skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Amirite?

You are not quite rite, no. "Flight systems" is ill-defined but if you mean flight controls like elevators and ailerons and whatnot, then yes. I also work with structures as a routine part of maintenance, repair and overhaul. Why would you assume my HN comments are a good way to accurately determine my area of professional expertise? Most of my comments are just shitposting about javascript anyways.

>The true picture is complex, but the shape definitely matters

Of course it matters in a general context, but what matters more in the context of fatigue-related crack growth and stress concentration is the radius of the corner. This is why we stop-drill cracks. This is basic undergrad stuff.

In any case, I see from your profile you work in oil and gas. Not sure why you have so much emotional investment in this topic but this quote of yours:

>Don't listen to the "aerospace engineer" that answered you.
The reason why cockpit windows are so angular is of course for visibility.

Doesn't refute or rebut anything I've written on this topic. In fact I was not attempting to explain why cockpit windows are polygonal in shape, only that the corners aren't as sharp as it might seem at first glance/long distance because it seemed like OP was equating "rectangular" with "causes structural problems".

I probably won't reply again, have a great day bro.
For every “historic” place where a president slept overnight, 99 more are these. And people wonder why housing is so expensive in SF.
The only thing I really take issue with on this truck is that the spare tire is accessed through the top of the bed. There are two reasons you don't want to do this in a truck:

1.) The bed needs to be very strong because people routinely put weight on dunnage in the bed, and the door doesn't appear to be corrugated to withstand load.

2.) If you want to change your flat tire you need to unload everything in the bed, which will be a huge pain in the ass on the side of the road.

Otherwise thank god someone is actually trying to capture this market. I really want one of these and can't wait until they're closer to market.
That’s good and well, but remember that China has much lower labor costs, and fewer environmental protections (CEQA). I don’t think the low price of Chinese rail should deter HSR in California.
I think such organizations would not be capitalized well enough to make AAA games. Look at the development costs of the most expensive games out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...

And then there's the publishing costs, just as crazy.
Do you think the costs and complexity to develop a game this way are too high now? I know there is the occasional Angry Birds, but I would imagine that it would be fairly hard to coordinate the number of people needed to build a serious or complex game? Has any game been developed via Kickstarter?
You could also say that about bias.
> This isn't a false equivalency situation; both left and right are being pushed into division.

In this case, it is a false equivalency. At least in terms of Democrat and Republican.

Antifa is a fringe far-left group. They are not Democrats. They do not support Democrats. You don't see mainstream Democratic politicians supporting them.

The Republicans, on the other hand, have embraced the far-right fringe groups. You have the leader of the Republican party calling the press the "enemy of the people" and making jokes about attacking reporters.

This is one of those cases where both sides are not the same.
I routinely win bets with alignment guys doing string and plumbob alignments on level concrete. Its not hard, as much as it is laborous.
Is that for all steering? That sounds like a tremendous waste of tires.
I've never worked on a product of any kind where I didn't have to have solid command line knowledge to truly trouble shoot an issue.

Especially in production, and especially if you don't necessarily have perfect control over the environments you're deploying to.
There are a lot of great free resources out there, but I had recently shared https://sqlbolt.com with a friend that wanted to learn SQL and she found it useful.
not sure how this ended up in the wrong thread....
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I think it’s less of a cloud to cloud comparison, and more of a feature to feature comparison. Even AWS is half baked depending on the service (although the core services are rock solid, like S3, EC2, Cloudfront, and parts of RDS). Azure’s console has all sorts of intermittency/consistency issues, and they recently lost customer data due to how encrypted database data was inadvertently discarded due to a DNS failure scenario.
Hmm... I'm not sure. I've seen people take hours or even days (in the case of more junior developers) trying to sort out these kind of issues. It's pretty helpful if you have (or are) someone who can waltz over and fix it in a couple of minutes.

Complex git problems are another one that can really throw people sometimes.
> I’ve always wondered why a business model for them isn’t to just provide the skateboard platform for other companies to build upon

Volkswagen beat them to it. Volkswagen has developed their MEB electric car platform which they will use across their VW, Audi, SEAT, and Skoda brands:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MEB_platform

https://jalopnik.com/the-fascinating-engineering-behind-vws-...

VW is also open to licensing the platform to other manufacturers. Ford is thinking about using the MEB platform for their EVs:

https://jalopnik.com/volkswagen-wants-other-automakers-to-us...
It’s also great for vendor lock in and rent extraction. At least in its current iterations. I’m fairly certain Amazon isn’t going to make it easy to run your “serverless” applications on anything but their infrastructure.

What would be more interesting would be languages and runtimes that run on the next network that is distributed, peer-to-peer, and able to be trusted. And easier to program for than they are today in their current iteration.

Edit: which is where I thought the BOOM group was going back in 2012 or so.
Incorrect. In c terms, you can think of callcc as a procedure which memcpy s the stack onto the heap for later application. And when it is later applied, the heap allocated stack is memcpy ed back into the stack region of memory, destroying the current stack.

Python and c#’s yield are nothing like that. It’s just syntactic sugar for iterators.
> Then, for the realtime program to run correctly, it would involve as well an understanding of all other processes/programs that are running at potentially the same time

Yes, and the best way to understand things is to keep them simple.

For example you can haveone real time thread which gets absolute priority and meets hard deadlines while everything else runs whenever the OS can find time for it. Then your only two rules are (1) don't let the real-time thread starve the others completely, and (2) don't rely on timing from anything except the real-time thread.

> OSs allow you to execute SW which will run with no interruption, as long as no other SW having the same or higher level of priority interferes?

Yep. Any OS meeting that definition is real-time. Probably you could get away with a looser definition, but getting it right would be a rabbit-hole.
Speaking as not an SQL guru -- isn't this true for every skill? Theoretically anyone can figure anything out with enough time, the value is of specialists having better mental maps for what solutions apply, when you need them.
> Currently, a person living in Nagoya, Japan would have a one-way commute to central Tokyo of about 100 minutes. That’s almost too long to live in one city and work in the other.

I don’t know, I have friends with one-way commutes longer than that from SF to the peninsula.
> I can understand why, from a business perspective, Blizzard decided not to pursue Starcraft for the foreseeable future.

I know they didn't mention it, but Blizzard's support for Starcraft seems as good as it has been. The tourney viewership numbers are better than ever in recent memory.

So it's not like they're shutting it down like they did to Heroes of the Storm, they're just keeping status quo.
My anecdata is that Microsoft used salespeople to talk to executives and give them a deal on Azure so good they couldn't pass it up.
I shared your concern before I started the project, and talked about this in the readme's FAQ[0].

[0] https://deskgap.com/#faq
> Antifa is a fringe far-left group.

Antifa was started by far-left activists, but has support much closer to the center-left than the people that started it because it has a narrow focus that is fairly uncontroversial left of center and has mostly been fairly restrained, both in its methods and in maintaining focus without making Antifa about the extracurricular stances of it's core members.
>get paid well for it,

I am curious what your pay is.

I feel like people get screwed if they dont change employers.
Oh it's definitely helpful! And it's something I should finally take the time to dedicate a weekend to shoring up my knowledge.

Just every time I have to deal with a sql database, my lack of knowledge (at least to this point) has never been a show stopper. It takes me a little more time than a real pro to get my statements figured out, but it's rarely so complex to require canvasing the shop for a true expert.
Single company unions are very interesting.

There’s often very little reason not to join a single company union. Not joining means your coworkers will already dislike you, and typically your pay will be higher anyway. This makes single company unions incredibly easy to form strong monopolies on their employers labor supply.

Contrast this to monopolies in the greater market, a company typically needs to dominate the entire industry to form an effective monopoly.

Effectively unions limit a company’s labor supply to a single supplier - the union - despite there often being hundreds of other near identical suppliers/unions in the greater marketplace. Imagine if you could only buy smartphones from Apple, and other people could only buy smartphones from samsung. That’s effectly what single company unions accomplish. Quite miraculous.
Oracle is not even in contention. Not only do they lack the expertise, they have a terrible reputation and offer nothing unique. Alibaba is a different story. China is a huge market that western companies typically stuggle in, and many of the large businesses there do not have the infrastructure debt of older US companies. Alibaba has massive infrastructure, strong technical expertise and their cloud offering has been expanding rapidly, I would definitely watch out for them.
Assuming that Unions can't be corrupted by Big Money.
I have never seen a production environment not use bash for part of the deploy process, if not all of it. I have seen a lot of prod environments.
> Grievance for being woken up to suddenly during slumber.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me, if I'm not explicitly being paid to be on call work shouldn't be contacting me.
How was Apple killing the floppy a slightly risky move? Granted, we have hindsight now, but when they released the first machine without a floppy I had already said good riddance to lame 1.5MB slower than christmas devices. The only thing I miss about floppies are the sounds they made. The heads cycling back and forth and the Mac eject sounds were so distinct. I also do not miss the ADB connections, nor do I miss SCSI. I also do not miss System 7,8,9. Some of the decisions Apple has "forced" upon us have not all been bad. Although, all of those decisions were made when they were a computer company. The forced decisions after have sucked. I'm looking directly at you TouchBar, butterfly keyboard, MacPro Trashcan, AMD GPU only, and loss of MagSafe.
Great article. What a life. I enjoyed the Big Star documentary from a few years ago but had no idea how extraordinary his life was.

I always loved this Alex Chilton line from a Rolling Stone interview years ago (as article notes, Chilton wrote the theme song that Cheap Trick covered for That 70’s Show):

> What do you think of Cheap Trick’s take on “In the Street” [used as the theme to the Fox-TV sitcom That 70’s Show]?

I haven’t heard it.

> Really? Is it true that you only get $70 in royalties per airing?

Yeah. It’s actually ironic that the amount is $70. To me it’s “That $70 Show.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/alex-chilton-s...
Wow, this is fun, thank you! I completed the Lesson 1 exercises first try!
Then tell me how you can model in C# a type where a property can’t be negative or a certain length.
I just happen to notice some discussion on Twitter among the Python data scientists side: https://twitter.com/pwang/status/1095173073341505536

I have the impression that conda and specifically how Python, Python packages, and native (e.g. C/C++) libraries interact is still an important problem not yet perfectly solved.
Can we trust the judgement of everyone else then? Voting should maybe expire at some point, like driving licences.

The head of politics at Cambridge University, who you might think would know better, made a more extreme suggestion: Voting for 6 year olds.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/06/give-six-ye...
I was sitting in a bar in Seattle a few years back, and two people who worked at the Gates Foundation were bragging about how they were making $300k a year to "do nothing." I hope that is the exception rather than the rule, but I have a great distrust of foundations. The George Eastman method of directly endowing organizations strikes me as far superior.
> The difficulty in doing so is that Android is very much not a realtime system, so trying to run the radio software as, say, a Linux kernel driver would be impossible.

Not entirely true. Although Linux is not typically real-time you can achieve this by using SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_DEADLINE for a given process/thread.

Android in fact does this for things like audio or display composition.
The bus is also 8 bits wider, so it’s a wash.
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Yes they do. At least in the US they will often cancel flights that end up mostly empty (they will certainly rebook those affected)
Well I think this counts as a AAA game, but how "developed" is a bit controversial:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen
Oh god, I hadn't heard of Android Things before this article, and I do some hobbyist IoT work. Writing that sort of hardware stuff in Java with the Android SDK looks downright depressing. I'm not surprised either.

I've enjoyed using Espressif's esp-idf project, though I wish Rust could target Xtensa processors. mbed looks nice as well!
> I liked the way Ray Bradbury writes about this in Fahrenheit 451. When you read books, you have time to think about it, re-read it and question it. Whereas while watching video, things move so fast that the decision is made up for you.

You can literally watch a video at any pace you want.

I don't get romanticism around books and I can't help but eye roll when someone a) gushes about reading or b) waxes poetic about the past.

We have access to nearly every book, article, paper, video, song, etc. ever written or recorded within seconds. When I want to learn, the most efficient path is usually not through a single author. Why should it be? Why is it bad if we predominantly piece together information through multimedia? I don't get this article or the "reading club" mentality at all. Though I often hear it come out at parties as virtue signal.
Lufthansa, Air France, and British Airways (IAG) were all privatised over 20 years ago.

Where is the state support?
http://statisticstimes.com/economy/countries-by-projected-gd...

US: $62,152
Japan : $40,849
I think this is a perfect anti union example. These "journalists" were probably laid off because the market was not interested in their highly politicized outrage "journalism," possibly in addition the recent expiration of the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda act. A union would only have kept these people onboard as dead weight.
I imagine some of the r&d (tech, materials, manufacturing processes) leads to improvements in areas that less wealthy people benefit from.
Unionization would protect the jobs (against outsourcing). That is the whole point.

Game devs, have a look here for the best advice available:

https://labornotes.org/
As much as they want. It doesn't really matter since 90% of them will lose it all, which is to say stimulate the economy. Today's 1% is not yesterday's 1%. The Rothschilds and the Rockefellers are outliers, most families lose all their money in 3 generations.
> isn't this true for every skill?

But you're implying then that all skills are equally hard to get a handle on, and that's just not true.

Working with sql is fairly simple even for those who aren't experts. But (as the article mentions) it's not always something a dev has done before or consistently so they'll often feel relieved if there's someone who's confident about it around.
I wanted to make something like this for a long time. Thanks.
SQL is nice on a surface level and helpful in practice.

Having a working intuition for relational databases is valuable on a deep level. I mean having a sense of how to organize the tables, what sizes are large and small, when to add what kind of index and what the size and speed limits are likely to be for a given data structure. That's extremely valuable.

BTW, we're preparing to move a postgres database that's a few TB from Heroku to AWS RDS. The catch is that we can't afford more than a few minutes of downtime. If this is in your wheelhouse, reach out! We'd like to talk.
No, no it isn't. This is competing against the Yaris or a low priced Kia, maybe. Maybe you could call this a leaf competitor, but probably not. Actually, the best comparison may be that it's competing against mopeds and bicycles.

Saying this is a Tesla competitor is click-bait.
I agree with the core idea. I've seen all kinds of people use SQL in their jobs even if it's not every day: marketing, finance, developers obviously, etc.
Azure was pretty late but their main fairly simple task was to cloud-enable the massive .net/MS-SQL army. Initial attempts weren't great (Azure tables, branding changes) but they iterated fast and knocked it out the park.

Google is replicating Amazon now (after failing with app engine), but without the mindshare. Amazing because they are the cloud story - many cheap computers rather than huge ones. App Engine hurt them so much they have a hell of a job to recover and now have to compete using someone else's playbook.

Right now, nobody gets fired for using Amazon.
When you are not on pavement it makes sense. The vehicle steers like a normal truck most of the time but has the ability to steer in place if necessary. Sand, snow, gravel etc...
I consider myself functional, but not proficient in SQL. Is there a reliable and easy way to assess one's skills in SQL? I feel that most of the new things I learn about SQL these days are database specific. I wonder whether I'm missing out on something, or do I already have the "core" SQL knowledge down, and everything else is special cases?
This does not at all echo my experience
Interestingly though, this is how the Roman Empire funded itself from time to time. Caesar would proscribe some rich citizen and then seize his assets.
>I don't really see a union being necessary for engineers or game designers for now

Unless you have a stick in the fire, I can’t imagine where this could come from. Where do we begin?

“Not necessary” is a line straight out of classic anti-union propoganda.
Normally if you need a guru it's because you are at a level of SQL complexity that can't be navigated without intuitive knowledge of SQL and it's various nuances.
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It is fun to come up with unintended consequences of an unworkable feel-good policy. But I wouldn't necessarily dismiss it because the incentive is there.

Having said that, I don't think there's any question that this policy would lead to massive tax evasion. Not including all the fun societal unintended consequences we can only speculate about ... and all for what? To punish some trust fund kids OP is bitter against?
I've worked for my company for 7 years now, and I "get paid well for it". The actual $ figure isn't important, other than "it's enough for me". I'm sure it's less than the average software developer with my experience, and certainly it's less than the incredible figures that the big SV companies apparently pay.

But I love working here, the company mission is very inspiring, and my coworkers are excellent. And my salary is enough that my needs are met. So I'm really not interested in keeping score.
Not necessarily. Is Age unsigned or not? This constrains the possible range of values. In other contexts, there is a lot more information inferred by the integer type used.
Since you asked, and I believe in transparency: Inclusive of stock and cash bonus compensation, my W2 says I was paid a little over $225k in 2018. The W2 I received for my first year of employment says I was paid a little over $60k in that year.

I don't know if it's true that people get screwed if they don't change employers. I certainly don't feel screwed. Maybe I could make more if I went to work at one of the other large technology companies; that's certainly been something I've thought about. But I'm quite happy with what I am paid and feel like the downsides (real or imagined) of changing employers are not outweighed by the upside of a higher income.
Same. Absolute life changer.
Migrate your Exchange serve(s) to google suite or Azure, which one do you think is an easier sell?

Repeat for Random windows server to Azure and again for Office Live.

Ohh, you can ru Linux too and do most things people are doing with AWS.

It’s a pretty easy sell to me (and worked pretty well on the F100 company I work for).
I think the reason the spare tire isn't more easily accessible is because of the importance of aerodynamics in electric vehicles (It can't just be bolted underneath or to the back). Also the CEO mentioned in an interview that the spare tire can be removed to gain a large water proof storage compartment under the bed.
The more queries I write on Elasticsearch, the more I value SQL.
I hope AVX-512 is studied for its lessons on how not to do an ISA. I have very few technical complaints about it, but the following were a deal breaker

1. Limiting it to a subset of chips, and initially not releasing it for client chips at all. Creating ISAs for a small part of the market is the best way to ensure it does not see any use.

2. Reasoning about AVX512 performance is ridiculously difficult for most workloads because of the clock penalty. Unless you have cases where you are all AVX512 all the time, you will likely see performance drops.
> Real-time programs tend to avoid syscalls, etc. which cause a context switch

That's not why they avoid syscalls. If you are running on a real time schedule there won't be a context switch in response to a syscall. They may, however, get blocked on kernel mutexes. So syscalls are avoided for the same reason user-space mutexes are avoided - being real-time doesn't help if you're blocked on a mutex.
> Look at how simple things are in the left column, and how much more code is needed in the right column.

This is misleading. Sure, that immediate code is cleaner in the left column. However, to do that, you have to have the entire JQuery library loaded as well. Sure, it's hidden, but the library looks like the code on the right column.

I'm not knocking JQuery, as I use it a lot.
What is the reasons for a backend service to delegate it’s authentication/authorisation to the graphql in front of it. Making the graphql server a super user for the service
Sounds wrong to me
We can go a step further. That's the modus operandi of every authoritarian regime ever, including every communist dictatorship.
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