skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) There is almost never a case for a total ground up rewrite of your core product. Just don’t do it.

I've espoused this before, but I've come around to moderating my take on this.

"Almost never" is an exaggeration. I agree that they "almost never" work, but that's not the same as there being no case (there's a difference between "should not have done" and "should have done differently".

After many years of seeing both play out (rewrites and decided-not-to-rewrites) I'd edit this adage to: "there is almost never a case to rewrite yourself" (for the individual) or "there is almost never a case to get the same team to rewrite" (for management).

I'm not saying that engineers can't learn from their own mistakes but if you wrote the software & you think it needs a scratch rewrite rather than a refactor, you're unlikely to have learnt enough within that gap of time to make the rewrite significantly better than a refactor.

The other reason for failure outside of the original architect repeating their same mistakes 2nd time around is outsourcing the rewrite. Wholesale outsourcing is an unbelievably inefficient & failure-prone way to build in-house software.
DCFC do have car-id communication between the car and charger, and they can be configured to connect to specific accounts from the car so you can"plug and charge" with nothing else if your car is registered with the charger network. I've never heard of a system that took cash, they used to take credit cards at some chargers, now they often require an app install on your phone (and you hope your phone didn't die).

Level 2 chargers in the us use j1772. I'm not aware of any vehicle id communication but there could be something? This article was about European chargers, I suspect (without direct knowledge) they use the same "unauthenticated" level 2 protocol with j1772?
The paper suggests that what looks like an epidemic is due to better diagnosis, so that people previously not diagnosed now are. It doesn't discredit autism.
Elon Musk defends his title as ‘technoking’ of Tesla, but not Twitter CEO
In the US those would be "signs", not symptoms. Symptoms are things like pain, fatigue, etc. Signs are observable. I think other countries/languages often use "subjective" symptoms and "objective" symptoms.

It's a very useful distinction between things that only the patient can tell you versus things that can be observes and tested for. How do you run a test to determine if a patient is "really" experiencing chest pain? You cannot. You can run tests to try and determine an obvious cause for that symptom, but there is no test to tell you if say perhaps the patient is lying about having chest pain.
I am very confused about why the rationalists, who first identified the concept of pascal's mugging seem to have a huge number of initiatives which seem to be examples of falling directly into the pascal's mugging trap.

With all of these examples, and pascal's mugging itself, there is an obvious error: there should be a practical upper bound on the adverse outcome you're concerned about, at which all higher values are effectively the same to you.
10 yard penalty, review logical fallacies, other team gets the ball.

https://xkcd.com/1138/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy

Children spend waaaay more time around parents and relatives.

Same reason why you are more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than a stranger. (This is not monocausal, and I do not mean to imply that simply spending time with someone will cause a crime)
Well, I personally believe that the logical outcome of libertarian thought as it regards kids is that a parent does not have the right to aggress against his children, but also that the parent should not have a legal obligation to feed, clothe, or educate his children, since such obligations would entail positive acts coerced upon the parent and depriving the parent of his rights. The parent therefore may not murder or mutilate his child, and the law properly outlaws a parent from doing so. But the parent should have the legal right not to feed the child, i.e., to allow it to die.

So that's one reason you wouldn't want a libertarian CPS agent.
They don’t use money to save lives. They use the money to maximize their prestige and their power. They save lives when it fits their agenda.

Look at the Gates foundation : they finance vaccine in Africa, which is good. How to they spend it? By buying overpriced vaccines from companies in which they have interest. They spent a lot of money to avoid the COVID vaccine becoming open source to avoid a precedent, killing thousands of people in low-income countries. (Bill Gates has ideologically always been against the notion of sharing any knowledge, remember "Letter to hobbyists".

Saving lives is just what they put on the marketing cover. Truth is that they are spending for their own prestige and also to "feel-good" about themselves.

It’s normal. It’s how we are wired as human. When you give money to charities, you simply maximize the "feel good" and minimize the "feel guilty" (which is why most charities are nowadays essentially huge marketing organizations). There’s no way for an individual to really do "good" on a large scale with money. The best use of money is to share it as much as possible and let people decide themselves what they want to do with it. (every single study about effectiveness of fighting poverty came to the simple conclusion that you only need to give money to the poors. It’s the best possible use of money. But we hate to do that because we don’t really want to fight poverty. We want to feel good about ourselves and maybe gain a bit of prestige)
Darn the smtpd thing is going to be annoying next time I try to debug a mail sender. It was super convenient. Shame they didn’t leave just that.
Maybe Amazon is more confident that they can get good work out of a broader range of people.
There are only 2 major versions of RISC-V for desktop processors (64-bit with privileged mode) with a third likely coming in 2023 or 2024. That's definitely better than the competition.

x86 has about 35 new extensions in the last 20 years excluding AVX-512 which adds another 20 or so.

It's also no different from ARM where you have (currently in widespread production) ARMv6, ARMv7, ARMv8 32-bit, ARMv8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, ARMv9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, and some ISA extensions that don't fit neatly into ANY of those. Then ARM also announced (no doubt due to pressure from RISC-V) that custom instructions are also allowed.

This is effectively a solved problem for ARM and x86. It will be even less of an issue for RISC-V.
Do a search-and-replace to change all double spaces to single.
I have noticed that there are still vast differences in the printing functionality, both in terms of how things render and performance. So if you need to do any kind of printing in the app and you know your clients will use an array of different browsers it is worth checking it. Even within the same browser things tend to go back and forth when it comes to printing, Chrome for example tends to break things in one version and then they come back in the next one. It is a bit of a mess.
I have been using Warp for the past couple of days and the autosuggestions when I'm working over SSH are pretty nifty, it probably saves me a fair amount of time everyday.

Making a login required is absolutely unnecessary, though.
But it's not like improving twitter would improve the world like nuclear fusion, better batteries or a cure for cancer would - there are plenty of better investments. It's hard to even establish metrics for what "improvement" or even "success" looks like in the case of twitter. From Musk's standpoint "improvement"/"success" means he makes money (or at least doesn't lose a lot of money) on the deal. There are plenty of alternatives to twitter out there already and probably others being worked on. Twitter could disappear tomorrow and the world wouldn't be negatively impacted at all, in fact it would probably be a benefit.
I would take it more as a comment on the sheer volume of hiring, meaning there was a place for any level of engineer there.
> This strikes me as crazy.

Yes, it's basically bullshit in most of the US. Even knowing that the media feeds on clickbait and routinely hypes up everything that even smells like it could be controversial, people just lap it up. Even people here on HN.
To be fair, quantum magic could have evolved after the human lineage forked off from the root that includes other mammals.

IE, some magic gene duplication shortly after humans and neaderthals split from their common ancestor, then one copy evolved a slightly different structure that allowed neurons to exploit quantum magic.

This seems implausible, nor would I place the root around the human lineage; might as well assume that all animals, or really anything with a neuron, is capable of this.

Otherwise, we'd be able to isolate the factor (a gene that produces a protein).
> Yes, I have a problem with overtly hostile responses to reasonable and polite requests

Again - this means that you probably don't want to use this project, then.

> More importantly (for our discussion), why would I have to share someone's values in order to think they're worth listening to?

Because you've dismissed their entire project based on their comments in a single PR from years ago.
The worry about police violence is really misplaced worry about the effects of a broken justice system. It's not just that police kill unarmed, non-violent black teens. It's that "they" (the justice system as a whole) also lock people up for non-violent drug offenses, put a felony on their record, condemning them to a life without job opportunities. Then "they" kick them out of their homes when they're late on their rent. Then they forcibly break up homeless encampments so people without homes can never feel safe or settled or have somewhere to sleep.

Police shootings are just a potent symbol for a much larger issue with the Justice System. The problem is that conversations about complex systemic issues become circular and conversations about symbols often don't.
Not really. They are famous for advancing sustainable transport, re-usable rockets and Starlink.
> The other was a big enterprise project with a core group of "hardcore" Spanish enthusiasts which was very stressful because of imposter syndrome and troubles to onboard new folks. I have been against Spanish ever since, exactly because of this Spanish cult.
Bezos is wealthy simply because he owns a large chunk of Amazon. Because he started the company. He's only a billionaire because literally everyone in the world is willing to pay him a substantial piece of money for a tiny piece of the company. How is that Jeff's problem? The world could make Jeff not a billionaire in a moment by merely saying "none of us want a piece of Amazon".

At what point was Jeff supposed to give away his ownership of Amazon? Who should he have given it to? Would they then get to run the company, would Jeff keep running it?
I have an Echo and a Homepod and I rarely use the Echo anymore because of their "by the way, did you know..." responses. They know there are a lot of users who want to disable that but unfortunately their goals aren't aligned with their users' goals.
Maybe he realizes that, and is just a jackass.
Are there any really good synonyms for 'hysteria' though, to describe a sort of crazed panic around a certain subject?
Networking events such as BNI or meetups

Chamber of commerce events

Go door to door

LinkedIn messages and/or get introduced through shared connections

Facebook communities and/or other online forums where you can answer questions and build relationships

Phone calls

Better cold emails!

Friends and family

Also whenever you speak to someone and have a good conversation with them, ask that person for the contact details of someone else who might be interested in speaking
I would assume that's made much easier by having 20+ years of experience. OP is looking for entry-level positions
> 1) Once someone starts paying you, they get to exert their influence on your work, and it becomes a lot less "hobbyish."

Definitely. I've been working on a free open-source project for 6 months. Last week, a user came with a feature request, and stated that they were willing to pay me. That could sound nice, but I immediately thought "nope". I told them that donations were appreciated, but I wasn't going to do commissioned work.

I don't want that kind of responsibility for my hobby projects.
I just used the same inspector general report as the person I was responding to. Literally that PDF. If you read how they determined $4.1 billion/launch, and change the SLS line item to "Starship, $150MM" it runs to over $2 billion a launch.
I disagree strongly with this take and it seems basically to be saying "better error messages are bad."

What if clang says "did you forget a ';'"? It would have been better to just compile the code as if there was a semicolon?
There's a lot of factors why it might have been that person's fallback even though it might have been your first choice. The product, the culture, the location, salary, WFH, options, benefits, etc.

I knew a guy who would passed up working for Apple for a relatively unknown non-FAAANG company.

People have their reasons. It's not that everyone working for Apple is lesser than. It's more that this guy had his own reasons.

To each his or her own.
> Why would anyone stay?

Because moving suddenly is difficult? Because if you can work remotely your job may be pretty cushy? Because there have been a bunch of layoffs in the sector and jobs aren't just materializing for everyone anymore? etc.

Hunting for a job generally sucks no matter how good you are.
It certainly looks that way, but there are other factors at play such as the child being problematic and discipline being dumping him on the street to walk. It's not merely some kid playing in the neighborhood. Some car came to a stop and a kid was kicked out and there was likely yelling involved. It's certainly suspicious. Child abuse investigations aren't about one incident in isolation.
Still upset when Evernote lost my lecture notes when I synced after turning off WiFi to save laptop battery (back in 2010)
Yes, in the section “Artemis Science Payloads” - it has all 10, photos, mission objectives, and descriptions.
It is practically zero almost everywhere. Iran is the only exception I can think of, and even then it is only protesters. (I'm sure there are other corrupt countries that I'm not aware of)
roam, obsidian, logseq, etc so many new or really interesting players in this space.
Transparency in Representing Size of Airbnb Properties
I was thinking more along the lines of a fueling station with a convenience store, not in a mall parking garage. Should have made that clearer.
>Improving Twitter would improve the world.

Man that's a massive bubble you life in, no one care's about twitter, especially not the "world"
It's not that unusual, especially in games. For instance,"The Witcher 2" version 3.3 [1], "Dota 2" version 7.32c [2], but also "Struts 2", version 6.0.3 [3]. Some others may be more considered a product name than a version number, e.g. "GNOME 2", "Winamp 5".

[1] https://en.cdprojektred.com/download/patch-3-3/
[2] https://www.dota2.com/patches/7.32c
[3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/Version+Notes...
I think it's just battery tech that will put EVs over the edge. Solid state batteries looks promising and will change everything.
Problem is there is always the mispricing of the cost of having pled guilty to a felony. In the US the hard part is after prison from my understanding. Maybe I am wrong though.

Also if your neighbors got you into this state now, what are they going to get you into the future, after you have been "guilty."
Are these guys Inspector Clouseau? 2 weeks of investigation to determine whether kid was abused by walking home. Legends. They must have been chasing down leads. Stake outs at the house. Subpoena the teachers.

Hahaha. Government employees lol.
Hey you think I'm a brainwashed cult member, and I think you're one, also with the projection issue. So... is this a Mexican stand-off?
Has his management style changed? There are plenty of stories about him cracking the whip, being a total authoritarian jerk, etc at Tesla. Where was the outrage then? The only think that had changed is he's fallen out of favor and "public opinion" is being shifted on purpose.
Well, they didn't tell everyone. I was simply, as they say, familiar with the plan.
To be fair, compaining about that makes about as much sense as compaining about the racist implications of the term "good Samaritan", although I agree that, in retrospect, it's pleasantly surprising that social justice warriors haven't tried to ram though a de facto ban anyway.
In my opinion it's just as true today as in 1978, if not more so, but functional programming can make code simpler to reason about and therefor debug.
There have been many commercial and crowdsourced attempts to do so, with variable levels of success.

Do you buy or participate in those?

I care, but not enough to leave my iPhone (more specifically: the functionality, usability, and reliability it provides) behind, at this point.
That's the first time I've gotten that instead of a V. I didn't bother editing it because I thought it was amusing.

More often (but still rare), I'll end up with a † instead of t. As someone below mentioned, it appears to be (on Mac) opt+key.

I use a Razer Blackwidow something something mechanical keyboard, and it sits pretty tall. Only just now I figured out how I think this opt thing is happening. The side of my left hand appears to sometimes sit low enough that it may be bumping the opt key. Prior to this moment, the whole † thing had been a mystery to me :P.
Definitely true in Portland as well.
It's more efficient to cool and liquify air than to generate hydrogen. Store it in a container and let it expand later and you can turn a turbine. There's no issue from an environmental standpoint since you are converting air to air. You can build a cryobattery literally anywhere on earth with off the shelf components.
> For example, the academic community - from theoretical CS to systems to healthcare to biology to economics. I think probably 1/3 of faculty at top universities under the age of 40 have a twitter presence and tweet very useful things.

These people just don't buy stuff. Instagram and TikTok get the product in your face given that they are photo/video centric, whereas 90% of twitter images are memes which don't push any commerce. It's impossible to push influencer marketing on twitter because the platform never really embraced video/images.

> I have also found the journalistic and sports sections of Twitter to be very useful. For instance, where else does one get the latest football injury news, or line changes made on the san jose sharks?

I don't doubt that it's great for the dedicated user who takes time to curate their feed, but discussing about the flow of $ to buy eyeballs, Twitter is mediocre.
Related, there are software companies that push up rents across the world to maximize profits. Most major rental companies use the same ones, so rent keeps going up across all major rental agencies, acts like a cartel.

Some interesting articles on it.

https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...

https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2022/10/18/texas-company-...
For those (like me) getting off on the nostalgia factor, there is a museum dedicated to the ZX spectrum and related PCs:

https://loadzx.com/en/
This contains the beta release of the official WASM build of SQLite https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md
This kind of disparate interpretation is why I still prefer the term information security (and related, information assurance).

It’s much more unambiguously inclusive, and still perfectly descriptive of the field and practice.
My wife was a Montessori 'lifer', this topic actually came up in conversation no our second date, and our child is currently the happiest Montessori pre-k kid, perhaps ever.

As others have pointed out, the Montessori program is strong, but the execution is everything.

FWIW my wife, who is in her 40s, regularly visits her Montessori campus when visiting her hometown, and is friends with several of her classmates from the time, all of whom might give you the impression that Montessori is some sort of MLM thing to judge by their unbridled enthusiasm.

EDIT - we plan to start our child in public kindergarten, because money. Tough choice, but that $12k isn't peanuts to us.
"Yes" is not an answer that should be responded to. Details are what should be responded to. Cops shouldn't be asking the neighbor's approval to investigate. They should treat a report as a witness, and refer to a checklist of types of observations that need to be investigated.

If a neighbor makes up details in a report to police, they should be charged with a crime. If the cops are asking "do you think we should investigate" to private citizens, they have abandoned all responsibility as law enforcement.

Imagine crowdsourcing your authority, making the justice system a militia for lazy mobs. Completely upside-down.
Also both are famous for not being underwater thanks to government subsidies.
You can try running it with Hyper-V directly, or disabling Hyper-V (although that doesn’t seem to work on my Windows 11 box, perhaps because of the fancy virtualization-based security features?)
> I rarely have seen (1) come into play.

Worked in a company that does stack ranking. Here's how you do 1 (in the opposite sense): Give the person tough tasks, with very tight deadlines. Amplify their failings and belittle their achievements. Repeat till the employee screws up, and start building evidence for a PIP. Get others involved (customers the employee is interacting with, your own manager, etc). In most cases I've seen, if a manager is unhappy with you, the others (customers, your manager) will follow the manager's lead to get rid of the person.

If/when the employee contests this, most HRs will pick someone from the same department to be the investigator. Since it's the same department, it means it's the same culture your manager is exhibiting. They will much more likely believe them than they will you.

Source: I got semi-fired this way. To give you an example: The investigator wanted proof for everything I was claiming in my defense. Not only that, they held it against me if I had not sent emails to my manager saying I disagreed with his behavior. Eventually, I asked the investigator: "So, did my manager show you proof for all his claims?" The investigator responded with "Good point, and once this process is over I will send him and his manager feedback on the mistakes they made." Umm - sure, but why should I be punished and not them? No answer.

I somehow stayed at the company (they made an exception for me and let me change teams) - and over years saw this process repeat over and over. When an employee is in trouble, I immediately start advising them on the steps their manager will take - it usually plays out as described above.
What are you referring to? My username is my real name.
I'd stopped using Evernote involuntarily because their 2FA recovery scenario was broken and I got locked out of my account despite that I still had access to my email. I moved on. I checked it again years later, and they fixed it, but never went back. Such small omissions can create a whole chain of losses.
Thanks, that helps narrow it down. Next to work out how to make it behave more like fish, as Ctrl+w deleting the entire string `test.func('param1',` seems like madness to me.
There was clearly no rhyme or reason to their portfolio.

Basically the app store version of a private equity firm.
In general no, but specific cases yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table