skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can per-device IPv6 addresses alone enable better tracking if they’re long-lived and the device moves physical locations during that time? How would a tracker with only IP address know that the device moved?
The craziest thing is that a 30% cut is close to what most state ask in terms of taxation.
It is amazing both for this kind of equipment and how open source quickly get this in place. It involves Microsoft (allow infrared tracker), opentrack that take advantage of this with open source and udp. Then unlike those iphone user just try to earn a few bucks (which is ok but not that useful), the webcam with AI is used.

The niche is small, the AI is not that hard but it is the integration that is crazy made.

As like the first use of internet is to play a game, do not underestimate the importance of just help each other to play the game.
I'm actually their target market, I use an iphone as my main phone because two reasons, first they have a great hardware, and second, they support their devices much longer than any other manufacturer. An iphone 7 is 4 years from their release still a very capable phone and receives security updates and new os versions, there is no other manufactured that does that. You could say that they finance that with the app store, but their devices are actually quite priced and what the app store gives to apple is way more money that what they need.

You can however not invest very much on the apple ecosystem and subscribe to most services outside the app store mode, which is what I do myself, but I'm a minority.
He seemed to have had this issue back in 2007, when he resigned from the Prime Ministership for the first time. At soon-to-be 66 he's not older than Trump, I wonder if he will make a third comeback.

If he doesn't, I wonder how future generations will look upon Abenomics. Reuters is already claiming it failed to deliver [1], but it takes ages to understand the full impact of economic changes.

1: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-abenomics-a...
> Technical debt, on the other hand, is quite literally a form of debt. You borrow time from the future by developing a solution that requires less work now, but that will need to be changed later on because it won't be enough future requisites, and that will create additional work (interest) in the long term while it's present

It is all just a words game. If there is an issue now, and I do a hotfix and hardcode some stuff that surely will need work later on to keep things working, then:

A) I created technical debt. I took the quick route now, but will have to spend more time in the future if I want to update this code.

B) I did maintenance. A thing was not working and I made it work. This is a simple, small bugfix, a.k.a. maintenance. In the future we might have to spend some time to keep things working in slightly different conditions. We also call that maintenance.

Both ways of phrasing it can help to communicate a message. But there is no use in getting hung up on what to call it. Your job as a developer is to be smart about it and choose the best possible trade-off. You need to do that in both versions equally.
Living in Vienna, Austria, I can give at least 4 locations in the inner city which don't receive even this speed of connection even though the city promised to roll out fiber 15ish years ago. Then our telecom became privatized and now we are stuck with 40/10 (on good days) DSL connections because no matter how often I call and ask for them to do something about it, they push a hybrid DSL/LTE Modem on me which isn't significantly faster.
It looks strange to me that it tries to use HTML, because then it should be compatible with Web APIs and should render the same. Then it would be basically a browser, not very different from what is used today in Electron.
But if it will differ from Web platform, why not to just make lightweight alternative DOM-like API.
9 MiB is lightweight?
For the older generation, much more inreresting design wise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Ami
Vivo's feature storage platform based on Nebula Graph
https://toyokeizai.net/sp/visual/tko/covid19/en.html
Publicly available test results show active cases slowly surge higher than the point when they started shutting down. The numbers hardly look acceptable.

If Japan didn't have the pandemic under control, would there not be a surge of deaths, particularly in the vulnerable age groups?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/12/national/tokyo-...
how much do you get into that? we have more than 40kg of bricks to organize :-)

probably looking at something like it's shown in the first lego movie, but with larger drawers.
This is what technical debt means to me. Decisions/shortcuts made early in the project that lead to lots of lost time when adding something new later (the lost time is the interest payment).

Good examples of this are premature microservices, no good separation between modules, bad database schema design, etc...
I suspect that most Americans care more about not killing themselves than in preventing overall number of deaths.

The chances of surviving in an oversize vehicle are disproportionately higher than in a tiny car (what I have heard referred to as an "aluminum covered electric bike").
"Free with advertising" is tenet of Apple's App Store policy, i.e. Royalty Free for everyone:

https://www.apple.com/ios/app-store/principles-practices/
I actually couldn't remember how much would that weight so I didn't include that.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair
It is automated in the sense that silicon goes in one end, and ideally no human being touches it until it comes out of the other end in a finished package. It is not at all automated in the sense that there is a ton of maintenance work on the production line.

I love reading through random tech journals, the type with highly industry-specific ads in them, as an insight into the worlds other people live in. Jobs and every day problems I will never experience first-hand.

One of the single most eye-popping experiences like that was an ad in a chip industry quarterly I found somewhere that was breathlessly advertising that their latest tool (a machine the size of a garage) now had an MTBF of "just" 27 hours instead of the previous 2-3 hours, a massive tenfold improvement! Cutting edge stuff, apparently, compared to the competition. The really impressive part apparently was that by cutting down on maintenance time, it could be "online" for up to 90% of the time instead of just 30-50% of the time or somesuch. Apparently that's impressively good in this space.

The rest of the ad (and much of the journal) kept going on and on (and on!) about how their tool has easy-swap parts, can keep the vacuum during repair, has tool-less panels, quick access, no need for heavy lifting, etc...

I don't think I'm exaggerating too much by saying that nearly 50% of all technical development in the fab industry is about reducing the maintenance effort, and hence staffing costs.
Interesting as I assumed EV's biggest advantages would be in stop and go traffic, where there is frequent acceleration/deceleration inertia to overcome, and real net noise benefits which sort of go away above 35km/h.
> The time it takes to run a paid newsletter

Isn't that about 40-60hrs/wk, like everything we do for a living? †

† Except for Elon Musk.
Humans, primarily.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/wildfire-causes-and-evaluation....

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-01-05/human-c...
Do you also consider "monsters" anachronistic?
Thank you for sharing this ! I'll read it for sure
Walmart == AppStore?
Does walmart also only sell things at 30% markup or is there perhaps some possibility that in reality, things are valued differently based on what they are.
Buying a computer is not something I do often, therefore it has high markup and cost.
Buying groceries, that is a different story.

It for sure doesn't cost apple anything to have the bit of information under the approval message. Ironically, it does cost them money to find a way to block it from being displayed.
If this were true, it would be very obvious to electricity suppliers that the embassy is using far less energy than would be expected for a building of it’s size.

But no, I don’t think even the Americans could get away with building an unlicensed nuclear power plant near the center of London.
I think the main issue with Brick sets is supply. My step-mum ran a toy store a few years ago, and Lego wouldn't sell her sets of bricks unless she bought several hundred pounds worth of the themed sets.
There can be many very valid reasons for creating technical dept when writing code.

That does not mean technical dept is not a thing or not a real issue in certain codebases.

Almost every day I think about the potential technical dept of my code.
Same here. By totally borking the user experience when one attempts to disable location tracking, they just encouraged me to stop using their services. I switched to iOS for mobile devices and now I don’t even use Google Maps on mobile. Apple Maps is good enough. Now Google have no idea where I am when I leave my house, and that’s a good feeling.
Apple Blocked Facebook Update Highlighting Apple's In-App Purchase Fees
De-fender the Police?
Thats exactly why you hand out bans or send the teenager to timeout - it teaches them that bad attention seeking is not desirable and not rewarded with attention.

The internet lost the lesson some time ago because even bad attention is good attention when it comes to KPIs. More sharing is good sharing.
I also had the hope musk would launch into that market and directly confront apple and google. But even for him, that would be a very very wild bet.
How to Log
Top Biofuel Crops
https://quark.sciter.com/
One of the great things about Flatpak [1] is being able to restrict permissions for each application. Flatseal [2] is a useful GUI for controlling it. Zoom is available as a Flatpak [3]

1. https://www.flatpak.org/

2. https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

3. https://flathub.org/apps/details/us.zoom.Zoom
Dont know about Stripe but Braintree has a forwarding API where the card details go to Braintree then Braintree forwards that data to another payment gateway you have signed up for, the other payment gateway sends a token to braintree which forwards that token to you.

Then you have an option to make the payment on Braintree or the other payment gateway using that gateway's token.
Your opening hypothetical leaves the impression that the words which follow it were either an alternate rehearsal for a more blunt observation: "if all your wealth is deflationary, to spend is to lose deflationary currency" or an earnest counterargument-by-analogy which contradicts something very near the bedrock of my own common sense about money; why would anyone with savings in a deflationary currency and the opportunity to spend inflationary currency decide to have & hold that which would decrease in value in favor of (equivalently denominated) spending which won't?
To help make a "Map" of our gut bacteria, think about "benchmarking" your new Ryzen System with that ;)

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/mip1/overview.do
Unless the ad company is also your e-mail, maps, photos and whatnot provider.

(Why would...? Ha.)
Delightful, Effective APIs
Technical debt is not maintenance.

Technical debt is the additional maintenance for which you create a need when, presented with multiple options to implement a thing, you take the quickest and dirtiest one. It compounds the more you make decisions like that, just as compounding interest and capitalization create ever higher amounts of monetary debt.

Also, I found their self-referenced article on how Windows required more work than the pyramids, using man hours as a metric, simply absurd. This strikes me as a mythical man month type fallacy but can’t quite put my finger on it.
The 'he did the math and then did an obviously impossible thing' is really easy to understand. Otherwise it's just a meh explanation that's based on some predictions mixed with politics.
This is true, but ignores two things:

1. People will (over)react to autonomous deaths. Every AV death "matters" more.

2. Getting the death rate below non-AV is difficult to test. Accidents are rare. Are you going to let these things loose on the public for hundreds of millions of miles before determining that the death rate might not be better yet?
Exactly. If any company asks, just give them an explanation like "I got laid off due to covid and spent the time learning and preparing for interviews" which implies that you're using your time well. If that explanation doesn't suffice for them, then you probably don't want to work there anyways
How does the accessibility story look like? If there's no accesibility, the usual disclaimers apply, get legal advice before building anything professional with it. Be aware of not just current laws, but future ones, especially those we definitely know are coming.
every teleconferencing app does this.

Teams will not show you a browser link until you download the web client.

webex will actively download a .exe (on my mac?) before showing the browser link.

When I see stuff like this, I think "market opportunity" but the status quo must be pretty profitable.
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Powell's Technical Books used to be my favorite place to hang out. I would ride downtown in the morning and spend an entire day there, scanning every shelf in my fields of interest, reveling in periodic hits of serendipity. Since PTB closed, I've been back once. It wasn't worth it any more. I'll admit that I did like it better back before the store was spruced up to be like a Borders.
> address in my profile

Note that the HN profile e-mail field is not public. That field is for password reset stuff or something.

If you want people to see your e-mail you will need to write what it is in the profile description.
Fair enough.

For me, Matrix was not just about bridging IRC, but about unifying communications. And when you first decide to do that, bridging IRC too becomes a no-brainer.
> Nobody is, nor was, sending the equivalent of a ground telescope installation upwell. You only send the looking part, with a downlink bolted on them. You do control and data processing planetside.

That rack full of electronics is the looking part (temperature controllers, power supplies, CCD controllers, motor controllers, ...). The data processing happens in a server rack on the other side of the planet in either case (ground-based or space-based).

And you somehow are under the impression that telescopes and instruments are so cheap that it doesn't matter if we loose one every year and then just launch another one. If that were the case we would be building dozens of 3m+ telescopes all over the planet every year - but we are not, because we don't have the money to do that.

Telescopes are multi-decade investments by the institutes, so even with free (free!) launches exactly as much testing will be done as before, because we can still only afford one shot.
Revery is fully native and doesn't use parts of web platform. It uses ReasonML, that is dialect of OCaml and has its own implementation of platform and renderer.
Port forwarding for Android app development
The specific fallacies you have chosen to employ to attempt support your frail argument are interesting. I have read Special Relativity in translation, it is short enough and there is little math. My German is not even pedestrian, so no, I have not read Einstein's original article on General Relativity.

No, I meant what I said. Special Relativity would have appeared within a few years of Einstein's publication had it not occurred, but for General Relativity derived elsewhere would have taken decades at least. Hilbert didn't have it and wasn't on anyone's heels.
No way, I didn't know Abebooks was owned by Amazon. I always found it far easier to use than Amazon's own site for finding books.
If you're interested in learning vanilla JavaScript through an online course, you might like to try Execute Program:
https://www.executeprogram.com/

I found it more thorough and challenging than others I've tried, but it doesn't assume any knowledge of JavaScript.
I agree that further work is unavoidable in an ever changing environment. Software is built over time with the environment constantly shifting under it, it's a cycle to maintain and extend (constant changes if you will).

That's the crux of why technical debt doesn't exist, or is not a receivable term. If it were debt there should be a way not to take it, but there isn't. Every variable and function and design decision will invariably be rebranded as technical debt by the next developer soon enough. That's not reasonable.

One solution to not have debt may be to not write anything, that's not receivable because then there would no product and no company.

The other implication is that there may be a perfect state to reach with no debt, but that's not the case, realistically it's not possible to start from code that's perfect and bug free and supports every (future) feature in the universe.
But do they do this for bookstores in the same numbers? It seems like a different demographic desiring an increasingly niche product wouldn't be showrooming in the same degree. The most showrooming probably occurs at big box stores, or those that compete with Amazon on general goods.
Would you like to be the last car in a high way traffic jam when you see one of these coming closer in your rear view mirror?
There's no such thing as "states' rights". States, like all levels of government, have no rights.

Government has powers, not rights, and only those powers granted it by Federal/State constitutions.

People sometimes misstate the concept of limited Federal powers as "states' rights", but the term generally reflects ignorance.
I've never been able to get my head round the concept of Test Driven Development. Maybe it's because, every time I've seen an example of it [which, like the one you linked to] are usually aimed at explaining the concept, they seem like a lot of extra work for questionable benefit.

For example: I've got some 'multiplying' code that should return 4 when passed 2 and 2 so I'm advised to write an "assert" test that returns 4 when I send it 2 and 2. But what happens if I send it just 2?... or 2 and 2 and 2?... or 2 and 3?... or 2 and W? None of the examples of why it's so vital to write tests ever seem to cover this kind of thing? They just seem to show a test which returns the correct answer when given the correct data. But aren't many of the problems with software caused when a piece of code receives the wrong data in the first place?

Genuine question. I've read so many times about why I should practice TDD that I believe it in theory. But I've never seen a beginner's example that has actually seemed like it would provide the claimed benefits. Why is writing a test that takes one single specified input and checks for one single specified output "better" than just writing my code and then trying to break it by [metaphorically] hitting the "Do Not Press!" button, by throwing as much incorrect, malformed or otherwise "wrong" data at it, as possible.
The article is not talking about people wearing Maga hat... Not sure what is the point of this comment about this particular article (while I would understand it on some other articles, even if I would disagree with you)...
It's obviously great that renewables are getting better and cheaper.
But, what energy source will we use when the sun is not up and there's no wind?

They're not producing all of the time. Renewable power production vary greatly: it's actually problematic that they produce way too much at peak hours, while none at all on windless nights.

You need a stable base production. What better to replace coal and natural gas than nuclear?
I had actually thought Apple might have removed the Repeat functionality when I upgraded iOS a few years ago; when someone else showed me how to do it--which involved scrolling the entire app to find some new hidden features--it felt more like a prank than real software :/.
>But it has serious long term effects which are hard to understand as it’s so complex.

This paper attempts to study it: https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1809g.pdf, and found that artificially low interest rates create zombie firms that could not survive without such low rates, and "that zombies weigh on economic performance because they are less productive and because their presence lowers investment in and employment at more productive firms.".
I worked in the field of engineering since 2007. I can surely say that even simply the choice of materials, and metalworking processes mean that the nuclear reactor vessel alone costs like one diesel/LNG power stations.

Steam turbines are bigger, and more expensive than equivalently powerful turbines of a gas-turbine engine, and not to say that gas turbine is also its own source of hot gas.

I think the best option for undeveloped nations is to rent their power generation equipment until they can bootstrap their electric grid, and build proper power stations.
The program is in github.com/AIRLegend/aitrack and You can reach opentrack, also in github, from that page.
Your version lost the congressional mandate. Took a bit to notice too since it's so wordy.
Maintenance and technical debt are intertwined, but I don't think it's just a words game. Things without a name are less visible, and maintenance and technical debt are different.
There's maintenance unrelated to technical debt, and technical debt unrelated to maintenance. Taking into account the technical debt you have helps you when estimating the cost of maintenance and new features, or to understand the possible problems when new environments come into play.

IMHO, part of being smart about it is having the words to communicate the concepts clearly, it's not a moot discussion.
If you're writing desktop apps using an HTML/CSS interface, I wonder if "lightweight" is really a concern? I don't work on any such projects, but I'd probably prefer something established with a community (electron) if the only advantage is size (they mention memory usage too, but no specifics).
Tesla is what Apple detractors think Apple is

Apple does truly amazing stuff for the mundane aspects of every device, even simple stuff like coloring cases, and all people can do is complain their laptops cost too much.

Tesla makes combines a set of off the shelf set of parts in a plastic bottle, causing an engineer to go "I'm amazed anyone would bother doing this for no discernible gain on such a mundane set of parts" and people misinterpret the amazement and tout it as an engineering marvel and say that's exactly why they deserve their asking price
I think this is so silly on Apple side as they try to have a name on raising the bar for user experience. And the worse is that before I realized what was going on I thought it was Amazon fault for some reason, which is even better for Apple as people would normally blame the developers rather than the platform for this design decision.
Why didn't she just get a fecal transplant?
Meh. I used it before Apollo came out and it always felt very foreign to the OS and kind of ugly.
I agree with you in general.

In this case, though, the article talks about "a few months over the quarantine" and "including a 3 month break due to life and COVID impacts". That makes it pretty easy to date!
I can not imagine how allowing brand exclusive charging stations can be in the public interest.
99% of people's use of smart phones has nothing to do with calling people.