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Ask HN: Is 'Technical Debt' a concept outside of the IT profession?
Technical Debt is a well-known concept used a lot within the practice of software development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

Frankly, I'm a bit skeptical about this concept, especially because it does sound reasonable, but why isn't it a thing outside of IT?

How do architects of infrastructure, buildings or vessels deal with this? Do they use such concepts?

How do medical professionals deal with this, is it a thing for them?

I feel that Technical Debt is a term that often obfuscates what is really going on instead of clarifying it.
BBC have been running some very bleak articles about japan recently. This was from a few weeks ago (private agents that will seduce your wife/husband so you can divorce them)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200731-the-saboteurs-...
> Debian also considers some of the FSF's own licenses non-free, for good reason IMO.

I'm curious about this, do you know which ones?
Antifa has been far more diverse than that for decades before most people had heard about them.

There's now a massive amount of attempts to pretend they're a unified organisation with a single ideology that is almost exclusively coming from people wanting to discredit anti-fascism in general, who don't care at all that the image of antifa they're trying to push has very little to do with reality.
> What right do you have to demand that things be manufactured in a particular way

Is this meant seriously? You don't, you can opt not to buy. Otherwise the customer can demand anything, especially large buyers like public educators.

The thing it gets conflated isn't accidental, since batteries need maintenance and are very often the part that needs replacement most often.

Technically you are correct, but it is naive to think that lock-in ambitions of manufacturers don't touch both topics.
Library rips.
What’s the temperature in outer space? The ones my wife uses for long term storage of samples is -80C I think, and that’s good for years - but I guess “good” in this case may just mean “dna remains that can be processed”
Citation dump gratefully received!
All of the Mr. Olympias use/used machines, for example, the leg press machine.
What I was saying is that the 'closely matching borders' are a completely artificial thing. Not even 'more or less', it was completely off until the nation state ideology-fueled expulsion. It closely matched a different thing.
It doesn't look like there is anything preventing data collection here. Banks will obviously know you are withdrawing money, and Google will know if you are logged into your account.

The big thing is that the legal system won't help you if you want to track someone. You can't file a missing person report and expect police to investigate and private companies to hand you data.
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The receiving server could require proof-of-work for the first message from a sender to a given receiver,

at this point mailing lists are dead

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It could be introduced gradually: if a proof-of-work is provided, then the message is allowed to skip the spam filter.

Yes, because that totally will not harm the small senders (often individuals) whose newsletters can easily reach thousands / tens of thousands.

> Sending email should be free

> Suppose the proof-of-work cost is calibrated such that it costs about $0.001 per email. That would be enough to destroy

all mailing lists, yes. Look at open source mailing lists.
Ah, very interesting. Thank you so much for your response.
That was a delightful thread.
On macOS, what distinctions does this have from playing audiobooks in the built-in Books app?
It's funny, I just found your article because I'm planning to also make a blog post about this topic for similar reasons.
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How to Design a Banking Application
I saw Doom running on a pregnancy test 7 years ago... But I've subsequently learnt to love him.
More generally, the "Horrible Science" and "Horrible Histories" (and the first "Murderous Maths" book, though I never read the others) books taught me much more than I ever learned in primary school and the first several years of secondary school.
One I remember: Going off to the far right of the map of the first level, you'll hit a lava lake, followed by a deep pit. If you jump down the pit, it's a shortcut to the second level.
There's also a bunch of rewards for exploring to overworld (you start at a cave entrance and are generally expected to go underground immediately)
I guess it’s down to moral absolutionism and universality - and while you may not be the shark your initial post suggested, I’m afraid to say many are.

I would always expect myself to repay a loan, on or ahead of time.

I don’t expect the same of others, however - I think most people, when taking a loan, expect and intend to pay it back - but life is not predictable, and their circumstances change.

The thing is, being chased over a small amount of money is enough to ruin someone’s life, at least in the here and now - I’ve seen people in desperate situations due to debt, and I don’t mean penury, I mean guilt, remorse, feelings of failure.

So, for me, it’s just not worth it. If someone pays me back, which has happened, then I’m happy, but I’ll never pursue a debt. They know they owe me. That’s enough. Don’t need to go piling the guilt on.

In terms of how this is transferrable to reality, it’d be interesting to see how incentives rather than disincentives might work in a lending situation.
This is an great change, but I wonder, will it apply retroactively to indices from old databases or will the indices have to be rebuilt? Like, I understand that just upgrading the version won't reduce the sizes, but will reading and writing to the indices gradually reduce the size?
Show HN: AI color palette generator for Tailwindcss
you can register the car under an LLC

or buy someone else's car registered under an LLC and you purchased their LLC, the state isn't aware that the car changed titles
Ok, I would not recommend Arch as a first Linux distro, Arch based and easy to start is a plus. That said I've seen troubled Manjaro user on xmonad IRC, we tracked problem to AUR package, it worked fine on Arch.
I guess what was meant is "reduce cognitive overhead for editing, so that the brain can keep the actual programming task in short-term memory".
Humans and their ancestors have been actively hunting for millions of years. We invented fire, spears, and the hand axe (hand held stone tools) for hunting. Not to mention the bow, which is more than 50K years old. The earliest known human settlements are built from mammoth bone. The earliest paintings (more than 30,000 year old cave paintings) depict hunting scenes and the fossilized bones of animals are contained on site.
First let's not get into formula vs breast. That's not relavant right now since formula is designed to imitate breast.

I am aware that cows milk is not sufficient for babies. The approx age is one. The (main) reason is iron. By one most (western) children eat a sufficient diet that cows milk is a sufficient milk source.

My concern is that some parents may see the anti cows milk propaganda and not provide any milk after weaning (almond, oat etc drinks are not milk).
https://github.com/readbeyond/aeneas can output SMIL e-books where each line of text is associated with the corresponding segment from the audiobook. But I don't know which e-book readers support that format.
That’s what I have enabled. That setting behaves differently between Touch Bar and non Touch Bar macs. On non Touch Bar Macs, you can hit space or enter to interact with a pop up dialog. On Touch Bar Macs, the tab key skips over certain UI elements as if they don’t exist. “Conveniently”, those elements are on the Touch Bar.
The one thing that really bugs me about the OAuth flow is what is described as step 3. When the application who wants to access data on your behalf is redirected to a login page where the user enters credentials and grants access.

In many apps, these login redirects happen inside the app window, hiding the url. And even if the URL isn’t hidden, there’s suddenly a browser window inside my app and many unconscious “security checks” fail to load.

I’d much rather have the OAuth provider send me an email or get a notification that can be actioned within the OAuth providers app so that I know I’m not giving my credentials to something that looks like the OAuth providers sign in page.
Should probably be noted this isn’t actually running on a pregnancy test, it’s a pregnancy test plastic shell with a replacement CPU and display.
Incident Reviews in High-Hazard Industries
AVG and Avast classify documents that contain HTTP://antifa.de/ as a virus (Ger)
Nah go ahead give it a whirl
Reminds me of the Neuromancer computer game sound track by DEVO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmpTIMxmrU (granted this was only heard during the intro, the actual game ost was a chiptune remix)
Same with Vandals.
I feel you probably speak of experiences in very big companies.

If the software team is of a medium size, let's say, less than 50 people, then it surely isn't how you paint.

The CTO / Manager(s) for sure know the impact of the ICs and likely nobody is measured by LoCs. I personally have never worked in an organization (10 companies and counting) where LoC has ever been mentioned as something being measured.
This is also true if we convince more people to start open source hardware companies. I do strongly support right to repair to make illegal some of the most egregious things companies do, but I think that should exist alongside more open source hardware for the things we use in our daily lives.
The mac version is discontinued, per the README. Someone should edit the title.
No way I am going to use it, even with some well known sites. Looks like scam.
Just a friendly reminder: Please note that if you want fellow HNers to reply to you in private, then you need to add your email address in your “bio”. The email field is only visible to the admins.
This argument doesn’t work if the topic is eating or sleeping.
The French revolution brought about sweeping change across Europe in its aftermath. That the changes it brought were unpredictable is true, and that it took an aftermath that lasted for a long time to resolve the fallout too. But to suggest it didn't bring productive change is ludicrous.

And Animal Farm is fiction.

But if you're so sure it is unable, then it doesn't matter then - in that case these systems will never come to fruition, and so debating them is pointless.
60% of humanity doesn't have indoor plumbing. The bottom quintile in America is living pretty comfortably compared to most.
GitOps: The Bad and the Ugly
Linux 5.9-Rc4 Kernel Released with More Driver, Feature Support
Ah missed that.
Note: the readme was updated a few minutes ago stating that macOS support is discontinued.
I like physical books as well.

I would concede however that although generations of people learned to program using books, they were small generations.

The increased accessibility that came with the internet has drastically increased the number of people able to acquire those skills.

Accessibility is probably the priority in a K-12 setting where you're accommodating kids with a wide range of skills and interests in a single class, not just the kids intrinsically interested enough to actually read the book after school.
My bad, I visibly remembered the article incorrectly and didn’t take the time to read again when sharing.

Thanks for the correction. Unfortunately I cannot edit my original comment.
Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Talks Microtransactions – “We Won't Be Aggressive”
Even if they get it right in 1% cases and get a sale this way, they still make money. Emails cost nothing
Unless you're going to live as a near hermit or change country
I wonder how effective all of this is in the long run without plastic surgery.

If you wander in front of someone taking a photo that ends up on facebook, or socialise with people who post things on social media or someone from your home town sees you and mentions it to someone else. I think I'd always be looking over my shoulder
My old phone was as thin as my new one but it had a larger batter and was replaceable. I always chosed the replaceable battery first if I had a choice. Last time however I didn't find a phone that had a replaceable battery. I usually use my phones a lot longer than most. My first one lasted for more than 10 years with several battery changes (Nokia 3210)
Most bad policies have at least some reasonable sounding (often well-intentioned) justification for their existence, but that's not really relevant to the point I was making.

Well-intentioned bad policies usually just fail to account for unexpected outcomes, or they create perverse incentives that quickly overshadow the original goals and make things worse. In particularly nasty cases the reasonable sounding justification was never the goal (or even initially well-intentioned) and it's just a cover for the some other motive.

I'm not sure which was the case for medallions originally, maybe it's what you suggest - or maybe some people were just trying to lock in a monopoly they could exploit. The number of cars on the road would likely have been moderated by what the market could support without them. The creation of monopolies locked in place via legislation was not a good outcome and created lots of problems.

Now with Uber/Lyft operating, suddenly the taxi service in NYC has improved (they'll actually take you where you need to go, the credit cards machines are no longer mysteriously broken).
Simple, read and religiously follow the Core Guidelines. Bad, converting initialisations are also flagged as warnings (or errors with -Werror).
I probably found it via Paul Graham’s web site. I don’t remember exactly how I found his website, probably via his Lisp essays or “A Plan for Spam”.
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What sort of antenna would I need to listen in with a rtl-sdr? Would I have any chance with a simple home built 1/2 wave dipole?
I have this problem. What I've found is that even if I am not actually doing a task, the simple fact that it exists and I've not done it niggles in the back of my brain and stresses me out.

Last night I finally cleared off all my emails and did all the little task that have been sitting around. It feels so good to not have them lingering on the edge of my brain.
I disagree that its as subjective as you put it. No one would say that a manual hand drill is comparable to an automatic drill in speed.

Going from normal text editor to vi is like going from assembly to Python. Or using `find -exec` to delete files using a pattern vs deleting files one by one. You are that much more productive when editing text in vi.
Local and regional shops. Audible doesn't have some of the voices where I live, because it is regionally locked (I live in Sweden).
What I understood, the right to repair is more about the papers than the actual device. The manufacturer can write on the contract that only they have the right to repair the device you bought. It does not mean that it has to be easy to repair it but you should be allowed to try it without them suing you.
Consider donating to Electronic Frontier Foundation if you still want to fight the dystopia: https://eff.org
Barbarian: word originated from the Greek, antonym for "citizen". The Greeks used the term barbarian for all non-Greek-speaking peoples...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian
I was impressed with the website, perhaps instantly relieved not having to wriggle out of any tracking cookies.
Doing & facilitating what, functioning how, and avoiding what behaviours and/or problems?
The topic is not eating nor sleeping, though. We are not talking about the USA, but a country with social safety system. Nobody in China has to go to microlenders to eat and sleep.
Stupid RCU Tricks: Enlisting the Aid of a Debugger
Hey, I'm the developer of Cozy and I just noticed that Cozy got posted here and people are trying it on macOS. The version linked in the README was a very old version of Cozy which I tested on macOS 10.14. It was quite a hassle to build and it was not stable. Sadly it's a lot of work to package a GTK app for macOS, therefore I discontinued building it but I didn't update the readme. Sorry for anyone who tried it and got disappointed!
Would you think that, for an early-stage SaaS startup (enterprise B2B focus), the optimal strategy for implementing AuthN/AuthZ would be to use a managed service (e.g., Auth0) for MVP development and after that (perhaps, during pilots phase) migrate to an open source solution (e.g., Keycloak)?
Over-generalizing means that you will compress worse, as does under-generalizing. Can't use the mere fact that "compression is going on", you have to look into utility, costs, etc.
People read news for entertainment, not education, and that's what journalists are selected, trained, and optimized for.

Most articles can be summed up in 3 or less factual sentences but nobody would read that.
If you find yourself itching to play a retro FPS on your modern machine, give DUSK [0] a try.

The style is on point. This game is ugly where it counts, the environments are blocky and grotesque. The guns have satisfying sounds and animations, the enemies are numerous and the bosses are fun. This game really makes me feel like I'm a kid playing video games instead of last classes of school.

I'm waiting for HROT [1] to be released. It's supposed to be similar to DUSK, but set in Czechoslovakia. The screenshots are very promising...

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/519860/DUSK/

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/824600/HROT/
Power is concentrated and delegated top down. That's the point. If I want to withhold consent to be policed a certain way, I can't, even if I only e.g. live and interact with people who similarly want to withhold consent (nobody would suggest that I would have the right to unilaterally dictate the rules if I interact with others who don't share my views).

So the problem is that the power is not collective other than the power to vote for who the power will be concentrated with. There's a massive disconnect there where, e.g. if we go by US elections, about half the population at any point are ruled by a system they have not consented to.

That is not collective power, at least not collective and shared power of the people, but of a majority at most (even assuming representatives do what their voters want them to, which is also a dicey proposition). Nearly every government in the world tries to limit this tyranny of the majority by legally protected rights to secure the minority against government overreach too, but the fact that they need to demonstrates how flawed this model is.

You assume a power vacuum, but nobody is suggesting a power vacuum, but power mediated by consent, negotiation and bottom up delegation rather than top down coercion.

As long as you're assuming a power vacuum, you're arguing against a strawman.
You will need to REINDEX after upgrading using pg_upgrade. Otherwise deduplication won't be applied in the old indexes at all.

These days it's possible to use the CONCURRENTLY option with REINDEX, which is much less disruptive.
Yes, or an Internet store that would let me download the game instead of installing a piece of software on my computer.

I'm super spoiled:-)
> with just a simple piece of paper an a $14k sound analysis / SDR / magnetism detection rig, we can detect force on the paper

This is actually better than that. They created a spray on invisible circuit board that can both detect touch inputs and generate enough electricity to power a bluetooth radio. They achieved all this for a unit cost of 25 cents. That's a pretty amazing achievement and opens up some quite practical uses.

Imagine something like Nintendo Labo, but with so many more opportunities for interactivity.

Another idea, imagine a student's notebook that synchronized their writing with their phone.
rank (adj):
1. (of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely.
2. having a foul or offensive smell. very unpleasant.
3. (especially of something bad or deficient) complete
and utter (used for emphasis).
Can you find any (recent) sources on that?
The cycling model is flawed because their is no distribution of screen rights amongst teams.

Basically the race and teams ownership are separate. As a result you have a few big teams and the rest scrambling for pennies

Some teams have tried to access the viewing money but the lack of solidarity amongst teams has failed. Also the owners of the tdf own a lot of the big races
in the first line in the main.py there is this shebang:

#!@PYTHON@

this is different of what I know about shebangs in Python
Facebook blocks links to fundraising for Kyle Rittenhouse legal defense
It’s kind of telling that such services exist. Seems to me, if people are placed into the impossible situations they’ll find a way out.
"If it's good enough for you, it's good enough for me".
Got a Google Pixel 1 a few months ago. Great hardware and goes for about $50 as "second hand", but actually like new. Very happy with it.

Unfortunately Google stopped providing updates in Dec 2019 (just 3 years after first device was sold) and many models by Verizon are locked, so it's impossible to use third-party ROMs.

It's disappointing that there are no vendor security updates, even though there are so many devices in active use and being sold. And even worse, Verizon prevents you from using your own ROM.

I think there is a case for mandating security updates for at least 3-5 years after the last new device is sold and removing protections, like bootloader locks after that.
As for removing the battery to run only on powersupply: Some devices need so much power that the charger can't deliver it fast enough and the device just shuts down. This is when the battery is supposed to take over to provide enough power for the temporary surge. This is more a question for laptops I guess since surfpads and phones are optimised for battery only usage.
It's almost as if that's the origin of the term "album" for a collection of singles, huh.
Vivaldi browser introduces Break Mode – Let us know what you think
Wasn't it Gaullian at the time?
> [ruby] is almost as semantically flexible as Lisp and ultimately friendlier

Elixir for the most part _is_ a Lisp, and inherits almost all of Lisp's semantic flexibility also

I write Elixir full time now after writing Ruby for several years. At first I struggled getting out of the ruby meta programming mindset. After reading some advanced lisp books, the concepts of quote/unquote began to click and now I feel like my ability to meta-program in Elixir is much stronger than in Ruby.
How fast is it lost? How many generations? And how fast is it gained..
> I actually do use my ISP's dns for some names (particularly netflix)

Oh it looks like good setup, I'll try it.
The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). It's generally well-intentioned, but it places some weird restrictions on modification and reuse. In particular, it allows the author of a text to define "invariant" sections of a text which cannot be removed or altered in copies of the work, and automatically applies this restriction to sections of a document with certain names (like "Dedication").

The GFDL also theoretically forbids users from storing GFDL-licensed documents on encrypted storage, as the license states that "You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute". I don't think that reading was intended, but the license doesn't clarify further. :)

Further analysis: https://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml