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What are your details for 10 chicken nuggets? Are they different to mine in Sweden?

Calories Calories 24grams Total Fat (31 % Daily Value) 24g 24grams Total Fat (31 % DV ) Total Fat (31 % Daily Value) 26grams Total Carbs (9 % Daily Value) 26g 26grams Total Carbs (9 % DV ) Total Carbs (9 % Daily Value) 23grams Protein 23g 23grams Protein Protein Saturated Fat: 4g (20 % DV) 4grams (20 Percent Daily Values ) Dietary Fiber: 1g (4 % DV) 1grams (4 Percent Daily Values ) Calcium: 15mg (2 % DV) 15milligrams (2 Percent Daily Values ) Trans Fat: 0g 0grams Total Sugars: 0g 0grams Added Sugars: 0g (0 % DV) 0grams (0 Percent Daily Values ) Iron: 1mg (6 % DV) 1milligrams (6 Percent Daily Values ) Cholesterol: 65mg (21 % DV) 65milligrams (21 Percent Daily Values ) Vitamin D: 0mcg (0 % DV) 0microgram (0 Percent Daily Values ) Potassium: 360mg (8 % DV) 360milligrams (8 Percent Daily Values ) Sodium: 850mg (37 % DV) 850milligrams (37 Percent Daily Values )

Re:Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes on Thursday August 24, 2023 @11:06AM (#37249681)
Open source is nice. I actually find these types of tools useful in testing where you don’t have time to do a full automated suite but you need to compare data between systems
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:54AM (#37249486)
Probably superseded (by y’all) within a week!
Re:Code Llama, an AI tool for coding on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:52AM (#37249447)
Maybe confused Code Llama with Llama 2?
Re:Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:40AM (#37249278)
Right click, open in new tab? I’m surprised if most people don’t know this
Re:Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:38AM (#37249251)
Maybe this should be settled Musk v Zuck style for the internal tooling crown?

On a more serious note how does this compare with Retool? I remember that doing the HN rounds in 2019 and it’s still going

Re:Leaving Haskell Behind on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:29AM (#37249135)
I think this happens with experience - I’ve recently done the same after spending years chasing languages to work in
Re:Leaving Haskell Behind on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:27AM (#37249117)
Stack vs Cabal was a huge argument where I worked with multiple teams using different build tools. Add Nix and nix2whatever, and it was more fun. Spent half my time debugging build instructions
Re:Pytudes on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:13AM (#37247899)
Thank you!
Re:Pytudes on Thursday August 24, 2023 @05:02AM (#37246589)
Etudes for Programmers is really hard to find to purchase - looks like it is around 450 USD on my local Amazon store and none in local libraries. Does anyone have a link to a PDF of it instead?
Re:Writing a Package Manager on Thursday August 24, 2023 @03:04AM (#37245900)
Thanks for the info! That would explain why I spend so much time fighting dependency errors when I upgrade something ML related ...
I got asked to write a book by Packt as a lead author with two years experience in a junior position. This was a (badly) paid role of like 800 GBP or something. Take from that what you will...
Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @02:02PM (#37239828)
Not at all! Although some of them will be people like me having it on the side monitor day dreaming while they write CRUD :)
Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:56AM (#37235947)
Please please let this bring on a second space race! I want humans on Mars during my lifetime!
Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:55AM (#37235930)
SpaceX livestream much more mundane things with tens of thousands of viewers
Re:Writing a Package Manager on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:40AM (#37235676)
I’ve heard a lot about Bazel but are there any good beginner tutorials? When I last looked it felt a little Nix-like (high learning curve to get through which I prefer to ignore for my tooling where possible)
Re:Writing a Package Manager on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @05:11AM (#37233521)
Bit of a tangent here but what’s a pip/npm/cargo like package manager for C++? For example ‘pip install boost’? I’ve never worked it out for hobby projects and never worked with it commercially
Re:Functional Programming Library for Golang by IBM on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:51AM (#37172942)
Imagine how much more productive we’d be if Kubernetes had VMMonads, and instead of yaml configs we have Kubernetes Combinators!
Re:Functional Programming Library for Golang by IBM on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:48AM (#37172916)
Step 1: Make a beginner friendly language with minimal syntax and nice concurrency primitives.

Step 2: Add “Monoids for the Endomorphism where the `concat` operation is the usual function composition.”

Step 3: …

Step 4: Profit?

Didn't the guy who made Homebrew fail his interview at Google because he couldn't invert a binary tree? That's a guy who has built a popular product in the wild and can clearly code but failed because of the leetcode barrier at all IC levels.
Re:DeepEval – Unit Testing for LLMs on Thursday August 17, 2023 @05:55AM (#37159403)
I logged them as issues for you, good luck! As a test engineer it's great to see more test tooling around generative AI :)
Re:DeepEval – Unit Testing for LLMs on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:36AM (#37158426)
The docs for this aren't great - leaked api keys, code doesn't run, etc...
Re:DeepEval – Unit Testing for LLMs on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:02AM (#37158180)
I really dislike benchllm's use of yamls for test cases - I'd rather it be in code.

""" input: What's 1+1? Be very terse, only numeric output expected: - 2 - 2.0 """

I don’t think we’re at the point of Asimov’s robopsychology!
The problem is when you use feature flags for customer-bespoke reasons or to enable paid features. Then they’re always there and have to be tested in combinations which sucks.
There’s many reasons you test in production! The most recent TiP project I worked on was running a regression suite against production to notify outages before before users did (in an irregularly used but critical system, such that you can’t just go by user logs alone).
> but with Python you'll never even know what the real thing is like

What do you mean? Surely the concepts are similar regardless of using Python or C?

Re:I’ll Never Be an Astronaut on Sunday August 13, 2023 @04:52PM (#37114339)
> Your priorities are messed up.

They could be from a country with a lost CoL so $28k is a huge deal, they could be living the life they want doing a job they love, etc... Just so happens some future tech is interesting enough that they wish they could afford that too. Not everyone is in tech for the FAANG bucks!

Although if GP wishes they could earn more I assume any account holder on HN is technical enough to find a remote job paying more than that if they wanted.

Oh of course, the title made me think he was already in some gulag somewhere though.
Re:I’ll Never Be an Astronaut on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:51PM (#37113690)
Agreed, although most companies in Oxford never really matched living costs either (well, housing costs) - Oxford Uni pay staff comparably to other companies in the area (like Elsevier or Oxford Computer Consultants). Let alone the low salaries in academia there...

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