skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, obviously. If you limit PP to rewarding yourself, short-term, for starting unappealing work, then you should be fine. Otherwise it's just a huge resource sink.

I settled on a $1.20 pen model which I really like, a generic notebook and have kept the resolution not to even look at any more stuff (okay, I read about Zettelkasten but resisted the temptation to try it). This sort of works for me.

I will keep quiet on how much time I had spent researching various productivity-related crap :)
> (like how Reddit and GitHub add flair to your account if you’re a paying user)

That is not a thing at Reddit (I'm a paying user and there is no special flair nor any setting to add one).
Yep. The Zoe statistics are to be taken with this grain of salt: this is not the same market.

It is a model designed for urban use ('citadine' in french), it costs about 24000€. And I'd say it appeals more to the eco-conscious than to the "EV have full torque from zero speed" crowd.

IMHO Tesla is doing the right thing here: begin with low volume from the high-margin high-end side of the overall market (think the iPhone beginning). I'd not be surprised to see a Zoe equivalent once the Tesla factories start having significant production in Europe.
They are called native WebWidgets and exist since KHTML and MSHTML were created in the mid-90's.

Anything else is just the laziness of not caring about Web standards and shipping an whole browser instead.

Every day ChromeOS is one step closer to overtaking all desktops.
Fossil fuels are a finite and dwindling resource, and its use is possibly causing an extinction event. The human race can't really afford to buy the cheaper option here.
> Who thought that was a good idea?

A designer. Probably the same person who wanted to turn links from blue-and-underlined to same uniform gray with zero indication
I'm not a psychologist but from what I understand some people who have urges for young people just like some people have urges for people of the same gender. Obviously I have no problem if someone acts upon their urges towards people of their gender, but do have problems with people who act upon urges to young people. I would assume that in such case some form of voluntery conversion therapy would be useful. Similarly if someone has urges towards their gender but would prefer for whatever reason (to be more normal, to follow their religion, to have kids, ...) they would like to have urges towards the opposite gender, I see no problem with voluntery conversion therapy.

One big pet peeves of mine with a lot of left leaning people is that they are pro gay because "it is their choice and doesn't effect me" yet they are against voluntery conversion even though the same logic holds. And before anyone says "they aren't proven to work", maybe we should allow scientists to work on that. After all, if armies have been able to convince POWs to fight for them patriotically against their country, I don't think it should be that hard to get people to love certain people
>In contract law, “third party” is a term of art

Next thing you'll tell me there's a Sanity Clause, with little elves helping him, etc.

Yeah, I know. My question is: "who guaranteers that the app maker has any agreement with Tesla"?

One could release an app claiming so, without Tesla approval, and do shady stuff -- where Apple gets part of the blame from customers.
If someone is knowingly building something that wont scale is that not an accumulation of future work? I think the key point about technical debt is that units of work are not all equal in long term outcomes.
Does this integrate with something like OneNote? Because this would still be only half my notes. If I can keep my hand-written ones and the ones I type when I work, for example, NOW we’re talking.
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How does it compare to Revery[1]? Onivim2[2] is built with it and it seems great.

[1] https://www.outrunlabs.com/revery/

[2] https://v2.onivim.io/
In the meantime, I now have a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...
Mal Adobe!
What was the breakthrough?
You didn't look very hard. The commit message on the cMake.txt says:

> Pruned repo history to get rid of 200MB of stale binaries. Repo has now been restructured to pull binaries in from S3 buckets during CMake build.
Taking a useful analogy, or conventional piece of wisdom and contriving it into something meaningless is an excellent strategy for premium thoughtleader blog writing. Even the people who think your ideas are dumb will still click.
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Technical debt is just business debt, it’s risk to the business if people don’t understand it or it’s hard to maintain.

Technical debt is a terrible term because it implies it’s just a technical problem, but it’s a business decision.
In the realm of lightweight html renderers I've taken a liking to litehtml ( https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml ) - though it isn't quite as fully featured as this.
I completely get where this person is coming from. The distinction between maintenance and producing new features on one side and paying down technical is so strange. It does not make very much sense to start working on a piece of the code that is hardly every touched and that has been working for years to improve it. What one should be doing instead is to make sure that the work one is doing for the purpose of maintenance and creating new features leaves the code base in a better state than it was found in. If one does that it becomes mostly unnecessary to talk about technical debt.

I do think technical debt does exist, though. Sometimes the changes that one wants to do are a bit too big to do right now and one should make a plan to get them done eventually and in small pieces wherever possible. This is called having architectural goals. One should try to be in this situation as little as possible, though.
PS already supports WebWidgets, the menu selection was done in WebGL.
It's also fascinating what intervened:

"Less than a day after the attack began, a sudden, very heavy thunderstorm—possibly a hurricane—put out the fires. It also spun off a tornado that passed through the center of the capital, setting down on Constitution Avenue and lifting two cannons before dropping them several yards away. Following the storm, the British returned to their ships, many of which required repairs due to the storm. The occupation of Washington lasted for roughly 26 hours and the British plans are still a subject of debate."

The Washington DC area gets only a few tornadoes per century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
Thank you so much for this extension, it’s great!
The code is available under other repos on their account.
An alternative to that is to sit and do nothing.
Yeah but ... consistently? Quarter after quarter? In advance of an IPO? No obvious uptrend in profit despite rising revenue? Obviously they won't get rich following my advice but I don't want to be on the hook providing the fuel for that fire.

I'm looking forward to seeing who will buy this thing; risky is an understatement looking at the P&L graph in the article. Lucky this youthful startup has only been around for 17 years. Maybe once it can legally start drinking it will find its way.
Calling tech debt maintenance seems a little odd.

I've always understood tech debt to be the shortcuts we take along the way to ship fast(er). A global variable here, a hardcoded constant there, that copy-pasted-slightly-modified function instead of adding a parameter.

Fixing those things seems qualitatively different from the maintenance examples.
I am to this day extremely impressed by the level of granularity of permissions that AWS IAM provides. Having worked with GCP, while their offering is good enough, it comes no where near as powerful as AWS' offering.

Hats off to the AWS engineers.
> To make another analogy, when you bring your car to the mechanic to replace breaks after 80 000 kilometers, he doesn't proceed to warn that the previous mechanics has left debt'ed break pads all over the place and to question the person's qualifications.

Good mechanic will refuse to touch your car. If breaks would fail
after her fix, she might be liable.

Same apply to coders. If your code is bad, it will be very difficult to find good developer to fix it.
This is very likely not valid consent under GDPR. Look at specific guidance on valid consent by DPAs: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Why is Rolls Royce trying to build small modular reactors then? If you look at what Rolls Royce is doing for example then everything that came before it appears to be a joke in terms of economics. You can't build bespoke power plants like you're an artisan and expect them to be cheap.

The real challenges in nuclear power plant construction are the total lack of economies of scale. Nobody wants a bloody $30 billion plant. People want 10 plants for that price.
This isn't minimal, it's primitive. Knowing the difference is key.
So my main worry was the possible controversy over what some consider pseudo-democracies, like Russia or outright not democracies but generally considered within the tolerable realm of citizen freedoms, like Vietnam, but I think your instant response over the UK and Canada indicates that a "made in democracy" would be tricky and that it would possibly have to be a more neutral term.

The intent would be a feelgood symbol manufacturers could attach to their products that would essentially give them a very slight competitive marketing edge - like the fair trade symbol, or the regionalities for cheese and wine, or the nintendo seal of approval, etc. This would be run through some kind of tiny registration fee for the symbol, which would then fund the central body of a few people checking the supply chains, dealing with the applications, and sorting out the advertising/branding.

If anyone has good ideas about this, post here. If anyone wants the idea and wants to do it, do it.
Will they though?

They have a complete monopoly on distribution for all iOS devices and are willing to remove certificates for OSX programs. For all we know, they will remove SSL certificates for HTTPS websites on Safari if a company oversteps their bounds too much.

Congress will do nothing about this, and the EU and other governments are busy legislating other problems.
Those would be binaries, which I am not interested in. However, I did find the source I was looking for.
Did you make the switch from software to building? If so why?

Edit. This is genuine curiosity. I've made a slide out of software development into a more hands on role. I've found it rewarding.
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"OOH, when included, is typically the biggest component of the CPI. However, many coun-tries exclude OOH from their CPIs on the grounds that it is too difficult to measure. Inparticular, the harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) in the European Union (EU) cur-rently excludes OOH." [1]

OOH stands for owner-occupied housing.
I am aware of the fact that the US accounts far better for housing expenses in its CPI than Eurozone countries do.

[1]https://epub.wu.ac.at/7039/1/WP285.pdf
This is about telling the user that Mastercard is charging you a fee.
Technical debt isn’t an arbitrary thing; it’s a metaphor to try to explain doing maintenance to non technical folk.

The explanation goes like this:

If you have no debt, you can borrow money.

If you have a bit of debt, you can borrow money, but you have to make regular repayments of maintenance to service that debt.

...but when you have a lot of debt, lenders are cautious about lending you money. Will you pay it back? Why didn’t you pay back any of your other debts? Can you afford the repayments?

The metaphor isn’t perfect, but the point being made is that maintenance is the repayments on technical debt; if ignore it, at some point you are going to end up spending all your developer hours on maintenance, and your throughput for features will grind to a halt.

You “repay” the technical debt by fixing stuff that causes problems, not by randomly rewriting it because you can’t be bothered reading the existing source code.

It’s not maintenance.

That’s a different thing; that’s making changes.

Technical debt is more like a metric of how prone to failure /what feature velocity your software is / has.

Sure, the metaphor falls over; you can just keep slapping broken features and other crap on top of either other indefinitely if you dont care if your existing features work or not... but, that’s a different issue.
I don't get your argument about the pricing. If you're 5+ people you can split that cost. If it's for professional use, a few dollars is a blip.
I was looking at kids books yesterday and found a set of 'feelings' books, but it was $108... Checked on lazada.sg and it was $32...

They may hate it, but $70 difference is too much. If it was like $50 I would have just bought the set while at the store...
I don't mean to be flippant, but what you have described sounds an awful lot like the economy. In the book Sapiens, the author describes organisations, money, Capitalism, Communism and more as religions without a deity. The detail that you included which stopped me from calling this utopian is "form of a hierarchical network". It is of course important to recognise that a classless society is impossible. As for solving racism, I think I'm less optimistic. I mean, I don't think people today can even agree on what "racism" as a term actually means.
Personally, as someone who has been wearing N95 masks for years now, I don't think it makes breathing more difficult, as long as you wear a mask that fits well.

And even if it does require slightly more effort to breathe, it's definitely worth the cleaner air you'll be taking in.
ComputeSharp, a libray to write compute shaders directly in C#
Are you saying that you had to repeatedly flick the screen before iOS 13 ?

This "feature" has been available on every Windows, Linux and Android device I have ever used.
> Do some people's lungs gradually clear away the asbestos particles more effectively than others'?

At least in terms of damage to the lungs, from what I gather (by reading wikipedia!) it's the degree of inflammatory response to the asbestos that is critical, not the presence of the asbestos itself. If your body thinks 'asbestos, oh shit!' and mounts a big response to attempt to wall off the particles etc. then you are in trouble.

Fun fact: asbestos is blowing around in the air pretty much everywhere at some level.
What medium is paid access now? Do they pay the content creators?
Apple isn't hiding how much the user needs to pay for a purchase, they can still make the determination that they need to go somewhere else.

This would be like Wal-mart putting up signs telling everyone they have to pay Visa fee's. It's irrelevant to the consumers, what they pay doesn't change.
Tesla did not create, nor "owns" the API. And if the API is open such that anyone can use, it seems the developer does have permissions to use the API. If we require that every single entity between a mesh of APIs and all of the data or systems they control must give permission, this is simply unworkable. It's APIs all the way down.

Frankly, this is Apple arbitrarily choosing apps they don't like and findng a loophole to block it.
When I try to discus editors with friends and coworkers, I often get pushback about not wanting to “switch”. Have I got news for you, computers multitask these days!

I personally often have a JetBrains IDE open alongside VSCode, Sublime and vim because there are things each of them do better, or at the very least things I better know how to do in each. You don’t need to replace a program you like, you can just add to your menagerie.

Final unrelated note, all editor nerds should give Acme a spin. It’s a literal trip. I never got comfortable enough with it to be productive, but I could see it being amazing if you get your head around it.
To be honest I wrote that because I couldn't remember the names and was too lazy to look it up. On Netflix it's The Toys that Made Us and on HBOMax its A Lego Brickumentary.
Good point! Yes, had assumed storing .tar.gz, but makes sense to then have the code for tar and gzip. What about gcc?
Is "technical debt" a term used more by business people/managers or by developers?
Anxious? Dealing with Stress as a Founder
Working with a couple of founders I noticed that none of them are equipped to deal with stress. They just bottle it up and sooner or later it just blows into their faces. From procrastination to panic attacks, i've seen it all. Of course, meditation and other exercises can work but when you're in the middle of an anxiety attack you don't start a gratefulness journal. I started to publish weekly a short exercise to help ease the stress. Basically building an emotional first aid kit that one can use anywhere, anytime without any preparation in advance. (link:https://59anx.substack.com/)

To make this better, I need your help: how does stress affect you and how do you deal with it?
Not necessarily. So far it seems like the FED has gotten a lot better at preventing recessions / depressions. That might take some risk out of the market and cause valuations to go up given that risk is less.

Probably a little of both, but it is an interesting time in economics for sure.
I disagree with "last generation or so", our one from the mid-to-late 80s had it as an option (you could set a single recording in the way you describe, but needed the TV display for multiple recordings). Apparently the Akai VS-2 was the first with an on-screen display on the TV, in 1983.[1]

[1] https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19830424&id=...
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Yes, that is an alternative, but probably a better alternative is to invest in nuclear/renewable energy research. Which is what he is doing.
Here in Germany we have fixed book prices (at least for German books). I think the publisher sets the price and it must not be sold for less with the exception if the book is damaged.

So in this case you really have no reason to order the book from Amazon if it is available at the book store.

For other products this is however true, probably because the price difference and the sometimes cumbersome return policies of retail shops.
I actually learned to code on a Beowulf cluster. The first programs I wrote to completion were on an LP mud that ran on a cluster in the creator's basement. Not because it was necessary for a mud with never more then ten users at once, but just because.
I don’t think anything coming from china will replace apple and google in the west. The focus is on privacy and openness, and china companies clearly don’t qualify.
This is a result of low interest rates in the last 20 years. There is an insane amount of institutional money looking for a home, and it is also impossible to get decent yields with money right now. Therefore any businesses with potential to become huge, will be happily funded for a very long time.

This is only going to get worse due to the insane stimulus due to the coronavirus.

It is almost as if money now has so little value that losing as little of it as possible is what investors are looking for, aka negative interest rates by another name.

I wouldn’t blame the companies for this, this is a result of governments not willing to allow recessions in the early 00s, then in 08, and now. But it has serious long term effects which are hard to understand as it’s so complex.
I have a view over the ocean. Along comes Shell and builds an oil rig, thus spoiling my view.

I have a view over the ocean, 50 miles up the coast in another country a marina opens, and dozens of sailing ships start arriving over the hour.

I have a view, and an airport opens down the road, I'm now under a flight path, not only is my view obscured, I'm getting noise too.
Except that this is a completely different thing.

1) You can install programs in Windows without Epic's permission.

2) Epic allows their games to be distributed through Steam or other platforms.
Fabrice Bellard is indeed a super-programmer. Amazing how one guy can write ffmpeg, qemu, linmodem, amongst a slew of other useful thing.
It's not fair to blame people for not knowing that "3nm" does not mean "3nm". Knowledge about measurement units is more prevalent than knowledge about marketing practices of semiconductor companies. Blame those misleading practices instead.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is swapping Exxon Mobil for Salesforce.com. Time to rename the index IMO, that seems farcical.
But even on a phone/tablet selecting text is a massive pain. Selecting stuff, dragging stuff, quickly flicking the cursor from one screen to the next: those are all things I assume every developer does at least a couple of times an hour. They are also things that, for me, are very clumsy when using a trackpad.
Requiring users to learn the idiomatic way your software behaves in order to be productive may be warranted if your functionality is complex, heavily used and more or less unlike any existing software.

Or, your software is niche and its alternatives have such terrible UI that trying to do what the user expects is adding 3x clicks and actively hurting their productivity.

There can be legitimate cases for learning curve, especially if unlearning is involved. If so, the fact that your designer wants the user to learn is a very welcome position. If they make learning effortless and intuitive, you may end up with a solid piece of software.
Technical debt is not maintenance. Except for a very radical perspective: "So you used python2 in 2008 to start your project? Well you obviously knew the language would not last forever, you should have chosen ANSI C99 instead." This argument can be made for any dependency and it contains a grain of truth, but generally it is just too extreme.
A while ago I played around with the Collatz conjecture a bit myself. I guess this is all well-known but maybe some people find it interesting:

One thing I noticed was that the seemingly chaotic directed graph can be ordered if you arrange the integers in a two dimensional grid where the x axis is the uneven numbers and each row doubles the previous one. So like:

1 3 5 7 9 ...
2 6 10 14 18
4 12 20 28 36
..

It's clear to see that if n ≡ 0 (mod 2) we'll be on some row other than the first so we'd just move all the way to the top. For integers on the first row there's some interesting "orbits" forming[1].

You can categorize them by which 2^n row the 3n+1 rule will jump to and each of those will attract to some specific position the 2^1 and 2^2 ones seem to be the only ones with an integer center point (at 1 and -1 respectively, so that's where you have cycles). Another interesting pattern I've noticed (not really shown) is that "combined" jumps like "first a jump into the 2^1 row followed by a jump into the 2^2 row" also follow these fixed intervals.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gist/ginkgo/7120618db058d6...
If driving pays badly we should still automate it for the sake of reducing "busywork".