skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You unit test the pieces, then integrate and system+regression test the product.

Its got nothing to do with how you define unit - just a way to:

1) speed up overall testing and bug fixing

2) get better test coverage of units

3) stop wasting other team members time by testing your unit before saying it's ready for system test
stayed in a hostel with a Dutch guy, big stoner, who ended up in Melbourne, Florida, instead of Australia

par for the course with that guy, amazed he could tie his shoes most days.
Better social support so they aren't facing homelessness if they lose their jobs or get sick.
On the payback period, that’s probably just outlay divided by energy savings. I’m sure you’d get more enjoyment from a more comfortable house and the next owner will appreciate the modernisation too so those need to be factored into the investment appraisal.

I doubt the architect puts such a miserly lens on the other projects they’re involved in.
we’ve been here before though, circa ww1, the Great Depression, ww2 etc etc.
the only difference is how much of what is going on is amplified today, compared to the past.
We aren't talking "towing of inappropriate loads" levels here, and trailers heavy enough to cause such worries (by being too heavy for the frame of a, say, Prius, not just overloading the transmission/brakes) really ought to have their own brakes.

The only reason these forces don't already disintegrate the frame is that it's designed to absorb energy by deforming, so that if your stopped with you head nicely braced and a same model car (not truck!) rear-ends you perfectly straight with say 80-ish mph, you can have a chance of surviving, by way of your rear frame delaying the kick to your seat and sacrificially tanking a good part of the kinetic energy the other car brought to your situation.

Similarly, your front is designed to absorb energy to hopefully not rip your head off your neck if you run straight into a solid concrete wall, and do so while directing the crumpling to hopefully also not squish your legs (as you very quickly bleed out from the major blood vessels supplying your legs).
"The world probably has never been as peaceful as in the last 50 years or so."

So all the defense ministers in europe for example, who urge us to get ready for real war, are paranoid then?

25 years ago it was mostly peaceful, with a steady downward trend since then.
And many people, including government officials, see now a war between china and US as inevitable. That is different from my youth, which was mainly optimistic, with the big players negotiating and demilitarizing.
In this particular case, the fact that Ben was previously in therapy for depression makes this a less compelling argument.
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I'm pretty sure that's just a remnant of a 3090 PCB design that was adapted into a 4090 PCB design by the vendor. None of the cards based on the AD102 chip have functional NVLink, not even the expensive A6000 Ada workstation card or the datacenter L40 accelerator, so there's no reason to think NVLink is present on the silicon anymore below the flagship GA100/GH100 chips.
> Alexa's value has been dropping for me a lot lately since they follow nearly every interaction with some sort of commercial.

This is every Amazon hardware product unfortunately. Kindles are the least bad, but they're not great. They sell really cheap hardware (TVs, Alexas, tablets), but you pay in data and advertisements. It's probably a choice many consumers are happy with.

I bough a FireTV (the entire TV uses it for the US, not just the stick) because it was incredibly cheap. $150 for a 42" 4K television, shipped to my house in two days. That's absurd. It has ads that like to autoplay on the home screen and its OS (I hate TVs have OSs now) runs like trash. I got what I paid for.

I'd pay a serious premium for a product like an Alexa, but with in house processing of voice. Maybe I heard that the Apple version did this, but I heard enough negative things about it to no care enough to look into it.
Unfortunately, deactivating wasn't allowed (or at least wasn't easy) by the OEM's ROM. There may be an adb command, but it wasn't worth the effort.

I considered a custom ROM, but:

* My grandmother is averse to all change

* Transferring stuff (apps, settings, pictures) over would have been a pain

* It's a lot easier to support a single utility app than support an entire OS
It’s the same logic as slashing your social security net because a fraction of a percent might abuse it.
You say you have not seen any arguments that convince you. Is that just not having seen many arguments or having seen a lot of arguments where each chain contained some fatal flaw? Or something else?
They fight over who gets to teach the asian and white kids.
Playing devil's advocate here but do you think men are listened to when they complain say in China, Saudi Arabia or Germany where suicide in the young is much lower?
The expectation is that they would be more ethical, in the same way you would expect EG a doctor to be.
This is being tried in parts of the US as well. Here's a story from a few years ago about a ski resort in Vermont that is trying it: https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popov...

It made me wonder how feasible this might be at home, mostly for fun, but potentially as a source for summer cooling. Anyone have links to techniques that might work on a tiny scale?

Edit: Here's a better link about the Vermont resort: https://fasterskier.com/2019/11/innovation-and-the-science-o.... It includes a map of where this is being done. Looks like this one in Vermont is the only attempt in the US.
It is because the data (web logs containing web pages, timestamps, ip addresses, cookies, etc) can be sold.
can you elaborate? I am under the same belief as the parent commenter.

though, the fact that there are no real issues could indeed be an issue.
I hope you intend to encourage more people to become teachers by incentivizing them with higher pay (however that is distributed within the profession). Moral suasion can only get you so far, and is kinda suspect if you're encouraging people to walk into a bad situation.
The social media psy-op is succeeding.

We need to help get some people off their phones and back helping their communities and building local in person relationships that have meaning and impact.
Don't you think that audiobooks have become more popular nowadays?
What would make this even more useful (if possible) would be including 1) the UK equivalent of an ASHRE Manual J and 2) an ACH rating for the dwelling.

Heat pumps are great, but suffer from piss-poor installations and shitty salespeople. When I renovated my DC rowhouse, I talked to 6 different companies about the HVAC install. Only one, ONE, would do a Manual J. I had already done a Manual J myself (it's not hard at all) so I could compare their calculations to my own. They were slightly different (they calculated a greater load than I, but at the time, the insulation systems I used in the house were uncommon, so most of this difference was due to their lack of familiarity).

In the end, my rowhouse needed such a small unit (1.5T IIRC) that I couldn't get the SEER I wanted because no one makes high end units that small... I ended up slightly oversized at 2T, but that was necessary to get a unit from a good manufacturer (Lennox), rather than a pile of garbage flipper grade unit from someone like Goodrich.

What the heat pump industry is going to suffer from is the utter and blatant disregard to right-sizing units. The other 5 companies I talked to? They just walked around the house and then said shit like "This gonna need a 5T unit" and left.

Also, flex duct is bane of any central non-high velocity system. If an installer mentions flex duct for anything other than a short run to a register, run away from them. Flex duct is the sign of a lazy installer who is going to cut corners everywhere else they can, and especially where you can't see it.

In the same vein, if the installer doesn't have their own sheet metal shop, make damn sure they're buying your ductwork from a sheet metal shop and not from HomeDepot. One company I interviewed refused to do a Manual D (duct sizing) and said that a standard (i.e. we're going to get it at HomeDepot) 9x13 duct will be "plenty" for the return. The return (per the Manual D) ended up barely fitting in the chase alloted for it which is something like 30"x 24".

So be educated consumers:

- Do a Manual J and Manual D yourself, they're not hard

- Right size your unit. It should be running 90% of the time for max efficiency, so yeah, a smaller unit might take longer to cool or heat, but you shouldn't be turning the unit on or off but two or three times a year. A super high efficiency unit that is oversized is going to be terrible and inefficient. Don't fall for their shitty sales tactic of "but it's not going to be able to cool your house down as quickly as this 5T unit!".

- Demand good work. Like a plumber, never ever ever let an HVAC installer in your house unmonitored. I had to fight with my installers because they wanted to move a chase to the middle of the room "because it'll be easier for us". No, you have the plans, you quoted on the plans, so I don't give a shit that it's hard.

- Insulate and seal your duct work. You can't go back and do this, so make sure it's in your contract, and make sure they actually do it.

- Make sure you service your unit annually, it's a couple hundred bucks of peace of mind.
And the purpose of the test is to see whether the education took. Teaching to the test is the whole point of the test.
The implication is that countries that fund education more can actually pay good teachers well, so there's room for paying bad teachers less.
Your name by itself and not connected to anything else, is not PII. But there are many people who argue that.
can you elaborate? the current wealth inequality seems quite a bit better than a feudal society.
My sister is a very talented leader/organizer who went to teachers college and would love to teach but the pay isn't good enough for what she could get elsewhere.

Yet she still obsessively talks about how bad the teaching systems is here in Ontario, Canada and follows all the studies.

I could 100% see a large increase in talent/quality jumping into the system and taking over the culture. Or at least heavily influencing it. The gaming for tests is also probably a short term effect as well, the old guard doing what it knows best, just more of it.

But Canada will be the last place this sort of reform would happen. The unions completely dominate discourse.
“I want it to give me 1-2 events that I am most likely to enjoy.“

That's the core property of voice interfaces and I see surprisingly little awareness for that: it does not matter if it's a phone menu beep code tree or a GPT or a star trek ship's computer: the low bandwidth linearity of the readout will never go away.

This is what makes voice interfaces so hugely attractive for the "searchy advertisial complex": if you haven't bought enough ads that the almighty relevance algorithm (1) puts you in the top spot you're out. What used to be the first page on the web is the top spot in voice, second place is first loser. No amount of intelligence can ever change that, voice interface implies handing over control in an unprecedented way.

((1) technically, claims that result ranks are not sold aren't exactly lies, when result ranks don't go to the highest bidder. But that does not mean that ad spend isn't a contributing signal in any number of deeper layers so in the end results appear indistinguishable from highest bidder, only that buyers don't get any contractually guaranteed result list exposure for their money)
Yup, the IKEA one’s are more than good enough. And they’re borosilicate so you can even use them in the oven.

The plastic issue is also why I think people doing sous-vide are insane. You’re vacuum sealing meat into plastic and then giving it a nice long leeching in hot water. Sometimes with acidic foodstuffs!
Unauthenticated, RCE vulnerability in Palo Alto firewalls, exploits in the wild
We were closer to nuclear war in the 1960s and 1970s than we are today. Sure we don’t have it as good as they did in the ‘90s and 2000s but you wouldn’t know it from the depression and anxiety stats over time, which suggests that the geopolitical situation isn’t the main driver here.
Just in case I had something to learn.

Apologies for the risk of conflagration :)
To support this, all of these proxy wars have covert units by the major nuclear powers conducting efforts directly against the other side. If these are ever exposed directly, political pressures will likely escalate the war. The moment one side starts to lose decidedly, nuclear war will likely occur.
I mean the team has a lot of ex-iPhone and ex-iPad people so its not like a random bet on nothing, you're betting on if part of the magic that made those products left the building with these people. Easy to say it didn't now we've seen it but still.
I also think they absolutely will, once they get the actual full-self-driving figured out.
Doubt it would totally cover for it, but less access to the most effective means of suicide might play a factor?
I use Kagi heavily. I don't make time to follow their Discord but have submitted some bugs to their feedback forum. I also paid for Kagi+ because Orion is a cool project and I want very badly for it to replace Safari as my main line browser.

Honestly, this gave me the impression that Kagi is a move fast and break shit kind of company, with Vlad as a benevolent dictator type. Finances are often (I think) a disaster at these kinds of companies that gets fixed later. The t-shirt thing is sus but those shirts look really cool and I might buy one. Vlad being flippant about getting sold is better than lying about "nothing will change; we will find a buyer that agrees with our values" while looking for the highest bidder, values be damned. The email thing makes sense technically (they're basically trying to be a Google alternative) and seems like too much, but, hey, it's Vlad's money (I believe he bootstrapped this? If so, the investments they got were probably more donations than investments) and if the devs want to do it, more power to them!

Vlad is "my way or the highway" unless you convince him that the highway is actually better. I've seen this happen with many feature requests, like them improving WebAuthN support or integrating support for Apple's iCloud Keychain extension, both in the Orion browser.

Also, while Kagi seems to have pivoted from an AI answering service to search, it seems like a really logical pivot and comments like this:

> 1 AI should be used to the extent that it enhances our humanity, not diminish it (AI should be used to support users, not replace them)

give me the impression that they're at least trying to be responsible with this tech.

Everything in this article is mildly concerning, but the alternative (going back to Google Search and embracing a mono-browser future) is so much worse. I don't regret supporting their mission at this time.
For my part, I trust that they aren't logging my searches and I don't put any sensitive information into the fields that are persistent. If someone eventually buys Kagi then they'll be able to learn that I block Pinterest and boost MDN, which is way less information than Google collects and stores about me, and it's information I'm happy to divulge to get the service I want.
They do that anyway. It's always more pleasant to teach polite, intelligent children than noisy idiots.
I mean you probably are missing a bunch of details.

Being married doesn't automatically grant you citizenship. It does give a way to apply for a green card (IIRC, no caps on this path so it's "easy") which then gives a path to citizenship (naturalization).

So; no-duh if the guy's wife is russian she can be deported; she's probably overstayed her visa while caring for the guy.
> So all the defense ministers in europe for example, who urge us to get ready for real war, are paranoid then?

It would be good to see the evidence for a war from the last two years would a) cause suicide and b) do it instantly.
People die every day in America thanks to gun and "bomb" violence. Yes we are highly privileged people, but for most, its a hellscape.
Which vaccines?
This would seem to only work with unsuspecting gate agents that assume that an "already boarded" message must be due to an accidental double-scan (which is presumably the cause 99% of the time), not somebody different already having boarded using a copy of that same boarding pass.

One simple solution could be to show a different kind of warning for a double scan that's immediately repeated, and one that had at least one other pass scanned in between, requiring greater scrutiny.
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> cynical attempt at getting some "real world testing" on the cheap?

Nothing cynical about it. It's getting some real world testing.
What do you think Palantir are doing with all those drones over there? [0]

Surely, if you're in a sticky situation, something that might work is
better than having nothing? Often you don't find out the real tricks
of how to use stuff until its in the field. Maybe they find it's shit
as continuous wave and needs pulsing or something. Anyway could it
worse than an SA80 that jams every 5 rounds and drops the magazine on
the floor without gaffa tape [1]?

[0] https://time.com/6691662/ai-ukraine-war-palantir/

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/sa80-wins-prize-wor...
Humor, in general, is a wonderful tool in communication.
Yeah, I flagged this as the post feels completely unhinged to me, like the kind of ranting I used to get in emails from a schizophrenic friend.
> So all the defense ministers in europe for example, who urge us to get ready for real war

That is about deterrence, no?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/have-peace-europe-must-...
Teaching the test narrows the subject matter significantly. Some of the most important things I learned in school weren't directly on tests: critical thinking, fallacies, cultural studies, how to avoid being exploited.

That said, in some circumstances only teaching the test could be an improvement.
The US will likely intervene to make money for defense contractors who fund political campaigns.*

FTFY.
When I worked in a relatively well to do suburban district I had class sizes up to 35 students. Because I was a math teacher, administration did their best to keep our class sizes under 30, teachers of other core classes were more likely to have 30+ students, and classes that didn't have standardized tests might have more than 35. If I recall correctly, every year I taught 9th graders, who are often hyper nutjobs.
https://gosimplelab.com/ZM7S1O
is my report. I found their UI/UX quite good, and very comparable to a 23andMe experience. Pleasantly surprised to say there were zero attempts at ongoing subscription upsells, reengagement, virality etc.

Since my collection was based on a plastic bottle, I doubt microplastics would be part of the report. However the same lab offers other tests with different collection containers and different assays.

https://mytapscore.com/pages/specialized
https://mytapscore.com/products/pfas-water-test
https://mytapscore.com/products/microplastics-water-test

since the back end testing and reporting is done through gosimplelab you might wish to look at their offerings more directly
https://gosimplelab.com/solutions/pfas
SBF, like Bernie Madoff, made the unforgivable mistake of stealing from other rich people. White collar crime that preys on middle class or working class people is generally ignored in the US.
When an antibiotic fails: Scientists are using AI to target 'sleeper' bacteria
From Words to Numbers: Your LLM Is a Capable Regressor
We don't have enough firepower to glass the planet, and nuclear winter itself may be exaggerated:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and...

Just like magic... if enough people stop believing in nuclear winter, then it becomes a nuclear free for all.
My business has not (yet?) been compromised, but I did accidentally send my S3 bill into the stratosphere in the past 12-18 months by miscalculating API charges for some intra-AWS changes I was making with lifecycle management and bucket-to-bucket moves.

I wrote to support asking for a refund and explained my calculations. I pointed out where I had made the mistake, and asked for some relief on the bill. Honesty went a long way in that case, and they gave me a credit on the bill equal to about 70% of the total S3 spend. So they ate 70% of my mistake. That was more than fair enough; it was my error.

The amounts weren’t huge. They could have eaten the entire amount and it wouldn’t have even been a rounding error on their books, but I didn’t ask and I didn’t want to expect that.

I can’t speak for others.
I mean it's in the crown sourcing range for diffusion models and going to get cheaper. It currently costs 50k to retrain stable diffusion 2 (https://www.databricks.com/blog/stable-diffusion-2). So yeah, mandatory licensing of data on the open web would absolutely kill university projects and small startups. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say
I'm speculating past my understanding here, but wouldn't some sort of diffractive effect around the edge of the disk explain it? Like the further you are into the far field of that diffraction the better or such?
Regarding your questions, they seem to be about NixOS, which is a Linux distro that is centered around Nix.

I usually recommend this guide for newcomers to Nix: https://zero-to-nix.com/

I don’t think there’s a beginner-friendly guide to NixOS. I personally learned it (and continue to!) through a number of blog posts and examples on Github. The NixOS manual is a key reference to rely on, but not really a tutorial: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/
> This approach has seen a lot of traction during the past 15 years. [...] And it’s complete and utter rubbish.

I'm a bit tired of hearing this about literally every aspect or approach in programming.

There is generally an appropriate application for almost any tool, design pattern, etc. I see little to no value in making sweeping statements about how "rubbish" something is, especially something like unit testing (regardless of how most would define it).
A thing that no one told me until I was fluent in spoken English, is that while it has 5 vowel symbols, it has some 25 vowel sounds, and there is no good way to know from a written word to know how to pronounce it.

And then there's British English, where pronunciation of words like "margarine", "Greenwich", "Frome" or "Gloucester" makes no logical sense at all. I know the history behind the pronunciation, but it is silly to write it one way and pronounce it another.

I guess I am too Latin for this barbaric language.
I’d like to check out North Africa. Any suggestions on good cities (safe, clean, fast internet) with ocean access?
So what was the issue?

Unpkg runs on Fly with Cloudflare as CDN.
It's a rich dystopian hellscape where you will grind your life away with no upside. Well upside is the potentially getting rich part I guess.
The current party is well liked because they are trying to undo many of the issues with healthcare, schools and general mismanagement was done by the previous 12 years when Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark were premiere.

The new government has actually done a surprisingly good job at fixing things despite how badly the previous government salted the earth.

Speaking of healthcare one of the things they are praised for is changing the way doctors are paid. As a result we've had 700 new GP'S come to BCIT in the last year. I know people who couldn't get GP'S for over a decade that are finally getting doctors.

I have trouble believing you are from BC or perhaps you are abti-vaxx and have some kind of agenda.

Regardless I find your take very disengenuous.
The suicide rate among that demographic is likely not quite as high.