skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit inflammatory... My experience with BA's is that they're like anyone else on a team. They are more skilled in certain areas, and they can provide a lot of value if their skills are used appropriately.

I've found BA's are very useful in the following areas specifically

- Communication with the market (either customers or in-market staff such as sales/support) to gather feedback about what they'd want

- Orchestrating decisions (asking all the dozen stakeholders what they want to do and arriving at a sensible conclusing)

- Arbitrating feature/UI decisions (people on the team aren't agreeing on whether we should do something or not)

- Documenting requirements (by this I mean the desired functionality that we believe customers need/want)

- Iterating and getting feedback on requirements

- there's more, but off the top of my head that's all I can think of

Sure, I as a lead developer have business knowledge and can also do the job of business analysis, but a dedicated BA will be able to spend more time doing that - increasing their skills, and freeing up me to do other things. If I take on all of the above tasks in a decent-sized project, it's going to suck up a huge amount of my time - in many cases almost all of it - so then basically I'm just a BA with a different job title. BA's are great if you learn to understand the role and how it can help a team
Same here. And yet, nobody I've worked with over the past 2 years feels Electron based editors are slow or unresponsive. I'm not just talking about kids who have never used anything else, either. Some of these people have been programming since the 80s.

It's like some people are sensitive to latency and some aren't.

I've also been told it's impossible to tell the difference between 60hz and 144hz. I can tell. I know this for a fact because my hackintosh will occasionally "forget" and switch my monitor back to 60hz when I wake it up from sleep. I notice immediately.
fwiw there's oodles of cheap, used 10gb expansion cards on the market these days if you got a spare PCI-E slot (just search ebay for like the mellanox connectx-3 or connectx-2). Switches with 2+ 10gb ports are also quite affordable now, too, like the CSS326-24G-2S+RM which has 2 SFP+ (10gb) ports for $140.

Cheap enough to get you a NAS & a primary PC on 10gb anyway. 10GBaseT is still super expensive, though, unfortunately.
Says the mkl user.

(Sorry, couldn't resist).
I really wanted to like Atom. I've always felt that with the right attention, web apps can accomplish most things that native apps can.

Atom seemed promising and fast enough (I couldn't perceive any slowness), but once I started adding plugins to match the features I liked out of Sublime, I found Atom got really sluggish. I haven't tried any other electron-based editors, but I doubt it has the plugin ecosystem to compete with Sublime to VS, or any other big players.

I didn't realize how important having a responsive text-editor is, though. We expect a lot to happen with each keystroke, and we expect it all to happen before we press the next key. This is why I don't think that text editors are best done in JS.

That said, if this new text editor doesn't have features that compare with Sublime, then it isn't much better than Atom is to me.
Google Fi is the exception, not the rule. You can get "unlimited data" LTE for $60+ with other carriers. (e.g. T-Mobile One is $70 for a single line)

Google Fi is for people who mostly use wi-fi. (I use Google Fi)
I'll rephrase my comment.

> Sure, but what is important for me or you individually is not how we should make decisions on policy affecting everyone collectively
Why wouldn't you just use regular Python?
I'm also not sure hospitals serving cheap calories when better options are available ought to disqualify the entire medical system. The people who make the decision to do that are corporate types and nurses, whereas the people who do medical research are doctors and those who do things of the sort mentioned in the article may be data scientists. It's not fair to disqualify the entire system based on one bad choice, and were it the greatest flaw of the medical system, we ought to thank God.
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> The one big pattern you see is the abandonment of the liberal arts in favor of vocational majors

Why not have both? The American College of the Building Arts awards a 4 year liberal arts degree with concentrations in masonry, timber framing, forged architectural ironwork, and other programs.

And with the fire at Notre Dame, there is assured work for graduates for generations helping rebuild.

https://acba.edu/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_stn9qSLOs
Twitter wants to pivot to a "we shove what we want you to see" model like what most of tech has done (Youtube, Facebook, every news service, etc.).

Let's see how this bold strategy will pay off (it won't).
Well, I'm still not sure what your point was. I think you were arguing that America's prosperity was due to the invisible hand. I'd argue it was the government creating industries such as infrastructure projects and war.
Additionally the Native Americans never laid claim to making any of the rock walls in this region.

Search up liDAR and New England. The region is still being scanned but each time they scan more and more walls are illuminated.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/crowdsourcing-to-map-t...

https://nhdes.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?i...
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> It’s like asking somebody if they want free stuff. Of course they say yes, it costs them nothing.

OK, why don't you ask these same people if they think taxes should be raised on people poorer than them. Do you think 71% would agree with that also? Because that also costs these people nothing, right?

In other words I disagree with your assertion that Americans cannot tell, or care, for the difference between an under-taxed wealthy person and an over-burdened poor person.

> Reminds me of the HN thread about the 2018 tax changes (limited SALT deduction). The same people who call for higher taxes (many of them in the top 5% income range) start complaining about their taxes going up.

that is because property taxes vary wildly across different states due to policies of the local state governments governments and it amounts to punishment of states that have more comprehensive taxation and social services for their populations, in other words, have a larger number of Democratic voters. Taxation should not be distributed based on political affiliation. The states that have higher property taxes are less of a burden on the federal government since their populations are more educated, less desperately poor, and have better healthcare.

As you won't be surprised, I live in a SALT-sensitive state, but even people here who live below the poverty line in a house that was long ago paid for are being killed by their property taxes. They are poor people who are over-taxed and the recent changes made things worse. My taxes did not go up at all since my property taxes happen to be quite low in any case. However, I still oppose the changes in the SALT deduction, for the reasons above. So another anecdote of someone that can actually apply reasoning about the common good to a taxation question rather than caring only about myself paying more.
It looks promising. But I'm not sure what features it could add over VS Code for me. I also worry that it won't have the hackability of Electron-based editors. (Before anyone complains about Electron performance, I haven't had any issues in that regard.)

I do academic research on code editors.
> is there such a thing as a bad Lisp book?

Yes, there exists a certain a really awful book from the 1980's about making your own Lisp in C, which has recently been reprinted in essentially its original form.
I expect some time since we began using speech to tell stories there was something considered to be a great flood somewhere. Either that's true or you've got a Russell's teapot situation anyways.

In both cases it doesn't make the story of Noah's ark true.
If any utility work need to dig perpendicular to the trench, wouldn't cut the fiber right away?
Some interesting bits to counter the title's face value:

> Researchers followed thousands of BJ’s Wholesale Club employees for a year

> Nearly all the studies to date had been observational and have largely concluded that the programs save some money for employers. But this study randomly assigned employees to a wellness program and compared their results with those of employees who were not enrolled in such efforts.

> Employers looking for a quick reduction in their health care spending will be disappointed

It makes sense to me that benefits come on a longer time scale and when employees join the specific programs that interest/apply to them (rather than random assignment).
Source: https://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/zeta/RHproo...
Sublime has been here the whole time :)

But, Panic are my friends, and I'm excited to try what they make.
I’d really like to talk to you about this. Could you please email me from my profile? Thanks much.
I've never experienced a slow down in VS Code, even with a 5 year old laptop. Atom is another story.
What went wrong during your first go at it?
Interesting, thank you. Not sure why the string function names, named blocks etc are bad. I enjoy them. Looking forward to reading about this Kotlin DSL though... I like Groovy for testing (your tests are more likely to compile even if they're broken) but it could be better.
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It correlates with what users want better than what a handful of HN professional contrarians think they want.
Definitely looking forward to the release. Love Sublime and VSCode. But both still miss something.
Most of the literature attributes the walls to early settlers and colonists. The vast amount of walls especially in places that were never settled makes this hypothesis wrong and outright misleading. Some walls were created by colonists but you would need millions and millions to make _all_ the walls in this region with in a time span of 150-300 years.

It's simply impossible for the farmers to have built all the walls, even if thats all they did was build walls all day every day for generations.

The early colonists were sustenance farmers and there are no journals or diaries or documents which talk about them building walls.
> the devs have taken over [authoring tests]

That's what happened in the projects where I used fitnesse, jbehave, cucumber, etc. The users couldn't understand the artifacts and what they're supposed to do, and the tools were highly idiosyncratic. It ended in becoming just yet another hassle for developers.
Also the bank will get payed, it just doesn't pass the benefits.
> To me, SOA is more about the implementation-- especially the old WSDL-driven part.

That was one of the tragedies of SOA. The S was meant to be service as in windows service but it was co-opted to be service as in web service.

Had it been called Daemon Oriented Architecture things may have turned out differently.

The same thing is playing out now with micro services.
What May actually believes I suppose I don't really know. But a large portion of the hard-line Tory Brexiters are adamant that it isn't a permanent customs union and absolutely will not allow the backstop option to become such. It's that very sticking point that has lead to her lack of support for the plan within her own party. The apparent contradiction vis-a-vis leaving your car in a bad place is largely due to that same hard brexit wing wanting both to eat their cake, have it too, and maybe steal all the cake from the rest of the EU (that last part is probably an exaggeration. cake is delicious and no one in their right mind would let it be taken away or even deprive another person of it.)
It's pushing 4x the number of pixels, unless you're magically not pushing data for a large portion of those pixels?
The real competition may be WebStorm.
> I think you are mistaken about the NYT calculator, it does exactly (1).

You are right. I goofed. Sorry. I remember seeing the investment variables the first time and then I forgot two comments up.

> I think people are way too confident on their housing investment. Some FUD is good.

You might be right about the first part.
And also not disagreeing. While not an expert (thankfully!), it was very prescriptive and theoretically suited to the development styles of the time. As you suggest, microservices is more ad hoc and puts a greater burden on good architectural and operations practices which are more informally enforced.

But, net net, I put SOA in the same general bucket as ITIL and other associated practices of the time. They meant well but for most purposes they involved too much process and were ultimately too tied to big vendors trying to sell stuff.
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I am scratching my head to why cracking a password is a crime?

Generally that means you already have a hash. Then your trying see if passwords match that hash... It's also not really cracking anything, but just guessing.

That's just math.

The crime was hacking the system to get the hash.

Moreover, what about all those researchers who compiled lists of the most common passwords was the act of guessing those hashes a criminal act these seems to be a very dangerous idea of a crime. As in it could ensnare innocent people.
Exactly. The first thing they teach janitors in universities is to never touch the blackboards in offices.
I have no idea if it is the antenna, but if so it certainly wouldn't be the first time for Apple.
Twitter is sometimes for little Davids the only way to put pressure on Goliaths.
I'll admit I feel the difference more on my work machine (i5-2400, Windows 7) than my home workstations (i5-6500, Antergos Linux and Slackware Linux). It's definitely there though. Slack is another offender; we use it at work and our few remaining Core 2 machines and AMD A10 machines are brought to their knees with the Slack Electron app. Those users tend to launch it in a Chrome or Firefox window and leave that running.

I can also pick up on different refresh rates, and I was extremely sensitive to it on CRTs back in the 90s and early 2000s. I had to run at least 75Hz on a CRT or I'd have too much "shimmy" in the image and would get a headache in a few minutes of work. 60Hz on an LCD doesn't typically bother me unless its grey-to-grey response time is poor, and produces ghosting. Even with that I don't seem to get headaches from LCDs.
I'm surprised there is no name dropping of `Hoare logic' here or in the article so i'm gonna do it. Hoare logic is made of triplets (precondition, command, postcondition). A whole bunch of things are based on that. To go further one can also search about separation logic which adds an account for abstract memory locations into hoare logic.

But actually i must say i'm not very fond of these kind of approaches. As is rightly made explicit in the post, a lot of nice properties of Rust come from it's type system. A type system is a way to annotate usual programming constructs with additional infos (types) together with a decidable procedure for testing whether or not a particular program is well-typed. And then we provide several key lemmas asserting that all well-typed program enjoy such and such property. On the other hand, program verification is a different beast: you annotate parts of your program with some form of specification (hoare triplets and the like) and then you try to solve the (in most case undecidable) problem of coming up with proofs that your program satisfies the specifications you gave.

The approach is very different: on one hand you restrict (maybe severely) the programs so that you can decide whether or not some properties hold, on the other hand you (mostly) don't restrict the programs and you hope to give enough hints so that the solver doesn't get stuck. Bottom-up versus top-down. Correct-by-construction versus maybe-provably-correct. I feel like type checking is robust/reliable/simple whereas verification is a black-box which isn't easy to understand and thus never feels very "principled". Sure types can sometimes be too explicit and heavy on the user, but they are also more predictable and consistent.

My 2cts... Anyway i'm not saying i think this project is useless or anything, most systems actually live somewhere between bottom-up and top-down, ideas from one side may help the other, and deductive verification may arguably be much more bottom-up than other verification techniques (all flavors of model checking, abstract interpretation etc).
Don't make the mistake of letting your personal preferences or requirements cloud the information available. The cars Telsa make are selling well, so obviously there are people out there that do like them.

It doesn't matter what you personally think.
How is that simple? What does "status" mean? I'm personally familiar with the word "status"—but whatever that property is, I'd have to re-implement it in my user agent, which seems like a waste because my user agent already understands HTTP status codes. How is it simple to have to look at and interpret two different "status" fields? (And that's just the first property!)

What part of the article is verbose? What's wrong with verbose?
Frankly I’d prefer this over one with an optical drive as I’ve no use for them any longer. Digital all the way.
the only people i know who take advantage of wellness programs are people who are already doing things well beyond the wellness program requirements. They participate in a variety of sports in all seasons, run 5ks or marathons, ski, bike hike or play organized sports. For them it's just a way to subsidize things they are already doing, maybe get a free fitness tracker or gym membership.
I'm always surprised by these threads expressing frustration at the timelines being re-arranged - then I remember I use a 3rd party client (Tweetbot) and that's why my timeline is not molested and spam-filled.

If they ever fully disable 3rd party clients that will be the day I cancel my account. I thought forced ads as you started a DVD were obnoxious...
thats why I double downed on my DIS and do not own NFLX; though I wouldn't call someone a fool for owning NFLX. I actually think both have room to grow, just that DIS @ 110$ seemed like a catch
I'm not sure I understand the rationale behind Koh's ruling. Why ought a firm be forced to license IP?

The Constitution patent clause grants Congress the right to "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." Would this ruling not, under that clause, be unconstitutional? Qualcomm is making use of its exclusive right. I agree they've got some rather bad business practices, and the FTC could try to get a ruling that they had to only charge for the chip, but I don't understand the way that ruling is worded.

I feel like the media model, the whole "you only buy a license" mess, is leaking into physical stuff. You now must buy not only a chip but a license? Why would a company choose that business model?

To summarize, I feel that it's not the best business practice, but don't understand why Koh ruled as she did and how she could justify the ruling's constitutionality.
if they deny it the only possible reason is to f--k foreign (in particular german) companies to favor US ones. sprint is practically dead now and t-mobile is doing fine but they would certainly be more competitive and would be able to offer a more competitive wireless market to consumers if they had deeper capital and a larger customer base for the transition to 5G.

John Legere is denying the story https://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobiles-john-legere-denies-justi... so we will see. The WSJ story could just be an attempt to sabotage the deal by introducing uncertainty.
Although I'm technically judging in hindsight since I wasn't there, I don't think I'm being unfair in my judgement. I have experience in safety and I've seen better and worse safety reviews than this one. Although there were plenty of external factors that pushed people to act the way they did, the people we're talking about were the responsible authority for vetting these issues. It was their job to take ownership of the issues and their inquiries, and they failed to conduct themselves appropriately.

Just because their mistake didn't push the failure rate past the acceptable limit doesn't absolve them of anything.
I thought they realized trying to make Twitter more like Facebook was a mistake but then I read they want to force content from non-followers even more. Oh well.
I've seen sharing Plex libraries from people who couldn't close a pop up on Facebook lately.

Not to mention all the side-loaded Firesticks with Popcorn time.
> Entertainment doesn't count.

But it's what like 90% of users use their devices for! :-/

Sorry about that, but you (and me) are a minority.
Cython works for ahead-of-time compilation. (Pandas requires it, for example). Making it work in the browser would also mean putting a C compiler there, which people have done. I have no idea how well that would all hold together, though.
Nice! I did not have a chance to look at the issue discussion. Thank you for pointing it out.

It's good to see that Rust is learning from Ada. Ada is also learning from Rust: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07047
Project Fi is a little more expensive but can be used as an unlimited plan at $80/mo for a single line, as they stop charging for data after 6GB.
> The Withdrawal Agreement that May is pushing

Is irrelevant, even if you had described it accurately, because it's clearly never going to pass Parliament.
Modestly named "The Final and Exhaustive Proof".
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>but The Drive's counter-argument makes an apples vs. oranges comparison.

I will go one step further, The Drive's number is just straight dishonest. It lists that number as "the average fuel economy of all vehicles in the US hit 24.9 MPG in 2017". If you click through to the EPA report it list that 24.9 number as for "all new vehicles". It also says the number was 23.6 in 2012. The average car on the road is roughly 10 years old so that 23.6 number is still too modern to apply to "all vehicles in the US". So if you subtract non-ICE vehicles and factor in that MPG has been improving, the 22 MPG number from the original report seems perfectly reasonable.
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That sounds like the senate/house of reps with a bias toward inaction. Biases toward action or inaction can be exploited.
Is it perhaps that the Asian parents can use physical discipline against their kids, whereas e.g. White parents wouldn't get away with that so easily?
I built Lambda's 4-GPU deep learning rig for $4000 cheaper
Hi hackers!

This is a follow-up to the previous post "I built Lambda's $12,500 deep learning rig for $6200" which had around 480 upvotes on Reddit. That previous build had only 3-GPUs and took some shortcuts. In response to the hundreds of comments on that post, including comments by the CEO of Lambda Labs, I built and tested multiple 4-GPU rigs. I'm back to share a near-perfect 4-GPU deep learning rig with the highest performance and reliability, no thermal throttling, and lowest cost. This build is nearly identical to Lambda's 4-GPU workstation, but costs around $4000 cheaper. Happy building!
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Surely in regards to the current top post on HN: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/qualcomm-and-apple-ag...
search google, this experiment has been done a few times. You can get the required caloric intake for an adult for under $30 per month.

it's not the tastiest of food and it'll be mostly the same, but it can be done.
I doubt they'd ever qualify or admit that, since caching pretty much any user data has always or nearly-always been against the API TOS.