skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impressive tech. How big is the market for these machines these days? Like how many Z15 CPs would they expect to sell (assuming each Z15 install can vary a lot in size).
A $100 foldable shopping wagon can carry $100k of iPhones trivially.
"i could do without the js" is an indictment of design decisions, not js. its performant as hell, and ubiquitous. its a great thing, ...what people chose to do with it is often not great, however.
That sounds like a really bad idea. Eventually you'll consider the SVN stuff to be lost, and it'll be impractical to import it later. As all the responses show, that history has real value.. you don't want to lose it.
Should be tagged [2017]: while the article itself doesn't have a date, the next in the series ("How Dumb Must You Be To Work For Pivotal in 2018?") notes:

> Previously (December 2017): Pivotal Empolyment 2013-2016
Study mentions EU and source company has offices in Stokenchurch, UK and Stuttgart, Germany. I doubt they tested with studded tires and called it typical.

They did test with brand new tires - that's the likely source.

"Emissions Analytics .. [self proclaimed?] leading independent .. specialist for .. measurement of realworld emissions .. performed .. initial tyre wear testing. .. on brand new, correctly inflated tyres .. [and] found that the car emitted 5.8 grams per kilometer of particles."
Does their test measure antibodies (meaning you were at some point exposed) or does it measure an active infection, or does it measure an active symptomatic infection?
Have you tried work other than software development? Like something adjacent in a scientific field, or working on creating art? I don't mean working on scientific computing software or AI-generated music, I mean actually doing biology experiments or playing the piano. It seems like software development just frustrates you, and I can understand why. But you might find a lot of joy doing something entirely different.
The headline doesn't apply to the first example. That scientist was intentionally infecting himself with the disease and the desired outcome was dying to prove his hypothesis. Death wasn't just a risk. Death was the only goal of the experiment.

People who inject vaccines do it with the expectation of surviving it. The goal is to avoid death.
On Germany the best lobby work to put transportation on truck instead of rail is done by DB, German Railroads, with their freight services. Compared to trucking you can easily double lead times, increase costs per ton and decrease trackability and reliability.
I wonder how widespread this phenomenon actually is, anyone has similar stories to share?
I had an interesting experience - my local hospital (which is actually a very good medical hospital). Has already called in every at risk (which I am) person and had them do a check up (and in my case an x-ray).

They also have already stock piled masks and additional resources. The medical staff in the area are similarly mentally preparing, schools are prepping for the shutdown (at home school).

I wouldn’t say the US is doing nothing, this is rural Illinois. There just isn’t much to do here until it’s a problem. But as soon as we get a few test positives schools are planning shutdown (I’m assuming gyms will be used for patients as necessary).
> .... shady “customers, but also investors, but also customers.” It’s convenient having combo customer/investors. If quarterly numbers look bad, just ask your customers, who are also investors, to buy more services to prop up their own investment. After all, they wouldn’t want their investment decisions to look bad, right?

That's not shady, to me, it is a common practice and does take advantage of the accounting practices that different stakeholders use. This is what all of tech is doing with VC portfolios. That startup that delivers lunch to your startup, do you think that was random? It is an incestuous movement of money around VC portfolio companies to merely print higher revenue numbers so they can sell them one at a time for 10x those revenue numbers.

Pretty much nothing is organic, so I can't make a distinction for this particular practice. The market can bare it.

Honestly, it should be a more common practice for market participants to be taking pseudo-activist roles in their investments. Just because you are used to passive investments - and probably can't do anything else - doesn't mean it is the best strategy for your portfolio.

Not making any opinion about the other problems with Pivotal, just pointing out how this section isn't validation for the complaints.
If anyone wants to dig into the math, this is a non linear recurrence relation, with an external dependency, that is
n_d+1 = f(a,n_d) n^(d+1)

bad news: How this behaves will depend a lot on a (containment measures etc...)

good news: If we can make a grow faster than an exponential, we can win
Thanks for sharing! I'm not a big fan of changelogs, personally, except for publicly released projects. I prefer to have workflows that use version control for this. Reverting on master, but tracking the prototype in the changelog is a nice hack, but has a cost in terms of clutter, ability to bisect etc. I think I would prefer something branch based, but I haven't yet properly thought about the best way of doing it. If you have a special prototype branch from which you merge in master and do your prototyping, reverting and optionally notes.md there, you might effectively be able to replace the changelog based flow with just doing git log --no-merges --first-parent. What do you think?
US has less hospital beds than China or Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...

The smartest move that US could do is start building new field hospitals right NOW.

Next thing they have to do is put all their economic strength to start producing all necessary medical supplies.

If the US government does not realize this emergency, they have failed. This is going to be a national emergency quicker than any market force can react.
The vaccines will change all these numbers.
The historical context for that statement is it was made when America had a monopoly on nuclear weapons and Stalin's Soviet Union, a dictatorship of incomparable authoritarianism and delusion, was on the cusp of developing such weapons. Few would have predicted that a nuclear war would not occur once that happened. Under these circumstances, a first strike followed by occupation may have been rational. And given the complete insanity, cruelty and dehumanizing brutality of Soviet policy in the following 50 years, it's possible American occupation of the Soviet union would have saved many lives on net. See East vs West Berlin, for example. His position on first-strike was not very irrational given what was known at the time. Even in hindsight, it is hard to say either way.
Fair question. The image was assembled way back in 2014 or earlier from a large number of tiled JPEG source images, so the quality had already been compromised. Also, JPEGs are essentially viewable on any device this side of 1990 and way smaller than lossless formats. These days I would consider webp in preference to JPEG.
Reddit is clearly just self-hating Americans, mostly kids. I guess you assume no American would spend so much time writing anti-Trump comments on r/politics?

I think the real issue is that you go to a place like r/politics or r/vancouver or r/bitcoin and think it's some canonical forum with some semblance of fairness but it's really just someone's little world with its own rules and agenda.

But you can't simply start your own subreddit because you're now r/vancouver2, r/TrueVancouver, or whatever and it can never get the same traction just because it's not the official-looking r/vancouver anymore.
Where it says next 2 months?

If the doubling time is one week there is just something like 100k - 200k infections in next two months.

I think those numbers are yearly infection estimates.
That's a very keen observation.

As a senior-level professional generalist who is looking for work after being laid off, that makes me look at the language of my resume in a different light.
I wonder if folks are silo'd shortly after the generalist interview?
Me hearing about the fediverse for the first time:

"Man this thing looks really promising, just think of the potential of a social network unhindered by the dark machinations of the googtwitface !"

Me after ten minutes on the public feed of mastodon.social:

"So do the furries post for the sex workers or is it the other way around or what ?"
This Business Insider article seems really pointless and vapid to me. Their criticism of reddit is they don't link to official CDC or WHO pages at the top of their search results? You might as well level the same accusation at Hacker News or any other internet forum. And the fact that Facebook and Twitter has those links does nothing to stop them from being full of misinformation themselves.

I looked through /r/covid19/ and it mostly seems to be an aggregator of research papers. Don't really see much tinfoily or panicky stuff there.

I also have no idea why posting this chart would be considered "making bold and fearmongering claims": https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/euokq5/oc_...

Besides, I'm not sure why Business Insider thinks linking to the CDC is some sort of be all end all solution to providing coronavirus information. They've actually been incredibly slow to provide up to date information (not to mention testing).

This article comes across as Business Insider taking a petty swipe at reddit to generate clicks and trying to stir up drama where none exists.
Imposter syndrome plays a role here. Only a tiny fraction of the population will be wired in such a way that the tedium of reresearching and reimplementing is obviated by near photographic or eidetic memory. Those people can rattle off entire APIs with all of their classes and methods for things that they haven’t seen in years. It should be no surprise that these people are the leaders of our industry and make us feel shame for our pittance of knowledge.

“I know everything, just not at the same time.” But for our most gifted engineers, it’s practically as if they know everything.
„John von Neumann was "violent anti-communist and much more militaristic than the norm", according to his own words from one of the Senate committee hearings. He was an advocate of the "preventive war" strategy (against USSR), and was quoted in 1950:
"If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today. If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?" ”
https://www.quora.com/What-were-John-von-Neumanns-political-...
I'd comment, but if I did, I'd likely exceed the boundaries of my own agreement with a different company.
I thought this book was solid

https://www.amazon.com/Data-oriented-design-engineering-reso...
Even "Big Ball of Mud"-design has some benefits: http://www.laputan.org/mud/
Being paid a lot of money for not having any responsibility sounds good to me. This guy sure seems angry about it though.
I recently reread Vonnegut's "The Sirens of Titan" and was really surprised to notice to what degree Adams drew inspiration from that book. He did acknowledge it as an influence [1], but some ideas my naive self had attributed to Adams are closer to well-done rearrangements/retellings of elements from Sirens of Titan (which certainly wasn't written in a vacuum either) in a different comedic voice. Both works are fantastic, though.

[1] http://www.darkermatter.com/issue1/douglas_adams.php
Does anyone else think cutting off 32-bit support basically killed off what remained appealing about the Mac that differentiated it from being just a “desktop iOS iPad in the iCloud ecosystem”?

I lost access to so much cherished stuff that I am currently evaluating a switch to Ubuntu 20.04
Apparently there are two strains. One is lower transmission but higher mortality and is prevalent in Iran. If Italy has more of the one with higher morality, that might make their numbers higher.
the weirdest thing to me about pivotal is that they require full-time pair programming. how do people survive in that company at all? i can't fathom being yoked to someone (literally) 40-50 hours a week.
Tires contain fossil fuel products like carbon black and synthetic rubber.

The roadway contains bitumen, another fossil fuel product.

The numbers in this experiment seem dubious and are probably not representative, but they do reflect our over-dependence on refined petroleum. We have to find new ways to make these things.
It was hard to get at the main bullet points from the rant.

I found that what he did - his job description as he put 'Matt as a service' - to be reasonable.

Support, bug fixes, documentation, and development. It would be nice to see more companies have someone completely own a small piece.

Often when I contact developer support, I talk to someone who clearly does not know anything about the product I'm talking about. It would have been nice to talk to Matt at that time.

Conversely, having the developers directly talk to customers gives them more visibility to how their products are being used. This is both fulfilling and enlightening.
You use Lisp to write C (on Microcontrollers)? Would appreciate more info on that.
So to clarify: it can be tested directly on patients now, in the dosage it’s already approved for in previous trials, without the need for (or at the same time as) formal trials?

And this should be the case for most such existing drugs?

Or are drugs only approved for specific uses so doctors can’t do this?
tl;dr; without even watching those:

Most popular card/fobs (95%+ of all I've seen) don't use challenge-response, but always transmit the same 26 bytes. I don't have to explain how "secure" is that.
By your logic, water running across concrete wouldn't create any wear on the concrete, but in truth, it does.
Would have been apt to use 'devolved'. 'Are We Not Men?'
this seems old, but to be honest, the "work got boring" part is not unique to the company described.

i have this nagging feeling that we have tons of issues, and overly complicated systems created today because very talented and smart engineers are being giving the most mundane tasks to do on a daily basis...
https://www.servocity.com/actobotics
Is there any evidence that older engineers are worse at these interviews than younger ones?
Does anyone here try to enforce good commit message practices within their engineering teams?
Italy quarantines north in drastic bid to slow virus spread
>How are his comments irresponsible? All he said is that the panic is dumb. That's it.

That isn't "all he said"; you could try reading his Tweets on the matter:

"Virality of C19 is overstated due to conflating diagnosis date with contraction date & over-extrapolating exponential growth, which is never what happens in reality. Keep extrapolating & virus will exceed mass of known universe!"

This is just utter nonsense. It's gibberish, coming from a guy who uses the term "exponential growth" all the time when it comes to his factory production. Virality is a social media term for crying out loud.

>Definition: A sudden, overpowering feeling of fear, often affecting many people at once

It's your and Elon's opinion that people are panicking.
> Trump supporters saying it's all a Democrat hoax

Hard to know exactly what you are referring to here but it sounds like you are spreading more misinformation. We all need to get better at communicating. I swear that half of public discussion these days is based on fictional situations and not reality.

1) Democrats accused Trump of mishandling COVID-19.
2) Trump labeled the *criticism* as another "hoax" about his presidency/competency.
3) Democrats react to 2) and accuse Trump of labeling COVID-19 a "hoax".
4) Bipartisan collection of journalist pointed out that 3) is bogus and 2) is what was said.
5) hurrdurr2's comment appears to be a variation of 3) relative to 2).
6) this comment is an attempt to point out this history and correct the record similar to 4)

I'm taking no stance here on 1) as it really depends what specific criticism is being evaluated. Some of it was/is reasonable and some of it was/is ill-founded.

I have no idea what exactly motivated all the bullshit associated with 3) but it was some combination or poor reading comprehension, slopping rumor mongering, or disgusting politicization of a major public health crisis.
I find this post to be relatively unimpressive. He spends a great amount of time complaining about how the company was shit in a way that implies he was personally offended, but the title says he got a generous salary for little expected work. It’s not clear to me why he is bitter about anything. I have no doubt that the company was genuinely poorly run. His observations about problems in the sales culture are likely true. But he could have left any time and instead chose to stay there for 3 years. And I get that leaving a job isn’t always an option for people but those reasons don’t feel relevant for his situation.

Author reads as overly entitled and arrogant imo.
It's like a precursor to the "one country two systems" moniker, which is really one country five systems if you actually count.
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That's the one I use as well.
Somewhere around that, yes. Unleas you kill one by accident before that. Screws and tires don't mix too well...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22515059
I do this via Meetup group. We've got five or so participants, meet every two weeks to make sure we all stay on our respective game.
I don't understand people who write things like this. If you're unhappy leave, if you think the corporate culture is wrong, either participate in fixing it, or get out. I honestly can't stand people who self righteously sound the alarm about how they can see all of the things wrong with everybody else. It sounds especially childish when you are making so much money.
Jesus, why? You could write the back end in something that isn’t fucking garbage, at that point.
I made a port scanner in go without dependencies
Extremely, and not just in tech. Most people just don’t want to admit it because most people need to feel like they “earned” their money. The reality that many, even most in some companies, people get paid simply to maintain a social system is a troubling thought for a lot of people.

You can easily work for a decade at some companies and contribute absolutely nothing if you know how to play the politics.
Some people just don't enjoy that kind of life. I worked for a large financial company where I had a super easy job, very little responsibility, but great compensation. I didn't last a year there. Every day I could feel the life being drained from me. After a few years I would have been a braindead drone just like the rest of them. Doing what I'm good at is far more fulfilling than getting paid to waste my life.
> I worked from home for three years with a $220,000 salary, traveled a total of six times, two SF, one Seattle, three to Europe, and contributed thousands of lines of features/fixes/optimizations to high profile projects, all the while never being granted responsibility greater than what you’d give a middle school intern.

But... that all sounds like a lot of responsibility doesn't it?
A rough way to think about road wear is the weight over one axle to the fourth power times the number of axles.
I think if a dev shop is literally yoking their programming pairs together, they're taking the metaphor a bit too far!
Fitting or sale of automotive products containing asbestos has been banned in the EU since 2004

https://www.asbestosadvicehelpline.co.uk/is-asbestos-still-u...
Yeah, there may be some situations where C is necessary as a wrapper for assembly if you're _extremely_ memory constrained or something like that. But I wouldn't have any confidence in it working as intended unless it's dead simple.
Honey sells at a premium to refined sugar. Your argument doesn't make any sense.
The numbers from China are not reliable; there are only disincentives to proper reporting. The way the WHO has coddled China is not exactly commendable.

Diversity of sources and information is good anyway, barring some caveats. There is more than just raw numbers at play; you need a variety of sources to see impacts on daily life, how people are preparing, etc. I follow CBC (Canada), some fellow humans on twitter, and especially appreciate the stuff this guy puts out; https://twitter.com/balajis
Failures on the Diamond Princess Shadow Another Cruise Ship Outbreak
Not who you replied to, but you described me to a T.

Problem is - I have no idea what to do about it.

It's so hard to do anything fun in my free time because the moment I think about doing / starting something, goal oriented t thoughts follow, which means stress follows.

I wish I could just go into "kick the can" mode whenever I wanted and turn off the part of my brain that wants to see results, progress, and checkmarks.
Wouldn't do it any other way.

I dipped out of web dev in 2015 to run an ecommerce project. I stopped tracking all the latest js framework news. I settled on a barebones CSS rule set. I stopped choosing SPAs as the starting point for mvp ideas. I shelved Wordpress and moved some content sites over to Netlify and just recently started using a nifty desktop ssr cms instead of Hugo, Gatsby, etc.

I was regressing to the environment I understood in the early 2000s-2010s. I did all of this because I knew there would be a steep learning curve going into modern ecommerce and it seemed reasonable to put everything into hibernation while I attempted to go all-in.

I pretty much missed the entire React, Angular, Vue ramp up in the industry.

I've since shut down that ecommerce project and find myself peeking back to the js-verse every now and then.

I doubt I'll ever voluntarily use one of those frameworks for web dev.

I do, however, like this thing called, Svelte.
While it's true that SOA generally began by breaking up services into separate binaries while usually keeping one centralized database, a lot of the specific principles of DOA are a _response_ to the distribution/fragmentation of state seen in SOA and micrservices in the mid 2000s.

DOA is often implemented taking advantage of event-driven programming, pubsub, and message passing, which as generalized practices were not as prominent when SOA began, imo.
Isn’t this exactly what I said in my original comment...

I appreciate the intention and wouldn’t complain, it’s just if you care enough to write so much, save yourself sometime and the next person to read it some effort by being a little more concise.

Commit messages are like naming things, there’s no right way, but the more you try to do it “right” the more “right” you get.

If you just throw your hands up and say “I’m goin to vomit our every thought I had working on this”, sure it won’t kill anyone and it’s preferable to always writing nothing (that’s kind of obvious...), but you’ll never get to the point where writing even somewhat balanced messages is comfortable
I think I understand what you mean. A trained guitar player would not need such a tool, and a beginner should probably avoid using it :). My original idea was to explore how I could rapidly get playable tablatures of jazz solos from available sheet music that I still cannot read fluently.

> It’s nice that computing the good fingerings takes a while

Actually, a few tweaks and the use of optimization options allowed to dramatically reduce the execution time for my 20-note example.

> Would be good to see some harmony and how the solver would deal with multiple notes at once.

Yes. I think it would take some effort to adapt the current set of constraints but it should be feasible.

> If you’re seriously writing out tabs and need some software, I’ve been using Dorico and it’s pretty damn good

Thanks for the tip. They don't seem to offer a Linux version though.