skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Engineers have a habit of over engineering

Developers have one. It's in most academic definition of engineering that the job is to produce the cheapest design that will do the job safely.

Devs also have a habit of underestimating, which puts them under pressure once the date has came and gone.
Yeah. Or any one paradigm basically. Libraries too, if they force you into a certain paradigm.
I would not say it has been "debunked".

The stories are real; they're not all "accounting misunderstandings" or what have you.

[1] https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/10/23...
Does bank offices have a lot of cash now? Just thinking that the use if card and mobile payments reduced the cash in place.

Just curious ;-)
https://archive.ph/SclnQ
The multimillion-dollar machines at the center of the U.S.-China rivalry
Thanks !

Ah, I'm interested in parsers these days (I just wrote one for parsing org data, I am a bit unsure about the architecture of the project but at least it does what I needed personally).
I am right now at a friend's place that just showed my the dragon book from its shelves, that's a funny coincidence.
I will check out Code.
The incredible part is this has been going on for many decades. The things we see and read in mainstream media are heavily censored to give only one side of any story, and not to tell stories that goes against the party line. (The party in this case being money)

Years ago Discovery Channel were told NOT to allow Mythbusters to do an episode on credit card RFID security [1]

Murdoch owns so many publications around the world who are not allowed to run stories about things he doesn't agree with, Bezos owns the Washington Post, etc. etc.

It's manipulated all the way down.

[1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2275605/was-mythbuster-...
a new one coming up is Gloomwood, heavily inspired by the Thief franchise
Good riddance to these greenwashing programs that makes sense only on paper and never in the real world.

They were going to bring in heavy diesel equipment and tear up ecosystems because they have some model that says it will be a net negative? No thanks.
It does sound weird. Maybe it has potential for dual use as a regular pipeline?
Loos is very interesting in the current context, as he associated ornamentation with savagery, while many contemporary "civilizationists" (take this label with a massive grain of salt) associate modernism with the International style and a supposed erasure of culture in favor of "globalism" (while also couching their negative views of an encroaching other in much the same language as Loos).

Ironically, you can read it all as a sort of window dressing for a core of xenophobia, as that's the only thing consistent across the two.
Well, in the larger metropolitan regions (Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim), where probably 2/3 of Norwegians live, you see a majority of electrics or at least hybrids.

When you get further North, that diminishes. From Lofoten to Tromsø, you see more and more petrol or diesel. And heavier vehicles.

The automotive culture there starkly reminded me of Iceland.
Finding industrial sources of aerosol emission in satellite imagery
You seem to have missed the part about the Chinese police coming to you.

As a Canadian I am so dismayed that the response from my goverment when those police stations were found wasn't to raid them with swat teams and lead everyone found inside out in handcuffs.

If we can't respond to a foreign country setting up police stations without permission what can we do?
iPhone 12 mini had poor battery life, but Apple fixed it with the iPhone 13 mini - plenty of capacity to go all day.
Do you think this is valid for todays HOAs in general?
Seems like a weird point to make today. I doubt the main purpose of a Home Owners Association today is keep out unwanted ethnicities.
And if you call someone, they can get your phone number!

Your IP address is public. Stop treating it like a secret.
You made me look up the area of Norway, and that’s a fairly ludicrous assertion.

Whatever reason you want to use to brush it off - that’s a daft one.
The trick with a laptop are Thinkpads. some models have three physical "mouse" buttons.

I was not looking for this as a feature when I bought one a few years ago but it had them and it has proved the thing I like about the machine the most.
We just last month upgraded away from a dependency that seems to have been abandoned since about 2008.
Heh:

> Economic inequality does not solve itself. Markets are not perfect, self-correcting mechanisms. At one point, Andreessen writes “The market naturally disciplines (…) Markets prevent monopolies and cartels.” I take this as evidence that he doesn’t read any actual economists. One could make an argument that the 90s techno-optimists did not yet know any better (we were just trying global capitalism for the first time, maybe it’d work great!). But, for a Silicon Valley set that likes to pretend at being hardcore Bayesian rationalists, there is something downright comical about how they have managed, across the past thirty years, not to update a single one of their priors.
No one has seriously shot 24p in 2 decades but Aaron. Time to catch up man... It takes his crew 12 people lol, this isn't much worse then shooting existing 8 and 12k which at most is a single well trained DIT. I looked at this setup, its not any different, hype article.
I kind of wish businesses were like Unix command line tools. Do one thing and do it well.

In the future if your email service suspects you of being a spammer you will no longer be welcome at your local grocery store.
Hector Martin on the state of Linux Kernel development
Was ancient Egypt's most lasting influence in the field of fashion?
I see two reasons for these possible pitfalls:

- newcomers to programming reinvent wheels because it is a natural way to learn. That is why we often have alternative frameworks/CMS/languages and so on

- there are many crooks in the industry who thank their earnings mainly to marketing and contacts. They are also the most vocal to deceipt clients and developers alike

The amount of data has increased over the decades, but programming and software hasn't changed over 50 years. We face challenges to manage this workload.
https://archive.ph/5EWf9
> Refactoring has a fixed cost, not refactoring has an ever increasing cost.

That means that refactoring has an increasing cost as well (with increased frequency, the total money spent on refactoring increases).
People Can't Care About Everything
The problem is the middle paste option in Firefox.
To turn it off do as follow:

open a new tab
type: about:config
Accept the prompt
type middlemouse.paste
change value “true” to “false” (double click or switch on the rightside)
restart firefox

--does this solve it?
Omg I haven’t played games in years, but this is the first remake I’m fully stoked for. I remember playing this when I was like… 8? Great game, and the VR treatment looks really well done. Congrats!
That's a nice recommendation, I have already done this type of stuff, but it seemed to me rather basic, I will check godbolt !
I'm not saying "don't try." And I'm also not disagreeing that people, on the whole, respond well to attempts to understand them and communicate with them.

My observation is that it is ultimately organizational culture that frames the way people communicate and how they understand each other. Individuals can move the needle a bit depending on the size of the company and their position in it. But largely they are powerless against the prevailing culture.

In a healthy organization, your efforts to understand the rest of the business and its needs will be accepted as you intend and will benefit yourself, your team and the business. In the average toxic organization, your good intentions won't matter and your questions won't be received the way you intend. Staying upbeat and helpful in these environments might even result in you being punished.
Debian Repeals the Merged "/usr" Movement Moratorium
The most intolerant and rich wins.

https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship...
Two sides to this, the operator could have requested clearance of the airspace to fly above 500' OR the township should have hired a fixed wing aircraft to photograph this.

Wonder if the township will recoup that $1200?
The sentiment is as old as the gold rush and it’s nonsense. I’ve heard people proclaim the end of business in California since the day I moved here and the only notable example I can think of in 30 years is Tesla moving their HQ… and they just announced this year that they’re building a new “engineering HQ” in California anyway.

A lot of the downsides that people like to complain about California like regulatory burden, bureaucracy, and high taxes are mostly true, but until housing cost skyrocketed in the last decade none of that mattered to most people. The vast majority of California’s problems stem from unbalanced supply and demand across a number of goods and services.

Ever since the budgetary woes of the 2000s, the state government has really turned it around and with all the laws tackling the housing problem passed in the last few years, California is going to keep on trucking just like haters gonna keep on hating (which they should, we’re overpopulated enough as it is).
Note that both Little Big Adventure (also called Twinsen's Adventure) and Alone in the Dark were created by the same person, Frédérick Raynal!

There is a very nice presentation [1] in which Raynal shows some of the old tools that were used to create Alone in the Dark. I'm still not entirely sure what kind of rendering is being used, but the editor sure looks nice (in 640x350 EGA). Perhaps there is some more background information on LBA out there as well?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2lgEyNaop4
Coming this April from the IETF … RFC “IP Over Porcine Carriers”.
Their live sports ambitions make sense to me.

In the future, it seems to me the major tech platforms are the most likely to buy the major sports leagues’ rights.

Having content now has allowed Apple a prime seat at that poker table. All the phones help too.
Adding to my previous comment:

I've taken Poland as an example.

You can see the Ads here: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_t...

With which of those do you actually have a problem?
Free doesn’t mean pleasant to use. CryEngine/Lumberyard are quite high friction engines, without much in the way of learning resources and very little high level ergonomics.
Either way you pay but the goal is to generate more revenue from your software than what you pay

But one day all the cruft calcifies, and the numerous incompatible changes and features grind our progress to a halt. It is suddenly impossible to add new features without breaking something else

That's also the case if you keep refactoring every day, there's no reason to believe the changes you're doing right now are that good.

Refactoring and paying constant attention supposed code perfection has a huge unknown price that you have to pay very soon, whereas not refactoring has a future cost. You should use the money saved not refactoring right now to make something better later once the tech debt is too high but you know you have a good working software.

In any case, this kind of article needs tangible examples to illustrate...
Oil is still being used for plastic products. It will still be mined and drilled or fracked until all uses of oil diminish.
I was thinking as well why nobody talks about his. I think the entire history of the engine is interesting. I think Cryengine really fall off and does not perform that well for modern games. I played Hunt Showdown, it look quite OK but that THAT good and it rather performs badly, I think trees is what really causes massive performance. I also played Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 (I think) also use Cryengine and it seemed it performed better and also looked better in a way even though I love Hunt Showdowns art direction, something about Ghost Warrior make it look "better". Anyway there was a part of a level with a lot of trees and the performance really noticeably went down.

But Cryengine to this day is close source so I am really curious what kind of insane deal Amazon had with Crytek that they could build their Lumberyard engine based on Cryengine and later open source it and rename it o3de. From what I read they mainly just put lots of Amazon cloud stuff integrations into it rather then focusing on the actual 3d rendering parts of the engine.

This seems like a pretty decent engine that is open source that is something really special, yet nobody does anything with it, nobody talks about it. They do not no showcase that shows anything known or good for some reason on the site.

New World uses the engine and I did not even saw it mentioned. Should that not be the big showcase? I mean the game seems not super good and it also not looks very impressive but still, at least its a major title that is build with it.
In that reality, what is the real life analog of TTY logic? What about whitespace escaping?

Point being, the Unix philosophy has its own issues, especially around the foundations of how it all glues together.
UT Austin has an undergrad Electrical and Computer Engineering program, which you can specialize into Software Engineering and Systems. That’s about as close as you’ll get, I think, and since it’s ECE you’ll also have a fair amount of hardware experience - not a bad thing IMO.

They do have a full SWE track as a Master’s program, which I did, and quite enjoyed.
Meteorologists also don't put themselves in my shoes when I ask for sunshine.

And you'll be happy to know that these days I suss out the estimate the business team wants and give that estimate. Then carve out more time via scope exceptions. Then, because I can't carve out enough time to actually finish, deliver a release that looks finished to a QA team, but is actually riddled with customer operation interrupting performance problems, intermittent crashes, memory leaks and bugs.

Here is the very best part, the business team blames QA for not finding the problems.
First movie where Pacino and De Niro played against each other. One of the best movies I know.
What an incredibly simple solution for something that was just deemed rocket science.

Also I liked your book.
Great points and anyone who has lived or pasted through Texas knows the reality here. BS article.
no I'm talking about a manned mission to the moons surface including all the cameras and "live" coverage as well as the lander. apparently that tech is lost.
If they're offloading to the cloud, what's the AI processor in Tensor G3 even used for?
Fish skin can heal other animals' eye injuries
How to Build a Hardware Hacking Lab
Takeaways on efficiency, passive learning, & optimization
I have an MMO demo in Elixir!

I haven’t updated it in some time because busy from work but take a look:

http://rotb.io
This is a bitter exaggeration. Programming is indeed distinctly unlike almost all other work that we have built experience managing as a society. It might be more accurate to say that it combines properties from other existing types of work that are not seen combined in any other type of work.
> requires a phone number

so does Telegram

> requires a primary Android or iOS devices

so does Telegram
> I don't think the `DISTINCT` sort is so much of a problem in most cases

I train people new to SQL at work, and I can tell you with complete certainty that you only get this impression because people learn very quickly to never use `distinct`.

It's by far the most common cause of performance problems for people new to SQL.
> Yet there are still those in senior leadership who openly question why our team hasn't delivered the features they want.

Is this _really_ so hard for stakeholders to understand? I've found some limited success by dual-boating -- upgrading as features are created. "We can't build this feature without an upgrade" carries a lot of weight -- but sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and demand an upgrade.

Are stakeholders completely oblivious to the existential threat to their bonus if their company is hacked and driven to bankruptcy in lawsuits? Sure some bigs can avoid this, but not the mids and smalls.
There isn't any long run for most businesses. Especially if your developers are that blinded by theoretical perfection as the author of this article
Thanks lol.
This is a constant source of pain for me since I started working 12 years ago after finishing college. I noticed when most people came to me with issues it was because they were afraid or just too lazy or didn’t know they could just read the source code or docs and go one level under the abstraction to figure something out.

My entire career so far i spent trying to get onto teams where others were doing the same as me but had more experience. In the years i spent on those teams i learned a lot. But as time has gone on a lot if those people have left into management which just isn’t the same as directly working with them on problems. I actually have also done the same recently.

When i look at almost anyone today they have no desire to understand what is going on with the tools they are using. Further more most of upper management pushes me to enable this by building more abstraction on top of abstraction they do not understand so when it breaks I or my team can fix the actual issue. Ensuring the developers have an easy out for anything that is outside knowing their framework and some basic syntax.

I always wonder if people felt the same way about me if they came from a background where they had to know assembly or other lower layers of the stack. At any rate even in the current environment I haven’t been worried about finding new work if needed. Their seems to be a very short supply of people anymore who know how things work under the hood or even have a desire to figure it out when it breaks.
It's superior because the technology for filming and effects is exponentially superior. Also story telling has become superior... Pacing is something directors pay more attention to and story formats are constantly imitated and improved upon.

The gap between 2022 batman and tdk is too small. When star wars came out it was relevant for over a decade.

Additionally it's impossible for things to increase and become "better" forever. In the last two decades we have are heading towards slow downs in improvements. For example Photoreal special effects can't get any better than Photoreal.

You give the edge to the original? Do you like older movies in general? Do you like vinyl records even though Spotify is superior? Then you belong to a segment of the population who hates everything mainstream because it's too popular. The more niche something is the more you like it because you think it makes you unique when I ironically it makes you cliche.

That could be you. Barring that then you just have unique tastes for br. What I talk about is more of a generality here. It doesn't account for deviations too far from the bell curve, unless your goal is to deviate from the bell curve as much as possible. Ironically if that is your goal, as I stated previously, then you're just moving closer to the center as a hipster.
Tech debt is like all other debts, it need to be serviced. You keep accumulating it and it becomes toxic. Never take any debt and you are leaving easy money on table and may loose to competition because you have slower delivery.
This is why the Internet was invented.
I wasn't rendering that as my opinion, but rather looking at some of the prior cases cited in this case. Here's one example, there are others.

Florida v. Riley, 488 U.S. 445 (1989)

"Because there is reason to believe that there is considerable public use of airspace at altitudes of 400 feet and above, and because respondent introduced no evidence to the contrary before the state courts, it must be concluded that his expectation of privacy here was not reasonable. However, public use of altitudes lower than 400 feet -- particularly public observations from helicopters circling over the curtilage of a home -- may be sufficiently rare that police surveillance from such altitudes would violate reasonable expectations of privacy, despite compliance with FAA regulations."

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/488/445/
Again, a very exaggerated/sarcastic version of the quoted sentence. It's impossible to engage if you don't have realistically worded questions.
It's not so much the automotive culture, but backbreaking taxes on ICE vehicles, and basically no alternatives if you live in rural areas and have to drive long distances.

Maybe someone from norway can calculate/check how much a mid-range petrol/diesel car (eg. VW golf, renault megane,...) costs there after all the taxes, and compare to an electric one, but it's a LOT more than in eg. germany.
A couple of comments on the article point out that if gas stations start closing due to reduced demand, it will accelerate the effect by making it more cumbersome to own a gas car. Recently, some of the industrial area near my apartment in NYC was rezoned for housing, and nearly all of the local gas stations were torn down (not because of low demand but because a 15 story building would be more profitable). The result is that even though I own a gas car, I now know of more–and more convenient–places in the area where I could charge an electric car than I do gas stations. Interesting shift!
Even if the US got lucky, those SCTs wouldn’t match the CT chain and would still be discoverable misissuance.
On a somewhat related note, who wants to help me start a hippie commune in a very well-known Florida college town with an astronomical number of beautiful women of every nationality? They actually know who I am because I'm the one guy who always happens to be openly flirting with them in public spaces. I really have that Silicon Valley CEO kind of a vibe in a place that is literally overflowing with the "same old fratty dude" everywhere you look!
I don't think Apple, or any other cmpany to be honest, tech or not, needs "evil Wall Street" to put profit above everything else or be incredibly greedy.
Sure there are "several" people who don't like it. Especially if they or their political representatives are being ridiculed by him. It's hardly a relevant group here, especially because the article points out the actual reasons. So what are you trying to do here?
As a hyper-niche classical guitar streamer, I’m stoked for this. I previously ended my Affiliate program just to feel comfortable multi-streaming to YouTube: my target audience is so niche it feels important to reach audiences where they’re at. Hope this change helps build more niche genres!
Sure, but a lot of poorly written spaghetti code that works is sometimes impossible to extend or add new features to without a major refactor or complete rewrite.

Currently dealing with some 13 year old objective C code for a mobile app that’s gonna require a major rewrite cause it looks like it was written by someone who should have never been writing code in the first place
Texas Instruments Reaches Agreement with Samsung (1996)
Exactly. How far should we take this? Should you learn how to build a processor from vacuum tubes before understanding the abstraction of silicon? Build the power plant to power the whole thing and lay the wires?

Specialization always exists in an industrial society.