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12,832,123 | 12,831,407 | 1 | 2 | 12,830,766 | train | <story><title>Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Makes Strong Gains</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/world/europe/icelands-prime-minister-resigns-after-pirate-party-makes-strong-gains.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>&gt; drafted by Icelandic civilians rather than politicians.<p>What was the process for this to be? Having folks who are untrained in law draft a constitution and then passing it sounds... well about as dumb as having folks who&#x27;ve just learned to program write an operating system and put it in production.</text></item><item><author>joubert</author><text>Stood out for me:<p>&quot;The left-leaning parties — the Left-Greens, the Pirates and two allies — won 27 seats, just short of the 32 required to command a majority in Iceland’s Parliament, the world’s oldest.&quot;<p>and<p>&quot;About 40 percent of Pirate supporters are under the age of 30. They had pinned their hopes on a party that has promised to install a more inclusive and transparent government.&quot;<p>and<p>&quot;The Pirates have pledged to enhance direct democracy by passing the world’s first “crowd-sourced constitution,” drafted by Icelandic civilians rather than politicians. Parliament blocked the document in 2013.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Politicians are also untrained in law draft a constitution, which is why it generally is given to lobbyist that can pay people who are trained in law (paid by the companies that pays the lobbyist).<p>It would be nice to see a country (or EU) that forbade politicians to share or get input on law drafts from lobbyists. Just imagine how the many current trade agreements would look like if only politicians had seen and written them. Or just extensions of copyright law.<p>Its like having a operating system be written by an advertisement company and then be surprised when it is designed in favor of the advertisement company rather than the user who bought the device.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Makes Strong Gains</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/world/europe/icelands-prime-minister-resigns-after-pirate-party-makes-strong-gains.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>&gt; drafted by Icelandic civilians rather than politicians.<p>What was the process for this to be? Having folks who are untrained in law draft a constitution and then passing it sounds... well about as dumb as having folks who&#x27;ve just learned to program write an operating system and put it in production.</text></item><item><author>joubert</author><text>Stood out for me:<p>&quot;The left-leaning parties — the Left-Greens, the Pirates and two allies — won 27 seats, just short of the 32 required to command a majority in Iceland’s Parliament, the world’s oldest.&quot;<p>and<p>&quot;About 40 percent of Pirate supporters are under the age of 30. They had pinned their hopes on a party that has promised to install a more inclusive and transparent government.&quot;<p>and<p>&quot;The Pirates have pledged to enhance direct democracy by passing the world’s first “crowd-sourced constitution,” drafted by Icelandic civilians rather than politicians. Parliament blocked the document in 2013.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>futuravenir</author><text>Actually, it was an elaborate and well thought out democratic process. It wasn&#x27;t perfect, but it wasn&#x27;t arbitrary either.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Icelandic_constitutional_reform,_2010%E2%80%9313" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Icelandic_constitutional_refor...</a></text></comment> |
28,577,482 | 28,577,400 | 1 | 2 | 28,576,295 | train | <story><title>Reality Check for Cloudflare Wasm Workers and Rust</title><url>https://nickb.dev/blog/reality-check-for-cloudflare-wasm-workers-and-rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dgreensp</author><text>I think the one-sentence version of this is that Workers are meant for small, undemanding tasks (for example, they have tight memory limits and don’t have great performance), so using them to do “serious number crunching” at the edge, which is the advertised use case, seems questionable.<p>I think the blurb about the downsides of Wasm is just too generic, it’s a sort of “why Wasm isn’t preferable to JS in all cases” for the uninitiated. It may not be meant to imply that number crunching is the use case.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reality Check for Cloudflare Wasm Workers and Rust</title><url>https://nickb.dev/blog/reality-check-for-cloudflare-wasm-workers-and-rust</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brundolf</author><text>&gt; I guess I’ll stick with my error prone Javascript Workers or, more likely, spend an afternoon migrating to a minimal Typescript setup.<p>If the OP wants a zero-config typescript experience (assuming Deno isn&#x27;t available on Cloudflare workers), I can&#x27;t recommend esbuild enough</text></comment> |
33,097,409 | 33,096,782 | 1 | 2 | 33,095,890 | train | <story><title>Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/04/instagram-to-increase-ad-load-as-meta-fights-revenue-decline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aNoob7000</author><text>Personally, I think the future is in messenger apps. Why login to Instagram or Facebook to see updates when you can have a family&#x2F;friends group in Whatsapp&#x2F;Telegram&#x2F;Signal (pick your poison).</text></item><item><author>ledauphin</author><text>i check Instagram maybe a couple of times a year and it&#x27;s almost exactly like watching your college friends&#x27; kids age from afar. Each time you see them, the sensation of how much they&#x27;ve grown is so overwhelming that you can hardly resist saying something along the lines of &quot;I can&#x27;t believe how big they&#x27;ve gotten!&quot;.<p>except with Instagram it&#x27;s, &quot;this is so much less usable than the last time I tried it. Why does anybody put up with it?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bastardoperator</author><text>Why login to anything at all? Why use whatsapp, telegram, or signal when every phone already does this and has been doing this for years? I have all of my friends and family in specific groups devoid of any specific apps.<p>To be fair people were saying the same thing 20 years ago when AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo messenger were the big thing. All messaging platforms will eventually die is my experience thus far.</text></comment> | <story><title>Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/04/instagram-to-increase-ad-load-as-meta-fights-revenue-decline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aNoob7000</author><text>Personally, I think the future is in messenger apps. Why login to Instagram or Facebook to see updates when you can have a family&#x2F;friends group in Whatsapp&#x2F;Telegram&#x2F;Signal (pick your poison).</text></item><item><author>ledauphin</author><text>i check Instagram maybe a couple of times a year and it&#x27;s almost exactly like watching your college friends&#x27; kids age from afar. Each time you see them, the sensation of how much they&#x27;ve grown is so overwhelming that you can hardly resist saying something along the lines of &quot;I can&#x27;t believe how big they&#x27;ve gotten!&quot;.<p>except with Instagram it&#x27;s, &quot;this is so much less usable than the last time I tried it. Why does anybody put up with it?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TremendousJudge</author><text>because I want to know what my friends from college are up to? being in a messenger app group represents a much closer social relationship</text></comment> |
11,888,009 | 11,887,847 | 1 | 2 | 11,887,375 | train | <story><title>Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/10/bernerslee_warns_of_spying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Understated_</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a problem with Google, Facebook and Twitter dominating the web as such because I don&#x27;t have any accounts with them: They are commercial entities filling a need. Capitalism at work I suppose.<p>We all have a choice not to use them and I think this is the point he&#x27;s missing (or the article is omitting).
The opening paragraph should be &quot;Inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned that the internet has become the &quot;world&#x27;s largest surveillance network for those that use Twitter, Facebook and Google&quot;.<p>I have had lengthy conversations with my family and friends about Facebook and Google and what they do with your information and the majority shrug and say either &quot;I&#x27;m not bothered&quot; or &quot;They would get bored looking at my stuff&quot;. I don&#x27;t bring it up with anyone anymore.<p>I feel that something monumentally bad will happen in the future related to the information these companies have amassed, something epically bad and the public will (perhaps) say &quot;Enough is enough&quot; but it will be too late... just my $0.02</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>athenot</author><text>Do you really have a choice to not use them? If so:<p>- You must not use android and have Google know your location for traffic purposes (and other ad-related data-mining)<p>- You must ensure all your friends never post pictures of you on FB, preventing them from building a profile about you by association<p>- You must block every single ad that originates from the Google ad network (and which is eager to learn your browsing habits)<p>- You must never fly on an airline belonging to Star Alliance, as Google bought ITA Software (formerly known as Sabre) to get a hold of all the airline reservations done for those airlines<p>- You must never send an email to someone with a Gmail address<p>This is a case where choosing to not use Google is a bit more complicated than choosing to not drink Coke.</text></comment> | <story><title>Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/10/bernerslee_warns_of_spying</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_Understated_</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a problem with Google, Facebook and Twitter dominating the web as such because I don&#x27;t have any accounts with them: They are commercial entities filling a need. Capitalism at work I suppose.<p>We all have a choice not to use them and I think this is the point he&#x27;s missing (or the article is omitting).
The opening paragraph should be &quot;Inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned that the internet has become the &quot;world&#x27;s largest surveillance network for those that use Twitter, Facebook and Google&quot;.<p>I have had lengthy conversations with my family and friends about Facebook and Google and what they do with your information and the majority shrug and say either &quot;I&#x27;m not bothered&quot; or &quot;They would get bored looking at my stuff&quot;. I don&#x27;t bring it up with anyone anymore.<p>I feel that something monumentally bad will happen in the future related to the information these companies have amassed, something epically bad and the public will (perhaps) say &quot;Enough is enough&quot; but it will be too late... just my $0.02</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgotpwtomain</author><text>&gt; We all have a choice not to use them and I think this is the point he&#x27;s missing (or the article is omitting).<p>Moxie Marlinspike has a great talk on this subject (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Aom3JonbcZU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Aom3JonbcZU</a>). The problem isn&#x27;t the choice -- but the constantly widening scope of the choice, back when Facebook was a brand-new thing, the choice to not have a Facebook had no impact on my life whatsoever.<p>Today all of the photos albums my friends have taken are in one place: Facebook. All of activities people plan together are posted in one place: Facebook. When you meet someone new the nearly first thing they do is: check your Facebook. Facebook has broadened to assimilate the scope of activities and actions which were formerly independent aspects of life and to not have Facebook now - one pays a significantly higher social cost.</text></comment> |
16,889,474 | 16,888,583 | 1 | 2 | 16,885,000 | train | <story><title>The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/uber-paypal-face-reckoning-over-opaque-terms-and-conditions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grellas</author><text>The basic law relating to online terms and conditions has been stable for some years now and should remain so. It certainly is not headed for a &quot;reckoning.&quot;<p>When private parties transact business in a free society, the law of contracts steps in to provide rules enabling them to do so in a well-defined and orderly manner. Contract law has some fundamental principles that anchor it and, beyond those, has a vast number of intricacies that potentially can come into play in individual circumstances. Concerning fundamentals, for most executory contracts to be enforceable, you need to have mutual consent and some exchange of consideration. That is, a meeting of the minds on material terms and an exchange of value. When these elements exist, the law considers a contract to be binding and imposes legal consequences for any breach or failure to perform. In order to avoid chaos, it further stipulates that the core principle (meeting of the minds) is not based on purely subjective factors but on what a reasonable person would believe in the circumstances. This objective standard enables commercial transactions to proceed without endless second-guessing about what the parties might have desired or meant when they contracted in any given transaction. Because of this, while it can easily become messy in any given case, most contract situations can be legally evaluated with a fair degree of certainty and parties can plan their affairs and determine their rights accordingly.<p>The above describes what might be called a very high-level summary the central tenets of the common law of contracts in the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition. If someone reasonably can be said to have consented to a given transaction involving some exchange of value, legal rules applied to govern how that exchange took place and what would happen if some breached his or her agreement.<p>When it comes to terms and conditions in online commerce, the law generally applies this body of contract law but does so via what might be called the <i>fiction</i> of mutual consent between the contracting parties. It is well known that the vast majority of persons do not bother to read such terms and conditions when they click on the &quot;Agree&quot; button. Nonetheless, the terms and conditions are legally binding upon such persons. Why? Because it is <i>assumed</i> that the person read and understood them in clicking. And that assumption is what makes it a fiction. In effect, the law says, &quot;we will pretend that the person read through the terms and knowingly agreed to them.&quot; Given that this legal fiction effectively substitutes for a true consent, the law can proceed along its merry way and treat this contract as it would any other, i.e., treat it as binding and enforceable upon the &quot;contracting&quot; party. In effect, to preserve orderly rules of contract in such transactions, the law effectively says that the terms and conditions are legally binding if they are such that a reasonable person who had taken the time to read through them would have understood them to have a certain meaning (that is, the &quot;reasonable person&quot; meaning that the law will enforce upon the person doing the clicking).<p>This fundamental approach to terms and conditions in online transactions has not changed one bit in some years and is under no risk of being changed. Because, without it, you could not practically have any semblance of legal orderliness in online transactions.<p>Moreover, while it is often said that dense legalese is undesirable in such situations, courts generally enforce such legalese without hesitation, even if a complaining consumer says until he is blue in the face that it could have been put in easier-to-understand plain English. There is no legal rule that requires contractual language to be put into plain English and there are some types of contracts where an attempt to express the legal requirements in that way would cause a loss of precision or lead to other problems. Whether something is expressed in plain English or not, then, typically does not affect its enforceability in online transactions.<p>Again, nothing pervasive is happening in the law affecting online transactions so as to require use of plain English to make terms and conditions enforceable.<p>None of this is to say that there are no protections in existing law when people try to use weasel language to defraud others or use language that is so imprecise as to mislead consumers or use language that is so ill-defined or vague as to leave important matters uncertain to the other contracting party. In all such cases, existing common law has remedies of varying kinds to say that such contracts are unenforceable or that some remedy applies in favor or an aggrieved or defrauded consumer. But, in practice, these are edge cases, the ones that wind up in dispute or in court. The vast bulk (99%+) of the commerce that occurs is covered by the general contract rules and proceeds in an orderly way because the rules are known and predictable.<p>Against this background of the common law contract rules, it is possible for persons to want to modify the existing rules on grounds that such rules are unfair to the consumer and or are not based on true consent by that consumer or for some other public policy ground.<p>This is where special public-policy-driven enactments come in to modify the standard contract rules. Legislatures can adopt special laws dictating outer bounds to how businesses can use the private data of consumers as such data may entrusted to them. In this area, perhaps, a form of &quot;reckoning&quot; may occur if it is determined that companies such as Facebook ought not to be able to sell or misuse private data to the detriment of their users. This is an important development and serious changes may be afoot affecting such special areas. But this does not affect the general principles by which online contracting occurs.<p>There could also be proposals mandating that plain English be used in terms and conditions or requiring this or that form of mandated disclosure to help ensure greater consumer understanding but all such proposals come with decided trade-offs that typically make them impractical. The reason for the fiction of legal consent in the current system is the supreme utility that comes from allowing millions of online transactions to occur every day without incident based on orderly rules known to all. You can change all that through legislative enactments saying that public policy requires a different system that is more fair to consumers. But at what price? That is why the current system is and remains solidly in place.<p>To underscore the importance of utility, I have been legally trained and have years of experience such that I could easily read through and comprehend the legalese that is found in most online terms and conditions. Yet, with rare exceptions, I am just like everybody else and will click &quot;Accept&quot; or &quot;Agree&quot; without reading anything and without a second thought. As a lawyer, I can&#x27;t say that I am proud of this but I can say this is human nature. The issue is not primarily that legalese or plain English will make a difference in understandability. It is that we take the path of least resistance when not much is at stake and we don&#x27;t want to be bothered. Try as we might, no law will solve that problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovich</author><text>Its beyond even being a legal fiction in many situations. There is no option for most people when it comes to certain terms and conditions.<p>Take phones for instance. You cannot live in modern society without a phone. You will not be able to get a phone, without agreeing to one of these long terms and conditions. They come from landline providers, they come from cell phone providers, they come packaged in the box in the cell phone from prepaid phone sellers.<p>How is saying, you&#x27;re cut off from society or you can agree to a contract designed in a way that you have no reasonable chance of actually understanding it, something we want for society?</text></comment> | <story><title>The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/uber-paypal-face-reckoning-over-opaque-terms-and-conditions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grellas</author><text>The basic law relating to online terms and conditions has been stable for some years now and should remain so. It certainly is not headed for a &quot;reckoning.&quot;<p>When private parties transact business in a free society, the law of contracts steps in to provide rules enabling them to do so in a well-defined and orderly manner. Contract law has some fundamental principles that anchor it and, beyond those, has a vast number of intricacies that potentially can come into play in individual circumstances. Concerning fundamentals, for most executory contracts to be enforceable, you need to have mutual consent and some exchange of consideration. That is, a meeting of the minds on material terms and an exchange of value. When these elements exist, the law considers a contract to be binding and imposes legal consequences for any breach or failure to perform. In order to avoid chaos, it further stipulates that the core principle (meeting of the minds) is not based on purely subjective factors but on what a reasonable person would believe in the circumstances. This objective standard enables commercial transactions to proceed without endless second-guessing about what the parties might have desired or meant when they contracted in any given transaction. Because of this, while it can easily become messy in any given case, most contract situations can be legally evaluated with a fair degree of certainty and parties can plan their affairs and determine their rights accordingly.<p>The above describes what might be called a very high-level summary the central tenets of the common law of contracts in the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition. If someone reasonably can be said to have consented to a given transaction involving some exchange of value, legal rules applied to govern how that exchange took place and what would happen if some breached his or her agreement.<p>When it comes to terms and conditions in online commerce, the law generally applies this body of contract law but does so via what might be called the <i>fiction</i> of mutual consent between the contracting parties. It is well known that the vast majority of persons do not bother to read such terms and conditions when they click on the &quot;Agree&quot; button. Nonetheless, the terms and conditions are legally binding upon such persons. Why? Because it is <i>assumed</i> that the person read and understood them in clicking. And that assumption is what makes it a fiction. In effect, the law says, &quot;we will pretend that the person read through the terms and knowingly agreed to them.&quot; Given that this legal fiction effectively substitutes for a true consent, the law can proceed along its merry way and treat this contract as it would any other, i.e., treat it as binding and enforceable upon the &quot;contracting&quot; party. In effect, to preserve orderly rules of contract in such transactions, the law effectively says that the terms and conditions are legally binding if they are such that a reasonable person who had taken the time to read through them would have understood them to have a certain meaning (that is, the &quot;reasonable person&quot; meaning that the law will enforce upon the person doing the clicking).<p>This fundamental approach to terms and conditions in online transactions has not changed one bit in some years and is under no risk of being changed. Because, without it, you could not practically have any semblance of legal orderliness in online transactions.<p>Moreover, while it is often said that dense legalese is undesirable in such situations, courts generally enforce such legalese without hesitation, even if a complaining consumer says until he is blue in the face that it could have been put in easier-to-understand plain English. There is no legal rule that requires contractual language to be put into plain English and there are some types of contracts where an attempt to express the legal requirements in that way would cause a loss of precision or lead to other problems. Whether something is expressed in plain English or not, then, typically does not affect its enforceability in online transactions.<p>Again, nothing pervasive is happening in the law affecting online transactions so as to require use of plain English to make terms and conditions enforceable.<p>None of this is to say that there are no protections in existing law when people try to use weasel language to defraud others or use language that is so imprecise as to mislead consumers or use language that is so ill-defined or vague as to leave important matters uncertain to the other contracting party. In all such cases, existing common law has remedies of varying kinds to say that such contracts are unenforceable or that some remedy applies in favor or an aggrieved or defrauded consumer. But, in practice, these are edge cases, the ones that wind up in dispute or in court. The vast bulk (99%+) of the commerce that occurs is covered by the general contract rules and proceeds in an orderly way because the rules are known and predictable.<p>Against this background of the common law contract rules, it is possible for persons to want to modify the existing rules on grounds that such rules are unfair to the consumer and or are not based on true consent by that consumer or for some other public policy ground.<p>This is where special public-policy-driven enactments come in to modify the standard contract rules. Legislatures can adopt special laws dictating outer bounds to how businesses can use the private data of consumers as such data may entrusted to them. In this area, perhaps, a form of &quot;reckoning&quot; may occur if it is determined that companies such as Facebook ought not to be able to sell or misuse private data to the detriment of their users. This is an important development and serious changes may be afoot affecting such special areas. But this does not affect the general principles by which online contracting occurs.<p>There could also be proposals mandating that plain English be used in terms and conditions or requiring this or that form of mandated disclosure to help ensure greater consumer understanding but all such proposals come with decided trade-offs that typically make them impractical. The reason for the fiction of legal consent in the current system is the supreme utility that comes from allowing millions of online transactions to occur every day without incident based on orderly rules known to all. You can change all that through legislative enactments saying that public policy requires a different system that is more fair to consumers. But at what price? That is why the current system is and remains solidly in place.<p>To underscore the importance of utility, I have been legally trained and have years of experience such that I could easily read through and comprehend the legalese that is found in most online terms and conditions. Yet, with rare exceptions, I am just like everybody else and will click &quot;Accept&quot; or &quot;Agree&quot; without reading anything and without a second thought. As a lawyer, I can&#x27;t say that I am proud of this but I can say this is human nature. The issue is not primarily that legalese or plain English will make a difference in understandability. It is that we take the path of least resistance when not much is at stake and we don&#x27;t want to be bothered. Try as we might, no law will solve that problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oliwarner</author><text>Plain English requirements for financial services (in the UK, not uncommon elsewhere) are a pretty decent example of why you&#x27;re wrong.<p>In those scenarios, the bar is moved up a notch to <i>informed consent</i>. Parties must know exactly what they stand to lose.<p>A fair explanation of how your data could be leveraged against you should be a requirement because users don&#x27;t understand this currently.</text></comment> |
10,195,467 | 10,195,245 | 1 | 3 | 10,192,413 | train | <story><title>Magic PNG Thumbnails</title><url>http://thume.ca/projects/2012/11/14/magic-png-files/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pygy_</author><text>Could someone explain why this image is flickering on my MacBook Air screen?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thume.ca&#x2F;assets&#x2F;postassets&#x2F;doubleVision&#x2F;out.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thume.ca&#x2F;assets&#x2F;postassets&#x2F;doubleVision&#x2F;out.png</a><p>Especially &quot;ze first&quot; image as seen in FF and Chrome.<p>I suppose it is related to how monitors use temporal dithering to fake 24 bit colors when they really have 18 bits per pixel, but why is it more apparent on this kind of picture?<p>Is it a perceptual issue or a technical one?<p>It is also apparent when using Windows XP under virtualization. Some windows have checkerboard patterns that flicker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>Here&#x27;s a page with a test and a potential explanation <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lagom.nl&#x2F;lcd-test&#x2F;inversion.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lagom.nl&#x2F;lcd-test&#x2F;inversion.php</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Magic PNG Thumbnails</title><url>http://thume.ca/projects/2012/11/14/magic-png-files/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pygy_</author><text>Could someone explain why this image is flickering on my MacBook Air screen?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thume.ca&#x2F;assets&#x2F;postassets&#x2F;doubleVision&#x2F;out.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thume.ca&#x2F;assets&#x2F;postassets&#x2F;doubleVision&#x2F;out.png</a><p>Especially &quot;ze first&quot; image as seen in FF and Chrome.<p>I suppose it is related to how monitors use temporal dithering to fake 24 bit colors when they really have 18 bits per pixel, but why is it more apparent on this kind of picture?<p>Is it a perceptual issue or a technical one?<p>It is also apparent when using Windows XP under virtualization. Some windows have checkerboard patterns that flicker.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kronopath</author><text>I expect this is due to a Moiré pattern between your monitor&#x27;s pixel grid and the &quot;dots&quot; in the image.</text></comment> |
28,724,663 | 28,723,362 | 1 | 3 | 28,717,848 | train | <story><title>Downsides of Offline First</title><url>https://rxdb.info/downsides-of-offline-first.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>I might be missing something, but I have trouble seeing how CRDTs can work for regular CRUD style applications.<p>Just the first example that pops into my head: edit A sets an invoice status to paid, edit b changes the invoice amount from 100 to 120. The merge is a paid invoice with an incorrect amount.<p>A workaround would be to record a separate PaidInvoice that wont be changed by the application logic.<p>But that&#x27;s just a really trivial example that only involves scalar fields inside a single object, and also relies on the application logic considering all ways that the CRDT might behave.<p>There are countless ways to end up with data that violates the constraints of the domain.<p>Is there any theoretical groundwork happening on how CRDTs can preserve domain semantics?</text></item><item><author>josephg</author><text>I’m a “true believer” in CRDTs, which I have some experience in. You can implement a useful CRDT for simple applications in under 100 lines if all you care about are standard database objects - like maps, sets and values. List CRDTs are where they get complicated, but most applications aren’t collaborative text editors.<p>The promise of CRDTs is that unlike most conflict resolution systems, you can layer over a crdt library and basically ignore all the implantation details. Applications should (can) mostly ignore how a CRDT works when building up the stack.<p>The biggest roadblock to their use is that they’re poorly understood. Well, that and implementation maturity. Automerge-rs merged a PR the other day which brought a 5 minute benchmark run down to 2 seconds. But by bit we’re getting there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I know nothing about CRDTs, but I feel the ultimate problem with your invoice example might be a representation issue.<p>&gt; <i>edit A sets an invoice status to paid, edit b changes the invoice amount from 100 to 120. The merge is a paid invoice with an incorrect amount.</i><p>There is no such thing as &quot;paid status&quot; of an invoice. That&#x27;s a simplification. If you unroll it, what you get is accounts that must balance. The invoice starts with &quot;accounts payable&quot;[0] set to 100$, and no payment covering it. Edit A adds a transaction from company account to AP to the value of $100. Edit B changes the liability in AP to $120. The result of a merge should be a transaction record for $100 and liability of $120, meaning a partially-paid invoice.<p>--<p>[0] - Or whatever it is called, I keep getting confused by this terminology, as it&#x27;s not something regular people use in my part of the world.</text></comment> | <story><title>Downsides of Offline First</title><url>https://rxdb.info/downsides-of-offline-first.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>I might be missing something, but I have trouble seeing how CRDTs can work for regular CRUD style applications.<p>Just the first example that pops into my head: edit A sets an invoice status to paid, edit b changes the invoice amount from 100 to 120. The merge is a paid invoice with an incorrect amount.<p>A workaround would be to record a separate PaidInvoice that wont be changed by the application logic.<p>But that&#x27;s just a really trivial example that only involves scalar fields inside a single object, and also relies on the application logic considering all ways that the CRDT might behave.<p>There are countless ways to end up with data that violates the constraints of the domain.<p>Is there any theoretical groundwork happening on how CRDTs can preserve domain semantics?</text></item><item><author>josephg</author><text>I’m a “true believer” in CRDTs, which I have some experience in. You can implement a useful CRDT for simple applications in under 100 lines if all you care about are standard database objects - like maps, sets and values. List CRDTs are where they get complicated, but most applications aren’t collaborative text editors.<p>The promise of CRDTs is that unlike most conflict resolution systems, you can layer over a crdt library and basically ignore all the implantation details. Applications should (can) mostly ignore how a CRDT works when building up the stack.<p>The biggest roadblock to their use is that they’re poorly understood. Well, that and implementation maturity. Automerge-rs merged a PR the other day which brought a 5 minute benchmark run down to 2 seconds. But by bit we’re getting there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ollysb</author><text>Your general point withstanding, in this case wouldn&#x27;t the merge be a partially paid invoice?</text></comment> |
33,368,027 | 33,365,542 | 1 | 2 | 33,328,693 | train | <story><title>The changing fortunes of Japanese camera manufacturers</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2022/10/24/the-changing-fortunes-of-japanese-camera-manufacturers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RayVR</author><text>I forget which photographer&#x2F;camera blogger&#x2F;reviewer wrote this many years ago, but it has stuck with me:
&quot;the best camera is the one you have with you&quot;<p>His point being that carrying around a bunch of heavy gear is not pleasant.<p>A lot of camera and lens sales were driven by progress at the margins without any serious benefit to the average user. Until the smartphone. Now, the number of people with surprisingly good cameras which they have with them almost constantly is absolutely astounding.<p>Yes, I can still roughly tell the processed shots from portrait mode on my phone from a much better camera but the differences aren&#x27;t as drastic as you&#x27;d imagine. Most importantly, I have the camera with me.</text></comment> | <story><title>The changing fortunes of Japanese camera manufacturers</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2022/10/24/the-changing-fortunes-of-japanese-camera-manufacturers/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ISL</author><text>The article misses that Sony is Minolta, something I, too, didn&#x27;t appreciate for years, as I took a photography hiatus in the 2000s.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lightstalking.com&#x2F;minolta-sony-relationship&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lightstalking.com&#x2F;minolta-sony-relationship&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
30,487,936 | 30,487,519 | 1 | 2 | 30,487,351 | train | <story><title>Germany commits €100B to defense spending</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/germany-commits-100-billion-to-defense-spending/a-60933724</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belter</author><text>Or revert the decision to phase out nuclear power.</text></item><item><author>jnsaff2</author><text>How about invest 100 billion on renewables to get independence from russian gas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jon_Lowtek</author><text>Germany has no long term storage for nuclear waste, it is sending 12.000 tons of depleted uranium-hexafluoride from its reprocessing plant in Gronau to a plant in Novouralsk, Russia, where its turned into uranium-oxide for usage in MOX fuel for fast breeders sometime in the future. Until then it is stored above ground, hoping the containment doesn&#x27;t leak dust clouds. And those are the few parts of the problem that can be reused. For the vast majority of radioactive and contaminated waste, there is no such solution: there is no reprocessing decades old contaminated reactor parts that are replaced due to old age and material fatigue. The burial site in Asse turned into a disaster and the waste stored there is being digged up again, costing billions. Gorleben is on hold since it was build under the assumptions that lead to the Asse problem, Konrad is not even finished and already booked out, without even taking all of the waste that currently exists. So most radioactive, irradiated or contaminated waste is stored in &quot;temporary containment&quot; with no long term plan. Nuclear power is neither clean nor cheap: its lobbyists are just very good at pushing externalities toward tax payers and future generations. American nuclear industry is trying to convince people that their ocean dumping sites are safe and that the contamination of the Savannah river or the Columbia river are not a problem. Note that these are the same kind of people that argued in favor of leaded gasoline, fracking gas infused tap water and smoking tobacco. Nuclear waste is not a solved problem. And if you look at the other side of the supply chain, uranium mining is even worse. The mines in germany are closed, and most of what was produced there over decades was sold to the SU and USA anyway. Handling millions of tons of uranium trailings and irradiated pumping, mining and milling equipment is left as a problem for future generations. You think the selling price for yellow cake pays for these problems in advance? Think again.</text></comment> | <story><title>Germany commits €100B to defense spending</title><url>https://www.dw.com/en/germany-commits-100-billion-to-defense-spending/a-60933724</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belter</author><text>Or revert the decision to phase out nuclear power.</text></item><item><author>jnsaff2</author><text>How about invest 100 billion on renewables to get independence from russian gas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ascar</author><text>While I would appreciate that, this would be political suicide for the Green party involved in the coalition. While they want a lot less co2 they are also very much anti-fission.</text></comment> |
7,923,883 | 7,923,908 | 1 | 2 | 7,923,807 | train | <story><title>Go support for Android</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N3XyVkAP8nmWjASz8L_OjjnjVKxgeVBjIsTr5qIUcA4/preview?sle=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>So I&#x27;ve finally been learning to write Android Java... and honestly, as a C#&#x2F;Python developer, I figured it would be easy to pick up. Holy crap, how do you people live like this?<p>Yeah, I&#x27;ll be trying out Go for Android. Give me an excuse to learn Go. Still don&#x27;t like the idea of going without generics and exceptions, but maybe it&#x27;ll surprise me. I figure we&#x27;re all just biding our time until Rust is ready.</text></comment> | <story><title>Go support for Android</title><url>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N3XyVkAP8nmWjASz8L_OjjnjVKxgeVBjIsTr5qIUcA4/preview?sle=true</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>Is this an official project supported by either the Go or Android teams, or is it just an independent developer planning to take on this challenge? Who&#x27;s David Crashaw?</text></comment> |
27,476,758 | 27,476,724 | 1 | 2 | 27,476,032 | train | <story><title>Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025</title><url>https://winaero.com/microsoft-will-end-windows-10-support-in-2025/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ulzeraj</author><text>Personally I don&#x27;t think so. Every time I download and install from an Windows ISO it seems worse.<p>Right out of the bat there is a page where you need to uncheck all the spyware crap and there are so many it scrolls. They also make it so a normal local user is presented like a somewhat inferior experience than their web login. Then you have to fill in obligatory 3 recovery questions even if you are confident in your choice of passwords.<p>Nothing of this is new but I&#x27;ve recently had to install Windows 10 on an old computer to use some crapware and after all the questioning and cringe &quot;we are working hang on it&quot; messages there was some huge tray icon displaying some weather data and other unnecessary stuff. Something about Interests and it sits there with lots of unsolicited stuff like OneDrive.<p>The start menu is littered with squares filled with animated web page stuff and honestly its hard to find out if those are about news or ads.<p>Now I&#x27;m not a Windows hater. I mean... LTSC and Windows server are <i>nice</i>. Why does default Windows and Windows Pro must look like BonziBuddyOS?</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>I&#x27;ll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that&#x27;s probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go.<p>Most everything I do really isn&#x27;t OS dependent.<p>I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I&#x27;ll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone&#x27;s &quot;Start Me Up&quot; and trying out OS&#x2F;2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my OS. (I am amused to see my son do this with his phone).<p>But now my OS is really just &quot;set dark theme&quot; and roll on.<p>Productivity wise, that&#x27;s probably good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akiselev</author><text>That stupid weather widget and the Xbox overlay randomly popping up, completely disabling input without an obvious way to get out (some random win key combo), finally drove me to dump Windows as a daily driver. It even drove me to get some real work done on my passion project so I&#x27;d never have to use a Windows VM for CAD ever again.<p>I lived through Micro$oft but I was too inexperienced to understand the hate directed towards Microsoft. It&#x27;s ironic that I only started to feel it now that they&#x27;ve changed their tune on the open source&#x2F;dev stuff.<p>To add insult to injury, shortly after, I got an email with this subject line from google:<p>*&gt; akiselev, take the next step on your Linux by confirming your Google Account settings</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025</title><url>https://winaero.com/microsoft-will-end-windows-10-support-in-2025/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ulzeraj</author><text>Personally I don&#x27;t think so. Every time I download and install from an Windows ISO it seems worse.<p>Right out of the bat there is a page where you need to uncheck all the spyware crap and there are so many it scrolls. They also make it so a normal local user is presented like a somewhat inferior experience than their web login. Then you have to fill in obligatory 3 recovery questions even if you are confident in your choice of passwords.<p>Nothing of this is new but I&#x27;ve recently had to install Windows 10 on an old computer to use some crapware and after all the questioning and cringe &quot;we are working hang on it&quot; messages there was some huge tray icon displaying some weather data and other unnecessary stuff. Something about Interests and it sits there with lots of unsolicited stuff like OneDrive.<p>The start menu is littered with squares filled with animated web page stuff and honestly its hard to find out if those are about news or ads.<p>Now I&#x27;m not a Windows hater. I mean... LTSC and Windows server are <i>nice</i>. Why does default Windows and Windows Pro must look like BonziBuddyOS?</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>I&#x27;ll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that&#x27;s probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go.<p>Most everything I do really isn&#x27;t OS dependent.<p>I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I&#x27;ll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone&#x27;s &quot;Start Me Up&quot; and trying out OS&#x2F;2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my OS. (I am amused to see my son do this with his phone).<p>But now my OS is really just &quot;set dark theme&quot; and roll on.<p>Productivity wise, that&#x27;s probably good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>passivate</author><text>Our IT has given us deployment sticks for W10 Pro which format&#x2F;install&#x2F;deploy the OS using one script in about 5 minutes with zero nags&#x2F;prompts anything else. It also sets up a default (non-cloud) user. I think its called an &#x27;unattended&#x27; setup. So it definitely can be done. I think MS needs to provide a &quot;Yes, I know what I&#x27;m doing, go away&quot; Windows ISO.</text></comment> |
13,102,069 | 13,101,217 | 1 | 2 | 13,100,560 | train | <story><title>Disassembling Sublime Text</title><url>http://thume.ca/2016/12/03/disassembling-sublime-text/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>halotrope</author><text>Ah Sublime2 was my first binary-cracking project. After countless hours of debugging with GDB and trying to understand assembly in Hopper I managed to disable the nag and patch the binary. (Purely for fun. I bought a license shortly after, of course I did not distribute this in any way).
Will never forget how proud and satisfied I felt when it finally worked.<p>While mostly using Jetbrains or Atom with VIM plugin for development these days I still value Sublime for being able to handle really big files a million times better than Java&#x2F;Web based editors.</text></comment> | <story><title>Disassembling Sublime Text</title><url>http://thume.ca/2016/12/03/disassembling-sublime-text/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text><i>I also tried to figure out how some parts of the editor work and why they are so fast, but I couldn’t figure out much from the assembly.</i><p>Those who are interested in text editor design may find this series and the links therein useful:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catch22.net&#x2F;tuts&#x2F;neatpad" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catch22.net&#x2F;tuts&#x2F;neatpad</a></text></comment> |
2,662,820 | 2,662,199 | 1 | 3 | 2,661,946 | train | <story><title>Kinect for Windows SDK (Silverlight Required)</title><url>http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cjoh</author><text>This is unreal-- from the FAQ:<p>Q:I know that other drivers and development software for Kinect are available on the Web. Can I use the Kinect sensor device with these other drivers or software instead of the SDK Beta?<p>A: No. Use of the Kinect sensor device is subject to its own warranty and software license agreement that allow you to use it solely in connection with an Xbox 360 or Xbox 360 S console. Only Microsoft can grant you the additional rights that you need to use the Kinect sensor device with a personal computer. Microsoft grants these additional rights in the SDK Beta license, but only for uses of the Kinect sensor device in connection with the SDK Beta. If you use the Kinect sensor with a platform other than Xbox 360, Xbox 360 S, or Windows (with the SDK Beta), you void the warranty you received when you purchased the Kinect sensor device.</text></comment> | <story><title>Kinect for Windows SDK (Silverlight Required)</title><url>http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TomOfTTB</author><text>Kinect for Windows is, IMHO, Microsoft's only chance of really getting back in the game. It is an Apple level sea change if they can capitalize on it.<p>I mean lets be real here. Touch is a great way to interact with computing devices but it screws up the screen. Until someone invents a smudge proof surface that will always be the case. Beyond that usability studies show touch screens on PCs just don't work. People's shoulders start to hurt very quickly.<p>Kinect solves that. It's touch without touching. It can be done without having to reach over the keyboard. It IS the future if Microsoft can capitalize on it.</text></comment> |
17,560,903 | 17,559,983 | 1 | 3 | 17,559,675 | train | <story><title>Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/blue-origin-successfully-lands-both-booster-and-crew-capsule-after-test-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I really appreciate Blue Origin&#x27;s methodical approach to building this system. I note that they are closer to being operational than Virgin Galactic who I consider their primary competitor.<p>The challenge I have with the &#x27;suborbital tourist&#x27; economy is that while some folks will pay $200K per ride for less than 3 minutes of zero gravity, one has to compare that to the Zero Gravity Corp which gives you over 6 minutes of weightlessness (in 20 - 30 second increments) for $5K[1]<p>Sure there is the &#x27;Concorde&#x27; effect where the very wealthy will all do it once so that they won&#x27;t feel left out at cocktail parties but that does not seem sustainable.<p>My hope is that Blue Origin&#x27;s plans to move into orbital flights is successful. Spending $200K to spend nearly 90 minutes (1 orbit) weightless has much more appeal.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gozerog.com&#x2F;index.cfm?fuseaction=reservations.welcome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gozerog.com&#x2F;index.cfm?fuseaction=reservations.we...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/18/blue-origin-successfully-lands-both-booster-and-crew-capsule-after-test-launch/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rory096</author><text>Note that this flight tested an in-space abort, firing the crew capsule&#x27;s solid motor to simulate an emergency escape from the booster.<p>Because the abort took place after MECO, the capsule reached an apogee of 118.8km. This will likely stand as New Shepard&#x27;s altitude record.<p>Blue Origin previously tested a transonic abort and (unexpectedly) recovered the booster. Recovery did not appear to be in question this time.</text></comment> |
19,472,345 | 19,472,358 | 1 | 2 | 19,471,291 | train | <story><title>Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-23/apple-s-reinvention-as-a-services-company-starts-for-real-monday</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>One interesting question is how viable this can be if they continue their strategy of differentiation through privacy. Doing &quot;services&quot; for people intrinsically means knowing about them. What they watch, what they read, what they listen to, what they need, who they are. The more you know, the better you can &quot;service&quot; them. By pursuing this path they may quickly find themselves sucked into a slipperly slope that puts them into conflict with the primary identity they&#x27;ve tried to build up. You can see it already starting:<p>&gt; divide up the revenue between developers based on how much time users spend playing their games<p>So they&#x27;re going to spy on their users, huh? Of course, it&#x27;s perfectly innocent, but they will quickly find that with deeper metrics they can better model what games to fund, etc etc. And before you know it they&#x27;ll have a tab in their account page just like Google with a list as long as your arm of all the things they know about you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blihp</author><text>Take the marketing pitch with a grain of salt. They&#x27;ve been keeping track of aggregate usage data pretty much from the beginning. Also, they already have to keep track of things like which apps&#x2F;music&#x2F;movies you have bought for accounting purposes at the very least. For subscriptions they most likely also have to track consumption (i.e. per access data) for royalty&#x2F;revenue share payments.<p>I remember a story from the tail end of the Jobs era when they were trying to get their ad network going that their sales force was using as a selling point to advertisers the fact that they had metrics such as how many minutes a day users spent using various apps etc. They just don&#x27;t share this data outside of Apple and also (according to their public statements) don&#x27;t access the private data that you create.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-23/apple-s-reinvention-as-a-services-company-starts-for-real-monday</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zmmmmm</author><text>One interesting question is how viable this can be if they continue their strategy of differentiation through privacy. Doing &quot;services&quot; for people intrinsically means knowing about them. What they watch, what they read, what they listen to, what they need, who they are. The more you know, the better you can &quot;service&quot; them. By pursuing this path they may quickly find themselves sucked into a slipperly slope that puts them into conflict with the primary identity they&#x27;ve tried to build up. You can see it already starting:<p>&gt; divide up the revenue between developers based on how much time users spend playing their games<p>So they&#x27;re going to spy on their users, huh? Of course, it&#x27;s perfectly innocent, but they will quickly find that with deeper metrics they can better model what games to fund, etc etc. And before you know it they&#x27;ll have a tab in their account page just like Google with a list as long as your arm of all the things they know about you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>Back when iAd was a thing, there were articles about how upset advertisers were that Apple&#x27;s iAd wouldn&#x27;t let them plug directly into an Apple customer&#x27;s music and video store purchase history.<p>&gt;Apple has a lot of knowledge regarding its users,but what it doesn’t do with that data is share it with advertisers very freely. That makes Madison Avenue very mad.<p>&gt;rather than offering a cookie-based ad-tracking and targeting mechanism, it essentially requires partners to tell it what kind of audience it needs to reach, and then trust that Apple will handle the rest, AdAge says. And it’s well worth noting that Apple prioritizes customer privacy here over a big potential upside in ad revenue.<p>&gt;what it doesn’t do is hand over the keys to all that data and let advertisers plug into it directly with their own data-mining and targeting software. That’s not standard for the ad industry and that’s likely the reason a few Madison Avenue feathers are ruffled over their approach.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;18&#x2F;advertisers-not-thrilled-with-apples-practice-of-protecting-its-users-data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;18&#x2F;advertisers-not-thrilled-w...</a><p>I&#x27;m not sure why you think that Apple has had a change of heart since then, especially given their recent decision that these sort of privacy protecting policies provide Apple a competitive advantage.</text></comment> |
15,811,474 | 15,811,476 | 1 | 3 | 15,810,268 | train | <story><title>Vassal – Online Adaptations of Board Games</title><url>http://www.vassalengine.org/index.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beefsack</author><text>On the topic of online board games, I&#x27;ve been really interested in the idea of a pure play-by-email (PBE) system where there isn&#x27;t a frontend or web interface at all. By that, I mean that a full game rendering is emailed to each player, and they take their turns by replying to the email with the commands they wish to execute.<p>I started one in Go a number of years ago[1] and I feel I managed to prove to myself that a pure email interface is possible and actually really convenient in some cases. I even managed to implement over 20 games[2]. It was only ever used in my closed circle of friends, but we played thousands of games and many found it simple to participate in slow periods at work or school.<p>If anything, my biggest takeaway was that if you want to really reach a level of expertise in a new technology, you need to find a project that you can pour your heart into. I&#x27;ve probably breached 100k LOC for the project and I&#x27;ve been working on it for over half a decade. I&#x27;m currently redoing the project in Rust as an attempt to become highly skilled in that[3].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Miniand&#x2F;brdg.me" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Miniand&#x2F;brdg.me</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Miniand&#x2F;brdg.me&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;game" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Miniand&#x2F;brdg.me&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;game</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brdgme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;brdgme</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Vassal – Online Adaptations of Board Games</title><url>http://www.vassalengine.org/index.php</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>miiiiiike</author><text>Speaking of online adaptations of board games.. My Massively Multiplayer Adaptation of Codenames was just approved for public consumption by its illustrious creator, Vlaada Chvátil today!<p>Sign up and help me test out Django Channels in production!<p>TL;DR: An MMOBG based on Codenames! - Sign up form: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;</a> - FAQ: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;</a><p>I needed to learn a few new technologies (TypeScript, Angular 4, Bootstrap 4, Django Channels.) Building the same chat room app that everyone builds as their first demo using these technologies sounded tedious. I decided to build a Massively Multiplayer Online Board Game instead.<p>If you&#x27;d like to help with a stress test or participate in a game, there&#x27;s a sign up form up here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m going to try to get Vlaada to host a game with me, but, he&#x27;s a busy guy. If he&#x27;s unavailable I&#x27;ll find someone almost as interesting to play with us.<p>If you&#x27;d like to know more, I put up an FAQ over there: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;</a> (you can skip to the gameplay FAQ by tugging on this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;#how-work" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codewords.io&#x2F;faq&#x2F;#how-work</a>)<p>Screenshots and a gameplay overview can be found somewhere under here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;3xtZC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;3xtZC</a></text></comment> |
5,032,767 | 5,032,744 | 1 | 2 | 5,032,451 | train | <story><title>What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013</title><url>http://blog.simplyinsured.com/what-startups-need-to-know-about-health-insurance-in-2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>I don't suggest you model it after Canada's system. It's good, but it could be better.<p>I moved to Canada from Australia, so I'll compare the two systems for you.<p>Canada: "healthcare for all" provides basic coverage of everything you need. Works pretty well. Even homeless / out of work people are fully covered. Things like dental and chiropractor are not covered, so you pay for those. Employers give "health care" which really just means they will pay a percentage of your costs for things like dental, chiropractors, prescriptions, etc.<p>The problem here is that if you want "better than basic" healthcare, it's tied to your employer, which has all the negative impacts of the US system of being stuck to your job. This sucks.<p>Australia: Same as Canada in that basic coverage covers emergencies and what-not for everyone. Again dental, chiropractors are not covered. BUT if you want "better than basic" care, it's your choice if you want to go out (with your own cash) and buy "private health care" which again will pay a percentage of your out-of-pocket costs for those extras (dental, etc.).<p>The massive, massive, massive advantage here is that your health is in not directly linked to your job. Your employer has no say or impact on your choice of healthcare provider, or if you even want to buy that extra coverage. As a single, healthy 30 year old, I've never seen the need to pay the extra, but in Canada I'm forced to because my employer says so.<p>I've been in Canada 7 years, and I actually think I'll go back to Australia, primarily for exactly that reason.<p>EDIT: OK, sure. In Canada you can also choose to buy your own "extra" health care from your own money. What I think is bad is how employers do it for you, without you having much say in the matter. In this way, Canadians feel their health is connected to their employer (a great example is when you interview for a job in Canada, people ask "what are the benefits like"? - In Australia, that is not a question.)</text></item><item><author>kzahel</author><text>Everything I read about healthcare recently just reinforces the notion that we need public health care. Let's just model our system after say, Canada's, and call it done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jgon</author><text>While most employers do offer an "extra frills" health plan as part of employment, private insurance at fairly good rates is available to everyone. I could call up Blue Cross this afternoon and get a private health plan equivalent to my employer's if I chose to.<p>EDIT: I still really like the Australian system and wouldn't be upset if we started incorporating some of the ideas it contains. I just wanted to point out that for at least this one case the Canadian situation isn't quite as bad as it would appear.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013</title><url>http://blog.simplyinsured.com/what-startups-need-to-know-about-health-insurance-in-2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>grecy</author><text>I don't suggest you model it after Canada's system. It's good, but it could be better.<p>I moved to Canada from Australia, so I'll compare the two systems for you.<p>Canada: "healthcare for all" provides basic coverage of everything you need. Works pretty well. Even homeless / out of work people are fully covered. Things like dental and chiropractor are not covered, so you pay for those. Employers give "health care" which really just means they will pay a percentage of your costs for things like dental, chiropractors, prescriptions, etc.<p>The problem here is that if you want "better than basic" healthcare, it's tied to your employer, which has all the negative impacts of the US system of being stuck to your job. This sucks.<p>Australia: Same as Canada in that basic coverage covers emergencies and what-not for everyone. Again dental, chiropractors are not covered. BUT if you want "better than basic" care, it's your choice if you want to go out (with your own cash) and buy "private health care" which again will pay a percentage of your out-of-pocket costs for those extras (dental, etc.).<p>The massive, massive, massive advantage here is that your health is in not directly linked to your job. Your employer has no say or impact on your choice of healthcare provider, or if you even want to buy that extra coverage. As a single, healthy 30 year old, I've never seen the need to pay the extra, but in Canada I'm forced to because my employer says so.<p>I've been in Canada 7 years, and I actually think I'll go back to Australia, primarily for exactly that reason.<p>EDIT: OK, sure. In Canada you can also choose to buy your own "extra" health care from your own money. What I think is bad is how employers do it for you, without you having much say in the matter. In this way, Canadians feel their health is connected to their employer (a great example is when you interview for a job in Canada, people ask "what are the benefits like"? - In Australia, that is not a question.)</text></item><item><author>kzahel</author><text>Everything I read about healthcare recently just reinforces the notion that we need public health care. Let's just model our system after say, Canada's, and call it done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astrodust</author><text>Here in Canada, if you want "better than basic" health-care you can pay for it yourself. The net cost is under $1,000 a year for a typical individual who wants the <i>deluxe</i> treatment.</text></comment> |
40,839,937 | 40,839,769 | 1 | 2 | 40,839,208 | train | <story><title>Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful</title><url>https://tulach.cc/writing-gui-apps-for-windows-is-painful/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>This is a good overview of some of the options, but the author’s specific requirements push it in a specific direction that eliminates a lot of options.<p>Specifically, the requirement for completely custom GUI styling without writing his own render functions means it’s really a task of selecting easy, customizable GUI libraries rather than generic GUI work.<p>The requirements to be self-contained executables and under a 40MB limit also rule out a lot of options. The author admits that Qt could have met these requirements but the open-source licensing part wasn’t compatible with his goals and he didn’t want to pay for a license.<p>If you relax the requirements to tolerate some dependencies, allow larger download sizes, or to simply use built-in Windows GUI controls the situation is very different.<p>For writing a lightweight, completely custom GUI with no external dependencies and permissive licensing I could have guessed ImGui would be the answer before I started reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eschaton</author><text>If instead of insisting on custom UI styling the author just used the system UI, they could probably build a pretty straightforward Windows application. It’s the scourge of “brand identity” that has people thinking graphical applications are hard.<p>Same on the Mac: If you want to build a Mac application, your best bet will be AppKit or SwiftUI and using system controls. And when the OS updates your application will either update with it, or need only minor tweaks and a rebuild to look good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful</title><url>https://tulach.cc/writing-gui-apps-for-windows-is-painful/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aurornis</author><text>This is a good overview of some of the options, but the author’s specific requirements push it in a specific direction that eliminates a lot of options.<p>Specifically, the requirement for completely custom GUI styling without writing his own render functions means it’s really a task of selecting easy, customizable GUI libraries rather than generic GUI work.<p>The requirements to be self-contained executables and under a 40MB limit also rule out a lot of options. The author admits that Qt could have met these requirements but the open-source licensing part wasn’t compatible with his goals and he didn’t want to pay for a license.<p>If you relax the requirements to tolerate some dependencies, allow larger download sizes, or to simply use built-in Windows GUI controls the situation is very different.<p>For writing a lightweight, completely custom GUI with no external dependencies and permissive licensing I could have guessed ImGui would be the answer before I started reading.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elpocko</author><text>Dear ImGui is for development&#x2F;debug tools, not an UI for the end-user. It&#x27;s great for small projects as long as you don&#x27;t care about accessibility, or proper keyboard support, or adherence to standard UI conventions, or support for devices without GPUs, proper font rendering, etc. ...</text></comment> |
8,034,118 | 8,034,052 | 1 | 3 | 8,033,600 | train | <story><title>In Sweden, Sverker Johansson and His 'Bot' Have Created 2.7M Wikipedia Articles</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/for-this-author-10-000-wikipedia-articles-is-a-good-days-work-1405305001-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwMzExNDMyWj</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkhar</author><text>I&#x27;m not very in-tune with Wikipedia&#x27;s culture (which, I&#x27;ve read, is very nuanced and rigid[1]), but I really don&#x27;t see why this is a bad thing, given the information in the articles is accurate (and the article gives the impression that glitches are rare).<p>If nobody else was going to create an article about some species of butterfly, I don&#x27;t see why adding that information would be harmful to Wikipedia. Does it make Wikipedia harder to read? Harder to search?<p>I don&#x27;t think &quot;it&#x27;s not written by a human&quot; is a valid argument for factual information, and I&#x27;ve never seen any evidence to suggest that it should be one.<p>EDIT: I found this bot&#x27;s edit log! <a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Logg/Lsjbot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Special:Logg&#x2F;Lsjb...</a><p>Here are a few articles randomly picked out of the latest 1000:<p><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urochloa_plantaginea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Urochloa_plantaginea</a><p><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiaria_vittata" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brachiaria_vittata</a><p><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutriana_repens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eutriana_repens</a><p><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andropogon_decipiens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andropogon_decipiens</a><p>After looking at these, I&#x27;m beginning to see why there is some backlash. There are literally thousands of articles here that read &quot;X is a species of grass. It got its name from Y and is described in Z catalog.&quot; The only people who would need this information are botanists, and they already have their own specialized sources. I&#x27;m still not against bot-produced content, but I understand why some people oppose initiatives like this.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gwern</author><text>At least part of the problem is that he&#x27;s generating what one might call &#x27;info trash&#x27;: he&#x27;s taking highly structured information from databases, and turning it into natural-language prose, a data source of less value since it&#x27;s less structured.<p>These prose versions are now going to steadily fall out of sync with the original databases, be much more prominent in Wikipedia and Google, diverge from each other, be harder to parse and perform any complex analysis on (a database is at least relatively comprehensible, but to parse his dumps you have to hope you can reverse-engineer it, no other bots or editors have modified it much, and that he didn&#x27;t get clever with his format strings), etc. If at some point one wanted to change something about the presentation, it&#x27;s no longer a matter of editing one template and now the user-friendly HTML view onto the database is automatically updated for all viewers, now one has to run a carefully-written bot on millions of articles (and since that is beyond semi-automated bots, you have to have special permission to run it).<p>It would have been better to work on merging databases or exporting them into a structured site, something like Freebase.</text></comment> | <story><title>In Sweden, Sverker Johansson and His 'Bot' Have Created 2.7M Wikipedia Articles</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/for-this-author-10-000-wikipedia-articles-is-a-good-days-work-1405305001-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwMzExNDMyWj</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkhar</author><text>I&#x27;m not very in-tune with Wikipedia&#x27;s culture (which, I&#x27;ve read, is very nuanced and rigid[1]), but I really don&#x27;t see why this is a bad thing, given the information in the articles is accurate (and the article gives the impression that glitches are rare).<p>If nobody else was going to create an article about some species of butterfly, I don&#x27;t see why adding that information would be harmful to Wikipedia. Does it make Wikipedia harder to read? Harder to search?<p>I don&#x27;t think &quot;it&#x27;s not written by a human&quot; is a valid argument for factual information, and I&#x27;ve never seen any evidence to suggest that it should be one.<p>EDIT: I found this bot&#x27;s edit log! <a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Logg/Lsjbot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;w&#x2F;index.php?title=Special:Logg&#x2F;Lsjb...</a><p>Here are a few articles randomly picked out of the latest 1000:<p><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urochloa_plantaginea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Urochloa_plantaginea</a><p><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiaria_vittata" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brachiaria_vittata</a><p><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutriana_repens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Eutriana_repens</a><p><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andropogon_decipiens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sv.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andropogon_decipiens</a><p>After looking at these, I&#x27;m beginning to see why there is some backlash. There are literally thousands of articles here that read &quot;X is a species of grass. It got its name from Y and is described in Z catalog.&quot; The only people who would need this information are botanists, and they already have their own specialized sources. I&#x27;m still not against bot-produced content, but I understand why some people oppose initiatives like this.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>boomlinde</author><text>&gt; The only people who would need this information are botanists<p>I think that looking up plant species are exactly the kind of thing people would want to use an encyclopedia for.</text></comment> |
23,764,791 | 23,764,860 | 1 | 2 | 23,761,058 | train | <story><title>Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>In an average year, 13&#x2F;1000 Swedes die <i>anyway</i>.<p>Considering COVID has closed many of life&#x27;s fun things, there will be an entire generation of people who have effectively &quot;lost&quot; a year of the things they hoped they would do in their lifetime. By stating open, Sweden might decrease life expectancy in years, but increase it in terms of &#x27;things achieved in a lifetime&#x27;</text></item><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>This is an important observation. In the Netherlands, where I live, I&#x27;ve had a number of people look at me with great surprise and mistrust when I mentioned that the Dutch have done a terrible job with this epidemic. The Guardian plots show that the Netherlands is one of the worst when it comes to under-reporting.<p>This is not to say however that the Swedes have done a good job. While their numbers are credible, their magnitude is still unacceptably large: 0.5&#x2F;1000 Swedes have so far died of the corona virus.</text></item><item><author>bjourne</author><text>You have to look at the excess deaths figures. That is, how many usually dies from January to June in a normal year and compare that to how many extra that died in 2020. For Sweden the excess deaths almost exactly matches the number of Covid deaths, give or take 10%.<p>That is not the case for many other countries. For example, the UK had almost twice the number of excess deaths as Covid deaths in a few weeks in April. That indicates that Covid deaths were under reported in the UK. There are also some indications that Covid deaths have been under reported in other countries.<p>In other words, comparing countries by their Covid deaths&#x2F;capita rates is meaningless. The statistics are likely completely wrong because different countries use different definitions of &quot;Covid deaths&quot; and different reporting procedures.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;may&#x2F;29&#x2F;excess-deaths-uk-has-one-highest-levels-europe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;may&#x2F;29...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leto_ii</author><text>&gt; In an average year, 13&#x2F;1000 Swedes die anyway.<p>Yes, people die. That&#x27;s true of all countries and all times. What we might call civilized societies have however strived to reduce those numbers as much as possible. This was done by trying to avoid violence, improving lifestyles and developing better medical techniques in order to prevent or repair diseases and injuries.<p>Containing and minimizing the effects of a pandemic is just one aspect of what we might call a civilized attitude towards human life. Conversely, not doing so is uncivilized and I might add immoral and irresponsible.<p>&gt; there will be an entire generation of people who have effectively &quot;lost&quot; a year of the things they hoped they would do in their lifetime<p>This almost doesn&#x27;t merit a reply. A few months of not going to festivals and the cinema is by no measure a catastrophe. It&#x27;s not fun, but suggesting that your right to fun should trump others&#x27; right to life is, again, uncivilized, immoral and irresponsible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>In an average year, 13&#x2F;1000 Swedes die <i>anyway</i>.<p>Considering COVID has closed many of life&#x27;s fun things, there will be an entire generation of people who have effectively &quot;lost&quot; a year of the things they hoped they would do in their lifetime. By stating open, Sweden might decrease life expectancy in years, but increase it in terms of &#x27;things achieved in a lifetime&#x27;</text></item><item><author>leto_ii</author><text>This is an important observation. In the Netherlands, where I live, I&#x27;ve had a number of people look at me with great surprise and mistrust when I mentioned that the Dutch have done a terrible job with this epidemic. The Guardian plots show that the Netherlands is one of the worst when it comes to under-reporting.<p>This is not to say however that the Swedes have done a good job. While their numbers are credible, their magnitude is still unacceptably large: 0.5&#x2F;1000 Swedes have so far died of the corona virus.</text></item><item><author>bjourne</author><text>You have to look at the excess deaths figures. That is, how many usually dies from January to June in a normal year and compare that to how many extra that died in 2020. For Sweden the excess deaths almost exactly matches the number of Covid deaths, give or take 10%.<p>That is not the case for many other countries. For example, the UK had almost twice the number of excess deaths as Covid deaths in a few weeks in April. That indicates that Covid deaths were under reported in the UK. There are also some indications that Covid deaths have been under reported in other countries.<p>In other words, comparing countries by their Covid deaths&#x2F;capita rates is meaningless. The statistics are likely completely wrong because different countries use different definitions of &quot;Covid deaths&quot; and different reporting procedures.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;may&#x2F;29&#x2F;excess-deaths-uk-has-one-highest-levels-europe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;ng-interactive&#x2F;2020&#x2F;may&#x2F;29...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emiliobumachar</author><text>Keep in mind that years of life lost by dying sooner are actually a complete loss, while a year in quarantine is still partially lived. It varies a lot from person to person. If it was all about yourself, what do you think would be a reasonable exchange rate?</text></comment> |
20,527,983 | 20,527,974 | 1 | 2 | 20,527,646 | train | <story><title>Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement</title><url>https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>It would become a legendary case study if this site turned out to be an information phishing site. (This one is legit but I expect it to happen someday. I&#x27;m surprised it hasn&#x27;t already.)<p>After all this site links to the law firm JND, but nowhere does JND mention <i>this</i> site. So any of us could have made this site.<p><i>Use the form below to find out if your information was impacted and if you are a class member.</i><p><i>Last Name</i> _______<p><i>Last 6 Digits of Social Security Number</i> ________</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zombieball</author><text>A security researcher setup a similar domain with a phishing page. Equifax made the mistake of linking to his page rather than their own on twitter!!!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ca&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;business&#x2F;equifax-fake-website.amp.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.ca&#x2F;amp&#x2F;s&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;20&#x2F;busin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Submit Your Claim in the Equifax Breach Settlement</title><url>https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonsarris</author><text>It would become a legendary case study if this site turned out to be an information phishing site. (This one is legit but I expect it to happen someday. I&#x27;m surprised it hasn&#x27;t already.)<p>After all this site links to the law firm JND, but nowhere does JND mention <i>this</i> site. So any of us could have made this site.<p><i>Use the form below to find out if your information was impacted and if you are a class member.</i><p><i>Last Name</i> _______<p><i>Last 6 Digits of Social Security Number</i> ________</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astura</author><text>Its somewhat of an unsolved problem, there&#x27;s all sorts of these kind of sites that are legitimate but look really suspicious, like they could be phishing sites. Examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.annualcreditreport.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.annualcreditreport.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.optoutprescreen.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.optoutprescreen.com&#x2F;</a><p>You can tell these two are legit because they are listed on official government sites:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;faq&#x2F;consumer-protection&#x2F;get-my-free-credit-report" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ftc.gov&#x2F;faq&#x2F;consumer-protection&#x2F;get-my-free-cred...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumer.ftc.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;0262-stopping-unsolicited-mail-phone-calls-and-email" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumer.ftc.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;0262-stopping-unsolici...</a><p>However, I can see how some people wouldn&#x27;t think to go through .gov sites and there&#x27;s really nothing stopping me from registering a phishing site with a similar domain and hosting it in Russia or something to confuse people into using mine rather than the official one.<p>I think freecreditscore.com has been confused with annualcreditreport.com in the past. Freecreditscore.com is owned by Experian now and it actually does offer a real free no strings attached credit score NOW, but in the past it used to be one of those sites that tricked you into signing up for a subscription.<p>Then, of course, there was the Equifax data breach site that totally looked like a phishing site.</text></comment> |
24,633,940 | 24,633,982 | 1 | 2 | 24,631,681 | train | <story><title>When Fonts Fall</title><url>https://www.figma.com/blog/when-fonts-fall/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Really cool article.<p>But over the past few years&#x2F;decades, as glyphs have <i>exploded</i> in number, I&#x27;ve been finding myself wanting a totally different system of font definition.<p>I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives -- e.g. here&#x27;s a vertical stroke, a horizontal stroke, diagonal strokes, what various serif endings look like, here are what the bowls of letters look like, etc.<p>An entire Latin alphabet can easily be extrapolated from that -- but also Cyrillic, for example. And then you can go further, and specify elements used only in Greek, and so on...<p>But the idea being that there&#x27;s a &quot;default&quot;, boring, generic universal font template that covers <i>all</i> glyphs. And that a type designer simply modifies <i>parameters</i> as desired.<p>Now the designer can go as far as they want, with individual glyph adjustments overriding the automatically-generated ones, custom kerning pairs and whatnot.<p>But the benefit would be that, even if they <i>don&#x27;t</i>, then for a Latin alphabet you already get Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc. characters that match well (in x-height, stroke width, etc. as needed).<p>The more I work with typography, the more I think static font outlines for each glyph are the wrong way to represent things. Smart parametized outlines are what we need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfk13</author><text>&gt; I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives ...<p>&gt; the idea being that there&#x27;s a &quot;default&quot;, boring, generic universal font template that covers <i>all</i> glyphs<p>&gt; a type designer simply modifies <i>parameters</i><p>Have you looked through the Unicode code charts lately and really thought about how many primitives you&#x27;d need in order to create glyphs not just for Latin&#x2F;Cyrillic&#x2F;Greek, but also for Arabic, Telugu, Thai, Lao, Javanese, Mongolian, etc., etc.? Never mind the miscellaneous symbols and dingbats, and the ever-growing collection of emoji....<p>I don&#x27;t think this is a realistic proposition.<p>Within a closely-related group of scripts -- like Latin&#x2F;Cyrillic&#x2F;Greek -- and within a constrained range of styles, yes, it&#x27;s possible: e.g., see Knuth&#x27;s METAFONT and the various font families that have been created with it.</text></comment> | <story><title>When Fonts Fall</title><url>https://www.figma.com/blog/when-fonts-fall/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Really cool article.<p>But over the past few years&#x2F;decades, as glyphs have <i>exploded</i> in number, I&#x27;ve been finding myself wanting a totally different system of font definition.<p>I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives -- e.g. here&#x27;s a vertical stroke, a horizontal stroke, diagonal strokes, what various serif endings look like, here are what the bowls of letters look like, etc.<p>An entire Latin alphabet can easily be extrapolated from that -- but also Cyrillic, for example. And then you can go further, and specify elements used only in Greek, and so on...<p>But the idea being that there&#x27;s a &quot;default&quot;, boring, generic universal font template that covers <i>all</i> glyphs. And that a type designer simply modifies <i>parameters</i> as desired.<p>Now the designer can go as far as they want, with individual glyph adjustments overriding the automatically-generated ones, custom kerning pairs and whatnot.<p>But the benefit would be that, even if they <i>don&#x27;t</i>, then for a Latin alphabet you already get Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc. characters that match well (in x-height, stroke width, etc. as needed).<p>The more I work with typography, the more I think static font outlines for each glyph are the wrong way to represent things. Smart parametized outlines are what we need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computer_Modern" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computer_Modern</a>:<p><i>The most unusual characteristic of Computer Modern, however, is the fact that it is a complete type family designed with Knuth&#x27;s Metafont system, one of the few typefaces developed in this way. The Computer Modern source files are governed by 62 distinct parameters, controlling the widths and heights of various elements, the presence of serifs or old-style numerals, whether dots such as the dot on the &quot;i&quot; are square or rounded, and the degree of &quot;superness&quot; in the bowls of lowercase letters such as &quot;g&quot; and &quot;o&quot;. This allows Metafont designs to be processed in unusual ways; Knuth has shown effects such as morphing in demonstrations, where one font slowly transitions into another over the course of a text. While it attracted attention for the concept, Metafont has been used by few other font designers; by 1996 Knuth commented &quot;asking an artist to become enough of a mathematician to understand how to write a font with 60 parameters is too much&quot; while digital-period font designer Jonathan Hoefler commented in 2015 that &quot;Knuth&#x27;s idea that letters start with skeletal forms is flawed&quot;.</i><p>For a small sample of font source code, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metafont" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metafont</a><p>Edit: for an idea about what variants can be generated, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com&#x2F;visiblelanguage&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;16.1&#x2F;the-concept-of-a-meta-font.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com&#x2F;visiblelanguage&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;16.1&#x2F;...</a>.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiple_master_fonts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multiple_master_fonts</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Variable_fonts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Variable_fonts</a> are younger, but also don’t quite work. It’s very hard&#x2F;not really possible to design parametrized fonts that look well across wide parameter ranges.</text></comment> |
18,599,755 | 18,599,833 | 1 | 2 | 18,598,544 | train | <story><title>Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)</title><url>http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tiborsaas</author><text>How much time have you invested?</text></item><item><author>Wildgoose</author><text>I have yet to encounter anything that can match the sheer flexibility of Emacs.<p>For example I am currently using Org mode to write some documentation complete with hyper-links, tables, foot notes and the option to export the results as LaTeX, HTML, Open-Office, and so on with just a few keypresses.<p>It&#x27;s not just an editor, or an IDE, or even a windowing system - it is a cross-platform computing environment that can be fashioned to exactly suit whatever purpose you require.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xte</author><text>I second to have choose Emacs as a main computing environment and since I often here the question &quot;how much time ...&quot; well...<p>I&#x27;d like to add a note: time can&#x27;t be only measured in hours, days, etc. To learn Emacs enough to decide that&#x27;s the way I&#x27;d like to interact and use my desktop it take a very little time, in around three month I start using Emacs as WM (EXWM), MUA (notmuch-emacs) in around two months with a &quot;false start&quot; on Mu4e, main docs solution, tramp, personal finance (ledger) etc<p>But the real point is: I do it when I like to do, as much as I like, in my free time. In other words I can start easily and grow as I wont and need, and this knowledge will survive for decades to came.<p>With commercial software you need to invest time (and money) before start, and after having reached a certain amount of knowledge you can&#x27;t go further, you have to keep yourself up to date following upstream changes and you new knowledge have a very little value in the long run.<p>That distinction is important because too many people say &quot;hey it took too much time to proficiently use FOSS&quot; completely ignoring the big picture. Good time to learn FOSS is at school, when you have plenty of time and (in theory) you are willing to learn, after you get the benefit for the lifetime. Another good time is when you feel the need, in free time. You do not have to pay something in advance, you do not have &quot;training&quot;, &quot;diplomas&quot; etc, you grow at your speed and desire, limitless.<p>That&#x27;s the real matter, not how many hours.</text></comment> | <story><title>Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)</title><url>http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tiborsaas</author><text>How much time have you invested?</text></item><item><author>Wildgoose</author><text>I have yet to encounter anything that can match the sheer flexibility of Emacs.<p>For example I am currently using Org mode to write some documentation complete with hyper-links, tables, foot notes and the option to export the results as LaTeX, HTML, Open-Office, and so on with just a few keypresses.<p>It&#x27;s not just an editor, or an IDE, or even a windowing system - it is a cross-platform computing environment that can be fashioned to exactly suit whatever purpose you require.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>na85</author><text>I used emacs for years to write code and latex documents only knowing the commands to open and close files, copy&#x2F;paste, and quit. I started with emacs in lieu of vim because I think modal editing is an insane and clunky solution to a problem that no longer exists.<p>The documentation isn&#x27;t really very good due to the arcane terminology that often contradicts modern de facto standards in naming things (frames, buffers, windows) so that&#x27;s a real barrier.<p>Plus the ecosystem is full of half-baked treatises on the One True Way to set up your init file that don&#x27;t really explain why they made their choices.<p>But you can easily get by in emacs with just the basics. Then you just add commands to your repertoire when you&#x27;re ready.</text></comment> |
32,514,145 | 32,514,305 | 1 | 3 | 32,513,226 | train | <story><title>Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hayst4ck</author><text>Rule of law means, more than anything else, that there are consequences for the rich and powerful.<p>&gt; Other major figures in the case settled years ago, including the builder and the owner of the private lockups and their companies, in payouts totaling about $25 million.<p>When you can settle for &quot;just the cost of doing business&quot; prices, the rule of law is clearly weak enough that you know corruption is accelerating.<p>Nothing has made America&#x27;s lack of rule of law more apparent to me than the &quot;rule of law&quot; party&#x27;s 2nd most powerful person standing in front of news cameras and confidently saying &quot;My husband and I have a right to trade stocks with insider information, despite numerous professionals being restricted from doing so. Rules for thee, but not for me, because I&#x27;m a congresswoman.&quot;<p>How are we supposed to fight corruption, systemic or otherwise, when the people most equipped to fight it won&#x27;t even look at themselves?<p>Our leaders are failing to lead by example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cortesoft</author><text>The two judges were sentenced to 28 years and 17.5 years in prison, so it is more than just the cost of doing business they ended up facing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than 200M</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118108084/michael-conahan-mark-ciavarella-kids-for-cash</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hayst4ck</author><text>Rule of law means, more than anything else, that there are consequences for the rich and powerful.<p>&gt; Other major figures in the case settled years ago, including the builder and the owner of the private lockups and their companies, in payouts totaling about $25 million.<p>When you can settle for &quot;just the cost of doing business&quot; prices, the rule of law is clearly weak enough that you know corruption is accelerating.<p>Nothing has made America&#x27;s lack of rule of law more apparent to me than the &quot;rule of law&quot; party&#x27;s 2nd most powerful person standing in front of news cameras and confidently saying &quot;My husband and I have a right to trade stocks with insider information, despite numerous professionals being restricted from doing so. Rules for thee, but not for me, because I&#x27;m a congresswoman.&quot;<p>How are we supposed to fight corruption, systemic or otherwise, when the people most equipped to fight it won&#x27;t even look at themselves?<p>Our leaders are failing to lead by example.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelnos</author><text>Seriously; the people involved on the private prison side should also see jail time. And if the scheme was pervasive or high-up enough, the government should have dissolved the companies entirely.</text></comment> |
22,686,356 | 22,685,617 | 1 | 2 | 22,684,881 | train | <story><title>Getting started with bare-metal assembly</title><url>https://johv.dk/blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rixrax</author><text>I think one great way to do this is to get a Commodore 64 emulator (or Atari 2600 etc) and start writing and learning 6502 assy. Arguably its one of the last instruction sets that was designed with humans writing code in assembly (and not in some higher level language) making it excellent learning language. You can readily run your code in emulators and for not too much $$$ you can pick a real hardware from EBay to really run it on HW.<p>And once You think you’ve run hw to its limits there are plentiful demos and examples around to blow your mind watching what people have been able to do with these machines (often in obscure ways).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mksaunders</author><text>Commodore 64, sure, but I wouldn&#x27;t recommend the Atari 2600 for beginners! I wrote a small game for the 2600 years ago, and it&#x27;s a tricky little machine. It doesn&#x27;t even have a video frame buffer, so you have to do things on the fly, depending on which line of the screen is being beamed (think of old-school CRTs).<p>Indeed, a whole book was written about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Racing_the_Beam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Racing_the_Beam</a><p>The 2600 is fascinating and fun to code for, but for asm newbies I&#x27;d recommend the C64 or NES...</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting started with bare-metal assembly</title><url>https://johv.dk/blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rixrax</author><text>I think one great way to do this is to get a Commodore 64 emulator (or Atari 2600 etc) and start writing and learning 6502 assy. Arguably its one of the last instruction sets that was designed with humans writing code in assembly (and not in some higher level language) making it excellent learning language. You can readily run your code in emulators and for not too much $$$ you can pick a real hardware from EBay to really run it on HW.<p>And once You think you’ve run hw to its limits there are plentiful demos and examples around to blow your mind watching what people have been able to do with these machines (often in obscure ways).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza234</author><text>I&#x27;ve always been skeptical of using retro machines to learn low-level programming.<p>While the processors are simple, making non-trivial programs is hard, because the machines as a whole have lot of limitations, making programming very intricate, compared to more modern systems (say, 16-bit 80x86, but I guess even Amiga and so on).<p>If the target it challenge for the sake of challenge, then nothing makes those machines special, I mean, one can code directly in machine code if that&#x27;s the intention :-)</text></comment> |
15,022,847 | 15,023,115 | 1 | 3 | 15,021,427 | train | <story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelchisari</author><text>It seems to be completely lost on a lot of HN people that Damore&#x27;s memo was not very scientific at all for the subject matter he was tackling. It was written in a certain intellectual language that often provides a veneer of authority for those who agree with his conclusions and lack the domain knowledge to understand the nuances of why he&#x27;s wrong. But a lot of these &quot;bio-truth&quot; type of arguments do the same thing.<p>Google had plenty of reason to rethink his employment, not just because of his poor judgement, but because of the fact that he tackled a new (to him) science is such an unreasoned and unscientific way.<p>All it would have taken was for him to run the essay past a couple of people with solid domain expertise, and they would have pointed out the dozens and dozens of problems with his assertions, reasoning and perspective.<p>As people have pointed out on HN before, there is something about computer science that leads people to believe they can out-think experts in other fields at their own game. And while reaching outside of your expertise is to be encouraged, it should come with a certain humility that is not common in our industry.</text></item><item><author>aaron-lebo</author><text><i>I do not think that anyone&#x27;s ability to write should disbar them from discussion. We can not expect perfection from others. Instead we should try to understand them as human beings, and interpret them with generosity and kindness.</i><p>You are completely right, but on the other hand if you are going to invoke &quot;science&quot; and you present your writing as scientific (he did), you have a higher bar. If you fail to be objective (see semi-related assertions about Marxism), or your writing obscures the point you are attempting to make, then you&#x27;ve failed as a writer of scientific content.<p>If your writing isn&#x27;t good enough, then don&#x27;t release a memo to your workplace of tens of thousands of smart and ideological people. Put it on a blog, write it anonymously, but expect whatever criticism you get.</text></item><item><author>hedgew</author><text>Many of the more reasonable criticisms of the memo say that it wasn&#x27;t written well enough; it could&#x27;ve been more considerate, it should have used better language, or better presentation. In this particular link, Scott Alexander is used as an example of better writing, and he certainly is one of the best and most persuasive modern writers I&#x27;ve found. However, I can not imagine ever matching his talent and output, even if I practiced for years to try and catch up.<p>I do not think that anyone&#x27;s ability to write should disbar them from discussion. We can not expect perfection from others. Instead we should try to understand them as human beings, and interpret them with generosity and kindness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Artistry121</author><text>&gt;&gt;All it would have taken was for him to run the essay past a couple of people with solid domain expertise, and they would have pointed out the dozens and dozens of problems with his assertions, reasoning and perspective.<p>I don&#x27;t think this squares with truth. There is at least one PH.D psychologist who mentioned the memo was generally correct.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo</title><url>https://blog.ycombinator.com/ask-a-female-engineer-thoughts-on-the-google-memo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>michaelchisari</author><text>It seems to be completely lost on a lot of HN people that Damore&#x27;s memo was not very scientific at all for the subject matter he was tackling. It was written in a certain intellectual language that often provides a veneer of authority for those who agree with his conclusions and lack the domain knowledge to understand the nuances of why he&#x27;s wrong. But a lot of these &quot;bio-truth&quot; type of arguments do the same thing.<p>Google had plenty of reason to rethink his employment, not just because of his poor judgement, but because of the fact that he tackled a new (to him) science is such an unreasoned and unscientific way.<p>All it would have taken was for him to run the essay past a couple of people with solid domain expertise, and they would have pointed out the dozens and dozens of problems with his assertions, reasoning and perspective.<p>As people have pointed out on HN before, there is something about computer science that leads people to believe they can out-think experts in other fields at their own game. And while reaching outside of your expertise is to be encouraged, it should come with a certain humility that is not common in our industry.</text></item><item><author>aaron-lebo</author><text><i>I do not think that anyone&#x27;s ability to write should disbar them from discussion. We can not expect perfection from others. Instead we should try to understand them as human beings, and interpret them with generosity and kindness.</i><p>You are completely right, but on the other hand if you are going to invoke &quot;science&quot; and you present your writing as scientific (he did), you have a higher bar. If you fail to be objective (see semi-related assertions about Marxism), or your writing obscures the point you are attempting to make, then you&#x27;ve failed as a writer of scientific content.<p>If your writing isn&#x27;t good enough, then don&#x27;t release a memo to your workplace of tens of thousands of smart and ideological people. Put it on a blog, write it anonymously, but expect whatever criticism you get.</text></item><item><author>hedgew</author><text>Many of the more reasonable criticisms of the memo say that it wasn&#x27;t written well enough; it could&#x27;ve been more considerate, it should have used better language, or better presentation. In this particular link, Scott Alexander is used as an example of better writing, and he certainly is one of the best and most persuasive modern writers I&#x27;ve found. However, I can not imagine ever matching his talent and output, even if I practiced for years to try and catch up.<p>I do not think that anyone&#x27;s ability to write should disbar them from discussion. We can not expect perfection from others. Instead we should try to understand them as human beings, and interpret them with generosity and kindness.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cookiecaper</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why this means that Damore shouldn&#x27;t have shared his opinion.<p>We absolutely <i>should not</i> construct a credentialist edifice that says only people certified to have gone through brainwa---err, regent-approved programs--- can comment on a topic. That would prevent discussion on most topics, as virtually all topics of interest are complex and have many years of study behind them.<p>Overall, these comments are still criticizing the <i>how</i> instead of the <i>what</i>, which is what people do when they don&#x27;t know how to criticize the what but want to express their offense anyway. It&#x27;s much easier to criticize delivery and in fact it will always happen whenever anyone cares, because delivery is inherently contextual&#x2F;subjective.<p>If Damore&#x27;s paper was rejected from <i>Nature</i> or another peer-reviewed journal, that&#x27;d make sense, as it is not a rigorous academic work. It&#x27;s just a conjecture on the state of diversity hiring and it expresses his reasoning for believing the way he does. If he is so wrong, it should be simple to disprove him, and we can all move on without <i>anyone</i> having to get fired.</text></comment> |
4,546,656 | 4,546,398 | 1 | 2 | 4,545,263 | train | <story><title>The Lost Chapter</title><url>http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=80</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corporalagumbo</author><text>Jeez, did you have to write all that? Anyway, although I think you are focusing on the weakest part of Greenspan's argument - the point where he comes closest to bitterness - I was wondering if you'd like to invest $20,000 in my new venture. I'd like to sell crack heroin to junkies in Detroit. I'm sure as a fellow champion of guilt-free founder consciences, you will support my endeavour as I give gangbangers the chance to flock to this exciting new industry and do something they scarcely thought possible - to help give people a diversion from life's burdens and problems.<p>And don't worry, I'll do it with plenty of integrity, drive, boldness, and energy. Just like Zynga : )</text></item><item><author>grellas</author><text><i>Institutional investors made the mistake - again, and again, and again - of validating Mark's duplicitousness by pouring literally billions of dollars into his company, and then billions more into startups seeking to emulate it. Some of their investments created out of thin air industries that contribute absolutely nothing to, and in many cases even detract from, society. . . . Most mind-boggling of all, it's been clear for a long time that Mark's "social" business model doesn't work anyway: venture capital returns are down, and not just a little bit. Meanwhile, the opportunity cost to society is enormous: with engineers and capital allocated to virtual-sheep-throwing, worthless advertising and sharing ad nasuem, almost a decade's worth of real innovations got the short end of the stick, including but not limited to mine.</i><p>There needs to be a label placed on the idea of feeling the need to bow to the wishes of critics who try to limit the idea of valid entrepreneurship to activities deemed "beneficial to society." I propose Founder's Guilt Complex.<p>Why on earth - when life is so big and beautiful and complex - should I feel guilty if I make money from an activity that does nothing more than give people a diversion from life's burdens and problems? College football may be a joke to pointy-head types but then reading Latin (my own peculiar idea of fun) is equally a joke to the cheering fans who join in inter-collegiate rivalries. Likewise for playing video games or hiking in the woods or listening to rock-and-roll or producing reality-TV shows or most any other activity you can name whose main goal is relaxation, entertainment, escape from life's burdens, or just plain self-indulgence. And social networking is no exception. I may not do much on Facebook (I don't) but so what? Others can and do like to share things with people of varying degrees of relationship to them and more power to them for liking to do this. It is their choice. It is a free country. It is not for me to be a scold who upbraids them for doing so. Nor should I be crabbed or pinched about what founders choose to do to create and market products and services designed to satisfy such proclivities or to make money from them.<p>Yes, I can set about in life to conquer diseases or to abolish poverty or to alleviate people's suffering and all such things are ennobling. I can do such things via a profit-making venture or I can make my money on other things and then use it to advance higher goals through giving. Or I can devote time and energy to helping others in my personal life. All of that is great but it hardly defines the boundaries of worthwhile human activity. Life has enough problems without having someone of a judgmental spirit continually taking us to task for wanting to have some fun as well or for trying to promote fun things for others. In a free society, there is room for fun things as well and for those who see it as worthwhile to take risk in building companies that seek to market less-than-weighty things to the public.<p>Life certainly can be perverse. In 17th century England, as modern western society was taking shape, you had, on the one side, royalists who despised political freedom, who valued rule by a church hierarchy, and yet who were much given to licentious habits in their lifestyles while, on the other, you had those who agitated for political freedom, who fought oppressive forms of centralized rule, who ultimately broke away to form what became America, and yet who in their personal lives bore the grim face of the puritan that sought at every turn to chain, quarter, and shame everyone all about who thought it might be fun to dance or to have a little fun in life. It seems that in our modern society we have ported over the spirit of the puritan in castigating others even as we have won the freedoms that allow us under law to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Well, if the pursuit of happiness was deemed a worthy goal of a society's founding documents, far be it from me to stand grim-faced telling others that they should feel guilty in not conforming to my narrow view of acceptable life activities - and that <i>includes</i> how I choose to make my living or start my business.<p>I don't think this is a mere technical issue either. I believe that no guilt or stigma should attach to ventures doing legal things just because they don't set out to solve World Problems. The poor have always been with us. So too have wars, rapes, and murders. Ditto for disease and death. I am the first to say "bravo" to those who do not sit resigned to accept all these destructive elements in life but who instead spur themselves to do something to help make things better not just for themselves but for the broader society too. That said, such activities cannot be the only things that define our goals in life, nor should they be. There is value in having enjoyment and fun in life and this is a transcending value that betters society. In the entrepreneurial world, there is no room for a spirit of self-righteousness. Therefore, I say away with Founder's Guilt Complex. If you want to do a venture, do it honestly and with integrity, drive, boldness, and energy. Just don't let others tell you that you should feel guilty about offending their scruples. Enjoy and make it work without guilt. You can deal with Weighty Issues too if you are so led. Just don't listen to those who say that what you are doing is not worthwhile unless it is narrowly confined to them.<p>So if the VC industry chose to pour all kinds of money into creating something called social networking, and if all kinds of talented engineers have flocked to that industry in pursuit of money or other personal goals, that is by definition a great benefit to society because it has given many, many people the chance to do things that were scarcely thought possible just a decade ago - and to derive simple pleasures from the diversions or other benefits afforded to them through such networking. Whatever the flaws associated with individual people or companies in such an industry, there is nothing whatever wrong with those who devoted their money and their efforts to making all this possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Ok, Corporal A. Gumbo: Write it better.<p>Do it and I'll donate $1000 that I promise I was not going to donate anyways to Partners In Health.<p>There's an idea common to forums that I don't frequent that I recently learned of called an "ideological Turing test". The idea is to take a group of people divided along a controversy, and to get each side to anonymously write a coherent argument that capture's the other side's perspective. Then everyone tries to tell, "which is the real argument, and which is the cunning fake?".<p>In that spirit: if you think you understand what 'grellas is trying to say so well, go ahead and take a whack at saying it better, and demonstrate that you actually grok his perspective.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Lost Chapter</title><url>http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=80</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>corporalagumbo</author><text>Jeez, did you have to write all that? Anyway, although I think you are focusing on the weakest part of Greenspan's argument - the point where he comes closest to bitterness - I was wondering if you'd like to invest $20,000 in my new venture. I'd like to sell crack heroin to junkies in Detroit. I'm sure as a fellow champion of guilt-free founder consciences, you will support my endeavour as I give gangbangers the chance to flock to this exciting new industry and do something they scarcely thought possible - to help give people a diversion from life's burdens and problems.<p>And don't worry, I'll do it with plenty of integrity, drive, boldness, and energy. Just like Zynga : )</text></item><item><author>grellas</author><text><i>Institutional investors made the mistake - again, and again, and again - of validating Mark's duplicitousness by pouring literally billions of dollars into his company, and then billions more into startups seeking to emulate it. Some of their investments created out of thin air industries that contribute absolutely nothing to, and in many cases even detract from, society. . . . Most mind-boggling of all, it's been clear for a long time that Mark's "social" business model doesn't work anyway: venture capital returns are down, and not just a little bit. Meanwhile, the opportunity cost to society is enormous: with engineers and capital allocated to virtual-sheep-throwing, worthless advertising and sharing ad nasuem, almost a decade's worth of real innovations got the short end of the stick, including but not limited to mine.</i><p>There needs to be a label placed on the idea of feeling the need to bow to the wishes of critics who try to limit the idea of valid entrepreneurship to activities deemed "beneficial to society." I propose Founder's Guilt Complex.<p>Why on earth - when life is so big and beautiful and complex - should I feel guilty if I make money from an activity that does nothing more than give people a diversion from life's burdens and problems? College football may be a joke to pointy-head types but then reading Latin (my own peculiar idea of fun) is equally a joke to the cheering fans who join in inter-collegiate rivalries. Likewise for playing video games or hiking in the woods or listening to rock-and-roll or producing reality-TV shows or most any other activity you can name whose main goal is relaxation, entertainment, escape from life's burdens, or just plain self-indulgence. And social networking is no exception. I may not do much on Facebook (I don't) but so what? Others can and do like to share things with people of varying degrees of relationship to them and more power to them for liking to do this. It is their choice. It is a free country. It is not for me to be a scold who upbraids them for doing so. Nor should I be crabbed or pinched about what founders choose to do to create and market products and services designed to satisfy such proclivities or to make money from them.<p>Yes, I can set about in life to conquer diseases or to abolish poverty or to alleviate people's suffering and all such things are ennobling. I can do such things via a profit-making venture or I can make my money on other things and then use it to advance higher goals through giving. Or I can devote time and energy to helping others in my personal life. All of that is great but it hardly defines the boundaries of worthwhile human activity. Life has enough problems without having someone of a judgmental spirit continually taking us to task for wanting to have some fun as well or for trying to promote fun things for others. In a free society, there is room for fun things as well and for those who see it as worthwhile to take risk in building companies that seek to market less-than-weighty things to the public.<p>Life certainly can be perverse. In 17th century England, as modern western society was taking shape, you had, on the one side, royalists who despised political freedom, who valued rule by a church hierarchy, and yet who were much given to licentious habits in their lifestyles while, on the other, you had those who agitated for political freedom, who fought oppressive forms of centralized rule, who ultimately broke away to form what became America, and yet who in their personal lives bore the grim face of the puritan that sought at every turn to chain, quarter, and shame everyone all about who thought it might be fun to dance or to have a little fun in life. It seems that in our modern society we have ported over the spirit of the puritan in castigating others even as we have won the freedoms that allow us under law to enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Well, if the pursuit of happiness was deemed a worthy goal of a society's founding documents, far be it from me to stand grim-faced telling others that they should feel guilty in not conforming to my narrow view of acceptable life activities - and that <i>includes</i> how I choose to make my living or start my business.<p>I don't think this is a mere technical issue either. I believe that no guilt or stigma should attach to ventures doing legal things just because they don't set out to solve World Problems. The poor have always been with us. So too have wars, rapes, and murders. Ditto for disease and death. I am the first to say "bravo" to those who do not sit resigned to accept all these destructive elements in life but who instead spur themselves to do something to help make things better not just for themselves but for the broader society too. That said, such activities cannot be the only things that define our goals in life, nor should they be. There is value in having enjoyment and fun in life and this is a transcending value that betters society. In the entrepreneurial world, there is no room for a spirit of self-righteousness. Therefore, I say away with Founder's Guilt Complex. If you want to do a venture, do it honestly and with integrity, drive, boldness, and energy. Just don't let others tell you that you should feel guilty about offending their scruples. Enjoy and make it work without guilt. You can deal with Weighty Issues too if you are so led. Just don't listen to those who say that what you are doing is not worthwhile unless it is narrowly confined to them.<p>So if the VC industry chose to pour all kinds of money into creating something called social networking, and if all kinds of talented engineers have flocked to that industry in pursuit of money or other personal goals, that is by definition a great benefit to society because it has given many, many people the chance to do things that were scarcely thought possible just a decade ago - and to derive simple pleasures from the diversions or other benefits afforded to them through such networking. Whatever the flaws associated with individual people or companies in such an industry, there is nothing whatever wrong with those who devoted their money and their efforts to making all this possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeisstillgood</author><text>In a free society, he is free to write as much as he likes and you are free to neither read nor reply to it.<p>The base of his argument is offending a persons <i>preferences</i> is not sufficient to self censor ones own actions - and I agree.<p>I also agree where he said any <i>legal</i> start up is fine and free of guilt - but don't worry I would be behind any start up or government initiative that <i>gave away</i> heroin to Junkies. The so called British System worked very well for many years, until the Puritan guilt pressure ended it in spite of empirical evidence that harm reduction did in fact reduce harm<p>so convert your start up to social entrpreneur status, and go make something to be proud of<p>the only reason to feel guilty is to have talent to create and not do so.</text></comment> |
28,795,043 | 28,794,597 | 1 | 2 | 28,793,693 | train | <story><title>Samsung Foundry Forum announcements</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MangoCoffee</author><text>&gt; process technology migration to 3- and 2-nanometer (nm) based on the company’s Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistor structure<p>I believe GAA is the next gen tech for the node process. Samsung is the first foundry to do GAA w&#x2F;3nm while TSMC is sticking w&#x2F;FinFET for their 3nm. It&#x27;ll be interesting to see how 3nm FinFET compare to 3nm GAA.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;16041&#x2F;where-are-my-gaafets-tsmc-to-stay-with-finfet-for-3nm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;16041&#x2F;where-are-my-gaafets-ts...</a><p>edit:<p>&gt;After that, transistor structures begin to change. Samsung and TSMC are manufacturing chips at 7nm and 5nm based on today’s finFETs. Samsung will move to nanosheet FETs at 3nm. Intel is also developing GAA technology. TSMC plans to extend finFETs to 3nm, and then will migrate to nanosheet FETs at 2nm around 2024.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;semiengineering.com&#x2F;the-increasingly-uneven-race-to-3nm-2nm&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;semiengineering.com&#x2F;the-increasingly-uneven-race-to-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Samsung Foundry Forum announcements</title><url>https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-foundry-innovations-power-the-future-of-big-data-ai-ml-and-smart-connected-devices</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>1-6</author><text>Samsung has a dishonorable marketing department. 3nm is not actually 3nm. I&#x27;m fed up... OLED is superior so they had to take the path of calling theirs QLED which is actually just an LCD screen with phosphors on top of a blue backlight (and it&#x27;s nothing new).</text></comment> |
40,532,740 | 40,532,489 | 1 | 3 | 40,531,175 | train | <story><title>'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/its-better-for-humans-in-general-the-four-day-workweek-is-closer-than-you-think-b85cc39e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>I find it odd that everyone here is talking about productivity. Although I guess it&#x27;s to be expected since posts about increasing productivity are popular in HN; lots of people here focusing on their careers I suppose.<p>Personally I find we work way too many hours. We spend the good part of 5 days a week (if we&#x27;re lucky) at work, often literally all the daylight hours, at least in winter. I have to take my daughter very early in the morning to the nursery, then I can&#x27;t see her until the evening.<p>I want to believe that future generations will look back and find this unconceivable, and I hope AI shows us the way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lm28469</author><text>It&#x27;s so internalised that people gatekeep working long and hard...<p>I assume the &quot;commute -&gt; work -&gt; chill -&gt; sleep&quot; cycle is doing a lot of work, you basically have no time to even think about what you&#x27;re doing. Add some kids, a mortgage, health issues, it&#x27;s the perfect cocktail. The &quot;work -&gt; vacation&quot; cycle is also a good one, you can rationalise wasting 3-6 months in a work you don&#x27;t enjoy to have a few weeks of peace (and spend all your money so you have a &quot;good&quot; reason to go back to work)<p>In a way it&#x27;s also more pleasing to be fully invested in the rat race, once you start to want get out of it you&#x27;ll hate every single second of your work week wondering where we as a specie fucked up so bad</text></comment> | <story><title>'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/its-better-for-humans-in-general-the-four-day-workweek-is-closer-than-you-think-b85cc39e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Xenoamorphous</author><text>I find it odd that everyone here is talking about productivity. Although I guess it&#x27;s to be expected since posts about increasing productivity are popular in HN; lots of people here focusing on their careers I suppose.<p>Personally I find we work way too many hours. We spend the good part of 5 days a week (if we&#x27;re lucky) at work, often literally all the daylight hours, at least in winter. I have to take my daughter very early in the morning to the nursery, then I can&#x27;t see her until the evening.<p>I want to believe that future generations will look back and find this unconceivable, and I hope AI shows us the way.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>globular-toast</author><text>People spend all their lives doing pointless work, accumulating wealth, then have nothing to spend it on so buy something like a car they don&#x27;t need (like an SUV).<p>It&#x27;s odd there aren&#x27;t more people questioning this. Wouldn&#x27;t they rather enjoy their lives while they&#x27;re young and not worry about having tons of disposable income when they&#x27;re old?<p>I guess there&#x27;s something about security that drives people to the latter. Also I feel like there&#x27;s an addiction and&#x2F;or conditioning element to it. I think people are scared of what will happen if certain people (thick people) no longer have to work. What will they do during the day etc?</text></comment> |
4,394,716 | 4,394,474 | 1 | 3 | 4,393,817 | train | <story><title>Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy</title><url>http://www.joshlehman.com/thoughts/stop-using-the-cup-of-coffee-vs-0-99-cent-app-analogy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewfelix</author><text>Well said.<p><i>"Starbucks Craftsmanship"</i>? Please.<p>Not sure what artisans you have running Starbucks cafes in the US, but in Australia the barristers are largely low paid teenagers using un-cleaned machines and second rate beans. To top it off most of the drinks have dollop of cream or some other sugary ingredient to mask the awful quality of the coffee.<p>I would gladly 'gamble' 99c with an iPhone developer over a Starbucks beverage.<p>EDIT: I'm talking specifically about <i>Starbacks</i>. Australia has excellent coffee. I'm drinking a lovely Sprocket coffee as I write this.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Horrifying.<p>The point about the coffee cup comparison isn't that cups of coffee are the benchmark experience for product pricing; if that were the case, my next root canal would cost $0.20.<p>The point of the coffee cup comparison is <i>marginal utility</i>: the money you spend on an expensive cup of coffee almost certainly has very little utility at the margin, because you are happy to chuck it away for a bad cup of coffee.<p>Oh, you really like Starbucks coffee? That's unfortunate, because it's pretty bad, but more importantly: you <i>militantly miss the point of the comparison</i> when you benchmark the experience of installing a new app against the enjoyment you get from a cup of coffee.<p>This place has an enormous problem with pricing and economics. Unlike Patrick, who really does sweat the fact that developers are making small fractions of their overall worth due to underpricing their offerings, I should be overjoyed at the fact that the biggest collection of new software entrepreneurs on the Internet hangs out at a meme generation engine for exploitable market inefficiencies. But unfortunately, I'm an obnoxious nerd, so all I can think to do about this is yell. ARGH.<p>A dollar at the margin for a person with a $600 phone on a $50/mo data contract is <i>not an enormous gamble</i>. It is a pittance too trivial for that person to even contextualize. The problem isn't that people are unwilling to give up $1 for apps; it's that they're hesitant to give up $0.25 for <i>anything</i> online. When you start with the understanding that there's huge impedance at "anything above free", it's clear why "$1" is not a particularly great price point, and why "better strategies to motivate people to part with $1" is a terrible meme to propagate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kscaldef</author><text>You're missing the point in two ways<p>a) "Starbucks" serves in this situation as a generic term for an espresso drink of your choice. Like Kleenex or Xerox or what-have-you. When someone says "people will spend $4 on a coffee at Starbucks without thinking about it" they don't mean at Starbucks specifically, they just mean "some coffee shop that isn't 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts or McDonalds".<p>b) Even within the category of espresso-serving, $3ish coffee shops, the argument still applies. In a strange town (<i>), in the absence of other reliable information, I will probably go to Starbucks because I know that I'll get a somewhat over-roasted, but drinkable, latte. If I walk into a random independent coffee shop, there's some chance I'll get an excellent cup of coffee. But, experience has also taught me that it's more likely that I'll get something that's no better, or frequently worse, than Starbucks. Similarly, if I'm out of saline or need some allergy medicine while traveling, I'm likely to grab it at Walmart, because all their stores are laid out the same and I can find what I need blindfolded. There is value in predictability in many situations.<p>(</i>) caveat that this applies to travel in the US, and generally for work. In various European countries, I'd bet on the random local shop. And if I'm traveling on vacation, there's value in experiencing something new and local. But, if I just want my morning coffee on the way in to the office, easy and predicable wins.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 Cent App Analogy</title><url>http://www.joshlehman.com/thoughts/stop-using-the-cup-of-coffee-vs-0-99-cent-app-analogy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andrewfelix</author><text>Well said.<p><i>"Starbucks Craftsmanship"</i>? Please.<p>Not sure what artisans you have running Starbucks cafes in the US, but in Australia the barristers are largely low paid teenagers using un-cleaned machines and second rate beans. To top it off most of the drinks have dollop of cream or some other sugary ingredient to mask the awful quality of the coffee.<p>I would gladly 'gamble' 99c with an iPhone developer over a Starbucks beverage.<p>EDIT: I'm talking specifically about <i>Starbacks</i>. Australia has excellent coffee. I'm drinking a lovely Sprocket coffee as I write this.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>Horrifying.<p>The point about the coffee cup comparison isn't that cups of coffee are the benchmark experience for product pricing; if that were the case, my next root canal would cost $0.20.<p>The point of the coffee cup comparison is <i>marginal utility</i>: the money you spend on an expensive cup of coffee almost certainly has very little utility at the margin, because you are happy to chuck it away for a bad cup of coffee.<p>Oh, you really like Starbucks coffee? That's unfortunate, because it's pretty bad, but more importantly: you <i>militantly miss the point of the comparison</i> when you benchmark the experience of installing a new app against the enjoyment you get from a cup of coffee.<p>This place has an enormous problem with pricing and economics. Unlike Patrick, who really does sweat the fact that developers are making small fractions of their overall worth due to underpricing their offerings, I should be overjoyed at the fact that the biggest collection of new software entrepreneurs on the Internet hangs out at a meme generation engine for exploitable market inefficiencies. But unfortunately, I'm an obnoxious nerd, so all I can think to do about this is yell. ARGH.<p>A dollar at the margin for a person with a $600 phone on a $50/mo data contract is <i>not an enormous gamble</i>. It is a pittance too trivial for that person to even contextualize. The problem isn't that people are unwilling to give up $1 for apps; it's that they're hesitant to give up $0.25 for <i>anything</i> online. When you start with the understanding that there's huge impedance at "anything above free", it's clear why "$1" is not a particularly great price point, and why "better strategies to motivate people to part with $1" is a terrible meme to propagate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joshlehman</author><text>I'd say feel free to replace "Starbucks" with any other purveyor of a product you enjoy at around this price point.<p>When I say craftsmanship what I'm really referring to is the overall brand that Starbucks (or other coffee shops) have built. A brand that says "what you get here will meet your expectations".</text></comment> |
33,890,138 | 33,888,847 | 1 | 3 | 33,878,209 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?</title><text>I am assuming the market must be saturated with people seeking tech jobs. Is it difficult to get interviews? How have you been since you got laid off?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>I&#x27;m in my late 50s. When I hear about the salaries that much younger folks are pulling down in the FAANG companies I&#x27;m generally pretty shocked - I&#x27;ve never made anything close to that and don&#x27;t have any expectations to. My expenses are way lower than most of the younger folks in tech because my house is paid off (will be in about a month), we drive 20 year old cars and we&#x27;re quite frugal. For most of the past decade I&#x27;ve worked in startups where the pay hasn&#x27;t been great but the work has been very interesting (in some cases, fun, even) so I&#x27;m willing to make that tradeoff. To summarize: I&#x27;d be willing to work for $90K&#x2F;year if it was working on something I found interesting in an early stage startup (You get more control the earlier you get in). Are my compensation expectations high?</text></item><item><author>parentheses</author><text>Ageism is often conflated with higher compensation expectations.</text></item><item><author>wickedsickeune</author><text>Thanks for sharing. If I may ask, when was the last time you looked for a job? I&#x27;m saying this because maybe you&#x27;re having trouble due to ageism that you didn&#x27;t encounter before.</text></item><item><author>tarokun-io</author><text>Interviewed with about 28 companies for almost 3 months, without a single offer! I was starting to get really worried about money and burned out from interviewing. In the past I&#x27;ve never interviewed with more than 2 or 3 before getting an offer<p>I now this is incredibly privileged. I&#x27;m not humble-bragging, just observing the change in the market.<p>As things usually turn out, during the last week of the 3-month search I received 3 different offers all at once.<p>For reference and if it matters: I&#x27;ve got 14 years of experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noname123</author><text>The one thing I never understood about in tech, people talk about so much about TC but never about take-home pay (after taxes, housing cost, lifestyle cost etc).<p>I have friends who work very boring jobs in the gov&#x27;t or non-profits (who make 90K but have a 10% 403b matching or pension; a 750K house; and a 1 million liquid investment account of CAGR of 20%), drive beater cars but through shrewd investments and frugality are multi-millionaires. I also have friends who flex in fancy cars, fancy luxury downtown condos and fancy jobs (who make 200K+ but never contribute to 401K, no house b&#x2F;c lives in HCoL and only a ~150K in savings b&#x2F;c travels, eat out etc.) but spend it all and when I talk to them in confidence, am shocked they have a fraction of what I think they are worth net-worth in the bank.<p>I used to think these stories were some kind of Suzy Orman&#x2F;Dave Ramsey made-up morality tales or exceptional one-off stories - but older I get, I realize they are not. It&#x27;s just most people start off the same - and it&#x27;s only after years, people&#x27;s money habits dramatically compound over the years that these differences become exponentially large and comical.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?</title><text>I am assuming the market must be saturated with people seeking tech jobs. Is it difficult to get interviews? How have you been since you got laid off?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>I&#x27;m in my late 50s. When I hear about the salaries that much younger folks are pulling down in the FAANG companies I&#x27;m generally pretty shocked - I&#x27;ve never made anything close to that and don&#x27;t have any expectations to. My expenses are way lower than most of the younger folks in tech because my house is paid off (will be in about a month), we drive 20 year old cars and we&#x27;re quite frugal. For most of the past decade I&#x27;ve worked in startups where the pay hasn&#x27;t been great but the work has been very interesting (in some cases, fun, even) so I&#x27;m willing to make that tradeoff. To summarize: I&#x27;d be willing to work for $90K&#x2F;year if it was working on something I found interesting in an early stage startup (You get more control the earlier you get in). Are my compensation expectations high?</text></item><item><author>parentheses</author><text>Ageism is often conflated with higher compensation expectations.</text></item><item><author>wickedsickeune</author><text>Thanks for sharing. If I may ask, when was the last time you looked for a job? I&#x27;m saying this because maybe you&#x27;re having trouble due to ageism that you didn&#x27;t encounter before.</text></item><item><author>tarokun-io</author><text>Interviewed with about 28 companies for almost 3 months, without a single offer! I was starting to get really worried about money and burned out from interviewing. In the past I&#x27;ve never interviewed with more than 2 or 3 before getting an offer<p>I now this is incredibly privileged. I&#x27;m not humble-bragging, just observing the change in the market.<p>As things usually turn out, during the last week of the 3-month search I received 3 different offers all at once.<p>For reference and if it matters: I&#x27;ve got 14 years of experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bckr</author><text>&gt; Are my compensation expectations high<p>No... You really don&#x27;t wanna work for less than $150k at a startup, at least on the west coast.</text></comment> |
23,468,855 | 23,468,500 | 1 | 2 | 23,466,795 | train | <story><title>New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/06/08/new-inline-asm.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; Also, thank you for using Intel x86 syntax instead of AT&amp;T.<p>Thank you for helping to validate that decision; this is the kind of feedback we needed.<p>(And note that you can still choose to use AT&amp;T syntax, it just isn&#x27;t the default.)</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>Rust folks, thank you so much for making this far, far better than GCC’s asm syntax for C. Also, thank you for using Intel x86 syntax instead of AT&amp;T.<p>It would be delightful if GCC were to adopt something similar after this stabilizes in Rust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdright</author><text>Yes, thank you for the Intel syntax. It is by far the most frequent syntax you&#x27;ll find anywhere somewhat recent (1990+) and it is by far the most straightforward to learn by being clean. I did learn both in the 90s, but I&#x27;ve always struggled with AT&amp;T symbols and different offerings which to me was hard to switch to when learning from different material sources.</text></comment> | <story><title>New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly</title><url>https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/06/08/new-inline-asm.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; Also, thank you for using Intel x86 syntax instead of AT&amp;T.<p>Thank you for helping to validate that decision; this is the kind of feedback we needed.<p>(And note that you can still choose to use AT&amp;T syntax, it just isn&#x27;t the default.)</text></item><item><author>amluto</author><text>Rust folks, thank you so much for making this far, far better than GCC’s asm syntax for C. Also, thank you for using Intel x86 syntax instead of AT&amp;T.<p>It would be delightful if GCC were to adopt something similar after this stabilizes in Rust.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binarycrusader</author><text>Yes, this is great, but I have to disagree on the Intel x86 syntax assertion by the original poster. Perhaps it&#x27;s because of the era I grew up in and how I first learned machine language and then assembly language, but I&#x27;ve always preferred AT&amp;T syntax. Regardless thanks for supporting the saner syntax even if it&#x27;s not by default ;)</text></comment> |
16,331,190 | 16,331,273 | 1 | 2 | 16,330,637 | train | <story><title>“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004)</title><url>http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2004_2_15_71552_7795.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeterStuer</author><text>I used to love reading his pieces. Then Google killed Reader, I never found a replacement I liked, and blogs just died for me. Not &#x27;rational&#x27;, I know, but I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not alone.</text></item><item><author>dwightgunning</author><text>If, like me, you find these quirks and oddities fascinating, you must keep an eye on Raymond Chen&#x27;s blog, The Old New Thing[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sien</author><text>Inoreader.<p>I loved Google Reader. But now Inoreader is better than Google Reader ever was.<p>Link to the last time I posted this comment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16285449" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16285449</a><p>(Seriously - if you liked RSS try Inoreader)<p>Also, I have no connection with Inoreader whatsoever. I wish I did. Great product.</text></comment> | <story><title>“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (2004)</title><url>http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2004_2_15_71552_7795.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PeterStuer</author><text>I used to love reading his pieces. Then Google killed Reader, I never found a replacement I liked, and blogs just died for me. Not &#x27;rational&#x27;, I know, but I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not alone.</text></item><item><author>dwightgunning</author><text>If, like me, you find these quirks and oddities fascinating, you must keep an eye on Raymond Chen&#x27;s blog, The Old New Thing[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vog</author><text>QuiteRSS. This is a simple Qt application with good usability that does the job.<p>Advantages: It&#x27;s neither a web service that will disappaer tomorrow, nor a browser extension that ties you to a specific browser.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quiterss.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quiterss.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;about</a><p>Off-Topic: As with most websites, I had to visit an &quot;About&quot; sub page to get to the description what it does. Why?! Shouldn&#x27;t this information be the first you read when you open the main site? It&#x27;s almost the same nonsense as with so-called &quot;landing pages&quot;. If a company&#x27;s main site doesn&#x27;t qualify as landing page, why do they create a separate sub page instead of just improving their main site? And some websites don&#x27;t have any newcomer-friendly sub page at all - then there&#x27;s Wikipedia to the rescue.</text></comment> |
24,184,071 | 24,183,908 | 1 | 2 | 24,181,772 | train | <story><title>Pure Skill Minesweeper</title><url>https://github.andrewt.net/mines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericfrederich</author><text>I had a co-worker who played minesweeper all day long on his Linux workstation which I had remote access to. I grabbed the source code for the exact version of gnome-mines he was using and compiled my own version with some back doors. I would also launch an xvnc server so I could see him playing from my desk. Sometimes I&#x27;d have people over at my desk watching him play. It was hilarious.<p>I could enable various features while the game was playing. Features included:
* Always lose on first click
* Always win on first click
* Force a guess in all 4 corners... so even if played perfectly he&#x27;d have to make 4 guesses.
* Load custom designs from text file. For instance I had some that spelled things out.
* Every click would be completely surrounded by mines (i.e. the number 8) until half the mines were exhausted. This one was fun because I remember him not believing it and actually clicking on a mine.
* Ridiculous sounds when he won or lost</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lofties</author><text>It sounds to me like you installed spyware on your coworkers computer. What kind of company were you working at where people see this as a joke instead of a security breach? And let&#x27;s not forget the trust coworkers have in you not to fuck with their machines.</text></comment> | <story><title>Pure Skill Minesweeper</title><url>https://github.andrewt.net/mines/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericfrederich</author><text>I had a co-worker who played minesweeper all day long on his Linux workstation which I had remote access to. I grabbed the source code for the exact version of gnome-mines he was using and compiled my own version with some back doors. I would also launch an xvnc server so I could see him playing from my desk. Sometimes I&#x27;d have people over at my desk watching him play. It was hilarious.<p>I could enable various features while the game was playing. Features included:
* Always lose on first click
* Always win on first click
* Force a guess in all 4 corners... so even if played perfectly he&#x27;d have to make 4 guesses.
* Load custom designs from text file. For instance I had some that spelled things out.
* Every click would be completely surrounded by mines (i.e. the number 8) until half the mines were exhausted. This one was fun because I remember him not believing it and actually clicking on a mine.
* Ridiculous sounds when he won or lost</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; Ridiculous sounds when he won or lost<p>You could really give someone some good experiences with that. A game that it artificially seems like you narrowly escape disaster turn after turn can feel great at the end.</text></comment> |
26,642,472 | 26,639,957 | 1 | 2 | 26,637,526 | train | <story><title>The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity</title><url>https://anonymousplanet.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vmception</author><text>I&#x27;m glad they made this chart on their website<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anonymousplanet.org&#x2F;media&#x2F;image6.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anonymousplanet.org&#x2F;media&#x2F;image6.jpeg</a><p>But one should practically note that this is just a practical warning. The omnipotence of the Mossad and NSA etc is limited too, and their interest in things is also limited.<p>Basically the attack vector from them is polluting the Tor nodes (so that they control enough of them to understand information), timing attacks on onion services to figure out locations of people accessing the hidden services solely within in Tor, as well as undeclared exploits, and feeding local law enforcement around the globe the information about you.<p>But 9 out of 10 things you could possibly even do are not things that would have them bother with you, although it is accurate that over time you begin to have a problem if you are really trying to stay both private and anonymous <i>and</i> are doing criminal violations (distinct from civil violations). So just keep rotating keys and move with purpose. Limit your Tor session to implementation and execution and consider using Tor just for casual reading or accessing RDP to actually browse clearnet from someone else&#x27;s computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&gt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anonymousplanet.org&#x2F;media&#x2F;image6.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anonymousplanet.org&#x2F;media&#x2F;image6.jpeg</a><p>The second column is a bit puzzling. The adversaries are listed as advertisers and people randomly googling you, but the suggested mitigation is to... add 2fa? What type of advertisers and&#x2F;or googlers are breaking into your accounts?</text></comment> | <story><title>The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity</title><url>https://anonymousplanet.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vmception</author><text>I&#x27;m glad they made this chart on their website<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anonymousplanet.org&#x2F;media&#x2F;image6.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anonymousplanet.org&#x2F;media&#x2F;image6.jpeg</a><p>But one should practically note that this is just a practical warning. The omnipotence of the Mossad and NSA etc is limited too, and their interest in things is also limited.<p>Basically the attack vector from them is polluting the Tor nodes (so that they control enough of them to understand information), timing attacks on onion services to figure out locations of people accessing the hidden services solely within in Tor, as well as undeclared exploits, and feeding local law enforcement around the globe the information about you.<p>But 9 out of 10 things you could possibly even do are not things that would have them bother with you, although it is accurate that over time you begin to have a problem if you are really trying to stay both private and anonymous <i>and</i> are doing criminal violations (distinct from civil violations). So just keep rotating keys and move with purpose. Limit your Tor session to implementation and execution and consider using Tor just for casual reading or accessing RDP to actually browse clearnet from someone else&#x27;s computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tomcooks</author><text>Create rogue TOR nodes<p>Use TOR for menial stuff to create background noise<p>Regularly trade laptops and phones with like-minded individuals<p>Assume you&#x27;ve been breached and that the government has full attention to you<p>Be as paranoid as possible, any step towards lack of freedom for the sake of convenience is unretracheable</text></comment> |
25,680,641 | 25,680,658 | 1 | 3 | 25,679,618 | train | <story><title>CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate targets, study finds</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-targets-1.5861537</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aunche</author><text>Currently, the richest 10% are responsible for half of all CO2 emissions [1], and you only need $93k be in the richest 10% [2], quite modest by HN standards. Historically, the only way countries have been able to lift themselves out of poverty is by burning fossil fuels for energy. While alternative energy is rapidly advancing, Nigeria isn&#x27;t going to wait decades to build a solar plant when they can build several coal power plants right now.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2015&#x2F;dec&#x2F;02&#x2F;worlds-richest-10-produce-half-of-global-carbon-emissions-says-oxfam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2015&#x2F;dec&#x2F;02&#x2F;worlds-r...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;07&#x2F;how-much-money-you-need-to-be-in-the-richest-10-percent-worldwide.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;07&#x2F;how-much-money-you-need-to-b...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Robotbeat</author><text>So, the figures in that Oxfam report, when that Guardian article was published, was from 2007&#x2F;2008. The report was written in 2015, but the data was already out of date. I mention that because from 2007 to 2019 (figures from 2020 aren&#x27;t available yet), China&#x27;s per capita emissions increased by 55% while those of the West have declined. China&#x27;s per capita emissions have risen from 5.25 tCO2&#x2F;capita in 2007 to 8.12t in 2019 while the UK&#x27;s have dropped to now just 5.45tCO2.<p>On the other hand, your point about solar vs coal is wrong. It takes less time now to build a solar power plant than a coal power plant. Especially for developing countries that don&#x27;t already have substantial port and&#x2F;or rail infrastructure. And this applies somewhat to natural gas, too. It&#x27;s diesel that they tend to run for this reason. Solar, and now solar + storage, can compete just fine with diesel (and solar + storage + diesel is a pretty resilient combination that also can be built out super fast, is very cheap to build and operate, and also happens to get you to like 80-90% carbonfree... so there&#x27;s decent hope out there).</text></comment> | <story><title>CO2 already emitted will warm Earth beyond climate targets, study finds</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-targets-1.5861537</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Aunche</author><text>Currently, the richest 10% are responsible for half of all CO2 emissions [1], and you only need $93k be in the richest 10% [2], quite modest by HN standards. Historically, the only way countries have been able to lift themselves out of poverty is by burning fossil fuels for energy. While alternative energy is rapidly advancing, Nigeria isn&#x27;t going to wait decades to build a solar plant when they can build several coal power plants right now.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2015&#x2F;dec&#x2F;02&#x2F;worlds-richest-10-produce-half-of-global-carbon-emissions-says-oxfam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2015&#x2F;dec&#x2F;02&#x2F;worlds-r...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;07&#x2F;how-much-money-you-need-to-be-in-the-richest-10-percent-worldwide.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;11&#x2F;07&#x2F;how-much-money-you-need-to-b...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kumarvvr</author><text>&gt;Historically, the only way countries have been able to lift themselves out of poverty is by burning fossil fuels for energy<p>This is an interesting point, but I don&#x27;t get the cause and effect scenario here.<p>What bothers me is the ideological trap that fossil fuels are the only resources that can be exploited to bring people out of poverty.<p>Are we so lacking in innovation that we cannot come up with sustainable development models?</text></comment> |
39,798,139 | 39,797,064 | 1 | 2 | 39,793,805 | train | <story><title>Pack: A new container format for compressed files</title><url>https://pack.ac/note/pack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bno1</author><text>I found squashfs to be a great archive format. It preserves Linux file ownership and permissions, you can extract individual files without parsing the entire archive like tar and it&#x27;s mountable. It&#x27;s also openable in 7zip.<p>I wonder how pack compares to it, but its home page and github don&#x27;t tell much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lathiat</author><text>Yeah squashfs is one of the good ones right now.<p>for sosreports (archives with lots of diagnostic commands and logfiles from a linux host), I wanted to find a file format that can both used zstd compression (or maybe something else that is about as fast and compressible, currently often uses xz which is very very slow) -and- that lets you unpack a single file fast, with an index, ideally so you can mount it loopback or with fuse or otherwise just quickly unpack a single file in a many-GB archive.<p>You&#x27;d be surprised that this basically doesn&#x27;t exist right now. Theres a bunch of half solutions, but no real good easily available one. Some things add indexes to tar, zstd does support partial&#x2F;offset unpacking without reading the entire archive in the code but basically no one uses that function, it&#x27;s kindof silly. There are zip and rar tools with zstd support, but they are not all cross compatible and mostly doesn&#x27;t exist in the packaged Linux versions.<p>squashfs with zstd added mostly fits the bill.<p>I was really surprised not to find anything else given we had this in Zip and RAR files 2 decades ago. But nothing so far that would or could ship on a standard open source system managed to modernise that featureset.<p>(If anyone has any pointers let me know :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Pack: A new container format for compressed files</title><url>https://pack.ac/note/pack</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bno1</author><text>I found squashfs to be a great archive format. It preserves Linux file ownership and permissions, you can extract individual files without parsing the entire archive like tar and it&#x27;s mountable. It&#x27;s also openable in 7zip.<p>I wonder how pack compares to it, but its home page and github don&#x27;t tell much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Are you able to seek and selectively extract from squashfs archives using range headers if stored in object storage systems like S3?<p>Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexwlchan.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;working-with-large-s3-objects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexwlchan.net&#x2F;2019&#x2F;working-with-large-s3-objects&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
37,964,050 | 37,964,061 | 1 | 3 | 37,963,941 | train | <story><title>The next Raptor OpenPOWER systems are coming, but they won't be Power10</title><url>https://www.talospace.com/2023/10/the-next-raptor-openpower-systems-are.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&gt;Raptor&#x27;s newest systems are planned for late 2024.<p>Damn it I got excited and then saw that line. But it is nice we have a new entry to OpenPOWER world. I could at least extend the POWER and FreeBSD combination for a little longer.<p>I am also wondering who is the backer of Solid Silicon. As much as I love the idea, I would imagine it is a very hard sell to most VC. ( But then VC are known to invest in Cloud Kitchen and FTX saving the world so I guess I shouldn&#x27;t be surprised )</text></comment> | <story><title>The next Raptor OpenPOWER systems are coming, but they won't be Power10</title><url>https://www.talospace.com/2023/10/the-next-raptor-openpower-systems-are.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MenhirMike</author><text>Okay, I know I&#x27;m &quot;that guy&quot; that just has to bring RISC-V into any discussion: Why hasn&#x27;t there been more adoption&#x2F;movement of OpenPOWER or OpenSPARC? I assume that they have extremely solid toolchains available, and the feature sets were obviously mature enough for high end computing, and they&#x27;ve been 64-Bit for a long time.<p>I thought that the UltraSPARC T1&#x2F;Niagara was a really amazing concept, if maybe a few years too early (and definitely in the wrong hands after Sun was extinguished), so I&#x27;m just scratching my head why everyone&#x27;s so gung-ho at starting a brand new architecture from scratch - especially one that seems more suited for ultra-low power microcontrollers. OpenPOWER was founded 10 years ago, OpenSPARC is even older, the T1 code was released in 2006 - so there was time to adopt them as well.<p>Is the existing ISA too hard to get into lower power chips? Are there any weird patent&#x2F;licensing issues going on that don&#x27;t make them as &quot;Open&quot;? Could I please get a modern, high-end SPARC workstation?</text></comment> |
11,970,457 | 11,966,086 | 1 | 2 | 11,964,582 | train | <story><title>Blackbird, a car rig that creates photo-real CG cars [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnBC5bwV5y0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>I find it a bit sad that so much tech has been put into advertising, which, as an industry is inefficient and a costly zero sum game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>manigandham</author><text>These are the same sentiments echoed by people who think we should stop spending on space development so we can focus on world hunger instead. That&#x27;s not how it works.<p>Technology benefits everyone regardless of where it originates. Advertising is also a massive industry and economic driver that has led to the commercialization of the internet and many of the content, services and companies you perhaps take for granted today.<p>It&#x27;s also by no means zero-sum as connecting products&#x2F;services to customers is necessary to actually build all these other non-advertising businesses. For all the hate that advertising gets, the reality is that it&#x27;s a critical component for any company&#x27;s success.</text></comment> | <story><title>Blackbird, a car rig that creates photo-real CG cars [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnBC5bwV5y0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chii</author><text>I find it a bit sad that so much tech has been put into advertising, which, as an industry is inefficient and a costly zero sum game.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>function_seven</author><text>Agreed, but consider it an analog of war technology. Much of it finds its way to more civilized uses.<p>In this case, what we have here is a great tool for vehicular motion capture that can be used in gaming and simulators as well. Ads may have been the motivation to begin with, but other uses can reap the benefits as well.</text></comment> |
11,077,890 | 11,077,525 | 1 | 3 | 11,077,147 | train | <story><title>How Silicon Valley is dealing with mental illness</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/10/technology/silicon-valley-depression-austen-heinz/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TTPrograms</author><text>Why do you claim that mainstream psychiatry is ineffective? How do we know that people simply aren&#x27;t taking advantage of mainstream psychiatry (to the degree necessary)?</text></item><item><author>andrewvc</author><text>I&#x27;ve lost 2 people I know to suicide in tech. I&#x27;ve known others who&#x27;ve come close. We need to do something about it. What, I don&#x27;t know, but mainstream psychiatry isn&#x27;t that effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewvc</author><text>The idea that there is one &quot;mainstream psychiatry&quot; is somewhat naive. It varies quite a bit from country to country, and the US does it somewhat horribly.<p>Don&#x27;t take my word for it, the man who chaired the committee for the DSM-V thinks so (nd he wrote a book about it called &quot;Saving Normal&quot;. Regardless of what you think about psychiatry from a theoretical perspective (e.g. what studies show), there is a MASSIVE gap between what practicing psychiatrists do and what happens in studies. As a country we are over-diagnosed (the DSM says x% of the population will have a given condition based on clinical research, yet somehow a massively larger # of people will be prescribed pills for it due to incompetent doctors and drug company advertising..<p>On top of that we have almost no idea what the mechanism of action is for any of these drugs. We take people, let&#x27;s look at veterans for example, who have gone through traumatic events and say: &quot;I guess going through that war there messed up some chemicals, take these!&quot;. It turns out there is a lot more in the way of treatment than just pills. At the same time these people are living in the streets and have no connection to community or family. There are more dimensions to mental illness than just chemicals in the brain. Here&#x27;s an interesting non-pill related approach that&#x27;s apparently helped some vets who were beyond treatment from pills ( <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;what-does-a-parrot-know-about-ptsd.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;31&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;what-does-a-parro...</a> ).<p>Here&#x27;s another example, in convenient peer-review form &quot;The findings, from by far the most rigorous trial to date conducted in the United States, concluded that schizophrenia patients who received a program intended to keep dosages of antipsychotic medication as low as possible and emphasize one-on-one talk therapy and family support made greater strides in recovery over the first two years of treatment than patients who got the usual drug-focused care.&quot; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;20&#x2F;health&#x2F;talk-therapy-found-to-ease-schizophrenia.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;20&#x2F;health&#x2F;talk-therapy-found-...</a><p>Unfortunately I can only open the door here, the material is complex and voluminous. I do encourage you to research and read on your own. The foundations of mainstream psych in American are shaky, and drug companies truly have an undue amount of influence in shaping research and policy.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Silicon Valley is dealing with mental illness</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/10/technology/silicon-valley-depression-austen-heinz/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TTPrograms</author><text>Why do you claim that mainstream psychiatry is ineffective? How do we know that people simply aren&#x27;t taking advantage of mainstream psychiatry (to the degree necessary)?</text></item><item><author>andrewvc</author><text>I&#x27;ve lost 2 people I know to suicide in tech. I&#x27;ve known others who&#x27;ve come close. We need to do something about it. What, I don&#x27;t know, but mainstream psychiatry isn&#x27;t that effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mysticlabs</author><text>A lot of people who commit suicide are typically on antidepressants and seeing therapists. Yet they never report this in the media. Antidepressants even carry a black box warning they can increase suicidal thinking.<p>Wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if half the valley was on meds of some kind.<p>Psychiatry is mostly based on an unproven hypothesis of chemical imbalance in the brain. Of which there&#x27;s no actual scientific evidence to back up this claim. In fact, studies have concluded antidepressants can cause imbalances where nonexisted before, and can cause severe life threatening withdrawals if you stop taking them suddenly.<p>Psychiatry is a pretty flawed practice in my opinion as well. I&#x27;m sure it helps some people, but it also does a lot of harm as well.</text></comment> |
30,662,434 | 30,659,902 | 1 | 3 | 30,659,164 | train | <story><title>Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)</title><url>https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I think summary here is that if you are storing an exact moment in time then UTC does the job. If however you are storing a future date and time in a certain location, due to the uncertainty about future daylight saving time changes you have to save it with time zone information in order to adjust for future changes to that system.<p>I suppose it’s the difference between exact time and social&#x2F;political time (there is probably a better term for that).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alecbz</author><text>Yeah, this is exactly the difference between what I’d call “timestamps” (something that represents a particular instant in time), and what I’d call “datetimes”, things like “midnight on Jan 1, 2019”.<p>I worked at an insurance startup that stored coverage period start&#x2F;ends as timestamps, which ended up being semantically wrong. The coverage ends at midnight of the next year, wherever _you_ (technically the provider, I think) are. So there is no one single instant in time when coverage ends; a timestamp is the wrong data type for representing this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019)</title><url>https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>samwillis</author><text>I think summary here is that if you are storing an exact moment in time then UTC does the job. If however you are storing a future date and time in a certain location, due to the uncertainty about future daylight saving time changes you have to save it with time zone information in order to adjust for future changes to that system.<p>I suppose it’s the difference between exact time and social&#x2F;political time (there is probably a better term for that).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&gt; due to the uncertainty about future daylight saving time changes<p>It’s not just DST, it’s any TZ-related changes: locations can change TZ for other reasons than dst.<p>&gt; I suppose it’s the difference between exact time and social&#x2F;political time.<p>There’s really no such thing as exact time. The closest is UT1, and it’s not really practical for normal applications.</text></comment> |
10,781,843 | 10,781,856 | 1 | 2 | 10,781,731 | train | <story><title>New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35166113</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mandatum</author><text>The New Zealand government spent $5.8M NZD prosecuting a man for a law that holds a maximum fine of $150,000 in the country he&#x27;s being prosecuted in.<p>Bollocks.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Zealand court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35166113</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bediger4000</author><text>I&#x27;ve got to say that this looks like it was fixed to me. The judgement was predetermined at the behest of the US government and the MPAA, a commercial entity.<p>I confess that I&#x27;m not well traveled, and that I&#x27;ve never been to the Southern Hemisphere, but how independent is the NZ judiciary?</text></comment> |
25,880,392 | 25,880,271 | 1 | 3 | 25,876,699 | train | <story><title>Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain</title><url>https://swp.org.uk/press-release-facebook-shuts-down-major-left-wing-group-in-britain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adventured</author><text>&gt; Even as our nation spent years outraged over Russian interference<p>Only a minority of the country was (supposedly) outraged about the mostly non-existent Russian interference.<p>Most of the US knew it was bullshit the entire time, the Russians had near zero impact on the prior election (amazing how they didn&#x27;t somehow swing this latest election, given their apparent god-like powers, despite how close it was). Trump&#x27;s vast popularity showed up again in this latest election, they couldn&#x27;t even try to hide it behind fake Russian interference. It was nothing more than a politcal ruse, a frame to hold Trump in, which the media almost universally played along with (and simultaneously they won&#x27;t tag Biden as being controlled by China despite Biden having far closer ties to China than Trump does to Russia). It&#x27;s the exact same thing they did to Tulsi Gabbard when she dared to go against their agenda. We&#x27;re all owned by the all-powerful, magical Russians if we go off the acceptable message.</text></item><item><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>&gt;How is this not foreign political interference?<p>America doesn&#x27;t &quot;interfere&quot; in elections, it gently persuades people to follow the true democratic path.<p>Truthfully, it is nothing more than American exceptionalism. Even as our nation spent years outraged over Russian interference, we continued both private and public interference in elections worldwide.</text></item><item><author>kypro</author><text>How is this not foreign political interference?<p>The UK media has been preaching to us about dangers of Russian election interference for years at this point, but simultaneously they seem completely unconcerned that a handful of wealthy Americans how the power to censor popular media outlets, entire political movements and political activists at a whim.<p>The SWP is massive. I don&#x27;t know for sure, but I suspect they had millions of followers on Facebook. This isn&#x27;t some fringe, extremist group by any sane interpretation of those terms.<p>It seems we&#x27;re now quickly moving on from just censoring those with extremist political views to simply censoring anyone who who dares express a non-establishment political view online.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonh</author><text>If I was American and there was clear proof that Russia had interfered in elections, I don’t care how ineffective it was. I’d want it investigated and stopped.<p>I’d also rain fire and fury on anyone who interfered with or obstructed those investigations. But that’s me. I suppose caring about free and fair elections in the US is now a partisan issue over there.<p>For a British conservative that grew up under Reagan&#x2F;Thatcher it’s all desperately sad and disappointing.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain</title><url>https://swp.org.uk/press-release-facebook-shuts-down-major-left-wing-group-in-britain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adventured</author><text>&gt; Even as our nation spent years outraged over Russian interference<p>Only a minority of the country was (supposedly) outraged about the mostly non-existent Russian interference.<p>Most of the US knew it was bullshit the entire time, the Russians had near zero impact on the prior election (amazing how they didn&#x27;t somehow swing this latest election, given their apparent god-like powers, despite how close it was). Trump&#x27;s vast popularity showed up again in this latest election, they couldn&#x27;t even try to hide it behind fake Russian interference. It was nothing more than a politcal ruse, a frame to hold Trump in, which the media almost universally played along with (and simultaneously they won&#x27;t tag Biden as being controlled by China despite Biden having far closer ties to China than Trump does to Russia). It&#x27;s the exact same thing they did to Tulsi Gabbard when she dared to go against their agenda. We&#x27;re all owned by the all-powerful, magical Russians if we go off the acceptable message.</text></item><item><author>boomboomsubban</author><text>&gt;How is this not foreign political interference?<p>America doesn&#x27;t &quot;interfere&quot; in elections, it gently persuades people to follow the true democratic path.<p>Truthfully, it is nothing more than American exceptionalism. Even as our nation spent years outraged over Russian interference, we continued both private and public interference in elections worldwide.</text></item><item><author>kypro</author><text>How is this not foreign political interference?<p>The UK media has been preaching to us about dangers of Russian election interference for years at this point, but simultaneously they seem completely unconcerned that a handful of wealthy Americans how the power to censor popular media outlets, entire political movements and political activists at a whim.<p>The SWP is massive. I don&#x27;t know for sure, but I suspect they had millions of followers on Facebook. This isn&#x27;t some fringe, extremist group by any sane interpretation of those terms.<p>It seems we&#x27;re now quickly moving on from just censoring those with extremist political views to simply censoring anyone who who dares express a non-establishment political view online.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phs318u</author><text>&gt; mostly non-existent Russian interference<p>This is not true. The Republican-led, bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found, over the course of their 3.5 year investigation, that there was in fact Russian interference. You can find the actual report (all 5 volumes) here [0]. Alternatively, a TL;DR summary can be found here [1].<p>&gt; amazing how they didn&#x27;t somehow swing this latest election<p>Let&#x27;s for a moment, assume that the Russians were indeed behind the interference campaign. Having experienced many Democrat and Republican administrations, they would know that neither side of politics has historically been favourably predisposed to firstly Soviet and later Russian geopolitical ambitions. So, why would you bother getting a particular party in power, if both parties present have always been on a unified ticket against you? Answer - you wouldn&#x27;t. It was never about getting a particular party in power, rather it was about weakening your enemy&#x27;s unity. In this case, Vladimir Putin can absolutely pat himself on the back, and more than any other world leader in recent decades, truly declare, mission accomplished (if it was indeed a mission). For all Biden&#x27;s talk of unifying the nation, there is no way that the all of the millions of Qanonistas left scratching their heads over the absence of &quot;The Storm&quot;, are going to go back to quietly accepting a two-sided status-quo. The chaos monkey in chief has successfully taken the raw material of a discontented working class, and using tried and true methods [2], shaped a potent political weapon, who importantly now realise they have power. There are now millions of chaos monkeys at loose within the Republic. If that&#x27;s not a win for enemies of the US, I don&#x27;t know what is. Do we know for sure whether this was part of a Russian long-term psyops play? I doubt we&#x27;ll ever know. It&#x27;s my view that the vast majority of those at the top of the power pyramid in place over the last four years, are almost certainly not Russian operatives or plants or had anything to do with Russia. What they were (and are) is hungry for power. Seeing an opportunity to implement their wet dream neo-neo-con agendas by riding the dragon, they went all-in weakening people&#x27;s trust in institutions, science, evidence, truth. They were, as Putin might smilingly say, useful idiots. This is my view. I don&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m alone in holding this opinion. But at the end of the day, it&#x27;s speculation - another conspiracy theory. It&#x27;s entirely possible that this was a coincidental but very happy set of circumstances for Putin. Either way, it&#x27;s an outcome that reflects the fact a significant number of people close to the levers of power, played themselves into a position that suited them, and also conveniently suited someone else.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intelligence.senate.gov&#x2F;press&#x2F;senate-intel-releases-volume-5-bipartisan-russia-report" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.intelligence.senate.gov&#x2F;press&#x2F;senate-intel-relea...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-trump-russia-senate-findings-fact-idUSKCN25E2OY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;us-usa-trump-russia-senate-f...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azquotes.com&#x2F;author&#x2F;5626-Joseph_Goebbels" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.azquotes.com&#x2F;author&#x2F;5626-Joseph_Goebbels</a><p>[2 Note]: This is not a glib Nazi reference. I believe that many of these quotes represent political axioms, and that those that understand them and are willing to implement them, can, and historically have, achieved great power.</text></comment> |
19,020,673 | 19,019,781 | 1 | 3 | 19,018,536 | train | <story><title>The Buzzfeed Lesson</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2019/the-buzzfeed-lesson/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhauer</author><text>I am still waiting for a good micropayments platform to allow me to support arbitrary web sites with relatively low-friction (and high-privacy) small payments to consume their content. I would happily pay $0.25 or thereabouts to read articles on some of the sites I consider to be good content creators.<p>That said, I have somewhat high expectations. E.g., I would hope that such a platform doesn&#x27;t take too large a cut (e.g., Apple app-store sized cut) because that&#x27;s offensive to both readers and creators.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>I&#x27;m not optimistic that this platform will ever exist in the West. Micropayments is effectively blocked by the credit card industry with their high fees and a widely used micropayments platform would essentially disrupt the credit card industry - why would anyone pay Visa 1.9% if the new platform was sending payments for a fraction of a cent? And any player large enough (e.g. Apple) to deploy such a platform would rather not piss off Visa.<p>In China, where credit cards never existed, they already have a micropayments infrastructure. Sending payments is massively cheaper there and some businesses there, such as Podcasts are way more successful due to this model. Some podcasting subscriptions are sold for 1 yuan (15 cents)[1].<p>As long as Visa&#x2F;Mastercard exists, I don&#x27;t think we will see this come to the US. I wouldn&#x27;t hold out for crypto either - it&#x27;s not a technical problem. The technology has existed to make this reality for years.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;chinese-show-willingness-to-pay-for-clicks-1483555104" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;chinese-show-willingness-to-pay...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The Buzzfeed Lesson</title><url>https://stratechery.com/2019/the-buzzfeed-lesson/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bhauer</author><text>I am still waiting for a good micropayments platform to allow me to support arbitrary web sites with relatively low-friction (and high-privacy) small payments to consume their content. I would happily pay $0.25 or thereabouts to read articles on some of the sites I consider to be good content creators.<p>That said, I have somewhat high expectations. E.g., I would hope that such a platform doesn&#x27;t take too large a cut (e.g., Apple app-store sized cut) because that&#x27;s offensive to both readers and creators.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crowbahr</author><text>It&#x27;s a great use-case for Cryptocurrencies: low transaction fees to send micro-amounts of goods across the network.<p>That seems like part of what Brave is trying to do with the BAT: Use BAT split among websites based on the amount of time you spend on each site.<p>I&#x27;d rather see a self contained library that allows websites to easily insert a button which lets you tip 0.02c or whatever to them with a single click. No idea what you&#x27;d need to do to create something like that, but it seems like a really compelling way to get people to spend on sites they like. A tiny amount of pennies sent via crypto with the press of a single button could be a sizable stream when you&#x27;ve got scale to it.</text></comment> |
22,532,771 | 22,532,749 | 1 | 2 | 22,532,445 | train | <story><title>Tesla produces its millionth car</title><url>https://electrek.co/2020/03/09/tesla-produces-1000000th-electric-car/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spectramax</author><text>It&#x27;s remarkable how simple it appears to build lots of cars, but its one of those things that is completely and utterly counter-intuitive.<p>Logic says - get all these parts together, assemble them and off a car comes out. Forget about engineering - assume all R&amp;D work is done&#x2F;frozen, the supply-chain complexity alone is staggering. 2000+ suppliers, with multiple redundancies. Keeping the assembly line moving without a hiccup is a compounding a chain of all problems - all probabilities of things going wrong at each station&#x2F;module&#x2F;step.<p>Another beast of an industry(which I am intimately familiar with) is semiconductor manufacturing. But, it actually appears to be hard unlike car manufacturing. Making 4 million chips a day, containing 2 billion transistors sounds hard af and it is.<p>Manufacturing is a very interesting field to get into (even as software engineers). Ever heard of this game - Factorio? You get to play that in real life (with some pain and big rewards). If you can master manufacturing, you&#x27;re unbeatable because the entry point is so steep, learning curve is steeper and scaling up is nothing like spinning up Kubernetes clusters and instances (no offense meant).<p>Hey, kudos to all the people that burned midnight oil, persevered through tough times at Tesla, congratulations. If you work at Tesla plant, please share your story!</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla produces its millionth car</title><url>https://electrek.co/2020/03/09/tesla-produces-1000000th-electric-car/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jfim</author><text>That&#x27;s a pretty impressive milestone. Cheers for the hard work from Tesla employees!</text></comment> |
8,656,307 | 8,656,231 | 1 | 2 | 8,656,028 | train | <story><title>The Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-24/the-tech-worker-shortage-doesnt-really-exist#r=read</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>If there was really a tech shortage -- and had been for years -- wouldn&#x27;t the labor supply rise to meet demand? Wouldn&#x27;t there be people willing to work less than the going rate (which is far above a living wage), wouldn&#x27;t the going rate be dropping?<p>I don&#x27;t know the answer, I think what is going on may actually be kind of complicated.<p>But that&#x27;s the kind of question raised, you can&#x27;t explain away the question of whether there&#x27;s a shortage or not by saying &quot;It&#x27;s just that people aren&#x27;t willing to pay the going rate.&quot;</text></item><item><author>mgirdley</author><text>Running a coding school (Codeup), I get this email all the time from recruiters:<p>&quot;Dear xyz,<p>I&#x27;ve been hired to fill this not-so-great job THIS WEEK and we want this crazy exclusive unicorn skillset that about a dozen people in the world have and, you know, we aren&#x27;t going to pay much anywhere near going rate and we&#x27;re going to hire as a contractor so we can fire you any time and we&#x27;re not really interested in training a person who&#x27;d actually want this gig at the rate we&#x27;re wanting to pay. So, do you know anyone?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindvirus</author><text>There are a few things going on here.<p>I don&#x27;t think the world has fully realized this yet, but there&#x27;s huge divergence in skill of developers. I know a few developers who are worth $500k&#x2F;year, if not more. And I know plenty of others who are not worth that, but are easily worth $100k&#x2F;year. With all of them under the same label of &quot;developer&quot;, it can be hard to distinguish what you&#x27;re getting.<p>Car example! Imagine wanting to buy a car, but not knowing anything about cars. So you call Kia, and ask how much a car costs, and they say, $15,000. Then you call Honda, they say $20,000. A few others, similar prices. Then you call Rolls Royce, and they say $500,000 and you think they&#x27;re trying to pull a fast one on you. And to compound this, if you were to list everything that you want in a car, you&#x27;d probably come up with something closer to a Rolls Royce than a Kia. So you&#x27;re shopping for a Rolls, and you&#x27;ve budgeted for a Kia. Also remember, you don&#x27;t know anything about cars, so you don&#x27;t know how to distinguish important features (ie. wheels, a functioning engine), from luxury ones (ie. a fancy sound system, heated seats).<p>In terms of people not being willing to pay the going rate - plenty are! All of the big west coast tech companies pay handsomely for developers. Outside of big cities though, things are slow to catch up. So I think that a lot of the sentiment comes from people not wanting to move to SF or NYC or Seattle, but also wanting to get a competitive rate. Eventually these companies will have to adapt, but it can take time, especially if there are enough people who don&#x27;t want to leave the city they&#x27;re in. There&#x27;s also the quality divergence taking place - as much as we&#x27;d all like to think we&#x27;re good, Google and co. are very selective.<p>In terms of working for less than the going rate (which as you said is generous) - for sure that&#x27;s happening. But there&#x27;s adverse selection happening there, in that people who are taking jobs below market are either desperate and will quit when they find something better, or are of low quality. Developers aren&#x27;t paid well out of the goodness of the company&#x27;s heart, they&#x27;re paid because they make money for the company. And bad developers can have extremely negative productivity even ignoring their salary.<p>Finally, labor takes time to catch up, especially skilled labor. From no programming knowledge to junior developer at a top company takes typically five years - ie. an undergraduate degree in computer science and some tinkering on your own (yes there are exceptions). And we are seeing supply increase - enrollment in computer science programs is up across the country. Imagine we had a severe shortage of doctors - you can&#x27;t just suddenly triple the supply of doctors over a couple of years. Now if you have a huge shortage of brain surgeons, which might take a decade or more to train you&#x27;re in for a lot of trouble.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-24/the-tech-worker-shortage-doesnt-really-exist#r=read</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>If there was really a tech shortage -- and had been for years -- wouldn&#x27;t the labor supply rise to meet demand? Wouldn&#x27;t there be people willing to work less than the going rate (which is far above a living wage), wouldn&#x27;t the going rate be dropping?<p>I don&#x27;t know the answer, I think what is going on may actually be kind of complicated.<p>But that&#x27;s the kind of question raised, you can&#x27;t explain away the question of whether there&#x27;s a shortage or not by saying &quot;It&#x27;s just that people aren&#x27;t willing to pay the going rate.&quot;</text></item><item><author>mgirdley</author><text>Running a coding school (Codeup), I get this email all the time from recruiters:<p>&quot;Dear xyz,<p>I&#x27;ve been hired to fill this not-so-great job THIS WEEK and we want this crazy exclusive unicorn skillset that about a dozen people in the world have and, you know, we aren&#x27;t going to pay much anywhere near going rate and we&#x27;re going to hire as a contractor so we can fire you any time and we&#x27;re not really interested in training a person who&#x27;d actually want this gig at the rate we&#x27;re wanting to pay. So, do you know anyone?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>killface</author><text>The real problem is that to compete in today&#x27;s world, your website:<p>1. Needs to have great design
2. Needs to be rock-solid in terms of stability
3. Needs to be snappy to use
4. Needs to be able to handle a Reddit traffic swarm
5. Needs to have individualization and customization
6. Needs to play nicely on computers, tablets, and phones<p>The person (or people, more likely) who is good at all of this just isn&#x27;t available at rates <i>the companies want to pay</i>. This is the important distinction. Hiring somebody for 100k&#x2F;yr is pretty much the minimum ante for a good developer in a tech city. But these &quot;entrepreneurs&quot; and &quot;founders&quot; think that is too much money, and instead claim there&#x27;s a shortage.<p>In reality, if you&#x27;re competing for <i>top</i> talent, 150k&#x2F;yr should be your ante, and be prepared to go well into the 200s. This shouldn&#x27;t be a surprise. To get even average talent from a consulting&#x2F;contracting company, you&#x27;re paying about 125&#x2F;hr (of which 60-70 goes to the developer). That&#x27;s 250k&#x2F;yr. So why are companies freaking out at paying over 100k&#x2F;yr for a full-time person who they can invest in? Hell, cut out the contractors and pay your people 200k&#x2F;yr, and watch the good people come talk to you.<p>This is what Amazon and the like are doing now. I&#x27;m hearing 22 year old kids who haven&#x27;t coed a line of code in a professional capacity, getting offers of 120k&#x2F;yr with a 20k signing bonus. Netflix pays a significant chunk of its engineers over 200k.<p>The only real problem is that it&#x27;s getting more expensive to do business in a tech world. But compare the skill sets that used to draw 100k&#x2F;yr, and the skill sets now required to get 145k&#x2F;yr (100k&#x2F;yr in 1998 dollars = 144k in 2014 dollars). Before, you could just know HTML and some shell scripting. Now, you need to know multiple frameworks, how to deal with scalability, multiple data stores, &quot;full stack,&quot; etc.<p>If anything, the good talent in this industry is still dramatically under-paid. A common metric is that the company should make from you about 7x your salary to justify your position. So if a company is making 2.1 million, you should be getting 300k. But we all know that&#x27;s not what&#x27;s happening. Instead, our wages are being capped and forced down due to illegal collusion between the top tech employers.<p>This all comes down to the people who own the businesses wanting to treat tech people as interchangeable cogs, despite all the evidence to the contrary.</text></comment> |
16,201,412 | 16,201,448 | 1 | 2 | 16,201,047 | train | <story><title>New Zealand startup successfully launches rocket</title><url>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-22/new-zealand-successfully-launches-first-rocket-into-space/9347886</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>syedkarim</author><text>I met Peter Beck (CEO&#x2F;founder) at SmallSat 2014. Hat-tip for doing what he set out to do. He told me that a Ferrari was not much more than a bunch of carbon fiber, software, and fuel--and only costs $500,000. So there is no reason that a small rocket, which is also carbon fiber, software, and fuel, can&#x27;t also be $500,000. Now that his launch vehicle is orbital, I&#x27;m looking forward to it someday being a half-million-dollar launch vehicle.<p>Minor quibble: The company is over ten years old; I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s quite a startup anymore.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Zealand startup successfully launches rocket</title><url>http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-22/new-zealand-successfully-launches-first-rocket-into-space/9347886</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanybeersies</author><text>It&#x27;s interesting seeing the difference between the publicity that SpaceX gets, and the publicity of other rocket companies like RocketLab get.<p>It shows how effective the PR machine for SpaceX is. RocketLabs launch is pretty significant, considering it&#x27;s the first orbital launch of a rocket designed and built in a small nation.<p>This has barely hit the news. I guess part of the reason is that it&#x27;s not in the USA, and that New Zealand isn&#x27;t capable of putting nuclear warheads on top of one, unlike North Korea.</text></comment> |
1,797,004 | 1,796,934 | 1 | 2 | 1,796,698 | train | <story><title>Minecraftwiki serving more traffic than Stackoverflow with 4 servers (and PHP)</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/drg0n/minecraftwikinet_and_minecraftforumnet_now_serve/c12ckss</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rythie</author><text>I think these types of stories are misleading for startups.<p>Many startups would do better to add server capacity in the short term, rather than spend lots of time optimizing to cut costs, when this is typically hidden from the user.<p>For example, a 4GB linode VPS is $160/month, so you can have 34 of those ($5440/month) for the cost of one developer (Salary of $67k based on: <a href="http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-php+developer/l-california" rel="nofollow">http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-php+developer/l...</a>). Also, many startups struggle to recruit good developers, so would it make sense for them to spend all their time optimising code to perform on cheap hardware? rather than improving the product in a visible way to the user?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text>Possibly true, but your accounting ignores recurring vs. one-time costs. If you can pay some external person $10k to tune your setup and save $4000/month, and aren't already swimming in money, obviously that's a smart thing to do.</text></comment> | <story><title>Minecraftwiki serving more traffic than Stackoverflow with 4 servers (and PHP)</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/drg0n/minecraftwikinet_and_minecraftforumnet_now_serve/c12ckss</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rythie</author><text>I think these types of stories are misleading for startups.<p>Many startups would do better to add server capacity in the short term, rather than spend lots of time optimizing to cut costs, when this is typically hidden from the user.<p>For example, a 4GB linode VPS is $160/month, so you can have 34 of those ($5440/month) for the cost of one developer (Salary of $67k based on: <a href="http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-php+developer/l-california" rel="nofollow">http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-php+developer/l...</a>). Also, many startups struggle to recruit good developers, so would it make sense for them to spend all their time optimising code to perform on cheap hardware? rather than improving the product in a visible way to the user?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>Definitely, nobody should take us as an example for their startup/business. We're literally a small forum that inherited huge success and had to rapidly deal with scaling up, we're not a business and money is not our goal, so if someone were to base their business off of what we've done it might not turn out too well.<p>The current servers we operate were paid for with donations from our users because our ad revenue has yet to arrive heh.</text></comment> |
17,151,306 | 17,151,233 | 1 | 2 | 17,150,858 | train | <story><title>Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/tesla-that-crashed-in-autopilot-mode-sped-up-before-hitting-truck-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cameldrv</author><text>Tesla &quot;Autopilot&quot; cannot see stationary objects. It has a radar, but it is 1-D and low resolution. It uses this to localize other moving cars. In theory, it could use this to see a highway divider or firetruck it&#x27;s about to hit, but since it&#x27;s 1-D that would also mean that it would have to slam on the brakes when it sees an overpass coming up, because it can&#x27;t tell the difference between an overpass and a highway divider or a firetruck. It can assume that overpasses aren&#x27;t driving at 60mph, so it will see other cars. The Tesla algorithm is &quot;look for lane markings and try to stay between them, and don&#x27;t hit any moving vehicles. If there is any stationary object, including another a vehicle in your lane, the &quot;Autopilot&quot; will plow right into it. If they&#x27;re not explaining this to customers, it&#x27;s negligent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>econochoice</author><text>&gt; If they&#x27;re not explaining this to customers, it&#x27;s negligent.<p>Offering a footgun to consumers which puts other people in danger is a questionable choice.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla that crashed in Autopilot mode sped up before hitting truck: police</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/tesla-that-crashed-in-autopilot-mode-sped-up-before-hitting-truck-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cameldrv</author><text>Tesla &quot;Autopilot&quot; cannot see stationary objects. It has a radar, but it is 1-D and low resolution. It uses this to localize other moving cars. In theory, it could use this to see a highway divider or firetruck it&#x27;s about to hit, but since it&#x27;s 1-D that would also mean that it would have to slam on the brakes when it sees an overpass coming up, because it can&#x27;t tell the difference between an overpass and a highway divider or a firetruck. It can assume that overpasses aren&#x27;t driving at 60mph, so it will see other cars. The Tesla algorithm is &quot;look for lane markings and try to stay between them, and don&#x27;t hit any moving vehicles. If there is any stationary object, including another a vehicle in your lane, the &quot;Autopilot&quot; will plow right into it. If they&#x27;re not explaining this to customers, it&#x27;s negligent.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danmaz74</author><text>What do you mean by &quot;1-D&quot;? If it doesn&#x27;t measure height, then it would still be 2-D.<p>EDIT: it&#x27;s a 1-D array of distances, ie, an array of polar coordinates on the 2-D plane. So, it&#x27;s 2-D data.</text></comment> |
32,540,225 | 32,537,642 | 1 | 2 | 32,534,389 | train | <story><title>A demo of GPT-3's ability to understand long instructions</title><url>https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1557524546412052482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pantalaimon</author><text>It’s a static model, it does not learn after the initial training. That alone rules out any possibility for consciousness imho</text></item><item><author>goodside</author><text>Having spent months talking to GPT-3 on a daily basis, I assure you it is not conscious. It has no perception of time, no awareness of what date it is, no memory of past experiences. It doesn’t want anything — it has no goals. The question “Is it conscious?” isn’t interesting to anyone who spends time with it.<p>I will say, though, that it bugs me when people say it can’t be conscious because it sometimes says stupid things. In most cases, there are known tricks to suppress undesirable behaviors. More to the point, though, if we encountered a human being who gave confabulated answers to questions like “When was the Golden Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt?”, we wouldn’t insist that this human is not conscious — we would just call them brain-damaged or mentally ill. I don’t think modern models are conscious, but as a logical possibility they <i>could</i> be conscious and still say very stupid things all the time.</text></item><item><author>v4dok</author><text>I don&#x27;t think modern big language models are conscious, mainly because they fail in absurd ways. But TBH, they don&#x27;t need to. This &quot;golden path&quot; deployed properly etc could easily automate a lot of jobs tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>obscur</author><text>I think I heard of people with brain damage who does not keep an internal state, they feel like they continuously wake up and only remember memories from before the brain damage. That would be a kind of parallel to consider, or at least somewhat analogous. I think most of us assume that such people would have phenomenal consciousness &#x2F; subjective experience &#x2F; qualia</text></comment> | <story><title>A demo of GPT-3's ability to understand long instructions</title><url>https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1557524546412052482</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pantalaimon</author><text>It’s a static model, it does not learn after the initial training. That alone rules out any possibility for consciousness imho</text></item><item><author>goodside</author><text>Having spent months talking to GPT-3 on a daily basis, I assure you it is not conscious. It has no perception of time, no awareness of what date it is, no memory of past experiences. It doesn’t want anything — it has no goals. The question “Is it conscious?” isn’t interesting to anyone who spends time with it.<p>I will say, though, that it bugs me when people say it can’t be conscious because it sometimes says stupid things. In most cases, there are known tricks to suppress undesirable behaviors. More to the point, though, if we encountered a human being who gave confabulated answers to questions like “When was the Golden Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt?”, we wouldn’t insist that this human is not conscious — we would just call them brain-damaged or mentally ill. I don’t think modern models are conscious, but as a logical possibility they <i>could</i> be conscious and still say very stupid things all the time.</text></item><item><author>v4dok</author><text>I don&#x27;t think modern big language models are conscious, mainly because they fail in absurd ways. But TBH, they don&#x27;t need to. This &quot;golden path&quot; deployed properly etc could easily automate a lot of jobs tomorrow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FeepingCreature</author><text>It could learn things via the context window. Maybe there&#x27;d be no long-term conscious state but you could keep short-term coherence well enough. I think the real problem is that it simply isn&#x27;t capable of training for self-awareness and reflection because there&#x27;s only very indirect evidence of it in the training set. We talk about Chains of Thought, and it&#x27;s a very powerful technique, but this is all just the tiny snippets of text on the internet where people happened to narrate their thought process out loud. If it could learn on self-generated instances of using Chain of Thought to help it predict <i>other text</i> in its training data, this tiny fragmentary piece of consciousness would get massively reinforced.</text></comment> |
35,713,814 | 35,713,427 | 1 | 3 | 35,710,848 | train | <story><title>A vegan leather made of dormant fungi can repair itself</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vegan-leather-fungi-repair-mycelium</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychphysic</author><text>I am watching vegan leather keenly.<p>But leather as in cow leather is a great resource that would otherwise go unused if it wasn&#x27;t for the market.<p>People will probably always eat a lot of cow, what else should we do with its skin?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextaccountic</author><text>&gt; People will probably always eat a lot of cow,<p>This is probably not true, vegan meat is progressing very fast (and once it matures has the potential to be much cheaper) and lowering the consumption of meat is important to reduce carbon emissions. I expect that demand for meat will sharply shrink in the next century</text></comment> | <story><title>A vegan leather made of dormant fungi can repair itself</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vegan-leather-fungi-repair-mycelium</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychphysic</author><text>I am watching vegan leather keenly.<p>But leather as in cow leather is a great resource that would otherwise go unused if it wasn&#x27;t for the market.<p>People will probably always eat a lot of cow, what else should we do with its skin?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hef19898</author><text>Valid point, while I have no idea how the numbers look. But butchering cows, or other animals that provide hide for leather, and then not using said leather is kind of opposite of sustainability.<p>Now one can argue about whether meat based diets are good or not, but as long as they exist there will be aources for leather.</text></comment> |
8,460,803 | 8,460,677 | 1 | 2 | 8,458,339 | train | <story><title>Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details</title><url>http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compact-fusion-reactor-details</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsmthrowaway</author><text>It&#x27;s always a safe bet that the top Hacker News comment will always be &quot;won&#x27;t work, it&#x27;s too hard.&quot; It&#x27;s like sitting around for a year trying to sell a project at my current employer, with everybody and their lead telling you &quot;that&#x27;ll never work,&quot; then you implement in a weekend and those same people start nitpicking what you&#x27;ve come up with. (What happened to it&#x27;ll never work? &quot;Well, your CSS isn&#x27;t great.&quot;)<p>Honestly, those folks that stand back with their arms crossed watching you fail, and reminding you the whole way that you might fail, are the biggest pains in my ass in this profession. By a mile.<p>Maybe you can contribute your wisdom by going to Lockheed, instead of Internet commentary in which you bet against them?</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>I&#x27;m not seeing any top physicists working in this program (McGuire is not one). I would be willing to bet 1000 EUR that their math and modeling does not add up, or they have skipped some details.<p>Problem with fusion research like this is that the closer you get self sustainment or energy generation, the harder it gets and problems pile up. This project looks like many other similar projects that have gone bust. They start by solving the easiest problems first, get some funding and hit the wall.<p>The main problem with any reactor design is how to handle the 14 MeV neutrons produced by the fusion reaction (no mention in the article). They tend to damage the reactor and make it economically unfeasible. At this point being able to create fusion reaction is not the main challenge. It&#x27;s the sustainment and economics of limiting the damage. If they really have solved all the problems and demonstrate economically sound fusion in 5-10 years, they will be handed Nobel price in physics for sure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>That&#x27;s hardly ever true. In my experience, Hacker News is full of people from the software field; folks whose professions are often unconstrained by physics,[1] and who have a generally optimistic &quot;this can happen&quot; mentality. That&#x27;s why everyone here believes we&#x27;ll have fully self-driving cars in 5-6 years.<p>In the rest of the engineering world, the answer to any question is: it&#x27;ll be harder than you think it&#x27;ll be (physics will beat you over the head at every step). You can cross your arms and say &quot;that won&#x27;t work&quot; and you&#x27;ll be correct 97% of the time. Fusion is something that some of the smartest people in the world, with enormous amounts of money behind them, have been beating their heads against for the last half century or more. Somebody will figure it out, eventually, but statistically, any given project is very likely not to be the one that does, and it will almost certainly take much longer than the optimists assume it will take.<p>Did you know that coal plants, which still make up the majority of U.S. energy production, are only about twice as efficient today than they were a <i>century</i> ago?<p>[1] Although math can be a kick in the ass too if you&#x27;re working in domains where you can prove there are no polynomial-time algorithms for whatever problem you&#x27;re working on. E.g. there is a reason people have been banging their heads on the garbage collection problem since the 1950&#x27;s and it&#x27;s still an active area of research.</text></comment> | <story><title>Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details</title><url>http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compact-fusion-reactor-details</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jsmthrowaway</author><text>It&#x27;s always a safe bet that the top Hacker News comment will always be &quot;won&#x27;t work, it&#x27;s too hard.&quot; It&#x27;s like sitting around for a year trying to sell a project at my current employer, with everybody and their lead telling you &quot;that&#x27;ll never work,&quot; then you implement in a weekend and those same people start nitpicking what you&#x27;ve come up with. (What happened to it&#x27;ll never work? &quot;Well, your CSS isn&#x27;t great.&quot;)<p>Honestly, those folks that stand back with their arms crossed watching you fail, and reminding you the whole way that you might fail, are the biggest pains in my ass in this profession. By a mile.<p>Maybe you can contribute your wisdom by going to Lockheed, instead of Internet commentary in which you bet against them?</text></item><item><author>nabla9</author><text>I&#x27;m not seeing any top physicists working in this program (McGuire is not one). I would be willing to bet 1000 EUR that their math and modeling does not add up, or they have skipped some details.<p>Problem with fusion research like this is that the closer you get self sustainment or energy generation, the harder it gets and problems pile up. This project looks like many other similar projects that have gone bust. They start by solving the easiest problems first, get some funding and hit the wall.<p>The main problem with any reactor design is how to handle the 14 MeV neutrons produced by the fusion reaction (no mention in the article). They tend to damage the reactor and make it economically unfeasible. At this point being able to create fusion reaction is not the main challenge. It&#x27;s the sustainment and economics of limiting the damage. If they really have solved all the problems and demonstrate economically sound fusion in 5-10 years, they will be handed Nobel price in physics for sure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>protonfish</author><text>And it&#x27;s always a safe bet the top response to that comment will be somebody criticizing it without any solid facts or reason but with fuzzy &quot;you just need to believe harder!&quot; kind of nonsense.</text></comment> |
24,301,660 | 24,301,122 | 1 | 3 | 24,300,548 | train | <story><title>Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=kuswih5l</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhatax</author><text>I think this was only a matter of time. The Chrome extension model has become the de facto standard, has a large existing extension ecosystem and huge user base, and other browsers have adopted this model. While sticking to their own extension model would ensure that they remained in control, this is the right thing for users, both current and possible switchers. Here’s why:<p>- Current Safari users can get the goodness of Chrome extensions, specifically the ones focused on privacy such as NoScript and uBlock.<p>- Switchers from Chrome can feel familiar with Safari if their Chrome extensions are available to them in the new browser.<p>- New macOS users don’t need to select a browser based on whether extensions are available for it or not.<p>With extension availability out of the way, the discussion on macOS browsers is going to come back to UX, speed, and battery usage. UX is a personal choice. Based on my experience, Safari is the fastest and least battery hungry browser on macOS. Syncing using iCloud Just Works (TM) for my devices and account. YMMV.<p>Net-net, kudos to the team for getting past their “Not Invented Here” instincts and going with the market flow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Adopting the extension model doesn&#x27;t mean that the capabilities available to extension developers are the same.<p>You can take a look at Firefox, which has extensions that in Chrome are not currently possible. Or extension features that aren&#x27;t possible, like the ability to block first-party analytics in uBlock Origin, as a small example.<p>I am, however, glad that all of them are adopting more or less the same APIs, because extension developers can now target all 3 major browsers with ease.<p>&gt; <i>the discussion on macOS browsers is going to come back to UX, speed, and battery usage</i><p>The biggest, most relevant component of a browser has always been the browser engine, because it dictates available features, and yes, speed and battery usage.<p>People keep talking about the UI as being an important differentiator. But I don&#x27;t believe that&#x27;s true, because the UI of all major browsers is decent. Of course, power users can cling on to features, like the Tree Style Tabs in Firefox, but for the most part, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s the UI that makes most people switch browsers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model</title><url>https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=kuswih5l</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jhatax</author><text>I think this was only a matter of time. The Chrome extension model has become the de facto standard, has a large existing extension ecosystem and huge user base, and other browsers have adopted this model. While sticking to their own extension model would ensure that they remained in control, this is the right thing for users, both current and possible switchers. Here’s why:<p>- Current Safari users can get the goodness of Chrome extensions, specifically the ones focused on privacy such as NoScript and uBlock.<p>- Switchers from Chrome can feel familiar with Safari if their Chrome extensions are available to them in the new browser.<p>- New macOS users don’t need to select a browser based on whether extensions are available for it or not.<p>With extension availability out of the way, the discussion on macOS browsers is going to come back to UX, speed, and battery usage. UX is a personal choice. Based on my experience, Safari is the fastest and least battery hungry browser on macOS. Syncing using iCloud Just Works (TM) for my devices and account. YMMV.<p>Net-net, kudos to the team for getting past their “Not Invented Here” instincts and going with the market flow.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_qulr</author><text>NoScript and uBlock Origin will not be happening for Safari. The API is missing and won&#x27;t be implemented. Safari does not have the same full API as Chrome or Firefox. Instead, Safari relies on a more limited, Apple-specific content blocking API.</text></comment> |
28,994,537 | 28,993,044 | 1 | 2 | 28,989,092 | train | <story><title>Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-promised-lucrative-tech-coding-career-low-job-placement-2021-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>908B64B197</author><text>I&#x27;m extremely skeptical of bootcamps, especially after learning that some of the TA&#x27;s at Lambda are hired to help with teaching as little as two months into the program as students[0]. I guess that counts toward their &quot;placement&quot; stats!<p>Not only that, but Lambda seems so desperate that they will offer a fresh grad at no cost to any company for a 4 week trial period. [1]<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen a single hire out of a bootcamp work out in the end. Except a few cases where the person actually came from a STEM degree from a good school (and more crucially, already had some exposure to programming during the degree) but it&#x27;s unclear to me that they actually needed the bootcamp and not just a good primer on modern software development and something like the Missing Semester [2] or a few classes at their school covering software engineering.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;lambda-schools-job-placement-rate-is-lower-than-claimed.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;lambda-schools-job-p...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25138610" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25138610</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;missing.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;missing.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>bwing</author><text>I was at Lambda when they announced the switch from 9 to 6 months and the elimination of paid team leaders. The feedback was universally negative. In a channel for open student discussion, Austen Allred deleted a poll from Slack because of how lopsided the reaction was. He explained the deletion by saying the poll was &quot;misleading.&quot;<p>Students then got a survey &quot;explaining&quot; why the change was actually a good thing by asking questions such as &quot;Do you understand why companies value mentoring experience?&quot; Not just failing to reveal the truth (these were cost-cutting measures), but not even taking the effort to come up with a convincing lie.<p>It was destabilizing: Austen&#x27;s twitter account would read ambitious, hyperoptimistic; meanwhile, drastic changes would be made within the program with vague rationales (&quot;after speaking with hiring managers, we&#x27;ve made these changes...&quot;), and probing further simply got deflections or gaslighting surveys.<p>There were a ton of good people in the program, and I learned a lot there. But fundamentally there needs to be trust between institution and student when you&#x27;re asking people to make this level of time and financial commitment. And at no point did I feel like Lambda at its top level prioritized student wellbeing over PR, costs, or metrics to be sold to investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sokoloff</author><text>We definitely have a few career changing bootcamp grads working out for us (no STEM background, nothing to indicate they were &quot;almost there&quot; on their own, turned into fine employees).<p>That said, the hit ratio from bootcamp graduate to productive hire is incredibly, incredibly low. I think there&#x27;s a place for bootcamps, but I&#x27;m not sure most bootcamps are operating in that space.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to fix it, but I did think the Lambda School income share arrangement at least served&#x2F;tried to align incentives for the school to actually help the students transform themselves.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-promised-lucrative-tech-coding-career-low-job-placement-2021-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>908B64B197</author><text>I&#x27;m extremely skeptical of bootcamps, especially after learning that some of the TA&#x27;s at Lambda are hired to help with teaching as little as two months into the program as students[0]. I guess that counts toward their &quot;placement&quot; stats!<p>Not only that, but Lambda seems so desperate that they will offer a fresh grad at no cost to any company for a 4 week trial period. [1]<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen a single hire out of a bootcamp work out in the end. Except a few cases where the person actually came from a STEM degree from a good school (and more crucially, already had some exposure to programming during the degree) but it&#x27;s unclear to me that they actually needed the bootcamp and not just a good primer on modern software development and something like the Missing Semester [2] or a few classes at their school covering software engineering.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;lambda-schools-job-placement-rate-is-lower-than-claimed.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;intelligencer&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;lambda-schools-job-p...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25138610" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25138610</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;missing.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;missing.csail.mit.edu&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>bwing</author><text>I was at Lambda when they announced the switch from 9 to 6 months and the elimination of paid team leaders. The feedback was universally negative. In a channel for open student discussion, Austen Allred deleted a poll from Slack because of how lopsided the reaction was. He explained the deletion by saying the poll was &quot;misleading.&quot;<p>Students then got a survey &quot;explaining&quot; why the change was actually a good thing by asking questions such as &quot;Do you understand why companies value mentoring experience?&quot; Not just failing to reveal the truth (these were cost-cutting measures), but not even taking the effort to come up with a convincing lie.<p>It was destabilizing: Austen&#x27;s twitter account would read ambitious, hyperoptimistic; meanwhile, drastic changes would be made within the program with vague rationales (&quot;after speaking with hiring managers, we&#x27;ve made these changes...&quot;), and probing further simply got deflections or gaslighting surveys.<p>There were a ton of good people in the program, and I learned a lot there. But fundamentally there needs to be trust between institution and student when you&#x27;re asking people to make this level of time and financial commitment. And at no point did I feel like Lambda at its top level prioritized student wellbeing over PR, costs, or metrics to be sold to investors.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MivLives</author><text>I&#x27;m a currently working software engineer from Lambda, who knows other people who succeeded at Lambda and other bootcamps.<p>The TA thing, a TA doesn&#x27;t teach, a TA pretty much grades&#x2F;code reviews. They answered questions. (I did this while I was hunting for a job).<p>They also don&#x27;t count that towards placement.<p>I have an IS degree, but some other people I know succeed with pretty much anything you can think of. I don&#x27;t have enough of a sample size to know if we&#x27;re all just exceptions or not.</text></comment> |
12,514,035 | 12,513,932 | 1 | 3 | 12,513,701 | train | <story><title>EpiPen Maker Quietly Steers Effort That Could Protect Its Price</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/business/epipen-maker-mylan-preventative-drug-campaign.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyjg</author><text>This whole drug company argument -- that the only thing that really matters is what end users pay as a co-pay or co-insurance and that no one should care what insurance companies (including governments) pay -- is so breathtakingly bad I can only imagine it is in bad faith. Where do they expect us to believe the institutional payments are coming from, out of thin air?</text></comment> | <story><title>EpiPen Maker Quietly Steers Effort That Could Protect Its Price</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/business/epipen-maker-mylan-preventative-drug-campaign.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>Does the FDA have the authority to deny marketing approval for minor improvements?<p>Mylan pushed generics off the market by making a better cap or something, the FDA should just say no, that improvement is nice but it isn&#x27;t enough to give you exclusive marketing rights. If you want to incorporate it into your product, license it to your competitors for cheap.</text></comment> |
31,799,870 | 31,799,555 | 1 | 2 | 31,795,160 | train | <story><title>Don't use Kubernetes yet</title><url>https://matt-rickard.com/dont-use-kubernetes-yet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danjac</author><text>The problem I keep seeing in startups is that a lot of startup tech founders and employees don&#x27;t see a startup as an embryonic business that will grow over the long term into a money-making venture requiring calculated risks and priorities, but rather as a personal playground to do all the fun things they were not allowed to do at their old BigCorp.<p>Use cool framework or language X? Use Kubernetes? Microservices? Lambdas? No-SQL? Two fingers to BigCorp, I&#x27;m CTO&#x2F;tech employee #1 at a new startup and I get to do whatever I want. If and when it goes down in flames, I now have these skills on my resume I can leverage into a better opportunity.<p>Ideally your first tech employee&#x2F;CTO should be a seasoned hand who has been burned before, who keeps an open mind to new approaches but knows when and how to adopt it. But it&#x27;s quite rare to have seasoned developers in such startups, they&#x27;re not attracted by the risk and chaos of these environments as they have better options and startups generally can&#x27;t afford them.</text></item><item><author>throwaway787544</author><text>The question of whether to use K8s or not is like wondering what kind of saw you should use to cut wood. There&#x27;s different saws for different purposes. But even with the right saw, you still have to know how to use it correctly. Better to use a hand saw correctly than a table saw incorrectly. (you <i>can</i> use a table saw incorrectly, but best case the work ends up crap, worst case you lose a finger)<p>After building infrastructure for dozens of teams, I&#x27;m quite convinced of the following:<p>- if your people aren&#x27;t very skilled, they won&#x27;t build anything well. most software engineers i&#x27;ve seen professionally working in the cloud are handymen trying to build a wood cabinet.<p>- if your people can&#x27;t build well, it doesn&#x27;t matter what technology they use. choosing between building a cabinet out of metal or cherry wood doesn&#x27;t make much difference if they&#x27;ve never built a cabinet before.<p>- if the first two holds: then only use the technology which requires the least skill to use well, and where the amount of maintenance is closest to zero. don&#x27;t build a wood cabinet from scratch when you can buy flat pack. don&#x27;t buy flat pack when you can buy an assembled cabinet, get it shipped, and carried into your office.<p>- if using the aforementioned technology requires &#x27;building&#x27; or &#x27;assembling&#x27;, and that is not core to the customer-facing aspect of your product, then you should not be building, you should be buying. if your business doesn&#x27;t involve assembling flat pack furniture, don&#x27;t ask your employees to build their own desks and chairs from Home Depot or Ikea parts. buy the premade desk and chairs, use them to make your actual product.<p>- a software engineer knows as much about cloud architecture as a fine woodworker knows about framing. &quot;it&#x27;s all just wood&quot; until the house takes 10x as long to frame and is 10x as expensive and still doesn&#x27;t meet code.<p>- people <i>will</i> try to build things they don&#x27;t fully understand and leave the company before anyone realizes the mess they&#x27;ve made. imagine your retail store is accessible by driving a car over a wooden bridge built by a handyman.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>I think that’s true, but also it’s not clear what tools a startup should use. Even if they stick to a single VM, managing that VM in a way that is reasonably safe and reproducible is somewhat important—the more often you have people manually SSHing onto the VM the more likely you will need to recover functionality from scratch while also making it almost impossible to do so in any timely manner (because the functioning state of the VM is the result of many thousands of manual changes, many of which are undocumented, incompletely documented, or incorrectly documented). So then you can start learning about automating changes on a machine, but now you’re into territory that is about as complex as Kubernetes (or perhaps not “complex” as much as “you have to figure out what combination of tools and practices will work”, while a cloud-provider’s managed Kubernetes makes a lot of these kinds of choices for you out of the box and many others are obvious).<p>Similarly, you might reasonably try to use a PaaS, and it might work at first, but then you need to do something as common as a background task and find that your PaaS doesn’t support things like that (you can try running it in a process in your PaaS’s container and just accept that the background tasks are likely to be interrupted periodically?).<p>I don’t think Kubernetes is the
answer for a startup, but it’s not obvious what “the answer” is, and much of the discussion ignores the complexity in the alternatives. It’s not helpful to say “Kubernetes is too complex” without articulating a simpler alternative (unless you are hinting at a market opportunity).</text></comment> | <story><title>Don't use Kubernetes yet</title><url>https://matt-rickard.com/dont-use-kubernetes-yet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danjac</author><text>The problem I keep seeing in startups is that a lot of startup tech founders and employees don&#x27;t see a startup as an embryonic business that will grow over the long term into a money-making venture requiring calculated risks and priorities, but rather as a personal playground to do all the fun things they were not allowed to do at their old BigCorp.<p>Use cool framework or language X? Use Kubernetes? Microservices? Lambdas? No-SQL? Two fingers to BigCorp, I&#x27;m CTO&#x2F;tech employee #1 at a new startup and I get to do whatever I want. If and when it goes down in flames, I now have these skills on my resume I can leverage into a better opportunity.<p>Ideally your first tech employee&#x2F;CTO should be a seasoned hand who has been burned before, who keeps an open mind to new approaches but knows when and how to adopt it. But it&#x27;s quite rare to have seasoned developers in such startups, they&#x27;re not attracted by the risk and chaos of these environments as they have better options and startups generally can&#x27;t afford them.</text></item><item><author>throwaway787544</author><text>The question of whether to use K8s or not is like wondering what kind of saw you should use to cut wood. There&#x27;s different saws for different purposes. But even with the right saw, you still have to know how to use it correctly. Better to use a hand saw correctly than a table saw incorrectly. (you <i>can</i> use a table saw incorrectly, but best case the work ends up crap, worst case you lose a finger)<p>After building infrastructure for dozens of teams, I&#x27;m quite convinced of the following:<p>- if your people aren&#x27;t very skilled, they won&#x27;t build anything well. most software engineers i&#x27;ve seen professionally working in the cloud are handymen trying to build a wood cabinet.<p>- if your people can&#x27;t build well, it doesn&#x27;t matter what technology they use. choosing between building a cabinet out of metal or cherry wood doesn&#x27;t make much difference if they&#x27;ve never built a cabinet before.<p>- if the first two holds: then only use the technology which requires the least skill to use well, and where the amount of maintenance is closest to zero. don&#x27;t build a wood cabinet from scratch when you can buy flat pack. don&#x27;t buy flat pack when you can buy an assembled cabinet, get it shipped, and carried into your office.<p>- if using the aforementioned technology requires &#x27;building&#x27; or &#x27;assembling&#x27;, and that is not core to the customer-facing aspect of your product, then you should not be building, you should be buying. if your business doesn&#x27;t involve assembling flat pack furniture, don&#x27;t ask your employees to build their own desks and chairs from Home Depot or Ikea parts. buy the premade desk and chairs, use them to make your actual product.<p>- a software engineer knows as much about cloud architecture as a fine woodworker knows about framing. &quot;it&#x27;s all just wood&quot; until the house takes 10x as long to frame and is 10x as expensive and still doesn&#x27;t meet code.<p>- people <i>will</i> try to build things they don&#x27;t fully understand and leave the company before anyone realizes the mess they&#x27;ve made. imagine your retail store is accessible by driving a car over a wooden bridge built by a handyman.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arinlen</author><text>&gt; <i>The problem I keep seeing in startups is that a lot of startup tech founders and employees don&#x27;t see a startup as an embryonic business that will grow over the long term into a money-making venture requiring calculated risks and priorities, but rather as a personal playground to do all the fun things they were not allowed to do at their old BigCorp.</i><p>I don&#x27;t think this is an accurate or realistic take.<p>You&#x27;re actually stating that tech founders, when starting greenfields projects, actually take the time to invest in frameworks that offer advantages over outdated legacy systems adopted way back in the past which are only in place because there is no chance in hell a company will spend resources to pay off their technical debt.<p>There was a point in time where adopting Java+Spring, or even React was something only some silly risk-taker would do when playing around in their personal playground. But as the investment paid off so handsomely, they have become baseline options.<p>If you are free to choose the absolute best tool you have at your reach, why wouldn&#x27;t you?</text></comment> |
29,593,608 | 29,591,810 | 1 | 3 | 29,588,054 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?</title><text>I work from home in the EU as a freelancer for a US startup.<p>A few days ago, an email came out of the blue, demanding that I install an &quot;agent&quot; from a company named &quot;Drata&quot;* on my laptop. The motivation is that my client badly want a SOC 2 certification.<p>I have worked as a developer for more than 30 years. Tiny shops. Startups. Major league. I have never even heard about someone putting agents on developers laptops.<p>I&#x27;m pretty pissed off. So are the teams I work with.<p>Is this the new normal now?<p>Just for the record: I don&#x27;t have credentials to production systems, and I don&#x27;t work with production data. I just figure out how to transform dreams into code, I write parts of that code, and then I fix it as needed.<p>* Drata (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drata.com&#x2F;about) is on a &quot;Mission to Help Build Trust Across the Internet&quot;. Their business model (in my case) seems to be to take money from companies to spy on their employees&#x2F;contractors, and then they sell the employees&#x2F;contractors private information to &quot;targeted advertising&quot;. When I confronted them about this, they replied: &quot;Feel free to reach out to your Drata administrator internally with concerns. Do note, that when your company contracted with Drata, any edits or redlines they provided will prevail for all employees of your company.&quot; - basically to just bend over and smile.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>byron4242</author><text>It&#x27;s a widespread practice that companies provide laptops to contractors to compartmentalize the way they interact with the company&#x27;s IT. But I&#x27;m really quite opposed to it.<p>At one point I had 3 sets of machines: Two different 14&quot; laptops from two different clients and my own machines. At some point you simply run out of space on your desk and end up constantly either working on screens that are too small (14&quot; really isn&#x27;t enough to be productive), or plugging laptops in to and out of screens as you&#x27;re context-switching. Carrying three laptops with you when you&#x27;re travelling if you anticipate having to work for both clients during that timeframe is also not exactly my definition of great fun. And you end up duplicating a lot of effort around managing that IT, like tweaking settings the way you like them etc.<p>The argument &quot;we own this laptop, so we can do with it whatever we want, including spying on you&quot; is just not valid. They&#x27;re either doing things that I&#x27;m okay with, in which case I&#x27;m okay doing it on my own hardware. Or they&#x27;re doing things I&#x27;m opposed to, in which case I&#x27;m opposed to it no matter who owns the hardware.<p>Also: In many European countries, authorities are clamping down hard on practices whereby companies pass people off as contractors who really are employees. They usually work off of lists of criteria of what makes an employee, and if you fit too many of those criteria while, on paper, passing yourself off as a contractor, then you and your client can be in for a world of pain. One of the criteria that makes you look more like a contractor and less like an employee to the government is providing your own facilities like the computer you work with.<p>And, last but not least, it&#x27;s just not a good way of dealing with the planet&#x27;s resources.</text></item><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text><i>&gt; If you want to ship me a dedicated laptop for your engagement, I would be happy to install whatever you want on it.</i><p>I wouldn&#x27;t offer this. You&#x27;re still going to need to login to Github&#x2F;email&#x2F;wherever with your personal password, manage private keys, and stuff like that. Just say no.</text></item><item><author>gnfargbl</author><text>If you are a freelancer then your contract should allow you to do work for others. In which case, your response to this client has to be &quot;Sorry, but my business laptop potentially has data from other clients on it. I can&#x27;t let you install this monitoring agent without violating my contractual confidentially agreement with those other clients. I always maintain client confidentiality and will do the same for you. If you want to ship me a dedicated laptop for your engagement, I would be happy to install whatever you want on it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everforward</author><text>I think there are absolutely a list of things that I don&#x27;t want the company doing on my hardware, but I&#x27;m okay with on their hardware.<p>Off the top of my head, remote wipes&#x2F;resets make sense. Frankly, I prefer the company has that option, just in case I lose my work laptop. Encryption should cover it, but I&#x27;ll take the backup.<p>Compliance agents also have a legitimate reason to exist, but I don&#x27;t want them on my personal PC. Some places maintain lists of allowed software (I think in part so they can track&#x2F;inventory them for compliance stuff). I respect that they have the right to restrict what I install on my work laptop, but I reserve the right to install whatever I please on my own computer.<p>It would also not be insane for a company to do automated backups of company laptops to company servers. You want a way for Joe in marketing to get his data back when his cat pees on his laptop. I do not want all my personal documents on company servers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?</title><text>I work from home in the EU as a freelancer for a US startup.<p>A few days ago, an email came out of the blue, demanding that I install an &quot;agent&quot; from a company named &quot;Drata&quot;* on my laptop. The motivation is that my client badly want a SOC 2 certification.<p>I have worked as a developer for more than 30 years. Tiny shops. Startups. Major league. I have never even heard about someone putting agents on developers laptops.<p>I&#x27;m pretty pissed off. So are the teams I work with.<p>Is this the new normal now?<p>Just for the record: I don&#x27;t have credentials to production systems, and I don&#x27;t work with production data. I just figure out how to transform dreams into code, I write parts of that code, and then I fix it as needed.<p>* Drata (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;drata.com&#x2F;about) is on a &quot;Mission to Help Build Trust Across the Internet&quot;. Their business model (in my case) seems to be to take money from companies to spy on their employees&#x2F;contractors, and then they sell the employees&#x2F;contractors private information to &quot;targeted advertising&quot;. When I confronted them about this, they replied: &quot;Feel free to reach out to your Drata administrator internally with concerns. Do note, that when your company contracted with Drata, any edits or redlines they provided will prevail for all employees of your company.&quot; - basically to just bend over and smile.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>byron4242</author><text>It&#x27;s a widespread practice that companies provide laptops to contractors to compartmentalize the way they interact with the company&#x27;s IT. But I&#x27;m really quite opposed to it.<p>At one point I had 3 sets of machines: Two different 14&quot; laptops from two different clients and my own machines. At some point you simply run out of space on your desk and end up constantly either working on screens that are too small (14&quot; really isn&#x27;t enough to be productive), or plugging laptops in to and out of screens as you&#x27;re context-switching. Carrying three laptops with you when you&#x27;re travelling if you anticipate having to work for both clients during that timeframe is also not exactly my definition of great fun. And you end up duplicating a lot of effort around managing that IT, like tweaking settings the way you like them etc.<p>The argument &quot;we own this laptop, so we can do with it whatever we want, including spying on you&quot; is just not valid. They&#x27;re either doing things that I&#x27;m okay with, in which case I&#x27;m okay doing it on my own hardware. Or they&#x27;re doing things I&#x27;m opposed to, in which case I&#x27;m opposed to it no matter who owns the hardware.<p>Also: In many European countries, authorities are clamping down hard on practices whereby companies pass people off as contractors who really are employees. They usually work off of lists of criteria of what makes an employee, and if you fit too many of those criteria while, on paper, passing yourself off as a contractor, then you and your client can be in for a world of pain. One of the criteria that makes you look more like a contractor and less like an employee to the government is providing your own facilities like the computer you work with.<p>And, last but not least, it&#x27;s just not a good way of dealing with the planet&#x27;s resources.</text></item><item><author>SkyMarshal</author><text><i>&gt; If you want to ship me a dedicated laptop for your engagement, I would be happy to install whatever you want on it.</i><p>I wouldn&#x27;t offer this. You&#x27;re still going to need to login to Github&#x2F;email&#x2F;wherever with your personal password, manage private keys, and stuff like that. Just say no.</text></item><item><author>gnfargbl</author><text>If you are a freelancer then your contract should allow you to do work for others. In which case, your response to this client has to be &quot;Sorry, but my business laptop potentially has data from other clients on it. I can&#x27;t let you install this monitoring agent without violating my contractual confidentially agreement with those other clients. I always maintain client confidentiality and will do the same for you. If you want to ship me a dedicated laptop for your engagement, I would be happy to install whatever you want on it.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>300bps</author><text>I have a dedicated laptop for a client that is in a room of my basement. I remote into it from my personal machine whenever I do work for them. Works very well!</text></comment> |
4,208,096 | 4,208,104 | 1 | 3 | 4,207,783 | train | <story><title>Show HN: 51,000 6 character domains</title><url>http://www.coreyballou.com/six-character-domain-names/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqueryin</author><text>For the last few years I've been toying with a variety of techniques for finding available domain names. This is one of my more recent attempts that I thought would be useful to all of you on HN. I created a simple search and alphabetical lookup with pagination to be able to browse through these domains as easily as possible. I built the website search functionality yesterday, so it was quick and dirty (but hopefully the UI is clean enough).<p>Since the current listing is cached, the only way to tell if a domain is truly still available (and some other HN member hasn't picked it up), you need to click the "Test" button to run a new WHOIS test. If the domain is taken, it'll automatically be removed and you'll be informed. If not, you'll get a nice little success message with both purchase buttons.<p>I'd love any suggestions. Let us know if you find anything good :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>&#62;Let us know if you find anything good :)<p>I was surprised saalty.com wasn't taken. It sounds so damn cute. I just bought it on impulse because my heart melts at the drop of a hat for some dumb reason.<p>Now I have to draw something cute to put there, like a little deer licking a salt cube.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: 51,000 6 character domains</title><url>http://www.coreyballou.com/six-character-domain-names/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqueryin</author><text>For the last few years I've been toying with a variety of techniques for finding available domain names. This is one of my more recent attempts that I thought would be useful to all of you on HN. I created a simple search and alphabetical lookup with pagination to be able to browse through these domains as easily as possible. I built the website search functionality yesterday, so it was quick and dirty (but hopefully the UI is clean enough).<p>Since the current listing is cached, the only way to tell if a domain is truly still available (and some other HN member hasn't picked it up), you need to click the "Test" button to run a new WHOIS test. If the domain is taken, it'll automatically be removed and you'll be informed. If not, you'll get a nice little success message with both purchase buttons.<p>I'd love any suggestions. Let us know if you find anything good :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>This is pretty cool. The only suggestions I have are the obvious ones of finding search strings anywhere (not just the beginning), and including more domains (which I'm guessing means adding more bigrams).<p>Where did you get the list of domains? Does it include all six character ones, or just the ones made of the common bigrams?</text></comment> |
27,638,384 | 27,638,457 | 1 | 2 | 27,636,773 | train | <story><title>Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”</title><url>https://twitter.com/RunDaltonRun/status/1408507323031592964</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>readams</author><text>You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread.</text></item><item><author>burnt_toast</author><text>The year is 2050 and your dingy old toaster has finally given up it&#x27;s last crumbs. You hop onto Amazon in hopes of finding a suitable replacement as there&#x27;s no longer any box stores you can travel to. Dumb appliances have been phased out and newer internet connected appliances have taken over. It&#x27;s better for the consumer they claim.<p>Not wanting an overtly fancy contraption you pick a no frills unit that includes a touch screen along the side. A few hours later it arrives. Setting it up was almost as easy as your old one. Plug it in, enter your wi-fi password, and a credit card to start your free pro trial of the monthly subscription service that tweets at you when the toast is done. It says you can cancel at anytime but it requires a 5 day waiting period. It also requires access to your contacts.<p>Tired and just wanting your toast you agree. You insert two slices of white bread and press the big red GO button on the touch screen. An electrical motor whines from inside the toaster at it begins to retract the toast into itself. There&#x27;s a few seconds of silence as the toaster slowly heat ups. While awkwardly standing there you notice the touch screen flickers and begins to display a buffering icon. An ad for I Can&#x27;t Believe it&#x27;s Not Butter begins to play. To make matters worse you can&#x27;t even ignore it by looking away due to a small tinny sounding speaker playing the company&#x27;s jingle.<p>This is your new morning routine.<p>Welcome to the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mixedmath</author><text>For those unaware, this is exactly the main point of the story &quot;Unauthorized Bread&quot; by Cory Doctorow. I liked the story and would recommend it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”</title><url>https://twitter.com/RunDaltonRun/status/1408507323031592964</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>readams</author><text>You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread.</text></item><item><author>burnt_toast</author><text>The year is 2050 and your dingy old toaster has finally given up it&#x27;s last crumbs. You hop onto Amazon in hopes of finding a suitable replacement as there&#x27;s no longer any box stores you can travel to. Dumb appliances have been phased out and newer internet connected appliances have taken over. It&#x27;s better for the consumer they claim.<p>Not wanting an overtly fancy contraption you pick a no frills unit that includes a touch screen along the side. A few hours later it arrives. Setting it up was almost as easy as your old one. Plug it in, enter your wi-fi password, and a credit card to start your free pro trial of the monthly subscription service that tweets at you when the toast is done. It says you can cancel at anytime but it requires a 5 day waiting period. It also requires access to your contacts.<p>Tired and just wanting your toast you agree. You insert two slices of white bread and press the big red GO button on the touch screen. An electrical motor whines from inside the toaster at it begins to retract the toast into itself. There&#x27;s a few seconds of silence as the toaster slowly heat ups. While awkwardly standing there you notice the touch screen flickers and begins to display a buffering icon. An ad for I Can&#x27;t Believe it&#x27;s Not Butter begins to play. To make matters worse you can&#x27;t even ignore it by looking away due to a small tinny sounding speaker playing the company&#x27;s jingle.<p>This is your new morning routine.<p>Welcome to the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrpopo</author><text>Also the part where the toaster version is outdated and it won&#x27;t start toasting before it&#x27;s up to date.</text></comment> |
39,226,492 | 39,226,499 | 1 | 2 | 39,223,126 | train | <story><title>Khronos Releases AV1 Decode in Vulkan Video with SDK Support for H.264/H.265</title><url>https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-vulkan-video-av1-decode-extension-vulkan-sdk-now-supports-h.264-h.265-encode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>How useful are hardware decoders? My understanding is that they are not necessarily faster than software decoders (in my experience it is the opposite), so the only benefit I can see is less CPU consumption. I see the benefit when you run on a battery (laptop &#x2F; smartphone) but on a desktop or server, unless you critically need the CPU at that time, I am not sure how useful it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text><i>&gt;I see the benefit when you run on a battery (laptop &#x2F; smartphone) but on a desktop or server, unless you critically need the CPU at that time, I am not sure how useful it is.</i><p>Yes it is. Very useful. The vast majority of people use laptops now, not desktop computers with 120mm tower coolers anymore, and if you want to switch to Linux then not having video decode nuke your battery life and turn your tiny fans into a Pratt &amp; Whitney, then this is another welcome change to closing the gap to Windows.<p>People, especially on the Linux side, need to stop viewing the world as if everyone still has desktop towers PCs tucked under their desks while disregarding the software issues and deficiencies that only plague laptops, which are the majority of the marketshare and have vastly different constrains than desktops.</text></comment> | <story><title>Khronos Releases AV1 Decode in Vulkan Video with SDK Support for H.264/H.265</title><url>https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-vulkan-video-av1-decode-extension-vulkan-sdk-now-supports-h.264-h.265-encode</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cm2187</author><text>How useful are hardware decoders? My understanding is that they are not necessarily faster than software decoders (in my experience it is the opposite), so the only benefit I can see is less CPU consumption. I see the benefit when you run on a battery (laptop &#x2F; smartphone) but on a desktop or server, unless you critically need the CPU at that time, I am not sure how useful it is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ddalex</author><text>I can tell you from my Chromebook and Macbook experience, HW decoders and encoders are the difference between a productive remote video meetup with good collaboration, and a frustrating lagged glitchy suttering meet with no work done, if CPU only.</text></comment> |
6,886,703 | 6,886,693 | 1 | 2 | 6,886,125 | train | <story><title>Obscure C++ Features</title><url>http://madebyevan.com/obscure-cpp-features/?viksra</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voyou</author><text>Are these really that obscure? Well, the 3[array] thing is unexpected and also not something you would use in real code, so it reasonably counts as obscure (although it&#x27;s such a hoary example of &quot;obscure C&quot; that it&#x27;s almost familiar). But pointers-to-members, template-template parameters, and the overloads of ++ and -- are, I would have thought, just standard features you would learn in the normal course of learning the language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>10098</author><text>Yeah, out of all these only the &quot;most vexing parse&quot; struck me as somewhat obscure simply because it&#x27;s so insidious. The rest... not really that obscure. I mean, come on. a[3] equivalent of *(a+3)? That&#x27;s just pointer arithmetic. Most of the other stuff is probably intermediate level.</text></comment> | <story><title>Obscure C++ Features</title><url>http://madebyevan.com/obscure-cpp-features/?viksra</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voyou</author><text>Are these really that obscure? Well, the 3[array] thing is unexpected and also not something you would use in real code, so it reasonably counts as obscure (although it&#x27;s such a hoary example of &quot;obscure C&quot; that it&#x27;s almost familiar). But pointers-to-members, template-template parameters, and the overloads of ++ and -- are, I would have thought, just standard features you would learn in the normal course of learning the language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EpicEng</author><text>I thought that the reference qualifiers on member functions and perhaps the function try&#x2F;catch blocks were fairly obscure, but yeah, not really anything else.</text></comment> |
28,125,130 | 28,124,986 | 1 | 3 | 28,124,032 | train | <story><title>Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn</title><url>https://thecounter.org/mexico-phaseout-glyphosate-genetically-engineered-corn-united-states/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lvxferre</author><text>This is just my impression, so do tell me if I&#x27;m incorrect, but I always got the impression that those North American countries like Mexico and USA rely a bit too much on corn, to the detriment of a more diverse set of crops. Renewable fuel? Corn. Cattle food? Corn. Staple carb? Corn. Sweetener? Corn.<p>Aren&#x27;t they putting too many eggs in the same basket?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rrrrrrrrrrrryan</author><text>The staple native grain of Europe is wheat, rice in Asia, and corn in the Americas.<p>At least that&#x27;s the historical context. Today, the reason why America produces so much corn is because of government subsidies, and so she can always feed herself if WWIII ever breaks out and all the borders shut down (unlike many modern first world nations).</text></comment> | <story><title>Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn</title><url>https://thecounter.org/mexico-phaseout-glyphosate-genetically-engineered-corn-united-states/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lvxferre</author><text>This is just my impression, so do tell me if I&#x27;m incorrect, but I always got the impression that those North American countries like Mexico and USA rely a bit too much on corn, to the detriment of a more diverse set of crops. Renewable fuel? Corn. Cattle food? Corn. Staple carb? Corn. Sweetener? Corn.<p>Aren&#x27;t they putting too many eggs in the same basket?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>X6S1x6Okd1st</author><text>At least in the US this was intentional. 115 B over the last 25 years.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;farm.ewg.org&#x2F;progdetail.php?fips=00000&amp;progcode=corn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;farm.ewg.org&#x2F;progdetail.php?fips=00000&amp;progcode=corn</a><p>biofuel from corn was explicitly subsidized and protected as well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agricultural_subsidy#United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...</a></text></comment> |
16,768,664 | 16,768,362 | 1 | 2 | 16,766,068 | train | <story><title>Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/secret-service-warns-of-chip-card-scheme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>That is the &#x27;non US&#x27; view sadly. You see we didn&#x27;t get &quot;chip AND PIN&quot; in the US. We got &quot;chip to send the magnetic stripe&quot;. If you use a US chipped credit card in a terminal it doesn&#x27;t ask for a pin, it just wants an unintelligible signature and you&#x27;re done.<p>I&#x27;m more than a bit irritated with this since without the pin you can &#x27;skim&#x27; chip cards just as easily as you can magnetic cards.</text></item><item><author>drbawb</author><text>&gt;The reason the crooks don’t just use the debit cards when intercepting them via the mail is that they need the cards to be activated first, and presumably they lack the privileged information needed to do that.<p>I guess I&#x27;m a little confused as to how this works. In the case of my two card issuers &quot;activating&quot; the card means performing at least one fully online transaction at a chip-enabled merchant. (e.g: card present, chip used, pin entered.) If the card&#x27;s chip were replaced in transit then I wouldn&#x27;t be able to activate the new card. I&#x27;m guessing they are targeting card issuers that have a different activation scheme; but I&#x27;m a bit surprised that my extremely small midwestern bank is actually ahead of the curve on card security.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajross</author><text>&gt; without the pin you can &#x27;skim&#x27; chip cards just as easily as you can magnetic cards.<p>Uh... no? Not sure what you&#x27;re saying. The PIN authenticates the human user, so without the PIN you can use <i>steal</i> a card. &quot;Skimming&quot; is a MitM attack, something expressely designed against in the chip design.</text></comment> | <story><title>Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/secret-service-warns-of-chip-card-scheme/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>That is the &#x27;non US&#x27; view sadly. You see we didn&#x27;t get &quot;chip AND PIN&quot; in the US. We got &quot;chip to send the magnetic stripe&quot;. If you use a US chipped credit card in a terminal it doesn&#x27;t ask for a pin, it just wants an unintelligible signature and you&#x27;re done.<p>I&#x27;m more than a bit irritated with this since without the pin you can &#x27;skim&#x27; chip cards just as easily as you can magnetic cards.</text></item><item><author>drbawb</author><text>&gt;The reason the crooks don’t just use the debit cards when intercepting them via the mail is that they need the cards to be activated first, and presumably they lack the privileged information needed to do that.<p>I guess I&#x27;m a little confused as to how this works. In the case of my two card issuers &quot;activating&quot; the card means performing at least one fully online transaction at a chip-enabled merchant. (e.g: card present, chip used, pin entered.) If the card&#x27;s chip were replaced in transit then I wouldn&#x27;t be able to activate the new card. I&#x27;m guessing they are targeting card issuers that have a different activation scheme; but I&#x27;m a bit surprised that my extremely small midwestern bank is actually ahead of the curve on card security.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oneplane</author><text>But then what&#x27;s the point? The whole signature scheme is not making much sense anyway, and pretending that no change is better because it is cheaper just gives you technical debt in the long run.<p>Would probably be better if at some point it was decided that using a signature is stupid and a deadline for using a PIN was set. But then again, the US hasn&#x27;t been able to fix the date naming scheme, the measurement system or the temperature system (and it&#x27;s just 4% of the world that is still using the old ones). I doubt this will ever be fixed.</text></comment> |
31,185,715 | 31,185,112 | 1 | 2 | 31,183,573 | train | <story><title>Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)</title><url>https://blog.porter.run/why-companies-move-off-heroku/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>As someone that was there at Heroku after the acquisition, I don&#x27;t think you can state that since the acquisition it&#x27;s been consistently downhill. There isn&#x27;t much debate that things have stagnated in the last 5-7 years which is a longer story on why probably.<p>Some examples of innovation that happened and were launched after the acquisition: buildpacks (at the time of acquisition Heroku was still Ruby only), Heroku Postgres launched forks&#x2F;followers&#x2F;dataclips all after the acquisition, review apps came several years after. Salesforce may have had an eventual hand in it, but there was still a lot of innovation happening due to the folks there in the near to mid-term after the acquisition for several years.<p>All that said, very excited for the new crop of players in the space. There are a number of companies trying to be a cheaper or more stable Heroku. Personally I&#x27;m excited about the ones that are taking their own unique approach. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fly.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fly.io</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.railway.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.railway.app</a> are two that to me seem to bring their own perspective vs. just trying to recreate Heroku as a carbon copy clone. There are a number more in the jamstack space that have become staples such as Netlify and Vercel which are also doing great things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrkurt</author><text>I think the most interesting part of this is the PaaS disaggregation. Heroku built an exceptionally good Postgres service. They could not have done that with multiple DBs. Even their redis is pretty meh.<p>People like us (Fly.io) will end up either building very mediocre DB offerings or collaborating with DB companies (like yours: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchydata.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;crunchy-bridge&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.crunchydata.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;crunchy-bridge&#x2F;</a>) to ship stuff that&#x27;s substantially better than RDS. I&#x27;m looking forward to it. Down with mediocre DB services.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)</title><url>https://blog.porter.run/why-companies-move-off-heroku/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craigkerstiens</author><text>As someone that was there at Heroku after the acquisition, I don&#x27;t think you can state that since the acquisition it&#x27;s been consistently downhill. There isn&#x27;t much debate that things have stagnated in the last 5-7 years which is a longer story on why probably.<p>Some examples of innovation that happened and were launched after the acquisition: buildpacks (at the time of acquisition Heroku was still Ruby only), Heroku Postgres launched forks&#x2F;followers&#x2F;dataclips all after the acquisition, review apps came several years after. Salesforce may have had an eventual hand in it, but there was still a lot of innovation happening due to the folks there in the near to mid-term after the acquisition for several years.<p>All that said, very excited for the new crop of players in the space. There are a number of companies trying to be a cheaper or more stable Heroku. Personally I&#x27;m excited about the ones that are taking their own unique approach. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fly.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fly.io</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.railway.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.railway.app</a> are two that to me seem to bring their own perspective vs. just trying to recreate Heroku as a carbon copy clone. There are a number more in the jamstack space that have become staples such as Netlify and Vercel which are also doing great things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonw</author><text>The first few years after the Salesforce acquisition were incredible - for quite a while I thought of Heroku as one of the best examples of an acquisiton where the product improved after the release.<p>Sad to see that momentum eventually fade away.</text></comment> |
10,723,030 | 10,722,761 | 1 | 3 | 10,722,536 | train | <story><title>Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015</title><url>https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>necessity</author><text>Finally someone using a tiling window manager! I don&#x27;t know how the stacking folk survive, look at the insane amount of windows just floating around.</text></comment> | <story><title>Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015</title><url>https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hengheng</author><text>I don&#x27;t do a whole lot of software (got caught up on the hardware side of things), but one thing I&#x27;m noticing is that nobody makes extensive use of &quot;advanced&quot; IDE features as in eclipse or visual Studio.<p>Is this personal taste, or has it to do with the scope of the projects these guys are working on?</text></comment> |
24,898,444 | 24,895,357 | 1 | 2 | 24,878,116 | train | <story><title>Rethinking Attention with Performers</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/10/rethinking-attention-with-performers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desmap</author><text>OT: I want to get into transformers for NLP, what&#x27;s the best way?<p>About me: Mostly done TS the last years. Dipped into Python, a bit pandas, a bit numpy, a bit Kaggle for the last 3-4 weeks.<p>Why I ask: It&#x27;s so easy to get lost, this field is wide, e.g. I spent days with spaCy, CoreNLP, etc. before I learned that transformers-based stuff exist and outperform former.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FL33TW00D</author><text>I&#x27;ve just recently been on a journey to understand transformers in and out, here are the resources I&#x27;ve found managed to drill it into my head:<p>1. Chapters 7, 9, 10<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~jurafsky&#x2F;slp3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~jurafsky&#x2F;slp3&#x2F;</a><p>This was really useful to really build up to the concepts of attention (although the actual attention section is still brief).<p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jalammar.github.io&#x2F;visualizing-neural-machine-translation-mechanics-of-seq2seq-models-with-attention&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jalammar.github.io&#x2F;visualizing-neural-machine-transl...</a><p>This was great for visualization and understanding that attention wasn&#x27;t exclusively for transformers and actually was for RNNs first.<p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jalammar.github.io&#x2F;illustrated-transformer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jalammar.github.io&#x2F;illustrated-transformer&#x2F;</a><p>Getting to understand how transformers actually work visually.<p>4. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=S27pHKBEp30" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=S27pHKBEp30</a><p>This lecture by Leo Dirac was extremely helpful to finish off with, not only because it actually includes some pseudocode but it also revisits some key topics and covers why transformers are needed.<p>One of the big confusion points for me was that the concept of ATTENTION and SELF-ATTENTION are not the same thing.<p>Hope this helps.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rethinking Attention with Performers</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/10/rethinking-attention-with-performers.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>desmap</author><text>OT: I want to get into transformers for NLP, what&#x27;s the best way?<p>About me: Mostly done TS the last years. Dipped into Python, a bit pandas, a bit numpy, a bit Kaggle for the last 3-4 weeks.<p>Why I ask: It&#x27;s so easy to get lost, this field is wide, e.g. I spent days with spaCy, CoreNLP, etc. before I learned that transformers-based stuff exist and outperform former.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kanche</author><text>Everyone has a different way of approaching. I like video walk-throughs of papers. If you are the same, for the theory bit you may find Yannic Kilcher&#x27;s videos [0,1] helpful.<p>On implementation side, the best project out there is [2] with good documentation. Also spacy has transformer package [3] (I personally haven&#x27;t tried it), so maybe it will be easier for you to jump in if you have prior experience with spacy.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iDulhoQ2pro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iDulhoQ2pro</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-9evrZnBorM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=-9evrZnBorM</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;transformers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;transformers&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;explosion.ai&#x2F;blog&#x2F;spacy-transformers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;explosion.ai&#x2F;blog&#x2F;spacy-transformers</a></text></comment> |
25,546,783 | 25,546,751 | 1 | 2 | 25,546,043 | train | <story><title>We’ve Got Depression All Wrong. It’s Trying to Save Us</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/202012/we-ve-got-depression-all-wrong-it-s-trying-save-us</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikedilger</author><text>Depression may also prevent suicide because you lack the drive to take those steps. There is a pattern of people committing suicide a few weeks after starting on an anti-depressant (including one of my cousins and a late friend of mine), so much that it is listed as a side effect. I don&#x27;t know if there is a double-blind study showing that the anti-depressant use is causal (and such a study is probably unethical), and depressed people are already more suicidal, so take my reasoning as a hypothesis and not a statement of fact.<p>But it also makes sense evolutionarily. People who suffer depression may survive periods in their life when they would otherwise commit suicide, and people who don&#x27;t exit life early, meaning that depression is naturally selected.</text></comment> | <story><title>We’ve Got Depression All Wrong. It’s Trying to Save Us</title><url>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shouldstorm/202012/we-ve-got-depression-all-wrong-it-s-trying-save-us</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kowsheek</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised the article doesn&#x27;t mention Dr. Gabor Mate at all.<p>His work fully outlines how depression &amp; stress can be a coping mechanism when we&#x27;re not able to express needs or emotions.<p>I highly recommend everyone to read and apply his approach to managing stress and psychological wellbeing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;vMstO3U4sVw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;vMstO3U4sVw</a></text></comment> |
35,256,199 | 35,255,238 | 1 | 2 | 35,217,505 | train | <story><title>Intel Thunder Bay is officially canceled, Linux driver code to be removed</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunder-Bay-Cancelled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbozeman</author><text>Turns out the leadership of Intel is stupider than I thought.<p>It&#x27;s almost impossible to believe that they actually thought they&#x27;d be able to go up against two GPU makers each with 25+ years of experience.<p>This was <i>always</i> going to be a long uphill battle. Always. I figured it would take at least 10 years for Intel to become competitive, but turns out they tucked tail and ran.<p>Mediocre!</text></item><item><author>beebeepka</author><text>In other intel news, Raja is no longer with them. Seems like he was forced out and some of the rumours about the bleak future of their consumer GPU business may turn out to be true</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mardifoufs</author><text>Arc is insanely good for a first attempt at a discrete GPU. It has mid tier performance for mid tier price, and drivers are still getting tons of work from intel that makes them better and better almost every release. It&#x27;s actually crazy that they managed to do so well (mid-tier is still amazingly powerful, all things considered). If they stick with it, there&#x27;s no reason to believe they won&#x27;t be able to compete at the high end, too. I honestly expected a massive trash fire when I first heard of Arc, just because of the countless edge cases and driver&#x2F;API hell that even Nvidia and AMD seem to run into continuously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Intel Thunder Bay is officially canceled, Linux driver code to be removed</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thunder-Bay-Cancelled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cbozeman</author><text>Turns out the leadership of Intel is stupider than I thought.<p>It&#x27;s almost impossible to believe that they actually thought they&#x27;d be able to go up against two GPU makers each with 25+ years of experience.<p>This was <i>always</i> going to be a long uphill battle. Always. I figured it would take at least 10 years for Intel to become competitive, but turns out they tucked tail and ran.<p>Mediocre!</text></item><item><author>beebeepka</author><text>In other intel news, Raja is no longer with them. Seems like he was forced out and some of the rumours about the bleak future of their consumer GPU business may turn out to be true</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gfv</author><text>Intel has been making GPUs since roughly 2002, 845 chipset series. (There were earlier ones, but I&#x27;m</text></comment> |
27,710,233 | 27,710,424 | 1 | 2 | 27,707,770 | train | <story><title>First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/07/first-look-macos-monterey-public-beta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>I use macs but don&#x27;t use iphones&#x2F;ipads and instead prefer Android. In general, I don&#x27;t really use a lot of the services and apps that come with macs. I don&#x27;t use iCloud. I don&#x27;t use iMail. I don&#x27;t use Safari. I don&#x27;t use Facetime. I don&#x27;t use keynote, pages, iMovie, Garageband, etc. So, like with most OS X &#x2F; Mac OS releases of the last half decade, there&#x27;s actually very little (if anything) I can point at that actually genuinely is an improvement for me.<p>The base OS has mostly gotten worse actually. It&#x27;s gotten a lot more anal about requiring signed binaries and micromanaging permissions. Dropping 32 bit means my steam library is now full of stuff that no longer works. OpenGL support is a deprecated afterthought meaning that a lot of OSS stuff either won&#x27;t work or barely works. I recently updated my macbook pro but aside from some minor icon rearranging in the menu bar, I can&#x27;t really tell the difference with last year&#x27;s edition. Most of this review is about applications that Apple bundles with the OS that compete with third party stuff that I use and prefer. Couldn&#x27;t care less about any of that. But I appreciate that it&#x27;s nice for people buying into the whole Apple everything experience.<p>The reason I use macs is mainly because it&#x27;s nice hardware with a unix like OS. Most of the tools I use are open source. I user Firefox for browsing, homebrew, docker, Intellij, VS Code, Darktable for photos, etc. I could easily switch to Linux or Windows and use the same tools. But macs are convenient. For now. It seems MS is much more on top of making Windows developer friendly than Apple is currently. It wouldn&#x27;t be hard to do for Apple but for some reason they are not interested in that anymore.</text></item><item><author>iansinnott</author><text>Do any macOS users actually want unification? I do not, but I&#x27;m just one data point.<p>Being able to use mobile apps on a computer is a clear win, but that&#x27;s a purely additive change—you don&#x27;t need change the existing OS appearance or functionality to accomplish it.<p>I worry that &quot;unification&quot; will be realized by dumbing down the desktop rather than empowering the mobile device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ithkuil</author><text>I also use Mac as a glorified unix OS with an WiFi that works, printing that works, laptop sleep and awake that works, and UI that works across external monitors with various DPI settings seamlessly.<p>I know many of the aforementioned issues have been fixed (to some extent) for linux. I&#x27;d be willing to give the Linux desktop another try but:<p>1. I really love my LG 5k external monitor. It&#x27;s still hard to find hardware for linux that can drive it (especially laptops)<p>2. I got used to how fonts are rendered on macos<p>3. Keyboard shortcuts systematically different (CMD&#x2F;meta vs Ctrl) make it harder to occasionally switch between the two systems. I know it sounds silly. But it&#x27;s hard to remap those modifiers in a way that keeps everything else working the same.</text></comment> | <story><title>First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta</title><url>https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/07/first-look-macos-monterey-public-beta/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jillesvangurp</author><text>I use macs but don&#x27;t use iphones&#x2F;ipads and instead prefer Android. In general, I don&#x27;t really use a lot of the services and apps that come with macs. I don&#x27;t use iCloud. I don&#x27;t use iMail. I don&#x27;t use Safari. I don&#x27;t use Facetime. I don&#x27;t use keynote, pages, iMovie, Garageband, etc. So, like with most OS X &#x2F; Mac OS releases of the last half decade, there&#x27;s actually very little (if anything) I can point at that actually genuinely is an improvement for me.<p>The base OS has mostly gotten worse actually. It&#x27;s gotten a lot more anal about requiring signed binaries and micromanaging permissions. Dropping 32 bit means my steam library is now full of stuff that no longer works. OpenGL support is a deprecated afterthought meaning that a lot of OSS stuff either won&#x27;t work or barely works. I recently updated my macbook pro but aside from some minor icon rearranging in the menu bar, I can&#x27;t really tell the difference with last year&#x27;s edition. Most of this review is about applications that Apple bundles with the OS that compete with third party stuff that I use and prefer. Couldn&#x27;t care less about any of that. But I appreciate that it&#x27;s nice for people buying into the whole Apple everything experience.<p>The reason I use macs is mainly because it&#x27;s nice hardware with a unix like OS. Most of the tools I use are open source. I user Firefox for browsing, homebrew, docker, Intellij, VS Code, Darktable for photos, etc. I could easily switch to Linux or Windows and use the same tools. But macs are convenient. For now. It seems MS is much more on top of making Windows developer friendly than Apple is currently. It wouldn&#x27;t be hard to do for Apple but for some reason they are not interested in that anymore.</text></item><item><author>iansinnott</author><text>Do any macOS users actually want unification? I do not, but I&#x27;m just one data point.<p>Being able to use mobile apps on a computer is a clear win, but that&#x27;s a purely additive change—you don&#x27;t need change the existing OS appearance or functionality to accomplish it.<p>I worry that &quot;unification&quot; will be realized by dumbing down the desktop rather than empowering the mobile device.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spinningslate</author><text>I&#x27;m in the same boat. Mac-as-a-developer-workstation, not Mac-as-a-consumer-dvice. Apple seems entirely disinterested in the former market segment. Perhaps it never was: the mass adoption of macs in the early-mid 2000s might just have been a fortuitous accident, not somethgin Apple ever courted.<p>Either way:<p>&gt; It seems MS is much more on top of making Windows developer friendly than Apple is currently.<p>I see that too and it worries me. Not because I&#x27;m avidly anti-Microsoft, but because all the portents are we&#x27;re heading back to the place where Microsoft dominates the desktop, with no practical alternatives. That wasn&#x27;t good first time around and I don&#x27;t see it being any better if repeated.<p>Microsoft is being very smart - and successful - in their strategy. Whereas the original Windows commoditised the underlying hardware, current &quot;Windows&quot; is commoditising operating systems. Hence subsuming Android and Linux into the platform.<p>&quot;Windows&quot;, though, is really not the way to think about the platform. The deep integration of Teams into W11 is a pivotal step. Teams - with office365 - <i>is</i> the new &quot;Windows&quot; - the platform that Microsoft wants to dominate end-user computing with on the front end. With Azure on the back.<p>As a developer, I don&#x27;t want to only have a single choice. But I don&#x27;t see anyone meaningfully challenging Microsoft. Apple seems only interested in consumers. I wouldn&#x27;t personally touch a Chromebook given Google&#x27;s insatiable desire to monetise my every keystroke. Amazon seems only interested in the back end and, actually, that seems like strategic myopia. Microsoft really understands that owning the end-user experience is key. What future for AWS if all developers are using Windows, and it already &quot;just works&quot; with Azure?<p>So I&#x27;m not optimistic for the future. On the plus side, it&#x27;s why I bought a laptop from System76, and paid ElementaryOS to use their distro. It&#x27;s noise level compared to Windows&#x2F;Mac, but that might just be what ensures there&#x27;s a tiny crack of hope for desktop diversity.</text></comment> |
25,246,502 | 25,246,376 | 1 | 2 | 25,245,026 | train | <story><title>YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”</title><url>https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/1332746158947635202</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xfeba</author><text>&gt; Children are taught to not question what they&#x27;re told, because it&#x27;s much easier on parents and teachers when children don&#x27;t question what they&#x27;re told. Then when they&#x27;re adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they&#x27;ve been miseducated and they&#x27;re easy targets for disinformation.<p>I&#x27;m gonna guess you don&#x27;t have children. Children like easy-to-follow directions. They don&#x27;t understand nuance at all. It&#x27;s not because it&#x27;s &quot;easier on parents and teachers&quot;, it&#x27;s because it&#x27;s what works.<p>You add nuance later in middle and high school.</text></item><item><author>calibas</author><text>Children are taught to not question what they&#x27;re told, because it&#x27;s much easier on parents and teachers when children don&#x27;t question what they&#x27;re told. Then when they&#x27;re adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they&#x27;ve been miseducated and they&#x27;re easy targets for disinformation.<p>To me, the solution is obviously better education. When people believe the Earth is round only because that&#x27;s what they were told, it&#x27;s not that hard for a clever talker to convince them the Earth could be flat. When people know the Earth is round because they actually understand the physics behind it, there&#x27;s no way you&#x27;re ever going to convince them the Earth is flat.<p>Instead of admitting our education system has failed, people&#x27;s ignorance is being used as an excuse to tighten control over the media even further.</text></item><item><author>3663288262</author><text>Speaking as a lurker, this seems basically like what people have been asking for for awhile now including here. I remember seeing numerous top comment chains over the last four years (and of course before that but not here) that all boiled down to very eloquent defenses of censoring fringe thinkers.<p>Who knows, maybe in theory land there&#x27;s no reason we can&#x27;t have it both ways. But it seems to me that in the real world precisely the opposite is true. We can&#x27;t demand increasingly invasive and opaque mechanisms to prevent the spread of misinformation (once upon a time many examples of which would have just been called &quot;gossip&quot; or the &quot;rumor mill&quot;) and then act surpised when radicals for our own important causes get swept up in the net. At some point we either have to admit that what we really want to build is a like-minded dictorship or we have to start discussing (in a sober manner devoid of the histrionics and gamesmanship that have come to envelope contemporary dialogues) what an intellient compromise in objectives might look like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leto_ii</author><text>&gt; Children like easy-to-follow directions. They don&#x27;t understand nuance at all.<p>I don&#x27;t have kids myself, but I do remember how it is to be a child, having been one myself a while ago :D<p>I can assure you kids understand nuance quite well if they&#x27;re explained things properly, patiently, in a friendly manner.</text></comment> | <story><title>YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”</title><url>https://twitter.com/_SecondThought/status/1332746158947635202</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0xfeba</author><text>&gt; Children are taught to not question what they&#x27;re told, because it&#x27;s much easier on parents and teachers when children don&#x27;t question what they&#x27;re told. Then when they&#x27;re adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they&#x27;ve been miseducated and they&#x27;re easy targets for disinformation.<p>I&#x27;m gonna guess you don&#x27;t have children. Children like easy-to-follow directions. They don&#x27;t understand nuance at all. It&#x27;s not because it&#x27;s &quot;easier on parents and teachers&quot;, it&#x27;s because it&#x27;s what works.<p>You add nuance later in middle and high school.</text></item><item><author>calibas</author><text>Children are taught to not question what they&#x27;re told, because it&#x27;s much easier on parents and teachers when children don&#x27;t question what they&#x27;re told. Then when they&#x27;re adults they lack any kind of critical thinking skills because they&#x27;ve been miseducated and they&#x27;re easy targets for disinformation.<p>To me, the solution is obviously better education. When people believe the Earth is round only because that&#x27;s what they were told, it&#x27;s not that hard for a clever talker to convince them the Earth could be flat. When people know the Earth is round because they actually understand the physics behind it, there&#x27;s no way you&#x27;re ever going to convince them the Earth is flat.<p>Instead of admitting our education system has failed, people&#x27;s ignorance is being used as an excuse to tighten control over the media even further.</text></item><item><author>3663288262</author><text>Speaking as a lurker, this seems basically like what people have been asking for for awhile now including here. I remember seeing numerous top comment chains over the last four years (and of course before that but not here) that all boiled down to very eloquent defenses of censoring fringe thinkers.<p>Who knows, maybe in theory land there&#x27;s no reason we can&#x27;t have it both ways. But it seems to me that in the real world precisely the opposite is true. We can&#x27;t demand increasingly invasive and opaque mechanisms to prevent the spread of misinformation (once upon a time many examples of which would have just been called &quot;gossip&quot; or the &quot;rumor mill&quot;) and then act surpised when radicals for our own important causes get swept up in the net. At some point we either have to admit that what we really want to build is a like-minded dictorship or we have to start discussing (in a sober manner devoid of the histrionics and gamesmanship that have come to envelope contemporary dialogues) what an intellient compromise in objectives might look like.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calibas</author><text>Young children absolutely need easy-to-follow directions because they can&#x27;t follow complicated directions.<p>I&#x27;m not arguing against easy-to-follow directions, so I don&#x27;t quite see your point. I&#x27;m against parents and schools encouraging unquestioning obedience to their directions.</text></comment> |
9,646,781 | 9,646,784 | 1 | 2 | 9,645,932 | train | <story><title>The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/06/minecraft-book-excerpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>&gt; Both are to be extremely passionate about the simple but massively playable games.<p>Have you ever even looked at Dwarf Fortress? It is the most complex non-trival game I have ever layed my eyes on. It takes over 100 hours just to understand the ascii art.<p>Quoting:
&quot;Dwarf Fortress is one of the most complex computer games in the history of computer games. How complex? In the game&#x27;s discussion forum, one player asserts that after 120 failed games, he can finally &quot;get into the swing of things.&quot;<p>[<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;dwarf-fortress-ten-hours-with-the-most-inscrutable-video-game-of-all-time&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;dwarf-fortress-ten-hou...</a>]</text></item><item><author>sageabilly</author><text>After reading this story I&#x27;m struck by a bit of a parallel between Notch and Tarn Adams, the guy who writes Dwarf Fotress. Both are to be extremely passionate about the simple but massively playable games that they make, but Dwarf Fortress has a niche following and Minecraft has <i>EXPLODED</i> in popularity. I can see Notch riding the leviathan for a while but at some point that&#x27;s got to be extremely tiring and every day&#x27;s growth would take him further and further from the &quot;I just want to sit in the basement and make fun games&quot; that got him in the industry in the first place.<p>Regardless of intent, at some point if someone comes along and says &quot;hey we&#x27;ll give you $2B to walk away from this and go back to making fun games in the basement and never having to worry about money ever again&quot; it will be a more attractive offer than trying to deal with the headache that comes with running a large company (which would be compounded by never desiring to have a large company in the first place).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GuiA</author><text>That&#x27;s a bit of a dramatic exaggeration for theatrical effect. The ASCII art definitely does not take 100 hours to understand.<p>If you use a beginner&#x27;s guide, you can get the basics in a couple hours - after that, you start having fun but of course it takes a very long time to learn and understand all of the subtleties of the game (but that&#x27;s true of any good strategy game).<p>O&#x27;reilly has published a book about the game, I highly recommend it. You can start really grokking the game within an afternoon.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout</title><url>http://www.wired.com/2015/06/minecraft-book-excerpt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baldfat</author><text>&gt; Both are to be extremely passionate about the simple but massively playable games.<p>Have you ever even looked at Dwarf Fortress? It is the most complex non-trival game I have ever layed my eyes on. It takes over 100 hours just to understand the ascii art.<p>Quoting:
&quot;Dwarf Fortress is one of the most complex computer games in the history of computer games. How complex? In the game&#x27;s discussion forum, one player asserts that after 120 failed games, he can finally &quot;get into the swing of things.&quot;<p>[<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;dwarf-fortress-ten-hours-with-the-most-inscrutable-video-game-of-all-time&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;2013&#x2F;02&#x2F;dwarf-fortress-ten-hou...</a>]</text></item><item><author>sageabilly</author><text>After reading this story I&#x27;m struck by a bit of a parallel between Notch and Tarn Adams, the guy who writes Dwarf Fotress. Both are to be extremely passionate about the simple but massively playable games that they make, but Dwarf Fortress has a niche following and Minecraft has <i>EXPLODED</i> in popularity. I can see Notch riding the leviathan for a while but at some point that&#x27;s got to be extremely tiring and every day&#x27;s growth would take him further and further from the &quot;I just want to sit in the basement and make fun games&quot; that got him in the industry in the first place.<p>Regardless of intent, at some point if someone comes along and says &quot;hey we&#x27;ll give you $2B to walk away from this and go back to making fun games in the basement and never having to worry about money ever again&quot; it will be a more attractive offer than trying to deal with the headache that comes with running a large company (which would be compounded by never desiring to have a large company in the first place).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sageabilly</author><text>I happily admit that at its core, Dwarf Fortress is <i>ANYTHING BUT</i> simple. And yes, I&#x27;ve played the hell out of it for years and years.<p>However, the concept of Dwarf Fortress is extremely simple- you&#x27;re a band of dwarves, you start out with limited supplies, here&#x27;s this open world for you to go live in, now try not to die. Minecraft is the same way in that regard- here&#x27;s this world you&#x27;ve been plopped down in, it&#x27;s theoretically infinitely big, try not to die.</text></comment> |
5,029,193 | 5,029,149 | 1 | 3 | 5,028,545 | train | <story><title>The Best of Kickstarter 2012</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Slightly off-topic, but not really...<p>That design is gorgeous. Maybe not the most practical, but I couldn't stop clicking the arrow to see more. I don't remember being this excited about eye candy since the first time I saw Flash.<p>Is this a trend or an outlier?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cfinke</author><text>I found it irritating and hard to follow. Had to close it after the fourth click. To each his own.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Best of Kickstarter 2012</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Slightly off-topic, but not really...<p>That design is gorgeous. Maybe not the most practical, but I couldn't stop clicking the arrow to see more. I don't remember being this excited about eye candy since the first time I saw Flash.<p>Is this a trend or an outlier?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>10dpd</author><text>Presentations have been around for quite a while:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VCN_Slide1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VCN_Slide1.jpg</a></text></comment> |
1,332,721 | 1,332,631 | 1 | 3 | 1,332,513 | train | <story><title>Reddit IAMA. An ex Google programmer switched to a job in the lumbering industry</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c1rcu/iama_person_with_a_cs_degree_that_decided_to_work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joshu</author><text>Every time I drive this place I fantasize about buying it and restoring/repairing it.<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sayre/4366230632/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/sayre/4366230632/</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit IAMA. An ex Google programmer switched to a job in the lumbering industry</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c1rcu/iama_person_with_a_cs_degree_that_decided_to_work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>I have a story to share:<p>I started programming computers when I was very young. Because of the skills I developed, and because of some connections I had, I got a very high paying job in the data processing department of the Livermore School District while I was still a junior in high school. (I was on independent study at the time.) I literally made more money than I knew what to do with, unfortunately.<p>A couple of years later, I had been talking to a girl online, who lived in Florida. We met a few times. I've never been all that good at the relationship thing, so this seemed important to me at the time, so I moved to Florida. Shortly after getting there, I learned Oracle PL/SQL and another language I can't remember any more in the course of a few days to get a job at Ceridian Benefits Services; in time I became one of their lead techs with a path into their software development department. Again, more money than I knew what to do with.<p>After about a year of this though, things weren't working out, and there was a part of me that felt starved. It was the part that enjoyed hiking, enjoyed being outside, enjoyed being fit and in good physical health. I also had a strong feeling that everything up to this point had been too easy for me, that I wasn't getting as much out of life as I wanted to.<p>So I quit.<p>I moved back to California and resolved to spend the next few years starting over, completely from scratch; I wanted to take the hardest possible path through life for the next few years. (Boy, I had no idea what I was in for.)<p>I got into rock climbing, and then got a job as a climbing instructor. I had the opportunity, through my style, personality, will, and determination, to influence people around me. I made a lot of friends, many of whom I'm still friends with. I got to feed the outdoor side of my personality for a while. The job didn't pay much though, and eventually I fled, in debt, to a job in the retail part of the outdoor industry, in another part of the state.<p>During this time I didn't use computers, unless it was as a cash register or inventory system. For a period of a couple of years, I was completely disconnected from the internet, computers, toys, and gadgets. I learned how to fix cars, I chased sheep down the street, I climbed a lot, and I wandered around.<p>I'm back in computers now, obviously. It took me only about a year to catch up to the changes in the industry, and I'm one of the leading consultants in my area now, with a successful business of my own.<p>But, I'm really, really, really glad I took that road. It taught me so much that I couldn't have learned by staying behind a computer desk all day long. It taught me how to relate to people, for one. It taught me how to maintain some balance in my life, and how to pay attention to the needs of my spirit. (My girlfriend, who's reading this over my shoulder -- she's really patient with my need to hear myself talk! -- is reminding me that it's also how I met her, which is probably the best part of all. :-)<p>So my main point, in so much as I have one, is that abandoning your core skill in an area, and putting yourself in over your head for a while, can lead to some really valuable experiences. You don't need to worry about whether or not you'll still be able to get back in later, or re-acquire old skills; they'll come back, in time. Don't worry about that at all.</text></comment> |
2,193,230 | 2,193,263 | 1 | 2 | 2,192,780 | train | <story><title>The Youth Unemployment Bomb</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/07_52/b4064058743638.htm</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pzxc</author><text>I've never understood how being "overqualified" is a problem. No one says you have to list your degree or make mention of it. Just pretend you don't have one? What am I missing here? Are people too egotistical to accept a job at McDonald's when they have a degree? It has always been my opinion that any job is better than no job. If you need money, take what work you can. There's nothing that says you can't keep looking for a better job while you are working a holdover job. And, just like omitting mention of the degree, when you do apply for jobs that you really want, now or later, you don't have to put on your resume that you worked at McDonald's for three months while you were looking for better work.</text></item><item><author>ylem</author><text>I have a sister who is unemployed in California (Pasadena), so I will make a few anecdotal observations. She was an honors student in college and taught special ed for some years before moving on to manage some group homes for the mentally impaired. She then went into home health care and became unemployed when a job offer fell through.<p>During this time (over 1 year), she has applied for many jobs (including an interview with a nursing home facility (sorry, don't know the details) on a reservation in New Mexico, where she would have to commute an hour each way to work--where she was a good fit and the daughter of one her teachers arranged for the interview). Some have been at traditional companies (HR), others have been at Target, Macy's, and other temporary jobs. Here's what she's found:<p>1) If you have a college degree, it's hard to get hired even for jobs that are 9 months with no chance of permanent employment, because you are "over qualified"
2) These unemployment centers are fairly useless for those with an education. If you go in everyday and a job happens to come in that matches you, then good. Otherwise, you're better off searching the internet yourself. Also, most of the money that's provided for training is for pretty basic jobs, like "medical coding" which seem like good outsourcing targets. Even though you go through the hoops for these, getting authorized to take these certificate programs can be Kafka-esque.<p>For my sister, while she's still looking for a job, she's decided she wants to go the entrepreneurial route. She got a chance to pitch her idea to an incubator in Ann Arbor, but she only had crude drawings and while they liked the idea, they really wanted a prototype. She is not a coder, so she's enrolled for some courses at the local community college.<p>But, I will say that I've seen some bias against hiring people who have been unemployed for some time. For example, a friend works as a pharmaceutical researcher and was told by recruiters that they are only interested in people who currently are employed (she was)...I think there's a tendency to believe that the jobs are out "there" and people are just too lazy to find them.<p>However, I'm increasingly believing that we've moved to a two fluid model (to coin a physics phrase) where for people with specialized skills, or experience (for example, I've talked to people in sales at IBM and other companies who have told me that they've found it hard to hire people with the skills they want), the job market is actually not that bad and they are being actively recruited. On the other hand, there are people with lower skills and for them the outlook is rather bleak.</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text><i>(Relatedly: some days I wonder if the single most effective form of unemployment relief would be teaching people that sending out resumes is for suckers.)</i><p>The welfare-reform efforts of the past 15-20 years in most western countries have tended to do exactly the opposite, oddly enough. Out of a worry that people were just receiving benefits without really looking for work, you must now demonstrate that you're actively sending out resumes and filling out applications. Some jurisdictions even require you to show up every so often to a center where they help you search job listings and send out resumes.</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I'm most worried not for the numbers as for the corrosive effect long periods of unemployment have on employability. You lose the simple habits which are required for lots of gainful employment, such as "getting up before 9 AM consistently" and "working mostly non-stop for 8 hours a day".<p>I see this in a lot of these articles where folks will, e.g., claim they applied for 15 jobs in 3 weeks. At some point the new normal for him has become that he works 15 minutes a day or less on his job search. (Relatedly: some days I wonder if the single most effective form of unemployment relief would be teaching people that sending out resumes <i>is for suckers</i>.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brk</author><text>For an employer there is a real cost associated with finding and hiring a new employee. The worry is that someone who is over-qualified is going to continue to be looking for higher-paid/higher-skilled work that is a better fit for them. That employee will also be generally less concerned about their future career path at the job they are over-qualified for, which can lead to reduced quality of work. In a customer-facing role at a retailer this can come through as a bad or passe attitude, which won't win over your customers.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Youth Unemployment Bomb</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/07_52/b4064058743638.htm</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pzxc</author><text>I've never understood how being "overqualified" is a problem. No one says you have to list your degree or make mention of it. Just pretend you don't have one? What am I missing here? Are people too egotistical to accept a job at McDonald's when they have a degree? It has always been my opinion that any job is better than no job. If you need money, take what work you can. There's nothing that says you can't keep looking for a better job while you are working a holdover job. And, just like omitting mention of the degree, when you do apply for jobs that you really want, now or later, you don't have to put on your resume that you worked at McDonald's for three months while you were looking for better work.</text></item><item><author>ylem</author><text>I have a sister who is unemployed in California (Pasadena), so I will make a few anecdotal observations. She was an honors student in college and taught special ed for some years before moving on to manage some group homes for the mentally impaired. She then went into home health care and became unemployed when a job offer fell through.<p>During this time (over 1 year), she has applied for many jobs (including an interview with a nursing home facility (sorry, don't know the details) on a reservation in New Mexico, where she would have to commute an hour each way to work--where she was a good fit and the daughter of one her teachers arranged for the interview). Some have been at traditional companies (HR), others have been at Target, Macy's, and other temporary jobs. Here's what she's found:<p>1) If you have a college degree, it's hard to get hired even for jobs that are 9 months with no chance of permanent employment, because you are "over qualified"
2) These unemployment centers are fairly useless for those with an education. If you go in everyday and a job happens to come in that matches you, then good. Otherwise, you're better off searching the internet yourself. Also, most of the money that's provided for training is for pretty basic jobs, like "medical coding" which seem like good outsourcing targets. Even though you go through the hoops for these, getting authorized to take these certificate programs can be Kafka-esque.<p>For my sister, while she's still looking for a job, she's decided she wants to go the entrepreneurial route. She got a chance to pitch her idea to an incubator in Ann Arbor, but she only had crude drawings and while they liked the idea, they really wanted a prototype. She is not a coder, so she's enrolled for some courses at the local community college.<p>But, I will say that I've seen some bias against hiring people who have been unemployed for some time. For example, a friend works as a pharmaceutical researcher and was told by recruiters that they are only interested in people who currently are employed (she was)...I think there's a tendency to believe that the jobs are out "there" and people are just too lazy to find them.<p>However, I'm increasingly believing that we've moved to a two fluid model (to coin a physics phrase) where for people with specialized skills, or experience (for example, I've talked to people in sales at IBM and other companies who have told me that they've found it hard to hire people with the skills they want), the job market is actually not that bad and they are being actively recruited. On the other hand, there are people with lower skills and for them the outlook is rather bleak.</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text><i>(Relatedly: some days I wonder if the single most effective form of unemployment relief would be teaching people that sending out resumes is for suckers.)</i><p>The welfare-reform efforts of the past 15-20 years in most western countries have tended to do exactly the opposite, oddly enough. Out of a worry that people were just receiving benefits without really looking for work, you must now demonstrate that you're actively sending out resumes and filling out applications. Some jurisdictions even require you to show up every so often to a center where they help you search job listings and send out resumes.</text></item><item><author>patio11</author><text>I'm most worried not for the numbers as for the corrosive effect long periods of unemployment have on employability. You lose the simple habits which are required for lots of gainful employment, such as "getting up before 9 AM consistently" and "working mostly non-stop for 8 hours a day".<p>I see this in a lot of these articles where folks will, e.g., claim they applied for 15 jobs in 3 weeks. At some point the new normal for him has become that he works 15 minutes a day or less on his job search. (Relatedly: some days I wonder if the single most effective form of unemployment relief would be teaching people that sending out resumes <i>is for suckers</i>.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swernli</author><text>That's exactly the problem. From what I've seen, the reason people don't want to hire overqualified applicants is because they know those people would be doing exactly what you are advising: coasting in the job for 3 months while waiting for something better to come along. There's nothing wrong with that from the point of view of the person, but what about the company? They spend time and money training someone, only to have the bail at the first sign of greener pastures? Where's the return on investment there? Employers tend to prefer to hire someone who at least seems like they might stick around long enough for them to get their money's worth.</text></comment> |
26,116,029 | 26,114,812 | 1 | 3 | 26,111,937 | train | <story><title>Stonehenge may have been built in Wales and then relocated</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hanoz</author><text>I&#x27;m very pleased you like it! (tis a side project of mine). Did you try the 3D button? That&#x27;s quite fun.</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>I know this is a totally non HN-worthy response, but -<p>That is a fucking amazing resource, thank you!<p>I&#x27;ve already found two places of interest to check out next time I go North to my old stomping grounds in the countryside.<p>Sometimes the future isn&#x27;t such a terrible place.</text></item><item><author>hanoz</author><text><i>&gt; It&#x27;s very hard to make discoveries at sites that you aren&#x27;t allowed on!</i><p>Not as hard as it used to be: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;houseprices.io&#x2F;lidar&#x2F;SU1025069970" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;houseprices.io&#x2F;lidar&#x2F;SU1025069970</a></text></item><item><author>joosters</author><text><i>Oh, and look - it just so happens to be on the only farm you could get permission to dig on!</i><p>This is somewhat tautological - <i>of course</i> archaeologists make discoveries on the sites they are digging on. It&#x27;s very hard to make discoveries at sites that you aren&#x27;t allowed on!</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>You should always be very suspicious when a team of archeologists with a TV production team finds something new and revolutionary on the exact topic they were making a TV program about...<p>Seems a bit too convenient!<p>Especially when the evidence is a muddy hole nearly the same shape and size as a rock 150 miles away...<p>Oh, and look - it just so happens to be on the only farm you could get permission to dig on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eek04_</author><text>That&#x27;s really fun. Any chance of data for Ireland? As you probably know, &quot;all good things lead to requests for more features&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Stonehenge may have been built in Wales and then relocated</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hanoz</author><text>I&#x27;m very pleased you like it! (tis a side project of mine). Did you try the 3D button? That&#x27;s quite fun.</text></item><item><author>detritus</author><text>I know this is a totally non HN-worthy response, but -<p>That is a fucking amazing resource, thank you!<p>I&#x27;ve already found two places of interest to check out next time I go North to my old stomping grounds in the countryside.<p>Sometimes the future isn&#x27;t such a terrible place.</text></item><item><author>hanoz</author><text><i>&gt; It&#x27;s very hard to make discoveries at sites that you aren&#x27;t allowed on!</i><p>Not as hard as it used to be: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;houseprices.io&#x2F;lidar&#x2F;SU1025069970" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;houseprices.io&#x2F;lidar&#x2F;SU1025069970</a></text></item><item><author>joosters</author><text><i>Oh, and look - it just so happens to be on the only farm you could get permission to dig on!</i><p>This is somewhat tautological - <i>of course</i> archaeologists make discoveries on the sites they are digging on. It&#x27;s very hard to make discoveries at sites that you aren&#x27;t allowed on!</text></item><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>You should always be very suspicious when a team of archeologists with a TV production team finds something new and revolutionary on the exact topic they were making a TV program about...<p>Seems a bit too convenient!<p>Especially when the evidence is a muddy hole nearly the same shape and size as a rock 150 miles away...<p>Oh, and look - it just so happens to be on the only farm you could get permission to dig on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>detritus</author><text>A friend is asking: &quot;When will it be finished?&quot;<p>By which he means, &quot;When will it be populated with more data?&quot;<p>I presume he&#x27;s asking as his particular place of interest won&#x27;t let him view 3d or pointmap views.<p>Thanks!
x<p>- ed - reading this back, this sounds rude - sorry, just caught up in the excitement.</text></comment> |
20,749,762 | 20,749,737 | 1 | 2 | 20,748,565 | train | <story><title>Google's software mistreats or harms the user</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>If you come at it from the perspective that Google is your friend, as in not like a real friend (who I wouldn&#x27;t let change my passwords), but a friend that&#x27;s even better than a real friend, then sure, these points are paranoid. The GNU perspective is very distrustful of the idea that anyone else should be administrating their devices, and refuses to trust any corporation more than they would a friend.</text></item><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Almost all of this is heavily exaggerated, presenting relatively innocuous features as if they were harmful, or calling out simple bugs as if they were intentional and actively malicious. None of it is flat-out wrong per-se (at least as far as I can tell), and I can certainly see where GNU is coming from, but I think for the average user most of the features they&#x27;re criticizing actually do a lot more good than harm.<p>Just a few examples, to demonstrate my point:<p>- They describe Google&#x27;s demonstrated ability to remove malware from user&#x27;s devices as a &quot;backdoor&quot;<p>- They describe parental controls as &quot;censorship&quot;<p>- They consider the fact that Android supports DRM &quot;malware&quot;<p>- They cite the fact that Android malware exists as a security flaw. (Ignoring the fact that there is basically no OS in existence that <i>can&#x27;t</i> be infected with malware.)<p>- They consider the ability for users to remotely reset their Android lockscreen combo if they know their Google account password a &quot;back door&quot;<p>- They describe a bug where Google Assistant incorrectly identified the &quot;Okay Google&quot; hotword as &quot;Google Assistant recording users&#x27; conversations&quot;<p>- They describe the fact that a Google message app doesn&#x27;t delete conversations until the user asks it to as &quot;surveillance&quot;<p>Again, I&#x27;m not saying this point of view is necessarily wrong. From a certain point of view, all of the claims I described above are actually quite logical. (I even find myself agreeing with some of them.) But from the perspective of the average user, the vast majority of this stuff simply isn&#x27;t worth worrying about, and I think it&#x27;s a little extreme to characterize it as &quot;malware&quot;. Just something to keep in mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>henryfjordan</author><text>The GNU completely ignores the value that you get from Google. For instance this point:<p>&gt; Google Chrome contains a key logger that sends Google every URL typed in, one key at a time<p>They are describing the auto complete feature...<p>I get that people should be making informed choices about what data they share, but for the FSF to so intentionally mis-describe what is going on does not help inform anyone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google's software mistreats or harms the user</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whatshisface</author><text>If you come at it from the perspective that Google is your friend, as in not like a real friend (who I wouldn&#x27;t let change my passwords), but a friend that&#x27;s even better than a real friend, then sure, these points are paranoid. The GNU perspective is very distrustful of the idea that anyone else should be administrating their devices, and refuses to trust any corporation more than they would a friend.</text></item><item><author>Ajedi32</author><text>Almost all of this is heavily exaggerated, presenting relatively innocuous features as if they were harmful, or calling out simple bugs as if they were intentional and actively malicious. None of it is flat-out wrong per-se (at least as far as I can tell), and I can certainly see where GNU is coming from, but I think for the average user most of the features they&#x27;re criticizing actually do a lot more good than harm.<p>Just a few examples, to demonstrate my point:<p>- They describe Google&#x27;s demonstrated ability to remove malware from user&#x27;s devices as a &quot;backdoor&quot;<p>- They describe parental controls as &quot;censorship&quot;<p>- They consider the fact that Android supports DRM &quot;malware&quot;<p>- They cite the fact that Android malware exists as a security flaw. (Ignoring the fact that there is basically no OS in existence that <i>can&#x27;t</i> be infected with malware.)<p>- They consider the ability for users to remotely reset their Android lockscreen combo if they know their Google account password a &quot;back door&quot;<p>- They describe a bug where Google Assistant incorrectly identified the &quot;Okay Google&quot; hotword as &quot;Google Assistant recording users&#x27; conversations&quot;<p>- They describe the fact that a Google message app doesn&#x27;t delete conversations until the user asks it to as &quot;surveillance&quot;<p>Again, I&#x27;m not saying this point of view is necessarily wrong. From a certain point of view, all of the claims I described above are actually quite logical. (I even find myself agreeing with some of them.) But from the perspective of the average user, the vast majority of this stuff simply isn&#x27;t worth worrying about, and I think it&#x27;s a little extreme to characterize it as &quot;malware&quot;. Just something to keep in mind.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>Your &quot;friend&quot; analogy is basically the perspective of someone who wouldn&#x27;t put their money in a bank. If you wouldn&#x27;t trust a friend to hold thousands of dollars for you, why would you trust a bank?<p>It&#x27;s questionable whether Google deserves similar trust as a bank since they aren&#x27;t regulated in a similar way. But it isn&#x27;t unusual for people to trust companies over friends for some things, such as their life savings.<p>The other thing to remember is that trust can be partial. For example, I wouldn&#x27;t trust a bank not to be looking for legal ways to charge me fees and I wouldn&#x27;t trust their investment advice, but I&#x27;d trust them to keep their ATM&#x27;s working and not to lose my money.</text></comment> |
12,973,945 | 12,973,482 | 1 | 3 | 12,972,002 | train | <story><title>The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/the-spy-who-added-me-on-linkedin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>This is a good story, well written. I remember the previous case with the sleeper agents. The one theme I see is waste. Seems like such a wasteful way to do things -- spend decades planning and setting everything up and then they go and just ask companies for random info. Or during the Soviet times I like how they sent this spy to acquire info on the Space Shuttle, so he went to a public library and photo-copied stuff from there. Years of training and all that setup to go and press the &quot;copy&quot; button in a library.<p>The timing of the story is not a coincidence I am guessing. They mentioned the &quot;election&quot; so I am assuming it is playing along with the Russians have rigged the election and KGB agents are everywhere. And that&#x27;s why Clinton&#x27;s campaign resulted in worse Democratic election performance in 28 years. I don&#x27;t know about anyone else, I but I am getting a little tired of blaming the Russians for everything. Wonder if editors would agree that we should be a lot stricter with our immigration policy and vet people better before letting them come in...</text></comment> | <story><title>The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/the-spy-who-added-me-on-linkedin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>secfirstmd</author><text>Anyone else feel that if the Russians really wanted to influence the election, the actual methodologies used and people targeted were not that impressive or well thought through? I mean it was hardly Stuxnet.<p>If your wanna change an election why not hack a wider range of targets? I know that &quot;Who gains most?&quot; is one of the best ways to attribute blame in the intelligence world but I have not (like the North Korea &#x2F; Sony hack) seen evidence that even nearly proves it was a hack directed by the Russian Government. Possibly a malicious sympathiser but hardly state level techniques...<p>Also, how slow and useless are the NSA that they weren&#x27;t watching to protect senior people in one of the two major parties in the country? If so many intelligence folks are as sure as they claim to be that it&#x27;s the Russians, where is the counter-response? You mean to tell me that the TAO can&#x27;t do better then some leaks about Russian businessmen close to Putin - obviously that is one of his weak points but he doesn&#x27;t care about that right now. I get that they don&#x27;t want to reveal warfighting capabilities but seriously - if you think it&#x27;s really the Russians, throw a shoulder...</text></comment> |
20,718,256 | 20,718,561 | 1 | 2 | 20,717,668 | train | <story><title>The FCC Fined 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' 'The Walking Dead' for Use of Emergency Tones</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/media/jimmy-kimmel-live-walking-dead-fcc-fine/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dacohenii</author><text>You better believe it! EAS is no joke, and FCC is right to take a hard line.<p>Not very many people know that tone contains data. (It&#x27;s pretty interesting, really; see wiki link below.)<p>Broadcasters have an EAS box that listens for alert tones on other frequencies and repeats it over the broadcast frequency (and others may listen, etc). Among other things, the data in the tone affects how far it propagates, so if someone plays a tone over the air that&#x27;s set to propagate nationwide, it&#x27;s kind of a problem.<p>This isn&#x27;t the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last.<p>Source: I worked on the engineering team at my college radio station (WSBF-FM Clemson).<p>EAS header: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Emergency_Alert_System#EAS_header" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Emergency_Alert_System#EAS_hea...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The FCC Fined 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' 'The Walking Dead' for Use of Emergency Tones</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/media/jimmy-kimmel-live-walking-dead-fcc-fine/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>akeck</author><text>I also wish there was a rule preventing the use of motor vehicle horns and emergency services siren sounds on any radio station. People are tired driving home and may react unpredictably in dense traffic to sirens and horns on the radio.</text></comment> |
12,635,325 | 12,635,037 | 1 | 3 | 12,633,146 | train | <story><title>Stripe in Japan</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-in-japan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nolok</author><text>I evaluated stripe for a French company here in Europe, having heard lots of good things about them, and I have to say that while the integration was top notch, they were vastly inferior to local bank competitors in two areas : no support whatsoever for 3D secure (once you&#x27;ve started using it, you never want to go back), and way higher pricing. National banks (CIC, Caisse d&#x27;Epargne) both offered % way, way lower than stripe (under 0.5% per transaction, stripe being almost 3* that for European card and 6* that for non European card).<p>Even including the small monthly fee and the harder &#x2F; higher cost integration, it made no sense to go with them.<p>Was a bit surprised, mostly by the good terms that could be obtained in locally national banks once you sit with someone. Company I was representing wasn&#x27;t very large (12 employees). I wonder what others here have experienced? Is it a special scenario that never happens, is it usual?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vertrauen</author><text>&gt; 3D secure<p>As a customer, I hate 3D secure. When I get that shit thrown at me, I often just head over to Amazon and buy the same item there. Even if it is more expensive.<p>Reasons:<p>The 3D Secure form always looks so unprofessional it makes me shiver.<p>It often is loaded in an iframe so it could come from god knows where.<p>Often it plain out does not work. It aborts the transaction with &quot;Transaction aborted&quot; or something like that with no further info. So I sit there thinking &quot;Uhm.. what now? Is my password wrong or what?&quot;.<p>Why would I input even <i>more</i> of my data into your damn form? The more data I give you, the easier you can mess with me. Now my CC card number and verification number is not enough anymore. Now you want my 3D &quot;secure&quot; password. What do you want next?</text></comment> | <story><title>Stripe in Japan</title><url>https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-in-japan</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nolok</author><text>I evaluated stripe for a French company here in Europe, having heard lots of good things about them, and I have to say that while the integration was top notch, they were vastly inferior to local bank competitors in two areas : no support whatsoever for 3D secure (once you&#x27;ve started using it, you never want to go back), and way higher pricing. National banks (CIC, Caisse d&#x27;Epargne) both offered % way, way lower than stripe (under 0.5% per transaction, stripe being almost 3* that for European card and 6* that for non European card).<p>Even including the small monthly fee and the harder &#x2F; higher cost integration, it made no sense to go with them.<p>Was a bit surprised, mostly by the good terms that could be obtained in locally national banks once you sit with someone. Company I was representing wasn&#x27;t very large (12 employees). I wonder what others here have experienced? Is it a special scenario that never happens, is it usual?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Xixi</author><text>Reduce the employee count from 12 to 1, who isn&#x27;t even a real employee because the company has no revenue yet, and suddenly Stripe proposition is much more interesting: it allows you to focus on your product, and finding product-market fit, instead of sitting with someone in a bank. Even when that someone is kind, competent and helpful (as has been my experience with several French banks, special mention to the Banque Populaire de Lorraine), even with exactly zero revenues yet. At such an early stage the ease of integration is overall much more important than the smaller transaction fee.</text></comment> |
15,207,041 | 15,204,752 | 1 | 3 | 15,203,446 | train | <story><title>How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost?</title><url>https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=de7f932e3a1d494f9c9d9a67fb0de646</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbenitoj</author><text>You also have to factor in the opportunity cost of what you could&#x27;ve done with that down payment (e.g. What would a $100k downpayment invested for 30 years in the stock market be worth vs how much is that worth in your home in 30 years?)<p>The NYT has a buy vs rent calculator that helps make some of these decisions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;buy-rent-calculator.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;buy-rent-cal...</a></text></item><item><author>lpolovets</author><text>I liked the visualization and data, but I don&#x27;t think it makes sense to compare home prices to wages w&#x2F;o considering alternatives to home ownership. Home prices don&#x27;t exit in a vacuum. That is, if a home is 10x the median salary, you can&#x27;t really say &quot;well, if I didn&#x27;t buy a home I could work 10 years less.&quot; That&#x27;s because the alternative to buying is renting, which is also expensive. So sure, a mortgage in SF is $6k&#x2F;mo. But rent might be $6k&#x2F;mo as well -- and you don&#x27;t earn any equity or tax write-offs while renting.<p>I think what the alternative title to this blog post could be is: &quot;How many years of life does that city cost?&quot; What it&#x27;s really comparing is the relative cost of having a roof over your head in different areas. Would you rather work 40 years and live in SF or work 30 years and live in rural Wisconsin? (I don&#x27;t have an opinion on those two options. I&#x27;m sure there are many people in both of those places that are happy with their choices.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scottLobster</author><text>Another factor would be the opportunity cost of moving. With an apartment you&#x27;re free as soon as the lease is up. With a house, even if you get a job across the country the mortgage must be paid. The time investment alone in preparing a house for sale&#x2F;selling it is nothing to scoff at.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost?</title><url>https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=de7f932e3a1d494f9c9d9a67fb0de646</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sbenitoj</author><text>You also have to factor in the opportunity cost of what you could&#x27;ve done with that down payment (e.g. What would a $100k downpayment invested for 30 years in the stock market be worth vs how much is that worth in your home in 30 years?)<p>The NYT has a buy vs rent calculator that helps make some of these decisions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;buy-rent-calculator.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;interactive&#x2F;2014&#x2F;upshot&#x2F;buy-rent-cal...</a></text></item><item><author>lpolovets</author><text>I liked the visualization and data, but I don&#x27;t think it makes sense to compare home prices to wages w&#x2F;o considering alternatives to home ownership. Home prices don&#x27;t exit in a vacuum. That is, if a home is 10x the median salary, you can&#x27;t really say &quot;well, if I didn&#x27;t buy a home I could work 10 years less.&quot; That&#x27;s because the alternative to buying is renting, which is also expensive. So sure, a mortgage in SF is $6k&#x2F;mo. But rent might be $6k&#x2F;mo as well -- and you don&#x27;t earn any equity or tax write-offs while renting.<p>I think what the alternative title to this blog post could be is: &quot;How many years of life does that city cost?&quot; What it&#x27;s really comparing is the relative cost of having a roof over your head in different areas. Would you rather work 40 years and live in SF or work 30 years and live in rural Wisconsin? (I don&#x27;t have an opinion on those two options. I&#x27;m sure there are many people in both of those places that are happy with their choices.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>The real opportunity cost is not living somewhere else. Run the math and SF is best avoided.</text></comment> |
16,788,226 | 16,788,211 | 1 | 2 | 16,786,929 | train | <story><title>Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is</title><url>https://baekdal.com/strategy/publishers-havent-realized-just-how-big-a-deal-gdpr-is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beojan</author><text>&gt; No, it will basically make a newsmedia site unprofitable. I think it is the EU that has not fully thought this through. Most of the news industry is already sickly, financially, and they mostly have no model other than advertising (with a very few exceptions).<p>We have publicly funded broadcasters in most EU countries. The ad-supported news sites, on the other hand, are generally doing more harm than good.<p>News outlets existed before the web, so they&#x27;re not going to be threatened by breaking the ad-supported website model. If anything, the traditional newspapers will be saved by this, because if free online news disappears, people will start buying newspaper subscriptions again.<p>&gt; I think either the EU will backtrack on this once they see that Google and Facebook can easily force people to consent<p>They can&#x27;t. The consent has to be for a specific purpose.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>In fact, I think the author is underestimating the impact, right here: &quot;Of course, making this change will have a dramatic impact on your revenue for single-visit traffic, because you basically have to design your ad model to work completely differently from how it works today.&quot;<p>No, it will basically make a newsmedia site unprofitable. I think it is the EU that has not fully thought this through. Most of the news industry is already sickly, financially, and they mostly have no model other than advertising (with a very few exceptions). The reason all this data got collected, was to try to make the advertising valuable enough that they could sell it. It may be that it never really worked, but it sure won&#x27;t work without it. I think either the EU will backtrack on this once they see that Google and Facebook can easily force people to consent (because people consider those websites too valuable to do without), but most other advertising-supported media cannot; or they will see that the long-term impact of this is that it accelerates the current death spiral of newsmedia, as all ad spending goes to Google and Facebook and almost no one else.<p>I leave it as an open question as to whether this would be a good or bad thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidcbc</author><text>You don&#x27;t see the potential problem if the only media that is able to exist is that which is state sponsored?<p>You may be happy with the state sponsored options now, but will that always be the case? Would you feel the same if you living in the Soviet Union or Germany circa 1940?</text></comment> | <story><title>Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is</title><url>https://baekdal.com/strategy/publishers-havent-realized-just-how-big-a-deal-gdpr-is/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>beojan</author><text>&gt; No, it will basically make a newsmedia site unprofitable. I think it is the EU that has not fully thought this through. Most of the news industry is already sickly, financially, and they mostly have no model other than advertising (with a very few exceptions).<p>We have publicly funded broadcasters in most EU countries. The ad-supported news sites, on the other hand, are generally doing more harm than good.<p>News outlets existed before the web, so they&#x27;re not going to be threatened by breaking the ad-supported website model. If anything, the traditional newspapers will be saved by this, because if free online news disappears, people will start buying newspaper subscriptions again.<p>&gt; I think either the EU will backtrack on this once they see that Google and Facebook can easily force people to consent<p>They can&#x27;t. The consent has to be for a specific purpose.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>In fact, I think the author is underestimating the impact, right here: &quot;Of course, making this change will have a dramatic impact on your revenue for single-visit traffic, because you basically have to design your ad model to work completely differently from how it works today.&quot;<p>No, it will basically make a newsmedia site unprofitable. I think it is the EU that has not fully thought this through. Most of the news industry is already sickly, financially, and they mostly have no model other than advertising (with a very few exceptions). The reason all this data got collected, was to try to make the advertising valuable enough that they could sell it. It may be that it never really worked, but it sure won&#x27;t work without it. I think either the EU will backtrack on this once they see that Google and Facebook can easily force people to consent (because people consider those websites too valuable to do without), but most other advertising-supported media cannot; or they will see that the long-term impact of this is that it accelerates the current death spiral of newsmedia, as all ad spending goes to Google and Facebook and almost no one else.<p>I leave it as an open question as to whether this would be a good or bad thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krotton</author><text>Publically funded TV is prone to become a propaganda tube of the government. In some cases it already has (in Poland for example). Relying on it as the only news source would be silly (relying on a single news source in general is usually silly, but even more if the government directly handles the staffing).</text></comment> |
27,901,921 | 27,899,828 | 1 | 3 | 27,894,735 | train | <story><title>Clojure builds as an amalgamation of orthogonal parts</title><url>http://blog.fogus.me/2021/07/20/clojure-builds-as-an-amalgamation-of-orthogonal-parts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geokon</author><text>It&#x27;s nice to have complex build&#x2F;test setups with deep directory structures, I&#x27;m really happy this stuff exists and is being enhanced, but the flexibility kinda adds a barrier to getting started. It&#x27;s also important to be able to just drop into a REPL, load some libraries and go.<p>I think the coolest thing in the pipeline is going to be `add-libs`: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideclojure.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;add-lib&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insideclojure.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;05&#x2F;04&#x2F;add-lib&#x2F;</a><p>I made a little orgmode literate demo that is selfcontained (no deps.edn) and even produces some inline SVG <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geokon-gh.github.io&#x2F;literate-clojure.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geokon-gh.github.io&#x2F;literate-clojure.html</a><p>I hope this gets added into `core` and single file Clojure programs become a norm. Right now you still need to add tools.deps.alpha into your default user deps.ends for things to work. If this stuff gets into core you could finally send someone a file&#x2F;gist and they could run it directly. I think that&#x27;d really improve the Clojure ecosystem. You can imagine sharing one-file issues&#x2F;demos&#x2F;examples and people don&#x27;t need to reproduce your local setup or clone a whole repo</text></comment> | <story><title>Clojure builds as an amalgamation of orthogonal parts</title><url>http://blog.fogus.me/2021/07/20/clojure-builds-as-an-amalgamation-of-orthogonal-parts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fmakunbound</author><text>I don’t understand why deps was needed and I’m surprised its authors didn’t foresee the confusion it would create. I’m also confused as hell what I should be using now, and the idea of researching deps seems exhausting. I’ll just stick to cutting and pasting onto my leiningen config I think.</text></comment> |
27,680,631 | 27,680,562 | 1 | 2 | 27,680,251 | train | <story><title>U.S. inflation likely to remain elevated for up to four years – BofA</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/global-markets-bofa-urgent-2021-06-25/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notional</author><text>Anyone else get a &quot;2% inflation raise&quot; this year? Have you brought up rising inflation and pointed out that raise doesn&#x27;t match reality? Did your employer agree to give you an extra couple percent?<p>I like my job and my employer but after getting that pittance after last years bs and now high inflation I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s worth arguing for a bigger bump retroactively (showing my hand when I don&#x27;t get it) and instead I think it might be easier to just find a new job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rawtxapp</author><text>Statistically, you&#x27;ll make more money if you switch jobs every 2 years and right now there&#x27;s huge demand for talent, so it&#x27;s probably a good idea to switch.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. inflation likely to remain elevated for up to four years – BofA</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/global-markets-bofa-urgent-2021-06-25/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notional</author><text>Anyone else get a &quot;2% inflation raise&quot; this year? Have you brought up rising inflation and pointed out that raise doesn&#x27;t match reality? Did your employer agree to give you an extra couple percent?<p>I like my job and my employer but after getting that pittance after last years bs and now high inflation I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s worth arguing for a bigger bump retroactively (showing my hand when I don&#x27;t get it) and instead I think it might be easier to just find a new job.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I&#x27;ve never worked at a place that gave pay increases based on inflation.<p>I think debating inflation predictions for both the employer and employee could be an endless &#x2F; counter productive and exhausting thing.<p>Probably better to make your case via the typical salary negotiation methods, discussing what you did, etc.</text></comment> |
16,479,904 | 16,480,033 | 1 | 2 | 16,479,290 | train | <story><title>The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/02/26/government-can-access-any-apple-iphone-cellebrite/#50ba3a5d667a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eugeniub</author><text>This is not true. You cannot just clone the data and run passcodes against it, because the data is not encrypted by your passcode. Instead, each file on iOS 11 is encrypted with a different AES 256-bit key, and cracking even one 256-bit key through exhaustive search is thought to be out of reach of humankind (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6141&#x2F;amount-of-simple-operations-that-is-safely-out-of-reach-for-all-humanity&#x2F;6149#6149" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6141&#x2F;amount-of-...</a>). The file keys are wrapped by, among other things, the device&#x27;s Unique ID, a 256-bit key generated by the Secure Enclave, and accessible only to the Secure Enclave, not any other hardware or software running on an iOS device.<p>In the end, the only options are: bruteforcing passcodes on the original device while attempting to trick the device into allowing more than 10 failures, or prying open the Secure Enclave to obtain the Unique ID — both options a lot more complicated than just cloning the data and trying passcodes on it.</text></item><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>I&#x27;m too lazy to find a link for it, but last time I read about Cellebrite, they were cloning the data and simply trying unlock codes in sequence until one worked. They could restore the cloned data before each try, or possibly do it on custom hardware or an emulator, and start with a fresh copy each time, so they never triggered &quot;erase after 10 failures&quot;. It&#x27;s a pretty straightforward approach, but it doesn&#x27;t scale well. Works for targeted cracking of high-value targets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text><i>or prying open the Secure Enclave to obtain the Unique ID</i><p>People have been cracking secure coprocessors of the type used in payment cards, TPMs, and the like for a long time, dare I say even those which were designed to a higher level of security than Apple&#x27;s. The fact that there is an entire phone attached to it doesn&#x27;t make much of a difference, but the technology behind this (FIB, microprobing, etc.) has been steadily dropping in price and increasing in availability for a long time.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/02/26/government-can-access-any-apple-iphone-cellebrite/#50ba3a5d667a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eugeniub</author><text>This is not true. You cannot just clone the data and run passcodes against it, because the data is not encrypted by your passcode. Instead, each file on iOS 11 is encrypted with a different AES 256-bit key, and cracking even one 256-bit key through exhaustive search is thought to be out of reach of humankind (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6141&#x2F;amount-of-simple-operations-that-is-safely-out-of-reach-for-all-humanity&#x2F;6149#6149" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6141&#x2F;amount-of-...</a>). The file keys are wrapped by, among other things, the device&#x27;s Unique ID, a 256-bit key generated by the Secure Enclave, and accessible only to the Secure Enclave, not any other hardware or software running on an iOS device.<p>In the end, the only options are: bruteforcing passcodes on the original device while attempting to trick the device into allowing more than 10 failures, or prying open the Secure Enclave to obtain the Unique ID — both options a lot more complicated than just cloning the data and trying passcodes on it.</text></item><item><author>caymanjim</author><text>I&#x27;m too lazy to find a link for it, but last time I read about Cellebrite, they were cloning the data and simply trying unlock codes in sequence until one worked. They could restore the cloned data before each try, or possibly do it on custom hardware or an emulator, and start with a fresh copy each time, so they never triggered &quot;erase after 10 failures&quot;. It&#x27;s a pretty straightforward approach, but it doesn&#x27;t scale well. Works for targeted cracking of high-value targets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>I think he got the the idea right. Yes, you need the secret key burned into the CPU to decrypt anything, and yes, you can&#x27;t easily extract the keys. but his claim is that by fully restoring the flash storage (presumably where the retry counter is stored), it&#x27;s possible to bypass the &quot;erase data after 10 failed attempts&quot; policy by constantly resetting the counter back to its original state. It might take a while (you might have to go through the boot process each time, but for a 6 digit pin and 30 seconds each attempt, it&#x27;s still less than a year.</text></comment> |
32,566,375 | 32,566,810 | 1 | 3 | 32,565,784 | train | <story><title>Remote startups will win the war for top talent</title><url>https://future.com/remote-startups-hire-top-talent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>&quot;A study conducted on the main campus of a Fortune 500 company found that just 10 percent of all communications occurred between employees whose desks were more than 500 meters apart. This suggests that once companies span multiple floors, buildings, or campuses, they’ve already lost much of the collaborative value of being “in the office” together.&quot;<p>This point often seems to get missed. If you&#x27;re at a large company, you&#x27;re often working with people on different floors, buildings, offices, countries. I want to be co-located with the people I work with often just isn&#x27;t an option at larger companies even if many people come into an office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbdumas</author><text>This cuts both ways though. Working from home my &quot;circle of communication&quot; has gotten much smaller than it ever was before, because I don&#x27;t run in to people.</text></comment> | <story><title>Remote startups will win the war for top talent</title><url>https://future.com/remote-startups-hire-top-talent/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ghaff</author><text>&quot;A study conducted on the main campus of a Fortune 500 company found that just 10 percent of all communications occurred between employees whose desks were more than 500 meters apart. This suggests that once companies span multiple floors, buildings, or campuses, they’ve already lost much of the collaborative value of being “in the office” together.&quot;<p>This point often seems to get missed. If you&#x27;re at a large company, you&#x27;re often working with people on different floors, buildings, offices, countries. I want to be co-located with the people I work with often just isn&#x27;t an option at larger companies even if many people come into an office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shmatt</author><text>This hits home for me for a completely different reason. I&#x27;m currently hybrid and notice some issues do get fixed faster in the office following that same 90% rule<p>In the office people don&#x27;t mind tapping their neighbor on the shoulder 10 times a day to ask how to find&#x2F;do something. On Slack they feel self conscious about zooming&#x2F;slacking with someone 10 times in 1 day with questions. It&#x27;s more about being in your head and feeling like a nuisance online vs. in office, than office being better than remote<p>This also makes our office days pretty dead in terms of actual progress on projects. Our stronger engineers work much more efficiently at home</text></comment> |
29,053,818 | 29,053,014 | 1 | 3 | 29,052,867 | train | <story><title>Edward Snowden on corporate media hiring surveillance state operatives and liars</title><url>https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1454542964470996999</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thr0w72594</author><text>In Russia they have state-controlled media, but America is a media-controlled state.</text></comment> | <story><title>Edward Snowden on corporate media hiring surveillance state operatives and liars</title><url>https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1454542964470996999</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iJohnDoe</author><text>I would say that everyone knows this, but that simply isn’t the case. The vast majority don’t know that mainstream media are just mouth pieces for whatever message that needs to be distributed. More often it’s what message shouldn’t be distributed.<p>Aren’t the major media and news outlets owned by only handful of people? They won’t dare risk pissing off the government.</text></comment> |
28,866,353 | 28,866,648 | 1 | 2 | 28,864,862 | train | <story><title>Michelin Airless</title><url>https://www.michelin.com/en/innovation/vision-concept/airless/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xxpor</author><text>Hmm, why water filled? I can&#x27;t think of any advantages, but can think of downsides such as a massive increase in unsprung weight.</text></item><item><author>arghwhat</author><text>A lot of heavy equipment drives around with water-filled tires, so it&#x27;s already there. Definitely not what you meant though.</text></item><item><author>ddlsmurf</author><text>Complete layman here, every 6 months or so for the past decade I see an article claiming someone got air-less tires working. What are the chances this would be it ?</text></item><item><author>bkanber</author><text>Former automotive engineer chiming in. &quot;Tweels&quot; have been around a long time, but have always failed in terms of &quot;NVH&quot; (noise, vibration, harshness). Michelin is claiming that this generation of tweels are appropriate for passenger cars, which means that they <i>think</i> they&#x27;ve solved the NVH problem.<p>They seem to be marketing these alongside EVs, I wonder if they&#x27;re only really intended for lighter, compact-style cars. (Edit: I&#x27;m talking about EVs like the BMW i3, which <i>are</i> on average about 1000 lbs lighter than the cars most Americans drive, ie, the CUV&#x2F;SUV form factor.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>Ballast for increased traction and tipping capacity with the positive side effect of lower COG.</text></comment> | <story><title>Michelin Airless</title><url>https://www.michelin.com/en/innovation/vision-concept/airless/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xxpor</author><text>Hmm, why water filled? I can&#x27;t think of any advantages, but can think of downsides such as a massive increase in unsprung weight.</text></item><item><author>arghwhat</author><text>A lot of heavy equipment drives around with water-filled tires, so it&#x27;s already there. Definitely not what you meant though.</text></item><item><author>ddlsmurf</author><text>Complete layman here, every 6 months or so for the past decade I see an article claiming someone got air-less tires working. What are the chances this would be it ?</text></item><item><author>bkanber</author><text>Former automotive engineer chiming in. &quot;Tweels&quot; have been around a long time, but have always failed in terms of &quot;NVH&quot; (noise, vibration, harshness). Michelin is claiming that this generation of tweels are appropriate for passenger cars, which means that they <i>think</i> they&#x27;ve solved the NVH problem.<p>They seem to be marketing these alongside EVs, I wonder if they&#x27;re only really intended for lighter, compact-style cars. (Edit: I&#x27;m talking about EVs like the BMW i3, which <i>are</i> on average about 1000 lbs lighter than the cars most Americans drive, ie, the CUV&#x2F;SUV form factor.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jet_32951</author><text>The only springs on most tractors - ancient or modern - are between the seat and the frame to which it is affixed. IOW the vast majority of the tractor&#x27;s total weight is unsprung.</text></comment> |
36,621,550 | 36,617,024 | 1 | 3 | 36,603,163 | train | <story><title>Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/mid-1990s-sega-document-leak-shows-how-it-lost-the-second-console-war-to-sony/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkjonesuk</author><text>I was in my mid-teens and a big gamer when Sony entered the ring with the PlayStation and I still cannot to this day get over the fact that they actually did it and became the dominant force in gaming.<p>I remember thinking it was just another fad like the Minidisc and because they had no clear mascot like Mario or Sonic it was bound to fail.<p>Next thing I knew the Saturn was a joke and everyone I knew had a PlayStation. The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1.<p>When the PS2 was announced I was also blindly convinced the Dreamcast would compete but the PS2 just DOMINATED. Literally everyone I knew had one (not me sadly) it was a stunning thing to behold. When games like GTA3 hit I knew Sega were done for.<p>I personally only connected with the Sony handheld unit owning a PSP and I also eventually got a Vita. Other than UMD they were (still are) awesome little devices to play with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>I can believe Sony did it. The PlayStation hit a lot of the right buttons at the right time.<p>Sega was dead by the time the Saturn landed. Sega burnt too many fans when they launched the Sega CD and 32X just to abandon them nearly immediately. Parents didn&#x27;t want to hear that Sega was launching yet another system. Sega launched 3 consoles in 2.5 years in North America. Sega burnt all their goodwill.<p>Video games can be an industry of momentum and trust. If you keep launching and abandoning products, you lost the trust and momentum. Developers don&#x27;t want to commit to a system you&#x27;ll abandon. Gamers don&#x27;t want to buy a system you&#x27;re going to abandon. Sega had shown that it would abandon systems at the first hiccup - and try to get you to buy junk.<p>Sega&#x27;s Saturn was also a weird system. It decided to use quadrilaterals instead of triangles and was complex which makes it harder to use effectively.<p>Nintendo&#x27;s N64 would be launching a year after the PlayStation. While the N64 might have had more 3D capabilities, many of the games on the system didn&#x27;t look as good and the 3D gameplay wasn&#x27;t as compelling as the PlayStation&#x27;s.<p>Not only that, PlayStation games were so much cheaper! At $50&#x2F;game, it was just a ton more affordable than the $70 that N64 games were going for. By the time that the N64 came out, the PlayStation had a huge library of excellent games that were cheap. You even started to see older games for $25.<p>Sony&#x27;s brand at the time was like gold. Everyone wanted anything with the Sony label on it. It can be hard to remember what a dominant force Sony was in consumer electronics. They were like Apple back then. When people heard that Sony was coming out with a video game system, everyone would think that it would be the best just based on the brand. Parents would hear the Sony name and think quality and reliability. Especially if they had been burned by Sega, the PlayStation from Sony seemed like buying the best product that would last.<p>Nintendo still did well. They have their niche. Sega had destroyed their reputation while Sony was the most admired electronics company out there. The PlayStation offered people a non-Nintendo system that they didn&#x27;t feel would be abandoned and by the time the N64 came out it was established with an amazing game library that the N64 couldn&#x27;t match.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/mid-1990s-sega-document-leak-shows-how-it-lost-the-second-console-war-to-sony/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mkjonesuk</author><text>I was in my mid-teens and a big gamer when Sony entered the ring with the PlayStation and I still cannot to this day get over the fact that they actually did it and became the dominant force in gaming.<p>I remember thinking it was just another fad like the Minidisc and because they had no clear mascot like Mario or Sonic it was bound to fail.<p>Next thing I knew the Saturn was a joke and everyone I knew had a PlayStation. The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1.<p>When the PS2 was announced I was also blindly convinced the Dreamcast would compete but the PS2 just DOMINATED. Literally everyone I knew had one (not me sadly) it was a stunning thing to behold. When games like GTA3 hit I knew Sega were done for.<p>I personally only connected with the Sony handheld unit owning a PSP and I also eventually got a Vita. Other than UMD they were (still are) awesome little devices to play with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grepfru_it</author><text>The load times bro, I could not get on the CD based bandwagon. I played Sewer Shark on the Sega CD and the load times where miserable. I even thought the resolution was abysmal (compared to my PC at the time). No way it would win, I thought. By christmas of 97 I had a PS1 and spent all day playing Tomb Raider. The hardware was beyond any other console and the design was slick and new. And while Sony won, and my Saturn sat in the corner collecting dust, the N64 was the only system that came out when my friends came over. Nothing could compete with 4 player mario kart or starfox. Sega was dead before the dreamcast even came out.</text></comment> |
40,134,887 | 40,131,869 | 1 | 2 | 40,130,148 | train | <story><title>Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/15269/help-us-invent-masonry-layouts-for-css-grid-level-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achairapart</author><text>So, the background story is that CSSWG DevRels from browser vendors are debating how to formally include the Masonry layout into CSS, at least since 2020, when Firefox first proposed it.<p>The news here is that people at WebKit decided to push the debate to the public, inviting designers and developers to take some action (“post to social media, write blog posts”), in order to get past this.<p>While it may look just like a formality, I think this will make an important precedent. The real underling debate here is either to treat every layout option as a part of the CSS Grid, or keeping adding new CSS Display proprieties as necessary.<p>The first option will make even more complex the (already convulsed, IMHO) CSS Grid specs, the latter will bloat the CSS specs with a load of new proprieties (and related sub-proprieties).<p>Either way, it&#x27;s not as easy as it looks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bfgeek</author><text>Part of the tension with building masonry on top of grid is that they work in fundamentally different ways.<p>Grid you place everything in the grid first (e.g. an item goes in col:2,row:3), then size the grid.
Masonry ideally you want to size the tracks first, then place items in those tracks.<p>The first Firefox implementation (and the spec at that stage) basically said you don&#x27;t consider any masonry items for sizing tracks (except for the first row, and some other rules - its complex). This meant that it is trivial to create items that overflow their tracks.<p>The specification at the moment asks to place every item in every possible track. This has quadratic performance O(N_tracks * N_items) in the worst (and somewhat common case). Quadratic performance is bad[1] and we don&#x27;t really have this in other layout algorithms.<p>With nesting introduced the performance goes (sub-)exponential, which is really poor, even if you have a fast CPU.<p>One may argue that these cases aren&#x27;t common, but folks always test the boundaries with layout modes in CSS - so things need to be fast by default.<p>Note: In grid items size themselves differently depending on what tracks you place them in, which is why you need to place in every possible position.<p>Masonry potentially needs a different algorithm for sizing tracks to mitigate these problems, (the blog post doesn&#x27;t go into these issues in sufficient detail). There may have been a version of grid sizing which didn&#x27;t have item positional dependence but that ship has sailed.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomascii.wordpress.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;on2-again-now-in-wmi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomascii.wordpress.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;08&#x2F;on2-again-now-i...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout</title><url>https://webkit.org/blog/15269/help-us-invent-masonry-layouts-for-css-grid-level-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>achairapart</author><text>So, the background story is that CSSWG DevRels from browser vendors are debating how to formally include the Masonry layout into CSS, at least since 2020, when Firefox first proposed it.<p>The news here is that people at WebKit decided to push the debate to the public, inviting designers and developers to take some action (“post to social media, write blog posts”), in order to get past this.<p>While it may look just like a formality, I think this will make an important precedent. The real underling debate here is either to treat every layout option as a part of the CSS Grid, or keeping adding new CSS Display proprieties as necessary.<p>The first option will make even more complex the (already convulsed, IMHO) CSS Grid specs, the latter will bloat the CSS specs with a load of new proprieties (and related sub-proprieties).<p>Either way, it&#x27;s not as easy as it looks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mvonballmo</author><text>A &quot;row-less&quot; grid fits very well in the current CSS Grid specification, in that it can reuse the very powerful column-definition property as well as sub-grids. Their examples very convincingly show how orthogonal these features are.<p>Mostly, you just write grid-row-template: masonry and everything else just works with it. This is nice. It doesn&#x27;t become harder to use the grid layout than it already is IMHO.<p>The drawback is mostly for browser-engine authors, for whom the bar for &quot;fully supports CSS Grid&quot; will be set even higher. They also mention that it might avoid &quot;performance traps&quot; where an implementation that needs to support all features of grid might be slower at some parts of grid layout than it would be if the specification were simpler.<p>If there were a separate display mode, then you&#x27;d have to repeat the grid-column specification for the masonry layout, which seems a shame.</text></comment> |
28,021,437 | 28,021,422 | 1 | 3 | 28,014,860 | train | <story><title>Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009)</title><url>https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/restaurant-prices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>telesilla</author><text>&gt;[1987] However, at a top restaurant such as Masa’s in San Francisco a fixed-price meal runs $48 (almost certainly excluding drinks and tip), while diners at Berkeley’s innovative Chez Panisse can expect to pay at least $45.<p>Gosh - I&#x27;m pretty sure the last time I walked out of Chez Panisse it wasn&#x27;t for less than $250 each (with wine).. inflation surely doesn&#x27;t count for this?`</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daggersandscars</author><text>There&#x27;s multiple factors in play here. Inflation is one.<p>Population growth is another. The Bay-area population went up by ~2 million people between 1990 and 2020. Even if the income distribution remains the same, the number of potential diners who can afford an expensive meal goes up.<p>Income distribution is another. If the percentage of the population who could afford an expensive meal and would buy one goes up, the number of potential diners goes up even faster.<p>Perceived social impact of an expensive meal is another factor. If more people believe there is social benefit in buying to an expensive meal, the number of potential diners goes up. This could be due to a larger pool of expensive meal buyers trying to impress each other, better awareness of expensive restaurants by the general population, etc.<p>Edit: changed &quot;going to an expensive meal&quot; to &quot;buying [...]&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (2009)</title><url>https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/restaurant-prices/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>telesilla</author><text>&gt;[1987] However, at a top restaurant such as Masa’s in San Francisco a fixed-price meal runs $48 (almost certainly excluding drinks and tip), while diners at Berkeley’s innovative Chez Panisse can expect to pay at least $45.<p>Gosh - I&#x27;m pretty sure the last time I walked out of Chez Panisse it wasn&#x27;t for less than $250 each (with wine).. inflation surely doesn&#x27;t count for this?`</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vkou</author><text>Overall inflation doesn&#x27;t account for it. A dollar today is worth ~40 cents back then.<p>Wage inflation for professionals living in San Francisco, however, does. A lot more people in SF are making ~$400,000&#x2F;year, than were making ~$10,000&#x2F;year, back then. Hence, the restaurant can charge ~4x, and still be fill its tables every night.</text></comment> |
32,904,858 | 32,904,082 | 1 | 2 | 32,902,938 | train | <story><title>There is no “software supply chain”</title><url>https://iliana.fyi/blog/software-supply-chain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikewarot</author><text>The author of an open source project usually makes NO guarantees and assumes no liability. They&#x27;ve tossed a blueprint into the world.<p>When you decided to use it, you took on all of its technical debt and design decisions as your own. You can&#x27;t fault the author if you use it in an environment they didn&#x27;t have, or didn&#x27;t intend it to be used in, or in a manner that wasn&#x27;t intended. They left an artifact, they did NOT make an agreement to support it.<p>If someone makes a mistake in a book, there&#x27;s no obligation for the author to correct it. If someone misunderstands the ideas and goes on to do some horrible deeds using it as justification, it&#x27;s not the author&#x27;s fault.<p>Open source software is, for the most part, an unsupported gift economy. It isn&#x27;t commercial, and it certainly isn&#x27;t a chain... there&#x27;s no delivery to be had... something was tossed over the wall, and it may never happen again.<p>We Tims have been waiting for the next episode of Hello Internet for a while now... it may never come. That is also the nature of open source software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>numbsafari</author><text>Funny thing, most commercial software also comes with T&amp;Cs that say the make no guarantees and assume no liability. e.g., Microsoft Windows 10 retail license:<p>&gt; Neither Microsoft, nor the device manufacturer or installer, gives any other express warranties, guarantees, or conditions.<p>And their liability is limited to...<p>&gt; at its election, either: (i) repair or replace the software at no charge, or (ii) accept return of the software (or at its election the device on which the software was preinstalled) for a refund of the amount paid, if any.<p>So, maybe they&#x27;ll fix, or maybe they&#x27;ll refund you your money and you discontinue your use of the software. Maybe they&#x27;ll issue a fix that you incur the cost of installing and testing.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;Useterms&#x2F;Retail&#x2F;Windows&#x2F;10&#x2F;UseTerms_Retail_Windows_10_English.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;Useterms&#x2F;Retail&#x2F;Windows&#x2F;10&#x2F;U...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>There is no “software supply chain”</title><url>https://iliana.fyi/blog/software-supply-chain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikewarot</author><text>The author of an open source project usually makes NO guarantees and assumes no liability. They&#x27;ve tossed a blueprint into the world.<p>When you decided to use it, you took on all of its technical debt and design decisions as your own. You can&#x27;t fault the author if you use it in an environment they didn&#x27;t have, or didn&#x27;t intend it to be used in, or in a manner that wasn&#x27;t intended. They left an artifact, they did NOT make an agreement to support it.<p>If someone makes a mistake in a book, there&#x27;s no obligation for the author to correct it. If someone misunderstands the ideas and goes on to do some horrible deeds using it as justification, it&#x27;s not the author&#x27;s fault.<p>Open source software is, for the most part, an unsupported gift economy. It isn&#x27;t commercial, and it certainly isn&#x27;t a chain... there&#x27;s no delivery to be had... something was tossed over the wall, and it may never happen again.<p>We Tims have been waiting for the next episode of Hello Internet for a while now... it may never come. That is also the nature of open source software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&gt; You can&#x27;t fault the author if you use it in an environment they didn&#x27;t have, or didn&#x27;t intend it to be used in, or in a manner that wasn&#x27;t intended.<p>It goes even farther than that: you can’t fault the author even if you <i>did</i> use it in the intended manner.</text></comment> |
13,807,495 | 13,806,379 | 1 | 3 | 13,805,864 | train | <story><title>Introducing Google Cloud Container Builder</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/Google-Cloud-Container-Builder-a-fast-and-flexible-way-to-package-your-software.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alpb</author><text>Disclaimer: I work at Google but I do not work on the product, so this is my personal experience.<p>I recently tried out Cloud Container Builder before it went public. I host a lot of small personal Docker projects on my private GitHub repositories and build Docker images for them using CircleCI and push them to GCR (Google Container Registry). Once you figure out how to do this with $your_favorite_CI_tool, it is easy. However it took me about an hour to build this Circle CI and I had to do some tasks like set up Service Accounts, copy keys around etc.<p>Google Container Builder eliminates this completely, you just connect your GitHub account, pick what you want to build (every commit, branch or tag) and specify the image name you want to build and forget about it forever.<p>It runs faster compared to free CI services I&#x27;ve used in the past (probably because image pulls are fast b&#x2F;c Google Networking, but I&#x27;m not sure how much CPU is allocated for builds). Also if you&#x27;re pushing to GCR, then it&#x27;ll be faster to push images as well. So overall pull&#x2F;build&#x2F;push cycle is just fast. To compare, build for a very simple image I have (base image docker.io&#x2F;library&#x2F;python) takes 3m30s on CircleCI vs 1m10s in Google Cloud Container Builder. That&#x27;s 3x faster.</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing Google Cloud Container Builder</title><url>https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/Google-Cloud-Container-Builder-a-fast-and-flexible-way-to-package-your-software.html?m=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>skj</author><text>Hi all, I&#x27;m on the eng team for this service. Happy to answer any questions, and I&#x27;ll do my best to monitor the threads.</text></comment> |
39,937,768 | 39,937,842 | 1 | 2 | 39,931,228 | train | <story><title>Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/deaths-california-lodi-skydiving-center-19361603.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; rich people<p>That seems to be the key. If I, as a peon, owed child support or something, the government has many ways to squeeze that pittance out of me, including asset seizure and wage garnishment. But if instead I was a millionaire business owner owing $millions, I can just... not pay it. Have my lawyer whisper some arcane incantation to a judge, and suddenly the government is all &quot;Oh, woe is me! How can we possibly get this money??&quot; Two different systems, folks.</text></item><item><author>sanderjd</author><text>Is it? Yes. Should it be? No.<p>It&#x27;s long past time to stop letting rich people manipulate the legal system to get away with their criminality.</text></item><item><author>martincmartin</author><text>Isn&#x27;t actually collecting judgements hard? I thought I read, in some article about how Alex Jones hasn&#x27;t paid any of his judgement, that it&#x27;s not uncommon to take decades before seeing any money. Often people settle for a greatly reduced sum that they can get right now, for that very reason.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; In 2010 and 2011, the FAA issued two fines against Dause and his business for failing to comply with federal aviation regulations, totaling $933,000. But FAA spokesperson Gregor told SFGATE that the fine was never collected by the agency, which eventually referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for further action. The Justice Department did not respond to questions about whether the fine was ever paid.<p>Amazing how a business can just decide to not pay a fine to the FAA, and apparently it&#x27;s all cool. If I missed $200 on my income taxes, the IRS would be up my ass within a year for it, but apparently the FAA doesn&#x27;t urgently need that $1M.<p>EDIT: It keeps getting better!<p>&gt; Turner’s parents filed a wrongful death suit against both Dause and the Parachute Center; three years later, a judge awarded the family a $40 million judgment, writing in the decision that Dause was personally responsible for the payment. Francine Turner told SFGATE the family has never received any payments from Dause or the Parachute Center.<p>So he doesn&#x27;t have to pay judgments either? I need to learn this guy&#x27;s amazing financial life-hack!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>It&#x27;s not so easy to get non-rich people to pay, either. The court can order it, but the court doesn&#x27;t do enforcement. The party owed the money has to go pay another outfit to do wage garnishment. Of course, the debtor can just quit and go get another job, and that step has to be repeated.</text></comment> | <story><title>Deaths at a California skydiving center, but the jumps go on</title><url>https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/deaths-california-lodi-skydiving-center-19361603.php</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; rich people<p>That seems to be the key. If I, as a peon, owed child support or something, the government has many ways to squeeze that pittance out of me, including asset seizure and wage garnishment. But if instead I was a millionaire business owner owing $millions, I can just... not pay it. Have my lawyer whisper some arcane incantation to a judge, and suddenly the government is all &quot;Oh, woe is me! How can we possibly get this money??&quot; Two different systems, folks.</text></item><item><author>sanderjd</author><text>Is it? Yes. Should it be? No.<p>It&#x27;s long past time to stop letting rich people manipulate the legal system to get away with their criminality.</text></item><item><author>martincmartin</author><text>Isn&#x27;t actually collecting judgements hard? I thought I read, in some article about how Alex Jones hasn&#x27;t paid any of his judgement, that it&#x27;s not uncommon to take decades before seeing any money. Often people settle for a greatly reduced sum that they can get right now, for that very reason.</text></item><item><author>ryandrake</author><text>&gt; In 2010 and 2011, the FAA issued two fines against Dause and his business for failing to comply with federal aviation regulations, totaling $933,000. But FAA spokesperson Gregor told SFGATE that the fine was never collected by the agency, which eventually referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for further action. The Justice Department did not respond to questions about whether the fine was ever paid.<p>Amazing how a business can just decide to not pay a fine to the FAA, and apparently it&#x27;s all cool. If I missed $200 on my income taxes, the IRS would be up my ass within a year for it, but apparently the FAA doesn&#x27;t urgently need that $1M.<p>EDIT: It keeps getting better!<p>&gt; Turner’s parents filed a wrongful death suit against both Dause and the Parachute Center; three years later, a judge awarded the family a $40 million judgment, writing in the decision that Dause was personally responsible for the payment. Francine Turner told SFGATE the family has never received any payments from Dause or the Parachute Center.<p>So he doesn&#x27;t have to pay judgments either? I need to learn this guy&#x27;s amazing financial life-hack!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjav</author><text>&gt; If I, as a peon, owed child support or something<p>Just here a few days ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39815731">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39815731</a><p>But if you&#x27;re very rich and owe tens or hundreds of millions, you can just ignore it and move on.</text></comment> |
25,372,962 | 25,372,821 | 1 | 2 | 25,372,336 | train | <story><title>Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt</title><url>https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>The fact that cloud providers don&#x27;t have a simple &quot;This is how much I can afford, don&#x27;t ever bill me more than that!&quot; box on their platforms makes development a lot scarier than it really needs to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>donmcronald</author><text>This is my worst nightmare. Lol. I guess now is a great time to give Azure a shoutout for sitting on their hands for 8 years without so much as a response to the community for half a decade [1].<p>At least AWS allows using a prepaid credit card so they’ll need to call me if things go haywire. I bet if that $72k charge went through it would have been much harder to get out of. “Sorry, we don’t have the money” is a much better negotiating position than “can we please have our money back?”<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedback.azure.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;170030-signup-and-billing&#x2F;suggestions&#x2F;3238796-spending-limit-or-maximum-cost-cap-for-azure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;feedback.azure.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;170030-signup-and-billing&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt</title><url>https://blog.tomilkieway.com/72k-1/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>onion2k</author><text>The fact that cloud providers don&#x27;t have a simple &quot;This is how much I can afford, don&#x27;t ever bill me more than that!&quot; box on their platforms makes development a lot scarier than it really needs to be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>serial_dev</author><text>It is baffling why cloud providers don&#x27;t have that option.<p>I might want to have an app because I don&#x27;t mind spending 50 dollars on my pet project as a hobby, but I don&#x27;t ever want to spend more than that. Not if I write a wrong query that&#x27;s suddenly becomes very expensive, not when I got attacked, and not even when I have legit users.<p>By the way, the same goes for some companies, too, just the threshold would be different.</text></comment> |
39,815,808 | 39,815,957 | 1 | 2 | 39,815,408 | train | <story><title>Boeing CEO Calhoun to step down at end of 2024</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-ceo-calhoun-step-down-2024-03-25/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dtnewman</author><text>I once spoke to a hedge fund guy who had a large stake in Tesla going back at least 10 years at this point. I was curious... don&#x27;t you get worried about every other company announcing a push into electric cars? GM and Ford are making big pushes, as are many of the European companies. His response: the best engineers want to build sexy new things and they don&#x27;t want to live in Detroit.<p>Construction Physics recently ran a great article on why companies don&#x27;t design new aircraft from scratch (rather, you see 5 or 6 iterations of the 737) [1]. The gist of it is that it&#x27;s extraordinarily expensive to design a new aircraft from the ground up and that changes to regulation or the global economy can have a huge impact on which planes are desirable (e.g., big vs small, fuel efficient vs fast), so any new plane is an enormous gamble. So I understand why the bean counters look at a build-from-scratch approach as a bad idea. At the same time, it is very hard to quantify the long term impact of losing the engineering culture that comes along with building new planes from scratch. There&#x27;s a wealth of knowledge that you lose if you don&#x27;t do it very often. You also get happier and better engineers when you give them tasks that are more interesting. This stuff doesn&#x27;t show up on accounting statements, but it&#x27;s hard to deny that there&#x27;s a long term effect.<p>Unfortunately, it doesn&#x27;t really seem like a return to engineering culture is what they are going to do. The head of their commercial business [2] resigned according to this statement, but his replacement will be Stephanie Pope, a woman with an accounting&#x2F;MBA background who has risen through the ranks at Boeing in primarily financial positions (she may indeed be very talented, but certainly doesn&#x27;t have an engineering background).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construction-physics.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;a-cycle-of-misery-the-business-of" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construction-physics.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;a-cycle-of-misery-the...</a><p>[2] Boeing is divided into four divisions: defense, commercial, boeing capital and global services (I&#x27;m not really sure what this last one does, but the division that we primarily think of when we think Boeing is their commercial one).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizlonator</author><text>&gt; but his replacement will be Stephanie Pope, a woman with an accounting&#x2F;MBA background who has risen through the ranks at Boeing in primarily financial positions<p>An engineering company run into the ground by accountants is going to be run by another accountant. Yeah Boeing is fucked.</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing CEO Calhoun to step down at end of 2024</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-ceo-calhoun-step-down-2024-03-25/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dtnewman</author><text>I once spoke to a hedge fund guy who had a large stake in Tesla going back at least 10 years at this point. I was curious... don&#x27;t you get worried about every other company announcing a push into electric cars? GM and Ford are making big pushes, as are many of the European companies. His response: the best engineers want to build sexy new things and they don&#x27;t want to live in Detroit.<p>Construction Physics recently ran a great article on why companies don&#x27;t design new aircraft from scratch (rather, you see 5 or 6 iterations of the 737) [1]. The gist of it is that it&#x27;s extraordinarily expensive to design a new aircraft from the ground up and that changes to regulation or the global economy can have a huge impact on which planes are desirable (e.g., big vs small, fuel efficient vs fast), so any new plane is an enormous gamble. So I understand why the bean counters look at a build-from-scratch approach as a bad idea. At the same time, it is very hard to quantify the long term impact of losing the engineering culture that comes along with building new planes from scratch. There&#x27;s a wealth of knowledge that you lose if you don&#x27;t do it very often. You also get happier and better engineers when you give them tasks that are more interesting. This stuff doesn&#x27;t show up on accounting statements, but it&#x27;s hard to deny that there&#x27;s a long term effect.<p>Unfortunately, it doesn&#x27;t really seem like a return to engineering culture is what they are going to do. The head of their commercial business [2] resigned according to this statement, but his replacement will be Stephanie Pope, a woman with an accounting&#x2F;MBA background who has risen through the ranks at Boeing in primarily financial positions (she may indeed be very talented, but certainly doesn&#x27;t have an engineering background).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construction-physics.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;a-cycle-of-misery-the-business-of" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.construction-physics.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;a-cycle-of-misery-the...</a><p>[2] Boeing is divided into four divisions: defense, commercial, boeing capital and global services (I&#x27;m not really sure what this last one does, but the division that we primarily think of when we think Boeing is their commercial one).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shuckles</author><text>If bean counters are useless and can’t value engineering, why do you start your comment with a story about a hedge fund guy’s opinion? They are the ultimate bean counters.</text></comment> |
35,512,904 | 35,513,173 | 1 | 2 | 35,511,047 | train | <story><title>Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source</title><url>https://decodebytes.substack.com/p/night-of-the-living-brain-fog-dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Out_of_Characte</author><text>On the flipside, there are also a small selection of unproven treatments that work better than standard care.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>He recognized the signs of sleep apnea and pursued treatment with sleep apnea devices, getting confirmation of the problem with the help of his doctor. The DIY part was largely related to pushing the process forward, not doing novel experimentation.<p>Nobody would call that “anti-science”.<p>Anti-science would be something like ignoring the common treatments and trying to solve the problem with natural supplements or something. Going this route often delays people from getting to proven treatments because they spend a long, long time trying underpowered or unproven things that don’t work.</text></item><item><author>yosito</author><text>&gt; The morale of the story, you need to sometimes tackle your own health and take matters into your own hands<p>The frustrating thing for me is that doing so is often labeled as being anti-science, when the truth is, this guy was actually doing the science himself. It&#x27;s not anti-science to take your health into your own hands. It&#x27;s anti-outdated-underfunded-medical-systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The standard of care doesn’t mean it’s optimal for everyone. Doctors will often explore alternative treatments when the first-line measures aren’t working optimally.<p>It’s a mistake to ignore proven, first-line treatments and skip straight to less proven alternatives, though. Some people have built an anti-mainstream bias that puts too much emphasis on the unproven, alternative treatments while downplaying the most proven treatments.</text></comment> | <story><title>Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source</title><url>https://decodebytes.substack.com/p/night-of-the-living-brain-fog-dead</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Out_of_Characte</author><text>On the flipside, there are also a small selection of unproven treatments that work better than standard care.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>He recognized the signs of sleep apnea and pursued treatment with sleep apnea devices, getting confirmation of the problem with the help of his doctor. The DIY part was largely related to pushing the process forward, not doing novel experimentation.<p>Nobody would call that “anti-science”.<p>Anti-science would be something like ignoring the common treatments and trying to solve the problem with natural supplements or something. Going this route often delays people from getting to proven treatments because they spend a long, long time trying underpowered or unproven things that don’t work.</text></item><item><author>yosito</author><text>&gt; The morale of the story, you need to sometimes tackle your own health and take matters into your own hands<p>The frustrating thing for me is that doing so is often labeled as being anti-science, when the truth is, this guy was actually doing the science himself. It&#x27;s not anti-science to take your health into your own hands. It&#x27;s anti-outdated-underfunded-medical-systems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8ytecoder</author><text>Doctors do often recommend those - they just won’t touch anything that might requires FDA approval and doesn’t have it. I have indigestion issues and it’s my doctor who recommended a supplement with peppermint oil and castor oil. Worked like a charm for me. I had tried a whole suite of meds prescribed by my GP but the GI specialist went straight to the supplement.</text></comment> |
19,924,247 | 19,924,243 | 1 | 2 | 19,923,655 | train | <story><title>Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/business/huawei-ban-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petschge</author><text>The fear mongering against Huawei becomes really interesting when you look at all the &quot;sorry, we forgot about that unintentional access possibility&quot; incidents in Cisco gear that might either be back doors or lousy QA leading to security problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>I don&#x27;t really see the fear mongering or problem here.<p>This executive order would forbid the government from purchasing and installing Telecom&#x2F;Networking equipment that would be considered to have a higher than acceptable risk.<p>Given that China isn&#x27;t exactly the most friendly nation to the US, and given Huawei is by nature, an extension of the Chinese Government, it&#x27;s not unreasonable to assume China might at some point in the future (or already is) use Huawei to conduct electronic espionage against other nations.<p>Just like it wouldn&#x27;t be unreasonable for China to forbid purchase and use of Cisco equipment within the Chinese government.<p>(We should also not forget or excuse Chinese IP theft which has enabled Huawei to produce competitive products in the first place...)</text></comment> | <story><title>Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/business/huawei-ban-trump.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petschge</author><text>The fear mongering against Huawei becomes really interesting when you look at all the &quot;sorry, we forgot about that unintentional access possibility&quot; incidents in Cisco gear that might either be back doors or lousy QA leading to security problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mey</author><text>Watching from afar, the amount of huge holes in Cisco are staggering. I don&#x27;t really understand IT&#x27;s love of Cisco, other than that&#x27;s all they&#x27;ve certed in&#x2F;invested in&#x2F;never get fired for IBM mentality. For people in the networking space, what makes you use cisco for firewalls&#x2F;core routing at this point?</text></comment> |
35,748,632 | 35,747,809 | 1 | 3 | 35,745,494 | train | <story><title>Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)</title><url>https://sites.psu.edu/ist110pursel/2022/09/04/15154/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ditto664</author><text>I wonder what the Venn diagram looks like between Hacker News readers and Runescape players. I loved playing the Ironman game mode.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>RuneScape fascinated me as a kid but going back as an adult, it got really boring once I got past level ~60 in anything as the content did not change quickly enough to keep me engaged. Never seemed fun to grind something for hours just to get another level.<p>I thought about getting into custom botting as a fun challenge but it’s still kinda pointless - even if I had a ton of gp and max levels there would not be much to do except all the quests. PvP in the contemporary scene seems way too complicated and difficult due to the reliance on quirks of the game engine.<p>Definitely an interesting and quirky game but can’t fathom spending days of RL time grinding levels to chop a different color tree.</text></comment> | <story><title>Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022)</title><url>https://sites.psu.edu/ist110pursel/2022/09/04/15154/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ditto664</author><text>I wonder what the Venn diagram looks like between Hacker News readers and Runescape players. I loved playing the Ironman game mode.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>woodruffw</author><text>I played RuneScape compulsively[1] from about 2005 to about 2013, but haven&#x27;t really played it since (besides trying OSRS a bit). It&#x27;s probably the original reason I was interested in programming (I fondly remember poking the client&#x27;s memory in a debugger to make my local GP seem higher than it actually was).<p>[1]: I mean this literally: RuneScape is an addicting game, in a way that makes me a little sad.</text></comment> |
18,285,290 | 18,285,470 | 1 | 3 | 18,284,612 | train | <story><title>Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-and-circle-announce-the-launch-of-usd-coin-a-digital-dollar-2cd6548d237</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>I understand its an ERC20 token. Do you understand how Coinbase and Circle will remain within regulatory compliance (AML&#x2F;KYC) regarding USDC and the obvious potential for money laundering?</text></item><item><author>beaner</author><text>It can be traded directly. It&#x27;s just an erc20 token.</text></item><item><author>apo</author><text>Stablecoins appear to be the new ICO. USDC follows on the heels of the Gemini Dollar, and a raft of other stablecoins offered by fully-regulated bank-like entities.<p>Oddly, there&#x27;s nothing about regulatory compliance (AML&#x2F;KYC) or fungibility in the announcement.<p>Based purely on the article, one might get the idea that USDC can be traded between individuals without any third party oversight and in a censorship-resistant way.<p>It&#x27;s highly unlikely this will be the case, given the potential for money laundering.<p>So... USDC users get a form of digital dollar that&#x27;s more difficult to use than PayPal and the numerous alternatives because unlike those systems, the user must secure cryptographic material. Alternatively, the user will simply deposit USDC onto an exchange and gain absolutely nothing over PayPal and friends.<p>Even worse, should the user decide to make an on-chain USDC transaction, a permanent public record will be logged on the Ethereum block chain, which can be used in various ways with any information lost by Circle&#x2F;Coinbase due to the inevitable data breaches (legal and illegal) to come.<p>I&#x27;m all for innovation in this space, but caveat emptor couldn&#x27;t be more relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>otoburb</author><text>Money laundering is a problem they must have faced earlier when allowing BTC trades, so presumably they&#x27;ll operate under the same AML&#x2F;KYC regulatory compliance umbrella required to offer their current (and growing) set of digital currencies[1][2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.coinbase.com&#x2F;customer&#x2F;en&#x2F;portal&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2630943-supported-digital-currencies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.coinbase.com&#x2F;customer&#x2F;en&#x2F;portal&#x2F;articles&#x2F;263...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.circletrade.com&#x2F;individuals&#x2F;basic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.circletrade.com&#x2F;individuals&#x2F;basic</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin</title><url>https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-and-circle-announce-the-launch-of-usd-coin-a-digital-dollar-2cd6548d237</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>apo</author><text>I understand its an ERC20 token. Do you understand how Coinbase and Circle will remain within regulatory compliance (AML&#x2F;KYC) regarding USDC and the obvious potential for money laundering?</text></item><item><author>beaner</author><text>It can be traded directly. It&#x27;s just an erc20 token.</text></item><item><author>apo</author><text>Stablecoins appear to be the new ICO. USDC follows on the heels of the Gemini Dollar, and a raft of other stablecoins offered by fully-regulated bank-like entities.<p>Oddly, there&#x27;s nothing about regulatory compliance (AML&#x2F;KYC) or fungibility in the announcement.<p>Based purely on the article, one might get the idea that USDC can be traded between individuals without any third party oversight and in a censorship-resistant way.<p>It&#x27;s highly unlikely this will be the case, given the potential for money laundering.<p>So... USDC users get a form of digital dollar that&#x27;s more difficult to use than PayPal and the numerous alternatives because unlike those systems, the user must secure cryptographic material. Alternatively, the user will simply deposit USDC onto an exchange and gain absolutely nothing over PayPal and friends.<p>Even worse, should the user decide to make an on-chain USDC transaction, a permanent public record will be logged on the Ethereum block chain, which can be used in various ways with any information lost by Circle&#x2F;Coinbase due to the inevitable data breaches (legal and illegal) to come.<p>I&#x27;m all for innovation in this space, but caveat emptor couldn&#x27;t be more relevant.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beaner</author><text>Do you understand how ERC20 tokens work?<p>Coinbase might be able to pull it back, but that doesn&#x27;t prevent me from sending it at-will in the first place.</text></comment> |
14,421,721 | 14,421,399 | 1 | 2 | 14,420,972 | train | <story><title>Chrome Won</title><url>https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cies</author><text>So Mozilla lost Firefox OS. And their browser share is smaller then Chrome, and then it was, but still top tier and winning from M$.<p>I&#x27;m much less pessimistic.<p>Besides a cross platform and extensible browser we see also the following coming out of Mozilla:<p>* Rust, a modern low-level programming language with cutting edge &quot;safety&quot; build in at zero runt time cost, luring many system programmers.<p>* Servo, tomorrow browser, from scratch, in Rust.<p>* Thunderbird, x-platform desktop email client (interesting for those not trusting the cloud enough).<p>* MDN, everything MSDN and w3school wish they could be. :)<p>A lot with revolve around privacy and safety in the future, a space that Mozilla is very well positioned to florish in.<p>Chrome is a good product. But I prefer Firefox. And seeing what is becoming of Servo I will soon start using that. Form me Firefox has won, and is not at all losing. I dont need the &quot;most popular&quot; browser, I need the most secure one.<p>And when I see what programming languages Google came up with... (Seriously? Is Go the best money can buy?) Then I think Rust shows single handedly that Mozilla beats Google in that arena as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StevePerkins</author><text>I understand that people who like rust REALLY like Rust, but you do realize that your examples of a purpose for existence consist of:<p>1. A programming language, that hasn&#x27;t yet shown &quot;escape velocity&quot; to go beyond D and other would-be-C++-successors in traction.<p>2. The only major application of that language... a pre-alpha browser engine, which may or may not eventually replace the engine in a browser that is seriously declining in market share with no reversal in sight.<p>3. A desktop email client, from which Mozilla has repeatedly made clear their intentions to divest and move on.<p>4. A JavaScript and HTML reference manual.<p>Mozilla is an organization with over $400 million in annual revenue. Where that money is going baffles me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Chrome Won</title><url>https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cies</author><text>So Mozilla lost Firefox OS. And their browser share is smaller then Chrome, and then it was, but still top tier and winning from M$.<p>I&#x27;m much less pessimistic.<p>Besides a cross platform and extensible browser we see also the following coming out of Mozilla:<p>* Rust, a modern low-level programming language with cutting edge &quot;safety&quot; build in at zero runt time cost, luring many system programmers.<p>* Servo, tomorrow browser, from scratch, in Rust.<p>* Thunderbird, x-platform desktop email client (interesting for those not trusting the cloud enough).<p>* MDN, everything MSDN and w3school wish they could be. :)<p>A lot with revolve around privacy and safety in the future, a space that Mozilla is very well positioned to florish in.<p>Chrome is a good product. But I prefer Firefox. And seeing what is becoming of Servo I will soon start using that. Form me Firefox has won, and is not at all losing. I dont need the &quot;most popular&quot; browser, I need the most secure one.<p>And when I see what programming languages Google came up with... (Seriously? Is Go the best money can buy?) Then I think Rust shows single handedly that Mozilla beats Google in that arena as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobajeff</author><text>If they run out of funding many of those great things they are working on won&#x27;t get the resources they need.<p>The amount of funding they get is in direct correlation to how much market share they have in Firefox at the time they negotiate a search deal with one of the big search sites.</text></comment> |
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