skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep on pointing it out, because people for some reason miss it: The person you know as Jacob Rees-Mogg is a schtick. It was developed by a weedy kid to combat bullying at school. He later found it was generally useful in life because people would 1). Remember him 2). laugh at him so he would gain a measure of acceptance. Those that hated him he could turn to his advantage, because he could play the laughers against the haters.
It's based around £5 microcontroller and a 1 bit display. It's not cheap.

It's more similar to the arduboy which is around £50
I would go further and say that manipulation is the entire point of censorship.
No apologies needed at all!

It's an extremely interesting subject of research, which may hold a large part of the explanation for the apparent health benefits of the Mediterranean diet :-)
A concrete example might be choosing a database and schema for a public-facing product with the hope that it'll become popular but with no architectural contingency plan whatsoever for how to scale up that data storage in the event of success

Certain qualities or features like horizontal scalability and security can be relatively inexpensive to design in at the beginning and immensely expensive to try to tack on later once a system is already in wide use.
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> he represents people that are similar to him.

Catholics?
> Whittier

That's the town where everyone lives in the same building right?
Then why not sell it cheaper and let people buy the games they actually want rather than bundling them all in the price?
Please don't. That isn't knowledge, it's a tweet.
userspace?
This happened during initial testing, within the first 24 hours. Not good, but this is what testing is for.

Still I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have the individual units stand so close to each other, in the pictures it looks rather tight when you consider possible fires.
We should periodically make sure we use common terms, yes, but I find the author's tone hugely inappropriate. He seems a bit rebellious against the notion of "technical debt to the masses means something else than it means to me".

Statistically and historically speaking, he's waging a losing battle and I find myself not interested about what he believes technical debt is.

Furthermore, what academia thinks of technical debt is seriously irrelevant. Academics don't write code for a living. Their take on this matter isn't super important.
NSO would kill for the sort of intelligence facebook gathers from phones via messenger. I don't see how facebook would benefit from any partnership with them only NSO.
40% of Australia's population lives in just 2 cities.
I disagree.

Building complex solutions that you don't really need is also "bad engineering". Part of the complexity comes from the fact that the needs that software projects solve are not fixed, they change during the products life cycle.

Even architects use technical debt, it just comes in different ways. Instead of trying to plan what every room is for, architects leave empty sections, to be determined later. A lot of buildings have little spaces reconverted to closets just because there was leftover space there. That's technical debt, you know the "best approach" (according to waterfall engineering) would be to find out how things will work and then build it, but you'd rather write "IOU" on that section and move on to the important bits. You can then solve the kinks with plasterboard.

The best example of technical debt is code that doesn't scale. You know you should write your code to support 1M users, but you currently have ~100 users. Instead of spending a month serving 990k users you don't have, I would say it's good engineering to solve the problem for say 10k users if that means you'll spend a week, and have the rest of the time to solve other more pressing concerns.
Anecdata: I've seen several people in my circle who have never identified as anti-vax in the past, who reject SARS-CoV-2 vaccines on the grounds of "they were made too quick, we didn't have enough time for testing". Of course this argument completely falls apart when you know how vaccine development works, but it's an argument that genuinely only applies to this specific group of vaccines.
Ah. Easy problem.

"We have technical debt to repay" = bad

"We outgrew the choices we made that allowed us to grow fast, and need to refresh our product to sustain the growth rate" = actually means what we want to say

Makes it clear that prioritizing new features will come at the expense of growth. Which is ultimately what the stakeholders really care about.
>Who's going to write the fine-detail code if they whole day is a meeting?

In a start-up ? You around midnight. Believe in the mission bro.
Here in the UK the vast majority has very simple income (i.e. just salaries). The employer reports the income and taxes taxes and passes it directly to HMRC (our IRS equivalent). By the end of the year for the vast majority HMRC knows how much you've paid in taxes and how much you've earned, and automatically gives you a rebate in case you've overpaid, or adjusts your tax code next your to pay what you still owe (if it's not a big amount).

If you have additional income, dividends, gains and under certain other circumstance, you're liable to fill out a tax return (self-assessment as it's called). It's a very simple form that contains information that applies to the vast majority of those who need to do their self-assessment. After you've sent it back, they'll calculate if you've overpaid (and compensate) or underpaid (and require you to pay what you owe) or neither. It is trust based but they do audits up to 7 years back, and if have lied or made mistakes, then you'll be liable.

The few richest of the richest who fall outside the above two (they still need to do a self-assessment) probably have a completely different process but it doesn't matter because they have the resources to hire firms to figure it out.
It’s crazy how actually terrible lithium-ion battery are for the environment while portrayed as green. From production to charging with usually fossil energy. Not even speaking of hazards like shown in this article.
As an old school web dev I write semantic HTML by hand and try to avoid using classes...
I'm sure everyone here has heard more than enough of this, but Chrome is the one actively killing the web, and more importantly turning it into a rube goldberg monstrosity before it's eventual inevitable abandonment by every sensible human being.

Safari/webkit, as far as I can see, is merely trying to help. Perhaps not proactively, but by showcasing slight conservatism regarding which kind of bullshit bells and whistles get implemented. They're no knight in shining armor, and I shudder as I compliment Apple on anything at all, but they're doing what they can while still keeping their users satisfied.

If you care about the web and want to see it survive, build to Safari's standards. It's the least YOU can do.
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While population density in Australia is low, the population is very concentrated. Half of the population lives in only 3 cities (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane).

Arguably the US would have it easier to control, since half its population is in low density rural and suburban environments that significantly reduce social contact.
I'd say it is the other way around. Trying to quarantine a city / aim for zero cases only make sense because the larger area it's easy to shut itself out at the country level.

Lockdowns are not 100% effective, but just an attempt to slow down the transmission rate. Think of it as a type of defense-in-depth. Australia (and New Zealand's) true advantage is their natural isolation from the rest of the world and their ability to control/track who is coming into the country.
Do you think Google and Facebook are overrun with those are were dying of COVID before, i.e. 70+ year old people? I can tell you they're not.
I'd rather just pay for the games I'm actually interested in
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> todays elite

Well - somewhat tangential to the article text if not to its title - consider this image[1].

The Prime Minister of the UK (seated at the right of the bottom row) just appointed the circled person stood in front of the door, to the "committee on standards in public life," one of whose tasks would be to ensure the propriety of corporate lobbying undertaken by the person stood next but one on his left, the ex-Prime Minister of the UK David Cameron, which has recently caused some disquiet[2]

The photo, notoriously, shows the members of a "private all-male dining club for Oxford University students. It is known for its wealthy members, grand banquets, and bad behaviour, including vandalism of restaurants and students' rooms. The club is known to select its members not only on the grounds of wealth and willingness to partake but also by means of education. Former pupils of public schools such as Eton, Harrow, Stowe School, Radley, Oundle, Shrewsbury, Sedbergh, Rugby, Westminster, Charterhouse, St. Paul's, and Winchester form the bulk of its membership."[3]

Britain's "todays elite" are the old elite.

1: https://www.thenational.scot/resources/images/12804107/

2: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jul/20/david-camer...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club
And in the end, we come to furious agreement: the CDC projections are nonsense, and "40-60%" is too high by orders of magnitude.
I have a fig tree in my yard. It has never produced much fruit. The fruit it does product are brown and small about the size of a cherry tomato. Everything above ground completely died this year as a result of winter-pocalypse, but new growth is now a ball of green about 8 x 10 x 7 feet.
Growing plants illuminated by expensive indoor lighting setups instead of growing it in your garden with free sun.
Same, moving is key. I once was much in bed and it caused neck and headaches for month.
My great-grandmother was of the generation of Anglo-Irish aristocrats who delved uncomfortably into the world of fascism in the 1930s.

I dug out pictures of her in front of her country estate with a cadre of Irish Blueshirts (the Irish Blackshirts). She had nothing in common with the fascists; she just enjoyed the strange reverence that the Irish suddenly gave her after independence. She was also friends with the Guiness family, who had their fair share of fascists too. I dated Nancy Mitford’s great-granddaughter for a while, and she gave me her Nazi memorabilia as a sick joke as my father is Jewish.

A memory of my great-grandmother is her describing my father as “a bit Spanish”. It is only today that i realised that was an Arctic’s anti-Semitic slur (since the Spanish became all to happy to accuse one another of being crypto Jews, and incidentally made ‘Spanish’ synonymous with Jewish).
I think the whole term "technical debt" has developed as a part of business and technical team negotiations. The technical team prefers to improve their own job comfort, doing tasks that make their job more comfortable and stress-free, but doesn't really add business value in terms of revenue and profit. The business side isn't aligned against this work, but their priorities are on the other side. "Technical debt" is a great term from negotiation viewpoint, because for clueless business leaders it gives the impression that the tech team is paying debt when it is doing this low-risk low-reward activity, when it actually isn't.
For anyone that can't see twitter/the images, it's a RFID tag in the base of a McDonald's cup that allows the dispensing machine to validate the cup & track the number of refills (and also not dispense to a cup that doesn't have RFID).

Madness.
> From production to charging with usually fossil energy.

That's not the fault of lithium-ion battery. Also, I think it is interesting that all of a sudden people care about the production of lithium and paint it as particularly detrimental to the environment when in fact they accept the same realities in every other resource they are using. Almost like they follow a stupid agenda propagated by a dying industry.

Edit: I'm not saying we shouldn't care about lithium production and it's effect on the environment. But things are improving drastically and the arguments I hear against lithium are always the same talking points the ICE-industry used to take on Tesla.
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If that were the way the virus spread, pre/asymptomatic transmission wouldn't be noticeable.

There's lots of debate about whether that's really how respiratory viruses spread, but more importantly, we know it can't be that simple because we can see the effect mask mandates had on case curves (there wasn't any). So however they're theorized to work, real world data disagrees. There can be lots of reasons for this that aren't even related to mask material, e.g. most transmission occurs in homes, care homes and hospitals, all places where you'd expect most transmission to take place because people have to be confined in a small space with other sick people for long periods, and also places where you can't make people wear masks all the time.
I loved the writing style of this essay with its plethora of british terms i hadn't come across before.
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I feel as though many people here are trying to rationalize something that isn’t rational.

Consumers aren’t rational and pricing without data isn’t a science. It’s really that simple.

I doubt Panic did very much research into how much similar hardware sells for. They probably anchored the number around the amount of money they spent on engineering the thing and the expected number of units they’d be able to sell. Not to mention, 20000 x 179 (minus costs and taxes) isn’t a lot for a 10 person company. Decent chance they are in the negative if you include opportunity cost.
Lockdowns are annoying but tolerable. Whats frustrating is being imprisoned with no way of travelling in or out of Australia.

I have not seen my family in 2 years now, and with the current attitude of this government it looks like it will be another year before there is movement....
There is no space for that without radical rezoning and densification. The alternative is every city turning into massive urban sprawl which is entirely undesirable. If you are suggesting forcing private investors to make their properties available to public housing stock then I’m not sure why that would be an improvement without serious rent caps in place.
Still an island, and that alone is the source of confounding.
This comment rings true to me. And I'd agree the article is mostly about middle class society.

But personally find the whole class set up pretty unfortunate really (and its impact largely underestimated).
Having a daddy with rich friends helps in every country. I am not from the UK, but I know a few people that went to Oxford University. They all had middle class backgrounds and went on to have very good careers.
He rose to the top partly because his father was a successful well-known journalist and newspaper editor, partly because he is a clever and competent organizer, and partly because he plays a role that appeals to a certain class of people. His family were not aristocratic in the sense this article discusses: his father was the middle-class son of an Irish American Catholic immigrant. William Rees-Mogg went to Oxford on a scholarship and succeeded in life through hard work, intelligence, and contacts he made at Uni.

Jacob has more of an advantage than his father because of Eton and because his father had climbed the greasy pole before him, but his background is exactly the type that "We came over with William the Conqueror" aristocrats look down on. He has more in common with Otto English's mother than he would probably like to admit. Just like her, he is a caricature of the British upper classes, not the real deal.

Plus, of course, he has risen to the top because the people in his constituency vote for him.
> Who's going to write the fine-detail code if they whole day is a meeting?

From my experience, in good teams people understand when it's time leave each other alone. I hate the word "sprint" which comes from the much hated "agile" culture, but it's what it is: there are these small sprints when everyone signals DND by taking on their headphones. Which also means only disturb me if it's very, very important or urgent.

But it is also important to be aware of what's going on in the company. Not just what you are doing but also why. Everyone can take part in decision making which happens during the day spontaneously. Or at least be aware of the process. From my observations: if done right, this kind of environments can be super productive.
Taxes, relax zoning laws, subsidise building of housing.
The argument is a little nonsensical.

1. Is "technical debt" debt: If it walks like a duck...

Not all debt is in the form of retail loans. Leaving a "IOU" note where someones lunch was, is a form of debt (a very dangerous one). Good luck trying to find out your interest rate in advance.

2. Is "technical debt" technical: If we follow the author's logic, I guess now financial debt is not financial. Financial debt will also affect:

- Competitiveness by slowing/speeding up new product development.

- Costs (short-term decrease/long-term increases in development cycles)

- Customer satisfaction

- Whether a company can survive

That's the point altogether, "technical debt" behaves in similar ways to financial debt.
This library highlights the biggest issue of tailwind for me.

> Clean HTML

The rest of your code will still use bunch of shitty tailwind shortcuts that are really chaotic the moment you build something more than a simplest component.
> since [1988] the number of annual [Polio] cases has dropped by 99.9%, from 350/year to a handful

And what's more, that's not even the impressive part of the curve in terms of magnitude. Polio was once so commonplace that the idea of being anti-vax would have been completely absurd to everyone just some 40/50 years ago, when you had someone crippled by childhood paralysis (of which Polio is the most common cause) living in basically every city block. And even in the White House, from 1933 to 1945.
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon has hit me hard. I read an excellent blog post yesterday on this exact subject. Well worth a read, even if Rust isn't your thing:

https://kyren.github.io/2018/09/14/rustconf-talk.html
It sounds like you both agree that mod-with-reason alone didn't save Slashdot's level of discourse :)
Followed link for an article about terrible behaviour of English Aristos. Found an article moaning about middle class insecurity.
My first programming, instead of opening excel and making a plot I did (after setting up jupyter lab with anaconda):

import pandas as pd

data = pd.read_excel('my_excel_file.xlsx')
data.boxplot()

Amazing! And then someone showed me a loop [1] and I was plotting the columns I needed from hundreds of Excel files. Crazy efficient! Programming clicked right away for me. It was exactly what I needed at that time. It helps tremendously that in Jupyter notebooks you can just type a variable (in this case `data`) and it shows you what it looks like, and it looks like... An Excel file (indeed, a table).

You know what is hard? Opening 20, roughly the same, Excel files and copying some of the data into a new Excel file without making any mistakes (and that includes Excel not reformating your data to something else, like a dd-mm-yyyy to mm-dd-yyyy or making a date out of your Gene names [0]).

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

[1] The loop:

excel_files = os.listdir('.')
for excel_file in excel_files:
data = pd.read_excel('excel_file.xlsx')
data[['Column A', 'Column D', 'Column X']].boxplot()
There's a pretty good article by Sarah Dayan about this, which was written in response to one of the more recent Tailwind dramas on Twitter:

https://frontstuff.io/no-utility-classes-arent-the-same-as-i...
What free refill at a fast food have to do with homelessness ?

Also, it's mandatory in some country to not have unlimited refill, to try to fight obesity.
What types of languages do you see would enable more efficient VLIW compilers?

From my limited perspective, I find C one of the easier languages to write optimizing compilers for, and would therefore expect optimizing compilers to be the most efficient there. 40 years of collective experience of optimizing for C-like languages also helps of course.

Or is it the lack of explicit parallelism in the language that is limiting? Somehow I suspect the limited uptake of better suited languages to be a sign that they aren't very helpful most of the time, and most of the parallel operations people do is more like serving a lot of individually sequential transactions per second, which is something C and unix is pretty good at.
Thanks for the link! 400 euros seems way better in regards to affordability!

Here's a Google Translate link for anyone who isn't familiar with the German language: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
I actually would argue that Vapoware has a net-positive effect. It creates incentives to "involuntarily" get inventive. The "We got to get this working, they did it" effect is real and has created several involuntary inventions. In my eyes, even a con-man who commits fraud, gets humanity to progress, by getting "real" companies to compete against a "virtual" adversary and humanity in total reaps the reward.
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I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s like when people complain that the upper classes have an unfair advantage at work. No they don’t. They’re not working (or at least not in a career a lot of us would have any experience of)
I didn't get the impression that the parent comment meant the same, but I fully agree with what you are saying.

>If you're intentionally trying to restrict expression by eliminating options you don't like, you might as well just remove downvotes.

My point essentially.
That's an interesting approach with bootstrap-like class names.

At Shuffle[1], we create templates for Tailwind, Bootstrap, Bulma, and Material-UI and need to convert UI libraries from one technology to another.

We decided to write converters that can transform HTML classes & Tailwind config to Sass config.

Probably, we will release it as open-source soon.

// Example:
// Tailwind.config to Sass
// button.js
const { theme } = require('../theme.config.js');

module.exports = {
bootstrap: {
'input-btn-font-size': theme.fontSize.sm[0],
'input-btn-padding-y': theme.spacing[4],
'input-btn-padding-x': theme.spacing[6],
},
bulma: {
'size-normal': theme.fontSize.sm[0],
'button-padding-vertical': theme.spacing[4],
'button-padding-horizontal': theme.spacing[6],
},
};

// HTML
export const mappings = [
{
from: ['flex', 'flex-wrap', '-mx-4'],
to: ['row']
},
}

[1] https://shuffle.dev
The irony of your statement is that you can only make this accusation now because the scientific community did not stop there and diligently continued working to improve the consensus.
I have read about it, but had never been the least bit interested in using it. It seemed like a monumental time waster to join a realtime channel in the hope that someone will say something of interest. The entire idea seems to be an assumption that people's time is worth nothing.

In any case, I noted that it was available for everyone, and I was curious as to whether my initial impression of the service was correct so I installed it. When opening the application I was greeted by a screen where I was expected to enter my phone number.

For me to share my phone number, the service has to be worth it. I have yet to see any indication that clubhouse is worth my time and phone number.