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Not even the same league of event. The value overflow incident was a flaw in the protocol implementation itself.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

The DAO hack resulted from a poorly-written contract. Concerns about the quality of the contract were ignored by the team. The DAO itself wasn't even part of the Ethereum protocol, just an application running on it.

The DAO was like a Bitcoin transaction that spent all output value to miner fees, which has happened a lot. But at no time did that ever result in a rollback of history.

The response to the DAO was the Ethereum community slapping a giant asterisk on the motto "Code is Law." And the community is quite all right with that.
Nah, I wasn't angry. In any case, I may have just misunderstood you.
https://archive.md/KrPuN
Variable DPI is still an issue though? I haven’t figured out a way to have things seamless and nice with both a 4K screen and a 19” 720p at the same time.
The CPI just lags behind. The signs point towards further price increases in the future. In some segments, we've already seen similar increases recently, or even greater ones, e.g. with GPUs or construction material.
BTW, you can create interactive posts that have buttons, respond to the user, etc while all being in a social media like post, showing up in a feed. I made this myself and would love to hear some feedback!
While true, what is not being taken into account is the excess money people have from not traveling, eating out, driving to work, paying for child care, etc. How about inheritances from 700,000 dead parents who’s retirements were cut short by Covid? This has little to do with stimulus checks and more to do with financial and lifestyle changes.
That is interesting, thanks. What I’ll agree to is that it is possible in principle to vary the extent to which you apply traditional engineering concepts to software development. But I believe that’s good ol’ cross-disciplinary insight (are genetic programmers biologists?) And maybe if you turn that knob all the way up, maybe you could be said to be doing engineering. But I’m not convinced of that last part yet, and I am really not convinced that it would be desirable industry-wide. I really, really like the way I work, and so do my superiors, and seemingly so do our customers; and I didn’t learn this by studying engineering or trying to think like an engineer.

But perhaps most importantly, I think we all know (right?) that the title Software Engineer is not, in practice, currently imparted consistently with how much “real” engineering is being applied.
Outcomes in terms of what?
Apple's net income is not $22B a year -- that's way off.
Apple effectively lets you 'image' the device, so you can transfer from one to another with no messing around. Windows Mobile/Phone allowed you to do the same thing. Blame fragmentation with ROMs like One UI etc.
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Why is this disgusting shit on hackernews? Whores should be lined up in the street and shot in the back of the head. Where's Hitler when you need him?
This sounds to me like doctors claiming they know so much about the human body when in reality we are at the infancy of our understanding
This is what I get for skimming the article.
Length of relationships, self reported happiness, lifespan etc. Anything statistically significant.
Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
First of all, I have answered to "If you have a device that wants 20W as 9V/2.22A , your 30W charger may not support that specific combination" saying that's not specs compliant. https://i.imgur.com/rkIJuMr.png I highlighted the relevant part. These are the rules: https://i.imgur.com/b8q96tH.png So, to summarize: since a 30W charger must provide everything a lower wattage charger like a 20W charger does and 20W falls between 15 and 27 then yes it must support 9V 2.22A as well. If it doesn't then it's not compliant. Note the caption in the second image "an example of an adapter with a rating at 50W. The adapter is required to support 20V at 2.5A,
15V at 3A, 9V at 3A and 5V at 3A."

> If a device requests a specific config (9V/2A) but the charger only provides 12V/1.5A with 5V/1.5A fallback

Then it's not compliant. 15-27W is to be delivered via 9V. 12V is optional.
A few relevant essays of pg (Paul Graham):

- http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

- http://paulgraham.com/marginal.html

- http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Are the quibbling over where Amazon looks at individual seller data or aggregated per-SKU data?
A lot of other engineering stream grads don't do engineering work either even when working in their industry, do management /procurement or sales etc.

There is no certifing body (in most countries) on who can call themselves engineers unlike doctors or lawyers.

So it is really up to you , whether you see what you do as engineering (not only with software) or not
Probably not a bad idea to draw more attention to it regardless. Whether it's Walmart, Amazon, Costco, etc. If anyone can do it then they all MUST do it to compete. If we bring the hammer down on Amazon then we'll have to (ideally) bring the hammer down uniformly on everyone else.

Basically it's sketchy behaviour across the board and Amazon has just proven themselves to be better, more efficient, and more willing at it.

It's an argument worth having IMO. One side will cite consumer benefit and the other will point out that it has long term effects that reduce choice and innovation (and thus consumer benefit).

Amazon would do just fine with a level playing field.
https://m.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_xz2_compact-9082.php

Sony used to have a compact line with flagship hardware and a reasonable size. Unfortunately, it looks like they stopped making them
Your "argument" was a low quality, bad faith, thinly veiled "You know who else enacted policy? Stalin!".
As I said, I agree with most of what you said.

> Now as far as the iphone 6s being usable - that's my point. It is usable, on the old OS it was designed for.

That phone was running the latest OS when I gave it to my friend last year. I think it might have been running faster thanks to ios 13 (or whichever version improved performance). I believe you when you say your brother's iphone 5s became unusable with subsequent updates. But my 6s kept chugging along just fine, updates and all.

I'm delighted there's solutions for android phones like what you're talking about. This sort of thing is really important - I mean, they're fully fledged computers capable of way more than we're able to use today. Its crazy that people throw them out after a few years. My iphone 12 is faster than my 2016 macbook pro. And I still occasionally code on that laptop. If I could run OSX on my phone and use my laptop as a terminal for it, that would be really sweet. But I can't because Apple doesn't care, and I'm locked out of making changes like that on my own hardware. Using old phones as web / file servers would be fantastic.

Companies like Apple are actively incentivized by the market to make their old products feel worse over time. And for that reason I'm always impressed when occasionally they release an OS update that improves performance across the board.

I guess my take is, Android phones have an awful history of dropping official support for recent devices. I'm delighted the hacker community can and has stepped in to clean up android's mess. Its a shame they have to, but such is life.

I'm sad you can't do that on Apple devices, but one saving grace is that, the 5s aside, apple seems to do a much better job of official software longevity than android. I'm expecting my iphone 12 to last 5-10 years. I do wish the battery lasted all week though - that sounds phenomenal.
I don't know of any firm immune to it and I've worked with a couple of the most prestigious and hear about many others. I've long given up wishing people were better. And unfortunately I expect it to get much worse. As the financial crushing of the middle class increases I would expect much more corruption as being middle class / poor becomes more humiliating. I expect this to give way to mobsterism that would make current levels of capitalist fraud look like paytime.
Are they polarized photons though?
Psykosonik ended up being the biggest disappointment of the 1990's in hindsight. So glad they fell into obscurity after the Silicon Jesus and Welcome singles (and, I guess, some soundtrack entries that never hit my ears). Not sure how they made the cut at Wax Trax.
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Can you really not distinguish Amazon, it’s market position, and their acts from brick and mortar retailers that carry private label items?

Even if you can’t distinguish Amazon’s conduct and a grocery store selling private label cereals side by side, the article really isn’t about that anyway but the fact that Amazon went before congress and was asked about prioritizing their private label products in search results over other sellers and Amazon representative lied under oath by denying they do that. I’m not aware of Target going before Congress and lying under oath about selling private label products, one would think if Amazon’s conduct was on the up and up they wouldn’t lie under oath to cover it up.
I don't care if a CEO spends their own money on PAC donations - but sending a mass email to all your customers (including international ones) about an election is just bizzare.
Numerous people, representing a plethora of organizations, have openly lied to congress in the recent past.

Fauci lied to congress about GoF research funding. Nothing happened.

Dorsey lied to congress about censoring Trump. Nothing happened.

Wilbur Ross lied to congress, and a DOJ watchdog even reported it to congress. Nothing happened.

DNI Clapper lied to congress, and was exposed literally one day later, to national headlines. Nothing happened.

Billy Barr lied to congress. Nothing happened.

Congress has to make a criminal referral for anything to happen when they're lied to.

Congress is not really interested in doing so.

Congress is OK with being lied to.
Total internal reflection gets harder at higher energies since the angle of incidence has to be smaller, meaning a the effective area of the mirrors gets smaller. Once you get up to gamma ray energies, mirrors are not really feasible, and straight line optics like coded masks are the way to go.

The coded mask technology is really cool. The mask pattern is chosen in such a way that the inverse transform generates a unique solution (along with a whole lot of background noise that gets distributed more evenly and so can be subtracted out). Not to downplay that subtraction - modelling the noise in a coded mask system is one of the hardest parts of analysing the data. Worked on data from a coded mask mission once - 2 years to model the noise and correct for it, 6 months to do the science on the results.
What are you talking about? Chappell expressed an idea that was mainstream only a couple years ago. Nothing he is saying is new , or 'truth'. He is just an old man expressing old ideas
Yes. IIRC, amd chips have been beating intel chips for a while now on transistor sizes but intel even with larger transistors still have a greater density on a chip (maybe it's changed in the latest gen).

Another benefit of lower density is cooling.
Surely there’s a middle ground…
On top of the lying, which another commenter pointed out is the major issue - Target doesn't pretend to be a marketplace. It's a curated store, some of the products are whitelabel, some are not. Amazon presents itself as a marketplace, where buyers and sellers can come together.

Imagine I owned a shopping mall, and every time a business renting from me was successful I would hike up their rent and open a copycat shop in the stall next door... I think that's a closer analogy than the Target one.
Perhaps his objection is a bit different( or maybe am projecting). It may feel more wrong that you are talking about it in a forum, rather than engaging with her privately
Confusion surrounds what China was testing in August
Sorry, this may be a dumb semi-related question, but on that proposal there is a link to "What do you feel is currently missing from JS?" from the 2020 State of Javascript survey, and just below the pipe operator is "functions". Does anyone know what that is referring to? Obviously JS has functions so I'm not sure what the context is here, and I couldn't find the original questionnaire that potentially had more details.

https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/opinions/#missing_from_js
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Face{plant|palm|roll|mask|hugger}

Or as an homage to Orwell: Faceboot.

They could always go back to their Facemash roots.

Or acquire the rights to Skynet.
> Are the quibbling over where Amazon looks at individual seller data or aggregated per-SKU data?

No. They're "quibbling" over whether Amazon executives perjured themselves. Perjury doesn't have a "but, like, is it really a big deal" test.
My impression (which kind of matches the blog series) is that that "like an engineer" bit is a bit overhyped in these discussions. E.g. a good chunk of what I do is embedded software, so I sometimes work with EEs that have designed the hardware my software is supposed to run on - and the range of how systematically (or not) they approach things isn't any smaller than the one you find in software. (Now I wonder if they also have discussions of "if you are just combining parts on a board and not designing your own ICs, are you really an engineer?", but given what I've seen I doubt it - they seem to care mostly about who has the formal right to claim the title)
Let’s try it and see.
Interfacing with the existing car's electronics gets into "right to repair" technology, with some manufacturers being more open than others.

Unfortunately battery packs are very vehicle-specific. Hopefully we'll eventually see some standardized form factors so you can just install a generic battery. Until then, 3rd parties will have to make a different battery pack for each model they want to support. Most of the problem is just the physical dimensions and shape of the pack, but also there are a bunch of electrical connections, battery-management system (BMS) integration, coolant hoses, and so on that would vary from one vehicle to the next.

Hopefully as the technology matures, batteries get physically smaller and lighter, and therefore easier to shoehorn into weird spaces.
Autel recently announced one: http://autelrobotics.com/productdetail/6.html
The P50 very well might predate this Modern stuff.

Type

powercfg -a

and see:

The following sleep states are available on this system:

Standby (S3)
That argument doesn't make sense to me.

You can just choose to use light at a smaller wavelength.

Also, less density by itself doesn't mean less performance, the larger optical components can just run faster to end up with higher overal performance.
Politics aside, this is wildly depressing and true.
Most corporate mall landlords have a requirement that you submit your monthly sales numbers and take a percentage of sales in addition to your rent.
> "How beautiful can a purchased experience be?"

Live theater, concerts, and therapy are all purchased experiences, too, and they can all be pretty powerful experiences on either side of the transaction. I don't see why escorting that includes conversation would be any different.
I've done just that: put it in bookmarks for read later.
Facebook, for example, they look the other way as their stupid algos cause young girls to have mental problems and consider suicide. That is pure evil IMO.
> Congress is OK with being lied to

There is a high bar for enforcing contempt of Congress [1]. For good reason. It requires both unlawful behavior to motivate the executive [2], and political animus to motivate the legislature.

Unlike in every one of the cases you mention, there is popular support for skewering Facebook, and, to a lesser degree, Amazon [3][4]. That satisfies the second condition in a way it didn't for your other examples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress

[2] https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL34097.pdf

[3] https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/22702798/verge-tech-surve...

[4] https://aflcio.org/press/releases/new-poll-77-americans-supp...
Ponzi Scheme!
You can put a battery from a crashed 2021 Leaf in a 2015 Leaf.

There's little the non-Tesla automakers are doing to stop you. They aren't helping you, but they aren't stopping you. The biggest problem is there's basically no market for it right now. I used to build stuff for this market (more-or-less). Only a tiny fraction of vehicles need anything. It's far cheaper to sell your vehicle to someone who doesn't mind 70 miles range and buy a new one with all the scale advantages of mass manufacturing than paying for the shop labor ($100-300/hr) and amortized cost of a battery few people want.
Only problem with Google‘s Pixel phones is they are almost unrepairable. If you break their screens you total the device. For example: The Pixel 4‘s display is connected through the housing for the motherboard and battery. You need to remove quite a lot of screws and components from the phone to access the screen cable. Furthermore, this way you need to remove the seal/glue for both the motherboard housing and the screen itself: https://youtu.be/3HTeJAgBl3g

It’s unlikely but let’s hope Google has improved the repairability …
> markets *and regulation*

The key many Americans seem to forget.
Dupe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28920693
> Have you ever tried to set up HA environments before Kubernetes and friends, let alone anything that can do failover and some form of auto-scaling?

Those were simpler days for sure.

1) Set up multiple fileservers w/ DRDB or some sort of clustered filesystem like glusterfs
2) Set up multiple database servers in a cluster
3) Set up multiple web servers, all of which can connect to the NAS and DB
4) Optionally set up a cache layer like Varnish
5) Set up a hardware load balancer (or even varnish/nginx/haproxy)

Autoscaling on bare metal wasn't really a thing for most DCs, but setting up HA environments has been possible for a long time. Things were actually a lot less complicated because there weren't as many options imo. You'd generally overprovision to handle your peak loads, or maybe buy a few more servers before busy seasons/days and cancel them later.

Managing a bare metal kubernetes installation feels like it has a lot more moving pieces and ways that it can break. Cloud providers and managed services do take away a lot of the burden though.
> Would you randomly disable somebody's car's engine because they didn't pay?

I believe that's exactly what some systems for subprime car loans do (they don't shut it down while running, but will prevent it from starting - if they're somewhat clever then only if the car has been off for a certain amount of time).
I'm sure they'll prosecute Amazon for this crime just like they prosecuted James Clapper for lying to congress.
I think we're saying the same thing. They were both negotiating, maybe Steve was being a bit more strategic.

But if he honestly felt the company was worth $150M and Steve thought it wasn't willing to pay more than $50M, then the deal never would have happened regardless what's was said.
Are YC Offers Negotiable?
Has a founder ever asked for less money for different terms?
I'd be more surprised if they didn't lie, frankly. Lying during congressional testimonies and confirmations is a time honored tradition that applies in nearly every case. I can name plenty of cases where people either lied outright or lied by omission, but can't name any significant repercussions anybody experienced for lying. Ergo, I don't see why people would tell the truth that's disadvantageous to them, rather than lies that are advantageous.
it also leads to our discipline accomplishing more and more as the years pass

All that seems to be being accomplished -- especially in the JS world -- is reinventing the same things over and over again in some sad attempt at "modernity", but using increasingly more resources to do so (and in the process, irritating more users and even developers.)

and the industry would be an order of magnitude smaller than it is

It's already too big, having traded quality for quantity far too much. I get the feeling that a lot of developers seem to be stuck in some weird "bubble of positivity" that makes them immune to negative feedback and think they can do whatever they want and users will love them for it, but if you talk to the users, the reality is quite different.

As the old saying goes: "It's not the tool, it's how you use it." If we stop trying to constantly create and promote new tools, maybe developers can start actually getting good at using the existing ones, and only then will quality go up.
> The windows 11 experience has been great, flawless even. Yes there are some advertisements creeping into it, but they can be turned off, and Ubuntu doesn’t exactly have a clean track record here.

These are choices someone once made, and not technical decisions anyway. Windows could become a Linux, BSD, or Plan9 distro and they could make the exact same choices.

I don't know what the current state is, but the last time I tried pre-installed Windows that came with my laptop it kept bugging me about Edge when I was using Firefox. I thought that was rather rude – I'm doing work, don't bug me with pointless nonsense – so I replaced Windows with Linux and that was all of my 20 minutes of Windows 10 experience. I was not impressed.

But again, these are not technical issues. I don't really care what kernel my system is running; I care about not having my work interrupted with spam built in to the system.
I get what you’re saying, but as an outsider it seems like your reasoning is backwards. The people are there, the money is there. What isn’t there is the developers. But developers see nobody else is there and think “nobody’s making games for this audience, so I’m not going to bother, either”. Sure, but then you’re leaving those billions for King and its ilk.
Isn’t it still the case that Walmart and similar brick and mortar stores have significantly higher revenue than Amazon’s e-commerce revenue? If anything, it’s worse for traditional stores because they have limited shelf space and so store brands can prevent name brands from even being available.
But where did the water come from? Neptune? Europa? Comet(s)? Is it just the distance to our nearest star in our habitable zone here that results in liquid water being likely?

From the article:

> But the exact mechanism for how water evaporates isn’t completely understood. The evaporation rate is traditionally represented in terms of a rate of collision between molecules, multiplied by a fudge factor called the evaporation coefficient, which varies between zero and one. Experimental determination of this coefficient, spanning several decades, has varied over three orders of magnitude.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporation :

> Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.[1] The surrounding gas must not be saturated with the evaporating substance. When the molecules of the liquid collide, they transfer energy to each other based on how they collide with each other. When a molecule near the surface absorbs enough energy to overcome the vapor pressure, it will escape and enter the surrounding air as a gas.[2] When evaporation occurs, the energy removed from the vaporized liquid will reduce the temperature of the liquid, resulting in evaporative cooling.[3]