HackerNews Summary (2023-06-03 05AM)

Source: Stanford’s robotics legacy

Summary
Stanford has been at the forefront of robotics since the 1960s. While early robots were limited to the factory floor, computing advances have led to the development of smarter and more versatile robots that can scale walls, swim in the ocean, and even go to space.

Facts

🤖 In the 1960s, Stanford developed Shakey, one of the first artificial intelligence robots.

🏠 Early robot development focused on household helpers, but most robots moved to the factory floor.

💻 Advances in computing power resulted in the current thriving state of robotics research at Stanford.

🚀 Stanford robots can now hang out with astronauts in space, swim in the ocean, and scale walls, among other things.

Source: Chris’s Wiki :: blog

Summary
Adding ‘harmless’ deprecation warnings to a program’s output is anything but harmless. In fact, it is changing the program’s interface. If you want to print deprecation warnings, make it not the default behavior or treat it as the last step before removing the feature entirely.

Fact

🚫 Adding deprecation warnings to a program’s output is not harmless.

🔍 A program’s output is part of its interface.

💻 Sysadmins rely on a program’s output or its lack thereof.

👥 It is rare that no one has been depending on the particular bit of the interface.

👉 If you want to print deprecation warnings, make it not the default behavior.

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