skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and there's no single golden rule. Everything would depend on:

a) the bug

b) the product

There can also be cases where it's more expensive to find and fix the bug as opposed to some customer finding a bug and reporting it.

There's reasonable amount of testing you should do. You can never be sure that there aren't any bugs and at certain moment, proceeding tests wouldn't any longer be cost beneficial.

A bug could be some button's focus border being of wrong color. No one notices this despite having spent 20 hours testing, running through the site in dev, and then one day designer happens to notice it and makes the report. Developer will have to change one line in CSS, they don't even have to deploy it immediately, but can deploy it together with everything else. Depending on the pipeline of course.

In retrospect are you going to go ahead and conclude, that we should have done another 20 hours of testing to definitely spot that "bug" because it's 100x more expensive to fix it in production?
Some coastal communities and islands in North Carolina took this route. In addition to beautification, they're more resilient to storms and hurricanes.

https://www.starnewsonline.com/article/NC/20071122/News/6051...
Western Drought Has Lasted Longer Than the Dust Bowl
This happens in revolutions where race is not an immediate factor such as Venezuela. All the experts leave (including native experts) so the infrastructure which propped up the country slowly deteriorates without anyone being able to fix and maintain things properly and productivity and output go down…
Of course they do. They are very scared of what will come out. I am pretty sure that the next time there is some weird disease appearing in China that they will be cut off from all international travel a lot earlier.

On of the reasons I think they continued to deny the problem and allow for people to travel was to share the load with the world. By exporting the virus worldwide they ensured that everyone was disadvantaged and not just China.
Avoid the large ones, I am not even referring at politics, any big movie,book,game subbreddit will be filled with garbage , better to find or create a subreddit with strict rules.

For politics, I have no advice , probably try real life
Even assuming it's true (and I believe it is, if 100x is really "orders of magnitude"), there is value in having valid research on the real costs of fixing bugs across various industries and software types. It can drive innovation in the testing/QA space. It can drive investment in test pipelines. Currently, large companies likely have enough software, with enough defect escape, to generate their own metrics. Smaller companies are left to rely on the "100x" rule of thumb and guess at what level of defect escape maximizes their resource allocation.
Very well. You don’t last long in a Japanese company, if you don’t “team” well.

I lasted for almost 27 years.

I’m working on a team, now. I am doing the native app development, and I was the original author of a couple of the servers, but there’s a relatively young chap, working on another server (we’re up to 3 servers). He has some experience, but nowhere near mine. I’ve learned to work with a light touch, in these circumstances. I demand a lot, from myself, and expect his work to meet my bar -but only at the API level. I stay out of his kitchen. I make sure that he has no problem, asking me any questions, or for help.

When he asks for help, I immediately provide it, with no judgment. In turn, he has introduced me to a couple of new tools and techniques that I have adopted.

Here's an example:

Before this project, I'd never used Postman. I used much simpler REST explorers. You'd probably laugh at the primitive tools I used, when developing my servers.

I suspect that you wouldn't laugh at the results, though.

He asked if I could use Postman to give him examples of using the API for one of the servers that I wrote.

I could have been a dick, and said "RTFM" (It's a very well-documented API). Instead, I learned Postman. Didn't take long. He's thrilled at the results. Our exchanges seldom take more than a couple of Slack messages and a Postman query example.

I now have experience using Postman, and will have a new tool at my disposal, for working with others. It probably won't be a regular part of my solo work (Insisting on using team tools for solo work can be a bit problematic), but it's nice for teams.

I am encouraging him to learn Charles Proxy. He's not really following up on that. It's not the end of the world, but he's missing out on some really awesome inspection capabilities by ignoring the tool (and it means that I have to be a bit more creative with my Postman examples). It may cause problems down the road, and I'll deal with them, if they crop up. I will do so in a non-judgmental way. Our relationship is valuable, and needs to be treated with respect. I treat him with respect, and he does the same for me.

In my world, that’s how we team.
There are some attempts to gradually find alternatives to Helm while remaining compatible with it. See https://carvel.dev/ for example.

There is a lot of innovation possible in this space.
As long as Eric is not vaccinated then it's ok.
A shortcut can be to write fiction. Even if it doesn't go anywhere publishable, even if you only write a sentence a week, regularly tackling the challenge of writing well will naturally make you pay attention to how others write.
If Amnesty stands by something, better to steer away from it
You can be on topic and only making calm, cited comments, but get shadowbanned for having sufficiently controversial views.

HN is like any other forum which censors certain views for being controversial.

Like stating that BLM is a Marxist organization — with a citation to their founders describing it as such.

HN relies on your belief that they only ban people “starting trouble” to remove certain topics from conversation, like how Marxist activists are using historic wrongs as a way to undermine society and for their own selfish enrichment.
I'm not deaf, but my primary thinking style is visual.

Sometimes it's exactly what you'd imagine - I visualize a data model, or an algorithm implementation.

Other times it's more abstract, symbolic, or analogy based
Sincerest form of flattery. Plenty of room in this market for all players.
Truly seems to get to the root of some of software's troubles...
Yes; even a decade or more ago, games looked better because they could be rendered at a higher resolution. Especially PS1 or PS2 games like Gran Turismo looked great when rendered at a higher resolution. Here's a picture of Dragon Quest 'native PS2' versus higher emulated resolution: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2sc80x/psa_re...

One thing that is lagging will be the original texture resolution of the games. They look more crisp in that particular screenshot, but in some games there's just not enough information. However, a while ago someone used AI technology to upscale the 2d backgrounds of PS1 era Final Fantasy games, with great results: https://youtu.be/OaEgc46FNWE. I think this same technology can be used to - relatively quick / easy / dirty - remaster older games.

edit: or even fairly modern ones ones; FFXIV for example has pretty low resolution textures by default, which is especially obvious in e.g. outfits during cutscenes. There's tools out there to replace textures (its anti-cheat / tampering doesn't verify the assets), I wonder if someone's redone all the 'vanilla' textures like that.
Technical Introduction to the Use of Trusted Platform Module 2.0 with Linux [pdf]
Neutral gray is normally used for exposure.

The theory behind modern light metering is that if you average the "brightness" of every pixel (or the average density of crystals in the case of film) is should "visually" be around 50% brightness or density, or neutral grey. Spot metering on something that's already neutral gray sort of short cuts that process
Take a look at Kapp on https://carvel.dev/ for this, possibly.
Yep I'm based in UK, I don't speak any German, and it's never caused issues.
Should Children Get Covid Vaccines? What the Science Says
I worked at a company that was working on this. I left because of ethical reasons.

>Workers living from pay check to pay check have traditionally been vulnerable to exploitation

And the proposed solution doesn't fix that. Most of those people don't have a problem with unexpected expense once a year. They don't budget and are short on cash every month. So now imagine Bob needs money halfway through the month. He takes out 50% of his pay. He uses is for immediate needs and than has to live at 50% of his pay for the next 1.5 month.

How is his situation any better?

Also I can 100% guarantee you, most people working in this space are working on loans for those users. They don't plan to stay as just company benefit. But even if you will 100% never do that I just don't the see advertised benefit for the workers.

This is just something that sound nice when you don't think too much about it. That explains why the companies are eager to implement this benefit at their companies. At the end the workers will struggle just as much and the struggle will stay hidden from the eyes of the employers, because of the financial problems stigma.
> Defects escape, and the further they go the more hassle it is.

As a practicing engineer, what is readily observable is that this is highly dependent on context. You see how hard it is to reach any consensus without rigorous measurement?
How many more hours are needed to correct a defect down the line?
How much does the context affect this?
Is it possible to change the context such that the cost is the same?

I can't understand people that are against having scientific knowledge, when time and time again we see that real advances are mostly made by acquiring that. Many times overthrowing what was "obvious".

> I think this type of thought is the same as denying climate change.

Climate change is one of the best examples of how having scientific knowledge is absolutely crucial, instead of guiding ourselves by what we experience.
I came across it in a book that we were supposed to read at university thirty years ago, but the book was outrageously expensive. It cost more than all of my other textbooks put together, and the university book shop didn't have it and told me I'd have to wait months.

It's probably different now that I can click around a little on some web sites and three days later a book arrives from New Zealand. But that was thirty years ago.

Can't remember how I read that book, but I did and I know that most others in the course didn't. I find it very easy to believe that people might assume things about what it said rather than actually read the text, and hand it down to others as fact. And so what's illustrative anecdote transforms into assumedly well-researched fact.
Compliance for the sake of Compliance is just to protect ones ass and has nothing todo with security (aka no one gets fired for buying IBM)
Big Fat Lies (2002) [pdf]
The public institutions are eating the marshmallow and the marshmallow is the public funding available to them, whether it's from taxes, foreign aid or bribes extracted from ordinary people. Eating it is taking the public funding for their own personal use, or offering tenders to friends who have no intention of actually doing the job.

Here's the first result that comes up when I do a web search for "how corruption works", it's pretty informative for those who are unfamiliar with the concept:
https://www.transparency.org/en/what-is-corruption
Lockdowns haven't been shown to be effective in stopping the disease, only in delaying it while incurring economic damage.

This on top of the absolute destruction of liberty over 124 cases of a disease with a 2% hospitalization rate and less than 1% fatality rate across all ages and heavily slanted towards old, fat, and diabetic people, in a city with millions, is an absolute tragedy for freedom and it's frankly absurd

In March 2020 the "two weeks to flatten the curve" was perhaps acceptable because we didn't know much about COVID and it might have been an existential threat.

Now we know it's not one but power hungry governments won't let it go, and sites like this one censor you if you disagree..

Shit I'll only use throwaways on this site because I don't want to get blackballed for saying that the only thing lockdowns do is cause deaths of despair
That may well be the eventual solution. It seems to make sense along a lot of different dimensions.

But there is a long-standing resentment between Irish interests and English ones, where the English conquered Ireland and set themselves up as the ruling class. A fair number of people in Northern Ireland still identify with that English past, and are afraid they'll be an oppressed minority in a united Ireland.

It may not be impossible to solve that, especially since the demographics have changed since the Good Friday Accords. But there is a long history of bad blood there, and both sides are mistrustful.

Uniting Ireland seems like the natural solution, and I suspect that if they do it, it'll be obvious to all in retrospect of, say, 25 years. But at the moment it's scarier than Brexit, and for good reason.
More than 600k people told to isolate by NHS Covid-19 app
Ah. I made a mistake and mixed this comment tree up with a sibling[1] that threw Blizzard into the discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27911924
If this is of interest, you might check out Science Futurism with Isaac Arthur.

His Upward Bound series - examining methods for getting into space faster, cheaper, and safer:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0LsGJI_vni4x...

and related sites:

https://isaacarthur.net/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/science-futurism-with-i...
Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers not us for hacking
IIRC the culture Bhutan is to think about death 10+ times a day.
Thanks for the recommendations, I've ordered Designing Virtual Worlds for holiday reading and the other two are on my wish list!
It sounds pretty airtight to me. (But the formerly-sleeping person's legal argument doesn't really matter, since they are dead.)

What do you think isn't airtight in that scenario?
20 years ago my local power company did the math and discovered underground was more expensive to maintain. Underground you don't need to maintain vegetation, but the lines break more often, and are a lot more expensive to replace.

This obviously depends on local conditions. Where I lived then there was plenty of water so starting a large fire was not possible. The plenty of water also meant the ground wasn't stable. Of course they did need to maintain vegetation, but that is a known cost.
To continue the bridge metaphor... there's a pot of gold under the bridge. Is jumping off the bridge survivable (low bridge, water underneath, you have a bungee cord)?

Knowing the special cases has value.
Denying climate change is ignoring science and studies as opposed to requiring studies to be sure.
Plumas Forest is one of my favorite parts of CA to explore, so these fires have been difficult to watch. My favorite place to camp is this remote spot on the Feather River, luckily it hasn’t been touched by the fires yet, but it’s only a matter of time now I guess. Do you own property out there? If so, what kinds of things have you done to your property to prepare for the now seemingly inevitable?
They do address the neutron flux, by not using D-T. Instead they plan a hybrid D-D/D-He3 reaction. Only 6% of the energy output will be neutron radiation, which will mostly be the lower-energy neutrons of D-D reactions. Combined with direct energy conversion I think that addresses all your objections other than feasibility of the plasma physics, for which I guess they disagree with the government. Regarding your seventh point, I thought it was perfectly clear and not "technobabble" at all.

Most frauds don't take the trouble to actually build half a dozen reactors. Helion might fail, but they're clearly making a real attempt.
How to implement worker pools in Rust
Even budget mobile phones are more powerful than the N64 was at the time, and this is native rendering of models, not emulation.
Maybe if you sold in fairly limited doses in pharmacy by prescription at which point it would loose fun and create another market for aggregators/resellers. It's not like weed where it's impossible to OD (tho it can be very stressful).
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New Dangers of Working from Home
Indeed. Many custom software vendors justify their high maintenance fee (in part) with "ongoing bugfixes and improvements". What would be their incentive to write higher quality software, once they've signed the deal?
When they say 10k miles, do they mean 10k miles of land or of cable? Asking because my military unit used individual cables to exaggerate numbers. i.e. 6 strands at 1 mile would become "6 miles of cable run". Either way, great they are doing this. I hope they prevent some fires and save some lives.
Even if you’re paying, you’re still the product
Molten metal flowing past metal structures in their high magnetic field would be a non-starter, I think, due to induced currents and JxB forces.
Is developing locally with one of these k8s implementations a good option? My current workflow is to develop locally with a combination of bare (non-containerized) servers and Docker containers, but all of my deployment is to a hosted k8s cluster.

If developing locally with k8s would likely be a better workflow, are any of these options better than the others for that?
You don't think there is a slippery slope from banning one form of speech, to another?
Your personal feelings to art are just that. Yours.

Especially something as sensitive as poetry or Woolfe's novels.

On the other hand, this article is about society's collective understanding of an artist or a class of artists (female).

It raises valid questions, which are orthogonal to yours or my reading of their art.
You have just convinced me that fires will get worse. Every time there is a fire it cleans out all the fuel, so if 10% suddenly go away, that means when the next fire happens there is more fuel for it.
Smalltalk people often hate on it, but I found gnu_smalltalk useful simply because I didn't have to navigate around entirely new tooling to play around with Smalltalk. And I played around with the Koans, https://github.com/sl4m/gnu_smalltalk_koans

For what it is worth, a lot of Smalltalk is captured by Ruby. Like the ability to add methods to integers.
Probability Tree Diagrams. Recursion Schemes
The last step is the one I'm wondering about. You can't just put an electric cable near a 7T magnetic field.
It seems the real conclusion is that while the phrase captures some vague truth-y reality that people can identify with, it's not a scientific enough hypothesis to even be testable.

If a study did exist and had the 100x figure based on real data, then it would still have been paraphrased enough to get back to the same status and no one would be aware of what the original conditions and assumptions were. So in many ways it doesn't matter if it exists and so it's non-existamce is not the problem that needs fixed, but how we document our knowledge generally.
In my region, they mostly run this new, flexible plastic conduit with horizontal borers or a piercing tool. They'll dig holes several feet deep and dozens of feet apart. In one hole they start this tool and it digs its way horizontally to the next hole. From what I've seen, the conduit effortlessly follows. I'm sure geology makes a difference.

Here's a marketing video for one of these piercing tools:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=Hs3C2LMzSPg
learn to live with it ffs !

Edit: like I said from the start
Not op, but PG&E shut off the power to over 2 million people for 3ish days due to high wind fire risk back in 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_California_power_shutoffs...
And their response is:

> We are sickened by the reprehensible conduct of the DFEH to drag into the complaint the tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing whatsoever on this case and with no regard for her grieving family.
> Language doesn't change unless the population/community changes it

Which may or may not include coercion?
I sent my bones or clams or whatever you call them.

Will send moore when I have more and when I've learned to be more generous. It's good to know that you're near Internet Archive.

But, oh, what a wonderful feeling

Just to know that you are near

Sets my a heart a-reeling

From my toes up to my ears

-Bob Dylan, The man in me
Pseudorandom Number Generator
> The default LaTeX font is stunningly beautiful!

You may be alone in that. I think the general consensus is that Computer Modern is pretty horrible.
npm is probably the best return on investment you can get on malware. super easy & super effective.
When requested by who? The current owner of the domain? Do they own what was on that domain 20 years ago?

What if you lost your domain, but owned it in the past? Can you delete stuff from that era?
Benefits of Laravel Development Services for New Businesses
Maybe its hard to have a honest conversation about left wing cancel culture mobs on ultra left wing hacker news.
The context is US publicly funded projects.

The reason I used this context is because fusion is not profitable, won't be for at least 30 years in the optimistic estimates, and may very well never be profitable. It is exactly the kind of thing that should be public works.
EISA was probably more important in that it lead to PCI, than the standard itself.
But Australia has socialized medicine, surely they can handle the <2% hospitalization rate and more like .1% fatality rate (or lower) without putting their whole country on house arrest

No, lockdowns are an ineffective human rights violation and supporting them against this disease in 2021 is conspiracy-level paranoia
How do you know you aren't the one who's wrong?
One of my favourite books. It contains a colossal amount of ideas, insights and suppositions. In short, it really makes you think.

Even if you disagree with some of his conclusions, it is a fabulous, fascinating read. Just read it with an open mind and consider what he is suggesting. Much of what he says may well be wrong, but certainly not all - read it and come to your own conclusions.
I'm a side projects type guy, but maybe one downside of having active side projects is that it might interfere with work? As in stealing mental capacity and wanting to go home to work on your current side project

This has happened to me sometimes.

It depends on how much time you spend on side projects I guess. It also helps for me to have a fixed work schedule.
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Your example makes the opposite case: it seems trivially easy to see whether a failure is the result of user error (legitimately invalidating the warranty) or inherent defect/failure.
This style of moderation works to a point. But for larger conversations it falls apart. Unless you camp for new stories to show up, your posts will typically not be seen. They will get drowned out by the early voted on posts. Voting early and seeing things early is in many ways the way that particular voting system works.

Also for 'older' conversations you will tend to see a lot of +5's and a lot of -1s. But rarely anything in-between. That means it is harder to tell what rank a comment has in relation to another. So if you miss a story popping up and have a good point your 0/1 default moderation will have a tough time even being seen by some. I have seen the same topic take on radically different styles just depending on who posts early. Many topics can have this quality but it seems to happen to me more often with systems that have voting to me.

In practice most of these systems are agree/disagree systems. Trying to use that as some sort of barometer/filter of what the conversation is tough. It seems like it should work but in the end it is just 'internet points'.
Are you planning to get that editor for your comments?