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39,843,876 | 39,842,504 | 1 | 3 | 39,837,045 | train | <story><title>Egui 0.27 – easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust</title><url>https://github.com/emilk/egui/releases/tag/0.27.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deaddodo</author><text>I disagree. I kinda hate eGUI as it&#x27;s so obvious everytime an app is using it (ROG control center on Linux, for instance). I would much prefer a multiplatform native toolkit as a first class citizen in Rust, versus all the ugly homegrown widget sets they use (something imgui, nuklear and others already do better).<p>That being said, that&#x27;s an aesthetic choice; and apps provided in it are better than nothing.</text></item><item><author>the__alchemist</author><text>This library owns. If you want to impress users with native looks, it&#x27;s the wrong move. If you want to get shit done, send it!<p>I am using EGUI for visualizing electron wave functions, configuring and viewing status of UAV flight controllers and peripherals, and as an interface for locating nearby RF devices.<p>I will say the main negatives are that the `egui`&#x2F;`eframe` etc split is confusing, and the API rapidly changes in a breaking way. Although part of that is from companion libs like walkers, for maps, that are making their own changes while trying to keep up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hannofcart</author><text>I always find atleast one person making this or similar comment in threads on non native GUI libraries.<p>I also respect the fact that this is just a statement of a personal preference.<p>However I don&#x27;t think most people care.<p>Good applications with thoughtful UX and useful functionality will succeed whether they choose native widgets or not.<p>Literally millions of people use applications like VSCode, Blender, OBS Studio. I bet the vast majority of them don&#x27;t think what this here application needs is more native widgets.<p>Heck, no one cares that Figma is a web app. From what I can see it beat out all similar desktop native competitors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Egui 0.27 – easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust</title><url>https://github.com/emilk/egui/releases/tag/0.27.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deaddodo</author><text>I disagree. I kinda hate eGUI as it&#x27;s so obvious everytime an app is using it (ROG control center on Linux, for instance). I would much prefer a multiplatform native toolkit as a first class citizen in Rust, versus all the ugly homegrown widget sets they use (something imgui, nuklear and others already do better).<p>That being said, that&#x27;s an aesthetic choice; and apps provided in it are better than nothing.</text></item><item><author>the__alchemist</author><text>This library owns. If you want to impress users with native looks, it&#x27;s the wrong move. If you want to get shit done, send it!<p>I am using EGUI for visualizing electron wave functions, configuring and viewing status of UAV flight controllers and peripherals, and as an interface for locating nearby RF devices.<p>I will say the main negatives are that the `egui`&#x2F;`eframe` etc split is confusing, and the API rapidly changes in a breaking way. Although part of that is from companion libs like walkers, for maps, that are making their own changes while trying to keep up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tamimio</author><text>&gt; I would much prefer a multiplatform native toolkit as a first class citizen in Rust, versus all the ugly homegrown widget sets they use<p>That’s a design problem, not egui one. The reason UI went to shit is because no margin for creativity anymore, same design, same icons, same charts, same shit, I bet everyone in here can tell a site is using bootstrap css from the first 3 seconds..</text></comment> |
28,478,858 | 28,477,207 | 1 | 3 | 28,476,687 | train | <story><title>Squats can boost brain activity [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09v8wyh/how-squats-can-boost-your-brain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmaunder</author><text>Funny how people become obsessed with specific movements, specific exercise styles, etc. I’ve done it all including becoming obsessed with Mark Rippetoe and the derivatives, cardio like running and mountain biking, swimming 2km a day (80 lengths) etc. The one thing that has absolutely transformed my life is yoga. No more back pain, insane strength I never had, no more injuries from eg lifting a 100 lbs propane tank at an awkward angle onto a truck, and unbelievable mental clarity and focus. I do it daily for 30 mins. Never been to a class. I got into it via the 3 week yoga retreat program on the Beachbody app. Been doing it for about 4 years now. Takes about a year or two to fully realize the benefits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bamboozled</author><text>Funny because I did yoga for years and I&#x27;ve never felt better since doing olympic weight lifting and other forms of strength training.</text></comment> | <story><title>Squats can boost brain activity [video]</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09v8wyh/how-squats-can-boost-your-brain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmaunder</author><text>Funny how people become obsessed with specific movements, specific exercise styles, etc. I’ve done it all including becoming obsessed with Mark Rippetoe and the derivatives, cardio like running and mountain biking, swimming 2km a day (80 lengths) etc. The one thing that has absolutely transformed my life is yoga. No more back pain, insane strength I never had, no more injuries from eg lifting a 100 lbs propane tank at an awkward angle onto a truck, and unbelievable mental clarity and focus. I do it daily for 30 mins. Never been to a class. I got into it via the 3 week yoga retreat program on the Beachbody app. Been doing it for about 4 years now. Takes about a year or two to fully realize the benefits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deviation</author><text>Interesting- The benefits you mention are primarily physiological.<p>I would argue that if building strength, clarity, and focus is someone&#x27;s main goal then this could be just as easily achieved by regular routine exercise like a calisthenics or bodyweight program with a healthy diet to boot.
At least this way you can realise the benefits much quicker than a year or two.<p>I can&#x27;t speak to the rewarding &#x27;zen&#x27; nature of Yoga. After close to a decade of full-time weightlifting though, perhaps it has conditioned me into treating it as a sort of routine, mental therapy.</text></comment> |
12,457,387 | 12,457,247 | 1 | 2 | 12,456,136 | train | <story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.5</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aviraldg</author><text>Try WebStorm. I&#x27;m surprised at how few people use it, given the quality of the autocomplete and code assistance (and the fact that it works just as well with ES6 as it does with TypeScript!)</text></item><item><author>msoad</author><text>VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>On this day and age many don&#x27;t want to pay for tools.<p>Sometimes I wonder if Emacs and Vi would be so appreciated if they were commercial as well, without any FOSS version available.</text></comment> | <story><title>Visual Studio Code 1.5</title><url>https://code.visualstudio.com/updates?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aviraldg</author><text>Try WebStorm. I&#x27;m surprised at how few people use it, given the quality of the autocomplete and code assistance (and the fact that it works just as well with ES6 as it does with TypeScript!)</text></item><item><author>msoad</author><text>VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mixedCase</author><text>VSCode is open source software. WebStorm isn&#x27;t. I love JetBrains IDEs but I sure as hell prefer using tools that I can fix or modify myself.</text></comment> |
10,405,185 | 10,405,183 | 1 | 3 | 10,404,312 | train | <story><title>Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2015/10/16/former-stanford-dean-explains-why-helicopter-parenting-is-ruining-a-generation-of-children/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zkhalique</author><text>Perhaps, following sentiments of Peter Thiel and others, it&#x27;s not necessary to get into an elite school today, in order to succeed. If it was, then good education and success would still be scarce in today&#x27;s world, as most people can&#x27;t afford to go to Harvard, Stanford, etc.<p>Now we have MOOCs an schools can become centers for socializing, tutoring and testing. A great teacher can educate more than 300 people a year this way.</text></item><item><author>klunger</author><text>This. It is like that old adage, &quot;Behind every great man, there is a great woman.&quot; For the modern era, it should perhaps now be, &quot;behind every top-tier university student, there is a helicopter parent&quot;.<p>It takes so much to get into one of these schools now that it seems impossible for any child without extensive support.</text></item><item><author>wfo</author><text>Dean complains about helicopter parents at Stanford and yet admissions essentially requires incoming students have helicopter parents. To get into a school like this you need to be exclusively focused on exactly the arbitrary criteria that will get you accepted into a school like this -- grades in the &quot;right&quot; classes, enough sports to talk about it in an essay but not too much, extracurricular and volunteer work at the &quot;right&quot; organizations, tutoring for the standardized exams. No teenager has a passion for SAT prep. If you stop pushing them and let them be human beings there are plenty of other children of helicopter parents who will be happy to take their place in the incoming Stanford class.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lemevi</author><text>This is nonsense. Getting into elite schools opens up doors that are otherwise completely shut. At law firms, at prestigious graduate schools, in academia, in medical schools and good positions at top corporations. Every year information is collected on the various success rates for students coming out of America&#x27;s universities and students from elite school make up the highest paying and most successful members of our society. This is as true now as it was twenty years ago.</text></comment> | <story><title>Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2015/10/16/former-stanford-dean-explains-why-helicopter-parenting-is-ruining-a-generation-of-children/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zkhalique</author><text>Perhaps, following sentiments of Peter Thiel and others, it&#x27;s not necessary to get into an elite school today, in order to succeed. If it was, then good education and success would still be scarce in today&#x27;s world, as most people can&#x27;t afford to go to Harvard, Stanford, etc.<p>Now we have MOOCs an schools can become centers for socializing, tutoring and testing. A great teacher can educate more than 300 people a year this way.</text></item><item><author>klunger</author><text>This. It is like that old adage, &quot;Behind every great man, there is a great woman.&quot; For the modern era, it should perhaps now be, &quot;behind every top-tier university student, there is a helicopter parent&quot;.<p>It takes so much to get into one of these schools now that it seems impossible for any child without extensive support.</text></item><item><author>wfo</author><text>Dean complains about helicopter parents at Stanford and yet admissions essentially requires incoming students have helicopter parents. To get into a school like this you need to be exclusively focused on exactly the arbitrary criteria that will get you accepted into a school like this -- grades in the &quot;right&quot; classes, enough sports to talk about it in an essay but not too much, extracurricular and volunteer work at the &quot;right&quot; organizations, tutoring for the standardized exams. No teenager has a passion for SAT prep. If you stop pushing them and let them be human beings there are plenty of other children of helicopter parents who will be happy to take their place in the incoming Stanford class.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thriptic</author><text>It&#x27;s never been necessary to go to an elite school to be successful; it&#x27;s simply much easier to get your foot in the door with employers if you have the words &quot;MIT&quot; or &quot;Stanford&quot; on your resume as opposed to &quot;Coursera&quot; or some random college. Moreover, employers COME TO YOU if you are at these institutions, you don&#x27;t need to go out and beg for face time.</text></comment> |
30,149,254 | 30,148,634 | 1 | 3 | 30,148,147 | train | <story><title>BBC censors its own archives</title><url>https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/the-bbc-quietly-censors-its-own-archives/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>I think it&#x27;s important to keep an archive of unaltered content. But, given that much of this content is <i>for entertainment,</i> curation is important.<p>For example, when Disney Plus was new, I decided to watch Peter Pan with my kids. One was 4, and one wasn&#x27;t even two. Curiously, I couldn&#x27;t find Peter Pan in the &quot;kids&quot; mode, so I switched back to the adult mode and put it on. There was a very subtle warning about &quot;outdated cultural references,&quot; but I didn&#x27;t think much of it as I&#x27;ve seen Peter Pan a few times.<p>The Disney Plus version reintroduced &quot;What Made the Red Man Red?&quot;, an extremely racist musical bit. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What_Made_the_Red_Man_Red%3F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What_Made_the_Red_Man_Red%3F</a>) In the past, this song was cut from the VHS and DVD version. (And I have vague memories of wondering why the lost boys returned to their tree dressed as Indians.) I had no idea that this was put back in the movie. My jaw dropped when the song came on. I was in so much shock that I didn&#x27;t think to skip the scene.<p>Now, I have no problem preserving the uncut film, and making it generally available! But I also would prefer to show my young children the cut version of the film, and only show them racist material when they&#x27;re old enough to understand why it&#x27;s wrong. (After all, those who forget history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grujicd</author><text>I watched that scene on yt, read the lyrics and even wiki page about that song. I can&#x27;t understand why it&#x27;s considered &quot;extremely racist&quot;. It looks even cute. However I&#x27;m from Eastern Europe and probably miss some subtler context here. Or is this a case of overcorrection in US society? Excessive political correctness for past wrongdoings?<p>It&#x27;s also quite funny when I saw that &quot;black magic&quot; is now considered racist. Guess what? It&#x27;s also called &quot;black magic&quot; in Serbia since centuries ago, when noone here ever saw non-white man. Black in this context symbolizes darkness, and fear we feel in the dark. Not a skin color.<p>Btw. &quot;roleplaying&quot; cowboys and indians was a pupular childhood game in 80-ties here. Although Indians (I&#x27;m using this term since it&#x27;s still the only one used around here) were typically portraited as bad guys in movies, they were as popular as cowboys in our games and many children wanted to be like them.</text></comment> | <story><title>BBC censors its own archives</title><url>https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/01/the-bbc-quietly-censors-its-own-archives/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>I think it&#x27;s important to keep an archive of unaltered content. But, given that much of this content is <i>for entertainment,</i> curation is important.<p>For example, when Disney Plus was new, I decided to watch Peter Pan with my kids. One was 4, and one wasn&#x27;t even two. Curiously, I couldn&#x27;t find Peter Pan in the &quot;kids&quot; mode, so I switched back to the adult mode and put it on. There was a very subtle warning about &quot;outdated cultural references,&quot; but I didn&#x27;t think much of it as I&#x27;ve seen Peter Pan a few times.<p>The Disney Plus version reintroduced &quot;What Made the Red Man Red?&quot;, an extremely racist musical bit. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What_Made_the_Red_Man_Red%3F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;What_Made_the_Red_Man_Red%3F</a>) In the past, this song was cut from the VHS and DVD version. (And I have vague memories of wondering why the lost boys returned to their tree dressed as Indians.) I had no idea that this was put back in the movie. My jaw dropped when the song came on. I was in so much shock that I didn&#x27;t think to skip the scene.<p>Now, I have no problem preserving the uncut film, and making it generally available! But I also would prefer to show my young children the cut version of the film, and only show them racist material when they&#x27;re old enough to understand why it&#x27;s wrong. (After all, those who forget history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>I have the Peter Pan DVD, and it definitely has that song. I wonder if there are regional differences there.</text></comment> |
9,952,627 | 9,952,250 | 1 | 2 | 9,951,674 | train | <story><title>CoreCLR building on ARM</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/pull/1210</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bpye</author><text>There is still work to be done, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;coreclr&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1192" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;coreclr&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1192</a> . RyuJIT has legacy backend code and the new RyuJIT backend, only the former is functional on ARM but won&#x27;t be supported. Exception handling, also unwinding for GC is seemingly blocked by an LLVM bug resulting in bad unwind information being output for the exact build settings we need <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm.org&#x2F;bugs&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=24146" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm.org&#x2F;bugs&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=24146</a> . It is quite surprising to me how much visibility this has gotten though even in the very rough state it&#x27;s in now.</text></comment> | <story><title>CoreCLR building on ARM</title><url>https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/pull/1210</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghuntley</author><text>.NET everywhere, that makes five platforms in less than six months. Windows, Linux by MSFT and OSX, FreeBSD, ARM done out in the open by the community via GitHub pull-requests!</text></comment> |
31,088,966 | 31,088,957 | 1 | 2 | 31,087,262 | train | <story><title>Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintendo, experts suggest</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/leaked-game-boy-emulators-for-switch-were-made-by-nintendo-experts-suggest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>I’ll never understand why Nintendo doesn’t do a subscription to play any old game older than say three generations.<p>Nintendo is in the best position - since they never focused on specs all of their consoles are easily emulate-able.<p>There’s really no excuse. Even from a revenue perspective I’m confident they’d make more money this way. Make it so it works on any device - again Nintendo can do this because the consoles don’t require great computers to emulate.<p>You probably could run 100 gba emulators simultaneously at 120fps on a modern commodity desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Firmwarrior</author><text>I learned about this when I read the book &quot;Console Wars&quot;<p>Nintendo has always been all about artificial scarcity and increasing their products&#x27; value that way, ever since the early 80s<p>If Nintendo put out a subscription service with 3500 games, it would de-value all those games in the long run even though it might earn more revenue for the next few years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintendo, experts suggest</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/leaked-game-boy-emulators-for-switch-were-made-by-nintendo-experts-suggest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>I’ll never understand why Nintendo doesn’t do a subscription to play any old game older than say three generations.<p>Nintendo is in the best position - since they never focused on specs all of their consoles are easily emulate-able.<p>There’s really no excuse. Even from a revenue perspective I’m confident they’d make more money this way. Make it so it works on any device - again Nintendo can do this because the consoles don’t require great computers to emulate.<p>You probably could run 100 gba emulators simultaneously at 120fps on a modern commodity desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lcnPylGDnU4H9OF</author><text>I pay for Nintendo Switch Online, which includes access to a handful of games from the NES and SNES consoles. If I want to pay more I could also get access to games for N64 and SEGA Genesis (SEGA Mega Drive outside of North America if I&#x27;m not mistaken).<p>I would have to assume (may not be correct) that Nintendo Switch Online will roll over to their new console(s), albeit under some other name, including the emulation software and game access.</text></comment> |
18,524,751 | 18,523,210 | 1 | 2 | 18,521,200 | train | <story><title>How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of big tech companies</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-23/health-data-shared-with-tech-companies/10521456</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>donjoe</author><text>Last week, I got hit by a car while riding my bicycle. You won&#x27;t believe in how many colors an upper arm can shine. Anyhow, I took a picture of the arm, shared it to a friend on WhatsApp and promptly got a newsletter from Pinterest promoting tattoo posts. I do not have the Pinterest app on my phone, barely use it otherwise and would never search for tattoos since I&#x27;m just not interested.<p>I&#x27;ve been trying to find out since then where and how Pinterest might have gotten my blue&#x2F;red&#x2F;yellow&#x2F;green arm picture from to analyze it, interpret it and link it to my account. They might be able to search my friend&#x27;s phone&#x27;s pictures (in case he&#x27;s got the app which I&#x27;m not sure) and link the picture back to my account. Spooky though.</text></comment> | <story><title>How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of big tech companies</title><url>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-23/health-data-shared-with-tech-companies/10521456</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>13of40</author><text>I had a related thing happen a couple of months ago: I started getting some lower back pain that I thought might be kidney stones based on a couple of Google searches. Went to my doctor, who prescribed a muscle relaxant, which I got at the pharmacy across the street. It went away.<p>Over the next few weeks I got several robocalls on my cell phone from a pain clinic offering me relief for my &quot;chronic pain&quot;, so it was either triggered by my online searches or my doctor&#x27;s office or pharmacy sold off my private information.</text></comment> |
37,890,871 | 37,890,131 | 1 | 3 | 37,888,135 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/sippy-incremental-migration-s3-r2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solardev</author><text>The geographical blocks are not enforced by Cloudflare as a blanket ban, but are chosen by each account owner (it&#x27;s a setting you configure). I&#x27;ve worked with a few companies that saw this as a very valuable service (like small domestic companies blocking international traffic, especially from Russia and China, because we had no presence there anyway and that cut down bot traffic by like 95%).<p>Likewise, TOR access is similarly configurable. Companies choose to block it because more often than not it IS bot traffic, and the few potential real customers who use TOR are deemed not worth the headaches of the rest of the network.<p>Cloudflare&#x27;s WAF is really pretty granular, with a lot of toggles and overrides: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;waf&#x2F;managed-rules&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;waf&#x2F;managed-rules&#x2F;</a><p>Anecdote: For small businesses with limited web resources, these are just everyday tradeoffs they have to make in order to keep hosting and security fees reasonable. At the place I worked at, previously we were spending tens of thousands a year on hosting and thousands more for a competing WAF that cost like 10x more and didn&#x27;t work very well. Cloudflare let us move to a much lower hosting plan and cost like $240&#x2F;yr and drastically reduced bot traffic. Not a single customer complained over the next year or two. It was a huge improvement in both performance and costs.</text></item><item><author>figassis</author><text>This, CF is the only service that I find amazing, and that I do not use for anything. Compared to AWS, I think I prefer the &quot;we&#x27;re your unopinionated infra provider, if you want a WAF we have that too&quot;, vs the CF &quot;block the world, especially the developing world, give zero craps about it&quot;. I fundamentally would be unhappy as their customer even if their service were stellar because I do not want my apps to be associated with this arrogant stance of &quot;hey, your app blocks users from Nigeria&quot;.</text></item><item><author>pzmarzly</author><text>It&#x27;s a seemingly simple and obvious way to lazily migrate your data, but if using Sippy means one less thing for the application code to worry about, and (I assume) is a free add-on, then it provides a ton of value.<p>I have to admit that Cloudflare has been killing it recently with DevX &#x2F; OpsX. If I wasn&#x27;t against that company&#x27;s role in modern internet (as a user of Tor, their firewall is annoying to no end), I would have tried them out already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kkielhofner</author><text>I don’t understand the parent viewpoint.<p>“I don’t like Cloudflare because they’re trying to centralize the Internet and block me”<p>It’s not as though Cloudflare goes out and randomly inserts themselves in Internet traffic and has some blanket policy of ruining TOR or blocking you.<p>Cloudflare has customers (site hosts) that have choice in the marketplace and choose them. The customer configures whether their services use Cloudflare or not. The customer configures TOR access, CAPTCHA level, geoblocks, and any other number of hundreds of parameters.<p>Then people get mad at Cloudflare when a site&#x2F;host selects Cloudflare and configures it in a way that blocks them?<p>Cloudflare is selling what people want to buy and providing the service in the way they configure it. If you have a problem with that take it up with the site&#x2F;host&#x2F;CF customer, I truly don’t understand how&#x2F;why they can or should be blamed for their success.<p>I think what you’ll find is that many Cloudflare customers are practical and pragmatic. Want access to our site over Tor? Sorry but Tor is 99.999% shady&#x2F;malicious traffic we don’t care about. The risk vs reward isn’t there so blocked. Maybe if a customer says something we’ll enable it but that has never and will never happen so blocked.<p>Our PCI scans and auditing systems are showing weird traffic from Asia even though we have no customers or business there? Blocked.<p>Repeat this for any other number of factors and you can start to understand why Cloudflare has double the market share of their nearest competitor (AWS Cloudfront).<p>They offer a product suite site owners and hosts love. The collateral damage from a tiny fringe of legitimate users who get stuck in the CAPTCHAs, use tor, etc just don’t matter to the site hosts. If they did they would configure Cloudflare differently or leave them altogether.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/sippy-incremental-migration-s3-r2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solardev</author><text>The geographical blocks are not enforced by Cloudflare as a blanket ban, but are chosen by each account owner (it&#x27;s a setting you configure). I&#x27;ve worked with a few companies that saw this as a very valuable service (like small domestic companies blocking international traffic, especially from Russia and China, because we had no presence there anyway and that cut down bot traffic by like 95%).<p>Likewise, TOR access is similarly configurable. Companies choose to block it because more often than not it IS bot traffic, and the few potential real customers who use TOR are deemed not worth the headaches of the rest of the network.<p>Cloudflare&#x27;s WAF is really pretty granular, with a lot of toggles and overrides: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;waf&#x2F;managed-rules&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cloudflare.com&#x2F;waf&#x2F;managed-rules&#x2F;</a><p>Anecdote: For small businesses with limited web resources, these are just everyday tradeoffs they have to make in order to keep hosting and security fees reasonable. At the place I worked at, previously we were spending tens of thousands a year on hosting and thousands more for a competing WAF that cost like 10x more and didn&#x27;t work very well. Cloudflare let us move to a much lower hosting plan and cost like $240&#x2F;yr and drastically reduced bot traffic. Not a single customer complained over the next year or two. It was a huge improvement in both performance and costs.</text></item><item><author>figassis</author><text>This, CF is the only service that I find amazing, and that I do not use for anything. Compared to AWS, I think I prefer the &quot;we&#x27;re your unopinionated infra provider, if you want a WAF we have that too&quot;, vs the CF &quot;block the world, especially the developing world, give zero craps about it&quot;. I fundamentally would be unhappy as their customer even if their service were stellar because I do not want my apps to be associated with this arrogant stance of &quot;hey, your app blocks users from Nigeria&quot;.</text></item><item><author>pzmarzly</author><text>It&#x27;s a seemingly simple and obvious way to lazily migrate your data, but if using Sippy means one less thing for the application code to worry about, and (I assume) is a free add-on, then it provides a ton of value.<p>I have to admit that Cloudflare has been killing it recently with DevX &#x2F; OpsX. If I wasn&#x27;t against that company&#x27;s role in modern internet (as a user of Tor, their firewall is annoying to no end), I would have tried them out already.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>figassis</author><text>I am convinced that while harder, there are more intelligent ways to block these DDoS attacks other than blocking entire geographies. I often travel between Africa and US, and there are things like buying furniture (home depot blanket blocks non US customers, but they would simply allow shipping only to US addresses), buying cars (there are large car sites that don&#x27;t allow browsing from outside US, even if you&#x27;ve already have an account or bought from them in the past), etc.<p>I feel like geoblocking is the easy way out, because if developing countries suddenly started waving their cards en masse, these merchants would find a way to let them in.<p>Speaking of card waving, it likely only appears that developing countries are not a large customer base because to merchants, they look like US customers.<p>Most African countries don&#x27;t have access to Visa&#x2F;Master cards, so often they&#x27;ll have a US account where they can transfer some of their money. Others might earn in the US (like remote workers), and spend considerably in the US.<p>Then, because most merchants don&#x27;t ship outside the US, these customers would use shipping forwarders, like myus.com.<p>So when making the decision to &quot;block Nigeria because we don&#x27;t really have any customers there&quot;, they&#x27;re likely not considerig this potentially large customer base they&#x27;re alienating.<p>Even worse, these are usually customers that do not have access to credit, only debit, so for example, when buying large ticket items (like a car), they tend to pay for it all upfront, so likely great customers.<p>Then there are the business customers, the ones what want to buy containers full of merchandise. Those too get blocked.</text></comment> |
7,664,073 | 7,663,739 | 1 | 3 | 7,662,957 | train | <story><title>What Killed My Sister? </title><url>http://theamericanscholar.org/what-killed-my-sister/?key=55917458</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vacri</author><text>In the mid-90s, I remember hearing that in my state, cancer research received $150&#x2F;hospital bed, heart disease received $100&#x2F;bed, and schizophrenia received $7&#x2F;bed. My amateur theory on that was that the first two affect old, wealthy people, whereas the third affects young people with no power.</text></item><item><author>phren0logy</author><text>Psychiatrist here; glad to see this near the top of HN.Schizophrenia is a serious illness, and often misunderstood as &quot;split personality.&quot; It is a constellation of delusions, hallucinations, and scrambled thoughts that is often (though not always) pretty devastating to work, school, relationships, etc. For some reason, because we have no blood test or genetic test for it, the diagnosis is still met with skepticism from many in the public, even though everyone seems to accept the diagnosis of migraine headaches which similarly has no clear-cut lab or imaging findings.<p>What most people don&#x27;t consider is the change in life span:
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21741216" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;21741216</a><p>Life expectancy as about 17 years less for those with the diagnosis, which is worse than most cancers. It&#x27;s mentioned in the article, but worth repeating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>Here in Virginia, we recently had a pretty striking demonstration of what you&#x27;re talking about. One of the leading politicians in the state, state senator Creigh Deeds, was attacked with a knife and nearly killed by his own son, Austin, who was 24. [1] After the attack, the son killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Deeds was in dire condition, but survived.<p>It came out afterwards that Deeds&#x27; son, who had been diagnosed in the past with bipolar disorder, had undergone a psychiatric evaluation the day before the attack, and as a result of that evaluation had been placed under an emergency custody order. But Virginia law only gives mental health authorities six hours to find a bed to put the patient into in such cases; and in this case no bed could be found in that time, so Austin Deeds was sent home. [2]<p>This has naturally provoked a great deal of concern in these parts, both about how so little resources are available for mental health patients that a potentially violent one could be turned away for lack of an available bed, and about the ridiculously short 6-hour limit on how long such patients can be held. And rightly so -- if help had been available for Austin Deeds when he needed it, he might still be alive today, and his father might never have suffered such a horrific experience.<p>Deeds has recovered now, and upon his return to the legislature announced that he would be pushing hard for mental health reform in the state, garnering wide support. But it&#x27;s telling that the issue had to strike at a political leader for anyone in the political class to care about it overmuch. One wonders how many other families in Virginia have suffered their own horror stories, their own tragedies, in total silence -- just because, since they weren&#x27;t rich or powerful, nobody in a position to fix things could be bothered to care.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/virginia-state-senator-injured-in-home-another-person-found-dead-inside/2013/11/19/3e419ac4-512c-11e3-9fe0-fd2ca728e67c_story.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;local&#x2F;crime&#x2F;virginia-state-sen...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Va-Senator-Recalls-Sons-Attack-Mental-Illness-242231141.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nbcwashington.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;Va-Senator-Recalls-S...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What Killed My Sister? </title><url>http://theamericanscholar.org/what-killed-my-sister/?key=55917458</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vacri</author><text>In the mid-90s, I remember hearing that in my state, cancer research received $150&#x2F;hospital bed, heart disease received $100&#x2F;bed, and schizophrenia received $7&#x2F;bed. My amateur theory on that was that the first two affect old, wealthy people, whereas the third affects young people with no power.</text></item><item><author>phren0logy</author><text>Psychiatrist here; glad to see this near the top of HN.Schizophrenia is a serious illness, and often misunderstood as &quot;split personality.&quot; It is a constellation of delusions, hallucinations, and scrambled thoughts that is often (though not always) pretty devastating to work, school, relationships, etc. For some reason, because we have no blood test or genetic test for it, the diagnosis is still met with skepticism from many in the public, even though everyone seems to accept the diagnosis of migraine headaches which similarly has no clear-cut lab or imaging findings.<p>What most people don&#x27;t consider is the change in life span:
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21741216" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pubmed&#x2F;21741216</a><p>Life expectancy as about 17 years less for those with the diagnosis, which is worse than most cancers. It&#x27;s mentioned in the article, but worth repeating.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>protomyth</author><text>Well, if you look at cause of death, the first two are the big hitters in the US so that is part of the basis for more money. The history of funding treatment is pretty bad though.<p>It&#x27;s not so much no power, it has been the lack of advocates because of the shame associated with all mental illnesses. A person with cancer can do the noble stand. A person with schizophrenia is much less capable of doing the needed advocacy. Things are changing as more people are pushing and not keeping quiet.<p>From a advocacy view, we better start putting this and brain problems in general front and center since we are living long enough that we need the understanding of treating the brain to use our longer lives well.</text></comment> |
5,537,870 | 5,536,537 | 1 | 2 | 5,535,321 | train | <story><title>Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous</title><url>http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-making-bitcoin-anonymous.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>A1kmm</author><text><a href="http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf</a>, which is the fundamental piece of new cryptography which enables it to work, doesn't make any sense to me.<p>At the very least, the authors have made the formulation so unclear that you could start to suspect the authors were deliberately trying to obfuscate it. They define a function ZKSoK(c, w, r), and it would make sense not to use c, w, and r to mean anything else in the short definition of the construction. However, the authors chose to also use c for the hash used to make it non-interactive, and r_i for a series of random numbers. Using the same variable name for two different things makes it hard to work out what they mean, but as far as I can tell, the c that is the function parameter is public knowledge, w can be computed from public information, and ZKSoK does actually depend on the r that is the function parameter, and the validation of the proof does not actually check that S is correct (c is computed as c &#60;- g^S * h^r mod p, but it is useless if you can spend a zerocoin using any arbitrary S that doesn't actually correspond to any real c) as it claims.<p>In the 15 page version, they claim that the proof of the soundness of the ZKSoK proof can be found in "the full version of this paper" - perhaps that text makes things clearer, but they don't seem to provide a reference to it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous</title><url>http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-making-bitcoin-anonymous.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vessenes</author><text>I like seeing proposals like this that use Bitcoin as essentially a protocol layer (and in this case value store).<p>40KB anything is not going anywhere near the blockchain soon; this is going to be a no-go for the dev team and miners.<p>There are also a bunch of ancillary questions, like can these zero knowledge proofs (presumably non-interactive ones) be combined up with the rest of the blockchain to be turing-complete? Also a no-go.<p>Anyway, this is cool. Given current Bitcoin decision making processes, I would expect it would need a solid year of great adoption in some sort of side-car process before it had a shot at main blockchain integration, and even then, it would have to get drilled down to 1 or 2k of data max.</text></comment> |
26,753,302 | 26,753,435 | 1 | 2 | 26,751,562 | train | <story><title>Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-is-ahead-in-union-vote-as-tallying-set-to-resume-11617960604</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychometry</author><text>We need better education so that people stop voting against their own self-interest, in union elections and generally.</text></item><item><author>ActorNightly</author><text>USA needs better education so that people understand economics and labor markets, so they wont calling paid positions indentured servitude.</text></item><item><author>fartcannon</author><text>What a tragic way to frame it. The USA (and all the world governments) need to take care of it&#x27;s poor people better so they don&#x27;t have to choose indentured servitude over poverty.<p>Edit: Added the bit about all the world governments</text></item><item><author>aarongray</author><text>Speaking as someone who lives adjacent to Bessemer but who does not work at Amazon, you need to understand that Bessemer is a dying city, a slum. These were the best paying jobs that many of these workers had had in their entire lives, it is no wonder that a majority of them decided not to bite the hand that was feeding them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>...or maybe they just have differences in opinion to you?</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-is-ahead-in-union-vote-as-tallying-set-to-resume-11617960604</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychometry</author><text>We need better education so that people stop voting against their own self-interest, in union elections and generally.</text></item><item><author>ActorNightly</author><text>USA needs better education so that people understand economics and labor markets, so they wont calling paid positions indentured servitude.</text></item><item><author>fartcannon</author><text>What a tragic way to frame it. The USA (and all the world governments) need to take care of it&#x27;s poor people better so they don&#x27;t have to choose indentured servitude over poverty.<p>Edit: Added the bit about all the world governments</text></item><item><author>aarongray</author><text>Speaking as someone who lives adjacent to Bessemer but who does not work at Amazon, you need to understand that Bessemer is a dying city, a slum. These were the best paying jobs that many of these workers had had in their entire lives, it is no wonder that a majority of them decided not to bite the hand that was feeding them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>You mean like all those inner city women who constantly vote for gun control despite easy access to hot lead being the best way they can protect themselves from violence?<p>Or are we talking about the hicks that vote against government healthcare and social safety nets despite the fact that they would themselves benefit?<p>&quot;Voting against their interest&quot; is just how the ivory tower crowd derides the poor for sticking to their ideological guns even when it doesn&#x27;t benefit them. The poor have opinions and beliefs and making sacrifices in the name of their beliefs does not make them stupid.</text></comment> |
3,656,751 | 3,656,682 | 1 | 3 | 3,656,506 | train | <story><title>Danish Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/google-facebook-and-8000-other-sites-accidentally-dns-blocked-120302/</url><text>Censorship online is an emotive issue.<p>Some people believe that all information should be free and as adults it</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rickmb</author><text>So when exactly are we going to wake up to the fact that governments in the "free" West have over the past two decades implemented measures with respect to freedom of information, communication and privacy that in the decades before that we've consistently denounced as totalitarian police state tactics when it came to communist nations?<p>The problem is not that the police made this mistake. The problem is that they actually have the authority to do this in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Danish Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/google-facebook-and-8000-other-sites-accidentally-dns-blocked-120302/</url><text>Censorship online is an emotive issue.<p>Some people believe that all information should be free and as adults it</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fluidcruft</author><text>The authorities are just going to end up developing a whitelist of high-profile sites not to block. This is unfortunate because even high-profile sites deserve to be subject to the same laws and levels of scrutiny everyone else must tolerate. Once there's a whitelist mechanism law enforcement will just be even more cavalier.</text></comment> |
27,967,703 | 27,963,954 | 1 | 2 | 27,962,699 | train | <story><title>Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-launches-a-career-program-for-people-with-autism</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ganSo</author><text>This semester I had the opportunity to work with a classmate with Asperger&#x27;s syndrome.
It has been a very bad experience to say the least. In meetings he screams and berates us, gets very angry and easily frustrated when things are not done the way he wants to do them, even when the rest of the group has unanimously decided to do them a certain way. One time he started watching a video in the middle of the meeting and screamed at us to shut up every time we tried to talk because he couldn&#x27;t listen to his video.<p>My university or department has had absolutely no contact with me or any member of my group to guide us on how to work with a neurodivergent classmate, on how to make the group and project work. It has been a very tiring experience. Can anybody give me any advice on how to try to better the situation? How to make the environment better for him and my group?</text></comment> | <story><title>Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent</title><url>https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-launches-a-career-program-for-people-with-autism</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robotnikman</author><text>Glad to see them taking the initiative to make interviews more accommodating for people on the spectrum.<p>As someone on the spectrum myself, I always dreaded job interviews. I would try to get as much information on what the interview would entail as well as the atmosphere and other specifics so I could mentally prepare myself beforehand and give myself a better chance to show my best side. The example they provided of performing an interview in text through a google doc rather than over the phone really hits home for me, I feel like I am much better able to communicate my ideas through written mediums than verbally.<p>I feel overall there is a lot of untapped talent in the neurodiverse community that is passed over due to some of these barriers in effective communication, so I&#x27;m always glad to see companies take initiatives like this.</text></comment> |
38,874,577 | 38,868,778 | 1 | 2 | 38,866,256 | train | <story><title>AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea</title><url>https://globalfishingwatch.org/press-release/new-research-harnesses-ai-and-satellite-imagery-to-reveal-the-expanding-footprint-of-human-activity-at-sea/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jMyles</author><text>I&#x27;d love to hear a genuine argument from someone, of any age, who is anti-ADS-B.<p>I don&#x27;t understand the impetus to allow someone to fly a massive, deadly hunk of metal over a community without clarifying their telemetry to that community.<p>I think it&#x27;s an act of wanton corruption that law enforcement is now exempt from this requirement in some situations.</text></item><item><author>stevehawk</author><text>&gt; The other is privacy.<p>True in the aviation world. I&#x27;ve noticed that most people under, say, 50 or so, like ADS-B (airplanes broadcasting their location) for the safety reasons. But most of the pilots over 50 will say &quot;It&#x27;s just the government coming up with another way to track you.&quot;</text></item><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>So this is something I work with directly, but for some other agency.<p>First off, a big reason as to why - is because the laws differ from country to country. Some countries, like Norway for example, require shipping vessels over a certain length to broadcast their positions through AIS, VMS.<p>This may not be the case for, say, UK.<p>There are arguments to be had from both systems as to WHY you wouldn&#x27;t want to broadcast your positions at all times - a typical one is that other could easily infer your fishing fields (fishing patterns are trivial, if you&#x27;ve worked with this you can easily spot what tools they are fishing with, and likely what species they are going for - don&#x27;t need ML-based systems for that. Any fisher or fisheries analyst can spot the patterns), and thus go after that.<p>The other is privacy.<p>A very typical thing is that ships turn off their AIS as soon as they enter international waters. There is no enforcement of that, and many developed countries have practically zero resources to fight illegal fishing, from a technological point of view. UNDP has a program which is aimed at helping developing countries with the tech and training to detect illegal fishing, but there&#x27;s a long way to go. Developing countries desperately need the data, which is either owned by governments, or private actors. AIS data is either picked up by satellites, or base stations. VMS systems are expensive, but also allow for ships to transfer catch reports and similar - but is unfortunately not always enforced in a good way.<p>But tech is becoming better. Satellites with NAV&#x2F;marine radar detectors are in orbit. Long-range drones with sensors are a thing. Countries are hammering through laws that force ships to have certain sensors on them. Lots of ML-assisted tools for automating detection and analysis is being introduced and used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defrost</author><text>&gt; ADS-B data is broadcast every half-second on a 1090MHz, digital data link.<p>For more than a decade I worked airborne geophysical surveying - hundred thousand to a million+ line kilometre grid draping at 80m ground clearance on routes planned in advance.<p>The planes ran stable known instrument configurations and were calibrated weekly to measure their individual magnetic and radiometric signature.<p>Aircraft positioning signals on long haul flights Australia -&gt; India -&gt; Fiji -&gt; Mali weren&#x27;t an issue.<p>Extraneous non required signalling during grid surveying was an issue.<p>A reasonable comprimise was to blip a quick position fix at the end of every fourth or fifth 20 kilometre line run (say) ... otherwise no broadcasts during instrument recording times .. and glow in the dark divers watches for the pilots or random chunks of metal casing there one day and gone the next.</text></comment> | <story><title>AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea</title><url>https://globalfishingwatch.org/press-release/new-research-harnesses-ai-and-satellite-imagery-to-reveal-the-expanding-footprint-of-human-activity-at-sea/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jMyles</author><text>I&#x27;d love to hear a genuine argument from someone, of any age, who is anti-ADS-B.<p>I don&#x27;t understand the impetus to allow someone to fly a massive, deadly hunk of metal over a community without clarifying their telemetry to that community.<p>I think it&#x27;s an act of wanton corruption that law enforcement is now exempt from this requirement in some situations.</text></item><item><author>stevehawk</author><text>&gt; The other is privacy.<p>True in the aviation world. I&#x27;ve noticed that most people under, say, 50 or so, like ADS-B (airplanes broadcasting their location) for the safety reasons. But most of the pilots over 50 will say &quot;It&#x27;s just the government coming up with another way to track you.&quot;</text></item><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>So this is something I work with directly, but for some other agency.<p>First off, a big reason as to why - is because the laws differ from country to country. Some countries, like Norway for example, require shipping vessels over a certain length to broadcast their positions through AIS, VMS.<p>This may not be the case for, say, UK.<p>There are arguments to be had from both systems as to WHY you wouldn&#x27;t want to broadcast your positions at all times - a typical one is that other could easily infer your fishing fields (fishing patterns are trivial, if you&#x27;ve worked with this you can easily spot what tools they are fishing with, and likely what species they are going for - don&#x27;t need ML-based systems for that. Any fisher or fisheries analyst can spot the patterns), and thus go after that.<p>The other is privacy.<p>A very typical thing is that ships turn off their AIS as soon as they enter international waters. There is no enforcement of that, and many developed countries have practically zero resources to fight illegal fishing, from a technological point of view. UNDP has a program which is aimed at helping developing countries with the tech and training to detect illegal fishing, but there&#x27;s a long way to go. Developing countries desperately need the data, which is either owned by governments, or private actors. AIS data is either picked up by satellites, or base stations. VMS systems are expensive, but also allow for ships to transfer catch reports and similar - but is unfortunately not always enforced in a good way.<p>But tech is becoming better. Satellites with NAV&#x2F;marine radar detectors are in orbit. Long-range drones with sensors are a thing. Countries are hammering through laws that force ships to have certain sensors on them. Lots of ML-assisted tools for automating detection and analysis is being introduced and used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pc86</author><text>There is no legitimate argument against ADS-B other than &quot;I don&#x27;t wanna.&quot; Not to say that that isn&#x27;t legitimate and doesn&#x27;t at least deserve a discussion, but that&#x27;s really it. There&#x27;s really no Constitutional or statutory argument against requiring ADS-B.</text></comment> |
13,256,180 | 13,256,198 | 1 | 2 | 13,255,900 | train | <story><title>George Michael has died</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38432862</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>golergka</author><text>Last Christmas reference is, of course, cheesy, but I can&#x27;t think of better way to remember a great musician than with his music.</text></comment> | <story><title>George Michael has died</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38432862</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanBC</author><text>Here&#x27;s a nice article about an appearance of his and Morrissey&#x27;s on an 80s tv show.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.post-punk.com&#x2F;morrissey-george-michael-talk-about-breakdancing-and-joy-division&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.post-punk.com&#x2F;morrissey-george-michael-talk-about...</a><p>He&#x27;s spot on about Morely.</text></comment> |
20,356,000 | 20,356,145 | 1 | 2 | 20,355,477 | train | <story><title>Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time</title><url>https://apps.apple.com/us/app/effortless/id1368722917</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>I&#x27;m not in the market for this kind of app, but thank you for making it a straight $9.99 purchase, instead of a $4.99&#x2F;month SaaS (rental) scheme. Or some bogus in-app purchase that gets negated somewhere along the way when the app auto-updates and the previous in-app purchase is no longer available.<p>I can&#x27;t tell if it syncs data with my other Apple devices, but if it does, it would be great if it had the option of doing it through iCloud instead of through some proprietary untrusted service that I have to create yet another account for. (I&#x27; looking at you, Panic and Junecloud.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time</title><url>https://apps.apple.com/us/app/effortless/id1368722917</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpulgarin</author><text>Hey HN! My name is Julian, and I made Effortless with aracena to solve a problem we were both having: how to focus on exactly one thing at a time. Effortless displays my current task, and a countdown timer in the menu bar, and although it sounds silly, it means that I have a constant visual reminder of what I should be working on. Effortless was also a great excuse to learn Swift and native Mac app development. I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions about the app or the development process, although it&#x27;s my birthday so I might be a little slow to respond. If you have any feedback or want a trial code to test Effortless out feel free to write me at [email protected] . Thanks!</text></comment> |
29,155,381 | 29,155,419 | 1 | 2 | 29,154,216 | train | <story><title>Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community</title><url>https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ejj28</author><text>Phone verification can certainly be annoying, but anyone who&#x27;s been part of large Discord communities will know that spambots that DM users with all kinds of scams are a huge issue. Phone verification stops someone from raiding a server with it enabled with hundreds of bot accounts. As for VOIP numbers not being allowed, that also makes sense; VOIP numbers are extremely cheap and allowing them to be used would defeat the whole purpose of phone verification.<p>Personally I think that giving server admins the ability to require phone verification is a good thing. It&#x27;s not mandatory and it&#x27;s only used if the server admin enables it. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to blame Discord when it&#x27;s a choice made by the server admin, plus a forum could have the same requirement.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Oh please do. This seems like the perfect time to bring this up:<p>I had a piece of software that used Discord for support. They required that users be verified, which requires you to give you phone number to Discord. I gave them my Google Voice number, which is the only number I have, and they rejected it because they don&#x27;t support VOIP numbers. I asked them if there was any other way to verify my identity.<p>They told me, &quot;Just use a friend&#x27;s phone to verify. As long as they don&#x27;t try to verify on Discord in six months it should be fine, we won&#x27;t check again&quot;.<p>Their official answer to identity verification was to impersonate someone else!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>My problem isn&#x27;t with the phone verification. I totally understand why they do that. I don&#x27;t even have a problem with not accepting VOIP. I get why they do that too.<p>My problem is that they don&#x27;t have an alternative, and there is no way for channel admins that turn on that feature to know how many people can&#x27;t get in because of their choice.<p>They should either have an alternative way to verify oneself, or a way for the channel admin to allow you in without the verification, or both.</text></comment> | <story><title>Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community</title><url>https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ejj28</author><text>Phone verification can certainly be annoying, but anyone who&#x27;s been part of large Discord communities will know that spambots that DM users with all kinds of scams are a huge issue. Phone verification stops someone from raiding a server with it enabled with hundreds of bot accounts. As for VOIP numbers not being allowed, that also makes sense; VOIP numbers are extremely cheap and allowing them to be used would defeat the whole purpose of phone verification.<p>Personally I think that giving server admins the ability to require phone verification is a good thing. It&#x27;s not mandatory and it&#x27;s only used if the server admin enables it. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to blame Discord when it&#x27;s a choice made by the server admin, plus a forum could have the same requirement.</text></item><item><author>jedberg</author><text>Oh please do. This seems like the perfect time to bring this up:<p>I had a piece of software that used Discord for support. They required that users be verified, which requires you to give you phone number to Discord. I gave them my Google Voice number, which is the only number I have, and they rejected it because they don&#x27;t support VOIP numbers. I asked them if there was any other way to verify my identity.<p>They told me, &quot;Just use a friend&#x27;s phone to verify. As long as they don&#x27;t try to verify on Discord in six months it should be fine, we won&#x27;t check again&quot;.<p>Their official answer to identity verification was to impersonate someone else!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>There’s a bot that will ban most of those spam bots called Beemo. You realize a lot of bots are verified right? I’ve seen scripts to verify accounts on GitHub and spoken to the kinds of people who would automate accounts via scripts just to have a bunch of alts. They get numerous alts into servers just to spy. Its a kind of art I guess. I wouldn’t recommend doing any of these things.<p>Personally I just wish Discord wouldnt rate limit bans if they’re not going to make a true effort to catch these bot farms. Gee I wonder how likely it is that three thousand accounts will decide to join the same exact server at the exact same minute? Having modded a decent (tens of thousands) sized Guild I gotta say people pop in every few minutes or seconds. Unless something big and relevant to your server happens that draws more traffic, but even then never thousands in seconds.</text></comment> |
33,778,258 | 33,777,623 | 1 | 3 | 33,774,822 | train | <story><title>BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-as-ftx-fallout-spreads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fdgsdfogijq</author><text>I talked to an employee that left last spring. She said they had literally no idea what they were doing. The founders are just ivy educated 30 year olds. So they decided to just start hiring everyone they could from paypal, to move into &quot;blockchain payments&quot;. They paid huge sums. The directors there had no experience ever managing huge teams of people. It was a giant mess of unqualified people funded by cheap capital.<p>She also said the money movements on the blockchain facilitated by BlockFi were done manually by blockfi employees. The software was a facade and wasnt trusted for large sums of money</text></item><item><author>propter_hoc</author><text>Somehow these guys peaked at about 900 employees, according to linkedin (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;blockfi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;blockfi</a>)<p>They&#x27;ve raised about a billion dollars of VC - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;organization&#x2F;blockfi-inc&#x2F;investor_financials" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;organization&#x2F;blockfi-inc&#x2F;investor...</a><p>(note, CB lists $1.4b, of which 400M is debt from FTX, which I imagine they never got)<p>Unbelievable the amount of destruction of value here... it&#x27;s just total carnage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mring33621</author><text>Here is the model, as I currently understand it:<p>1) some people are rich and want to get richer<p>2) Ivy educated VCs invest money for group (1) in start-up companies, while paying themselves handsomely with that same pool of money<p>3) Ivy educated kids start companies using money from group (2), while paying themselves handsomely with that same pool of money<p>4) sometimes, through a combo of hard work, skill and luck, things work out and everyone makes more money than was spent<p>5) sometimes, because they are mostly, actually a bunch of yahoos and&#x2F;or scammers, things don&#x27;t work out and group (1) loses their money<p>There are some oversimplifications here, but in general, this seems to be the way.</text></comment> | <story><title>BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-as-ftx-fallout-spreads.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fdgsdfogijq</author><text>I talked to an employee that left last spring. She said they had literally no idea what they were doing. The founders are just ivy educated 30 year olds. So they decided to just start hiring everyone they could from paypal, to move into &quot;blockchain payments&quot;. They paid huge sums. The directors there had no experience ever managing huge teams of people. It was a giant mess of unqualified people funded by cheap capital.<p>She also said the money movements on the blockchain facilitated by BlockFi were done manually by blockfi employees. The software was a facade and wasnt trusted for large sums of money</text></item><item><author>propter_hoc</author><text>Somehow these guys peaked at about 900 employees, according to linkedin (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;blockfi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;blockfi</a>)<p>They&#x27;ve raised about a billion dollars of VC - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;organization&#x2F;blockfi-inc&#x2F;investor_financials" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;organization&#x2F;blockfi-inc&#x2F;investor...</a><p>(note, CB lists $1.4b, of which 400M is debt from FTX, which I imagine they never got)<p>Unbelievable the amount of destruction of value here... it&#x27;s just total carnage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Melting_Harps</author><text>&gt; They&#x27;ve raised about a billion dollars of VC - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;organization&#x2F;blockfi-inc&#x2F;investor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchbase.com&#x2F;organization&#x2F;blockfi-inc&#x2F;investor</a>...<p>&gt; talked to an employee that left last spring. She said they had literally no idea what they were doing. The founders are just ivy educated 30 year olds<p>So was SBF (MIT) and raised from Sequoia and Blackrok and his GF was a Stanford&#x27;ite with a Math degree and is responsible for the largest loss of funds from that cluster**.<p>Can we finally admit the biggest scammers in this space are those from Ivy League, and connections with SV insiders traditional VC&#x2F;Banking&#x2F;Finance without out a clue of what they are doing or how this tech actually works; as a fintech boot strapped founder with over a decade in the Bitcoin community its been fairly obvious for at least 7 years since Blythe Masters and all her cronies from traditional finance got involved this was the case.<p>Maybe now the rest of you vocal sideliners can finally see that is the case and that most of you are part of the problem more than most of us who have built startuprs using this tech without any of those things and did it the hard way outside of the VC&#x2F;SV Ivy League World.</text></comment> |
4,071,550 | 4,071,465 | 1 | 2 | 4,071,162 | train | <story><title>The new way to land a job at Facebook</title><url>https://www.kaggle.com/c/FacebookRecruiting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tluyben2</author><text>I'm not trolling here, but I have to ask i'm seriously wondering what is 'so great' about landing a job at Facebook? They have a nice tech stack, but it's a social networking site. How is it interesting to be a cog in the machine that is Facebook? Again; serious question; I'm curious. I'm a bit older :) and I would not want to work for any company other than a startup; I learned in life it is not the right dope for me. And so I am interested what makes it so interesting to work for this (Edit: scrapped [kind of]) company.<p>Edit: I mean; so interesting that you want to jump through hoops to get in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kmavm</author><text>Hey, my name is Keith Adams, and I'm an engineer at Facebook.<p>I work on the HipHop virtual machine, a dynamic compiler and runtime for the PHP language. It is the hardest challenge I've tackled professionally, and the people I'm working with are brilliant and work like animals.*<p>I think the larger significance of our work on HipHop is in the context of software as a whole. PHP is one of those "developer productivity languages," like Python, JavaScript, LUA, etc. And, though I was skeptical before I came here, developers really are more productive in these languages. It would blow your mind what world-class people working in this medium can accomplish in compressed timeframes. This means that increasing these languages' performance is incredibly leveraged; to the extent we're successful at making PHP faster, we change the set of problems that PHP can address. Moving a problem from the "must be solved in C++" category to the "can be solved in PHP" category frees up our fellow developers to get more done with their finite professional lives.<p>*Edit: By "like animals", I mean, "with a survival-level sense of urgency." It doesn't necessarily mean long hours.</text></comment> | <story><title>The new way to land a job at Facebook</title><url>https://www.kaggle.com/c/FacebookRecruiting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tluyben2</author><text>I'm not trolling here, but I have to ask i'm seriously wondering what is 'so great' about landing a job at Facebook? They have a nice tech stack, but it's a social networking site. How is it interesting to be a cog in the machine that is Facebook? Again; serious question; I'm curious. I'm a bit older :) and I would not want to work for any company other than a startup; I learned in life it is not the right dope for me. And so I am interested what makes it so interesting to work for this (Edit: scrapped [kind of]) company.<p>Edit: I mean; so interesting that you want to jump through hoops to get in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>i_like_my_name</author><text>Andrei Alexandrescu said: "One really cool thing about doing machine learning at Facebook is the sheer size of data involved; most researchers are happy to put together a graph with some hundreds of thousands of nodes. At Facebook samples of interest are in the hundreds of millions and more. It took a few of us quite a while to figure out how to distribute graph processing on many machines, but we finally did it. We should be able to publish the method soon."<p><a href="http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-facebook-research-engineer-andrei-alexandrescu/" rel="nofollow">http://www.serversidemagazine.com/news/10-questions-with-fac...</a><p>Edit: On the other hand, I doubt he had to jump through any hoops to land a job at facebook.</text></comment> |
9,011,901 | 9,012,043 | 1 | 3 | 9,009,988 | train | <story><title>‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/06/the-witness-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>footpath</author><text>Here&#x27;s a nice thread about Jonathan Blow&#x27;s view on investing:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2198255" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2198255</a><p><i>you are better off taking the mental energy you would have expended on &quot;investing&quot; and subsequently worrying about your money, and instead funneling it into your creative endeavors. You will make more money that way, especially when you take a long-term view.</i><p>...<p><i>If creative endeavors are profitable, you can use the resulting money to fuel more creative endeavors, thus making the world a better place. Keeping money in a bank account or publicly-traded stock does not particularly make the world a better place.<p>Once I got approximately into the f-you money level of income, it became crystal clear how fictitious money is in the first place. I wake up one morning, and bam, I am wealthy! Why? Because someone said so and typed a number into a computer. Okay... that&#x27;s kind of weird.<p>Given that money is so fictitious and somewhat meaningless, it is a shame to give into primal hoarding impulses, just so one can see the number in one&#x27;s bank account go up like a high score in a video game. It&#x27;s much better to make like Elon Musk and use your money for what it is: a way to wield influence to make the world more like you would like it to be.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vortizz</author><text>Sure, money is fictitious and meaningless once you&#x27;ve moved into the f-you echelon. By definition. Perhaps for that segment piping it into creative endeavors is fulfilling and worthwhile.<p>For everyone else for whom money is a meal, rent, or essential good instead of an expletive, who cannot afford to take an ethereally long-term view, this advice is out of touch with reality if not plain dangerous.</text></comment> | <story><title>‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game</title><url>http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/06/the-witness-money/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>footpath</author><text>Here&#x27;s a nice thread about Jonathan Blow&#x27;s view on investing:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2198255" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2198255</a><p><i>you are better off taking the mental energy you would have expended on &quot;investing&quot; and subsequently worrying about your money, and instead funneling it into your creative endeavors. You will make more money that way, especially when you take a long-term view.</i><p>...<p><i>If creative endeavors are profitable, you can use the resulting money to fuel more creative endeavors, thus making the world a better place. Keeping money in a bank account or publicly-traded stock does not particularly make the world a better place.<p>Once I got approximately into the f-you money level of income, it became crystal clear how fictitious money is in the first place. I wake up one morning, and bam, I am wealthy! Why? Because someone said so and typed a number into a computer. Okay... that&#x27;s kind of weird.<p>Given that money is so fictitious and somewhat meaningless, it is a shame to give into primal hoarding impulses, just so one can see the number in one&#x27;s bank account go up like a high score in a video game. It&#x27;s much better to make like Elon Musk and use your money for what it is: a way to wield influence to make the world more like you would like it to be.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>In general I agree with that, although having enough money &quot;hoarded&quot; such that you can collect a monthly stipend to cover basic necessities (like food, shelter, and utilities) makes spending all your time on investing your creative energies a lot less stressful :-)</text></comment> |
32,511,749 | 32,511,430 | 1 | 2 | 32,505,092 | train | <story><title>Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219303</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daniel-cussen</author><text>There&#x27;s the racial component as well.<p>For instance Spaniards (ethnic Visigoths) have near-total immunity to bad pork, whereas Jews (Jewish Diaspora, ethnic Jews) are very vulnerable.<p>Think of it this way: if there was a public service announcement by the early Jews, where would they write it down?</text></item><item><author>nivertech</author><text>I&#x27;ve read a medical research paper about the resurgence of some nasty parasitic disease in Israel with the breakdown by religious community[1]. Turns what? The stricter the dietary laws for the community were - the less infections occurred.<p>And we&#x27;re talking about sheep here, which is similar in size to pig. There are might be a confounding variables here though, i.e. some communities are mostly urban, others are more rural ones. Or maybe sheep meat is less popular among less infected. Or maybe the animals were smuggled from the &quot;West Bank&quot; which is endemic, and veterinary control services are not strict there if existing at all.<p>--<p>[1] they used 4 different religions there, but I won&#x27;t name them in order to not offend anyone.</text></item><item><author>sigmoid10</author><text>It&#x27;s still not economical to test e.g. every single pig for roundworms, especially since they do not create clinical symptoms in these hosts and a direct test is rather expensive. But they can pose a significant risk to humans who eat undercooked pork and in the past about 5 percent of Americans were estimated to be infected at any given time. This has only gone down thanks to modern production standards that eliminate or drastically reduce exposure to wild animals that may transmit the disease. Compared to farm animals it&#x27;s actually pretty easy to contain insects in an environment where they can&#x27;t get infected with foreign pathogens, since people don&#x27;t really care about freely roaming larvae.</text></item><item><author>nivertech</author><text>Larger animals can be inspected individually to find pathogens or diseases.<p>Insects are so small that it&#x27;s practically impossible to inspect each individual organism. You can do sampling of the batch, but the odds of missing bad ones are still high.<p>Same with the fruits and vegetables, some are easy to inspect, others are almost impossible, or impossible to clean. There are kosher (insect-free) versions of lettuce and some berries which are much more expensive than non-kosher ones.<p>Lastly, disgust is a part of the human immune system. Religious dietary laws and cultural taboos are probably partly developed from disgust, and partly from trial-and-error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nivertech</author><text>That&#x27;s not racial immunity, it&#x27;s probably an alcohol-induced &quot;immunity&quot; or resistance.<p>Visigoths probably drunk much more alcohol than Jews, which is a good disinfectant. In the old times it was even part of the soldier rations in some armies.<p>Some Visigoths converted to Islam and migrated to Morocco, but even after their conversion they still had a reputation of heavy drinkers.<p>For 10 years I was a pescetarian, until one time I tasted a beef carpaccio, and it was both edible and tasty (before that I wasn&#x27;t even thinking about meat as a food). So I started eating raw meat dishes like steak tartar, but I always drunk a shot of something strong for safety, until one day I understood that it&#x27;s unnecessary.</text></comment> | <story><title>Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (2019)</title><url>https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219303</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daniel-cussen</author><text>There&#x27;s the racial component as well.<p>For instance Spaniards (ethnic Visigoths) have near-total immunity to bad pork, whereas Jews (Jewish Diaspora, ethnic Jews) are very vulnerable.<p>Think of it this way: if there was a public service announcement by the early Jews, where would they write it down?</text></item><item><author>nivertech</author><text>I&#x27;ve read a medical research paper about the resurgence of some nasty parasitic disease in Israel with the breakdown by religious community[1]. Turns what? The stricter the dietary laws for the community were - the less infections occurred.<p>And we&#x27;re talking about sheep here, which is similar in size to pig. There are might be a confounding variables here though, i.e. some communities are mostly urban, others are more rural ones. Or maybe sheep meat is less popular among less infected. Or maybe the animals were smuggled from the &quot;West Bank&quot; which is endemic, and veterinary control services are not strict there if existing at all.<p>--<p>[1] they used 4 different religions there, but I won&#x27;t name them in order to not offend anyone.</text></item><item><author>sigmoid10</author><text>It&#x27;s still not economical to test e.g. every single pig for roundworms, especially since they do not create clinical symptoms in these hosts and a direct test is rather expensive. But they can pose a significant risk to humans who eat undercooked pork and in the past about 5 percent of Americans were estimated to be infected at any given time. This has only gone down thanks to modern production standards that eliminate or drastically reduce exposure to wild animals that may transmit the disease. Compared to farm animals it&#x27;s actually pretty easy to contain insects in an environment where they can&#x27;t get infected with foreign pathogens, since people don&#x27;t really care about freely roaming larvae.</text></item><item><author>nivertech</author><text>Larger animals can be inspected individually to find pathogens or diseases.<p>Insects are so small that it&#x27;s practically impossible to inspect each individual organism. You can do sampling of the batch, but the odds of missing bad ones are still high.<p>Same with the fruits and vegetables, some are easy to inspect, others are almost impossible, or impossible to clean. There are kosher (insect-free) versions of lettuce and some berries which are much more expensive than non-kosher ones.<p>Lastly, disgust is a part of the human immune system. Religious dietary laws and cultural taboos are probably partly developed from disgust, and partly from trial-and-error.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exhilaration</author><text>This sounds pretty absurd and I can&#x27;t find anything on Google about native Spaniards having any kind of special immunity to &quot;bad pork&quot;, specifically pork tapeworm or any of the other common pig parasites. So if you&#x27;ve got some links I&#x27;d love to read more.</text></comment> |
21,442,385 | 21,442,667 | 1 | 2 | 21,442,088 | train | <story><title>Visual Studio online available for public preview</title><url>https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lostintangent</author><text>Hey All! I’m a PM on the Visual Studio Online team (as well as Live Share and IntelliCode), and we’re extremely excited to have more developers try out the product. Our goal is to dramatically reduce the cost of setup&#x2F;onboarding, enable better team&#x2F;classroom collaboration, and further support remote development. We believe that having on-demand, cloud-powered dev environments, that are accessible from VS Code and the web, provides a huge step towards achieving that.<p>Let us know if you have any questions&#x2F;comments&#x2F;feedback, since we’re very keen to begin working with the broader developer community, and learning how we can continue to improve. Otherwise, check out the service (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aka.ms&#x2F;vso" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aka.ms&#x2F;vso</a>), and then let us know what you think (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;GitHub.com&#x2F;microsoftdocs&#x2F;vsonline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;GitHub.com&#x2F;microsoftdocs&#x2F;vsonline</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>Visual Studio online available for public preview</title><url>https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-online/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AlexeyBrin</author><text>It would be great if there would be a free tier for people that want to learn C++ with VS. Something that lets you use VS online for small C++ programs (similar with Compiler Explorer but with support for running the generated binary) to build and run these small programs.</text></comment> |
27,117,059 | 27,116,878 | 1 | 2 | 27,116,024 | train | <story><title>Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?</title><url>https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/workplace-wellbeing-is-a-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kumarvvr</author><text><p><pre><code> Workplace wellbeing
Wholesome workplace
Workplace is a family
</code></pre>
and a myriad of other touchy-feely terms are just plain bullshit. Whole industries have cropped up to support the efforts of managements to keep workforces in control and deflect resentment (people don&#x27;t leave companies, they leave managers ! and other crap)<p>The ground reality is when the company feels you are not needed, all that touch-feely stuff goes down the drain.<p>No, my company is not my family. I may have good friends and great co-workers, but, at the end of the day, I only have the amount of loyalty to the company, as much as it has towards me.<p>Perhaps its time the internet comes up with training sessions that promote the real face of large corporations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wiz21c</author><text>I totally agree. I mean, nobody cares that I agree. But I have been hurt so much by all that bullshit that readin your comment makes me better.<p>Now I have this question for all the HR departments who engage in spreading those &quot;touchy feely&quot; terms : either you do realize that there&#x27;s a problem with that, then why do you go on spreading it OR you don&#x27;t realize there&#x27;s a problem, then why do you feel those terms are acceptable for the employees ?<p>I honestly ask. Because all of that looks to me as a total intellectual scam. And usually, when I think this way, either there&#x27;s really a scam, either my system of values is completely at odds with reality (and I need to understand my blind spot)</text></comment> | <story><title>Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam?</title><url>https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/workplace-wellbeing-is-a-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kumarvvr</author><text><p><pre><code> Workplace wellbeing
Wholesome workplace
Workplace is a family
</code></pre>
and a myriad of other touchy-feely terms are just plain bullshit. Whole industries have cropped up to support the efforts of managements to keep workforces in control and deflect resentment (people don&#x27;t leave companies, they leave managers ! and other crap)<p>The ground reality is when the company feels you are not needed, all that touch-feely stuff goes down the drain.<p>No, my company is not my family. I may have good friends and great co-workers, but, at the end of the day, I only have the amount of loyalty to the company, as much as it has towards me.<p>Perhaps its time the internet comes up with training sessions that promote the real face of large corporations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtberatwork</author><text>&gt; Workplace is a family<p>This one is the biggest eye roll for me. Family and friends don&#x27;t give performance reviews and push other such metrics down your throat.</text></comment> |
38,573,841 | 38,573,613 | 1 | 3 | 38,545,522 | train | <story><title>'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-team-of-math-proves-a-critical-link-between-addition-and-sets-20231206/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmill</author><text>I helped a very little with the formalization (I filled in some trivial algebraic manipulations, and I was there for some Lean technical support).<p>It&#x27;s exciting to see how quickly the work was done, but it&#x27;s worth keeping in mind that a top mathematician leading a formalization effort is very exciting, so he could very easily scramble a team of around 20 experienced Lean users.<p>There aren&#x27;t enough experienced Lean users to go around yet for any old project, so Gowers&#x27;s point about ease of use is an important one.<p>Something that was necessary for the success of this was years of development that had already been done for both Lean and mathlib. It&#x27;s reassuring that mathlib is being developed in such a way that new mathematics can be formalized using it. Like usual though, there was plenty missing. I think this drove a few thousand more lines of general probability theory development.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>The maths goes over my head, but this paragraph was very interesting:<p>&gt; Tao then kicked off an effort to formalize the proof in Lean, a programming language that helps mathematicians verify theorems. In just a few weeks, that effort succeeded. Early Tuesday morning of December 5, Tao announced that Lean had proved the conjecture without any “sorrys” — the standard statement that appears when the computer can’t verify a certain step. This is the highest-profile use of such verification tools since 2021, and marks an inflection point in the ways mathematicians write proofs in terms a computer can understand. If these tools become easy enough for mathematicians to use, they might be able to substitute for the often prolonged and onerous peer review process, said Gowers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zozbot234</author><text>&gt; Something that was necessary for the success of this was years of development that had already been done for both Lean and mathlib<p>Yes but the bulk of the work on this project was background as well. So the ease of use problem should be solving itself over time as more and more prereqs get filled in.<p>BTW, I find it interesting that mathlib is apparently also getting refactored to accommodate constructive proofs better, as part of the porting effort to Lean 4. This might encourage more CS- and program-verification minded folks to join the effort, and maybe some folks in math-foundations too (though Lean suffers there by not being able to work with the homotopy-types axioms).</text></comment> | <story><title>'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-team-of-math-proves-a-critical-link-between-addition-and-sets-20231206/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kmill</author><text>I helped a very little with the formalization (I filled in some trivial algebraic manipulations, and I was there for some Lean technical support).<p>It&#x27;s exciting to see how quickly the work was done, but it&#x27;s worth keeping in mind that a top mathematician leading a formalization effort is very exciting, so he could very easily scramble a team of around 20 experienced Lean users.<p>There aren&#x27;t enough experienced Lean users to go around yet for any old project, so Gowers&#x27;s point about ease of use is an important one.<p>Something that was necessary for the success of this was years of development that had already been done for both Lean and mathlib. It&#x27;s reassuring that mathlib is being developed in such a way that new mathematics can be formalized using it. Like usual though, there was plenty missing. I think this drove a few thousand more lines of general probability theory development.</text></item><item><author>blowski</author><text>The maths goes over my head, but this paragraph was very interesting:<p>&gt; Tao then kicked off an effort to formalize the proof in Lean, a programming language that helps mathematicians verify theorems. In just a few weeks, that effort succeeded. Early Tuesday morning of December 5, Tao announced that Lean had proved the conjecture without any “sorrys” — the standard statement that appears when the computer can’t verify a certain step. This is the highest-profile use of such verification tools since 2021, and marks an inflection point in the ways mathematicians write proofs in terms a computer can understand. If these tools become easy enough for mathematicians to use, they might be able to substitute for the often prolonged and onerous peer review process, said Gowers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ska</author><text>&gt;Something that was necessary for the success of this was years of development that had already been<p>For projects like this it is often very thankless work in the beginning, and can be a real grind.<p>You need at least one person with a vision of how cool it will be in the (poorly defined) future, and a lot of determination.</text></comment> |
21,288,962 | 21,288,975 | 1 | 3 | 21,287,736 | train | <story><title>I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)</title><url>http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/11/22/i-survived-the-destroying-angel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmitrybrant</author><text>I grew up in Russia, and like in many other Slavic cultures, mushroom foraging was a time-honored family affair. Some of my fondest memories are of picking mushrooms with my grandmother, who taught me all I know about identifying them. I still forage them all the time here in the States.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but it continues to baffle me how someone can mistake an Amanita for a Coprinus (or Agaricus). To my eyes they&#x27;re as different as a bottle of milk and a bottle of Drano. I suppose I can see how very young specimens of Amanita can resemble other varieties, but then you can follow a simple rule: if it looks <i>remotely</i> like a baby Amanita... don&#x27;t take it! There are plenty of other mushrooms that are virtually unmistakable.<p>And then the idea of not <i>double-checking</i> what you foraged before cooking and eating it? That&#x27;s... unconscionable. I&#x27;ve been foraging for 30+ years, and I still examine each individual specimen before putting it in the pot.<p>It&#x27;s a shame because these kinds of stories create unnecessary fear in Americans about picking things from the wild, when there are so many great tastes and experiences right there at your fingertips.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peanutz454</author><text>&gt; when there are so many great tastes and experiences right there at your fingertips.<p>As someone who has cooked with exactly one kind of mushroom (button) I find this intriguing. I thought all mushrooms taste more or less the same. I may have eaten something at a restaurant, but don&#x27;t remember anything unique.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)</title><url>http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/11/22/i-survived-the-destroying-angel/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmitrybrant</author><text>I grew up in Russia, and like in many other Slavic cultures, mushroom foraging was a time-honored family affair. Some of my fondest memories are of picking mushrooms with my grandmother, who taught me all I know about identifying them. I still forage them all the time here in the States.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but it continues to baffle me how someone can mistake an Amanita for a Coprinus (or Agaricus). To my eyes they&#x27;re as different as a bottle of milk and a bottle of Drano. I suppose I can see how very young specimens of Amanita can resemble other varieties, but then you can follow a simple rule: if it looks <i>remotely</i> like a baby Amanita... don&#x27;t take it! There are plenty of other mushrooms that are virtually unmistakable.<p>And then the idea of not <i>double-checking</i> what you foraged before cooking and eating it? That&#x27;s... unconscionable. I&#x27;ve been foraging for 30+ years, and I still examine each individual specimen before putting it in the pot.<p>It&#x27;s a shame because these kinds of stories create unnecessary fear in Americans about picking things from the wild, when there are so many great tastes and experiences right there at your fingertips.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antisemiotic</author><text>I think it really helps to be taught by someone who knows what they&#x27;re doing. Where I live (Poland) it&#x27;s common to have this knowledge passed down in families. I wouldn&#x27;t dare to pick up anything based on a picture in a book.</text></comment> |
35,030,983 | 35,029,637 | 1 | 2 | 35,028,499 | train | <story><title>Chinese banks cause alarm as capital flight measures intensify</title><url>https://www.asiamarkets.com/chinese-banks-cause-alarm-as-capital-flight-measures-intensify/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChemSpider</author><text>That possibility makes me really nervous. A few weeks ago I was pretty sure that Beijing would not be <i>that</i> stupid, and simply stick with sending tons of dual-use goods, to keep up the plausible deniability.<p>But Chinese rockets hitting Ukrainian kids in Kyiv&#x2F;Europe? That would trigger dramatic sanctions. I don&#x27;t think that is priced into the current world stock market.</text></item><item><author>foota</author><text>Could be in preparation for supplying arms to Russia.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Are the increasingly tight capital controls a precursor to a war with Taiwan or because the CCP expects some other shock to occur? Is their economy expected to crash for some other reason or is this simply dictatorships love centralised control over everything especially capital?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>908B64B197</author><text>&gt; But Chinese rockets hitting Ukrainian kids in Kyiv&#x2F;Europe? That would trigger dramatic sanctions. I don&#x27;t think that is priced into the current world stock market.<p>Short term this would wreck western economies worse than the 2007 crisis.<p>Long term, it would be the end of China and give a massive boost to western economies. In the mainland it would mean massive stagnation&#x2F;industry collapse as manufacturing is moved to pro-western southeast Asian countries. Millions of unemployed and unmarried (thanks to out of control population control policies) aggressive young man roaming the country with no hope to emigrate thanks to sanctions. Add food insecurity to the mix, since some countries exporting food to China might re-consider their allegiances not to get sanctioned as well and it would spell disaster for the regime.<p>High net worth individuals getting their foreign assets seized for double allegiance in the west would provide relief to native home buyers and free so much capital to be spent on consumptions good, to soften the blow of higher production costs because of re-shoring.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chinese banks cause alarm as capital flight measures intensify</title><url>https://www.asiamarkets.com/chinese-banks-cause-alarm-as-capital-flight-measures-intensify/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChemSpider</author><text>That possibility makes me really nervous. A few weeks ago I was pretty sure that Beijing would not be <i>that</i> stupid, and simply stick with sending tons of dual-use goods, to keep up the plausible deniability.<p>But Chinese rockets hitting Ukrainian kids in Kyiv&#x2F;Europe? That would trigger dramatic sanctions. I don&#x27;t think that is priced into the current world stock market.</text></item><item><author>foota</author><text>Could be in preparation for supplying arms to Russia.</text></item><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>Are the increasingly tight capital controls a precursor to a war with Taiwan or because the CCP expects some other shock to occur? Is their economy expected to crash for some other reason or is this simply dictatorships love centralised control over everything especially capital?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>&gt; A few weeks ago I was pretty sure that Beijing would not be that stupid...<p>The US is executing the same broad strategy against both China and Russia - surrounding them with US-friendly states who then get military support. It seems to be working extremely well against Russia since they can barely get Russian troops into the Donbass safely.<p>While I, personally, agree that it would be stupid I can certainly see that situation from the perspective of a hypothetical Chinese military planner. A destabilised Russia would potentially have a colour revolution leading to a US encirclement on 3 compass points. China would therefore have no choice but to support the war effort against Ukraine.</text></comment> |
22,893,625 | 22,893,766 | 1 | 3 | 22,891,497 | train | <story><title>Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/04/apple-battery-health-management/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubber_duck</author><text>I got a top spec 15 MBP a year ago and I have to say the experience is appalling - 4000$ device that goes full airplane takeoff levels of noise at any serious workload, no ability to control performance (I would gladly throttle the CPU sooner to avoid everyone in the office turning my way when I start an emulator or keep the fans at lower RPM but constantly instead of letting the CPU idle at 60-70 degrees with no fans).<p>All of this could be fixed if the device gave me power settings but even third party paid tools that require custom kernel extensions (Volta) still don&#x27;t work reliably.<p>My next computer is not going to be from Apple for sure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjayhn</author><text>If it makes you feel any better I branched off to a XPS 13 2in1 4 months ago in between jobs (where I use the latest mbp) and used the thing for 2-3 months with no MBP as backup.<p>I absolutely hate it. It throttles constantly even after undervolting it. I had to do a bunch of black magic to get it to sleep properly (which is evidently happening to every Dell) and eventually gave up on that and just set it to hibernate any time the lids closed (it&#x27;s 32gb so that adds about 30 seconds to the start up time). I&#x27;ve spent more time tweaking this thing, reading forums and reddit about how to make it perform DECENTLY than I did building my last hackintosh and I don&#x27;t enjoy that experience ever. When you get past all these issues it&#x27;s still Windows 10 which I just find to be the most annoying OS I&#x27;ve ever used.<p>Just got my new MBP yesterday and couldn&#x27;t be more excited to be back on osx. I do really, really wish my MBP was smaller and a 2 in 1, though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/04/apple-battery-health-management/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubber_duck</author><text>I got a top spec 15 MBP a year ago and I have to say the experience is appalling - 4000$ device that goes full airplane takeoff levels of noise at any serious workload, no ability to control performance (I would gladly throttle the CPU sooner to avoid everyone in the office turning my way when I start an emulator or keep the fans at lower RPM but constantly instead of letting the CPU idle at 60-70 degrees with no fans).<p>All of this could be fixed if the device gave me power settings but even third party paid tools that require custom kernel extensions (Volta) still don&#x27;t work reliably.<p>My next computer is not going to be from Apple for sure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>satysin</author><text>I have almost identical spec laptops from Dell and Apple (XPS 15 and 15&quot; MacBook Pro with same CPU) and on both they ramp up to full fan speed when I do any serious work on them so it isn&#x27;t limited to Apple laptops.<p>Pretty much all 15&quot; laptops with 45W Intel CPUs turn into jet engines when under load, at least in my experience.<p>Also not to defend Apple but I do find the MacBook Pro cools down and gets quieter quicker than the Dell does although that could down to my personal setup (tools, configuration, etc). Could be the more powerful Nvidia dGPU on the Dell although I am talking purely CPU workload however with the shared thermal solution the Dell has it could be a bigger factor than I think?</text></comment> |
30,871,781 | 30,871,448 | 1 | 2 | 30,857,549 | train | <story><title>Lessons from Owning a Bookstore</title><url>https://ryanholiday.net/29-lessons-from-owning-a-bookstore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcguire</author><text>&quot;<i>...a better marketer...</i>&quot;<p>Oh, my lord, everything about this article screams shallow internet marketing.<p>&quot;<i>...a small town book store in rural Texas...</i>&quot; Bastrop is a (rather distant) suburb of Austin. &quot;Rural Texas&quot; is Roby (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;place&#x2F;Roby,+TX+79543&#x2F;@32.7721923,-100.5799545,10.21z&#x2F;data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8655e471ba626a2d:0xa9c2e3880a14e4fd!8m2!3d32.7448314!4d-100.3776067" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;place&#x2F;Roby,+TX+79543&#x2F;@32.7721923...</a>).<p>&quot;<i>...the first 12 months of owning The Painted Porch. ... I love how The Painted Porch is now, but it took weeks and months to get it to where it is. It’s been a continual process of improvement and growth and making changes.</i>&quot; A <i>whole</i> year?!<p>&quot;<i>I think one of the best decisions we made was making our book tower. It’s 20 feet tall and made of some 2000 books, 4000 nails, and 40 gallons of glue. It was not cheap to do. It was not easy to do. It took forever. We had to solve all sorts of logistical problems to make it work. But it’s also probably one of the single best marketing and business decisions we made in the whole store. Because it’s the number one thing that people come into the store to take pictures of.</i>&quot;<p>This: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;preview.redd.it&#x2F;2ajncim1mdk71.png?width=1200&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=b3d335426e77da2390eebf10a2d6049a3ac6b09a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;preview.redd.it&#x2F;2ajncim1mdk71.png?width=1200&amp;format=...</a> Really? Really.</text></item><item><author>thenerdhead</author><text>It helps when you&#x27;re a famous author&#x2F;influencer and owner of said bookstore and have famous author&#x2F;influencer friends who help promote your bookstore. This sadly isn&#x27;t the case for the many gems&#x2F;rare book stores in the various cities around the US. My favorite bookstores that have been opened for 30+ years are recently going out of business.<p>Not to discredit his success, but if anyone else followed these tips and did not have such a large following online, they would probably go under too.<p>The one thing I think his bookstore does better than others? A personal curated collection. Also, Holiday is just simply a better marketer than your average bookstore owner.<p>So just remember:<p>- Start small.<p>...<p>- Be famous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tharne</author><text>&gt; Oh, my lord, everything about this article screams shallow internet marketing.<p>Shallow internet marketing is kind of Ryan Holiday&#x27;s jam. He&#x27;s to books what Cheetos is to food.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lessons from Owning a Bookstore</title><url>https://ryanholiday.net/29-lessons-from-owning-a-bookstore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcguire</author><text>&quot;<i>...a better marketer...</i>&quot;<p>Oh, my lord, everything about this article screams shallow internet marketing.<p>&quot;<i>...a small town book store in rural Texas...</i>&quot; Bastrop is a (rather distant) suburb of Austin. &quot;Rural Texas&quot; is Roby (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;place&#x2F;Roby,+TX+79543&#x2F;@32.7721923,-100.5799545,10.21z&#x2F;data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8655e471ba626a2d:0xa9c2e3880a14e4fd!8m2!3d32.7448314!4d-100.3776067" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;maps&#x2F;place&#x2F;Roby,+TX+79543&#x2F;@32.7721923...</a>).<p>&quot;<i>...the first 12 months of owning The Painted Porch. ... I love how The Painted Porch is now, but it took weeks and months to get it to where it is. It’s been a continual process of improvement and growth and making changes.</i>&quot; A <i>whole</i> year?!<p>&quot;<i>I think one of the best decisions we made was making our book tower. It’s 20 feet tall and made of some 2000 books, 4000 nails, and 40 gallons of glue. It was not cheap to do. It was not easy to do. It took forever. We had to solve all sorts of logistical problems to make it work. But it’s also probably one of the single best marketing and business decisions we made in the whole store. Because it’s the number one thing that people come into the store to take pictures of.</i>&quot;<p>This: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;preview.redd.it&#x2F;2ajncim1mdk71.png?width=1200&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=b3d335426e77da2390eebf10a2d6049a3ac6b09a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;preview.redd.it&#x2F;2ajncim1mdk71.png?width=1200&amp;format=...</a> Really? Really.</text></item><item><author>thenerdhead</author><text>It helps when you&#x27;re a famous author&#x2F;influencer and owner of said bookstore and have famous author&#x2F;influencer friends who help promote your bookstore. This sadly isn&#x27;t the case for the many gems&#x2F;rare book stores in the various cities around the US. My favorite bookstores that have been opened for 30+ years are recently going out of business.<p>Not to discredit his success, but if anyone else followed these tips and did not have such a large following online, they would probably go under too.<p>The one thing I think his bookstore does better than others? A personal curated collection. Also, Holiday is just simply a better marketer than your average bookstore owner.<p>So just remember:<p>- Start small.<p>...<p>- Be famous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wincy</author><text>What strikes me is the surrounding picture I’m struck thinking “where are the books? Where are the bookshelves? There’s like 6 books sparsely populating a shelf. When I think of a used book store like the one I frequented when I was a teenager, I expect it to be absolutely lousy with books in every nook and cranny, filled to the brim with interesting finds.</text></comment> |
28,074,322 | 28,074,327 | 1 | 2 | 28,073,586 | train | <story><title>Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border</title><url>https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/google-co-founder-larry-page-allowed-into-new-zealand-despite-closed-border-2503055</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>Really?<p>My daily anxieties are &quot;I need to find time to make dinner&#x2F;shop.&quot;, &quot;I need to fit in a run into this crazy day.&quot;, &quot;Do I have enough money for retirement?&quot;, &quot;My co-workers are stressing me out.&quot;, &quot;Can I get this project done on time?&quot;<p>I literally can&#x27;t think of a common daily anxiety or frustration that would not just evaporate if I was a retired multi-billionaire.</text></item><item><author>ethanbond</author><text>Maybe with a very superficial conception of “human condition.” I’m sure Larry has many of the same daily frustrations and anxieties that you and I do.<p>Not to suggest that it’s not seriously advantageous to have eliminated the frustrations&#x2F;anxieties that you <i>can</i> purchase your way out of.</text></item><item><author>graderjs</author><text>Super-rich people are already post-human. They experience the human condition on an entirely separate level than most everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trey-jones</author><text>The difference that I see immediately is that all of your anxieties are focused on yourself, while this article is specifically about providing medical care to Mr. Page&#x27;s son.<p>My own anxieties have largely to do with my children, and while some can probably be bought away (is my kid getting an OK education at this public school?), there isn&#x27;t an amount of money to instantly solve &quot;my kid is sick&quot;.<p>I agree on the whole with the sentiment that the situations of the super rich are not comparable to ours, but there are some things that money won&#x27;t solve, and likely some problems that you and I cannot conceive of that money creates.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border</title><url>https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/google-co-founder-larry-page-allowed-into-new-zealand-despite-closed-border-2503055</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ensorceled</author><text>Really?<p>My daily anxieties are &quot;I need to find time to make dinner&#x2F;shop.&quot;, &quot;I need to fit in a run into this crazy day.&quot;, &quot;Do I have enough money for retirement?&quot;, &quot;My co-workers are stressing me out.&quot;, &quot;Can I get this project done on time?&quot;<p>I literally can&#x27;t think of a common daily anxiety or frustration that would not just evaporate if I was a retired multi-billionaire.</text></item><item><author>ethanbond</author><text>Maybe with a very superficial conception of “human condition.” I’m sure Larry has many of the same daily frustrations and anxieties that you and I do.<p>Not to suggest that it’s not seriously advantageous to have eliminated the frustrations&#x2F;anxieties that you <i>can</i> purchase your way out of.</text></item><item><author>graderjs</author><text>Super-rich people are already post-human. They experience the human condition on an entirely separate level than most everyone else.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Workaccount2</author><text>I recently watched a short mini-doc about Notch, of minecraft fame, and it seems he really went through it after selling MC for $2.5 billion. He talked a lot about isolation and an inability to connect with other people, despite becoming well known for insane parties and stating he has the ability to do whatever he wants.<p>Other people who have come upon sudden riches have expressed the same sentiment. There was a great post on reddit years ago from a guy in wealth management who talked about the severe lack of &quot;human experience&quot; when you achieve maximum wealth.</text></comment> |
18,975,425 | 18,975,390 | 1 | 3 | 18,975,189 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Simple Opt Out – Makes it easier to opt out of data sharing</title><url>http://simpleoptout.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerpderp82</author><text>The most egregious sharing and it results directly in identity theft is the sharing of your financial information after getting a credit card.<p>I didn&#x27;t have my own credit card until a couple months ago. I am <i>old</i>. As soon as that thing landed, I now get a constant stream of junk mail with my name and contact info plastered all over it telling me I need insurance, annuities, death insurance, more credit cards, financial management, etc.<p>This should be illegal.<p>The banks should be 100% on the hook for identity theft, they caused this themselves. Infact, I signed up for the Amazon Prime Card and they incessantly try to get me to upgrade to &quot;account protection&quot;. How about YOU protect my account, you sent me the card (which appears to NOT have a mag stripe or a chip and pin, rendering it useless except online), how about you only authorize its use for Prime purchases shipped to my house? I really should stop using Amazon. Garbage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Simple Opt Out – Makes it easier to opt out of data sharing</title><url>http://simpleoptout.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>squegles</author><text>Why is the Visa opt-out page, which requires the full card number, not secure. The certificate is invalid.
See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketingreportoptout.visa.com&#x2F;OPTOUT&#x2F;request.do" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketingreportoptout.visa.com&#x2F;OPTOUT&#x2F;request.do</a></text></comment> |
30,100,557 | 30,100,420 | 1 | 3 | 30,099,740 | train | <story><title>The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strangely-successful-history-of-people-mailing-themselves-in-boxes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technotarek</author><text>Velvet Underground anyone? Slightly less successful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skinnymuch</author><text>First thought. For people not into music or this sort of indie rock music. The song is worth a listen for its innovation and sleekness at the time. The song, The Gift, is from Velvet Underground’s 2nd album in 1968. It’s long and is all spoken word. The story comes out of the left speaker and the rock music comes from the right speaker.<p>The song is influential. The more contemporary ‘Undone – The Sweater Song’ by Weezer in 1994 is influenced by The Gift. Also has sleek rock music and a lot of spoken words.</text></comment> | <story><title>The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strangely-successful-history-of-people-mailing-themselves-in-boxes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>technotarek</author><text>Velvet Underground anyone? Slightly less successful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technotarek</author><text>Here’s the song: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;mI-YiaWDgB4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;mI-YiaWDgB4</a></text></comment> |
25,801,049 | 25,799,055 | 1 | 3 | 25,793,378 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Space Simulator (Or, Charles Guy’s Galaxy in a Box)</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2021/01/microsoft-space-simulator-or-charles-guys-galaxy-in-a-box/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexjudson</author><text>I have been working on a realistic scale space simulator (working title, Space Freighters) that I like to describe as a &quot;truck simulator in space.&quot; [0] The focus is currently in creating a simulator with realistic spaceflight physics (I am an aerospace engineer by day), that also allows you to bend some rules with options for FTL travel. I am striving for a calm gameplay similar to the truck simulator franchises in which the player can deliver cargo and take time to admire the universe around them.<p>The project is still young, and I do not have a lot to share at the moment, but if you are interested, you can follow along on the subreddit below!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SpaceFreighters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SpaceFreighters&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghostDancer</author><text>A mining simulator with realistic physics
ΔV: Rings of Saturn: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koder.itch.io&#x2F;dv-rings-of-saturn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koder.itch.io&#x2F;dv-rings-of-saturn</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Space Simulator (Or, Charles Guy’s Galaxy in a Box)</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2021/01/microsoft-space-simulator-or-charles-guys-galaxy-in-a-box/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexjudson</author><text>I have been working on a realistic scale space simulator (working title, Space Freighters) that I like to describe as a &quot;truck simulator in space.&quot; [0] The focus is currently in creating a simulator with realistic spaceflight physics (I am an aerospace engineer by day), that also allows you to bend some rules with options for FTL travel. I am striving for a calm gameplay similar to the truck simulator franchises in which the player can deliver cargo and take time to admire the universe around them.<p>The project is still young, and I do not have a lot to share at the moment, but if you are interested, you can follow along on the subreddit below!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SpaceFreighters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;SpaceFreighters&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavlov</author><text>This description sounds a bit like Elite II: Frontier. I remember enjoying it greatly back in the day. The entire game fit on one floppy.</text></comment> |
18,863,006 | 18,862,526 | 1 | 3 | 18,854,881 | train | <story><title>No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income if You Find a Job</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/business/dealbook/education-student-loans-lambda-schools.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nthot</author><text>Is it stepped at all? Do you owe nothing before 50k and then once you cross that threshold you now owe money? That would seem to incentivise staying below that threshold for a percentage of borrowers.<p>I also have difficulty seeing the first benefit you list as being a benefit. I don&#x27;t have a problem with people pursuing degrees in fields that aren&#x27;t big money makers, but I also don&#x27;t know that the government should be in the business of incentivising people to study in these fields.<p>On the other hand, there is societal benefit to these fields being pursued in general. And the market economy may not adequately pay for the benefits it receives. As a society we wouldn&#x27;t want everyone to major in poetry, though.</text></item><item><author>atiredturte</author><text>Australia has a system that, while different, has similar perks to this. We have a government loan system called HELP (formerly HECS).<p>Basically students can get a zero interest government loan (rises with inflation), and only need to pay it off once they make above a certain threshold ($51,957 according to the official website[1]). The payments are deducted as a percentage of your income, with the payments increasing with your wage.<p>This has a number of benefits:<p>1. Students whose degrees don&#x27;t work out for them (i.e. can&#x27;t find meaningful employment) aren&#x27;t stuck with rising interest on their debts.<p>2. Allows poorer students to go to uni without parental support (I am currently a student and support myself entirely)<p>3. Reduces pressure on graduates to find a job just to pay off their debts. They can take their time to find a good job in their industry, rather than working lower-paying, unrelated work to pay off their loans.<p>My degree at UNSW in Australia will cost about $27k AUD (~$19k USD) and I&#x27;m unsure about the costs of others in my country. Under the HELP system, Australians are allowed a fair go at an education, and can take their future into their own hands (rather than relying on their parents).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.studyassist.gov.au&#x2F;paying-back-your-loan&#x2F;loan-repayment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.studyassist.gov.au&#x2F;paying-back-your-loan&#x2F;loan-re...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>&gt; <i>I also have difficulty seeing the first benefit you list as being a benefit. I don&#x27;t have a problem with people pursuing degrees in fields that aren&#x27;t big money makers, but I also don&#x27;t know that the government should be in the business of incentivising people to study in these fields.</i><p>It&#x27;s actually one of the best things about the system. Maybe you want to be a social worker who will never earn much but will make a meaningful difference in peoples lives, or a lawyer that only works for non-profits, or a doctor that only works for doctors without borders, or any one of ten thousand other examples where a person can make an extremely valuable contribution to society, but doesn&#x27;t earn a ton of money.<p>You made the mistake of assuming that only people earning a ton of money make valuable contributions to a society.</text></comment> | <story><title>No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income if You Find a Job</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/business/dealbook/education-student-loans-lambda-schools.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nthot</author><text>Is it stepped at all? Do you owe nothing before 50k and then once you cross that threshold you now owe money? That would seem to incentivise staying below that threshold for a percentage of borrowers.<p>I also have difficulty seeing the first benefit you list as being a benefit. I don&#x27;t have a problem with people pursuing degrees in fields that aren&#x27;t big money makers, but I also don&#x27;t know that the government should be in the business of incentivising people to study in these fields.<p>On the other hand, there is societal benefit to these fields being pursued in general. And the market economy may not adequately pay for the benefits it receives. As a society we wouldn&#x27;t want everyone to major in poetry, though.</text></item><item><author>atiredturte</author><text>Australia has a system that, while different, has similar perks to this. We have a government loan system called HELP (formerly HECS).<p>Basically students can get a zero interest government loan (rises with inflation), and only need to pay it off once they make above a certain threshold ($51,957 according to the official website[1]). The payments are deducted as a percentage of your income, with the payments increasing with your wage.<p>This has a number of benefits:<p>1. Students whose degrees don&#x27;t work out for them (i.e. can&#x27;t find meaningful employment) aren&#x27;t stuck with rising interest on their debts.<p>2. Allows poorer students to go to uni without parental support (I am currently a student and support myself entirely)<p>3. Reduces pressure on graduates to find a job just to pay off their debts. They can take their time to find a good job in their industry, rather than working lower-paying, unrelated work to pay off their loans.<p>My degree at UNSW in Australia will cost about $27k AUD (~$19k USD) and I&#x27;m unsure about the costs of others in my country. Under the HELP system, Australians are allowed a fair go at an education, and can take their future into their own hands (rather than relying on their parents).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.studyassist.gov.au&#x2F;paying-back-your-loan&#x2F;loan-repayment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.studyassist.gov.au&#x2F;paying-back-your-loan&#x2F;loan-re...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drieddust</author><text>&gt; I also don&#x27;t know that the government should be in the business of incentivising people to study in these fields<p>That&#x27;s interesting. So do you want government to only fund the vocational courses and allow the rich class to be the torch bearer in research, art, and culture because only they can afford it?</text></comment> |
15,429,610 | 15,429,437 | 1 | 2 | 15,429,067 | train | <story><title>Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jessriedel</author><text>See extensive discussion on HN (1054 points, 406 comments) of this issue back in May.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14287235" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14287235</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Wikimedia Foundation's runaway spending growth</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>film42</author><text>&gt; The modern Wikipedia hosts 11–12 times as many pages as it did in 2005, but the WMF is spending 33 times as much on hosting...<p>Wikipedia also keeps &quot;revision history&quot; and a &quot;talk&quot; section for each page. Those original pages created before 2005 can still be modified, potentially adding to the overall cost. Breaking news stories can cause massive amounts of churn which I imagine has increased with the site&#x27;s popularity [1]. So really 11x pages = 33x higher hosting costs doesn&#x27;t seem unrealistic considering how much metadata is associated with each page. That&#x27;s not to say there isn&#x27;t a problem, but &quot;page count&quot; might not be the best metric. I wonder what average number of revisions per page looks like over the last 12 years.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xtools.wmflabs.org&#x2F;articleinfo&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;Talk:2017_Las_Vegas_Strip_shooting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xtools.wmflabs.org&#x2F;articleinfo&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;Talk...</a></text></comment> |
24,916,733 | 24,915,659 | 1 | 2 | 24,912,172 | train | <story><title>Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency</title><url>https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/study-finds-over-80-percent-of-covid19-patients-have-vitamin-d-deficiency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelMoser123</author><text>Nobody seems to be asking a related question: in a sunny country like Israel vitamin D deficiency should be less common, does that translate into fewer Covid-19 cases?<p>Well, there seem to be differences between different ethnic &amp; religious groups, but on average vitamin D deficiency seems to be less prevalent in Israel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;28647929&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;28647929&#x2F;</a><p>However Covid-19 cases don&#x27;t seem to have been lacking in Israel <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;israel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;israel&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reuven</author><text>There was a newspaper article (in Israel, where I live) on this subject. It noted that the two populations most mostly likely to suffer from covid are Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) and Arabs, both of which tend to dress conservatively, and the latter of which have darker skin than the average Israeli, and thus might have less vitamin D in their systems.<p>Of course, these two populations also tend to be poorer and have larger families living together, so there are other factors to consider as well.<p>For example, Israelis are told to worry about skin cancer, and thus tend to use sunblock when going out in the summer. Which removes the chance of serious vitamin D generation, from what I understand.<p>I find the discussion of vitamin D to be very interesting, but it feels like we need a few more studies to determine whether this is the big one. But the more discussions I see, the more I think it might actually explain quite a lot.</text></comment> | <story><title>Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency</title><url>https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2020/study-finds-over-80-percent-of-covid19-patients-have-vitamin-d-deficiency</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MichaelMoser123</author><text>Nobody seems to be asking a related question: in a sunny country like Israel vitamin D deficiency should be less common, does that translate into fewer Covid-19 cases?<p>Well, there seem to be differences between different ethnic &amp; religious groups, but on average vitamin D deficiency seems to be less prevalent in Israel: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;28647929&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;28647929&#x2F;</a><p>However Covid-19 cases don&#x27;t seem to have been lacking in Israel <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;israel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worldometers.info&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;country&#x2F;israel&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>In some conservative Muslim countries -- often found in sunny areas -- girls have high rates of vitamin D deficiency because of the practice of being very covered up anytime they leave the house. I read some book authored by a woman from such a country and one of the details that stood out was a remark she made about how every woman who gets out of those countries remarks on how wonderful it is be able to just go outside without a veil and feel the sun on your skin.<p>Plus, as others have noted, some of those countries have very young populations and darker skin tones of local inhabitants impacts vitamin D production as well.<p>There are really going to be a lot of factors involved.</text></comment> |
24,356,226 | 24,356,342 | 1 | 2 | 24,353,830 | train | <story><title>India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53998205</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>actuator</author><text>I think this might be related to the Tibetan origin special forces soldier of Indian Army being killed in some recent altercation with PRC on their northern border.[1]<p>I do think India is going on a slippery slope now. With Tiktok, one can even make a case of it being used to manipulate sentiments and being used for propoganda, but
that argument can hardly be made for a game like PubG. It also brings into question whether the ruling government can disrupt a business on its whim of the day.<p>Also, as far as I understand India is far more dependent economically on trade with China then China is on India. Do they really want to start a trade war with China?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;sep&#x2F;01&#x2F;indian-special-forces-soldier-killed-in-skirmish-with-chinese-troops" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;sep&#x2F;01&#x2F;indian-special...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addicted</author><text>The ruling government has destroyed the Indian economy with its arbitrary decisions. And sometimes the get the judiciary to chip in as well.<p>The first real disaster to the Indian economy was the billions in retroactive taxes that were applied to telecoms. And then the attempt made by the government to break through the corporate firewalls and extract that money from foreign parents. That hit FDI immediately.<p>That was followed by demonetization, extremely poor rollout of GST, a terribly executed lockdown and subsequent reopening, and now the arbitrary control over Chinese companies when China is probably the largest private investor in India right now. All these things are hurting India with little benefit to show for, other than jingoistic support for the ruling party.<p>India is yet another example of “&lt;Country&gt; First” parties coming in and taking actions which undermine the absolute fundamentals of what the country is and damaging it and its citizens in so many ways.<p>Make life terrible for your citizens and blame China while looting your citizens left right and center is apparently a winning strategy in multiple countries.</text></comment> | <story><title>India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53998205</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>actuator</author><text>I think this might be related to the Tibetan origin special forces soldier of Indian Army being killed in some recent altercation with PRC on their northern border.[1]<p>I do think India is going on a slippery slope now. With Tiktok, one can even make a case of it being used to manipulate sentiments and being used for propoganda, but
that argument can hardly be made for a game like PubG. It also brings into question whether the ruling government can disrupt a business on its whim of the day.<p>Also, as far as I understand India is far more dependent economically on trade with China then China is on India. Do they really want to start a trade war with China?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;sep&#x2F;01&#x2F;indian-special-forces-soldier-killed-in-skirmish-with-chinese-troops" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;sep&#x2F;01&#x2F;indian-special...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>t_minus_3</author><text>India has all the right to protect its economy and people from chinese spying and tech dependency . Is nt that what US is doing with tariffs and bringing back jobs??
&quot;Do they really want to start a trade war with China?&quot;
why not?? It already too late to stop china. India needs to protect its borders and economy from chinese incursions</text></comment> |
17,478,020 | 17,477,086 | 1 | 2 | 17,472,063 | train | <story><title>The Rogue World of New York’s Major Trash Haulers</title><url>https://features.propublica.org/sanitation-salvage/sanitation-salvage-accidents-new-york-city-commercial-carting-garbage/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stefan_</author><text>Remember why these guys were so eager to say their dead colleague was some homeless. Nobody investigates or is legally held responsible for killing unrelated pedestrians with motorized vehicles. But kill a worker and it&#x27;s a whole work safety thing.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Rogue World of New York’s Major Trash Haulers</title><url>https://features.propublica.org/sanitation-salvage/sanitation-salvage-accidents-new-york-city-commercial-carting-garbage/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onedognight</author><text>The Long Form Podcast did great interview[0] with the author of this story Kiera Feldman.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;longform.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;longform-podcast-277-kiera-feldman" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;longform.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;longform-podcast-277-kiera-feldma...</a></text></comment> |
14,154,329 | 14,153,589 | 1 | 2 | 14,152,688 | train | <story><title>Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-ad-blocking-feature-in-popular-chrome-browser-1492643233</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdog</author><text>It&#x27;s far more likely that Chrome&#x27;s ad-blocking feature will be similar to the implementation of content blockers in Safari (introduced at a WWDC 2015 session)[1][2].<p>The new model for content blockers in Safari is faster and a lot more memory efficient because they&#x27;re compiled into byte code. Content blockers are also more secure and better for privacy because they have no knowledge of the browsing that users are doing. The content-blocking rules are only provided by third parties.<p>Google is probably doing this because it makes their browser faster—not because of some wild conspiracy to show more advertisements.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;General&#x2F;Conceptual&#x2F;ExtensibilityPG&#x2F;ContentBlocker.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;Ge...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;wwdc&#x2F;2015&#x2F;?id=511" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;wwdc&#x2F;2015&#x2F;?id=511</a></text></item><item><author>TechRemarker</author><text>At first it sounds insane that Google would do such a thing since while ad blocking is growing, enabling the feature natively especially by default would incredibly increase the number of ads blocked.<p>My guess is, that where other blockers by default can easily block all google ads, Chrome blocker would not block Google Ads because it would classify them as acceptable. And Google would then hope that people would use their built in blocker rather than downloading a third party extension which would highly likely block there ads. And if people have a built in blocker that blocks the mostly bad ads, the people would start to hate ads less and be okay with &#x27;good ads&#x27;. Also since people wouldn&#x27;t use third party blockers as much those companies would go out business more likely.<p>It&#x27;s a very risky move on Google&#x27;s part, so would be a bit surprised if it happens. But doing nothing, is equally if not more risky in the long run for there business model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mseebach</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty clear that Google&#x27;s strategy is that making the web better for everyone and everything is what will grow their ad business long term, rather than violently shoving as many ads as possible into their users faces as fast as possible. It&#x27;s also pretty clear that they are capable of pursuing a long term strategy over chasing short-term cash.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-ad-blocking-feature-in-popular-chrome-browser-1492643233</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdog</author><text>It&#x27;s far more likely that Chrome&#x27;s ad-blocking feature will be similar to the implementation of content blockers in Safari (introduced at a WWDC 2015 session)[1][2].<p>The new model for content blockers in Safari is faster and a lot more memory efficient because they&#x27;re compiled into byte code. Content blockers are also more secure and better for privacy because they have no knowledge of the browsing that users are doing. The content-blocking rules are only provided by third parties.<p>Google is probably doing this because it makes their browser faster—not because of some wild conspiracy to show more advertisements.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;General&#x2F;Conceptual&#x2F;ExtensibilityPG&#x2F;ContentBlocker.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;library&#x2F;content&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;Ge...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;wwdc&#x2F;2015&#x2F;?id=511" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;wwdc&#x2F;2015&#x2F;?id=511</a></text></item><item><author>TechRemarker</author><text>At first it sounds insane that Google would do such a thing since while ad blocking is growing, enabling the feature natively especially by default would incredibly increase the number of ads blocked.<p>My guess is, that where other blockers by default can easily block all google ads, Chrome blocker would not block Google Ads because it would classify them as acceptable. And Google would then hope that people would use their built in blocker rather than downloading a third party extension which would highly likely block there ads. And if people have a built in blocker that blocks the mostly bad ads, the people would start to hate ads less and be okay with &#x27;good ads&#x27;. Also since people wouldn&#x27;t use third party blockers as much those companies would go out business more likely.<p>It&#x27;s a very risky move on Google&#x27;s part, so would be a bit surprised if it happens. But doing nothing, is equally if not more risky in the long run for there business model.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SquareWheel</author><text>You&#x27;re being downvoted, but I&#x27;d actually agree. My guess is this idea originated from the Chrome team in an effort to improve the browsing experience.<p>Google rarely makes unilateral decisions from the top down to product teams. They mostly operate independently.</text></comment> |
23,188,954 | 23,186,921 | 1 | 2 | 23,181,865 | train | <story><title>IKEA's shopping malls arm plans U.S. entry in major play</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ikea-ingka-centres-exclusive/exclusive-ikeas-shopping-malls-arm-ingka-centres-plans-u-s-entry-in-major-play-idUSKBN22Q2MF</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfranz</author><text>I feel like there&#x27;s the Ikea (or Target&#x2F;WalMart) furniture that&#x27;s basically disposable, you can take it home in your small car, cheap, but will probably break if you move it or disassemble it. It&#x27;s great in college or after when moving between multiple apartments. It&#x27;s flat-pak, all the materials are thinner so the design follows that.<p>After settling down I wanted to invest more in furniture that wouldn&#x27;t break or slide around. It definitely costs 3-5x more, looks better, but isn&#x27;t great quality either. It&#x27;s not flat-pak, cant be disassembled, wont fit in your car. I don&#x27;t know if my calibration is off for what decent furniture should cost, or if everything started cheaping out years ago, but it seems like the worst of both worlds. The design is nice, but since it&#x27;s wood veneer you can&#x27;t really touch it up or repair it because the fiber board is showing through. I&#x27;m not sure where to find decent furniture. I feel like I&#x27;d have to pay through the nose for something bespoke.</text></item><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>I do notice this with a lot of things in the US. It looks like it&#x27;s either super expensive stuff that looks great anywhere and is usually targeting upper middle class&#x2F;elite, or tacky, tasteless crap on the other side of the spectrum. There&#x27;s almost nothing in between.</text></item><item><author>jermaustin1</author><text>I have noticed over the last 15 years or so, a lot of the anchor stores in suburban malls (Macy&#x27;s, Dillard&#x27;s, JCP, the now defunct Montgomery Ward&#x27;s) attempting to become furniture stores on their upper levels, but their execution was awful. The furniture is typically stodgy looking, almost like what a grand parent would have in their home, but worse quality. Its like the furniture is an afterthought to the store, and I rarely see anyone actually purchasing anything.<p>Then when you go over to the UK, an visit a department store like a House of Fraser or John Lewis, their furniture has a much more contemporary look, and there are always people buying, talking to clerks about pieces, etc.</text></item><item><author>OzzyB</author><text>I think this might actually work out because IKEA will essentially become the new $ANCHOR_STORE.<p>In previous times these anchor stores were businesses that got blown out by the Internet so there was no more anchor, and no more reason to visit the mall.<p>&gt; Big Clothes Store - Go Online<p>&gt; Big Book Store - Go Online<p>&gt; Big Cinema Complex - Go Online<p>But furniture? People still wanna visit the showroom and check out the merchandise before dropping $thousands, and you might as well get a new pair of shoes and a sandwich too while you&#x27;re there.<p>In short, don&#x27;t change the Mall, change the Anchor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>Swedes (where IKEA is from) are famous for saying their IKEA furniture is just what they use until their kids are old enough not to wreck the good furniture they have in storage.<p>The trick is finding better than IKEA quality furniture. You might wind up paying more for something that is still IKEA quality.</text></comment> | <story><title>IKEA's shopping malls arm plans U.S. entry in major play</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ikea-ingka-centres-exclusive/exclusive-ikeas-shopping-malls-arm-ingka-centres-plans-u-s-entry-in-major-play-idUSKBN22Q2MF</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pfranz</author><text>I feel like there&#x27;s the Ikea (or Target&#x2F;WalMart) furniture that&#x27;s basically disposable, you can take it home in your small car, cheap, but will probably break if you move it or disassemble it. It&#x27;s great in college or after when moving between multiple apartments. It&#x27;s flat-pak, all the materials are thinner so the design follows that.<p>After settling down I wanted to invest more in furniture that wouldn&#x27;t break or slide around. It definitely costs 3-5x more, looks better, but isn&#x27;t great quality either. It&#x27;s not flat-pak, cant be disassembled, wont fit in your car. I don&#x27;t know if my calibration is off for what decent furniture should cost, or if everything started cheaping out years ago, but it seems like the worst of both worlds. The design is nice, but since it&#x27;s wood veneer you can&#x27;t really touch it up or repair it because the fiber board is showing through. I&#x27;m not sure where to find decent furniture. I feel like I&#x27;d have to pay through the nose for something bespoke.</text></item><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>I do notice this with a lot of things in the US. It looks like it&#x27;s either super expensive stuff that looks great anywhere and is usually targeting upper middle class&#x2F;elite, or tacky, tasteless crap on the other side of the spectrum. There&#x27;s almost nothing in between.</text></item><item><author>jermaustin1</author><text>I have noticed over the last 15 years or so, a lot of the anchor stores in suburban malls (Macy&#x27;s, Dillard&#x27;s, JCP, the now defunct Montgomery Ward&#x27;s) attempting to become furniture stores on their upper levels, but their execution was awful. The furniture is typically stodgy looking, almost like what a grand parent would have in their home, but worse quality. Its like the furniture is an afterthought to the store, and I rarely see anyone actually purchasing anything.<p>Then when you go over to the UK, an visit a department store like a House of Fraser or John Lewis, their furniture has a much more contemporary look, and there are always people buying, talking to clerks about pieces, etc.</text></item><item><author>OzzyB</author><text>I think this might actually work out because IKEA will essentially become the new $ANCHOR_STORE.<p>In previous times these anchor stores were businesses that got blown out by the Internet so there was no more anchor, and no more reason to visit the mall.<p>&gt; Big Clothes Store - Go Online<p>&gt; Big Book Store - Go Online<p>&gt; Big Cinema Complex - Go Online<p>But furniture? People still wanna visit the showroom and check out the merchandise before dropping $thousands, and you might as well get a new pair of shoes and a sandwich too while you&#x27;re there.<p>In short, don&#x27;t change the Mall, change the Anchor.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opencl</author><text>It seems like the main way to find decent quality furniture at non-ridiculous prices is older stuff at thrift stores&#x2F;flea markets&#x2F;garage sales. Gets harder and harder to find every year though.<p>IKEA does carry a few items that are actually made of wood, though most of those are pine. Not great but a step up from particleboard.<p>Home Depot of all places sells some reasonably nice self-assembly hardwood furniture. Some of them are available pre-painted or stained but a lot of them you have to finish yourself.</text></comment> |
36,996,720 | 36,995,314 | 1 | 2 | 36,991,434 | train | <story><title>Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation</title><url>https://guochengqian.github.io/project/magic123/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Geee</author><text>Why are researchers focusing on single-image reconstruction? It seems like a party trick which isn&#x27;t very useful, and pretty much impossible to reconstruct the original object accurately. It would be much more useful if many images from different angles could be used. Somewhat like NERF, but also predict missing views with 2D diffusion. Adding more images would get the model closer to ground truth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fxtentacle</author><text>They likely focus on the 1 image case because there it&#x27;s the easiest to show visual progress over the competition. If you have 50+ images, the tech from 10 years ago is already good enough to get Hollywood-quality 3D scans.<p>From what I understand, they use the text keywords detected from the image as guidance and they also apply a loss between the current diffusion state and the source image. In effect, this is stable diffusion for 3D shapes but with clever conditioning. That means this algorithm will also work just fine if you have 2+ input images.</text></comment> | <story><title>Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation</title><url>https://guochengqian.github.io/project/magic123/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Geee</author><text>Why are researchers focusing on single-image reconstruction? It seems like a party trick which isn&#x27;t very useful, and pretty much impossible to reconstruct the original object accurately. It would be much more useful if many images from different angles could be used. Somewhat like NERF, but also predict missing views with 2D diffusion. Adding more images would get the model closer to ground truth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vlovich123</author><text>Because there’s people working on all sorts of different problems and solving a problem in one area can apply better to some problems than others. Not to mention that solution approaches can often cross pollinate.<p>Research is additive not a zero sum thing.</text></comment> |
16,972,013 | 16,971,674 | 1 | 2 | 16,971,052 | train | <story><title>Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bb88</author><text>First thought is that probably a SMD component has shorted itself out. Unfortunately that&#x27;s default behavior for many SMD components -- short circuit instead of an open circuit.<p>If the power adapter supplies 20V (which sounds like it might), then any components which might have shorted them selves out could be passing 20V to the other usb power line right next to it.<p>The other side of the machine probably has another USB controller, which likely explains why it&#x27;s fine.<p>So, in short, I don&#x27;t think this is a problem with USB-C, just a bad luck of the draw that you got a failed component along the way.<p>Edited to add:<p>Louis Rossmann&#x27;s macbook repair Youtube channel is pretty good at discussing why things fail for a mac.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_wiv7</author><text>Actually, it&#x27;s not SMD components in particular. The failure mode for many MOSFETs and other semiconductor devices tends to be a short. They only tend to fail open if there was enough energy at hand to blow the short clear.</text></comment> | <story><title>Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals</title><url>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8223635</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bb88</author><text>First thought is that probably a SMD component has shorted itself out. Unfortunately that&#x27;s default behavior for many SMD components -- short circuit instead of an open circuit.<p>If the power adapter supplies 20V (which sounds like it might), then any components which might have shorted them selves out could be passing 20V to the other usb power line right next to it.<p>The other side of the machine probably has another USB controller, which likely explains why it&#x27;s fine.<p>So, in short, I don&#x27;t think this is a problem with USB-C, just a bad luck of the draw that you got a failed component along the way.<p>Edited to add:<p>Louis Rossmann&#x27;s macbook repair Youtube channel is pretty good at discussing why things fail for a mac.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rebelgecko</author><text>&gt; The other side of the machine probably has another USB controller, which likely explains why it&#x27;s fine.<p>Unfortunately (well, except in this case) that&#x27;s true. On the 13inch MacBooks, the ports on the right side have less bandwidth and can struggle with multiple 4k displays</text></comment> |
20,054,971 | 20,053,770 | 1 | 3 | 20,052,623 | train | <story><title>Switch from Chrome to Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/switch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marricks</author><text>Google will keep locking down Chrome and using corporate talk to hand wave it away, only recourse is to leave.<p>First it’s “sign in” with obtuse ways to turn it off. Then block Adblocking, once again with obtuse ways to disable... the end goal is pretty obvious, get the majority of Chrome users to turn on ads and tie their real names to their Chrome browser.<p>Of course let “power users” (who’ll turn that crap off anyways) have their switches to do so. It gives Google plausible deniability.<p>——<p>To those who say just fork Chrome adfm had a good article explaining why that doesn’t work:<p>&gt; And while you can use or adapt Chromium to your heart&#x27;s content, your new browser won&#x27;t work with most internet video unless you license a proprietary DRM component called Widevine from Google. The API that connects to Widevine was standardized in 2017 by the World Wide Web Consortium, whose members narrowly voted down a proposal to change the membership rules for the W3C to require members not to abuse the DMCA to prevent DRM from becoming a tool to undermine competition.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boingboing.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;hoarding-software-freedom.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boingboing.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;hoarding-software-freedom....</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kumarharsh</author><text>You know what&#x27;s horrifying about the idea of &quot;just fork Chrome&quot;? Google can still hurt you by blocking your browser&#x27;s access to their prime properties (YouTube, Gmail, Maps, etc). Just look at YouTube denying Chromium-based Edge the new redesigned experience for absolutely zero reason.</text></comment> | <story><title>Switch from Chrome to Firefox</title><url>https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/switch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marricks</author><text>Google will keep locking down Chrome and using corporate talk to hand wave it away, only recourse is to leave.<p>First it’s “sign in” with obtuse ways to turn it off. Then block Adblocking, once again with obtuse ways to disable... the end goal is pretty obvious, get the majority of Chrome users to turn on ads and tie their real names to their Chrome browser.<p>Of course let “power users” (who’ll turn that crap off anyways) have their switches to do so. It gives Google plausible deniability.<p>——<p>To those who say just fork Chrome adfm had a good article explaining why that doesn’t work:<p>&gt; And while you can use or adapt Chromium to your heart&#x27;s content, your new browser won&#x27;t work with most internet video unless you license a proprietary DRM component called Widevine from Google. The API that connects to Widevine was standardized in 2017 by the World Wide Web Consortium, whose members narrowly voted down a proposal to change the membership rules for the W3C to require members not to abuse the DMCA to prevent DRM from becoming a tool to undermine competition.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boingboing.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;hoarding-software-freedom.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boingboing.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;29&#x2F;hoarding-software-freedom....</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gosseyn</author><text>I used to have Firefox and Vivaldi ...but honestly I used Vivaldi mainly...when I heard that even Microsoft was going to use chromium I realized...Firefox is literally the last front ! I installed Firefox and started using it as my main browser! What I miss the most is Vivaldi speed dial and bookmarks. Add-ons aren&#x27;t always a solution ! I miss Netscape days...internet wasn&#x27;t a megacorp business playground :( !</text></comment> |
29,897,897 | 29,896,115 | 1 | 2 | 29,895,161 | train | <story><title>LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage</title><url>https://alternativeto.net/news/2022/1/lastpass-seemingly-deliberately-holding-users-password-data-hostage-alongside-new-pricing-plans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bostik</author><text>I can say with full confidence that this at least has nothing to do with their hostage situation:<p>&gt; <i>Having no formal support channel</i><p>When I last had to deal with their so-called support, all contact details were very efficiently hidden. Once you found a page with a phone number, and the hours you could call them, there was one final surprise:<p>&quot;The phone number you are trying to reach is not in use&quot;. The only contact that works reliably at LastPass is their billing department. Make of that what you will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hffftz</author><text> I usually use this website to find companies&#x27; phone numbers: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gethuman.com&#x2F;phone-number&#x2F;LastPass" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gethuman.com&#x2F;phone-number&#x2F;LastPass</a><p>It tells you that it is a credit monitoring service when you call, but it is indeed the password manager service....<p>800-830-6680 and then press 3 (the other 2 options disconnect you)</text></comment> | <story><title>LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage</title><url>https://alternativeto.net/news/2022/1/lastpass-seemingly-deliberately-holding-users-password-data-hostage-alongside-new-pricing-plans/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bostik</author><text>I can say with full confidence that this at least has nothing to do with their hostage situation:<p>&gt; <i>Having no formal support channel</i><p>When I last had to deal with their so-called support, all contact details were very efficiently hidden. Once you found a page with a phone number, and the hours you could call them, there was one final surprise:<p>&quot;The phone number you are trying to reach is not in use&quot;. The only contact that works reliably at LastPass is their billing department. Make of that what you will.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>techdragon</author><text>While it was harder than it should have been to reach them. The one support interaction I’ve ever needed to have with them (domain name change went badly with master password email account re-verification before I added a secondary email) was amazing. They had a thorough security checking, identification confirmation process that would make it more difficult for social engineering, they were able to fix up the email over the course of a 45 minute phone call (I did mention it was thorough)</text></comment> |
24,495,708 | 24,495,813 | 1 | 2 | 24,495,138 | train | <story><title>Oculus Quest 2</title><url>https://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-oculus-quest-2-the-next-generation-of-all-in-one-vr-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianlevesque</author><text>What is it with HN and trying to read between the lines so hard? There&#x27;s literally an Oculus Store app store for quest games. Probably they are just making money on game sales, like every other game console has for 35 years.</text></item><item><author>shajznnckfke</author><text>Really though? Facebook makes money by displaying targeted ads to users. What data from the Quest is being used to target ads? I’m not familiar with anything related to this in Facebook’s product for ad buyers, and can’t think of anything particularly useful that they could be doing.<p>You could think of Oculus as an effort to increase the amount of user attention inventory Facebook has in supply to rent out to advertisers. Also, they are positioning themselves as an intermediary for transactions in the future VR economy by being platform owner (a la Apple owning the App Store). My guess is the long-term plan is to make money here by displaying ads in VR and by getting a cut of goods and services sold though VR (see: Ready Player One).</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>Facebook will makeup that subsidized $100 on selling the data the glean from the user while using the Quest 2.</text></item><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>$300 is a pretty big deal for pricing on a VR headset, that feels very different from $400 for wide adoption.<p>Seems like this is also the end of the road for Rift, the Quest 2 is lower cost, more pixels, and they mentioned 90 hz screens for PCVR games over Link.<p>EDIT - review units went out in advance, so 3rd party reviews are already up. Here&#x27;s one from Tested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>I do worry that Facebook will figure they might as well double dip on sales and advertising; future headsets are probably going to have eye tracking (ostensibly for foveated rendering and better avatars), and combining in-world advertising with exact data on how long people looked at them is a pretty compelling sell for what is fundamentally an advertising company.<p>They spent like 15 minutes of the presentation talking about how ethical they&#x27;re going to be (re: AR glasses) and how trust has to be earned, but their ethics track record isn&#x27;t exactly stellar.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oculus Quest 2</title><url>https://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-oculus-quest-2-the-next-generation-of-all-in-one-vr-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianlevesque</author><text>What is it with HN and trying to read between the lines so hard? There&#x27;s literally an Oculus Store app store for quest games. Probably they are just making money on game sales, like every other game console has for 35 years.</text></item><item><author>shajznnckfke</author><text>Really though? Facebook makes money by displaying targeted ads to users. What data from the Quest is being used to target ads? I’m not familiar with anything related to this in Facebook’s product for ad buyers, and can’t think of anything particularly useful that they could be doing.<p>You could think of Oculus as an effort to increase the amount of user attention inventory Facebook has in supply to rent out to advertisers. Also, they are positioning themselves as an intermediary for transactions in the future VR economy by being platform owner (a la Apple owning the App Store). My guess is the long-term plan is to make money here by displaying ads in VR and by getting a cut of goods and services sold though VR (see: Ready Player One).</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>Facebook will makeup that subsidized $100 on selling the data the glean from the user while using the Quest 2.</text></item><item><author>wlesieutre</author><text>$300 is a pretty big deal for pricing on a VR headset, that feels very different from $400 for wide adoption.<p>Seems like this is also the end of the road for Rift, the Quest 2 is lower cost, more pixels, and they mentioned 90 hz screens for PCVR games over Link.<p>EDIT - review units went out in advance, so 3rd party reviews are already up. Here&#x27;s one from Tested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_x6lux6f_6g</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shajznnckfke</author><text>I’m skeptical the Facebook would bother to invest so many billions into VR just for the chance of being part of the competitive game console market. It makes sense to think about how it fits into the long-term strategy for their main cash cow, ads. If there’s a future where internet&#x2F;app usage hours shift toward VR, Facebook doesn’t want to be left in the dust like Myspace when users switch to a new social network. Even if they can keep users on a Facebook-owned VR app, they don’t want to wind up paying a 30% tax to some platform owner.</text></comment> |
23,536,077 | 23,535,795 | 1 | 2 | 23,535,192 | train | <story><title>“Massive DDoS attack” just T-Mobile error?</title><url>https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1272678168638500864</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>graton</author><text>I think this is what caused the problems with the MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) I use. I noticed today that calling and texting weren&#x27;t working on our phones. Our MVNO uses T-Mobile as its network, so this kind of explains everything.<p>Luckily I use Google Voice as my primary # and it rang on my computer but I didn&#x27;t understand why it wasn&#x27;t ringing on my cell phone. Now I know :)</text></comment> | <story><title>“Massive DDoS attack” just T-Mobile error?</title><url>https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1272678168638500864</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>momothereal</author><text>Out of curiosity, how does a T-Mobile error affect services like Messenger and Facebook?<p>I live in Canada and they were unreachable for about an hour. My ISP has no relation to T-Mobile. Is the FB network solely dependent on a mobile carrier?</text></comment> |
12,381,162 | 12,379,139 | 1 | 3 | 12,376,596 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you handle DDoS attacks?</title><text>For owners of small websites running on DigitalOcean, GCP or AWS, how do you handle DDoS and DoS attacks?<p>For context, while exploring the load testing tool Siege running on a VPS, I was able to bring down multiple sites running on shared hosting, and some running on small VPS by setting a high enough concurrent number of users. This is not a DDoS, but it goes to show how easy it is to cause damage. Note: I only brought down sites that I own, or those of friends with their permission.<p>What tools are useful in fighting DDoS attacks and script kiddies? Mention free and paid options.<p>What are the options to limit damage in case of an attack? How do you limit bandwidth usage charges?<p>There was a previous discussion on this topic 6 years ago https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1986728</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kenji</author><text>Uh, stupid question but how do you cache a website like for example this comment thread on hackernews? Suppose a DDoSer calls this comment thread a lot of times. The request has to go through to the server because when I hit F5 or post a comment myself, I see the comments in realtime. How do you handle that exactly? Does caching for a few seconds help already, or does the backbone push updated sites to the CDN server? I have no experience in DDos mitigation.</text></item><item><author>buro9</author><text>I&#x27;ve faced DoS attacks for years as I run internet forums.<p>The simple advice for layer 7 (application) attacks:<p>1. Design your web app to be incredibly cacheable<p>2. Use your CDN to cache everything<p>3. When under attack seek to identify the site (if you host more than one) and page that is being attacked. Force cache it via your CDN of choice.<p>4. If you cannot cache the page then move it.<p>5. If you cannot cache or move it, then have your CDN&#x2F;security layer of choice issue a captcha challenge or similar.<p>The simple advice for layer 3 (network) attacks:<p>1. Rely on the security layer of choice, if it&#x27;s not working change vendor.<p>On the L3 stuff, when it comes to DNS I&#x27;ve had some bad experiences (Linode, oh they suffered) some pretty good experiences (DNS Made Easy) and some great experiences (CloudFlare).<p>On L7 stuff, there&#x27;s a few things no-one tells you about... like if you have your application back onto AWS S3 and serve static files, that the attack can be on your purse as the bandwidth costs can really add up.<p>It&#x27;s definitely worth thinking of how to push all costs outside of your little realm. A Varnish cache or Nginx reverse proxy with file system cache can make all the difference by saving your bandwidth costs and app servers.<p>I personally put CloudFlare in front of my service, but even then I use Varnish as a reverse proxy cache within my little setup to ensure that the application underneath it is really well cached. I only have about 90GB of static files in S3, and about 60GB of that is in my Varnish cache, which means when some of the more interesting attacks are based on resource exhaustion (and the resource is my pocket), they fail because they&#x27;re probably just filling caches and not actually hurting.<p>The places you should be ready to add captchas as they really are uncacheable:<p>* Login pages<p>* Shopping Cart Checkout pages<p>* Search result pages<p>Ah, there&#x27;s so much one can do, but generally... designing to be highly cacheable and then using a provider who routinely handles big attacks is the way to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buro9</author><text>Cache everything a guest accesses for 5 minutes or more. Vary on the specific cookie that represents a signed-in user.<p>None of my guests have noticed this, and it has increased most of my analytics numbers as my pages are faster too.<p>The signed-in users, they get the dynamic pages.<p>But now the cookie that identifies the user is what you use to correlate any attack traffic, the attacker is forced to (somewhat) identify themselves and you can then revoke their authentication status or ban the account.<p>Finally you captcha and&#x2F;or rate-limit the login page.<p>This is effectively what I do on my sites, the pages themselves and the underlying API all cache if the cookie or access token is absent.<p>This is trivial to do within the code, but can be harder to do with the CDN&#x2F;security layer (who need to support a &quot;vary on cookie&quot; or &quot;bypass cache on cookie&quot; or equivalent).</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How do you handle DDoS attacks?</title><text>For owners of small websites running on DigitalOcean, GCP or AWS, how do you handle DDoS and DoS attacks?<p>For context, while exploring the load testing tool Siege running on a VPS, I was able to bring down multiple sites running on shared hosting, and some running on small VPS by setting a high enough concurrent number of users. This is not a DDoS, but it goes to show how easy it is to cause damage. Note: I only brought down sites that I own, or those of friends with their permission.<p>What tools are useful in fighting DDoS attacks and script kiddies? Mention free and paid options.<p>What are the options to limit damage in case of an attack? How do you limit bandwidth usage charges?<p>There was a previous discussion on this topic 6 years ago https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1986728</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kenji</author><text>Uh, stupid question but how do you cache a website like for example this comment thread on hackernews? Suppose a DDoSer calls this comment thread a lot of times. The request has to go through to the server because when I hit F5 or post a comment myself, I see the comments in realtime. How do you handle that exactly? Does caching for a few seconds help already, or does the backbone push updated sites to the CDN server? I have no experience in DDos mitigation.</text></item><item><author>buro9</author><text>I&#x27;ve faced DoS attacks for years as I run internet forums.<p>The simple advice for layer 7 (application) attacks:<p>1. Design your web app to be incredibly cacheable<p>2. Use your CDN to cache everything<p>3. When under attack seek to identify the site (if you host more than one) and page that is being attacked. Force cache it via your CDN of choice.<p>4. If you cannot cache the page then move it.<p>5. If you cannot cache or move it, then have your CDN&#x2F;security layer of choice issue a captcha challenge or similar.<p>The simple advice for layer 3 (network) attacks:<p>1. Rely on the security layer of choice, if it&#x27;s not working change vendor.<p>On the L3 stuff, when it comes to DNS I&#x27;ve had some bad experiences (Linode, oh they suffered) some pretty good experiences (DNS Made Easy) and some great experiences (CloudFlare).<p>On L7 stuff, there&#x27;s a few things no-one tells you about... like if you have your application back onto AWS S3 and serve static files, that the attack can be on your purse as the bandwidth costs can really add up.<p>It&#x27;s definitely worth thinking of how to push all costs outside of your little realm. A Varnish cache or Nginx reverse proxy with file system cache can make all the difference by saving your bandwidth costs and app servers.<p>I personally put CloudFlare in front of my service, but even then I use Varnish as a reverse proxy cache within my little setup to ensure that the application underneath it is really well cached. I only have about 90GB of static files in S3, and about 60GB of that is in my Varnish cache, which means when some of the more interesting attacks are based on resource exhaustion (and the resource is my pocket), they fail because they&#x27;re probably just filling caches and not actually hurting.<p>The places you should be ready to add captchas as they really are uncacheable:<p>* Login pages<p>* Shopping Cart Checkout pages<p>* Search result pages<p>Ah, there&#x27;s so much one can do, but generally... designing to be highly cacheable and then using a provider who routinely handles big attacks is the way to go.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voltagex_</author><text>What you can do with a site like HN will be different than if you&#x27;re a shopping getting DDoSed on Black Friday by a competitor.<p>You can put the whole of HN into read only mode if needed and it&#x27;ll have no real impact; disallowing purchases on MyAmazonCompetitor.com would be catastrophic.</text></comment> |
28,956,977 | 28,957,010 | 1 | 2 | 28,955,636 | train | <story><title>After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-after-the-pandemic-we-can-t-go-back-to-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p2t2p</author><text>&gt; Should we all get a patch of land and grow food for ourselves?<p>A lot of those types would loooove to see lots of people to go back to subsistence.<p>That is a lot of people but not them, they are way too smart for that and they’ll reluctangly agree to take the job of guiding lights for all those that went back to subsistence.</text></item><item><author>fileeditview</author><text>I agree. He writes about how we lived in a dream but for me what he writes is also a dream of some sort.<p>Just stop doing our dream-work.. and then? What do I do to provide for my family? Should we all get a patch of land and grow food for ourselves? This idea does not seem realistic or scalable.<p>But maybe I am just misunderstanding the essay or my thoughts are just not deep enough.</text></item><item><author>soared</author><text>Meh. I’ve seen a lot of these short essays about how after the pandemic we either should not or simply will not return to the status quo. It doesn’t really do anything to say “the economy doesn’t work” in 5 paragraphs and then say nothing else.<p>Yes, lots of poor people are getting screwed. Some jobs don’t pay well despite the higher moral standing of directly assisting others. The environment looks pretty bad. But you can’t just say “rich people bad. New economy plz”.<p>This essay is basically r&#x2F;im14andthisisdeep</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phone8675309</author><text>Reminds me a lot of the meme of the intellectual advocating for communism thinking that they’ll have a nice cultural advisor job instead of either being shot by the thugs that seize power or forced to work 60 hours a week on a collective farm or in a shoe factory.</text></comment> | <story><title>After the pandemic, we can’t go back to sleep (2020)</title><url>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-after-the-pandemic-we-can-t-go-back-to-sleep</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p2t2p</author><text>&gt; Should we all get a patch of land and grow food for ourselves?<p>A lot of those types would loooove to see lots of people to go back to subsistence.<p>That is a lot of people but not them, they are way too smart for that and they’ll reluctangly agree to take the job of guiding lights for all those that went back to subsistence.</text></item><item><author>fileeditview</author><text>I agree. He writes about how we lived in a dream but for me what he writes is also a dream of some sort.<p>Just stop doing our dream-work.. and then? What do I do to provide for my family? Should we all get a patch of land and grow food for ourselves? This idea does not seem realistic or scalable.<p>But maybe I am just misunderstanding the essay or my thoughts are just not deep enough.</text></item><item><author>soared</author><text>Meh. I’ve seen a lot of these short essays about how after the pandemic we either should not or simply will not return to the status quo. It doesn’t really do anything to say “the economy doesn’t work” in 5 paragraphs and then say nothing else.<p>Yes, lots of poor people are getting screwed. Some jobs don’t pay well despite the higher moral standing of directly assisting others. The environment looks pretty bad. But you can’t just say “rich people bad. New economy plz”.<p>This essay is basically r&#x2F;im14andthisisdeep</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpmisms</author><text>I mean, everyone should know how. Subsistence is incredibly rewarding.</text></comment> |
14,600,924 | 14,600,047 | 1 | 3 | 14,599,668 | train | <story><title>Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/tesla-hires-deep-learning-expert-andrej-karpathy-to-lead-autopilot-vision</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>What this really reflects is that Tesla has painted itself into a corner. They&#x27;ve shipped vehicles with a weak sensor suite that&#x27;s claimed to be sufficient to support self-driving, leaving the software for later. Tesla, unlike everybody else who&#x27;s serious, doesn&#x27;t have a LIDAR.<p>Now, it&#x27;s &quot;later&quot;, their software demos are about where Google was in 2010, and Tesla has a big problem. This is a really hard problem to do with cameras alone. Deep learning is useful, but it&#x27;s not magic, and it&#x27;s not strong AI. No wonder their head of automatic driving quit. Karpathy may bail in a few months, once he realizes he&#x27;s joined a death march.<p>If anything, Tesla should have learned by now that you don&#x27;t want to need to recognize objects to avoid them. The Mobileye system works that way, being very focused on identifying moving cars, pedestrians, and bicycles. It&#x27;s led to at least four high speed crashes with stationary objects it didn&#x27;t identify as obstacles. This is pathetic. We had avoidance of big stationary objects working in the DARPA Grand Challenge back in 2005.<p>With a good LIDAR, you get a point cloud. This tells you where there&#x27;s something. Maybe you can identify some of the &quot;somethings&quot;, but if there&#x27;s an unidentified object out there, you know it&#x27;s there. The planner can plot a course that stays on the road surface and doesn&#x27;t hit anything. Object recognition is mostly for identifying other road users and trying to predict their behavior.<p>Compare Chris Urmson&#x27;s talk and videos at SXSW 2016 [1] with Tesla&#x27;s demo videos from last month.[2]
Notice how aware the Google&#x2F;Waymo vehicle is of what other road users are doing, and how it has a comprehensive overview of the situation. See Urmson show how it handled encountering unusual situations such as someone in a powered wheelchair chasing a duck with a broom. Note Urmson&#x27;s detailed analysis of how a Google car scraped the side of a bus at 2MPH while maneuvering around sandbags placed in the parking lane.<p>Now watch Tesla&#x27;s sped-up video, slowed down to normal speed. (1&#x2F;4 speed is about right for viewing.)
Tesla wouldn&#x27;t even detect small sandbags; they don&#x27;t even see traffic cones. Note how few roadside objects they mark. If it&#x27;s outside the lines, they just don&#x27;t care. There&#x27;s not enough info to take evasive action in an emergency. Or even avoid a pothole.<p>Prediction: 2020 will be the year the big players have self-driving. It will use LIDAR, cameras, and radars. Continental will have a good low-cost LIDAR using the technology from Advanced Scientific Concepts at an affordable price point.<p>Tesla will try to ship a self-driving system before that while trying to avoid financial responsibility for crashes. People will die because of this.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;player.vimeo.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;192179727" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;player.vimeo.com&#x2F;video&#x2F;192179727</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/20/tesla-hires-deep-learning-expert-andrej-karpathy-to-lead-autopilot-vision</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ccorda</author><text>Seems to be taking Chris Lattner&#x27;s place:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;clattner_llvm&#x2F;status&#x2F;877341760812232704" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;clattner_llvm&#x2F;status&#x2F;877341760812232704</a></text></comment> |
14,973,649 | 14,973,760 | 1 | 2 | 14,972,637 | train | <story><title>Swift 5: start your engines</title><url>https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170807/038645.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsaul</author><text>For ios : look at the number of various apis you can use to do widget positionning and animations : calayer, uiview spring n struts, constraints, physic based, and yet none compose well with each other.
IOS also doesn&#x27;t have any good tech for offline storage ( core data should be burried once and for all) and swift relies on compile-time codegen hack to provide easy struct serialization, because techs like nscoding relied on obj-c runtime facilities and the language itself doesn&#x27;t provide enough metaprogramming facilities to compensate.<p>Also, patterns like KVO are still found from time to time as a last resort in frameworks, while being famously unsafe and still rely on the obj-c runtime.<p>For android basically everything should be rewritten from scratch. Last time i managed a team of android developpers, we basically came to the conclusion that doing regular mvc while supporting a good market share meant recoding our own controller base classes and screen transitionning apis.</text></item><item><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;IOS sdk, on the other hand, has become a bit of a mess, due largely to the pace at which the field is moving ( although not as bad as android).&quot;<p>Could you elaborate on whats messy with these SDKs?</text></item><item><author>bsaul</author><text>Hardest part isn&#x27;t the language. Swift is among the best languages you can get today. IOS sdk, on the other hand, has become a bit of a mess, due largely to the pace at which the field is moving ( although not as bad as android).<p>Stanford courses are the best you can find online for free. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HitSIzPM_6E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HitSIzPM_6E</a></text></item><item><author>ssijak</author><text>And just today I was contemplating writing my first native iOS and macOS app... I was looking at the options and decided to go native with Swift. I have never written Objective-C app and never used x-code for dev. But I have ~10 years of dev experience, mostly Java and Python on the backend and front end dev exp mostly with Angular. Some Android, and a little from &lt;input_random_tech_here&gt; because I like to experiment.<p>So, my question is. How hard and enjoyable is for someone like me to write not very complex native iOS&#x2F;macOS app in Swift starting from scratch? Best resource to start with?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>&gt;&gt; For ios : look at the number of various apis you can use to do widget positionning and animations : calayer, uiview spring n struts, constraints, physic based, and yet none compose well with each other. IOS also doesn&#x27;t have any good tech for offline storage ( core data should be burried once and for all)<p>I disagree with most of this. Laying out views was a mess for a while but auto layout is easy to get right once you understand the fundamentals (especially when used in storyboards). Springs and struts is old pre-autolayout tech which shouldn&#x27;t be used. CALayer is the lower level object that UIView is based on. Not sure what the complaint is here (they&#x27;re mostly unrelated to autolayout&#x2F;springs and struts).<p>As for CoreData it&#x27;s a pretty simple way to manage your data. When originally introduced to iOS it was a mess but I&#x27;ve used it extensively in the last few years, first through a higher level framework (MagicRecord I think?) and now directly and it providing you exercise some care around threading it performs very well, especially for something simple like offline data storage.</text></comment> | <story><title>Swift 5: start your engines</title><url>https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170807/038645.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsaul</author><text>For ios : look at the number of various apis you can use to do widget positionning and animations : calayer, uiview spring n struts, constraints, physic based, and yet none compose well with each other.
IOS also doesn&#x27;t have any good tech for offline storage ( core data should be burried once and for all) and swift relies on compile-time codegen hack to provide easy struct serialization, because techs like nscoding relied on obj-c runtime facilities and the language itself doesn&#x27;t provide enough metaprogramming facilities to compensate.<p>Also, patterns like KVO are still found from time to time as a last resort in frameworks, while being famously unsafe and still rely on the obj-c runtime.<p>For android basically everything should be rewritten from scratch. Last time i managed a team of android developpers, we basically came to the conclusion that doing regular mvc while supporting a good market share meant recoding our own controller base classes and screen transitionning apis.</text></item><item><author>bogomipz</author><text>&gt;&quot;IOS sdk, on the other hand, has become a bit of a mess, due largely to the pace at which the field is moving ( although not as bad as android).&quot;<p>Could you elaborate on whats messy with these SDKs?</text></item><item><author>bsaul</author><text>Hardest part isn&#x27;t the language. Swift is among the best languages you can get today. IOS sdk, on the other hand, has become a bit of a mess, due largely to the pace at which the field is moving ( although not as bad as android).<p>Stanford courses are the best you can find online for free. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HitSIzPM_6E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HitSIzPM_6E</a></text></item><item><author>ssijak</author><text>And just today I was contemplating writing my first native iOS and macOS app... I was looking at the options and decided to go native with Swift. I have never written Objective-C app and never used x-code for dev. But I have ~10 years of dev experience, mostly Java and Python on the backend and front end dev exp mostly with Angular. Some Android, and a little from &lt;input_random_tech_here&gt; because I like to experiment.<p>So, my question is. How hard and enjoyable is for someone like me to write not very complex native iOS&#x2F;macOS app in Swift starting from scratch? Best resource to start with?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zackmorris</author><text>Also Apple uses a lot of patterns that lead to goto hell because of NeXT&#x27;s foundations in the delegate pattern:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Delegation_pattern" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Delegation_pattern</a><p>So you start some sequence (like a new UIViewController) and interact with it via callback events instead of having a single (blocking) thread of execution that waits for the view controller call to return like a function. This makes it virtually impossible to deterministically model flow control. Note that since Android copied many metaphors from iOS, it also inherited these complexities in things like its Activity class.<p>I agree that Core Data probably needs to go away (at least its iCloud integration) and be replaced by Firebase or PouchDB etc.<p>KVO was a great missed opportunity because it&#x27;s not clear who is watching a value. I think the pattern itself has merit from a functional programming perspective (after all this is how Excel works).<p>I generally avoid native mobile development now for these reasons among many, not to mention cross-platform issues. We likely need web metaphors running above native code, writing plugs where necessary (like Cordova or React Native). These are generally quite painful to use though, so I don&#x27;t see many solutions materializing for at least several more years.</text></comment> |
24,057,625 | 24,056,615 | 1 | 2 | 24,055,458 | train | <story><title>Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/04/anthony-levandowski-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison-as-new-4b-lawsuit-against-uber-is-filed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illustriousbear</author><text>People in the security industry have told me that this sort of thing often comes down to ego and self-importance.<p>In Intelligence, people have been caught selling state secrets for 10-20k a pop. The kind of secrets that can land you decades in jail. It makes no sense from a monetary standpoint.</text></item><item><author>w0mbat</author><text>This guy had such a sweet deal at Google originally, it staggers me that he&#x27;d go to these lengths to steal even more.<p>He was getting a massive salarY, bonuses in the millions, and he had persuaded Google to pay him even more money through a side-hustle company of his while remaining an employee. Then he quits and steals their stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sn41</author><text>This phenomenon has been known from ancient times. A slighted ego is a powerful incentive to turn to the other side. For example, in the ancient Indian work on statecraft, the Arthashastra, Chanakya lists the kind of personalities who can become spies: See Chapter XIV of the Arthashastra:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikisource.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Arthashastra&#x2F;Book_I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikisource.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Arthashastra&#x2F;Book_I</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against Uber filed</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/04/anthony-levandowski-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison-as-new-4b-lawsuit-against-uber-is-filed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>illustriousbear</author><text>People in the security industry have told me that this sort of thing often comes down to ego and self-importance.<p>In Intelligence, people have been caught selling state secrets for 10-20k a pop. The kind of secrets that can land you decades in jail. It makes no sense from a monetary standpoint.</text></item><item><author>w0mbat</author><text>This guy had such a sweet deal at Google originally, it staggers me that he&#x27;d go to these lengths to steal even more.<p>He was getting a massive salarY, bonuses in the millions, and he had persuaded Google to pay him even more money through a side-hustle company of his while remaining an employee. Then he quits and steals their stuff.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ahmedalsudani</author><text>One contrast I can think of between people in intelligence and Levandowski is tens of millions of dollars in pay... which actually causes me to agree with you. It seems mostly guided by an overinflated ego and a sense of invincibility.<p>Gotta remember not to drink your own Kool-Aid ;)</text></comment> |
22,890,834 | 22,890,461 | 1 | 3 | 22,889,496 | train | <story><title>Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/melting-ice-reveals-a-lost-viking-era-pass-in-norways-mountains/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pi-rat</author><text>They&#x27;re finding tons of old stuff here in Norway these days, even random people hiking in the mountain stumble over 1250 year old viking swords[1], spears, arrows. Skis from the year 700 AD.. etc..<p>Lots of it gets documented by the Secrets of the Ice project[2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;originals&#x2F;1b&#x2F;25&#x2F;3f&#x2F;1b253f39890eaac465f60b4d3b923aaf.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.pinimg.com&#x2F;originals&#x2F;1b&#x2F;25&#x2F;3f&#x2F;1b253f39890eaac465f6...</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secretsoftheice.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;secretsoftheice.com</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Melting ice reveals a Viking-era pass in Norway’s mountains</title><url>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/melting-ice-reveals-a-lost-viking-era-pass-in-norways-mountains/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomohawk</author><text>It was warmer at that time than now.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;earth-and-planetary-sciences&#x2F;medieval-warm-period" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;topics&#x2F;earth-and-planetary-sci...</a><p>The medieval warm period coincides with the viking expansion and contraction.<p>Edit: see response, below</text></comment> |
8,179,069 | 8,179,137 | 1 | 2 | 8,178,536 | train | <story><title>How to Be Polite</title><url>https://medium.com/message/9bf1e69e888c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbech</author><text>I&#x27;m all aboard with being pleasant and respectful of others, but find some aspects of this distasteful. Specifically, the portions of the author&#x27;s &quot;politeness&quot; that involve performance, or adhering to a script I find off-putting. For example:<p>&quot;Just ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say: &#x27;Wow. That sounds hard.&#x27; &quot;<p>While it seems that many aspects of &quot;politeness&quot; are intended to trigger pleasant feelings in the other person (which seems harmless enough), I find it hard to be in favor of something so disingenuous. Even when it comes to small talk, I think one can be both respectful and charming without having to fall back on a script and cheapen the interaction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maqr</author><text>I think the author is treading a fine line between &quot;nice person&quot; and &quot;confidence man&quot;, maybe without realizing it. He&#x27;s describing social engineering, and I have no doubt that it&#x27;s a very effective strategy.<p>&gt; “I thought you were a terrible ass-kisser when we started working together.”<p>&gt; She paused and frowned. “But it actually helped get things done. It was a strategy.” (That is how an impolite person gives a compliment. Which I gladly accepted.)<p>There is something disappointing about realizing that someone&#x27;s confidence tricks do work. It sounds like this coworker was grappling whether this is a strategy that they should adopt, because they can see the efficacy, but it feels morally painful.<p>I&#x27;ll give the author the benefit of the doubt when using tricks like these for work, especially if you&#x27;re a politician or marketing person, or something else where appearance and illusion dominates the field...<p>&gt; One of those people is my wife<p>But this makes me cringe. I know that if I was this person&#x27;s partner and I read this article, I would start to feel very uneasy.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to Be Polite</title><url>https://medium.com/message/9bf1e69e888c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mbech</author><text>I&#x27;m all aboard with being pleasant and respectful of others, but find some aspects of this distasteful. Specifically, the portions of the author&#x27;s &quot;politeness&quot; that involve performance, or adhering to a script I find off-putting. For example:<p>&quot;Just ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say: &#x27;Wow. That sounds hard.&#x27; &quot;<p>While it seems that many aspects of &quot;politeness&quot; are intended to trigger pleasant feelings in the other person (which seems harmless enough), I find it hard to be in favor of something so disingenuous. Even when it comes to small talk, I think one can be both respectful and charming without having to fall back on a script and cheapen the interaction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgeery</author><text>In my opinion, this is simply making a concerted effort to like this person, and start comfortable dialogue. Even knowing this is a script, I&#x27;m excited to talk to this guy, rather than the usual challenging, testosterone-filled reactions I deal with on a regular basis. However distasteful and&#x2F;or transparent, at least its a positive environment for conversation. Nothing is worse than talking to someone and thinking, their guard is already up</text></comment> |
34,299,488 | 34,298,432 | 1 | 2 | 34,297,576 | train | <story><title>Gimel Studio: Non-destructive, 2D image editor</title><url>https://gimelstudio.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>In the demo, when they add a new node between two existing nodes, they first add the node then disconnect the two other nodes then connect the two others to the new node.<p>As others pointed out it looks similar to the node editor in Blender.<p>I am fairly certain that in Blender you can drag a node onto the connection between two nodes and it will be connected.<p>That makes adding nodes less tedious.<p>Does Gimel Studio support doing that also? If not, I highly recommend that said feature be added to Gimel Studio.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gimel Studio: Non-destructive, 2D image editor</title><url>https://gimelstudio.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>breck</author><text>Interesting! I&#x27;ve done some visual node based editors in the past. One design principle I might suggest: develop a DSL and have the editor just be editing programs in that DSL. You might be able to use Racket—not sure—but alternatively you could copy what I&#x27;ve done here (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ohayo.computer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ohayo.computer</a>) and design a Tree Language (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jtree.treenotation.org&#x2F;designer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jtree.treenotation.org&#x2F;designer&#x2F;</a>).<p>It makes the problem simpler IMO, as then you get to iterate on the language and capabilities independently of the UI.</text></comment> |
3,939,037 | 3,937,585 | 1 | 2 | 3,937,280 | train | <story><title>The Maturation of Mark Zuckerberg</title><url>http://nymag.com/news/features/mark-zuckerberg-2012-5/?mid=nymag_press</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterwwillis</author><text>The crazy thing to me is how well suited people of Zuck's age group are to running companies suited to web technology. A more "mature" CEO would not have the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention. If something cooler comes around the corner and enough people latch onto it, you're fucked. Zuck gets this because he probably thinks exactly how his target audience thinks. So the question then becomes: What happens when Zuck is too mature to see what's coming next?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brandall10</author><text>What target audience? Doesn't everyone and their mom use Facebook now, pretty much? Seems to me its biggest competitor for attention is TV.<p>To me this stuff is fairly simple - but I don't use Facebook anymore fwiw.<p>There were a bunch of prior attempts at large scale social networking like this and they pretty much all ran into issues with scaling. Facebook handled this adeptly, plus they didn't allow their user-base to turn into a total cesspool through ridiculous customizations + features that made it act like a hookup service ala MySpace, which is why they ate their lunch.<p>Now the network effects are extreme with nearly a billion served - so it's not exactly hard to keep users' attention when most of their friends and family use the service as well. And I haven't seen any viable competitors come across except Google+ which doesn't seem to be a real threat. So I'm not sure who exactly is nipping at their heels unless we're thinking of a different way of attacking social ala Pinterest (and formerly Instagram :)... which I think is what it will take. You won't outdo them by being a better them. It seems to me most of their innovation has been in a way to set up better ways to monetize or lock in their mass of user data.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Maturation of Mark Zuckerberg</title><url>http://nymag.com/news/features/mark-zuckerberg-2012-5/?mid=nymag_press</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterwwillis</author><text>The crazy thing to me is how well suited people of Zuck's age group are to running companies suited to web technology. A more "mature" CEO would not have the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention. If something cooler comes around the corner and enough people latch onto it, you're fucked. Zuck gets this because he probably thinks exactly how his target audience thinks. So the question then becomes: What happens when Zuck is too mature to see what's coming next?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mquander</author><text>I don't understand your point. What does maturity have to do with <i>"the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention?"</i></text></comment> |
34,155,614 | 34,155,654 | 1 | 3 | 34,117,429 | train | <story><title>“Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)</title><url>http://theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com/2007/06/toc-stories-2-blue-light-creating.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anenefan</author><text>I know most people are gushing with positives ... but to me this reads like the epitome of a clueless consultant who got lucky because the 30 plus years manager missed the basics ... unless the era of the tale was early 60s or something or some middle of nowhere fabrication that sprang up with little idea of how other similar places work ... um <i>great story</i> but what really was this based on.<p>In the industry it&#x27;s fairly well known (ok that&#x27;s a weasel phrase even though I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;d be right if I used 99.999999%) in regard to the overall benefits of TAs (Trade Assistants.) Typically a TA around welders, they&#x27;re grinding and readying the surfaces to be welded and helping position the work. Though there&#x27;s value in setting up, not just making blue light, welders generally receive a much higher pay packet, since ultimately it&#x27;s their good welding skills that ensures quality welds leave the floor and a long life of the component.<p>What&#x27;s obvious is what would have happened if the blue light was 50 or 60% of the time and the welding machines were at capacity. (Higher capacity welding machines are generally a lot more expensive.) To the clueless a lot more can be squeezed out ... and that&#x27;s what the hero would have aimed to do, in fact no doubt another 25%. The experienced plant manager would have then kindly thanked them at that point perhaps realising the consultant was out of their depth.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)</title><url>http://theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com/2007/06/toc-stories-2-blue-light-creating.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>giorgosts</author><text>Bullshit story the consultant made up to bolster his point (93% efficiency claim from a foreman wtf).<p>Of course finding some help moving parts around for the welders would be the first thing the foreman would think of, because thats what foremans do all the time in factories.<p>Maybe the welders chose to work this way (i.e. inefficiently) because continuous welding produces fatigue which risks H&amp;S and lowers the quality of the product.<p>So if the story was real, the solution would be extra personnel so the welding is done continuously, by rotating people between welding, moving parts and other jobs.</text></comment> |
3,326,744 | 3,326,674 | 1 | 2 | 3,326,425 | train | <story><title>Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/oblivious-supreme-court-poised-to-legalize-medical-patents.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shadowfiend</author><text>This is an extremely foolish title, and the tone of the article is likewise foolish. It's highly unlikely the Supreme Court has not read the amicus briefs, and almost impossible that they will not before passing judgement. These are not 9 people picked off the street and thrown on the bench to judge what the application of law is, and they don't mess around. Reading pretty much any Supreme Court decision will show you how intelligent these nine justices are.<p>It's popular to condemn the Supreme Court's decisions if you disagree with them, and it seems equally popular to blame them on the Supreme Court's fundamental misunderstanding of &#60;x&#62;. I'm not saying the SCotUS is flawless—hardly, they are made up of people—but it would behoove authors and readers if you started from the base assumption that you are dealing with brilliant jurists. Indeed, that is how lawyers have to prepare.<p>The lawyers arguing against the patent were likely aware both of the justices' intelligence and their general interpretations of patent law, therefore chose not to tread the path of invalidating medical patents in general. The questions asked by the justices were fair. Not expressing skepticism does not mean there is no skepticism, for one. We don't find that out until the decisions are written.<p>Whether this was a case where someone should have gone after medical patents in general is up for debate. In particular, it seems unlikely that the Mayo clinic, which probably has its own medical patents, would try to invalidate the concept itself.<p>If you read some more of the questions and interactions, you'll see that the Supreme Court seems anything but oblivious: they're trying to probe what should and should not be patentable in a field that involves actions and reactions that are all based in chemical fact. If neither they nor the lawyers can provide a satisfactory test to determine this, then all they can do is decide the specifics of this case.<p>True change in this area really is something where the Court can only do so much. The definitions of patents in general are determined by Congress and its laws. If we want to change them, we have to focus there. SCotUS has merely become our backup because it's been relatively difficult, particularly in the last 40 years or so, to convince Congress to pass laws that are potentially damaging in any way to the bottom lines of businesses.</text></comment> | <story><title>Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/oblivious-supreme-court-poised-to-legalize-medical-patents.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acslater00</author><text>Honestly, this is probably the best possible thing.<p>The reality is that under the Patent Act, things which are not fundamentally "inventions" -- such as software algorithms, genes, and in this case, data correlations -- can legally be granted patents. This is a problem with the Act, not with any given court's interpretation of it, and that is what needs to change.<p>I can think of no better way to build political support for a major patent reform initiative than a constant stream of human-interest pieces on 60 Minutes where a handsome doctor earnestly explains that he couldn't save Bobby because of a patent claim from some faceless corporate troll.<p>Software is abstract and complicated. Saving Bobby is emotional and simple. If patents start to impact medicine the way they've impacted software development, they're not going to last very long in their current form.</text></comment> |
12,580,482 | 12,578,188 | 1 | 3 | 12,576,116 | train | <story><title>Bidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6</title><url>http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/bdr-is-coming-to-postgresql-9-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ukj</author><text>Holy crap, I am scared!<p>Please, please, please read the fine print and ensure you understand the design tradeoffs as well as your application&#x27;s requirements before blindly using this.<p>The moment I heard multi-master I thought Paxos, Raft or maybe virtual synchrony. Hmm, nothing in the documentation. Maybe a new consensus protocol was written from scratch then? That should be interesting!<p>No, none of that either - this implementation completely disregards consistency and makes write conflicts the developer&#x27;s problem.<p>From <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bdr-project.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;stable&#x2F;weak-coupled-multimaster.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bdr-project.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;stable&#x2F;weak-coupled-multimaster....</a><p>* Applications using BDR are free to write to any node so long as they are careful to prevent or cope with conflicts<p>* There is no complex election of a new master if a node goes down or network problems arise. There is no wait for failover. Each node is always a master and always directly writeable.<p>* Applications can be partition-tolerant: the application can keep keep working even if it loses communication with some or all other nodes, then re-sync automatically when connectivity is restored. Loss of a critical VPN tunnel or WAN won&#x27;t bring the entire store or satellite office to a halt.<p>Basically:<p>* Transactions are a lie<p>* Consistent reads are a lie<p>* Datasets will diverge during network partitioning<p>* Convergence is not guaranteed without a mechanism for resolving write conflicts<p>I am sure there are use-cases where the risk of this design is acceptable (or necessary), but ensure you have a plan for dealing with data inconsistencies!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simon2Q</author><text>&quot;Everything after &quot;Basically&quot; is misleading and inaccurate.<p>The conclusions here are not logical: The existence of some restrictions does not imply &quot;Transactions are a lie&quot;, since that makes us think ALL transaction semantics are suspended, which is very far from the case.<p>There are good reasons for the design and restrictions in the BDR design, offering performance about x100 what is possible with eager consensus. Real world pragmatism, with production tools to ensure no inconsistencies exist in the database. The BDR tools allow you to trap and handle run-time issues, so it is not a theoretical debate or a mysterious issue, just a practical task for application authors to check their apps work.<p>&quot;Consistent reads are a lie&quot;. Reads from multiple nodes at the same time are not guaranteed to be consistent - but this is multi-master - why would you read two nodes when all the data is on one node? The whole point is to put the data you need near the users who need it, so this is designed to avoid multiple node reads.<p>I could go on, and will do in a longer post elsewhere, but the main purpose of my retort is to show that the conclusions drawn here are not valid. Let&#x27;s see how the hacker news method of consensus decides what is correct in this case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6</title><url>http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/bdr-is-coming-to-postgresql-9-6/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ukj</author><text>Holy crap, I am scared!<p>Please, please, please read the fine print and ensure you understand the design tradeoffs as well as your application&#x27;s requirements before blindly using this.<p>The moment I heard multi-master I thought Paxos, Raft or maybe virtual synchrony. Hmm, nothing in the documentation. Maybe a new consensus protocol was written from scratch then? That should be interesting!<p>No, none of that either - this implementation completely disregards consistency and makes write conflicts the developer&#x27;s problem.<p>From <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bdr-project.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;stable&#x2F;weak-coupled-multimaster.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bdr-project.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;stable&#x2F;weak-coupled-multimaster....</a><p>* Applications using BDR are free to write to any node so long as they are careful to prevent or cope with conflicts<p>* There is no complex election of a new master if a node goes down or network problems arise. There is no wait for failover. Each node is always a master and always directly writeable.<p>* Applications can be partition-tolerant: the application can keep keep working even if it loses communication with some or all other nodes, then re-sync automatically when connectivity is restored. Loss of a critical VPN tunnel or WAN won&#x27;t bring the entire store or satellite office to a halt.<p>Basically:<p>* Transactions are a lie<p>* Consistent reads are a lie<p>* Datasets will diverge during network partitioning<p>* Convergence is not guaranteed without a mechanism for resolving write conflicts<p>I am sure there are use-cases where the risk of this design is acceptable (or necessary), but ensure you have a plan for dealing with data inconsistencies!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimktrains2</author><text>&gt; I am sure there are use-cases where the risk of this design is acceptable (or necessary), but ensure you have a plan for dealing with data inconsistencies!<p>I&#x27;d argue most non-financing applications would find these risks acceptable. This form of Multi-Master is what most people writing web-based applications actually are looking for. It simplifies having fail-over, at the costs you mentioned, but those aren&#x27;t a major issues, especially if they&#x27;re known upfront.<p>&gt; * Datasets will diverge during network partitioning<p>&gt; * Convergence is not guaranteed without a mechanism for resolving write conflicts<p>While this isn&#x27;t ideal in a perfect world, it&#x27;s workable for, again, web-based applications where consistency isn&#x27;t usually required. Also, the rules are known <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bdr-project.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;stable&#x2F;conflicts-types.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bdr-project.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;stable&#x2F;conflicts-types.html</a><p>So yes, there are definitely workloads where this type of replication isn&#x27;t appropriate, however, acting like there aren&#x27;t any is blatantly ignoring many types of workloads.</text></comment> |
36,679,072 | 36,678,367 | 1 | 3 | 36,678,079 | train | <story><title>SUSE is forking RHEL</title><url>https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>I&#x27;m continually baffled that so many companies follow RHEL compatibility to this day.<p>I&#x27;ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years. Admining as a profession for at least a quarter of that. 20 years ago, it made a ton of sense. Today, less so.<p>The &#x27;stable version but we backport patches&#x27; mantra doesn&#x27;t make any sense today. I can&#x27;t even describe how many things that have broken that you can&#x27;t even find an answer for because it was some RH specific patch.<p>Between Debian, Nix, Arch, and others, I can&#x27;t figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable. I&#x27;ll go as far as to say that my Arch boxes have been far more predictable than my RHEL boxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeone3000</author><text>&gt; I can&#x27;t figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable.<p>Hey, here’s a comprehensive guide complete with commands, expected outcomes, and side effects of each command for setting up a Windows Domain using an RHEL domain controller: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_single_sign-on&#x2F;7.5&#x2F;html&#x2F;server_administration_guide&#x2F;identity_broker" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_single...</a><p>Oh, that’s for 7.5? One that’s 15 years old and no longer under standard support? It still works! Wait, but you’re a new customer. Sorry, here’s the one for 9: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_enterprise_linux&#x2F;9&#x2F;html-single&#x2F;planning_identity_management&#x2F;index" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;access.redhat.com&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;red_hat_enterp...</a><p>It is like this for <i>everything</i>. The documentation is clear, concise, comprehensive, complete, and <i>versioned</i>. This is what being RHEL compatible gets you.</text></comment> | <story><title>SUSE is forking RHEL</title><url>https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>silisili</author><text>I&#x27;m continually baffled that so many companies follow RHEL compatibility to this day.<p>I&#x27;ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years. Admining as a profession for at least a quarter of that. 20 years ago, it made a ton of sense. Today, less so.<p>The &#x27;stable version but we backport patches&#x27; mantra doesn&#x27;t make any sense today. I can&#x27;t even describe how many things that have broken that you can&#x27;t even find an answer for because it was some RH specific patch.<p>Between Debian, Nix, Arch, and others, I can&#x27;t figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable. I&#x27;ll go as far as to say that my Arch boxes have been far more predictable than my RHEL boxes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PlutoIsAPlanet</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m continually baffled that so many companies follow RHEL compatibility to this day.<p>Because RHEL, and subsequently it&#x27;s clones, are a really good server OS. You get updates for 10 years, Red Hat or it&#x27;s employees maintain a large chunk of the generic-Linux stack, large software support, Cockpit, more modern features when compared to the Debian version at the same time (e.g. dracut, firewalld, systemd, NetworkManager, Podman etc).<p>Then when you want commercial support, converting to RHEL (or vice versa) it&#x27;s painless and quick.</text></comment> |
33,235,377 | 33,234,435 | 1 | 2 | 33,233,827 | train | <story><title>Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' (2020)</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GoodDreams</author><text>Reminds me of: People said you can’t write a financial trading system in a garbage collected language. Turns out you can as long as you don’t garbage collect during the trading day by carefully managing allocations and manually running GC each day before trading starts.<p>Or the old story of the junior engineer who finds a memory leak in a missile’s guidance system and the senior engineer says the memory leak is fine as long as you don’t run out of memory before the missile completes its mission.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' (2020)</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wzdd</author><text>49.7 days is equal to 2**32 milliseconds, after which Windows 95 crashes (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20010331174127&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;support&#x2F;kb&#x2F;articles&#x2F;q216&#x2F;6&#x2F;41.asp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20010331174127&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mi...</a>). That&#x27;s close-ish to 51 days. Maybe they start the counter with a value other than zero.</text></comment> |
15,788,623 | 15,787,848 | 1 | 2 | 15,787,023 | train | <story><title>Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway7645</author><text>Norvig is a beast. For those that don&#x27;t know, he is high up in Google Research (AI director I believe) and also wrote the #1 AI textbook. He has the #1 AI course on coursera or edx too (can&#x27;t remember which one). He&#x27;s a big lisp advocate (look at his review of SICP on amazon), but also has the programs for his books in Java, and Python.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strong_silent_t</author><text>Regarding lisp, he made a post about language choice here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1803815" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1803815</a><p><i>I think Lisp still has an edge for larger projects and for applications where the speed of the compiled code is important. But Python has the edge (with a large number of students) when the main goal is communication, not programming per se.
In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don&#x27;t have those things you&#x27;re in trouble regardless of your language choice. </i></text></comment> | <story><title>Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills</title><url>https://github.com/norvig/pytudes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway7645</author><text>Norvig is a beast. For those that don&#x27;t know, he is high up in Google Research (AI director I believe) and also wrote the #1 AI textbook. He has the #1 AI course on coursera or edx too (can&#x27;t remember which one). He&#x27;s a big lisp advocate (look at his review of SICP on amazon), but also has the programs for his books in Java, and Python.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>Everybody knows about AIMA (Artificial Intelligence, Modern Apporach) but Norvigs PAIP (Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp) is also a gem.<p>It&#x27;s elegant learn programming, history of AI, and simple old school Common Lisp in the same package.<p>AI methods include GPS, Eliza style chatbots, symbolic math, constraint satisfaction, logic programming, natural language programming.</text></comment> |
12,219,715 | 12,218,423 | 1 | 2 | 12,216,824 | train | <story><title>A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China</title><url>http://blog.traintracks.io/a-swede-returns-to-silicon-valley-from-china-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>That argument would be more convincing if the original poster were not comparing SF to Sweden -- the country that essentially solved those problems in 1950-1980 by having the most liberal and progressive government in the world.</text></item><item><author>wtbob</author><text>And some of the problems of SF (e.g. the homelessness, the mentally ill, the dirtiness &amp; shabbiness of the city) are a direct result of its liberal &amp; progressive government.</text></item><item><author>wwwdonohue</author><text>His emphasis on social justice (re: your fourth point) is what makes this article a bit confusing to read. I don&#x27;t live in SF, but from a distance it certainly looks more liberal and progressive than China: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-china-35217218" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-china-35217218</a><p>Häagen-Dazs or no Häagen-Dazs, I feel that SF&#x27;s moral compass is screwed in slightly tighter than Beijing&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>msvan</author><text>I&#x27;m also a Swede who has also lived in SF and Beijing.<p>The social problems of SF are certainly a bit of a shock coming from Scandinavia, and I can understand the author&#x27;s excitement about Beijing. But there are a couple of deal-breakers about China that would make it very tough for me to consider moving back:<p>* You&#x27;ll always be an expat. You can become an American both legally and culturally, but you cannot become Chinese in either sense. As someone who grew up surrounded by US culture, it makes more sense to live in the US than in China.<p>* Your business is always going to be at a disadvantage compared to
native businesses. I don&#x27;t have any first-hand experience of this, but from what I understand, government connections are necessary to get anything going, especially in hyper-competitive China.<p>* There&#x27;s no public debate. The government has little oversight. The internet is censored. There are plenty of policies that I consider indefensible. The US has plenty of flaws too, but at least there is an open discussion about these flaws and a pathway towards fixing them.<p>SF can be a bit insular and self-absorbed at times, but I felt more at home there than I did in Beijing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikaeluman</author><text>Sick and tired of non-swedes thinking socialists ever did anything for this country. Nothing was &quot;solved&quot; by politics in those years. Quite the opposite, our lean and mean economy faltered until the socialists became fiscally conservative in the 90s.<p>The sheer arrogance of Swedes dissing US is also annoying. Go to our new ghettos and inspect the great equity the progressives have established lately.</text></comment> | <story><title>A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China</title><url>http://blog.traintracks.io/a-swede-returns-to-silicon-valley-from-china-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pavlov</author><text>That argument would be more convincing if the original poster were not comparing SF to Sweden -- the country that essentially solved those problems in 1950-1980 by having the most liberal and progressive government in the world.</text></item><item><author>wtbob</author><text>And some of the problems of SF (e.g. the homelessness, the mentally ill, the dirtiness &amp; shabbiness of the city) are a direct result of its liberal &amp; progressive government.</text></item><item><author>wwwdonohue</author><text>His emphasis on social justice (re: your fourth point) is what makes this article a bit confusing to read. I don&#x27;t live in SF, but from a distance it certainly looks more liberal and progressive than China: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-china-35217218" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-china-35217218</a><p>Häagen-Dazs or no Häagen-Dazs, I feel that SF&#x27;s moral compass is screwed in slightly tighter than Beijing&#x27;s.</text></item><item><author>msvan</author><text>I&#x27;m also a Swede who has also lived in SF and Beijing.<p>The social problems of SF are certainly a bit of a shock coming from Scandinavia, and I can understand the author&#x27;s excitement about Beijing. But there are a couple of deal-breakers about China that would make it very tough for me to consider moving back:<p>* You&#x27;ll always be an expat. You can become an American both legally and culturally, but you cannot become Chinese in either sense. As someone who grew up surrounded by US culture, it makes more sense to live in the US than in China.<p>* Your business is always going to be at a disadvantage compared to
native businesses. I don&#x27;t have any first-hand experience of this, but from what I understand, government connections are necessary to get anything going, especially in hyper-competitive China.<p>* There&#x27;s no public debate. The government has little oversight. The internet is censored. There are plenty of policies that I consider indefensible. The US has plenty of flaws too, but at least there is an open discussion about these flaws and a pathway towards fixing them.<p>SF can be a bit insular and self-absorbed at times, but I felt more at home there than I did in Beijing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jazzyk</author><text>True, Sweden is clean and has no homelessness issues.<p>But it is now quite segregated (not unlike France with its banlieus) full of not-homeless, but, unfortunately, un-assimilated population.<p>A blog written by an American living in Sweden (check out the other posts on the blog as well):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swedenreport.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;police-yes-there-are-no-go-zones-in-sweden&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swedenreport.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;police-yes-there-are-no-...</a></text></comment> |
34,087,963 | 34,086,061 | 1 | 2 | 34,082,799 | train | <story><title>The Decline of the City Grid</title><url>https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/the-decline-of-the-city-grid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpvos</author><text>A thing about North-American cul-de-sac suburbs that I don&#x27;t understand is why there are no footpaths to take shortcuts between the dead-end streets. That would make them much less hostile to pedestrians, would allow you to visit neighbours more easily, and it seems to me that you don&#x27;t lose anything. Is it just an oversight or is there some reason for that? It should even increase social safety: always an escape route.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>denkmoon</author><text>When I was a kid in the 90s (in Australia, not the US), we lived in a cul-de-sac suburb, and every cul-de-sac had a footpath to nearby streets and parklands.<p>In the early 2000s, residents realised they could petition the local government to have the footpaths removed and the land would be allocated to the neighbouring properties. Within the space of a few years, the route I used to walk to my school bus stop was completely blocked off because all the footpaths were removed. I went from having 4-5 different routing options to none. Also made it so that instead of riding my bike to my friend&#x27;s house through parks and away from the road, I had to be driven (because my parents didn&#x27;t like me riding near a high traffic road which I can understand).<p>Me and Mum were the only people on the &quot;against&quot; side to show up at the council meetings.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Decline of the City Grid</title><url>https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/the-decline-of-the-city-grid</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gpvos</author><text>A thing about North-American cul-de-sac suburbs that I don&#x27;t understand is why there are no footpaths to take shortcuts between the dead-end streets. That would make them much less hostile to pedestrians, would allow you to visit neighbours more easily, and it seems to me that you don&#x27;t lose anything. Is it just an oversight or is there some reason for that? It should even increase social safety: always an escape route.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>markfenton</author><text>There is a view held by some that they actually decrease safety by providing somewhere for undesirables to loiter, or a means of escape after committing crime, or simply attract more foot traffic to an area than a cul-de-sac therfore increasing the chance of opportunistic crime.<p>I suspect this is a situation where the benefits of the shortcuts to society may be greater than the possible downsides to the nearby homeowners, but more power lies with the local residents, or developers who want to sell homes. It would be interesting to know if there is any research on whether there is any effect on crime from this sort of development.</text></comment> |
26,179,044 | 26,177,595 | 1 | 3 | 26,174,269 | train | <story><title>Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it</title><url>https://imgur.com/a/K8m7p2t</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>Incidents like this make me wonder why there isn&#x27;t an appetite for better consumer rights in the US.<p>If this had happened in the UK, you&#x27;d have the option to pro-actively block the payment, recover it, and legal standing to defend getting your money back.<p>Letting companies redefine the rights of their customers seems bizarre to me.</text></item><item><author>pottertheotter</author><text>I had a similar issue with the Wall Street Journal a few years back, and despite having spent the majority of my career working on Wall Street, I’ll never buy a subscription again.<p>I signed up for a really good deal for 6 months of digital + paper delivery, but my paper always arrived a day or two late, so before my 6 months were up I tried to cancel, but couldn’t figure out a way to do so on their website. I messaged support asking them to not renew my subscription, and told them that the paper always arrived late. They responded back that they were going to give me a free subscription until they could figure out the paper delivery. I should have held firm and cancelled, but it seemed lke they were trying to provide good customer service.<p>Nothing changed with delivery, and I followed up a few times to see what was going on. I was told they were looking into it.<p>One day, out of the blue, I received a large bill from them. I called to see what was going on and I was told that my trial was up and since I hadn’t cancelled that it had renewed. A proceeded to tell the about my problems with delivery and that customer service was supposedly working on fixing the problem and not charging me until they could. The person on the phone told me that that’s not possible since they don’t provide same-day delivery to my address. I recounted exactly what had happened, and they basically told me I was a liar, and would not refund the charge because the user agreement says they don’t have to, even though I called within a few hours of the new charge and subscription renewal.<p>The part that really stung was that I was a PhD student and could get an entire year for less than what they charged me for a month. I’ve never had a company treat me so poorly before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joncrane</author><text>&gt;Letting companies redefine the rights of their customers seems bizarre to me.<p>I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s obvious by now but perhaps it&#x27;s worth restating:<p>Those companies have large budgets for contributing to elected officials&#x27; campaigns. The individual consumers negatively affected by these practices can&#x27;t band together as efficiently as the large business on the other side of the abusive behavior.<p>As long as enough elected officials entertain these businesses in visits, allow them to help write legislation, and accept contributions from them, it won&#x27;t change.<p>Also, executive agencies have to put out proposals for new rule making and allow a period of public comment. The business in the sector have entire staffs and&#x2F;or contract with firms whose job it is to watch these publications and craft intelligent responses backed up by fudged data to &quot;prove&quot; how &quot;damaging&quot; these policies would be to the industry.<p>The individuals who respond are mostly retired people&#x2F;activist citizens who can only say &quot;this is a bad idea and I don&#x27;t like it at all.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it</title><url>https://imgur.com/a/K8m7p2t</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>Incidents like this make me wonder why there isn&#x27;t an appetite for better consumer rights in the US.<p>If this had happened in the UK, you&#x27;d have the option to pro-actively block the payment, recover it, and legal standing to defend getting your money back.<p>Letting companies redefine the rights of their customers seems bizarre to me.</text></item><item><author>pottertheotter</author><text>I had a similar issue with the Wall Street Journal a few years back, and despite having spent the majority of my career working on Wall Street, I’ll never buy a subscription again.<p>I signed up for a really good deal for 6 months of digital + paper delivery, but my paper always arrived a day or two late, so before my 6 months were up I tried to cancel, but couldn’t figure out a way to do so on their website. I messaged support asking them to not renew my subscription, and told them that the paper always arrived late. They responded back that they were going to give me a free subscription until they could figure out the paper delivery. I should have held firm and cancelled, but it seemed lke they were trying to provide good customer service.<p>Nothing changed with delivery, and I followed up a few times to see what was going on. I was told they were looking into it.<p>One day, out of the blue, I received a large bill from them. I called to see what was going on and I was told that my trial was up and since I hadn’t cancelled that it had renewed. A proceeded to tell the about my problems with delivery and that customer service was supposedly working on fixing the problem and not charging me until they could. The person on the phone told me that that’s not possible since they don’t provide same-day delivery to my address. I recounted exactly what had happened, and they basically told me I was a liar, and would not refund the charge because the user agreement says they don’t have to, even though I called within a few hours of the new charge and subscription renewal.<p>The part that really stung was that I was a PhD student and could get an entire year for less than what they charged me for a month. I’ve never had a company treat me so poorly before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinay427</author><text>This does exist for credit cards in the US. There are guidelines by which credit card issuers must abide by customer requests, and they&#x27;re seemingly always happy to side with the consumer when it&#x27;s even somewhat reasonable.<p>&gt; Letting companies redefine the rights of their customers seems bizarre to me.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just what I was used to, but I think it&#x27;s far more annoying in many European countries (not sure about the UK but at least the one I live in) where it&#x27;s harder to return products without specific proof and following strict guidelines, virtually impossible to get a credit or debit card that covers all fees for normal international use, difficult to get a fraud or improper charge on a card statement immediately rescinded, etc.</text></comment> |
11,926,568 | 11,926,377 | 1 | 2 | 11,925,904 | train | <story><title>DAOs, Hacks and the Law</title><url>https://medium.com/@Swarm/daos-hacks-and-the-law-eb6a33808e3e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>will_brown</author><text>That is the legal argument the article presents, but it is wrong. Here is a quick legal analysis:<p>Contracts that include illegal activities, such as theft, are unenforceable. If the hacked funds get released the whole of the DAO would be legally invalid.<p>In other words what stopped an investor from day 1 from suing the creators of the DAO in court to get their investment back? Well the fact that there was a contract in place and that contract&#x2F;DAO had not been breached, meaning the investor would lose such a lawsuit. The argument from the article is suggesting even with the hack the same is true, because its part of the contract; therefore, the contract&#x2F;DAO hasn&#x27;t been breached. That is where the legal argument fails.<p>Try contracting for any other illegal activity and see how that works out enforcing it in court. &quot;Your Honor, I have a contract right here that says I paid for the drugs but they weren&#x27;t delivered.&quot; Just imagine, &quot;Your Honor, the contract&#x2F;DAO says any member can create a child DAO and steal the funds from the other investors&#x2F;party to the contract...Judge they contracted to be stolen from.&quot; I am predicting right now if any of those funds get released as a result of this hack, there will be criminal charges, but it will just as likely be against the creators of the DAO as the hacker. They are not shielded from liability, civilly or criminally, because the victims agreed to be victimized in a contract.<p>As a lawyer I have called the DAO snake oil[1] from the beginning, but mostly because it sold itself as something new legally...which it is not (of course I was downvoted). I suggested if you like the concept of a DAO, great, but start your own that is true decentralization as it really isn&#x27;t much more than an Investment Club LLC. And more controversial I challenged the charade of the smart contract, again not as a concept, because they do have value legally and otherwise, but as what the DAO sold smart contracts as...a self enforcing contract, that is bullshit any real world example anyone can give me I&#x27;ll come up with a real world way to breach it. 20 days ago I suggested the first DAO proposal should create: a) a group of lawyers&#x2F;coders to review all proposed and funded contracts for approval; and b) an insurance company to insure both approved proposed and funded DAO contracts in the instance of bugs&#x2F;errors.[2] If these hacked funds don&#x27;t get released and that is not the first step members of the DAO take after cleaning up the actual DAO framework, everyone deserves the next hack.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11707497" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11707497</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11789829" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11789829</a></text></item><item><author>stevecalifornia</author><text>&quot;DAO, I closely read your contract and agreed to execute the clause where I can withdraw eth repeatedly and only be charged for my initial withdraw.<p>Thank you for the $70 million. Let me know if you draw up any other contracts I can participate in.<p>Regards, 0x304a554a310c7e546dfe434669c62820b7d83490&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmarsy</author><text>How enforceable would be a classic contract that says in very fine print:
&quot;you can put money in this account, but you are aware that this is a public account, anyone opening the account using the <i>Recur Door</i> can come and walk out with your money. You understand the risks that someone might do this one day&quot;<p>(where the <i>Recur Door</i> is defined as the mechanism that guy used for this <i>hack</i>. Also,here instead of fine print it would be replaced by a line &quot;you fully understand this algorithm + source code&quot; clause)<p>Would it be treated the same way we would treat a honest Ponzi scheme contract ? &quot;You can get return on investment as long as someone else invests money after you. If you happen to be the last, you&#x27;re out of luck&quot;. Would such a contract be legal?</text></comment> | <story><title>DAOs, Hacks and the Law</title><url>https://medium.com/@Swarm/daos-hacks-and-the-law-eb6a33808e3e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>will_brown</author><text>That is the legal argument the article presents, but it is wrong. Here is a quick legal analysis:<p>Contracts that include illegal activities, such as theft, are unenforceable. If the hacked funds get released the whole of the DAO would be legally invalid.<p>In other words what stopped an investor from day 1 from suing the creators of the DAO in court to get their investment back? Well the fact that there was a contract in place and that contract&#x2F;DAO had not been breached, meaning the investor would lose such a lawsuit. The argument from the article is suggesting even with the hack the same is true, because its part of the contract; therefore, the contract&#x2F;DAO hasn&#x27;t been breached. That is where the legal argument fails.<p>Try contracting for any other illegal activity and see how that works out enforcing it in court. &quot;Your Honor, I have a contract right here that says I paid for the drugs but they weren&#x27;t delivered.&quot; Just imagine, &quot;Your Honor, the contract&#x2F;DAO says any member can create a child DAO and steal the funds from the other investors&#x2F;party to the contract...Judge they contracted to be stolen from.&quot; I am predicting right now if any of those funds get released as a result of this hack, there will be criminal charges, but it will just as likely be against the creators of the DAO as the hacker. They are not shielded from liability, civilly or criminally, because the victims agreed to be victimized in a contract.<p>As a lawyer I have called the DAO snake oil[1] from the beginning, but mostly because it sold itself as something new legally...which it is not (of course I was downvoted). I suggested if you like the concept of a DAO, great, but start your own that is true decentralization as it really isn&#x27;t much more than an Investment Club LLC. And more controversial I challenged the charade of the smart contract, again not as a concept, because they do have value legally and otherwise, but as what the DAO sold smart contracts as...a self enforcing contract, that is bullshit any real world example anyone can give me I&#x27;ll come up with a real world way to breach it. 20 days ago I suggested the first DAO proposal should create: a) a group of lawyers&#x2F;coders to review all proposed and funded contracts for approval; and b) an insurance company to insure both approved proposed and funded DAO contracts in the instance of bugs&#x2F;errors.[2] If these hacked funds don&#x27;t get released and that is not the first step members of the DAO take after cleaning up the actual DAO framework, everyone deserves the next hack.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11707497" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11707497</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11789829" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11789829</a></text></item><item><author>stevecalifornia</author><text>&quot;DAO, I closely read your contract and agreed to execute the clause where I can withdraw eth repeatedly and only be charged for my initial withdraw.<p>Thank you for the $70 million. Let me know if you draw up any other contracts I can participate in.<p>Regards, 0x304a554a310c7e546dfe434669c62820b7d83490&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Theft has a precise legal definition. Most of what happens online isn&#x27;t theft, but rather forms of <i>fraud</i>. But the contract language used for this project makes the applicability of fraud hazy. That&#x27;s the point of the article.</text></comment> |
36,462,430 | 36,462,256 | 1 | 3 | 36,452,596 | train | <story><title>Intel Releases x86-SIMD-sort 2.0 With Faster AVX-512 Sorting, New Algorithms</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-x86-simd-sort-2.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cientifico</author><text>A interesting reading related to this is the thoughts of Linus about AVX-512 back in 2020: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;Linus-Torvalds-On-AVX-512" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;Linus-Torvalds-On-AVX-512</a><p>My conclusion (feel free to enlighten me if I am wrong) is that a system will profit by having more cores instead of AVX-512 for the same power consumption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>janwas</author><text>(Frequent AVX-512 user, opinions are my own.)<p>It is time to stop quoting this rant, which is rather far removed from actual practice and reality.<p>Specifically for sorting, Intel&#x27;s sort and ours can be about 10x as fast as scalar.<p>AVX-512 has high power? Great! Power is work per time. Let&#x27;s have more of that.
It is _useful_ work per _energy spent_ that we want to maximize, and there scalar code falls flat. Consider that OoO scheduling&#x2F;control overhead is the real culprit; executing one instruction costs far more energy than the actual operation. SIMD divides that fixed cost over 16 elements, leading to 5-10x higher power efficiency.<p>Top frequency reduction? Not since the first implementation on Skylake, and even there a non-issue, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;highway&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;hwy&#x2F;contrib&#x2F;sort&#x2F;README.md#study-of-avx-512-downclocking">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;highway&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;hwy&#x2F;contrib&#x2F;so...</a>.<p>More cores? The shared-memory fabric is already bursting at the seams (see on-chip bottlenecks of Genoa), we are already cramming in too many for the current memory interface.<p>What would actually be necessary: more bandwidth! A64FX CPUs actually beat GPUs in 2019 for supercomputing applications thanks to their HBM. Intel&#x27;s Sappire Rapids Max also has this. Let&#x27;s build more of those, at a decent price. And start using the wide vector units, they are there precisely because lots of highly-clocked cores in one big NUMA domain is not always the best way forward.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Releases x86-SIMD-sort 2.0 With Faster AVX-512 Sorting, New Algorithms</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-x86-simd-sort-2.0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cientifico</author><text>A interesting reading related to this is the thoughts of Linus about AVX-512 back in 2020: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;Linus-Torvalds-On-AVX-512" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;Linus-Torvalds-On-AVX-512</a><p>My conclusion (feel free to enlighten me if I am wrong) is that a system will profit by having more cores instead of AVX-512 for the same power consumption.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackmott42</author><text>A lot of the downclocking issues he was talking about then are less severe now on newer Intel cpus and AMD cpus, which changes the calculus a lot.<p>You could probably find a workload where your conclusion is correct but I think the vast majority of workloads would be faster with AVX-512 if you have the time to leverage it.</text></comment> |
18,239,560 | 18,238,542 | 1 | 2 | 18,237,283 | train | <story><title>Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marijuana-faq-legalization-need-to-know-1.4862207</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>How Canada interfaces with the rest of the world promises to be a bit screwy.<p>For just one example, consider airline staff. Some Canadian airlines have already banned employees from using pot. Obviously, the general public doesn&#x27;t want to fly with pilots that are high in more than one way. These airlines also have to operate in countries, like the U.S., where their employees could be detained or expelled for even admitting to have used pot in the past. Being able to look foreign gatekeepers in the face and deny having ever used a product that&#x27;s legal in your native country is now a necessary job requirement for some.<p>On the bright side, we could <i>finally</i> get some quality data on the health impacts of pot, now that trials and surveys can be done without potentially incriminating anyone. Like practically every other fun thing in existence it&#x27;s probably very bad for you. We just don&#x27;t know how... yet.<p>Canada taxes alcohol at a rate of over 50% in most provinces. The initial tax rates for pot will be much lower, but should increase steadily year-over-year. Alcohol taxes continue to rise every year. This is going to be a huge cash cow for the Canadian government, and I can&#x27;t imagine other countries not wanting to get in on the action once they see how much Canada will be raking in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Symbiote</author><text>&gt; Being able to look foreign gatekeepers in the face and deny having ever used a product that&#x27;s legal in your native country is now a necessary job requirement for some.<p>This is not so different from being arrested for having drunk alcohol at the UAE border. (In this case, alcohol supplied by the Dubai airline.)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;aug&#x2F;11&#x2F;woman-arrested-with-daughter-in-dubai-over-drinking-wine-is-released" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk-news&#x2F;2018&#x2F;aug&#x2F;11&#x2F;woman-arrest...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;foreign-travel-advice&#x2F;united-arab-emirates&#x2F;local-laws-and-customs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;foreign-travel-advice&#x2F;united-arab-emirate...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marijuana-faq-legalization-need-to-know-1.4862207</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beloch</author><text>How Canada interfaces with the rest of the world promises to be a bit screwy.<p>For just one example, consider airline staff. Some Canadian airlines have already banned employees from using pot. Obviously, the general public doesn&#x27;t want to fly with pilots that are high in more than one way. These airlines also have to operate in countries, like the U.S., where their employees could be detained or expelled for even admitting to have used pot in the past. Being able to look foreign gatekeepers in the face and deny having ever used a product that&#x27;s legal in your native country is now a necessary job requirement for some.<p>On the bright side, we could <i>finally</i> get some quality data on the health impacts of pot, now that trials and surveys can be done without potentially incriminating anyone. Like practically every other fun thing in existence it&#x27;s probably very bad for you. We just don&#x27;t know how... yet.<p>Canada taxes alcohol at a rate of over 50% in most provinces. The initial tax rates for pot will be much lower, but should increase steadily year-over-year. Alcohol taxes continue to rise every year. This is going to be a huge cash cow for the Canadian government, and I can&#x27;t imagine other countries not wanting to get in on the action once they see how much Canada will be raking in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>verelo</author><text>How is the US travel situation with Canada any different to someone coming from say the Netherlands?<p>Regarding pilots, Transport Canada, the governing body over federal aviation regulations has explicitly come out and said use of Canabis is valid grounds for a revoked medical certificate, which is required for any pilot to fly. While the airline rules are one thing, this is a very serious implication for pilots.</text></comment> |
96,037 | 95,873 | 1 | 3 | 95,857 | train | <story><title>More advice for new Y Combinator founders</title><text>-Get ready for high highs and low lows, and practice keeping yourself in the middle or you'll never get good work done. You're going to be pretty sure your company is dying at least once a month, and it usually isn't. This is very important and very difficult to learn.<p>-Focus on the product, especially in the early days. You'll have time to make deals later. Now, you've got to build something great.<p>-If you hire, do it very slowly and carefully. The culture of a company is set very early, and so is the quality of the team.<p>-Don't be afraid to change your idea if the market seems bad. Early is a good time to do it. You can change your product, you can change your team, you can change your sales strategy, but you can probably not create a market. Good startups surf someone else's wave.<p>-Figure out what the important things are, and spend lots time on those and little on the rest. Lots of startups work very hard, but on the wrong things. They still die an untimely death.<p>-Watch out for fights and brewing tension among cofounders (ie, make sure everyone feels they have a reasonably fair deal). I've seen this derail more early startups than anything else. And, if you are really sure you have the wrong cofounder, fire fast.<p>-The startups in my Y Combinator 'class' that tanked the fastest were the ones that spent the most time worrying about option grants for members of their board of advisors and the least time on their product. Could be a coincidence, but why risk it? Build your product.<p>-Great products, technology, and people win the day in the long run. History backs this up. Do not be afraid of competitors without them, no matter how much money they raise or how much noise they make.<p>-It's most tempting to give up right before you're about to succeed.<p>Best of luck,
Sam Altman</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pg</author><text>I agree with everything here. If I had to pick out the most important, it would be the last sentence of the second (and seventh) item: "Now you've got to build something great."<p>Few startups build something great and then die. Nearly all startups that fail to build something great die. Therefore succeeding is identical with building something great, plus or minus about 1%. In phase 1, doing anything else except making something great (fussing over paperwork, arguing with one another, working on other projects, worrying about competitors) is a mistake.</text></comment> | <story><title>More advice for new Y Combinator founders</title><text>-Get ready for high highs and low lows, and practice keeping yourself in the middle or you'll never get good work done. You're going to be pretty sure your company is dying at least once a month, and it usually isn't. This is very important and very difficult to learn.<p>-Focus on the product, especially in the early days. You'll have time to make deals later. Now, you've got to build something great.<p>-If you hire, do it very slowly and carefully. The culture of a company is set very early, and so is the quality of the team.<p>-Don't be afraid to change your idea if the market seems bad. Early is a good time to do it. You can change your product, you can change your team, you can change your sales strategy, but you can probably not create a market. Good startups surf someone else's wave.<p>-Figure out what the important things are, and spend lots time on those and little on the rest. Lots of startups work very hard, but on the wrong things. They still die an untimely death.<p>-Watch out for fights and brewing tension among cofounders (ie, make sure everyone feels they have a reasonably fair deal). I've seen this derail more early startups than anything else. And, if you are really sure you have the wrong cofounder, fire fast.<p>-The startups in my Y Combinator 'class' that tanked the fastest were the ones that spent the most time worrying about option grants for members of their board of advisors and the least time on their product. Could be a coincidence, but why risk it? Build your product.<p>-Great products, technology, and people win the day in the long run. History backs this up. Do not be afraid of competitors without them, no matter how much money they raise or how much noise they make.<p>-It's most tempting to give up right before you're about to succeed.<p>Best of luck,
Sam Altman</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nickb</author><text>Sam, thanks for an awesome post!<p>I have one question. You say the following:<p>&#62;&#62;&#62; <i>Figure out what the important things are, and spend lots time on those and little on the rest. Lots of startups work very hard, but on the wrong things.</i><p>Product is number one, no question about it. What else do you consider important and what do you consider 'wrong things'?</text></comment> |
21,538,027 | 21,538,034 | 1 | 3 | 21,536,468 | train | <story><title>Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/11/14/why-is-the-migration-to-python-3-taking-so-long/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>I myself, speaking for my self and only my self find that, in regards to myself, the redundant self keyword, in my self&#x27;s opinion, is somewhat selfish and easy for my self to accidentally omit. Self.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>Can you describe how OOP feels tacked on? One of the major changes in Python 3 is that new-style classes are the only style of classes.</text></item><item><author>erokar</author><text>Python 3 seems like a bit of a missed opportunity. Since they were introducing breaking changes in the first place, why didn&#x27;t they go bigger? E.g. make the OOP seem less tacked on, immutable data structures, clean up inconsistencies in the standard library?</text></item><item><author>downerending</author><text>Because there&#x27;s been not enough carrot and too much stick.<p>The only real killer feature of Python3 is the async programming model. Unfortunately, the standard library version is numbingly complex. (Curio is far easier to follow, but doesn&#x27;t appear to have a future.)<p>On the down side, switching to Unicode strings is a major hurdle. It mostly &quot;just works&quot;, but when it doesn&#x27;t, it can be difficult to see what&#x27;s going on. Probably most programmers don&#x27;t really understand all of the ins and outs. And on top of that, you get weird bugs like this one, which apparently is simply never going to be fixed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pallets&#x2F;click&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1212" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pallets&#x2F;click&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1212</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enragedcacti</author><text>I personally really like the self keyword after spending some time reading code in Java where `this` is optional. Having to reference self makes it more clear where data is coming from and makes navigating an unfamiliar code base much easier. I&#x27;m a fan of forcing devs to acknowledge when they are accessing or manipulating mutable object state.<p>Separate from that, I think that would be a much bigger breaking change than you think. __setattr__ and __setattribute__ means that self.y doesn&#x27;t necessarily refer to a traditional attribute so without self you could end up with either:<p>1. `x = y` where the expression `y` executes code<p>or<p>2. `x = y` where `x = ???` and `x = self.y` where `x = self.__setattr__(&#x27;y&#x27;)`.<p>That said, I do think the language could use something to reduce the size of __init__() since<p>self.arg1 = arg1<p>self.arg2 = arg2<p>self.arg3 = arg3<p>...<p>can get pretty verbose</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/11/14/why-is-the-migration-to-python-3-taking-so-long/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>I myself, speaking for my self and only my self find that, in regards to myself, the redundant self keyword, in my self&#x27;s opinion, is somewhat selfish and easy for my self to accidentally omit. Self.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>Can you describe how OOP feels tacked on? One of the major changes in Python 3 is that new-style classes are the only style of classes.</text></item><item><author>erokar</author><text>Python 3 seems like a bit of a missed opportunity. Since they were introducing breaking changes in the first place, why didn&#x27;t they go bigger? E.g. make the OOP seem less tacked on, immutable data structures, clean up inconsistencies in the standard library?</text></item><item><author>downerending</author><text>Because there&#x27;s been not enough carrot and too much stick.<p>The only real killer feature of Python3 is the async programming model. Unfortunately, the standard library version is numbingly complex. (Curio is far easier to follow, but doesn&#x27;t appear to have a future.)<p>On the down side, switching to Unicode strings is a major hurdle. It mostly &quot;just works&quot;, but when it doesn&#x27;t, it can be difficult to see what&#x27;s going on. Probably most programmers don&#x27;t really understand all of the ins and outs. And on top of that, you get weird bugs like this one, which apparently is simply never going to be fixed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pallets&#x2F;click&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1212" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pallets&#x2F;click&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1212</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>btown</author><text>Self lets you do really cool things though. For instance, you can monkey-patch with `def override_method(arg_that_will_get_self, *args): pass; Class.method = override_method` after Class is defined. Python lets you have all the dynamism of Ruby without letting you go too crazy with DSLs - which is the perfect balance IMO.</text></comment> |
9,556,070 | 9,555,718 | 1 | 3 | 9,554,936 | train | <story><title>Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-american-organizations-seek-federal-probe-of-harvard-admission-policies-1431719348</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon-obviously</author><text><i>The complaint argues that elite schools “that use race-neutral admissions” have far higher Asian-American enrollment than Harvard. At California Institute of Technology, for instance, about 40% of undergraduates are Asian-American, about twice that at Harvard.</i><p>Interestingly, Ron Unz did a lengthy expose on this issue in 2012, and arrived at similar conclusions:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theamericanconservative.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-myth-of-american-meritocracy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theamericanconservative.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-myth-of-...</a><p>He found ample evidence of anti-Asian quotas at Harvard, Yale, and other elite institutions, and perhaps more controversial, evidence of what appears to be a form of affirmative action in favor of Jews:<p><i>In fact, Harvard reported that 45.0 percent of its undergraduates in 2011 were white Americans, but since Jews were 25 percent of the student body, the enrollment of non-Jewish whites might have been as low as 20 percent, though the true figure was probably somewhat higher.51 The Jewish levels for Yale and Columbia were also around 25 percent, while white Gentiles were 22 percent at the former and just 15 percent at the latter. The remainder of the Ivy League followed this same general pattern.</i><p>Jews comprise a mere 2% of the population yet a massive 25% of the student body at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. The contrast with Caltech and UC schools with more merit-based admissions processes is quite stark:<p><i>But Caltech’s current undergraduates are just 5.5 percent Jewish, and the figure seems to have been around this level for some years; meanwhile, Asian enrollment is 39 percent, or seven times larger. It is intriguing that the school which admits students based on the strictest, most objective academic standards has by a very wide margin the lowest Jewish enrollment for any elite university.<p>Let us next turn to the five most selective campuses of the University of California system, whose admissions standards shifted substantially toward objective meritocracy following the 1996 passage of Prop. 209. The average Jewish enrollment is just over 8 percent, or roughly one-third that of the 25 percent found at Harvard and most of the Ivy League, whose admissions standards are supposedly far tougher. Meanwhile, some 40 percent of the students on these UC campuses are Asian, a figure almost five times as high. Once again, almost no elite university in the country has a Jewish enrollment as low as the average for these highly selective UC campuses</i><p>(Unz himself is Jewish, in case you&#x27;re wondering.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gyardley</author><text>Ron Unz used different methodologies for figuring out the percentage of Jewish &#x27;top academic achievers&#x27; and the percentage of Jewish students attending elite colleges, making his statistics suspect. If you&#x27;re going to count Jews to make an argument, you need to count Jews in a consistent <i>way</i>.<p>Andrew Gelman has the details:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewgelman.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;12&#x2F;that-claim-that-harvard-admissions-discriminate-in-favor-of-jews-after-checking-the-statistics-maybe-not&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewgelman.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;12&#x2F;that-claim-that-harvard-a...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Harvard Accused of Bias Against Asian-Americans</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-american-organizations-seek-federal-probe-of-harvard-admission-policies-1431719348</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon-obviously</author><text><i>The complaint argues that elite schools “that use race-neutral admissions” have far higher Asian-American enrollment than Harvard. At California Institute of Technology, for instance, about 40% of undergraduates are Asian-American, about twice that at Harvard.</i><p>Interestingly, Ron Unz did a lengthy expose on this issue in 2012, and arrived at similar conclusions:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theamericanconservative.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-myth-of-american-meritocracy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theamericanconservative.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-myth-of-...</a><p>He found ample evidence of anti-Asian quotas at Harvard, Yale, and other elite institutions, and perhaps more controversial, evidence of what appears to be a form of affirmative action in favor of Jews:<p><i>In fact, Harvard reported that 45.0 percent of its undergraduates in 2011 were white Americans, but since Jews were 25 percent of the student body, the enrollment of non-Jewish whites might have been as low as 20 percent, though the true figure was probably somewhat higher.51 The Jewish levels for Yale and Columbia were also around 25 percent, while white Gentiles were 22 percent at the former and just 15 percent at the latter. The remainder of the Ivy League followed this same general pattern.</i><p>Jews comprise a mere 2% of the population yet a massive 25% of the student body at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. The contrast with Caltech and UC schools with more merit-based admissions processes is quite stark:<p><i>But Caltech’s current undergraduates are just 5.5 percent Jewish, and the figure seems to have been around this level for some years; meanwhile, Asian enrollment is 39 percent, or seven times larger. It is intriguing that the school which admits students based on the strictest, most objective academic standards has by a very wide margin the lowest Jewish enrollment for any elite university.<p>Let us next turn to the five most selective campuses of the University of California system, whose admissions standards shifted substantially toward objective meritocracy following the 1996 passage of Prop. 209. The average Jewish enrollment is just over 8 percent, or roughly one-third that of the 25 percent found at Harvard and most of the Ivy League, whose admissions standards are supposedly far tougher. Meanwhile, some 40 percent of the students on these UC campuses are Asian, a figure almost five times as high. Once again, almost no elite university in the country has a Jewish enrollment as low as the average for these highly selective UC campuses</i><p>(Unz himself is Jewish, in case you&#x27;re wondering.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>artnep</author><text>I&#x27;m skeptical of the Jewish statistics, which are allegedly based on Hillel documents.<p>Is Harvard really 25% Jewish? Or is that the fraction of domestic students who have some (possibly small) Jewish ancestry?<p>And what&#x27;s the source that Caltech is 5.5% Jewish? Could that mean 5.5% are actually practicing?<p>Did Hillel actually perform a serious survey&#x2F;study in these schools, or are these numbers based on some student&#x27;s guess?<p>Admittedly, I haven&#x27;t looked through his citations and supporting material, which looks pretty extensive.</text></comment> |
12,994,768 | 12,994,723 | 1 | 2 | 12,993,021 | train | <story><title>Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS</title><url>https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sirn</author><text>Slightly unrelated, but since there seems to be some Google Cloud people in this thread: I see that Google Cloud account is linked to my Google Account. What happen to my Google Cloud instances if my Google Account got suspended by Google due to other reasons (e.g. Pixel stuff from the other day, or because of YouTube, or etc.) and I did not bought support tier?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>timdorr</author><text>On GCP, you create a separate Project entity that can have any number of Google Accounts linked to it. In that way, the actions of your personal account don&#x27;t affect the GCP project (and vice versa).<p>If you&#x27;re worried about access, you can establish a service account with Owner level access. Or you can add other Google Accounts to the project. (Here are the docs on that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;iam&#x2F;docs&#x2F;overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud.google.com&#x2F;iam&#x2F;docs&#x2F;overview</a>)<p>I personally have all my Google stuff separated into 3 accounts (work, personal email, and personal Google-y things). My work account has access to the projects on GCP, along with some coworkers. That puts up enough of a firewall between various services so that if Google throws down the banhammer, it&#x27;s not totally game over for me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS</title><url>https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-than-aws/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sirn</author><text>Slightly unrelated, but since there seems to be some Google Cloud people in this thread: I see that Google Cloud account is linked to my Google Account. What happen to my Google Cloud instances if my Google Account got suspended by Google due to other reasons (e.g. Pixel stuff from the other day, or because of YouTube, or etc.) and I did not bought support tier?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gselva</author><text>I am compelled to create a HN account just to relate the below.<p>A year ago while planning to move from AWS to GCE, I created some instances to test under a company email id. Our emails were hosted under google apps. At some point, the email id got deleted for other reasons. I was in for a rude surprise. The instances disappeared, as I found out when the test urls didn&#x27;t respond. Apparently, GCE deleted the instances without warning. I was later told by support staff that I should add another admin email to prevent mishaps like this. Seriously.<p>Anyway, we use GCE these days along with AWS and I quite like GCE. Of course, we now don&#x27;t delete any email ids :-)</text></comment> |
30,819,854 | 30,819,159 | 1 | 3 | 30,817,795 | train | <story><title>U.S. Surnames with No Vowels</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/2022/03/26/#vowelless-names</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrjin</author><text>Oh well, if you take a closer look, you will find why: most if not all of those with surnames look weird in English are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from a non-English speaking background. When they&#x2F;their ancestors arrived, they most likely do not speak English at all or might be a couple of words, some of them might not even have a surname. When they arrived at the customs, they for sure needed something English on their papers. It would make sense to take what ever came to their mind at that moment as their surname.<p>Such things can be observed in every English speaking countries I would say. As those surnames were actually picked randomly, and when they&#x2F;their descendants moved again, they most likely carried that randomly chosen surname with them. And now it becomes quirks that lots of surnames of different spellings are actually exactly the same in their origin. Lots of descendants of immigrants no longer neither can read or write in their own language but English, some might be either able to read or write but hardly anyone can do both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwmma</author><text>There are plenty native English surnames that came about before spellings standardized leading to (in the case of my own) Metcalf, Metcalfe, Medcalfe, Medcalf, Midcalfe, Midcalf all being the same name.<p>So even immigrants coming from places that have surnames can have lots of variety before taking into account there isn&#x27;t always a single best way to write a name in the Latin script.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Surnames with No Vowels</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/2022/03/26/#vowelless-names</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrjin</author><text>Oh well, if you take a closer look, you will find why: most if not all of those with surnames look weird in English are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from a non-English speaking background. When they&#x2F;their ancestors arrived, they most likely do not speak English at all or might be a couple of words, some of them might not even have a surname. When they arrived at the customs, they for sure needed something English on their papers. It would make sense to take what ever came to their mind at that moment as their surname.<p>Such things can be observed in every English speaking countries I would say. As those surnames were actually picked randomly, and when they&#x2F;their descendants moved again, they most likely carried that randomly chosen surname with them. And now it becomes quirks that lots of surnames of different spellings are actually exactly the same in their origin. Lots of descendants of immigrants no longer neither can read or write in their own language but English, some might be either able to read or write but hardly anyone can do both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forehanddev</author><text>This particular problem, of matching misspelled immigrant surnames was the reason for development of phonetic matching algorithms. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stevemorse.org&#x2F;phonetics&#x2F;bmpm2.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stevemorse.org&#x2F;phonetics&#x2F;bmpm2.htm</a></text></comment> |
5,442,312 | 5,442,359 | 1 | 2 | 5,442,238 | train | <story><title>GCHQ – Not So Secure?</title><url>http://danfarrall.com/gchq/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jgrahamc</author><text>This is just GCHQ's way of saying that they already know how to reverse bcrypt.<p>On a more serious note <a href="http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk</a> does not appear to be run by GCHQ. The Terms page says that it's run by TMP Worldwide (<a href="http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/terms-and-conditions/</a>).</text></comment> | <story><title>GCHQ – Not So Secure?</title><url>http://danfarrall.com/gchq/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>To be fair, I doubt that the GCHQ website is developed by the same people who are doing cyber intelligence work or whatever it is they do.<p>More likely it was just developed by whichever company was picked off a list of government contractors. I'm sure that whatever internal systems they have are completely separate from the website.<p>GCHQ probably consider arguing with a contractor about the password hashing on the jobs section of their website as a waste of their time.</text></comment> |
19,899,031 | 19,898,162 | 1 | 2 | 19,897,868 | train | <story><title>Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden-prosecutor/sweden-reopens-assange-rape-investigation-to-seek-extradition-idUSKCN1SJ0UZ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tarcyanm</author><text>Assange himself and the rape charges have been politicized to such an extent that I find it essentially meaningless to pontificate about what may or may not have happened in Sweden. His character has been debated endlessly, but when one thinks of what WikiLeaks has actually revealed, I find it totally likely that a systematic effort was made to curtail him:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;SomersetBean&#x2F;status&#x2F;1116916146458877952&#x2F;photo&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;SomersetBean&#x2F;status&#x2F;1116916146458877952&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden-prosecutor/sweden-reopens-assange-rape-investigation-to-seek-extradition-idUSKCN1SJ0UZ</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanalltogether</author><text>&gt; “His attitude is that he is happy to cooperate with Sweden and that he wants to be interviewed and that he wants to clear his name,” Samuelson told Reuters.<p>He spent how many years on both UK soil and then the Ecuadorean embassy to fight these Swedish allegations and now he&#x27;s &quot;happy to cooperate&quot;. He&#x27;s imprisoned himself all these years for nothing.</text></comment> |
24,870,349 | 24,870,024 | 1 | 2 | 24,869,046 | train | <story><title>Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/aliens-spot-earth-exoplanets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buran77</author><text>It may be even worse, that different continent is on a different planet.<p>Space(time) is absolutely, mind-boggling massive. Everyone knows it&#x27;s big but it hard to comprehend how big and why there could be many alien civilizations out there capable of broadcasting or detecting but never intersect in any way because the detection windows of any 2 civilizations don&#x27;t line up.<p>The Milky Way alone is ~150000-200000 light years across. Humans have been civilized for only some tens of thousands of years, and capable of sending and receiving signals for a mere century. Imagine that even at the speed of light the entire history of civilized life on Earth might come and go many times before something reaches us, or before the probe comes back.<p>There&#x27;s no Earth-bound or common sense analogy that can convey this kind of vastness and emptiness.</text></item><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>What&#x27;s staggering to me is that with the new Voyager discoveries lately it feels like we&#x27;re a bunch of stellar savages who just managed to release a buoy far enough into the ocean to feel the currents.<p>Let alone recognize another savage on a different continent who might be doing the same experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>I remember reading somewhere that due to the differing pace of evolution and technology advancements, any intelligent living aliens we meet are almost certainly going to be gods or cavemen. I can&#x27;t find the reference.</text></comment> | <story><title>Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests</title><url>https://www.livescience.com/aliens-spot-earth-exoplanets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buran77</author><text>It may be even worse, that different continent is on a different planet.<p>Space(time) is absolutely, mind-boggling massive. Everyone knows it&#x27;s big but it hard to comprehend how big and why there could be many alien civilizations out there capable of broadcasting or detecting but never intersect in any way because the detection windows of any 2 civilizations don&#x27;t line up.<p>The Milky Way alone is ~150000-200000 light years across. Humans have been civilized for only some tens of thousands of years, and capable of sending and receiving signals for a mere century. Imagine that even at the speed of light the entire history of civilized life on Earth might come and go many times before something reaches us, or before the probe comes back.<p>There&#x27;s no Earth-bound or common sense analogy that can convey this kind of vastness and emptiness.</text></item><item><author>INTPenis</author><text>What&#x27;s staggering to me is that with the new Voyager discoveries lately it feels like we&#x27;re a bunch of stellar savages who just managed to release a buoy far enough into the ocean to feel the currents.<p>Let alone recognize another savage on a different continent who might be doing the same experiment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>The fermi paradox does convey this.</text></comment> |
35,729,124 | 35,725,954 | 1 | 2 | 35,724,634 | train | <story><title>Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shafyy</author><text>I agree. I&#x27;m still annoyed that they started censoring It&#x27;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. For example, they (Hulu) removed one episode where one of the characters does a black face. But the whole point of the show is to surface these social and political issues in a comedic way. They&#x27;re not endorsing black facing, they&#x27;re saying it&#x27;s wrong. That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s funny.<p>This also reminds of something the comedian Ricky Gervais often says (I&#x27;m paraphrasing): You can joke about everything. The problem is people mistaking the target of the joke with the subject.</text></item><item><author>monero-xmr</author><text>I grew up in a small city and one thing they had was some rich dude who donated a library, and filled the reading room with beautiful statues and paintings which were in the classical style, commissioned completely by himself. This was early 1800s.<p>Then in the later 1800s the townsfolk decided the paintings and statues were scandalous because they had nudes, so they painted over the breasts and genitals, and covered over the statues with togas &#x2F; cloths.<p>Luckily in modern times it was easy to remove the cloths, but unfortunately the paintings are ruined. The cover-job was done poorly and the paintings have an off-color paint on it that looks wrong. There have been talks to fix it but I don’t think anything has been done.<p>My point is that, the desire to censor prior art that disagrees with fad-interpretations of what is taboo and scandalous, will certainly be looked at in a few decades as a very weird and Victorian era. Definitely should not re-cut movies to be “safe” or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>This is what I despise so much about modern sensibilities when it comes to being offended. Somehow we skipped right pass the intended <i>meaning</i> of a piece of art or language, and went right to &quot;does this contain any imagery or words on our &#x27;disallow&#x27; list&quot;. It&#x27;s like the dumbest spam filter of all time.<p>The complete sociological ban on the utterance of any words <i>that even sound like</i> &quot;the actual N word&quot; is so bizarre to me. As a kid in the early 80s it was very clear and unambiguous to me that actually <i>calling</i> someone the N-word was extremely taboo and racist. But it wasn&#x27;t like using the phrase in a sentence such as &quot;Calling someone the &lt;N word&gt; is extremely taboo and racist&quot; was considered offensive. When I first heard about a story where a college professor was suspended for giving a lesson in Chinese where the Chinese word <i>just happened to sound like</i> the N word [1], I was convinced it was either an Onion article, or an example of the right trying to make a caricature of anything that smelled of &quot;wokeness&quot;. But alas, it was actually real, and just as absurd as I originally thought.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;ideas&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;fight-against-words-sound-like-are-not-slurs&#x2F;616404&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;ideas&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;09&#x2F;fight-agai...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shafyy</author><text>I agree. I&#x27;m still annoyed that they started censoring It&#x27;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. For example, they (Hulu) removed one episode where one of the characters does a black face. But the whole point of the show is to surface these social and political issues in a comedic way. They&#x27;re not endorsing black facing, they&#x27;re saying it&#x27;s wrong. That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s funny.<p>This also reminds of something the comedian Ricky Gervais often says (I&#x27;m paraphrasing): You can joke about everything. The problem is people mistaking the target of the joke with the subject.</text></item><item><author>monero-xmr</author><text>I grew up in a small city and one thing they had was some rich dude who donated a library, and filled the reading room with beautiful statues and paintings which were in the classical style, commissioned completely by himself. This was early 1800s.<p>Then in the later 1800s the townsfolk decided the paintings and statues were scandalous because they had nudes, so they painted over the breasts and genitals, and covered over the statues with togas &#x2F; cloths.<p>Luckily in modern times it was easy to remove the cloths, but unfortunately the paintings are ruined. The cover-job was done poorly and the paintings have an off-color paint on it that looks wrong. There have been talks to fix it but I don’t think anything has been done.<p>My point is that, the desire to censor prior art that disagrees with fad-interpretations of what is taboo and scandalous, will certainly be looked at in a few decades as a very weird and Victorian era. Definitely should not re-cut movies to be “safe” or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>Same for &quot;elf blackface&quot; in the Community episode about D&amp;D. An excellent episode airbrushed out of history because of <i>ELF</i> blackface. Unbelievable.</text></comment> |
17,325,993 | 17,325,931 | 1 | 3 | 17,325,778 | train | <story><title>Asian-American admissions at Harvard</title><url>https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/06/asian-american-admissions-harvard.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CBLT</author><text>Discussed 13 hours ago with 117 comments[0].<p>[0]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17320360" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17320360</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Asian-American admissions at Harvard</title><url>https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/06/asian-american-admissions-harvard.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>supernova87a</author><text>There was just a story today in the news about the University of Chicago completely doing away with requiring SAT&#x2F;ACT for admissions. It seems like we&#x27;re bending over backwards to toss out any kind of test or criterion that could be perceived as discriminatory. With one stated goal to make the student body mirror the general population.<p>But that is a flawed premise. Is it even the role of higher education to remedy the cards that have already been dealt, and even if so what evidence is there that it actually does what people say it does?</text></comment> |
9,980,310 | 9,978,838 | 1 | 2 | 9,976,298 | train | <story><title>I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10</title><url>https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>&gt;Who wanted that for desktop computers or laptops?<p>I did. Linux and OSX are still available for whoever wants them. You can stick with Windows 7 if you want, that&#x27;s just fine. I like Cortana. I like my software knowing what I like and what I&#x27;m interested in. It makes my life easier, which is what computers were invented for.<p>I can see why some people might not, and to be fair I use Linux on my work laptop because the work I do demands it. I would never put my client data on a Windows machine.<p>But like I can see your side of the argument, you have to be able to see that some other people want personalization and learning and all that. Pandora and Apple Music are both heavily tailored that way. Google Now on your phone knows everything you do. Netflix can find videos for you to watch based on what you&#x27;ve watched before. Amazon will recommend purchases to you based on what you like. Hell, half the people on this site <i>build</i> these systems. You know how many machine learning articles there are on the front page every week?<p>So who wanted that? I did. And so did several million other people. For the people who <i>don&#x27;t</i> want it, I mean it&#x27;s not even really opt-out. They ask you up front do you want the default or do you want to pick your own privacy settings. If you still don&#x27;t trust it, Windows 7, OSX, and Linux are right there, just a click away.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>&quot;Windows is now essentially a personalized, cloud-based operating system with the primary interface as a personal assistant.&quot;</i><p>Who wanted that for desktop computers or laptops? This is not going to fly with business customers. Microsoft has already bombed twice in the business space, with Windows Vista and Windows 8. This looks like another bomb.<p>Windows 7 is still pretty good, and it will probably be the main Microsoft desktop OS for years to come, despite what Microsoft wants.</text></item><item><author>ewzimm</author><text>Windows is now essentially a personalized, cloud-based operating system with the primary interface as a personal assistant, so I expected to see all these things as defaults. The advanced features just couldn&#x27;t work without it. I&#x27;m glad there&#x27;s at least an opt-out, but I do think that Windows needs an OS-wide incognito mode, just a simple switch to record or not record data.<p>I generally use that on my browser for when I hand my laptop to someone else and don&#x27;t want their activity polluting my history, but now there&#x27;s the risk of the entire OS learning someone else&#x27;s habits when they just need to use the computer and don&#x27;t want to log in. Sometimes, guest accounts are too restrictive.<p>I do like having the option of a personalized experience, and Microsoft is generally one of the most restrictive companies when it comes to sharing data. With their push toward more personal cloud services, I hope they will take special care to maintain that record, although everyone knows that certain groups like government have ways of getting whatever they want if it&#x27;s available.<p>Hopefully, some of the fine-grained permissions of Windows Phone will soon carry over to the unified platform for those who want it, but either way, I would still do any especially sensitive work on Debian or a similar system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnchristopher</author><text>&gt; But like I can see your side of the argument, you have to be able to see that some other people want personalization and learning and all that. Pandora and Apple Music are both heavily tailored that way. Google Now on your phone knows everything you do. Netflix can find videos for you to watch based on what you&#x27;ve watched before. Amazon will recommend purchases to you based on what you like. Hell, half the people on this site build these systems. You know how many machine learning articles there are on the front page every week?<p>But that&#x27;s the thing, right ? People want their computers to be more intelligent, reactive, adapted to their needs. They don&#x27;t want Google, MS or Apple to know everything about them. How did the first came to automatically imply the second ?<p>Apple, Google, MS and others could deliver the same products (software that learn user behaviour and adapt accordingly) without sacrificing privacy, invading personal space and storing private documents on the cloud in order to parse it to deliver relevant ads.<p>Machine learning should keep on trying to be machine learning and not solely data scraping for marketing tuning and exploitation.<p>What does it bring me that MS or Google knows my search terms of the day ? I want my quad-core CPU to know that when I browse HN it should automatically split the screen in half and open my media player to listen to radio music because that&#x27;s what I do most morning. Why do I have to do that by hand ? Can&#x27;t it know or guess my routine by now ?<p>Or is all the tech just a glorified lexical parser to fine tune ads to increase their efficiency ?</text></comment> | <story><title>I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10</title><url>https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freehunter</author><text>&gt;Who wanted that for desktop computers or laptops?<p>I did. Linux and OSX are still available for whoever wants them. You can stick with Windows 7 if you want, that&#x27;s just fine. I like Cortana. I like my software knowing what I like and what I&#x27;m interested in. It makes my life easier, which is what computers were invented for.<p>I can see why some people might not, and to be fair I use Linux on my work laptop because the work I do demands it. I would never put my client data on a Windows machine.<p>But like I can see your side of the argument, you have to be able to see that some other people want personalization and learning and all that. Pandora and Apple Music are both heavily tailored that way. Google Now on your phone knows everything you do. Netflix can find videos for you to watch based on what you&#x27;ve watched before. Amazon will recommend purchases to you based on what you like. Hell, half the people on this site <i>build</i> these systems. You know how many machine learning articles there are on the front page every week?<p>So who wanted that? I did. And so did several million other people. For the people who <i>don&#x27;t</i> want it, I mean it&#x27;s not even really opt-out. They ask you up front do you want the default or do you want to pick your own privacy settings. If you still don&#x27;t trust it, Windows 7, OSX, and Linux are right there, just a click away.</text></item><item><author>Animats</author><text><i>&quot;Windows is now essentially a personalized, cloud-based operating system with the primary interface as a personal assistant.&quot;</i><p>Who wanted that for desktop computers or laptops? This is not going to fly with business customers. Microsoft has already bombed twice in the business space, with Windows Vista and Windows 8. This looks like another bomb.<p>Windows 7 is still pretty good, and it will probably be the main Microsoft desktop OS for years to come, despite what Microsoft wants.</text></item><item><author>ewzimm</author><text>Windows is now essentially a personalized, cloud-based operating system with the primary interface as a personal assistant, so I expected to see all these things as defaults. The advanced features just couldn&#x27;t work without it. I&#x27;m glad there&#x27;s at least an opt-out, but I do think that Windows needs an OS-wide incognito mode, just a simple switch to record or not record data.<p>I generally use that on my browser for when I hand my laptop to someone else and don&#x27;t want their activity polluting my history, but now there&#x27;s the risk of the entire OS learning someone else&#x27;s habits when they just need to use the computer and don&#x27;t want to log in. Sometimes, guest accounts are too restrictive.<p>I do like having the option of a personalized experience, and Microsoft is generally one of the most restrictive companies when it comes to sharing data. With their push toward more personal cloud services, I hope they will take special care to maintain that record, although everyone knows that certain groups like government have ways of getting whatever they want if it&#x27;s available.<p>Hopefully, some of the fine-grained permissions of Windows Phone will soon carry over to the unified platform for those who want it, but either way, I would still do any especially sensitive work on Debian or a similar system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edoloughlin</author><text><i>I like my software knowing what I like and what I&#x27;m interested in.</i><p>So do I, but I don&#x27;t like my software vendors knowing it too.</text></comment> |
28,273,661 | 28,273,168 | 1 | 3 | 28,272,026 | train | <story><title>Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment</title><url>https://www.theepochtimes.com/stranded-afghans-delete-social-media-as-taliban-seizes-us-surveillance-equipment_3958444.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>potamic</author><text>This is why the argument that lack of privacy is justified for good intentions is moot. Time moves on, ideals change and people in charge get replaced. There is no guarantee that principles held when collecting information will remain. Every single piece of information about you can and will be used against you by people in power if it hampers their agenda. The only reasonable thing to do when it comes to privacy is to share nothing, unless the situation absolutely needs it. Anonymous identity is very critical for the functioning of a healthy society and the biggest evil Google and Facebook have done was to really erase this off the internet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Afghans Delete Social Media as Taliban Seizes US Surveillance Equipment</title><url>https://www.theepochtimes.com/stranded-afghans-delete-social-media-as-taliban-seizes-us-surveillance-equipment_3958444.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomc1985</author><text>Why oh why didn&#x27;t the military destroy equipment left behind in the wind-down? At least at the bases... where they keep heaps of explosives for the purpose of destroying things?</text></comment> |
30,569,573 | 30,568,845 | 1 | 3 | 30,568,557 | train | <story><title>Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/04/russians-are-trying-to-flee-putins-chaos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsedlm</author><text>a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.<p>maybe these people have grown in better functioning democracies (unlike Russia or my own country) so they act as if the people were well represented by their governments; unlike reality for most countries with a serious corruption problem.</text></item><item><author>therusskiy</author><text>I managed to escape the country yesterday, had to flight to Egypt of all places, because ALL (even business) tickets were sold out.
The recent news is that starting March 6 all international flights are suspended, the trap has closed.<p>The disheartening thing is that even if you never supported Putin, other countries treat you as enemy.<p>I am at Georgia now and banks refuse to open bank accounts to Russians, and I need one to continue working as a remote dev for US companies. Older generation (who are pro-Russian) suggested being careful around young people as they may be hostile to Russians, even those who are running away from Putin.<p>A lot of my IT friends have fled the country, almost everyone who could. My heart is bleeding thinking of friends who wanted to leave on March 9, not sure what they can do now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>traceroute66</author><text>&gt; a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.<p>Its easy to say that but you have to look at the bigger picture.<p>It&#x27;s easy to say &quot;just punish the government &#x2F; the oligarchs&quot;, but as most Westerners know, these people have become extraordinarily adept at hiding their money and distributing their assets. So it is very difficult indeed to target them per-se, hence you need to make it difficult to move money&#x2F;assets around, sell assets and gain new money&#x2F;assets.<p>You also need to look at the even bigger problem. How do we stop Russia attacking Ukraine ?<p>Nobody wants World War 3. Even the Americans who are usually keen to test out their latest toys are being remarkably disciplined about sitting on their hands.<p>So, you don&#x27;t want to engage in a direct fight with the Russians, what&#x27;s left on the table ?<p>Diplomacy ? Well, they&#x27;ve tried and are trying, but not much light at the end of that tunnel as of yet.<p>So your only option left is to accept that running a war needs two things, money and supplies. If both of those dry up then its only a matter of time before the war grinds to a halt too.<p>Hence you end up doing things that affect banks, the central bank, transport and logistics.<p>Regrettably its not just about targeting the military and the government, you have to target the supporting structures too (food, parts, consumables), hence you need to go big and go fast on sanctions.<p>Yes your average Russian will get caught up in the sanctions. Yes it will be difficult and unpleasant for families.<p>But frankly the alternative, full-blown war across Europe and the potential for nuclear bombs being used is unfathomably worse for everyone both inside Russia and outside.</text></comment> | <story><title>Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/03/04/russians-are-trying-to-flee-putins-chaos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsedlm</author><text>a lot of people seem ok with punishing Russian individuals for the actions of the government.<p>maybe these people have grown in better functioning democracies (unlike Russia or my own country) so they act as if the people were well represented by their governments; unlike reality for most countries with a serious corruption problem.</text></item><item><author>therusskiy</author><text>I managed to escape the country yesterday, had to flight to Egypt of all places, because ALL (even business) tickets were sold out.
The recent news is that starting March 6 all international flights are suspended, the trap has closed.<p>The disheartening thing is that even if you never supported Putin, other countries treat you as enemy.<p>I am at Georgia now and banks refuse to open bank accounts to Russians, and I need one to continue working as a remote dev for US companies. Older generation (who are pro-Russian) suggested being careful around young people as they may be hostile to Russians, even those who are running away from Putin.<p>A lot of my IT friends have fled the country, almost everyone who could. My heart is bleeding thinking of friends who wanted to leave on March 9, not sure what they can do now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tistron</author><text>Everywhere I&#x27;ve seen anyone motivate restrictions on Russian citizens it&#x27;s been about pushing them to revolt against their government, not about punishing.
I don&#x27;t know whether it makes sense, but it does seem like one of few avenues to try to get rid of putin that has low chance of resulting in atomic war.</text></comment> |
9,127,189 | 9,127,221 | 1 | 3 | 9,127,054 | train | <story><title>A game running in your browser's address bar</title><url>http://glench.com/hash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ORioN63</author><text>And my history is now full.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lionyo</author><text>Is that the reason why the title of the page is named &quot;I&#x27;m sorry&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>A game running in your browser's address bar</title><url>http://glench.com/hash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ORioN63</author><text>And my history is now full.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lettergram</author><text>Clear Browser &gt; Last Hour :)</text></comment> |
26,661,633 | 26,659,971 | 1 | 2 | 26,653,867 | train | <story><title>Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austinjp</author><text>What about those who _do_ want a friendly workplace with some element of social interaction?</text></item><item><author>wg0</author><text>Absolutely - in knowledge economy, insisting on physical presence is darn damn stupid.<p>And I don&#x27;t want to hang &quot;with friends at work&quot; I go to &quot;work&quot; that has to be specified clearly and that I expect to deliver with purely professional merit driven collaboration and not friendships and gangs.<p>I have friends or would love to have friends out of the place where I work. I want strict compartmentalisation between work and personal life. As the company would not want my personal friends to be hanging around the workplace for confidentiality and what not - by the same token, I don&#x27;t workplace &quot;friends&quot; hanging out with me after office hours.</text></item><item><author>ohthehugemanate</author><text>Just in case you were operating under the illusion that tech giants are run by forward thinking executives who are immune to the usual politics and problems of corporate life. Nope, most of their exec layer is a bunch of people who cut their teeth the industry in the 90&#x27;s, and are operating within a thick fog of local workplace politics. I guarantee that behind this move is an executive who believes that developers need to be physically colocated to be productive, because that&#x27;s how it worked when he was coming up at WordPerfect or whatever. Backing it is also a group of people who have a lot to gain from it politically.<p>At my employer we have some pockets of embarrassing leadership like this, but thankfully I haven&#x27;t seen it in anyone senior enough to make global policy like this. My department is letting go of remote teams and only hiring in a handful of cities around the world, while ramping up office space spending. It&#x27;s more expensive, less flexible, and less productive... and everyone knows it. But I guess it makes some people feel important, and it&#x27;s how some others remember developing when they last did it 20 years ago. So it&#x27;s happening anyway, and many of their best engineers are now on the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swat535</author><text>There is a difference between being friendly and becoming friends. The latter is dangerous and you will be fooled in thinking your coworkers actually care about you and you need to drink the corporate kool-aid, work overtime and be a true best friend to everyone.<p>If you are going out binge drinking with your co-workers, you&#x27;re doing it wrong because it blurries the lines between professional and personal life in my humble opinion.<p>Very few deep friendships develop at work, at best they will be acquaintances you see once in a while.<p>So by all means, be nice and cooperative but keep your distance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on remote work</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austinjp</author><text>What about those who _do_ want a friendly workplace with some element of social interaction?</text></item><item><author>wg0</author><text>Absolutely - in knowledge economy, insisting on physical presence is darn damn stupid.<p>And I don&#x27;t want to hang &quot;with friends at work&quot; I go to &quot;work&quot; that has to be specified clearly and that I expect to deliver with purely professional merit driven collaboration and not friendships and gangs.<p>I have friends or would love to have friends out of the place where I work. I want strict compartmentalisation between work and personal life. As the company would not want my personal friends to be hanging around the workplace for confidentiality and what not - by the same token, I don&#x27;t workplace &quot;friends&quot; hanging out with me after office hours.</text></item><item><author>ohthehugemanate</author><text>Just in case you were operating under the illusion that tech giants are run by forward thinking executives who are immune to the usual politics and problems of corporate life. Nope, most of their exec layer is a bunch of people who cut their teeth the industry in the 90&#x27;s, and are operating within a thick fog of local workplace politics. I guarantee that behind this move is an executive who believes that developers need to be physically colocated to be productive, because that&#x27;s how it worked when he was coming up at WordPerfect or whatever. Backing it is also a group of people who have a lot to gain from it politically.<p>At my employer we have some pockets of embarrassing leadership like this, but thankfully I haven&#x27;t seen it in anyone senior enough to make global policy like this. My department is letting go of remote teams and only hiring in a handful of cities around the world, while ramping up office space spending. It&#x27;s more expensive, less flexible, and less productive... and everyone knows it. But I guess it makes some people feel important, and it&#x27;s how some others remember developing when they last did it 20 years ago. So it&#x27;s happening anyway, and many of their best engineers are now on the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dimmke</author><text>Ultimately, remote is likely going to win out. Most people in the white collar work force are older, have families and live in the burbs. The commute for a lot of them is 1+ hour each way.<p>But what you&#x27;re saying is legitimate, and it bothers me the amount of people acting like it doesn&#x27;t matter. American society already isolates people. Work is a big (maybe the biggest) avenue to develop friendships as an adult, just like school is when you&#x27;re a kid. Not everybody gets married and then their life becomes about their 2 kids and any social interaction outside of that is incidental.</text></comment> |
13,698,470 | 13,694,089 | 1 | 2 | 13,693,728 | train | <story><title>Carbon fibre makes Australian debut</title><url>http://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2017/Carbon-fibre-makes-Australian-debut</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nullsandwich</author><text>Currently, Boeing can not replace the 737 with a Carbon Fiber plane because there isn&#x27;t enough Carbon Fiber produced on earth to keep up with the production line completing three aircraft a day. However, if enough Carbon Fibre could be created to logistically allow Boeing to move away from aluminum I am sure you would see a whole new level of demand for Carbon Fibre. Needless to say, the Carbon Fibre created would need to met Boeing spec, as Carbon Fibre does not have a single global quality standard, unlike aluminum (thank you WWII).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gravityloss</author><text>The traditional carbon fiber production process uses polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and is very energy intensive. It is also slow.<p>There is a big push for new production processes &#x2F; material sources.<p>Here&#x27;s an example of technology using cheaper and less energy intensive acrylic instead:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016-03-ornl-low-cost-carbon-fiber.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phys.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;2016-03-ornl-low-cost-carbon-fiber.htm...</a>
Or a plasma method making it from PAN but faster:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SLmU0BmLmFE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=SLmU0BmLmFE</a><p>So there is potential for large drops in price and increases in supply in the future.
Probably the wind energy market is driving this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Carbon fibre makes Australian debut</title><url>http://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2017/Carbon-fibre-makes-Australian-debut</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nullsandwich</author><text>Currently, Boeing can not replace the 737 with a Carbon Fiber plane because there isn&#x27;t enough Carbon Fiber produced on earth to keep up with the production line completing three aircraft a day. However, if enough Carbon Fibre could be created to logistically allow Boeing to move away from aluminum I am sure you would see a whole new level of demand for Carbon Fibre. Needless to say, the Carbon Fibre created would need to met Boeing spec, as Carbon Fibre does not have a single global quality standard, unlike aluminum (thank you WWII).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>Carbon Fibre does not have a single global quality standard, unlike aluminum</i><p>Carbon fibre also has many more degrees of freedom than aluminium. Not all of these degrees and their interactions, <i>e.g.</i> this arrangement of fibres with some other resin cured at that temperature, are well understood.</text></comment> |
23,958,342 | 23,958,529 | 1 | 2 | 23,924,424 | train | <story><title>What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2020/07/04/what-if-carbon-removal-becomes-the-new-big-oil</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackfoxy</author><text>Stopping and even reversing deforestation is the single most efficient form of CO2 reduction&#x2F;capture we have available.<p>Deforestation rivals fossil fossil fuels for greenhouse gas emissions (up to 30% of anthropic emissions) yet it rarely gets talked about. Could it be because there is no money to be made in halting deforestation?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cfr.org&#x2F;backgrounder&#x2F;deforestation-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cfr.org&#x2F;backgrounder&#x2F;deforestation-and-greenhous...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ngeo671" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ngeo671</a><p>On the fossil fuel side what we need is a large scale industrial use of CO2 that is not hopelessly energy inefficient. If such a breakthrough happens we could build gas turbine farms at gas fields and pipe the CO2 to industrial centers. Modern gas turbines are the most efficient form of electricity generation. The emissions consist almost entirely of H2O and CO2, some collateral NO2, and trace amounts of other stuff from combusted impurities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>topher515</author><text>My understanding is that reforestation, while being wonderful and helpful, simply doesn’t address the scale of the problem.<p>All forests today contain ~200 gigatons of carbon. Humans release ~25 gigatons of carbon per year. So DOUBLING the size of forests on Earth would just absorb 8 years of greenhouse gas emissions.<p>This made no intuitive sense to me until I began to think of the fossil fuels we’ve got underground as representing millions of years of forests “compressed” into oil &#x2F; gas.</text></comment> | <story><title>What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?</title><url>https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2020/07/04/what-if-carbon-removal-becomes-the-new-big-oil</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jackfoxy</author><text>Stopping and even reversing deforestation is the single most efficient form of CO2 reduction&#x2F;capture we have available.<p>Deforestation rivals fossil fossil fuels for greenhouse gas emissions (up to 30% of anthropic emissions) yet it rarely gets talked about. Could it be because there is no money to be made in halting deforestation?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cfr.org&#x2F;backgrounder&#x2F;deforestation-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cfr.org&#x2F;backgrounder&#x2F;deforestation-and-greenhous...</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ngeo671" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ngeo671</a><p>On the fossil fuel side what we need is a large scale industrial use of CO2 that is not hopelessly energy inefficient. If such a breakthrough happens we could build gas turbine farms at gas fields and pipe the CO2 to industrial centers. Modern gas turbines are the most efficient form of electricity generation. The emissions consist almost entirely of H2O and CO2, some collateral NO2, and trace amounts of other stuff from combusted impurities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>&gt; what we need is a large scale industrial use of CO2 that is not hopelessly energy inefficient<p>Unfortunately this is somewhere between hopelessly improbable and impossible, for two reasons:<p>First, our CO2 storage needs are in the tens of gigatonnes per year. At the highest practical storage density of pure CO2, one gigatonne is about 10^9 cubic meters - 400 times the volume of the Hoover Dam. There are simply no existing human product streams that are within even a couple orders of magnitude of being able to absorb that.<p>Second, CO2 is a waste product. Turning it into any other useful product will demand not just the energy gained from burning the fuel, but quite a bit more due to thermodynamic inefficiency.<p>There absolutely ain&#x27;t no free lunch with regards to CO2 capture. It&#x27;s perfectly doable but it&#x27;s a pure cost that should just be government regulated everywhere ASAP.</text></comment> |
39,421,497 | 39,421,165 | 1 | 2 | 39,420,453 | train | <story><title>RoR Debugbar</title><url>https://debugbar.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>julienbourdeau</author><text>Hi
I’m the maker of the debugbar.
If you have any feedback or question, just let me know.<p>Thanks puuush for posting it.</text></comment> | <story><title>RoR Debugbar</title><url>https://debugbar.dev/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jpb0104</author><text>Symfony’s dev toolbar has got to be one of the best.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;symfony.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;current&#x2F;profiler.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;symfony.com&#x2F;doc&#x2F;current&#x2F;profiler.html</a><p>Always miss this in my RoR projects.</text></comment> |
14,503,524 | 14,503,399 | 1 | 3 | 14,503,136 | train | <story><title>ARKit</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/arkit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panic</author><text>Most apps these days run on Android, too, which makes using a single-platform framework like this a lot harder to justify. It&#x27;s the same reason you don&#x27;t see many games using SpriteKit -- it just doesn&#x27;t make sense when you know you&#x27;ll need to support Android in the future.<p>I wonder if it would make sense for Apple itself to support frameworks like ARKit and SpriteKit on Android. I think it would make people a lot more comfortable relying on them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IBM</author><text>It absolutely does not make sense for Apple to support this on Android. AR is something that uniquely leverages assets that Apple has: its various AR related acquisitions (Metaio, FlyBy Media, Faceshift, Emotient, WiFiSLAM, PrimeSense) and most importantly their prowess in chip design.<p>It is trivial for the Android ecosystem to replicate an Instagram for their platform, it will be much more difficult to do this for AR and thus will be a meaningful source of competitive advantage.<p>There are real economic barriers to having the necessary hardware for AR. High-end Android phones don&#x27;t ship anywhere near the numbers of iPhones to give it the scale required to make the necessary investments in hardware and software worth it (both from OEMs and Google). And that will ultimately limit the opportunity and market for developers, disincentivizing them to invest in it.<p>This is an area where Apple&#x27;s scale, margins and ability to deploy new technologies and see meaningful adoption from users and developers (think about how fast Touch ID rolled down into the entire iPhone&#x2F;iPad installed base, setting it up for Apple Pay years later) pulls up the ladder on would-be competitors.</text></comment> | <story><title>ARKit</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/arkit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>panic</author><text>Most apps these days run on Android, too, which makes using a single-platform framework like this a lot harder to justify. It&#x27;s the same reason you don&#x27;t see many games using SpriteKit -- it just doesn&#x27;t make sense when you know you&#x27;ll need to support Android in the future.<p>I wonder if it would make sense for Apple itself to support frameworks like ARKit and SpriteKit on Android. I think it would make people a lot more comfortable relying on them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astrodust</author><text>Being iPhone only didn&#x27;t stop Instagram from launching, getting huge, and branching out to other platforms. If this allows you to make a quicker prototype, it&#x27;s a big deal.</text></comment> |
34,921,672 | 34,921,653 | 1 | 2 | 34,921,099 | train | <story><title>You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)</title><url>https://thefinancialdiet.com/the-spirit-of-the-girlboss-is-alive-in-mlm-schemes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewebcount</author><text>I feel like this could describe a lot of the culture around startups, too:<p>&gt; Until we all begin to acknowledge there’s more to life than “the hustle,” and that struggling financially is not a personal failure, MLMs will continue to recruit and exploit aspiring girlbosses under the guise of female empowerment.<p>You could easily change that to:<p>&gt; Until we all begin to acknowledge there’s more to life than “the hustle,” and that struggling financially is not a personal failure, startup culture will continue to recruit and exploit people under the guise of [getting rich, disrupting tech, changing the world, etc.].<p>I mean, it’s not an organized thing like an MLM, but I see a lot of the same toxic language and behavior around startups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irjustin</author><text>I&#x27;ll buck the trend and downvote.<p>I dislike the hard-link comparison to startups. I personally know people who got sucked into MLMs and are almost exclusively lower income families. There are literal playbooks, talking points from the organized MLM&#x27;s themselves on how to &quot;recruit&quot; your families and get them to buy their own product so they raise in &quot;status&quot;.<p>If you&#x27;re connected to military moms&#x27; or lower income groups you know how pervasive and destructive these MLMs can be to these families. Not sure if you have any idea, but it is incredibly frustrating, disheartening to talk to them about how it&#x27;s hurting them. In my case, it was their own cousin who got them involved and ultimately into debt. Not a 20&#x27;s single-no-attachment, but this friend has a family to care for. I get angry simply remembering this. The only thing worse was for profit education.<p>Startups simply aren&#x27;t at that level and even bringing this argument into play detracts from the focus of how destructive MLMs are.</text></comment> | <story><title>You’re Not a Girlboss – You’re Just Trapped in an MLM Scheme (2020)</title><url>https://thefinancialdiet.com/the-spirit-of-the-girlboss-is-alive-in-mlm-schemes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewebcount</author><text>I feel like this could describe a lot of the culture around startups, too:<p>&gt; Until we all begin to acknowledge there’s more to life than “the hustle,” and that struggling financially is not a personal failure, MLMs will continue to recruit and exploit aspiring girlbosses under the guise of female empowerment.<p>You could easily change that to:<p>&gt; Until we all begin to acknowledge there’s more to life than “the hustle,” and that struggling financially is not a personal failure, startup culture will continue to recruit and exploit people under the guise of [getting rich, disrupting tech, changing the world, etc.].<p>I mean, it’s not an organized thing like an MLM, but I see a lot of the same toxic language and behavior around startups.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vinay_ys</author><text>Information asymmetry is everywhere. In some cases this asymmetry is through organised structured hierarchy (employee vs manager&#x2F;boss vs ceo&#x2F;founder vs investor) and in some other cases there is no apparent overtly visible hierarchy – like open markets.<p>Markets are &quot;efficient&quot; at transferring money from &quot;stupid&quot; to &quot;smart&quot; people. Here &quot;stupid&quot; or &quot;smart&quot; is directly related to lower or higher in that information&#x2F;power hierarchy.<p>This hierarchy is also self-amplifying in that it grows the asymmetry gap rapidly such that it becomes a very tall&#x2F;pointy pyramid. So you could call it a &quot;pyramid scheme&quot;.<p>Some schemes are overt&#x2F;explicit pyramid schemes where flow of value from people lower in hierarchy to people higher is explicitly structured and visible (like most MLM schemes) and some schemes are obfuscated&#x2F;implicit in this aspect (like corporate job ladder with perf&#x2F;promo process within employees and between employees vs founders&#x2F;execs and investors).</text></comment> |
34,216,003 | 34,215,014 | 1 | 2 | 34,213,200 | train | <story><title>C++ at the End of 2022</title><url>https://www.cppstories.com/2022/cpp-status-2022/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>roca</author><text>I think the most interesting thing about C++ in 2022 is that big C++ names at Google are saying in public that if you can use Rust instead of C++, you should.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;carbon-language&#x2F;carbon-lang&#x2F;blob&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;docs&#x2F;project&#x2F;faq.md#if-you-can-use-rust-ignore-carbon">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;carbon-language&#x2F;carbon-lang&#x2F;blob&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;do...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>C++ at the End of 2022</title><url>https://www.cppstories.com/2022/cpp-status-2022/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>As noted on my Reddit comment, the low numbers on static analysis and sanitizers adoption are a bit sad, and shows the reality versus the typical comment that everyone is already using them.</text></comment> |
30,642,601 | 30,642,834 | 1 | 3 | 30,640,947 | train | <story><title>U.S. eliminates human controls requirement for fully automated vehicles</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-eliminates-human-controls-requirement-fully-automated-vehicles-2022-03-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Communitivity</author><text>This is problematic for a number of reasons. The most important in my mind is that the risk of the vehicle being hacked and carjacked remotely is always present.<p>With the presence of an automation kill-switch and manual human controls the driver can always take back control.<p>Without those, the driver is at the mercy of the hacker.<p>Vehicle automation falls under the SCADA sub-domain of cyber-security. SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, and the cyber-security in SCADA systems is light-years behind. Pro-tip: going into cyber and want a good certification (if such a thing exists)..then get CISSP-SCADA.<p>Some relevant articles:<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physicsworld.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;how-to-hack-a-self-driving-car&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physicsworld.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;how-to-hack-a-self-driving-car&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;how-to-hack-self-driving-cars-vulnerabilities-in-autonomous-vehicles-jh3r37cz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;how-to-hack-self-driving-cars-vulnera...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.tesu.edu&#x2F;should-we-be-worried-about-the-hacking-of-autonomous-vehicles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.tesu.edu&#x2F;should-we-be-worried-about-the-hacking...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nobody9999</author><text>&gt;This is problematic for a number of reasons. The most important in my mind is that the risk of the vehicle being hacked and carjacked remotely is always present.<p>Which raises the question: &quot;Why would we engineer vehicles to accept external network connections?&quot;<p>Any communication to&#x2F;from a vehicle should <i>only</i> be initiated by the vehicle itself. There&#x27;s no <i>reasonable</i> criteria under which a vehicle should have its systems available to external sources.<p>Or am I missing something important?</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. eliminates human controls requirement for fully automated vehicles</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-eliminates-human-controls-requirement-fully-automated-vehicles-2022-03-11/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Communitivity</author><text>This is problematic for a number of reasons. The most important in my mind is that the risk of the vehicle being hacked and carjacked remotely is always present.<p>With the presence of an automation kill-switch and manual human controls the driver can always take back control.<p>Without those, the driver is at the mercy of the hacker.<p>Vehicle automation falls under the SCADA sub-domain of cyber-security. SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, and the cyber-security in SCADA systems is light-years behind. Pro-tip: going into cyber and want a good certification (if such a thing exists)..then get CISSP-SCADA.<p>Some relevant articles:<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physicsworld.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;how-to-hack-a-self-driving-car&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;physicsworld.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;how-to-hack-a-self-driving-car&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;how-to-hack-self-driving-cars-vulnerabilities-in-autonomous-vehicles-jh3r37cz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackernoon.com&#x2F;how-to-hack-self-driving-cars-vulnera...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.tesu.edu&#x2F;should-we-be-worried-about-the-hacking-of-autonomous-vehicles" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.tesu.edu&#x2F;should-we-be-worried-about-the-hacking...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aiisjustanif</author><text>Not a counterpoint but supplemental. Waymo and Cruise have been pouring a lot more initial effort into cybersecurity and they are just barely in production.</text></comment> |
8,130,038 | 8,130,032 | 1 | 3 | 8,129,309 | train | <story><title>Replacing 32-bit loop variable with 64-bit introduces performance deviations</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25078285/replacing-32bit-loop-count-variable-with-64bit-introduces-crazy-performance-devi</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mgraczyk</author><text>To elaborate on the justification for the answer:<p><pre><code> So Intel probably shoved popcnt into the same category to keep the processor design simple
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In the processor design I work on, we do register dependency checks by partitioning all instructions into a set of &quot;timing classes&quot; and checking the dispatch delay needed between dependent register producers and consumers across all possible timing class pairs. The delays vary depending on available forwarding networks, resource conflicts, etc. Often times we groups instructions into sub optimal timing classes to simplify other parts of the design or just to make the dispatch logic simpler.<p>Intel&#x27;s x86 core is waaaaay more complicated than the core I work on and has far more instructions, so I it&#x27;s probably safe to say that they make these suboptimal classifications often. I strongly suspect that the false dependency was intentional and not a &quot;hardware bug&quot; as some of the StackOverflow comments seem to suggest.</text></comment> | <story><title>Replacing 32-bit loop variable with 64-bit introduces performance deviations</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25078285/replacing-32bit-loop-count-variable-with-64bit-introduces-crazy-performance-devi</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbondeson</author><text>This is why micro-benchmarking is Russian roulette.<p>When you distill a loop until you&#x27;re finding the exact bottleneck in the system (pipelining, branch prediction, etc) you need to be very very careful you&#x27;re measuring what you think you are. Otherwise you&#x27;ll end up in this situation where you&#x27;re benchmarking a compiler...</text></comment> |
20,099,421 | 20,098,955 | 1 | 2 | 20,096,120 | train | <story><title>National Park Typeface</title><url>https://nationalparktypeface.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charliepark</author><text>In case your brain is thinking &quot;wait; I thought it&#x27;d be that cool scripty typeface on the oddly-angled signage?&quot;, you might be thinking of the USDA&#x27;s logotype for National Forests. Unfortunately, there isn&#x27;t an available font for that exact face. Some cool specs, though, in the Forest Service&#x27;s design guide: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fs.usda.gov&#x2F;Internet&#x2F;FSE_DOCUMENTS&#x2F;stelprd3810021.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fs.usda.gov&#x2F;Internet&#x2F;FSE_DOCUMENTS&#x2F;stelprd381002...</a><p>Section 1-18 (page 24) of the linked PDF has examples of the &quot;National Forest&quot;, &quot;National Monument&quot;, etc. logotype; Chapter 8 has some more signage specs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhotson</author><text>The closest font I’ve seen is Coniferous <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.futurefonts.xyz&#x2F;ohno&#x2F;coniferous" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.futurefonts.xyz&#x2F;ohno&#x2F;coniferous</a></text></comment> | <story><title>National Park Typeface</title><url>https://nationalparktypeface.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>charliepark</author><text>In case your brain is thinking &quot;wait; I thought it&#x27;d be that cool scripty typeface on the oddly-angled signage?&quot;, you might be thinking of the USDA&#x27;s logotype for National Forests. Unfortunately, there isn&#x27;t an available font for that exact face. Some cool specs, though, in the Forest Service&#x27;s design guide: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fs.usda.gov&#x2F;Internet&#x2F;FSE_DOCUMENTS&#x2F;stelprd3810021.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fs.usda.gov&#x2F;Internet&#x2F;FSE_DOCUMENTS&#x2F;stelprd381002...</a><p>Section 1-18 (page 24) of the linked PDF has examples of the &quot;National Forest&quot;, &quot;National Monument&quot;, etc. logotype; Chapter 8 has some more signage specs.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Loughla</author><text>Those are the exact fonts I&#x27;m looking for, for an in-lay woodworking project I&#x27;m finishing. Any ideas at all what the fonts listed on 1-18 would be called?</text></comment> |
22,735,092 | 22,732,543 | 1 | 3 | 22,731,898 | train | <story><title>Open UI</title><url>https://open-ui.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davnicwil</author><text>&gt; Untold amounts of human effort are exhausted globally every day on rebuilding identical components for web apps. This should not be the case. The UI community should standardize namings and structures for common components.<p>It&#x27;s so tempting to think of all the efficiency that could be gained if we&#x27;d stop replicating the same work and just all decide how to do things &#x27;right&#x27;, unfortunately though this isn&#x27;t how the best results are achieved.<p>This is fundamentally a conversation about markets - in this case for ideas. Lots of parallel work is done in a distributed manner, much of it is wasted, but because of the competition between and combination of different ideas, you get emergent results that are really finely tuned to what people actually want in practice.<p>Top down planning won&#x27;t get you this. You&#x27;ll have less waste, to be sure, but you&#x27;ll also have inferior results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DeathArrow</author><text>There&#x27;s room for both approaches.<p>Some people can use pre-made UI components while others can have them tailor-made to better fit the case.<p>I, as a programmer, have a tough work to design UI components that fit well together, and of course I don&#x27;t do as a good job as someone trained to do this.<p>So, I rather reuse components done by others if the project I am working on does not have a budget for UI specialists as can happen to a lot of projects.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open UI</title><url>https://open-ui.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davnicwil</author><text>&gt; Untold amounts of human effort are exhausted globally every day on rebuilding identical components for web apps. This should not be the case. The UI community should standardize namings and structures for common components.<p>It&#x27;s so tempting to think of all the efficiency that could be gained if we&#x27;d stop replicating the same work and just all decide how to do things &#x27;right&#x27;, unfortunately though this isn&#x27;t how the best results are achieved.<p>This is fundamentally a conversation about markets - in this case for ideas. Lots of parallel work is done in a distributed manner, much of it is wasted, but because of the competition between and combination of different ideas, you get emergent results that are really finely tuned to what people actually want in practice.<p>Top down planning won&#x27;t get you this. You&#x27;ll have less waste, to be sure, but you&#x27;ll also have inferior results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_bxg1</author><text>The web has traditionally followed a pattern where people are left to try out new things themselves, experiment with ideas, have a competitive marketplace of libraries and frameworks, and then once there&#x27;s a consensus the selected approach gets enshrined and implemented as a browser standard that everyone can use. This happened with DOM selection and XHR fetching (jQuery), with promises, with list comprehensions, with modules syntax (ES Modules). It&#x27;s time it happened with reactive DOM rendering.</text></comment> |
35,712,943 | 35,713,197 | 1 | 2 | 35,712,238 | train | <story><title>Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain</title><url>https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com</url><text>GB Renewables Map an energy experiment created entirely in my free time (day job is visualisation at Octopus Energy).<p>It&#x27;s an interactive map showing live generation for major wind farms in Great Britain, showing what each wind farm is generating both now and in the past, and where that generation is physically located.<p>Animated weather data is from WeatherLayers and shows current and historic wind conditions on the map, providing context to wind generation around the country.<p>History mode allows you to go back in time and see wind generation and weather conditions for a particular date and time. It&#x27;s great for exploring days of record generation, such as the 21.6GW record on January 10th, 2023!<p>Prediction mode lets you see what wind farms are estimated to be generating using current wind conditions and model based on historic generation and wind speeds. Is a wind farm generating as you expect, or is there something to look into?<p>An experimental feature allows you to see what future wind farms could be generating today (or in the past!) if they were already built and operational. If you click the &quot;sparkle&quot; button on the map you&#x27;ll get to see what the upcoming 3.6GW Dogger Bank wind farm is estimated to generate if it was operational today.<p>There&#x27;s an &quot;About&quot; section on the site that goes into detail on the various public data sources and how some of the features work. I also document a lot of this on my Twitter @robhawkes if you&#x27;re curious.<p>This is just the start and there are many more features to come!<p>Please let me know your comments and suggestions.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zakjan</author><text>I&#x27;m here to answer for WeatherLayers, AMA! I&#x27;m super happy to help @robhawkes with this project.<p>WeatherLayers consists of two products, that can be used either together or separately:<p>- WeatherLayers GL is a frontend visualisation library with deck.gl layers which can be integrated with common map libraries. The library can be used either with custom self-hosted data or with WeatherLayers Cloud.<p>- WeatherLayers Cloud is a cloud service providing pre-processed data for visualization from common public weather data sources (NOAA, Copernicus).<p>Athough it’s a commercial project, there are ways to discuss a potential discount or even a free usage for a non-commercial project such as Robin’s.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain</title><url>https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com</url><text>GB Renewables Map an energy experiment created entirely in my free time (day job is visualisation at Octopus Energy).<p>It&#x27;s an interactive map showing live generation for major wind farms in Great Britain, showing what each wind farm is generating both now and in the past, and where that generation is physically located.<p>Animated weather data is from WeatherLayers and shows current and historic wind conditions on the map, providing context to wind generation around the country.<p>History mode allows you to go back in time and see wind generation and weather conditions for a particular date and time. It&#x27;s great for exploring days of record generation, such as the 21.6GW record on January 10th, 2023!<p>Prediction mode lets you see what wind farms are estimated to be generating using current wind conditions and model based on historic generation and wind speeds. Is a wind farm generating as you expect, or is there something to look into?<p>An experimental feature allows you to see what future wind farms could be generating today (or in the past!) if they were already built and operational. If you click the &quot;sparkle&quot; button on the map you&#x27;ll get to see what the upcoming 3.6GW Dogger Bank wind farm is estimated to generate if it was operational today.<p>There&#x27;s an &quot;About&quot; section on the site that goes into detail on the various public data sources and how some of the features work. I also document a lot of this on my Twitter @robhawkes if you&#x27;re curious.<p>This is just the start and there are many more features to come!<p>Please let me know your comments and suggestions.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bb123</author><text>Hi Rob! I have a request from an avid user of your visualisations in the Octopus Energy App. Could you please switch the y axis on real time data from Octopus Home Mini from Wh&#x2F;min to just instant Watts? kWh&#x2F;day makes sense on larger time scales but Wh&#x2F;min is pretty meaningless to most people. Also it seems like it would be more readable as a line graph with datapoints, than a bar chart. A line graph would also allow for better interpolation between missing readings too.</text></comment> |
13,436,855 | 13,437,140 | 1 | 3 | 13,436,302 | train | <story><title>A trip down the League of Legends graphics pipeline</title><url>https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/trip-down-lol-graphics-pipeline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>Few things consistently blow my mind as insane graphics demos<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4dfGzS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4dfGzS</a> (or basically anything on that site)<p>How is that 400 lines of code.<p>Or this one which even generates the sound on the GPU<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ts3z2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ts3z2</a><p>With the wide adoption of WebGL, it&#x27;s a good time to get involved in graphics. Furthermore, GPUs are taking over esp. with the advent of machine learning (nvidia stock grew ~3x, amd ~5x last year). The stuff nvidia has been recently doing is kinda crazy. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if in 15 years, instead of AWS, we are using geforce cloud or smth, just because nvidia will have an easier time building a cloud offering than amazon will have building a gpu.<p>These are some good resources to get started with graphics&#x2F;games<p># WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;WebGL-Programming-Guide-Interactive-Graphics&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321902920&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=6a3c5120f9335a1038329ba5136d0ca9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;WebGL-Programming-Guide-Interactive-G...</a><p>Historically, C++ has definitely been THE language for doing graphics but if you are starting these these, you would have to have really compelling reasons to start with C++ and not JavaScript and WebGL. And that&#x27;s coming from someone who actually likes C++ and used to write it professionally.<p># Book of Shaders<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebookofshaders.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebookofshaders.com&#x2F;</a><p># Game Programming Patterns<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&#x2F;contents.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&#x2F;contents.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Nystrom&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0990582906&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?sa-no-redirect=1&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=abb3d10b5110e80969bf860188704f7c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Nyst...</a><p>HN&#x27;s own @munificent wrote a book discussing the most important design patterns in game design. Good book applicable beyond games.<p># Game engine architecture<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Gregory&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1466560010&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=CYQ60B781NB1PD69E20Y&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=d234fcc54fc7579edd423dccfe0d47a4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Greg...</a><p># Computer graphics: Principles and Practice<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-3rd&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321399528&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843854&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=computer+graphics&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=ce5d19658fd2884b7b6bf7ceb09686dc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice...</a><p>This is more of college textbook if you&#x27;d prefer that but the WebGL one is more accessible and less dry.<p># Physically Based Rendering &amp; Real-Time Rendering<p>These discuss some state of the art techniques in computer graphics. I&#x27;m not going to claim to have really read them but from what I&#x27;ve seen they are very solid.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-3rd&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321399528&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843854&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=computer+graphics&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=ce5d19658fd2884b7b6bf7ceb09686dc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Implementation&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0128006455&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843804&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=physically+based&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=1c04902237f3600b48d26a8d3e9f507b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Impl...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>treehau5</author><text>Pardon me asking, Is there a way to save comments for later? This is gold, and thank you for the resources. I have been very interested in graphics since I took Computer Graphics in College (It felt like an applied linear algebra course, but I loved it. It was subsequently the only course I felt like I was challenged beyond my abilities -- I had to take the course twice to get the credit, but I loved that class)<p>Also just kind of asking for curiosity, do you think a language like go or rust will become popular for developing game engines? I realize game programmers are anti-GC but what if GC technology advances that the performance drop is negligible I wonder.</text></comment> | <story><title>A trip down the League of Legends graphics pipeline</title><url>https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/trip-down-lol-graphics-pipeline</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamnemecek</author><text>Few things consistently blow my mind as insane graphics demos<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4dfGzS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4dfGzS</a> (or basically anything on that site)<p>How is that 400 lines of code.<p>Or this one which even generates the sound on the GPU<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ts3z2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ts3z2</a><p>With the wide adoption of WebGL, it&#x27;s a good time to get involved in graphics. Furthermore, GPUs are taking over esp. with the advent of machine learning (nvidia stock grew ~3x, amd ~5x last year). The stuff nvidia has been recently doing is kinda crazy. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if in 15 years, instead of AWS, we are using geforce cloud or smth, just because nvidia will have an easier time building a cloud offering than amazon will have building a gpu.<p>These are some good resources to get started with graphics&#x2F;games<p># WebGL Programming Guide: Interactive 3D Graphics Programming with WebGL<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;WebGL-Programming-Guide-Interactive-Graphics&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321902920&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=6a3c5120f9335a1038329ba5136d0ca9" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;WebGL-Programming-Guide-Interactive-G...</a><p>Historically, C++ has definitely been THE language for doing graphics but if you are starting these these, you would have to have really compelling reasons to start with C++ and not JavaScript and WebGL. And that&#x27;s coming from someone who actually likes C++ and used to write it professionally.<p># Book of Shaders<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebookofshaders.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebookofshaders.com&#x2F;</a><p># Game Programming Patterns<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&#x2F;contents.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gameprogrammingpatterns.com&#x2F;contents.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Nystrom&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0990582906&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?sa-no-redirect=1&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=abb3d10b5110e80969bf860188704f7c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Game-Programming-Patterns-Robert-Nyst...</a><p>HN&#x27;s own @munificent wrote a book discussing the most important design patterns in game design. Good book applicable beyond games.<p># Game engine architecture<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Gregory&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1466560010&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=CYQ60B781NB1PD69E20Y&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=d234fcc54fc7579edd423dccfe0d47a4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Greg...</a><p># Computer graphics: Principles and Practice<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-3rd&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321399528&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843854&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=computer+graphics&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=ce5d19658fd2884b7b6bf7ceb09686dc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice...</a><p>This is more of college textbook if you&#x27;d prefer that but the WebGL one is more accessible and less dry.<p># Physically Based Rendering &amp; Real-Time Rendering<p>These discuss some state of the art techniques in computer graphics. I&#x27;m not going to claim to have really read them but from what I&#x27;ve seen they are very solid.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-3rd&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0321399528&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843854&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=computer+graphics&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=ce5d19658fd2884b7b6bf7ceb09686dc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Implementation&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0128006455&#x2F;ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484843804&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=physically+based&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=akhn-20&amp;linkId=1c04902237f3600b48d26a8d3e9f507b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Physically-Based-Rendering-Third-Impl...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fla</author><text>for the maximum wow effect, I suggest one of the latest shader by iq : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ttSWf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shadertoy.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;4ttSWf</a><p>This is almost Pixar level graphics running realtime in your browser.</text></comment> |
5,795,630 | 5,795,637 | 1 | 3 | 5,795,478 | train | <story><title>Why high fructose corn syrup replaced sugar in US</title><url>http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/411007.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btilly</author><text>It is worth noting that here, as is typical in politics, a focused interest (sugar growers) beats a diffuse interest (the general public). We would all benefit from ending this ridiculous practice. But we would individually benefit very little, and it isn't worth much from us to do so.<p>But it gets worse. Because there is a second layer of beneficiaries here. Corn growers. And they have great political power, as is seen in the subsidies they get and the ethanol additives that are legally require (which damage engines, and are a net negative on energy once you consider the costs of growing that corn).<p>Not the least among the advantages that corn growers have politically is the simple fact that they are important in Iowa. Which means that any national politician who dreams of being President, or of working with any other that has that dream, has very direct incentives to keep corn growers happy.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why high fructose corn syrup replaced sugar in US</title><url>http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/411007.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>The page linked in the article is worth a couple of chuckles: "The US sugar industry is almost as important to our economic vitality as is a steady supply of affordable energy. Subjecting sugar to the unpredictable forces of global laissez faire capitalism would likely lead to 'dumping' by countries whose own sugar industries are much more protected than is ours."<p>In a sense, this quote isn't wrong. That's exactly what the sugar producing countries would do. The U.S. almost certainly does not have a competitive advantage in sugar production, and if the industry were deregulated domestic sugar production would end, and we'd become sugar importers. And that would be okay, because sugar isn't the strategically important commodity it once was.<p>But the same reasoning applies to steel and arms manufacturing too. The difference is, it wouldn't be okay if all our domestic steel production went overseas.</text></comment> |
40,244,258 | 40,243,144 | 1 | 3 | 40,242,297 | train | <story><title>An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK</title><url>https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/rabbit-r1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkozyra</author><text>I recall the LAM being a&#x2F;the (stated) reason why it couldn&#x27;t &quot;just be an app.&quot;<p>If it&#x27;s vaporware on-device it&#x27;s more evidence that it could have just been an app. Perhaps there was special on-device sauce coming in a future update, but as of now it&#x27;s a client making http calls.</text></item><item><author>kemayo</author><text>The bits of this controversy about &quot;where&#x27;s the LAM?&quot; are strange to me. My impression from the beginning was that the &quot;Large Action Model&quot; was a server-side thing, and the hardware was going to be almost-entirely a way to talk to their services.<p>Apparently this impression was far from universal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lawgimenez</author><text>If this were an app, my guess is that this will never pass Google’s test with all the data passed to their servers, with all the privacy requirements.</text></comment> | <story><title>An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK</title><url>https://www.emergetools.com/deep-dives/rabbit-r1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkozyra</author><text>I recall the LAM being a&#x2F;the (stated) reason why it couldn&#x27;t &quot;just be an app.&quot;<p>If it&#x27;s vaporware on-device it&#x27;s more evidence that it could have just been an app. Perhaps there was special on-device sauce coming in a future update, but as of now it&#x27;s a client making http calls.</text></item><item><author>kemayo</author><text>The bits of this controversy about &quot;where&#x27;s the LAM?&quot; are strange to me. My impression from the beginning was that the &quot;Large Action Model&quot; was a server-side thing, and the hardware was going to be almost-entirely a way to talk to their services.<p>Apparently this impression was far from universal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>suyula</author><text>You probably wouldn&#x27;t want an app to be able to press buttons on another app so if that&#x27;s how it works (or worked) then that seems fair enough to me.</text></comment> |
13,042,906 | 13,042,343 | 1 | 3 | 13,037,810 | train | <story><title>What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cesarbs</author><text>This is the bit that hits close to home to me:<p>&gt; they must demonstrate commitment above and beyond their contracted work hours, and express constant satisfaction and happiness about their work<p>My wife and I are both software engineers and that is a nearly constant source of stress for us. In our experience, people in our field frown upon people who treat software engineering as just their job. Two things I recall from my experience that illustrate this:<p>- I had a team lead who once said, &quot;I don&#x27;t want people in this team working like this is a 9-5 job&quot;<p>- Something I heard from someone in a team that worked close to ours: &quot;the candidate was solid in problem solving and coding ability, but we didn&#x27;t hire them because they didn&#x27;t show passion&quot;<p>This sort of bullshit is pervasive in our field and IMO is what the quote above is referring to.</text></item><item><author>vacri</author><text>Are you serious? Knowledge workers have it <i>easy</i>. It&#x27;s hard to get here, but once we&#x27;re here it&#x27;s a great gig. We&#x27;re paid well, we&#x27;re in demand, and there&#x27;s a robust freelancing sector to our industries, be it software, legal, medical, engineering, or whatever.<p>That link describes a <i>call center worker</i> as a knowledge worker. That&#x27;s absolute nonsense. You could, in theory, argue that a call center worker is about managing some sort of knowledge, but in truth they deal with less knowledge than a subsistence farmer, who has to know a hell of a lot about agronomy.<p>Classifying call center drones (of which I was once one) as &#x27;knowledge workers&#x27;, and then using them to discuss how hard knowledge workers have it, is beyond disingenuous.</text></item><item><author>cesarbs</author><text>Another good read on the topic: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newramblerreview.com&#x2F;book-reviews&#x2F;political-science&#x2F;the-shame-of-work#.WDH4ARBQD-M.email" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newramblerreview.com&#x2F;book-reviews&#x2F;political-science&#x2F;t...</a><p>I like this bit:<p>&quot;the knowledge worker is under severe external constraints. Much of their work is assisted or mediated through information technology, which contributes to a de-skilling of their cognitive labor. And on top of this they are expected to fully invest themselves in their jobs in a way that manufacturing laborers never did: they must demonstrate commitment above and beyond their contracted work hours, and express constant satisfaction and happiness about their work. The whole thing is exhausting.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thirdsun</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t have to be like that. Personally, I work for a small company that manufactures a physical product (shoes actually) and manages a few retail stores, but also develops most of its internal software (CRM, ERP, BI), tools, website and shop in-house, which results in the fact that development and software engineering is just one of many areas the company focuses on.<p>I can&#x27;t remember the last time I couldn&#x27;t leave 4 pm sharp with the rest of the colleagues from manufacturing, sales, design or accounting. It&#x27;s certainly long ago and rarely happens.<p>Plus, being a two man dev operation we enjoy a lot of freedom and are able to chose technologies and tools we see fit for the task. Furthermore you are confronted with all kinds of real world problems, interact with people of all trades (as opposed to living in a SV startup bubble) and colleagues value our work, actually perceive it as some kind of magic (in contrast to being code monkeys). To me this is a very enjoyable work environment, that combines the best parts of a 9-5 job and exciting startup atmosphere.</text></comment> | <story><title>What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?</title><url>https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cesarbs</author><text>This is the bit that hits close to home to me:<p>&gt; they must demonstrate commitment above and beyond their contracted work hours, and express constant satisfaction and happiness about their work<p>My wife and I are both software engineers and that is a nearly constant source of stress for us. In our experience, people in our field frown upon people who treat software engineering as just their job. Two things I recall from my experience that illustrate this:<p>- I had a team lead who once said, &quot;I don&#x27;t want people in this team working like this is a 9-5 job&quot;<p>- Something I heard from someone in a team that worked close to ours: &quot;the candidate was solid in problem solving and coding ability, but we didn&#x27;t hire them because they didn&#x27;t show passion&quot;<p>This sort of bullshit is pervasive in our field and IMO is what the quote above is referring to.</text></item><item><author>vacri</author><text>Are you serious? Knowledge workers have it <i>easy</i>. It&#x27;s hard to get here, but once we&#x27;re here it&#x27;s a great gig. We&#x27;re paid well, we&#x27;re in demand, and there&#x27;s a robust freelancing sector to our industries, be it software, legal, medical, engineering, or whatever.<p>That link describes a <i>call center worker</i> as a knowledge worker. That&#x27;s absolute nonsense. You could, in theory, argue that a call center worker is about managing some sort of knowledge, but in truth they deal with less knowledge than a subsistence farmer, who has to know a hell of a lot about agronomy.<p>Classifying call center drones (of which I was once one) as &#x27;knowledge workers&#x27;, and then using them to discuss how hard knowledge workers have it, is beyond disingenuous.</text></item><item><author>cesarbs</author><text>Another good read on the topic: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newramblerreview.com&#x2F;book-reviews&#x2F;political-science&#x2F;the-shame-of-work#.WDH4ARBQD-M.email" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newramblerreview.com&#x2F;book-reviews&#x2F;political-science&#x2F;t...</a><p>I like this bit:<p>&quot;the knowledge worker is under severe external constraints. Much of their work is assisted or mediated through information technology, which contributes to a de-skilling of their cognitive labor. And on top of this they are expected to fully invest themselves in their jobs in a way that manufacturing laborers never did: they must demonstrate commitment above and beyond their contracted work hours, and express constant satisfaction and happiness about their work. The whole thing is exhausting.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meekins</author><text>What bothers me the most about this is that passion and wish to work 9-5 are considered mutually exclusive. This feels like passion for software engineering just means passion for cranking out code for the company 24&#x2F;7.<p>Of course this is just a personal anecdote but during heavier work weeks I have very little energy or interest in any spare time hacking. In contrast on normal 9-5 weeks I tend to do a lot more of reading, coding and other things that develop my professional skills and enable me to perform better in my day job.</text></comment> |
30,989,927 | 30,989,950 | 1 | 3 | 30,985,843 | train | <story><title>San Francisco cops pull over a Cruise driverless car for no lights on</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/10/23019303/heres-what-happens-cops-pull-over-a-driverless-cruise-vehicle-general-motors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kadoban</author><text>That teenage driver goes through a training and certification process, and we have ways of stopping them from driving if they fuck up too badly. They also have liability for their actions.<p>Most of those are lacking or at least inconsistent, for AI driving.</text></item><item><author>xadhominemx</author><text>We are all unwilling testers of every new teenage driver who hits the road.</text></item><item><author>jwr</author><text>I am really worried by the fact that <i>I</i> am the unwilling tester in the Great Driverless Car Experiment.<p>Tradition has it that when you load-test a new bridge, you put the architect underneath. I feel like this, except I didn&#x27;t design those driverless cars, somebody else did. Being an experienced software engineer, my trust in the software in these cars is pretty low. And yet they are testing them on me, because <i>I</i> can be the one getting killed.<p>I think we should set a much higher bar for allowing those cars on the streets, rather than &quot;it kinda works, so let&#x27;s roll with it&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dfxm12</author><text><i>That teenage driver goes through a training and certification process, and we have ways of stopping them from driving if they fuck up too badly.</i><p>This is a complete aside, but not having a license doesn&#x27;t really prevent you from getting in a car and driving it. I was just reminded of this when a buddy&#x27;s parked car was struck by a drunk driver who was not legally licensed to drive because their license was revoked from having <i>many</i> prior DUI&#x27;s. Luckily they didn&#x27;t kill anyone.<p>Hopefully it will be easier to enforce shutting down unsafe driverless cars.<p>I&#x27;ve also known teens without licenses who had to drive their irresponsible buddies&#x27; cars home after the licensed driver drove somewhere and got drunk. It&#x27;s not like there&#x27;s a biometric scanner in each car that verifies the person behind the wheel is a licensed driver...</text></comment> | <story><title>San Francisco cops pull over a Cruise driverless car for no lights on</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/10/23019303/heres-what-happens-cops-pull-over-a-driverless-cruise-vehicle-general-motors</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kadoban</author><text>That teenage driver goes through a training and certification process, and we have ways of stopping them from driving if they fuck up too badly. They also have liability for their actions.<p>Most of those are lacking or at least inconsistent, for AI driving.</text></item><item><author>xadhominemx</author><text>We are all unwilling testers of every new teenage driver who hits the road.</text></item><item><author>jwr</author><text>I am really worried by the fact that <i>I</i> am the unwilling tester in the Great Driverless Car Experiment.<p>Tradition has it that when you load-test a new bridge, you put the architect underneath. I feel like this, except I didn&#x27;t design those driverless cars, somebody else did. Being an experienced software engineer, my trust in the software in these cars is pretty low. And yet they are testing them on me, because <i>I</i> can be the one getting killed.<p>I think we should set a much higher bar for allowing those cars on the streets, rather than &quot;it kinda works, so let&#x27;s roll with it&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>Here in San Francisco you don&#x27;t actually need to go through any training to receive a drivers license. You just need to pass a computer test (of mostly easily memorizable material) and a road test that consists mostly of turning left and right a few times. They don&#x27;t even test highway driving, three point turns or parallel parking like they do in some other countries.<p>Also, didn&#x27;t the entire Uber fleet get grounded after the Tempe death, with a huge months-long NHTSA investigation?</text></comment> |
37,545,080 | 37,543,134 | 1 | 2 | 37,535,537 | train | <story><title>Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02890-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackernewds</author><text>while employed Premiums = $0. while unemployed, premiums = $3600&#x2F;year for $0 deductibles for private insurance. would you rather pay 10% of your income in higher taxes like so-called universal healthcare providing countries maintain?</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; Nobody actually pays those sky-high drug prices themselves. It’s a scheme to extract as much money as possible from insurers.<p>Alternatively, we all pay those sky high prices. It’s baked into our premiums.</text></item><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>Nobody actually pays those sky-high drug prices themselves. It’s a scheme to extract as much money as possible from insurers.<p>Companies often have programs that provide the drug free of charge (or at a nominal price) to people without insurance. They might also have “copay assistance” programs where they reimburse patients for their copay to bring the out of pocket costs down.<p>The goal is to maximize the amount billed to insurance companies. They’ll go out of their way to reduce the amount billed to the patient directly, because that results in more patients signing up and enabling them to bill more insurance companies.<p>It’s not a good system, but it’s how things work right now. Nobody pays that $100-300K price themselves. Well, we all do through higher insurance costs.</text></item><item><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>Please tell me insurance pays for most of that?</text></item><item><author>bdcravens</author><text>The pricing is more like $25-30K&#x2F;month. It&#x27;s taken twice a day, in pill form. (I have CF and take Trikafta)</text></item><item><author>gustavus</author><text>My wife has several family members with CF. They have started on trifekta and it has changed their lives radically to the point the disease barely effects them day to day.<p>It truly is a miracle and a breakthrough, and the only shame is that these brave pioneers are only getting $3 million for their heroic efforts.<p>Meanwhile the actual cost of the medicine is $10k a dose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viknesh</author><text>This is such a short-sighted take. Who do you think pays for your $0&#x2F;year premiums? You do, through reduced wages.<p>The main difference between US healthcare and socialized health care is that in the US, nobody is responsible for lowering healthcare costs... and so they go up. Why do you think PE loves buying up healthcare facilities?</text></comment> | <story><title>Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02890-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackernewds</author><text>while employed Premiums = $0. while unemployed, premiums = $3600&#x2F;year for $0 deductibles for private insurance. would you rather pay 10% of your income in higher taxes like so-called universal healthcare providing countries maintain?</text></item><item><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; Nobody actually pays those sky-high drug prices themselves. It’s a scheme to extract as much money as possible from insurers.<p>Alternatively, we all pay those sky high prices. It’s baked into our premiums.</text></item><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>Nobody actually pays those sky-high drug prices themselves. It’s a scheme to extract as much money as possible from insurers.<p>Companies often have programs that provide the drug free of charge (or at a nominal price) to people without insurance. They might also have “copay assistance” programs where they reimburse patients for their copay to bring the out of pocket costs down.<p>The goal is to maximize the amount billed to insurance companies. They’ll go out of their way to reduce the amount billed to the patient directly, because that results in more patients signing up and enabling them to bill more insurance companies.<p>It’s not a good system, but it’s how things work right now. Nobody pays that $100-300K price themselves. Well, we all do through higher insurance costs.</text></item><item><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>Please tell me insurance pays for most of that?</text></item><item><author>bdcravens</author><text>The pricing is more like $25-30K&#x2F;month. It&#x27;s taken twice a day, in pill form. (I have CF and take Trikafta)</text></item><item><author>gustavus</author><text>My wife has several family members with CF. They have started on trifekta and it has changed their lives radically to the point the disease barely effects them day to day.<p>It truly is a miracle and a breakthrough, and the only shame is that these brave pioneers are only getting $3 million for their heroic efforts.<p>Meanwhile the actual cost of the medicine is $10k a dose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viciousvoxel</author><text>Yes, personally. Instead of my employer paying for my healthcare (and that being factored into base salary), I would rather receive that money as salary and pay higher taxes. The idea of employers paying for health insurance in the US only came about in the first half of the last century as a way for companies to attract employees without having to raise&#x2F;compete on salary.</text></comment> |
41,467,105 | 41,467,067 | 1 | 2 | 41,466,963 | train | <story><title>Nginx has moved to GitHub</title><url>https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2024/ITL3AOQSAJANFJXMM3VOVOIGOUADWFFK.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azzentys</author><text>Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. &quot;Sign in to search code on GitHub&quot; was kinda discouraging to see.<p>Sure, I can clone it and run grep&#x2F;ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser.<p>Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aseipp</author><text>There are some alternatives like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grep.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grep.app</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourcegraph.com&#x2F;search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourcegraph.com&#x2F;search</a> if you want fast live search, but at the end of the day these are services offered by companies, and rather expensive ones especially for free anonymous users, so you should probably at least accept that service providers can and do change things like this.<p>You can also run something like your own copy of Zoekt and then ingest repositories on demand though it isn&#x27;t quite as instant. But if it&#x27;s code you&#x27;re already using extensively, it seems like it might be worth it. Maybe you can write some boondoggle to automatically ingest repos based on dependency metadata, even.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nginx has moved to GitHub</title><url>https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2024/ITL3AOQSAJANFJXMM3VOVOIGOUADWFFK.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azzentys</author><text>Recently, I was browsing an open source project I use a lot. &quot;Sign in to search code on GitHub&quot; was kinda discouraging to see.<p>Sure, I can clone it and run grep&#x2F;ripgrep - but sometimes I like the ability to search the code on the browser.<p>Is it only GitHub where this is a restriction or GitLab is similar?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eblume</author><text>It&#x27;s worth mentioning here I think that github&#x27;s code search is really quite good. I&#x27;m not trying to say that github can do no harm or that github &quot;owning&quot; OSS code hosting is a good thing, but the github search bar is a utility that IMO is worth the price of admission.<p>I think that sourcegraph maintains a similar quality OSS code search that can be searched for free but I have not personally used it.</text></comment> |
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