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15,711,229 | 15,709,837 | 1 | 3 | 15,707,956 | train | <story><title>Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support</title><url>https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/neps/dropping-python2.7-proposal.rst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skierscott</author><text>&gt; what has changed in Python 3.6 that they&#x27;re happy to do this now when they were pissed off about it a couple years ago?<p>Most of mine have to do with developer productovity and I didn’t find until Python 3.5.<p>– @, the matmul operator<p>– fstrings (f”{foo}”)<p>– parameter typing (foo: int = 0) which has exciting work with Cython<p>– other async features. I forget what library it was (tensorflow?) but for Python 3 it had better async support</text></item><item><author>Figs</author><text>&gt; Isn&#x27;t that a bigger problem for Python 2.7 hold outs?<p>Yes, but it seemed like libraries (such as NumPy here) were mainly switching because of the EOL of Python2 rather than for any actual benefit provided by Python3. I&#x27;ve considered that as more of &quot;Python 3 is a bad thing&quot; by splitting the ecosystem further, and creating additional churn and rework of existing projects. Thus my question of why people seem to think this is a <i>good</i> thing now -- i.e. what has changed in Python 3.6 that they&#x27;re happy to do this now when they were <i>pissed off</i> about it a couple years ago?<p>I&#x27;ve gotten a couple interesting responses here, and I hope for more. I wasn&#x27;t really aware of f-strings -- that does seems like a nice-to-have feature -- and I wasn&#x27;t aware of improved JSON serialization performance either.<p>&gt; If you tried Python 3 a few releases ago, you should give it another go. It has matured a lot.<p>I may do that.</text></item><item><author>nas</author><text>&gt; Frankly, I still haven&#x27;t seen a single reason to switch to Python3 beyond the fact that the original authors have gotten bored of providing security and bugfix updates and will stop in 2020. That&#x27;s it.<p>It seems pretty clear now that 3rd party library developers are going to stop releasing packages that support 2.x and target only 3.x. Isn&#x27;t that a bigger problem for Python 2.7 hold outs?<p>Originally, I was not super excited about Python 3. I liked &quot;print&quot; as a keyword. I liked the space efficiency and speed of latin-1 strings by default. I did a lot of network protocol stuff and bytes() was a pain to use. I knew how to use the &#x27;u&#x27; prefix to get unicode when I needed. However, after using Python 3 for a few years now, I find Python 2 clumsy. Print as a function <i>is</i> better. Unicode works better. The implementation is just as fast or faster than Python 2 and getting faster every release. If you tried Python 3 a few releases ago, you should give it another go. It has matured a lot.</text></item><item><author>Figs</author><text>Frankly, I <i>still</i> haven&#x27;t seen a single reason to switch to Python3 beyond the fact that the original authors have gotten bored of providing security and bugfix updates and will stop in 2020. That&#x27;s it.<p>The only thing in the last decade or so of Python3&#x27;s existence that even got me slightly interested in using it was asyncio, and after looking into it a bit, it frankly seems like more trouble than its worth.<p>I know Python 2.7 extremely well. It works perfectly fine for just about everything I use it for. It&#x27;s STABLE. For the tasks I use it for, it runs <i>faster</i> than Python3... (Not that performance is my greatest concern when using Python.) So, please tell me -- why on earth is it a good thing that people are trying to kill off Python2? What exactly makes Python 3.6 a &quot;decent step up&quot; from 2.7? I&#x27;m still at the point of thinking, as you said, that Python3 is a bad thing.</text></item><item><author>fredley</author><text>Good. The glacial migration from Python 2 to 3 is one of the worst things about an otherwise <i>fantastic</i> ecosystem. The tide is turning though, with Django having already dropped support for 2, and now with Numpy too hopefully Python 2 can be properly consigned to the history books.<p>For people wondering why it&#x27;s been like this for almost a decade(!) since Python 3.0 was released: Python 3.0 was actually terrible. It lacked many critical things, and was riddled with bugs and security flaws until 3.3, which was released <i>4 years</i> after 3.0. This cemented in many people&#x27;s minds the idea that Python 3 was a bad thing. Python 2 was and is a fantastic programming language, so it was a very high bar to move up from. Python 3 has come a long way since then, Python 3.6 is now a decent step up from 2.7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>* Not only is print better as a function (I can now call print in a lambda!) doing anything beyond just printing variables (e.g. printing to a stream&#x2F;file or suppressing the final newline) is both more straightforward and more readable. Also print(xxx, end=&quot;&quot;, flush=True) is my bae.<p>* API-wise keyword-only parameters are absolutely fantastic, even (especially!) for non-default params.<p>* Extended unpacking, and the ability to unpack in collection literals, make the language much more &quot;expressive&quot; (in the sense there are more cases where you can make do with just expressions) which is very convenient.</text></comment> | <story><title>Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support</title><url>https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/neps/dropping-python2.7-proposal.rst</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skierscott</author><text>&gt; what has changed in Python 3.6 that they&#x27;re happy to do this now when they were pissed off about it a couple years ago?<p>Most of mine have to do with developer productovity and I didn’t find until Python 3.5.<p>– @, the matmul operator<p>– fstrings (f”{foo}”)<p>– parameter typing (foo: int = 0) which has exciting work with Cython<p>– other async features. I forget what library it was (tensorflow?) but for Python 3 it had better async support</text></item><item><author>Figs</author><text>&gt; Isn&#x27;t that a bigger problem for Python 2.7 hold outs?<p>Yes, but it seemed like libraries (such as NumPy here) were mainly switching because of the EOL of Python2 rather than for any actual benefit provided by Python3. I&#x27;ve considered that as more of &quot;Python 3 is a bad thing&quot; by splitting the ecosystem further, and creating additional churn and rework of existing projects. Thus my question of why people seem to think this is a <i>good</i> thing now -- i.e. what has changed in Python 3.6 that they&#x27;re happy to do this now when they were <i>pissed off</i> about it a couple years ago?<p>I&#x27;ve gotten a couple interesting responses here, and I hope for more. I wasn&#x27;t really aware of f-strings -- that does seems like a nice-to-have feature -- and I wasn&#x27;t aware of improved JSON serialization performance either.<p>&gt; If you tried Python 3 a few releases ago, you should give it another go. It has matured a lot.<p>I may do that.</text></item><item><author>nas</author><text>&gt; Frankly, I still haven&#x27;t seen a single reason to switch to Python3 beyond the fact that the original authors have gotten bored of providing security and bugfix updates and will stop in 2020. That&#x27;s it.<p>It seems pretty clear now that 3rd party library developers are going to stop releasing packages that support 2.x and target only 3.x. Isn&#x27;t that a bigger problem for Python 2.7 hold outs?<p>Originally, I was not super excited about Python 3. I liked &quot;print&quot; as a keyword. I liked the space efficiency and speed of latin-1 strings by default. I did a lot of network protocol stuff and bytes() was a pain to use. I knew how to use the &#x27;u&#x27; prefix to get unicode when I needed. However, after using Python 3 for a few years now, I find Python 2 clumsy. Print as a function <i>is</i> better. Unicode works better. The implementation is just as fast or faster than Python 2 and getting faster every release. If you tried Python 3 a few releases ago, you should give it another go. It has matured a lot.</text></item><item><author>Figs</author><text>Frankly, I <i>still</i> haven&#x27;t seen a single reason to switch to Python3 beyond the fact that the original authors have gotten bored of providing security and bugfix updates and will stop in 2020. That&#x27;s it.<p>The only thing in the last decade or so of Python3&#x27;s existence that even got me slightly interested in using it was asyncio, and after looking into it a bit, it frankly seems like more trouble than its worth.<p>I know Python 2.7 extremely well. It works perfectly fine for just about everything I use it for. It&#x27;s STABLE. For the tasks I use it for, it runs <i>faster</i> than Python3... (Not that performance is my greatest concern when using Python.) So, please tell me -- why on earth is it a good thing that people are trying to kill off Python2? What exactly makes Python 3.6 a &quot;decent step up&quot; from 2.7? I&#x27;m still at the point of thinking, as you said, that Python3 is a bad thing.</text></item><item><author>fredley</author><text>Good. The glacial migration from Python 2 to 3 is one of the worst things about an otherwise <i>fantastic</i> ecosystem. The tide is turning though, with Django having already dropped support for 2, and now with Numpy too hopefully Python 2 can be properly consigned to the history books.<p>For people wondering why it&#x27;s been like this for almost a decade(!) since Python 3.0 was released: Python 3.0 was actually terrible. It lacked many critical things, and was riddled with bugs and security flaws until 3.3, which was released <i>4 years</i> after 3.0. This cemented in many people&#x27;s minds the idea that Python 3 was a bad thing. Python 2 was and is a fantastic programming language, so it was a very high bar to move up from. Python 3 has come a long way since then, Python 3.6 is now a decent step up from 2.7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x14</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget how nice super().__init__() is.</text></comment> |
3,759,935 | 3,759,477 | 1 | 3 | 3,757,796 | train | <story><title>Girls and Computers</title><url>http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/03/25/girls-and-computers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>I would add one thing:<p><pre><code> * impoverished environment
</code></pre>
This, I think is crucial. Given a Linux machine with a rich GUI or an iPad, kids focus on the eye candy and start playing with those things. A (relatively) limited environment at the same time focuses them and makes them creative.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>The thing that stands out in many of these stories are these three points:<p><pre><code> * Accessible price point,
* Instantly usable to write code,
* a place to go when the capabilities ran out.
</code></pre>
It is very challenging to reliably buy this today. When my daughter wanted a computer a gave her a VAX 4000/VLC, it had BASIC, C, FORTRAN, and COBOL installed and could run adventure. I got it for free from a junk pile.<p>I'm going to try and fix that.
[edited for formatting]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>femto</author><text>I'd add another thing, both good and bad: turning if off returned it to a known state.<p>This meant you could experiment with it, to the point where it broke, secure in the knowledge that recovery was as far as a quick flick of the power switch. The negative was that for complex projects, where you wanted to preserve the state of the machine, you had to play cassette roulette.</text></comment> | <story><title>Girls and Computers</title><url>http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/03/25/girls-and-computers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jun8</author><text>I would add one thing:<p><pre><code> * impoverished environment
</code></pre>
This, I think is crucial. Given a Linux machine with a rich GUI or an iPad, kids focus on the eye candy and start playing with those things. A (relatively) limited environment at the same time focuses them and makes them creative.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>The thing that stands out in many of these stories are these three points:<p><pre><code> * Accessible price point,
* Instantly usable to write code,
* a place to go when the capabilities ran out.
</code></pre>
It is very challenging to reliably buy this today. When my daughter wanted a computer a gave her a VAX 4000/VLC, it had BASIC, C, FORTRAN, and COBOL installed and could run adventure. I got it for free from a junk pile.<p>I'm going to try and fix that.
[edited for formatting]</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GFischer</author><text>One of my favorite game designers is fond of the mantra "Restriction breeds creativity"<p>There's also the classic "Necessity is the mother of invention".</text></comment> |
27,565,975 | 27,562,973 | 1 | 2 | 27,561,807 | train | <story><title>“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning controversial books”</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1406255522475556869</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>FabHK</author><text>Ok, so this is being somewhat misunderstood here, I think. A few observations:<p>- The sentence pg quoted (&quot;Roughly one-third of students are also in favor of banning controversial books from their university library.&quot;) is verbatim from the study.<p>- However, this study must be seen in context. It was deliberately and openly <i>designed</i> to detect anti-free-speech sentiment by looking at a specifically chosen probable &quot;worst case&quot;, namely social science students at a traditionally left leaning university in Germany (which houses the &quot;Institut für Sozialforschung&quot; that gave rise to the &quot;Frankfurter Schule&quot; (Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse) of critical theory, a predecessor of (among other things) CRT). That this is the case is revealed <i>right in the title</i> of the study: &quot;Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Some Preliminary Evidence from a Most Likely Case&quot;, and further emphasised in the text: &quot;We are certainly not under the impression that our sample is representative of university students in general (or the wider public, for that matter). <i>On the contrary</i>, we <i>purposefully</i> consider the social science studentship at Frankfurt as a <i>most likely case</i>.&quot; (my emphasis).<p>- So, the study succeeded in detecting some moderately illiberal attitudes in a quarter or so of students at one deliberately chosen &quot;worst case&quot; faculty in Germany.<p>- All the hubbub here about the statistical limitations is overblown, n=501 is not bad for social science and gives a error margin of around 5%, which means the results stand unless there was massive sampling bias.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Roughly one-third of students are in favor of banning controversial books”</title><url>https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1406255522475556869</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thayne</author><text>&gt; The target population of our study are all current social science students at GoetheUniversity of Frankfurt<p>&gt; Participation was voluntary and incentivized with a lottery of three Amazon gift vouchers to the value of 50 euro each.<p>&gt; However, the actual net response rate dropped from 14% to 7.5% when we consider only those who completed at least80% of the survey (n= 501), which is clearly poor and has to be kept in mind whendrawing conclusions from the data.<p>Not really a great sample. All participants are from a rather specific demographic, and a small sample size at that.</text></comment> |
20,768,859 | 20,767,775 | 1 | 3 | 20,763,961 | train | <story><title>Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)</title><url>https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubber_duck</author><text>&gt; such as for example the notion that it&#x27;s somewhat something to be ashamed of for an employee to leave its employer, while it&#x27;s perfectly OK for the employer to terminate the employee at any time.<p>Your entire post is overgeneralization and dramatizing to prove some poorly thought out hypothesis but this here is the most obvious example. When there is enough choice people change jobs all the time - the demand in my local dev market went through the roof last couple of years for multiple reasons - I see people change 2 jobs within a year, demand all sorts of things - last round of job interviews I did the interviewers spent double the time explaining why their company was a great fit for me instead of actually interviewing me for position - compared to the usual narrative of asking why I fit them.<p>The situation is pretty much dictated by supply&#x2F;demand and both sides take advantage. Firing and quitting can have negative implications for both sides, just depends on scenario.<p>I don&#x27;t see where shame enters the equation.</text></item><item><author>vfc1</author><text>The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification.<p>This explains the system of values that revolve around it, such as for example the notion that it&#x27;s somewhat something to be ashamed of for an employee to leave its employer, while it&#x27;s perfectly OK for the employer to terminate the employee at any time.<p>The servant was not expected to leave its master, that was not OK.<p>Or that you are expected to be available at all times, even though the contract only mentions 40h, and that is perfectly OK and even interiorized as acceptable by most people, which will even go to the extent of defending that state of affairs.<p>What I see in the workforce is a desperate need for people to continuously prove the need for their own role, as automation and informatization eat away more an more jobs.<p>It&#x27;s a game of face time, who sends most emails past midnight, and who is willing to sell more of their personal life and squeeze other people out of theirs, often to do &quot;important&quot; tasks that are often completely unnecessary.<p>I had a couple of jobs where I was working overtime, running for deadlines all the time, sending emails left an right, meetings, you name it. One day I had enough and I left, and to my surprise, I was never replaced :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kerkeslager</author><text>What&#x27;s your supply and demand explanation for the following norms?<p>- It&#x27;s considered professional for employees give their employers two weeks notice before leaving. It&#x27;s considered completely reasonable for employers to terminate employees and not even pay them for the rest of the day.<p>- It&#x27;s considered unprofessional to talk about what you&#x27;re getting paid.<p>- It&#x27;s considered normal for potential employers to do background checks, call references, and even run credit checks on potential employees. Ask a potential employer for references or any information on their financials, and that&#x27;s weird. The latter is particularly strange, because the employer is paying the employee, so the employee has a much larger interest in making sure the employer can pay them.</text></comment> | <story><title>Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today's (2009)</title><url>https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rubber_duck</author><text>&gt; such as for example the notion that it&#x27;s somewhat something to be ashamed of for an employee to leave its employer, while it&#x27;s perfectly OK for the employer to terminate the employee at any time.<p>Your entire post is overgeneralization and dramatizing to prove some poorly thought out hypothesis but this here is the most obvious example. When there is enough choice people change jobs all the time - the demand in my local dev market went through the roof last couple of years for multiple reasons - I see people change 2 jobs within a year, demand all sorts of things - last round of job interviews I did the interviewers spent double the time explaining why their company was a great fit for me instead of actually interviewing me for position - compared to the usual narrative of asking why I fit them.<p>The situation is pretty much dictated by supply&#x2F;demand and both sides take advantage. Firing and quitting can have negative implications for both sides, just depends on scenario.<p>I don&#x27;t see where shame enters the equation.</text></item><item><author>vfc1</author><text>The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification.<p>This explains the system of values that revolve around it, such as for example the notion that it&#x27;s somewhat something to be ashamed of for an employee to leave its employer, while it&#x27;s perfectly OK for the employer to terminate the employee at any time.<p>The servant was not expected to leave its master, that was not OK.<p>Or that you are expected to be available at all times, even though the contract only mentions 40h, and that is perfectly OK and even interiorized as acceptable by most people, which will even go to the extent of defending that state of affairs.<p>What I see in the workforce is a desperate need for people to continuously prove the need for their own role, as automation and informatization eat away more an more jobs.<p>It&#x27;s a game of face time, who sends most emails past midnight, and who is willing to sell more of their personal life and squeeze other people out of theirs, often to do &quot;important&quot; tasks that are often completely unnecessary.<p>I had a couple of jobs where I was working overtime, running for deadlines all the time, sending emails left an right, meetings, you name it. One day I had enough and I left, and to my surprise, I was never replaced :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noobermin</author><text>While I have bones to pick out of OP, your post assumes your experience is the norm and not far away from the median.</text></comment> |
41,538,513 | 41,538,451 | 1 | 2 | 41,501,912 | train | <story><title>Jerry Neumann: Resignation Letter</title><url>https://reactionwheel.net/2024/09/resignation-letter.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwern</author><text>&gt; So why quit? Three reasons. First, I’ve felt for a few years now that the startups I’m seeing don’t seem so much like progress as just shopkeeping. This isn’t a dig: there’s money to be made razoring a thin slice off a huge market, and there’s certainly less risk in that than there is building a market from scratch. But it’s just not that interesting. The excitement I had as a 14-year old in 1979 trying to understand everything there was to know about computers, because this was something that could radically improve people’s lives, I just don’t get anymore. And not because people’s lives, the people who have access to the tech, aren’t better, I think they are (although this, of course, has not been as unalloyed as I imagined as a 14-year old.) But because I think the tech is no longer improving lives, it’s just maintaining the current status quo. It just feels, I don’t know, done.<p>This is remarkable to me because I would say that right now is one of the most exciting times to invest ever. We are in one of the new platforms: VC hasn&#x27;t been so interesting to me since ~2013, when cryptocurrency offered a whole new greenfield, or 2008, when the iPhone changed everything for mobile, or ~1998, when the WWW began to mature enough to allow greenfield everything. (With an honorable mention to VR - still the new platform of the future...) Just think about LLMs and programming! Programming hasn&#x27;t been about to change this much, this fundamentally, since the invention of networks or timesharing, perhaps. How can you look at this and write it all off as &#x27;shopkeeping&#x27; with no &#x27;building a market from scratch&#x27; and &#x27;just not that interesting&#x27;?<p>I think maybe the real reason is the next one: they&#x27;re just older, and no longer have the gumption and energy to try to dive into the Shiny New Thing, and it&#x27;s time to hang up their hat and call it a day, leaving it to the next generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Earw0rm</author><text>I&#x27;ll give you 1998 (although it really started to pick up momentum a couple of years earlier - that was just the point on the exponential curve where it began to get noticed).<p>And I&#x27;ll give you 2008, although while it&#x27;s partly about the hardware, it&#x27;s also about the pervasive and universal internet, the end of online as a separate &quot;place&quot; and just becoming part of the fabric of day-to-day life.<p>2013 and crypto, though? Sure, it&#x27;s made a few (or maybe not so few) people very rich. In terms of day-to-day functionality though, NFTs were empty hype, and the only vaguely useful activity I&#x27;ve seen it used for was probably illegal (circumventing blocks in the global financial system) even if not necessarily immoral.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jerry Neumann: Resignation Letter</title><url>https://reactionwheel.net/2024/09/resignation-letter.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gwern</author><text>&gt; So why quit? Three reasons. First, I’ve felt for a few years now that the startups I’m seeing don’t seem so much like progress as just shopkeeping. This isn’t a dig: there’s money to be made razoring a thin slice off a huge market, and there’s certainly less risk in that than there is building a market from scratch. But it’s just not that interesting. The excitement I had as a 14-year old in 1979 trying to understand everything there was to know about computers, because this was something that could radically improve people’s lives, I just don’t get anymore. And not because people’s lives, the people who have access to the tech, aren’t better, I think they are (although this, of course, has not been as unalloyed as I imagined as a 14-year old.) But because I think the tech is no longer improving lives, it’s just maintaining the current status quo. It just feels, I don’t know, done.<p>This is remarkable to me because I would say that right now is one of the most exciting times to invest ever. We are in one of the new platforms: VC hasn&#x27;t been so interesting to me since ~2013, when cryptocurrency offered a whole new greenfield, or 2008, when the iPhone changed everything for mobile, or ~1998, when the WWW began to mature enough to allow greenfield everything. (With an honorable mention to VR - still the new platform of the future...) Just think about LLMs and programming! Programming hasn&#x27;t been about to change this much, this fundamentally, since the invention of networks or timesharing, perhaps. How can you look at this and write it all off as &#x27;shopkeeping&#x27; with no &#x27;building a market from scratch&#x27; and &#x27;just not that interesting&#x27;?<p>I think maybe the real reason is the next one: they&#x27;re just older, and no longer have the gumption and energy to try to dive into the Shiny New Thing, and it&#x27;s time to hang up their hat and call it a day, leaving it to the next generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>programjames</author><text>But most of the AI startups <i>are</i> just razoring a thin slice off a huge market. They&#x27;re making robo-receptionists for the doctor&#x27;s office, or integrating LLMs into your IDE. Very few are building new markets from scratch, like photonic neural networks or brain-computer interfaces.</text></comment> |
39,863,930 | 39,864,164 | 1 | 2 | 39,861,578 | train | <story><title>OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning</title><url>https://research.myshell.ai/open-voice</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randkyp</author><text>This is HN, so I&#x27;m surprised that no one in the comments section has run this locally. :)<p>Following the instructions in their repo (and moving the checkpoints&#x2F; and resources&#x2F; folder into the &quot;nested&quot; openvoice subfolder), I managed to get the Gradio demo running. Simple enough.<p>It appears to be quicker than XTTS2 on my machine (RTX 3090), and utilizes approximately 1.5GB of VRAM. The Gradio demo is limited to 200 characters, perhaps for resource usage concerns, but it seems to run at around 8x realtime (8 seconds of speech for about 1 second of processing time.)<p>EDIT: patched the Gradio demo for longer text; it&#x27;s way faster than that. One minute of speech only took ~4 seconds to render. Default voice sample, reading this very comment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voca.ro&#x2F;18JIHDs4vI1v" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voca.ro&#x2F;18JIHDs4vI1v</a>
I had to write out acronyms -- XTTS2 to &quot;ex tee tee ess two&quot;, for example.<p>The voice clarity is better than XTTS2, too, but the speech can sound a bit stilted and, well, robotic&#x2F;TTS-esque compared to it. The cloning consistency is definitely a step above XTTS2 in my experience -- XTTS2 would sometimes have random pitch shifts or plosives&#x2F;babble in the middle of speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bambax</author><text>I am trying to run it locally but it doesn&#x27;t quite work for me.<p>I was able to run the demos allright, but when trying to use another reference speaker (in demo_part1), the result doesn&#x27;t sound at all like the source (it&#x27;s just a random male voice).<p>I&#x27;m also trying to produce French output, using a reference audio file in French for the base speaker, and a text in French. This triggers an error in api.py line 75 that the source language is not accepted.<p>Indeed, in api.py line 45 the only two source languages allowed are English and Chineese; simply adding French to language_marks in api.py line 43 avoids errors but produces a weird&#x2F;unintelligible result with a super heavy English accent and pronunciation.<p>I guess one would need to generate source_se again, and probably mess with config.json and checkpoint.pth as well, but I could not find instructions on how to do this...?<p>Edit -- tried again on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.myshell.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.myshell.ai&#x2F;</a> The result sounds French alright, but still nothing like the original reference. It would be absolutely impossible to confuse one with the other, even for someone who didn&#x27;t know the person very well.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning</title><url>https://research.myshell.ai/open-voice</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randkyp</author><text>This is HN, so I&#x27;m surprised that no one in the comments section has run this locally. :)<p>Following the instructions in their repo (and moving the checkpoints&#x2F; and resources&#x2F; folder into the &quot;nested&quot; openvoice subfolder), I managed to get the Gradio demo running. Simple enough.<p>It appears to be quicker than XTTS2 on my machine (RTX 3090), and utilizes approximately 1.5GB of VRAM. The Gradio demo is limited to 200 characters, perhaps for resource usage concerns, but it seems to run at around 8x realtime (8 seconds of speech for about 1 second of processing time.)<p>EDIT: patched the Gradio demo for longer text; it&#x27;s way faster than that. One minute of speech only took ~4 seconds to render. Default voice sample, reading this very comment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voca.ro&#x2F;18JIHDs4vI1v" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voca.ro&#x2F;18JIHDs4vI1v</a>
I had to write out acronyms -- XTTS2 to &quot;ex tee tee ess two&quot;, for example.<p>The voice clarity is better than XTTS2, too, but the speech can sound a bit stilted and, well, robotic&#x2F;TTS-esque compared to it. The cloning consistency is definitely a step above XTTS2 in my experience -- XTTS2 would sometimes have random pitch shifts or plosives&#x2F;babble in the middle of speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>causi</author><text>We&#x27;re so close to me being able to open a program, feed in an epub, and get a near-human level audiobook out of it. I&#x27;m so excited.</text></comment> |
3,727,481 | 3,727,494 | 1 | 3 | 3,726,622 | train | <story><title>Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/welcome-to-the-post-pc-era.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julian37</author><text><i>It's not a versus, it's a peaceful cohabitation, only some evangelist and/or journalists want to push us to believe there's a war but that's really not true.</i><p>I wouldn't call it a war, but Atwood (who, by the way, is neither an evangelist nor a journalist with an agenda) makes the point that tablets are about to take over large shares of the PC market. And my point was that this way, people (non-hackers) get even further removed from the "close to the metal" experience that I and others in my generation used to have.<p>With all respect, I think you and dozens of other posters in this thread are missing the point by "defending" the notebook and saying it won't get fully replaced. Of course it won't, but that's not an interesting question. The interesting question, in my mind, is: how can we avoid the TV-ization of computing? How can we make sure future generations don't equate a computer with a consumption device rather than a productive device? How can we make sure they can find out that this "magical device" isn't actually driven by fairy dust? Whether or not some share of the population uses notebooks, when the default for the millions and billions of non-hackers out there is to use a tablet, doesn't matter very much at that point.<p>Fortunately there are initiatives like the Raspberry Pi. It's telling that one of the main initiators of that project, David Braben, is also an old-school guy who grew up with computers in the 80s. Or so I'm guessing -- at any rate, he wrote some of my favorite 80s games, Elite and later Frontier. But I fear that if you plot the Raspberry's sales curve into Atwood's graph it won't look anything like the iPad.</text></item><item><author>victork2</author><text>I think the whole question Tablet vs Computer is pretty dumb in the first place. It's not a versus, it's a peaceful cohabitation, only some evangelist and/or journalists want to push us to believe there's a war but that's really not true.<p>Tablet and PC simply correspond to two totally different use of media. A tablet is consumption centered whereas the PC is able to produce complex goods and services than then can be consumed by a tablet. Will the tablet push away PC usage to very low level in some areas? Probably! Will it replace a PC for every usage ? Are you kidding me: Development, 3D Effect, Advanced Audio Processing, Advanced Photo processing. That's just as stupid as saying that photoshop is dead because Instagram can do sepia...<p>PS: I will absolutely never buy a tablet, I fight every day to stay on the creator side of society, with a tablet I would just give up!</text></item><item><author>julian37</author><text>I think Atwood is right, PCs are on their way out simply because with tablets there is so much less that can go wrong. He mentions tech support in the article: THAT is why they will win, regardless of whether or not they will fully replace PCs, or whether or not they are better suited to writing emails. Millions of people who can't be bothered with anti-virus updates and the like will just find it a much more pleasant experience: "it just works" indeed.<p>(I'm a Mac user and I find myself spending a lot less time on tech support type issues than back in the day when I was using Linux and Windows, still it's hard to deny that iPads are currently the epitome of simplicity, compared to their power.)<p>And that's what I'm worried about: "No user serviceable parts inside". I'm concerned the very reason tablets will take over the PC market will also mean that tomorrow's kids' experience is very different from, and I would argue poorer than, my experience when I got my first computer, a Commodore VIC 20.<p>Ironically, my VIC 20 also was very user friendly. You turn it on, it's on. You put in a diskette -- well, it didn't load automatically but making it load was a very simple incantation, and once the game started, it was started. Things were simple and worked, for the most part, quite well. No tech support needed. But the BASIC shell was there right at your fingertips -- hell, the manual came with example BASIC programs.<p>Quibbling over the merits of BASIC aside, it was a simple experience but it was also tremendously open.<p>Things got much more complicated since then; network connectivity in particular introduced previously unknown threats to users, so of course this is a simplified comparison. Still, I wonder, is giving up the freedom to tinker with the system really the price tomorrow's consumers will have to pay in order to buy simplicity?<p>And if you're thinking about replying with links to IDEs running on the iPad: no, something that runs in the cloud and has no direct access whatsoever to the internals of the machine does not qualify as a modern-day replacement for this experience, no matter how sophisticated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>victork2</author><text>Don't worry, you're full of respect ;).<p>It's maybe a philosophical question but who <i>doesn't</i> have an agenda? I mean when you buy a device, don't you want to convince the other that you haven't bought a stupid toy or a useless object? Everybody has an agenda, even someone just buy an iPad he has incentives to convince that his device is great, the only ones who don't have an agenda are the ones who genuinely don't care.<p>I have an agenda, I am trying to push people to see computers as something else that a tool to consume media/ slack around. But from the current design of tablets, especially Apple's iOs Devices it's getting really hard to see something else than a "pure-consumption" product.<p>To continue on the philosophical level, I think humans deep down aspire to do very little while receiving a lot of pleasure. The most productive of us have managed to channel this desire towards building systems that, when they will be working, will provide us with a lot of rewards with little additional work (the startup!). In a way the self-driven programmers have achieved a Post-Slacker era in their mind and god knows how hard it is to keep that up. The iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch/Android Phones are enabler of the slacktivist part in everyone of us, and that's one of the big reasons of their success.<p>Sure Raspberry Pi is great but, again, it's in the realm of post-slacktivism and thus it will probably NEVER be popular. It doesn't mean it won't be successful.<p>I hope this comment will find interested minds!</text></comment> | <story><title>Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era</title><url>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/welcome-to-the-post-pc-era.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>julian37</author><text><i>It's not a versus, it's a peaceful cohabitation, only some evangelist and/or journalists want to push us to believe there's a war but that's really not true.</i><p>I wouldn't call it a war, but Atwood (who, by the way, is neither an evangelist nor a journalist with an agenda) makes the point that tablets are about to take over large shares of the PC market. And my point was that this way, people (non-hackers) get even further removed from the "close to the metal" experience that I and others in my generation used to have.<p>With all respect, I think you and dozens of other posters in this thread are missing the point by "defending" the notebook and saying it won't get fully replaced. Of course it won't, but that's not an interesting question. The interesting question, in my mind, is: how can we avoid the TV-ization of computing? How can we make sure future generations don't equate a computer with a consumption device rather than a productive device? How can we make sure they can find out that this "magical device" isn't actually driven by fairy dust? Whether or not some share of the population uses notebooks, when the default for the millions and billions of non-hackers out there is to use a tablet, doesn't matter very much at that point.<p>Fortunately there are initiatives like the Raspberry Pi. It's telling that one of the main initiators of that project, David Braben, is also an old-school guy who grew up with computers in the 80s. Or so I'm guessing -- at any rate, he wrote some of my favorite 80s games, Elite and later Frontier. But I fear that if you plot the Raspberry's sales curve into Atwood's graph it won't look anything like the iPad.</text></item><item><author>victork2</author><text>I think the whole question Tablet vs Computer is pretty dumb in the first place. It's not a versus, it's a peaceful cohabitation, only some evangelist and/or journalists want to push us to believe there's a war but that's really not true.<p>Tablet and PC simply correspond to two totally different use of media. A tablet is consumption centered whereas the PC is able to produce complex goods and services than then can be consumed by a tablet. Will the tablet push away PC usage to very low level in some areas? Probably! Will it replace a PC for every usage ? Are you kidding me: Development, 3D Effect, Advanced Audio Processing, Advanced Photo processing. That's just as stupid as saying that photoshop is dead because Instagram can do sepia...<p>PS: I will absolutely never buy a tablet, I fight every day to stay on the creator side of society, with a tablet I would just give up!</text></item><item><author>julian37</author><text>I think Atwood is right, PCs are on their way out simply because with tablets there is so much less that can go wrong. He mentions tech support in the article: THAT is why they will win, regardless of whether or not they will fully replace PCs, or whether or not they are better suited to writing emails. Millions of people who can't be bothered with anti-virus updates and the like will just find it a much more pleasant experience: "it just works" indeed.<p>(I'm a Mac user and I find myself spending a lot less time on tech support type issues than back in the day when I was using Linux and Windows, still it's hard to deny that iPads are currently the epitome of simplicity, compared to their power.)<p>And that's what I'm worried about: "No user serviceable parts inside". I'm concerned the very reason tablets will take over the PC market will also mean that tomorrow's kids' experience is very different from, and I would argue poorer than, my experience when I got my first computer, a Commodore VIC 20.<p>Ironically, my VIC 20 also was very user friendly. You turn it on, it's on. You put in a diskette -- well, it didn't load automatically but making it load was a very simple incantation, and once the game started, it was started. Things were simple and worked, for the most part, quite well. No tech support needed. But the BASIC shell was there right at your fingertips -- hell, the manual came with example BASIC programs.<p>Quibbling over the merits of BASIC aside, it was a simple experience but it was also tremendously open.<p>Things got much more complicated since then; network connectivity in particular introduced previously unknown threats to users, so of course this is a simplified comparison. Still, I wonder, is giving up the freedom to tinker with the system really the price tomorrow's consumers will have to pay in order to buy simplicity?<p>And if you're thinking about replying with links to IDEs running on the iPad: no, something that runs in the cloud and has no direct access whatsoever to the internals of the machine does not qualify as a modern-day replacement for this experience, no matter how sophisticated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikatwork</author><text><i>I wouldn't call it a war, but Atwood ... makes the point that tablets are about to take over large shares of the PC market.</i><p>No he doesn't. He says that everyone now owns a PC, so innovation is moving to post-pc devices.<p>I think the term "post-pc" causes many geeks to project a vast ethical struggle onto the tablet market. Chillax, game consoles didn't kill off programming, this is no different.<p>Personally, I prefer the term "portable device" but I guess that's not as link-baity.</text></comment> |
6,960,422 | 6,960,487 | 1 | 3 | 6,960,211 | train | <story><title>Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO</title><url>http://news.rapgenius.com/Rap-genius-founders-open-letter-to-google-about-rap-genius-seo-lyrics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmisra</author><text>This is complicated.<p>1. rapgenius is probably the least spammy lyrics site on the internet, and definitely so amongst those on the first page of search results. As a consumer, I would not have a problem with Google, et al giving rapgenius results a special algorithmic bump to move them up. I also know that this is an opinion - it may be a popular opinion, but it is still inherently subjective.<p>2. If I was in rapgenius&#x27; shoes, I imagine gaming SEO would be a strategy to be seriously considered - one doesn&#x27;t get into the music lyrics market without being aware of the current state of affairs. Barry Bonds believed he was the best hitter of his era, and if McGwire and Sosa were going to get credit for breaking the home run record while taking steroids, then damnit he was going to take steroids and hit 70 bombs. IMO, this is not a morality play.<p>3. But I do not care for the public personae of the rapgenius founders. They come off as juvenile and occasionally offensive, and I think they are bad representatives for consumer internet start-ups. I&#x27;m pretty sure this is a common opinion on HN, but I am not sure how much it should color our judgment of their actions.<p>As they say, the game is the game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davemel37</author><text>1. If Google would penalize their own sites for link schemes (i.e. Chrome) done by third party agencies, certainly they should for Rap Genius. This isn&#x27;t about whats the best site, this is about maintaining credibility in their index. The moment Google plays favorites manually is the moment I switch to another search engine.<p>2. Gaming SEO is attractive to almost everybody. Google needs to make it so painful to get caught, that people won&#x27;t bother risking it in the future. The way I see it is...even if Googles algorithms havent caught up just yet to surface the best quality content, they will eventually, why not speed up the process of meeting them in the middle and focus on legit link acquisition and traffic acquisition strategies...<p>3. I have no opinions about Rap Genius or their founders, I think their actions deserve a massive penalty...let them run ppc for those long tail lyric lines, I doubt those clicks cost more than a nickel. Let them clean up their act, and go through the channels to request a reinclusion in the index.<p>The game is the game is a poor excuse. give me $15mm and a site like Rap Genius and I&#x27;ll get it outranking everybody in the space in 9 months, with only legit strategies.</text></comment> | <story><title>Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO</title><url>http://news.rapgenius.com/Rap-genius-founders-open-letter-to-google-about-rap-genius-seo-lyrics</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gmisra</author><text>This is complicated.<p>1. rapgenius is probably the least spammy lyrics site on the internet, and definitely so amongst those on the first page of search results. As a consumer, I would not have a problem with Google, et al giving rapgenius results a special algorithmic bump to move them up. I also know that this is an opinion - it may be a popular opinion, but it is still inherently subjective.<p>2. If I was in rapgenius&#x27; shoes, I imagine gaming SEO would be a strategy to be seriously considered - one doesn&#x27;t get into the music lyrics market without being aware of the current state of affairs. Barry Bonds believed he was the best hitter of his era, and if McGwire and Sosa were going to get credit for breaking the home run record while taking steroids, then damnit he was going to take steroids and hit 70 bombs. IMO, this is not a morality play.<p>3. But I do not care for the public personae of the rapgenius founders. They come off as juvenile and occasionally offensive, and I think they are bad representatives for consumer internet start-ups. I&#x27;m pretty sure this is a common opinion on HN, but I am not sure how much it should color our judgment of their actions.<p>As they say, the game is the game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seiji</author><text><i>the least spammy lyrics site on the internet</i><p>Is songmeanings spammy at all? They didn&#x27;t even have ads for the longest time, and they don&#x27;t do crappy a-dozen-pop-unders like other sites these days.</text></comment> |
11,697,933 | 11,697,403 | 1 | 3 | 11,697,122 | train | <story><title>How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending</title><url>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/elon-musk-rocket-defense-223161?href</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>schiffern</author><text>&gt;When ULA was formed, Boeing and Lockheed were not only battling each other for launch contracts, they were also locked in a legal battle over rocket technology. For the Pentagon, the joint-venture was a way to settle the bad blood between its top contractors and make sure that both could remain in the space launch business. ...<p>&gt; In his remarks, Tobey referred to that payment — about $800 million per year — as a carrot to “sweeten the deal” for the “shotgun wedding” the Pentagon forced on Boeing and Lockheed. ...<p>&gt; Shelby continues to defend the original concept of ULA, noting that Boeing and Lockheed were battling each other in court over rocket technology before the merger.<p>&gt;“There was a lot of trouble at one time between Boeing and Lockheed,” Shelby noted in a brief interview.<p>Strange that the article never comes out and says it: Boeing committed industrial espionage and bribed Air Force procurement officials.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-probe-intensifies-over-secret-lockheed-papers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seattletimes.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;boeing-probe-intensifie...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;query.nytimes.com&#x2F;gst&#x2F;fullpage.html?res=9802E2D9103BF937A35751C0A9639C8B63" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;query.nytimes.com&#x2F;gst&#x2F;fullpage.html?res=9802E2D9103BF...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;archive&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;2006&#x2F;June&#x2F;06_civ_412.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;archive&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;2006&#x2F;June&#x2F;06_civ_412....</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How Elon Musk exposed billions in questionable Pentagon spending</title><url>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/elon-musk-rocket-defense-223161?href</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kiba</author><text>The senators in the story are transparently corrupt, but also doing their job.<p>Their job is to represent the interests of their state or their constituency.<p>Otherwise, their constituency would vote them out.<p>These senators are working at cross-purpose with our broader national interests.</text></comment> |
29,845,614 | 29,844,700 | 1 | 2 | 29,841,737 | train | <story><title>Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up</title><url>https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I don&#x27;t recall what book I was reading that suggested than a civilization based on ecological awareness should be built around watersheds.<p>Maybe half the borders in the world are ridge lines (a natural watershed boundary), while the rest are bodies of water. That means that the consequences of what goes into that water are split between me and perhaps 20 other states&#x2F;nations. That sort of cross-border negotiation has a lot more friction involved with it.<p>The watershed society would have jurisdictions nested around streams, tributaries, and rivers. I think if you sited your seats of power where your watershed meets the next higher jurisdiction, we probably would have a lot fewer industries running effluent pipes directly into our rivers, because the stuff the mayor is letting into their stream is running past the governor&#x27;s house on its way to the president&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>season2episode3</author><text>For the curious, here&#x27;s a map of major watersheds in North America. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usgs.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;images&#x2F;watershed-map-north-america" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usgs.gov&#x2F;media&#x2F;images&#x2F;watershed-map-north-americ...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up</title><url>https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>I don&#x27;t recall what book I was reading that suggested than a civilization based on ecological awareness should be built around watersheds.<p>Maybe half the borders in the world are ridge lines (a natural watershed boundary), while the rest are bodies of water. That means that the consequences of what goes into that water are split between me and perhaps 20 other states&#x2F;nations. That sort of cross-border negotiation has a lot more friction involved with it.<p>The watershed society would have jurisdictions nested around streams, tributaries, and rivers. I think if you sited your seats of power where your watershed meets the next higher jurisdiction, we probably would have a lot fewer industries running effluent pipes directly into our rivers, because the stuff the mayor is letting into their stream is running past the governor&#x27;s house on its way to the president&#x27;s.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aiisjustanif</author><text>While I’d like to think that, anecdotal there are places like Baton Rouge. Where the state capital building, mayor’s house, and governor’s mansion and smack dab in from of an refinery plant.</text></comment> |
34,256,417 | 34,256,312 | 1 | 2 | 34,255,522 | train | <story><title>I was laid off 2 months ago and I’ve never even seen a severance letter</title><url>https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/1610760987996749824</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Suing a company is typically not beneficial for the worker or ex worker. Unless the payout is greater than what remains of your lifetime earnings projections. A person with litigious history carries a kind of scarlet letter around their neck. No one wants to risk being the next target.<p>Think: would you want to bring on a cofounder who sued their previous cofounder? Maybe you would, but many would have second thoughts too.</text></item><item><author>hijinks</author><text>remember people, most employment lawyers work on contingency for this reason. They only get paid if you win. Most people don&#x27;t know that and think it&#x27;ll be too expensive to take on their old company</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>I would absolutely hire somebody who sued Twitter for failing to pay what was owed. In a heartbeat. I like working with people with character; you can trust them to let you know when something isn&#x27;t right.<p>Similarly, I&#x27;d look very carefully at anybody who stayed at Twitter well into the Musk era. As I did people who were at Uber during the Travis era. Sometimes decent people have good reasons for working for bad execs. (E.g., I hear a lot of the SpaceX people see putting up with Musk as a necessary evil for getting to work on something they care so much about.) But sometimes they are clue-deficient or lack a moral core, and those people require too much close supervision for my tastes.</text></comment> | <story><title>I was laid off 2 months ago and I’ve never even seen a severance letter</title><url>https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/1610760987996749824</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Suing a company is typically not beneficial for the worker or ex worker. Unless the payout is greater than what remains of your lifetime earnings projections. A person with litigious history carries a kind of scarlet letter around their neck. No one wants to risk being the next target.<p>Think: would you want to bring on a cofounder who sued their previous cofounder? Maybe you would, but many would have second thoughts too.</text></item><item><author>hijinks</author><text>remember people, most employment lawyers work on contingency for this reason. They only get paid if you win. Most people don&#x27;t know that and think it&#x27;ll be too expensive to take on their old company</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>htag</author><text>A high profile situation like this might be a different case. If this is happening to many former employees, and it reaches class action, then there will be a lot of press about the subject. You wouldn&#x27;t have to explain why you brought the lawsuit, and everyone would have an understanding of the situation.<p>What&#x27;s the point of being able to free to file a lawsuit if you practically can&#x27;t?<p>What would you think of someone that wouldn&#x27;t fight for themselves when they were lied to and cheated?</text></comment> |
31,684,909 | 31,684,823 | 1 | 3 | 31,681,234 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents?</title><text>Much as the title says, I really miss the Usenet days where I could contribute to a bulletin board-style forum on hyper-specific subjects.<p>If I remember my computing history correctly, Google ended up acquiring and eating Usenet, becoming Google Groups. I&#x27;m not sure if this is dead yet.<p>Arguably, Reddit fills some of this niche, but Usenet was tech-focused, generally quite professional and frankly didn&#x27;t have the same clientele as Reddit does.<p>HN is topic-focused, rather than subject-focused.<p>Would be very interested to see if there&#x27;s any Usenet-style project that&#x27;s still alive.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>slightwinder</author><text>Oh, that&#x27;s a fascinating wild post.<p>&gt; Google ended up acquiring and eating Usenet, becoming Google Groups.<p>They did not acquire usenet, they acquired Dejanews, a big usenet-archive and gateway to the usenet. Usenet itself is made of decentraliced servers. Everyone can have one, most big providers and tech-companies had one in the early days. Each with their own groups. There also were public groups, maintained by some hive-mind-org or something.<p>Anyway, Usenet still exists, it&#x27;s not dead, technically. But there is also not much alive either. File sharing on commercial servers seems to be very popular now, and the discusion-groups are receiving more spam than actual worthy content.<p>&gt; Reddit fills some of this niche, but Usenet was tech-focused,<p>50:50 I&#x27;d say. There were many tech-groups. But pretty fast there were also an equal amount of non-tech-groups. And in terms of hyper-focus I would say, reddit has far more focus today than usenet ever delivered. It&#x27;s more about finding a sub and filling it.<p>&gt; generally quite professional and frankly didn&#x27;t have the same clientele as Reddit does.<p>I get the impression your problem is more about the people, not the platform. Yes, usenet had more nerds and expert, more technical capable people. But usenet was also significant smaller, as was the whole internet at the time. You had some kind of natural selection, as internet generally, and usenet specifically only lured very specific people in. With special interests, from a special age and culture. Today it&#x27;s different, you have anyone from anywhere making a space. I&#x27;d say those time are lost forever. At best you get some overhomogenized communities, like this hackernews here. But if you look at reddit, discord, or web-forums in general, you will still find hyper-focused spaces. Just not necessarily with the kind of people your chemistry matches with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Majromax</author><text>&gt; I get the impression your problem is more about the people, not the platform.<p>There&#x27;s one structural difference: Usenet had no engagement metric but replies. Modern replacements measure and implicitly optimize for view counts (the lurker experience); both Reddit and Hacker News sort and surface posts based on a karma score&#x2F;like count.<p>I think this difference led Usenet to implicitly optimize for high-effort posts. The stereotypical Reddit &quot;in-joke&quot; thread has no place on Usenet because the principal reward of karma is entirely missing. Instead, posters are implicitly rewarded with attention when their posts garner replies and discussion.<p>On one hand, this encourages real content and discussion over superficial &quot;updoots to the left&quot;. On the other hand, it also encourages flamebait and high-effort trolling, which a vote-scoring system can silently suppress.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents?</title><text>Much as the title says, I really miss the Usenet days where I could contribute to a bulletin board-style forum on hyper-specific subjects.<p>If I remember my computing history correctly, Google ended up acquiring and eating Usenet, becoming Google Groups. I&#x27;m not sure if this is dead yet.<p>Arguably, Reddit fills some of this niche, but Usenet was tech-focused, generally quite professional and frankly didn&#x27;t have the same clientele as Reddit does.<p>HN is topic-focused, rather than subject-focused.<p>Would be very interested to see if there&#x27;s any Usenet-style project that&#x27;s still alive.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>slightwinder</author><text>Oh, that&#x27;s a fascinating wild post.<p>&gt; Google ended up acquiring and eating Usenet, becoming Google Groups.<p>They did not acquire usenet, they acquired Dejanews, a big usenet-archive and gateway to the usenet. Usenet itself is made of decentraliced servers. Everyone can have one, most big providers and tech-companies had one in the early days. Each with their own groups. There also were public groups, maintained by some hive-mind-org or something.<p>Anyway, Usenet still exists, it&#x27;s not dead, technically. But there is also not much alive either. File sharing on commercial servers seems to be very popular now, and the discusion-groups are receiving more spam than actual worthy content.<p>&gt; Reddit fills some of this niche, but Usenet was tech-focused,<p>50:50 I&#x27;d say. There were many tech-groups. But pretty fast there were also an equal amount of non-tech-groups. And in terms of hyper-focus I would say, reddit has far more focus today than usenet ever delivered. It&#x27;s more about finding a sub and filling it.<p>&gt; generally quite professional and frankly didn&#x27;t have the same clientele as Reddit does.<p>I get the impression your problem is more about the people, not the platform. Yes, usenet had more nerds and expert, more technical capable people. But usenet was also significant smaller, as was the whole internet at the time. You had some kind of natural selection, as internet generally, and usenet specifically only lured very specific people in. With special interests, from a special age and culture. Today it&#x27;s different, you have anyone from anywhere making a space. I&#x27;d say those time are lost forever. At best you get some overhomogenized communities, like this hackernews here. But if you look at reddit, discord, or web-forums in general, you will still find hyper-focused spaces. Just not necessarily with the kind of people your chemistry matches with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidwritesbugs</author><text>As other commenters have pointed out Usenet was a serious of collaborating servers each independently owned &amp; run so there was nothign to &#x27;acquire&#x27;. What happened, from memory, was that a sysop made a backup of his Usenet feed and Google got that tape. My GoogleFu is to weak to find a link to the story.<p>I ran the Newzbin Usenet search engine so it&#x27;s a topic of some nostalgia for me.</text></comment> |
32,919,691 | 32,919,563 | 1 | 2 | 32,917,407 | train | <story><title>YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/mozilla-youtube-recommendation-study-080006930.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>The biggest problem with this approach is that it takes a lot of curation to get your recommendation in a decent shape and it takes you one accidental video view to have your feed be full of uninteresting content related to that video. This asymmetry is the root of all the recommendation system problems.</text></item><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>The trick to improving YouTube recommendations is to regularly prune uninteresting videos and channels. Eventually this should start surfacing videos you&#x27;re more likely to find interesting.<p>I&#x27;ve actually hit the end of my recommendation stream on the mobile app after marking dozens of videos with Not Interested. Once this happens it starts recommending videos you&#x27;ve already watched or older videos from creators you&#x27;ve been watching lately.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d love it if you could curate the recommendation system a bit more. I&#x27;m never interested in rewatching stuff I&#x27;ve already seen. And the recency bias for recommendations means you&#x27;re always getting more if what you&#x27;ve recently consumed. I&#x27;d like it if more older interests were mixed in. Finally, I&#x27;d love to be able to blacklist certain topics and games entirely.<p>There&#x27;s so much missed potential with YouTube recommendations.<p>Some might say that you can still use search, but that has been crippled to include unrelated recommendations after one page of results. Not only that, I want YouTube to help me discover new content. When the recommendation system works and it shows me new kinds of interesting stuff, it&#x27;s superb. TikTok is eating YouTube&#x27;s lunch in this regard.<p>Edit: forgot to mention this. On mobile if you do a recommendation refresh it&#x27;ll show a New to You filter which you can use to explore more diverse recommendations. I don&#x27;t know why it&#x27;s hidden in this manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtsil</author><text>Remove the unwanted video from your history and it will no longer affect your recommendations.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/mozilla-youtube-recommendation-study-080006930.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>darth_avocado</author><text>The biggest problem with this approach is that it takes a lot of curation to get your recommendation in a decent shape and it takes you one accidental video view to have your feed be full of uninteresting content related to that video. This asymmetry is the root of all the recommendation system problems.</text></item><item><author>TheAceOfHearts</author><text>The trick to improving YouTube recommendations is to regularly prune uninteresting videos and channels. Eventually this should start surfacing videos you&#x27;re more likely to find interesting.<p>I&#x27;ve actually hit the end of my recommendation stream on the mobile app after marking dozens of videos with Not Interested. Once this happens it starts recommending videos you&#x27;ve already watched or older videos from creators you&#x27;ve been watching lately.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d love it if you could curate the recommendation system a bit more. I&#x27;m never interested in rewatching stuff I&#x27;ve already seen. And the recency bias for recommendations means you&#x27;re always getting more if what you&#x27;ve recently consumed. I&#x27;d like it if more older interests were mixed in. Finally, I&#x27;d love to be able to blacklist certain topics and games entirely.<p>There&#x27;s so much missed potential with YouTube recommendations.<p>Some might say that you can still use search, but that has been crippled to include unrelated recommendations after one page of results. Not only that, I want YouTube to help me discover new content. When the recommendation system works and it shows me new kinds of interesting stuff, it&#x27;s superb. TikTok is eating YouTube&#x27;s lunch in this regard.<p>Edit: forgot to mention this. On mobile if you do a recommendation refresh it&#x27;ll show a New to You filter which you can use to explore more diverse recommendations. I don&#x27;t know why it&#x27;s hidden in this manner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>XorNot</author><text>This right here is exactly it: my number one use of incognito mode these days is when clicking on YouTube videos that have been linked from somewhere else where I&#x27;m trying to keep their content <i>out</i> of my recommendations.</text></comment> |
26,468,315 | 26,468,527 | 1 | 2 | 26,466,711 | train | <story><title>Learnimprov – Just the first improv game site</title><url>https://www.learnimprov.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>murph-almighty</author><text>In-person improv is one of the things I miss the most with the pandemic. Fortunately a lot of enthusiasts have adapted with web technologies and have been streaming shows on Zoom- I joined a team recently that has actually never performed in person!<p>In NY&#x27;s scene there&#x27;s a surprising amount of software engineers who do improv as a creative outlet. I started taking classes at Magnet Theater about 1.5 years ago and it&#x27;s been a great way to pull my brain out of work. More specifically, it&#x27;s nice to enter a mental space where I need to empty out my mind, listen to what my scene partner is saying, and progress a situation that&#x27;s presented to me- its close to the concept of mushin[1] but in an acting context.<p>Improv theaters in NYC have (for the most part) been suffering financially, and if you&#x27;re in the area, once things are in a more normal state, I strongly advise checking out shows, whether it&#x27;s UCB, Magnet, PIT, or any of the other theaters! Some places (namely Magnet) also do twitch streams if you&#x27;re looking for something to watch on a random night.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mushin_(mental_state)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mushin_(mental_state)</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Learnimprov – Just the first improv game site</title><url>https://www.learnimprov.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miiiiiike</author><text>My favorite quote about improv came from a stand-up comic I used to see around NYC: “The three best comedy shows I’ve ever seen have all been improv.. And so were the worst 498.”<p>Here’s a thing a guy did about the death of UCB New York: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;rObi3xZTQUk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;rObi3xZTQUk</a><p>Comedy that isn’t about politics, memes, or the pandemic is the one frivolous thing that I miss about the before times.</text></comment> |
20,527,683 | 20,526,735 | 1 | 2 | 20,526,461 | train | <story><title>In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/wells-are-getting-deeper-as-groundwater-gets-depleted/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>40acres</author><text>A local groundwater management agency in Ventura County, CA recently started a pilot program that established a groundwater market among farmers in the county.<p>Following the early 2010s drought in California, laws were enacted to cap and eventually reduce the amount of groundwater that can be extracted. Recent advancements in water usage tracking infrastructure, combined with the law has led to a natural environment to create a cap and trade system.<p>Interestingly, farmers view water usage as a trade secret, and so the pilot marketplace is using block-chain to provide an anonymous marketplace. Groundwater management in California (and I assume across the nation) is regulated by a patchwork of different local government agencies and laws, but there is an awesome opportunity to provide a unified software based marketplace to establish a groundwater commodity market.<p>A market also facilities conservation as farmers now have incentive to lower their water usage and sell excess water on the market. A big challenge however is transportation of water across vast distances.</text></comment> | <story><title>In the US, wells being drilled ever deeper as groundwater vanishes</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/wells-are-getting-deeper-as-groundwater-gets-depleted/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jxcl</author><text>When some aquifers are drained, they take many thousands of years to replenish, a heavy rain season doesn&#x27;t really help with these depleted aquifers.<p>Here&#x27;s a great video on Cody&#x27;sLab that explains how confined aquifers work and why they take so long to replenish:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tF4iCgxsZX4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tF4iCgxsZX4</a></text></comment> |
7,130,331 | 7,130,289 | 1 | 2 | 7,129,884 | train | <story><title>If You Used TorMail, the FBI Has Your Inbox</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/tormail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eurleif</author><text>&gt;The main concern is that something you did today may become a crime tomorrow<p>Ex post facto laws are unconstitutional in the US.</text></item><item><author>wavefunction</author><text>People are upset because of this new standard of &quot;grab everything, put it in a &#x27;secure&#x27; location and mine it in the future for past crimes.&quot;<p>The main concern is that something you did today may become a crime tomorrow, so now entire populations are apparently in the situation of Schrodinger&#x27;s cat: we are both criminals and not criminals, and only the indistinct future will determine where we end up.<p>If you want a society where an individual is free to pursue their interests as long as they don&#x27;t hurt anyone, it makes a lot of sense to have a transparent set of rules that are applied equitably to every citizen, regardless of their demographics or background.<p>If you want a society where the individual is completely at the whims of mysterious and unknown forces that can destroy their life utterly for no apparent reason at all, well then carve out special exceptions for some while reserving harsh punishments for others. Introduce secret courts, evidence and trials... Institute a &quot;permanent record&quot; of someone&#x27;s behavior that can be used to manipulate them as desired. Break the well-thought out control systems that help avoid abuses all to make &quot;LEO easier.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m assuming every experience you&#x27;ve ever had with law enforcement is positive?</text></item><item><author>skwirl</author><text>I don&#x27;t really see what there is to be upset about in this particular case. This is how investigations are supposed to be done, by the book.<p>The FBI has copies of the servers TorMail ran on that they legitimately seized in an unrelated investigation (the servers were also hosting child pornography websites).<p>In the course of another investigation, the FBI found that orders for forged credit cards were being sent to a TorMail account.<p>The FBI obtained a search warrant for that specific account and then accessed it from their own copy.<p>This is not trolling the seized database for anything and everything that might be illegal. This is finding probable cause from another source and obtaining a specific search warrant. This is how it is supposed to be done. Why would you expect anything less from competent law enforcement?<p>The FBI is not the NSA. FBI cases have to hold up in the light of open court.<p>If you are upset about the fact that TorMail was not in fact secure, well, that&#x27;s on the TorMail operators and on the users for trusting the entity that controlled TorMail while knowing absolutely nothing about them. Remember, TorMail has nothing to do with the Tor protocol, and is just the name someone gave their supposedly secure and anonymous e-mail service that they hosted on the deep web. For all anyone knew, the FBI could have been running TorMail all along.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>middleclick</author><text>&gt; Ex post facto laws are unconstitutional in the US.<p>The Fourth Amendment protects US citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. Clearly that is being violated as the recent ruling on NSA data collection has pointed out.</text></comment> | <story><title>If You Used TorMail, the FBI Has Your Inbox</title><url>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/tormail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eurleif</author><text>&gt;The main concern is that something you did today may become a crime tomorrow<p>Ex post facto laws are unconstitutional in the US.</text></item><item><author>wavefunction</author><text>People are upset because of this new standard of &quot;grab everything, put it in a &#x27;secure&#x27; location and mine it in the future for past crimes.&quot;<p>The main concern is that something you did today may become a crime tomorrow, so now entire populations are apparently in the situation of Schrodinger&#x27;s cat: we are both criminals and not criminals, and only the indistinct future will determine where we end up.<p>If you want a society where an individual is free to pursue their interests as long as they don&#x27;t hurt anyone, it makes a lot of sense to have a transparent set of rules that are applied equitably to every citizen, regardless of their demographics or background.<p>If you want a society where the individual is completely at the whims of mysterious and unknown forces that can destroy their life utterly for no apparent reason at all, well then carve out special exceptions for some while reserving harsh punishments for others. Introduce secret courts, evidence and trials... Institute a &quot;permanent record&quot; of someone&#x27;s behavior that can be used to manipulate them as desired. Break the well-thought out control systems that help avoid abuses all to make &quot;LEO easier.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m assuming every experience you&#x27;ve ever had with law enforcement is positive?</text></item><item><author>skwirl</author><text>I don&#x27;t really see what there is to be upset about in this particular case. This is how investigations are supposed to be done, by the book.<p>The FBI has copies of the servers TorMail ran on that they legitimately seized in an unrelated investigation (the servers were also hosting child pornography websites).<p>In the course of another investigation, the FBI found that orders for forged credit cards were being sent to a TorMail account.<p>The FBI obtained a search warrant for that specific account and then accessed it from their own copy.<p>This is not trolling the seized database for anything and everything that might be illegal. This is finding probable cause from another source and obtaining a specific search warrant. This is how it is supposed to be done. Why would you expect anything less from competent law enforcement?<p>The FBI is not the NSA. FBI cases have to hold up in the light of open court.<p>If you are upset about the fact that TorMail was not in fact secure, well, that&#x27;s on the TorMail operators and on the users for trusting the entity that controlled TorMail while knowing absolutely nothing about them. Remember, TorMail has nothing to do with the Tor protocol, and is just the name someone gave their supposedly secure and anonymous e-mail service that they hosted on the deep web. For all anyone knew, the FBI could have been running TorMail all along.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>valarauca1</author><text>A lot of unconstitutional practices are law in the US<p><a href="http://www.scn.org/ccapa/pa-vs-const.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scn.org&#x2F;ccapa&#x2F;pa-vs-const.html</a></text></comment> |
9,435,740 | 9,435,691 | 1 | 2 | 9,434,760 | train | <story><title>Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forgotten-wonders-of-the-digital-world-world-of-warcraft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prawks</author><text>&gt; unless you&#x27;re really into just having fun - which the game mostly does not encourage<p>This is the exact reason why, no matter how many times I tried over the years to play this game with friends, I could never stay attached for longer than a few hours. There seems to be less and less emphasis put on enjoying the experience of exploration and being in a space in modern online games, and more emphasis on rote activities for the sake of progress.<p>And thus I return to single-player games, which I certainly do not mind. There is a seemingly never-ending stream of creative ideas coming out of that space.</text></item><item><author>FlannelPancake</author><text>I think you&#x27;re clearly correct about the game beginning at max level, but I don&#x27;t think heirlooms or exp boosts changed anything. Even in vanilla, there were accepted &quot;do this to level as quickly as possible&quot; routes. No one really hung around silithus pre-AQ, with the small exception of people who chose to level there (and there were much better zones to do that).<p>WoW and mmos in general just don&#x27;t encourage exploration very much. It doesn&#x27;t contribute to making your avatar any better. So unless you&#x27;re really into just having fun - which the game mostly does not encourage in lieu of running dungeons and getting gear and etc, a lot of these zones have just ALWAYS been abandoned, save for some event bringing people to them.<p>The reason the population is 15-20 in these zones as opposed to 60+ is because there are better ways to level nowadays, not that anyone cared to visit these zones in the first place and heirlooms ruined that.<p>That being said, I realize you&#x27;re not blaming this entirely on heirlooms and exp boosts, I just wanted to clarify on that specific part of what you said.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>I recently reactivated my old WoW account and purchased Warlords of Draenor out of curiosity, and ended up getting my Orc Death Knight to the new level cap of 100. This article only scratches the surface on <i>why</i> the old worlds are abandoned.<p>As with most modern MMOs, the endgame begins at max level. In order to help players level faster, Blizzard added a heirlooms mechanic in the second expansion (Wrath of the Lich King) to allow low levels to have above-curve gear while leveling, with a 30% EXP boost. The third expansion (Cataclysm) revamped Azeroth, making new questing much easier and straightforward, and therefore less time is spent in the old world. The fifth expansion adds Dungeon Finder, which is a faster way to level than normal questing. So there is not much incentive to explore until you hit 90 and can go to Draenor. And then once you hit Draenor, you have access to Garrisons, which is a FarmVille-like mechanic which has the easiest financial ROI in the game, making even <i>less</i> of a reason to just explore period. I did not renew my subscription.<p>Guild Wars 2 had a great solution to this; all zones have content, which the player downscales to. Unfortunately, Tyria (the world of Guild Wars 2) is not as robust as Azeroth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IgorPartola</author><text>This is the opposite of my experience playing multiplayer Minecraft. There are no goals here, other than ones you set yourself. You simply log in, hang out with people, and mess around. Here are some things I&#x27;ve done that were the highlights of my time on this one particular server (semi-vanilla PvE):<p>I helped a fellow player build an iron farm when he didn&#x27;t know how.<p>Helped another player try to debug his auto-brewer setup.<p>Built a vending machine so new players can get cheap food. Got a full set of diamond armor as payment one time.<p>Exchanged Christmas gifts.<p>Helped a new player find a place to live. Upon arrival, we stood at the top of a cliff and admired the view. Then, he noticed a lone chicken and immediately named him &quot;Colin&quot;. When the night came the chicken got out, and we both went leaping down the mountain after him. We lost half of our gear, but Colin was safe and sound in the end.<p>Had a pool party. A player was living in the extreme hills biome. Upon visiting him, I remarked that it&#x27;d be fun to jump off the cliff and try to make it into a tiny pool of water. So that&#x27;s exactly what we did. Invited other people, and spent about two hours climbing up the mountain, then jumping off.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, it&#x27;s not like this all the time, but if you find a good server with good players, it can be a really fun experience.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft</title><url>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forgotten-wonders-of-the-digital-world-world-of-warcraft</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>prawks</author><text>&gt; unless you&#x27;re really into just having fun - which the game mostly does not encourage<p>This is the exact reason why, no matter how many times I tried over the years to play this game with friends, I could never stay attached for longer than a few hours. There seems to be less and less emphasis put on enjoying the experience of exploration and being in a space in modern online games, and more emphasis on rote activities for the sake of progress.<p>And thus I return to single-player games, which I certainly do not mind. There is a seemingly never-ending stream of creative ideas coming out of that space.</text></item><item><author>FlannelPancake</author><text>I think you&#x27;re clearly correct about the game beginning at max level, but I don&#x27;t think heirlooms or exp boosts changed anything. Even in vanilla, there were accepted &quot;do this to level as quickly as possible&quot; routes. No one really hung around silithus pre-AQ, with the small exception of people who chose to level there (and there were much better zones to do that).<p>WoW and mmos in general just don&#x27;t encourage exploration very much. It doesn&#x27;t contribute to making your avatar any better. So unless you&#x27;re really into just having fun - which the game mostly does not encourage in lieu of running dungeons and getting gear and etc, a lot of these zones have just ALWAYS been abandoned, save for some event bringing people to them.<p>The reason the population is 15-20 in these zones as opposed to 60+ is because there are better ways to level nowadays, not that anyone cared to visit these zones in the first place and heirlooms ruined that.<p>That being said, I realize you&#x27;re not blaming this entirely on heirlooms and exp boosts, I just wanted to clarify on that specific part of what you said.</text></item><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>I recently reactivated my old WoW account and purchased Warlords of Draenor out of curiosity, and ended up getting my Orc Death Knight to the new level cap of 100. This article only scratches the surface on <i>why</i> the old worlds are abandoned.<p>As with most modern MMOs, the endgame begins at max level. In order to help players level faster, Blizzard added a heirlooms mechanic in the second expansion (Wrath of the Lich King) to allow low levels to have above-curve gear while leveling, with a 30% EXP boost. The third expansion (Cataclysm) revamped Azeroth, making new questing much easier and straightforward, and therefore less time is spent in the old world. The fifth expansion adds Dungeon Finder, which is a faster way to level than normal questing. So there is not much incentive to explore until you hit 90 and can go to Draenor. And then once you hit Draenor, you have access to Garrisons, which is a FarmVille-like mechanic which has the easiest financial ROI in the game, making even <i>less</i> of a reason to just explore period. I did not renew my subscription.<p>Guild Wars 2 had a great solution to this; all zones have content, which the player downscales to. Unfortunately, Tyria (the world of Guild Wars 2) is not as robust as Azeroth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ocerge</author><text>This exact reason is why EverQuest grabbed me so much harder than any other MMO since. Another huge reason is the danger factor. In WoW, there is effectively no punishment at all if you die, so there&#x27;s no fear of exploring new places. In EQ, there are (or at least were) steep penalties if you die in the wrong place. Ignoring the fact that you lose XP that could amount to hours of lost progress, you may compound your woes with continued deaths trying to get the loot that remained with your corpse. The fear-factor had me addicted, and made accomplishments that much more rewarding.</text></comment> |
38,378,156 | 38,373,680 | 1 | 2 | 38,371,808 | train | <story><title>In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>belugacat</author><text>This is why the reductionist argument of &quot;your brain is reducible to a computer with inputs&#x2F;outputs like any other, all we have to do is reimplement it&quot; of AGI proponents always fell flat to me.<p>It&#x27;s now becoming clear that we can&#x27;t just take the brain in isolation, treating the spinal nerve like a PCI-E lane - the gut has to come with it. And if the gut comes with it, all the other organs (skin top of the list) probably do as well.<p>Now to model a human brain, you need to model an entire human, along with all the complexity of the microbiota, interactions of the organs with the environment... it all just falls apart.</text></comment> | <story><title>In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MrDresden</author><text>I&#x27;ve noticed that my &#x27;first&#x27; brain acts faster and better if my &#x27;second&#x27; brain is feeling good.<p>Probiotic foods, plenty of water and movement have been key factors there.</text></comment> |
7,757,898 | 7,756,422 | 1 | 2 | 7,754,987 | train | <story><title>Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/03/going-reactive-asynchronous-javascript.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattpodwysocki</author><text>This talk has been given a number of times, but keeps getting better, such as at MountainWest JavaScript 2014: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE692Clb5LU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XE692Clb5LU</a><p>Jafar Husain, and myself (Matthew Podwysocki) will also be giving the talk at QCon NYC in June: <a href="https://qconnewyork.com/presentation/end-end-reactive-programming-netflix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qconnewyork.com&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;end-end-reactive-progra...</a> in addition to a great tutorial that we put together: <a href="https://qconnewyork.com/tutorial/functional-programming-js-w-focus-reactive-programming-rx-js-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qconnewyork.com&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;functional-programming-js-w...</a><p>But, if you&#x27;re interested in playing with it yourself, we have it listed here: <a href="http://reactive-extensions.github.io/learnrx/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reactive-extensions.github.io&#x2F;learnrx&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/03/going-reactive-asynchronous-javascript.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kitd</author><text>Note that Netflix have a Java version here
<a href="https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Netflix&#x2F;RxJava</a><p>They certainly have some interesting technology.</text></comment> |
18,264,658 | 18,264,613 | 1 | 2 | 18,263,505 | train | <story><title>The Joy of Haxe</title><url>https://medium.com/@fontstruct/the-joy-of-haxe-84f933f4b859</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dyarosla</author><text>Like the author, I too have the same opinion after having used Haxe for over 5 years.<p><pre><code> Five years on from starting with Haxe at FontStruct, I’m genuinely surprised to find that I feel no regret whatsoever regarding our decision to go with the technology.
</code></pre>
I absolutely adore the language. Not only is it awesome at transpiling&#x2F;compiling to native across this whole spectrum of targets, the language itself keeps surprising me with how versatile it is; with great type inferencing, compile time macros, platform-conditional compilation, and more.<p>I&#x27;ve launched iOS, Android, Web, Windows and Mac apps that all shared the same code base. I can&#x27;t see myself ever wanting to go back to using a single-target language again. I highly recommend trying it if you&#x27;re on the fence. [0]<p><i>Note: I am not affiliated with Haxe, just a huge fan.</i><p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.haxe.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;try.haxe.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Joy of Haxe</title><url>https://medium.com/@fontstruct/the-joy-of-haxe-84f933f4b859</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>I first learned about Haxe through Lucas Pope’s dev log for “Papers, Please”. Sounded interesting and fun, though Pope (who developed PP on a Mac) said he also had written custom tooling for his work — maybe that situation had changed since 2014: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamasutra.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;news&#x2F;209905&#x2F;Road_to_the_IGF_Lucas_Popes_Papers_Please.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gamasutra.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;news&#x2F;209905&#x2F;Road_to_the_IGF_L...</a><p>For his new game, Return of the Obra Dinn, he went with Unity because of its 3D capability:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.tigsource.com&#x2F;index.php?topic=40832.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.tigsource.com&#x2F;index.php?topic=40832.0</a><p>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m gonna use Unity for this one. I fell in love with Haxe&#x2F;OpenFL on my last project but unfortunately the 3D situation is not that great there yet. Also, it&#x27;s time to finally see why 90% of the indie scene is using Unity. I have a good amount of experience with 3D games and the few days I&#x27;ve played around with Unity so far have been pretty productive. The animated title screen scene up there (with post-processing shaders and all) was created in one day. I now have unrealistically high hopes.</i></text></comment> |
31,578,674 | 31,577,830 | 1 | 3 | 31,575,765 | train | <story><title>Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partial schematic [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijRUsxdaLK4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>One might even imagine someone would write something like this in an effort to reinforce the parents the point.<p>The strongest interpretation of <i>&quot;we&#x27;d love to release the full schematics&quot;</i> the subtext: but we can&#x27;t &#x2F; don&#x27;t want to due to &quot;reasons*, none of which are likely to satisfy everyone, so we&#x27;ll try to avoid that discussion as it would help distract us all rather than getting on with our goals.</text></item><item><author>cmeacham98</author><text>The problem I have is that if these requests are unrealistic, they should just say that. As far as I can tell, what they&#x27;re currently doing requires more effort to vet repair shops and create an NDA than if they just dumped the schematics online.<p>Now, maybe there&#x27;s a great reason for this. Maybe they&#x27;re under NDA and can&#x27;t reveal part of the schematics. Maybe releasing these schematics would make it super easy for a competitor to completely steal everything. Maybe they are going to release the full schematics and we&#x27;re waiting on their engineering team and legal team to review them.<p>The problem here is that Framework hasn&#x27;t communicated any of this. Every time they&#x27;re asked they don&#x27;t seem to give any reason and just dodge around with &quot;we&#x27;d love to release the full schematics&quot;. Well, why haven&#x27;t you then? Please tell us.</text></item><item><author>npunt</author><text>This is the challenge of trying to do good - no matter how much better you are than the default, for some subset of users you will never be good enough, and they’ll complain just as loudly about you as they do the default (far worse) option.<p>Unrealistic purity tests ruin all sorts of attempts to make the world a better place. We should celebrate attempts to change the status quo.</text></item><item><author>somethoughts</author><text>On one hand - it makes sense to push for more visibility - to test the depths of their commitment to right-to-repair.<p>On the other hand - being overly critical about a new entrant that is attempting to address the right-to-repair market for not getting everything perfect from the get go might send the wrong signals about the right-to-repair market to the rest of the industry.<p>It seems like a delicate balance might be wise. Having module level repairability for LCD panels, connectors, drivers, memory is a pretty big step relative to the other OEMs.<p>Perhaps the best analogy would be Raspberry Pi schematics which are also reduced [1] and IMHO, the RPi has generally been a plus for the open source hardware&#x2F;software community. Similarly I could definitely see Intel having some trade secrets as you get closer the CPU.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasheets.raspberrypi.com&#x2F;rpi4&#x2F;raspberry-pi-4-reduced-schematics.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasheets.raspberrypi.com&#x2F;rpi4&#x2F;raspberry-pi-4-reduc...</a></text></item><item><author>nrp</author><text>We make full schematics and board views available to repair shops under a confidentiality agreement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowledgebase.frame.work&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;availability-of-schematics-and-boardviews-BJMZ6EAu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowledgebase.frame.work&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;availability-of-schem...</a><p>In this case, we didn&#x27;t see a request for it come in.<p>Publicly with no agreement required, we were able to share a sub-set of the schematic focused on the internal and external connectors: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FrameworkComputer&#x2F;Mainboard&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;Electrical&#x2F;Mainboard_Interfaces_Schematic.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FrameworkComputer&#x2F;Mainboard&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;Ele...</a><p>Louis has more context on the latter in an earlier video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8cJj8PUY0DU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8cJj8PUY0DU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyrfing</author><text>The strongest and most likely interpretation is that they simply don&#x27;t own the IP, and it&#x27;s based on a licensed reference design. It makes zero sense for a startup like this to have done all of it from scratch - just copy everything possible and innovate the actually interesting parts. If they don&#x27;t own the design, they can&#x27;t say that due to NDAs, and the best they can do is a maximally broad interpretation of &quot;repair shop&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partial schematic [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijRUsxdaLK4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>One might even imagine someone would write something like this in an effort to reinforce the parents the point.<p>The strongest interpretation of <i>&quot;we&#x27;d love to release the full schematics&quot;</i> the subtext: but we can&#x27;t &#x2F; don&#x27;t want to due to &quot;reasons*, none of which are likely to satisfy everyone, so we&#x27;ll try to avoid that discussion as it would help distract us all rather than getting on with our goals.</text></item><item><author>cmeacham98</author><text>The problem I have is that if these requests are unrealistic, they should just say that. As far as I can tell, what they&#x27;re currently doing requires more effort to vet repair shops and create an NDA than if they just dumped the schematics online.<p>Now, maybe there&#x27;s a great reason for this. Maybe they&#x27;re under NDA and can&#x27;t reveal part of the schematics. Maybe releasing these schematics would make it super easy for a competitor to completely steal everything. Maybe they are going to release the full schematics and we&#x27;re waiting on their engineering team and legal team to review them.<p>The problem here is that Framework hasn&#x27;t communicated any of this. Every time they&#x27;re asked they don&#x27;t seem to give any reason and just dodge around with &quot;we&#x27;d love to release the full schematics&quot;. Well, why haven&#x27;t you then? Please tell us.</text></item><item><author>npunt</author><text>This is the challenge of trying to do good - no matter how much better you are than the default, for some subset of users you will never be good enough, and they’ll complain just as loudly about you as they do the default (far worse) option.<p>Unrealistic purity tests ruin all sorts of attempts to make the world a better place. We should celebrate attempts to change the status quo.</text></item><item><author>somethoughts</author><text>On one hand - it makes sense to push for more visibility - to test the depths of their commitment to right-to-repair.<p>On the other hand - being overly critical about a new entrant that is attempting to address the right-to-repair market for not getting everything perfect from the get go might send the wrong signals about the right-to-repair market to the rest of the industry.<p>It seems like a delicate balance might be wise. Having module level repairability for LCD panels, connectors, drivers, memory is a pretty big step relative to the other OEMs.<p>Perhaps the best analogy would be Raspberry Pi schematics which are also reduced [1] and IMHO, the RPi has generally been a plus for the open source hardware&#x2F;software community. Similarly I could definitely see Intel having some trade secrets as you get closer the CPU.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasheets.raspberrypi.com&#x2F;rpi4&#x2F;raspberry-pi-4-reduced-schematics.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;datasheets.raspberrypi.com&#x2F;rpi4&#x2F;raspberry-pi-4-reduc...</a></text></item><item><author>nrp</author><text>We make full schematics and board views available to repair shops under a confidentiality agreement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowledgebase.frame.work&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;availability-of-schematics-and-boardviews-BJMZ6EAu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowledgebase.frame.work&#x2F;en_us&#x2F;availability-of-schem...</a><p>In this case, we didn&#x27;t see a request for it come in.<p>Publicly with no agreement required, we were able to share a sub-set of the schematic focused on the internal and external connectors: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FrameworkComputer&#x2F;Mainboard&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;Electrical&#x2F;Mainboard_Interfaces_Schematic.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FrameworkComputer&#x2F;Mainboard&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;Ele...</a><p>Louis has more context on the latter in an earlier video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8cJj8PUY0DU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8cJj8PUY0DU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmeacham98</author><text>It&#x27;s not just about the reason, but other details too. Does &quot;we&#x27;d love to release them&quot; mean &quot;we just mean more time&quot;, &quot;there&#x27;s a 50&#x2F;50 chance we&#x27;ll be able to release them&quot;, or &quot;we&#x27;d love to but it&#x27;s a long shot&quot;. If they are going to come out, will it be in weeks, months, or years?</text></comment> |
37,710,471 | 37,706,531 | 1 | 2 | 37,702,095 | train | <story><title>Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted</title><url>https://graz.social/@publicvoit/111147782761723981</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>insanitybit</author><text>Such hyperbole. This was a bad breach, for sure, and we may not fully understand its scope at this point. But...<p>&gt; They were able to implant #backdoors, self-made keys, ... all over the place.<p>I mean, emphasis on <i>able to</i>, as in &quot;in theory, based on what I know, it is POSSIBLE&quot;, not that they <i>did</i>.<p>&gt; If you didn&#x27;t understand until now: basically EVERYTHING at Microsoft got hacked and Microsoft can&#x27;t (or won&#x27;t) get rid of the intruders. Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted. Even #Windows auth.<p>Microsoft&#x27;s response also seems to clearly state that they have rotated the keys, moved them to a more secure storage, etc. They don&#x27;t say they&#x27;ve removed the attackers, I guess, but they certainly don&#x27;t indicate that the attack is ongoing. Certainly they don&#x27;t indicate that all auth is forever broken.<p>I feel like the conclusions being drawn are extreme.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msrc.microsoft.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;09&#x2F;results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msrc.microsoft.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;09&#x2F;results-of-major-tec...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eqvinox</author><text>&gt; I feel like the conclusions being drawn are extreme.<p>You linked Microsoft&#x27;s investigation report on the exploit.<p>The attackers first managed to get access to Microsoft&#x27;s development network, noticed a crashdump, <i>understood the possible significance of that</i>, dug through it, found a private key, then acquired enough insight into Microsofts authentication systems to understand how this key <i>could be used beyond its intended purpose</i> and then executed on that.<p>And you don&#x27;t believe they left persistent backdoors in some high-profile targets?<p>The conclusions being drawn are … entirely appropriate. Your argument maaaaaybe makes some sense applied to general public random cloud customers. Backdooring indiscriminately just increases the risk of discovery. But large companies and government users? You have to assume compromise, anything else is incredulously naïve.<p>cf.:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;security&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;analysis-of-storm-0558-techniques-for-unauthorized-email-access&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;security&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;ana...</a><p>&gt; Storm-0558 operates with a high degree of technical tradecraft and operational security. The actors are keenly aware of the target’s environment, logging policies, authentication requirements, policies, and procedures. Storm-0558’s tooling and reconnaissance activity suggests the actor is technically adept, well resourced, and has an in-depth understanding of many authentication techniques and applications.</text></comment> | <story><title>Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted</title><url>https://graz.social/@publicvoit/111147782761723981</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>insanitybit</author><text>Such hyperbole. This was a bad breach, for sure, and we may not fully understand its scope at this point. But...<p>&gt; They were able to implant #backdoors, self-made keys, ... all over the place.<p>I mean, emphasis on <i>able to</i>, as in &quot;in theory, based on what I know, it is POSSIBLE&quot;, not that they <i>did</i>.<p>&gt; If you didn&#x27;t understand until now: basically EVERYTHING at Microsoft got hacked and Microsoft can&#x27;t (or won&#x27;t) get rid of the intruders. Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted. Even #Windows auth.<p>Microsoft&#x27;s response also seems to clearly state that they have rotated the keys, moved them to a more secure storage, etc. They don&#x27;t say they&#x27;ve removed the attackers, I guess, but they certainly don&#x27;t indicate that the attack is ongoing. Certainly they don&#x27;t indicate that all auth is forever broken.<p>I feel like the conclusions being drawn are extreme.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msrc.microsoft.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;09&#x2F;results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;msrc.microsoft.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2023&#x2F;09&#x2F;results-of-major-tec...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bilekas</author><text>&gt; This was a bad breach, for sure, and we may not fully understand its scope at this point<p>&gt; I mean, emphasis on able to, as in &quot;in theory, based on what I know, it is POSSIBLE&quot;, not that they did.<p>When you consider the potential implications, and possible scenarios, from a security perspective you have to assume that they&#x27;re not just &quot;possible&quot; but a reality.<p>If you find a zero day exploit, you don&#x27;t just ignore patching it because &quot;well nobody else probably has it&quot;.</text></comment> |
40,641,538 | 40,640,064 | 1 | 2 | 40,636,854 | train | <story><title>macOS Sequoia Preview</title><url>https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia-preview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karmakaze</author><text>I never really understood the appeal of tiling window managers. I&#x27;ve gotten used to having overlapping windows with appropriate parts peek out out behind others. e.g. tail of a log behind an editor running a program, and I can bring it to the foreground to see older lines and&#x2F;or scroll. To do the same with a tiling manager, I would zoom the logging pane. I suppose I just prefer less layout changes. Same for Slack, I have just enough peeping out to know there&#x27;s some messages but I can&#x27;t see the message text so I can ignore them until I&#x27;m ready.<p>Are there situations that make more sense to use a tiling manager like on larger (where all the tiles are usable) or smaller screens (where full expansion makes sense)?</text></item><item><author>wwalexander</author><text>I never thought I’d see the day macOS would get tiling window management. Wonder how it will interact with Stage Manager if at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somat</author><text>For me it was a couple of X11 features not often found on mac or windows that made me think about the desktop in a desktop environment and what I want out of my window manager. My timeline sort of goes as follows.<p>1. focus follows mouse, the window you are pointing at gets the focus. This feels very strange at first. but pulls a surprising amount of friction out of working with multiple apps. However you have to pair this with.<p>2. don&#x27;t raise on focus. this let you work on a lower window. to raise you click on a specific part of the window, usually the title bar. if you don&#x27;t have this focus follows mouse is terrible. this lets you have the main window(usually the documentation or reference) open on top while you type away on the lower window.<p>3. At this point I heard of i3 and it made perfect sense to me. I have never said &quot;boy I sure am glad this window is half covered up&quot; I ether want one app full screen, two apps side by side(reference and work) or many small apps(terminals). why not just have the window manager enforce this instead of me fiddling with windows. these days I use mainly use spectrwm because it fills that perfect middle ground between too sparse(dwm) and too featured(i3).<p>That said, for my day to day operations(I sys-admin, so lots of terminals) it works great. however there are many apps that do not play well. for example, I recently set up a linux box for steam games and steam was not happy with i3(all menus were separate windows) this is probably fixable but I just went with a normal wm. And when I do actual work on it I am reminded why I like tiling wm&#x27;s as I find myself shuffling windows all the time.<p>Closing thoughts, an example of a tiling wm internal to an app is blender, even before I started using tiling wm&#x27;s I thought blender had a very good ui for getting work done, much better than the mdi type apps that were common at the time. so just imagine your whole desktop working that way. And tabs, really tabbed interfaces should be a function of your window manager not the app, but that ship has sailed and I don&#x27;t think there is any way to fix it now.</text></comment> | <story><title>macOS Sequoia Preview</title><url>https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia-preview/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karmakaze</author><text>I never really understood the appeal of tiling window managers. I&#x27;ve gotten used to having overlapping windows with appropriate parts peek out out behind others. e.g. tail of a log behind an editor running a program, and I can bring it to the foreground to see older lines and&#x2F;or scroll. To do the same with a tiling manager, I would zoom the logging pane. I suppose I just prefer less layout changes. Same for Slack, I have just enough peeping out to know there&#x27;s some messages but I can&#x27;t see the message text so I can ignore them until I&#x27;m ready.<p>Are there situations that make more sense to use a tiling manager like on larger (where all the tiles are usable) or smaller screens (where full expansion makes sense)?</text></item><item><author>wwalexander</author><text>I never thought I’d see the day macOS would get tiling window management. Wonder how it will interact with Stage Manager if at all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sircastor</author><text>I generally agree with you. I use my Mac with most of the windows overlapped most of the time. But occasionally I need them side-by-side to do some work. Typically referencing documents or code. Fortunately the introduction of this looks to just be an optional feature rather than a dictated &quot;way things are&quot;.<p>An overlapped&#x2F;stacked interface is fine a lot of the time, but the flexibility is important.<p>What really drives me crazy is the 100% tiled-interface. I feel like something important is just below the tiles, but I can&#x27;t see it.</text></comment> |
16,988,217 | 16,988,360 | 1 | 2 | 16,987,597 | train | <story><title>Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/musk-says-don-t-buy-volatile-tesla-stock-investors-take-heed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kneel</author><text>Because he&#x27;s Elon Musk and he doesn&#x27;t care about investor returns, he wants to build rockets, cars, tunnels, and explore space.<p>No matter what he does he&#x27;ll more than likely be fine on the money side.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Er, why is asking for something fundamental to running a business (i.e. &quot;How much money do you have&#x2F;need?&quot;) a partly boring&#x2F;boneheaded&#x2F;uncool question?</text></item><item><author>imdsm</author><text>To be fair, he&#x27;s not entirely wrong. I guess people just don&#x27;t expect this type of response. But then, acting within the confines of normality isn&#x27;t really the trait that may bring the dawn of a new era of humanity.<p>Interestingly though, markets are reaction to this response emotionally.</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&quot;Sacconaghi pressed ahead with another query about Tesla lowering its 2018 capital expenditure projection to $3 billion, from $3.4 billion. Ahuja said the carmaker would spend less by simplifying its approach to automation and curtailing infrastructure outlays.<p>&#x27;And so where specifically will you be in terms of capital requirements?&#x27; Sacconaghi said.<p>&#x27;Excuse me. Next. Next,&#x27; Musk said to the call operator. &#x27;Boring, bonehead questions are not cool. Next?&#x27;&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-05-03&#x2F;elon-musk-s-most-dumbfounding-moments-on-tesla-s-earnings-call" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-05-03&#x2F;elon-musk...</a></text></item><item><author>mephitix</author><text>I was on this call. It was extremely cringey&#x2F;embarrassing to hear Elon dismiss valid questions.<p>At the same time, it was fantastic to see a young, smart, retail investor (Gali from Hyperchange) get to ask so many questions directly to the leadership team. I thought before the call that Gali would get to ask only one question, like the other analysts. He was able to ask almost 10!<p>It was surreal. I was left feeling that the team overall did a great thing by allowing Gali but wished that Elon didn’t insult the institutional investors by (at least so harshly) dismissing valid questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>he&#x27;s Elon Musk and he doesn&#x27;t care about investor returns</i><p>Then he shouldn&#x27;t be the CEO of a public company which continues to sell stock and debt to investors on the promise of a return.<p>Also, Elon Musk very much <i>does</i> care about returns. He has a great track record in that department. He&#x27;s just learned it&#x27;s not something that&#x27;s healthy to focus on in the short-term. Unfortunately, running out of cash forces the compression of time horizons. The latter is what investors are rightfully worried about.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-03/musk-says-don-t-buy-volatile-tesla-stock-investors-take-heed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kneel</author><text>Because he&#x27;s Elon Musk and he doesn&#x27;t care about investor returns, he wants to build rockets, cars, tunnels, and explore space.<p>No matter what he does he&#x27;ll more than likely be fine on the money side.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Er, why is asking for something fundamental to running a business (i.e. &quot;How much money do you have&#x2F;need?&quot;) a partly boring&#x2F;boneheaded&#x2F;uncool question?</text></item><item><author>imdsm</author><text>To be fair, he&#x27;s not entirely wrong. I guess people just don&#x27;t expect this type of response. But then, acting within the confines of normality isn&#x27;t really the trait that may bring the dawn of a new era of humanity.<p>Interestingly though, markets are reaction to this response emotionally.</text></item><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&quot;Sacconaghi pressed ahead with another query about Tesla lowering its 2018 capital expenditure projection to $3 billion, from $3.4 billion. Ahuja said the carmaker would spend less by simplifying its approach to automation and curtailing infrastructure outlays.<p>&#x27;And so where specifically will you be in terms of capital requirements?&#x27; Sacconaghi said.<p>&#x27;Excuse me. Next. Next,&#x27; Musk said to the call operator. &#x27;Boring, bonehead questions are not cool. Next?&#x27;&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-05-03&#x2F;elon-musk-s-most-dumbfounding-moments-on-tesla-s-earnings-call" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2018-05-03&#x2F;elon-musk...</a></text></item><item><author>mephitix</author><text>I was on this call. It was extremely cringey&#x2F;embarrassing to hear Elon dismiss valid questions.<p>At the same time, it was fantastic to see a young, smart, retail investor (Gali from Hyperchange) get to ask so many questions directly to the leadership team. I thought before the call that Gali would get to ask only one question, like the other analysts. He was able to ask almost 10!<p>It was surreal. I was left feeling that the team overall did a great thing by allowing Gali but wished that Elon didn’t insult the institutional investors by (at least so harshly) dismissing valid questions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s2g</author><text>Then he should be fired because he doesn&#x27;t care about his job.<p>I am so sick of the cult of Elon. There is no defending his behaviour here.</text></comment> |
19,510,943 | 19,508,588 | 1 | 2 | 19,505,897 | train | <story><title>Can you buy your own train?</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/03/private-rail-car-fan-owners-amtrak-cuts-trains-are-cool/584971/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickJWagner</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wished for a network of rail flatbed cars that make high-speed runs from state to state.<p>You could drive onto one of the flatbeds (from a ramp) in your car, then ride the train from center-of-a-state to center-of-the-next-state. After a brief layover (for cars to get off and new ones to get on) the train would depart for the next state.<p>It just seems like a decent way to enable medium-speed, long-distance travel. And wherver you went, you&#x27;d have your car when you arrived.</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>One thing my late father wanted to do was start his own rail line, one without the track. When Oldsmobile closed there were suddenly a lot of executives in Lansing having to make the commute every day to downtown Detroit. My Dad located some combination train engine passenger integrated car units that had been in storage since the late sixties. He simply wanted to rent the track.<p>Even at a pokey 50-55 mph he could get to downtown Detroit 30-45 minutes faster than driving because of traffic congestion. He demonstrated that the demand was there. But sadly the railroads wouldn&#x27;t even take a meeting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kaybe</author><text>In Europe, some of the nightjet lines take cars as well.<p>I think this is a great solution. If the travelling takes too long, just do it overnight. So travel times from 9pm to 9am are actually quite convenient.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nightjet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nightjet</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Can you buy your own train?</title><url>https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/03/private-rail-car-fan-owners-amtrak-cuts-trains-are-cool/584971/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickJWagner</author><text>I&#x27;ve always wished for a network of rail flatbed cars that make high-speed runs from state to state.<p>You could drive onto one of the flatbeds (from a ramp) in your car, then ride the train from center-of-a-state to center-of-the-next-state. After a brief layover (for cars to get off and new ones to get on) the train would depart for the next state.<p>It just seems like a decent way to enable medium-speed, long-distance travel. And wherver you went, you&#x27;d have your car when you arrived.</text></item><item><author>rmason</author><text>One thing my late father wanted to do was start his own rail line, one without the track. When Oldsmobile closed there were suddenly a lot of executives in Lansing having to make the commute every day to downtown Detroit. My Dad located some combination train engine passenger integrated car units that had been in storage since the late sixties. He simply wanted to rent the track.<p>Even at a pokey 50-55 mph he could get to downtown Detroit 30-45 minutes faster than driving because of traffic congestion. He demonstrated that the demand was there. But sadly the railroads wouldn&#x27;t even take a meeting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nycdatasci</author><text>Are you familiar with the auto train?
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.amtrak.com&#x2F;h5&#x2F;r&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;auto-train" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.amtrak.com&#x2F;h5&#x2F;r&#x2F;www.amtrak.com&#x2F;auto-train</a></text></comment> |
8,389,076 | 8,388,169 | 1 | 2 | 8,387,701 | train | <story><title>Declassified photos from Tinian Island as the B-29 “Enola Gay” was being loaded</title><url>https://archive.today/94EKG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dirktheman</author><text>It always amazes me how seemingly careless they were with these nuclear devices back then. To know that such a devestating bomb was handled by a sultry, shirtless youngster, in a shed on a small island in the Pacific...<p>It reminds me of the Slotin Incident (<a href="http://www.damninteresting.com/bitten-by-the-nuclear-dragon/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.damninteresting.com&#x2F;bitten-by-the-nuclear-dragon&#x2F;</a>) where dr. Louis Slotin accidently slipped the screwdriver he used to separate two plutonium&#x2F;uranium hemispheres:<p>&quot;Immediately, all eight scientists in the room felt a wave of heat accompanied by a blue glow as the plutonium sphere vomited an invisible burst of gamma and neutron radiation into the room. As the lab&#x27;s Geiger counter clicked hysterically, Louis used his bare hand to push the upper plutonium hemisphere off and onto the floor, which terminated the supercritical reaction moments after it began.&quot;<p>Big oopsie.<p>However gruesome the goal of these bombs, the rate of advancement in such a short timespan is nothing short of amazing. From the very first successful test (Trinity) to bombing Hiroshima: just 21 days. They were great days for science, but a shame to mankind that it had to come this far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shangxiao</author><text>&gt; <i>&quot;Immediately, all eight scientists in the room felt a wave of heat accompanied by a blue glow as the plutonium sphere vomited an invisible burst of gamma and neutron radiation into the room. As the lab&#x27;s Geiger counter clicked hysterically, Louis used his bare hand to push the upper plutonium hemisphere off and onto the floor, which terminated the supercritical reaction moments after it began.&quot;</i><p>Nit pick: What you have described is the incorrect version in the movie &quot;Fat Man and Little Boy&quot;. It was a knee-jerk reaction that stopped the supercritical reaction, and it was the beryllium outer sphere which was dropped, not the plutonium core.<p>Slotin was holding the top half of the beryllium sphere with his thumb which he immediately lifted up due to the intense heat.</text></comment> | <story><title>Declassified photos from Tinian Island as the B-29 “Enola Gay” was being loaded</title><url>https://archive.today/94EKG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dirktheman</author><text>It always amazes me how seemingly careless they were with these nuclear devices back then. To know that such a devestating bomb was handled by a sultry, shirtless youngster, in a shed on a small island in the Pacific...<p>It reminds me of the Slotin Incident (<a href="http://www.damninteresting.com/bitten-by-the-nuclear-dragon/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.damninteresting.com&#x2F;bitten-by-the-nuclear-dragon&#x2F;</a>) where dr. Louis Slotin accidently slipped the screwdriver he used to separate two plutonium&#x2F;uranium hemispheres:<p>&quot;Immediately, all eight scientists in the room felt a wave of heat accompanied by a blue glow as the plutonium sphere vomited an invisible burst of gamma and neutron radiation into the room. As the lab&#x27;s Geiger counter clicked hysterically, Louis used his bare hand to push the upper plutonium hemisphere off and onto the floor, which terminated the supercritical reaction moments after it began.&quot;<p>Big oopsie.<p>However gruesome the goal of these bombs, the rate of advancement in such a short timespan is nothing short of amazing. From the very first successful test (Trinity) to bombing Hiroshima: just 21 days. They were great days for science, but a shame to mankind that it had to come this far.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jnsaff2</author><text>You should read Command and Control which is about the history of nuclear accidents and management in the US. Carelessness didn&#x27;t go away for a long time, especially in the upper management.<p>Very well written and interesting book.<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Eric-Schlosser-ebook/dp/B00CDBZ6NA/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Command-Control-Eric-Schlosser-ebook&#x2F;d...</a></text></comment> |
20,335,442 | 20,333,289 | 1 | 2 | 20,325,638 | train | <story><title>Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig</title><url>https://nelari.us/post/raytracer_with_rust_and_zig/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>This is an awesome post.<p>At the risk of shedding it to bikes, one point that the author makes is that Zig&#x27;s lack of operator overloading makes him write vector math like this:<p><pre><code> if (discriminant &gt; 0.0) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; I stared at this monster for a while to ensure I got it right
return uv.sub(n.mul(dt)).mul(ni_over_nt).sub(n.mul(math.sqrt(discriminant)));
}
</code></pre>
He signs off with:<p>&gt; <i>How do C programmers manage?</i><p>The answer is simple: we assign names to intermediate results. Now, I have absolutely no idea what that expression computes, because I suck at graphics programming and math in general. Please pretend that these are proper mathy terms:<p><pre><code> if (discriminant &gt; 0.0) {
const banana = uv.sub(n.mul(dt))
const apple = banana.mul(ni_over_nt)
const pear = n.mul(math.sqrt(discriminant)
return apple.sub(pear)
}
</code></pre>
I&#x27;m convinced that there&#x27;s a proper mathy&#x2F;lighting-y word for each component in that expression. Of course this approach totally breaks down if you&#x27;re copying expressions from papers or articles without understanding why they are correct (which is how I do all my graphics programming). I do find that naming variables is often a great way to force myself to grok what&#x27;s going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>&gt; I’m convinced that there’s a proper mathy &#x2F; lighting-y word for each component in that expression.<p>Sometimes yes, but often no. Frequently this kind of expression is the result of solving an equation, so it’s just an expression.<p>Graphics people often use two approaches for sub-expressions:<p>- You can name them with the same letters that are in the expression, just with the punctuation &amp; operators removed, for example:<p><pre><code> const uvMinusNTimesDt = uv.sub(n.mul(dt))
</code></pre>
- Alternatively, just like with equations, math people often freely assign single letter names to variables without worrying about semantic meaning.<p><pre><code> const q = uv.sub(n.mul(dt))
</code></pre>
Nothing really wrong with naming sub-expressions after fruits, or single letters, or spelling them out explicitly.<p>It might be worth reflecting on what the goals are with your naming, and whether it matters what they’re named. As software engineers, our biases lean toward making choices that improve readability and maintainability. But for a specific equation that will never change once it works correctly, our preconceived notions about good software design and best practices might not actually apply to this situation. It might be more important to document the source of the equation than to make the implementation readable.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing a small ray tracer in Rust and Zig</title><url>https://nelari.us/post/raytracer_with_rust_and_zig/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>This is an awesome post.<p>At the risk of shedding it to bikes, one point that the author makes is that Zig&#x27;s lack of operator overloading makes him write vector math like this:<p><pre><code> if (discriminant &gt; 0.0) {
&#x2F;&#x2F; I stared at this monster for a while to ensure I got it right
return uv.sub(n.mul(dt)).mul(ni_over_nt).sub(n.mul(math.sqrt(discriminant)));
}
</code></pre>
He signs off with:<p>&gt; <i>How do C programmers manage?</i><p>The answer is simple: we assign names to intermediate results. Now, I have absolutely no idea what that expression computes, because I suck at graphics programming and math in general. Please pretend that these are proper mathy terms:<p><pre><code> if (discriminant &gt; 0.0) {
const banana = uv.sub(n.mul(dt))
const apple = banana.mul(ni_over_nt)
const pear = n.mul(math.sqrt(discriminant)
return apple.sub(pear)
}
</code></pre>
I&#x27;m convinced that there&#x27;s a proper mathy&#x2F;lighting-y word for each component in that expression. Of course this approach totally breaks down if you&#x27;re copying expressions from papers or articles without understanding why they are correct (which is how I do all my graphics programming). I do find that naming variables is often a great way to force myself to grok what&#x27;s going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geokon</author><text>In my experience writing math code the intermediary values get quite goofy Ex: orthogonal-vector-to-plane-bisecting-input-vector-and-first-column-vector<p>But I rather use crazy descriptive names than hiding it away. Otherwise it gets quite incomprehensible when you reread it 3 months later<p>Anyone else hit this problem? I suspect most people just reference a paper or book and use the letters to match the source ( x&#x2F;y&#x2F;n&#x2F;m&#x2F;etc. )</text></comment> |
15,343,259 | 15,343,426 | 1 | 2 | 15,341,593 | train | <story><title>Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ufo</author><text>Why do some countries encourage the use of suppressors?</text></item><item><author>knz</author><text>Laws related to firearms are often similar.<p>The current example is the effort to make suppressors more available. Those opposed are already pushing tales of dramatically increasing crime rates and poaching instead of acknowledging that even suppressed firearms are still very loud or that many other OECD countries (which have more strict regulation) allow or even encourage the use of suppressors.<p>The sad part about using fear to support or oppose change is that you rarely end up with solutions that actually solve the underlying societal problem via a sensible compromise.</text></item><item><author>rconti</author><text>My favorite example is the South Carolina law that was finally rescinded a few years back, where bars had to serve their mixed alcoholic drinks with liquor poured from single-serving &#x27;airline&#x27; style bottles. A colossal waste of time and resources, but the kicker was the arguments against rescinding the law-- some folks arguing that DUI rates would go through the roof and The Children (TM) would all die, and others arguing that bartenders would rip off patrons with &#x27;short pours&#x27;.<p>All without a single thought to stop and consider the example of the other 49 states, not to mention other countries...</text></item><item><author>ericfrenkiel</author><text>::slow clap::<p>It is absolutely appalling that this type of backwardness is still a reality in the 21st century.<p>The faster we can transition to clean, renewable energy, the better for everyone in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>korethr</author><text>Think about it.<p>The threshold for potential instant noise-induced hearing loss is 120 dB SPL at the ear. A rifle can exceed 170 dB SPL at a distance of one meter[1]. When you&#x27;re shooting a rifle, it&#x27;s going to be cradled firmly against the shoulder -- a lot closer than 1 meter. Even the lowly .22lr fired from a handgun can exceed 160 dB SPL[2]. A suppressor can knock that down about 30 dB. 130 dB is still a lot, but it&#x27;s out of the &#x27;<i>will</i>-immedately-and-permanently-damage-your-hearing&#x27; range at least, and makes further hearing protection (earmuffs, earplugs) that much more effective.<p>tl;dr - A suppressor is safety equipment.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sound_pressure#Examples_of_sound_pressure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sound_pressure#Examples_of_sou...</a>
2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Suppressor#Effectiveness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Suppressor#Effectiveness</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ufo</author><text>Why do some countries encourage the use of suppressors?</text></item><item><author>knz</author><text>Laws related to firearms are often similar.<p>The current example is the effort to make suppressors more available. Those opposed are already pushing tales of dramatically increasing crime rates and poaching instead of acknowledging that even suppressed firearms are still very loud or that many other OECD countries (which have more strict regulation) allow or even encourage the use of suppressors.<p>The sad part about using fear to support or oppose change is that you rarely end up with solutions that actually solve the underlying societal problem via a sensible compromise.</text></item><item><author>rconti</author><text>My favorite example is the South Carolina law that was finally rescinded a few years back, where bars had to serve their mixed alcoholic drinks with liquor poured from single-serving &#x27;airline&#x27; style bottles. A colossal waste of time and resources, but the kicker was the arguments against rescinding the law-- some folks arguing that DUI rates would go through the roof and The Children (TM) would all die, and others arguing that bartenders would rip off patrons with &#x27;short pours&#x27;.<p>All without a single thought to stop and consider the example of the other 49 states, not to mention other countries...</text></item><item><author>ericfrenkiel</author><text>::slow clap::<p>It is absolutely appalling that this type of backwardness is still a reality in the 21st century.<p>The faster we can transition to clean, renewable energy, the better for everyone in the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kobeya</author><text>It&#x27;s a safety issue. Suppressors <i>do not</i> work like the purely fictional &quot;silencers&quot; of the movies. They take a deafening, hearing-injury-inducing bang and turn it merely into a loud noise. Modern suppressors actually aid accuracy too, making collateral damage less likely.</text></comment> |
30,050,682 | 30,050,677 | 1 | 2 | 30,050,276 | train | <story><title>Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S109051382100074X</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>&gt; we find that men, compared to women, more highly value same-sex friends who are physically formidable, possess high status, possess wealth, and afford access to potential mates. In contrast, women, compared to men, more highly value friends who provide emotional support, intimacy, and useful social information.<p>This is exactly my experience here. This is the reason why as a man, I instinctively find female friends more trustworthy. When I experience a problem in life, female friends help me a lot more than my male friends do.<p>The retention rate is also different. A lot more of the female friends I made earlier in my life remained as friends than male friends I made.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>openknot</author><text>&gt;A lot more of the female friends I made earlier in my life remained as friends than male friends I made.<p>Most of the people I bet I could rely on happen to be women (met in writing&#x2F;graphic design groups at university), but I wonder if these will last as I get older and people get into relationships.<p>It&#x27;s less easy to hang out with a woman one-on-one without it seeming like a date (for a man who is heterosexual). It can also cause jealousy on either side to stay close after pairing up with a romantic partner.<p>I suppose it depends on how one defines a &quot;friend&quot; based on closeness. It&#x27;s likely I&#x27;ll keep in touch and maintain a friendly relationship with these people as we all grow older (as acquaintance-friends), though I doubt I&#x27;ll ever reach the level of &quot;close friends,&quot; for any woman besides a romantic partner.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sex Differences in Friendship Preferences</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S109051382100074X</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kccqzy</author><text>&gt; we find that men, compared to women, more highly value same-sex friends who are physically formidable, possess high status, possess wealth, and afford access to potential mates. In contrast, women, compared to men, more highly value friends who provide emotional support, intimacy, and useful social information.<p>This is exactly my experience here. This is the reason why as a man, I instinctively find female friends more trustworthy. When I experience a problem in life, female friends help me a lot more than my male friends do.<p>The retention rate is also different. A lot more of the female friends I made earlier in my life remained as friends than male friends I made.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djxfade</author><text>Maybe I&#x27;m the odd one out, but I&#x27;m a male, and my male friendships are closer to the female ones. Me and my best friend are very close.</text></comment> |
11,137,156 | 11,134,532 | 1 | 3 | 11,133,584 | train | <story><title>Why Don't People Manage Debt Better?</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-don-t-people-manage-debt-better/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I don&#x27;t think such an absolute position is warranted. It&#x27;s true that saving up for a big purchase will end up costing you less money than borrowing to pay for it and paying it back. But you will have the item purchased for less time.<p>Suppose you have enough disposable income to pay for a new $1200 TV over the course of 12 months. In scenario 1, you save $100 each month. The bank pays you 0.5% interest. As of January 1st next year you&#x27;ll have a new TV and $2.75. In scenario 2, you put $1200 on a credit card with a 10% APR. You pay $100 each month towards the credit card bill. As of January 1st next year you have a TV you&#x27;ve been watching for a year already and owe $69. You&#x27;ve essentially paid $72 for the privilege of getting the TV you wanted a year earlier.<p>Is that worth it? Well that depends on a lot of things, some of them intangible, but I wouldn&#x27;t say it can&#x27;t possibly make any sense. The sort of Puritan attitude towards consumption and debt may not be the worst attitude to have, at least for oneself. But when combined with evangelism it is pretty annoying.</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>Anyone at a point where they are making monthly payments on multiple credit cards has already lost the debt game. People don&#x27;t manage debt better because they have been marketed to and taught to use debt completely inappropriately.<p>Debt should be used to purchase an asset that will appreciate or otherwise provide an income in excess of the interest payment on the debt. Full stop. That is how businesses use debt and that is the only sensible strategy. As a consumer, a house may be a sensible use of debt. A reliable car needed to get to work may be a sensible use of debt. A student loan might as well. Carrying a balance on a credit card is almost never an appropriate use of debt.<p>Unfortunately, marketers have instead convinced consumers that debt is an easy way to buy things they can&#x27;t afford and pay for it later. This is almost always a losing proposition for the consumer, who invariably ends up paying much more than they would have if they had just saved up and bought the thing in full up front. The way to sensibly manage this is to not fall into the trap in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>The old, and conveniently oft forgotten, advice applies: Never borrow against a depreciating asset. If you need to clear down you may have a problem. A job loss, recession, illness could all mean you want to clear the debt. Selling the now second hand TV is not going to clear the debt. Add in a few more debts justified thus and you have a bankruptcy or house loss on your hands. Perhaps you can guarantee you will not get ill or lose your job during the loan?<p>So many of the people bitten hard by the 2008 recession applied logic such as yours, and often drew down on their mortgages (cheaper than credit card) to buy TVs, cars and holidays.<p>Borrowing against a growing asset is different.<p>I&#x27;m a &quot;reformed&quot; credit card user. I haven&#x27;t borrowed for anything apart from the house in around 15 years. It&#x27;s not a problem, and the kids don&#x27;t miss out on having too much stuff either!</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Don't People Manage Debt Better?</title><url>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-don-t-people-manage-debt-better/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>I don&#x27;t think such an absolute position is warranted. It&#x27;s true that saving up for a big purchase will end up costing you less money than borrowing to pay for it and paying it back. But you will have the item purchased for less time.<p>Suppose you have enough disposable income to pay for a new $1200 TV over the course of 12 months. In scenario 1, you save $100 each month. The bank pays you 0.5% interest. As of January 1st next year you&#x27;ll have a new TV and $2.75. In scenario 2, you put $1200 on a credit card with a 10% APR. You pay $100 each month towards the credit card bill. As of January 1st next year you have a TV you&#x27;ve been watching for a year already and owe $69. You&#x27;ve essentially paid $72 for the privilege of getting the TV you wanted a year earlier.<p>Is that worth it? Well that depends on a lot of things, some of them intangible, but I wouldn&#x27;t say it can&#x27;t possibly make any sense. The sort of Puritan attitude towards consumption and debt may not be the worst attitude to have, at least for oneself. But when combined with evangelism it is pretty annoying.</text></item><item><author>imgabe</author><text>Anyone at a point where they are making monthly payments on multiple credit cards has already lost the debt game. People don&#x27;t manage debt better because they have been marketed to and taught to use debt completely inappropriately.<p>Debt should be used to purchase an asset that will appreciate or otherwise provide an income in excess of the interest payment on the debt. Full stop. That is how businesses use debt and that is the only sensible strategy. As a consumer, a house may be a sensible use of debt. A reliable car needed to get to work may be a sensible use of debt. A student loan might as well. Carrying a balance on a credit card is almost never an appropriate use of debt.<p>Unfortunately, marketers have instead convinced consumers that debt is an easy way to buy things they can&#x27;t afford and pay for it later. This is almost always a losing proposition for the consumer, who invariably ends up paying much more than they would have if they had just saved up and bought the thing in full up front. The way to sensibly manage this is to not fall into the trap in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grecy</author><text>In scenario 1, when you realize that paying so much money for a TV is nonsense, you can spend that money on something else, and&#x2F;or stop going to work, or reduce work hours.<p>In scenario 2, you&#x27;re stuck going to work for the entire 12 months to pay off a TV that will be obsolete by the time you finish paying for it.<p>Scenario 2 robs you of your choices, because you&#x27;re making a promise of future labor. Scenario 1 leaves all your choices on the table.</text></comment> |
10,851,649 | 10,851,504 | 1 | 3 | 10,850,084 | train | <story><title>Neal Stephenson: Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015)</title><url>http://www.nealstephenson.com/social-media.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>I just turned 40, parent of a young child, and I know what you mean. I think the below article, a cover story in <i>The Atlantic</i>, is really insightful and I found it helped adjust my thinking.<p>There are going to be things that I wanted to do, that I won&#x27;t do in my life. Some may never have happened no matter what, like winning the Super Bowl or becoming an astronaut. But some of them will be things that I could very plausibly have actually done--but instead I did other things. The challenge of happiness is acknowledging that I made those choices for reasons that seemed good at the time, and anyway I can&#x27;t go back and change the past. To be happy, I have to accept that it&#x27;s possible to be happy, even knowing that I gave some things up for other things.<p>Essentially I&#x27;m working on believing that goals and happiness are separate things, each of which can be achieved independently of the other.<p>The link:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-real-roots-of-midlife-crisis&#x2F;382235&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-real...</a><p>A quote:<p>&gt; Long ago, when I was 30 and he was 66, the late Donald Richie, the greatest writer I have known, told me: “Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, Is this all? And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, Actually, this is pretty good.” In my 50s, thinking back, his words strike me as exactly right. To no one’s surprise as much as my own, I have begun to feel again the sense of adventure that I recall from my 20s and 30s. I wake up thinking about the day ahead rather than the five decades past. Gratitude has returned.</text></item><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>Comments so far seem to be focusing on the social media aspect of this piece, what struck me was the acknowledgement that he has a limited number of productive years left, and the Longfellow quote. In my mid 40&#x27;s, I also have come to feel the weight of years passed, without achieving professional goals (ie starting a succesful software based company).<p>This feeling of unfinished business really set in after the birth of our second child. I had always claimed to be one of the best developers around, yet, I could not master myself to be truly productive when working of personal projects. Overcoming my self imposed limits is where I&#x27;m at now. Has anyone else experienced this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spearchucker</author><text>Maybe my situation is a little less common, but I keep waiting for a mid-life crisis. I&#x27;m 45, have achieved a lot more so far than I ever expected to (I never expected myself to amount to much).<p>What I <i>have</i> become, is two things - more aware of time, and how limited it is. Second, selfish with my time. I do what I want to do, and no longer do what my girlfriend or anyone else wants me to do, unless it aligns with what I want to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Neal Stephenson: Why I Am a Sociomediapath (2015)</title><url>http://www.nealstephenson.com/social-media.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>snowwrestler</author><text>I just turned 40, parent of a young child, and I know what you mean. I think the below article, a cover story in <i>The Atlantic</i>, is really insightful and I found it helped adjust my thinking.<p>There are going to be things that I wanted to do, that I won&#x27;t do in my life. Some may never have happened no matter what, like winning the Super Bowl or becoming an astronaut. But some of them will be things that I could very plausibly have actually done--but instead I did other things. The challenge of happiness is acknowledging that I made those choices for reasons that seemed good at the time, and anyway I can&#x27;t go back and change the past. To be happy, I have to accept that it&#x27;s possible to be happy, even knowing that I gave some things up for other things.<p>Essentially I&#x27;m working on believing that goals and happiness are separate things, each of which can be achieved independently of the other.<p>The link:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-real-roots-of-midlife-crisis&#x2F;382235&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theatlantic.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;archive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;the-real...</a><p>A quote:<p>&gt; Long ago, when I was 30 and he was 66, the late Donald Richie, the greatest writer I have known, told me: “Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, Is this all? And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, Actually, this is pretty good.” In my 50s, thinking back, his words strike me as exactly right. To no one’s surprise as much as my own, I have begun to feel again the sense of adventure that I recall from my 20s and 30s. I wake up thinking about the day ahead rather than the five decades past. Gratitude has returned.</text></item><item><author>marktangotango</author><text>Comments so far seem to be focusing on the social media aspect of this piece, what struck me was the acknowledgement that he has a limited number of productive years left, and the Longfellow quote. In my mid 40&#x27;s, I also have come to feel the weight of years passed, without achieving professional goals (ie starting a succesful software based company).<p>This feeling of unfinished business really set in after the birth of our second child. I had always claimed to be one of the best developers around, yet, I could not master myself to be truly productive when working of personal projects. Overcoming my self imposed limits is where I&#x27;m at now. Has anyone else experienced this?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Disruptive_Dave</author><text>Very buddhist, at its core. Once you remove attachment to things, events, results, milestones, etc., you can start digging into what really sets the stage for actual, repeatable, &quot;happiness.&quot;</text></comment> |
28,945,769 | 28,945,296 | 1 | 2 | 28,943,782 | train | <story><title>Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer</title><url>https://theconversation.com/online-abuse-banning-anonymous-social-media-accounts-is-not-the-answer-170224</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lionkor</author><text>Anonymity is important because it allows you to have discussions purely based on the arguments and opinions, without the bias of <i>who</i> youre talking to.<p>I often find myself having a wonderfully deep discussion with someone online, and when I eventually find out what they look like (etc), I often realize that they dont look as friendly, educated, etc as they are.<p>Humans are really bad at this, and you will put people into groups in your mind no matter how hard you try. Anonymity mostly removes this bias, and leads to <i>real</i> and pure equal exchange of ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxfordmale</author><text>I can see the pros and cons of anonymity. However, personally I would delete a lot of my social media accounts if they forced me to disclose my identity. The case of Monika at Stackoverflow suggest you have to be really careful when using your full name, even on reputable sites. Data miners would also absolutely love it and governments are powerless to act on abuse as many of these companies are outside an enforceable jurisdiction.</text></comment> | <story><title>Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer</title><url>https://theconversation.com/online-abuse-banning-anonymous-social-media-accounts-is-not-the-answer-170224</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lionkor</author><text>Anonymity is important because it allows you to have discussions purely based on the arguments and opinions, without the bias of <i>who</i> youre talking to.<p>I often find myself having a wonderfully deep discussion with someone online, and when I eventually find out what they look like (etc), I often realize that they dont look as friendly, educated, etc as they are.<p>Humans are really bad at this, and you will put people into groups in your mind no matter how hard you try. Anonymity mostly removes this bias, and leads to <i>real</i> and pure equal exchange of ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>majormajor</author><text>Anonymity <i>can</i> enable that but it also enables far nastier things.<p>There are pros and cons. Simply pointing out pros is not enough to win the day.</text></comment> |
37,199,218 | 37,198,059 | 1 | 2 | 37,197,257 | train | <story><title>Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)</title><url>https://max.engineer/server-informed-ui</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y-bar</author><text>&gt; Imagine if you could just send it the whole “page” worth of JSON. Make an endpoint for &#x2F;page&#x2F;a and render the whole JSON for &#x2F;page&#x2F;a there. Do this for every page. Don’t force your front-end developers to send a bunch of individual requests to render a complex page. Stop annoying them with contrived limitations. Align yourselves.<p>Why not just send HTML as a single response at this stage? Sometimes it feels like we are doing web development more complex than it needs to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renegade-otter</author><text>How did we get to the point where simple and effective server-side pages are either unknown as a way of doing things or are considered to be a technical heresy?<p>Younger developers scoff at us fossils and the olden ways, but this is exactly how this ignorance of classic, tried-and-true, performant patterns results in atrocious complexity and performance, only because &quot;this is how things are done&quot;.<p>It HAS to be a BFF, it HAS to be 15 different microservices and 20 different AWS toys, right? There is no other way? Are you sure?<p>It seems like we are talking about the whole industry, but it&#x27;s largely he Node ecosystem in my experience (which is effectively - the industry). It&#x27;s not like there is not Rails development being done out there, with nothing but a trusty Postgres database.<p>Ironically, our existing architecture patterns are beginning to resemble J2EE - a bulky, slow, expensive, boiler-plate-laden process where a simple site costs one million dollars and performs like shit.</text></comment> | <story><title>Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)</title><url>https://max.engineer/server-informed-ui</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Y-bar</author><text>&gt; Imagine if you could just send it the whole “page” worth of JSON. Make an endpoint for &#x2F;page&#x2F;a and render the whole JSON for &#x2F;page&#x2F;a there. Do this for every page. Don’t force your front-end developers to send a bunch of individual requests to render a complex page. Stop annoying them with contrived limitations. Align yourselves.<p>Why not just send HTML as a single response at this stage? Sometimes it feels like we are doing web development more complex than it needs to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>littlecranky67</author><text>Feels like the author misses the point of an SPA. If you have website where every &quot;view&quot; is a &#x2F;page&#x2F;a etc., SPA might not be the best choice. But in an SPA i can be dynamic, and trigger data retrieval&#x2F;sending without route changes.<p>A very basic example is if I have a checkbox that allows the user to subscribe to push notifications. On click I sent a xhr request to the backend POST `&#x2F;subscribe&#x2F;1234` which registers the subscription. Next time I&#x27;ll check `&#x2F;subscriptions` or similar to see if the checbbox is in &quot;checked&quot; state (i.e. we are subscribed). This is basic functionality which requires a concise REST&#x2F;JSON API, and has nothing todo with your page&#x2F;route layout à la &#x2F;page&#x2F;a, &#x2F;page&#x2F;b etc.</text></comment> |
2,912,941 | 2,912,948 | 1 | 2 | 2,912,600 | train | <story><title>This is CoffeeScript</title><url>http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/9251081564/coffeescript-spartan-javascript</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akdetrick</author><text>I don't subscribe to the notion that you can write code faster with less keystrokes (vi/emacs, anyone?). I do however, understand that a cleaner syntax would lend some readability and simplicity to your code once you learn said syntax.
Ultimately, I find that the problems that CoffeeScript solves, and solves quite well, are not really that big of a deal for me given that I've been working with Javascript enough to get used to the quirks.
I'm not sure if I'll ever use it myself, but I can't blame anyone who would; this article does a good job explaining some of the benefits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danenania</author><text>"Ultimately, I find that the problems that CoffeeScript solves, and solves quite well, are not really that big of a deal for me given that I've been working with Javascript enough to get used to the quirks."<p>I wouldn't expect you to believe me until you've used CoffeeScript for a little while, but I think you're definitely wrong about this. CoffeeScript simply has <i>better</i> syntax than plain js in every way, and any js developer will be more productive using it. The only drawbacks are dealing with file conversions and debugging, but these are something like a 10% penalty at worst on top of a 100%+ productivity boost. It's not just an aesthetic preference thing. CoffeeScript is a much better language and is pretty much guaranteed to save you time and mental effort.</text></comment> | <story><title>This is CoffeeScript</title><url>http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/9251081564/coffeescript-spartan-javascript</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akdetrick</author><text>I don't subscribe to the notion that you can write code faster with less keystrokes (vi/emacs, anyone?). I do however, understand that a cleaner syntax would lend some readability and simplicity to your code once you learn said syntax.
Ultimately, I find that the problems that CoffeeScript solves, and solves quite well, are not really that big of a deal for me given that I've been working with Javascript enough to get used to the quirks.
I'm not sure if I'll ever use it myself, but I can't blame anyone who would; this article does a good job explaining some of the benefits.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boucher</author><text>I don't particularly like all of the syntax choices in CoffeeScript, and I absolutely don't subscribe to the theory that fewer keystrokes means cleaner code, but on anything complex I think CoffeeScript is a better choice than vanilla JavaScript.<p>It really is true that having a compiler make it impossible to screw up your scope saves you from a lot of mistakes. This feature is probably the thing I wish we had put in Objective-J most. It's also really nice to have a syntax for classes.</text></comment> |
27,757,557 | 27,754,661 | 1 | 2 | 27,749,497 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs</title><url>https://sidequestjobs.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tppiotrowski</author><text>I worked for a company once that was very remote friendly. You could disappear for a month and then pop into Slack and ask, what’s next in the issues queue? Then work on issues for however long you wanted, billed hourly at a generous rate. Several times I disappeared for weeks to travel and climb and was always welcomed back.<p>That company was minting money and wasn’t worried about deadlines. I wish more work was structured this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zzt123</author><text>I had an analogous arrangement. I would pop in and out, identifying&#x2F;building high impact projects, in a mix of web dev, PM, and analyzing data.<p>I was usually available for brainstorming&#x2F;chats during my sometimes months of off cycle, including at non-regular hours. I&#x27;m hopelessly neural atypical with on&#x2F;off cycles of productivity and haven&#x27;t found a way to make myself more regular.<p>I was paid as a full time employee despite my schedule, with a mutually agreed upon below-market offer in exchange for that freedom. USD 130k&#x2F;y with full benefits and a much smaller than normal equity grant.<p>That arrangement lasted 7 years before moving on to new opportunities.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs</title><url>https://sidequestjobs.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tppiotrowski</author><text>I worked for a company once that was very remote friendly. You could disappear for a month and then pop into Slack and ask, what’s next in the issues queue? Then work on issues for however long you wanted, billed hourly at a generous rate. Several times I disappeared for weeks to travel and climb and was always welcomed back.<p>That company was minting money and wasn’t worried about deadlines. I wish more work was structured this way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vsareto</author><text>Oh good lord, just when I think I&#x27;ve found the perfect job, you have to go and shatter my comfortable illusions!</text></comment> |
24,385,471 | 24,385,024 | 1 | 2 | 24,382,249 | train | <story><title>Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore</title><url>https://palladiummag.com/2020/08/13/the-true-story-of-lee-kuan-yews-singapore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wenc</author><text>Wow. This article is one of the most compelling I&#x27;ve read in a while. There&#x27;s even a bit in there about models and reality with respect to (authoritarian) governance and size, and why simplistic schemata suffer from large errors in larger states:<p><i>&quot;Decision-makers must rely on simplified models to make their decisions. All schemata are by nature imperfect representations of reality. Indeed, a scheme that reflected reality perfectly would be cluttered and uninterpretable. The reality is always more complex than the plan. In large countries, the planner is further from ground reality than in tiny city-states. Abstractions and errors inevitably compound as the distance increases.&quot;</i><p>and on first-principles:<p><i>&quot;Ironically, Lee Kuan Yew himself had no patience for other people’s models. In his words, “I am not following any prescription given to me by any theoretician on democracy or whatever. I work from first principles: what will get me there?” If there is a lesson from Singapore’s development it is this: forget grand ideologies and others’ models. There is no replacement for experimentation, independent thought, and ruthless pragmatism.</i>&quot;<p>In that sense, Singapore is like a startup at a country-level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ergocoder</author><text>Yes. It&#x27;s one flaw of democracy.<p>In a dictatorship, if the leader is great, it will grow like crazy... It&#x27;s like a startup with great founders.<p>On the other hand, the problem will come when a hand-off needs to happen.<p>Singapore is clever enough to keep the democratic process, so it has some decent hand-off process.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore</title><url>https://palladiummag.com/2020/08/13/the-true-story-of-lee-kuan-yews-singapore/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wenc</author><text>Wow. This article is one of the most compelling I&#x27;ve read in a while. There&#x27;s even a bit in there about models and reality with respect to (authoritarian) governance and size, and why simplistic schemata suffer from large errors in larger states:<p><i>&quot;Decision-makers must rely on simplified models to make their decisions. All schemata are by nature imperfect representations of reality. Indeed, a scheme that reflected reality perfectly would be cluttered and uninterpretable. The reality is always more complex than the plan. In large countries, the planner is further from ground reality than in tiny city-states. Abstractions and errors inevitably compound as the distance increases.&quot;</i><p>and on first-principles:<p><i>&quot;Ironically, Lee Kuan Yew himself had no patience for other people’s models. In his words, “I am not following any prescription given to me by any theoretician on democracy or whatever. I work from first principles: what will get me there?” If there is a lesson from Singapore’s development it is this: forget grand ideologies and others’ models. There is no replacement for experimentation, independent thought, and ruthless pragmatism.</i>&quot;<p>In that sense, Singapore is like a startup at a country-level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickff</author><text>You may be interested James C. Scott’s “Seeing Like a State”, which is an excellent book that focuses on these issues.</text></comment> |
14,849,277 | 14,849,202 | 1 | 2 | 14,846,981 | train | <story><title>Pseudo-public space in London</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/revealed-pseudo-public-space-pops-london-investigation-map</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kurtz79</author><text>&quot;1) the settlement should not cost the tax payers money&quot;<p>What would happen if the cop responsible for the act could not cover the settlement money ?<p>The one affected by brutality would be doubly screwed.<p>The Police as a whole should be held accountable, and victims should be ensured compensation, they are by all accounts being brutalized by the state, and the state is run with taxpayers money.<p>Agreeing with the rest though.</text></item><item><author>avs733</author><text>&gt;But then he sues, and they settle for $100,000.00.<p>Not really. The police decided to act like corporate lackeys and TAX PAYERS paid a $40,000 settlement to a person who was physically injured by their misconduct. There are several ways this story <i>should</i> end that are not that<p>1) the settlement should not cost the tax payers money<p>2) the cops, or at least the property owner, should pay the settlement<p>3) those officers should not be officers anymore AND they should be held to some level of personal responsibility for their actions<p>4) there should be consequences for the police brutally attacking someone who asserts their (legal in MN) right not to identify themselves to police officers</text></item><item><author>veidr</author><text>&gt; It doesn&#x27;t end well<p>It&#x27;s an unpleasant story, but the <i>ending</i> seems OK.<p>Cops play the role of corporate lackey (like they do everywhere, in the USA and everywhere else), treat citizen badly, with probable significant racist component, and end up shooting him with a taser and arresting him. All bad so far.<p>But then he sues, and they settle for $100,000.00.<p>That&#x27;s pretty much how that story <i>should</i> end.</text></item><item><author>jccc</author><text>Immediately reminded me of this from 2014:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startribune.com&#x2F;man-arrested-in-st-paul-skyway-sues-3-police-officers-city&#x2F;282658401&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startribune.com&#x2F;man-arrested-in-st-paul-skyway-su...</a><p>A father waiting to pick up his kids from day care sits in an ambiguously public-ish place. He refuses when an employee asks him to leave. Then the police arrive.<p>At that point he voluntarily gets up and starts walking away, but the cop follows him and continues pestering him to identify himself, etc.<p>It doesn&#x27;t end well. I&#x27;m sure you can guess what he looks like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>izacus</author><text>&gt; What would happen if the cop responsible for the act could not cover the settlement money ?<p>What happens to normal mortals when they can&#x27;t pay their debts. Are policemen really so much above the law that they don&#x27;t have to pay their debts either?</text></comment> | <story><title>Pseudo-public space in London</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/revealed-pseudo-public-space-pops-london-investigation-map</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kurtz79</author><text>&quot;1) the settlement should not cost the tax payers money&quot;<p>What would happen if the cop responsible for the act could not cover the settlement money ?<p>The one affected by brutality would be doubly screwed.<p>The Police as a whole should be held accountable, and victims should be ensured compensation, they are by all accounts being brutalized by the state, and the state is run with taxpayers money.<p>Agreeing with the rest though.</text></item><item><author>avs733</author><text>&gt;But then he sues, and they settle for $100,000.00.<p>Not really. The police decided to act like corporate lackeys and TAX PAYERS paid a $40,000 settlement to a person who was physically injured by their misconduct. There are several ways this story <i>should</i> end that are not that<p>1) the settlement should not cost the tax payers money<p>2) the cops, or at least the property owner, should pay the settlement<p>3) those officers should not be officers anymore AND they should be held to some level of personal responsibility for their actions<p>4) there should be consequences for the police brutally attacking someone who asserts their (legal in MN) right not to identify themselves to police officers</text></item><item><author>veidr</author><text>&gt; It doesn&#x27;t end well<p>It&#x27;s an unpleasant story, but the <i>ending</i> seems OK.<p>Cops play the role of corporate lackey (like they do everywhere, in the USA and everywhere else), treat citizen badly, with probable significant racist component, and end up shooting him with a taser and arresting him. All bad so far.<p>But then he sues, and they settle for $100,000.00.<p>That&#x27;s pretty much how that story <i>should</i> end.</text></item><item><author>jccc</author><text>Immediately reminded me of this from 2014:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startribune.com&#x2F;man-arrested-in-st-paul-skyway-sues-3-police-officers-city&#x2F;282658401&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.startribune.com&#x2F;man-arrested-in-st-paul-skyway-su...</a><p>A father waiting to pick up his kids from day care sits in an ambiguously public-ish place. He refuses when an employee asks him to leave. Then the police arrive.<p>At that point he voluntarily gets up and starts walking away, but the cop follows him and continues pestering him to identify himself, etc.<p>It doesn&#x27;t end well. I&#x27;m sure you can guess what he looks like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelmrose</author><text>Basically the most reasonable strategy is that the employer which is the public is on the hook for the immediate cost and has the privilege and duty of recovering the money from the guilty.<p>This insures that the city who is guilty of hiring the miscreant ends up with the onerous duty of collection and the victim is compensated hastily.</text></comment> |
18,283,563 | 18,283,527 | 1 | 2 | 18,278,510 | train | <story><title>iPhones are hard to use</title><url>https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>Most people know it&#x27;s controversial to say &quot;iPhones are hard to use&quot; because most people feel that the iPhone, perhaps more than any other technological innovation in the past 20 years, made technology easy to access, use, and integrate with their lives.<p>To say &#x27;iPhones are hard to use&#x27; and then point out all the small edge cases of use as significant flaws is hyperbole in bad faith. The author is caught up in his own intellectual habit and not in touch with reality.<p>A better title for this article could be &#x27;Simplifying complexity inevitably sidelines some of some user&#x27;s needs&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsight</author><text>Or maybe &quot;making the setup process easy hides some really important (and even safety critical) functionality&quot;. Or &quot;popups are still bad and apparently we still need to say it&quot; (referring to the wifi one). Or maybe &quot;some current edge cases should be center cases&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t think that his point is an overly broad indictment of the iphone so much as an analysis of where many of its more common flaws actually lie. I&#x27;ve seen so many criticisms of trivialities around colors in the calendar, but little analysis of what real people with basic knowledge don&#x27;t know.<p>The fact that it is so iPhone centric leads me to believe that the author is a fan. I don&#x27;t consider this bad faith at all.</text></comment> | <story><title>iPhones are hard to use</title><url>https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>Most people know it&#x27;s controversial to say &quot;iPhones are hard to use&quot; because most people feel that the iPhone, perhaps more than any other technological innovation in the past 20 years, made technology easy to access, use, and integrate with their lives.<p>To say &#x27;iPhones are hard to use&#x27; and then point out all the small edge cases of use as significant flaws is hyperbole in bad faith. The author is caught up in his own intellectual habit and not in touch with reality.<p>A better title for this article could be &#x27;Simplifying complexity inevitably sidelines some of some user&#x27;s needs&#x27;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MattSayar</author><text>But then nobody would read it</text></comment> |
6,235,579 | 6,235,032 | 1 | 2 | 6,234,721 | train | <story><title>I hate the Pumping Lemma</title><url>http://bosker.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/i-hate-the-pumping-lemma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xyzzyz</author><text><i>The real insult is that the actual underlying idea, and the proof, is shockingly simple. It is essentially the pigeonhole principle: the principle that if you put more than n pigeons into n holes then there must be a hole with more than one pigeon in. Take the regular language L, and express it as a deterministic finite automaton with p states. Any string in L determines a path through the automaton; so any string with p or more characters must visit the same state twice, forming a loop. This looped part can be repeated any arbitrary number of times to produce other strings in L.</i><p>Yeah, that&#x27;s how it is usually introduced to students. First you introduce them to finite state automatons, then you show them a cool trick of extending the words by walking in circles on the automaton&#x27;s state graph, and only then you mention that this is basically a pumping lemma. After everyone understood the point of the pumping lemma, you write it down formally using five quantifiers, so that student can write it down concisely, as the idea is already understood at that point.<p>I agree that the formal statement of the pumping lemma can be very uninspiring, but it only hints to two important facts. First, it&#x27;s very important to have a good teacher, who is able to introduce ideas in a way and order they work for you. Second is that in math, it&#x27;s the proofs and ideas that are important, not theorem statements.</text></comment> | <story><title>I hate the Pumping Lemma</title><url>http://bosker.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/i-hate-the-pumping-lemma/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>a8i</author><text>Ironically, this post&#x27;s explanation caused me understand the pumping lemma for the first time after years of letting my eyes just slide over any time I read across a mention.<p>(It nerdsniped me by claiming it was difficult.)</text></comment> |
22,541,632 | 22,541,709 | 1 | 2 | 22,540,904 | train | <story><title>Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/business/tesla-europe-success.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jupp0r</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s just me, but I find most non Tesla electric cars to be incredibly ugly. If BMW made an electric 3 class sedan with &gt; 350 miles of range for a reasonable price, I think that would be hugely successful. Instead they made the i3.<p>The VW ID.3 looks like it would have the same problem. I know this is very subjective, but why not make a car that looks more like their already successful models?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d1zzy</author><text>I&#x27;m the opposite, I find Teslas to be (externally) ugly. In general I find any large sedan to be ugly. I don&#x27;t get the sedan form factor, it seems to waste a lot of space. I&#x27;ve always owned hatchbacks because I like the way they look and they seem much more practical to me how I can bend the seats and carry a ton of stuff in the back (which I take advantage of at least once a month).</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/business/tesla-europe-success.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jupp0r</author><text>I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s just me, but I find most non Tesla electric cars to be incredibly ugly. If BMW made an electric 3 class sedan with &gt; 350 miles of range for a reasonable price, I think that would be hugely successful. Instead they made the i3.<p>The VW ID.3 looks like it would have the same problem. I know this is very subjective, but why not make a car that looks more like their already successful models?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmmmmbop</author><text>All upcoming electric cars seem to follow that route. It just took them a while to catch up. The Audi e-tron and Mercedes EQC are recently released SUVs that are hardly distinguishable from their combustion engine counterparts. The upcoming BMW i4 is essentially an electric 4 class sedan with &gt;350 miles of range.</text></comment> |
21,777,128 | 21,776,905 | 1 | 3 | 21,776,220 | train | <story><title>Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/CALCETrW1z0gCLFJz-1Jwj_wcT3+axXkP_wOCxY8JkbSLzV80GA@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>Relatedly, Ubuntu no longer builds for i386 as a complete architecture: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.ubuntu.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;ubuntu-devel-announce&#x2F;2019-June&#x2F;001261.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.ubuntu.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;ubuntu-devel-announce&#x2F;2019...</a><p>They are still building i386 packages for use on 64-bit kernels, for the sake of precompiled 32-bit software (games etc). That&#x27;s scenario B from Simon McVittie&#x27;s reply in this thread, and it sounds like that&#x27;s not affected.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/CALCETrW1z0gCLFJz-1Jwj_wcT3+axXkP_wOCxY8JkbSLzV80GA@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhoechtl</author><text>Hah!<p>&gt; And the developers in question should have an
appropriate degree of nostalgic adoration of segments, gates, and
other delights from the i386 era.</text></comment> |
37,476,902 | 37,474,978 | 1 | 3 | 37,471,417 | train | <story><title>Advanced x86: Virtualization with Intel VT-x</title><url>https://opensecuritytraining.info/AdvancedX86-VTX.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Unfortunately no mention of V86 even in the intro&#x2F;history section, which could be considered the origins of x86 virtualisation technology, and achieved widespread use starting with Windows&#x2F;386 and all the way through the Win9x lineage. If you&#x27;ve ever used those versions of Windows, you&#x27;ve used a hypervisor.</text></comment> | <story><title>Advanced x86: Virtualization with Intel VT-x</title><url>https://opensecuritytraining.info/AdvancedX86-VTX.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>the_panopticon</author><text>All of the training at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensecuritytraining.info&#x2F;Training.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opensecuritytraining.info&#x2F;Training.html</a> is valuable. Xeno Kovah who set this up originally also hosts a nice timeline of exploit papers <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;darkmentor.com&#x2F;timeline.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;darkmentor.com&#x2F;timeline.html</a>, too.</text></comment> |
10,799,684 | 10,799,716 | 1 | 2 | 10,799,261 | train | <story><title>At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-theranos-many-strategies-and-snags-1451259629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakeross</author><text>I wrote a parody of Theranos as a TV pilot that is increasingly becoming true: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pricks.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pricks.com&#x2F;</a><p>(I&#x27;m sharing this here because the Hacker News community seemed to enjoy my Season 3 premiere of Silicon Valley [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10179894" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10179894</a>], but apologies if others feel it detracts from the discussion.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nikcub</author><text>Great stuff Blake.<p>I can imagine an entire episode dedicated to trying to get Pricks onto Product Hunt. The double entendre&#x27;s and puns write themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-theranos-many-strategies-and-snags-1451259629</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blakeross</author><text>I wrote a parody of Theranos as a TV pilot that is increasingly becoming true: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pricks.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pricks.com&#x2F;</a><p>(I&#x27;m sharing this here because the Hacker News community seemed to enjoy my Season 3 premiere of Silicon Valley [<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10179894" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10179894</a>], but apologies if others feel it detracts from the discussion.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>randycupertino</author><text>I was just thinking that someone needs to write a novelization of this Theranos nonsense &amp; turn it into a screenplay and voilà:- Silicon Valley&#x27;s &quot;Wolf of Wall Street&quot; or the next &quot;The Social Network&quot; ... I&#x27;m sure someone is already writing it up.</text></comment> |
32,645,128 | 32,645,097 | 1 | 3 | 32,641,028 | train | <story><title>The Big [Censored] Theory</title><url>https://pudding.cool/2022/08/censorship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Taken to it&#x27;s logical extreme though, such a service could easily render copyright effectively useless. Break the movie into 10 second clips, &quot;rent out&quot; each of those clips during the 10 seconds they&#x27;re being viewed and automatically return them after. There, you can now &quot;legally&quot; stream 720 concurrent copies of a 2 hour movie at once in perpetuity for near zero marginal cost.<p>The only reason rentals worked was because of the physical constraints that limited the distribution of each copy. Take that away, what you&#x27;re left with is just thinly veiled copyright abolishment.</text></item><item><author>MichaelCollins</author><text>Leaving aside the matter of Mormons and their weird puritan sensibilities, what this company essentially did was reinvent movie rental, but because they did it on the internet instead of a brick and mortar shop we&#x27;re all expected to think it obvious and self evidence that what they did was horrible.<p>In other contexts on sites like this, <i>&quot;do [common thing] but on a computer&quot;</i> patents get mocked and derided because &quot;but on a computer&quot; is seen as a farce, not a fundamental difference from the [common thing].<p>Anyway, I guess the mormons could get around this and achieve their desired effect by instead selling DVD players with a subscription to a service that distributes EDL files; instructions to the DVD player about which parts of movies should be skipped.</text></item><item><author>coryfklein</author><text>My Mormon neighbors tend to use VidAngel, which got in huge trouble with an absolutely hilarious payment model.<p>1. VidAngel purchases a bunch of Blu-ray discs and stores them in a warehouse<p>2. Tag all the content of a film and create filters so the user can, for example, filter out all sex and violence but leave in vulgarity<p>3. User &quot;purchases&quot; a Blu-ray for $20 (!!) and VidAngel says, &quot;since we now know you&#x27;re the owner of this copy sitting in the warehouse, we&#x27;ll stream it to you right now instead of going to the bother of mailing it out&quot; (This part legally qualified as a &quot;performance&quot;, which was their big mistake.)<p>4. When user is done watching the film, VidAngel automatically <i>buys back</i> the Blu-ray – still sitting in their warehouse – for $19.<p>So users could essentially stream any film they want (with optional self-selected censorship) for only $1 per viewing. Of course they get a flood of users since they&#x27;re the cheapest shop in town, and of course since what they were doing was illegal they got taken to court and had to shut down 90% of their business.<p>And then, they wrote an endless tream of publicity saying, &quot;Big media doesn&#x27;t want to give you the right to skip nudity and violence in your own home! Think of the children! They want to force their values on you!&quot; Yeah, I don&#x27;t think the film-makers <i>loved</i> the censorship platform, but it was the <i>$1 performances</i> that really got them riled up.</text></item><item><author>wrs</author><text>There is a home version of this called ClearPlay that auto-redacts movies and TV. It actually started with DVD players (!) but now does streaming.<p>Ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.clearplay.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.clearplay.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>sudhirj</author><text>We have this kind of censorship in India as well, even the in weirdly innocous places. In James Bond movies, and I think Gone Girl as well, scenes were by zooming into character&#x27;s faces or just straight cuts.<p>This is probably the only reason I maintain a US iTunes accounts (used to have to buy gift cards from sketchy sites online to keep this going, but I recently discovered that my Indian Amex card works fine with a US address).<p>Also trivia for those who are wondering how cuts are made, at least for cinema content: all video and audio assets are usually sent to theatres in full, but there&#x27;s an XML file called the CPL (composition playlist) that specifies which file is played from which to which frame &#x2F; timestamp in what sequence. Pure cuts or audio censorship can be handled by just adding an entry to skip the relevant frames or timestamp, or by specifying a censor beep as the audio track for a particular time range.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cinepedia.com&#x2F;packaging&#x2F;composition&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cinepedia.com&#x2F;packaging&#x2F;composition&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>That&#x27;s not really a &quot;logical extreme&quot;, that&#x27;s a straw man and an obvious ploy to do something you&#x27;re not supposed to be able to do.<p>I think a reasonable person would see that what you describe is an attempt to make an end run around both the spirit and letter of the law. But what VidAngel was doing was &quot;one copy = one view&quot;, which is IMO entirely reasonable. There is zero moral difference between mailing someone a Bluray disc (with instructions -- either automated or manual -- of what parts to skip) vs. keeping that disc in a warehouse and streaming the (censored) contents to exactly one person at a time.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Big [Censored] Theory</title><url>https://pudding.cool/2022/08/censorship/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Taken to it&#x27;s logical extreme though, such a service could easily render copyright effectively useless. Break the movie into 10 second clips, &quot;rent out&quot; each of those clips during the 10 seconds they&#x27;re being viewed and automatically return them after. There, you can now &quot;legally&quot; stream 720 concurrent copies of a 2 hour movie at once in perpetuity for near zero marginal cost.<p>The only reason rentals worked was because of the physical constraints that limited the distribution of each copy. Take that away, what you&#x27;re left with is just thinly veiled copyright abolishment.</text></item><item><author>MichaelCollins</author><text>Leaving aside the matter of Mormons and their weird puritan sensibilities, what this company essentially did was reinvent movie rental, but because they did it on the internet instead of a brick and mortar shop we&#x27;re all expected to think it obvious and self evidence that what they did was horrible.<p>In other contexts on sites like this, <i>&quot;do [common thing] but on a computer&quot;</i> patents get mocked and derided because &quot;but on a computer&quot; is seen as a farce, not a fundamental difference from the [common thing].<p>Anyway, I guess the mormons could get around this and achieve their desired effect by instead selling DVD players with a subscription to a service that distributes EDL files; instructions to the DVD player about which parts of movies should be skipped.</text></item><item><author>coryfklein</author><text>My Mormon neighbors tend to use VidAngel, which got in huge trouble with an absolutely hilarious payment model.<p>1. VidAngel purchases a bunch of Blu-ray discs and stores them in a warehouse<p>2. Tag all the content of a film and create filters so the user can, for example, filter out all sex and violence but leave in vulgarity<p>3. User &quot;purchases&quot; a Blu-ray for $20 (!!) and VidAngel says, &quot;since we now know you&#x27;re the owner of this copy sitting in the warehouse, we&#x27;ll stream it to you right now instead of going to the bother of mailing it out&quot; (This part legally qualified as a &quot;performance&quot;, which was their big mistake.)<p>4. When user is done watching the film, VidAngel automatically <i>buys back</i> the Blu-ray – still sitting in their warehouse – for $19.<p>So users could essentially stream any film they want (with optional self-selected censorship) for only $1 per viewing. Of course they get a flood of users since they&#x27;re the cheapest shop in town, and of course since what they were doing was illegal they got taken to court and had to shut down 90% of their business.<p>And then, they wrote an endless tream of publicity saying, &quot;Big media doesn&#x27;t want to give you the right to skip nudity and violence in your own home! Think of the children! They want to force their values on you!&quot; Yeah, I don&#x27;t think the film-makers <i>loved</i> the censorship platform, but it was the <i>$1 performances</i> that really got them riled up.</text></item><item><author>wrs</author><text>There is a home version of this called ClearPlay that auto-redacts movies and TV. It actually started with DVD players (!) but now does streaming.<p>Ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.clearplay.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amazon.clearplay.com&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>sudhirj</author><text>We have this kind of censorship in India as well, even the in weirdly innocous places. In James Bond movies, and I think Gone Girl as well, scenes were by zooming into character&#x27;s faces or just straight cuts.<p>This is probably the only reason I maintain a US iTunes accounts (used to have to buy gift cards from sketchy sites online to keep this going, but I recently discovered that my Indian Amex card works fine with a US address).<p>Also trivia for those who are wondering how cuts are made, at least for cinema content: all video and audio assets are usually sent to theatres in full, but there&#x27;s an XML file called the CPL (composition playlist) that specifies which file is played from which to which frame &#x2F; timestamp in what sequence. Pure cuts or audio censorship can be handled by just adding an entry to skip the relevant frames or timestamp, or by specifying a censor beep as the audio track for a particular time range.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cinepedia.com&#x2F;packaging&#x2F;composition&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cinepedia.com&#x2F;packaging&#x2F;composition&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>IX-103</author><text>Sorry. Each 10 second clip is a derivative work of the whole. So you can&#x27;t sub-license portions of the work without permission.<p>Just like you can&#x27;t lend out individual chapters of a book....</text></comment> |
1,848,590 | 1,848,627 | 1 | 2 | 1,848,278 | train | <story><title>How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/09/129757852/pop-quiz-how-do-you-stop-sea-captains-from-killing-their-passengers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randomwalker</author><text>It is easy to underestimate the difficulty of creating the right incentives.<p><i>In the 1940’s, the paleontologist von Koenigswald was searching for early human remains on Java and decided to enlist the help of the locals in his search by offering them “ten cents for every piece of hominid bone they could come up with.” Unfortunately for von Koenigswald (and for his findings), he discovered too late that the locals “had been enthusiastically smashing large pieces into small ones to maximize their income.”</i><p>From <a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/when-youre-paying-per-bone-fragment-expect-more-fragments/" rel="nofollow">http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/when-youre-...</a><p>(The story is from the book <i>A Short History of Nearly Everything</i>, which is one of the best books I've ever read. The amazing thing about the book is that it is in fact a short history of nearly everything.)<p>Combine the difficulty of getting incentives right with the inherent problems of Government and a dangerous mix results. For example, every time a subsidy is created, a special-interest group sprouts up dedicated to preserving the subsidy in perpetuity, long after it has outlived its utility.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers?</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/09/09/129757852/pop-quiz-how-do-you-stop-sea-captains-from-killing-their-passengers</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacoblyles</author><text>It's interesting that they tried the tactic of micro-regulating every aspect of the ship captain's business and that didn't work as well as broad incentives.<p>Today, this micro-regulation is politically popular as voters can more easily comprehend the direct effects of regulation as opposed to the indirect effects of broad incentives. For example, we force drug companies to perform very extensive clinical trials for new drugs and this makes us feel safe. But simply increasing the liability drug companies face for producing harmful drugs may be more effective and would certainly be a lot cheaper (as much as 90% of the cost of a new drug is meeting FDA requirements). But I doubt voters would feel as safe in a regime of broad incentives even if it worked better.</text></comment> |
34,879,475 | 34,879,603 | 1 | 2 | 34,879,059 | train | <story><title>U.S. food additives banned in Europe</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Fun fact: Cannibalism in itself isn&#x27;t illegal in Germany... Just don&#x27;t ask</text></item><item><author>throwawaylinux</author><text>That said it&#x27;s probably still inadvisable to season your food with expert.</text></item><item><author>etiennebausson</author><text>I did wonder how the expert was making people sick.</text></item><item><author>GrayShade</author><text>The original title is &quot;U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is &quot;almost certainly&quot; making them sick&quot;, which makes a lot more sense than the submission title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HeckFeck</author><text>Suddenly this joke from the IT Crowd makes more sense: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gOE-q20RcDM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gOE-q20RcDM</a></text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. food additives banned in Europe</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hef19898</author><text>Fun fact: Cannibalism in itself isn&#x27;t illegal in Germany... Just don&#x27;t ask</text></item><item><author>throwawaylinux</author><text>That said it&#x27;s probably still inadvisable to season your food with expert.</text></item><item><author>etiennebausson</author><text>I did wonder how the expert was making people sick.</text></item><item><author>GrayShade</author><text>The original title is &quot;U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is &quot;almost certainly&quot; making them sick&quot;, which makes a lot more sense than the submission title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>i67vw3</author><text>France an EU country (just next to germany) where cannilabism happened and then the cannibal was literally walking free in another country for decades until he died naturally.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Issei_Sagawa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Issei_Sagawa</a></text></comment> |
15,851,831 | 15,851,108 | 1 | 2 | 15,849,297 | train | <story><title>The compelling case for working less</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171204-the-compelling-case-for-working-a-lot-less</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spearchucker</author><text>Age fixes that. Used to feel much the same. Now (approaching 50) I just couldn&#x27;t give a shit anymore. A friend I&#x27;ve grown distant from over the last 4 years or so bought a 911 GT3 RS last year. And suddenly I hear from him. And I marvel at the waste. Purchases like that are meaningful on only two days - the day you buy it, and the day you sell it. I think a mid-20&#x27;s me might&#x27;ve liked a car like that for the sex it could get me.<p>Making more money than me is great. Really. If making more money than me is important to you I KNOW I&#x27;m having more fun than you are. Somehow, somewhere in the last 5 years or so I&#x27;ve become content. I scratch-build model cars now in my spare time, and that&#x27;s where I compete - with myself. Crazy fulfilling.</text></item><item><author>kough</author><text>&gt; Humans are happy if they are relatively well off compared to what they know.<p>This is super true. I&#x27;ve been congratulating myself all month on my new job, paying me BIG BUCKS, compared to my friends. Well, just found out an old friend of mine also found a new job, getting payed literally twice as much as me. Now I&#x27;m in a funk and it&#x27;s irrational and stupid but I can&#x27;t help but look at the same number in a totally different way.</text></item><item><author>spyckie2</author><text>I&#x27;m convinced that our decision for how much effort to exert on work is not governed by the rational part of our brain. It&#x27;s part primal - fear of insecurity and belonging to a social structure - part ego - accomplishment as confirmation of existence and your salary as a concrete number to compare favorably to others - and part culture and habit.<p>I also think overwork is a byproduct of a globally connected society. Humans are happy if they are relatively well off compared to what they know. With smaller societies, we know less and thus expect less from ourselves and our situations. But it becomes more difficult to remain this way as small societies get replaced with large social networks.<p>As a small example, you can be having a great life one day and feel woefully underpaid the next, and the only thing that has changed is your knowledge that in the valley, people get paid twice the amount you do in the UK.<p>I believe we need a generational understanding, acceptance, and appropriation of some of the unintended side effects of modern society.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>Age can both help fix the problem of feeling well-off and exacerbate it.<p>It&#x27;s easy to be among the top in something in the little group that a kid in high school is exposed to. Even in a big district, there are enough things to be good at that you can be the best at something esoteric. Then you go to a good college for that thing, and come in thinking you&#x27;re all that, and suddenly realize that you&#x27;re average. But college exposes you to the fact that there are innumerable niches in that thing, and you can pick one and be among the best at that niche from your graduating class. You then go off to work, thinking you&#x27;re hot stuff with your new top-of-the-line special credentials, and think you know more than everyone else in your field. Surprise: You don&#x27;t. You meet someone who&#x27;s been in the field for 30 years and can solve the special problems that you&#x27;re uniquely good at in their sleep. And that guy has someone he calls when he can&#x27;t figure something out.<p>It&#x27;s sort of like looking for records in a baseball game: There are so many possible records to set and precedents to break, that there&#x27;s something new for the announcers to go on about in most every game. There&#x27;s a lot of room to be unique, special, and valuable.</text></comment> | <story><title>The compelling case for working less</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171204-the-compelling-case-for-working-a-lot-less</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spearchucker</author><text>Age fixes that. Used to feel much the same. Now (approaching 50) I just couldn&#x27;t give a shit anymore. A friend I&#x27;ve grown distant from over the last 4 years or so bought a 911 GT3 RS last year. And suddenly I hear from him. And I marvel at the waste. Purchases like that are meaningful on only two days - the day you buy it, and the day you sell it. I think a mid-20&#x27;s me might&#x27;ve liked a car like that for the sex it could get me.<p>Making more money than me is great. Really. If making more money than me is important to you I KNOW I&#x27;m having more fun than you are. Somehow, somewhere in the last 5 years or so I&#x27;ve become content. I scratch-build model cars now in my spare time, and that&#x27;s where I compete - with myself. Crazy fulfilling.</text></item><item><author>kough</author><text>&gt; Humans are happy if they are relatively well off compared to what they know.<p>This is super true. I&#x27;ve been congratulating myself all month on my new job, paying me BIG BUCKS, compared to my friends. Well, just found out an old friend of mine also found a new job, getting payed literally twice as much as me. Now I&#x27;m in a funk and it&#x27;s irrational and stupid but I can&#x27;t help but look at the same number in a totally different way.</text></item><item><author>spyckie2</author><text>I&#x27;m convinced that our decision for how much effort to exert on work is not governed by the rational part of our brain. It&#x27;s part primal - fear of insecurity and belonging to a social structure - part ego - accomplishment as confirmation of existence and your salary as a concrete number to compare favorably to others - and part culture and habit.<p>I also think overwork is a byproduct of a globally connected society. Humans are happy if they are relatively well off compared to what they know. With smaller societies, we know less and thus expect less from ourselves and our situations. But it becomes more difficult to remain this way as small societies get replaced with large social networks.<p>As a small example, you can be having a great life one day and feel woefully underpaid the next, and the only thing that has changed is your knowledge that in the valley, people get paid twice the amount you do in the UK.<p>I believe we need a generational understanding, acceptance, and appropriation of some of the unintended side effects of modern society.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>funnelsgun</author><text>I&#x27;d argue that a 911 GT3 RS is not a waste. I would love to own a GT3, let alone a GT3 RS. Most GT3 RS owners are motorsport lovers, and use their GT3 RS for its true purpose. Motorsport and track events are also a great place to make new friends, as are organized road trips to incredible places in the world such as the PetrolHead tours.</text></comment> |
22,650,742 | 22,650,767 | 1 | 3 | 22,650,545 | train | <story><title>Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/stop-the-coronavirus-corporate-coup</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomerico</author><text>The UK proposal is a surprisingly effective way to handle this. By paying paying workers a percentage of their wage directly, you are protecting both the workers, and the companies that can now cut their costs by moving a large portion of their workforce to “unpaid” leave guilt free. This method is essentially designed to minimize damage and allow for a fast rebound once the restrictions are removed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup</title><url>https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/stop-the-coronavirus-corporate-coup</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raidicy</author><text>I am very inexperienced and uneducated in matters like these. Is what this post is describing a real possibility?</text></comment> |
38,901,874 | 38,901,849 | 1 | 2 | 38,900,197 | train | <story><title>The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI</title><url>https://katedowninglaw.com/2024/01/06/the-new-york-times-launches-a-very-strong-case-against-microsoft-and-openai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>Why doesn&#x27;t Google need licensing to scrape and reproduce NYT snippets in their results? OpenAI doesn&#x27;t even quote the sources its consumed to produce it&#x27;s output. It seems totally fair use to me. Any given content site has authors that read stuff that is copyrighted and produce their own take.</text></item><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>I assume you&#x27;re unfamiliar with anonymous sources - said &quot;a person familiar with the matter.&quot;<p>The issue isn&#x27;t usefulness, and it isn&#x27;t even objective quality. News outlets are primarily about opinion forming and marketing, not about absolute truthfulness.<p>This is a simple corporate fight about the value of that IP.<p>The NYT wants a licensing deal, and it&#x27;s likely to get one.<p>That&#x27;s all.</text></item><item><author>throwaway4aday</author><text>A model that possesses the entire collective knowledge of our civilization is useless if it can&#x27;t directly quote its sources.<p>If we enforce the behavior of <i>always</i> paraphrasing and synthesizing the information before returning it even in cases where the exact quote is asked for then that is a failure.<p>The correct solution is to make the model capable of<p>1) quoting directly<p>2) identifying and then indicating when its output is a direct quote<p>3) citing the source of the identified quote<p>while still retaining the ability to paraphrase and synthesize those sources when appropriate. These requirements are what humans are held to and should also be applied to commercial AI models. Models that are not intended for commercial use should be exempt and at this point there isn&#x27;t really a way to hold them to such requirements anyways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>When I worked on something related-enough a few jobs ago, I was surprised when our legal dept said that google (and pinterest) generally <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> have a legal leg to stand on with regards to that kind of thing, but since they link to the thing they&#x27;re quoting&#x2F;copying, they have a relatively symbiotic relationship. If you sue google into delisting you, you end up with less traffic, so you don&#x27;t sue.</text></comment> | <story><title>The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI</title><url>https://katedowninglaw.com/2024/01/06/the-new-york-times-launches-a-very-strong-case-against-microsoft-and-openai/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>Why doesn&#x27;t Google need licensing to scrape and reproduce NYT snippets in their results? OpenAI doesn&#x27;t even quote the sources its consumed to produce it&#x27;s output. It seems totally fair use to me. Any given content site has authors that read stuff that is copyrighted and produce their own take.</text></item><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>I assume you&#x27;re unfamiliar with anonymous sources - said &quot;a person familiar with the matter.&quot;<p>The issue isn&#x27;t usefulness, and it isn&#x27;t even objective quality. News outlets are primarily about opinion forming and marketing, not about absolute truthfulness.<p>This is a simple corporate fight about the value of that IP.<p>The NYT wants a licensing deal, and it&#x27;s likely to get one.<p>That&#x27;s all.</text></item><item><author>throwaway4aday</author><text>A model that possesses the entire collective knowledge of our civilization is useless if it can&#x27;t directly quote its sources.<p>If we enforce the behavior of <i>always</i> paraphrasing and synthesizing the information before returning it even in cases where the exact quote is asked for then that is a failure.<p>The correct solution is to make the model capable of<p>1) quoting directly<p>2) identifying and then indicating when its output is a direct quote<p>3) citing the source of the identified quote<p>while still retaining the ability to paraphrase and synthesize those sources when appropriate. These requirements are what humans are held to and should also be applied to commercial AI models. Models that are not intended for commercial use should be exempt and at this point there isn&#x27;t really a way to hold them to such requirements anyways.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkjaudyeqooe</author><text>&gt; Why doesn&#x27;t Google need licensing to scrape and reproduce NYT snippets in their results?<p>Because Google established that it was fair use in a court of law.<p>&gt; Any given content site has authors that read stuff that is copyrighted and produce their own take.<p>That&#x27;s fine as long as you&#x27;re human, if you&#x27;re a machine then it&#x27;s a purely mechanical process and subject to copyright.</text></comment> |
21,950,798 | 21,948,319 | 1 | 2 | 21,945,492 | train | <story><title>Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Is-Fry-s-Electronics-in-trouble-Company-denies-14945559.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blantonl</author><text>Answer: of course, yes.<p>When I visited Fry&#x27;s in the DFW area last year (Irving Store off of LBJ freeway) I was shocked at how low energy and sad the place was. It was just one big pile of despair. Just a handful of people were shuffling in and out. They shelves were in complete disrepair, and there were areas where there was no stock on shelves. Computers on display were broken, twisted wrecks. The home theater areas had older model sets and speakers strewn about.<p>It was nothing like the late 90&#x27;s when the place was an absolute zoo, and you could be guaranteed to have every gadget known to man on display. Christmas time at Frys was waiting in a checkout line 100&#x27;s deep. It was a fun time.<p>That last time I visited is the last time I&#x27;ll ever visit. It&#x27;s clear Amazon and online retailing has decimated them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hotsauceror</author><text>Same shocking experience in Austin a few weeks back. Trying to pick up a DisplayPort KVM and a couple of DP cables. This is the big one on MoPac by Opal Devine&#x27;s. I&#x27;d say more than 50% of the shelves were bare, with merchandise strewn about, loose power cables still plugged into outlets. A surprising number of employees but no one was actually doing anything. The computer hardware section looked like a bomb went off. No stock anywhere. But there weren&#x27;t any &quot;Liquidation &#x2F; Going Out Of Business&quot; banners like you&#x27;d normally expect to see in these circumstances.<p>I used to love Fry&#x27;s, they had a great selection for system builders and hobbyists. Although I will say it always had a kind of grim, penitential air to it - all the employees in their black and white outfits and the massive black locked cages behind the rows of registers. It seemed oppressive, like you wouldn&#x27;t be surprised to find out that the managers were beating the cashiers or something.<p>Still, sorry to see it go. I&#x27;ve been disappointed with the other system-builder-oriented place in town who knowingly restock broken merch. I guess it&#x27;s Newegg from here on out!</text></comment> | <story><title>Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?</title><url>https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Is-Fry-s-Electronics-in-trouble-Company-denies-14945559.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blantonl</author><text>Answer: of course, yes.<p>When I visited Fry&#x27;s in the DFW area last year (Irving Store off of LBJ freeway) I was shocked at how low energy and sad the place was. It was just one big pile of despair. Just a handful of people were shuffling in and out. They shelves were in complete disrepair, and there were areas where there was no stock on shelves. Computers on display were broken, twisted wrecks. The home theater areas had older model sets and speakers strewn about.<p>It was nothing like the late 90&#x27;s when the place was an absolute zoo, and you could be guaranteed to have every gadget known to man on display. Christmas time at Frys was waiting in a checkout line 100&#x27;s deep. It was a fun time.<p>That last time I visited is the last time I&#x27;ll ever visit. It&#x27;s clear Amazon and online retailing has decimated them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chasd00</author><text>You should see the Fry&#x27;s on Northwest Hwy near Garland. It&#x27;s almost scary, it has a sketchy bazaar feeling. A couple rows of shelves have just random perfume and colognes. All the televisions and stuff have 1&#x2F;8&quot; of dust on them. It must be more expensive to shut it down than to keep it running.</text></comment> |
19,645,058 | 19,644,118 | 1 | 3 | 19,641,441 | train | <story><title>Apply Unix Principles to Write Testable Microservices</title><url>https://microservices-on-my-mind.blogspot.com/2019/04/break-functional-and-orchestration.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gambler</author><text>In 1997 at OOPSLA Alan Kay said &quot;every object on the internet should have a URL&quot;. The response at that time (and many years afterward) could be generally described as smugnorant mockery. A bunch of smart-asses decided that &quot;it doesn&#x27;t work&quot;, mostly by sharing gossip about CORBA failures, rather than looking into relevant research and experiments.<p>20+ years later we get the same idea presented as some groundbreaking revelation, except it&#x27;s made orders of magnitude more complicated by the virtue of being an ad-hoc accretion of &quot;hip&quot; technologies. All created with zero overarching vision by people who clearly aren&#x27;t even aware of past research or ideas. The crowds applaud - themselves.<p>This is depressing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apply Unix Principles to Write Testable Microservices</title><url>https://microservices-on-my-mind.blogspot.com/2019/04/break-functional-and-orchestration.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>itamarst</author><text>Microservices are an organizational pattern: &quot;we have 500 programmers working on one application, how the hell do we do it.&quot;<p>Solution: break up application into independent projects, each team of developers works on one of them, have extra team that builds tooling to make everyone happy.<p>Using microservices with a small teams is a terrible idea, usually, because you&#x27;re switching to a distributed system when you don&#x27;t need to. And distributed systems are hard to get right. And you&#x27;re not even following the organizational pattern, because you have one team with N microservices.</text></comment> |
35,499,019 | 35,498,408 | 1 | 2 | 35,497,696 | train | <story><title>New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem</title><url>https://keith-mcnulty.medium.com/heres-how-two-new-orleans-teenagers-found-a-new-proof-of-the-pythagorean-theorem-b4f6e7e9ea2d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>I have read about this proof for a bit and this is the first write-up that gives the slightest details. The phrase &quot;using trigonometry&quot; is confusing. What they do is assume functions sine and cosine exist, as normally defined, as ratios of triangle values, without assuming these have the various Pythagorean-theorem derived properties. They then construct an infinite series of nested triangles and use the formula for the sum of geometric series&#x27; to derive the length of the original triangle&#x27;s hypotenuse. It certainly seems clever.<p>I&#x27;m still confused what axioms they&#x27;re effectively using relative to the usual Pythagorean theorem proofs - most of these use the formula for area of a right triangle and this seemingly doesn&#x27;t. On the other hand, it seems an infinite construct would require things like the axiom of induction, which may or may not be included in axiom of axiomatic geometry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonahx</author><text>It&#x27;s a very clever proof.<p>Agreed &quot;using trigonometry&quot; is potentially misleading. After reading the proof, the only 2 senses in which &quot;trignometry&quot; is being used are:<p>1. The term &quot;sin a&quot; is used to denote the ratio opposite &#x2F; hypotenuse. But this can be considered a purely notational convenience. They could have called it &quot;foo a&quot; and nothing would change, or they could have inlined the referred-to ratio everywhere.<p>2. The law of sines is required. But the proof of this law [1] also boils down to nothing more than the ratio definition and some algebra.<p>So afaict no circular logic is being used, but at the same time it doesn&#x27;t seem to be doing anything previously thought to be impossible, unless there was a previous belief that the law of sines could not be used in a proof, which would be a strange belief to hold. I see it simply as a creative, unexpected proof.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4xO8xqLyEbA">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4xO8xqLyEbA</a></text></comment> | <story><title>New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem</title><url>https://keith-mcnulty.medium.com/heres-how-two-new-orleans-teenagers-found-a-new-proof-of-the-pythagorean-theorem-b4f6e7e9ea2d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joe_the_user</author><text>I have read about this proof for a bit and this is the first write-up that gives the slightest details. The phrase &quot;using trigonometry&quot; is confusing. What they do is assume functions sine and cosine exist, as normally defined, as ratios of triangle values, without assuming these have the various Pythagorean-theorem derived properties. They then construct an infinite series of nested triangles and use the formula for the sum of geometric series&#x27; to derive the length of the original triangle&#x27;s hypotenuse. It certainly seems clever.<p>I&#x27;m still confused what axioms they&#x27;re effectively using relative to the usual Pythagorean theorem proofs - most of these use the formula for area of a right triangle and this seemingly doesn&#x27;t. On the other hand, it seems an infinite construct would require things like the axiom of induction, which may or may not be included in axiom of axiomatic geometry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scythe</author><text>Induction isn&#x27;t so bad. I&#x27;m not sure how they&#x27;re getting away with the Law of Sines, though. The usual proof of LoS that I know is dependent on the existence of the circumcircle. But I don&#x27;t know how to prove the existence of the circumcircle without dragging in a lot of geometry. Or you can use the area formula, which makes the proof similar to other arguments that use the area formula.</text></comment> |
37,315,373 | 37,314,997 | 1 | 3 | 37,313,349 | train | <story><title>ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CM30</author><text>I agree, we&#x27;ve got far too many entities that should just be &#x27;dumb pipes&#x27; trying to play moral police at the moment, and it&#x27;s a very worrying situation when it comes to free speech on the internet. Cloudflare is an often brought up example, as are payment processors like Visa and Mastercard and app stores like the iOS and Play Stores, but ISPs trying to block traffic for a site that&#x27;s not actually illegal feels like a step even further than that.<p>It feels like private companies are de facto writing the laws about what&#x27;s allowed online and in society right now, and that it&#x27;s almost become a loophole for censoring free speech on a whim.<p>And while the site in question here is ethically bankrupt in basically every way, it doesn&#x27;t seem too far fetched to assume the same thing could (and potentially will) happen for sites many more people agree with because someone&#x2F;some group at an ISP doesn&#x27;t like them or think they should be accessible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gorwell</author><text>That&#x27;s right. Authoritarian censors found an exploit. They couldn&#x27;t use the government to clamp down on civil liberties because of the pesky constitution, so they invaded the administrative layer of big tech. It&#x27;s not the engineers who built the web and these companies with Silicon Valley ideals. They were never intended to be used this way and are secretly horrified.<p>&gt; play moral police at the moment<p>Moral fashion police</text></comment> | <story><title>ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CM30</author><text>I agree, we&#x27;ve got far too many entities that should just be &#x27;dumb pipes&#x27; trying to play moral police at the moment, and it&#x27;s a very worrying situation when it comes to free speech on the internet. Cloudflare is an often brought up example, as are payment processors like Visa and Mastercard and app stores like the iOS and Play Stores, but ISPs trying to block traffic for a site that&#x27;s not actually illegal feels like a step even further than that.<p>It feels like private companies are de facto writing the laws about what&#x27;s allowed online and in society right now, and that it&#x27;s almost become a loophole for censoring free speech on a whim.<p>And while the site in question here is ethically bankrupt in basically every way, it doesn&#x27;t seem too far fetched to assume the same thing could (and potentially will) happen for sites many more people agree with because someone&#x2F;some group at an ISP doesn&#x27;t like them or think they should be accessible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yanderekko</author><text>At least payment providers can plausibly point to financial risks and legal concerns as why they engage in what comes off as moral policing. It&#x27;s pretty clear that any similar claim on HE&#x27;s part would be pretextual.<p>&gt;It feels like private companies are de facto writing the laws about what&#x27;s allowed online and in society right now, and that it&#x27;s almost become a loophole for censoring free speech on a whim.<p>&quot;Feels like&quot;? This is clearly embraced as a necessary step to preserve democracy by a small-but-powerful segment of population.</text></comment> |
17,704,248 | 17,704,101 | 1 | 2 | 17,696,281 | train | <story><title>Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs</title><url>https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rapnie</author><text>There is an interesting paper on using DID in combination with ActivityPub [0] presented in the &#x27;Rebooting the Web-of-Trust&#x27; [1] event in Fall 2017.<p>&gt; ActivityPub implementations at the present moment rely on HTTPS as their transport, which in turn relies on two centralized systems: DNS and SSL certificate authorities. Is there any way to bring self-sovereignty to the federated social web?<p>&gt; Thankfully there is; ActivityPub was written intentionally to be layerable on any protocol that can support HTTP GET and POST verbs. The Decentralized Identifiers specification looks to be a good fit for ActivityPub.<p>[..]<p>&gt; Here we see an example of Alyssa&#x27;s profile that is entirely free of traditional centralized DNS authorities. We were able to look up Alyssa&#x27;s object via her DID, but we still have access to all her endpoints, which in this case are pointing to Tor Hidden Services. No central DNS required!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebOfTrustInfo&#x2F;rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;topics-and-advance-readings&#x2F;activitypub-decentralized-distributed.md#distributed-identity" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WebOfTrustInfo&#x2F;rebooting-the-web-of-trust...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.weboftrust.info&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.weboftrust.info&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs</title><url>https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>saurik</author><text>This is really annoying as the technical term for the identifier of a phone number--one of the most prototypical centralized identifiers--is also a &quot;DID&quot;: a Direct Inward Dialing (number, but we don&#x27;t say &quot;number&quot;). So now &quot;in the future, people won&#x27;t tell each other their DID to let people call them, they will give them their DID&quot; :&#x2F;.</text></comment> |
1,984,991 | 1,984,843 | 1 | 3 | 1,984,456 | train | <story><title>I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qt0z/ln_s_d1_d2_am_i_the_only_person_who_gets_this_the</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>terra_t</author><text>I used to have this problem. Then I realized that if I want to really copy a file, I type<p>$cp file_from file_to<p>and that<p>$ln -s link_from link_to<p>has a very similar effect to the cp command above. I haven't messed this up ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jackowayed</author><text>This phrasing confused me more.<p>`$ ln -s link_from link_to` would imply the reverse behavior. How does a symlink point from the actual file to the thing-that-looks-like-a-file-but-is-really-a-symlink? The file doesn't even know whether there are symlinks pointing to it.<p>Applying your definitions of "link from" and "link to", this:<p>&#60;a href="<a href="http://google.com/&#62;Google&#60;/a&#62" rel="nofollow">http://google.com/&#62;Google&#60;/a&#62</a>;<p>creates a link from google.com to the hyperlink on your site.<p>I find the top reddit comment:<p><pre><code> cp existing new
ln -s existing new
</code></pre>
much, much more useful. You want to create a new link pointing to an existing file, which has the same ordering as when you use cp to create a new file with the content of an existing file.</text></comment> | <story><title>I always forget the argument order of the `ln -s` command</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qt0z/ln_s_d1_d2_am_i_the_only_person_who_gets_this_the</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>terra_t</author><text>I used to have this problem. Then I realized that if I want to really copy a file, I type<p>$cp file_from file_to<p>and that<p>$ln -s link_from link_to<p>has a very similar effect to the cp command above. I haven't messed this up ever since.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brown9-2</author><text>The problem with "from" and "to" is - which is the from and which is the to?<p>Is the "from" the file/dir I want to copy "to" a link?<p>Or is the "from" the name of a link I want to point "to"?<p>The dual meaning of some terms that the concept of links and making links creates causes a lot of this confusion, IMHO. Are we using terminology that refers to the act of creating the link or that refers to the direction of the link?<p>Similarly, I don't think it helps that the usage text and manpage for ln refer to "target"s.<p>(I know what you mean by your examples but I wanted to share my pet theory as to why this is always so hard to remember)</text></comment> |
21,875,089 | 21,875,003 | 1 | 3 | 21,874,549 | train | <story><title>Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%</title><url>https://nuadox.com/post/189850038527/co2-trucks-emission</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gus_massa</author><text>This is too complicated and I&#x27;m not convinced, but the research paper has more details that make more sense that the short press release <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frontiersin.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.3389&#x2F;fenrg.2019.00143&#x2F;full" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.frontiersin.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;10.3389&#x2F;fenrg.2019.0014...</a><p>They don&#x27;t use the collected CO2 to make diesel fuel, they make methane. Some trucks may use methane as fuel.<p>IIUC they don&#x27;t expect every gas station to have a converted from CO2 to fuel, but to have the conversion in the operational bases of the trucks, or collect it and send it to a specialized facility.<p>They use the heat from the exhaust gases to power the device, the calculations are in the paper.<p>They say that in other projects, they use the same heat of the exhaust gases to improve the efficiency of the fuel in a 10%. So this is not totally &quot;free&quot;.<p>How does this compare to releasing the CO2 (and getting a 10% of efficiency) and collecting the CO2 from the air in a central location?<p>How does this compare to using Hydrogen as fuel? I guess the difference is that most of this technology is buildable now, but Hydrogen storage is too difficult for now.<p>How does this compare with a electric truck? I guess this system gives more autonomy, but all the chemical reactions to convert the CO2 to methane are less efficient that good batteries.</text></comment> | <story><title>Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%</title><url>https://nuadox.com/post/189850038527/co2-trucks-emission</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blunte</author><text>Their technology aside, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a good idea to put 7% of their vehicle payload on the roof. That would measurably elevate the center of gravity, which is not ideal for any vehicle that turns.</text></comment> |
9,202,082 | 9,202,046 | 1 | 2 | 9,201,644 | train | <story><title>Reasons not to use Facebook</title><url>https://stallman.org/facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joeyspn</author><text>Here&#x27;s a funny one: Stallman came to my uni to give a speech to CompSci alumni 10 years ago, and he told the audience that he didn&#x27;t own a cellphone, cos phones were being used to track people. He also talked about the backdoors in several OS&#x27;s. Everybody was laughing at his words. We&#x27;re talking 10 years ago.<p>Few months ago remembering this speech with old uni mates we talked about how damn right that excentric man was. He saw it coming, and tried to warn everybody... Maybe he&#x27;s a bit of an &quot;extremist&quot;, but he certainly has a point.</text></item><item><author>MCRed</author><text>Can you give an example?<p>For instance, I was aware of Stallman in the 1980s, read his writings back then, didn&#x27;t think they were correct, and the future he predicted has not come to be. Yes there are some of us who are that old. Specifically, he said that without the virility of his license, there would be no free&#x2F;open source software and that all software would be locked down and proprietary.<p>The entire open source movement is a disproof of stallman&#x27;s position from that period.<p>He has repeatedly claimed that companies won&#x27;t contribute to open source, and so you have to force them to with the GNU license, and yet history has disproven this one.<p>Given that this is pretty much the central tenant of his ideology, and it has been markedly disproven over the past 30 years, I too wonder why people listen to him.</text></item><item><author>kragen</author><text>People value Stallman’s opinions on these matters so highly because he has a remarkable history of being right about them ten or fifteen years before it becomes clear to everyone else that he was right, and he takes the risk of saying what he sees even when it will offend people. In fact, that’s why he’s famous; he’s certainly a good hacker, but the world has quite a number of good hackers who aren’t famous because they didn’t notice the <i>political</i> and <i>social</i> aspects of what they were doing the way Stallman did.<p>I am not going to bother to rebut your examples in detail, but I will say that I seriously doubt that you were present when Facebook decided on its names policy or that you have much access to information about what effects it has had, and you seem to think companies didn’t exist before 1995.</text></item><item><author>paulsecwhatt</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t understand why people value Stallman&#x27;s opinions on these matters so highly. I completely disagree with him on essentially everything he writes about these topics.<p>Granted, he&#x27;s an incredible programmer who contributed immensely to the development of our modern operating systems and the tools we use, and people here love to bring that up (&quot;what - you DON&#x27;T KNOW WHO STALLMAN IS? SHAME? HOW DARE YOU CRITICISE HIM?&quot;)<p>Does this make his opinion on Facebook or privacy or freedom any more correct or valid? No.<p>Just like I wouldn&#x27;t listen to Usain Bolt if he were trying to teach me the biological mechanisms behind doping, I can&#x27;t see why Stallman&#x27;s opinion is considered so correct in these matters.<p>IMO his ramblings about personal liberties and freedom being infringed by everything under the sun from Amazon to Google to Facebook are oversimplified and childish. The world isn&#x27;t black and white and he obviously fails to understand the entire point behind many of these companies. When Facebook makes you use a real name it&#x27;s not because theres some &quot;Mr. Evil&quot; at the top level plotting to steal your freedom, it&#x27;s because it leads to a better working social network.<p>Just his description of AirBnB is ridiculous: &quot;Airbnb requires you to run nonfree software (an app, or Javascript). It puts you in a data base easily available to Big Brother (just like a hotel).&quot;<p>That&#x27;s an immensely stupid argument, because any _viable_ company that wants to provide a service that a consumer other than Stallman himself will use will &quot;infringe&quot; on those two idiotic requirements.<p>TL;DR. Just because he did something amazing in one field&#x2F;area, doesn&#x27;t mean he is not spewing complete BS. For a similar example, see: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/01/dna-james-watson-scientist-selling-nobel-prize-medal" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2014&#x2F;dec&#x2F;01&#x2F;dna-jam...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_nedR</author><text>This, exactly.<p>Stallman is taking a stand here. We might think that he is a dangerous extremist for his actions and stances (Not using proprietary software, mobile phones, javascript-enabled websites). But what he is actually doing is sacrificing his life to make his points (which are for the most part completely valid). I would guess, even he knows that most of his ideals are impractical in today&#x27;s world, but he is walking the walk and planting the flag firmly, saying this is &quot;How thing should be&quot;.<p>The difference between a crackpot and a visionary is that what the visionary says make more sense as time passes. IMO, Stallman&#x27;s track record is infallible in this regard.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reasons not to use Facebook</title><url>https://stallman.org/facebook.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joeyspn</author><text>Here&#x27;s a funny one: Stallman came to my uni to give a speech to CompSci alumni 10 years ago, and he told the audience that he didn&#x27;t own a cellphone, cos phones were being used to track people. He also talked about the backdoors in several OS&#x27;s. Everybody was laughing at his words. We&#x27;re talking 10 years ago.<p>Few months ago remembering this speech with old uni mates we talked about how damn right that excentric man was. He saw it coming, and tried to warn everybody... Maybe he&#x27;s a bit of an &quot;extremist&quot;, but he certainly has a point.</text></item><item><author>MCRed</author><text>Can you give an example?<p>For instance, I was aware of Stallman in the 1980s, read his writings back then, didn&#x27;t think they were correct, and the future he predicted has not come to be. Yes there are some of us who are that old. Specifically, he said that without the virility of his license, there would be no free&#x2F;open source software and that all software would be locked down and proprietary.<p>The entire open source movement is a disproof of stallman&#x27;s position from that period.<p>He has repeatedly claimed that companies won&#x27;t contribute to open source, and so you have to force them to with the GNU license, and yet history has disproven this one.<p>Given that this is pretty much the central tenant of his ideology, and it has been markedly disproven over the past 30 years, I too wonder why people listen to him.</text></item><item><author>kragen</author><text>People value Stallman’s opinions on these matters so highly because he has a remarkable history of being right about them ten or fifteen years before it becomes clear to everyone else that he was right, and he takes the risk of saying what he sees even when it will offend people. In fact, that’s why he’s famous; he’s certainly a good hacker, but the world has quite a number of good hackers who aren’t famous because they didn’t notice the <i>political</i> and <i>social</i> aspects of what they were doing the way Stallman did.<p>I am not going to bother to rebut your examples in detail, but I will say that I seriously doubt that you were present when Facebook decided on its names policy or that you have much access to information about what effects it has had, and you seem to think companies didn’t exist before 1995.</text></item><item><author>paulsecwhatt</author><text>I honestly don&#x27;t understand why people value Stallman&#x27;s opinions on these matters so highly. I completely disagree with him on essentially everything he writes about these topics.<p>Granted, he&#x27;s an incredible programmer who contributed immensely to the development of our modern operating systems and the tools we use, and people here love to bring that up (&quot;what - you DON&#x27;T KNOW WHO STALLMAN IS? SHAME? HOW DARE YOU CRITICISE HIM?&quot;)<p>Does this make his opinion on Facebook or privacy or freedom any more correct or valid? No.<p>Just like I wouldn&#x27;t listen to Usain Bolt if he were trying to teach me the biological mechanisms behind doping, I can&#x27;t see why Stallman&#x27;s opinion is considered so correct in these matters.<p>IMO his ramblings about personal liberties and freedom being infringed by everything under the sun from Amazon to Google to Facebook are oversimplified and childish. The world isn&#x27;t black and white and he obviously fails to understand the entire point behind many of these companies. When Facebook makes you use a real name it&#x27;s not because theres some &quot;Mr. Evil&quot; at the top level plotting to steal your freedom, it&#x27;s because it leads to a better working social network.<p>Just his description of AirBnB is ridiculous: &quot;Airbnb requires you to run nonfree software (an app, or Javascript). It puts you in a data base easily available to Big Brother (just like a hotel).&quot;<p>That&#x27;s an immensely stupid argument, because any _viable_ company that wants to provide a service that a consumer other than Stallman himself will use will &quot;infringe&quot; on those two idiotic requirements.<p>TL;DR. Just because he did something amazing in one field&#x2F;area, doesn&#x27;t mean he is not spewing complete BS. For a similar example, see: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/01/dna-james-watson-scientist-selling-nobel-prize-medal" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2014&#x2F;dec&#x2F;01&#x2F;dna-jam...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ak</author><text>Of course phones were used to track people 10 years ago. And it wasn&#x27;t even a secret. Location-based services were the hot shit back then for mobile carriers (at least in Europe).<p>Making that to be a big conspiracy to infringe upon everybody&#x27;s freedom and privacy is what makes Stallman&#x27;s position so ridiculous. It always sounds like the rambling of a technophobic. No, that&#x27;s not entirely true. Like the rambling of an old man who wants computing and technology in general to be exactly like it was in the 70&#x27;s when he was sharing a mainframe with his pals at uni, and who can&#x27;t think of anything more innovative than that.</text></comment> |
38,332,272 | 38,331,562 | 1 | 2 | 38,326,242 | train | <story><title>Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)</title><url>https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2021/03/22/why-arent-motherboards-mostly-usb-c-by-now/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onetimeuse92304</author><text>The insertion cycles are only for <i>proper</i> insertion. Like when you are looking at it and doing it at a correct angle.<p>Also, rated lifetime does not take into account things like tugging the cable to the side of your PC because your foot got tangled in it.<p>USB C is extremely fragile due to its size and not much can be done to help it.<p>USB C might be created to withstand more insertion cycles. After all it is meant to be used for devices like phones that are plugged in and out constantly. Part of this improvement is just more experience creating connectors (yes, connectors got much better in the past decades).<p>A cable connected to a back of PC is not being constantly plugged in and out. Nobody I know is plugging in their keyboard or mouse multiple times a day.<p>--<p>When I design my boards, I put connectors that match the size of the board. I don&#x27;t put extremely tiny connectors on a very large and massive project. I want a connector that isn&#x27;t too fragile for the project and this means matching it with the forces that you can expect.<p>We, humans, use different forces when around large objects than when we are around small objects.<p>Large PC standing on your desk means forces used around it will be potentially larger than forces around a small appliance like a phone. If you tug on a cable that is hooked up to the phone, only small force is needed to move the phone. And we are usually more careful around a small appliance like phone. If you tug on a cable that is hooked up to a PC, much larger force will be needed before you move the PC. And people are less careful and using larger forces when doing things around a PC -- a larger object than a phone.</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Interestingly enough, they&#x27;re specced the opposite way.<p>&gt; Standard USB has a minimum rated lifetime of 1,500 cycles of insertion and removal, the Mini-USB receptacle increased this to 5,000 cycles, and the newer Micro-USB and USB-C receptacles are both designed for a minimum rated lifetime of 10,000 cycles of insertion and removal. [1]<p>&gt; To accomplish this, a locking device was added and the leaf-spring was moved from the jack to the plug, so that the most-stressed part is on the cable side of the connection. This change was made so that the connector on the less expensive cable would bear the most wear. [1]<p>I suspect that would make it the responsibility of the cable, not the receptacle, to give you that satisfying feedback. Which is good, because the cable is much cheaper and easier to replace than the receptacle.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;USB_hardware" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;USB_hardware</a></text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>My experience has shown that USB C connectors are far more fragile than A, and every time I plug one in, for some reason the fit just feels vague and unsatisfying. An A plug, when you get it the right way, slides in solidly. As others have mentioned, C seems to have been designed to be the smallest possible, which makes sense for mobile devices, but not for a desktop and its peripherals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arghwhat</author><text>Funny you say that, I can tell from family experience that USB type A ports are quite fragile to a vertical tug as it breaks the internal plastic bar at its base so you&#x27;re left with a hole full of floating copper pins. It of course requires more than a light tug, but less than you&#x27;d think.<p>The USB-C housing is much more rigid than that of type A, so it should handle this much better. The thinner bar might also handle deflection better by virtue of flexibility.<p>Also, hardware engineers know that ports are operated by drunk gorillas. Incorrect usage and odd forces are considered when designing a physical interface.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)</title><url>https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2021/03/22/why-arent-motherboards-mostly-usb-c-by-now/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onetimeuse92304</author><text>The insertion cycles are only for <i>proper</i> insertion. Like when you are looking at it and doing it at a correct angle.<p>Also, rated lifetime does not take into account things like tugging the cable to the side of your PC because your foot got tangled in it.<p>USB C is extremely fragile due to its size and not much can be done to help it.<p>USB C might be created to withstand more insertion cycles. After all it is meant to be used for devices like phones that are plugged in and out constantly. Part of this improvement is just more experience creating connectors (yes, connectors got much better in the past decades).<p>A cable connected to a back of PC is not being constantly plugged in and out. Nobody I know is plugging in their keyboard or mouse multiple times a day.<p>--<p>When I design my boards, I put connectors that match the size of the board. I don&#x27;t put extremely tiny connectors on a very large and massive project. I want a connector that isn&#x27;t too fragile for the project and this means matching it with the forces that you can expect.<p>We, humans, use different forces when around large objects than when we are around small objects.<p>Large PC standing on your desk means forces used around it will be potentially larger than forces around a small appliance like a phone. If you tug on a cable that is hooked up to the phone, only small force is needed to move the phone. And we are usually more careful around a small appliance like phone. If you tug on a cable that is hooked up to a PC, much larger force will be needed before you move the PC. And people are less careful and using larger forces when doing things around a PC -- a larger object than a phone.</text></item><item><author>arcticbull</author><text>Interestingly enough, they&#x27;re specced the opposite way.<p>&gt; Standard USB has a minimum rated lifetime of 1,500 cycles of insertion and removal, the Mini-USB receptacle increased this to 5,000 cycles, and the newer Micro-USB and USB-C receptacles are both designed for a minimum rated lifetime of 10,000 cycles of insertion and removal. [1]<p>&gt; To accomplish this, a locking device was added and the leaf-spring was moved from the jack to the plug, so that the most-stressed part is on the cable side of the connection. This change was made so that the connector on the less expensive cable would bear the most wear. [1]<p>I suspect that would make it the responsibility of the cable, not the receptacle, to give you that satisfying feedback. Which is good, because the cable is much cheaper and easier to replace than the receptacle.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;USB_hardware" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;USB_hardware</a></text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>My experience has shown that USB C connectors are far more fragile than A, and every time I plug one in, for some reason the fit just feels vague and unsatisfying. An A plug, when you get it the right way, slides in solidly. As others have mentioned, C seems to have been designed to be the smallest possible, which makes sense for mobile devices, but not for a desktop and its peripherals.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kalium-xyz</author><text>Once you accidentally insert the usb c cable into the wrong port and short out your mobo you start Inserting it properly and start fearing it :&#x2F;</text></comment> |
15,243,719 | 15,243,644 | 1 | 3 | 15,242,498 | train | <story><title>Why category theory matters in programming</title><url>https://tech.iheart.com/f585d17b01d3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ebola1717</author><text>Eh, as someone who works in scala day-to-day, and has studied actual category theory, I think the emphasis on category theory itself is silly. And in fact, most of the time, more category theory and more monads will make your code worse (e.g. MonadTransformers are D: )<p>Future, which is really a souped up promise abstraction, is the main star, and for-comprehensions are nice syntactic sugar. Being a &quot;Monad&quot; doesn&#x27;t help you do anything with it though. And Future technically doesn&#x27;t even truly obey the Monad laws, because of exceptions.<p>It&#x27;s useful that a couple of container classes in scala use implement this trait:<p><pre><code> trait ChainableContainer[A] {
def map(fn: A =&gt; B): ChainableContainer[B]
def flatten(nested: ChainableContainer[ChainableContainer[A]]):ChainableContainer
}
</code></pre>
But beyond making it a little easier to guess what&#x27;s going on, the underlying math isn&#x27;t useful in actual programming.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why category theory matters in programming</title><url>https://tech.iheart.com/f585d17b01d3</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LolWolf</author><text>Category theory is fine, I guess, but there&#x27;s no need to invoke a sledge-hammer when talking about 99% of most work here.<p>It&#x27;s a little like saying, yes, fine we can reference the hyperreals to derive infinitesimal calculus in a beautiful way, but it&#x27;s mostly abstract and highly involved, even to just understand the foundational aspects (which one may argue is the case for normal calculus, but the notion of local linearity I believe is much more obvious than an extension to the reals). Though it&#x27;s a nice academic exercise, which may even yield some insights, it&#x27;s rather obscure and unintuitive for almost all purposes.<p>This is the way I view category theory and functional programming; though I&#x27;d love to be corrected if I&#x27;m wrong. There&#x27;s no need to invoke almost all of it, since most things can be expressed quite clearly in the language of set theory need there be rigour.</text></comment> |
33,823,472 | 33,823,082 | 1 | 2 | 33,820,575 | train | <story><title>Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet</title><url>https://twitter.com/coinbasewallet/status/1598354819735031809</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>See, this is your problem. Abhorrent business practices can exist alongside great products, just look at Nestle. Nothing will excuse them for pumping freshwater out of inland lakes, or paying for paramilitary organizations to oppress their slave labor camps. It just means that people are fine eating Hershey Bars without thinking about the child labor that made their chocolate.</text></item><item><author>shepherdjerred</author><text>Apple still makes great products. Nothing can beat a MacBook (especially the new ones), AirPods work pretty well. Many (most?) people that use iPhones or Apple Watches love them.</text></item><item><author>p0pcult</author><text>&quot;If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company&#x27;s not any more successful.<p>So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product.&quot;<p>-Steve Jobs</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mort96</author><text>So, p0pcult cited with a Steve Jobs quote which, in this context, can only be understood to mean, &quot;Apple is becoming&#x2F;has become a company where sales and marketing people are running the companies, and the product quality is suffering for it&quot;. shepherdjerred points out that the product quality is still extremely high, so the quote doesn&#x27;t seem apt.<p>&quot;Apple makes some good products but is evil&quot; is valid criticism of Apple, which shepherdjerred hasn&#x27;t disagreed with. &quot;Apple is making bad products these days because they are lead by marketing and sales people&quot; isn&#x27;t valid criticism of Apple (in shepherdjerred&#x27;s, and my, opinion).</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet</title><url>https://twitter.com/coinbasewallet/status/1598354819735031809</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>See, this is your problem. Abhorrent business practices can exist alongside great products, just look at Nestle. Nothing will excuse them for pumping freshwater out of inland lakes, or paying for paramilitary organizations to oppress their slave labor camps. It just means that people are fine eating Hershey Bars without thinking about the child labor that made their chocolate.</text></item><item><author>shepherdjerred</author><text>Apple still makes great products. Nothing can beat a MacBook (especially the new ones), AirPods work pretty well. Many (most?) people that use iPhones or Apple Watches love them.</text></item><item><author>p0pcult</author><text>&quot;If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company&#x27;s not any more successful.<p>So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product.&quot;<p>-Steve Jobs</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lotsofpulp</author><text>I was expecting a Nestle product in your last sentence.<p>Also, pretty sure effectively all chocolate benefits from child labor because of where cocoa trees are located.</text></comment> |
9,749,810 | 9,749,645 | 1 | 2 | 9,749,117 | train | <story><title>Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their blood saves someone's life</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blood-donors-in-sweden-get-a-text-message-whenever-someone-is-helped-with-their-blood-10310101.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fabiandesimone</author><text>I always thought about this about taxes.<p>If you could choose from a list of projects a la Kickstarter where YOU choose where your taxes go to, I&#x27;m sure people would not only feel better about taxes in general but would allow them to get involved in said projects.</text></item><item><author>AriaMinaei</author><text>This could work not just for donating blood, but for pretty much any kind of service.<p>Imagine if you could see, in real time, how your job affects other people&#x27;s lives, even in the most mundane way. It would let you see the value of what you do, and give you a reason to do it better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oadam</author><text>Some countries in EU have 2% of income tax support, i.e. If you are a tax payer in Lithuania and would like to support the development of non-profit&#x2F;school&#x2F;academy or sport club, you can do so by transferring 2% of your income tax to the administrating enterprise. And you can change&#x2F;donate it every year.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blood donors in Sweden get a text message when their blood saves someone's life</title><url>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/blood-donors-in-sweden-get-a-text-message-whenever-someone-is-helped-with-their-blood-10310101.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fabiandesimone</author><text>I always thought about this about taxes.<p>If you could choose from a list of projects a la Kickstarter where YOU choose where your taxes go to, I&#x27;m sure people would not only feel better about taxes in general but would allow them to get involved in said projects.</text></item><item><author>AriaMinaei</author><text>This could work not just for donating blood, but for pretty much any kind of service.<p>Imagine if you could see, in real time, how your job affects other people&#x27;s lives, even in the most mundane way. It would let you see the value of what you do, and give you a reason to do it better.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danieltillett</author><text>The problem with this approach is the areas of need rarely aligns with areas of desire. What happens to those areas that need resources that nobody really cares about?</text></comment> |
19,791,519 | 19,791,344 | 1 | 3 | 19,785,560 | train | <story><title>Vancouver Airport blocking ads with information on travellers’ privacy rights</title><url>https://globalnews.ca/news/5203960/yvr-rejects-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickS</author><text>Good idea, bad approach. &quot;Your phone isn&#x27;t safe at the border&quot; might be a hard fact but it&#x27;s nonetheless an intentionally divisive expression of that sentiment. It&#x27;s ambiguous, fearmongering.... facts can be clickbait, and this is one such case.<p>If the ads said &quot;You can be legally compelled to X, even if Y. Learn more about your airport rights at www.url.com&quot; then it would be much less objectionable IMO.<p>I don&#x27;t get why campaigns keep making this mistake. Take the freaking high road. Imagine the mind of your opposition, and accomodate the low-hanging complaints they&#x27;re going to have. Craft a message that&#x27;s maximally agreeable to the people who disagree, while maintaining accuracy.<p>Weasels on both sides here, IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan-m</author><text>That&#x27;s OpenMedia in a nutshell. They definitely aren&#x27;t alone in this category, but I find them very frustrating. They mean well and I largely agree with them, but by agreeing with them I also seem to be agreeing with their nuance-free tabloid version of activism. I&#x27;ve somehow found myself on their mailing list a few times in the past and felt a strong sense of relief each time I have unsubscribed.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vancouver Airport blocking ads with information on travellers’ privacy rights</title><url>https://globalnews.ca/news/5203960/yvr-rejects-ads/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RickS</author><text>Good idea, bad approach. &quot;Your phone isn&#x27;t safe at the border&quot; might be a hard fact but it&#x27;s nonetheless an intentionally divisive expression of that sentiment. It&#x27;s ambiguous, fearmongering.... facts can be clickbait, and this is one such case.<p>If the ads said &quot;You can be legally compelled to X, even if Y. Learn more about your airport rights at www.url.com&quot; then it would be much less objectionable IMO.<p>I don&#x27;t get why campaigns keep making this mistake. Take the freaking high road. Imagine the mind of your opposition, and accomodate the low-hanging complaints they&#x27;re going to have. Craft a message that&#x27;s maximally agreeable to the people who disagree, while maintaining accuracy.<p>Weasels on both sides here, IMO.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sithadmin</author><text>&gt;If the ads said &quot;You can be legally compelled to X, even if Y. Learn more about your airport rights at www.url.com&quot; then it would be much less objectionable IMO.<p>It&#x27;s &#x27;less objectionable&#x27; because it&#x27;s bordering on bootlicking, and could even read as a tacit endorsement of the status quo.</text></comment> |
19,775,020 | 19,771,954 | 1 | 3 | 19,771,439 | train | <story><title>Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up</title><url>http://www.datastuff.tech/data-science/3-machine-learning-books-that-helped-me-level-up-as-a-data-scientist/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tycho</author><text>I think the data scientist hiring frenzy may soon collapse as large companies run out of patience with their recently formed data science departments that struggle to deliver ROI (for many reasons, often not the fault of the data scientists). But I think we are not yet at the final iteration of the job market for these sorts of skills. Companies usually don&#x27;t really want someone who specializes in model tuning and algorithm creation, they want something like a &quot;full-stack data analyst&quot; - someone who acknowledges that the modeling may be 2% of the effort and the rest is business analysis, data wrangling, engineering, stakeholder management, building tools for users&#x2F;operators, etc., and rolls up their sleeves to deliver an end-to-end solution. There does not yet exist a catchy name for this role, but I bet that in a few years it will be what everyone wants to hire. So skate to where the puck will be...</text></comment> | <story><title>Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up</title><url>http://www.datastuff.tech/data-science/3-machine-learning-books-that-helped-me-level-up-as-a-data-scientist/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>remilouf</author><text>I really recommend Murphy’s “Machine Learning: a probabilistic perspective”. Murphy’s lays the groundwork for understanding how the algorithms work, why and how they could be adapted to the problem you’re dealing with. It takes you from complete beginner (with a reasonable math level) to one step above `import sklearn as sk`.<p>The other books I read make the field look like a bunch of heuristics that just happen to work.</text></comment> |
17,563,407 | 17,563,313 | 1 | 3 | 17,558,542 | train | <story><title>The Effect of Sleep on Happiness</title><url>https://www.trackinghappiness.com/effect-sleep-happiness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anyfoo</author><text>As someone who also favors long (even very long) sleep, but is planning to have a child, may I ask how old your child is, whether things have already gotten better sleepwise, or whether you think it will?<p>We&#x27;re only planning for one, and my impression so far suggests that it&#x27;s the second child where sleep and free time get lost more permanently, and that with one child the majority of the sacrifices are only temporary (and getting better as the child gets older), but it&#x27;s always good to hear some experiences.</text></item><item><author>sbinthree</author><text>I had a nice solid 9h each night until having a child. I find I am actually more creative (uninhibited) when I get less sleep. My brain is firing too hard on perfectionism when I get a good sleep, where I can be a lot more creative and free flowing when I am sleep deprived. I don&#x27;t implement or debug well in that state though, so my cycle tends to involve writing the code and debugging on better sleep nights and having my ideas and catching up on admin if I have a bad sleep.</text></item><item><author>1996</author><text>I sleep 10 to 11h per night. I may trim that to 6h one day but no more than once per month and if there is an absolute emergency - but then I know my productivity will be killed for at least 2 days.<p>OTOH, my inspiration will be higher: I will have more creative ideas on how to combine stuff, but I will be too tired to do any of that. I will just take notes.<p>With adequate sleep, I do not feel happier or sadder than anyone else. I feel more productive however. Sunday I had never done any python because I preferred perl, but for some specific task there was no option but a python library (well, it was also possible in another language I don&#x27;t like either)<p>So on Monday, I learned python, then asynchronous execution with asyncio, then parallelizing with joblib. Tuesday, I coded.<p>Today I have a python3 daemon with error handling and other niceties ready to be deployed to test. It seems robust enough to require minimal oversight by systemd.<p>In any case, it will be deployed on all POPs and in production on Friday - even if I must have a bad night. But that means I will not do much next day. But that means I will have other creative ideas!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guiambros</author><text>I&#x27;d offer a different perspective than others here: it really doesn&#x27;t matter how many kids you have, nor how old they are.<p>If you ignore the initial 6-12 months (once they get into a regular sleep schedule), the impact for the parents for the rest of the time between 1 to 17 yrs-old is pretty much the same. The dynamics will change as they get older, but you&#x27;ll still be spending considerable time on the various family activities: playing with them, having breakfast&#x2F;lunch&#x2F;dinner, going to the park, teaching new things, commuting to&#x2F;from school, attending their friends&#x27; birthdays on weekends, helping with schoolwork, maybe teaching them how to code :), etc.<p>On top of that, you&#x27;ll also need to find time for you and your partner, family, friends, hobbies, reading, etc. Add a full time job, a school that starts starting early morning, a fixed annual vacation calendar, and you pretty much don&#x27;t have many hours left in the day.<p>Sure, some activities can be shared with your partner, and some can be delegated (family member, nanny), but the conclusion is still the same: time management becomes a lot more critical once you have kids.<p>Which then leads me to sleep. In order to dedicate enough time to a restful night of sleep, you&#x27;ll need to prioritize things much more effectively, so you don&#x27;t end cutting corners, and changing drastically your sleep patterns.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Effect of Sleep on Happiness</title><url>https://www.trackinghappiness.com/effect-sleep-happiness/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anyfoo</author><text>As someone who also favors long (even very long) sleep, but is planning to have a child, may I ask how old your child is, whether things have already gotten better sleepwise, or whether you think it will?<p>We&#x27;re only planning for one, and my impression so far suggests that it&#x27;s the second child where sleep and free time get lost more permanently, and that with one child the majority of the sacrifices are only temporary (and getting better as the child gets older), but it&#x27;s always good to hear some experiences.</text></item><item><author>sbinthree</author><text>I had a nice solid 9h each night until having a child. I find I am actually more creative (uninhibited) when I get less sleep. My brain is firing too hard on perfectionism when I get a good sleep, where I can be a lot more creative and free flowing when I am sleep deprived. I don&#x27;t implement or debug well in that state though, so my cycle tends to involve writing the code and debugging on better sleep nights and having my ideas and catching up on admin if I have a bad sleep.</text></item><item><author>1996</author><text>I sleep 10 to 11h per night. I may trim that to 6h one day but no more than once per month and if there is an absolute emergency - but then I know my productivity will be killed for at least 2 days.<p>OTOH, my inspiration will be higher: I will have more creative ideas on how to combine stuff, but I will be too tired to do any of that. I will just take notes.<p>With adequate sleep, I do not feel happier or sadder than anyone else. I feel more productive however. Sunday I had never done any python because I preferred perl, but for some specific task there was no option but a python library (well, it was also possible in another language I don&#x27;t like either)<p>So on Monday, I learned python, then asynchronous execution with asyncio, then parallelizing with joblib. Tuesday, I coded.<p>Today I have a python3 daemon with error handling and other niceties ready to be deployed to test. It seems robust enough to require minimal oversight by systemd.<p>In any case, it will be deployed on all POPs and in production on Friday - even if I must have a bad night. But that means I will not do much next day. But that means I will have other creative ideas!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby_sleep</author><text>I am laying next to our sleeping baby, who is about 6 months old. (He is our first and will likely be our only) I was terribly concerned about the lack of sleep as a first time father. Besides hearing “congratulations” when we told people we were pregnant, a close second was “sleep now, while you can.” We have had Very few “rough nights,” if you can even call it that, and for the last 5.5 months, my only sleep deprivation is almost exclusively self inflicted. We credit 1) our amazing baby, who seems to know that nighttime is for sleeping or eating only, and 2) that he sleeps with us in our bed.(Queue horrific gasps.)<p>He is breastfed, and still wakes up about 3 times during his 12 hours of sleep every night to breastfeed. However, that consists of him making minimal noise, and my wife either picking him up or rolling over and feeding him while they lay next to each other. They literally both sleep through most feedings. For his first few weeks of life, he simply slept on her breast, so it was even easier.<p>Honestly, after experiencing and witnessing this arrangement, I can’t imagine that nature had moms and babies doing anything differently for the last few thousand years. Our lives would have been more difficult if we had him in a separate room right now. If that was our arrangement, we could count on waking up to loud cries and walking to another room multiple times a night, and either comforting or feeding our baby, and then walking back to bed afterwards. If we were doing that, I think folks’ warnings would have been true.<p>This was not our plan, but it became our plan after having a very strong instinct to stay close to our newborn when we brought him home.<p>I used to think that we were significantly endangering our child with bed sharing, but then I found these articles from the Mother-Baby sleep lab at Notre Dame :
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cosleeping.nd.edu&#x2F;articles-and-presentations&#x2F;articles-and-essays&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cosleeping.nd.edu&#x2F;articles-and-presentations&#x2F;articles...</a><p>We don’t fit any of the risk factors associated with SIDS in bedsharing (drug or alcohol use, obesity, smoking, etc), and thus consider it statistically safe enough that the benefits far outweigh the risks. YMMV, but I recommend reading one or two of those articles&#x2F;papers to balance out the blanket warnings against bed sharing that you will inevitably hear if you live in the US.<p>Enjoy parenthood. It’s been the best experience of our lives.</text></comment> |
23,117,893 | 23,117,692 | 1 | 2 | 23,114,742 | train | <story><title>The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks</title><url>https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2020-04-21-the-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aardvark1</author><text>I&#x27;ve working at large F100 financial services companies as an engineer and technical manager for 10 years. I&#x27;ve seen front ends built using a myriad of techniques and frameworks.<p>Leaving bytes and bundle weight aside, in 2020 JS frameworks like React are far and away the best approach for front-end engineering from a large organizational standpoint.<p>1)Not difficult to hire for. JS frameworks are currently in the sweet spot where they&#x27;re both widely popular and &quot;cool&quot;. Consequently it&#x27;s not hard to find good candidates. That wasn&#x27;t the case 5 years ago where React&#x2F;Angular developers were still uncommon.<p>2) The HUGE and helpful community of developers. There are so many excellent resources for learning and solving problems with JS frameworks. JS developers are eager to show off on medium and similar sites. I&#x27;ve never seen such a large and enthusiastic community. This will inevitably subside as JS fall out of favor but I hope it doesn&#x27;t for a long time.<p>2)Rapid UI development. The JS ecosystem make it easy to build UIs quickly that don&#x27;t completely suck and look good for the ever-important demos to senior leadership.<p>3)Opinionated frameworks naturally enforce best practices and ensure relatively consistent architecture. This makes it easy to move engineers from one team to another and make grokking new codebases a lot easier. New engineers are productive quickly and begin creating value for the company. This was not the case with the inevitable jquery monstrosities that resulted after a critical mass of code or # of engineers.<p>4)Fewer bugs. JS ecosystem makes it very easy to write unit and integration tests.<p>Companies with IT budgets that are 9+ figures will happily pay for extra bytes across the wire in exchange for those benefits</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fooey</author><text>One of my main things I argue strongly for on any new project is &quot;don&#x27;t do anything weird&quot;. Don&#x27;t use weird fringe languages, don&#x27;t use weird fringe frameworks. If the thing you want to do doesn&#x27;t exist, think real hard about why it does not.<p>At my office, we&#x27;ve somehow ended up with a critical graphql server that&#x27;s written entirely in Kotlin, which is <i>cool</i> but completely impossible to hire for or get any kind of community support for it. It feels like absolutely everything you want it to do, you have to do build yourself, whereas if we&#x27;d used a normal off the shelf graphql server it all already exists.<p>I&#x27;m so sick of maintaining old weird forks and unnecessary custom code that doesn&#x27;t need to exist.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Cost of JavaScript Frameworks</title><url>https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2020-04-21-the-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aardvark1</author><text>I&#x27;ve working at large F100 financial services companies as an engineer and technical manager for 10 years. I&#x27;ve seen front ends built using a myriad of techniques and frameworks.<p>Leaving bytes and bundle weight aside, in 2020 JS frameworks like React are far and away the best approach for front-end engineering from a large organizational standpoint.<p>1)Not difficult to hire for. JS frameworks are currently in the sweet spot where they&#x27;re both widely popular and &quot;cool&quot;. Consequently it&#x27;s not hard to find good candidates. That wasn&#x27;t the case 5 years ago where React&#x2F;Angular developers were still uncommon.<p>2) The HUGE and helpful community of developers. There are so many excellent resources for learning and solving problems with JS frameworks. JS developers are eager to show off on medium and similar sites. I&#x27;ve never seen such a large and enthusiastic community. This will inevitably subside as JS fall out of favor but I hope it doesn&#x27;t for a long time.<p>2)Rapid UI development. The JS ecosystem make it easy to build UIs quickly that don&#x27;t completely suck and look good for the ever-important demos to senior leadership.<p>3)Opinionated frameworks naturally enforce best practices and ensure relatively consistent architecture. This makes it easy to move engineers from one team to another and make grokking new codebases a lot easier. New engineers are productive quickly and begin creating value for the company. This was not the case with the inevitable jquery monstrosities that resulted after a critical mass of code or # of engineers.<p>4)Fewer bugs. JS ecosystem makes it very easy to write unit and integration tests.<p>Companies with IT budgets that are 9+ figures will happily pay for extra bytes across the wire in exchange for those benefits</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ng12</author><text>Absolutely agreed. I have never in my life had a stakeholder get on my case because our site was 3mb when it could have been 1mb. I have had many stakeholders get on my case because we couldn&#x27;t turn around features fast enough, or the site was buggy, or our UX was worse than our competitors. Those are the things that the people who pay me and my team care about and if I could 10x our bundle size for a 1.5x improvement in development speed I would do it in a heartbeat.</text></comment> |
8,279,831 | 8,279,431 | 1 | 2 | 8,278,864 | train | <story><title>IPv6 privacy addresses crashed the MIT CSAIL network</title><url>http://blog.bimajority.org/2014/09/05/the-network-nightmare-that-ate-my-week/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ay</author><text>The &quot;issues with IPv6&quot; are with education, operation, configuration.<p>I personally ran WiFi networks with 8000+ wireless clients on a <i>single</i> &#x2F;64 subnet (my employer&#x27;s CiscoLive conference), and assisted&#x2F;consulted in running the networks with more than 25000 clients on a single &#x2F;64 subnet (Mobile World Congress).<p>The default kinda suck, and the bugs may happen. but the statement &quot;IPv6 is not ready for production&quot; is wrong.<p>I&#x27;d be happy to volunteer a reasonable amount of time to work with the OP or others having a network of &gt;1000 hosts, to debug the issues like this, time permitting, vendor independent. (glass houses and all that).<p>There are bazillion knobs in IPv6 and a lot of things can be fixed by just tweaking the defaults (which kinda suck).<p>Network of &lt;500-700 nodes generally don&#x27;t need to bother much. It&#x27;s not optimal a lot of times with the defaults but it will work.<p>EDIT:<p>the seeming &quot;charity&quot; of volunteering the time isn&#x27;t. I want to understand what is broken, so we can bring it up back to IETF and get it fixed + make better educational publicity to prevent folks shooting themselves in the foot. It&#x27;ll make it to the stacks in another decade, but it will.
IPv6 is powering nontrivial millions of hosts <i>now</i> - so the correct words to use &quot;needs tweaking for my network&quot;, not &quot;not ready for production&quot;. Let&#x27;s see what the tweaks are and if we can incorporate them into the protocol, if necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cesarb</author><text>Playing devil&#x27;s advocate: your experiences of &quot;CiscoLive conference&quot; and &quot;Mobile World Congress&quot; sound like conferences, which are the kind of scenario where most hosts are connected to the network for less than a day each time.<p>If I understood it correctly, his privacy addresses issue wouldn&#x27;t show up in that scenario, since it needs several days using the same network connection continuously for each host to accumulate enough privacy addresses.</text></comment> | <story><title>IPv6 privacy addresses crashed the MIT CSAIL network</title><url>http://blog.bimajority.org/2014/09/05/the-network-nightmare-that-ate-my-week/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ay</author><text>The &quot;issues with IPv6&quot; are with education, operation, configuration.<p>I personally ran WiFi networks with 8000+ wireless clients on a <i>single</i> &#x2F;64 subnet (my employer&#x27;s CiscoLive conference), and assisted&#x2F;consulted in running the networks with more than 25000 clients on a single &#x2F;64 subnet (Mobile World Congress).<p>The default kinda suck, and the bugs may happen. but the statement &quot;IPv6 is not ready for production&quot; is wrong.<p>I&#x27;d be happy to volunteer a reasonable amount of time to work with the OP or others having a network of &gt;1000 hosts, to debug the issues like this, time permitting, vendor independent. (glass houses and all that).<p>There are bazillion knobs in IPv6 and a lot of things can be fixed by just tweaking the defaults (which kinda suck).<p>Network of &lt;500-700 nodes generally don&#x27;t need to bother much. It&#x27;s not optimal a lot of times with the defaults but it will work.<p>EDIT:<p>the seeming &quot;charity&quot; of volunteering the time isn&#x27;t. I want to understand what is broken, so we can bring it up back to IETF and get it fixed + make better educational publicity to prevent folks shooting themselves in the foot. It&#x27;ll make it to the stacks in another decade, but it will.
IPv6 is powering nontrivial millions of hosts <i>now</i> - so the correct words to use &quot;needs tweaking for my network&quot;, not &quot;not ready for production&quot;. Let&#x27;s see what the tweaks are and if we can incorporate them into the protocol, if necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x0x0</author><text>And somehow juniper (and juniper support engineers for large routers) is unaware of these things? I&#x27;m skeptical. Particularly for ongoing problems where second and third level support get involved.</text></comment> |
6,353,029 | 6,352,746 | 1 | 2 | 6,352,571 | train | <story><title>PhpMyAdmin Turns 15</title><url>http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/15-years.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaolinite</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working on a PhpMyAdmin-like tool recently called Schema (<a href="http://github.com/timdavies/schema" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timdavies&#x2F;schema</a>). It&#x27;s a single-page app (Node.JS&#x2F;Backbone) and I&#x27;ve had quite a bit of positive feedback from people testing it - much faster than PhpMyAdmin, nicer UI, etc. There&#x27;s a lot left to do on it (missing critical features at the moment such as inserting rows..) however I&#x27;m unable to work on it for roughly a month as I&#x27;ve taken a new job and need to learn some new stuff for it. If anyone wants to help out, you&#x27;d be more than welcome (will give commit access after a few pull requests) :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnyzee</author><text>We developed a similar thing, but for PostgreSQL [1][2]. Also a single page JavaScript app with a good UI and fairly full-featured.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.teampostgresql.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teampostgresql.com</a><p>[2] Demo: <a href="http://teampostgresql.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;teampostgresql.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a> (runs on a free Heroku account so a bit slow, and demo users sometimes mess up the db)</text></comment> | <story><title>PhpMyAdmin Turns 15</title><url>http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/15-years.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaolinite</author><text>I&#x27;ve been working on a PhpMyAdmin-like tool recently called Schema (<a href="http://github.com/timdavies/schema" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;timdavies&#x2F;schema</a>). It&#x27;s a single-page app (Node.JS&#x2F;Backbone) and I&#x27;ve had quite a bit of positive feedback from people testing it - much faster than PhpMyAdmin, nicer UI, etc. There&#x27;s a lot left to do on it (missing critical features at the moment such as inserting rows..) however I&#x27;m unable to work on it for roughly a month as I&#x27;ve taken a new job and need to learn some new stuff for it. If anyone wants to help out, you&#x27;d be more than welcome (will give commit access after a few pull requests) :-)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anaphor</author><text>Would you mind if I forked it and rewrote it in Scheme? (Seriously).</text></comment> |
19,568,581 | 19,561,904 | 1 | 3 | 19,561,718 | train | <story><title>Gimli – A Visual Studio Code extension for front-end developers</title><url>https://gimli.app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>This should not have been posted as a Show HN. Show HN is for
something that people can actually try. Fundraisers and teaser pages are ruled out in the rules: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html</a>.<p>(We&#x27;ve taken Show HN belatedly out of the title above.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Gimli – A Visual Studio Code extension for front-end developers</title><url>https://gimli.app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gimliapp</author><text>Hi!, creator of Gimli here. i&#x27;ll be happy to answer any questions you may have</text></comment> |
26,237,228 | 26,237,194 | 1 | 2 | 26,236,739 | train | <story><title>Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers</title><url>https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-ends-virtual-currency-trading-platform-bitfinexs-illegal?ref</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>It appears from the link in the settlement agreement:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ag.ny.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2021.02.17_-_settlement_agreement_-_execution_version.b-t_signed-c2_oag_signed.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ag.ny.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2021.02.17_-_settlemen...</a><p>Tether wasn’t backed at all times. The argument was that this happened due to asset seizures in Poland and Portugal in 2017-2018.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theblockcrypto.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;95207&#x2F;bitfinex-tether-new-york-ag-settlement-lawsuit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theblockcrypto.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;95207&#x2F;bitfinex-tether-ne...</a><p>Seems to me they couldn’t prove malicious intent, so they suggested they stop trading. Frankly this seems a bit of a click-bait title with the whole “illegal activities”.<p>Sure, tether wasn’t backed at all times (probably is now), due to governments seizing their funds. Also banks do this all the time, every time they issue a loan for instance. The bank only keeps 10-30% collateral on your home.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavlov</author><text><i>&gt; (probably is now)</i><p>This kind of argumentation makes cryptocurrency proponents so insufferable. There’s no evidence Tether is backed, but somehow we can just assume in a parenthesis that they probably are, and then go on a tangential rant about banks or fiat or digital gold or something.</text></comment> | <story><title>Bitfinex and Tether required to end all trading activity with New Yorkers</title><url>https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-ends-virtual-currency-trading-platform-bitfinexs-illegal?ref</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lettergram</author><text>It appears from the link in the settlement agreement:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ag.ny.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2021.02.17_-_settlement_agreement_-_execution_version.b-t_signed-c2_oag_signed.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ag.ny.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;2021.02.17_-_settlemen...</a><p>Tether wasn’t backed at all times. The argument was that this happened due to asset seizures in Poland and Portugal in 2017-2018.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theblockcrypto.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;95207&#x2F;bitfinex-tether-new-york-ag-settlement-lawsuit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theblockcrypto.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;95207&#x2F;bitfinex-tether-ne...</a><p>Seems to me they couldn’t prove malicious intent, so they suggested they stop trading. Frankly this seems a bit of a click-bait title with the whole “illegal activities”.<p>Sure, tether wasn’t backed at all times (probably is now), due to governments seizing their funds. Also banks do this all the time, every time they issue a loan for instance. The bank only keeps 10-30% collateral on your home.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&gt; Sure, tether wasn’t backed at all times (probably is now),<p>Even Tether admitted that they weren’t backed by funds, and that was before they printed most of their current supply: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-74-percent-backed-by-cash-and-equivalents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-7...</a><p>I don’t understand why anyone would be in a rush to take them at their word when every new piece of evidence demonstrates that Tether’s operators are not interested in behaving honestly.<p>&gt; Also banks do this all the time, every time they issue a loan for instance. The bank only keeps 10-30% collateral on your home.<p>Fractional reserve banking doesn’t mean banks can simply print more money than they have on the books.<p>Regardless, if a bank loses funds due to fraud or government intervention or whatever, they can’t simply continue pretending they had the money all along.<p>I don’t understand the desire to pretend that what Tether is doing is normal or good for the crypto community. It’s not.</text></comment> |
36,211,340 | 36,211,107 | 1 | 3 | 36,209,047 | train | <story><title>Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM</title><url>https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-hopper-superchip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>This may be a naive question, in &quot;crypto&quot; we saw a shift from GPUs to ASICs as it was more efficient to design and run chips specifically for hashing. Will we see the same in ML, will there be a shift to ASICs for training and inference of models?<p>Apple already have the &quot;neural&quot; cores, is that more or less what they are?<p>Could there be a theoretical LLM chip for inference that is significantly cheaper to run?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anonylizard</author><text>Inference is mostly just matrix multiplications, so there&#x27;s plenty of competitors.<p>Problem is, inference costs do not dominate training costs. Models have a very limited lifespan, they are constantly retrained or obsoleted by new generations, so training is always going on.<p>Training is not just matrix multiplications, given hundreds of experiments in model architecture, its not even obvious what operations will dominate future training. So a more general purpose GPU is just a way safer bet.<p>Also, LLM talent is in extreme short supply, and you don&#x27;t want to piss them off by telling them they have to spend their time debugging some crappy FPGA because you wanted to save some hardware bucks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM</title><url>https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-hopper-superchip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>This may be a naive question, in &quot;crypto&quot; we saw a shift from GPUs to ASICs as it was more efficient to design and run chips specifically for hashing. Will we see the same in ML, will there be a shift to ASICs for training and inference of models?<p>Apple already have the &quot;neural&quot; cores, is that more or less what they are?<p>Could there be a theoretical LLM chip for inference that is significantly cheaper to run?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>huijzer</author><text>According to Ilya Sutskever in a podcast that I heard, GPUs are already pretty close to ASIC performance for AI workloads. Nvidia can highly optimize the full stack due to their economies of scale.</text></comment> |
6,640,503 | 6,640,665 | 1 | 3 | 6,640,363 | train | <story><title>Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bbx</author><text>No matter what codec will eventually be widely adopted, I hope native video support for browsers will lead to better video players. Right now, I have issues with YouTube (loading speed, quality switching back and forth between 480p, 720p and 240p), Vimeo (still can&#x27;t jump to a desired position, loads incredibly slowly), various Flash embedded players (won&#x27;t load, or will reset to 0:00 when trying to change the current position), auto-playing videos, lack of controls, usability issues...<p>I usually end up downloading the video with a Firefox add-on to watch it later. Or just stop bothering and close the tab.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future</title><url>http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/mozilla-will-add-h-264-to-firefox-as-cisco-makes-eleventh-hour-push-for-webrtcs-future/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>recuter</author><text>I find myself increasingly frequently using &#x27;youtube-dl&#x27; to grab clips, advantages being that youtube sometimes only buffers a little bit before stopping and this way I don&#x27;t need to care about keeping tabs open or codecs.<p>Everything always plays fine with VLC and I can mess with the playback speed by simply pressing &#x27;[]&#x27;.<p>Should probably automate this. Maybe independently of browsers, just sniff my own traffic and MITM myself (request goes to youtube-dl, browser gets a page that closes itself immediately).</text></comment> |
11,275,015 | 11,275,088 | 1 | 2 | 11,273,441 | train | <story><title>Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing</title><url>https://sinews.siam.org/DetailsPage/tabid/607/ArticleID/744/Julia-A-Fast-Language-for-Numerical-Computing.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samuell</author><text>If Julia had Go-style concurrency primitives (channels and lightweight threads), and M:N thread multiplexing, it would be the perfect language to implement my upcoming data flow based scientific workflow language (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samuell&#x2F;scipipe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samuell&#x2F;scipipe</a>).<p>Now I&#x27;m instead trapped with Go, which lacks a REPL, and leaves a lot to wish in terms of metaprogramming capabilities needed to create a nice programmatic API.<p>The lack of the mentioned features is my biggest concern with Julia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StefanKarpinski</author><text>Threading is already an experimental feature and Go-style concurrency will be a standard feature in the future. Well, technically it may be more like Cilk or TBB but it will be very similar to Go.</text></comment> | <story><title>Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing</title><url>https://sinews.siam.org/DetailsPage/tabid/607/ArticleID/744/Julia-A-Fast-Language-for-Numerical-Computing.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samuell</author><text>If Julia had Go-style concurrency primitives (channels and lightweight threads), and M:N thread multiplexing, it would be the perfect language to implement my upcoming data flow based scientific workflow language (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samuell&#x2F;scipipe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;samuell&#x2F;scipipe</a>).<p>Now I&#x27;m instead trapped with Go, which lacks a REPL, and leaves a lot to wish in terms of metaprogramming capabilities needed to create a nice programmatic API.<p>The lack of the mentioned features is my biggest concern with Julia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elcritch</author><text>I implemented a test of a micro-benchmark posted on HN several weeks back. It took some extra tries but eventually the performance using the existing &#x27;Task&#x27; feature was acceptable. Not Go level but decent and give the rate of development on Julia it&#x27;d probably be worthwhile to experiment.</text></comment> |
13,502,820 | 13,502,217 | 1 | 3 | 13,501,762 | train | <story><title>Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/23/mac-sales-declined-nearly-10-last-year-as-lenovo-dell-and-others-gained-ground/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>Back when I worked at Apple the dirty secret was that the cheapest models, despite all the marketing of the MacBook Pro, made up the majority of sales.<p>Back then it was the white plastic MacBook but now it&#x27;s the 11&quot; MacBook Air that occupies that slot.<p>That model and its crappy TN screen is vastly inferior and more expensive than similarly-sized ultrabooks. The only redeeming feature it has is MacOS.<p>Instead of replacing the Air, Apple introduced the MacBook at a premium price point. It seems like a marketing failure to me that a lower spec MacBook (1080p, slower SSD) wasn&#x27;t released and the Air discontinued.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freehunter</author><text>Quite a few years ago I saw someone at college using a white plastic laptop and man I thought that looked sharp. I glanced at the top of it and saw it was a Mac. At the time I didn&#x27;t own a Mac and I didn&#x27;t follow their product lines, but that was a hell of a good looking laptop, I thought. That was actually the first time I&#x27;d ever seen a Macbook, I don&#x27;t come from a very well-off or tech-forward area. Everyone at the time owned a Dell Inspiron 150x. When I looked it up I was really disappointed to see that it had been discontinued.<p>I have an aluminum Macbook and sure it&#x27;s nice... but when I think about Macbooks, I think about that white plastic machine. Shiny, almost see-through. It really stood out to me in a world of dull metal and chunky black plastic and laser-etched designs on laptops. My 2015 looks nice, I guess, but in my mind it doesn&#x27;t look <i>nearly</i> as nice as that shiny, translucent white Macbook I saw years ago.<p>Now, I never used one and I&#x27;m sure a lot of people here have, and I&#x27;m sure there are a lot of negative stories about them cracking or discoloring or being squeaky or something. But I still remember the first time I saw one, and it stuck with me. That was the same when I saw an aluminum Macbook, it was nice. They don&#x27;t look all that special these days, the design is getting stale. Everyone has a Macbook-looking laptop, from a distance I can&#x27;t tell the difference between a Samsung Chromebook and an 11&quot; Macbook Air.<p>I hope they can wow us with a new design again in the future.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/23/mac-sales-declined-nearly-10-last-year-as-lenovo-dell-and-others-gained-ground/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CoolGuySteve</author><text>Back when I worked at Apple the dirty secret was that the cheapest models, despite all the marketing of the MacBook Pro, made up the majority of sales.<p>Back then it was the white plastic MacBook but now it&#x27;s the 11&quot; MacBook Air that occupies that slot.<p>That model and its crappy TN screen is vastly inferior and more expensive than similarly-sized ultrabooks. The only redeeming feature it has is MacOS.<p>Instead of replacing the Air, Apple introduced the MacBook at a premium price point. It seems like a marketing failure to me that a lower spec MacBook (1080p, slower SSD) wasn&#x27;t released and the Air discontinued.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhurron</author><text>&gt; Back when I worked at Apple the dirty secret was that the cheapest models, despite all the marketing of the MacBook Pro, made up the majority of sales.<p>Isn&#x27;t that normal for almost every product though? You advertise the top of the line knowing that most will come in and look for something similar that fits their budget.</text></comment> |
7,500,796 | 7,500,861 | 1 | 2 | 7,500,527 | train | <story><title>Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores</title><url>http://worldbackupday.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deanclatworthy</author><text>A friendly reminder to everyone. RAID is not backup:
<a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/2888/why-is-raid-not-a-backup" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;serverfault.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;2888&#x2F;why-is-raid-not-a-back...</a><p>For your home, consider an offline service such automatically backing up to a NAS as well as an online service such as Crashplan or Backblaze.</text></comment> | <story><title>Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores</title><url>http://worldbackupday.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eps</author><text>Did you mean<p><pre><code> Today is a made-up day to drive traffic to
our highly prized Sponsors and Offers page
That also used to be one Reddit&#x27;s feel-good
community projects until guy in charge filed
for copyright and grabbed it all to himself.
</code></pre>
? Yes, it&#x27;s an excellent and widely recongnized holiday.</text></comment> |
15,180,152 | 15,180,127 | 1 | 2 | 15,179,188 | train | <story><title>Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/research/papers/kell17some-preprint.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>This is a long paper and the author has 2 main claims:<p>1) C Language popularity is more to do with cognitive ease of <i>memory addresses</i> as a conceptual model for inspection and change. Author claims memory address mental model overshadows <i>runtime performance</i>.<p>2) switching to &quot;safe&quot; languages like Java&#x2F;C#&#x2F;Rust is not necessary. With no changes&#x2F;violations to existing C Language specification, a new&#x2F;different <i>implementation</i> (compiler) can add more runtime safety checks similar to <i>managed</i> languages. An example from the paper:<p><i>&gt;Consider unchecked array accesses. Nowhere does C define that array accesses are unchecked. It just happens that implementations don’t check them. This is an implementation norm, not a fact of the language.</i><p>Those 2 ideas look orthogonal but he ties them together at the end.<p>I&#x27;ll take some poetic license (e.g. a little exaggeration) to reword the author&#x27;s idea to help spur discussion...<p>Consider the idea of the <i>Sufficiently Smart Compiler</i>[1] that claims that a &quot;slow&quot; and &quot;high-level&quot; language like Python&#x2F;Ruby could be <i>theoretically</i> analyzed and compiled to be as fast as C or handcrafted assembly.<p>In a way, the author is coming from the opposite direction. If you had a <i>&quot;Sufficiently Smart Runtime&quot;</i> for a new C Language compiler implementation, it could (theoretically) do all sorts of extra checks and bookkeeping that wouldn&#x27;t require any changes to C source code and wouldn&#x27;t violate the existing C Language standard. (E.g. Imagine a new C runtime that did many checks similar to Valgrind + UBSAN + ASAN + debugger memory fences, etc.)<p>Would the program execution be slower? Well yes, but that&#x27;s not really an issue because according to author&#x27;s claim #1, what programmers really like about C is the mental ease of accessing memory addresses. The performance is important, but it&#x27;s a secondary benefit -- according to the author.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.c2.com&#x2F;?SufficientlySmartCompiler" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.c2.com&#x2F;?SufficientlySmartCompiler</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>The problem is that it isn&#x27;t a new idea. People keep trying it as shown below. Unfortunately, C wasn&#x27;t designed so much as a modified version of something (BCPL) that was the only collection of features Richards could get to compile on his crappy hardware. It&#x27;s not designed for easy analysis or safety. So, all the attempts are going to hit problems in what legacy code they can support, their performance, or even effectiveness if about reliability&#x2F;security in a pointer-heavy language. Compare that to Ada, Wirth&#x27;s stuff, or Modula-3 to find they don&#x27;t have that problem or have much less of it because they were <i>carefully designed</i> balancing the various tradeoffs. Ada even meets author&#x27;s criteria for safe language with explicit memory representation despite him saying safe languages don&#x27;t have that.<p>To back that up with references, first is a bunch of attempts at safer C&#x27;s or C-like languages with performance issues. The next two are among most recent and practical at memory safety for C apps far as CompSci goes. The last one is an Ada book that lists by chapter each technique its designer used to systematically mitigate bugs or vulnerabilities in systems code.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;a890&#x2F;a850dc78e65e26f8f4def435b17094ce08cf.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdfs.semanticscholar.org&#x2F;a890&#x2F;a850dc78e65e26f8f4def4...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm.org&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2006-06-12-PLDI-SAFECode.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm.org&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;2006-06-12-PLDI-SAFECode.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.rutgers.edu&#x2F;~santosh.nagarakatte&#x2F;softbound&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.rutgers.edu&#x2F;~santosh.nagarakatte&#x2F;softbound&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adacore.com&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;technical-papers&#x2F;SafeSecureAdav2015-covered.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adacore.com&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;technical-papers&#x2F;SafeSecureAd...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language [pdf]</title><url>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/research/papers/kell17some-preprint.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasode</author><text>This is a long paper and the author has 2 main claims:<p>1) C Language popularity is more to do with cognitive ease of <i>memory addresses</i> as a conceptual model for inspection and change. Author claims memory address mental model overshadows <i>runtime performance</i>.<p>2) switching to &quot;safe&quot; languages like Java&#x2F;C#&#x2F;Rust is not necessary. With no changes&#x2F;violations to existing C Language specification, a new&#x2F;different <i>implementation</i> (compiler) can add more runtime safety checks similar to <i>managed</i> languages. An example from the paper:<p><i>&gt;Consider unchecked array accesses. Nowhere does C define that array accesses are unchecked. It just happens that implementations don’t check them. This is an implementation norm, not a fact of the language.</i><p>Those 2 ideas look orthogonal but he ties them together at the end.<p>I&#x27;ll take some poetic license (e.g. a little exaggeration) to reword the author&#x27;s idea to help spur discussion...<p>Consider the idea of the <i>Sufficiently Smart Compiler</i>[1] that claims that a &quot;slow&quot; and &quot;high-level&quot; language like Python&#x2F;Ruby could be <i>theoretically</i> analyzed and compiled to be as fast as C or handcrafted assembly.<p>In a way, the author is coming from the opposite direction. If you had a <i>&quot;Sufficiently Smart Runtime&quot;</i> for a new C Language compiler implementation, it could (theoretically) do all sorts of extra checks and bookkeeping that wouldn&#x27;t require any changes to C source code and wouldn&#x27;t violate the existing C Language standard. (E.g. Imagine a new C runtime that did many checks similar to Valgrind + UBSAN + ASAN + debugger memory fences, etc.)<p>Would the program execution be slower? Well yes, but that&#x27;s not really an issue because according to author&#x27;s claim #1, what programmers really like about C is the mental ease of accessing memory addresses. The performance is important, but it&#x27;s a secondary benefit -- according to the author.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.c2.com&#x2F;?SufficientlySmartCompiler" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.c2.com&#x2F;?SufficientlySmartCompiler</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Excellent, I think the author would do well to re-frame the question as you have. If nothing else to put it more clearly into the space of provable compilation.<p>When I transferred into the &quot;Oak&quot; group that later became the &quot;Java&quot; organization, the team I was on was looking at whether or not you could write an OS in Java sort of in spite of its safety rules. This sort of concept has been revisited by Rust with its safe&#x2F;unsafe modal operation.<p>What both of those efforts have in common is that determining safety may be impossible at the construct level but provable if you were to exhaustively search all possible outcomes.<p>What the paper and your comment add to the discussion is the intriguing idea that you could create a &#x27;safe&#x27; backend (say the equivalent of the JVM) as a target for a C compiler. And code that could not be compiled would be flagged for later analysis. Much like VHDL can express hardware that cannot by synthesized you might end up with a C compiler that could compile code that could not be executed. I could be fun to spend a bit of time poking around that rabbit hole.</text></comment> |
37,302,890 | 37,302,699 | 1 | 2 | 37,301,855 | train | <story><title>Tech sector Salaries have fallen up to 15 per cent as fired talent floods market</title><url>https://www.afr.com/technology/tech-workers-take-20-000-plus-pay-cuts-as-fired-talent-floods-market-20230824-p5dz4o</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pj_mukh</author><text>This person will never be convinced, but for anyone else reading, Australia (and Canada, and America) uses migration to ward off a population time bomb [1] not to “keep wages low”.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;countries&#x2F;AUS&#x2F;australia&#x2F;birth-rate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;countries&#x2F;AUS&#x2F;australia&#x2F;birth-ra...</a><p>EDIT: sorry didn’t meant to be dismissive of the person above, but usually this topic hits way too personal for people to change minds online (see: comments below). For any passers by genuinely curious exhaustive data reviews are available [2].<p>Tl;dr: Immigration does not depress wages.<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noahpinion.blog&#x2F;p&#x2F;repost-why-immigration-doesnt-reduce?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noahpinion.blog&#x2F;p&#x2F;repost-why-immigration-doesnt-...</a></text></item><item><author>RachelF</author><text>Australia also relies on migration to keep wages down. This was paused during Covid, so there is more supply of people now.</text></item><item><author>LapsangGuzzler</author><text>I think a similar effect is seen in the US. Perusing the (notably fewer) recruiter emails I’ve gotten lately, they’re almost all below my current pay. Contrasted with a year ago, probably 30-40% of cold recruiter outreach were for higher paying gigs than my current job.<p>I’m also seeing developers with killer resumes complaining in community slack channels about not even getting called back for follow-up interviews. These are people that I would’ve cleaned up in referral fees back when the market was hot. Times have definitely changed.<p>It’s clear that the tech industry and engineering pay flourished under low interest rates and free flowing VC money. Those days are clearly behind us, at least for now.</text></item><item><author>photonbeam</author><text>Note: in australia</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>analognoise</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this confusing cause and effect? Fewer people are having children because it is harder than ever to afford a family, not because the locals have decided passively not to continue on.<p>Immigration absolutely depresses wages - if you import more supply, what happens to the price? That doesn&#x27;t require advanced economics to understand.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tech sector Salaries have fallen up to 15 per cent as fired talent floods market</title><url>https://www.afr.com/technology/tech-workers-take-20-000-plus-pay-cuts-as-fired-talent-floods-market-20230824-p5dz4o</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pj_mukh</author><text>This person will never be convinced, but for anyone else reading, Australia (and Canada, and America) uses migration to ward off a population time bomb [1] not to “keep wages low”.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;countries&#x2F;AUS&#x2F;australia&#x2F;birth-rate" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;countries&#x2F;AUS&#x2F;australia&#x2F;birth-ra...</a><p>EDIT: sorry didn’t meant to be dismissive of the person above, but usually this topic hits way too personal for people to change minds online (see: comments below). For any passers by genuinely curious exhaustive data reviews are available [2].<p>Tl;dr: Immigration does not depress wages.<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noahpinion.blog&#x2F;p&#x2F;repost-why-immigration-doesnt-reduce?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noahpinion.blog&#x2F;p&#x2F;repost-why-immigration-doesnt-...</a></text></item><item><author>RachelF</author><text>Australia also relies on migration to keep wages down. This was paused during Covid, so there is more supply of people now.</text></item><item><author>LapsangGuzzler</author><text>I think a similar effect is seen in the US. Perusing the (notably fewer) recruiter emails I’ve gotten lately, they’re almost all below my current pay. Contrasted with a year ago, probably 30-40% of cold recruiter outreach were for higher paying gigs than my current job.<p>I’m also seeing developers with killer resumes complaining in community slack channels about not even getting called back for follow-up interviews. These are people that I would’ve cleaned up in referral fees back when the market was hot. Times have definitely changed.<p>It’s clear that the tech industry and engineering pay flourished under low interest rates and free flowing VC money. Those days are clearly behind us, at least for now.</text></item><item><author>photonbeam</author><text>Note: in australia</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ralph84</author><text>So in response to people being unable to afford kids, we depress wages to make it even harder to afford kids. Got it.</text></comment> |
36,936,955 | 36,935,222 | 1 | 3 | 36,933,655 | train | <story><title>Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali</title><url>https://www.insider.com/illegal-lab-found-full-of-bioengineered-mice-and-infectious-diseases-2023-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AequitasOmnibus</author><text>&gt; Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.<p>This fact alone shocks the conscience. Criminal charges should fly swift and fierce against everyone involved in this illegal operation.<p>What’s horrifying is that this biolab was found on a fluke. How many more covert biolabs is China operating in secret in the U.S.?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Paul-Craft</author><text>Cool your jets there, Maverick. It&#x27;s not even clear from the article what was illegal about the lab, much less that China was operating it. You can&#x27;t just say &quot;illegal lab,&quot; &quot;COVID-19 virus,&quot; and some random Chinese name and jump to those conclusions.</text></comment> | <story><title>Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali</title><url>https://www.insider.com/illegal-lab-found-full-of-bioengineered-mice-and-infectious-diseases-2023-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AequitasOmnibus</author><text>&gt; Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.<p>This fact alone shocks the conscience. Criminal charges should fly swift and fierce against everyone involved in this illegal operation.<p>What’s horrifying is that this biolab was found on a fluke. How many more covert biolabs is China operating in secret in the U.S.?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>&gt; How many more covert biolabs is China operating in secret in the U.S.?<p>Is the company even Chinese?</text></comment> |
40,417,876 | 40,415,827 | 1 | 3 | 40,414,404 | train | <story><title>Grothendieck’s use of equality</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10387</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>generationP</author><text>This is probably better known here under the name of implicit type conversions. Strictly speaking, the rational number 1 is not the same as the integer 1; we just have a conversion map that preserves all the relevant properties. It&#x27;s all fun and games until there are 1000 types and 10000 conversion maps involved and the relevant diagrams no longer commute (i.e., it depends what order you go).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperman</author><text>&gt; (i.e., it depends what order you go)<p>At the risk of utterly derailing this with irrelevant discussion: path-dependent systems are particularly tricky for some people IMHO. I think in a more state-based way, and my first rigorous dive into path-dependent calculation was during my chemical engineering degree -- I learned to be extremely vigilant about memorizing what was path-dependent and triple-checking if that affected the situation I was calculating.<p>I do wish there was more rigorous exposure to them at lower levels of education and younger age. Because while I&#x27;m perfectly capable of handling path-dependent systems with proper focus and effort, my brain doesn&#x27;t feel &quot;native&quot; when deriving solutions around those spaces - it feels similar to being &quot;fluent enough&quot; in another language. I feel this way about a lot of things -- I really feel I&#x27;d have been happier and more fulfilled if I&#x27;d been immersed in super rigorous first-principles education beginning around age 8-9. I didn&#x27;t do well with things like &quot;memorize this procedure for doing long division&quot; and did much better with conceptual derivations of physics&#x2F;math&#x2F;science&#x2F;historical arcs, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Grothendieck’s use of equality</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10387</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>generationP</author><text>This is probably better known here under the name of implicit type conversions. Strictly speaking, the rational number 1 is not the same as the integer 1; we just have a conversion map that preserves all the relevant properties. It&#x27;s all fun and games until there are 1000 types and 10000 conversion maps involved and the relevant diagrams no longer commute (i.e., it depends what order you go).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>actionfromafar</author><text>I assume you mean any random enterprise codebase? Because that is any random enterprise codebase.</text></comment> |
31,184,961 | 31,184,095 | 1 | 2 | 31,181,595 | train | <story><title>So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell</title><url>https://www.channable.com/tech/so-long-surrogatesa</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Aardwolf</author><text>If only Windows, Java and JavaScript could also move away from internal usage of UTF-16, it&#x27;s purely a legacy format and the worst of both worlds (UTF-32 and UTF-8). Even worse is that unicode itself, which should in theory be a list of codes for glyphs, modifiers and other script related values, that&#x27;s independent of encoding, had to have some codes reserved for &quot;surrogates&quot; for the UTF-16 encoding anyway. UTF-8 doesn&#x27;t need such a thing...</text></comment> | <story><title>So Long Surrogates: How We Moved to UTF-8 in Haskell</title><url>https://www.channable.com/tech/so-long-surrogatesa</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crdrost</author><text>Oh wow. That is really not very much pain, as described.<p>I have to say, I never thought that the benefit of Haskell having a horrible native string type would be &quot;you can just upgrade strings like any other dependency,&quot; which is really kinda slick. You think about how much pain there was for Py2 -&gt; Py3 where one of the big sticking factors was all of the distinctions around strings and encoding and byte arrays... this is comparatively quite nice. Makes me wonder how much of a programming language can be hotswappable.</text></comment> |
14,490,424 | 14,490,662 | 1 | 3 | 14,490,087 | train | <story><title>Stop trying to ‘be original’ and be prolific instead (2016)</title><url>http://prolifiko.com/prolific/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nether</author><text>I stopped caring about this type of ambition porn in my late twenties, and I&#x27;m a lot happier for it. I&#x27;m a lazy, average guy who will probably have a pretty average life. When I stopped being so &quot;hungry,&quot; it opened up a world of tranquility and joy that had always been there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop trying to ‘be original’ and be prolific instead (2016)</title><url>http://prolifiko.com/prolific/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ideonexus</author><text>My wife is a 3D print-designer, who takes her prints to craft shows. We&#x27;ve quickly learned that the best way to increase sales is to have a large variety of designs rather than a smaller selection of high-quality designs. She can make $30 selling one high-quality replica of a historic landmark that took her weeks of painstaking modeling time, but she has to find the one person who wants that print. Alternatively, she can mass-produce refrigerator magnets of birds, flowers, and animals that take just a few hours of modeling time and output them in such a variety that she can easily sell dozens in a day at $5 each.<p>It&#x27;s what makes Amazon so profitable and AliBaba such a threat. It&#x27;s the &quot;longtail&quot; business model, but for ideas. Like Linus Pauling said, &quot;The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.&quot;</text></comment> |
13,074,010 | 13,073,694 | 1 | 3 | 13,073,331 | train | <story><title>Autopilot: an open source driving agent</title><url>https://github.com/commaai/openpilot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Voloskaya</author><text>Not everything seems to be open source.
I can&#x27;t seem to find the vision part, only the binary, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;commaai&#x2F;openpilot&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;selfdrive&#x2F;visiond" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;commaai&#x2F;openpilot&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;selfdrive&#x2F;v...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Autopilot: an open source driving agent</title><url>https://github.com/commaai/openpilot</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>revelation</author><text>This seems to be a code dump from the comma AI startup. It also indicates their autonomous driving platform runs on a &quot;stripped version&quot; of Android.<p>Which seems to indicate that they are clinically insane, given they are using a system that can easily have excessive scheduling latencies under load to steer a car.</text></comment> |
5,719,566 | 5,719,369 | 1 | 2 | 5,718,551 | train | <story><title>Not Having A Real Job</title><url>http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/not-having-a-real-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phillmv</author><text>Let me get this straight.<p>Your solution to feeling socially isolated, having no fulfilling hobbies outside of work, and your apparent unhappiness, despite your success, is to <i>open a co-working space</i>?<p>Folks, this is as clear as an indictment of the culture as you get.<p>I work out of a co-working space. They're great. I am slowly working my way up the informal foosball rankings. And I'm not particularly good at living life, but we're still working at the financial stability part.<p>There is more to life than work, even if you were blessed with huge natural reservoirs of motivation. Learn to paint. Learn to cook. Learn another language. Write fiction, investigate some non-fiction, learn how to take beautiful photographs (pro-tip: your iPhone is an amazing camera), READ BOOKS, start playing a team sport in an adult rec league, go camping, if you can afford it GO TRAVELLING, oh my god you have the money and total flex but you won't go travelling?, VOLUNTEER at the homeless shelter, at the library, at the office of a political cause you believe in, INTERACT WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS [in a setting outside of "lol tech startups" once in a while].</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sown</author><text>Why does everyone say 'travel' or 'volunteer' when these questions get asked?<p>I'm not being rhetorical or sarcastic. I genuinely don't know. I can only assume that it's something I'm missing and everyone else just 'gets' without having to say it outloud (this has happened) or ... something else?<p>I've done both and I can't say I really cared for travelling since it's such a hassle. As for volunteering, which I've done, it feels exactly like work -- except even less people wanted to talk than before. Do people who give this advice actually go volunteer?<p>&#62; INTERACT WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS<p>Yelling at people doesn't help. It kind of feels like people are telling a person to just cheer up if they're clinically depressed.<p>I think that the problems here, and their solutions, are a lot more complicated than anyone gives them credit for.</text></comment> | <story><title>Not Having A Real Job</title><url>http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/not-having-a-real-job</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phillmv</author><text>Let me get this straight.<p>Your solution to feeling socially isolated, having no fulfilling hobbies outside of work, and your apparent unhappiness, despite your success, is to <i>open a co-working space</i>?<p>Folks, this is as clear as an indictment of the culture as you get.<p>I work out of a co-working space. They're great. I am slowly working my way up the informal foosball rankings. And I'm not particularly good at living life, but we're still working at the financial stability part.<p>There is more to life than work, even if you were blessed with huge natural reservoirs of motivation. Learn to paint. Learn to cook. Learn another language. Write fiction, investigate some non-fiction, learn how to take beautiful photographs (pro-tip: your iPhone is an amazing camera), READ BOOKS, start playing a team sport in an adult rec league, go camping, if you can afford it GO TRAVELLING, oh my god you have the money and total flex but you won't go travelling?, VOLUNTEER at the homeless shelter, at the library, at the office of a political cause you believe in, INTERACT WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS [in a setting outside of "lol tech startups" once in a while].</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calinet6</author><text>This line <i>baffled</i> me:<p>"I found myself in a co-working space the other day. I passed row after row of neatly ensconced workers and realized that I would be just as lonely working there, separated in that manner."<p>Ridiculous. People look like they're isolated when they're <i>working.</i> That's how you get work done. It's one of the great things about a coworking space, that it's still a coWORKing space: people are there to work.<p>But they're also there to be social, to work in the same space, go to lunch together, get to know each other, and generally have a structure to their lives and their work that's similar to a "real job" but still working on independent stuff.<p>And it <i>works.</i> I spent 9 months in a coworking space, totally stabilized my life/work/psyche, and made more friends than I could have imagined. Were they all tech people working on startups? Absolutely not and the better for it—it's great to have some diversity in your social interactions. Knowing such a wide variety of types and personalities of people is a goddamn blessing.<p>I just don't get it: why reject coworking and then go start a coworking space? This has an air of hipster entitlement that I just can't shake. I'm glad the author found a way to get out of his rut, and perhaps found an interesting tech incubator spinoff, but it could have been a lot simpler and less dramatic.</text></comment> |
39,266,824 | 39,266,914 | 1 | 3 | 39,264,383 | train | <story><title>WA House bill would make it illegal for police to lie during interrogations</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-house-would-make-it-illegal-for-police-to-lie-during-interrogations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>&gt; as a result you say &quot;I dont really recall..maybe I got a soda from there and dont remember?&quot; [...]<p>&gt; today that statement would be used to show that you couldve been there (because you said so yourself).<p>They can use &quot;I don&#x27;t remember&quot; ?<p>Isn&#x27;t the whole point of interrogation to get a suspect to make conflicting statements, then pressure them when the statements don&#x27;t line up as a means to get a confession?<p>Why is this a bad thing? If this tool goes away, couldn&#x27;t conviction rates plummet (for eg. violent crimes)?<p>I&#x27;m having trouble seeing an ethical problem here?</text></item><item><author>chacham15</author><text>IMO the point of stopping police from lying shouldnt be to prosecute the police (as perjury is already illegal), but rather, to indemnify the person who was lied to for actions they took under false pretenses. So, if the police lie to you and say &quot;we have you on camera at the 7&#x2F;11&quot; and as a result you say &quot;I dont really recall..maybe I got a soda from there and dont remember?&quot; that second statement shouldnt be used against you if they dont actually have you on camera whereas today that statement would be used to show that you couldve been there (because you said so yourself). This is easy to demonstrate in court and consequently toss out that secondary statement which would otherwise be evidence.</text></item><item><author>IncandescentGas</author><text>We already have purjury law, which are so routinely broken by the police there&#x27;s a common term for it. Testilying.<p>Purjury is supposed to be serious. But it&#x27;s not enforced against police officers. Other misconduct like prosecutors hiding exculpatory evidence is also rarely if ever punished even when blatently proven and widely publicided.<p>So why should I believe, if this law passes, anybody in the justice system will enforce it?<p>What happened to Ted Bradford is awful. The fact he actually eventually was exenorated was like winning the lottery. For most falsely convicted, a statistical impossibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway19091p</author><text>&gt; They can use &quot;I don&#x27;t remember&quot; ?<p>They absolutely can, and will use that in a court of law. Any comment that you make that seems completely fine from your perspective can quickly be turned around to lock you up.<p>I highly recommend checking out this lecture when you get a chance: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE</a><p>Police are not generally concerned with getting the right person, they&#x27;re just concerned with getting a person.</text></comment> | <story><title>WA House bill would make it illegal for police to lie during interrogations</title><url>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-house-would-make-it-illegal-for-police-to-lie-during-interrogations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>echelon</author><text>&gt; as a result you say &quot;I dont really recall..maybe I got a soda from there and dont remember?&quot; [...]<p>&gt; today that statement would be used to show that you couldve been there (because you said so yourself).<p>They can use &quot;I don&#x27;t remember&quot; ?<p>Isn&#x27;t the whole point of interrogation to get a suspect to make conflicting statements, then pressure them when the statements don&#x27;t line up as a means to get a confession?<p>Why is this a bad thing? If this tool goes away, couldn&#x27;t conviction rates plummet (for eg. violent crimes)?<p>I&#x27;m having trouble seeing an ethical problem here?</text></item><item><author>chacham15</author><text>IMO the point of stopping police from lying shouldnt be to prosecute the police (as perjury is already illegal), but rather, to indemnify the person who was lied to for actions they took under false pretenses. So, if the police lie to you and say &quot;we have you on camera at the 7&#x2F;11&quot; and as a result you say &quot;I dont really recall..maybe I got a soda from there and dont remember?&quot; that second statement shouldnt be used against you if they dont actually have you on camera whereas today that statement would be used to show that you couldve been there (because you said so yourself). This is easy to demonstrate in court and consequently toss out that secondary statement which would otherwise be evidence.</text></item><item><author>IncandescentGas</author><text>We already have purjury law, which are so routinely broken by the police there&#x27;s a common term for it. Testilying.<p>Purjury is supposed to be serious. But it&#x27;s not enforced against police officers. Other misconduct like prosecutors hiding exculpatory evidence is also rarely if ever punished even when blatently proven and widely publicided.<p>So why should I believe, if this law passes, anybody in the justice system will enforce it?<p>What happened to Ted Bradford is awful. The fact he actually eventually was exenorated was like winning the lottery. For most falsely convicted, a statistical impossibility.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsimionescu</author><text>&gt; Why is this a bad thing? If this tool goes away, couldn&#x27;t conviction rates plummet (for eg. violent crimes)?<p>Even if they do, the real question is whether false convictions will plummet more than true convictions. There are an awful lot of people who &quot;confessed&quot; to crimes didn&#x27;t commit.</text></comment> |
38,706,693 | 38,704,955 | 1 | 3 | 38,702,271 | train | <story><title>The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/955376/b3fba3bbfabbc411/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>2D acceleration is generally done through the same APIs, specifically OpenGL and Vulkan. Classically, the X compositor would use the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension to import an X pixmap representing a window surface into OpenGL, where it can be used like any other texture. For the Wayland compositor, I believe you&#x27;d use EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display to bind a Wayland surface to an EGLImage, and then glEGLImageTargetTexture2DOES (can&#x27;t believe I have that function name memorized) to bind that EGLImage to an OpenGL texture, where it can be used in the same way. Vulkan has similar extensions.<p>On the client side, I think most Linux apps still draw their UIs on CPU, usually accelerated with SIMD. Firefox and Chrome (I think SkiaGL is enabled on Linux?) are exceptions; they use OpenGL and&#x2F;or Vulkan to draw their UI. Video playback is a different beast and in theory relies on vendor-specific extensions to decode the video in hardware. However, the last time I looked at Linux video decoding (which was years ago), the drivers were awful and interfacing with each vendor&#x27;s APIs was a huge pain, and so most apps just did video decoding on CPU. (Besides, the Linux ecosystem prefers open codecs, and hardware has only recently gotten support for non-patent-encumbered video formats.)</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This is about 3D rendering, to be precise; I believe 2D acceleration goes through the same lower layers but the higher ones are very different.<p>Incidentally, one thing I noticed when I was trying to port Linux GPU drivers to Windows some time ago is what appeared to be an excessive amount of indirection; there are so many layers and places where things could be simpler.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Denvercoder9</author><text>&gt; However, the last time I looked at Linux video decoding (which was years ago), the drivers were awful and interfacing with each vendor&#x27;s APIs was a huge pain, and so most apps just did video decoding on CPU.<p>Nowadays VA-API is near universally supported, and any half-decent video player uses it to do hardware decoding.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/955376/b3fba3bbfabbc411/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pcwalton</author><text>2D acceleration is generally done through the same APIs, specifically OpenGL and Vulkan. Classically, the X compositor would use the GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap extension to import an X pixmap representing a window surface into OpenGL, where it can be used like any other texture. For the Wayland compositor, I believe you&#x27;d use EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display to bind a Wayland surface to an EGLImage, and then glEGLImageTargetTexture2DOES (can&#x27;t believe I have that function name memorized) to bind that EGLImage to an OpenGL texture, where it can be used in the same way. Vulkan has similar extensions.<p>On the client side, I think most Linux apps still draw their UIs on CPU, usually accelerated with SIMD. Firefox and Chrome (I think SkiaGL is enabled on Linux?) are exceptions; they use OpenGL and&#x2F;or Vulkan to draw their UI. Video playback is a different beast and in theory relies on vendor-specific extensions to decode the video in hardware. However, the last time I looked at Linux video decoding (which was years ago), the drivers were awful and interfacing with each vendor&#x27;s APIs was a huge pain, and so most apps just did video decoding on CPU. (Besides, the Linux ecosystem prefers open codecs, and hardware has only recently gotten support for non-patent-encumbered video formats.)</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>This is about 3D rendering, to be precise; I believe 2D acceleration goes through the same lower layers but the higher ones are very different.<p>Incidentally, one thing I noticed when I was trying to port Linux GPU drivers to Windows some time ago is what appeared to be an excessive amount of indirection; there are so many layers and places where things could be simpler.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MBCook</author><text>Why are toolkits still rendered on the CPU?</text></comment> |
39,585,639 | 39,585,700 | 1 | 3 | 39,584,654 | train | <story><title>CSS for printing to paper</title><url>https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>persnickety</author><text>Browser support for printing CSS is spotty. Worse: some features, like footnotes on every page, don&#x27;t have any equivalent in CSS I know of.<p>Is there any easy to use&#x2F;hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?<p>Modifying an entire browser with its bloat is too much effort. There is no JS or cookies on paper (they can be in paper if you wrap them).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tingletech</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pagedjs.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pagedjs.org</a> has a polyfill that implements <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;css-gcpm-3&#x2F;#footnotes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;css-gcpm-3&#x2F;#footnotes</a></text></comment> | <story><title>CSS for printing to paper</title><url>https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>persnickety</author><text>Browser support for printing CSS is spotty. Worse: some features, like footnotes on every page, don&#x27;t have any equivalent in CSS I know of.<p>Is there any easy to use&#x2F;hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?<p>Modifying an entire browser with its bloat is too much effort. There is no JS or cookies on paper (they can be in paper if you wrap them).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spystath</author><text>You don&#x27;t have to use a <i>browser</i>. I had very good results with Weasyprint [0]. And there&#x27;s also PrinceXML [1] if you&#x27;re willing to pay.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weasyprint.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weasyprint.org&#x2F;</a>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.princexml.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.princexml.com&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
28,371,456 | 28,371,771 | 1 | 2 | 28,370,662 | train | <story><title>Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020)</title><url>https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/tor-is-a-great-sysadmin-tool/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krtyiktj</author><text>at our lab the tor traffic would be noticed by the cyber security group&#x27;s ids and all traffic from your host would start dropping at the border so fast your head would spin. you&#x27;d get an unpleasant phone call or visit to your office and be warned never to try side stepping the bastion ssh hosts that log all the things ever again.</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>In many ways I think this blog post really makes quite compelling arguments and honestly opened my eyes a bit.<p>One (perhaps mad) idea for more secure access to a machine deep behind many levels of NAT where you, the sysadmin, have lawful access but are fed up with having to have a 12 KB ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;config file in order to access it because of your university&#x27;s overbearing IT department^W^W^W^W network topology, would be to &quot;just&quot; run an onionsite with onion services authentication [1], preventing it being publicly accessed without the pre-shared key. If your onion service just redirects to ssh (presumably with certificate-only auth) I can&#x27;t help but think that this is <i>almost</i> an example of security by obscurity done right.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.torproject.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;onionservices&#x2F;client-auth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.torproject.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;onionservices&#x2F;client-au...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>Obviously, you should plan around this by gathering all the MAC addresses of every machine in the office, and then have your machine spoof through them in rotation. &#x2F;s</text></comment> | <story><title>Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020)</title><url>https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/tor-is-a-great-sysadmin-tool/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krtyiktj</author><text>at our lab the tor traffic would be noticed by the cyber security group&#x27;s ids and all traffic from your host would start dropping at the border so fast your head would spin. you&#x27;d get an unpleasant phone call or visit to your office and be warned never to try side stepping the bastion ssh hosts that log all the things ever again.</text></item><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>In many ways I think this blog post really makes quite compelling arguments and honestly opened my eyes a bit.<p>One (perhaps mad) idea for more secure access to a machine deep behind many levels of NAT where you, the sysadmin, have lawful access but are fed up with having to have a 12 KB ~&#x2F;.ssh&#x2F;config file in order to access it because of your university&#x27;s overbearing IT department^W^W^W^W network topology, would be to &quot;just&quot; run an onionsite with onion services authentication [1], preventing it being publicly accessed without the pre-shared key. If your onion service just redirects to ssh (presumably with certificate-only auth) I can&#x27;t help but think that this is <i>almost</i> an example of security by obscurity done right.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.torproject.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;onionservices&#x2F;client-auth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.torproject.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;onionservices&#x2F;client-au...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rattlesnakedave</author><text>&gt; you&#x27;d get an unpleasant phone call or visit to your office and be warned<p>sometimes I wonder why IT departments and security in general get a bad wrap, then I see things like this.</text></comment> |
14,654,631 | 14,654,629 | 1 | 3 | 14,651,884 | train | <story><title>USPS loses millions each year on local delivery of mail from abroad (2014)</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/the-postal-service-is-losing-millions-a-year-to-help-you-buy-cheap-stuff-from-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>013a</author><text>But the core of the argument is that this isn&#x27;t pure capitalist economics; the government is essentially subsidizing China&#x27;s ability to compete in America. It&#x27;d be one thing if China could make it and ship it for legitimately cheaper, but abusing a treaty loophole in USPS regulations isn&#x27;t the same. That&#x27;s an unfair advantage.<p>There&#x27;s also a second argument at play: If China can make a product for $10 cheaper, legitimate shipping included, because they&#x27;re allowed to abuse their workers and pay them much less, do we trust pure capitalism to properly prioritize the values of the American people? This really is the case of, say, Apple&#x27;s electronics plants in China.</text></item><item><author>csydas</author><text>&gt; All of this is little comfort to McGrath, who chafes at the thought of the Postal Service helping Chinese merchants poach his customers. “All of us sellers are selling a lot of Chinese goods in America but at least we’re creating jobs, making money, and adding to the economy,” he said. “But when people buy direct from China that’s adding nothing to the American economy.”<p>I understand the seller&#x27;s frustration - their means of supporting themselves has been taken away, but I&#x27;m not sure I buy the argument that we need the intermediary just to &quot;add to the economy&quot;. To me it just seems like an unsustainable business model that was destined to die once global communication became much easier, not just because of the various treaties and agreements of postal services.<p>The moment that chinese sellers could get a site available to a global audience, the need for an intermediary vanished; before you essentially paid for the connection; an extra $18 on a remote controlled toy boat was paying for access to the seller&#x27;s inventory, supplied by his Chinese connections.<p>Now, there&#x27;s no need for that connection or that warehouse - the visibility for any foreign seller is much greater, even to the point that it probably would still be valuable even without the USPS trade deal.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate, but this just seems like a model that was destined to die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BearGoesChirp</author><text>As to your second argument, I&#x27;m still not sure why it is legal to buy or own materials in the US created by human rights abuse. Let&#x27;s take a case of a Chinese good produced by political slaves in prison. By buying or owning that good, a person is financially supporting the abuse that went into creating that good. Same applies for something that is produced for cheaper due to an ability to pollute in ways that aren&#x27;t legal in the US (or other countries, this argument need not be just for the US).<p>But there are some digital goods where we do not give this same treatment (namely digital material involving really bad child maltreatment). Regardless of the legality of where the material is produced, owning it in the US is illegal because it couldn&#x27;t legally be produced in the US and funding such illegal action elsewhere is considered morally wrong enough to ban.<p>Simply put, I think the core idea should be applied to all financial transactions. If one is buying a good or service that would be illegal in the US due to harm to another human, it should be illegal to buy or own in the US, even if where it is produced is legal. The law should prevent a person from harming another human by shopping around and finding wherever has the least legal protections.</text></comment> | <story><title>USPS loses millions each year on local delivery of mail from abroad (2014)</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/the-postal-service-is-losing-millions-a-year-to-help-you-buy-cheap-stuff-from-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>013a</author><text>But the core of the argument is that this isn&#x27;t pure capitalist economics; the government is essentially subsidizing China&#x27;s ability to compete in America. It&#x27;d be one thing if China could make it and ship it for legitimately cheaper, but abusing a treaty loophole in USPS regulations isn&#x27;t the same. That&#x27;s an unfair advantage.<p>There&#x27;s also a second argument at play: If China can make a product for $10 cheaper, legitimate shipping included, because they&#x27;re allowed to abuse their workers and pay them much less, do we trust pure capitalism to properly prioritize the values of the American people? This really is the case of, say, Apple&#x27;s electronics plants in China.</text></item><item><author>csydas</author><text>&gt; All of this is little comfort to McGrath, who chafes at the thought of the Postal Service helping Chinese merchants poach his customers. “All of us sellers are selling a lot of Chinese goods in America but at least we’re creating jobs, making money, and adding to the economy,” he said. “But when people buy direct from China that’s adding nothing to the American economy.”<p>I understand the seller&#x27;s frustration - their means of supporting themselves has been taken away, but I&#x27;m not sure I buy the argument that we need the intermediary just to &quot;add to the economy&quot;. To me it just seems like an unsustainable business model that was destined to die once global communication became much easier, not just because of the various treaties and agreements of postal services.<p>The moment that chinese sellers could get a site available to a global audience, the need for an intermediary vanished; before you essentially paid for the connection; an extra $18 on a remote controlled toy boat was paying for access to the seller&#x27;s inventory, supplied by his Chinese connections.<p>Now, there&#x27;s no need for that connection or that warehouse - the visibility for any foreign seller is much greater, even to the point that it probably would still be valuable even without the USPS trade deal.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate, but this just seems like a model that was destined to die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woliveirajr</author><text>The loophole isn&#x27;t unidirectional. It can make the China Post deliver many letters to small villages in China.<p>The problem is that no one on those villages are interested in paying some small price to receive a thing from America.</text></comment> |
29,548,884 | 29,548,125 | 1 | 3 | 29,544,979 | train | <story><title>What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/california-san-francisco-outdoor-dining-progressive-utopia/620974/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>8f2ab37a-ed6c</author><text>&gt; Cities don&#x27;t want loud drunk people on sidewalks, i.e., a bar scene on the sidewalk. Public alcohol consumption is generally banned in most places in the US, afaik.<p>Which is ironic, because if you sit down anywhere outside in SF for an hour, there&#x27;s a rather high and predictable chance that a person suffering from severe mental illness and&#x2F;or narcotics abuse will park themselves next to you, begin to scream unintelligible sentences, to hurl insults at the patrons and act in a generally threatening fashion. Everybody will try not to make eye contact or acknowledge their presence in any way, hoping they leave of their own accord in a few minutes. You do the usual dance of pretending that the screams aren&#x27;t at all distracting to the conversation you&#x27;re having, while also being barely able to pay attention to anything else, in the off chance you need to dodge something thrown in your general direction. Usually nobody gets hurt, but sometimes you get unlucky and lose the stab lottery. Life goes on.</text></item><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>If you want to take down a fence, first learn why it was built. I can guess at reasons but it would be interesting to hear from a city planner on the reasons and history. My guesses:<p>* The sidewalk is public space. Does the public give away free real estate to the restaurant, to be used to generate revenue by the square foot? If the restaurant wants outdoor dining, they can build it on their own property. Perhaps the city should at least charge rent (in non-pandemic times).<p>* Cities don&#x27;t want loud drunk people on sidewalks, i.e., a bar scene on the sidewalk. Public alcohol consumption is generally banned in most places in the US, afaik.<p>* It obstructs sidewalks, which have an important purpose and were built to a certain capacity. Analogously, should we allow dining in the street, blocking a lane of traffic (structures could be built that would shield patrons from the street). Possibly, there was less foot traffic during the pandemic so the problem wasn&#x27;t as noticeable.<p>* Laws that apply to one person apply to every restaurant in the city. Maybe the temporary pandemic situation limited how many and how did it, and we don&#x27;t want every restaurant building outdoor dining on the sidewalk.<p>The title is inflammatory: Assuming &#x27;progressives&#x27; are bad, caused the issue, the issue is somehow bad. I expect more from the Atlantic than joining the lynch-the-progressives mob.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TedDoesntTalk</author><text>Why is this common in SF but not European cities, where outdoor dining and beer gardens are even more common than SF? (In other words, there’s more opportunity but yet it’s still not common).</text></comment> | <story><title>What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/california-san-francisco-outdoor-dining-progressive-utopia/620974/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>8f2ab37a-ed6c</author><text>&gt; Cities don&#x27;t want loud drunk people on sidewalks, i.e., a bar scene on the sidewalk. Public alcohol consumption is generally banned in most places in the US, afaik.<p>Which is ironic, because if you sit down anywhere outside in SF for an hour, there&#x27;s a rather high and predictable chance that a person suffering from severe mental illness and&#x2F;or narcotics abuse will park themselves next to you, begin to scream unintelligible sentences, to hurl insults at the patrons and act in a generally threatening fashion. Everybody will try not to make eye contact or acknowledge their presence in any way, hoping they leave of their own accord in a few minutes. You do the usual dance of pretending that the screams aren&#x27;t at all distracting to the conversation you&#x27;re having, while also being barely able to pay attention to anything else, in the off chance you need to dodge something thrown in your general direction. Usually nobody gets hurt, but sometimes you get unlucky and lose the stab lottery. Life goes on.</text></item><item><author>wolverine876</author><text>If you want to take down a fence, first learn why it was built. I can guess at reasons but it would be interesting to hear from a city planner on the reasons and history. My guesses:<p>* The sidewalk is public space. Does the public give away free real estate to the restaurant, to be used to generate revenue by the square foot? If the restaurant wants outdoor dining, they can build it on their own property. Perhaps the city should at least charge rent (in non-pandemic times).<p>* Cities don&#x27;t want loud drunk people on sidewalks, i.e., a bar scene on the sidewalk. Public alcohol consumption is generally banned in most places in the US, afaik.<p>* It obstructs sidewalks, which have an important purpose and were built to a certain capacity. Analogously, should we allow dining in the street, blocking a lane of traffic (structures could be built that would shield patrons from the street). Possibly, there was less foot traffic during the pandemic so the problem wasn&#x27;t as noticeable.<p>* Laws that apply to one person apply to every restaurant in the city. Maybe the temporary pandemic situation limited how many and how did it, and we don&#x27;t want every restaurant building outdoor dining on the sidewalk.<p>The title is inflammatory: Assuming &#x27;progressives&#x27; are bad, caused the issue, the issue is somehow bad. I expect more from the Atlantic than joining the lynch-the-progressives mob.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gunshai</author><text>Sounds like Seattle and Portland :( no longer the cities I once loved.</text></comment> |
21,846,298 | 21,844,410 | 1 | 2 | 21,844,066 | train | <story><title>Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2019/12/20/apple-launches-public-bug-bounty-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Razengan</author><text>I wish Apple would also improve their process for handling “ordinary” non-security bugs.<p>Since the WWDC 2019 betas and even after release all the way through to the latest updates today, I still run into a bug in Apple software and services, even their IDE and APIs, almost every single day.<p>Just a few hours ago I had to hard-reset my MacBook because it failed to wake from sleep (beachballed) after plugging in.<p>This has happened a few times on my barely-a-year old MBP running the latest Catalina, freshly installed and without any system-level&#x2F;third-party modifications. This is not really acceptable and triggers horrible flashbacks of my time in the Microsoft trenches.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Officially Announces Bug Bounty Program Covering All of Its Software</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2019/12/20/apple-launches-public-bug-bounty-program/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zuck9</author><text>Here&#x27;s the official page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;security-bounty&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;security-bounty&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
14,275,911 | 14,275,271 | 1 | 2 | 14,274,802 | train | <story><title>Rediscovering the Intel AMT Vulnerability</title><url>https://www.tenable.com/blog/rediscovering-the-intel-amt-vulnerability</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text><i>Next, we reduced the response hash to one hex digit and authentication still worked. Continuing to dig, we used a NULL&#x2F;empty response hash (response=&quot;&quot; in the HTTP Authorization header).<p>Authentication still worked. We had discovered a complete bypass of the authentication scheme.</i><p>What. the. fuck.<p>This is not the kind of bug you should ship in <i>anything</i> if you have the barest bit of testing in place, much less a large company like Intel, in an enterprise feature which has a lot of security ramifications, and which has apparently existed for a long time (years?).<p>Edit: Also, this is really good evidence for short and hard disclosure deadlines. What&#x27;s the chance something as simple as this wasn&#x27;t known by someone else? All they had to do was decide to look and they found something within minutes. It&#x27;s not like this is obscure or doesn&#x27;t get your much, it&#x27;s about as juicy as they come.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rediscovering the Intel AMT Vulnerability</title><url>https://www.tenable.com/blog/rediscovering-the-intel-amt-vulnerability</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bobsam</author><text>Intel decided they have the right to put a whole secret computer inside your computer that only they can access. God knows what it does when no one is watching.<p>That&#x27;s the problem you should discuss, not this particular exploit.</text></comment> |
35,036,773 | 35,036,608 | 1 | 2 | 35,031,474 | train | <story><title>How to hire engineering talent without the BS</title><url>https://jes.al/2023/03/how-to-hire-engineering-talent-without-the-bs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>Maybe analytical hobbies. Hire anyone into lockpicking, rock climbing, or music theory.</text></item><item><author>swsieber</author><text>&gt; Google is beginning to show its age,...<p>Yup. Goodhart&#x27;s law strikes again. I am curious as to what the next as-of-yet-ungamed effective hiring metric is.</text></item><item><author>mountainriver</author><text>And is Google itself effective? We all copied Google but do we have their problems? Do we need the type of engineers they needed?<p>Google is beginning to show its age, I’ve seen a number of past coworkers get hired there lately that weren’t effective at their job, but I’m sure they crushed some Leetcode.</text></item><item><author>blindriver</author><text>All of these &quot;this is how you hire&quot; posts are utterly worthless without data afterwards to prove that their selection process results in high performance. Does any of these posters actually correlate interview scores with performance reviews? No. It&#x27;s just people very confidently announcing their own biases beliefs without any reason except their overconfidence.<p>At least the reason why we have Leetcode questions is because Google did the research and came to the conclusion that those are were good at algorithms ended up being more successful at Google, and THAT&#x27;S why we are all suffering through LC. But now that LC has been gamed, I would love to see what the results are as to what makes a successful interview.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>I think the last couple decades of software suggest that all these indicators, if adopted by companies that significant numbers of people wanted to work for, would quickly become checklists of things to do&#x2F;fake.<p>See also: college admissions. (No, that kid probably didn&#x27;t do that volunteering activity because they wanted to help people, but because they were told it was a checklist item, as they were coached through college admissions. And they probably didn&#x27;t learn anything, and they were coached on what to say about that in the essay. And, normally, actually productive volunteering probably wouldn&#x27;t have looked like each one of those kids starting their own duplicate initiative so each could spin it as demonstrating leadership. And it&#x27;s more an option for kids from families well-off enough that the kids didn&#x27;t have to work jobs that would contribute better to their household income or college expenses. And don&#x27;t get me started on how the well-to-do decided that &quot;travel&quot; would be a plus on applications.)</text></comment> | <story><title>How to hire engineering talent without the BS</title><url>https://jes.al/2023/03/how-to-hire-engineering-talent-without-the-bs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idontwantthis</author><text>Maybe analytical hobbies. Hire anyone into lockpicking, rock climbing, or music theory.</text></item><item><author>swsieber</author><text>&gt; Google is beginning to show its age,...<p>Yup. Goodhart&#x27;s law strikes again. I am curious as to what the next as-of-yet-ungamed effective hiring metric is.</text></item><item><author>mountainriver</author><text>And is Google itself effective? We all copied Google but do we have their problems? Do we need the type of engineers they needed?<p>Google is beginning to show its age, I’ve seen a number of past coworkers get hired there lately that weren’t effective at their job, but I’m sure they crushed some Leetcode.</text></item><item><author>blindriver</author><text>All of these &quot;this is how you hire&quot; posts are utterly worthless without data afterwards to prove that their selection process results in high performance. Does any of these posters actually correlate interview scores with performance reviews? No. It&#x27;s just people very confidently announcing their own biases beliefs without any reason except their overconfidence.<p>At least the reason why we have Leetcode questions is because Google did the research and came to the conclusion that those are were good at algorithms ended up being more successful at Google, and THAT&#x27;S why we are all suffering through LC. But now that LC has been gamed, I would love to see what the results are as to what makes a successful interview.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fathyb</author><text>Makes me think, the Real Book might be musical equivalent of Leetcode..</text></comment> |
41,456,807 | 41,456,543 | 1 | 2 | 41,452,962 | train | <story><title>Accelerando (2005)</title><url>https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miki123211</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda wild to me that Stross literally wrote about cryptocurrency, smart contracts (the legal corporations in Accelerando written in Python 3000, AKA what is now called Python3) and cryptocurrency thefts (the robbing of a decentralized bank due to a bug at the beginning of &quot;halting state&quot;). All of this was years before Bitcoin, not to mention Ethereum, which is where most of that smart contract stuff started.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alecco</author><text>&gt; All of this was years before Bitcoin, not to mention Ethereum<p>Cypherpunks were working on this since the 90s (or even 80s). There was a very active mailing list way back then with experiments and a lot of discussions. Bitcoin was revolutionary but it was built on top of a lot of existing work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cryptocurrency#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cryptocurrency#History</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cypherpunk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cypherpunk</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Accelerando (2005)</title><url>https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>miki123211</author><text>It&#x27;s kinda wild to me that Stross literally wrote about cryptocurrency, smart contracts (the legal corporations in Accelerando written in Python 3000, AKA what is now called Python3) and cryptocurrency thefts (the robbing of a decentralized bank due to a bug at the beginning of &quot;halting state&quot;). All of this was years before Bitcoin, not to mention Ethereum, which is where most of that smart contract stuff started.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ttepasse</author><text>Stross has a talent for keeping an eye on the weirdos of the net without necessary sharing their belief, so I&#x27;m rather sure he was aware of the Cypherpunks of the 90s where a lot of this stuff originated.</text></comment> |
34,792,372 | 34,792,566 | 1 | 2 | 34,790,582 | train | <story><title>Does Google need a new CEO?</title><url>https://om.co/2023/02/08/does-google-need-a-new-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ok_coo</author><text>The Stadia closure sealed it for me. Such amazing tech for what it was, completely unable to see the long-term and stay dedicated to a tech that&#x27;s obviously going to have increasing adoption into the future. Handed over that entire market to MS without a fight. It even had a perfect release window during COVID when everyone was home and wasn&#x27;t able to find PS5 or Xbox to buy.<p>Everything around that product was a summary of how Google handles things now. I can&#x27;t take any new product release seriously from them anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>px43</author><text>I feel like Google used to be really big on the &quot;release early, release often&quot; mantra. At some point they turned more into Willy Wonka&#x27;s Chocolate Factory. You can look in the windows and see them doing cool shit, but it never seems to make it to the general public.<p>Of course, most egregiously, they invented transformers like 6 years ago, and they&#x27;ve had LaMDA for over a year, and only let people see small glimpses of it. Also, Waymo has been around for almost 15 years, and seems to have some really neat tech, but people can&#x27;t actually use it. Calico has apparently made some massive breakthroughs with ISRIB treatments, and bought up all the patents so they have exclusive access to it, but seem to be keeping everything to themselves.<p>I feel like Google Code could have easily dominated over GitHub, but then they just let Microsoft have it.<p>Google does so much cool stuff, and I&#x27;m grateful for the services that they offer, many of which I pay for. It just sucks that they&#x27;ve gotten so stingy lately about what they release. I hope that changes soon.</text></comment> | <story><title>Does Google need a new CEO?</title><url>https://om.co/2023/02/08/does-google-need-a-new-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ok_coo</author><text>The Stadia closure sealed it for me. Such amazing tech for what it was, completely unable to see the long-term and stay dedicated to a tech that&#x27;s obviously going to have increasing adoption into the future. Handed over that entire market to MS without a fight. It even had a perfect release window during COVID when everyone was home and wasn&#x27;t able to find PS5 or Xbox to buy.<p>Everything around that product was a summary of how Google handles things now. I can&#x27;t take any new product release seriously from them anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wg0</author><text>Biggest thing that was wrong with Stadia - over promising. Like 4k@60Hz over internet is too bold and maybe doable from within Google Offices or Bay Area and that isn&#x27;t a market enough.<p>Could go a guaranteed consistent and stable 720p@60Hz with a YouTube kind of Ad revenue model. You play, you watch the ads every X Minutes and revenue streams shared with developers.<p>Indie developer&#x27;s heaven it could be.<p>You don&#x27;t want ads? As subscription model could be the way. Best would have been to pick up tons of past titles BioShock, Mafia etc by being the goto place for recent retro games and gradually gaining traction in triple AAA segment.<p>EDIT: Typos</text></comment> |
21,140,334 | 21,137,273 | 1 | 2 | 21,133,839 | train | <story><title>Robots to Cut 200k U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/robots-to-cut-200-000-u-s-bank-jobs-in-next-decade-study-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dawg-</author><text>A few years ago my bank had a mini-branch in my local chain grocery store. They had a counter and some tellers working behind it. I went to it really often because I was being paid in cash at the time waiting tables. The employees were super nice, they all seemed like they were friends, and I kind of became buddies with them over my time of being a regular customer. Not all bank tellers are pleasant customer service people, but this group just had a good vibe I guess.<p>One day I try go to the bank and the counter was ripped out and drywalled over, and in its place is a giant ATM machine. It&#x27;s like an ATM machine on steroids that can do anything with your account. And if you had issues there was a screen on it that would connect you to a call center in Bangladesh or wherever.<p>Some corporate bank employee was posted next to the machine to explain the change to people who had questions. When I walked up a group of people were standing around listening to him talk, they looked ready to pull out the pitchforks. He assured us that all of the tellers were still employed, they were just working &quot;behind the scenes&quot;. I didn&#x27;t buy that at all, and neither did anyone else.<p>I continued to use the machine to deposit my cash, but it really sucked. I mean the machine worked absolutely fine. But it sucked to imagine how those tellers felt to be replaced by it.<p>Now that I don&#x27;t get paid in cash, I don&#x27;t even go to a physical bank at all. I deposit checks on my phone in the rare occasion I need to do that.<p>I&#x27;m still not sure how to feel about this. I want to hate it but it feels a little irrational. Maybe all of those tellers went to a coding bootcamp and now make triple their salary designing the ATM machines? Seems like that&#x27;s how the story is supposed to go. But probably not. Nothing I can do about it anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seibelj</author><text>People used to be paid to pump our gas, operate the elevator, hand you a towel in the bathroom. A few places still pay people to do this but it’s more of a luxury add-on. Machines made it so that anyone can pump gas, hit an elevator button, or wash and dry their own hands after using the toilet.<p>Technology progresses and we don’t need experts to cash our checks anymore. If we want to give make-work jobs to people I would prefer they put on puppet shows and read books to kids and the elderly rather than paperwork nonsense at a grocery store bank.<p>People find new jobs. Losing a job doesn’t mean they are destitute - we have a vibrant jobs market in America. If there are enough people like you who would specifically go to a bank in person because you like talking to people, a bank may do that as a competitive advantage. But it isn’t a necessary thing anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>Robots to Cut 200k U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/robots-to-cut-200-000-u-s-bank-jobs-in-next-decade-study-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dawg-</author><text>A few years ago my bank had a mini-branch in my local chain grocery store. They had a counter and some tellers working behind it. I went to it really often because I was being paid in cash at the time waiting tables. The employees were super nice, they all seemed like they were friends, and I kind of became buddies with them over my time of being a regular customer. Not all bank tellers are pleasant customer service people, but this group just had a good vibe I guess.<p>One day I try go to the bank and the counter was ripped out and drywalled over, and in its place is a giant ATM machine. It&#x27;s like an ATM machine on steroids that can do anything with your account. And if you had issues there was a screen on it that would connect you to a call center in Bangladesh or wherever.<p>Some corporate bank employee was posted next to the machine to explain the change to people who had questions. When I walked up a group of people were standing around listening to him talk, they looked ready to pull out the pitchforks. He assured us that all of the tellers were still employed, they were just working &quot;behind the scenes&quot;. I didn&#x27;t buy that at all, and neither did anyone else.<p>I continued to use the machine to deposit my cash, but it really sucked. I mean the machine worked absolutely fine. But it sucked to imagine how those tellers felt to be replaced by it.<p>Now that I don&#x27;t get paid in cash, I don&#x27;t even go to a physical bank at all. I deposit checks on my phone in the rare occasion I need to do that.<p>I&#x27;m still not sure how to feel about this. I want to hate it but it feels a little irrational. Maybe all of those tellers went to a coding bootcamp and now make triple their salary designing the ATM machines? Seems like that&#x27;s how the story is supposed to go. But probably not. Nothing I can do about it anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>txdv</author><text>&gt; Maybe all of those tellers went to a coding bootcamp and now make triple their salary designing the ATM machines?<p>Of course, that is where all the unemployed people go.</text></comment> |
25,008,916 | 25,007,831 | 1 | 2 | 25,007,435 | train | <story><title>YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqPXcv-IE0k</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mothsonasloth</author><text>This is absolutely shocking.<p>On one side, we have an extremely manipulative individual&#x2F;group of people.<p>On the other we have gullible users, some of which are enabling this abuse by donating money and or sharing this content to other people.<p>Then in the middle of this sandwich we have the platforms, taking their cut.<p>I&#x27;ve seen other cases like this but on facebook with conjured sob stories that led to justgiving pages.<p>Not sure what the solution is apart from relying on good samaritans and people looking out for this bad behaviour.<p>However I can&#x27;t remember who said it, but someone said &quot;good people don&#x27;t scale well on the internet&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>A4ET8a8uTh0</author><text>I can&#x27;t help but agree. I used to somewhat immune to that kind of pandering until I got a dog myself and now I simply cannot watch some of the ads&#x2F;news&#x2F;videos that deal with various animal rescues.<p>I absolutely get how some people&#x27;s first reaction is to take the easy way and reach for a wallet. After all, the need is there and there seem to be people who seem to be helping. It does help that I don&#x27;t have that much money to spare so when I donate, it is usually time and not money.<p>Frankly, I was trying to convince wife to create a dog sanctuary for a while.<p>Still, while there is special place in hell for some of animal abusers, the middlemen and scammers have their own little ring in there too.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqPXcv-IE0k</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mothsonasloth</author><text>This is absolutely shocking.<p>On one side, we have an extremely manipulative individual&#x2F;group of people.<p>On the other we have gullible users, some of which are enabling this abuse by donating money and or sharing this content to other people.<p>Then in the middle of this sandwich we have the platforms, taking their cut.<p>I&#x27;ve seen other cases like this but on facebook with conjured sob stories that led to justgiving pages.<p>Not sure what the solution is apart from relying on good samaritans and people looking out for this bad behaviour.<p>However I can&#x27;t remember who said it, but someone said &quot;good people don&#x27;t scale well on the internet&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tade0</author><text>The youth that I interact with has grown to be automatically sceptical of such things.<p>There&#x27;s a generation growing up that doesn&#x27;t take anything at face value. I wonder what the second order effects of this will be?</text></comment> |
26,993,494 | 26,993,126 | 1 | 2 | 26,992,205 | train | <story><title>Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/04/stock-market-returns-are-anything-but-average/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muskox2</author><text>What is your explanation for the explosion in asset prices over the last year, if not inflation? Do you think the assets have become fundamentally more valuable?</text></item><item><author>staticman2</author><text>Except measuring the value of money as something other than the ability to provide consumption (the ability to buy things you consume, rather than investments) doesn&#x27;t make sense, regardless of how fashionable it is on this site to throw around the term &quot;asset inflation&quot;.</text></item><item><author>tarruda</author><text>Instead of seeing as high returns, you can also look at it as money losing value due to excessive printing of last year.</text></item><item><author>hpkuarg</author><text>I mean, just look at last year, when the S&amp;P 500 index plunged over 30%, then proceeded to nearly double from then until now, in the midst of a global pandemic that froze big chunks of the world economy. Stock market returns make no sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CarelessExpert</author><text>&gt; What is your explanation for the explosion in asset prices over the last year, if not inflation?<p>Well, a few ideas immediately spring to mind:<p>a) Historically low interest rates are causing people to chase gains elsewhere. Again, people end up looking to the markets. This has been an ongoing trend exacerbated by...<p>b) For folks not on the margins, discretionary spending was severely curtailed last year. They had to do something with that extra cash. Many people, during a time of tumult, chose to save. This is only exacerbated a trend that started way back in 2008 due to similar post-disaster psychological scarring. Where did people put the money? Into the markets.<p>c) Wealth concentration means a huge amount of the cash floating around has landed in the coffers of the largest institutions and individuals. Those institutions aren&#x27;t using that cash to buy chips at the 7&#x2F;11. They&#x27;re either i) saving it, which means putting it into the market, or ii) using it to buy up assets (e.g. acquisitions) which itself bids up prices.<p>In short: What&#x27;s going on the market probably has absolutely nothing to do with what&#x27;s going on on mainstreet.<p>Of course, that&#x27;s been true for the last 10 years as folks on the fringes continued to predict hyperinflation post-2008. But, the great thing about disaster predictions is you can always just move the goalposts out...</text></comment> | <story><title>Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average</title><url>https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/04/stock-market-returns-are-anything-but-average/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muskox2</author><text>What is your explanation for the explosion in asset prices over the last year, if not inflation? Do you think the assets have become fundamentally more valuable?</text></item><item><author>staticman2</author><text>Except measuring the value of money as something other than the ability to provide consumption (the ability to buy things you consume, rather than investments) doesn&#x27;t make sense, regardless of how fashionable it is on this site to throw around the term &quot;asset inflation&quot;.</text></item><item><author>tarruda</author><text>Instead of seeing as high returns, you can also look at it as money losing value due to excessive printing of last year.</text></item><item><author>hpkuarg</author><text>I mean, just look at last year, when the S&amp;P 500 index plunged over 30%, then proceeded to nearly double from then until now, in the midst of a global pandemic that froze big chunks of the world economy. Stock market returns make no sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticman2</author><text>My guess is:<p>1) Bonds and bank accounts are paying less than inflation, so to not lose money you need to invest in stock. That doesn&#x27;t mean inflation is high rather bank accounts stink.<p>2) People figured out based on recent fed action that the U.S. has a policy of privatizing the gains and socializing the losses. Therefore stocks appear to not be risky, so people bought them up. The only reason you&#x27;d put money in a bank account rather than stock is stock can go down, but if you think the government will intervene to prevent stock going down, you might hold a greater amount of assets in stock, bidding up the price.</text></comment> |
31,445,256 | 31,445,213 | 1 | 2 | 31,443,777 | train | <story><title>The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/18/the-cryptocurrency-sell-off-has-exposed-those-swimming-naked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ulzeraj</author><text>Tether truthing the eminent doom of tether is all well and good but why aren&#x27;t we talking more about YCombinator promoting startups that burned their customer&#x27;s money by sending it to anchor protocol UST ponzinomics while lying that those investments were held in USDC and USD?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fatmanterra&#x2F;status&#x2F;1527153694218797058" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fatmanterra&#x2F;status&#x2F;1527153694218797058</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;stablegains" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;stablegains</a><p>Or is it bad to talk about such things around here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robbiep</author><text>Definitely looks pretty bad - but on the other hand, an accelerator not making any bets in crypto is not a sensible accelerator. You need to make bets everywhere and hopefully some stick. The other side of that is some don’t stick, and some go proper pear shaped. Make enough bets, it has to happen.<p>I’ve got no idea what their original pitch is, I certainly wouldn’t back a crypto startup that ostensibly aims to do something like what it looks like they tried to do, but if I was making 300 bets a couple times a year I’d be silly not to do something in the space.<p>Whether a ycombinator seal of approval lead to investment which lead to consumers getting fleeced and culpability in that situation, I don’t know. It’s crypto. If you’re silly enough to think it’s a safe investment, you’re blind. A company can also say a lot of things differently from first pitch to accepting millions from consumers. As an investor with 10%ish equity, you’ve got some sway, but you don’t have much sway. And who is to say their bet isn’t the right one.<p>A stain, but I don’t know about righteous indignation, I don’t know how much culpability transfers back to yc… but I don’t feel it’s a whole lot</text></comment> | <story><title>The cryptocurrency sell-off has exposed those swimming naked</title><url>https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/18/the-cryptocurrency-sell-off-has-exposed-those-swimming-naked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ulzeraj</author><text>Tether truthing the eminent doom of tether is all well and good but why aren&#x27;t we talking more about YCombinator promoting startups that burned their customer&#x27;s money by sending it to anchor protocol UST ponzinomics while lying that those investments were held in USDC and USD?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fatmanterra&#x2F;status&#x2F;1527153694218797058" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fatmanterra&#x2F;status&#x2F;1527153694218797058</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;stablegains" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ycombinator.com&#x2F;companies&#x2F;stablegains</a><p>Or is it bad to talk about such things around here?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d3nj4l</author><text>It was one of the most upvoted threads just yesterday: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31431224" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31431224</a></text></comment> |
19,285,419 | 19,284,557 | 1 | 2 | 19,283,125 | train | <story><title>Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/facebook-research-teens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theNJR</author><text>Small groups are for sure becoming popular. I’m surprised that your daughter is doing that through Discord vs a messenger app. Is she a gamer?</text></item><item><author>moosey</author><text>Of course it was. From a future revenue perspective, it absolutely makes sense that facebook would focus on young people, so any research done into the future of facebook and its revenue _must_ include a decent number of young people. I imagine that they are having little success in getting young people to join and interact on facebook, especially because it is being heavily leveraged for international political pressure.<p>Given current social and political realities, though, and a series of deeply troubling news stories coming out of facebook, I think it might have lost a very large segment of young people that will never join or return. I watch my 15 yo daughter interact with people online, and she has no interest at all in facebook, and her interest in instragram is waning. Currently, her primary interaction space is discord.<p>I&#x27;ve heard semi-private chat rooms are what is going to be popular, and I expect that we&#x27;re going to see that kind of thing in facebook soon. I wish them luck (not really) building a revenue model on it that matches what they currently expect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shish2k</author><text>I think at this point discord is the new IRC, a generic chat platform for communities, organised by interest - nearly all the same benefits of IRC vs Messenger apps, with the additional benefit that somebody cares enough to make it user-friendly. A shame that it&#x27;s closed-source and centralised though :(</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/facebook-research-teens/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theNJR</author><text>Small groups are for sure becoming popular. I’m surprised that your daughter is doing that through Discord vs a messenger app. Is she a gamer?</text></item><item><author>moosey</author><text>Of course it was. From a future revenue perspective, it absolutely makes sense that facebook would focus on young people, so any research done into the future of facebook and its revenue _must_ include a decent number of young people. I imagine that they are having little success in getting young people to join and interact on facebook, especially because it is being heavily leveraged for international political pressure.<p>Given current social and political realities, though, and a series of deeply troubling news stories coming out of facebook, I think it might have lost a very large segment of young people that will never join or return. I watch my 15 yo daughter interact with people online, and she has no interest at all in facebook, and her interest in instragram is waning. Currently, her primary interaction space is discord.<p>I&#x27;ve heard semi-private chat rooms are what is going to be popular, and I expect that we&#x27;re going to see that kind of thing in facebook soon. I wish them luck (not really) building a revenue model on it that matches what they currently expect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>setr</author><text>Discord has become a pretty standard messaging app for non-gaming communities for a while now. Its getting to the point where it can simply be thought of as big.</text></comment> |
11,521,431 | 11,519,307 | 1 | 3 | 11,519,118 | train | <story><title>Browserball</title><url>http://weareinstrument.com/ball/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>markmahoney</author><text>I built this in like 2009 or 2010. Super curious how it managed to resurface now.</text></comment> | <story><title>Browserball</title><url>http://weareinstrument.com/ball/#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>21</author><text>What&#x27;s the reason for allowing web pages to get absolute screen coordinates?<p>This is a privacy leak. I have a 24&quot; screen, and I don&#x27;t keep the browser window maximized because it would be too big. I presume other people do to, and I&#x27;m pretty sure most have a preferred size and position.</text></comment> |
23,302,158 | 23,301,499 | 1 | 2 | 23,300,271 | train | <story><title>Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/court-decision_companies-must-pay-share-of-rent-for-employees-working-from-home/45781126</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptainZapp</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m sure that there are other unintended consequences, such as higher rents, but who knows.<p>That&#x27;s not that easy.<p>While Switzerland doesn&#x27;t do rent control per se and there can be regional differences depending on scarcity of real estate for rent a landlord is rather restricted in raising rent once a contract is signed.<p>The only reasons why a rent can be raised are:<p>- Additional investments into an apartment, but the raise needs to be in proportion to the investment<p>- The bench mark mortgage rate goes up (on the other hand the rent needs to be lowered when the bench mark rate goes down, which is rarely the case nowadays, with a benchmark of 1.25%)<p>- Inflation to a certain amount, but quite restricted<p>Else than that rents can&#x27;t just be raised.<p>All that said and while I see where the decision is coming from I think it&#x27;s a bit ludicrous and I don&#x27;t think that many employees will actually try to get this benefit. To begin with: labor laws are more flexible than rental contract law. So there&#x27;s always a threat of losing your job if you try to push it.<p>But there&#x27;s - at least in my opinion - an ethical edge. I, for one, felt highly privileged to be able to work from home and not being dependent on public transport during rush hour. In addition my employer invested a lot to get the infrastructure for thousands of people up to scratch in a very short time.<p>My ethical compass would feel it&#x27;s wrong to squeeze additional benefits from an arrangement, which potentially safes my life and from which I feel that my management puts a lot of trust in me and my colleagues.</text></item><item><author>antr</author><text>Thought:<p>- Companies that now realised that remote schemes works for them, will push for that scheme to remain, with the aim of reducing their fixed costs (office rent, utilities, insurance, etc).<p>- This eliminates a big chunk of fixed costs... as most are shifted to the employees.<p>- If authorities&#x2F;employees start demanding that part of those costs are covered by the company, companies will push to get avoid work-from-home schemes, as they will want more control over those expenses...<p>I&#x27;m sure that there are other unintended consequences, such as higher rents, but who knows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hokusai</author><text>&gt; My ethical compass would feel it&#x27;s wrong to squeeze additional benefits from an arrangement<p>I have seen others thinking like that, and then become very sore when they are fired in an economic downturn. They feel that &quot;it is not fair&quot; because they did as much as they could for their company, the company did not care.<p>Is that different in Switzerland? Has it a similar culture to Japan where firing an employee is the last resource? Or is it more like other European countries were a simple merge or a decline in share value increase the possibility of being laid off?<p>&gt; So there&#x27;s always a threat of losing your job if you try to push it.<p>That is true for everything. Are you aiming on being always the cheaper employee in your company? That is an strategy that may work when there is lay offs, but I do not know much wealth you will accumulate in the long term with that strategy instead of trying to maximize your salary&#x2F;benefits.<p>I know that your attitude reduces salaries and reduces my and any other developer salary expectations, so maybe that makes me be extra doubtful of how good is your strategy for all the rest of us (or yourself).<p>If you do not care for your well-being but you are willing to do sacrifices for your company, may I ask what sector your company works in? Maybe, is it an NGO?</text></comment> | <story><title>Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home</title><url>https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/court-decision_companies-must-pay-share-of-rent-for-employees-working-from-home/45781126</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaptainZapp</author><text>&gt; I&#x27;m sure that there are other unintended consequences, such as higher rents, but who knows.<p>That&#x27;s not that easy.<p>While Switzerland doesn&#x27;t do rent control per se and there can be regional differences depending on scarcity of real estate for rent a landlord is rather restricted in raising rent once a contract is signed.<p>The only reasons why a rent can be raised are:<p>- Additional investments into an apartment, but the raise needs to be in proportion to the investment<p>- The bench mark mortgage rate goes up (on the other hand the rent needs to be lowered when the bench mark rate goes down, which is rarely the case nowadays, with a benchmark of 1.25%)<p>- Inflation to a certain amount, but quite restricted<p>Else than that rents can&#x27;t just be raised.<p>All that said and while I see where the decision is coming from I think it&#x27;s a bit ludicrous and I don&#x27;t think that many employees will actually try to get this benefit. To begin with: labor laws are more flexible than rental contract law. So there&#x27;s always a threat of losing your job if you try to push it.<p>But there&#x27;s - at least in my opinion - an ethical edge. I, for one, felt highly privileged to be able to work from home and not being dependent on public transport during rush hour. In addition my employer invested a lot to get the infrastructure for thousands of people up to scratch in a very short time.<p>My ethical compass would feel it&#x27;s wrong to squeeze additional benefits from an arrangement, which potentially safes my life and from which I feel that my management puts a lot of trust in me and my colleagues.</text></item><item><author>antr</author><text>Thought:<p>- Companies that now realised that remote schemes works for them, will push for that scheme to remain, with the aim of reducing their fixed costs (office rent, utilities, insurance, etc).<p>- This eliminates a big chunk of fixed costs... as most are shifted to the employees.<p>- If authorities&#x2F;employees start demanding that part of those costs are covered by the company, companies will push to get avoid work-from-home schemes, as they will want more control over those expenses...<p>I&#x27;m sure that there are other unintended consequences, such as higher rents, but who knows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samizdis</author><text>&gt; My ethical compass would feel it&#x27;s wrong to squeeze additional benefits from an arrangement, which potentially saves my life and from which I feel that my management puts a lot of trust in me and my colleagues.<p>Much respect to your principles. I agree entirely with your viewpoint.</text></comment> |
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