skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a SDET, my question is - does anyone uses tools such as this in professional work? If yes, what is the use case?

IME, creating and developing an automated test framework is 1% trying to find the best locator, and 99% maintenance of tests that use dynamic, nondeterministic flows, fighting with backend issues/flakiness etc. I find Codegen to be OK-ish for only the simplest/worthless test paths.
This is definitely not it
"The Egg" by Andy Weir, and it's even worse than The Martian
For those interested in learning more about the challenges in keeping the probes alive, the 2022 documentary It's Quieter in the Twilight follows the small, incredibly dedicated team working the project. Free to stream on Prime.

The simple fact that many of the original engineers are no longer alive presents significant challenges in and of itself.
this is no different to me wanting a Bugatti Chiron for $20,000

compromise: you'd be able to hire some of the top engineers in the world that live in Europe at half that salary

or accept your business isn't viable and fold
Thanks!

HN is awesome!
Cities Face Cutbacks as Commercial Real Estate Prices Tumble
Frequently. All the computers in the office are on automatic updates and they reboot overnight without much warning.
Regardless of whether companies like Microsoft should be the final authority, it is indisputable that they try to be. So MAD only has one answer.
When they wrote 'warfare' did they not think of planes and ships?
If you want an opposing opinion, check out Python. I haven't seen anyone use urllib in the stdlib in like a decade.

Putting things like that in the stdlib makes them subject to the same API stability constraints as stuff like the threading API.

They tend to ossify and get abandoned when a 3rd party lib makes a faster, or better, or just more convenient API.

Go has a fair bit of this. I haven't touched the stdlib logger in forever. The HTTP server side is kinda meh, the client side is okay but not fantastic.

I am a fan of Go's experimental packages. I kind of wish things could live there permanently as "things the core devs believe are a good implementation, but don't want to bind stability guarantees to the language".
> Instead of waiting for the whole world to fix their websites, mobile browsers just shrank them a bit.

What comically never fixed anything. But yeah, that's the rationale.

AFAIK, mobile browsers only actually managed to display non-text sites when pinch-to-zoom was invented and the sites started to include the viewport meta. And they only managed to display text-only sites by reflowing the contents. The shrinking the viewport era was a deep local minimum of usability.
Just finished rereading Geek Love for my bookclub and I was thinking that it might be a lot more controversial if published today. To my surprised it showed up in this list The Atlantic published today. Fully agree!
Browsers should definitely support both, they are very different features.
My understanding is that the person creating it is also the person who made Lemmy, which is a somewhat-successful federated reddit-alternative. Existing notability translates into more interest in otherwise uninteresting things.
It seems there is a second story here about their University requiring the purchase of a 'meal plan' and that generally not being good value (costing more than the dishes individually)? Am I reading that between the lines correctly?
Not only poor record keeping, a lot of longest living people in Japan at least are simply descendants committing pension fraud. Well, I guess that also counts as poor record keeping.
By "perfect information" do you mean the ability to predict the future? Because that is what is necessary to make your statement true.

Because in general no, people buying insurance do not pay in what they will individually cost (plus margin). Rather most will be paying in much more than they will ever cost, whereas some will cost much more than they have, or ever will have, pay in. One total property loss or serious at-fault auto collision (say ~$400k) will dwarf a lifetime of premiums ($2k/year for 50 years?).

The point is that such things are rare, so most people will have zero of them over their lifetime. But even perfectly knowing the a priori chance that each person may suffer a catastrophic loss, you can't know which specific people it will be.
smarter waifus for the wicked
Texas. At least for US users. As part of the last TikTok ban attempt, ByteDance spent a billion and change moving all US user data to Oracle owned and managed servers.
> why do you think we should be using Multics?

No actual evidence, to be honest, and I don’t think it, only wonder it (thus the ‘I wonder if maybe …?’ phrasing). I’ve never used it, I just know that it was in some ways a predecessor of Unix and I believe it was designed as a coherent whole; I wonder if it — like so many other things — could have been iterated on rather than replaced.

It’s so much more fun to replace things, but I have come to think that it is very often less work to evolve a system than to replace one. Not an idea original to me: Joel Spolsky wrote about it in 2000!
I actually enjoyed it quite a lot when it first came out! But I wasn't a professional programmer then, just a kid who loved tinkering.

I don't exactly love the Javascript ecosystem, lol, and was thinking about learning more native languages. Swift was higher on that list, but .NET sounds like a lot of fun too! Do you still need to use Windows to develop for it?

And what's the deal with the GUI these days... last I heard, Winforms and WPF were deprecated (right?), and something else came along that nobody used... or something? And then what happened? What's the recommended way to do a UI in .NET today, and does it matter if you're targeting Windows-only vs cross-platform vs web?
I just skip lunch and leave {lunchtime} early.
I find it super droll that (168 comments in), no person has mentioned how it would be impossible to profit from their midday meal without even the time to properly taste it.

As they said in the era of our ancestors: « de gustibus non est disputandum ».
At the expense of its own citizens? Not in my opinion.
Building a Reactive Website
Nvidia offers developers a peek at new AI chip next week
Had there been any scientific studies into why the elements are perfect and there are are all apparent to perfect replicas with not defect rates? It’s hard to make perfect replicas at scales higher than the atomic scale but at the lowest levels, everything seems to be identical.
4 might make sense, the tool isn't accepting that I spent _all_ days since September 16 of last year in the Schengen Zone, haha!
> There are very very few programs that ever achieve something like elegance and beauty when they collide with the real world.

I write embedded systems. Tell me about it!
Handling the Data Other Service Can't
I wrote that comment on 14.03.2024 at 14:55:00
HTML has a header command, maybe that would work?
>...Canada a population of 40M bringing in 1M population in an year was a terrible move.

Do you have a citation for that number? Most sources say Canada takes in about 1/2 that:

>...Currently, annual immigration in Canada amounts to almost 500,000 new immigrants – one of the highest rates per population of any country in the world. As of 2023, there were more than eight million immigrants with permanent residence living in Canada - roughly 20 percent of the total Canadian population.

https://www.statista.com/topics/2917/immigration-in-canada/#...
Robinhood jumps after robust growth in assets under custody in February
Haha, not at all. Really cool work!
There are some worst offenders who chose the fontsize based on the size of the viewports... and it get's ludicrous big at my work, where I have an ultra wide curved monitor.

Everybody please clamp!
I will try to be more humble. Thank you.
hopefully not a Killer Poke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke
> But for kids having their 2 parents working, it's a very long period of time that can be "waste" every day.

For children, it’s time they have to spend (mostly) outside and with other children (or participating in some club or another). It’s just as important for their development as time with their parents, which they would statistically spend looking at a phone or a tv anyway.
Could you explain what/how the CBT helped? Where I am in Europe the default treatment is only medication which feels inadequate on its own.
> in its workforce

Is that how we're defining workforce now?
The license does allow for it, but it's actually sort of tricky to do if you want to import it into a non-mediawiki system. Wikipedia makes really extensive use of templates in wikitext, which can be complicated nested things that can call out to Lua modules.

You can easily take Wikipedia's HTML output and use it, but reusing the source of those articles requires a lot of work on either compatibility or translation.
I came to say the same, and post this link to the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJT8AW0wYw
Imagine living in a universe where someone broke the one proton. Now we have to sit here for eleventy eternities all disincarnate waiting for new laws of physics to congeal.

"Honestly, are you never going to let this go? I had goo reason to think there was more than one proton!"
Is it popular in game dev because of Unity?

And when you say FOSS, is it a truly independent entity controlling and evolving it, or is it more like the Chromium/Chrome model where the FOSS stuff basically exists for the sake of the proprietary product that builds on top of it?
Thank you! I was going to ask for the latest linux variant - are you speaking of Love's "Linux Kernel Development", or "Linux in a Nutshell"?

I've been a primary linux user for a couple decades now but I'm not too keen on digging into kernel hacking but love details like the OPs post.
$80 is a good payday for a junkie. I've seen junkies steal manhole covers for a couple bucks of scrap metal.
I'm hoping when I hit 80( mid 30s now), I'll be able to have my brain hooked up to the matrix or something.

Would be awesome to effectively "live" for 500 years with options to pilot androids every now and then. Moral questions aside, it wouldn't surprise me if it becomes possible to get a new body for the exceptionally rich.
I believe that during the Soviet era, almost every position will be "on the guard" not just the yard keeper (as depicted in "The Diamond Arm" of 1968). After the Soviet era, yard-keeping services are way understaffed to be useful for that, and also mostly rely on immigrant labor lately. Still, you can never be sure.
I really like that you list a whole lot of things that ADHD includes that most people are unaware of, but I wanted to call attention to the two that probably had the largest negative impact on my own life

Rejection Sensitivity and Emotional Disregulation

I have always been paralyzed by being afraid of failure (rejection), and that has kept me from pursuing a lot of things in the past

And I've always been prone to anger outbursts, even over seemingly trivial silly things. It has damaged so many of my relationships and overall left me pretty lonely throughout my life. And when the dust settles I'm sitting there thinking "Why was I so angry about that thing. I don't even care that much about it"

My ADHD diagnosis and medication, starting in my early 30s, has almost entirely turned my life around
Did I spot a flight sim among the demo video graphics?

Can we hook this thing to a reaper drone and have it follow natural language instructions?
The point of module-level pairing is to make every module is identifiable, correct? Furthermore, these devices are only usable when connected to the internet.

IF their goal was merely to prevent theft, they could achieve that goal by simply blacklisting individual components when a device is reported stolen. Apple knows precise serial numbers of every paired component installed in that device, they just need to host a database of stolen parts that devices could query on every boot and on a set interval.

Of course, that's not their true goal, so they treat everyone like thieves in the hopes that they buy a new device instead.
Yes, my company uses them to verify that nothing serious breaks as a result of deployment to staging. Of course we have unit and integration tests too, but this is used as a last line of defense against breaking things entirely.

It cries wolf a lot, but it's also saved our ass several times. So we run 3 attempts per test and if all 3 fail, sound the alarm.
> My French relatives love to eat and sit down for at least two hours. There's even a word for the after dinner feeling where you chat with friends, but alas je ne sais quoi.

Are you thinking about the Spanish word sobremesa? Never heard such a similar word in French.
That makes sense. Thanks for the insight!
> This is most likely very unpopular opinion but the GPL also relies on this overly broad interpretation which leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Well, then, you're missing the point of the GPL. The point is to use copyright law against itself, with the goal of advancing user freedoms.

Not programmer freedoms, note ... but freedom for the user.

This thing that leaves a bad taste in your mouth is not the GPL, but the overly broad and restrictive copyright laws. The GPL is simply using those overly broad laws in a way to highlight just how bad they are.

If copyright was sane (or saner, anyway), the GPL itself wouldn't exist.
There is a cultural change and people drink much less wine at work during lunch breaks. But it's still served in a lot of work cafeterias.
Maybe work has become mless wine-compatible?

But long lunch breaks are still there.
My boss sometimes outright despises people in our company who take sandwiches "as if they couldn't spare 45 minutes to eat". Here, a 2-hour-long lunch break is a lot, but nothing that would get you strange looks if it doesn't happen everyday.
Of course, a good lot of employees (30% I'd say) are following the French law-mandated 151,67 hours of work per month (a little more for us because of special dispositions), so it doesn't really apply for them and they "only" get one hour of lunch break.

"Cadres" (theoretically managers, but practically what's in your contract) have more autonomy and work hours are not recorded.
I was there too! It was such a nice vibe :^D
I don't think you understand. "Bad" behavior is one aspect of it but there are many others. Girls also have different symptoms (and are severely under diagnosed compared to boys). This is not a situation of excusing behavior you need to live and deal with a child every single day to understand.
Python Users: BIPClip Is After Your Bitcoin Wallet, via PyPI
The day 1131/12/30 yields 3.1416 repeating.
Blender Apps are on the medium to long term plans for the Blender foundation (i.e. planned on roadmap but not currently under active development). The Blender team currently have a lot of projects on and are resource bound so have prioritized focus on finishing developments such as Evee Next, GPU compositing etc before starting other projects such as Apps.

For more detail see: https://www.blender.org/development/projects-to-look-forward...
Automatic watches, crystal radios, dippy birds, and solar calculators! What will they think of next???
What was so bad about The Martian? (Edit: And did you like any of his books, like Project Hail Mary?)
I just heard of this today and I was like OMG this will save me so. much. time. chasing engineers and teams and creating work around for dumb stuff that the base images refuse to fix because it's a "false positive". I unfortunately HAVE to fix all high CVEs, regardless of peoples opinions.
It also varies on location, too - around here the 1800s houses are decent "all around" except for what you'd expect for an almost 200 year old building.

But in other areas I've lived houses that old will have major issues that have to be remedied eventually (as my builder there said, the tops and bottoms are shit, the middle is great - because the river rock foundation would crumble to dust eventually, and the roofs were basket cases) - costing hundreds of thousands.

And most of them were marked historic, making it even worse.
NSF had 1.5M views on their stream, Everyday Astronaut had 1.8M views.
The % probability continues to grow past the distribution peak. If you have made it that long, you are still more likely to die each year you go on living.
No need to reboot to fix 'Docker Desktop has failed to start' error
Bitcoin Creator Isn't Craig Wright, London Judge Rules
Same with me. By blame, I really meant responsibility.

We missed a pretty big deadline not too long ago. In the retro, I accepted a lion's share of the responsibility. I'm a senior dev rather than a team lead, but I had my head down during a lot of the technical discussions and PRs rather than diving deep with the juniors and mid-levels. I apologized for it.

I have made myself more available since then. PRs have been under more scrutiny from everyone, and I feel like the constructive feedback and requests for comments have been flowing more openly.
I think they meant the code generator tool.
If anyone thinks that product managers enjoy being Jira monkeys and doing tedious documentation, you would be mistaken. I think most PMs will embrace AI, loving that it frees them to do the actual job of talking to people and directing where the product will go.

And there are plenty of teams working on this - I expect we'll see a strong competitive landscape in this area over the next year.

But the answer comes down to the same thing as any other area - AI will change how teams and processes operate, and people will either adapt and thrive... or not.
Like the joke about Stalin's underling muttering under his breath about "that bastard with the moustache", I wouldn't be surprised if either (a) the original censors had said "anti Austria-Hungary good" without giving a moment's thought as to how well the satire fit their own system, or (b) a particularly bright censor (or set of censors) realised they could always fall back on (a) for plausible deniability. Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39697389 (or https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/b/ba/Sharik_Figvam... ?)
This says parts are only available to paid subscribers, but when you click subscribe there is no price only an email sign-up form. What does this cost?
Researchers uncover protein responsible for cold sensation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem! let you play PSX games at better resolutions on other hardware (Windows or Dreamcast) during the system's life.
Why wait until you’re dead to tell your loved ones important messages? Why not say it to them in person when you’re alive?
It's not done at all - and there are no top lists. It's a vacuum. The main ray of hope here is the EU's Digital Services Act, which will hopefully force them to provide info
The amount of undue hate that people on the spectrum
get for being sociopaths or narcissist is awful. You
are correct that they may misunderstand or "not get"
social situations. You are incorrect in that they
don't care / can't feel the emotion of a situation.
Often they are overwhelmed by this and it's what makes
"dealing" (passing as NT) difficult.

I absolutely agree.

When I said the parent's post sounded more like they were describing autism, I strictly meant the part about struggling to understand social dynamics.

I might have been able express that better, not quite sure. But more importantly yes, absolutely agree with what you wrote there.
Sounds awesome. It's worth saying that the Serge Lang textbooks I have are awesome for learning maths from. I really love them - they don't treat me like an idiot and they have lots of problems to practise on - from basic to pretty hard, so I'm not negative about the group as a whole. I was genuinely curious.
I put together an iPhone app that guides you through all the steps needed to compute Pi to 100 decimal places. Surprisingly enough, this doesn't require any complex math -- just basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and long division. The hardest part is verifying your intermediate results, and the app will do that for you. In testing it, I've been able to compute about 40 digits by hand. The way I look at it, some people climb mountains, and others run marathons... I figured it'd be an interesting challenge to see if I could calculate Pi by hand.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pi-100-challenge/id6475694538
I mean, I don't know; I could never get into Twitter/Mastodon really, and that's considerably less effort than even writing a blog.

I never really saw the point of me publicly stating an opinion shared by the majority of people. I guess I post a lot on HN and I don't always have hot takes here, but generally I just feel like if my opinion is "basically the same as everyone else", then there's really not much for me to say about stuff. Also, I really don't think the internet needs another politics blog, so I'd have to limit it to Computer Science or Math or something; things that I actually have an earned opinion on.

Occasionally I'll have a "hot take" about software or something, but generally I don't think that they warrant an entire post, which is why I initially thought Twitter might be a good fit. I am afraid that I really am not that unique, and I think I'm pretty much ok with that.

That said, it might be good to have a website as a testing ground for research papers. A blog post could be a "public beta" or something for a paper I'm writing. Maybe I should actually do something with tombert.com again.
Yes I do have data. You can have that data, too. Just do the testing yourself.
>The only small hurdle

That made me laugh out loud. I have no idea what a static IP is, much less LAN, and port forwarding sounds to me like it might be related to shipping.

Sign me

TechnoDolts 'R Us
This is an article written by someone who has no idea what they're talking about:

> Until now, previous attempts to convert evaporation energy into electricity have suffered from a low-conversion efficiency. But using the drinking bird method, scientists have managed to generate an output of 100 volts using just 100 millilitrers of water, enough to power small electronic devices.

I would take it with a huge grain of salt.
This is why we'll never see SpaceX rival out of Arianespace/ESA. France and most of Europe has a leisure culture. Good for them.
> Receiving/analyzing raw signals

Stock Flipper can receive raw signal.
Judge dashes Bitcoin entrepreneur's 'Satoshi' claim
I have ~11 yoe and have near 100% callback rate(50% for remote). All positions from 200-450. Friends have similar rates. And ~70% offer rates. Always confused reading these. But I'm also a low level developer, and only ask for ~250-3 salary/bonus. It feels like the people complaining are either really bad, have poor resume's, or have visa requirements. I tweaked my resume after not getting many callbacks and now have the near 100% callback rate.