skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty fond of this article. I think it's an interesting approach, and I think you can generalize it out into some very useful principles.

The big takeaway, I think, is that a particular module of code should encapsulate its own test double configuration & injection behind a set of testing factories. So rather than this:

m = new FooMock()
m.call("Bar", 1, 2)
m.call("Baz", 3)
p = new thing.ThingDoer(m)
actual = p.doThing()
assert(expected == actual)

Do something like this:

p = thing.makeThingDoerForTest(1, 2, 3)
actual = p.doThing()
assert(expected == actual)

Shore's "nullables" are a version of this, but to me it doesn't really matter what makeThingDoerForTest is doing internally to build the mocked-up test version of a ThingDoer. What matters is that the test doesn't have to worry about it: It's the Thing module's responsibility to correctly set up the test doubles involved. The unit test can use a special constructor that exposes only the minimum necessary configuration, and then implementation details about how ThingDoer interacts with Foo can be hidden inside the Thing module, as they should be.
All money is made up. The banks literally "lend" money into existence without having it backed by anything, the banks don't need to have the money in the first place, the bank reserve requirement has been dropped to 0% in 2020.
I will be very surprised, but if the Trump / Elon administration results in a better state of affairs for the world as a whole, then I will be eating a LOT of my own words, and I'll do it happily because "a better state of affairs for the world" is the kind of progress I want to see.

Totally and absolutely that is the outcome I would prefer.

There are just too many data points so far in the wrong direction in such a short amount of time that I can't see even a satisfactory outcome, never mind an outcome better than what existed prior.

On the flipside: the co-operation of European countries is a good outcome, and a version of Europe that can defend itself against Russian aggression without any US assistance is a better situation than a worse one. I don't think it's good that NATO is essentially dead, but something better has a chance of rising from those ashes.
More and more, and Foundation is now sharing a codebase between Darwin and non-Darwin platforms for many types now.
Why not? Boomers -> millennials will be the largest transfer of wealth in human history. No reason why Gen-Z won't have their own wealth to transfer.
OpenTelemetry in Practice: Useful, but Not the Endgame for Users
>It’s not clear why the superellipse would be common and the superhyperbola obscure, but here’s some speculation. First of all, the superellipse had an advocate, Piet Hein. If the superhyperbola has an advocate, he’s not a very effective advocate.

Piet Hein was a designer. The superellipse, being closed, is a much more useful shape for designing physical objects, and fitting a roundish shape into a rectangular space is a useful property in our world of architectural square corners.
I actually did try this for awhile, and it helped a bit. I tried several other methods as well, but none were really effective for me.

However, the thing that finally did the trick for me was something called "brick" (https://getbrick.app/). It's basically an nfc tag, that works with a tiny app that uses Apples screentime API to either allow/deny list specific apps or websites. Once "bricked" you have to physically scan the NFC tag device to unlock those apps/websites. I used it to block the things I found detrimental, but which were too difficult to completely remove from my life. Then I put the device in my car.

Keeping it in the car makes scanning it a bit of a chore. Which means I have time to stop and think about it on the way to the car. This forces me to make a conscious choice, rather than automatically reaching for the phone every time there's a dull moment.

I hear there's another similar device called Unpluq that has more features, and works on Android as well, but I think it comes with a subscription fee. Brick is more just a "thing you buy once".
Things I like about Swift: works great on Linux, fun to write in, excellent interoperability with C, C++ and even Java.

Thinks I like less: compile times, binary size, runtime type introspection overhead (Codable performance was killing our application), getting async/await right (still that's always going to be hard whichever way you slice it).
You can use ALVR to stream SteamVR games to your Quest 2. Some people use another app called Envision. There's a bunch of information here https://lvra.gitlab.io/
Its a Tarif!
I wasn't planning to respond to this topic, since I'm a Keralite living and earning in Kerala. But this seems a little odd:

> Kerala is a very empty place. People emigrate parmanently or stay outside for decades. Elderlies live on their own. Schools and home remain empty. It is just intuitively sad. One should read this interesting piece...

I'm writing this from my home here in Kerala. Empty is not how I would describe the place. It's very crowded around here compared just a decade here. My house was surrounded by farm land from 3 sides. Now it's all houses in close proximity. Even remote places were developed into commercial or residential areas. The biggest indicator is that the road traffic is way more than what it was 15 years ago. Schools aren't that empty either - my own sister is a teacher. Job situation isn't that great - in line with the global situation, but the private sector has been growing fast in the past few years - driven especially by a startup boom. We do have problems with some anti-corporate sentiments like 'nokku-kooli' (supervision fees). But it seems to be less of a problem to businesses these days. (Not sure what happened. There is less news about it too)

To add in more context, I lived in a western country for several years before returning to take up a job with a decent pay. I can't say that Kerala is too bad in comparison, considering the cost of living and the general law and order situation.
Please cite your sources.

(edit: Bloomberg says the banks unloaded their shares earlier this year, reportedly "without taking a loss")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

The bus factor (aka lottery factor,[1][2] truck factor,[3] or circus factor[4]) is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members, derived from the phrase "in case they get hit by a bus".
You‘re supposed to evaluate it in order to determine whether it’s wrong or not.
> XSL:FO is dead for all practical purposes.

As opposed to what for cooking "PDF via XML" files? Because I can assure you than feeding rando.odt into $(libreoffice -pdf $TMPDIR/ohgawd) is 100% not the same as $(fop -fo $TMPDIR/my.fo -pdf $TMPDIR/out.pdf)
The issue is the artist in this particular case didn't really provide their impression. When I hear that something is an "artist's impression" I expect it to mean that a reasonable thinking person read about the thing in at least more detail than I have (since all I've done is skim an article) and then created an image that conveys the information visually. If all the artist did is tell an AI to render "a piece of plastic dissolving in the ocean" it's not conveying any information that's not in the headline, and it's not very pretty either.

If the point was purely aesthetics, maybe they could at least use Midjourney or that new Ghibli style transfer thing instead of what looks about as good as old Dall-E? It's ugly. If the point was to convey information, they could have done that better with a 30-second pencil sketch, which would have also taken less effort than the AI-generated thing.
And then they get summarily purged by DOGE. Reddit LeopardsAteMyFace style.
The Gen X Career Meltdown
https://archive.ph/8n2iX
Isn't an ID, like a driving license/passport, enough to vote?
Is our boy getting margin called from his Tesla stakes ?
I don't think there are that many of them, and I think most of them are very much under the "Musk" spell. This would be the party to sue to block this deal, and it seems unlikely that they will.
I think you must have misunderstood my statement on multiple levels (or you're being disingenuous; it's hard to tell). I don't think you can ever prove anything to be true in science, and I expressed that in my statement ("likely to be true"). You could also turn what I said around, and say "novel hypotheses which are unlikely to be trivially falsified".

There's nothing swiss cheese about my heuristic definition of a research scientist AI; it's precisely the same thing that we expect human research scientists to do (I presume an AI research scientist could also write papers that get published and grants that get approved, but unlikely to be an effective mentor for a PhD candidate). It's also only a working definition that I would update if I found a good reason.
Not to worry! Per the "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections" executive order, birth certificates are not valid proof of citizenship for the purposes of voting in a federal election anyway.
> - XPath literally didn't exist when CSS selectors were introduced

[citation required]

https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116/

https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217

> W3C Recommendation 17 Dec 1996, revised 11 Jan 1999

There are various drafts and statuses, so it's always open to hair-splitting but based only on the publication date CSS does appear to win
This is not a 1st amendment issue.

This is a late stage capitalism issue where too much power has been consolidated into the hands of too few, and so much as a single comment made publicly can blacklist you from participating in any cultural event for the rest of your life.

Think of how many radio stations, venues, internet channels etc have been bought up by megacorp.

We have all the bad parts of a Gibson cyberpunk dystopia and none of the flying cars or bio-enhancements.
Well, I would have suggested that you put your money where your mouth is and buy out Fidelity et al, but it looks like you're off the hook for that statement.

However, secondary markets for these megacorps are relatively liquid, so the valuations are not actually completely baseless.
I always get cinfused between Avalon Emerson and Aurora Halal
Wow that was really comprehensive and much easier to read than I thought it would be for a military document.
Islam specifically rejects hoarding wealth, so I think that pretty much takes out most of the middle east

I don't know much about religions but I don't believe it is that clearly delineated. How would you explain Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, from my limited vantage point they seem pretty much all in on their religion. Are they practicing a perverse form of Islam like the Christian who practice prosperity gospel?
The vulnerability is that Signal doesn’t inform the user when there are additional devices added to their account?
I looked at the act and I don't see anything claiming that ID and legal birth names have to match. Birth certificate only has to be provided if you have no ID showing you were born in US
No, it can't write code like a Junior Zig engineer with 1 year of experience.
Separate problem, but yes that's a problem. Both sides are equally derelict in their duties in addressing that one.
I don't see it in the Android app either, and I find the original claim very hard to believe in the first place, since that would be a weird piece of information for Signal to reveal about a user.
And not a single map of Kerala.
No, it is critical thinking skills, because the LLMs can teach you the domain, but you have to then understand what they are saying enough to tell if they are bsing you.

> you don't have that experience in this domain, you will spend approximately as much effort validating output as you would have creating it yourself,

Not true.

LLMs are amazing tutors. You have to use outside information, they test you, you test them, but they aren't pathologically wrong in the way that they are trying to do a Gaussian magic smoke psyop against you.
Elon Musk's xAI firm buys social media platform X for $33B
I have been using CarlinKit 5.0 from AliExpress for last 1 year. No issues so far.
Lawyers provide legal advice but are not judges.
> This is not a 1st amendment issue.

It absolutely is. Freedom of speech means free speakers. If you're going to face petty punishments for the rest of your days because your criticized the "wrong" people then you are not a free speaker.

If you're serious about a free society that means you have to cop criticism, disrespect, and even mockery, most especially and particularly if you're in a position of power.
I highly recommend to the people cross-interested in film theory, the Eisensteins book essay The philosophy of composition. At great length talking about Piranesi perspective.
It would never have been universal of not for the EU
The U.S. will never allow any former president to get prosecuted because the precedent is too severe.

By all reasonable accounts, GW Bush should have been prosecuted for war crimes. Trump should have been prosecuted the moment he left office for a spectrum of crimes. There is even a strong argument that Obama should have been prosecuted for drone strikes on citizen combatants.

But power protects power, and the moment that seal is broken all hell breaks loose amongst the ruling class.

How many people were held accountable for the 2008 crash? Zero. That would mean everyone else has to stop their criming too.

Who knows, maybe Trump is stupid and petty enough to take revenge on his enemies. If he does, no doubt his entire administration is the next against the wall as soon as the winds change.
Tbh I doubt this is secrecy.

More likely just noone has taken the time and effort to do it.
We’re in an era of concierge medicine. At a broad level, I suppose everyone in the country being disease free was more an aesthetic priority than anything with intrinsic economic value.

We have a partisan lean on life expectancy [1]. Maybe the win-win is for blue states to stop fiscally bailing out rural ones [2] and focus on improving their own governance.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-li...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spendin...
This has got me reading about TURN and it just seems like a huge ugly hack. Two computers want to send UDP to each other. They are electrically connected by sets of physical cables. They could even be down the street from each other. But they don’t know how to get their routers to set the right bits in their translation tables. Instead it’s just easier to send all their traffic through a third computer in another city thousands of miles away or maybe into outer space and back. Have I got it right?
So an 11B loss in 3 years. Not too bad.
> The physical controller is precisely why I love vinyl.

It's interesting how djings origins in vinyl led to the controler interfaces we have today. I don't have any aptitude for djing myself, but also having played with mixxx before also, it makes so much intuitive sense why the controller format of turntables and sliders works so well.
I personally think it is very much worth it. But they have a liberal free trial, so you can find out for yourself if it is worth paying for your particular situation.
We usually ask around on the NANOG mailing list. Someone on that list usually already knows the contact method or a person at an ISP, datacenter or hyperscaler.

https://nanog.org/resources/nanog-mailing-lists/
It does, about three hours later? Or it did when I added a device a couple weeks ago.
You cherry-picked one sentence that supports your position out of an entire paper that repeatedly makes the case (with ample evidence!) that race is a meaningful factor in the rates of various types of crime (mostly violent crime). You also picked the one example that's referring to a non-violent crime (drunk driving), when the GP was specifically highlighting violent crime. The rest of the paper continues to make his point, and it's clearly been examined a large number of ways but a ton of highly-motivated people. The burden of putting forth a better explanation is much larger than "one sentence I picked out of a paper that reviews dozens of papers that contradict my explanation".

I don't think this is an "omitted variable bias" thing. This is a "confirmation bias" thing on your part.
People don't actually 'fit' into these categories.

It's just that people cannot easily sense when terms like 'right' and 'left' have become practically meaningless, and are being used as blunt objects by both sides, to no useful end. When the landscape approaches an even distribution of anything, there is no way out of a "flame war" as someone has cleverly put it. Signals get crossed all the time in ways that could not present in double blind studies of animals.

Like that old trope in psychology "Do you hear voices?" "Are they pleasant voices?" "Are they telling you to do things?" as a form of entrapment / diagnosis / dismissal.

Of course it's not that simple, until you meet someone else for whom it is. Then you're defending your sanity. Just to touch directly a bit on the discussion, I feel threatened by people who claim they don't hear voices. They're either lying or missing something.

Even splits of opinion based on observation and judgement (real or imagined) is a dangerous time.
hm... it the team is agile, then everyone does refactoring and it is team lead's job to assign tickets and evaluate. Team lead should have enough context to compare apple to apples.

if your work improving codebase is not valued, then its probably time to change job or just stop caring about code sustainability - let the business accrue technical debt, which is sometimes viable strategy if your runway and planning horizon is limited
I've made it through about 75% of the book and have never gotten the sense that they think everything discussed in the book is something you should always do. Each pattern discussed has a summary of pros and cons. While they may be a bit lacking, they clearly articulate the fact that you should be thinking whether or not the pattern matches the application's needs.

I don't think there's many applications that will require everything in the book but there are certaintly many applications that could apply one or more patterns discussed.
Markets are plenty efficient. They’ve just lit billions of dollars on fire that used to belong to people stupid enough to believe in Elon Musk.
Take a look at the Oath Keepers or the 3%ers and let me know if you think they are going to do the right thing here.

They took an oath to protect their interests. That’s it and that’s all.
It’s true that all money is made up, but not in the same sense OP means.

Like I could give you 20 dollars and it’s made up in a sense, it’s just a piece of paper, but also you can go to the store and buy things with it.

Whereas if you’re an investor in a company and the CEO does some self dealing which nominally values your shares at 20 million, you can’t go spend that. It’s even more made up
> But only in the context where the deity accepts that I can never be perfect and yet can be acceptable.

This is the religion where everyone, over 6000 years later, is being vindictively punished because a couple of their ancestors, in a single instance, broke a rule about eating from one of the trees. The deity, who is omnipotent and could decide stop this all at any time, allows for all manner of terrible diseases and pestilence to be visited on innocent children.
Is there currently a better use of the money? They can’t just double their GPU count.
Analysis of amplified ground motion in Bangkok from recent earthquakes (2023)
The 1A protects citizens from the government. Presently the government is being systematically dismantled from the inside.

Madison Square Garden and its investors have the freedom to bar anyone they see fit on their own property. Their portfolios are only getting larger.

That’s late stage capitalism.
Makes recruiting easier, better for the X employees as well.
especially .xlsx which is some "hold my beer" for someone trying to encode a dataframe in .xml :-(
Welcome to the real world of finance. Hollywood accounting is taking over the globe, and they need to control the government to do so.
"German pharmaceutical firm Bayer was forced to give up its rights to the Aspirin trademark in the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919, which followed its defeat in World War One (it also lost the rights to Heroin, but in hindsight it's probably not so upset about that).

The punishment only applied to aspirin's use in victor nations the USA, UK and France, leaving Bayer's trademark still enforceable elsewhere."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27026704
Threatening to de-fund universities.

Threatening law firms that have previously been on the other side of the argument from Trump's various court cases.

Black-bagging students who write articles and take part in (and maybe even, shock-horror, organise) protests (in both these case: exercise their "right" to free speech).

There are daily updates to a lot of these examples.

DOGE's "data" hasn't exactly been consistent. It's been needing a lot of on-going correction and has been attempting to take credit for a lot of things that required no active participation (contracts reaching their natural end, contracts that ended under the previous administration but paperwork remains to officially end it, and various other examples). Amongst various other failures of understanding of the underlying information.
> Technology allows surveillance at scale, and that attacks privacy in a new and deeply unintuitive direction.

Technology also allows for influencing the world at scale, and that attacks a lot of assumptions about what is "public" and "private" in new and deeply unintuitive directions, as well.
Because it's not feasible, and even if it was it doesn't protect you from police itself.

Whereas a camera is a cheap deterrent.
I didn't claim there was an exemption, but exemption or not the ways still exist. I'm claiming in practical reality bypassing kyc and aml is far more practical with crypto. Your comment is 99% academic without the context of reality.
I'm 100% your audience for this, all I want is for it to be able to automatically adjust it's color temperature throughout the day and I'd replace every Hue bulb in my house with it - can it do that?
This might be a bit out of date since I haven't looked in a few years, but my sense is that the standard libraries and documentation are often lacking. A batteries included standard library for gForth that could conveniently do basic things like make an HTTP request, display a dialog, or play a sound, without having to awkwardly bind to C APIs, would be really nice.
Stumbled on a Honeypot?
This is nonsense. The bureaucracy is created by Congressional statute. The Constitutional order obligates the president to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed and the president takes an oath to that effect. This president is acting deliberately contrary to these statutes, a violation of the oath of office, and reasonably makes the president's motives questionable if not illegitimate.

A president can veto a bill passed by Congress. It doesn't become law. The Congress can override the veto and it does become law, that any law obligates the president. Not even in the most extreme case of the unitary executive hypothesis can a president legitimately ignore the law.

The bureaucracy is a creation of Congress. The president can veto budgets passed by Congress until there is a compromise.

It's not legitimate to call only the president elected government as if the Congress has no say.
In late stage capitalist America, TV watches you!!!
Or, you know, you could just speed less often?
What was stopping him doing that before? He owned both companies.
Why would you want to run anything else?
By design, fuel for ICE is extremely combustible. EV batteries an only combustible because of shoddy manufacturing. That problem can be fixed, but fuel will always be combustible. That’s its job
Loved it, it's so simple and difficult at the same time. Good job.