skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked somewhere that had very complicated price calculations. The complexity came from all sorts of options like pricing schemes, taxes, etc. Many were optional and there were all sorts of interdependencies. It returned an object with lots of pricing details. It really, really sucked to change or debug and there were 0 tests.

I added some tests like you described. Some known price inputs and configuration options and the observed return value from a presumed good state. It didn't verify anything was correct, but it did catch “drift.” The expected object would be updated when changing the calculations, if the difference conformed to expectations based off the changes.

I got some pushback because the tests werent testing correctness but it was trivial to implement and it did catch cases where we changed something and something else that should have been unrelated changed as well. A shit test for even shittier code I guess.
... fractal hips?
It’s a science post…vitriol?

Definitely recommend RTFA.

Interesting perspective…
Sounds like you're ignoring my whole post. I guess this conversation is over then.
Oh, that one does x-wing and dark forces, nice!

On the other hand it only does LucasArts games so you need both DREAMM and ScummVM.
Uhm. You can't disable this shit.

It's a weird problem. Can't log in to my account from unknown mobile but works just fine on an unknown PC.

So frustrating.
Huh, that in turn means that - server-side or for scripts - this should run better on Bun than on Node (or Deno), because Bun is based on JavaScriptCore and actually handles taill call optimization well[1]

[1] https://www.onsclom.net/posts/javascript-tco
> When you're spending money on a luxury item/service and there's a cheaper (in this case free) alternative, the it's hard to not write in this way. You are justifying it to yourself as much as anything.

That is a gross assumption about the GPs personality. I've bought luxury items before I'd happily publicly badmouth, and others that I'd happily publicly sing the praises of.
Texas Is Going to Send Lots of Solar Modules All over the USA
Nice job! You may want to add a manifest so it’s easily added as an app on mobile (add to Home Screen)
Not always. The boundary between VA and MD (states in the USA) is the Virginia shoreline of the Potomac River.

Which has caused oddities over the years…

At one time, gambling and liquor were illegal in VA, so casinos set up boats at the low tide line. Customers parked in VA and walked onto the casino barges from the Va side, but they were technically in MD.

You need to follow MD fishing regulations even from VA shore (though a VA license is ok).
I was involved with a project to decomission a low code on premise platform (Sharepoint 2013). What we found was there was a lot of user enthusiasm to create stuff but when the platform was end of life and had to be decomissioned the users enthusiasm melted away.

The "IT" dept had to spend a fortune re-validating the user requirements for the various applications, documenting and then converting them into a new platform. Obviously a lot of feature creep and previously accepted bugs (no longer accepted now that responsibility was no longer theirs).

A lot of the applications were frankenstein efforts from people over the years - lots of dead code no longer used, no docs etc. As others have mentioned people create mission critical stuff for their project or team, and then leave or be away on extended leave and it breaks etc.
Most(all?) self code self-hosts, which is extremely valuable. There no shortage of smart people who can creat complex tools (see Excel for examples) if hosting it wasn't currently such a ridiculous prospect.
That's pretty cool, but I don't agree that it's in the same league as what's being sold here. They'll need to scale it up 10x and make it soar, glide, and turn, and climb and dive under power, without sounding like a steampunk automaton, and while still looking like an actual bird with articulated wings.
No centralized XYZ isn't necessarily a bad thing and I don't think replicating X being everything and your sink with the same kind of design is a good idea either. But having a common way to do it (libinput, pipewire and etc.) surely helps to reduce fragmentation.
I was working in a company that had been spun out of a university until recently and it was shocking how hopeless the researchers were. I've always been critical of how poor the job security in academia is but you'd think it's still too much given how slapdash some of the crap you see is. We basically had to reinvent their product from the ground up, awful.
Anyone else here ever seen a bird hover without wind blowing in the other direction?
I believe the parent says exactly that, no?
Nothing happens.

But sometimes, it "works" but there's no opening animation and it instantly runs the closing animation of the pop up and it's gone again.

It's really weird.

Sometimes fn+E does work, but it writes an unwanted "e".
Military shuns heat pumps in favour of cheaper cutting-edge electric boilers
> mostly as a manifestation of a sort of Stockholm Syndrome that emerges once they start paying for a service

I find this take quite odd. If you're paying for a service you're unhappy with, you stop. What's the element that's holding users in a "Stockholm Syndrome" scenario?
That should have read when dd is mentioned
> Not really. It's the viewpoint of most cultures throughout history.

Most cultures do not value individualism. It's not even universal to Americans, historically.

> Individualism allows for innovation and creativity.

So what? It doesn't allow for an orderly society that's pleasant to live in.

> This is a shame. Were you raised in Japan?

No, just a tourist who has eyes and can see what shit holes American cities are in comparison. I was raised in Virginia. At least there, at that time, Christianity still functioned as a check on American individualism. Unfortunately that has collapsed.
I wonder if that level of skepticism largely tracks with age?

I don't recall "believing" in an employer since maybe my early 30's.
It is especially not suitable for adb, one of the primary use cases of which is pushing a multi-gigabyte system image to the device. You can get 200+ MB/s of real-life throughput with bulk transfers, whereas the theoretical limit of HID is what, 64 kB per millisecond?
If you deprecate an API used by other developers, then you should not work on API’s used by other developers. It’s that simple.

Yes it might save a bit of time for you, but it also potentially waste orders of magnitude more time for other developers. Developers who will positively hate you for forcing them to fix something that is not a problem for them!

Instead keep the old API working and make the path to upgrade easy and smooth. Your API users will love you for it.
PipeWire is an excellent Jack server BTW. So much headache was gone with exclusive card access from multiple applications.
Ignoring family expectations and social roles is "something bad." Why do you think you are special, and need to do something different than everyone else does?
Interesting idea. Land in the middle of a high tension line, extend a (not too long) antenna, and then capture the (high voltage but low current) leakage.
> I'll be much more happy than if I suddenly have zero income and no job.

That entirely depends on whether they give you those 3-6 months of severance they’re supposed to give. I’d rather have that money without the need to spend my days killing my motivation by writing pointless docs.
Ignoring the creative work you mention, I do have some experience with browsing. Prior to my retirement, I read RSS feeds for maybe an hour a day and Hacker News for an additional 15 minutes. After 2 years of retirement, I probably still spend an hour a day on RSS feeds but Hacker News has expanded to an hour a day. I didn't expect to enjoy HN so much given the opportunity.

I don't miss my Silicon Valley job, though...
Are there solutions to this problem?
Interpreting that the basic problem is limited to a propriatary OAuth2 extension feature of Chrome designed by google to support google services.

It sounds related to an OAuth2 footgun around applying the expiry to refresh_tokens in addition to the access_token, which has an explicit expiry. Whereas the refresh_token expiry is only implied as something less than the access_token - if any.
I have a personal vendetta against moreutils because it provides a vastly inferior version of parallel compared to GNU Parallel. GNU Parallel alone provides more value than moreutils, all of which can be replaced by UNIX one-liners or Emacs.
I used PowerApps.

It is so so so close to being a silver bullet tool for quick front end crud that can use your AD to authenticate.

Instead though, it’s got the most absurd pricing model that even their own reps don’t understand and is missing critical or basic features, requiring strange workarounds (fucking UTC dates vs what’s actually in the DB).

They USED to have no way to reuse code as well but they fixed that.

I feel like the issue is they’re still too married to basically low/no code environments.

Having a “I’m going to need to do a custom script in whatever” option would smooth out the edges so much
They don't include this book in their reference books list but this is an excellent book on PCB design.

[1] Bogatin's Practical Guide to Prototype Breadboard and PCB Design:

https://us.artechhouse.com/Bogatins-Practical-Guide-to-Proto...
I ordered a gallon of urethane and they just stuck it in a comically large box with no padding. Miracle it didn't break all the way open in shipping.

Edit: They also tried to send a replacement, marked it as undeliverable, and charged me for it. I don't think Amazon was always this bad.
Unfortunately reaper has latency and stutter issues under Linux. At least in demo.
Interesting project. Koka does have great interop with C code. An async library has existed in the past, and will likely be reintegrated soon. Unfortunately that will most likely be backed by the LibUV event loop which is not WASM compatible. However, Koka's delimited continuation machinery does not require stack suspension or stack swapping at all. All it requires is a bit of thread local state. Koka builds up continuations through a series of function pointers and closure state, and only when needed. So theoretically all you need is some sort of event loop.
I assume we're not talking about hummingbirds?

Other than that no I don't think I've seen a bird truly hover not upwind (i.e. static in 3 dimensions, not an artifact of parallax from me also moving
Oh, nice, very interesting! I found you on mastadon, please write about your experience, I'm curious now :)
Please can we call an Electric Light LAN an "Orchestra"?
> It seems this is lost knowledge now.

You nailed it. We hire younger grads who just want to cram everything into a nosql document and not give any thought to data modeling. Of course, they do all the logic of displaying the tree in code, which is sad as modern relational databases along with some CTE’s can handle so many use cases for free and in an elegant fashion.
> They just hate their lives.

Triple their payments, and they will be fine. :-)
You are firewalled from any repercussions of these attacks. At the same time you believe that citizens of other, less privileged countries, should bear full responsibility for the attacks of their government or its allies. At least, you act that way; what's in your head, I do not know.
Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

And the consequences of not paying workers enough and not letting them relieve themselves in anything but Coke bottles.

Shoddy, on-demand print operators of the world unite!
> It’s really hard, in my experience, to come across the existing name for something while you’re still figuring out all the angles of a problem for yourself.

Absolutely! Discoverability is a huge challenge. There is so much amazing work that's been done in the past that is virtually impossible to find out about.

I only know this stuff because I was working with databases fifteen years ago and an older colleague encouraged to me to learn more about it.
I think last week, a new version of a fan-made Gradius/Nemesis was released - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BTSBfVCxEY

Take a look at the new MSX releases: USAS2 and Pampas & Selene
There are some real pictures on the press page, but nothing that looks like it could actually fly.

https://www.silentflyer.tech/press/
America is an oligarchy, the same as all other self-proclaimed 'democracies'.

There is no such animal as a true 'democracy' anywhere in the world.
Next post is a clear trolling. 96 channel card user wants to migrate to Linux. Nice story bruh.
those are great fuse they don't blow up like the one they replaced!

5 stars, would burn again
I always found the anti-theft protection employed by Chevette in William Gibsons Virtual Light really cool.

The bike would issue a verbal warning to anyone coming to close, something like „back off buddy“, „keep your hands off or you’ll regret it“ and finally an electric shock to anyone trying to tamper with the lock without her fingerprint.

Not sure how effective it would be in the real world though
Not one mention of a heat recovery system. You can have your house very airtight and still be able to turn the air over without loosing as much energy in the air.
But how many people here have any idea that book exists? That's what I mean by lost.
> I'm obviously being naive about that approach, but I don't remember having trouble reaching Gmail inboxes or those of local providers, and at least for Gmail

There are plenty of those who do have such issues with Gmail.

The simple reason behind all this is that spammers also have near endless patience. If it takes sending 15 emails per day per IP, they'll do it. If it's a criteria you can figure out as a legitimate user, the spammer can as well. They'll "subtract one" and bypass it.

So the end result is that there's intentional fog over the methods. Just things you can try and get right and maybe that's sufficient. Eventually the good side tends to prevail, with some effort. Other than that it's one of the hardest problems out there with insane weight on both sides.
I have considered the idea, but I don't see the practical value. USA will not change a bit, most of the good things from Europe cannot be reapplied (incompatible standards and equipment) and, to be very honest, there is no single European standard to follow; Germany has probably the best, but I saw some good stuff in UK that is quite incompatible (RCBO in TT), I dislike Italian sockets and I am not a fan of UK plugs (fuse in plugs? really?) and ring circuits (saving copper was real in 1950, but we are 70 years later).

So it would just sound as bashing USA without providing any solutions. It would be even illegal to adopt most European technologies in a house in USA.
Wow, 8A to blow a 2A fuse? That's 4x the value!
I mean, basically you're correct, but they are claiming that they don't have to be pulled kicking and screaming into compliance, but rather they are easy for law enforcement to work with.

In other words, please don't let the SEC find an excuse to go after us.

To me, it's oddly reminiscent of SBF testifying to Congress that they were the responsible ones who are in favor of regulation on crypto, in order to polish their image as a reputable financial institution. Doesn't mean they're going to end up like SBF (or CZ), but it does reveal similar motivations.
Was the comment edited? I don't see anything about speedups.
It's literally minutes, not a big deal, but I also curate content for my child around shared interests. Youtube has channels and playlists and barely wants you to use them.
This is the only setting in which I use right assignment and I do so routinely for exactly the same reason.

I don’t see every using a read and replace pipe operator over the right assignment approach.
> I think it actually makes sense in the context of US history though.

Well sure. Most cultural quirks make sense in the context of that culture's history. All part of the rich tapestry of life, as long as they don't try to impose them on other cultures.

> Which again makes the fact that Peter Sellers' apparently hit a positive chord an interesting exception.

GP was saying it was unpopular with their American-born relations, no?
> what constitutes a good or bad leader, or employee, is nost of the time highly subjective.

for myself, and the organizations i worked for, it was about results. these leaders swooped in from other prestigeous organizations, introduced toxic politics to completely disrupt existing cultures and working processes, and in the end, for all that drama, they never delivered
This applies up, as well. I was involved in talks with a household name (in the US at least) retail store that still managed purchasing for all of their locations via spreadsheet, and had a team of 8 people who were allowed to touch it at any given point to reconcile inventory.

They had looked at getting a proper purpose-built system in place, but I don't know what happened after that.
Is there a modern type of window or device that will prevent mold, without requiring periodically opening the window?
Or the converse:

We've got all this spaghetti code.

-- I know, we'll rewrite it as a rules engine!

...

We've got all this spaghetti yaml.
The wifi name was created to be "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'"
Now I Can't Get It Out of My Head
I think it was:

1. The whole noSQL thing

2. A move away from databases as store of all knowledge to databases as implementation detail of applications, which IMHO was a good thing, but tended to make them smaller, simpler and more hidden away
Hummingbirds are actually a great counterexample, nice.
They might have to make it nuclear powered to attain 70 wing beats a second in a vessel light/small enough to sustain flight though.
JavaScript? Or the developer console perhaps.
Electric Light Orchestra is a band.
The average person spends like 3-5 hours in front of a screen for entertainment only, I'm fairly sure spending 30s here and there to open windows is in the realm of possibilities
Ask HN: Why aren't business rules engines more popular?
It seems like decoupling the business logic from the code would be beneficial in most applications.

It provides business users the flexibility of reading and changing the rules without development effort.
'Doc, my hips have finite volume but infinite surface area.'
Prusa 3D Printer Factory Tour [video]
Why do public intellectual debates seem so rancorous? I've noticed there is a marked tendency to argue by nastiness. Dennett, Pinker, Dawkins all seem to both attract it, and at times indulge in it. The "you're either being deliberately obtuse or you're stupid" style of disputation. It starts off bad, it gets worse. It's posh for "I don't agree" but ad hom.
I think this describe low-code systems the best.

In my experience, low-code is “easy software development” but without the guard-rails of version control, debugging, open standards, local development, unit-testing etc etc…

These are the things that really matter as software complexity grows…
Compared to an equity investment in a local business, sure. On a 5 or even 3 year timeline, the federal US government is not going to let the broad market indices fall. And if they do, Americans have bigger problems to worry about.
In the nineties, there was one of the Yamaha machines in the window of a music store I used to walk by. What a pretty computer. Many of the Japanese MSX machines hit a real "cyberdeck" nerve in retrospect but I remember it looking better than the pictures I can find online. I vaguely recall they were asking way too much.
The handwritten font (hmm does such a phrase even exist?) in his drawings is great, not very readable, but great.
I'd suggest the GP is indeed working in advertising

pitching subscriptions to readers thousands of times per minute. Begging them to renew for this limited time offer, prodding them through the checkout process.

(but shh... please don't tell)
> They will seek feedback from industry experts to determine if their rules should be refined, which is what is happening. The details of any internal complexity of an industry is entirely delegated.

We may be working with different definitions here. If they did not care they would not delegate away the details of the internal complexity.
You can try and rephrase it as much as you like, but that’s just not how copyright works. And even if copyright somehow did work that way, you are not making any financial gain by telling your friend about a book so it would still not even be considered infringing on copyright.

Of course copyright law is going to look absurd when you make up absurd scenarios that have no relevance to the actual law.
genuine question: how is the middle defined when both shores are fractals?
Based on the author's comment, I'm guessing these are print-on-demand books that were damaged during or right after the printing process, so if you are ordering non print-on-demand books your experience might not be as relevant
Define "Low Code."

Is it a programming language, a framework, a compiler/linker/IDL, etc.?

I mean, there are some that could argue that C is "low code," because it isn't Machine Code.

I started in Machine Code, and, these days, write mostly in Swift. Swift seems like "low code," compared to Machine Code.

I assume that they are talking about things like Qt, React Native, Xamarin, Electron, or Ionic (You can tell that I develop host apps).

I write native Apple, using established Interface Builder SDKs, mainly because of the first point. I like to have 100%, and Highest Common Denominator approaches don't allow that.

Also, I find that upgrading can be a problem. I have been in the position of not being able to support the latest OS, because a library hadn't been updated, yet.
The need to replace piping and radiators retrofitting heatpumps is a huge turn off. If cylo can be commercially viable for old (stone) houses, tenements, and not demand replacing radiators and pipes it's a great fit for Edinburgh!

Heat pumps involve fans. They can be noisy too.
Formal requirements for a public school teacher depend on a country. So it makes sense to add some relevant details.
High Precision Mapping from Scratch
Francis Collins Has Regrets, but Too Few
I have an acquaintance with this elitist, pseudo-ethical rich guy syndrome where he refuses to ever return things because some buyer or some investor somewhere might lose money. So, either he lacks standards or doesn't value money. Either way, this attitude facilitates both gamification of chicanery and shoddiness by laziness to reach peak blank, miscut books and Xboxes swapped with bricks and concrete.
https://archive.ph/PQVCQ
There's something quite Mobius (as in Jean Giraud) about some of those, particularly the robed women, and the plain of solids.
Agreed, with the caveat that you also need a policy/culture that the escape hatch should be avoided whenever possible and the low-code work should not be done by developers.

Whenever I've discussed this, the common theme is that business users continue to request features that would be easily achieved in the low-code platform being used. It's hard to blame them; that's been standard procedure for them for their entire career.

But if you're not strict about saying "no", you still end up writing all the same methods but now on top of that you have a GUI that's not providing any value. Or maybe worse, your developers end up maintaining all of the low-code stuff too when they could have just written the code, switching context pointlessly and (probably, depending on the platform) not using source control.
First Friends
This is a situation where rote memorization will make your life easier.