skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All projects that I got into had nasty, unnecessary issues. Almost all of them were started in a rush, to get the business off the ground and had created a parallel business of supporting the customers through all the defects they had. It’s almost like the businesses were caught in a startup limbo, for years. Sometimes decades! Working in such a company can take its toll on someone.

So what is more important to have: (1) a product with bugs which can be sold and raises money, (2) a piece of software that has no bugs but also shipped x-times as late thus only learns you your true requirements x-times as late.

For someone bashing on ivory tower architects in the subsequent lines this sounds like pure irony. The mythical software engineer that doesn't produce bugs.

> Most defects in software come from poor engineering.

In my experience most defects come from not knowing the exact way your software will be used by the customer. Sometimes because of not asking thoroughly but more often because the customer doesn't know yet exactly. Also in my experience most bugs are actually change requests in disguise. Actions that you didn't imagine and never designed your software for but are executed by the customer and now cause trouble to your software.

> Oh and yes, design, architecture and other fancy words, are just engineering in the software industry, because it is not mature enough to have that level of abstraction, in which the architect draws the picture and the engineer implements it in such a way that it almost 100% of the time is right on the money. No. Far from it. What happens in reality is that the engineers try desperately to make the system work somehow, while maintaining the illusion of the story told by the architect.

I feel sorry for your loss. You must have worked in awful environments to think about it this way.

The next few sections I skimmed through read like the author is not proficient in software engineering at all which make me doubt if this is experience from some coding (scripting) side-projects rather than a full-time professional software engineer.
It's the malicious compliance of the laws hat has destroyed our web browsing experience.
It's the same amount of effort for a desktop PC and desktop OS: apps have to do their own updating because I installed them myself. The sibling poster suggested using an alternative app store, which seems like a good way to make this less onerous, with the downside of more malware...

I want the same benefit as the desktop PC, specifically that I own it, control it, and don't have to sign in to use it.
Now someone get thisphotodoesnotexist.com and show an image of random pixels.
What material are we going to run out of for solar? Silicon (sand) is the main ingredient.

Running out of space for wind? Huh? Yes obviously we use the best places first but the entire Earth has wind, and almost every land usage can be co sited with wind towers.
MakerDAO is not a scam, and the dollar peg survived the last crypto crash so it's pretty "stable".
Because traditional contracts can be interpreted by a court of law and adjudicated with context. There's an entire field of contract law, with hundreds of years of precedent to fix very obvious human errors, like a typo where neither party could have possibly meant what is "technically" in the contract.
Damn I wish I could be in offices at the time.
Growing wheat and grinding it out into flour isn’t something I’ve ever heard anyone take on as a hobby before. Having all that actually cost less (including time) than buying bread would be a huge achievement!
"PCs became “good enough”, elongating the upgrade cycle"

This is really visible for me. I had historically owned relatively recent hardware. No longer. My various PC's are all 4th, 5th, and 6th gen Intel. I do not a lot, but a non-trivial amount of software development, use a fair amount of native apps, etc. In other words, not just "surfing the web". And the performance is fine/acceptable. I care much more about 16GB of memory and an SSD than I do about the CPU or even the GPU.

I don't know, however, how common that is. I'm sure there are a lot of people for whom recent hardware still matters a lot.
Currency pegging isn't a new thing. For instance, the ratio of Belizian dollars to US dollars is defined as 2:1.

That peg could certainly fail, and you could certainly argue that there's something not quite right about the practice, but it was made up to legitimize tokens long before crypto.
For sure, my thinking is that those industries are likely to survive more in the "I have a coop with a dozen chickens in my back yard" sense.
Byuu had a 13 page thread on the Farms. Byuu participated in this thread. You can read the thread in archives. 13 pages on the Kiwi Farms is an extremely small amount of discussion, especially for a thread as old as Byuu's. https://archive.vn/MfUhq

Last year, Byuu said in this thread directly that he was not affected by the thread in any way. You can read the archives.

The document claims that Byuu took his own life. No evidence of this exists. The person claiming to know he has died refuses to elaborate or provide evidence.

The last call with Byuu described in the accusation does not make sense. Consider that this person is supposedly an real life friend of Byuu (when Byuu also claims he had no real life friends), and consider that he did nothing for half an hour, but could remember the call well enough to describe an obscure French metal song playing in the background.

This is a ridiculous story. It does not pass any level of scrutiny and is not told in a way that makes sense.

Byuu has a history of accusing people of stalking and harassing him.

He made a post on his forum (which has since been deleted) accusing a rival emulator developer named Squarepusher from Retroarch of doing the same. A copy of this post is on the internet easy for you to find. https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/byuu1-png.1483458/

There is a claim that Byuu was 'doxed', then harassed in real life. This is also false.

Nobody knows who Byuu is. Even after years, nobody knows his last name. Nobody knows where he lives. Nobody knows where he works. He is completely anonymous and even now it is not possible to do a wellness check on him.

Byuu emailed Null before posting his tweet chain. You can read it here. https://archive.vn/R1oRN

In it, he attempted to exort Null. Byuu claimed that if Null did not delete all information about him on the forum, he would kill himself and blame Null.

He offered Null $120,000 cash. He saw this as a legally and morally dubious offer at best, entrapment at worst, so he declined.

Byuu also offered Null his services helping write software for the Kiwi Farms.

Null told Byuu he would have to consult an attorney regardless. Byuu did not wait even 24 hours after his first email before closing communications and deciding to go through with his plan at 3am Null's time.

In his emails to Null, he promised a trusted friend would deliver a scan of his passport on Twitter within 5 hours of him killing himself as proof. Two days later, we still do not have this passport scan or any evidence he has killed himself besides the testimony of a Twitter user, citing an anoynmous third party.

At least get your information right before going around the internet parroting what twitter freaks are screaming about. KF isn't a "bullying" website. KF doesn't exist to make people kill themselves. Discord has hosted worse, Twitter hosts worse right now. At least Kiwifarmers do not tolerate pdophiles or animal rpists.
A compromise if not a great solution, but it is a decent solution.

This compromise does make sense in a slightly unchanging economy.

Also, if you have highly sought skills this is a detriment, if you have skills that are not in demand, then this is nice to have.
What options or alternatives did you suggest to marketing so they could accomplish their goal?
Possible, sure, but not ideal. The "fun" thing about T1 diabetes is that every meal becomes an unpredictable situation based on exercise, sleep, stress, etc etc.

Slightly exaggerated, but only slightly: Imagine you could only drink water 6 hours before you got thirsty, but if you drank too much you might pass out (at any point 2-6 hours from now) or if you drank too little you're doing major damage to your body.

Really the only way to manage with that kind of insulin is to live a very, very low carb lifestyle. Its doable, but it limits your variety and leaves you prone to other potential issues.
This is dystopia and we should work together to stop it.

It's no more natural or inevitable than rows of 12 year old sewing clothes or dead mine workers.
Using the old floppynet
> IE6 was actually a perfectly fine browser at launch, the trouble was that it stayed current for so long that getting IT infrastructure to abandon it took far longer than it should have. XP and Server 2003 had a similar predicament.

My worst experience with Internet Explorer didn't even have to exist. Why did Windows 98 do Windows Update with Internet Explorer? Was there a technical reason why Windows Update had to be coupled with an open web browser session? My memory isn't that good but from what I recall it was really painful over dial up (technically up to 48kbps but in practice, you'd be lucky to get half of that).
Sure, that's true although it's just semantics. I'll be unreasonably specific then: the term stablecoin was made up with harmful intentions to deceive and mislead in order to make a profit off others' losses.
> will have nothing to do with the FSF or Richard Stallman

Torvalds has always been indifferent to the FSF's views, and I don't think that will change even if RMS isn't a part of the FSF.

RMS didn't get cancelled for his opinions on software. 90% of the people who joined the dogpile on RMS couldn't care less if his views were any different. I doubt half those people even knew who RMS was before they saw his name on a Twitter thread while doomscrolling to find things to get outraged by.
Regular written contracts are not automatically enforced.

Not a lawyer here but I’m guessing.

Not all legal loopholes automatically deprive you of all your savings. Intentional loop holes only go so far before consumer protection or other entities overwrite it. And if both parties are in agreement and in good standing you can figure out a way to find a reasonable compromise.
Lawyers argue over ambiguities or mistakes and use precedent to solve these issues, smart contracts don't have that extra level of protection.
Mostly it involves people making systems that are too complex to trivially analyze. You can not write arbitrarily complex secure code. You need to limit your scope and do one very simple thing extremely tersely and correctly.

You can make powerful systems with simple correct independent components. You can not make complex secure monolithic systems. It gets even worse when you look at contracts with delegation.

The problem with most "smart" contracts is they have abstractions, delegation and scope creep.
See also: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180723-the-commas-tha...
Employing someone in most of the world is not seen as simply buying a service. It's not a subscription. Are you aware of the concept of Noblesse Oblige[1]? As the worker is smaller and more fragile the business can handle the burden better. The business has lots of employees whereas the employees have only one employer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige
While all that is super cool and good to know, does it change or affect at all how js dev or their app interacts with date or time since they are for all practical purposes synonymous?
USA only. Not particularly clear. Seems cool though.
> Can you think of any medical treatments that were developed without the promise of 20 years of limitless profits? I can.

This sounds like it's responding to a strawman. Proponents of the patent system aren't claiming that zero innovation would happen without patents, just that it would be much less. In other words:

No patent system: only inventions from altruistic inventors

Patent system: inventions from altruistic inventors and profit-focused inventors.
The weird thing about this article's category of OOP criticism is that it makes all sorts of assumptions about class design and memory allocation which are absolutely not intrinsic to OOP.

Like, there are plenty of good points to be made here without discarding the entire idea of object-oriented design. It really just needs a little tweak.
Next we'll interview John Krasinski about the state of the modern paper industry.
EVGA Swaps RTX 30-Series Queues to LHR 'Anti-Mining' Models
Just an anecdotal response:

In Quebec there is a pretty proud history of a much different style of ketchup, which is much sweeter with bigger chunks of tomatoes.

It's not uncommon to see traditional-style ketchup options in restaurants and at grocery stores.
Some states have 80mph stretches, but it's not the norm. Also, I think inner-city driving is a lot more time consuming than the long, high speed stretches between urban centers. If you only consider reducing speed on highways, then you have to cover very large differences before you encounter an additional hour off round-trip commute time.

At 50mph, you'd need to drive about 90 miles to add an hour to your total round trip, compared to driving 70mph. At 55mph, you'd need to drive about 130 miles, to add an hour to your total round trip, compared to driving 70mph.

Unfortunately, driving in cities is inelastic when it comes to fuel efficiency unless you hop on a bus. For highway driving, 55mph is annoying, but it's not unbearable, and you're making a real and measurable difference. For reference, 55mph is the standard in California for vehicles with more than two axles.
With a traditional contract you don't have to worry about an unrelated 3rd party coming in and taking all your assets. And if you have a mistake in a contract that governs a business relationship there's a lot of incentive on both sides to compromise (assuming it's a good relationship).
Who owns the ATM? That entity will be required to comply with the AML and KYC financial regulations of the host nation state, regardless if you ever transact fiat.
Eli Lilly's profit margin is double digit, usually around 20%. Managed care organizations (insurance companies), which own the PBMs, have profit margins of ~5% or less.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/why_peop...
Regulators Begin to Grapple with DeFi
You could also say it only lost 1usd in relative value./s
Indeed this is not an engineering problem.

The most frustrating part of this all is that we are still mostly only talking about climate change, when our ecological disaster is that we have simultaneously crossed or are soon crossing most planetary boundaries (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries) at the same time.

Looking at only CO2 levels makes the solution seem technical: just start using better tech. Or worse: placing hope on geoengineering which is only about alleviating one boundary at the expense of most of the others.

But if you look at the facts that we have been for many decades exploiting nature faster than nature can regenerate, and that all economic growth has come hand in hand with more environmental stress, the root problem and the only solution becomes pretty obvious: heavy global tax to all nature exploitation and after that inevitably halts most economic growth, a redistribution of wealth and social restructuring.

We have no hope to have a livable planet the next century unless us westerners learn to not want more stuff, but learn to live with much, much less.
Why would anyone want to continue in a business relationship where the other party doesn't want to?

Because people arrange their lives around their work situation and it can be significantly damaging to them to lose their jobs due to a bad manager or, as in this post's example, a flawed algorithm.
Devirtualization optimizations can turn semantically "dynamic" dispatches into static dispatches, but sometimes you really just need a dynamic dispatch. Note that a dynamic dispatch doesn't have to be anything more than a branch. Further, sometimes devirtualizing everything leads to enormous binaries and compile times. Runtime performance isn't everything, and it's typically better to opt-into devirtualization rather than to opt-out of it.
https://archive.is/LBGrR
A point that most crypto heads miss is that the world does not run algorithmically. Legal contracts do not work like a software program and that characteristic is a feature not a bug. Not being able to reverse transactions that were part of an exploit is in infact a bug. Businesses need that tolerance for error. You need an oracle in your system. The oracle can maintain transparency of the attestations carried out if that is what matters.

An extreme anti-establishment view is driving most crypto enthusiasts into opting for tech that isn't going to remain in everyone's interest for too long. These lessons started with DAO.
Funny enough, I can't stand Lao Gan Ma, there's a subtle taste to it that I find gross. I can't taste that flavor every time I use it, but if if I put it on dumplings it's there. However, I love some of the alternative versions. The best article I've seen on alternatives is below. I love Chile Crunch, I eat it on everything, it's a mash up of Asian and Mexican styles.

https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/the-best-chile-crisp-...
The GPU in the M1 is about as powerful as a nVidia 1650ti in laptop form. Unless they heavily prioritize GPU development or work with AMD/nVidia they'll never be a player in the game market due to serious lack of GPU power.

Absolutely for many CPU bound loads the M1 is a great processor. It just lacks any GPU power which is what you need for games.
Do you doubt it was developed in 1996? Do you have evidence that the cost of production has significantly risen?

Otherwise, you seem to be repeating the old economics joke:

"The young economist looks down and sees a $20 bill on the street and says, “Hey, look a twenty-dollar bill!”

Without even looking, his older and wiser colleague replies, “Nonsense. If there had been a twenty-dollar lying on the street, someone would have already picked it up by now.”"
Part of contract law is that the legal standard for enforceability is "reasonableness"[1]. If there is a clause in a contract that you want to exercise, but your counterparty claims they didn't understand it or intend it they can take you to court. Unless you can convince a judge that they might, at one time, have wanted to agree to the contract then the contract is not a basis for you to take that action.

Contracts have always had a healthy dose of manual debugging that have allowed them to function.

[1] The idea of "a reasonable person" is used heavily in the US legal system and has problems but it also has upsides.
Unless ReactOS developers figure out a way to multiply by binary fission we will all be in the ground by the time they catch up with windows 10.

Using linux as HAL and Wine as a compatibility layer has a much greater chance of ever becoming mainstream.
> And Voltaire would be rolling in his grave.

I don't think you have read much Voltaire by the way, he was very much pro tolerance and anti hate. People love to brandish "freedom of speech" without understanding neither its history nor its meaning.

It's almost comically opposed to hate speech actually, let Voltaire out of this.

I wouldn't be surprised if the only thing you know about Voltaire is this misattributed quote that everybody like to parade with:

> I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noQsHiTJAXo
Every drug company gives away their drugs for free to people who can't afford it in the US. It's sad that not enough people take advantage of patient assistance programs.
How We Hire Engineers
Unhyped Comparison of Blockchain Platforms
Literally nobody on KF does this. Nobody "celebrates" a suicide. Holy hell you guys really are brainwashed.
That’s a lot like saying it was the patient’s underlying cancer that ultimately killed her, not the pillow held over her face by an overly ambitious family member eyeing the lucrative estate she would leave behind.

Amazon accelerated what you describe in every quantifiable way and it was undoubtedly baked into the overall strategy. Yes, the situation was already terminal thanks to the Internet and poor online shopping execution by the incumbents, including Walmart, but overlooking Amazon’s involvement (going so far as to call it not their fault) and pointing at Walmart as the disease itself is a tiny bit of revisionism.

Am I the only one old enough to remember discussions in older forums like these about how brilliant Bezos was to identify and exploit such a now-obvious opportunity? It was obvious then to the point of being damned near Amazon’s entire thesis.
The Reign of Introverts Is Here
That's a specific side of the web. To many web == linked documents, not business.
I'll take some chance over no chance.
Good news. ARM's CCA [1] seems revolutionary in comparison.

[1] https://www.arm.com/why-arm/architecture/security-features/a...
Gearing matters. If you're riding a dedicated tri bike with typical race gears then an 11% gradient is tough. On a road bike with a compact crankset it's fine.
It's possible, but I think that is a very difficult market to compete in. I'd wager most ethically minded buyers are wealthy enough to prefer buying free range organic chicken breast than lab grown meat, if they're purchasing meat at all. The long term play for this is almost certainly at beating factory farms on price, which has an added benefit of ethical and environmental gains.

If economies of scale exist, this is a no brainer investment opportunity. I wouldn't be concerned at all about their current price dynamics and need to earn a short term return.
> Fascinating tech. imagine if human element is removed from critical decision making, meaning bias is drastically reduced (if not completely eliminated in this case)

The algorithm could be biased at first place.

if(employee.isnt_somehow_white()){ employement_service_provider.fire_quicker(employee)}
if(employee.is_pregnant()){employement_service_provider.fire_the_quickest(employee))

I'm being hyperbolic but you get the gist. Somebody wrote that program.
And harina just means flour so masa harina just means "the flour for dough" but there isn't another word that has caught on for flour made from hominy. You could start the trend of calling it "hominy flour" or "alkaline cornflour" but it would have to overcome the inertia of English speakers knowing it as masa.
Laws ‘Probably Needed’ to Force Firms to Patch Vulnerabilities, per NSA Official
Facebook could start fighting back against Apple by giving influencers with Android more visibility, or worsening React Native on iOS. I wonder how much of an effect it would have.

Apple is already screwing over Facebook (look at the features in iOS 15), which is why they could consider doing this.
You are not correct on this matter.
While I agree that not eating meat for moral reasons is pretty low on the list, (environmental and health reasons are so much more important) your argument reads like a pro-life argument. There is a clear distinction between having a nervous system and “passing information” with regards to intelligence. There’s a reason why we send people to jail for murder and not mowing their lawns.
In fact MS not only invented XHR (and the reason why is called that is because it originnaly was semi-documented internal Windows API), but they also invented bunch of HTML-native features that are currently being reintroduced into HTML5. And then there is the “JS frameworks” front-end crowd that will actively push back against doing anything non-trivial in native HTML5.
Tangent: moment.js has been replaced by date-fns (and dayjs) as the modern alt to native Date().
If I create a USD-stablecoin with a supply of $1 backed by my $1 in US bonds, is that legit?