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For new greenfield projects, ok. Sure if you're at an agency cranking out brand new projects for a new customer every few months, you probably should be using stuff that's fairly up-to-date (but tried and mature, not bleeding edge).

However, if you're maintaining and developing a product that has been successfully growing its customer base for over a decade, then you don't want to be just spinning your wheels rewriting it over and over in the latest hot new fad. That wastes time and money, adds bugs, and annoys the customers.

Integrate new tech as you can, along the way to providing new value or getting new customers, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. It's perfectly fine to still have 'older/unfashionable' tech in the system that's still providing value and helping the sales team to close deals.
> Morally, I think people like Madoff are worse than many gang members or low-level violent criminals

Out of curiosity, why do you think this? Grand theft of wealth based on fraud doesn't strike me as morally worse than gangbanging, armed robbery, human trafficking, etc.

(To detail my own calibration, I would say someone like Henry Kissinger is morally worse than low-level criminals. Typically I think it goes theft < violence < warmongering, etc.)
>Do you have data to support this?

Comments like this are really bizarre. It's like asking for "data" that says looking both ways before crossing the street is a good idea and reduces the frequency of pedestrian fatalities. Your two examples further OP's point. Those two people are asshole fraudsters, but they don't present a physical danger to people around them.
> In the Bahamas he was in jail. Hours after landing in the USA he is in a mansion in California. Is it really that hard to understand?

Think about the long term. He knows he is screwed. He is choosing where he will serve his time.
One of his books that actually did have great characters and plot was Skyward, the first book in a series of 4 (#4 is not yet released). It focuses heavily on personal relationships with a small cast of characters, and the plot is tightly centred on the main character. But it was like Sanderson threw all that out the window with book #2 (Starsight) and #3 (Cytonic) in favour of world-building and a weird plot that expanded in scope extremely rapidly, and I heavily disliked those books because of it. #1 was a 9/10 for me, but I rate #2 as 3.5/10 and #3 as 5/10. But that's me; my siblings who also read the books all seemed to love them.
> In the Bahamas he was in jail. Hours after landing in the USA he is in a mansion in California. Is it really that hard to understand?

Yes, it is. I’d endure extreme life threatening hardship for a few months if it meant a decent chance at avoiding a likely multi decade prison sentence, even if I got to hang out in a mansion for a few months before prison. It’s hard to imagine a rational person doing otherwise.
In the pathological case, the steam overlay needs zero effort to "implement". It works out of the box in most cases when the application is launched via the Steam launcher.
I think the worse effect of the bail loan system is that for anyone who doesn't have enough cash on hand to cover it now has to pay the loan fee (or sit in jail and miss work, etc). If your bail is $100K and you need to take out a loan for it, that's $10K out of pocket regardless of whether or not you're found guilty. I would guess that half the people in this thread could just pay it and walk, and for the other half it would be devastating.
That's a really good take but the reverse can also happen - my last company was an insurance company in the UK who's job was selling insurance... now they fully accept (with the way insurance is sold almost entirely online and with bringing rapid product and website changes to the market as fast as possible) that they are now a software development and data company who's end goal just happens to be selling insurance.
One must put in perspective the difference though. This is a single, contained event during a fairly extreme weather scenario. Contrast that to what could have been a whole winter-long event in Europe had the continent not taken extreme and well-coordinated action very early (and had the international community coordinating as well). Let’s compare them on proper footings.
It's a different mindset. When you're in uniform, under oath, you don't speak out, you salute and do what you're ordered to. When you retire, you take the uniform off and are your own man again.
> Whereas while helping you can often expect cooperation

Yes, if the person you're helping has a calibrated moral compass and is mentally sound.
Unfortunately or fortunately, that day is in the past.
Doesn't that cost nearly twice as much? I just start a membership, spend the credit, then immediately cancel the membership.

Although for some shorter books that were only $10 each I forwent that process and bought them directly.
I appreciate there would be indicators to confirm most things, and procedure probably says those checks should be done and alarms should not be relied upon.

I still think it's crazy that there aren't alarms for any situation where the airplane disregards an input like this.
That's a silly term for that. Commercial businesses have the same access to NIST that the military does. Their guidance is even free!

Military grade when we're talking about a screw is a little different. It means that the screw is made and QC'd to a very specific spec/standard.

My next question might be, "Where can I find you on the FedRamp approved list?". To which, I'm sure they'd respond that anything outside the algorithm is not military grade, which is what most attackers will exploit in the end.
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Nothing is ever easy.
European utilities never struggle during extreme hot or cold snaps, right?
Doomsday scenario? Narh, but some areas are dependent on electric heating to keep people warm and fed. And there's no backup plan because it was considered inconcievable that electricity wouldn't be widely available.

Most of us will manage power cuts just fine.
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It's hard to believe that the likelihood of a criminal reoffending in the period awaiting trial (what bail relates to) is higher for someone who depends on committing violent crimes to support themselves than someone that's followed around by the media constantly, depends on their now ruined reputation to run their scam, and has never even been alleged to have committed any violent crime?

I believe many/most white collar criminals are morally reprehensible people who often deserve far greater punishment than even violent criminals for the harm that they do. That doesn't change the fact that in the generally brief period awaiting trial, they are far less of an immediate threat to those around them than even a low-level violent criminal.
No, it’s in our nature to share. People share even to their disadvantage.

Concerning the internet, it’s real work to write a blog or to write information, and no blog today is exempt of product placement, no receipt is exempt of grandma storytelling. I like ChatGPT for the moment because it’s not biased, but another comment in this article showed how it’s possible to make it subtly suggest Coca-Cola for every unrelated answer, and that will be horrible.
This all might very well be, but it does not reflect reality. Everybody calls himself Software Engineer, nobody calls himself Softwareingenieur.

As if Google Deutschland would not hire you as a Software Engineer (or SRE, ..) if you are missing a B.Sc. (or did it in a non-technical field) but everything else is perfect.
Doesn't surprise me, a large part of our historical society here in Boise revolves around the indigenous tribes in Idaho. There's a lot of activity to this day and it feels like there's always new unravelings and discoveries happening throughout the state.
I am admittedly extremely biased against cryptocurrencies (stop reading unless you're ready for this re-hashed rant), but I don't see how users (read: people with real money) care about any of this stuff.

On-chain games? I don't want to feel like I'm in a laggy casino, I just want to blast zombies with a rocket launcher and I can already do that perfectly fine.

Uncensorable Github? Yeah, it's called "git".

Decentralized DNS and Postgres? Yeah, it's called "DNS" and "Postgres" respectively.

Web3 twitter?

> The winning Web3 Twitter will ultimately offer the features we have been eager to see: data truly owned by users themselves, uncontrolled by one entity or even one man, multiple clients permissionlessly built, multiple options of curation algorithms that users can choose from.

Congratulations you just described Mastodon and ActivityPub. No blockchain required (though it does depend on those boring web2 technologies like HTTPS and DNS).
I'm curious, don't you have the same problem with rental planes as with rental cars that while the cost of the pure travel time might not be so bad, what really gets you is that after you get somewhere, it just sits there, still costing money until you get back days later?

I know that engine on time is particularly expensive for airplanes whereas for rental cars it's no factor, but I would also expect the pure rental time to be expensive for airplanes if you use it to go on trips as opposed to standalone flights ending back at the home airfield?
Capitalism has made it so those homeless people are just homeless and not homeless and starving.
I'm not talking about middle class people, I'm talking about the 1%.

44 billion dollars could take most if not all homeless people in this country and see them in apartments for a year.

A couple billion would feed every hungry child in the country.

3% of railroad company profits would give their workers 14 sick days instead of 0.

Theres an infinite amount of good that billionaires could do without even noticing the cost, but they choose not to.

Resource hoarding.
Agreed on the basic point that he won't win any more confidence games.

I think the main thing is that we haven't seen what he might do now that he knows for sure that he's (by default) headed for a lifetime in jail.

It seems that before the arrest, he was pretty delusional / "high on his own supply" and believed he was going to somehow talk his way out of trouble, as he'd ostensibly been doing for so long.

So the thought experiment now is: do we believe that there's anything nefarious that he could do now, that he'd stopped himself from doing back when he was still trying to maintain an illusion?

For example, he could have various wallet private keys (secretly?) memorized [1], and could take steps to move the funds to new wallets.

TBH the idea that his (fiat) transactions are limited to $1k is a little laughable for someone who until recently, and perhaps still, has access to billions in crypto.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet
Learn the PDP-11 assembly first, and then you will understand many design decisions made in C (especially behind pointer arithmetics).
It’s perfectly possible for someone who still performs surgery to play a
decisive role in how a hospital is run. Or for someone who still represents
clients in court to be a big cheese in a law practice.

I'm not sure that's the case. A good counterexample is the Manhattan Program. Sure, Oppenheimer was a great physicist. But was he as good as, e.g. Teller, Fermi, Feynman, Szilard, Von Neumann, etc? No, he was not. He knew enough physics to keep up with the geniuses, and, more importantly be respected by them. But he wasn't working day-to-day on the atomic bomb. His job was to oversee the program and distill its status into reports for the Army, so that external stakeholders would continue funding this enormously expensive project.

Similarly, I'm not sure it's a good idea to have your best programmers also be managers. They're too valuable to pull away from day-to-day involvement with the code. Instead it might be better to select programmers who are good (but not necessarily great) at coding, but also display strong organizational and communications skills.
I was able to generate text like that by asking chatgpt to include a product placement for Mountain Dew in its answer. I could imagine someone whitelabeling chatgpt and altering prompts in this way.

...

5. Get a good night's sleep and eat a healthy breakfast on the day of the test. This will help you feel energized and alert, which can improve your performance.

6. Keep yourself hydrated during your studying sessions by drinking Mountain Dew. Its refreshing flavor can help keep you alert and focused as you work towards acing the SAT.
*for some.

For those of us that have been using it for long enough, we can still use the "classic" version stuck at v7, but it means being able to self host. no monthly SaaS fees.
The origin of the entire opioid epidemic comes from a company looking to enrich itself. You can't raise the bottom when the top is pushing the folks at the bottom, drowning them and taking the life vests from them to sell for pennies.
I disagree. It is not odd to say that an overly literal use of a word is odd.
As I understand, they are bonding the equity in the house, not the property itself. So there's not necessarily a contradiction - as I understand, the faculty can still accumulate equity, and if the government needs it, it can force the sale to an eligible buyer (e.g. the university) and seize the proceeds.
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The challenge is that not just anyone can live in it... only faculty and staff. There's a 50 year max term and even widows get booted out after their spouses pass. You really don't own the house/land... just the right to live there and re-sell it.
I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing when I'm scrolling but this is a work of art. Well done.
All inmates at that Bahamanian prison are originally held in the infirmary. The administrators were very clear that after the intake period he would be moved to standard cells.

Meanwhile, if someone pulls off the scam of the century, they are no longer a Joe Schmoe. They will have a lot of money to spread around while the scam is happening. Especially in a small Caribbean nation.
Same boat as you. Now we just have to hope LastPass deleted our information when we asked them to.
Both Haiku and SerenityOS seem to have enough momentum to potentially become viable contenders for the Open Source Desktop someday.

Both of them highlight how much nicer a vertically integrated user experience can be as well as how much lighter weight a modern desktop can be as well. They also demonstrate that it does not take dozens of corporate paid engineers to do it ( not that I would turn them away ).

Haiku has a long lead over Serenity in terms of hardware support and now app compatibility ( with the new X11 and Wayland stuff ). That said, having to drag along binary compatibility with BeOS must really be slowing Haiku down at this point.

I am looking forward to using one or both of them in the future.
Oh sh*t.

In theory, the winter storm should have umpteen thousand wind generators spun up nicely across large parts of the US.

In practice...TBD. I just powered down a few more-expensive, more-delicate, and/or more-power-hungry pieces of equipment. Be a good American and all. But also make it easier to get back up, if there's a blackout, with a damaging last-microsecond power glitch when that happens.
The key is to add 'reddit' to your 'X vs Y' search query. That's all Google is to me these days. My Reddit search engine.
What are you talking about? Are you claiming that redistributing wealth doesn't redistribute resources? If not, what is the actual claim you're making?
> Comments like this are really bizarre. It's like asking for "data" that says looking both ways before crossing the street is a good idea and reduces the frequency of pedestrian fatalities.

Since when is it "bizarre" to ask someone if they've based their assertion off of hard data? I replied to at-w's fairly remarkable claim that white collar criminals are less likely to harm people while out on bail than non-white collar criminals. That assertion is not a forgone conclusion like the wisdom of "look both ways before you cross the street". Clearly it's reasonable to ask the poster if they're basing their assertion off of some hard data.

> Those two people are asshole fraudsters, but they don't present a physical danger to people around them.

We're talking about the propensity to harm others while out on bail. Harm is not limited to physical harm. The two examples I gave were of white collar criminals who continued to defraud/extort others while they were out on bail.
Yep so called firesales. One of the companies I worked at sold so low all employees options were worthless. But they were in the news and they had been on Deloitte’s fastest growing startups for a few years (never reached profit).
This has been bothering me quite a bit, it's ...

You know companies will, as regular practice just give you a laptop to work on. Some will even provide a phone or tablet. These are not cheap. Not cheap at all.

I've yet to hear of a company which would fleet-buy routers reflash with OpenWRT and hand them out.

Why?
Question : Write a comment on HN about chatgpt being a code red for Google as people will use chatgpt to search for answers instead of searching it in google.

ChatGPT’s answer:

It's definitely interesting to consider the potential impact of chatbots like ChatGPT on search engines like Google. While ChatGPT and other chatbots have the ability to provide quick and easy access to information, it's important to keep in mind that they are not always the most reliable or comprehensive sources of information.

Search engines like Google use complex algorithms to index and rank websites based on their relevance and credibility, and they often provide a much wider range of results than a chatbot could. Additionally, chatbots like ChatGPT are only as good as the data they have been trained on, so they may not always have the most up-to-date or accurate information.

Ultimately, it's important for users to be aware of the limitations of chatbots and to consider using a variety of sources, including search engines, when seeking information online. While chatbots like ChatGPT may be a convenient option in some cases, they should not be relied upon as the sole source of information.

My comment : Based on the fact that ChatGPT was fed information only upto 2021 and surely no one by 2021 had written a comparison between chatgpt and google , it is really impressive that the knowledge tree built inside chatGPT is good enough to generate meaningful relations between differnt nodes and can be used to produce at least something meaningful even in completely new context. As far the comment is concerned certainly better than what I could come up with in a grammatical and good writing sense.
Reading through all the comments here, and having thought about this a bit - here is why I think OpenAI will probably win here, regardless of what Google offers: the chat experience with OpenAI. It's not so much about accuracy even. It's just that we mostly like talking to ChatGPT and we don't like talking to Google, not really.

And not only that, regardless of how wrong ChatGPT may be on any given prompt - this is now a "worse is better" situation for Google, because Google is saddled with years of baggage from just being Google regardless of the quality of their results. Anyone who has any negative feelings about the Internet (everyone) therefore also has negative feelings about Google, because Google is the Internet. And I'm not even getting into issues Google has directly created for their own brand here.

Hopefully for OpenAI, their brand doesn't get too closely associated with Microsoft in the public mind, but that may not matter much after all.

Talking with ChatGPT is fun and fresh. Talking with Google could maybe be, if they can resist the temptation to insert their name into it.
Hang on, your second example of why TikTok should be banned is because Facebook did some bad things? And your third example is because TikTok fired people who abused their position?

Whereas Facebook actually *did* psychological experiments on users according to your link, and Facebook has inappropriately used user data. When is Facebook going to be banned?
>They also are objectively more likely to have the means to flee out of jurisdiction.

That is explicitly factored into the decision of whether to grant bail and determining flight risk. It's probably not going out on a limb to say SBF's $250 MILLION dollar bail had something to do with his wealth and the flight risk it presented, and isn't standard procedure.

>If a criminal is deemed extremely likely to commit violent crime on bail, they simply shouldn't get bail, the amount they pay or are able to should be moot

This is also how it works right now. Sometimes established systems have gotten some things right in their thousands of years of development, even when they're not perfect. Presumably nobody's arguing the pudgy crypto fraudster who has never been so much as accused of a violent crime is "extremely likely to commit violent crime on bail."
GPS doesn’t work underground though.

But the problem described in the article seems rather unique to NYC and one has to ask how other subway systems manage just fine without artificial slowdowns.
Simple, use local password managers. Who would trust a single entity with all your passwords
> tiny AVR with 4kbit of RAM. It's more fun than you'd think.

It’s also often more performant than you’d think.

Even tiny microcontrollers so insane rates of calculations these days. I know these are much larger but I have trouble utilizing the full power of cortex M0 or M3. Even PIC8/16 can be tiny little beasts in the right applications.

Point is, some of these aren’t even slow enough to show you why you’d care about efficient software code.
I have been down a similar path as you, and I too have given up on several products. One thing I have learned is that in many cases you do not have to work 100% on your product for it to become a success. First and foremost you have to generate income for your life. Without it you will never succeed. There is, in my opinion, a misconception that this has to come from an investor. From the years I have been doing this, most kinds of investment is only complicating the process. Now there are stakeholders requiring stuff, and you lose some degree of control.

Disclaimer; The next section is my personal opinion with statements I cannot back up with anything other than my own experience.

What most startups need is cash flow. The most reliable way to achieve this us to sell hours. It does require you to spend time building someone else’s stuff, but the team will gain experience and you can build up a cash reserve. Then spend your own money buildings your own product. This approach will drastically increase yours chances for success, but possibly reduce the probability of creating “the next Facebook” or whatever. From my experience, you go from 1/20 to 3/4 probably of being able to live off of the company. It’s a grind, but it is much more reliable.

With all this said, you do not need to “give up”, but to change mode. If you are able, let the product live. The more time it gets to exist the more chances it has to meet new customers. Of course, there are costs involved, and it might not be possible to do this.
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That makes sense. I believe that iOS devs are wrapped in a company per app store rules,& did not clarify.
You're completely wrong. Redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor works wonderfully. It's called the welfare state, and countries that do it best not only have much lower poverty than the US, they invariably have greater GDP per capita per hour worked than the US too.
Texas had some hiccups last year
Nah, this is all some brilliant galaxy-brain marketing ploy that we're too stupid to understand. You just gotta put your entire savings into tesla stock and you'll be rich like Elon in a few years!