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24,621,041 | 24,619,973 | 1 | 3 | 24,618,933 | train | <story><title>Research: Average Age of a Successful Founder is 45</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-successful-startup-founder-is-45</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>Important note about these studies: Success = high employee growth from year 0-5 OR fastest sales growth OR successfully exit through an IPO or acquisition<p>VC isn&#x27;t looking at those three factors above. They are looking at LARGEST overall return percentage. VC and the media don&#x27;t care about 1-30x returns, which is likely where most of these exits are.<p>HBR should go back and look at the ages of founders that have $1B exits or 100X+ returns on capital if they want to know &quot;why some VCs persist in betting on young founders.&quot;<p>They should likely just consult their colleagues on a different side of their website:<p>&quot;The average age at founding (a unicorn) in our dataset was just over 31, and the median was 30.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top-founders-heres-the-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;how-old-are-silicon-valleys-top-foun...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Research: Average Age of a Successful Founder is 45</title><url>https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-successful-startup-founder-is-45</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runawaybottle</author><text>With 8 billion people in the world, what we hope to see is that founders come from all age brackets.<p>Over correction is a real thing, and when young tech founders hit it big it defied the idea of the super senior decision makers in large companies who were the paragons of leadership.<p>We shifted to the idolization of the young entrepreneur. This is just as bad. Been doing a little Theranos reading lately, and the adoption of the woman founder paradigm was set to take off with Elizabeth Holmes (and she was peddling the full package stereotype of the Ivy League dropout). New narratives help break strangleholds, but damn do they also have a way of unjustly defining stereotypes.</text></comment> |
35,951,741 | 35,950,709 | 1 | 2 | 35,944,295 | train | <story><title>Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office</title><url>https://www.techradar.com/news/dell-goes-back-on-wfh-pledge-forces-employees-to-come-back-to-the-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riley_dog</author><text>my company is actively tracking everyone and their attendance, and then displaying metrics on attendance in all hands meetings. it&#x27;s like high school or something.</text></item><item><author>DoctorMckay101</author><text>I think my sentiments are best expressed in a greentext manner:<p>&gt; be me<p>&gt; wfh as a soft dev for a big tech company<p>&gt; company tells me to come back to the office<p>&gt; they claim it is to promote coworking and socialize<p>&gt; have to wake up an hour earlier<p>&gt; 1h commute, no real public transport options<p>&gt; get stuck in traffic, +20 minutes<p>&gt; arrive late at office<p>&gt; no matter, no one checks office logs and I turned on my laptop in the car<p>&gt; half of the workers are wfh<p>&gt; no one from my team is there<p>&gt; remember they are not even from the same city lol<p>&gt; put on my headphones<p>&gt; zoom meeting, have to book a room<p>&gt; finish meeting<p>&gt; put some spotify on<p>&gt; don&#x27;t talk to nobody for 6h<p>&gt; make a greentext in ycombinator<p>&gt; leave an hour earlier because no one checks office logs<p>&gt; 1h commute back</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ac26</author><text>This is a bit comical. I&#x27;ve always figured that hiring a manager to just play baby sitter for professional adults is the most inefficient use of company resources. I understand that there are certain industries which this might be more important but I&#x27;m going to guess most industries would benefit from having better hiring practices and a more trusting culture.</text></comment> | <story><title>Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office</title><url>https://www.techradar.com/news/dell-goes-back-on-wfh-pledge-forces-employees-to-come-back-to-the-office</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>riley_dog</author><text>my company is actively tracking everyone and their attendance, and then displaying metrics on attendance in all hands meetings. it&#x27;s like high school or something.</text></item><item><author>DoctorMckay101</author><text>I think my sentiments are best expressed in a greentext manner:<p>&gt; be me<p>&gt; wfh as a soft dev for a big tech company<p>&gt; company tells me to come back to the office<p>&gt; they claim it is to promote coworking and socialize<p>&gt; have to wake up an hour earlier<p>&gt; 1h commute, no real public transport options<p>&gt; get stuck in traffic, +20 minutes<p>&gt; arrive late at office<p>&gt; no matter, no one checks office logs and I turned on my laptop in the car<p>&gt; half of the workers are wfh<p>&gt; no one from my team is there<p>&gt; remember they are not even from the same city lol<p>&gt; put on my headphones<p>&gt; zoom meeting, have to book a room<p>&gt; finish meeting<p>&gt; put some spotify on<p>&gt; don&#x27;t talk to nobody for 6h<p>&gt; make a greentext in ycombinator<p>&gt; leave an hour earlier because no one checks office logs<p>&gt; 1h commute back</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>if you call out sick does your company&#x27;s truancy officer drop by to make sure you aren&#x27;t running around the canals with your friends?</text></comment> |
17,802,675 | 17,802,648 | 1 | 3 | 17,802,237 | train | <story><title>Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17758724/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-specs-pricing-release-date-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aqme28</author><text>Where are you getting a 70-90% price increase?<p>1080s are ~$450, will now be $799.
1070s are ~$400, will now be $599.<p>(I&#x27;m going off the top hits on Newegg)</text></item><item><author>bitL</author><text>Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14&#x2F;16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger).<p>Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this is the minimal price...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Those are the &quot;Founder&#x27;s Edition&quot; prices for the first cards from Nvidia, so it&#x27;s not quite this bad either.<p>MSRP on cards from OEMs should start at $499 for the 2070 and $699 for the 2080 ($100 cheaper than Nvidia&#x27;s).<p>Personally I still think it&#x27;s insane. I have a GTX 970 from October 2014 and that was $369.<p>EDIT: Even my $369 was a bit of a premium (OC edition and shortly after launch, I don&#x27;t remember but I&#x27;m guessing I bought whatever was in stock). Wikipedia claims the GTX 970 launched in September 2014 at $329.<p>Assuming the $329 MSRP is comparable to the $499 announcement, the __70 line is up 52% in two generations. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s better hardware, but that&#x27;s a big pile of money.<p>And if my 970 experience holds through today, the OEM cards that are actually available are going to be pricier than the MSRP, but maybe still lower than the Founder&#x27;s Edition.<p>We&#x27;ll see where the 2060 ends up.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17758724/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-specs-pricing-release-date-features</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aqme28</author><text>Where are you getting a 70-90% price increase?<p>1080s are ~$450, will now be $799.
1070s are ~$400, will now be $599.<p>(I&#x27;m going off the top hits on Newegg)</text></item><item><author>bitL</author><text>Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14&#x2F;16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger).<p>Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this is the minimal price...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carbocation</author><text>For the 1080, by your numbers, $799&#x2F;$450 represents a ~78% price increase.</text></comment> |
22,398,433 | 22,397,931 | 1 | 2 | 22,396,596 | train | <story><title>Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now</title><url>https://virologydownunder.com/past-time-to-tell-the-public-it-will-probably-go-pandemic-and-we-should-all-prepare-now/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkarl</author><text>The article becomes much less edgy if you know what the authorities are actually saying. For example, the American CDC, in USA Today[1]:<p>&quot;Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC&#x27;s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters Friday that U.S. health officials are preparing for the coronavirus to become a pandemic.&quot;<p>&quot;&#x27;We’re not seeing community spread here in the United States, yet, but it’s very possible, even likely, that it may eventually happen,” she said. “Our goal continues to be slowing the introduction of the virus into the U.S. This buys us more time to prepare communities for more cases and possibly sustained spread.&#x27;&quot;<p>Sooooo... today&#x27;s edgy &quot;the media and authorities are keeping us in the dark&quot; blog post got scooped two days ago by the CDC and USA Today.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;coronavirus-who-contain-outbreak-iran-deaths-south-korea-cases&#x2F;4829278002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;coronav...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strangeloops85</author><text>As many public health experts and virologists are now pointing out (and as I am sure many at CDC have long realized), there&#x27;s no way to know if there&#x27;s community spread without actually testing for it. Current testing capacity is severely limited - which is baffling really, given that Korea is running like 6000 tests&#x2F; days now. Part of it is a logistical &#x2F; technical screw-up:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;20&#x2F;cdc-coronavirus-116529" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;20&#x2F;cdc-coronavirus-116...</a><p>For example, if you&#x27;re a doctor with a case of atypical pneumonia, there&#x27;s no way to actually test a patient for it unless there&#x27;s clear China (possibly Hubei!) travel history. And that could take 3-7 days. However, consider the Canadian ER doctor who a few days ago decided to ask for a test for a woman who had traveled back from Iran recently - turned out she had it, and it revealed to us unexpected, but very real vectors of transmission.<p>These technical issues have to be solved, otherwise there&#x27;s no way to distinguish this from regular seasonal flu cases and pneumonias, until - like in Wuhan - the atypical cases bubble up. At that point, it&#x27;s really too late to do much containment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now</title><url>https://virologydownunder.com/past-time-to-tell-the-public-it-will-probably-go-pandemic-and-we-should-all-prepare-now/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dkarl</author><text>The article becomes much less edgy if you know what the authorities are actually saying. For example, the American CDC, in USA Today[1]:<p>&quot;Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC&#x27;s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters Friday that U.S. health officials are preparing for the coronavirus to become a pandemic.&quot;<p>&quot;&#x27;We’re not seeing community spread here in the United States, yet, but it’s very possible, even likely, that it may eventually happen,” she said. “Our goal continues to be slowing the introduction of the virus into the U.S. This buys us more time to prepare communities for more cases and possibly sustained spread.&#x27;&quot;<p>Sooooo... today&#x27;s edgy &quot;the media and authorities are keeping us in the dark&quot; blog post got scooped two days ago by the CDC and USA Today.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;coronavirus-who-contain-outbreak-iran-deaths-south-korea-cases&#x2F;4829278002&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;02&#x2F;21&#x2F;coronav...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Frost1x</author><text>Following a few comments from experts in the field and looking at some of the data being presented, it&#x27;s fairly obvious this pandemic case was reasonably high. There are of course lots of unknowns models used can&#x27;t account for but that&#x27;s no reason to discard the potential risk entirely.<p>Keep in mind, many of these decisions to avoid &quot;pandemic&quot; talk try to take most holistic views in regards to public safety&#x2F;health. There is a lot of consideration regarding deaths cause by panic actions which are often estimated&#x2F;modeled as well and if panic related deaths and side effects are higher than a current actual threat, it&#x27;s often viewed that the best course of action is to suppress panic until warranted.<p>So lack of pandemic talk doesn&#x27;t inherently mean there is a legitimate reason <i>not to</i> panic, just that you&#x27;re being given limited information. At the same time you shouldn&#x27;t assume experts, the media, etc. are somehow mass conspiring against your health&#x2F;safety. Assessments are probably reasonable to follow.<p>The best course of action is to also take a holistic look at situations independent of these groups and make your own rational assessment of risks and impact.<p>If you don&#x27;t already have some non-perishable food supplies, you should have completely irrespective of this specific recent viral outbreak--its basic preparedness for emergencies.<p>Some basic preparedness (I&#x27;m not talking bunkers and 2 year food cache craziness) are warranted in general for unpredictable disaster cases so these situations are good reminders for people to check their pantry for food, etc. just in case something awful was to happen, those supplies can help significantly.</text></comment> |
23,561,854 | 23,560,131 | 1 | 3 | 23,556,608 | train | <story><title>FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Philadelphia police cars</title><url>https://6abc.com/fbi-etsy-linkedin-used-to-make-arrest-in-police-car-arson/6252215/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d2v</author><text>Fun fact: the Philadelphia Police Department also likes starting fires. 35 years ago, they used plastic explosives to blow up the house of the MOVE group, killing most of the people inside (including five children). Instead of putting out the fires, the city allowed a good chunk of the predominantly black working class neighborhood to burn to the ground. The city did get sued in 2005 in a civil trial for burning down the houses, but no one from the city government has been criminally charged for the attack. That seems like the kind of terrorist act that the FBI would investigate, but I guess they have different priorities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cyberdrunk</author><text>From Wikipedia article:<p>&gt; There was an armed standoff with police,[6] who lobbed tear gas canisters at the building. The MOVE members fired at them, and a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms ensued.[33] Police used more than ten thousand rounds of ammunition before Commissioner Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed.<p>Seems like the bombing was perhaps not an unreasonable response? I mean, in this case an armed militia fortified itself in a bunker-like property and fired at the police. What were they expecting?</text></comment> | <story><title>FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Philadelphia police cars</title><url>https://6abc.com/fbi-etsy-linkedin-used-to-make-arrest-in-police-car-arson/6252215/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d2v</author><text>Fun fact: the Philadelphia Police Department also likes starting fires. 35 years ago, they used plastic explosives to blow up the house of the MOVE group, killing most of the people inside (including five children). Instead of putting out the fires, the city allowed a good chunk of the predominantly black working class neighborhood to burn to the ground. The city did get sued in 2005 in a civil trial for burning down the houses, but no one from the city government has been criminally charged for the attack. That seems like the kind of terrorist act that the FBI would investigate, but I guess they have different priorities.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qbaqbaqba</author><text>How is that related? Are you justifying violence?</text></comment> |
10,832,168 | 10,832,273 | 1 | 3 | 10,831,266 | train | <story><title>The $10 Echo</title><url>http://sammachin.com/the-10-echo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sammachin</author><text>Thanks for all the upvotes folks,<p>I should clarify that there is a bit of artistic license on the title calling this a $10 Echo, there are 2 caveats;<p>Its only about $10 the CHIP is a &quot;$9 Computer&quot; plus tax &amp; shipping etc. and this hack then requires a speaker, microphone and a button, however you may well have these lying around of have another device like an old speakerphone or something that you could gut and put the CHIP into as a new brain.<p>The other point is that its not really a full Echo, the Echo is a hardware appliance that implements Far Field Voice Technology, Wake Word Detection, A High Quality Bluetooth Speaker, Support for various media service (Prime Music, Audible, Pandora etc) and finally the Alexa Voice Assistant. This hack is really just access to the Alexa Voice Assistant without the wake word or far field tech.<p>So its about 90% of the functionality for a much lower price. Personally I have an Echo in my dining room which is great when walking around the house but I built this to use on my desk when I want to trigger home automation features without shouting downstairs.</text></comment> | <story><title>The $10 Echo</title><url>http://sammachin.com/the-10-echo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kovacs</author><text>This is a pretty cool experiment. As someone that recently worked on an app that was doing speech to text in near and far field, calling this a $10 echo is like calling a Honda Civic a $15K Ferrari. I&#x27;d love to see the video of the author speaking to this microphone from 10&#x27; away, or even 5&#x27; away in a room with no padding.<p>The Echo&#x27;s ability to do voice to text is like nothing that&#x27;s ever come before it based on my experience building, and speaking with a consultant in the field that worked on the Echo team.</text></comment> |
14,152,908 | 14,152,923 | 1 | 3 | 14,152,688 | train | <story><title>Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-ad-blocking-feature-in-popular-chrome-browser-1492643233</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcow</author><text>No because all of their ads will meet standards. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if a competing lower-quality ad agency sues Google over this.</text></item><item><author>oDot</author><text>I like it too, but isn&#x27;t Google in a conflict of interest here?</text></item><item><author>aesthetics1</author><text>&quot;In one possible application Google is considering, it may choose to block all advertising that appears on sites with offending ads, instead of the individual offending ads themselves. In other words, site owners may be required to ensure all of their ads meet the standards, or could see all advertising across their sites blocked in Chrome.&quot;<p>I like this approach. It punishes site owners for running malicious or badly-behaved ads. I think this is a step forward. I hate blocking ads across the board - I just want to stop the intrusive and dangerous variety. I can tolerate the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haukilup</author><text>Why are you saying no, then proceeding to make the parent&#x27;s point for them?</text></comment> | <story><title>Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-ad-blocking-feature-in-popular-chrome-browser-1492643233</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcow</author><text>No because all of their ads will meet standards. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if a competing lower-quality ad agency sues Google over this.</text></item><item><author>oDot</author><text>I like it too, but isn&#x27;t Google in a conflict of interest here?</text></item><item><author>aesthetics1</author><text>&quot;In one possible application Google is considering, it may choose to block all advertising that appears on sites with offending ads, instead of the individual offending ads themselves. In other words, site owners may be required to ensure all of their ads meet the standards, or could see all advertising across their sites blocked in Chrome.&quot;<p>I like this approach. It punishes site owners for running malicious or badly-behaved ads. I think this is a step forward. I hate blocking ads across the board - I just want to stop the intrusive and dangerous variety. I can tolerate the rest.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>&gt; <i>their ads will meet standards</i><p>If something else on the page doesn&#x27;t, presumably Chrome will block Google&#x27;s ads too.</text></comment> |
35,674,646 | 35,673,658 | 1 | 3 | 35,662,260 | train | <story><title>How much can Duolingo teach us?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/how-much-can-duolingo-teach-us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; I know the words, I can complete a challenge that include numbers, but I could not count to ten in the real world in Japanese.<p>How is this possible? You know the words but you can&#x27;t use them? This hasn&#x27;t been my experience at all. I think I&#x27;m learning a lot from Duolingo. I still need a bit of time to parse big numbers especially when listening but I can recognize and understand countdowns when they show up in anime.<p>I&#x27;ve been sort of tracking my progress by watching japanese content and it&#x27;s been extremely motivating. It&#x27;s like wow, they really do use those words I learned about.</text></item><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>I&#x27;m the pro Duolingo user. I used to pick up new languages just for fun. It did help me a bit when conversing with uber drivers in Spanish, but I was stumped when i completed the Japanese course.<p>I could quickly, and effectively go through the course with no hurdles. But then my sister asked me to count to ten in Japanese. I know the words, I can complete a challenge that include numbers, but I could not count to ten in the real world in Japanese. Duolingo banked on the gamification, and that works really well. However, learning a language is only incidental.<p>I wrote an article about it and received threats to take it down. From time to time, i get a hoard of emails calling me toxic and threatening to sue. It&#x27;s still up if you can find it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>somenameforme</author><text>I think you kind of answered your own question. You <i>have</i> to have outside experience of the words to really have them click. We all have extremely strong associative memories. And you risk associating those words with the games&#x2F;sentences on Duolingo, instead of the thing they actually represent. This is why watching movies, reading books, listening to music, etc in the target language is so important.<p>Duolingo lessons generally fail to build up on each other sufficiently. Lesson 10 should regularly reuse the vocabulary of 1-9 (to help &#x27;widen&#x27; the association). Instead, it tends to be lesson 10 vocabulary paired with extremely simple words to form grammatically correct sentences and learn the vocabulary of lesson 10, which is then almost entirely discarded in the lessons that follow.</text></comment> | <story><title>How much can Duolingo teach us?</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/how-much-can-duolingo-teach-us</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&gt; I know the words, I can complete a challenge that include numbers, but I could not count to ten in the real world in Japanese.<p>How is this possible? You know the words but you can&#x27;t use them? This hasn&#x27;t been my experience at all. I think I&#x27;m learning a lot from Duolingo. I still need a bit of time to parse big numbers especially when listening but I can recognize and understand countdowns when they show up in anime.<p>I&#x27;ve been sort of tracking my progress by watching japanese content and it&#x27;s been extremely motivating. It&#x27;s like wow, they really do use those words I learned about.</text></item><item><author>firefoxd</author><text>I&#x27;m the pro Duolingo user. I used to pick up new languages just for fun. It did help me a bit when conversing with uber drivers in Spanish, but I was stumped when i completed the Japanese course.<p>I could quickly, and effectively go through the course with no hurdles. But then my sister asked me to count to ten in Japanese. I know the words, I can complete a challenge that include numbers, but I could not count to ten in the real world in Japanese. Duolingo banked on the gamification, and that works really well. However, learning a language is only incidental.<p>I wrote an article about it and received threats to take it down. From time to time, i get a hoard of emails calling me toxic and threatening to sue. It&#x27;s still up if you can find it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leke</author><text>I&#x27;ve experienced something similar in Finnish. The best I can come up with is the memories are connected with the app. Without the app the association with the learned content is lost. Well, it&#x27;s just a theory.</text></comment> |
3,688,951 | 3,688,853 | 1 | 3 | 3,688,536 | train | <story><title>Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why</title><url>http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/03/10/never-negotiate-piecemeal-heres-why/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>You could look at this by viewing negotiating as a way of arriving at a globally optimal solution that maximizes everyone's happiness, rather than as a way to allocate surplus that's inherently zero-sum.<p>When you negotiate piecemeal, there's little room for prioritization. There's give &#38; take on each individual issue, and one person is the winner and one person is the loser on that particular issue, and you don't have the flexibility to make sure you win on the issues you care about and lose on the ones you don't.<p>When you treat the agreement as a whole, you can look at it as an effort in prioritization. Each side will care more about certain issues. You want each side to win on the issues they care about, and lose on the ones that they don't. The negotiation, then, is just a way of teasing those priorities out effectively and making sure that everybody's needs can be met at once.</text></comment> | <story><title>Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why</title><url>http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/03/10/never-negotiate-piecemeal-heres-why/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lionhearted</author><text>Wow, what a great piece. Lots of good advice. Made me cringe in recollection at a few times in my life.<p>Interestingly enough though, my most adversarial negotiation of my life went like this (caught partner embezzling funds after he'd had a personal finance crisis)... interestingly, that one was wound down by email and fax with entirety of the agreement like this, and was the most successful. I didn't get this point back then (I still screw it up, actually, by trying to proactively "fix" things and oftentimes taking things at face value that are just leverage/negotiating moves). Yet -- I got lucky. My ex-partner's father was a lawyer, so we just faxed/emailed drafts back and forth.<p>That one came out OK, good outcomes even. Many other situations I had a much better position and better odds, but did poorly since I compromised/conceded/"helped"/"fixed" too early and set an expectation that things would continue that way.<p>Hmm. Expectations are a funny thing.<p>This is a really great article. Anyone who thinks it's not relevant to them should read it twice, since it covers a hell of a lot of life. Brilliantly put piece.</text></comment> |
29,164,430 | 29,158,623 | 1 | 2 | 29,136,417 | train | <story><title>Love seems like a high priority</title><url>https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qar8rGhomyNsQC85z/love-seems-like-a-high-priority</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Epenthesis</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s true.<p>I have little to no sex drive (am &quot;asexual&quot; as the kids say), but I&#x27;ve had intense crushes&#x2F;obsessive feelings about individuals with no associated desire to have sex with the targets thereof.<p>I imagine that for people with normal sex drives, both components play a role in initial relationship formation; ie, there&#x27;s an emotional component in addition to &quot;lust&quot; as conventionally defined.<p>You could quibble that these (relatively short lived) intense emotions are &quot;lust&quot;, as opposed to the &quot;love&quot; of a longer relationship, but that seems to be playing a semantic game that doesn&#x27;t really concord with how we generally use those words.</text></item><item><author>every</author><text>Initially, people do not fall in love. Rather, they fall in lust. This is typically short term. Love emerges when there is deep, long term compatibility and commitment. Humor helps as well. This is an anecdotal observation from someone who has been &quot;in love&quot; for over four decades...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>speby</author><text>Lust may be the wrong word here. Infatuation is more like the term I tend to associate with people&#x27;s <i>initial</i> attraction and substance of their relationship with someone else. The simple reason has more to do with the fact people simply CANNOT truly know each other, their values, and the result of their behaviors and choices, until enough time passes.<p>It is also worth mentioning that people&#x27;s lives arc on their own, in that they change. Preferences change. Values might even shift for some people over time (e.g. a religious person becoming totally secular or even atheistic later in life). And those changes also do not typically emerge in a couple of months of dating and flirting with one another.<p>It&#x27;s.... just human nature.</text></comment> | <story><title>Love seems like a high priority</title><url>https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qar8rGhomyNsQC85z/love-seems-like-a-high-priority</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Epenthesis</author><text>I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s true.<p>I have little to no sex drive (am &quot;asexual&quot; as the kids say), but I&#x27;ve had intense crushes&#x2F;obsessive feelings about individuals with no associated desire to have sex with the targets thereof.<p>I imagine that for people with normal sex drives, both components play a role in initial relationship formation; ie, there&#x27;s an emotional component in addition to &quot;lust&quot; as conventionally defined.<p>You could quibble that these (relatively short lived) intense emotions are &quot;lust&quot;, as opposed to the &quot;love&quot; of a longer relationship, but that seems to be playing a semantic game that doesn&#x27;t really concord with how we generally use those words.</text></item><item><author>every</author><text>Initially, people do not fall in love. Rather, they fall in lust. This is typically short term. Love emerges when there is deep, long term compatibility and commitment. Humor helps as well. This is an anecdotal observation from someone who has been &quot;in love&quot; for over four decades...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattmanser</author><text>That&#x27;s called limerence, not love.</text></comment> |
31,931,766 | 31,931,655 | 1 | 3 | 31,929,957 | train | <story><title>Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/30/amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyEgswuCsn</author><text>Do people agree that corporations should respect the customs and values of the local people when operating their business there?<p>If yes, then Amazon is not &quot;bowing&quot;, and it is The Guardian who is playing word games here. If not, then it would seem to imply that we are OK with western powers using their capital (instead of gunboats) to impose their ideology on other cultures in the world.<p>Now, one may argue that the customs and values of some countries are incompatible with those of the West and may even be considered &quot;backward&quot; to the point that western companies should completely withdraw from those markets because providing services to such markets equates to empowering those backward social values. That can be a fair assessment, but just remember not to blame them for &quot;banning western companies&quot; in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djohnston</author><text>My feeling is that if you&#x27;re going out of your way to promote an ideology&#x2F;cultural value domestically (Happy Pride Month!, flags everywhere, etc), then yes you need to stick to your guns and not bow to the opposite influence.<p>If you&#x27;re strictly in the business of making money, then by all means conduct your business but stfu about it.</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/30/amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RyEgswuCsn</author><text>Do people agree that corporations should respect the customs and values of the local people when operating their business there?<p>If yes, then Amazon is not &quot;bowing&quot;, and it is The Guardian who is playing word games here. If not, then it would seem to imply that we are OK with western powers using their capital (instead of gunboats) to impose their ideology on other cultures in the world.<p>Now, one may argue that the customs and values of some countries are incompatible with those of the West and may even be considered &quot;backward&quot; to the point that western companies should completely withdraw from those markets because providing services to such markets equates to empowering those backward social values. That can be a fair assessment, but just remember not to blame them for &quot;banning western companies&quot; in the future.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yakubin</author><text><i>&gt; Do people agree that corporations should respect the customs and values of the local people when operating their business there?</i><p>They may do that, but then playing a champion of the opposing values when it&#x27;s convenient (pride month in the western world) is hypocrisy and it should be pointed out. If they didn&#x27;t have an LGBTQ-based PR campaign in the West, then this move wouldn&#x27;t merit a mention. Alas, it does.</text></comment> |
10,051,936 | 10,051,759 | 1 | 2 | 10,050,949 | train | <story><title>Show HN: NaSC – Do maths like a normal person</title><url>http://parnold-x.github.io/nasc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>micampe</author><text>I usually don’t like to link to competing projects, but this seems to be only for Linux so I think I can link a similar one (as far as I can understand from the screenshots) for OS X and iOS: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;acqualia.com&#x2F;soulver&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;acqualia.com&#x2F;soulver&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>perishabledave</author><text>Looks like a close copy of Soulver to me. I think in this case it&#x27;s worth mentioning.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: NaSC – Do maths like a normal person</title><url>http://parnold-x.github.io/nasc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>micampe</author><text>I usually don’t like to link to competing projects, but this seems to be only for Linux so I think I can link a similar one (as far as I can understand from the screenshots) for OS X and iOS: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;acqualia.com&#x2F;soulver&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;acqualia.com&#x2F;soulver&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesrom</author><text>Ever since I first saw Soulver I have been eagerly awaiting a Windows alternative. Maybe with NaSC we&#x27;re just a little closer.</text></comment> |
19,879,665 | 19,879,221 | 1 | 3 | 19,877,124 | train | <story><title>Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradlys</author><text>It&#x27;s not even a matter of &quot;safe&quot;. I live in a neighborhood that is seen as very safe. Yet, we had a burglary two houses down not too long ago. And they happen frequently enough to myself. I&#x27;ve had plenty stolen. Without a camera, there&#x27;s ~0% chance of anyone being caught.<p>I ended up buying a camera for peace of mind and for checking in on my place to see who&#x27;s entering my residence area. Sometimes it&#x27;s genuinely helpful.</text></item><item><author>smbullet</author><text>Not all of us live in safe neighborhoods like yourself.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; In 5 years when all the crap is worked out and you eventually buy a system with extra security at your door or backyard, or a something to that effect I&#x27;d like you to come back and admit it.<p>I heard this same song and dance 5 years ago. The problems with the &quot;IoT&quot; market are foundational. Most IoT devices are not designed to be used for extended periods without internet access and a continuous stream of updates. The former means that, in general, they are only as reliable as your internet connection (including that crappy modem&#x2F;router the ISP gave you). The latter means that unlike traditional home hardware, once you install &quot;smart&quot; devices you&#x27;re at the mercy of the business plans of the vendor. So even if you get something set up that works acceptably, it will last 5 years tops (see Nest) before the vendor&#x27;s priorities change.<p>Finally to address the &quot;extra security&quot; comment. Security from <i>what</i>? The developed world is objectively safer than ever, why would I invest in &quot;solutions&quot; to problems invented out of whole cloth? The paranoia of people installing cameras all over their own home (often cameras whose footage they have no real control over) astounds me. We&#x27;re more mistrustful of our own neighbours than the companies that are actually exploiting our privacy and manipulating us psychologically for profit.</text></item><item><author>rhacker</author><text>This is the exact kind of comment that would make it to the top because it just empowered everyone that DOESN&#x27;T have one such system. It&#x27;s filled with finger pointing. Most of the replies basically point out yeah, I hate IoT lights, but this use case is good... It&#x27;s not genuine to dismiss the entire enchilada because YOU don&#x27;t have it. In 5 years when all the crap is worked out and you eventually buy a system with extra security at your door or backyard, or a something to that effect I&#x27;d like you to come back and admit it.</text></item><item><author>dustinmoris</author><text>Smart people don&#x27;t buy smart home devices.<p>My relatively poor grandparents and my slightly less poor parents had a hard working life, but none of them had to sleep in a dark cold room because the switch to turn the lights on or the heating stopped working. Ever. This problem has been solved by other people many many years ago.<p>Last month I watched a documentary where a billionaire was showing of his multi million mansion and when he wanted to show the camera team his 100k home cinema room they couldn&#x27;t see anything because his smart lighting system was stuck in an update loop and nobody had a clue how to fix it. In the interview he said it&#x27;s not a big deal because he doesn&#x27;t like to have the lights on when watching a movie anyway. L.O.L.<p>If I had a 100k cinema room then it would be certainly be a big deal to me if I can&#x27;t even see where the heck I&#x27;m walking.<p>In my entire life I never thought &quot;damn, how nice would it be if I could turn on the lights in my bedroom from downstairs on my phone&quot;. It&#x27;s just not a problem which I think people have, but somehow the consumer industry has convinced so many fools to buy cheaply fabricated, badly secured, even worse programmed and often not long supported smart home devices which add absolutely no benefit to anyone&#x27;s everyday life and cause lots of problems.<p>By the time I find my phone lying around in my lounge, unlock it through Face ID or finger touch, open up the home app, find the home device which I want to control, then make whatever change I wanted to do I am much faster to just get my arse up from the couch, walk over and turn it on&#x2F;off with a normal hand movement. On the way I can also grab a beer from the fridge and then continue watching the telly and laugh about some fools who spent 100k on a home cinema without lights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dx87</author><text>If you&#x27;re frequently having things stolen, you don&#x27;t live in a &quot;very safe&quot; neighborhood. I&#x27;ve lived in working class neighborhoods most of my life, and the only thing I&#x27;ve ever had stolen from me was a bike that I left on my front porch when I was a kid. The only thing the people I know have had stolen is stuff like car stereos or GPS devices back before most people used their phones. Just small crime of opportunity stuff, no breaking into people&#x27;s homes.</text></comment> | <story><title>Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradlys</author><text>It&#x27;s not even a matter of &quot;safe&quot;. I live in a neighborhood that is seen as very safe. Yet, we had a burglary two houses down not too long ago. And they happen frequently enough to myself. I&#x27;ve had plenty stolen. Without a camera, there&#x27;s ~0% chance of anyone being caught.<p>I ended up buying a camera for peace of mind and for checking in on my place to see who&#x27;s entering my residence area. Sometimes it&#x27;s genuinely helpful.</text></item><item><author>smbullet</author><text>Not all of us live in safe neighborhoods like yourself.</text></item><item><author>AlexandrB</author><text>&gt; In 5 years when all the crap is worked out and you eventually buy a system with extra security at your door or backyard, or a something to that effect I&#x27;d like you to come back and admit it.<p>I heard this same song and dance 5 years ago. The problems with the &quot;IoT&quot; market are foundational. Most IoT devices are not designed to be used for extended periods without internet access and a continuous stream of updates. The former means that, in general, they are only as reliable as your internet connection (including that crappy modem&#x2F;router the ISP gave you). The latter means that unlike traditional home hardware, once you install &quot;smart&quot; devices you&#x27;re at the mercy of the business plans of the vendor. So even if you get something set up that works acceptably, it will last 5 years tops (see Nest) before the vendor&#x27;s priorities change.<p>Finally to address the &quot;extra security&quot; comment. Security from <i>what</i>? The developed world is objectively safer than ever, why would I invest in &quot;solutions&quot; to problems invented out of whole cloth? The paranoia of people installing cameras all over their own home (often cameras whose footage they have no real control over) astounds me. We&#x27;re more mistrustful of our own neighbours than the companies that are actually exploiting our privacy and manipulating us psychologically for profit.</text></item><item><author>rhacker</author><text>This is the exact kind of comment that would make it to the top because it just empowered everyone that DOESN&#x27;T have one such system. It&#x27;s filled with finger pointing. Most of the replies basically point out yeah, I hate IoT lights, but this use case is good... It&#x27;s not genuine to dismiss the entire enchilada because YOU don&#x27;t have it. In 5 years when all the crap is worked out and you eventually buy a system with extra security at your door or backyard, or a something to that effect I&#x27;d like you to come back and admit it.</text></item><item><author>dustinmoris</author><text>Smart people don&#x27;t buy smart home devices.<p>My relatively poor grandparents and my slightly less poor parents had a hard working life, but none of them had to sleep in a dark cold room because the switch to turn the lights on or the heating stopped working. Ever. This problem has been solved by other people many many years ago.<p>Last month I watched a documentary where a billionaire was showing of his multi million mansion and when he wanted to show the camera team his 100k home cinema room they couldn&#x27;t see anything because his smart lighting system was stuck in an update loop and nobody had a clue how to fix it. In the interview he said it&#x27;s not a big deal because he doesn&#x27;t like to have the lights on when watching a movie anyway. L.O.L.<p>If I had a 100k cinema room then it would be certainly be a big deal to me if I can&#x27;t even see where the heck I&#x27;m walking.<p>In my entire life I never thought &quot;damn, how nice would it be if I could turn on the lights in my bedroom from downstairs on my phone&quot;. It&#x27;s just not a problem which I think people have, but somehow the consumer industry has convinced so many fools to buy cheaply fabricated, badly secured, even worse programmed and often not long supported smart home devices which add absolutely no benefit to anyone&#x27;s everyday life and cause lots of problems.<p>By the time I find my phone lying around in my lounge, unlock it through Face ID or finger touch, open up the home app, find the home device which I want to control, then make whatever change I wanted to do I am much faster to just get my arse up from the couch, walk over and turn it on&#x2F;off with a normal hand movement. On the way I can also grab a beer from the fridge and then continue watching the telly and laugh about some fools who spent 100k on a home cinema without lights.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smoyer</author><text>Why do you think you live in a very safe neighborhood? I guess perception can be a funny thing but I&#x27;m thinking this is the same as Mercedes-Benz owners saying their cars are above average reliability when the service records disprove it.</text></comment> |
10,750,387 | 10,750,415 | 1 | 3 | 10,745,483 | train | <story><title>Biggest mystery in mathematics in limbo after cryptic meeting</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/biggest-mystery-in-mathematics-in-limbo-after-cryptic-meeting-1.19035</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JonnieCache</author><text>Here&#x27;s a detailed report on the situation from one Brian Conrad, who attended the meeting: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathbabe.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;notes-on-the-oxford-iut-workshop-by-brian-conrad&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathbabe.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;notes-on-the-oxford-iut-works...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Biggest mystery in mathematics in limbo after cryptic meeting</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/biggest-mystery-in-mathematics-in-limbo-after-cryptic-meeting-1.19035</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>logicallee</author><text>I don&#x27;t understand how something, that anyone understands, can be this cryptic. Someone some time ago mentioned that all of Einstein&#x27;s major papers on special and general relativitiy can be covered in a semester or two.<p>Isn&#x27;t the hard part discovering this stuff?<p>How can anyone discover mathematical proofs but it is so impossible to communicate them that nobody in the world can follow your train of thought? I mean people are really, really good at communicating. It&#x27;s kind of what we do.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how anyone can publish proofs that don&#x27;t succumb easily to understanding by experts who concentrate on them for a long time, perhaps with tiny hints by the author.<p>It&#x27;s not as though we&#x27;re looking at fragments written in a long-lost language we have no access to, from a culture nobody has access to, on unknown subjects, and with the authors dead hundreds of years ago! The author is right there. The subject isn&#x27;t even art (like poetry criticism or something), it&#x27;s fully rigorous.<p>Understanding someone&#x27;s proof (for devoted experts) should be easy, right? What gives?</text></comment> |
9,272,806 | 9,272,871 | 1 | 2 | 9,271,246 | train | <story><title>React Native is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/react-native</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sheraz</author><text>Cool to see this. By my count we now have, in no particular order:<p>- React Native from Facebook (<a href="https://github.com/facebook/react-native" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;react-native</a>)<p>- Appcelerator&#x27;s Titanium and Alloy Frameworks (<a href="http://appcelerator.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appcelerator.com</a>)<p>- Telerik&#x27;s Native Script (<a href="http://telerik.com/nativescript" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;telerik.com&#x2F;nativescript</a>)<p>- Xamarin (<a href="http://xamarin.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xamarin.com</a>)<p>As I understand it, all three of these frameworks have a JS (or C#) runtime that is compiled along with the app. This JS runtime is what drives the app and uses the native features of each platform (iOS &#x2F; Android).<p>I&#x27;ve been building on Appcelerator for the last 4 months on some basic apps, and it works pretty well.<p>I look forward to trying out some toy apps on the other platforms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emmanueloga_</author><text>Don&#x27;t forget <a href="http://robovm.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;robovm.com&#x2F;</a> (basically java for ios).</text></comment> | <story><title>React Native is now open source</title><url>https://github.com/facebook/react-native</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sheraz</author><text>Cool to see this. By my count we now have, in no particular order:<p>- React Native from Facebook (<a href="https://github.com/facebook/react-native" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;react-native</a>)<p>- Appcelerator&#x27;s Titanium and Alloy Frameworks (<a href="http://appcelerator.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appcelerator.com</a>)<p>- Telerik&#x27;s Native Script (<a href="http://telerik.com/nativescript" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;telerik.com&#x2F;nativescript</a>)<p>- Xamarin (<a href="http://xamarin.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;xamarin.com</a>)<p>As I understand it, all three of these frameworks have a JS (or C#) runtime that is compiled along with the app. This JS runtime is what drives the app and uses the native features of each platform (iOS &#x2F; Android).<p>I&#x27;ve been building on Appcelerator for the last 4 months on some basic apps, and it works pretty well.<p>I look forward to trying out some toy apps on the other platforms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evv</author><text>In the case of React Native, we don&#x27;t actually compile a JS runtime. We avoid that overhead by using whatever JS environment is available on the platform. In the case of iOS, we use JSC.</text></comment> |
41,726,016 | 41,726,127 | 1 | 3 | 41,722,742 | train | <story><title>OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/openai-valuation-150-billion.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Google is a digital advertising company. OpenAI hasn&#x27;t even entered the ads business. In the absolute best case they can take over a large chunk of Google&#x27;s search market share, sure, but that still doesn&#x27;t make it anything similar to Google in terms of finances. How do they start making the queries profitable? What do they do when their competitors (Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Grok and several others) undercut them on price?</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>You don&#x27;t need science fiction to find the bull case for OpenAI. You just have to think it stands to be the &quot;next&quot; Google, which feels increasingly plausible. Google&#x27;s current market capitalization is in the trillions.</text></item><item><author>nwiswell</author><text>&gt; if they don&#x27;t make the numbers make sense soon then I don&#x27;t see things ending well for OpenAI.<p>This is pretty much obvious just from the valuations.<p>The wild bull case where they invent a revolutionary superintelligence would clearly value them in the trillions, so the fact that they&#x27;re presently valued an order of magnitude less implies that it is viewed as an unlikely scenario (and reasonably so, in my opinion).</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>$6.6B raise. The company loses $5B per year. So all this money literally gives them just an extra ~year and change of runway. I know the AI hype is sky high at the moment (hence the crazy valuation), but if they don&#x27;t make the numbers make sense soon then I don&#x27;t see things ending well for OpenAI.<p>Another interesting part:<p>&gt; Under the terms of the new investment round, OpenAI has two years to transform into a for-profit business or its funding will convert into debt, according to documents reviewed by The Times.<p>Considering there are already lawsuits ongoing about their non-profit structure, that clause with that timeline seems a bit risky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plaidfuji</author><text>Google didn’t start as an ads company. It started as a blank text box that gave you a bunch of good answers from the internet in a list of links.<p>Were there competitors that did the same thing? AltaVista? Yahoo? Did they undercut on cost? Google was free, I guess. But Google won because it maintained its quality, kept its interface clean and simple, and kept all the eyeballs as a result. Now Google is essentially the entry point to the internet, baked into every major browser except Edge.<p>Could ChatGPT become the “go-to” first stop on the internet? I think there’s a fair chance. The revenue will find its way to the eyeballs from there.</text></comment> | <story><title>OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/technology/openai-valuation-150-billion.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>Google is a digital advertising company. OpenAI hasn&#x27;t even entered the ads business. In the absolute best case they can take over a large chunk of Google&#x27;s search market share, sure, but that still doesn&#x27;t make it anything similar to Google in terms of finances. How do they start making the queries profitable? What do they do when their competitors (Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Grok and several others) undercut them on price?</text></item><item><author>tptacek</author><text>You don&#x27;t need science fiction to find the bull case for OpenAI. You just have to think it stands to be the &quot;next&quot; Google, which feels increasingly plausible. Google&#x27;s current market capitalization is in the trillions.</text></item><item><author>nwiswell</author><text>&gt; if they don&#x27;t make the numbers make sense soon then I don&#x27;t see things ending well for OpenAI.<p>This is pretty much obvious just from the valuations.<p>The wild bull case where they invent a revolutionary superintelligence would clearly value them in the trillions, so the fact that they&#x27;re presently valued an order of magnitude less implies that it is viewed as an unlikely scenario (and reasonably so, in my opinion).</text></item><item><author>paxys</author><text>$6.6B raise. The company loses $5B per year. So all this money literally gives them just an extra ~year and change of runway. I know the AI hype is sky high at the moment (hence the crazy valuation), but if they don&#x27;t make the numbers make sense soon then I don&#x27;t see things ending well for OpenAI.<p>Another interesting part:<p>&gt; Under the terms of the new investment round, OpenAI has two years to transform into a for-profit business or its funding will convert into debt, according to documents reviewed by The Times.<p>Considering there are already lawsuits ongoing about their non-profit structure, that clause with that timeline seems a bit risky.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>Google also offered a free product. OpenAI isn’t offering a free product but a subscription product plus metered API product amongst other. Their economics are structurally better than googles assuming they can keep growing their captured market share. Their outrageous costs are also opportunities to optimize costs, including massive amounts of R&amp;D, etc. They don’t need to be profitable now - in fact as bezos demonstrated with Amazon for many years, profit is an indication you’ve run out of uses for capital to grow.</text></comment> |
39,454,330 | 39,454,023 | 1 | 3 | 39,452,024 | train | <story><title>Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer</title><url>https://github.com/readysettech/readyset</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BrentOzar</author><text>In the Microsoft SQL Server space, several of these vendors have come and gone. My clients have been burned badly by &#x27;em, so a few quick lessons learned:<p>Be aware that there are hundreds of open issues[0] and dozens of pull requests [1], some of which involve clients being unable to connect or not supporting all components of the SQL language. Just because your database supports something, doesn&#x27;t mean your caching layer will.<p>It gets really ugly when a new version of your database comes out, with brand new features and language enhancements, and the caching layer doesn&#x27;t support it. It may take months, or in some cases years, before the caching layer is feature-complete with the underlying database. If you want to use some of those language enhancements, then your app may have to maintain two connection strings - one for the caching layer, and one for direct database queries that the caching layer doesn&#x27;t support.<p>Your support teams need to learn how to diagnose problems with the caching layer. For example, this issue [2] talks about the level of work involved with understanding why newly inserted data isn&#x27;t showing up in selects.<p>I hope they succeed and deliver the concept, because it&#x27;s one of the holy grails of databases.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;readysettech&#x2F;readyset&#x2F;issues">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;readysettech&#x2F;readyset&#x2F;issues</a>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;readysettech&#x2F;readyset&#x2F;pulls">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;readysettech&#x2F;readyset&#x2F;pulls</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;readysettech&#x2F;readyset&#x2F;issues&#x2F;39">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;readysettech&#x2F;readyset&#x2F;issues&#x2F;39</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer</title><url>https://github.com/readysettech/readyset</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dpcx</author><text>Pretty sure that this is the database that Jon Gjengset[0] was working on as part of his thesis project. There have been several videos shared by him during talks about the system. It&#x27;s a really interesting concept.<p>edit: Here&#x27;s[1] a video where he talks about the concept<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@jonhoo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@jonhoo</a>
[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GctxvSPIfr8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=GctxvSPIfr8</a></text></comment> |
32,379,868 | 32,378,855 | 1 | 2 | 32,376,672 | train | <story><title>Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC</title><url>https://microfounder.com/alternatives</url><text>Hi HN<p>I started this crowdsourced list to find small internet products made by solo developers (or tiny teams) that can be used as alternatives to BigTech&#x2F;VC-funded startups.<p>E.g. you can use Tally (by two devs, $14K MRR) instead of Typeform ($190M funding, 600+ employees)<p>or Plausible (by two devs, $83K MRR) instead of Google Analytics.<p>I added a link to a form where you can send me suggestions to alternatives, happy to add to the site!<p>Thanks,
Rauno</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notlukesky</author><text>This would be a list by many buyers, especially in the enterprise, of companies to avoid. If you want to help the indie startup it is probably better to remove their revenue numbers. Most buyers are concerned if the product they invested in will be around in a couple of years.</text></comment> | <story><title>Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC</title><url>https://microfounder.com/alternatives</url><text>Hi HN<p>I started this crowdsourced list to find small internet products made by solo developers (or tiny teams) that can be used as alternatives to BigTech&#x2F;VC-funded startups.<p>E.g. you can use Tally (by two devs, $14K MRR) instead of Typeform ($190M funding, 600+ employees)<p>or Plausible (by two devs, $83K MRR) instead of Google Analytics.<p>I added a link to a form where you can send me suggestions to alternatives, happy to add to the site!<p>Thanks,
Rauno</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>open-source-ux</author><text>Nice page! A small suggestion: use section or category names.<p>For example, instead of &#x27;Buffer&#x27;, the category or section could be called &#x27;Social media tools&#x27;. Same for the other sections e.g. &#x27;Analytics&#x27;, &#x27;Cold email tools&#x27;, and so on.<p>Also, Zendesk and Freshdesk are both in the same category of help desk software but are listed separated on the page.</text></comment> |
10,025,371 | 10,025,466 | 1 | 2 | 10,024,958 | train | <story><title>Using a single AWS account is a serious risk</title><url>https://cloudonaut.io/your-single-aws-account-is-a-serious-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>impostervt</author><text>About three weeks ago I started working on a new open source project meant to interact with AWS. Coding fast and dumb, I cut and pasted my personal AWS credentials into my source code, committed it, and pushed it to Github.<p>The next day I got an email from Amazon, alerting me to the problem. Apparently, they scrape github looking for just that kind of stupidity. I instantly deleted the project, but it was too late.<p>Amazon ended up waving the nearly $3k in EC2 charges I incurred, thankfully. I&#x27;m now a zealous advocate for making sure a person never even HAS AWS credentials. Instead, make a new user without a password for each use case, and manually select the privileges that account has.<p>If you have a password to AWS, you shouldn&#x27;t have credentials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>I posted to the AWS forum and accidentally copy&#x2F;pasted my secret key. Within 24 hours $11k of charges. I called them, they wiped them. It&#x27;s amazing how quickly people find and use these things.<p>What kills me is there is no easy way to stop <i>all</i> the instances for an account, in a region. It took me hours to kill all the instances. They had maxed out the number of instances in every single region. Very, very annoying.</text></comment> | <story><title>Using a single AWS account is a serious risk</title><url>https://cloudonaut.io/your-single-aws-account-is-a-serious-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>impostervt</author><text>About three weeks ago I started working on a new open source project meant to interact with AWS. Coding fast and dumb, I cut and pasted my personal AWS credentials into my source code, committed it, and pushed it to Github.<p>The next day I got an email from Amazon, alerting me to the problem. Apparently, they scrape github looking for just that kind of stupidity. I instantly deleted the project, but it was too late.<p>Amazon ended up waving the nearly $3k in EC2 charges I incurred, thankfully. I&#x27;m now a zealous advocate for making sure a person never even HAS AWS credentials. Instead, make a new user without a password for each use case, and manually select the privileges that account has.<p>If you have a password to AWS, you shouldn&#x27;t have credentials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_karana</author><text>&gt; Amazon ended up waving the nearly $3k in EC2 charges I incurred, thankfully<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, the word is &quot;waived&quot;. :-)<p>I&#x27;m glad Amazon dealt with you well!</text></comment> |
5,594,976 | 5,593,937 | 1 | 3 | 5,593,659 | train | <story><title>What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison</title><url>http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/santos-getting-online-after-25-years-prison/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raldi</author><text>Why did you post a link to a site which stole the content, stripped the author's name, mangled the text by repeating some of it twice, and omitted an extremely interesting video?<p>Moderators, please update the link so it points to the original source:<p><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/santos-getting-online-after-25-years-prison/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/santos-getting-online-after-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>What It’s Like to Get Online After 25 Years in Prison</title><url>http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/santos-getting-online-after-25-years-prison/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TomAnthony</author><text>Author is Michael Santos:<p>Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G._Santos" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G._Santos</a>
Website: <a href="http://michaelsantos.com/" rel="nofollow">http://michaelsantos.com/</a>
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgsantos" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/michaelgsantos</a>
More: <a href="http://about.me/michael.santos" rel="nofollow">http://about.me/michael.santos</a><p>He did a degree, began a doctorate and wrote 7 books whilst in prison, and seems he hit the ground running when he got out. Good for him.</text></comment> |
21,026,138 | 21,026,120 | 1 | 2 | 21,025,252 | train | <story><title>Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari</title><url>https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magashna</author><text>There seems to be this idea that some sites work worse with FF but in all the time Chrome has existed, I&#x27;ve never found any sites that didn&#x27;t work with FF.</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>This was true during an intermediate period where all browsers were more-or-less equivalent. It wasn&#x27;t true before then, when many sites were designed with Internet Explorer in mind, and tended to work less well on other browsers. I don&#x27;t think it will be true now, either, now that most sites are designed with Chrome in mind, and tend to work less well on other browsers.<p>The big difference is that the functionality problems 20 years ago were easier to explain, and therefore easier to get people upset about. It&#x27;s a lot easier to weave a compelling political story about straight-up incompatibility than it is to weave one about degraded performance due to differing just-in-time compiler optimization behavior.<p>Also, we seem to be stuck in a situation where people are still so fixated on a monarch that hasn&#x27;t been in power for over a decade that they maybe haven&#x27;t been so concerned that the old monarch&#x27;s overthrower has consolidated power to become a new monarch.</text></item><item><author>kache_</author><text>The day ublock origin doesn&#x27;t work on chrome is the day users will flock to firefox. We have seen time and time again that users aren&#x27;t afraid of switching browsers. This is because since their core functionality is so similar, small advantages will tip the scales.</text></item><item><author>lmedinas</author><text>Well i have no complains about Safari but their Extension system is really costing them users. At this point I uBlock Origin is by far the most reliable AdBlocker you can find and my having the developers explaining that in the future maybe only Firefox will support it it&#x27;s kinda of sad.<p>Of course we know that Google has to make money from Ads so its understandable but what about Apple ? They are putting heavy focus in privacy, would it be good if they open their browser to make sure their users will not move to Chrome&#x2F;Firefox or other browser ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I&#x27;ve never found any that don&#x27;t work, but Firefox supports fewer &quot;standards&quot;, so you can end up with a somewhat degraded experience on some sites. My own company&#x27;s product, for example, has some janky bits on browsers other than Chrome. The performance is only a little bit behind on most benchmarks, but isn&#x27;t anywhere near as fast for certain kinds of animation. It can be noticeable on sites that run a lot of animation. Like, say, sites with ads. Possibly only if you&#x27;re using an older or less powerful computer. Which isn&#x27;t how we of the orange header bar like to roll, but also isn&#x27;t a terribly uncommon thing to do out there in the wider world.<p>(Scare quotes around &quot;standards&quot; because calling Chrome-only things standard nowadays seems a bit like calling AcitveX a standard 20 years ago.)</text></comment> | <story><title>Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari</title><url>https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>magashna</author><text>There seems to be this idea that some sites work worse with FF but in all the time Chrome has existed, I&#x27;ve never found any sites that didn&#x27;t work with FF.</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>This was true during an intermediate period where all browsers were more-or-less equivalent. It wasn&#x27;t true before then, when many sites were designed with Internet Explorer in mind, and tended to work less well on other browsers. I don&#x27;t think it will be true now, either, now that most sites are designed with Chrome in mind, and tend to work less well on other browsers.<p>The big difference is that the functionality problems 20 years ago were easier to explain, and therefore easier to get people upset about. It&#x27;s a lot easier to weave a compelling political story about straight-up incompatibility than it is to weave one about degraded performance due to differing just-in-time compiler optimization behavior.<p>Also, we seem to be stuck in a situation where people are still so fixated on a monarch that hasn&#x27;t been in power for over a decade that they maybe haven&#x27;t been so concerned that the old monarch&#x27;s overthrower has consolidated power to become a new monarch.</text></item><item><author>kache_</author><text>The day ublock origin doesn&#x27;t work on chrome is the day users will flock to firefox. We have seen time and time again that users aren&#x27;t afraid of switching browsers. This is because since their core functionality is so similar, small advantages will tip the scales.</text></item><item><author>lmedinas</author><text>Well i have no complains about Safari but their Extension system is really costing them users. At this point I uBlock Origin is by far the most reliable AdBlocker you can find and my having the developers explaining that in the future maybe only Firefox will support it it&#x27;s kinda of sad.<p>Of course we know that Google has to make money from Ads so its understandable but what about Apple ? They are putting heavy focus in privacy, would it be good if they open their browser to make sure their users will not move to Chrome&#x2F;Firefox or other browser ?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phinnaeus</author><text>I use Chrome almost exclusively at work, Firefox on my gaming computer, and Safari on my personal MacBook. Other than extensions on Safari and minor differences in keyboard shortcuts, I don&#x27;t really notice the differences.</text></comment> |
15,064,384 | 15,064,537 | 1 | 2 | 15,062,843 | train | <story><title>Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative</title><url>https://vuejsdevelopers.com/2017/08/20/vue-js-brunch/?jsdojo_id=reddit_vpb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dingle_thunk</author><text>Great ideas. It seems like this sort of &#x27;sane defaults&#x27; functionality could easily be added to future versions of webpack, and that might really help with adoption... rather than this community endlessly switching tool chains.</text></comment> | <story><title>Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative</title><url>https://vuejsdevelopers.com/2017/08/20/vue-js-brunch/?jsdojo_id=reddit_vpb</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikewhy</author><text>I loved Brunch back a few years ago. But I wasn&#x27;t happy with how plugins worked, or their &quot;all files get included in your bundle even if you never required them&quot;.<p>So I built my own build system on top of Gulp, and added a set of tasks using browserify for web apps (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BraveNewWorldDev&#x2F;parched-example-app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;BraveNewWorldDev&#x2F;parched-example-app</a>). It&#x27;s heavily &quot;convention over configuration&quot;, like &quot;npm install parched-babel&quot; is all you need to get Babel integrated.<p>I&#x27;m still using it in production on websites, Cordova apps, and Electron apps, but I&#x27;d still recommend webpack nowadays since that&#x27;s where the community is.</text></comment> |
22,882,551 | 22,882,798 | 1 | 2 | 22,876,554 | train | <story><title>What does a Director of Engineering do?</title><url>https://www.hashtagcoder.dev/blog/director-of-engineering</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluGill</author><text>What is more amazing is their managers who have figured out how to work the system are not telling people that. Your job should be helping your people get where they want to go so if they can&#x27;t get there tell them why.<p>I&#x27;ve wasted years working hard and trying to gain influence only to realize that the areas I was getting influence in didn&#x27;t matter to anyone so I was condemned to get good jobs but no promotion. It has been hard to let go and find a path with real influence. Where I was going is one of those areas that only seen if not done. Lesson learned though : the guy who created the bad design requiring them to come in right before release and work a weekend is rewarded above the guy who wrote good code that works...</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>I&#x27;ll tell you what amazes me: If you look at any reasonably large engineering organisation they will likely have guidance published from HR stating what the criteria are for different job roles, and they&#x27;ll actually be pretty similar across different organisations.<p>You might be a Senior Software Engineer at one place but called a Staff engineer at another place, but they&#x27;re broadly comparable, and the seniority criteria show a very clear progression: the more senior you get the more influence you are showing across the organisation, whether that means managing larger projects, mentoring other staff, consulting with other teams on best known practices, or influencing other parts of the company inter-discplinary projects.<p>Almost every large organisation will have a neat table telling you exactly what attributes you need to show. They all show that progression - more influence on the organisation as a whole.<p>And yet every single review cycle there&#x27;s always a portion of engineers who think they deserve a promotion because their personal work was high quality. It&#x27;s like they haven&#x27;t read the job spec of the job they&#x27;re applying for. It&#x27;s amazing.</text></item><item><author>lliamander</author><text>&gt; I used to think hard work leads to promotion. This is because I didn&#x27;t understand why different positions exist outside of a title change. Now I see things a bit differently. If an individual on my team is working hard, I&#x27;m going to keep them where they are because they&#x27;re getting the job done. Rather, I&#x27;m looking to elevate my 10x engineer - not the one that&#x27;s the doing their job well but the one thats mentoring those around them to do their job well too.<p>An excellent point. This misconception that hard work leads to promotion is widespread, and management doesn&#x27;t often do enough to dispel it (if they are even aware of it themselves). I think an important step here is to identify the concrete behaviors and competencies needed to advance. In the words of Randall Koutnik: &quot;What does it take to succeed at [your] company beyond &#x27;hard work&#x27;?&quot;[0].<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkoutnik.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Questions-to-ask-your-interviewer.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkoutnik.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Questions-to-ask-your-intervie...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nogabebop23</author><text>I tell my developers this repeatedly, in the form of &quot;making yourself 10% better is not as good as making everyone you work with 1% better&quot;.<p>A few get it and shift towards a &quot;rising tide floats all boats&quot; mentality, the rest do nothing and are perfectly adequate, or agree with me then turn back to solely focusing on self-improvement.<p>The kicker? That 1% universal imporvement is soooo much easier than 10% or even 5% personal improvement. You can help your team become more effective just by (1) commiting to the act of (2) giving a sh!t.</text></comment> | <story><title>What does a Director of Engineering do?</title><url>https://www.hashtagcoder.dev/blog/director-of-engineering</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bluGill</author><text>What is more amazing is their managers who have figured out how to work the system are not telling people that. Your job should be helping your people get where they want to go so if they can&#x27;t get there tell them why.<p>I&#x27;ve wasted years working hard and trying to gain influence only to realize that the areas I was getting influence in didn&#x27;t matter to anyone so I was condemned to get good jobs but no promotion. It has been hard to let go and find a path with real influence. Where I was going is one of those areas that only seen if not done. Lesson learned though : the guy who created the bad design requiring them to come in right before release and work a weekend is rewarded above the guy who wrote good code that works...</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>I&#x27;ll tell you what amazes me: If you look at any reasonably large engineering organisation they will likely have guidance published from HR stating what the criteria are for different job roles, and they&#x27;ll actually be pretty similar across different organisations.<p>You might be a Senior Software Engineer at one place but called a Staff engineer at another place, but they&#x27;re broadly comparable, and the seniority criteria show a very clear progression: the more senior you get the more influence you are showing across the organisation, whether that means managing larger projects, mentoring other staff, consulting with other teams on best known practices, or influencing other parts of the company inter-discplinary projects.<p>Almost every large organisation will have a neat table telling you exactly what attributes you need to show. They all show that progression - more influence on the organisation as a whole.<p>And yet every single review cycle there&#x27;s always a portion of engineers who think they deserve a promotion because their personal work was high quality. It&#x27;s like they haven&#x27;t read the job spec of the job they&#x27;re applying for. It&#x27;s amazing.</text></item><item><author>lliamander</author><text>&gt; I used to think hard work leads to promotion. This is because I didn&#x27;t understand why different positions exist outside of a title change. Now I see things a bit differently. If an individual on my team is working hard, I&#x27;m going to keep them where they are because they&#x27;re getting the job done. Rather, I&#x27;m looking to elevate my 10x engineer - not the one that&#x27;s the doing their job well but the one thats mentoring those around them to do their job well too.<p>An excellent point. This misconception that hard work leads to promotion is widespread, and management doesn&#x27;t often do enough to dispel it (if they are even aware of it themselves). I think an important step here is to identify the concrete behaviors and competencies needed to advance. In the words of Randall Koutnik: &quot;What does it take to succeed at [your] company beyond &#x27;hard work&#x27;?&quot;[0].<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkoutnik.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Questions-to-ask-your-interviewer.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkoutnik.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Questions-to-ask-your-intervie...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lokar</author><text>I spent many years deciding promotions at a big tech company, including for Sr managers. One thing we always looked into was were they growing the talent on their teams, mentoring, growing skills, and getting people promoted. People understood this was one of the criteria for manager promotions, so they spent time on it (and documented it).<p>Like any other job, people tend to respond to what they are told will be the evaluation criteria.</text></comment> |
39,529,969 | 39,529,781 | 1 | 2 | 39,528,726 | train | <story><title>SuperTux</title><url>https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tiagod</author><text>This game got weirdly very popular among kids of a very specific generation, here in Portugal.<p>The &quot;Magalhães&quot;, an Intel Classmate variant that was available to school kids between 2008 and 2010 for a price between 50€ and 0€ (depending in social security status), came bundled with both Windows and a Portuguese Linux distro, which shipped with SuperTux by default.</text></comment> | <story><title>SuperTux</title><url>https://github.com/SuperTux/supertux</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>haunter</author><text>Shout out to Tux Racer too, still works perfectly (at least the Windows binaries)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tuxracer.sourceforge.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tuxracer.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
10,106,728 | 10,106,651 | 1 | 2 | 10,106,026 | train | <story><title>The New York Times Makes 17k Recipes Available Online</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-new-york-times-makes-17000-tasty-recipes-available-online.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bradbeattie</author><text>Needs community tagging of recipes. The recipe of the day is vegan and vegetarian, but has neither tag (both of which already exist: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cooking.nytimes.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;vegan" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;cooking.nytimes.com&#x2F;tag&#x2F;vegan</a>). No doubt this problem exists for other tags and other recipies in the database.<p>Edit: A cursory search through the BBC&#x27;s recipe database shows their tags to be notably more thorough, though at times mistaken (butter labeled vegan in <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;food&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;sugar_and_spice_67172" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;food&#x2F;recipes&#x2F;sugar_and_spice_67172</a>) and unfortunately just as immutable at the NYT site.</text></comment> | <story><title>The New York Times Makes 17k Recipes Available Online</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2015/08/the-new-york-times-makes-17000-tasty-recipes-available-online.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awhitty</author><text>They also have great write-up detailing their use of CRFs to extract structured data from recipes.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.blogs.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;extracting-structured-data-from-recipes-using-conditional-random-fields&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.blogs.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;09&#x2F;extracting-structur...</a></text></comment> |
29,387,304 | 29,384,710 | 1 | 2 | 29,384,341 | train | <story><title>AppFlowy: an open-source alternative to Notion</title><url>https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/appflowy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tommoor</author><text>We don&#x27;t really advertise ourselves as a Notion alternative, however Outline probably fulfills this promise a little better and can be self hosted + collaborative editing, translated into 12+ languages and has 5 years of active development.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;outline&#x2F;outline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;outline&#x2F;outline</a></text></comment> | <story><title>AppFlowy: an open-source alternative to Notion</title><url>https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/appflowy</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ckluis</author><text>Missed opportunity… their roadmap is on trello instead of being self-hosted on appflowy...</text></comment> |
19,545,848 | 19,546,016 | 1 | 2 | 19,544,920 | train | <story><title>Ask HN: Is all programming constantly changing or just front-end JavaScript?</title><text>I&#x27;ve been working on frontend dev for several years now, in the pre and post framework era. React and the other frameworks and ES6 in general, has meant a ton of change to the very basics of how we work.<p>The way I do basic things has changed fundamentally in the last 4-5 years. Some of that is because I&#x27;m no longer a &quot;beginner&quot;, but much is because things have just changed a ton.<p>People who know the JS &#x2F; frontend ecosystem AND backend stuff as well:<p>Is this rate of change unique to JS, or is it everywhere?
Is Rails very, very different now than 4-5 years ago? Django?<p>I use PHP a bit and I&#x27;ve seen that change a bit, but it feels like mostly for the better, with namespaces in particular. Otherwise, I don&#x27;t feel like PHP has had near the amt of change that JS has had.<p>tl;dr: is it crazy everywhere or just with JS&#x2F;frontend?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>From what I could see, the amount of churn in the Javascript world is unsurpassed by anything in software or product, almost to an order of magnitude.<p>I ended up being a product designer (my main, academic education), a frontend, and a backend with varying levels of expertise in my lifetime, so I have some direct experience.<p>My current advice as of April 2019 is to keep calm, if you can stay away from JS, do it, if you can&#x27;t, pick Vue, avoid Webpack, use Typescript, and forget the rest. That should go fine for the next couple years, if you can manage to remove Webpack, even longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jorge1o1</author><text>What&#x27;s the matter with Webpack? It carries quite a lot of advantages, like tree-shaking, code splitting, and lazy loading.<p>These are real, tangible performance benefits, so I&#x27;m going to need some kind of compelling evidence as to why avoid Webpack.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ask HN: Is all programming constantly changing or just front-end JavaScript?</title><text>I&#x27;ve been working on frontend dev for several years now, in the pre and post framework era. React and the other frameworks and ES6 in general, has meant a ton of change to the very basics of how we work.<p>The way I do basic things has changed fundamentally in the last 4-5 years. Some of that is because I&#x27;m no longer a &quot;beginner&quot;, but much is because things have just changed a ton.<p>People who know the JS &#x2F; frontend ecosystem AND backend stuff as well:<p>Is this rate of change unique to JS, or is it everywhere?
Is Rails very, very different now than 4-5 years ago? Django?<p>I use PHP a bit and I&#x27;ve seen that change a bit, but it feels like mostly for the better, with namespaces in particular. Otherwise, I don&#x27;t feel like PHP has had near the amt of change that JS has had.<p>tl;dr: is it crazy everywhere or just with JS&#x2F;frontend?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>rolleiflex</author><text>From what I could see, the amount of churn in the Javascript world is unsurpassed by anything in software or product, almost to an order of magnitude.<p>I ended up being a product designer (my main, academic education), a frontend, and a backend with varying levels of expertise in my lifetime, so I have some direct experience.<p>My current advice as of April 2019 is to keep calm, if you can stay away from JS, do it, if you can&#x27;t, pick Vue, avoid Webpack, use Typescript, and forget the rest. That should go fine for the next couple years, if you can manage to remove Webpack, even longer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mamcx</author><text>About web pack and many others:<p>I use Vue with several others dependencies. But 0 package managers.<p>This is mine:<p><pre><code> cat js&#x2F;vue.js js&#x2F;vue-router.js js&#x2F;vuelidate.min.js js&#x2F;validators.min.js
js&#x2F;vuex.js js&#x2F;vuex-i18n.umd.js js&#x2F;translation.js js&#x2F;vue-moment.js
js&#x2F;vue-virtual-scroll.js &gt; js&#x2F;build.js
</code></pre>
0 problems. Predictable, not folder with millons of little JS files, etc...</text></comment> |
32,747,185 | 32,746,236 | 1 | 3 | 32,744,859 | train | <story><title>Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/ocean-shipping-rates-have-plunged-60-this-year-11662375780</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>greenyoda</author><text>Archive with full text of article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;wlCqS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;wlCqS</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/ocean-shipping-rates-have-plunged-60-this-year-11662375780</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>xnx</author><text>From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1250636&#x2F;global-container-freight-index&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.statista.com&#x2F;statistics&#x2F;1250636&#x2F;global-container...</a><p>Costs peaked at 5x the pre-pandemic value, and are now down to 3x the pre-pandemic value.</text></comment> |
9,441,746 | 9,440,871 | 1 | 2 | 9,440,679 | train | <story><title>Learn X in Y minutes</title><url>http://learnxinyminutes.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ljk</author><text>has anyone succeeded learning a language with technique like this? this feels like more of a reference for someone who knows the language already....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>klibertp</author><text>Yeah, it&#x27;s easy: once you know a dozen languages or so the quick reference like this one is all you really need to learn most languages, at least to the point of comfortably writing everyday code. I say &quot;most&quot; languages, because this kind of reference doesn&#x27;t work for languages based on completely different semantics than the languages you know: APL and J are the primary examples for me (EDIT: also, Forth. But not Factor or Cat or Joy... dunno why exactly).<p>Anyway, this is great for polyglot programmers, who would be bored to tears by &quot;beginners guide&quot; to just about any language and who know enough about how programming languages work. It&#x27;s probably of very little help to programmers who know only a very few languages and&#x2F;or for those who didn&#x27;t study programming language design, though.<p>In my case I successfully used this site (and some other resources, as well) to get up to speed with Haxe, Nim, LiveScript and Lua, but then again, learning new languages is something I do all the time (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;klibert.pl&#x2F;articles&#x2F;programming_langs.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;klibert.pl&#x2F;articles&#x2F;programming_langs.html</a>) for years now, so I may not be the best example :)</text></comment> | <story><title>Learn X in Y minutes</title><url>http://learnxinyminutes.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ljk</author><text>has anyone succeeded learning a language with technique like this? this feels like more of a reference for someone who knows the language already....</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdcox</author><text>To pick up the basics of a language similar to one you already know? Sure. I used this site to write something in Nim just a few days ago.<p>Do I know the conventions or idioms? No. Do I know the advanced features of Nim? I sincerely doubt it. But I know Python, and seeing the syntax written out is enough for me to correct my informed guesses in how to write it.<p>I doubt I could use it to pick up Haskell or a language whose paradigm I was unfamiliar with though.</text></comment> |
11,459,515 | 11,459,543 | 1 | 2 | 11,456,833 | train | <story><title>WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/wordpress-com-turns-on-https-encryption-for-all-websites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>There should still exist one well-known unencrypted page. Sometimes, I need to log in to hotel or airport wifi and therefore need to accept a MitM attack. I would prefer this not to be the case.</text></item><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>Kudos to the Let&#x27;s Encrypt and Wordpress teams. This is what the future looks like. Every webpage needs to be encrypted, and http (as opposed to https) needs to go the way of telnet (as compared to ssh).<p>What&#x27;s particularly great is that there is no configuration of any kind for Wordpress authors or their readers. Like they have done, we need to always default to secure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eric-hu</author><text>Apple products use this one for hotspot detection:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;captive.apple.com&#x2F;hotspot-detect.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;captive.apple.com&#x2F;hotspot-detect.html</a><p>I just have it bookmarked now. It&#x27;s the one bookmark I use.</text></comment> | <story><title>WordPress.com turns on HTTPS encryption for all websites</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/wordpress-com-turns-on-https-encryption-for-all-websites/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>afarrell</author><text>There should still exist one well-known unencrypted page. Sometimes, I need to log in to hotel or airport wifi and therefore need to accept a MitM attack. I would prefer this not to be the case.</text></item><item><author>dankohn1</author><text>Kudos to the Let&#x27;s Encrypt and Wordpress teams. This is what the future looks like. Every webpage needs to be encrypted, and http (as opposed to https) needs to go the way of telnet (as compared to ssh).<p>What&#x27;s particularly great is that there is no configuration of any kind for Wordpress authors or their readers. Like they have done, we need to always default to secure.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belorn</author><text>Hotel or airport wifi operates in that way because they can do so without inconvenience too many customers. If it becomes too cumbersome that they need to send in a technician every time a customer is not a sysadministrator who can figure out how to get the wifi to work, then market forces will make sure that they use something else.</text></comment> |
27,323,421 | 27,322,679 | 1 | 2 | 27,317,859 | train | <story><title>Why Russians do not smile (2002)</title><url>https://www.chicagomaroon.com/2002/04/12/why-russians-do-not-smile/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>When my wife was dying (she has since passed away) and nobody could figure out her illness, she&#x27;d be in the most wretched pain, in the ER again, and she&#x27;d be retching awfully and almost uncontrollably.<p>A doctor would walk in, having heard of all this already and ask &quot;How are you?&quot;<p>Sometimes she gave them the benefit of the doubt, and sometimes she was a bit less charitable.<p>My point? Americans (as she was), Russians, Ukrainians, Latvians, Japanese, Kurdish, Bolivians, Icelandians, Koreans, Germans, Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Australians, Austrians, Swiss, South Africans, Egyptians, Mixolydians, Bohemians, and even Canadians all agree one one thing:<p>Being asked &quot;How are you?&quot; is the <i>LAST</i> thing somebody wants to hear when they are suffering.</text></item><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>Plenty of contribution already,so I&#x27;ll just add a personal anecdote. Some years ago I happened to have some beers with a Latvian Russian,who lived here, in London. He tells us that he doesn&#x27;t get the Brits. He just doesn&#x27;t understand the reasoning in some situations. I ask to elaborate. He says: last year, I had a pretty serious trauma and ended up in a hospital. It&#x27;s so bad, pain, lots of tests,etc. And I&#x27;m pretty fed up with all of it. Then, one day, a surgeon comes in, says hello and asks me &#x27;how are you?&#x27;. And I reply: &#x27;really bad!&#x27;. And suddenly surgeon&#x27;s face changes: his eyes start moving faster,he looks at me and then observes the room,then at me again. Then the surgeon,in a slightly panicky voice ask me again: well what&#x27;s wrong,is it the food? Is it the nurses? Did they do all the tests? What&#x27;s going on?&#x27; Then the Russian looks at the doctor and says: well look, I&#x27;m in a hospital, I&#x27;m ill as hell, I&#x27;m in pain and you have the audacity to ask how am I? Are you crazy? It should be pretty clear that it&#x27;s definitely not my day! The surgeon goes on to explain the subtleties of the question and etc. At that point I already lived in the UK long enough to understand the doctor&#x27;s position but I also found the Russians point to be absolutely hilarious.<p>From personal experience I find the Russians absolutely hilarious even without much smiling (the young ones smile more).They are somehow similar to Italians,who are also hilarious, but as is the case with the Russians, the funniest things tend to be equally tragic too. Kind of a never ending tragicomedy on full blast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cycomanic</author><text>But in this you can also see the difference between an American and many others. I find the &quot;how are you greeting&quot; very tiring nomatter how I am. When I am being asked the question I internally go through an assessment of, how am I today, how interested is the person, how much do I want to share of this. It takes significant mental effort.<p>When I was a teenager I did a one year high school exchange to the US and for a long time I really struggled with the daily &quot;what&#x27;s up?&quot;. I was going through the above internal dialogue more than 10 times a day struggling to come up with an answer. Even, when I learned to just answer &quot;yeah what&#x27;s up&quot; internally the dialogue would often still be triggered.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Russians do not smile (2002)</title><url>https://www.chicagomaroon.com/2002/04/12/why-russians-do-not-smile/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>geocrasher</author><text>When my wife was dying (she has since passed away) and nobody could figure out her illness, she&#x27;d be in the most wretched pain, in the ER again, and she&#x27;d be retching awfully and almost uncontrollably.<p>A doctor would walk in, having heard of all this already and ask &quot;How are you?&quot;<p>Sometimes she gave them the benefit of the doubt, and sometimes she was a bit less charitable.<p>My point? Americans (as she was), Russians, Ukrainians, Latvians, Japanese, Kurdish, Bolivians, Icelandians, Koreans, Germans, Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Australians, Austrians, Swiss, South Africans, Egyptians, Mixolydians, Bohemians, and even Canadians all agree one one thing:<p>Being asked &quot;How are you?&quot; is the <i>LAST</i> thing somebody wants to hear when they are suffering.</text></item><item><author>cosmodisk</author><text>Plenty of contribution already,so I&#x27;ll just add a personal anecdote. Some years ago I happened to have some beers with a Latvian Russian,who lived here, in London. He tells us that he doesn&#x27;t get the Brits. He just doesn&#x27;t understand the reasoning in some situations. I ask to elaborate. He says: last year, I had a pretty serious trauma and ended up in a hospital. It&#x27;s so bad, pain, lots of tests,etc. And I&#x27;m pretty fed up with all of it. Then, one day, a surgeon comes in, says hello and asks me &#x27;how are you?&#x27;. And I reply: &#x27;really bad!&#x27;. And suddenly surgeon&#x27;s face changes: his eyes start moving faster,he looks at me and then observes the room,then at me again. Then the surgeon,in a slightly panicky voice ask me again: well what&#x27;s wrong,is it the food? Is it the nurses? Did they do all the tests? What&#x27;s going on?&#x27; Then the Russian looks at the doctor and says: well look, I&#x27;m in a hospital, I&#x27;m ill as hell, I&#x27;m in pain and you have the audacity to ask how am I? Are you crazy? It should be pretty clear that it&#x27;s definitely not my day! The surgeon goes on to explain the subtleties of the question and etc. At that point I already lived in the UK long enough to understand the doctor&#x27;s position but I also found the Russians point to be absolutely hilarious.<p>From personal experience I find the Russians absolutely hilarious even without much smiling (the young ones smile more).They are somehow similar to Italians,who are also hilarious, but as is the case with the Russians, the funniest things tend to be equally tragic too. Kind of a never ending tragicomedy on full blast.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iJohnDoe</author><text>I’m very sorry to hear that, for both you and your wife.<p>I hope any healthcare for your wife was eventually able to manage her pain and make her at least comfortable.</text></comment> |
24,287,047 | 24,284,768 | 1 | 2 | 24,269,430 | train | <story><title>Jacksonpollock.org (2003)</title><url>https://jacksonpollock.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erulabs</author><text>Pollock is wonderful, particularly in person. But more than I enjoy the art (Silver Over Black, White, Yellow, and Red in person is enough to bring me to tears), I really enjoy listening to people&#x27;s anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc. If art is intended to garner a reaction - Pollock accomplishes that in spades.<p>I personally find it wonderful and beautiful - the sf-tech crowds mocking the abstract and psychedelic tend to be a bit unaware where the world they both live and work in came from!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text><i>I really enjoy listening to people&#x27;s anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc.</i><p>The irony is that Abstract expressionism was used for Cold War propaganda after Harry Truman made his that-ain’t-art criticism of the pictorial works that were the State Department’s <i>Advancing American Art</i> exhibit.<p>Pollock et al. were politically acceptable demonstrations of American freedom of expression because they are not critically engaged with social conditions. Being critical of America’s social disparities was what spelled the end of <i>Advancing American Art</i> as a Cold War instrument. It was too much free expression for the Truman administration.<p>Don’t misunderstand me, I appreciate Pollock et al. But it’s why it took an immigrant to produce Frank’s <i>The Americans</i> to follow on the artistic groundwork layed by the Pubic Works Administration in the depression years.<p>Pollock is safe because it doesn’t raise important questions about meat space. Rants about what is art are as far as it goes. It’s more tampon in a teacup than it is Maplethorpe’s <i>X</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>Jacksonpollock.org (2003)</title><url>https://jacksonpollock.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erulabs</author><text>Pollock is wonderful, particularly in person. But more than I enjoy the art (Silver Over Black, White, Yellow, and Red in person is enough to bring me to tears), I really enjoy listening to people&#x27;s anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc. If art is intended to garner a reaction - Pollock accomplishes that in spades.<p>I personally find it wonderful and beautiful - the sf-tech crowds mocking the abstract and psychedelic tend to be a bit unaware where the world they both live and work in came from!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>regulation_d</author><text>My opinion of Pollock changed drastically when I saw something in person. For me, it was Greyed Rainbow, which is completely uninteresting in a book and quite enthralling in person.<p>I don&#x27;t think this phenomenon is limited to abstract expressionism though. Even being from Iowa, I didn&#x27;t understand what was special about American Gothic until I saw it in person.</text></comment> |
27,644,264 | 27,643,771 | 1 | 3 | 27,643,057 | train | <story><title>When it comes to Git history, less is more</title><url>https://brennan.io/2021/06/15/git-less-is-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cellularmitosis</author><text>It is a shame that we don’t have better tools, and that we are still hand-editing text files in order to write programs.<p>Imagine having an editor which automatically applied your local preferences around tabs&#x2F;spaces, code formatting, variables up top vs nearest use, function definitions nested to minimize top-scope surface area vs all functions flat at top scope, etc etc etc<p>And when you are done editing, all of these local changes are reversed and you submit the minimal possible diff.<p>(and if we want to really talk pipe dreams, the dev only sees an AST editor and the underlying text is never even exposed in the first place)<p>Our tools are so far behind mostly because everyone’s thinking is still chained to 1970’s hand editing text files mentality. This is the flying car which isn’t being worked on because everyone is still thinking about making better bicycles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajuc</author><text>The benefit is minimal, the task is hard, there&#x27;s decades worth of tools that won&#x27;t work, and it&#x27;s easy to mess up introducing &quot;impossible bugs&quot; with behind-the-scenes transformations.<p>Also - AST isn&#x27;t THAT important when reading the code. Let&#x27;s say I give you this:<p><pre><code> X (X X X X; X X X; X X) {
X (X X X) {
X(X X X X X)
}
}
</code></pre>
Do you know what this code does? How about this:<p><pre><code> for int i = 0 i &lt; 10 i ++ if i % 2 printf &quot; %d &quot; , i
</code></pre>
I&#x27;ve used several graphical languages professionally (not AST-based, graph-based, but the problem remains) and the main problem was - structure wasn&#x27;t fully describing what happens - the &quot;meat&quot; of the behaviour was still in text form and was hidden behind the pretty graphic form - in case of both of these languages the meat was in the names of the subprocesses called and in the mapping of process variables &lt;-&gt; subprocess parameters.<p>And there were A LOT of these, so you couldn&#x27;t show them at once on the same screen as the graphical view of the process. So programming with both of these languages was very frustrating - you had to click on each node and look through long lists of x:y substitutions to track how parameters flow through the system.</text></comment> | <story><title>When it comes to Git history, less is more</title><url>https://brennan.io/2021/06/15/git-less-is-more/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cellularmitosis</author><text>It is a shame that we don’t have better tools, and that we are still hand-editing text files in order to write programs.<p>Imagine having an editor which automatically applied your local preferences around tabs&#x2F;spaces, code formatting, variables up top vs nearest use, function definitions nested to minimize top-scope surface area vs all functions flat at top scope, etc etc etc<p>And when you are done editing, all of these local changes are reversed and you submit the minimal possible diff.<p>(and if we want to really talk pipe dreams, the dev only sees an AST editor and the underlying text is never even exposed in the first place)<p>Our tools are so far behind mostly because everyone’s thinking is still chained to 1970’s hand editing text files mentality. This is the flying car which isn’t being worked on because everyone is still thinking about making better bicycles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaetzleesser</author><text>Agreed. It seems silly that we still have to deal with things like tabs vs spaces or formatting in different ways. This should be handled by IDEs and editors.</text></comment> |
9,945,020 | 9,945,105 | 1 | 2 | 9,944,378 | train | <story><title>Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/24/amazon-now-worth-more-than-wal-mart/?mod=ST1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crabasa</author><text>There is only <i>one</i> thing being valued by a rational investor: net present value of future cash flows.<p>Edit:<p>The only point I&#x27;m trying to make is that an investor, when they exchange money for a stock, is placing a bet on a single outcome: <i>future cash flows</i>. Of course there are plenty of ways to get those cash flows, but I find that most people get caught up in details like employee headcount and fail to grasp the single most important factor: <i>compound growth</i>.</text></item><item><author>chronic40</author><text>Different things are being valued. You simply pointed out they are using the same metric.</text></item><item><author>crabasa</author><text>&gt; That difference is partly due to different things being valued<p>This is misleading. All valuations are based on the discounted value of future cash flows. There are three variables at work here: today&#x27;s cash flows, the growth rate of these cash flows and the discount rate. The market is simply saying that Amazon&#x27;s growth prospects outweigh it relatively smaller size.</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text>That difference is partly due to different things being valued: Walmart&#x27;s valuation is primarily its <i>current</i> business, while Amazon&#x27;s valuation is primarily its <i>future growth prospects</i>. That future growth is valued in the market cap today, but its actual materialization will only take place in the future, so doesn&#x27;t show up on the payroll today. If Amazon does actually succeed in growing to Wal-Mart levels of sales, it will end up with a lot more employees than it currently has, though quite possibly still fewer than Wal-Mart.</text></item><item><author>kumarm</author><text>I am surprised this is not talked about more:<p>Amazon Full Time Employees: 154,100<p>Walmart Full Time Employees: 2,200,000<p>(Based on Yahoo Finance Company Profile Stats)<p>There is a growing need for Human&#x27;s to work Lesser Hours going forward rather than more Hours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_delirium</author><text>Sure, but there are many ways to get future cash flows. A significant difference in the valuation of the two companies is that with Wal-mart, the expectation of future cash flows (and therefore present value) comes primarily from its present size, the cash flows that brings, and its expected ability to continue bringing in such flows. Whereas with Amazon, which has much lower current market share and cash flow, the market is &quot;saying that Amazon&#x27;s growth prospects outweigh it relatively smaller size&quot;. Hence the proportion of expected future cash flows that investors expect to come in the form of future growth is significantly higher with Amazon than with Wal-Mart. Therefore you would expect Amazon to have a lower current size and current headcount per unit present valuation, even if there were no differences in productivity.<p>What I was criticizing was just using the ratio of present market cap and present headcount as a meaningful metric, when comparing companies with very different growth expectations. That effectively becomes a restatement of the different growth expectations: Amazon has the same market cap as Wal-Mart but its present size is smaller in almost any way you could count present size (sales, headcount, etc.).</text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/24/amazon-now-worth-more-than-wal-mart/?mod=ST1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crabasa</author><text>There is only <i>one</i> thing being valued by a rational investor: net present value of future cash flows.<p>Edit:<p>The only point I&#x27;m trying to make is that an investor, when they exchange money for a stock, is placing a bet on a single outcome: <i>future cash flows</i>. Of course there are plenty of ways to get those cash flows, but I find that most people get caught up in details like employee headcount and fail to grasp the single most important factor: <i>compound growth</i>.</text></item><item><author>chronic40</author><text>Different things are being valued. You simply pointed out they are using the same metric.</text></item><item><author>crabasa</author><text>&gt; That difference is partly due to different things being valued<p>This is misleading. All valuations are based on the discounted value of future cash flows. There are three variables at work here: today&#x27;s cash flows, the growth rate of these cash flows and the discount rate. The market is simply saying that Amazon&#x27;s growth prospects outweigh it relatively smaller size.</text></item><item><author>_delirium</author><text>That difference is partly due to different things being valued: Walmart&#x27;s valuation is primarily its <i>current</i> business, while Amazon&#x27;s valuation is primarily its <i>future growth prospects</i>. That future growth is valued in the market cap today, but its actual materialization will only take place in the future, so doesn&#x27;t show up on the payroll today. If Amazon does actually succeed in growing to Wal-Mart levels of sales, it will end up with a lot more employees than it currently has, though quite possibly still fewer than Wal-Mart.</text></item><item><author>kumarm</author><text>I am surprised this is not talked about more:<p>Amazon Full Time Employees: 154,100<p>Walmart Full Time Employees: 2,200,000<p>(Based on Yahoo Finance Company Profile Stats)<p>There is a growing need for Human&#x27;s to work Lesser Hours going forward rather than more Hours.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parasubvert</author><text>Arguably the majority of investment is not rational, but speculative.</text></comment> |
31,494,566 | 31,493,104 | 1 | 2 | 31,493,000 | train | <story><title>Zoom: Remote Code Execution with XMPP Stanza Smuggling</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2254</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>twoodfin</author><text>The XML parsing&#x2F;validation bugs are, I suppose, not shocking, but deeply disappointing.<p>The <i>one thing</i> XML &amp; its tooling were supposed to get right was document well-formed-ness. Sure, it might be a mess of a standard in other ways, but at least we could agree what a parser should and shouldn’t accept! (Not the case for the HTML tag soup of then or now.)<p>That, 25 years on, a popular XML processor can’t even meet that low bar for <i>tag names</i> is maddening.</text></comment> | <story><title>Zoom: Remote Code Execution with XMPP Stanza Smuggling</title><url>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2254</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Flowdalic</author><text>It appears that Gloox, a relative low-level XMPP-client C library, rolled much of its Unicode and XML parsing itself, which made such vulnerabilities more likely. There maybe good reasons to not re-use existing modules and rely on external libraries, especially if you target constraint low-end embedded devices, but you should always be aware of the drawbacks. And the Zoom client typically does not run on those.</text></comment> |
23,341,728 | 23,340,845 | 1 | 2 | 23,339,776 | train | <story><title>The Fastest Google Fonts</title><url>https://csswizardry.com/2020/05/the-fastest-google-fonts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slashdev</author><text>Just use the built-in fonts. Use a good fallback list so each platform gets a good option. Specifying custom fonts is largely a waste of bandwidth for a very marginal improvement in aesthetic. The people who care most are the ones making the decision to use that font. The solution, tritely, is they should stop caring about the little details that much.<p>The bigger details are usually what move the needle. Don&#x27;t get stuck optimizing a local maxima, which is very easy to do if you&#x27;re using AB tests. Arguably the point of an AB test is to find the local maxima, but the goal should be to broaden the search space and look for something closer to the global maxima.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>There seems to be a reply like this at the top of every font-related thread on HN. I often wonder whether it&#x27;s coming from designer&#x2F;developers or from end users.<p>Web fonts aren&#x27;t popular just because they&#x27;re pretty. They continue to be used everywhere because they offer a consistency that&#x27;s impossible to get otherwise. With a plethora of mobile devices and desktop environments, you can&#x27;t get a consistent look-and-feel for a site with just installed fonts. For some really basic sites, that&#x27;s totally okay and even hits a nice quaint aesthetic, but for the kinds of sites that people pay money for, that&#x27;s not good enough.<p>Variability in system fonts means that getting consistent paragraph and header widths and spacing is impossible. It means that the text looks too dark sometimes and too light other times. It means that the font appears unreadably small sometimes and obnoxiously large other times. It means having to build a font stack and then keep it updated as preinstalled fonts change. It means spending a lot of time dealing with issues like Helvetica Neue looking okay on MacOS but rendering like ass on somebody else&#x27;s desktop because they installed a free knock-off of it. It ultimately introduces a lot more complexity and fragility than properly using a locally-hosted web font.</text></comment> | <story><title>The Fastest Google Fonts</title><url>https://csswizardry.com/2020/05/the-fastest-google-fonts/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slashdev</author><text>Just use the built-in fonts. Use a good fallback list so each platform gets a good option. Specifying custom fonts is largely a waste of bandwidth for a very marginal improvement in aesthetic. The people who care most are the ones making the decision to use that font. The solution, tritely, is they should stop caring about the little details that much.<p>The bigger details are usually what move the needle. Don&#x27;t get stuck optimizing a local maxima, which is very easy to do if you&#x27;re using AB tests. Arguably the point of an AB test is to find the local maxima, but the goal should be to broaden the search space and look for something closer to the global maxima.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Elidrake24</author><text>I agree entirely; the clients don&#x27;t. It&#x27;s an almost universal question brought up by them during the design phase - &quot;this font looks like everyone else, we want our own&quot;. The changes to TypeKit have certainly put a squeeze on their options, but they still almost universally hate the system level fonts. Wish I could convince the business guys to push back, but eh, there are bigger problems we face on a day to day basis.</text></comment> |
5,228,027 | 5,227,936 | 1 | 3 | 5,227,274 | train | <story><title>Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – working draft</title><url>http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucian1900</author><text>I'd really much prefer something lower level, so anything can be easily implemented on top with predictable performance (including JavaScript).<p>I don't understand the resistance to PNaCl, it's plugins done right.</text></item><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>Sitting about 10 feet away from Luke Wagner right now. He has told me that asm.js is Mozilla's response to NaCl. You compile code with Clang (or another compiler) into the asm.js subset of JavaScript, which they know how to optimize well, and their JIT compiler will offer you performance very close to that of native C (they claim a factor of at most 2x). They use special tricks, like (a+b)|0, to force results to be in the int32 range, and avoid overflow checks. The heap views uses multiple typed arrays pointing to the same data to give asm.js code a typed heap of aligned values, avoiding the JS garbage collector (you can manage this heap as you wish).<p>They already have sample apps, including some using libraries like Qt (I believe OpenGL as well), compiling to asm.js. I believe it has potential, so long as they have good support for standard and common C libraries (i.e.: porting to asm.js is almost effortless).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>comex</author><text>It's plugins done right with the gigantic caveats that it duplicates a large swath of low-level DOM APIs, requiring a large amount of effort to write two implementations of essentially the same things, and has no direct access to the DOM or external JavaScript, meaning it lacks support for some APIs (WebRTC) and cannot really be used as a drop-in replacement for JS or to take advantage of the existing HTML renderer (it's all or nothing).<p>That is, it's plugins done right if you insist on living in a separate process, despite the adequacy of both NaCl and JS engines' ability to keep code within the inner sandbox/VM, and what should be the adequacy of the sandbox of renderer processes even if someone manages to run native code in it.<p>Me, I'd prefer to just run emscripten on the Python interpreter, take advantage of a very small VM that nevertheless is apparently able to run code at half native speed, and start using a new language on top of all the nice existing stuff.</text></comment> | <story><title>Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – working draft</title><url>http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucian1900</author><text>I'd really much prefer something lower level, so anything can be easily implemented on top with predictable performance (including JavaScript).<p>I don't understand the resistance to PNaCl, it's plugins done right.</text></item><item><author>tachyonbeam</author><text>Sitting about 10 feet away from Luke Wagner right now. He has told me that asm.js is Mozilla's response to NaCl. You compile code with Clang (or another compiler) into the asm.js subset of JavaScript, which they know how to optimize well, and their JIT compiler will offer you performance very close to that of native C (they claim a factor of at most 2x). They use special tricks, like (a+b)|0, to force results to be in the int32 range, and avoid overflow checks. The heap views uses multiple typed arrays pointing to the same data to give asm.js code a typed heap of aligned values, avoiding the JS garbage collector (you can manage this heap as you wish).<p>They already have sample apps, including some using libraries like Qt (I believe OpenGL as well), compiling to asm.js. I believe it has potential, so long as they have good support for standard and common C libraries (i.e.: porting to asm.js is almost effortless).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dherman</author><text>There are good and bad things about PNaCl. But overall, the resistance to PNaCl goes beyond Mozilla -- it's a really hard standardization/synchronization problem. Our goal with asm.js was to produce something that could work today (because it's 100% compatible with existing JS semantics) and work even better tomorrow as engines optimize it even better.<p><i></i>Edit<i></i>: Re: predictable performance, that's exactly what asm.js is about. The performance model is much closer to that of C or PNaCl/LLVM.</text></comment> |
4,115,207 | 4,115,114 | 1 | 2 | 4,114,996 | train | <story><title>Amazon EC2 down?</title><url>http://status.aws.amazon.com/?rf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jswanson</author><text>Newest update: 10:29 PM PDT We can confirm a portion of a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region lost power. We are actively restoring power to the effected EC2 instances and EBS volumes. We are continuing to see increased API errors. Customers might see increased errors trying to launch new instances in the Region.<p>Source: <a href="http://status.aws.amazon.com/?rf" rel="nofollow">http://status.aws.amazon.com/?rf</a>
Or: <a href="http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/ec2-us-east-1.rss" rel="nofollow">http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/ec2-us-east-1.rss</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Amazon EC2 down?</title><url>http://status.aws.amazon.com/?rf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chintan</author><text>We learnt our lesson the hard way after the great AWScalypse of Apr 2011.<p>The lesson: Use n&#62;1 hosting companies (even if one of them promises a-z-multiregion-distributed-fault-tolerant-back-up)</text></comment> |
34,628,702 | 34,628,982 | 1 | 2 | 34,625,907 | train | <story><title>Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts</title><url>https://reason.com/2023/01/30/dunkin-donuts-parents-arrested-kids-cops-freedom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notch898a</author><text>As backwards as it sounds my time in near-autocratic 3rd world I&#x27;ve felt the most free. Worst case scenario the police can be bribed for a crisp $20. As long as someone isn&#x27;t doing some horrible shit (like real violence) a lot can be overlooked.<p>&gt;(I actually also think folks here overestimate how hard it is to get guns<p>Yeah I often imagine myself in the scenario of what to do if I ended up in Schengen or something and without arms. I calculated it would take me about 2 weeks to print an FGC-9 and source the various ammo components (by doing things like using primers from nail gun ammo etc this can be done all from unregulated sources).</text></item><item><author>yamtaddle</author><text>I think a lot of folks in the US don&#x27;t realize that even some (some!) countries we think of as authoritarian <i>feel freer</i>, day to day, than the US does, let alone other liberal democracies.<p>We have elections... but having some wine at your picnic in the park may get you a citation.<p>We have elections... but, this article.<p>We have elections... but civil forfeiture.<p>We have elections... but you&#x27;ll spend tons of your &quot;free&quot; time fighting with our healthcare system, should you ever actually need to use it. Ditto the time and contortions required to navigate our benefits systems if you ever hit our &quot;social safety net&quot;. In either case, you&#x27;re not gonna be feeling all that &quot;freedom&quot;.<p>We have elections... but an LOLWTF-high incarceration rate.<p>We have elections... but are constantly scared shitless of civil litigation and liability and there are rules and disclaimers posted on every flat surface.<p>We have elections... but no mandatory annual leave, with the result that for most people 2 weeks off a year is considered decent. How many people feel &quot;free&quot; at their job?<p>But at least we have the 2nd, to protect our freedom. Seems to be working great. (I actually also think folks here overestimate how hard it is to get guns in some countries with effective gun control—it doesn&#x27;t have to mean &quot;no guns&quot;, and often doesn&#x27;t)</text></item><item><author>sitkack</author><text>&gt; Eastern bloc level authoritarianism<p>That is uncalled for, I know a ton of people that grew up in Warsaw Pact countries and they could in fact walk to Babushka&#x27;s Dumpling Shop and back without getting their parents arrested.<p>I&#x27;d recommend people skip the article and go directly the advocacy site it links to and affect change locally. The event happened in 2019, involves the typical dumb ACAB trope and then is swept away.<p>They most likely dropped charges because it was an unlawful arrest and the parents could have sued and most likely won. When the DA found out they most likely shut the whole thing down.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letgrow.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;state-policy-maps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letgrow.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;state-policy-maps&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>COGlory</author><text>This makes my blood boil. It&#x27;s obvious that Killingly cops are just bored assholes on complete power trips. In general, centralization of power leads to unequal society. There should be quick and immediate recourse against police officers acting like this. No police officer should feel safe or beyond swift reproach when making comments like the ones in this article, yet there is absolutely no justice available for those affected. Even in a best-case scenario where charges are dropped a few days later, this is the psychological equivalent of a home invasion, and attempted kidnapping of their children. Dropping charges is not justice. Those officers should lose their jobs (but won&#x27;t, because Killingly, like all of the &#x27;Quiet Corner&#x27; is a complete boys club), and everyone involved in the decision tree should be heavily scrutinized. The town should issue a public apology. And whoever may or may not have called 911 should be publicly berated.<p>This is unacceptable. This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control.<p>No police officer in the country should feel comfortable making those threats. They are out of control</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrose</author><text>&gt; As backwards as it sounds my time in near-autocratic 3rd world I&#x27;ve felt the most free. Worst case scenario the police can be bribed for a crisp $20. As long as someone isn&#x27;t doing some horrible shit (like real violence) a lot can be overlooked.<p>In the US, flashing a PBA card[0] or the fire department&#x2F;ambulance alternative will get you out of most of what police consider ‘low-level’ infractions(ie. Covering a license plate, speeding, etc…).<p>Or in less corrupt cases(like the ones I unfortunately have used mine for), it gets the cops to leave you alone or listen to you when you get profiled for no good reason.<p>I guess it’s technically not a bribe since no money is exchanging hands, but last I checked, each PBA card raises ~$150&#x2F;year for the police union.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.the-sun.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;4212777&#x2F;what-is-a-pba-card&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.the-sun.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;4212777&#x2F;what-is-a-pba-card&#x2F;</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts</title><url>https://reason.com/2023/01/30/dunkin-donuts-parents-arrested-kids-cops-freedom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notch898a</author><text>As backwards as it sounds my time in near-autocratic 3rd world I&#x27;ve felt the most free. Worst case scenario the police can be bribed for a crisp $20. As long as someone isn&#x27;t doing some horrible shit (like real violence) a lot can be overlooked.<p>&gt;(I actually also think folks here overestimate how hard it is to get guns<p>Yeah I often imagine myself in the scenario of what to do if I ended up in Schengen or something and without arms. I calculated it would take me about 2 weeks to print an FGC-9 and source the various ammo components (by doing things like using primers from nail gun ammo etc this can be done all from unregulated sources).</text></item><item><author>yamtaddle</author><text>I think a lot of folks in the US don&#x27;t realize that even some (some!) countries we think of as authoritarian <i>feel freer</i>, day to day, than the US does, let alone other liberal democracies.<p>We have elections... but having some wine at your picnic in the park may get you a citation.<p>We have elections... but, this article.<p>We have elections... but civil forfeiture.<p>We have elections... but you&#x27;ll spend tons of your &quot;free&quot; time fighting with our healthcare system, should you ever actually need to use it. Ditto the time and contortions required to navigate our benefits systems if you ever hit our &quot;social safety net&quot;. In either case, you&#x27;re not gonna be feeling all that &quot;freedom&quot;.<p>We have elections... but an LOLWTF-high incarceration rate.<p>We have elections... but are constantly scared shitless of civil litigation and liability and there are rules and disclaimers posted on every flat surface.<p>We have elections... but no mandatory annual leave, with the result that for most people 2 weeks off a year is considered decent. How many people feel &quot;free&quot; at their job?<p>But at least we have the 2nd, to protect our freedom. Seems to be working great. (I actually also think folks here overestimate how hard it is to get guns in some countries with effective gun control—it doesn&#x27;t have to mean &quot;no guns&quot;, and often doesn&#x27;t)</text></item><item><author>sitkack</author><text>&gt; Eastern bloc level authoritarianism<p>That is uncalled for, I know a ton of people that grew up in Warsaw Pact countries and they could in fact walk to Babushka&#x27;s Dumpling Shop and back without getting their parents arrested.<p>I&#x27;d recommend people skip the article and go directly the advocacy site it links to and affect change locally. The event happened in 2019, involves the typical dumb ACAB trope and then is swept away.<p>They most likely dropped charges because it was an unlawful arrest and the parents could have sued and most likely won. When the DA found out they most likely shut the whole thing down.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letgrow.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;state-policy-maps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;letgrow.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;state-policy-maps&#x2F;</a></text></item><item><author>COGlory</author><text>This makes my blood boil. It&#x27;s obvious that Killingly cops are just bored assholes on complete power trips. In general, centralization of power leads to unequal society. There should be quick and immediate recourse against police officers acting like this. No police officer should feel safe or beyond swift reproach when making comments like the ones in this article, yet there is absolutely no justice available for those affected. Even in a best-case scenario where charges are dropped a few days later, this is the psychological equivalent of a home invasion, and attempted kidnapping of their children. Dropping charges is not justice. Those officers should lose their jobs (but won&#x27;t, because Killingly, like all of the &#x27;Quiet Corner&#x27; is a complete boys club), and everyone involved in the decision tree should be heavily scrutinized. The town should issue a public apology. And whoever may or may not have called 911 should be publicly berated.<p>This is unacceptable. This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control.<p>No police officer in the country should feel comfortable making those threats. They are out of control</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giggles_01</author><text>You should try to live there as an average local person with average income and without &quot;connections&quot;. &quot;Crisp $20&quot; in some countries might be quite a lot.<p>Also: I&#x27;ve seen this many times, foreigners from rich countries get completely different treatment.</text></comment> |
35,196,717 | 35,194,395 | 1 | 2 | 35,191,303 | train | <story><title>Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts</title><url>https://github.com/mpoon/gpt-repository-loader</url><text>I was getting tired of copy&#x2F;pasting reams of code into GPT-4 to give it context before I asked it to help me, so I started this small tool. In a nutshell, gpt-repository-loader will spit out file paths and file contents in a prompt-friendly format. You can also use .gptignore to ignore files&#x2F;folders that are irrelevant to your prompt.<p>gpt-repository-loader as-is works pretty well in helping me achieve better responses. Eventually, I thought it would be cute to load itself into GPT-4 and have GPT-4 improve it. I was honestly surprised by PR#17. GPT-4 was able to write a valid an example repo and an expected output and throw in a small curveball by adjusting .gptignore. I did tell GPT the output file format in two places: 1.) in the preamble when I prompted it to make a PR for issue #16 and 2.) as a string in gpt_repository_loader.py, both of which are indirect ways to infer how to build a functional test. However, I don&#x27;t think I explained to GPT in English anywhere on how .gptignore works at all!<p>I wonder how far GPT-4 can take this repo. Here is the process I&#x27;m following for developing:<p>- Open an issue describing the improvement to make<p>- Construct a prompt - start with using gpt_repository_loader.py on this repo to generate the repository context, then append the text of the opened issue after the --END-- line.<p>- Try not to edit any code GPT-4 generates. If there is something wrong, continue to prompt GPT to fix whatever it is.<p>- Create a feature branch on the issue and create a pull request based on GPT&#x27;s response.<p>- Have a maintainer review, approve, and merge.<p>I am going to try to automate the steps above as much as possible. Really curious how tight the feedback loop will eventually get before something breaks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ftufek</author><text>This is awesome, can&#x27;t wait to get api access to the 32k token model. Rather than this approach of just converting the whole repo to a text file, what I&#x27;m thinking is, you can let the model decide the most relevant files.<p>The initial prompt would be, &quot;person wants to do x, here are the file list of this repo: ...., give me a list of files that you&#x27;d want to edit, create or delete&quot; -&gt; take the list, try to fit the contents of them into 32k tokens and re-prompt with &quot;user is trying to achieve x, here&#x27;s the most relevant files with their contents:..., give me a git commit in the style of git patch&#x2F;diff output&quot;. From playing around with it today, I think this approach would work rather well and can be like a huge step up from AI line autocompletion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wantsanagent</author><text>Please see the following repos for tools in this area:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jerryjliu&#x2F;llama_index">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jerryjliu&#x2F;llama_index</a><p>and&#x2F;or<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hwchase17&#x2F;langchain">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hwchase17&#x2F;langchain</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts</title><url>https://github.com/mpoon/gpt-repository-loader</url><text>I was getting tired of copy&#x2F;pasting reams of code into GPT-4 to give it context before I asked it to help me, so I started this small tool. In a nutshell, gpt-repository-loader will spit out file paths and file contents in a prompt-friendly format. You can also use .gptignore to ignore files&#x2F;folders that are irrelevant to your prompt.<p>gpt-repository-loader as-is works pretty well in helping me achieve better responses. Eventually, I thought it would be cute to load itself into GPT-4 and have GPT-4 improve it. I was honestly surprised by PR#17. GPT-4 was able to write a valid an example repo and an expected output and throw in a small curveball by adjusting .gptignore. I did tell GPT the output file format in two places: 1.) in the preamble when I prompted it to make a PR for issue #16 and 2.) as a string in gpt_repository_loader.py, both of which are indirect ways to infer how to build a functional test. However, I don&#x27;t think I explained to GPT in English anywhere on how .gptignore works at all!<p>I wonder how far GPT-4 can take this repo. Here is the process I&#x27;m following for developing:<p>- Open an issue describing the improvement to make<p>- Construct a prompt - start with using gpt_repository_loader.py on this repo to generate the repository context, then append the text of the opened issue after the --END-- line.<p>- Try not to edit any code GPT-4 generates. If there is something wrong, continue to prompt GPT to fix whatever it is.<p>- Create a feature branch on the issue and create a pull request based on GPT&#x27;s response.<p>- Have a maintainer review, approve, and merge.<p>I am going to try to automate the steps above as much as possible. Really curious how tight the feedback loop will eventually get before something breaks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ftufek</author><text>This is awesome, can&#x27;t wait to get api access to the 32k token model. Rather than this approach of just converting the whole repo to a text file, what I&#x27;m thinking is, you can let the model decide the most relevant files.<p>The initial prompt would be, &quot;person wants to do x, here are the file list of this repo: ...., give me a list of files that you&#x27;d want to edit, create or delete&quot; -&gt; take the list, try to fit the contents of them into 32k tokens and re-prompt with &quot;user is trying to achieve x, here&#x27;s the most relevant files with their contents:..., give me a git commit in the style of git patch&#x2F;diff output&quot;. From playing around with it today, I think this approach would work rather well and can be like a huge step up from AI line autocompletion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>groestl</author><text>Maybe someone can correct me, but my understanding is that you would calculate the embeddings of code chunks, and the embedding of the prompt, and take those chunks that are most similar to the embedding of the prompt as context.<p>Edit: This, btw, is also the reason why I think that this here popped up on the hackernews frontpage a short while ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pgvector&#x2F;pgvector">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pgvector&#x2F;pgvector</a></text></comment> |
20,611,680 | 20,610,653 | 1 | 3 | 20,608,410 | train | <story><title>Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume</title><url>https://cvcompiler.com/blog/facelift-your-it-resume-to-get-more-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartread</author><text>I&#x27;m getting pretty tired of seeing 5 (&quot;Establish and showcase an online presence&quot;).<p>Why? It&#x27;s substantially nonsense. Many of the best programmers I&#x27;ve worked with don&#x27;t do, or don&#x27;t showcase, side-projects. And why should they? They&#x27;ve got families and other interests.<p>Who wants to be stuck in front of a computer all the time? (He said, ironically, whilst typing a HN comment on a Sunday evening.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrackerFF</author><text>It is also the reason why we have about 695135 copy&#x2F;paste blog posts on how to train a neural network on MNIST.<p>Whenever you see a lot of &quot;Hello world!&quot;-esque tech posts on how to do something, you can safely assume that it&#x27;s 95% about building a online presence &#x2F; reputation, and 5% about being helpful to the beginners.<p>I love good tutorials as much as the next person, but this constant CV-building nonsense is getting tiresome.</text></comment> | <story><title>Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume</title><url>https://cvcompiler.com/blog/facelift-your-it-resume-to-get-more-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartread</author><text>I&#x27;m getting pretty tired of seeing 5 (&quot;Establish and showcase an online presence&quot;).<p>Why? It&#x27;s substantially nonsense. Many of the best programmers I&#x27;ve worked with don&#x27;t do, or don&#x27;t showcase, side-projects. And why should they? They&#x27;ve got families and other interests.<p>Who wants to be stuck in front of a computer all the time? (He said, ironically, whilst typing a HN comment on a Sunday evening.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeisawesome</author><text>This is because Tech Recruiters are not Interviewers. You first need to pass the Recruiter filter. Tech recruiters are (and I quote) looking for &quot;honey holes&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lvpByue1M4E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=lvpByue1M4E</a> such as GitHub and StackOverflow. There is even a cottage industry of Tools that will Index developers on their public profiles, nowadays.<p>(I ran into that video while I was searching for &quot;tips on searching for specific source code fragments on GitHub&quot; and this title matched, and it was not what I thought it is :D)</text></comment> |
3,497,329 | 3,497,250 | 1 | 2 | 3,496,943 | train | <story><title>When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming </title><url>http://www.torontostandard.com/business/when-she-codes-the-revolutions-coming/</url><text>Is Ladies Learning Code awesome and feminist, or just awesome?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mekoka</author><text><i>Avery Swartz, a mentor at another table, works as a freelance website designer. “A lot of my clients are women. They don’t necessarily want to work with a man because they are afraid of the intimidation factor, the tech speak, the ‘jargon’. I want women to feel empowered, to know that they can take an active role.”</i><p>This is not a gender problem, it's pedagogical. My granddad would be intimidated to learn to code for those exact same reasons. I assume that having a name like <i>Ladies Learning Code</i> somewhat entices women to approach programming with the perspective that the pedagogy will be different. Playing on the notion that there's an alternative way to explain code to different gender might be a good marketing ploy, but I'm wondering if it's not also doing a disservice by perpetuating the myth.</text></comment> | <story><title>When She Codes, The Revolution’s Coming </title><url>http://www.torontostandard.com/business/when-she-codes-the-revolutions-coming/</url><text>Is Ladies Learning Code awesome and feminist, or just awesome?</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prophetjohn</author><text>&#62; <i>I left Ladies Learning Code having accomplished my goal. I built a WordPress.org</i><p>What does this actually mean? The sentence itself seems to indicate that the class was focused around learning to program by building a WordPress clone. My suspicion based on reading the whole article is that she took a class showing her how to use WordPress to create a blog. If she doesn't know the distinction, I'm skeptical that she really learned to program in any meaningful way.<p>I do think it's great that people who are mostly technically illiterate are making efforts to change that, though.</text></comment> |
27,564,608 | 27,564,307 | 1 | 2 | 27,560,574 | train | <story><title>Coober Pedy, the Australian mining town where residents live underground (2020)</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-coober-pedy-australias-underground-town-2016-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; Also all the water is trucked in, so shower stalls are often coin-fed. Works OK except when there is no warning that you&#x27;re about to run out of water and your face is covered in soap.<p>Seems like you&#x27;d get used to it quickly.<p>In Chinese apartments (in Shanghai, at least), there is a small water heater dedicated to the shower. It stores a certain amount of water at a temperature you configure, and when it runs out, your shower will be cold. (You&#x27;re expected to set it much hotter than you want the shower, and mix it with cold water, which is unlimited, to get the shower temperature you want.)<p>This means it&#x27;s impossible to take a two-hour hot shower. But it also means the showering process doesn&#x27;t include &quot;step 0: wait a few minutes for hot water to start coming out of the shower&quot;. When you turn on the hot water, you get hot water. It&#x27;s really soured me on the American system.</text></item><item><author>zbrozek</author><text>I&#x27;m an American citizen and I needed to go to the hospital in Coober Pedy in 2009. It was after hours, so I rang the bell up front and a cheerful nurse responded on the intercom. My case was deemed sufficient to merit a response, so the nurse and a doctor both came over at once and booted up the place. I got my exam, some crutches, and a prescription in about an hour and $45.<p>Also all the water is trucked in, so shower stalls are often coin-fed. Works OK except when there is no warning that you&#x27;re about to run out of water and your face is covered in soap. Makes it hard to find and fidget with coins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>axiolite</author><text>&gt; it also means the showering process doesn&#x27;t include &quot;step 0: wait a few minutes for hot water to start coming out of the shower&quot;. When you turn on the hot water, you get hot water. It&#x27;s really soured me on the American system.<p>The &quot;American System&quot; such as it is, is a byproduct of increasing efficiency. If you buy an old house, built when shower heads were 5GPM, the piping was sized to handle that load. When you switch to 2.5GPM shower heads (mandated as the maximum by federal law in 1994), or lower (1.25GPM is easy to find and what I use) then you&#x27;ve got 4X the amount of water setting in the pipes that needs to be slowly flushed out.<p>Any competent builders of new homes will minimize the size of hot water pipes to greatly reduce the amount of cold water that needs to be flushed out. Instead of 3&#x2F;4 or 1&#x2F;2&quot; pipes, 3&#x2F;8&quot; or even 1&#x2F;4&quot; pipes may be adequate for a 1.8GPM (California 2018 maximum) shower, and greatly reduces the amount of cold water standing in the pipes.<p>The US system of using natural gas (or electric heat pumps) offers about 4X better energy efficiency than smaller resistive electric point-of-use water heaters. In warmers climates (southern US, and much of Asia) the difference can be small. And the centralized US system can be retrofitted easily enough. There are pump systems which can be installed under bathroom sinks where you just push a button and the cold water is pumped through, automatically shutting off when it becomes warm&#x2F;hot.</text></comment> | <story><title>Coober Pedy, the Australian mining town where residents live underground (2020)</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-coober-pedy-australias-underground-town-2016-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>&gt; Also all the water is trucked in, so shower stalls are often coin-fed. Works OK except when there is no warning that you&#x27;re about to run out of water and your face is covered in soap.<p>Seems like you&#x27;d get used to it quickly.<p>In Chinese apartments (in Shanghai, at least), there is a small water heater dedicated to the shower. It stores a certain amount of water at a temperature you configure, and when it runs out, your shower will be cold. (You&#x27;re expected to set it much hotter than you want the shower, and mix it with cold water, which is unlimited, to get the shower temperature you want.)<p>This means it&#x27;s impossible to take a two-hour hot shower. But it also means the showering process doesn&#x27;t include &quot;step 0: wait a few minutes for hot water to start coming out of the shower&quot;. When you turn on the hot water, you get hot water. It&#x27;s really soured me on the American system.</text></item><item><author>zbrozek</author><text>I&#x27;m an American citizen and I needed to go to the hospital in Coober Pedy in 2009. It was after hours, so I rang the bell up front and a cheerful nurse responded on the intercom. My case was deemed sufficient to merit a response, so the nurse and a doctor both came over at once and booted up the place. I got my exam, some crutches, and a prescription in about an hour and $45.<p>Also all the water is trucked in, so shower stalls are often coin-fed. Works OK except when there is no warning that you&#x27;re about to run out of water and your face is covered in soap. Makes it hard to find and fidget with coins.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&gt; It&#x27;s really soured me on the American system.<p>What American systems? There&#x27;s <i>lots</i> of different water heating setups in the US, including “small dedicated tankless heater for the shower”, whole house tankless or hybrid system, etc., etc...</text></comment> |
30,349,372 | 30,347,371 | 1 | 3 | 30,344,989 | train | <story><title>Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website</title><text>We had some free time during the Chinese New Year vacation (we live in Taiwan). So I thought it would be fun to work with my daughter on a little web project.<p>She did all the drawings. I digitized them and added them to the page as inline SVGs. Then I wrote the code. Nothing fancy — it&#x27;s just one HTML page with a few links. But I like the end result (yes, I&#x27;m 100% biased): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kevin.tw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kevin.tw</a><p>Fun technical facts: the page is entirely self-contained (except the favicon). It doesn&#x27;t have any JavaScript at all. And it weighs 35Kb total (52Kb if you include the favicon).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ydlr</author><text>A few years ago, the company I work for acquired a small web agency. I was tasked with migrating their client sites to our infrastructure. One of the gems I found was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jubyla.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jubyla.com&#x2F;</a>.<p>After a little asking around, I learned that it was created by the daughter of one of the agency&#x27;s employees.<p>I couldn&#x27;t be responsible for depriving the world of this, so I left it running.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chasing</author><text>I loved it when the web looked like that. Like a giant art project made by people just having a fun time being expressive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website</title><text>We had some free time during the Chinese New Year vacation (we live in Taiwan). So I thought it would be fun to work with my daughter on a little web project.<p>She did all the drawings. I digitized them and added them to the page as inline SVGs. Then I wrote the code. Nothing fancy — it&#x27;s just one HTML page with a few links. But I like the end result (yes, I&#x27;m 100% biased): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kevin.tw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kevin.tw</a><p>Fun technical facts: the page is entirely self-contained (except the favicon). It doesn&#x27;t have any JavaScript at all. And it weighs 35Kb total (52Kb if you include the favicon).</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ydlr</author><text>A few years ago, the company I work for acquired a small web agency. I was tasked with migrating their client sites to our infrastructure. One of the gems I found was <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jubyla.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jubyla.com&#x2F;</a>.<p>After a little asking around, I learned that it was created by the daughter of one of the agency&#x27;s employees.<p>I couldn&#x27;t be responsible for depriving the world of this, so I left it running.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leftnode</author><text>This is great. Thanks for maintaining this artifact of pre-Web 2.0 days. And who knows, the next hot startup Jubyla may want to buy the domain for millions.</text></comment> |
9,346,904 | 9,346,771 | 1 | 3 | 9,346,167 | train | <story><title>U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade</title><url>http://time.com/3801889/us-legalization-marijuana-trade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brazzy</author><text>&gt; Treating drug users is better than criminalizing them.<p>Not having them become drug users in the first place would be even better. Let&#x27;s not forget that a lot of drugs really are seriously harmful<p>Criminalizing drug <i>use</i> is fucking stupid, sure, but I also really don&#x27;t want to have big companies spend big advertising budgets on making people addicts.</text></item><item><author>acd</author><text>When will we legalize the hard drugs? Treating drug users is better than criminalizing them. I always compare drugs being illegal to the alcohol ban in the 1930s and the mafia like Alcopone that rose during that time. Legalizing all drugs is the way forward. Drug money is corrupting police and financing weapons for terror organizations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>And a lot of them aren&#x27;t.<p>And a lot of the ones that hurt lots of people now, predominantly harm people due to effects of the criminalisation. Even heroin is a quite safe drug (comparable to other opioids, which does not in any way make it <i>harmless</i>, but also not nearly as nasty as it&#x27;s often portrayed) - to the extent that it&#x27;s prescribed for post-op pain in .e.g the UK (under the name diamorphine).<p>It becomes the horrible nasty mess that people overdose on when you incentivise criminals to cut it with anything from other drugs to brick dust and sell it at all kinds of unpredictable doses because their customers have no recourse.<p>Give people predictable doses of clean heroin, and it&#x27;s not much different than having people stay on prescription drugs like Vicodin. In fact, one of the most common gateways to heroin abuse is a dependency on prescription drugs like Vicodin - once the prescriptions are terminated people often turns to the black market due to dependencies, and gradually get nudged over to heroin because it is far cheaper.<p>I&#x27;m not saying we should have ads for heroin or let grocery stores sell it, but the criminalisation even of these drugs do massive amount of harm and we owe it to the people harmed to actually seriously consider whether the criminalisation is even moral.<p>Your concern of advertising budgets is easily prevented by outlawing advertising. Whenever I visit the US, I&#x27;m shocked at the amount of drug advertising on TV for example, as in Europe both drugs (prescription or otherwise) and alcohol advertising is strictly regulated or outright banned in a range of countries.<p>Likewise many European countries regulate sale of e.g. liquor heavily, including with government sales monopolies with stricter sales policies in a few countries.</text></comment> | <story><title>U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels’ Cross-Border Trade</title><url>http://time.com/3801889/us-legalization-marijuana-trade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brazzy</author><text>&gt; Treating drug users is better than criminalizing them.<p>Not having them become drug users in the first place would be even better. Let&#x27;s not forget that a lot of drugs really are seriously harmful<p>Criminalizing drug <i>use</i> is fucking stupid, sure, but I also really don&#x27;t want to have big companies spend big advertising budgets on making people addicts.</text></item><item><author>acd</author><text>When will we legalize the hard drugs? Treating drug users is better than criminalizing them. I always compare drugs being illegal to the alcohol ban in the 1930s and the mafia like Alcopone that rose during that time. Legalizing all drugs is the way forward. Drug money is corrupting police and financing weapons for terror organizations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doikor</author><text>Easy solution would be something like what we have here in Finland with alcohol. Allow sales but ban all marketing. There done.</text></comment> |
19,579,570 | 19,579,126 | 1 | 2 | 19,578,023 | train | <story><title>Mountain View approves razing rent-controlled units for $1.5M homes</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/03/mountain-view-approves-razing-rent-controlled-units-for-homes-worth-1-5-million/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>llbowers</author><text>Just some casual observations from someone who doesn&#x27;t know a lot about city planning, zoning laws, and other things like that but...<p>I have spent a lot of time in various cities in eastern Asia, namely Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei.<p>I was always amazed at how much more efficiently space was utilized. Dense, high-rise housing. Smaller apartments for single occupants. Vending machines and convenience stores near ubiquitous so one did not have to go far for basic necessities.<p>Also, the public transportation was wonderful. Whether subway, taxi, or bus one could get around without any need for a car.<p>I always wonder why our cities can&#x27;t be &quot;denser&quot;. Perhaps we are too used to our cars and driving everywhere? I&#x27;m sure there are a myriad other reasons though.</text></comment> | <story><title>Mountain View approves razing rent-controlled units for $1.5M homes</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/03/mountain-view-approves-razing-rent-controlled-units-for-homes-worth-1-5-million/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>usaar333</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t seem they had a lot of choice in the matter:<p>&quot;Since the project fully complied with the city’s zoning code and met all the application requirements, City Attorney Jannie Quinn told council members Tuesday that it would be “very difficult” to “come up with a rationale to deny the project.”<p>Quinn also informed the council that placing a moratorium on the demolition of rent-controlled apartments could put the city in a legal predicament due to the state’s Ellis Act, which protects landlords who want to leave the rental market.&quot;</text></comment> |
21,409,624 | 21,408,545 | 1 | 2 | 21,408,151 | train | <story><title>Boeing is facing fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-ng-qantas-finds-crack-airlines-inspect-fleets-reports-2019-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Merrill</author><text>&gt;It’s the rear spar pickle forks which crack
The cracks form in the outer chord of the rear pickle forks (Figure 1) and the behind lying safety straps, just where they pass from the rear spar of the center wingbox to the fuselage side of the aircraft, Figure 2.<p>&gt;This is also the area where the fuselage side has a cutout to let the main landing gear strut fold in with its attached wheel.<p>&gt;The combination of a wing center-wingbox pushing wing and landing gear forces into the fuselage in an area where the fuselage has a large cutout for the folded main landing gear makes this area complex regarding forces and how these work the parts during flights.<p>&gt;The stress spectrum in the area can also have been affected by the later fitting of winglets on the NG, not foreseen in the original design of this area.<p>&gt;Winglets change the pressure distribution of the wing to a distribution spreading further outboard, by it increasing the wing root bending moment.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leehamnews.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;boeings-737-in-another-pickle-part-2&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leehamnews.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;boeings-737-in-another-pic...</a><p>So Boeing also made changes from the 737 to the 737 NG without complete reanalysis of how the changes affected all the parts?</text></comment> | <story><title>Boeing is facing fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane</title><url>https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-ng-qantas-finds-crack-airlines-inspect-fleets-reports-2019-10</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>Not excusing anything about MCAS, but the &quot;cracks in an aluminum airframe&quot; thing is a VERY normal and established cycle&#x2F;process. Well known and a normal thing. This news piece is just journalistic piling on to hot news.<p>There is &quot;no news&quot; here.</text></comment> |
34,465,798 | 34,465,790 | 1 | 2 | 34,410,734 | train | <story><title>Monochrome terminal setup for an E-ink monitor (2022)</title><url>https://bsandro.tech/posts/monochrome-terminal-setup-for-an-e-ink-monitor/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rollcat</author><text>This looks wonderful, and I can&#x27;t wait for these kinds of e-ink displays to get more affordable.<p>Looks like a perfect display for outdoors, very long trips (battery time?), long writing sessions, etc. I&#x27;d love to build a &quot;DIY laptop&quot; like that, but at these prices I&#x27;m likely better off with a Macbook Air...<p>I&#x27;m already experimenting with using a heavily desaturated&#x2F;monochromatic color scheme for coding (it&#x27;s working surprisingly well - e.g. using bold text to differentiate keywords).<p>I think most CLI apps are abusing color for little gain. Reading the output of some programs feels like wading through a room filled with fruit salad - the JS ecosystem is particularly bad in this regard. I&#x27;m using red in my prompt to indicate a root shell and&#x2F;or an SSH session, and I think that&#x27;s as far as it should go.</text></comment> | <story><title>Monochrome terminal setup for an E-ink monitor (2022)</title><url>https://bsandro.tech/posts/monochrome-terminal-setup-for-an-e-ink-monitor/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fmajid</author><text>I&#x27;d love an e-ink side monitor to browse documentation while I&#x27;m coding in the main screen or whatever, but certainly not for $750. $250, tops.<p>It&#x27;s a shame the technology hasn&#x27;t reached economies of scale yet despite the Kindle, it has so much potential for signage and other mostly static applications.</text></comment> |
13,610,164 | 13,610,064 | 1 | 3 | 13,609,541 | train | <story><title>PostgreSQL 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16 and 9.2.20 released</title><url>https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1733/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liquidise</author><text>Fascinating. Can someone detail the pros&#x2F;cons of this? Are they copying&#x2F;cherry-picking commits from a dev track?</text></item><item><author>gsylvie</author><text>I find their branching model interesting (no merges ever!):<p><pre><code> $ git log --graph --oneline --decorate --date-order --all
* 86d911ec0f (HEAD -&gt; master, origin&#x2F;master, origin&#x2F;HEAD) Allow index...
* 7c5d8c16e1 Add explicit ORDER BY to a few tests that exercise hash-...
| * 1888fad440 (origin&#x2F;REL9_4_STABLE) Fix roundoff problems in float8...
| | * 7786b98482 (origin&#x2F;REL9_5_STABLE) Fix roundoff problems in float8...
| | | * 404756fe89 (origin&#x2F;REL9_6_STABLE) Fix roundoff problems in float8...
* | | | 8f93bd8512 Fix roundoff problems in float8_timestamptz() and make...
* | | | a507b86900 Add WAL consistency checking facility.
* | | | 115cb31597 Fix relcache leaks in get_object_address_publication_rel()
* | | | e35bbea7dd doc: Some improvements in CREATE SUBSCRIPTION ref page
* | | | c3c4f6e174 Revise the way the element allocator for a simplehash...
* | | | 242066cc8e Speed up &quot;brin&quot; regression test a little bit.
* | | | ac8eb972f2 Avoid redefining simplehash_allocate&#x2F;simplehash_free.
* | | | 565903af47 Allow the element allocator for a simplehash to be specified.
* | | | 94708c0e8c Fix compiler warning.
* | | | 293e24e507 Cache hash index&#x27;s metapage in rel-&gt;rd_amcache.
| | | | * 903bfef382 (tag: REL9_2_20, origin&#x2F;REL9_2_STABLE) Correct thinko...
| | | | | * 4dd4e3fe10 (origin&#x2F;REL9_3_STABLE) Correct thinko in last-minute...
| * | | | | cd898769cb Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.
| | * | | | 13b30ada99 Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.
| | | * | | ae8a602c32 Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.
* | | | | | 39c3ca5161 Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anarazel</author><text>I think there&#x27;s two different discussions here. One about cherry-picking for back-branch releases, one about development for the new version.<p>Re back-branches:
It&#x27;s not particularly practical to use merges from&#x2F;to stable branches. It may sound nice at first, but there&#x27;s enough fixes that don&#x27;t apply to all versions (because a feature didn&#x27;t exist yet, because refactorings made bugs &quot;accidentally&quot; disappear, ...) that merging either to or from back-branches leads to very very messy merges, where the merge commit has to back out changes and such. I don&#x27;t know of any larger project that successfully uses merges to merge to&#x2F;from stable branches. So yes, it&#x27;s just cherry-picking.<p>Re development:
The case here is a lot less clear. The project used CVS for a long while, and during the migration it was decided to not make the migration harder by changing workflows even more significantly than just CVS-&gt;git. So the, enforced, policy became that no merge commits are to appear. It hasn&#x27;t become a significant problem since, so that policy hasn&#x27;t evolved at this point. Given the relatively small number of active committers in the project, and the fact that commits in the project are expected to &quot;stand on their own&quot; (i.e. are complete and working), rebasing changes before committing them isn&#x27;t a problem. Several contributors, including committers, do their development in separate repositories &#x2F; branches, however. But usually the history there is messy enough that they wouldn&#x27;t be merged anyway. I think merging is more of a benefit when you have a more hierarchically organized project like the kernel, with subsystem maintainers that aggregate a large volume of changes, which then get pushed to Linus, who then integrates all of those.<p>Hope that roughly answers your question? If not, feel free to ask more about specifics.<p>(For context: I&#x27;m one of the committers in the project)</text></comment> | <story><title>PostgreSQL 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16 and 9.2.20 released</title><url>https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1733/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liquidise</author><text>Fascinating. Can someone detail the pros&#x2F;cons of this? Are they copying&#x2F;cherry-picking commits from a dev track?</text></item><item><author>gsylvie</author><text>I find their branching model interesting (no merges ever!):<p><pre><code> $ git log --graph --oneline --decorate --date-order --all
* 86d911ec0f (HEAD -&gt; master, origin&#x2F;master, origin&#x2F;HEAD) Allow index...
* 7c5d8c16e1 Add explicit ORDER BY to a few tests that exercise hash-...
| * 1888fad440 (origin&#x2F;REL9_4_STABLE) Fix roundoff problems in float8...
| | * 7786b98482 (origin&#x2F;REL9_5_STABLE) Fix roundoff problems in float8...
| | | * 404756fe89 (origin&#x2F;REL9_6_STABLE) Fix roundoff problems in float8...
* | | | 8f93bd8512 Fix roundoff problems in float8_timestamptz() and make...
* | | | a507b86900 Add WAL consistency checking facility.
* | | | 115cb31597 Fix relcache leaks in get_object_address_publication_rel()
* | | | e35bbea7dd doc: Some improvements in CREATE SUBSCRIPTION ref page
* | | | c3c4f6e174 Revise the way the element allocator for a simplehash...
* | | | 242066cc8e Speed up &quot;brin&quot; regression test a little bit.
* | | | ac8eb972f2 Avoid redefining simplehash_allocate&#x2F;simplehash_free.
* | | | 565903af47 Allow the element allocator for a simplehash to be specified.
* | | | 94708c0e8c Fix compiler warning.
* | | | 293e24e507 Cache hash index&#x27;s metapage in rel-&gt;rd_amcache.
| | | | * 903bfef382 (tag: REL9_2_20, origin&#x2F;REL9_2_STABLE) Correct thinko...
| | | | | * 4dd4e3fe10 (origin&#x2F;REL9_3_STABLE) Correct thinko in last-minute...
| * | | | | cd898769cb Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.
| | * | | | 13b30ada99 Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.
| | | * | | ae8a602c32 Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.
* | | | | | 39c3ca5161 Correct thinko in last-minute release note item.</code></pre></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vog</author><text>I think that&#x27;s the only explaination.</text></comment> |
28,546,600 | 28,545,543 | 1 | 2 | 28,544,167 | train | <story><title>Founder of $90M cryptocurrency hedge fund sentenced to seven years in prison</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founder-90-million-cryptocurrency-hedge-fund-sentenced-more-seven-years-prison</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>I seriously wonder how you differentiate between real crypto and a Ponzi scheme.<p>By definition, Ponzi scheme’s, like musical chairs, do work as long as people keep playing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DennisP</author><text>At this point Ethereum has a bunch of applications on top with quite a bit of demand, and you need ETH to pay the transaction fees, a portion of which are burned. Once proof-of-work is discarded early next year, the supply will start shrinking, and it&#x27;ll be possible to value ETH like shares in a company doing stock buybacks. So I&#x27;d say that doesn&#x27;t look much like a Ponzi scheme.</text></comment> | <story><title>Founder of $90M cryptocurrency hedge fund sentenced to seven years in prison</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founder-90-million-cryptocurrency-hedge-fund-sentenced-more-seven-years-prison</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>I seriously wonder how you differentiate between real crypto and a Ponzi scheme.<p>By definition, Ponzi scheme’s, like musical chairs, do work as long as people keep playing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davidw</author><text>&quot;The only winning move is not to play&quot;. I guess you might miss out on something, or miss out on making a tidy profit off a Greater Fool, but the peace of mind is worth it.</text></comment> |
16,183,035 | 16,182,635 | 1 | 2 | 16,182,119 | train | <story><title>Rust and QML: a timely example</title><url>https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2017/09/10/time_for_rust_and_qml.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d33</author><text>Is it just me or it feels way too ugly? Multiple opaque layers of abstraction plus Rust kind of feels shoehorned when it&#x27;s called from C++. Something tells me it&#x27;s terribly difficult to write, debug and deploy. I don&#x27;t exactly see the benefit of adding Rust here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oever</author><text>C++ and Rust are very different. A direct binding is near impossible. This project takes a pragmatic approach: the GUI part is QML&#x2F;Qt and the logic part is Rust. The separation is quite strict. The demo application showcases more of the features than the blog does. Notably, the mapping between the Qt data models and the Rust code is something that makes development effective. This will be emphasized in the upcoming FOSDEM presentation.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;event&#x2F;rust_qt_binding_generator&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;event&#x2F;rust_qt_binding_gener...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Rust and QML: a timely example</title><url>https://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2017/09/10/time_for_rust_and_qml.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>d33</author><text>Is it just me or it feels way too ugly? Multiple opaque layers of abstraction plus Rust kind of feels shoehorned when it&#x27;s called from C++. Something tells me it&#x27;s terribly difficult to write, debug and deploy. I don&#x27;t exactly see the benefit of adding Rust here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>derefr</author><text>&gt; I don&#x27;t exactly see the benefit of adding Rust here.<p>From that perspective, there isn&#x27;t any. Dyed-in-the-wool &quot;QT app-devs&quot;, if there is such a category (KDE devs?) already have access to Rust libraries, in the same way they have access to most stuff in weird compiled languages: you wrap the library in a C ABI and call that. It&#x27;s a well-understood process in QT land.<p>I think this project is more an effort to give Rust projects access to a native graphics toolkit (that happens to be QT) for adding a GUI to a previously CLI application. I could see, for example, the Parity Ethereum client (written in Rust) getting a native system-tray&#x2F;notification-area widget written in QT.</text></comment> |
13,405,057 | 13,404,510 | 1 | 2 | 13,402,409 | train | <story><title>Lyft Loses $600M in 2016 as Revenue Rises to $700M</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-12/lyft-loses-600-million-in-2016-as-revenue-surges</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jondubois</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to compare Lyft with Intel in terms of innovation.<p>Ride-sharing is not an area that can be monopolized. As soon as companies like Uber and Lyft stop subsidising rides, competitors will spawn up like mushrooms.<p>Unless Uber&#x2F;Lyft manage to create fully automated self-driving cars AND find a way to OWN all those cars, they will never have a monopoly.<p>The people who own the cars will have the freedom to switch to any ride-sharing network they like (or even multiple networks).<p>Then there will be new kinds of ride-finder apps which will allow people to select between multiple providers&#x2F;networks - A bit like how Expedia lets you select between multiple airlines.<p>The Airline business is very competitive and low-margin these days, I think it will be the same for companies like Lyft and Uber.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Back in the 80&#x27;s when all the Semiconductor companies were losing money, Andy Grove of Intel stated that because Intel was losing less money than everyone else, it must be the largest semiconductor company. If Lyft can become profitable while Uber isn&#x27;t that will change the market dynamics tremendously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rogerbinns</author><text>&gt; Ride-sharing is not an area that can be monopolized<p>It is very close. There are massive network effects and it will be hard to unseat an incumbent.<p>The more riders there are, the more revenue is available for the service provider (eg drivers). More riders means average waiting time is lower because more vehicles will be around. More riders means less downtime between riders since the next rider will be closer. More time in revenue service lets you spread fixed costs over more riders, reducing the fixed costs per ride (economies of scale).<p>This all means an incumbent will provide better service especially as reduced waiting times, and will be able to provide that service more cheaply due to greater utilisation. Their drivers&#x2F;owners will also make more money due to greater utilisation. Newcomers will end up providing worse service (longer waiting times etc) and cost more!</text></comment> | <story><title>Lyft Loses $600M in 2016 as Revenue Rises to $700M</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-12/lyft-loses-600-million-in-2016-as-revenue-surges</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jondubois</author><text>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s fair to compare Lyft with Intel in terms of innovation.<p>Ride-sharing is not an area that can be monopolized. As soon as companies like Uber and Lyft stop subsidising rides, competitors will spawn up like mushrooms.<p>Unless Uber&#x2F;Lyft manage to create fully automated self-driving cars AND find a way to OWN all those cars, they will never have a monopoly.<p>The people who own the cars will have the freedom to switch to any ride-sharing network they like (or even multiple networks).<p>Then there will be new kinds of ride-finder apps which will allow people to select between multiple providers&#x2F;networks - A bit like how Expedia lets you select between multiple airlines.<p>The Airline business is very competitive and low-margin these days, I think it will be the same for companies like Lyft and Uber.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Back in the 80&#x27;s when all the Semiconductor companies were losing money, Andy Grove of Intel stated that because Intel was losing less money than everyone else, it must be the largest semiconductor company. If Lyft can become profitable while Uber isn&#x27;t that will change the market dynamics tremendously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SomewhatLikely</author><text>Google maps at least on Android is already showing fares from both Uber and Lyft when you ask for directions.</text></comment> |
16,717,931 | 16,715,845 | 1 | 2 | 16,715,340 | train | <story><title>Someone bought my Twitter account 10K fake/bot followers</title><url>https://medium.com/@geoffgolberg/when-bots-attack-af7f9f87b612</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zxlk21e</author><text>It&#x27;s very unlikely someone bought them for him to make him look bad. Instead, a lot of the time when fake followers are created they are programmed to look &#x27;normal&#x27; by following other accounts and engaging. Otherwise a single follow target can be a real outlier and easier to triangulate.<p>source: worked in spam for a long time.<p>Also, 10k accounts is like $5-$10 for most &#x27;in the business&#x27;. There are a lot of services that sell for this upwards of $50-$100 though. We&#x27;re not talking about a lot of investment.</text></comment> | <story><title>Someone bought my Twitter account 10K fake/bot followers</title><url>https://medium.com/@geoffgolberg/when-bots-attack-af7f9f87b612</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blakesterz</author><text>This was way more interesting than I thought it would be.<p>&quot;This is neither a bug nor isolated to my account. Twitter’s entire platform is propped up by misleading&#x2F;inflated follower&#x2F;following counts, which include accounts Twitter themselves have identified as “suspected spam accounts” (and have been identified as such for years).&quot;<p>I never knew that Twitter did that “suspected spam accounts” accounts thing.<p>Also... he calls this an &quot;attack&quot;, which seems like the wrong word to use somehow. They bots don&#x27;t seem to be attacking him, they just follow him. Probably doesn&#x27;t matter much, but I kept waiting for an &quot;attack&quot; to happen, but then it became obvious they&#x27;re just following him.</text></comment> |
18,907,564 | 18,907,337 | 1 | 2 | 18,906,405 | train | <story><title>Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript</title><url>https://davidgom.es/porting-30k-lines-of-code-from-flow-to-typescript/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>&quot;Even if I have been writing code with Java &#x2F; C# for nearly a decade , nothing has come close to Typescript in terms of productivity,flexibility and confidence.&quot;<p>Same here.<p>Isn&#x27;t this truly amazing?<p>Take a jangly language like JS, and add some typing for the compiler, which forces you to write cleaner code in addition to all the compiler advantages ... combined with some really cool features and <i>bang</i> a magical, pragmatic language.<p>Aside for some script things for which Python is still a blessing, I&#x27;d chose TS for everything else, at least to start.<p>It just has the right mix of flexibility and expressivity etc..<p>Though TS is an MS project, I suggest it really is quite different, it&#x27;s &#x27;open from the start&#x27; kind of thing, you can have a loot at TSC internals. The team seems to be fairly dynamic and responsive.<p>Typscript is my #1 favorite &#x27;invention&#x27; of the last few years, I think it will be around for a while, and I hope to see many more JS API&#x27;s &#x27;properly documented&#x27; with the help of TS.</text></item><item><author>tinyvm</author><text>I recently did the exact same job as the author of this post.<p>Migrating 15K LoC from JS to TS.<p>The author of Vue.JS also migrated Vue completely to Typescript.<p>At first I had major apprehension because of how much Microsoft generally enforces things on developers.<p>It&#x27;s well know that if you start using C# , your entire stack will generally be MS based...(SQL Server, Azure etc... )<p>But after I did the migration , I was blown away by how confident and how much flexibility I had when i was writing my code.<p>Even if I have been writing code with Java &#x2F; C# for nearly a decade , nothing has come close to Typescript in terms of productivity,flexibility and confidence.<p>Having used Javascript since before Node.JS , I think the whole idea of having to &quot;transpile&quot; my code to something or to respect some &quot;rules&quot; define by a company with a reputation that wasn&#x27;t really &quot;all in open source&quot; .<p>But after using Typescript on multiples projects , you just can&#x27;t go back , it&#x27;s incredible how well it&#x27;s scale without enforcing anything on the developers.<p>Hopefully , one day bootcamps will include Typescript in their trainings to demonstrate how typings can solve maintainability issues...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnfn</author><text>&gt; Take a jangly language like JS, and add some typing for the compiler, which forces you to write cleaner code in addition to all the compiler advantages ... combined with some really cool features and bang a magical, pragmatic language.<p>Agreed. And when you compare how TS was designed to how other languages were designed, it makes a lot of sense why TS ended up being such a great language.<p>Unlike virtually every other language in existence, TS was not designed from the ground up. It was designed with a very specific goal in mind: to adhere to the standards that JS developers had already converged on. So when a JS developer said if (foo), TS was built to realize that was an implicit type check against null. When a JS developer said if (obj.type === “bar”), TS read that as a way to ensure obj was in fact a bar.<p>It’s unlikely that a language developer working from scratch would have come up with these odd idioms, let alone prioritized their inclusion into a new language. But in the case of TS, all these idioms came from millions of lines of working code.<p>I think that’s why TS feels so enjoyable and easy to work with nowadays, whereas even the best of other languages feel a little clunky at times. It was developed prioritizing making real actual code idioms people wanted to do work.</text></comment> | <story><title>Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript</title><url>https://davidgom.es/porting-30k-lines-of-code-from-flow-to-typescript/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sonnyblarney</author><text>&quot;Even if I have been writing code with Java &#x2F; C# for nearly a decade , nothing has come close to Typescript in terms of productivity,flexibility and confidence.&quot;<p>Same here.<p>Isn&#x27;t this truly amazing?<p>Take a jangly language like JS, and add some typing for the compiler, which forces you to write cleaner code in addition to all the compiler advantages ... combined with some really cool features and <i>bang</i> a magical, pragmatic language.<p>Aside for some script things for which Python is still a blessing, I&#x27;d chose TS for everything else, at least to start.<p>It just has the right mix of flexibility and expressivity etc..<p>Though TS is an MS project, I suggest it really is quite different, it&#x27;s &#x27;open from the start&#x27; kind of thing, you can have a loot at TSC internals. The team seems to be fairly dynamic and responsive.<p>Typscript is my #1 favorite &#x27;invention&#x27; of the last few years, I think it will be around for a while, and I hope to see many more JS API&#x27;s &#x27;properly documented&#x27; with the help of TS.</text></item><item><author>tinyvm</author><text>I recently did the exact same job as the author of this post.<p>Migrating 15K LoC from JS to TS.<p>The author of Vue.JS also migrated Vue completely to Typescript.<p>At first I had major apprehension because of how much Microsoft generally enforces things on developers.<p>It&#x27;s well know that if you start using C# , your entire stack will generally be MS based...(SQL Server, Azure etc... )<p>But after I did the migration , I was blown away by how confident and how much flexibility I had when i was writing my code.<p>Even if I have been writing code with Java &#x2F; C# for nearly a decade , nothing has come close to Typescript in terms of productivity,flexibility and confidence.<p>Having used Javascript since before Node.JS , I think the whole idea of having to &quot;transpile&quot; my code to something or to respect some &quot;rules&quot; define by a company with a reputation that wasn&#x27;t really &quot;all in open source&quot; .<p>But after using Typescript on multiples projects , you just can&#x27;t go back , it&#x27;s incredible how well it&#x27;s scale without enforcing anything on the developers.<p>Hopefully , one day bootcamps will include Typescript in their trainings to demonstrate how typings can solve maintainability issues...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>The exception I&#x27;d add is that JavaScript&#x27;s standard library is still very weak. I find myself leaning on Lodash for functionality that would be built into any other language.<p>Part of me would love for TS to build one out and add shims as part of the transpilation process, but it would go miles out of the scope of what TS is trying to do. And I love that (compared to Babel) TS has no plugins and relatively few options.</text></comment> |
7,642,944 | 7,641,782 | 1 | 2 | 7,641,398 | train | <story><title>Elsevier journals – some facts</title><url>http://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dougmccune</author><text>Throwing this out there for anyone working on a startup in the academic journal space. I&#x27;m on the board of SAGE Publications, which is (depending on how you count), the 5th or so largest publisher in the space. See this diagram for where SAGE fits: <a href="http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/images/?src=4e3c02ab/journal_publishers.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oii.ox.ac.uk&#x2F;vis&#x2F;images&#x2F;?src=4e3c02ab&#x2F;journal_pub...</a><p>If you’re doing a startup in this space and want to reach out, please contact me. I live in SF and would happily take you out for coffee or meet up for a beer. My contact details are on my HN profile.<p>SAGE is a 100% family owned business. My grandmother is chairwoman, my dad and I are on the board. I&#x27;m a coder working in an unrelated startup for my day job, living in SF. We’re not dinosaurs trying to bleed the system dry until our business model collapses, but at the same time I wholeheartedly acknowledge the fundamentals of the journals business are antiquated and I believe they will radically change eventually. Academia is incredibly complicated and moves at a glacial pace.<p>So if you’re interested in seeing the world of academic journals from the inside, please get in touch. I can get you in contact with anyone in the SAGE organization at every level.</text></comment> | <story><title>Elsevier journals – some facts</title><url>http://gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/elsevier-journals-some-facts/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robertwalsh0</author><text>When I tell people how important and how epically flawed the current system of academic journal publishing is I&#x27;m often met with blank stares. Can you imagine any other industry where the people doing most of the work aren&#x27;t compensated financially and conglomerates make most of the profit.<p>You can try to make parallels to the record industry at its worse, but those people at least receive advances.<p>And with journal publishing, it&#x27;s not some random niche. This is where &quot;new knowledge&quot; becomes validated. You&#x27;re not hearing talking heads on television mentioning some new thing mentioned in a first year college textbook – instead you hear &quot;a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.&quot;<p>Scholars need to and are adopting ways to take scholarly communication into their own hands. A sociology journal called Sociological Science, with an editorial board out of Stanford and Cornell has recently made a buzz by taking the process into their own hands: <a href="http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/group-sociologists-launch-new-online-journal" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gsb.stanford.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;headlines&#x2F;group-sociologist...</a><p>(Full disclosure: this is a problem my startup works on)</text></comment> |
7,984,046 | 7,983,968 | 1 | 2 | 7,983,281 | train | <story><title>What Happens When a Healthcare Startup Leaves You With the Bill</title><url>http://omnifeed.com/article/valleywag.gawker.com/what-happens-when-a-healthcare-startup-leaves-you-with-1598186714</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackgavigan</author><text>There is, sometimes, a tendency on the part of young, ambitious entrepreneurs, to be overly optimistic and assume that they can gatecrash an industry they know nothing about, set up a slick website and disrupt the big, bloated, uncool incumbents.<p>Sometimes that works out but I believe that a new entrants chances of success are a lot higher if they have somebody on board who is actually familiar with the industry sector they&#x27;re trying to disrupt.<p>None of Oscar&#x27;s founders have worked in health insurance previously. They come from tech entrepreneur&#x2F;VC, consulting and technology backgrounds.<p>Edit: Here&#x27;s a good example of where some industry expertise might have been useful: <i>&quot;..it was a design decision to limit the information presented to hospital&#x27;s on what is covered in detail (like inhouse labs).&quot;</i><p>There&#x27;s currently a big trend in design towards making things simple. But there&#x27;s a difference between making stuff simple and dumbing it down. Sometimes, stuff looks complicated <i>because it&#x27;s complicated</i>.</text></comment> | <story><title>What Happens When a Healthcare Startup Leaves You With the Bill</title><url>http://omnifeed.com/article/valleywag.gawker.com/what-happens-when-a-healthcare-startup-leaves-you-with-1598186714</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kjjw</author><text>&quot;So I went to my new Oscar-approved doctor, who recommended routine blood work. The hospital called up Oscar and Oscar&#x27;s operations department assured both the in-hospital labs and administrators that this blood work would be covered by my plan so we went ahead with it.&quot;<p>Urgh American health care is just so <i>weird</i>. It makes my skin crawl.</text></comment> |
4,512,056 | 4,512,029 | 1 | 3 | 4,511,756 | train | <story><title>Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/apple-iphone-5-official/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubershmekel</author><text>Screen resolution of 1136x640<p>Why on earth would they go 144x80 pixels shy of 720p, 1280x720?<p>Hasn't the world suffered enough from transcoding? So the eye sees your perfect DPI, but the pixels are going to be imperfect because it's a random down-sample size that doesn't divide anything standard.<p>I don't get it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awolf</author><text>1136 means adding 88 screen pixels, which is 44 x 2.<p>44 is a magic number in iOS development. All navigation bars are 44px tall. All tap targets are recommended to be at least this size. It's very easy for developers to conceptualize 88 more vertical pixels and what to do with them; much easier to work with.<p>And let's face it, iOS is about the apps over watching videos. I'm sure 16:9 videos will look great.</text></comment> | <story><title>Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/apple-iphone-5-official/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ubershmekel</author><text>Screen resolution of 1136x640<p>Why on earth would they go 144x80 pixels shy of 720p, 1280x720?<p>Hasn't the world suffered enough from transcoding? So the eye sees your perfect DPI, but the pixels are going to be imperfect because it's a random down-sample size that doesn't divide anything standard.<p>I don't get it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcampbell1</author><text>This is to preserve backwards compatibility with existing apps. It is unlikely anyone could see the difference between 1280x720 and 1136x640 on a 4 inch screen. Also that "small difference" is 27% more pixels.</text></comment> |
19,805,844 | 19,805,889 | 1 | 3 | 19,802,678 | train | <story><title>World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later</title><url>https://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/world-of-goo-update-10-years-later</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t that mean Linux is entirely broken? Isn&#x27;t the whole point of OSes that things that used to work, keep working?<p>I mean, lots of things are wrong with Windows but I can double-click a .exe from 1998 and in most cases it&#x27;ll just run. I&#x27;d assume Linux, being used a lot for servers and long-running apps, would have this too?</text></item><item><author>skummetmaelk</author><text>This is actually super impressive. Managing to create an application bundle which doesn&#x27;t break down every now and then with new system updates is super challenging. 10 years is just wild.<p>Unless you only have libc as a dependency but I doubt that for a graphical application.</text></item><item><author>kgwxd</author><text>Holy cow, I bought the game 10 years ago, found my old email with the &quot;Secret World of Goo Download Location&quot; and it worked :) No Linux update yet, but I&#x27;m going to play the original anyway. Such a fun game.<p>Edit: .deb package didn&#x27;t work on Xubuntu 19.04 but extracting the .tar.gz and running .&#x2F;WorldOfGoo.bin64 worked like a charm</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pantalaimon</author><text>Linux itself has this and is very strict about not breaking old userspace.<p>It&#x27;s the userspace libraries that likes to drop compatibility with old binaries left and right and with most distributions it&#x27;s not possible to install old versions of libraries.<p>Containers like Flatpack and Snap promise to solve this by just bundling the application with all the libraries it needs, frozen in time.
The Kernel then can handle it.</text></comment> | <story><title>World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later</title><url>https://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/world-of-goo-update-10-years-later</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skrebbel</author><text>Doesn&#x27;t that mean Linux is entirely broken? Isn&#x27;t the whole point of OSes that things that used to work, keep working?<p>I mean, lots of things are wrong with Windows but I can double-click a .exe from 1998 and in most cases it&#x27;ll just run. I&#x27;d assume Linux, being used a lot for servers and long-running apps, would have this too?</text></item><item><author>skummetmaelk</author><text>This is actually super impressive. Managing to create an application bundle which doesn&#x27;t break down every now and then with new system updates is super challenging. 10 years is just wild.<p>Unless you only have libc as a dependency but I doubt that for a graphical application.</text></item><item><author>kgwxd</author><text>Holy cow, I bought the game 10 years ago, found my old email with the &quot;Secret World of Goo Download Location&quot; and it worked :) No Linux update yet, but I&#x27;m going to play the original anyway. Such a fun game.<p>Edit: .deb package didn&#x27;t work on Xubuntu 19.04 but extracting the .tar.gz and running .&#x2F;WorldOfGoo.bin64 worked like a charm</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josteink</author><text>&gt; Doesn&#x27;t that mean Linux is entirely broken? Isn&#x27;t the whole point of OSes that things that used to work, keep working?<p>&quot;Broken&quot; is a strong word. &quot;Different&quot; might be more fitting.<p>While I don&#x27;t think anyone in the world of Linux and Linux-distros work with the explicit <i>aim</i> of breaking compatibility, you have to realize that Linux and most Linux-distros are built entirely around open-source software.<p>Most users install software via a distro-provided package-manager which fetches binaries from a repo. These binaries have been built from source, by the distro-vendor, specifically for that distro.<p>That means Linux compatibility traditionally has been more about <i>source-level and compile-time compatibility</i> more so than 100% uncompromised binary compatibility. If a change breaks binary compatibility, but the distro&#x2F;system as a whole still builds fine, that&#x27;s still compatible in most day-to-day scenarios of a common Linux end-user.<p>And unconstrained by having to maintain strict binary compatibility, it also allows developers to clean up historical garbage and technical debt they otherwise couldn&#x27;t.<p>This approach obviously has both drawbacks and advantages, but calling it &quot;broken&quot; seems unfair, overly opinionated and really just wrong.</text></comment> |
19,829,116 | 19,827,510 | 1 | 2 | 19,826,344 | train | <story><title>London girl could be first to have “air pollution” listed as cause of death</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ella-kissi-debrah-could-become-first-death-attributed-to-air-pollution-in-united-kingdom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>I&#x27;m very familiar with this part of London. I haven&#x27;t quite lived on the road in question but I know people who have. It&#x27;s not clear the exact location but I imagine it to be near a busy junction with lots of vehicles idling.<p>Ultimately in a system where people bid for housing this sort of thing is bound to happen. It&#x27;s notably cheaper to live on a main road, near a pollution hotspot, etc; there&#x27;s also commonly social housing in those sorts of locations, which makes moving less about marginal income and more about navigating a bureaucracy (if you&#x27;re paying below market rent you may need double or triple the amount to move to a nearby privately rented place).<p>In my view we should heavily tax diesel cars out of existence, at least in busy cities. The alternatives are to either demolish large amounts of housing (the South Circular Road and A2 in London are lined with residential; so too are most major roads in the capital), to basically delete the road network, or to accept these deaths as a way of life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frereubu</author><text>I live in Brighton (55 miles south of London) and regularly come up by train. But as soon as it&#x27;s more than me - my wife and daughter joining me to see an exhibition for example - it often costs more to travel by train than it does to drive (in my polluting diesel car I bought quite a while ago when people still thought they were good), including fuel, central London parking and the congestion charge, presuming we don&#x27;t know three months in advance that we want to do that (when we&#x27;d be able to buy cheap super-advance off-peak tickets). The ULEZ will change that calculation a bit. But the thing I hate the very most is the reduction of government subsidies for public transport when the effective subsidies for cars - including things like NHS treatment for this poor girl - is astronomical. I would <i>love</i> my diesel car to be taxed out of existence. But unless there&#x27;s some kind of provision for public transport (both cost and capacity) to balance that out, it&#x27;s going to be a real shitshow.</text></comment> | <story><title>London girl could be first to have “air pollution” listed as cause of death</title><url>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ella-kissi-debrah-could-become-first-death-attributed-to-air-pollution-in-united-kingdom/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esotericn</author><text>I&#x27;m very familiar with this part of London. I haven&#x27;t quite lived on the road in question but I know people who have. It&#x27;s not clear the exact location but I imagine it to be near a busy junction with lots of vehicles idling.<p>Ultimately in a system where people bid for housing this sort of thing is bound to happen. It&#x27;s notably cheaper to live on a main road, near a pollution hotspot, etc; there&#x27;s also commonly social housing in those sorts of locations, which makes moving less about marginal income and more about navigating a bureaucracy (if you&#x27;re paying below market rent you may need double or triple the amount to move to a nearby privately rented place).<p>In my view we should heavily tax diesel cars out of existence, at least in busy cities. The alternatives are to either demolish large amounts of housing (the South Circular Road and A2 in London are lined with residential; so too are most major roads in the capital), to basically delete the road network, or to accept these deaths as a way of life.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>osrec</author><text>I believe they&#x27;ve started the taxation in some sense. I can no longer drive my old diesel car in London without paying £18 per day for the privilege. That&#x27;s enough to make me never want to drive it in central London.</text></comment> |
39,989,726 | 39,987,535 | 1 | 2 | 39,985,630 | train | <story><title>Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)</title><url>https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14903/why-does-part-of-the-windows-98-setup-program-look-older-than-the-rest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>none_to_remain</author><text>I was blown away when the Windows XP installation process required me to find a 3.5&quot; floppy for storage drivers.</text></item><item><author>timetraveller26</author><text>Windows XP installation process seemed something similar.<p>I remember I was blown away the first time I installed from an ubuntu live cd.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>...not to mention the &#x27;Aaaaarrrgh!!!!&#x27; moment I had when finding that the brand spanking new network adapter I had purchased during my student days had no floppy with drivers in the box.<p>Oh no. The manual stated I could simply go online to find the required drivers on the new-fangled world wide web.<p>Which, incidentally, was why I had bought the adapter in the first place.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)</title><url>https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14903/why-does-part-of-the-windows-98-setup-program-look-older-than-the-rest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>none_to_remain</author><text>I was blown away when the Windows XP installation process required me to find a 3.5&quot; floppy for storage drivers.</text></item><item><author>timetraveller26</author><text>Windows XP installation process seemed something similar.<p>I remember I was blown away the first time I installed from an ubuntu live cd.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p_l</author><text>Because on PC, the FDC is probably the only storage component you could be sure to address at one time.</text></comment> |
20,994,862 | 20,994,009 | 1 | 3 | 20,992,378 | train | <story><title>Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/opinion/equifax-settlement.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delinka</author><text>Might as well not even vote. Your one votes can&#x27;t turn the tide.</text></item><item><author>drcode</author><text>Yeah, instead of getting my lender to give me a better interest rate or a discount on fees, I&#x27;m going to instead use my negotiating leverage to make sure Equifax makes $20 less revenue.</text></item><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>My lender always drops the lowest of the three scores, so I was able to just say &quot;I&#x27;m going to keep looking at other lenders if you contact Equifax on my behalf. Can you agree to not use Equifax on this deal if I agree move forward today?&quot; and it wasn&#x27;t a problem.<p>Some of the larger lenders may not have this flexibility.</text></item><item><author>noodlesUK</author><text>Does this actually work? Do bank employees have any control of the credit check process?</text></item><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>If anyone is getting a mortgage or refinancing soon, ask your lender to &#x27;drop&#x27; equifax without running your score with them - just take the score from the other two. Equifax is an unnecessary security and privacy risk.<p>They are a horrible company that needs to go out of business. Make their customers feel embarrassed to be doing business with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avita1</author><text>If you&#x27;re in the position to be buying a house, voting is basically free. Ignoring a credit score when applying for a mortgage can be considerably more expensive.</text></comment> | <story><title>Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/opinion/equifax-settlement.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>delinka</author><text>Might as well not even vote. Your one votes can&#x27;t turn the tide.</text></item><item><author>drcode</author><text>Yeah, instead of getting my lender to give me a better interest rate or a discount on fees, I&#x27;m going to instead use my negotiating leverage to make sure Equifax makes $20 less revenue.</text></item><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>My lender always drops the lowest of the three scores, so I was able to just say &quot;I&#x27;m going to keep looking at other lenders if you contact Equifax on my behalf. Can you agree to not use Equifax on this deal if I agree move forward today?&quot; and it wasn&#x27;t a problem.<p>Some of the larger lenders may not have this flexibility.</text></item><item><author>noodlesUK</author><text>Does this actually work? Do bank employees have any control of the credit check process?</text></item><item><author>cwkoss</author><text>If anyone is getting a mortgage or refinancing soon, ask your lender to &#x27;drop&#x27; equifax without running your score with them - just take the score from the other two. Equifax is an unnecessary security and privacy risk.<p>They are a horrible company that needs to go out of business. Make their customers feel embarrassed to be doing business with them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>Depending on where you live that can be very true.</text></comment> |
3,230,674 | 3,230,398 | 1 | 2 | 3,229,360 | train | <story><title>Think different about Jobs</title><url>http://james.cridland.net/blog/think-different-about-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryan-allen</author><text>While you can point at how he conducted himself at Apple and scream "Monster!", what isn't mentioned in this post but is dealt with at length in his biography is how he conducted himself at Pixar.<p>He was much more low-key about the 'products' at Pixar, he mostly was an enabler and negotiator for them. In Pixar's early days he invested an awful lot of his then-fortune into keeping it alive, and it was his cunning negotiation skills that kept Pixar from being swallowed by the then flailing Disney.<p>If you contrast his behaviour at Pixar and at Disney, I think it illustrates that he didn't consider the work at Pixar to be 'his art'. There were other people at Pixar who were leading the 'art' there and it was all in hand.<p>At Apple on the other hand, it's completely clear that Jobs' considered the products to be 'his art' and his conviction was such that he literally was going to drag everyone, kicking and screaming, to realise his vision. And that he did, in a world of horrible consumer electronics he would not abide, he set out and truly lead the creation of some very awesome and uncompromising products. It was his Art.<p>Imagine if Andy Warhol or Piccasso or any other famous artist relied on the expertise of many individuals to realise their creations. Do you think they'd be considering that all you want is your 9-5 job and your 401k and 4 weeks holiday a year. Nope, they'd be behaving in exactly the same way: aggressive and fervent conviction. Work ceases to become merely a job and you're no longer working, you're crusading.<p>In a world of unambitious and mediocre individuals, you have to move mountains to do great work that requires multi-disciplined collaboration. You're going to upset people along the way but that just comes with the territory.<p>I don't think it's fair to blame him for his behaviour. The world needs more people like him: true leaders who will stand up for their convictions, no matter what the cost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>imathrowaway123</author><text>Hear hear. You make a point that is true as the day is long - one which nobody wants to hear.<p>Not long ago I became a boss and tried to be a textbook good one: paying generously, being generous in general (e.g. vacation/sick days on the honor system), being a real sweetheart, asking nicely, giving credit, supporting their initiatives, giving control… My employees were smart, capable, and hard-working, so I should trust them. So I thought.<p>I ended up having to fire all of them.<p>When they freelanced for me before I hired them, they were on the ball and contributing. Then I made the mistake of hiring them and it all went to shit. They were not contributing anything like the kind of value I paid them for, wasting my time &#38; money, generally spoiled, ungrateful, and clearly contemptuous of me and what I asked of them, never considering my position as the person responsible for their salaries and keeping the company alive.<p>Somehow I accidentally led them to believe that they were "partners" in decision-making, even though they had none of the risk. Not that they acted like partners, of course. But they came away with the idea that it was "our" business, and proceeded to do jack all with it except act entitled.<p>And when I fired them, they were shocked. They apparently spent quite a lot of time bitching about me to other people (while not doing their jobs) but were caught completely unawares that the feeling went both ways. Shocking.<p>I certainly have learned a valuable lesson:<p>When you're a driven, exacting person, you have to either hope you will find somebody just like you (fat chance!!) -- or you have to <i>make</i> them. And the <i>making</i> of a driven, exacting person from the outside is never going to be pleasant for the one being made. (And no matter how much better it makes them, they will whine about it.)<p>What are the chances that the "beleaguered" employees Jobs upset would have done work half as good without a cruel taskmaster? Pretty low, based on my experience.<p>Me, I have to admire somebody who can keep the pressure on another person and force them to do great work. I don't have it in me.</text></comment> | <story><title>Think different about Jobs</title><url>http://james.cridland.net/blog/think-different-about-jobs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryan-allen</author><text>While you can point at how he conducted himself at Apple and scream "Monster!", what isn't mentioned in this post but is dealt with at length in his biography is how he conducted himself at Pixar.<p>He was much more low-key about the 'products' at Pixar, he mostly was an enabler and negotiator for them. In Pixar's early days he invested an awful lot of his then-fortune into keeping it alive, and it was his cunning negotiation skills that kept Pixar from being swallowed by the then flailing Disney.<p>If you contrast his behaviour at Pixar and at Disney, I think it illustrates that he didn't consider the work at Pixar to be 'his art'. There were other people at Pixar who were leading the 'art' there and it was all in hand.<p>At Apple on the other hand, it's completely clear that Jobs' considered the products to be 'his art' and his conviction was such that he literally was going to drag everyone, kicking and screaming, to realise his vision. And that he did, in a world of horrible consumer electronics he would not abide, he set out and truly lead the creation of some very awesome and uncompromising products. It was his Art.<p>Imagine if Andy Warhol or Piccasso or any other famous artist relied on the expertise of many individuals to realise their creations. Do you think they'd be considering that all you want is your 9-5 job and your 401k and 4 weeks holiday a year. Nope, they'd be behaving in exactly the same way: aggressive and fervent conviction. Work ceases to become merely a job and you're no longer working, you're crusading.<p>In a world of unambitious and mediocre individuals, you have to move mountains to do great work that requires multi-disciplined collaboration. You're going to upset people along the way but that just comes with the territory.<p>I don't think it's fair to blame him for his behaviour. The world needs more people like him: true leaders who will stand up for their convictions, no matter what the cost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jronkone</author><text>&#62; The world needs more people like him: true leaders who will stand up for their convictions, no matter what the cost.<p>The true costs of these peoples' behavior is never on themselves.</text></comment> |
25,488,064 | 25,487,910 | 1 | 2 | 25,485,938 | train | <story><title>Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/20/early-humans-may-have-survived-the-harsh-winters-by-hibernating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t float. Natural selection can never select for suicide to benefit the group, unless the group is genetically identical - such a trait simply isn&#x27;t adaptive.</text></item><item><author>hh3k0</author><text>&gt; I have long had the hunch that depression (and especially SAD) make sense from an evolutionary perspective as a sort of hibernation strategy.<p>Interesting, I&#x27;ve long had the hunch that an evolutionary purpose of depression could be to strengthen a tribe by weeding out individuals that are a burden to said tribe, as self-perceived burden seems to be closely linked to the disorder.</text></item><item><author>tokai</author><text>I have long had the hunch that depression (and especially SAD) make sense from an evolutionary perspective as a sort of hibernation strategy. Common symptoms like lowered appetite and psychomotor retardation, coupled with the episodic nature of most depressive disorders, seems like a good fit for hibernating behaviour.<p>Fascinating research. Would be very interesting if the conclusions could be supported by other dig sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quesera</author><text>I think you might be combining Darwinism with Dawkinsism here.<p>Natural selection isn&#x27;t necessarily preservational of individual genes (nor of genotypes). It just argues that the survivors are more genetically fit for survival. This aligns with GP&#x27;s comment.<p>The Selfish Gene theory argues that behaviours among the group tend toward preservation of the genotype. Family over strangers, generally.<p>I do take issue with GP&#x27;s &quot;evolutionary purpose&quot; -- these two words cannot be combined in a meaningful way. But, interpreted as &quot;evolutionary contribution&quot;, it could make sense.<p>All that said, I also don&#x27;t think that GP&#x27;s idea floats, nor does it hold water. Genetic predisposition to depression is very poorly understood, but seems (to me) to be just ordinary phenotypical noise in the signal. Quasi-random variation which is to be expected in any sufficiently complicated system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/20/early-humans-may-have-survived-the-harsh-winters-by-hibernating</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dTal</author><text>That doesn&#x27;t float. Natural selection can never select for suicide to benefit the group, unless the group is genetically identical - such a trait simply isn&#x27;t adaptive.</text></item><item><author>hh3k0</author><text>&gt; I have long had the hunch that depression (and especially SAD) make sense from an evolutionary perspective as a sort of hibernation strategy.<p>Interesting, I&#x27;ve long had the hunch that an evolutionary purpose of depression could be to strengthen a tribe by weeding out individuals that are a burden to said tribe, as self-perceived burden seems to be closely linked to the disorder.</text></item><item><author>tokai</author><text>I have long had the hunch that depression (and especially SAD) make sense from an evolutionary perspective as a sort of hibernation strategy. Common symptoms like lowered appetite and psychomotor retardation, coupled with the episodic nature of most depressive disorders, seems like a good fit for hibernating behaviour.<p>Fascinating research. Would be very interesting if the conclusions could be supported by other dig sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nicoburns</author><text>Natural selection of whole group does make sense if they are genetically related (and you consider the fact that in addition to individual dying off, it is possible for whole groups to die off (over longer time scales))</text></comment> |
38,839,425 | 38,839,203 | 1 | 3 | 38,839,088 | train | <story><title>Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2023/09/25/eating-fewer-calories-can-ward-off-ageing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anonnon</author><text>&gt; One of the eight biospherians was Roy Walford, a professor of pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (ucla). Research by Walford and others had shown that restricting what animals ate could significantly lengthen their lives. The lifespans of nematode worms, fruit flies, rodents and dogs could be extended as much as 50% by laboratory protocols which gave them a diet with all the nutrients they needed in terms of minerals, vitamins and the like but fewer calories than were seen as normal.<p>Roy Walford <i>died at age 79 of ALS</i>, and there are studies showing both excessive exercise and low-calorie diets (drivers of calorie restriction) increase the risk of ALS, for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6736(14)60222-1&#x2F;fulltext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;lancet&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS0140-6...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neurology.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1212&#x2F;WNL.0000000000007861" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.neurology.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1212&#x2F;WNL.0000000000007861</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;ebiom&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS2352-3964(21)00190-0&#x2F;fulltext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelancet.com&#x2F;journals&#x2F;ebiom&#x2F;article&#x2F;PIIS2352-39...</a><p>I can&#x27;t believe people are still beating this drum. There&#x27;s no evidence calorie restriction (beyond not being fat) actually significantly (ie more than a few years) extends human lifespan, let alone can consistently get you to 100 (or even 120, like Walford speculated). And if it did work, we&#x27;d probably know already just by looking at existing centenarian populations. And even the best animal studies (where, unlike 99% of the garbage mouse studies, the control group <i>isn&#x27;t allowed to eat itself into obesity</i>) don&#x27;t paint an impressive picture: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3832985&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC3832985&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; Our data indicate that under our laboratory conditions, CR does not improve mean survival in rhesus compared to CON monkeys despite clear improvements in overall health and function. Our finding contrasts with previous reports5, 19 and suggests that study design, husbandry, and diet composition are important factors for the life-prolonging effect of CR in a long-lived NHP, similar to what has been shown in rodent studies40–42. It will be valuable to continue to compare findings from on-going monkey CR studies to dissect mechanisms behind the improvement in health that occurred with and without significant effects on survival.</text></comment> | <story><title>Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing</title><url>https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2023/09/25/eating-fewer-calories-can-ward-off-ageing</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bcherny</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wOgiW" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;wOgiW</a></text></comment> |
8,930,734 | 8,930,713 | 1 | 2 | 8,930,020 | train | <story><title>Drone carrying drugs crashes near US-Mexico border</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30931367</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This has been discussed before and is a favorite of some of the robotics communities. This particular drone seemed to be a bit overloaded (2.7kg?) and I&#x27;m guessing the person who launched it hadn&#x27;t made the connection between flight time and weight. But still it seems a pretty straight forward way to get drugs from point A to point B.<p>That said, 2.7kg of crystal meth might be worth $270,000 [1]. So the cost of the drone is insignificant to the &#x27;value&#x27; of the meth it was carrying. Sending 1kg chunks over on $10,000 drones would still net a decent profit. And $10,000 is a pretty nice drone.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/faqs/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;meth&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WestCoastJustin</author><text>VICE claims this was a &quot;DJI Spreading Wings s900&quot; drone [1]. There is a nice little demo video on youtube [2], but it is hard not to mentally replace &quot;camera gear&quot; with &quot;6.5 pounds of meth&quot;, when watching it after reading the news story. Looks like it is about $3,800 USD rigged up [3]. The specs say it can only fly for 18 minutes [4], so they had to have been pretty close by! As battery tech, software auto pilots, and availability improves, this is likely going to become a much larger issue.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/drone-carrying-three-kilos-of-meth-crashes-in-tijuana" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.vice.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;drone-carrying-three-kilos-of-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aC9Z7-Qxwk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8aC9Z7-Qxwk</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2014/08/new-gear-dji-spreading-wings-s900-drone" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.popphoto.com&#x2F;gear&#x2F;2014&#x2F;08&#x2F;new-gear-dji-spreading-...</a><p>[4] <a href="http://www.dji.com/product/spreading-wings-s900/spec" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dji.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;spreading-wings-s900&#x2F;spec</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Drone carrying drugs crashes near US-Mexico border</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30931367</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This has been discussed before and is a favorite of some of the robotics communities. This particular drone seemed to be a bit overloaded (2.7kg?) and I&#x27;m guessing the person who launched it hadn&#x27;t made the connection between flight time and weight. But still it seems a pretty straight forward way to get drugs from point A to point B.<p>That said, 2.7kg of crystal meth might be worth $270,000 [1]. So the cost of the drone is insignificant to the &#x27;value&#x27; of the meth it was carrying. Sending 1kg chunks over on $10,000 drones would still net a decent profit. And $10,000 is a pretty nice drone.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/faqs/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;wgbh&#x2F;pages&#x2F;frontline&#x2F;meth&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kenrikm</author><text>You can quite easily build a drone capable of flying for many miles with a 2.7kg Payload for 2-3K. Indeed $10,000 would buy you a very, very nice setup. If they wanted to go the plane route a Mugin will do 15kg and still be under 10k [1]<p>[1] <a href="http://www.fpvmodel.com/super-huge-mugin-4450mm-uav-h-t-tail-plane-platform_g628.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fpvmodel.com&#x2F;super-huge-mugin-4450mm-uav-h-t-tail...</a></text></comment> |
16,318,809 | 16,318,406 | 1 | 2 | 16,318,151 | train | <story><title>Launch HN: Supermedium (YC W18) – A full VR browser for web-based VR content</title><text>Supermedium is a full VR browser for web-based VR content. Download the browser at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supermedium.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supermedium.com</a>, put on a headset, and navigate dozens of full VR sites. Pages load quickly and are built with Web standards (WebGL, WebVR, JS). Anyone can publish and share VR content, regardless of whether that content is bite-sized, wacky, lower fidelity, a store’s homepage, an educational outing for a few students, a meme, or something taboo. Anything goes.<p>Back in 2012, I was researching for headsets that I could watch movies on. I thought it would be cool to have a giant TV anywhere at home or on the go. Soon I became a lurker in the MTBS3D.com forums. I followed the first conversations between Palmer Luckey and John Carmack experimenting with VR hardware [1]. I was one of the 50 members that sent money to Palmer Luckey’s personal PayPal account to get a DIY prototype kit of the early Oculus Rift [2]. I got to try an early version of the Rift and an early 3D-printed prototype of what would become the HTC Vive. It felt the future was approaching quickly and I did not want miss out on the next technological revolution. I was on a quest to find a way to combine my knowledge of the Web with my newly discovered passion in VR.<p>Kevin and I were teammates on the original Mozilla VR team that kicked off the WebVR initiative. Together we created and grew A-Frame, an open source framework to help Web developers build VR content in the browser. Two years later, we continue to volunteer our time to maintain A-Frame alongside its community.<p>We are kids from the Web; we formed as programmers using browsers as our playground. We loved learning from others using the built-in developer tools and sharing our experiments with just a link. But we witnessed first-hand how slowly the Web reacted to the rise of smartphones and app store ecosystems. The Web became an afterthought.<p>We know it is still the early days for VR. VR hardware is expensive, clunky, and software feels undercooked. But we believe that in the future, headsets (whether VR or AR) will replace traditional displays, transforming the way we interact with computers. We want the Web to be a first-class citizen on VR and on immersive platforms going forward. We founded Supermedium to try to help establish the Web as a valuable foundation for the next big shifts in personal computing. We want to bring the best ingredients of the Web to VR. And it starts with a browser.<p>Looking forward to hearing feedback!<p>Diego and Kevin<p>---<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtbs3d.com&#x2F;phpBB&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=120&amp;t=14777&amp;sid=a8d3e6cc4e8d94c6d6d0d0e907cdbeb9&amp;start=195" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtbs3d.com&#x2F;phpBB&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=120&amp;t=14777&amp;sid...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtbs3d.com&#x2F;phpbb&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=140&amp;t=14777&amp;p=76940#p76940" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtbs3d.com&#x2F;phpbb&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=140&amp;t=14777&amp;p=7...</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hammerandtongs</author><text>So in looking forward to a time when people actually want a VR focused browsing experience and just for WebVR&#x2F;WebGL there is this HUGE gap missing.<p>Where is the &quot;HTMLTexture&quot; support (the hacks for it are janky and not viable in my experience)?<p>I think WebVR will not take off if it doesn&#x27;t have a clean way to experience the web&#x27;s existing 2d elements, not to mention even VR needs a way to do 2d layout.<p>Any thoughts? I know Chrome guys were experimenting a few months back and there was some talk of it being in WebXR...</text></comment> | <story><title>Launch HN: Supermedium (YC W18) – A full VR browser for web-based VR content</title><text>Supermedium is a full VR browser for web-based VR content. Download the browser at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supermedium.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supermedium.com</a>, put on a headset, and navigate dozens of full VR sites. Pages load quickly and are built with Web standards (WebGL, WebVR, JS). Anyone can publish and share VR content, regardless of whether that content is bite-sized, wacky, lower fidelity, a store’s homepage, an educational outing for a few students, a meme, or something taboo. Anything goes.<p>Back in 2012, I was researching for headsets that I could watch movies on. I thought it would be cool to have a giant TV anywhere at home or on the go. Soon I became a lurker in the MTBS3D.com forums. I followed the first conversations between Palmer Luckey and John Carmack experimenting with VR hardware [1]. I was one of the 50 members that sent money to Palmer Luckey’s personal PayPal account to get a DIY prototype kit of the early Oculus Rift [2]. I got to try an early version of the Rift and an early 3D-printed prototype of what would become the HTC Vive. It felt the future was approaching quickly and I did not want miss out on the next technological revolution. I was on a quest to find a way to combine my knowledge of the Web with my newly discovered passion in VR.<p>Kevin and I were teammates on the original Mozilla VR team that kicked off the WebVR initiative. Together we created and grew A-Frame, an open source framework to help Web developers build VR content in the browser. Two years later, we continue to volunteer our time to maintain A-Frame alongside its community.<p>We are kids from the Web; we formed as programmers using browsers as our playground. We loved learning from others using the built-in developer tools and sharing our experiments with just a link. But we witnessed first-hand how slowly the Web reacted to the rise of smartphones and app store ecosystems. The Web became an afterthought.<p>We know it is still the early days for VR. VR hardware is expensive, clunky, and software feels undercooked. But we believe that in the future, headsets (whether VR or AR) will replace traditional displays, transforming the way we interact with computers. We want the Web to be a first-class citizen on VR and on immersive platforms going forward. We founded Supermedium to try to help establish the Web as a valuable foundation for the next big shifts in personal computing. We want to bring the best ingredients of the Web to VR. And it starts with a browser.<p>Looking forward to hearing feedback!<p>Diego and Kevin<p>---<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtbs3d.com&#x2F;phpBB&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=120&amp;t=14777&amp;sid=a8d3e6cc4e8d94c6d6d0d0e907cdbeb9&amp;start=195" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtbs3d.com&#x2F;phpBB&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=120&amp;t=14777&amp;sid...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtbs3d.com&#x2F;phpbb&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=140&amp;t=14777&amp;p=76940#p76940" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mtbs3d.com&#x2F;phpbb&#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=140&amp;t=14777&amp;p=7...</a></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>strictnein</author><text>Really important tip from your guidelines:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supermedium.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;webvr-guidelines" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.supermedium.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;webvr-guidelines</a><p>&gt; Add any form of audio. ... anything is better than complete silence.<p>Early on a lot of the VR tech demos for the Oculus DK1 and DK2 had no sound and it was almost maddening. I can&#x27;t remember the name, but one of my favorite things to show people new to VR is little more than a music video. Starts out dark, this weird blocky figure appears, a blocky sun rises, then huge giants appear, all set to this electronic, pulsating song. First came out with the DK1 or DK2 and now works on the Vive as well.<p>Edit: Found it. It&#x27;s called Surge:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;477130&#x2F;Surge&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;477130&#x2F;Surge&#x2F;</a><p>Anyways. It&#x27;s a simple thing, but quite compelling because of the sound, so make sure to keep audio in mind when crafting VR experiences.</text></comment> |
23,246,932 | 23,246,667 | 1 | 2 | 23,243,204 | train | <story><title>Singing is the most accessible stress reliever</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200518-why-singing-can-make-you-feel-better-in-lockdown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>I wish there was a good way to sing together over videochat. The lag makes it impossible--if you&#x27;ve tried singing Happy birthday to someone over Zoom, you&#x27;ve probably noticed that it&#x27;s the worst! Everyone tries to adjust to everyone else&#x27;s lag and it just makes everyone even more and more out of time with each other.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>raxxorrax</author><text>It is incredible how even minuscule delays can be heard. I first laughed about calibrating sound systems with microphones to compensate for different cable lengths until a sound engineer let me listen to the differences.<p>He could hear if a box had a delay about 2-3ms. Quite hard requirements.</text></comment> | <story><title>Singing is the most accessible stress reliever</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200518-why-singing-can-make-you-feel-better-in-lockdown</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bonniemuffin</author><text>I wish there was a good way to sing together over videochat. The lag makes it impossible--if you&#x27;ve tried singing Happy birthday to someone over Zoom, you&#x27;ve probably noticed that it&#x27;s the worst! Everyone tries to adjust to everyone else&#x27;s lag and it just makes everyone even more and more out of time with each other.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barbegal</author><text>You&#x27;re right you can&#x27;t all hear each other. Some choirs use instructions like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.makingmusic.org.uk&#x2F;resource&#x2F;zoom-online-rehearsals-vocal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.makingmusic.org.uk&#x2F;resource&#x2F;zoom-online-rehearsa...</a> where everyone is on mute and can just hear themselves and the choirmaster.<p>I think a technological solution would exist: A and B hears choirmaster, A and B&#x27;s sound is sent back to server which syncs it with the choirmasters sound before sending to C, D, E and F. C, D, E and F&#x27;s sound is sent back to the server which syncs it and sends to G, H, I... etc.<p>So most people can sing along hearing some of the choir and the latency overall shouldn&#x27;t be too bad. Scales with log(n) * max(latency)</text></comment> |
35,184,273 | 35,184,683 | 1 | 2 | 35,181,433 | train | <story><title>Midjourney v5 can do hands</title><url>https://twitter.com/tristwolff/status/1636188634012438530</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lsy</author><text>Even the hands in this tweet&#x27;s image are not correct. There are a bunch with 4 digits, two thumbs, 6 fingers, fingers splayed in anatomically improbable directions. Not to mention there are probably two hundred and fifty hands in this photo (not the very explicit &quot;one hundred&quot; mentioned in the tweet).<p>What is with these types of AI booster tweets? Nobody bothers to even check if it shows what they&#x27;re implying it shows?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>&gt; Nobody bothers to even check if it shows what they&#x27;re implying it shows<p>Or the vast majority of the hands are fine and everyone understands that it&#x27;s a big upgrade except for some &quot;well ackshully it&#x27;s not perfect&quot; HNers.<p>I had to zoom in and go hand to hand to find some outliers.</text></comment> | <story><title>Midjourney v5 can do hands</title><url>https://twitter.com/tristwolff/status/1636188634012438530</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lsy</author><text>Even the hands in this tweet&#x27;s image are not correct. There are a bunch with 4 digits, two thumbs, 6 fingers, fingers splayed in anatomically improbable directions. Not to mention there are probably two hundred and fifty hands in this photo (not the very explicit &quot;one hundred&quot; mentioned in the tweet).<p>What is with these types of AI booster tweets? Nobody bothers to even check if it shows what they&#x27;re implying it shows?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bjorkbat</author><text>This touches on a big reason why it&#x27;s so hard for me to get on board with generative AI. The hype around it is pretty much the same as the hype I saw with NFTs, complete with a community lacking any awareness of just how uninteresting, if not downright bad, their &quot;art&quot; was. We went from bad pixel art to people making some lame picture of two people holding hands in a foggy cyberpunk setting.<p>The hands aren&#x27;t the problem. There, I said it. The hands were never a big deal, just the most visible symptom of the actual problem.<p>The problem is that AI art sucks and these people are too self-deluded to realize that because they want to believe that they have a shot at making that coveted internet money.<p>Otherwise, honestly, the tech behind AI art is actually pretty fascinating, it&#x27;s just that the community is absolutely the worst.</text></comment> |
12,264,410 | 12,264,059 | 1 | 3 | 12,262,564 | train | <story><title>Microsoft proves backdoor keys are a bad idea</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/microsoft_secure_boot_ms16_100/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradford</author><text>I think you&#x27;re missing my point (and my poor wording probably didn&#x27;t help).<p>A backdoor that requires physical access isn&#x27;t a backdoor. If an attacker has such access, you&#x27;re already screwed.<p>A backdoor that requires administrative privileges isn&#x27;t a backdoor. If an attacker has such access, you&#x27;re already screwed.<p>The so-called dev&#x2F;test &#x27;backdoor&#x27; really isn&#x27;t a backdoor. It&#x27;s a &#x27;unlock&#x27; tool that&#x27;s required for anyone who&#x27;s going to engineer the device. My main beef is that this article appears to be re-branding the engineering unlock as a backdoor, and confusion is obviously ensuing.<p>Again, In my original post, I asked &quot;What&#x27;s the exploit&quot;? and I understand that the existence of an exploit might not be the article&#x27;s subject, but If you really think that there&#x27;s a security problem here, I&#x27;ll ask it again: &quot;What&#x27;s the exploit?&quot;</text></item><item><author>pipio21</author><text>I s there any difference between a test&#x2F;development backdoor and a FBI backdoor?.<p>If you let backdoors in the system, of course the secret services will demand to have it.<p>In fact, backdoors that were put in place because secret services&#x27; pressure, will be suited as developer backdoors as an excuse when found by the mainstream.<p>First they install backdoors in systems, in order for MS or the US gobertment to have complete access to any computer in the world, then they worry when the Chinese and Russians find them.</text></item><item><author>bradford</author><text>Ok, I get it. The message is &quot;don&#x27;t use backdoors, because they&#x27;ll inevitably get leaked&quot;, which I agree with.<p>Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the message that&#x27;s being interpreted by the vast majority of readers. I&#x27;m delving into opinion territory now, but when the word &#x27;backdoor&#x27; is used, aren&#x27;t most people going to assume that it&#x27;s an FBI backdoor, instead of a test&#x2F;development backdoor? This seems like the kind of article that fans the fuels of conspiracy theorists, and no one seems to be doing anything to correct the record.</text></item><item><author>Knuff</author><text>The point the register makes is not that this allows unlocking devices (though that&#x27;s interesting in it&#x27;s own right), but that is done via a &quot;secret key&quot; that now got exposed. Very similar to what the government wants with key escrows and other backdoor mechanisms for decryption of communication.<p>Maybe to clarify: it highlights the mechanism (golden key) is flawed. That Microsoft uses it for boot loaders is unimportant.</text></item><item><author>bradford</author><text>(disclaimer, MS employee, non-security expert here).<p>I&#x27;ve read through the article, here, and in other places, and I&#x27;m seeing sentiment that this is a big fuck up on Microsoft&#x27;s part. I might be completely misunderstanding, but I just don&#x27;t see it.<p>In order to use the backdoor, you&#x27;ve got to flash firmware, so, you&#x27;ve got to have physical access to the device. If an attacker has physical access to your device, you&#x27;re already screwed.<p>So, I don&#x27;t doubt that the key exists (I had to use it myself when testing RT devices back in the win8 days), but what&#x27;s the exploit here? Why is it, as the title suggests, a &#x27;bad idea&#x27;? Isn&#x27;t a secure boot policy that can be bypassed with physical access more secure than none?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindslight</author><text>&gt; <i>A backdoor that requires physical access isn&#x27;t a backdoor. If an attacker has such access, you&#x27;re already screwed.</i><p>The security model of &quot;secure boot&quot; is designed to mitigate physical access, so a private way of circumventing that property is a backdoor.<p>While breaking this one aspect leaves other useful security properties intact, if those properties had been the only goal, they could have been implemented with a simpler and more user-friendly system.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft proves backdoor keys are a bad idea</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/microsoft_secure_boot_ms16_100/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bradford</author><text>I think you&#x27;re missing my point (and my poor wording probably didn&#x27;t help).<p>A backdoor that requires physical access isn&#x27;t a backdoor. If an attacker has such access, you&#x27;re already screwed.<p>A backdoor that requires administrative privileges isn&#x27;t a backdoor. If an attacker has such access, you&#x27;re already screwed.<p>The so-called dev&#x2F;test &#x27;backdoor&#x27; really isn&#x27;t a backdoor. It&#x27;s a &#x27;unlock&#x27; tool that&#x27;s required for anyone who&#x27;s going to engineer the device. My main beef is that this article appears to be re-branding the engineering unlock as a backdoor, and confusion is obviously ensuing.<p>Again, In my original post, I asked &quot;What&#x27;s the exploit&quot;? and I understand that the existence of an exploit might not be the article&#x27;s subject, but If you really think that there&#x27;s a security problem here, I&#x27;ll ask it again: &quot;What&#x27;s the exploit?&quot;</text></item><item><author>pipio21</author><text>I s there any difference between a test&#x2F;development backdoor and a FBI backdoor?.<p>If you let backdoors in the system, of course the secret services will demand to have it.<p>In fact, backdoors that were put in place because secret services&#x27; pressure, will be suited as developer backdoors as an excuse when found by the mainstream.<p>First they install backdoors in systems, in order for MS or the US gobertment to have complete access to any computer in the world, then they worry when the Chinese and Russians find them.</text></item><item><author>bradford</author><text>Ok, I get it. The message is &quot;don&#x27;t use backdoors, because they&#x27;ll inevitably get leaked&quot;, which I agree with.<p>Unfortunately, I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the message that&#x27;s being interpreted by the vast majority of readers. I&#x27;m delving into opinion territory now, but when the word &#x27;backdoor&#x27; is used, aren&#x27;t most people going to assume that it&#x27;s an FBI backdoor, instead of a test&#x2F;development backdoor? This seems like the kind of article that fans the fuels of conspiracy theorists, and no one seems to be doing anything to correct the record.</text></item><item><author>Knuff</author><text>The point the register makes is not that this allows unlocking devices (though that&#x27;s interesting in it&#x27;s own right), but that is done via a &quot;secret key&quot; that now got exposed. Very similar to what the government wants with key escrows and other backdoor mechanisms for decryption of communication.<p>Maybe to clarify: it highlights the mechanism (golden key) is flawed. That Microsoft uses it for boot loaders is unimportant.</text></item><item><author>bradford</author><text>(disclaimer, MS employee, non-security expert here).<p>I&#x27;ve read through the article, here, and in other places, and I&#x27;m seeing sentiment that this is a big fuck up on Microsoft&#x27;s part. I might be completely misunderstanding, but I just don&#x27;t see it.<p>In order to use the backdoor, you&#x27;ve got to flash firmware, so, you&#x27;ve got to have physical access to the device. If an attacker has physical access to your device, you&#x27;re already screwed.<p>So, I don&#x27;t doubt that the key exists (I had to use it myself when testing RT devices back in the win8 days), but what&#x27;s the exploit here? Why is it, as the title suggests, a &#x27;bad idea&#x27;? Isn&#x27;t a secure boot policy that can be bypassed with physical access more secure than none?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nullabillity</author><text>&gt; A backdoor that requires physical access isn&#x27;t a backdoor. If an attacker has such access, you&#x27;re already screwed.<p>&gt; A backdoor that requires administrative privileges isn&#x27;t a backdoor. If an attacker has such access, you&#x27;re already screwed.<p>Then why bother trying to lock it down in the first place?</text></comment> |
27,383,782 | 27,383,842 | 1 | 3 | 27,383,257 | train | <story><title>Cocoa Touch apps (2007)</title><url>https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1400270458608664577</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text>I just realized that more time has elapsed since the iPhone launched (about 14 years: 2007 - 2021) than had between when Jobs returned to Apple and the iPhone launched (about 11 years: 1996-2007). Yikes.<p>Also, the three month deadline helps explain why the iPhoneOS SDK was such a mess when it first launched.</text></comment> | <story><title>Cocoa Touch apps (2007)</title><url>https://twitter.com/techemails/status/1400270458608664577</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text><i>&quot;Let&#x27;s protect the user, by keeping control of [...] which entities can distribute apps (implies: signing infrastructure, policies, etc...)&quot;</i><p>Imagine an alternate universe where this foundational goal of the iOS SDK was interpreted just a little more loosely, with something closer to MacOS notarization, and an App Store that had to compete just like the Mac App Store.</text></comment> |
21,409,364 | 21,407,401 | 1 | 2 | 21,401,198 | train | <story><title>Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die</title><url>https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-database-software-that-wont-die-5b09e389c166</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>Being able to automate forms can absolutely revolutionize some businesses. Many business owners have no idea the extent to which automation is feasible here. I have seen fully manual paper process (printers&#x2F;scanners&#x2F;pen &amp; ink&#x2F;shredders&#x2F;etc.) go into 100% digital realm and the impact it had on the business. It really is incredible the difference it makes. The most interesting factor was the fact that now that the inputs are captured in a computer, we can run business rules against those inputs computationally. I.e., prevent generation of forms you would have to otherwise manually revise and resubmit after the fact. Then someone figured out you could start plugging in other business systems to your rules engine and tracking state...<p>I think it is a fun and compelling challenge to see just how much of the business you can put &quot;on rails&quot; with computers and various integrations. I have some background in semiconductor manufacturing, and the degree of automation I witnessed there got to me in a really deep way. Experiencing a massive factory that can literally run for hours-to-days without a single human inside is something else. I feel a lot of businesses can strive towards similar goals. Being able to fully-automate manufacturing of silicon chips is an incredibly opulent affair, but if you can simply automate a paper-bound business process that is on a hot-path (I.e. used many times a day), it could potentially save a struggling business.</text></item><item><author>jotakami</author><text>A number of years ago I was in the Navy and worked in an electronics shop on an aircraft carrier. We were responsible for calibrating and repairing all the test and measurement equipment for the entire ship as well as the squadrons that we carried with us. Easily over 10k individual pieces of equipment, each of which had to be calibrated on a specific schedule. Most of this data was managed centrally, and we sent&#x2F;received DB updates a couple times a week. However, just managing our workload and operations efficiently required other data which was not part of this database. I had no choice but to build my own solution, and the only real option was MS Access given the barren IT resources available on a deployed aircraft carrier.<p>But man, was it a fucking lifesaver. Just for one example, we often had to send equipment out to different labs since we didn’t have the capability to test them, and shipping stuff required a standard military shipping document with various mundane pieces of information about the stuff being sent. Creating these documents was a tedious process of looking up the data manually and then typing it into a Word file. I just recreated the document as an Access form, with fields that would populate from a query. Creating the shipping documents went from 30-45 mins to essentially the click of a single button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>As a counterexample it&#x27;s easy to get this wrong as well. In my EMT career we switched from doing run reports on paper to doing it on the computer. It was a nightmare. No attention to good UI principles had been paid. In the section on &quot;What drugs did you administer?&quot; we had to choose from a scrolling menu of perhaps 100 items for <i>each</i> drug we used (including oxygen which we used on everybody). Simply typing in their names would have been easy, but no. Every data element was like that. A report that took me 20 minutes on paper took 45 minutes on the web version. Classic enterprise software.<p>Edit: Above was an attempt at digitization while this thread is about form automation. Understood. My point is that there was a lot of automation that <i>could</i> have been employed but wasn&#x27;t. With that and good UI principles, the org could have made us more efficient. They chose not to because what they really wanted was a searchable database of patients treated so they could get more funding. EMT productivity was never a consideration.</text></comment> | <story><title>Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die</title><url>https://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-database-software-that-wont-die-5b09e389c166</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bob1029</author><text>Being able to automate forms can absolutely revolutionize some businesses. Many business owners have no idea the extent to which automation is feasible here. I have seen fully manual paper process (printers&#x2F;scanners&#x2F;pen &amp; ink&#x2F;shredders&#x2F;etc.) go into 100% digital realm and the impact it had on the business. It really is incredible the difference it makes. The most interesting factor was the fact that now that the inputs are captured in a computer, we can run business rules against those inputs computationally. I.e., prevent generation of forms you would have to otherwise manually revise and resubmit after the fact. Then someone figured out you could start plugging in other business systems to your rules engine and tracking state...<p>I think it is a fun and compelling challenge to see just how much of the business you can put &quot;on rails&quot; with computers and various integrations. I have some background in semiconductor manufacturing, and the degree of automation I witnessed there got to me in a really deep way. Experiencing a massive factory that can literally run for hours-to-days without a single human inside is something else. I feel a lot of businesses can strive towards similar goals. Being able to fully-automate manufacturing of silicon chips is an incredibly opulent affair, but if you can simply automate a paper-bound business process that is on a hot-path (I.e. used many times a day), it could potentially save a struggling business.</text></item><item><author>jotakami</author><text>A number of years ago I was in the Navy and worked in an electronics shop on an aircraft carrier. We were responsible for calibrating and repairing all the test and measurement equipment for the entire ship as well as the squadrons that we carried with us. Easily over 10k individual pieces of equipment, each of which had to be calibrated on a specific schedule. Most of this data was managed centrally, and we sent&#x2F;received DB updates a couple times a week. However, just managing our workload and operations efficiently required other data which was not part of this database. I had no choice but to build my own solution, and the only real option was MS Access given the barren IT resources available on a deployed aircraft carrier.<p>But man, was it a fucking lifesaver. Just for one example, we often had to send equipment out to different labs since we didn’t have the capability to test them, and shipping stuff required a standard military shipping document with various mundane pieces of information about the stuff being sent. Creating these documents was a tedious process of looking up the data manually and then typing it into a Word file. I just recreated the document as an Access form, with fields that would populate from a query. Creating the shipping documents went from 30-45 mins to essentially the click of a single button.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>motogpjimbo</author><text>&gt; Being able to automate forms can absolutely revolutionize some businesses<p>I once worked for an insurance brokerage whose in-house CRM had started years before as an effort to automate paper-based forms. The company&#x27;s business model was based on having their sales advisers fill out insurance policy application forms on their customers&#x27; behalf and originally this had been done using pen-and paper, which was obviously time-consuming and laborious.<p>At some point, someone in the IT department had had the idea of scanning the application forms to image files and writing a simple PHP application to insert those images onto web pages with HTML &lt;input&gt; tags superimposed over the form fields, thus allowing advisers to fill in the forms using keyboard entry.<p>They quickly realised that once forms are filled in digitally, (a) you can store the form data into the database and retrieve it later for further editing, (b) some of the data can be filled in automatically from the customer&#x27;s records and (c) when generating quotes across multiple insurance providers, the common parts of each insurer&#x27;s form can be filled in from data previously entered elsewhere.<p>While the idea of superimposing HTML input fields over a scanned paper form isn&#x27;t one I&#x27;ve encountered before or since, that company was turning over $3M per month by the time I joined, so there is clearly mileage in the idea.<p>Incidentally, it turns out that basing your entry forms around scanned paper forms completely kills dead any of the interminable bikeshedding that takes place around UX design with complicated, multi-section forms.</text></comment> |
1,472,340 | 1,472,283 | 1 | 2 | 1,472,245 | train | <story><title>How to get hired</title><url>http://sivers.org/gethired</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>euroclydon</author><text>What is so good about this? It's straight out of the getting hired 101 stuff that most folks heard in college.<p>What about spending your time becoming someone worth hiring? Then moving to an area where they are hiring folks who do what you do? I could see the advice in the article working for a non-technical person, like a sales guy, but who is that passionate about working? "My dream is to come into your office five days a week and sit at one of your desks and <i>work</i>!"<p>This is just more propaganda from hiring managers with a financial stake in the hire. How are you going to negotiate salary after begging for a job for three months?<p>My advice: do what you love doing, whether in your current company, or in your copious unemployed time, then present yourself as someone who is very good at X; don't beg.</text></comment> | <story><title>How to get hired</title><url>http://sivers.org/gethired</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frossie</author><text>Good grief. I guarantee you that if anybody contacted me every week asking if I have an unadvertised job for them, I'd file them in the "stalker" folder.</text></comment> |
24,363,153 | 24,362,437 | 1 | 2 | 24,361,599 | train | <story><title>iPhone audio detectable with AM radio</title><url>https://twitter.com/doctorcube/status/1300953606221422594</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>commonjcb</author><text>It&#x27;s probably by design, iPhones support magnetic-induction hearing aids, see here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT202186" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT202186</a><p>The are 2 standards, the old &quot;telecoil&quot; (direct) and the new FM loop, both operating at low frequencies...<p>Both work at very short ranges (inverse cube of the distance)</text></comment> | <story><title>iPhone audio detectable with AM radio</title><url>https://twitter.com/doctorcube/status/1300953606221422594</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>I&#x27;ve found that the iPhone display is quite easily detectable between 400nm and 700nm wavelengths.</text></comment> |
27,795,784 | 27,795,957 | 1 | 2 | 27,795,627 | train | <story><title>Efficiency eludes the construction industry (2017)</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2017/08/17/efficiency-eludes-the-construction-industry</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>foolinaround</author><text><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;a7cP8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;a7cP8</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Efficiency eludes the construction industry (2017)</title><url>https://www.economist.com/business/2017/08/17/efficiency-eludes-the-construction-industry</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Closi</author><text>The article makes a few assumptions I disagree with - one of which is that the projects they list being over-time and over-budget are because of <i>builder productivity</i> rather than the primary contractors over-promising to win a large contract.<p>In addition, value added per hour can be a sign of productivity loss, but is also impacted by shrinking margins (which they note <i>is</i> the case - but shrinking margins has nothing to do with productivity and everything to do with competition).<p>Also the article says &quot;Many building professionals use hand-drawn plans riddled with errors&quot; - Hand-drawn plans? This isn&#x27;t my experience in the UK (I design warehouses and have worked with lots of primary contractors). CAD here is pervasive, and anyone with a hand drawn plan would be laughed out of the room (unless you were literally a builder doing a quick sketch - in which case CAD isn&#x27;t a replacement).<p>And the article then recommends... self driving bulldozers as one part of the solution? This is so far away from being safe on a worksite that it&#x27;s nowhere near an immediate concern.</text></comment> |
41,453,832 | 41,453,566 | 1 | 3 | 41,451,698 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Laminar – Open-Source DataDog + PostHog for LLM Apps, Built in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/lmnr-ai/lmnr</url><text>Hey HN, we’re Robert, Din and Temirlan from Laminar (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lmnr.ai">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lmnr.ai</a>), an open-source observability and analytics platform for complex LLM apps. It’s designed to be fast, reliable, and scalable. The stack is RabbitMQ for message queues, Postgres for storage, Clickhouse for analytics, Qdrant for semantic search - all powered by Rust.<p>How is Laminar different from the swarm of other “LLM observability” platforms?<p>On the observability part, we’re focused on handling full execution traces, not just LLM calls. We built a Rust ingestor for OpenTelemetry (Otel) spans with GenAI semantic conventions. As LLM apps get more complex (think Agents with hundreds of LLM and function calls, or complex RAG pipelines), full tracing is critical. With Otel spans, we can: 1. Cover the entire execution trace. 2. Keep the platform future-proof 3. Leverage an amazing OpenLLMetry (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;traceloop&#x2F;openllmetry">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;traceloop&#x2F;openllmetry</a>), open-source package for span production.<p>The key difference is that we tie text analytics directly to execution traces. Rich text data makes LLM traces unique, so we let you track “semantic metrics” (like what your AI agent is actually saying) and connect those metrics to where they happen in the trace. If you want to know if your AI drive-through agent made an upsell, you can design an LLM extraction pipeline in our builder (more on it later), host it on Laminar, and handle everything from event requests to output logging. Processing requests simply come as events in the Otel span.<p>We think it’s a win to separate core app logic from LLM event processing. Most devs don’t want to manage background queues for LLM analytics processing but still want insights into how their Agents or RAGs are working.<p>Our Pipeline Builder uses graph UI where nodes are LLM and util functions, and edges showing data flow. We built a custom task execution engine with support of parallel branch executions, cycles and branches (it’s overkill for simple pipelines, but it’s extremely cool and we’ve spent a lot of time designing a robust engine). You can also call pipelines directly as API endpoints. We found them to be extremely useful for iterating on and separating LLM logic. Laminar also traces pipeline directly, which removes the overhead of sending large outputs over the network.<p>One thing missing from all LLM observability platforms right now is an adequate search over traces. We’re attacking this problem by indexing each span in a vector DB and performing hybrid search at query time. This feature is still in beta, but we think it’s gonna be crucial part of our platform going forward.<p>We also support evaluations. We loved the “run everything locally, send results to a server” approach from Braintrust and Weights &amp; Biases, so we did that too: a simple SDK and nice dashboards to track everything. Evals are still early, but we’re pushing hard on them.<p>Our goal is to make Laminar the Supabase for LLMOps - the go-to open-source comprehensive platform for all things LLMs &#x2F; GenAI. In it’s current shape, Laminar is just few weeks old and developing rapidly, we’d love any feedback or for you to give Laminar a try in your LLM projects!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>findingMeaning</author><text>Everything is LLMs these days. LLMs this, LLMs that. Am I really missing out something from these muted models? Back when it was released, they were so much capable but now everything is muted to the point they are mostly autocomplete on steroids.<p>How can adding analytics to a system that is designed to act like humans produce any good? What is the goal here? Could you clarify why would some need to analyze LLMs out of all the things?<p>&gt; Rich text data makes LLM traces unique, so we let you track “semantic metrics” (like what your AI agent is actually saying) and connect those metrics to where they happen in the trace<p>But why does it matter? Because at the current state these are muted LLMs overseen by the big company. We have very little to control the behavior and whatever we give it, it will mostly be &#x27;politically&#x27; correct.<p>&gt; One thing missing from all LLM observability platforms right now is an adequate search over traces.<p>Again, why do we need to evaluate LLMs? Unless you are working in a security, I see no purpose because these models aren&#x27;t as capable as they used to be. Everything is muted.<p>For context: I don&#x27;t even need to prompt engineer these days because it just gives similar result by using the default prompt. My prompts these are literally three words because it gets more of the job done that way than giving elaborate prompt with precise example and context.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Laminar – Open-Source DataDog + PostHog for LLM Apps, Built in Rust</title><url>https://github.com/lmnr-ai/lmnr</url><text>Hey HN, we’re Robert, Din and Temirlan from Laminar (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lmnr.ai">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lmnr.ai</a>), an open-source observability and analytics platform for complex LLM apps. It’s designed to be fast, reliable, and scalable. The stack is RabbitMQ for message queues, Postgres for storage, Clickhouse for analytics, Qdrant for semantic search - all powered by Rust.<p>How is Laminar different from the swarm of other “LLM observability” platforms?<p>On the observability part, we’re focused on handling full execution traces, not just LLM calls. We built a Rust ingestor for OpenTelemetry (Otel) spans with GenAI semantic conventions. As LLM apps get more complex (think Agents with hundreds of LLM and function calls, or complex RAG pipelines), full tracing is critical. With Otel spans, we can: 1. Cover the entire execution trace. 2. Keep the platform future-proof 3. Leverage an amazing OpenLLMetry (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;traceloop&#x2F;openllmetry">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;traceloop&#x2F;openllmetry</a>), open-source package for span production.<p>The key difference is that we tie text analytics directly to execution traces. Rich text data makes LLM traces unique, so we let you track “semantic metrics” (like what your AI agent is actually saying) and connect those metrics to where they happen in the trace. If you want to know if your AI drive-through agent made an upsell, you can design an LLM extraction pipeline in our builder (more on it later), host it on Laminar, and handle everything from event requests to output logging. Processing requests simply come as events in the Otel span.<p>We think it’s a win to separate core app logic from LLM event processing. Most devs don’t want to manage background queues for LLM analytics processing but still want insights into how their Agents or RAGs are working.<p>Our Pipeline Builder uses graph UI where nodes are LLM and util functions, and edges showing data flow. We built a custom task execution engine with support of parallel branch executions, cycles and branches (it’s overkill for simple pipelines, but it’s extremely cool and we’ve spent a lot of time designing a robust engine). You can also call pipelines directly as API endpoints. We found them to be extremely useful for iterating on and separating LLM logic. Laminar also traces pipeline directly, which removes the overhead of sending large outputs over the network.<p>One thing missing from all LLM observability platforms right now is an adequate search over traces. We’re attacking this problem by indexing each span in a vector DB and performing hybrid search at query time. This feature is still in beta, but we think it’s gonna be crucial part of our platform going forward.<p>We also support evaluations. We loved the “run everything locally, send results to a server” approach from Braintrust and Weights &amp; Biases, so we did that too: a simple SDK and nice dashboards to track everything. Evals are still early, but we’re pushing hard on them.<p>Our goal is to make Laminar the Supabase for LLMOps - the go-to open-source comprehensive platform for all things LLMs &#x2F; GenAI. In it’s current shape, Laminar is just few weeks old and developing rapidly, we’d love any feedback or for you to give Laminar a try in your LLM projects!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gitroom</author><text>How will you distinguish Laminar as &quot;the Supabase for LLMOps&quot; from the many LLM observability platforms already claiming similar aims? Is the integration of text analytics into execution traces your secret sauce? Or, could this perceived advantage just add complexity for developers who like their systems simple and their setups minimal?</text></comment> |
27,878,637 | 27,878,211 | 1 | 3 | 27,877,709 | train | <story><title>“Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/07/420946/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-man-paralysis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AussieWog93</author><text>Before we get ahead of ourselves:<p>&gt;The participant, who asked to be referred to as BRAVO1, worked with the researchers to create a 50-word vocabulary that Chang’s team could recognize from brain activity using advanced computer algorithms.<p>Fifty words, that&#x27;s it. For comparison, a nurse a laminated piece of A4 paper and a patient who can blink get about 15 characters per minute from the English alphabet.<p>Great PR, but not a substantial improvement over the BCIs from the past 15 years.</text></comment> | <story><title>“Neuroprosthesis” restores words to man with paralysis</title><url>https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/07/420946/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-man-paralysis</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wombatmobile</author><text>This is significant computationally in placing human thought unambiguously into the digital realm because it shows the data protocol between thought and output is machine learnable.<p>The protocol for sensory input has likewise been prosthesised by Paul Nach-y-Rita’s tongue grid array for vision.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;scientific-contributions&#x2F;Paul-Bach-y-Rita-75345859" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;scientific-contributions&#x2F;Paul-B...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paul_Bach-y-Rita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paul_Bach-y-Rita</a></text></comment> |
21,209,567 | 21,208,872 | 1 | 3 | 21,202,905 | train | <story><title>Ken Thompson's Unix Password</title><url>https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minikites</author><text>&gt;I never once used it for evil: never read anyone&#x27;s email, never viewed anyone&#x27;s private files, never poked around the academic file shares for test solutions, never tried to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers from the finance office&#x27;s file share.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this justification. The system owners can&#x27;t know that to be true and have to proceed as if the systems are compromised. Would you still feel safe if a burglar broke into your house and left a note saying they didn&#x27;t take anything?</text></item><item><author>lordlic</author><text>I was expelled from university for pulling off <i>the exact same exploit</i> with the &quot;workstation only&quot; feature in Novell. In my case, they put a computer in every dorm room, and every single one of them had a domain-wide administrator account cached in its SAM file. It was inevitable that a student would find it. It&#x27;s been almost 15 years now but I believe the password was rac3c4r or something trivial like that. I ran Ophcrack overnight and in the morning I had admin access to every machine on campus.<p>I also had the bright idea to try this on library computers and email kiosks around campus used by thousands of students. Rather than booting into Ophcrack I&#x27;d just log in with the admin account and run pwdump from a USB stick to collect password hashes. I figured out how to enumerate Windows machines over the network using NetBIOS and ran the pwdump utility remotely using psexec, so that I could hit every computer in the library at once, or every computer in a computer lab, etc.<p>I ended up cracking credentials for most students and faculty on the entire campus. I was really young at the time and thought this was some real cool James Bond shit. I never once used it for evil: never read anyone&#x27;s email, never viewed anyone&#x27;s private files, never poked around the academic file shares for test solutions, never tried to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers from the finance office&#x27;s file share. It was purely a hack for the thrill of breaking down barriers and outsmarting the security. But MONTHS later after I had long since grown tired of tinkering with this stuff, a couple of uniformed police officers pulled me out of Calculus class and took me downtown. They tossed my dorm room and confiscated my computer and my phone and every piece of digital storage I owned. The school threw the book at me, I guess because they were so embarrassed by their incompetence on display from being beaten by a 16 year old.<p>(Posting on my alt account for obvious reasons.)</text></item><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>I remember cracking the password from a Windows system in high school. There was a centralized login mechanism using Novell but everything was cached locally. So you could boot a Linux CD and copy the password file to a memory stick, and crack at home. I think I used lophtcrack? The head admin account for the entire school district (basically root) had the password “north”. It took like a fraction of a second to crack. It was so simple that for weeks I didn’t even believe it to be true, and didn’t realize the name of the account was an admin.<p>I was expelled a few months later for all the fun I had after discovering this. Good times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lordlic</author><text>It&#x27;s not a justification. What I did was wrong. I&#x27;m just telling you what I did and why I did it. I wasn&#x27;t interested in hurting anyone or in gaining any advantage for myself, only in breaking the system.<p>Also, I didn&#x27;t actually go in anyone&#x27;s house. If passwords are really so inherently private even apart from their access implications, maybe we shouldn&#x27;t be sharing Ken Thompson&#x27;s old password.</text></comment> | <story><title>Ken Thompson's Unix Password</title><url>https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2019/10/ken-thompson-s-unix-password.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minikites</author><text>&gt;I never once used it for evil: never read anyone&#x27;s email, never viewed anyone&#x27;s private files, never poked around the academic file shares for test solutions, never tried to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers from the finance office&#x27;s file share.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this justification. The system owners can&#x27;t know that to be true and have to proceed as if the systems are compromised. Would you still feel safe if a burglar broke into your house and left a note saying they didn&#x27;t take anything?</text></item><item><author>lordlic</author><text>I was expelled from university for pulling off <i>the exact same exploit</i> with the &quot;workstation only&quot; feature in Novell. In my case, they put a computer in every dorm room, and every single one of them had a domain-wide administrator account cached in its SAM file. It was inevitable that a student would find it. It&#x27;s been almost 15 years now but I believe the password was rac3c4r or something trivial like that. I ran Ophcrack overnight and in the morning I had admin access to every machine on campus.<p>I also had the bright idea to try this on library computers and email kiosks around campus used by thousands of students. Rather than booting into Ophcrack I&#x27;d just log in with the admin account and run pwdump from a USB stick to collect password hashes. I figured out how to enumerate Windows machines over the network using NetBIOS and ran the pwdump utility remotely using psexec, so that I could hit every computer in the library at once, or every computer in a computer lab, etc.<p>I ended up cracking credentials for most students and faculty on the entire campus. I was really young at the time and thought this was some real cool James Bond shit. I never once used it for evil: never read anyone&#x27;s email, never viewed anyone&#x27;s private files, never poked around the academic file shares for test solutions, never tried to steal credit card numbers or social security numbers from the finance office&#x27;s file share. It was purely a hack for the thrill of breaking down barriers and outsmarting the security. But MONTHS later after I had long since grown tired of tinkering with this stuff, a couple of uniformed police officers pulled me out of Calculus class and took me downtown. They tossed my dorm room and confiscated my computer and my phone and every piece of digital storage I owned. The school threw the book at me, I guess because they were so embarrassed by their incompetence on display from being beaten by a 16 year old.<p>(Posting on my alt account for obvious reasons.)</text></item><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>I remember cracking the password from a Windows system in high school. There was a centralized login mechanism using Novell but everything was cached locally. So you could boot a Linux CD and copy the password file to a memory stick, and crack at home. I think I used lophtcrack? The head admin account for the entire school district (basically root) had the password “north”. It took like a fraction of a second to crack. It was so simple that for weeks I didn’t even believe it to be true, and didn’t realize the name of the account was an admin.<p>I was expelled a few months later for all the fun I had after discovering this. Good times.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JauntyHatAngle</author><text>Isn&#x27;t this more like duplicating everyones house key? He never actually went into the houses.</text></comment> |
4,141,292 | 4,141,332 | 1 | 2 | 4,141,240 | train | <story><title>EFF taking on software patent reform</title><url>http://defendinnovation.org</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iwwr</author><text>EFF's position is too moderate. 5 year monopoly on software ideas? If not even the EFF is willing to take an unequivocal stance against software patents, the trolls and the system will keep their legitimacy.<p>We should not be afraid to take (seemingly) radical positions. Fear of offending the status quo is what keeps it in place. Not too long ago the idea of patenting a theorem or a gene was dubious; the moderates may only slow the tide, not push it back.</text></comment> | <story><title>EFF taking on software patent reform</title><url>http://defendinnovation.org</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elisee</author><text>"If the patent is invalid or there's no infringement, the trolls should have to pay the legal fees."<p>By offering to reduce the time to five years, they are implicitly supporting the idea of using and defending the patent for those five years. You might legitimately think there's infringement and then the court might find otherwise. Calling anyone who goes to court with a patent a troll seems unnecessary in that case.<p>"Infringers should avoid liability if they independently arrive at the patented invention."<p>You don't pay damages, and then what happens? Do you still have to get a license or can you keep going because you invented it on your own? Also: how do you prove you independently arrived at the patented invention? Who's burden is it to prove / disprove it?</text></comment> |
24,731,995 | 24,731,702 | 1 | 2 | 24,730,169 | train | <story><title>ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/87043-protonmail-ceo-calls-apple-forced-app-purchases-mafia.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsg75</author><text>I&#x27;m actually happier to pay a small premium for IAP based subscriptions because of the cancellation options.<p>Having been subjected to asinine &quot;retention&quot; policies that make ending a subscription service an onerous and time consuming process (ex: NYT), and having seen first hand how a company purposefully makes subscription cancellations difficult, being able to open a single interface and click `Cancel` is a massive UX benefit.<p>I&#x27;m not debating if a 30% cut is reasonable, but in the drive to move everything to a subscription model, I have started avoiding services without an IAP option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheRealPomax</author><text>This is the opposite argument to what the problem is right now. It&#x27;s not that IAP is bad, or that it shouldn&#x27;t be available. It&#x27;s that there&#x27;s no alternative permitted <i>in addition to</i> Apple&#x27;s IAP model. You&#x27;re not even allowed to HINT at the fact that you might have alternative ways to pay for the things you want to pay for. Even if your name is hugeservicethateveryoneknows, you can&#x27;t tell people that you have a website where they can manage their account.<p>IAP is great, and setting rules such that if apps offer IAP, they have to at least offer the platform&#x27;s own payment service as initial and preferred choice, is perfectly reasonable. But it&#x27;s extortion if you own the entire ecosystem and promise to ban anyone who wants to offer additional, alternative means of account&#x2F;service management for a product&#x2F;service that you have no business ownership of.</text></comment> | <story><title>ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Mafia extortion'</title><url>https://www.techspot.com/news/87043-protonmail-ceo-calls-apple-forced-app-purchases-mafia.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsg75</author><text>I&#x27;m actually happier to pay a small premium for IAP based subscriptions because of the cancellation options.<p>Having been subjected to asinine &quot;retention&quot; policies that make ending a subscription service an onerous and time consuming process (ex: NYT), and having seen first hand how a company purposefully makes subscription cancellations difficult, being able to open a single interface and click `Cancel` is a massive UX benefit.<p>I&#x27;m not debating if a 30% cut is reasonable, but in the drive to move everything to a subscription model, I have started avoiding services without an IAP option.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>And honestly, I have no problem with Apple even insisting there be an Apple IAP model (like they require &quot;Sign in with Apple&quot; offered alongside alternatives). Because choosing to pay the Apple tax is perfectly fine, especially if you feel it provides you benefits.<p>The issue is Apple&#x27;s requirement that you can only use IAP, cannot offer alternative, cheaper, prices, cannot direct people to your website to sign up for things, and cannot even disclose what portion of the bill goes to Apple.<p>Your post <i>proves</i> Apple could still make money with offering it as an <i>option</i> for informed users. But Apple is being a bully and a thug by disallowing alternatives, and actively preventing app developers from telling people about them.<p>What Epic did with Fortnite should be the gold standard: Buy direct or pay through Apple. The latter providing potentially better privacy&#x2F;security and user experience at a price premium.</text></comment> |
17,286,377 | 17,286,587 | 1 | 3 | 17,286,109 | train | <story><title>Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-11/wells-fargo-bans-cryptocurrency-purchases-on-its-credit-cards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.<p>Sure, you can use your checking account, but if my credit card is going to restrict my usage and I&#x27;m going to be hassled into circumventing it, then why even have it?<p>I actually have a Well Fargo credit card, I&#x27;ll be keeping an close eye on these restrictions.</text></item><item><author>philip1209</author><text>On the surface, this looks bad. But, the underlying logic - that Wells Fargo doesn&#x27;t want to loan you money so that you can buy money - seems reasonable to me. If you have cash in a Wells Fargo checking account, you can still buy cryptocurrency with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>EpicEng</author><text>&gt;By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.<p>Except that it doesn&#x27;t because people aren&#x27;t buying $10,000+ in gift cards on the hope that they will increase in value and then defaulting on their CC payments because said gift cards crashed.<p>When trying to solve a problem you have to focus on the actual problem at hand, not philosophical musings.</text></comment> | <story><title>Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-11/wells-fargo-bans-cryptocurrency-purchases-on-its-credit-cards</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Someone1234</author><text>By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.<p>Sure, you can use your checking account, but if my credit card is going to restrict my usage and I&#x27;m going to be hassled into circumventing it, then why even have it?<p>I actually have a Well Fargo credit card, I&#x27;ll be keeping an close eye on these restrictions.</text></item><item><author>philip1209</author><text>On the surface, this looks bad. But, the underlying logic - that Wells Fargo doesn&#x27;t want to loan you money so that you can buy money - seems reasonable to me. If you have cash in a Wells Fargo checking account, you can still buy cryptocurrency with it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vkou</author><text>&gt; By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.<p>When you buy a $10,000 TV on a credit card, and can&#x27;t make your payments, you&#x27;re an idiot. There are a lot of idiots, but very few of them will do impulse purchases like that - because they understand that next month, they&#x27;ll have to pay for it.<p>When you <i>invest</i> $10,000 of money that you pulled from a credit card... People feel completely different about that. If you have confidence in your investment, why not borrow money to fund it? You&#x27;ll make that money back, and pay the debt off! If you don&#x27;t have confidence in your investment, you wouldn&#x27;t be investing anyways, with your own dollars, or borrowed ones.<p>Investing self-selects people who are (unreasonably) confident in the return rate on their investments. This is why you can&#x27;t buy stocks or bitcoin on a credit card, but you <i>can</i> buy Magic: The Gathering cards.</text></comment> |
9,224,039 | 9,223,762 | 1 | 2 | 9,222,720 | train | <story><title>We Buy Broken Gold</title><url>http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/we-buy-broken-gold</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sukilot</author><text>Note these are the same people who sell you your diamond engagement ring. Every woman who insists on a ring like this is starting your marriage on a lie. I got dragged into a store like this and paid thousands of dollars to a racist asshole who told me how much smarter we were than those Christianss who come in to buy jewelry for Christmas. I&#x27;ll probably never really forgive my wife for doing that (but she is wonderful in so many way, just a victim of that propaganda like so many others), and God help me if my daughter doesn&#x27;t know better by the time she grows up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kliment</author><text>A friend of mine does jewelry courses in the Amsterdam area and has special courses for couples to make rings for each other. It&#x27;s an order of magnitude cheaper than supporting the diamond industry, and much more personal and fun. His website is at <a href="http://sawugo.nl/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sawugo.nl&#x2F;</a> if anyone is interested.</text></comment> | <story><title>We Buy Broken Gold</title><url>http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/we-buy-broken-gold</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sukilot</author><text>Note these are the same people who sell you your diamond engagement ring. Every woman who insists on a ring like this is starting your marriage on a lie. I got dragged into a store like this and paid thousands of dollars to a racist asshole who told me how much smarter we were than those Christianss who come in to buy jewelry for Christmas. I&#x27;ll probably never really forgive my wife for doing that (but she is wonderful in so many way, just a victim of that propaganda like so many others), and God help me if my daughter doesn&#x27;t know better by the time she grows up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SomeCallMeTim</author><text>My wife recently asked me &quot;Why did we decide to get a diamond at all, when we both knew it was a scam?&quot;<p>And I didn&#x27;t really have a good answer. It just seemed like the thing to do at the time. We were both involved in picking out the rings, too; it&#x27;s not like I went out and bought them for her without her input.<p>Thankfully I didn&#x27;t spend a completely insane amount of money on the rings (not compared to what I was earning -- less than a couple weeks&#x27; wages -- which is still too much, really but not the crazy amount some people spend). But neither of us were really ready to step <i>that</i> far away from what was &quot;expected&quot; of us, I guess.</text></comment> |
40,080,345 | 40,077,576 | 1 | 2 | 40,076,848 | train | <story><title>Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/hermit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>an-unknown</author><text>It seems like this tool does not create a fully deterministic nor reproducible environment. Hermit seems to only intercept and modify syscalls, but this is not the only source of non-determinism and randomness. For example, the layout of environment variables in memory also causes non-determinism, caused by the content of the environment variables as well as their order in memory. CPU instructions like RDTSC, RDRAND, RDSEED and similar also introduce randomness. It seems like Hermit ignores some these sources of randomness, but I can&#x27;t test it, because it doesn&#x27;t build on a current Arch system with the Rust toolchain from the repo.<p>At least it seems Hermit masks RDRAND and RDSEED via CPUID, but not every program is written to support ancient architectures which didn&#x27;t support these instructions and therefore not every program tests availability via CPUID.<p>In addition, even if all of this was deterministic, CPU flags set by various instructions with &quot;undefined&quot; flags according to the CPU manual can slightly differ between different microarchitectures. A &quot;normal&quot; program should not be influenced by this, but it is still a source of non-reproducibility. This might be relevant for certain rare compiler bugs.</text></comment> | <story><title>Hermit is a hermetic and reproducible sandbox for running programs</title><url>https://github.com/facebookexperimental/hermit</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>It&#x27;s a really interesting project but it hasn&#x27;t worked for non-trivial programs for me. I tried to use it on my Raft implementation. Hermit crashed with obscure (to me) error messages.<p>Others have commented on here before, it admittedly doesn&#x27;t seem to be actively maintained.<p>&gt; Just to let you know we’re not actively working on Hermit in the team<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookexperimental&#x2F;hermit&#x2F;issues&#x2F;34#issuecomment-1949510810">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;facebookexperimental&#x2F;hermit&#x2F;issues&#x2F;34#iss...</a></text></comment> |
27,627,078 | 27,626,993 | 1 | 2 | 27,625,925 | train | <story><title>Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password unknown</title><url>https://community.wd.com/t/help-all-data-in-mybook-live-gone-and-owner-password-unknown/268111</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>I posted this in the other thread on this topic, but the CVE for this issue - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;vuln&#x2F;detail&#x2F;CVE-2018-18472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;vuln&#x2F;detail&#x2F;CVE-2018-18472</a> - has been public since 2019. No action taken by WD to remedy it, by their own admission (I found this link on their own announcement).<p>That&#x27;s seriously messed up. I&#x27;d have to very seriously second-guess buying anything that involves software of any kind from this company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksml</author><text>The WD response to the original bug report (from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wizcase.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;hack-2018&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wizcase.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;hack-2018&#x2F;</a>):<p>&gt; The vulnerability report CVE-2018-18472 affects My Book Live devices originally introduced to the market between 2010 and 2012. These products have been discontinued since 2014 and are no longer covered under our device software support lifecycle.<p>So support can be discontinued after <i>two years</i> after introducing a product??? That&#x27;s ridiculous. It&#x27;s not even like this was a one-off product and they&#x27;re no longer supporting that line of work. WD still sells MyBooks.</text></comment> | <story><title>Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password unknown</title><url>https://community.wd.com/t/help-all-data-in-mybook-live-gone-and-owner-password-unknown/268111</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ivraatiems</author><text>I posted this in the other thread on this topic, but the CVE for this issue - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;vuln&#x2F;detail&#x2F;CVE-2018-18472" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;vuln&#x2F;detail&#x2F;CVE-2018-18472</a> - has been public since 2019. No action taken by WD to remedy it, by their own admission (I found this link on their own announcement).<p>That&#x27;s seriously messed up. I&#x27;d have to very seriously second-guess buying anything that involves software of any kind from this company.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Santosh83</author><text>Dumb hard disks are still fine I&#x27;d guess. Just don&#x27;t go for any &quot;smart&quot;, connected or networked device. I have several plain backup HDDs from WD and they, IME, have been more reliable than Seagate from a hardware point of view.</text></comment> |
13,222,702 | 13,222,790 | 1 | 3 | 13,222,063 | train | <story><title>Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code</title><url>https://github.com/goessner/mdmath</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wangchow</author><text>Very awesome. However, the $ signs indicate financial stuff. It would be nice to have a different delimiter like the code blocks use back-tics. For example using back-ticks couple with single-quotes? It doesn&#x27;t work since it clash with the code block just for example more legible:<p>`&#x27; x^2 + 4<i>x + 4 &#x27;`<p>Remember: the whole idea behind markdown is it should be </i>first and foremost* legible from plain-text. One idea behind typography is it shouldn&#x27;t be noticed at all to the reader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stuffedBelly</author><text>&quot;$&quot; (&quot;$$&quot; to be exact) is actually used in TeX to indicate opening and closing of statements&#x2F;mathematical expressions. I think the author of this project is trying to conform to TeX syntax as much as possible so that TeX users like me would feel at home :).</text></comment> | <story><title>Mdmath – LaTeX Math for Markdown inside of Visual Studio Code</title><url>https://github.com/goessner/mdmath</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wangchow</author><text>Very awesome. However, the $ signs indicate financial stuff. It would be nice to have a different delimiter like the code blocks use back-tics. For example using back-ticks couple with single-quotes? It doesn&#x27;t work since it clash with the code block just for example more legible:<p>`&#x27; x^2 + 4<i>x + 4 &#x27;`<p>Remember: the whole idea behind markdown is it should be </i>first and foremost* legible from plain-text. One idea behind typography is it shouldn&#x27;t be noticed at all to the reader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rchowe</author><text>MathJax by default doesn&#x27;t use $ as a delimiter for inline equations, but instead uses \( and \) to avoid confusion with monetary quantities. Perhaps a similar thing could be done.</text></comment> |
5,843,380 | 5,843,426 | 1 | 3 | 5,842,973 | train | <story><title>Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/huwQsphBron</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andreyf</author><text>His comments are actually the most insightful points I&#x27;ve seen about the discussion regarding PRISM:<p><i>I have my own suspicions -- which I won&#x27;t go into here -- about what PRISM was actually about. I&#x27;ll just say that there are ways to intercept people&#x27;s Google, Facebook, etc., traffic in bulk without sticking any moles into the org -- or directly tapping their lines. You may find some interesting hints in the leaked PRISM slides [1], especially the second and fourth ones shown there. The subtleties of phrasing are important, I suspect, not because they were trying to be elliptical but because they reveal what was obvious to the people who were giving that presentation.</i><p><i>And like I said, I have both some reason to believe that there aren&#x27;t such devices inside Google, and that the PRISM slides are actually talking about a somewhat different kind of data collection -- one that&#x27;s done from outside the companies.</i><p>Any ideas what he could be thinking?<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-srv&#x2F;special&#x2F;politics&#x2F;prism-collection-documents&#x2F;m" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonpost.com&#x2F;wp-srv&#x2F;special&#x2F;politics&#x2F;prism-...</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals</title><url>https://plus.google.com/u/0/103389452828130864950/posts/huwQsphBron</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Two things that cannot be true at the same time: this Google+ post, and the idea that Google coughed up their TLS keys to the government.</text></comment> |
3,010,681 | 3,010,678 | 1 | 2 | 3,010,494 | train | <story><title>Pirate Party Germany gets into the parliament for the state of Berlin</title><url>http://web.piratenpartei.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Luyt</author><text>Arrrr, me hearties, I still can't get used to the term 'pirate' that is slapped upon people who copy digital music.<p>A pirate is a criminal at sea, who inititiates violence against sea travelers. Pirates steal property (like vessels) and valuables, and it's not uncommon that pirates <i>murder</i> their victims, or take them hostage for a ransom.<p>How the term 'pirate' ever could be used to denote kids swapping MP3's, is unfathomable to me. The analogy is ludicrous. But maybe it could be because pirate (the seafaring kind) communities in the 18th century had a liberal approach to freedom, which was unusual in that time, and maybe that extrapolates somehow to the liberal file swapping in our digital age. Which doesn't, by the way, harm anyone, nor takes away things from people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheels</author><text>Piracy has been a term for unauthorized copying of works for over 400 years [1][2]. It's not an analogy; it's just one of the meanings of the word.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#.22Piracy.22" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#.22Pirac...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/yeare.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/yeare.html</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Pirate Party Germany gets into the parliament for the state of Berlin</title><url>http://web.piratenpartei.de/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Luyt</author><text>Arrrr, me hearties, I still can't get used to the term 'pirate' that is slapped upon people who copy digital music.<p>A pirate is a criminal at sea, who inititiates violence against sea travelers. Pirates steal property (like vessels) and valuables, and it's not uncommon that pirates <i>murder</i> their victims, or take them hostage for a ransom.<p>How the term 'pirate' ever could be used to denote kids swapping MP3's, is unfathomable to me. The analogy is ludicrous. But maybe it could be because pirate (the seafaring kind) communities in the 18th century had a liberal approach to freedom, which was unusual in that time, and maybe that extrapolates somehow to the liberal file swapping in our digital age. Which doesn't, by the way, harm anyone, nor takes away things from people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morsch</author><text>Note that this usage of pirate goes back several centuries, e.g. see these entries from the OED:<p>1668 <i>J. Hancock Brooks' String of Pearls (Notice at end)</i>, Some dishonest Booksellers, called Land-Pirats, who make it their practise to steal Impressions of other mens Copies.<p>1703 <i>D. Defoe True-born Englishman in True Collect. I. Explan. Pref. sig. B3v</i>, Its being Printed again and again, by Pyrates.<p>The term is metaphorical in origin, and in that regard I don't think it's particularly outrageous. If you say that he's "a lion of a man" you're not arguing that the person in question has got large teeth, a mane, or hunts antelope.</text></comment> |
21,758,778 | 21,758,417 | 1 | 3 | 21,757,097 | train | <story><title>China's ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal</title><url>https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/banned-recording-reveals-china-ambassador-threatened-faroese-leader</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>augstein</author><text>So can we all finally agree, that Huawei stating it has no ties to the Chinese government, was a lie after all?<p>This false claim by Huawei, is one of the most important reasons why Huawei isn‘t already banned here in Germany.[1]<p>And while we are at it, we should also ban US companies from providing critical infrastructure like this in Germany (and Europe). After Snowden, its clear that hardware from US vendors like Cisco should be seen as potentially compromised.[2]<p>1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.de&#x2F;trumps-huawei-verbot-ist-reine-heuchelei-2019-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.de&#x2F;trumps-huawei-verbot-ist-rein...</a>
2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2608141&#x2F;snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2608141&#x2F;snowden--the-nsa-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stuqqq</author><text>I attended a talk by a successful Chinese entrepreneur who sold his company after only three years. We asked him why he sold it so early. He said there is no pure businesses (especially when you become big) in China . There are only “political businesses”. Everyone has to work with the government and plays dirty in order to survive. So he wanted out.<p>To be honest, as a Chinese, I don’t believe the claim that Huawei has no government ties. But I don’t think it’s what Huawei wants.</text></comment> | <story><title>China's ambassador threatened Faroese prime minister to sign Huawei 5G deal</title><url>https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/banned-recording-reveals-china-ambassador-threatened-faroese-leader</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>augstein</author><text>So can we all finally agree, that Huawei stating it has no ties to the Chinese government, was a lie after all?<p>This false claim by Huawei, is one of the most important reasons why Huawei isn‘t already banned here in Germany.[1]<p>And while we are at it, we should also ban US companies from providing critical infrastructure like this in Germany (and Europe). After Snowden, its clear that hardware from US vendors like Cisco should be seen as potentially compromised.[2]<p>1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.de&#x2F;trumps-huawei-verbot-ist-reine-heuchelei-2019-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.de&#x2F;trumps-huawei-verbot-ist-rein...</a>
2) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2608141&#x2F;snowden--the-nsa-planted-backdoors-in-cisco-products.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;2608141&#x2F;snowden--the-nsa-p...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>Nothing in China is unrelated to the governement.<p>The social credit system for businesses is there just for this.<p>Just observe how Apple has changed since that launched.</text></comment> |
14,263,231 | 14,263,134 | 1 | 2 | 14,261,423 | train | <story><title>Americans' Access to Strong Encryption Is at Risk, an Open Letter to Congress</title><url>https://rietta.com/blog/2017/05/03/americans-access-to-strong-encryption-is-at-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanderjd</author><text>Disclaimer: I agree with you but I always struggle to convince people that this line of reasoning makes sense.<p>The government can already enter anybody&#x27;s home upon receiving a warrant to do so. If you don&#x27;t let them in, they can bust through a door or tear down a wall. We trust the government not to do this without court oversight. We trust courts to provide good and honest oversight. It is far from a perfect system, but we set up lots of human-level checks and balances to keep power distributed enough that this basically works.<p>The problem with strong encryption is that this is impossible. Even if there is a very good reason signed off by an honest court, it is impossible to get in. This breaks that human-level checks-and-balances system. What replaces it?</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>Just think of the outrage if the government required master keys to everyone&#x27;s homes?
I know there is a difference, but it&#x27;s not a huge leap to compare the two. We don&#x27;t want the government to have such easy access to our homes because we can&#x27;t trust every government employee not to abuse it. I think the same goes here. No mater what safe guards you put in place it&#x27;s a scary thought that you simply can&#x27;t keep the government out of your affair&#x27;s. Sure now you think you have nothing to hide. But what if your political views become criminal, what if your religious views become hate speech? We&#x27;re not there yet but times can change quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ploxiln</author><text>Another difference from the metaphor is that busting down doors is visible and obvious, and doesn&#x27;t scale.<p>Imagine if the government busted down a quarter of all doors in the country - that&#x27;s a lot of industrial-scale police work, and it&#x27;s very visible to all citizens. On the other hand, the government can tap half of all phones in the country, or intercept half of all emails sent by US residents, and we&#x27;re not even legally allowed to know it happened, so we can&#x27;t even argue against it in a public court of law.<p>Atomic-grade offense requires atomic-grade defense. We will have un-breakable encryption, or we will be crushed by secret intelligence agencies with immense power and no public accountability. It&#x27;s a whole new game.<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m not too worried, strong encryption is open source and widely available already (even if not used in nearly all the circumstances it should be yet). This cat isn&#x27;t going back in the bag.</text></comment> | <story><title>Americans' Access to Strong Encryption Is at Risk, an Open Letter to Congress</title><url>https://rietta.com/blog/2017/05/03/americans-access-to-strong-encryption-is-at-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanderjd</author><text>Disclaimer: I agree with you but I always struggle to convince people that this line of reasoning makes sense.<p>The government can already enter anybody&#x27;s home upon receiving a warrant to do so. If you don&#x27;t let them in, they can bust through a door or tear down a wall. We trust the government not to do this without court oversight. We trust courts to provide good and honest oversight. It is far from a perfect system, but we set up lots of human-level checks and balances to keep power distributed enough that this basically works.<p>The problem with strong encryption is that this is impossible. Even if there is a very good reason signed off by an honest court, it is impossible to get in. This breaks that human-level checks-and-balances system. What replaces it?</text></item><item><author>xupybd</author><text>Just think of the outrage if the government required master keys to everyone&#x27;s homes?
I know there is a difference, but it&#x27;s not a huge leap to compare the two. We don&#x27;t want the government to have such easy access to our homes because we can&#x27;t trust every government employee not to abuse it. I think the same goes here. No mater what safe guards you put in place it&#x27;s a scary thought that you simply can&#x27;t keep the government out of your affair&#x27;s. Sure now you think you have nothing to hide. But what if your political views become criminal, what if your religious views become hate speech? We&#x27;re not there yet but times can change quickly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcbits</author><text>My preferred analogy is paper shredders. Imagine if any criminal could just walk into a store and buy a paper shredder so effective that it&#x27;s impossible for the FBI to piece the data back together, with or without a warrant, no matter how many resources they throw at it.<p>Clearly the solution is to require every paper shredder to be equipped with a camera to scan documents and upload them to cloud.gov before shredding. Of course, nobody would be authorized to look at the data without a warrant, and we should trust that nobody working for the government would ever break this law.</text></comment> |
19,367,537 | 19,367,163 | 1 | 2 | 19,367,065 | train | <story><title>Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors</title><url>https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2019/cloudflare-raises-usd150m-and-adds-to-board-of-directors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sascha_sl</author><text>I&#x27;d rather see some serious competition for Cloudflare to be honest. They&#x27;re slowly becoming the best and only choice. Competitors exist (like Incapsula) but they&#x27;re usually just not that good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmytton</author><text>I&#x27;m VP, Product Engineering at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stackpath.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stackpath.com</a> and we feel like our products compete nicely alongside Cloudflare in DNS, WAF, CDN and Serverless (our EdgeEngine product uses v8 just like Cloudflare workers).<p>Our Edge Containers product launch was also on HN last month: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19089614" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19089614</a></text></comment> | <story><title>Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors</title><url>https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2019/cloudflare-raises-usd150m-and-adds-to-board-of-directors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sascha_sl</author><text>I&#x27;d rather see some serious competition for Cloudflare to be honest. They&#x27;re slowly becoming the best and only choice. Competitors exist (like Incapsula) but they&#x27;re usually just not that good.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flurdy</author><text>Fastly? Akamai?<p>Pretty good competition.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastly.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastly.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akamai.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.akamai.com</a></text></comment> |
1,593,422 | 1,593,345 | 1 | 2 | 1,593,199 | train | <story><title>Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey</title><url>http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/why-google-became-a-carrier-humping-net-neutrality-surrender-monkey/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>etherael</author><text>Google gave the market the option to go for a completely open environment with the Nexus One, and in the words of this wired article what did it get in return?<p>"Not cool enough."<p>The phone is brilliant, but the market went elsewhere with it's carrier locked subsidised junk models. That's just a market reality, like it or not. Google tried to "do the right thing" and the market went somewhere else. Making all these points about what they could've done instead which basically amounted to "become a direct competitor with Apple on the retail level" are not realistic considering everything we know about Google and it's views and practices on direct end user support.<p>If the market wants to shoot itself in the foot by choosing shitty products, that's their cross to bear. It's not reasonable to place the blame on one of the few companies that provided an out and had it thrown squarely back in their face. The only problem I fear is that due to the failure of the Nexus One they won't invest in a Nexus Two and the Android ecosystem will become a swirling morass of telco crippled product, thus ending differentiation between it and the competing iOS ecosystem.<p>The article does however make an interesting point, HP might do better with webOS, they are accustomed to end user hand holding and playing the retail / marketing game. If they can push a truly open ecosystem and manage to be successful in units moved as well, they may well end up being what Android might have been if the market had let it go in the direction Google had clearly wanted it to go from inception.</text></comment> | <story><title>Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey</title><url>http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/why-google-became-a-carrier-humping-net-neutrality-surrender-monkey/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lkjhgfhjk</author><text>We didn't need no net neutrality in Canada.<p>We have two network providers and you have a free choice to get your phone, cable and wireless from whichever one of them operates in your town.<p>Sure we don't get 3G on our kindles and we got the iPhone a year after uzbekistan and we pay twice as much as you do for the data - but that's our choice as Canadian consumers.</text></comment> |
23,619,216 | 23,618,670 | 1 | 2 | 23,614,128 | train | <story><title>My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/my-family-saw-a-police-car-hit-a-kid-on-halloween-then-i-learned-how-nypd-impunity-works</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randompwd</author><text>Yes well done.<p>How do you think police determine if they&#x27;re in limit or not. They test them. She could have been on her way in 5 minutes but chose to act like an idiot.</text></item><item><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>&gt;Bear in mind she was stopped because the car she was in had (illegally) tinted front windows.<p>From the article linked in the parent&#x27;s post:<p><i>&quot;Court documents later established they were within the legal limit.&quot;</i><p>There was no need for the police to use violent force against this terrified woman, but they did it anyway.</text></item><item><author>randompwd</author><text>Please stop spreading nonsense.<p>For one, this person is not prominent by any definition of the word prominent.<p>Also, you can see the full bodycam footage and UK peoples take on this stop at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;policeuk&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hbbhkb&#x2F;a_calm_collected_officer_doing_this_job_perfectly&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;policeuk&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hbbhkb&#x2F;a_calm_col...</a><p>Bear in mind she was stopped because the car she was in had (potentially illegally) tinted front windows.<p>All in all, she seems like someone who is ingesting too much American culture, most noticable in her saying: &quot;You are killing black people&quot; - what??</text></item><item><author>vidarh</author><text>We recently had a case in the UK where a prominent (as in winning the British Empire Medal for her services to nursing prominent) nurse was stopped by police, and was too scared to get out of the car.<p>When she told the police this, their response was &quot;I don’t believe you because you’re talking to police officers.&quot;<p>She ended up being arrested for obstruction because they kept failing to understand that her reluctance to comply was because <i>they</i> terrified her, and they can be heard in the bodycam footage [1] going &quot;This is nonsense, there&#x27;s something in this vehicle&quot; after listening to her telling her dad she&#x27;s afraid the police officer is going to harm her.<p>When the police officer starts dragging her out, she is screaming over the phone for her dad to <i>call the police</i>.<p>The officer is thankfully relatively calm, and it ended without physical harm to her, but this is a quite stark demonstration of the kind of fear the police has created, and how they then perpetuate that by not teaching their officers to understand the existence of that fear and interpret non-compliance resulting from that fear as indication of criminal activity.<p>She&#x27;s was cleared, and is pursuing a claim against the police, but of course a claim will not address the fundamental ignorance among a lot of police officers about the fear they are inducing.<p>I can only imagine how much worse that fear must be in the US - at least in the UK police is rarely carrying firearms - and how awful that fear must be for parents.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;jun&#x2F;18&#x2F;nurse-claims-met-police-wrongfully-arrested-her-because-she-black-neomi-bennett" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;jun&#x2F;18&#x2F;nurse-claims-m...</a></text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; “I blame myself,” she kept saying. “I never let him out on Halloween. A bunch of Black boys together. I shouldn’t have let him out. But he begged me.”<p>Notice that while average white parents might worry about criminals before letting their kids out on the street, the black parents worry (with good reason) about the police.<p>(Just to spell it out: this is why so many BLM activists feel comfortable saying &quot;abolish the police&quot; or &quot;defund the police&quot;, because from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals)<p>&gt; “Young teens or pre-teens of color were handcuffed, arrested, or held at gunpoint while participating in age-appropriate activities such as running, playing with friends, high-fiving, sitting on a stoop, or carrying a backpack.”<p>This is child abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vidarh</author><text>And police could have resolved this peacefully but chose to escalate the situation with someone who was terrified of them because they were incapable of understanding why she would be scared of them, and in doing so creates more fear when people see how police may treat them.<p>UK police are generally quite good at de-escalating situations they understand. I&#x27;ve praised them for that many times. E.g. they will go into situations with completely irate people without weapons, and rely on deescalation to bring it under control.<p>What was it about this situation that prevented this officer from doing that? I&#x27;ve seen first hand that UK police are fully capable of being far more patient in far more serious situations. What was the urgency here?<p>The police officer <i>chose</i> to escalate in a situation where the suspect was calm until he acted, and where his basis for wanting to search her vehicle in the first place was her fear reaction.<p>Police need to be able to handle people with mental health issues, so whether or not you think her fear was justified, their way of handling it demonstrated a total failure of compassion in a situation where they had no basis for knowing why she was expressing fear.<p>The issue remains all too often entirely <i>blind</i> to this kind of fear because they don&#x27;t believe it is real and fail to understand it, and reacts by making all kinds of flawed conclusions, like in this case where the footage shows signal after signal that her fear of him is genuine, and his response is to assume the only explanation is that she is hiding something.<p>As we know in retrospect, he demonstrated that he can not be relied on to make that kind of judgement.</text></comment> | <story><title>My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/my-family-saw-a-police-car-hit-a-kid-on-halloween-then-i-learned-how-nypd-impunity-works</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>randompwd</author><text>Yes well done.<p>How do you think police determine if they&#x27;re in limit or not. They test them. She could have been on her way in 5 minutes but chose to act like an idiot.</text></item><item><author>andyjohnson0</author><text>&gt;Bear in mind she was stopped because the car she was in had (illegally) tinted front windows.<p>From the article linked in the parent&#x27;s post:<p><i>&quot;Court documents later established they were within the legal limit.&quot;</i><p>There was no need for the police to use violent force against this terrified woman, but they did it anyway.</text></item><item><author>randompwd</author><text>Please stop spreading nonsense.<p>For one, this person is not prominent by any definition of the word prominent.<p>Also, you can see the full bodycam footage and UK peoples take on this stop at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;policeuk&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hbbhkb&#x2F;a_calm_collected_officer_doing_this_job_perfectly&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;policeuk&#x2F;comments&#x2F;hbbhkb&#x2F;a_calm_col...</a><p>Bear in mind she was stopped because the car she was in had (potentially illegally) tinted front windows.<p>All in all, she seems like someone who is ingesting too much American culture, most noticable in her saying: &quot;You are killing black people&quot; - what??</text></item><item><author>vidarh</author><text>We recently had a case in the UK where a prominent (as in winning the British Empire Medal for her services to nursing prominent) nurse was stopped by police, and was too scared to get out of the car.<p>When she told the police this, their response was &quot;I don’t believe you because you’re talking to police officers.&quot;<p>She ended up being arrested for obstruction because they kept failing to understand that her reluctance to comply was because <i>they</i> terrified her, and they can be heard in the bodycam footage [1] going &quot;This is nonsense, there&#x27;s something in this vehicle&quot; after listening to her telling her dad she&#x27;s afraid the police officer is going to harm her.<p>When the police officer starts dragging her out, she is screaming over the phone for her dad to <i>call the police</i>.<p>The officer is thankfully relatively calm, and it ended without physical harm to her, but this is a quite stark demonstration of the kind of fear the police has created, and how they then perpetuate that by not teaching their officers to understand the existence of that fear and interpret non-compliance resulting from that fear as indication of criminal activity.<p>She&#x27;s was cleared, and is pursuing a claim against the police, but of course a claim will not address the fundamental ignorance among a lot of police officers about the fear they are inducing.<p>I can only imagine how much worse that fear must be in the US - at least in the UK police is rarely carrying firearms - and how awful that fear must be for parents.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;jun&#x2F;18&#x2F;nurse-claims-met-police-wrongfully-arrested-her-because-she-black-neomi-bennett" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;2020&#x2F;jun&#x2F;18&#x2F;nurse-claims-m...</a></text></item><item><author>pjc50</author><text>&gt; “I blame myself,” she kept saying. “I never let him out on Halloween. A bunch of Black boys together. I shouldn’t have let him out. But he begged me.”<p>Notice that while average white parents might worry about criminals before letting their kids out on the street, the black parents worry (with good reason) about the police.<p>(Just to spell it out: this is why so many BLM activists feel comfortable saying &quot;abolish the police&quot; or &quot;defund the police&quot;, because from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals)<p>&gt; “Young teens or pre-teens of color were handcuffed, arrested, or held at gunpoint while participating in age-appropriate activities such as running, playing with friends, high-fiving, sitting on a stoop, or carrying a backpack.”<p>This is child abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thephyber</author><text>&gt; but chose to act like an idiot<p>Do people <i>choose</i> to have panic attacks? There are lots of documented cases of people who have panic attacks on planes and flip out. Are they &quot;idiots&quot; in your mind?</text></comment> |
28,641,464 | 28,641,273 | 1 | 3 | 28,639,154 | train | <story><title>EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/why-eff-flew-plane-over-apples-headquarters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tailspin2019</author><text>Every time I read about what the EFF is doing I get the sense that their priorities are clear, they’re fighting a good fight and in my case they’re generally acting in line with the values&#x2F;beliefs I hold around the areas they get involved with.<p>It’s cool when you find an organisation whose actions line up with your view of the world like that, and appears to be pretty effective too.<p>Someone else commented about the cost of this “stunt”, but I can’t see it costing a huge amount to pull off in the big scheme of things, and it does make for some excellent visuals which as someone else pointed out, may give some journalists a “hook” into the story.<p>I don’t donate much (monthly recurring) but I’m pretty happy with what I see coming out of the EFF and am happy to support them.<p>By the way, if anyone is on the fence about donating, check out their site as you can get some “cool”[1] EFF swag in return for your donation too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supporters.eff.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supporters.eff.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;</a><p><i>[1] No guarantees implied or given about how “cool” others will think your swag actually is.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>Are they pretty effective?<p>Most proposals they object to are trying to solve real problems. I almost never see the EFF propose better ways to solve those problems. They just raise objections to everyone else&#x27;s proposed solutions.<p>And those objections are often just low effort implausible slippery slope arguments. It is pretty easy to make a slippery slope argument for pretty much anything that has it leading to a dystopian nightmare.<p>Legislators and policy makers tend to pay more attention to people with solutions, even bad solutions, than to people who just object to everything, especially when those objections are low quality.</text></comment> | <story><title>EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/why-eff-flew-plane-over-apples-headquarters</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tailspin2019</author><text>Every time I read about what the EFF is doing I get the sense that their priorities are clear, they’re fighting a good fight and in my case they’re generally acting in line with the values&#x2F;beliefs I hold around the areas they get involved with.<p>It’s cool when you find an organisation whose actions line up with your view of the world like that, and appears to be pretty effective too.<p>Someone else commented about the cost of this “stunt”, but I can’t see it costing a huge amount to pull off in the big scheme of things, and it does make for some excellent visuals which as someone else pointed out, may give some journalists a “hook” into the story.<p>I don’t donate much (monthly recurring) but I’m pretty happy with what I see coming out of the EFF and am happy to support them.<p>By the way, if anyone is on the fence about donating, check out their site as you can get some “cool”[1] EFF swag in return for your donation too:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supporters.eff.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supporters.eff.org&#x2F;donate&#x2F;</a><p><i>[1] No guarantees implied or given about how “cool” others will think your swag actually is.</i></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhb</author><text>The Institute for Justice has a similar&#x2F;related set of objectives: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ij.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ij.org&#x2F;</a></text></comment> |
16,955,229 | 16,951,740 | 1 | 2 | 16,951,520 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Web Audio DSP Playground</title><url>https://acarabott.github.io/audio-dsp-playground/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>btown</author><text>Audio Worklet <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;audio-worklet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.google.com&#x2F;web&#x2F;updates&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;audio-work...</a> is way, way cooler than these demos imply, as it actually gives you a high-priority digital signal processing thread separate from the UI thread. And because it can benefit from WebAssembly, it&#x27;s only a matter of time before the power of native audio applications is ported to the browser.<p>This thread <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.juce.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;juce-plugins-in-webassembly&#x2F;25255" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.juce.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;juce-plugins-in-webassembly&#x2F;25255</a> , particularly the demo here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webaudiomodules.org&#x2F;demos&#x2F;wasm&#x2F;dexed.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webaudiomodules.org&#x2F;demos&#x2F;wasm&#x2F;dexed.html</a> (try using the ZXCV row on your keyboard) are incredibly promising, as they&#x27;re straightforward ports of real synthesizers.<p>Other comments have mentioned that this is coming to Firefox as well; core contributors on the media team have been discussing how it&#x27;s a priority as recently as two days ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1062849" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.mozilla.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=1062849</a><p>Really exciting times for the web audio space!</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Web Audio DSP Playground</title><url>https://acarabott.github.io/audio-dsp-playground/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>droidist2</author><text>This is pretty sweet. It&#x27;d be cool to have more examples though like square wave, triangle wave, etc. and maybe some simple effects like tremolo.</text></comment> |
38,437,850 | 38,437,500 | 1 | 3 | 38,434,574 | train | <story><title>Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada</title><url>https://trains.fyi/</url><text>Hey all! My train the other day was delayed and I got curious where they all were at any given time, so I built a map and figured I&#x27;d share it.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>paddy_m</author><text>Acela isn&#x27;t HSR, and Metroliner which came before had travel times from NYC to DC as low as 2.5 hours. Acela does the same trip in 3.5 hours. Metroliner lowered trip times primarily through faster acceleration.</text></item><item><author>ZanyProgrammer</author><text>Obviously it’s not the first credible foray into HSR in the US-that honor is Acelas.<p>Edit: if you’re referring to Brightline West, construction hasn’t even started.</text></item><item><author>condiment</author><text>The site is incomplete, and there are way, way more trains active at a given time. For instance the Tri-Rail and Brightline (high-speed rail) in Florida each have 5-6 trains running simultaneously. Brightline is notable as the US&#x27;s first credible foray into high-speed rail. Similarly most major cities in the US have either light rail, rapid transit, or both, which is maybe not included in this map. &quot;Passenger rail&quot; might have some highly specific semantic meaning that leaves these out of this map.</text></item><item><author>kylecazar</author><text>Wow, I don&#x27;t know why I thought there would be... Way, way more trains active at a given time.<p>I suppose I overestimated passenger rail popularity in this country.. I knew it wasn&#x27;t relatively huge, but there&#x27;s several hundred miles in some cases between trains.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcranmer</author><text>&gt; Acela does the same trip in 3.5 hours.<p>I just rode it last week, and it actually took 3 hours, not 3.5.<p>Most of the NEC corridor from DC to NYC has a speed limit of 125mph; from NYC to New Haven, it&#x27;s generally 70mph (!), from New Haven thence to about Kingston generally 90mph, and from there to Boston it&#x27;s mostly 150mph. Given the density of the corridor, Amtrak <i>should</i> be trying for 150-220mph speed limits, but even 125mph is generally agreed upon to be the lowest end of HSR.<p>A surprisingly easy way to make the train go faster would be to redesign the switching sections before large stations to allow trains to go faster through them. You can probably cut around 10 minutes out of the entire length with an investment of less than $100 million just by doing that.</text></comment> | <story><title>Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada</title><url>https://trains.fyi/</url><text>Hey all! My train the other day was delayed and I got curious where they all were at any given time, so I built a map and figured I&#x27;d share it.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>paddy_m</author><text>Acela isn&#x27;t HSR, and Metroliner which came before had travel times from NYC to DC as low as 2.5 hours. Acela does the same trip in 3.5 hours. Metroliner lowered trip times primarily through faster acceleration.</text></item><item><author>ZanyProgrammer</author><text>Obviously it’s not the first credible foray into HSR in the US-that honor is Acelas.<p>Edit: if you’re referring to Brightline West, construction hasn’t even started.</text></item><item><author>condiment</author><text>The site is incomplete, and there are way, way more trains active at a given time. For instance the Tri-Rail and Brightline (high-speed rail) in Florida each have 5-6 trains running simultaneously. Brightline is notable as the US&#x27;s first credible foray into high-speed rail. Similarly most major cities in the US have either light rail, rapid transit, or both, which is maybe not included in this map. &quot;Passenger rail&quot; might have some highly specific semantic meaning that leaves these out of this map.</text></item><item><author>kylecazar</author><text>Wow, I don&#x27;t know why I thought there would be... Way, way more trains active at a given time.<p>I suppose I overestimated passenger rail popularity in this country.. I knew it wasn&#x27;t relatively huge, but there&#x27;s several hundred miles in some cases between trains.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thatfrenchguy</author><text>Peak speed is how HSRs are defined, and Brightline is 200km&#x2F;h, which is really mediocre for technology past the 80s, this is the speed at high most upgraded lines run in France.</text></comment> |
9,902,687 | 9,902,606 | 1 | 2 | 9,902,144 | train | <story><title>How I optimised my life to make my job redundant</title><url>http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/07/how-i-optimised-my-life-to-make-my-job.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fideloper</author><text>Having known people exactly like this, I&#x27;m going to guess that Troy is blind to the people he affects around him while he is working so &quot;hard&quot; and jumping around so much.<p>Unless he has some super-human abilities, doing things like stopping to &quot;churn out a para or two&quot; is NOT helping his productivity. I&#x27;d guess he&#x27;s succeeding despite of that workflow (many hours spent) instead of because of it.<p>&gt; &quot;That might mean being on a conference call and also responding to emails (I’m happy listening and writing at the same time)&quot;.<p>The people who I know did this missed very important details of meetings, and even has to be clued in that someone was speaking to them. They constantly relied on others around them to pay attention to the important details of any meeting. Definitely led to confusion and issues (and blaming).<p>I stopped reading after the first section because all of this brought back memories (and a really strong negative reaction) of such crazy ridiculous ego&#x27;s I&#x27;ve worked with in the passed. I won&#x27;t believe Troy is doing life better than us. He&#x27;s working (very hard!) and <i>will</i> be successful, but at the cost of others around him and ultimately to the detriment of his quality of life.</text></comment> | <story><title>How I optimised my life to make my job redundant</title><url>http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/07/how-i-optimised-my-life-to-make-my-job.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fweespeech</author><text>&gt; I often worked until 1am. I’d usually start at 6am. I always worked on weekends, albeit with leaving time for family activities as well. The laptop came on every holiday and I had to work very hard at balancing productivity with time out. Like I say, that’s not very palatable to many people but this is what it took for me to get this amount of stuff done.<p>Does anyone else feel like this falls under a combination of &quot;workaholic&quot; and luck of genetics?<p>Even with caffeine, I simply can&#x27;t do two nights in a row with less than 7 hours of sleep and retain a level of mental acuity I need to &quot;work&quot; effectively.<p>Of course he may not be meaning this literally but I have the feeling the way that is written he is.</text></comment> |
24,681,757 | 24,681,545 | 1 | 3 | 24,680,146 | train | <story><title>Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks</title><url>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/algorithm-discovers-how-six-simple-molecules-could-evolve-into-lifes-building-blocks/4012505.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sthnblllII</author><text>The big question isn&#x27;t how simple molecules (building blocks) come about. The big question is how these building blocks organized themselves into the complex structure of even the most primitive microbes.<p>Every new form of life tends to fill successively smaller niches. There are more prokaryotes than eucaryotes, more singe celled than multi celled etc. but there is nothing in between the primordial chemical soup and the simplest life forms. I would expect a huge mass of simple RNA based life forms simpler than prokaryotes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonplackett</author><text>I remember reading about what it’s actually like inside a cell - that it’s not the smooth and organised world you see in biology animations. It’s a mess of molecules moving around at hundreds of miles an hour.<p>That’s what life is inside all our cells. Just a bunch of molecules bashing around randomly but because it’s all the right ingredients in there, the right things find each other and fit together and somehow it still works.</text></comment> | <story><title>Algorithm discovers how six molecules could evolve into life’s building blocks</title><url>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/algorithm-discovers-how-six-simple-molecules-could-evolve-into-lifes-building-blocks/4012505.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sthnblllII</author><text>The big question isn&#x27;t how simple molecules (building blocks) come about. The big question is how these building blocks organized themselves into the complex structure of even the most primitive microbes.<p>Every new form of life tends to fill successively smaller niches. There are more prokaryotes than eucaryotes, more singe celled than multi celled etc. but there is nothing in between the primordial chemical soup and the simplest life forms. I would expect a huge mass of simple RNA based life forms simpler than prokaryotes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yes_man</author><text>Conway&#x27;s game of life shows how small building blocks randomly create giant crazy complicated formations that have the capability to do astonishing things, like replicate themselves in an organized way. Kind of implying that logically functional structures arise from randomness given enough time. The rules in Conway&#x27;s game of life are simpler than real world physics, but it is enough to convince me that in a reasonable time frame (Earth&#x27;s timeline), given enough building blocks and iterations, there&#x27;s not really any reason to not assume the chemical building blocks of life happened to create all sorts of complicated structures that constantly failed to replicate or survive.<p>On Earth, there was a lot of primordial soup, and there were a lot of chemical reactions. On a span of millions of years, complex data structures (such as RNA) may have occurred constantly somewhere on the planet. Every now and then, a cell randomly formed. Sometimes prokaryotes with RNA formed, like weird things in Conway&#x27;s game of life. And then maybe once upon a time, a cell with just the right RNA to make it be able to reproduce in the ooze formed.<p>That or life on Earth is panspermic and we have skipped the pre-prokaryotic evolution altogether</text></comment> |
9,697,732 | 9,697,470 | 1 | 2 | 9,697,130 | train | <story><title>Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/10/reddit-bans-five-communities-in-new-anti-harassment-campaign/</url><text>Most notable is &#x2F;r&#x2F;fatpeoplehate, which had become an extremely popular &quot;fat-shaming&quot; community.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>powrtoch</author><text>The front page is pretty worrying.<p>The situation seems almost identical to when Reddit axed r&#x2F;jailbait: one of their more embarrassing communities started to get too much attention, its users were increasingly behaving in a way that was damaging Reddit, and Reddit decided to kill it (ostensibly for the greater good of the site).<p>But even though that pissed plenty of people off... I don&#x27;t recall the front page being totally dominated by calls for anyone&#x27;s head on a silver platter. Reddit&#x27;s userbase seems to feel especially <i>threatened</i> by Ellen Pao, and it&#x27;s hard for me to believe that the difference is anything rational.</text></item><item><author>teraflop</author><text>This article dramatically understates the magnitude of the shitstorm that is currently unfolding. Check out <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;all&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;all&#x2F;</a> if you feel like seeing all the ugliness.<p>(And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and&#x2F;or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.)<p>I don&#x27;t fault the Reddit admins for trying to clean things up but I can&#x27;t see any good that will come of this. To paraphrase a comment that I saw earlier today and now can&#x27;t find, it&#x27;s like trying to get rid of an anthill with a leaf-blower; you just end up with pissed-off ants everywhere.<p>EDIT: Ah, found it. It was in the &quot;can I sue Reddit for violating my freedom of speech&quot; thread in &#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice&#x2F;comments&#x2F;39c58h&#x2F;could_someone_sue_reddit_for_banning_and&#x2F;cs2ch7d?context=4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice&#x2F;comments&#x2F;39c58h&#x2F;could_so...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philwelch</author><text>Previous Reddit CEO&#x27;s have made lots of statements about wanting the site to allow relatively free expression, aside from things like doxxing and pedophilia. Ellen Pao has instead talked about turning Reddit into a &quot;safe space&quot;, which is a common euphemism for eliminating dissenting viewpoints.<p>FPH in and of itself isn&#x27;t the most defensible or tasteful subreddit, but they&#x27;re going to start by banning the least defensible subreddits first. Once the precedent is made, they can start banning political dissent subreddits.</text></comment> | <story><title>Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign</title><url>http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/10/reddit-bans-five-communities-in-new-anti-harassment-campaign/</url><text>Most notable is &#x2F;r&#x2F;fatpeoplehate, which had become an extremely popular &quot;fat-shaming&quot; community.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>powrtoch</author><text>The front page is pretty worrying.<p>The situation seems almost identical to when Reddit axed r&#x2F;jailbait: one of their more embarrassing communities started to get too much attention, its users were increasingly behaving in a way that was damaging Reddit, and Reddit decided to kill it (ostensibly for the greater good of the site).<p>But even though that pissed plenty of people off... I don&#x27;t recall the front page being totally dominated by calls for anyone&#x27;s head on a silver platter. Reddit&#x27;s userbase seems to feel especially <i>threatened</i> by Ellen Pao, and it&#x27;s hard for me to believe that the difference is anything rational.</text></item><item><author>teraflop</author><text>This article dramatically understates the magnitude of the shitstorm that is currently unfolding. Check out <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;all&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;all&#x2F;</a> if you feel like seeing all the ugliness.<p>(And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and&#x2F;or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.)<p>I don&#x27;t fault the Reddit admins for trying to clean things up but I can&#x27;t see any good that will come of this. To paraphrase a comment that I saw earlier today and now can&#x27;t find, it&#x27;s like trying to get rid of an anthill with a leaf-blower; you just end up with pissed-off ants everywhere.<p>EDIT: Ah, found it. It was in the &quot;can I sue Reddit for violating my freedom of speech&quot; thread in &#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice&#x2F;comments&#x2F;39c58h&#x2F;could_someone_sue_reddit_for_banning_and&#x2F;cs2ch7d?context=4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;legaladvice&#x2F;comments&#x2F;39c58h&#x2F;could_so...</a></text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>Pao is attempting to &quot;clean up&quot;... in an environment that cherishes its traditional freewheeling and unrestrained discourse. Even if the stuff getting cleaned up is just the stuff that most people agree deserves it - for some value of deserves - it&#x27;s a troubling precedent to set.<p>Some people find themselves wondering what opinions will be deemed unsafe next. The policies are not exactly clear-cut, and neither are the actions of the administration.</text></comment> |
35,199,226 | 35,199,395 | 1 | 2 | 35,197,860 | train | <story><title>One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here</title><url>https://saigaddam.medium.com/one-ai-tutor-per-child-personalized-learning-is-finally-here-e3727d84a2d7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rpastuszak</author><text>&gt; They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways. I&#x27;m sure that these AI tools will have some use, but these language models don&#x27;t know anything.<p>I find it worrying that I see so many techies not understanding this. Especially, because many bigger players in the area benefit from this lack of knowledge. This means that people who don&#x27;t have time to procrastinate on the orange website are even less likely to understand the implications.<p>LLMs are excellent plausible bullshit generators, which has many uses, but being factually correct is not their strength. The issue is that even if the factual mistakes are rare, they&#x27;re really hard to spot. I&#x27;m looking for a good, terse, catchy metaphor I could use to explain that to some of my family members and friends.<p>&gt; We can spend billions on deploying AI all over Africa, or we pay for [...]<p>Looking back at the conversations I had with founders even I pre ChatGPT bonanza, I&#x27;m 100% sure someone&#x27;s already pitching that idea to someone. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if that conversation started in a marketing department of an ad tech business.</text></item><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>You know how that journalist had a long conversation with Bing and it slowly turned into a psycho-ex girlfriend? This is going to be hilarious, giving kids prolonged access to these AI tools. You get to the parent teacher evening at the end of a term at school: &quot;Err... little timmy and his virtual assistant appear to have entirely neglected maths in favour of adopting Zoroastrianism&quot;.<p>On a more serious note, we have the internet and wikipedia now, we have ipads in classrooms. They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways. I&#x27;m sure that these AI tools will have some use, but these language models don&#x27;t <i>know</i> anything. The examples of them making up information, or being persuaded by people are all over the place. I think it&#x27;s great to use AI in teaching, but how about we learn from history, the technology we bring in to the classroom has to be well understood and directed in order to be effective. And just as importantly we need to understand that in many cases a focus on technological solutions distract from societal solutions. We can spend billions on deploying AI all over Africa, or we pay for some teachers and ship them some second hand textbooks, which one should we do, and how will that decision be made? Because I fear the decision will be made by some SBF-alike, more interested in their own journey than effective solutions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unshavedyak</author><text>&gt; LLMs are excellent plausible bullshit generators, which has many uses, but being factually correct is not their strength. The issue is that even if the factual mistakes are rare, they&#x27;re really hard to spot. I&#x27;m looking for a good, terse, catchy metaphor I could use to explain that to some of my family members and friends.<p>To me the bigger question is how far can we take them? Ie i get that they just pick likely next words. They&#x27;re autocomplete on steroids. Yet that simple primitive is shockingly good. Way, way way beyond that i would have predicted is possible for an &quot;autocomplete&quot;.<p>So where is the limit of this autocomplete? Would it be possible to eliminate ~90% of the current errors? Fake math, but would that put us at a more correct version than students typically graduate with? If so yea, it can be wrong at times - but assuming as don&#x27;t abandon standardized testing&#x2F;etc, it could still be an amazing tool for interactively learning something.<p>My hope is that even if it never goes beyond being an autocomplete; if we can improve the training dataset, help it not conflict with itself, etc - that maybe the autocomplete will be insanely useful.</text></comment> | <story><title>One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here</title><url>https://saigaddam.medium.com/one-ai-tutor-per-child-personalized-learning-is-finally-here-e3727d84a2d7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rpastuszak</author><text>&gt; They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways. I&#x27;m sure that these AI tools will have some use, but these language models don&#x27;t know anything.<p>I find it worrying that I see so many techies not understanding this. Especially, because many bigger players in the area benefit from this lack of knowledge. This means that people who don&#x27;t have time to procrastinate on the orange website are even less likely to understand the implications.<p>LLMs are excellent plausible bullshit generators, which has many uses, but being factually correct is not their strength. The issue is that even if the factual mistakes are rare, they&#x27;re really hard to spot. I&#x27;m looking for a good, terse, catchy metaphor I could use to explain that to some of my family members and friends.<p>&gt; We can spend billions on deploying AI all over Africa, or we pay for [...]<p>Looking back at the conversations I had with founders even I pre ChatGPT bonanza, I&#x27;m 100% sure someone&#x27;s already pitching that idea to someone. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if that conversation started in a marketing department of an ad tech business.</text></item><item><author>SilverBirch</author><text>You know how that journalist had a long conversation with Bing and it slowly turned into a psycho-ex girlfriend? This is going to be hilarious, giving kids prolonged access to these AI tools. You get to the parent teacher evening at the end of a term at school: &quot;Err... little timmy and his virtual assistant appear to have entirely neglected maths in favour of adopting Zoroastrianism&quot;.<p>On a more serious note, we have the internet and wikipedia now, we have ipads in classrooms. They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways. I&#x27;m sure that these AI tools will have some use, but these language models don&#x27;t <i>know</i> anything. The examples of them making up information, or being persuaded by people are all over the place. I think it&#x27;s great to use AI in teaching, but how about we learn from history, the technology we bring in to the classroom has to be well understood and directed in order to be effective. And just as importantly we need to understand that in many cases a focus on technological solutions distract from societal solutions. We can spend billions on deploying AI all over Africa, or we pay for some teachers and ship them some second hand textbooks, which one should we do, and how will that decision be made? Because I fear the decision will be made by some SBF-alike, more interested in their own journey than effective solutions.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxdoop</author><text>I find it equally worrying how so many techies continue to dismiss LLMs as “bullshit generators “.<p>I struggle to see how even the current GPT-4 is any worse than your average human.<p>How this is dismissed because it’s not 100% perfect (might at add, “yet”) is beyond me.</text></comment> |
33,727,016 | 33,726,838 | 1 | 3 | 33,726,496 | train | <story><title>Draft policy proposal would authorize SF Police to use deadly force with robots</title><url>https://missionlocal.org/2022/11/killer-robots-to-be-permitted-under-sfpd-draft-policy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treeman79</author><text>I agree that killer robots are a bad idea.<p>Asking a cop to walk into an active shooter situation isn’t great either.</text></item><item><author>wheresmycraisin</author><text>I can&#x27;t possibly imagine how anyone thinks this is a good idea. US police are already over-militarized and under-accountable. We as Americans need to stop worshiping &quot;men in uniform&quot; including all levels of law enforcement and military and hold them to the same standard as any other member of society -- stop giving them everything they want and stop spoiling them when they call us unpatriotic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>&gt; <i>Asking a cop to walk into an active shooter situation isn’t great either.</i><p>I don&#x27;t think valuing a cop who doesn&#x27;t want to do their job, but still demands to keep it, over innocent civilian lives that they were hired to protect is a great situation, either.<p>Delivery drivers have more dangerous jobs than police officers do, and they&#x27;re asked to walk into situations where they can be murdered, and are statistically more likely to be than cops, literally everyday, multiple times a day.<p>Cops are often the highest paid employees on a government&#x27;s payroll, and it is very common for over 50% of a municipality&#x27;s total budget to go towards cop salaries and benefits. In my state, cops earn a median salary of over $105,000 a year before overtime, bonuses or benefits, and they can earn over $250,000 a year with overtime. They can retire after only 20 years of working with a full pension that they can draw from for life. In my area, they&#x27;re also given special mortgage rates of about 2% versus the more common ~6%+ as of late. For comparison, software engineers in my state only have a median salary of $89,000.<p>Delivery drivers barely make minimum wage, they often have no benefits, and their employers tend either pay them off the books or classify them as independent contractors.<p>Cops are rewarded even more handsomely than military members are, for the very miniscule risk they take on. This is what they signed up for, often because the rewards are that good.</text></comment> | <story><title>Draft policy proposal would authorize SF Police to use deadly force with robots</title><url>https://missionlocal.org/2022/11/killer-robots-to-be-permitted-under-sfpd-draft-policy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>treeman79</author><text>I agree that killer robots are a bad idea.<p>Asking a cop to walk into an active shooter situation isn’t great either.</text></item><item><author>wheresmycraisin</author><text>I can&#x27;t possibly imagine how anyone thinks this is a good idea. US police are already over-militarized and under-accountable. We as Americans need to stop worshiping &quot;men in uniform&quot; including all levels of law enforcement and military and hold them to the same standard as any other member of society -- stop giving them everything they want and stop spoiling them when they call us unpatriotic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JadeNB</author><text>&gt; Asking a cop to walk into an active shooter situation isn’t great either.<p>Indeed, cops are just humans, and we correctly think of them as such when asking them to perform duties on behalf of the citizens they are supposed to protect. But somehow, when it comes time to holding them accountable for misdeeds carried out in the course of their professional duties, they are held apart from other humans. At least one side of this imbalance should be rectified.</text></comment> |
11,724,838 | 11,724,582 | 1 | 2 | 11,723,652 | train | <story><title>Google Home</title><url>http://home.google.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t0mbstone</author><text>Please, please, please be a completely open, extensible platform...<p>I want to be able to control my Apple TV with my Google Home device.<p>I want to be able to control my Phillips Hue and LiFX bulbs.<p>I want to be able to build my own custom home automation server endpoints and point my Google Home commands at them.<p>I want to be able to remote start my car with a voice command.<p>I want to be able to control my Harmony remote, and all of the devices connected to my Harmony hub.<p>I want to be able to access my Google calendar.<p>I want to be able to make hands-free phone calls to anyone on my Google contacts.<p>If my grandmother falls, I want her to be able to call 911 by talking to the Google Home device.<p>I want to be able to ask wolfram alpha questions by voice.<p>I want to be able to have a back-and-forth conversation to arrive at a conclusion. I don&#x27;t want to have to say a perfectly formulated command like, &quot;Add an event to my calendar on Jan 1, 2016 at 2:00 pm titled go to the pool party&quot;. I want to be able to say, &quot;Can you add an event to my calendar?&quot;, and then answer a series of questions. I hate having to formulate complex commands as a single sentence.<p>I want to be able to have a Google Home device in each room, without having to give each one its own wake-up word. Just have the closest one to me respond to my voice (based on how well it can hear me).<p>I want to be able to play music on all of my Google Home devices at the same time, and have the music perfectly synchronized.<p>This is my wish list. I am currently able to do more than half of these items with Amazon Echo, but I had to do a bunch of hacking and it was a pain in the ass.<p>If Google Home can deliver on these points, I would switch from Amazon Echo in a heartbeat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oxguy3</author><text>According to Ars Technica, Google Home is actually gonna be more locked down than Amazon Echo.<p>&gt; Initially, Google says that it will not be creating APIs for Assistant and Home and that as such, any integrations with services and other devices will have to come from Google first. This approach is a contrast with the Echo, which is designed to be extensible.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-assistant-and-google-home-amazon-echo-but-from-google&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gadgets&#x2F;2016&#x2F;05&#x2F;google-assistant-and...</a><p>Dreams = crushed :(</text></comment> | <story><title>Google Home</title><url>http://home.google.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>t0mbstone</author><text>Please, please, please be a completely open, extensible platform...<p>I want to be able to control my Apple TV with my Google Home device.<p>I want to be able to control my Phillips Hue and LiFX bulbs.<p>I want to be able to build my own custom home automation server endpoints and point my Google Home commands at them.<p>I want to be able to remote start my car with a voice command.<p>I want to be able to control my Harmony remote, and all of the devices connected to my Harmony hub.<p>I want to be able to access my Google calendar.<p>I want to be able to make hands-free phone calls to anyone on my Google contacts.<p>If my grandmother falls, I want her to be able to call 911 by talking to the Google Home device.<p>I want to be able to ask wolfram alpha questions by voice.<p>I want to be able to have a back-and-forth conversation to arrive at a conclusion. I don&#x27;t want to have to say a perfectly formulated command like, &quot;Add an event to my calendar on Jan 1, 2016 at 2:00 pm titled go to the pool party&quot;. I want to be able to say, &quot;Can you add an event to my calendar?&quot;, and then answer a series of questions. I hate having to formulate complex commands as a single sentence.<p>I want to be able to have a Google Home device in each room, without having to give each one its own wake-up word. Just have the closest one to me respond to my voice (based on how well it can hear me).<p>I want to be able to play music on all of my Google Home devices at the same time, and have the music perfectly synchronized.<p>This is my wish list. I am currently able to do more than half of these items with Amazon Echo, but I had to do a bunch of hacking and it was a pain in the ass.<p>If Google Home can deliver on these points, I would switch from Amazon Echo in a heartbeat.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>I have only two wishes:<p>&gt; <i>Please, please, please be a completely open, extensible platform...</i><p>That&#x27;s one. The second one is, please make it self-hosted. No cloud bullshit.<p>I know I&#x27;ll probably never live to see the second one coming true.</text></comment> |
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