skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the team has a demo day, brown bag lunch, or something where people share new ideas, that’s a great time to show off testing.

Are tests part of your CI/CD pipeline now? You can always add them to your own code. And slowly increase the number of tests that way.

You might have a harder time adding a style guide if no one cares. You could try to add the style guide as part of your build pipeline. You might need to start by fixing all the low hanging fruit errors yourself.

Whatever you do, don’t do what I did and start complaining about stuff at every step while in a new job. It’s a big ship. Turn it slowly, or be prepared to live in the worst cabin and/or be thrown overboard.

Bring it up in your 1 on 1 with your manager, too. Just ask their thoughts. Maybe they also feel the same way, and have wanted to improve things.

Is there anything extraordinary about this job? You could always just find another job where testing & code quality are taken more seriously if it’s really important to you. If something is special, be prepared to live with the things you don’t like for a while.
> CLOS classes only have fields ("slots," in CLOS parlance) — no methods.

Does this mean that when you instantiate a class you get an "object" with only "slots". To interact with such objects there needs to be a way to read and write slot-values. Does that mean there is no way to prevent anybody from writing and reading any slot of any object?
Have you considered that for this business or function within the business, maybe it doesn't matter?

> This must lead to a lot of problems which I'll only face after ramping up, but even onboarding is painful if you don't have e.g. clear automated testing set up.

Maybe you'll learn why this is not the case after several months of working in your new role.
I'm regularly surprised why Cloudflare gets so much love specially here on HN. Cloudflare is slow, it man-in-the-middles websites, it shows a redirect page randomly for no apparent reason on websites that it powers, it does questionable things at the DNS level, it randomly shows captchas for no apparent reason, the list goes on. Almost every website nowadays uses this monstrosity. We're handing over the internet on a silver platter to them. I think there are better alternatives and I'm so glad at least Fastly is debunking their bs experiment.
> There were times when physics PhDs would chuckle and say absurd about going faster than sound.

This never happened. I have no idea how this myth entered the popular consciousness, but it's nonsense.

There was a superstition by pilots that going past the speed of sound was inherently dangerous because of many accidents when planes did go faster.
The real problem isn't that AI is power seeking, it is "what will make AI any better at it than us". I haven't seen an AI safety problem that isn't just already a problem existing companies have under capitalism. The difference between an AI and a large company is just one of substrate and desperate postrationalization to avoid the realization the singularity is long past and the rapture of the nerds left almost all of us behind.
>And if you're letting someone else store the key, then it's just another form of "Login with X".

Luckily there's a way to have other people store your key without the key ever technically existing outside your own computer - https://app.tor.us/, and using common web services (like email) to retrieve everything you need to construct the key in your browser whenever you need it. You can even use this to send money to a public key before its corresponding private key has ever been constructed by anyone! Meaning you can send money to someone who lacks a wallet by email, or by telegram, or by discord, or by reddit, or by anything, and they retrieve the money without anyone else ever seeing their keys or having to manage their keys themselves.

How it works: https://tech.tor.us/

Disclaimer: NOT associated with torus, just think its cool.
Fuck qualcomm and its restrictive IP.
We might not have this time, but trees do.
Wasn't there a period recently — around 1995 or so — when the Linux kernel had to be compiled with a C++ compiler?
A warp bubble full of DNA could be an okay form of "FTL" communication.
Huh, I might want to use that plugin for a side project I've been neglecting. I wanted to make a PCB and I have a program that generates the PCB traces I want as SVG (it's complicated, definitely not something to draw by hand), but I hadn't found a good way to import it into KiCad as a copper layer. I was using SVG because the PCB aligns with some laser cut plywood parts, and SVG is a good format for the laser cutter. I wanted to use the same program to generate the wood parts and (part of) the PCB layout.

(There seemed to be a route where you can export as DXF from Inscape and import that into KiCad, but if I remember correctly there wasn't an obvious way to import it as a copper layer. Maybe the situation has been improved since I last tried.)
OA lost me when she used the cultish emotional manipulation technique. “Leave your front door open when you come” meh.
That's from Rome.
Loopholes for Kleptocrats: America Is the World's Leading Tax Haven
Right -- so now I can never use that URL for something else!
This is not true. People who fix cultures are called "leaders" and the good ones do it every day, little by little. Chisel at the marble slab and eventually you'll sculpt a masterpiece.
Archived: https://archive.ph/YiK3z
svg2melbourne generates latte art stencils from svg inputs.
There's an open PR for ethernet support (albeit with a different board) that uses the smoltcp crate to provide a tcp/ip stack: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/pull/158
> The issue seems to be that the alcubierre drive requires things like external negative energy

Yes that's traditionally been the stumbling block. But the whole point of the linked article is that they have predicted a way to meet this requirement:

> a micro/nano-scale structure has been discovered that predicts negative energy density distribution that closely matches requirements for the Alcubierre metric

Obviously it's still a very very long way from a practical application re. Alcubierre (if such a thing is possible), but it's certainly an intriguing result if correct.

From a quick flick through the paper, the above commenter seems to be correct in saying that they haven't yet completed a practical experiment to confirm. So nothing more than a simulated result at this stage.
I use tor to update my machines, to generate noise, mostly.
Great guy spotted above :)

Love your offer to help.
Wait until a bug comes up, fix it, write a test for it, then describe the problem, fix, and test on the next stand-up. Do that a few times and eventually others will catch on without correction or conflict. In short, just raise the bar.
Did this quote annoy / offend you because it is true? That’s really the funny thing about it.

It is a pretty accurate description to what is the true reality behind this FSD system which was deceptively advertised in name and video (allegedly) to the point of which it is already under investigation by the regulators.

Then again, the truth hurts. It’s especially very effective when one can’t take a joke.
I'm laying my bet here for future lawsuits.

The paper you just cited (which I am familiar with) is generally considered a dead end. Even if it is correct it isn't useful. We don't have models good enough to calculate future entropy for practical problems. If we did have models that good then we wouldn't need the AI to solve the problems.

Nevertheless I expect this paper will be considered "before it's time" in another decade.
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I clicked on the link expecting something about communist purges...
We absolutely do have accessibility legislation, so not sure where you're getting the idea we don't.

The TTC is gradually adding elevators to old subways where possible (same as New York is) and all new construction for the past 30 years or so has been fully accessible.
Just to be clear, you're throwing your hat in on the side of those who aided the genocide here? Okay.
Kudos to @sjdz for this. Really like the aesthetics. The ability to change formatting elements for ease of reading is bang on.
It also has nice defaults and looks great without a single line of configuration.
Seriously. Staples - that’s like really slow and painful.
Here's a better article (from a better source): https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59546948

The actual study isn't linked, but I believe it's this one:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-021-00138-z
The video of Malt Whiskey's 16x16x16 LED cube is quite impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciaFar8nfHc
If memory serves, there was a city in Italy I think where they were able to verify that Covid was present in the city some time before the first reported case because they keep samples of the sewer water for awhile, and that allowed them to retroactively test for it.
Conceivably, different ISAs could have the code compiled with different size/performance tradeoffs. One assumes that the Ubuntu and Fedora etc people would make sensible choices, consistent across ISAs. I don't know any reason why they would both make the same bad choices (which by "bad" here I am talking about small code at the expense of speed).

Gcc certainly supports unrolling, alignment of labels / loops / functions on all targets I'm aware of.
I don't think that's accurate. Maybe you're thinking of how it needs gcc extensions?
A ToS is limited in what it can legally contain by law.

The EU e.g. has 93/13/EEC aka "Unfair contract terms directive" which bans a lot of shenanigans in ToS (e.g. mandatory location for law disputes). Or just writing in your ToS that "you agree that contract parties are not bound by the EU GDPR" for another example, like some companies do write, doesn't mean this is a enforceable clause. Another example, Germany recently made a law that mandates automatic subscription renewals - such as mobile phone contracts, gym memberships or online services - can be cancelled every month (there already was a law before that limited the initial subscription contract to a duration of max 2 years).

If there are some laws specifically that disallow general "benchmarking" I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least in the EU such a clause would be unenforcable. That sounds like a clear unfair one-sided advantage (the customer cannot check the services actually provided match what was promised). Publication of such results is another matter.

Also, I am curious about what you said about Illinois? Sounds bonkers. I mean I could imagine criminal prosecution for a set of defined, deemed specially bad violations that constitute crimes, like "hacking" and "sabotage", but not for things like e.g. "failure to pay membership dues in time" and other civil matters. Then again, I remember that case of some guy in Florida who couldn't keep his lawn nice and green, and didn't have the money to replace the lawn again and again, so the HOA took him to court, he was ordered to replace the lawn (which he still couldn't afford) and ended up in prison for a couple of days for "contempt of the court" until some friends and neighbors replaced the lawn.
Sounds like a challenge!
(Seriously, I think Yellowstone is protected from geothermal power development precisely BECAUSE it could impact it.)
What program was used to create the slides?
svg2texas doubles the size?
The code doesn't really replace the corporate structure, as the structure is the same. The code replaces the ledger, I suppose, but that's about it.
I’d probably watch the details of the lawsuit or read details from news outlets rather than demanding that strangers on this website explain stuff that you can Google easily.

While we are just demanding random details from strangers, what are your religious beliefs? I only ask because since you’re a poster here, I’m entitled to ask you whatever I want about any arbitrary topic and get an answer.
Yes again it seems like one of those 'theoretically possible but never seen in a lab' kind of requirements, just like negative energy.

The PBS spacetime video mentions you can 'do away' with the negative energy requirements at quantum scales, but those aren't really productive scales for useful space flight. Maybe for very tiny micro exploring robots? I'm not sure how such a device would usefully communicate with us though.
Ask HN: People Management in Startups
I have been trying to get into Startups at Director / Sr.Director level and most of the times all the 5-8 interviews are mostly concentrated on Technical side. Even if a round is to guage People management , the interviewers spend the first 40-50 mins on technical side and leave the remaining 10 mins for people management. These roles are in India with either local or US based startups.

All the feedback i get is that my people management skills are not where they would like it to be.
I am already managing teams and managers under me for the past 4 years now.

There are different set of two questions that i get asked and mostly i have seen one of them being:
* have you had to let go under performers and what was that like and the process there? I have had this situation a couple of times now, however the way i handled it was following the policy of the current company, where in before officially working on PIP (Performance improvement plan) with HR involved,I work with the member to let them know that we dont see delivery from them at expected levels and would love to understand if they need additional walk through on any of the technical items, or if there are any personal issue that is causing a drop in their performance and if there is way i can help or if they are getting help, or they would like to discuss it with someone etc. Based on what i hear the next plan is provide them all help i can give them and if performance still does not meet expected levels then we work on a dedicated PIP plan with tasks identified for the next 2-4 weeks time frame with close monitoring. In the meanwhile i also work with HR to see if there other teams not having as high bar for technical candidates and would they be willing to give this candidate a chance etc. The candidate did not perform yet and hence was asked to look out since we could not find another team interested as well ( can understand the reluctance of others ).

However I am not sure if there are major gaps in the way this was handled or if startups are looking for some different answers like immediately fire them or are there radically different mechanics of working this out since looks like this shows them such a big gap on people management side that they decide to drop me.

Any experiences or advice would help, thanks !
>Everyone and I mean everyone knows why mathematica and windows is closed source.

Nope. Neither you, nor I, nor anyone knows why any other person has made a complex decision unless they say, and even then we're assuming they're being honest and sometimes people lie for PR! [1]

I'm of the opinion that anyone turning up to speak at a licensing conference and refusing to talk about the licensing of their own stuff is heroically silly. I mean just wow. Anyone not anticipating being questioned about their licensing in an open question time or who can't handle an "attack" at a percieved disconnect between words and actions about licensing at a licensing conference probably shouldn't be there or indeed out in public. Responding with no substance and a personal slur (which is what is reported here, but I haven't confirmed) is really, really, weak and poor at best.

[1] For example Wolfram's company isn't listed and he can't spend the money he has made, making a very different decision framework for him from the CEO of microsoft, beholdent to the board representing the shareholders. Which was also the framework that made Solaris into OpenSolaris, arguably far too late to preserve SUN wealth. These are difficult and complex decisions that people are very sure of and frequently get very wrong even from a pure wealth-maximisation standpoint.
Totally agree with all your points except

>there's not a lot of empirical evidence to support claims that automated tests will improve developer productivity or code quality.

If you'd have said "there aren't any published papers _proving_ this" I would've agreed simply because I do not know if such studies exist or not (they might); but I'd argue that automated tests obviously improve code quality and productivity. And also ramp up time, which is important in fast growing teams (my case).
In parallel to your own research, consider enrolling in a study like IDIOM at Scripps Health: https://www.scripps.edu/science-and-medicine/translational-i...
Self-propelled magnetic nanobot for efficient capture of circulating tumor cells
I store my photos locally. I share only a few at a time with Flickr, and sometimes via Facebook or email.

The photos (and all my otherstuff) are backed on Backblaze. That's it.

I've taken over 250,000 photos, many with complete strangers in the background (crowds at public places, etc). I don't want any weirdness from facial recognition gone wild messing with my personal life.
In the past, I wrote a unix like kernel from scratch in C++. I have summarized what I had to do to get C++ code run on bare metal in this article https://www.avabodh.com/cxxin/nostdlib.html
Could this be from animals? Like cats or rats
Walk-through metal detector with temperature detection
Athena Security mitigates threats and saves lives through AI-powered detection software for guns and elevated temperate.
Comparison with TimeWarrior? It seems to satisfy all of your constraints.

https://timewarrior.net/
Hah just cracked an X1 extreme gen1. And because it's "custom" (64gb ram), Lenovo is struggling to fix the screen. Guess there's an anecdote for anything :)

P.S. MacBook pro still works ;)
An attacker worth their salt will most definitely not fire all their CVEs at risk of crashing the target process or leaving it in an undefined state.

And your second point is debatable. See defense in depth.
To determine orientation, not much compute at all, through a BNO in there for doing the 6DOF and a small SoC. To rotate the video clip or image, again, not much compute because there are not that many pixels to map.
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You experience matches mine almost 100%. I have a WH-XM1000 v3 and AirPods Pro and I reach for my AirPods Pro more often than the Sony's. The noise cancellation imo is negligible if you're using it under normal circumstances. The only scenario where the Sony's outdid the AirPods Pro was on a flight.

All said and done, I consider AirPods pro one of my best investments in life. Not only is the connectivity / switching between devices amazing, the sound quality is fantastic for earphones that size.
I wonder if there'll be another book written.

Along the lines of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Not that interesting. Not only is this not new (3-4 years of pretty widespread exposure) but being so mainstream of course it's widely understood as a marketing play.
I just finished the last book in The Expanse. That was probably tops for me.

Foundation was pretty amazing.
Depends on the state of the culture. It has to be at least "fixable" with somewhat open-minded people at the top. There are 10x more people who try to fix cultures but end up burning out and being a scapegoat for everything.
I mean, I think the bigger issue is probably how rule of law is totally shattered in Myanmar, and you're not going to get some other government to give you relief when the proper venue is in the jurisdiction where the crimes occurred.
You could say the same thing about property deeds, contracts, etc. The fact that the laws of physics still apply in the world and thus people can still physically take things from you, harm you, etc. is hardly an argument against any specific method for establishing and recording ownership or contracts.
facebook also doesn't have any content moderators in navajo or maya. should they block indigenous people from using their native languages on facebook to avoid harming them?
You join a team/company that values tests and code quality. Should be a part of you interviewing the company. Trying to single handedly change the culture of a large company where you'll have few allies (because by this point, they'll have all self selected away) is a fools errand.
Publicity stunt.
Will settle for peanuts.
Scientific? No, it’s always just been politics, and often racism. I recommend starting with, perhaps, “The Color of Law.”
We may indeed have a slightly different definition of technophile, to me it's early adopters and "gadget" people. One of the first recipiets of a Mac was Stephen Fry for example, but I imagine he has less interest in code or hardware, just enthusiastic about what the device can do for the user.

The early adopters of smartphones were people excited by what it could offer, I remember being distinctly dissapointed at what seemed like a closing ecosystem, opaque hardware and an end of an era in general computing. Things have progressed since then and so has my outlook mind you.

Even as a software developer I would not consider myself a technophile and certainly not an early adopter. More a begrudingly up to date luddite.

> Just my opinions, worth what you paid for 'em.

Considering the cost of my internet in Australia that may actually be non-zero! But they were worthwile opinions, so I'll accept that cost.
Sigh all you want. Truth doesn't change.
The question that matters is not whether automated tests improve code quality and productivity.

The question that needs to be answered is "if I took the time I previously spent on automated testing, and instead spent it on something else like code review or design review, would that result in greater code quality and productivity than automated testing did?"

And phrased that way, you see it's not a dichotomy. It depends on what you would spend the time on instead of automated testing. It depends on whether you already had peer review in your process. It depends on what sort of automated tests you spend time on. It's very hard to say something general without those details.

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Note that I'm not taking a stance against automated testing. I prefer working in a test-first style myself. I'm just saying it's not that simple.
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