</author><text>Quick appreciation for the detail that Raylib is named after the creator&#x27;s name Ray and not ray-tracing, fun.<p>Things Unexpectedly Named After People: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notes.rolandcrosby.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;unexpectedly-eponymous&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;notes.rolandcrosby.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;unexpectedly-eponymous&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Making a 3D modeler in C in a week</title><url>https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/shapeup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netule</author><text>I agree entirely with the author on the limitations of Raylib. I&#x27;m currently working on a tower-defense style game that I started in Raylib, but I&#x27;m running into many of the same limitations (and more). Things such as toggling fullscreen not working consistently across platforms, not being able to enumerate screen modes, toggling rendering features at runtime, saving compiled shaders etc., etc. Having said that, I appreciate Ray&#x27;s work on this library and will continue to sponsor him. Raylib is great for quickly banging out a prototype, but not much beyond that unless you&#x27;re okay with living with severe limitations.<p>Lesson learned, for sure, but I&#x27;m too far into the development to swap all of the Raylib stuff out for SDL (or something else) now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rwbt</author><text>Raylib is easy to get started but once the project gets a little complex it bites back. SDL on the other hand takes more time to setup everything but scales extremely well as the project gets bigger and bigger. Also, SDL is exceptionally well written code.</text></comment> |
6,256,439 | 6,256,211 | 1 | 2 | 6,256,032 | train | <story><title>German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA</title><url>http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-links-the-nsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rainsford</author><text>This is among the sillier NSA stories I&#x27;ve read. First of all, the &quot;link to NSA&quot; was basically invented out of thin air. The original article in Die Zeit as well as this one are basically just reporting that TPM COULD be a &quot;backdoor&quot; for the NSA but not actually supporting the idea that it IS.<p>And beyond the issue of baseless speculation as a replacement for journalism, it&#x27;s a little hard to understand why NSA (or anyone else) controlling TPM is a special threat to users. Despite what the article claims, I don&#x27;t think TPM is a &quot;backdoor&quot; and it certainly isn&#x27;t a &quot;surveillance chip&quot;. And the articles don&#x27;t explain how control over TPM gives someone a special advantage over computers with TPM support, an explanation I&#x27;m not holding my breath for.</text></comment> | <story><title>German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA</title><url>http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-links-the-nsa/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guardian5x</author><text>The story is false, and the BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) has declined the rumours and explicitly does NOT warn of Windows 8:
<a href="https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2013/Windows_TPM_Pl_21082013.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bsi.bund.de&#x2F;DE&#x2F;Presse&#x2F;Pressemitteilungen&#x2F;Presse2...</a><p>it was just a story made up by a german site (zeit.de)</text></comment> |
24,404,105 | 24,403,094 | 1 | 3 | 24,401,085 | train | <story><title>Bash Pitfalls</title><url>https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikisweeting</author><text>I consider shellcheck absolutely essential if you&#x27;re writing even a single line of Bash. I also start all my scripts with this &quot;unofficial bash strict mode&quot; and DIR= shortcut:<p><pre><code> #!&#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;env bash
### Bash Environment Setup
# http:&#x2F;&#x2F;redsymbol.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;unofficial-bash-strict-mode&#x2F;
# https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;bash&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;The-Set-Builtin.html
# set -o xtrace
set -o errexit
set -o errtrace
set -o nounset
set -o pipefail
IFS=$&#x27;\n&#x27;
DIR=&quot;$( cd &quot;$( dirname &quot;${BASH_SOURCE[0]}&quot; )&quot; &amp;&amp; pwd )&quot;
</code></pre>
I have more tips&#x2F;tricks here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;bash-utils&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;util&#x2F;base.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;bash-utils&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;util&#x2F;base.s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>abathur</author><text>I&#x27;ve had a thought percolating (for many months?) but I haven&#x27;t tried to phrase it and I&#x27;m leery it may sound condescending (this is also more of a public address than direct response) ...<p>Shellcheck tends to steer us away from &quot;weird&quot; parts of Bash&#x2F;shell and will happily suggest changing code that was correct as written. There are good reasons for this (and I still think most scripts&#x2F;projects should use Shellcheck), but Bash is a weird language, and there&#x27;s a lot of power&#x2F;potential in some of the weird stuff Shellcheck walls off.<p>If I had to nail down some heuristics for working with it...:<p>- do lean heavily on Shellcheck for writing new code if you&#x27;re unfamiliar with the language or are only writing it under duress<p>- don&#x27;t implement its suggestions in bulk (the time you save on iterating can easily be blown later trying to debug subtle behavior changes)<p>- don&#x27;t apply them to code you don&#x27;t understand (if you have the time and interest to understand it but find yourself stuck on some un-searchable syntax, explainshell may help)<p>- don&#x27;t adopt them without careful testing<p>- do take Shellcheck warnings about code that is correct-as-written as a hint to leave a comment explaining what&#x27;s going on<p>- do leave Shellcheck off (or only use it intermittently) if you&#x27;re trying to explore, play, or otherwise learn the language</text></comment> | <story><title>Bash Pitfalls</title><url>https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nikisweeting</author><text>I consider shellcheck absolutely essential if you&#x27;re writing even a single line of Bash. I also start all my scripts with this &quot;unofficial bash strict mode&quot; and DIR= shortcut:<p><pre><code> #!&#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;env bash
### Bash Environment Setup
# http:&#x2F;&#x2F;redsymbol.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;unofficial-bash-strict-mode&#x2F;
# https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;bash&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;The-Set-Builtin.html
# set -o xtrace
set -o errexit
set -o errtrace
set -o nounset
set -o pipefail
IFS=$&#x27;\n&#x27;
DIR=&quot;$( cd &quot;$( dirname &quot;${BASH_SOURCE[0]}&quot; )&quot; &amp;&amp; pwd )&quot;
</code></pre>
I have more tips&#x2F;tricks here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;bash-utils&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;util&#x2F;base.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pirate&#x2F;bash-utils&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;util&#x2F;base.s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgrau</author><text>You&#x27;ve a lot of cool stuff in that repo! I hope you don&#x27;t mind me &#x27;stealing&#x27; some stuff for a kind of booklet I&#x27;m working on with several shell tips and tricks.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kidd&#x2F;scripting-field-guide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kidd&#x2F;scripting-field-guide&#x2F;</a><p>PS: Any comments&#x2F;PRs are super welcome there too</text></comment> |
17,258,155 | 17,257,851 | 1 | 2 | 17,257,291 | train | <story><title>Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air into Gasoline</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/its-possible-to-reverse-climate-change-suggests-major-new-study/562289/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LargeWu</author><text>&gt; The new paper says it can remove the same ton for as little as $94, and for no more than $232. At those rates, it would cost between $1 and $2.50 to remove the carbon dioxide released by burning a gallon of gasoline in a modern car.<p>If those numbers are true, that&#x27;s actually a pretty achievable cost to absorb that could be added directly as a tax on gasoline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>super-serial</author><text>Carbon capture by weathering Olivine rocks is estimated to be $11.81 per metric ton of CO2.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.innovationconcepts.eu&#x2F;res&#x2F;literatuurSchuiling&#x2F;olivineagainstclimatechange23.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.innovationconcepts.eu&#x2F;res&#x2F;literatuurSchuiling&#x2F;oli...</a><p>Rock weathering is a natural process, so there is no need to mess with transporting hydrogen or limestone to make some complicated chemical reaction. We just need to dig up olivine, crush it and spread it out over the ocean which will also fix ocean acidification. If we&#x27;re going to geoengineer, weathering still seems like the least expensive option.</text></comment> | <story><title>Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air into Gasoline</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/its-possible-to-reverse-climate-change-suggests-major-new-study/562289/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LargeWu</author><text>&gt; The new paper says it can remove the same ton for as little as $94, and for no more than $232. At those rates, it would cost between $1 and $2.50 to remove the carbon dioxide released by burning a gallon of gasoline in a modern car.<p>If those numbers are true, that&#x27;s actually a pretty achievable cost to absorb that could be added directly as a tax on gasoline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>The problem is that we want to not only put back in our future use of gasoline, but also our PAST use of gasoline.<p>That&#x27;s going to be..not cheap.</text></comment> |
11,774,528 | 11,774,236 | 1 | 2 | 11,771,737 | train | <story><title>They knew it was round, damn it</title><url>https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/repeat-after-me-they-knew-it-was-round-damn-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeCaN</author><text>I kid you not, it&#x27;s taught in American elementary schools (at least it was to me, in the early-mid 2000s).<p>...Yeah. Thankfully my middle school general science textbook mentioned this shit&#x27;s been known forever and the Greeks even estimated the circumference of the thing.</text></item><item><author>pluma</author><text>Wait. There are people who believe Columbus was the first person to establish as common knowledge that the world was round? Is this an American thing again?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TillE</author><text>What stands out in my mind is some educational film (early 90s?) where Columbus sees a butterfly land on an orange, and it reminds him of a ship on a round Earth.<p>It&#x27;s a baffling myth that has been lazily propagated for a very long time. Would be interesting to figure out where it came from.</text></comment> | <story><title>They knew it was round, damn it</title><url>https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/repeat-after-me-they-knew-it-was-round-damn-it/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeCaN</author><text>I kid you not, it&#x27;s taught in American elementary schools (at least it was to me, in the early-mid 2000s).<p>...Yeah. Thankfully my middle school general science textbook mentioned this shit&#x27;s been known forever and the Greeks even estimated the circumference of the thing.</text></item><item><author>pluma</author><text>Wait. There are people who believe Columbus was the first person to establish as common knowledge that the world was round? Is this an American thing again?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spellman</author><text>Compounding the error is the claim he discovered the Americas. He actually found the Caribbean islands. Which is kinda close, but not really the same.<p>But yay simplification that Columbus found America! At least that&#x27;s what most teach the kids. My kid will know better.</text></comment> |
35,144,785 | 35,144,813 | 1 | 3 | 35,142,777 | train | <story><title>Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/gitlab-gtlb-earnings-q4-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgl</author><text>Well, $30 mo is just $1 a day. Depending on where you live it can be nothing.</text></item><item><author>viraptor</author><text>I&#x27;m annoyed that they don&#x27;t want my money. I&#x27;m a really basic user and try to keep my private and public stuff there instead of GitHub. I fit in a free tier and would happily pay maybe $5 for it. But I wasn&#x27;t going to spend $20 and definitely won&#x27;t spend $30.<p>Come on GitLab, I want to keep using you and see you succeed. Let me pay $5 for some token feature like extra GB of space and to vote with my money to keep you going. I&#x27;ll even do it for a &quot;supporter&quot; badge on my profile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>Those add up unless you can tie them to specific income. I&#x27;ve got enough &quot;just $1 a day&quot; subscriptions already that give me way more value.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/gitlab-gtlb-earnings-q4-2023.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mgl</author><text>Well, $30 mo is just $1 a day. Depending on where you live it can be nothing.</text></item><item><author>viraptor</author><text>I&#x27;m annoyed that they don&#x27;t want my money. I&#x27;m a really basic user and try to keep my private and public stuff there instead of GitHub. I fit in a free tier and would happily pay maybe $5 for it. But I wasn&#x27;t going to spend $20 and definitely won&#x27;t spend $30.<p>Come on GitLab, I want to keep using you and see you succeed. Let me pay $5 for some token feature like extra GB of space and to vote with my money to keep you going. I&#x27;ll even do it for a &quot;supporter&quot; badge on my profile.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voganmother42</author><text>This really misses the mark. They compete with free also, which is always nothing.<p>Github by comparison lets me pay like 5$&#x2F;mo for LFS and 4$&#x2F;mo for a team of one, bitbucket even lets you do up to 5 users for a total of 15$&#x2F;mo , gitlab has nothing like that :(</text></comment> |
36,282,433 | 36,282,604 | 1 | 2 | 36,282,076 | train | <story><title>A compact overview of JDK 21’s “frozen” feature list</title><url>https://vived.io/a-compact-overview-of-jdk-21s-frozen-feature-list-jvm-weekly-vol-138/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neonate</author><text><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230611150725&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vived.io&#x2F;a-compact-overview-of-jdk-21s-frozen-feature-list-jvm-weekly-vol-138&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20230611150725&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vived.io&#x2F;a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>A compact overview of JDK 21’s “frozen” feature list</title><url>https://vived.io/a-compact-overview-of-jdk-21s-frozen-feature-list-jvm-weekly-vol-138/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gavinray</author><text>I wrote about how Record Patterns along with Pattern Matching for Switch can be used to write things like Tree-Rewrite rules in AST analyzers&#x2F;program optimizers efficiently if anyone is curious:<p>This is how Spark&#x27;s optimizer Catalyst works in Scala<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinray97.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;what-good-are-record-patterns" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gavinray97.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;what-good-are-record-patte...</a><p>Kind of wild to believe this is valid modern Java:<p><pre><code> return switch (expr) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; x + 0 = x
case Add(Var(var name), Const(var value)) when value == 0 -&gt; new Var(name);
</code></pre>
These two are my favorite new JDK features by miles, along with Sealed Types.</text></comment> |
32,766,808 | 32,766,881 | 1 | 2 | 32,765,664 | train | <story><title>Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Unification-Church-and-politics/Half-of-Japan-s-LDP-lawmakers-had-ties-with-Unification-Church</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ziftface</author><text>It&#x27;s a cult. I think it would be more akin to a large portion of American lawmakers being ties with Scientology.</text></item><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>ELI5: wouldn&#x27;t a large proportion of USA&#x27;s lawmaker&#x27;s have ties with a Christian church?<p>Sorry for being uninformed, but why is this an issue?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YeahNO</author><text>One person&#x27;s established religion is just someone else&#x27;s cult. They all engage in indoctrination and belief in magical thinking with absolutely no proof in the existence of its deity or deities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Unification-Church-and-politics/Half-of-Japan-s-LDP-lawmakers-had-ties-with-Unification-Church</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ziftface</author><text>It&#x27;s a cult. I think it would be more akin to a large portion of American lawmakers being ties with Scientology.</text></item><item><author>maerF0x0</author><text>ELI5: wouldn&#x27;t a large proportion of USA&#x27;s lawmaker&#x27;s have ties with a Christian church?<p>Sorry for being uninformed, but why is this an issue?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>castrodd</author><text>I agree with you. But all churches start as cults. Romans viewed Christians the same way most Americans view Scientologists. Actually, Romans killed Christians, so probably they viewed them a tad bit worse.</text></comment> |
24,863,432 | 24,862,811 | 1 | 2 | 24,859,787 | train | <story><title>Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilbo0s</author><text>Touché.<p>This is a tough issue.<p>On the one hand, what about undercover cops?<p>On the other, it&#x27;s known that the framers of the Constitution meant for the people to have access to arms partly as a hedge against governmental use of arms against the people. If facial recognition is a tool that the government will use against the people, then the framers clearly envisioned restricting the government&#x27;s ability to prevent people from using facial recognition.<p>By default I tend to side with the Constitutional order, so I favor the people having unrestricted access to facial recognition tech. That said, I do see the chaos facial rec will bring. Not only for police, but frankly, for everyone else as well. Better start finding a side door out of that hotel tryst with your secretary fellas. Hypothetically, the wife could use some popular new facial rec service that runs against all the public photo or video upload sites for the day. You could be busted if you go out the front door of the hotel just when some college girl is snapping a selfie to share with the world. Or some dad thinks sharing a picture of his son&#x27;s football team, taken at just that instant, would be really cool. All of which show you and your secretary exiting the hotel in the background.</text></item><item><author>athenot</author><text>&gt; the police “are not going to appreciate it to begin with.”<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to reuse the old argument but now in the opposite direction:<p>&quot;If the police is not doing anything wrong, they have nothing to fear.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fpgaminer</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s known that the framers of the Constitution meant for the people to have access to arms partly as a hedge against governmental use of arms against the people<p>That&#x27;s not known. Radiolab did a great piece on the 2nd amendment&#x27;s history: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;radiolab&#x2F;articles&#x2F;radiolab-presents-more-perfect-gun-show" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;radiolab&#x2F;articles&#x2F;radio...</a><p>TL;DL: The idea that U.S. citizens should arm themselves to defend against a tyrannical government appears to be a relatively new idea. The text of the 2nd amendment is vague and unclear:<p>&gt; A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.<p>The original intentions are shrouded in a historical fog of obscurity.<p>So really, like most of the Constitution, the meaning is up to the people and the courts. That&#x27;s why we established the Supreme Court, to help us establish the living meaning behind the Constitution ... oh wait:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;radiolabmoreperfect&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;giggly-blue-robot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wnycstudios.org&#x2F;podcasts&#x2F;radiolabmoreperfect&#x2F;epi...</a><p>The Supreme Court is also a modern day construction, also originally an object of constitutional obscurity.<p>I guess the real summary of the U.S. Constitution can be summed up as ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯</text></comment> | <story><title>Activists turn facial recognition tools against the police</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bilbo0s</author><text>Touché.<p>This is a tough issue.<p>On the one hand, what about undercover cops?<p>On the other, it&#x27;s known that the framers of the Constitution meant for the people to have access to arms partly as a hedge against governmental use of arms against the people. If facial recognition is a tool that the government will use against the people, then the framers clearly envisioned restricting the government&#x27;s ability to prevent people from using facial recognition.<p>By default I tend to side with the Constitutional order, so I favor the people having unrestricted access to facial recognition tech. That said, I do see the chaos facial rec will bring. Not only for police, but frankly, for everyone else as well. Better start finding a side door out of that hotel tryst with your secretary fellas. Hypothetically, the wife could use some popular new facial rec service that runs against all the public photo or video upload sites for the day. You could be busted if you go out the front door of the hotel just when some college girl is snapping a selfie to share with the world. Or some dad thinks sharing a picture of his son&#x27;s football team, taken at just that instant, would be really cool. All of which show you and your secretary exiting the hotel in the background.</text></item><item><author>athenot</author><text>&gt; the police “are not going to appreciate it to begin with.”<p>Maybe it&#x27;s time to reuse the old argument but now in the opposite direction:<p>&quot;If the police is not doing anything wrong, they have nothing to fear.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spongechameleon</author><text>Interesting point about the 2nd amendment. With that in mind I’d have to agree then that civilians should be able to employ facial recognition tech against the government.<p>The real question though is if that is a tenable strategy in the long term. Like that hatebreed song goes, “fight fire with fire and you’ll see everyone is burning”</text></comment> |
16,439,190 | 16,439,191 | 1 | 2 | 16,438,929 | train | <story><title>Robinhood Opens Cryptocurrency Trading</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-22/line-gets-longer-at-robinhood-as-cryptocurrency-trading-begins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>htormey</author><text>Somethings to note:<p>-Robinhood is not allowing you to transfer in crypto from outside.<p>-Robinhood does allow you to transfer crypto out but you have to go through extra verification steps.<p>See:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;dHNENc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;dHNENc</a><p>The listing of so many altcoins in the robinhood app (monero, zcash, etc) plus it’s low fees makes buying on altcoin exchanges that only accept crypto like binance a lot less attractive. No longer will users have to buy $ltc&#x2F;$eth on coinbase&#x2F;gdax then transfer to another exchange to buy altcoins.<p>This will have a big impact on the crypto ecosystem. The gauntlet has been thrown down for coinbase.<p>Edit: my bad. I got confused by the app update, Robinhood are just displaying tracking data for alts :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;noPN8H" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;noPN8H</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobcostas55</author><text>&gt;-Robinhood is not allowing you to transfer in crypto from outside.<p>So robinhood is the sole supplier of coins on their exchange? Imagine if NYSE was also running a prop trading operation on the side, talk about conflicts of interest...</text></comment> | <story><title>Robinhood Opens Cryptocurrency Trading</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-22/line-gets-longer-at-robinhood-as-cryptocurrency-trading-begins</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>htormey</author><text>Somethings to note:<p>-Robinhood is not allowing you to transfer in crypto from outside.<p>-Robinhood does allow you to transfer crypto out but you have to go through extra verification steps.<p>See:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;dHNENc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;dHNENc</a><p>The listing of so many altcoins in the robinhood app (monero, zcash, etc) plus it’s low fees makes buying on altcoin exchanges that only accept crypto like binance a lot less attractive. No longer will users have to buy $ltc&#x2F;$eth on coinbase&#x2F;gdax then transfer to another exchange to buy altcoins.<p>This will have a big impact on the crypto ecosystem. The gauntlet has been thrown down for coinbase.<p>Edit: my bad. I got confused by the app update, Robinhood are just displaying tracking data for alts :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;noPN8H" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;noPN8H</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thisisit</author><text>&gt; The listing of so many altcoins in the robinhood app (monero, zcash, etc) plus it’s low fees makes buying on altcoin exchanges that only accept crypto like binance a lot less attractive.<p>I don&#x27;t understand. My understanding is they allow only BTC and ETH on their platform. So, if I want to buy a ICO token I do need to buy ETH here&#x2F;GDAX etc and transfer to another exchange.<p>Editing for source:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.robinhood.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;360000088623-Crypto-Availability" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.robinhood.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;360000088623...</a></text></comment> |
19,267,436 | 19,267,373 | 1 | 2 | 19,263,814 | train | <story><title>Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-water-brake-windmill.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t show a single non-demo installation.<p>This thing looks like a giant mechanical kludge. If you put the brake (the paddles in water part) at the top of the tower, you have to pump water up the tower. If you put it at the bottom of the tower, you need a top gearbox with a right-angle bevel drive, a bearing ring supporting the gearbox so it can face the wind, long shafting, and bearings.
Some early power turbines were built that way, but nobody does that any more.<p>Vertical axis turbines like the Savonius turbine and Darrieus rotor can be used, but they&#x27;re not very efficient, so you need a big one. They also are hard to shut down in an overspeed condition; they can&#x27;t change direction, change blade pitch, or tilt upward, so you need a strong emergency brake system. Which is why they&#x27;re rarely seen any more.<p>All this outdoor hot water plumbing needs to be well insulated, or you lose most of the heat. So a field of wind turbines, or one unit some distance from where the heat is wanted, is a problem. Moving energy around over wires is so much simpler.<p>Driving a heat pump mechanically might work better, but that&#x27;s because heat pumps are far more efficient than heaters. (Moving heat is much cheaper than making it. See [1]). An electric windmill driving a heat pump is probably less hassle.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dothemath.ucsd.edu&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;heat-pumps-work-miracles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dothemath.ucsd.edu&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;heat-pumps-work-miracles&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twic</author><text>&gt; If you put the brake (the paddles in water part) at the top of the tower, you have to pump water up the tower.<p>You have a windmill, so you have a source of energy to do that. Much of the mechanical energy that goes into the pumping becomes gravitational potential energy, which will become heat when the water goes back down the tower. A lot of the rest will be lost as heat during pumping. Either way, it&#x27;s ending up as heat, which is what you want.<p>Heaters are the only type of machine which are naturally efficient!</text></comment> | <story><title>Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-water-brake-windmill.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>The article doesn&#x27;t show a single non-demo installation.<p>This thing looks like a giant mechanical kludge. If you put the brake (the paddles in water part) at the top of the tower, you have to pump water up the tower. If you put it at the bottom of the tower, you need a top gearbox with a right-angle bevel drive, a bearing ring supporting the gearbox so it can face the wind, long shafting, and bearings.
Some early power turbines were built that way, but nobody does that any more.<p>Vertical axis turbines like the Savonius turbine and Darrieus rotor can be used, but they&#x27;re not very efficient, so you need a big one. They also are hard to shut down in an overspeed condition; they can&#x27;t change direction, change blade pitch, or tilt upward, so you need a strong emergency brake system. Which is why they&#x27;re rarely seen any more.<p>All this outdoor hot water plumbing needs to be well insulated, or you lose most of the heat. So a field of wind turbines, or one unit some distance from where the heat is wanted, is a problem. Moving energy around over wires is so much simpler.<p>Driving a heat pump mechanically might work better, but that&#x27;s because heat pumps are far more efficient than heaters. (Moving heat is much cheaper than making it. See [1]). An electric windmill driving a heat pump is probably less hassle.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dothemath.ucsd.edu&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;heat-pumps-work-miracles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dothemath.ucsd.edu&#x2F;2012&#x2F;06&#x2F;heat-pumps-work-miracles&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lowtechmagazine</author><text>&quot;The article doesn&#x27;t show a single non-demo installation&quot;.<p>It does. The Calorius windmill was commercially produced for about a decade, 40 of them were sold. Seventeen of these windmills were still operating in 2012.<p>It&#x27;s all in the article. Also your points about the savonius are addressed.</text></comment> |
24,832,831 | 24,831,327 | 1 | 2 | 24,827,360 | train | <story><title>Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes</title><url>https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quotemstr</author><text>As you should. Bash --- at least bash 3.x --- is available literally everywhere and has many features essential for robust programming, like local variables. Instead of writing for some antique shell, we should all just write for bash or zsh or something modern. I don&#x27;t care about being compatible with some random AIX installation that&#x27;s from 1870 and powered by a steam engine.</text></item><item><author>klodolph</author><text>I appreciate that this isn’t full of Bash-isms—it’s sometimes hard to find out how to do something in a shell script, because you get a bunch of Bash results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saagarjha</author><text>sh is used because it is POSIX sh–you know it will work not &quot;literally everywhere&quot; but really, truly, literally everywhere. And your bashisms aren&#x27;t going to do all that well on BusyBox, or dash. Just because <i>you</i> don&#x27;t care doesn&#x27;t mean that we should make incompatible scripts and not be aware that we are doing so.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pure sh bible – Posix sh alternatives to external processes</title><url>https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>quotemstr</author><text>As you should. Bash --- at least bash 3.x --- is available literally everywhere and has many features essential for robust programming, like local variables. Instead of writing for some antique shell, we should all just write for bash or zsh or something modern. I don&#x27;t care about being compatible with some random AIX installation that&#x27;s from 1870 and powered by a steam engine.</text></item><item><author>klodolph</author><text>I appreciate that this isn’t full of Bash-isms—it’s sometimes hard to find out how to do something in a shell script, because you get a bunch of Bash results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>umanwizard</author><text>One counterexample: bash isn’t available in the base system of typical BSD variants (though, yes, you can install it from ports).</text></comment> |
39,762,612 | 39,760,183 | 1 | 3 | 39,758,667 | train | <story><title>Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show</title><url>https://nanochess.org/emulator.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>billforsternz</author><text>One of my best hacks back in the day was an 8080 emulator, for the 8088&#x2F;8086 back in the time when what you were really trying to do was run the 8080 code as fast as possible (because the first PCs were slow, and emulating 8080 code was much slower than running 8080 code on a native machine).<p>Invariably at the time the 8080 emulators would have a dispatch loop, fetching the next opcode and dispatching through a jump table to some code to emulate each of the 256 opcodes. One problem with this was that you couldn&#x27;t dispatch this way without altering the CPU flags, so you&#x27;d also have to save and restore those with LAHF&#x2F;SAHF (fast) or PUSHF&#x2F;POPF (slow). In general you&#x27;d need about 10 8086 instructions to emulate 1 8080 instruction, and in the early 1980s this meant your emulated CP&#x2F;M program would run much slower than on your old CP&#x2F;M computer.<p>My emulator would emulate 1 8080 opcode with 4 8086 opcodes as follows; An 8080 instruction, say 0x94 = sub h would be emulated with code loaded at address 0x9494. That code would be;<p><pre><code> sub bh,dl ;bh = bh-dl, emulate h with bh, a with dl
lodsb ;al = *si++, get next opcode, increment emulated pc
mov ah,al ;eg 0x94 -&gt; 0x9494
jmp ax ;jump to next instruction
</code></pre>
This is a classic example of trading space for time, your emulator is sparsely distributed through 64K of RAM. So you needed 128K to emulate your 64K 8080.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show</title><url>https://nanochess.org/emulator.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wzdd</author><text>Related, 8086tiny, a 2013 IOCCC winner. About twice as much source code, and if not cheating then certainly leaning heavily on the rules, but very impressive as it&#x27;s a full x86 emulator with graphics and several peripherals.<p>Original entry: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ioccc.org&#x2F;years.html#2013_cable3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ioccc.org&#x2F;years.html#2013_cable3</a><p>&quot;Deobfuscated&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adriancable&#x2F;8086tiny">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adriancable&#x2F;8086tiny</a><p>(Not mine, just a fan)</text></comment> |
29,041,875 | 29,039,543 | 1 | 2 | 29,037,341 | train | <story><title>Julian Assange Extradition Appeal: Day 2</title><url>https://assangedefense.org/hearing-coverage/julian-assange-extradition-appeal-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>&gt; Assange was a non-U.S. citizen working outside the U.S. - I don&#x27;t get what gives the U.S. jurisdiction to try him in the first place.<p>There are tons of examples of this. Examples:<p>- If a US citizen conspires to insider trading with another US citizen on US soil regarding an Australian company, the Australian government will claim jurisdiction through the Corporations Act because it is an Australian security;<p>- There is a &quot;sex tourism&quot; problem in several South-East Asian countries that involves children. These pedophiles have historically been rarely if ever prosecuted in those countries for various reasons. The Australian government passed a law saying that if you are an Australian citizen and engage in this sort of activity you can be criminally charged in Australia.<p>&gt; Adding insult to injury, publishing leaked military secrets is not even illegal in the U.S. due to the first amendment right to a free press<p>It&#x27;s not as simple as that. Let me give you some escalating hypotheticals:<p>1. A journalist receives some classified material in the mail and publishes it after vetting it (eg journalists typically won&#x27;t publish details that will risk the lives of those currently in the field);<p>2. A journalist meets with a source that has access to classified material and asks for anything concerning, say, Benghazi. These materials have already been obtained;<p>3. A journalist looks for and finds such a source;<p>4. A journalist tells a source what to look for and these materials have not yet been obtained;<p>5. The journalist provides direction on what to find and leak and provides material aid in that effort. This could include providing hacking tools, contacts, security protocols, etc.<p>(1) is a journalist. (5) has committed a crime. The line between criminal and journalist is somewhere in between that we debate.<p>My point is that the first amendment isn&#x27;t a universal shield. Assange is much closer to (6) than (1) here.<p>EDIT: corrected list numbering.</text></item><item><author>zugi</author><text>Assange was a non-U.S. citizen working outside the U.S. - I don&#x27;t get what gives the U.S. jurisdiction to try him in the first place. If China tried to extradite a U.S. citizen acting within the U.S. who published leaked information allegedly in violation of Chinese law, we&#x27;d laugh them out of the courtroom, and rightly so.<p>Adding insult to injury, publishing leaked military secrets is not even illegal in the U.S. due to the first amendment right to a free press. When the New York Times publishes leaked classified information, there&#x27;s no trial or extradition. In the U.S., those who will have legitimate access to classified information first sign legally binding agreements not to disseminate it, and those who violate that agreement can be prosecuted.<p>And in this case, that already happened: Manning served 7 years in jail for leaking the very information that Assange is being extradited over. With the leaker found and prosecuted, convicted, and sentence served, the U.S. Department of Justice should congratulate itself on a job well-done and move on to other things. It&#x27;s absurd that they continue to pursue the publisher of the information almost a decade later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skissane</author><text>&gt; There is a &quot;sex tourism&quot; problem in several South-East Asian countries that involves children. These pedophiles have historically been rarely if ever prosecuted in those countries for various reasons. The Australian government passed a law saying that if you are an Australian citizen and engage in this sort of activity you can be criminally charged in Australia.<p>That example is irrelevant to the Assange case, because that is an application of the nationality principle, which is a principle of international law which gives sovereign states criminal jurisdiction over their citizens for acts done anywhere in the world. So legally Australia can pass a law saying &quot;X is a crime when an Australian citizen does it anywhere in the world&quot;, which is exactly what Australia has done in the example you cite; and the US has done the exact same thing (PROTECT Act of 2003). But Assange is not a US citizen, so examples of nationality principle jurisdiction are irrelevant to any US prosecution of Assange, they would only be relevant if Australia tried to prosecute him under some law based on the nationality principle.</text></comment> | <story><title>Julian Assange Extradition Appeal: Day 2</title><url>https://assangedefense.org/hearing-coverage/julian-assange-extradition-appeal-day-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cletus</author><text>&gt; Assange was a non-U.S. citizen working outside the U.S. - I don&#x27;t get what gives the U.S. jurisdiction to try him in the first place.<p>There are tons of examples of this. Examples:<p>- If a US citizen conspires to insider trading with another US citizen on US soil regarding an Australian company, the Australian government will claim jurisdiction through the Corporations Act because it is an Australian security;<p>- There is a &quot;sex tourism&quot; problem in several South-East Asian countries that involves children. These pedophiles have historically been rarely if ever prosecuted in those countries for various reasons. The Australian government passed a law saying that if you are an Australian citizen and engage in this sort of activity you can be criminally charged in Australia.<p>&gt; Adding insult to injury, publishing leaked military secrets is not even illegal in the U.S. due to the first amendment right to a free press<p>It&#x27;s not as simple as that. Let me give you some escalating hypotheticals:<p>1. A journalist receives some classified material in the mail and publishes it after vetting it (eg journalists typically won&#x27;t publish details that will risk the lives of those currently in the field);<p>2. A journalist meets with a source that has access to classified material and asks for anything concerning, say, Benghazi. These materials have already been obtained;<p>3. A journalist looks for and finds such a source;<p>4. A journalist tells a source what to look for and these materials have not yet been obtained;<p>5. The journalist provides direction on what to find and leak and provides material aid in that effort. This could include providing hacking tools, contacts, security protocols, etc.<p>(1) is a journalist. (5) has committed a crime. The line between criminal and journalist is somewhere in between that we debate.<p>My point is that the first amendment isn&#x27;t a universal shield. Assange is much closer to (6) than (1) here.<p>EDIT: corrected list numbering.</text></item><item><author>zugi</author><text>Assange was a non-U.S. citizen working outside the U.S. - I don&#x27;t get what gives the U.S. jurisdiction to try him in the first place. If China tried to extradite a U.S. citizen acting within the U.S. who published leaked information allegedly in violation of Chinese law, we&#x27;d laugh them out of the courtroom, and rightly so.<p>Adding insult to injury, publishing leaked military secrets is not even illegal in the U.S. due to the first amendment right to a free press. When the New York Times publishes leaked classified information, there&#x27;s no trial or extradition. In the U.S., those who will have legitimate access to classified information first sign legally binding agreements not to disseminate it, and those who violate that agreement can be prosecuted.<p>And in this case, that already happened: Manning served 7 years in jail for leaking the very information that Assange is being extradited over. With the leaker found and prosecuted, convicted, and sentence served, the U.S. Department of Justice should congratulate itself on a job well-done and move on to other things. It&#x27;s absurd that they continue to pursue the publisher of the information almost a decade later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshuajill</author><text>1) there is no point (6)
2) Although the US is trying to accuse Assange of doing so, he did not offer material aid of any sort to Chelsea. She could handle the access issue herself.<p>Unless you would consider setting up a secure drop box under your imaginary (6).<p>Get informed about the case.</text></comment> |
21,208,614 | 21,207,906 | 1 | 3 | 21,207,057 | train | <story><title>Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>A common albeit reductive meme around the entire controversy is that Blizzard games were already declining in popularity (especially Starcraft and HotS) so it&#x27;s easy to boycott them.<p>Path of Exile is an interesting case as I know a lot of Diablo players went there since Diablo III is effectively on life support (including myself), but the resurfacing of the Tencent ownership news is causing ethical complications: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;pathofexile&#x2F;comments&#x2F;df5zx7&#x2F;anyone_else_suddenly_worried_about_ggg_censoring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;pathofexile&#x2F;comments&#x2F;df5zx7&#x2F;anyone_...</a></text></item><item><author>ddtaylor</author><text>As much as I want to think change will happen, it&#x27;s much more likely this will be a few weeks of PR and ultimately nothing will change.<p>For something to change people have to vote with their wallets. In this context that means cancelling subscriptions or dropping games they are already playing in favor for ones by competitors with better integrity, and I don&#x27;t see that happening.<p>Diablo players could go to Path of Exile, its closest competitor, but that game is massively invested into China as well and partially owned by Tencent.<p>Warcraft RTS players represent a small market right now with almost no microtransactions or ongoing revenue.<p>WoW players have alternatives, but not many I am aware of that aren&#x27;t heavily Chinese based as the MMORPG category is dominated by Chinese companies like Perfect World.<p>Starcraft players don&#x27;t have a lot of alternatives as SC has dominated the esports and highly polished RTS category for over 5 years with the same game. The closest competitor would be Age of Empires or Warhammer, I&#x27;m not sure how much influence China has over them, but they are different types of RTS games.<p>Heroes of the Storm players can go to Dota or LoL. LoL being owned by China and Dota being owned by Valve with strong Chinese market involvement.<p>More alternatives are needed IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jknoepfler</author><text>I think the good will that Blizzard earned with their early games has been eroding for a long time. They did, legitimately, used to have enormous community good will. I can think of two ways that&#x27;s eroded:<p>(1) Blizzard&#x27;s early games earned huge amounts of goodwill by enabling players to mod them. The map editor of Warcraft and the UI mod-ability of WoW let people build entire communities around modded content (DotA, for example!). To my knowledge games after Starcraft II have largely lacked anything resembling this kind of functionality (please correct me if I&#x27;m wrong). Hearthstone, HotS, Diablo 3, and Overwatch all have 100% of their content locked down from the top down. I don&#x27;t think the contribution of mods to the longevity of Blizzard&#x27;s early titles can be overstated, and I&#x27;m confused why they haven&#x27;t kept up that spirit.<p>(2) Blizzard has had a long string of eyebrow-raising failures to foster the competitive gaming scene, which they&#x27;ve been tone-deaf on since at least Starcraft II. They pulled the cord entirely on HotS after getting the game into great shape, the kept the Overwatch meta unbelievably stale for years, the Hearthstone Grandmaster League has been a joke on multiple fronts (in addition to an objectively stupid format decision for the first season, they insist on reserving seats in their flagship tournament for popular streamers rather than top players, resulting in some just... awful games). In general they try to retain far too much control and stifle anything they feel inconveniences them.<p>Add to that (3) a string of jaw-droppingly bad community management moves (&quot;you think you want that&quot;... Diablo for mobile...) and (4) Activision looming like an insect and (5) lots of Bizarre changes to games to appease Blizzard China<p>I don&#x27;t know, I used to perceive Blizzard as a good steward for games. Now I don&#x27;t think the game makers have that degree of control over the company&#x27;s decisions, or their priorities have changed.<p>So it doesn&#x27;t surprise me that people were as quick to kick them to the curb as they were. It would have 10 years ago, but not today.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/blizzard-employees-staged-a-walkout-to-protest-banned-pro-hong-kong-gamer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>A common albeit reductive meme around the entire controversy is that Blizzard games were already declining in popularity (especially Starcraft and HotS) so it&#x27;s easy to boycott them.<p>Path of Exile is an interesting case as I know a lot of Diablo players went there since Diablo III is effectively on life support (including myself), but the resurfacing of the Tencent ownership news is causing ethical complications: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;pathofexile&#x2F;comments&#x2F;df5zx7&#x2F;anyone_else_suddenly_worried_about_ggg_censoring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;pathofexile&#x2F;comments&#x2F;df5zx7&#x2F;anyone_...</a></text></item><item><author>ddtaylor</author><text>As much as I want to think change will happen, it&#x27;s much more likely this will be a few weeks of PR and ultimately nothing will change.<p>For something to change people have to vote with their wallets. In this context that means cancelling subscriptions or dropping games they are already playing in favor for ones by competitors with better integrity, and I don&#x27;t see that happening.<p>Diablo players could go to Path of Exile, its closest competitor, but that game is massively invested into China as well and partially owned by Tencent.<p>Warcraft RTS players represent a small market right now with almost no microtransactions or ongoing revenue.<p>WoW players have alternatives, but not many I am aware of that aren&#x27;t heavily Chinese based as the MMORPG category is dominated by Chinese companies like Perfect World.<p>Starcraft players don&#x27;t have a lot of alternatives as SC has dominated the esports and highly polished RTS category for over 5 years with the same game. The closest competitor would be Age of Empires or Warhammer, I&#x27;m not sure how much influence China has over them, but they are different types of RTS games.<p>Heroes of the Storm players can go to Dota or LoL. LoL being owned by China and Dota being owned by Valve with strong Chinese market involvement.<p>More alternatives are needed IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>my_usernam3</author><text>On the contrary, wow classic was setting twitch records just a month ago. Obviously that spike in popularity will not be sustained, but still worth noting and shows the size of Blizzard as a brand.</text></comment> |
10,774,367 | 10,774,383 | 1 | 2 | 10,772,826 | train | <story><title>Android NDK: GCC is now deprecated, everyone should be switching to Clang</title><url>https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ndk.git/+/master/CHANGELOG.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noobermin</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if this will stoke a flamewar, because I&#x27;ve never seen a discussion here on this (might just be hanging around different articles). Is there any technical reason to prefer clang over gcc other than ideological reasons? I get the modular nature of llvm is useful, but is the android NDK using this feature?<p>Quick google search shows clang lagging gcc in all but one test[0] at least on Intel Broadwell. Again, what is the benefit other than permissiveness of the license?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=article&amp;item=clang-gcc-broadwell&amp;num=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=article&amp;item=clang-gcc...</a>
This is almost a year old, though</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinchen</author><text>I don&#x27;t know much about Android NDK, but in general, people use clang because:<p>- Clear and readable diagnostics -- especially useful when debugging nasty C++ template stuff where the type signature is a page long. (GCC is catching up in this area)<p>- Modular design -- if an IDE wants to have syntax highlighting or an Xcode&#x2F;Eclipse&#x2F;IntelliJ like &quot;fix it&quot; feature, they can use the clang frontend to parse the code. Also, GCC&#x27;s &quot;big ball of mud&quot; design (iirc they do some optimizations like constant folding in the parser) makes it harder to hack on unless you&#x27;re already pretty familiar with the codebase.<p>- Less hostile community -- people have tried to clean up GCC but their patches were rejected (see the RMS email link below)<p>- Helps you with standards compliance -- clang will still compile code with compiler-specific extensions but it has an option to output a warning. There are some codebases that have come to rely on these behaviors so clang&#x27;s warnings can help make sure you don&#x27;t end up tied to one specific compiler.<p>- Personally, I like AddressSanitizer (ASan). It does similar checks as Valgrind, but using compile-time instrumentation -- just pass in an additional flag. Gets rid of a dependency.</text></comment> | <story><title>Android NDK: GCC is now deprecated, everyone should be switching to Clang</title><url>https://android.googlesource.com/platform/ndk.git/+/master/CHANGELOG.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>noobermin</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure if this will stoke a flamewar, because I&#x27;ve never seen a discussion here on this (might just be hanging around different articles). Is there any technical reason to prefer clang over gcc other than ideological reasons? I get the modular nature of llvm is useful, but is the android NDK using this feature?<p>Quick google search shows clang lagging gcc in all but one test[0] at least on Intel Broadwell. Again, what is the benefit other than permissiveness of the license?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=article&amp;item=clang-gcc-broadwell&amp;num=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;scan.php?page=article&amp;item=clang-gcc...</a>
This is almost a year old, though</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rryan</author><text>Here&#x27;s one incredibly awesome feature of Clang: Windows support (thanks to Google, actually).<p>No Cygwin&#x2F;msys required -- it implements the Windows calling conventions, exception handling, etc. You can link modules compiled with Clang using the Microsoft linker.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dr0eY9c23i8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dr0eY9c23i8</a></text></comment> |
29,886,879 | 29,886,281 | 1 | 2 | 29,885,644 | train | <story><title>The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M</title><url>https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/the-matrix-resurrections-estimated-to-lose-warner-bros-100-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>didibus</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how they do the math with streaming.<p>In a way, you can say that everyone who is an HBO subscriber has already paid for the Matrix Resurrections. Obviously you don&#x27;t have to watch it immediately, since it&#x27;s now part of the streaming service catalogue, so unlike a movie theater where all people who intend to see the movie must watch it before it leaves the cinema, all HBO max subscriber can just think: cool new matrix, I should watch that eventually, and continue being happy subscriber even if they don&#x27;t watch it yet (like me).<p>So for me, this is building a catalogue. I&#x27;m sure they have things like immediate conversion, how many subbed and The Matrix Resurrection was their first thing they watched, etc.<p>But basically, I think it&#x27;s a very different formula, and it&#x27;s probably a lot harder to figure out what success means and how important The Matrix Resurrection is to HBO Max&#x27;s growth and continued subs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lukifer</author><text>Streaming services truly flip the &quot;economic calculation problem&quot; [0] on its head: the stakeholders would supposedly gain more reliable information on the value of different IP licenses if we all made purchases a la carte. As it is, they have little idea which program I&#x27;m hate-watching ironically, vs what&#x27;s good enough to convince me to stay on the service (Midnight Mass), vs what I&#x27;d pay for exorbitantly out of pocket if I could (OA season 3).<p>Yet clearly market forces have spoken: the desirability and convenience of the &quot;club goods&quot; model is strong enough to overwhelm any advantages of the transaction model; and the streaming services clearly believe their usage data and analytics are good enough to give them reliable correlations with subscriber acquisition and retention, so they can decide what to license and produce. (While telemetry surely helps, it&#x27;s worth noting that HBO made this model work for decades based solely on surveys and brand cachet.)<p>See also: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.versobooks.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.versobooks.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;2822-the-people-s-republic-...</a><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_calculation_problem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_calculation_problem</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M</title><url>https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/the-matrix-resurrections-estimated-to-lose-warner-bros-100-million/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>didibus</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how they do the math with streaming.<p>In a way, you can say that everyone who is an HBO subscriber has already paid for the Matrix Resurrections. Obviously you don&#x27;t have to watch it immediately, since it&#x27;s now part of the streaming service catalogue, so unlike a movie theater where all people who intend to see the movie must watch it before it leaves the cinema, all HBO max subscriber can just think: cool new matrix, I should watch that eventually, and continue being happy subscriber even if they don&#x27;t watch it yet (like me).<p>So for me, this is building a catalogue. I&#x27;m sure they have things like immediate conversion, how many subbed and The Matrix Resurrection was their first thing they watched, etc.<p>But basically, I think it&#x27;s a very different formula, and it&#x27;s probably a lot harder to figure out what success means and how important The Matrix Resurrection is to HBO Max&#x27;s growth and continued subs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>js2</author><text>To add to the complicated accounting, I have AT&amp;T as my ISP ($70&#x2F;mo for 1Gbps symmetric service) and one day last year or two they just started throwing in access to HBO Max.</text></comment> |
6,894,375 | 6,894,099 | 1 | 2 | 6,893,947 | train | <story><title>CertiVox confirms it withdrew PrivateSky after GCHQ issued warrant</title><url>http://www.itsecurityguru.org/node/4780</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spindritf</author><text><i>we had the choice to make - either architect the world&#x27;s most secure encryption system on the planet, so secure that CertiVox cannot see your data, or spend £500,000 building a backdoor into the system</i><p>So, just like Lavabit as &#x27;moxie keeps pointing out[1][2], it wasn&#x27;t actually secure. Still, I like the principled stand they took.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6672442" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6672442</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thoughtcrime.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;lavabit-critique&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CertiVox confirms it withdrew PrivateSky after GCHQ issued warrant</title><url>http://www.itsecurityguru.org/node/4780</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>7952</author><text>There are some details of the legislation in question here[1]. It allows the UK to monitor &quot;in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom&quot; which seems a little broad!<p>It would be interesting to know if this warrant targeted all users or a specific subset?<p>I wonder how they decide whether to issue a warrant or just break into the site in question. A warrant could imply that they are unable to attack the provider, or that they want to have a chilling effect.<p>[1]<a href="http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000/Part_I" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openrightsgroup.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Regulation_of_Investiga...</a></text></comment> |
38,504,434 | 38,504,309 | 1 | 2 | 38,504,027 | train | <story><title>UniFi Express</title><url>https://ui.com/cloud-gateways/express</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blcknight</author><text>Another confused product from UniFi. Is it targeting home users or businesses? It looks like businesses from their web page yet feels very much like a better fit for home.<p>It only runs UniFi Network, so you have to buy more things, that also run UniFi Network, to get into any of their other products like Protect.<p>I like their stuff but lately a lot of their stuff feels just confused to me, like they don&#x27;t know what they want to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chunkyks</author><text>I bought into their unifi ecosystem years ago. Separate devices, prosumer pricing, features and quality, single pane of glass.<p>... And I haven&#x27;t upgraded anything since. Their new products are totally undirected, they aren&#x27;t making items that are obvious and needed. Their software is falling behind and they just don&#x27;t care.<p>Case in point: the usg pro 4 is years old but they havent released an updated affordable just-the-border device. Their new stuff like the dream machine, and now this, just isn&#x27;t the right thing to replace what was there before. The VPN on there doesn&#x27;t work with recent Android or iPhone, and they just don&#x27;t care.<p>Adding even the most basic firewall rules is hard. The single pane of glass got a major interface overhaul, and they added a huge amount of hard-to-turn-off phone-home crap at the same time. Enshittification reigns supreme.<p>And don&#x27;t forget other runty hardware like the poe ceiling lights and doorbell.<p>The company just needs to buckle down, make good stuff, fire the product astronauts, fix obvious major problems before adding pointless new features.<p>... Suffice to say, my next hardware refresh almost certainly won&#x27;t be from this company.</text></comment> | <story><title>UniFi Express</title><url>https://ui.com/cloud-gateways/express</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blcknight</author><text>Another confused product from UniFi. Is it targeting home users or businesses? It looks like businesses from their web page yet feels very much like a better fit for home.<p>It only runs UniFi Network, so you have to buy more things, that also run UniFi Network, to get into any of their other products like Protect.<p>I like their stuff but lately a lot of their stuff feels just confused to me, like they don&#x27;t know what they want to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ikiris</author><text>They want to get income like a hardware store, but sell their product as if their value is software, that they then don&#x27;t maintain because its not selling their latest hardware.</text></comment> |
19,584,920 | 19,583,387 | 1 | 2 | 19,582,547 | train | <story><title>The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy – It Didn’t Go Well</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/ultrawealthy-taxes-irs-internal-revenue-service-global-high-wealth-audits</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>Re: the term &quot;abuse&quot; rather than a more concrete term like &quot;violation.&quot;<p>About 10 years back, Bono (of U2) was being interviewed on irish tv. They asked about U2&#x27;s business interests (real estate and hotels), taxes, and overseas holding companies... with a &quot;<i>why don&#x27;t you pay taxes in ireland</i>&quot; implication.<p>Bono started with a generic &quot;<i>U2 is a Businezss</i>&quot; answer but he ended with a (IMO) an honest point that people avoid making.. because it&#x27;s kind of an admission of guilt:<p>&quot;Look... We (ireland) manipulate our tax rules for all sorts of gain^. How can it be ok for the country but not U2?&quot;<p>We&#x27;re an extreme example, but not that extreme. American politicians have also been big believers in complex tax reforms&#x2F;policies as a way of tweaking all sorts of economic results.<p>We can&#x27;t have it both ways. Either we have a &quot;the rules are the rules&quot; approach or we have a principled approach. You can&#x27;t appeal to the &quot;spirit&quot; of a soulless ruleset.<p>^We have a highly &quot;engineered&quot; tax system, designed to encourage foreign revenue to be silmultaneously booked and not booked in ireland. &gt;30% of ireland&#x27;s gdp is Leprechaun money, according to Paul Krugman &amp; some oecd economists. It&#x27;s here, but not real. Try to touch it, and it will vanish.<p>A lot of these rules relate to IP which is why the biggest companies utlizing irish tax shenanigans are apple, google and other techcos. Music is also IP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colanderman</author><text>&gt; You can&#x27;t appeal to the &quot;spirit&quot; of a soulless ruleset<p>Here&#x27;s a simple razor: if the people who wrote the rules, upon learning of what you are doing, would likely have written the rules differently to make illegal what you are doing, it&#x27;s against the &quot;spirit&quot; of the rules.<p>Example: if some tax code says, people who make below $100k must pay $10k in taxes, and people who make above $100k must pay $20k, paying someone $99,999 to avoid extra taxes is a foreseeable consequence and therefore not an unethical loophole. However, paying someone exactly $100k so they fall in neither bracket and thus need not pay any taxes is probably not what the policymakers intended; they would surely have amended the rules had they had this pointed out to them before enacting this tax code.<p>Of course, this requires being a judge of intent, but what ethical framework doesn&#x27;t have grey areas?</text></comment> | <story><title>The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy – It Didn’t Go Well</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/ultrawealthy-taxes-irs-internal-revenue-service-global-high-wealth-audits</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dalbasal</author><text>Re: the term &quot;abuse&quot; rather than a more concrete term like &quot;violation.&quot;<p>About 10 years back, Bono (of U2) was being interviewed on irish tv. They asked about U2&#x27;s business interests (real estate and hotels), taxes, and overseas holding companies... with a &quot;<i>why don&#x27;t you pay taxes in ireland</i>&quot; implication.<p>Bono started with a generic &quot;<i>U2 is a Businezss</i>&quot; answer but he ended with a (IMO) an honest point that people avoid making.. because it&#x27;s kind of an admission of guilt:<p>&quot;Look... We (ireland) manipulate our tax rules for all sorts of gain^. How can it be ok for the country but not U2?&quot;<p>We&#x27;re an extreme example, but not that extreme. American politicians have also been big believers in complex tax reforms&#x2F;policies as a way of tweaking all sorts of economic results.<p>We can&#x27;t have it both ways. Either we have a &quot;the rules are the rules&quot; approach or we have a principled approach. You can&#x27;t appeal to the &quot;spirit&quot; of a soulless ruleset.<p>^We have a highly &quot;engineered&quot; tax system, designed to encourage foreign revenue to be silmultaneously booked and not booked in ireland. &gt;30% of ireland&#x27;s gdp is Leprechaun money, according to Paul Krugman &amp; some oecd economists. It&#x27;s here, but not real. Try to touch it, and it will vanish.<p>A lot of these rules relate to IP which is why the biggest companies utlizing irish tax shenanigans are apple, google and other techcos. Music is also IP.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>&gt; You can&#x27;t appeal to the &quot;spirit&quot; of a soulless ruleset.<p>This is a great point that I always try to inject into conversations about “tax avoidance.” People often claim that taking advantage of “loopholes” is ethically equivalent to straight up illegal tax evasion, but that claim implies that companies need to “know” the “correct ethical amount” for them to contribute.</text></comment> |
3,963,716 | 3,963,293 | 1 | 2 | 3,963,168 | train | <story><title>Automatic programming: write code that writes code</title><url>http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/103840/automatic-programming-write-code-that-writes-code</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>colomon</author><text>I use straightforward techniques to automatically generate about a third of my C++ code (108,000 lines of code or so). When I'm writing code, I keep an eye out for things that I'm doing which are very repetitious.<p>For instance, I have nine libraries which do the same things for different file formats. Ideally I'd like the main API for each library to be as similar as possible. So the files which implement the API are generated by a Perl template script. Each library implements a couple of core functions; then the code generated from the template calls those functions in various ways. So I implement LowLevelStepImport; the automatically generated code uses that to implement ArrayStepImport, ClassStepImport, CCallableStepImport, etc. Then I implement LowLevelJTImport, and it implements ArrayJtImport, ClassJTImport, CCallableStepImport, etc.<p>There are lots of advantages to this. It means I don't have to write a bunch of boring code which is essentially the same. It makes it very easy to keep the APIs consistent across all the libraries. If I need to change part of the API, I just change the template and all the libraries update automatically. And if I add a new library, it is trivial to get it added to the collection.</text></comment> | <story><title>Automatic programming: write code that writes code</title><url>http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/103840/automatic-programming-write-code-that-writes-code</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>espeed</author><text>See Philip Greenspun's problem set 4 from MIT course 6.916: Software Engineering of Innovative Web Services (<a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/psets/ps4/ps4.adp" rel="nofollow">http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/psets/ps4/ps4.adp</a>).<p>Its objective says, "Teach students the virtues of metadata. More specifically, they learn how to formally represent the requirements of a Web service and then build a computer program to generate the computer programs that implement that service."<p>This is one of the problem sets potential ArsDigita (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita</a>) recruits were required to solve during the first bubble.<p>UPDATE: Philip explains automatic code generation here (<a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/metadata" rel="nofollow">http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/metadata</a>), and the "SQL for Web Nerds" book he references in the pset has been moved to (<a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/" rel="nofollow">http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/</a>).</text></comment> |
14,599,567 | 14,599,580 | 1 | 3 | 14,599,337 | train | <story><title>Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/twitch-nabs-exclusive-streaming-deal-with-blizzard-for-20-major-esports-events</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nawgszy</author><text>I think it&#x27;s very important for Twitch to do this, and I think they need to do it more, to be honest. Let me tell you a story.<p>I am a big Counter-Strike: Global Offensive fan. I play a bit, but I vastly prefer to watch professional play. I got into the game a year ago or so, and that seemed to be a glorious time to spectate the game. Streams were virtually exclusively on Twitch, and every weekend it felt like there was a ($100k+ prize pool) tournament, and every week there were high quality pick-up&#x2F;practice games between professional players being streamed.<p>Of course (who can blame them?), YouTube Gaming wanted a piece of this pie. They cut some exclusive deals with a couple online leagues and tournament organizer, bringing a sizable chunk of the content with them to YouTube Gaming.<p>However, the users DID NOT follow (and UX over on YT can be almost entirely blamed), and the ensuing fracturing of the community has seen CS:GO drop from consistently top 5 in Twitch games to regularly outside the top 10. The thing is, though, the missing viewership mostly didn&#x27;t migrate to YouTube, instead just deciding to not watch at all. The appeal behind Twitch and CS:GO was that there was basically non-stop _very high_ quality content being streamed, and you didn&#x27;t need to put in a single ounce of effort to find it. YouTube very much does not have that same user flow down, at all.<p>And now (even though the position isn&#x27;t particularly degraded), owing to the relative difficulty of finding tournaments on YouTube OR Twitch, I find myself watching a lot less. So goes the general vibe of the community. Sure, woe is us, 2 whole sources? But consider this: YouTube&#x27;s discoverability is horrible, its UI plagued with reruns emblazoned with a red &quot;LIVE NOW&quot; that screams for your attention at first and later leaves you unwilling to trust any visuals on the site; Twitch, on the other hand, with its inability to pause &#x2F; rewind &#x2F; stream a smooth 1080p60 (hell, even 720p60 stutters 10x as much as YouTube&#x27;s) leaves you comparatively upset about video quality when you watch there.<p>So I guess my point is that Twitch clearly loses in the tech department to YouTube, but its benefits (more entertaining chat, better discoverability and UI&#x2F;UX) are more than enough to make you a dedicated user when exclusivity is part of that package. It&#x27;ll be interesting to see which side can overcome its issues to gain the advantage.<p>Note: edits for readability have occurred over the 5 minutes following the posting of this comment</text></comment> | <story><title>Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/twitch-nabs-exclusive-streaming-deal-with-blizzard-for-20-major-esports-events</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>niftich</author><text>In the past 12 months Blizzard has integrated Facebook login [1], Facebook Live streaming [2], and Facebook friend lists [3] into their revamped Blizzard App (previously known as the Battle.net Launcher). The live streaming functionality was particularly a shot across the bow [4][5] against someone like Twitch&#x2F;Curse, so it&#x27;s interesting to see that Amazon has now responded and forged this new deal with Blizzard. I&#x27;m curious if it&#x27;s just about the content (driving viewers to the platform) or if there&#x27;s more in the works between these two.<p>Warning, slow links:
[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;facebook-to-provide-login-and-live-video-for-blizzards-overwatch-game&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;06&#x2F;facebook-to-provide-login...</a>
[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wowhead.com&#x2F;news=255393&#x2F;blizzard-and-facebook-streaming-and-login" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wowhead.com&#x2F;news=255393&#x2F;blizzard-and-facebook-str...</a>
[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wowhead.com&#x2F;news=260084&#x2F;battle-net-and-facebook-friends-integration" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wowhead.com&#x2F;news=260084&#x2F;battle-net-and-facebook-f...</a>
[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12371440" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12371440</a>
[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12381447" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12381447</a></text></comment> |
37,719,168 | 37,718,609 | 1 | 2 | 37,714,579 | train | <story><title>Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emergency-calling-issues-3362990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>When I had a Pixel4, I witnessed a car accident in which someone got hurt quite substantially.<p>Hard as a tried, the process of dialing 911 failed multiple times; the phone app simply crashed and left me with a blank screen or the home screen. I put a complaint in with my carrier but nothing was ever done. And of course Google could give 0 fucks with their customer support.<p>A few months later, I needed to call 911 for an emergency and it did work, but yeah... we got &quot;Eventual Consistency&quot; for an emergency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>Someone could put all of these reports together along with the paper trail of unresolved complaints to Google through discovery and likely end up with a great class action case or even a criminal negligence case.<p>911 is one of those things that absolutely must work and most phones will allow you through using any available network if you are out of range of your primary carrier.<p>The fact that this is unreliable on any mobile phone is completely unacceptable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emergency-calling-issues-3362990/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>When I had a Pixel4, I witnessed a car accident in which someone got hurt quite substantially.<p>Hard as a tried, the process of dialing 911 failed multiple times; the phone app simply crashed and left me with a blank screen or the home screen. I put a complaint in with my carrier but nothing was ever done. And of course Google could give 0 fucks with their customer support.<p>A few months later, I needed to call 911 for an emergency and it did work, but yeah... we got &quot;Eventual Consistency&quot; for an emergency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TerrifiedMouse</author><text>&gt; A few months later<p>I’m surprised you kept the phone. I would have gotten a new phone if I discovered my current one couldn’t dial 911 properly.</text></comment> |
22,068,754 | 22,068,951 | 1 | 2 | 22,067,972 | train | <story><title>Back pain is a problem which is badly treated</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/01/18/back-pain-is-a-massive-problem-which-is-badly-treated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>The best thing to remember about back pain is that most of the time the pain is not due to a problem in your back, but a problem elsewhere on your body. This is commonly referred to in the medical field as referred pain.<p>So if your feet are fucked up, the rest of your body is going to be fucked up. If your calves are tight, they will cause issues up the chain and it will&#x2F;can eventually lead to pain in the back. If your thigh muscles are too tight, same thing happens.<p>For those of us who sit often, we tend to get what is called an anterior pelvic tilt -- or in plain english a pelvis that is rotated or tilted slightly forward. This ends up causing your lower back to pick up the slack and curve more than it is supposed to, and on and on up the chain.<p>The single best thing I have found for releasing a tight psoas (to remove the tension and allow your pelvis to orient itself correctly) is to use a ~20lb slam ball and basically lie directly on top of it with it lodged right in the trinagle area that is below your belly button and to the side of your groin. Shove it in there, take a deep breath, lean into it and you will really feel it loosen the tension on your posas. This is makes a profound difference in my hip flexibility and usually does a killer job eliminating lower back pain.<p>For a good video demo of the psoas release I do often: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_F-0rtFbOgI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_F-0rtFbOgI</a> @ 1:15 is the pose that I use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marpstar</author><text>This. Back when I was overweight I had a fair amount of back pain. Once I started lifting (and foam rolling) I discovered one day that spending 10 minutes foam-rolling my glutes caused 100% relief in my back for a day or two.<p>A few years of squats and my back pain is now non-existent. Not because my back is &quot;stronger&quot;, but rather it seems because of the increased flexibility from the waist down.</text></comment> | <story><title>Back pain is a problem which is badly treated</title><url>https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/01/18/back-pain-is-a-massive-problem-which-is-badly-treated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>The best thing to remember about back pain is that most of the time the pain is not due to a problem in your back, but a problem elsewhere on your body. This is commonly referred to in the medical field as referred pain.<p>So if your feet are fucked up, the rest of your body is going to be fucked up. If your calves are tight, they will cause issues up the chain and it will&#x2F;can eventually lead to pain in the back. If your thigh muscles are too tight, same thing happens.<p>For those of us who sit often, we tend to get what is called an anterior pelvic tilt -- or in plain english a pelvis that is rotated or tilted slightly forward. This ends up causing your lower back to pick up the slack and curve more than it is supposed to, and on and on up the chain.<p>The single best thing I have found for releasing a tight psoas (to remove the tension and allow your pelvis to orient itself correctly) is to use a ~20lb slam ball and basically lie directly on top of it with it lodged right in the trinagle area that is below your belly button and to the side of your groin. Shove it in there, take a deep breath, lean into it and you will really feel it loosen the tension on your posas. This is makes a profound difference in my hip flexibility and usually does a killer job eliminating lower back pain.<p>For a good video demo of the psoas release I do often: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_F-0rtFbOgI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_F-0rtFbOgI</a> @ 1:15 is the pose that I use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zackangelo</author><text>I know it seems ridiculous to spend $50-100 on a piece of injection molded plastic, but this thing[0] has been the best I&#x27;ve found for getting deep enough into my abdomen to loosen my psoas.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pso-rite.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pso-rite.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
28,218,822 | 28,216,435 | 1 | 2 | 28,207,565 | train | <story><title>A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/lyme-disease-prevention-antibody-shot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sonicggg</author><text>How do you manage to get it so often? I live in an area that is endemic to Lyme, but it&#x27;s something that can easily be avoided (much easier than Covid). But I do see reckless behaviour all the time as well, so maybe it is not that surprising.</text></item><item><author>abakker</author><text>I grew up in CT. Had it 4 times, only got the bullseye once. It is no joke, and as you get older it seems to suck more and more. Last time I had numbness in my face as the only symptom, but...thrice bitten, fully paranoid, and I was treated pretty fast.<p>One thing which is important with a vaccine is that when I was a kid (early 90s) the rate of ticks carrying lyme was in the 10% range or less, while now it is &gt;50%. A vaccine is critical.</text></item><item><author>tdeck</author><text>I had Lyme twice as a kid too (in suburban Pennsylvania). It&#x27;s not fun and it&#x27;s a bit crazy that you can get it more than once. People are usually shocked when I tell them. I knew someone who was temporarily paralyzed on one side because of Lyme that they diagnosed late - it&#x27;s scary.</text></item><item><author>pwenzel</author><text>I live in Minnesota and am being treated for Lyme disease for the second time in 15 months. It&#x27;s no joke. The first time I got Lyme, it came with a painful shingles co-infection on top of the usual symptoms.<p>Now the second time, I am again worried about getting sick with something else while in an immunocompromised state. The fatigue, fever, and back pain that came along this second time was worse than the first. I needed a nap after walking up the stairs.<p>So, I am curious how bad and prolonged the side effects were in these 59 adverse events. If only temporary, I&#x27;d consider it worth it over getting the actual disease.<p>The article also asks, &quot;Why vaccinate against something that can be cured with antibiotics?&quot; Undiagnosed Lyme becomes harder to treat the longer you wait, and the dose of antibiotics longer and more intense.<p>(PS: I am so very thankful for doxycycline.)</text></item><item><author>wildmanx</author><text>What shocks me most with this story is that there <i>is</i> a vaccine (Lymerix), and it&#x27;s pretty effective (76-92 percent after three injections) but apparently some anti-vax propaganda and a class-action lawsuit essentially removed it from the market. Based on a very rare side effect. Wtf? How can that be? Just tell people the risks of side effects, and if they are ok with that risk then the manufacturer is off the hook.<p>I&#x27;d totally take that shot. 59 cases out of 1.4 million is nothing, and even for those it&#x27;s unclear how they actually were related to the shot.<p>Sadly, this indicates that the new shot could suffer the same fate. Give it to a million people, some will <i>for sure</i> have some issue, anti-vaxers come with conspiracy theories and convince a few to a class action, and there we go, another few decades without a shot. Gotta be fast this time before it&#x27;s too late again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piva00</author><text>I live in Sweden, I know several people who got Borrelia infections including my girlfriend, and hers developed into Lyme once. Most caught it and treated it early but some just had a fever and only discovered it was Lyme after months.<p>It&#x27;s insidious, if you spend time in nature you are exposing yourself to it. The ticks will be on tall grass, falling from trees, crawling from the ground. How can that be avoided?<p>During summer we have to check ourselves for ticks every single night, my girlfriend lives in a house inside a wooded area, I have a big garden on my house where deers are commonly spotted (this past month I&#x27;ve been visited by one every single day).<p>No, it&#x27;s not easy to be avoided if you leave the house, just laying on my lawn or garden grass is enough to get me paranoid about it. My housemates have already found 3 ticks stuck to them.<p>Please, if you know an easy way to avoid all of this I&#x27;d love to hear it but so far I only know to be cautious and vigilant.</text></comment> | <story><title>A shot to prevent Lyme disease could be on its way</title><url>https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/lyme-disease-prevention-antibody-shot/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sonicggg</author><text>How do you manage to get it so often? I live in an area that is endemic to Lyme, but it&#x27;s something that can easily be avoided (much easier than Covid). But I do see reckless behaviour all the time as well, so maybe it is not that surprising.</text></item><item><author>abakker</author><text>I grew up in CT. Had it 4 times, only got the bullseye once. It is no joke, and as you get older it seems to suck more and more. Last time I had numbness in my face as the only symptom, but...thrice bitten, fully paranoid, and I was treated pretty fast.<p>One thing which is important with a vaccine is that when I was a kid (early 90s) the rate of ticks carrying lyme was in the 10% range or less, while now it is &gt;50%. A vaccine is critical.</text></item><item><author>tdeck</author><text>I had Lyme twice as a kid too (in suburban Pennsylvania). It&#x27;s not fun and it&#x27;s a bit crazy that you can get it more than once. People are usually shocked when I tell them. I knew someone who was temporarily paralyzed on one side because of Lyme that they diagnosed late - it&#x27;s scary.</text></item><item><author>pwenzel</author><text>I live in Minnesota and am being treated for Lyme disease for the second time in 15 months. It&#x27;s no joke. The first time I got Lyme, it came with a painful shingles co-infection on top of the usual symptoms.<p>Now the second time, I am again worried about getting sick with something else while in an immunocompromised state. The fatigue, fever, and back pain that came along this second time was worse than the first. I needed a nap after walking up the stairs.<p>So, I am curious how bad and prolonged the side effects were in these 59 adverse events. If only temporary, I&#x27;d consider it worth it over getting the actual disease.<p>The article also asks, &quot;Why vaccinate against something that can be cured with antibiotics?&quot; Undiagnosed Lyme becomes harder to treat the longer you wait, and the dose of antibiotics longer and more intense.<p>(PS: I am so very thankful for doxycycline.)</text></item><item><author>wildmanx</author><text>What shocks me most with this story is that there <i>is</i> a vaccine (Lymerix), and it&#x27;s pretty effective (76-92 percent after three injections) but apparently some anti-vax propaganda and a class-action lawsuit essentially removed it from the market. Based on a very rare side effect. Wtf? How can that be? Just tell people the risks of side effects, and if they are ok with that risk then the manufacturer is off the hook.<p>I&#x27;d totally take that shot. 59 cases out of 1.4 million is nothing, and even for those it&#x27;s unclear how they actually were related to the shot.<p>Sadly, this indicates that the new shot could suffer the same fate. Give it to a million people, some will <i>for sure</i> have some issue, anti-vaxers come with conspiracy theories and convince a few to a class action, and there we go, another few decades without a shot. Gotta be fast this time before it&#x27;s too late again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>all_usernames</author><text>As someone with a dog, I can say it is not easy to avoid ticks. Even with canine medication they pick one or two up every time we go for a hike, ON the trail.</text></comment> |
5,226,494 | 5,224,964 | 1 | 2 | 5,224,557 | train | <story><title>Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Pornstars and Their Careers</title><url>http://jonmillward.com/blog/studies/deep-inside-a-study-of-10000-porn-stars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shardling</author><text>&#62; one thing’s for sure: most women don’t quit after one film—in fact, the majority (at least 53%) do three or more.<p>Well, I guess that depends on how accurate the database is. To the extent that it might miss performers, it would certainly be biased towards those who have fewer credits, or whose credits are for smaller outfits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>This is an important point. Two others; one big, one small:<p>BIG: iafd doesn't cover loops ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn_loop" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn_loop</a> ) or their descendents, internet scenes, unless they were eventually compiled into a movie. I would expect 'one scene and out' performers to be more common at the lower end of the market (not shrewd/no body of work) and most of that is going to be internet.<p>small: The fact that porn tends to cluster around samey names, plus the fact that people who are just dabbling in porn don't put a lot of thought into their names means that a lot of one time performers end up accidentally rolled into another performer's filmography.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Pornstars and Their Careers</title><url>http://jonmillward.com/blog/studies/deep-inside-a-study-of-10000-porn-stars/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shardling</author><text>&#62; one thing’s for sure: most women don’t quit after one film—in fact, the majority (at least 53%) do three or more.<p>Well, I guess that depends on how accurate the database is. To the extent that it might miss performers, it would certainly be biased towards those who have fewer credits, or whose credits are for smaller outfits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmkg</author><text>Another confounding factor: there's a decent volume of shovelware movies that consist of non-original scenes edited together, like a mash-up tape. I would not be surprised to discover that one scene results in three credited appearances on average.</text></comment> |
3,276,192 | 3,276,134 | 1 | 2 | 3,275,698 | train | <story><title>The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577015903150731054.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>This is excellent.<p>Here's a question: Where can I buy the equivalent of <i>this post</i>, but in video form with actual illustrative game footage?<p>I've wanted to see that for some time. Want it for every sport on earth, really.<p>I've thought about trying to watch a bunch of coaching videos for my sport of choice, but was never sure it would help. They aren't designed for me. I don't need to know how to think like an above-average high-school coach or player; I want to admire the work of top-level pros.</text></item><item><author>keeptrying</author><text>You can figure out whats happening on the field just from what they show on TV. I wrote an answer on quora on how to do this:<p>What I enjoy in a football game is understanding the strategy thats being carried out and the efficiency of execution on every play. I've broken down a list of positions/schemes/plays to look for below.<p>The following applies when watching a regular play from scrimmage - ie one that will be either a run or a pass.<p>_The offense_<p>1. First pick out the number of tight ends and their position on the offensive line. This will tell you what base formation the offense is "telegraphing" to the defense. 2 or more tight ends implies that the offense is showing "run" unless its the damn Patriots of 2010.<p>2. Look at where the running backs are - the full back and the half back. This along with the above, will give you an idea of whether the offense is hedging towards a run or a pass. If they are in line, in front of the QB then you can safely assume a pass or trick play.<p>3. Next the formation of the wide recievers. Are they split, with a slot or are they bunched on one side.<p>_The defense_<p>1. Due to camera angles you wont be able to see some of the players on the defense. But its okay because you can workout where they would be (except for how deep they are playing) based on the offensive formation.<p>2. The rectangular area in front of the offensive line is called "the box". This is where the running back is expected to try to make a run. Count the number of players in the box. A fast way is to group the players in 3s going from bottom edge of the offensive line to the top.<p>The number of players in the box will tell you what the defense is showing the offense. If the number of players is &#62;=8 then the defense is expecting a run.<p>Using the following formula, you'll be able to figure out the number of safeties.<p>Number of safeties = 11 - (the number of players in the box + the number of wider receivers on offense )<p>_Position of the safeties_<p>* 2 Safeties<p>If you've figured out there are two safeties then this implies that the defense is looking to take away big passing plays but give up the middle of the field.
This will usually be a cover-2 formation or a derivative. If you see that a line-backer is cheating towards the safeties then you know its tampa-2.<p>* 1 Safety<p>If there's only one single safety then this usually means that the defense is being aggressive, ie they want to blitz, or are showing that they are expecting a run.<p>_Blitz_<p>If the number of players on the line of scrimmage for the defense outnumbers the number of players on the offensive and in the vicinity of the QB then this implies the defense is showing a blitz. Picking out the blitzing player is a lot of fun when watching the Jets, Eagles or Ravens play.<p>Player in motion<p>On a passing play, most teams will use the player in motion to figure out if the defense is in zone or man coverage. (They are mostly always in zones but do use man coverage to shake things up.)<p>So as the offensive player in motion moves, watch who covers him. Does he get handed off from one player to another on the defense or does the same defensive player follow him as he moves from one side of the field to the next. If the same player moves to cover the man in motion then it usually implies that the defense is playing a man-coverage. If the man in motion is handed off between players then this usually implies a zone.<p>Of course there could be special cases in which the defense chooses man/zone depending on which player is in motion at the time of the snap.<p>_Exercises_<p>How do you know if your seeing/understanding enough of the action:<p>1. On regular plays you should be able to see the "hold penalty" at the same time as it happens and before the commentator explains it on TV.<p>2. You should be able to call some percentage of the plays as you get familiar with understanding the strategy your team plays as well as the play callers idiosyncrasies and the players who get the most attention on the team.<p>3. Figure out if the defense is in a zone or man coverage. This will take a while because most defenses dont run a scheme which is instantly recognizable.<p>As you enjoy more aspects of the game, you'll realize the true brilliance of Peyton Manning, the genius of Rex Ryan and you'll be baffled by how precise these NFL plays are.<p>These are the basics and there is so much more happening on the field. If you have any questions then please ask them here and I'll update this answer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bokonist</author><text>If you have an xbox or playstation buy Madden and try learning to play the game it a bit. The formations, plays, and strategy are pretty much all real. You'll learn about different formations, routes, zone defense, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577015903150731054.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>This is excellent.<p>Here's a question: Where can I buy the equivalent of <i>this post</i>, but in video form with actual illustrative game footage?<p>I've wanted to see that for some time. Want it for every sport on earth, really.<p>I've thought about trying to watch a bunch of coaching videos for my sport of choice, but was never sure it would help. They aren't designed for me. I don't need to know how to think like an above-average high-school coach or player; I want to admire the work of top-level pros.</text></item><item><author>keeptrying</author><text>You can figure out whats happening on the field just from what they show on TV. I wrote an answer on quora on how to do this:<p>What I enjoy in a football game is understanding the strategy thats being carried out and the efficiency of execution on every play. I've broken down a list of positions/schemes/plays to look for below.<p>The following applies when watching a regular play from scrimmage - ie one that will be either a run or a pass.<p>_The offense_<p>1. First pick out the number of tight ends and their position on the offensive line. This will tell you what base formation the offense is "telegraphing" to the defense. 2 or more tight ends implies that the offense is showing "run" unless its the damn Patriots of 2010.<p>2. Look at where the running backs are - the full back and the half back. This along with the above, will give you an idea of whether the offense is hedging towards a run or a pass. If they are in line, in front of the QB then you can safely assume a pass or trick play.<p>3. Next the formation of the wide recievers. Are they split, with a slot or are they bunched on one side.<p>_The defense_<p>1. Due to camera angles you wont be able to see some of the players on the defense. But its okay because you can workout where they would be (except for how deep they are playing) based on the offensive formation.<p>2. The rectangular area in front of the offensive line is called "the box". This is where the running back is expected to try to make a run. Count the number of players in the box. A fast way is to group the players in 3s going from bottom edge of the offensive line to the top.<p>The number of players in the box will tell you what the defense is showing the offense. If the number of players is &#62;=8 then the defense is expecting a run.<p>Using the following formula, you'll be able to figure out the number of safeties.<p>Number of safeties = 11 - (the number of players in the box + the number of wider receivers on offense )<p>_Position of the safeties_<p>* 2 Safeties<p>If you've figured out there are two safeties then this implies that the defense is looking to take away big passing plays but give up the middle of the field.
This will usually be a cover-2 formation or a derivative. If you see that a line-backer is cheating towards the safeties then you know its tampa-2.<p>* 1 Safety<p>If there's only one single safety then this usually means that the defense is being aggressive, ie they want to blitz, or are showing that they are expecting a run.<p>_Blitz_<p>If the number of players on the line of scrimmage for the defense outnumbers the number of players on the offensive and in the vicinity of the QB then this implies the defense is showing a blitz. Picking out the blitzing player is a lot of fun when watching the Jets, Eagles or Ravens play.<p>Player in motion<p>On a passing play, most teams will use the player in motion to figure out if the defense is in zone or man coverage. (They are mostly always in zones but do use man coverage to shake things up.)<p>So as the offensive player in motion moves, watch who covers him. Does he get handed off from one player to another on the defense or does the same defensive player follow him as he moves from one side of the field to the next. If the same player moves to cover the man in motion then it usually implies that the defense is playing a man-coverage. If the man in motion is handed off between players then this usually implies a zone.<p>Of course there could be special cases in which the defense chooses man/zone depending on which player is in motion at the time of the snap.<p>_Exercises_<p>How do you know if your seeing/understanding enough of the action:<p>1. On regular plays you should be able to see the "hold penalty" at the same time as it happens and before the commentator explains it on TV.<p>2. You should be able to call some percentage of the plays as you get familiar with understanding the strategy your team plays as well as the play callers idiosyncrasies and the players who get the most attention on the team.<p>3. Figure out if the defense is in a zone or man coverage. This will take a while because most defenses dont run a scheme which is instantly recognizable.<p>As you enjoy more aspects of the game, you'll realize the true brilliance of Peyton Manning, the genius of Rex Ryan and you'll be baffled by how precise these NFL plays are.<p>These are the basics and there is so much more happening on the field. If you have any questions then please ask them here and I'll update this answer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Coaching videos might still be illustrative, though more for the finer points of technique, which matter more than one might think. Not even pros have perfect fundamentals every time.<p>There is a plethora of this material for soccer, Zonal Marking (zonalmarking.net) is one major blog that covers apparently every match in most major world leagues.</text></comment> |
16,531,067 | 16,530,618 | 1 | 3 | 16,529,744 | train | <story><title>Judge rules Seattle homeless man’s truck is a home</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/judge-rules-seattle-homeless-mans-truck-is-a-home/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>felipelemos</author><text>Imagine the situation.
The only property that you have is a truck. You get out of money and cannot afford gas anymore, so for 72h straight your truck stay parked in some street. The city notices this and impound your vehicle. Now you have to:<p>1. Pay for the time your vehicle is in city deposit and the fine<p>2. Do nothing and wait for your vehicle got auctioned.<p>You end up with the second option because you don&#x27;t have any money (or the car wouldn&#x27;t be impounded in first place).
So you now have: a fine to pay and no car.<p>And no place to live.</text></comment> | <story><title>Judge rules Seattle homeless man’s truck is a home</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/judge-rules-seattle-homeless-mans-truck-is-a-home/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>&gt; Moreover, the courts &quot;have consistently held that there is no constitutional right to housing.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m still puzzled at how our society affirms our Right to Life, while simultaneously affirming food, water, and shelter as Essential to Life, yet will never make the logical conclusion that food&#x2F;water&#x2F;shelter are necessarily included in our right to life.<p>1. All men are entitled to life.<p>2. Food, water, and shelter are essential to life.<p>3. Fuck you, get a job or freeze to death.</text></comment> |
18,767,155 | 18,767,233 | 1 | 3 | 18,766,769 | train | <story><title>Our Cellphones Aren't Safe</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/opinion/cellphones-security-spying.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Counterpoint:<p>In the history of the industry no mass-market computing platform has been safer than the flagship hardware&#x2F;software platforms from Apple and Google --- on no platform does an exploitable vulnerability cost more to obtain, and no platforms have ever been more capable of establishing secure channels between themselves.<p>SS7 is insecure. But operational practices at both the carriers and inside governments rely on those insecurities to get jobs done, and some of those jobs are important and enjoy wide support. Anything we do to shore up the security of SS7 will, almost necessarily, include compromises most of us here will find hateful, and we&#x27;ll be stuck with those compromises for another generation.<p>Rather than &quot;fixing the potholes&quot; in GSM and SS7, we could instead accept that the cell signaling layer is insecure, and route around those weaknesses with application code that can establish end-to-end secure channels accountable only to their users. That&#x27;s pretty close to what Apple has already done with SMS text messaging, which opportunistically upgrades to Apple&#x27;s secure iMessage protocol. We can do even better than that!<p>That&#x27;s what we&#x27;ve done with the Internet, where this approach is called &quot;the end to end argument in system design&quot;. It worked there and will work just as well for telephony.</text></comment> | <story><title>Our Cellphones Aren't Safe</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/opinion/cellphones-security-spying.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bvinc</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wondered this. When encryption algorithms are broken, we phase them out for new ones. When cell tower protocols have weak encryption we don&#x27;t seem to do anything about it. I hear that edge and 2g protocols are completely unsafe but there&#x27;s not even an option in my phone to disable them. What gives?</text></comment> |
23,659,854 | 23,659,807 | 1 | 3 | 23,659,590 | train | <story><title>Update on IT Security Incident at UCSF</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417911/update-it-security-incident-ucsf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcny</author><text>If the data is worth paying a million dollar ransom to unlock, it is worth setting up proper backups. I for one am grateful to people who commit these crimes in which they &quot;lock&quot; data in place rather than sell it to the highest bidder.<p>Proper data hygiene isn&#x27;t brain surgery. There is zero excuse for this event. I don&#x27;t blame the criminals. I blame the university system. Shame!</text></item><item><author>hoomank3</author><text>The paid ransom, will unfortunately embolden the criminals to strike again in search of the next big payday. If it worked once, it could work again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brippalcharrid</author><text><p><pre><code> ... &quot;lock&quot; data in place rather than sell it to the highest bidder.
</code></pre>
Why not both? And once the rightful owner of the data has paid a fat ransom, surely that&#x27;s got to provide some kind of proof of its market value. The University did say that<p><pre><code> The attackers obtained some data as proof of their action
</code></pre>
so unless they&#x27;re logging their outbound traffic, who&#x27;s to say they didn&#x27;t exfiltrate all of it? It&#x27;s the kind of thing that the University would remain tight-lipped about unless they were either sure that it hadn&#x27;t happened (doubtful, seeing as they aren&#x27;t running a tight ship) or had some kind of mandatory reporting obligation for the data.</text></comment> | <story><title>Update on IT Security Incident at UCSF</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417911/update-it-security-incident-ucsf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcny</author><text>If the data is worth paying a million dollar ransom to unlock, it is worth setting up proper backups. I for one am grateful to people who commit these crimes in which they &quot;lock&quot; data in place rather than sell it to the highest bidder.<p>Proper data hygiene isn&#x27;t brain surgery. There is zero excuse for this event. I don&#x27;t blame the criminals. I blame the university system. Shame!</text></item><item><author>hoomank3</author><text>The paid ransom, will unfortunately embolden the criminals to strike again in search of the next big payday. If it worked once, it could work again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codezero</author><text>Don’t entirely disagree, but also think it’s fair to say they almost certainly use the stolen data to find weaknesses in their next targets, so it’s not just a one to one thing. This doesn’t at all negate the main statement: good motivation to actually do proper backup and security.</text></comment> |
5,214,946 | 5,214,592 | 1 | 2 | 5,214,309 | train | <story><title>My Apology</title><url>http://www.jonahlehrer.com/2013/02/my-apology/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chasing</author><text>Non-fiction writing is entirely built upon trust. I have to trust that the author is attempting to tell the truth because I don't have the resources to fact-check every little thing.<p>Jonah Lehrer violated this trust. Big time. He has shown himself to be someone who lies and manipulates. And I think this is a cynical manipulation in an attempt to restore his career. (He should donate that $20k to some charity, btw.)<p>But he has forever lost my trust. There are too many other good writers and good books out there -- there will never be a reason for me to pick up a Jonah Lehrer book or pay attention to his words. Sorry.<p>Let's find some less well-known thinkers who deserve our attention and leave this guy out of the public conversation.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Apology</title><url>http://www.jonahlehrer.com/2013/02/my-apology/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mashmac2</author><text>Slate's take on this article is particularly interesting and has one strong perspective about Lehrer - <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/02/jonah_lehrer_apology_standard_operating_procedures_can_t_fix_arrogance_and.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...</a><p>(not a positive viewpoint)</text></comment> |
39,796,958 | 39,795,082 | 1 | 3 | 39,793,754 | train | <story><title>Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hayst4ck</author><text>If company A creates a problem that company B is paid to solve, then company B benefits when company A is able to make the problem bigger. Therefore Company A and company B both have a vested interest in the problem continuing to be problematic. Both are in a symbiotic relationship that allows them to both extract a profit while providing no <i>net</i> benefit to society.<p>This is rent-seeking (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rent-seeking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rent-seeking</a>). Rent-seeking is an economic drag and ethically indefensible.<p>Regulation is how this problem gets solved and it&#x27;s the <i>only</i> way it gets solved.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ds</author><text>All the existing databroker remover tools are flawed because they make use of manual labor to remove you from sites, primarily done by people in third world countries.<p>We @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redact.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redact.dev</a> are working on a pure software mechanism for doing these optouts directly from your own device. We already have full mass deletions for over 40 social media and utilitys.</text></comment> |
8,632,047 | 8,632,183 | 1 | 2 | 8,631,074 | train | <story><title>TypeScript 1.4 sneak peek: union types, type guards, and more</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/11/18/what-s-new-in-the-typescript-type-system.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>benjaminjackman</author><text>Union Types, done in a lightweight &#x27;anonymous&#x27; fashion. Awesome! Some languages go the discriminated type union route. If I had to chose I would take the this over a that alternative. Typescript continues to push forward.<p>Hopefully this leads to the construct being adopted by more languages. Rust has the heavier version, maybe they will adopt this before they release instead and then they can replace their gussied up Either&#x2F;Err type with unions.<p>Maybe someday the Scala team will see the light and we will get them as well. Sadly I am not holding my breath, adopting innovations like union types were what drew me to Scala. Something like this isn&#x27;t even on the docket for the next several years at a minimum. All the innovation in syntax died following the terrible 2013 scaladays keynote that &quot;challenged&quot; the Scala community to suck as hard as Java by 2018. It&#x27;s really a shame that martin didn&#x27;t decide to just implement union types when he implemented tuples years ago, now the language is probably too ossified to ever adopt them for fear they&#x27;ll be another XML.</text></comment> | <story><title>TypeScript 1.4 sneak peek: union types, type guards, and more</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/11/18/what-s-new-in-the-typescript-type-system.aspx</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lobster_johnson</author><text>Their union type syntax looks like Ceylon&#x27;s. I rather like it.<p>Union types with pattern matching would be the logical step, would it not? I wish for something like:<p><pre><code> match getResults() {
case e: Error: ...
case r: Results: ...
}</code></pre></text></comment> |
27,997,730 | 27,997,415 | 1 | 2 | 27,993,564 | train | <story><title>Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it</title><url>http://mdolon.com/essays/amazon-has-ruined-search-and-google-is-in-on-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keanebean86</author><text>Are those sites generated by bots now? They always seem to just be the top x results if you search on Amazon directly.</text></item><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>I&#x27;d like to note, donning my #2 at amzn hat again, that when the idea for affiliate sales originally came up, we certainly did imagine people creating pages with lists like &quot;best bikes for under $500&quot;. However, I feel fairly confident in saying that nobody involved in that in the 95-96 timeframe was imagining that such pages would be created by anyone other than actual enthusiasts (probably a reflection of the state of the internet at the time).<p>In retrospect, this was a profound failure of our imaginations back then. It&#x27;s also somewhat damning that in the 25+ years since, nothing about the affiliate sales concept has been substantially modified to mitigate the weaponization of this by &quot;best X for 202X&quot; pages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeltz</author><text>I would guess most are written by humans. I know a lot of affiliates (mostly gambling but also finance and shopping) and most of their stuff is produced manually. There is some more automation these days but the industry is surprisingly manual.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it</title><url>http://mdolon.com/essays/amazon-has-ruined-search-and-google-is-in-on-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keanebean86</author><text>Are those sites generated by bots now? They always seem to just be the top x results if you search on Amazon directly.</text></item><item><author>PaulDavisThe1st</author><text>I&#x27;d like to note, donning my #2 at amzn hat again, that when the idea for affiliate sales originally came up, we certainly did imagine people creating pages with lists like &quot;best bikes for under $500&quot;. However, I feel fairly confident in saying that nobody involved in that in the 95-96 timeframe was imagining that such pages would be created by anyone other than actual enthusiasts (probably a reflection of the state of the internet at the time).<p>In retrospect, this was a profound failure of our imaginations back then. It&#x27;s also somewhat damning that in the 25+ years since, nothing about the affiliate sales concept has been substantially modified to mitigate the weaponization of this by &quot;best X for 202X&quot; pages.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtoddsmith</author><text>The reviews are usually somewhat accurate but only include items found on Amazon. So I&#x27;m guessing they hire people to write the reviews.</text></comment> |
22,951,964 | 22,951,564 | 1 | 3 | 22,947,424 | train | <story><title>Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/magic-leap-announces-layoffs-amid-covid-19-slowdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npunt</author><text>Magic Leap made one of the classic mistakes that other before-their-time products make: they tried to create a general purpose product because they didn&#x27;t have a killer app that could focus their efforts.<p>When you&#x27;re building a product without a focused use case, you are pulled in a ton of different directions. In AR, this means focusing on <i></i>fidelity<i></i>, embodied in high resolution, wide field of view visuals, powerful processing, and compelling input methods.<p>The real question in AR is what use cases can you hit <i>without</i> great fidelity? What sort of value can you unlock with a low-res postage stamp overlay and slow processor instead of full FOV? That&#x27;s where the go-to market effort needs to be placed.<p>A similar example of this overreach was in multifunction pen devices of the 90s (General Magic, Newton, EO Personal communicator). A great counter example is Apple Watch, which didn&#x27;t chase the &#x27;smartphone on your wrist&#x27; everything device, and instead picked a few key use cases, established a beachhead, and slowly added capabilities as the technology allowed.<p>When a category-defining product has yet to emerge on the market, there are going to be a lot of people making predictable mistakes like this - mistiming ideas, scoping the wrong set of features, getting too excited about the wrong technologies, not leveraging their assets.<p>If you&#x27;re a product person interested in understanding more about these factors, I wrote an essay on the subject recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickpunt.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;category-defining-products&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickpunt.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;category-defining-products&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>egd</author><text>The basic problem is that without high fidelity &amp; a wide FOV, there&#x27;s nothing that sets MagicLeap apart from any of the other companies that have been able to create AR headsets for the last ~decade.<p>AR right now is stuck because the display technologies aren&#x27;t up to the task. The &quot;Waveguide&quot; approach has always fallen short - nobody&#x27;s ever been able to make the viewing angle wide enough to be worthwhile, and the &quot;passthrough&quot; approach isn&#x27;t really viable for walking down the street.<p>This is why I&#x27;m skeptical about Apple&#x27;s AR moves - unless they&#x27;ve either got a totally new display technology or they&#x27;ve managed to do something incredibly clever with the waveguide approach, I just don&#x27;t see consumer goggles working.<p>The only people I&#x27;ve seen doing something unique in this space is Tilt Five: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiltfive.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiltfive.com&#x2F;</a> - they&#x27;ve basically done what you&#x27;re suggesting: constrain the use case until you can actually build something for it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/22/magic-leap-announces-layoffs-amid-covid-19-slowdown/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>npunt</author><text>Magic Leap made one of the classic mistakes that other before-their-time products make: they tried to create a general purpose product because they didn&#x27;t have a killer app that could focus their efforts.<p>When you&#x27;re building a product without a focused use case, you are pulled in a ton of different directions. In AR, this means focusing on <i></i>fidelity<i></i>, embodied in high resolution, wide field of view visuals, powerful processing, and compelling input methods.<p>The real question in AR is what use cases can you hit <i>without</i> great fidelity? What sort of value can you unlock with a low-res postage stamp overlay and slow processor instead of full FOV? That&#x27;s where the go-to market effort needs to be placed.<p>A similar example of this overreach was in multifunction pen devices of the 90s (General Magic, Newton, EO Personal communicator). A great counter example is Apple Watch, which didn&#x27;t chase the &#x27;smartphone on your wrist&#x27; everything device, and instead picked a few key use cases, established a beachhead, and slowly added capabilities as the technology allowed.<p>When a category-defining product has yet to emerge on the market, there are going to be a lot of people making predictable mistakes like this - mistiming ideas, scoping the wrong set of features, getting too excited about the wrong technologies, not leveraging their assets.<p>If you&#x27;re a product person interested in understanding more about these factors, I wrote an essay on the subject recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickpunt.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;category-defining-products&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nickpunt.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;category-defining-products&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>didibus</author><text>I agree with you, but I also want to say it&#x27;s often more complicated then this.<p>Like, the Apple Watch example seems easy, but what happened to FitBit? FitBit went all in on your idea. Picked a single use case with a market, delivered on it. Yet Apple swooped in, took the market from them. Why is that?<p>This is an open question, I don&#x27;t claim to have the answer. It just seems that in this case, Apple was promising, as opposed to FitBit, that it would bring much more use cases to the user, a smartwatch on your wrist really, that seems like it was the messaging at least.</text></comment> |
18,397,286 | 18,397,116 | 1 | 2 | 18,394,942 | train | <story><title>Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/facebooks-graphql-gets-its-own-open-source-foundation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burtonator</author><text>I did a huge heads down on GraphQL vs AppSync vs Firebase for an app I&#x27;m building around document collaboration, annotation and sync for people working with PDFs and web content (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;</a>) - it&#x27;s kind of like an offline web browser.... anyway.<p>GraphQL is super awesome at what it does but it&#x27;s definitely not designed for rapid prototyping applications.<p>The thing about GraphQL is that it&#x27;s middleware. It&#x27;s designed to act as really nice glue between multiple backends.<p>It solves a lot of nice problems like over-fetching too much data, calling too many APIs, etc.<p>The problem is that you really don&#x27;t need these to get an app shipped immediately.<p>The REAL sweet spot for GraphQL is for a company like Netflix or Facebook where you have 1500 APIs and tons of problems with data over-fetch and you have the time to sit down and do things right.<p>I think I&#x27;m going to end up going with Firebase just because you can bang something out FAST and get it shipped.<p>It&#x27;s not going to be perfect but you can ship an MVP and start making revenue and&#x2F;or grow your user base while you figure things out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>013a</author><text>GraphQL to REST is a more typical comparison. In this case: designing a GraphQL API is substantially easier to both make and consume; while REST just tells you &quot;here&#x27;s some guidelines, now go do it however you want&quot;, GraphQL enforces a much more consistent view of how an API should look, while allowing clients much more freedom in how they get the data they need.<p>Where you start running into issues is the surrounding tooling. Integrating a typical REST API into an APM monitoring solution is a cinch, because all of these tools know how to read the incoming requests, HTTP methods, paths, bodies, etc. With GraphQL, you might be left building glue for your APM tool of choice, or just using the highly limited, but at least specialized, Apollo Engine. Enforcing strict rate limiting is easy with REST; very difficult with GraphQL due to how complex and free-form queries are.<p>Optimizing your backend to support those free-form queries is also (I dare say <i>intractably</i>) difficult; I haven&#x27;t seen a single backend framework which doesn&#x27;t actively encourage an N+1 problem on any query which returns multiple objects of data. AppSync as well, my god is that an evil play from AWS; if you&#x27;ve got separate lambda functions serving all the different nodes in your graph, a single query could trigger dozens, or even hundreds, of invocations. Combine that with their guidance to use Aurora Serverless and any casual observer might say that they&#x27;re actively exploiting the unfortunate ignorance of an engineer trying to jump on the latest trends.<p>I don&#x27;t believe any of these things are problems with GraphQL. I think they&#x27;re issues with ecosystem immaturity, and I hope they get better over time. Frankly, every single backend library I&#x27;ve used sucks; its designed to be awesome on the frontend, and it is.<p>I think you&#x27;re right that, right now, its best suited to large organizations. Large organizations can engineer around all of its issues and extract a LOT of value from it. Medium organizations are almost immediately going to run into ecosystem immaturity and scaling issues. Small organizations are going to get the most value from an &quot;all in one&quot; solution, whether that&#x27;s Firebase, or a simple REST API on App Engine, or something like that.<p>But I could be wrong in my analysis that its not a core issue with GraphQL, and there are subtle complexities with the API definition language which make scaling it for anyone who isn&#x27;t Facebook intractable. Time will tell.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook’s GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/facebooks-graphql-gets-its-own-open-source-foundation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>burtonator</author><text>I did a huge heads down on GraphQL vs AppSync vs Firebase for an app I&#x27;m building around document collaboration, annotation and sync for people working with PDFs and web content (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpolarized.io&#x2F;</a>) - it&#x27;s kind of like an offline web browser.... anyway.<p>GraphQL is super awesome at what it does but it&#x27;s definitely not designed for rapid prototyping applications.<p>The thing about GraphQL is that it&#x27;s middleware. It&#x27;s designed to act as really nice glue between multiple backends.<p>It solves a lot of nice problems like over-fetching too much data, calling too many APIs, etc.<p>The problem is that you really don&#x27;t need these to get an app shipped immediately.<p>The REAL sweet spot for GraphQL is for a company like Netflix or Facebook where you have 1500 APIs and tons of problems with data over-fetch and you have the time to sit down and do things right.<p>I think I&#x27;m going to end up going with Firebase just because you can bang something out FAST and get it shipped.<p>It&#x27;s not going to be perfect but you can ship an MVP and start making revenue and&#x2F;or grow your user base while you figure things out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cheriot</author><text>GraphQL shifts complexity to the server instead of the client. That can be an advantage when there&#x27;s multiple clients or just one client iterating faster than the underlying logic. There&#x27;s certainly a short term cost to GraphQL compared to REST, but there&#x27;s a lot of use cases with positive ROI outside FANGs.<p>When read and write becomes real time sync, though, I&#x27;ve always thought Firebase was under appreciated.</text></comment> |
13,798,422 | 13,797,761 | 1 | 2 | 13,795,397 | train | <story><title>Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working (2016)</title><url>https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/08/15/men-not-at-work-why-so-many-men-ages-of-25-to-54-are-not-working/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Frondo</author><text>What I&#x27;d do is this:<p>1) Vote for politicians who are going to create real structural change in society, e.g. Bernie, not just systems maintainers like Hillary, or rich guys who want to rip us off, like the guy who won. (And really work at a local level to enact structural systems changes!)<p>2) Work to change the cultural baggage around one&#x27;s value being tied to one&#x27;s day job. Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal&#x2F;interpersonal value from something other than a career. (And again, work at a local level to make it OK not to have a big thriving career, since it&#x27;s not gonna happen for a lot of folks.)<p>That&#x27;s what I&#x27;d do. The system of &quot;men are worth something because of their career&quot; is broken, and will never come back. I wouldn&#x27;t even try to resuscitate it.</text></item><item><author>J-dawg</author><text>So what do you do when there simply aren&#x27;t enough jobs for most men to &quot;have their shit together&quot;?<p>What are all those men going to do when they have both no stake in the economy, and little or no chance of finding a woman to love them? What percentage of men like this can society handle before some sort of tipping point is reached?<p>I refer you to this comment from &quot;wingless&quot; from another discussion currently on the front page:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13795855" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13795855</a><p>I&#x27;m always aware of this whenever the usual stuff about the &quot;gender pay gap&quot; gets trotted out by the media. Men and men women are playing entirely different games in the employment market. A woman is working for the money and whatever satisfaction she derives from the job itself. A man is working for his ability to attract a girlfriend, his status in society, his entire sense of &quot;value&quot;. It&#x27;s hardly surprising that men are motivated to choose riskier and higher earning careers.</text></item><item><author>Frondo</author><text>Yes, this, a thousand times this.<p>People look at stuff like alimony or whatever and think &quot;oh women just get all the breaks&quot;. When really, stuff like that exists because women were expected to forego career for marriage, etc., essentially shackled to a man for life.<p>Women being independent, expecting a guy to have his shit together? I think that&#x27;s great. I say bring it on. Independent women are far more interesting to talk to, and if I have to have a good job lined up, well, that&#x27;s how you play the game.<p>Now...if society is breaking in a way that it&#x27;s tough for men to get good jobs, then let&#x27;s look at that. Women aren&#x27;t to blame for that, though. Let&#x27;s look at what&#x27;s really going on.</text></item><item><author>bobbytherobot</author><text>&gt; One generation behind us, women still sort of relied on men, and now that the tables have turned, women might need to make a compromise.<p>You mean the system was heavily stacked to make women reliant on men. I won&#x27;t call that a compromise.<p>The tables haven&#x27;t turned, the game changed. We have drastically removed many of the forces meant to keep women as dependents of men. If the tables had turned, then men would be systematically be kept out of jobs, particularly high paying careers. They most certainly are not being kept out of those jobs.</text></item><item><author>jokoon</author><text>I&#x27;ve started some treatment recently, and for some reason I immediately started dating and looking for mates again.<p>I quickly realized how difficult it is. You can&#x27;t find women unless you have a job, while women have made outstanding progress in education and the workforce, and for some reason they have a hard time dating people who have a less comfortable situation than themselves. I don&#x27;t want to ride the whole mensright bandwagon or to criticize feminism, but it can be a difficult source of unhappiness for some.<p>I dated this young mother of two who managed to be a teacher for kids, she got help from her middle class parents, I can really say that when you feel the class struggle seeping into your love life, it is a very weird feeling. Of course it&#x27;s not the only reason, I&#x27;m not saying it, but it can the source of other problems.<p>One generation behind us, women still sort of relied on men, and now that the tables have turned, women might need to make a compromise.<p>Not to mention the whole tinder generation which is making things a little weirder.<p>EDIT:<p>This comment is full of personal opinion, so take it with a big grain of salt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaUR</author><text>&gt; Work to change the cultural baggage around one&#x27;s value being tied to one&#x27;s day job. Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal&#x2F;interpersonal value from something other than a career. (And again, work at a local level to make it OK not to have a big thriving career, since it&#x27;s not gonna happen for a lot of folks.)<p>I really hate (nothing personal) this &quot;wishful-thinking&quot; type of activism (&quot;we really need to do...!&quot;. You want to change women&#x27;s sexual preferences? How, through CRISPR? How will you &quot;work at a local level&quot; to make fat 50 year olds with high school diplomas more attractive to women?<p>&gt; &quot;men are worth something because of their career&quot; is broken, and will never come back<p>Instead of saying that, how about saying that everybody, including 50 year olds in mainland America, deserves the opportunity of a good job? It&#x27;s like saying &quot;fat people should be just as attractive&quot; instead of just losing weight.<p>The current situation is not a refutation of &quot;men are worth something because of their career&quot;, just a confirmation. It doesn&#x27;t &quot;have to come back&quot;, because it never left. This is how it has been, is, and will be. You&#x27;re saying men without ambition or money are entitled to relationships, which they&#x27;re not. Some people just can&#x27;t compete, doesn&#x27;t make the competition obsolete.</text></comment> | <story><title>Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working (2016)</title><url>https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/08/15/men-not-at-work-why-so-many-men-ages-of-25-to-54-are-not-working/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Frondo</author><text>What I&#x27;d do is this:<p>1) Vote for politicians who are going to create real structural change in society, e.g. Bernie, not just systems maintainers like Hillary, or rich guys who want to rip us off, like the guy who won. (And really work at a local level to enact structural systems changes!)<p>2) Work to change the cultural baggage around one&#x27;s value being tied to one&#x27;s day job. Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal&#x2F;interpersonal value from something other than a career. (And again, work at a local level to make it OK not to have a big thriving career, since it&#x27;s not gonna happen for a lot of folks.)<p>That&#x27;s what I&#x27;d do. The system of &quot;men are worth something because of their career&quot; is broken, and will never come back. I wouldn&#x27;t even try to resuscitate it.</text></item><item><author>J-dawg</author><text>So what do you do when there simply aren&#x27;t enough jobs for most men to &quot;have their shit together&quot;?<p>What are all those men going to do when they have both no stake in the economy, and little or no chance of finding a woman to love them? What percentage of men like this can society handle before some sort of tipping point is reached?<p>I refer you to this comment from &quot;wingless&quot; from another discussion currently on the front page:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13795855" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=13795855</a><p>I&#x27;m always aware of this whenever the usual stuff about the &quot;gender pay gap&quot; gets trotted out by the media. Men and men women are playing entirely different games in the employment market. A woman is working for the money and whatever satisfaction she derives from the job itself. A man is working for his ability to attract a girlfriend, his status in society, his entire sense of &quot;value&quot;. It&#x27;s hardly surprising that men are motivated to choose riskier and higher earning careers.</text></item><item><author>Frondo</author><text>Yes, this, a thousand times this.<p>People look at stuff like alimony or whatever and think &quot;oh women just get all the breaks&quot;. When really, stuff like that exists because women were expected to forego career for marriage, etc., essentially shackled to a man for life.<p>Women being independent, expecting a guy to have his shit together? I think that&#x27;s great. I say bring it on. Independent women are far more interesting to talk to, and if I have to have a good job lined up, well, that&#x27;s how you play the game.<p>Now...if society is breaking in a way that it&#x27;s tough for men to get good jobs, then let&#x27;s look at that. Women aren&#x27;t to blame for that, though. Let&#x27;s look at what&#x27;s really going on.</text></item><item><author>bobbytherobot</author><text>&gt; One generation behind us, women still sort of relied on men, and now that the tables have turned, women might need to make a compromise.<p>You mean the system was heavily stacked to make women reliant on men. I won&#x27;t call that a compromise.<p>The tables haven&#x27;t turned, the game changed. We have drastically removed many of the forces meant to keep women as dependents of men. If the tables had turned, then men would be systematically be kept out of jobs, particularly high paying careers. They most certainly are not being kept out of those jobs.</text></item><item><author>jokoon</author><text>I&#x27;ve started some treatment recently, and for some reason I immediately started dating and looking for mates again.<p>I quickly realized how difficult it is. You can&#x27;t find women unless you have a job, while women have made outstanding progress in education and the workforce, and for some reason they have a hard time dating people who have a less comfortable situation than themselves. I don&#x27;t want to ride the whole mensright bandwagon or to criticize feminism, but it can be a difficult source of unhappiness for some.<p>I dated this young mother of two who managed to be a teacher for kids, she got help from her middle class parents, I can really say that when you feel the class struggle seeping into your love life, it is a very weird feeling. Of course it&#x27;s not the only reason, I&#x27;m not saying it, but it can the source of other problems.<p>One generation behind us, women still sort of relied on men, and now that the tables have turned, women might need to make a compromise.<p>Not to mention the whole tinder generation which is making things a little weirder.<p>EDIT:<p>This comment is full of personal opinion, so take it with a big grain of salt.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bilbo0s</author><text>I know this will sound pretty bad...<p>but I actually interact a lot, in a volunteer capacity, with the black community where I live. I&#x27;m just realizing that I&#x27;ve never noticed that the whole &quot;men are worth something because of their career&quot; thing there. I&#x27;m not passing relative value judgements or anything, but I do wonder if there is something sociologically about black american subculture that makes women look past all that???<p>I am not a woman. So I can only say what I see, (and there seems to be a lower tendency towards marriage in their community anyway). But from what I see... there are black female doctors with laid off garbagemen for instance. I see self employed business women with unemployed guys. (Generally laid off laborers.) I see a lot of really high ranking corporate vp or law firm type women with teachers&#x2F;community organizer types. (That one happens a lot.) Couples like these constitute a sizable portion of what I would call the &quot;black middle class&quot; where I am. And of course, you have the regular couples that look like what we would call more traditional, with both parties working at the same level. But that doesn&#x27;t happen NEARLY as often as you&#x27;d think, and the egalitarian pairings also don&#x27;t seem to last as long as the high ranking female-low ranking male pairings. (Divorce-wise I mean.)<p>Here&#x27;s the thing though... I can&#x27;t actually recall ever coming across a couple where the man was &quot;higher ranking&quot; than the woman??? There are probably a few out there, but I don&#x27;t come across them in my interactions.<p>I never thought about that until I read through this thread.<p>It would be interesting to look through some of these smaller communities to find out how they deal with what seems to be slowly happening in the larger society. Just throwing that out there because they seem to be further down the road towards this &quot;jobless&quot; economic system. The reasons may be really simple. ie - maybe they just have a different culture??? And that&#x27;s fine. Or maybe it&#x27;s that the pressures on women in certain american subcultures are different??? Or whatever??? Who knows??? As I said... I&#x27;m not a woman... but I think it would be worth looking at.<p>The more I think about it... the more differences there are popping into my mind right now. It really is fascinating. I never stopped to think about it before.</text></comment> |
9,858,948 | 9,859,065 | 1 | 3 | 9,858,501 | train | <story><title>Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-api-gateway-build-and-run-scalable-application-backends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andybak</author><text>I&#x27;ve not tried very hard but I&#x27;m not sure I get it.<p>I&#x27;ve got an API already running. What does this buy me?<p>Caching? I can see some benefit there it&#x27;s read heavy.<p>Auth and access control? Feels like that&#x27;s part of my app code but maybe there&#x27;s a benefit I&#x27;m missing<p>A lot of the other benefits also feel like it would be hard to cleanly separate them from my app code.<p>What&#x27;s the elevator pitch and who&#x27;s the target market?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jively</author><text>API Managmeent market is quite big, makes sense for Amazon to get on board.<p>Imagine this: You are BigCorp USA Inc. and have a bunch of internal SOAP-based web services that are 10 years old and cost a fortune to maintain.<p>You hear someone will pay you to use them, but SOAP sucks. So you could either go and change your APIs (and probably break a bunch of internal processes) OR you could use a gateway to sit in front of them and translate in bound &#x2F; outbound requests. Now you can charge people for your APIs!<p>Scenario 2: If you&#x27;re an indie dev&#x2F; startup but dont want to run EC2 infrastructure, Lambda + Gateway = Cloud service, without any heavy lifting, servers and cost effective. It&#x27;s development lego. Kind of like Parse.<p>Scenario 3: You have an API for your app, now you wnat third party devs to use it.Your API is not set up for that kind of access (multi-user security, throttling, quotas, analytics etc.) - solution: shove a gateway in front of it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-api-gateway-build-and-run-scalable-application-backends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andybak</author><text>I&#x27;ve not tried very hard but I&#x27;m not sure I get it.<p>I&#x27;ve got an API already running. What does this buy me?<p>Caching? I can see some benefit there it&#x27;s read heavy.<p>Auth and access control? Feels like that&#x27;s part of my app code but maybe there&#x27;s a benefit I&#x27;m missing<p>A lot of the other benefits also feel like it would be hard to cleanly separate them from my app code.<p>What&#x27;s the elevator pitch and who&#x27;s the target market?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_pius</author><text>This is a pretty big deal, even if just for the fact that this plus Lambda eliminates fixed costs.<p>Rather than running an API server 24&#x2F;7, you can write your API as a set of functions that cost you money only when they&#x27;re actually invoked.</text></comment> |
13,874,773 | 13,874,872 | 1 | 2 | 13,874,026 | train | <story><title>Hiring without whiteboards</title><url>https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nherment</author><text>We&#x27;re in Denmark and currently hiring.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why there is such <i>extreme</i> hate for the whiteboard. Yes it has plenty of caveats when it comes to actual coding and recruiters should not expect any candidate to write precise code on that medium.<p>I do use the whiteboard for trivial CS questions limited to 5-10 minutes. Think fizzbuzz and string reversal. Candidates have the option to use my laptop (not ideal because the keyboard has a US layout) but they are welcome to use their own computer as well (if they thought about bringing it). It weeds out candidates who can&#x27;t even produce basic code. And yes, a candidate with 2+ years of experience should be able to write a basic function on a whiteboard, a napkin, or whatever. If not, the interview is not lost but the candidate will have to prove his skills another way.<p>For most candidates, we also give a longer technical test which is to be done at home and takes 2 to 4 hours to complete. Candidates are given as many days as they want to complete it.<p>Whiteboard is an excellent medium however when discussing architecture and higher level ideas. It&#x27;s also a tool that I&#x27;ve used during day to day activities with colleagues. Software based tools don&#x27;t come even close.</text></item><item><author>jonasvp</author><text>I&#x27;m responsible for hiring developers at our company based in Berlin, Germany, and found it best to have a guided interview about the candidate&#x27;s work experience and interesting problems that she&#x2F;he solved. I never understood the whiteboard hazing&#x2F;CS trivia that are so widely discussed on HN since it seems extremely disconnected from the actual work that&#x27;s being done.<p>That said, I&#x27;m always surprised how many candidates cannot even point to one problem they worked on they found interesting or one solution that they&#x27;re proud of.<p>We worked with an HR consultant to develop a interview guide in the form of certain questions that we make sure to hit during the interview in order to be able to compare between candidates and make an informed decision.<p>However, we&#x27;re small and not in the US. Anyone have experience with other companies in Germany&#x2F;Europe? How does the typical interview work over here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>muse900</author><text>I believe the hate comes from unprecedented and hard CS questions asked on the whiteboard.<p>I recently went to an interview that asked me to balance a binary tree on a whiteboard. It can be done, and I can do it. Thing is when you go to interview for that company that has 2 developers(small team, small company) and ask you that kind of question it puts you off thinking that those guys won&#x27;t be great to work with (arrogance etc comes in mind).<p>I am fond of simpler questions, like you said fizzbuz etc. Obviously if you are interviewing a guy that has 2+ years of experience, he has to be able to pass the fizzbuzz test.
When you are interviewing someone with 5+ years of experience for a higher up position I guess you do have to ask some harder question, but I personally think just speaking to the guy and asking him stuff about his past projects etc will give you a hint on if he has the skills he is talking about or not. Asking him to outline a hard task he took part and how he solved it is an amazing start. As a 5+ years guy personally would rumble about a few things and it would take me days talking about them. (That will give you an understanding if I&#x27;ve worked before or not on the things outlined on my CV).</text></comment> | <story><title>Hiring without whiteboards</title><url>https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nherment</author><text>We&#x27;re in Denmark and currently hiring.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why there is such <i>extreme</i> hate for the whiteboard. Yes it has plenty of caveats when it comes to actual coding and recruiters should not expect any candidate to write precise code on that medium.<p>I do use the whiteboard for trivial CS questions limited to 5-10 minutes. Think fizzbuzz and string reversal. Candidates have the option to use my laptop (not ideal because the keyboard has a US layout) but they are welcome to use their own computer as well (if they thought about bringing it). It weeds out candidates who can&#x27;t even produce basic code. And yes, a candidate with 2+ years of experience should be able to write a basic function on a whiteboard, a napkin, or whatever. If not, the interview is not lost but the candidate will have to prove his skills another way.<p>For most candidates, we also give a longer technical test which is to be done at home and takes 2 to 4 hours to complete. Candidates are given as many days as they want to complete it.<p>Whiteboard is an excellent medium however when discussing architecture and higher level ideas. It&#x27;s also a tool that I&#x27;ve used during day to day activities with colleagues. Software based tools don&#x27;t come even close.</text></item><item><author>jonasvp</author><text>I&#x27;m responsible for hiring developers at our company based in Berlin, Germany, and found it best to have a guided interview about the candidate&#x27;s work experience and interesting problems that she&#x2F;he solved. I never understood the whiteboard hazing&#x2F;CS trivia that are so widely discussed on HN since it seems extremely disconnected from the actual work that&#x27;s being done.<p>That said, I&#x27;m always surprised how many candidates cannot even point to one problem they worked on they found interesting or one solution that they&#x27;re proud of.<p>We worked with an HR consultant to develop a interview guide in the form of certain questions that we make sure to hit during the interview in order to be able to compare between candidates and make an informed decision.<p>However, we&#x27;re small and not in the US. Anyone have experience with other companies in Germany&#x2F;Europe? How does the typical interview work over here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway_374</author><text>It took me 5 minutes on my laptop at home to code out a problem that I danced around for an hour on a whiteboard being stared down at by 2 engineers in silence. Yes, I had the benefit of hindsight, but unless you&#x27;ve actually done a whiteboard interview yourself where your livelihood is on the line for an hour, don&#x27;t act like a trivialising nonce.</text></comment> |
12,182,443 | 12,181,215 | 1 | 2 | 12,180,443 | train | <story><title>Oracle Buys NetSuite for $9.3B</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/oracle-buys-netsuite-in-deal-valued-at-about-9-3-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethbro</author><text>Can&#x27;t Amazon, Google, and Facebook (less sure about the others) all essentially be characterized as Berkshire Hathaway?<p>I.e. Develop a business that generates large cash flows, then relentlessly plow that money into more profitable side ventures. Except in this case they didn&#x27;t buy an insurance company and instead developed a product that generated those flows.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>&gt; The relationship between Oracle and NetSuite goes back decades. Zach Nelson, NetSuite’s CEO, previously ran Oracle’s marketing operations in the 1990s. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is NetSuite’s largest investor. As of March, Ellison and his family owned about 45.4 percent of NetSuite’s common stock, according to a company filing. Ellison has “control over approval of significant corporate transactions,’’ according to the filing.<p>Hmm, I wonder if the NetSuite board will approve this:)<p>Man, Microsoft has its OS and Office revenue to<p>Google and Facebook have their advertising revenue<p>Oracle has its licensing revenue<p>Amazon has its everything store revenue.<p>Apple has its iPhone revenue.<p>The big tech incumbents all figuratively print money each quarter.<p>If the long reported bubble burst ever gets around to happening, it&#x27;s hard not to see them as the big winners. With piles of cash on hand and cash reserves growing can anyone make the case that they don&#x27;t become the lender of last resort to cash strapped startups?<p>Side note, I&#x27;m surprised that Oracle is still running with Safra Catz and Mark Hurd as co-CEO&#x27;s. I figured that that setup along with a very strong willed founder in Ellison, would cause some spectacular implosion at some point:)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeryan</author><text>I think you&#x27;re missing the way Warren Buffett and Berkshire invests.<p>He takes low risk, profitable companies with proven track records and strong management teams. Geico, Fruit of the Loom, building products and materials etc. Its a very different mindset then what Google is doing when it invests in self driving cars.<p>Every company thats profitable re-invests those profits in some way. Trying to lump the way Google or Amazon uses their excess cash is different then the way Facebook does (Facebook builds moats mostly) and definitely different then the way Berkshire does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oracle Buys NetSuite for $9.3B</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-28/oracle-buys-netsuite-in-deal-valued-at-about-9-3-billion</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ethbro</author><text>Can&#x27;t Amazon, Google, and Facebook (less sure about the others) all essentially be characterized as Berkshire Hathaway?<p>I.e. Develop a business that generates large cash flows, then relentlessly plow that money into more profitable side ventures. Except in this case they didn&#x27;t buy an insurance company and instead developed a product that generated those flows.</text></item><item><author>chollida1</author><text>&gt; The relationship between Oracle and NetSuite goes back decades. Zach Nelson, NetSuite’s CEO, previously ran Oracle’s marketing operations in the 1990s. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is NetSuite’s largest investor. As of March, Ellison and his family owned about 45.4 percent of NetSuite’s common stock, according to a company filing. Ellison has “control over approval of significant corporate transactions,’’ according to the filing.<p>Hmm, I wonder if the NetSuite board will approve this:)<p>Man, Microsoft has its OS and Office revenue to<p>Google and Facebook have their advertising revenue<p>Oracle has its licensing revenue<p>Amazon has its everything store revenue.<p>Apple has its iPhone revenue.<p>The big tech incumbents all figuratively print money each quarter.<p>If the long reported bubble burst ever gets around to happening, it&#x27;s hard not to see them as the big winners. With piles of cash on hand and cash reserves growing can anyone make the case that they don&#x27;t become the lender of last resort to cash strapped startups?<p>Side note, I&#x27;m surprised that Oracle is still running with Safra Catz and Mark Hurd as co-CEO&#x27;s. I figured that that setup along with a very strong willed founder in Ellison, would cause some spectacular implosion at some point:)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heisenbit</author><text>They may use lot&#x27;s of cash, they may be plowing, they may be relentless but their track record is decidedly mixed. Building franchises from smaller seedlings is hard and risky. Not comparable with Berkshire Hathaway that focuses on low risk investments. They are more acting like venture funds.<p>Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have managed to build some new profitable businesses over time with Amazon having done the greatest leap. The advertisement giants seem to struggle to gain traction - lots of projects but revenue streams less impressive.</text></comment> |
9,964,187 | 9,964,307 | 1 | 2 | 9,962,010 | train | <story><title>A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/a-renegade-trawler-hunted-for-10000-miles-by-vigilantes.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frandroid</author><text>This is the same writer, Ian Urbina, as the Sea Slaves story that also made the HN homepage yesterday. He&#x27;s been writing a number of sea stories that look fascinating:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;topics.nytimes.com&#x2F;top&#x2F;reference&#x2F;timestopics&#x2F;people&#x2F;u&#x2F;ian_urbina&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;topics.nytimes.com&#x2F;top&#x2F;reference&#x2F;timestopics&#x2F;people&#x2F;u...</a><p>Looking further back into his archive, he also writes about tech, and racism.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Renegade Trawler, Hunted for 10,000 Miles by Vigilantes</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/a-renegade-trawler-hunted-for-10000-miles-by-vigilantes.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aikah</author><text>I know nothing about sea or sailing of even fishing but this article was just stunning. That is the kind of journalism i&#x27;m ready to pay for.</text></comment> |
32,459,692 | 32,459,592 | 1 | 2 | 32,459,189 | train | <story><title>Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot</title><url>https://www.llnl.gov/news/three-peer-reviewed-papers-highlight-scientific-results-national-ignition-facility-record</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>I like how they don&#x27;t even try to pretend that this is a route to practical power generation, it&#x27;s all about research into the fundamental physics of fusion - which is a worthy goal in itself.<p>&gt; The record shot was a major scientific advance in fusion research, which establishes that fusion ignition in the lab is possible at NIF,” said Omar Hurricane, chief scientist for LLNL’s inertial confinement fusion program. “Achieving the conditions needed for ignition has been a long-standing goal for all inertial confinement fusion research and opens access to a new experimental regime where alpha-particle self-heating outstrips all the cooling mechanisms in the fusion plasma.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot</title><url>https://www.llnl.gov/news/three-peer-reviewed-papers-highlight-scientific-results-national-ignition-facility-record</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nyokodo</author><text>This is an article regarding the scientific papers published about the ignition reported on in 2021.</text></comment> |
8,090,660 | 8,089,985 | 1 | 3 | 8,088,842 | train | <story><title>History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms</title><url>http://ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/History_of_Lossless_Data_Compression_Algorithms</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>derf_</author><text>Sadly, the description of arithmetic coding bears almost no resemblance to the actual algorithm (it roughly describes the equal probability case, but that misses most of the point). The description of Shannon-Fano as &quot;bottom up&quot; and Huffman as &quot;top-down&quot; is also exactly backwards (the actual descriptions of those algorithms are accurate, but the labeling is confused).<p>The article contains a lot of terms you can search for if you are interested in these things, but sadly is not very informative on its own.</text></comment> | <story><title>History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms</title><url>http://ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/History_of_Lossless_Data_Compression_Algorithms</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adbge</author><text>If anyone is interested in the PAQ code, I have put one of the stronger-but-open-source variants on GitHub, here: <a href="https://github.com/robertseaton/paq8pxd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;robertseaton&#x2F;paq8pxd</a></text></comment> |
3,171,148 | 3,171,101 | 1 | 2 | 3,170,732 | train | <story><title>Publicly funded science should be open science</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576653573191370088.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>I was hoping that this article would restrain itself to arguing for open, publicly-readable journals. Baby steps, folks. Gotta walk before you run and all that.<p>Mandating open journals is practical. Convincing the current community of, say, biologists to share their raw data is not. I don't think molecular biologists would literally poison each other rather than divulge their sequence data prior to its publication in a major journal, but they'd consider it. The system of funding and promotion is going to have to undergo a very big shift before this dream comes to life. (Although I suspect it <i>will</i> come to life, eventually.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Publicly funded science should be open science</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576653573191370088.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>markkat</author><text>This would be very difficult in biology. Any single experiment isn't evidence of much, and once I do get a notion that I am on to something, if I slap that up on the web, I'll probably get beaten to the punch by someone that has more resources and/or is better positioned. It would also be tough to argue that my early experiment was critical or even necessary to get there. So I would do a lot of work, and gift it to someone else. Of course, I know that this is the point, but it's problem enough that grants are basically over-hyped sales pitches. Good science is methodical and rigorous. Until funding is less results-based, you need to show big results. It's crazy to think that it's enough to fund promising evidence. Promising evidence is even more subjective. More hyperbole is not what we need.<p>We need to fund the process first. Then people, then results.</text></comment> |
31,328,006 | 31,328,242 | 1 | 2 | 31,326,353 | train | <story><title>After losing contact with its helicopter, NASA put the Mars mission on hold</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/after-an-amazing-run-on-mars-nasas-helicopter-faces-a-long-dark-winter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>varispeed</author><text></text></item><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>The amount of absolutely <i>insane</i> engineering that happens on these mission is outstanding all on its own- then you go and add stunts like this, and it makes you realize something: The folks doing this stuff are just like the rest of us. They&#x27;re hackers, but they have billion dollar stuff to hack on. And, they&#x27;re likely far better at it than the rest of us. Still, we&#x27;re cut from the same cloth. Love it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randrews</author><text>Why is it whenever someone says something unifying and wholesome like gp, someone like you isn&#x27;t too far behind to remind everyone to feel bad about themselves?</text></comment> | <story><title>After losing contact with its helicopter, NASA put the Mars mission on hold</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/after-an-amazing-run-on-mars-nasas-helicopter-faces-a-long-dark-winter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>varispeed</author><text></text></item><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>The amount of absolutely <i>insane</i> engineering that happens on these mission is outstanding all on its own- then you go and add stunts like this, and it makes you realize something: The folks doing this stuff are just like the rest of us. They&#x27;re hackers, but they have billion dollar stuff to hack on. And, they&#x27;re likely far better at it than the rest of us. Still, we&#x27;re cut from the same cloth. Love it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>I did just that. A screwdriver was my soldering iron, I recycled the solder and the rest of the parts from circuit boards salvaged from old electronics found in the garbage. Electronics can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be, and there is a small chance that you will learn faster at the ultra-cheap end because you are essentially reverse engineering all kinds of stuff.</text></comment> |
9,437,347 | 9,437,296 | 1 | 2 | 9,437,182 | train | <story><title>Maintainership transfer of uBlock: post mortem</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Maintainership-transfer-of-uBlock%3A-post-mortem</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ethana</author><text>As much as I dislike chrisaljoudi for doing shady things there as gorhill points out, this is as much of gorhil&#x27;s hasty actions as it is chris&#x27; bad stewardship for the reputation of uBlock.<p>On April 1st, the transfer of ownership to chris are hours within the announcement of gorhil&#x27;s leaving the project. I understand the frustrations he was getting, but that was not a smart decision on his part. Projects are easy to create, brand names are not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Maintainership transfer of uBlock: post mortem</title><url>https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Maintainership-transfer-of-uBlock%3A-post-mortem</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BenTheElder</author><text>Has there been any reply from @chrisaljoudi?<p>Also, is there any reason this couldn&#x27;t have moved to a github group (for the &#x27;The uBlock Development Team&#x27;) instead of someone else&#x27;s personal account or something?</text></comment> |
13,571,493 | 13,570,162 | 1 | 2 | 13,569,742 | train | <story><title>Interactive command line HTTP inspector written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/asciimoo/wuzz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gschier</author><text>That&#x27;s awesome! The animated GIF on the README does a great job showcasing it. I&#x27;ve been working on a more complex GUI API testing tool (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insomnia.rest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insomnia.rest</a>) but, to be honest, nothing beats a simple command line tool like this for &quot;quick tests&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Interactive command line HTTP inspector written in Go</title><url>https://github.com/asciimoo/wuzz</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisper</author><text>Does anyone know how they did the user interface? I mean I could read the source code, but I am asking for a TL;DR if someone has that.<p>EDIT: Actually it seems to be a library: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jroimartin&#x2F;gocui" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jroimartin&#x2F;gocui</a> but the question still stands!</text></comment> |
34,398,280 | 34,398,323 | 1 | 2 | 34,392,885 | train | <story><title>Making Lenses Practical in Java</title><url>https://chriskiehl.com/article/practical-lenses</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fedeb95</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree on the fact that lombok has brought us out of the dark ages. We used to use it, but it has some drawbacks. One of them, it&#x27;s an additional dependency. This, for a simple thing such as pojo, seems a bit overkill to me. The additional amount of time used to write some cose isn&#x27;t worth the risk of additional bugs hidden in having one more dependency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misja111</author><text>With Lombok I always felt that it was trying to fix a symptom while it ignored the underlying problem.
If you don&#x27;t like to write out getters and setters in your code, then consider not to implement them at all. Just use value classes with public fields. Or nowadays you can also use records.<p>Some people use the argument that the advantage of getters&#x2F;setters is, that you can add custom logic to them. But IMO that is an antipattern. And even more so if you then hide that enriched setter or getter using Lombok. Code should indicate to the readers what is doing, it shouldn&#x27;t try to hide stuff that could be important.</text></comment> | <story><title>Making Lenses Practical in Java</title><url>https://chriskiehl.com/article/practical-lenses</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fedeb95</author><text>I don&#x27;t agree on the fact that lombok has brought us out of the dark ages. We used to use it, but it has some drawbacks. One of them, it&#x27;s an additional dependency. This, for a simple thing such as pojo, seems a bit overkill to me. The additional amount of time used to write some cose isn&#x27;t worth the risk of additional bugs hidden in having one more dependency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>I never particularly liked Lombok either but I do appreciate what it does. Which is to remove a lot of boilerplate code related to setters, getters, hashcode, and equals functions, builder classes, etc. Writing that kind of boiler plate manually increases the likelihood of bugs, inconsistencies and allows other weirdness to creep into your code base. Also it&#x27;s rather stupid work to do.<p>These days, I use Kotlin, which removes the need for Lombok while still being able to play nice with it. The most recent version of Kotlin actually added a compiler plugin for Lombok annotations that makes it easier for people with legacy Java code bases with Lombok to introduce Kotlin to their code bases.<p>Kotlin doesn&#x27;t have direct support for lenses but it is a pretty popular feature with some frameworks. Arrow has an implementation for example. And Arrow is of course inspired by Scala. I&#x27;ve also used the Fritz2 framework for browser UIs. It uses compile time generation of lenses. I think they are a bit of a double edged sword. Looks like a lot of complexity for not a whole lot of gain to me. I like keeping things simple instead. This stuff does have the distinct taste of over engineering to it.</text></comment> |
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