skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a better word than "technical debt" is "rusty Ferrari".

Would you accept a free rusty Ferrari tomorrow? If it would take $60k in repairs to get into usable form, and probably not that great even if you put in those repairs, which you have no inclination to do, probably not. Especially if you couldn't easily sell it. If you were a broke college student and it was in roadworthy condition, and you had no other way to make it to your job - probably you would.

This captures that it's not really that you're "$60k in the hole" if you accept the free rusty Ferrari. In a sense, yes, you are.

I propose rusty Ferrari as the new, more precise term for technical debt. "We have a lot of rusty Ferraris in our garage" isn't a debt, but I think might capture the meaning. "I don't want a rusty Ferrari in my garage" = I don't want this technical debt. Let's make it work with some rusty Ferraris = let's cobble together a hack we should probably throw away.

what do you guys think?
Intolerance of dogwhistling is what people refer to when they say that intolerance of intolerance is bad. The problem is that when you start judging people based on what you think are dogwhistling instead of their stated opinions you start getting very close to creating an oppressive regime.

Example problems: Many racists use anti-immigrant rhetoric, so an anti-racist might take all anti-immigrant rhetoric to be dogwhistling for racism. Many man haters use feminist rhetoric, so an MRA might take all feminist rhetoric to be dogwhistling for man haters.

Both sides then starts seeing the other side as rabid haters sending subtle signals of hate all over the place. As a result both sides gets attacked for having valid opinions and can thus justly declare the other side irrational. Do you see how that can easily make things escalate out of control?

Do you think such escalations leads to more tolerance? I don't. The only way to get a tolerant society is to accept a bit of intolerance, similar to how we have to accept that there are sometimes insect parts in flour, while those insect parts are bad the measures we would need to implement to get them out would force us to throw away tons of perfectly fine goods.
Most of the stuff we observe that comes from space moves at the speed of light. Light, radiative heat, gravity. There are plenty of slower-moving things, like rocks and stellar wind, but it's hard to meaningfully measure that stuff directly for distant stars.
My community is currently trying to remove its run of river dam. It has mostly come down to removal is cheaper than maintenance. There is added benefits of one less portage and I am not convinced of the upstream habitat argument. It is mostly a stagnant dead zone for most of the summer.
I'm going to have to cut down on my titanium addiction. OTOH, my nephew's grandchildren will be fighting over that double-walled coffee mug long after I die.
Legal death threats? Lol hard pass.

Liberalism does not mean the unrestrained freedom to do as you please.

(I don’t even know where to start responding tbh.)(you’re fundamentally misunderstanding even society as a concept)
Innit a lost battle.
I went that route, and found it less bang for the buck.

Still interesting, but a lot of learn, but it took significantly more effort to see any type of reward. And the total reward is definitely less than that of lisp (from what I encountered).
Listen to anything you like that's well mastered and in a lossless format. Acoustic music recorded in natural spaces tends to reveal the capabilities of a transducer better than synthetic or overly close-miced recordings do, in my opinion. Classical and jazz tend to be most useful here because they tend to escape the dynamic range compression that pervades all of pop and electronic music these days, but there is well-mastered music in any genre. Any music you are super familliar with will basically tell you all you need to know really. A few albums I like to listen to when evaluating gear are Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up, Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92, and Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (not the remaster).

I don't think any of those other cans listed online will challenge the HD600 at all, I know the nightowl and se-master1 are both notoriously bad. But if they have an HD800, definitely go have a listen. It is a polarizing headphone and whether you like it or not will tell you a lot about your own preferences.

High headphone impedance is only an issue if the source you're listening out of has a high output impedance, if the output impedance of the source is high enough, the frequency response will be altered and there will be a FR bump around the primary resonance of the driver (usually around 100hz in most dynamic drivers) due to a lack of electrical damping. A dedicated headphone amp is always best, there are a lot of good ones out there these days that don't break the bank.

I'm not an IEM expert, I've never really felt the need for them and have never found a comfortable pair either. Over-ear designs should have more spatial realism as the sound field interacts with your whole ear (research HRTF and pinna transforms if you want to learn more) compared to IEMs which fire directly into the ear canal and so skip the HRTF entirely.
Try Neovim, you'll love it. https://neovim.io/
You're getting downvoted but it's true. I'm in Australia and the US is out of my holiday plans.

Get treated like a criminal at the border to go to a country with a racist buffoon in charge, validating all the racists there. Thanks but no thanks.

America is an amazing country, I've been all across it before, and so vast that I can see why some are happy to only travel domestically and not bother with other countries. But I'll wait until it hopefully settles down a bit before I think about going back.

Also the guns. I don't feel safer when every idiot and his dog has assault weapons.

There's much frendlier "shitholes" in the world to visit.
My hypothesis is that users just need to have an in-your-face reminder that they are venturing into uncharted territory whenever an unseen domain and/or certificate comes up. The "X" in my "first X times" could be as low as 1.

You also don't need to show all cert metadata; just enough to be meaningful to the user. I believe that stuff like certificate signature, public key, and hash don't need to be shown to the user in such a modal dialog; they could be automatically checked against certificate transparency logs.

What you want to show to the user in such as modal is stuff like:

- entity name
- business registration jurisdiction
- business registration number

That's the kind of info that the CA ought to validate diligently. That's also the kind of info that people use to validate the identity of businesses in the physical world.

The modal should also have clear wordings in big letters of what a certificate actually means, namely, that the communication with the server is safe against eavesdropping and forgery, but that it's the user's responsibility to make sure the server is not an imposter - e.g. similar name or same name but registered in a different jurisdiction than the legitimate entity.

It's a lot about education, awareness, and timely reminders.

The alternative, which is to hide any indication of EV from the user, seems to be throwing up our hands and just assume users are always dumb and lazy. In that case, why bother with, not just EV, but any certificate at all?
https://youtu.be/vzm6pvHPSGo
IBM decided lotus software was more important than flying cars
Design wise, I am amazed by how modern it looks. Was it the first home computer to have the keyboard not embedded in the chassis?
I'm not familiar with Permaculture, but yes, that sounds right.
A flying car, aka "helicopter"
So two potential scenarios:

A. Earth is going to be hit by a super-mega-death laser focusing the entire power output of a star into a concentrated beam.

B. A long long time ago, a very dense moon was very far from a supernova. Unfortunately, far is relative, and so is speed in space. Specifically, relative to Earth, the moon is now traveling 5% the speed of light and is on a collision course.

In scenario A, there is no way for us to see this coming, because information also cannot travel faster than light. The light is what kills us.

In scenario B, it is theoretically possible to see this rogue-moon coming, since it is possible for light to reflect off of it and reach us before the moon does.
What supplements help with that?

edit: I’m reading adrenal fatigue is not really supported as a condition in medical circles.
Anecdotal of course, but as a potential tourist, I'm much less likely to choose a place where a racist grotesque ignoramus is the democratically elected leader.
Ok gotcha, appreciate the feedback.
From the pub you reference, it looks like some fungi can be beneficial. But many are not - many fungi cause wilts, rots, etc.

We only use naturally-occurring microbes, without genetic engineering. We focus on the unit of the cell, rather than the unit of the gene, to make our products.
On mobile it says to use desktop to see all the of the pictures which I can confirm there's way more.

Edit: checking the source code it only shows "20% of the photos" on mobile

The visual below shows the locations <span class="small-data-note">of 20%</span> of the photos
No light comes from the black hole itself (excluding Hawking radiation, which is unimaginably weak from a supermassive black hole) but the region around the black hole, the accretion disk where material accumulates before shedding angular momentum and falling into the hole, can be spectacularly bright (because it can be heated to billions of degrees). The accretion disk and jet formation region can be brighter than all the stars in a galaxy. That's what a quasar is.
Not sure I agree with you on SNOPT. There are many many tools out there that I see people use for convex (and non convex) optimization. Especially considering a single license costs $6000 I would be surprised if SNOPT even captured a plurality of solvers in use.

FWIW in my department (Electrical Engineering) No one is using SNOPT for their work that I know of.
Would this be a problem if these cars exclusively took off from the top of sky scrapers? If I remember from my time in Nyc, above the 20th floor it’s quite hard to hear even the loudest noises from the street.

Presumably from the ground, it’d be hard to hear one of these taking off on the 30th floor.
Thanks for the good wishes!

We can track changes in the micro-ecosystems by sequencing the soil or root metagenomes. We aren't doing this yet, but it's on the path forward.
Probably more, we bought 1.5Mb of core for our B6700 in the mid to late 70s for ~US$1.25
No. 900 years ago, a Chinese general tried to take back land from northern nomads and got killed.[0] And he was honored for 9 centuries in the country, even by Qing emperors who themselves were decendants of the northern nomads. In Hangzhou, there was a temple built for him.

7 and a half centuries before Yue Fei, there were Liu Yu[1]. 100 years before him there was Zu Ti. They both tried to fight northern nomads, and were remembered till this day due to their success.

Unification of the nation IS in the genes of the people. There is no question of that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Fei
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Liu_Song
Turns blue? It sounds too much like the Scott test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt(II)_thiocyanate), which any chemist will tell you reacts positive with any amine. Of course bird shit tests positive, as will your garden-variety antihistaminic and many other household medications.

It's just nothing but a fishing expedition for probable cause so that police can exercise their contempt for black youth.
Google Insider turns over laptop and 950 pages of documents to DOJ
We do pay American tax dollars directly overseas it's called foreign aid.
there's an embedded subset with half the number of registers
I tried to Google a service manual for a 6 year old washer, and all I found was the same page hosted on different websites of questionable reliability trying to sell me the full manual.

I used to be able to find even the most arcane manual out there, but it's getting difficult to impossible. Sometimes it seems Google purges and blocks searches for things older than a year. I know this isn't the case, but it seems like it, sometimes.

I have a Dell laptop, and they provide a service manual for it on their website. Parts are inexpensive, ubiquitous, and easily replaceable. No small wonder why I've been a customer since their PC's Unlimited days.
The types of microbes used in our products naturally occur in the soil. Our products pass through the required registration processes to ensure safety.
In some cases could this be because fewer than half of searches are returning relevant results? For my part I've been having a really difficult time finding things in Google lately. Even with search personalization on, results are just.. completely off the mark.
> Parts of the landmass can also be missing due to complete cloud cover that day. See the Amazon, Central Africa, or Northern Australia for example.

Aka great places to start a terrorist or drug organization!

The invasion of Iraq got delayed by a few days due to cloud coverage. It would definitely impede surveillance to have clouds often blocking satellites.
From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach
We're going to see a much larger problem, of actually archiving this autoupdated software.

10 years later, I could reinstall NeverWinter Nights. 20 years later, and I could still install Unreal Tournament. 25, Total Annihilation. 30 years ago; Duke nukem.

But that online game that came out 4 years ago and was abandoned; gone to time. Even if I have the client, the server world is gone. Nada. Any trace of my playing, my friends, our exploits; gone from time. But there's a CNet article about it. That's as close as anyone will ever get.
Michael Feathers said that he doesn’t use the term when working for banks as they don’t see it as a negative term...
This commercial has stood out on my mind for nearly 2 decades. Probably a combination of Avery Brooks and flying cars, bit it had a lot of memorability to me for someone who used Lotus for 4 months at a job.
Thanks for a detail response. My comments were written with good faith.

If you look at twitter messages, timeline. I believe it was an attempt to spread a news that a military build up is happening near Shenzhen for crackdown on Hong Kong to foment protestors. Hence my comments about conflating the facts, I did not say its true or false but conflated (the very definition of fake news). If there is a button on that post to report, I would have done that instead of commenting on the post with details why I feel its a fake news.

Regarding prison cells size apartments I took a leaf from news by a major outlet with reputation I use, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/01/hong-kongs-poo...

Go through my submissions and you won't see political or national posts. I have only commented on already political or national news by others on HN front-pages. If the guideline in HN not to have political or national discussion on it, I believe it will be better to not have any posts in front-pages on it.

My submissions and comments are mostly technology in nature which is my passion.
Interesting question! We're not currently granting licenses, but may be interested in research collaborations in the future. We did find one very interesting mystery, three morphotypes of a single bacteria (as determined by 16S sequence), that could grow together and influence each others' frequency in the population.
Recycle your aluminum, people!
As someone who loved assembling Lego sets as a kid, I legitimately enjoy putting Ikea furniture together, it's a very similar experience
I've found this paper tantalizing.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222566309_Electrowi...

""High purity iron was produced, with a current yield of 85% and a power consumption of 4.25 kWh/kg iron.""

If you run numbers you get energy costs of about $400-$500/ton.
Haven’t we become a lot less apt at exposing manipulation? There isn’t a history of what you see in your social media feed or in your search results, and there is no record of who paid for it to look the way it did on that particular day. Facebook and others offer a view into the total advertising spending, but not on what or to whom. So while it’s probably better than nothing, it’s really far from being transparent.

I’m not into the field of communication or advertising, but I know from our own communications benchmarking that Social Media campaigns work better than almost anything. We use it to raise awareness on his feeding ducks with bread is a terrible idea, but you could be using it for anything really.

Advertising has certainly always been damaging to society, but in 2019 it’s now also the strongest political weapon of anyone with money and interest, and it seems to be leas transparent than ever before. Maybe it only seems that way because I’m not old enough to know what it was like 50 years ago. But I do know that we don’t currently have the tools to out it to the sunlight, because the records and the data behind it are locked away.
A good, fictional account of blowing up a dam (that's not The Monkey Wrench Gang) is Night Moves. One of the eco-warriors was critiqued by his boss at an organic farm (before he put 2 and 2 together...) that taking down one damn isn't enough - there were 10 more dams on that same river.

I guess it's also sobering to think that most all major rivers in the USA are damned up. I think, without looking, save the Yellowstone River.

That's it.
Ah laymen... 1 in 5 wrong at 80% threshold literally means the system is working just as intended...
Why would they be in jail?
For sure, listening to feedback and seeing what people want right now. Anything you want in particular?
A reference frame does not have a notion of position. By past I meant the "past from the perspective of someone on Earth right now, possibly traveling at near speed of light in some direction".
I'm not aware of these.

There are a number of meat-replacement startup companies, developing replacements for fish, chicken, beef, etc., either by formulating products with protein or animal cells, or with vegetable protein that is formulated to taste and mouthfeel of actual meat.
Do you have any tips for this sort of search tailoring? It's something I try for, but I've yet to find any particularly good keywords to leverage.
If true, very interesting. There have been investigations done that expose how Turkmenistan has a city or cities built for much larger populations than actually exist in them. There is speculation that the area was supposed to become the global capitol. It is probably bullshit, but the architecture there is pretty diabolical. Very occult-heavy stuff.
I think France is the same.
Latency between perception or measurement and reality insures we are always behind.

The info has to take time to travel.
>> The burden is on whoever introduces this silly "Tech Debt" notion to 1) clarify what exactly it means and how to measure it; and 2) give a model in which the measurement can correlate with an improvement to the software process.

I would highly recommend this book:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/managing-technical-debt...

Also, read the papers presented at this conference series.
https://2019.techdebtconf.org/#program
Hahah, oops. I assumed the date given by parent was today's date and didn't think about it much. I guess I should have said August 13, 2019. My bad.
Google lends the weight of its authority to the answers it presents. It's one thing if Infowars says that Obama is planning a coup against Donald Trump, it's another if Google says so.
I'll add one more example to the others: picture a crowded hallway full of people all trying to move in the same direction. The flow of people is quite slow, but if one person in the back trips and pushes the next person and so on, the domino effect will travel much faster than the individual people.
Thanks! In the US, >50% if fruits and vegetables are wasted. (Not all because of fungal rot, of course.)
Hackers were told to break into voting machines. They didn’t have much trouble
It's like police racism, stupidity and corruption had a footrace and it's too close to call.
I don't think youre quite getting my point.

Kafka is not going to replace MySQL specifically because it depends on the task at hand.

If you can't replace MySQL with Kafka, then why not just stick with whatever queue/jobs/stream infra you had before kafka. At least those solutions are quite limited in scope and easily replaceable.

At this point Kafka is a solution looking for a problem.
Yes. There are other companies that seek to preserve freshness. Our products specifically target fungal infections.
Kon-Tiki Expedition
Well, to be incredibly pedantic, it takes time for the light being reflected off of things to reach your eyes and be processed by your brain, so you are always observing the past even if it isn’t remotely perceivable :)
Definitely.

BTW, PDP-11 (and PDP-8?) uses 74 logic chips, not discrete transistors, so I would say it's already complex enough for tubes.
On tangent, I wonder if birds can be used to deliver drugs successfully.
I worked for RapidEye during the launch in 2008. Exciting times!

If I remember correctly, their planned lifetime for imaging was 7 years, so it's quite amazing that they're still active 11 years later.
I have heard about people putting in the work today so they can read/inspect it tomorrow.
The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With
I live rurally near a busy trunk road. I can walk about 1/2 mile away and the road is still in my line of sight, and it is still 'loud' (as in irritating). However, I'm blighted by this road as I'm so close to its proximity. And it disturbs me. However, I did notice when visiting a busy part of town recently that it was a complete aural assualt, and as such, you might hear/perceive less under the cacaphony of much.

I can hear drones that fly over, but it's not a horrible noise. Much car noise these days seems to come from friction on the road as engines have gotten much quieter. So with that in mind, perhaps in all they'd be quieter, but I can't see an easy way to environmentally muffle the sound, could you invert the sound?
Where do you live that just has water fountains everywhere? And is simultaneously practical to drive an SUV everywhere?
Lovecraft on the Tabletop
In case you're wondering whether your Macbook Pro needs to be serviced: https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall
The Young Man and the Sea Sponge
I bought an old touch wheel iPod and copied all my music to it just so I could have it all on one hard drive.
Its better than not. Anyone thinking books are somehow an exception to rapid, porous, and inevitable digital information distribution pheonmenon is drinking publishers delight kool aid. Aside from that, wasnt it microsoft or someone who shut their book service down and initially locked users out from their spent products only to allow pdf exports after outcry? For many reasons it shouldn't be a surprise piracy for ebooks has risen... Not to mention the college textbook saga
LockGit: A CLI tool for storing encrypted secrets in a Git repo
drop the "like"
Well it has one advantage, it's a privacy focused computer disconnected from the wild internet and probably less likely to be back doored. I'd be happier using it a a crypto wallet or for personal finance spreadsheets than a modern PC.
Of course. Individuals on the receiving end do not play a role in deciding when/where that money is spent though. Foreign aid is something entirely different, it is something decided upon by congress. An individual illegally crossing the border with the express purpose of seeking treatment for a pre-existing medical condition is an entirely different thing.