skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, 80-90% of my bugs are business logic “errors” that came about because either 1) the client didn’t tell us about the special edge case that is now happening, or 2) the person who wrote the requirements didn’t capture the business logic quite right (usually the reason is because of #1, but not always).

Very few of my tickets are directly from programming mistakes, but I do own up to them when they happen.
Given

> Person 1 says there is a lot of politics, ass-covering, and throwing under the bus

It sounds like you have to be good at politicking or it doesn't matter if you write bugs or not :(
I think that argument has been lost. Russia still invaded Ukraine and China still took Hong Kong backwards. America has invaded many countries. Taiwan is under threat. Interconnectedness doesn’t seem to matter a great deal when you have either a ruthless dictator in power or a country has a strong military advantage.
Ideally, the EU would be trying to build its own semiconductor industry. I don't see that kind of foresight in any of our political leaders, much less mine in Germany. So the next best thing is to ensure that the current company we're reliant on builds local production.
On the pricing page I see that Enterprise includes:

Standard Support - GitHub Support can help you troubleshoot issues you run into while using GitHub. Get support via the web.

Premium support is listed as "available" (so not included):

With Premium, get a 30-minute SLA and 24/7 web and phone support. With Premium Plus, get everything in Premium plus your own Support Account Manager and more.
>This keeps showing up but it's total bullshit.

Because it's probably paid advertising. Almost every article is paid advertising.
This reminds me of the movie Hackers where the plot involves tipping a tanker with a virus.

“Hack the Gibson”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gibson_(computer_progr...
As someone who did their PhD at CERN - I agree.

The place is fantastic, you get to meet great people and life is cool.

But what you are working on is completely useless for humanity. Knowing that there is a quantum foam is knowledge that brings us nowhere. If someone could answer to this "and so what?" in a meaningful way I would be glad to change my mind. For the time being, the energy scale we are making these discoveries is not useful.

"yes, but this is fundamental science..." → yes it is, but where does this fundamental science helps in everyday problems? Have we had a case where the Higgs boson changed anything in our life?

The quantum mechanics of the 1920's changed our everyday world. We could build a whole technology on it, and understand things that changes our everyday life. Is there a comparable impact on knowing that the Higgs boson is +/- 10^-9 (or whatever) aligned with the theoretical model?

We have so many problems where physics is needed (energy production to start with, and then exploring biology), the money should go there instead. Even if it means having less particle physicists the same way we have less philosophes.
I never liked JSX and have avoided it. Maybe I’m missing something.
I often walk next to a bike lane that has some freestanding posts separating it from road parking and then a road. Cars sometimes knock the safety posts into the bike lane causing a serious hazard to cyclists. I'll move fallen posts out of the bike lane and up against the curb but the situation is ridiculous. This is in addition to all the other debris you mention.
Ultrasonic Javascript payments
Anyone who keeps talking about averages or statistical outcomes does not understand the first thing about medicine: there is no averages.

Because of deep sub-specialization you only have an agglomeration of outliers that are really good at what they do, and then the plankton, just like in every profession.

You can either have someone that knows exactly what he’s doing, or someone who rarely does it. A large part of medicine is guesswork, and you want someone who’s seen enough to be doing the guessing.

There is no shortage of physicians if you have the money. You can see the absolute best physician of your choice literally tomorrow if you have enough money to name a hospital wing. They’ll just see you while they eat their lunch, or come in an hour earlier.

The shortage you are talking about, is a shortage of competent, qualified saints willing to forego compensation after spending a decade in training to treat the poor.

If your expectation is that the top talent should for peanuts - do you really think there can be no shortages? You are literally asking for saints and miracles.

P.S.
>there's more to life than just strictly salary. Things like retirement benefits, socialized healthcare, safety nets etc all contribute to reasons why this occurs.

$2-3 million/year solve all of the above. There is more to life, but 90% of every graduating class are there for money, nothing less.
HN loves to describe Apple as a monopoly, but it really only shows that HN readers don't know the definition of "monopoly."
It's not the same though. When at higher gravity, you're not carrying more weight like a backpack or like extra fat -- your regular tissues weigh more. This includes your blood and other fluids, but your heart is still the same strength. I'd expect that to make a difference.
Nintendo Switch JoyCon and Pro controller support coming to iOS 16
This was remote (been remote for close to 10 years) so not like I'm in the Bay Area or something (I'm 10000km from it). Yes, I do have a long experience but still, In 20 years I never seen more than 5 (except Spotify as I mentioned) so was just trying to offer an opposing view to yours.

edit: At the company I am leaving, currently the process is:

- After initial email, first call with CEO to assess match, culture, etc
- Interview with me for an hour. We do 2 small coding challenges (your own editor, you chose the language, get information before hand, etc).

If 2nd interview goes well, we put an offer, if it doesn't, we give an option of them doing a small take home (4h max, but we hope no-one does more than 2h) if they want to continue with the process. If this goes well, offer, if it doesn't, we may have another call to let them 'explain' their code and solutions. At this point, is either an offer or a no.

Yes, technically it can be 4 interviews, but they are mostly to give more 'opportunities' to folks that may not be as good in a type of interview vs another type.
User acquisition is a big thing. There are loads of people (including doctors) who lean on brand name drugs when generics are available and it's largely about that brand. Drug names are obscure and drug brands become trusted. If Cuban can successfully build a brand with a lot of awareness then that has the potential to uplift the entire generics market. Even if the actual mechanics of the business are nothing special.
I would go with kits from Adafruit and Sparkfun. Avoid stuff of off aliexpress. Like others said cheap kits from Aliexpress come with scant documentation and even I have a hard time using dev kits I bought from there and have to rely random internet posts etc (and I do electrical engineering for a living)
I’m not claiming your conclusion is incorrect, but predator-prey systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka–Volterra_equations) can have long stretches of population decrease. A measured decrease, even a huge one lasting decades, need not be a a long term decline.
You seem like a resource for people in the US to possibly define ways electronics could be donated to help those you mention affected by high prices. Would be good to help those most worthy and needy.
They sure do have one: https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
My company does max 30 minute meetings. It's great and somehow everything still gets discussed. Occasionally we run a bit long but everyone knows you can only rely on people to be there for the first 30 minutes.

I'm in a Staff role with my fingers in multiple projects across several teams, and I still only have 2-3 hours of meetings a day.
The Magic Keyboard is not a portable device. It is built and obviously intended to be a desk-based “dock” for your iPad. It’s weight isn’t really relevant, in fact I expect that they added weight as a counterbalance. I use the Smart Folio Keyboard for my iPad as it is lighter and more portable. Not as good for typing but I don’t type as much on the iPad as on a laptop.
> Very simple, throw the wallet holder in jail.

This has no effect on the on-chain transaction, message, or application, which remains widely distributed across all nodes in the network. Tor is great but has different design goals, such as consensus of the entire network secured by about 10 nodes.

> There are BFT consensus mechanisms that don't require the use of speculative tokens.

What BFT mechanism do you propose to secure consensus of this "easy to build" tamper-proof ledger for a widely distributed network of untrusted nodes? Common choices are PoW or PoS, or PoA with a small number of trusted authorities as it is used in Tor.
It's probably worthwhile to keep backup identity documents and data with a trusted local friend who's number and address you have memorized. Hopefully they are not out of town or suffering a calamity, too!
I was going to agree "more than you think", but in tech years I'm also old. Maybe people have seen CRT tv's in parents' or grandparents' houses.

As someone who has used multiple CRT's and both 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks, this thread makes me feel old.
Had the same experience. Went to an ATM one night and the PIN for my card that I'd used several times a week for probably a decade was just... gone. Never before, never since.
“1 pixel should be enough for everyone”
Apple gets a patent license fee on every lightning cord. If they switch to a standard they didn't patent, they lose a revenue stream.
And build those designs where?
The difficult thing about even very good prevention is that the absence of events is difficult to prove.

Is interconnection perfect? obviously not. Does interconnection prevent more conflicts vs fully independent nations? Likely yes.

I think what we are seeing is societies and governments forgetting how bad wars are for stability, on a backdrop of slowing or reversing quality of life for many modern nations.
It's worse than wholesale, its drug drop shipping.

This will not save more money than GoodRx.
> I mean why use anything for anything, since another thing already exists.

My question was to figure out WHY this might be better than the solutions that already exist, which I think is a fair question. If you're always going after the new thing without it having known / expected advantages, aren't you setting yourself up for pain?
But doesn’t

> If you turn the solenoid on and off you would think it would make no difference because no matter what you do, the magnetic field the particle encounters is zero. The key, though, is that the magnetic potential is not zero along the particle's path, and the magnetic potential affects the particle's phase in measurable way when the two states recombine.

Imply that you can measure the potential somehow? That the particles phase is affected by the potential being non-zero, and therefore the gauge is at least somewhat fixed?
Are you sure you aren't just unconsciously repeating the same prejudice, but from a different click?

How will the people around you react to you using a suit? If it's badly, you are as much forced to wear a certain kind of clothes as the GP was.

Anyway, just because there is a dressing code, it doesn't mean that the culture normally associated with it dominates. Those are two different things, where one is a huge problem, and the other mostly irrelevant. It's always better if you react to problems that are rally there, instead of noisy proxies.
This is just drug drop shipping, this will only save you money if you are already using an expensive pharmacy.
China 156
Japan 40
US 30
Taiwan 26
South Korea 23
Vietnam 21
Malaysia 15
Philippines 15
Thailand 15
Singapore 14
India 9
Germany 8
United Kingdom 4
Austria 3
Mexico 3
Belgium 2
Brazil 2
Czech Republic 2
France 2
Indonesia 2
Australia 1
Cambodia 1
Costa Rica 1
Finland 1
Ireland 1
Israel 1
Italy 1
Malta 1
Netherlands 1
Norway 1
We're getting off topic, but I have two points about waiving inspection:

1) In my state there's a mandatory seller disclosure. If the seller knew about a problem with the house and didn't disclose it on the seller disclosure you can sue them if you can prove they new about the defect and intentionally didn't disclose it, so there's at least that.

2) Home inspectors don't take legal responsibility if the inspection misses something important, they only offer to, at most, give you your money back on the inspection. So you have to be optimistic that the inspector has a clue what they are doing and can catch future problems when you rely on an inspection.

Buying a home while waiving inspection might be Russian Roulette, but I bet the odds are less than 16.7% that waiving inspection will financially kill you.
> For a long time I couldn't pin down why this stuff bugged me, but I think I finally have it: it considers people to be static and one-dimensional.

Great point.

These articles also assume that companies are static, one-dimensional, and only get worse over time. These articles are designed to resonate with people who left some previous job in the past that didn’t go well, which is a common enough experience that most engineers will experience it at least once over a career.

The problem is that they take this generic experience (which the reader likely recognizes as valid because they’ve seen it before) and try to present it as if it’s a law that all companies are doomed to follow. In reality, companies ebb and flow over time as management changes over and many good companies get better, not worse. Unfortunately articles like this create a fatalism or doomerism that creates some very cynical engineers. Ironically, those cynical engineers often become the “B players” that lead to a decline of a company, all while they imagine themselves as the “A players” because they think they’re the only ones who see it like it is.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01688-x
I am working toward a setup where I am certain my critical data will not be lost due to broken phones or house fire. I'm also working on a strategy for death, amnesia, etc. for my friends to help if I ever forget my own password or pass away.

My strategy (some parts still being implemented):

* Use a password manager (Keepass)
* For anything 2FA, it either can use Authy (has backup service) or has backup codes.
* Authy backup code and all other backup codes are in password manager
* Password manager and all important digital data is stored in AWS Glacier

To be implemented:

* Instructions for disaster recovery printed and stored in AWS
* Master password to Keepass written in envelope in my house
* AWS accounts, S3 buckets and Shamirs secret sharing configured so that any 2/5 friends or family can login to AWS, get a copy of my safe, and together unlock it in case of death or disaster

AWS Glacier Deep Archive costs about $1/TB/month and is highly redundant, so for cold storage and DR is perfect for this. Shamirs secret sharing is a cool tech for breaking up secret data between people to allow the reconstruction of a secret key.

Links:

https://keepass.info/ - cross platform password safe

https://authy.com/ - Free 2FA with backup service

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/ - Info on AWS Deep Glacier

https://rclone.org/ - Great tool for backing up from local to any kind of cloud storage - I use it for encrypted uploads to AWS Glacier Deep Archive

https://iancoleman.io/shamir/ - Web tool for Shamir Secret Sharing
You can tell that to all the countries in Africa that are interdependently connected to Ukraine's grain.
Why would someone use Joy on Janet over Reitit & Ring on top of Clojure?

I see Janet is small and embeddable. Does that mean faster startup time than a full JVM? It's nice that most of Janes the literals match Clojure, so aside from `def` inside a function (as opposed to `let`), it's natural for a Clojure user to read.
Intel's first fabs outside the US were in Ireland, Israel, and China (since sold). So, false.
I've spent a fair amount over the last few years experimenting with CL, Clojure, Gerbil, and Racket for web development. I really enjoy all of them but I always inevitably find problems that I can't really overlook and end up sticking to python or go.

I'll give this a try soon, it looks promising. Hopefully it hits a sweet spot!
Sudden acceleration has saved me from an accident or two. There are times when it’s better to accelerate out of an something rather than brake.
I wish your site would list the local installers, instead of just demanding my phone number to hand out to 4 random installers that I can't research ahead of time.
Honestly, the easiest to approach for me was Racket's out of the box web libraries. I just never took it further than that. I've dabbled with Clojure was well with lein and luminous web framework. I just am so undecided on what Lisp I want to use for a web project. I'm so spoiled by things like Django and ASP .NET Core. I really do want to do something with Lisp beyond just simple hello world web projects just because web development is something I do often enough in my career so it makes sense to jump straight into it, but I'm not sure. Of course if I went for Common Lisp which compiler do I even go for? I liked Racket a lot because it was easy to get into due to DrRacket. I liked Clojure because it had two simple editors that are now defunct, so I'm kind of left wondering what to use if I go that route.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/index.html
In my experience ‘A’ players don’t just ‘work’. They have a passion about what they do and just fulfill their passion with work that happens to be useful to others.

‘B’ players, though… they indeed just do a job through the day. No passion, just a job well done. They like to think that they have other things to do with their life, and they do exactly that.
> When China attacks Taiwan, the 1st world is fucked.

China would be shooting themselves in the foot by invading, because it would equally fuck them. I've read in may places that as soon as China invades, Taiwan will blow up all the fabs and supporting supply lines. So even if China takes control of Taiwan, the semiconductor industry will be a smoldering pile of nothingness.

This article[1] does a great job in describing why this would be the case. Even if China prevents the destruction of those fabs and factories, there would still be tons of obstacles.

[1]: https://doxa.substack.com/p/why-a-chinese-invasion-of-taiwan
Check out the bbc microbit, it's intended for exactly this. It has an array of leds, a couple buttons, some useful sensors. Web-based graphical editor based on scratch (visual programming language targeting kids) that smoothly transitions to python if you outgrow it.

This will avoid potentially a lot of frustrating code-adjacent things that professional programmers and serious hobbyists will be used to. In my experience teaching programming to beginners, you want to get them actually making changes to the thing as quickly as you can with as little friction as possible. Things like soldering, library dependencies, build process are all things to avoid at the beginning.
Didn't you and parent both say "to keep costs low"?
One last thought, if engineering teams paid "what it was worth" for a tool for every piece of their stack, they'd have no money for engineers or building an actual product. It is very easy to spend the entire personnel budget again on tools, and most companies just can't do this. At that point, you're competing with your competitors for business, and with other unrelated service providers for budget.
Yes, and I'm as hopeful as anyone that they will make real patients live longer and/or better. But to suggest that the tech is "ushering in" a revolution before any such studies have released their findings is just worthless noise. We have no idea if it will be a fantastic miracle or a useless diversion.
If the partial reversal is contingent on humans acting quickly, I'm not sure that is good news.
I just store a copy at work. I figure I'm unlikely enough to lose all my possessions without dying at the same time that my workplace gets destroyed.
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Desktop will never die.

The form factor might change. We might go from a large box to a docking station for a tablet or laptop, but the mouse + keyboard + monitor(s) is never going away.
I haven't ever seen any test where Chrome was more energy efficient than WebKit. Usually difference is so stark it is 2x.

Performance wise, Chrome/Blink had a brief lead in March but since WebKit has again surpassed it. Currently WebKit is about 10% faster on macOS.

Security wise - when is the last time you had to update your iPhone/iPad because of a security issue in WebKit? Even on desktop, check the rate of Chromium security vulnerabilities vs WebKit.

> I think we're trying a little too actively to promote a sense of significant diversity here, where there is in fact a harsh & brutal monoculture.

As someone building a macOS/iOS browser I can say that WebView != Browser. There is so much to be built around a rendering engine for something to be considered a browser today.

> Safari just doesn't have modern web features. Web bundles? Nope. Early-hints? Modern web optimizations just aren't possible.

This is not always true.

https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022

Yes I am cherry picking, but so were you ;)

Also consider that most users these days do not care about web bundles or early-hints. They care about speed, security, battery life and privacy. I feel as WebKit delivers on these essentials and is a good base for a browser. Having Blink/Gecko on iOS may bring a web feature or two but is also sure to compromise on other things.
Can't they just give them a subsidy to invest in a friendly country instead?
This factory will die the moment the subsidies stop
Is rural Germany friendly towards foreigners, especially non white ones?

I've heard in Germany (and Europe in general) you'll forever be a stranger, while America is more of a melting pot and immigrants are allowed to become Americans.
How do you think we made the change from 6 days to 5 days? Do you feel like you are getting 100% pay for 0.86 time worked?
You might find Gitlab as a selfhosted Service interesting.

Spin up a Ubuntu machine and install the Omnibus and you have the basic functionality running in about half an hour, plus another half an hour for the CI Runner.
I literally live in the UK and have a recently issued passport. No fingerprints were taken.

https://www.gov.uk/apply-renew-passport

The US authorities do take fingerprints on entry. But they have nothing to compare them with.
> JetBrains come up with iOS client for remote development

It wouldn’t be stupid if they would, especially that they are moving towards an architecture of a thin client communicating with the extracted intellij core, even selling remote cloud offerings. Actually, it would likely bring lots of money to them if they come up with a seriously good ipad client.
I've definitely noticed a huge drop off of fireflies and I realized that this year I saw no june bugs flying around.
> People have been trained to think they need an e-mail address for real-life things, but they don't.

The Dutch government not only defacto requires it, soon an Android or iOS phone with their app will be required too. Only very determined, very patient people with lots or spare time will be able to do without.