skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It seems most of teams I've been on value speed over future proofing bugs."

So, obviously, if one team is future proofing bugs, and the other team just blasts out localized short-term fixes as quickly as possible, there will come a point where the first team will overtake the second, because the second team's velocity will by necessity has to slow down more than the first as the code base grows.

If the crossover point is ten years hence, then it only makes sense to be the second team.

However, what I find a bit horrifying as a developer is that my estimate of the crossover point keeps coming in. When I'm working by myself on greenfield code, I'd put it at about three weeks; yes, I'll go somewhat faster today if I just blast out code and skip the unit tests, but it's only weeks before I'm getting bitten by that. Bigger teams may have a somewhat farther cross over point, but it's still likely to be small single-digit months.

There is of course overdoing it and being too perfectionist, and that does get some people, but the people, teams, managers, and companies who always vote for the short term code blasting simply have no idea how much performance they are leaving on the table almost immediately.

Established code bases are slower to turn, naturally. But even so, I still think the constant short-term focus is vastly more expensive than those who choose it understand. And I don't even mean obvious stuff like "oh, you'll have more bugs" or "oh, it's so much harder to on board", even if that's true... no, I mean, even by the only metric you seem care about, the team that takes the time to fix fundamental issues and invests in better logging and metrics and all those things you think just slow you down can also smoke you on dev speed after a couple of months... and they'll have the solid code base, too!

"Make sure the project runs but has error, code smells, etc."

It is a hard problem to construct a test for this but it would be interesting to provide the candidate some code that compiles with warnings and just watch them react to the warnings. You may not learn everything you need but it'll certainly teach you something.
I mean systems critical infrastructure code where error tolerance is zero.

For one off scripts or sketching a concept quickly it’s good enough, and for language reference it’s generally useful.

However, one thing I’ve noticed with Claude in particular is it tends to overweight the top answers in stack overflow.

The problem there is top answers are rarely the best answer - rather they tend to be overly verbose and long, whereas the best answer is usually the second one that just tells you what function to call.

On multiple occasions I’ve had Claude answer a simple prompt with horribly verbose and complicated code.

Then I’ll say “what about this single call?” (Eg the type of SO answer than gets the second most votes), and it’s says “You’re right! That’s a much better answer”.

Likewise I suggest to anybody to take the domain you are most knowledgeable in and pepper your LLM of choice with lots of questions and see how much it knows.

You’ll get a feel for how much you can trust it in other domains - which is “not much”.
This was written in a very confident way, but I can say with at least as much confidence that my house was mass produced in a factory and assembled locally in the middle of nowhere without any regard for local architecture.
The alternative to Walgreens is the ever tightening CVS monopoly.
> what is wrong with NULL?

For starters, you have to #include a header to use it.
You have to think of the mainframe as a platform like AWS or Kubernetes or VMWare. Saying “AWS has huge throughput” is meaningless.

The features of the platform are the real technical edge. You need to use those features to get the benefits.

I’ve moved big mainframe apps to Unix or windows systems. There’s no magic… you just need to refactor around the constraints of the target system, which are different than the mainframe.
also, 674.36M tokens sold and 19.326B tokens remaining seems like they were hoping to sell a whole lot more than they have so far
> to house thousands of electrical lineman and relief workers expected after the storm

This was the crux of the story at least locally in Central Florida. I have no idea if that was lost in coverage outside of the area in favor of the visual impacts of the torn roof.
Is there any plans to support a WebXR interface in the future?
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Good old Chucky D. was a financial guru before it was cool.
Maybe he will get to do all 89,000 years if AGI gets its way and extends life. A very bad time to get 89,000 years of prison time
This post is just an ad in disguise.
https://dayssincelastrustmcserver.com/
Supposing it caught on... which do you think is riskier? Running an OS written in mostly memory safe code that somewhat might have tried to slip a backdoor in, or running an OS written in mostly memory unsafe code that has a long history of vulnerabilities and the Chinese almost certainly know about a vulnerability in.

If this catches on and has generally been subject to significant third party code review with positive results, I'm not sure any backdoor is lower cost to use than an equivalent linux vulnerability. To be fair, I'm not sure it isn't either.
I did it with my wife about 3 times, in the US. One in a very nice yoga retreat place and twice in a cozy home. It was OK. I thought the evolution and music were interesting and soothing, but honestly, the thing that turns me off is the overly sweet nature of participants. My humor is a bit dark and sarcastic and I just felt like I couldn't be myself or I'd ruin someone else's experience, which is not what I want(ed) to do. I'm pretty sure I'm done with ayahuasca. However, give me mushrooms once a year or so and that's enough of a mind opener for me... and no vomiting (yes, I know it's part of 'the work', but it's just gross to me)
Yeah was going to comment that this is a heavily American perspective and possibly even a heavily American city dwelling perspective.

Lots of countries even where electricity is cheap use awnings as it's just better to not need to cool something down if it can be avoided.

My childhood home in WA (Western Australia) had awnings, along with shade trees and a patio and it made a huge difference. noticed especially where the west facing Window got setting sun in summer and had no awnings
My 3 years old iPhone mini 13 is still very fast, reliable, and I love every part of the phone. It's such an amazing phone that functions well. The only thing got worsened is the battery, now at 87% even though I always charge it to 80-85%, now I have to charge it to 100% to use through the day. I still have extra power (like 30%) for a whole day. Replacing the battery isn't a problem. If Apple does support it like other models, it should last another 4-5 years more. I have no plan to upgrade to anything as I don't see anything comparable on the horizon.
I really like your web design — it’s clean and looks great. However, there isn’t much to do before signing up, and the registration form feels a bit overwhelming.
I'm trans and the GNU Communication Guidelines feel way more empathetic to me than CoC-like documents.

> gives cover for transphobes to intentionally misgender trans people

It also gives cover to people who prefer to always use gender neutral pronouns.
If a transphobe is acting on their views on gender to bully people, I'd rather deal with them on a case-by-base basis, while being empathetic to everyone else who might have meant to harm.

BTW, I've met RMS in person a few years ago, and exchange emails with him every once in a while. I've found him to be very fun, and not hard to deal with if you're used to hanging out with neurodivergent people.
SaaS? which the OP is running
Problem with shade trees is that trees have the unfortunately tendency to loose branches or fall during severe weather and having them next to your house isn't ideal when that happens. Also, depending on where you are located, those trees may end up being a great way of letting a wildfire spread to your home.
I was curious and Grok 2 seemed to do pretty good: https://x.com/i/grok/share/c2qCdF2wwIx7AHz0U1f2u8dTO
Hopefully he gets sentenced to the entire 89,000 years. Similar sentences should be the norm for other scammers too.
Here is how you got on ycombinator:

1. I happened on your website in Clive Thompson's newsletter, among the websites in his final "sudden death" round:

https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-25-the...

2. I thought HN peeps would find it of interest so I submitted it
I was referring to the cleanup of toxic materials and the safety aspect.
Each block or piece of mother glass can be used for dozens or even hundreds of LCDs but it seems obvious that there are only so many ways you can effectively slice it.

While manufacturers can theoretically produce custom-sized LCD panels, it's more economical and efficient to stick to standard sizes that align with their production lines. Producing custom-sized panels can involve retooling. Choosing a standard size also ensures greater availability.

For a low cost product, I don't see why Apple would mess around with LCD sizes.

Still, this is just a guess. Only Apple knows for sure.
I prefer https://www.phind.com, which is design for developers. For the answers it gives you, also attached the origin links that sometimes are useful to check.
It’s short term measures while it transitions to a heavily renewable based energy system. Aren’t they currently at 60%+ renewable and are aiming to be 80% by 2030? Claims of greenwashing with those stats is disingenuous.
Oh wow, had no idea. I like their products, have a bunch of sensors and liking the ease of use. Most recently got the SCD41 co2 sensors to migrate away from all the crappy cloud-based sensors, and works great!
For my use case, I don’t really care much about AVX performance, since I am using it very minimally.

Using QEMU instead of Rosetta 2 gets past this, since QEMU doesn’t seem to be afraid of those patents, but it makes everything else a lot slower

Maybe, if Apple made available a plug-in API for Rosetta 2, to enable plugins to emulate additional instructions. Then some open-source plug-in could implement the missing AVX instructions, but if Intel tried to claim Apple was infringing on the AVX patent, Apple could (truthfully) say “we have nothing to do with that plug-in, we just created the API it calls”

Another approach would be if Apple open-sourced Rosetta 2, and then a community fork could implement this stuff. I doubt Apple will do that though - I think they view Rosetta 2’s superior x86 emulation as a commercial advantage over other ARM laptop vendors (such as Qualcomm’s ARM Windows systems), and they’d likely view open sourcing it as giving away that commercial advantage
The magic were the old minicomputers.

My wife ran a billing system that was a Motorola based AS/400. It was purchased in 1989/90. An ibm CE would drop by and swap parts every now and again when the computer phoned home.

They retired it in 2013, when a key part for the printer was no longer available.
Seems like our regions have vastly different markets. For the record I'm in Thailand that manufactures BYD and Mazda cars. New Mazda 2 starts at 21k usd and new byd dolphin at 15k. Obviously there's no real 2nd hand market for the Dolphin yet but 5 year old Mazda 2 I'm looking at rn is at 10k so -50% in 5 years which is just massive! The 2nd hand ICE market is so doomed.

ICE cars gonna lose value real fast the further EV revolution goes because why would I buy a used ICE car when I can buy a new EV that has 10 times the fuel efficiency and no basically no maintenance overhead? It's a better car in every single aspect minus the refuel time.
Weird than "Trial and Error" is not available in Gutenberg.
Annoying that the article is more focused on "there's people that get paid to break into things" more so than "these are the complexities of breaking into a base".

Physical pentesting or red teaming isn't anything new
> never sat next to an uninsulated southwest Denver wall baking in the sun in early August

I must admit, although I’ve of course sat next to an uninsulated west Denver wall baking in the sun in early August and an insulated southwest Denver wall baking in the sun in early July, I’ve never actually sat next to an uninsulated southwest Denver wall baking in the sun in early August.

I’m sure this comes as quite a shock, given our people’s pastime. Hopefully you can forgive my great transgression.
Have you heard of a practical joke? Hunters are comfortable with dead animals and would not see a huge problem with moving a dead bear, unless it was rotting.

I think you need to actually listen to RFK Jr. He is extremely articulate, more so than even Obama I think. He is not actually anti-vax and has had every normal vaccine besides the covid vaccine. He is just very particular about the testing that should be done for medicine, and acutely aware of many misdeeds of Big Pharma. He's written multiple books and constant blogs chock full of scientific citations backing up what he thinks. Right or wrong, he understands much more about the industry than any other politician I've seen.

>Hippies are more of a boomer thing, and they are aging out rapidly. You could say these things in the 80s with a straight face, but in the 2020s? The conspiracy theory crowd is firmly rooted into the right these days, which includes anti vaxism and anti fluoride.

The modern hippie is just called a hipster. A lot of liberals constantly worry about cow farts, secondhand smoke, gluten, eating meat, and LOTS of other things that are occasionally valid. The most direct comparison you can make to the fluoride issue is fracking because both of these issues involve water contamination.

Many issues that liberals take up have some validity to them. We ought to be concerned about pollutants like fluoride in our water. However, we all know that they have some really crazy people among them. Like just the other day there were some arguing on here that car accidents are tantamount to murder, and that anyone driving a large vehicle has no legitimate reason to do it.
You can see what this means specifically from the docs: https://electric-sql.com/docs/guides/auth
Smartphones failing to make phone calls is not exactly an unknown concept.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/some-pixel-users-cant-dial-91...

https://www.slashgear.com/842545/why-antennagate-was-a-compl...

https://www.online-tech-tips.com/android-phone-wont-make-cal...
If you can't see the problem, it doesn't matter for an early startup; the only thing that matters is what users complain about or request and getting more users paying you. Everything can be fixed later once the idea itself has been validated.
> It’s mostly built by “click monkeys”, as you can do a lot by clicking around the UI to build stuff.

Isn't this an almost perfect description of WordPress? It hasn't seemed to have done any harm if that's the case.

> But it’s old and even the founder abandoned it long ago around 2012.

Are you sure? On drupal.org right now one of the main links is one of the founders in a keynote video presenting the newest version.
Bezels are useful for devices that you can’t just hold in the flat of your hand. Provides a place to hold on to.

Also, this is an LCD screen. The substrate is rigid. An OLED, like on the iPhone is on a flexible substrate and can be bent at the edges to connect to the circuit board. That lets you put the screen closer to the edge.
I love this so much. It's like "The Emperor's New Clothes", except it's the Emperor himself yelling "I'm naked you fucking idiots!"
ICAO makes recommendations about the validity length of passports (amongst many other things).

Contracting states are free to do whatever they like but for the most part, they choose to follow the Recommended Practices.

https://www.icao.int/WACAF/Documents/Meetings/2018/FAL-IMPLE...
Roughly speaking, that's the plan, with next year's roadmap focused on raster (image and raw photo) editing. Currently, Illustrator would be the more appropriate comparison instead of Photoshop, because vector editing is the primary feature set we've built so far.
> any lift out of poverty in China is relational to a decline in middle class wealth in the USA

Not how trade works. America's rise didn't hollow out Europe's middle class.

America's middle class's decimation was enabled by China's rise. But it wasn't caused by it.
> It just means it doesn't kill at 100% effectiveness.

If you wait long enough, everything has a 100% effectiveness.
This Apple Intelligence starts reminding about Tesla Autopilot. I hope they will not hire people on the other side of the world to click buttons on your phone.
Did you happen to have used uBlock Origin during your stay?

It's the most common source of browser-load latency, as it by default blocks the main page request until it is able to load its blocklists, so when you open the browser afresh, or reopen a window, it takes a while until the browser gets to continue loading the thing you asked.

I think by default it comes as enabled in Firefox, go to the "uBlock settings > Filter Lists > Suspend network activity until all filter lists are loaded", though of course it is a tradeoff.

From the Wiki: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Filter-lis...

> In Firefox-based browsers, this setting is enabled by default. Disabling it gives the option to potentially speed up page load at browser launch, at the cost of possibly not properly filtering network requests as per filter lists or rules.

> In Chromium-based browsers, this setting is disabled by default, since Chromium-based browsers do not support natively suspending network requests.2 Enabling this setting in Chromium-based browsers may lead to negative side-effects at browser launch.
production code is code that is not just for testing, but for actual use.

Nothing about production code says critical.
Data breaches, financial errors, and the like for an early stage company are a death sentence. That’s the type of error I’m suggesting, not some flakey CSS.
Citrix is almost always used to re-host existing applications. I've only ever seen very small utility apps that were purpose designed for Citrix and always as a part of a larger solution that mostly revolved around existing applications.

Note that Citrix or any similar Windows "terminal services" or "virtual desktop" product fills the same niche as ordinary web applications, except that Win32 GUI apps are supported instead of requiring a rewrite to HTML. The entire point is that existing apps can be hosted with the same kind of properties as a web app, minus the rewrite.
Interesting, Australia seems to be actually doing better with cancer survival rates. I truly wonder what the downsides are if any.
As it happens, the problem the article is about (primes of the form n^2+1) is also one of that set of four (Landau's problems).
That's in Turkey. When they say someone is facing N years in Turkey does it really mean they could be sentenced to that much?

Or is it like the US where you can be charged with C different crimes that all cover the same physical acts each with a maximum sentence of Y years and that gets report as you are facing C x Y years, even though for sentencing purposes those all count as the same crime so the max you get is Y years no matter how many of the C crimes you are convicted of (as long as it is at least one)?
Take this as a lesson. If you've been a dev long enough, you've worked on a project knowing that how the project is being done isn't the best method with every intention of going back to make it better later, but not at the expense of getting the MVP up and running. You'll also have seen that never actually happening and all of those bad decisions from the beginning still living all the way to the bitter end.

I'm guessing not one person involved would have ever imagined their code being left on a machine just left out in the open exposed to the public completely abandoned by the company.
You say you are a musician. Musical instruments can be quite valuable, can you sell them? 27k is enough debt that you need to face reality: anything in your life that isn’t generating revenue must be liquidated.
Have you considered using Iced? It can be hard to figure out at first but it's blazing fast, cross-platform and can compile to WASM. It's also _beautifully_ designed.

Importantly, it's both "just Rust" and "very Rust". You can stay on the yellow brick road and kinda just get the app out there with incredible multi-threaded CPU + GPU rendering performance from the outset... or dig deeper and go into advanced stuff. Per the docs, it "leverages Rust to its full extent: ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, futures, streams, first-class functions"... it's just up to you how much of that you want to use

The documentation is admittedly WIP but if you need help, the Discord server is very helpful. I'm there virtually 24/7 and happy to answer any questions

The repo is at https://github.com/iced-rs/iced -- check out the readme for two complex apps recently built. It's fully themeable so you can make apps look exactly as you want them to (which is a downside for those looking for more native widgets)
If you like this, you might enjoy: "Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?"

> The elevator pitch behind this performance difference is
> straightforward: column-stores are more I/O efficient for read-only
> queries since they only have to read from disk (or from memory)
> those attributes accessed by a query.

> This simplistic view leads to the assumption that one can ob-
> tain the performance benefits of a column-store using a row-store:
> either by vertically partitioning the schema, or by indexing every
column so that columns can be accessed independently. In this pa-
> per, we demonstrate that this assumption is false.

https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~jarulraj/courses/4420-s19/pap...
Right, it will still need to be corroborated with some other hard evidence like DNA from a close relative.
> where error tolerance is zero.

which is quite niche, and you'd be correct that no one would trust GPT generated code blindly for that!

But this is a spectrum, and while i think today's GPT models don't quite make it there, i argue that we're closer to success with this than auto-driving cars; mainly due to the larger tolerance for bad code, rather than actual tech improvements.