skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird post. The main insight is easily captured by the phrase "technical debt is a resource, not a vice".

It also disregards that developers who care about clean code do exist, such that the title becomes merely metaphorical, and is more accurately rendered as "users don't care about clean code".

Except that they do, they just don't know it. Time to new features and time to bug fixes (both of which users do care about (though, of course, not unanimously)) is inversely proportional to how easy a codebase is to navigate and understand (read: how clean it is).

Finally, all software developers (or all workers?) prefer their work to have a high ratio of accomplishment to drudgery. The primary benefit of clean code is developer quality of life, as indicated by the nascent field of DX (Developer Experience).
Sounds like a neat utility but you lost me at "download this shell script via unencrypted HTTP."
That's strange because we have two Chromecasts in our house that have been working no differently for the last 4 years. No need to reconnect it to the WiFi constantly.
Nonsense. As someone who's spent the last year and a half working with Shopify's API, it's far more complex to formulate a single request and then extract all the parts out of it. Especially if there's any kind of pagination involved.

Shopify's REST API is way easier to use, it's just slower. If pipelining solved the latency issue, it would be an all round superior experience.
Well, I think the fair consumer reporting act (FCRA) criminalizes the act of opening an account in someone else's name without their permission and having done absolutely no due diligence. Maybe it's not criminal but you wouldn't be able to actually get them to pay the debt later.

Am I wrong?
Yes but wages are too , so you keep the delta. And the mortgage payment goes up with interest rates. Which aren’t exactly independent events.

It’s not perfect but it’s reasonable. It may free up some other money in the house case , which you could use to make up some of the difference. Or that might get eaten by rates.
Looking at the open positions linked at the end, "high IQ score" is one of the preferred qualifications for Assistant to the CEO.

Is that... normal? I've never seen IQ mentioned in a job posting, and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Doubly so considering that it's likely the CEO had a hand in writing it.
My point being that neither of which I want to take on a road trip. For that very rare occasion (for me), I’d rent an ICE.
And in that vein, Trump was at one point taking hydroxychloroquine, which sure did not prevent him from ending up in the hospital on oxygen.
Not full HODL but “partial” HODL.
HVAC engineer here. Correct - and the reason that ventilation is currently limited in buildings is to reduce energy loss. Exhausting warm air in winter or cool air in summer is enormously resource intensive for a building. Depending on the building configuration, you can reclaim some but not all of that energy by using heat exchangers, where the exhaust and supply air streams exchange heat without mixing but then you impose an energy penalty via increased pressure on the ventilation fans in mild conditions when the heat exchange is of less benefit.

So all the standards and codes are designed around reducing unnecessary ventilation and frankly, there's been very little consideration of the health implications until COVID hit.
This sounds like some sort of lawyer's racket - they comb old data on returns and file crimes and they require an expungement fee.
So… a third-party service that you need to rely upon? Thanks but no thanks.
The fable was about the slippery slope or w/e. Maybe not a Pynchon-esque metaphor here, but I’m not a writer.

But why is it different to pressure a company into publicly supporting 2a? It’s literally a right as sacred as speech or voting.

Why does that seem weird but other things not?
I think it's ironic that the author claims that clean code is.......

Package your code down into small, atomic and reusable units
Follow the single responsibility principle
Use frameworks and libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel
Whatever language you pick, don’t pick PHP

These are best practices. It is possible to follow every one of those rules and still have a pile of broken, insecure, garbage code. Likewise you can have a very elegant one-liner that fits none of those and gets a job done cleaner and easier than any alternative. You can even have a single page app that fits most of those, and I would argue that it would probably stay cleaner without adding a framework. Frameworks in many ways bind you to a certain style.

It's all about keeping the scope of what you're doing in mind and using the correct tool for the job. Saying "this tool is better for every job" is going to get you a lot of arguments.

Also, with the exception of the third bullet point, you can follow all of those practices and still fit your app into a single file. There is nothing more frustrating than working on a codebase that puts 12 lines of code in each file and then spreads that code into 1,000 files.

And the final bullet point in regards to PHP is just false. But I digress.
Cap gains in both cases but treated differently depending where you live .... as I said ymmv
The problem is that the credit bureaus can and regularly do make mistakes, or the creditors reporting data to them do, and when $shady_business says someone owes him thousands of dollars despite said debt not existing, or when someone steals your identity because the credit bureau has laughable security, the burden of proof is on the accused.
Not clear to me that they were lying. Also not clear they had anything to gain.
A city bus carrying 20 people has 5% the drivers-per-person that an individual vehicle has. The driverless system only would save 5% the human effort that it would for a solo vehicle, so it needs to be 20x as good before it's worthwhile. Put another way, the bus with 20 riders is already equivalent to automating 19 cars.

Roughly the same idea with freight - a single truck driver serves the needs of many people.
Mostly true. I remember the Bush years well. I agree the instantaneous feedback of social media was in its infancy or non-existent so there was a modicum of civility to people's arguments/disagreements. The talk radio pundits and cable tv people were probably 1 or 2 level shy of 'extreme' whereas we're 1 or 2 levels _over_ extreme these day--on both sides. I could be misremembering though.
Gitpod Open-Source Sustainability Fund
This about as fun as the sunscreen song, and mostly as useful.
Unless you’re on a machine with a hardware security module, isn’t keychain just stored somewhere on disk anyway?
As they say, don't try to think outside the box. There is no box.

Or, in this case, no axis. You can move anywhere in this space.
You should read the blog post. It talks about this.
Nine times out of ten, I'd say stocks for the long run. But I think at today's mortgage rates, it's pretty compelling. Let me just run through a toy example.

Say, you're buying a $500 thousand property with 20% down at a 3% mortgage rate. You're paying $1500 a month on your mortgage, and generously round it up to $2500 for taxes, insurance, HOA, and maintenance. There are very few places in America, where a half million dollar property would rent for less than $2000/month. Let's generously round that down to $1500/month for vacancies, turnover, evictions, etc. (And if it's your primary residence, you still "collect rent" by avoiding the expenditure of renting from someone else).

On the face of it, this seems like a terrible deal. Cashflow wise, you're losing $12 thousand a year. However take a closer look at that mortgage payment. Starting from day one, $10k/year is going to principal pay down, which directly increases home equity. Another tailwind: price appreciation. Historically real estate tends to increase at the rate of inflation (currently forecast at 2.3% in the TIPs market). That's another $11.5k/year in home equity appreciation. (This assumes a base case, zero appreciation above inflation. It doesn't even scratch the surface of our current housing shortage and the fact that houses have been appreciating 2-3% above inflation.)

In terms of accounting profits, you're actually making $9.5k/year. It's true you're flushing cash down the toilet, but you're building up home equity to counter it. Then in 5-10 years, you get your money out by either flipping for a big profit, or doing a cash-out refi.

The ROE on that $80,000 down payment is 11.9% annualized. Historically the stock market has averaged 8-10%. And today's CAPE ratios are near historical highs, which would suggest lower long-term returns. This doesn't even get into the tax advantages on the real estate.

All in all, real estate looks pretty compelling from an investment standpoint today. Now, I'm normally an efficient markets guy, so I don't say this lightly. But I believe the major driver is the lopsided nature of the cashflow vs. equity division of real estate returns in a near zero rate environment.

The vast majority of real estate investors think in pure cash flow terms. The idea of buying a negative cash flow property seems ludicrous. So, right now I think the market's leaving a ton of attractive real estate investments underpriced.
Why don’t we invest in new bleeding edge transportation infra like Hyperloop? This plan they are proposing is something we should have done in the 1920s.
I think it’s more dehumanizing to be reduced to a label than it is to be approached face-to-face
800 out of 135000 is 6 tenths of 1%.

A Basecamp union organizer who was the only one to decide to join their own creation of a Basecamp Workers Union would already be 3 times as successful as the Google union on a per-capita basis.
I'd be interested in hearing about this experience if you'd be willing to share?
This^^ It's one of the gayest places on earth, of _course_ it's going to be more accepting.
Tense exchange aboard SpaceX craft records ‘possible close call’
We've found that you can safely take approximately 28 pills per day. You'll be through this innovative course in just under 7 days!
COVID has a serious effect on one's lungs. Smoking does as well. I'm sure they would prefer to see how the medicine works on healthy subjects as a baseline. If it doesn't have the same effect on smokers as the baseline, then you can infer from that. If you just get tainted samples from "diseased" lungs of smokers in the original testing, then that could skew the results. That would be my SWAG.
Why specifically? Don’t we want to support them in EVs?

Btw it’s -9k with rebates. But I also leased as I anticipate it being uncompetitive in 3 years. Everyone has EVs coming so the tech and competition will mature quickly. This is a first gen car for VW.
In fairness Texas property taxes are high because there is no state income tax.
>Historically house appreciation is about the same as inflation

If that's your investing thesis then obviously the expensive coastal metros make no sense. These prices reflect a history of excellent returns. It costs a lot more to own than to rent - people are paying to be landlords! Clearly they're doing this in the expectation that appreciation will make up for their losses.
I’m curious now, what would you view then as examples of both synch and async communication?
I think the true “spin” is that you think the E Class and 3 Series are way more important than they are because they USED to be important. That’s the cache Tesla is using.

The Germans will admit the SUV are the US market (look at their lineup) and the day that the Y outsells GL class cars, then I’ll eat humble pie.

For Context: The SUV class of the same relative size sells about 3x the sedan.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210108005349/en/Mer...
> As many observers have pointed out to us, we made a mistake by not finding a way to consult with the community and obtain permission before running this study; we did that because we knew we could not ask the maintainers of Linux for permission, or they would be on the lookout for the hypocrite patches.

In some ways this reminds me of a phishing exercise at work that was done under the guise of security awareness training. Is it just me or is there a pattern of behavioral issues among security people and a lack of empathy.
For many bootcamps, the deception is in the marketing about job and salary prospects, as well as padding the hiring statistics by giving jobs to graduates and counting those jobs towards those marketing numbers.
I think it would take either a prominent niche brand pivoting (like PornHub) or a mass migration of users (as with Parler) to jump start a new video platform. Unfortunately the costs are far higher than a text based Twitter competitor, both for hosting and content generation, and so I’m not sure how to solve the problem of getting advertisers and content creators onboard. Rumble (https://rumble.com/) seems like a potentially viable competitor.

A few compiled lists of YouTube alternatives:

https://fossbytes.com/best-free-youtube-alternative-sites/

https://nordvpn.com/blog/youtube-alternatives/

https://blockonomi.com/youtube-alternative/
When I'm prototyping or hacking something together, it eventually becomes production. I cannot relate to people who make prototypes to throw away, I've never done it, and I don't know why I'd do it.

Due to that, I write my first line of code as if it's going to be on production forever, because it will.
To be clear: are you saying that corporations shouldn’t sponsor anything, or are you singling out Django Girls as a “political” sponsorship?

If the latter, you’re kinda proving GP’s point. Django Girls is an ostensibly non-political organization, politicized solely because it acknowledges an aspect of people’s identity.
While students do not retain all their First Amendment rights, case law is clear that they retain them to some extent, and in particular Tinker makes clear to what extent schools may restrict those rights. Further, I believe the school will not be able to successfully argue that her speech posed a substantial disruption. As it was neither bullying nor threatening and shared privately, the extent to which it may have constituted a disruption was caused by the student who shared it rather than her; if it did pose a disruption, it wouldn't have done so had it not been shared by (I presume) one of her classmates.

Anyway, another reason why I would be very surprised if SCOTUS rules against her is that criticism of government institutions is precisely what the First Amendment is designed for.
3% was left in favour of the house buying but unlikely because the last dozen years or so are very unusual In real estate, so I used middle of the road numbers. You may lock in 3% for 5 years now but nobody is giving you that for 30 - historical averages are all about double . Very good chance that happens again over that time period but of course we don’t know . Assuming it won’t would be irrational though .

Of course past doesn’t imply the future will be the same , but I used long run averages for both stock market and housing market , so it’s fair .
> This in no way answered my question.

I can't believe I have to make this explicit, but ok.

> I'm curious if there's a way you can mess up language in a contract that isn't deceptive/misleading?

Reading the contract, a student will think that they can't discharge the debt through bankruptcy. In reality, yes, they can discharge the debt through bankruptcy. It's right there in the order:

"The Bankruptcy Non-Dischargeability Provision is misleading because, contrary to the
Dischargeability Provision, the Contract is not a “qualified educational loan,” as defined in section 221, subdivision (d)(1), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and is not subject to the limitations on dischargeability pursuant to section 523, subdivision (a)(8), of the United States Bankruptcy Code."

A 'mess up' would be misuse of an Oxford comma. You don't 'mess up' dropping a very specific reference to a very specific legal code that does not apply.

> Interesting and not related to the contract, we're talking about marketing. I find your comments extremely disingenuous, you're switching contexts of "misleading" in the very separate domains of marketing and legal contracts which should be too obvious.

The order cites their deceptive marketing. Presumably that's why they were ordered to review all of their previous marketing.

> The order is non-specific, so what do you want to get into?

I copied and pasted directly from the order.

> You picked out endorsement, and responded as if he had said "BPPE endorsed our program". It's clearly not what he said.

I copied and pasted from his own post.

Since we can't reach common ground on basic facts, I see no reason to engage with you any further.
I can't speak to Trilogy specifically, but for many bootcamps, the deception is in the marketing about job and salary prospects, as well as padding the hiring statistics by giving jobs to graduates and counting those jobs towards those marketing numbers.
A week ago, the Texas House voted to allow handguns to be carried without a permit:

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/15/texas-constitutional...

The Texas Senate is trying to see if there are enough votes to pass it:

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/23/texas-constitutional...
I get it--pride. But mostly, it's easier to sell.
> California Consumer Financial Protection Law (CCFPL), which took effect this year and prohibits companies from engaging in practices that are unlawful, ...

Sounds like a good idea.
Except that technical debt is not about writing bad code, and the author of this article gets it completely wrong.

"The metaphor of debt is sometimes used to justify neglecting internal quality... Teams who do this end up maxing out all their credit cards, but still delivering later than they would have done had they put the effort into higher internal quality."[1]

"the whole debt metaphor, let's say, the ability to pay back debt, and make the debt metaphor work for your advantage depends upon your writing code that is clean enough to be able to refactor as you come to understand your problem"[2]

"write the best code possible given a partial understanding of the problem so later when you do understand it better you improve the solution"[3]

1. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html

2. http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE
I wonder if this is an issue for the older apple watches or if it happens for the new ones too.
Recruiting is different than public outreach. I think the strategy in recruiting is to hire the best people you can regardless of identity. “Best” is qualified by the tasks of the particular role
Your description sounds cool, I just really wish the project's README told me what it does and how to use it instead of giving a 10-part story with no concise "and here's how the new solution works, all wrapped up!" summary.
Man they complain a lot. They banned politics at the WORK slack channel and they are all upset about! Do they have nothing else to worry about? No other problems? People in india live on like 3 cents a day and these people are making 100k/yr acting like this is the biggest travesty they have faced.

Another example out of touch tech people.
I think there might be some confusion happening here.

Nearly every “basic” transaction (like buying coffee) is done with what might appear as a “credit card”, but it is actually a debit card. Some people use “credit” for these daily sorts of purchase, but at least among the people I know, this is extremely rare.
You've done nothing to convince me that allowing big companies to exploit the local economy and infrastructure for free actually ends up in a net benefit for anyone other than the company.

You don't get rich by giving things away (unless if you've figured out how to make this possible—in which case, please ready a room for me :-))
Bank fraud. :)
From a webdev perspective this actually holds true. If we promise too much and deliver an underwhelming product the clients lose their minds. All those excuses never to pay.
Ever have one of those experiences in life where you write people off as "conspiracy nuts" until you have to deal with the issue yourself so in desperation you try their crazy?

Well there's no way to convince the disbelievers but Ivermectin is already a cure for covid, weak and imperfect but it definitely does something. I know and believe only because it personally saved me from death's door.

Don't try mentioning this on twitter or facebook though, you'll get your account blocked/banned.

Funding for a more targeted and powerful cure definitely should happen but there is something really really weird in life when you see something being buried that you know is different than the official stroy.

Doesn't help that every quack is coming out of the woodwork to try to cash in on it somehow, not by profit from the drug itself but their only 15 minutes of "fame". But there has to be someway to fix that signal-to-noise ratio when it comes to saving people's lives.
It's not just about those who can't hustle. It's those who don't want to devote their lives to it.

Think of the people who say "I could make 300k at a FAANG by bouncing from firm to firm every two years, but I'd rather just settle down with one firm for the next 20 years, even if I only make 100k"... carry it to its conclusion and you get something that looks a lot like a guaranteed-employment program.
Given that the plants are on the ground, I imagine not sweeping over them with an extension cable would be an obvious advantage. Still, you could work with suspended powerlines as easily for the big-box drone as with tractors, which brings me to another (probably dumb) question: Why has nobody built a landline electric tractor?
I'm wondering more about the effects the increased cleanliness will have on people's immune systems --- all the masking, social distancing, constant hand sanitiser use, etc. is, in addition to reducing exposure to COVID, also reducing the exposure to the countless other pathogens that people are normally exposed to. Does the lack of exercising ones' immune system have a cost too?
New York's carry laws in particular, and how they play out in practice, is ripe for corruption. In places near the city (i.e. applicable to the majority of the state's population), you basically have to know the police chief or the sheriff to get a carry permit; this should be unacceptable for a Constitutionally-protected right. If on no other basis than this, their laws should be revised.

This can probably be generalized to every may-issue jurisdiction.
I remember flipping between Free Republic/Pajamas Media and Democratic Underground/DailyKos and just seeing two irrevocably irreconcilable echo chambers.

But those forums and blogs were populated by smaller numbers of diehards. Now we’re all in our own echo chambers, it would seem.
Generally "systems-y software" is my background. I joined Google for a semi-experimental operating system project and from there it was a small jump to virtualization when I decided I was interested in doing something else. I'm definitely on the platform side, but been doing some interesting stuff recently :)
That's not really true. I've had mortgages for most of my adult life and have never paid property tax escrow. Most lenders only require it if you put little down. Not to mention there are some popular tax strategies (e.g. pay taxes for two years in a single calendar year, then nothing for the next year) that make paying escrow a bad idea.
You do. You can add extra yield points but you can't inspect or remove the ones that have been added in by the runtime.