skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of very clever people in the comment section, so please tell me in which universe is releasing 1.2 million tonnes of radioactive waste water into the ocean ever justifiable as good or even preferable? The impacts would be felt for at least ten years across the world. The best way is to contain it, as they have for ten years, and Japan has polluted land to store the wastes, the only problem is the expense. And if you could solve it with money, that's not a big problem at all for a government. I suppose with this move, Japan can even threaten the world for support to help them contain the waste.
Everyone should make their own decisions. I'm just trying to put out some truth about the risks so people can make informed choices.

TBH I've made this site for myself as much as anyone - I'm just under 40 so the risk/benefit is tight for me personally, but I want to do my bit for everyone else and stop the spread so I'll take any vaccine they'll give me.

Good luck with you flying dreams and say safe!
All those phrases originally meant something. I think they become management speak via two mechanisms: 1. People use them shorn of their original meaning to deliver the appearance of being managerial without the substances or 2. People raise them to rock-solid rules and demand slavish conformance to them without thought about costs/benefits or appropriateness.

For bonus points, mix the two up, so that not only is someone trying to sound managerial but failing by using the terms completely incorrectly, but then also rigidly enforce their incorrect understandings.

For instance, if you have lots of meetings and those meetings almost never produce "action items", and/or those action items never get done, you really do have a problem. If you don't like calling them action items, fine, find another word, but it'll be the same thing. But if you get a manager that insists that meetings always produce action items, no matter what, you get another sort of failure. It is a perfectly valid use of a meeting to get two groups together and just make sure they are on the same page about something. If that's all you ever meet about, there may be a deeper problem you should dig into, this shouldn't be your dominant form of meeting (unless you're in a position where that's your direct job), but it does sometimes need to happen.

I find it useful to dig down to the "original" meaning of a lot of these terms, think about what they mean and how to use them in my own head to put terminology on things, but not to be rigid about it.

I also observe that there are some managers who use the terms essentially correctly, and some that clearly fit into at least one of the two categories I listed at the beginning. They should be treated differently.
> language that compiles down directly to assembly

Directly to machine code, not assembly.
There is intentional or incidental technical debt which is debt taken for good reason because of lack of enough context, YAGNI, or whatever with the understanding that it will need to be revisited and the developers are aware of it. This one is easier to deal with and is usually contained well because it is a known-known.

Then there is accidental technical debt that is mostly due to lack of design skill / judgement that results in code smells, spaghetti code, poor abstractions and a codebase that sucks the life out of everyone.

When most people write about technical debt, they refer to the former while it is the latter that is much more costly and prevalent and yet, avoidable.
You're saying it's OK to order stuff and not pay for it, as long it costs less than the cost of going to court?
Careful facetwit will ban you for sharing any truth at all.
To copy one I already wrote for a different comment:

To go into one I'm really familiar with: light bulbs are fine after banning incandescent bulbs. LED bulbs (which were still available at time of the regulations) are better than incandescent bulbs in nearly every way, as long as you don't cheap out and go for one that flickers at under the rate of an incandescent.

The problem is poor consumer education, not government regulations. The consumer is stupid, which is a problem even the FEE would agree on.
Bayes Classifier for Your Books
Yeah, I know, but the difference is that Burke was actually right :-D
WADR you've read the comment wrong. It literally does say Protestant, but it doesn't mean they are Protestants. Someone can have a fanaticism associated with Protestants without actually being one, and that's what he means.

I also think it's actually not that confusing, assuming you're experienced in reading English. It might be more subtle if you spend most of your time in other languages.
How about not giving money or mindshare to a company you think is scummy?
Volitility: The new French Revolution, and the fight against it by Baby Boomers
When was the last time anyone overtly referenced the protestant work ethic except for the purposes of tearing down a straw man.

Many cultures, in the far east as well as Europe have similar "always be doing something productive" undertones.

I agree that the moralizing zealots that set the tone for early American culture were insufferable (and being so insufferable likely helped accelerate the settlement of the east coast states) but "muh protestant work ethic" isn't really unique to the US.
It was indeed a shitshow, as you point out. But I would still argue that the most incompetent mishandling of the situation today is better than the most competent handling possible back then, because we have electronic communications, germ theory of disease, it’s just a different world now. That’s not to minimize how abysmal the trump reaction to covid was. But we have built in advantages now.
> I have a sinking feeling the situation would quickly improve if ownership had per-person limits

Running an economy on feelings is a sure way to ruin an economy. People who buy multiple dwellings would be more than happy to rent them. Renting is good. It provides a liquid market to access housing. If the market is efficient, rent or buy should be a preference rather than a financial decision: The financial impact should be the same.

If people refuse to rent, or sell their property then you have something wrong with your economy (too much regulations, people are afraid of devaluation, etc...). You don't fix a structural problem of an economy by implementing a per-person limit to buy houses.
... What are you even saying?

Mining bitcoin is comparable to the US army? LOL.

How delusional are you, is that correlated with the amount of BTC you own?
Ask HN: Would you like to live on this planet?
It was men's ultimate desire for ages. A planet with no women. Only men and army of "human-like" robots for all kinds of things.
Every need physical, sexual or otherwise is taken care of. Every fanatasy is programmable. And there is no chaos that
feminine energy brings. It is peaceful out here. There is fresh food waiting for you every hour. There is "robotic" companion
waiting to please you in every possible way. Men was never happy like this since big bang. There is no divorce, breakup , cheating, teenage daugther
problems and lot of drama. There is no "right now I love you but tomorrow who knows". There is nothing to worry about.
There are factories to make babies- but only boy if you want to start family.

It was careful decision . Logical solution that bought end of pain and suffering of all men. This is planet of Men. Welcome.

What do you think? Do you want to join this planet? What else you want there?

P.S: Please this is not hate against women. I just want peace for men:)
TN5250 being one of the famous exceptions.
>But that happens anyway, what has it discouraged?

Just because something isn't great doesn't mean it can't become worse or that the current solution isn't making it better than it could be.
BlackStar Enterprise: The Future of Stock Trading
Many of the standard unix tools are not written in sh. They're written in C. Am I missing something in your comment?
The story you were told is false. Ants don't eat wood. Most ants are predators or scavengers, and some have evolved symbiotic relationship with certain fungi.

Dead wood is degraded mostly by fungi, because other organisms lack the enzymes required to digest the polymers that make wood hard, called lignin.
Stallman did not show up barefoot. He took his shoes off in the middle of his speech.
And that might be the biggest plot twist - a government-mandated switch from something that works, to something badly thought out with large unintended consequences.
> Constants are written in all-caps out of convention, not requirement

I wonder if there even is a language where something like this IS required. Most of the languages I know are case-sensitive yet the case doesn't mean anything specific in any of them, the case seemingly always is a matter of style.
I like the UI. Very nice.
Thank God you guys have Jacinda, though.
Our government doesn't have the balls to get rid of negative gearing, let alone completely nullifying tax deductions on mortgage repayments.
...and this would be ameliorated with more housing. Real estate is only a good investment if there is tons of demand.
Most people do that on Arduino which is as c++ as it gets, with templates, etc...
> 30% own their home completely outright...

Which tells me that they likely bought their house over 30 years ago. Which tells me that they have been largely unaffected by the complaint you are responding to.
I have seen more than one generation say this and then, after a while, attain enlightenment. Feel free to be the next one.
LLCs can't hurt nor hinder laundering. I was just pointing out that it's fairly easy to set one up. Developers do it all the time when they are trying to buy blocks of adjacent properties without revealing themselves to competitors or flippers.

KYC and AML departments have made it a little more difficult but not impossibly so. I would wager it's gotten even easier with cryptocurrencies.
I work in a Windows shop (security compliance reasons for federal government contracts). Before I got this job I was pretty much only developing in Linux.

Honestly? Powershell is pretty cool, though it feels a little strange to admit that. It has it's own very powerful syntax and virtually all of the common Bash commands are now aliased by default, so it's pretty smooth transition for the basic stuff.
As with any metaphor, technical debt has its' limits and its' traps. IMHO the biggest problem is that a comparison with lending implies that technical debt can be managed like people do with a loan. With loan you know how much of money-equivalence you take, how much you owe and how much interest you have accumulated on top.

Most of measurement - if at all possible - is much less obvious with technical debt. And inability to easily quantify it, opens up door for corruption.
I guess what I'm arguing is that we already have so many Headless UIs out there. Another comment pointed out PrimeVue, which does exactly what Headless UI does. This feels like another library reinventing the wheel.

I'm always reminded of https://xkcd.com/927/ when another UI framework pops up. Do all libraries do things just differently enough to warrant a completely new library or can the implementation details be abstracted to some core lib (maybe even a web spec).

On the other hand, maybe I'm wrong and HeadlessUI ends up being that GenericUI lib.
> What about bottom incomes? Why have those barely increased in real terms in the last 30 years

Because the main source of productivity growth in that period was technical change, and those who were not well positioned to adapt were stuck at the bottom of the income ladder. Of course there were other factors (globalization, increasing costs in some sectors putting pressure on real incomes etc.), but that's the main story. It's quite consistent with Graham's argument.
Tech debt is deferred value, the cost of which tends to exponentially increase. "We could have feature/efficiency of <some high number> if we spent <high time/people/money cost>. That cost is too high right now -- we have a deadline, we have been given a specific budget, etc -- so we will settle for less value since we believe it to be more affordable. Doing this will likely only make the cost of what we are deferring even higher, but it's the best decision we can justify at the moment."

Tech Debt is a rational tradeoff, but when all decision makers are incentivized to only care about the short term, then it quickly becomes an unassailable barrier to future growth.
I think you are right — it is debatable [1]. I would argue that it is easier to find ways to exploit determinism of scheduling/allocation than finding ways to exploit humans.

[1] https://hovav.net/ucsd/dist/cloudsec.pdf
Fossil fuels work if you want a big chunk of life on earth, and possibly humanity, to join them.
What? I'm pretty sure I have Photoshop on my iPad...
> There are only so many houses a rich person can occupy.

Do you really think that’s a factor? That the wealthy say “My family has all bedrooms they need, so I’m done investing in real estate?” PE firms buy up entire communities and repackage their mortgages into investment products. Foreign investors will buy property regardless of location and never step foot in it if it’s in a more stable country than theirs. Real estate investing is not about finding a place to live for the wealthy.
You kind of answer your own question : only time will tell, ironically, and nobody else.

Also, to all those saying "clinical trials have succeeded", I strongly suggest them to read said published trial results and look at _measured_ sample sizes used in the results, not total inoculation numbers.

Applying the precautionary principle, particularly if you are not at risk, is a perfectly reasonable position, IMHO.
I like it too, very much so, to the point where I recommend it to people that find K. N. King's "C Programming: A Lengthy Approach" too intimidating. And I had nothing to do with writing it, as you obviously know.

My sincere thanks for the book.
I've always found Boston tap water to be excellent too. It comes from the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts, and is a claim-to-fame for Sam Adams beer. They even mimic the water in their breweries elsewhere.

In general mountain water I think is the best.

People don't really think about it this way, but New York is actually very close to two mountain ranges (the Taconic range of the Appalachians, and the Catskills). The Taconics are the dramatic peaks you see when crossing the Hudson a bit further north around Newburgh, and the Catskills are the much larger mountains slightly more inland.
Why? I see one subthread with a holy war on code style, but nothing else.
> We still have the most wealth inequality in all the world.

No you don't, not even close. Where did you get that idea?
one version would be to make sure that fines is paid in freshly raised (and dedicated) capital and not from the operating budget, or that shareholders are made financially responsible up to the value of their shares for criminal fines against the company.

If you combine that by making should have known the company was doing things illegally an good enough reason for the shareholders to sue the responsible executives into bankruptcy and you might see a change in behavior.

The problem is that when all of the costs comes out of the operating budget there is very little reason for the general assembly to hold the board responsible and if the board is not held responsible neither will the executives.
Add to this that many developers/engineering managers are trying to virtue signal to business leaders about priorities. Unless your business leaders grok code development, that translation layer is always rife with grifting aiming to pad resumes and career trajectories over serving the organization's need.
I suspect regulation (or fear of impending one) is the likely culprit; but again, not sure. Re: size -- I was including regular fiat currencies, not just digitals.
and my axe!
What is actually the licence of a npm development depending on so many packages? Is the most restrictive licence in the dependecy tree the one which determines the license requirement of my program?
Do I have to publish my source code if any of the dependencies is GPL?
Eh. It makes sense as long as they do it gradually. They had to do it back in 2012 too.
We had a normal sound system. We even had two! OSS and Alsa. And then Pulse ate up twenty years of devtime of an innumerable amount of devs to become somewhat usable.
DDoS Is Not Dead: Building a Scalable DDoS Framework
Hello everyone,

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I had an early version of Dragon on Tandy running Windows 3.1. And it was pretty usable. Not just dictation it could imitate mouse clicks when you said stuff like "maximize window".
Caveat Emptor. I subscribed to Revolut "Premium" in order to have unlimited disposable virtual cards but changed my mind since and they too charged me the cancellation "break fee". Apparently everyone is using this tactic these days.
Moving industry offworld is actually not a bad idea. Especially to the moon.

Transport costs Moon-surface -> Earth-surface are ... non-intuitive to say the least.
this honestly made me happy
I'm saying that a broker will offer little or no margin on a meme stock
I think you're defining innovation too narrowly. There are lots of social, political, and behavioral innovations in hunter gatherer societies that may not necessarily manifest as technological innovations, but are no less innovative or clever.

In my limited experience with these people, they are absolutely capable of higher cognition, including planning into the distant future.
I went back to riding a horse because a horse’s lifetime is 30 years and I was only getting about 10 from my last car.

Sarcasm aside, plasma TVs had horrible burn in, weighed a bunch, and suffered from reflection issues due to the glass screens. Not to mention LCDs quickly became much cheaper. The issues with OLEDs are either already solved or much better than when they first came out, such as burn in.
This article is unabashed pro-free-market, anti-government propaganda.

From the author bio at the bottom of the page:

>>> Jeffrey Tucker is a former Director of Content for the Foundation for Economic Education. He is the Editorial Director at the American Institute for Economic Research, the founder of Liberty.me, Distinguished Honorary Member of Mises Brazil, economics adviser to FreeSociety.com, research fellow at the Acton Institute, policy adviser of the Heartland Institute, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, member of the editorial board of the Molinari Review, and author of five books.

FEE - libertarian economic think-tank

AIER - free-market think-tank with publications titled "The Real Reason Nobody Takes Environmental Activists Seriously" and "Brazilians Should Keep Slashing Their Rainforest", and recently promoted 'herd immunity' without lockdowns as a COVID strategy. [1]

freesociety.com - libertarian project

Acton Institute - promotes laissez-faire economics in Christian framework

Heartland Institute - conservative/libertarian think-tank known for working with Philip Morris to discredit the risks of "secondhand smoke" and promoting climate change denial. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_for_Economi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute#Policy_pos...
I think digital media & document cloud still bring in the lion share of the revenue, and definitely of the profits (not even sure whether digital marketing is profitable yet, I think it wasn't when I left the company 2.5 years ago, but don't quote me on that, I didn't follow the financials very close)
If we are talking death, OK, but what about other issues in the "harm spectrum" in either the case of Covid or Vaccine ?

I mean there's still stuff between "fully healthy" or "deadly dead".
Thanks for bringing this up. I didn't know about open-ui. I think something like this is becoming more and more necessary.
> That line is disgusting. Labor has not prevailed

Workers in newly industrializing countries have seen huge gains in incomes. That's "labor" as well, and those gains should be counted when asking whether "labor" has done well.
I agree with the premise of what youre saying. I dont think the ratio is 5:1, but probably more like 1:5 -- but -- more importantly -- doesnt this make it good for renters because now there are investment properties in an ample environment looking for people to rent?

I would argue that it is low interest rates AND low supply. If supply was sufficient then renters would just rent the houses which were purchased, possibly at a discount.
I first discovered Susan Blackmore's work last March from this here at HN: NASA's free history e-book collection (nasa.gov)[1]

Scanning this awesome collection of publications I found, Susan Blackmore. “Dangerous Memes; or, What the Pandorans Let Loose” (Cosmos & Culture [2] p297)

The ideas discussed in the essay could not have found me at a better time--2020's COVID disinformation, Fake News, Q and on and on.

I'm not an anthropologist, nor in any way invested in anthropological orthodoxy. I simply find the idea of memetics useful for identifying and describing behaviors and cultural products in new ways. I frequently listen to NPR programs such as WNYC New York's On The Media[3], who make an effort to explicate news media. And yet I feel the explanations are repetitive, contingent and continue to fall short. Memetics simply acts as another perspective in the vein of what Scott E Page calls "Many Model Thinking[4]--a second opinion to a George Lakoff[5] or other perspectives of the _new normal_ in media[6]--just to offer a few examples.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22718489

[2]: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/hist_culture_cosmos_deta...

[3]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm

[4]: https://hbr.org/2018/11/why-many-model-thinkers-make-better-...

[5]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/keep-subst...

[6]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...
Google says the Pixel 5a will launch, but only in two countries
nitpick. I think C compiles directly to machine code. There's no intermediate step of compiling to assembly first.
Instead of cherry picking one which might arguably, after many years of development, have turned out all right, why not explain how great low flush toilets are? In part 2, say why toilet size regulations are a better way of addressing water or energy concerns than a more direct method.
React Router Hooks: Exploring How They Work
> Most people don't have the safety net or mental bandwidth to even consider entrepreneurship. It is not a panacea for the masses.

Even if they did have the resources to go into entrepreneurship, if most people did so, they would run out of employees and markets. Not everyone can be a CEO, at some point you need workers as well, and there's room for only so many Ubers and Facebooks before starting a new one is unprofitable.
You can wrap your .NET, JVM, Python, Perl or C functionality in a small program that links to the library you want, that deserializes your XML or JSON, reads your command, and acts on the incoming object stream, spitting it to stdout in a neutral, preferably human readable, format that can then be piped into the next command.

Oh! Wait! This is what tools like cut, jq, grep, awk, and sed to.

And they won't tie you to a certain object model.
> In Berlin, if you get an annual subscription instead of a monthly one, you will get two months for free.

Same in the UK - "it's discounted to 10 months cost"