skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not pro communism but reading stuff like this still irks me. You are allowed to own things under communism, like your house, just as under capitalism. What you cannot is own half a city and rent the houses out. Saying you cannot own anything under communism has become the norm just like saying schizophrenic when one means multiple personalities, which is not and never have been part of schizophrenia no matter how many times people repeat it.
In the video linked in the article, Ward Cunningham says he came up with the debt metaphor to explain to the finance guys he was working with.
That's a great example, thank you for sharing it.
I think it's the other way round. I think their standard policy is that basically everything is banned that could be seen as a political statement, so no maga hats or pride rainbows. So this was less a case of banning the poppy, as saying that they wouldn't make an exception.

I don't know if the poppy is a thing in the US so this might have been a case of US head office not understanding that to the vast majority of people the poppy is not a political statement.
I got YOU PUT THE SWAYZE IN SWAYZE.

There really needs to be a filter to block these kinds of results.

I wish the word links would let me navigate the set of puns rather than going to google. X links should let me see all the combos that have the same word in the X position. Y links should do the same thing, mutatis mutandis.
The author is on to something, but still, most cases of technical debt aren't really technical debt as how Ward Cunningham meant the concept.

His idea is to regularly pause, and take your time to incorporate your new knowledge about the problem at hand into your code. There is no other way, because if code concepts don't reflect the problem space, development will slow down, become cumbersome.

But what I see and what a friend of mine observed:

- Most technical debt is just bad code
- Most technical debt is just mistakes
- Most technical debt is just a lack of basic mainteance.

Why call that technical debt? What does the term teach you or anyone else?

https://louwrentius.com/most-technical-debt-is-just-bullshit...
To be fair, the 12C is pretty amazing.

I've got a couple of pre-2008 HP scanners and laser printers that I intend to keep going as long as at all possible, because the alternatives are just so horrible. Fortunately, they're pretty repairable, and all the consumables are still reasonable. And, frankly, I don't print that much any more. SCSI is getting slightly more interesting to support, but not unreasonable.
I recall Intel intentionally took the foot off the accelerator in the midst of the GFC, and forfeited or skipped some next development to wait things out a while.
yeah, I mean, I'm definitely in the minority of what I think. My life is regularly threatened by reckless drivers, and being a strong, tall-ish white dude, I don't get messed with on the street very often.

That said, I think the numbers back up my perspective. Violent crime just isn't what it was back in the seventies, but we're still in the mindset that danger = criminals.
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I have enormous faith in the ingenuity of motivated engineers and scientists from all domains. We’ve made it this far as a species.
They are free to do this, but others from Earth are also free to show up and say "no".
GIMP devs and fans for 24 years when people bring the name up: "If you don't like the name, fork it."

What's the actual problem here?
Ars review: "Not just a more-powerful PS4"

Reality: "just faster PS4"

~3x faster CPU, ~2.5x faster GPU, 10-100x faster storage.

PS4 games finally run at speeds they were intended to run, speeds PC players always enjoyed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKQ6NeTjccA
This,

The idea that an independent Martian colony is just around the corner seems to have an incredible following here in hn.

That's radically over-optimistic in a wide variety of ways. Exactly which resources are would scarce for such a colony is challenging to predict but guess humans - living indefinitely in 38% of earth gravity probably isn't possible and even reproduction would likely be harder still. A colonized Martian environment is going to be one big room/box for a long time. Also, it's not just raw materials that are going to be scarce. Microprocessors, chips, as an example, require continent-scale support/supply-chains on earth, where most things are easy. Vacuum is cheaper on Mars but not free like in space and all sort of other things are harder.
The titlebars are a design choice made by the app developer, not by GNOME. At least in the sense that it's only part of GNOME's design guidelines, app developers using GTK don't have to follow it if they don't want. There are various ways you can configure/modify a GTK app to hide the titlebars and attempt to use server-side decorations. But either way you are faced with the choice of potentially hiding important functionality if the app developer has decided to put buttons in the titlebar, or having two titlebars like with this patch: https://github.com/PCMan/gtk3-nocsd
I gave up on jq and use jello[1][2] instead. gron too looks nice.

[1] https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alterna...
[2] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello
Ah yes, that one too. Used it a couple of times straight with a /dev/sda to best effort salvage data from a broken but running remote system I knew would not reboot as is.
I'm not sure if it's the same on older versions, but on recent Android versions, that requires a rooted device.
AMD Hybrid CPUs: No Point in Big.Little for PCs Unless OS Can Use It
I think the general cultural consensus is WWI is the fault of Europe's leaders, particularly but not completely that of Germany. And was characterized by a callous disregard for soldiers lives on all sides.
when American companies operate outside of America

According to the article, it was one Canadian employee told by one Canadian supervisor that this was a no-go. There was no "Poppies is bad!" memo from Austin or Seattle. It was how a single Canadian manager chose to interpret the dress code.

In other words, if it wasn't for the internet outrage industry, this would be much ado about nothing.

Further along in the article it shows the problem is provincial law, not the policy of an American company:

Wearing a poppy could be considered a display of a political belief, according to employment lawyer Alex Lucifero with the firm Samfiru Tumarkin, and thus, would not be protected under the Human Rights Code in Ontario.
Don't get me started on Craftsman. They should have gone under with Sears instead of lingering to capitalize on their past glory.

Part of my job involves repairing power tools, and I've started lumping Craftsman (and also the once-great Delta) in with "throwaway" brands like Harbor Freight and Tool Shop where I have to turn customers away or at least warn them that I probably can't get parts for them. So many parts for fairly recent models have already been discontinued, if they were ever available at all. I see a lot of older customers to whom Craftsman has always meant quality and service, and they often leave frustrated in my inability to deliver on that legacy.

I don't have a problem with their hand tools which, while maybe made more cheaply than before, can still be replaced at any Craftsman retailer that carries a replacement. But their power tool parts support is just abysmal IME.
I did this a few users ago after the ink dried out again in my inkjet printer and I would have to drop another $100+ on ink.

I don't print often but when I need to print I need to print. I spent a bit of change on a Brother Laser printer/scanner and I don't regret that purchase one bit. It's now been years and it still works great -- I've only replaced the toner twice now.
small print: limited to 100K concurrent flows and 10k rules.

Just checked a box running zeek/suricata that is seeing 25gbps with about 50k rules, it's currently tracking a bit north of 1 million flows.

so you'd only need 10 of their 'fastest' system to handle what this one system is doing.
'...the rebound is a validation of Uber’s decision to go public, even though it continues to set large losses. In the third quarter, the company had a loss of $1.09 billion, which was narrower than the $1.16 billion it lost in the same quarter last year.

In the middle of a pandemic, the company has been propped up by delivery and its Uber Eats business, as its main business—ride-hailing—remains weak. '

The valuation makes little sense in the pandemic - their food delivery is weak, they email-offered me $30 towards a meal, a huge loss over all their open accounts if consumed.

Taxi service is way down. Too big to fail?

https://buildfire.com/uber-statistics/
Many writers get lost in wanting to attribute a deist philosophy to the Náhuatl race, when their cosmogony tells us otherwise.

They understood a creative being, Ometecuhtli, but that creator was the element of fire (matter), and the creation occurred by the fact of omeycualiztli (matter). The cretaor was the eternal (Ayamictlán), but the imperishable continued to be fire (matter). The gods are the four material beings, the four stars: Tonacatecuhtli, Tonacacíhuatl, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca. They deified the rains in Tlaloc and the sea in Chalchiuhtlicue, these deities also being material. To explain the appearance of men, they resorted to the action of fire on earth (matter again), the marriage between Tonacatecuhtli and Tonacacíhuatl. The idea of a spiritual being was not perceived.

The Nahuas were not deists, nor can it be said that their philosophy was Asian-pantheism. It was materialism based on the eternity of matter. Their religion was the Sabaeism of the four stars, and like their philosophy, it was also materialistic.
As someone who grew up in Canada too you're right. Example of an American company not "reading the room". Wearing a poppy in November is as Canadian as buying a double double at a drive through in Tim Hortons on your way to work.
I’m not about to wade into Canadian culture because I know just enough to be very wrong so I hope it’s fine to use a US parallel.

If Memorial Day was “celebrate the individual personal lives and accomplishments of all these people who died at war” then it’s apolitical. But that isn’t really how it goes unfortunately — I wish it did. Instead it’s about celebrating and glorifying our troops and our military which is super political.
I have thought of Milton Friedman's work with the Negative Income Tax [1]. It sounds difficult to implement administratively but tries to solve this problem of incentivizing the workforce to move up and provide a means of paying taxes to afford the whole thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
At which point Del Knox on Intel's door ;-)
If we are very lucky we may see a single exploration mission or two to Mars in our lifetime. Saying SpaceX is a few years away from taking people there in volume is very delusional.

Colonial law on Mars is something our great great great great grandkids may need to worry about, if even that.
Only half on topic, but I wish GIMP garnered the same amount of industry support that Blender has. It has the bones to be great, it just needs a lot of UI and UX polish, and in open source those things always seem to attract the least passion (which is okay! if people work on something for free and of their own accord, they can pick whatever they want to work on). If some serious industry dough was being poured into GIMP, they could pay people to work on the less-fun bits.

Tbh they also should ditch the NIH attitude. Yes, sometimes Photoshop's behaviour or keybinds are more convoluted than GIMP's, but people have Photoshop's quirks ingrained and making the transition easier is what counts. Blender has an amazing 'industry keybinds' option.
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Imagine if their leaders were even more corrupt than ours. They might agree to buy their planet from us, and declare themselves Planetary Emperor because the Humans, owners of the Universe, sold the whole planet to him.

Meanwhile our space lawyers would be like "I didn't really expect that to work".
In fact I didn't realize until recently that this was a Canadian thing and that Americans don't wear a poppy.
Finance eh? Experian, Capital One, probably a few other data breaches I'm forgetting. All of them were PCI compliant. But hey, at least we got away from TLS 1.1...
Well, in my case it's probably the difference between buying a printer or not, not buying HP or not. My wife has a printer (Epson) for her home business, and I'll have her print me something occasionally, but for a business I'm willing to make some allowances. For personal use, I've been so disgusted with the printer market for decades that removing those companies from all aspects except manufacturing and initial purchase is the only thing that makes that purchase palatable.

So, the question becomes, what's the cost of removing those companies and their supply chains/software after purchase? If it's well trusted software that doesn't require constant attention, that's attractive. If it's random people providing binaries in a country that I may or may not have any chance of getting recourse if they harm me (that is, trajan horse or exploit, not accidental hardware bricking/breakage), then I'm left wondering whether it's worth it.
For styling purposes, yes, CSS allows a lot and things like currentColor enable you to at least have colors and styling dynamic when instancing symbols. But things like parametric shapes don't work without scripting, which is a bummer, since in many other places SVG is very amenable to handwriting with a lot of cool features. Just not with a lot of abstraction options.
I 100% agree, the concept of Technical Debt doesn't exist in any other profession. I think that's a clue.

In most cases, the concept doesn't really clarify anything, but people don't seem to know how to translate 'our' problems into something that is actually meaningful for the other people in the room.

The term 'technical debt' just obfuscates what is really going on. It doesn't provide any real insight.

You may like the blog post I linked in another post here.
I just listened to an interview with WF's CEO on Freakonomics, [1], where the CEO talks about the general policy of not adorning uniforms. Apparently this comes from Amazon. Prior to the acquisition, WF employees were allowed/encouraged to express themselves through their attire.

So while this is being pitched as 'WF won't allow employees to do X', it may be more accurate to say 'Amazon won't allow WF employees to do X'.

1: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/john-mackey/
As I say: doing things that don't scale is like children wetting the bed when they're asleep. It feels great and warm, but the desired course is to wake up, clean up, and grow.

Jesting aside, can you share more about your project and give more context?

>I feel like I am trying to boil the ocean and it has been overwhelming with the amount of data I need to sift through.

Which data are you sifting through to do what?

>Quantitative framework for app research and discovery for your business

This seems interesting, but what does this mean? Could you explain this to someone like me?

Does it mean that, as a business looking for an app, I type in some search terms and you'll return a comparative report with treemaps for features or something similar to what the Observatory of Economic Complexity does[0]?

- [0]: https://oec.world/
Funnier still if you consider European history
For readers who read that and think they still want to do it:

> The vision of AI/ML/DS has turned into a nightmare of people shoving data they don't understand into models they don't understand...

Don't be this ^. Please.

If you do want to come into the field, please first take the time to understand the tools. Learn enough to re-derive and re-implement the tools you're using. Learn the assumptions that need to hold. Don't just learn to point the tools at data and hit go. It's not like a lot of programming where it either succeeds or fails. Failures are often silent in this field. If you can't reason through how and when a given tool will succeed and, probably more importantly, reason through how and when a given tool will fail, you haven't learned enough to know what to use and when.
"YOU PUT THE {BRACE IN {OPEN-BRACE" takes the cake
This one is against the glorification of war though. I do actually support helping any person for humanitarian reasons though.
But like the US were first on the moon, the Russians were first to send a satellite/someone in space.

No one that's willing dismiss international treaties will care how many things anyone sent up - they'll only care who was the first.
When people say "no one is" it doesn't mean literally not a single soul in the world is claiming that. Given enough people you can find multiple people who support just about any viewpoint out there.

The views espoused on that blog are -extremely- fringe and not indicative of sentiment in any meaningful capacity. What value does it add to this discussion to point and go "look! at least 3 people are claiming this opinion"? It's arguing for the sake of arguing.

The vast majority of people don't care about wasting computational resources, let alone care about the ecological impact of a website.
I use xmllint for html and xml. I don't think it supports json
Mars has an opportunity to start from scratch, with the current knowledge about political systems but superior technology. It's a golden opportunity to start anew the human race.

Take for example the current elections in USA. Elections in Mars could be a two-round blockchained poll transmitted in real time. It would be over in minutes instead of weeks.
I would happily pay for the entire collection of ACOUP posts in book form. This is the kind of history I wish they had taught me in school but didn't.
This is a mandatory component of the hustle: https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U
Airspace around Biden's home now restricted
I don't think the writer who won the award was speaking about Stoicism, but rather stoicism. 'stoic' is part of our popular vocabuluary, but I doubt that most people saying it are referring to the set of principles and writings that we think of as Stoicism.
Great write up. But isn't everything the author complains about the reason why those games are called "roguelite" instead of "roguelike"?
Does the code just look like a mess, or is there a deeper problem?

Joel Spolsky compared code quality to the apparent cleanliness of the bakery where he got his first job:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

It looked filthy to him when he first started working there, but then he learned what was really needed for a "clean" bakery and what was just cosmetic.

(Been a long time since I read the rest of the article, so not going to vouch for it.)

So which is the case at your company? Is the code just cosmetically ugly, or is there something more fundamentally wrong? If they are able to continue delivering features and growing the company, maybe it's more cosmetic, at least for now?

If not, yeah, you should update your CV sooner rather than later.
yeah, that's why I asked
How a misleading post went from the fringes to Trump’s Twitter
No, we are only accountable to people with bigger guns than us. Native Americans didn't need anything from foreign settlers, and look how that ended up.

Mars can have 100% self sufficiency but will only have freedom if it can defend it.
1-5% of traffic that comes from people using devices that are at least 4 years old. Someone who can't or won't upgrade from a phone that still uses Android Marshmallow is probably not bringing in much revenue.
No non-destructive adjustment layers ...

People are waiting for non-destructive adjustment layers for over 10 years now.

Does HN exist this long? Lets do a search... It does!

10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091318

9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890549

8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4814360

7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5912145

6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8969088

5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9932717

4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12092173

3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15101108

2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17926027

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20422647

Today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25011401
That really depends on the type of talent your business needs.

If you are ok with not having top talent, then sure, don't waste money with stock options.
You make a great point: I wasn't considering code navigation. I did indeed get a ton of value from that back in the day.

For most of what I do the symbol is defined/used in the same file, so a simple `*` (Shift + 8) will get what I need it, but when it doesn't then I'm relegated to grep (I actually use a tool I wrote myself called findref[1]). It gets me 70 to 80 percent of the way there, but that's it.

To me that's "good enough" that when combined with the other benefits of plain vim over an IDE (especially ability to work over SSH like it's local, which I do a lot), it's worth it to me.

[1]: https://github.com/FreedomBen/findref
Ask HN: I got asked to resign?
I was asked to resign from the small consultancy where I've been working for ~9 months because our only large client has started demanding advanced degrees that I don't have.

This is a US company. The alternative is getting fired. They would like a response this weekend.

What should I do to maximize:
1. Income. There may be severance if I resign, but what does unemployment look like?
2. Future employability. My skills (data) are in demand, but I only have a few years of experience and have some imposter syndrome.
I always wonder if it is reasonable to assume that people are capable of understanding service agreements. Like, could a court make a decision that the customer was not a lawyer and therefore could not fully understand the agreement. Further, that the barrier to hiring a lawyer to understand such an agreement is too high (i.e. expensive) and it is unreasonable to expect the customer to do so.
It was an attempt to paint those who were killed in WWI (on the British side only) as not pointlessly and deliberately slaughtered, or at lest it seems so to me.
It's great isn't it?

FYI, in the contact page one is invited to suppport the project via Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=20122096
Shut up about science already, I just want to consume
> But it's a fund-raising campaign run by a non-governmental entity.

No a poppy is not inherently part of a any fund-raising.

It's a symbol of remembrance.

You can buy poppies from anywhere, or make your own, and still be using it to remember.
what do you mean "remember"?
I'll never ditch my Canon selphy one, the best 4x6 photo printer. I wish I could get one with a bigger printing size
don't know if I'm remembering correctly, wasn't there an sql interface in browsers once before, then it got gutted ?
It is a lot simpler to put a ship in water on your planet vs mount an attack 54m KM away. Space ships are quite delicate.
"15 pieces of flair is the minimum. Are you just going to do the minimum?" - https://vimeo.com/102830089

Sorry, off topic but when there's a remote chance to slip in an Office Space reference I am obligated to do so.
Am I the only one who is having issues seeing the recorded session?