skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer to stay up until I'm dead tired. Unfortunately, you can only do this if you have flexible working time and can adjust your sleep pattern accordingly. For me this is working because of self-employment.
Black out curtains and block all other sources of light, sleep mask, ear plugs, and white noise (floor fan). It's silly but when I find my mind running I visualize myself putting that thought or idea on a shelf like it's a book.. this goes on maybe two or three more times and I'm OUT like a lightbulb on a switch.
What if you could eliminate a lot of the pain points that React solves but without having to write much (if any) Javascript but still have an application that feels like it's rendered client side while getting server side rendered templates for free, and things like "but I can share my logic between the backend and frontend" goes away because the backend can do both?

This is just one type of problem that Phoenix's LiveView solves and LiveView is only a small aspect of what Phoenix has available. I'm very thankful work is being done in this area instead of just accepting that everyone wants to use React.
is it really? Donald Trump runs both for his own profit as he sees fit.
> I already regret making this post.

welcome to clown world. Honk-Honk
No, the customers only care about working software, not maintainable, perfect software.

Technical Debt is about taking shortcuts to have something working now, in exchange for more work maintaining and evolving it in the future. If the software doesn't work, it's not debt, it's a bug.

If you are not changing the software, it doesn't matter that a list is hardcoded instead of parameterizable, that the modules are tightly coupled and can't be reused, or that the build must be done following a particular set of incantations in a specific machine. If you are, these are all examples of debt that will come back charging interest.

Properly planned and managed, technical debt is a tool much like actual debt (a loan) that can accelerate your growth and your time to market. Thing is, most teams don't know that they are taking on a debt and don't realize how much interest they are paying each day.
While the majority of countries in the European Union are not federation of states, there is several that have exactly that structure: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France and the Netherlands. Austria, Germany, Finland and France being republics, the other ones with a (ceremonial) monarch as head of state.
Under schedule pressure that's certainly true, but subsequent products will often start by taking a skeleton of a previous one. In this way tech debt could live on for many additional games unless it's addressed.
This bit is specifically about ICBM's, presumably they will be targeted when they are outside of the atmosphere.
Driver for my wifi card under linux crashes. Granted it is a 'staging' driver, but it's still a pretty bad look.
Agreed. They have to have a good way to write it (an IDE), a good debugger, a good profiler, a good library ecosystem, a good community, a good deployment story, reproducibility, portability across platforms, etc. I find commercial support helpful as well. Common Lisp has all of that.
Exactly this. It doesn't matter what it is. Join a gym, volunteer, find a meetup, take up a hobby, etc. We all need something to look forward to to carry us past the doldrums. Anticipation and a sense of "belonging" can help so much.
Same with my bank, and I ported my Voice number to my carrier.
All four of the people you used as examples were born in the Mainland and had always used that order. Do you have any examples of people switching from Firstname Lastname to Lastname Firstname after "making it"?
I think it is even simpler than this in that most people don't realize they are being tracked in this way. It is easy to seem hypocritical when you are simply ignorant of a potentially parallel case.
In late 90s early 2000s hip hop was still regarded are something new and a bit controversial. I think, sort of, like mumble rap this days. Of course hip hop started in 20th century but it's biggest influence we was on the beginning of 21st century.
Truly big heists like the Mt. Gox collapse have received research attention, yes. There are some firms which will follow the transactions and try to find patterns. However, for a relatively small amount like this it's probably futile. It's trivial (though costly) to run the funds through a public mixer several times, or to trade it for Monero, which has a ledger that's much more difficult to analyze.
> the communication offerings are practically identical in terms of functionality and utility (send text and images to other people)

To different groups of people. That makes them less substitutable than wood and oil. It's possible to create oil from wood, it's possible to build a car that runs on wood, you cannot substitute on human for another.

> If everyone I know uses Discord to communicate then Facebook is as good as "wood" to Discord's "oil".

That applies to essentially no one. And if you mean that everyone you know is on Discord but not on Facebook: That's an argument for regulating Discord, not against regulating Facebook.
No, I always upgrade to the latest release when I spot it, but I don't try nightlies or anything other than releases.

I take a backup of ~/.mozilla and just download the new binaries to /opt/firefox. (Well I download and update a symlink.)
In terms of UI, maybe, but not in terms of data.

I've seen it countless times. Somebody sends an excel file over e-mail and it is either an old outdated version of the file, or the persons that receives it hangs on to it for months as a source of reference.
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It's worse than this though. My colleague had his sim replaced by an attacker in October of last year even though his account had a note on it specifically to prevent this without the account holder being present and showing photo id. Not only can the customer service rep at your carriers store do this but so can the phone reps at all the other stores that sell phones for your carrier such as best buy. The bottom line is that SMS/phone numbers shouldn't be an identifying factor for security purposes.
Perhaps this isn't the time or place, but has anyone been able to successfully run a Firefox sync server in totality?

The state of affairs last year when I looked into this again didn't inspire a lot of hope. [1]

And to this day, the documentation for doing so seems subpar. [2]

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/q5zwlf/i_failed_install_firefox_accounts...

[2] https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...
Some people are just plain jerks.
I never had that impression, I always felt like the software sold the hardware. The hardware was always premium hardware with premium prices and correspondingly premium margins, but because the hardware was so good, people who bought it mainly for the software felt good about their purchase, and didn't mind paying extra for higher-end hardware than they might otherwise buy for themselves. This avoids the race-to-the-bottom dynamic that resulted in the Windows PC market getting saturated in low-quality, low-margin hardware for so many years.

Put another way, having great software enables upselling thriftier consumers on the hardware, which is the thing that actually makes money, especially now that OS upgrades are free and don't make money on their own. As long as both the software and the hardware are indeed great, then people feel good about their purchase.

If it's no longer the best hardware (or the best software), then that positive reinforcement loop goes away, and you end up with users who still like macOS, but not as much as they used to, who are doubly frustrated because they feel like they have to spend even more money on hardware that is no longer best-in-class, and has features that they're paying extra for that they view as negatives (touchbar, butterfly keyboard, unergonomically huge trackpad, minimal ports, dongletown, unasked for levels of thinness that forces so many compromises, greatly diminished resale value, etc.).
All good until step 17. I get this error: "(7) Unable to connect". It is probably the proxy... How can I change the setting for it?
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Perhaps all of the students can fuse into a cyborg-hivemind? That would allow them to all be the CEO of a company, then it would just be a challenge of making it the most profitable in the world.
And even the one-off reports represent the ability to do coding in tiny increments, precisely tuned to the demand. You can find some report from months ago and just open it up and add to it.

And as you're adding features, you instantly see the results; even as you type if you use the formula builder.

If you're working on any kind of software tooling, watching how people work with Excel is incredibly insightful.
I agree with most of the answers already posted about why Excel is so ubiquitous. To respond to this comment specifically, though, I'll just mention that we use a product called EASA to enable us put a web app on top of critical spreadsheets while also connecting to a database i.e. you can "de-couple" the data from the logic. There are some use-cases that describes this here:
https://easasoftware.com/case-studies/amlin-reducing-risks-e...

...and here:
https://easasoftware.com/case-studies/leaseplan-transforming...
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Or visit their SEC page.

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&C...

Or their SEC RSS Feed.

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&C...
Except that it doesn't. Really interesting article too.
I don’t think it’s correct to say we’ve been writing them “incorrectly.” We have been writing the English representation of a name whose canonical representation isn’t even in English characters. The convention often is used by Japanese people themselves (for example, in corporate directories). This is simply a change in the English representation to more closely match the Japanese form.
This is frightfully common in South Africa except aimed at banks - they use SMS as their 2FA. ("SIM swap")

Another common tactic to watch out for: Repeated calling of your phone to annoy you enough so that you switch it off/silent it. That can give the attacker enough time where you don't notice the swap.
"The answer isn't shifting the "center" further right or distancing from AOC."

Then I guess its a good thing for them that they're doing the exact opposite.
Given there is an active Apache project called Phoenix (https://phoenix.apache.org) I think confusion here is warranted.
A fast 1TB NVMe SSD costs $105, and that's retail. So your narrative doesn't make much sense. 10x cost can only be explained by profit margins.
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Google offers many different 2 factor methods including Google Prompt, TOTP, and security key - all of which are better choices than SMS. The author is right to say that SMS is not enough but he didn't go far enough: only use SMS-based 2FA if it's your only 2FA choice for your critical accounts, and consider alternative services if it's your only choice.
I grew up very conservative and very evangelical and left as an adult because I couldn't honestly hold the basic beliefs in an honest way. I was also really angry about a bunch of things: the prevalence of narcissism among preachers, authoritarian organizational structures, treatment of women, etc etc - I could give you a whole litany. If you pay any attention to religion in the US, you could probably anticipate much of it.

Years later, not much has changed. The anger has faded, particularly as I watch some of those old churches dying (although not without some degree of satisfaction, I'll admit).

BUT, I do agree that it's widely under-appreciated just how sophisticated a social technology the congregation is. And there's not, as far as I've found, a viable secular alternative. Take away shared conviction about the transcendent and you seem to lose some kind of binding agent, like baking without gluten.
> Debt heavy choices made knowingly are more rare, as programmers consciously avoid it or choose debt that won't accumulate beyond certain bounds

I don't know what kind of software you work on, but I disagree. It's incredibly common, from what I've worked on, that we have an existing subsystem X, and project management wants it to interact with this new subsystem Y but it was never designed in a way to do so, so either we can hack it in real quick, build a moderately pleasing integration with only a little technical debt, or completely rebuild X from the ground up in a way that makes sense and leaves no technical debt. From my experience, bad managers will want the quick hack while engineers and good managers will take the middle option. Nobody opts for the complete rebuild.
I hope the guy who wrote this post didn't choose to disinvite those two just because they had unfashionable views on social justice. Morality /=/ fashion.
I used gnome2 first then xfce (loved it) and finally awesomewm (best for my uses, big screen, love the auto tiling)

I was so used to awesomewm that I couldn't grasp why i3 was any better if so.
I think that what Wolfram is missing is that devs are not interested in getting hooked and then paying subscription fees. The payment model is the problem and devs won't be easily suckered by a free version.
Thick different.
Anecdotally, at my company, the failure rate is closer to 30%.
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Dude, you are just repeating what he said in the post. He is not 'widely known as' nothing. Its all what he say. We dont know the other side.
I think that's a leaky abstraction. Code refactoring can have a huge performance impact that is 100% noticed by the end user.
I like the metaphor of technical debt, but...this essay does not address the most prevalent obstacle with paying down technical debt, which is that the people making the decisions don't care. They are in short-term mode, just trying to get this year's objectives met and IPO or sell or get a higher up job in a different company or division. They really don't care about the long-term health of this software product. Technical debt, as a metaphor, may make perfect sense to them, but they aren't the one who will pay the interest.

Now, if you're working on open source and will be in this codebase for a decade, or this is your company or your software, it makes the tradeoffs much clearer, and that works because your incentives are right. So this metaphor works better for helping the typical developer make choices well, than for helping the typical manager/director/CEO make choices well.
> I'm curious if you can imagine a single programming language which you /would/ prefer for all of the different kinds of programs you've written. Not that it does exist, but could it?

Nope. Granted, I may work on a greater breadth of software than the average programmer. But, at the very least, I have implemented language VMs and garbage collectors where I needed to work at the level of raw bytes and manual memory management. But I sure as hell prefer memory safe languages when I'm not doing that.

I like static types for decent-sized programs, but I also use config files and other "data languages" where that would be more frustrating than anything.

Even if there was a single language that was perfect for me for all of the code I write, I don't expect that that language would be perfect for others, and I don't think those people are wrong.
>"The commons" are not controlled by Facebook;

The commons used to be where people gathered. Now people gather on places like Facebook. That's why I put commons in quotes. Facebook controls a significant chunk of the new "commons", and therefore has the ability to shut people out of a significant portion of the public political debate.

>If people decided to have conversations on hacker news and reddit instead of Facebook that is where the political discussion would be and there is literally nothing Facebook could do about it.

Irrelevant to the point I'm making. The fact of the matter is that Facebook is where much of the public political debate takes place.

>people can still meaningfully participate in political debate without Facebook.

They can't participate in the large portion of the political debate that takes place on Facebook if Facebook bans them, so their participation becomes less meaningful. When Twitter also deplatforms them, and Youtube follows suit, they are left with virtually no ability to meaningfully participate.
People vote their wallets, and we have two very different economies in America currently.

We are in a period of history with a lot of similarities to the gilded age, and one of the big issues of that time was "Free Silver": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_silver. Back then, there was desire by the mostly-rural side to allow a silver-based monetary standard. This would effectively increase inflation.

Today, we see significant inflation disparities between the big coastal cities like NY and SF and the rest of the country. Essentially, the fed rate is too low to have low inflation in the cities and too high for economic growth in the rest of the country. This becomes a self-reinforcing effect, as the relative cost of borrowing is lower in the cities. So, the city and the country are just not going to agree about what to do economically.
One thing I'm confused on from this article is which car brands might be more or less egregious in this dimension. For example, I drive a VW, and my car is Car-Net capable, though I have not enabled the service. Is Car-Net (or some similar service) collecting data despite my not having enabled it? Clearly the car has the ability to transmit data since Car-Net is an option.

Secondarily, is data transmitted during tune ups?
A robot like this was a central plot device in The Americans, too.

https://youtu.be/XEQ5mCMO1a8
You will absolutely get into some kind of trouble (social or legal) if you put a camera on a sidewalk and start filming whoever goes by. On the other hand CCTV cameras don't receive any flak. Society is usually not obviously consistent about privacy matters. The ultimate determining factor is what seems creepy vs what is necessary. So its entirely possible that some societies might decide that the video taping done by self-driving cars is sufficiently creepy to ban.
It's a classic thing people interject when it isn't relevant.

You nearly cannot discuss housing costs in Florida or Indiana on the internet without someone from SF feeling the urgent need to say "lol that would get me a cardboard box where I live".

Why they feel the need? I don't know.
Thinkpad doesn't say much. What series? Thinkpads range from supermarket offer bin to mobile workstations like P1.
Nice!

Another good resource is forum.6502.org as there are plenty of 6502 experts there that have built their own 6502 machines for a hobby
Kinda but it's hard and there are measures to counter this. There is one thing called coinjoin which attempts to tumble coins.

Imagine you stole 10 btc and you split it to 10 outputs of 1 btc each. Then you use 2 of them to perform a coinjoin with several other people where in a single transaction 10 inputs of 1 btc (2 of them yours) produce 10 outputs of 1 btc (again 2 of them yours). There is no way to tell which coin is which anymore. Of course this requires some degree of interaction with other people but in other coins such as grin that use the mimblewimble protocol this happens automatically for every block.

Another thing you can do is try to do an atomic swap with someone on another blockchain i.e Litecoin. In this case you send your coins to a specific script address, the other person sends his LTC to another script address and you effectively swap BTC with LTC.
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I think it was fairly well established at this point (Jay Z, Outkast...). My somewhat snarky point though was that the iPod was obviously a very forward thinking and revolutionary device that was the direct predecessor the iPhone. Jobs had great vision and could practically "see the future" of consumer electronics, yet this music collection is like the most generic suburban backyard bbq playlist for middle age people. If Jobs had the same insight into music as he had into tech, we'd see way more hip hop, electronic. Hell, even yacht rock has comeback in a way that The Dave Matthews Band or Faith Hill never will.

This is to be expected of course, I just think it's humorous.
I've not compiled my own kernel in the last 5 years and all of my hardware has been supported. Not saying that you can't run into h/w compatibility issues with Linux today, but I don't think that you should keep yourself from using Linux as a daily driver if you're worried about hardware compatibility. Just get a thinkpad, and you'll be golden.
Steak smells awful in your hair, clothes and drapes. The smoke blackens everything.

Fish smells nice on the plate and awful everywhere else.

Broccoli, etc.
I'm disappointed that Apple didn't either kill the Touchbar, or commit to it fully: why is there no desktop keyboard (wireless or wired) with the Touchbar? Presumably a huge amount of Pro users (this is a Macbook "Pro", right?) plug into keyboard, pointing device, and monitor frequently...
Is this actually true? The engine lives for multiple games, and the tooling is often reused as-is, but do games start with existing projects, or do we add new technical debt through the cleansing baptism of copy-paste?
Already many home and property prices are public record. Just google "[town / city name] gis" and you can look a lot of that up.

(It's kind of useful when negotiating... "Public record valued your land at $200,000, and you paid $180,000 three years ago, but you want $750,000?")

You can also see a lot of this on Zillow and Redfin.
I see it doing the standard recon and working the appropriate exploit that would likely provide the most leverage with the least noise, but from within the target environment. So, yea, you've provided some good examples.

Once behind the firewall, outbound connections to a c&c could set off alarms. Especially if the connections are sourced from multiple internal systems to a single external one. So let an ai decide what to do once lateral movement options become available, then report back findings at a more appropriate time and method that is also less likely to ring bells.

That's just a quick synopsis. There is a lot more that could be done, but the secondary exploitation/invasion stages would probably see the biggest gains.
She was not asked. She was invited, and then kicked out of buzzconf (said conference), and the motives are not clear.

Then he said there was some kind of harassment of which we don't have any proof except what he say.

Then the guy justifies the ban saying it is because of commercial reasons, but before that he said it was because of some mysterious people were not comfortable WITH THE BOYFRIEND (are we in china were we ban people because of their associations?). He changed the narrative. Ok, so which people? can he name them? are they anonymous? are they the guy's angry ex-girlfriend? (VERY likely) Do we have to believe him in this too?

That's many things to believe.
I really like this style of "literate commits".
I've never seen the latter even once.
Yea, this is the reason there aren't any OLED PC monitors (unless you count that one portable one that's overpriced and has terrible color reproduction)
1) no caffeine or stimulants afternoon
2) exercise 20m-1hr daily
3) smoke/vape a weed a couple hours before bed
4) rub one out

Out like a light.
The recent STX form factors are a wonderful boon to SFF consumer computing, and this is a welcome step towards wider SFF adoption. Looking forward to the gradual miniturization of desktops, love efficiency at lower TDPs.
Gotta love it, this is the same dumb ideology Agile spews. Develop develop develop, forget about fixing issues - They'll magically go away... It's clear that these people do not work in Enterprise environments