skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big TDD misunderstanding is that like any tool it is to be wielded when appropriate, not followed rigidly for every single piece of code you write.

There are some safety standards and practices in engineering that are matters of life and death. If you're working high above the ground, you need two points of safety clipping, and if you're moving you never disconnect both of them. This is non-negotiable. There is never an appropriate time to violate this. If there is no way to complete the job without constant safety harness restraint, the job doesn't get done. (At least in the developed world.)

This is not the category where TDD or rules like "Never change your code without having a red test." fall in.
I adore TDD. It made me a better engineer, and I followed the process rigorously in my first 5-10 years of my career.

But at some point I realized that what that did is teach me how to write modular, extensible, testable code, and now I can write modules like that upfront, and add tests later. And truthfully, I do go faster. Because I also then focus my tests on JUST the important logic, not the intermediate abstractions in between. I write unit tests for the critical functionality and *integration* tests for the whole system to make sure the whole thing works as expected (because the dirty truth of unit tests is you can have 100% test coverage but a non-functional systems due to frameworks and glue code being incorrectly configured.
No, it would be extraordinarily funded, but the money would not go to the students. NYC now spends over $30k per year, per student https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-ny-school-spendi...

Public education in the US is the most well-funded per student you can find anywhere. Yet somehow it doesn't translate into top-tier teachers nor top-tier outcomes. It's almost like giving huge amounts of money to unaccountable bureaucrats doesn't solve problems.
Yes! This can't be repeated enough IMO

> Terminology

> The test that hits the endpoint is commonly referred to as an “integration test”, and the other test is commonly referred to as a “unit test”.

> Kent Beck (the originator of test-driven development) defines a unit test as “a test that runs in isolation from other tests”. This is very different from the definition of a unit test as “a test that tests a class/method in isolation from other classes/methods”. The test that hits the endpoint satisfies the original definition.

> But it doesn’t really matter if you want to call a given test an “integration” test or a “unit” test. The point is the test fails when something breaks and passes when something is improved. If it does the opposite, it’s not a good test.

https://medium.com/expedia-group-tech/test-your-tests-f4e361...
Not universally true. But, regardless, most files are not text.
Edit: Please Note historic News posts

'Russia’s Nuclear-Powered ‘Skyfall’ Missile' : https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/07/russias-nuclear-powered-...

'A Deadly Mishap in Russia's Far North, and a Nuclear Mystery lingers' : https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/12/europe/russia-military-bl...

Edit: Add BBC post;

'Russia says Rocket Explosion caused 16-fold Radiation Spike' : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49339895

> 'Five scientists were killed and three injured in the accident on Thursday at a military facility in the White Sea.

A nuclear-powered engine was being tested near the village of Nyonoksa, to the west of Severodvinsk, Russia's state nuclear agency Rosatom said.'
Lots of people might say this, but no one believes it.
The opening sentence contains at least one grammatical error. I can't tell what the article is getting at. Later it devolves into emojis.
>"Do we really need more car focused infrastructure in the world?"

So you idea is to tell people what they should post?

>"Can someone explain in more detail about why this is an important spot to link?"

It is technically interested achievement. Your comment on the other hand is utterly uninteresting.
You’re victim blaming somebody when they were a teenager with a power tripping asshole for a teacher…?
> wouldn't college admissions more or less be equal to the demographics of the state or nation?

No, even if you took out all wealth disparities. Different demographics (this is a big generalization but that’s literally the question) value different things. And so those that value college would be overrepresented in college - same would apply in other competitive areas eg sport.
Weren’t Mike Clancy (I think he only had a bachelors) and Brian Harvey (I think he got a PhD but maybe in education) around when you were there? I took both their classes and I thought Clancy was there in the 70’s and Harvey maybe 80’s?
That will incentivize me to work only as hard as the lowest-performing colleague in the same role.
I also made the move to 100% Linux rather than move to Windows 8. Initially some games had issues but things gradually improved over time.
but how can we keep the code readable even for people who haven’t encountered time.sleep before?

Contrarian opinion: You don't. You make people look up and internalise such information; that way they'll actually learn, as otherwise they'll forever stay within the realm of "beginner". Perhaps that's a goal for those who want to make programmers fungible (and I suspect a lot of the "readability" movement is merely an extension of that), but I don't think that's something we should encourage.
Pantagruel: An Lightweight Specification Language
Traditional LoRaWAN is based on a star topology rather than a mesh (I say traditional as there are P2P and mesh flavors of LoRa now available). OP mentioned wanting to retain network functionality in the event that the network gateway goes down which would rule out LoRa / star network topologies.
The threat is using your IP address to do illegal stuff (read: serve/proxy CSAM).
Not sure if the counts. I know it’s a patent and it could be anything. But it talks about two adjacent dies being used if they’re good or being split if there is a defect.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210217702A1/en?oq=2021...
That 65.8% seems high to me using benchmarks of UC and Stuyvesant, but it is true Asians would be “grossly over represented” at top schools if not for affirmative action. Thus the current push to enforce affirmative action on the UC system. Turns out minorities are only minorities if they underperform.
I agree with most of his premises but I don't see how his premises lead to his conclusion - US collge education is near to collapse.

1. School loan debts aren't ideal and we should look for ways to eliminate them permanently. It's ridiculous that american students have to start their adult lives with so much debt. However, the fact that so many students are willing to go into debt for college shows that they there is tremendous demand for college education. My alma mater has continuously raised tuition ( far higher than inflation ) and also increased enrollment and yet have no problem finding students. Even if they doubled the tuition, they would have no problem meeting their enrollment goals. The domestic and international demand for US college education is simply too great for it to collapse any time soon.

2. I've never worked with anyone in tech who didn't have at least some college education. Maybe the college education wasn't in CS, but they all had some college education. So the idea that tech companies are going to hire people without some college education seems suspect to me.

3. It's blatantly obvious colleges are discriminating against asian students to a ridiculous degree and white students to some degree as well. It should stop but I don't see how that would collapse US college education? Asian and white students still want and are going to get a college education.

4. Stopping standardized testing is also ridiculous. It shouldn't be the only factor in admissions, but certainly we need some form standardized testing in the mix. Admissions should be given more data to work with, not less. But once again, I fail to see how this would collapse US college education.
> As an ancedote, I was told

That is hearsay.

> What basis do you have for saying it's untrue?

I was pointing out that it could be untrue without needing to be a lie. As to the “basis” for my saying it is untrue, I’ve been over that.
Haha. They're reliable as dogs, but perhaps less reliable as machines ;).
These decides have their performance and internet connection uplink listed, which make for very interesting targets. Yes, a hundred shitty smart scales are a nice target, but they're underpowered for more involved attacks.

With a fiber uplink, a decent CPU and plenty of disk space advertised, this service can be very attractive, especially since you only need to pay for a minute to escape the boundaries of the container runtime if there's an exploit.

Also, it doesn't matter that there's only a few computers if you're using other people's computers to break the law.
Waiting for Win32 to reduce to a compatibility layer atop WSL.
> Both of these claims are false.

I will concede that there has been no peer reviewed study that explicitly tries to identity an association between mask wearing and mental health. Thus, no impact has been measured. It was not for lack of trying to find a study though. There are literally no good studies (from my cursory google scholar peek) that opined one way or the other.

> There is no evidence that a child wearing a mask causes depression or anxiety

But, saying this is not correct either. [1]

> transmission of the coronavirus is less than 1%.

These studies are strongly confounded with city policy, distancing measures, individual measures and odds of being vaccinated. It is really difficult to get exclusive numbers for mask efficacy using observational or questionnaire based studies of any kind.

As for my second claim, please evaluate it in context. Public spaces is usually taken to mean outdoor spaces or high ventilation large indoor spaces. My comments are also in time where covid's fatality has collapsed and hospitals aren't overwhelmed.

Almost every mask study I read makes assumptions of ideal wearing patterns that do not seem to be match real world observations. Even then, they project modest gains when using the most common forms of cloth masks in perfectly covid-favored situations. Vaccines can't ensure zero-covid. Masks can't ensure zero-covid. The end game is that it can become endemic or we wear masks forever.

Masks are 'useless' in the same way that seat-belts in school buses are useless. The risks for the concerned demographic are orders of magnitude lower. The ideal testing scenario is impossible to recreate in practice. It is impossible to enforce compliance. It has knock-on effects that no one seems keen to study. And lastly, if draconian measure are to be used, there are alternatives with greater effectiveness and lower social cost can should be tried first.

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...
I wouldn't say that, it's basically what keeps Windows alive.
Henry David Thoreau served one day in Jail. Manning was arrested and sentenced to 30 years.

Snowden leaked his material and managed to avoid Jail. He certain would still be in there (or dead) if the American government had caught him. The US authorities have shown no inclination to admit to their wrongs, so why should Snowden volunteer go to jail?
Right! I got a free Prime subscription, so I thought I'd check out the famed Amazon Music. Er. It was not what I expected. It is not an all-you-can-eat like Spotify or YouTube Music or Apple Music or everyone else. It's basically just a trial for their Unlimited thing that you have to pay full price to get.
FBI Warns – AvosLocker Ransomware Targets U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Apple always makes incredibly beautiful internal designs - for themselves, not the users.
I bought 1 pro license for Windows 8. I have used that key ever since. Countless virtual machines and reinstall / hardware upgrade has accepted that key the past 10 years.
COVID reporting doesn't seem much different to me than other pandemic reporting. I read about SARS. I read about MERS. I read about Coronavirus in its early days in exactly the same way (and thought exactly the same thing, "interesting curiosity, that sounds like it really sucks for some other country").

The difference is that this time, it started killing Americans in America, so got a little bit more attention than some weird disease in Hong Kong or the Middle East.
It feels to me like the only logical economic future for game streaming is as a value add for a game subscription service (so like, xgp and xcloud as a logical pairing).
> time-wasters who don't actually want to buy

Do you consider that to be good faith negotiating?
"I try never to take advantage of someone smaller/weaker on the other end of the negotiation"

100% this. Sure, you CAN negotiate with the roadside vendors. But please, don't.

On the other hand, did you know you CAN negotiate the room rates at 5-star hotel chains? You definitely should :)
Repeating what someone told you that shaped your behavior in the past is anecdote. The information given was incorrect but your conclusion that this anecdote is hearsay is in error.
Most websites are completely unusable on smartphones. If it's not a stupid cookie questionnaire then it's begging and pleading to like, subscribe share, ring the notification bell, upgrade to premium, sign up for a mailing list, invite your friends, our live agents are standing by to text message... there's no room left for content. Every cooking recipe leads with 75% fluff. I miss bulletin boards.
The government steps in and subsidizes food for those who can't afford it, either by printing money, or using taxes. The end result is robbery from the commons while your four mates who give you kickbacks and a cushy post government gig get richer.
Yep, in short you get good at what you do.
I didn't think of it that way. Thanks. So as long as most people don't try to do this then the negotiating strategy can work.
Sam Altman makes a lot of grandiose predictions and statements.

For example, in 2019 he said “Human radiologists are already much worse than computer radiologists. If I had to pick a human or an AI to read my scan, I’d pick the AI.” [0] However, most people with domain knowledge in this space still would not want their scan not to be read by a human. The AI radiology apps are generally narrowly focused and useful for consultation not diagnosis. [1]

In 2015 he predicted: “Self-driving cars are going to get here much faster than people think,” Altman said. He thought we’d see them in three to four years. [2]

I think he would be wise to learn from Bill Gates that it's a bad idea to over-predict what will happen in the short term. "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten."

I'll add to this that it's generally a bad idea to make big predictions outside of areas that you have strong domain knowledge in. I doubt Sam Altman has strong domain knowledge around US higher education. Unfortunately, Silicon Valley culture is full of people who feel that because they've succeeded in one domain they have some kind of hidden insight into others.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/26/sam-altman-on-ai-jobs-may-go...

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00330-020-07230-9

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/06/elon-musk-sam-altman-say-s...
very excited with this mac studio. with the same price of mbp14 ($3300 AUD), i can get m1 max with 32gb ram, as opposed to m1 pro (10 core and 16 core gpu) with 16gb ram.

Seriously considering to buy the mac studio and take it in my backpack lol.
I simply can't understand your point(s). I'm honestly trying, and re-read this 3 times.

Should no one ever try? Or is it only in the context of business?

Furthermore, who are your heroes, and why do they fulfill the criteria of your success metrics? Or is every single successful person merely an unthinking automaton living a preordained existence?
But from a mathematical point of view, the relationship between a unit and its coefficient is that you're multiplying them together. Why would it be weird to overload the multiplication operator to represent multiplication?
it was never clear that FOSTA / SESTA was the solution. Law enforcement came out against the law because the law makes their job harder. Before Craigslist and Backpage cooperated with them in turning over data and traffickers. Now the traffickers are using other methods or working with less LEO friendly operators.
There are many scenarios where joining forces results in higher returns. If my investment is larger, how should we split the profit?
fascism trending
we can safely assume at least 150% of americans are innumerate
Our current president has been in the employ of credit card companies for decades. Many others in Congress and in state offices are the same. Do you really think they're going to allow "education" (or anything, really) to cut into their bottom line? This would be like Raytheon allowing us to get into fewer stupid wars. There may be a nation like that, but we don't live in it.
He didn't choose to live in Russia, he was stranded there.
Plus he also wants to return to the USA given that his judged in an open court. Not a secret one.

He says so in this interview:

https://youtu.be/PArFP7ZJrtg
just make CSAC's cheaper
The problem with complicated recommendation algorithms is: 1) They aren't transparent—the service could be doing anything behind the scenes, like down-ranking content from competitors and political opponents and up-ranking content from advertisers. Without publicly available rules, there is no way to know 2) The algorithm is designed to get the user to spend as long as possible on the site, so they can see as many ads as possible. But getting the user to spend as many hours as possible on the service isn't necessarily in their best interest; the best thing for the user is to give them the content they are most interested in quickly, in a way that isn't addictive.
Yeah, this. Macos is my daily driver and it does a good job of staying out of my way.

I recently got a windows pc just for gaming, and god DAMN it's annoying. Even worse than Vista. Nothing is consistent anymore and everything is always trying to grab my attention for irrelevant shit. What the hell happened :/
C++ gets this right for time durations, and has packages that do it for other units as well.
just today I wasted some debugging cycles when my problem was using "sleep(500)" vs "usleep(500 * 1000)" (500 seconds vs 500 ms).

"why isn't my code doing anything?!"
It’s funny because the truly wealthy and powerful seem to rely more on favors and intangible relationships, not by putting a price tag on things. Indeed, we see money as a corrupting influence
No, people are free to post whatever they want. I was asking a question to generate discussion.
The illustration is wrong, but the claim is correct; multiplication between units and scalars is just as associative as you'd expect. Multiplying one kilowatt by an hour gives you exactly the same result as multiplying 1 by a kilowatt-hour.
> Medical college also filters for conformists who have a large debt to pay once out of medical school.

I don't think that is true for most of Europe.
I hate the Windows 11 taskbar and using ExplorerPatcher to revert to Windows 10 style. Thankfully ExplorerPatcher is yet to let me down. If it does happen I will probably switch to Chrome OS Flex.
Seeing some comments about the reliability of dogs, it’s good to keep in mind that traditional medical tests can also be quite unreliable. This link [1] explains how mammograms can have a “positive predictive value” (% alarms that are correct) of under 10% for many age groups. Maybe that’s what you want in a screening test to catch most of the bad stuff. And maybe dogs could be incorporated as one component of several.

Though, maybe similar to the sense of “unreliable” is that performance could vary a lot from dog to dog, or over time, in a way that might not be true for other tests. But Im not sure if that’s worth worrying about if the aggregate performance is quantified and comparable to other methods.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/40935...
Is this something inherent in the protocol making it less suitable for mesh applications or simply convention and lack of implementation? Do the mesh flavors require new hardware?
A crisis is looming for U.S. colleges – and not just because of the pandemic
You need to install a couple extensions and then it works well enough. It could be a slightly smoother process, but I think it's reasonable. Even in VSCode you have to install and configure plugins for all non-TypeScript languages; TS gets special support because Microsoft wants it to. Sublime is unopinionated.

(I still use VSCode myself, but I don't think your criticism was being fair to Sublime)
Leopold Kohr explained the fundamental underlying causes in the 1950's, this led to the "small is beautiful wave" twenty years later, and we now rediscover them.
> Colleges were captured by professional administrators.

This is, as I understand it, correct. Administrators as a percentage of university staff has ballooned. The explanation I've seen for this is that they are needed to handle ever increasing amounts of regulations. This is the same problem faced by hospitals.
Fun game, great job, but sometimes the scoring seems kind of random, I would sometimes get ~80 points when placing it pretty much directly on the street, and then sometimes get 90 points when guessing and being a few blocks away...

Along with what you mentioned about having different difficulties in terms of radius, would also be fun to be able to choose the difficulty in terms of what types of streets (main streets vs side streets - e.g. only one type, or a mix, or turning down the selection of numbered streets somehow)
Kinda. The Mackinac Bridge is the longest bridge in the world which contains a suspension component, but the majority of the bridge is not actually a suspension bridge. Only 1/3 of the Mackinac bridge is suspension (2,625m of 8,038m total length).

The longest (entirely) suspension bridge in the world is the Kurushima Kaikyō Bridge in Japan, with a suspension length of 4,015m. But it in turn is comprised of four towers, so it is effectively two suspension bridges strung together, which is why usually length of the central span is the benchmark for "longest suspension bridge in the world" and therefore why the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge is claiming the title.
Perhaps sleep in $YOURLANG is essential/trivial so there’s an argument that you should memorize it. OF course! It’s just one bit of info. But there are more APIs than sleep that take a number. Are they guaranteed to be consistent? No. What about `someVendorApi.setTTL(ttl: number)`? Is this also another thing to be looked up and internalized? What if there are hundreds of APIs that take numbers?

I would rather have my team spend time internalizing good design rather than the trivia of what units are associated with every numeric argument in every codebase.
I bet this will be an uncomfortable period with a lot of strategizing for Snowden, without much outcome.

He chose to move to Russia and accept a permanent residency. He (and his lawyers) have expressed the desire to acquire Russian citizenship eventually as of 2020. The war with Ukraine has changed the political calculus everwhere. Snowden must be feeling caught between the devil and the deep sea.

As someone leaking secrets and overtly critical of American polity, it is hard for him to return to America. Certain jail time awaits. He hasn't been pardoned by the last two presidents despite numerous requests appearing in news. But now with Russian aggression, he finds himself locked in a country where quality of life, freedom & personal security is falling faster than a dropweight. He cannot choose another secure country. Worse, he could be blackmailed by Kremlin to be a state actor/mouthpiece in exchange for his personal security guarantees.

Tough choices.