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dignati··on Ask HN: How do you work with Dependabot?
> one that broke the test runner, and ignored a number of tests

That's unfortunate! For the project I'm working on, we've "solved" that by showing the number of test and the difference to the number of tests that ran on main.

FWIW, at previous jobs, upgrading Java dependencies was a major pain because they were all outdated and the latest versions introduced too many breaking changes for us. At my current job, we pretty much instantly merge all PRs from dependabot because we trust our CI. Upgrades rarely introduce problems and if they do, they are easy to fix.

dignati··on Ask HN: How do you work with Dependabot?
> What I've noticed in practice however, is that occasionally, this process will allow an upgrade to a dependency that will pass the automated build and test step, but introduce the wildest runtime error into the application. Usually at the time when we aim to deliver something.

Sounds like dependabot is very useful for uncovering insufficient test coverage or missing integration tests :)

dignati··on Perfectly Cropped
It's the same on android
dignati··on Polish general who fought with Washington may have been female
I was under the impression that they later confirmed his sex as female using the DNA sample
dignati··on Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
Ironically that might be China, at least it would be with Bitcoin.
dignati··on Expanding Fact Checking at Google
"We’re also launching the fact check tag in these countries on news mode in Search"

So now it's also integrated into Google Search

dignati··on Show HN: RethinkDB change feeds for indexing Algolia
I wonder how you deal with restarting changefeeds? The last time I checked you'd have go through every document again after losing the connection to rethinkdb or restarting the server.
dignati··on Computing glitch may have doomed Mars lander
Given that it's an European project I'd be surprised if it was a metric vs imperial unit mixup.
dignati··on The Nobel Peace Prize 2016: Juan Manuel Santos
> That said, for all I know the white helmets is a front for ISIS

Never heard of this. Do you have a source?

dignati··on Boring but possibly interesting audio for going to sleep
The "chessnetwork" channel on YouTube is absolutely great. Interesting narrative and soothing voice.
dignati··on Specifying JSON
Do you have any data on that? We found that using transit could actually increase overall throughput because it does some minimal compression/deduplication.
dignati··on Untangled: A ClojureScript-Based Webapp Framework
You can add some sort of safety by only allowing transactions that use functions stored in the transactor.
dignati··on Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
It can be the same hardware but I believe that not usually meant with "hardware based encryption". The point is that the private keys never leave the hardware of the phone, thus making it secure. So they could employ the same hardware but the hardware does not have the necessary keys.
dignati··on Gaffer: Large-scale graph database by GCHQ
The name is ridiculous in german. A "gaffer" is a stalker or someone who looks when he's not supposed to. Quite fitting.
dignati··on Neovim public release 0.1.0
I can't find one either but this issue filter should be helpful: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues?q=milestone%3A0.1-fi...
dignati··on A New Algorithm Reveals the Hidden World of Imperceptible Motion
And the Person can see itself in a "mirror" that shows the magnified movements, thus making drastic adjustments and shortly losing all control.
dignati··on Onyx 0.6.0: Going Faster
I can't tell much about it but we are using Onyx in production in a few months. Has been a real pleasure to use so far.
dignati··on American students head to Germany for free college
Not the same, CS majors in Germany have to choose one "Anwendungsfach" that consist of a subset of classes of natural-sciences, humanities or engineering majors. You have to choose one and stick with it. Also there is the "Nichttechisches Wahlpflichtfach" (probably the most german words I know) which can be a language class or mentoring first-semesters or something similar. So I feel like we get a lot of interdisciplinarity.
dignati··on A Comparison of Log-Structured Merge (LSM) and Fractal Tree Indexing
The issue seems yo be that writes in Fractal trees always go through the root node. This would lead to a situation similar to small B-Trees where writes will most likely access the root node and contend.
dignati··on Efficient Nested React Components
The render function only renders to the virtual DOM, which React diffs with the previous rendered virtual DOM to decide what changes to the real DOM have to be made. That's why the render function is, or should be, efficient.
dignati··on Efficient Nested React Components
The implementation feels like a complete overkill to me. The most obvious one being the Column component. I don't think you can judge the whole library on one instance where it's used (seemingly) without much experience and with an over the top approach.
dignati··on Why Some Bankers Are Leaving Finance for Fintech Startups
500,000 jobs in Software Development and Cybersecurity and 250,000 unemployed bankers who are all keen to work in technology? That sounds like nightmare material to me.
dignati··on The new MacBook
Yes, I'm concerned about performance too but. Scaling on my 15" rMBP from 2012 definitely looks good, I usually keep it at one step lower (more screen space) than reccomended. If your eyes can take it, you won't loose quality.
dignati··on The new MacBook
> Resolution of 2304x1440 which means at Retina this is 1152x720!. This is worse than the 11 inch air, much less the 13 inch 1440x900. I don't think people realize how cramped this will seem if you start doing work on this laptop

You can still scale the screen resolution and get a higher resolution than the Air's 1440x900.

dignati··on Sell your poop for $13,000 per year
"fecal matter" is used later in the article. They probably just used "poop" in the title to catch more eyes.
dignati··on Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
Then the full name should be anough to determine the floor. More problematic though is the inaccuracy of GPS. Where I live, my smartphone's GPS encircles 3 buildings.
dignati··on Automatic Algorithms Optimization via Fast Matrix Exponentiation
The language he describes is not Turing-complete, which limits the number of use cases. Still very interesting when you have such a situation.
dignati··on Can you out-race a computer?
I'd love to see that. But I think one would have to understand a bit about AI to enjoy this, which is generally not the case. Most people would probably just think of it as a video game AI.
dignati··on Amazon leaks Kindle Unlimited
The Kindle has a T2T engine which makes a pretty good job, I think.
dignati··on Show HN: Kaffee Bitte, specialty coffee delivery for Germany
I signed up and ordered a 2-weeks delivery but must have missed to enter the code. Can I do that after my registration?
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