skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has always been a lot of argument about the gospels, as they put forth a radical idea that is unacceptable to many. However, just because people argue about it does not take away from the claims made there, or the internal consistency of the accounts. Are there claims of inconsistency? Sure, but they don't stand up to inspection.

Monty Python was a genius comedy troupe, but all you have to do is look at the sad life that Cleese ultimately led to see they may not be a source of inspiration for how you should lead your life.

The disciples of Jesus on the other hand were, with one exception, killed for their beliefs. The one exception being John, who died in exile on an island.
Why are there so many weird tech patents?
5G has nothing to do with the problem you’ve described — a symptom of insufficient tower backhaul. It’s typical for 4G LTE operators to deploy a minuscule 100Mbit fiber connection per tower. We should be investing in 1Gbit backhaul of LTE.A, but that’s not a sexy message for consumer TV ads.

The farce of 5G is that it’s a pure marketing ploy. It’s not driven by technical need.
Most of the time people leave bosses, not the job or the company. Almost all interactions are relatively close by, colleagues and their direct boss and if that isn't a comfortable environment with trust then usually that is what leads to resignation.

If you don't know this individual it is unlikely they will honestly tell you why and the boss or coworkers may very well give no honest insight either regardless of the questions. They want out and they don't want your organisation ruining their future prospects with a bad reference. Most people do try to fix the problem before they just leave so at this point they consider it not worth voicing the problems further.
I was repeating what I've read. When The Washington Post reported[1] about NOAA director Neil Jacobs's testimony before congress on the issue, they wrote:

> With this reduced forecast skill, the European model would not have predicted 2012′s Superstorm Sandy hitting the Northeast coast several days in advance, Jacobs said. Instead, the model would have steered the storm out to sea. Lead time to prepare for the storm would have been cut short.

Was The Washington Post mistaken?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/05/23/head-noaa-...
Bird – alternative to inspec and goss written in Perl6
Bird is under active development now, but you can you give it a try and see how it differs from other tool. It's written in Perl6 and exposes pure Perl6 API.
https://github.com/melezhik/bird/blob/master/README.md
pervasive AR/VR is supposed to be the killer app for 5G, but i'm personally not excited about it (à la 3D TV).

just give me the lower prices we were promised by the carrier oligopoly in exchange for all those governmental concessions (not holding my breath).
Strongly disagree with this sentiment. Which 'dimension' are you exactly putting a 'high bar' on? How does one measure 'quality'? How do you know the 'quality' of what you consume until you consume it (reviews? how do you trust the reviewer? also a 'high bar'?)?

I strongly believe that you need to consume and produce a wide variety of content before you can even form a consistent notion of what you consider 'quality'.
I think another problem is high heat applications, how well does spider silk stand up to fire?
Recently I was trying to automate something with gsutil (Google's storage CLI) using Powershell remoting to a Windows host. gsutil is a totally well-behaved posix app, which emits status information to stderr. The bug is specifically that when using remoting (Windows equivalent of ssh) the error is uncatchable.

[Remoting Bug] https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3996

[RFC for improved error handling] https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-RFC/pull/88

Ultimately I just want Powershell to handle well-behaved posix apps in a sane way, but honestly the reaction of some of the people on the thread seems like there's a huge cultural gap between Microsoft and the Posix community. (Which, Microsoft claims to be a part of but clearly is not.)
i agree with the sentiment. i was just thinking about it yesterday. what if there was a pure javascript based system programming language? with none of the event loop thingies?

i mean can we have a normal javascript that compiles to a x64 binary and calls the OS?
Your understanding is wrong. Cheap vape liquid from dodgy sources years ago used diacetyl. This was quickly discovered and vapers stopped purchasing it and it immediately became prominently listed on pretty much all products what proportion of vegetable glycerin and/or propylene glycol is being used and that those are the only ingredients aside from nicotine and flavoring. If anyone is still using diacetyl they are probably dodgy gas station disposables from China.
I don't think I fully understand what you've said. I'm sorry for butchering this but, do you mean to say that when specific questions are asked the underlying assumptions are so out of sync that you cannot formulate an answer they would understand?

I think an example would help?
If I am given credentials to a bank account willingly by someone, but am not officially a person on the account, am I not allowed legally to use the account?

I ask that, since it appears there was no hacking involved here, so I assume this is an account she had access to from when they were together.
> If the workload is consistently overflowing to your weekend that means you are having issues estimating the time/effort it takes to finish your tasks.

It could also mean that your employer is having issues estimating the time/effort it takes to finish your tasks. Or that they aren't, and just don't care.
Thanks! I have the same feeling - the ecosystem with F# feels more robust and production ready. But it might be just because I've never been a Java guy and the things that seem obscure to me in Clojure are trivial to Java people.
I think the answer to your question would be: it depends on external constraints. How much time do you have? What is the scope of the project? Size of your team? Number of stakeholders? Budget? Etc.

In my mind, the crux of the entire exercise is trying to translate a complex murky real world problem domain into a mental model that can be expressed via a shared language describing properties, aspects, processes, concepts, etc.

The challenge is getting that translation done in a timely, secure, efficient, performant, maintainable manner.

Quantifying that translation into a comparable measure? That's where you'll find your in the same boat with many other project managers who make guestimates and hope that everything pans out in the end.

Trying to see it as a purely computational problem will confront you with that other evergreen: the P equals NP problem.

My point is that trying to find a hard model that answers your particular question pertaining to UML is very hard since there is no neat general foundational model here that allows you to compute hard, quantifiable predictions about the usefulness of a given tool.

I suppose it's like with so many trades. It depends on the experience of the expert to assess what strategy is best. It's okay to question that experience in hopes of avoiding all too human biases that cloud our view from what we are actually trying to solve. Even so, questioning any and all statements because you can't boil it down to hard data equally might threaten to narrows one's view.

If your experience tells you that UML works for you as a tool, then, by all means, stick to UML. Even when there is more then one approach to a solution. If you use pen and paper to quickly draw stuff, well, that's equally valid if that works for you. I just wouldn't dismiss an approach because its usefulness can't be measured up front. Reality is far too complex and sometimes there's simply no point in dwelling too much upon all of this in the first place.
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Yes! That was the first thing I thought of: "I don't understand how it subtracts"
I agree with you. There's another angle to look at it though other then "evidence based" or scientific.

In the field of engineering a large portion of it has to do testing to verify systems that are unpredictable or not modelled by theory. For example: building a plane involves testing it a wind tunnel.

The thing with computer systems is that computers are deterministic math machines. You don't need to test a computer system because it's output is 100% consistent and bounded by theory (most of the time). Thus you can use axioms, theorems and proofs to build your systems. This is not an "evidence based" or scientific approach to architecture this is within the realm of math and logic.

Unfortunately a large part of software is still an art and we still treat a huge portion of it as if it was a physical unpredictable system with unit testing. Theory is a bit underdeveloped in computer systems. Where it is underdeveloped is: any engineering problem that sports the term "design" is a problem space where no theoretical basis exists (or is known to exists by the user of the term). For example the "design" of "system architecture"

Amazingly such a theory sort of actually exists in Computer Architecture but is relatively unknown. It's newish, not concrete and it's not fully fleshed out in the context of computer system design. It's called Category Theory and it's mind bending because it turns this vague concept of "design", "architecture", "abstraction", "composition" and "process" into a language that is formal and well understood.

Though I don't think it's part of category theory yet, and I'm still a bit of beginner, but a formal language for system architecture at every layer allows for a different way of solving problems. Instead of "designing" solutions adhoc, we could be able to "derive" solutions. Given a problem you would be "deriving" a system architecture as a solution rather than designing one.

This is what I see missing from every single one of Martin Fowlers lectures. He treats this stuff like it's 100% art, and while it largely is, the overall goal of architecture should be an application of Theory, Science and Art.

Theory is priority, it says definitive things about a system, Science is secondary as it gives quantitative probabilities about things not described by theory, art is tertiary as whenever you employ art or your "design" chops you are admitting that you are operating in an area where no theory or science exists (yet). Martin Fowler treats architecture as if it was 100% in the domain of art, when the reality is it's actually the amalgamation of all three concepts.
It depends on what you need. If I need a Docker expert, you can be sure I'll tailor my interview to a Docker deep dive with very precise and detailed questions about commands, concepts, etc. The first step in any interview process should be to think very clearly about what you need and to then adjust any template you have to those needs.
"content"
All the synthetic silk products I’ve ever seen are very susceptible to UV damage. Modern synthetic winch lines are synthetic silks, and while they are very strong, they need to be kept covered to ensure UV stability.
> As a user I want back the documents I’m looking for

Of course! But converting from a search query to an ordered list of documents requires choices about ranking and filtering to be made.

If I search for "irs" do you include spam phone numbers attempting to steal my identity? There's distinct value to not returning garbage results, but how you do that is going to be called political by some people. And choosing not to do anything is going to be called political by others. There is no non-political choice, despite what you keep implying. Like, given a search query, you can't tell me the objectively correct set of results to return. If you could, you'd be very, very, very rich.

In the absence of that objective, perfect, "true" result, any choice is political in some way or another. Pick an algorithm and I'll happily explain to you a failure mode that is "political".
It was a decade before I was born, but my understanding is that they had high level sources leaking material and were therefore very relevant to what was going on at the time.
It's probably extremely expensive, so you need to use it in very high value products.
Of course I agree with your sarcasm that it's more likely about population replacement and wage reduction, but I'm just saying the public political justification we were given for H1B was supposedly to temporarily cover our skills gap.
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Code splitting, live reload, things that come up like: we have some components that are using react native web, they will be imported into both web and native mobile applications, how do we prevent native sub dependencies of that component from being imported? What if you have multiple bundles but only want angular in one?
Or used a pencil and notebook
If you don't mind me asking, why did you change from that iPhone 4/5/6 which withstood those keys so well and still sound good? I'm still using a device from the iPhone 4 era - not an iPhone though - which still works fine and continues to be useable as an 'outdoor' phone due to its smaller size and the fact that it is waterproof. I was only forced to get a newer device about a year ago due to the fact that the Swedish electronic ID app - without which it is getting harder and harder to interact with many government services - stopped supporting Android 4.4, otherwise that phone would have remained my 'daily' device.
I (mostly) disagree. I always prefer to take RideAustin now because they pay their drivers more and donate a large amount of money to local charities with their round up feature.

RideAustin was most definitely sub-par when it first came out, but considering it was rushed on a teeny shoe-string, non-profit budget, that's not surprising. I'm sure Uber and Lyft had lots of issues when they first launched, too.

Point being these days RideAustin is 100% adequate. It gets me from A to B at a fair price, quickly.
So, did they tried weaving a 1-cm diameter rope, and testing it against a similar diameter steel rope?
I wish it were easier to distinguish vaping dry flower from liquids. They aren’t the same but I hate calling my pax a vape for some reason.
Well, technically there may be a middle market for remote human controlled cars where a live video stream is necessary.
This title summarizes it - https://boingboing.net/2019/04/10/ai-8k-5g-ecosystem.html ; after falling back on their promise of building a TV factory in Wisconsin, Foxconn said the would be instead doing “AI 8k 5G” the online buzzword missing was blockchain.
Radio is used more frequently in poorer and more rural communities.
So they install one self pay cash box? Not a big deal, and probably required for ADA. Not all seniors have access to electronic payment.
I don't think dry ice was anywhere within reach at the time, or even in my vocabulary :).
I'm not so sure, because the Life of Brian didn't make fun of Christianity, although it did poke fun at the throngs that were searching for a messiah. Similarly, I think you could pull off a comedy about a bunch of Bedouins in 7th century Arabia who are generally ignorant of the actual current of change in their time and seeking a different, abortive attempt at overthrowing the established order.
And honestly, they should start by improving home internet. It's already at the point where 4G is often more reliable.
Why not? Do US area codes actually do something in 2019?
In my country (Spain), there are religion classes from primary school all the way until university. For public (state managed) schools - which are the majority - students choose between religion or an optative class, which usually consists of either ethics, morals, or world religion from a non-believers perspective (sort of anthropological studies).

Every year, the religion teacher at my school would organise a day together with the other class' teacher, where students of both classes would spend the hours together, and the activity chosen was a showing of Life of Brian.

I've always remember that as a beautiful idea. It's a movie that roasts everyone from believers to left wing associations, and yet with pretty clean humor - so it was an amazing tool to teach students of both "sides" the lesson that it's ok to laugh at yourself and to get along with others.
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In the US? Do you have data for this? Do those communities even have cell coverage?
Ah yep, that makes sense. Thanks for the detailed explanation :)

Actually, you just reminded me of my recent experience of delving into Go -I wrote a simple script to read in n YAML files from a directory and merge them into one, we're using the Prometheus JMX exporter which only accepts one YAML file, but using several smaller, more focused configs kept the complexity down.

I used Go to produce a standalone binary so that everything needed could be brought in from a tiny Docker image as a mixin. Go's default of building standalone binaries is what tempted me, it was far easier to use Go in a multi-stage build to create a static binary than it was to try to provide the same using Python etc.

But yeah, opening a directory, reading its contents, and then consuming all the files within it required five "if err != nil" blocks. But all I really needed was for an error in stage N of the chained IO operations to propagate through the pipeline so that the result of using the pipeline was Some(x) or None.
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Nothing like that has happened in the Angular ecosystem, the API is stable for 3 years, and a pleasure to work with.

I think this obsession with functions and the functional paradigm is counterproductive in the React ecosystem.

Sometimes, the best way to represent something is a class. When you have some data and a series of closely related fucntions that modify the data and are highly related to the data, it's better to use a class.

This hooks API thing is anything but functional, way too much magic. Its stateful programming diguised as functional.
Yes. The statute:

"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both." [18 U.S.C. 1343]

"Money or property" includes cryptocurrencies, and "wire" has been repeatedly interpreted to include the internet, email and text messages.
Curious: How would Uber engineers be able to detect Lyft notifications by just the accelerometer and gyroscope? I can't even think of how that would work.
I keep seeing comments like this one, but just as you can parse textual data into something more structured, like the examples in the post, you can also print the structured data as text. So the tools that use and generate structured data are no less compatible because it's easy to go back and forth between the formats at will. You're not losing anything with this approach.
Don't think there's a noun-verb shell, but in PowerShell the deficiency is obvious. Here's an example posted in a later link in this thread:

"Get-Process | Out-GridView -PassThru | Stop-Process"

Now, is it "Stop-Process" or "Set-Process -Status Stop"? "Out-GridView" or, say, "Show-GridView" or
"Out-View -Grid"? The other examples are all technically legal, and other modules can and do have such inconsistencies.

With verb-noun, I can't meaningfully complete for the verb when I don't know it, I can complete for the noun if I know part of it. But I usually know the noun, so that's not so useful.

With noun-verb, I could get a meaningful verb completion and still be able to complete nouns - with some duplication of results, though I think there could be a way to have some semi-completion for the noun only. A semi-completion isn't useful in the verb-noun case, since the program can't guess the noun yet and different nouns may have different verb uses.
...in SF

This issue is localized and not comparable to the pervasiveness of software. Other cities' startup economies will continue to grow and this will be less of a hotspot problem. [Funny in the context of distributed systems, SF is a hot DynamoDB shard and paying the excessive scaling fees.]
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There are two main objectives when designing conventional structures: strength and serviceability. We want to make sure structures have sufficient strength under very rare and severe loading to prevent collapse. But we also want to make sure they don't move too much under normal loading. It sounds like using silk would be a challenge to satisfy both objectives in many applications. In order to actually mobilize the tensile strength, it would require huge strains that would be incompatible with conventional materials. Or everything would need to be pretensioned up to some high stress. Likewise, for serviceability it would require either lots of strand under low stress or pretensioned strand.

That's not to say these are insurmountable problems, just something Ive never thought about before.
They can always rebrand it, like how 802.11ax is now "Wi-Fi 6" https://www.wi-fi.org/news-events/newsroom/wi-fi-alliance-in...
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The materials it is made of will still vaporize themselves a bit and what they are and how it is constructed still can have health impacts. Not that they will or won't, but that they could and it's hard to trust anyone.
It bothers me greatly to read so many news stories that have conspicuous absences of factual information. If there was a legitimately dangerous product on the market it would be critically important to share exactly what products, brands, etc are affected in what regions.

Imagine if we woke up to news stories saying eggs were contaminated by salmonella. And nothing else. Just a blanket fearmongering piece about eggs across the board with no mention of which producer in which region was affected, no information about what timespan the affected eggs were purchased in, nothing. Just 'people are getting sick from eggs and doctors cant guarantee you aren't next!'
That’s very informative! What do you figure are potentially new applications for this that aren’t possible without it?
I'm not advocating for anything. I don't have a horse in this race.

I'm just pointing out that changes in zoning alone don't tend to work to increase affordable housing supply for already high-value, desirable areas due to the inherent market incentive for a real estate developer to try to make more money by making more expensive housing units.
Would be easy enough to sanitize using radiation if you really wanted to. Fact is humans are resistant to many things.
Was referring to CBC. Reuters might be Canadian owned as of recently, but it's certainly not one of the top 3 popular news sources within Canada.
Ask HN: What's in your backpack these days?
How do you organize your everyday backpack?
> Your understanding is wrong.

According to vape vendors in my country, it's not.

https://vapourium.nz/blogs/vaping-101/whats-the-story-with-d...

"Diketones such as diacetyl, acetoin and acetyl propionyl are present in a number of these flavourings as they add an authentic buttery and creamy taste to the e-liquids produced by many manufacturers."