skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately my biggest problem with technical debt as been that it accrues even if you do nothing to invite it. Maybe a better term than "technical debt" in this case is "deferred maintenance". It's slightly different, in that it doesn't happen as a result of decisions and compromises during the development phase, but the similarity is that it grows more costly over time.

Right now I have running on servers that I manage several old websites. One is a static site but it has content that has become broken over time. Flash animations and videos being the primary culprit. Another is a Drupal site running on an unsupported Linux release. These were developed many years ago, and met all their goals at the time. The people who developed them moved on. There were no requirements changes, no functionality that needed to be added or refined, the sites just simply needed to run as-is. But they were built on shifting sands. Operating systems are patched and updated and eventually EOLed. Frameworks like Drupal get patched and updated, and later versions are not backwards compatible but the prior versions are eventually not maintained, so there is significant work imposed upon site owners just to keep them running and safe. The same is true of any application framework/stack. Nobody wants to do the work to keep these sites updated, there is always a higher priority, but nobody wants them shut down either. So they stagnate, accumulating problem after problem just by existing, until they eventually collapse due to a critical failure that can no longer be repaired. Just like the house that eventually collapses due to deferred maintenance, the only solution at that point is an expensive rebuild.

Ironically the only computing environment I can think of that has largely sidestepped this is the mainframe. Yes the stodgy old corporate tech from the 70s that no self-respecting modern tech worker wants to touch is probably the only place you will find code written by your grandfather still running unchanged in production.
Not yet, but eventually they will. North Korea has intercontinental missiles. This is 1950s technology: if a country wants it badly enough they'll get it.
I think you are overestimating Putin's abilities. I'm not sure it was such a smart move with the war in the Ukraine.

Ukraine used to be divided in perception of Russia and it never had strong national identity. Eastern half of country was very pro-Russian. People spoke Russian, watched Russian tv and longed for Soviet times.
Now it is very different, see [0] on how perception has changed and lot more people identify as Ukrainian.
Side effect of the war in the east of Ukraine is that their defense budget more than tripled and its army is much more experienced and bigger than before.

Lost their hearts and made them much better in defending themselves in the process.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Ukraine_relations#In_Uk...
I assume you mean "assassinations".

Iran funds and supports groups who have declared, and continue to make war on Israel as a proxy for themselves doing it. They are happy to expend every single one of their proxy armies and munitions if they can avoid the direct consequences of action.

The groups that Iran supports carry out assassinations. Kidnappings. Mass murder. Direct attacks on non-combatant populations, aka war crimes. They cyber attack where they can. They physically attack where they can get their cannon fodder to do the wet work.

So, what's your point? That Israel is "evil" for demonstrating dangerous teeth behind its deterrence?
I got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine and I feel fine but this news troubles me.
Maybe it helps to have something to do.
I also like the term - "Software Decay" - if not nurtured well.
no that would return an error unless x is defined earlier
The Uzi seems like an odd thing to brag about.
Good question. The author didn't explore deep space. I believe it was related to terrestrial objections, but that is an interesting thought. Since nothing has ever been that far out I think it is quite impossible to say for certain, but I guess there's no reason to assume the microparticles per cubic meter are any different than inside the solar system.

NASA talks about space dust here [1] and how it literally tore apart Mariner. But maybe that is just dust orbiting the sun and not something interstellar.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/meteor_cl...
How cute
I am not sure what you are implying. Can you elaborate? Are you saying Israel would go attack its neighbors and seize land? From Egypt? Jordan? Lebanon? If so, that's an absurd proposition with absolutely no geopolitical data points to back it.
I doubt this is limited to wireless networks. For example I'd bet this could maybe be used to as a "fun" way to escape 802.1q as long as the parent network doesn't make use of 802.1x encryption.
In a lot of conflicts today the Kalashnikov is the highest tech used in combat so these simple systems are more the rule than the exception.

High tech combat gear with VR and exoskeletons is more of a gun dealer's wet dream(e.g. costs a ton, breaks often) than anything that usually gets deployed.
Linux != a distro though.
> - Why it involved hiding the server source code.

My guess: to reduce the noise and speculation. Much better to deal with it now that there's something to be gained (feedback from beta testers and actual deployment). There was little to gain before, since the server accepts very few contributions anyway.

I wander enough on GH to see how much time big open-source project maintainers spend addressing toxic comments. Open-source is nice when you get relevant contributions and constructive feedback, but it's really not free, you have to deal with all the rest as well.
This fascinates me. I cannot use such layout, graphs etc. I can only analyse something if it is in a list - even if it is a complex algorithm - I will understand it fine. If it was exploded to a graph there is no way I'll get it.
That leads me to a question - do you find yourself naturally understanding the information in a graph format and not getting lists or is it something that you learn to make sense of?
Are you implying that if they were a richer, more prosperous country, then they couldn't afford it? I'm confused
They could push for the nuclear agreement to come back and get the IAEA inspectors in. Long term these clandestine operations won't work. If Iran gets a nuke, it won't be too long before Saudi also has one. Saudi did pay for Pakistans nuclear bomb. There is probably a knowledge and materials sharing agreement in place. Having a nuclear states in one of the most volatile areas in the world seems like a huge global issue.
He shows a little bit of humanity by engaging in a childish brawl with the notion of "friendly competitiveness" and comes off as "the good dad", to me.
Yeah - I just don't see how this is surprising.

For any other company, if they were downplaying a product launch for timing/perception/etc reasons, nobody would bat an eye.
>hardware accelerated video playback

Is this the same issue that I'm having where video and audio become increasingly out of sync as playback continues?
Because people are anti-semitic. In this particular case, you have a muslim majority country on one side of the equation.

In case you really need this much of a primer: (some) Muslims don't like Jews because they're following Muhammad's lead. Specifically, Muhammad had this to say about Jews in one of the Hadith:

> The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, 'O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.' Only the Gharkad tree would not do that, because it is one of the trees of the Jews.

Of course the Jews (for their part) say that Muhammad was a false prophet. On balance though, they also say this about Jesus.
Synthesizers are not computers and they haven't shrunk much https://www.moogmusic.com/products/moog-modular-systems
Yeah, definitely taking them longer to get this back than they’d planned. Fortunately the ‘classic’ extension for chrome still exists and works.
Basically zero. New iPhones are announced at their September event and I don't think there's ever been an exception to that. Probably still worth waiting for the next generation, since the iPhone 12 took a hit in the battery life department because 5g modems were still super inefficient.
Vulkan Video Arrives for New Industry-Standard Video Encode/Decode
Given that price is proportional to mining incentives and energy waste, at which point will be regulated?
> I often wonder why this is legal, especially given the legal concept of disparate impact

“Not yet challenged” and “legal” aren’t exactly the same thing. Straight up IQ tests are probably more defensoble than leetcode for lots of positions for which leetcode interviews are used. But people have heard the popular misrepresentation of Duke Energy (“it’s illegal to use IQ tests”) more than they’ve heard the actual disparate impact rule, and that seems to be true on both sides of thr interview table.
I think Matt hit a sore point.
And is often pretty damned delicious :-)
I am currently manually copying a website off of Wix after trying to find a tool that does an export.

I took it over from a client after their previous webdesigner very obviously struggled to make a half decent website with it.

The whole thing is a bunch of images, a menu and maybe one page worth of text alltogether - basically a small product catalog. But even that ,because of the convoluted code Wix creates, is impossible to export in a half-maintainable way.

And I have checked - it´s not just the webdesigner´s fault - I mean, I´ve tried to open the wix editing tool, and it uses so much memory that it regularily crashed the chrome tab that I had opened it in.

It´s really one of the worst tools that I have ever used (I am sure there is worse - but I haven´t used it).

And to quote from their documentation:

https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-editor-downloading-a-...

Wix does not support the exporting of files created using Wix to an external destination or host. All
Wix creations are hosted on Wix's servers. The advantages of using Wix as your host include
improvements to your site's loading time, search engine optimization and more.

So I don´t really know what he is even talking about in that "Open letter"

Edit: and to add "improvements to your site's loading time, search engine optimization and more." my ass...
I give this blog post a 7/10 on the Oracle blog post disaster scale ( see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/oracl... ).
I don’t know, with a good pair of headphones and podcasts, it could be tolerable
> How would they get access to OS resources, services and share data with other apps, e.g through the clipboard?

Through the same system APIs that exist right now. Why would that change?

> Who would verify them against malware

The distributor of the app, most likely. If you downloaded a game though Steam for iOS or whatever, and it had malware, that's Valve's fault.

If you went to virus.com and downloaded a virus, that's your problem.

> or ensure they didn’t violate security constraints?

You mean ensure they don't violate one of the operating system's security protections? That's called finding an exploit, and it's the developer of the operating system's responsibility. Exploits for iOS exist today, and they'll continue to exist in the future.

> It’s not like Apple could disavow all responsibility for any data leaked from the system, a lot of users simply wouldn’t see it that way

Of course not. A "leak" due to an exploit/vulnerability in iOS that Apple failed to patch would be their fault.

A third party app leaking personal info online would be the third party developer's fault. People didn't get pissed at Apple when Facebook leaked all that data a ~week ago.

> There’s a lot wrong with the current state of apps in the App Store, but right now at least I know who’s job it is to get it fixed.

It's their job to get it fixed. It's been their job for over 13 years, and they've failed at it again and again. It's about time they're fired.
So much insecurity in your comment
Who is this "we"?
Isn't the biggest question: Why not a different app with some sort of signal integration? If that takes off and is successful, it could eventually be merged to be one application I suppose. But leveraging a huge user base from Signal (a messaging app with a sales pitch of a certain purity and no bs attitude to the problem at hand) to push a cryptocurrency payment system?

Don't tell me anyone involved in doing this felt like this was 'the right way to go'. Which makes exact motivation behind it all the more questionable.
I personally installed several of these apps because it allows me to respond to emails and messages while I'm not home (running errands, doing chores, playing hookie, etc). This, in turn, gives me much more freedom while working from home. To me, this outweighed whatever privacy issues people can come up with. Funnily enough, this has probably had the opposite of the intended effect, which is to increase productivity.
For Christ's sake this isn't a bug.
Sure, but you would have to be careful with that though, if you use any Google services they might ban your account with no recourse.
Lex Fridman's podcast is consistently blowing my mind, highly recommend it
> One nuke and Israel will just be gone, completely.

lolwut? Absolute nonsense. A 60kt nuke, size of the largest India has ever tested, wouldn't even dose like half of Tel-Aviv's land area, let alone the whole country.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Generally, amongst my peers over time I’ve found that to not be as true. Though of course it depends on a number of factors, including leadership and company culture.

I could easily take some time if needed. My senior admin is taking a month of paternity here in a few weeks, as he did with his first. I have a first line guy that has been in and out for months for various reasons. It is a strain on others in small places but like any place if you document and cross train a bit it’s not terrible.frankly it’s a stated goal for my teams and something I have implemented across several roles and sectors in my career (even if I didn’t get to reap the benefits)

Colleagues of mine that went FAANG stated similar. Amazon notoriously has an unlimited time off policy. That buddy hasn’t made the family vacation tradition since he started. The first year he tried it he basically worked in the condo.

So from what I’ve seen, at least with Amazon, it’s de facto cutthroat and not so much a benefit.

Though I understand I’m possibly attributing that same experience, which may even be localized to his team, to a much broader set, based on the similarities of their culture/workplace.

Many of these places have showers and lounges and free food etc. and frankly I don’t want to work at a place that there’s a culture that encourages eating and sleeping there. Again I prefer to do those things at home or break from work during breaks.
Thanks so much! I was just reading https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/revealed-how-a-secret-du... which says the same thing: an Iranian mole was crucial for Stuxnet, smuggling a USB stick into the airgapped facility.

I wonder what the calculus is like on whether to be an Iranian mole. Either the Israelis were blackmailing them into cooperating, or they're offering some very lucrative rewards, or the Iranian is doing it for some other reason (e.g. personal beliefs, or maybe just "being a super{hero,villain} for fun".)
Also, from my other comment, Apple could let us sideload notarized apps. This means:

- Automated scan for malware

- Remote kill switch, just in case

They already do this for macOS [1]:

> “Notarization is not App Review. The Apple notary service is an automated system that scans your software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues, and returns the results to you quickly.”

They could give users a choice, much like they're doing with the new App Tracking Transparency prompt. But when pressed on why Apple should have control, Cook said "Somebody has to."

That's… not a very convincing argument.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...
Sadly I ran into this exact problem. We did a small PWA as a trial to see how our customers would respond. The number of "I can't find it in the App Store" emails we got was massive. No matter how many tutorials we put together showing that you can turn the web app into a home screen icon we sent out, we could not dig users out of the App Store mentality.
100% of a browsers revenue comes from advertising. Nobody pays $24.95 for a boxed copy of Netscape Navigator anymore.

In negotiating an exclusive search advertising deal, not supporting FLoC will decrease the overall value of the browsers users to the ad network.
Maybe have a look at OpenSuse, it has rollback as well and feels like traditional Linux.
Good point, it is definitely not risk-free ROI at all, and the emotional toll can have outsized impacts. But I still think people with the skill set to succeed at other companies can learn enough in a relatively small period of time (I said 100 hours in a different comment to make the numbers round, maybe even double that is worthwhile) for it to be a worthwhile risk. I mean, the exact calculation depends on a bunch of details, like what the best alternative is in comparison. But I think for lots of people, it is worth the risk.

One thing I'd say is that essentially none of the people I know in other fields have a similar opportunity for a relatively small amount of dedicated study to pay off so well.
I find that to be a really odd choice when OTOH tabs/indents are required for block structure.
By killing competition and locking down their hardware so we couldn't get more open hardware? That's not "saving" anything but themselves.
Disagree. Currently the product IS a dumpster fire imo. On macOS, half the time auto fill doesn't work. Saving a password is very inconsistent. When you auto generate a password, the least resistance UI workflow is to first save and fill it - but then when you create the account it is saved again, making it a duplicate. And don't get me started on the Windows client - on my fast gaming PC it takes forever just to unlock the vault.

I've cancelled my subscription and won't renew once it runs out.
Laptop vertical space is why I always setup my docks on the left or right. And one of the reasons I still use Firefox
Tree Style Tab even though Mozilla keeps making it harder and harder to use.
> almost nothing bad will happen

If we pick the 25-29 year olds and an estimated infection fatality rate of 0.01% [1] it's still 13.5M x 0.01% = 1,350 deaths. It's not a lot by any means, but it's not 'almost nothing' either.

This is the worst case scenario of cause, sibling comment has already mentioned long Covid, where we don't know prevalence precisely.

I'm aware I've picked the 'worse half' of the 20 year olds, 20-24 will fare better obviously.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0/figures/2
Questionable Testimonials on Docs.pipenv.org
The Pipenv Docs site may have been compromised.
Despite my extreme objections to the race/gender preference, I enjoy teaching and accepted the invitation to help out at a program like this (not this one in particular). I didn't get the idea that they were highly effective. Sessions consisted of walking them through an insanely long list of terminal commands and code snippets that were to be copied without any real understanding of what was happening. By the end the girls just looked overwhelmed and discouraged at the amount of garbage needed to create a "modern web app", which is certainly the most stupid place to start with programming. I left feeling as though I'd thoroughly destroyed what interest they may have had in the field, and never accepted another invitation.
Hah, I had a Verizon flip phone around that time. If I wanted to change the home screen background on my phone, I couldn't do it via BT without Verizon adding a charge to my monthly bill.

I ended up using that phone to take a picture of the background I wanted. Verizon didn't charge for setting wallpapers using pictures taken with the phone!

I switched to a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone (Samsung Blackjack) and it was so liberating. Sync music via USB! Set custom ringtones using your own MP3s and not whatever the Ringtone store was selling for $2.99.
> One nuke and Israel will just be gone, completely. Iran is probably capable of this, or close.

Area of Hiroshima: 350.1 square miles
Area of Israel: 8,019 square miles

Yeah I'd say [citation needed] for that.

> From Israel standpoint the logical step is to bomb Iran military into the Stone Age.

This really isn't helping you, because if you're an Iranian and your government says "That country over there says their only logical choice is to bomb us into the stone age!" well what do you expect to happen?

Of course, predictably, both countries can (and will) play the same game, distracting people from actual issues like corruption. In the end, both governments win, while people loses everywhere.
I always took it to mean fixed purpose control signals rather than sitting on a common bus.
But you don't get sick explicitly because your body is eliminating virus. Sure there is some, but I'd think the amount of virus spread is reduced a massive amount by vaccination. Further, if you were to get sick from someone that is vaccinated, your initial viral load would be smaller since they are shedding less virus, so you would expect the cases that do still get through to not be as bad.

I've done immunology research academically in the past, but not covid. I just see no reason to throw out everything we know just because covid is scary. And it is scary, but that's all the more reason to bring everything we know to the situation.
It's hard to see anything about the ad as playful or light-hearted. And Matt has one of the best reputations in the business...

You can always make your bones off of someone else's back - it's just not a good look. I put up a Wix site for my wife last year, now I'm going to have to go through the trouble of moving it off wix.
Israel is a democracy, has human rights, conducts elections, has free trade and great tech scene, currency is stable and they've got one of the best intelligence agencies. Israel's population is some 9 million which is half of Beijing city and little bit larger than SF Bay Area.

Let's contrast it with fundamentalist Iranian islamic government, hell bent on developing nuclear weapons despite of non-proliferation treaty signed by the whole world in 1960's, hanging their journalists and publicly executing dissidents.

I am not sure there is a shred of doubt who is the good guy and who is the bad guy here.
California is such a broken state, I'd argue anyone struggling who doesn't make arrangements to leave just wants to be poor.

I had a major falling out with my family over this, but California's not getting any better. I've been able to pay off about $25,000 in credit card debt simply by moving out of California and increasing my income slightly.

My rents cheaper and I don't need a car. Almost every single state in America is better for normal people! I guess if you need to live in silicon valley to raise venture capital this doesn't apply to you