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10,823,546 | 10,823,513 | 1 | 2 | 10,812,332 | train | <story><title>Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>open-source-ux</author><text>A lot of sites seem terrified that users might (gasp!) leave their site to go elsewhere. The result is ridiculous articles like this: <i>42 startups that grew to be worth billions in 2015.</i> Not a single link to any of the comapnies mentioned in the article.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&#x2F;new-billion-dollar-startup-unicorns-in-2015-2015-12" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&#x2F;new-billion-dollar-startup-uni...</a><p>Another horrible trend is to hide links behind Javascript. Simple Hypertext links should <i>never</i> require Javascript to be clickable, on many websites they very often are.</text></item><item><author>aaron-lebo</author><text><i>But hyperlinks aren’t just the skeleton of the web: they are its eyes, a path to its soul. And a blind webpage, one without hyperlinks, can’t look or gaze at another webpage – and this has serious consequences for the dynamics of power on the web.<p>More or less all theorists have thought of gaze in relation to power, and mostly in a negative sense: the gazer strips the gazed and turns her into a powerless object, devoid of intelligence or agency. But in the world of webpages, gaze functions differently: it is more empowering. When a powerful website – say Google or Facebook – gazes at, or links to, another webpage, it doesn’t just connect it , it brings it into existence; gives it life. Without this empowering gaze, your web page doesn’t breathe. No matter how many links you have placed in a webpage, unless somebody is looking at it, it is actually both dead and blind, and therefore incapable of transferring power to any outside web page.<p>Apps like Instagram are blind, or almost blind. Their gaze goes inwards, reluctant to transfer any of their vast powers to others, leading them into quiet deaths. The consequence is that web pages outside social media are dying.</i><p>Best part of the piece, imo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petepete</author><text>Our company blog is like this, I left a comment on the related LinkedIn post (that links to our own website using some URL-shortening service!) saying &quot;this doesn&#x27;t really make any sense without citations and providing links to the services discussed&quot; and received a request to remove my comment shortly after.<p>The marketing team believe linking to sites other than our own drive people away. Instead they internally link to product&#x2F;service pages that are often barely relevant and rarely (if ever) what anyone reading the post wants to see.<p>It makes me want to throw the whole thing away and start over.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>open-source-ux</author><text>A lot of sites seem terrified that users might (gasp!) leave their site to go elsewhere. The result is ridiculous articles like this: <i>42 startups that grew to be worth billions in 2015.</i> Not a single link to any of the comapnies mentioned in the article.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&#x2F;new-billion-dollar-startup-unicorns-in-2015-2015-12" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.businessinsider.com&#x2F;new-billion-dollar-startup-uni...</a><p>Another horrible trend is to hide links behind Javascript. Simple Hypertext links should <i>never</i> require Javascript to be clickable, on many websites they very often are.</text></item><item><author>aaron-lebo</author><text><i>But hyperlinks aren’t just the skeleton of the web: they are its eyes, a path to its soul. And a blind webpage, one without hyperlinks, can’t look or gaze at another webpage – and this has serious consequences for the dynamics of power on the web.<p>More or less all theorists have thought of gaze in relation to power, and mostly in a negative sense: the gazer strips the gazed and turns her into a powerless object, devoid of intelligence or agency. But in the world of webpages, gaze functions differently: it is more empowering. When a powerful website – say Google or Facebook – gazes at, or links to, another webpage, it doesn’t just connect it , it brings it into existence; gives it life. Without this empowering gaze, your web page doesn’t breathe. No matter how many links you have placed in a webpage, unless somebody is looking at it, it is actually both dead and blind, and therefore incapable of transferring power to any outside web page.<p>Apps like Instagram are blind, or almost blind. Their gaze goes inwards, reluctant to transfer any of their vast powers to others, leading them into quiet deaths. The consequence is that web pages outside social media are dying.</i><p>Best part of the piece, imo.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbro</author><text>This. I&#x27;ve tried to stop reading new articles from sites that seemingly only allow inward hyperlinks to be posted with their articles.<p>Informally, through personal observation: if anyone has a list of actual editorial policies that preclude doing that, I&#x27;d be happy to look at it!<p>BBC News, afaict, will typically drop an external link next to the article.</text></comment> |
31,980,601 | 31,978,164 | 1 | 2 | 31,977,144 | train | <story><title>Mendon, Missouri</title><url>https://seandietrich.com/mendon-missouri/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryan_j_naughton</author><text>&gt; And the most unusual thing about all this is: None of this is unusual. At least not within the national tapestry that is The Great American Small Town.<p>It also isn&#x27;t unusual in the cities. Humans are wonderful and terrible everywhere. It reminds me of the 30 Rock episode where Jack and Liz go to Georgia to find a new comedian in touch with the &quot;real America&quot; and Liz keeps insisting that all Americans are real Americans and there is no &quot;real America.&quot;<p>The acts of people after 9&#x2F;11 in NYC remind us of the good in humans just as this small town inspires us.<p>As Mr Rogers said, &quot;When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, &quot;Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kiernanmcgowan</author><text>When I lived in Chicago I saw the aftermath of a car&#x2F;moped accident up close. I had just gotten off the L at Western and was walking to the north exit. To my right was a moped turning left under the tracks and to my left was a sedan driving out of an alley, also turning under the tracks.<p>I heard a crunch and a group of people at the exit all jumped and rushed over. I hadn&#x27;t seen the actual accident, but feared the worst. Once I was street level the group that had rushed over had already called 911, was comforting the person on the moped (they were fine, at most concussed), and directing traffic around the accident. I ended up leaving because there wasn&#x27;t anything to do and didn&#x27;t want to get in the way.<p>60 seconds was all it took for a group of strangers to provide an overwhelming amount of help.<p>Walking home, I heard the siren of the ambulance, but that eventually faded as I walked another block or so, the scene of the accident swallowed by the vastness of the city.<p>I probably walked past a couple hundred people or so that evening, all of them unaware of what had happened under Western, yet filled with the hope all of them could provide an overwhelming amount of help.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mendon, Missouri</title><url>https://seandietrich.com/mendon-missouri/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryan_j_naughton</author><text>&gt; And the most unusual thing about all this is: None of this is unusual. At least not within the national tapestry that is The Great American Small Town.<p>It also isn&#x27;t unusual in the cities. Humans are wonderful and terrible everywhere. It reminds me of the 30 Rock episode where Jack and Liz go to Georgia to find a new comedian in touch with the &quot;real America&quot; and Liz keeps insisting that all Americans are real Americans and there is no &quot;real America.&quot;<p>The acts of people after 9&#x2F;11 in NYC remind us of the good in humans just as this small town inspires us.<p>As Mr Rogers said, &quot;When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, &quot;Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melenaboija</author><text>Although I agree with it I think that small towns have something that is lost in big cities which is the sense of community, and that is simply because in towns you know every single person that has some impact in your daily live.<p>My family is from a small town who moved to the city right before I was born and there is something my mom said to me when I was a kid that got stuck in my mind which is the awareness of death, in big cities is like people don&#x27;t die because you don&#x27;t know about it. Although it may sound macabre I think that knowing about death helps me better understand being alive.</text></comment> |
5,858,638 | 5,857,596 | 1 | 3 | 5,854,818 | train | <story><title>The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-irrationality-of-giving-up-this-much-liberty-to-fight-terror/276695/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>belorn</author><text>&gt; <i>Spending and making laws are all about the consent of the governed.</i><p>Laws should be about the <i>informed</i> consent of the governed. Security built on a lie is still a lie even if people feel more safe. During the first days of 9-11, the military sent personal down to the airport to reinforce peoples perception of safe travel. What they did not tell anyone at the time, was that the guns did not have any ammunition in them. Instead, the military were basically posing as an &quot;armed force&quot;, because having guns <i>with</i> ammunition at airport would then actually create a security issue at the airports.<p>The security theater of the US feels somewhat like a doctor who has started to only give out placebos to his patients. If anyone feels better, sing praises, and if anyone get worse, give them more sugar pills. Soon, everyone start to get sick on the sugar alone, while the sugar pill manufacturer crave for more sick people.<p>The security theater from 9-11 has gone on long enough. People are not going to feel more safe from it, and will just get sicker on the solution.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I completely agree that we&#x27;ve overreacted, but I&#x27;ve always rejected this argument, and here&#x27;s why: Terrorism is not about numerical risk, it is about <i>public perception</i>.<p>That means that it plays in the same game as everything else in the PR world: politics, advertising, social signaling, and so forth. The last thing it has anything to do with is logic.<p>It would be great if we could tally up all the things that kill us and spend proportionally on those. It&#x27;s the logical thing to do. Heart disease would come first, then cancer, and so on. But instead we spend and give attention to those things that the public perceives we should: AIDS research, nuclear war deterrence, terrorism.<p>And if you think about it, that&#x27;s the way it ought to be. Spending and making laws are all about the consent of the governed, doing things they want. They&#x27;re not about math or logic.<p>The problem here is that, with the Cold War over, the defense and intelligence industry saw 9-11 as a call to arms. They&#x27;re going to go out and do things a good defense and intelligence industry should. And as Americans we have traditionally been forgiving of having our civil liberties temporarily trampled on during times of war.<p>But you can&#x27;t have a war forever. A democracy cannot survive this. Instead of the natural overreaction to a war that always happened, we started creating permanent infrastructure to address all terrorism, forever. We&#x27;re fighting a war with nobody to surrender, and no amount of spending or government monitoring will ever be enough.<p>The original laws around 9-11 were temporary, and for a very good reason. But somehow politics has gotten to the point where terrorism is the new third-rail: some national politicians might grandstand a bit, but nobody is going to do anything except for give the security state apparatus whatever it says it needs. Otherwise they&#x27;d be thrown out of office. Public perception demands it.<p>Adding up numbers has nothing to do with it, unless you&#x27;re using them to make some kind of <i>persuasive argument</i>, and then we&#x27;re right back to public perception and politics. You&#x27;re in the same boat as those who asked for more cancer research instead of AIDS research. Different people, rightly, see things differently, and everybody deserves to be represented. We&#x27;re running a country, not an insurance agency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&gt;Security built on a lie is still a lie even if people feel more safe.<p>Not only that, even if you concede that making people feel safe (as distinct from actually improving their safety) is a legitimate goal, the existing system is an outrageously poor way of satisfying even that.<p>If the goal is to increase the perception of safety then we could certainly do so without spending trillions of dollars, destroying privacy or enabling dangerous levels of government power. Just bring out the dog and pony show. Tell everyone that there is at least one secret sky marshal on every plane who is trained to assassinate anyone who tries to hijack it and run a bunch of ads about how badass they all are. Permanently station a canine unit at every major airport and let everyone see the cops with the dogs continuously sniffing around everywhere. There are innumerable things like that which don&#x27;t cost trillions of dollars or bring about any serious cause for objection which allow the public to see that something is being done to address their fears.<p>Compare this to the NSA surveillance apparatus, which is no doubt costing many billions of dollars in and of itself, creates an enormous high value target for hackers and foreign spies, and couldn&#x27;t have possibly made anyone feel safer if it had continued to be held a secret as intended because the general public wouldn&#x27;t have even known it existed.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-irrationality-of-giving-up-this-much-liberty-to-fight-terror/276695/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>belorn</author><text>&gt; <i>Spending and making laws are all about the consent of the governed.</i><p>Laws should be about the <i>informed</i> consent of the governed. Security built on a lie is still a lie even if people feel more safe. During the first days of 9-11, the military sent personal down to the airport to reinforce peoples perception of safe travel. What they did not tell anyone at the time, was that the guns did not have any ammunition in them. Instead, the military were basically posing as an &quot;armed force&quot;, because having guns <i>with</i> ammunition at airport would then actually create a security issue at the airports.<p>The security theater of the US feels somewhat like a doctor who has started to only give out placebos to his patients. If anyone feels better, sing praises, and if anyone get worse, give them more sugar pills. Soon, everyone start to get sick on the sugar alone, while the sugar pill manufacturer crave for more sick people.<p>The security theater from 9-11 has gone on long enough. People are not going to feel more safe from it, and will just get sicker on the solution.</text></item><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I completely agree that we&#x27;ve overreacted, but I&#x27;ve always rejected this argument, and here&#x27;s why: Terrorism is not about numerical risk, it is about <i>public perception</i>.<p>That means that it plays in the same game as everything else in the PR world: politics, advertising, social signaling, and so forth. The last thing it has anything to do with is logic.<p>It would be great if we could tally up all the things that kill us and spend proportionally on those. It&#x27;s the logical thing to do. Heart disease would come first, then cancer, and so on. But instead we spend and give attention to those things that the public perceives we should: AIDS research, nuclear war deterrence, terrorism.<p>And if you think about it, that&#x27;s the way it ought to be. Spending and making laws are all about the consent of the governed, doing things they want. They&#x27;re not about math or logic.<p>The problem here is that, with the Cold War over, the defense and intelligence industry saw 9-11 as a call to arms. They&#x27;re going to go out and do things a good defense and intelligence industry should. And as Americans we have traditionally been forgiving of having our civil liberties temporarily trampled on during times of war.<p>But you can&#x27;t have a war forever. A democracy cannot survive this. Instead of the natural overreaction to a war that always happened, we started creating permanent infrastructure to address all terrorism, forever. We&#x27;re fighting a war with nobody to surrender, and no amount of spending or government monitoring will ever be enough.<p>The original laws around 9-11 were temporary, and for a very good reason. But somehow politics has gotten to the point where terrorism is the new third-rail: some national politicians might grandstand a bit, but nobody is going to do anything except for give the security state apparatus whatever it says it needs. Otherwise they&#x27;d be thrown out of office. Public perception demands it.<p>Adding up numbers has nothing to do with it, unless you&#x27;re using them to make some kind of <i>persuasive argument</i>, and then we&#x27;re right back to public perception and politics. You&#x27;re in the same boat as those who asked for more cancer research instead of AIDS research. Different people, rightly, see things differently, and everybody deserves to be represented. We&#x27;re running a country, not an insurance agency.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>finnw</author><text>&gt; <i>Laws should be about the </i>informed* consent of the governed*<p>That is a huge can of worms, because it depends on being able to determine who is and isn&#x27;t &quot;informed.&quot;</text></comment> |
34,892,696 | 34,892,293 | 1 | 3 | 34,889,419 | train | <story><title>The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland</title><url>https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-remarkable-ivan-sutherland/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adamsmith</author><text>Ivan Sutherland wrote one of my all-time favorite pieces, called Technology and Courage. It&#x27;s a short read, here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cseweb.ucsd.edu&#x2F;~wgg&#x2F;smli_ps-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cseweb.ucsd.edu&#x2F;~wgg&#x2F;smli_ps-1.pdf</a><p>He talks about the courage it takes to do risky work in our field, and gives practical techniques for overcoming barriers, such as having collaborators, deadlines, &quot;just get started&quot;, stock compensation, etc.<p>Dr Sutherland also discusses the courage to keep going, or even _stop_ working on a project.<p>Given his broad background, he discusses how these dynamics play out in a wide range of fields, including education, startups, and research.<p>For me it is always a visceral read.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland</title><url>https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-remarkable-ivan-sutherland/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>This article talks about him in the past tense because all of what happened is very much in the past, but Ivan Sutherland is alive and well.</text></comment> |
32,941,732 | 32,941,375 | 1 | 2 | 32,937,930 | train | <story><title>Bitmap Indexes in Go: Search Speed (2019)</title><url>https://habr.com/en/company/badoo/blog/455608/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>todd8</author><text>This is an interesting article, and I&#x27;ll probably take a look at the go language profiling capabilities and built-in machine independent assembler.<p>The idea of using bitmaps for retrieval on multiple indexes isn&#x27;t new. Not surprisingly Knuth has a good discussion of the technique [Knuth], it was explained very well with a nice illustration of using notched recipe cards that is worth taking a peek at.<p>-- straying off topic below this line --<p>One surprising note, Calvin N. Mooers invented zatocoding in 1947. This technique used the notched cards for information retrieval and cited by Knuth under the subsection <i>superimposed coding</i>. Calvin N. Mooers went on to invent the &quot;Reactive Typewriter&quot; in the 1960s. This was an visionary implementation of how users might interact with computers using a terminal device (like a teletype). Mooers&#x27; Reactive Typewriter was programmed using a language he invented named TRAC.<p>TRAC is a macro based language. It, like the roughly contemporaneous GPM of Christopher Strachey (1965), is a Turing complete language based on macros that can define other macros, etc. I learned about TRAC in the mid 1970s from Ted Nelson&#x27;s book <i>Computer Lib&#x2F;Dream Machines</i> [Nelson]. It was one of three languages featured in that book. A fun little book, <i>Etudes for Programmers</i>, which I bought in 1978 inspired me to implement a version of TRAC. It&#x27;s a nice exercise.<p>Many years later (I believe it was 1991), during an Open Software Foundation meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I got to meet Mooers in person, he was sitting in the front row during a presentation, and I got to speak with him briefly afterwards.<p>By the way, Christopher Strachey wrote the first paper on the concept of time-sharing in 1959 and in the 1970&#x27;s with Dana Scott is credited with coming up with the important development in the theory of programming languages known as Denotational Semantics.<p>[Knuth] Donald Knuth. (1973).The Art of Computer Programming, Vol 3&#x2F;Sorting and Searching. Section 6.5, Retrieval on Secondary Keys. Addison-Wesley.<p>[Nelson] Theodor H Nelson. (1974). Computer lib : you can and must understand computers now. ISBN 0893470023. OCLC 11182412. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computer_Lib&#x2F;Dream_Machines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computer_Lib&#x2F;Dream_Machines</a><p>[Strachey] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Christopher_Strachey#cite_note-21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Christopher_Strachey#cite_note...</a><p>[Wetherell] Charles Wetherell, Etudes for Programmers, Prentice Hall, 1977, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Etudes-Programmers-Charles-Wetherell&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0132918072" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Etudes-Programmers-Charles-Wetherell&#x2F;...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Bitmap Indexes in Go: Search Speed (2019)</title><url>https://habr.com/en/company/badoo/blog/455608/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manimino</author><text>Writing an object indexer is a fun project. My Python indexer, ducks [1], went through a lot of the same development stages, such as supporting only exact-value matches at first. I tried binning too, but ultimately using a BTree was simpler and performed well enough (500ns for a log-n tree traversal, vs 50ns hash).<p>Still looking for a way to apply bitmap indexing in ducks; it would surely speed up multi-index queries, but I haven&#x27;t found an implementation that&#x27;s worth the tradeoffs yet.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ducks.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ducks.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
30,723,617 | 30,723,758 | 1 | 2 | 30,721,530 | train | <story><title>AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven</title><url>https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2022-03-18-aeg-combi-microwave-unusable-after-update--device-thinks-it-is-a-steam-oven.Bkxu7Aa-z9.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denton-scratch</author><text>Electrolux are a horrible company. They seem to have borged a whole load of other brands, which all have now descended to Electrolux&#x27;s abysmal standards.<p>- They don&#x27;t support their own products; the warranty is served by a third-party<p>- Their products are built to a price-point, and fail just after the warranty is up<p>- Spare parts are expensive<p>- They apparently have neither an email address or phone number<p>The water heater in my AEG dishwasher failed three times in six months. Each time I had to wait a month for the repair man to arrive, declare that my water-heater had failed, and come back two weeks later to fit the part.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why market forces haven&#x27;t bankrupted them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t understand why market forces haven&#x27;t bankrupted them.<p>I think the short answer is that companies spend many hundreds of billions each year manipulating the market. Instead of going to all the hard work of building a trusted brand, you can just buy one people have a vague familiarity with, spend a bunch on marketing, and ship cheap garbage until the brand value has been reduced to zero.</text></comment> | <story><title>AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks it is a steam oven</title><url>https://www.tellerreport.com/tech/2022-03-18-aeg-combi-microwave-unusable-after-update--device-thinks-it-is-a-steam-oven.Bkxu7Aa-z9.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>denton-scratch</author><text>Electrolux are a horrible company. They seem to have borged a whole load of other brands, which all have now descended to Electrolux&#x27;s abysmal standards.<p>- They don&#x27;t support their own products; the warranty is served by a third-party<p>- Their products are built to a price-point, and fail just after the warranty is up<p>- Spare parts are expensive<p>- They apparently have neither an email address or phone number<p>The water heater in my AEG dishwasher failed three times in six months. Each time I had to wait a month for the repair man to arrive, declare that my water-heater had failed, and come back two weeks later to fit the part.<p>I don&#x27;t understand why market forces haven&#x27;t bankrupted them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rootusrootus</author><text>That isn&#x27;t limited to Electrolux in my experience, it may be fairly common. Samsung, for example, has exactly the same arms-length third party warranty support pattern. Wait a while, get a tech to come see what part needs to be replaced, wait some more, tech comes back to actually do the work. Meanwhile your appliance is out of service. Pretty soon it starts to look preferable to just discard the appliance and buy a new one even if that means spending a thousand bucks. Perhaps this is all by design.<p>Oh, and in case it needed to be said -- I strongly, strongly recommend avoiding Samsung for appliances. They are awful. The part of Samsung that does monitors and smartphones seems pretty great, but their appliance division makes abysmal stuff.</text></comment> |
28,432,851 | 28,431,850 | 1 | 2 | 28,423,288 | train | <story><title>A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (2019)</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/a-bizarre-form-of-water-may-exist-all-over-the-universe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blululu</author><text>Nautilus recently had a great article about this state of water in the context of our solar systems ice giants Neptune and Uranus:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;102&#x2F;hidden-truths&#x2F;the-planets-with-the-giant-diamonds-inside" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.nautil.us&#x2F;issue&#x2F;102&#x2F;hidden-truths&#x2F;the-planets-with-...</a>
I think the line that really stood out to me is ‘in most of the universe rivers of water and coal are rare and ice XVIII and diamonds are common’</text></comment> | <story><title>A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (2019)</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/a-bizarre-form-of-water-may-exist-all-over-the-universe</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>generalizations</author><text>Superionic ice. See for details: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-019-1114-6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-019-1114-6</a></text></comment> |
38,626,145 | 38,625,842 | 1 | 2 | 38,622,248 | train | <story><title>Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998665/apple-stolen-device-protection-face-touch-id-icloud-account-vulnerability-ios-17-3-beta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gojomo</author><text>After a iPhone theft in Europe earlier this year, I don&#x27;t quite trust Apple&#x27;s assurances with regard to stolen iPhones.<p>My phone was snatched from my hands in the street. I was able to wipe it via &#x27;Find Devices&#x27; within a few minutes; I was able to track its location for the rest of the day, until I requested that my carrier irrevocably disable its network service. There was no evidence of any accesses of my information or accounts linked on the phone, then or since.<p>In the following days, it was still visible in my Apple device lists as mine, with reference information like its model and serial number – as it should have remained, indefinitely, to prevent anyone else from associating it with their accounts. (Until recently, I still had an iPhone 4 listed there that hasn&#x27;t been turned on for many years.)<p>But sometime since then, it was removed from my Apple account – without my permission, and with no notification to me. This step would also apparently allow someone else to use the device with Apple services.<p>Apple Support insists only a person who authenticated to them as me could have done that, and that they have no records of when&#x2F;how that happened – a policy that seems designed to help criminals cover their tracks, with no help to customers other than: &quot;you should change your password&quot;.<p>Further, even if I provide the serial-number&#x2F;IMEI with a police report, Apple says they <i>can&#x27;t</i> determine if they&#x27;ve activated Apple services to that stolen property for someone else or provide me with any further help.<p>I thus suspect theft networks have figured a way around Apple&#x27;s breezy assurances about locking-out stolen devices, perhaps similar to how they&#x27;ve often deeply pierced major telecom providers in order to carry out SIM-swap attacks.<p>But: if anyone on HN knows more about how the smartphone theft&#x2F;fencing (chop shop?) operations typically work, or how Apple&#x27;s systems do or don&#x27;t protect against post-theft hijacking of registered Apple devices, I&#x27;d love to hear perspectives that either flesh-out, or refute, my impressions that Apple&#x27;s related systems involve some false bluster &amp; &quot;security theater&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zapped</author><text>Well I kind of did circumvent this hurdle.<p>I got an iPhone from a relative, the relative had forgotten the passcode and the Apple ID password.<p>I did a factory reset of it via iTunes and of course when it started up and I started with the setup it said it was locked to *<i>@*</i>.com.<p>I contacted Apple support and they said I needed proof of purchase for them to unlock it.<p>I did not have any proof of purchase and neither did my relative.<p>But I refused to let that stop me. So I made a proof of purchase, printed it and went to an Apple store.<p>I told the Apple Genius about the iPhone and that it was locked but factory reset and presented the &quot;proof of purchase&quot;.<p>The Apple Genius went to get a manager or something and the manager checked the &quot;proof of purchase&quot; and then connected the iPhone to the store Wi-Fi and did some stuff on their iPad and rebooted the iPhone. The iPhone did a reset and then it was unlocked and ready to be setup without any hurdles.<p>So I am guessing some thieves have figured this out.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998665/apple-stolen-device-protection-face-touch-id-icloud-account-vulnerability-ios-17-3-beta</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gojomo</author><text>After a iPhone theft in Europe earlier this year, I don&#x27;t quite trust Apple&#x27;s assurances with regard to stolen iPhones.<p>My phone was snatched from my hands in the street. I was able to wipe it via &#x27;Find Devices&#x27; within a few minutes; I was able to track its location for the rest of the day, until I requested that my carrier irrevocably disable its network service. There was no evidence of any accesses of my information or accounts linked on the phone, then or since.<p>In the following days, it was still visible in my Apple device lists as mine, with reference information like its model and serial number – as it should have remained, indefinitely, to prevent anyone else from associating it with their accounts. (Until recently, I still had an iPhone 4 listed there that hasn&#x27;t been turned on for many years.)<p>But sometime since then, it was removed from my Apple account – without my permission, and with no notification to me. This step would also apparently allow someone else to use the device with Apple services.<p>Apple Support insists only a person who authenticated to them as me could have done that, and that they have no records of when&#x2F;how that happened – a policy that seems designed to help criminals cover their tracks, with no help to customers other than: &quot;you should change your password&quot;.<p>Further, even if I provide the serial-number&#x2F;IMEI with a police report, Apple says they <i>can&#x27;t</i> determine if they&#x27;ve activated Apple services to that stolen property for someone else or provide me with any further help.<p>I thus suspect theft networks have figured a way around Apple&#x27;s breezy assurances about locking-out stolen devices, perhaps similar to how they&#x27;ve often deeply pierced major telecom providers in order to carry out SIM-swap attacks.<p>But: if anyone on HN knows more about how the smartphone theft&#x2F;fencing (chop shop?) operations typically work, or how Apple&#x27;s systems do or don&#x27;t protect against post-theft hijacking of registered Apple devices, I&#x27;d love to hear perspectives that either flesh-out, or refute, my impressions that Apple&#x27;s related systems involve some false bluster &amp; &quot;security theater&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meindnoch</author><text>According to my friend at Apple, sometimes fairly low level employees have access to the internal system which can be used to dissociate devices from AppleIDs. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if some of them were compromised, as the pay is not great.<p>What&#x27;s more surprising is if they have no audit logs that would let them discover the compromised employee in these cases.</text></comment> |
30,193,790 | 30,194,179 | 1 | 3 | 30,192,558 | train | <story><title>I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-took-down-starlink-i-havent-cancelled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>My biggest gripe is the fact I can&#x27;t transfer it to my cousin, who lives on a farm with 300 Kbps DSL, 70 miles away.<p>Back when preorders started, it wasn&#x27;t obvious how slow Starlink would be to expand, and it also wasn&#x27;t obvious transfers wouldn&#x27;t be a supported feature for many months.<p>Even so, my cousin also signed up in hopes to get Starlink, and 11 months later her date was moved from &#x27;late 2021&#x27; to &#x27;late 2022&#x27;.<p>And yes, I&#x27;ve tried many address hacks to see if I could get my dish moved there, none have worked.<p>They shouldn&#x27;t have dropped the &#x27;beta&#x27; moniker last year if the service is truly so far from its final state (IMO).</text></item><item><author>fastaguy88</author><text>I get it. If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you. There are lots of questionable design choices (particularly in version 2), it&#x27;s picky about placement, etc. etc.<p>But if your other choice is HughesNet or its competitors, that throttles you after 15 GB (2 days of non-streaming usage for me), or 50 GB, the Starlink &quot;shortcomings&quot; are irrelevant. With Starlink, if you can get it, and if you can site it without blockages, you have &quot;real&quot; internet. Reasonable speeds and no caps&#x2F;throttling.<p>The massive over-subscription (presumably by people who have no functional alternative) suggests it serves a need.<p>Just not a need for people who have a non-DSL wired alternative, like Jeff Geerling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>traviswt</author><text>Disclaimer: I am a very happy Starlink customer that has no other option for internet besides terrible LTE.<p>Starlink never originally advertised the ability to transfer service or even sell your hardware. It was very clear from the beginning you had to use it for the address you provided, and their communication was very clear to that effect.<p>You are definitely correct that logically you should be able to sell your kit, transfer service, or just move with it (Elon has said you’ll eventually be able to use it on an RV). But you took that logical end result and set your own expectations based on assumptions that were not aligned with reality.<p>You are not in the target market, of course you’re going to be frustrated.</text></comment> | <story><title>I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-took-down-starlink-i-havent-cancelled</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geerlingguy</author><text>My biggest gripe is the fact I can&#x27;t transfer it to my cousin, who lives on a farm with 300 Kbps DSL, 70 miles away.<p>Back when preorders started, it wasn&#x27;t obvious how slow Starlink would be to expand, and it also wasn&#x27;t obvious transfers wouldn&#x27;t be a supported feature for many months.<p>Even so, my cousin also signed up in hopes to get Starlink, and 11 months later her date was moved from &#x27;late 2021&#x27; to &#x27;late 2022&#x27;.<p>And yes, I&#x27;ve tried many address hacks to see if I could get my dish moved there, none have worked.<p>They shouldn&#x27;t have dropped the &#x27;beta&#x27; moniker last year if the service is truly so far from its final state (IMO).</text></item><item><author>fastaguy88</author><text>I get it. If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you. There are lots of questionable design choices (particularly in version 2), it&#x27;s picky about placement, etc. etc.<p>But if your other choice is HughesNet or its competitors, that throttles you after 15 GB (2 days of non-streaming usage for me), or 50 GB, the Starlink &quot;shortcomings&quot; are irrelevant. With Starlink, if you can get it, and if you can site it without blockages, you have &quot;real&quot; internet. Reasonable speeds and no caps&#x2F;throttling.<p>The massive over-subscription (presumably by people who have no functional alternative) suggests it serves a need.<p>Just not a need for people who have a non-DSL wired alternative, like Jeff Geerling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anarazel</author><text>That&#x27;s within the feasible distance for a point to point wireless bridge. If geography permits - which is not that likely. Not cheap, but might be better than alternatives.</text></comment> |
16,645,435 | 16,645,408 | 1 | 3 | 16,645,075 | train | <story><title>Facebook was warned in 2011 of data loopholes exploited by Cambridge Analytica</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/business/tech/facebook-warned-2011-user-data-loopholes-exploited-cambridge-analytica-privacy-campaigner/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ecommerceguy</author><text>I guess I dont see the outrage. As someone who has been privy to tools (hidden api enablers) that some would consider darker &quot;hat&quot; I&#x27;ve been able since I was invited to beta test FB Product Ads in 2012, to cross pollinate an audience of people that like mint gum and are fans of Willie Nelson. Throw in local roasted buyers and late risers and I may have a super niche that nails a 800% ROI. Really powerful.<p>edit - and very happy, high ltv (as the kpi is known as) customers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook was warned in 2011 of data loopholes exploited by Cambridge Analytica</title><url>https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/business/tech/facebook-warned-2011-user-data-loopholes-exploited-cambridge-analytica-privacy-campaigner/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mirimir</author><text>The title is ambiguous. It was Max Schrems who warned Facebook in 2011. And Facebook said basically &quot;no problem&quot;, because users OK all that when they sign up.</text></comment> |
9,850,494 | 9,850,515 | 1 | 2 | 9,850,064 | train | <story><title>React on ES6+</title><url>http://babeljs.io/blog/2015/06/07/react-on-es6-plus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jozan</author><text>What&#x27;s the status of mixins? How could I do something similar in terms of functionality in ES6?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lukasm</author><text>You have 3 options if you want mixin behaviour:<p>- Use old syntax or explicitly add mixin to prototype
- Use composition. A bit annoying, because you have to make an extra class<p><pre><code> class OuterComponent extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
&lt;MixinComponent&gt;
&lt;InnerComponent &#x2F;&gt;
&lt;&#x2F;MixinComponent&gt;
);
}
}
class InnerComponent extends React.Component{}
</code></pre>
- wait for decorators (?)</text></comment> | <story><title>React on ES6+</title><url>http://babeljs.io/blog/2015/06/07/react-on-es6-plus/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jozan</author><text>What&#x27;s the status of mixins? How could I do something similar in terms of functionality in ES6?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drapper</author><text>Possibly decorators proposed for ES7 would be a solution here? Babel and TypeScript already support them.<p>By the way, TypeScript recently (in nightly) gained support for JSX, so we can now have all of this ES6 stuff + types on top of it.</text></comment> |
31,980,247 | 31,979,638 | 1 | 3 | 31,965,616 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity</title><text>It&#x27;s the start of the holidays. My daughter is 11 y&#x2F;o and I&#x27;m currently unemployed. I would like to do some projects with her that may interest her&#x2F;us while enjoying the time together. Any suggestions&#x2F; ideas would be great!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>We have such a weird culture around how we treat teenagers in this country. We all remember drinking and smoking as teens, but parents tends to rule with an iron fist and convince themselves that they have more control than their parents did, which means we force healthy normal curious kids to go out to a secluded area (probably by car) to get high or drunk or explore in other ways, away from an adult that could help if something goes wrong, and at a much greater chance of involving the police and putting their future in jeopardy. I respect you for giving your daughter and her friends a safe place to just be normal teenagers. I’m not saying parents should buy their teens a bottle of vodka but everyone should start from a place of being realistic and reducing harm.</text></item><item><author>oblib</author><text>I became a single parent when my daughter turned 1 year old. When she got old enough we&#x27;d go fishing, bicycling, swimming, and hiking a lot. We&#x27;d also go to a used book store twice a month (on pay day) so she could pick out a few books to read. She loved doing that.<p>She had no interest at all in learning how to code or gaming but she loved helping in the garden and in the kitchen prepping and cooking meals.<p>When she got to Jr. High she wanted to join the &quot;Cheerleader&quot; squad so there were a lot early morning rides to school I had to make, and lot&#x27;s of Basketball games I attended until she graduated, but I had a lot fun cheering along with them.<p>During those years I setup a campsite on our property so her and her friends could go hang out there. I&#x27;m sure they had more fun than most parents would approve of but they never got into any real trouble, the police were never called, and no one got hurt bad enough for the parents to call me. For the most part all those parents knew exactly where their kids were and what they were doing. And that I was close enough to deal with anything that came up. But there were never any serious issues.<p>She&#x27;s 37 years old now, still loves to hike, backpack, swim, fish, garden, and cook, and most important, she still likes to hang out with me!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HideousKojima</author><text>&gt;We all remember drinking and smoking as teens<p>Speak for yourself, worst thing I did in high school was play too many video games.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity</title><text>It&#x27;s the start of the holidays. My daughter is 11 y&#x2F;o and I&#x27;m currently unemployed. I would like to do some projects with her that may interest her&#x2F;us while enjoying the time together. Any suggestions&#x2F; ideas would be great!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>nickysielicki</author><text>We have such a weird culture around how we treat teenagers in this country. We all remember drinking and smoking as teens, but parents tends to rule with an iron fist and convince themselves that they have more control than their parents did, which means we force healthy normal curious kids to go out to a secluded area (probably by car) to get high or drunk or explore in other ways, away from an adult that could help if something goes wrong, and at a much greater chance of involving the police and putting their future in jeopardy. I respect you for giving your daughter and her friends a safe place to just be normal teenagers. I’m not saying parents should buy their teens a bottle of vodka but everyone should start from a place of being realistic and reducing harm.</text></item><item><author>oblib</author><text>I became a single parent when my daughter turned 1 year old. When she got old enough we&#x27;d go fishing, bicycling, swimming, and hiking a lot. We&#x27;d also go to a used book store twice a month (on pay day) so she could pick out a few books to read. She loved doing that.<p>She had no interest at all in learning how to code or gaming but she loved helping in the garden and in the kitchen prepping and cooking meals.<p>When she got to Jr. High she wanted to join the &quot;Cheerleader&quot; squad so there were a lot early morning rides to school I had to make, and lot&#x27;s of Basketball games I attended until she graduated, but I had a lot fun cheering along with them.<p>During those years I setup a campsite on our property so her and her friends could go hang out there. I&#x27;m sure they had more fun than most parents would approve of but they never got into any real trouble, the police were never called, and no one got hurt bad enough for the parents to call me. For the most part all those parents knew exactly where their kids were and what they were doing. And that I was close enough to deal with anything that came up. But there were never any serious issues.<p>She&#x27;s 37 years old now, still loves to hike, backpack, swim, fish, garden, and cook, and most important, she still likes to hang out with me!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lern_too_spel</author><text>Speak to your kids like adults, explaining why some choices lead to worse outcomes, and they will make choices like adults. Speak to kids like they&#x27;re slaves, and they will make rebellious choices like slaves. Don&#x27;t speak to your kids at all about decisions, and they will make poor decisions and wonder why their lives are so difficult.</text></comment> |
24,724,029 | 24,722,665 | 1 | 2 | 24,720,607 | train | <story><title>Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-break-traveling-salesperson-record-20201008/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&gt; able to subtract 0.2 billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent<p>...<p>&gt; “This is a result I have wanted all my career,” said David Williamson of Cornell University, who has been studying the traveling salesperson problem since the 1980s<p>I love this. Oh to be a theoretician.<p>Here&#x27;s hoping for a flood of further improvements.</text></comment> | <story><title>Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-break-traveling-salesperson-record-20201008/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>molticrystal</author><text>While it is wonderful they are getting closer to solving it, if your problem is a simple and practical you can try some alternative algorithms. For fun, I used pytspsa [0] which uses the simulated annealing method to solve the TSP and applied it to BOTW.<p>Simulated annealing was inspired by thermodynamic free energy involved in crystal formation from annealing metal. [1]<p>I combined it with a Breath of the Wild waypoint generator [2] to make my way around the map [3] in a mostly optimal fashion for my trip about Hyrule.<p>If you ever have a toy problem or even a real one, I suggest experimenting with pytspsa to see and understand in a concrete way the problem is solved.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ildoonet&#x2F;simulated-annealing-for-tsp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ildoonet&#x2F;simulated-annealing-for-tsp</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simulated_annealing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Simulated_annealing</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MrCheeze&#x2F;botw-waypoint-map" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;MrCheeze&#x2F;botw-waypoint-map</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;2829875&#x2F;28661246-0b631e52-7284-11e7-8bd5-71998c75b11b.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;2829875&#x2F;28661246-0...</a></text></comment> |
21,211,852 | 21,211,469 | 1 | 2 | 21,210,243 | train | <story><title>Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/opinion/china-houston-rockets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>augstein</author><text>I guess one thing that is obvious, is that an oppressive country like China can never win the race to attract the brightest, most creative minds. Nowadays people have options on where to live and from what I can see, these kind of people mostly prefer to live in more liberal societies.</text></item><item><author>riffraff</author><text>&gt; moral leverage is what you need in the long term; they can never become a superpower.<p>I do not understand what you mean by this, and what long term is to you. I want to be convinced, but I fail to see this as true.<p>What would be a superpower in your eyes, and which of the past examples of morally problematic powers (USSR, British&#x2F;Spanish&#x2F;Portuguese&#x2F;French empires,for example) do you consider not to meet the definition, or not to have been &quot;long term&quot;?</text></item><item><author>spectramax</author><text>In this light of recent heat up of issues with China, I want to share a positive story to contrast: I had a daily driver in Chengdu for over 1 month who spoke no English, zero, none at all - not even &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot;. We communicated via Google translate (on VPN). He would play Chinese music and then some days I would play some American rock and roll. We bonded in inexplicable ways. I had always commented on how I love the carved wooden letter that hangs on the taxi&#x27;s rear-view mirror. The ride was almost 1 hour in the morning and 2 hours in the evening back to the Hotel. We became friends. On the last day, he took the wooden ornament off, cupped it in his palm, held it against his chest, gave it to me with a glimmer in his eyes. Fuck, that was the most amazing human connection I&#x27;ve ever made.<p>I&#x27;ve worked in China in the semiconductor business, stayed there and absorbed some of the things the west does not even know. I recommend reading &quot;Poorly Made in China (2011)&quot; by Paul Midler. It is <i>surprisingly</i> good - factual, objective look of deep issues with China&#x27;s way of doing things. I resonate with the book with my personal experience.<p>Diplomacy is about being able to negotiate well, build trust and foster long term relationships, acknowledge mutual interests, differences and work towards solutions to problems. China has lost the brand image, probably forever. Despite a few positive experiences on the individual level, I hate working with Chinese businesses and would never want to go there. Fuck the Chinese government and its tentacles (Chinese corporations). The Chinese leadership does not understand that leadership is about inspiring others, taking care of the weak, keeping your promises and being able to independently think, innovate and set an example for other nations to follow. The way it is going, I can guarantee with certainty that they can have all the financial leverage, moral leverage is what you need in the long term; they can never become a superpower.<p>Edit: grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>goatinaboat</author><text><i>I guess one thing that is obvious, is that an oppressive country like China can never win the race to attract the brightest, most creative minds.</i><p>They have over a billion people have have made significant investments over decades to indoctrinate nationalistic fervour. They have zero need to attract anyone. By statistics alone they have more “bright, creative” people than US+UK+EU combined, and far greater willingness to employ those people for national goals. The same people we have working on adtech and similar nonsense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/opinion/china-houston-rockets.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>augstein</author><text>I guess one thing that is obvious, is that an oppressive country like China can never win the race to attract the brightest, most creative minds. Nowadays people have options on where to live and from what I can see, these kind of people mostly prefer to live in more liberal societies.</text></item><item><author>riffraff</author><text>&gt; moral leverage is what you need in the long term; they can never become a superpower.<p>I do not understand what you mean by this, and what long term is to you. I want to be convinced, but I fail to see this as true.<p>What would be a superpower in your eyes, and which of the past examples of morally problematic powers (USSR, British&#x2F;Spanish&#x2F;Portuguese&#x2F;French empires,for example) do you consider not to meet the definition, or not to have been &quot;long term&quot;?</text></item><item><author>spectramax</author><text>In this light of recent heat up of issues with China, I want to share a positive story to contrast: I had a daily driver in Chengdu for over 1 month who spoke no English, zero, none at all - not even &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot;. We communicated via Google translate (on VPN). He would play Chinese music and then some days I would play some American rock and roll. We bonded in inexplicable ways. I had always commented on how I love the carved wooden letter that hangs on the taxi&#x27;s rear-view mirror. The ride was almost 1 hour in the morning and 2 hours in the evening back to the Hotel. We became friends. On the last day, he took the wooden ornament off, cupped it in his palm, held it against his chest, gave it to me with a glimmer in his eyes. Fuck, that was the most amazing human connection I&#x27;ve ever made.<p>I&#x27;ve worked in China in the semiconductor business, stayed there and absorbed some of the things the west does not even know. I recommend reading &quot;Poorly Made in China (2011)&quot; by Paul Midler. It is <i>surprisingly</i> good - factual, objective look of deep issues with China&#x27;s way of doing things. I resonate with the book with my personal experience.<p>Diplomacy is about being able to negotiate well, build trust and foster long term relationships, acknowledge mutual interests, differences and work towards solutions to problems. China has lost the brand image, probably forever. Despite a few positive experiences on the individual level, I hate working with Chinese businesses and would never want to go there. Fuck the Chinese government and its tentacles (Chinese corporations). The Chinese leadership does not understand that leadership is about inspiring others, taking care of the weak, keeping your promises and being able to independently think, innovate and set an example for other nations to follow. The way it is going, I can guarantee with certainty that they can have all the financial leverage, moral leverage is what you need in the long term; they can never become a superpower.<p>Edit: grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nearbuy</author><text>Would they even need to attract foreigners? They have more people than all of North America and Europe combined.</text></comment> |
17,575,933 | 17,575,811 | 1 | 2 | 17,575,100 | train | <story><title>Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY labor board says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/uber-drivers-employees-for-unemployment-purposes-ny-labor-board-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hobls</author><text>This is important. We’re at risk of the “gig economy” undoing over a century of hard fought gains in workers rights. Minimum wage laws, unemployment, etc, these are good things that should be preserved.<p>Uber has clearly shown that they’re happy to be as exploitative as they’re allowed to be. (And that even when they’re specifically disallowed they’ll do everything they can to ignore it and fight the laws.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>koolba</author><text>&gt; This is important. We’re at risk of the “gig economy” undoing over a century of hard fought gains in workers rights.<p>There&#x27;s definitely work to be done to modernize our employment laws with the changes to the economy. It&#x27;s not a clear cut &quot;<i>Everybody is an employee</i>&quot; though.<p>If someone drives for Uber for 1-ride per month should Uber pay $1000&#x2F;mo for that driver&#x27;s health insurance? How about 1-ride per week? How about if they have the app &quot;on&quot; but never accept a ride? Should they be paid for the time they didn&#x27;t do any driving?<p>Clearly the driver isn&#x27;t an employee in the traditional sense of the word. But they also aren&#x27;t a totally independent contractor either as their livelihood is so closely tied to the platform of a private entity. My gut says to err on the side of not imposing restrictions or mandates until we figure out the right balance.<p>&gt; Minimum wage laws, unemployment, etc, these are good things that should be preserved.<p>Unemployment insurance, as it&#x27;s implemented in the USA through effectively a tax collected by a private entity, is a scamola. A better idea would be having the employee get their own private unemployment insurance. That would also lead to lower costs of insurance for workers that are less likely to be discharged.<p>&gt; Uber has clearly shown that they’re happy to be as exploitative as they’re allowed to be. (And that even when they’re specifically disallowed they’ll do everything they can to ignore it and fight the laws.)<p>Nobody is forcing drivers to drive for Uber. An argument may be that they were enticed with higher rates that were subsequently lowered in some markets. There&#x27;s also the argument that a lot of the drivers don&#x27;t under the total costs involved (double payroll tax, depreciation, etc) but by itself offering work in the &quot;gig economy&quot; isn&#x27;t exploitation. Uber (and Lyft, and ...) should be lauded for (net) creating thousands of jobs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY labor board says</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/uber-drivers-employees-for-unemployment-purposes-ny-labor-board-says/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hobls</author><text>This is important. We’re at risk of the “gig economy” undoing over a century of hard fought gains in workers rights. Minimum wage laws, unemployment, etc, these are good things that should be preserved.<p>Uber has clearly shown that they’re happy to be as exploitative as they’re allowed to be. (And that even when they’re specifically disallowed they’ll do everything they can to ignore it and fight the laws.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Yes they are; the idea of the gig economy is great, like, doing the odd job in your own time and earn some money, but there&#x27;s so many people that went ahead and are doing it full time as their primary source of income. The employees then compete with each other, driving the price down. And Uber&#x27;s laughing all the way to the bank because they don&#x27;t need to care about it, they&#x27;ll make money either way. In fact I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if Uber was lowering the prices to get more consumers to use ubers more often.</text></comment> |
32,107,658 | 32,107,278 | 1 | 2 | 32,105,037 | train | <story><title>What I think about network states</title><url>https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/07/13/networkstates.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nextgrid</author><text>&quot;Crypto&quot; people need to understand one thing: the real world does not give a shit what your blockchain says. For your crypto-based project to have any effect on the real world, you need some physical, trusted party to reconcile the state of the blockchain with the state of the real world... at which point you may just let the trusted party run a good old database.</text></comment> | <story><title>What I think about network states</title><url>https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/07/13/networkstates.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Communitivity</author><text>Balaji sounds bizarre. The strangeness of the idea that Bitcoin is conservative is eclipsed only by the idea everything is run by the CCP, Crypto, and the NYT. I read Vitalik&#x27;s take as a soft rebuke while trying to give honest consideration to the concept of a Network State.<p>However, for me &#x27;Network State&#x27; only seems to be a new term for a Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) that provides services typically provided by a government. I would have liked a term that highlights this connection more, perhaps something like Governing Autonomous Organization (GAO). Due apologies to the Government Account Office (also GAO).<p>I think better than Balaji takes on the concept can be found in the works of two science fiction authors, Neal Stephenson and Charlie Stross.<p>Neal Stephenson&#x27;s Snow Crash [1] (e.g., Distributed Republics [2]). May be of interest, but Stephenson is building a metaverse that may incorporate some of these concepts, called Laminal [3].<p>Accelerando [4], by Charlie Stross, takes the concept even further. It has literal distributed autonomous companies acting as shell corporations, executors, and more.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B000FBJCJE&#x2F;ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B000FBJCJE&#x2F;ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...</a><p>[2] Perry, Richard Warren (2000). &quot;Governmentalities in City-scapes: Introduction to the Symposium&quot;. Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 23 (1): 65–72. doi:10.1525&#x2F;pol.2000.23.1.65. ISSN 1081-6976. JSTOR 24497832.<p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decrypt.co&#x2F;102646&#x2F;snow-crash-author-neal-stephenson-is-building-a-free-metaverse-called-lamina1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;decrypt.co&#x2F;102646&#x2F;snow-crash-author-neal-stephenson-...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Accelerando" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Accelerando</a></text></comment> |
27,270,102 | 27,269,091 | 1 | 2 | 27,265,645 | train | <story><title>Why did bar ends go away from mountain bikes?</title><url>https://brainybiker.com/why-did-bar-ends-go-away-from-mountain-bikes-the-nostalgia-is-real/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brabel</author><text>&gt; uphill has been de-emphasized over downhill<p>Why is that? I used to do mountain biking and I loved the challenge of climbing a large hill more than the adrenaline of descending it, which I found a bit too risky to my liking :D ...</text></item><item><author>nicpottier</author><text>Single front chainrings came about from having wider and wider ranges on the rear and suspension designs being made possible by ditching the front derailleur. Yes, there&#x27;s some top end lost but the range is more the same than different than doubles or even triples.<p>As someone who has been mountain biking for over 25 years I would say the statement that uphill has been de-emphasized over downhill is absolutely correct. Enduro racing (where the uphills aren&#x27;t even timed) is a nice example of that.</text></item><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>I think the claim about de-emphasizing climbing is BS. I just looked at Trek, Giant and Specialized websites and -all- of their mtn bikes ditched the front derailleur and use small-rings in the front. If climbing was passe, why the crazy low gearing?<p>Bar-ends were add-ons for at least a decade (late-80&#x27;s early 90&#x27;s) before they became standard. They provide better control and stability because the radius&#x2F;ulna are not crossed like they are in the standard position. I think they disappeared because there was too much risk of hooking another rider (think packs of riders shoulder-to-shoulder grinding uphill), and not enough climbing or stability benefit.<p>Or perhaps aesthetics play more a part of mtnbike design than functionality?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dahart</author><text>Personally, I&#x27;d say this is a point of view, or a framing, that is relative. IMO, it&#x27;s not that climbing specifically has been de-emphasized, it&#x27;s just that the downhill experience has been emphasized more. Glass half full, etc...<p>Downhill issues have gotten a ton of attention, because there were problems to solve. Suspensions and geometry are making bikes a lot more stable feeling on descent. Try renting a 29er with a longer wheel base and a six inch suspension, and go down one of those previously risky feeling hills, you&#x27;ll be surprised how much less risky it seems now.<p>Uphill issues have gotten <i>relatively</i> less attention, because, perhaps, a climb is a climb. There&#x27;s little that can be done to improve climbs. Except suspensions are pretty good at firming up on the fly. And dropper post seats are amazing at being able to switch from descent to climb instantly.<p>In other words, climbing on today&#x27;s mountain bikes is better - slightly better - than it used to be. Going downhill today is much better than before.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why did bar ends go away from mountain bikes?</title><url>https://brainybiker.com/why-did-bar-ends-go-away-from-mountain-bikes-the-nostalgia-is-real/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brabel</author><text>&gt; uphill has been de-emphasized over downhill<p>Why is that? I used to do mountain biking and I loved the challenge of climbing a large hill more than the adrenaline of descending it, which I found a bit too risky to my liking :D ...</text></item><item><author>nicpottier</author><text>Single front chainrings came about from having wider and wider ranges on the rear and suspension designs being made possible by ditching the front derailleur. Yes, there&#x27;s some top end lost but the range is more the same than different than doubles or even triples.<p>As someone who has been mountain biking for over 25 years I would say the statement that uphill has been de-emphasized over downhill is absolutely correct. Enduro racing (where the uphills aren&#x27;t even timed) is a nice example of that.</text></item><item><author>SavantIdiot</author><text>I think the claim about de-emphasizing climbing is BS. I just looked at Trek, Giant and Specialized websites and -all- of their mtn bikes ditched the front derailleur and use small-rings in the front. If climbing was passe, why the crazy low gearing?<p>Bar-ends were add-ons for at least a decade (late-80&#x27;s early 90&#x27;s) before they became standard. They provide better control and stability because the radius&#x2F;ulna are not crossed like they are in the standard position. I think they disappeared because there was too much risk of hooking another rider (think packs of riders shoulder-to-shoulder grinding uphill), and not enough climbing or stability benefit.<p>Or perhaps aesthetics play more a part of mtnbike design than functionality?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigfudge</author><text>I think it’s because bikes have got so much better that downhills are now fun, rather than just sketchy and dangerous. For me it’s just evened things out so I now love doing both.</text></comment> |
29,960,980 | 29,959,207 | 1 | 3 | 29,958,247 | train | <story><title>Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB</title><url>https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-vendor-locking-ryzen-cpus-with-amd-psb-the-video/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alerighi</author><text>The problem is the AMD PSB functionality in itself. It should be considered malware like the Intel managament engine and thus refused by users. It&#x27;s a second processor that runs a proprietary firmware signed by the vendor (that the user cannot modify or substitute entirely with a FLOSS alternative) that vendors can use do harm to the user.<p>The AMD PSB can also be used to lock down a processor to enforce secure boot and thus don&#x27;t let you run an unsigned operating system, i.e. no longer allowing you to run Linux on your machine that comes out of the factory with Windows preinstalled. That would be a very very bad thing.<p>Unfortunately both for Intel and AMD you don&#x27;t have choices these days. I&#x27;m hoping someone develops a processor based on the RISCV architecture (a free architecture that doesn&#x27;t include that shit) to be used in a computer entirely under the control of the user (hardware and software) and not the corporation that makes it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjg59</author><text>You&#x27;re conflating two different things - AMD&#x27;s Platform Security Processor (PSP) and Platform Secure Boot (PSB). PSP is broadly equivalent to Intel&#x27;s ME, but lives on the CPU package rather than in the chipset. PSB is equivalent to Intel&#x27;s Boot Guard, a feature that verifies that the system firmware has a valid signature before letting the CPU boot it.<p>Both Boot Guard and PSB prevent you from modifying the system firmware (and, say, putting Coreboot on there), but because Boot Guard is implemented in the ME, and because the ME is in the chipset, not the CPU, you can take CPUs out of Intel-based systems and transfer them to somewhere else. If you do the same with a PSB-fused AMD, the firmware on the new board won&#x27;t be signed with the same key and it&#x27;ll refuse to boot.<p>None of this technology provides any real way to prevent you from booting Linux. If vendors wanted to do that, they could already just ship firmware that only supported the Windows signing key and didn&#x27;t let users enroll new keys. They don&#x27;t need PSP, ME, Boot Guard or PSB to do that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB</title><url>https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-vendor-locking-ryzen-cpus-with-amd-psb-the-video/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alerighi</author><text>The problem is the AMD PSB functionality in itself. It should be considered malware like the Intel managament engine and thus refused by users. It&#x27;s a second processor that runs a proprietary firmware signed by the vendor (that the user cannot modify or substitute entirely with a FLOSS alternative) that vendors can use do harm to the user.<p>The AMD PSB can also be used to lock down a processor to enforce secure boot and thus don&#x27;t let you run an unsigned operating system, i.e. no longer allowing you to run Linux on your machine that comes out of the factory with Windows preinstalled. That would be a very very bad thing.<p>Unfortunately both for Intel and AMD you don&#x27;t have choices these days. I&#x27;m hoping someone develops a processor based on the RISCV architecture (a free architecture that doesn&#x27;t include that shit) to be used in a computer entirely under the control of the user (hardware and software) and not the corporation that makes it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Terry_Roll</author><text>Well its only a question of time before someone starts targeting the Intel vPro Management Engine and AMD PSB to alter CPU abilities using variations of code like that found on Github below.
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;corna&#x2F;me_cleaner&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;me_cleaner.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;corna&#x2F;me_cleaner&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;me_cleaner.p...</a></text></comment> |
7,909,333 | 7,909,027 | 1 | 2 | 7,908,899 | train | <story><title>Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/bc-court-seeking-global-reach-orders-google-to-block-sites/article19212708/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bambax</author><text>This is insane.<p>The plaintiff, Equustek Solutions Inc., says the main defendant, Morgan Jack, sells networking devices that infringe on their trademark.<p>The defendant sells these things online; the plaintiff wants his websites to be dereferenced from Google.<p>The court agreed and asked Google to remove the links on all its properties worldwide (not just google.ca).<p>But what does Google have to do with this?<p>Why does the plaintiff not go after the infringer, to shut his websites down and&#x2F;or fine him and&#x2F;or get him in prison?<p>Telling Google to remove the links (worldwide!!) is like issuing an injunction against all restaurants the world over to stop selling food to anyone called &quot;Morgan Jack&quot; in the remote chance it will have an effect on his business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shakethemonkey</author><text>This wouldn&#x27;t fly in the USA:<p>&quot;It is clear from the record that Google was never named as a party to the suit, was never served with process, never waived or accepted process, and never made an appearance in the suit before the expunction order was entered. Nothing in the record establishes that Google stands in privity to the commission or to Jackson. Accordingly, we hold that Google was not a party to the suit and that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter orders against Google.&quot; [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140609/07402727525/texas-appeals-court-vacates-order-commanding-google-to-hunt-down-third-party-content-destroy-it.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20140609&#x2F;07402727525&#x2F;texas...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/bc-court-seeking-global-reach-orders-google-to-block-sites/article19212708/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bambax</author><text>This is insane.<p>The plaintiff, Equustek Solutions Inc., says the main defendant, Morgan Jack, sells networking devices that infringe on their trademark.<p>The defendant sells these things online; the plaintiff wants his websites to be dereferenced from Google.<p>The court agreed and asked Google to remove the links on all its properties worldwide (not just google.ca).<p>But what does Google have to do with this?<p>Why does the plaintiff not go after the infringer, to shut his websites down and&#x2F;or fine him and&#x2F;or get him in prison?<p>Telling Google to remove the links (worldwide!!) is like issuing an injunction against all restaurants the world over to stop selling food to anyone called &quot;Morgan Jack&quot; in the remote chance it will have an effect on his business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>Some part of me wonders what would happen if they were to turn off Google to Canada for a day and list the judge&#x27;s phone number as the person to complain to.<p>(Probably one very angry judge, but I wonder...)</text></comment> |
29,208,210 | 29,204,664 | 1 | 3 | 29,198,205 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Long Range E-Bike</title><url>https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twodave</author><text>Awesome project Jacques! I saw a comment of yours on an article a day or two ago and was hoping to see this pop up soon.<p>I&#x27;ve found the most difficult thing about riding an e-bike is the other motorists have no idea how to react to you. You&#x27;re not really a regular bicycle anymore due to your speed, but you&#x27;re also not a motorcycle that deserves its own lane. I have at least one car turn in front of me almost every trip out just because they&#x27;re misjudging my speed. I get honked and yelled at when on the road because folks get frustrated when I&#x27;m using the left-hand side of the right-turn lane as a bike path.<p>Sidewalks&#x2F;bike paths tend to be a lot less safe in residential areas as well, since cars coming out of their driveways really don&#x27;t expect an e-bike to come rolling through. I&#x27;ve learned to dramatically reduce speed in areas like this.<p>Aside from those things, I love it! I ride the e-bike whenever I&#x27;m going somewhere in range (I live in Florida so things tend to be spread out) and the weather permits. My bike gets about 80km which is more than enough for anyplace I want to go on a bicycle anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>salmonellaeater</author><text>&gt; but you&#x27;re also not a motorcycle that deserves its own lane. I have at least one car turn in front of me almost every trip out just because they&#x27;re misjudging my speed. I get honked and yelled at when on the road because folks get frustrated when I&#x27;m using the left-hand side of the right-turn lane as a bike path.<p>Cycling is my primary mode of transportation, and I&#x27;ve found a couple things help with this:<p>1. Take the lane any time there&#x27;s a chance of conflict such as a right hook, and when there is not enough space for a car to safely pass [1][2]<p>2. Use a headlight all the time, even during the day. This is what motorcyclists do, and when I made this change I noted a major drop in the number of drivers that turn without noticing me.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vehicular_cycling#Lane_control" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vehicular_cycling#Lane_control</a><p>[2] This page has descriptions of several types of collision, with example videos and how to choose a lane position that avoids them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iamtraffic.org&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;behaviors-and-risk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iamtraffic.org&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;behaviors-and-risk&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Long Range E-Bike</title><url>https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twodave</author><text>Awesome project Jacques! I saw a comment of yours on an article a day or two ago and was hoping to see this pop up soon.<p>I&#x27;ve found the most difficult thing about riding an e-bike is the other motorists have no idea how to react to you. You&#x27;re not really a regular bicycle anymore due to your speed, but you&#x27;re also not a motorcycle that deserves its own lane. I have at least one car turn in front of me almost every trip out just because they&#x27;re misjudging my speed. I get honked and yelled at when on the road because folks get frustrated when I&#x27;m using the left-hand side of the right-turn lane as a bike path.<p>Sidewalks&#x2F;bike paths tend to be a lot less safe in residential areas as well, since cars coming out of their driveways really don&#x27;t expect an e-bike to come rolling through. I&#x27;ve learned to dramatically reduce speed in areas like this.<p>Aside from those things, I love it! I ride the e-bike whenever I&#x27;m going somewhere in range (I live in Florida so things tend to be spread out) and the weather permits. My bike gets about 80km which is more than enough for anyplace I want to go on a bicycle anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stef25</author><text>Whatever you do in traffic, be very careful. I&#x27;m still driving a car and inner city traffic is basically slaloming between cyclists. If something goes wrong, only one of us will end up in hospital.<p>I do also ride my bike on weekends have have been riding a 650cc motorbike for 15+ years, so not at all against 2 wheels. It&#x27;s just that most people on two wheels seem to have started very recently and they don&#x27;t know how to behave.</text></comment> |
35,986,950 | 35,986,586 | 1 | 2 | 35,982,083 | train | <story><title>Simulated Hospital</title><url>https://github.com/google/simhospital</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duffpkg</author><text>I am frequently asked about why systems in institutional healthcare are so hard to modernize, this has come up a lot related to pricing transparency. While HL7 is in theory a standard, in practice it is a semi-parseable &quot;email&quot; between two parties that know each other.<p>Widely used systems like EPIC have bugs and quirks that have existed so long that the bugs themselves have become their own standard. Because HL7 relationships typically happen between longterm consistent partners both parties tend to evolve the format to suit localized needs and this business logic and the reasons for it are lost to time. It isn&#x27;t that rare to find HL7 interfaces that have been in use for 20+ years that have become vital black boxes. HL7 2.x, still widely used, was originated in 1989.<p>In a lot of case modernization like FHIR is nothing more than taking the old garbage and putting it in a new fancier bag.<p>As whacky as HL7 may seem it is really nothing compared to its much bigger uglier older brother, X12 837&#x2F;835, used for communication of billing information from performing entity to insurer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ethbr0</author><text>I don&#x27;t have enough fingers to count the times I was doing automation in healthcare, implemented the process to spec, and then had a bunch of test cases flagged as failing.<p>Turns out, for large known counterparties, there are indeed de facto processes that incorporate each party&#x27;s eccentricities and are &quot;known&quot; on the floor (processors typically have long tenures in their jobs) but unknown above a certain level of management.<p>E.g. a large children&#x27;s hospital that reliably spit out misformatted requests to the local payer, but which the payer papered over on their side by converting them to payable requests (naughty, but kept them from bouncing back and requiring resubmission)... and had been doing so for 10+ years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Simulated Hospital</title><url>https://github.com/google/simhospital</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duffpkg</author><text>I am frequently asked about why systems in institutional healthcare are so hard to modernize, this has come up a lot related to pricing transparency. While HL7 is in theory a standard, in practice it is a semi-parseable &quot;email&quot; between two parties that know each other.<p>Widely used systems like EPIC have bugs and quirks that have existed so long that the bugs themselves have become their own standard. Because HL7 relationships typically happen between longterm consistent partners both parties tend to evolve the format to suit localized needs and this business logic and the reasons for it are lost to time. It isn&#x27;t that rare to find HL7 interfaces that have been in use for 20+ years that have become vital black boxes. HL7 2.x, still widely used, was originated in 1989.<p>In a lot of case modernization like FHIR is nothing more than taking the old garbage and putting it in a new fancier bag.<p>As whacky as HL7 may seem it is really nothing compared to its much bigger uglier older brother, X12 837&#x2F;835, used for communication of billing information from performing entity to insurer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ArtWomb</author><text>Bizarro-world that doctors actually defend EPIC! They all complain about the ASP.NET 1.0 UI. It&#x27;s just the convenience of viewing all patients from all hospitals in one virtual &quot;chart&quot; ;)</text></comment> |
20,701,640 | 20,701,619 | 1 | 2 | 20,700,377 | train | <story><title>Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound</title><url>https://www.mercedesbenzofnatick.com/new-features-mercedes-benz-comand-system.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whenchamenia</author><text>At least in most of the usa, wearing earplugs (or earbuds, headphones, etc) while operating a car, is illegal. Please check with your local PD to be safe. You may just be putting yourself and others at higher risk by attinuating your situational awareness.</text></item><item><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>I’ve taken up wearing earplugs while driving.<p>I also work in a noisy environment, and it occurs to me that the road and engine and wind noise is probably loud enough to have a negative impact on hearing over time. Less so in newer cars, but both mine are over 10yo.<p>Also, in the event of a collision I’m protected.</text></item><item><author>taylorlapeyre</author><text>I lost most of my hearing in my left ear in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. No other injuries. The audiologist said that my eardrum was in the kind of state you usually only see in battlefields from exposure to large explosions.<p>People are always surprised when I tell them this was my only injury, and as a result I&#x27;ve always wondered how common this type of injury is with vehicle collisions. This is the first thing I&#x27;ve seen which makes me believe that it&#x27;s a lot more common than people suspect.<p>Very cool! I hope this is taken up by other brands as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epalm</author><text>I wear earplugs when I ride my motorcycle for longer trips on the highway. When people see this, they say &quot;that&#x27;s dangerous, you&#x27;ll hear less&quot; but it mostly cuts the wind noise, and counter-intuitively I end up hearing more than I would otherwise.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound</title><url>https://www.mercedesbenzofnatick.com/new-features-mercedes-benz-comand-system.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whenchamenia</author><text>At least in most of the usa, wearing earplugs (or earbuds, headphones, etc) while operating a car, is illegal. Please check with your local PD to be safe. You may just be putting yourself and others at higher risk by attinuating your situational awareness.</text></item><item><author>TheSpiceIsLife</author><text>I’ve taken up wearing earplugs while driving.<p>I also work in a noisy environment, and it occurs to me that the road and engine and wind noise is probably loud enough to have a negative impact on hearing over time. Less so in newer cars, but both mine are over 10yo.<p>Also, in the event of a collision I’m protected.</text></item><item><author>taylorlapeyre</author><text>I lost most of my hearing in my left ear in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. No other injuries. The audiologist said that my eardrum was in the kind of state you usually only see in battlefields from exposure to large explosions.<p>People are always surprised when I tell them this was my only injury, and as a result I&#x27;ve always wondered how common this type of injury is with vehicle collisions. This is the first thing I&#x27;ve seen which makes me believe that it&#x27;s a lot more common than people suspect.<p>Very cool! I hope this is taken up by other brands as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phinnaeus</author><text>On a motorcycle, earplugs are a necessity at speeds over 35 MPH due to wind noise. I&#x27;ve found that the earplugs really only cut out the wind noise for the most part though and if anything, my awareness of other cars is increased.</text></comment> |
20,903,889 | 20,903,812 | 1 | 2 | 20,902,399 | train | <story><title>Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing</title><url>https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/07/malicious-attack-on-wikipedia-what-we-know-and-what-were-doing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedieaston</author><text>Remember: there are BitTorrent links that the Wikimedia Foundation gives out of SQL dumps of Wikipedia and the other projects. You can have a copy in case this happens in your country: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Database_download#Where_do_I_get_it.3F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wikipedia:Database_download#Wh...</a><p>Also, the Kiwix project has a hotspot project that allows you to host ZIM files (dumps of Wikipedia and other CC licensed content, like TED talks and StackOverflow) on a Raspberry Pi, allowing you to share it with others. Setup info here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kiwix.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;kiwix-hotspot&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kiwix.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;downloads&#x2F;kiwix-hotspot&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing</title><url>https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/07/malicious-attack-on-wikipedia-what-we-know-and-what-were-doing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>Someone claimed the attack on twitter with some details (DDoS) - and proved it later by stopping the attack for x minutes then restarting it at a specific time. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fs0c131y&#x2F;status&#x2F;1170093562878472194?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;fs0c131y&#x2F;status&#x2F;1170093562878472194?s=20</a> - the attacker also went on to DDoS the twitch ingest servers (not twitch.tv itself) knocking some big streamers offline.</text></comment> |
20,224,797 | 20,224,327 | 1 | 2 | 20,222,349 | train | <story><title>Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/c20aed/facebook_just_picked_rust_to_implement_their_new/erhsz9q/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvilka</author><text>And WindRiver just sent their first pull request[1] to support VxWorks as a target.<p>Shameless plug - I made a proposal[2] to create Business Applications Working Group to help promote Rust in enterprise software, quant and &quot;normal&quot; finances, taxes, and governance, the areas now completely dominated by COBOL and Java. Rust is a perfect fit for such applications, offering more safety and security, speed and higher levels of abstraction. Hopefully, formal verification will arrive soon as well.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;61946" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;61946</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internals.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;proposal-business-applications-working-group&#x2F;10400&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internals.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;proposal-business-applicat...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hello_moto</author><text>Please don&#x27;t take this personally.<p>I think it&#x27;s great that you wanted to push Rust to the area where Java flourished (by Java I&#x27;m guessing Enterprise?). I respect your passion.<p>Personally, I never like a language that has esoteric syntax utilizing various non-alphabetical characters. Perhaps this particular aspect is what drew me to languages like Java&#x2F;JavaScript. I don&#x27;t mind writing &quot;public static void&quot; because writing code is like 10-20% (the rest is code-review, meeting stakeholders&#x2F;Product Owner&#x2F;PM, come up with plans, write documentations, etc) of my activity throughout a decade of my career as a Dev.<p>There are some caveats (or rather ... personal dislike) with Java and JavaScript for example: I don&#x27;t like the Closure syntax in Java and I don&#x27;t like the fact that JavaScript lacks cohesiveness =&gt; People who write ES5 code do have to implement patterns specific to JS in order to re-create some of the OOP constructs. ES6 with Class&#x2F;constructor&#x2F;static syntax help but then they added generator via &#x27;*&#x27; (asterisk, but why? why don&#x27;t use the keyword &#x27;gen&#x27; or &#x27;generator&#x27; just like async&#x2F;await keywords?).<p>The other thing I realized lately is that I prefer GC platform&#x2F;ecosystem so that I can focus less on the platform itself.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/c20aed/facebook_just_picked_rust_to_implement_their_new/erhsz9q/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xvilka</author><text>And WindRiver just sent their first pull request[1] to support VxWorks as a target.<p>Shameless plug - I made a proposal[2] to create Business Applications Working Group to help promote Rust in enterprise software, quant and &quot;normal&quot; finances, taxes, and governance, the areas now completely dominated by COBOL and Java. Rust is a perfect fit for such applications, offering more safety and security, speed and higher levels of abstraction. Hopefully, formal verification will arrive soon as well.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;61946" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;61946</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internals.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;proposal-business-applications-working-group&#x2F;10400&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;internals.rust-lang.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;proposal-business-applicat...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wbl</author><text>You don&#x27;t need to avoid the GC. Why not SML or the like? Why Rust?</text></comment> |
5,617,871 | 5,617,818 | 1 | 3 | 5,617,423 | train | <story><title>Elixir, a functional metaprogramming-aware language built on the Erlang VM</title><url>http://elixir-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colanderman</author><text>1) Where is the language documentation? The "Docs" section only seems to address the libraries. Libraries are uninteresting if you're designing a new language.<p>2) How does Elixir address the problems that Javascript-style metaprogramming (i.e. first-class definitions) cause for automatic program analysis? Erlang has some great analysis tools (e.g. Dialyzer) precisely because it's simple.<p>3) How is Elixir's first-class definition approach more useful than multi-stage programming (such as MetaOCaml: <a href="http://www.metaocaml.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.metaocaml.org/</a>), principled syntax extension (such as CamlP4: <a href="http://pauillac.inria.fr/camlp4/" rel="nofollow">http://pauillac.inria.fr/camlp4/</a>), or second-class higher-order modules (such as OCaml's functors), each of which are inherently more amenable to automatic analysis?<p>4) Almost every "old" computer language has slowly moved <i>away</i> from unprincipled metaprogramming precisely because it's difficult to reason about, for both humans and computers. (C, JavaScript, and Python, to name a few, all have unprincipled metaprogramming facilities, which have been, over time, relegated to specific use patterns to maintain coder sanity.) What do we hope to gain from a new language whose <i>raison d'être</i> is based on this feature?<p>(P.S. All these points seem to apply equally well to Joe Armstrong's "erl2".)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>&#62; 4) Almost every "old" computer language has slowly moved away from unprincipled metaprogramming precisely because it's difficult to reason about, for both humans and computers. (C, JavaScript, and Python, to name a few, all have unprincipled metaprogramming facilities, which have been, over time, relegated to specific use patterns to maintain coder sanity.) What do we hope to gain from a new language whose raison d'être is based on this feature?<p>This complaint makes little sense, because macros are expanded entirely at compile-time. Reasoning about a macro is no harder than reasoning about a higher-order function: you reason about the macro function (which is a simple transformation on some tree data structure), and the generated function. Because a macro is always expanded at compile-time, you can always expand it and inspect the generated function.<p>I wouldn't use Javascript and Python as examples here--those languages, suffering from their lack of meta-programming, instead encourage heinous things like monkey-patching and runtime introspection, which are insanely difficult to reason about.<p>Compare: what I might do in Common Lisp by writing a set of macros (and checking the expansions--just a hotkey away in my IDE) I'd do in Python by adding fields and methods to objects at runtime.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elixir, a functional metaprogramming-aware language built on the Erlang VM</title><url>http://elixir-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colanderman</author><text>1) Where is the language documentation? The "Docs" section only seems to address the libraries. Libraries are uninteresting if you're designing a new language.<p>2) How does Elixir address the problems that Javascript-style metaprogramming (i.e. first-class definitions) cause for automatic program analysis? Erlang has some great analysis tools (e.g. Dialyzer) precisely because it's simple.<p>3) How is Elixir's first-class definition approach more useful than multi-stage programming (such as MetaOCaml: <a href="http://www.metaocaml.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.metaocaml.org/</a>), principled syntax extension (such as CamlP4: <a href="http://pauillac.inria.fr/camlp4/" rel="nofollow">http://pauillac.inria.fr/camlp4/</a>), or second-class higher-order modules (such as OCaml's functors), each of which are inherently more amenable to automatic analysis?<p>4) Almost every "old" computer language has slowly moved <i>away</i> from unprincipled metaprogramming precisely because it's difficult to reason about, for both humans and computers. (C, JavaScript, and Python, to name a few, all have unprincipled metaprogramming facilities, which have been, over time, relegated to specific use patterns to maintain coder sanity.) What do we hope to gain from a new language whose <i>raison d'être</i> is based on this feature?<p>(P.S. All these points seem to apply equally well to Joe Armstrong's "erl2".)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nnq</author><text>sorry to ask, but what do you mean by "unprincipled metaprogramming"? what would be "principled metaprogramming" to contrast it with? (it's really the first time I heard the terms in a macro discussion...)</text></comment> |
41,512,272 | 41,511,165 | 1 | 3 | 41,504,331 | train | <story><title>Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives</title><url>https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgarland</author><text>Related, CD-Rs. When I left my submarine in 2013, they (by which I mean the entire Virginia class) were still using them to store archived logs, despite my explanation that they’d be lucky to get a decade out of them. The first chosen storage location was literally the hottest part of the engine room, right in between the main engines. Easily 120+ F at all times. After protest, we moved ours to a somewhat cooler location. Still hot, and still with atmospheric oil and other fun chemicals floating around.<p>I look forward to the first time logs from a few decades ago are required, and the media is absolutely dead.<p>EDIT: they weren’t even Azo dye, they were phthalocyanine. A decade was probably generous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6510</author><text>I was curious how some of the more wealthy yacht owners solved the marine puzzle. What kind of computer would they use? What kind of parts would go in? What would a basic system cost? So I asked one, he opened up a compartment with a stack of cheap Acer laptops vacuum sealed in bags. They last 2 to 6 months, when they stop working he throws them away. The sealed one has everything installed, a full battery and will sync as soon as internet becomes available. When plugged into something the new laptop is never the problem. He spend a small fortune arriving at this solution.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives</title><url>https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgarland</author><text>Related, CD-Rs. When I left my submarine in 2013, they (by which I mean the entire Virginia class) were still using them to store archived logs, despite my explanation that they’d be lucky to get a decade out of them. The first chosen storage location was literally the hottest part of the engine room, right in between the main engines. Easily 120+ F at all times. After protest, we moved ours to a somewhat cooler location. Still hot, and still with atmospheric oil and other fun chemicals floating around.<p>I look forward to the first time logs from a few decades ago are required, and the media is absolutely dead.<p>EDIT: they weren’t even Azo dye, they were phthalocyanine. A decade was probably generous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1oooqooq</author><text>That sounds like it was very much by design and nobody wanted those logs to survive</text></comment> |
37,157,948 | 37,158,132 | 1 | 3 | 37,156,373 | train | <story><title>A search for technosignatures around nearby stars</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02712</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Geee</author><text>Is anyone looking at the stars itself? Isn&#x27;t modulating the light from a star the easiest way to transmit information afar? This would be the case if you want someone to notice.<p>If I was a digital superintelligence, I would try to conquer the universe by transmitting myself everywhere with maximum power, including instructions to construct a computer which can run me. I could do this by constructing a modulating device around a star. Surely there would be some sort of &#x27;easy detection code&#x27; which allows primitive species to first notice the signal and start studying it, and then progressively include more advanced instructions + data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyberax</author><text>&gt; If I was a digital superintelligence, I would try to conquer the universe by transmitting myself everywhere with maximum power<p>Hah. This is the plot of &quot;Existence&quot; by David Brin.<p>In this book, civilizations are destroyed by crystals, containing computers running virtual realities for its inhabitants. The inhabitants subvert the civilizations, giving them technology to build these crystals, upload themselves into them, and then spend all the resources to spam the universe with these crystals.</text></comment> | <story><title>A search for technosignatures around nearby stars</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02712</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Geee</author><text>Is anyone looking at the stars itself? Isn&#x27;t modulating the light from a star the easiest way to transmit information afar? This would be the case if you want someone to notice.<p>If I was a digital superintelligence, I would try to conquer the universe by transmitting myself everywhere with maximum power, including instructions to construct a computer which can run me. I could do this by constructing a modulating device around a star. Surely there would be some sort of &#x27;easy detection code&#x27; which allows primitive species to first notice the signal and start studying it, and then progressively include more advanced instructions + data.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>Building something around a star would require so much effort. would it not be easier to send out something at a further distance so it could be smaller and eclipse the star for anything on that path? you could then open&#x2F;close it like a shutter to make it blink the signal. you&#x27;d have to put one in the line of sight for each thing you&#x27;re communicating with, but that still seems easier than some dyson sphere type object</text></comment> |
2,771,431 | 2,771,027 | 1 | 2 | 2,770,866 | train | <story><title>Brubeck: A new Python web framework running on mongrel2</title><url>http://brubeck.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mbrubeck</author><text>I must say, I did a double-take when I saw the front page of HN today.<p><i>I get that it follows the theme of Django and Sinatra. But Brubeck is not a very common name (the musician Dave Brubeck is my second cousin) and I don't normally see the musical Brubecks intrude into "my" domain.</i> :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Brubeck: A new Python web framework running on mongrel2</title><url>http://brubeck.io/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>po</author><text>OK, now this is interesting. Like twisted or Node.js enabled a new class of web applications, this is offering a lot more than just another Rails/Django clone. I'm happy that there are so many frameworks to choose from based on your personal preferences, but I'm <i>really</i> happy to see a project trying something completely different.<p>This is the first time j2labs crossed my radar… is this part of a larger project? Anyone in the know want to give the backstory on how this came about?</text></comment> |
38,199,353 | 38,196,194 | 1 | 2 | 38,193,354 | train | <story><title>Inside the weird and delightful origins of the jungle gym, which just turned 100</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/11/08/1209932614/jungle-gym-playground-monkey-bars-maths-hinton-fourth-dimension</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sudobash1</author><text>If you want to see more old-school playground structures, this link has plenty: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rarehistoricalphotos.com&#x2F;dangerous-playgrounds-1900s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rarehistoricalphotos.com&#x2F;dangerous-playgrounds-1900s...</a><p>As I kid, I would have loved to have played on all of these (and in a few parks got a chance to).</text></comment> | <story><title>Inside the weird and delightful origins of the jungle gym, which just turned 100</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2023/11/08/1209932614/jungle-gym-playground-monkey-bars-maths-hinton-fourth-dimension</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doctoboggan</author><text>Tom Scott has an interesting recent video on this topic as well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rn_8GXNN7_Q">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rn_8GXNN7_Q</a></text></comment> |
7,953,462 | 7,951,847 | 1 | 2 | 7,951,152 | train | <story><title>Where KDE is Going – Part 1</title><url>http://dot.kde.org/2014/06/26/where-kde-going-part-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Nanzikambe</author><text>I love and use KDE on both my workstation and laptop. However over the decades, and especially since v4, I&#x27;ve seen it grow into something I barely recognise. Some things have to change:<p><pre><code> 1&#x2F; Remove akonadi&#x2F;nepomuk&#x2F;mysql - a full mysql install just to provide a data store for &quot;PIM and metadata&quot; is ludicrous.
2&#x2F; Make sure the Semantic desktop&#x2F;Semantic Search&#x2F;nepomuk is optional. I respect that it maybe useful for some, but please respect that it may not be useful for all.
3&#x2F; Ditto for consolekit&#x2F;policykit
4&#x2F; Ditto for KDE PIM. The moment Kopete, Konversation, Kaddressbook etc depended upon the PIM stuff, was the moment I dropped them for Pidgin. Why? See point #1
</code></pre>
It took me 12 hours to get kdelibs-4.12.5 + the rest of kde-base built without consolekit, policykit, akonadi, nepomuk, udisks&#x2F;udisks2, upower, raptor, redland, gstreamer, virtuoso, soprano and canberra. But the result is a clean, usable and fast desktop, ie. the desktop I want! If I have to do that each time I upgrade, I&#x27;m going to look at other options. I&#x27;m most definitely not alone in this, a search on any of #1-4 will find hordes of frustrated people spending time figuring out ways to remove all these unwanted features.<p>For many users, removing all the above isn&#x27;t an option. For users its complex and time consuming. Failing to make them optional (rather than default) KDE will suffer -- losing users, as memory consumed by an idle desktop triggers horrific flashbacks to darker Windows days.<p>My perception as a user is that Gnome (minimalism uber alles) and KDE (everything and the kitchen sink) have gone to extremes and forgotten their user base.</text></comment> | <story><title>Where KDE is Going – Part 1</title><url>http://dot.kde.org/2014/06/26/where-kde-going-part-1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nisa</author><text>I have huge respect for everyone involved in KDE and OpenSource software and I&#x27;m writing this on KDE 4.13 but damn... it still sucks. Maybe I&#x27;m the wrong user.. but I do programming and do sysadmin stuff most of the time..<p>First the good parts: KDE is quite stable for me. I have hardly any crashes... this is huge as Unity had some ugly bugs I could not resolve.<p>But I had to install the Numix theme and icons and tweak knobs to get a common look between KDE&#x2F;GTK2&#x2F;GTK3.. I found the default Oxygen ugly and not well designed but this is probably a question of taste.<p>With Numix the machine feels and looks great but I&#x27;m not so happy after installing Windows 8.1 on an 10 year old Pentium M notebook with 2GB RAM and having to realize that Windows is way faster and responsive and more feature-rich than KDE and Unity and requires less RAM.<p>I&#x27;m not trolling - I&#x27;m talking about stuff like browsing files using the file manager and using a browser or office for writing documents.<p>Back to KDE: I don&#x27;t understand Plasma at all - I don&#x27;t use &quot;activities&quot; I tried it but found it useless. I don&#x27;t care about widgets. I&#x27;d care more if the widgets would not be so useless.. something like gkrellm that ran on fvwm95 gives me more and better data about cpu&#x2F;disk&#x2F;network usage than any widgets I&#x27;ve found in the collections.<p>Memory... at least 400MB RSS after a fresh boot running only Konsole. No semenatic desktop, no Akonadi, no widgets... This is just crazy.<p>I have no SSD and 4GB RAM - maybe I&#x27;m too cheap for KDE but Akonadi and all semantic desktop parts never worked for me.<p>Why can&#x27;t I disable the desktop search? After some hours googling I managed to kill most of Akonadi and Desktop search but I really would enjoy something like a minimal KDE desktop.<p>Dolphin&#x2F;Kwin&#x2F;Konsole&#x2F;Kate&#x2F;Okular are really great tools, through and I enjoy using them more than the Gnome tools..<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m an old grumpy user - I really enjoy the Unity concept and even found Gnome3 interesting but I&#x27;m still feel some longing from time to time for the speed and functionality of KDE 3.5.<p>But overall I can work with KDE. I would be probably a lot more happy if I had a SSD and 16GB RAM and well.. that sucks. I don&#x27;t want to install Windows on this machine for it to be faster!<p>I know there are alternatives.. but running Windows 8.1 on this 10 year old Pentium M notebook just made clear to me that the problem is not the hardware - it&#x27;s the software.<p>Why is it so hard to to have a highly functional and low-footprint system?</text></comment> |
7,821,830 | 7,821,845 | 1 | 2 | 7,821,120 | train | <story><title>Java 8 Features</title><url>http://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-8-Quiet-Features?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=8java_article</url><text>If you haven’t seen some of the videos or tutorials around Java 8, you’ve probably been super-busy or have a more interesting social life than I do (which isn’t saying much). With new features like lambda expressions and Project Nashorn taking so much of the spotlight, I wanted to focus on some new APIs that have been a bit under the radar, but make Java 8 better in so many ways.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>goblue96</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait to do code reviews where people are sprinkling parallelSort() all over the place, not understanding the consequences.<p>Serious question: isn&#x27;t this something the JVM could abstract away?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhauer</author><text>Good point. There is definitely a challenge of knowing when a single-threaded collection or stream operation may be preferable to the parallel option. When my colleague wrote his summary of Java 8 [1], he wrote:<p><i>Returning to the concept of parallel streams, it&#x27;s important to note that parallelism is not free. It&#x27;s not free from a performance standpoint, and you can&#x27;t simply swap out a sequential stream for a parallel one and expect the results to be identical without further thought. There are properties to consider about your stream, its operations, and the destination for its data before you can (or should) parallelize a stream. For instance: Does encounter order matter to me? Are my functions stateless? Is my stream large enough and are my operations complex enough to make parallelism worthwhile?</i><p>The author of the linked InfoQ article (OP) cites that same dilemma by explaining the potential for context-switching overhead to counter the advantage of splitting the work.<p>Abstracting it away with rough heuristics might be possible, but doing so with consistent success could be challenging. In other words, you could elect to use the serial algorithm for small collections, or when the CPU contention at the start of the sort operation is low. But if the comparison operator is expensive, CPU contention is volatile, or if operating on a stream of unknown length, the abstraction may choose poorly. Ultimately, I like the option to choose for myself, but like you, I wouldn&#x27;t mind having a third option that defers that choice to some heuristic.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/26/everything-about-java-8/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;03&#x2F;26&#x2F;everything-about-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Java 8 Features</title><url>http://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-8-Quiet-Features?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=8java_article</url><text>If you haven’t seen some of the videos or tutorials around Java 8, you’ve probably been super-busy or have a more interesting social life than I do (which isn’t saying much). With new features like lambda expressions and Project Nashorn taking so much of the spotlight, I wanted to focus on some new APIs that have been a bit under the radar, but make Java 8 better in so many ways.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>goblue96</author><text>I can&#x27;t wait to do code reviews where people are sprinkling parallelSort() all over the place, not understanding the consequences.<p>Serious question: isn&#x27;t this something the JVM could abstract away?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blt</author><text>Reminds me of a funny comment on Stack Overflow:<p>&gt; <i>This continual creation&#x2F;termination&#x2F;destruction of threads is done so often that I wonder where the idea came from. I presume some poisonous textbook is responsible. Sometimes, it seems that the whole SO is riddled with threads that add two integers and then terminate, just so that the &#x27;main&#x27; thread can wait with &#x27;join&#x27;. God help us :(</i><p>I hope parallelSort() just calls sort() if the array is smaller than some threshold.</text></comment> |
30,355,529 | 30,355,483 | 1 | 2 | 30,349,871 | train | <story><title>Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>advael</author><text>I&#x27;ve said before that I think it should be illegal to sunset a device without open-sourcing the technology needed to support it. Medical implants of any kind are an especially compelling case for this<p>Probably medical devices should also have very strict requirements regarding auto-updates, including provisions that prevent them from being remotely disabled<p>This seems like a problem we can&#x27;t solve without legislation. We need either these sorts of legal requirements for implantable devices, or to blanket ban private firms from working in this space. I think the former would be preferable</text></comment> | <story><title>Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomatotomato37</author><text>How on earth do you mismanage a company so badly that you can literally give sight to the blind and still go bankrupt? Even at a $500k treatment there should be more than enough aging millionaires willing to buy their way out of their own body&#x27;s infallibilities</text></comment> |
4,886,347 | 4,886,285 | 1 | 2 | 4,885,305 | train | <story><title>Introducing the Predictive Interface</title><url>http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/12/what-are-you-going-to-do-next-introducing-the-predictive-interface/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I'd say it would be even better if instead of promoting primality test ("prime?") to the first place in case of a prime result, it would display "[it is] prime!", since the program already did the check. Why hide information from user?<p>BTW, Bret Victor wrote a lot about this kind of interfaces in his essay "Magic Ink". It's long as hell, but well worth the time it takes to read.<p><a href="http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/" rel="nofollow">http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/</a><p>EDIT:<p>Key point from the end of this essay, regarding use of machine learning to create smart / learning interfaces, which really got me thinking:<p>"Unfortunately, an algorithm that can only be wielded by a master is almost worthless. There are far more applications than experts; if application programmers cannot make use of learning, learning applications will remain rare and exotic.<p>(...)<p>As I see it, the primary challenge for the machine learning community is not the generation and tuning of yet more algorithms, but the design of simple abstractions. Learning magic must be packaged. Like a “file,” the abstraction must be usable by any engineer working in any domain. It must be so simple that it can be taken for granted.<p>Today, a Perl programmer needs just four letters to invoke decades of research into filesystems and physical media: “open.” A finely-tuned mergesort is available with the word “sort,” and even more finely-tuned hashing algorithms require just a pair of brackets. <i>Until machine learning is as accessible and effortless as typing the word “learn,” it will never become widespread.</i>"</text></comment> | <story><title>Introducing the Predictive Interface</title><url>http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/12/what-are-you-going-to-do-next-introducing-the-predictive-interface/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>6ren</author><text>He presents prediction as new, ignoring google suggest; predictive text on phones/tablet keyboards; tab-completion in bash/vim; intellisense etc. And it obscures the part that <i>is</i> new:<p><pre><code> And the second is what actions would lead to useful results.
</code></pre>
No longer statistical, but based on the (presently) unknown! Not predicting what you are likely to do, but exploring ahead of you. Not based on your past, but your future... A very cool idea.<p>Actually, at present, it seems to be just a secondary ranking filter of statistical suggestions, so it would never consider an <i>original</i> action (i.e. that wasn't already likely). However, that kind of exploration would really be expensive. Another problem is defining "useful results" generally, so it applicable to results not seen before.</text></comment> |
7,154,113 | 7,153,911 | 1 | 3 | 7,153,709 | train | <story><title>Zynga Lays Off 15% of Its Workforce</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/zynga-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2s</author><text>Eagerly looking forward to the explanation for this weird juxtaposition.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/huUv09m.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;huUv09m.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>munificent</author><text>Looks like Mattrick brought his well-tread &quot;why retrain when you can swap out people&quot; practices with him from EA.<p>&gt; On November 9, 2009, EA announced its acquisition of social casual games developer Playfish for US$275 million. On the same day, the company announced layoffs of 1500 employees, representing 17% of its workforce, across a number of studios including EA Tiburon, Visceral Games, Mythic and EA Black Box.<p>I was at Tiburon when that happened. Not a fun day. :(</text></comment> | <story><title>Zynga Lays Off 15% of Its Workforce</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/30/zynga-layoffs-2/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>h2s</author><text>Eagerly looking forward to the explanation for this weird juxtaposition.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/huUv09m.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;huUv09m.png</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_random_</author><text>It&#x27;s a new radical management concept: you start replacing pieces of your failing company with other smaller but more successful companies. Start at the bottom, finish at the top. In two years after a series of lay-offs and acqui-hires the whole staff will be replaced finishing with CEO with a proper replacement hired from Rovio&#x27;s board.</text></comment> |
37,883,292 | 37,881,741 | 1 | 2 | 37,880,931 | train | <story><title>Calorie restriction in humans builds strong muscle and stimulates healthy aging</title><url>https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/calorie-restriction-humans-builds-strong-muscle-stimulates-healthy-aging-genes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>livueta</author><text>I did a bit of a double-take at the headline because it seems to imply that one can grow stronger while calorie-restricted, which is contrary to common practice around strength development - caloric surplus is generally understood to be necessary for muscle growth.<p>I&#x27;ve only read the abstract, but the title as I interpreted it seems misleading:<p>&gt; One study showed that individuals on calorie restriction lost muscle mass and an average of 20 pounds of weight over the first year and maintained their weight for the second year. However, despite losing muscle mass, calorie restriction participants did not lose muscle strength, indicating calorie restriction improved the amount of force generated by each unit of muscle mass, called muscle specific force.<p>So even if force per unit increased, overall mass decreased and total strength was unchanged. I guess the title is technically correct but the implication is off. This might be better phrased as &quot;calorie restriction in humans doesn&#x27;t incur as much muscle&#x2F;strength loss as previously thought&quot;, which is still an interesting result.</text></comment> | <story><title>Calorie restriction in humans builds strong muscle and stimulates healthy aging</title><url>https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/calorie-restriction-humans-builds-strong-muscle-stimulates-healthy-aging-genes</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>polishdude20</author><text>Any calorie based study when it&#x27;s self reported should be highly suspect of being false.</text></comment> |
27,236,317 | 27,234,068 | 1 | 2 | 27,233,073 | train | <story><title>Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/nh7s8f/but_not_in_colorado/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hash872</author><text>I think one reason why this is difficult for companies that are hiring software engineers, is that they can hire at multiple levels of experience. They just need good developers! A company that needs, say, a Golang developer, or Scala, or React, might be willing to hire a junior, mid-level or senior developer- they&#x27;ll take whatever experience level they can get. Remember, saying that you <i>don&#x27;t</i> want to hire someone too experienced is pushing the envelope on age discrimination laws....<p>So if they&#x27;re willing to hire someone with 2-20 years of experience, the salary range may be so broad as to be meaningless. $80-180k doesn&#x27;t really tell anyone anything, and I&#x27;d imagine regulators can&#x27;t do much if that&#x27;s what companies put down as their range. I find that a lot of people imagine an open job &amp; job description to be Very Rigid Categories, whereas in practice companies hiring in high-demand fields have to be flexible to find people. From the employer&#x27;s point of view, that&#x27;s why we find demands for the salary range to be frustrating- lots of companies really don&#x27;t have a specific range in mind!<p>If you mandate that companies use a tight salary band, they&#x27;ll simply say OK, our Software Developer 1 pays $70-90k, Software Developer 2 pays $90-11k, etc. However- we <i>haven&#x27;t decided which level of software developer we&#x27;re going to hire you for</i>. Tough for regulators to beat that approach too</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matwood</author><text>&gt; $80-180k doesn&#x27;t really tell anyone anything<p>Not meaningless at all. The company is at least saying they are willing to pay senior level salaries. I think the companies really pushing back are those who want 2-20 years experience with a range of $50-$80k. The other group of companies pushing back are those who let their current employees get too far out of the current range, and can only keep them happy through hoping they don&#x27;t find out.<p>Both are signs of companies I want to avoid.</text></comment> | <story><title>Companies excluding Coloradans from remote jobs to avoid sharing salary ranges</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/nh7s8f/but_not_in_colorado/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hash872</author><text>I think one reason why this is difficult for companies that are hiring software engineers, is that they can hire at multiple levels of experience. They just need good developers! A company that needs, say, a Golang developer, or Scala, or React, might be willing to hire a junior, mid-level or senior developer- they&#x27;ll take whatever experience level they can get. Remember, saying that you <i>don&#x27;t</i> want to hire someone too experienced is pushing the envelope on age discrimination laws....<p>So if they&#x27;re willing to hire someone with 2-20 years of experience, the salary range may be so broad as to be meaningless. $80-180k doesn&#x27;t really tell anyone anything, and I&#x27;d imagine regulators can&#x27;t do much if that&#x27;s what companies put down as their range. I find that a lot of people imagine an open job &amp; job description to be Very Rigid Categories, whereas in practice companies hiring in high-demand fields have to be flexible to find people. From the employer&#x27;s point of view, that&#x27;s why we find demands for the salary range to be frustrating- lots of companies really don&#x27;t have a specific range in mind!<p>If you mandate that companies use a tight salary band, they&#x27;ll simply say OK, our Software Developer 1 pays $70-90k, Software Developer 2 pays $90-11k, etc. However- we <i>haven&#x27;t decided which level of software developer we&#x27;re going to hire you for</i>. Tough for regulators to beat that approach too</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yarcob</author><text>Here in Austria we have a similar law that requires disclosing minimum salary for a role.<p>Companies usually just post multiple ads if they are hiring for junior or senior roles.<p>I don&#x27;t think a job posting for both junior and senior developers would be appealing to a senior developer.<p>I think the market in Austria is different. If your job ad isn&#x27;t compelling enough, you won&#x27;t get any applications.</text></comment> |
36,715,979 | 36,715,681 | 1 | 3 | 36,714,869 | train | <story><title>StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/07/13/stability-ai-cofounder-says-emad-mostaque-tricked-him-into-selling-stake-for-100/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khazhoux</author><text>Odd story. The point at which you&#x27;re selling your stake for $100, you&#x27;ve basically decided to give it away. Which raises the question: if he was just going to get $100 and nothing more, why not just hang on to it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oldtownroad</author><text>The lawsuit accuses the CEO of being a shady person in general. I think it’s plausible that the co-founder was surrendering equity he thought worthless (to move on from working with the shady person) and perhaps the CEO was advised by someone that a transaction without consideration can be challenging to defend (since he allegedly knew he was lying to the co-founder) so he convinced the co-founder that “for tax purposes, if I pay you $100 for the equity, it’ll be better for you as you can write the loss off” or something along those lines, something that wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny now but is enough to bamboozle someone into agreeing at the time.<p>Edit: no theory needed. The lawsuit goes on to say the $100 is the price the co-founder originally paid for the shares when the company was formed.</text></comment> | <story><title>StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/07/13/stability-ai-cofounder-says-emad-mostaque-tricked-him-into-selling-stake-for-100/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>khazhoux</author><text>Odd story. The point at which you&#x27;re selling your stake for $100, you&#x27;ve basically decided to give it away. Which raises the question: if he was just going to get $100 and nothing more, why not just hang on to it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cabaalis</author><text>Hanging onto stock from a company I co-founded a few years ago has caused me tons of stress because that company constantly files for tax extensions forcing me to do so as well.<p>I have other financial processes which rely upon timely processing of my completed tax filing, and every year it causes me trouble. So if something is thought to be worthless and about to fold, &quot;just hang onto it&quot; could cause a non-zero amount of headaches.</text></comment> |
23,588,749 | 23,585,191 | 1 | 3 | 23,583,611 | train | <story><title>Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use</title><url>https://quanticdev.com/articles/cleaning-macbook-after-16800-hours-of-use</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoskeles</author><text>I also find these very useful, but I have some that wore down and start stripping the screws.<p>I&#x27;d like to find a set that isn&#x27;t prone to wear, unless that is simply a fact of life. I&#x27;m wondering if I was just being too cheap when I bought my first set.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>BTW, one of the most useful tools I&#x27;ve found for working on arbitrary modern electronics (after a basic set of ordinary screwdrivers and jewelers&#x27; drivers, a needlenose pliers, and some kind of spudger) is a $10-$20 set of as many different security screw bits as you can get. IME, it pays for itself the first time you need one of the bits, and I wish I&#x27;d bought a bigger set the first time.</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>&gt; It’s usually easy enough to remove the bottom cover of any laptop without particularly special screwdrivers.<p>&quot;particularly special&quot;? The screwdrivers needed to open up a Macbook are special enough that I&#x27;ve never seen them used for any other object. So are you just glad that Apple didn&#x27;t decide to create a new screwdriver standard for each Macbook model? :)</text></item><item><author>henriquez</author><text>This is something people often forget about with laptops. Between dust buildup and thermal paste degradation, performance will always slow over time due to rampant thermals. Even tech-savvy people often seem to think their laptop is simply “slowing down” and “too old” when the solution is often as simple as a can of compressed air.<p>I’d really recommend doing the dust cleanup every year or so. It’s usually easy enough to remove the bottom cover of any laptop without particularly special screwdrivers.<p>Desktops (especially the PCs with the case Windows) are a bit easier to understand because you’ll see the clogged intakes and dust buildup much more readily.<p>One thing I like about mechanical keyboards is that the keys can be removed making cleaning much easier. Six months is a better timeline for keyboard cleaning, these things get _nasty_ especially if you have pets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swimfar</author><text>It&#x27;s not a fact of life, it&#x27;s due to poorly made screwdrivers&#x2F;bits. Unfortunately, it&#x27;s getting more difficult to find, or at least be certain of the quality of tools. You can only really know that it&#x27;s a good tool after getting a lot of use out of it. But by then that particular tool may no longer be sold, or it may not be manufactured the same way, or even in the same factory. So any verified reviews may be out of date.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use</title><url>https://quanticdev.com/articles/cleaning-macbook-after-16800-hours-of-use</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoskeles</author><text>I also find these very useful, but I have some that wore down and start stripping the screws.<p>I&#x27;d like to find a set that isn&#x27;t prone to wear, unless that is simply a fact of life. I&#x27;m wondering if I was just being too cheap when I bought my first set.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>BTW, one of the most useful tools I&#x27;ve found for working on arbitrary modern electronics (after a basic set of ordinary screwdrivers and jewelers&#x27; drivers, a needlenose pliers, and some kind of spudger) is a $10-$20 set of as many different security screw bits as you can get. IME, it pays for itself the first time you need one of the bits, and I wish I&#x27;d bought a bigger set the first time.</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>&gt; It’s usually easy enough to remove the bottom cover of any laptop without particularly special screwdrivers.<p>&quot;particularly special&quot;? The screwdrivers needed to open up a Macbook are special enough that I&#x27;ve never seen them used for any other object. So are you just glad that Apple didn&#x27;t decide to create a new screwdriver standard for each Macbook model? :)</text></item><item><author>henriquez</author><text>This is something people often forget about with laptops. Between dust buildup and thermal paste degradation, performance will always slow over time due to rampant thermals. Even tech-savvy people often seem to think their laptop is simply “slowing down” and “too old” when the solution is often as simple as a can of compressed air.<p>I’d really recommend doing the dust cleanup every year or so. It’s usually easy enough to remove the bottom cover of any laptop without particularly special screwdrivers.<p>Desktops (especially the PCs with the case Windows) are a bit easier to understand because you’ll see the clogged intakes and dust buildup much more readily.<p>One thing I like about mechanical keyboards is that the keys can be removed making cleaning much easier. Six months is a better timeline for keyboard cleaning, these things get _nasty_ especially if you have pets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Reason077</author><text>I bought this set a year ago and have been very happy with them. The heads&#x2F;bits seem very solid hard steel. Not the soft ones that you often get. Comes with all the weird pentalobe etc bits for Apple and Nintendo etc.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B0728BJ7TH&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B0728BJ7TH&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
32,222,093 | 32,221,028 | 1 | 2 | 32,217,968 | train | <story><title>Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid</title><url>https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/5c2fc00be-393be929c9c55c3b80b557d08c30787a?from_ts=1658093527470&to_ts=1658698327470&live=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chilko</author><text>I found this really interesting as well as here in New Zealand that relationship is inverted - we don&#x27;t typically have residential air conditioning yet use a lot of electric heating so our peak demand is in the mornings and evenings, and most intense in the winter. This makes the business case for solar a lot trickier here as the periods of max generation (daytime during the summer) coincides with low demand and subsequently low wholesale energy prices.</text></item><item><author>dvasdekis</author><text>The surprising inference from me, as an energy layman, is that solar output coincides with periods of peak demand. Obviously this is seasonally adjusted, but in an era when the Saudis have solar contracts being supplied for $10USD&#x2F;MWh [0], the potential profits for a solar provider at periods of peak demand seem more than sufficient to encourage investment, especially with interest rates still at a historic low for big capital projects.<p>So, what gives? Where&#x27;s the solar?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reneweconomy.com.au&#x2F;saudi-solar-plant-locks-in-new-record-low-price-for-power-1-04c-kwh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reneweconomy.com.au&#x2F;saudi-solar-plant-locks-in-new-r...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlawer</author><text>It makes we wonder if something like the Australia-Asia power link would make sense. 2.2GW would be enough to cover current Gas, Coal and Diesel generation for NZ. With sufficient storage (Batteries, Pumped Hydro), you could recharge in the day, carry load into the evening peak, before switching to stored power.<p>Initial cost would be higher, but long term cost of Solar is ridiculously cheap.</text></comment> | <story><title>Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid</title><url>https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/5c2fc00be-393be929c9c55c3b80b557d08c30787a?from_ts=1658093527470&to_ts=1658698327470&live=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Chilko</author><text>I found this really interesting as well as here in New Zealand that relationship is inverted - we don&#x27;t typically have residential air conditioning yet use a lot of electric heating so our peak demand is in the mornings and evenings, and most intense in the winter. This makes the business case for solar a lot trickier here as the periods of max generation (daytime during the summer) coincides with low demand and subsequently low wholesale energy prices.</text></item><item><author>dvasdekis</author><text>The surprising inference from me, as an energy layman, is that solar output coincides with periods of peak demand. Obviously this is seasonally adjusted, but in an era when the Saudis have solar contracts being supplied for $10USD&#x2F;MWh [0], the potential profits for a solar provider at periods of peak demand seem more than sufficient to encourage investment, especially with interest rates still at a historic low for big capital projects.<p>So, what gives? Where&#x27;s the solar?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reneweconomy.com.au&#x2F;saudi-solar-plant-locks-in-new-record-low-price-for-power-1-04c-kwh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reneweconomy.com.au&#x2F;saudi-solar-plant-locks-in-new-r...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blamazon</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t New Zealand have tons of hydro? Is it possible summer solar could be used to pump up a mountain reservoir somewhere with that energy sold 6 months later at a premium?</text></comment> |
27,328,945 | 27,327,102 | 1 | 3 | 27,326,243 | train | <story><title>ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login</title><url>https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protonmail</author><text>A few comments about this.<p>A very small fraction of logins get the CAPTCHA challenge. We, and other services, face unrelenting brute force attacks on our login endpoints. If you are seeing a CAPTCHA on login, chances are that something about your connection is suspicious to our system. It&#x27;s far from perfect, and we continue to improve it, but at most a percent or two of users are seeing CAPTCHA at any time.<p>The CAPTCHA is run in an iframe on a separate domain to sandbox it from the Proton login flow prevent it from compromising the webapp. Obviously Google still gets some information, but we do all we can to limit this.<p>CAPTCHAs are very hard to build, especially considering Google has a habit of clearing the field with it&#x27;s own captcha-breaking code. Most companies do not have the resources to build their own. We had an alternative CAPTCHA we were going to use as a replacement a few years ago and then the company behind it went bankrupt. We are currently looking to replace ReCAPTCHA with hcaptcha, which should alleviate some of these problems.<p>We have other strategies which we are also exploring to try to reduce the need for CAPTCHAs entirely, but these are also not trivial to build and integrate into all clients.<p>TL;DR It&#x27;s a small fraction of users who are affected, it&#x27;s necessary to protect our users from brute force login attacks, we don&#x27;t like it either and are working hard on replacements.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neilv</author><text>I&#x27;m going to put you on a spot a bit, because this seems important to ProtonMail&#x27;s viability, and I want you to keep succeeding...<p>&gt; <i>Obviously Google still gets some information, but we do all we can to limit this.</i><p>When you cause a request to be made for ReCaptcha, it seems that you&#x27;re leaking enough information to (in many cases) link a possibly-pseudonymous Protonmail account to an identifiable individual.<p>(For example, even if you leak nothing else than <i>times</i> that individuals identifiable by Google logged into <i>unidentified</i> ProtonMail accounts, Google can already see various external activity of specific ProtonMail accounts, and you&#x27;ve given them temporal correlations between activity of pseudonymous accounts and logins by identifiable individuals. That&#x27;s not the only example, but even that alone seems a significant risk.)<p>And it&#x27;s seems to be a real risk: Google is in the business of doing things like that, has a track record of doing things like that, and presumably is more than capable enough of doing it some more.<p>&gt; <i>but at most a percent or two of users are seeing CAPTCHA at any time.</i><p>That sounds like a lot. And the &quot;at any time&quot; sounds like an even higher percentage of users are potentially being compromised by the use of ReCaptcha.<p>&gt; <i>we don&#x27;t like it either</i><p>I&#x27;m not yet convinced that this is the least of all evils. And I don&#x27;t know how much you have to dislike it before you decide not to do it.<p>For persuasive effect, is it helpful to imagine the reaction of your philosophical adversaries, when they heard that ProtonMail was using ReCaptcha? I just imagined some of them laughing derisively or incredulously. I don&#x27;t say that to be mean, but I don&#x27;t understand the rationale for using ReCaptcha, and I want to emphasize that it seems to be a problem that threatens ProtonMail&#x27;s raison d&#x27;etre and&#x2F;or brand image.<p>(BTW, I&#x27;m assuming this ReCaptcha choice <i>isn&#x27;t</i> due to legally-compelled cooperation in unmasking specific accounts -- in which case I wouldn&#x27;t say anything -- since, in that case, I expect you&#x27;d find a way to comply without misrepresenting the rationale to everyone else. I&#x27;ve seen ProtonMail thinking ahead to avoid related conflicting obligations and assurances.)<p>(BTW, I&#x27;m speaking here of Google as an adversary of your customers, and therefore of you, only because that seems to be how your product is positioned, and why you have customers at all, rather than everyone just using GMail. I&#x27;m not saying that Google is bad; only that I think it should be considered an adversary from your perspective.)</text></comment> | <story><title>ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login</title><url>https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/242</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>protonmail</author><text>A few comments about this.<p>A very small fraction of logins get the CAPTCHA challenge. We, and other services, face unrelenting brute force attacks on our login endpoints. If you are seeing a CAPTCHA on login, chances are that something about your connection is suspicious to our system. It&#x27;s far from perfect, and we continue to improve it, but at most a percent or two of users are seeing CAPTCHA at any time.<p>The CAPTCHA is run in an iframe on a separate domain to sandbox it from the Proton login flow prevent it from compromising the webapp. Obviously Google still gets some information, but we do all we can to limit this.<p>CAPTCHAs are very hard to build, especially considering Google has a habit of clearing the field with it&#x27;s own captcha-breaking code. Most companies do not have the resources to build their own. We had an alternative CAPTCHA we were going to use as a replacement a few years ago and then the company behind it went bankrupt. We are currently looking to replace ReCAPTCHA with hcaptcha, which should alleviate some of these problems.<p>We have other strategies which we are also exploring to try to reduce the need for CAPTCHAs entirely, but these are also not trivial to build and integrate into all clients.<p>TL;DR It&#x27;s a small fraction of users who are affected, it&#x27;s necessary to protect our users from brute force login attacks, we don&#x27;t like it either and are working hard on replacements.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>owly</author><text>Thank you for explaining here, I really appreciate the work you’re doing and understand the non-trivial work it takes to protect users. While l’d love a Google free experience for PM, I also love having a near zero chance of a brute force attack. I’m a paid PM user and have been using it since the very early beta days. I never see the CAPTCHA on any OS, but I only connect from about 5 different IPs or while using ProtonVPN.<p>Off topic: please implement font size adjustment capability on iOS!</text></comment> |
21,723,877 | 21,720,586 | 1 | 3 | 21,709,858 | train | <story><title>Dating While Dying</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/opinion/sunday/dating-while-dying.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kick</author><text>The author&#x27;s post after realizing things had gotten too severe:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apainintheneck.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-worst-thing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apainintheneck.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-worst-thing&#x2F;</a><p>† The author&#x27;s obituary:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;04&#x2F;obituaries&#x2F;josie-rubio-dead.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;04&#x2F;obituaries&#x2F;josie-rubio-de...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twodave</author><text>&quot;The enemy&#x27;s gate is down&quot; is a subtle Ender&#x27;s Game reference, and it&#x27;s beautiful in this post. This person&#x27;s life expectancy is not oriented in the usual way, so the phrase becomes a call to re-establish norms and consider life in a way that suits the present reality. This isn&#x27;t just a lesson to be learned by the dying, either.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dating While Dying</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/opinion/sunday/dating-while-dying.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kick</author><text>The author&#x27;s post after realizing things had gotten too severe:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apainintheneck.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-worst-thing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;apainintheneck.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;the-worst-thing&#x2F;</a><p>† The author&#x27;s obituary:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;04&#x2F;obituaries&#x2F;josie-rubio-dead.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;12&#x2F;04&#x2F;obituaries&#x2F;josie-rubio-de...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>claudiawerner</author><text>For me it&#x27;s rather curious that people place such a high value on finding an SO even when dying. This seems to speak to one (or two) things: that it is a tragedy to have lived and never been in love, and that having someone with you in the pain and the last period of your live is very highly valued.<p>It makes me think of all the people who don&#x27;t have a terminal disease but still never manage to find someone. Their case, while sad, is perhaps not as tragic.</text></comment> |
24,182,921 | 24,182,644 | 1 | 2 | 24,181,783 | train | <story><title>Factorio and Software Engineering</title><url>https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shorn</author><text>This is one of the reasons I <i>don&#x27;t</i> play Factorio, or games like it. The point of playing games for me is escapism and rest&#x2F;recuperation. I feel like I only have so much programming time in me - I think playing these types of games makes me less likely to do some real work.<p>Plus the &quot;achievement high&quot; is much less; at the end of the day, when you win&#x2F;do well - you know you&#x27;re supposed to feel that way, the game was designed for you to win.<p>I like to sometimes just browse around in my side-project&#x27;s UI or even codebase and appreciate what I built. Of course, you have to be in the right mind-frame for that. You don&#x27;t want to go looking for your achievement high and end up thinking &quot;Wow, all that effort and this is all you have to show for it?&quot;</text></item><item><author>avalys</author><text>This week I’ve both been playing Factorio, and writing code for a new application. So, lots of figuring out interfaces, architecture and modularity, and how things will work together.<p>When I change from one of these activities to the other, I have the distinct mental impression that I’m not switching activities at all. When I switch from Factorio to my text editor, it’s such a seamless transition, as if I’m just scrolling to another part of my factory.<p>Not a sensation I’ve had with any other game, or any other pair of distinct activities, really.<p>I figure it <i>must</i> mean Factorio makes me a better coder. I better get back to it, then!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avalys</author><text>I tend to agree with you - but actually I love programming itself and I could do it all day without getting tired. The things that tire me out about work are poor documentation, inconsistent requirements, team politics, other people’s mistakes, compiler errors, version conflicts, the stress of having to deliver by a deadline or having other people depend on me, etc.<p>Factorio has none of that, it’s just a constant stream of positive mental stimulation.</text></comment> | <story><title>Factorio and Software Engineering</title><url>https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-engineering/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shorn</author><text>This is one of the reasons I <i>don&#x27;t</i> play Factorio, or games like it. The point of playing games for me is escapism and rest&#x2F;recuperation. I feel like I only have so much programming time in me - I think playing these types of games makes me less likely to do some real work.<p>Plus the &quot;achievement high&quot; is much less; at the end of the day, when you win&#x2F;do well - you know you&#x27;re supposed to feel that way, the game was designed for you to win.<p>I like to sometimes just browse around in my side-project&#x27;s UI or even codebase and appreciate what I built. Of course, you have to be in the right mind-frame for that. You don&#x27;t want to go looking for your achievement high and end up thinking &quot;Wow, all that effort and this is all you have to show for it?&quot;</text></item><item><author>avalys</author><text>This week I’ve both been playing Factorio, and writing code for a new application. So, lots of figuring out interfaces, architecture and modularity, and how things will work together.<p>When I change from one of these activities to the other, I have the distinct mental impression that I’m not switching activities at all. When I switch from Factorio to my text editor, it’s such a seamless transition, as if I’m just scrolling to another part of my factory.<p>Not a sensation I’ve had with any other game, or any other pair of distinct activities, really.<p>I figure it <i>must</i> mean Factorio makes me a better coder. I better get back to it, then!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taneq</author><text>Yeah, that’s what always stops me from playing these. It’s fun at first (like any new project) but then I realise I could be doing exactly the same work and getting paid for it. Which I guess makes me super lucky in the “I get paid to play video games” sense.</text></comment> |
27,208,632 | 27,208,595 | 1 | 3 | 27,207,932 | train | <story><title>Coinbase outages</title><url>https://coinbase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mizza</author><text>Shaaaaady.<p>The NYGA report on Tether is due today. Tether is completely insolvent, and once the rug is pulled, all of the exchanges are going to realize that all of their &quot;stable&quot; reserves are worthless and they can&#x27;t pay out what they&#x27;re storing for customers, and the price will tumble all the way down as there&#x27;s a run on the pseudo-banks that can&#x27;t payout.<p>Or not, what do I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idiotsecant</author><text>I&#x27;ve been hearing the same thing about tether for about half a decade now.<p>We all know it&#x27;s insolvent. Apparently it doesn&#x27;t matter.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coinbase outages</title><url>https://coinbase.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mizza</author><text>Shaaaaady.<p>The NYGA report on Tether is due today. Tether is completely insolvent, and once the rug is pulled, all of the exchanges are going to realize that all of their &quot;stable&quot; reserves are worthless and they can&#x27;t pay out what they&#x27;re storing for customers, and the price will tumble all the way down as there&#x27;s a run on the pseudo-banks that can&#x27;t payout.<p>Or not, what do I know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dudus</author><text>I did notice they stopped printing some time this week after months adding billions of dollars. For anyone curious you can easily see tether printing by checking at USDT market cap increase.</text></comment> |
1,017,809 | 1,017,796 | 1 | 2 | 1,017,726 | train | <story><title>Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo</title><url>http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/322-Body-By-Victoria.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>davi</author><text>I didn't know what "Error Level Analysis" was. So:<p>'Error level analysis (ELA) works by intentionally resaving the image at a known error rate, such as 95%, and then
computing the difference between the images. If there is virtually no change, then the cell has reached its local
minima for error at that quality level. However, if there is a large amount of change, then the pixels are not at their local minima and are effectively “original”.'<p>From <a href="http://www.hackerfactor.com/papers/bh-usa-07-krawetz-wp.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackerfactor.com/papers/bh-usa-07-krawetz-wp.pdf</a>, a lot of interesting stuff in there.</text></comment> | <story><title>Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo</title><url>http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/322-Body-By-Victoria.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adriand</author><text>I would love to see an analysis like that of this photo I first posted to my blog (<a href="http://socialtech.ca/ade/index.php/2008/03/beware-the-big-bad-black-wolf/" rel="nofollow">http://socialtech.ca/ade/index.php/2008/03/beware-the-big-ba...</a>) which generated the usual claims of "Photoshop" on Reddit, until I posted the original version, which kicked off many more claims that it was 'shopped (<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6byul/to_all_the_photo_experts_on_reddit_who_claimed/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6byul/to_all_the...</a>)<p>Even though, to the best of my knowledge, the photo is 100% real.</text></comment> |
2,572,171 | 2,572,084 | 1 | 2 | 2,571,729 | train | <story><title>You're Using JSON, Why not MessagePack?</title><url>http://blog.andrewvc.com/why-arent-you-using-messagepack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randrews</author><text>For the same reasons we are in the process of switching from Protocol Buffers back to JSON:<p>* It does not support our languages. Is there a Ruby module with no C extension? A C# library? Lua? What about that really cool language coming out next week? What about C?<p>* Even if it does, why have to deal with someone else's poor API design? JSON has a million parsers for everything, and if by chance you don't like any of them, you can write another one in about two hours.<p>* It's not human-readable. Enough said.<p>* It's smaller than JSON, sure, but is it smaller than gzipped JSON? PB's aren't for our purposes. Neither are TNetstrings. This might be, I haven't checked, but I doubt it.</text></comment> | <story><title>You're Using JSON, Why not MessagePack?</title><url>http://blog.andrewvc.com/why-arent-you-using-messagepack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haberman</author><text>The "4x faster than Protocol Buffers" claim is misleading, as I have explained before: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2146147" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2146147</a><p>I'm working on a Protocol Buffer library that can serialize/deserialize to <i>either</i> JSON <i>or</i> Protocol Buffers. That way you can do all your development with JSON, but if you ever find you need the efficiency improvements of a binary format, you can just change your Serialize() call.<p>Having a .proto file gives you the benefits of something like JSON Schema: a place to document all your fields and what they mean, and a few very simple validation constraints like the expected types.</text></comment> |
27,056,510 | 27,056,429 | 1 | 3 | 27,056,008 | train | <story><title>As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/as-amazon-deforestation-hits-12-year-high-france-rejects-brazilian-soy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>As I understand it, Brazil has recently asked the wealthy nations of the world to each pay $1 Billion USD to preserve chunks of the Amazon. Given the wealthy world is asking a much poorer country not to fully exploit its natural resources for the sake of the world, I think they have a fair point. If we want them to protect the Amazon, the rest of the world should help pay for it.<p>Perhaps there’s a way for the UN to purchase the Amazon as a global protected natural preserve? What other areas would be good targets?</text></comment> | <story><title>As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy</title><url>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/as-amazon-deforestation-hits-12-year-high-france-rejects-brazilian-soy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wombatmobile</author><text>What percentage of its old growth forests does France retain?<p>If the answer is a very small number, doesn&#x27;t that make historical France guilty of what these measures seek to prevent happening in Brazil?<p>To the extent this is a moral argument, shouldn&#x27;t France atone for its misdeeds by regenerating wild forests, to be left unmolested in perpetuity?<p>If nobody is advocating any such thing, perhaps this isn&#x27;t a moral argument, or even an environmental argument. Perhaps it&#x27;s an economic initiative from the people who stand to gain from the French production of soy beans.</text></comment> |
21,172,237 | 21,172,191 | 1 | 2 | 21,171,067 | train | <story><title>Why are cars killing more pedestrians?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision-course-pedestrian-deaths-rising-driverless-cars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mft_</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t designing road features that require slower speeds and risk car damage penalise all drivers - even those who would never text when driving?</text></item><item><author>blue_devil</author><text>There is a solution to any problem - good design.<p>Look up &quot;traffic calming measures&quot;.
I doubt any driver who values their vehicle would text&#x2F;use their phone while going through something like this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?biw=1525&amp;bih=760&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;ei=ieqZXZuxB4TKwQLkqrCwBg&amp;q=london+chicanes&amp;oq=london+chicanes&amp;gs_l=img.3...4554.4554..4914...0.0..0.100.100.0j1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.IHGPmQFx7mo&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjbmeuX3YflAhUEZVAKHWQVDGYQ4dUDCAc&amp;uact=5#imgrc=_megWAHuQvwcLM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?biw=1525&amp;bih=760&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1...</a>:</text></item><item><author>gerbilly</author><text>Texting while driving, that&#x27;s why.<p>From here I sit on the porch, I can see that about 2&#x2F;3 of drivers text while driving.<p>I&#x27;m convinced that no amount of campaigning, punishment, or scare tactics will suffice to stop it.<p>It is just how driving is done nowadays, and everyone feels they can do it safely (but they can&#x27;t).<p>There&#x27;s no going back so if you&#x27;re on a bike, or a pedestrian, watch out!<p>Driving is sacred in our societies. Whenever a driver kills a pedestrian or a cyclist in my town, there aren&#x27;t even any charges laid 99% of the time.<p>Personally I think smartphones have been a net loss to society, for this and many other reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>To look at it another way, it makes the road safer for everyone regardless of the attentiveness and skill of any particular driver. Surely, that&#x27;s a reasonable trade off in areas with a lot of vulnerable pedestrians.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why are cars killing more pedestrians?</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision-course-pedestrian-deaths-rising-driverless-cars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mft_</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t designing road features that require slower speeds and risk car damage penalise all drivers - even those who would never text when driving?</text></item><item><author>blue_devil</author><text>There is a solution to any problem - good design.<p>Look up &quot;traffic calming measures&quot;.
I doubt any driver who values their vehicle would text&#x2F;use their phone while going through something like this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?biw=1525&amp;bih=760&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;ei=ieqZXZuxB4TKwQLkqrCwBg&amp;q=london+chicanes&amp;oq=london+chicanes&amp;gs_l=img.3...4554.4554..4914...0.0..0.100.100.0j1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.IHGPmQFx7mo&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjbmeuX3YflAhUEZVAKHWQVDGYQ4dUDCAc&amp;uact=5#imgrc=_megWAHuQvwcLM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?biw=1525&amp;bih=760&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1...</a>:</text></item><item><author>gerbilly</author><text>Texting while driving, that&#x27;s why.<p>From here I sit on the porch, I can see that about 2&#x2F;3 of drivers text while driving.<p>I&#x27;m convinced that no amount of campaigning, punishment, or scare tactics will suffice to stop it.<p>It is just how driving is done nowadays, and everyone feels they can do it safely (but they can&#x27;t).<p>There&#x27;s no going back so if you&#x27;re on a bike, or a pedestrian, watch out!<p>Driving is sacred in our societies. Whenever a driver kills a pedestrian or a cyclist in my town, there aren&#x27;t even any charges laid 99% of the time.<p>Personally I think smartphones have been a net loss to society, for this and many other reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dancek</author><text>What do you mean by penalising?<p>If a road has a 40km&#x2F;h speed limit, and then road features designed for 40km&#x2F;h are added, what&#x27;s the penalty? The point is to require the driver to focus, which a good driver does anyway.</text></comment> |
20,140,881 | 20,140,980 | 1 | 2 | 20,139,757 | train | <story><title>Practical Deep Learning for Coders</title><url>https://course.fast.ai/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monadmancer</author><text>The lessons look interesting from a high level perspective. And I think could help people guide their applications.<p>I think there&#x27;s also a need for a very low level course in deep learning. I.e. on the level of someone who wishes to write their own deep learning library. Because from high up, sure it all looks like the chain rule, but down low, it gets messy quickly if you want to write a high performance library on your own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Datenstrom</author><text>If you want to take a look at a framework that isn&#x27;t a terrible mess and that one person can understand both Darknet [1] and Flux [2] are really nice. Learned a lot from reading their source.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pjreddie&#x2F;darknet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pjreddie&#x2F;darknet&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FluxML&#x2F;Flux.jl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FluxML&#x2F;Flux.jl</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Practical Deep Learning for Coders</title><url>https://course.fast.ai/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monadmancer</author><text>The lessons look interesting from a high level perspective. And I think could help people guide their applications.<p>I think there&#x27;s also a need for a very low level course in deep learning. I.e. on the level of someone who wishes to write their own deep learning library. Because from high up, sure it all looks like the chain rule, but down low, it gets messy quickly if you want to write a high performance library on your own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yeldarb</author><text>Part 2 of this course, which will be released later this month, is a step by step walkthrough of building the FastAI and PyTorch libraries from scratch (minus autodiff).</text></comment> |
3,418,347 | 3,417,859 | 1 | 3 | 3,416,777 | train | <story><title>What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/#.Tv4NA-e7HkY.mailto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>Assuming there's something here, which is a bit of a stretch for me, let's ask the obvious question: where else has this been tried? Did it work? Better still, how do we know we're being equal enough?<p>This is not Marxist by any means, but I have to use Marxism as an example. The problem with Marxism is that whenever it doesn't work, people say it wasn't tried enough. In the examples where it does work, there's always some special attribute or thing that causes it to, like a very small sample size. Yes it works in some cases and at some scale, but it never really works in a practical way. It's just a cluster of feelings about fairness in search of an practical application. This is, by definition, a "loose analogy". Finland has schools. So do we. Finland does all these things to make their schools better. So should we?<p>I love Finland, and I admire the Fins I've worked with. But I think we can play this game of "If we were only like Europe" only so much without actually having to apply some critical thinking skills. We are not like Europe -- as much as we'd like to be. I've been reading articles that claim we can improve various parts of society if we were only like some European country my entire life. If I didn't know better, I'd think a lot of academics spend time in Europe and become Europhiles the rest of their lives, much to the rest of our detriment. Seems like no matter how hard we try at these things, we can never be like European country X. There's probably a good reason for that. My best guess is that this has something to do with culture, but I'm not sure. If you want a country of Fins, perhaps you should consider moving to Finland?<p>So yes, maybe there's something here, but I have no idea what it is. Does the author suggest outlawing private schools? Perhaps indoctrinating our national culture with pithy slogans like "accountability is what's left when you take responsibility away"? Tighter control over immigration so the culture is more cohesive? Greater oil revenues? Decrease our population to 1/70th of its current size? More alcohol consumption? What is there that's here that we can take away and use today aside from a general admiration of how nice Finland is?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tokenadult</author><text><i>Finland has schools. So do we. Finland does all these things to make their schools better. So should we?</i><p>You ask about take-aways that might apply to other countries from the PISA findings about Finland. One way to get a reality check on how Finland's experience might guide policy in the United States is to look at countries with similarities to and differences from both. Seeing the flood of comments here that consist of people expressing their opinions (which is everyone's right on the Internet), I thought it might be helpful to go back to the PISA website to see how the PISA scholars themselves have been analyzing the data. One interesting brief write-up I found on the PISA site<p><a href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/17/26/48165173.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/17/26/48165173.pdf</a><p>explores the issue of "resilient" students--students who do better than you would expect from their disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. It is no surprise to me, because I have lived in more than one country, that countries vary in how well their school systems help even students from disadvantaged background succeed in school. The data chart about different countries at the link shows that Finland (and also Korea, Singapore, Canada, and Taiwan) overperform in raising the academic achievement of disadvantaged students. I can well believe this about Singapore, having studied a lot about the school system there<p><a href="http://www.merga.net.au/documents/RP182006.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.merga.net.au/documents/RP182006.pdf</a><p>and knowing people from there. By looking at multiple countries for meaningful commonalities like this, we in the diverse United States could learn a thing or two about how to improve schools here.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success</title><url>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/#.Tv4NA-e7HkY.mailto</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>Assuming there's something here, which is a bit of a stretch for me, let's ask the obvious question: where else has this been tried? Did it work? Better still, how do we know we're being equal enough?<p>This is not Marxist by any means, but I have to use Marxism as an example. The problem with Marxism is that whenever it doesn't work, people say it wasn't tried enough. In the examples where it does work, there's always some special attribute or thing that causes it to, like a very small sample size. Yes it works in some cases and at some scale, but it never really works in a practical way. It's just a cluster of feelings about fairness in search of an practical application. This is, by definition, a "loose analogy". Finland has schools. So do we. Finland does all these things to make their schools better. So should we?<p>I love Finland, and I admire the Fins I've worked with. But I think we can play this game of "If we were only like Europe" only so much without actually having to apply some critical thinking skills. We are not like Europe -- as much as we'd like to be. I've been reading articles that claim we can improve various parts of society if we were only like some European country my entire life. If I didn't know better, I'd think a lot of academics spend time in Europe and become Europhiles the rest of their lives, much to the rest of our detriment. Seems like no matter how hard we try at these things, we can never be like European country X. There's probably a good reason for that. My best guess is that this has something to do with culture, but I'm not sure. If you want a country of Fins, perhaps you should consider moving to Finland?<p>So yes, maybe there's something here, but I have no idea what it is. Does the author suggest outlawing private schools? Perhaps indoctrinating our national culture with pithy slogans like "accountability is what's left when you take responsibility away"? Tighter control over immigration so the culture is more cohesive? Greater oil revenues? Decrease our population to 1/70th of its current size? More alcohol consumption? What is there that's here that we can take away and use today aside from a general admiration of how nice Finland is?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonnathanson</author><text>Not to mention demographics. Most of these studies pretty much overlook that dimension entirely, and it's usually the most critical.<p>In the case of Finland, we're looking at a country with a total population of 5.4 million people, 92% of which share the same native language and ethnic background. By comparison, the USA has 313 million people and a heck of a lot more diversity of income, class, race, ethnicity, linguistic background, country of origin, etc. It's also got a much higher variance in population density per city, state, region, etc.<p>If ever there were a case of comparing apples to oranges, this would be it. There are vanishingly few analogs between the two countries on almost any dimension, and most of the education statistics I've seen over the years have not been weighted accordingly.<p>I'd be much more interested in apples-to-apples comparisons. How does Finland perform against countries like Finland? How does the US perform against similar countries (of which there probably aren't many)? Even comparing the US to a country like China is problematic, given that only the top some-single-digit percent of Chinese children take these tests in the first place.</text></comment> |
36,558,625 | 36,556,653 | 1 | 2 | 36,556,261 | train | <story><title>Beyond Markdown (2018)</title><url>https://johnmacfarlane.net/beyond-markdown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sqs</author><text>I understand where the author is coming from and respect their contributions to Commonmark.<p>But...<p>There are tons of markup languages for prose that have well-defined specs.<p>So, why did Markdown win?<p>IMO, <i>because</i> it does not have a well-defined spec. It is highly tolerant of formatting errors, inconsistencies, etc. If an author makes a mistake when writing Markdown, you can always look at it in plain text.<p>Whereas a perfectly-spec&#x27;d markup language would probably evolve toward an unreadable-to-humans mess in the committee-driven pursuit of precision.<p>You see this theme in so many places in tech: &quot;less is more&quot;, the Unix philosophy of everything-is-a-file, messy HTML5 over &quot;XHTML&quot;, ML extraction vs. explicit semantic web, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drawkbox</author><text>&gt; IMO, because it does not have a well-defined spec.<p>Same reason that JSON won.<p>JSON and Markdown are base standards that were generated by market need to simplify.<p>JSON won because it was not overly complex and there was some flexibility. If you need more go YAML or use JSON as a platform for more.<p>Every attempt to change JSON has and should be shot down. JSON really just has basic CS types: string, int&#x2F;number, bool, object, lists. From there any data or types can be serialized or filled. With JSON you can do types via overloads&#x2F;additional keys, you can add files by url&#x2F;uri or base64, and any additional needs using parts of basic JSON. Even large numbers can just be strings with type defs as additional keys&#x2F;patterns. Financial data can just use strings or ints with no decimal largely because this is the safest way to store financial data to prevent float issues.<p>KISS is life and sometimes things are just done, no improvements needed. Now you can take JSON and add things on top of it if you want. Same with Markdown. The base doesn&#x27;t need to change... ever.<p>Don&#x27;t SOAP my JSON. Don&#x27;t HTML my Markdown. Though you can add specs (JSONSchema&#x2F;OpenAPI) and formatting tools on top in a processing step. For messaging and base content, they are perfect, simple, clear, concise and no need to change.</text></comment> | <story><title>Beyond Markdown (2018)</title><url>https://johnmacfarlane.net/beyond-markdown.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sqs</author><text>I understand where the author is coming from and respect their contributions to Commonmark.<p>But...<p>There are tons of markup languages for prose that have well-defined specs.<p>So, why did Markdown win?<p>IMO, <i>because</i> it does not have a well-defined spec. It is highly tolerant of formatting errors, inconsistencies, etc. If an author makes a mistake when writing Markdown, you can always look at it in plain text.<p>Whereas a perfectly-spec&#x27;d markup language would probably evolve toward an unreadable-to-humans mess in the committee-driven pursuit of precision.<p>You see this theme in so many places in tech: &quot;less is more&quot;, the Unix philosophy of everything-is-a-file, messy HTML5 over &quot;XHTML&quot;, ML extraction vs. explicit semantic web, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>axblount</author><text>Also, &quot;worse is better&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Worse_is_better" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Worse_is_better</a></text></comment> |
24,512,025 | 24,509,777 | 1 | 2 | 24,509,222 | train | <story><title>We made an open source ESP8266 dev board for makers</title><url>https://github.com/MaloufSleep/ME-ESP8266</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sowbug</author><text>I built something like this but more special-purpose. It just switches a USB-A power source on&#x2F;off. I wanted it to control my 5-volt fish-tank lights. I didn&#x27;t want to use a 120VAC smart switch for each light because I prefer to use a single USB hub to power them all, and a bonus feature was being able to PWM the lights so the fish aren&#x27;t freaked out when the lights suddenly turn on 100% in the morning.<p>I ordered PCBs from JLCPCB and components from LCSC. I think each one cost around $5 in parts, and I hand-assemble them as I need more around the house.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sowbug&#x2F;smart-usb-switch" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sowbug&#x2F;smart-usb-switch</a><p>Picture: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;sowbug&#x2F;smart-usb-switch&#x2F;master&#x2F;completed.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;sowbug&#x2F;smart-usb-switch&#x2F;ma...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>We made an open source ESP8266 dev board for makers</title><url>https://github.com/MaloufSleep/ME-ESP8266</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makerboardzz</author><text>Cool - it looks like a well-designed board, although the timing is a bit unfortunate with the ESP32-S2 emerging as an ESP8266 replacement with USB.<p>A few questions:<p>* Should the relay have some sort of isolation, like an optocoupler?<p>* Is it FCC-certified?<p>* Like other people asked, any information on how the antenna was designed?<p>I like the old-school dome LEDs. And it&#x27;s cool to see another project with a CH340 USB&#x2F;USART bridge, even if they wouldn&#x27;t need it with an ESP32-S2.</text></comment> |
40,314,121 | 40,313,415 | 1 | 2 | 40,310,896 | train | <story><title>It's always TCP_NODELAY</title><url>https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ironman1478</author><text>I&#x27;ve fixed multiple latency issues due to nagle&#x27;s multiple times in my career. It&#x27;s the first thing I jump to. I feel like the logic behind it is sound, but it just doesn&#x27;t work for some workloads. It should be something that an engineer needs to be forced to set while creating a socket, instead of letting the OS choose a default. I think that&#x27;s the main issue. Not that it&#x27;s a good &#x2F; bad option but that there is a setting that people might not know about that manipulates how data is sent over the wire so aggressively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nh2</author><text>Same here. I have a hobby that on any RPC framework I encounter, I file a Github issue &quot;did you think of TCP_NODELAY or can this framework do only 20 calls per second?&quot;.<p>So far, it&#x27;s found a bug every single time.<p>Some examples: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud-haskell.atlassian.net&#x2F;browse&#x2F;DP-108" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloud-haskell.atlassian.net&#x2F;browse&#x2F;DP-108</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;agentm&#x2F;curryer&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;agentm&#x2F;curryer&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3</a><p>I disagree on the &quot;not a good &#x2F; bad option&quot; though.<p>It&#x27;s a kernel-side heuristic for &quot;magically fixing&quot; badly behaved applications.<p>As the article states, no sensible application does 1-byte network write() syscalls. Software that does that should be fixed.<p>It makes sense only in the case when you are the kernel sysadmin and somehow cannot fix the software that runs on the machine, maybe for team-political reasons. I claim that&#x27;s pretty rare.<p>For all other cases, it makes sane software extra complicated: You need to explicitly opt-out of odd magic that makes poorly-written software have slightly more throughput, and that makes correctly-written software have huge, surprising latency.<p>John Nagle says here and in linked threads that Delayed Acks are even worse. I agree. But the Send&#x2F;Send&#x2F;Receive receive pattern that Nagle&#x27;s Algorithm degrades is a totally valid and common use case, including anything that does pipelined RPC over TCP.<p>Both Delayed Acks and Nagle&#x27;s Algorithm should be opt-in, in my opinion. It should be called TCP_DELAY, which you can opt-into if you can&#x27;t be asked to implement basic userspace buffering.<p>People shouldn&#x27;t &#x2F;need&#x2F; to know about these. Make the default case be the unsurprising one.</text></comment> | <story><title>It's always TCP_NODELAY</title><url>https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ironman1478</author><text>I&#x27;ve fixed multiple latency issues due to nagle&#x27;s multiple times in my career. It&#x27;s the first thing I jump to. I feel like the logic behind it is sound, but it just doesn&#x27;t work for some workloads. It should be something that an engineer needs to be forced to set while creating a socket, instead of letting the OS choose a default. I think that&#x27;s the main issue. Not that it&#x27;s a good &#x2F; bad option but that there is a setting that people might not know about that manipulates how data is sent over the wire so aggressively.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sebb767</author><text>&gt; It should be something that an engineer needs to be forced to set while creating a socket, instead of letting the OS choose a default.<p>If the intention is mostly to fix applications with bad `write`-behavior, this would make setting TCP_DELAY a pretty exotic option - you would need a software engineer to be both smart enough to know to set this option, but not smart enough to distribute their write-calls well and&#x2F;or not go for writing their own (probably better fitted) application-specific version of Nagles.</text></comment> |
28,962,953 | 28,963,177 | 1 | 2 | 28,933,857 | train | <story><title>Paintmakers are running out of the color blue</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/the-color-blue-has-joined-the-growing-list-of-material-shortages</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coliveira</author><text>This is all momentary situation caused by the pandemic. In one year, people will not even remember this. Companies will not spend billions of dollars unless they have no other option.</text></item><item><author>azinman2</author><text>My hope is that supply chain issues will make clear the downsides to execs (not just the workers) and governments of externalizing all manufacturing abroad and out of reach. Look at the chaos caused by a pandemic, now imagine war or purposefully using supply chain as leverage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gremloni</author><text>I wish it gets to that point. A country that doesn’t manufacture is a <i>huge</i> loser in the long run. I hope it comes back to America in a heavily automated, sustainable fashion.</text></comment> | <story><title>Paintmakers are running out of the color blue</title><url>https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/the-color-blue-has-joined-the-growing-list-of-material-shortages</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coliveira</author><text>This is all momentary situation caused by the pandemic. In one year, people will not even remember this. Companies will not spend billions of dollars unless they have no other option.</text></item><item><author>azinman2</author><text>My hope is that supply chain issues will make clear the downsides to execs (not just the workers) and governments of externalizing all manufacturing abroad and out of reach. Look at the chaos caused by a pandemic, now imagine war or purposefully using supply chain as leverage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>I disagree. People will remember this and make irrational decisions based on these memories for years.<p>For comparison, the Great Financial Crisis still looms over us so much that people <i>still</i> anticipate another huge housing burst. And when companies like Ford announce that they aren&#x27;t using FICO scores to determine if a person qualifies for a loan, people on websites start fearmongering about another sub prime lending crisis.</text></comment> |
37,800,167 | 37,798,908 | 1 | 2 | 37,794,379 | train | <story><title>23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/genetics-firm-23andme-says-user-data-stolen-in-credential-stuffing-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; Why are you letting people log into an account from a brand-new IP with no additional verification?<p>Is that really feasible today? With widespread use of phones and laptops, most people probably have at least a handful of different IP addresses they regularly use (home WiFi, work WiFi, cellular connection) and then they randomly connect from new up addresses like those from libraries, coffee shops, commute, etc<p>I think most “normal” apps and websites today allow any random IP to log in without jumping through extra hoops.<p>Only companies with big budgets (Apple, Google, etc) make regular users jump through extra hoops.<p>Banks, B2B have users that need extra hoops as well.<p>But 23andMe. I would not expect them to take any extra steps.</text></item><item><author>somsak2</author><text>Even if this is the case, 23andMe should have done better here. Why are you letting people log into an account from a brand-new IP with no additional verification? You have their email, you could have at least done 2FA with that. And as other commenters mentioned, CAPTCHA would have also made this slower &#x2F; more expensive. At my employer, we use both, and so it is not the case that this &quot;could be done on literally any website.&quot;<p>For such a mature business (that is publicly-traded, no less!) it is shameful to allow credential stuffing on the scale of millions of accounts.</text></item><item><author>Urgo</author><text>Unless I&#x27;m reading this wrong all that happened was someone had an existing leaked database of emails&#x2F;passwords and then tried them on 23andme, and if they worked they took the data they could get. Yes, 23andme has some pretty extensive and personal data, but this attack could be done on literally any website. The issue is people re-used passwords, and also did not have 2fa enabled.<p>So the database that is for sale is just a list of emails&#x2F;passwords from other breaches that worked on 23andme, along with the data that 23andme had on those users. Not exactly a 23andme breach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dash2</author><text>23andme isn&#x27;t just any small company. They process people&#x27;s DNA! It&#x27;s about as personal information as you can get. And the stolen data included information about people&#x27;s genetic ancestry. They should have very high-class security practices.</text></comment> | <story><title>23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/genetics-firm-23andme-says-user-data-stolen-in-credential-stuffing-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&gt; Why are you letting people log into an account from a brand-new IP with no additional verification?<p>Is that really feasible today? With widespread use of phones and laptops, most people probably have at least a handful of different IP addresses they regularly use (home WiFi, work WiFi, cellular connection) and then they randomly connect from new up addresses like those from libraries, coffee shops, commute, etc<p>I think most “normal” apps and websites today allow any random IP to log in without jumping through extra hoops.<p>Only companies with big budgets (Apple, Google, etc) make regular users jump through extra hoops.<p>Banks, B2B have users that need extra hoops as well.<p>But 23andMe. I would not expect them to take any extra steps.</text></item><item><author>somsak2</author><text>Even if this is the case, 23andMe should have done better here. Why are you letting people log into an account from a brand-new IP with no additional verification? You have their email, you could have at least done 2FA with that. And as other commenters mentioned, CAPTCHA would have also made this slower &#x2F; more expensive. At my employer, we use both, and so it is not the case that this &quot;could be done on literally any website.&quot;<p>For such a mature business (that is publicly-traded, no less!) it is shameful to allow credential stuffing on the scale of millions of accounts.</text></item><item><author>Urgo</author><text>Unless I&#x27;m reading this wrong all that happened was someone had an existing leaked database of emails&#x2F;passwords and then tried them on 23andme, and if they worked they took the data they could get. Yes, 23andme has some pretty extensive and personal data, but this attack could be done on literally any website. The issue is people re-used passwords, and also did not have 2fa enabled.<p>So the database that is for sale is just a list of emails&#x2F;passwords from other breaches that worked on 23andme, along with the data that 23andme had on those users. Not exactly a 23andme breach.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sfmike</author><text>Please don&#x27;t make this normal it&#x27;s absolutely tiresome to get codes for every single task</text></comment> |
4,623,696 | 4,623,331 | 1 | 2 | 4,623,130 | train | <story><title>Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour</title><url>http://www.launchphotography.com/Endeavour_Flight_Deck.html</url><text>Quite an apparatus. An interesting mix of controls, from rotary buttons, linear gauges and toggle switches from the 70's, all the way to a modern glass cockpit.<p>The seats look like ancient torture devices.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jonursenbach</author><text>Back in 1996 I was part of the first class as the, now closed, Mountain View Space Camp. I was 11. When time came for the shuttle simulations, I volunteered to be pilot. After a quick 10 minute tutorial over what every button did in the deck we were off.<p>We were able to get out into orbit with the help of Mission Control, but on the way back it was just us in the deck.<p>We burned up on re-entry.</text></comment> | <story><title>Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour</title><url>http://www.launchphotography.com/Endeavour_Flight_Deck.html</url><text>Quite an apparatus. An interesting mix of controls, from rotary buttons, linear gauges and toggle switches from the 70's, all the way to a modern glass cockpit.<p>The seats look like ancient torture devices.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>idank</author><text>Truly amazing. What's even more amazing is how ancient the technology inside one of mankind's most incredible inventions looks compared to what we know today.<p>It reminds me of a visit to one of Israel's Air Force bases where I got to see the F-16's up close. I couldn't believe it when we were told that pilots upon receiving coordinates, had to open up a notebook beside them and actually look it up to know where to go because their navigation system was so old. The F-16I had a lot of improvements in this area that no longer required manual lookup by the pilot.</text></comment> |
35,264,172 | 35,264,246 | 1 | 2 | 35,261,363 | train | <story><title>A mirror that reverses how light travels in time</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/time-reversal-interface</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomxor</author><text>The title is very click batey.<p>It doesn&#x27;t reverse how light travels in time, it just reverses light in terms of the order of photons, as in &quot;Last in First out&quot; instead of &quot;First in First out&quot;. The concept is quite natural to grasp. The article makes it harder to understand than necessary by making it sound like science fiction.<p>The &quot;reflector&quot; is actually a medium that encompass the entire signal being reversed... in the same way that you would need to buffer the entire segment of a signal in memory before reversing it (you can&#x27;t send what you haven&#x27;t yet received), you would also need the entire segment of light to be travelling through the medium at the same time in order to reverse it. This is why their experiment involves such long sections of material.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting and useful phenomenon, effectively being able to instantly change a material&#x27;s properties to reverse the direction of photons currently passing through it, which probably has good application in signal processing performance (it would be comparable to hardware signal processing using electrical components). But &quot;time&quot; is not reversed; the <i>direction</i> of photon&#x27;s currently traversing a medium is dynamically reversed, but unlike a reflective <i>surface</i>, a reflective <i>medium</i> could change the direction of multiple photons simultaneously instead of one at a time, which affects the order of that segment..</text></comment> | <story><title>A mirror that reverses how light travels in time</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/time-reversal-interface</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcdonje</author><text>&gt;When a light wave enters the new time interface and the device changes its optical properties, the signal keeps moving forward in space. However, the signal gets reversed—if it was a spoken word, it would sound as if it was getting played backwards. In contrast, with a conventional reflection, a light or sound wave would travel back at its source but mostly look or sound the same as it did before<p>So it&#x27;s reflecting in a novel way. It&#x27;s not sending information into the past. The headline gave me the wrong impression. Relativity lives. Time travel doesn&#x27;t exist.</text></comment> |
27,451,669 | 27,446,908 | 1 | 3 | 27,446,907 | train | <story><title>What's in email tracking links and pixels?</title><url>https://bengtan.com/blog/whats-in-email-tracking-links-and-pixels/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zzyzxd</author><text>This is an interesting reading. Although there are more tracking mechanisms than pixels. Surely you can configure your email client to not to load remote content automatically, but most of the clients will still leak information in various html&#x2F;css elements.<p>A while ago, I used <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emailprivacytester.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emailprivacytester.com&#x2F;</a> to test several famous iOS email clients, and most of them more or less leaked _something_, even without loading remote content. In the end, I found Fastmail and Apple&#x27;s built-in iOS mail client to be the top-notch in terms of privacy (Fastmail leaked nothing but only their server side DNS server via DNS prefetch[1][2], which has nothing to do with client. Apple is slightly worse, but still far better than any other email clients like Outlook, Spark, Edison...)<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emailprivacytester.com&#x2F;testDescription?test=dnsLink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emailprivacytester.com&#x2F;testDescription?test=dnsL...</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emailprivacytester.com&#x2F;testDescription?test=dnsAnchor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.emailprivacytester.com&#x2F;testDescription?test=dnsA...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What's in email tracking links and pixels?</title><url>https://bengtan.com/blog/whats-in-email-tracking-links-and-pixels/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bengtan</author><text>Hi,<p>Author here.<p>This investigation into email tracking attempts to deconstruct tracking links and pixels and highlight the data that is being collected. It covers Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Substack and other Mailgun retailers.<p>There&#x27;s also some attempted (albeit unsuccessful) reverse-engineering of an opaque token in the Substack section (If you like reading stuff about reverse-engineering).<p>Happy to answer any questions.<p>Thanks.</text></comment> |
28,025,339 | 28,020,773 | 1 | 3 | 28,017,051 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C</title><url>https://twitter.com/ilyakurdyukov/status/1421349901720510465</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>I&#x27;m the author of the fastest open source HTTP server. Parsing HTTP 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1 is trivial. It&#x27;s a walk in the park. It only takes about a hundred lines of code to create a proper O(n) parser. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jart&#x2F;cosmopolitan&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0b317523a0875d83d650ce8a7b288e3b3500fbba&#x2F;net&#x2F;http&#x2F;parsehttpmessage.c#L54" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jart&#x2F;cosmopolitan&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0b317523a0875d83d6...</a><p>The Joyent HTTP parser used by Node is very good but it&#x27;s implemented in a way that makes the problem much more complicated than it needs to be. The biggest obstacle with high-performance HTTP message parsing is the case-insensitive string comparison of header field names. Some servers like thttpd do the naive thing and just use a long sequence of strcasecmp() statements. Joyent goes &quot;fast&quot; because it uses callbacks, which effectively punts the problem to the caller, and, for a few select headers which it handles itself, like Content-Length, it uses this really complicated internal &quot;h_matching&quot; thing for doing painstakingly written out hardcoded character compares. Redbean solves the problem by using better computer science: perfect hash tables. Thanks to gperf command. That makes the API itself much more elegant since the parser can not only go faster but return a hash-table like structure where individual headers can be indexed without performing string comparisons.</text></item><item><author>nly</author><text>No, parsing HTTP&#x2F;1.x is a nightmare and definitely not simple. It wasn&#x27;t even particularly well defined until 2014 when the original RFCs were modernized, and even now there are bugs reported in HTTP parsers all the time.<p>Node.js came out in 2009, a full ten years after HTTP&#x2F;1.1 (RFC 2068) and its original http-parser is rather hard to follow, doesn&#x27;t conform to the RFCs for performance reasons, and is considered unmaintainable by the author of it&#x27;s replacement[0]<p>As for parsing HTML, well go look at how Cloudflare have stumbled[1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nodejs&#x2F;llhttp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nodejs&#x2F;llhttp</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...</a></text></item><item><author>milansuk</author><text>That&#x27;s the beauty of original HTTP - simplicity. Same as parsing HTML(in the 90s). With HTTPS(S as Secure) it&#x27;s a whole different story and most programmers use some library.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pornel</author><text>HTTP&#x2F;1 is deceptive, because you think &quot;oh, I&#x27;ll just read RFC 2616, make a state machine, and I&#x27;m done!&quot;. But then writing a <i>browser-compatible</i> HTTP&#x2F;1 client is a whole another bag of problems that weren&#x27;t even documented until recently.<p>For example, Content-Length isn&#x27;t just a single header with an integer, like the spec says. You need to support responses with multiple Content-Length headers and comma-separated lists of potentially contradictory lengths, and then perform garbage error-recovery the way Internet Explorer or Chrome did. Getting this wrong will make your client hang, consume garbage, or allow response stuffing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;web-platform-tests&#x2F;wpt&#x2F;pull&#x2F;10548&#x2F;files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;web-platform-tests&#x2F;wpt&#x2F;pull&#x2F;10548&#x2F;files</a><p>This problem does not exist in HTTP&#x2F;2.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C</title><url>https://twitter.com/ilyakurdyukov/status/1421349901720510465</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jart</author><text>I&#x27;m the author of the fastest open source HTTP server. Parsing HTTP 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1 is trivial. It&#x27;s a walk in the park. It only takes about a hundred lines of code to create a proper O(n) parser. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jart&#x2F;cosmopolitan&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0b317523a0875d83d650ce8a7b288e3b3500fbba&#x2F;net&#x2F;http&#x2F;parsehttpmessage.c#L54" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jart&#x2F;cosmopolitan&#x2F;blob&#x2F;0b317523a0875d83d6...</a><p>The Joyent HTTP parser used by Node is very good but it&#x27;s implemented in a way that makes the problem much more complicated than it needs to be. The biggest obstacle with high-performance HTTP message parsing is the case-insensitive string comparison of header field names. Some servers like thttpd do the naive thing and just use a long sequence of strcasecmp() statements. Joyent goes &quot;fast&quot; because it uses callbacks, which effectively punts the problem to the caller, and, for a few select headers which it handles itself, like Content-Length, it uses this really complicated internal &quot;h_matching&quot; thing for doing painstakingly written out hardcoded character compares. Redbean solves the problem by using better computer science: perfect hash tables. Thanks to gperf command. That makes the API itself much more elegant since the parser can not only go faster but return a hash-table like structure where individual headers can be indexed without performing string comparisons.</text></item><item><author>nly</author><text>No, parsing HTTP&#x2F;1.x is a nightmare and definitely not simple. It wasn&#x27;t even particularly well defined until 2014 when the original RFCs were modernized, and even now there are bugs reported in HTTP parsers all the time.<p>Node.js came out in 2009, a full ten years after HTTP&#x2F;1.1 (RFC 2068) and its original http-parser is rather hard to follow, doesn&#x27;t conform to the RFCs for performance reasons, and is considered unmaintainable by the author of it&#x27;s replacement[0]<p>As for parsing HTML, well go look at how Cloudflare have stumbled[1]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nodejs&#x2F;llhttp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nodejs&#x2F;llhttp</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;incident-report-on-memory-leak-caused-by-cloudflare-parser-bug&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...</a></text></item><item><author>milansuk</author><text>That&#x27;s the beauty of original HTTP - simplicity. Same as parsing HTML(in the 90s). With HTTPS(S as Secure) it&#x27;s a whole different story and most programmers use some library.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mariusor</author><text>I think that implementing a proper state machine for the header parsing with ragel would give a more comprehensive result than using gperf or even the handmade one from your code.<p>I think there are already some versions of the ragel code online, but they might be for other target programming languages.</text></comment> |
20,917,032 | 20,914,723 | 1 | 2 | 20,913,489 | train | <story><title>Creating Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data</title><url>https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-creates-hyper-accurate-maps-from-open-source-maps-and-real-time-data-8dcf9abdd46a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>While I may not be a fan of Facebook, Uber, and Lyft, I absolutely am a fan of their efforts to contribute back to OSM. Credit where credit due.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmc</author><text>Some of them had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing. Facebook initally dumped a pile of computer vision generated data into OSM, breaking everyone, and didn&#x27;t tell anyone. It was entirely reverted ( more here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17856687" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17856687</a> ). It took a lot of effort before they&#x27;d listen.</text></comment> | <story><title>Creating Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data</title><url>https://eng.lyft.com/how-lyft-creates-hyper-accurate-maps-from-open-source-maps-and-real-time-data-8dcf9abdd46a</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>While I may not be a fan of Facebook, Uber, and Lyft, I absolutely am a fan of their efforts to contribute back to OSM. Credit where credit due.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nexuist</author><text>Lyft I would say probably fares the best out of that bunch on moral issues; driver treatment notwithstanding. That being said all of these companies have made amazing contributions not just to OSM but to the open source community in general - React has probably brought more people into software development than any existing web framework in history.</text></comment> |
7,461,005 | 7,459,528 | 1 | 3 | 7,458,768 | train | <story><title>Turkey has blocked Google DNS access to Twitter</title><url>http://www.todayszaman.com/news-342851-turkey-becomes-first-country-ever-to-ban-google-dns.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srl</author><text>Completely off-topic, but my pet peeve:<p>&gt; (by the way, i&#x27;m sorry for my english skills)<p>If you feel the need to append this statement, that&#x27;s a good sign that you don&#x27;t need to. Your English is fine (should be &quot;schools teach&quot;, not &quot;schools teaches&quot;, and I wouldn&#x27;t have used &quot;sample for&quot; there, but who cares -- it&#x27;s clear and unambiguous). It&#x27;s the morons who don&#x27;t care that end up being painful to read.</text></item><item><author>ayi</author><text>As a Turk, i&#x27;m just ashamed of our government.<p>Schools in Turkey teaches in geography classes that Turkey is a bridge between Asia and Europe. But this is also true for our social structure: We sometimes turn our face to europe, ass to asia and sometimes we turn our ass to europe and face to middle east. Our last 12 years was a sample for second statement.<p>(by the way, i&#x27;m sorry for my english skills)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextstep</author><text>&gt; Completely off-topic, but...<p>If you feel the need to append this statement, that&#x27;s a good sign your comment will detract from the discussion.</text></comment> | <story><title>Turkey has blocked Google DNS access to Twitter</title><url>http://www.todayszaman.com/news-342851-turkey-becomes-first-country-ever-to-ban-google-dns.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srl</author><text>Completely off-topic, but my pet peeve:<p>&gt; (by the way, i&#x27;m sorry for my english skills)<p>If you feel the need to append this statement, that&#x27;s a good sign that you don&#x27;t need to. Your English is fine (should be &quot;schools teach&quot;, not &quot;schools teaches&quot;, and I wouldn&#x27;t have used &quot;sample for&quot; there, but who cares -- it&#x27;s clear and unambiguous). It&#x27;s the morons who don&#x27;t care that end up being painful to read.</text></item><item><author>ayi</author><text>As a Turk, i&#x27;m just ashamed of our government.<p>Schools in Turkey teaches in geography classes that Turkey is a bridge between Asia and Europe. But this is also true for our social structure: We sometimes turn our face to europe, ass to asia and sometimes we turn our ass to europe and face to middle east. Our last 12 years was a sample for second statement.<p>(by the way, i&#x27;m sorry for my english skills)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nyrulez</author><text>You&#x27;ve managed to take this thread exactly in the direction the author was hopefully planning to avoid :) disclaimer or no, there is always someone ready to comment on the english either way</text></comment> |
27,635,288 | 27,635,199 | 1 | 3 | 27,634,920 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: LinkedIn suggesting I connect with my infertility doctor</title><text>Looks like they mined my Gmail account and got the e-mail.<p>From a damage control perspective (obviously I want this info known to nobody but me and my healthcare provider), what can&#x2F;should I do?<p>Are LinkedIn&#x27;s affiliates looking at this data?<p>Who are they sharing it with?<p>I&#x27;m hoping to publicize this enough that someone at LinkedIn takes notice.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raldi</author><text>Ask your doctor if they gave LinkedIn access to their contacts file. If so, it could be a HIPAA violation, which both they <i>and</i> LinkedIn would have to take seriously.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: LinkedIn suggesting I connect with my infertility doctor</title><text>Looks like they mined my Gmail account and got the e-mail.<p>From a damage control perspective (obviously I want this info known to nobody but me and my healthcare provider), what can&#x2F;should I do?<p>Are LinkedIn&#x27;s affiliates looking at this data?<p>Who are they sharing it with?<p>I&#x27;m hoping to publicize this enough that someone at LinkedIn takes notice.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway4good</author><text>They will suggest people who have looked at your profile. And I have noticed, if you have shared an IP address with - ie if you have used the wifi at your doctor’s office. I don’t think they can access your gmail - how would they do that?</text></comment> |
14,872,342 | 14,871,516 | 1 | 3 | 14,871,006 | train | <story><title>Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs</title><url>http://www.hiringlab.org/2017/07/25/next-silicon-valley/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ynniv</author><text>I get that you work with what you have (in this case, a corpus of job postings), but a ranking that places Baltimore in the top three tech hubs fails the sniff test. CBRE has a better list here (email registration wall): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbre.com&#x2F;research-and-reports&#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talent-2017" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbre.com&#x2F;research-and-reports&#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talen...</a><p>I&#x27;m biased in that it places Atlanta unusually high, but overall it is a better, less surprising ranking:<p><pre><code> Bay Area
Seattle
New York
Washington DC
Atlanta
Toronto
Raleigh
Austin
Boston</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acchow</author><text>Their data is obviously broken. If you look at the source, it is &quot;Indeed&quot;, which is obviously not an unbiased sample of data.<p>Let&#x27;s pick a huge employer in Silicon Valley, Facebook, and search for jobs on Indeed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indeed.com&#x2F;jobs?q=facebook&amp;l=Menlo+Park%2C+CA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indeed.com&#x2F;jobs?q=facebook&amp;l=Menlo+Park%2C+CA</a><p>Not a single Software Engineer position.<p>And I really don&#x27;t think hot San Francisco startups are using Indeed to look for talent, which is why SF falls so low on their rankings</text></comment> | <story><title>Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs</title><url>http://www.hiringlab.org/2017/07/25/next-silicon-valley/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ynniv</author><text>I get that you work with what you have (in this case, a corpus of job postings), but a ranking that places Baltimore in the top three tech hubs fails the sniff test. CBRE has a better list here (email registration wall): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbre.com&#x2F;research-and-reports&#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talent-2017" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cbre.com&#x2F;research-and-reports&#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talen...</a><p>I&#x27;m biased in that it places Atlanta unusually high, but overall it is a better, less surprising ranking:<p><pre><code> Bay Area
Seattle
New York
Washington DC
Atlanta
Toronto
Raleigh
Austin
Boston</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dzink</author><text>Atlanta is the center of tech ambitions for the southeast. It has a lot of Fortune 500 company headquarters - Turner Broadcasting with 18+ major online brands, Home Depot, Lowe&#x27;s, etc. Yahoo and Google had offices. There are also a lot of small satellite consulting firms. Cost of housing is much lower, though traffic is bad as well. It&#x27;s a nice green city, but Venture funding is low, so it depends on your ambitions.</text></comment> |
19,496,641 | 19,496,705 | 1 | 3 | 19,495,323 | train | <story><title>Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/open-sourcing-peloton/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warp_factor</author><text>I think you are right.<p>I think that what is going there is also a bit political. They started to grow their Engineering department so fast that they need to justify the headcounts now. So each team is trying to invent new projects all the time. Anecdotally, this was partially confirmed to me by a friend working there.<p>I said this before, but I still cannot understand why a service like Uber need so many engineers in the backend (multiple thousands). It is a complex distributed application, but nowhere near the scale or complexity of a Facebook or Google.</text></item><item><author>spyspy</author><text>Is it just me or is every big release from Uber just a custom rewrite of an existing technology? It seems their engineering department has a large not-invented-here attitude. I could be wrong - they&#x27;re certainly large enough to have custom requirements that aren&#x27;t met with what&#x27;s on the market but the pattern is just becoming suspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theon144</author><text>&gt;I said this before, but I still cannot understand why a service like Uber need so many engineers in the backend (multiple thousands). It is a complex distributed application, but nowhere near the scale or complexity of a Facebook or Google.<p>Thank you so much, I thought I was going crazy. I understand the demands of running a service on the level Uber has, but well, for instance I can&#x27;t imagine what kind of computational workload &#x2F; infrastructure requirements would make developing your own resource scheduler a reasonable option - for a Taxi app? With non-essential (to the core product) machine learning?<p>Forgive me if I&#x27;m ignorant, but what exactly does Uber engineering team do?<p>edit: On their blog I was able to find that they namely &quot;forecast rider demand&quot;, from a relatively small [0] article - that is, comapred to the article [1] about what essentially is &quot;just&quot; data visualization, which doesn&#x27;t help my confusion much.<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;neural-networks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;neural-networks&#x2F;</a>
1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;maze&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eng.uber.com&#x2F;maze&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Open Sourcing Peloton, Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler</title><url>https://eng.uber.com/open-sourcing-peloton/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>warp_factor</author><text>I think you are right.<p>I think that what is going there is also a bit political. They started to grow their Engineering department so fast that they need to justify the headcounts now. So each team is trying to invent new projects all the time. Anecdotally, this was partially confirmed to me by a friend working there.<p>I said this before, but I still cannot understand why a service like Uber need so many engineers in the backend (multiple thousands). It is a complex distributed application, but nowhere near the scale or complexity of a Facebook or Google.</text></item><item><author>spyspy</author><text>Is it just me or is every big release from Uber just a custom rewrite of an existing technology? It seems their engineering department has a large not-invented-here attitude. I could be wrong - they&#x27;re certainly large enough to have custom requirements that aren&#x27;t met with what&#x27;s on the market but the pattern is just becoming suspect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chillacy</author><text>Maybe not at the same scale but imo their core system has a lot of tech challenges:<p>* Lots of realtime<p>* Resource scheduling problems<p>* Route optimization problems (especially with shared uber or shared lyft rides)</text></comment> |
18,656,990 | 18,656,618 | 1 | 2 | 18,654,998 | train | <story><title>Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-supermicro-chips/super-micro-says-review-found-no-malicious-chips-in-motherboards-idUSKBN1OA12R</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freeflight</author><text>Nothing, just like nothing will happen to the outlets who are currently pushing this &quot;Huwai is spying on everybody&quot; narrative with not an ounce of evidence for it except for unfounded and unsourced claims by FiveEyes intelligence services [0].<p>Afaik that whole Bloomberg&#x2F;Super Micro thing was similarly set up, referring to &quot;anonymous intelligence&#x2F;industry services&quot;, not even naming the company that supposedly did the security audit.<p>People have to realize that these kinds of narratives are often pushed by parties in the West, with a vested interest, just as much as it happens in the supposedly &quot;propaganda riddled&quot; East.<p>It&#x27;s for those same reasons that the amendments to the Smith-Mundson act, which happened back in 2013, haven&#x27;t seen any widespread attention or even mention anywhere in the mainstream [1] because the good guys don&#x27;t do &quot;propaganda&quot;, they do &quot;interventions&quot; [2] and &quot;information campaigns&quot; [3].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;afa7fd54-79b1-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;afa7fd54-79b1-11e8-bc55-50daf11b7...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foreignpolicy.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foreignpolicy.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;u-s-repeals-propaganda-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2011&#x2F;mar&#x2F;17&#x2F;us-spy-operation-social-networks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2011&#x2F;mar&#x2F;17&#x2F;us-spy-op...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;67739294" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;67739294</a></text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>Let&#x27;s say Super Micro is right and there were no malicious hardware at all for sure. What are the consequences for Bloomberg for this incompetence? I mean, there needs to be something..<p>Just because you&#x27;re a news organization, you can&#x27;t simply escape with &quot;Oh, my bad&quot;. This had real implications on stock prices of so many companies and wiped off shareholder value on many of them, including Super Micro.<p>If Bloomberg&#x27;s story was false, they shouldn&#x27;t just walk away like that because &quot;it&#x27;s the free press&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asituop</author><text>Not that Huawei is the only and surely some other brands are even worse, but still Huawei phones are full of spyware, just open NetGuard or another example here : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;fs0c131y&#x2F;status&#x2F;1051568180748013569" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobile.twitter.com&#x2F;fs0c131y&#x2F;status&#x2F;10515681807480135...</a><p>But once again surely other brands, Western companies included, are also spying, but it doesn&#x27;t change the fact that Huawei does it too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-supermicro-chips/super-micro-says-review-found-no-malicious-chips-in-motherboards-idUSKBN1OA12R</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freeflight</author><text>Nothing, just like nothing will happen to the outlets who are currently pushing this &quot;Huwai is spying on everybody&quot; narrative with not an ounce of evidence for it except for unfounded and unsourced claims by FiveEyes intelligence services [0].<p>Afaik that whole Bloomberg&#x2F;Super Micro thing was similarly set up, referring to &quot;anonymous intelligence&#x2F;industry services&quot;, not even naming the company that supposedly did the security audit.<p>People have to realize that these kinds of narratives are often pushed by parties in the West, with a vested interest, just as much as it happens in the supposedly &quot;propaganda riddled&quot; East.<p>It&#x27;s for those same reasons that the amendments to the Smith-Mundson act, which happened back in 2013, haven&#x27;t seen any widespread attention or even mention anywhere in the mainstream [1] because the good guys don&#x27;t do &quot;propaganda&quot;, they do &quot;interventions&quot; [2] and &quot;information campaigns&quot; [3].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;afa7fd54-79b1-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;afa7fd54-79b1-11e8-bc55-50daf11b7...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foreignpolicy.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foreignpolicy.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;14&#x2F;u-s-repeals-propaganda-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2011&#x2F;mar&#x2F;17&#x2F;us-spy-operation-social-networks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2011&#x2F;mar&#x2F;17&#x2F;us-spy-op...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;67739294" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;67739294</a></text></item><item><author>neya</author><text>Let&#x27;s say Super Micro is right and there were no malicious hardware at all for sure. What are the consequences for Bloomberg for this incompetence? I mean, there needs to be something..<p>Just because you&#x27;re a news organization, you can&#x27;t simply escape with &quot;Oh, my bad&quot;. This had real implications on stock prices of so many companies and wiped off shareholder value on many of them, including Super Micro.<p>If Bloomberg&#x27;s story was false, they shouldn&#x27;t just walk away like that because &quot;it&#x27;s the free press&quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>Seems like anonymous sources inside the intelligence agencies is how a lot of the news gets generated these days. Anonymous figures don&#x27;t have to worry about their reputation or credibility and can just leak occasionally true information to keep getting published.</text></comment> |
17,214,321 | 17,212,197 | 1 | 3 | 17,211,696 | train | <story><title>Google quits selling tablets</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/01/google-quits-selling-tablets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__sr__</author><text>Good riddance! It’s not like they have actively been developing Android to support tablets. In fact, it is the other way around. The older versions had better support for tablets. Even Nexus 9 was a half hearted attempt at best — and the rest is history. Google’s lack of interest in nowhere more evident than their own apps — many of them were just scaled versions of phone apps. And if Google is not bothering to optimise their apps for tablets, what motivation do third party developers have?<p>Strictly speaking, Android tablets never even competed in the same arena as the iPad. Samsung is an exception, but they don’t control the ecosystem — which makes things much harder for them — even if we ignore their atrocious software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dalbasal</author><text>In a lot of cases a scaled (or just small) phone app is good enough. But... overall.. I think the tablet category is just not a very big one. I had an iPad and an old 7&quot; nexus. When they died, I didn&#x27;t replace.<p>Phones got bigger and better. We got better at thumb typing and comfortable holding screens close.
Reading on a tablet for example, is not <i>that</i> different to a phone these days and a (cheap) dedicated reader is better still. Meanwhile, laptops kept getting more mobile. The space between my phone and my laptop is just not that big. I found that I only ever charged it before flights, for movies which is great on tablets. But even that.. laptops and phones work good too.<p>Otherwise, my tablets were often battery-dead and I most tablets i come across in friends living rooms are dead. They don&#x27;t get much use. When a laptop or phone died, I need a new one tomorrow. The tablet... no urgency.<p>Tablets are fun and cool. People like them. I&#x27;m not sure they use them as much as they expected to. It&#x27;s a less extreme version of smart watches. Fun. Likeable. Not essential for most people.<p>The problem is that the android and iOS monoliths (especially sofwarists) will always put the phones first. If we had a less centralised ecosystem, tablets would have their own specialists.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google quits selling tablets</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/01/google-quits-selling-tablets/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>__sr__</author><text>Good riddance! It’s not like they have actively been developing Android to support tablets. In fact, it is the other way around. The older versions had better support for tablets. Even Nexus 9 was a half hearted attempt at best — and the rest is history. Google’s lack of interest in nowhere more evident than their own apps — many of them were just scaled versions of phone apps. And if Google is not bothering to optimise their apps for tablets, what motivation do third party developers have?<p>Strictly speaking, Android tablets never even competed in the same arena as the iPad. Samsung is an exception, but they don’t control the ecosystem — which makes things much harder for them — even if we ignore their atrocious software.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>euyyn</author><text>I admit that I haven&#x27;t paid much attention. But the whole revamp of the UI framework into Fragments was precisely to let app developers support both phones and tablets.<p>Why do you say older versions of Android had better support for tablets?</text></comment> |
31,077,427 | 31,077,448 | 1 | 2 | 31,076,036 | train | <story><title>The case for LineageOS and the PinePhone</title><url>https://jleightcap.srht.site/blog/openphone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zwieback</author><text>I like the idea of a more open phone a lot but dispute the &quot;Smartphones are shit&quot; premise. I think modern smart phones are an unbelievably awesome value. Battery, display, wireless and processing power have advanced at such an unbelievable rate that we have something in our pockets that far exceeds predictions of 20, 30, 100 years ago. The problem is that we don&#x27;t want to pay what it really costs to have such a great system so we sell our souls and then endlessly gripe about it.<p>Pinephone et al appeal to nerds and are a good reference case about those tradeoffs but I&#x27;m doubtful they&#x27;ll tip the scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>usrn</author><text>As someone who had a few pre-smartphone PDAs: Smartphones absolutely are high powered shit. On paper they&#x27;re amazing but the ecosystem limits you to scrolling instagram and only a handfull of accepted IMs (iOS struggles with XMPP and IRC for example, something even my hacked DS could do fine with 4MB of ram and a 60Mhz ARM9.)<p>Just editing fucking textfiles and copying it back to a normal PC (that isn&#x27;t a mac) is a real bitch. <i>Especially</i> if you don&#x27;t have an internet connection. It&#x27;s almost as bad as a ti84+ honestly, just a nicer screen, a couple cameras, and the ability to send IM and email. In fact the TI84 could do things iOS can&#x27;t, I had compilers on mine.<p>EDIT: Somehow I missed that you mentioned the battery. Smartphones have some of the worst battery life among any PDA I&#x27;ve had. iPhones can stretch out a few days (<i>maybe</i> a week if it&#x27;s just sitting in a drawer near a tower) if you use them sparingly but it&#x27;s nothing like the Palm Pilot or the grayscale calculators that could easily last a month.</text></comment> | <story><title>The case for LineageOS and the PinePhone</title><url>https://jleightcap.srht.site/blog/openphone.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zwieback</author><text>I like the idea of a more open phone a lot but dispute the &quot;Smartphones are shit&quot; premise. I think modern smart phones are an unbelievably awesome value. Battery, display, wireless and processing power have advanced at such an unbelievable rate that we have something in our pockets that far exceeds predictions of 20, 30, 100 years ago. The problem is that we don&#x27;t want to pay what it really costs to have such a great system so we sell our souls and then endlessly gripe about it.<p>Pinephone et al appeal to nerds and are a good reference case about those tradeoffs but I&#x27;m doubtful they&#x27;ll tip the scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>&gt; I think modern smart phones are an unbelievably awesome value. Battery, display, wireless and processing power have advanced at such an unbelievable rate that we have something in our pockets that far exceeds predictions of 20, 30, 100 years ago.<p>From my quotes file: &quot;It&#x27;s amazing what we can build, it&#x27;s baffling what we have built.&quot; (jrumbut, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25168187" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25168187</a>) Yes, the hardware is amazing, and the software is sometimes amazing in what it can do, but... If you have gobs of bandwidth (courtesy of modern WiFi and LTE) and loads of RAM and storage and CPUs that <i>scream</i> (seriously, for a while my phone had more cores than most of my laptops at a close clock speed) and a high-quality touch-sensitive screen and a solid OS that makes it easy to use the system even on that tiny screen, but you use it to let apps bloat like there&#x27;s no tomorrow (Facebook comes to mind), show ads even more efficiently, spy on the user at will, and deliberately make things worse so people will pay more (ex. YouTube), what have you really gained?</text></comment> |
15,842,493 | 15,841,979 | 1 | 2 | 15,841,241 | train | <story><title>Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller</title><url>http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sspiff</author><text>This always manages to put a smile on my face. This is a pointless but awesome technical achievement, and in the spirit of the old definition of &quot;hacker&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller</title><url>http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>simonblack</author><text>Any Turing-machine can emulate any other Turing-machine. Speed?? Well, that&#x27;s a different matter. Amount of RAM?? That too needs tweaking.</text></comment> |
41,037,594 | 41,037,992 | 1 | 2 | 41,033,005 | train | <story><title>Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available</title><url>https://www.openresearchlab.org/studies/unconditional-cash-study/study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>This is a pretty generous reading of the study.<p>One result they are missing out is that the income actually reduced overall employment compared to the control group, and ended up decreasing household earnings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;w32719" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;w32719</a><p>Even with a generous reading, it was an extremely expensive study. And similar proposals like the Negative Income Tax would cost far less money and have none of the presented downsides.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joe_the_user</author><text>Why is it some shock-horror thing that people worked less? I think, for those who imagine AI taking a vast swath of jobs (like Altman), the aim for basic income is to get people working less but without this resulting social&#x2F;work disengagement (whether AI will have that effect is a different matter).</text></comment> | <story><title>Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available</title><url>https://www.openresearchlab.org/studies/unconditional-cash-study/study</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>legitster</author><text>This is a pretty generous reading of the study.<p>One result they are missing out is that the income actually reduced overall employment compared to the control group, and ended up decreasing household earnings: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;w32719" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nber.org&#x2F;papers&#x2F;w32719</a><p>Even with a generous reading, it was an extremely expensive study. And similar proposals like the Negative Income Tax would cost far less money and have none of the presented downsides.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Willish42</author><text>&gt; And similar proposals like the Negative Income Tax would cost far less money and have none of the presented downsides.<p>Most people file taxes once a year, meaning they would get this payment once rather than monthly, which makes a huge difference if living on the poverty line. Similarly, many people making less than the minimum for filing [1] likely don&#x27;t file their taxes. This was an issue with the child tax credit as well -- you want to get resources to the lowest-income households, but doing that with tax credits means you don&#x27;t actually reach those households, meaning you still have to introduce new programs to reach those people [2]. There were proposals to make that tax credit into a monthly payment but IIRC they did not pass before the child tax credit was ended in 2022.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;who-needs-to-file-a-tax-return" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irs.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;who-needs-to-file-a-tax-return</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;22588701&#x2F;child-tax-credit-accessibility-irs-portal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vox.com&#x2F;22588701&#x2F;child-tax-credit-accessibility-...</a></text></comment> |
6,347,424 | 6,347,136 | 1 | 3 | 6,346,997 | train | <story><title>Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10</title><url>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/snowden-disclosures-nsa-bombshell-decryption</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>malandrew</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;For what it&#x27;s worth, this is about the point where I get
off the Snowden train. It&#x27;s true that some of these
disclosures are of clear public interest. In particular,
I&#x27;m thinking about the details of NSA efforts to
infiltrate and corrupt the standards setting groups that
produce commercial crypto schemes.&quot;
</code></pre>
If anything this new information should put more people on the Snowden train. In the 90s, legislation was proposed which would have put backdoors everywhere via the Clipper Chip. Back then, we voted against that bill and all was good. This new information is shocking because we&#x27;ve already told the government that backdooring things was unacceptable behavior, yet they&#x27;ve done so anyways. We should all be outraged by this because it clearly doesn&#x27;t represent the interest of the people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>windexh8er</author><text>Kevin Drum (edited name) was relegated to an old guy who really doesn&#x27;t get it when I read that paragraph. I understand the need to the NSA to have countermeasures and options - however this <i>is</i> in the public interest as it puts disclosure, privacy and breach laws in a very awkward position. It also asserts that there is no expectation of privacy within US borders on the Internet - that is unacceptable and complete bull shit. Soghoian said it best recently when he stated that it is not OK for the NSA to possess dragnet capabilities on all crypto.<p>Sorry Kevin, I think you&#x27;ve gotten off the wrong train - you landed in the land of complacency.</text></comment> | <story><title>Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10</title><url>http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/snowden-disclosures-nsa-bombshell-decryption</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>malandrew</author><text><p><pre><code> &quot;For what it&#x27;s worth, this is about the point where I get
off the Snowden train. It&#x27;s true that some of these
disclosures are of clear public interest. In particular,
I&#x27;m thinking about the details of NSA efforts to
infiltrate and corrupt the standards setting groups that
produce commercial crypto schemes.&quot;
</code></pre>
If anything this new information should put more people on the Snowden train. In the 90s, legislation was proposed which would have put backdoors everywhere via the Clipper Chip. Back then, we voted against that bill and all was good. This new information is shocking because we&#x27;ve already told the government that backdooring things was unacceptable behavior, yet they&#x27;ve done so anyways. We should all be outraged by this because it clearly doesn&#x27;t represent the interest of the people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>I can&#x27;t any record of a Congressional vote on the subject, only that its adoption was the subject of a proposed FIPS #185. I don&#x27;t think your statement above is founded in fact.<p>I refer you to Michael Froomkin&#x27;s lengthy but readable analysis from 1996: <a href="http://osaka.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/planet_clipper.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;osaka.law.miami.edu&#x2F;~froomkin&#x2F;articles&#x2F;planet_clipper...</a></text></comment> |
25,297,587 | 25,297,243 | 1 | 2 | 25,295,060 | train | <story><title>Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-visas-proposed-acquisition-plaid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nobody9999</author><text>I was struck by this bit:
&#x27;If Plaid remained free to develop its competing payment platform, then “Visa may be forced to accept lower margins or not have a competitive offering.&quot;&#x27;<p>My understanding is that Plaid would&#x2F;could charge significantly less (up to 50% less) than Visa currently does.<p>And that&#x27;s the value of <i>competition</i>. Not necessarily as a race to the bottom (as we&#x27;ve seen in the airline industry, but that&#x27;s another topic), but in providing Visa&#x27;s <i>customers</i> with viable, more cost-effective alternatives.<p>And that&#x27;s been a problem (at least in the US) for a long time. Big corporations buying up potential competitors in order to maintain both their market share <i>and</i> their overpriced offerings.</text></comment> | <story><title>Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-visas-proposed-acquisition-plaid</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tempsy</author><text>Yeah I really didn’t like this deal when it was first announced.<p>Plaid has a ton of bank account and transaction data on competitors to Visa that gives it a ridiculous advantage over its competitors.</text></comment> |
13,469,137 | 13,469,106 | 1 | 2 | 13,468,276 | train | <story><title>Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacy</title><url>https://iridiumbrowser.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>So increase your &quot;privacy&quot; at the risk of your security? Personally, I trust a fully-patched chrome more than a browser that lags behind the latest security updates by 6 weeks.<p>(Iridium is currently branched off chromium 54, chrome is on version 55)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>Google violated my privacy dozens of times today, and there is nothing I can do to stop them from trying again tomorrow. My machine has been pwned due to browser vulnerabilities exactly zero times (as far as I know).<p>I get that protecting against hypothetical exploits is good, but it&#x27;s probably best to stop the ongoing security breaches first.</text></comment> | <story><title>Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacy</title><url>https://iridiumbrowser.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>So increase your &quot;privacy&quot; at the risk of your security? Personally, I trust a fully-patched chrome more than a browser that lags behind the latest security updates by 6 weeks.<p>(Iridium is currently branched off chromium 54, chrome is on version 55)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jklinger410</author><text>Maybe for some people Google owning their data is worse than the odds that they will be targeted by the latest exploits.</text></comment> |
39,925,522 | 39,915,627 | 1 | 2 | 39,913,905 | train | <story><title>Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/04/02/autoconf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>titzer</author><text>Autoconf is one of the absolutely hilarious things about UNIX. On the one hand, we&#x27;ve got people optimizing kernels down to the individual instructions (often doing very unsafe dirty C tricks underneath), sometimes with super-clunky and overly complex APIs as a result...and on the other hand you have all the shell script absolute nuttery like the behemoth heap of kludges that is autoconf. It&#x27;s crazy to me the disconnect.<p>And, oh by the way, underneath? Shells have some of the absolutely bonkersly dumb parsers and interpreters; absolutely embarrassingly dumb stuff like aliases that can override keywords and change the parsing of shell script. The fact that some (most) shells interpret a shell script one line at a time, and that &quot;built-ins&quot; like the syntax for conditions in ifs looks like syntax but might be little binaries underneath (look up how &quot;[&quot; and &quot;]&quot; is handled in some shells--it might not be!).<p>What a wild irony that all the ickiest parts of UNIX--shells and scripts and autoconf and all that stringly-typed pipe stuff, ended up becoming (IMHO) the most reusable, pluggable programming environment yet devised...</text></comment> | <story><title>Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon</title><url>https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/04/02/autoconf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mid-kid</author><text>You can pre-answer most autoconf sections using &#x2F;etc&#x2F;config.site, and a system distributor can create an &#x2F;usr&#x2F;share&#x2F;config.site[1]. It&#x27;s just really hard to get right, nobody uses it effectively.<p>Autoconf also has a config.cache[2], which it uses to store answers to reuse across multiple of the same checks and reruns of the configure script.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;autoconf&#x2F;manual&#x2F;autoconf-2.63&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Site-Defaults.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;autoconf&#x2F;manual&#x2F;autoconf-2.63&#x2F;h...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;autoconf&#x2F;manual&#x2F;autoconf-2.65&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;Cache-Files.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;autoconf&#x2F;manual&#x2F;autoconf-2.65&#x2F;h...</a></text></comment> |
23,622,133 | 23,620,926 | 1 | 3 | 23,617,229 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?</title><text>I think it feels like Jira and I&#x27;m really sad. Seems more like a MS move than a GH move...<p>Migrating to gitlab...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>I submitted feedback over it but, aside from the over-reliance on rounded corners, and making pills and buttons hard to separate, the single worst change is that you can&#x27;t see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator.<p>When I&#x27;m browsing on github and not using git directly, the commit short-hash is the last thing I care about. You cannot see if your default branch has passed CI&#x2F;status checks now. Those things should be first class citizens, that&#x27;s why we put status badges all at the top of our readmes to make that info more visible with what we have.<p>It follows the trend of designing with lower information density. This trend IMO is not appropriate for developer tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>natfriedman</author><text>Thanks for the feedback about the latest commit status. This is something we should definitely fix.<p>Also – I don&#x27;t think there is a principle of lowering information density at work here. I think it&#x27;s just a design that we will keep iterating. We are pro information density at GitHub.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?</title><text>I think it feels like Jira and I&#x27;m really sad. Seems more like a MS move than a GH move...<p>Migrating to gitlab...</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ljm</author><text>I submitted feedback over it but, aside from the over-reliance on rounded corners, and making pills and buttons hard to separate, the single worst change is that you can&#x27;t see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator.<p>When I&#x27;m browsing on github and not using git directly, the commit short-hash is the last thing I care about. You cannot see if your default branch has passed CI&#x2F;status checks now. Those things should be first class citizens, that&#x27;s why we put status badges all at the top of our readmes to make that info more visible with what we have.<p>It follows the trend of designing with lower information density. This trend IMO is not appropriate for developer tools.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&gt; the single worst change is that you can&#x27;t see the latest commit status from the repo screen. Instead, you get the commit hash, and have to click a tiny ellipsis button to get the commit message and the status indicator.<p>Omitting the commit message is a net improvement to me; I&#x27;ve found that the commit message of the random commit that happens to be at top of tree is completely unhelpful for someone browsing the repository, and especially someone new to the project.<p>However, showing the status indicator inline does indeed seem like a good idea.<p>That said...<p>&gt; You cannot see if your default branch has passed CI&#x2F;status checks now.<p>If it hasn&#x27;t passed CI and status checks, it shouldn&#x27;t be in your default branch.<p>(There are cases where periodic status checks may get re-run after merging, such as checking if your default branch builds with more recent versions of software than it was originally tested with. But the normal CI and status checks should run <i>before</i> merging.)</text></comment> |
15,462,028 | 15,461,319 | 1 | 2 | 15,460,645 | train | <story><title>Securing Microservices</title><url>https://medium.facilelogin.com/securing-microservices-with-oauth-2-0-jwt-and-xacml-d03770a9a838</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ejcx</author><text>If you&#x27;re using microservices and care about security, do yourself a favor and use a monorepo.<p>A lot of improving security is about changing things in small ways but across the entire fleet. If you have microservices without a monorepo you oftentimes need to make the same changes in potentially hundreds of places.<p>This makes it a lot easier to do things like enforce standards for repos. Code coverage. Testing. Unsafe function use. Repo sprawl makes microservice security very challenging, and it isn&#x27;t mentioned in this blog post. Losing track of services and leaving specific services behind is not good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianratnapala</author><text>&gt; If you&#x27;re using microservices and care about security, do yourself a favor and use a monorepo.<p>This seems like a strong reminder that &quot;microservices&quot; aren&#x27;t really about having lots of independent little systems but are a different way of factoring your one big system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Securing Microservices</title><url>https://medium.facilelogin.com/securing-microservices-with-oauth-2-0-jwt-and-xacml-d03770a9a838</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ejcx</author><text>If you&#x27;re using microservices and care about security, do yourself a favor and use a monorepo.<p>A lot of improving security is about changing things in small ways but across the entire fleet. If you have microservices without a monorepo you oftentimes need to make the same changes in potentially hundreds of places.<p>This makes it a lot easier to do things like enforce standards for repos. Code coverage. Testing. Unsafe function use. Repo sprawl makes microservice security very challenging, and it isn&#x27;t mentioned in this blog post. Losing track of services and leaving specific services behind is not good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corpMaverick</author><text>yes, yes, a thousand times yes.<p>We implemented our services like this a few years back. It worked really nice. But in everything that I have read I have never seen any references to this practice. I didn&#x27;t even know it was called &quot;monorepo&quot;. I was just assuming everybody was using multiple repos and we were weird.</text></comment> |
7,181,651 | 7,181,655 | 1 | 2 | 7,181,134 | train | <story><title>The first congressman to battle the NSA has died</title><url>http://pando.com/2014/02/04/the-first-congressman-to-battle-the-nsa-is-dead-no-one-noticed-no-one-cares/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spodek</author><text>A bunch of people posting here seem to be misreading the point of the article. The point is not that he died old but that he died in obscurity in the midst of issues that came to light in part following his work decades ago.<p>The article suggests he was ahead of his time in finding and exposing problems with the NSA (and CIA, FBI, etc), which seem egregious then and poignant now. The article suggests the NSA worked against him, contributing to his obscurity.<p>I found the article interesting, informative, and relevant.</text></comment> | <story><title>The first congressman to battle the NSA has died</title><url>http://pando.com/2014/02/04/the-first-congressman-to-battle-the-nsa-is-dead-no-one-noticed-no-one-cares/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>egocodedinsol</author><text>Before everyone rushes to the flag button because the author is biased (he is), consider that this article discusses a historical context I&#x27;ve seen missing from a lot of the NSA analysis. I find this article, even in its breathless hyperbole, more informative than the latest &quot;what the NSA is capable of&quot; version. It shows a historical continuity with the actions intelligence agencies pursue, and what happened when people tried to stop them (right or wrong). No, this article is not the rational enquiry I wish it were. But as someone who is conflicted about NSA activities, I found it shaped my perspective more than most submissions I&#x27;ve read.<p>Yes, everyone mentions that telegraphs entering and exiting the country were tapped, but I was unaware that in the 70s they were already mining for keywords, not calling it eavesdropping, and refusing to show up for Congressional inquiries.<p>When I saw Clapper&#x27;s now infamous testimony, I assumed it was a new, emboldened post-9&#x2F;11 intelligence community that surpassed the Cold War era. I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s the case now.<p>There&#x27;s also an argument to be made by those in favor of NSA activities: we&#x27;ve managed to have an NSA with extraordinary power that defies Congress for a long time, but we still haven&#x27;t seen too many secret police.<p>Ultimately, it focuses the debate to some degree not on NSA goals (which have historically been to collect as much relevant information as possible, and resist Congressional oversight with vigor), but on how much easier it now is to collect that information.</text></comment> |
10,581,969 | 10,582,050 | 1 | 3 | 10,580,208 | train | <story><title>VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks</title><url>https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2015-November/105002.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>There is no 40% group of the population in Europe that holds views that are anywhere near as disgusting as that.</i><p>Well, only 50+ years ago there was an over 40% population in the US that thought that blacks were inferior and shouldn&#x27;t sit in the same restaurants&#x2F;hotels&#x2F;schools with whites. In fact it was even law in some states.<p>Beyond that, there were about all major western countries, France, UK, Belgium, Holland, Italy, etc, that had other people enslaved in colonies up until the sixties. 2+ billion people had their countries managed by foreigners, and their fellow countrymen tortured and executed when asking freedom (and sometimes, just killed for fun).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;2012&#x2F;apr&#x2F;18&#x2F;britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;2012&#x2F;apr&#x2F;18&#x2F;britain-destroyed-...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monbiot.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;how-britain-denies-its-holocausts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monbiot.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;how-britain-denies-its-hol...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;inside-frances-secret-war-396062.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;inside-france...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theplaidzebra.com&#x2F;human-zoos-one-europes-shameful-secrets-ended-50s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theplaidzebra.com&#x2F;human-zoos-one-europes-shameful...</a><p>Heck, even in Paris itself, the French police famously killed over 200 Algerians marching for their country&#x27;s freedom in a single day in 1961 -- and it took them 40+ years, after all officials were dead or too old, to finally admit it and ask for an apology.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paris_massacre_of_1961" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paris_massacre_of_1961</a><p>These countries also thought that they should have a say as to whether a remote country should have this or that president or regime -- to the point of toppling legitimate regimes, bombing those countries, coming to assist one party or another in a civil war, etc.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...</a><p>There have been over 2 million victims of those interventions in the last 10 years alone. Every despicable hit by muslim terrorists (and we all agree its despicable) was met with 4-5 orders of magnitude many more innocent victims on those countries.<p>If some muslim country managed to harm 1&#x2F;100 that number of, say, Texans, where would the percentages of &quot;tolerance&quot; and &quot;acceptance&quot; towards them go?<p>We should condemn all violence -- not forgive the one that has better PR and is done by cool looking people who have the same background as us.</text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text><i>&gt;And a very large number of people in my country would happily throw back those fleeing the carnage to become victims of that 40%</i><p>That statement really doesn&#x27;t make much sense at all. People are fleeing a war, among them people from the 40% and the 60% group alike. And no one in Europe is advocating throwing anyone back into a war zone. Many want the refugees stay somewhere in the region instead of letting them come to Europe by the millions.<p>It&#x27;s not my opinion, but please don&#x27;t compare that opinion with people who advocate that homosexuals, adulterers and apostates should be put to death. There is no 40% group of the population in Europe that holds views that are anywhere near as disgusting as that. Your relativism goes too far.<p>[Edit] And just to make it clear, I do not believe that it is really 40% who really hold those opinions. It&#x27;s probably less. I hope.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.<p>Significant numbers of non-Islam subscribers hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society too. All these people have at least one thing in common: they would like to change society to suit their ends.<p>And a very large number of people in my country would happily throw back those fleeing the carnage to become victims of that 40%. Which in my opinion makes them just about as bad.</text></item><item><author>cygx</author><text>Of course it&#x27;s not &quot;all Muslisms&quot;. But those who claim &quot;it&#x27;s only the terrorists&quot; or &quot;it&#x27;s all politics&quot; do not grasp the scope of the problem, ie that globally speaking, a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.<p>If you naively extrapolate from the 2013 Pew Poll <i>The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society</i> (which in principle represents nations with a total Muslim population of about 1 billion), 40% of these think you should be killed for leaving Islam.<p>To me, that&#x27;s a scary number.</text></item><item><author>iamthepieman</author><text>I work with a Muslim and I&#x27;m a Christian. Since we are both very conservative, I actually have more in common with him than with my secular coworkers and friends. Unfortunately we both work remotely and live several hundred miles from each other. I think we could be good friends if we lived closer.<p>One thing I have learned talking with my Muslim coworker is that, just like in Christianity, there are many divisions and sects within the religion. I am Atlantean and go to an Atlantean church. I would not want to be called a Phoenician or Liliputian christian (made up names cause I don&#x27;t want to offend anyone this early in the morning).<p>Just as with anything else, the closer and more involved you are with something the more you see distinctions between different categories of that thing. As a total outsider your categories tend to be large, all encompassing and dominated by the loudest, most visible or most discussed sub category. For most westerners I think that sub category is, unfortunately radicalised Muslims.<p>I&#x27;m fortunate that my coworker has given me a different perspective. I never believed all Muslims were radicalised but the true revelation for me was that my Muslim coworker was more like me than most non-muslims. It saddens me to see states in my country rejecting refugees from Syria. They are depriving their residents of potential friends and coworkers, potential spouses, neighbors or playmates that can give them a new perspective and help make their world a little larger and more interesting.<p>Edit: I&#x27;d love to have a discussion with anyone who disagrees with me. (Not really making an argument but whatever) if you&#x27;re down voting at least make a comment please.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tezza</author><text>Thanks for a measured and informative response. I could add to your list reams of links of where &#x27;we&#x27; have behaved badly.<p>I suspect you too have a bulging bookmark folder like I do of hypocritical western behaviour.<p>However the battle against militant jihadi extremists is one issue where &#x27;we&#x27; are completely in the right. Completely.<p>No need to apologise for past wrongs. If we have regarded life as too cheap in the past, that is irrelevant to ensuring your own family cannot be killed.<p>Now prior actions of our own may have exacerbated, strengthened and accelerated the militant jihadis ( Iraq, Afghanistan ). But even without our own errors and crimes militant jihadis would have arisen eventually.<p>The jihadis have so many &#x27;reasons&#x27; to kill us. If some &#x27;reasons&#x27; did not exist because we didn&#x27;t invade Iraq say, or we addressed other &#x27;reasons&#x27; ( say for example we disbanded Israel ) there are just so many more &#x27;reasons&#x27; left for the jihadis that single us out for killing.<p>Lets say Iraq was still under Saddam and Syria under Assad. No ISIS perhaps. What then about al Qaeda, the Taliban, al Qaeda in the Yemen, Boko Haram, Jemaah Islamiyah.<p>And the militant jihadis have found a brainwashing method that repeatably draws from a small but replenishing minority of evil, vain and stupid young people.</text></comment> | <story><title>VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks</title><url>https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2015-November/105002.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>coldtea</author><text>&gt;<i>There is no 40% group of the population in Europe that holds views that are anywhere near as disgusting as that.</i><p>Well, only 50+ years ago there was an over 40% population in the US that thought that blacks were inferior and shouldn&#x27;t sit in the same restaurants&#x2F;hotels&#x2F;schools with whites. In fact it was even law in some states.<p>Beyond that, there were about all major western countries, France, UK, Belgium, Holland, Italy, etc, that had other people enslaved in colonies up until the sixties. 2+ billion people had their countries managed by foreigners, and their fellow countrymen tortured and executed when asking freedom (and sometimes, just killed for fun).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;2012&#x2F;apr&#x2F;18&#x2F;britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;uk&#x2F;2012&#x2F;apr&#x2F;18&#x2F;britain-destroyed-...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monbiot.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;how-britain-denies-its-holocausts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monbiot.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;12&#x2F;27&#x2F;how-britain-denies-its-hol...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;inside-frances-secret-war-396062.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;africa&#x2F;inside-france...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theplaidzebra.com&#x2F;human-zoos-one-europes-shameful-secrets-ended-50s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theplaidzebra.com&#x2F;human-zoos-one-europes-shameful...</a><p>Heck, even in Paris itself, the French police famously killed over 200 Algerians marching for their country&#x27;s freedom in a single day in 1961 -- and it took them 40+ years, after all officials were dead or too old, to finally admit it and ask for an apology.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paris_massacre_of_1961" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paris_massacre_of_1961</a><p>These countries also thought that they should have a say as to whether a remote country should have this or that president or regime -- to the point of toppling legitimate regimes, bombing those countries, coming to assist one party or another in a civil war, etc.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...</a><p>There have been over 2 million victims of those interventions in the last 10 years alone. Every despicable hit by muslim terrorists (and we all agree its despicable) was met with 4-5 orders of magnitude many more innocent victims on those countries.<p>If some muslim country managed to harm 1&#x2F;100 that number of, say, Texans, where would the percentages of &quot;tolerance&quot; and &quot;acceptance&quot; towards them go?<p>We should condemn all violence -- not forgive the one that has better PR and is done by cool looking people who have the same background as us.</text></item><item><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text><i>&gt;And a very large number of people in my country would happily throw back those fleeing the carnage to become victims of that 40%</i><p>That statement really doesn&#x27;t make much sense at all. People are fleeing a war, among them people from the 40% and the 60% group alike. And no one in Europe is advocating throwing anyone back into a war zone. Many want the refugees stay somewhere in the region instead of letting them come to Europe by the millions.<p>It&#x27;s not my opinion, but please don&#x27;t compare that opinion with people who advocate that homosexuals, adulterers and apostates should be put to death. There is no 40% group of the population in Europe that holds views that are anywhere near as disgusting as that. Your relativism goes too far.<p>[Edit] And just to make it clear, I do not believe that it is really 40% who really hold those opinions. It&#x27;s probably less. I hope.</text></item><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&gt; a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.<p>Significant numbers of non-Islam subscribers hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society too. All these people have at least one thing in common: they would like to change society to suit their ends.<p>And a very large number of people in my country would happily throw back those fleeing the carnage to become victims of that 40%. Which in my opinion makes them just about as bad.</text></item><item><author>cygx</author><text>Of course it&#x27;s not &quot;all Muslisms&quot;. But those who claim &quot;it&#x27;s only the terrorists&quot; or &quot;it&#x27;s all politics&quot; do not grasp the scope of the problem, ie that globally speaking, a significant number of adherents of Islam hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society.<p>If you naively extrapolate from the 2013 Pew Poll <i>The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society</i> (which in principle represents nations with a total Muslim population of about 1 billion), 40% of these think you should be killed for leaving Islam.<p>To me, that&#x27;s a scary number.</text></item><item><author>iamthepieman</author><text>I work with a Muslim and I&#x27;m a Christian. Since we are both very conservative, I actually have more in common with him than with my secular coworkers and friends. Unfortunately we both work remotely and live several hundred miles from each other. I think we could be good friends if we lived closer.<p>One thing I have learned talking with my Muslim coworker is that, just like in Christianity, there are many divisions and sects within the religion. I am Atlantean and go to an Atlantean church. I would not want to be called a Phoenician or Liliputian christian (made up names cause I don&#x27;t want to offend anyone this early in the morning).<p>Just as with anything else, the closer and more involved you are with something the more you see distinctions between different categories of that thing. As a total outsider your categories tend to be large, all encompassing and dominated by the loudest, most visible or most discussed sub category. For most westerners I think that sub category is, unfortunately radicalised Muslims.<p>I&#x27;m fortunate that my coworker has given me a different perspective. I never believed all Muslims were radicalised but the true revelation for me was that my Muslim coworker was more like me than most non-muslims. It saddens me to see states in my country rejecting refugees from Syria. They are depriving their residents of potential friends and coworkers, potential spouses, neighbors or playmates that can give them a new perspective and help make their world a little larger and more interesting.<p>Edit: I&#x27;d love to have a discussion with anyone who disagrees with me. (Not really making an argument but whatever) if you&#x27;re down voting at least make a comment please.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelukelugames</author><text>Isn&#x27;t France still collecting some form of colonial tax from African countries?</text></comment> |
20,113,905 | 20,113,879 | 1 | 2 | 20,103,589 | train | <story><title>I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years</title><url>https://blog.inkdrop.info/introducing-inkdrop-4-9d0c63de16d2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craftzdog</author><text>The author here.<p>&gt; A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit<p>That&#x27;s interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it.
But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server resources.
This is not a startup.
I would rather like to be small.</text></item><item><author>TheGrumpyBrit</author><text>It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don&#x27;t want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger:<p>1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything.<p>2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test a note taking app - it makes me feel like you&#x27;re going to hold my data hostage unless I migrate away within that timescale. A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit would allow me to test it properly, and it&#x27;s already a part of my workflow by the time I hit the limitations of the free account, so I&#x27;m more likely to actually upgrade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djm_</author><text>&gt; A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit<p>Eeesh. Be careful taking advice from someone who has no intention of paying now. You&#x27;re doing a great job Takuya, keep on trucking.</text></comment> | <story><title>I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years</title><url>https://blog.inkdrop.info/introducing-inkdrop-4-9d0c63de16d2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craftzdog</author><text>The author here.<p>&gt; A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit<p>That&#x27;s interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it.
But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server resources.
This is not a startup.
I would rather like to be small.</text></item><item><author>TheGrumpyBrit</author><text>It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don&#x27;t want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger:<p>1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything.<p>2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test a note taking app - it makes me feel like you&#x27;re going to hold my data hostage unless I migrate away within that timescale. A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit would allow me to test it properly, and it&#x27;s already a part of my workflow by the time I hit the limitations of the free account, so I&#x27;m more likely to actually upgrade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zrobotics</author><text>Another point is that 10mb is a lot of text, especially for users like me who use these types of note-taking apps as todo lists. For persistent notes I already have directory I store locally w&#x2F; cloud backup, but a webapp would be nice for my running todo list.<p>That will hopefully never top 10mb,so a free user like me would really eat into hosting costs. Perhaps a solution to people like the OP who are concerned about data being held hostage is to make it clear that after the trial period their data can be exported, that way they don&#x27;t have to feel there is risk of it being held hostage.</text></comment> |
26,604,971 | 26,604,989 | 1 | 2 | 26,604,482 | train | <story><title>U.S. fears China attack on Taiwan</title><url>https://www.axios.com/biden-taiwan-china-attack-xi-jinping-2f2c8d9a-a295-43dd-a753-6e396952422e.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceilingcorner</author><text>This would be an exceptionally impatient move. If China’s economic machine continues to grow + mainland culture becomes more appealing, I could see Taiwan wanting to reunite in a few decades.<p>It’s the same situation with Hong Kong. Had they initiated the changeover more slowly, there would be far less resistance. Instead, they ignited a movement that will probably never go away.<p>Xi’s downfall will be his inability to wait patiently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hangonhn</author><text>There is a pretty big generational divide among the Taiwanese with the older generation still identifying as Chinese while the younger generation is adamantly identifying as Taiwanese. It&#x27;s hard to imagine how a peaceful reunification can happen as more time goes on. Culturally the divide is becoming starker over time.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. fears China attack on Taiwan</title><url>https://www.axios.com/biden-taiwan-china-attack-xi-jinping-2f2c8d9a-a295-43dd-a753-6e396952422e.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceilingcorner</author><text>This would be an exceptionally impatient move. If China’s economic machine continues to grow + mainland culture becomes more appealing, I could see Taiwan wanting to reunite in a few decades.<p>It’s the same situation with Hong Kong. Had they initiated the changeover more slowly, there would be far less resistance. Instead, they ignited a movement that will probably never go away.<p>Xi’s downfall will be his inability to wait patiently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PureParadigm</author><text>China&#x27;s economic growth has been fueled by demographics such as a young labor force. Due to the one child policy and low birth rates, they are facing a demographic collapse in the next few decades [1] as more people retire that are replaced by younger workers. If China is ever going to take over Taiwan, they would want to do so when they will be strongest which will be within the next ten years or so.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;global-population-decline-will-hit-china-hard&#x2F;a-50326522" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dw.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;global-population-decline-will-hit-chi...</a></text></comment> |
20,276,119 | 20,276,152 | 1 | 2 | 20,275,097 | train | <story><title>Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-order-would-give-consumers-more-information-on-health-care-prices-11561384725?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptmcc</author><text>If one argues in favor of &quot;free market&quot; solutions for healthcare, then one MUST argue in favor of pricing transparency. A functioning free market requires the open and honest sharing of price information for consumers to make informed choices.<p>Now, whether or not health care should operate under free market principles is a different discussion entirely. But the established powers seem to consistently fall back on the free market argument, but continue to keep pricing as opaque and complicated as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>The US has long ago abandoned free market healthcare. I don&#x27;t know why people keep calling it that.<p>It&#x27;s some bastard child of socialized medicine where the poor and old are covered mixed with gov mandated private insurance coming from a few very large insurance companies capable of operating within the regulatory environment.<p>Which is basically one step removed from full blown single-payer public health insurance (as we have here in Canada) and about a hundred steps removed from &quot;free market&quot; health care.<p>I hope the US gov decides on single payer soon as I see no path towards going back to an actual market. Which would be better than the current system which features much of the worst of both worlds.</text></comment> | <story><title>Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-order-would-give-consumers-more-information-on-health-care-prices-11561384725?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ptmcc</author><text>If one argues in favor of &quot;free market&quot; solutions for healthcare, then one MUST argue in favor of pricing transparency. A functioning free market requires the open and honest sharing of price information for consumers to make informed choices.<p>Now, whether or not health care should operate under free market principles is a different discussion entirely. But the established powers seem to consistently fall back on the free market argument, but continue to keep pricing as opaque and complicated as possible.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyBelow</author><text>Competitors are tightly controlled, thus someone hiding their prices isn&#x27;t easily supplanted by someone who is revealing them. A free market solution would be to let anyone choose to hide their prices but to not protect their market share from more customer friendly competitors.<p>The existing system is nothing like a free market and anyone trying to justify keeping things the way they are with that reasoning is either being intentionally dishonest or is completely naive about the situation.</text></comment> |
15,396,862 | 15,396,489 | 1 | 2 | 15,396,087 | train | <story><title>What Makes Singapore’s Health Care So Cheap?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/upshot/what-makes-singapores-health-care-so-cheap.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hitekker</author><text>Personal anecdote:<p>My Singaporean Uncle got stage IV nose-cancer two years ago. He has two kids, a stay-at-home wife and a job that pays only middle income. After a year of constant, weekly treatment by an assortment of doctors, he went into remission and paid in total less than one thousand dollars.<p>My Singaporean ex-girlfriend had systemic organ issues over her life, that have alternately caused her seizures and blackouts. She was hospitalized for years at a time. Again, middle income family, with three kids and a stay-at-home-wife. Her family paid virtually nothing for 15+ years of treatment, and then the government paid for her university. Full-ride. Oh and they also paid her directly to attend classes. About S$1500 per semester, last time I checked.<p>I have so many other great stories about my mother&#x27;s country.<p>For now, my sentiment is that Singapore&#x27;s society, government and people, on balance, cares about each other. Not a power-hungry &quot;all glory to the nation&quot; care, or a brainless &quot;let&#x27;s give everyone everything for free&quot; care, but a &quot;these people are people like you and I. If I put on their shoes, how would I like to be treated?&quot; care.<p>In the United States, that basic, human empathy is in question.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Makes Singapore’s Health Care So Cheap?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/upshot/what-makes-singapores-health-care-so-cheap.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kuwze</author><text>Why is there never a comparison to Japan? They are 1&#x2F;2 the size of the USA, have a privatized health system, and it&#x27;s pretty damn awesome. They also have price controls which make things a lot easier to comprehend.</text></comment> |
29,191,189 | 29,191,177 | 1 | 2 | 29,186,222 | train | <story><title>I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old</title><url>https://twitter.com/TheIdOfAlan/status/1458117496087748618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgbugs</author><text>Word of warning from hard experience: rn is a really dangerous thing to name a function because it is one char away from rm.</text></item><item><author>mtift</author><text>I have an overly-aggressive function in my .bashrc to rename all files in the current directory:<p><pre><code> # Rename all files in a directory
rn() {
rename &quot;s&#x2F; &#x2F;-&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;_&#x2F;-&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;–&#x2F;-&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;:&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;\(&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;\)&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;\[&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;\]&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &#x27;s&#x2F;&quot;&#x2F;&#x2F;g&#x27; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;&#x27;&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;,&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;y&#x2F;A-Z&#x2F;a-z&#x2F;&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;---&#x2F;--&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;---&#x2F;--&#x2F;g&quot; *
}
</code></pre>
I use this all the time, especially when I download files.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spurgu</author><text>One char away also physically on the keyboard (maybe that&#x27;s what you meant?).</text></comment> | <story><title>I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old</title><url>https://twitter.com/TheIdOfAlan/status/1458117496087748618</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgbugs</author><text>Word of warning from hard experience: rn is a really dangerous thing to name a function because it is one char away from rm.</text></item><item><author>mtift</author><text>I have an overly-aggressive function in my .bashrc to rename all files in the current directory:<p><pre><code> # Rename all files in a directory
rn() {
rename &quot;s&#x2F; &#x2F;-&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;_&#x2F;-&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;–&#x2F;-&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;:&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;\(&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;\)&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;\[&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;\]&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &#x27;s&#x2F;&quot;&#x2F;&#x2F;g&#x27; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;&#x27;&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;,&#x2F;&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;y&#x2F;A-Z&#x2F;a-z&#x2F;&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;---&#x2F;--&#x2F;g&quot; *
rename &quot;s&#x2F;---&#x2F;--&#x2F;g&quot; *
}
</code></pre>
I use this all the time, especially when I download files.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>post-it</author><text>Looks like it&#x27;s typically run without any arguments, so it&#x27;s probably fine.</text></comment> |
11,858,406 | 11,857,685 | 1 | 2 | 11,857,395 | train | <story><title>Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/7/11877378/silicon-valley-housing-crisis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xenadu02</author><text>Very few people bother to vote in non-presidential elections. I keep hammering this point to anyone I meet in the startup scene here in SF. If just 1% of you reading this right now (who live in SF) bothered to vote on a pro-housing basis, we&#x27;d immediately turn into a huge voting bloc that could not be ignored. You should shame your coworkers and remind people in slack channels too. A few thousand NIMBYs currently control SF housing policy. Filling out an online form is all it takes to change that.<p>It&#x27;s also really easy: register online and they mail the ballot to you. It&#x27;s called &quot;Permanent vote by mail&quot;. It takes almost no effort whatsoever.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sos.ca.gov&#x2F;elections&#x2F;voter-registration&#x2F;vote-mail&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sos.ca.gov&#x2F;elections&#x2F;voter-registration&#x2F;vote-mail...</a><p>You don&#x27;t need a California drivers license. You don&#x27;t need to have lived here for a year. You just have to have the intention to make California your current home (eg not a tourist).<p>For the lazy, SF Yes In My Backyard puts out voting slates of pro-housing politicians and propositions. Just reference that, draw the lines on the ballot, and drop it in the mail. You don&#x27;t even have to buy a stamp.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfyimby.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sfyimby.org</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2016/6/7/11877378/silicon-valley-housing-crisis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>baron816</author><text>Why are people so adamantly opposed to density? Well, I know the reason is to prop up the value of their homes, but if you think about places like New York, London, and Paris, that argument doesn&#x27;t exactly hold. Those cities are incredibly dense and expensive, but people love living there enough to pay the high prices. People who can live <i>anywhere</i> choose to live there. I&#x27;m willing to bet that SV could triple its population, and property values would hold or increase. Supply will create it&#x27;s own demand.</text></comment> |
3,998,303 | 3,997,717 | 1 | 3 | 3,997,607 | train | <story><title>Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account</title><url>https://github.com/goldmansachs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lordmatty</author><text>I can understand the reaction on this community to the news, and I'm sure that there are elements of PR and recruitment strategy here, but I happen to know that the primary driver is pretty sound; job satisfaction for top employees.<p>Goldmans has its share of top programmers and, like any company, is keen to retain them. One of these people made contributing to Open Source a major goal for last year.<p>Well done to him, and well done to GS for supporting him. The company (rightly) gets a ton of bad press, but that doesn't mean it can't do good things as well.<p>Disclaimer: I'm an ex GS employee, but have nothing to gain.</text></comment> | <story><title>Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account</title><url>https://github.com/goldmansachs</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fatjokes</author><text>Why not? It's a large corporation with many branches and technical needs, some of which are harmless to open-source. Despite its reputation, I don't think they go through their day thinking "hmm... we could open-source this, or we could go kick a puppy instead! Muahahaha!"</text></comment> |
25,663,076 | 25,659,491 | 1 | 3 | 25,658,298 | train | <story><title>New quantum algorithms finally crack nonlinear equations</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-quantum-algorithms-finally-crack-nonlinear-equations-20210105/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ur-whale</author><text>The article seem to imply that quantum computers are a solution to the problem that non-linear differential equations are chaotic (as in: tiny changes in initial conditions lead to vastly different solutions).<p>My impression of quantum computers are they will allow us to get to solutions to algorithmic problems <i>faster</i>.<p>I fail to see how they could possibly work around the chaos inherent to some diffeqs (e.g. N-body problems).<p>[edit]:and after reading the article more carefully, I&#x27;m still not sure how QC has <i>any</i> effect on the chaotic nature of non-linear diffeqs . All I see in here is that they&#x27;re trying to map non-linear diffeqs to linear systems via approximations so they can run it on a QC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conformist</author><text>Yes, essentially that&#x27;s right (regarding Child&#x27;s paper), as far as I can tell.
Child&#x27;s article seems to be about a smart way to approximate sufficiently dissipative, non-linear, n-dimensional ODEs (or spatially discretised PDEs for that matter), such that you can apply good old forward Euler. They do that in such a manner that you end up solving a linear system for time-stepping for which a log(n) quantum algo is known.
This is pretty cool, because they basically use standard numerical analysis tools and manage to plug in the quantum computing part to show that, e.g., as you increase the spatial &quot;resolution&quot; with which you solve a PDE, the cost only increases logarithmically.
This feels useful from a computational fluid dynamics perspective, say, if you&#x27;re not interested in super turbulent flows.
So this is more about &quot;how do we make solving hard PDEs faster&quot; than &quot;finally cracking non-linear PDEs&quot;.</text></comment> | <story><title>New quantum algorithms finally crack nonlinear equations</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-quantum-algorithms-finally-crack-nonlinear-equations-20210105/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ur-whale</author><text>The article seem to imply that quantum computers are a solution to the problem that non-linear differential equations are chaotic (as in: tiny changes in initial conditions lead to vastly different solutions).<p>My impression of quantum computers are they will allow us to get to solutions to algorithmic problems <i>faster</i>.<p>I fail to see how they could possibly work around the chaos inherent to some diffeqs (e.g. N-body problems).<p>[edit]:and after reading the article more carefully, I&#x27;m still not sure how QC has <i>any</i> effect on the chaotic nature of non-linear diffeqs . All I see in here is that they&#x27;re trying to map non-linear diffeqs to linear systems via approximations so they can run it on a QC.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marius_k</author><text>I am not sure if this is related but during the past year I noticed few articles describing about how quantum systems are immune to butterfly effect [0]. I can&#x27;t tell more details as those articles are still on my backlog.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24167691" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24167691</a></text></comment> |
3,935,817 | 3,935,763 | 1 | 2 | 3,935,502 | train | <story><title>Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/apple-security-blunder-exposes-lion-login-passwords-in-clear-text/11963</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrich</author><text>I find it interesting how Apple is defended when they make security blunders, while Microsoft was heavily slammed back in the day.<p>It is simply inacceptable that a user basically reported the issue on their support forum and didn't even get an answer back.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I can't name a single person who ever used "Legacy Filevault"; that's the "encrypt your home directory" thing from Leopard. This issue doesn't impact Lion FDE at all. Lots of people use Lion FDE.<p>Even the subhed on this story is misleading, and the lede paragraph seems to go out of its way to bury the true article lede, which is "if you're using FileVault home directory encryption, this impacts you" --- instead, it says "in specific configurations".<p>More generally: can anyone name a single case where ZDNet has broken a story we cared about? Even in this case, ZDNet is rehashing stuff published elsewhere earlier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Every single time the topic of Microsoft's security track record has come up on HN, I've waded in to point out what a great job Microsoft has done. Here's one of my highest rated comments from several years ago:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577684" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577684</a><p>Now, I don't disagree with your general point: Microsoft gets more scrutiny than Apple does on HN about security, and Apple enjoys an inflated perception of platform security here --- I attribute that to a general Unix bias, by the way, and not to Apple fandom.<p>But please be careful to note that <i>I'm not a part of that phenomenon</i>. You will, if you dig, find comments of mine that are critical of Apple security; you will probably not find comments critical of Microsoft's security practices.<p>(To be clear: securing a whole platform is an incredibly difficult job, and platform software security talent is some of the hardest to find in the whole industry; both Apple and Microsoft take this stuff seriously and, compared to 2002, both do a fantastic job. Also: the security of the iOS platform is a different story than of the OS X platform.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in clear text</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/apple-security-blunder-exposes-lion-login-passwords-in-clear-text/11963</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrich</author><text>I find it interesting how Apple is defended when they make security blunders, while Microsoft was heavily slammed back in the day.<p>It is simply inacceptable that a user basically reported the issue on their support forum and didn't even get an answer back.</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I can't name a single person who ever used "Legacy Filevault"; that's the "encrypt your home directory" thing from Leopard. This issue doesn't impact Lion FDE at all. Lots of people use Lion FDE.<p>Even the subhed on this story is misleading, and the lede paragraph seems to go out of its way to bury the true article lede, which is "if you're using FileVault home directory encryption, this impacts you" --- instead, it says "in specific configurations".<p>More generally: can anyone name a single case where ZDNet has broken a story we cared about? Even in this case, ZDNet is rehashing stuff published elsewhere earlier.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joejohnson</author><text>The parent comment isn't defending Apple; @tptacek is pointing out that this issue won't impact a large number of users, that the headline is misleading, and that maybe ZDNet is sensationalizing a minor issue.</text></comment> |
39,107,241 | 39,107,650 | 1 | 2 | 39,102,069 | train | <story><title>Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-of-ancient-romes-mysterious-12-sided-objects-has-been-found-in-england-180983632/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrob</author><text>I like the theory that it&#x27;s an examination piece to qualify as a master metalworker. Casting a flawless dodecahedron could have been a way to demonstrate your skill. The shape is somewhat arbitrary: anything that&#x27;s both difficult to cast and easy to examine for quality would work, but once people started making dodecahedrons that&#x27;s what people expected and it became a kind of standard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tarikjn</author><text>The equivalent today would be 3Dbenchy boats -- &quot;we found an identical boat toy design in multiple sites made of different plastic materials, colors and sizes. It is spread universally around the World cities, found in sites of crafts, leading us to believe it is an idol of a new 21st century religion predominant among workers of the arts and crafts&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England</title><url>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/another-of-ancient-romes-mysterious-12-sided-objects-has-been-found-in-england-180983632/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrob</author><text>I like the theory that it&#x27;s an examination piece to qualify as a master metalworker. Casting a flawless dodecahedron could have been a way to demonstrate your skill. The shape is somewhat arbitrary: anything that&#x27;s both difficult to cast and easy to examine for quality would work, but once people started making dodecahedrons that&#x27;s what people expected and it became a kind of standard.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yetanotherloser</author><text>I like that theory too and offer a followon explanation: to make a dodecahedron you must make an accurate regular pentagon and this is not trivial with ancient geometric methods, you need to have learned a thing or two to get there. This makes it a better test than, say, an icosahedron. But we do know that the Roman empire wasn&#x27;t completely unfamiliar with icosahedral dice, probably for a magical or divinatory purpose rather than determining whether your wizard made her saving throw.<p>An analogy to this &quot;masterpiece&quot; theory might be the industrial-age &quot;Turner&#x27;s cube&quot; that demonstrates a pretty solid level of ability with a lathe.</text></comment> |
11,039,141 | 11,038,588 | 1 | 3 | 11,038,088 | train | <story><title>VISA Api: The Power of Visa Network Delivered as an API</title><url>https://developer.visa.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bri3d</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t seem like any of these products actually process payments, or is there something I&#x27;m missing?<p>Checkout:<p>&gt; &quot;Depending on your configuration, you will process the actual payment through your own system, a payment processor, or an e-commerce partner as you normally do.&quot;<p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;visa_checkout&#x2F;guides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;visa_checkout&#x2F;guides</a> )<p>CyberSource:<p>&gt; Before moving to production and running real transactions, you must have a merchant account from an acquiring (merchant) bank that can process the credit card payments.<p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;cybersource&#x2F;thingstoknow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;cybersource&#x2F;thingstoknow</a> )<p>Visa Direct APIs:<p>&gt; However, in order to use the Visa Direct APIs in production, the Originator must either be a Visa client financial institution (issuer or acquirer), a third-party Originator that has been granted a Visa acquirer POS license (geographical restrictions apply), or a third-party Originator that has established an acquiring relationship for that purpose with a Visa client financial institution.<p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;visa_direct&#x2F;thingstoknow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;visa_direct&#x2F;thingstoknow</a> )<p>The token and transaction services are very interesting and it&#x27;s cool to see Visa jumping into decent modern payment UX, but I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re gunning for Stripe just yet...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jesseangell</author><text>This product is essentially a gateway. The same that Stripe or Braintree are gateways. They just do a much better job of abstracting the confusion that is payments.<p>You will still need a merchant account and a processor. A processor is the party that actually handles authorization&#x2F;settlements between the issuing bank and acquiring banks.</text></comment> | <story><title>VISA Api: The Power of Visa Network Delivered as an API</title><url>https://developer.visa.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bri3d</author><text>It doesn&#x27;t seem like any of these products actually process payments, or is there something I&#x27;m missing?<p>Checkout:<p>&gt; &quot;Depending on your configuration, you will process the actual payment through your own system, a payment processor, or an e-commerce partner as you normally do.&quot;<p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;visa_checkout&#x2F;guides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;visa_checkout&#x2F;guides</a> )<p>CyberSource:<p>&gt; Before moving to production and running real transactions, you must have a merchant account from an acquiring (merchant) bank that can process the credit card payments.<p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;cybersource&#x2F;thingstoknow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;cybersource&#x2F;thingstoknow</a> )<p>Visa Direct APIs:<p>&gt; However, in order to use the Visa Direct APIs in production, the Originator must either be a Visa client financial institution (issuer or acquirer), a third-party Originator that has been granted a Visa acquirer POS license (geographical restrictions apply), or a third-party Originator that has established an acquiring relationship for that purpose with a Visa client financial institution.<p>( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;visa_direct&#x2F;thingstoknow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.visa.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;visa_direct&#x2F;thingstoknow</a> )<p>The token and transaction services are very interesting and it&#x27;s cool to see Visa jumping into decent modern payment UX, but I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re gunning for Stripe just yet...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lowglow</author><text>Visa invested in Stripe. Just FYI: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;28&#x2F;stripe-visa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;28&#x2F;stripe-visa&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
11,802,518 | 11,802,530 | 1 | 3 | 11,802,275 | train | <story><title>Perlin noise</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2016/05/29/perlin-noise/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>malanj</author><text>When I was in high school I used Perlin noise to create some 3D terrain. Being young and naive I emailed Ken Perlin and asked him some questions about it. To my surprise he responded and was super nice :-)</text></comment> | <story><title>Perlin noise</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2016/05/29/perlin-noise/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>VMG</author><text>Time to post his website again <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrl.nyu.edu&#x2F;~perlin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mrl.nyu.edu&#x2F;~perlin&#x2F;</a><p>Needs to be ported to webgl some day</text></comment> |
19,206,072 | 19,206,034 | 1 | 2 | 19,205,657 | train | <story><title>I love React Hooks</title><url>https://vijayt.com/post/react-nugget-2-why-do-i-love-react-hooks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kristiandupont</author><text>Contrary to some commenters here, I think React is just about the best thing that has happened to UI programming in recent memory.<p>Everything I tried before it (jQuery, Backbone, Knockout, Angular, Meteor (with Handlebars)) felt like it fell short or, in the case of the databinding-oriented ones, like a broken abstraction. I get a similar feeling when looking at Vue though I have no experience so I might be wrong.<p>I too am a bit skeptical about hooks making what looks like pure functions act like stateful ones. I am not using hooks yet but besides from Dan Abramovs excellent articles about their rationale, I think I will look at them like a new paradigm, only using a syntax that we know from something else. In fact, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if I some time in the future will be using React to write state machines for something that doesn&#x27;t have anything to do with UI, where &quot;rendering&quot; composes state related to something else entirely. I could see hooks being a game changer here.</text></comment> | <story><title>I love React Hooks</title><url>https://vijayt.com/post/react-nugget-2-why-do-i-love-react-hooks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lioeters</author><text>After reading numerous articles (starting with the docs), I&#x27;m still not convinced, and will not be using React Hooks any time soon. Some of the things I do not love:<p>- Magic, in the unfavorable sense: if hooks were implemented in an indepedent library, just hearing that they &quot;must be called in the same order every time&quot; and &quot;cannot be used inside conditional statements&quot; should make anyone wary.<p>- Scope creep: if anything, I wish React focused on <i>reducing</i> its size and API surface.<p>- Entanglement: related to the point above, the goals of hooks would have been better served with a separate, tiny library that doesn&#x27;t need to know anything about React, and usable anywhere else, with plain functions that can be tested or reused independently.<p>Well, the topic deserves a deeper criticism than &quot;it feels wrong&quot;, so I hope someone can write a worthy article called &quot;Why I Do Not Love React Hooks&quot;, with an example of a better, alternative solution.<p>I hesitate to bring up a cliché, but it&#x27;s starting to feel like React is the new jQuery. I&#x27;m already trying to anticipate what comes after React, in which case I want my code to depend on the smallest possible API surface area.<p>But then again, maybe it&#x27;s my wishful thinking that we would move towards &quot;universal components&quot; (using dependency injection to pass in React or other view renderers like Web Components). Since much of the JS ecosystem seems to be going &quot;all in&quot; on React, perhaps I should surrender to its current. As long as I continue to use React, it looks like there&#x27;s no escape from its hooks..<p>EDIT: I should add that the above is just my opinion at the moment, and I&#x27;m open to changing my mind. Who knows, I may unwillingly start using them (since everyone else seems to be), and come to love hooks after all.</text></comment> |
24,558,252 | 24,555,009 | 1 | 2 | 24,553,499 | train | <story><title>Remove first 300M lines from 700 GB file on 1TB disk</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/610494/how-do-i-remove-the-first-300-million-lines-from-a-700-gb-txt-file-on-a-system-w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hprotagonist</author><text>the only answer i’d use here is “go buy another 1TB drive and then ...”<p>$100 and a day and a half for shipping is a much better idea than playing russian roulette with work data by adjusting files in-place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nybble41</author><text>&gt; playing russian roulette with work data by adjusting files in-place<p>That can be avoided if your filesystem supports reflinks &#x2F; copy_file_range (BTRFS, XFS, OCFS2). Just create a reflink of the file, drop all the blocks at the beginning of the reflink &quot;copy&quot; up to the one containing the line you want to start with using fallocate --collapse-range, and overwrite the remaining data up to the first line with some suitable fill character. For the JSON-encoded lines in this case spaces should work. Total disk space used: one data block for the padding plus some metadata for the reflink. No changes to the original file. No copying or relocating 700 GB of data. Quick, easy, and and safe. But you have to start with the right filesystem for it to work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Remove first 300M lines from 700 GB file on 1TB disk</title><url>https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/610494/how-do-i-remove-the-first-300-million-lines-from-a-700-gb-txt-file-on-a-system-w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hprotagonist</author><text>the only answer i’d use here is “go buy another 1TB drive and then ...”<p>$100 and a day and a half for shipping is a much better idea than playing russian roulette with work data by adjusting files in-place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Demiurge</author><text>Very recently I&#x27;ve been in a similar situation with a dedicated server. There was no way to add storage and even getting another server would have been pretty expensive. Luckily it was a raid, so I just had to double the storage temporarily :)</text></comment> |
38,702,326 | 38,699,828 | 1 | 2 | 38,698,343 | train | <story><title>Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/comcast-xfinity-hackers-36-million-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robotburrito</author><text>This might be bad for Xfinity. A lot of their customers may leave them for a variety of readily available competitors created by the dynamic free market economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leotravis10</author><text>Comcast is a total regional monopoly in most cities so I&#x27;m glad that cities that do invest in municipal&#x2F;community broadband are taking matters into their own hands to combat this.</text></comment> | <story><title>Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/19/comcast-xfinity-hackers-36-million-customers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robotburrito</author><text>This might be bad for Xfinity. A lot of their customers may leave them for a variety of readily available competitors created by the dynamic free market economy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmitrygr</author><text>You might want to post an explanation for non-Americans about why this is hilarious!</text></comment> |
9,646,749 | 9,646,707 | 1 | 2 | 9,646,358 | train | <story><title>Getting Fucked by Stripe</title><url>http://edoceo.com/blog/2015/06/getting-fucked-by-stripe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>Stripe CEO here: In general, selling anything related to illegal drugs is strictly prohibited by our banking partners. I wish we could be more permissive here, particularly as marijuana legalization gathers pace. That said, it&#x27;s still illegal at the federal level, and the government doesn&#x27;t mess around on this stuff.[1] Software is an interesting case; I&#x27;m going to go talk to our compliance team to see what we can do.<p>In general, we try to make our prohibitions clear[2], and we try to give a grace period (the five days referenced) in order to minimize disruption.<p>If anyone has suggestions for how we could do this better in a world where stringent prohibitions exist, we&#x27;re all ears. (I&#x27;m [email protected]) We don&#x27;t like imposing others&#x27; rules, but that&#x27;s part of the reality in operating in the US and on Visa&#x27;s&#x2F;MasterCard&#x27;s&#x2F;etc. networks.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operation_Choke_Point" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operation_Choke_Point</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;prohibited-businesses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;prohibited-businesses</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wfunction</author><text>If banking partners are the problem, why did you mislead him by blaming &quot;customer disputes&quot;?<p>(Pedantic note: I know full well that the second part of the sentence that actually places the blame on the &quot;risk&quot; doesn&#x27;t mention customer disputes as the source, but the former part does, and since it&#x27;s clearly intentionally misleading I am asking why it was necessary to mislead him by mentioning <i>customer disputes</i>. Those seem far from the core problem here, if not outright irrelevant.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Getting Fucked by Stripe</title><url>http://edoceo.com/blog/2015/06/getting-fucked-by-stripe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc</author><text>Stripe CEO here: In general, selling anything related to illegal drugs is strictly prohibited by our banking partners. I wish we could be more permissive here, particularly as marijuana legalization gathers pace. That said, it&#x27;s still illegal at the federal level, and the government doesn&#x27;t mess around on this stuff.[1] Software is an interesting case; I&#x27;m going to go talk to our compliance team to see what we can do.<p>In general, we try to make our prohibitions clear[2], and we try to give a grace period (the five days referenced) in order to minimize disruption.<p>If anyone has suggestions for how we could do this better in a world where stringent prohibitions exist, we&#x27;re all ears. (I&#x27;m [email protected]) We don&#x27;t like imposing others&#x27; rules, but that&#x27;s part of the reality in operating in the US and on Visa&#x27;s&#x2F;MasterCard&#x27;s&#x2F;etc. networks.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operation_Choke_Point" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operation_Choke_Point</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;prohibited-businesses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;prohibited-businesses</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>You did right by your business and other customers.<p>The risk of supporting a single company who chose to participate in the illegal drug market (yes, Marijuana is illegal still under the Fed folks) far exceeds any potential benefits they could of brought.<p>Frankly, the article and title are written by someone who is upset they didn&#x27;t understand the reality... It&#x27;s rather unreasonable to blame Stripe here for their own ignorance.</text></comment> |
6,464,764 | 6,464,171 | 1 | 3 | 6,464,138 | train | <story><title>Keypress: A Javascript library for capturing input</title><url>http://dmauro.github.io/Keypress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pyalot2</author><text>Note that you should avoid using this (or anything else with JS) to emulate shortcuts.<p>The reason is because what this usually looks like &quot;oh nice I can define shortcuts people can press&quot;. What it actually means is: &quot;Ohcrap, that shortcut only works for US-US 104 keyboard layouts, and about 80% of people can&#x27;t press that shortcut&quot;.<p>For example: suppose you want a shortcut for shift+&#x2F;, which is for the US keyboard under the small right finger. But that shortcut can&#x27;t be defined for SG (swiss-german) because there the &#x2F; is on the numeric bar where 7 is. So if you assume (for whatever reason) that left+right small finger is a convenient shortcut, and left small finger + right index finger top isn&#x27;t, then you&#x27;re totally screwed. Instead, to reach the right small finger low on swiss german, you&#x27;d have to define shift + &quot;-&quot;. Except that if you define that, it&#x27;ll be one of the most uncomfortable keyboard shortcuts imaginable for US users, which find - on the numeric row top --&gt; bottom left small finger + top right small finger = ugh.<p>The truth is that you cannot do reasonable shortcut definition the way that everybody would like to with JS... yet.<p>But wait, can&#x27;t you like, define some reasonable presets and let people choose their own? The answer is no, because you don&#x27;t have a reliable way to translate a keydown&#x2F;keyup to a unicode char, and the unicode char is related to the modifier keys, not the key cap, so though you can do that shortcut definition, you can&#x27;t show to the user what that shortcut definition actually is, because it&#x27;d be either undefined or completely wrong.<p>I&#x27;ve written at length about this here: <a href="http://codeflow.org/entries/2013/jan/30/keyboard-events-in-javascript-are-broken/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codeflow.org&#x2F;entries&#x2F;2013&#x2F;jan&#x2F;30&#x2F;keyboard-events-in-j...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Keypress: A Javascript library for capturing input</title><url>http://dmauro.github.io/Keypress/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stephen</author><text>Tangentially, can someone on the W3C please fix the sorry state of key bindings across UAs?<p>Cross-browser idiosyncrasies are finally improving...except for webapp key bindings. Alt-F is taken in IE, Ctrl-whatever is taken in other UAs. Or an extension like (the awesome) vimium conflicts with some key bindings, so you have to disable it all together.<p>To the point where Asana uses <i>tab</i> as their short cut key. Tab! Wtf! &quot;tab-p&quot; for project. Bizarre!<p>But I guess I can&#x27;t blame them, as I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if it&#x27;s the only shortcut modifier that wasn&#x27;t taken yet across all UAs.<p>I admittedly have no solutions to propose, so am just ranting about an understandably hard problem...but it would be nice if someone came along and fixed this. Please. :-)</text></comment> |
20,848,611 | 20,848,461 | 1 | 3 | 20,847,996 | train | <story><title>A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption</title><url>https://unixism.net/2019/08/a-managers-guide-to-kubernetes-adoption/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>orev</author><text>While I know it’s not the main point of the article, I’m getting really tired of the anti-sysadmin bias in pretty much anything related to devops. It seems to be a favorite trope to paint sysadmins as a dying breed of monkeys who are only capable of keeping pets and doing manual tasks when they get around to lifting their knuckles off the floor. Who do you think is writing the playbooks for ansible? How do you think you can even write those things without first having a deep understanding of how the system works and having a set of procedures around them? Who do you think runs the systems your containers sit on top of?<p>Just because infrastructure as code appears to use the same tools that developers use (text files, git) doesn’t mean developers can do the job. Me having access to a pen and paper doesn’t make me Shakespeare.<p>This is especially harmful in an article that claims to be aimed at management, ostensibly trying to set the future path for organizations.<p>P.S. Otherwise a nice overview of things</text></comment> | <story><title>A Manager’s Guide to Kubernetes Adoption</title><url>https://unixism.net/2019/08/a-managers-guide-to-kubernetes-adoption/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>true_tuna</author><text>I think the author missed some key points:<p>1) It will take you longer than you think
2) It will be harder than you imagined
3) It’s harder to find people who know it and non-trivial to get good at it (this should have been closer to the top) your project can be done in six months by five k8s experts but you only found one dude who knows it and he’s more a’ight than pro.<p>It’s probably still worth it, just go in with your eyes open.<p>Be prepared for this unfortunate pattern: “this thing I want just doesn’t work and probably never will.<p>Deploying k8s on a small, self-contained project that you just want to set up and go forever is probably a good place to begin.
If you try to move your whole production workflow in one go...
You’re going to have a bad time.</text></comment> |
12,583,225 | 12,582,325 | 1 | 2 | 12,581,710 | train | <story><title>Rebase and merge pull requests</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2243-rebase-and-merge-pull-requests</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomstuart</author><text>This is great, but as chrisseaton asked on Twitter [1], how does it interact with CI?<p>The trees in the rebased commits are new and may never have been tested. Is GitHub going to expose a `refs&#x2F;pulls&#x2F;123&#x2F;rebase` ref (cf. the existing `refs&#x2F;pulls&#x2F;123&#x2F;merge`) for running through CI before the button can be pressed?<p>EDIT: The docs [2] say:<p><pre><code> You aren&#x27;t able to automatically rebase and merge on GitHub when:
* Your pull request has merge conflicts.
* Rebasing the commits from the base branch into the head branch
runs into conflicts.
* Rebasing your commits is considered &quot;unsafe&quot;, such as when a
rebase is possible without merge conflicts but would produce a
different result than a merge would.
</code></pre>
So I guess the point is moot. You can’t rebase a branch unless the resulting tree is identical to the one you’d get from a merge, and that’s the tree that runs through CI.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ChrisGSeaton&#x2F;status&#x2F;780441251992731648" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ChrisGSeaton&#x2F;status&#x2F;780441251992731648</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.github.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;about-pull-request-merges&#x2F;#rebase-and-merge-your-pull-request-commits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.github.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;about-pull-request-merges&#x2F;#...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rebase and merge pull requests</title><url>https://github.com/blog/2243-rebase-and-merge-pull-requests</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dorianm</author><text>I&#x27;m surprised there is no &quot;commit tree&quot; drawing to illustrate this.<p>Basically it adds the commits to the master branch without a merge commit:<p>e.g.:<p><pre><code> master: A - B - C
feature: D - E
master (after merge): A - B - C - D - E
</code></pre>
See: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.github.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;about-pull-request-merges" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.github.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;about-pull-request-merges</a></text></comment> |
14,235,567 | 14,234,243 | 1 | 2 | 14,232,977 | train | <story><title>How to Read Mathematics</title><url>http://web.stonehill.edu/compsci/History_Math/math-read.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gtani</author><text>There&#x27;s a few books on how to approach books and problems, e.g. don&#x27;t strain on first seeing new material. Lara Alcock wrote 2 books on studying math which seem to have the same ToC, a lot of undergrad programs have materials on proofs and how to transition from high school problem solving: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20150319020039&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maths.cam.ac.uk&#x2F;undergrad&#x2F;studyskills&#x2F;text.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20150319020039&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maths.c...</a><p>Mathoverflow and math.stackexchange soft-questions tag has lots of mini-essays, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathoverflow.net&#x2F;questions&#x2F;143309&#x2F;how-do-you-not-forget-old-math" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathoverflow.net&#x2F;questions&#x2F;143309&#x2F;how-do-you-not-for...</a><p>and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;617625&#x2F;on-familiarity-or-how-to-avoid-going-down-the-math-rabbit-hole" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;617625&#x2F;on-familiari...</a><p>____________________<p>For proofs, books by Polya, Velleman, Hammack etc<p>Prof Baez&#x27; reading lists for math and physics: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.ucr.edu&#x2F;home&#x2F;baez&#x2F;books.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;math.ucr.edu&#x2F;home&#x2F;baez&#x2F;books.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to Read Mathematics</title><url>http://web.stonehill.edu/compsci/History_Math/math-read.htm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rrherr</author><text>I&#x27;ve also found these to be helpful:<p>The Language and Grammar of Mathematics, from The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, by Timothy Gowers: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;press.princeton.edu&#x2F;chapters&#x2F;gowers&#x2F;gowers_I_2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;press.princeton.edu&#x2F;chapters&#x2F;gowers&#x2F;gowers_I_2.pdf</a><p>Reading Mathematics, by John Hamal Hubbard: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&#x2F;~hubbard&#x2F;readingmath.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.math.cornell.edu&#x2F;~hubbard&#x2F;readingmath.pdf</a></text></comment> |
41,728,983 | 41,727,184 | 1 | 3 | 41,726,698 | train | <story><title>Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2024-10-amount-variety-gamma-large-tropical.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text><i>Positively charged particles end up at the top of the storm while negatively charged particles drop to the bottom, creating an enormous electric field that can be as strong as 100 million AA batteries stacked end-to-end.</i><p>Or put another way, 150 MV. What&#x27;s with this media obsession with using obscure non-SI units?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>liversage</author><text>In my neck of the woods it&#x27;s called &quot;journalist units&quot;: three soccer fields, five blue whales etc.<p>Somebody even created a website to facilitate conversion but unfortunately the TLS certificate has expired and Cloudflare now blocks access.<p>Article in Danish: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ing.dk&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;lynch-nu-kan-ogsaa-journalister-faa-styr-paa-stoerrelserne" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ing.dk&#x2F;artikel&#x2F;lynch-nu-kan-ogsaa-journalister-faa-s...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2024-10-amount-variety-gamma-large-tropical.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cperciva</author><text><i>Positively charged particles end up at the top of the storm while negatively charged particles drop to the bottom, creating an enormous electric field that can be as strong as 100 million AA batteries stacked end-to-end.</i><p>Or put another way, 150 MV. What&#x27;s with this media obsession with using obscure non-SI units?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway314155</author><text>Familiarity with the unit is important to gauge scale.</text></comment> |
8,535,710 | 8,535,240 | 1 | 2 | 8,534,835 | train | <story><title>Google’s New Bookmarking Service, Previously Called Stars, Has Gone Live</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/30/googles-new-bookmarking-service-previously-called-stars-has-gone-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Numberwang</author><text>Bookmarks seems like an outdated technology. With the resources Google have, it would be cool if they could create a site where you can follow other sites as they update. Perhaps this site could then even differentiate between different &#x27;streams&#x27; or &#x27;feeds&#x27; from sites.
And in this workflow you could add the &#x27;stars&#x27; to articles and updates you would find interesting.<p>I hope someday they will create or have this system evolve into something like that, which would be a lot more useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squeaky-clean</author><text>Ok, now I just re-read your comment and figured out the joke. That&#x27;s some serious sarcasm talent, haha. Still going to (mostly) keep my comment though because of all the other comments that refer to this as &quot;bookmarking&quot; or mention &quot;fixing bookmarks&quot; with some sort of feed.<p>These are entirely different systems to me. We just happen to use bookmarks to keep track of feeds &#x2F; updating websites. I have lots of bookmarks I keep for static content that I want to refer to constantly. Blog posts, specific documentation pages, Stack Overflow answers, etc. It&#x27;s nice to just begin typing &quot;Python async...&quot; chrome&#x27;s suggestions will show me my bookmarked link. I&#x27;ve been looking into a better way to do this as my bookmarks grow, searching by page content would be a nice feature too. (I hear about Pinboard a lot on HN, and I&#x27;ve been meaning to look into it. This manager seems neat as well. However that&#x27;s for another comment&#x2F;thread).<p>But that way of using bookmarks is a different goal than &quot;bookmarking&quot; a news website, a forum, etc. And I agree with you in that regard, that bookmarks still seem the best way to manage this is sort of silly. What you describe is something else, and certainly something which would be useful, but it&#x27;s not a bookmark. A bookmark doesn&#x27;t tell you when your favorite author has released a new book, or turn the page in a book for you. It holds a specific page that you&#x27;d like to return to, and it does that job very well.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google’s New Bookmarking Service, Previously Called Stars, Has Gone Live</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/30/googles-new-bookmarking-service-previously-called-stars-has-gone-live/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Numberwang</author><text>Bookmarks seems like an outdated technology. With the resources Google have, it would be cool if they could create a site where you can follow other sites as they update. Perhaps this site could then even differentiate between different &#x27;streams&#x27; or &#x27;feeds&#x27; from sites.
And in this workflow you could add the &#x27;stars&#x27; to articles and updates you would find interesting.<p>I hope someday they will create or have this system evolve into something like that, which would be a lot more useful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BostonEnginerd</author><text>A great name for this product would be Google Reader!</text></comment> |
14,972,080 | 14,971,533 | 1 | 2 | 14,970,179 | train | <story><title>Benefits of a Lifestyle Business</title><url>https://bugfender.com/blog/why-a-lifestyle-business-beats-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>Life on the road was not for me. Sure I loved seeing the world but ....<p>1. Always having to make plans for the next place to sleep was stressful for me. I&#x27;d arrive at some city and have to start planning the next city else I&#x27;d be homeless once my hotel&#x2F;apartment term expired. I started booking longer (4 weeks, 6 weeks, more) but even then just the fact that I have a place I don&#x27;t have to think about is less stressful for me.<p>2. No hangout buddy or really close friends. Some people are great at making new friends and I did make a few in certain cities but I&#x27;m at least a little introverted and felt pretty lonely quite often.<p>3. There only so much tourism I can take. At some point it just got boring seeing yet another old church, yet another museum, etc. Some recent book claimed you should take several shorter vacations than fewer but longer ones. They recommended no more than a week at a time.<p>4. Not being able to buy&#x2F;own anything. That might appeal to some but not to others, it means no shopping, something that many people enjoy while traveling. It also means no PS4, no Vive&#x2F;Oculus, no gaming rig, no tools, no food supplies. Sure if I rented an apartment I could go buy a few things to cook but when I have a permanent residence I have tons of utensils and spices and other things in my kitchen that I just don&#x27;t have the time to gather in a temporary place. Similarly I had drawers or closets full of parts and tools, something I didn&#x27;t have digital nomadding.<p>Of course that&#x27;s all just me. I&#x27;ve met others who really enjoy that lifestyle. Good for them!</text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>Sure! Lifestyle businesses are great, and so is the whole digital nomad thing (I spent all of 2016 and a good chunk of 2015 traveling around the world).<p>There are a ton of upsides but I wouldn&#x27;t go back to it full time. For one, it&#x27;s surprising how few of the digital nomad types are really that interesting, and while integrating with local populations is fun, you&#x27;ll still find yourself missing the familiarity of people from your own culture (or similar, Western cultures, assuming you&#x27;re a Euro or American)<p>Once you get used to life on the road it&#x27;s grand. Still, nomad nests like Chiang Mai are insipid and full of scores of people hustling their drop ship schemes. More power to them, but it&#x27;s just not my vibe.<p>I dunno. Go nuts, travel, see a bunch of shit, just don&#x27;t assume the beach is going to be as stimulating as the (very likely) metro urban environment you&#x27;re living in now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkersten</author><text>Number 2 is a big one for me. I&#x27;ve considered a digital nomad life a few times because I love to travel, love to see new places, love to meet new people and all the rest, BUT...<p>I hate solo travel. I&#x27;m naturally very quiet, introverted, socially awkward and get social anxiety, so travelling alone is stressful and I don&#x27;t end up exploring new places much and meet rather few new people because I find it incredibly hard to just start a conversation with strangers (doubly so if there&#x27;s a language barrier).<p>I&#x27;d love to go on extended travels, working from coffee shops while exploring new and interesting places, seeing new things and meeting new people, but to feel comfortable doing that, I would need someone to join me and I simply don&#x27;t know anybody who would do it with me. :(</text></comment> | <story><title>Benefits of a Lifestyle Business</title><url>https://bugfender.com/blog/why-a-lifestyle-business-beats-a-startup/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>greggman</author><text>Life on the road was not for me. Sure I loved seeing the world but ....<p>1. Always having to make plans for the next place to sleep was stressful for me. I&#x27;d arrive at some city and have to start planning the next city else I&#x27;d be homeless once my hotel&#x2F;apartment term expired. I started booking longer (4 weeks, 6 weeks, more) but even then just the fact that I have a place I don&#x27;t have to think about is less stressful for me.<p>2. No hangout buddy or really close friends. Some people are great at making new friends and I did make a few in certain cities but I&#x27;m at least a little introverted and felt pretty lonely quite often.<p>3. There only so much tourism I can take. At some point it just got boring seeing yet another old church, yet another museum, etc. Some recent book claimed you should take several shorter vacations than fewer but longer ones. They recommended no more than a week at a time.<p>4. Not being able to buy&#x2F;own anything. That might appeal to some but not to others, it means no shopping, something that many people enjoy while traveling. It also means no PS4, no Vive&#x2F;Oculus, no gaming rig, no tools, no food supplies. Sure if I rented an apartment I could go buy a few things to cook but when I have a permanent residence I have tons of utensils and spices and other things in my kitchen that I just don&#x27;t have the time to gather in a temporary place. Similarly I had drawers or closets full of parts and tools, something I didn&#x27;t have digital nomadding.<p>Of course that&#x27;s all just me. I&#x27;ve met others who really enjoy that lifestyle. Good for them!</text></item><item><author>weeksie</author><text>Sure! Lifestyle businesses are great, and so is the whole digital nomad thing (I spent all of 2016 and a good chunk of 2015 traveling around the world).<p>There are a ton of upsides but I wouldn&#x27;t go back to it full time. For one, it&#x27;s surprising how few of the digital nomad types are really that interesting, and while integrating with local populations is fun, you&#x27;ll still find yourself missing the familiarity of people from your own culture (or similar, Western cultures, assuming you&#x27;re a Euro or American)<p>Once you get used to life on the road it&#x27;s grand. Still, nomad nests like Chiang Mai are insipid and full of scores of people hustling their drop ship schemes. More power to them, but it&#x27;s just not my vibe.<p>I dunno. Go nuts, travel, see a bunch of shit, just don&#x27;t assume the beach is going to be as stimulating as the (very likely) metro urban environment you&#x27;re living in now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kbenson</author><text>&gt; There only so much tourism I can take. At some point it just got boring seeing yet another old church, yet another museum, etc. Some recent book claimed you should take several shorter vacations than fewer but longer ones. They recommended no more than a week at a time.<p>I just finished a two week honeymoon less than a month ago, and we did it as a traveling and sightseeing vacation. We started with a week in New Orleans and the surrounding area (and mostly did sightseeing instead of partying, it was a honeymoon), and were going to head up through Atlanta and see more of the South. We decided after that first week we were not looking forward to more sightseeing in the humidity, so we made a beeline for Florida and went to Disneyworld for a few days instead. Even though we were a little underwhelmed with Disneyworld after building up expectations for so long(we go to Disneyland often, and I would say they are comparable depending on the type of vacation you want), we didn&#x27;t regret it.<p>Like many things, the wonder becomes commonplace if you are subjected to it consistently for long enough. That seems to start happening for a lot of people around about a week.<p>We did spend a day in Savannah after that though, and that was gorgeous. Mixing up the vacation probably let us appreciate it more.</text></comment> |
1,502,514 | 1,502,503 | 1 | 3 | 1,502,027 | train | <story><title>Reddit needs help</title><url>http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zach</author><text>I have to say, this looks bad for the whole "users first, revenue later" mantra. Now, admittedly, the founders got paid on the flip. But there are users, and now it's later, so... where is the revenue?<p>I heard this moment described as the "where is the land" moment. The crew has been sailing the ocean for a long time and they're running on slim hope. They grumble, then complain, and finally they confront the captain and say, "You promised us land. Where is the land?!"<p>This doesn't look like a good resolution to the "where is the land" moment. Why decide to plead for cash? It's the business model of last resort.<p>So yeah, this is definitely a cry for help. Unfortunately, it's one that reminds me a lot of the drowning article. I think this is Reddit grabbing its users and trying to climb on top of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brianpan</author><text>Where is the revenue? I think that blog post, 1700 upvotes, and 1400 comments is pretty good indication of the possible revenue. Hint: it'll probably be more than the 3 readers of my blog will be ponying up this year.<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/cnth8/making_ends_meet_tldr_remember_that_joke_about/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/cnth8/making_...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit needs help</title><url>http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zach</author><text>I have to say, this looks bad for the whole "users first, revenue later" mantra. Now, admittedly, the founders got paid on the flip. But there are users, and now it's later, so... where is the revenue?<p>I heard this moment described as the "where is the land" moment. The crew has been sailing the ocean for a long time and they're running on slim hope. They grumble, then complain, and finally they confront the captain and say, "You promised us land. Where is the land?!"<p>This doesn't look like a good resolution to the "where is the land" moment. Why decide to plead for cash? It's the business model of last resort.<p>So yeah, this is definitely a cry for help. Unfortunately, it's one that reminds me a lot of the drowning article. I think this is Reddit grabbing its users and trying to climb on top of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I think this is the "revenue later" part.</text></comment> |
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