skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of buzz from folks who work there about Zuckerberg emphasizing flattening the hierarchy and making job cuts a routine part of operations i.e. much like say IBM or Cisco routinely trim in a way that most of their cuts don't make the news
But what test do I write? What does the poorly documented 3rd party API return? Is the test failing because there's an edge case in the API or because my code is wrong?
Most shopping websites or social media come to mind. I use to work in airline web contracting and when doing work for certain countries' national airline booking systems we had to support ie6 until 2019 (gmail had dropped support in 2010 and Microsoft officially EOL'd it in 2016)
> Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or on the dean’s interest list—applicants whose parents or relatives have donated to Harvard, according to a 2019 study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Using just "white" is extremely misleading. Harvard undergraduates are already only 40% white [1], but 10% are Jewish [2] (despite being only 2% of the US population). Meaning non-Jewish whites, which are 56% of the US, are only 30% of Harvard undergraduates. For graduate students it's even more ridiculous - 53% Jewish, 28% non-Jewish white.

"White privilege" in action.

[1] https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/harvard-university/s...

[2] https://www.hillel.org/college/harvard-university/
In a previous life as a front-end developer using Sass, I had a single z-indexes module in which they would all be defined.
Yeah, people forget that during the 90s and 00s it was a well-known meme that we had the tech for electric cars, and oil companies had buried it

Love him or hate him, Elon didn't let his memes be dreams
How many passwords do you have and know?
It amazes me that the genome is only 29k long. If you were to write a computer virus now, it probably wouldn't be that short, let alone something that can infect and kill millions of people.
Efficient economy.
For sure. People really need to stop complaining about the obscurity of things they can Google. The first hit for "Xur and the Kodan armada" is a page from a fan wiki: https://thelaststarfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Xur

As somebody who plays very few video games and is forever looking up references, I promise that basically everything is now documented.
The very first test can be a simple "Did my HTTP request receive a response?". Then you can build on "Does this HTTP response have this value I need"....
etc

The way I have always gone about TDD is just that I am testing the code I am writing by running the test, not from the main entrypoint of the application. The things you would log and look for when you run the application you instead validate with an `assert()`. Then once you have finished developing, you do a single pass verification from main and you have both a test and a function written
Thank you for taking the time to reply.

You'll be welcome in the ecosystem whatever path you choose
I generate my website https://thomasahle.com with a static Jinja template. Whenever I update it, it also generates a new resume and uploads that. Very convenient.
> Those that offer tap water (that's most places) will usually (not always) charge you the same as a normal water,

I don't think I'll be able to make sense of what you're saying until you explain what you mean by "normal water". Are you referring to branded bottled water?
Scopalamine is amazing. Being on the ocean is otherwise a debilitating ordeal for me. Worked really well on cruises I've been on.
This reminds me of a movie, the name of which I can’t remember.

> A family father gets premonitions about a massive storm that will come, which triggers him building a bunker in his back yard. It is a family drama on how his obsession with protecting his family slowly tears it apart. In the end they convince the father to go on vacation for a few days, just to get away from the obsession. As they arrive in their vacation home, a huge, black storm cloud rolls in on the horizon

Great Movie, recommend watching it.
> Most people (maybe not you, you savant) need someone's physical presence to see them as a real person.

In that case, I’ll just assume you’re a bot and simply parroting what you’ve been programmed to say.
Proof that god is dead?
Feel like this is relevant to this place!
Could it be possible to create an open-source license that allows hobbyists and researchers to use the software for free, but would require commercial users to pay? Or does something like this already exist?

Of course, enforcing that might be pretty difficult in practice.
I just spec'd one out and it was pretty similar to the I9 MBP. Personally, I'd pay that price for a Linux laptop that's on par with a MBP.
If real, it wouldn't surprise me.

A laptop isn't special. The most special part is the motherboard, and those are a dime a dozen designs. The bios soft is the other big component, but given the right partnerships I could see a small company just paying to use one out of a dozen various vendors.

The rest of the work is part sourcing.
yup, I guess what the author meant is the 433 MHz vs 868 MHz / 915 MHz and 2.4GHz ISM bands.

In my experience, expensive stuff tends to run in the 2.4 GHz band, while inexpensive stuff runs in the 433 MHz band. I know that 868 MHz is not in the ISM bands, but in Europe, it's really close.
Huh? This paper by the PLA discussed possible military applications a year before these showed up and you think they’re unrelated?
The only reason dialog suddenly shipped is because browsers want to remove alert/popup/confirm.

Until last year the spec for dialog was in such a state that Chrome (the only ones implementing it) argued that it should be removed.

IIRC literally none of the issues were fixed but suddenly it got shipped in all browsers.
Don't worry, a border dispute involving Germany and Russia would never get out of hand.
Lee, please, less blatant the ads. Thank ye
> but it is still the case that Twitter has been experiencing "disruptions" at a higher rate than it did in the past, and that those disruptions have involved less communication with users both during and after the events.

Twitter is under scrutiny more now than ever. If so much as an icon doesn’t load first attempt then people can it form or broken.

In the fact before musk bought Twitter. If it didn’t load for 10 minutes in singapore but it did every else no one really cared. Now people are like. OMG ITS DOWN!!!

So no we aren’t squabbling over words. You just can’t redefine outage because you’re upset at Twitter being owned by a twat.
We had this set up in 2014. Unfortunately, it was used to justify supporting ie8 as long as possible.
> ... start coding without a plan ...

Well, I don't do that. But i usually don't know all the names of my (internal) interfaces and models and properties right at the start. I might move things around and rename stuff along the way. And I think that's quite normal if you don't live in a world where the spec for a small task is multiple books thick.

Doesn't TDD get in the way with? Wouldn't I keep refactoring the tests all the time then?
I would rather see tests with no code, than code with no tests.
How about China stops flying those things? While we are at it, how about the forever friends China and Russia stop dragging the world towards World War 3?
US warplanners considers sending 100,000s of bombs on PRC mainland targets in case of TW scenario all the time. Is that 10D thinking? It's basic escalation dynamics of recipricating homeland attacks with home land attacks, the difference is up until recently CONUS has been shielded from both precise and volume of long range strikes from her adversaries, largely due to technologic limitations, enabling US to project power with impunity. This is PRC incrementally establishing mutual homeland vunerability to deter US from messing in her back yard. It's trying to deter US from intervening in TW by raising costs to CONUS, just like US is trying to deter PRC from moving on TW by raising cost to PRC mainland. Except until recently, only PRC had to factor in homeland attacks due to asymmetric US power projection capabilities. More and more, and for the first time since revolutionary war, US now has to factor in serious homeland attacks with respect to PRC. Demonstrating CONUS is vunerable, especially if it influences public thinking, is as strategic as it gets. Lots of Americans are still operating off the notion that Fortress America is impervious and US mil actions abroad stays abroad, and generally that's true, until it's not.

Ability to generate simultaneous bandwith of 100,000s of fires is also significant, most conventional long range strike / projection platforms are severely limited in how much fire they can deliver / unit of time. It's not feasible to sortie past limit of carriers or air bases, but the amount of balloons (or land based missiles) that can be delivered is much easier to scale, which means it's easier to satuate defenses. At the end of the day PLA is going to have very limited traditional methods of projecting power to CONUS (lack of carriers, or local basing), so they're going to latch onto any asymmetric platforms that can reliably bring war to CONUS. TBH I was not really anticipating mass balloons, and PLA planners probably weren't either. But the idea of hitting strategic targets with expensive long range missiles (i.e. prompt global strike) is something PLA is pursuing, now I imagine PLA planners are likely going to explore the virtues of cheap balloons that can scale more economically than missiles.
Personally, I wouldn't trust anything that Richard Feldman was involved in. He was instrumental in making the Elm community a hostile and unwelcoming place[0]. To my recollection he has never come out and admitted that the Elm core team was wrong in how they handled any of those things, so why should anyone assume any better from Roc or anything else he's involved in?

0 - https://github.com/gdotdesign/elm-github-install/issues/62#i... (see edit history for full impact)
> Our first priority should be stopping people starving to death.

People are starving to death in America?
Unfortunately low power ddr4 (lpddr4) does not come on SODIMs, soldered ram is the only way to get it. I know everyone likes to shit on apple about this, (and they definitely should about soldered storage) but there are practical engineering reasons for soldered ram. Note that the framework laptop has abysmal battery life relative to the competition.
that might be possible. I don't have ipv6 where i am right now, so I can't test it myself. it's also only at certain locations.
Doubtful. Aren't companies judged on EBITDA?
This opinion article is outdated: it's two weeks old.
95% of humanity would also, if they were given a fair choice and knowledge of all those systems.
As a German this is quite bizzare to me. Here, our politicians take Fukushima as an example why we should stop nuclear energy. People are scared of nuclear energy.
And now Japan goes max nuclear.
If people can use the entire web in their eyes without having to update their browser (which they can because they haven't had to update yet) EXCEPT for my site, why am I so specially that they need to update specifically for me?

Bad UX. Or maybe you're in an industry where it is your job to secure users computers.
losing your job sucks, and anxiety sucks and is draining and deleterious. But the solution is building a society where the citizens are resilient against such strains, not a society where people are guaranteed not to lose their jobs or a society where certain jobs are coveted because they are sinecures as we see in all govt jobs everywhere but which particularly made a splash recently with the civil service exam cheating in India. All the effort that goes into clawing your way through that system would be much better spent on productive jobs.

I'm not offering a solution, but trying to point at the problem and create awareness that pure job security in exchange for nothing is a pipedream like getting in shape without working out.
Locking down a job so you can be secure discourages hiring in the first place and encourages economic sclerosis.
The example is a bit weird though. Rather than accessing the form elements to get the data, it pushes it into the "value" property of the confirm button.

So if you select an animal, returnValue is that animal, but if you click cancel, returnValur is "cancel". Which feels very clunky if you were to scale this behavior to any kind of complex form. I suppose the intention here was to show that it can be a dynamic value.

// "Favorite animal" input sets the value of the submit button
selectEl.addEventListener('change', (e) => {
confirmBtn.value = selectEl.value;
});
How is the sound quality? Is it comparable to a MacBook?
As the link is cookie-walled for EU:

https://archive.is/oxV2U
Anyone interested in this topic might enjoy reading Forbidden Archeology by Michael A. Cremo. There are a lot of anomalies out there, and this catalog documents them well (so much so that there's an abridged version that leaves out the documentation).
The confusing part is: why would enemy propaganda be focused on this relatively obscure board?
Sounds complicated. Can this be decentralised within a federal system or does its very nature imply that power is coalesced to federal gov + these agencies to which you refer?

Also, why does there appear to be a correlation between countries that tax more and higher public services (like the Nordic countries vs US). Is it actually just an artificial correlation?

Also, when you say spending, is this gov spending or private spending? Obviously if my tax goes up, I’m spending less. Sorry for all the Q’s, genuinely curious.
Any live content online, whether it’s Youtube Live or Twitch or anything else, requires a TV license, so long as it’s a “television programme service”. This is vaguely clarified to depend on:
- Whether a service has a regular schedule of programmes
- How continuous a service is
Editorial control and consistency
- The quality of production and editorial values.

(source https://www.cordbusters.co.uk/do-i-need-a-tv-licence-twitch-...)

So I imagine most Youtube/Twitch indie content wouldn’t count, but any foreign TV broadcast would. It’s ridiculous.
Recent research suggests leptin doesn't really regulate body weight in both directions. It only really protects the body from weight loss, not weight gain.

Think of it like a thermostat with leptin being a temperature sensor hooked up to the heater, and the gravitostat is a temperature sensor hooked up the A/C. If you're trying to make the house cooler it doesn't matter how much you tell the heater not to turn on.
>Japan will also change the rule that limits the operating life of reactors basically to 40 years but tolerates an extension to up to 60 years upon regulatory approval.

>Under the plan, Japan will allow power companies to operate reactors beyond the 60-year limit by excluding periods when reactors are halted for safety inspections or other reasons.

In short, instead of running more modern, more safe nuclear power plants, the plan is to extend the life of dangerous old designs.

Horror.
"everyday citizens" shouldn't have an interest in what the US military is shooting at over North America?
Tried to make it useful here: https://radogado.github.io/n-modal/
Twitter recommendation algorithm was using absolute block count
Binder handles a stack of languages, but I've only tried Python & Julia.

Gonna place a bet that AI delivers your wish within 2-3 years.
> that business model does not involve owning your own factories

Apple does not own their own factories.
Job cuts are already part of the culture. There are non-regretful attrition targets and the bottom 10-16% or so each year either need to improve or will get fired.
No they don't, they use the database of license holders to find addresses of those without a license. CRT detection was stopped in the sixties and there's some evidence that the "Detector Vans" were mainly tactics to scare people without licenses into getting one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
> It is important to provide a mechanism to close a dialog within the dialog element. For instance, the Esc key does not close non-modal dialogs by default, nor can one assume that a user will even have access to a physical keyboard (e.g., someone using a touch screen device without access to a keyboard).

Well this is annoying as a user. Not being able to click away or use escape to close it feels like built in pop up that can’t be ignored.
It’s very difficult to know if it’s the test that’s wrong and not the logic.
Pokemon card AI generator using Stable Diffusion and GPT
YouTube has review videos
Russian trolls I would say.
It's the classic dilemma that most people who prefer expedient governance don't always understand. When a government is paralysed by too much bureaucracy and corruption, everyone craves for something lean and expedient. Anyone who wants to combat that will want to consolidate power. Once they have successfully consolidated - usually by eliminating anyone in the way irrespective of whether they're someone who speak truth to power or a bureaucrat trying to preserve their fiefdom - all that's left are the yes-men. Then starts the bungling and fumbling and doubling down and over-corrections.
Not too surprising more lay offs are coming.

I joined Facebook in 2017 and they had around 40k people (left in 2020). By 2022 they had 80k.

I met with my first manager (he’s a director now) at FB a few weeks after the lay offs were announced and even he was totally puzzled as to why Meta hired so many people. In his own words, he couldn’t see what all those extra people were doing.

I do wonder if that number of employees is just inflated due to Meta acquiring a bunch of companies (VR)
Modern Monetary Theory covers some of the basics. I believe Monetary Realism (https://www.pragcap.com/monetary-realism/) is a much better attempt to explain the roles of government, banks, taxation and spending in the modern-day fiat currency environment (though it does contradict some of my simplifications above).
Why not target childcare at those who will benefit? It’s harmful to the middle and upper classes, more so for boys but helpful for those with low human capital. If we’re trying to do the best we can for children most of the population should not be sending their children to outside the home care until school age.

> Jim Heckman, who is a Nobel prize winner in economics, has talked about how early childhood education and care can both promote equity and efficiency but he is focusing this message on targeting the disadvantaged, not for everyone.

> In fact, in the paper that Mike Kottelenberg and I just had published last year in the Journal of Labour Economics, we actually can explain this heterogeneity because we are finding there are large gains to universal child care for kids in the lower part of the distribution from single parent households, but for most kids in the middle of the distribution from two-parent families, we are getting these negative declines. It’s not that universal childcare is effective or not effective, it’s effective for some, but not for others.

https://www.convivium.ca/articles/daycare-demands-diversity/
No need for bloated software as suggested by other.
Just make a RSS file and forget.
The fear of tsunamis hitting nuclear plants in Germany seems remote.

How do Germans feel about all those nuclear power plants next door in France?

Does anyone have any fear of the health effects of burning coal decade after decade?
>At the root of this discussion is the fact that Open Source / Free Software has yet to figure out the right funding model.

It has. The biggest one is that tech companies work on open source software either to accomplish their business needs, commoditizing their complement, recruiting, etc. The money to do this comes from that companies business model / investors.
Take shelter, 2011. +1 for great movie
Did any other nation threaten to take out the pipeline? Was any other nation thanked for taking out the pipeline?
Maybe they would, but it also has the benefit of being true — and backed by empirical research.
Exactly! When it comes to search they are a small scrappy startup lol
Maybe both the German and the Japanese approaches to nuclear are both wrong except in opposite ways.

The Germans can afford to be needlessly picky about nuclear in their own country since if they have an electricity shortage they can simply buy the deficit from the European grid or they can kill themselves slowly by burning their lignite reserves, the nastiest, dirtiest type coal in existence.

Japan, being an isolated island nation that's poor in natural resources, doesn't have this luxury so they're YOLOing it on old nuclear plants.
"build a boat," the AI said.
ThinkPads are still popular, so I don't see this as a joke. A pointing stick (TrackPoint) is excellent for people who want to use both the keyboard and the mouse while moving their hands as little as possible.

Unfortunately, the StarFighter has soldered memory, which is one of the main drawbacks of new ThinkPad models. Star Labs also sells the mid-range StarBook laptop with replaceable memory and the low-end StarLite laptop with soldered memory. On the other hand, Star Labs is Linux-first and pays the developers of the pre-installed Linux distribution configured in the order, which is an advantage over Lenovo for Linux users.
It's not "instead of". The sentence before your quote says they're building next generation reactors.
What about the custom plastic parts? Aren't those injection moulded? If so, how much is a mould?
My guess is that it's because the Japanese are so much used natural disasters such as typhoons, floods, landslides, volcano eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, a nuclear meltdown is the last thing of their worries.
The last place you would want to be in a rainstorm is underground, right?
"Also, when you say spending, is this gov spending or private spending?"

Private spending, though the theory is coupled with the idea that government spending should increase to take up the slack when private spending declines.
Linus has been very upfront about investing in Framework, so I am not suggesting he is doing anything untoward, but I still assume there is some unconscious biased in his organisations reviews of competing laptops.
Indeed, better to burn more coal and suffer the effects of the greater air pollution and the radiation released by coal burning.

The people get what they want good and hard.
I would question the methods used to date this piece of rock.
Blackmail (demanding favors rather than money) and industrial espionage come to mind.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/15/china_shenzhen_zhenhu...
> My beef with TDD is the same as my beef with a lot of estimation techniques. They really need for you to have done the thing before. Faith that you "know what tests are needed" is surprisingly loaded.

Why would you nee to know what tests are needed? Just about any bit of functionality you can come up with to implement you should be able to come up with a test to test it. It's not really harder to know what code to implement than it is to know what test to exercise that implementation.

And at any point in time you only need to think of a single test before you're back to coding. It's not like you need to plan out 50 tests up front. Whatever the next handful of lines of code you're going to write write a test for that first, then write those same lines. Then pick the next handful via test, then write them.

I don't understand the difference in knowledge at all.
How dangerous are the current nuclear plants?

Also, it appears that you are lying through omission:

“The basic plan calls for building next-generation nuclear reactors to replace decommissioned ones within the premises of the nuclear plants, ending a freeze on any projects to add, expand or replace reactors.”
Ah, so simple recognition of reality about national energy needs is prevailing over teenage Swedish ESG shills.