skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After owning a house, I feel like technical debt is much more closely related to building homes and doing remodels.

You can always cheap out and get it done slightly faster and slightly cheaper. And you might not have to suffer the consequences. But someone down the line likely will.

E.g. we recently had to install a cleanout for the sewer mainline in our house. Apparently when they built the house, they did everything but install the final above-ground cleanout - instead they just capped it off below ground. The other work, except for the above ground part, all had to be done for testing purposes anyways. But by not installing the above ground part they managed to save something like $10 for each house they built. But now, instead, I had to pay a company $1,200 in labor (they spent all day digging) to install a $20 part when our sewer backed up.

I work in a codebase full of bad, willful technical debt like this. "Let's just do it the easy way" - despite the "hard" way not being harder, just more different than they were used to at the time. Or hard coding things despite being able to derive it from other information - "we can do it later" - good luck, differences creep in and you will spend weeks or even months figuring out all these minor differences and whether they are on accident or on purpose.

6 months down the line, that easy way is completely fucking us up. Certain changes that would have taken an hour take days. And it was completely predictable at the time.
I was a long distance runner from like 25-36. I ate whatever i wanted. You know what they tell you, Carb loading etc… Then i went through a vegetarian phase. A paleo phase , An atkins phase etc... Then i went through broke phase at 39. I really didn't get the pre-diabetes diagnosis until after 46. I stopped the long distance running and shifted to a more of a calisthenics workout. Pull ups and HIIT training more functional muscle type stuff , ( 2 mile run consisting of sprinting then pull ups / push ups / dips. After the DNA test and the pre-disposition to diabetes after 45 i went to the doctor got blood work and thats when the doctor said my AC1 is high and Im pre-diabetic. I ate a LOT of choc-chip cookies in youth ( lol) and LOVED me a good brownie a la mode with a LOT of fudge . Now after this IF diet and the predisposition to diabetes and had to give up all that. This IF diet is working great for me now. Hopefully i can stay with it. I have dropped weight but do not want to be below 165. I think the ideal weight for me is around 170 lbs. I suggest everyone at LEAST give it a shot and get a 23andME test as you get older to find out if you have a pre-disposition. Then take some action or you will be on meds. Doctor never prescribed IF to me they don’t have time for it. Doctor never prescribed cross fit either. They just prescribe meds.
> People have been calling police since the first ones, the Bow Street Runners.

Now:

> There's a citation to this usage in the OED back to 1811 that is specifically as I stated.

The Bow Street Runners were founded in 1749[1].

1811 is after they were founded so it does not really support your original claim. Which would require the use to have been <= 1749.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_Street_Runners?wprov=sfti1
>I'd still say that John Rockefeller is more impressive. Adjusted for inflation John Rockefeller's company Standard Oil was worth over $1 trillion dollars.
>Or Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the guy who started the Dutch East India company

Yeah, it's amazing what those guys could get away with back in the days of slavery and before regulation.
/sarcasm
Thanks! Hey you know, I'd like to respond to everyone, but since you asked: it never really did work out. When I try to write up a summary of the highs and lows that got me here, it ends up being long and negative so I’ll save it for a blog post. I’m in a committed relationship in a home we share together and get a lot of love and support from my family. I couldn’t ask for a better upbringing. So there’s a lot of guilt there that I let opportunities slip by. But I mainly wanted to reply because I’m sorry I compared donating plasma with prostitution, I don’t believe it’s like that, and it was wrong to write that. Something has been bothering me about the idea of selling oneself in one form or another, and I think what I was trying to say was that when people do what they must for self-preservation, then that's noble and we shouldn't be so quick to judge them when we haven't walked in their shoes. If anyone reads this someday, please don’t be too hard on yourself. Don’t remember only your mistakes like I do.

As far as the future goes, I just got out of a 4 year stint at one of the better consulting agencies in town so am back to contracting. I’d like to be part of something bigger than myself, with a grander purpose like ending labor as we know it. I believe there is a bright future in the gig economy and that eventually we’ll be able to work as needed, sustainably. Once we have something like a global jobs service so that labor security is always available, it will put pressure on corporations to raise wages. That should prop up the late-stage capitalism we’ve found ourselves in long enough that robot labor can take over when the singularity arrives around 2040 and provide UBI for everyone. It’s either that or dystopia.

With all these things, it’s hard to tell anymore if I’m talking about myself or the world. So I’ve been coping a lot and battling depression off and on. But I’m also grateful to be alive in such interesting times.
Try getting approval to reduce my weekly hours at work (currently thinking by just 10% so aiming for 36 vs 40) due to working for flexible company and wanting to spend more time on house projects (my wife likes them and we just moved to a house at end of half mile dirt road)
Hmm, I like coffee very much but I don't really use it to get shit done as much as to open my mind to creative thinking. Perhaps I'm using it differently than most people do?

Without coffee, I will feel sluggish and sleepy all morning. With coffee, I feel alert and inquisitive. I have a rule against drinking coffee after noon, so it doesn't affect my sleep patterns.

Discovering coffee in college was really what allowed me to read things for long hours. I like the fact that it activates inquisitiveness a lot more than that it enables productivity. This is a purely subjective experience, I admit.
Why would providing similar behavior to an OS app warrant a ban? Many many apps on various OSes supplement default OS apps.
The people in Ottawa are so nice, and the bilingualism is pleasant and if you're comfortable living on the Quebec side of Ottawa, housing is dirt cheap, something like 2x or 3x gross salary.

I just wish it had a night life. The expression "nothing good in Ottawa happens after 8pm" is funny because politicians mean it one way, while people from Toronto mean it the other.
Really, you can't? While I don't think this is what GP meant, I sure can! We all had a lot more privacy before the internet.
”Well, the conservatives want to conserve, not the current status quo, but the status quo of, say, 1950. To get there from here, we'd need to make some drastic changes to the current status quo.”

They don’t want that. Otherwise they would support tax increases and lower salaries for CEOs. They want to go back to a mythical past that never existed the same way they are Reaganites that would call the real Reagan a RINO.
I'm trying to understand how you see Republican positions changing over time as well. From the perspective of policy or cultural issues. If I grant your point about how the last 15 years has seen a resurgent left, something that I'm stoked about, could you explain a little about how you've seen the republicans change over 10 to 20 years?
It's like grammar. Once you know the rules, you can break them to good effect.

But if you lack the basic ability to follow the rules, you're just a bad cook.
>DevSecOps

I hadn't heard this term until very recently when SaltStack started pushing their enterprise suite hard in the security direction, and I facepalmed.
Do these jobs pay as well as typical tech jobs?
It really is a bizarre setup, I think it's mostly generated by the reality-distorting effect of the ubiquitous "far-right opinion" programming on radio and Fox News and now online. The far left is supposedly in control of everything despite only controlling a handful of seats of power in the past century.
Don't know if this was a huge factor.

I know a bunch of people who started doing web stuff with the rise of Flash.
That's almost certainly a quote. Adding the attribution would have been helpful.
Microsoft and Apple are both worth over 1T at the moment.

Granted, DEIC is in a league of its own, but it was also a state sponsored company, more akin to Saudi-ARAMCO (2T).
Surprising Things Moving from a Middletown USA suburb to SF
The first emulator I wrote in JavaScript for a subset of x86 took a couple hours (maybe 4-6) over the weekend before I could run a `int main() { return 1 + 3; }` program. Like others have mentioned the GB takes longer before you get to the point of something you can see working.
Yeah, I recently started working (full time) from home too (about 6 months ago). In my particular case I combined starting remote work with moving to another country which made one negative aspect of remote work more acute: social isolation. It should definitely not be underestimated and it is very helpful to build things into your life that involve you in others' lives directly. Additionally having a good routine, and being intentional about it, goes a really long way! Figure out what works for you and what does not. For me, I chose one room in my apartment where I work, and when I leave that room I avoid work.

On the plus side, I think working from home can bring you much closer to family - it is crazy to think I spent so much time at work!! 9+ hours of my waking life was away from the people closest to me. Working from home gives you _a lot_ more flexibility so make the most of that! Wanna work at a cafe today? Go for it! Wanna sleep in a bit? Go for it! (but do not do this at the cost of a healthy routine). Make it a treat yo' self kind of thing. Good luck and hope you can make the most of this new mode!
s=20 is shared from mobile website (iOS and android tested). 21 is iOS app. Don't have others to test offhand.

There's a Twitter thread from a few years ago where a few folk collected a bunch of them, but I can't find it anymore.
> Why we don't use modern materials and methods

We do. One of the main points in the article is that this particular yacht is old, was made using materials and techniques that aren’t in general use anymore, and thus the skills needed to maintain it are gradually dying out.
On average, humans have one breast and one testicle.
While those sites are fine for searching for specific content, I'm surprised no one has made a custom netflix homepage extension (and believe me, I've looked for it many times over the years).

I just want something simple and minimal. No bullshit fullscreen autoplaying trailer at the top. Just 3 sections: Shows I've been watching (with an easy button to remove any i'm done with), shows I have marked as interested in, and then at the bottom, there can be recommended shows and new content.

That's it. It shouldn't be that hard. Some day I might code it myself.
I get weird, vivid dreams after drinking some wines. After a lot of experimentation, I narrowed it down to Lodi Zinfandels, which raises an interesting puzzle: Is it something in the soil, or are the local winemakers in some sort of competition to hotrod their wines?
Behind Samsung’s $116B Bid for Chip Supremacy
I don't think there's a catchall solution but if you break down your guilt of not being productive, there may be some underlying themes.

1) Good chance you're guilty about not beind productive because you've seen other people launching products or releasing progress shots. Realise it's inhuman to be productive 100% of the time, everyone who's released a product or those screenshots have also be unproductive at times. Refocus your goals, make them feasible and iterate on the tasks, don't tackle it in an all-or-nothing manner.

2) Look at what you have achieved and don't underestimate it. There could be a chance you're overweighting the remaining tasks and underweighting patting yourself on the back. Positive spirals exist just as much as negative spirals.

3) What is productiveness for you? Walking your dog is productive, just not directly useful for coding a website (although you could be generating ideas during the walk).

Maybe you feel like you should be doing something constantly but if you take a step back, what race are you actually running in? There isn't really someone else on the track, you're just imagining there is and accepting that this race doesn't exist outside of your mind might make it easier to appreciate you don't have to be constantly working and burning out.
E - Teaching? A few of my absolute best adjunct professors were retired from industry and took jobs in education because they loved the field and wanted to give back.
From the Wikipedia article on Dutch East India Company:

"The company has been criticised for its monopolistic policy, exploitation, colonialism, uses of violence, and slavery."

I'm pretty sure many of the today's companies would do just as well or even better if they could have their own military force and free ticket on slavery.
Most of Western Europe has pretty strict surveilance laws. The GDPR applies even when recording people in private space, e.g. visitors, employees or ATMs inside bancs. Recording public space on a permanent base is a big nono. Accidentally recording strangers for a one off video is no problem.

Then again, after the Brussels terrorist attacks, the police managed to reconstruct the path of a terrorist pretty well by puzzling together all kinds of recordings, so my impression is enforcement is lax as long as nobody complains.
More openings at higher levels? That's just at odd with how organizational structure works. For engineers, at least, you need about 1 manager per 8 ICs. Going up the ladder, you probably need about the same number per level, so: 8 managers of managers per first level manager, and so on. If you have team managers, directors, and VPs, you should need:

1 VP per

8 directors per

64 team managers.

So, how are there more openings at higher levels?
I told them flat out: if they went that way (non-STEM) they would have to do it w/o my support.

Though, in reality I would have continued to support them if they switched majors after giving STEM a chance for 2-years.
Fiberglass, carbon fiber, aluminum, and stainless steel are modern materials commonly used in building boats. They are resilient to external conditions as long as you don't drive the boat into a rock or something.

Boats don't have enough usable surface area for solar panels to propel them at a sustained useful speed (especially not at night or in a storm). Most sailboats do now have small solar panels to power lights and electronics. Hybrid propulsion systems are available, although expensive.
I am not incorrect.

Record audio at your peril: (This is re: New York)

http://www.dmlp.org/forum/newsgathering-law/new-york-recordi...

“...it is possible to violate the Wiretapping Act (and thereby commit a felony) by pointing a camera at a person speaking on a cell phone and creating an audio recording of part of the telephone conversation.”

Recording audio is always fraught with risk. You should avoid it, especially in indoor locations that you do not control.
while i'd agree that outlook.live.com is a great webservice, i'm not sure i'd encourage people that only want mail service to use it.

office365 is aimed at people that actually want to use the microsoft office suite. if you only want email, you'll get as much for ~$5/month
These successful people sound like working long hours is an absolute evil. I think they underestimate the effort that an ordinary person needs to be even moderately successful. What if it takes me twice as long to debug a problem as my team's standard? What if a concept is so simple to everyone else in my team yet it's just so hard for me to understand? What if I see an opportunity to build a truly great product, yet I don't have the required technical background while I have at most two weeks to catch up? What if I really want to tap into machine learning yet I have meetings all day, so my only choice is to study after work? Now, before you ask me to switch my career, what if I do have a passion in tech and I'm even worse at doing anything else?

See? Working long hours sometimes is not a burden, but a choice, a choice that one makes to master what they love, and to make sure they won't regret wasting their life when looking back years later. And sometimes working long hours, as long as it's voluntary, is the only way to succeed.
>I profoundly want to see college be free for all, and debt zeroed out.

If you don't mind, can I ask some questions to expand upon this?

First, does this count living expenses? Many students can save greatly living at home, but this requires going to a college near your home, for there to even been a college near your home, and decent enough relationship with the parents/guardian. If we don't cover room/board/etc. it greatly limits freedom of picking without people still having to take on some level of debt, but makes the overall cost cheaper. If we do cover room/board/etc. then what sorts of limits are on it?

Second, you say free for all, but does all mean the people who take more than 4 years to finish a 4 year degree? What sort of upper limits? What about people who have a degree but want to go back (perhaps there degree is in a field that is currently shrinking)? Would there be an expected level of academic achievement that must be met to continue?

Many people I've spoken to in the past will quickly point out that many nations already solve these problems, but I also find what the person envisions and how it works in other countries do have some level of disagreement (especially with regards to merit qualifications and the actual experience itself), though I haven't been able to verify if this is really the case or not.
I don't think I can agree. Sure, something like the plague or an asteroid impact has considerable unknowns and thus considered unfixable/dangerous/worrisome. My scepticism is from observing society, seeing tremendous problems never fixed and when people with authority are aware of it.

I think greed, selfishness and people truly inconsiderate happens on a greater scale than what we imagine with factoring into as an issue with the problem of global warming. I guess my scepticism is from considering the forgoing, before thinking of global warming and then thinking of other problems humanity faced (where people are concerned with their daily lifestyle continuing or improving).

Global warming is somewhat unique in the list of known problems when I think about it. I assume it will be too late, before people start being truly effected and to the point they act on something other than promoting public awareness. I've been living a lifestyle where I always walk to work & back. I don't own a car and I somewhat imagine similar steps need to be taken on a larger scale. I'm doubtful people will go from being knowledgable to acting. I have less faith on corporations and laws changing so they must act if they even care about being fined.
> Personally, I think learning a trade should be an option in high school.

Lots of Americans do learn a trade in high school. Just to copy the "Programs" menu from the Tech Center at the high school where my wife teaches (suburb in VT): Automotive Technology, Building Technology, Cosmetology, Computer Systems Technology, Computer Animation & Web Design, Dental Assisting, Design and Creative Media, Childhood Education & Human Services, Engineering & Architectural Design, Natural Resources, Professional Foods, Health Informatics. I understand that many of these programs, if not all, are supposed to be a career for the students, and that many of them are thought of as hard.
You'll never owe more than 10% of income over 1.5x the federal poverty rate though assuming you don't get private loans (90% of loan disbursements are public).
That depends on the state. In Florida, I had to put up notices that audio was being recorded in one room in order to hook up a microphone to a surveillance camera.
Right, I completely agree, but him saying that he worked for entitreity of those 4 hours is a bit misleading imo. We all know how "efficient" these meetings are.
> I think ICs should go in parallel with engineering management in the reporting chain: the top IC reports to CTO, next level reports to directors, etc. This ensures that IC’s scope of responsibilities is expanding and they have better visibility and power.

That’s how it works at IBM. I’m the “responsible” party and technical leader for a couple of teams working on related projects. I report to a program director who reports to a VP. My peers are line managers and other senior tech leaders. Part of what’s great about the team that I’m in is that we ha e clear talent pipelines that show how you can matriculate upward in design, engineering, or management, and that a “band 10” of engineering is equivalent in scope, comp, influence, and autonomy to his or her manager equivalent or design equivalent. That extends into the executive ranks as well though it’s more common to find people who hold dual roles of VP and Fellow or Director and Distinguished Engineer or Distinguished Designer.
+1 to this. It's different work - though the problem solving is the same in many ways.

Think about it like this, in many of these meetings you're look at a multivariate problem with very few reference outcomes for any given decision path and you need to come up with a solution that doesn't break the other parts of the system. Sound familiar?

Depending on what kind of decision is made, dozens or hundreds of people will have to change how they work, so the cost is high and in many cases the longer you wait to make a decision the more technical debt you have etc... so time is really a factor because people are already working.

For example we needed to come to some consensus on the RPC format we were going to use because one group used JSON, another Protobuf, another XML and other organizations wanted us to use older complex formats like USMTF and UCI to be interoperable. So do we create anticorruption layers and let everyone just do whatever they want? how do we prioritize our streaming consumers and producers? Should we switch everyone to Avro? Etc... you get the idea.
Perhaps that explains why people who drink moderately enjoy better outcomes: they're not being penalized by others for not drinking.
Newbie Windows 95 users would quite frequently hide the entire start bar because they accidentally moved the mouse while trying to click on an item, and the system interpreted that as a drag intended to resize the start bar to a zero height.

At that point they could no longer use their computer at all until they got external help.
And apple is a horrible name for a computer because you may find fruit, amazon fire will give you trees in flames, and word, office, windows... It is difficult to find things when you do not know what you are searching for.