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39,136,798 | 39,136,227 | 1 | 2 | 39,134,349 | train | <story><title>Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwertox</author><text>&gt; o7<p>I never came across this emoticon, but with what you wrote, its meaning became clear immediately. It&#x27;s perfect.</text></item><item><author>synapsomorphy</author><text>I just interned at the NASA office (at Ames) that designed large chunks of and did a lot of flight planning &#x2F; analysis for Ingenuity. It had some really awesome people behind it and its success inspired a number of new Mars rotorcraft missions (rotorcraft will be an integral part of Mars Sample Return). Flight is going to be a huge part of future solar system exploration efforts and Ingenuity paved the way.<p>o7</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubinlinux</author><text>It is a very common theme in Elite Dangerous, to the point that the station controller will sometimes say &quot;Oh seven, commander&quot; to you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qwertox</author><text>&gt; o7<p>I never came across this emoticon, but with what you wrote, its meaning became clear immediately. It&#x27;s perfect.</text></item><item><author>synapsomorphy</author><text>I just interned at the NASA office (at Ames) that designed large chunks of and did a lot of flight planning &#x2F; analysis for Ingenuity. It had some really awesome people behind it and its success inspired a number of new Mars rotorcraft missions (rotorcraft will be an integral part of Mars Sample Return). Flight is going to be a huge part of future solar system exploration efforts and Ingenuity paved the way.<p>o7</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>farnsworth</author><text>Same, I thought I was terminally online but I&#x27;ve never seen this before.</text></comment> |
13,897,153 | 13,897,018 | 1 | 2 | 13,895,827 | train | <story><title>Palantir enables immigration agents to look up information from the CIA</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2017/03/17/palantir-enables-immigration-agents-to-access-information-from-the-cia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The first part of this comment is in fact what I&#x27;m saying. The second part, where you call this &quot;witch hunting&quot;, I don&#x27;t agree with. I think our profession is way, way too detached from the consequences of the applications of our work.<p>Nobody bats an eyelash when doctors refuse to help with executions or torture, or pharma companies resist selling execution drug cocktails. But for some reason technologists are just fine selling the technical building blocks of a surveillance and mass deportation system. That&#x27;s not right; it&#x27;s a sign of the diminished professionalism of our field versus other professions, and it does need to change.</text></item><item><author>ng12</author><text>Assuming ICE is operating legally, what&#x27;s the difference? Cisco assumes ICE is using their routers for legal purposes. Same with Oracle or SAP or IBM. At the point at which we&#x27;re witch-hunting tech companies for their involvement it&#x27;s already way too late.</text></item><item><author>Chaebixi</author><text>&gt; My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of &quot;hardware hacking&quot; and &quot;IOT&quot; security conference talks: &quot;look at this debugger debugging!<p>&gt; Stories like this call that snark to mind. &quot;Look at this database databasing!&quot;<p>This isn&#x27;t a technical story, it&#x27;s a social and governmental one.<p>&gt; if you&#x27;re angry at Palantir for assisting mass deportation, you should be equally angry at Oracle and Cisco. I am --- in fact, a little more so.<p>Isn&#x27;t Palantir&#x27;s assistance clearer and more direct? Aren&#x27;t they building applications with a lot of knowledge of what they&#x27;ll be used to do? As far as I know, Cisco doesn&#x27;t sell products like &quot;gigabit mass-deporation cloud router 2239.&quot; Any assistance they give is much more indirect.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of &quot;hardware hacking&quot; and &quot;IOT&quot; security conference talks: &quot;look at this debugger debugging!&quot; The subtext is, once you find the debug stubs or the JTAG interface or whatever, the rest of the talk is pretty academic. Also: you have to be in a position to exercise the debugger interface to conduct the &quot;hack&quot;.<p>Stories like this call that snark to mind. &quot;Look at this database databasing!&quot;<p>I&#x27;m loathe to stick up for Palantir, because I think Peter Thiel is a monster, and I have no particular reason to believe that Palantir is an especially moral team in its operations and management. But I think most commentary about Palantir&#x27;s role in surveillance is overblown. From what I can tell, it&#x27;s a very expensive consultingware database with a name that has special valence with nerds.<p>Be mean to Palantir all you want, I guess. But don&#x27;t let other tech companies off the hook. I&#x27;ve been trying to make this point for years with, I think, pretty limited success: if you&#x27;re angry at Palantir for assisting mass deportation, you should be equally angry at Oracle and Cisco. I am --- in fact, a little more so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steven777400</author><text>Interesting to flip it around, though: is the doctor who administers a (legally ordered) lethal injection a monster? Why or why not? Or, who gets to decide yes or no?<p>And where is the line? Is the programmer who writes code for a surveillance drone ( immoral? What about one who writes code for a submarine that may carry ballistic missiles? Or for the missile guidance system itself?</text></comment> | <story><title>Palantir enables immigration agents to look up information from the CIA</title><url>https://theintercept.com/2017/03/17/palantir-enables-immigration-agents-to-access-information-from-the-cia/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>The first part of this comment is in fact what I&#x27;m saying. The second part, where you call this &quot;witch hunting&quot;, I don&#x27;t agree with. I think our profession is way, way too detached from the consequences of the applications of our work.<p>Nobody bats an eyelash when doctors refuse to help with executions or torture, or pharma companies resist selling execution drug cocktails. But for some reason technologists are just fine selling the technical building blocks of a surveillance and mass deportation system. That&#x27;s not right; it&#x27;s a sign of the diminished professionalism of our field versus other professions, and it does need to change.</text></item><item><author>ng12</author><text>Assuming ICE is operating legally, what&#x27;s the difference? Cisco assumes ICE is using their routers for legal purposes. Same with Oracle or SAP or IBM. At the point at which we&#x27;re witch-hunting tech companies for their involvement it&#x27;s already way too late.</text></item><item><author>Chaebixi</author><text>&gt; My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of &quot;hardware hacking&quot; and &quot;IOT&quot; security conference talks: &quot;look at this debugger debugging!<p>&gt; Stories like this call that snark to mind. &quot;Look at this database databasing!&quot;<p>This isn&#x27;t a technical story, it&#x27;s a social and governmental one.<p>&gt; if you&#x27;re angry at Palantir for assisting mass deportation, you should be equally angry at Oracle and Cisco. I am --- in fact, a little more so.<p>Isn&#x27;t Palantir&#x27;s assistance clearer and more direct? Aren&#x27;t they building applications with a lot of knowledge of what they&#x27;ll be used to do? As far as I know, Cisco doesn&#x27;t sell products like &quot;gigabit mass-deporation cloud router 2239.&quot; Any assistance they give is much more indirect.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of &quot;hardware hacking&quot; and &quot;IOT&quot; security conference talks: &quot;look at this debugger debugging!&quot; The subtext is, once you find the debug stubs or the JTAG interface or whatever, the rest of the talk is pretty academic. Also: you have to be in a position to exercise the debugger interface to conduct the &quot;hack&quot;.<p>Stories like this call that snark to mind. &quot;Look at this database databasing!&quot;<p>I&#x27;m loathe to stick up for Palantir, because I think Peter Thiel is a monster, and I have no particular reason to believe that Palantir is an especially moral team in its operations and management. But I think most commentary about Palantir&#x27;s role in surveillance is overblown. From what I can tell, it&#x27;s a very expensive consultingware database with a name that has special valence with nerds.<p>Be mean to Palantir all you want, I guess. But don&#x27;t let other tech companies off the hook. I&#x27;ve been trying to make this point for years with, I think, pretty limited success: if you&#x27;re angry at Palantir for assisting mass deportation, you should be equally angry at Oracle and Cisco. I am --- in fact, a little more so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ng12</author><text>It sounds great in theory but it&#x27;s so divorced from reality I can&#x27;t help but feeling anger at Palantir is misdirected. If Palantir refused the contract ICE would walk down the street and offer it to IBM&#x2F;SAP&#x2F;Northrop&#x2F;Raytheon etc. If by some miracle they all refused it remember most three letter agencies have very skilled in-house teams.<p>All of this is just distracting from the real issues at hand.</text></comment> |
13,344,008 | 13,344,063 | 1 | 3 | 13,343,613 | train | <story><title>The science of Westworld</title><url>https://blog.plan99.net/the-science-of-westworld-ec624585e47#.th6i2yuzb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sssparkkk</author><text>&quot;Lily is a swan. Lily is white. Bernhard is green. Greg is a swan.&quot; -&gt; &quot;What color is Greg? Answer: white&quot;<p>At the risk of sounding somewhat stupid, but shouldn&#x27;t this contain &quot;Swans are white&quot; for it to be a correct answer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfm</author><text>If we&#x27;re limiting ourselves to deductive reasoning, then yes – the facts as stated do not give enough information to deduce that Greg must be white.<p>If instead we use abductive inference, we might seek the simplest and most likely explanation given our universe of observations. Sherlock Holmes was a big fan of abduction!<p>Much of real-world reasoning is abductive to a greater or lesser extent. There is a well-known joke about some motley band of engineers, logicians, mathematicians, statisticians, etc etc catching a train through the Highlands. They see a black sheep, the engineer says &quot;look, all sheep in Scotland are black!&quot;, the statistician says &quot;no, you can&#x27;t say that – just that MOST sheep in Scotland are black&quot;, another says &quot;no, we can only say that at least ONE sheep is black&quot;, another says &quot;no, it&#x27;s only black on at least one side&quot;, then the one you&#x27;re stuck next to at the party says &quot;you&#x27;re all wrong, we can only say that at least one sheep in Scotland is black on at least one side at least some of the time&quot;. The last statement is fully deductive; the rest of them are abductive, and more-or-less useful.</text></comment> | <story><title>The science of Westworld</title><url>https://blog.plan99.net/the-science-of-westworld-ec624585e47#.th6i2yuzb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sssparkkk</author><text>&quot;Lily is a swan. Lily is white. Bernhard is green. Greg is a swan.&quot; -&gt; &quot;What color is Greg? Answer: white&quot;<p>At the risk of sounding somewhat stupid, but shouldn&#x27;t this contain &quot;Swans are white&quot; for it to be a correct answer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mazsa</author><text>I think you are right (metamath):<p>$( &lt;MM&gt; &lt;PROOF_ASST&gt; THEOREM=whiteswans LOC_AFTER=<p>* Assume it is provable that ( l e. S &#x2F;\ l e. W ) implies for all l ( l e. S &#x2F;\ l e. W ), and assume that g e. S . Then it is provable that if ( l e. S &#x2F;\ l e. W ) then g e. W .<p>h1::whiteswans.1 |- ( ( l e. S &#x2F;\ l e. W ) -&gt; A. l ( l e. S -&gt; l e. W ) )<p>h2::whiteswans.2 |- g e. S<p>3:1:bnj1361 |- ( ( l e. S &#x2F;\ l e. W ) -&gt; S C_ W )<p>5:3:sseld |- ( ( l e. S &#x2F;\ l e. W ) -&gt; ( g e. S -&gt; g e. W ) )<p>qed:2,5:mpi |- ( ( l e. S &#x2F;\ l e. W ) -&gt; g e. W )<p>$= ( cv wcel wa bnj1361 sseld mpi ) DGZAHMCHIZBGZAHOCHFNACONDACEJKL $.<p>$d S l<p>$d W l<p>$)</text></comment> |
30,386,750 | 30,382,497 | 1 | 2 | 30,379,271 | train | <story><title>SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform space travel</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/02/19/spacexs-monstrous-dirt-cheap-starship-may-transform-space-travel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JaimeThompson</author><text>I think Gwynne Shotwell is the rather unsung hero keeping SpaceX running correctly day by day.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gwynne_Shotwell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gwynne_Shotwell</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panick21_</author><text>She is not really unsong at all. She is very, very recognized in the industry and everybody that is seriously interested in space travel knows here. She has been on my list of influential woman and given many talks and speeches all over the place.<p>Of course she is not Musk famous, but nobody is.<p>People who hate Musk sometimes try to claim all SpaceX is because of her. That is certainty wrong and she herself would not agree to that. But she is certainty amazing at what she does and starting out doing sales she increased here power and responsibility over the years until she was the clear 2nd in command.<p>She allows Musk to focus on the new development, innovation and strategy.</text></comment> | <story><title>SpaceX’s monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship may transform space travel</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/02/19/spacexs-monstrous-dirt-cheap-starship-may-transform-space-travel</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JaimeThompson</author><text>I think Gwynne Shotwell is the rather unsung hero keeping SpaceX running correctly day by day.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gwynne_Shotwell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gwynne_Shotwell</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>copperx</author><text>Is Shotwell a real last name? Seems too appropriate.</text></comment> |
32,899,394 | 32,899,626 | 1 | 2 | 32,898,075 | train | <story><title>Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)</title><url>https://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>auggierose</author><text>I think I stumbled across similar behaviour, but for a used book. I was looking for a particular computer science book, couldn&#x27;t find it new, and then decided to buy a used one from Amazon, ordering from the store with the best rating. It didn&#x27;t arrive, and after a while (a few weeks) I received a notice that the delivery service had lost the book. I was refunded the money, though. The tracking number I got for the book from the store never worked though, I checked multiple times during those weeks. So I guess the same thing was at play here: I was sold the book although the store didn&#x27;t have it. After failing to acquire the book, they just cancelled my order by pretending the delivery failed.<p>This boring story has a happy ending: I contacted the author (a retired MIT professor) if he could share a PDF with me, and he generated one from his old roff sources. He also sent me a signed copy from a stack he got from his publisher back then (80&#x27;s), paying over $60 porto (US -&gt; UK). I was blown away by his kindness and generosity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>I was sold the book although the store didn&#x27;t have it.</i><p>This happens a lot, and has recently become very visible with the death of Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ.<p>A lot of people suddenly hit Amazon and other online shopping sites to buy Queen merchandise, only to have their orders cancelled because the sellers weren&#x27;t real stores with inventory, but just randos on the internet used to going out to tourist shops and buying one or two items a month as orders came in.<p>When the flood of orders arrived, they couldn&#x27;t handle it, since their local shops ran dry of the specific items they listed, too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)</title><url>https://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>auggierose</author><text>I think I stumbled across similar behaviour, but for a used book. I was looking for a particular computer science book, couldn&#x27;t find it new, and then decided to buy a used one from Amazon, ordering from the store with the best rating. It didn&#x27;t arrive, and after a while (a few weeks) I received a notice that the delivery service had lost the book. I was refunded the money, though. The tracking number I got for the book from the store never worked though, I checked multiple times during those weeks. So I guess the same thing was at play here: I was sold the book although the store didn&#x27;t have it. After failing to acquire the book, they just cancelled my order by pretending the delivery failed.<p>This boring story has a happy ending: I contacted the author (a retired MIT professor) if he could share a PDF with me, and he generated one from his old roff sources. He also sent me a signed copy from a stack he got from his publisher back then (80&#x27;s), paying over $60 porto (US -&gt; UK). I was blown away by his kindness and generosity.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hotdamnson</author><text>Here in Thailand, there were cases where the shop sent a package containing cash amount paid by the customer because they didn&#x27;t have the item they sold.
This was an attempt to avoid some negative repercussions from the platform they were selling on (Shoppe, Lazada). Totally mental.</text></comment> |
30,909,319 | 30,909,597 | 1 | 2 | 30,908,084 | train | <story><title>What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me--<p>&quot;A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. My clients read way too much into pictures, measuring every angle, scrutinising every colour, counting every dash. Illustrators should be more careful to point out what is relevant information and what is artistic freedom. But the most important lesson I’ve learned is that journalists are so successful at making physics seem not so complicated that many readers come away with the impression that they can easily do it themselves. How can we blame them for not knowing what it takes if we never tell them?&quot;<p>Of course, this writing often isn&#x27;t for the layperson, it&#x27;s for an audience who can tell the difference between diagram, artistic license, and metaphor, but even so, it&#x27;s good to think about, especially when communicating science to the general public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bee_rider</author><text>I also liked:<p>&quot;I still get the occasional joke from colleagues about my ‘crackpot consultant business’, but I’ve stopped thinking of our clients that way. They are driven by the same desire to understand nature and make a contribution to science as we are. They just weren’t lucky enough to get the required education early in life, and now they have a hard time figuring out where to even begin.&quot;<p>In some sense, labeling somebody a &quot;crackpot&quot; assigns a sort of malicious wrongness to them. It is interesting to see somebody who&#x27;s dealt with a significant subset of these people and discovered more actual, honest misunderstanding than we (or at least I) would have expected.</text></comment> | <story><title>What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)</title><url>https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>overthemoon</author><text>Wow, I love this. What a thoughtful, empathetic project. This passage really stuck out to me--<p>&quot;A typical problem is that, in the absence of equations, they project literal meanings onto words such as ‘grains’ of space-time or particles ‘popping’ in and out of existence. Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors. My clients read way too much into pictures, measuring every angle, scrutinising every colour, counting every dash. Illustrators should be more careful to point out what is relevant information and what is artistic freedom. But the most important lesson I’ve learned is that journalists are so successful at making physics seem not so complicated that many readers come away with the impression that they can easily do it themselves. How can we blame them for not knowing what it takes if we never tell them?&quot;<p>Of course, this writing often isn&#x27;t for the layperson, it&#x27;s for an audience who can tell the difference between diagram, artistic license, and metaphor, but even so, it&#x27;s good to think about, especially when communicating science to the general public.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>buescher</author><text>Most impressive: &quot;One of them might even publish a paper soon. Not a proposal for a theory of everything, mind you, but a new way to look at a known effect. A first step on a long journey.&quot; Hossenfelder must have the patience of Job and a deep teaching vocation.<p>If you are ever even around physics or math at all, you will see the crackpot letters. I was a little surprised engineers are largely unaware of the phenomenon and are shocked, for example, that anyone seriously tries to make perpetual motion machines at all.<p>Here&#x27;s a couple links about the mathematical equivalent:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laphamsquarterly.org&#x2F;roundtable&#x2F;beware-cranks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.laphamsquarterly.org&#x2F;roundtable&#x2F;beware-cranks</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mst.edu&#x2F;~lmhall&#x2F;whattodowhentrisectorcomes.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.mst.edu&#x2F;~lmhall&#x2F;whattodowhentrisectorcomes.pdf</a></text></comment> |
8,983,979 | 8,983,685 | 1 | 2 | 8,983,355 | train | <story><title>Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2</title><url>http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text><i>Are these kids hacking on the Linux kernel or something? Of course not. They will be using some app&#x2F;language running on the OS. They don&#x27;t need access to the OS source to do that. </i><p>I <i>even</i> mentioned libc. There is more to an operating system than a kernel.<p>In fact, this was an important part of my early computer education: when I was 12 (1994) I bought a copy of Slackware Linux because it had a free compiler (even Turbo Pascal was expensive for a 12 year-old).<p>At the beginning I just typed some small C snippets that I could find in books in the library. Then I started reading shell scripts and found out that a lot of the system is controlled through shell scripts and started writing my own. Then I started reading through the source code of libraries to find out how things were implemented.<p>At some point I got a Minix book (I was probably 16) at a discount at a book store. I started comparing the theory I read there and tried to find out how e.g. the Linux VMM differed from Minix.<p>Don&#x27;t underestimate how important it is for a kid to have access to such information. Only a small subset dive deeply into the system, but they will be the hackers of the future. But you have to awaken the interest by making easy to dive in.<p><i>They will be using some app&#x2F;language running on the OS. They don&#x27;t need access to the OS source to do that.</i><p>I think you underestimate how important access to the OS (in the widest sense) has been to the success of everyone from Google, Dropbox, and Facebook to the newest of startups.</text></item><item><author>nmeofthestate</author><text>&quot;Windows seems very much contrary to the goal of the Raspberry Pi: providing a device for children to tinker with and educate themselves&quot;<p>&quot;Windows is closed as ever&quot;<p>Are these kids hacking on the Linux kernel or something? Of course not. They will be using some app&#x2F;language running on the OS. They don&#x27;t need access to the OS source to do that. Seems to me Windows is a perfectly open enough OS to act as a platform for tinkering and learning about computers.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>I am usually not the one to blow the free software horn (being a staunch believer of non-copyleft licenses such as the Apache License) and the geek in me likes this announcement. I also don&#x27;t hold a grudge against Windows, I think it is a fine system for most people.<p>However, Windows seems very much contrary to the goal of the Raspberry Pi: providing a device for children to tinker with and educate themselves. Although .NET is slowly opening up, Windows is closed as ever. So, it does not actually let you check out how stuff works: looking up that function in the Python standard library, seeing how it calls libc, and then diving into libc to see how it is actually implemented.<p>It&#x27;s in Microsoft interest to keep kids in their ecosystem, which has been pretty much unproblematic in the nineties and before the smart phone revolution. As the RPi becomes more popular in education, it would be bad for them when kids see that there is something else that not only works well, but also allows them to do more.<p>My fear is that teachers will now choose for Windows on the RPi, since that is what they know. And we are back to where we started: a fundamentally unhackable system.<p>Now, if Microsoft would open up the core of Windows. I would be impressed. Now? Not so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>When I started with computers in the mid-80&#x27;s, so open source wasn&#x27;t an option.<p>None of the home computers systems was open source.<p>We had computer magazines, and books to type stuff from.<p>This is what is important, to have information how a given system works.<p>I only jumped into GNU&#x2F;Linux as a cheap way to have UNIX at home.</text></comment> | <story><title>Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2</title><url>http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danieldk</author><text><i>Are these kids hacking on the Linux kernel or something? Of course not. They will be using some app&#x2F;language running on the OS. They don&#x27;t need access to the OS source to do that. </i><p>I <i>even</i> mentioned libc. There is more to an operating system than a kernel.<p>In fact, this was an important part of my early computer education: when I was 12 (1994) I bought a copy of Slackware Linux because it had a free compiler (even Turbo Pascal was expensive for a 12 year-old).<p>At the beginning I just typed some small C snippets that I could find in books in the library. Then I started reading shell scripts and found out that a lot of the system is controlled through shell scripts and started writing my own. Then I started reading through the source code of libraries to find out how things were implemented.<p>At some point I got a Minix book (I was probably 16) at a discount at a book store. I started comparing the theory I read there and tried to find out how e.g. the Linux VMM differed from Minix.<p>Don&#x27;t underestimate how important it is for a kid to have access to such information. Only a small subset dive deeply into the system, but they will be the hackers of the future. But you have to awaken the interest by making easy to dive in.<p><i>They will be using some app&#x2F;language running on the OS. They don&#x27;t need access to the OS source to do that.</i><p>I think you underestimate how important access to the OS (in the widest sense) has been to the success of everyone from Google, Dropbox, and Facebook to the newest of startups.</text></item><item><author>nmeofthestate</author><text>&quot;Windows seems very much contrary to the goal of the Raspberry Pi: providing a device for children to tinker with and educate themselves&quot;<p>&quot;Windows is closed as ever&quot;<p>Are these kids hacking on the Linux kernel or something? Of course not. They will be using some app&#x2F;language running on the OS. They don&#x27;t need access to the OS source to do that. Seems to me Windows is a perfectly open enough OS to act as a platform for tinkering and learning about computers.</text></item><item><author>danieldk</author><text>I am usually not the one to blow the free software horn (being a staunch believer of non-copyleft licenses such as the Apache License) and the geek in me likes this announcement. I also don&#x27;t hold a grudge against Windows, I think it is a fine system for most people.<p>However, Windows seems very much contrary to the goal of the Raspberry Pi: providing a device for children to tinker with and educate themselves. Although .NET is slowly opening up, Windows is closed as ever. So, it does not actually let you check out how stuff works: looking up that function in the Python standard library, seeing how it calls libc, and then diving into libc to see how it is actually implemented.<p>It&#x27;s in Microsoft interest to keep kids in their ecosystem, which has been pretty much unproblematic in the nineties and before the smart phone revolution. As the RPi becomes more popular in education, it would be bad for them when kids see that there is something else that not only works well, but also allows them to do more.<p>My fear is that teachers will now choose for Windows on the RPi, since that is what they know. And we are back to where we started: a fundamentally unhackable system.<p>Now, if Microsoft would open up the core of Windows. I would be impressed. Now? Not so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nmeofthestate</author><text>For hardcore nerds like yourself there will still be Linux. I don&#x27;t see it as an ominous development. And for old stick-in-the-mud people who never got into Linux like me, this could make doing stuff with a RPi much easier. (Edit: btw I&#x27;m using &quot;hardcore nerd&quot; as a compliment).</text></comment> |
27,250,401 | 27,249,741 | 1 | 2 | 27,249,082 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News</title><url>https://instruments.digital/inflation-adjusted-hn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eatonphil</author><text>There&#x27;s a similar issue on reddit. For a growing sub (which most interesting subs are) sorting by top of all time and top of this year is the same thing. I wish there were a way to sort by top by year on a sub (and HN too of course).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dheera</author><text>Another effect to consider is that given that the number of &quot;slots&quot; on the front page hasn&#x27;t changed, the time you have to rack up threshold upvotes to hit the front page will have reduced. New posts fall off the &quot;new&quot; page much quicker.<p>Might be interesting to plot the number of new posts per day over the years as well, if that data is accessible. I would guess it would inflate at the same rate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News</title><url>https://instruments.digital/inflation-adjusted-hn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eatonphil</author><text>There&#x27;s a similar issue on reddit. For a growing sub (which most interesting subs are) sorting by top of all time and top of this year is the same thing. I wish there were a way to sort by top by year on a sub (and HN too of course).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>srathi</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redditsearch.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redditsearch.io</a> may help a bit with these types of queries. Bummer that there is no native way to do so.</text></comment> |
37,100,796 | 37,100,362 | 1 | 2 | 37,099,086 | train | <story><title>Microsoft continues right to repair about face, makes its hardware easier to fix</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/11/microsoft-continues-about-face-on-right-to-repair-makes-its-hardware-easier-to-fix/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prirun</author><text>When Microsoft does not have market-share lead, they are pro-customer in that market - hardware in this case. If Microsoft has the leading market-share and doesn&#x27;t feel threatened, they are anti-customer, ie, Windows.<p>This usually holds for any large corporation.<p>&quot;Elsewhere, Microsoft has been doing a better job ensuring that consumers have access to both service manuals and essential parts needed to independently repair the company’s hardware, ranging from its Surface tablets and laptops to Xbox game controllers.&quot;<p>Microsoft&#x27;s Surface tablets and laptops (I didn&#x27;t even know they sold laptops!) are a blip compared to Apple. Notably absent are Xbox <i>consoles</i>; they don&#x27;t have a market-share lead in consoles, although though with their recent acquisition, they might in a few years. So yeah, no console right-to-repair nonsense.<p>Corporations are just like people: they act in their own interest, with the big difference that most people are moral and will consider how their actions might adversely affect others while corporations don&#x27;t give a shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MostlyStable</author><text>This is very obviously not always true. For example, the Microsoft Surface line has <i>always</i> been a tiny blip in it&#x27;s market and yet iFixit rated 5 years of products the lowest score possible on their repairbility scale[0]. And it is not unusual at all for non-leading companies to have pretty anti-competitive practices.<p>This whole comment feels like &quot;yeah, well don&#x27;t give them credit for it because they don&#x27;t really mean it&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t give a shit if they mean it. If they are doing pro-consumer things I&#x27;m going to reward them and if they stop doing it, I&#x27;m going to stop rewarding them. That&#x27;s how you send a signal and get broadly better practices. Making up complicated theories for why you still shouldn&#x27;t be happy about good things is both silly and doesn&#x27;t help anything get better.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;tablet-repairability?sort=score" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ifixit.com&#x2F;tablet-repairability?sort=score</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft continues right to repair about face, makes its hardware easier to fix</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/11/microsoft-continues-about-face-on-right-to-repair-makes-its-hardware-easier-to-fix/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prirun</author><text>When Microsoft does not have market-share lead, they are pro-customer in that market - hardware in this case. If Microsoft has the leading market-share and doesn&#x27;t feel threatened, they are anti-customer, ie, Windows.<p>This usually holds for any large corporation.<p>&quot;Elsewhere, Microsoft has been doing a better job ensuring that consumers have access to both service manuals and essential parts needed to independently repair the company’s hardware, ranging from its Surface tablets and laptops to Xbox game controllers.&quot;<p>Microsoft&#x27;s Surface tablets and laptops (I didn&#x27;t even know they sold laptops!) are a blip compared to Apple. Notably absent are Xbox <i>consoles</i>; they don&#x27;t have a market-share lead in consoles, although though with their recent acquisition, they might in a few years. So yeah, no console right-to-repair nonsense.<p>Corporations are just like people: they act in their own interest, with the big difference that most people are moral and will consider how their actions might adversely affect others while corporations don&#x27;t give a shit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nolok</author><text>&gt; Notably absent are Xbox consoles; they don&#x27;t have a market-share lead in consoles, although though with their recent acquisition, they might in a few years.<p>It&#x27;s important to understand that Xbox is almost a non entity in the rest of the world, it&#x27;s irrelevant in Japan and distant third in Europe (beside UK where it&#x27;s first&#x2F;equal with playstation). Xbox 360 carved a bit of a share in the rest of europe but then Xbox One destroyed that in one fell swoop and it never recovered since.</text></comment> |
16,599,457 | 16,598,788 | 1 | 2 | 16,598,351 | train | <story><title>Interactive map of Linux kernel</title><url>http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fauria</author><text>Link to PNG image: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.makelinux.net&#x2F;kernel_map&#x2F;LKM3_2048.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.makelinux.net&#x2F;kernel_map&#x2F;LKM3_2048.png</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Interactive map of Linux kernel</title><url>http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>That&#x27;s a fun map.<p>The Linux kernel has more device drivers embedded in the core than I anticipated. I&#x27;m guessing most are used for bootstrapping&#x2F;fallback (e.g. loading the &quot;actual&quot; drivers)? Such as ext4, ipw2100, ac97, i8042, etc.<p>Just to be clear, I&#x27;d imagine most of the above are common enough to have on almost all but the most niche Linux distributions. My question relates around having them this high up in the source tree, rather than why they&#x27;re useful&#x2F;what they do.</text></comment> |
13,332,185 | 13,331,994 | 1 | 3 | 13,331,284 | train | <story><title>Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, and Memory Usage</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/goroutines-nonblocking-io-and-memory-usage</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>It always struck me as odd that Go has select{}, but no way to select on a file descriptor such a socket. There&#x27;s literally no way to poll a file descriptor: You have to read from it, and deal with the result.<p>That also means reads aren&#x27;t interruptible (unless you count closing the descriptor as interrupting, which is a blunt hammer indeed). AFAIK the only way to do this is to set SetReadDeadline() on the connection to a smallish value, then let the interrupter block on a channel that&#x27;s invoked when the deadline is reached.<p>Go&#x27;s concurrency model is pretty friendly, but it&#x27;s also unfriendly in many surprising ways. (Don&#x27;t get me started on the whole nil channel thing, or the problem of channel closure&#x2F;ownership, or channel performance overall.) It doesn&#x27;t surprise me the least (while it did surprise the Go team) that Go fell flat among the C&#x2F;C++ system programmer demographic.<p>Anyone want to chip in about how Rust, Swift and Nim compare here (regarding the article)?</text></comment> | <story><title>Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, and Memory Usage</title><url>https://eklitzke.org/goroutines-nonblocking-io-and-memory-usage</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twotwotwo</author><text>It&#x27;s true goroutines waiting on the network are going to sit on a few KB (small stack, buffer, user-mode sched bookkeeping), and if you multiply that out by a million or something you&#x27;re talking gigs. But I think much of the appeal of the standard Go way, and similar approaches in other languages, is you can write more or less as if you were doing simple synch I&#x2F;O, and the runtime work that other folks have done gives you something decent with AIO, small stacks, user-space thread switching, etc. without you having to think much about it.<p>I think the author says something similar put differently in the first paragraph.<p>Something like rakoo&#x27;s trick is interesting, with the caveat zzzcpan added that it takes at least a tiny buf, not zero-len, but if you don&#x27;t actually hit this wall I&#x27;d charge forward the regular way.</text></comment> |
16,892,235 | 16,892,097 | 1 | 3 | 16,891,651 | train | <story><title>To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/04/to-understand-the-future-of-tesla-look-to-the-history-of-gm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewopr</author><text>I am a huge Tesla fan (and Elon fan). I own stock (shortly after IPO). I have a model 3 reservation. I have been singing their praises for a long time. Elon is an incredible visionary and probably an incredible engineer. This is a great combination for making the impossible possible.<p>And I totally agree with this article. If not a new CEO, Tesla needs a good COO. They need excellent, consistent execution, not novel, groundbreaking execution. They have 100&#x27;s of thousands of reservations for the 3 (and I don&#x27;t know how many powerwall and solar roof reservations). If they can just execute on this, the world is theirs. But if they continue to have delays and major, public mistakes like the model 3 ramp, my stock purchase may have been a poor choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martythemaniak</author><text>There will come a time when Musk needs to step away from Tesla, but that day is not today. He&#x27;s publicly mused about stepping away (SpaceX is his real fav), but had his tenure renewed recently.<p>If all Tesla did was sell pretty good cars, they&#x27;d probably get crushed by the incumbents. Tesla, is selling way more than that - they&#x27;re selling the idea of a brighter, better future. You&#x27;re not just buying an EV, but you&#x27;re helping climate change, you&#x27;re reducing pollution, you&#x27;ll be reducing human death and suffering and ending traffic jams and hey - it all comes in a exclusive, technologically-advanced, aesthetically pleasing package.<p>Now, some might object that this is largely a bunch of marketing&#x2F;PR bullshit, and you will likely be technically correct, but would still miss the point. If people wanted a nice, efficient EV, they&#x27;d buy the Bolt, which by all accounts, is pretty damn good. But Tesla sells this &quot;bullshit&quot; because it&#x27;s what people actually want to buy, and EVs happen to be the delivery vehicle. So as much as you might dislike this &quot;bullshit&quot;, it&#x27;s a core reason why Tesla even exists in 2018.<p>Where does Musk fit into this? He happens to be the personification of this idea today. In the popular mind he is &quot;cool&quot; so when you buy a Tesla, you&#x27;re also implicitly buying part of this cool, much like buying an iPhone back in the day got you a part of Jobs&#x27; cool. Eventually Tesla will become it&#x27;s own thing (as Apple is today) and outgrow Musk, but that&#x27;s still years away.<p>OTOH, if you want to know what&#x27;s <i>actually</i> going on at Tesla and what they need, this will probably give you the best idea out of any material on the internet:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CpCrkO1x-Qo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CpCrkO1x-Qo</a><p>It&#x27;s an in-depth interview with a guy who owns a consultancy which disassembles, analyses and sells reports on vehicles, both for manufacturers looking for research on their competitors and at improving their own products. His findings are extremely interesting - he&#x27;s downright astounded at how incredible parts of the car are (battery, electronics) and thinks established companies should be quacking in their boots. OTOH, he thinks they&#x27;ve made a number of blunders in other parts, such as their production line design or parts of the car (for example, he thinks the body is 20-25% heavier than it needs to be, with parts that serve no discernable purpose)</text></comment> | <story><title>To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/04/to-understand-the-future-of-tesla-look-to-the-history-of-gm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thewopr</author><text>I am a huge Tesla fan (and Elon fan). I own stock (shortly after IPO). I have a model 3 reservation. I have been singing their praises for a long time. Elon is an incredible visionary and probably an incredible engineer. This is a great combination for making the impossible possible.<p>And I totally agree with this article. If not a new CEO, Tesla needs a good COO. They need excellent, consistent execution, not novel, groundbreaking execution. They have 100&#x27;s of thousands of reservations for the 3 (and I don&#x27;t know how many powerwall and solar roof reservations). If they can just execute on this, the world is theirs. But if they continue to have delays and major, public mistakes like the model 3 ramp, my stock purchase may have been a poor choice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carlivar</author><text>They only have delays from their CEO&#x27;s promises. Had he set expectations more realistically the stock might not be such a roller coaster and deposit holders would have had more accurate estimates.<p>If you eliminate every time table Musk has said and evaluate Tesla only what they&#x27;ve done so far, which is a simple Model 3 ramp up from scratch, perhaps they look more impressive.</text></comment> |
32,631,750 | 32,631,596 | 1 | 2 | 32,630,527 | train | <story><title>Permaculture Water Systems of the Seven Seeds Farm [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuYGS5pLRZg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zz0rr</author><text>I like this sort of thing but in Oregon (and I think most places) you can&#x27;t just create a lake and use it for irrigation without permission. even collecting rainwater is considered use of a public resource and needs permission outside of very narrow bounds. I know someone who was able to get permission for a mid-stream lake but even then it&#x27;s not unlimited, it only applied to X acres for Y purpose and could be restricted in dry years.<p>so the video maybe shouldn&#x27;t be a message about &quot;just plop down a pond!&quot; - it should be more about how to navigate local water rights to actually get permission. and I think this should be something that should be permitted more frequently, I think it&#x27;s usually a good use of the public resource, but that&#x27;s where it has to start</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fswd</author><text>He did say he had irrigation rights to the stream, which isn&#x27;t impossible but unusual in that area. (They won&#x27;t give them anymore). For a pond, you do have to apply. I think it&#x27;s is $700 for the pond application and additional $1500 in regular fees. But here&#x27;s the kicker, it takes two to three years to get it.. You&#x27;re better off just doing it and ignoring the regulators in this area. Reason is, there are 20,000 illegal marijuana grow sites surrounding this guy and absolutely no effective enforcement. The only enforcement is against people who register for water rights and follow the rules. If the drug cartel steals your water rights, they won&#x27;t even pick up the phone.<p>What&#x27;s up with no plants in the ground?</text></comment> | <story><title>Permaculture Water Systems of the Seven Seeds Farm [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuYGS5pLRZg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zz0rr</author><text>I like this sort of thing but in Oregon (and I think most places) you can&#x27;t just create a lake and use it for irrigation without permission. even collecting rainwater is considered use of a public resource and needs permission outside of very narrow bounds. I know someone who was able to get permission for a mid-stream lake but even then it&#x27;s not unlimited, it only applied to X acres for Y purpose and could be restricted in dry years.<p>so the video maybe shouldn&#x27;t be a message about &quot;just plop down a pond!&quot; - it should be more about how to navigate local water rights to actually get permission. and I think this should be something that should be permitted more frequently, I think it&#x27;s usually a good use of the public resource, but that&#x27;s where it has to start</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tejtm</author><text>I have heard this this gets spun into;
&quot;it is illegal have a rain barrel fed off your roof for your yard&quot;
(it is not)<p>Where the intent is closer to;
You can&#x27;t claim more than your share of a watershed to screw those downstream.</text></comment> |
4,867,053 | 4,865,658 | 1 | 3 | 4,865,264 | train | <story><title>Explorations in Unix</title><url>http://www.drbunsen.org/explorations-in-unix.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frankc</author><text>I use unix in the same way and for the same purpose as the described in the blog, but I have come to the opinion that once you get into the describe and visualize phase, it's much easier to just drop into R. Reading in the kind of file being worked on here is often as simple as<p>foo &#60;-read.csv("foo.csv")<p>Getting summary descriptive statistics, item counts, scatter plots and histograms is often as easy as<p>summary(foo)<p>table(foo$col)<p>plot(foo$xcol, foo$ycol)<p>hist(foo$col).<p>I think that is lot simpler than a 4 or 5 command pipeline that can be mistake-prone to edit when you want to change column names or things like that. I still do these kinds of things in the shell sometimes, and I don't know if I can put my finger on when exactly I would drop into R vs write out a pipeline, but there IS a line somewhere...</text></comment> | <story><title>Explorations in Unix</title><url>http://www.drbunsen.org/explorations-in-unix.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mpyne</author><text>I almost skipped because I figured it would be another introductory article to how to use bash and coreutils, but this was actually very good.</text></comment> |
32,045,705 | 32,044,852 | 1 | 2 | 32,043,433 | train | <story><title>CS101: Introduction to Computing Principles</title><url>https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khaki54</author><text>This course looks &quot;fine&quot;; however, I would recommend that anyone interested in exploring CS (or perhaps even if you are a self-taught and very able coder who wants to learn those missing fundamentals ) takes CS50 out of Harvard.<p>It is easily the most engaging course I have ever taken and it&#x27;s available for free on edx.org or you can take the &quot;real&quot; class from Harvard extension for a couple grand. You can go into this class as an underwater basket weaver or a strong coder and get a ton out of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinventullo</author><text>I think this Stanford course is aiming at a different goal than Harvard’s CS50. Harvard’s course seems to be aimed at people who are coders or want to be better at coding, so you learn about different languages, algorithms&#x2F;data structures, SQL and such.<p>The Stanford course, especially the second half, appears to be more in the spirit of liberal arts. It covers high-level concepts in CS (server vs client, how does the internet work, what is encryption) that even someone who never writes code professionally will be able to use. They’ll be better able to read newspaper articles on tech topics, or perhaps more to the point, better equipped to be a PM&#x2F;lawyer&#x2F;BD in the tech space.</text></comment> | <story><title>CS101: Introduction to Computing Principles</title><url>https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khaki54</author><text>This course looks &quot;fine&quot;; however, I would recommend that anyone interested in exploring CS (or perhaps even if you are a self-taught and very able coder who wants to learn those missing fundamentals ) takes CS50 out of Harvard.<p>It is easily the most engaging course I have ever taken and it&#x27;s available for free on edx.org or you can take the &quot;real&quot; class from Harvard extension for a couple grand. You can go into this class as an underwater basket weaver or a strong coder and get a ton out of it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aabhay</author><text>I’d recommend CS 61a&#x2F;b&#x2F;c from UC Berkeley. I think it’s available online as well. The reason I like these three courses is that they cover the three key aspects of computing — programming, data structures, and machine structures. I find that the last part is often left out because we “abstract” away low level features of computers, but learning even the basics of page tables, caches, instruction sets, timing, etc. is extremely critical to a complete understanding of what’s going on.</text></comment> |
4,480,707 | 4,480,475 | 1 | 2 | 4,480,009 | train | <story><title>Game AI vs Traditional AI</title><url>http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/07/11/students-game-ai-vs-traditional-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>I have an academic and professional background in traditional AI, and I've programmed an AI for a 3D video game I made in college. My traditional AI background is mostly in applying a wide variety of mainstream machine learning algorithms, including neural networks, SVMs, and regression, to real world problems like fraud and image detection. I was somewhat frustrated when building the game AI because the best solution came down to building a large state machine with hard-coded logic. The AI was dead-simple, but it worked well and wasn't too far from state of the art in video game AIs at the time, and I suspect today.<p>I agree with the general point of this article; in fact, I think it understates the case. When people want AI in video games they want the AI to be truly smart. The fact is, we haven't cracked "intelligence" yet. Most of 'AI' research has veered into machine learning, which is basically applied statistics. While this algorithms can solve many constrained problems quite well (this field powers much of google search) it's tough to frame complex problems like a 3D FPS AI, into a simple statistical framework. Even biologically-inspired AIs like neural networks are designed to solve highly constrained problems. In short, I don't think it's possible to even design a non-bruteforce AI, regardless of computational power, with what we currently know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KVFinn</author><text>One approach that has been more successful and easier to integrate than machine learning is Monte Carlo based systems. That's what the latest Go AIs use and they are making big strides.<p>It's powers various card game AIs, here's the developer talking about it: <a href="http://hfog.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html" rel="nofollow">http://hfog.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html</a><p>Though this absolutely brutal Race for the Galaxy AI was generated using machine learning: <a href="http://www.keldon.net/rftg/" rel="nofollow">http://www.keldon.net/rftg/</a><p>He talks about it in this thread: <a href="http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/438698/race-for-the-galaxy-ai/page/37" rel="nofollow">http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/438698/race-for-the-gala...</a><p>[quote]Some of the AI neural nets for the Brink of War are only partially-trained; the AI performance in big games is way too slow and takes weeks to train. I'll need to fix that both so that players won't have to wait and to improve training speed.[/quote]<p>For "true" AI in games, check out Steve Grand's work:<p><a href="http://grandroids.com/" rel="nofollow">http://grandroids.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XLJuDV03Mw&#38;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XLJuDV03Mw&#38;feature=youtu...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Game AI vs Traditional AI</title><url>http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/07/11/students-game-ai-vs-traditional-ai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>I have an academic and professional background in traditional AI, and I've programmed an AI for a 3D video game I made in college. My traditional AI background is mostly in applying a wide variety of mainstream machine learning algorithms, including neural networks, SVMs, and regression, to real world problems like fraud and image detection. I was somewhat frustrated when building the game AI because the best solution came down to building a large state machine with hard-coded logic. The AI was dead-simple, but it worked well and wasn't too far from state of the art in video game AIs at the time, and I suspect today.<p>I agree with the general point of this article; in fact, I think it understates the case. When people want AI in video games they want the AI to be truly smart. The fact is, we haven't cracked "intelligence" yet. Most of 'AI' research has veered into machine learning, which is basically applied statistics. While this algorithms can solve many constrained problems quite well (this field powers much of google search) it's tough to frame complex problems like a 3D FPS AI, into a simple statistical framework. Even biologically-inspired AIs like neural networks are designed to solve highly constrained problems. In short, I don't think it's possible to even design a non-bruteforce AI, regardless of computational power, with what we currently know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmelendez</author><text>I hear you. I have a similar background like yours and I had a huge disappointment when I broke into the game industry 2 years ago. But I am not agree with you in the sense that an statistic approach is not possible. There are so many opportunities but the reality is that game designers don't want that to happen.<p>The main problem I have found in this regard is the fact that designers love to have control over the behaviour of the game, and I believe they don't even want to understand how a machine learning AI can be possible. I even discussed my master thesis (an SVM based controller for enemies) with a veteran RTS game designer and his response was very heart breaking, he just told me that Game AI was good enough and that "people" wouldn't care about a better AI (after that he just turned out and walked away)<p>I am still optimist that eventually that would happen. But I don't have enough patience to fight against that any more. So hopefully a young hacker reading this would change that :)</text></comment> |
14,816,063 | 14,815,720 | 1 | 3 | 14,815,095 | train | <story><title>AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-market-shut-down</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Miner49er</author><text>&quot;&#x27;The so-called anonymity of the dark web is illusory,&#x27; said Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg of the DEA.&quot;<p>I wonder if this is true, or simply hyperbole. I&#x27;m extremely curios on the technical details of this bust.<p>Edit: It appears that some info can be found here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;file&#x2F;982821&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;file&#x2F;982821&#x2F;downlo...</a>. Look at the section &quot;Alexandre Cazes: Alphabay&#x27;s Founder and Operator&quot;<p>It looks like the founder was extremely careless. His personal hotmail email was included in the header of the welcome email and password reset emails to Alphabay users. He used the same username on Alphabay on at least one forum before creating Alphabay. This username was tied with his personal email and name.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djmobley</author><text>He seemed to be pretty careless about flaunting his wealth. These forum postings are referenced in the forfeiture complaint (NSFW):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rooshvforum.com&#x2F;thread-56038.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:https:...</a><p>Interestingly, the forum owner posted last week claiming he had suddenly passed away:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rooshvforum.com&#x2F;thread-63799.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:https:...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-market-shut-down</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Miner49er</author><text>&quot;&#x27;The so-called anonymity of the dark web is illusory,&#x27; said Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg of the DEA.&quot;<p>I wonder if this is true, or simply hyperbole. I&#x27;m extremely curios on the technical details of this bust.<p>Edit: It appears that some info can be found here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;file&#x2F;982821&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;file&#x2F;982821&#x2F;downlo...</a>. Look at the section &quot;Alexandre Cazes: Alphabay&#x27;s Founder and Operator&quot;<p>It looks like the founder was extremely careless. His personal hotmail email was included in the header of the welcome email and password reset emails to Alphabay users. He used the same username on Alphabay on at least one forum before creating Alphabay. This username was tied with his personal email and name.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Veelox</author><text>It is a little bit of an exaggeration, there are going to be a lot of people that will get caught and a lot that will get away. The point of the statement is to reduce confidence in dark net markets so they are more likely to fail.</text></comment> |
7,478,565 | 7,478,560 | 1 | 2 | 7,478,328 | train | <story><title>Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/apps-with-millions-of-google-play-downloads-covertly-mine-cryptocurrency/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>devindotcom</author><text>This is pretty hilarious. Given how small the load can be to automatically contribute hashes to a pool for ___coin, I expect more of these in the future, but smarter. Runs for 5 seconds per minute on ten million devices for six months? That&#x27;s no joke with some of the hardware out there.<p>It&#x27;s <i>this</i> close to a victimless crime (that is, unless the victim gets their CPU&#x2F;GPU fried, as has happened with these nets before). But what about apps that use spare cycles while you&#x27;re plugged in, or above 75% battery, or between hours x and y, to mine dogecoins for charity? People would voluntarily submit to that!</text></comment> | <story><title>Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/apps-with-millions-of-google-play-downloads-covertly-mine-cryptocurrency/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>changdizzle</author><text>This is alarmingly similar to the ESEA situation where ESEA (a premium membership gaming community) discreetly built a bitcoin miner into their anti-cheat client [1], fried some users&#x27; graphics cards and were found out then fined $1MM. [2]<p>[1] <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/2/4292672/esea-gaming-network-bitcoin-botnet" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;5&#x2F;2&#x2F;4292672&#x2F;esea-gaming-network...</a>
[2] <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/e-sports/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;wiredenterprise&#x2F;2013&#x2F;11&#x2F;e-sports&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
8,438,508 | 8,438,589 | 1 | 3 | 8,438,157 | train | <story><title>Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today</title><url>https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asadotzler</author><text>Why do these &quot;Linux gets Netflix&quot; stories not have the same bad attitude from folks as the &quot;W3C caves to DRM&quot; stories? They&#x27;re the same topic, essentially.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smacktoward</author><text>My guess would be that in the &quot;Linux gets Netflix&quot; story, the positive angle (&quot;I get Netflix!&quot;) is specific and concrete, while the negative (&quot;More DRM, yuck&quot;) is more abstract. Whereas in the &quot;W3C caves to DRM&quot; story, it&#x27;s flipped; the negative is specific and concrete (&quot;Standards body kowtows to corporate overlords&quot;), while the positive (&quot;maybe someday that will mean I can watch video on Linux&quot;) is more abstract.</text></comment> | <story><title>Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today</title><url>https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asadotzler</author><text>Why do these &quot;Linux gets Netflix&quot; stories not have the same bad attitude from folks as the &quot;W3C caves to DRM&quot; stories? They&#x27;re the same topic, essentially.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaoD</author><text>Because Ubuntu is known to give shit about freedom (and it&#x27;s a Ltd.), while Mozilla boasts about their users&#x27; rights (and is a Foundation).</text></comment> |
33,541,390 | 33,541,360 | 1 | 3 | 33,538,742 | train | <story><title>Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015)</title><url>https://www.scribd.com/document/399594551/2015-06-22-MARK-S-VISION</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paperwasp42</author><text>Another requirement that seems to get ignored is that you need to have the overwhelming majority of the public not feel sick when you use it. I recently had a friend bring a VR headset to a party for people to try out. About 15% of the people who tried it felt dizzy or nauseous after using it. (I did not try it because I know from experience I&#x27;ll have a headache and be dizzy for hours afterward.)<p>Interestingly, similar to seasickness, the women who tried it seemed waaaaay more likely to be negatively impacted. Which opens up an entire other can of worms, such as: could an office get away with mandating the use of VR tech for meetings, when it has disproportionately negative impacts on women? (As a woman, I certainly hope they would not even try this!)<p>And as far as voluntary public adoption, having ~15% of your friend group unable to use a product is a fantastic way to kill network efforts. I doubt TikTok would be popular if 15% of the population got horrible headaches and nausea after watching a video on the platform.<p>Shockingly, no one seems to be talking about this aspect of VR. Which seems to be a really big red flag.</text></item><item><author>Apreche</author><text>Not really the worst strategy. You can totally see where he was coming from. He just vastly overestimated how far VR could go in even 10 years of heavy investment, if ever. No amount of heavy investment, even for 10+ years, is going to make AR or VR as ubiquitous as mobile.<p>You would need a headset so small and light it&#x27;s not too far off from a pair of sunglasses. It needs a battery that runs all day. It needs to not get hot and burn someone&#x27;s face. It needs to be fast and responsive in terms of both local processing and network data transmission. It needs to be inexpensive enough that everyone on Earth who currently has a smartphone can afford one. And, he is correct, it needs to have apps so compelling that people find hard to participate in society without one.<p>It&#x27;s not even a guaranteed thing that such a device is even possible. Even if it is, no way would it be ready for 2025, maybe not even 2035.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koala_man</author><text>Most of the VR software I&#x27;ve tried have anti-nausea features like teleportation and unmoving frames of reference, so I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s fair to say that no one&#x27;s talking about it.<p>I think the hope was that some combination of hardware and software would solve the problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015)</title><url>https://www.scribd.com/document/399594551/2015-06-22-MARK-S-VISION</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paperwasp42</author><text>Another requirement that seems to get ignored is that you need to have the overwhelming majority of the public not feel sick when you use it. I recently had a friend bring a VR headset to a party for people to try out. About 15% of the people who tried it felt dizzy or nauseous after using it. (I did not try it because I know from experience I&#x27;ll have a headache and be dizzy for hours afterward.)<p>Interestingly, similar to seasickness, the women who tried it seemed waaaaay more likely to be negatively impacted. Which opens up an entire other can of worms, such as: could an office get away with mandating the use of VR tech for meetings, when it has disproportionately negative impacts on women? (As a woman, I certainly hope they would not even try this!)<p>And as far as voluntary public adoption, having ~15% of your friend group unable to use a product is a fantastic way to kill network efforts. I doubt TikTok would be popular if 15% of the population got horrible headaches and nausea after watching a video on the platform.<p>Shockingly, no one seems to be talking about this aspect of VR. Which seems to be a really big red flag.</text></item><item><author>Apreche</author><text>Not really the worst strategy. You can totally see where he was coming from. He just vastly overestimated how far VR could go in even 10 years of heavy investment, if ever. No amount of heavy investment, even for 10+ years, is going to make AR or VR as ubiquitous as mobile.<p>You would need a headset so small and light it&#x27;s not too far off from a pair of sunglasses. It needs a battery that runs all day. It needs to not get hot and burn someone&#x27;s face. It needs to be fast and responsive in terms of both local processing and network data transmission. It needs to be inexpensive enough that everyone on Earth who currently has a smartphone can afford one. And, he is correct, it needs to have apps so compelling that people find hard to participate in society without one.<p>It&#x27;s not even a guaranteed thing that such a device is even possible. Even if it is, no way would it be ready for 2025, maybe not even 2035.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jhou2</author><text>I agree. I get motion sickness from playing FPS games. The symptoms improve, but it takes a while to adjust. Some people have no problem with it, whereas for some it is completely impossible to overcome. It&#x27;s hard for me to see broad adoption of VR with the current technology.</text></comment> |
38,851,515 | 38,849,972 | 1 | 3 | 38,827,876 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language</title><url>https://cassette-lang.com</url><text>I made this simple language over the past year, and it&#x27;s time for me to say it&#x27;s &quot;done&quot; (for now) and focus on other projects.<p>I&#x27;ve struggled to answer the question &quot;what is this language for?&quot; other than &quot;it&#x27;s just for me&quot; — and that&#x27;s probably good enough. But I also wanted to make something &quot;complete&quot; that others could use if they wanted to. Writing my own language was an incredibly rewarding experience, and I&#x27;d recommend everyone trying it.<p>Let me know if you have any questions or feedback, and please share your own experience if you&#x27;ve also made a language.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>What a great introduction: what it is, how it looks, why you might like it, what the design goals are, and how to write it - all while being short, to the point, and relatively buzzword free. I find a lot of new language offerings (which may be very good technically) fall short on how they make a first impression; other language creators should look at this as a template.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language</title><url>https://cassette-lang.com</url><text>I made this simple language over the past year, and it&#x27;s time for me to say it&#x27;s &quot;done&quot; (for now) and focus on other projects.<p>I&#x27;ve struggled to answer the question &quot;what is this language for?&quot; other than &quot;it&#x27;s just for me&quot; — and that&#x27;s probably good enough. But I also wanted to make something &quot;complete&quot; that others could use if they wanted to. Writing my own language was an incredibly rewarding experience, and I&#x27;d recommend everyone trying it.<p>Let me know if you have any questions or feedback, and please share your own experience if you&#x27;ve also made a language.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neontomo</author><text>Your work is in an interesting niche, but I found your home-cooked app philosophy post more fun to read about. It made me feel optimistic about the value of creative coding projects, thank you for writing it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.robinsloan.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;home-cooked-app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.robinsloan.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;home-cooked-app&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
20,717,346 | 20,717,626 | 1 | 3 | 20,716,071 | train | <story><title>Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its own silicon at scale</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/nvidia-ceo-google-is-the-only-customer-with-silicon-at-scale.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>varelse</author><text>Sure, but the really lucky break IMO was a decade of INTC repeatedly punching itself in the face w&#x2F;r to manycore computation. I was at Nvidia from 2001 to 2011 (and now back) and I spent 2006-2011 as one of the very first CUDA programmers. It was pretty obvious within a week or two that this technology was going to be huge, and I more or less made my career with it.<p>But instead of stepping up to the plate and igniting a Red Queen&#x27;s Race that would have benefited everyone, INTC first tried to discredit the technology repeatedly, then they built an absolutely dreadful series of decelerators that demonstrated how badly they didn&#x27;t understand manycore. Eventually, they gave up, and now they&#x27;re playing catch-up by buying companies that get within striking distance of NVDA rather than building really cool technology from within.<p>Now if someone threw a large pile of money at AMD again, things could get really interesting IMO. But the piles of stupid money seem biased towards throwing ~$5M per layer at the pets.com of AI companies these days.</text></item><item><author>jonplackett</author><text>Nvidia really lucked out with VR, crypto and AI all happening at once and all just happening to need exactly what they make (surly they can’t have seen all that coming deliberately?)<p>I wonder if consumer VR would have faired better if gamers didn’t have to compete with miners and data centres for chips and had more reasonably priced cards a few years back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>Nvidia&#x27;s coup was in getting people to switch to a different programming model and rewrite their code to achieve the necessary performance. Intel, especially in upper management, is stuffed with people who assumed that was impossible. And faced with new competition from GPUs, the only acceptable response to management was the many-x86, &quot;you don&#x27;t have to rewrite your code to get performance&quot; approach which didn&#x27;t actually work out.<p>It&#x27;s not that Intel doesn&#x27;t have people that recognize the issues, but rather the people who do have that foresight are drowned out by people who don&#x27;t realize the game has changed. Intel, to be fair, does have the best autovectorizer--but designing vector code from scratch in a purpose-built vector language is still going to produce better results, as shown when ispc beat the vectorizer.<p>But Nvidia can also get drunk on its kool-aid, just as Intel has been. Nvidia&#x27;s marketing would have you believe that switching to GPUs magically makes you gain performance, but if your code isn&#x27;t really amenable to a vector programming style, then GPUs aren&#x27;t going to speed your code up, and the shift from CPU-based supercomputers to GPU-based supercomputers are going to leave you happy. There&#x27;s still room for third-way architectures that is anyone&#x27;s game.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its own silicon at scale</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/nvidia-ceo-google-is-the-only-customer-with-silicon-at-scale.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>varelse</author><text>Sure, but the really lucky break IMO was a decade of INTC repeatedly punching itself in the face w&#x2F;r to manycore computation. I was at Nvidia from 2001 to 2011 (and now back) and I spent 2006-2011 as one of the very first CUDA programmers. It was pretty obvious within a week or two that this technology was going to be huge, and I more or less made my career with it.<p>But instead of stepping up to the plate and igniting a Red Queen&#x27;s Race that would have benefited everyone, INTC first tried to discredit the technology repeatedly, then they built an absolutely dreadful series of decelerators that demonstrated how badly they didn&#x27;t understand manycore. Eventually, they gave up, and now they&#x27;re playing catch-up by buying companies that get within striking distance of NVDA rather than building really cool technology from within.<p>Now if someone threw a large pile of money at AMD again, things could get really interesting IMO. But the piles of stupid money seem biased towards throwing ~$5M per layer at the pets.com of AI companies these days.</text></item><item><author>jonplackett</author><text>Nvidia really lucked out with VR, crypto and AI all happening at once and all just happening to need exactly what they make (surly they can’t have seen all that coming deliberately?)<p>I wonder if consumer VR would have faired better if gamers didn’t have to compete with miners and data centres for chips and had more reasonably priced cards a few years back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>&gt; Now if someone threw a large pile of money at AMD again, things could get really interesting IMO.<p>That somebody might be Nvidia. I believe that Nvidia is still battling and has not yet paid the 1.06 billion Euro fine to AMD imposed on it by the UK courts in 2009. Hearsay claims that it was the similar US fine that basically paid for Zen R&amp;D...</text></comment> |
14,375,728 | 14,375,334 | 1 | 2 | 14,374,933 | train | <story><title>Let's Encrypt is down</title><url>https://letsencrypt.status.io/?170519</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jaas</author><text>Josh from Let&#x27;s Encrypt here. First, my apologies for the trouble this has caused.<p>I want to offer people here an early root cause analysis. I say early because we have not entirely completed our investigation or a post-mortem.<p>OCSP requests that use the GET method use standard base64 encoding, which can contain two slashes one after another. While debugging why a small number of OCSP requests consistently failed our engineers observed a rather odd, but standard, web server behavior. When a server receives a request with multiple slashes one after another they will collapse them into a single slash. This caused our OCSP responder to consider requests that had this unusual encoding quirk invalid and would respond to with a &#x27;400 Bad Request&#x27; response. The fix seemed quite simple: disable the slash collapsing behavior.<p>Unfortunately, stopping this behavior surfaced a more serious issue. The AIA extension that we include in certificates we issue contains a URI for our OCSP server. This URI contains a trailing slash. According to RFC 6960 Appendix 1 an OCSP request using the GET method is constructed as follows &#x27;GET {url}&#x2F;{url-encoding of base-64 encoding of the DER encoding of the OCSPRequest}&#x27; where the url &#x27;may be derived from the value of the authority information access extension in the certificate being checked for revocation&#x27;. A number of user agents take this quite literally and will construct the URL without inspecting the contents of the AIA extension meaning that they ended up with a double slash between the host name and the base64 encoded OCSP request. Before we disabled slash collapsing this was fine as the web server was silently fixing this problem. Once we stopped collapsing slashes we started seeing problems.<p>From our OCSP server&#x27;s perspective a majority of the OCSP requests we were receiving were prepended with a slash and we were unable to decode them so we&#x27;d respond with a &#x27;400 Bad Request&#x27; response and move on. This coincided with a large number of previously cached responses on our CDN expiring, causing us to start getting hit with a large number of requests. Because we were responding with &#x27;400 Bad Request&#x27; responses we were setting explicit no-cache headers which meant we had a near 0% cache (CDN) offload rate and were hit with the full brunt of our OCSP request load at our origin servers. This caused our whole infrastructure to get bogged down.</text></comment> | <story><title>Let's Encrypt is down</title><url>https://letsencrypt.status.io/?170519</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hannob</author><text>So in case this helps anyone, I had people complaining about strange OCSP errors all over the morning coming from my server (using apache httpd).<p>It turns out apache does practically everything to behave as dumb as possible in case of OCSP downtimes.<p>If the OCSP sends an error it will send the error as a stapled OCSP reply (instead of using an old, still valid OCSP reply). You can&#x27;t make it behave sane here, but you can at least tell it to not return the error with SSLStaplingReturnResponderErrors set to off.<p>However if the OCSP isn&#x27;t available at all apache will fake its own OCSP error (sic!) and send it. This is controlled by the option SSLStaplingFakeTryLater, which defaults to on. So if your firefox users get strange OCSP errors, it&#x27;s most likely this. The doc for SSLStaplingFakeTryLater claims that this option is only effective if SSLStaplingFakeTryLater is set to on, however that&#x27;s wrong.<p>tl;dr set both of these options to &quot;off&quot;, then at least apache won&#x27;t staple any garbage in your TLS connection, firefox will try to reach the ocsp on its own and fail and still accept the connection. Yes, that&#x27;s all pretty fucked up.</text></comment> |
10,520,368 | 10,520,332 | 1 | 2 | 10,519,785 | train | <story><title>Modernizing Python's IDLE</title><url>http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/idle.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesdutc</author><text>I&#x27;ve recently seen a lot of demand in Python corporate training.<p>High-quality corporate training hinges on maximizing student engagement. This typically means having students spend time in class writing programs. (In one four day class, I&#x27;ve had students write &gt;20 programs.)<p>IDLE is a surprisingly good tool for this.<p>It&#x27;s cross-platform and in the standard library. It postpones questions about which is the best editor&#x2F;IDE. It avoids the tab&#x2F;spaces problems. In fact, it&#x27;s just about the simplest tool for teaching interactive development (i.e., coding with access to a REPL.) (I should note that this style of programming is distinct from how quants and data scientists work: they write more analyses than programs&#x2F;scripts. When doing corporate training for quants and data scientists, Jupyter Notebook is the only way to go.)<p>By the end of the class, most students are pretty tired of using IDLE. It&#x27;s not a very good editor; only barely better than Notepad. As the article&#x27;s screenshots show, it just looks ugly. It&#x27;s not even close in functionality to an IDE or a `vim`&#x2F;`emacs`+plugins. The REPL is extremely clumsy to use in practice (especially compared to `bpython` or `ipython`.) In fact, I would be shocked if anyone actually uses IDLE as part of their regular job.<p>That said, it&#x27;s a great teaching tool, and I&#x27;m glad to see someone putting effort into improving it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Modernizing Python's IDLE</title><url>http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/idle.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomswartz07</author><text>Gang:<p>Here&#x27;s a relevation that I only, just now, realized.<p>Python is named after the Monty Python gang. This I knew.<p>IDLE is a play off of Eric Idle.
How have I never realized this before?</text></comment> |
17,069,462 | 17,069,185 | 1 | 3 | 17,038,130 | train | <story><title>Gmail Icons are Hard</title><url>https://grumpy.website/post/0Px1O7Ukl</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it over and over again:<p>I speak english, not pictogram. The only platform I&#x27;ve ever seen that got icons right was Windows Phone, because it had a hard-coded &quot;...&quot; button that always did the same thing:<p>1) Show all the labels, and<p>2) Show all the additional text-labeled (non-icon) actions that were hidden by default.<p>So the first thing you did when faced with an unfamiliar set of icons was touch the &quot;...&quot; button which showed you the full list of things you could do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>I do speak pictogram, but only the ones with previously established meanings. Bathroom sign? No problem. Box with a down arrow, no. But I do know Apple&#x27;s &quot;bankers box&quot; icon for archive. Having seen actual boxes like that for archiving old papers, combined with having used Mail for years, it makes sense to me.<p>That first part though, where I know what a bankers box is used for, really helps make the icon connect. I think this is important, but at the same time, it&#x27;s difficult because it&#x27;s not universal. The &quot;floppy disk&quot; save icon has already turned into an arbitrary symbol for younger generations, and I expect the bankers box is well on its way (if not there already). Maybe FBI evidence rooms in TV shows will help it hold out.<p>Floppy disk has an advantage because at least it&#x27;s consistent across a ton of software. If you make up an icon and use it in one interface and then redesign that interface again in 4 years, you have a much harder time getting people to attach meaning to it consistently.<p>It&#x27;s the visual equivalent of a text button with &quot;Mloroab&quot; on it. Yeah I speak English, but I don&#x27;t know what that does.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gmail Icons are Hard</title><url>https://grumpy.website/post/0Px1O7Ukl</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>I&#x27;ve said it over and over again:<p>I speak english, not pictogram. The only platform I&#x27;ve ever seen that got icons right was Windows Phone, because it had a hard-coded &quot;...&quot; button that always did the same thing:<p>1) Show all the labels, and<p>2) Show all the additional text-labeled (non-icon) actions that were hidden by default.<p>So the first thing you did when faced with an unfamiliar set of icons was touch the &quot;...&quot; button which showed you the full list of things you could do.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Mithorium</author><text>I was interested to see what that looked like and found<p>Opening down:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobiletechworld.com&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;Appbarstitch.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mobiletechworld.com&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;...</a><p>Opening up:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.stack.imgur.com&#x2F;gZdjo.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.stack.imgur.com&#x2F;gZdjo.png</a><p>I like it</text></comment> |
15,119,122 | 15,119,253 | 1 | 2 | 15,117,865 | train | <story><title>KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka</title><url>https://www.confluent.io/blog/ksql-open-source-streaming-sql-for-apache-kafka/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daddykotex</author><text>I&#x27;ve had the question for a while so I&#x27;ll ask it here, maybe someone can help me.<p>Suppose you modeled your domain with events and your stack is build on top of it. As stuff happens in your application, events are generated and appended to the stream. The stream is consumed by any number of consumers and awesome stuff is produced with it. The stream is persisted and you have all events starting from day 1.<p>Over time, things have changed and you have evolved your events to include some fields and deprecate others. You could do this without any downtime whatsoever by changing your events in a way that is backward compatible way.<p>What is the good approach to what I&#x27;d call a `replay`?<p>When you want to replay all events, the version of your apps that will consume the events may not know about the fields that were in the event for day one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stingraycharles</author><text>As always in these types of the scenarios, the answer is: it depends. It depends on the amount of data you have. It depends upon how big the diversion from the original schema is. Etcetera.<p>My personal philosophy is to always leave event data at rest alone: data is immutable, you don&#x27;t convert it, and you treat it like a historical artifact. You version each event, but never convert it into a new version in the actual event store. Any version upgrades that should be applied are done when the event is read; this requires automated procedures to convery any event version N to another version N + 1, but having these kind of procedures in place is good practice anyway. Some might argue that doing this every time an event is read is a waste of CPU cycles, but in my experience this far outweights possible downsides of losing the actual event stored at that time in the past, and this type of data is accessed far less frequently than new event data.</text></comment> | <story><title>KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka</title><url>https://www.confluent.io/blog/ksql-open-source-streaming-sql-for-apache-kafka/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daddykotex</author><text>I&#x27;ve had the question for a while so I&#x27;ll ask it here, maybe someone can help me.<p>Suppose you modeled your domain with events and your stack is build on top of it. As stuff happens in your application, events are generated and appended to the stream. The stream is consumed by any number of consumers and awesome stuff is produced with it. The stream is persisted and you have all events starting from day 1.<p>Over time, things have changed and you have evolved your events to include some fields and deprecate others. You could do this without any downtime whatsoever by changing your events in a way that is backward compatible way.<p>What is the good approach to what I&#x27;d call a `replay`?<p>When you want to replay all events, the version of your apps that will consume the events may not know about the fields that were in the event for day one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dm3</author><text>Here&#x27;s a pretty good, even if a bit too verbose, explanation of various issues and solutions related to event versioning: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leanpub.com&#x2F;esversioning&#x2F;read" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leanpub.com&#x2F;esversioning&#x2F;read</a>.<p>The text is written by Greg Young - the lead on the EventStore [1] project.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geteventstore.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geteventstore.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
40,539,930 | 40,539,821 | 1 | 3 | 40,539,031 | train | <story><title>De-googling, so far</title><url>https://blog.nradk.com/posts/degoogling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guyzero</author><text>I find it crazy that someone will say &quot;I still consume it more than any other type of video media&quot; but somehow just paying for it isn&#x27;t an option. You can pay to make YT ads go away. And the payments go to the video creators (eventually).</text></item><item><author>least</author><text>The only thing irreplaceable for me is Youtube. Even if it&#x27;s gotten worse as a platform over time, I still consume it more than any other type of video media and there are no good alternatives for much of the content that I enjoy watching.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lc5G</author><text>I would pay for youtube if they provided an official API to download videos and stream videos in a client of my choice.<p>I prefer to watch youtube with a custom player (mpv+yt-dlp on desktop, newpipe on android). I do not want to watch youtube on the youtube website or official youtube android app. The custom clients I am using are unofficial. They reverse engineer youtube to make it work. They often break when youtube changes something.</text></comment> | <story><title>De-googling, so far</title><url>https://blog.nradk.com/posts/degoogling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guyzero</author><text>I find it crazy that someone will say &quot;I still consume it more than any other type of video media&quot; but somehow just paying for it isn&#x27;t an option. You can pay to make YT ads go away. And the payments go to the video creators (eventually).</text></item><item><author>least</author><text>The only thing irreplaceable for me is Youtube. Even if it&#x27;s gotten worse as a platform over time, I still consume it more than any other type of video media and there are no good alternatives for much of the content that I enjoy watching.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomrod</author><text>Flex the steelmaning and incentivize me to buy YouTube Premium when adblocking gives me the same functionality and I own the process to block.<p>I&#x27;m happy to watch an occasional ad. Maybe 2 minutes for every day, curated and high quality advertisements relevant to everyone. No, I will not pay with my data. No, I will not accept interruption in flow, within or between videos.<p>Interrupting during a video means adblocking is justified.<p>Adding adverts to nonmonetized channels means adblocking is justified.<p>It&#x27;s my time. Google isn&#x27;t paying for the use of my eyeballs, and I actively don&#x27;t purchase things I see advertised via YouTube. I&#x27;m not alone in this; most people don&#x27;t buy for digital ads. They already nefariously steal my data at every opportunity.</text></comment> |
11,891,330 | 11,890,960 | 1 | 2 | 11,889,737 | train | <story><title>Implementing your own recommender systems in Python</title><url>http://online.cambridgecoding.com/notebooks/eWReNYcAfB/implementing-your-own-recommender-systems-in-python-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jack_pp</author><text>How cool would it be to have a recommendation system for music that follows <i>mood</i>? That could be trained on actual music not by me saying &quot;I listen to songs x,y,z when sad, a1,b1,c2 when it&#x27;s sunny and i&#x27;m feeling good etc&quot;. If this will ever exist it would probably increase my hedonic index 10 fold</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>halflings</author><text>There&#x27;s certainly a lot of research trying to incorporate things like this into recommendations, but it never really made it to mature products (apart from some experiments on last.fm, 8tracks, etc.)<p>Spotify tries to accommodate this by offering curated playlists based on moods, but knowing a user&#x27;s mood to make that type of recommendations is hard. (it&#x27;s a bit intrusive for a music streaming service to ask you how you feel every time you start it up)</text></comment> | <story><title>Implementing your own recommender systems in Python</title><url>http://online.cambridgecoding.com/notebooks/eWReNYcAfB/implementing-your-own-recommender-systems-in-python-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jack_pp</author><text>How cool would it be to have a recommendation system for music that follows <i>mood</i>? That could be trained on actual music not by me saying &quot;I listen to songs x,y,z when sad, a1,b1,c2 when it&#x27;s sunny and i&#x27;m feeling good etc&quot;. If this will ever exist it would probably increase my hedonic index 10 fold</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xapata</author><text>Songza, acquired by and merged into Google Music, is trying to do that. I&#x27;ve recently converted from Spotify.</text></comment> |
33,788,104 | 33,787,877 | 1 | 2 | 33,787,218 | train | <story><title>Tailwind is a leaky abstraction</title><url>https://jakelazaroff.com/words/tailwind-is-a-leaky-abstraction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamlett</author><text>&gt; But that&#x27;s kind of the point. Tailwind is a layer on top of CSS, but it doesn&#x27;t actually hide any complexity in the layer below. You still need to know CSS.<p>This completely misses the point of Tailwind. The point is <i>not</i> to hide the complexity of CSS, but to provide access from the markup to enough of capabilities of CSS that you don&#x27;t have to edit your stylesheets 95% of the time, when you alter the styling of a document.<p>When Tailwind does fall short because it doesn&#x27;t provide the exact CSS feature that is needed to solve the problem, it still provides a template for how to solve the problem: Using one-rule utility classes, that are named for what they do, not for how they are meant to be used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viddi</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m going out of a limb here, but wasn&#x27;t the whole point of CSS to not have to touch the markup when changing the styling? Not trying to talk Tailwind down, I have just missed a lot of the evolution of web design in the past 15 or so years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tailwind is a leaky abstraction</title><url>https://jakelazaroff.com/words/tailwind-is-a-leaky-abstraction/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adamlett</author><text>&gt; But that&#x27;s kind of the point. Tailwind is a layer on top of CSS, but it doesn&#x27;t actually hide any complexity in the layer below. You still need to know CSS.<p>This completely misses the point of Tailwind. The point is <i>not</i> to hide the complexity of CSS, but to provide access from the markup to enough of capabilities of CSS that you don&#x27;t have to edit your stylesheets 95% of the time, when you alter the styling of a document.<p>When Tailwind does fall short because it doesn&#x27;t provide the exact CSS feature that is needed to solve the problem, it still provides a template for how to solve the problem: Using one-rule utility classes, that are named for what they do, not for how they are meant to be used.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_other</author><text>&gt; The point is not to hide the complexity of CSS, but to provide access from the markup to enough of capabilities of CSS that you don&#x27;t have to edit your stylesheets 95% of the time, when you alter the styling of a document.<p>This makes Tailwind seem like a lot of machinery (in the sense of bundle size, running code, and pseudo-language) just to avoid opening a file at dev time.<p>Layouts are often &quot;collaborations&quot; - the effect of multiple items interacting. You&#x27;d still need to open multiple files to understand what was going on. Or read the DOM in the browser. When I read component code, I almost always prefer it when the style _isn&#x27;t_ in the same file as the JS. It takes up space on the screen and gets in the way of reading about the behaviours.<p>I don&#x27;t get the propertied benefits. Granted, I&#x27;ve still not used it.</text></comment> |
27,128,463 | 27,127,490 | 1 | 3 | 27,125,728 | train | <story><title>Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19</title><url>https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thwarted</author><text>This is getting stupid, if it wasn&#x27;t already.<p>Requiring vaccination is &quot;curtailing liberties&quot;.<p>Restricting movement due not being vaccinated is &quot;curtailing liberties&quot;.<p>No shit. One can either be part of society or not. Society has minimum requirements if one wants to participate. One is free—exercise their liberty—to live as a hermit if they don&#x27;t want to do either of these things. That&#x27;s the price of admission of getting the benefits, whatever they may be, of interacting with other people. Added bonus, the rest of us don&#x27;t need to hear about hermits complaining about their liberties then too.<p>Building sewage management infrastructure is not curtailing liberties. There is very little noise made about having to give up liberties because of the majority of other public works. Civilization decided that shitting on the sidewalk is not something that should be encouraged or condoned, so here we are with our sewage management infrastructure. We gain the freedom of <i>not</i> having to dig a hole and maintain an outhouse.<p>No one is giving up any &quot;liberties&quot; by getting vaccinated, but it&#x27;s more likely they are acquiring liberties by getting vaccinated. At the very least it&#x27;s the liberty of reducing the risk of dying.<p>This is all a &quot;I don&#x27;t want to do what you said I should do purely because you said it&quot;. Fine. The rest of us are at liberty to exclude or chastise these people.</text></item><item><author>radu_floricica</author><text>I agree with your points, but I&#x27;d really really like to avoid giving the impression of... glee? &quot;Look at those unwashed unvaccinated Trump supporters, so good they&#x27;ll be forced to do things our ways now!&quot;. I&#x27;m not saying you&#x27;re doing it, I&#x27;m just piggybacking on your comment.<p>I&#x27;m pretty much a high-modernist when it comes to vaccines - I think that having governments build sewage and create vaccines go into the same category of &quot;damn useful for civilization&quot;. But it does involve curtailing liberties, and I just can&#x27;t put it in a &quot;fell good&quot; category.</text></item><item><author>Cederfjard</author><text>&gt; Thus limiting those that are not vaccinated and making it difficult to move freely for them.<p>&gt; ... that effectively will force many to be vaccinated.<p>Yup, that’s the point.<p>No man is an island. You already can’t walk around doing literally whatever you want just because it’s your body you’re doing it with. You depend on other people, and other people depend on you (or at least can’t avoid intermingling with you, especially if you decide to travel internationally). Those who don’t get vaccinated slow down our recovery from the pandemic, putting other people’s health and lives at risk. Society has to make these trade-offs, and this one seems very reasonable to me.</text></item><item><author>sharken</author><text>Thus limiting those that are not vaccinated and making it difficult to move freely for them.<p>The travel pass is a horrible idea, that effectively will force many to be vaccinated.<p>That should not be the european way.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>For those in the EU, the upcoming travel pass will cover three categories of people: vaccinated, PCR-tested negative, and recovered (i.e. positive antibody test of immunity), <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schengenvisainfo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-your-questions-on-eus-covid-19-vaccine-certificate-answered&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schengenvisainfo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-your-questions-on-...</a><p><i>&gt; For travellers who have recovered from the virus: date of the positive test result, an issuer of the certificate, date of issuance, validity date</i><p>The bureaucratic stumbling block will be agreement on antibody and T-cell testing definitions across country borders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radu_floricica</author><text>Except putting &quot;curtailing liberties&quot; into scare quotes, what are you saying, exactly?<p>This is exactly the kind of tone and comment I was speaking against. I am _pro_ vaccinations, I am _pro_ making them soft-mandatory, I was even pro other restrictions back before vaccines. All I said, in a rather moderate tone, is that I disagree with being happy about the downsides. Somehow in the kind of comments I&#x27;m speaking against, yours included, I don&#x27;t see happiness that we&#x27;re getting vaccinated per se. I don&#x27;t see &quot;yey, poeple won&#x27;t be dying any more&quot;. I see a lot of &quot;chastise these people&quot;.<p>I also see quite a lot of scare quotes and misrepresentation. I didn&#x27;t say sewage was a restriction - I gave it as positive example. I didn&#x27;t say (WHO would even say that?) that getting a vaccine is giving up liberties. That&#x27;s stupid, really, it doesn&#x27;t even make sense. I will say that not being able to do stuff without being vaccinated is a restriction. A worthy one, yes, and one I totally agree with, but by god, how can you even try to spin ... I&#x27;m not even sure what you&#x27;re trying to spin, because the more I read your comment the more I realize it&#x27;s just appeal to emotion and void of content.<p>Are you free to rant against categories of people? Yes. I just said it&#x27;s not a nice thing to do, is all.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19</title><url>https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thwarted</author><text>This is getting stupid, if it wasn&#x27;t already.<p>Requiring vaccination is &quot;curtailing liberties&quot;.<p>Restricting movement due not being vaccinated is &quot;curtailing liberties&quot;.<p>No shit. One can either be part of society or not. Society has minimum requirements if one wants to participate. One is free—exercise their liberty—to live as a hermit if they don&#x27;t want to do either of these things. That&#x27;s the price of admission of getting the benefits, whatever they may be, of interacting with other people. Added bonus, the rest of us don&#x27;t need to hear about hermits complaining about their liberties then too.<p>Building sewage management infrastructure is not curtailing liberties. There is very little noise made about having to give up liberties because of the majority of other public works. Civilization decided that shitting on the sidewalk is not something that should be encouraged or condoned, so here we are with our sewage management infrastructure. We gain the freedom of <i>not</i> having to dig a hole and maintain an outhouse.<p>No one is giving up any &quot;liberties&quot; by getting vaccinated, but it&#x27;s more likely they are acquiring liberties by getting vaccinated. At the very least it&#x27;s the liberty of reducing the risk of dying.<p>This is all a &quot;I don&#x27;t want to do what you said I should do purely because you said it&quot;. Fine. The rest of us are at liberty to exclude or chastise these people.</text></item><item><author>radu_floricica</author><text>I agree with your points, but I&#x27;d really really like to avoid giving the impression of... glee? &quot;Look at those unwashed unvaccinated Trump supporters, so good they&#x27;ll be forced to do things our ways now!&quot;. I&#x27;m not saying you&#x27;re doing it, I&#x27;m just piggybacking on your comment.<p>I&#x27;m pretty much a high-modernist when it comes to vaccines - I think that having governments build sewage and create vaccines go into the same category of &quot;damn useful for civilization&quot;. But it does involve curtailing liberties, and I just can&#x27;t put it in a &quot;fell good&quot; category.</text></item><item><author>Cederfjard</author><text>&gt; Thus limiting those that are not vaccinated and making it difficult to move freely for them.<p>&gt; ... that effectively will force many to be vaccinated.<p>Yup, that’s the point.<p>No man is an island. You already can’t walk around doing literally whatever you want just because it’s your body you’re doing it with. You depend on other people, and other people depend on you (or at least can’t avoid intermingling with you, especially if you decide to travel internationally). Those who don’t get vaccinated slow down our recovery from the pandemic, putting other people’s health and lives at risk. Society has to make these trade-offs, and this one seems very reasonable to me.</text></item><item><author>sharken</author><text>Thus limiting those that are not vaccinated and making it difficult to move freely for them.<p>The travel pass is a horrible idea, that effectively will force many to be vaccinated.<p>That should not be the european way.</text></item><item><author>walterbell</author><text>For those in the EU, the upcoming travel pass will cover three categories of people: vaccinated, PCR-tested negative, and recovered (i.e. positive antibody test of immunity), <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schengenvisainfo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-your-questions-on-eus-covid-19-vaccine-certificate-answered&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schengenvisainfo.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;all-your-questions-on-...</a><p><i>&gt; For travellers who have recovered from the virus: date of the positive test result, an issuer of the certificate, date of issuance, validity date</i><p>The bureaucratic stumbling block will be agreement on antibody and T-cell testing definitions across country borders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kofddfjdfdfdff</author><text>&quot;One can either be part of society or not. Society has minimum requirements if one wants to participate&quot;<p>You make it sound as if there is a fixed, god given set of rules for society. That&#x27;s not the case. Societies rules are constantly being negotiated by society.<p>So your argument is not an argument at all. It boils down to &quot;you have to follow the rules because you have to follow the rules&quot;.</text></comment> |
4,677,510 | 4,677,307 | 1 | 2 | 4,676,826 | train | <story><title>Ubuntu ported to the Nexus 7</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMTA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>This is my problem with Ubuntu and Unity, and why I much prefer Linux Mint as a "Windows replacement" OS. They say they made that side bar to "work well with touchscreen devices, too", but as we can see Unity on a touchscreen devices offers a pretty poor experience, and the sidebar is just about the only thing that is meant for touchscreens in Ubuntu. The global menu and everything else is clearly meant for a PC and a mouse.<p>So why annoy the PC users with the sidebar, when it's not even that good of a UI for tablets? They're much better off designing a tablet-first UI for tablets, if they want to get into that, and stick with designing a well optimized PC UI for PC's.<p>I've never been a believer of one UI for all form factors and sizes, because you usually end up with the UI being optimized just for one form factor and size, and mediocre or downright terrible for others. You need to optimize the UI for its own form factor and size. It's the only way to make it work well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggy2011</author><text>Unity is a long way from perfect on tablet or PC. Having said that the sidebar has grown on me. Since almost every monitor out there is 16:9; vertical space is precious and another 50 pixels gives me another 2-3 lines of code on the screen.<p>The best way to use the sidebar is to put your most commonly used program at the top and then launch them with Logo+&#60;Number&#62;.<p>If you spend some time setting up your shortcut keys you can actually use much of your system mouse free.<p>So I'm not really sure that it is targeted towards tablets. It could however be adapted to be tablet friendly a lot more easily than the MS Windows interface or older Window managers could be.<p>So rather than having this jarring difference between Metro and Desktop like you do in Windows 8 they could have a much more subtle transition of the same interface depending on whether a mouse/keyboard was plugged in or not.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ubuntu ported to the Nexus 7</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxMTA</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>This is my problem with Ubuntu and Unity, and why I much prefer Linux Mint as a "Windows replacement" OS. They say they made that side bar to "work well with touchscreen devices, too", but as we can see Unity on a touchscreen devices offers a pretty poor experience, and the sidebar is just about the only thing that is meant for touchscreens in Ubuntu. The global menu and everything else is clearly meant for a PC and a mouse.<p>So why annoy the PC users with the sidebar, when it's not even that good of a UI for tablets? They're much better off designing a tablet-first UI for tablets, if they want to get into that, and stick with designing a well optimized PC UI for PC's.<p>I've never been a believer of one UI for all form factors and sizes, because you usually end up with the UI being optimized just for one form factor and size, and mediocre or downright terrible for others. You need to optimize the UI for its own form factor and size. It's the only way to make it work well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itry</author><text>I was an Ubuntu user for years. When tablets became famous, I was thinking: Wow, if I only could have Ubuntu on these devices. Then they lost me because of Unity. I tried several days, but it was simply not geared toward my workflow. Thank God I discovered Mint. Mint is awesome.<p>Then they introduced this new find-something-thing that sends everything you type to their servers. A privacy nightmare. And a usability nightmare. Thats just the wrong philosophy. So I also dont want them on my tablets.<p>Its surprising, how quick things can change. I was a huge Ubuntu supporter from 2005 to 2012. And now I warn people to not use it.</text></comment> |
4,659,695 | 4,659,804 | 1 | 3 | 4,659,305 | train | <story><title>Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to the US</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19962844</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewcooke</author><text>and yet, ironically, if it had been an englishman, anything unpleasant would have been cheered on by the scots (for those who are unaware - casual anti-english 'racism' is absolutely common, accepted, unquestioned).<p>i lived and worked in scotland for a couple of years.</text></item><item><author>Colliwinks</author><text>"Nobody in England"
Or Scotland, where he's from.</text></item><item><author>jeswin</author><text>I have been following this for many years. Nobody in England wanted him to be extradited. Most Americans seemed to be against extradition. The rest of the world didn't want it either.<p>I am surprised this went on for so long.<p>EDIT: My bad. UK, not England!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tyrannosaurs</author><text>That's overstating it a bit.<p>In some cases it's a genuine dislike (and worth noting that it's one way or at least stronger in one direction - the English are largely indifferent to the Scots) but in most cases these days it's more a more casual comedy thing, similar to the way the English dislike the French - they don't really but it's fun to have a frenemy.<p>As with most prejudice it goes largely with education (or lack of). I'd suggest that anyone who had an opinion on McKinnon (or any similar case) would probably be open minded and informed enough not to really be biased.<p>Just a mild defence of my adopted home - I'm English living in Glasgow and have never seen or experienced any genuine anti-English racism.<p>But we'll see just how many Scots want shot of the English in a couple of years when we get the independence vote. Current polls suggest that they're not so anti-English that they want to go their own way...</text></comment> | <story><title>Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to the US</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19962844</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewcooke</author><text>and yet, ironically, if it had been an englishman, anything unpleasant would have been cheered on by the scots (for those who are unaware - casual anti-english 'racism' is absolutely common, accepted, unquestioned).<p>i lived and worked in scotland for a couple of years.</text></item><item><author>Colliwinks</author><text>"Nobody in England"
Or Scotland, where he's from.</text></item><item><author>jeswin</author><text>I have been following this for many years. Nobody in England wanted him to be extradited. Most Americans seemed to be against extradition. The rest of the world didn't want it either.<p>I am surprised this went on for so long.<p>EDIT: My bad. UK, not England!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>Are you saying that no <i>true</i> Scotsman likes the English?</text></comment> |
17,025,403 | 17,023,509 | 1 | 2 | 17,023,102 | train | <story><title>Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/05/08/extended-eol-in-notepad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaeckroth</author><text>Almost feels like an April Fool&#x27;s joke. For 30 years Notepad had this bug and I&#x27;ve always wondered why they never fixed it. It was just &quot;one of those things&quot; like the unusual arguments to Unix find or tar commands. I find it very surprising that someone finally bothered to fix it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KSS42</author><text>I see it as a natural result of the &quot;Windows Subsystem for Linux&quot; effort. Also Azure Sphere uses Linux.<p>I expect Windows to become more Linux friendly.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad</title><url>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/05/08/extended-eol-in-notepad/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshuaeckroth</author><text>Almost feels like an April Fool&#x27;s joke. For 30 years Notepad had this bug and I&#x27;ve always wondered why they never fixed it. It was just &quot;one of those things&quot; like the unusual arguments to Unix find or tar commands. I find it very surprising that someone finally bothered to fix it!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yiyus</author><text>I would not consider it a bug. It was working as intended. This is a new feature.</text></comment> |
13,046,871 | 13,046,809 | 1 | 2 | 13,045,910 | train | <story><title>Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/us-rental-market-analysis-2016-11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denim_chicken</author><text>Yet $1600 is still absurdly high for such a simple living space.</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>A friend used to rent out a spare room in SF on a regular basis. Two years ago, he could get $1850 for a single room with it&#x27;s own bath room, furnished. We&#x27;re talking 6-10 replies from a Craiglist post within 24 hours. Stopped renting it out about a year ago.<p>He just posted it again. Zero takers at $1850. Finally got someone for $1600 (-13% decrease in rent) after a month. A dramatic change.<p>The rental market in SF is definitely turning towards the buyer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>It is. Keep in mind this was more shorter term (3-4 months) rental of a fully furnished room.<p>If it was a long-term lease of just an empty room it would be closer to $1300.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com/us-rental-market-analysis-2016-11</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denim_chicken</author><text>Yet $1600 is still absurdly high for such a simple living space.</text></item><item><author>refurb</author><text>A friend used to rent out a spare room in SF on a regular basis. Two years ago, he could get $1850 for a single room with it&#x27;s own bath room, furnished. We&#x27;re talking 6-10 replies from a Craiglist post within 24 hours. Stopped renting it out about a year ago.<p>He just posted it again. Zero takers at $1850. Finally got someone for $1600 (-13% decrease in rent) after a month. A dramatic change.<p>The rental market in SF is definitely turning towards the buyer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gcr</author><text>At least it&#x27;s approaching Manhattan prices.<p>Let&#x27;s hope it starts approaching Newport prices soon :-)</text></comment> |
30,028,841 | 30,028,438 | 1 | 2 | 30,024,890 | train | <story><title>A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/a-3bn-bet-on-finding-the-fountain-of-youth/21807244</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fairity</author><text>I wish our brightest minds were all working in areas like this instead of social apps and advertising. Is there even any doubt that with a better understanding of biology we could meaningfully prolong the human lifespan? What are we doing working on apps lol.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdavis6890</author><text>The problem is that anything related to the human body is super-heavily regulated, which creates a ton of friction and risk to doing anything innovative.<p>I think the folks that would get very excited about working on the problem of aging would not be excited about the amount of regulatory bureaucracy (trying to find a non-judgmental word to use there) that necessarily goes along with it.<p>In fact I think that the reason that so much innovation and wealth creation is concentrated in things which such dubious social benefit is exactly that it isn&#x27;t regulated, because it doesn&#x27;t matter. If it matters and is important, it becomes regulated, which slows and discourages innovation and the people who want to innovate.</text></comment> | <story><title>A $3B bet on finding the fountain of youth</title><url>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/a-3bn-bet-on-finding-the-fountain-of-youth/21807244</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fairity</author><text>I wish our brightest minds were all working in areas like this instead of social apps and advertising. Is there even any doubt that with a better understanding of biology we could meaningfully prolong the human lifespan? What are we doing working on apps lol.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grishka</author><text>So how can I, as a software developer, meaningfully contribute to this area? I would very much prefer to live forever.</text></comment> |
21,760,561 | 21,760,159 | 1 | 2 | 21,760,027 | train | <story><title>Jetstar pilots forgot to lower the landing gear</title><url>https://www.airlineratings.com/news/jetstar-pilots-forgot-lower-landing-gear/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>starpilot</author><text>Other times this has happened:<p>Qantas <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.jetphotos.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;general-discussion-forums&#x2F;aviation-safety-discussion-forum&#x2F;50064-qantas-pilots-forget-to-lower-landing-gear" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.jetphotos.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;general-discussion-forums...</a><p>El Al <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;el-al-pilots-nearly-try-landing-with-wheels-up&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.timesofisrael.com&#x2F;el-al-pilots-nearly-try-landin...</a><p>IAF <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indianexpress.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;india&#x2F;chandigarh&#x2F;when-an-an-32-did-a-belly-landing-because-pilots-forgot-to-lower-landing-gear-5780076&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;indianexpress.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;india&#x2F;chandigarh&#x2F;when-an-a...</a><p>Jetstar, 2012 (!) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitaljournal.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;323319" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.digitaljournal.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;323319</a><p>Once this 737 MAX stuff dies down, we&#x27;ll probably stop seeing every pilot fart or hiccup reaching the front page. Pilots make mistakes, they always have and always will, we just haven&#x27;t seen them reported as much. Commercial aircraft are still as safe as they ever were.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jetstar pilots forgot to lower the landing gear</title><url>https://www.airlineratings.com/news/jetstar-pilots-forgot-lower-landing-gear/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ademarre</author><text>This story could make a good anecdote to remember when considering human factors, user interface, and checklist design.<p>&gt; <i>Investigators said that because the pilots flew the second circuit at 1500ft, the Electronic Centralised Aircraft Monitor (ECAM) had not reset on the second approach and it did not display a landing memo at 950ft.<p>“The absence of the landing memo should have prompted the flight crew to perform the items of the landing checklist as a ‘read-and-do’ checklist,” it said.</i><p>Like the lock icon in a browser’s address bar, it is not effective to rely on the user to notice the absence of an indicator.</text></comment> |
20,421,933 | 20,421,931 | 1 | 2 | 20,421,490 | train | <story><title>Palantir’s User Manual for Cops</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kx4z8/revealed-this-is-palantirs-top-secret-user-manual-for-cops</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strooper</author><text>&gt; &quot;Palantir software is instrumental to the operations of ICE, which is planning one of the largest-ever targeted immigration enforcement raids this weekend on thousands of undocumented families. Activists argue raids of this scale would be impossible without software like Palantir.&quot;<p>Once and for all, it is the policy makers, not the tech industry, who are responsible for these operations. Tech enables people doing things easily, which can be good or evil. It is people, who should decide, be concern and push the lawmakers towards the right&#x2F;justified path.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metalliqaz</author><text>I used to think the same. I now think that this reasoning is faulty.<p>Cars can be used for good or evil. For the most part we leave it up to the users to do the right thing, however we don&#x27;t just leave it up to the users. If a modern car manufacturer were to make a vehicle with no safety features whatsoever, we would rightly call them out as a bad actor. Seat belts, air bags, bumpers, crumple zones, defoggers, windshield wipers, and on and on. We have laws that require a basic level of safety for these potentially dangerous machines.<p>There is no reason we shouldn&#x27;t expect tech and software firms to include basic &quot;safety&quot; considerations of their own.<p>Remember all those companies that helped implement censorship and spying systems for authoritarian regimes? Still thing it should up to &quot;the lawmakers&quot;?</text></comment> | <story><title>Palantir’s User Manual for Cops</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kx4z8/revealed-this-is-palantirs-top-secret-user-manual-for-cops</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strooper</author><text>&gt; &quot;Palantir software is instrumental to the operations of ICE, which is planning one of the largest-ever targeted immigration enforcement raids this weekend on thousands of undocumented families. Activists argue raids of this scale would be impossible without software like Palantir.&quot;<p>Once and for all, it is the policy makers, not the tech industry, who are responsible for these operations. Tech enables people doing things easily, which can be good or evil. It is people, who should decide, be concern and push the lawmakers towards the right&#x2F;justified path.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_iyig</author><text>I&#x27;m an American citizen who is happy to see the law enforced. I don&#x27;t live in Atherton or Palo Alto. There were two Central American gang-related shootings near my family&#x27;s home last week; there were two MS-13 murders in the broader area earlier this year. I grew up here, and it didn&#x27;t used to be like this. I want to see those who come here illegally, or who have been denied refugee status as the result of due process, deported.<p>I don&#x27;t care what race, nationality, or religion they are. I also want to see families and young kids kept together, and treated humanely. But at the end of the day, we [the U.S.] are a nation of laws, or we are not. I&#x27;m proud of Palantir&#x27;s efforts to help enforce the (democratically-enacted, internationally-conventional) law of the land.</text></comment> |
14,787,721 | 14,785,785 | 1 | 2 | 14,785,099 | train | <story><title>“You’re Not the Customer, You’re the Product”</title><url>http://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vinceguidry</author><text>What I really hate is when an entire industry segment colludes to force me to change a preferred aspect of my lifestyle to something that&#x27;s more lucrative for them.<p>An example of this is the subscription economy article posted a few days ago. Companies like Adobe decide to not sell licenses anymore, rather to rent access monthly. Not that I use Adobe, but Feedly dinged me for $69 for their Pro option again this year. Do I really need to pay yearly for a damned RSS reader?<p>The other one is music. The music industry doesn&#x27;t want to sell you perpetual licenses for individual tracks or albums anymore. It&#x27;s too hard to manage. Apple managed to force them to do it, and Google got in under that umbrella, but the music industry wants to move directly to subscription services rather than build out a customer-friendly rights management regime for individual tracks. I hate subscription music services with a bitter passion and absolutely refuse to use them.<p>If the industry manages to wipe out individual track sales, I will pirate music. I would hate to go back to those days, but it&#x27;s preferable to not having control over my music. It&#x27;s already absurdly, ridiculously hard to move music from one iPhone to another. To be told, &#x27;no, you can&#x27;t have this track you fell in love with because it wasn&#x27;t released yet on your stupid service&#x27;, is an even greater snub.<p>The music industry will have to pry my music library out of my cold dead fingers.</text></comment> | <story><title>“You’re Not the Customer, You’re the Product”</title><url>http://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanwilson</author><text>I find this quote is always used in a really over the top way. I don&#x27;t find free services that show me ads I can easily ignore scary. People talk about ads and recommendation systems like they&#x27;re going to brainwash you into buying things you never actually wanted as if you have zero critical thinking skills.</text></comment> |
32,303,176 | 32,302,805 | 1 | 2 | 32,302,120 | train | <story><title>Karmem: A fast binary serialization format faster than Google Flatbuffers</title><url>https://github.com/inkeliz/karmem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>Looking at the source code, this seems to work by generating dedicated parser code for a yiven definition which will copy values in a certain order through a flat copy.<p>I&#x27;m seeing little specifications or conversions regarding endianness so I&#x27;m guessing that&#x27;s out of scope for this project. It seems almost completely backwards incompatible and I&#x27;m not too sure about their security validations. I don&#x27;t think this and Flatbuffers are competing in the same space, really.<p>I definitely believe this is fast, it&#x27;s as close to a memcpy to a network packet as you can get. I&#x27;d be wary to use this on external data in any native language without any kind of fuzzing first.<p>That said, I do like the way the generators work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Karmem: A fast binary serialization format faster than Google Flatbuffers</title><url>https://github.com/inkeliz/karmem</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>judofyr</author><text>&gt; Karmem has proven to be ten times faster than Google Flatbuffers<p>I’d recommend not using the word “proven” here. In computer science this word typically refers to a mathematical proof. In this case it seems that you ran a regular benchmark for some schemas.<p>I’d also like to see more what the benchmark actually <i>does</i>. A typical trade-off of these formats is how much you do up-front vs on-demand. E.g. accessing fields after multiple variable-length field: Here it’s possible during “decoding” to make sure all fields can be accessed in O(1), or you can do nothing and then every time you access a field you compute the field location. Whether the benchmark accesses the field once or ten times will make a huge difference.<p>In general: If you’re just telling me that it’s 10 times faster without explaining <i>why</i> I will be skeptical.</text></comment> |
13,979,202 | 13,974,694 | 1 | 3 | 13,966,415 | train | <story><title>Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/germany-tries-to-catch-up-with-startup-world-a-1140130.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cntlzw</author><text>My time to shine. Where shall I start? First of all there is mentality. In Germany people kinda expect you to get a job and push through with it until you go to pension. Changing jobs a lot is often seen as a personal failure. That poor accountant that hates his job and gets paid because he just sits in the same stinky office day by day gets more honoured than anyone trying to change.<p>People here get judged if they start a business and fail. If you are successful then fine. If not, people don&#x27;t give you credit. Personally I rate the person higher that tries several times, falls, gets up and starts over. Unfortunately that is not the case.<p>Nice example if you are from the USA. Over there it is more socially accepted to get married and divorced often than not at all. In Germany it is quite the opposite. You can&#x27;t even make a failure in private how could you do that in business?<p>Many business here have roots and are decades old. That whole &quot;Mittelschicht&quot; is build on family owned business. That is actually a good thing and probably one of the reasons the economy in Germany is so efficient, but it doesn&#x27;t give anyone the incentive to start something.<p>And don&#x27;t forget Germany is all about bureaucracy. Lots of paperwork and money just to get a GmbH. And a GmbH is what you need to gain trust from other companies.<p>Sorry, there is so much to it. Hopefully there will be some change in attitude. It is already happening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheAdamAndChe</author><text>I personally hope there won&#x27;t be a change in attitude. The work culture in America is toxic for the workers, requiring job hopping, long hours, and relatively little gain. There&#x27;s very little long-term stability, and no assurance that their jobs won&#x27;t eventually be outsourced. Why would Germans want to adopt that culture? Why should they praise failure? Why should they change bureaucracy to favor the capital owners over the workers?</text></comment> | <story><title>Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/germany-tries-to-catch-up-with-startup-world-a-1140130.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cntlzw</author><text>My time to shine. Where shall I start? First of all there is mentality. In Germany people kinda expect you to get a job and push through with it until you go to pension. Changing jobs a lot is often seen as a personal failure. That poor accountant that hates his job and gets paid because he just sits in the same stinky office day by day gets more honoured than anyone trying to change.<p>People here get judged if they start a business and fail. If you are successful then fine. If not, people don&#x27;t give you credit. Personally I rate the person higher that tries several times, falls, gets up and starts over. Unfortunately that is not the case.<p>Nice example if you are from the USA. Over there it is more socially accepted to get married and divorced often than not at all. In Germany it is quite the opposite. You can&#x27;t even make a failure in private how could you do that in business?<p>Many business here have roots and are decades old. That whole &quot;Mittelschicht&quot; is build on family owned business. That is actually a good thing and probably one of the reasons the economy in Germany is so efficient, but it doesn&#x27;t give anyone the incentive to start something.<p>And don&#x27;t forget Germany is all about bureaucracy. Lots of paperwork and money just to get a GmbH. And a GmbH is what you need to gain trust from other companies.<p>Sorry, there is so much to it. Hopefully there will be some change in attitude. It is already happening.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harryf</author><text>The other fun part is getting your office connected to the Internet - Deutsche Telekom will happily take 5 weeks to respond to what should be their most simplest of requests</text></comment> |
40,754,607 | 40,753,870 | 1 | 2 | 40,751,178 | train | <story><title>Show HN: High-frequency trading and market-making backtesting tool with examples</title><url>https://github.com/nkaz001/hftbacktest/tree/master/rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apsears</author><text>Where can I find (programming) tools for slow investing?</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: High-frequency trading and market-making backtesting tool with examples</title><url>https://github.com/nkaz001/hftbacktest/tree/master/rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bormaj</author><text>Are you a professional in the field or is this your side project?<p>The quantitative trading posts on here typically just scratch the surface, but I have to say that I&#x27;m impressed with this one. Thanks for sharing!</text></comment> |
30,404,946 | 30,404,813 | 1 | 2 | 30,403,438 | train | <story><title>Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP</title><url>https://www.mnot.net/blog/2022/02/20/websockets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eldelshell</author><text>My experience with SSE so far (take this as recommendations if you wish)<p>You need to implement a server-side heartbeat feature.<p>You need to handle the close event from EventSource and be able to reconnect.<p>Tabs can be problematic. When you subscribe, you use a URL with a nominal ID to identify the client. For example, on a chat app, you would use &#x2F;api&#x2F;sse&#x2F;userA&#x2F;subscribe<p>Problem is, if userA starts opening tabs, each tab creates a new subscription for userA so you need to randomize each connection (userA-UUID).<p>If you don&#x27;t use a nominal id, the server won&#x27;t know to which subscriber to send the data and you don&#x27;t want to broadcast all your chats.<p>I&#x27;ve used the Broadcast channel API in conjunction with SSE to have only one tab handle the SSE connection, and broadcast incoming SSEs to the other tabs which also reduces the number of connections to the server to one.<p>On the server it&#x27;s also a PITA because not all instances&#x2F;pods have the subscribers list. The way I&#x27;ve found to solve this is with clustering the instances with Hazelcast or Redis or a MQ.<p>But once you figure out all this, SSE works quite well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwtel</author><text>Sounds like a service worker, for which there&#x27;s only one active at a time for all tabs (and can communicate with them) could help with your client side issues.</text></comment> | <story><title>Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP</title><url>https://www.mnot.net/blog/2022/02/20/websockets</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eldelshell</author><text>My experience with SSE so far (take this as recommendations if you wish)<p>You need to implement a server-side heartbeat feature.<p>You need to handle the close event from EventSource and be able to reconnect.<p>Tabs can be problematic. When you subscribe, you use a URL with a nominal ID to identify the client. For example, on a chat app, you would use &#x2F;api&#x2F;sse&#x2F;userA&#x2F;subscribe<p>Problem is, if userA starts opening tabs, each tab creates a new subscription for userA so you need to randomize each connection (userA-UUID).<p>If you don&#x27;t use a nominal id, the server won&#x27;t know to which subscriber to send the data and you don&#x27;t want to broadcast all your chats.<p>I&#x27;ve used the Broadcast channel API in conjunction with SSE to have only one tab handle the SSE connection, and broadcast incoming SSEs to the other tabs which also reduces the number of connections to the server to one.<p>On the server it&#x27;s also a PITA because not all instances&#x2F;pods have the subscribers list. The way I&#x27;ve found to solve this is with clustering the instances with Hazelcast or Redis or a MQ.<p>But once you figure out all this, SSE works quite well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>This chimes a lot with my experience. Although I think SSEs are brilliant if the stack I’m using supports Websockets I would probably default to them even for a simple event stream now.<p>To add to your list of problems, I have had memory leaks with SSE responses stuck open on the server even when the client disconnects. Resorted to killing the response on the server every couple of minutes and relying on the client reconnecting.</text></comment> |
7,890,083 | 7,889,795 | 1 | 2 | 7,889,336 | train | <story><title>Wilson's Algorithm</title><url>http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/11357811</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>There is a whole pile of beautifully illustrated algorithms there:<p><a href="http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bl.ocks.org&#x2F;mbostock</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Wilson's Algorithm</title><url>http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/11357811</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ddellacosta</author><text>When I see mbostock&#x27;s work it reminds me of what I love about computer science and why I keep trying to learn more. Lovely stuff.</text></comment> |
25,840,115 | 25,840,024 | 1 | 2 | 25,831,481 | train | <story><title>Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a17477/why-the-hell-do-they-still-make-car-alarms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thelean12</author><text>The best and only important deterrent is to not have anything to steal, especially in plain view. If everyone did this then theft from parked cars would drop to zero, and break-ins to near zero.<p>Smash and grabbers don&#x27;t care about alarms. They&#x27;ll be gone in a few seconds anyway.</text></item><item><author>anonymousiam</author><text>If the author had a Ring doorbell (and looked at their crime reports), or participated on NextDoor, they would know that theft from parked cars is the number one problem in most neighborhoods. An alarm is still a good deterrent for people who do not park their cars in a garage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmmBacon</author><text>Unfortunately your suggestion is only a half measure and a significant number of break ins are to steal parts off the car itself.<p>Theft of airbags is very common as is theft of catalytic converters.<p>Airbag theft:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wjla.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;the-dc-area-has-become-a-hot-spot-for-airbag-theft-insurance-crime-expert-says" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wjla.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local&#x2F;the-dc-area-has-become-a-hot-spo...</a><p>Catalytic Converter theft impacting Prius owners.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torquenews.com&#x2F;8113&#x2F;toyota-prius-owners-are-asking-have-their-cars-recalled-due-theft-catalytic-converters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.torquenews.com&#x2F;8113&#x2F;toyota-prius-owners-are-aski...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a17477/why-the-hell-do-they-still-make-car-alarms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thelean12</author><text>The best and only important deterrent is to not have anything to steal, especially in plain view. If everyone did this then theft from parked cars would drop to zero, and break-ins to near zero.<p>Smash and grabbers don&#x27;t care about alarms. They&#x27;ll be gone in a few seconds anyway.</text></item><item><author>anonymousiam</author><text>If the author had a Ring doorbell (and looked at their crime reports), or participated on NextDoor, they would know that theft from parked cars is the number one problem in most neighborhoods. An alarm is still a good deterrent for people who do not park their cars in a garage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Areading314</author><text>Right. The alarm makes them only target the easily available junk that is in plain view. With no alarm, the thief could quietly spend 30 minutes &quot;working on&quot; the vehicle so they could clear out your trunk, and maybe even a few parts like the radio&#x2F;GPS</text></comment> |
21,331,889 | 21,331,980 | 1 | 2 | 21,330,859 | train | <story><title>My transition to an Ubuntu workstation</title><url>https://ryannjohnson.com/writing/my-transition-to-an-ubuntu-workstation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MarcScott</author><text>&gt; Even when I was running Windows, I would wipe my computer every few months. I kept a &quot;Backup Image&quot; handy with all my settings already installed. I&#x27;ve spent far too many hours trying to undo damage I&#x27;ve done to my systems by installing random software from the internet onto my workstation; I&#x27;ve come to value the option of resetting my computer to a known, healthy state immensely.<p>I often thought I was the only one. On Windows, macOS and even Ubuntu I was reinstalling my OS at least three or four times a year. I had install scripts and GitHub repos designed to reconfigure my machine after each install. The process always took a full day.<p>Now I&#x27;m on NixOS. I have three .nix text files, .emacs, .bashrc and that&#x27;s about all I need to backup in order to clone my environment on any machine.<p>I&#x27;ve also stopped reinstalling my OS all the time, as I always know my machine&#x27;s state, just by looking at those few files.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jaruzel</author><text>I was puzzled by the article authors statement on this. My main daily machine is Windows 10. It&#x27;s been running the same &#x27;copy&#x27; of Windows 10 since late 2016, and has gone through all the major updates since then, and has had many applications installed and removed on it since then. Office has gone from v2010 thru v2013 to Office 365 (effectively v2019), and I&#x27;m always playing with new software. The machine still runs perfectly fine, with no strange problems, errors or slowdowns.<p>To rebuild it to the state it currently is, would take me several days of installing and configuring, for very little benefit. Imho, there is no reason to reinstall your OS every few months.</text></comment> | <story><title>My transition to an Ubuntu workstation</title><url>https://ryannjohnson.com/writing/my-transition-to-an-ubuntu-workstation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MarcScott</author><text>&gt; Even when I was running Windows, I would wipe my computer every few months. I kept a &quot;Backup Image&quot; handy with all my settings already installed. I&#x27;ve spent far too many hours trying to undo damage I&#x27;ve done to my systems by installing random software from the internet onto my workstation; I&#x27;ve come to value the option of resetting my computer to a known, healthy state immensely.<p>I often thought I was the only one. On Windows, macOS and even Ubuntu I was reinstalling my OS at least three or four times a year. I had install scripts and GitHub repos designed to reconfigure my machine after each install. The process always took a full day.<p>Now I&#x27;m on NixOS. I have three .nix text files, .emacs, .bashrc and that&#x27;s about all I need to backup in order to clone my environment on any machine.<p>I&#x27;ve also stopped reinstalling my OS all the time, as I always know my machine&#x27;s state, just by looking at those few files.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandGorgon</author><text>If you want this and still want the polish of Fedora + Gnome, try SilverBlue - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;silverblue.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;silverblue.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;</a><p>Built on Project Atomic (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectatomic.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectatomic.io&#x2F;</a>) and OSTree (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedoraproject.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Changes&#x2F;WorkstationOstree" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedoraproject.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Changes&#x2F;WorkstationOstree</a>)<p>You can achieve the exact same thing. e.g. here - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussion.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;minimal-or-custom-silverblue-ostree-images&#x2F;1574" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussion.fedoraproject.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;minimal-or-custom-sil...</a></text></comment> |
34,444,376 | 34,444,440 | 1 | 3 | 34,441,697 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes</title><text>I would like to inform the HN community, if your plan to recover your Google account in the event of losing your phone is to use a 2FA backup code, or SMS recovery, to remove the old 2FA setup and set up a new 2FA code, that that may not be possible.<p>My situation:<p>I had 2FA set up with my Google Account through Google Authenticator.<p>I lost my Google Authenticator settings when I broke my phone.<p>I have 2FA backup codes. These successfully log me into my Google Account.<p>In order to disable 2FA, or generate new 2FA backup codes, I need to access the 2FA settings page under the Security tab. When I try to load the Two-factor authentication page, I am forced to re-authenticate with Google.<p>When re-authenticating to access the 2FA page, there is no option to enter a 2FA backup code or SMS verification to pass the 2FA challenge. The only option under &quot;Choose a way to verify&quot; is to enter a 2FA code. Entering a backup code instead of a 2FA code returns an error.<p>What am I supposed to do in this situation?<p>Yes this is a classic &quot;maybe I can get support through public shaming&quot; attempt. Thanks in advance.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>How does that work? Do you have to carry around a Yubikey&#x2F;Dongle everywhere with your phone?</text></item><item><author>loriverkutya</author><text>Instead of SMS, get a pair of yubikey recommended by some other posters, so you are not depending on your mobile provider as they own the number and it is just &quot;rented&quot; to you.</text></item><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>This is why I use SMS as my second factor for my Google account. Much harder to lose. It could be vulnerable to sim swapping attacks, but I consider Google locking me out of my own account a more likely threat (and frankly I&#x27;m probably not a high-profile enough target for anyone to bother with that, and in any case they&#x27;d still need my password).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vel0city</author><text>For my phone, I&#x27;m already logged in and never get any future challenges. I needed the Yubikey when I first logged into my phone, but after that the phone has been authenticated. If I unlink my phone to my Google account I&#x27;ll need the Yubikey again, but I don&#x27;t normally do that. So normally I don&#x27;t carry a Yubikey with me, like when I go to the store and what not.<p>That said, I do keep a Yubikey with me in my bag when I travel in case my phone breaks and I need to authenticate into a new device. I do take a Yubikey with me going to and from the office as there are other services and platforms which do challenge my Yubikey more often.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes</title><text>I would like to inform the HN community, if your plan to recover your Google account in the event of losing your phone is to use a 2FA backup code, or SMS recovery, to remove the old 2FA setup and set up a new 2FA code, that that may not be possible.<p>My situation:<p>I had 2FA set up with my Google Account through Google Authenticator.<p>I lost my Google Authenticator settings when I broke my phone.<p>I have 2FA backup codes. These successfully log me into my Google Account.<p>In order to disable 2FA, or generate new 2FA backup codes, I need to access the 2FA settings page under the Security tab. When I try to load the Two-factor authentication page, I am forced to re-authenticate with Google.<p>When re-authenticating to access the 2FA page, there is no option to enter a 2FA backup code or SMS verification to pass the 2FA challenge. The only option under &quot;Choose a way to verify&quot; is to enter a 2FA code. Entering a backup code instead of a 2FA code returns an error.<p>What am I supposed to do in this situation?<p>Yes this is a classic &quot;maybe I can get support through public shaming&quot; attempt. Thanks in advance.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>How does that work? Do you have to carry around a Yubikey&#x2F;Dongle everywhere with your phone?</text></item><item><author>loriverkutya</author><text>Instead of SMS, get a pair of yubikey recommended by some other posters, so you are not depending on your mobile provider as they own the number and it is just &quot;rented&quot; to you.</text></item><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>This is why I use SMS as my second factor for my Google account. Much harder to lose. It could be vulnerable to sim swapping attacks, but I consider Google locking me out of my own account a more likely threat (and frankly I&#x27;m probably not a high-profile enough target for anyone to bother with that, and in any case they&#x27;d still need my password).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ok_dad</author><text>I keep one on my keychain in my pocket and one at home in a fireproof box, plus a backup one that I haven&#x27;t even opened next to the backup so if I lose the keychain one I have another ready to go as my &quot;new backup&quot;.</text></comment> |
15,798,791 | 15,799,053 | 1 | 2 | 15,798,424 | train | <story><title>Kotlin 1.2 Released: Sharing Code Between Platforms</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/11/kotlin-1-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EddieRingle</author><text>Multiplatform docs here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kotlinlang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;reference&#x2F;multiplatform.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kotlinlang.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;reference&#x2F;multiplatform.html</a><p>Example from the docs:<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; Common module
package org.jetbrains.foo
expect class Foo(bar: String) {
fun frob()
}
fun main(args: Array&lt;String&gt;) {
Foo(&quot;Hello&quot;).frob()
}
&#x2F;&#x2F; JVM module
package org.jetbrains.foo
actual class Foo actual constructor(val bar: String) {
actual fun frob() {
println(&quot;Frobbing the $bar&quot;)
}
}
</code></pre>
I brought up how I thought the `expect` and `actual` keywords (but primarily the latter) added unneeded verbosity in the Kotlin Slack awhile back and was pretty much shrugged off, despite folks on the Kotlin team admitting that they exist in part to make the IDE&#x27;s job easier, but weren&#x27;t actually necessary.<p>It leaves a sour taste in my mouth, but I suppose it might be because I&#x27;m familiar with projects in C&#x2F;C++ where, if a symbol goes undefined, the compiler&#x2F;linker is smart enough to tell you that without being hand-held.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kotlin 1.2 Released: Sharing Code Between Platforms</title><url>https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/11/kotlin-1-2-released/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jdonaldson</author><text>I really like some of Kotlin&#x27;s decisions, but I prefer Haxe&#x27;s approach to this.<p>For single target code, you can prefix the class module with the platform tag (e.g. &quot;js&quot; or &quot;java&quot;). These module names are reserved within the compiler and any code therein is restricted to their respective targets.<p>Another way is to use conditional compilation markers to indicate specific target-compatible boundaries. E.g.<p><pre><code> #if java
public function print(s : String) java.lang.System.out.println(v);
#end
</code></pre>
That method only exists on the java target, and the compiler will complain otherwise.<p>Conditional compilation also allows for more fine-grained support of multiple targets:<p><pre><code> #if java
public function print(s : String) java.lang.System.out.println(v);
#elseif js
public function print(s : String) console.log(v); &#x2F;&#x2F; as a simple example
#end
</code></pre>
This makes a cleaner organizational distinction between <i>extern code</i> that must remain target specific, and true <i>cross platform</i> code that can be called on any of the supported targets. Editors can pick up on this very easily and provide early warnings as you are typing, and doc generators can also inspect these directives and show api availability between targets in the rendered docs.<p>(self-disclosure: Haxe compiler contributor)</text></comment> |
20,716,819 | 20,716,577 | 1 | 2 | 20,716,071 | train | <story><title>Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its own silicon at scale</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/nvidia-ceo-google-is-the-only-customer-with-silicon-at-scale.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonplackett</author><text>Nvidia really lucked out with VR, crypto and AI all happening at once and all just happening to need exactly what they make (surly they can’t have seen all that coming deliberately?)<p>I wonder if consumer VR would have faired better if gamers didn’t have to compete with miners and data centres for chips and had more reasonably priced cards a few years back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>varelse</author><text>Sure, but the really lucky break IMO was a decade of INTC repeatedly punching itself in the face w&#x2F;r to manycore computation. I was at Nvidia from 2001 to 2011 (and now back) and I spent 2006-2011 as one of the very first CUDA programmers. It was pretty obvious within a week or two that this technology was going to be huge, and I more or less made my career with it.<p>But instead of stepping up to the plate and igniting a Red Queen&#x27;s Race that would have benefited everyone, INTC first tried to discredit the technology repeatedly, then they built an absolutely dreadful series of decelerators that demonstrated how badly they didn&#x27;t understand manycore. Eventually, they gave up, and now they&#x27;re playing catch-up by buying companies that get within striking distance of NVDA rather than building really cool technology from within.<p>Now if someone threw a large pile of money at AMD again, things could get really interesting IMO. But the piles of stupid money seem biased towards throwing ~$5M per layer at the pets.com of AI companies these days.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its own silicon at scale</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/nvidia-ceo-google-is-the-only-customer-with-silicon-at-scale.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jonplackett</author><text>Nvidia really lucked out with VR, crypto and AI all happening at once and all just happening to need exactly what they make (surly they can’t have seen all that coming deliberately?)<p>I wonder if consumer VR would have faired better if gamers didn’t have to compete with miners and data centres for chips and had more reasonably priced cards a few years back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aloer</author><text>I don’t think it affected the adoption of VR much.
OTOH it might be very beneficial in the long run that VR had a slow start.
Probably the most dangerous thing to happen here is if customers are forever scared away due to bad but expensive early experiences.<p>As far as I can tell, the hardware development continued and the next wave of VR will have much higher quality and more performant GPUs to make a good first impression.<p>It would look differently if the entire VR field would’ve collapsed due to low sales but tbh it looks like it’s maturing slow and steady and that’s how it should be<p>So essentially high gpu prices might have given the field just enough time to mature with patient early adopters before it goes main stream. At least that’s how I hope it will be</text></comment> |
20,089,641 | 20,089,421 | 1 | 2 | 20,084,898 | train | <story><title>Chrome, the perfect antitrust villain?</title><url>https://alexdanco.com/2019/05/30/google-chrome-the-perfect-antitrust-villain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>The main problem I have with the predominant discussions around antitrust in contemporary internet software is that they largely ignore one quality that truly makes something a monopoply. That is, truly onerous monopolies don&#x27;t just own a vast majority of some market share. They hamper the ability to switch to another product. Facebook, Google Search and Chrome, the most discussed products in current antitrust discussions all have viable quality alternatives.<p>Don&#x27;t like Chrome? Pick up Firefox, it&#x27;s quick and easy to change. And it&#x27;s the best product it&#x27;s probably ever been.<p>Don&#x27;t like Google search? There&#x27;s Bing, there&#x27;s DuckDuckGo and more.<p>Don&#x27;t like Facebook? Try any of the bajillion other social networks. Hell, quite social networks and call your grandma instead. It&#x27;s better for ya.<p>Antitrust isn&#x27;t supposed to be a bludgeon to knock whoever is on top off the top. It&#x27;s supposed to be a tool to break open markets where companies have successfully closed off competition and made it impossible for opponents to succeed. I just don&#x27;t see that in the web right now. There is no conceivable reason Facebook couldn&#x27;t be replaced and there&#x27;s ample research showing that young people are already making that transition to other platforms.<p>Meanwhile, industries like internet service, cellular and in some places water provision, leave consumers with essentially no alternative and no choice. I see this wave of anti-web 2.0 furvor as people championing a good cause, antitrust, in utterly the wrong place for our time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshAg</author><text>&gt; That is, truly onerous monopolies don&#x27;t just own a vast majority of some market share. They hamper the ability to switch to another product.<p>The article explains how Google through Chrome&#x27;s dominance is doing and did exactly this via webstandards for DRM despite most of chrome being completely open-source via chromium.<p>Because Chrome has such a large footprint, it become much easier for google to make a non-standard feature become part of the standard. As long as there is a thoroughly unencumbered but still practically reasonable way to implement that standard everything is great.<p>But that falls apart for the DRM that enables browsers to play video files. Sure, google is willing to license that code to you, but that means you have to pay or play by their rules in order to keep being able to make a competing browser. And no, you can&#x27;t just make your own version of the DRM: <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><p>That&#x27;s bad enough for hampering the ability for people to switch products, because it means that people can&#x27;t make a practical chrome competitor without becoming a google vassal, which defeats many of their reasons to making a competing browser. But it gets worse.<p>If google makes a change to chrome that people dislike, say hampering ad-blocking via some as-yet-unstandardized change or pushing through a standard that most people dislike, they can then tie the licensing of the unrelated feature to implementing this other thing that people dislike.<p>For example, Google could refuse to license the DRM code to any browser that interferes with or modifies the playback of the DRMed video stream. Then, they could define modification and interference to include removing ads from the stream.<p>Or google could just decline to license at all for no reason: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.samuelmaddock.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;google-widevine-blocked-my-browser&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.samuelmaddock.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;google-widevine-blocked...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome, the perfect antitrust villain?</title><url>https://alexdanco.com/2019/05/30/google-chrome-the-perfect-antitrust-villain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>The main problem I have with the predominant discussions around antitrust in contemporary internet software is that they largely ignore one quality that truly makes something a monopoply. That is, truly onerous monopolies don&#x27;t just own a vast majority of some market share. They hamper the ability to switch to another product. Facebook, Google Search and Chrome, the most discussed products in current antitrust discussions all have viable quality alternatives.<p>Don&#x27;t like Chrome? Pick up Firefox, it&#x27;s quick and easy to change. And it&#x27;s the best product it&#x27;s probably ever been.<p>Don&#x27;t like Google search? There&#x27;s Bing, there&#x27;s DuckDuckGo and more.<p>Don&#x27;t like Facebook? Try any of the bajillion other social networks. Hell, quite social networks and call your grandma instead. It&#x27;s better for ya.<p>Antitrust isn&#x27;t supposed to be a bludgeon to knock whoever is on top off the top. It&#x27;s supposed to be a tool to break open markets where companies have successfully closed off competition and made it impossible for opponents to succeed. I just don&#x27;t see that in the web right now. There is no conceivable reason Facebook couldn&#x27;t be replaced and there&#x27;s ample research showing that young people are already making that transition to other platforms.<p>Meanwhile, industries like internet service, cellular and in some places water provision, leave consumers with essentially no alternative and no choice. I see this wave of anti-web 2.0 furvor as people championing a good cause, antitrust, in utterly the wrong place for our time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dralley</author><text>&gt;Facebook, Google Search and Chrome, the most discussed products in current antitrust discussions all have viable quality alternatives.<p>People need to stop thinking of Google and Facebook as if they offer consumer services. They don&#x27;t. Their product is their ads, and their consumers are corporate marketing departments, and through this lens they are both thoroughly monopolists. Or at least &quot;duopolists&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emarketer.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;global-ad-spending-update" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emarketer.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;global-ad-spending-update</a><p>See also: AMP, internet.org</text></comment> |
36,776,941 | 36,776,785 | 1 | 3 | 36,774,940 | train | <story><title>Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity</title><url>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/refusing-to-teach-kids-math-will</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>currymj</author><text>You can imagine the following perspective:<p>- Most people don&#x27;t need to learn calculus at all, and it&#x27;s fine if the few weird students who do start when they get to college (maybe the advanced students can learn single-variable calculus in high school).<p>- For pure signaling reasons, taking calculus in high school has become very important for college admissions.<p>- In order to take calculus in high school, you need to at least take algebra I (and hopefully geometry) in middle school. Wealthier parents understand they are playing the college admissions game early on, so they make sure in elementary school that their kids will be able to get on the algebra track in middle school.<p>- Getting on the algebra track is thus the first really consequential part of the college admissions game, it happens much earlier than the rest, and takes real scheming by parents to make sure their young kids are prepared. [actually true]<p>- If you could just make this impossible, it will even the playing field in a huge way and knock down one of the biggest hurdles in college admissions for people from lower-SES backgrounds. [also probably true]<p>- The only downside is that students will no longer have time to cover calculus in high school, which doesn&#x27;t matter anyway because it&#x27;s only a small number of unusual people who need to learn calculus (very advanced math!), and they can just learn it in college.<p>This is my best guess about the line of thinking that motivates these &quot;no advanced math&quot; policies. It has elements of truth to it which are worth paying attention to. The problem is just that actually, it&#x27;s really useful and important to learn calculus in high school, and more people need this opportunity.<p>edit: I thought it was clear that I think a lot more high school students should be learning calculus as early as possible, and that &quot;no advanced math&quot; is a terrible policy, but I guess not...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eftychis</author><text>With that kind of thinking though we can reach logical results like:<p>- writing prose and composition is unnecessary, as at best one will write on slack and social media;<p>- doing pushups, calisthenics, or running is unnecessary: few jobs require that;<p>- learning about how the government works, civics or sociology or psychology should be skipped: all these are taken care by the employer that is not going to let you go vote anyways (still don&#x27;t understand how&#x2F;why it is not a mandatory holiday, but what do I know);<p>- debates should be banned: promotes arguing against cops and employers both having detrimental outcomes;<p>- art is for the rich and private schools: poor populous should not be dreaming;<p>I suggest -- my 2 humble cents -- the writers of this abomination take a class in logic. Unfortunately, that is math and requires fundamentals they don&#x27;t want covered.<p>P.S. My grad school anecdote: our perception and experiences as &quot;international&quot; grad students of the math understanding of incoming undergrads was abysmal to put it lightly. I don&#x27;t want to be in any future TA shoes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity</title><url>https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/refusing-to-teach-kids-math-will</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>currymj</author><text>You can imagine the following perspective:<p>- Most people don&#x27;t need to learn calculus at all, and it&#x27;s fine if the few weird students who do start when they get to college (maybe the advanced students can learn single-variable calculus in high school).<p>- For pure signaling reasons, taking calculus in high school has become very important for college admissions.<p>- In order to take calculus in high school, you need to at least take algebra I (and hopefully geometry) in middle school. Wealthier parents understand they are playing the college admissions game early on, so they make sure in elementary school that their kids will be able to get on the algebra track in middle school.<p>- Getting on the algebra track is thus the first really consequential part of the college admissions game, it happens much earlier than the rest, and takes real scheming by parents to make sure their young kids are prepared. [actually true]<p>- If you could just make this impossible, it will even the playing field in a huge way and knock down one of the biggest hurdles in college admissions for people from lower-SES backgrounds. [also probably true]<p>- The only downside is that students will no longer have time to cover calculus in high school, which doesn&#x27;t matter anyway because it&#x27;s only a small number of unusual people who need to learn calculus (very advanced math!), and they can just learn it in college.<p>This is my best guess about the line of thinking that motivates these &quot;no advanced math&quot; policies. It has elements of truth to it which are worth paying attention to. The problem is just that actually, it&#x27;s really useful and important to learn calculus in high school, and more people need this opportunity.<p>edit: I thought it was clear that I think a lot more high school students should be learning calculus as early as possible, and that &quot;no advanced math&quot; is a terrible policy, but I guess not...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pwthornton</author><text>There is a way to have time to cover Calculus in high school while still taking it slower: Block scheduling.<p>My high school shifted to it. It&#x27;s like a college day where you have four longer classes instead of eight shorter ones. Courses are semester-long, not year-long. This means you can take two math classes in one year (algebra in the fall and geometry in the spring).<p>This also enabled my high school to offer AP Calculus B, which is part-two of AP Calculus.<p>The other advantage of this type of schedule is that it is also easier to offer other kinds of math that may be more critical to most students, such as a dedicated class on statistics.</text></comment> |
9,070,506 | 9,070,622 | 1 | 2 | 9,070,406 | train | <story><title>Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/393927910787513/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evmar</author><text>This looks really neat! As the post suggests, we also have been doing a lot of janky Log calls to debug our app&#x27;s network code.<p>I am really impressed by a lot of the Facebook open source releases. Each new one makes me even sadder that you can&#x27;t use them due to the crazy patent license they&#x27;ve started using:<p><a href="https://github.com/facebook/stetho/blob/master/PATENTS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;stetho&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;PATENTS</a><p>&quot;The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, for anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or
other action) alleging [...] that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android</title><url>https://code.facebook.com/posts/393927910787513/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jawns</author><text>PhoneGap has some debugging tools available that offer a similar approach: <a href="https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/wiki/Debugging-in-PhoneGap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phonegap&#x2F;phonegap&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Debugging-in-Phone...</a><p>They&#x27;ve saved me a ton of time. Especially when you&#x27;re using something like PhoneGap, where you&#x27;re coding in JS, it&#x27;s nice to have your old familiar web-based debugging console available.</text></comment> |
30,601,466 | 30,601,019 | 1 | 2 | 30,599,612 | train | <story><title>Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/07/steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-wasnt-really-capable-as-an-engineer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>I disagree, Steve Jobs didn&#x27;t luck out. Instead, he never went through the filters.<p>Had he tried to become an Aircraft Engineer or a Doctor, he might get filtered out but
he and Woz ventured into an unestablished field that was about to boom. There were no filters to keep him out and though he lacked a scholar formation he was exceptionally brilliant and managed to walk the path better than the most.<p>Peter Thiel says &quot;competition is for losers&quot;. I think Steve Jobs is an example of it. Even if Steve Jobs said he was competing, Apple rarely competed and won on equal terms under Steve Jobs. He had always maintained a startup mentality, instead of making better phone than Nokia he would make something that no one at Nokia or anywhere else even dreamed of. IMHO, his leadership style was exactly what it takes to drive bunch of brilliant people into the jungle where the great riches are hidden but he was no match to Tim Cook as a CEO.<p>To this day, When I listen to his old interviews etc. I&#x27;m hypnotised by the clearness and the flow of his mind. It&#x27;s probably because he was one of those who made what we have today but if you forget that for a moment he sounds like a time traveler from the 2000s explaining the value of computers to regular folks from the 70s.<p>What an extraordinary man.</text></item><item><author>zcw100</author><text>What really set Steve Jobs apart is that he never should have gotten to where he did. I don&#x27;t mean he didn&#x27;t deserve it or anything but based on that structures that exist to filter people who attain the positions that he did. By luck, or accident, or raw determination, he became a person in the drivers seat that no one would have chose to put there. He was so much not the person they would have chosen that they kicked him out and replaced him with someone they did choose, John Sculley.<p>Because he was outside of this normal system he made decisions that were baffling, treated people in ways they felt uncomfortable with and achieved things that people thought were out of reach. They seemed out of reach because it was out of reach given the world of possibilities they allowed for themselves but Steve Jobs lived by a different set of rules. Steve Jobs rising to the top and succeeding in a power structure that didn&#x27;t share his worldview is what makes Steve Jobs truly remarkable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnlmorg</author><text>&gt; <i>instead of making better phone than Nokia he would make something that no one at Nokia or anywhere else even dreamed of.</i><p>The interesting thing about the iPhone is that people assume that was always the vision when in fact it was an idea that evolved and matured through the R&amp;D process. Just as Android started out as a camera OS and pivoted to smart phones, the iPhone started out as a tablet, which was already a market that Apple, Microsoft and many others had several attempts at cracking.<p>It&#x27;s very easy to assume someone is brilliant if you assume they didn&#x27;t go through the same iterations that everyone else did. Iterations of trial and error before hitting upon brilliance.<p>Jobs was great at marketing. He had some great people work under him. But he also had plenty of swing and misses too. I would say perhaps he was better at pivoting failures early than most CEOs but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s true either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/07/steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-wasnt-really-capable-as-an-engineer.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>I disagree, Steve Jobs didn&#x27;t luck out. Instead, he never went through the filters.<p>Had he tried to become an Aircraft Engineer or a Doctor, he might get filtered out but
he and Woz ventured into an unestablished field that was about to boom. There were no filters to keep him out and though he lacked a scholar formation he was exceptionally brilliant and managed to walk the path better than the most.<p>Peter Thiel says &quot;competition is for losers&quot;. I think Steve Jobs is an example of it. Even if Steve Jobs said he was competing, Apple rarely competed and won on equal terms under Steve Jobs. He had always maintained a startup mentality, instead of making better phone than Nokia he would make something that no one at Nokia or anywhere else even dreamed of. IMHO, his leadership style was exactly what it takes to drive bunch of brilliant people into the jungle where the great riches are hidden but he was no match to Tim Cook as a CEO.<p>To this day, When I listen to his old interviews etc. I&#x27;m hypnotised by the clearness and the flow of his mind. It&#x27;s probably because he was one of those who made what we have today but if you forget that for a moment he sounds like a time traveler from the 2000s explaining the value of computers to regular folks from the 70s.<p>What an extraordinary man.</text></item><item><author>zcw100</author><text>What really set Steve Jobs apart is that he never should have gotten to where he did. I don&#x27;t mean he didn&#x27;t deserve it or anything but based on that structures that exist to filter people who attain the positions that he did. By luck, or accident, or raw determination, he became a person in the drivers seat that no one would have chose to put there. He was so much not the person they would have chosen that they kicked him out and replaced him with someone they did choose, John Sculley.<p>Because he was outside of this normal system he made decisions that were baffling, treated people in ways they felt uncomfortable with and achieved things that people thought were out of reach. They seemed out of reach because it was out of reach given the world of possibilities they allowed for themselves but Steve Jobs lived by a different set of rules. Steve Jobs rising to the top and succeeding in a power structure that didn&#x27;t share his worldview is what makes Steve Jobs truly remarkable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavlov</author><text>I don’t agree with Thiel on a lot of things, but in this instance I do.<p>When someone says “I’m very competitive,” I hear that they want to live inside boxes created by other people.</text></comment> |
13,523,425 | 13,523,296 | 1 | 3 | 13,521,699 | train | <story><title>Hollywood as We Know It Is Over</title><url>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/why-hollywood-as-we-know-it-is-already-over</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TACIXAT</author><text>I love movies. Whenever I visit my dad (other side of the country), we go to see movies. However, most of the year I live with my girlfriend who falls asleep in theaters and can&#x27;t justify the cost. This leads to me not seeing movies in theaters anymore.<p>Now, I am subscribed to two streaming services. I don&#x27;t pirate. I refuse to watch anything with ads, happy to pay, and somewhat ironically, the only ads I watch to completion are trailers that I haven&#x27;t seen. I would love to catch movies as they are released but I have to wait until they&#x27;re available on the streaming service. When they are available it is usually 5$ for a &quot;rental&quot;. Is that a joke? I used to pay that at Blockbuster, and they had a physical location and employees! They&#x27;ve priced their digital content in such a way that I will only pay to see the movies that I really want to see. If it was cheaper, I&#x27;d be a constant consumer.<p>It seems that is how most things in society get priced. Not for ultimate consumption, but to maximize the profit curve. I get that is how capitalism works, but that logic doesn&#x27;t make sense to me for digital goods. They are practically zero cost to distribute once they are manufactured and your competition is people pirating them. If you&#x27;re worried about audience size, lower the cost. You&#x27;ll enable a lot more people to see a lot more movies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ttcbj</author><text>Assuming you are a software developer, I think you should reconsider your &quot;price should approximate production cost&quot; reasoning. I think it will hold you back if you eventually try something entrepreneurial.<p>When I started a small software company, I originally had a similar understanding. I subconsciously thought that the software should be priced to pay for its development cost, plus some profit. I was not very successful, until I realized that the product should be priced as a percentage of the value it delivered to the customer. Customers don&#x27;t want you to do a lot of work, they just want their problem solved for a price that is reasonable relative to the benefit of the solution.<p>This idea reverses several of your conclusions:<p>1. The product should be priced based on how much value it delivers, and only those companies that can deliver the product for significantly less than that price will stay in business. Once a company finds a need that people will pay for, it generally makes sense to drive the cost of production down while maintaining the same benefit, thus maximizing profit.<p>2. The more value a company creates with the resources it uses (the greater its margin), the more left-over resources it will have to invest in producing still more benefits, or to return profits to its original investors.<p>So, going back to the cost of digital content, I am happy to pay for it, as long as I end up feeling the movie was worth watching for the price. And if they can produce great content without many resources (or with lower cost of delivery), all the better. My problem, right now, is that there is so much great content I cannot ever hope to watch it. But that is not a problem that really bothers me, I am happy to keep paying to have a long list of shows I&#x27;d like to watch, if I could just find the time.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hollywood as We Know It Is Over</title><url>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/why-hollywood-as-we-know-it-is-already-over</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TACIXAT</author><text>I love movies. Whenever I visit my dad (other side of the country), we go to see movies. However, most of the year I live with my girlfriend who falls asleep in theaters and can&#x27;t justify the cost. This leads to me not seeing movies in theaters anymore.<p>Now, I am subscribed to two streaming services. I don&#x27;t pirate. I refuse to watch anything with ads, happy to pay, and somewhat ironically, the only ads I watch to completion are trailers that I haven&#x27;t seen. I would love to catch movies as they are released but I have to wait until they&#x27;re available on the streaming service. When they are available it is usually 5$ for a &quot;rental&quot;. Is that a joke? I used to pay that at Blockbuster, and they had a physical location and employees! They&#x27;ve priced their digital content in such a way that I will only pay to see the movies that I really want to see. If it was cheaper, I&#x27;d be a constant consumer.<p>It seems that is how most things in society get priced. Not for ultimate consumption, but to maximize the profit curve. I get that is how capitalism works, but that logic doesn&#x27;t make sense to me for digital goods. They are practically zero cost to distribute once they are manufactured and your competition is people pirating them. If you&#x27;re worried about audience size, lower the cost. You&#x27;ll enable a lot more people to see a lot more movies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ctdonath</author><text>Supply and demand. A thing is worth what another is willing to pay for it.<p>Those $5 streaming &quot;rentals&quot; are for those actually willing to pay $5 to watch <i>that</i> movie <i>right now</i>. It&#x27;s worth it to them. Eventually the $5 rental crowd is satiated, and the &quot;not more than $4&quot; crowd gets a chance as the price is lowered to match what others are willing to pay for it. Eventually that price tapers off to &quot;$8&#x2F;month buffet&quot; and ends up on my Netflix queue.<p>They DO lower the cost - as those willing to pay higher prices do so, are satiated, and the audience temporal&#x2F;economic demographics shift. It&#x27;s not just about price per rental, it&#x27;s price <i>plus time</i> per rental. Some movies I&#x27;ll pay $15 to watch on day of release; some I&#x27;ll happily &quot;spend&quot; time waiting for so I only spend $1 to watch it.<p>And yes, I&#x27;d happily get &quot;that, here, now&quot; for $5 rather than pile 4 people into the car, drive to Blockbuster, ask if they have it, find out the 2 copies are out, and wander the aisles for an hour reviewing what they <i>do</i> have and picking something (&quot;Masters of the Universe&quot;!) just to not completely waste the whole exercise (and decide that just leaving would have been better than watching &quot;Masters of the Universe&quot; only because it was the only thing vaguely appealing at the moment). Even with Redbox I at least have the option of looking for something new in particular and reserving it, from whichever of several nearby locations, for $2 from the convenience of my phone. Come <i>John Wick 2</i> I&#x27;ll have already pre-ordered it and be watching it, without the crowd, the moment it&#x27;s available (and happy to pay the $19 to do so, having seen <i>John Wick</i> twice thanks to the $1 streaming specials).</text></comment> |
30,838,485 | 30,838,478 | 1 | 3 | 30,836,879 | train | <story><title>Block a tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it</title><url>https://megablock.xyz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adastra22</author><text>The little heart button isn’t endorsement though. Lots of people use it as a bookmarking tool, or as a stochastic retweet button.</text></item><item><author>nevi-me</author><text>I sometimes manually do this when I&#x27;m feeling petty, or when a tweet is so offensive that in real life, I&#x27;d disassociate with people who endorse it. Good to have a tool. I just tried it on a spam tweet, and only the author got blocked.<p>Maybe other users get put in a queue or the service is close to Twitter limits.
Probably still good to create my own block function (and hope Twitter doesn&#x27;t ban the API use).<p>Reminder: Probably best to revoke the app&#x27;s permission when done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2muchcoffeeman</author><text>Some people will block accounts that follow accounts they don&#x27;t like. I specifically follow people I don&#x27;t agree with so I am exposed to the dumb things they are saying. I&#x27;m not sure how many people have blocked me even though I barely tweet much.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure social media is simply a system to reinforce echo chambers and tribalism.</text></comment> | <story><title>Block a tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it</title><url>https://megablock.xyz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adastra22</author><text>The little heart button isn’t endorsement though. Lots of people use it as a bookmarking tool, or as a stochastic retweet button.</text></item><item><author>nevi-me</author><text>I sometimes manually do this when I&#x27;m feeling petty, or when a tweet is so offensive that in real life, I&#x27;d disassociate with people who endorse it. Good to have a tool. I just tried it on a spam tweet, and only the author got blocked.<p>Maybe other users get put in a queue or the service is close to Twitter limits.
Probably still good to create my own block function (and hope Twitter doesn&#x27;t ban the API use).<p>Reminder: Probably best to revoke the app&#x27;s permission when done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmitshur</author><text>It is also sometimes (probably quite rarely) an unintended misclick.</text></comment> |
21,292,913 | 21,292,856 | 1 | 2 | 21,292,495 | train | <story><title>Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia</title><url>https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/18/editorial-mac-pro-puts-the-pedal-to-metal-in-apples-race-with-nvidia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>Metal is racing against Vulkin as well, because Apple needed to have their own standard they owned. Except Metal has zero support outside of Apple products.<p>Besides, what Metal represents is Apple&#x27;s attempt to have yet another vector for their infamous walled garden and vendor lock-in strategies.<p>Further, the article and the website are intentionally and blatently biased.
Quotes like this showcase their extreme bias:<p>&gt; One can be righteously indignant that Apple isn&#x27;t subsidizing everyone else with support for their platforms, whether CUDA, Vulkan, or even Android. But such emotions won&#x27;t have any bearing on the final outcome of who wins and who loses in the market for developing and commercializing the graphics technology of the future.<p>The absolute derisiveness of open standards coupled with their insults against those that would showcases quite well the position of the article, its authors, and the website itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ogre_codes</author><text>Yes, AppleInsider is totally biased.<p>But the competition here is not &quot;Open Standards&quot;, it&#x27;s CUDA, which is Nvidia&#x27;s own proprietary standard. There is no Open Standard which has any kind of market share.<p>The claim that Apple is against Open Standards is a bit misleading in this case. Apple invested a lot of money and spent years pushing Open Standards in this market in the form of OpenCL... the open standard which Nvidia refused to support and in general the industry ignored.<p>Apple is no angel and in many other places they&#x27;ve ignore standards, but in this case, there have been standards around for years and both the competition and the market have largely ignored them. Singling out Apple here is just wrong.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia</title><url>https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/18/editorial-mac-pro-puts-the-pedal-to-metal-in-apples-race-with-nvidia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kevin_b_er</author><text>Metal is racing against Vulkin as well, because Apple needed to have their own standard they owned. Except Metal has zero support outside of Apple products.<p>Besides, what Metal represents is Apple&#x27;s attempt to have yet another vector for their infamous walled garden and vendor lock-in strategies.<p>Further, the article and the website are intentionally and blatently biased.
Quotes like this showcase their extreme bias:<p>&gt; One can be righteously indignant that Apple isn&#x27;t subsidizing everyone else with support for their platforms, whether CUDA, Vulkan, or even Android. But such emotions won&#x27;t have any bearing on the final outcome of who wins and who loses in the market for developing and commercializing the graphics technology of the future.<p>The absolute derisiveness of open standards coupled with their insults against those that would showcases quite well the position of the article, its authors, and the website itself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kec</author><text>Metal predates vulkan by over two years. If anything vulkan is a response to it, not the other way around.</text></comment> |
16,693,306 | 16,692,021 | 1 | 2 | 16,690,721 | train | <story><title>Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambridge-analytica-on-the-facebook-data-whistleblower.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vowelless</author><text>I wonder how confident Thiel was of a Trump presidency back in May 2016, when he started being open about his support for Trump. Perhaps he was operating with more knowledge than available to the general public and national pollsters? I wonder how involved he was with CA for the purpose of the election. His $1.25 million donation in October 2016 seems even more interesting in light of all this.<p>I took out a bet on Trump when Thiel became open with his support. It was driven by my belief that he was operating with deeper knowledge about the state of the nation precisely due to his association with Palantir (mostly) and Facebook. I feel dirty about winning that one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>I&#x27;ve always thought of it in terms of asymmetric risk – something Thiel seems to have a preternatural intuition for. In other words, what he stood to gain with a Trump win far outweighed what he stood to lose with a Trump loss. Most business leaders were throwing in with Clinton. If Thiel had done the same, and Clinton won, he&#x27;d be one voice in a crowded field. By being one of the few to publicly back Trump, he all but guaranteed a prime seat at the table. This is exactly what played out post-election, with Thiel ushering in tech leaders in the lobby of Trump Tower.<p>Had Trump lost, Thiel would have probably diminished his standing with the Clinton administration significantly. But, due to the crowded field, it would have been a small standing to begin with.<p>And here&#x27;s the crux: Thiel has held controversial opinions for a while. He probably figured his association with Trump wouldn&#x27;t really move the dial on his likability much, and he seems to enjoy being contrarian anyway.<p>So, anyway, there&#x27;s my theory. Risk asymmetry. A lot to gain in the event of a Trump win, little to lose in the event of a Trump loss.</text></comment> | <story><title>Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambridge-analytica-on-the-facebook-data-whistleblower.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vowelless</author><text>I wonder how confident Thiel was of a Trump presidency back in May 2016, when he started being open about his support for Trump. Perhaps he was operating with more knowledge than available to the general public and national pollsters? I wonder how involved he was with CA for the purpose of the election. His $1.25 million donation in October 2016 seems even more interesting in light of all this.<p>I took out a bet on Trump when Thiel became open with his support. It was driven by my belief that he was operating with deeper knowledge about the state of the nation precisely due to his association with Palantir (mostly) and Facebook. I feel dirty about winning that one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmode</author><text>Given the margin of Trump&#x27;s victory was so small, and he lost the overall popular vote, I would be surprised that anyone can be confident of a victory looking at any data set.</text></comment> |
8,620,787 | 8,620,606 | 1 | 2 | 8,620,307 | train | <story><title>Introducing Snapcash</title><url>http://blog.snapchat.com/post/102895720555/introducing-snapcash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david_shaw</author><text>I think the primary challenge is convincing users that it&#x27;s secure. Snapchat has a relatively poor reputation in security (whether that&#x27;s deserved or not), and everyone I know just uses Venmo. Venmo has Facebook integration, so if you&#x27;re Facebook friends, it&#x27;s really easy to send money.<p>It seems like integrating into a platform that&#x27;s supposed to be ethereal is a weird fit, but who knows -- maybe it&#x27;ll catch on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pencilo</author><text>&quot;Relatively poor&quot; is letting them off easy, comically incompetent would be closer to the truth. Hopefully Square doesn&#x27;t trust data from Snapchat.<p>Lucky for Snapchat their users and potential investors don&#x27;t care about security in the slightest.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Snapcash</title><url>http://blog.snapchat.com/post/102895720555/introducing-snapcash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david_shaw</author><text>I think the primary challenge is convincing users that it&#x27;s secure. Snapchat has a relatively poor reputation in security (whether that&#x27;s deserved or not), and everyone I know just uses Venmo. Venmo has Facebook integration, so if you&#x27;re Facebook friends, it&#x27;s really easy to send money.<p>It seems like integrating into a platform that&#x27;s supposed to be ethereal is a weird fit, but who knows -- maybe it&#x27;ll catch on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>free2rhyme214</author><text>I disagree. The primary users of Snapchat aren&#x27;t worried about security.</text></comment> |
33,542,463 | 33,542,638 | 1 | 3 | 33,541,790 | train | <story><title>Ftx.com Has Probably Collapsed</title><url>https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tdLRvYHpfYjimwhyL/ftx-com-has-probably-collapsed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>My (outsider&#x27;s) understanding is that the &quot;longtermist&quot; sub-school of EA has grown over the years, and has developed increasingly convoluted and speculative rationales for behavior that would otherwise be considered unethical.<p>The example I&#x27;m most familiar with is calculating utils in terms of the expected total human population of the galaxy, were we to achieve interstellar travel: it&#x27;s not <i>inconceivable</i> that orders of magnitude more humans would be alive in the distant future than are alive now, which makes their combined future interest more important than the interests of any (or even all) living human beings. Consequently, we should divert money <i>away</i> from the welfare of people living today and <i>towards</i> efforts that maximize the likelihood of a galaxy filled with colonized planets.<p>If that sounds ridiculous, it&#x27;s because it is.</text></item><item><author>JonahSussman</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit behind on the times, but I&#x27;m failing to see how the philosophy of effective altruism and cryptocurrency are related. Do you know how the two got intertwined?</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>This is maybe tangential of me to say, but since this post is coming from an EA forum: I think the cozy relationship between EA and FTX has done <i>immense</i> damage to the public image and standing of the EA movement.<p>I&#x27;ve never been an EA person (much less a utilitarian) but I can appreciate the meat and potatoes of applied ethics, especially when those ethics are applied <i>consistently</i>. The infusion of cryptocurrency funny money into that world has completely perverted both aspects: much of EA now seems focused on speculative concerns (AGI) rather than real ones (world hunger or civic integrity), and all sorts of perverse rationales are offered for wealth extraction in service of future utils rather than <i>just doing morally good things.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javajosh</author><text>Galactic utility is ridiculous. But so is the other extreme, to act only on short-term utility. The asymmetry is that most humans don&#x27;t need any encouragement to think short-term, but they do need some impetus to think long-term. But it takes wisdom to balance the two concerns. And yes it is a huge downside to any strategy that delays gratification that it can be &quot;hacked&quot; for evil, which is a problem more general than EA or &quot;longetermism&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ftx.com Has Probably Collapsed</title><url>https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tdLRvYHpfYjimwhyL/ftx-com-has-probably-collapsed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>My (outsider&#x27;s) understanding is that the &quot;longtermist&quot; sub-school of EA has grown over the years, and has developed increasingly convoluted and speculative rationales for behavior that would otherwise be considered unethical.<p>The example I&#x27;m most familiar with is calculating utils in terms of the expected total human population of the galaxy, were we to achieve interstellar travel: it&#x27;s not <i>inconceivable</i> that orders of magnitude more humans would be alive in the distant future than are alive now, which makes their combined future interest more important than the interests of any (or even all) living human beings. Consequently, we should divert money <i>away</i> from the welfare of people living today and <i>towards</i> efforts that maximize the likelihood of a galaxy filled with colonized planets.<p>If that sounds ridiculous, it&#x27;s because it is.</text></item><item><author>JonahSussman</author><text>I&#x27;m a bit behind on the times, but I&#x27;m failing to see how the philosophy of effective altruism and cryptocurrency are related. Do you know how the two got intertwined?</text></item><item><author>woodruffw</author><text>This is maybe tangential of me to say, but since this post is coming from an EA forum: I think the cozy relationship between EA and FTX has done <i>immense</i> damage to the public image and standing of the EA movement.<p>I&#x27;ve never been an EA person (much less a utilitarian) but I can appreciate the meat and potatoes of applied ethics, especially when those ethics are applied <i>consistently</i>. The infusion of cryptocurrency funny money into that world has completely perverted both aspects: much of EA now seems focused on speculative concerns (AGI) rather than real ones (world hunger or civic integrity), and all sorts of perverse rationales are offered for wealth extraction in service of future utils rather than <i>just doing morally good things.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagels</author><text>I know you&#x27;re not defending this take, but I&#x27;m having trouble seeing how scam coins benefit future people.</text></comment> |
17,477,745 | 17,477,701 | 1 | 3 | 17,476,427 | train | <story><title>Amiga 600 FPGA Conversion</title><url>https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=636</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eboyjr</author><text>It’s been a good amount of time for me seeing custom mouse cursors (maybe since the days of MySpace). Very fitting. Thanks for taking me back, amigalove.com</text></comment> | <story><title>Amiga 600 FPGA Conversion</title><url>https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=636</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stesch</author><text>I programmed my first BBS on an Amiga 500 with 2 disk drives. Those were the times.</text></comment> |
2,427,488 | 2,427,511 | 1 | 2 | 2,427,296 | train | <story><title>House tells FCC to drop net neutrality</title><url>http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/04/09/house_urges_blockage_of_net_neutrality_rules/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>grellas</author><text>The FCC's claim of authority in this instance to impose rules from on high <i>is</i> problematic.<p>Here is what EFF says:<p>"We’re wholly in favor of net neutrality in practice, but a finding of ancillary jurisdiction here would give the FCC pretty much boundless authority to regulate the Internet for whatever it sees fit. And that kind of unrestrained authority makes us nervous about follow-on initiatives like broadcast flags and indecency campaigns. In general, we think arguments that regulating the Internet is 'ancillary' to some other regulatory authority that the FCC has been granted just don’t have sufficient limitations to stop bad FCC behavior in the future and create the 'Trojan horse' risk we have long warned about." (<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/part-i-fcc-ancillary-authority-regulate-internet" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/part-i-fcc-ancillary-a...</a>)<p>I have chimed in on this in a previous HN thread:<p>"The FCC is way out of its league on this one. Basically, it is a creature of statute. It can do whatever Congress has authorized it to and no more. Nothing in its authorizing statute expressly permits it to impose the rules now known as net neutrality. Therefore, it sought to justify its ability to do so under the doctrine of so-called 'ancillary jurisdiction,' meaning that it had an implied power to do so in aid of its expressly granted powers. Unfortunately, a definitive federal appeals court ruling held that no such ancillary jurisdiction existed, leaving the matter for Congress to decide. Rather than deferring to Congress, the FCC chose to adopt a new rationale for its assertion of this authority. Congress overwhelmingly balked at the idea of any broad assertion of such authority and, in the back and forth, the FCC came up with the toe-in-the water approach just adopted to the satisfaction of almost no one. Even this assertion of jurisdiction will certainly be challenged in the courts in cases that will take years to decide, leaving this whole issue in a pathetic state of uncertainty for all concerned. Nothing good will come of this except for lots of employment for the lawyers who will be litigating whether this or that action is 'reasonable' and whether the internet is really like a public utility or not. All in all, a royal mess." (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2033261" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2033261</a>)<p>A short-hand way of summing up the issue: do you want, in the name of a short-term goal such as net neutrality, to cede to unaccountable government regulators a broad, unchecked power to control what happens on the internet? I think this should give pause to all of us, no matter what we think of the net-neutrality issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>House tells FCC to drop net neutrality</title><url>http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/04/09/house_urges_blockage_of_net_neutrality_rules/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>enko</author><text>Australia, where metered access (XX GBs per month) rules, may provide some insight into how net non-neutrality plays out on practise. Here, it's not about speed limiting to "non-favoured" sites, but about whether consumption from those sites consume your allocated bandwidth allowance. It is routine for companies to do deals with ISPs to provide "unmetered" access to their services for customers. For example, with my ISP, anything I buy from Apple is unmetered. Other ISPs might, for example, offer free Steam traffic. This is most noticeable, I think, on mobile data plans, which often feature "unlimited Facebook" or "all you can Tweet" or similar.<p>I can see how this has the potential to entrench existing players but subjectively the effect seems weak at best and does not figure too much in people's purchasing decisions. Personally, I would prefer more general solutions to the problem of "corporate cliques" gaining oligopoly powers. Restrictions on cross-media ownership would seem to be the weapon of choice.</text></comment> |
36,562,888 | 36,562,878 | 1 | 2 | 36,561,974 | train | <story><title>Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2023/07/01/parsing-time-stamps-faster-with-simd-instructions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zokier</author><text>&gt; We know that some character must be smaller than 9, for example, we cannot have more than 59 seconds and never 60 seconds, in the time stamp string.<p>This is how you get leap seconds bugs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>worewood</author><text>Reminds me of that post about things programmers always get wrong about dates [1].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4128208">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4128208</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions</title><url>https://lemire.me/blog/2023/07/01/parsing-time-stamps-faster-with-simd-instructions/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zokier</author><text>&gt; We know that some character must be smaller than 9, for example, we cannot have more than 59 seconds and never 60 seconds, in the time stamp string.<p>This is how you get leap seconds bugs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>&gt; we want to convert them to an integer presenting the number of seconds since the Unix epoch. The Unix epoch is January 1st 1970.<p>UNIX time ignores leap seconds.<p>I.e. it&#x27;s the number of seconds ignoring leap seconds since 1970.</text></comment> |
24,286,797 | 24,286,990 | 1 | 3 | 24,286,348 | train | <story><title>Kubernetes 1.19</title><url>https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.19.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wronglebowski</author><text>As someone new to k8s and EKS it blows my mind things are only supported for such a short period of time. I find it very difficult to build a product on a platform in such constant flux. I&#x27;m struggling to see the benefits of k8s when things are rapidly being replaced and EOLd.</text></item><item><author>csunbird</author><text>EKS is still on 1.17<p>AWS is really dragging their feet on supporting latest version of K8s</text></item><item><author>cagenut</author><text>Ingress going GA and the support cycle bumping up from 9 months to 12 are my fav two things in this one.<p>Of course it&#x27;ll probably be another few months (if not six) before we see this in gke&#x2F;eks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>starefossen</author><text>Just stick to stable Kubernetes API resources[1] and they are guaranteed to continue to work through all 1.x versions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kubernetes.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;concepts&#x2F;overview&#x2F;kubernetes-api&#x2F;#api-versioning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kubernetes.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;concepts&#x2F;overview&#x2F;kubernetes-api&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Kubernetes 1.19</title><url>https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.19.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wronglebowski</author><text>As someone new to k8s and EKS it blows my mind things are only supported for such a short period of time. I find it very difficult to build a product on a platform in such constant flux. I&#x27;m struggling to see the benefits of k8s when things are rapidly being replaced and EOLd.</text></item><item><author>csunbird</author><text>EKS is still on 1.17<p>AWS is really dragging their feet on supporting latest version of K8s</text></item><item><author>cagenut</author><text>Ingress going GA and the support cycle bumping up from 9 months to 12 are my fav two things in this one.<p>Of course it&#x27;ll probably be another few months (if not six) before we see this in gke&#x2F;eks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>candiddevmike</author><text>One plus side of such a rapid release cycle is the changes tend to not be earth shattering. Big changes are deployed slowly and methodically, and the release notes are pretty easy reading. Compared to something with a yearly cadence, you could find yourself drowning under massive changes.</text></comment> |
17,054,561 | 17,054,185 | 1 | 3 | 17,053,214 | train | <story><title>Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44090509</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>&quot;The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter...&quot;<p>Not to be little it but, in short, a drone.<p>I presume the rocket scientists are jealous ;)</text></item><item><author>KineticLensman</author><text>Link to the underlying press release [0] which has slightly more info than the BBC article. There is a bit more background about the project at [1], with some key points being:<p>&quot;The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter. Its payload will be a high resolution downward-looking camera for navigation, landing, and science surveying of the terrain, and a communication system to relay data to the 2020 Mars rover. The inconsistent Mars magnetic field precludes the use of a compass for navigation, so it would require a solar tracker camera integrated to JPL&#x27;s visual inertial navigation system. Some additional inputs might include gyros, visual odometry, tilt sensors, altimeter, and hazard detectors. It would use solar panels to recharge its batteries.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;mars-helicopter-to-fly-on-nasa-s-next-red-planet-rover-mission" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;mars-helicopter-to-fly-on...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Mars_Helicopter_Scout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Mars_Helicopter_Scout</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djsumdog</author><text>That&#x27;s what I thought too. But they&#x27;ve been designing this for years; so it might have started before drones got as popular as they are.<p>I mean, drones are just a new name for hobby aircraft. People typically associate drones with quad-copters, but people were flying tiny helicopters next to their small replica remote aircraft for decades.<p>I realize the FAA has official designations for what is a drone (and a lot of older hobby aircrafts may now technically be drones), but it&#x27;s a word that&#x27;s really come about because the field is now more accessible&#x2F;affordable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nasa will send helicopter to Mars to test otherworldly flight</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44090509</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chiefalchemist</author><text>&quot;The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter...&quot;<p>Not to be little it but, in short, a drone.<p>I presume the rocket scientists are jealous ;)</text></item><item><author>KineticLensman</author><text>Link to the underlying press release [0] which has slightly more info than the BBC article. There is a bit more background about the project at [1], with some key points being:<p>&quot;The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter. Its payload will be a high resolution downward-looking camera for navigation, landing, and science surveying of the terrain, and a communication system to relay data to the 2020 Mars rover. The inconsistent Mars magnetic field precludes the use of a compass for navigation, so it would require a solar tracker camera integrated to JPL&#x27;s visual inertial navigation system. Some additional inputs might include gyros, visual odometry, tilt sensors, altimeter, and hazard detectors. It would use solar panels to recharge its batteries.&quot;<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;mars-helicopter-to-fly-on-nasa-s-next-red-planet-rover-mission" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nasa.gov&#x2F;press-release&#x2F;mars-helicopter-to-fly-on...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Mars_Helicopter_Scout" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NASA_Mars_Helicopter_Scout</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sgc</author><text>Of course. It&#x27;s by definition until we get someone to Mars.</text></comment> |
28,796,389 | 28,795,824 | 1 | 2 | 28,794,352 | train | <story><title>How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha</title><url>https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2021/10/6/how-the-.net-foundation-kerfuffle-became-a-brouhaha/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text>Many projects joined the .NET Foundation after it was created. It didn&#x27;t really do anything for them (I think they basically sponsor meetups), but it wasn&#x27;t harming anyone either.<p>The .NET Foundation asked for owner access on the author&#x27;s repository (for a CLA bot). The author declined and a workaround was organized.<p>Years later the .NET Foundation asked for &quot;owner access&quot; on the author&#x27;s repository (to allow them enforce Code of Conduct across all repositories). The author declined.<p>The CLA bot stopped working. The author was told it would work if he gave it owner access. The author was annoyed because they previously had a workaround. They gave in and gave @dnfadmin owner access (temporarily, it was later revoked after the CLA bot was set up, thanks &#x2F;u&#x2F;ethbr0 for the correction).<p>Some time later the author realized that the project had now been silently moved to GitHub Enterprise (likely in the short window @dnfadmin had owner access). The author states that projects in GitHub Enterprise can be entirely controlled by the owner of the account (the .NET Foundation). This transfer happened silently.<p>Independently, this happened to another project (who had coincidentally had an issue with a Microsoft employee and former contributor force a pull-request into their project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactiveui&#x2F;splat&#x2F;pull&#x2F;778" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactiveui&#x2F;splat&#x2F;pull&#x2F;778</a>). The change itself seems innocuous, but the approach bothered people.<p>People are upset because of how tone-deaf all of this is. They would like the .NET Foundation to stop trying to gain complete control over the member projects. They would especially like for their projects not to have their ownership changed silently.<p>Edit: For the record, I do not believe this is part of some embrace, extend, extinguish plan on behalf of Microsoft. I think these accusations actually cheapen what has happened here. I suspect this was more of a &quot;can we make this process easier and more convenient for the .NET Foundation&quot;-type thing.<p>The people involved with this will have to do some soul searching. The .NET Foundation should operate in service of its member projects, not the other way around.</text></item><item><author>zippergz</author><text>I&#x27;m not trying to be lazy (ok maybe a little bit), but can someone please provide like a 3-4 sentence summary of what happened? Everything I&#x27;ve seen on this either assumes you already know, or is very long and rambly, or both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moksly</author><text>I think this is on point. We once had an issue with open street maps, that caused our routing system to not be capable of directing citizens and employees to the second biggest municipality in our country because a one way street had the wrong direction marked in OSM by mistake.<p>This had a huge impact on us. With thousands of employees and citizens calling our IT support staff of 5 people every day.<p>When I used our OSM official “City off X” account to fix it, I was an utter idiot and submitted both a real life picture I took myself as well as a Google maps and a krak maps (Danish map service) screenshots. I didn’t know this wasn’t legal, because I was an idiot, but it resulted in our fix getting reversed and a week long discussion with the OSM community members about fixing the damn street.<p>We made the street one way. But we couldn’t fix it in an OSS map service because the community wouldn’t let us because we made a stupid mistake.<p>We’ve now switched our services to Krak. But I can promise you that if we had, had the admin power to force our chance through during those days, we wouldn’t have given any regards to the OSS community.<p>If an popular tool wasn’t working within the .Net framework CLA I imagine the process would be somewhat similar inside Microsoft.<p>It’s just one of those things where the OSS community processes and Enterprise process of “get this fixed right now, at any cost by any means, ignoring every standard we may have, just get it fixed, now. Then make sure it never happens again.” that happens every now and then when the beast awakens, clashes. I’m not sure how you can avoid it, as Enterprise will never want to comply with OSS processes when it’s in a hurry.</text></comment> | <story><title>How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha</title><url>https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2021/10/6/how-the-.net-foundation-kerfuffle-became-a-brouhaha/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Permit</author><text>Many projects joined the .NET Foundation after it was created. It didn&#x27;t really do anything for them (I think they basically sponsor meetups), but it wasn&#x27;t harming anyone either.<p>The .NET Foundation asked for owner access on the author&#x27;s repository (for a CLA bot). The author declined and a workaround was organized.<p>Years later the .NET Foundation asked for &quot;owner access&quot; on the author&#x27;s repository (to allow them enforce Code of Conduct across all repositories). The author declined.<p>The CLA bot stopped working. The author was told it would work if he gave it owner access. The author was annoyed because they previously had a workaround. They gave in and gave @dnfadmin owner access (temporarily, it was later revoked after the CLA bot was set up, thanks &#x2F;u&#x2F;ethbr0 for the correction).<p>Some time later the author realized that the project had now been silently moved to GitHub Enterprise (likely in the short window @dnfadmin had owner access). The author states that projects in GitHub Enterprise can be entirely controlled by the owner of the account (the .NET Foundation). This transfer happened silently.<p>Independently, this happened to another project (who had coincidentally had an issue with a Microsoft employee and former contributor force a pull-request into their project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactiveui&#x2F;splat&#x2F;pull&#x2F;778" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reactiveui&#x2F;splat&#x2F;pull&#x2F;778</a>). The change itself seems innocuous, but the approach bothered people.<p>People are upset because of how tone-deaf all of this is. They would like the .NET Foundation to stop trying to gain complete control over the member projects. They would especially like for their projects not to have their ownership changed silently.<p>Edit: For the record, I do not believe this is part of some embrace, extend, extinguish plan on behalf of Microsoft. I think these accusations actually cheapen what has happened here. I suspect this was more of a &quot;can we make this process easier and more convenient for the .NET Foundation&quot;-type thing.<p>The people involved with this will have to do some soul searching. The .NET Foundation should operate in service of its member projects, not the other way around.</text></item><item><author>zippergz</author><text>I&#x27;m not trying to be lazy (ok maybe a little bit), but can someone please provide like a 3-4 sentence summary of what happened? Everything I&#x27;ve seen on this either assumes you already know, or is very long and rambly, or both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plorkyeran</author><text>&gt; I suspect this was more of a &quot;can we make this process easier and more convenient for the .NET Foundation&quot;-type thing.<p>I suspect there was also just a different picture on what the .NET Foundation even meant inside and outside of MS. It&#x27;s different people working on it inside MS than the ones who originally set things up, and the new people may not have even seen their actions as trying to take control of anything because they were under the impression that everyone considered them in charge already.</text></comment> |
25,044,510 | 25,044,411 | 1 | 2 | 25,043,989 | train | <story><title>EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges over merchant data</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/4908995d-5ba4-4e14-a863-bcb8858e8bd2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ffpip</author><text>Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner who oversees competition, will announce formal antitrust charges against Amazon on Tuesday over how it uses data about the merchants on its platform, according to two people with knowledge of the announcement.<p>The case focuses on the online retailer’s dual role, both as a marketplace for third-party vendors and also as a competitor which sells its own goods, these people said.<p>The charge sheet, which is part of a probe that started nearly two years ago, fleshes out concerns that Amazon may be abusing its role by using the data it gathers on merchants to compete against them.<p>Amazon declined to comment. In the past the company has played down antitrust concerns, noting that many retailers have their own private label offerings, and that online sales represent only a small sliver of the overall retail sector.<p>Independent merchants are free to use some or all of Amazon’s services and can expand their reach and start selling online with limited initial investment, the company has noted.<p>The European Commission did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<p>Amazon’s business practices have been under scrutiny elsewhere in the EU and in the US. In 2018 the German antitrust watchdog launched a probe into its dual role as both marketplace for seller and seller of its own brands, looking into whether it used its market power to set illegal contract terms.<p>In the US Amazon is part of a group of companies under scrutiny by the House Judiciary Committee. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have also launched antitrust probes against Amazon.<p>The formal charges against Amazon will reinforce Ms Vestager’s reputation as a tough enforcer with an emphasis on tackling market rigging, consumer abuse and tax dodging. The Dane, who is serving her second term as competition commissioner, has led big battles against some of the biggest names in tech.<p>Under her mandate, the EU has fined Google more than €8bn in three separate antitrust cases while Apple has been ordered to pay €13bn in back taxes to the Irish government. Both companies have appealed.</text></comment> | <story><title>EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges over merchant data</title><url>https://www.ft.com/content/4908995d-5ba4-4e14-a863-bcb8858e8bd2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m463</author><text>There are so <i>many</i> amazon products coming out of the pipeline.<p>At first there were amazon batteries and hdmi cables.<p>But now there are weird products like amazon gaming desks.<p>It&#x27;s not hard to imagine they said &quot;we sell a lot of these&quot; and made their own.</text></comment> |
21,874,505 | 21,874,491 | 1 | 3 | 21,874,276 | train | <story><title>I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping</title><url>https://twitter.com/ursulav/status/1209518819397505024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MBCook</author><text>So what am I supposed to do when I buy an ebook and it’s full of typos or OCR errors? Just suck it up? “Oh well, next time I just shouldn’t buy from MAJOR PUBLISHER?”<p>It’s sad it can be used to grief, but as a user it’s the only method I have of pointing out the issues and asking for them to be addressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Baeocystin</author><text>If someone genuinely spent the time to help catch errors in my manuscripts, I&#x27;d be thrilled. Editors are expensive!<p>That the automated system as described can be abused is a real problem, and that needs to be addressed. But that is a separate issue from the generally bad state of what passes for final edits in many books nowadays. That the author in question can&#x27;t be bothered to keep a current copy of their manuscript leaves me lukewarm on the issue.</text></comment> | <story><title>I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping</title><url>https://twitter.com/ursulav/status/1209518819397505024</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MBCook</author><text>So what am I supposed to do when I buy an ebook and it’s full of typos or OCR errors? Just suck it up? “Oh well, next time I just shouldn’t buy from MAJOR PUBLISHER?”<p>It’s sad it can be used to grief, but as a user it’s the only method I have of pointing out the issues and asking for them to be addressed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simion314</author><text>I think Amazon should add a threshold and always have a human check the reported issues before setting up this flags that can do damage to the author. But if you look at youtube example the big companies don&#x27;t care about the little guys.</text></comment> |
9,118,637 | 9,118,536 | 1 | 2 | 9,118,097 | train | <story><title>Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf]</title><url>http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bhouston</author><text>Interesting parallel to the growth and development of decentralized P2P networks around 1999&#x2F;2000.<p>First there was Gnutella (as Napster had a centralized directory) - but it didn&#x27;t scale, although it proved popular.<p>Then they added support to Gnutella for spoke&#x2F;hub models, which had superpeers that reduced the load on most individuals. But in the end Gnutella never really took off.<p>What replaced Gnutella was bittorrent, which actually only did transfer via P2P but the searching and discovery was centralized again PirateBay and Trackers.<p>But for all bittorrent&#x27;s success, Netflix (and others), which are centralized and highly controlled alternatives, are far more popular and commercially successful for watching online video -- it is just less work to use Netflix, even though it doesn&#x27;t have the benefits of being free and open.<p>So for all the attraction of P2P decentralization, often centralized, commercial focused easy solutions win out. There are costs to be paid by being decentralized and often general people who are not ideological do not want to pay these costs.<p>But I am mostly an outsider with regards to Bitcoin so who knows.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf]</title><url>http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sharpneli</author><text>Their assumption of 2 channel roll-overs per year per person is quite likely far too low. In their comparison they basically state that a person would be participant in a channel roll over per 3650 transactions made.<p>This seems to be overly optimistic considering that the acceptable credit card chargeback rate is 1%. 36 times per the rate of channel roll overs.<p>In addition even nicely working channel has to be created. So even without anything like chargebacks assuming 3650 transactions per year on a single chain seems to be extremely optimistic.<p>It might reduce spam on the network though. Bringing us from the 240G blocks into 24G blocks (Based on the well known Stetson-Harrison method). A fine improvement, but doesn&#x27;t really seem to be a silver bullet for the scalability issues.</text></comment> |
30,871,528 | 30,870,746 | 1 | 2 | 30,869,140 | train | <story><title>The smallest and worst HDMI display</title><url>https://mitxela.com/projects/ddc-oled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philistine</author><text>Some surprising companies have not completely figured out the correct way to use CEC either.<p>- Apple: When you start an Airplay stream on your phone directed at an Apple TV, the Apple TV doesn&#x27;t send a <i>switch input</i> command.<p>- Nintendo: The Nintendo Switch <i>switch input</i> command when waking from sleep is unreliable at best.<p>- Microsoft: Surprisingly the worst offender. The only <i>switch input</i> command it ever sends is when it wakes from user-induced sleep. If you let the console go to sleep on its own, and wake up the controller and press the big Xbox button, it never sends a CEC command.</text></item><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>&gt; CEC, which is used mainly to power TV on&#x2F;off or switch sources<p>CEC is much more than that as it allows the use of a single remote instead of two or more, which is super handy; the TV remote sends its commands through the HDMI cable to the active device, so if you switch from TV to an external source like PVR or media center on the TV remote, if that device supports CEC (Kodi on a Raspberry PI does that) you can control it seamlessly through the TV remote. I recently switched my media center from a Raspberry PI 4 to an older (but much faster) unlocked Chromebox whose video chipset doesn&#x27;t support CEC, so I had to connect an external interface that does USB to CEC conversion. Unfortunately there is only one manufacturer of such interface, which means it&#x27;s not that cheap.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pulse-eight.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;104&#x2F;usb-hdmi-cec-adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pulse-eight.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;104&#x2F;usb-hdmi-cec-adapter</a></text></item><item><author>phh</author><text>Article makes fun of how slow i2c is compared to the super high speed pairs next to it on HDMI plug.
Well, please note that there is a bus that is literally a thousand time slower than i2c on that same connector. It&#x27;s CEC. Contrary to i2c it only occupies one wire rather than two though.
CEC, which is used mainly to power TV on&#x2F;off or switch sources has a whopping bandwidth of 400bps. No missing multiplier.<p>Maximum device name is 16B. If you have a TV, a tvbox and a game console, simply asking the name of those devices can take more than a second.
I&#x27;m in the process of shortening my product&#x27;s CEC name, in order to reduce congestion on the bus.<p>Mainline Linux CEC developer jokes that Voyager 1 which is on the other side of solar system, made 40 years prior to CEC, is faster than CEC.<p>Edit: Sorry for the atrocious original formating</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>Sony seem to get this right: My PS4 can turn on my TV and switch the input source when it wakes up, but is also clever enough <i>not</i> to do so if you wake the PS4 via remote play (where you are streaming the output to some other device)<p>However, I think that the issue is that CEC support has never been 100% reliable and interoperable. My TV is also made by Sony, which likely helps with compatibility. Probably all these devices work well with some TVs and not others, despite everything claiming to support CEC.</text></comment> | <story><title>The smallest and worst HDMI display</title><url>https://mitxela.com/projects/ddc-oled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>philistine</author><text>Some surprising companies have not completely figured out the correct way to use CEC either.<p>- Apple: When you start an Airplay stream on your phone directed at an Apple TV, the Apple TV doesn&#x27;t send a <i>switch input</i> command.<p>- Nintendo: The Nintendo Switch <i>switch input</i> command when waking from sleep is unreliable at best.<p>- Microsoft: Surprisingly the worst offender. The only <i>switch input</i> command it ever sends is when it wakes from user-induced sleep. If you let the console go to sleep on its own, and wake up the controller and press the big Xbox button, it never sends a CEC command.</text></item><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>&gt; CEC, which is used mainly to power TV on&#x2F;off or switch sources<p>CEC is much more than that as it allows the use of a single remote instead of two or more, which is super handy; the TV remote sends its commands through the HDMI cable to the active device, so if you switch from TV to an external source like PVR or media center on the TV remote, if that device supports CEC (Kodi on a Raspberry PI does that) you can control it seamlessly through the TV remote. I recently switched my media center from a Raspberry PI 4 to an older (but much faster) unlocked Chromebox whose video chipset doesn&#x27;t support CEC, so I had to connect an external interface that does USB to CEC conversion. Unfortunately there is only one manufacturer of such interface, which means it&#x27;s not that cheap.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pulse-eight.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;104&#x2F;usb-hdmi-cec-adapter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pulse-eight.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;104&#x2F;usb-hdmi-cec-adapter</a></text></item><item><author>phh</author><text>Article makes fun of how slow i2c is compared to the super high speed pairs next to it on HDMI plug.
Well, please note that there is a bus that is literally a thousand time slower than i2c on that same connector. It&#x27;s CEC. Contrary to i2c it only occupies one wire rather than two though.
CEC, which is used mainly to power TV on&#x2F;off or switch sources has a whopping bandwidth of 400bps. No missing multiplier.<p>Maximum device name is 16B. If you have a TV, a tvbox and a game console, simply asking the name of those devices can take more than a second.
I&#x27;m in the process of shortening my product&#x27;s CEC name, in order to reduce congestion on the bus.<p>Mainline Linux CEC developer jokes that Voyager 1 which is on the other side of solar system, made 40 years prior to CEC, is faster than CEC.<p>Edit: Sorry for the atrocious original formating</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text><i>Apple: When you start an Airplay stream on your phone directed at an Apple TV, the Apple TV doesn&#x27;t send a switch input command.</i><p>I think it depends on the equipment combination, and its state.<p>I&#x27;m able to send an Airplay stream to my AppleTV and it both turns on my LG television, and switches the input to the AppleTV.<p>However, if the TV is already on, and I send an Airplay stream to the TV it will not switch the input. Which I think is an OK measure if you have kids or roommates or the TV is in a public setting so that someone might hijack your viewing as a joke or to be annoying. My memory is that this used to be possible with an earlier model AppleTV, or an earlier version of iOS.<p>That said, ever since I attached a $23 no-name Chinese DVR to another HDMI input on the same LG TV, the AppleTV no longer has the ability to wake or change inputs. Very strange.</text></comment> |
24,612,632 | 24,612,507 | 1 | 2 | 24,609,449 | train | <story><title>Universal Split Screen</title><url>https://universalsplitscreen.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>Back when I was poor and all I had was a laptop... my girlfriend wanted a computer but we didn&#x27;t have enough money. So I loaded up virtual box and plugged in an external monitor, keyboard and mouse binding them to the virtual machine. This setup worked really well to let us both browse the internet simultaneously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jldugger</author><text>I seem to recall Ubuntu had a similar thing for PCs to drive multiple X sessions (a classroom&#x27;s worth?) off a single PC: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ubuntu.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;MultiseatX" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ubuntu.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;MultiseatX</a><p>But it seems to have gone by the wayside as the upper limit is really the number of video outputs, and driving 30+ displays off one computer starts getting into custom setups that are going to be more expensive, even if the goal was just running 30 instances of Firefox on one computer. The wiki hasn&#x27;t been updated in 6 years, so I assume it&#x27;s not viable in modern Ubuntu?</text></comment> | <story><title>Universal Split Screen</title><url>https://universalsplitscreen.github.io/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>Back when I was poor and all I had was a laptop... my girlfriend wanted a computer but we didn&#x27;t have enough money. So I loaded up virtual box and plugged in an external monitor, keyboard and mouse binding them to the virtual machine. This setup worked really well to let us both browse the internet simultaneously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>techolic</author><text>That&#x27;s a brilliant idea! I was mentally practicing sharing my 32 inch screen with my wife when she complains about screen real estate inequality in the house - hers is surface pro - but never come close to solving keyboard and mouse sharing.</text></comment> |
36,905,792 | 36,905,992 | 1 | 2 | 36,901,303 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?</title><text>I got laid off at the start of the year, and ever since then, I&#x27;ve been applying constantly but have only gotten one interview. Before being laid off, I held a job as a front-end dev for the previous 5 and a half years.<p>I&#x27;ve had my resume looked at by three different services (TopResume, Indeed, Levels.fyi) and am currently subscribed to Resume Worded, which scores my resume. Despite all these efforts, I keep receiving rejection emails.<p>So, I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has had any similar experiences with applying for jobs.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blitz_skull</author><text>&gt; whereas everyone else would call that person [with 5 years experience] a junior engineer<p>I’ve met people with 3 years experience who I’d consider more senior than myself (8 years). Some folks just learn really fast and&#x2F;or don’t do much else other than work.<p>Not sure time is relevant to your skills or title after about 2-3 years.</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>It&#x27;s not a good job market, but it doesn&#x27;t seem normal to spend six months applying and only get _one_ interview.<p>It might be worth asking friends or former colleagues, ideally people who actually are involved in recruiting (hiring managers etc) to take a look at your resume and LinkedIn profile and see if there&#x27;s anything glaringly wrong with them.<p>Is your resume in a weird format, or is it structurally weird&#x2F;overdesigned? For instance, a recent trend in resumes was to show (programming) languages known in a pie chart (do not do this; it is nonsensical). In many companies, the text from your resume is going to end up in a standard format anyway; they&#x27;ll have tools for this and if their tool can&#x27;t extract your text they may not bother. Unless you&#x27;re a graphic designer or something, you probably want a boringly-designed resume.<p>Are you applying jobs for which you are dramatically underqualified? One thing to keep in mind is that some small companies (if you&#x27;re coming from one) have _wild_ title inflation; a small startup might call someone with 5 and a half years experience their director of frontend engineering, say, whereas everyone else would call that person a junior engineer.<p>Does anything particularly unfortunate come up if people Google your name? For instance, a real-life version of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine&#x27;s dating a guy who has the same name as a notorious local serial killer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>itsoktocry</author><text>&gt;<i>Some folks just learn really fast and&#x2F;or don’t do much else other than work.</i><p>Maybe it&#x27;s just me, but I don&#x27;t consider junior&#x2F;senior to be defined by how &quot;good&quot; you are at programming. Obviously the hope is that senior &gt; junior, but there are other, softer, skills involved with being a senior.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?</title><text>I got laid off at the start of the year, and ever since then, I&#x27;ve been applying constantly but have only gotten one interview. Before being laid off, I held a job as a front-end dev for the previous 5 and a half years.<p>I&#x27;ve had my resume looked at by three different services (TopResume, Indeed, Levels.fyi) and am currently subscribed to Resume Worded, which scores my resume. Despite all these efforts, I keep receiving rejection emails.<p>So, I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has had any similar experiences with applying for jobs.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>blitz_skull</author><text>&gt; whereas everyone else would call that person [with 5 years experience] a junior engineer<p>I’ve met people with 3 years experience who I’d consider more senior than myself (8 years). Some folks just learn really fast and&#x2F;or don’t do much else other than work.<p>Not sure time is relevant to your skills or title after about 2-3 years.</text></item><item><author>rsynnott</author><text>It&#x27;s not a good job market, but it doesn&#x27;t seem normal to spend six months applying and only get _one_ interview.<p>It might be worth asking friends or former colleagues, ideally people who actually are involved in recruiting (hiring managers etc) to take a look at your resume and LinkedIn profile and see if there&#x27;s anything glaringly wrong with them.<p>Is your resume in a weird format, or is it structurally weird&#x2F;overdesigned? For instance, a recent trend in resumes was to show (programming) languages known in a pie chart (do not do this; it is nonsensical). In many companies, the text from your resume is going to end up in a standard format anyway; they&#x27;ll have tools for this and if their tool can&#x27;t extract your text they may not bother. Unless you&#x27;re a graphic designer or something, you probably want a boringly-designed resume.<p>Are you applying jobs for which you are dramatically underqualified? One thing to keep in mind is that some small companies (if you&#x27;re coming from one) have _wild_ title inflation; a small startup might call someone with 5 and a half years experience their director of frontend engineering, say, whereas everyone else would call that person a junior engineer.<p>Does anything particularly unfortunate come up if people Google your name? For instance, a real-life version of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine&#x27;s dating a guy who has the same name as a notorious local serial killer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grumple</author><text>Experience is absolutely relevant. You are vastly more likely to be competent at 10 years than 5 or 3 or 1. Sure, I have worked with incompetent people with more experience and I&#x27;ve been the &quot;rock star&quot; with 2 outperforming devs with 15, but there&#x27;s still a strong correlation between experience and ability.</text></comment> |
20,704,812 | 20,704,883 | 1 | 2 | 20,704,002 | train | <story><title>Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/technology/personaltech/i-shared-my-phone-number-i-learned-i-shouldnt-have.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skrause</author><text>&gt; <i>A hacker could try to reset my password for an online account by answering security questions like “What is your mother’s maiden name?” or “Which of the previous addresses did you live at?”</i><p>That&#x27;s why you don&#x27;t answer those questions honestly. My mother&#x27;s maiden name is always a random 32 character string living in my KeePass database...</text></comment> | <story><title>Columnist asked researchers what they could find out from just his cell number</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/technology/personaltech/i-shared-my-phone-number-i-learned-i-shouldnt-have.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dopylitty</author><text>All of the information the &quot;hacker&quot; found using the reporter&#x27;s cell number could have been found using just the reporter&#x27;s name and rough location.<p>It seems strange to me that peoples names, addresses, and phone numbers used to be freely distributed in a large book to every house in town yet now any one of those details can be used to assume someone&#x27;s &quot;identity.&quot; It seems the only thing stopping this from happening en-masse is that nobody has tried.</text></comment> |
23,027,876 | 23,027,454 | 1 | 2 | 23,027,184 | train | <story><title>Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/sophisticated-android-backdoors-have-been-populating-google-play-for-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>Let this be another nail in the coffin of the &quot;walled garden&quot; farce.<p>We learn this lesson again and again. People want someone to trust, but a bureaucracy isn&#x27;t trustworthy. It has its own agenda and values inconsistent with yours. They take 30% from everybody whether they approve malware or not, and whether they reject legitimate apps or not.<p>Trust doesn&#x27;t come from size. If you want someone to vet your apps, it has to be someone whose interests are actually aligned with yours, not just whoever is big enough to force everybody through the tollgate into their store.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/sophisticated-android-backdoors-have-been-populating-google-play-for-years/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>Oh yeah, they can spread malware for months, but I submit one fucking app that allows you create signs for your business for COVID-19 and all of a sudden I get a &#x27;Sensitive Events Violation Suspension&#x27; and get a ding on my Google Play account.<p>Google has become Apple except worse because at least Apple is reachable.</text></comment> |
41,233,874 | 41,233,016 | 1 | 2 | 41,231,145 | train | <story><title>Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone</title><url>https://osintteam.blog/mastering-osint-how-to-find-information-on-anyone-680e4086f17f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alabhyajindal</author><text>I never liked this term. Why is the term &quot;Open Source&quot; used to refer to publicly available information? Something like &quot;PAT&quot; would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information.<p>Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lakrhN</author><text>PAI would sound like anyone had the right to the information, whereas OS sounds like it happens to be public (unfortunately), but of course only we the agencies should access it.<p>OS is a bureaucratic power term, which is of course quite old:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open-source_intelligence#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open-source_intelligence#Histo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone</title><url>https://osintteam.blog/mastering-osint-how-to-find-information-on-anyone-680e4086f17f</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alabhyajindal</author><text>I never liked this term. Why is the term &quot;Open Source&quot; used to refer to publicly available information? Something like &quot;PAT&quot; would have been a better acronym: Public Available Information.<p>Do we refer to street dogs as open source dogs?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elib-at</author><text>...this takes me down a rabbit hole to 2010. We once tried to establish &quot;Public Intelligence&quot; [PubInt] as it was a term we used since 2003 in 2010 but it only caught on with some businesses. The then definition was - to differenciate it from OSINT - bound to the use of the information in a &quot;civic&quot; context - here you got them for fun and giggles:<p>2003: Public intelligence refers to sources of information freely available to the individual to be the basis for it&#x27;s role as a responsible and critical citizen as part of a group or state.<p>Public Intelligence is associated with the application of Open source intelligence (OSInt) to empower the public in its dealings with all forms of organization, and most especially government. It is an applied variant of Collective intelligence.<p>It was inspired by the 1978 Colby book:<p>&quot;Intelligence must accept the end of its special status in the American government, and take on the task of informing the public of its nature and its activities as any other department or agency. . . . By far the most effective manner of accomplishing the task . . . is by letting the public benefit directly from the products of intelligence, its information and assessments. &quot; --former DCI William Colby, Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA, Simon &amp; Schuster, 1978, pp. 459-60.<p>I put it together for your viewing pleasure: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elib.at&#x2F;index.php?title=Public_Intelligence_-_Glossar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elib.at&#x2F;index.php?title=Public_Intelligence_-_Glossa...</a> enjoy<p>edit:typos</text></comment> |
38,129,310 | 38,128,490 | 1 | 2 | 38,126,623 | train | <story><title>Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code</title><url>https://github.com/lukas-blecher/LaTeX-OCR</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kuter</author><text>Took a peek at the models they use. It seems to be a vision transformer encoder decoder architecture with a resent backbone. Looks really good. I had a similar idea of training a model and making a desktop application, but haven&#x27;t had the opportunity. I wonder how much compute it took to train the model.<p>I think this paper was the first one to do OCR on LaTeX: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs231n.stanford.edu&#x2F;reports&#x2F;2017&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;815.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cs231n.stanford.edu&#x2F;reports&#x2F;2017&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;815.pdf</a>
The paper describes an Encoder-Decoder architecture with CNN encoder and LSTM based decoder.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code</title><url>https://github.com/lukas-blecher/LaTeX-OCR</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>perihelions</author><text>For the morbidly curious, that nightmare math is someone&#x27;s quantum field theory notes which they typeset in TeX:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rohankulkarni.me&#x2F;files&#x2F;notes&#x2F;heidelberg_qft&#x2F;12_2.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rohankulkarni.me&#x2F;files&#x2F;notes&#x2F;heidelberg_qft&#x2F;12_2.pdf</a> (<i>&quot;12.2 Diagrammatic expansion of partition function for Yukawa theory&quot;</i>)</text></comment> |
39,289,423 | 39,289,227 | 1 | 2 | 39,273,830 | train | <story><title>TSMC to build second Japan chip factory</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-build-second-japan-chip-105111276.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gipp</author><text>So, maybe someone here can explain this to me. I anyways hear about how the entire semiconductor industry is completely dependent on TSMC, and nothing can operate without them, thus their geopolitical importance.<p>But then what are Intel, Arm, etc in this picture? I don&#x27;t understand semiconductor manufacturing in enough detail -- I assume TSMC occupies a different part of the supply chain? But chip manufacturing seems like a pretty integrated process top to bottom; what&#x27;s the division between them? In concrete terms, what is it that TSMC is doing that nobody else is?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CitizenKane</author><text>Currently TSMC has the only leading edge chip fabrications plants (fabs) on the planet and they&#x27;re all located in Taiwan. They account for all new chips for all new Apple products, all new AMD products, most new Nvidia products, etc. Most companies design the the chips, but then outsource the manufacturing of them to TSMC as building a fab has astronomical upfront costs.<p>TSMC has acquired a lead in this area through a number of different methods. One of the main things is that they focus deeply on manufacturing. Another is that they work 24 hours a day in R&amp;D, running 3 shifts so they basically have the lights on all the time. And as mentioned above, the upfront costs are incredibly high with a fab costing on the order of 20+ billion dollars to construct.<p>Intel is attempting to catch up, but it will likely be another 3 to 5 years before they are able to do so. Honestly just having R&amp;D up and going all the time is probably a huge advantage for TSMC and probably a big reason behind their success. Regardless, suffice to say basically all cutting edge product shipments would cease in a matter of months if TSMC fabs were destroyed.</text></comment> | <story><title>TSMC to build second Japan chip factory</title><url>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-build-second-japan-chip-105111276.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gipp</author><text>So, maybe someone here can explain this to me. I anyways hear about how the entire semiconductor industry is completely dependent on TSMC, and nothing can operate without them, thus their geopolitical importance.<p>But then what are Intel, Arm, etc in this picture? I don&#x27;t understand semiconductor manufacturing in enough detail -- I assume TSMC occupies a different part of the supply chain? But chip manufacturing seems like a pretty integrated process top to bottom; what&#x27;s the division between them? In concrete terms, what is it that TSMC is doing that nobody else is?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>YetAnotherNick</author><text>&gt; I anyways hear about how the entire semiconductor industry is completely dependent on TSMC<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s as strong dependance as many commenters assume here. Samsung is 2 years behind TSMC and intel 3-4 years behind in terms of fab capability. While losing 2 years of progress is not great, it&#x27;s definitely nothing like world can&#x27;t function without TSMC.<p>Obviously they need few years to ramp up but I assume it&#x27;s not like Taiwan geopolitics situation would change in a day.</text></comment> |
39,256,487 | 39,254,908 | 1 | 3 | 39,253,099 | train | <story><title>Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)</title><url>https://philosophygeek.medium.com/why-g%C3%B6del-escher-bach-is-the-most-influential-book-in-my-life-49d785a4e428</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>I found this book dull, uninteresting and pretentious. Whatever it tried to say in what 1000 pages could have been said in 200. People will probably recommend it highly in this thread, but here is a vote to just leave it alone. It&#x27;s just not good if you like pop sci but don&#x27;t like pretentious fluff around it. It&#x27;s the least inspiring and mind-blowing book I ever read. This could be related to having read a lot on the topics in the past so the subject matter was familiar, and having <i>zero</i> tolerance for the type of writing in it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hnfong</author><text>&gt; if you like pop sci<p>That&#x27;s the &quot;problem&quot; right there. It wasn&#x27;t a pop sci book. TBH while Gödel&#x27;s incompleteness theorem might be seen as &quot;science&quot; subject, it is actually squarely in the realm of meta-mathematics, a branch of philosophy.<p>The &quot;writing style&quot; is what most would call &quot;literature&quot;, which includes prose, poetry, stories, etc. It&#x27;s not for everyone, for sure, but some people do enjoy it (I occasionally do, but I lose patience.) Calling it &quot;pretentious fluff&quot; sounds a bit extreme.</text></comment> | <story><title>Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)</title><url>https://philosophygeek.medium.com/why-g%C3%B6del-escher-bach-is-the-most-influential-book-in-my-life-49d785a4e428</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alkonaut</author><text>I found this book dull, uninteresting and pretentious. Whatever it tried to say in what 1000 pages could have been said in 200. People will probably recommend it highly in this thread, but here is a vote to just leave it alone. It&#x27;s just not good if you like pop sci but don&#x27;t like pretentious fluff around it. It&#x27;s the least inspiring and mind-blowing book I ever read. This could be related to having read a lot on the topics in the past so the subject matter was familiar, and having <i>zero</i> tolerance for the type of writing in it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>If you&#x27;re not a reading-for-pleasure person, or GEB&#x27;s topics just aren&#x27;t your thing, you&#x27;re not going to like the book. It&#x27;s not a technical volume; it&#x27;s not something you read for skills acquisition.</text></comment> |
4,140,657 | 4,140,054 | 1 | 3 | 4,139,876 | train | <story><title>How Reddit's cofounders built Reddit with an army of fake accounts</title><url>http://www.dailydot.com/business/steve-huffman-built-reddit-fake-accounts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nkurz</author><text>I'm surprised that this behaviour seems to be tolerated. Yes, it works, but so do a lot of other slimy subterfuges and shady business practices. I'm steadfastly of the opinion that if you can't be honest about how you are doing it, it shouldn't be done, and shouldn't be condoned. I do not believe that ends justify means. Lies and deceit make for a lousy foundation.<p>Would the site really have been worse off if the same posts had been submitted under the founders' real names? Instead of starting out with false pretenses, could they have encouraged their friends to contribute? I think once one goes down this path, the success of the whole endeavor is tainted. Yes, crime frequently pays and cheaters often win, but that's something that we as a community should work to change.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Reddit's cofounders built Reddit with an army of fake accounts</title><url>http://www.dailydot.com/business/steve-huffman-built-reddit-fake-accounts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>Alexis has posted about this before, a few years ago I think. He has lots of similar things on his blog about how reddit started, eg: <a href="http://alexisohanian.com/how-reddit-became-reddit-the-smallest-biggest" rel="nofollow">http://alexisohanian.com/how-reddit-became-reddit-the-smalle...</a><p>The video is worth watching though, it has more insights than just fake users.</text></comment> |
21,411,655 | 21,410,769 | 1 | 3 | 21,408,178 | train | <story><title>I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman2</author><text>I&#x27;ve stayed at 22 airbnb&#x27;s 11 were fine. 11 had issues most with false advertising in some form or another. One listed the wrong location and if they had listed the correct location I would not have rented even though the room&#x27;s interior matched. A few claimed to include onsite parking but didn&#x27;t which of course is very inconvenient. The last one that did that claimed &quot;Easy Street Parking&quot; as AirBnb&#x27;s blatant lie. I usually had to park a mile way or pay for a $25 a night garage a few blocks away. One claimed wifi but was actually just stealing it from the neighbors and it only worked in a corner of the apartment if lucky. Another who I asked if their heaters worked, because a previous one was cold, said yes but when I got their the heater was as loud as a vacuum cleaner and their wifi had a notices &quot;don&#x27;t use much as it will run out&quot;. This for a place I expected to get work done. AirBnb in Japan is full of listing claiming 2 or 3 bedrooms but that actually only have 1 and this isn&#x27;t a cultural issue. Look at any J-apartment rental site and there is zero ambiguity about what 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms are.<p>It bugs me that YC appears to have absolutely no policy of conduct for the companies they fund. It&#x27;s totally within their power to say in so many words &quot;be evil and we&#x27;ll pull your funding and report you to the authorities&quot;. IMO AirBnB is complicit in these issues. There is no punishment for bad listings and often AirBnB doesn&#x27;t even have the options in their system to list them correctly. They even removed my review that included pictures of proof.</text></item><item><author>julienchastang</author><text>There have been a few threads about AirBnb lately with a lot of people reporting negative experiences so I will add my own $0.02. I have stayed in many AirBnbs. The reason is, I find it is the only way to have a tolerable family vacation is when everyone has their own sleeping quarters. When we are all piled into one (often overpriced and not so clean) hotel room, it makes for less than ideal sleep and everyone ends up grouchy. Plus when you travel with children, it is really nice to have a kitchen and a way to do laundry. At any rate, my observation for all my AirBnb stays is most of them are quite nice. Many hosts go to great lengths to have their guests have a nice stay. There have been a few crappy experiences, but not many. The main downside for me concerning AirBnb is it takes a long time to analyze the listings to find quality accommodations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway35784</author><text>Compare that to 100% of My priceline bids being accepted by hotels that were much better than expected and at rates about half what you&#x27;d book directly.<p>I&#x27;m so glad now after years of never booking an airbnb I can say that with pride. I never gave this scummy company a single dollar. I knew who they were from the first experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman2</author><text>I&#x27;ve stayed at 22 airbnb&#x27;s 11 were fine. 11 had issues most with false advertising in some form or another. One listed the wrong location and if they had listed the correct location I would not have rented even though the room&#x27;s interior matched. A few claimed to include onsite parking but didn&#x27;t which of course is very inconvenient. The last one that did that claimed &quot;Easy Street Parking&quot; as AirBnb&#x27;s blatant lie. I usually had to park a mile way or pay for a $25 a night garage a few blocks away. One claimed wifi but was actually just stealing it from the neighbors and it only worked in a corner of the apartment if lucky. Another who I asked if their heaters worked, because a previous one was cold, said yes but when I got their the heater was as loud as a vacuum cleaner and their wifi had a notices &quot;don&#x27;t use much as it will run out&quot;. This for a place I expected to get work done. AirBnb in Japan is full of listing claiming 2 or 3 bedrooms but that actually only have 1 and this isn&#x27;t a cultural issue. Look at any J-apartment rental site and there is zero ambiguity about what 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms are.<p>It bugs me that YC appears to have absolutely no policy of conduct for the companies they fund. It&#x27;s totally within their power to say in so many words &quot;be evil and we&#x27;ll pull your funding and report you to the authorities&quot;. IMO AirBnB is complicit in these issues. There is no punishment for bad listings and often AirBnB doesn&#x27;t even have the options in their system to list them correctly. They even removed my review that included pictures of proof.</text></item><item><author>julienchastang</author><text>There have been a few threads about AirBnb lately with a lot of people reporting negative experiences so I will add my own $0.02. I have stayed in many AirBnbs. The reason is, I find it is the only way to have a tolerable family vacation is when everyone has their own sleeping quarters. When we are all piled into one (often overpriced and not so clean) hotel room, it makes for less than ideal sleep and everyone ends up grouchy. Plus when you travel with children, it is really nice to have a kitchen and a way to do laundry. At any rate, my observation for all my AirBnb stays is most of them are quite nice. Many hosts go to great lengths to have their guests have a nice stay. There have been a few crappy experiences, but not many. The main downside for me concerning AirBnb is it takes a long time to analyze the listings to find quality accommodations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harryh</author><text>YC owns a tiny tiny piece of AirBnB. They definitely do not have any sort of power over the issues that you bring up.</text></comment> |
26,830,477 | 26,830,455 | 1 | 2 | 26,828,967 | train | <story><title>Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network</title><url>https://paramdeo.com/blog/opting-your-website-out-of-googles-floc-network</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jahewson</author><text>Has nobody bothered to read anything about FLoC?<p>The purpose of this permission is to prevent embedded third-party content from using FLoC. Besides that it’s a no-op.<p>FLoC does not track arbitrary websites, it tracks sites which retrieve the FLoC cohort via JS. So instead of dropping a unique third party cookie, and associating it with the data on the page, sites can now retrieve a k-anonymous cohort id and associate it with the data on the page. If you’re not doing that (or serving ads) there’s nothing you need to do.<p>That’s not to say that FLoC doesn’t deserve criticism just that most criticism I’ve encountered is not grounded in reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedwhite</author><text>According to the W3C Federated Learning of Cohorts
Draft Community Group Report, 13 April 2021, Paragraphs 3 &amp; 7.1.1:<p>&quot;The interest cohort API lives under the Document interface since the access permission is tied to the document scope, and the API is only available if the document is in secure context.&quot;<p>and<p>&quot;The page can opt itself out of the interest cohort computation through the &quot;interest-cohort&quot; policy-controlled feature. [PERMISSIONS-POLICY]&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wicg.github.io&#x2F;floc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wicg.github.io&#x2F;floc&#x2F;</a><p>Edit for para reference.</text></comment> | <story><title>Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network</title><url>https://paramdeo.com/blog/opting-your-website-out-of-googles-floc-network</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jahewson</author><text>Has nobody bothered to read anything about FLoC?<p>The purpose of this permission is to prevent embedded third-party content from using FLoC. Besides that it’s a no-op.<p>FLoC does not track arbitrary websites, it tracks sites which retrieve the FLoC cohort via JS. So instead of dropping a unique third party cookie, and associating it with the data on the page, sites can now retrieve a k-anonymous cohort id and associate it with the data on the page. If you’re not doing that (or serving ads) there’s nothing you need to do.<p>That’s not to say that FLoC doesn’t deserve criticism just that most criticism I’ve encountered is not grounded in reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aww_dang</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WICG&#x2F;floc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;82" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WICG&#x2F;floc&#x2F;issues&#x2F;82</a><p>&gt;During the current FLoC origin trial, a page will also be included in the calculation if Chrome detects that the page load ads or ads-related resources.<p>Who&#x27;s to say how this evolves in the future?</text></comment> |
4,290,667 | 4,290,364 | 1 | 3 | 4,289,958 | train | <story><title>Starting a Django Project the Right Way</title><url>http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/02/09/starting-a-django-project-the-right-way/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Don't use Fabric. Seriously, just don't.<p>It's easier to set up than puppet/chef, but you lose a huge amount of flexibility/robustness. All fabric does is runs commands on host machines. Dependency management is your responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hcarvalhoalves</author><text>I wouldn't be so harsh. Both Puppet and Chef come with their own (enterprisey) overhead and it's Yet Another Tool to understand and maintain. Chef in particular feels like an over-engineered solution for anyone managing less than hundreds of servers, it adds a lot of cruft (centralized server, authorization, protocols, etc.) that most people wouldn't need. I believe a lot of people like it for the sole reason they are not experienced managing servers, so they can just use pre-made recipes and call it a day.<p>Anyway, you can go a long way with just a bunch of scripts leveraging Fabric's API. I have setup ~10 servers for a news portal I run from the ground up in just a few lines of code. Managing dependencies is not ridiculously difficult as you make it sound, package managers (apt-get, pip) already handle that for you without any overhead.</text></comment> | <story><title>Starting a Django Project the Right Way</title><url>http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/02/09/starting-a-django-project-the-right-way/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>yummyfajitas</author><text>Don't use Fabric. Seriously, just don't.<p>It's easier to set up than puppet/chef, but you lose a huge amount of flexibility/robustness. All fabric does is runs commands on host machines. Dependency management is your responsibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slig</author><text>He's using fabric to automate the deployment of his app, not to create and manage a new VM.</text></comment> |
35,988,435 | 35,988,270 | 1 | 3 | 35,986,270 | train | <story><title>Where have all the hackers gone?</title><url>https://morepablo.com/2023/05/where-have-all-the-hackers-gone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drones</author><text>I think the author of this article grossly misunderstood the purpose of his interaction which lead to this article.<p>You aren&#x27;t architecting a new programming language, man, you&#x27;re talking to a guy about computers because you&#x27;re wearing a shirt of a computer thing he liked. He wanted to talk to you because he had a mutual passion he wanted to share, and you openly challenged him in front of other people. Sorry, you were a shitty friend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rickboyce</author><text>The description of this interaction in the article makes me sad for the author - they criticise and belittle another. Imagine instead what they could have learnt if they opened themselves up to another persons perspective.<p>It’s notable how little this article actually discusses the delivery of any form of value. The tech is not the end in itself, it’s a means to an end - and we live in an age with so many well matured and valid options that for many of the problems we seek to solve what tech we use isn’t necessarily a critical decision.<p>The author answers their own question - where have the hackers gone? We are getting on with it and building stuff. This kind of language flame war stuff just isn’t as important as it once (debatably) was. It’s a dying trope.<p>Thinking on the initial mistake our author made - framing the conversation rigidly through their own frame of reference - I’ve personally found Matthew Syed’s work on cognitive diversity helpful in understanding and addressing this. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphic-designer-richmond.co.uk&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;business-book-review-rebel-ideas-matthew-syed&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphic-designer-richmond.co.uk&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;business-boo...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Where have all the hackers gone?</title><url>https://morepablo.com/2023/05/where-have-all-the-hackers-gone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drones</author><text>I think the author of this article grossly misunderstood the purpose of his interaction which lead to this article.<p>You aren&#x27;t architecting a new programming language, man, you&#x27;re talking to a guy about computers because you&#x27;re wearing a shirt of a computer thing he liked. He wanted to talk to you because he had a mutual passion he wanted to share, and you openly challenged him in front of other people. Sorry, you were a shitty friend.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xbadcafebee</author><text>You don&#x27;t know what the other person really wanted or thought - and neither did the author, apparently. The breakdown in communication here is that you, and the author, had certain expectations, assumptions, and unknown information, and you both made conclusions based on all that variable, unknowable, uncommunicated stuff.<p>Rather than assume what&#x27;s going on in the other person&#x27;s head, ask them. Assume good faith until evidence to the contrary. It allows less judgement and negativity, which leads to more fruitful conversation.</text></comment> |
35,918,733 | 35,918,526 | 1 | 3 | 35,917,912 | train | <story><title>Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657050349608501249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belter</author><text>The FT got the scoop: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;edfead7f-27b5-441b-8971-8a161bad4830" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;edfead7f-27b5-441b-8971-8a161bad4...</a><p>&quot;@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design &amp; new technology.&quot;<p>Looks like he found somebody to have the CEO title, while he keeps deciding the product strategy. So still runs Twitter while saying he kept the promise from his Twitter poll...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atestu</author><text>WSJ yesterday for what it&#x27;s worth: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;linda-yaccarino-in-talks-new-twitter-ceo-elon-musk-7a006bb5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;linda-yaccarino-in-talks-new-tw...</a> Good writeup<p>And to add to your comment:<p>&gt; Mr. Musk, who has been CEO since buying the company in October, said his role will shift to executive chairman and chief technology officer. But Mr. Musk also made clear he wasn’t about to yield control over the platform, saying he would maintain responsibility for product, software and system operations.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter</title><url>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657050349608501249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belter</author><text>The FT got the scoop: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;edfead7f-27b5-441b-8971-8a161bad4830" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;edfead7f-27b5-441b-8971-8a161bad4...</a><p>&quot;@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design &amp; new technology.&quot;<p>Looks like he found somebody to have the CEO title, while he keeps deciding the product strategy. So still runs Twitter while saying he kept the promise from his Twitter poll...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frellus</author><text>Elon just wants to build things, have autonomy and also dictatorial control of the process. He doesn&#x27;t care about how things are monitized (although in the case of Twitter, where he didn&#x27;t build it from the start, he has to worry about it quite deeply).<p>There is nothing more complicated in his decision here. Elon is a visionary and a builder. That&#x27;s all his ventures.</text></comment> |
35,815,701 | 35,813,657 | 1 | 2 | 35,809,687 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: Beware Stripe's “Minimum Fee Commitment”</title><text>TLDR: Stripe will give you a better rate if you agree to a &quot;Minimum Fee Commitment&quot;, meaning you agree to process $X in fees over a certain amount of time, and if you fall short, you have to pay them the difference. However, there&#x27;s nothing in the contract that lets you off the hook if <i>Stripe</i> decides to freeze your payouts, which in our case they did, and repeatedly keep doing.<p>Long version: The company I work for processes tens of millions annually, and Stripe was able to offer a better rate than our current processor, so we entered into what would become a months-long sales process.<p>The salesperson pushed hard to get us to sign up for a Minimum Fee Commitment: if we agreed to run at least $X million in processing fees over five years, they could give us a <i>really</i> good rate. If there was a shortfall, we&#x27;d have to make up the difference.<p>We almost agreed as we could easily meet the amount, but in the end we declined since the contract didn&#x27;t let us off the hook if <i>Stripe</i> decided to stop doing business with <i>us</i>.<p>Shortly after we started collecting payments through Stripe, we got a notice that they had frozen our payouts because of a &quot;surge in processing volume&quot;. Weird! Must be a mistake, right? They obviously know who we are and what volume we process; after all, we&#x27;ve been working with them for the past X months to get this thing off the ground, submitted financial statements, processing history, all sorts of documentation about our business.<p>What we discovered pretty quickly, however, is that the Stripe risk teams (apparently) don&#x27;t communicate with the rest of the organization, and they also don&#x27;t communicate with customers, which is to say they ask but don&#x27;t answer questions. They wanted things like &quot;Invoices for the past 7-14 days&quot; or &quot;copies of one or two contracts with vendors&quot;, but wouldn&#x27;t respond to requests for clarification or acknowledge our emails to them in any way. They&#x27;d say, &quot;Send us X,&quot; and I would reply, &quot;What do you mean exactly by X?&quot; and they&#x27;d reply with, &quot;Send us Y&quot;. A black box.<p>Our rep figured out that our account hadn&#x27;t been flagged properly: even though we had gone through a sales process and signed a contract, our account had been configured as &quot;self serve&quot;, which puts us in a higher risk category with a different risk team than we should have had. So... payouts frozen for a week, a bit scary but resolved now, no big deal.<p>Less than 24 hours later, however, our payouts were frozen again, this time by a different Stripe risk team with even weirder demands: among other things, they wanted a &quot;working website&quot; (our website works?) and &quot;contact information to appear on the website&quot; (it&#x27;s on every page?) It was as if Stripe had never heard of or talked to us before, and just like the other risk team, they asked questions but didn&#x27;t respond to our emails.<p>We&#x27;ve been able to make some progress, but due-diligence is ongoing and feels arbitrary, with new and different teams taking an interest in our account every so often, which leads to new questions, documents we need to produce, etc., and as of yesterday our payouts are frozen once again.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful we&#x27;ll resolve our issues, but I feel pretty strongly that we would be in deep trouble had we agreed to the Minimum Fee Commitment. Our ability to walk away has been the one piece of leverage we have had in order to achieve any resolution whatsoever.<p>To sum up: Stripe has a lot going for them, and I definitely not saying you shouldn&#x27;t use them to process payments, but: beware the Minimum Fee Commitment. No matter how warm and fuzzy the salesperson makes you feel, Stripe proper doesn&#x27;t do any due diligence until after you sign the contract and start collecting money, and their policy is &quot;freeze payouts first, ask questions later&quot;, so you&#x27;ll want the ability to roll back to another processor (which is what we&#x27;re currently doing) if you can&#x27;t meet their ever-changing demands by their deadlines.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaaarrgh</author><text>&gt; They&#x27;d say, &quot;Send us X,&quot; and I would reply, &quot;What do you mean exactly by X?&quot; and they&#x27;d reply with, &quot;Send us Y&quot;. A black box.<p>Thank you so much for talking about this. I will never work for, nor be a customer of, a company that operates this way. Their culture is obviously one where the leadership have not impressed a need to have clear and continuous communication around business-critical processes. There&#x27;ll be many more problems related to this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: Beware Stripe's “Minimum Fee Commitment”</title><text>TLDR: Stripe will give you a better rate if you agree to a &quot;Minimum Fee Commitment&quot;, meaning you agree to process $X in fees over a certain amount of time, and if you fall short, you have to pay them the difference. However, there&#x27;s nothing in the contract that lets you off the hook if <i>Stripe</i> decides to freeze your payouts, which in our case they did, and repeatedly keep doing.<p>Long version: The company I work for processes tens of millions annually, and Stripe was able to offer a better rate than our current processor, so we entered into what would become a months-long sales process.<p>The salesperson pushed hard to get us to sign up for a Minimum Fee Commitment: if we agreed to run at least $X million in processing fees over five years, they could give us a <i>really</i> good rate. If there was a shortfall, we&#x27;d have to make up the difference.<p>We almost agreed as we could easily meet the amount, but in the end we declined since the contract didn&#x27;t let us off the hook if <i>Stripe</i> decided to stop doing business with <i>us</i>.<p>Shortly after we started collecting payments through Stripe, we got a notice that they had frozen our payouts because of a &quot;surge in processing volume&quot;. Weird! Must be a mistake, right? They obviously know who we are and what volume we process; after all, we&#x27;ve been working with them for the past X months to get this thing off the ground, submitted financial statements, processing history, all sorts of documentation about our business.<p>What we discovered pretty quickly, however, is that the Stripe risk teams (apparently) don&#x27;t communicate with the rest of the organization, and they also don&#x27;t communicate with customers, which is to say they ask but don&#x27;t answer questions. They wanted things like &quot;Invoices for the past 7-14 days&quot; or &quot;copies of one or two contracts with vendors&quot;, but wouldn&#x27;t respond to requests for clarification or acknowledge our emails to them in any way. They&#x27;d say, &quot;Send us X,&quot; and I would reply, &quot;What do you mean exactly by X?&quot; and they&#x27;d reply with, &quot;Send us Y&quot;. A black box.<p>Our rep figured out that our account hadn&#x27;t been flagged properly: even though we had gone through a sales process and signed a contract, our account had been configured as &quot;self serve&quot;, which puts us in a higher risk category with a different risk team than we should have had. So... payouts frozen for a week, a bit scary but resolved now, no big deal.<p>Less than 24 hours later, however, our payouts were frozen again, this time by a different Stripe risk team with even weirder demands: among other things, they wanted a &quot;working website&quot; (our website works?) and &quot;contact information to appear on the website&quot; (it&#x27;s on every page?) It was as if Stripe had never heard of or talked to us before, and just like the other risk team, they asked questions but didn&#x27;t respond to our emails.<p>We&#x27;ve been able to make some progress, but due-diligence is ongoing and feels arbitrary, with new and different teams taking an interest in our account every so often, which leads to new questions, documents we need to produce, etc., and as of yesterday our payouts are frozen once again.<p>I&#x27;m hopeful we&#x27;ll resolve our issues, but I feel pretty strongly that we would be in deep trouble had we agreed to the Minimum Fee Commitment. Our ability to walk away has been the one piece of leverage we have had in order to achieve any resolution whatsoever.<p>To sum up: Stripe has a lot going for them, and I definitely not saying you shouldn&#x27;t use them to process payments, but: beware the Minimum Fee Commitment. No matter how warm and fuzzy the salesperson makes you feel, Stripe proper doesn&#x27;t do any due diligence until after you sign the contract and start collecting money, and their policy is &quot;freeze payouts first, ask questions later&quot;, so you&#x27;ll want the ability to roll back to another processor (which is what we&#x27;re currently doing) if you can&#x27;t meet their ever-changing demands by their deadlines.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hsjqllzlfkf</author><text>Thank you sharing. Sounds like a terrible company to do business with.</text></comment> |
33,614,120 | 33,614,107 | 1 | 2 | 33,613,525 | train | <story><title>Activision Blizzard Is Trying to Stop a Union Vote at Its Albany Office</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgv48/activision-blizzard-is-trying-to-stop-a-union-vote-at-its-albany-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skyyler</author><text>&gt;existing legal precedent fails to account for the uniquely collaborative nature of game development<p>This argument is very shaky. Aren&#x27;t Hollywood films the product of union labour?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SQueeeeeL</author><text>Obviously, but these arguments are basically just there to give a semblance of authenticity to the illegal union busting. A lot of rhetoric in these spaces just serve to confuse and enable anti-worker ideologes to feel a sense of legitimacy in denying people maternal leave and decent healthcare</text></comment> | <story><title>Activision Blizzard Is Trying to Stop a Union Vote at Its Albany Office</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgv48/activision-blizzard-is-trying-to-stop-a-union-vote-at-its-albany-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skyyler</author><text>&gt;existing legal precedent fails to account for the uniquely collaborative nature of game development<p>This argument is very shaky. Aren&#x27;t Hollywood films the product of union labour?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yamtaddle</author><text>Pro sports, too. Talk about collaboration.<p>[EDIT] Incidentally, I think there&#x27;s some interesting cross-over here between Hollywood and video games: it&#x27;s my understanding that part (though only part) of why modern movies lean so heavily on CGI&#x2F;VFX is that that&#x27;s one of the only major parts of movie-making that&#x27;s <i>not</i> very, very unionized, along with that industry&#x27;s cousin and the topic of this article, video games. I&#x27;d expect that when one of those unionizes, the other won&#x27;t be far behind.</text></comment> |
16,781,911 | 16,781,134 | 1 | 3 | 16,780,302 | train | <story><title>The Qualcomm 'Tax' Rebellion (2017)</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-01-24/qualcomm-s-tax-collection-days-are-looking-numbered</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>I think looking at it through a couple lenses might help. For the sake of simplicity, let&#x27;s say that the average royalty Qualcomm gets is $15&#x2F;phone and they&#x27;re charging 5% of the MSRP (manufacturer&#x27;s suggested retail price). These are made-up royalty rates since, as the article notes, royalty rates are a closely guarded secret.<p>1) Let&#x27;s look at it from Apple&#x27;s perspective. Their current device lineup costs $700, $800, $850, $950, $1,000, or $1,150 (iPhone 8, iPhone 8+, iPhone 8 256GB, iPhone 8+ 256GB, iPhone X, iPhone X 256GB). Qualcomm is taking $35 to $57.50 per phone. Increasing the storage from 64GB to 256GB means Qualcomm gets an additional $7.50 for doing nothing. They didn&#x27;t make the LTE faster on the devices with more storage. It&#x27;s the exact same technologies, why should it cost more? In fact, Apple is paying 2.3-3.8x more per phone than the average. So, you can imagine that Apple wants to pay less. They&#x27;re a manufacturer that only makes high-end phones.<p>2) Let&#x27;s look at it from LG&#x27;s perspective. They sell a variety of phones and let&#x27;s say they have a $100 phone, a $300 phone, and a $509 phone and they sell equal amounts of each. They have to pay a $25.45 royalty on the $509 phone and only a $5 royalty on the $100 phone, but they&#x27;re paying on average $15&#x2F;phone in royalties so it doesn&#x27;t really matter.<p>Before Apple, most device manufacturers created a variety of devices at a variety of price points so it didn&#x27;t really matter if it was a percentage or a fixed cost. In fact, being a percentage meant that you didn&#x27;t have to worry as much going down-market. If you create a cheap device, you could capture some of that market without as much worry about what the royalties would do to your margins.<p>I think the article is a bit fuzzy there. It&#x27;s hard to argue that a percentage is really better for everyone. It does offer a certain flexibility in a market where people might be feeling things out. For example, let&#x27;s say I want to make the next IoT LTE-connected thing - you want sensors around your home connected by LTE measuring micro-humidities and you&#x27;ll need at least 100 of them per house. I&#x27;m planning on selling them for $10&#x2F;sensor. It&#x27;s going to be the next-gen of home comfort automation! If Qualcomm just has a straight royalty fee of $15, I can&#x27;t get my business of the ground. New, innovative uses of LTE can&#x27;t come to the forefront because while a $15 royalty is totally manageable for something like a smartphone with a high selling price, it&#x27;s unduly burdensome for something like my sensors.<p>You can also say that the value-add of LTE in a smartphone is higher than the value add of LTE in my sensors. Why not just use WiFi for the sensors? Even if LTE is needed, they&#x27;re going to be transmitting a lot less data, don&#x27;t really need fast data or low latency (old GPRS would provide enough bandwidth to send the tiny updates). LTE is adding less value to these sensors than it does to a smartphone.<p>I think that&#x27;s part of the argument from Qualcomm&#x27;s perspective. They want me to be able to create my micro-humidity sensing IoT with affordable royalty rates while still raising enough money to pay for the technology development. If they had to charge $0.50&#x2F;device to everyone (5% of my $10 selling price), they wouldn&#x27;t make back their investment in developing new wireless techniques. If they had to charge me $15&#x2F;device, I couldn&#x27;t make a viable business model.<p>So, in that way, it can benefit everyone and make it simple. There&#x27;s no arguing about how much value-add that Qualcomm is adding to my sensors vs your smartphone. I think most people would agree that the value-add proposition of LTE in a smartphone vs WiFi-only is way above my sensors having LTE or WiFi only.<p>I think one way one could measure the value-add is by how much data is consumed by the device. If the device&#x27;s user is using more LTE data, they&#x27;re getting more value from the Qualcomm IP than a device that&#x27;s always on WiFi. If I agree to turn off LTE&#x2F;CDMA&#x2F;UMTS and just use WiFi, should I get a rebate of the Qualcomm royalty? While that&#x27;s impractical, it makes sense - I&#x27;m not getting any value add from that IP.<p>Ultimately, we only have imprecise approximations. As phone prices have skyrocketed in recent years, the fact that the royalty is a percentage has become a bigger issue. For years, the prices of phones would have been going down as technology became cheaper. Smartphones changed that as phones went from something where a good one was $100-200 to where a decent smartphone started at 5 to 10x that. I&#x27;m guessing that&#x27;s part of the big issue now. People are looking at Qualcomm as getting fat off of their smartphone innovations rather than Qualcomm&#x27;s wireless innovations. A better display or more memory doesn&#x27;t make Qualcomm&#x27;s IP better.<p>Of course, to play Qualcomm&#x27;s side of the argument, a better camera means that fast data is a bigger value-add since you don&#x27;t want to be waiting forever for uploads; a better display means more pixels and more data to send over the network; a better phone means a device you&#x27;re going to be using more data with.<p>I tend to take Apple&#x27;s side in this argument, but I can also see how Apple&#x27;s side is self-serving. I think FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) should be FRAND. Everyone should pay the same price and, in fact, hidden royalty prices should be enough evidence alone that a company is violating FRAND. Apple making better software or a better display doesn&#x27;t mean Qualcomm should get to leach off that. Of course, that&#x27;s kinda self-serving for Apple: a non-percentage royalty rate would mean royalties would have to rise on cheaper, non-Apple devices. It would also stifle innovation in areas we don&#x27;t even know LTE might be useful yet. Maybe there&#x27;s some hot new use for the technology just waiting to be invented, but if it requires a fixed fee, it won&#x27;t get off the ground. Should a farm sensor that uploads maybe 1MB&#x2F;day really require the same royalty as an iPhone where I slog through a couple hundred MBs&#x2F;day? Do we want to say, &quot;sorry, IoT is cancelled due to royalties&quot;?<p>Maybe we just need categories. Phones cost $15&#x2F;device, sensors cost $0.50&#x2F;device, etc. based on some notion of value add.</text></item><item><author>thisisit</author><text>The article is very illuminating on how the licensing on the technology side. But I am confused. First it said:<p><i>This approach had advantages for everyone involved. It meant licensees and Qualcomm didn&#x27;t have to scrap over which parts of the phone did or didn&#x27;t use Qualcomm technology, so they could just go ahead and focus on the more important task of developing and selling these hip new gadgets.</i><p>And then:<p><i>Qualcomm&#x27;s argument was that no matter what went in the phones, they wouldn&#x27;t work at all without its technology.</i><p>So, was the current licensing agreements put in place because it was advantageous for everyone or was it because Qualcomm argued that the company&#x27;s technology enabled mobiles? The reasoning is important because if it was former then wouldn&#x27;t removing the current licensing structure remove the intended &quot;simplicity&quot;. But, if it was the latter then I find it surprising why weren&#x27;t people fighting an obviously dubious claim from Qualcomm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dman</author><text>Wonder if Apple will take the same stance on the cut it takes off apps. Ie if you look at the value add that Apple provides by running the app store it has a fixed cost, whether the app costs $2 or $200.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Qualcomm 'Tax' Rebellion (2017)</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-01-24/qualcomm-s-tax-collection-days-are-looking-numbered</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mdasen</author><text>I think looking at it through a couple lenses might help. For the sake of simplicity, let&#x27;s say that the average royalty Qualcomm gets is $15&#x2F;phone and they&#x27;re charging 5% of the MSRP (manufacturer&#x27;s suggested retail price). These are made-up royalty rates since, as the article notes, royalty rates are a closely guarded secret.<p>1) Let&#x27;s look at it from Apple&#x27;s perspective. Their current device lineup costs $700, $800, $850, $950, $1,000, or $1,150 (iPhone 8, iPhone 8+, iPhone 8 256GB, iPhone 8+ 256GB, iPhone X, iPhone X 256GB). Qualcomm is taking $35 to $57.50 per phone. Increasing the storage from 64GB to 256GB means Qualcomm gets an additional $7.50 for doing nothing. They didn&#x27;t make the LTE faster on the devices with more storage. It&#x27;s the exact same technologies, why should it cost more? In fact, Apple is paying 2.3-3.8x more per phone than the average. So, you can imagine that Apple wants to pay less. They&#x27;re a manufacturer that only makes high-end phones.<p>2) Let&#x27;s look at it from LG&#x27;s perspective. They sell a variety of phones and let&#x27;s say they have a $100 phone, a $300 phone, and a $509 phone and they sell equal amounts of each. They have to pay a $25.45 royalty on the $509 phone and only a $5 royalty on the $100 phone, but they&#x27;re paying on average $15&#x2F;phone in royalties so it doesn&#x27;t really matter.<p>Before Apple, most device manufacturers created a variety of devices at a variety of price points so it didn&#x27;t really matter if it was a percentage or a fixed cost. In fact, being a percentage meant that you didn&#x27;t have to worry as much going down-market. If you create a cheap device, you could capture some of that market without as much worry about what the royalties would do to your margins.<p>I think the article is a bit fuzzy there. It&#x27;s hard to argue that a percentage is really better for everyone. It does offer a certain flexibility in a market where people might be feeling things out. For example, let&#x27;s say I want to make the next IoT LTE-connected thing - you want sensors around your home connected by LTE measuring micro-humidities and you&#x27;ll need at least 100 of them per house. I&#x27;m planning on selling them for $10&#x2F;sensor. It&#x27;s going to be the next-gen of home comfort automation! If Qualcomm just has a straight royalty fee of $15, I can&#x27;t get my business of the ground. New, innovative uses of LTE can&#x27;t come to the forefront because while a $15 royalty is totally manageable for something like a smartphone with a high selling price, it&#x27;s unduly burdensome for something like my sensors.<p>You can also say that the value-add of LTE in a smartphone is higher than the value add of LTE in my sensors. Why not just use WiFi for the sensors? Even if LTE is needed, they&#x27;re going to be transmitting a lot less data, don&#x27;t really need fast data or low latency (old GPRS would provide enough bandwidth to send the tiny updates). LTE is adding less value to these sensors than it does to a smartphone.<p>I think that&#x27;s part of the argument from Qualcomm&#x27;s perspective. They want me to be able to create my micro-humidity sensing IoT with affordable royalty rates while still raising enough money to pay for the technology development. If they had to charge $0.50&#x2F;device to everyone (5% of my $10 selling price), they wouldn&#x27;t make back their investment in developing new wireless techniques. If they had to charge me $15&#x2F;device, I couldn&#x27;t make a viable business model.<p>So, in that way, it can benefit everyone and make it simple. There&#x27;s no arguing about how much value-add that Qualcomm is adding to my sensors vs your smartphone. I think most people would agree that the value-add proposition of LTE in a smartphone vs WiFi-only is way above my sensors having LTE or WiFi only.<p>I think one way one could measure the value-add is by how much data is consumed by the device. If the device&#x27;s user is using more LTE data, they&#x27;re getting more value from the Qualcomm IP than a device that&#x27;s always on WiFi. If I agree to turn off LTE&#x2F;CDMA&#x2F;UMTS and just use WiFi, should I get a rebate of the Qualcomm royalty? While that&#x27;s impractical, it makes sense - I&#x27;m not getting any value add from that IP.<p>Ultimately, we only have imprecise approximations. As phone prices have skyrocketed in recent years, the fact that the royalty is a percentage has become a bigger issue. For years, the prices of phones would have been going down as technology became cheaper. Smartphones changed that as phones went from something where a good one was $100-200 to where a decent smartphone started at 5 to 10x that. I&#x27;m guessing that&#x27;s part of the big issue now. People are looking at Qualcomm as getting fat off of their smartphone innovations rather than Qualcomm&#x27;s wireless innovations. A better display or more memory doesn&#x27;t make Qualcomm&#x27;s IP better.<p>Of course, to play Qualcomm&#x27;s side of the argument, a better camera means that fast data is a bigger value-add since you don&#x27;t want to be waiting forever for uploads; a better display means more pixels and more data to send over the network; a better phone means a device you&#x27;re going to be using more data with.<p>I tend to take Apple&#x27;s side in this argument, but I can also see how Apple&#x27;s side is self-serving. I think FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) should be FRAND. Everyone should pay the same price and, in fact, hidden royalty prices should be enough evidence alone that a company is violating FRAND. Apple making better software or a better display doesn&#x27;t mean Qualcomm should get to leach off that. Of course, that&#x27;s kinda self-serving for Apple: a non-percentage royalty rate would mean royalties would have to rise on cheaper, non-Apple devices. It would also stifle innovation in areas we don&#x27;t even know LTE might be useful yet. Maybe there&#x27;s some hot new use for the technology just waiting to be invented, but if it requires a fixed fee, it won&#x27;t get off the ground. Should a farm sensor that uploads maybe 1MB&#x2F;day really require the same royalty as an iPhone where I slog through a couple hundred MBs&#x2F;day? Do we want to say, &quot;sorry, IoT is cancelled due to royalties&quot;?<p>Maybe we just need categories. Phones cost $15&#x2F;device, sensors cost $0.50&#x2F;device, etc. based on some notion of value add.</text></item><item><author>thisisit</author><text>The article is very illuminating on how the licensing on the technology side. But I am confused. First it said:<p><i>This approach had advantages for everyone involved. It meant licensees and Qualcomm didn&#x27;t have to scrap over which parts of the phone did or didn&#x27;t use Qualcomm technology, so they could just go ahead and focus on the more important task of developing and selling these hip new gadgets.</i><p>And then:<p><i>Qualcomm&#x27;s argument was that no matter what went in the phones, they wouldn&#x27;t work at all without its technology.</i><p>So, was the current licensing agreements put in place because it was advantageous for everyone or was it because Qualcomm argued that the company&#x27;s technology enabled mobiles? The reasoning is important because if it was former then wouldn&#x27;t removing the current licensing structure remove the intended &quot;simplicity&quot;. But, if it was the latter then I find it surprising why weren&#x27;t people fighting an obviously dubious claim from Qualcomm.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalefranz</author><text>It seems that FRAND in this case is a farse.<p>Would be interested in informed individuals’ opinions on how the regulatory framework is falling over in this case.</text></comment> |
24,159,447 | 24,159,749 | 1 | 3 | 24,156,813 | train | <story><title>Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>compsciphd</author><text>What does mozilla spend money on outside of personal costs?<p>Mozilla had approximately 1000 employees. If they are grossing 450M a year in revenue and 50% of their expenses are personal costs, tht means on average they are spending 225K per employee. for a non profit (even if its a non profit in the tech field and has to compete with tech firms for employees), that seems high. i.e. if one would compare them to Series A or B startups in SV, those would be reasonably high compensation packages (albiet without the stock option upside, but most stock options aren&#x27;t worth the paper they are printed on, even for series A companies perhaps a bit more likelihood with series B).<p>Even if one says its 33%, that&#x27;s still 150K per average employee expense. while that wouldn&#x27;t result in a great SV salary, its would probably be competitive in most of the world.<p>just trying to understand where all the money goes?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stagger87</author><text>Mozilla provides financial statements as recent as 2018 which will answer some of your questions.
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets.mozilla.net&#x2F;annualreport&#x2F;2018&#x2F;mozilla-fdn-2018-short-form-final-0926.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;assets.mozilla.net&#x2F;annualreport&#x2F;2018&#x2F;mozilla-fdn-201...</a><p>See page 5 for expenses.<p>There are several comments here about Mozilla needing to save cash. The balance sheet as of 2018 shows 100+ million in cash assets.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>compsciphd</author><text>What does mozilla spend money on outside of personal costs?<p>Mozilla had approximately 1000 employees. If they are grossing 450M a year in revenue and 50% of their expenses are personal costs, tht means on average they are spending 225K per employee. for a non profit (even if its a non profit in the tech field and has to compete with tech firms for employees), that seems high. i.e. if one would compare them to Series A or B startups in SV, those would be reasonably high compensation packages (albiet without the stock option upside, but most stock options aren&#x27;t worth the paper they are printed on, even for series A companies perhaps a bit more likelihood with series B).<p>Even if one says its 33%, that&#x27;s still 150K per average employee expense. while that wouldn&#x27;t result in a great SV salary, its would probably be competitive in most of the world.<p>just trying to understand where all the money goes?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>Why do you think non-profits should pay lower salaries than for-profits? It&#x27;s good for the world if non-profits can compete with corporations as they tend to act more ethically. Also, from a macro-economic point of view, wages are one of the best things a company can spend it&#x27;s money on.</text></comment> |
9,995,657 | 9,995,506 | 1 | 2 | 9,995,303 | train | <story><title>Soylent 2.0</title><url>http://blog.soylent.com/post/125754565787/soylent-20-use-less-do-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feld</author><text>My first thought whenever I see soylent is that we have studies proving that we can&#x27;t replace breast milk with baby formula. Some of that is due to immune system being passed on to the infant, but we haven&#x27;t yet mastered the nutritional content of real food to the point where we can confidently say it&#x27;s safe to eat Soylent or another similar product regularly.<p>It takes me back to the whole issue with processed dog foods -- kibble, while even the most expensive brands claim to be &quot;nutritionally complete&quot;, miss the fact that dogs cannot process&#x2F;absorb the many nutrients within (and why their waste is... more than a nuisance). Eg, calcium added to dog food is nearly worthless, while calcium from eating raw bones is readily absorbed by their bodies. Same with many other vitamins and minerals.<p>We have a lot of work ahead of us in this sector. It&#x27;s good that someone is trying, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcfrei</author><text>What worries me is that soylent is 20% based on soy. Some studies indicate that eating a heavily soy based diet leads to increased estrogen levels. Which can have negative side effects regardless of your gender. [0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3074428&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3074428&#x2F;</a> [1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0303720711007374" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0303720711...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Soylent 2.0</title><url>http://blog.soylent.com/post/125754565787/soylent-20-use-less-do-more</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>feld</author><text>My first thought whenever I see soylent is that we have studies proving that we can&#x27;t replace breast milk with baby formula. Some of that is due to immune system being passed on to the infant, but we haven&#x27;t yet mastered the nutritional content of real food to the point where we can confidently say it&#x27;s safe to eat Soylent or another similar product regularly.<p>It takes me back to the whole issue with processed dog foods -- kibble, while even the most expensive brands claim to be &quot;nutritionally complete&quot;, miss the fact that dogs cannot process&#x2F;absorb the many nutrients within (and why their waste is... more than a nuisance). Eg, calcium added to dog food is nearly worthless, while calcium from eating raw bones is readily absorbed by their bodies. Same with many other vitamins and minerals.<p>We have a lot of work ahead of us in this sector. It&#x27;s good that someone is trying, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Amezarak</author><text>&gt; but we haven&#x27;t yet mastered the nutritional content of real food to the point where we can confidently say it&#x27;s safe to eat Soylent or another similar product regularly.<p>I&#x27;m not aware of any ill effects from consuming meal-replacement shakes like Ensure regularly, and they&#x27;ve been around for quite some time. In some instances people have been sustained on them for fairly long periods.<p>Would I want to consume them exclusively for a long period of time? No, like you, I would start becoming concerned about nutrition. But drinking them <i>regularly</i> for long periods of time or even exclusively for short periods of time seems like it would be fine. People eat lots of less nutritious foods just as regularly.<p>The real question for me is what is Soylent supposed to offer over older equivalents.</text></comment> |
34,114,532 | 34,114,560 | 1 | 2 | 34,112,943 | train | <story><title>How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?</title><url>https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-bail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmk</author><text>What resources are the rich hoarding? Does Elon Musk own 500 pairs of pants that could otherwise have clothed other poor men? Is he hoarding 500 tons of grain that should be released to starving country? He burns tons of jet fuel, literally, but so do an equivalent load of 300 vacationers on a jet to a holiday destination (and they do not produce the same GDP increase, to boot). Is Jeff Bezos monopolizing the I-5 freeway, SeaTac airport, or clean air in Seattle? What are these resources that are being &#x27;hoarded&#x27; by the rich and denied to poor people exactly? And how is an average American living in a 2000 sq ft house &#x27;hoarding&#x27; a resource a homeless person could be living in? Should the average American take in a homeless person so that his &#x27;hoarding&#x27; of resources is lessened or alleviated?</text></item><item><author>rolenthedeep</author><text>It&#x27;s difficult to share resources with the poor when the rich are hoarding the vast majority of those resources.<p>We need both.</text></item><item><author>parineum</author><text>I think this attitude of, instead of raising the bottom, lowering the top comes from a desire to punish rich people rather than help poor people.<p>I think these people would prefer everyone sit on rocks rather than poor people sit in wooden chairs while rich people had leather couches.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that a rich guy can make bail. The real issue is that so many poor people are trapped by bail bonds they can not meet or which put extreme financial strain on a family that is barely making it to begin with.<p>Part of it is that the bail bond industry can afford lobbyists, and probably a bigger part is that &quot;tough on crime&quot; grandstanding by politicians is nearly always a winning strategy. It is too easy to claim a politician that advances any kind of reform will be pilloried as someone who is trying to put savage criminals back on the street, your street.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>They’re hoarding capital instead of distributing it to their workers. Furthermore, they’re utilizing shared resources for their companies profit without paying proportionally.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?</title><url>https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-get-bail</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmk</author><text>What resources are the rich hoarding? Does Elon Musk own 500 pairs of pants that could otherwise have clothed other poor men? Is he hoarding 500 tons of grain that should be released to starving country? He burns tons of jet fuel, literally, but so do an equivalent load of 300 vacationers on a jet to a holiday destination (and they do not produce the same GDP increase, to boot). Is Jeff Bezos monopolizing the I-5 freeway, SeaTac airport, or clean air in Seattle? What are these resources that are being &#x27;hoarded&#x27; by the rich and denied to poor people exactly? And how is an average American living in a 2000 sq ft house &#x27;hoarding&#x27; a resource a homeless person could be living in? Should the average American take in a homeless person so that his &#x27;hoarding&#x27; of resources is lessened or alleviated?</text></item><item><author>rolenthedeep</author><text>It&#x27;s difficult to share resources with the poor when the rich are hoarding the vast majority of those resources.<p>We need both.</text></item><item><author>parineum</author><text>I think this attitude of, instead of raising the bottom, lowering the top comes from a desire to punish rich people rather than help poor people.<p>I think these people would prefer everyone sit on rocks rather than poor people sit in wooden chairs while rich people had leather couches.</text></item><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>The problem isn&#x27;t that a rich guy can make bail. The real issue is that so many poor people are trapped by bail bonds they can not meet or which put extreme financial strain on a family that is barely making it to begin with.<p>Part of it is that the bail bond industry can afford lobbyists, and probably a bigger part is that &quot;tough on crime&quot; grandstanding by politicians is nearly always a winning strategy. It is too easy to claim a politician that advances any kind of reform will be pilloried as someone who is trying to put savage criminals back on the street, your street.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kuhewa</author><text>Your defense of Elon not hoarding resources included his burning the jet fuel of 300 vacationers, routinely. Interesting choice of counter example.</text></comment> |
22,480,734 | 22,480,324 | 1 | 2 | 22,479,768 | train | <story><title>United States National Radio Quiet Zone</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leetrout</author><text>Fun fact: they only drive diesels around the antenna dish because spark plugs cause interference.</text></comment> | <story><title>United States National Radio Quiet Zone</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ortusdux</author><text>&quot;The Adventure Zone&quot; role-playing podcast set one of their seasons inside this zone, which gave an elegant narrative reason to remove cell-phones from the story.</text></comment> |
25,358,639 | 25,356,392 | 1 | 2 | 25,329,201 | train | <story><title>Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/22/philip-glass-80-interview-observer-new-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdevalla</author><text>Never commented on the internet before, but I just started to learn playing the Intro Theme to Candyman on piano [0] yesterday and then saw this. Weird coincidence...<p>The movie Candyman itself and the rest of the songs in the score are also fantastic.<p>Heard about that song from the sample in Travis Scott&#x27;s The Prayer [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nosianu</author><text>&gt; Weird coincidence...<p>Nothing weird at all. After I learned horse riding (focus: dressage) I started seeing horse-related stuff <i>everywhere</i> - horse carrying trailers on roads, shops, etc.<p>The &quot;secret&quot; is not some deep universe related mystery but your perception. Those horse-related things were there all along - I just never paid attention, my mind filtered it without any of it ever reaching my consciousness. Your mind filters out lots and lots of headlines when you scroll through the news or HN, your brain reacts when something is relevant.<p>That there has to be <i>something</i> relevant even if it&#x27;s niche once in a while is not exactly shocking when HN goes through several dozens of headlines every single day. The site shows you so many diverse topics, it would be strange if you never have this experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/22/philip-glass-80-interview-observer-new-review</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pdevalla</author><text>Never commented on the internet before, but I just started to learn playing the Intro Theme to Candyman on piano [0] yesterday and then saw this. Weird coincidence...<p>The movie Candyman itself and the rest of the songs in the score are also fantastic.<p>Heard about that song from the sample in Travis Scott&#x27;s The Prayer [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-7FFEu7Har0</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4iOH8V0KTVI</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patates</author><text>This happens to me on HN very often. I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I sometimes feel we are all in a big machine-learning experiment :)</text></comment> |
41,663,159 | 41,663,135 | 1 | 3 | 41,655,954 | train | <story><title>OpenAI to become for-profit company</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-remove-non-profit-control-give-sam-altman-equity-sources-say-2024-09-25/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pj_mukh</author><text>Occam&#x27;s razor: I think Sam&#x27;s personal narrative is the correct one. He built a non-profit that took off in a way that he didn&#x27;t expect it and now a for-profit is the best way to run the lightning they&#x27;ve caught.<p>In terms of profit, AFAICT, Sam doesn&#x27;t have designs on building extra large yachts and his own space agency but what he wants is to be the one at the stead of building what he considers is world-changing tech. One could rationally call this power-hungry but one could also rationally call this just helicopter parenting of a tech you&#x27;ve helped built. And for that a for-profit that is allowed to maximize profits to re-invest in the tech is the optimal setup (esp if all the competitors are doing the same)<p>Is this a different org than when it started? Yes. Was this a dupe from the beginning? I don&#x27;t think so.<p>&quot;But why can&#x27;t he have a more worldly-aligned board looking over his shoulder?&quot;<p>Because we live in California and have a bad taste for governance by committee or worse: governance by constant non-representative democracy (see: Housing).<p>If this now completely comes off the wheels, I still think Congressional action can be a stopgap, but atleast for now, this restructure makes sense to me.</text></item><item><author>throwaway314155</author><text>It&#x27;s about the narrative they tried to create. The spin. It doesn&#x27;t matter much if they were technically behaving as a for-profit entity previously. What matters is that they wanted the public (and likely, their talent) to _think_ that they weren&#x27;t even interested in making a profit as this would be a philosophical threat to the notion of any sort of impartial or even hopefully benevolent originator of AGI (a goal which is laid plainly in their mission statement).<p>As you&#x27;ve realized, this should have been (and was) obvious for a long time. But that doesn&#x27;t make it any less hypocritical or headline worthy.</text></item><item><author>throwup238</author><text>I’m confused by this news story and the response here. No one seems to understand OpenAI’s corporate structure or non profits <i>at all.</i><p>My understanding: OpenAI follows the same model Mozilla does. The nonprofit has owned a for-profit corporation called <i>OpenAI Global, LLC</i> that pays taxes on any revenue that isn’t directly in service of their mission (in a very narrow sense based on judicial precedent) since 2019 [1]. In Mozilla’s case that’s the revenue they make from making Google the default search engine and in OpenAI’s case that’s all their ChatGPT and API revenue. The vast majority (all?) engineers work for the for-profit and always have. The vast majority (all?) revenue goes through the for-profit which pays taxes on that revenue minus the usual business deductions. The only money that goes to the nonprofit tax-free are donations. Everything else is taxed at least once at the for-profit corporation. Almost every nonprofit that raises revenue outside of donations has to be structured more or less this way to pay taxes. They don’t get to just take any taxable revenue stream and declare it tax free.<p>All OpenAI is doing here is decoupling ownership of the for-profit entity from the nonprofit. They’re allowing the for profit to create more shares and distribute them to entities other than the non-profit. Or am I completely misinformed?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenAI#2019:_Transition_from_non-profit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenAI#2019:_Transition_from_n...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>feoren</author><text>Sam: &quot;I&#x27;m not in it for the money. I have principles.&quot;<p>World: &quot;But what if it was like, a <i>lot</i> of money?&quot;<p>Sam: &quot;Oh alright you convinced me. Fuck my principles.&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI to become for-profit company</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-remove-non-profit-control-give-sam-altman-equity-sources-say-2024-09-25/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pj_mukh</author><text>Occam&#x27;s razor: I think Sam&#x27;s personal narrative is the correct one. He built a non-profit that took off in a way that he didn&#x27;t expect it and now a for-profit is the best way to run the lightning they&#x27;ve caught.<p>In terms of profit, AFAICT, Sam doesn&#x27;t have designs on building extra large yachts and his own space agency but what he wants is to be the one at the stead of building what he considers is world-changing tech. One could rationally call this power-hungry but one could also rationally call this just helicopter parenting of a tech you&#x27;ve helped built. And for that a for-profit that is allowed to maximize profits to re-invest in the tech is the optimal setup (esp if all the competitors are doing the same)<p>Is this a different org than when it started? Yes. Was this a dupe from the beginning? I don&#x27;t think so.<p>&quot;But why can&#x27;t he have a more worldly-aligned board looking over his shoulder?&quot;<p>Because we live in California and have a bad taste for governance by committee or worse: governance by constant non-representative democracy (see: Housing).<p>If this now completely comes off the wheels, I still think Congressional action can be a stopgap, but atleast for now, this restructure makes sense to me.</text></item><item><author>throwaway314155</author><text>It&#x27;s about the narrative they tried to create. The spin. It doesn&#x27;t matter much if they were technically behaving as a for-profit entity previously. What matters is that they wanted the public (and likely, their talent) to _think_ that they weren&#x27;t even interested in making a profit as this would be a philosophical threat to the notion of any sort of impartial or even hopefully benevolent originator of AGI (a goal which is laid plainly in their mission statement).<p>As you&#x27;ve realized, this should have been (and was) obvious for a long time. But that doesn&#x27;t make it any less hypocritical or headline worthy.</text></item><item><author>throwup238</author><text>I’m confused by this news story and the response here. No one seems to understand OpenAI’s corporate structure or non profits <i>at all.</i><p>My understanding: OpenAI follows the same model Mozilla does. The nonprofit has owned a for-profit corporation called <i>OpenAI Global, LLC</i> that pays taxes on any revenue that isn’t directly in service of their mission (in a very narrow sense based on judicial precedent) since 2019 [1]. In Mozilla’s case that’s the revenue they make from making Google the default search engine and in OpenAI’s case that’s all their ChatGPT and API revenue. The vast majority (all?) engineers work for the for-profit and always have. The vast majority (all?) revenue goes through the for-profit which pays taxes on that revenue minus the usual business deductions. The only money that goes to the nonprofit tax-free are donations. Everything else is taxed at least once at the for-profit corporation. Almost every nonprofit that raises revenue outside of donations has to be structured more or less this way to pay taxes. They don’t get to just take any taxable revenue stream and declare it tax free.<p>All OpenAI is doing here is decoupling ownership of the for-profit entity from the nonprofit. They’re allowing the for profit to create more shares and distribute them to entities other than the non-profit. Or am I completely misinformed?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenAI#2019:_Transition_from_non-profit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OpenAI#2019:_Transition_from_n...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey-area</author><text>He didn’t build it.</text></comment> |
29,809,146 | 29,806,911 | 1 | 3 | 29,806,076 | train | <story><title>Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business</title><url>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-lawsuit-filed-in-california-alleging-google-is-paying-apple-to-stay-out-of-the-search-engine-business-301453098.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>Here&#x27;s the complaint: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docketalarm.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;California_Northern_District_Court&#x2F;3--21-cv-10001&#x2F;California_Crane_School_Inc._v._Google_LLC__et_al&#x2F;1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docketalarm.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;California_Northern_Distri...</a><p>The putative class they&#x27;re suing to represent is apparently &quot;All consumers and businesses who paid Google to place advertising on Google search in the United States since January 1, 2005.&quot;<p>I think the basic argument is &quot;Apple might have created a competing search engine business, but Google paid them not to, which hurt people buying Google ads because competition would imply those Google ads may have been cheaper, therefore Apple and Google need to pay the better part of a trillion dollars to these customers and then be broken up into smaller companies.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>US antitrust law right now basically operates on the principle that the only time anything is illegal is if it hurts consumer prices.<p>So that probably explains the convoluted cause of action, in that the only legal way to challenge it is probably with a weird convoluted cause of action like that, because it has to come back to consumer prices somehow to have a chance in court.<p>Google (or anyone) can have a monopoly and engage in anticompetitive practices, it&#x27;s only illegal if you can show it hurt consumer prices.<p>The law didn&#x27;t always work that way and doesn&#x27;t need to, but that&#x27;s more or less how it is now.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbwt.com&#x2F;antitrust-update-blog&#x2F;congress-hears-challenges-to-the-consumer-welfare-standard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbwt.com&#x2F;antitrust-update-blog&#x2F;congress-hears-ch...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business</title><url>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/class-action-lawsuit-filed-in-california-alleging-google-is-paying-apple-to-stay-out-of-the-search-engine-business-301453098.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CobrastanJorji</author><text>Here&#x27;s the complaint: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docketalarm.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;California_Northern_District_Court&#x2F;3--21-cv-10001&#x2F;California_Crane_School_Inc._v._Google_LLC__et_al&#x2F;1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docketalarm.com&#x2F;cases&#x2F;California_Northern_Distri...</a><p>The putative class they&#x27;re suing to represent is apparently &quot;All consumers and businesses who paid Google to place advertising on Google search in the United States since January 1, 2005.&quot;<p>I think the basic argument is &quot;Apple might have created a competing search engine business, but Google paid them not to, which hurt people buying Google ads because competition would imply those Google ads may have been cheaper, therefore Apple and Google need to pay the better part of a trillion dollars to these customers and then be broken up into smaller companies.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hkt</author><text>AIUI in US competition law price is the only consideration, so this is smart. It will hinge on whether or not Apple had any concrete plans to build a search engine, and if their abandonment of it can be linked to the deal with Google.<p>Which is to say it is a tall order and might not succeed. But if it does.. goodness, what a hit they&#x27;ll take.</text></comment> |
21,147,749 | 21,147,254 | 1 | 3 | 21,146,276 | train | <story><title>A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02934-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Microft</author><text>The dish mentioned sounds far better than what is usually served as vegetarian food at canteens and restaurants. Quite often they offer just a compilation of side-dishes to have <i>something</i> vegetarian on their menu. (Dumblings with red cabbage and - wait for it - <i>gravy</i> from roasting meat is a widespread menu offer for vegetarians in southern Germany. Not sure if it counts as <i>vegetarian option</i> though).<p>Once people notice that vegetarian food does not <i>have to be</i> heaps of vegetables or to taste bland, they&#x27;re far more open to actually try it. I think it&#x27;s rather a problem with chefs not being familiar with vegetarian recipes than people actually not liking it at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedimastert</author><text>POV: Omnivore with a (previously) vegetarian spouse. We generally ate veg @ home<p>One of my biggest issues with modern veg diets is all of the veg food trying to masquerade as other food. Soy bacon does not taste like, or taste as good as, real bacon. Tofu and Boca burgers do not taste like actual meat. But tofu and the like can taste amazing <i>on its own merit</i>. It&#x27;s an ingredient with it&#x27;s own flavors and textures, so put it where it can do some good.<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on veg patties. I have a (very) meat loving father who got completely hooked on Boca burgers while on Weight Watchers. He&#x27;ll still eat them on a regular basis, even though he looooves regular burgers, just because they&#x27;re delicious.<p>In my mind, you don&#x27;t have to try to pretend to be something else to be good, especially veg sandwich patties. Latkes are amazing. Refried beans bound together with eggs, breaded and deep fried sounds amazing. Don&#x27;t put yourself next to something else and force a comparison. Just be tasty.</text></comment> | <story><title>A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02934-5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Microft</author><text>The dish mentioned sounds far better than what is usually served as vegetarian food at canteens and restaurants. Quite often they offer just a compilation of side-dishes to have <i>something</i> vegetarian on their menu. (Dumblings with red cabbage and - wait for it - <i>gravy</i> from roasting meat is a widespread menu offer for vegetarians in southern Germany. Not sure if it counts as <i>vegetarian option</i> though).<p>Once people notice that vegetarian food does not <i>have to be</i> heaps of vegetables or to taste bland, they&#x27;re far more open to actually try it. I think it&#x27;s rather a problem with chefs not being familiar with vegetarian recipes than people actually not liking it at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>I&#x27;m a meat eater myself but have I have 4 vegan family members. It&#x27;s amazing how the range of vegan &#x2F; vegetarian food has exploded in the UK over the last few years, I think this has made it much easier to maintain a vegan diet because socially it&#x27;s much easier to eat almost anywhere rather than having to pick somewhere specifically for the vegetarian options.</text></comment> |
27,081,668 | 27,081,512 | 1 | 2 | 27,080,695 | train | <story><title>Be in a field where tech is the limit</title><url>https://mathiaskirkbonde.substack.com/p/be-in-a-field-where-tech-is-the-limit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>I&#x27;m always curious when I hear HN opine on salary levels. Now I understand that in SF &#x2F; at certain FAANG locations you can expect to make far in excess of 80-100k, and that exerts a competitive pressure in the job market - while also being balanced to some extend by extreme CoL. But I always wonder just how small that bubble is and what the trade-offs really are. In essentially all of Central Europe except perhaps, say, Zurich, 80k-110k is a highly-salaried engineer (and affords an upper-middleclass lifestyle with good healthcare, pension, free college education, etc.), and I understand also in many areas of the US that are just fine to live in.<p>It just sounds like completely different systems &#x2F; way to run the numbers to me, not at all apples to apples.</text></item><item><author>d3ntb3ev1l</author><text>I worked in bio tech for 4 years. Amazing people and problems.<p>Worst pay, top heavy salaries.<p>When a phd makes 80k a year and a “ML&#x2F;AI” data scientist is lucky to make 100k you won’t find any progress like software<p>They need to cut the top heavy executive bloat, respect the mid tier with better pay</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barry-cotter</author><text>No, even after any attempt to account for healthcare, pension and education the US will still look vastly better off. Unfortunately we don’t have figures on average individual consumption but by household Hong Kong consumes about $1,000 more a year than the US and the next closest is Switzerland, consuming about $10,000 a year less[1].<p>Generally the US pays better and at the top of any field you care to mention except perhaps finance it pays far, far better.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_household_final_consumption_expenditure_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_household...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Be in a field where tech is the limit</title><url>https://mathiaskirkbonde.substack.com/p/be-in-a-field-where-tech-is-the-limit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sho_hn</author><text>I&#x27;m always curious when I hear HN opine on salary levels. Now I understand that in SF &#x2F; at certain FAANG locations you can expect to make far in excess of 80-100k, and that exerts a competitive pressure in the job market - while also being balanced to some extend by extreme CoL. But I always wonder just how small that bubble is and what the trade-offs really are. In essentially all of Central Europe except perhaps, say, Zurich, 80k-110k is a highly-salaried engineer (and affords an upper-middleclass lifestyle with good healthcare, pension, free college education, etc.), and I understand also in many areas of the US that are just fine to live in.<p>It just sounds like completely different systems &#x2F; way to run the numbers to me, not at all apples to apples.</text></item><item><author>d3ntb3ev1l</author><text>I worked in bio tech for 4 years. Amazing people and problems.<p>Worst pay, top heavy salaries.<p>When a phd makes 80k a year and a “ML&#x2F;AI” data scientist is lucky to make 100k you won’t find any progress like software<p>They need to cut the top heavy executive bloat, respect the mid tier with better pay</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giantg2</author><text>$80k-100k would afford a great lifestyle in much of the US, geographically speaking. The problem is that those jobs are concentrated in areas with a higher COL. We also have to pay for things like medical insurance in the US. I know software salaries are lower in the EU (in general), I assume it&#x27;s the same for biotech too.</text></comment> |
20,527,009 | 20,526,399 | 1 | 3 | 20,522,868 | train | <story><title>Some items from my “reliability list”</title><url>http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/21/reliability/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjungwir</author><text>&gt; Also, if you are literally having HTTP 400s internally, why aren&#x27;t you using some kind of actual RPC mechanism? Do you like pain?<p>I just had a discussion about this yesterday where we have an internal JSON API that auths a credit card, and if the card is declined it returns a status and a message. Another developer wanted it to return a 4xx error, but that made me uneasy. I think you could make a good argument either way, but to me that isn&#x27;t a failure you&#x27;d present at the HTTP layer. 4xx is better than 5xx, but I was still worried how intermediate devices would interfere. (E.g. an AWS ELB will take your node out of service if it gives too many 5xxs, and IIS can do some crazy things if your app returns a 401.) Also I don&#x27;t want declined cards to show up in system-level monitoring. But what do other folks think? I believe smart people can make a case either way.<p>EDIT: Btw based on these Stack Overflow answers I&#x27;m in the minority: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;9381520&#x2F;what-is-the-appropriate-http-status-code-response-for-a-general-unsuccessful-req" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;9381520&#x2F;what-is-the-appr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>citrusx</author><text>In my opinion, a rejection is an expected outcome, and therefore should have a response code of 200. You&#x27;re not asking, &quot;Does this card exist?&quot;, and sending a 404 if you have no record. You&#x27;re asking a remote system to do a job for you, and if that job completes successfully, it&#x27;s a &quot;Success&quot; in the HTTP world.<p>At that point, you rely on the body content to tell you what the service correctly determined for you. A result that the user doesn&#x27;t like is way different than a result that comes about because something was done wrong at the client side (4xx) or a failure on the server side (5xx).</text></comment> | <story><title>Some items from my “reliability list”</title><url>http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/07/21/reliability/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pjungwir</author><text>&gt; Also, if you are literally having HTTP 400s internally, why aren&#x27;t you using some kind of actual RPC mechanism? Do you like pain?<p>I just had a discussion about this yesterday where we have an internal JSON API that auths a credit card, and if the card is declined it returns a status and a message. Another developer wanted it to return a 4xx error, but that made me uneasy. I think you could make a good argument either way, but to me that isn&#x27;t a failure you&#x27;d present at the HTTP layer. 4xx is better than 5xx, but I was still worried how intermediate devices would interfere. (E.g. an AWS ELB will take your node out of service if it gives too many 5xxs, and IIS can do some crazy things if your app returns a 401.) Also I don&#x27;t want declined cards to show up in system-level monitoring. But what do other folks think? I believe smart people can make a case either way.<p>EDIT: Btw based on these Stack Overflow answers I&#x27;m in the minority: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;9381520&#x2F;what-is-the-appropriate-http-status-code-response-for-a-general-unsuccessful-req" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;9381520&#x2F;what-is-the-appr...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msluyter</author><text>Interesting question. My understanding is that a 400 response indicates that there&#x27;s something malformed about the request itself such that the server can&#x27;t&#x2F;won&#x27;t process it. Given that in order to decline the card the service has to actually process the request, I&#x27;d agree that a 400 is inappropriate.</text></comment> |
36,773,156 | 36,767,734 | 1 | 3 | 36,767,092 | train | <story><title>A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)</title><url>https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ashton314</author><text>I think there are some Emacs or Vim users who could describe their setup just like this. Heck, I’m probably one of them.<p>“A few things to know before stealing my laptop and&#x2F;or using my editor config.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shiomiru</author><text>You might want to double check whether the second drive is properly
connected, or the display manager will refuse to start. In this case
typing `exit&#x27; in the console should still let you log in, unless
it locks up for some reason. (Then you will have to reboot.)<p>Now that you are logged in, a few things to note:<p>* The mouse buttons do not work. Pinch the touchpad to click.<p>* The keyboard layout is a mixture of the US English, Japanese, and Teletype
33 keyboards. By the way, its key labels are German.<p>* If you need a modifier key, try sequentially going through tab, caps,
control, alt, super. Maybe you will find it.<p>* The only text editor on the computer is nvi. No, that&#x27;s not `nvim&#x27;.<p>* Firefox works, but has scripting disabled, routes everything through
Tor and clears cookies on exit. Also, each new tab is opened in a
separate temporary container that routes through a different Tor
circuit.
As an alternative, we have w3m too.<p>* There is no file browser, just bash in xterm.<p>Enjoy your new computer!</text></comment> | <story><title>A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)</title><url>https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ashton314</author><text>I think there are some Emacs or Vim users who could describe their setup just like this. Heck, I’m probably one of them.<p>“A few things to know before stealing my laptop and&#x2F;or using my editor config.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zdw</author><text>I run an ergodox split keyboard and a thumb trackball.<p>Half the Keys have no labels, unless it&#x27;s the one with the clear caps, which has no labels at all.<p>Right shift is mapped to Escape (for vim, of course)<p>There is no Caps-lock, only Control.<p>Nobody messes with my stuff. :)</text></comment> |
37,412,784 | 37,412,557 | 1 | 2 | 37,411,292 | train | <story><title>Norway rolls back EV incentives while boosting walking and cycling (2022)</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/05/17/norway-rolls-back-ev-incentives-while-boosting-walking-and-cycling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s amazing how bike advocates view the world as a homogenous place.<p>Where I live it&#x27;s 90 degrees or higher, and humid in the summer, and can be sub-zero in the winter. It&#x27;s also quite hilly -- flat and level riding is the exception. I&#x27;m not riding a bike any substantial distance in those conditions, regardless of paths or lanes.</text></item><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I can’t even imagine that here where I live. My neighbourhood has sidewalks, which is nice because all the adjacent ones don’t. To go downtown in this little town in winter you have to risk a treacherous steep hill covered in ice and snow that never gets cleared and it’s actually dangerous</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>willio58</author><text>It&#x27;s a myth that people can&#x27;t ride bikes in cities that experience exceptionally hot or cold weather. They can, and do, it&#x27;s just that the cities need to fund infrastructure to make those things more comfortable and enticing.<p>For heat specifically, you need trees covering sidewalks and bike paths. Also the materials you build sidewalks and structures with contribute to this, and if you can then adding some evaporative cooling via fountains or ponds is a great idea too. For more ideas: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;heatislands&#x2F;heat-island-cooling-strategies" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.epa.gov&#x2F;heatislands&#x2F;heat-island-cooling-strategi...</a><p>The heat island effect is real, and it&#x27;s only going to get much much worse in cities that refuse to work to fix it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Norway rolls back EV incentives while boosting walking and cycling (2022)</title><url>https://electrek.co/2022/05/17/norway-rolls-back-ev-incentives-while-boosting-walking-and-cycling/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Yes, it&#x27;s amazing how bike advocates view the world as a homogenous place.<p>Where I live it&#x27;s 90 degrees or higher, and humid in the summer, and can be sub-zero in the winter. It&#x27;s also quite hilly -- flat and level riding is the exception. I&#x27;m not riding a bike any substantial distance in those conditions, regardless of paths or lanes.</text></item><item><author>gentleman11</author><text>I can’t even imagine that here where I live. My neighbourhood has sidewalks, which is nice because all the adjacent ones don’t. To go downtown in this little town in winter you have to risk a treacherous steep hill covered in ice and snow that never gets cleared and it’s actually dangerous</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacoblambda</author><text>This isn&#x27;t a problem with biking in Finland in the winter.<p>Bike lanes are plowed and&#x2F;or compacted multiple times a day during heavy snowfall. Albeit it isn&#x27;t really that hilly but more than weather, the main constraint is having a city willing to actually maintain biking infrastructure.</text></comment> |
23,208,428 | 23,208,378 | 1 | 2 | 23,207,019 | train | <story><title>Serve Videos Instead of GIFs</title><url>https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/serve-videos-instead-of-gifs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egfx</author><text>Hold the mic drop. Those that claim videos are superior over GIF&#x27;s will never understand. The only benefit that a video tag has over a gif is a smaller file size. Animation&#x27;s and meme&#x27;s, cinimigraphics and simulations are more than simply video. How about for all other animated graphics? And file size is increasingly becoming less and less of a factor at all. (disclosure: I built <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gif.com.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gif.com.ai</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ken</author><text>Not just smaller file size. <i>Drastically</i> smaller file size. I&#x27;ve never been on a network so fast that I couldn&#x27;t appreciate a 97% savings in bandwidth usage.<p>A sufficiently large quantitative change becomes a qualitative one. This is one of those times.</text></comment> | <story><title>Serve Videos Instead of GIFs</title><url>https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/serve-videos-instead-of-gifs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>egfx</author><text>Hold the mic drop. Those that claim videos are superior over GIF&#x27;s will never understand. The only benefit that a video tag has over a gif is a smaller file size. Animation&#x27;s and meme&#x27;s, cinimigraphics and simulations are more than simply video. How about for all other animated graphics? And file size is increasingly becoming less and less of a factor at all. (disclosure: I built <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gif.com.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gif.com.ai</a>)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>As someone who frequently works from a hotspot, where 1GB of data costs $5 - $10 per GB (depending if I load up when it is on sale), smaller file size saves me money, and pages load faster.</text></comment> |
7,376,500 | 7,376,149 | 1 | 3 | 7,375,642 | train | <story><title>Linux's fsync() woes are getting some attention</title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2014/03/linuxs-fsync-woes-are-getting-some.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bodyfour</author><text>I think part of the problem is that fsync() is that it&#x27;s an insufficient interface. Most of the time, you want two things:
* write ordering (&quot;write B must hit disk after write A&quot;)
* notification (&quot;let me know when write A is on disk&quot;)
In particular, you often <i>don&#x27;t</i> want to actually force I&#x2F;O to happen immediately, since for performance reasons it&#x27;s better for the kernel to buffer as much as it wants. In other words, what you want should be nearly free, but instead you have to do a very expensive operation.<p>For an example for notification: suppose I have a temporary file with data that is being journaled into a data store. The operation I want to do is:
1. Apply changes to the store
2. Wait until all of those writes hit disk
3. Delete the temporary file
I don&#x27;t care if step 2 takes 5 minutes, nor do I want the kernel to schedule my writes in any particular way. If you implement step 2 as a fsync() (or fdatasync()) you&#x27;re having a potentially huge impact on I&#x2F;O throughput. I&#x27;ve seen these frequent fsync()s cause 50x performance drops!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dap</author><text>&gt; In particular, you often don&#x27;t want to actually force I&#x2F;O to happen immediately, since for performance reasons it&#x27;s better for the kernel to buffer as much as it wants.<p>If you don&#x27;t issue an fsync(), the kernel never has to write anything. If you had a different function that did what you suggest, returning when the kernel had decided to write the data (without instructing the kernel to do so soonish), you could literally be waiting forever. If the function ever returned, it would only be because something else on the system asked for a sync (and it was easier to write everything), or because you&#x27;re operating on a filesystem that chooses to write data sooner than required. Both of these are basically working by accident (i.e., may well not work on other POSIX systems).<p>I think what you really want is to instruct the kernel that this data should be written out, and you want to block until that happens. That&#x27;s exactly what fsync() is supposed to do. The fact that some kernels hammer the I&#x2F;O subsystem while doing so is a bug in those kernels, not the fsync() interface.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux's fsync() woes are getting some attention</title><url>http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2014/03/linuxs-fsync-woes-are-getting-some.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bodyfour</author><text>I think part of the problem is that fsync() is that it&#x27;s an insufficient interface. Most of the time, you want two things:
* write ordering (&quot;write B must hit disk after write A&quot;)
* notification (&quot;let me know when write A is on disk&quot;)
In particular, you often <i>don&#x27;t</i> want to actually force I&#x2F;O to happen immediately, since for performance reasons it&#x27;s better for the kernel to buffer as much as it wants. In other words, what you want should be nearly free, but instead you have to do a very expensive operation.<p>For an example for notification: suppose I have a temporary file with data that is being journaled into a data store. The operation I want to do is:
1. Apply changes to the store
2. Wait until all of those writes hit disk
3. Delete the temporary file
I don&#x27;t care if step 2 takes 5 minutes, nor do I want the kernel to schedule my writes in any particular way. If you implement step 2 as a fsync() (or fdatasync()) you&#x27;re having a potentially huge impact on I&#x2F;O throughput. I&#x27;ve seen these frequent fsync()s cause 50x performance drops!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Qantourisc</author><text>Not a kernel dev but to my knowledge &quot;write B must hit disk after write A&quot; would actually be rather easy to implement: if the storage device supports it: insert a write barrier.
For the &quot;let me know when write A is on disk&quot; adding a callback to a write-barrier would do, not sure what the kernel queue looks like though.</text></comment> |
15,309,256 | 15,306,929 | 1 | 2 | 15,306,398 | train | <story><title>New in PostgreSQL 10</title><url>https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/New_in_postgres_10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alceta</author><text>If anyone even remotely involved with the maintenance and development of pg reads this thread - Thank you! - for all your efforts in building and improving a first class product that keeps me amazed at the strides it takes with each major. release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irrational</author><text>Truly. We&#x27;ve recently moved from Oracle (after using it for 15 years) to Postgresql. It&#x27;s like a breath of fresh air. The documentation for Postgres is unbelievably superior to Oracle. So far its performance is equal to or better than Oracle. We had to go through and rewrite thousands of queries, but the sql syntax of Postgres was always simpler and more logical than the equivalent in Oracle (I think Oracle has too much baggage from being around too long). All in all I&#x27;m so impressed by Postgres. I&#x27;m sure there are features in Oracle that Postgres doesn&#x27;t have that keep people on Oracle, but I would imagine that the vast majority of Oracle installs could be moved to Postgres.</text></comment> | <story><title>New in PostgreSQL 10</title><url>https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/New_in_postgres_10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alceta</author><text>If anyone even remotely involved with the maintenance and development of pg reads this thread - Thank you! - for all your efforts in building and improving a first class product that keeps me amazed at the strides it takes with each major. release.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kentt</author><text>Seconded. Postgres is such a high quality project in so many ways. I&#x27;m rarely left wanting when using it, and very often pleasantly surprised.</text></comment> |
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