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14,847,999 | 14,848,016 | 1 | 3 | 14,846,934 | train | <story><title>Snowman: native code to C/C++ decompiler</title><url>https://derevenets.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xvilka</author><text>radare2 [1] project is also working on a decompiler, which uses ESIL [2] intermediate language as a source and lifts it to the RadecoIL, whish is then simplified and transformed to C. The missing parts now are mostly Memory SSA, C AST generation (partially done) and Type Inference. The decompiler itself written in Rust and uses the radare2 as a source of ESIL and other metainformation. Using the ESIL as a source will allow to implement the support for a different architectures, not only the common ones. Currently we&#x27;re running RSoC - Radare Summer of Code [3], and hope that our 2 students will make the significant progress on both Rune (Symbolic Execution on top of ESIL) and Radeco projects. And we are always happy to welcome a new potential contributors to all underlying projects, including radare2 itself. If you want to help us - please join #radare IRC channel or #radare Telegram channel [4].
The sources of Radeco are located at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;radare&#x2F;radeco-lib" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;radare&#x2F;radeco-lib</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rada.re" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rada.re</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radare.gitbooks.io&#x2F;radare2book&#x2F;content&#x2F;disassembling&#x2F;esil.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radare.gitbooks.io&#x2F;radare2book&#x2F;content&#x2F;disassembling...</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;radare.today&#x2F;posts&#x2F;RSOC-2017&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;radare.today&#x2F;posts&#x2F;RSOC-2017&#x2F;</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.me&#x2F;joinchat&#x2F;ACR-FkEK2owJSzMUYjt_NQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;telegram.me&#x2F;joinchat&#x2F;ACR-FkEK2owJSzMUYjt_NQ</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Snowman: native code to C/C++ decompiler</title><url>https://derevenets.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moyix</author><text>Another open source decompiler is fcd:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zneak.github.io&#x2F;fcd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zneak.github.io&#x2F;fcd&#x2F;</a><p>I quite like the authors&#x27; blog about the development of the decompiler, as it gives a lot of insight into how it works and what academic literature it draws on.<p>You can also find a video of a talk the author (Felix Cloutier) gave at the Security Open Source workshop:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=h1NP-DV4GVQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=h1NP-DV4GVQ</a></text></comment> |
30,393,200 | 30,393,376 | 1 | 2 | 30,391,724 | train | <story><title>Why We Banned Legos (2006)</title><url>https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/cover-story-why-we-banned-legos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>The article is exactly about teaching children to blindly accept hierarchy. The teachers tell them what they can play with and when, how they can play together, and why. Why should the children accept the student-teacher hierarchy? Are they old enough to question it?<p>I suspect you have more in common with the teachers politically than you and I have in common. Perhaps you think it&#x27;s good for the students to be politically indoctrinated because you agree, to some extent, with what the teachers are saying.<p>Conversely, I would not share my politics with children, even abstractly. I think after-school teachers for young kids are there mainly to help socialize children and keep them busy while their parents work. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s their role to teach kids any particular ideology.</text></item><item><author>trs8080</author><text>If you had actually read the article, you would know that this is a private after-school program whose participants are &quot;upper-middle class and socially liberal.&quot; Your comment sounds like &quot;MY values aren&#x27;t being taught so this is child abuse!&quot; Maybe some parents don&#x27;t agree with your values? Maybe they want their children to learn about cooperation and empathy instead of blindly accepting hierarchical power structures and divisions that emphasize the individual over community, which our school systems currently teach as a default.<p>The teachers didn&#x27;t interpose themselves -- they brought a conversation to the children after the town was accidentally destroyed. Through weeks of conversation, the children created a set of rules that benefited everyone, including the children who were previously excluded.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I feel visceral disgust reading this article. It seems like the kids were playing with each other in a healthy way and the teachers interposed themselves to change how the kids were playing for political and ideological reasons. This is disgusting to me because I think it&#x27;s analogous to physical abuse.<p>A teacher hitting a child is bad not just because it&#x27;s a violent crime, but also because children are especially vulnerable. They are smaller, weaker, and don&#x27;t know what options are available to them. Hitting an adult is bad, but not as bad, because an adult is more capable of defending themselves and&#x2F;or reacting appropriately to seek justice via other means (e.g. retreating and calling the police).<p>The teachers aren&#x27;t physically abusing the children, but they are psychologically hurting the children by taking away their toys and forcing them to play the way the teachers want rather than the way the kids want. If the teachers think their politics are important, they should discuss politics with consenting adults, not prey upon children who won&#x27;t really understand what&#x27;s happening or what they can and should do about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lhorie</author><text>I&#x27;m almost questioning if we read the same article. To me, the wording of the article suggests that there was quite a bit of dialogue with the children and among the children, including active listening and encouragement of critical thinking. I never got the impression that there was coercion by the teachers and certainly nothing about it screamed &quot;woke police&quot;.<p>It feels like you&#x27;re largely reacting to the taking away of toys and trying to make it into a statement about politics, when frankly denying toys is a pretty common and mundane way of dealing w&#x2F; child misbehavior (e.g. notably many parents ground kids without video games etc)<p>As a parent of two kids, I can tell you that rather than dealing w&#x2F; clear cut black-or-white lines, you&#x27;re almost always dealing with a looong slippery slope of behavior where actions subtly weave in and out of what one might consider bullying or otherwise unhealthy behavior. There&#x27;s unhealthy behavior with intent, without intent, rationalizations, testing of waters, and all sorts of gray area stuff, and as adults it&#x27;s our job to navigate that.<p>Your position about not taking on a &quot;teaching&quot; role can be seen as the philosophy of letting natural consequences run their courses as a learning opportunity for kids etc, but it can just as easily be construed as being the type of person that turns a blind eye to bulling, if one really wants to start getting into political escalation. But frankly, parent forums have enough nosey judgy drama and we don&#x27;t need it here on HN too.<p>If anything, it&#x27;s interesting (to me, anyways) that they talk about using several pedagogical techniques. I don&#x27;t have a horse in the race as far as the kids in the article are concerned, but the ideas of the sorts of things one can use (or not use) to deal with unhealthy behavior is something I can apply to my family.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why We Banned Legos (2006)</title><url>https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/cover-story-why-we-banned-legos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>The article is exactly about teaching children to blindly accept hierarchy. The teachers tell them what they can play with and when, how they can play together, and why. Why should the children accept the student-teacher hierarchy? Are they old enough to question it?<p>I suspect you have more in common with the teachers politically than you and I have in common. Perhaps you think it&#x27;s good for the students to be politically indoctrinated because you agree, to some extent, with what the teachers are saying.<p>Conversely, I would not share my politics with children, even abstractly. I think after-school teachers for young kids are there mainly to help socialize children and keep them busy while their parents work. I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s their role to teach kids any particular ideology.</text></item><item><author>trs8080</author><text>If you had actually read the article, you would know that this is a private after-school program whose participants are &quot;upper-middle class and socially liberal.&quot; Your comment sounds like &quot;MY values aren&#x27;t being taught so this is child abuse!&quot; Maybe some parents don&#x27;t agree with your values? Maybe they want their children to learn about cooperation and empathy instead of blindly accepting hierarchical power structures and divisions that emphasize the individual over community, which our school systems currently teach as a default.<p>The teachers didn&#x27;t interpose themselves -- they brought a conversation to the children after the town was accidentally destroyed. Through weeks of conversation, the children created a set of rules that benefited everyone, including the children who were previously excluded.</text></item><item><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I feel visceral disgust reading this article. It seems like the kids were playing with each other in a healthy way and the teachers interposed themselves to change how the kids were playing for political and ideological reasons. This is disgusting to me because I think it&#x27;s analogous to physical abuse.<p>A teacher hitting a child is bad not just because it&#x27;s a violent crime, but also because children are especially vulnerable. They are smaller, weaker, and don&#x27;t know what options are available to them. Hitting an adult is bad, but not as bad, because an adult is more capable of defending themselves and&#x2F;or reacting appropriately to seek justice via other means (e.g. retreating and calling the police).<p>The teachers aren&#x27;t physically abusing the children, but they are psychologically hurting the children by taking away their toys and forcing them to play the way the teachers want rather than the way the kids want. If the teachers think their politics are important, they should discuss politics with consenting adults, not prey upon children who won&#x27;t really understand what&#x27;s happening or what they can and should do about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diputsmonro</author><text>You seem to have missed the section where they assigned point values to Legos and let the children create rules. The author clearly states that they had intended for the children to criticize the system for being unfair, but instead criticized the people within the system. The teachers <i>wanted</i> the children to challenge them, and they didn&#x27;t!<p>And yes, at the end of the day, the teachers always have the final authority. Do you think it&#x27;s a good idea for a group of children to never be told &quot;no?&quot;<p>&gt; Conversely, I would not share my politics with children, even abstractly<p>Every human interaction is politics. It&#x27;s not just about leaders, governments, and parties - it&#x27;s about who gets what, and when, in a world where we can&#x27;t all get what we want. Managing how power and resources are shared is the fundamental idea of politics.<p>If you don&#x27;t teach kids about politics, they will be lost in the world - unable to advocate or negotiate for themselves, understand the situations of others, or question the systems that have been built around them. This article describes children learning all that and more.</text></comment> |
10,355,571 | 10,355,627 | 1 | 2 | 10,355,451 | train | <story><title>New Initiatives for Lyft Drivers</title><url>http://blog.lyft.com/posts/wetreatyoubetter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chipgap98</author><text>I know Uber has the dominate market share, but I really enjoy life. I notice that I get better, friendlier service from the drivers and I like having the option to tip. They have rolled out a lot of impressive features and programs recently. I hope, at the very least, their actions will pressure Uber into some similar moves</text></comment> | <story><title>New Initiatives for Lyft Drivers</title><url>http://blog.lyft.com/posts/wetreatyoubetter</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tswartz</author><text>I like how Lyft is trying to make it easier for more people to drive for them. But, after Lyft&#x27;s cut, tax and gas the hourly rate was very low. I drove for a couple months and they promised $25 - $35 during peak time, but I netted out to about $10&#x2F;hr. Now to add on a Hertz rental fee, that is going to get very slim.<p>Obviously this is still a better job for some people then there alternative. Lyft will market to new drivers with the higher rates and ease of renting a Hertz vehicle.</text></comment> |
16,569,080 | 16,569,288 | 1 | 2 | 16,568,275 | train | <story><title>Who will steal Android from Google?</title><url>https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/who-will-steal-android-from-google-af3622b6252e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>I think Steve&#x27;s underestimating the power of Google&#x27;s control over OEMs here. Every OEM wants to get rid of Google&#x27;s hold over them, but how do they do it without putting their entire corporation at risk? Google has already shown they&#x27;ll ban your entire company from Google Apps access if you try to produce a single Android device without Google Apps.<p>So any company who wants to exclude Google puts their entire mobile product line at risk on this play. It&#x27;d be hard to see anything coming of this unless multiple manufacturers can agree to make the jump together, creating a platform large enough that even Google has to support it for their own market share needs (which means, this group must include Samsung, who&#x27;s hedged their bets on this sort of thing but seems too scared to make the jump). And even then, this only remains an option as long as the Pixel remains niche. If the Pixel gains an iPhone-like market share amongst the broader range of Android devices, Google can mostly tell other manufacturers to screw off.<p>His notions on cross-platform frameworks making a non-Android platform viable are spot on though. Not only through things like React Native, but PWAs, which Google is pretty bullish on itself, despite the fact that it may make Windows Mobile a viable idea again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lern_too_spel</author><text>You overestimate how hard it is. Amazon did it, and the entire country of China did it out of necessity. As Amazon&#x27;s ecosystem gains steam, there will be enough third party replacements for Google&#x27;s apps that it will be easier for others to switch too.</text></comment> | <story><title>Who will steal Android from Google?</title><url>https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/who-will-steal-android-from-google-af3622b6252e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>I think Steve&#x27;s underestimating the power of Google&#x27;s control over OEMs here. Every OEM wants to get rid of Google&#x27;s hold over them, but how do they do it without putting their entire corporation at risk? Google has already shown they&#x27;ll ban your entire company from Google Apps access if you try to produce a single Android device without Google Apps.<p>So any company who wants to exclude Google puts their entire mobile product line at risk on this play. It&#x27;d be hard to see anything coming of this unless multiple manufacturers can agree to make the jump together, creating a platform large enough that even Google has to support it for their own market share needs (which means, this group must include Samsung, who&#x27;s hedged their bets on this sort of thing but seems too scared to make the jump). And even then, this only remains an option as long as the Pixel remains niche. If the Pixel gains an iPhone-like market share amongst the broader range of Android devices, Google can mostly tell other manufacturers to screw off.<p>His notions on cross-platform frameworks making a non-Android platform viable are spot on though. Not only through things like React Native, but PWAs, which Google is pretty bullish on itself, despite the fact that it may make Windows Mobile a viable idea again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patmcguire</author><text>Best candidate is some Chinese OEM or tech titan like WeChat that has already done all the insane work it would take to replace the things Google holds hostage. Wouldn&#x27;t necessarily be more open if it&#x27;s WeChat, though.</text></comment> |
5,662,767 | 5,661,079 | 1 | 2 | 5,660,770 | train | <story><title>Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1868)</title><url>http://books.google.com/books?id=vOhIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>Of interest is also 507movements.com, which is trying to provide animated versions of the movements.<p>Most aren't done yet, of course, but as you click through, you can find some interesting ones:<p><a href="http://507movements.com/mm_038.html" rel="nofollow">http://507movements.com/mm_038.html</a>
<a href="http://507movements.com/mm_123.html" rel="nofollow">http://507movements.com/mm_123.html</a>
<a href="http://507movements.com/mm_223.html" rel="nofollow">http://507movements.com/mm_223.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1868)</title><url>http://books.google.com/books?id=vOhIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This is a great book, that and Watt's book on steam and others which talk in pretty simple terms about how to make things for your steampunk collection.<p>If you are looking for fun things to print on your 3D printer you can make a number of interesting clock mechanisms, and from there some interesting pieces for an automaton. Lots of fun.<p>My favorite btw:<p><i>"226. This movement is designed to double the speed by gears of equal diameters and numbers of teeth—a result once generally supposed to be impossible. Six bevel-gears are employed. The gear on the shaft, B, is in gear with two others—one on the shaft, F, and the other on the same hollow shaft with C, which turns loosely on F. The gear, D, is carried by the frame, A, which, being fast on the shaft, F, is made to rotate, and therefore takes round D with it. E is loose on the shaft, F, and gears with D. Now, suppose the two gears on the hollow shaft, C, were removed and D prevented from turning on its axis ; one revolution given to the gear on B would cause the frame, A, also to receive one revolution, and as this frame carries with it the gear, D, gearing with E, one revolution would be imparted to E; but if the gears on the hollow shaft, C, were replaced, D would receive also a revolution on its axis during the one revolution of B, and thus would produce two revolutions of E."</i></text></comment> |
35,566,225 | 35,563,548 | 1 | 2 | 35,559,145 | train | <story><title>Warm liquid from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault</title><url>https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/04/10/warm-liquid-spewing-from-oregon-seafloor-comes-from-cascadia-fault-could-offer-clues-to-earthquake-hazards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billiam</author><text>Geologist here (by training). I know HN readers are instant experts on everything, except reading the entire article I guess. All the geoengineering suggestions are amusing, but there is nothing we can do about the (hypothetical) stress buildup on the Cascadia Fault. There are lots of ways to measure stress and determine which segments of a fault are locked, this direct observation of a single seep being one very anecdotal example. We have instrumented and observed the hell out of other faults for decades, and we have increased our ability to predict earthquakes by ~0%.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pasquinelli</author><text>&gt; we have increased our ability to predict earthquakes by ~0%.<p>but what if we use chatGPT, or perhaps crypto?</text></comment> | <story><title>Warm liquid from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault</title><url>https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/04/10/warm-liquid-spewing-from-oregon-seafloor-comes-from-cascadia-fault-could-offer-clues-to-earthquake-hazards/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>billiam</author><text>Geologist here (by training). I know HN readers are instant experts on everything, except reading the entire article I guess. All the geoengineering suggestions are amusing, but there is nothing we can do about the (hypothetical) stress buildup on the Cascadia Fault. There are lots of ways to measure stress and determine which segments of a fault are locked, this direct observation of a single seep being one very anecdotal example. We have instrumented and observed the hell out of other faults for decades, and we have increased our ability to predict earthquakes by ~0%.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ggm</author><text>I think in part this is because of a mode of discourse based on questions by assertion: I know a small factoid, I got it from IFLS, I repeat it here, there is an implicit question.<p>&quot;so if we dumped 30 megatonnes of concrete over the fault we&#x27;d alter the compression ratio of the subsoils and this would stop the coming mega-quake&quot; because I read once that big buildings alter readings on somebody&#x27;s seismograph, somewhere, once.<p>Mind you, geologists do it by reverse: I nice one I know from U Qld told me the economic upsides of the San Diego quake were net positive. I&#x27;m not sure all economists agree!</text></comment> |
22,896,627 | 22,896,556 | 1 | 2 | 22,892,030 | train | <story><title>Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-military-sympt/coronavirus-clue-most-cases-aboard-u-s-aircraft-carrier-are-symptom-free-idUSKCN21Y2GB</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system2</author><text>If 0.37% is true, why are the hospitals in this shape?</text></item><item><author>manfredo</author><text>Random testing in Germany has also revealed higher than expected rates of people with antibodies. Their IFR (infected fatality rate) was 2% overall based on non-random testing. Random testing has yielded an IFR or 0.37%.<p>This does not increase the risk. These tests only test people who <i>had</i> coronavirus. The larger this portion, the more herd immunity there is in the population. It implies that there <i>were</i> a larger than expected number of people who had the virus, at some point in time. But that&#x27;s a lagging indicator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yomly</author><text>Imagine all 65M people in the UK caught the virus then a 10,000 case fatality number would give a rate of 0.015%.<p>The rate itself has no time element so it tells you nothing about the number of people in hospital right now and hence isn&#x27;t very illustrative of how hospitals can be swamped by this disease.<p>More interestingly (for me at least) is that the mortality rate is dependent on a patient&#x27;s access to a ventilator. This means if you caught the virus early in the spread of the pandemic your odds of surviving are substantially higher than if you caught it right at the peak of infection.<p>This is impossible to reflect in a simple global mortality rate and so really paints a different picture of the virus - the death rate in South Korea vs other places really highlights this.<p>I guess to your point, hospitals are more in this way because the virus is so infectious, rather than it being a universally dangerous disease as may be seen from a higher mortality rate. Remember, a high number of people experience little to no symptoms from catching this.<p>This variability in symptoms doesn&#x27;t seem to be as true for other lethal diseases like say malaria or dengue fever</text></comment> | <story><title>Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-military-sympt/coronavirus-clue-most-cases-aboard-u-s-aircraft-carrier-are-symptom-free-idUSKCN21Y2GB</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>system2</author><text>If 0.37% is true, why are the hospitals in this shape?</text></item><item><author>manfredo</author><text>Random testing in Germany has also revealed higher than expected rates of people with antibodies. Their IFR (infected fatality rate) was 2% overall based on non-random testing. Random testing has yielded an IFR or 0.37%.<p>This does not increase the risk. These tests only test people who <i>had</i> coronavirus. The larger this portion, the more herd immunity there is in the population. It implies that there <i>were</i> a larger than expected number of people who had the virus, at some point in time. But that&#x27;s a lagging indicator.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xenonite</author><text>These were among the very first cases in Germany where capacity was abundant, hence the low fatality rate.<p>Also, this is a “up to now” value, more cases might turn out fatal.<p>“Only” 7 deaths is furthermore not a good data basis for calculating this number.<p>Moreover, the report is not even public nor peer reviewed. So I can’t even cite it here. However you find criticism of the study by Prof. Streeck online.</text></comment> |
17,151,968 | 17,150,271 | 1 | 2 | 17,145,844 | train | <story><title>Google 'stole my videos', says film-maker Philip Bloom</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44228756</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcon620</author><text>Bingo.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;static?template=terms&amp;gl=US" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;static?template=terms&amp;gl=US</a><p>From section 6c:<p>&quot;For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube&#x27;s (and its successors&#x27; and affiliates&#x27;) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.&quot;</text></item><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>If Phillip Bloom uploaded these videos to Youtube, didn&#x27;t he consent to a broad TOS on the usage of these videos for internal company purposes?<p>I&#x27;d be surprised if he had a case, which may be why he&#x27;s taking his grievance to the media instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raesene9</author><text>IANAL but I&#x27;m not sure that clause applies to this case. From the article it wasn&#x27;t a Youtube executive who used the footage but someone from Google&#x27;s research division.<p>Also that clause appears to apply to Youtube using content from the site to promote Youtube&#x27;s service(s) and not for content entirely unrelated to Youtube but to Google&#x27;s wider interests.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google 'stole my videos', says film-maker Philip Bloom</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44228756</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>falcon620</author><text>Bingo.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;static?template=terms&amp;gl=US" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;static?template=terms&amp;gl=US</a><p>From section 6c:<p>&quot;For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube&#x27;s (and its successors&#x27; and affiliates&#x27;) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.&quot;</text></item><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>If Phillip Bloom uploaded these videos to Youtube, didn&#x27;t he consent to a broad TOS on the usage of these videos for internal company purposes?<p>I&#x27;d be surprised if he had a case, which may be why he&#x27;s taking his grievance to the media instead.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitL</author><text>If he is a British&#x2F;still EU citizen, this part of &quot;terms&quot; might be worth the value of white noise.</text></comment> |
1,332,923 | 1,332,907 | 1 | 2 | 1,332,817 | train | <story><title>New Programming Jargon</title><url>http://www.globalnerdy.com/2010/05/09/new-programming-jargon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neilk</author><text>Mostly just in-jokes, but I loved "yoda conditions" and "stringly-typed". Those deserve wider usage.</text></comment> | <story><title>New Programming Jargon</title><url>http://www.globalnerdy.com/2010/05/09/new-programming-jargon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kdeberk</author><text>I'm actually guilty of using Yoda conditions in anything but Lisp. It is now hardwired in my brain since I learned it early. I'm using it for the same reason as all other Yoda conditioners are, -Wall wasn't really an option then since the source code normally spouted 50+ warning lines due to some included header file.</text></comment> |
15,288,781 | 15,288,414 | 1 | 2 | 15,287,376 | train | <story><title>Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein in a Wild Web</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/technology/facebook-government-regulations.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>I find that the headline and the article mischaracterizes what is happening. The &quot;Wild Web&quot; was reigned in long ago by commercial interests. A distributed web with many small nodes would still be hard to control and police effectively. However as much the web has been centralized by the likes of Google, Facebook, and large media conglomerates effective government censorship is once again possible.<p>This is like a wild meadow turning to a manicured lawn. The near-monoculture of the web will have a much harder time withstanding legal assault by state actors than a distributed web would have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>The wild Internet is definitely still there. The problem is that it got too hostile for most users due to spam, viruses, malware, phishing, trolls, doxing, and so on. It will get worse, as attackers adopt machine learning techniques and automate social engineering at scale.<p>So users have a problem. Companies that solved it the right way became enormous, because protection from all that crap is something people want, and they want it to be easy to use. In the early days it was anti-spam (Gmail). More recently, Snapchat helped teens avoid creating a permanent record of things.<p>Sure, you can go outside the walls at any time, but how many people really want to? The way to win users is to provide better protection than before, including defenses against new privacy threats, not to somehow convince people they don&#x27;t need to care about it.<p>Sometimes providing better protection results in more freedom (of a sort). For example, a well-maintained app store means users don&#x27;t have to worry about malware and viruses, so they can download whatever games they want without worrying that they&#x27;ll infect their machine. This wasn&#x27;t true of Windows in the old days.<p>Ironically, the web started out pretty safe (or so we thought) and degraded as more adtech came along. These days you can hardly click on a link without getting ads in your face. There&#x27;s opportunity for someone.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein in a Wild Web</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/technology/facebook-government-regulations.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>I find that the headline and the article mischaracterizes what is happening. The &quot;Wild Web&quot; was reigned in long ago by commercial interests. A distributed web with many small nodes would still be hard to control and police effectively. However as much the web has been centralized by the likes of Google, Facebook, and large media conglomerates effective government censorship is once again possible.<p>This is like a wild meadow turning to a manicured lawn. The near-monoculture of the web will have a much harder time withstanding legal assault by state actors than a distributed web would have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justinmk</author><text>&gt; A distributed web with many small nodes would still be hard to control and police effectively.<p>I would guess that today&#x27;s distributed web (IPFS, etc.) has more content, and users, than the &quot;wild web&quot; of 1992 or whatever era you fondly recollect.<p>Yes, centralized players created tools that produced exponentially more content (and control). But it&#x27;s lazy to blame that peripheral phenomenon for a perceived &quot;loss&quot;.<p>The wild web still exists, and has the potential to grow (cf. Urbit). What&#x27;s stopping it?</text></comment> |
5,862,977 | 5,863,185 | 1 | 2 | 5,862,195 | train | <story><title>The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun</title><url>http://nabeelqu.com/blog/the-smears-against-edward-snowden-have-begun</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brown9-2</author><text>Are these not fair questions?<p>I think most people are confused at how someone could expect to have their freedom of speech protected in a country controlled by China. Territories controlled by mainland China are not usually the first places you think of when you think &quot;need to flee the US government&quot;.<p>Similarly, I think most people are surprised at the ability of someone in his stated position to gain as much access as he said he has, and also at the reported size of his salary - because they are not familiar with what the salary scale is like in the world of government private contractors.<p>Having questions is not the same as smearing character.</text></item><item><author>deelowe</author><text>Was happening yesterday on my local talk radio station. &quot;Isn&#x27;t it a bit odd that this guy, a high school drop out somehow got into the NSA? Is he a plant? Isn&#x27;t it odd that he&#x27;s taking refuge in a COMMUNIST nation? I think he&#x27;s a spy. How does a high school dropout get into the nsa?... High school drop out... High school dropout... communist... china...&quot; etc..<p>Not very hard to see who controls the media these days.</text></item><item><author>LandoCalrissian</author><text>This is happening in all the news media now. I listen to NPR every day and it&#x27;s almost insufferable to listen to when they talk about the NSA leak. Very little of the debate is about the actual NSA monitoring program itself, most of of the time they talk about why this leak happened and why Edward Snowden is a &quot;strange&quot; guy. It&#x27;s completely unbelievable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cbs</author><text>Sure, they&#x27;re fair questions in and of themselves. That doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;re not used as part of unreasonable or just nonsense rhetoric.<p>Does the person asking them want to start a real discussion about skill- and merit-based hiring practices? I&#x27;m sure much of HN is familiar with the argument there is an over-reliance on formal education as prerequisites to employment.<p>Armchair quarterbacking someone&#x27;s leak and escape plan is the same sort of story. There is a lot more to consider in that discussion too (maybe he&#x27;s got a Chinese hookup for forged travel identification), but I don&#x27;t think the blowhard on the radio actually wants to have either of those discussions.<p><i>Having questions is not the same as smearing character.</i><p>And 9&#x2F;11 truthers would tell you they&#x27;ve just asking questions. Blowhard punditry relies on couching their ramblings in &quot;questions&quot; so much an entire south park episode was dedicated to it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.southparkstudios.com&#x2F;clips&#x2F;255329&#x2F;preview-im-asking-questions" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.southparkstudios.com&#x2F;clips&#x2F;255329&#x2F;preview-im-aski...</a> This might be a bit of an odd link for HN, but we&#x27;re discussing conversational tactics couched as meaningful discourse and I&#x27;m always reminded of this as a quintessential example of the difference.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun</title><url>http://nabeelqu.com/blog/the-smears-against-edward-snowden-have-begun</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brown9-2</author><text>Are these not fair questions?<p>I think most people are confused at how someone could expect to have their freedom of speech protected in a country controlled by China. Territories controlled by mainland China are not usually the first places you think of when you think &quot;need to flee the US government&quot;.<p>Similarly, I think most people are surprised at the ability of someone in his stated position to gain as much access as he said he has, and also at the reported size of his salary - because they are not familiar with what the salary scale is like in the world of government private contractors.<p>Having questions is not the same as smearing character.</text></item><item><author>deelowe</author><text>Was happening yesterday on my local talk radio station. &quot;Isn&#x27;t it a bit odd that this guy, a high school drop out somehow got into the NSA? Is he a plant? Isn&#x27;t it odd that he&#x27;s taking refuge in a COMMUNIST nation? I think he&#x27;s a spy. How does a high school dropout get into the nsa?... High school drop out... High school dropout... communist... china...&quot; etc..<p>Not very hard to see who controls the media these days.</text></item><item><author>LandoCalrissian</author><text>This is happening in all the news media now. I listen to NPR every day and it&#x27;s almost insufferable to listen to when they talk about the NSA leak. Very little of the debate is about the actual NSA monitoring program itself, most of of the time they talk about why this leak happened and why Edward Snowden is a &quot;strange&quot; guy. It&#x27;s completely unbelievable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deelowe</author><text>My point is that there&#x27;s clearly a narrative. Every news station is saying &quot;high school dropout&quot; and &quot;seeking refuge in a communist nation.&quot; Those exact words. This is what they always do. Talking points are distributed via the email lists for the democratic and republican parties. The &quot;media&quot; takes these talking points and runs with them. If you really pay attention to the news, it&#x27;s eery how quickly they all start speaking in unison. Typically, it&#x27;s one sided, but in this case, both right wing and left wing media are using the same talking points!</text></comment> |
1,796,777 | 1,796,776 | 1 | 2 | 1,795,141 | train | <story><title>Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee</title><url>http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/?page_id=193</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Unless you're at a non-profit, revenue/sales/profit are what drives the company. If you can duct tape a product that gets me $1B of yearly recurring revenue then I will take that over the cleanest architected product that no one wants to pay for.<p>In one of my other comments from a different thread I made the point that a lot of developers don't realize that they should understand the business. When you do understand it and the salesperson is in a tizzy about the "wrong thing", you can point out, "actually, that's not the real revenue driver. XYZ is. Why does the customer think ABC is? I'll tell you why, it's because DEF. But by doing XYZ we can deliver ABC in six months time."<p>I think you'll find when you can talk at the level of business a lot of things become clearer for you and the sales team.</text></item><item><author>dkarl</author><text><i>If you consistently deliver what the business needs most, and you do it well, it’s impossible not to get promoted. People tell me this isn’t true, that it’s all about the people you know and about “visibility.” I have no idea how to consistently deliver impactful business results without becoming visible as a side effect. I hate it when developers ask me how to become “more visible.” They hate it when I tell them to “do great work.” They think I’m mocking them.</i><p>You can think this way if your idea of "what the business needs most" is "what currently has the sales guys in a tizzy." Forget about everything else. Oh, and if your code only works for current customers, and has to have a bunch of tweaks and fixes applied for each new customer, then people will think your code is what <i>allows</i> them to sell to new customers. No kidding. If you write code that doesn't handle cases A, B, and C, then later you get credit for adding "support" for A, B, and C and making it possible to sell to customers X, Y, and Z. That's "visibility," because people from sales and marketing will mention your name appreciatively at high levels.<p>And for God's sake don't do any work on scaling or reliability, because a salesman never calls up your boss's boss and says, "It's been a long time since the scalability of your systems scotched a deal. I just want to say that's awesome and thank you." Wait until it breaks, make everyone thinks it's impossible, and then fix it.<p>EDIT: In a healthy organization, none of this will affect who gets promoted, but in an organization where people worry about "visibility," this is what they're talking about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WesleyJohnson</author><text>For those of you who think and operate this way, I'm sorry, but this WILL catch up with you eventually. At my last job our sales pitch was "Yes". I won't use the word "literally" here as it would be an outright lie, but it was pretty close. Our sales guys went into meetings with the assumption that we could pull off whatever the clients wanted in nearly any time frame they wanted. This was all decided on at sales time without any consultation of the actual development team on capabilities, cost or how long it would take to actually implement. Management would tell the IT/IS department (yes, we had to do both) that it was a show of faith in the abilities of our team and that we should be proud of the fact that sales and management were so confident in us. You know what that is? BS. That is sales "selling" IT. It's complete and utter BS.<p>Sure, we met those deadlines, we implemented those features and we made small fortunes for the company. But at what cost? The infrastructure starts to resemble Jenga more and more, your spaghetti code becomes harder to maintain, you end up with magic strings, magic numbers, client specific cases and conditions and your start eating into your IT budget by having to hire more programmers to support all of your crappy implementations and more hardware to handle the un-optimized pile of crap you're running.<p>What's worse is the very people you rely on to keep this tower from falling over, your programmers who have become so familiar with all the undocumented edge cases of your system, are also the very people you're basically forcing out. You're forcing them out because they become tired of not innovating, not refactoring and not progressing the technology OR the business, but instead spending all their time stressing over not "crossing the wires" of this delicate catastrophe. And when you finally lose them as a developer, and you will, it costs you severely in down-time and loses in productivity while you get your other developers and new hires up to speed. But not only do they have to learn the business, they also have to learn all the edge cases that were only known to your senior employee who was finally fed up and quit. And guaranteed, something, somewhere will be forgotten, that wire will get crossed and you'll pay dearly.<p>And while I do agree that making money and growing the business is the end goal of the business, don't assume that your IT guy isn't concerned with that and just wants to write "pretty code". Often times your IT guys understand the business more than sales, middle management and sometimes upper management because they deal with the logic, the clients, the sales team, and everyone in between day in and day out. When they're pleading with you to say "no" to a customer or ask for an extension to implement feature "x" properly, maybe you should take heed a little more often. Because the duct taped feature "x" that won over client "A" today, could be the same feature that loses you client "b" and "c" tomorrow because the only developer that new their system well enough to keep them running walked out after being forced to write yet another band-aid.<p>Of course when he quits and everything falls apart, everyone will just assume he was an overpaid, crappy programmer and his buggy code is what was the ultimate cause.</text></comment> | <story><title>Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee</title><url>http://worldofsu.com/philipsu/?page_id=193</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Unless you're at a non-profit, revenue/sales/profit are what drives the company. If you can duct tape a product that gets me $1B of yearly recurring revenue then I will take that over the cleanest architected product that no one wants to pay for.<p>In one of my other comments from a different thread I made the point that a lot of developers don't realize that they should understand the business. When you do understand it and the salesperson is in a tizzy about the "wrong thing", you can point out, "actually, that's not the real revenue driver. XYZ is. Why does the customer think ABC is? I'll tell you why, it's because DEF. But by doing XYZ we can deliver ABC in six months time."<p>I think you'll find when you can talk at the level of business a lot of things become clearer for you and the sales team.</text></item><item><author>dkarl</author><text><i>If you consistently deliver what the business needs most, and you do it well, it’s impossible not to get promoted. People tell me this isn’t true, that it’s all about the people you know and about “visibility.” I have no idea how to consistently deliver impactful business results without becoming visible as a side effect. I hate it when developers ask me how to become “more visible.” They hate it when I tell them to “do great work.” They think I’m mocking them.</i><p>You can think this way if your idea of "what the business needs most" is "what currently has the sales guys in a tizzy." Forget about everything else. Oh, and if your code only works for current customers, and has to have a bunch of tweaks and fixes applied for each new customer, then people will think your code is what <i>allows</i> them to sell to new customers. No kidding. If you write code that doesn't handle cases A, B, and C, then later you get credit for adding "support" for A, B, and C and making it possible to sell to customers X, Y, and Z. That's "visibility," because people from sales and marketing will mention your name appreciatively at high levels.<p>And for God's sake don't do any work on scaling or reliability, because a salesman never calls up your boss's boss and says, "It's been a long time since the scalability of your systems scotched a deal. I just want to say that's awesome and thank you." Wait until it breaks, make everyone thinks it's impossible, and then fix it.<p>EDIT: In a healthy organization, none of this will affect who gets promoted, but in an organization where people worry about "visibility," this is what they're talking about.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkarl</author><text>The sales guys would agree that reliability and scalability affect<p>1) The ability to take on new business (a big problem if you're kicking ass and growing fast.)<p>2) The cost of delivering service to those customers.<p>3) The ability to deliver new features because developers aren't spending their time fixing existing ones or helping operations fight fires caused by the existing ones.<p>Sales will agree about all of that. However, when it comes time to argue over priorities, they'll fight tooth and nail to get resources devoted to new development instead of scalability and reliability -- until stuff is broken, customers are angry, and <i>their</i> reputation is going into the toilet. At that point they'll rightly pin the blame on you, though. They want you to be responsible and do your job. They just won't reward you for it with "visibility."<p>Actually, the best way to get sales guys on the side of reliability and scalability is when they're told to stop selling a product because your systems or operations staff can barely support currently provisioned customers, but good luck making that happen without having a report of SLA penalties already paid and a convincing projection of large penalties in the future. Also, at that point, you'll already have signed or nearly-signed deals that haven't been deployed yet.<p>So if you just go along with the sales guys, they'll drive you into a freakin' ditch. The sales guys do not have a balanced view of the business any more than the developers do. Everybody has to contribute their piece of the picture and fight for the priorities that they understand.<p>When the engineers stop sticking up for what <i>they</i> understand better than anybody else, things get out of balance, your technical assets start to crumble, and eventually you're technically bankrupt. But throwing engineering priorities under the boat and doing anything necessary to please the sales guys in the short term can make you very popular. "Visibility" means making people who drive revenue happy, and abdicating your responsibility to deliver bad news is the easiest way to achieve it.<p>But the worst aspect of "visibility" is that from outside engineering, the applications that are chronically broken are perceived as the vital core of ongoing feature development, and the developers who work on those applications get the most visibility. If you asked a sales guy to write a list of the most valuable developers in the company, that's who they would name. Can you imagine a more perverse incentive?</text></comment> |
18,633,195 | 18,633,281 | 1 | 3 | 18,625,135 | train | <story><title>Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/climate/agriculture-food-global-warming.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NickM</author><text>Let&#x27;s try to break this problem down to first principles:<p>- Humans need food to live because it provides energy and nutrients.<p>- From a fundamental standpoint of physics and available materials, nutrients are relatively easy to get; as far as I know, most vitamins and minerals are pretty cheap to either come by naturally or manufacture, and you don&#x27;t need that much of any of them to keep a person healthy, so let&#x27;s assume food energy is the real limiting factor here.<p>- The energy in most food comes from photosynthesis (either directly, in the case of eating plants, or indirectly, in the case of feeding plants to animals for growing meat).<p>- Photosynthesis is an <i>extremely</i> inefficient way to turn solar radiation into chemical energy. Only about 3 to 6 percent of incoming solar energy is used by plants to create biomass, and not all of that biomass necessarily equates to calories we can digest and absorb.<p>So, while this isn&#x27;t a particularly appetizing future to imagine living in, I don&#x27;t know of any fundamental reason why artificially producing edible calories via solar electricity and chemical processes couldn&#x27;t vastly exceed the efficiency of natural-grown food. It might be tricky getting to the point where fake food like this is healthy and tastes good...but if it saves the world from starving and stops civilization from collapsing then hey, it&#x27;s not a bad fallback plan.<p>Besides being a big jump in efficiency, this type of tech could also enable the use of non-arable land for food production, since presumably you could set up the necessary manufacturing facilities anywhere you want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strainer</author><text>&gt; From a fundamental standpoint of physics and available materials, nutrients are relatively easy to get; as far as I know, most vitamins and minerals are pretty cheap to either come by naturally or manufacture, and you don&#x27;t need that much of any of them to keep a person healthy, so let&#x27;s assume food energy is the real limiting factor here.<p>Food is more complicated than this picture. So much that nutritionists have major differences over which basic materials are beneficial in bulk and which cause health problems. Vitamins, minerals and medicines are not automatically absorbed well by our digestive system. The many biological foibles of human metabolism and our symbiotic gut flora, still confounds expectations about what food can be and can do to health.<p>There have been many, perhaps endless attempts to synthesize a wholesome food product - it would be worth a fortune. I am aware of zero successes to date and this shouldn&#x27;t be the case if its not very difficult. We don&#x27;t even synthesize sugar for consumption - maybe start there, but it is not even clear if&#x2F;how much it causes diabetes or other diseases.<p>We might be stuck for a while longer with reliance on foods that needs to live for bit (plant or animal) before we can sustain our own lives with them - seems to be a very old system requirement of multicellular life, and one that has not been cracked yet.</text></comment> | <story><title>Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/climate/agriculture-food-global-warming.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NickM</author><text>Let&#x27;s try to break this problem down to first principles:<p>- Humans need food to live because it provides energy and nutrients.<p>- From a fundamental standpoint of physics and available materials, nutrients are relatively easy to get; as far as I know, most vitamins and minerals are pretty cheap to either come by naturally or manufacture, and you don&#x27;t need that much of any of them to keep a person healthy, so let&#x27;s assume food energy is the real limiting factor here.<p>- The energy in most food comes from photosynthesis (either directly, in the case of eating plants, or indirectly, in the case of feeding plants to animals for growing meat).<p>- Photosynthesis is an <i>extremely</i> inefficient way to turn solar radiation into chemical energy. Only about 3 to 6 percent of incoming solar energy is used by plants to create biomass, and not all of that biomass necessarily equates to calories we can digest and absorb.<p>So, while this isn&#x27;t a particularly appetizing future to imagine living in, I don&#x27;t know of any fundamental reason why artificially producing edible calories via solar electricity and chemical processes couldn&#x27;t vastly exceed the efficiency of natural-grown food. It might be tricky getting to the point where fake food like this is healthy and tastes good...but if it saves the world from starving and stops civilization from collapsing then hey, it&#x27;s not a bad fallback plan.<p>Besides being a big jump in efficiency, this type of tech could also enable the use of non-arable land for food production, since presumably you could set up the necessary manufacturing facilities anywhere you want.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>In theory, you&#x27;re absolutely correct.<p>In practice, the replicating the composition of food (proteins, carbs, fats, vitamins, minerals, bacteria, fiber, etc.) is a huge feat. Especially because we don&#x27;t understand enough about human diet. (See: 1 gazillion articles about dieting.)<p>It&#x27;s like gene editing. There&#x27;s a lot that theoretical possible, but the real sci-fi stuff is <i>way</i> out of our reach right now.</text></comment> |
34,999,200 | 34,999,408 | 1 | 2 | 34,998,043 | train | <story><title>Salesforce Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M/Yr to Sit Around</title><url>https://futurism.com/the-byte/company-paying-matthew-mcconaughey-10-million-to-sit-around</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eunoia</author><text>&gt; Considering they exceeded all analyst expectations for revenue and profits in the last quarter, it&#x27;s safe to say that some of their effort is working.<p>&gt; The fact that they also decided that 8K out of the 25K+ employees hired during the pandemic were redundant<p>Kinda odd how you attribute them &quot;beating the street&quot; more to Mathew McConaughey&#x27;s presence than the work output of 8 thousand employees. Can you elaborate on why this is so clear to you?</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>&quot;Company&quot; = Salesforce, which is a name I&#x27;m sure people over here recognize, so we can swap it out in the title.<p>There&#x27;s also little value in pushing this clickbait style journalism to the front page.<p>First of all, it is objectively incorrect:<p>&gt; Per the WSJ, the company will be letting go of 8,000 members from its massive workforce<p>The layoffs they are referring to happened in early January. They are not laying off another 8000 employees.<p>Beyond that, they paid an A-list actor $10M out of their marketing budget not to &quot;sit around&quot; but to do a set of commercials (one of which aired at the Superbowl). Considering they exceeded all analyst expectations for revenue and profits in the last quarter, it&#x27;s safe to say that some of their effort is working. Enlightened engineers don&#x27;t like to admit it, but advertising works, and is a critical part of running any business.<p>The fact that they also decided that 8K out of the 25K+ employees hired during the pandemic were redundant has nothing to do with Matthew McConaughey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>The old joke is the marketing manager saying: &quot;Half of all our marketing expenditures are wasted. The problem is we don&#x27;t know which half.&quot;<p>In my years in business, it&#x27;s nearly impossible to draw an accurate cause and effect line between marketing and sales. Too many other factors at work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Salesforce Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M/Yr to Sit Around</title><url>https://futurism.com/the-byte/company-paying-matthew-mcconaughey-10-million-to-sit-around</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eunoia</author><text>&gt; Considering they exceeded all analyst expectations for revenue and profits in the last quarter, it&#x27;s safe to say that some of their effort is working.<p>&gt; The fact that they also decided that 8K out of the 25K+ employees hired during the pandemic were redundant<p>Kinda odd how you attribute them &quot;beating the street&quot; more to Mathew McConaughey&#x27;s presence than the work output of 8 thousand employees. Can you elaborate on why this is so clear to you?</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>&quot;Company&quot; = Salesforce, which is a name I&#x27;m sure people over here recognize, so we can swap it out in the title.<p>There&#x27;s also little value in pushing this clickbait style journalism to the front page.<p>First of all, it is objectively incorrect:<p>&gt; Per the WSJ, the company will be letting go of 8,000 members from its massive workforce<p>The layoffs they are referring to happened in early January. They are not laying off another 8000 employees.<p>Beyond that, they paid an A-list actor $10M out of their marketing budget not to &quot;sit around&quot; but to do a set of commercials (one of which aired at the Superbowl). Considering they exceeded all analyst expectations for revenue and profits in the last quarter, it&#x27;s safe to say that some of their effort is working. Enlightened engineers don&#x27;t like to admit it, but advertising works, and is a critical part of running any business.<p>The fact that they also decided that 8K out of the 25K+ employees hired during the pandemic were redundant has nothing to do with Matthew McConaughey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kermatt</author><text>It does seem odd that companies would pay for services from Salesforce because of a celebrity quip, instead of a determination that said services would improve the company&#x27;s operations.<p>Or perhaps these Marketing departments are just really good at internal marketing of budget usage?</text></comment> |
39,004,668 | 39,003,936 | 1 | 3 | 39,003,255 | train | <story><title>Harnessing heat from wastewater</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240103-sewage-a-low-cost-low-carbon-way-to-warm-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ak217</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at how little district heating is used in northern climates like Canada and the northern US. In dense areas, district heating using waste heat from power plants should really be required by urban planners, or at least it would make a huge carbon footprint difference if we invest in it.<p>On an individual household scale, I&#x27;ve always wondered why nobody has come up with basic drain heat exchangers to capture most of the heat coming out of shower and washing machine wastewater before it leaves the building. (Edit: I guess they do exist - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homedepot.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;Power-Pipe-4-in-x-48-in-Drain-Water-Heat-Recovery-Unit-R4-48&#x2F;203456049" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homedepot.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;Power-Pipe-4-in-x-48-in-Drain-Wa...</a> - but I&#x27;ve never seen one in the wild)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>miketery</author><text>It&#x27;s a cost thing. Prices for energy have been so cheap that investing in recapture capex didn&#x27;t make sense. With energy prices going up, it does make sense.<p>A funny anecdote (or sad?), after gas prices spiked in much of Europe due to the war many manufacturing facilities were looking to cut energy use, they found a lot of waste. Many places were able to reduce their gas usage by as much as ~33% if I recall correctly.<p>I can&#x27;t find the original source, but here&#x27;s [1] one that claims 23% lower consumption across Germany in 2022 adjusted for temperature.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41560-023-01260-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41560-023-01260-5</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Harnessing heat from wastewater</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240103-sewage-a-low-cost-low-carbon-way-to-warm-homes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ak217</author><text>I&#x27;m amazed at how little district heating is used in northern climates like Canada and the northern US. In dense areas, district heating using waste heat from power plants should really be required by urban planners, or at least it would make a huge carbon footprint difference if we invest in it.<p>On an individual household scale, I&#x27;ve always wondered why nobody has come up with basic drain heat exchangers to capture most of the heat coming out of shower and washing machine wastewater before it leaves the building. (Edit: I guess they do exist - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homedepot.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;Power-Pipe-4-in-x-48-in-Drain-Water-Heat-Recovery-Unit-R4-48&#x2F;203456049" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homedepot.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;Power-Pipe-4-in-x-48-in-Drain-Wa...</a> - but I&#x27;ve never seen one in the wild)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quickthrowman</author><text>&gt; In dense areas, district heating using waste heat from power plants should really be required by urban planners<p>Power plants generally aren’t located in dense areas…<p>&gt; I&#x27;m amazed at how little district heating is used in northern climates like Canada and the northern US.<p>District heating and cooling are available in both Mpls and St Paul in the downtown core. This is the coldest large metro area in the United States.<p>St. Paul: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.districtenergy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.districtenergy.com&#x2F;</a><p>Minneapolis: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cordiaenergy.com&#x2F;our-networks&#x2F;minneapolis&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cordiaenergy.com&#x2F;our-networks&#x2F;minneapolis&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; On an individual household scale, I&#x27;ve always wondered why nobody has come up with basic drain heat exchangers to capture most of the heat coming out of shower and washing machine wastewater before it leaves the building. (Edit: I guess they do exist - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homedepot.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;Power-Pipe-4-in-x-48-in-Drain-Wa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.homedepot.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;Power-Pipe-4-in-x-48-in-Drain-Wa</a>... - but I&#x27;ve never seen one in the wild)<p>$851 just for the heat exchanger, not including piping and labor. It will take a lot of showers and laundry to pay that back. I’d probably add one to a new house build but would pass on retrofitting one into an existing home unless I was doing a complete plumbing remodel. Similar to daylight harvesting LED lighting, it’s possible you’ll never see a payback on the equipment and labor.</text></comment> |
17,812,677 | 17,811,000 | 1 | 2 | 17,809,916 | train | <story><title>Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WiseWeasel</author><text>To me, fake news also includes slanted coverage of true events (i.e. covering events in such a way as to convey a sponsored message, biased polling methodology, etc.). That encompasses statistically approaching 100% of trashy sources you’re likely to encounter as &#x27;sponsored content&#x27;, as well as a healthy portion of more established sources&#x27; content. I&#x27;d be likely to report a majority as fake news in perfectly good faith if given the option.<p>Maybe the term isn’t as narrowly defined as your (former?) employer would like.<p>Edit: upon a bit more reflection, I do take for granted a desire to protect life and liberty (in that order), and anything that appears to threaten that view will draw special scrutiny, and potential abuse of reporting features.</text></item><item><author>mic47</author><text>I worked for FB anti-spam team, and believe me, nobody trusted user feedback absolutely (i.e. it&#x27;s good to send to review, but not automatically take down). I guess that with fake news the signal to noise ratio is even worse.<p>The whole article sounds more like focusing on one implementation details of review queue prioritization (i.e. what is the difference of definition of &quot;fake news&quot; for this user vs Facebook&#x27;s definition), rather than bigger picture.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&quot;Lyons said she soon realized that many people were reporting posts as false simply because they did not agree with the content.&quot;<p>Well, yes. Have they not learned from any of the preceding work on moderating?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rmrfrmrf</author><text>I think the use of &quot;trustworthiness&quot; is misleading. Really it&#x27;s more &quot;how likely is this person to accurately flag an article that matches Facebook&#x27;s internal definition of fake news.&quot;<p>That would mean that your number would be on the lower end, but that&#x27;s not a reflection of your character. More likely it just means that whatever queue is set up for review will wait until more and higher-scoring individuals also flag the article before bumping it up the queue.<p>Funny how this article is something I would flag if I used your definition of fake news. To me this article is trying to allude to some nefarious Black Mirror nonsense.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WiseWeasel</author><text>To me, fake news also includes slanted coverage of true events (i.e. covering events in such a way as to convey a sponsored message, biased polling methodology, etc.). That encompasses statistically approaching 100% of trashy sources you’re likely to encounter as &#x27;sponsored content&#x27;, as well as a healthy portion of more established sources&#x27; content. I&#x27;d be likely to report a majority as fake news in perfectly good faith if given the option.<p>Maybe the term isn’t as narrowly defined as your (former?) employer would like.<p>Edit: upon a bit more reflection, I do take for granted a desire to protect life and liberty (in that order), and anything that appears to threaten that view will draw special scrutiny, and potential abuse of reporting features.</text></item><item><author>mic47</author><text>I worked for FB anti-spam team, and believe me, nobody trusted user feedback absolutely (i.e. it&#x27;s good to send to review, but not automatically take down). I guess that with fake news the signal to noise ratio is even worse.<p>The whole article sounds more like focusing on one implementation details of review queue prioritization (i.e. what is the difference of definition of &quot;fake news&quot; for this user vs Facebook&#x27;s definition), rather than bigger picture.</text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&quot;Lyons said she soon realized that many people were reporting posts as false simply because they did not agree with the content.&quot;<p>Well, yes. Have they not learned from any of the preceding work on moderating?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macintux</author><text>The problem with conflating biased coverage with fake news is that the latter phrase becomes meaningless.<p>&quot;Fake&quot; means &quot;false&quot;, not &quot;stuff I disagree with&quot;.</text></comment> |
22,028,300 | 22,026,191 | 1 | 3 | 22,025,145 | train | <story><title>Space Invaders</title><url>http://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kabdib</author><text>&gt; The code makes some dangerous assumptions . . .<p>In this era, code for games was essentially write-only, by one or two engineers. No one would be confused by the code in later releases because there simply weren&#x27;t any. Code that was common between games was the exception rather than the rule (at Atari, some of the best debugged and well-structured code was the stuff that operated the coin mechanism, because it <i>had</i> to be right or customers would aggressively exercise the tilt switch mentioned in the article).<p>Code also had to run on really tiny hardware. ROMs cost real money, and marketing wasn&#x27;t going to give you more just to make your life easier. If your code ran in 4K, but Joe&#x27;s code was a complete train-wreck that ran fine in 2K, guess who got the big bonus?<p>One cow-orker of mine had spent some time writing code for pinball machines at Midway. He said that on one project the hardware engineers wanted to save money by half-populating the board&#x27;s RAM; unfortunately the way they sliced it was to only provide the bottom 4 bits of each byte.<p>&quot;The ROM is still 8-bits wide, you can work around the RAM thing in software.&quot;<p>He only got his full-width RAM by pointing out that the processor&#x27;s stack wouldn&#x27;t work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Space Invaders</title><url>http://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeboy</author><text>What I would like to know is, how come David Bowie uses the term &quot;space invader&quot; in his 1971 song Moonage Daydream, when the game didn&#x27;t come out until 1978? They don&#x27;t seem to me to be words that naturally belong together. Glitch in the matrix?</text></comment> |
30,059,668 | 30,058,851 | 1 | 3 | 30,056,516 | train | <story><title>Webb’s Journey to L2 Is Nearly Complete</title><url>https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/21/webbs-journey-to-l2-is-nearly-complete/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>About three more hours to go and then the injection burn will commence. That is the most critical step still remaining of the deployment steps, everything has worked perfectly so far.<p>What an amazing accomplishment.<p>If you are wondering why the satellite is still moving with 200 m&#x2F;s that is because there is a component that is already out of the plane of the ecliptic which will be conserved to help reduce the amount of fuel required for the orbit insertion, so it won&#x27;t go to &#x27;zero&#x27;. This is a bit confusing, especially because of the language on some of NASA&#x27;s websites where they suggest that the satellite will come to a stop, this is true but only in one axis, the one relative to Earth.<p>In the same vein: Webb hasn&#x27;t really arrived at L2, but at a point almost 800,000 km away from it, perpendicular to the line Earth-L2 (which of course is a moving system itself!). So Webb will be orbiting in a plane perpendicular to Earth-L2 at a very large distance from L2, which guarantees that it will have power (because the solar panels will be continuously in sunlight).<p>Edit: two more hours to go. JWST is still moving at roughly the speed of a commercial airliner (730 km&#x2F;h).<p>Edit: <i>one</i> more hour to go, and NASA just posted this image to show the orbit in an easy to digest format:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwst.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;webbLaunch&#x2F;assets&#x2F;images&#x2F;orbit&#x2F;trajectoryMapping2.41-NoText-1000px.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwst.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;webbLaunch&#x2F;assets&#x2F;images&#x2F;orbit...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Webb’s Journey to L2 Is Nearly Complete</title><url>https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/21/webbs-journey-to-l2-is-nearly-complete/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JorgeGT</author><text>Related very good news: thanks to the very precise orbital injection, Webb has excess propelllant that will be used for station-keeping, significatively prolonging the mission: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nasa.gov&#x2F;webb&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;29&#x2F;nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.nasa.gov&#x2F;webb&#x2F;2021&#x2F;12&#x2F;29&#x2F;nasa-says-webbs-exces...</a></text></comment> |
27,551,472 | 27,550,911 | 1 | 2 | 27,550,184 | train | <story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spivak</author><text>Honestly, good for them. TikTok is such a breath of fresh air in the social media space -- it&#x27;s bursting with raw unfiltered creativity, interactions are really genuine and I&#x27;ve actually met now IRL friends on TikTok. Their recommendation engine is scary good at discovery which solves the &quot;I don&#x27;t know who to follow&quot; problem, the ads are the least intrusive of any social media platform.<p>If you don&#x27;t &quot;get&quot; TikTok because your hobbies don&#x27;t map well to video snippets -- stuff like makeup, art, fashion, cooking, baking, dance, inde music, cosplay, interior decorating -- don&#x27;t write it off. It&#x27;s basically a social media paradise for women[1]. Like the early days of Tumblr but replace gifs with videos.<p>[1] TikTok&#x27;s format lends itself to hobbies stereotypically cultivated by women. The implication doesn&#x27;t go the other way; loads of guys on TikTok. It also doesn&#x27;t imply that every woman will find like it; don&#x27;t @ me with logical fallacies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I guess I still just don&#x27;t get it. I&#x27;m always shocked at glowing recommendations of TikTok...from HN of all places! Every time it comes up here, I take a few minutes to browse the site, to see if anything changed to justify the praise, and it hasn&#x27;t. The content may be more lighthearted, but over half of the random feed on the home page I just browsed is fundamentally the same &quot;camera in your own face&quot; narcissism amplifier as Instagram and the influencer portions of YouTube. I&#x27;m not even seeing a lot of hobbies there. It&#x27;s just people who are not remarkably talented, but want to be in a video, making a video of themselves. It&#x27;s got the same validation-seeker signals as the rest of social media (like count, comment count, share count). I browsed for about 30 minutes this morning so I could at least be informed before I comment, and literally found nothing remarkable or interesting. No unusual musical talents or athletics. Nothing really novel or even relatable. Just 20 year-old zeros making videos about themselves. Why is this a thing?</text></comment> | <story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spivak</author><text>Honestly, good for them. TikTok is such a breath of fresh air in the social media space -- it&#x27;s bursting with raw unfiltered creativity, interactions are really genuine and I&#x27;ve actually met now IRL friends on TikTok. Their recommendation engine is scary good at discovery which solves the &quot;I don&#x27;t know who to follow&quot; problem, the ads are the least intrusive of any social media platform.<p>If you don&#x27;t &quot;get&quot; TikTok because your hobbies don&#x27;t map well to video snippets -- stuff like makeup, art, fashion, cooking, baking, dance, inde music, cosplay, interior decorating -- don&#x27;t write it off. It&#x27;s basically a social media paradise for women[1]. Like the early days of Tumblr but replace gifs with videos.<p>[1] TikTok&#x27;s format lends itself to hobbies stereotypically cultivated by women. The implication doesn&#x27;t go the other way; loads of guys on TikTok. It also doesn&#x27;t imply that every woman will find like it; don&#x27;t @ me with logical fallacies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvector</author><text>TikTok creators are pushing out so much incredible OC. It feels like half of the Reddit front page are just TikTok reposts (with the logo censored out, because Redditors are too cool to admit they like TikTok content.)</text></comment> |
5,489,580 | 5,489,567 | 1 | 3 | 5,489,054 | train | <story><title>Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google-going-its-own-way-forking-webkit-rendering-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hp50g</author><text>This reads like:<p>"We're not sharing our stuff anymore as it's costing too much".<p>A the risk of sounding like a paranoid nutbag, with stuff like NaCl, SPDY, Dart etc, it sounds like Google have their own agenda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baddox</author><text>Everything is still going to be open source.<p><a href="http://www.chromium.org/blink/developer-faq#TOC-Is-this-going-to-be-open-source-" rel="nofollow">http://www.chromium.org/blink/developer-faq#TOC-Is-this-goin...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google-going-its-own-way-forking-webkit-rendering-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hp50g</author><text>This reads like:<p>"We're not sharing our stuff anymore as it's costing too much".<p>A the risk of sounding like a paranoid nutbag, with stuff like NaCl, SPDY, Dart etc, it sounds like Google have their own agenda.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pnathan</author><text>Er.<p>I would fully expect that a company would have its own agenda. Google's is/was organizing the world's information. It's a bit, um, something, to expect that they <i>don't</i> have an agenda, ne?</text></comment> |
12,722,333 | 12,720,435 | 1 | 3 | 12,719,564 | train | <story><title>Run Kubernetes on a Mac with Kube Solo</title><url>https://deis.com/blog/2016/run-kubernetes-on-a-mac-with-kube-solo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dvcrn</author><text>A few questions to Kubernetes people:<p>We are currently using Docker images locally and compose them together with docker-compose. Compose is using a custom devDockerfile identical to the normal Dockerfile, plus a self-reloading &#x2F; self-compiling webserver.<p>For deployment we are using AWS EB and push the same Dockerfile (minus the self-reloading webserver). For heavy load applications, we use autoscaling behind a AWS loadbalancer.<p>Is Kubernetes giving us something over our current Docker setup? Can it improve on our workflow?<p>Is the time investment for learning this worth it for private projects vs plain Docker that can get pushed to Heroku &#x2F; Google &#x2F; AWS?<p>I have Kubernetes on my list of things I want to check out but every time I go into the getting started guides for local environments, it seems like a lot of work for just setting the environment up.
One of the things I love Docker is that I can write the Dockerfile and everyone from our team can very easily use it and immediately has the app running. No Docker? Just install Docker and compose through brew or download it from the website. That&#x27;s it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Run Kubernetes on a Mac with Kube Solo</title><url>https://deis.com/blog/2016/run-kubernetes-on-a-mac-with-kube-solo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>manojlds</author><text>What is going on in that second para:<p>&gt; Fortunately, now that Docker for Mac is generally available, you can easily run both Docker and Kubernetes on OS X<p>and then<p>&gt; But what if you want to get up and running with Kubernetes on OS X?</text></comment> |
12,414,621 | 12,414,672 | 1 | 2 | 12,414,278 | train | <story><title>Think Before You Parallelize: A tour of parallel abstractions</title><url>https://jackmott.github.io/programming/2016/08/30/think-before-you-parallelize.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vvanders</author><text>Just a small nit:<p>&gt; Another scenario, say you are working on 3D game, you have some trick physics math where you need to crunch numbers, maybe adding realistic building physics to Minecraft. But separate threads are already handling procedural generation of new chunks, rendering, networking, and player input. If these are keeping most of the system’s cores busy, then parallelizing your physics code isn’t going to help overall.<p>Generally game engines have been migrating towards work-stealing based tasks architectures. Having monolithic thread based systems(one per physics, rendering, gameplay, etc) were great for migrating from the single-threaded games of old, however it leads quite often to idle threads.<p>This was even more critical in the PS3 era where you had SPUs with just ~256kb of RAM. Overall it leads to an architecture that scales well to whatever platform you end up targeting since the CPU&#x2F;compute capabilities of various platforms can be pretty disparate.</text></comment> | <story><title>Think Before You Parallelize: A tour of parallel abstractions</title><url>https://jackmott.github.io/programming/2016/08/30/think-before-you-parallelize.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>&gt; Don’t Parallelize when it is already Parallelized<p>For the uninitiated -- there&#x27;s probably a large list of &quot;don&#x27;ts&quot; that would be good here, too. But maybe a prerequisite is ideal: why are you trying to write [this code] to execute in parallel? &quot;It&#x27;s slow&quot; isn&#x27;t good enough. You can save yourself a lot of time and headache if you use profilers to understand what the system is doing that makes it slow.<p>Using that profiler will at least help partition the problem into one of two big domains: compute resource bound (cpu&#x2F;bus&#x2F;mem&#x2F;cache etc) or maybe it&#x27;s just pending results from some other async task in the system. The latter happens much more often than you might expect. Filesystems, critical locks&#x2F;exclusion, networks, databases, IPC -- there&#x27;s lots of stuff that having multiple tasks in parallel for might not help much.</text></comment> |
41,273,705 | 41,272,683 | 1 | 2 | 41,272,294 | train | <story><title>The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life</title><url>https://proton.me/blog/wifi-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>drtgh</author><text>Maybe of-topic but related,<p>For years I&#x27;ve wanted a robot vacuum cleaner with home mapping (to optimize routes, limit sections even by day, etc.), but they all ask you to connect to the Internet in order to use them... It is madness.<p>Map of your house, habits&#x2F;presence and so on, I don&#x27;t want to give any ideas. So I prefer a manual vacuum cleaner as one finish faster and better, at time one do a bit of exercise also.<p>The only way I could think on buying one of such things is to be able to use all such mapping functions without the device being connected to the internet, and also that nothing could be connected to the device remotely if I don&#x27;t give permission at that moment (Even to program it I&#x27;d prefer to connect it via USB to whatever, with the requirement that the app working as UI cannot connect to the internet, of course).<p>I don&#x27;t like this trend of recent years with devices on general. Looks like &quot;smart&quot; is an euphemism for &quot;spy&quot;, spy-tv, spy-phone, spy-home, and so on. The key here is, internet connected.</text></comment> | <story><title>The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life</title><url>https://proton.me/blog/wifi-surveillance</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>transpute</author><text>Plume can use IEEE 802.11bf Wi-Fi Sensing to monitor movement in homes, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;from-wi-fi-to-spy-fi-we-test-plumes-new-motion-detection-feature&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;from-wi-fi-to-spy-fi...</a><p><i>&gt; Plume is doing real-time analysis of extremely low-level RF data pulled from the Superpods&#x27; radios. This is real motion detection, with no gimmicks involved.. Consumers who are already paranoid about mesh telemetry really aren&#x27;t going to love the addition of motion detection.</i><p>RF&#x2F;radar human detection is present in Intel Meteor Lake and likely to appear in upcoming &quot;AI&quot; PCs.</text></comment> |
5,441,272 | 5,441,210 | 1 | 3 | 5,441,086 | train | <story><title>He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/business/media/nick-daloisio-17-sells-summly-app-to-yahoo.html?hp&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaysonelliot</author><text>It seems like we're seeing evidence that the class system is alive and well in the UK. Listen to his posh accent, and look at the easy way he casually hangs out with Stephen Fry: <a href="http://vimeo.com/52014691" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/52014691</a><p>I suspect the story behind this is simply "upper-class child with family connections finds success."</text></item><item><author>dinkumthinkum</author><text>I hear what you're saying but I think what you're describing is not the most notable part of the story, in fact, possibly the least interesting part of it. I don't know what his algorithm is; I have some doubts as to it's efficacy but apparently Yahoo! did not. I'm more interested in how this person got celebrities and billionaires interested in the product early on. Seems odd.</text></item><item><author>jaysonelliot</author><text>While stories like his are interesting novelties, I feel like they are distracting and counterproductive to the startup scene at large.<p>Instead of focusing on what Nick D’Aloisio has actually created, perhaps looking at this "algorithmic invention, which takes long-form stories and shortens them for readers using smartphones" and digging into what makes it special, the story is all about the jackpot of millions he's lucked into.<p>I'd love to know more about the technical details behind Summly, or what Nick went through to create it.<p>This kind of lottery mentality just gives the general public the impression that there's a gold rush going on, and causes the kind of magical thinking that's similar to teenagers all hoping to become the next rock star or sports legend, or in this case, startup founder, that will make millions, focusing on the money instead of asking themselves what they want to do with their lives.<p>For every teenage millionaire that hits the startup jackpot, there are thousands of hard-working entrepreneurs that build for the love of building. I'm not saying Nick D'Aloisio isn't doing what he does out of genuine passion - I don't know anything about him, I expect he's very driven and geniune - but I would rather focus on the work than the jackpot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benaiah</author><text>From the video, he also seems like he's greatly overhyping the whole thing (as is everyone else, of course). Genetic algorithms are not even remotely close to human intelligence, quantitatively or qualitatively, so his claims to that effect are nonsensical and misleading.<p>One common strain I see with child prodigies, or whatever you want to call them, is that their accomplishments are often greatly exaggerated and they usually don't end up contributing as much as many who make great contributions later in life (few famous historical scientists and artists, with the exception perhaps of Mozart, were what we would consider child prodigies, and many were quite the opposite). I don't know if it's caused by resting on their laurels, burning out, or them just not being as good as they claimed, but it doesn't seem like a healthy model at all.<p>Summly in particular doesn't come across as being all that complicated - genetic analysis of text is a well-researched and thoroughly trodden part of applied complexity theory - but rather a smart business move made by investors and businessmen mostly behind the scenes. D’Aloisio comes across more as a poster boy than anything - he's put up as this child prodigy, but I've never read or heard anything particularly new, profound, or even that interesting from him.</text></comment> | <story><title>He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/business/media/nick-daloisio-17-sells-summly-app-to-yahoo.html?hp&_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jaysonelliot</author><text>It seems like we're seeing evidence that the class system is alive and well in the UK. Listen to his posh accent, and look at the easy way he casually hangs out with Stephen Fry: <a href="http://vimeo.com/52014691" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/52014691</a><p>I suspect the story behind this is simply "upper-class child with family connections finds success."</text></item><item><author>dinkumthinkum</author><text>I hear what you're saying but I think what you're describing is not the most notable part of the story, in fact, possibly the least interesting part of it. I don't know what his algorithm is; I have some doubts as to it's efficacy but apparently Yahoo! did not. I'm more interested in how this person got celebrities and billionaires interested in the product early on. Seems odd.</text></item><item><author>jaysonelliot</author><text>While stories like his are interesting novelties, I feel like they are distracting and counterproductive to the startup scene at large.<p>Instead of focusing on what Nick D’Aloisio has actually created, perhaps looking at this "algorithmic invention, which takes long-form stories and shortens them for readers using smartphones" and digging into what makes it special, the story is all about the jackpot of millions he's lucked into.<p>I'd love to know more about the technical details behind Summly, or what Nick went through to create it.<p>This kind of lottery mentality just gives the general public the impression that there's a gold rush going on, and causes the kind of magical thinking that's similar to teenagers all hoping to become the next rock star or sports legend, or in this case, startup founder, that will make millions, focusing on the money instead of asking themselves what they want to do with their lives.<p>For every teenage millionaire that hits the startup jackpot, there are thousands of hard-working entrepreneurs that build for the love of building. I'm not saying Nick D'Aloisio isn't doing what he does out of genuine passion - I don't know anything about him, I expect he's very driven and geniune - but I would rather focus on the work than the jackpot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seivan</author><text>That's the impression I got from day one. Him or his parents had connections to get someone interested from day one.<p>I am also very curious about this so called "algorithm".
For all I know, it could be a very well made genuine admin interface plugged into multiple turks. That is what I would have done.</text></comment> |
15,877,079 | 15,874,856 | 1 | 3 | 15,873,181 | train | <story><title>As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/7/16739644/discord-100-million-users-safety</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amk_</author><text>IMO its origins in the gaming community, and all the moderation features that grew out of it, make Discord a much better fit for open source communities than Slack. For example:<p>- Individuals can block and report other users<p>- There are tiered mod levels<p>- Per-community pseudonyms, but a single account makes it easier to track bad actors<p>Markdown support, including syntax highlighting, is actually better in Discord than Slack already, too.<p>If you haven&#x27;t checked out an OSS community on Discord yet here are a few:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reactiflux.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reactiflux.com&#x2F;</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.vuejs.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chat.vuejs.org</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;reasonml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.gg&#x2F;reasonml</a></text></comment> | <story><title>As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/7/16739644/discord-100-million-users-safety</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikkelam</author><text>I my startup company our dev team is pread across paris, copenhagen, dubai and beirut. We with struggled using slack and skype for communication but have recently went for discord, it really boosts the morale and connects the offices in such a cool way. Always being able to talk in a voice channel is just amazing, and everything works incredibly smooth.<p>You can even video chat if you make a group call outside of your channel though<p>Would recommend for other small companies in same boat</text></comment> |
9,255,324 | 9,254,003 | 1 | 2 | 9,253,690 | train | <story><title>Python to Scheme to Assembly (2014)</title><url>https://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/02/28/python-to-scheme-to-assembly-1/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>emmanueloga_</author><text>I gather than the author is being hyperbolic in order to emphasize his point (&quot;is easier to reason about correctness with recursion&quot;). But the reason recursion doesn&#x27;t &quot;suck&quot; in python (an other languages without TCE), even with a small call stack, is that usually it is used to tackle problems with a divide-and-conquer strategy. Even if you are handling a massive amount of items, if your recursive calls splits them to handle in two or more parts until there&#x27;s no more to handle, then it is very hard to deplete the call stack:<p>log2 1_000_000_000_000_000 =&gt; 49.82892142331043<p>&quot;Recursion and iteration are equally expressive: recursion can be replaced by iteration with an explicit stack, while iteration can be replaced with tail recursion. Which approach is preferable depends on the problem under consideration and the language used.&quot; [1]<p>BTW, I sympathize with the author&#x27;s thesis. I was trying to remember algorithms that are easier to reason about in their iterative form... but I can&#x27;t remember any. Conversely, compare recursive vs iterative DFS [2].<p>1: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_(computer_science)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Recursion_(computer_science)</a><p>2: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_traversal#Depth-first_2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tree_traversal#Depth-first_2</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Python to Scheme to Assembly (2014)</title><url>https://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/02/28/python-to-scheme-to-assembly-1/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rpedroso</author><text>This article really got me in the mood to play around with Racket again.<p>Incidentally, I find it hard to square with Guido&#x27;s belief that recursion isn&#x27;t the basis of all programming. Sure, Python has some powerful iterators, but my CS professors made it clear that iteration is basically just a special case of recursion.<p>It might very well be the right decision for Python to prefer iteration, but to deny the role of recursion in computer science altogether seems misguided.</text></comment> |
8,692,413 | 8,692,093 | 1 | 3 | 8,690,984 | train | <story><title>Law school applications collapse: Get ready for schools to start closing</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/12/01/law_school_applications_collapse_get_ready_for_schools_to_start_closing.html?wpsrc=fol_fb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>&gt; Getting ahead in life by going to college is a dying notion<p>People with college degrees earn significantly more over their lifetimes. Also, they usually understand the world and critical thinking much better, have better communication skills, etc. These things are valuable in themselves and valuable for their roles as citizens, parents, community members, etc.<p>To read that claim from someone with a Ph.D., a degree from MIT, and will soon be on the faculty of &quot;a very good school&quot; is a bit rich. It reminds me of wealthy people who says money doesn&#x27;t matter to them.<p>HN is a unique environment of generally highly-educated, high-achieving people. Most of the world cannot program computers; many cannot operate them. It would be interesting to hear from members of the large majority who lack college degrees.</text></item><item><author>untilHellbanned</author><text>&gt; As best I can tell, they don&#x27;t see alternative options.<p>Soon this will trickle down to college. In many cases, you pay $250K for that too. In many, many fields, you can learn everything you need to know on the internet, and get the job you want by just hustling (often by impressing only a single person with influence in the field you want).<p>I&#x27;m in biomedical sciences, have a Ph.D. and will be a professor at a very good school soon, but I don&#x27;t give a crap about somebody&#x27;s degrees. If this line of thinking is invading my world, then you better believe the rest of the economy is getting there too. (I also only got into MIT because I managed to impress one influential person).<p>Getting ahead in life by going to college is a dying notion.</text></item><item><author>graeme</author><text>I run an LSAT prep business. You&#x27;d be surprised how determined some undergrads are to go to law school, despite the objectively terrible math.<p>They&#x27;ll have a mediocre LSAT score, but say &quot;School X will let me in!&quot;. School X is terrible. They have lousy employment prospects, and charge $50,000 a year.<p>When you add miscellaneous fees and opportunity cost of not working, the law degree costs at least $250,000. And your school might close.<p>But (some) students still want to do it, despite the stark reality. As best I can tell, they don&#x27;t see alternative options.<p>This group is shrinking however, which is why law school enrolments are in free fall. This chart from the LSAC shows a massive drop in LSATs administered.<p><a href="http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/data/lsats-administered" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lsac.org&#x2F;lsacresources&#x2F;data&#x2F;lsats-administered</a><p>2008-2009 was the high water mark: 171,514 LSATs. 2014-15 likely will be less than 100,000.<p>Which is good. The industry&#x27;s been in a bubble, and it needs to pop. But that means this is a VERY bad time to be going to law school unless you&#x27;re extremely careful (and ideally have a guaranteed scholarship to a good school that won&#x27;t close).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>karmacondon</author><text>I don&#x27;t have a fancy college degree, but even I can see that you might be mixing correlation and causation. College doesn&#x27;t necessarily cause people to earn more money, better understand the world or communicate well. It&#x27;s that intelligent people who are likely to succeed in life tend to go to college, mostly because they are expected to by society. Those people would have probably been just as successful without college, but that&#x27;s hard to prove empirically without a large control group. Your argument seems different when applied to basketball instead of education. Was Michael Jordan great because he played for a top college basketball program, or was he playing for a top program because he was already great?<p>I think part of OP&#x27;s point was that college itself isn&#x27;t what makes people successful. There are a lot of great reasons to go to college, but advances in communication technology have fundamentally changed the landscape. It used to be that college libraries and professors were the only way to gain access to certain kinds of knowledge. That period in time is obviously over. College degrees will become less and less important in a world where anyone can communicate with everyone. A diploma used to be the only way to certain open doors. Now a facebook account and an impressive resume can do just as much or more.</text></comment> | <story><title>Law school applications collapse: Get ready for schools to start closing</title><url>http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/12/01/law_school_applications_collapse_get_ready_for_schools_to_start_closing.html?wpsrc=fol_fb</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hackuser</author><text>&gt; Getting ahead in life by going to college is a dying notion<p>People with college degrees earn significantly more over their lifetimes. Also, they usually understand the world and critical thinking much better, have better communication skills, etc. These things are valuable in themselves and valuable for their roles as citizens, parents, community members, etc.<p>To read that claim from someone with a Ph.D., a degree from MIT, and will soon be on the faculty of &quot;a very good school&quot; is a bit rich. It reminds me of wealthy people who says money doesn&#x27;t matter to them.<p>HN is a unique environment of generally highly-educated, high-achieving people. Most of the world cannot program computers; many cannot operate them. It would be interesting to hear from members of the large majority who lack college degrees.</text></item><item><author>untilHellbanned</author><text>&gt; As best I can tell, they don&#x27;t see alternative options.<p>Soon this will trickle down to college. In many cases, you pay $250K for that too. In many, many fields, you can learn everything you need to know on the internet, and get the job you want by just hustling (often by impressing only a single person with influence in the field you want).<p>I&#x27;m in biomedical sciences, have a Ph.D. and will be a professor at a very good school soon, but I don&#x27;t give a crap about somebody&#x27;s degrees. If this line of thinking is invading my world, then you better believe the rest of the economy is getting there too. (I also only got into MIT because I managed to impress one influential person).<p>Getting ahead in life by going to college is a dying notion.</text></item><item><author>graeme</author><text>I run an LSAT prep business. You&#x27;d be surprised how determined some undergrads are to go to law school, despite the objectively terrible math.<p>They&#x27;ll have a mediocre LSAT score, but say &quot;School X will let me in!&quot;. School X is terrible. They have lousy employment prospects, and charge $50,000 a year.<p>When you add miscellaneous fees and opportunity cost of not working, the law degree costs at least $250,000. And your school might close.<p>But (some) students still want to do it, despite the stark reality. As best I can tell, they don&#x27;t see alternative options.<p>This group is shrinking however, which is why law school enrolments are in free fall. This chart from the LSAC shows a massive drop in LSATs administered.<p><a href="http://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/data/lsats-administered" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lsac.org&#x2F;lsacresources&#x2F;data&#x2F;lsats-administered</a><p>2008-2009 was the high water mark: 171,514 LSATs. 2014-15 likely will be less than 100,000.<p>Which is good. The industry&#x27;s been in a bubble, and it needs to pop. But that means this is a VERY bad time to be going to law school unless you&#x27;re extremely careful (and ideally have a guaranteed scholarship to a good school that won&#x27;t close).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jqm</author><text>People with college degrees, in the past, earned significantly more over their lifetimes than those without. But this may or may not continue, particularly for certain degrees where the person may have been better off learning marketable skill and applying it early.<p>I have a college degree and have never really used it. The jobs I have landed, the things I have done, none of them in any way shape or form are attributable to that degree. And, I graduated college nearly 20 years ago. College was a good place to drink beer and get laid, but really, I think I would have been better off going straight to work. The sad part is, I knew it at the time but my parents were insistant that without a degree I&#x27;d be mopping floors for a living. So I listened to them when I should have trusted my gut instincts. I&#x27;d trade the degree back in a heartbeat for tuition and interest and book costs alone...to say nothing of the 4 years (ok.. almost 5, I was having a good time but who is counting?) of opportunity cost.<p>Have to agree with OP. I believe college to be generally overpriced and over rated. Particularly in certain disciplines. I&#x27;m about as sad to see law schools going out of business as I would be to see mosquito breeding pools being drained. Maybe some of the potential attendees can do something socially useful with their lives now. (yes, I know...we need lawyers. we probably need mosquitos too. just not so many of them.)</text></comment> |
25,578,236 | 25,577,165 | 1 | 2 | 25,573,327 | train | <story><title>Do You Love Me? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>Lots of commments on military applications, but bipedal robots are inferior to wheel vehicles, planes, and aerial drones, in terms of speed and maneuverability.<p>Everyone&#x27;s so afraid of Terminators hunting them down, when in reality, mostly invisible , and mostly silent, Predator drones from a mile away that will kill you with precisely targeted missiles should be your real fear. Or commercial quad-copters carrying anti-personnel mines.<p>The expense, complexity, power, etc to build bipedal assassins is higher than wheeled RC vehicles, quad copters, and missiles.<p>The weapons that exist today are much more scary than these robots.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheresmycraisin</author><text>IIRC the humanoid Terminators in the movie are infiltrator units. Skynet will definitely have more conventional aircrafts and wheeled vehicles to hunt us down.</text></comment> | <story><title>Do You Love Me? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cromwellian</author><text>Lots of commments on military applications, but bipedal robots are inferior to wheel vehicles, planes, and aerial drones, in terms of speed and maneuverability.<p>Everyone&#x27;s so afraid of Terminators hunting them down, when in reality, mostly invisible , and mostly silent, Predator drones from a mile away that will kill you with precisely targeted missiles should be your real fear. Or commercial quad-copters carrying anti-personnel mines.<p>The expense, complexity, power, etc to build bipedal assassins is higher than wheeled RC vehicles, quad copters, and missiles.<p>The weapons that exist today are much more scary than these robots.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qayxc</author><text>Not to mention the fact that you can hear them from a mile away - there&#x27;s a reason all ambient noise was replaced with the music ;)</text></comment> |
13,457,806 | 13,456,054 | 1 | 3 | 13,455,232 | train | <story><title>OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough</title><url>https://kyleisom.net/articles/ssh_keys.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aftbit</author><text>&quot;If you’ve seen the low level parts of RSA keys, you’ll immediately recognise this. Otherwise, convert it to an unsigned integer and you get 65537 – a common RSA modulus. RSA public keys require two pieces: the modulus and the public exponent. Let’s take a guess that the next piece is going to be the public exponent.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s backwards - 65537 is a common public exponent. The modulus is the 2048-bit long thing.<p>Also, the writer says &quot;2048-byte&quot; RSA key when it&#x27;s really 2048-bits.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough</title><url>https://kyleisom.net/articles/ssh_keys.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hamiltont</author><text>Very clear and informative!<p>I got lost at this part, if anyone could clarify that would be great:<p><i>3. The key uses the PKCS#5 padding scheme: the last byte contains the number of padding bytes; e.g. if there are 5 bytes of padding, it contains 0x05. The last five bytes of the plaintext should then be 0x05 (something you should validate if you are decrypting the key yourself). If you decrypt the key above, you’ll see the last eight bytes are, in fact, 0x08.</i><p>The key is the MD5 of the combination of IV+pass, so how could the last byte of the key be controllable? The last two bytes shown are <i>532b</i>, which is not 0x08? I must be missing some step that happens between getting the MD5 and this padding scheme.</text></comment> |
41,163,192 | 41,162,208 | 1 | 2 | 41,151,409 | train | <story><title>Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood</title><url>https://www.croatiaweek.com/tomatoes-croatian-island-taste/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jihadjihad</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to describe how drastic the difference is between a store-bought tomato and one that is homegrown. It&#x27;s something you immediately miss once the season is gone and the tomato plants are composted, and you&#x27;re hoping you saved enough jars to make it until next summer.<p>But one thing that surprised me after a little while gardening is that there is a similarly stark difference for homegrown carrots. Everybody knows what a carrot tastes like from the store, but I had never tasted a carrot that stopped me in my tracks until I took up gardening. It&#x27;s just like with tomatoes: a richer, sweeter flavor that is virtually nonexistent in the supermarket. If you love growing your own tomatoes, I can&#x27;t recommend growing your own carrots highly enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vitaflo</author><text>If you haven’t you should try growing celery. The flavor difference is simply incredible.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood</title><url>https://www.croatiaweek.com/tomatoes-croatian-island-taste/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jihadjihad</author><text>It&#x27;s hard to describe how drastic the difference is between a store-bought tomato and one that is homegrown. It&#x27;s something you immediately miss once the season is gone and the tomato plants are composted, and you&#x27;re hoping you saved enough jars to make it until next summer.<p>But one thing that surprised me after a little while gardening is that there is a similarly stark difference for homegrown carrots. Everybody knows what a carrot tastes like from the store, but I had never tasted a carrot that stopped me in my tracks until I took up gardening. It&#x27;s just like with tomatoes: a richer, sweeter flavor that is virtually nonexistent in the supermarket. If you love growing your own tomatoes, I can&#x27;t recommend growing your own carrots highly enough.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>enraged_camel</author><text>As a fellow gardener, this probably has to do with the type of tomato&#x2F;carrot that you grow. For example, the carrots in your garden are probably of the sweeter variety than store-bought carrots.</text></comment> |
6,404,959 | 6,405,007 | 1 | 3 | 6,404,208 | train | <story><title>No One Reads Kafka At Gitmo</title><url>https://medium.com/editors-picks/6076fd7f2500</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>The fact that Guantanamo still exists is an absolute blight on Americas reputation and the cost of that will resonate for many many years into the future even if it were disbanded today (which it really should be). Obama claims his hands are tied but to me that smacks of a lack of resolve, he has several options at his disposal (such as threatening to resign if congress won&#x27;t bend on this or playing hardball in return on every other subject). It&#x27;s a pity that America is so tied to the 4 year regimen for elections and that the president does not have a direct way to call for earlier elections (as far as I know).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VLM</author><text>&quot;Obama claims his hands are tied&quot;<p>Its a pity he&#x27;s not Commander in Chief of the military. Then he could issue orders to soldiers in charge of a military facility. Perhaps whoever is the Commander in Chief should step forward and solve the problem.<p>I am well aware of the true arguments that he would be unable to defund or outright eliminate the facility, Congress would have to do that. It is WELL within his ability to, say, directly order all prisoners released, or order all troops to leave the facility and no troops to re-enter the facility.</text></comment> | <story><title>No One Reads Kafka At Gitmo</title><url>https://medium.com/editors-picks/6076fd7f2500</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>The fact that Guantanamo still exists is an absolute blight on Americas reputation and the cost of that will resonate for many many years into the future even if it were disbanded today (which it really should be). Obama claims his hands are tied but to me that smacks of a lack of resolve, he has several options at his disposal (such as threatening to resign if congress won&#x27;t bend on this or playing hardball in return on every other subject). It&#x27;s a pity that America is so tied to the 4 year regimen for elections and that the president does not have a direct way to call for earlier elections (as far as I know).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MichaelSalib</author><text><i>that smacks of a lack of resolve</i><p>This is what political scientists call &quot;green lanternism&quot;. That&#x27;s the phrase they use to make fun of people like you, i.e., people who insist that leaders can break institutional constraints by sheer force of will whenever they please. American government is complex and has a great many more veto points than peer governments. This complexity is annoying, so there&#x27;s a natural tendency to just wish it all away and assert that the President can do whatever he wants.<p><i>(such as threatening to resign</i><p>Is this a joke? Do you not understand that Obama resigning is the best possible outcome for the majority of the House and almost a majority of the Senate? You can&#x27;t credibly threaten someone by offering to do something they desperately want you to do. You understand that, right?<p><i>if congress won&#x27;t bend on this or playing hardball in return on every other subject</i><p>The Senate has voted 98-0 against transferring Gitmo detainees to the US. I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;d vote so strongly against Hitler. Congressmen have decided that having Gitmo detainees in the US is political suicide. Whether they&#x27;re wrong about that is irrelevant.</text></comment> |
39,390,755 | 39,381,580 | 1 | 2 | 39,374,249 | train | <story><title>Show me the prompt</title><url>https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/prompt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>shubber</author><text>I&#x27;m extremely amused that one of the trials here was &quot;how do I measure 6 liters of water with a 12 liter jug and a 6 liter jug?&quot; and the article completely glosses over the fact that the framework doesn&#x27;t help GPT find the simple answer &quot;fill the six liter jug&quot;</text></comment> | <story><title>Show me the prompt</title><url>https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/prompt/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>K0balt</author><text>The whole “prompt engineering “ space has a smell of secret sauce that is ultimately not IP or even particularly clever. Reading the SOTA systems prompts and other prompt optimisations leads me to believe that any business model based in prompt manipulation is ultimately offering a zero marginal value product, not a
Zero marginal cost one.</text></comment> |
26,391,365 | 26,391,404 | 1 | 3 | 26,388,936 | train | <story><title>Tripolar Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-salaries-in-the-netherlands-and-europe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>returningfory2</author><text>&gt; Yes, healthcare and the cost of living are more expensive in the US<p>I feel Europeans looking in on the US from the outside consistently have a misleading view on healthcare. I&#x27;m saying this as a European in the US working in big tech.<p>My plan&#x27;s maximum out-of-pocket in a year is ~$3k, which I can pay pre-tax thanks to an HSA. It is less than 2% of my total comp in the worst case (in 2020 I spent less than $300 on healthcare). In return I get coverage that is generally better than the free public healthcare back in Europe.<p>I think CoL is similar, but not as clear cut. One thing CoL discussions often miss is that many expenses are independent of the local CoL; for example, a Macbook Pro costs the same in every US city. If your salary adjusts exactly for CoL, you&#x27;re actually doing better because of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dukeyukey</author><text>My worries about US healthcare don&#x27;t revolve around the cost or the quality, but more about the instability. If I know roughly how much I&#x27;ll need to pay I can plan for it, even if it&#x27;s quite a bit. But if I get into a crash in another state and taken to an out-of-network hospital without even being conscious, that can fuck up your finances straight away.<p>What I&#x27;d like to know is how much NHS-level healthcare would cost me in the US. Given a monthly payment, I want 100% of everything covered all the time. No out-of-pocket, no out-of-network, everything with no exceptions. I&#x27;m happy with generics, a bit of a wait and a non-private room, but I want 0 unexpected bills.<p>Maybe companies like Kaiser do things like that?</text></comment> | <story><title>Tripolar Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe</title><url>https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-salaries-in-the-netherlands-and-europe/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>returningfory2</author><text>&gt; Yes, healthcare and the cost of living are more expensive in the US<p>I feel Europeans looking in on the US from the outside consistently have a misleading view on healthcare. I&#x27;m saying this as a European in the US working in big tech.<p>My plan&#x27;s maximum out-of-pocket in a year is ~$3k, which I can pay pre-tax thanks to an HSA. It is less than 2% of my total comp in the worst case (in 2020 I spent less than $300 on healthcare). In return I get coverage that is generally better than the free public healthcare back in Europe.<p>I think CoL is similar, but not as clear cut. One thing CoL discussions often miss is that many expenses are independent of the local CoL; for example, a Macbook Pro costs the same in every US city. If your salary adjusts exactly for CoL, you&#x27;re actually doing better because of this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deanc</author><text>I think the key difference here is that you are ultimately at the behest of your insurance company. I don’t like the idea of insurers making decisions over my health. I’d take the British NHS over US system any day as I know ultimately if I’m sick I can rely on it. You don’t have a plan B in US - or am I mistaken?</text></comment> |
28,066,602 | 28,064,890 | 1 | 2 | 28,049,959 | train | <story><title>NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings</title><url>https://nypost.com/2021/08/03/nyc-to-mandate-proof-of-vaccination-for-many-indoor-settings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SirensOfTitan</author><text>To preface: I got the vaccine months ago (as soon as I had access), I&#x27;m a big believer in vaccines.<p>With that being said, this policy doesn&#x27;t sit well with me. None of the currently available vaccines in the US are FDA approved. Of course, a lot of people have received those vaccines, but I also don&#x27;t necessarily fault individuals for feeling hesitant (the nuance here is that I think people ought to get the vaccine). mRNA is a new, unknown technology, and the vaccine was rushed faster to public access than any other vaccine before. We have absolutely no idea if there are any long term side effects of these vaccines.<p>Both candidates Biden and Harris expressed the need for full trials and transparency in regard to the vaccine <i>before</i> they were in office, then changed their tune after (see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;pbhushan1&#x2F;status&#x2F;1416969060890210305" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;pbhushan1&#x2F;status&#x2F;1416969060890210305</a>). Biden says:<p>&gt; When we finally do, God willing, get a vaccine, Who’s going to take the shot? Who’s going to take the shot? You going to be the first one to say, “Put me — sign me up, they now say it’s OK”?<p>If the vaccine is as effective as it seems, then this decision feels positively nanny state to me. It takes away an individual&#x27;s agency to inform themselves of the risks on both sides and make an informed decision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ch4s3</author><text>&gt; mRNA is a new, unknown technology<p>This is untrue, researchers have been testing various mRNA therapies on people for 30 years, with it being first done in vitro in 1990 then in vivo in 1992 [1]. Lipid nano particles were first used around the same time.<p>&gt; the vaccine was rushed faster to public access than any other vaccine before<p>This is only true if you ignore the development of the mRNA vaccine platform for flu, rabies, and zika that predated the pandemic by years. The novel development here was swapping in new protein encoding. If you look at this as a continuation of that process, then it&#x27;s only a little faster than normal, and a lot of that was due to the FDA switching sequential steps in the process to be parallel.<p>&gt; We have absolutely no idea if there are any long term side effects of these vaccines.<p>This isn&#x27;t a meaningful claim for 2 key reasons. There has never been a vaccine that had serious side effects that did show up shortly after vaccination[2]. The history of mRNA treatments began as an experiment in gene therapy, but has largely ben abandoned because the effects never lasted long enough. As of 2020 this is an ongoing area of research[3]. No one has figure out how to stabilize mRNA so that it has long lasting effects.<p>&gt; Both candidates Biden and Harris<p>They&#x27;re both craven, ignorant politicians, who cares what they said when the other guy was in power.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nrd.2017.243" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nrd.2017.243</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;vaccinesafety&#x2F;concerns&#x2F;concerns-history.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;vaccinesafety&#x2F;concerns&#x2F;concerns-history....</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7076378&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC7076378&#x2F;</a><p>[edit] All that said, I am no pro mandate but seriously you should all voluntarily go get vaccinated IMHO.</text></comment> | <story><title>NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings</title><url>https://nypost.com/2021/08/03/nyc-to-mandate-proof-of-vaccination-for-many-indoor-settings/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SirensOfTitan</author><text>To preface: I got the vaccine months ago (as soon as I had access), I&#x27;m a big believer in vaccines.<p>With that being said, this policy doesn&#x27;t sit well with me. None of the currently available vaccines in the US are FDA approved. Of course, a lot of people have received those vaccines, but I also don&#x27;t necessarily fault individuals for feeling hesitant (the nuance here is that I think people ought to get the vaccine). mRNA is a new, unknown technology, and the vaccine was rushed faster to public access than any other vaccine before. We have absolutely no idea if there are any long term side effects of these vaccines.<p>Both candidates Biden and Harris expressed the need for full trials and transparency in regard to the vaccine <i>before</i> they were in office, then changed their tune after (see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;pbhushan1&#x2F;status&#x2F;1416969060890210305" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;pbhushan1&#x2F;status&#x2F;1416969060890210305</a>). Biden says:<p>&gt; When we finally do, God willing, get a vaccine, Who’s going to take the shot? Who’s going to take the shot? You going to be the first one to say, “Put me — sign me up, they now say it’s OK”?<p>If the vaccine is as effective as it seems, then this decision feels positively nanny state to me. It takes away an individual&#x27;s agency to inform themselves of the risks on both sides and make an informed decision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TomVDB</author><text>&gt; None of the currently available vaccines in the US are FDA approved.<p>On one hand, I can&#x27;t wait for the Pfizer vaccine to be fully FDA approved in September. On the other, everybody who uses that argument today will simply forget about it and move goalposts.</text></comment> |
35,668,761 | 35,668,538 | 1 | 3 | 35,667,796 | train | <story><title>Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/methane-warm-earth-atmosphere-radiation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shrubble</author><text>This is exactly what the &quot;deniers&quot; have been saying - that the mathematical model is not fleshed out enough, and the data is not present in sufficiently accurate quantity, for the climate models to be accurate.<p>This research shows that the mechanism of action was misunderstood all this time. What else hasn&#x27;t been researched enough and has simplistic assumptions baked into the climate models?<p>That shockingly simplistic models and the barest of data don&#x27;t actually have predictive power wouldn&#x27;t surprise people in any other scientific discipline, but it will certainly be cause enough for this subject, to have this comment voted into oblivion....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>altacc</author><text>This sounds like a prelude to a simplistic &quot;the models aren&#x27;t accurate, so climate change probably isn&#x27;t really a problem&quot;. However the problem with that is that the overwhelming majority of observations and models, many of which are far from simple and use large amounts of data, point to climate change being real, unusually rapid and anthropogenic. Using the argument that these models aren&#x27;t accurate ignores the fact that even with a large margin of error, the lower bounds of climate change still result in significant negative effects for large numbers of people and ecosystems. Models have for a long time shown that the overall global temperature will rise and observations over the years have proved the models reflect reality. Are all models 100% correct with predictions? No, but the trend the models show is proven, even if there is a margin of error which is typically always acknowledged during modelling.<p>Questioning the accuracy as a form of dismissal raise the question of what level of accuracy you&#x27;d want before accepting the results, and what level of accuracy any countering research should have. Research like this paper also has margins of error, are often single studies or analysis and therefore aren&#x27;t proven to be accurate themselves. Science evolves all the time, a large amount of the science we experience or rely on day to day cannot be fully modelled with high accuracy but we don&#x27;t discount reality because the models don&#x27;t match it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought</title><url>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/methane-warm-earth-atmosphere-radiation</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shrubble</author><text>This is exactly what the &quot;deniers&quot; have been saying - that the mathematical model is not fleshed out enough, and the data is not present in sufficiently accurate quantity, for the climate models to be accurate.<p>This research shows that the mechanism of action was misunderstood all this time. What else hasn&#x27;t been researched enough and has simplistic assumptions baked into the climate models?<p>That shockingly simplistic models and the barest of data don&#x27;t actually have predictive power wouldn&#x27;t surprise people in any other scientific discipline, but it will certainly be cause enough for this subject, to have this comment voted into oblivion....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>From models, basic physics, and observed effects scientist make forecasts about climate change, and they adjust models based on observations.<p>If scientist make 100 forecasts based on current models they won&#x27;t all be spot on. It might turn out that say 85 of them turn out to be pretty close, 5 of them turn out to be wrong in that things actually turned out worse than the models forecast, 5 of them turned out better than the models forecast, and 5 of them didn&#x27;t happen at all.<p>The &quot;deniers&quot; look at those last 5 or 10 and dismiss the models and all conclusions from them as worthless, ignoring that the models got it mostly right and that the things they got wrong are nowhere near important enough to change the overall result. They at most just change the timeline a little.</text></comment> |
23,323,669 | 23,320,966 | 1 | 2 | 23,311,596 | train | <story><title>Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/growing-anomalies-at-the-large-hadron-collider-hint-at-new-particles-20200526/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>siscia</author><text>Since we are talking about CERN let me take this opportunity to invite, whoever is interested, to visit the laboratory.<p>Beside the stop imposed by COVID, CERN organize guided tour to the laboratory and when possible the detectors.<p>If you are around the area of Geneva or you happen to be around, I really suggest the visits.<p>The guides are usually people working at CERN so they are quite knowable about it.<p>It is necessary to book the visit in advance.</text></comment> | <story><title>Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes</title><url>https://www.quantamagazine.org/growing-anomalies-at-the-large-hadron-collider-hint-at-new-particles-20200526/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mcv</author><text>&quot;Growing anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider&quot; sounds like a premise for a Hollywood horror movie about a strange, shimmering anomaly growing at a science lab.</text></comment> |
27,117,603 | 27,117,396 | 1 | 2 | 27,115,809 | train | <story><title>Amazon Sidewalk</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mchristen</author><text>They are oftentimes way more expense, I&#x27;m guessing because you aren&#x27;t subsidizing the cost with your data.</text></item><item><author>sithadmin</author><text>There is a huge market for &#x27;dumb panels&#x27;, under the moniker of &#x27;digital signage&#x27;. Nearly every major TV vendor has &#x27;dumb&#x27; displays SKUs on offer in many different configs. The only problem is that they aren&#x27;t always easy to get one&#x27;s hand on, as they usually are sold through b2b channels instead of consumer-facing retail outlets.</text></item><item><author>ulzeraj</author><text>IMO. There should be a market for:<p>- Dumb panels (not monitors). Perhaps stripped down recycled smart tvs.<p>- Smart tvs but with user replaceable firmware. Think OpenWRT for TVs. Maybe the same guy who does the dumb panels could sell those but with a raspberry pi in place of the logic board.<p>Of course a monitor solves these issues but these are normally smaller and more expensive.</text></item><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>So, if I buy a so called Smart-TV (not because I like it but because traditional ones are getting harder to find) but don&#x27;t set up it on my home network so it can&#x27;t phone home, it could scan around anyway and find other open devices more than willing to participate in my personal data exfiltration?
If the Amazon project succeeds, I would expect in a few months most home devices manufacturers, to partner to implement it so they have a way to circumvent users choices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bouncingsoul1</author><text>No, your average home tv is not designed to run 24&#x2F;7. These Digital Signage Monitors are supposed to do this. Try running your average costumer tv 24&#x2F;7 for half a year and see how the color &amp; sharpness is. Also they are repairable (normally).</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Sidewalk</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mchristen</author><text>They are oftentimes way more expense, I&#x27;m guessing because you aren&#x27;t subsidizing the cost with your data.</text></item><item><author>sithadmin</author><text>There is a huge market for &#x27;dumb panels&#x27;, under the moniker of &#x27;digital signage&#x27;. Nearly every major TV vendor has &#x27;dumb&#x27; displays SKUs on offer in many different configs. The only problem is that they aren&#x27;t always easy to get one&#x27;s hand on, as they usually are sold through b2b channels instead of consumer-facing retail outlets.</text></item><item><author>ulzeraj</author><text>IMO. There should be a market for:<p>- Dumb panels (not monitors). Perhaps stripped down recycled smart tvs.<p>- Smart tvs but with user replaceable firmware. Think OpenWRT for TVs. Maybe the same guy who does the dumb panels could sell those but with a raspberry pi in place of the logic board.<p>Of course a monitor solves these issues but these are normally smaller and more expensive.</text></item><item><author>squarefoot</author><text>So, if I buy a so called Smart-TV (not because I like it but because traditional ones are getting harder to find) but don&#x27;t set up it on my home network so it can&#x27;t phone home, it could scan around anyway and find other open devices more than willing to participate in my personal data exfiltration?
If the Amazon project succeeds, I would expect in a few months most home devices manufacturers, to partner to implement it so they have a way to circumvent users choices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>There&#x27;s regular dumb TVs around too, and reasonably priced.<p>Walmart&#x27;s site lets you filter for &quot;Smart = N&quot;. Sceptre and RCA are the main brands.<p>For example <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.walmart.com&#x2F;ip&#x2F;RCA-65-Class-4K-Ultra-HD-2160P-LED-TV-RTU6549&#x2F;55540605" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.walmart.com&#x2F;ip&#x2F;RCA-65-Class-4K-Ultra-HD-2160P-LE...</a></text></comment> |
11,802,923 | 11,802,979 | 1 | 2 | 11,802,491 | train | <story><title>Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a 'public service'</title><url>http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/30/politics/axe-files-axelrod-eric-holder/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dandare</author><text>It is unbelievable how (self)censored the mainstream media&#x2F;politics discussion is. Keith Alexander lied to the congress on record, whistleblowers before Snowden were jailed for blowing the whistle and there was absolutely no chance he could reveal&#x2F;fix any illegal wrongdoing by the government via the official whistleblowers channels. He did not run away and ruin his sweet life for the lulz, there was clearly no other way. Why is this argument not immediately raised every time some clown uses the &quot;he broke the law, he has to face the music&quot; argument?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StanislavPetrov</author><text>&gt;Why is this argument not immediately raised every time some clown uses the &quot;he broke the law, he has to face the music&quot; argument?<p>Corporate media outlets exist to disseminate propaganda, not seek consistent, logical answers to important questions. They seek to frame the debate in the context constructed by Wall Street and Washington and redirect anger and angst so that people fight against each other instead of against their masters. That&#x27;s why &quot;identity politics&quot; has become so resurgent in recent years, as the class divide has sharpened and the middle-class has withered. As long as people are polarized and can be pitted against each other on the basis of race, ethnicity, or sexuality, they aren&#x27;t united against the oligarchs. Its the same exact strategy used by prison guards to maintain control of the prisons. Pit the blacks against the whites against the hispanics and the prison guards can observe safely from the walls. The guards only face a threat from the prisoners when they are united against those who keep them in bondage.<p>Snowden represents the greatest threat in that regards. If you support Snowden&#x27;s actions, you are explicitly acknowledging not only that the law is dog shit, but that Snowden was justified in breaking it because of how incredibly repressive the government is. He represents the ultimate repudiation of the system that runs the entire country and most of the world. The corporate media is the voice of this system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a 'public service'</title><url>http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/30/politics/axe-files-axelrod-eric-holder/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dandare</author><text>It is unbelievable how (self)censored the mainstream media&#x2F;politics discussion is. Keith Alexander lied to the congress on record, whistleblowers before Snowden were jailed for blowing the whistle and there was absolutely no chance he could reveal&#x2F;fix any illegal wrongdoing by the government via the official whistleblowers channels. He did not run away and ruin his sweet life for the lulz, there was clearly no other way. Why is this argument not immediately raised every time some clown uses the &quot;he broke the law, he has to face the music&quot; argument?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ipsin</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s a comical argument, that he should come home and &quot;face justice&quot;. You can&#x27;t even call it just because the judge would probably prohibit a moral defense, and even if the judge did, the jury wouldn&#x27;t couldn&#x27;t be told that they could consider anything beyond the law itself.<p>So Snowden should come home, be robbed of a chance of justice, be robbed of his voice and his freedom, to prove... what, that the NSA was right all along?</text></comment> |
37,488,344 | 37,488,208 | 1 | 3 | 37,469,590 | train | <story><title>Homemade Sriracha</title><url>https://www.seriouseats.com/sriracha-recipe-from-scratch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wayfinder</author><text>Huy Fong, the “rooster brand” and a family owned company in LA that was sort of an immigrant success story, made a deal with Underwood Farms (also around LA and of which Huy Fong worked with personally since the start of Huy Fong) to buy peppers to help them purchase&#x2F;lease new land but then reneged on the deal and sent undercover executives to Underwood to steal their methods of production. Underwood sued and won and Huy Fong was forced to purchase peppers from other suppliers, most of which seem to be having problems supplying peppers.<p>Sriracha is not a brand but rather a type of regional sauce, of which Huy Fong’s version was not completely true to recipe (but still tasted great IMO), and so that’s why you see other brands creating a “sriracha” sauce. Huy Fong’s version is sweeter than the OG but I’ve noticed some other brands are even sweeter (like Trader Joe’s if I recall).<p>Incidentally, Underwood Farms started producing their own sriracha sauce.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bloopernova</author><text>My wife really likes the Underwood Ranches Sriracha, plus they sell other tasty spicy sauces. Highly recommended! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;underwoodranches.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;underwoodranches.com&#x2F;</a><p>I personally prefer this Thai Sriracha: Sriraja Panich, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;bbGQ3p2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;bbGQ3p2</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Homemade Sriracha</title><url>https://www.seriouseats.com/sriracha-recipe-from-scratch</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wayfinder</author><text>Huy Fong, the “rooster brand” and a family owned company in LA that was sort of an immigrant success story, made a deal with Underwood Farms (also around LA and of which Huy Fong worked with personally since the start of Huy Fong) to buy peppers to help them purchase&#x2F;lease new land but then reneged on the deal and sent undercover executives to Underwood to steal their methods of production. Underwood sued and won and Huy Fong was forced to purchase peppers from other suppliers, most of which seem to be having problems supplying peppers.<p>Sriracha is not a brand but rather a type of regional sauce, of which Huy Fong’s version was not completely true to recipe (but still tasted great IMO), and so that’s why you see other brands creating a “sriracha” sauce. Huy Fong’s version is sweeter than the OG but I’ve noticed some other brands are even sweeter (like Trader Joe’s if I recall).<p>Incidentally, Underwood Farms started producing their own sriracha sauce.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brink</author><text>It&#x27;s a shame to see such bad behavior coming from what I thought was a good brand.</text></comment> |
18,728,551 | 18,728,547 | 1 | 2 | 18,727,372 | train | <story><title>John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/john-giannandrea-named-to-apples-executive-team/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>&gt; <i>$30 Google Home puck feels like it&#x27;s from the future</i><p><i>Is it</i>? Is the $30 puck better than the Home assistant or does it just suck that much more in French than it does in English? (Not being snarky, genuinely asking)<p>It doesn&#x27;t understand followup commands, the Hue integration is rotten bad, and the commands definitely have to be rigid. Things like &quot;What were my meetings on the 12th of December&quot; aren&#x27;t understood.<p>Also having to say &quot;OK google&quot; and not being able to change that is so bad. At least &quot;Hey Siri&quot; is natural.</text></item><item><author>m0zg</author><text>It&#x27;s just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best in order to fix the very thing that will kill their cash cow in the next 5 years. I&#x27;m on iOS myself (and have been faithful since the first iPhone), but $30 Google Home puck feels like it&#x27;s from the future. Understands me perfectly, comes up with decent answers, doesn&#x27;t require rigid commands, etc. Whereas Siri is so bad I use it only to set alarms and timers. Not even setting of reminders is reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madlynormal</author><text>&gt; Is it? Is the $30 puck better than the Home assistant or does it just suck that much more in French than it does in English? (Not being snarky, genuinely asking)<p>Absolutely it is. In general, my Siri usage is limited to opening Google Assistant, that&#x27;s how bad it is. Also, &quot;Hey Google&quot; works as a command on most devices.</text></comment> | <story><title>John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/john-giannandrea-named-to-apples-executive-team/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>scrollaway</author><text>&gt; <i>$30 Google Home puck feels like it&#x27;s from the future</i><p><i>Is it</i>? Is the $30 puck better than the Home assistant or does it just suck that much more in French than it does in English? (Not being snarky, genuinely asking)<p>It doesn&#x27;t understand followup commands, the Hue integration is rotten bad, and the commands definitely have to be rigid. Things like &quot;What were my meetings on the 12th of December&quot; aren&#x27;t understood.<p>Also having to say &quot;OK google&quot; and not being able to change that is so bad. At least &quot;Hey Siri&quot; is natural.</text></item><item><author>m0zg</author><text>It&#x27;s just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best in order to fix the very thing that will kill their cash cow in the next 5 years. I&#x27;m on iOS myself (and have been faithful since the first iPhone), but $30 Google Home puck feels like it&#x27;s from the future. Understands me perfectly, comes up with decent answers, doesn&#x27;t require rigid commands, etc. Whereas Siri is so bad I use it only to set alarms and timers. Not even setting of reminders is reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tshannon</author><text>I&#x27;m pretty sure you can say &quot;Hey Google&quot; as well.</text></comment> |
37,509,813 | 37,509,757 | 1 | 2 | 37,509,427 | train | <story><title>Arm IPO to kick off today</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/14/arm_ipo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bhouston</author><text>The strategy they are using to establish a revenue stream that justifies this valuation is to continue to raise prices on their customers. I think this works in the near term (next 5 to 10 years), and generate a ton of money for ARM, but it will drive additional momentum to RISC-V.<p>The legendary Jim Keller is going all in on RISC-V, if you don&#x27;t know Google him. His company has many core designs coming as well chiplets: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tenstorrent.com&#x2F;risc-v&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tenstorrent.com&#x2F;risc-v&#x2F;</a><p>Because of Jim Keller and similar efforts I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised for RISC-V to see both core count as well as per core performance meet ARM over the next few years. Maybe even exceed if Jim can push the chiplet approach faster than ARM can roll theirs out.<p>Hopefully this drives a lot of innovation and we all benefit as a result.<p>I think that using ARM is going to be viewed as being locked into ARM&#x27;s ever increasing licensing fees, where as if you go RISC-V, you are free to switch CPU providers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Arm IPO to kick off today</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/14/arm_ipo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samwillis</author><text>Our first family computer was an Acorn Archimedes, we had it for maybe a year before it was replaced by a PC with an Intel.<p>Now here we are 30 years later and I&#x27;m typing on a laptop running on a ARM (née Acorn RISC Machines, then Advanced RISC Machines), I have an ARM in my pocket, another in a tablet in my bag. My wife is next to me on an ARM laptop, she&#x27;s also got an ARM on her arm... we&#x27;re listening to music on a wifi speaker running on an ARM. There are probably 30-40 ARMs in one way or another around our house. Amazing really.</text></comment> |
20,040,443 | 20,040,632 | 1 | 2 | 20,039,863 | train | <story><title>Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/buyer-s-remorse-high-debt-and-low-pay-leave-some-grads-rueful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I’ve told this story before on here, but most of my social circle went to college. In general, most of those I’ve stayed in touch with are doing alright for themselves.<p>But we graduated college between 2007-2010, so it was a rough economy to be looking for a first job.<p>One friend skipped college and joined the local electrician union. He did his 10 years to get his lifetime card, and started his own business a few years ago.<p>Not only is he already making a ton of money, he has zero debt, and more importantly charges close to whatever he wants an hour because of how in demand he is.<p>He jokes that he’s going to be the only electrician in the city in the next ten years because all the old guard is retiring, and way fewer millennials went into trades.<p>College would have been a bad idea for him and he knew it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tsss</author><text>The common denominator for making a lot of money is not &quot;the trades&quot; but owning a business. Of course he&#x27;s gonna make more if he doesn&#x27;t have to relinquish the majority of his profits to a boss.<p>A lot of people here and on reddit like to romanticize the trades while sitting in an air-conditioned office like it&#x27;s some secret tip to instant wealth without the need to study for years. But the reality is grim for the majority of salaried tradesmen. It&#x27;s a job that is very hard on your body and the heralded &quot;fresh air&quot; suddenly sounds a lot less nice when you have to do physical labor in intense heat or cold.<p>Those who go above and beyond will always succeed no matter the field but for the average Joe a solid education is a much better bet and you are doing them a disservice by spreading these second-hand anecdotes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/buyer-s-remorse-high-debt-and-low-pay-leave-some-grads-rueful</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sharkweek</author><text>I’ve told this story before on here, but most of my social circle went to college. In general, most of those I’ve stayed in touch with are doing alright for themselves.<p>But we graduated college between 2007-2010, so it was a rough economy to be looking for a first job.<p>One friend skipped college and joined the local electrician union. He did his 10 years to get his lifetime card, and started his own business a few years ago.<p>Not only is he already making a ton of money, he has zero debt, and more importantly charges close to whatever he wants an hour because of how in demand he is.<p>He jokes that he’s going to be the only electrician in the city in the next ten years because all the old guard is retiring, and way fewer millennials went into trades.<p>College would have been a bad idea for him and he knew it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mywittyname</author><text>&gt; way fewer millennials went into trades.<p>It&#x27;s not that we didn&#x27;t want to, but that we never had the opportunity. The Great Recession destroyed basically every trade job out there. Nobody was going to hire a young buck when you could get really smart, experienced guy for the same price.<p>So us millennials went to college instead. In 2009, people my age with no degree had an unemployment rate of like 20-25% while people with degrees had an unemployment rate of maybe 5-6%.<p>A lot of my friends growing up that started in trades (myself include) ended up in the military and&#x2F;or college because you still had to show up for work every day, just to sit around for a few hours to learn you weren&#x27;t getting paid.<p>Not that I&#x27;m complaining, my life certainty worked is better as a result. But I don&#x27;t think people with office job realize how bad The Great Recession was for people at the bottom.</text></comment> |
12,316,955 | 12,316,915 | 1 | 3 | 12,314,600 | train | <story><title>Organisms might be quantum machines</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160715-organisms-might-be-quantum-machines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danbruc</author><text>Tl;dr Biology is applied chemistry, chemistry is applied quantum physics and in some cases chemistry is a leaky abstraction and does not perfectly explain what is going on in organisms. Three examples - photosynthesis being more efficient than expected, birds sensing Earth&#x27;s magnetic field by an unknown mechanism and a lack of understanding how olfaction works in detail - are presented but besides that there are no new revolutionary ideas in the article.</text></comment> | <story><title>Organisms might be quantum machines</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160715-organisms-might-be-quantum-machines</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mixedmath</author><text>Only somewhat related: I&#x27;m currently reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson. I&#x27;m nearing the end of the book, and the concept that human brains might use quantum processes in the decision-making process is a very important and prevalent idea in the novel. [Although he takes some artistic license --- it is only a novel, afterall]. So I&#x27;ve been thinking, at least passively, about organisms being quantum machines quite a bit for the last week or so.</text></comment> |
10,682,502 | 10,682,450 | 1 | 3 | 10,682,003 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/12/05/open-source-chakra-core/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jayflux</author><text>This is very true.
Microsoft are at their best when they&#x27;re the underdog</text></item><item><author>oblio</author><text>Well, historically, when Microsoft was still in competition-mode, Internet Explorer was kicking Netscape&#x27;s ass with the later versions.<p>With the first few versions they were playing catch-up, but if I recall correctly, IE 4 and IE 5 actually had more features and better standards compliance than the current Netscape versions, as did IE 6 at its launch.<p>&quot;IE hell&quot; started once Microsoft won the race.</text></item><item><author>roddux</author><text>Wait, Edge does better on ES6 coverage than both Chrome and Firefox? Microsoft have seriously stepped up their game, especially seeing as it&#x27;s now neck and neck for performance with Chrome: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;browser-benchmark-battle-september-2015-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-edge&#x2F;view-all&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;browser-benchmark-battle-s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cptskippy</author><text>The path is always easier when there&#x27;s someone there to show you the way, and a clear example of where not to go. Mozilla had a clear path forward with Firefox against IE, and had Navigator as an example of what not to do. Microsoft is now in that position with Edge.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source</title><url>https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/12/05/open-source-chakra-core/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jayflux</author><text>This is very true.
Microsoft are at their best when they&#x27;re the underdog</text></item><item><author>oblio</author><text>Well, historically, when Microsoft was still in competition-mode, Internet Explorer was kicking Netscape&#x27;s ass with the later versions.<p>With the first few versions they were playing catch-up, but if I recall correctly, IE 4 and IE 5 actually had more features and better standards compliance than the current Netscape versions, as did IE 6 at its launch.<p>&quot;IE hell&quot; started once Microsoft won the race.</text></item><item><author>roddux</author><text>Wait, Edge does better on ES6 coverage than both Chrome and Firefox? Microsoft have seriously stepped up their game, especially seeing as it&#x27;s now neck and neck for performance with Chrome: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;browser-benchmark-battle-september-2015-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-edge&#x2F;view-all&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;venturebeat.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;browser-benchmark-battle-s...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0xFFC</author><text>I think this is perfectly valid point.We can think of it like this, they are pretty competitive and have shitload of resource. but they are not innovative , the moment , they become leader they lose their interest toward growing and growing, although they have huge amount of resource which help them the moment they become underdog. I think this is cultural problem with Microsoft.</text></comment> |
31,331,739 | 31,331,722 | 1 | 2 | 31,330,342 | train | <story><title>AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS</title><url>https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klodolph</author><text>&gt; The difference is largely a historical artifact of the Macintosh operating system not originally supporting &quot;multitasking.&quot;<p>This is a nice story, but reading on it seems like you&#x27;re saying that the way app switching works on Windows as the Obvious and Correct thing to do, and that the Macintosh way of doing things is nothing more than a choice that was made too long ago to change.<p>Honestly, that&#x27;s absurd.<p>The Macintosh has a menu bar at the top of the screen which belongs to the foreground application. This is a reasonable place to put a menu bar, because it is easy to click on things which are at the edge or (better yet) corner of the screen. This is a perfectly reasonable justification for having a foreground application.<p>Windows places the menu bar inside each window. So there is no need for &quot;foreground application&quot;, only foreground window.<p>That&#x27;s all that you need in terms of explanation. The Mac puts its menu bar at the top of the screen, Windows puts it inside each window. There&#x27;s no need to tell some story about how the Macintosh was created during a more primitive era of computing history, because that story has no explanatory power.</text></item><item><author>yodon</author><text>For Mac users asking &quot;how is this different from the keystrokes I already have&quot;, this app is designed to give you Windows-style switching which is subtlety but fundamentally different from OSX-style window switching.<p>MacOS is app-centric, so you have a keystroke to switch between apps and a keystroke to switch through the windows of the app. Windows is window-centric rather than app-centric, with a unified window stack so a single keystroke (Alt-Tab) always takes you to the previous window, regardless of what app is responsible for that window. Repeated Alt-Tab&#x27;s take you back through your most recently used windows, regardless of the Apps involved.<p>OSX users generally can&#x27;t imagine not knowing what apps their windows are associated with, and Windows users generally can&#x27;t imagine being expected to care what apps their windows are associated with.<p>The difference is largely a historical artifact of the Macintosh operating system not originally supporting &quot;multitasking.&quot; When the Mac first came out, it could only run one application at a time. If you wanted to switch between a spreadsheet and a word processor you had to close one application and open the other. Then the concept of a &quot;switcher&quot; was invented, which gave you the sense that the Mac was running multiple applications because it could do app-to-app context switching behind the scenes to make it feel like you were running multiple applications simultaneously. All of this meant there was no OS-level concept of &quot;the window stack&quot; there was only an app-level concept of window history, and a separate OS-level concept of app history.<p>Windows launched after the Mac, into an era of slightly more powerful processors and better understanding of user behavior on truly multi-application devices. These differences led Microsoft to adopt an OS-level unified window history model. Apple undoubtedly discussed the idea, but even by the time Windows launched Mac users were fully accustomed to the Mac&#x27;s windowing model and would have complained mightily at the conceptual switch had it been attempted then or at any other point in time.<p>The more time you spend in one ecosystem, the more natural its approach feels to you, because you adapt to your environment over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shacklz</author><text>&gt; This is a perfectly reasonable justification for having a foreground application.<p>Except when you start having multiple monitors. Then it&#x27;s an utter mess, and I have no idea how the Mac-enthusiasts are putting up with it. And as far as I&#x27;m aware, most actually kind of don&#x27;t - the few mac-enthusiasts that I know all use their customized setup that heavily relies on third-party-tools.</text></comment> | <story><title>AltTab – Windows alt-tab on macOS</title><url>https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>klodolph</author><text>&gt; The difference is largely a historical artifact of the Macintosh operating system not originally supporting &quot;multitasking.&quot;<p>This is a nice story, but reading on it seems like you&#x27;re saying that the way app switching works on Windows as the Obvious and Correct thing to do, and that the Macintosh way of doing things is nothing more than a choice that was made too long ago to change.<p>Honestly, that&#x27;s absurd.<p>The Macintosh has a menu bar at the top of the screen which belongs to the foreground application. This is a reasonable place to put a menu bar, because it is easy to click on things which are at the edge or (better yet) corner of the screen. This is a perfectly reasonable justification for having a foreground application.<p>Windows places the menu bar inside each window. So there is no need for &quot;foreground application&quot;, only foreground window.<p>That&#x27;s all that you need in terms of explanation. The Mac puts its menu bar at the top of the screen, Windows puts it inside each window. There&#x27;s no need to tell some story about how the Macintosh was created during a more primitive era of computing history, because that story has no explanatory power.</text></item><item><author>yodon</author><text>For Mac users asking &quot;how is this different from the keystrokes I already have&quot;, this app is designed to give you Windows-style switching which is subtlety but fundamentally different from OSX-style window switching.<p>MacOS is app-centric, so you have a keystroke to switch between apps and a keystroke to switch through the windows of the app. Windows is window-centric rather than app-centric, with a unified window stack so a single keystroke (Alt-Tab) always takes you to the previous window, regardless of what app is responsible for that window. Repeated Alt-Tab&#x27;s take you back through your most recently used windows, regardless of the Apps involved.<p>OSX users generally can&#x27;t imagine not knowing what apps their windows are associated with, and Windows users generally can&#x27;t imagine being expected to care what apps their windows are associated with.<p>The difference is largely a historical artifact of the Macintosh operating system not originally supporting &quot;multitasking.&quot; When the Mac first came out, it could only run one application at a time. If you wanted to switch between a spreadsheet and a word processor you had to close one application and open the other. Then the concept of a &quot;switcher&quot; was invented, which gave you the sense that the Mac was running multiple applications because it could do app-to-app context switching behind the scenes to make it feel like you were running multiple applications simultaneously. All of this meant there was no OS-level concept of &quot;the window stack&quot; there was only an app-level concept of window history, and a separate OS-level concept of app history.<p>Windows launched after the Mac, into an era of slightly more powerful processors and better understanding of user behavior on truly multi-application devices. These differences led Microsoft to adopt an OS-level unified window history model. Apple undoubtedly discussed the idea, but even by the time Windows launched Mac users were fully accustomed to the Mac&#x27;s windowing model and would have complained mightily at the conceptual switch had it been attempted then or at any other point in time.<p>The more time you spend in one ecosystem, the more natural its approach feels to you, because you adapt to your environment over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alphachloride</author><text>With window-specific menus, I can directly click on and open the menu button of another app&#x2F;window without first having to focus it first to see the menu options. I find that to be more intuitive.<p>I have always been a windows user and my intuition was shaped accordingly. So to me that is the obvious and correct thing to do.</text></comment> |
36,276,255 | 36,275,522 | 1 | 3 | 36,273,892 | train | <story><title>Django Views – The Right Way</title><url>https://spookylukey.github.io/django-views-the-right-way/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dec0dedab0de</author><text>I like class based views.<p>But either way if your views are getting complicated you&#x27;re doing it wrong. Views should just be plumbing to glue together the data you want for the template. All your business logic should be methods on your models, and if those are getting too complex they should be importing separate modules. The views should mostly be boilerplate.<p>The reason everything should be on the model (or atleast a separate module if you&#x27;re a functional zealot) is so you can have your same logic available in your async queue, the api, cron jobs, and the shell for troubleshooting. If you have any logic tied up in the view it&#x27;s a huge pain to access from anywhere else. And I don&#x27;t know about you, but I always end up needing the logic somewhere else.</text></comment> | <story><title>Django Views – The Right Way</title><url>https://spookylukey.github.io/django-views-the-right-way/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Ok I was ready to hate this article the second I read the title, and I clicked on it just to get enough ammunition to crap on it.<p>But it&#x27;s actually quite good and I came to similar conclusions after trying to make CBV work for years.<p>Plus it&#x27;s well written.<p>Damn.</text></comment> |
26,666,608 | 26,664,227 | 1 | 2 | 26,645,019 | train | <story><title>Fish Doorbell</title><url>https://dutchreview.com/news/fish-doorbell-utrecht/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zck</author><text>For places humans have dammed a river, a fish ladder can be installed to let fish continue to swim upstream: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fish_ladder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fish_ladder</a>. I wonder why that&#x27;s not used here.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s related to this being a _lock_, not a dam. In addition to having water loss from the lock, the middle part of the lock goes up and down, so you&#x27;d have to have separate fish ladders for each part.<p>For the most fun fish transport I&#x27;ve seen, check out the Salmon Cannon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nopg9JSTTzg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nopg9JSTTzg</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eGzdOpCisnQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eGzdOpCisnQ</a>. It uses a pressurized tube to transfer salmon from the low to high side. In the second video, the distance is over a kilometer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crote</author><text>It&#x27;s a tiny monumental lock dating back to the middle ages. It has a history going back to the 1300s, as do the buildings around it.<p>Adding a traditional fish ladder isn&#x27;t really a realistic option at this location.</text></comment> | <story><title>Fish Doorbell</title><url>https://dutchreview.com/news/fish-doorbell-utrecht/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zck</author><text>For places humans have dammed a river, a fish ladder can be installed to let fish continue to swim upstream: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fish_ladder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Fish_ladder</a>. I wonder why that&#x27;s not used here.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s related to this being a _lock_, not a dam. In addition to having water loss from the lock, the middle part of the lock goes up and down, so you&#x27;d have to have separate fish ladders for each part.<p>For the most fun fish transport I&#x27;ve seen, check out the Salmon Cannon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nopg9JSTTzg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nopg9JSTTzg</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eGzdOpCisnQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=eGzdOpCisnQ</a>. It uses a pressurized tube to transfer salmon from the low to high side. In the second video, the distance is over a kilometer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wunderflix</author><text>From the Wikipedia article you referenced to:<p><i>&gt; Fish ladders have a mixed record of effectiveness. They vary in effectiveness for different types of species, with one study showing that only three percent of American Shad make it through all the fish ladders on the way to their spawning ground</i><p>I guess that’s what they call artificial selection pressure.</text></comment> |
21,005,518 | 21,005,289 | 1 | 3 | 21,003,773 | train | <story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“And I know my $50&#x2F;mo rate will never rise.”<p>Let’s hope they tie it to inflation or similar. Otherwise the system will die slowly due to underfunding.</text></comment> | <story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>longcommonname</author><text>Theres still locations here that can&#x27;t get fiber. The local hospital is owned by a church and they own apartments adjacent to the hospital. These apartments are surrounded by others that get fiber but the map still shows they aren&#x27;t planned.</text></comment> |
26,720,629 | 26,720,598 | 1 | 2 | 26,719,316 | train | <story><title>7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/02/7-of-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>People always bring up how people in Fiji or the Carribean are so happy and not stressed, and I’m not sure what the message is. Of course if you just want to relax and not worry too much about what you want to accomplish in life then yeah go to some corner of the world and live happily? However for a lot of people that’s not what they want out of their lives; they want it to mean something in their own way. Of course the vast majority get lost in the rat race and forget what it is that made them choose to work their ass of to begin with, but it’s not because their ultimate goal (at least in the beginning) was to chill at the beach.</text></item><item><author>random5634</author><text>I used to work in the Caribbean when internet there was ridiculously expensive.<p>Local social life was fantastic - I missed nothing about the internet. Also - I missed nothing about not keeping up to date on latest news - locals just didn&#x27;t care what was going on for the most part - the latest &quot;outrages&quot; were 100% irrelevant. If you went to bar at night, and IF they had a TV on, it was sports.<p>So you&#x27;d come back to the states - and you&#x27;d have to catchup on everyone who had said terrible things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>You miss the OP&#x27;s point. They&#x27;re talking about a specific aspect of culture in the Carribean, where they <i>worked</i> for a while, not about idyllic lifelong vacations. While there, they found that separation from the internet reduced the amount of outrage they felt.<p>Unless you&#x27;re suggesting that social media outrage is productive and helps people to accomplish something meaningful in their own way, you&#x27;re not actually addressing the OP&#x27;s comment, you&#x27;re addressing an unrelated idea that you&#x27;ve heard in the past.</text></comment> | <story><title>7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?</title><url>https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/02/7-of-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ramraj07</author><text>People always bring up how people in Fiji or the Carribean are so happy and not stressed, and I’m not sure what the message is. Of course if you just want to relax and not worry too much about what you want to accomplish in life then yeah go to some corner of the world and live happily? However for a lot of people that’s not what they want out of their lives; they want it to mean something in their own way. Of course the vast majority get lost in the rat race and forget what it is that made them choose to work their ass of to begin with, but it’s not because their ultimate goal (at least in the beginning) was to chill at the beach.</text></item><item><author>random5634</author><text>I used to work in the Caribbean when internet there was ridiculously expensive.<p>Local social life was fantastic - I missed nothing about the internet. Also - I missed nothing about not keeping up to date on latest news - locals just didn&#x27;t care what was going on for the most part - the latest &quot;outrages&quot; were 100% irrelevant. If you went to bar at night, and IF they had a TV on, it was sports.<p>So you&#x27;d come back to the states - and you&#x27;d have to catchup on everyone who had said terrible things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>random5634</author><text>I think instead of saying it&#x27;s relaxed, I would describe it as very local?<p>Folks work pretty hard in Caribbean, but when I was there (a fair while ago), I also worked dang hard. But you absolutely felt like you were in a bubble. You really could imagine that Israel and the Palestinians would have an intifada &#x2F; war and no one would notice.<p>You drank after work with the folks you worked with (in west this is a no no for many good reasons), you ate larger group meals, you spent a lot more time outside. I&#x27;m just spitballing some impressions. Some of this was efficiency, (group meals are more cost effective?) etc.<p>There is also an attitude difference. There is a story (probably made up - please fill in correct details) that a group &quot;conquered&quot; one of the islands (maybe Saba?). They took over whatever building, raised whatever flag. And everyone just ignored them. They eventually left.<p>One thing that&#x27;s an adjustment is ignoring the rules if they are silly - no one thinks anything of it. And yes, in part because of corruption and rent seeking there are some silly rules so maybe you have to.<p>Absolute downsides as well no question. But I wonder if the folks not on internet just don&#x27;t care as much about what someone said to someone as the rest of us.</text></comment> |
41,058,631 | 41,058,453 | 1 | 2 | 41,058,261 | train | <story><title>CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indigodaddy</author><text>‘ On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”’</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>layer8</author><text>This shows that CrowdStrike is irredeemable.</text></comment> | <story><title>CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indigodaddy</author><text>‘ On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”’</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Rinzler89</author><text>Crowdstrike, <i>WHY DID YOU REDEEM IT?!</i></text></comment> |
14,223,598 | 14,222,799 | 1 | 3 | 14,216,899 | train | <story><title>On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)</title><url>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/zen-art-motorcycle-maintenance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c141charlie</author><text>There&#x27;s a section in this book that discusses the inability of a narcissist to fix a motorcycle. As a software engineer with narcissistic tendencies, that section really struck a nerve, and inspired me to dive way deeper into our systems and try to understand &quot;what where they thinking&quot; when working in a legacy code base someone else designed. This curiosity has led to several aha moments that I would have prematurely dismissed as an idiotic code base designed by idiots had I not spent the time to try and understand it.</text></comment> | <story><title>On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)</title><url>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/zen-art-motorcycle-maintenance/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sharkweek</author><text>People complain about this book a lot but I enjoyed it for the most part. Having no philosophy background, I generally struggled through some of his more academic points though.<p>But I generally enjoy books that have &quot;quotable wisdom&quot; in the narrative. One of the quotes that has stuck with me the longest is from this book:<p>&quot;The place to improve the world is first in one&#x27;s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.&quot;</text></comment> |
37,286,752 | 37,286,835 | 1 | 2 | 37,284,487 | train | <story><title>111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude</title><url>https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/2964/5599</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delta_p_delta_x</author><text>The metre was re-defined[0] in 1791 as one ten-millionth of the quarter-meridian, or ninety degrees of arc, through Paris.<p>It then follows straightforwardly that 1° ≡ 1&#x2F;90 × 10^7 m = 111 111.111... m.<p>It also follows straightforwardly that the circumference of Earth is approximately forty million metres, or 40 000 km.<p>[0]: Edit: the initial definition of the metre was the length of a seconds pendulum, i.e. the length of a pendulum with a period of two seconds.<p>Given the formula <i>T</i> ≈ 2<i>π</i>√(<i>L</i>&#x2F;<i>g</i>), letting <i>T</i> = 2 and <i>L</i> = 1, we have 1 = <i>π</i>√(1&#x2F;<i>g</i>), and 1 = <i>π</i>²&#x2F;<i>g</i>.<p>This is also why <i>g</i> is so close to the value of π²—because the former is expressed in units that are <i>defined</i> that way. It&#x27;s also not a coincidence that 1 cm³ of water is 1 g—for a long time, that was the <i>definition</i> of the gram.</text></comment> | <story><title>111,111.1 meters is reliably 1 degree of latitude</title><url>https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/2964/5599</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gp</author><text>1 nautical mile (~6076 ft) is exactly one minute of arc at the Earth&#x27;s equator.<p>As a sailor, I wish that all miles were nautical miles because they have a real meaning. What good is 5280 feet?</text></comment> |
36,331,409 | 36,324,167 | 1 | 2 | 36,323,058 | train | <story><title>How to listen to database changes using Postgres triggers in elixir</title><url>https://www.peterullrich.com/listen-to-database-changes-with-postgres-triggers-and-elixir</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevencorona</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Elixir for the past 5-6 years for my startup. We use pg_notify extensively to broadcast changes between running nodes (basically, use Phoenix.PubSub locally in our apps, with a GenServer to subscribe+re-broadcast using pg_notify).<p>This has been a really elegant and low-complexity way to get distributed pubsub without the complexity of running a distributed erlang cluster (which seems a lil bit painful in a K8S+Continuous Deploy world)<p>There -are- some big downsides to be aware of though.<p>1. You can&#x27;t use PgBouncer w&#x2F; LISTEN&#x2F;NOTIFY. This has been really painful because of the high memory overhead of a pgsql connection + elixir keeping a pool of open pgsql connections. The tried and true method of scaling here is to just use PgBouncer. We&#x27;ve kicked the can on this by vastly over-provisioning our pg instance, but this has cost $10s of thousands on the cloud. Of course, it&#x27;s solvable (dedicated non-pgbouncer connection pool just for LISTEN&#x2F;NOTIFY, for example), but painful to unwind.<p>2. The payload has a fixed size limit (8KB, IIRC). This has bitten us a few times!<p>Even though I really like pg_notify, I think that if I were starting over, I&#x27;d probably just use Redis Pub&#x2F;Sub to accomplish the same thing. Tad bit more complex if you&#x27;re not already running Redis, but without the downsides. (Of course, w&#x2F; Redis, you don&#x27;t get the elegance of firing a notification via a pg trigger)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colinchartier</author><text>We got around this at my company by just pooling all of the LISTEN&#x2F;NOTIFY streams into a single database connection in software, here&#x27;s a sample implementation:<p>function software_listen(channel, callback):<p><pre><code> if not channel_listened(channel):
sql(&quot;LISTEN &quot; + channel)
listeners[channel].append(callback)
</code></pre>
function on_message(channel, data):<p><pre><code> for listener in listeners[channel]
listener(channel, data)
</code></pre>
function unlisten(channel, listener):<p><pre><code> listeners[channel].remove(listener)
if len(listeners[channel]) == 0:
sql(&quot;UNLISTEN &quot; + channel)
</code></pre>
Here&#x27;s the actual go implementation we use:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ColinChartier&#x2F;59633c1006407478168b52e2318da8e8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ColinChartier&#x2F;59633c1006407478168b52...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>How to listen to database changes using Postgres triggers in elixir</title><url>https://www.peterullrich.com/listen-to-database-changes-with-postgres-triggers-and-elixir</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevencorona</author><text>I&#x27;ve been using Elixir for the past 5-6 years for my startup. We use pg_notify extensively to broadcast changes between running nodes (basically, use Phoenix.PubSub locally in our apps, with a GenServer to subscribe+re-broadcast using pg_notify).<p>This has been a really elegant and low-complexity way to get distributed pubsub without the complexity of running a distributed erlang cluster (which seems a lil bit painful in a K8S+Continuous Deploy world)<p>There -are- some big downsides to be aware of though.<p>1. You can&#x27;t use PgBouncer w&#x2F; LISTEN&#x2F;NOTIFY. This has been really painful because of the high memory overhead of a pgsql connection + elixir keeping a pool of open pgsql connections. The tried and true method of scaling here is to just use PgBouncer. We&#x27;ve kicked the can on this by vastly over-provisioning our pg instance, but this has cost $10s of thousands on the cloud. Of course, it&#x27;s solvable (dedicated non-pgbouncer connection pool just for LISTEN&#x2F;NOTIFY, for example), but painful to unwind.<p>2. The payload has a fixed size limit (8KB, IIRC). This has bitten us a few times!<p>Even though I really like pg_notify, I think that if I were starting over, I&#x27;d probably just use Redis Pub&#x2F;Sub to accomplish the same thing. Tad bit more complex if you&#x27;re not already running Redis, but without the downsides. (Of course, w&#x2F; Redis, you don&#x27;t get the elegance of firing a notification via a pg trigger)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>the_angry_angel</author><text>For #1 I&#x27;ve been keeping a keen eye on pgcat [1], in particular the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;postgresml&#x2F;pgcat&#x2F;issues&#x2F;303">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;postgresml&#x2F;pgcat&#x2F;issues&#x2F;303</a> which
implies that it should be possible to add support for transaction mode LISTEN&#x2F;NOTIFY support.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;postgresml&#x2F;pgcat">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;postgresml&#x2F;pgcat</a></text></comment> |
13,877,374 | 13,877,419 | 1 | 2 | 13,877,037 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?</title><text>I&#x27;m a software engineer at Uber. I&#x27;ve been there for under a year. I left my previous job because an Uber recruiter offered a large pay increase. I had been there for under a year as well.<p>Is it worse to have the job hopping on my resume or a very unpopular company on there?<p>Staying for a while wouldn&#x27;t be hard on me. My team and the ones around me aren&#x27;t toxic (yet). I&#x27;m strictly concerned with the impact on my career.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>engatuber</author><text>Thanks!<p>As long as I stayed with that employer for longer than a year I would be fine, or would the period of job-hopping look bad permanently?</text></item><item><author>joss82</author><text>The impact on your career should not be much.<p>As an employer, I would not turn down any ex-Uber, as long as he or she did not trigger warning lights during the interviews.<p>Just focus on the technichal side and the money. If you feel good every morning when you wake up to go working for them, then stay.<p>If not, then that would make a great explanation to your next employer for him&#x2F;her not to consider you a job hopper. Along the lines of &quot;I quit at Uber because, as you very well know, the culture there was toxic and yours looks much more interesting, blah blah...&quot;.<p>Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thehardsphere</author><text>Any job you stay less than two years at is going to look funny and require some sort of explanation.<p>If you&#x27;re at a job for less than six months, the assumption people will make is that you and the company were a bad fit. &quot;Bad fit&quot; can be interpreted as &quot;applicant was incompetent and hired by mistake&quot; so, having your own explanation about why you were a bad fit helps. Maybe you don&#x27;t even list this job on your resume.<p>If you&#x27;re at a job for less than a year, then the assumption people could make is that you got a bad first performance review, and you&#x27;re changing jobs now instead of getting fired later.<p>If you&#x27;ve been at a job for at least two years, then people will assume your performance has been reviewed at least twice and that if you were actually bad, you would have been fired.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?</title><text>I&#x27;m a software engineer at Uber. I&#x27;ve been there for under a year. I left my previous job because an Uber recruiter offered a large pay increase. I had been there for under a year as well.<p>Is it worse to have the job hopping on my resume or a very unpopular company on there?<p>Staying for a while wouldn&#x27;t be hard on me. My team and the ones around me aren&#x27;t toxic (yet). I&#x27;m strictly concerned with the impact on my career.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>engatuber</author><text>Thanks!<p>As long as I stayed with that employer for longer than a year I would be fine, or would the period of job-hopping look bad permanently?</text></item><item><author>joss82</author><text>The impact on your career should not be much.<p>As an employer, I would not turn down any ex-Uber, as long as he or she did not trigger warning lights during the interviews.<p>Just focus on the technichal side and the money. If you feel good every morning when you wake up to go working for them, then stay.<p>If not, then that would make a great explanation to your next employer for him&#x2F;her not to consider you a job hopper. Along the lines of &quot;I quit at Uber because, as you very well know, the culture there was toxic and yours looks much more interesting, blah blah...&quot;.<p>Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cardine</author><text>I&#x27;m going to disagree with a lot of the other responses you are receiving.<p>If it happens once or twice and there is a good story&#x2F;explanation that goes along with it that is fine, but I actively avoid candidates who switch jobs every year or so. In my opinion it takes a decent amount of time to understand everything within any given company or codebase (especially one that has a decent level of complexity or specialized knowledge). I don&#x27;t want an unstable environment where people are leaving just as they begin to fully understand things to the point where they are extremely productive.<p>Along those same lines I think it is the responsibility of an employer to give raises that are equivalent to the salaries they would pay to poach people with a similar level of experience. If you are willing to give someone a significant raise to leave their current company you should be willing to do that for someone within your own company.</text></comment> |
26,278,591 | 26,275,563 | 1 | 3 | 26,273,735 | train | <story><title>The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently</title><url>https://aliabdaal.com/read-more-effectively/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tines</author><text>&gt; But ultimately you could learn just as much about yourself and the world by doing pottery, woodworking, kayaking, knitting or whatever else you like to do with your spare time.<p>I agree with the rest of your post, but this sentence is a hard disagree. Books let you live a version of the lives of other more intelligent people from almost any point in history. How can pottery and kayaking do that?</text></item><item><author>dawg-</author><text>I have noticed an interesting trend in our discourse about reading lately - there seems to be more and more moralizing and virtue signaling. So much self-help and &quot;motivation porn&quot; focuses on reading books, as if it&#x27;s a magical activity that will unlock the best version of oneself. It&#x27;s part of the new aspirational message - imagine yourself rich, happy, driving a Lamborghini, living off dividends from your stonks, and <i>reading books</i>. The people pushing that message get lots of eyeballs on their content because too many people have come to see reading as a lofty, obscure activity only fully accessible to the morally (and therefore financially) superior.<p>It&#x27;s almost like reading has been elevated to a kind of rare alchemy, whereby you can unlock secret cheat codes to life. The feeling that you&#x27;re in rareified air to actually read books. I think anyone who regularly reads books for pleasure should easily see through this - reading is just a hobby. It&#x27;s a fun, intellectually challenging, infinitely variable hobby with a very long and distinguished history. But ultimately you could learn just as much about yourself and the world by doing pottery, woodworking, kayaking, knitting or whatever else you like to do with your spare time. Making it into such a self-serious pursuit kills most of the joy (and value, for that matter).<p>Let&#x27;s try to make reading commonplace, something we almost take for granted. Of course I read books, you read books, we all read books. Everybody poops, and everybody reads books. Wouldn&#x27;t that be great? In that world, a Youtube commercial or Medium article promising that you can unlock secret lamborghinis on the moon by reading exactly 18.75 books a week would suddenly be absurdly transparent in setting off everyone&#x27;s bullshit meters. The question &quot;read any good books lately?&quot; could take on less of a challenging air and more conversational, the way so many people can casually drop 10 quotes from their favorite Netflix show they&#x27;ve been binge watching during their commute to work.<p>Longform reading is magic because it&#x27;s rarer than ever - it&#x27;s an <i>art</i> now, according to people like this author. That&#x27;s why we have so much performative reading, a cheap replacement for the real thing. I&#x27;d rather reading be boring and commonplace, something we do as easily as breathing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ravitation</author><text>What I think is somewhat interesting, is that there are numerous pieces of his&#x2F;her comment, like the piece you quoted, that essentially imply the need for articles like the one posted here.<p>The idea that you can &quot;learn just as much about [...] the world&quot; from things other than what, until very recently, has been the primary mode of inter-generational human communication is pure absurdity. An idea whose absurdity is illustrated by all of human history. The fact that this requires explanation or demonstration is the reason that the current &quot;trend&quot; of elevating reading to a &quot;rare alchemy&quot; exists, because it essentially is if you&#x27;re coming from a place of treating all activities as equal methods of learning.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently</title><url>https://aliabdaal.com/read-more-effectively/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tines</author><text>&gt; But ultimately you could learn just as much about yourself and the world by doing pottery, woodworking, kayaking, knitting or whatever else you like to do with your spare time.<p>I agree with the rest of your post, but this sentence is a hard disagree. Books let you live a version of the lives of other more intelligent people from almost any point in history. How can pottery and kayaking do that?</text></item><item><author>dawg-</author><text>I have noticed an interesting trend in our discourse about reading lately - there seems to be more and more moralizing and virtue signaling. So much self-help and &quot;motivation porn&quot; focuses on reading books, as if it&#x27;s a magical activity that will unlock the best version of oneself. It&#x27;s part of the new aspirational message - imagine yourself rich, happy, driving a Lamborghini, living off dividends from your stonks, and <i>reading books</i>. The people pushing that message get lots of eyeballs on their content because too many people have come to see reading as a lofty, obscure activity only fully accessible to the morally (and therefore financially) superior.<p>It&#x27;s almost like reading has been elevated to a kind of rare alchemy, whereby you can unlock secret cheat codes to life. The feeling that you&#x27;re in rareified air to actually read books. I think anyone who regularly reads books for pleasure should easily see through this - reading is just a hobby. It&#x27;s a fun, intellectually challenging, infinitely variable hobby with a very long and distinguished history. But ultimately you could learn just as much about yourself and the world by doing pottery, woodworking, kayaking, knitting or whatever else you like to do with your spare time. Making it into such a self-serious pursuit kills most of the joy (and value, for that matter).<p>Let&#x27;s try to make reading commonplace, something we almost take for granted. Of course I read books, you read books, we all read books. Everybody poops, and everybody reads books. Wouldn&#x27;t that be great? In that world, a Youtube commercial or Medium article promising that you can unlock secret lamborghinis on the moon by reading exactly 18.75 books a week would suddenly be absurdly transparent in setting off everyone&#x27;s bullshit meters. The question &quot;read any good books lately?&quot; could take on less of a challenging air and more conversational, the way so many people can casually drop 10 quotes from their favorite Netflix show they&#x27;ve been binge watching during their commute to work.<p>Longform reading is magic because it&#x27;s rarer than ever - it&#x27;s an <i>art</i> now, according to people like this author. That&#x27;s why we have so much performative reading, a cheap replacement for the real thing. I&#x27;d rather reading be boring and commonplace, something we do as easily as breathing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gen_greyface</author><text>Doing pottery and kayaking is a better choice for me than reading someone do pottery and kayaking.<p>Edit: and not everything can be learnt from books</text></comment> |
27,974,907 | 27,975,132 | 1 | 2 | 27,973,836 | train | <story><title>Curated list of personal blogs</title><url>https://refined.blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great.<p>I can&#x27;t help but notice all the blogs tagged &quot;software&quot; in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining?<p>I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content.<p>Perhaps it exists, I want an app&#x2F;site that will scrape a list of sites I give it (blogs for example) to show me any new content each day. A personal home page with titles and perhaps a hundred or so words from each site I track that has new content.<p>In the broader picture, I feel overwhelmed by the amount of technology these days, spend too much of my time browsing, etc. (HN, case in point). So I am looking for something I call <i>TRAoT</i>, <i>The Right Amount of Technology</i>.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s a &quot;magic mirror&quot; that displays this overview, home page. Interactivity is minimal or nil. No ability to comment, follow links, etc. Like the morning newspaper of old, I spend a little time in the morning with it and then go about my day &quot;offline&quot;.<p>In short I am looking at ways to take the open-ended and stress inducing (anxiety inducing?) relationships I have with technology and replace them with a more staid, maybe even serendipitous, relationship that allows me back more free time, less stress.<p>Maybe this &quot;Solar Punk&quot; thing is something of the Zeitgeist of our time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fovc</author><text>What you want is RSS, but you don&#x27;t need to learn how it works at all. Go to feedly.com and create a (free) account. Add sites you want to follow (there&#x27;s an &#x27;add content&#x27; button which lets you search by URL). Done. Feedly will give you a home page with titles and blurbs, and for many sites you can even get the &#x27;reader mode&#x27; content without navigating to the site directly.<p>[Not affiliated with feedly, just a happy user]</text></comment> | <story><title>Curated list of personal blogs</title><url>https://refined.blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great.<p>I can&#x27;t help but notice all the blogs tagged &quot;software&quot; in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining?<p>I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content.<p>Perhaps it exists, I want an app&#x2F;site that will scrape a list of sites I give it (blogs for example) to show me any new content each day. A personal home page with titles and perhaps a hundred or so words from each site I track that has new content.<p>In the broader picture, I feel overwhelmed by the amount of technology these days, spend too much of my time browsing, etc. (HN, case in point). So I am looking for something I call <i>TRAoT</i>, <i>The Right Amount of Technology</i>.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s a &quot;magic mirror&quot; that displays this overview, home page. Interactivity is minimal or nil. No ability to comment, follow links, etc. Like the morning newspaper of old, I spend a little time in the morning with it and then go about my day &quot;offline&quot;.<p>In short I am looking at ways to take the open-ended and stress inducing (anxiety inducing?) relationships I have with technology and replace them with a more staid, maybe even serendipitous, relationship that allows me back more free time, less stress.<p>Maybe this &quot;Solar Punk&quot; thing is something of the Zeitgeist of our time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WorldMaker</author><text>In the Ancient Times there were a couple of different approaches to something similar to what you are asking for.<p>On the one side, for many years that was what people considered their &quot;home page&quot;: you&#x27;d use a &quot;Portal&quot; like Yahoo! or MSN.com and they&#x27;d support all sorts of customization, including blocks for RSS feeds you&#x27;d give it. It&#x27;s hard to imagine today&#x27;s super-curated and overly news-obsessed Yahoo! or MSN.com being truly customizable and allowing you to pick and choose RSS feeds over media conglomerate content, but Yahoo! has fallen quite far from its peak and MSN.com and others were always flirting with the media conglomerates over user interests.<p>The other thing that existed in the Ancient Times that even fewer remember today was that HP believed RSS feeds actually could herald the &quot;personal morning newspaper era&quot; and that it would be great for printer and ink sales so they had an RSS reader for years that you&#x27;d give it a list of RSS feeds and a print schedule and it would happily have your &quot;morning newspaper&quot; printed and waiting for you.<p>It was an interesting idea, though I still don&#x27;t think the waste of paper&#x2F;ink on that was necessarily the best idea for the planet, but there was some romance to the concept of a &quot;personalized morning newspaper&quot;.<p>Most e-readers have an RSS app or three, some with strong offline support. You might be able to get what you want from the right app.<p>I&#x27;ve also seen some interesting DIY projects (mostly here on HN) of people taking big e-ink displays and building ambient personal news surfaces. Nothing productized yet, but very cool to see people DIY exploring the &quot;magic mirror&quot; spaces for non-interactive &quot;here&#x27;s a glance at stuff you care about&quot; displays.</text></comment> |
6,073,706 | 6,073,755 | 1 | 2 | 6,073,519 | train | <story><title>Tumblr responds to complaints about censorship</title><url>http://staff.tumblr.com/post/55906556378/all-weve-heard-from-a-bunch-of-you-who-are</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>epochwolf</author><text>So... this doesn&#x27;t really seem to add anything. They admit to having a Adult flag which removes the blog from all site listings and from google searches. This effectively kills the blog. What they don&#x27;t deny is recently and massively increasing the scope of the flagging. This is what people are worried about. People are claiming non-spam nsfw blogs are being flagged. Blogs that wouldn&#x27;t have been banned before.<p>Blocking tags on the mobile app is a separate issue, they don&#x27;t really have a choice here. Apple will pull their app if they don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpicard</author><text>The article says that being blocked from searches and search engines was a bug:<p>&gt; As some of you have pointed out, disabling Safe Mode still wasn’t allowing search results from all blogs to appear. This has been fixed.<p>&gt; If your blog contains anything too sexy for the average workplace, simply check &quot;Flag this blog as NSFW&quot; so people in Safe Mode can avoid it. Your blog will still be promoted in third-party search engines.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tumblr responds to complaints about censorship</title><url>http://staff.tumblr.com/post/55906556378/all-weve-heard-from-a-bunch-of-you-who-are</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>epochwolf</author><text>So... this doesn&#x27;t really seem to add anything. They admit to having a Adult flag which removes the blog from all site listings and from google searches. This effectively kills the blog. What they don&#x27;t deny is recently and massively increasing the scope of the flagging. This is what people are worried about. People are claiming non-spam nsfw blogs are being flagged. Blogs that wouldn&#x27;t have been banned before.<p>Blocking tags on the mobile app is a separate issue, they don&#x27;t really have a choice here. Apple will pull their app if they don&#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidu</author><text>Searching for NSFW tags is working fine now on the web app. It wasn&#x27;t this morning. That was the bug they fixed.</text></comment> |
17,323,888 | 17,323,765 | 1 | 2 | 17,320,739 | train | <story><title>Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/15/business/pregnancy-discrimination.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rednerrus</author><text>One of the solutions to this is matching paternity leave.<p>If I gave you the choice of two employees, one of whom would take 12 weeks of paid leave and one who would take 2 weeks of paid leave, which would you choose?<p>If you offered both sexes 12 weeks of paid leave, you wouldn&#x27;t have to make this decision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovich</author><text>You&#x27;d have to make it mandatory leave. The social pressure is still tilted towards women as care givers and men as providers so more men will end up not using the leave. If it becomes mandatory then it&#x27;s just a baked in rising to every employee, _and_ will probably do better for society to have both parents get time with their children.<p>I believe some European states solve this by having the state cover ~60% of your wage while on leave so that it&#x27;s not a giant burden for companies</text></comment> | <story><title>Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/15/business/pregnancy-discrimination.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rednerrus</author><text>One of the solutions to this is matching paternity leave.<p>If I gave you the choice of two employees, one of whom would take 12 weeks of paid leave and one who would take 2 weeks of paid leave, which would you choose?<p>If you offered both sexes 12 weeks of paid leave, you wouldn&#x27;t have to make this decision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I agree completely. I think this effect of paternity leave is under appreciated by men and greatly feared by employers.<p>I can understand how an employer gets concerned about an employee being gone for 3 or 4 months and whether or not they admit it selecting&#x2F;biasing against that possibility in hiring rather than just figuring out how to deal with it.</text></comment> |
14,034,726 | 14,034,771 | 1 | 3 | 14,033,216 | train | <story><title>Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/in-memoriam-reddits-72-hour-live-graffiti-wall-as-a-social-experiment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CarVac</author><text>There was another fascinating aspect of politics that sprang up due to Place: inter-community politics.<p>My community (Madoka Magica) was continuously communicating with our neighbors on all sides, ranging from the gigantic PrequelMemes to our right, Canada to our south, Homestuck, the Greek and Turkish flags mentioned in the article (which really were warring for quite a time before the heart appeared), and even tiny little subreddits like the AEIROU who we had to relocate as part of negotiations for our expansion.<p>There was constant debate about where to expand, who to defend against, who was being a jerk and needed to be wiped out... it was like a game of Diplomacy more than anything else.</text></item><item><author>rmccoy6435</author><text>I think this was a pretty neat experiment. For the first 24 hours everything was chaos, then it settled down in the middle as communities formed, then at the end it was just annoying as every subreddit was trying to take over real-estate, and far too many people were taking it way too seriously. It got annoying going to certain subreddits that I subscribe to for content started getting flooded with &quot;Man the decks, we need to defend this!&quot;.<p>The other thing this author tried to make this about was politics. I think the one thing this really showed was most people on reddit don&#x27;t really care about politics, but the vocal minority on there makes it seem like it&#x27;s the forefront of every issue. I don&#x27;t think there is anything actually political on the final &#x2F;r&#x2F;place piece other than country flags. Maybe this was more about how disinterested the majority of redditors are with politics rather than how politics were being squashed out by other users?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nexxxeh</author><text>&#x2F;r&#x2F;wales and &#x2F;faroeislands had a mutual defense pact, enabling both (small in terms of Reddit) communities to punch above their weight.<p>It was great fun, fighting off trolls and attempts by other subreddits to aquire further real estate for themselves.<p>&#x2F;u&#x2F;SCtester cleaned up the final image to fix up (ed: some of) the in-progress and rogue pixels and damage by the &quot;void&quot; group.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;7E3bAnE.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;7E3bAnE.png</a><p>There are several errors in his fixup, &quot;Hypercum&quot; being an example. &#x2F;r&#x2F;Scotland got lucky at lock-time, they came closer to being Scatland.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/in-memoriam-reddits-72-hour-live-graffiti-wall-as-a-social-experiment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CarVac</author><text>There was another fascinating aspect of politics that sprang up due to Place: inter-community politics.<p>My community (Madoka Magica) was continuously communicating with our neighbors on all sides, ranging from the gigantic PrequelMemes to our right, Canada to our south, Homestuck, the Greek and Turkish flags mentioned in the article (which really were warring for quite a time before the heart appeared), and even tiny little subreddits like the AEIROU who we had to relocate as part of negotiations for our expansion.<p>There was constant debate about where to expand, who to defend against, who was being a jerk and needed to be wiped out... it was like a game of Diplomacy more than anything else.</text></item><item><author>rmccoy6435</author><text>I think this was a pretty neat experiment. For the first 24 hours everything was chaos, then it settled down in the middle as communities formed, then at the end it was just annoying as every subreddit was trying to take over real-estate, and far too many people were taking it way too seriously. It got annoying going to certain subreddits that I subscribe to for content started getting flooded with &quot;Man the decks, we need to defend this!&quot;.<p>The other thing this author tried to make this about was politics. I think the one thing this really showed was most people on reddit don&#x27;t really care about politics, but the vocal minority on there makes it seem like it&#x27;s the forefront of every issue. I don&#x27;t think there is anything actually political on the final &#x2F;r&#x2F;place piece other than country flags. Maybe this was more about how disinterested the majority of redditors are with politics rather than how politics were being squashed out by other users?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bsamuels</author><text>&gt; it was like a game of Diplomacy more than anything else.<p>Maybe that&#x27;s why the EVE Online guys were able to hold their own so well against the larger and more popular games right next to their logo :)</text></comment> |
41,402,230 | 41,400,169 | 1 | 2 | 41,376,893 | train | <story><title>Micrograd.jl</title><url>https://liorsinai.github.io/machine-learning/2024/07/27/micrograd-1-chainrules.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anon389r58r58</author><text>Almost feels like a fallacy of Julia at this point, on the one hand Julia really needs a stable, high-performance AD-engine, but on the other hand it seems to be fairly easy to get a minimal AD-package off the ground.<p>And so the perennial cycle continues and another Julia AD-package emerges, and ignores all&#x2F;most previous work in order to claim novelty.<p>Without a claim for a complete list: ReverseDiff.jl, ForwardDiff.jl, Zygote.jl, Enzyme.jl, Tangent.jl, Diffractor.jl, and many more whose name has disappeared in the short history of Julia...</text></comment> | <story><title>Micrograd.jl</title><url>https://liorsinai.github.io/machine-learning/2024/07/27/micrograd-1-chainrules.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xyproto</author><text>Why did Julia select a package naming convention that makes every project name look like a filename?</text></comment> |
32,064,083 | 32,056,766 | 1 | 2 | 32,055,633 | train | <story><title>Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin</title><url>https://flyingbarron.medium.com/day-2-operations-with-the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-about-to-begin-44049577d382</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kibwen</author><text>In case you haven&#x27;t seen the first image yet, here&#x27;s a gif comparison of the first JWST photo with a Hubble photo of the same region of the sky: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;9uyhwijeo0b91.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;9uyhwijeo0b91.gif</a><p>EDIT: Better comparison: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgsli.com&#x2F;MTE2Mjc3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgsli.com&#x2F;MTE2Mjc3</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Day 2 Operations with the James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin</title><url>https://flyingbarron.medium.com/day-2-operations-with-the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-about-to-begin-44049577d382</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rob74</author><text>If this &quot;day 2&quot; does not refer to an actual day (which does not have a real meaning if you&#x27;re not on a planet), but to a phase, why do they call it &quot;day&quot; and not &quot;phase&quot;? Does &quot;phase&quot; have some kind of negative connotation, does it sound too &quot;scientific&quot;?</text></comment> |
24,682,945 | 24,682,852 | 1 | 2 | 24,682,517 | train | <story><title>Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]</title><url>https://cases.justia.com/california/court-of-appeal/2020-h044395.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>batmaniam</author><text>We should rid of the term &#x27;poaching&#x27;. There&#x27;s no such thing. We&#x27;re not animals, we are free to accept a better offer it comes along. The CEO should have counter offered with something more substantial, but he couldn&#x27;t so the engineers went to greener pastures.</text></item><item><author>tallgiraffe</author><text>Sounds like a few engineers found out that Apple was looking into their company and knowing Apple was interested they took a new gig, meanwhile the CEO got upset and decided to fire the last remaining defecting engineer, who out of goodness of heart actually declined Apple, but gratefully took the offer once he got fired. Although it probably hurts to have your team poached, it sounds like potentially it wasn&#x27;t a great working environment to begin with as the team was happy to jump ship at the first notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bernawil</author><text><p><pre><code> We&#x27;re not animals
so the engineers went to greener pastures
</code></pre>
...for grazing?</text></comment> | <story><title>Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]</title><url>https://cases.justia.com/california/court-of-appeal/2020-h044395.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>batmaniam</author><text>We should rid of the term &#x27;poaching&#x27;. There&#x27;s no such thing. We&#x27;re not animals, we are free to accept a better offer it comes along. The CEO should have counter offered with something more substantial, but he couldn&#x27;t so the engineers went to greener pastures.</text></item><item><author>tallgiraffe</author><text>Sounds like a few engineers found out that Apple was looking into their company and knowing Apple was interested they took a new gig, meanwhile the CEO got upset and decided to fire the last remaining defecting engineer, who out of goodness of heart actually declined Apple, but gratefully took the offer once he got fired. Although it probably hurts to have your team poached, it sounds like potentially it wasn&#x27;t a great working environment to begin with as the team was happy to jump ship at the first notice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blhack</author><text>&gt;but he couldn&#x27;t so the engineers went to greener pastures.<p>She.</text></comment> |
35,335,699 | 35,334,975 | 1 | 2 | 35,334,299 | train | <story><title>The perils of polishing old Fortran libraries</title><url>https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/the-perils-of-polishing-long/5444</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zippyman55</author><text>My favorite personal Fortran story: I was passing by a WAY SMARTER THAN I COULD EVER HOPE FOR guy who was pouring over a two inch Print-out of some scientific code. He had been trying to troubleshoot a problem. I guess a comma was in the 80th column, which I recall presents an error. In my passing by, I pointed out the error (one second) and I always had his respect after that.</text></comment> | <story><title>The perils of polishing old Fortran libraries</title><url>https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/the-perils-of-polishing-long/5444</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>I mean the lesson I&#x27;d take from that is &quot;don&#x27;t use a buggy compiler&quot;. If you can&#x27;t trust your tools then it&#x27;s very hard to make something you can trust with them. That changing the code means it compiled in an incorrect way that your test case happened to hit doesn&#x27;t mean the previous version of the code was being compiled correctly, or was correct code.</text></comment> |
17,299,931 | 17,299,878 | 1 | 2 | 17,299,209 | train | <story><title>Id Software</title><url>https://github.com/id-Software</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaliforniaKarl</author><text>For some of the history of that time, I suggest checking out &quot;Masters of Doom : how two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture&quot;, by David Kushner. The book is 15 years old (!!!) at this point, but I think it&#x27;s still a compelling read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>westoncb</author><text>I can second that—it&#x27;s an excellent book. It put a clear image in my mind of the sort of environment I&#x27;d like to develop software in: primarily just a group of friends who have a shared idea of something cool they want to build together. I&#x27;ve been disillusioned that that will happen at a Silicon Valley type startup (not that it&#x27;s impossible—but far more likely that the founders will segregate themselves from employees in such a way that everyone involved can&#x27;t feel the same passion, commitment, interest, etc.—or even just the knowledge that they&#x27;re going through the same struggle at the same time. Also the big stakes and investor pressure etc. are almost certainly gonna drain the fun.), but I&#x27;m still hopeful I can find or create similar circumstances elsewhere.</text></comment> | <story><title>Id Software</title><url>https://github.com/id-Software</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CaliforniaKarl</author><text>For some of the history of that time, I suggest checking out &quot;Masters of Doom : how two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture&quot;, by David Kushner. The book is 15 years old (!!!) at this point, but I think it&#x27;s still a compelling read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>movedx</author><text>I also recommend the NoClip documentary on Id Software and on the back of that, virtually any interview with John Romeo -- the guy is awesome and so willing to share his thoughts, ideas, history, anything...</text></comment> |
20,912,849 | 20,912,444 | 1 | 3 | 20,911,534 | train | <story><title>Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1M miles</title><url>https://electrek.co/2019/09/07/tesla-battery-cell-last-1-million-miles-robot-taxis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guerby</author><text>Two things missed by the electrek piece:<p>- The article is CC-BY and downloable without scribd horrible UI:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jes.ecsdl.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;166&#x2F;13&#x2F;A3031" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jes.ecsdl.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;166&#x2F;13&#x2F;A3031</a>
PDF direct <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jes.ecsdl.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;166&#x2F;13&#x2F;A3031.full.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jes.ecsdl.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;166&#x2F;13&#x2F;A3031.full.pdf</a>
HTML direct <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jes.ecsdl.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;166&#x2F;13&#x2F;A3031.full.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jes.ecsdl.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;166&#x2F;13&#x2F;A3031.full.html</a><p>- In the conclusion the authors mention:
Full details of these cells including electrode compositions, electrode loadings, electrolyte compositions, additives used, etc. have been provided in contrast to literature reports using commercial cells. This has been done so that others can re-create these cells and use them as benchmarks for their own R+D efforts be they in the spaces of Li-ion cells or “beyond Li-ion cells”.<p>So it&#x27;s science as it should be!</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla battery researcher unveils new cell that could last 1M miles</title><url>https://electrek.co/2019/09/07/tesla-battery-cell-last-1-million-miles-robot-taxis/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Osiris30</author><text>Short thread commentary on the paper by Ric Fulop (co-founder of A123 battery co. and current CEO&#x2F;founder of Desktop Metal):
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ricfulop&#x2F;status&#x2F;1170527207657263104" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;ricfulop&#x2F;status&#x2F;1170527207657263104</a></text></comment> |
17,355,890 | 17,353,008 | 1 | 2 | 17,350,645 | train | <story><title>The Machine Fired Me</title><url>https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davedx</author><text>That&#x27;s weird though. Was it a three year contract or wasn&#x27;t it?</text></item><item><author>astura</author><text>Their account got cancelled because the contract did not get renewed. Sounds like the company fulfilled the terms of the original contract, just (accidentally) didn&#x27;t renew it. Many long term contracts require periodic renewals and&#x2F;or options.<p>&gt;Some of that work included renewing my contract in the new system... When my contract expired, the machine took over and fired me.</text></item><item><author>isostatic</author><text>Surely a 3 year contract means the company is in breach of it by not paying you?</text></item><item><author>rectang</author><text>&gt; <i>I missed 3 weeks of pay because no one could stop the machine.</i><p>Why has this company not made their loyal worker whole? He stayed there when they needed him even when their system was trying to lock him out.<p>They need to fix this. If they don&#x27;t, they are not a company anyone should work for. Perhaps the worker did not want to risk making a big stink, but a manager should have taken the initiative. Humans were involved by the end and well aware of what was going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bartweiss</author><text>As I read the piece, it was a three year contract which was included in the old HR system, but not ported to the new one. If that&#x27;s true, it was certainly breach of contract - &quot;we forgot to upload the paperwork&quot; doesn&#x27;t get you out of honoring it.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Machine Fired Me</title><url>https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davedx</author><text>That&#x27;s weird though. Was it a three year contract or wasn&#x27;t it?</text></item><item><author>astura</author><text>Their account got cancelled because the contract did not get renewed. Sounds like the company fulfilled the terms of the original contract, just (accidentally) didn&#x27;t renew it. Many long term contracts require periodic renewals and&#x2F;or options.<p>&gt;Some of that work included renewing my contract in the new system... When my contract expired, the machine took over and fired me.</text></item><item><author>isostatic</author><text>Surely a 3 year contract means the company is in breach of it by not paying you?</text></item><item><author>rectang</author><text>&gt; <i>I missed 3 weeks of pay because no one could stop the machine.</i><p>Why has this company not made their loyal worker whole? He stayed there when they needed him even when their system was trying to lock him out.<p>They need to fix this. If they don&#x27;t, they are not a company anyone should work for. Perhaps the worker did not want to risk making a big stink, but a manager should have taken the initiative. Humans were involved by the end and well aware of what was going on.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Spooky23</author><text>With contract staff, the duration is usually a not to exceed. Also, it’s typically a contract to deliver a person with specific skill, not a specific person.<p>There are exceptions, but they are pretty rare in tech.</text></comment> |
13,588,782 | 13,587,129 | 1 | 2 | 13,586,596 | train | <story><title>I hate almost all software (2011)</title><url>http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amasad</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a software problem. It&#x27;s a general legacy systems problem. Think of self-driving cars. It seems plausible that one day all cars on the street will be self-driving, at which point the existing system -- which was designed for humans -- is a legacy system that is not efficient for the current users. If you were to design an autonomous transportation system from the ground-up I doubt, for example, you&#x27;ll put in stop signs that cars have to read via machine vision. You&#x27;d probably have that information somewhere on the internet (or better yet, design something from the ground up that doesn&#x27;t require stopping).<p>You can see how this translates to computing. The reason why I still have to deal with a `document` object while building apps in JavaScript is because we built an application distribution platform on top of a document viewer. There is no centralized planning here -- we&#x27;re just riding a wave of distributed innovation and making the best out of it. (Nor should you expect centralized planning in technology to emerge unless a superintelligent AI system takes over).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Javascript is the app distribution platform that <i>won</i>, because the others were worse.<p>ActiveX? Too much lockin, no sandbox. Java applets? Too heavyweight. Flash? Nice tooling for the producer, <i>terrible</i> security record. ClickOnce&#x2F;Silverlight? Never really got out of the gate and would have been MS&#x2F;Win only.<p>The next generation of app distribution is &quot;app stores&quot; with arbitrary refusal policies which take a 30% cut of sales. A success for Apple.<p>Javascript <i>mostly</i> delivers &quot;write once, run anywhere&quot;, albeit through a vast shifting layer of shims. Its sandbox is pretty reliable. It&#x27;s not owned by anyone and they can&#x27;t stop you shipping JS apps. Thus it survives.</text></comment> | <story><title>I hate almost all software (2011)</title><url>http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amasad</author><text>I don&#x27;t think this is a software problem. It&#x27;s a general legacy systems problem. Think of self-driving cars. It seems plausible that one day all cars on the street will be self-driving, at which point the existing system -- which was designed for humans -- is a legacy system that is not efficient for the current users. If you were to design an autonomous transportation system from the ground-up I doubt, for example, you&#x27;ll put in stop signs that cars have to read via machine vision. You&#x27;d probably have that information somewhere on the internet (or better yet, design something from the ground up that doesn&#x27;t require stopping).<p>You can see how this translates to computing. The reason why I still have to deal with a `document` object while building apps in JavaScript is because we built an application distribution platform on top of a document viewer. There is no centralized planning here -- we&#x27;re just riding a wave of distributed innovation and making the best out of it. (Nor should you expect centralized planning in technology to emerge unless a superintelligent AI system takes over).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marssaxman</author><text>I wish it still were just a document viewer. Turning it into an application distribution platform has mostly ruined it.</text></comment> |
24,046,907 | 24,041,913 | 1 | 3 | 24,038,520 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)</title><text>Please state the job location and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and&#x2F;or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is <i>not</i> an option, include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn&#x27;t a household name,
please explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don&#x27;t reply to job posts to complain about
something. It&#x27;s off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: Try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;findwork.dev&#x2F;?source=hn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;findwork.dev&#x2F;?source=hn</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennytilton.github.io&#x2F;whoishiring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennytilton.github.io&#x2F;whoishiring&#x2F;</a>,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnhired.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnhired.com&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don&#x27;t miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038518" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038518</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038519" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038519</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dang</author><text>This is a stub to gather the replies so they take up less space at the top of the page. Apologies to no-JS users.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>All: don&#x27;t miss that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. That&#x27;s what the &quot;More&quot; link at the bottom of the page points to. Or click here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038520&amp;p=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038520&amp;p=2</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbetteridge</author><text>What are the chances of adding a rule on &quot;REMOTE for the moment&quot; style tags?<p>It makes searching annoying and doesn&#x27;t add much if the job itself has an office location.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)</title><text>Please state the job location and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and&#x2F;or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is <i>not</i> an option, include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn&#x27;t a household name,
please explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don&#x27;t reply to job posts to complain about
something. It&#x27;s off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: Try <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;findwork.dev&#x2F;?source=hn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;findwork.dev&#x2F;?source=hn</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennytilton.github.io&#x2F;whoishiring&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennytilton.github.io&#x2F;whoishiring&#x2F;</a>,
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnhired.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnhired.com&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don&#x27;t miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038518" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038518</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038519" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038519</a></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>dang</author><text>This is a stub to gather the replies so they take up less space at the top of the page. Apologies to no-JS users.</text></item><item><author>dang</author><text>All: don&#x27;t miss that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. That&#x27;s what the &quot;More&quot; link at the bottom of the page points to. Or click here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038520&amp;p=2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24038520&amp;p=2</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idlewords</author><text>Have you considered putting pagination links at the top of the threads as well?</text></comment> |
19,476,469 | 19,476,319 | 1 | 3 | 19,476,228 | train | <story><title>Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed terminal</title><url>https://github.com/felixse/FluentTerminal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hs86</author><text>The situation for terminal emulators is still bad on Windows.<p>Those web-based ones have no problems with fancy font features like powerline icons or ligatures but they still have a limitation when it comes to color support. [1] Fluent seems to be affected from this as well.<p>The other important feature for me is tmux with mouse support. To my knowledge, only WSLtty [2] does this right. It lacks support for font ligatures but I value a functional tmux more than some ligature eye candy.<p>I still hope that Microsoft will improve their own conhost.exe in further updates. Also, the upcoming 1903 update will improve the color support those web-based terminal emulators.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zeit&#x2F;hyper&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1968" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zeit&#x2F;hyper&#x2F;issues&#x2F;1968</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mintty&#x2F;wsltty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mintty&#x2F;wsltty</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Fluent Terminal – Open-source, native Windows 10 tabbed terminal</title><url>https://github.com/felixse/FluentTerminal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>norswap</author><text>Interesting. I&#x27;m wondering how it stacks up against ConEmu [1], which has been the MVP of terminal emulators on Windows for a long time now.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conemu.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conemu.github.io&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
17,725,303 | 17,725,549 | 1 | 2 | 17,723,404 | train | <story><title>Julia 1.0</title><url>https://julialang.org/blog/2018/08/one-point-zero</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>athenot</author><text>As an outsider, I&#x27;d like to see somewhere near the home page a few short snippets of code to get a feel for Julia and hopefully show the kind of uses for which it is a natural choice.<p>Nim&#x27;s home page¹ shows a piece of sample code right at the top. Perl6&#x27;s page² has a few tabs quickly showing some patterns it&#x27;s good at. Golang³ has a dynamic interpreter prepopulated with a Hello World.<p>Julia&#x27;s home page shows a nice feature list and links to docs to deep dive but it doesn&#x27;t do a good job of selling it.<p>¹ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org</a><p>² <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perl6.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perl6.org</a><p>³ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChrisRackauckas</author><text>For scientific computing, showing the package ecosystem is the most important thing. When you look at this thread, people are asking about dataframes and differential equations. Julia&#x27;s site reflects this: yes there are things like Pandas, and for plotting, etc.</text></comment> | <story><title>Julia 1.0</title><url>https://julialang.org/blog/2018/08/one-point-zero</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>athenot</author><text>As an outsider, I&#x27;d like to see somewhere near the home page a few short snippets of code to get a feel for Julia and hopefully show the kind of uses for which it is a natural choice.<p>Nim&#x27;s home page¹ shows a piece of sample code right at the top. Perl6&#x27;s page² has a few tabs quickly showing some patterns it&#x27;s good at. Golang³ has a dynamic interpreter prepopulated with a Hello World.<p>Julia&#x27;s home page shows a nice feature list and links to docs to deep dive but it doesn&#x27;t do a good job of selling it.<p>¹ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org</a><p>² <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perl6.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;perl6.org</a><p>³ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.org</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3JPLW</author><text>Definitely agree. We just revamped the website and I&#x27;d love to see some domain-specific examples of Julia code in the multi-tab &quot;ecosystem&quot; section. I think it&#x27;d make a great addition. :)</text></comment> |
21,722,582 | 21,722,212 | 1 | 3 | 21,718,306 | train | <story><title>The eleven nations of the United States and their cultures</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willis936</author><text>Upstate NY is not Yankeedom. It is Greater Appalachia.<p>Also, many of the Midwest states are less Yankeedom and more Heartland.<p>Also, Dallas is Greater Appalachia and not Deep South yet Houston is Deep South and not New France?<p>Also, LA is El Norte and not the Left Coast?<p>Was this map based on 200 year old data?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>simonsarris</author><text>Yeah even the Nine Nations, from the 1980&#x27;s, is more accurate, with better names (though I&#x27;d like Ecotopia to be called Cascadia)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Nine_Nations_of_North_America" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Nine_Nations_of_North_Amer...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>The eleven nations of the United States and their cultures</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>willis936</author><text>Upstate NY is not Yankeedom. It is Greater Appalachia.<p>Also, many of the Midwest states are less Yankeedom and more Heartland.<p>Also, Dallas is Greater Appalachia and not Deep South yet Houston is Deep South and not New France?<p>Also, LA is El Norte and not the Left Coast?<p>Was this map based on 200 year old data?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joncp</author><text>Putting Upstate into one bucket is going to be problematic no matter what label you give it. The southern tier is definitely Appalachia, the eastern side is Yankeedom, and WNY is heartland.</text></comment> |
14,292,800 | 14,292,762 | 1 | 2 | 14,291,461 | train | <story><title>IBM says remote working is great after forcing employees to work from office</title><url>https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/05/08/ibm-remote-working-panel/#.tnw_fGon9xiN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nobleach</author><text>The no-work-from-home mentality is something I wish would die. I&#x27;ve heard form plenty of friends who&#x27;ve been interviewing with tech companies lately, that it&#x27;s a discouraged practice. I make it a contingency for any job I&#x27;ve considered over the last 5 years. We&#x27;re all adults, if you are worried that you won&#x27;t know what I&#x27;ve been up to, you can check my Pull Requests in our source control system. If you worry that communication is an issue, just watch the Slack channels in which I&#x27;m involved. I mean, I can come to work and put on my headphones and talk to you via Slack, or do so from my couch at home. The most common excuse I get is that &quot;some bad apples ruined it for the whole bunch&quot;. I&#x27;m sorry... a multi-billon dollar company isn&#x27;t kindergarten. It is entirely possible to create a behavior improvement plan for ONE &quot;bad apple&quot;. The rest of us big boys and girls can probably handle it. I just switched team at my current job and have started getting the &quot;well, we don&#x27;t want to abuse it&quot; talk. What??? Abuse? quit treating it like it&#x27;s some sort of privilege. I work. I use a laptop... which means as long as I have an internet connection and VPN access, I can do it from anywhere! If you&#x27;re worried you can&#x27;t get an answer to your question on a moment&#x27;s notice, try Slacking me sometime.<p>I find this very common with managers that are scared that they are irrelevant. (they may not understand what their employees actually do) So they work hard to micro-manage the details they _do_ understand. It&#x27;s sad. I&#x27;m a pretty good self-starter&#x2F;motivator, and when I work from home, I typically start an hour earlier. When I&#x27;m at my desk in the building, I get distracted all day (whether by requests, or just talking to other employees) When will the tech industry learn?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eksemplar</author><text>We&#x27;ve measured productivity of remote work compared to in house work. I work in the public sector so it&#x27;s mainly not programming, but caseworking and similar. We&#x27;ve found that productivity is way down when people work at home, we&#x27;ve however also found that allowing people to slack once in a while increases their overall performance.<p>The optimal results come from people working mainly at the office. Now this may be completely different for development houses, our coders are some of the most productive when working remote, IT in general is below average though.</text></comment> | <story><title>IBM says remote working is great after forcing employees to work from office</title><url>https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/05/08/ibm-remote-working-panel/#.tnw_fGon9xiN</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nobleach</author><text>The no-work-from-home mentality is something I wish would die. I&#x27;ve heard form plenty of friends who&#x27;ve been interviewing with tech companies lately, that it&#x27;s a discouraged practice. I make it a contingency for any job I&#x27;ve considered over the last 5 years. We&#x27;re all adults, if you are worried that you won&#x27;t know what I&#x27;ve been up to, you can check my Pull Requests in our source control system. If you worry that communication is an issue, just watch the Slack channels in which I&#x27;m involved. I mean, I can come to work and put on my headphones and talk to you via Slack, or do so from my couch at home. The most common excuse I get is that &quot;some bad apples ruined it for the whole bunch&quot;. I&#x27;m sorry... a multi-billon dollar company isn&#x27;t kindergarten. It is entirely possible to create a behavior improvement plan for ONE &quot;bad apple&quot;. The rest of us big boys and girls can probably handle it. I just switched team at my current job and have started getting the &quot;well, we don&#x27;t want to abuse it&quot; talk. What??? Abuse? quit treating it like it&#x27;s some sort of privilege. I work. I use a laptop... which means as long as I have an internet connection and VPN access, I can do it from anywhere! If you&#x27;re worried you can&#x27;t get an answer to your question on a moment&#x27;s notice, try Slacking me sometime.<p>I find this very common with managers that are scared that they are irrelevant. (they may not understand what their employees actually do) So they work hard to micro-manage the details they _do_ understand. It&#x27;s sad. I&#x27;m a pretty good self-starter&#x2F;motivator, and when I work from home, I typically start an hour earlier. When I&#x27;m at my desk in the building, I get distracted all day (whether by requests, or just talking to other employees) When will the tech industry learn?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joky</author><text>Remote working kills team work IMO. I would never want to work fully remotely, and I can&#x27;t collaborate as well with fully remote teammate. How do you get a whiteboard brainstorming sessions?
2 days remote &#x2F; week is a good balance that fits me quite well.<p>Now if you don&#x27;t work on hard-to-solve problem, or projects that don&#x27;t require high collaboration, why not.<p>Edit: I should add that I&#x27;ve been working fully remote (500km away of the office) for almost 3 years, and then with a team split on two different continents for one year. I so much enjoy being in the office since then, even just for having lunch and coffee with anyone, and being able to stop by anyone&#x27;s desk&#x2F;office to unblock an issue.</text></comment> |
38,099,074 | 38,089,536 | 1 | 2 | 38,085,417 | train | <story><title>Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/homeschooling-growth-data-by-district/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmazzoni</author><text>Are you comparing the best public schools to the best homeschools? Or the worst to the worst? Or the average to the average?<p>I suspect that the education kids get at the worst 20% of public schools in the country is still way better than the worst 20% of homeschoolers.<p>I also would totally believe that the education kids get at the top 20% of homeschools is better than the average public school.<p>Public schools are far from perfect, but there are minimum standards and there are resources at the state and federal level to try to improve schools that aren&#x27;t meeting those standards.<p>My problem with homeschools is that in most states, there aren&#x27;t any standards being enforced. If homeschools had surprise inspections and biannual state-run testing, I&#x27;d be fine with it.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>Sure, I don&#x27;t think anyone denies that there are some home schooling horror stories. But it really doesn&#x27;t seem like most public schools do a great job either, so the question is if this broken system damages more people than one dominated by home schooling.</text></item><item><author>pixl97</author><text>There are plenty of &#x27;public school&#x27; horror stories because these things are public and can be audited in a great number of cases.<p>You don&#x27;t get to hear the homeschooling horrors when they happen because they are private. Maybe you&#x27;ll be a therapist and years later get to talk to one of these people how they are effectively crippled for the rest of their life. Or you&#x27;ll be like me that grew up in a place that had a bunch of religious organizations that homeschooled most of their children with educations that I&#x27;d consider completely and totally deficient, and then pull those same people back into the organization as cheap&#x2F;uneducated labor they could abuse.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>It seems to me that the only relevant question here is how home schooling compares to public schools when it comes to “horror stories.” And there certainly aren’t a lack of public school horror stories…</text></item><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>There are many home-schooling success stories, and also many home-schooling horror stories.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.harvard.edu&#x2F;gazette&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;law-school-professor-says-there-may-be-a-dark-side-of-homeschooling&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.harvard.edu&#x2F;gazette&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;law-school-pr...</a></text></item><item><author>brightball</author><text>When I moved into my current house about 10 years ago, the family next door home schooled. I&#x27;d never known any home schoolers before and definitely had some notions about how terrible it must be until I learned about it.<p>This family was part of a home school group with other families. The kids went to different houses every day and had an instructor focus on 1 subject for half of the day, mixed in with free time, depending on the age. 2 subjects per day, so as a parent your teaching commitment was a half day a week on 1 subject.<p>They would do field trips. They held a school play in a garage complete with costumes and video. And the kids were smart, well mannered, socially adjusted kids with very happy and normal lives. And there are plenty of sports opportunities as well. As far as I know, they all went to public high school too.<p>Completely shifted my view of what I thought home schooling was, which was the kids stuck in 1 house with 1 parent all day in social isolation.<p>The reality was closer to a model of a Montessori school which has a huge amount of success stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NoMoreNicksLeft</author><text>I read r&#x2F;teachers every few days.<p>Yesterday, there was a teach complaining that they weren&#x27;t allowed to flunk students who did not show up for class. For middle school. They weren&#x27;t allowed to flunk students who scored 0% on tests, because they would sit at the back of class and play on smartphones the entire time, or disruptively talk to other students.<p>When they would demand from administration some kind of answer, they&#x27;d be told they weren&#x27;t doing enough to engage the students.<p>You claim there are minimum standards, and technically that&#x27;s true... any of us could look those standards up on the internet in only a moment, those standards are ignored for some incredibly large fraction of public schools.<p>&gt; If homeschools had surprise inspections and biannual state-run testing, I&#x27;d be fine with it.<p>The great thing is, I don&#x27;t have to put up with you being fine with how my wife and I teach our children. We don&#x27;t have to answer to you.<p>I&#x27;m not just a contrarian here. You are fine with what the public schools are doing, right now. Your oversight, such as it is, doesn&#x27;t seem to be effective at doing any of the things that I could want. It does lead me to be suspicious about what it is that you want.</text></comment> | <story><title>Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/homeschooling-growth-data-by-district/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmazzoni</author><text>Are you comparing the best public schools to the best homeschools? Or the worst to the worst? Or the average to the average?<p>I suspect that the education kids get at the worst 20% of public schools in the country is still way better than the worst 20% of homeschoolers.<p>I also would totally believe that the education kids get at the top 20% of homeschools is better than the average public school.<p>Public schools are far from perfect, but there are minimum standards and there are resources at the state and federal level to try to improve schools that aren&#x27;t meeting those standards.<p>My problem with homeschools is that in most states, there aren&#x27;t any standards being enforced. If homeschools had surprise inspections and biannual state-run testing, I&#x27;d be fine with it.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>Sure, I don&#x27;t think anyone denies that there are some home schooling horror stories. But it really doesn&#x27;t seem like most public schools do a great job either, so the question is if this broken system damages more people than one dominated by home schooling.</text></item><item><author>pixl97</author><text>There are plenty of &#x27;public school&#x27; horror stories because these things are public and can be audited in a great number of cases.<p>You don&#x27;t get to hear the homeschooling horrors when they happen because they are private. Maybe you&#x27;ll be a therapist and years later get to talk to one of these people how they are effectively crippled for the rest of their life. Or you&#x27;ll be like me that grew up in a place that had a bunch of religious organizations that homeschooled most of their children with educations that I&#x27;d consider completely and totally deficient, and then pull those same people back into the organization as cheap&#x2F;uneducated labor they could abuse.</text></item><item><author>keiferski</author><text>It seems to me that the only relevant question here is how home schooling compares to public schools when it comes to “horror stories.” And there certainly aren’t a lack of public school horror stories…</text></item><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>There are many home-schooling success stories, and also many home-schooling horror stories.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.harvard.edu&#x2F;gazette&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;law-school-professor-says-there-may-be-a-dark-side-of-homeschooling&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.harvard.edu&#x2F;gazette&#x2F;story&#x2F;2020&#x2F;05&#x2F;law-school-pr...</a></text></item><item><author>brightball</author><text>When I moved into my current house about 10 years ago, the family next door home schooled. I&#x27;d never known any home schoolers before and definitely had some notions about how terrible it must be until I learned about it.<p>This family was part of a home school group with other families. The kids went to different houses every day and had an instructor focus on 1 subject for half of the day, mixed in with free time, depending on the age. 2 subjects per day, so as a parent your teaching commitment was a half day a week on 1 subject.<p>They would do field trips. They held a school play in a garage complete with costumes and video. And the kids were smart, well mannered, socially adjusted kids with very happy and normal lives. And there are plenty of sports opportunities as well. As far as I know, they all went to public high school too.<p>Completely shifted my view of what I thought home schooling was, which was the kids stuck in 1 house with 1 parent all day in social isolation.<p>The reality was closer to a model of a Montessori school which has a huge amount of success stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biomcgary</author><text>The reason why many homeschoolers opt out of public schools is because of those minimum standards. Who wants their children to be taught to a minimal standard? My autistic son would still be completely non-verbal (and probably worse) if we put him into the local public school system. We saw the classroom he would have been in, it was horrific. Instead, he has a speech language pathologist working with him one-on-one three to four hours per day.</text></comment> |
27,341,783 | 27,341,780 | 1 | 2 | 27,335,247 | train | <story><title>Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018)</title><url>https://longreads.com/2018/05/31/somewhere-under-my-left-ribs-a-nurses-story/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adwn</author><text>Ever since I&#x27;ve become a father, stories of children dying or just barely surviving have an immense emotional impact on me. I almost cried when I read that the boy from the article survived the operation and had a second, better chance at life. I can&#x27;t imagine what his parents must have been going through.<p>All this thanks to technological and medical progess. What would his fate have been 20 years earlier? 40 years earlier? Think of all the technology that was necessary to perform that operation. The technology needed to build and support <i>that</i> technology, ad infinitum. If you have the ability and the motivation to work in science or on new technology, please do so. Even if it&#x27;s not directly related to medicine: Maybe that software you&#x27;re writing will make it slightly easier to build other software that will make it slightly easier to build other software that will make it slightly easier to build a machine that one day helps save a young boy&#x27;s life.</text></comment> | <story><title>Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story (2018)</title><url>https://longreads.com/2018/05/31/somewhere-under-my-left-ribs-a-nurses-story/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hnzix</author><text>Nurses are the unsung heroes of the hospital. Doctors get status and respect, but often it&#x27;s the nurse keeping you alive by monitoring drug interactions and physical readouts that a busy or overconfident doctor has missed.<p>Never say someone is &quot;just a nurse&quot;. It&#x27;s a hardcore and highly technical job where one mistake can kill a patient and end the nurse&#x27;s career.</text></comment> |
16,796,195 | 16,796,326 | 1 | 2 | 16,795,089 | train | <story><title>Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-enters-dockless-bike-wars-with-jump-acquisition-1523280600</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fataliss</author><text>That would take a lot of political will to do something like that though and it would take YEARS! I don&#x27;t think the US is a great market (right now) for city-bikes. Outside of maybe Manhattan &amp; SF I can&#x27;t think of any major city where a bike would take you places faster&#x2F;better than another way of transportation would. When you consider all the hassles that biking as a transportation comes with, I doubt this has any large potential (compared to the Uber scale). Could be wrong though. I actually really hope I am!</text></item><item><author>maherbeg</author><text>I think you may underestimate the impact e-bikes are going to have on major (non-car centric) cities. They&#x27;ll likely reshape cities significantly as infrastructure gets improved for biking. You can get significant traffic density improvements by pushing bikes instead of cars, and e-bikes make this more accessible.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>This is a puzzle to me. Uber faces some critical issues ahead. If they can solve them, the bikes will be a rounding error. If they can&#x27;t, the bike business won&#x27;t be enough to save them. Why add the complexity when they could buy or build something later?<p>I especially can&#x27;t figure out why the Jump CEO would do it. The odds of their work surviving to the 10 year mark seems so small. It reminds me of something like Dodgeball. (For those who don&#x27;t remember, it was a company basically like Foursquare, but years before. Google bought it and did little with it. Eventually the founders got tired of it, left Google, and started the same company <i>again</i>.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electricEmu</author><text>Seattle? Portland? Minneapolis&#x2F;St. Paul? You might consider bicycling while you travel more. In Seattle alone, OFO, LimeBike, and Spin are all competing.<p>American bicycle infrastructure is behind, but it exists. I don&#x27;t own a car. I get around those cities on bike without issue. It&#x27;s as fast or faster than a car in many cases and I&#x27;m peddling the old fashioned way (with legs).</text></comment> | <story><title>Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-enters-dockless-bike-wars-with-jump-acquisition-1523280600</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fataliss</author><text>That would take a lot of political will to do something like that though and it would take YEARS! I don&#x27;t think the US is a great market (right now) for city-bikes. Outside of maybe Manhattan &amp; SF I can&#x27;t think of any major city where a bike would take you places faster&#x2F;better than another way of transportation would. When you consider all the hassles that biking as a transportation comes with, I doubt this has any large potential (compared to the Uber scale). Could be wrong though. I actually really hope I am!</text></item><item><author>maherbeg</author><text>I think you may underestimate the impact e-bikes are going to have on major (non-car centric) cities. They&#x27;ll likely reshape cities significantly as infrastructure gets improved for biking. You can get significant traffic density improvements by pushing bikes instead of cars, and e-bikes make this more accessible.</text></item><item><author>wpietri</author><text>This is a puzzle to me. Uber faces some critical issues ahead. If they can solve them, the bikes will be a rounding error. If they can&#x27;t, the bike business won&#x27;t be enough to save them. Why add the complexity when they could buy or build something later?<p>I especially can&#x27;t figure out why the Jump CEO would do it. The odds of their work surviving to the 10 year mark seems so small. It reminds me of something like Dodgeball. (For those who don&#x27;t remember, it was a company basically like Foursquare, but years before. Google bought it and did little with it. Eventually the founders got tired of it, left Google, and started the same company <i>again</i>.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clairity</author><text>los angeles is perfect for bike transport. it&#x27;s sunny and doesn&#x27;t get too hot or too cold most of the year (in the LA basin proper, the san fernando and inland valleys are a different story). the city government is pro bike path and installing more bike lanes every day. biking is faster during the 6 hours of rush hour a day. most amenities are within 2-3 miles (~15 minutes) of where you live. you can take your bike on buses and trains for the daily commute.<p>the biggest challenge is bike security (not getting it stolen). bike racks and locks are a poor solution if unattended. if we could put bike racks right in front of the gate attendant booths that most public parking garages have, it would be a much better deterrent to theft. and for residential buildings, you could have lockers or a locked bike storage room (possibly with security cameras too).</text></comment> |
29,174,739 | 29,174,999 | 1 | 2 | 29,173,917 | train | <story><title>AMD Gives Details on EPYC Zen4: Genoa and Bergamo, Up to 96 and 128 Cores</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/17055/amd-gives-details-on-epyc-zen4-genoa-and-bergamo-up-to-96-and-128-cores</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siscia</author><text>Does anybody know why AMD is picking Italian city names for the EPYC line?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neogodless</author><text>Because they&#x27;re giving Intel the boot.</text></comment> | <story><title>AMD Gives Details on EPYC Zen4: Genoa and Bergamo, Up to 96 and 128 Cores</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/17055/amd-gives-details-on-epyc-zen4-genoa-and-bergamo-up-to-96-and-128-cores</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siscia</author><text>Does anybody know why AMD is picking Italian city names for the EPYC line?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theandrewbailey</author><text>AMD has been using place names for their CPUs for several years, particularly since the K8&#x2F;Athlon 64 era. They just seem to be using Italian cities this time around.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Table_of_AMD_processors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Table_of_AMD_processors</a></text></comment> |
32,577,784 | 32,577,437 | 1 | 3 | 32,575,608 | train | <story><title>Facebook's timeline just shows random things for some users</title><text>(attempted to submit as URL, query stripped)<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;search?q=facebook+until%3A2022-08-25+since%3A2022-08-24<p>Edit:<p>Reddit users complaining of this: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;comments&#x2F;wwbfm5&#x2F;news_feed_showing_people_writing_to_other_people&#x2F;<p>Downdetector <i>(a third-party service that asks users if they&#x27;re down)</i>: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;<p>Business-oriented status page (all green): https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metastatus.com&#x2F;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people &#x2F; Meta believes all social networking needs to compete or does compete?<p>TikTok and Facebook in my mind have very different use cases. It may be true that if people spend more time on TikTok they&#x27;ll spend less on Facebook, but that doesn&#x27;t mean these are comparable services. TikTok seems to be more of an video entertainment app and less a social app - more like YouTube with social features imo. Facebook is primarily a service to network with friends, family and businesses - TikTok doesn&#x27;t really work well for this.<p>Admittedly I haven&#x27;t used Facebook for 10+ years now so I have no idea how the Reels integration works, but it seems shoving short-form videos down users necks is probably a bad idea. Surely this isn&#x27;t what the average Facebook user goes to Facebook for?<p>It would be like Netflix deciding YouTube was a competitor because &quot;videos&quot; and then adding a load of user uploaded videos to their video library.</text></item><item><author>wyclif</author><text>The TikTokification of Facebook is giving Meta brainworms.<p>The entire model of Facebook, until recently, was the social graph. It seems now that they&#x27;re terrified of getting their lunch eaten, they are trying to combine algorithmic selection of what random users like the most but have no relationship to the user (Reels) with the social graph, but it&#x27;s not a good fit and doesn&#x27;t gel.</text></item><item><author>newscracker</author><text>Speaking only of the Facebook site&#x2F;app below. FB Messenger is not included.<p>For a long while, Facebook hasn’t been a platform to connect people or to connect people meaningfully. It’s either useless and random stuff while your close ones’ posts don’t appear on your timeline and vice versa, or sensational posts that cause anger, anxiety, worry, and despair.<p>The “algorithm” tuned itself quite well to induce and increase addiction. It’s focused. It’s intelligent. It’s purposeful. None of those aspects may help you become happier or more satisfied or more connected.<p>I don’t think the “algorithm” can be corrected or made better either. It’s too big, too influential, too profitable and likely too complex (due to ML). Short of getting rid of it completely and going back to a chronological feed only from people and pages you follow, nothing can be humanly done about this decline.<p>Find another platform and focus on smaller groups if you need or value connectedness or relevant&#x2F;useful content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwond</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t understand why people &#x2F; Meta believes all social networking needs to compete or does compete?<p>They are competing with each other over people’s time and attention. The more time someone spends on Facebook the more ads Facebook can show them, and the more data Facebook can collect. The more time someone spends on TikTok the less time they have to spend on Facebook.</text></comment> | <story><title>Facebook's timeline just shows random things for some users</title><text>(attempted to submit as URL, query stripped)<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;search?q=facebook+until%3A2022-08-25+since%3A2022-08-24<p>Edit:<p>Reddit users complaining of this: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;comments&#x2F;wwbfm5&#x2F;news_feed_showing_people_writing_to_other_people&#x2F;<p>Downdetector <i>(a third-party service that asks users if they&#x27;re down)</i>: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;<p>Business-oriented status page (all green): https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metastatus.com&#x2F;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>kypro</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand why people &#x2F; Meta believes all social networking needs to compete or does compete?<p>TikTok and Facebook in my mind have very different use cases. It may be true that if people spend more time on TikTok they&#x27;ll spend less on Facebook, but that doesn&#x27;t mean these are comparable services. TikTok seems to be more of an video entertainment app and less a social app - more like YouTube with social features imo. Facebook is primarily a service to network with friends, family and businesses - TikTok doesn&#x27;t really work well for this.<p>Admittedly I haven&#x27;t used Facebook for 10+ years now so I have no idea how the Reels integration works, but it seems shoving short-form videos down users necks is probably a bad idea. Surely this isn&#x27;t what the average Facebook user goes to Facebook for?<p>It would be like Netflix deciding YouTube was a competitor because &quot;videos&quot; and then adding a load of user uploaded videos to their video library.</text></item><item><author>wyclif</author><text>The TikTokification of Facebook is giving Meta brainworms.<p>The entire model of Facebook, until recently, was the social graph. It seems now that they&#x27;re terrified of getting their lunch eaten, they are trying to combine algorithmic selection of what random users like the most but have no relationship to the user (Reels) with the social graph, but it&#x27;s not a good fit and doesn&#x27;t gel.</text></item><item><author>newscracker</author><text>Speaking only of the Facebook site&#x2F;app below. FB Messenger is not included.<p>For a long while, Facebook hasn’t been a platform to connect people or to connect people meaningfully. It’s either useless and random stuff while your close ones’ posts don’t appear on your timeline and vice versa, or sensational posts that cause anger, anxiety, worry, and despair.<p>The “algorithm” tuned itself quite well to induce and increase addiction. It’s focused. It’s intelligent. It’s purposeful. None of those aspects may help you become happier or more satisfied or more connected.<p>I don’t think the “algorithm” can be corrected or made better either. It’s too big, too influential, too profitable and likely too complex (due to ML). Short of getting rid of it completely and going back to a chronological feed only from people and pages you follow, nothing can be humanly done about this decline.<p>Find another platform and focus on smaller groups if you need or value connectedness or relevant&#x2F;useful content.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wwilim</author><text>The average Facebook user goes to Facebook because they have nothing else to occupy themselves with for 15 seconds, and Reels are the perfect functionality for this</text></comment> |
39,853,518 | 39,853,329 | 1 | 3 | 39,852,626 | train | <story><title>Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/trillion-transistor-gpu</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>highfrequency</author><text>Wild that the human brain can squeeze in 100 trillion synapses (<i>very</i> roughly analogous to model parameters &#x2F; transistors) in a 3lb piece of meat that draws 20 Watts. The power efficiency difference may be explainable by the much slower frequency of brain computation (200 Hz vs. 2GHz).<p>My impression is that the main obstacle to achieving a comparable volumetric density is that we haven&#x27;t cracked 3d stacking of integrated circuits yet. Very exciting to see TSMC making inroads here:<p>&gt; Recent advances have shown HBM test structures with 12 layers of chips stacked using hybrid bonding, a copper-to-copper connection with a higher density than solder bumps can provide. Bonded at low temperature on top of a larger base logic chip, this memory system has a total thickness of just 600 µm...We’ll need to link all these chiplets together in a 3D stack, but fortunately, industry has been able to rapidly scale down the pitch of vertical interconnects, increasing the density of connections. And there is plenty of room for more. We see no reason why the interconnect density can’t grow by an order of magnitude, and even beyond.<p>It&#x27;s hard to imagine <i>not</i> getting unbelievable results when in 10-30 years we have GPUs with a comparable number of transistors to brain synapses that support computation speed 10,000x faster than the brain. What a thing to witness!</text></comment> | <story><title>Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/trillion-transistor-gpu</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HarHarVeryFunny</author><text>We already have a 4 trillion transistor &quot;GPU&quot; in the Cerebras WSE-3 (wafer-scale engine), used in Cerebras&#x27; data centers.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=f4Dly8I8lMY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=f4Dly8I8lMY</a></text></comment> |
16,566,341 | 16,566,014 | 1 | 3 | 16,564,935 | train | <story><title>TLS 1.3 and Proxies</title><url>https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/10/tls13.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>I should absolutely be able to intercept TLS traffic on my computers on my network. That&#x27;s the distinction. Third party interception capability needs to be illegal and connections should be tamper evident.<p>Frankly, I have a higher duty than user privacy. My users have access to data that&#x27;s critically sensitive in various ways, in some cases they face criminal sanction. I need to both control and detect unauthorized software on the network and ensure that users are following the rules.<p>More extreme privacy activists will make noises about things using endpoint based solutions or something similar. It&#x27;s a bullshit position that will ultimately weaken security.</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>the reason TLS1.3 has been delayed so long is vendors and researchers that believe the dual-speek that TLS needs to be both secure, as well as readily interceptable (and therefore insecure) in order for it to be &quot;ready&quot; to use.<p>TLS and encryption arent going anywhere and theyre not always going to wait around for a concensus from industry. The sobering truth is that if not now, than in a decade or so the companies shilling TLS&#x2F;SSL interception appliances and software will need to shift focus as the protocol will likely have been evolved by force over time to meet the needs of increasingly prevalent surveillance states. TLS interception or &quot;proxying&quot; started out as a graduate students parlour trick and eventually evolved into an entire shady industry where players like Bluecoat are routinely caught selling their products and services to repressive regimes.<p>Heres hoping LibreSSL delivers the goods with or without the marketing teams say.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paralelogram</author><text>The largest ISP in Kazakhstan believes that it should be able to intercept all TLS traffic on their network: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bits.blogs.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;kazakhstan-moves-to-tighten-control-of-internet-traffic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bits.blogs.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;kazakhstan-moves-t...</a>. Because there are no technical differences between your TLS interception and what Kazakhtelecom is doing and no legal differences in most non-Western countries, I believe that all software should be changed to make TLS interception as hard as possible.</text></comment> | <story><title>TLS 1.3 and Proxies</title><url>https://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/10/tls13.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>I should absolutely be able to intercept TLS traffic on my computers on my network. That&#x27;s the distinction. Third party interception capability needs to be illegal and connections should be tamper evident.<p>Frankly, I have a higher duty than user privacy. My users have access to data that&#x27;s critically sensitive in various ways, in some cases they face criminal sanction. I need to both control and detect unauthorized software on the network and ensure that users are following the rules.<p>More extreme privacy activists will make noises about things using endpoint based solutions or something similar. It&#x27;s a bullshit position that will ultimately weaken security.</text></item><item><author>nimbius</author><text>the reason TLS1.3 has been delayed so long is vendors and researchers that believe the dual-speek that TLS needs to be both secure, as well as readily interceptable (and therefore insecure) in order for it to be &quot;ready&quot; to use.<p>TLS and encryption arent going anywhere and theyre not always going to wait around for a concensus from industry. The sobering truth is that if not now, than in a decade or so the companies shilling TLS&#x2F;SSL interception appliances and software will need to shift focus as the protocol will likely have been evolved by force over time to meet the needs of increasingly prevalent surveillance states. TLS interception or &quot;proxying&quot; started out as a graduate students parlour trick and eventually evolved into an entire shady industry where players like Bluecoat are routinely caught selling their products and services to repressive regimes.<p>Heres hoping LibreSSL delivers the goods with or without the marketing teams say.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>&gt; I should absolutely be able to intercept TLS traffic on my computers on my network.<p>Just ask the users of your network to install your CA cert (or click past your cert warnings). That should work with TLS 1.3 right?<p>Or in your statement are you really meaning, &quot;I should absolutely be able to intercept TLS traffic on my computers on my network <i>without them knowing about it</i>&quot;? If so, that&#x27;s a completely different thing altogether and if that&#x27;s what you and the GCHQ mean when talking about proxying, it needs to be explicitly stated. There is a huge difference.</text></comment> |
37,583,975 | 37,583,505 | 1 | 2 | 37,580,141 | train | <story><title>FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones</title><url>https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-authorizes-zipline-deliver-commercial-packages-beyond-line-sight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>&gt; resulting in higher utilization per vehicle<p>A van can hold thousands of 2-ounce packages, whereas a drone can hold one. If you look at it in terms of a one-package utilization rate, a van has over 100% rate, because it holds multiple packages, in fact it may have over a 1000% utilization rate using that metric.<p>You&#x27;re essentially wasting tons of energy and resources getting very small packages delivered faster, but in urban setting there are no efficiencies here, quite the contrary.</text></item><item><author>jcims</author><text>Sure but there&#x27;s a tradeoff with ground transport. A drone can make the trip with much shorter traveled distance and potentially higher speed, resulting in higher utilization per vehicle. It also doesn&#x27;t interfere with road traffic, which could have externalities in longer idle time for other vehicles at intersections and whatnot.<p>Both are better than Garret in his 2007 Ford Explorer driving around town all day delivering timbits and tacos.</text></item><item><author>bnegreve</author><text>The size of these vehicles is certainly absurd, but flying packages with drones that consume most of their energy to fight gravity does not seem particularly efficient either, (e.g. compared to small road electric vehicles with the same payload, which would have its own practical problems).</text></item><item><author>nomilk</author><text>&gt; when your lunch only weighs a few ounces, delivering it in 2-ton gas powered vehicles is wildly inefficient<p>Seems absurd when it&#x27;s put like that. This is possibly something we&#x27;ll look back on and struggle to comprehend how it was ever the go-to solution.</text></item><item><author>Flockster</author><text>A video from Mark Rober about Zipline, to get an idea. I was very impressed when I first heard of them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DOWDNBu9DkU" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DOWDNBu9DkU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LeifCarrotson</author><text>I just hope my DoorDash order is not sandwich #9,836...<p>A locomotive would be even more efficient over long distances, carrying 200,000,000 such packages. A containership even more so, carrying more than 20x the capacity of a big freight train, though I don&#x27;t think they have the draft to fit up the drainage ditch behind my house. Nor do I have rails.<p>I jest, but the long tail is a real problem with such efficiency calculations.<p>You&#x27;re right that it&#x27;s never going to make sense to have migrating swarms of drones flying above the interstate carrying packages cross-country, but are real efficiencies here at the individual level:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cell.com&#x2F;cms&#x2F;attachment&#x2F;4b8da4bb-42c2-4b91-baf2-d8abebef903b&#x2F;fx1.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cell.com&#x2F;cms&#x2F;attachment&#x2F;4b8da4bb-42c2-4b91-baf2-...</a><p>Graphic from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1016&#x2F;j.patter.2022.100569" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1016&#x2F;j.patter.2022.100569</a>.</text></comment> | <story><title>FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones</title><url>https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-authorizes-zipline-deliver-commercial-packages-beyond-line-sight</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>&gt; resulting in higher utilization per vehicle<p>A van can hold thousands of 2-ounce packages, whereas a drone can hold one. If you look at it in terms of a one-package utilization rate, a van has over 100% rate, because it holds multiple packages, in fact it may have over a 1000% utilization rate using that metric.<p>You&#x27;re essentially wasting tons of energy and resources getting very small packages delivered faster, but in urban setting there are no efficiencies here, quite the contrary.</text></item><item><author>jcims</author><text>Sure but there&#x27;s a tradeoff with ground transport. A drone can make the trip with much shorter traveled distance and potentially higher speed, resulting in higher utilization per vehicle. It also doesn&#x27;t interfere with road traffic, which could have externalities in longer idle time for other vehicles at intersections and whatnot.<p>Both are better than Garret in his 2007 Ford Explorer driving around town all day delivering timbits and tacos.</text></item><item><author>bnegreve</author><text>The size of these vehicles is certainly absurd, but flying packages with drones that consume most of their energy to fight gravity does not seem particularly efficient either, (e.g. compared to small road electric vehicles with the same payload, which would have its own practical problems).</text></item><item><author>nomilk</author><text>&gt; when your lunch only weighs a few ounces, delivering it in 2-ton gas powered vehicles is wildly inefficient<p>Seems absurd when it&#x27;s put like that. This is possibly something we&#x27;ll look back on and struggle to comprehend how it was ever the go-to solution.</text></item><item><author>Flockster</author><text>A video from Mark Rober about Zipline, to get an idea. I was very impressed when I first heard of them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DOWDNBu9DkU" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;DOWDNBu9DkU</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lttlrck</author><text>This is why I don&#x27;t feel bad ordering smaller items from Amazon when I could drive across town and get it myself.<p>But Uber eats and DoorDash are a reality, and I would pay someone to pick something up for me from Home Depot within the next hour. Services like Zipline have the potential to help out there.</text></comment> |
27,270,301 | 27,270,302 | 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>tester89</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s like a cowbell that rings constantly (while you are moving)<p>This is horrific, so much unnecessary noise pollution.</text></item><item><author>midnightclubbed</author><text>The bell I recommended isn&#x27;t one you ring - it&#x27;s like a cowbell that rings constantly (while you are moving) and lets people know you are coming before they can see you. Basic trail etiquette.<p>I have nothing against hikers (would be hypocritical as someone who trail-runs) and blasting past people on a crowded path (or at all) is an idiot move. But on a single track trail people can come up on you really quick, 10km&#x2F;h is a brisk jog so a 15km&#x2F;h (4m&#x2F;s) delta V isn&#x27;t exactly fast.<p>My local trails are way quieter at 3pm (most people are in work and temperatures are still hot) than at 7am (pre-work dog walkers and exercisers). Saturday 7AM is literally the worse time in SoCal - big groups of riders and local running clubs all hit the trails Saturday morning. Guess it is varies by region but no matter the time I&#x27;d want to give other trail users the maximum oppertunity to know I was there so we can all be safe.<p>For the record I don&#x27;t want to ride my bike fast on multi-use paths at any time of the day, not sure why you thought I did. If I ride fast it is on bike focussed routes (accessed via the multi-use trails).</text></item><item><author>yarcob</author><text>I definitely prefer a bicycle bell to getting yelled at from behind.<p>But you know what would be even nicer? If bikers had the curtesy to slow down a bit when the trail &#x2F; path is crowded.<p>I also love riding fast. I understand that crowded paths are annoying. But when I see that the path is full of people, I don&#x27;t start ringing my bell, or hollering &quot;on your left&quot; or &quot;attention&quot; at the people in front of me, I just slow down. There is no curteous way to pass someone with delta V of 15km&#x2F;h on a narrow path.<p>If I want to ride fast, I pick a time when the paths aren&#x27;t crowded. I don&#x27;t understand why everyone wants to race their bikes on multi use paths on a sunny afternoon at 3PM when everyone else is outside too.<p>Try riding eg. Saturday at 7AM and you&#x27;ll have the world to yourself and you can go as fast as you like.</text></item><item><author>midnightclubbed</author><text>More importantly that bar ends is the comment &quot;Today, you have a higher chance of seeing a bell on a modern mountain bike than a set of bar ends&quot;...
If there is one thing every MTB rider should have on their bike it is a bell. With trail usage way up having a bell is not just a curtesy to other bikers&#x2F;hikers but an important safety feature.
Big fan of the Timber bell, but anything that lets other trail user know you are approaching works just fine.<p>And anyone who is out on the trails with headphones... you still won&#x27;t hear a bike bell, but then you won&#x27;t hear a rattle-snake either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>realbarack</author><text>It&#x27;s really not. These bells aren&#x27;t that loud, you really only hear them once the cyclist is maybe 50 yards away. It&#x27;s an incredibly important safety feature on low-visibility singletracks.</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>tester89</author><text>&gt; it&#x27;s like a cowbell that rings constantly (while you are moving)<p>This is horrific, so much unnecessary noise pollution.</text></item><item><author>midnightclubbed</author><text>The bell I recommended isn&#x27;t one you ring - it&#x27;s like a cowbell that rings constantly (while you are moving) and lets people know you are coming before they can see you. Basic trail etiquette.<p>I have nothing against hikers (would be hypocritical as someone who trail-runs) and blasting past people on a crowded path (or at all) is an idiot move. But on a single track trail people can come up on you really quick, 10km&#x2F;h is a brisk jog so a 15km&#x2F;h (4m&#x2F;s) delta V isn&#x27;t exactly fast.<p>My local trails are way quieter at 3pm (most people are in work and temperatures are still hot) than at 7am (pre-work dog walkers and exercisers). Saturday 7AM is literally the worse time in SoCal - big groups of riders and local running clubs all hit the trails Saturday morning. Guess it is varies by region but no matter the time I&#x27;d want to give other trail users the maximum oppertunity to know I was there so we can all be safe.<p>For the record I don&#x27;t want to ride my bike fast on multi-use paths at any time of the day, not sure why you thought I did. If I ride fast it is on bike focussed routes (accessed via the multi-use trails).</text></item><item><author>yarcob</author><text>I definitely prefer a bicycle bell to getting yelled at from behind.<p>But you know what would be even nicer? If bikers had the curtesy to slow down a bit when the trail &#x2F; path is crowded.<p>I also love riding fast. I understand that crowded paths are annoying. But when I see that the path is full of people, I don&#x27;t start ringing my bell, or hollering &quot;on your left&quot; or &quot;attention&quot; at the people in front of me, I just slow down. There is no curteous way to pass someone with delta V of 15km&#x2F;h on a narrow path.<p>If I want to ride fast, I pick a time when the paths aren&#x27;t crowded. I don&#x27;t understand why everyone wants to race their bikes on multi use paths on a sunny afternoon at 3PM when everyone else is outside too.<p>Try riding eg. Saturday at 7AM and you&#x27;ll have the world to yourself and you can go as fast as you like.</text></item><item><author>midnightclubbed</author><text>More importantly that bar ends is the comment &quot;Today, you have a higher chance of seeing a bell on a modern mountain bike than a set of bar ends&quot;...
If there is one thing every MTB rider should have on their bike it is a bell. With trail usage way up having a bell is not just a curtesy to other bikers&#x2F;hikers but an important safety feature.
Big fan of the Timber bell, but anything that lets other trail user know you are approaching works just fine.<p>And anyone who is out on the trails with headphones... you still won&#x27;t hear a bike bell, but then you won&#x27;t hear a rattle-snake either.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>midnightclubbed</author><text>It&#x27;s not that bad at all, and stops when you are not moving. I&#x27;d say it has maybe a 20m range so it&#x27;s not like people can hear you from the other side of the mountain.<p>I do agree it adds noise to (potentially) tranquil trails but imho its a good safety trade-off. Way better than people who insist on blasting music from their phone speakers or conference call while walking.</text></comment> |
10,678,296 | 10,678,339 | 1 | 2 | 10,677,702 | train | <story><title>HFS+ is crazy</title><url>http://liminality.xyz/hfs-is-crazy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing how garbage like this always rockets to the top of HN. This guy doesn&#x27;t know anything about file systems or about the operating system he&#x27;s using. But he sounds confident, so that&#x27;s evidently good enough for a lot of people.<p>If you think it&#x27;s crazy that a file system supports multiple data forks&#x2F;steams, then you don&#x27;t know very much about file systems.<p>If you think it&#x27;s crazy that an operating system maintains backward compatibility with an older system, then you don&#x27;t know very much about operating systems.<p>If you arrogantly make these pronouncements on your website then you look like a complete idiot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Profan</author><text>People don&#x27;t know what they don&#x27;t know.
Talking down to people who think something is strange for being the way it is, instead of explaining to them why it is, is so counterproductive and serves no purpose.
Everyone has things they don&#x27;t know, just provide an explanation instead of an arrogant comment.<p>He even says &quot;I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s an Apple-y reason for the existence of this feature, but I can&#x27;t imagine what it might be.&quot; That&#x27;s literally a &quot;i&#x27;m not sure why this is&quot; right there!</text></comment> | <story><title>HFS+ is crazy</title><url>http://liminality.xyz/hfs-is-crazy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>It&#x27;s amazing how garbage like this always rockets to the top of HN. This guy doesn&#x27;t know anything about file systems or about the operating system he&#x27;s using. But he sounds confident, so that&#x27;s evidently good enough for a lot of people.<p>If you think it&#x27;s crazy that a file system supports multiple data forks&#x2F;steams, then you don&#x27;t know very much about file systems.<p>If you think it&#x27;s crazy that an operating system maintains backward compatibility with an older system, then you don&#x27;t know very much about operating systems.<p>If you arrogantly make these pronouncements on your website then you look like a complete idiot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olalonde</author><text>It seems you are knowledgeable on the topic, why not make your criticism a bit more constructive? Why are &quot;multiple data forks&#x2F;stream&quot; needed and what are they used for? (I don&#x27;t know very much about file systems)</text></comment> |
28,269,432 | 28,269,141 | 1 | 2 | 28,266,889 | train | <story><title>The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf]</title><url>http://iopenshell.usc.edu/pubs/pdf/jpcl_opinion_2021.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fatcat500</author><text>The people who are currently successfully utilizing science to legitimize knowledge are doing so off of the moral, social, and cultural capital accrued by previous generations of scientists.<p>The assumption that the general public will always perceive science with a reverent and trusting eye is wrong: once the capital runs out, science will be perceived as just another tentacle of the establishment. Politicizing scientific language is a surefire way of accelerating this process.<p>This is what has already happened with the MSM, of course.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf]</title><url>http://iopenshell.usc.edu/pubs/pdf/jpcl_opinion_2021.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>i_love_limes</author><text>I am just an interested layman, but I have found Historians as prime examples of academics who get this balance right. This, to me, seems to be because they have to squarely level with their own biases and preconceived ideas of what they are studying from the outset.<p>Once that is addressed upfront (whether it is personal preference, or cultural bias&#x2F;context), the authors are able to both express themselves more freely as well as be more critical of their own perspective.<p>I think other social sciences researchers are more OK with this idea, and unfortunately STEM researchers seem to go out of their way to assume they have no perspectives or biases, as the assumption is that &#x27;pure research&#x27; is unable to be tainted by such things.<p>To expose my own personal bias, I find this article to be very heavy handed and reactionary.</text></comment> |
36,369,537 | 36,369,149 | 1 | 2 | 36,369,018 | train | <story><title>I don't need your query language</title><url>https://antonz.org/fancy-ql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LunicLynx</author><text>The main issue with sql is, that it is the wrong way around, which eliminates all tooling support.<p>You need to state what you want (select a, b, c) before you tell it from where to get it (from). And no tooling can predict that.<p>So switching this, moving from and joins in front of select, might be everything needed to fix sql.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>I agree with you and think this backwards model leads to developers having a poor mental model of what they are doing.<p>Step 1: build the dataset you want (FROM and JOIN) with all columns.<p>Step 2: filter out the rows you don&#x27;t want (WHERE).<p>Step 3: choose which columns&#x2F;values you want (SELECT).<p>Maybe it&#x27;s just me but this model makes so much more sense to me! I&#x27;m sure not every developer has the same way of thinking, but it sure does seem more logical to me.</text></comment> | <story><title>I don't need your query language</title><url>https://antonz.org/fancy-ql/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LunicLynx</author><text>The main issue with sql is, that it is the wrong way around, which eliminates all tooling support.<p>You need to state what you want (select a, b, c) before you tell it from where to get it (from). And no tooling can predict that.<p>So switching this, moving from and joins in front of select, might be everything needed to fix sql.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tester756</author><text>C#&#x27;s LINQ (query syntax, not methods) got it right<p>var result = from s in stringList
where s.Contains(&quot;Tutorials&quot;)
select s;</text></comment> |
29,542,916 | 29,542,414 | 1 | 2 | 29,541,017 | train | <story><title>Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities</title><url>https://thinknewsmedia.com/2021/12/13/how-rising-groundwater-caused-by-climate-change-could-devastate-coastal-communities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deltree7</author><text>Capitalism and Free Market.<p>On an individual basis, apart from zero-cost sustainable habits, if you are capable, become a master of science, attempting to solve energy, material, carbon and climate issue at a physics level. If you are a craftsman, observe all the day-to-day activities of humans, tinker&#x2F;hack and attempt to solve the same workflows more sustainably.<p>If you have a solution either through hacks or science, you&#x27;ll have unbelievable amount of capital coming to you to scale your solution. Capitalists will be tripping over themselves to hand you money.<p>Here&#x27;s what will 100% not work -- Activism or Trying to &#x27;Policy&#x27; out of your way of Climate Change problems.<p>Also, no government will ever fund your crazy little idea that has 0.0001% chance of succeeding with 10000x impact. Here&#x27;s who may fund it -- your favorite evil Billionaire.</text></item><item><author>_Microft</author><text>Someone submitted this a few posts earlier: &quot;The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it&quot;, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29540946" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29540946</a><p>Two sides of the same coin but the groundwater problem seems easier to solve. Not because it is technically easier but because the incentives for (rich countries) seem to be a lot stronger. Preventing the own area from flooding is way less abstract than indirectly caused deforestation somewhere in the world, with effects that will be felt only years or decades into the future.<p>Without wanting to highjack this submission (the Amazon submission didn&#x27;t gain traction, unfortunately) but any ideas how this problem could be solved and how one could contribute to a solution?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NationalPark</author><text>How does this solve the problem of externalities that exists today? And what do you do if no genius ever comes along with such a &quot;silver bullet&quot; solution to invite venture funding? Keep waiting and hope they are born before the externalities catch up and it&#x27;s too late?</text></comment> | <story><title>Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities</title><url>https://thinknewsmedia.com/2021/12/13/how-rising-groundwater-caused-by-climate-change-could-devastate-coastal-communities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deltree7</author><text>Capitalism and Free Market.<p>On an individual basis, apart from zero-cost sustainable habits, if you are capable, become a master of science, attempting to solve energy, material, carbon and climate issue at a physics level. If you are a craftsman, observe all the day-to-day activities of humans, tinker&#x2F;hack and attempt to solve the same workflows more sustainably.<p>If you have a solution either through hacks or science, you&#x27;ll have unbelievable amount of capital coming to you to scale your solution. Capitalists will be tripping over themselves to hand you money.<p>Here&#x27;s what will 100% not work -- Activism or Trying to &#x27;Policy&#x27; out of your way of Climate Change problems.<p>Also, no government will ever fund your crazy little idea that has 0.0001% chance of succeeding with 10000x impact. Here&#x27;s who may fund it -- your favorite evil Billionaire.</text></item><item><author>_Microft</author><text>Someone submitted this a few posts earlier: &quot;The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it&quot;, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29540946" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29540946</a><p>Two sides of the same coin but the groundwater problem seems easier to solve. Not because it is technically easier but because the incentives for (rich countries) seem to be a lot stronger. Preventing the own area from flooding is way less abstract than indirectly caused deforestation somewhere in the world, with effects that will be felt only years or decades into the future.<p>Without wanting to highjack this submission (the Amazon submission didn&#x27;t gain traction, unfortunately) but any ideas how this problem could be solved and how one could contribute to a solution?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>Markets and capitalism are part of the solution, of course, but you absolutely do need policies to direct all that energy, at a high level.<p>Absent &quot;policies&quot; and enforcement, the cheapest way for a factory to dispose of waste is to dump it in the river. Same thing applies to CO2: dumping it in the atmosphere is cheap right now because the policies to deal with that externality aren&#x27;t quite there.<p>An obvious example of a policy that might help would be a carbon tax that makes more carbon-efficient things more economically appealing.</text></comment> |
39,143,232 | 39,143,619 | 1 | 2 | 39,141,413 | train | <story><title>Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today</title><url>http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2024/01/fifty-years-ago-today.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wintermutestwin</author><text>As someone who started playing in 1980, I really don&#x27;t get this OSR. I remember wanting to play a wizard to cast spells but then realizing that I spent 95% of my turns throwing darts because there were no cantrips. As I have gone through the progression of the DnD editions (and of course many other TTRPGS), I have never felt the urge to look back to those earlier weak versions.<p>I have to wonder if people are being nostalgic for things that have nothing to do with the ruleset.</text></item><item><author>kemotep</author><text>If you aren’t interested in playing (or supporting) modern DnD, for the past few years there was been bit of an Old School Renaissance.<p>Modern reprintings of classic Basic&#x2F;Expert rule sets in Basic Fantasy RPG or Old School Essentials are easy ways to get in. To say nothing of Dungeon Crawl Classics and of course getting your hands on the original TSR books.<p>There are dozens of kickstarters, fan zines, and self-published indie works out there, expanding, building, remixing, and making new experiences with the classic rule sets.<p>Feels like there is easily another 50 years to this hobby, if you look beyond Wizards of the Coast releases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kemotep</author><text>As someone who didn’t get into DnD until 3.5 was a thing, I like the simplicity of Old School Essentials.<p>The Basic&#x2F;Expert ruleset is far more about the imagination for me at least (my style of how I referee). Yes, magic-users at low levels have like no spells but at higher levels, they are capable of doing all kinds of crazy magic, in combination with the ability to research magic, create magical items and so on. That’s part of the balance of the game. I can understand why people don’t like that type of game, but that’s why there’s so many options of Tabletop Roleplaying Games. GURPS, Apocalypse World, Mork Borg, Ghost Dog, Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia, Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, etc all play differently and all have different mechanics and philosophies of how the game should be played.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dungeons and Dragons turns 50 today</title><url>http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2024/01/fifty-years-ago-today.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wintermutestwin</author><text>As someone who started playing in 1980, I really don&#x27;t get this OSR. I remember wanting to play a wizard to cast spells but then realizing that I spent 95% of my turns throwing darts because there were no cantrips. As I have gone through the progression of the DnD editions (and of course many other TTRPGS), I have never felt the urge to look back to those earlier weak versions.<p>I have to wonder if people are being nostalgic for things that have nothing to do with the ruleset.</text></item><item><author>kemotep</author><text>If you aren’t interested in playing (or supporting) modern DnD, for the past few years there was been bit of an Old School Renaissance.<p>Modern reprintings of classic Basic&#x2F;Expert rule sets in Basic Fantasy RPG or Old School Essentials are easy ways to get in. To say nothing of Dungeon Crawl Classics and of course getting your hands on the original TSR books.<p>There are dozens of kickstarters, fan zines, and self-published indie works out there, expanding, building, remixing, and making new experiences with the classic rule sets.<p>Feels like there is easily another 50 years to this hobby, if you look beyond Wizards of the Coast releases.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jasomill</author><text>Low-level casters sucked, with or without cantrips (which didn&#x27;t do anything useful in combat when originally introduced, IIRC, in <i>Unearthed Arcana</i>).<p>But at least they eventually leveled up.<p>Or…not, if they were non-human and hit their race-specific, often single-digit level cap.<p>Yeah, come to think of it, old school AD&amp;D rules did leave plenty of room for improvement.<p>Demihuman level caps were even more annoying in the old school AD&amp;D computer games that enforced them, as it&#x27;s hard to role play a party of permanently underleveled characters in a high-level area of a brutal, combat-focused, non-level scaled CRPG as anything other than a pile of corpses.</text></comment> |
32,570,796 | 32,568,927 | 1 | 3 | 32,562,025 | train | <story><title>On Corpspeak</title><url>https://goodreason.substack.com/p/on-corpspeak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnuser847</author><text>&gt; America has a very work-centric culture. Within a few minutes of meeting someone, people typically talk about their family or work.<p>I specifically make a point to not ask the dreaded &quot;what do you do?&quot; question. In my experience, that question is an absolute energy killer. Most people do not like what they do for a living, so asking them to talk about it brings the mood down. Plus there&#x27;s the whole &quot;sizing up&quot; aspect of that question that&#x27;s very off-putting to me, as if we need to know how much money people make before we decide how we feel about them.<p>I&#x27;d much rather talk to people about their hobbies, travels, creative pursuits, kids, etc. - the things that people are actually excited to talk about.</text></item><item><author>SamuelAdams</author><text>&gt; A lot of Americans tie up a lot of their emotions in work success.<p>For anyone else still wondering &quot;why&quot; corpspeak still exists, this is it. America has a very work-centric culture. Within a few minutes of meeting someone, people typically talk about their family or work.<p>I guess I&#x27;m just disappointed at the world I&#x27;ve inherited. Why are people so afraid of direct conversation? Why is hearing bad news &quot;too much&quot; for some people? I remember a quote from a comic strip saying &quot;people would rather hear an outright lie than an uncomfortable truth&quot;. Which is true, but I wish American work culture didn&#x27;t need to hide from the truth.<p>To me part of being a professional is being able to have direct, pragmatic conversations. You learn to keep your own emotions in check and focus on the discussion at hand. Look at the larger picture of the meeting &#x2F; your work &#x2F; whatever is being discussed.<p>What would it take to change work culture to be more pragmatic?</text></item><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>I really hate this kind of language, but it is really useful in an American corporate context, as I have recently realized while doing an executive MBA program. A lot of Americans tie up a lot of their emotions in work success. A lot of other Americans don&#x27;t care about their co-workers, and don&#x27;t want to put in the effort to figure out how to actually respect people (calling cheap places to work &quot;discount&quot; is a good example of this). Sometimes, the same person is in both groups.<p>The way to usefully make both groups work with others is to use language that is devoid of meaning and, in particular, lacking value judgments. That way, you can say &quot;Steve, can you explain the learnings from your recent project?&quot; and mean either, &quot;Steve, you fucked up, what are you not going to do again?&quot; or &quot;Steve, your project went great, what tips can you share?&quot; That way, Steve can feel recognized for his achievements even when Steve did something that was really stupid. Steve&#x27;s colleagues have an emotional barrier, too: they won&#x27;t feel bad for Steve if you are calling out his failures, and they won&#x27;t feel bad for themselves if you are saying that Steve did something exceptional.<p>It&#x27;s really fucked up how we have created this sanitized dictionary, but it&#x27;s too effective in a corporate context not to use it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MockObject</author><text>I enjoy discussing my work. If someone asked me about my hobbies, I&#x27;d stare blankly, wondering if they really want to hear that I go to the gym, or the hours I spend on obscure corners of Wikipedia, or doing math for fun. For small talk, stick with questions that folks are asked constantly, and that everyone has a ready and rehearsed answer for.</text></comment> | <story><title>On Corpspeak</title><url>https://goodreason.substack.com/p/on-corpspeak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnuser847</author><text>&gt; America has a very work-centric culture. Within a few minutes of meeting someone, people typically talk about their family or work.<p>I specifically make a point to not ask the dreaded &quot;what do you do?&quot; question. In my experience, that question is an absolute energy killer. Most people do not like what they do for a living, so asking them to talk about it brings the mood down. Plus there&#x27;s the whole &quot;sizing up&quot; aspect of that question that&#x27;s very off-putting to me, as if we need to know how much money people make before we decide how we feel about them.<p>I&#x27;d much rather talk to people about their hobbies, travels, creative pursuits, kids, etc. - the things that people are actually excited to talk about.</text></item><item><author>SamuelAdams</author><text>&gt; A lot of Americans tie up a lot of their emotions in work success.<p>For anyone else still wondering &quot;why&quot; corpspeak still exists, this is it. America has a very work-centric culture. Within a few minutes of meeting someone, people typically talk about their family or work.<p>I guess I&#x27;m just disappointed at the world I&#x27;ve inherited. Why are people so afraid of direct conversation? Why is hearing bad news &quot;too much&quot; for some people? I remember a quote from a comic strip saying &quot;people would rather hear an outright lie than an uncomfortable truth&quot;. Which is true, but I wish American work culture didn&#x27;t need to hide from the truth.<p>To me part of being a professional is being able to have direct, pragmatic conversations. You learn to keep your own emotions in check and focus on the discussion at hand. Look at the larger picture of the meeting &#x2F; your work &#x2F; whatever is being discussed.<p>What would it take to change work culture to be more pragmatic?</text></item><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>I really hate this kind of language, but it is really useful in an American corporate context, as I have recently realized while doing an executive MBA program. A lot of Americans tie up a lot of their emotions in work success. A lot of other Americans don&#x27;t care about their co-workers, and don&#x27;t want to put in the effort to figure out how to actually respect people (calling cheap places to work &quot;discount&quot; is a good example of this). Sometimes, the same person is in both groups.<p>The way to usefully make both groups work with others is to use language that is devoid of meaning and, in particular, lacking value judgments. That way, you can say &quot;Steve, can you explain the learnings from your recent project?&quot; and mean either, &quot;Steve, you fucked up, what are you not going to do again?&quot; or &quot;Steve, your project went great, what tips can you share?&quot; That way, Steve can feel recognized for his achievements even when Steve did something that was really stupid. Steve&#x27;s colleagues have an emotional barrier, too: they won&#x27;t feel bad for Steve if you are calling out his failures, and they won&#x27;t feel bad for themselves if you are saying that Steve did something exceptional.<p>It&#x27;s really fucked up how we have created this sanitized dictionary, but it&#x27;s too effective in a corporate context not to use it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gofreddygo</author><text>&gt; talk to people about their hobbies, travels, creative pursuits, kids, etc.<p>This backfires when you have more hobbies or travels than the other party.<p>Also interests don&#x27;t usually align (e.g &quot;I spent last month looking for that one elusive comet from my DX-7512 telescope. here.. see this photo. What about you ? Umm. well nothing much&quot;)<p>It&#x27;s better to gradually start with some topic where opinions are likely to align.<p>For small talk I do realize how important (and how easy once you&#x27;ve run this with 4-5 people) it is to find a hobby I enjoy, and pick sharable stories around it and back it up with some artifacts (like photos on my phone).<p>I think it would help to come up with clusters of topics that are well aligned. Pick a topic from one cluster and see how it works, if not pick one from the next. If it worked, pick another one from the same cluster.</text></comment> |
10,202,361 | 10,202,424 | 1 | 3 | 10,201,535 | train | <story><title>Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34210002</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robzyb</author><text>Fun fact: In Japan most companies will pay for your public transport ticket.<p>Never heard any suggestion of discrimination based on this though.<p>Although time cost &gt; public transport cost.</text></item><item><author>phowat</author><text>Thankfully, because I wouldn&#x27;t want to be discriminated against if I chose to live further away from work so I could afford a nicer, bigger place.</text></item><item><author>lfowles</author><text>&gt; Time spent travelling to and from first and last appointments by workers without a <i>fixed office</i> should be regarded as working time, the European Court of Justice has ruled<p>Oh well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text><i>Fun fact: In Japan most companies will pay for your public transport ticket.</i><p>This is primarily a tax optimization, FWIW. If I pay you 10万 in cash, I owe the government ~１万 and you owe the government maybe 3万 or so (depends heavily on bracket). If I pay you 10万 for your train ticket, neither of use owes the government additional taxes.<p>Thus, if we come to the agreement that your labor is worth 35万 a month to the company, it is in our mutual interest to characterize that as 25万 of salary and 10万 of &quot;reasonable travel expenses.&quot;<p>There exists a spectrum of how aggressive companies are on this one. Some play things very safe and use the actual cost of the shortest public transportation between your house and the office, going to <i>elaborate</i> lengths to calculate that. Some say &quot;We assume, unless you tell us differently, that transportation costs you more than 10万 a month, and will accordingly compensate you for the first 10万 of it.&quot; (The reimbursement is only non-taxable up to １０万.)<p>(Edit to add: １万円 = 10k yen = ~ $100. Much like our Indian friends count things in lahks and crores, Japanese breaks numbers lower than a hundred million into a count of 10^4 rather than a count of 10^3.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34210002</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robzyb</author><text>Fun fact: In Japan most companies will pay for your public transport ticket.<p>Never heard any suggestion of discrimination based on this though.<p>Although time cost &gt; public transport cost.</text></item><item><author>phowat</author><text>Thankfully, because I wouldn&#x27;t want to be discriminated against if I chose to live further away from work so I could afford a nicer, bigger place.</text></item><item><author>lfowles</author><text>&gt; Time spent travelling to and from first and last appointments by workers without a <i>fixed office</i> should be regarded as working time, the European Court of Justice has ruled<p>Oh well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>It makes sense though, in societies where you don&#x27;t or can&#x27;t live where you work. Why would you want to work for an employer when part of your money goes to getting to work? On the other side of the coin, if an employer can get good people from all around by just paying for the commute, that&#x27;s only going to be good for them. Plus there&#x27;s tax benefits; if you have 200 &#x2F; month in travel expenses, either the boss pays it, or pays you an extra 400 (which comes down to 200 with imaginary taxes)<p>My GF had a job in the next city, thanks to roadworks and the like a 1.5 - 2 hour commute, unpaid; she worked 40 hours a week, plus 15-20 hours for commuting. IIRC a third of her crappy wage was spent on even getting to and from work, let alone the time. She&#x27;s now self-employed in her own town, works 20ish hours a week, and makes about the same or a bit more.<p>Commuting is not something one does with pleasure, generally speaking.</text></comment> |
27,487,674 | 27,487,010 | 1 | 3 | 27,485,270 | train | <story><title>Burnout from an Organizational Perspective</title><url>https://ssir.org/articles/entry/burnout_from_an_organizational_perspective</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>Companies that use the: recruit a lot of people, burn out most, rinse and repeat strategy are fairly easy to identify.<p>As an employee you should have your eyes open about this but it’s not necessarily the case that they should be avoided at all costs. Properly used, time at one of these companies can change the trajectory of your career. Depending on where you are in life that can be worth it.<p>Having a time boxed plan makes it more likely you can survive the experience with your health and sanity intact.</text></item><item><author>w0mbat</author><text>The article actually doesn’t tell the true horror of the situation which is this:
Companies burn out employees and then deal with the consequences by firing them or bullying them into quitting. Employees lie about how their last job ended and limp into the next one, using the unemployment gap to recover as best they can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>georgeecollins</author><text>There is a lot of reporting about companies in two areas I am familiar with: video games and entertainment. Both industries are aware that there are a lot of young people really desperate to break into them. Not all companies take advantage of that, but many do.<p>Some game companies that have only really young workers below senior management and explain this by saying older people don&#x27;t get what they are doing. They say it quietly, and indirectly because it opens them up to discrimination lawsuits. But what it really means is experienced people aren&#x27;t putting up with something about the company.. the hours, the management, something. And unfortunately this does not really seem to be an impediment to their success.</text></comment> | <story><title>Burnout from an Organizational Perspective</title><url>https://ssir.org/articles/entry/burnout_from_an_organizational_perspective</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradleyjg</author><text>Companies that use the: recruit a lot of people, burn out most, rinse and repeat strategy are fairly easy to identify.<p>As an employee you should have your eyes open about this but it’s not necessarily the case that they should be avoided at all costs. Properly used, time at one of these companies can change the trajectory of your career. Depending on where you are in life that can be worth it.<p>Having a time boxed plan makes it more likely you can survive the experience with your health and sanity intact.</text></item><item><author>w0mbat</author><text>The article actually doesn’t tell the true horror of the situation which is this:
Companies burn out employees and then deal with the consequences by firing them or bullying them into quitting. Employees lie about how their last job ended and limp into the next one, using the unemployment gap to recover as best they can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eyelidlessness</author><text>This is tricky. I don’t necessarily disagree, but evaluating these things can be more difficult for some people.<p>For me, it’s very easy for me to get attached because I care about some combination of the problem and the team. I’ve had some major wins improving things in those cases, but I’ve also had some major losses. And it’s very difficult for me to recognize burnout symptoms until they’re severe enough to require extensive recovery time.<p>Sure, the idea of timeboxing could be useful, but I could also just let that slide given my motivation to improve things. In the end, it’s not worth it to me anymore to put myself in that situation.</text></comment> |
20,781,405 | 20,781,470 | 1 | 2 | 20,779,004 | train | <story><title>Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/google-doesn-t-want-employees-debating-politics-at-work-anymore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>new2628</author><text>I surely enjoy wild associations as much as the next guy, but I meant more pedestrian topics such as:<p>- are you eating meat or are you vegetarian?<p>- do you take a car to work or ride a bike or take public transportation?<p>- do you drink tap water or bottled water?<p>- do you send your kids to private or public school?<p>Now try discussing any of these in depth &quot;without politics&quot;.</text></item><item><author>stcredzero</author><text><i>That sounds like a fine approach, but unfortunately politics creeps into more and more aspects of life.</i><p>Do a historical survey of people who tried to suffuse politics completely through the lives of their followers. For completeness, look also at the actions of religions in the same way.<p>Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Politics, movements of any kind which demand the entirety of the lives of their followers are often perpetrators of the worst things.<p>As a counterpoint, look to times and places where people are free to be open, to be themselves, and to choose how they live. There is also a power in the dispersal of power. Many call this freedom.<p><i>Like that quote &quot;you may not be interested in war, but ...&quot;</i><p>The way Robert Heinlein put it was something like this: &quot;The end product of politics is like the result of peristalsis. It&#x27;s not very pleasant, but it&#x27;s no less vital to your health and well being.&quot; I think this is a good analogy. Imagine having a cocktail party conversation with someone singularly obsessed with their digestive tract.</text></item><item><author>new2628</author><text>That sounds like a fine approach, but unfortunately politics creeps into more and more aspects of life, hardly any topic remains apolitical.
Like that quote &quot;you may not be interested in war, but ...&quot;</text></item><item><author>apple4ever</author><text>Great points. There are plenty of areas to discuss politics, and at work doesn&#x27;t have to be one of them.<p>I&#x27;ve studiously avoided talking to anybody at work about politics, as it usually only serves to anger people if you don&#x27;t agree. I&#x27;ve had a successful career of doing that.</text></item><item><author>stcredzero</author><text><i>I worked at Google for quite a while, 2005-2013, and even then, the internal political discussion was pretty toxic, but a lot smaller in scope since there are far fewer people.</i><p>It sounds like the work culture at Google has rediscovered the emergent factors which gave rise to the traditional cultural strictures against talking about money, politics, and religion.<p>Good science is repeatable. Given that Google is arguably an intellectually friendly environment, where more people than average understand how to talk in ways that get closer to truth, the inadvertent experiment conducted by Google over the past 15 years or so should hold a lot of weight.<p><i>It only makes sense that they&#x27;re cutting down on something that has turned toxic. It&#x27;s a bit disappointing to hear, since I personally enjoyed the occasional, honest discussion with smart people of other viewpoints - these good discussions made the much larger number of ridiculous ones, bearable.</i><p>It sounds like the overall cost-benefit tradeoff supports Google corporate&#x27;s decision. (There were externalities beyond the discussions themselves.)</text></item><item><author>oppositelock</author><text>I worked at Google for quite a while, 2005-2013, and even then, the internal political discussion was pretty toxic, but a lot smaller in scope since there are far fewer people.<p>There were definitely groups meant for discussing politics, and loudmouths like me willingly participated in those - however, it was very uncivil. There was a majority view in the company, and if anyone didn&#x27;t agree with the majority view, the majority engaged in heckling, ridicule, etc. It was already becoming an echo chamber, and as the majority grew, their tactics grew more petty and vicious. However, this was expected in the politics groups, and you knowingly entered that fray.<p>What seems to be happening a lot lately is that politics are spilling over into large, global mailing lists which target a whole geographic region, so many people get involved, and when a company has 200k employees and contractors, you will find some outliers in there who will pick nasty fights.<p>It only makes sense that they&#x27;re cutting down on something that has turned toxic. It&#x27;s a bit disappointing to hear, since I personally enjoyed the occasional, honest discussion with smart people of other viewpoints - these good discussions made the much larger number of ridiculous ones, bearable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tidepod12</author><text>I&#x27;m trying to say this as politely as possible, but... are you serious?<p>If you seriously cannot have conversations at this level without them turning into political discussions, you really need to reflect on your conversational habits. It is absolutely not normal or healthy if you can&#x27;t talk about <i>drinking water</i> without it turning political.<p>My SO is a vegetarian. It comes up <i>a lot</i>, both with my friends (who are all meat eaters) and newly met people alike, but I seriously cannot think of <i>one single time</i> it has turned into a political issue.<p>If these topics are frequently turning political for you, it&#x27;s on you.</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-23/google-doesn-t-want-employees-debating-politics-at-work-anymore</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>new2628</author><text>I surely enjoy wild associations as much as the next guy, but I meant more pedestrian topics such as:<p>- are you eating meat or are you vegetarian?<p>- do you take a car to work or ride a bike or take public transportation?<p>- do you drink tap water or bottled water?<p>- do you send your kids to private or public school?<p>Now try discussing any of these in depth &quot;without politics&quot;.</text></item><item><author>stcredzero</author><text><i>That sounds like a fine approach, but unfortunately politics creeps into more and more aspects of life.</i><p>Do a historical survey of people who tried to suffuse politics completely through the lives of their followers. For completeness, look also at the actions of religions in the same way.<p>Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Politics, movements of any kind which demand the entirety of the lives of their followers are often perpetrators of the worst things.<p>As a counterpoint, look to times and places where people are free to be open, to be themselves, and to choose how they live. There is also a power in the dispersal of power. Many call this freedom.<p><i>Like that quote &quot;you may not be interested in war, but ...&quot;</i><p>The way Robert Heinlein put it was something like this: &quot;The end product of politics is like the result of peristalsis. It&#x27;s not very pleasant, but it&#x27;s no less vital to your health and well being.&quot; I think this is a good analogy. Imagine having a cocktail party conversation with someone singularly obsessed with their digestive tract.</text></item><item><author>new2628</author><text>That sounds like a fine approach, but unfortunately politics creeps into more and more aspects of life, hardly any topic remains apolitical.
Like that quote &quot;you may not be interested in war, but ...&quot;</text></item><item><author>apple4ever</author><text>Great points. There are plenty of areas to discuss politics, and at work doesn&#x27;t have to be one of them.<p>I&#x27;ve studiously avoided talking to anybody at work about politics, as it usually only serves to anger people if you don&#x27;t agree. I&#x27;ve had a successful career of doing that.</text></item><item><author>stcredzero</author><text><i>I worked at Google for quite a while, 2005-2013, and even then, the internal political discussion was pretty toxic, but a lot smaller in scope since there are far fewer people.</i><p>It sounds like the work culture at Google has rediscovered the emergent factors which gave rise to the traditional cultural strictures against talking about money, politics, and religion.<p>Good science is repeatable. Given that Google is arguably an intellectually friendly environment, where more people than average understand how to talk in ways that get closer to truth, the inadvertent experiment conducted by Google over the past 15 years or so should hold a lot of weight.<p><i>It only makes sense that they&#x27;re cutting down on something that has turned toxic. It&#x27;s a bit disappointing to hear, since I personally enjoyed the occasional, honest discussion with smart people of other viewpoints - these good discussions made the much larger number of ridiculous ones, bearable.</i><p>It sounds like the overall cost-benefit tradeoff supports Google corporate&#x27;s decision. (There were externalities beyond the discussions themselves.)</text></item><item><author>oppositelock</author><text>I worked at Google for quite a while, 2005-2013, and even then, the internal political discussion was pretty toxic, but a lot smaller in scope since there are far fewer people.<p>There were definitely groups meant for discussing politics, and loudmouths like me willingly participated in those - however, it was very uncivil. There was a majority view in the company, and if anyone didn&#x27;t agree with the majority view, the majority engaged in heckling, ridicule, etc. It was already becoming an echo chamber, and as the majority grew, their tactics grew more petty and vicious. However, this was expected in the politics groups, and you knowingly entered that fray.<p>What seems to be happening a lot lately is that politics are spilling over into large, global mailing lists which target a whole geographic region, so many people get involved, and when a company has 200k employees and contractors, you will find some outliers in there who will pick nasty fights.<p>It only makes sense that they&#x27;re cutting down on something that has turned toxic. It&#x27;s a bit disappointing to hear, since I personally enjoyed the occasional, honest discussion with smart people of other viewpoints - these good discussions made the much larger number of ridiculous ones, bearable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cco</author><text>These are all very easy to discuss at work without politics. You ask, &quot;Do you have any dietary restrictions? If so you should make sure to read the menu closely, it&#x27;ll tell you what the dish contains.&quot;<p>There, now I know as much as I need to about my coworker&#x27;s diet. We&#x27;re here to work and if you&#x27;re going to be a member of a _diverse_ community with a shared goal you&#x27;re going to need to accept that other people live their lives differently than yours and that&#x27;s ok. I don&#x27;t need to know the reason my coworker is a vegetarian I just need to let them know if my cookies that I brought to work contain animal products.<p>If you refuse to get along the result will be internal strife and the shared goal, a successful company, a working community, etc. will fail.</text></comment> |
19,732,852 | 19,732,857 | 1 | 3 | 19,732,357 | train | <story><title>Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except the USA</title><url>https://kyso.io/eoin/rich-countries-tend-to-have-a-bigger-middle-class-except-the-usa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>I don&#x27;t have anything to prove it but I swear countries like Japan and Germany are very good at this sort of thing because the people have a culture of strict obedience to authority be it the government or whatever. They love having and following well defined rules and are nonplussed (in the original sense of the word) when people break the rules.<p>People in USA have the opposite attitude towards authority and rules.<p>Go someplace in Europe that doesn&#x27;t have this culture and it breaks down. Italy&#x27;s healthcare is a circus. When I was in Italy not even that long ago a doctor came in to see me with a lit cigarette in his mouth.</text></item><item><author>ixtli</author><text>Don&#x27;t even get me started. I did a year and a half of university in Tokyo and I used and paid for the health care system there a few times. Cavities filled for 20 dollars at high end central Tokyo offices. Skin doctors for zero dollars and prescribed creams for 800 yen. I knew a brain surgeon there who told me that the max price you could pay for his services was equivalent to 700 dollars. He didn&#x27;t even bother going to conferences in America, and this was 10 years ago.<p>Oh, and people love to talk about wait and access to doctors: not only did none of my experiences have a wait they didn&#x27;t even have a <i>schedule.</i> I simply walked in to an office and was seen immediately, and the Tokyo metro area has 35 million people living in it.</text></item><item><author>yardie</author><text>In all my travels no one is more deluded about the middle class than in the US. Healthcare is cheaper in Europe therefore it must be worse, somehow. The government is completely dysfunctional and we are worse off for it. Rather than pay slightly more to fully fund a working city&#x2F;state&#x2F;federal government everyone would rather pay slightly less and have a government that can&#x27;t work at all. Then, complain about the fact the government doesn&#x27;t work at all. Yes, the DMV sucks, but guess what, that is the level of service voters decided they wanted and that is what the DMV can deliver based on it&#x27;s funding; 1-2 hour wait times with 2 or 3 agents at the counter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatever_dude</author><text>The USA&#x27;s ethos in based in the motto of doing it their own way. Sometimes that&#x27;s good: when everybody is doing the same, it breaks from the status quo and can become a leader in an industry, or just generally break ground in scientific and civil progress. That has happened many times in the past.<p>The flipside is that there are many things are a consensus worldwide because they _are actually better_ but that the US still refuses to adopt, generally because it would mean following others&#x27; lead, or because there are special interests in keeping the current status quo.<p>To me nothing is more emblematic of this problem than the country&#x27;s refusal to adopt the metric system: the alternative is objectively worse, but the country is pretty much the last developed country on earth to refuse to use it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except the USA</title><url>https://kyso.io/eoin/rich-countries-tend-to-have-a-bigger-middle-class-except-the-usa</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>umvi</author><text>I don&#x27;t have anything to prove it but I swear countries like Japan and Germany are very good at this sort of thing because the people have a culture of strict obedience to authority be it the government or whatever. They love having and following well defined rules and are nonplussed (in the original sense of the word) when people break the rules.<p>People in USA have the opposite attitude towards authority and rules.<p>Go someplace in Europe that doesn&#x27;t have this culture and it breaks down. Italy&#x27;s healthcare is a circus. When I was in Italy not even that long ago a doctor came in to see me with a lit cigarette in his mouth.</text></item><item><author>ixtli</author><text>Don&#x27;t even get me started. I did a year and a half of university in Tokyo and I used and paid for the health care system there a few times. Cavities filled for 20 dollars at high end central Tokyo offices. Skin doctors for zero dollars and prescribed creams for 800 yen. I knew a brain surgeon there who told me that the max price you could pay for his services was equivalent to 700 dollars. He didn&#x27;t even bother going to conferences in America, and this was 10 years ago.<p>Oh, and people love to talk about wait and access to doctors: not only did none of my experiences have a wait they didn&#x27;t even have a <i>schedule.</i> I simply walked in to an office and was seen immediately, and the Tokyo metro area has 35 million people living in it.</text></item><item><author>yardie</author><text>In all my travels no one is more deluded about the middle class than in the US. Healthcare is cheaper in Europe therefore it must be worse, somehow. The government is completely dysfunctional and we are worse off for it. Rather than pay slightly more to fully fund a working city&#x2F;state&#x2F;federal government everyone would rather pay slightly less and have a government that can&#x27;t work at all. Then, complain about the fact the government doesn&#x27;t work at all. Yes, the DMV sucks, but guess what, that is the level of service voters decided they wanted and that is what the DMV can deliver based on it&#x27;s funding; 1-2 hour wait times with 2 or 3 agents at the counter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ska</author><text>I don&#x27;t think your analogy holds unless you cherry pick a bit - neither the French nor the British are particularly known as rule followers in the sense you are suggesting. Both have good (even great, in Frances case) health care.<p>The line you are drawing probably has at least as much to do with economics as culture.</text></comment> |
10,522,297 | 10,521,901 | 1 | 2 | 10,518,951 | train | <story><title>Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Security at LinuxCon</title><url>http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/linus-torvalds-talks-linux-security-at-linuxcon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riskable</author><text>Why do I keep seeing Heartbleed and Shellshock mentioned in articles specifically about Linux security? Those two vulnerabilities had nothing to do with Linux.<p>Software using OpenSSL or bash on <i>any</i> platform were vulnerable. That includes Macs and Windows.<p>Linux is extremely popular for servers and embedded systems where OpenSSL and bash are common but bringing them up every time &quot;security + Linux&quot; are discussed is a bit like talking about tires that blow out whenever the topic of logistics comes up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>So by that logic, it is unfair to criticise flash and or Java as Windows security issues?<p>It seems like Linux people want to shift the definition of &quot;Linux&quot; between only the kernel and the entire OS when it is convenient. In this case we&#x27;re shifting down the definition to &quot;kernel only&quot; so we can avoid talking about Linux (the OS&#x27;s) potential security issues.<p>Heartbleed and Shellshock are Linux (OS) issues. Just because that same software may ship on BSD and OS X is entirely irrelevant. Linux was still by far the largest target (just like Windows is the largest target of cross-platform Java vulnerabilities).<p>Linux as a kernel is pretty freaking secure. Linux as an OS has a lot of issues, and many (most?) popular distributions are a large part of why (e.g. SELinux is often disabled by default and a lot of packages are incompatible, a lot of services run as root by default, a lot of packages are installed by default (not the minimum), etc).</text></comment> | <story><title>Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Security at LinuxCon</title><url>http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/linus-torvalds-talks-linux-security-at-linuxcon.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riskable</author><text>Why do I keep seeing Heartbleed and Shellshock mentioned in articles specifically about Linux security? Those two vulnerabilities had nothing to do with Linux.<p>Software using OpenSSL or bash on <i>any</i> platform were vulnerable. That includes Macs and Windows.<p>Linux is extremely popular for servers and embedded systems where OpenSSL and bash are common but bringing them up every time &quot;security + Linux&quot; are discussed is a bit like talking about tires that blow out whenever the topic of logistics comes up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhurron</author><text>&gt; Why do I keep seeing Heartbleed and Shellshock mentioned in articles specifically about Linux security?<p>Because they&#x27;re big, popular, well known names that effect software that typically runs on Linux systems so everyone goes &quot;mm yep, that was a big Linux issue.&#x27;<p>The Linux kernel has issues, but you&#x27;re not making your case that Linus doesn&#x27;t take things seriously when your examples have nothing to do with Linus&#x27; work.</text></comment> |
25,305,148 | 25,304,810 | 1 | 2 | 25,304,554 | train | <story><title>Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55187611</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p49k</author><text>The numerator is such a small percentage because so many fear losing their jobs for speaking out. In that context, this number is quite significant. Even if you disagree with their stance, you have to admit that it takes courage to speak up in these kinds of situations.</text></item><item><author>pinewurst</author><text>I&#x27;m tired of FAANG &quot;rallies&quot; where the numerator is such a small percentage of the denominator.<p>I bet one could get &quot;hundreds&quot; of Google employees to rally behind a flat earth and many more for the abolition of mayonnaise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teen</author><text>Actually, it&#x27;s more so the other way. If you agree with her firing, you can&#x27;t say anything or you are a bigot</text></comment> | <story><title>Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55187611</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>p49k</author><text>The numerator is such a small percentage because so many fear losing their jobs for speaking out. In that context, this number is quite significant. Even if you disagree with their stance, you have to admit that it takes courage to speak up in these kinds of situations.</text></item><item><author>pinewurst</author><text>I&#x27;m tired of FAANG &quot;rallies&quot; where the numerator is such a small percentage of the denominator.<p>I bet one could get &quot;hundreds&quot; of Google employees to rally behind a flat earth and many more for the abolition of mayonnaise.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigphishy</author><text>That could be, although it is more than likely a small percentage because so many people do not agree with the cause.</text></comment> |
29,804,533 | 29,803,349 | 1 | 3 | 29,798,712 | train | <story><title>The UX on this small child is terrible</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>My kid (~2 years) prefers to eat food they like the taste of most.<p>Turns out that they prefer the sweet tastes of biscuits and even bananas etc to broccoli and carrots.<p>They&#x27;ll whinge and whine about being hungry, so you offer them some peas or avocado or something and they will literally push it out of the way, look you straight in the eye, and tell you about how hungry they are (...but not hungry enough to eat the veggies in front of them!). Offer them crisps or biscuits or even just fruity-yoghurt and they&#x27;ll scoff it down super-fast because presumably it tastes nicer.<p>Can&#x27;t blame them really.</text></item><item><author>cpursley</author><text>Can somebody explain the &quot;won&#x27;t eat vegetables&quot; thing? The only place I&#x27;ve heard about this being in issue is in America.</text></item><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quadrangle</author><text>I can understand peas, but avocado is fatty indulgent wonderful food. Not liking avocado is absurd. It&#x27;s like not liking peanut-butter.<p>Side-note: I learned the most grotesque aberration that shows how the U.S. is orders of magnitude into complete dysfunction: there&#x27;s something called &quot;diet peanut butter&quot; (learned about this because of a warning I saw online not to give it to dogs). WTF is &quot;diet peanut butter&quot;???? Peanut butter is this rich, delicious oily food. It doesn&#x27;t need a damn thing to be a great treat. But in the U.S., it&#x27;s not only typically salted, they add a large amount of sugar. That&#x27;s already insanely stupid. You want to cut out the sugar? Just enjoy the plain amazing peanut butter on its own!! Nope, they made &quot;diet&quot; by swapping the sugar for xylitol or something. INSANE.<p>P.S. I live in and grew up in the U.S., I&#x27;m judging my own country.</text></comment> | <story><title>The UX on this small child is terrible</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>My kid (~2 years) prefers to eat food they like the taste of most.<p>Turns out that they prefer the sweet tastes of biscuits and even bananas etc to broccoli and carrots.<p>They&#x27;ll whinge and whine about being hungry, so you offer them some peas or avocado or something and they will literally push it out of the way, look you straight in the eye, and tell you about how hungry they are (...but not hungry enough to eat the veggies in front of them!). Offer them crisps or biscuits or even just fruity-yoghurt and they&#x27;ll scoff it down super-fast because presumably it tastes nicer.<p>Can&#x27;t blame them really.</text></item><item><author>cpursley</author><text>Can somebody explain the &quot;won&#x27;t eat vegetables&quot; thing? The only place I&#x27;ve heard about this being in issue is in America.</text></item><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackerfromthefu</author><text>Classic symptoms of sugar addiction. I&#x27;ve found it takes around three weeks without sugar to reset this, then the sugar cravings hacking the system disappear.</text></comment> |
3,986,348 | 3,985,977 | 1 | 3 | 3,985,192 | train | <story><title>Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/meet-the-worst-8th-grade-math-teacher-in-nyc/2012/05/15/gIQArmlbSU_blog.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterhunt</author><text>I'm surprised to see so many HNers come out against standardized testing. Sure, it's imperfect and this teacher got screwed, but how are administrators supposed to make informed, data-driven decisions on what the right course of action is? Many of us extol the virtues of A/B testing landing page designs and gathering deep metrics and analytics but turn around and slam educators for making decisions based on standardized test scores.<p>Give me a better metric for success that you can measure over the course of a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianhoward</author><text>I'm surprised to see so many HNers come out against counting lines of code. Sure, it's imperfect and this developer got screwed, but how are managers supposed to make informed, data-driven decisions on what the right course of action is? Many of us extol the virtues of A/B testing landing page designs and gathering deep metrics and analytics but turn around and slam managers for making decisions based on line code counts.</text></comment> | <story><title>Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/meet-the-worst-8th-grade-math-teacher-in-nyc/2012/05/15/gIQArmlbSU_blog.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterhunt</author><text>I'm surprised to see so many HNers come out against standardized testing. Sure, it's imperfect and this teacher got screwed, but how are administrators supposed to make informed, data-driven decisions on what the right course of action is? Many of us extol the virtues of A/B testing landing page designs and gathering deep metrics and analytics but turn around and slam educators for making decisions based on standardized test scores.<p>Give me a better metric for success that you can measure over the course of a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>Good data is helpful. Bad data is <i>worse than useless</i>.<p>You're actually better off with no information than with bad information.</text></comment> |
4,764,973 | 4,764,106 | 1 | 2 | 4,763,697 | train | <story><title>How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/magazine/how-zara-grew-into-the-worlds-largest-fashion-retailer.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eduardordm</author><text>Zara should be closed and owners go to JAIL. It used slave labor (including minors) for YEARS in Brazil.<p>I've been to a 'camp' myself in 2011 just before the scandal broke. This is how they did it: a coyote paid by Zara would go to Bolivia and give some money to Bolivians that wanted a 'better life' in Brazil. They paid travel expenses and brought them illegally to Brazil. After they were here they would work for no salary - just for the promise that Zara would 'give the papers' to work legally. It never happened.<p>To mask the operation they opened a number of ghost companies in Brazil and hired those companies to manufacture their products. When hell broke loose, they stated that those companies were guilty, not them.<p>I hope Zara burns in hell.</text></comment> | <story><title>How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/magazine/how-zara-grew-into-the-worlds-largest-fashion-retailer.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pinaceae</author><text>what isn't that clear in the article, is the speed advantage over chinese-produced cheap fashion goods. the t-shirt might look the same, a sort-of copy of a Lagerfeld piece. but the Zara one is in stores practically immediately after the fashion show in say Milan is over, while the container ship from China is leaving port.<p>speed kills, and fashion is a speedy business. your customers see what fashion magazines show them, and they want it <i>now</i>. Zara has understood this. awesome, awesome application of clear thinking and strategy.<p>Zara is being taught over here in EU together with Red Bull as one of the key modern examples for smart business models.</text></comment> |
12,512,434 | 12,511,809 | 1 | 2 | 12,511,501 | train | <story><title>Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-15/tesla-wins-utility-contract-to-supply-grid-scale-battery-storage-after-porter-ranch-gas-leak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>Having real-time pricing of electricity coupled with users who can adapt their usage automatically to real-time prices will also considerably moderate power demand.</text></item><item><author>nl</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty important to realize that this isn&#x27;t the problem that needs solving.<p>Batteries aren&#x27;t great for large amounts of power for long periods of time (yet). What they are good at is smoothing out the supply curve from potentially intermittent suppliers like solar and wind, and that is one of the things that causes price spikes.</text></item><item><author>1024core</author><text>&gt; Tesla&#x27;s contribution is enough to power about 2,500 homes for a full day<p>This is &lt; 0.1% of the total number of homes in SoCal, just to put it in perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Scarblac</author><text>In the Netherlands there is a lot of reclaimed land that needs a lot of water pumped out regularly (though not 24&#x2F;7, during normal weather).<p>I know there have been pilots with some of the larger pumping stations to incorporate the current real time price of electricity, as well as the forecast rain within the next few hours to decide when to turn on. Not sure if it&#x27;s actually used in production now.<p>That sort of thing is a great fit for that problem.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-15/tesla-wins-utility-contract-to-supply-grid-scale-battery-storage-after-porter-ranch-gas-leak</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WalterBright</author><text>Having real-time pricing of electricity coupled with users who can adapt their usage automatically to real-time prices will also considerably moderate power demand.</text></item><item><author>nl</author><text>It&#x27;s pretty important to realize that this isn&#x27;t the problem that needs solving.<p>Batteries aren&#x27;t great for large amounts of power for long periods of time (yet). What they are good at is smoothing out the supply curve from potentially intermittent suppliers like solar and wind, and that is one of the things that causes price spikes.</text></item><item><author>1024core</author><text>&gt; Tesla&#x27;s contribution is enough to power about 2,500 homes for a full day<p>This is &lt; 0.1% of the total number of homes in SoCal, just to put it in perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>Yes.<p>Also, trading off the reliability of power.<p>This seems outrageous to many of us in the West, but here in Australia our power utility already cuts power to neighborhoods in half hour blocks during peak power consumption during summer (I believe they exclude hospitals and some other sites like that from this policy).<p>The infrastructure savings made by this are <i>huge</i> (think of 99% reliability vs 99.99% in software), and the few that really need it can invest in backup solutions for those times.</text></comment> |
35,425,708 | 35,425,432 | 1 | 3 | 35,424,678 | train | <story><title>Alibaba breaks itself up in six</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/30/alibaba-breaks-itself-up-in-six</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>I&#x27;m not an expert on this, but from what I gather this all leads back to a power struggle between Jack Ma and Xi Jinping. Ma was ready to go public with AliPay and in the build up to it made a speech that criticised the government regulation as being out of date. This was viewed as a challenge to the governments power. Over the next few months the government moved to tighten regulations on companies like AliPay and disappeared Jack Ma. The government since then has basically completely taken over his entire empire, and sliced it up into pieces. This is basically Xi sending the message that private business in China will always defer to the government. All of this has natural absolutely tanked the value of China&#x27;s tech sector. So people are hoping that now the worst of it is done and they no longer have enormous tech giants, but a series of smaller companies, that the government will return to being more hands off and in turn those smaller companies can return to more natural valuations.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>It’s always hard for me to understand the why when it comes to China’s government.<p>“Investors cheer the move as signalling the end of China’s tech crackdown”<p>If this is government action then why would this be the “end” of government involvement?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Also, one of Ma’s last public appearances was at an American conference, maybe TechCrunch but I’m not sure, where he said in an on stage interview something to the effect of, “I’m not afraid of the CCP”, in relation to recent revelations he was a CCP member. Then he got disappeared shortly after. He was really clueless about what kind of org he was dealing with.</text></comment> | <story><title>Alibaba breaks itself up in six</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/30/alibaba-breaks-itself-up-in-six</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>I&#x27;m not an expert on this, but from what I gather this all leads back to a power struggle between Jack Ma and Xi Jinping. Ma was ready to go public with AliPay and in the build up to it made a speech that criticised the government regulation as being out of date. This was viewed as a challenge to the governments power. Over the next few months the government moved to tighten regulations on companies like AliPay and disappeared Jack Ma. The government since then has basically completely taken over his entire empire, and sliced it up into pieces. This is basically Xi sending the message that private business in China will always defer to the government. All of this has natural absolutely tanked the value of China&#x27;s tech sector. So people are hoping that now the worst of it is done and they no longer have enormous tech giants, but a series of smaller companies, that the government will return to being more hands off and in turn those smaller companies can return to more natural valuations.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>It’s always hard for me to understand the why when it comes to China’s government.<p>“Investors cheer the move as signalling the end of China’s tech crackdown”<p>If this is government action then why would this be the “end” of government involvement?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>voisin</author><text>&gt; So people are hoping that now the worst of it is done<p>What is the basis of this hope?</text></comment> |
12,319,858 | 12,319,777 | 1 | 2 | 12,319,504 | train | <story><title>Researcher Grabs VPN Password with Tool from NSA Dump</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/researcher-grabs-cisco-vpn-password-with-tool-from-nsa-dump</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>givinguflac</author><text>What more reason could we possibly need to be against the NSA&#x27;s data collection at this point? They clearly can&#x27;t keep themselves secure, so why should we allow them to keep a profile of everything everyone does? They&#x27;re simply collecting the most dangerous database in history and can&#x27;t even keep the doors locked. I can&#x27;t imagine how dangerous these tools and all our personal data could be in some other, also wrong hands.</text></comment> | <story><title>Researcher Grabs VPN Password with Tool from NSA Dump</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/researcher-grabs-cisco-vpn-password-with-tool-from-nsa-dump</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bArray</author><text>Okay, there&#x27;s now some credibility to what Shadow Brokers are saying. Watch those bids rise for the rest of the dump!<p>A far fetched tin-foil hat idea - Shadow Brokers made a few exploits themselves and are looking to bring maximum profit from a smaller amount of work.<p>The second tin-foil idea is that the NSA themselves are pretending to leak their old tricks in order to find out who the big players are.</text></comment> |
37,508,670 | 37,508,463 | 1 | 2 | 37,499,042 | train | <story><title>My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden</title><url>https://matthieu.io/blog/2023/09/13/million-dollar-homepage-garden/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nojs</author><text>I’m really curious what the original owner of the domain thought the value of spending $200 on that little ad was. Like nobody is going to see it in the sea of other ads, and backlinks weren’t a thing then. Why else would you buy it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>I was involved in one of the logos on the MHP. It&#x27;s not a very interesting story, but I&#x27;ll share it anyway!<p>Being permanently online, I saw MDH quite early on and when it began to get some initial press mentions, I figured it might go big. I hit up a friend&#x2F;client of mine - Ben Neumann (RIP) - who was CEO of Globat, a hosting company. He was <i>hugely</i> into guerilla marketing techniques (like paying a guy to have their logo as a tattoo or sneaking a Saddam Hussein themed ad into a popular computer magazine - a story in itself) so this was totally up his street and he immediately bought the large space now marked &quot;FREE HOSTING&quot; in the top middle.<p>At the time, Globat used to pay quite juicy commissions to folks for hosting referrals (equivalent to about the whole first year of hosting fees) so even if he ended up with 50 signups from it, it would have broken even.</text></comment> | <story><title>My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden</title><url>https://matthieu.io/blog/2023/09/13/million-dollar-homepage-garden/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nojs</author><text>I’m really curious what the original owner of the domain thought the value of spending $200 on that little ad was. Like nobody is going to see it in the sea of other ads, and backlinks weren’t a thing then. Why else would you buy it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bookofjoe</author><text>I know exactly why. Back in the heyday of blogs, around 2010, I was SO fired up every day thinking today would be the day I&#x27;d strike it rich.<p>I placed a very small ad featuring my blog&#x27;s URL in the back pages of The New Yorker: it cost $500 or so.<p>I figured you never know who might see it and visit.<p>For perspective: at peak popularity back then I got about 10,000 visitors&#x2F;15,000 page views DAILY.<p>Nowadays I get an average of 500 page views daily.</text></comment> |
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