skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude, you do sound like stubborness incarnate.

You’re trying to assert your subjective perception as an unquestionable truth, while everyone else is trying to make the point that this truth really is ambiguous (because of the underlying lie that the subject of the article correctly guessed.)

If anything, reading this exchange gives me the uncomfortable feeling of what it would feel to argue with a Taliban.
I've found a 30% upcharge is what to expect here in the US. Depending on shipping you may even save money.
> These people, having committed no crime, are not criminals. Putting the basement nerd with socialisation issues in the same bag as actual rapists is about as helpful as saying that a grandad who smoked weed once is like a cartel boss.

Yes, I agree with that 100%; I was referring specifically to the one statement I quoted about anybody being convicted without having caused any harm. I understood that statement to be absolute, regardless of how close someone might have been to actually causing real harm and how much they might have intended to do so.
A lot of people don’t know that to undo text operations on IOS you shake the whole phone.

It’s insanity.
My wife guessed late 30s, when I showed her the pic with zero contest. Something about wrinkles on forehead.
Even worse with fusion: huge plants (10 GW) that need to run constantly with high power output to remain hardly economical that can’t be buffered with anything else than other fusion plants nearby. My guess: fusion plants will be built for single applications with crazy power usage where downtime doesn’t hurt too much. Errrm, accelerating spaceships?
I'm the reverse- I always set tap to click and remove force click and haptic feedback.

Just a tap, like on a phone, and I've clicked. I do keep the click sound on though, for feedback.
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"The system can never achieve its purported goal of fairness while white supremacists continue to hide within police departments."

The problem with this is that racism has been redefined so broadly that it includes anyone wearing a Maga hat.
40% is kind of an average of already installed offshore wind project, some having been installed 10 years ago... In wind project in general we've seen a continuous trend of spectacular increase in capacity factor [1], and 40% capacity factor can be expected from a US onshore wind project now... 60% average seems high right now (not in the future) and depend on geographies though

Of course managing intermittence is not easy and free, but nobody is talking about a 100% wind-power grid, and the current installations can absorb a fair amount of intermittence with extra investment... And wind and solar are becoming so cheap that you have a lot of space to pay for managing intermittence - that can be using differently the current installations, developing a demand-response market, and doing some thermal and electrical storage...

[1] see for example https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... keeping in mind the average capacity factor include older equipment with low capacity factor... and that offshore wind is "just starting"
Not quite $40, but 2TB USB drives do exist. Who knows what you’d store on it though!

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kingston-DataTraveler-Ultimate-GT...
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Where I work, "technical debt" is a term used by the project management folks whenever they are looking for justification for forcing developers to do something that everyone knows is a bad idea.

No worries, we'll come back to it when we have more time (we never have more time).
I would prefer another name than just religion or so but this is a structure we know.

I don't wanna look through a catalog of different organizations doing different things.

I wanna build and do things together with similar minded people.
It's very simple.

Have you ever held a $100 note in your hand? If you have you have necessarily caused $100 of "debt" to the nation - because you haven't immediately spent it as soon as you received it.

If you'd spent it, it would be taxed as it moves and would rapidly become a $20, then a $10 and so on.

There are lots of reasons why you, and everybody else doing the same, hasn't spent that $100 yet.

What everybody gets excited about and calls "debt" is essentially the world's working capital.

The MMT view shift is straightforward. Stop calling it "debt", and call it what it is on the other side of the balance sheet "savings" or "assets". Then all becomes clear.
Declarative integration tests in a microservice environment
Oh interesting—I wasn’t aware of that.

Apparently that’s according to Intel folks discussing it before they can produce it though. We’ll only really know when it’s ready. A lot of times, you make compromises to get something to market... so maybe even Intel 7nm won’t end up being “Intel 7nm” ;)
If you'd like a guided tour of the tildeverse, there's one on The Dork Web: https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-dork-web-5

Also relevant community: https://tildes.net/~tildes
Big discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24055458
I've found two that are promising. wails [1] for Go and pywebview [2] for Python. Oddly enough, I haven't found a decent node package that is maintained and documented.

[1] https://wails.app
[2] https://pywebview.flowrl.com/
Dunno. You can make conscious choices that will affect the maintenance burden in the future. So it's all blurry.
Wind turbines definitely need maintenance and a large enough wind farm will probably need that constantly to keep everything running. Wind turbine maintenance is also pretty specific, because it's at height and requires specific knowledge and skills. Off shore wind farms add an extra challenge because of the location.
Or in this absolutely mind blowing article showing different groups and classes of interfaces

https://www.designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Interface-UX/
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> Epic has already demonstrated that they wouldn't treat others this way if the roles were reversed

That's not really the same role. Epic are currently pushing hard to drive adoption of their store, whereas Steam's position is already entrenched, as is Apple's.

As mFixman points out, Epic also lack the monopolistic position that Apple have over iOS devices.
> GPU Renderer

That seems rather important.
Exactly. Would be interesting if a few people here would show their partners or friends this picture, zero content: please guess or estimate this person's age.

My wife: Late 30s.
A strict subset, chosen for the greatest intersection of flexibility for developers, simplicity and performance with good documentation on how to write directly for it might go over well.

The hardest part for maintainers would be saying no when everyone inevitably asks to expand the feature-set.
Altough, their pricing is very fair imo.

Free for non-commercial use.

Free* for use by companies with less than $100K annual gross revenue.
If the code was initially a net positive (i.e. provided a feature users wanted/needed, etc.), then in a way, yes. It might be bad in the abstract in the way patching something with bubblegum is, but if it works at the time--it works.

I think the only way to argue it was wholesale bad is that it immediately and objectively sank future progress (like a fatal wound of sorts). If it made things a hassle going forward, you'd have to argue that it was so much of a hassle that it actually receded things back into a negative. Most companies rarely experience the debt that stops forward progress cold or can prove they'd be making X times more progress if wasn't for such and such debt.

That said, if you could do things in such a way that yields the desired result and causes less (there is always some, and never little) maintenance, that's ideal. The thing is, everyone is trying to code from that place. The only ones who aren't are those who can't (they really are incompetent) or those who have given into utter malaise or malice.
Proprietary renderer (not even source-available; Linux binaries linked against god knows what version of libc, libstdc++, etc) ontop of WebKit? No thanks.

Edit: I mean, sure, you could use it in your proprietary Electron app to make it more lightweight. At least on Windows, macOS and some Linuxes, the rest of users is left out then, but those free software enthusiasts are unlikely to use your software anyway.
To me (from an Ops perspective), technical debt is when people who have come before you implemented a setup that is broken at a deep level. A setup which can only be fixed by a complete re-implementation. No amount of maintenance will suffice.
my god. even for something simple you need xcode and join the apple developer program. $$$ for sure.
Seroprevalence only measures anti-body resistance, but SARS-CoV-2 is quite similar to common cold viruses and it appears many people have pre-existing immunity to it for that reason. Or so goes the theory.

The 20% antibody threshold seems to be fairly common across many countries however, at least outside non-China Asia/Pacific countries that were not badly affected at all. The body learns how to fight viruses and can do so quite quickly.
Bookmarked for later. Will take a look if I move from Substack to Ghost.
this is a core data structure built into java.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/LinkedHa...
What's a senior developer? I had zero problems grasping a lot of bigger pictures but since I didn't care much about political and office drama I never was dubbed "senior" while working in offices.

At one point I decided for myself that I am senior by the virtue of being able to quickly understand what's happening in a codebase and where the real value-add lies, plus the ability to integrate it into the bigger ecosystem of deployments that the company practices. And having a good general culture.

So don't you care about "senior". :)

As for the topic -- harmless refactoring is indeed the way to get to know code. This has been said by people like Martin Fowler and Kent Beck so it's not exactly baseless and isn't easily refutable by a flaming post like the OP.
Multi-boot it and use it for testing or legacy app development! I did that with a MacBook Pro 2007 that I was kindly given.

I've needed to use it to jailbreak & downgrade iPhone 4S to iOS 6.1.3, and more recently, to build an app to use an old iPhone to generate a clean HDMI camera feed.

If your Mac Mini can run 10.4 Tiger, you'll even be able to use some Classic apps (e.g. Age of Empires). There's a couple of sites with some good software collections:

https://macintoshgarden.org/

https://www.macintoshrepository.org
Well, since 1 is added to a number, the number will eventually reach a power of 2, even if the number is divided by 2 in between.

Once it reaches a power of 2, it can only become odd when it reaches 1, so there you have it.
What about security / hacking threats?

Say I have precious metal in safes at some banks, good luck to steal it from me overnight. Now imagine people get a digital wallet on their smartphone. It's now easier to rob them of their lifetime savings, in the stealthiest manner ever. Surely easier than to mine the asteroid next door. Software bugs, hardware backdoors, social engineering, or just not understanding how it works... even the most tech savvy is at risk.
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Yup. Technical debt is a liability you take on now in the hope that it enables later being better than if you hadn't taken out on. But it's still a liability that may impede forward progress.
According to the TC39 ECMA262’s repo [1] (ECMA262 is a committee responsible for planning and creating new syntax that goes into JavaScript) Observables haven’t been brought up at a meeting in over three years and they are still at stage one of the four stage process. I’m not saying there’s not hope I’m just wondering if it will end up happening. Either way I’m fine with or without Observables as async iterators, Node streams, and WHATWG streams are already pretty powerful. In fact the creator of RxJS made a library based off iterators called IxJS that looks interesting and hopefully eventually iterators in JS will have iterator helpers [2] where you can chain things off of them (currently stage two and last talked about last year). Also another thing to keep your eye on in the standards process could possibly be emitter [3] it’s also stage 1 (like Observable) but was talked about last year as a kind of push based replacement for Subjects in RxJS/Observable land.

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/master/stage-1-propos...

[2]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-iterator-helpers

[3]: https://github.com/tc39/notes/blob/master/meetings/2019-06/j...
An entertaining fantasy but nothing more.g
I think that is if you want the additional stuff like support. You can still have $5 in revenue and purchase a license, that will make you fall into the first category and have to pay $2000.

You don't have to purchase a license, but you can if you want.
It is also one of those cases where one word in English becomes two words in a different language. Play as in playing a video game, or chess, or something similar, is called "spela", while play as children do is called "leka".
Less spoken product development problems
Sounds like the Lions Club/Rotary Club/etc. Not a new idea really,
No, their results by any metric aren't worse than all comparable countries that had a lockdown. They're in the middle of the pack and only because they had a lot of deaths in care homes, which lockdowns don't protect anyway. There are other regions that prove this like Belarus, South Dakota and others, but Sweden is proof positive that lockdowns aren't necessary and were never necessary.

As for herd immunity, Google "sweden covid cases" and look at that graph. Then change it to deaths. Sweden is practically done with the epidemic. Cases will never drop to absolute zero due to high testing levels and false positives, but it's now down to tiny levels and deaths have hit zero with no "second wave" in sight. At least based on current data it appears Sweden is over and done with it.
Pelican is a manufacturer of rugged cases, often used to transport expensive/fragile equipment.
> in practice I think many businesses just apply a flat rate like 1–2% which will be higher than their costs for some transactions

Have you ever seen an itemized transaction cost of 5¢ + 1-2% of total? Living in Sydney I never have. Literally every time it’s a written note on the till or verbally after they ring you up; “$5 minimum on card” or “50¢ charge” is always the pattern.

The rapid and endemic noncompliance, and fleecing of consumers, seems to be what happens when you have “deregulation” and literally no enforcement of behaviors.
The SoC doesn't thermal throttle until 85C. It is not going to desolder from being inside a hot car.
As a fundamental analysis investor, I find it so silly, it isn't even worth 1/10 of it. But those kind of movements happen every once in a while and I've learned to live with it and just observe.

The reason that it's happening?

So, one part of it is government driven: 0% rates, FREE MONEY, money printing press goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Now for Tesla, it's the kids. The same that popped up cryptos through the roof in 2016-7.

Nowadays they are at r/wallstreetbets using robin hood.

Institutional investors are enjoying the ride as well.

People aren't also questioning FAANG and MSFT huge market caps without the same growth in the bottom line. Sure,, those companies are doing well, but they valuation rose much higher than they are able to give returns to its investors.

It's the same problem. I have 0 positions on those stocks because they are like cocaine for the mind and this will all eventually crash. Gold and real things are your best bet.

If it doesn't crash now, it means that there'll be a huge debasing of the dollar to match those valuations. There's just too much money in the economy and very little being produced.

I believe what we may see is that the dolar vs other currency pairs will devaluate a lot, meanwhile inflation will remain low for a little while and then it will hit everybody very hard, because it means for every imported good Americans will need to pay much more.

FED has a huge issue that it can't hike up interest rates or start cleaning up his huge balance and when inflation comes for real(not the 2% they expect, but more like Argentina style inflation), they won't be able to lower that inflation without literally stopping the economy.

It's as if QEs are hiding dust under the carpet to make the house look clean. Initially, it indeed looks clean and there's no impact. Even after a while it is still fine. But now there's like a mount everest of dust and the carpet can't hold it any longer. Once shit hits the fan, all americans(and western people) will feel it.

Americans like to believe in the fallacy of the reserve currency. Currency is currency. Every single currency can end up having huge inflation and turning to dust if enough money is printed. US has been able to get around having this problem because so many countries are dependent on it, but there's a limit and the writing is on the wall that this limit has been already reached. And when countries stop relying on US Dollars as it suffers too much debasing and can't be reliably used for trade anymore, the country we know as USA will just implode, because it's only real product it exports is the Dollar, which will be worthless.

World Economy will shift to China and Asian countries which produce most of the shit western economics consume and we'll have a new world order. It's about time.
> Yet despite these nefarious practices, both tech giants have cunningly marketed themselves as champions for progressive values

You have to be quite naive to believe that. Since Google does employ some smart people, maybe computer science education is too vertical. Sometimes passion for tech is abused of course.

"We have to support the Pentagon because of China"

Yes, yes, if Google doesn't do it, someone worse would come around. Same naivete and the same paranoia for the foundation of the cold war. Good article, although

> an international internet with democratically agreed-on oversight is needed

is not really the solution at all. Oversight is the problem here in the first place.
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Isn't IC fabrication mostly automated? So wouldn't most jobs be in research?
So how high is the pricing?
ADSL and super-fast don't go together as adjectives. ADSL is by far now a legacy technology.
> Software is a tool. Tools that are used often require maintenance, which in itself is not a novel concept.

Yes software is a tool, but unlike physical tools, it does not wear out. Running the same code many times won't cause it to slowly degrade.

What does happen with software is that as you adapt it to particular roles, if you're not careful you can make it very hard to re-adapt to new roles. A "new role" doesn't necessarily mean user-facing features. It can be as simple as running on Ubuntu instead of running on RHEL. Or it can involve using a newer (and incompatible) version of some library. It might even be as daunting as porting the software to a new language (eg: from JavaScript to TypeScript).

The common analogy used to illustrate this is that of a car. If you have a typical passenger car and you need to compete in a demolition derby, you can modify that car to be a good demolition derby car. But if you're then asked to modify that car to win a track race, you'll have an easier time starting with a new unmodified passenger car than modifying your demolition derby car.
The Iraq/Afghan wars were a mess, but the strategic objectives aren't even entirely known and some of them were achieved. The Iraq war at least:

1. Secured strategic access to Iraq's oil resources.
2. Establish a permanent military presence in the region.
3. Removed the the de facto government.
We’re 2 in our startup.
- Fastmail costs $50 per person per year,
- Gapps would be $60,
- Whereby asks for $90 per user.

It’s just a feeling that this is wrong for what they contribute, but you’re right, if we share one account for a team, that would be a lower cost.

Maybe I was “anchored” by their previous pricing $4, which I thought I’d subscribe as soon as I’d have income, even though I didn’t need the paid features. But at $9, it’s a second psychological step. It feels like they stuff with features, where all we ask is often the WebRTC part.
I use Google Assistant for the only thing it's good for: setting a timer. Even then, for some reason, half the time I say "ten minute timer", it hears only "ten minutes" and for some reason thinks I want it to search youtube for a video of a ten minute countdown. I mean, that's completely insane.

Dear Google developers: if you decide to randomly delete a somewhat irrelevant word from a search query and you're left with "ten minute", it's far more likely that a person wants a ten minute timer than that they want to search your database of videos for ten minutes. Also, why do you search youtube instead of the web? Are you doing this specifically to irritate the hell out of me?
The medium article links to a nature article which explains in depth: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-017-0010-z

This seems like an interesting development, but the performance gain appears to be limited to low value inductors in the 10's of GHz range. Those inductors are already very small and easily integrated on RF ICs.

If you want to miniaturize electronics you need to miniaturize the inductors used in power conversion, which typically operate in the KHz to low MHz range. It's a very different problem.
Yeah sorry, the Java collections API is pretty great. I meant in terms of raw boilerplate the language requires you to type to get anything done. This is definitely improving, and you can use things like Project Lombok to generate a lot of it.
I've personally not made that experience since

* if the item is expensive enough to be worth checking out physically, Amazon generally doesn't have it, since it's mostly full of Chinese copies and the genuine products are easier to ship from the manufacturers/smaller shops (since that's where Amazon actually has any margin)

* if the item is cheap, I'll gladly pay the margin in the physical store, since I'll get some extra joy out of having it now-now, not "when it gets there"-Amazon-"now".

I should note I am probably biased here from 3-7 days shipping times due to every Amazon order having to cross a border (into Switzerland).
Too true. I guess I'm still going through Linux withdrawal and wanting to cheer for my lost friend.
This requires being militant about never connecting under any conditions. If the device ever is even briefly connected to a particular network (especially any commonly-named public network), unless that entry is cleared, the device may reconnect later unintentionally and with no obvious indication of having done so..

For those with more expansive threat models, intentional dvice or network spoofing or cloning might bebrisks.

Since firewalling is performd off-device (on the home-LAN router), this will resut in an unsecured evice.

My preference would be for some on-device configured networking limits. Putting full reliance in fixed-site infrastructure migh be unpleasantly surprising.
I'm curious about the general way tilde sites are administered. How do they keep people from using them as hosts for cyberattacks or spam?
Why? That's not obvious at all. The internet is useful, even essential for many modern economic activities. Modern astronomy is useful for what, exactly? Learning things about objects that are physically impossible to reach?

Ask almost anyone what they care about most, the internet or a book on astronomy, and they'll think you're joking.