skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Neglecting QA is a shame because 90%+ of all students work in a company context after they finish their degrees. It will be necessary to deliver software without bugs in time.

once again bringing up the hot debate of "are colleges job prep or research institutions"? Many students these days will proceed to grab a job, but is that something a university should strive to be?

I wish at the bare minimum there were more proper apprenticeships for companies that want some specific type of software engineer instead of 3 month vibe checks as it is right now. Or bootcamps made more or less to study to the test instead of what actually brings value. But I guess no one is really chomping at the bit to change the status quo
I think it's pretty unfair this person is being down voted.

Yes, most Americans knew the conflict existed previous to this past October, but few who weren't Jewish or Muslim and/or Arab (I think most Arab Christians are generally/vaguely pro-Palestinian, but not sure) would have had strong opinions about it or been able to tell you much. I don't think the issue has ever featured this heavily in the US news cycle since oil embargoes in the 70s, and the issue is a lot more contentious now due to a few different factors.

Right now, unless someone consumes zero news media and has very curated social media feeds, I don't see how they could avoid understanding this has all been a major geopolitical event that is continuing to unfold.
They were begging others to sign _for them_. It's not contradictory :)
The US House of Representatives passed a measure on Tuesday which "clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism"[1]; so at least 311 congress members are saying it.

1. https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hres894/BILLS-118hres894i...
>Criticizing Israel’s response is not anti-Semitism- it is literally just criticizing the response.

Okay - then what should be Israel's response? For me what they are doing is the bare minimum with the minimum casualties from the options they have. Hamas is Gaza's government. Hamas has intertwined the civilian and the military infrastructure. Hamas has made sure that the civilian Palestinians will suffer if you target Hamas. And it was Hamas that made sure with organized rape, torture and atrocities on Oct 7 that it can't be overlooked or forgiven.

Here is a good rule of thumb - if you are going to stir shit - stick to just killing. Don't livestream torture and rape, so diplomacy will have something to work with.
Thanks for this detailed answer. The chassis is normally grounded. Has anyone tried sending a positive charge through part of it? Combined with a Powerline-style signaling system, some components wouldn't need wires at all.

I already can think of several reasons why this wouldn't work, but I wonder whether there's a good idea in there somewhere.
they're also more efficient than drywall, but I'm not going to clad my bedroom in them, because it would be a waste of money.

Because the economics matter, we have to understand if it's a better value versus asphalt + solar, or asphalt + ground fixtures, or asphalt + a solar farm.
There are trains (Polish ones, funnily enough) that will happily show you the "choose the location of this network" dialog from Windows7 on their passenger information screen.
you received an innovation award during the language model hype, despite not using a language model or anything related to it.

this is quite stupendous, actually.
Setup /product server
Take a wild guess how support changes when confronted by a major attack.
My entry: one that is easy to refactor regardless of code size.

If this is given, every other metric, like features, bugs, performance is just a linear dependence on development resources (maybe except documentation, but that is kinda an externality).
Yeah that can happen as well. If the state isn't prepared, it will just be delayed indefinitely. Although I have seen cases where that has happened, and the judge will eventually step in and set a trial date, usually 6 or 8 months from then. I don't think I've ever seen 10 years, that's something ridiculous!!
I'm from PH. Email me your résumé if you still need help. I can also send you food for the holidays.
Genuinely curious, why does it imply ethnic cleansing? Why does it need to be a binary choice between ethnostate and complete ethnic cleansing?

We have seen that in the western world that we do not abide the idea of ethnostates, e.g. it is considered bigoted to oppose unlimited migration from refugee countries into Europe or North America. Likewise it is not okay to say "only X race or Y religion can be in government". Why is it okay in the case of Israel?

Jews lived and existed before Israel was established and they were not ethnically cleansed.

I don't really have a dog in this fight and I'm not trying to controversial, I'm genuinely curious because the choice you offer seems like a false dichotomy.
There's a famous weight-gaining diet called Gallon Of Milk A Day (GOMAD) recommended by strength coaches, most recently Mark Rippetoe of Starting Strength. He gets asked about it a lot: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/general-q-and-a...
Tesla loses Swedish court case, Finnish union joins port blockade
I added your RSS feed so I can check back in when macOS runners are added, it just has one article which is "TODO"
In your mind, how does this get resolved?
Good point. Based on the latest internal valuation, Elon only destroyed $25b in the first year.
> There was always going to be an opinion war after 1200 massacred civilians, when a large portion of the other side doesn't take the primary tack of "stop bombing Palestine" but instead "Free Palestine".

The West Bank shows what happens if they only stop being bombed without actually being free. Palestine needs to be free in order for there to be peace.
Gravity, a Delay-Based Full Mesh SD-WAN
If they were isolated, I wouldn't care much. Luckily the 3.11 machine was NOT public facing.
Man, I hate libertarians.

What you get with this kind of system is powerful people meddling with the government to reinforce their power using anti-democratic means. A plutocracy. You also have to contend with the toxic economics of monopoly.

I bet you want unregulated utilities too because you a) don't understand macroeconomics and b) subscribe to anti-social and psychopathic economic theories.
I remember quite a lot of footage from ISIS around the internet. The difference was that mainstream media didn’t pick them up. Nor there was a widespread support to ISIS. Even though both ISIS was similar to Hamas and dealing with ISIS was as brutal as Gaza invasion with many collaterals.
If I recall correctly, when Windows 10 was released, it was touted as the last version of Windows, the evergreen version with incremental updates. It took Microsoft less than a decade to break that promise.
If you want to stop making hummus, stop smashing chickpeas.
Depends a lot on the domain. In some domains it’s possible to slice even product stories super small. This usually takes a lot of skill from the person writing the stories. But if you can get the typical story size down to “about half a day” it handles a lot of this problem.

What I usually do instead is multiple PRs per story & hide work behind a feature flag or something until it’s ready to show people. This doesn’t require a fancy feature flag framework or anything, just a hardcoded Boolean or code comments.
So I have to have been involved in protesting a non-Israel conflict to have an opinion on this one?
Many black Americans hold pro-Palestinian views because of the perceived similarity to civil rights abuses in America and South Africa, as well as Palestinian support for Black Lives Matter. Brown Americans for similar reasons. American youth cohorts (under 40) are blacker and browner than its elderly, and the most likely to use the platforms in question. The oblique suggestion of shadowy puppeteers tricking minorities and youth and whipping them into a mob that's rallying against their own interests is an old racist and ageist canard, and disappointing, if unsurprising, to see conjured here.

No one group has a monopoly on reason.
Yes, actually, I do. Not alter the laws of physics, but run the cable where it makes sense. If that means running it in a conduit outside the house for a few meters to get to a sensible spot, then that's what they're going to have to do. They don't just get to put a hole in your wall "wherever".
I dunno man, but I can think of at least two whole scenarios more likely than your hypothetical
Criticizing the actions of Israel is not anti-semitic, and many Israelis and Jews are critical of the Israeli government and its actions (even more than usual during the ongoing political crisis). Many of the critics I see lack nuance (basically, "rooting for the underdog"), but that's a different problem. The problem is complicated, and there is no simple solution (some kind of two-state may work after many years).

But chants like "from the river to the sea" (meaning destroying Jewish country) and calls for an intifada (de facto violence against Jews) are anti-semitic. Supporting Hamas, whose goal is to kill as many Jews as possible, or saying Israel shouldn't defend itself against Hamas attacks is anti-semitic (Hamas is also bad for Gazans, but that's another story). I can go on and on. People holding these views may hold them not because they hate Jews (for example, I don't think that people removing posters of kidnapped Israelis necessarily hate them), but the result is all the same. There is also obvious anti-semitism unrelated to Israel, like attacking synagogues, drawing stars of David on Jewish houses, etc., but that's not what I'm talking about.

And the most vocal anti-Israelis are naturally the most extreme ones and usually include some of the stuff I mentioned. As a result, people call out anti-semitism, usually not referring to anti-Israeli critics you are talking about.
Sorry, I'm not going to bite that. Too complex of an issue to go over what happens why.
I think you're overlooking the fact that it's located in an area that has religious significance for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, which most other conflicts don't. Hundreds of millions of people believe in the idea of a supreme deity who takes a close personal interest in this specific part of the world.
I’m not surprised by the lack of quality in WaPo and Business Insider articles. Today, these names are nothing more than rebranded Gawker. I _am_ surprised by the hn crowd eating up this kind of recycled, second-hand pov palace intrigue these publications profit from. Guess the death throes of legacy media are still some time away.
Well Jews are a cultural and ethnic group as well; so saying Israel shouldn’t be a Jewish state is similar to saying Japan shouldn’t be a Japanese state. It was explicitly established to create (or some would say reclaimed) a Jewish homeland. It’s Jewishness is central to it’s raison d'être.
GTK3/4 don't have proper fractional scaling anywhere, as far as I know. Also pretty sure it's not planned before GTK5.
> Do you think there's no value in technical leadership

There is. But people wash it together with technical expertise, which is very different. And I’m not convinced of any of these in case of elon. Just look at bullshit like the hyperloop - a kid can realize have utterly bullshit that “idea” is.

> Has it occurred to you that he did not file a patent application for every single thing he did?

Yeah, that’s definitely what his personality would dictate.. narcissistic people would definitely not market themselves that way. Only through literally buying the “founder” title of a company that wasn’t even started by him.

Now you claim that he had a directing influence on almost every aspect - may I ask you where you get this information from?

I think his smallest problem is just being a conman selling this self-made billionaire image, while not being particularly bright in the first place. The real problem is his push for right wing propaganda (presumably for lower taxes) on twitter, but even previously, or licking putin’s ass, etc. These are another kind of moral failing, on which I can happily judge him on.
> Frankly I don't know why Google continues to act this way.

Unfortunately, that's because they have Wall St. analysts looking at their videos who will (indirectly) determine how big of a bonus Sundar and co takes home at the end of the year. Mistral doesn't have to worry about that.
Both of these are intertwined, if not outright the same thing. A place that has no corporate understanding of ethics, no staff to take care about that, or even fires that staff (like Twitter did [1]), cannot build any ethical system. No matter if it's chatbots that shouldn't scoop up abuse by 4chan [2], reproduce long-debunked racially charged myths [3], or even something as simple and innocent-seeming as a soap dispenser that had never even been tested by Black people [4].

Many people think like this is "wokeness" and at best a waste of money, and yet time and time again there are incidents that show in sometimes very horrible ways just how bad biases and a lack of diversity and oversight at all stages - planning, development and post-launch support - can end.

IMHO, ethics oversight and threat modelling based on ethics should be seen, similar to pentesting and QA in AI, software (and, as the example shows, also hardware) development, as an absolute requirement to do - because if you don't do it, 4chan will, and tear your public image apart in the process.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/26/tech-companies-are-laying-of...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...

[3] https://fortune.com/well/2023/10/20/chatgpt-google-bard-ai-c...

[4] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/automatic-soap-dispens...
Appreciate the questions!

> why is testable software higher quality? Does it add value to the software? I'd venture that untestable software has the same value (if not more) than testable software (due to time-to-market). You can write software that is 'obviously correct' and "high quality" at the same time, without any tests.

Note I said testable software, not software with tests (there is a difference!)...I'd agree that software with tests (which is by definition testable software) has a huge developer cost to it that may not always be in the best interest of the company (like you said, time to market might be important). But in my experience, writing code in a way that can be tested later is only marginally more costly (time-wise) than writing code that isn't. A good example of this is writing modules that communicate with message passing and have state machines over direct function calls. The former has a slightly higher cost for dev time, but you can always retro-fit tests to it once you've achieved market penetration. You can't always do that with direct function calls.

> Why does software that can adapt to new features increase the quality? If that is the case, we must argue that WordPress is extremely high-quality software. Or SAP.

This is a good point that you bring up. I think what we are getting at ultimately is that quality and value are distinct entities. Software can have high value without being high quality. In my mind, being able to provide the business with new value-producing functionality without causing a spike in bug reports is my (admittedly vague) standard.

> How does architecture influence quality? If that is the case, then there isn't any need for different architectural styles since there should be "one true style" that has the best quality software.

Architecture has to match how the software teams communicate with each other. Like actually communicate, not how the org chart is made (see Conway's Law). So my point is then that if there are two separate teams, your code should communicate between two "modules" that have an interface between them. Just like real life. It would be silly to implement a micro service architecture here. That's why Amazon's SOA design works for them: it matches how teams are organized.
yeah, it's a spectrum. Clearly no one is expecting an app to be truly bug free if the underlying compiler itself has bugs. But how often do users truly run into compiler level bugs?

I think when the author says "bug free", it's from the user perspective. where bugs either need to go out of your way to trigger or are so esoteric it's impossible to think about hitting without that user themself knowing the code inside out. Games is definitely an industry where the quality of code has always dipped to a point where users can easily hit issues in normal use, and only gets worse as games get more complex. That's where it gets truly intolerable
I've heard this claim, but what is your personal reasoning? It's an oddly narrow condition. Isn't 'prejudice against Israel' more general and effective? Enumerating prejudice in every possible form seems impossible and impractical.

FWIW, it's included in a definition from the last ~20 years that is favored by pro-Israel groups.

Possibly, it's just rhetorical and diversionary, putting critics on the defensive to carefully defend and establish all speech as non-anti-Jewish, which diverts time and attention.

I think those tactics work for Israel when the issues aren't so stark and prominent, and so few people see the critique of the critics (i.e., few see the accusation that the speech is antisemitic). With everyone watching closely, the apparent rhetorical tactics become noticeable.
Show HN: Minimal electronic circuit simulator in Python
Writing a circuit simulator is a wonderful way of learning electronics as a programmer!
> one can argue if there is a way to achieve this goal with less cost on civilians)

Not really, no. There's no argument.

The entire world is calling for a ceasefire because so many civilians are being murdered.
Yeah, if you waive the time, it's called a waiver of speedy trial. Or just a waiver of time, then it can be delayed, but I don't think I've ever seen indefinitely. You should see if you can get your trial televised for that lol.
I thought about Amd and Intel
South Sudan, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine/Russia

There is no end to this confit regardless. It will go on as you have 2 groups with claims on the same land. Wars are won when the loser accepts defeat I don't see that ever happening. There have been multiple attempts at a negotiated solution like the Peel commision, the 1948 UN partition, or the oslo accords. All have been rejected.
No. The massive stars that produce these elements have very brief lives. What's different is that the metallicity of later stars is higher than earlier stars. In essence, the earliest stars were formed from gas that had virtually no metals in them and because of that could grow much larger. But after their death, they polluted the ISM with metals which prevented later generations from becoming as massive.
While that may have been your intent, you said _I_ in the following quote

> Unless the new AC does something different, I would always classify AC as a niche series, implying that your decision to consider it niche is predicated on the control scheme.
The Wikipedia page on "Criticism of Israel" [1] has an extensive section on critics of Israel accused of antisemitism, if you'd like a good starting point.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Israel#Suppressio...
Somehow I bet that's counting "on the books" employment. There are plenty of people with (cash) side-hustles and such. How people cope financially today isn't the same as 30 yrs ago.
> who tweets under the pseudonym @roon

Fundamental factual error, about a figure who anybody doing OpenAI kremlinology would be extremely familiar with.

Inspiring reporting by the Washington Post as usual.
Fiction:

1. First Law cycle by Joe Abercrombie - too much violence for me is first books, but last trilogy is quite interesting.

2. Dark Tower by Stephen King - do I need to say more?

3. Old Man's War by John Scalzi, like this guy writing.

4. The Farseer trilogy and The Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb - pure pleasure.

5. Shades of Magic trilogy by V.E.Schwab, re-read, preparing to read new cycle.

6. Some Terry Prachett books.

Non Fiction:

1. Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, about cholera outbreak in London in 1854, but more about society and life of that period.

2. Donnie Brasco - FBI guy infiltrated to one of five Mafia families and bring many people to justice, worth reading.

3. Oppenheimer by Kai Brid - didn't watch movie yet, prefer to start with book.

4. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan,
Cacilda Jethá - interesting stuff about our sexuality and how we became who we are.
When the crisis was initially unfolding, I followed a few of the major subreddits, and it was entirely pro-Israel. It was kind of shocking how uniformly pro-Israel the comments were.
I took one of these kinds of classes in my masters program this year. They were totally obsessed with UML. It would be nice if these classes could move beyond dogma that is decades old.
Yes, I learned these things as a computer science student in an engineering school. It wasn’t perfect but a good introduction.
Yes. Everything at X is going swimmingly well, and the statement that from the company that it lost half its valuation, and the owner publicly telling companies to stop advertising on it is actually 19 dimensional chessboxing.

Geez, man. A contortionist would be envious of how you.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23938969/x-twitter-valua...
I think free-to-play games have ruined this model for everyone. Now people see "in-app purchase" and immediately associate it with "paying for every interaction" instead of "one-time payment to purchase full functionality "
There's so much (intentional) confusion around basic terms in this info war.

Anti-Semitism, "antisemitism", anti-Judaism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israel are all different concepts.

Semitic peoples include both Jews and Arabs. To erase the latter (as Zionism does) and replace them with Europeans is by definition anti-Semitic, therefore Zionism is anti-Semitic.

To address that, Zionism coined the term "antisemitism" as a synonym for "anti-Zionism".

Being pro-2-state-solution is pro-Israel (and pro-Palestine, pro-Semitic) but anti-Zionist.

Anti-Zionism is also not anti-Judaism, because there are many non-Jews that identify as Zionists, e.g. from Winston Churchill to Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

(There are also distinctions between ethnic and religious Judaism)

All this said, there are unfortunately real anti-Semitic, anti-Jew, anti-Israel individuals and groups out there that also leverage this confusion.

This does not take away from the fact that anti-Zionism is an extremely sound moral and political position, akin to anti-Nazism and other anti-totalitarianisms.
If you want to be 100% sure these things work, a number of companies are selling computers withnlinux preinstalled.

Support is also usually easy to check beforehand with a web search.
EICAR incoming!
Some elements are believed to only form from neutron star mergers.
Does anybody have a tutorial or documentation how I can run this and play around with this locally. A „getting started“ guide of sorts?
Let me put it to you this way. All you hear about is what is reported in your media of choice. Having lived and worked on campuses before, I can tell you that these individual incidents happen A LOT, whether it's racism, anti-semitism, anti-Muslim attitudes, etc. Almost all of them end with slaps on the wrist because they're deemed one-off events. And almost none of them are reported on. Everything in the media is constantly focusing on anomalous events to drive reactions, just like the one you're having.

People need to step back and realize that the majority of students are 18-21 year olds. They are children. The student codes of conduct are meant to correct bad behavior, not to punish and expel students.
EIGHT? Plus two thumbs?
Thank you! I will look into whether I actually want that - if it's not necessary I'll remove.
https://archive.ph/2023.12.08-203753/https://www.bloomberg.c...