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I should say not prevent it. But minimize it in the maximum possible way.

I am sitting on a gold mine. But I can’t prove it. That’s the problem with this stuff. The industry moves horizontally with each design such that nobody knows if say the current design trend was better than the last. We go better or we go worse and nobody knows if it actually was.

Maybe I am sitting on a gold mine. The problem is you’d never know about it. You’d never believe it. Because a proof isn’t possible.

So because it’s not provable you have no clue about any design whether one is better or one is worse and thus you disbelieve everything.

The overall question is how do you create a design or pattern that has maximum adaptability to anticipate any possible requirement change with minimal rewrites? Where you only swap in and swap out modules without changing structure?

I think I found the best possible way. But you won’t believe me.
This is usually doable until it's DEWS/SAGE radar code from the 50's. That's what NASA started with and the last guy died in the 90s. We got every other subsystem off the mainframe, but had to keep it around for the radar stuff until 2004 or so.
Anyone who has seen an old video of Trump speaking in the 80s - 90s and compared it to today knows that his mental function is impaired by age.
You voted for a $4T increase in deficit as a tax gift for billionaires, to save you money?

Please explain the logic.
Github or some other third party would Hoover up whatever money could made from this. Also, a lot of projects can be surprisingly sloppy when it comes to this. (For example, treating MIT-licensed code as if it's public domain and neglecting to include the license and copyright notice.)
Routing people to the right place is quite literally their job.
I could not agree more.

A big problem I see in software is that developers don't stick around on projects long enough to see that their mistakes are mistakes. Instead, they move on to the next greenfield project or rewrite the project in the newest shiny tech without ever actually addressing the core complexity of the problem they're trying to solve.
The ten year rule is more recent than the SSA.
I always found KOReader to be too fiddly for ePubs, has that changed recently or have I been doing it wrong? I want a set of sane defaults to be applied to every book, I don’t want to tweak every book individually. This leads to distraction for me
When you're on a reasonably large legacy project that's a pipe dream.

One of the old specialty C ERPs I've worked on has literally buried more than 3 (the ones I know of) "great Ruby rewrites". There are just _so many_ features, that the newcomers always ended up on the chopping block after 5-10 years and before they could achieve real customer traction. The old project just ended up getting some more interface fixes instead (aka even more features to catch up to) and to this day the compiler for the core hasn't even been upgraded to a version that can run on anything newer than XP SP1 (the improvements in SP2 break it).

Now they're doing another modernization project with some web services and stuff. We're happy to take their money for those as well. I'd be quite shocked if those do anything other than enlarge the moat of the core.
lol I love when people do this and it and now whenever I `git blame` their name shows up.
> Why is there an expectation that a bug you filed against an open source project should get resolved?

There is no such expectation and that's why I always avoid open source software and am happy to pay a fair price for high quality software.

> If you expect a solution there usually requires that you take some effort and contribute.

I'm not a programmer, and neither are 99% of computer users. We are happy to contribute with our cash money for working solutions.

> I very much hope it becomes the norm that all filed bugs should have bounties associated with fixing them.

That's the only fair solution.
If Trump made a speech and people posted the 1600 address I don't think anyone would think of that as doxing.

If they posted his kid's school address, I think they would.
Truth.

I'd be happy to have a look at anyone's legacy code to at least write an analysis paper on it. (I'm currently seeking contract work, been doing code for a long time.)
Perhaps they can be trained to use them? :-)

Autonomous vehicles will reduce the need to park. Eventually.
There is a lot of Indian laborers in the Middle East, so it’s not that Tamil and Arabic are related, but a model used for that region should be fluent in both
> lefthook is written in go, hk is written in rust. This will make hk faster but the advanced parallelism logic in hk should make hk much faster. Because git hook managers are often limited not by their own logic but the speed of the commands they run, this should make hk significantly faster in real-world usage.

What a strange sentence. First Hk will be faster than Lefthook because it will be written in Rust[1], but then later on it says that it doesn't actually matter? But either way it will be faster because it has "advanced parallelism"?

Looking at the comparison to Lefthook it's not clear to me why this isn't a PR to Lefthook. It's already a well-established solution which is present in many package managers. Surely the distinction between "checks" and "fixes" would be possible to introduce there as well?

Do we yet another tool instead of working together on improving the existing ones?

[1]: Which also is not a given. Programs which allocate a lot can be faster in Go since the garbage collector only works on the live set of objects whereas Rust have to explicitly deallocate all memory. CLI tooling is actually kinda a sweet-spot of GCs: You don't want to spend time reclaiming memory until you reach a certain threshold of used memory. In scenarios where you use less than the threshold you end up spending zero cycles on deallocation. (And completely leaking all memory is bound to cause problem on bigger commands or smaller machines.)
Considering they don't talk about licensing, one can assume this is proprietary?

~2 years ago (Sep 27, 2023), Mistral AI said:

> we believe that an open approach to generative AI is necessary. Community-backed model development is the surest path to fight censorship and bias in a technology shaping our future. We strongly believe that by training our own models, releasing them openly, and fostering community contributions, we can build a credible alternative to the emerging AI oligopoly. Open-weight generative models will play a pivotal role in the upcoming AI revolution.

> Mistral AI’s mission is to spearhead the revolution of open models.

https://mistral.ai/en/news/about-mistral-ai

Did something change since then, or why did they have a change of hearts? Are they just doing a "OpenAI" and appear to believe in something in order to further their own cause, or does it have some particular reason behind it?
"Simply" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

There are multiple v6 prefixes already allocated for containing the v4 space. It would help if all ISPs ran NAT64 routers on the standard NAT64 prefix, but e.g. how would that function with software that only works with v4 addresses?
I'm slightly upset reading this as my first bootstrapped startup was prototyping VERY similar devices....in 2017-2019, until I ran out of money. If I had the resources to make it to production I would have been VERY well positioned to capture sales early on after Russia's 2022 invasion when everyone was experimenting like crazy in the EW space and government funding of COTS equipment was readily available.

sigh
The same one that declared that presidents are above the law and that the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment is basically meaningless? The one that slow-walked a bunch of cases related to presidential crimes?

I don't think it's actually hopeless - they have constrained him at times. But I would also avoid getting my hopes up.
The whole issue with the idea that "Trump is destroying democracy," isn't that what Trump is doing is NOT damaging to democracy, or corrupt, or what have you. It is. But Trump will be gone in 4 years. There will be a new Republican nominee. Whatever (and I mean, whatever) that nominee says will be the new party line. And the idea that the Republicans are willing to continue an actual overthrow of law and order in the US is...close to a fantasy. The Republicans are with Trump as long as he is the most popular candidate. As soon as he is no longer useful in that function, he's toast.
> We could "solve" the problem like Singapore or China (some of these 'many countries'), and simply throw everyone in jail for petty crimes

The incarceration rate of the USA is 541/100k:

https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america

The incarceration rate of Singapore is 164/100k:

https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/singapore

The homelessness rate in the USA is 19.5/10k. The homelessness rate in Singapore is 1.9/10k.

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

Singapore doesn’t have a homelessness problem because they build as much public housing as possible, sell it to citizens at a massively subsidised rate, and follow up with schemes to rent to people who fall through the system for practically nothing.

If you want to reduce homelessness, you need to build a large volume of housing. San Francisco is doing the exact opposite and getting the exact opposite results.
I fail to see why anybody would believe anything coming from Musk's mouth.
Coming together to form a single object sounds like the work of a gravitational force.
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Discussion (63 points, 3 days ago, 63 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048264
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I don't like gatekeeping, but I think a Sr should be a well - rounded developer. They need to have seen enough issues to be able to make solid engineering decisions.
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Not to be overly pedantic, but this comment misses one major important delineation between engineering and science. The old adage is that “with engineering, if you don’t know what you’re doing; you’re doing it wrong. With science, if you know what you’re doing; you’re doing it wrong.” The older models should not be forgotten, since science - when done appropriately - relies on incremental improvements and experimentation. However, for the pure purposes of building something, if the modern ways are an improvement on the old in most or all measurable ways - sure there probably isn’t much prudence beyond novelty to utilize the outdated methods.
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Regardless of whether they store it Plausible is exposed to the visitors IP address though isn't it?
It makes sense. If you have 4 hooks, and you run them serially, it will be slower than if you ran them in parallel.
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Dumb and easy to catch, yes you're right, and yet it happens all the time. An example from the UK [1]:

(Feb 2025) Bereaved families asked to return pension overpayments

Over the past five years, the DWP mistakenly paid more than £500m in state pensions and pension credits to the deceased, recovering about half from bereaved relatives.

They can't prosecute this because it's not fraud if someone just gives you money and then later realizes it was a mistake. So they must resort to asking the families if they'd kindly return the money.

You say the age field isn't the only thing being used to determine payouts - obviously that's true, there is also the is_dead field. These systems are about giving you money after a certain age until you die. If those fields are inaccurate then the money paid out will also be inaccurate.

It's unfortunate you got so personal at the end there. There's no conspiracy being theorized anywhere here. Just a lack of care when it comes to other people's money.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9w5eeexex9o
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I don’t think this is true. The world has plenty of anti-American sentiment, most of it well-deserved. What is unique about the phenomenon you describe is that Americans are extraordinarily misinformed and misguided about their own government and everything it does for them. This makes them particularly cynical.

We have Reagan to thank for it.
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There'a a whole generation of Canadians who won't send a single dollar anywhere near the US thanks to Trump. I don't think we'll ever forget this.
I really like your opinion, thanks for the thoughtful comment. I agree with what you are saying.

> if I think they'll actually attempt to do so then I'm ok with the law trying to prevent it.

This is the sticky issue which nobody is able to solve though. How do you prove someone will actually attemt to do it? Currently the legal system requires more than them just saying it to prosecute. There needs to be more motive, or evidence of actual persistent stalking or harm.

What do you think makes the difference between an idle threat and an actual intention of harm?
I don’t know, incomplete information all round.

I consider it plausible but also consider Elon to be a rather unreliable source. Part of this seems like JJ Abram's mystery box storytelling where new mysteries are opened before the old mysteries are resolved - and when finally resolved the resolution is deeply unsatisfying.

My experience with government is that where it’s not recklessly incompetent it is flagrantly corrupt, and increasingly so. To an extent I would not have believed had I not seen it myself. I completely understand why others may not share that belief. While I am in general support of taking a chainsaw to government, as opposed to a scalpel, I do wish it was better people doing it. That way when such crazy statements are made I could consider them likely true because the person stating them would not have done so without it being true. Elon has told too many falsehoods for me to give him the same benefit of the doubt.
Intelligence is such a bewildering fixation too when you think about it for ourselves. Due to science fiction writers and our insistence on anthropomorphisation we assume we will be forming treaties aboard an alien ship meanwhile we have yet to communicate let alone form a treaty with any other form of life just here on earth. The hubris is massive and it invades even the scientific community to a degree. Whoever put that human pictograph on voyager evidently did not consult an evolutionary biologist nor a statistician, probably watched an episode of Star Trek.
I've been using AI to call people and do product interviews. It's expensive, but still cheaper than a human doing it. AI's also a lot wittier and actually fun to talk to than a human. I'd dump it on that. You'd probably get some decent product specs out of it too, then spend the rest of the credits on a reasoning model to write up the specs.
The US is a paragon of (domestic) democracy and (domestic) human rights next to China, and I say that as a HARSH critic of the West.
And every economist worth their salt tells you that the number is based on an outdated basket of goods that underweights what has increased in price the most: household services and health care.

Health insurance prices have tripled and household services more than doubled. Basic foodstuffs are now more expensive than they are in developed countries; a pack of pasta is cheaper Costco than a local supermarket.
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You are not a senior engineer until you work on a project from the beginning, leave no documentation, then leave the firm just as new assets are ramped up :)
Some are.

One of the issues with this kind of thing is the mods are volunteers and have limited time and interest in dealing with such things. 100% understandable on their part.

But the amount of "fighting" very much varies ... I've unsubscribed from a lot of subs I used to enjoy because of spam (even just users who only post links) and etc.

I feel like my process of pruning subs is accelerating faster than subs I'm subscribed to.
Yeah but I also remember that when I signed up for phone service, I could opt out of being in the phonebook at all if I wanted to. And you'd have to wait up to a year before the new phone books came out with updated information.
Hehe, in 2000 I bought the 2nd edition of the book "Beginning Linux Programming (Programmer to programmer series)" [1] and learnt so much about Linux programming, and programming in general.

For us people 40+, even "Stack Overflow" was the easy/lazy way to get knowledge. There was something called expertsexchange.com at some point in the 2000 (but it became pay-walled at some point). But generally, downloading PDFs from Emule or going to the library was THE way to learn.

Fortunately, nowadays we have LLMs and tools that are way better. No regrets, and I am so happy to live in this era.

[1] Beginning Linux Programming (Programmer to Programmer) 2nd edition by Stones, Richard, Matthew, Neil (2000) Paperback
Certainly! And we all have our bubbles, I wanted to add myself as a data point in the “nuclear carrier groups are badass” column, and obviously there as enough engineers who don’t mind working at defense contractors to build the things, just as there’s plenty of engineers who threaten to quit their job at the first hint of a military contract
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I think it's worth reading both of the OIG documents on this topic:

- 2015: "Numberholders Age 112 or Older Who Did Not Have a Death Entry on the Numident", audit report A-06-14-34030 ( https://oig.ssa.gov/audit-reports/2015-03-06-audits-and-inve...)

- 2023: "Numberholders Age 100 or Older Who Did Not Have Death Information on the Numident", audit report A-06-21-51022 ( https://www.oversight.gov/reports/audit/numberholders-age-10... )

It was interesting to see that in the 2015 audit, a total of 13 people were found to have received Social Security benefits despite being older than the oldest known human.

It was also interesting to see that in the 2023 audit the costs questioned ended up being $0, i.e. there was less evidence of misdirected money, though in OIG's opinion strong evidence of an opportunity for fraud in other ways.

I think I understand why SSA might be reluctant to accept recommendations to bulk disable the SSNs of people who seem to be very old. If they get it wrong and a legitimate beneficiary had their benefits cut off because somebody typed in their birthday wrong, this could lead to bad press and a frustrating experience with Congressional constituent services.

Seems to me that it would be a perfectly reasonable policy choice to order SSA to implement the OIG's recommendations and take a more forceful approach to shutting down old SSNs. The odd thing here is that instead of doing that in 2025, the inspectors general were all laid off, and their recommendations about fraud are being gradually rediscovered from first principles, but without any of the institutional understanding of where the bad data come from and how to fix them.

Just an odd and wasteful policy choice.
I pulled this strategy at a new company and found that it opened up a million opportunities I could take my pick of. I basically got to shape my own role going forward.

Why? Because I very quickly made a name for myself as someone who learns quickly and then gets stuff done even in contexts where everyone else struggles. Solving problems that have long been considered intractable is a good way to show your value.
Hey! This url and any search I do are blocked with 403 if I access it either with Tor or my VPN. Anyway I love kagi and continue to use this, but this aspect is pretty annoying.
"Taxpayer funded" pretty obviously means "paid for or subsidized by the government directly" and it seems bad faith to pretend you don't know that.

Of course you can probably find some government subsidy somewhere and trace it to grocery stores but nobody realistically claims grocery stores are taxpayer funded.

The government directly putting homeless in hotels over and over again is very clearly taxpayer funded and everybody knows what is meant when someone says that.
>when he could not possibly earn enough to rent or prove to anyone renting that he had enough stability and income to be given a place

Why do you think that's a fault of UBI, rather than the fault of your hypothetical UBI being insufficient? AFAIK any actual implementation of UBI would be intended to be feasible to have housing on, even if it's not very good housing. With UBI, there's a level of income that people are guaranteed to have without needing any proof, that's the whole concept!
I've always done a lot of the things listed in the post, but just considered it as part of the job. I like laying it out like this as a strategy. I think this is a great strategy for anyone starting a new job, entry level and up!
It could simply be that more people in China and Singapore are afraid to commit crimes. Their prison sentences and punishments are much worse. In 2022, they executed 11 people, the US executed 18. The US has a ~50x larger population.

I'm not even saying the solution is more/harsher policing. I'm saying it is a solution that seemingly works.