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> the final Falcon Heavy has 20% more payload to LEO than the initial proposal with crossfeed.

They met the payload goals thanks to unanticipated improvements to Falcon 9 performance. But it rather gives the lie to the "the CEO made a plan and they executed that plan" narrative; actually a substantial part of the CEO's plan was a blind alley and they wasted a lot of time chasing it.
See https://shellcheck.net to fix your script and follow good guidelines. Top of my head:

* /bin/bash -> /usr/bin/env bash

* You probably don't need bash anyway, so switch to /bin/sh

* errors go to stderr (>&2), not stdout

* exits because of errors should return non-zero codes. (e.g.: `exit 1`)

* Full caps variables are bad practise (might conflict with real, global env variables)

* rather than running everything as root (using sudo), I'd call sudo for the only few commands that actually require root privileges (I found none, so I suppose "security" is the only command that needs root perms).
I see more women glued to instagram than men

There is certainly some evidence that women and men use social media differently; Pinterest is 81% women for example, and only 7% of posts are by men. Instagram is 68% women. I don't know of any social media that is male-dominated in the same extent. LinkedIn is 56% men, Twitter 57%.
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I think the question here, which one is better:

1. A portable binary where only individual SIMD operations are optimized for all targets.
2. Building the optimized binary for every target architecture when needed (either by the user or by the binary distributor).

Concern with (1) is, as the number of dynamically called functions (or decided by if-else nests) increases the quality of the generated code reduces for any architecture. Basically, compiler will be left with opaque unrecognizable functions which restricts even the target independent optimizations (Like, GVN, CSE Constant propagation etc).

Let's say, if the user writes a SIMD program which contains full of dynamically called functions (which are opaque to the compiler), doesn't it impact the performance heavily?

Isn't taking the compiler support for optimizing the SIMD operations necessary rather than writing wrapper libraries ? For example, lowering the SIMD operation calls to the existing vectorized math libraries which are recognizable by the compilers ( Example: sin(), cos(), pow() in libm ).
Tech tends to attract both poorly socially adapted people who think they are smarter than they are, and those who excel at exploiting them. Combined with infinite money from being in the right place at the right time, it’s a recipe for disaster.
Often it is a favor to a colleague that is serving as the (also unpaid) editor to get a line on their CV. Given that the fields are highly specialized, you tend to work with the same small community of people (writing articles and getting project funding together, reviewing each other's articles, etc.), so it pays to be well-liked among your peers.
Nowadays yes, Galician, Basque, Catalan, Valencian and Maiorquim share their status with Spanish on their regions and have newspapers, books, radio and TV shows.

I know my Iberian friends might have an argument about the last three ones, but I opted to list them as such anyway.

Then there are tiny ones like Leonese, which the government provides support for learning and still have small communities speaking it.
For any kind of work that takes place in an office (as opposed to manufacturing or services), the default should be remoting instead of commuting to that awful places.
> Directional, reusable electromagnetic pulse weapons are still science fiction

As were drone swarms a few years ago. Don't underestimate the speed with which defence contractors will deploy solutions, especially if they sense that there is profit to be made. For example, OBSIDIAN, which is claimed to use proven radar technology to detect and track drones [0].

> Producing any significant EMP today requires a large explosion.

Which might not be a problem if you are defending critical national infrastructure or a high value military asset in a shooting war.

[0] https://www.qinetiq.com/what-we-do/c4isr/obsidian
Its very hard to turn down a request to review a paper you are qualified to comment on from an editor you know, or who regularly handles your papers. Editor X from Journal Y sends you a paper which you are well-qualified to review. You've submitted 5 papers to Journal Y in the last few years, some of them handled by Editor X. Are you really going to turn down Editor X's request?

What if the paper is written by Author Z, whose work you are familiar with and whose papers you read anyway. Why not review it?

And so on.
In the very short run, I think China wants to protect itself from what seems like a very adversarial, unpredictable and unreliable US.

Which automatically makes some military and defense people think how they could neuter their adversaries.

In this case, the US's biggest strength is the aircraft carriers. No other country, not even China has those many aircraft carriers.

How does one best neuter slow moving but dangerous targets? The best way is remotely causing enough damage on the hull that impedes progress.

Why will developing an equivalent swarm not help US in the short run? Because the China doesn't have such key large targets that the US could neuter. China literally doesn't have as many ships.

I think this whole uncertainty with Trump presidency is taking really ominous shape and I hope it's all ok at the end.
At the same time, this seems to select the worst of the candidates: those who care about prestige.
People which goal in life is to move beyond a 400 euros month salary usually have other priorities in life than buying an iPhone, regardless how much they might use their smartphone per day.
There's a moderately good cure for the subject-to-managers-whim problem.

Have a policy that in any case of performance issues, the person with the bad ratings gets to move to a different area in the company with as clean a slate as possible without being naive. Ideally away from the management chain up to and including the director. Then have HR reevaluate after 3-6 months.

It's only moderately good because it's never (and shouldn't quite be depending on the cause of poor performance) a completely clean slate and because it is very expensive to execute.

I've seen a number of folks who has relationship problems due to their environment be salvaged as perfectly good employees this way. I've seen others who left with the realization that maybe it wasn't JUST the manager after all and hopefully growing from that experience. And of course, I've seen people think it's all a giant conspiracy against them as well.
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Thanks for such news, here in France and in my home country Italy, we do not here anything at all... Well I know YLE because of an ancient article about their "Nuntii Latini" news but substantially nothing else.

Apart of YLE in English (witch feel... A bit limited) did you know other finnish media in English?
To also play devil's advocate: Flash was a great authorship environment, certainly far easier to write games with, and with better results, than C could give you twenty years before. Developing JS/HTML5 games is far more painful and unpleasant than developing Flash games -- it's a worse developer experience that somehow requires significantly more advanced hardware for comparable results.
25% of people die from cancer. There's big money in finding an effective treatment.
Have you considered Google Suite? https://gsuite.google.com/

You'll need a domain name to associate (and handle email, etc), and while technically you need 5 users to have unlimited storage, at the moment it doesn't seem to be enforced and a single user does have it.

Currently I'm storing ~50TB for $10/month. At this price and having 100Mbps Internet connection, I only turn on the NAS for local backups.
> Cancer will be a much smaller business when someone figures out how to put it in a more appropriate context, rather than treat it with the tired old war metaphor.

As a military officer who researches cancer and has lost a number of friends and family to both war and cancer, I think you may misunderstand both the way we live with and treat cancer, and what war is like. They are quite similar: all the outcomes take time off your life, there is often a significant risk to your life, there is liable to be a lot of blood at some point, and most of it is waiting to die while experts who know precious little more than you mutter and make pronouncements. (and I include myself in that definition of 'expert')
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If you don't have any inside intel, the next best thing is to ask for "a tour of the office" and take a big sniff of the atmosphere. Trust your instincts.
>This is such a thorny ugly issue to which there are really no right answers. It should be very clear that using a position of authority to coerce someone into a relationship of any kind is wrong. But at the same time it's pretty much impossible to prevent people from dating within the work place.

It's actually pretty simple.

The problem isn't co-workers dating. The problem is people in a position of power dating someone that reports to them.

There's a handful of of options here.

1) Don't do it

2) If it is actually legitimate and not coerced, you reassign one of them to a separate team and completely remove them from the reporting chain and any impact on the other's career.

3) If it is actually legitimate and not coerced, one of them resigns.

4) If it is coerced, you fire the shit out of the person in power.

If it's two people that are not in each other's reporting chain and one isn't subordinate to the other, or there isn't some other reason one could have an outsized impact on the other's career, it's generally not the same sort of issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_attack has a wealth of information on the topic. It seems likely that the attacks are due to animals becoming habituated to being in close proximity with humans and is probably exacerbated by being fed.
And nobody’s talking about the engineer version of this.
Making advancements in cancer treatment has to be several orders of magnitude more difficult than coding an app. Your point sounds a lot like a relative privation fallacy. That is, if the problem you are solving is not the worst problem then it's not important. If you were to found a successful startup, you could fund research that is important to you. I think the fat cats hoarding cash instead of investing in projects that will further humanity should be the ones who feel guilty, not you.
stack ranking != ranking. Even at El Goog, 50% of the headcount is performing below average.
> I think this is unfair

I'm just parroting the sentiments here. This is how this move is perceived.

I think your CTO is wrong on this. This situation is not something that is going to improve with more blog posts, explations, or proclamations from your c level executives.

So, a wise move would be to roll this back ASAP and withdraw the SSPL.

This license is no a solution to Mongo's revenue problems and may actually make things worse. It sure doesn't solve any problems your users are having so whatever this is, it is not in their interest.
I like the philosophy espoused by the Netflix culture deck, but it is obviously misapplied at Netflix. Totally stagnant company and product that hasn’t innovated for years. “Producing the c grade Hollywood trash that even Hollywood rejected” is not innovation. So many tech companies drink their own koolaid on this stuff when really they just got lucky.
Well, obviously. Robbie said in his Github readme: "When using any outputs of the models, credit me. Don't sell the outputs of the pre-trained models, modified or not. If you have any questions email me before doing anything."
My "many" exactly meant to exclude the commutative case :)
Sounds a lot like Flutter.
So who gets the money from all these fines? Because the normal customer never sees a penny.
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Exactly, there are dozens of attacks of bulldogs on people and pets daily in Europe, a lot of them a deadly. We're somehow not banning bulldogs.
But older vehicles aren't taxed more...? You don't pay the BPM (new car tax) and the road tax for a 1000kg car from 1990 is exactly the same as a new 1000kg car.

Also, the way the diesel scheme works is that there's a treshold so that it's only cheaper to drive diesels when you drive a lot of miles. Also, the heavier the car, the more miles you'd have to drive. But I'm sure you know this. And where exactly is 'money lost in the friction' here? Diesel prices are known, and tax brackets are pretty clear too.

I agree that we shouldn't subsidize $100k+ Teslas, but I'm all for rewarding people to drive cleaner vehicles. And calling it the single most asocial rule in the world... well, that's kind of a hyperbole, don't you think?

Related: I used to drive a 1986 Subaru Justy which ran 1:20 on regular fuel and costs next to nothing to insure and maintain. Cheapest form of motorized transport I ever had!
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>someone who cannot afford the high rent price at the city center and commutes 20 mi every day from a cheap suburb to work

this are the ones paying the gas tax right now (while i for example have Prius Plugin and my gas spending is at least 3x times lesser than it was before). Replacing gas tax with mileage tax would bring Tesla and plugin owners back into the tax paying fold.
I noticed going from my first second hand car probably built in the early 90's or earlier, to my next one from 2000 that there was a lot less stuff that i could fix myself - due to the computerised nature of many things.

I wonder of there would be a market for a purely mechanical (modern) car like the old days.

(One of the beauties of mountain biking I see being lost is the ability to fix maybe 90% of problems with a small pack of tools that you can carry about with you. I can see electric bikes being problematic for that. They will get you further from civilisation and fail worse).
The latest UN report on climate change gives us about 2 decades to save earth from irreversible long term damage.

The best thing you can do, is to plant and nurture one or more trees. They are the most easiest, cheapest, natural form of carbon capture that the average Joe can do.
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I wouldn't be surprised if eventually we'll figure that what we call "Alzheimer's" is in fact a whole bunch of different diseases that all cause plaque buildup in the brain.
They don't pay road tax for now, should have clarified that. It's used as an incentive to get people to buy cleaner vehicles. They will probably pay road tax after 2022.
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I have to disagree with you here and agree with the person above you. There is a major and distinct difference between using negative reinforce and child abuse.

Also the study concludes that countries where spanking is bad results into adults getting in less physical confrontations. But do they chose that based on better solutions or does it mean a population afraid of serious confrontations.
But they invest in businesses that each have a plan that you know has a chance to work. Big difference between investing into the completely unknown. Besides, his 9/10 is way too optimistic. For basic research it is more like zero chance of profit because - it's just basic research to understand the problem and play around. More like particle research using expensive accelerators, not research on how can we use lasers to accomplish xyz (now that we already have them and know their physics exactly).

Investors that invested into yet another Linux startup in the dot com boom had a high chance of failure - but those business all tried to be RedHat, not something completely unknown. And the subject of the business was an operating system, not something unknown. Your bet is on execution and the market, not on some yet unknown product.
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Yeah a lot of people are clueless about coyotes. I have some land in the desert and one of my neighbors actually feeds the damn things, it's insanity. He Also tried to claim that coyotes don't carry rabies. Needless to say he does not have internet access.

They're the biggest coyotes I've ever seen and they're not fearful of humans.
Only if you assume that being reared by older animals of the same species doesn't matter.
My limited experience in this suggests that the main issue is that techies and biologists don't make friends that often and even when do, they they both tend to glaze out when the other tries to talk shop. One wants to talk about algorithms (the techies) and one wants to talk about classification (the bio people). And we haven't even gotten to the topic of conversation yet.

Another major problem is that medical schools don't require serious math. I genuinely believe the single best way to advance health care would be to make linear algebra a pre-requisite for medical school.
I definitely thought they were referring to a shoe maker from Eugene, OR at first.
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Just looking at the price of a ticket, you know straight away what Burning Man is really about.

It's a festival for rich capitalists who want to use freedom of expression as a pretext for acting out their erotic fantasies.

Rich tech people always have to put idealistic labels on everything they do.
I know in France, there was a "solidarity tax on wealth" which was a yearly tax on assets over 1.3million euros. Artwork was exempt from this. This changed in the end of last year and I think it's just based on real estate now.
I think it's mostly a money problem. IP owners have a lot more money with which they can influence politics than people pirating movies.
i wonder what the HN demographic looks like?

it's probably hard to measure since one does not provide gender in a profile here, but it'd still be interesting to see. I for one have a heavy HN addiction, similar to what others describe their IG addiction to be like
Well, I just started with the Algebra II classes cause that's about where my math skills were at... I've had calc I and discrete math in college, plus a lot of formal logic training but that was a long time ago.

I was doing the "mission" style where they give you almost random tasks, and then you do mastery challenges... I feel like that got me a good into understanding a bunch of trig, matrix, and vector things that I hadn't understood before.

However, I just wrapped up my precalc with that and decided to move on because the last couple of topics were boring and they kept sending me mastery challenges of tedious stuff.

So for the calc I switched from the missions style to the lesson style because it feels more directed and "completist", and I've just been doing lectures and exercises. In the last couple of days I've gotten about half way through the material on limits.

When I finish the calc, then I will do the statistics, and the multivariate calculus. At that point, I think that I will be ready to move into college level classes online for linear and whatever else I think I want.

My larger interests are on one hand machine learning and AI and on the other hand, audio electronics for music... my math skills have held me back in electronics and I feel like if I am going to find anything useful in applying
That's pretty cool! You implemented HLL and TDigest on top of FDB? Or are you storing some kind of blob and computing server-side? I did something similar for Hadoop and MonetDB a long time ago
Tolls are increasingly popular. But one thing I don't see discussed much is to reduce the cost of road maintenance and construction, thereby lowering the need to collect as much tax.
Anyone know what OS they are planning on using on it?

I had an Ubuntu Phone and it was a bit disappointing. Lack of apps, and the majority were web based - which didn't work well offline (not useful when travelling and you can't use maps). When I bought an Android last year it had improved a lot. I can only imagine any new Linux based OS will be even further behind.

Its a pity as I hate the locked down, walled garden nature of Apple products, and the high price tag and I hate the intrusive spying nature of Andorid / Google.
> decent developer

Working in (or for a company from) a very expensive/rich technological hub of the world, i.e. couple of places in US, couple in Europe and couple in Asia.

At least in Europe "decent" would mean "top 1%" - because it translates to ~300k€+ before taxes.
I used to work at a place where there were a lot of transgender prostitutes outside in the evenings. They would proposition me as I walked by (as well as flash their parts at me sometimes). Some were pretty convincing regarding looks but when they spoke you could tell.

(I said "limited experience", but I suppose I probably have a fair bit more experience than most people).
Sure, there are lots of Angular 1 apps still in production, as there will be with most legacy systems. My point is that Angular 1 is no longer the current version, and with the latest version it’s much better to use. I think the main issue is the learning curve, but you just have to bite the bullet.
heck, around here our grandpas did a large fest out of killing the last wolf around their village.
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Nice to see another project in the FOSS outliner space, hopefully this one can reach or surpass WorkFlowy's fairly minimal featureset.

If anyone hasn't tried this I'd definitely recommend you to, I've found outliners to be far superior for project planning and knowledge management than other tool formats like Evernote or Google Keep.
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I can’t say I’ve had that much trouble bringing in third party libraries, nor have I had a need to change how the framework works internally. I think this is the same as with most frameworks, you tend to just use them rather than doing stuff under the hood. Can you give an example?
Something being non-democratic does not mean that it is corrupt. (Many companies are not democratic but also aren't subject to corruption). This is very much like a democratic ruling does not protect it from corruption.

Both the corruption and lack of it can happen in most systems of creating rulings.
And further, having a monarchy (or even being "a \"protectorate\" of [a] crown") says nothing of the legality of private companies searching citizens homes...
That means I'm probably on to something :)
I was spanked and I would never ever do it. It's abusive, confusing, weird, unconstructive, inarticulate and ultimately not in any way something a loving person would do to anyone. I think it says something about the person who does it.
I can't run a biotech lab in my basement and I'm not interested in looking for funding so I have to run someone else's company.

So no, I don't feel guilty for anything. And despite the general feeling, not everyone in here is trying to build the next Facebook. We're just ordinary guys trying to make a (comfortable) living.

Last but not least, you make it sound like a smartass hacker could discover the cure for cancer or Alzheimer. It's not that easy. If pharmaceutical companies with decades of considerable funding and teams of hundreds of highly specialized scientists haven't figured it out what makes you think that we could? We're smart, sure, but not that smart.
X was built on false assumptions of what the future would look like (dumb terminals). The whole thing is a massive hack around its server/client architecture - which does not work well with modern graphics hardware.

It’s no small part of why Linux has failed on the desktop.

In short, lack of tests are the least of its problems.