skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just do not think that there is anything magic about what some people call "technical debt" (but I prefer to call a "code smell", since how debt works fundamtentally is quite different from people's typical conclusions around "technical debt"). Eliminating a particular code smell is like any other improvement to an application, but with a special focus on its lifecycle and the associated costs and benefits.

And there are opportunity costs: Fixing a particular code smell means that future features of the application will get delayed. And the question is not only at what point in the future, in some (YAGNI) cases perhaps never, our now improved code quality let us catch up with otherwise earlier feature implementations: The extended time-to-market for our new features also comes at a price.

So to decide what is actually best, it is not enough to look only at the technical side of a software project. The time-to-market (or time-to-use) cost, which has nothing to do with engineering per se, must also be taken into account.

When deciding when a particular code smell should be fixed, both technical and business aspects are important: Technical effort and benefit must be evaluated and weighed against the aforementioned opportunity costs of feature delays.

That is why good cooperation and open communication between engineers and business people within a company is important. If this is not the case, well, this is another smell that perhaps needs to be refactored first. If it is worthwhile ...
Doesn’t that happen in every manufacturing or dangerous environment? I always assumed the bubba said or similar euphemisms exist everywhere
This is not numerical or factual, yet people seem to uncritical repeat this claim all the time. Can you say why you are repeating this? Did it hear it from a source you trust? (If so, you should probably stop trusting that source right not.)

EVs are fantastically more efficient than ICE vehicles, like 4-5x as efficient in terms of amount of energy needed for the same miles travelled. Our ICE engines are so primitive that it's really kind of embarrassing, honestly.

If every car switched to an EV over night, that would only increase power consumption 30%-50%, depending on the state. And it turns out that there's way more spare capacity than that in the grid, because the grid is sized for peak consumption, not average consumption. So there's plenty of extra grid and generation capacity, especially at night time, which is why night time electricity is so cheap.

But we are not going to switch to EVs in an instant, we are going to gradually switch over. The biggest change will be that after a long period of stalled or falling electricity demand, it will slightly increase. But it will be extremely flexible demand, which will make it far easier to power the grid. Car charging is a huuuuuge boom to the grid because of this massive load that will be made very flexible.
I'd argue genericizing a built-in won't impose a performance penalty on anything it currently is required to do. That's because it already has to dispatch on the classes it does handle, and also should recognize and error when it's given a class it doesn't. Adding more cases just means replacing the old error case with more decisions (if dispatch is implemented by a decision tree), or expanding the hash table (if dispatch is handled by the usual CLOS dispatch table.)

There is a general philosophy in the design of Common Lisp: expose to the user facilities that are used by an implementation for the implementation of built-ins. I don't think Common Lisp is quite complete in this respect, but this would be the place to extend it.
There's a wide range of symptom-clusters called "depression" and other mental health issues that pair nicely with feeling terrible.

If it's not that bad, and/or if you have sufficient willpower or support you can change your life. But I wouldn't describe it as powering through. More like finding the capacity to grow and change; depression is neither monolith nor destiny.

Other people NEED modern pharmaceuticals to live full, functional lives.

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Interesting that people seem to focus on the hallucination claim, not the deepening of interpersonal relationships claim, which is the much more important result, from my perspective, and the part really not replicable with a pill, because it requires an intense shared experience.
It's over once we stop requiring quarantine. Any parent with smallish children is still living in the pandemic, as you could find yourself home with the kids for a week at a moments notice.
How much money was in 3D TV? Battery powered vehicles will ends up in same bracket as 3DTV. Impractical gimmick.
Ok, then they should sell EV versions of the same cars with half the drive train ripped out for $7000 less, and see how many people buy those instead.
Never pricing in externalities of gas powered vehicles is only hurting their cause.
You’re right, but eyeballs want to peek at plutonium and secretly want to see the stuff glow as green rods.
You can have it cheap, good or fast pick two.
> I owe you an apology.

For what? I don't think we conversed yet in this thread.

> I blindly accepted your claim that Wallace was not permitted to speak at Yale. That's not true.

I can see that the context changed the meaning for you. Good thing I cited the source. For me, my original comment still rings true as a summary. Wallace was disinvited and ultimately did not speak at Yale.

There are a few errors in your TLDR. Kingman was provost at the time, not president, and it was reported that two groups of law students reinvited him, not two student groups.

> Donald Kagan reported that “two groups of law students issued another invitation to Wallace, reaffirming ‘the right of students to hear speakers of their own choosing without restraint or interference from those who would like to limit the right of free expression to those whose views coincide with theirs.’

It's not clear that Provost Brewster would've allowed Wallace to speak had he accepted the new invitation from these students. Also, the book describes how Brewster, later as president, accused an established student group of "playing games" with free speech. So it's not like he had a change of heart on the subject:

> "The occasion does not warrant departure from Yale’s principles of free speech. However, the use of free speech as a game, the lack of sensitivity to others, the lack of consideration for the community, and the lack of responsible concern for the university as an institution seem to me reprehensible..."

Regardless, it does not substantially change what happened. Wallace was disinvited and ultimately did not attend. Human relations aren't so easily Ctrl-Z'ed. It doesn't surprise me that some tried to reinvite him after the backlash. As you said, many in the community stood against Brewster's decision.

These days, it is common for students to shout down undesired speakers, so it's interesting to look back at when this practice may have began. For awhile, the University of Chicago was a place where such debates were encouraged. A group of Harvard students jokingly ranked it as the least fun school, less fun than West Point, for that reason [1].

> FIRE is just another dark money funded group working on the reactionary project to roll back civil rights, assert corporate rule. and end democracy.

Wow. Just going to slip that in at the end there huh? That's quite a take down. What do you think is dark about it? They're a non-profit which makes them subject to much more scrutiny than private organizations.

As for "asserting corporate rule" and "ending democracy", I think that's a ridiculous claim. They exist to defend the free speech rights that the ACLU now declines to do, as I mentioned elsewhere [2]. If anything, they're responsible upholding democracy by encouraging people to choose words over violence.

> [4] Might be broken.

Works for me. It's the last page of their podcast listing as of now.

[1] https://youtu.be/XFShZMJhdOA?t=180

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33055579
Except they're useless as actual trucks. Put a heavy load in the back, or tow something, and you get about 1/4 of the rated range.
I'm afraid I only ever got it from relatives (all of which are now deceased).
There's people now trying to recreate the Polaroid instant film technology and keep it alive. Even when those cameras were current, the pictures they made looked like crap.
That's a (mostly early model year) Tesla problem, not an electric car problem. My Nissan LEAF sat unused in my driveway for several months in 2020 and its charge level didn't drop at all.
I just bought a folding treadmill that fits under my desk, and I'm starting to experiment with walking while in meetings or while reading/reviewing docs/code/etc. (I generally can't walk outside while in meetings because I need to see stuff on the screen that we're discussing. But if I had talking/listening-only meetings, I'd do more walking outside during meetings.)

I've had a standing desk in the past, but I haaaate standing still. It reminds me too much of how horrible it feels to be forced to stand still all day while working cashier/retail-type jobs.
Interesting that is what I was taught about the potato famine. I got some reading to do on it.
I think this is universal. The safety rules go so overboard that the critical ones get ignored with the stupid ones because employees don’t know which ones are the important ones. If everything is critical nothing is
Ultralight dev here-- most work has gone into porting Ultralight to various platforms (game consoles and ARM64) the past 2 years. The main focus is less to replace Electron and more to get modern HTML/JS/CSS running everywhere.

The desktop layer (AppCore) is indeed missing some support but I have some cycles allotted to finish them in the next dev branch (1.4).
> I refuse to buy new

Then why are you comparing the theoretical _new_ price of an EV with the used price of an ICE?
I've added a search function now, I'll change it to be in alphabetical order gimmie a sec
LANL's plutonium facility is also the only place that can safely dismantle the nuclear weapons that already exist.
It’s possible it isn’t quite so easy to parse the profit motive in that manner.

For example, I worked in a not-for-profit research facility. The top line managers were govt but the vast majority of workers were for-profit contractors. There was about a 9:1 contractor to civil servant ratio. On paper, it was a govt run facility but in practice, the for-profit culture dominated.
Totally agree with your stance on Reeses. I learned how to make my own cups after seeing a video from Bon Appétit on YouTube. I think it's definitely worth the trouble if you're a big fan of peanut butter cups.
Thanks.

I was more thinking of industrial accidents, for example.

In any case, when given the right incentives, profit seeking companies are excellent at promoting safety.

Similarly, bureaucrats working for organisations without a profit-motive don't magically follow the same preferences we might dream up in our armchairs. They also need to be given the right incentives.
the kinetic energy of the probe was 900 times that of the gravitational binding energy of the moonlet, there is a non-trivial chance that the main thing we'll learn from this mission is how these gravel piles are destroyed via impactors. An important process to solar system development.
We hit a thing with another thing which imparted a force on it so by the most fundamental laws of physics it's trajectory was effected.
Used ICE cars have all sorts of failure modes that EVs don’t. More parts get physical wear, and once a car gets old enough something is always breaking, and all that adds up in cost. It’s pretty clear EVs need less maintenance over time, though I don’t know where the break-even point is. I suspect batteries will continue to get cheaper over time as well.
I was skeptical but curious that this tool might be a good candidate for some of my problems where a web app doesn’t quite work (commissioning robots at locales without Internet).

But once I got to the “this isn’t FOSS, here’s a pricing structure” I sighed and closed the tab.

I don’t dislike Electron the way some do. But I always prefer better tools if they’re available. Unfortunately this ain’t it.
I would say this demonstrates inadequate progress.

As a manager, if I had a report who exhibited this level of verbal aggression, we would have a talk, and if it happened again, we'd be going through HR. It's not acceptable, regardless of technical merit.
> "Wikipedia doesn't have a left-leaning bias, reality does."

It's impossible to take you seriously when you say things like this.
> Information is readily available for free (I recall saving up a lot of money for a kid to buy specific programming books at the book store after exhausting my library’s offerings).

Gave me flashbacks to when I was younger. I would work on a problem until hitting a wall I couldn't get around then go into Books A Million with pencil and paper and copy concepts/algos out of CS books. I was too poor to spend $50+ on a book at the time. Now, anything a new programmer wants to know is just a Google search away.

But, there is so much more that just diving in can be hard. Even simple things are complicated I think mainly because expectations are so much higher.
authn vs. authz, actually.
Sears I think hurts the most. I used to love looking through the catelogs as a kid. It felt so futuristic.

All they had to do was have the foresight to move that model onto the internet. They had the supply chain, warehousing, etc. They may have even been able to have done their own logistics, since every city had a Sears. Kinda how Walmart does deliveries now.

And as you mentioned...they got crushed by a bookseller :(.
Meta board approves personal security to outgoing executive Sheryl Sandberg
Absolutely there's a place for throwaway code and I even make a point of always writing it in such a way that there's no possible way it can end up being part of a production solution that ends up in front of customers.
It’s a small world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
I think "undisciplined" is more specifically accurate.
I can show you plenty of tests "proving" that Newtonian mechanics are correct too. General relativity doesn't correctly predict things at quantum scale.
The problem with that is the same as it is worldwide. The 'left' parties that replace them are now roughly where the neolibs were when the mess was started.

They'll make some noise about fixing it initially, but then it's back to the defund-privatise treadmill.
Nah, we ended up with Electron because we have more front-end devs than C++/C#/ObjC devs and because doing layout in HTML + CSS is a million times easier than in native frameworks (AppKit and UIKit aside, those are nice).

It being cross-platform is probably secondary.
US Robotics 16.8k and 19.2k modems were the stuff of pirate boards mostly.

Or at least, many pirate boards only accepted those connections from other USR modems.
Nice idea, but our current world except without US nukes is a much worse world. We’re sort of stuck in a local minimum of nuclear weapon danger for the time being.

Also I think the main accident in the article was during research into converting enriched uranium for civilian use.
Your flowchart neglects to mention the potential upside: Do you want to experience the results of runaway nuclear chain reaction firsthand? Become a Wikipedia entry? Impress the labmates with your prowess at tickling the dragon's tail?
Yup, I did use it like that. You found a flaw: I shouldn’t have said “never”. I actually did try it for maybe like 5mins and got felt meh about it.

It’s a nice enough controller tbh. It’s just so inconvenient compared to my wireless dualsense controller. Or any other controller: Xbox, dualshock4, steam, backbone controller connected to an iPhone etc.

The stadia controller is really nice in the sense that it has Google assistant built in yadda yadda. Imagine if they made that configurable to control Cortana on windows. Or some form or voice control on windows. It would make using my living room PC that much easier.
...unless every time you try to make meaningful changes, people try to urge you to hack in stuff quickly so the code only gets messier to the point the maintainer gets a mental breakdown ;)
> Yes, expensive such that they will determine the cost is greater than the expected benefit. Every semi-rational agent responds to incentives, even Putin.

Except they have learnt from Ukraine that if they threaten to use tactical nukes, people fold like a house of cards under your policy and Russia can get whatever it wants by holding the world hostage again.

> Yes, Ukraine will lose territory under my policy. How much remains to be seen. It turns out we don't get to unilaterally dictate how nuclear powers execute their foreign policy, not without risking a nuclear exchange.

So your dictating that Ukraine must lose a war, Russia gets everything it wants in hopes of teaching Russia what lesson again? that it can get its way as long as its threatens to use nukes?. What is to stop Russia doing exactly what they are doing now again?.

> So your policy literally is that we should ensure Russia loses in Ukraine, up to and including a direct nuclear exchange.

My policy is to support Ukraine with any weapons that are not escalatory (ie dont given Ukraine its nukes back) and to provide Ukraine with the intelligence and support that it needs to push Russia out of its borders.

> Why do the hawks refuse to acknowledge the logical conclusion of their policy? Why not just own it?

Why do you refuse to acknowledge that your policy just allows Russia to continue doing whatever it wants as long as it threatens nukes, all your policy does is train Russia that nukes makes everyone fold like a cheap cardboard box.

> This isn't evidence that NATO demonstrating a massively increased cost to expansionist policy will not prevent further expansion. What the evidence shows is that no or lukewarm response to expansion, in conjunction with continued NATO expansion or interference, results in further Russian expansion. We haven't actually tried anything else.

What are these costs that you are suggesting that don't go straight out the window when Russia threatens another country with tactical nukes if they don't back down?.
Despite the high profile cuts at at tech firms, I have noticed more recruiters in my inbox not less.
Someone needs to build a 1password for usernames.
After enough people buy EVs, you don't need to extract new resources, as they can be recycled. Redwood Materials recycled 60 tons of EV batteries a day last year, with an over 90% recovery rate of the materials.
Can one use an iPad in an infrared sauna (say in a home situation). Is there any effect on the device? (Don't want to ruin a 12.9" iPad pro)
You're comparing the most common EV on the road five years ago with the longest-range option available today. What you're saying could be true even if EVs hadn't advanced at all!
Except for the big selling point for trucks, the ability to tow for long distances.
Toyota has looked at the tea leaves and feels Hydrogen is the future. I think they are correct.
This is very true. At a certain point, management needs to be willing to prioritize what safety requirements they are willing to endorse. The worst of both worlds is when leadership isn't willing to formally do so, but push an informal culture to ignore safety rules.

It’s worse when it’s low probability but high severity risks. Sometimes something that is critical but low probability is more easily conflated with not being a legitimate risk. I dog think it’s telling that the article made it seem like the entire safety team quit en-masse
That’s a pretty strong reaction to HR wanting more diversity. I wouldn’t call that a “new shiny ideology of the moment” either. Affirmative action dates back to reconstruction.

I think the fallacy here is that there’s a single best applicant for any given position. There are often multiple qualified candidates, why shouldn’t race or gender be a factor if you’re just going to choose arbitrarily anyway.
The hole cards were known. I'm not sure that the cards in the deck that were still to come were known by anyone. They use RFID tags and I doubt there is a reader on the planet that can pick out the exact order of 40+ un-powered tags stacked on top of each other.

And if she only knew the hole cards, that only tells her she is 47% to win.

I mean, it's still +EV because of pot odds, and it's possible a cheat happened I guess, but it's hardly conclusive. To reasonably allege cheating requires more than a sample size of one hand.
Because of scale, an EV running off of coal-powered electricity is better for the environment than a gas powered car, not even taking into account emissions that aren’t carbon dioxide.

That aside, there are a variety of electricity storage mechanisms that have been becoming more and more efficient, like normal batteries, hydrogen electrolysis, and pumped water. With some clever engineering, solar power works at night.

I wish California would keep their nuclear plants open, but the loss of them is not an impediment for electric vehicles.
But they do have to make it available to be accessed quickly and cheaply. Plus maybe the police have requirements that it can be accessed in bulk quickly and cheaply.

Anyway, point being, this is demanding Optus be good at something they never signed up for, don't want to be good at. It really sits with the government to decide how the data should be stored and to taxpayers to stump up the money to store it. Optus shouldn't be lumped with this sort of silly responsibility. They don't want it, don't need it and apparently aren't good at dealing with it.
I was following both protests. The Iranian regime is well trained at oppressing protests.

1. is factually incorrect. 2019 had them burning basij buildings.
2. also factually incorrect.
2019 as geographically spread as this one.
3. Incorrect. It's middle class this time. 2019 were lower class.
4. Also incorrect. At this point I suspect this is the first protest in Iran you ever noticed and you're just making stuff up.

I agree that it's probably the biggest women rights protest in history. But historically, woman rights protests never ever led to regime change. You need desperate men and violence.
If it's so fundamental and obvious, then why wouldn't these world-class astroscientists say anything about any estimations of deviation after such surprising success?

Your toenail is affecting the asteroid's trajectory, by laws of physics. That adds nothing to this conversation.
Art (culture) is a huge industry. Why shouldn't artists get some of that cheddar? Especially since artists are the ones creating the art.

It's just basic fairness.
I would guess that the speed at which air moves over the missile's control surfaces has a large effect on its ability to steer to meet the target.
> Chargers at work. At the grocery store. At your doctors appointment.

This doesn't work in cities. None of those places have parking lots.

And don't say "chargers on all the curbs" because we can't afford to further entrench car supremacy and make it harder to reallocate space to bus lanes and pedestrians.
only if the govt doesn't spend it
It’s over when we want it to be.
I am a male and I am sick and tired of seeing males moan about how hard they have it and that they would rather play video games all day long than work to improve their future. Grow a spine, put on your big boy pants, and get to work!

The alternative is to be a looser the rest of your life. You might never succeed in becoming wealthy or get the pretty girl or whatever but that’s not the point. The point is to do the best you can. It’s the struggle against the perceived odds that makes you respected. Not the end result.
Don't change it, but replace it!
As in CRUD, only CRD;
as in append-only event sourcing;
as in blockchain;
the code represents your business value, similar to the bookkeeping book to record your money value.