skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is when you get a good job that pays $100k or more. You are not rich, but you are targeted by a tax supposedly for the rich (which they don't pay as they have means to avoid it).
Amazon has tons of problems with how they push Prime including dark UX patterns. The entire industry could handle subscriptions better.

But you're right, it's a mark of how bad Adobe's policies are that the things I'm thinking about Amazon are that at least I didn't have to get onto an online chat and argue with a representative for 30 minutes. Amazon didn't act betrayed and snap me with a punitive fee to punish me for my disloyalty.

I'm not necessarily saying that the average tech subscription process is handled well just that Adobe is noticeably worse.
I should know better than to enter a debate of semantics, especially one that kicks off with something as paradoxical as "highly efficient vectors of meaning".

However, those dirty practices that the author dismissed really do pile up and drag you like debt. If you don't deal with them, they get worse until you bust. If those things aren't technical debt, then what are they?
You have to first identify the percentage of developers that fall into the over-engineer class. If it’s 30%, then it’s possible 30% of your team will over-abstract, and if you make them a principal, they will over engineer most of the codebase. These are scary people, because at least the duck-tape ‘just get it done’ people write sloppy but simple code (always needs to be cleaned up, but this is a lower load cognitively than unraveling the mental models of the over-engineers). Both can test one’s patience.

To keep running with the analogy, the sloppy developers will just take a credit card and max it out. The over-engineers will do credit default swaps on mortgage backed securities and tie up the whole economy.
Or the OG TeX for that matter. Knuth writes his code in WEB (his own literate programming language based on Pascal)
Both the AstraZeneca and J&J vaccines use an adenovirus to deliver DNA instead of mRNA wrapped in lipid (like Moderna & Pfizer).

Everywhere I read about the J&J vaccine, I see something like "the DNA vaccine doesn't alter your DNA". Can somebody please clear this up?

As far as I understand, the mRNA just stays in the cytoplasm of the cell and gets used up by the ribosome to create spike proteins. The adenovirus vector used in the J&J (and other vaccines) injects DNA in the cell's nucleus, which seems at odds with the widely circulated "it doesn't change your DNA" statement.

Do people make this claim because the cell displaying spike proteins is basically always eliminated by CD8 killer T cells?

Btw here's a nice high-level summary by the NYT about how all the vaccines work: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/how-covid-19...
What I Learned from Link Aggregation Experiments on a Home Network
>>a democratic non-profit foundation
> Isn't that what Nominet basically was and here we are?

Nominet was a non-profit, but not a democratic one. Democracy is not "choose your rulers", but "choose your rules". Having a board/parliament is by definition the opposite of government by/for the people. The simple fact the community has to fight against the board is proof of that.

> a minimum barrier to people simply writing a script and registering literally every domain in existence

That's just not true. First, because that was definitely not the argument presented when administrative fees for domain registrations were brought up. Second, because bad actors usually have a lot more resources than good actors... Sure you may stop a random teenager from registering many domains, but random teens is not who i'm afraid of personally. I don't know of a single time where economic barriers have stopped bad actors from engaging in malicious/hurtful activities. Third, because some TLDs are actually already fully free-as-in-free-beer because they're operated as a public service and they are not facing the problems you mention (to my knowledge), if only because their terms and conditions disallow parking spaces.

> Probably also to provide a financial paper trail in case of abuse, illegal activity or other reasons.

Not sure about that either. In most jurisdictions responsibility for illegal content falls on the hosting provider, not the registrar/TLD. In the rare cases that your TLD is going to seize your domain for whatever reason, whether there's a paper trail or not changes very little because the content is effectively taken down as was requested. Whether that's a feature or a bug depends on what kind of stuff is being censored and for what kind of reasons.

Personally, i'd be interested in a more democratic take on domain seizures. I'm pretty sure most people are opposed to wikileaks/scihub having their domains seized, despite what a board may think.

> or other reasons

Yes, to grow a crazy lucrative business out of infinite resources nobody should be competing for. I'm calling that an anti-feature.
I like that definition: the code might be fine as far as code itself goes, but it's still slowing you down as you iterate on the product. Decisions that were somewhat right at the time have slowly started go wrong as new ideas, requirements, and knowledge arrives.

On backends that comprise a database and an API layer on top I find that the sweet spot of speed + iterability can be found by deconstructing the product into its atomic parts. This boils down to modelling the database so that is as close to "reality" (as seen from a business/legal perspective rather than the product's perspective.) as is comfortable.

Reality is somewhat immutable (compared to a product.) Deconstructing (not just necessarily normalize) the API entities into small parts that reflect some "real world idea." The product is an abstraction of "reality" and that abstraction may change, but the underlying parts do not.

Of course once performance comes into account things may be different, but speed is rarely an issue when we start.
Deaths by COVID implies that those at risk will forego all other options to decrease risk of infection, such as masks, distancing, etc. Those options are opt in the same as a vaccine, though the vaccine is 2x and done.

Nonetheless, just because version 1/2 COVID vaccines are good enough for you does not others should just jump on board when other options exist that can vastly reduce risk of infectionand/or death.

In short, blowing the death problem our of proportion unless the options are only nothing vs vaccine.
The user has since locked their Twitter account. Here's the photo of cancellation fee included in the original tweet[0]. The rest can be found in Archive.

[0] - https://imgur.com/qyAWTXw

(mirror, source, dead link)
If you are Samsung or Panasonic, and the largest state economy in the wealthiest market on earth is talking about banning your products, you might start considering alternative strategies too, even if the other 49 economies don't care.

California banning something is effectively a national ban for a lot of products. There isnt a manufacturer that makes TVs just for the US plains market. This is economically infeasible from a manufacturing standpoint.
The difference being that you can't "catch" being obese with a viral infection.
Come to think of it, you could abuse NTFS Alternate Data Streams for this.

Imagine:

> # See alternate data streams
> Get-Item diagram.dot -Stream *
Stream Length
------ ------
:$DATA 123
text/plain 4444
image/svg+xml 65432
image/png 456134

> # Send the whole bulk
> Get-Item diagram.dot -Stream * | ...

> #... or pick just one:
> Get-Content diagram.dot -Stream "image/svg+xml" | Send-Email ....

Would have to ensure everything is aware of the streams and the convention, though, so that you wouldn't accidentally truncate them when copying files around.
Lambda School (YC S17) + Amazon to Launch 9-Month Back End Engineering Program
Covid 19 RNA based vaccines and the risk of prion disease [pdf]
Edge Impulse and TinyML on Raspberry Pi
The term “tree” is pretty common in source control systems. So, for me, I just look for a link to the “tree”, which you managed to find.

Just putting it out there for future readers.
Heh. The one that just changed their name recently? I still have a few ways of reasoning that they're wrong, but I feel like they're always right. I've been following since like 2015.
Entrenched money stabilizes the world. Imagine putting 10% of the billionaires of the world on a boat, those who pull the strings of their empires to keep their nations into status-quo, and imagine the boat sinks. A year later, all those entrenched interests dematerialize, fewer powers hold people together, diplomacy isn’t as balanced as it has been when billionaires weighed in, and war starts.

That’s the story of the Titanic, sunk in 1913.
Nvidia launches Jarvis conversational AI framework in general availability
'Async' here refers not only to the keyword but also to what is achieved, in classic javascript, through callback functions
The milking stage can go on for a very, very long time.

Never underestimate it.
While I generally agree with you, there is the tragedy of the commons effect. :-)
They get paid more for good performance but they don't get paid less for bad performance.

Athlete contracts on the other hand are fixed. If the athlete does well the team organization gains the benefit. If the athlete does poorly the athlete may be fired or transferred. And there is no gold parachute when they are cut.

So I don't recognize the similarities between CEO and pro athlete compensation at all.
Weird phrases and jargon are a burden in healthcare. There are literally thousands of terms you can learn that don't have applications elsewhere. As a healthcare IT specialist, you're spoken to in this language of doctors and medicine, and must take diligent notes and learn what all those 3 letter acronyms are so you can get the right diagnoses or drugs in your analyses.
That's impressive, in fact I would argue that this is as close to best-practice as you can get. I would love to read a blog post with details how you set this up!
Tons of people on the left oppose this. The power struggle in western countries is not between left and right.
The double-meaning has been noted for a very long time.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the French had a harsh, high-security dungeon-like prison at Bitche for British POWs who had caused problems in the regular prisons (trying to escape, attacking guards, etc.). The British troops referred to being sent there as having been "Bitched".
I think you need to revisit your assumption about wealth inequality in The Netherlands. It’s on par with that of most of Europe, significantly lower than in the US [1].

[1] https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SI.POV.GINI/rank...
I meant 2 months more as a floor across a majority of items(and it’s been a long time since then so there’s a certain amount of rounding). Production wanted to eliminate shortages whereas executives and accountants wanted to optimize turn rates while claiming to care about shortages.

Overall, each of the projects had around 2000 unique parts (at least for what this particular plant was making). Occasionally, newer contracts would get a much higher prioritization and could grab parts (and employees) from older projects. Another scenario that would lead to extra demand was having test failures on a project that was nearing design freeze.

I ended up changing industries to financial services, but will always have a deep respect and appreciation for what went into those projects.
Oddly, as an exception, the Netherlands would probably go a long way even if the skies went dark, due to the large surface area of artificially lighted and heated greenhouses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_(region),_Netherlands

Hmm, this could use translating

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_(Nederlandse_streek)
Yeah before it was like, you had to go to the store to spend $15-25 on a single new movie on DVD. Now there's a ton of stuff at your fingertips in 10 seconds for like 10-20 month. Makes it a lot less worth it for the average Joe.
They are not buying the homes to live in, they are buying them to rent out as investments.
Sure, it might get worse. But it may as well get better. Implying that changing paradigm can only make things worse is a fallacy.
I have been maintaining a fork of Titanium (because Appcelerator did not want to merge any of my PRs) and writing tens of apps in Titanium for 7 years.
It is indeed a really strong framework.
However 3 years ago i decided to switch to Nativescript for multiple reasons:
* performances in Nativescript were way better when you were talking about listview and such components. The proxy system of Titanium makes it pretty heavy and REALLY hard to maintain
* developing plugins or maintaining Titanium is a thousand times harder. You have to write all in Objc/Java and it is really hard to do live dev/debugging for the native side.
* (3 years ago at least) gradle support was really weak and it was really hard to integrate native libs

It is only after that i discover the fact that i could use Vue and now Svelte
Happy Birthday nnn. Celebrating with release v4.0 Sushi
That isn't sufficient. You know why?

exploit("X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*")

Okay, so we remove strings. Good thing the in-memory object format isn't known by the atta– wait. Okay, never mind; we can get rid of objects too. And bignums, while we're at it; that leaves us just with bog-standard floating-point integer primitives. Which are stored in a JavaScript call frame. Oops.
A bit surprising, huh? According to this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq... The Netherland, indeed, is the worst. It's close to having a minority own everything while everybody else has 0 (a 1.0 coefficient).
The thing is that the costs of living are so high in cities that offer such pay, you can hardly save anything and if you started with 0, it will take decades to have some security. Sure you make a lot of money, but you are still essentially living paycheck to paycheck. My definition of poor is someone who doesn't have their own home or flat, savings that let them withstand at least a year of unemployment without having to use state benefits and so on.
Grab to Go Public in $40bn Record-Breaking SPAC Merger
I would rather call this pragmatism, not defeatism. There are problems and most Russians are aware of them and as soon as there emerge a political forse which will feel like they may fix them we'll definitely vote for it.
The idea that something like bipartisan system may just magically fix the problem we have is deeply unconvincing for us.
Why this obsession with dropping x86? Do we have any evidence that arm offers better performance & thermals at the same processing node? Only one arm chip today really competes with x86 and it is in 5nm node whereas amd is at 7 and intel at 10
Are you implying they'll go bankrupt? Did you look at their financials at all? They blow any other "unicorn" out of the water on their IPO day (well technically direct listing).
The profound irony of the PG piece and the growing wealth gap is that it just happens that 1982 was the point where the wealth gap was at its narrowest point (or very close to it). It has only widened since then, underlining the point in the posted article:

https://daraalbrightmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/His...
The whole article by PG seemed like a defense of himself, a justification for wealth inequality.

Perhaps most billionaires did not come from other billionaires. But can we really act like tech billionaires didn't have enormous advantages?

Gates: Parents were quite well off and influential.

Bezos: Same, parents gave him hundreds of thousands to start.

Musk: Father owned an emerald mine.

I could go on, but I won't, because you get the idea. How many people in the wealthiest 1000 came from families in the bottom 50% of wealth/tax brackets? How many from broken homes?

And for the most important point, this doesn't even matter: the issue is that it is our financial and tax system, not talent or social contributions that allows billionaires to exist while others struggle. This system could just as easily say that nobody can control that much wealth and ensure a more just distribution, and many think it should. The whole article is a deflection and distraction from the point that a few people are unfairly awarded a disproportionate amount of resources.
Then you weren't paying attention.
To clarify, regarding crankhood: it is the lack of details presented in the "theory", combined with his inaccurate view of how science is conducted ("others not doing all the work for me" == "it's being suppressed due a conspiracy"), not his attitude per sei (although that does comprehend the aforementioned facts in some sense), which does the trick.
Grab to go public in the US following $40B SPAC deal
Sure. As long as you were super rich. They were $10-$15 per 60W equivalent bulb and you couldn't get ones that were 90W equivalent. The only bulbs that were remotely close to affordable were CFLs that were terrible.

And you know what? The LED bulbs I've owned don't last 10k hours, either.

Edit: And now they are selling light fixtures with the LED's integrated and non-replaceable. So when the bulb goes out you have to throw the fixture out and replace the whole stupid thing. Talk about land-fill increase. Not to mention the risk of electrocution and/or fire from consumers trying to do wiring themselves, or the waste of paying an electrician to replace your light bulb...
In my opinion, the biggest source of technical debt in our industry is HR.

Design-by-HR has led to so many awful, awful projects, endless grind, and disastrous architecture.

Technical organizations which dissuade the HR power grab, usually have a lot better technical management and therefore architecture - and the technical debt is minimized. Technical organizations which defer to HR-derived architecture decisions are doomed to become a churning quagmire.

HR people: you've got to learn to stop interfering with technicians and engineers, because of your career choice. You're really not needed by organizations that build their technical resources properly.
It’s quite easy to make a fun drawing app with Bresenham such as Google Jamboard.
> we should care about how wealth was generated, and the gap itself is less important

what? what makes the gap less important? its a big deal if the rich get richer while the poor keep getting poorer. so what: we should just ignore that gap, and instead praise the rich because they are so smart, and talented?
> 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.

LEDs are superior now, but not when incandescents were de facto banned. They would be superior now without the regulation, and would have supplanted incandescents.

What regulation got us were compact fluorescents - more toxic, more wasteful, and more fragile than incandescents - in the interim.
AFAIK Go uses this for symbol visibility (e.g. symbols starting with an upper-case letter are exported, lower-case are private symbols).
It does not as the new owner now has to have the rates high enough to cover the mortgage on the house he just purchased in a bidding war. moreover, the person that wanted to buy it and live in it is now priced out and has to pay rent and misses out on the asset appreciation.
I went to the one I'm most familiar with. Also, it was fine even when the regulations happened.

It's not cherry-picking, it's choosing to speak on the one I'm most qualified to speak on. I live in an area of the country way too low-income to have dealt with most of those problems. But out of the problems listed, I know multiple of them to be outright lies, and since the author was fine about lying about the few I know for sure, it doesn't seem unlikely that the others are also lies.
"Paul paints a rosy picture but doesn't mention that incomes for lower and middle-class families have fallen since the 80s."

Income in the US has increased for all brackets since 1967[0][1] (at least). The argument is really about who is entitled to more of the increase. But it's framed by the charts as a zero sum: Rich gaining and poor losing. It's not true. All brackets are gaining.

The actual risk is that super-wealthy use their wealth to affect political outcomes. They can influence politics, but were not elected by anyone to do so.

[0] https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2020/09/1...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
> Technical debt is caused by a lack of understanding

Engineering in general usually involves a trade-off. If you want a really fast car, it cannot have air conditioning. But also, if you want the car built in 12 hours, the engine might overheat every now and then. The point is, you can have technical debt and have understanding between business and engineering.
To be clear, I think there are huge problems with how corporations (and by extension the directors) are able to act with impunity, but most of those problems would be resolved by proper enforcement of the existing laws. I can’t see how investment can work if the shareholders were made accountable, but even if this became law, nobody would actually be thrown in jail under the current hands-off regime that seems prevalent in the Anglosphere at the moment.

The fact that directors and CEOs have so much control over a business, but that it’s extremely difficult to hold them to account, is very bad IMO. But changing the law won’t fix anything if the law itself is not properly enforced.
Focus on the standard library (data tables, most useful excel functions, networking) and you'll have my money too! Very cool project!
Wow, that's one axiomatic comment.

Could you please elaborate on what kind of worldview he's attempting to "prosthelytize" that is inherently nefarious, without making a straw man?
I suppose it depends what you think is the bigger calamity - CO2 emission, or energy scarcity.
There are different mechanisms involved. Wealth inequality in general is caused by cheap credit which drives up asset prices.

Facebook and Google are not tech companies. The own all the best advertising real-estate.

Amazon owns all the best store-front real-estate.

And so on. There is no limit to how much of the relevant real-estate these can companies can own. Therefore exponential distribution of valuations.

"Tech" is not a big part of it. For example, there is no way of competing with these companies based on tech.

Hm. What about taxation of domain names based on revenue?
Always hated breakout board producers for this pull-up resistor thing, especially since they are often targeted at the educational market. Why would you solder fixed pull-ups guaranteed to work only when it's just you in the bus (and not even that as it's pretty common for uCs and SoCs to include their own pull ups)? Teach your users the simple calculation needed to add pull-ups themselves!
For context, the author is a known antivaxer, and the journal this article was published in, isn't entirely legit.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Bart_Classen

This article addresses the actual science:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/can-mrna-based-covid-19-vac...
That's buying a new house every 50 years. That's re-building all of the wealth your family spent generations accumulating, every 50 years.

That's a direct disincentive to saving money and frugality - the more you save, the bigger your tax gets, while your income stays the same.
A national ban isn't a global ban. If plasmas are superior, why aren't they popular in Korea?
> the energy density of batteries is simply to low (energy per kg) for airplanes to be efficient.

Technically, hydrogen airplanes with fuel cells are electric and much more feasible, but I don't think that's what his post meant indeed.