skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...which is why they're creating their own megaconstellation: to produce their own demand.

This has always been a conundrum for space launch: demand is, in the short term, very inelastic and the market is small, so if you reduce prices through reuse, you might actually reduce your own revenue if you're not careful. The way around it is to create your own demand.

Anyway, this new firm is an example of a new source of demand. This will provide additional launch volume.
That seems to be some heavy tyres, that's for sure.
> The video says that it's really a logistic curve.

I mean, of course it's not a true, complete exponential, or else it would take over the universe in 2.3 years or something.

All exponentials run out of something eventually. The question is, how soon does that happen.
My first real job out of grad school was like that. I was making bank but not doing anything useful. It was soul crushing to spend so much time doing nothing, or doing bullshit work - writing reports that no one would read, making presentations that no one needed to hear...

I took a paycut but the world is totally different when you enjoy your job.
I work for the "Labs" (Services) portion of Pivotal and I've seen this guy's stuff on HN before...

Can't comment on what non-services teams are like at Pivotal but the services organization is pretty spectacular.

Pivotal's got problems just like every other organization does, but this guy seems to be mad as hell and blowing things a _bit_ out of proportion.
It seems the trend points to slower and slower websites with more JS bloat. I also notice a increase in JS-errors causing entire sites to malfunction, recently this happened to large apps like Teams and Float
Think of the difference between a Vienna sausage, bratwurst and chorizo.

Consistency, smell, flavor varies a lot, same for the honey depending on what the bees "ate".
Does anyone have numbers for testing? I'd like to know how many tests are being done in each territory?
The ground pressure of a human wearing studded shoes is an order of magnitude or more higher than the ground pressure of a car.

The ground pressure of a car is exactly equal to the PSI that you inflate the tire.

Take the weight of a human and divide by the surface area of of a started shoe you will find a significantly higher number.
also giving up a $50k severance package doesn't sound as exceptional when you've already collected $660,000 from them. Yeah it's still a lot of money, but apparently being able to promote his blog with anecdotes from Pivotal was worth the $50k to him...
Weight of a masonry hammer is nothing compared to the weight of a human, yet it can destroy concrete with ease.

I'd guess it depends on how and how much you walk on what kind of pavement with what kind of studded shoes. Damage can realistically be imperceptible or ugly.
I didn’t realize this is what I was looking for all my life
> Many (Media, Democrats) are trying to leverage this to their political advantage

lol, found the echo chamber repeater
That's my problem as well.

The docs told me I have ADHD. Maybe you do, too?
title really needs the leading ‘How’ from TFA
I used to jog past Gilead's offices in Hayes (West London) all the time. Always reminded me of The Handmaid's Tale.
Then why does it make a difference whether you dereference a pointer to the stack or the heap at any point in your program?

The hardware representation of an int isn't part of C either but it most certainly had an effect on how your program will run.
Not to worry. Some test frameworks do not expose them, so people often don’t even to know to want for them. User allover did a respectable job of explaining.
It might be interesting to answer the same questions for `git-crypt`!

I also listen to `git-secrets`... but I don't know much more!
shovel sellers, that's why
> 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

Am I being a bit dim or did they immediately contradict themselves here?
The battery is heavy but the powertrain is much lighter. You can make light electric vehicles, look at the i3 for example.
"The American Hospital Association said the webinar reflects the views of the experts who spoke on it, not its own."

You're quoting the opinion of one person: Dr James Lawler, a professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre. That person researches infectious diseases, so, their opinion isn't a complete guess of course, but we should ascribe the numbers to the right source.
I use it as a reminder of what I did over the last year for performance reviews. I use a date range on the 'svn log' command to see all of my commit messages and which files I changed. I frequently find smaller things I did that I forgot about and which may have had an outsized impact on our work as a team. I can find refactorings pretty easily with it, too.

I've also used it to do some deep archeology. I had a piece of code I inherited that was always problematic. Eventually, I went through its history to figure out what it was originally intended to do and why it changed over the years. This was invaluable for finally figuring out how to fix the damn thing once and for all.
I believe these are PCR tests, so they test for presence of the virus.

Afaik antibody tests do not yet exist but are in development
If one are outside near any mountainous road here in Northern California, motor vehicles pass by with the odor of brake pad + brake disc (mostly brake pad?) near the bottom with a very strong, distinctive bitter sweet metallic odor and that's probably a tiny proportion of the material.
Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors Because of a Repair Ban
I like this architecture but I worry that in sufficiently complex systems it can lead to some significant complexity if there are entities within the database that have a lot of contention around them. For example, it may end up translating to deadlocks etc. when two services that are naive to each other start locking tables in interleaved sequences of interactions. It still seems wise even if you follow this pattern to segment areas of the database to management of particular services or consumers and then have those present APIs or message passing interfaces to each other. Which leads you half way back to SOA or microservices.
Yeah, but there's a lot of water, and it can run over concrete for hours if not days at a time - of course it has an impact simply due to the sheer volume of it. Again, how does it compare to the miniscule impact of studded shoes?
I was going to point out the same; if you can get your ML fix from F#, definitely look Fable up -- it's nothing but surprised me with how well polished it is.
I used a PDP-11/70 with ASR-33 TTYs as late as 1978. They were still common because while slow and noisy they were much cheaper than the DECwriter, and could also read and punch paper tape. Since mass storage was very expensive (10MB for $20,000) and since floppies were not yet common, paper tape was the USB stick of the time.
To be fair, his severance legal vernacular seemed problematic.
The only interesting thought I've had while reading this pretty mundane post is "man am I happy to not be working with that dude".
I'd just say that what's essential to eat (>50-60 g protein/day and a few grams of omega-3s) is different from what's optimal (what ratio of fat/carbs/protein).
It's 8-14% of the cases that are confirmed by a special analysis in the lab, so it's a 8-14% of the cases that are bad enough to justify the cost of the analysis. In general population for the same age slots, it is probably (hopefully) much lower.
So is that what Matt is complaining about? The pair programming?
None of it implies responsibility.
I worked for Richard and comments like this always make me smile. RIP Richard.
>>The ground pressure of a car is exactly equal to the PSI that you inflate the tire

Wait, what? So if the tire is flat, the car exerts no pressure on the ground? :-P
> At founding, the company allotted about 13% of company stock for employee ownership.

Is this meant to be disparaging? it’s actually above average (of 10%).

Note that at each finding round, and as needed if you make too much money (don’t spend money fast enough to require another round), you allocate another chunk. The 13% isn’t fixed for eternity.

That’s like the first paragraph. It’s already clear author doesn’t understand how companies work.
Ah, the common testing functions like `assert_equal`. Thanks!
We have not banned diesel engines in Stockholm at all?
I get the impression that he views his declining of severance package as analogous to Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem, or some other righteous form of protest. But you're right it doesn't carry the same weight given his quarter-mil. per year salary
I think there are a lot of Americans writing anti-Trump comments on Reddit, but I think the numbers are boosted by non Americans doing the same thing. It artificially inflates the number of anti Trump posters.
WRT 1) I think the fact the CDC hasn't had enough testing capability–as well as far too strict requirements surrounding the tests, perhaps because of their inadequate capabilities—is enough of a black mark.
To me all (complex) one liners are bad : they're hard to read and they don't manage errors.

I'd rather go through 5 lines of simple statements than try to decipher a "clever" one liner.

From the fine article :
> Open a GUI, read web page, sent it as email

You really want to do that in one line ?
Just because it is common doesn't mean it's not shady.

And depending on what the "pseudo-activist role" entails, that could be a massive conflict of interest. If a person at Company A is steering business toward Company B because they have an investment in Company B, that could easily conflict with their obligations toward Company A.
Sadly it doesn't appear to work in Chrome on Android.
Blog posts like this are usually best interpreted as the bitter ranting of an ex-employee who was let go. The author himself was semi-notorious (possibly still so?) in the Redis community for being a bit of a self-serving demagogue (to put it nicely).

Generally speaking, if an individual was a remote, WFH, IC employee whose manager didn't even talk to them for a year, they probably don't have the working knowledge to do much critiquing of the company at large.

It should also be noted that Pivotal was acquired by VMware for ~$2.7B.

Points like this:

> At the other end, you have employees who create your products being treated like unwanted interns because development and engineering isn’t given recognition for generating revenue. Obviously only sales and executives are money makers. Developers are just an unneeded, low skilled, interchangeable burden reducing your profits because they have non-commission-based salaries. Why not just fire all your developers then sell what they made without fixing or improving anything—wow, infinite profit!

Coupled with him making $220k/yr in salary (no mention that I saw about equity) doesn't seem to gel. The entitlement is strong with this one.
Having worked for a strange startup with plenty of cronyism and nepotism, I honestly think there needs to be some kind of government oversight to make sure that executives aren't squandering investors' money or worse that the investors are in on some kind of shell company.
They tested this drug in mice with SARS/MERS in 2016 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635421...
I work at a company that does pair programming and it’s not that bad. Generally, one is encouraged to switch who you’re pairing with every couple days to avoid creating knowledge silos.
The contemporary resurgence of populism in politics feels a lot like the description of democracy in the "Wrong lizard won"-passage. You can read it here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-it-comes-from-a-very...
Lack of Attention – The Innovation Killer
Without the !g tag DDG usually gets their results from Bing (sometimes Yandex). So they track Bing's increase in search quality nearly exactly :-)
1. The computation is a handful of simple arithmetic statements, there is almost nothing one can do to optimize those. The library is likely written to handle inversion of any size matrix, that means it adds a bunch of control code to be more general, but also slower for this case.

2. You are wasting effort evaluating libraries. And I wonder what you lose in compile time?

3. You are calling into a black box, and you talk about opacity, a simple comment: /* this inverses the matrix */ will deal with your perceived issue.

4. Other programmers will assume there is a pertinent reason you included yet another dependency. Wonder what it does that 5 lines of code couldn't have done (surprise: nothing!).
Shame they're failing miserably on both of those fronts.

https://twitter.com/drdenagrayson/status/1235703439688175618
If the particles were coming from the road then roads would wear in very visible ways.

But we don't actually see that kind of wear. Roads don't typically have grooves on them where the cars go that are lower than the middle which doesn't have tires driving over it.
Not the OP, but as I understand it NASA's JPL has been doing this for decades for space missions.
I’m not a JS fan but quit with the toxicity. The proprietary logic is done with languages like Go, Rust, Python, JS, etc and built with a RESTful API in mind so the frontend can consume it. Angular, React, and Vue are built to do this well. It’s all in moderation and should be done responsibly. The downside with this of course is added complexity on all levels. However with this design maturing the complexity has reduced some or effort offloaded elsewhere (microservices, serverless, k8s.)
Following this thought, it could be argued that the author did not even fix the problem, only eliminated a symptom of the underlying, serious configuration mistake that restricts file contents to an outdated character encoding.
It’s a symptom of our dysfunctional industry. We are stuck in that old Annie Hall joke: “A guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs”
Namebase Handshake airdrop for qualifying GitHub developers
The Life of a Data Byte
It shouldn't. I've switched version control systems probably a dozen times over the years. There are common features, and of course, unique syntax to each of them. But once you understand how one works, it's not usually too difficult to use others at least at a basic level of getting changes and committing changes.
A Puritan minister incited fury by pushing inoculation against smallpox epidemic
You probably wouldn't enjoy it. Everybody talks about Impostor Syndrome but I bet you would start internalising some deep fear about your own capabilities if you never get to do anything and people paid about the same money do get to do stuff.
Although most engineers at Google doesn't talk to non-engineers Google still have roles requiring both. Examples:

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/89970700451750598-te...

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/141084669270467270-p...

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/75981898595082950-pr...
/r/coronavirus can definitely be bad on your mental health, but /r/covid19 is pretty level headed. Like ya, there are some scared people on it, but it's not very conspiracy-y.
It is, and pulling out the marathon bombing case just shows it's a hit piece.

Social media in general, and Reddit in particular, are commoditizing news publications, and displacing them as trusted sources of information. That's IMO why there have been so many such articles coming out regularly in the past few years.
Just thinking aloud (not the only one, obviously).

So is this the combined result of market mechanics? Intel being leader their top priority was to release the fastest chips at all costs, letting security/simplicity/sustainability behind? On top of that, complexity becomed another barrier to competitors. This feels insane, unsustainable.

Whole parts of the industry have already switched to alternative architectures. MIPS was prevalent in set-top box, then replaced with ARM in the 2010s. ARM reigns on most mobile devices. Risc-V is on the rise.

Areas craving for performance without concern about power consumption or security still run on Intel. For how long?

Supercomputers get 10x more power from GPUs than CPUs, switching to an alternative may come.

Could we imagine the gamer market switching to nVidia on ARM/RISC?

It Intel architecture a huge sinking ship?
Be interesting to see if we could start charging website owners fees for them using our processing power to render their site.

Something needs to be done to encourage some efficiencies given the fact it takes more resources to surf the internet and read about running a k8s cluster than it does to actually run the cluster
Don't try to use ^S and ^Q for flow control, it doesn't work and the ^Q will quit Firefox. As a tab horder, I hate quitting the browser.
> Note also, that unlike some other languages, C is not a language that you should learn by “trying things out”, due to the nature of “undefined behavior”.

I disagree. You have to learn the ways in which things fail in any language you learn, especially a language like C.
replace "productive" with "feeling energetic and excited" in that response and their arguments are still valid. If you want to work on something, anything, there are going to be days where you are energetic and excited, and days you will feel like shit. The author of the article is suggesting to quit when the days are shit, and that is a bad advice.

There is nothing that will keep you excited forever.
Temporal variation in transmission during the Covid-19 outbreak
I've always been a fat-ass (somewhere from 15-25% BF) so I've also never experienced considerable loss of muscle tissue (at least as far as the scales tell me) - however the body-builder club are at 6% body fat when cut and at what, 12-15% when bulking? They are absolutely going to metabolize muscle tissue when cutting.
I know you are joking but just to answer the question anyway, if the tires are completely flat then they are not supporting the car and you can't use them for measurement.

If the tires are partially flat then they are supporting the car and the PSI is correct and you'll notice the tire spreads out wider on the road so the ground force is lower because it's spread out over a larger area.

Technically you have to also include the springiness of the sidewall in the measurement not just the PSI of the air.
Testimony of a surgeon working in the heart of Italy's coronavirus outbreak
If you don't know how to do linear algebra, a library is unlikely to help you. Rote stuff like matrix inversion is the easy part, figuring that that is what you need is where things tend to get hairy.
“jUsT QuIt yOuR jOb” -hn

With no second thought on any outside life factors.
Sure but 3) is just bullshit that just confuses everything for no valid reason. It is distracting dangerous noise that increases the anxiety of the public for no good reason.
> contributed thousands of lines of features/fixes/optimizations to high profile projects

What's more responsible than pushing code to a high-profile project? Responsible for the product's performance, security. Responsible for what the customer sees and experiences. Responsible for keeping their data safe and guarding the company's reputation.

Responsible enough to be allowed to work independently from home.

Responsible enough to travel the world representing the company in-person.
What you need as Benchmarking skills across Venture Capital jobs and titles
Damn I had an offer from them years ago. I should have took it. I don't mind making that much for doing little that's plenty of free time for my side projects....this guy could have used his time wisely and never complain about it ...you can't force companies to be good employers or successful at what they do obviously this company had major red flags you could have left quietly long time and find a more fulfilling role ...otherwise shut up and take the money and use that free time to do great things if you are capable
This is why it's important to add a comment to those 10 lines describing the choice, and urging future contributors to reevaluate the situation.

(Of course, one should always reevaluate the situation when making changes to code, but we all need a nudge sometimes when we're afraid of doing the wrong thing.)
Yeah, totally. The way I've seen this work is that a single service will "own" a record, so you never are running into a multi-writer situation for a given record.

While this seems closer to SOA, the key difference here is that single Type or Table can still have multiple produces (of non-overlapping records). In a trading system, you'd have producers of RFQs from makretplace A, B, C, etc. but for each single row in that table, the same service "owns" it. So you still get the benefits of not caring about the DAG/callgraph or knowing about the individual service that calls you.

Locking might be hard if you're doing some transactional change. Those become harder to do. But the half good news is that shifting to an "Event-based" programming mindset might mean you run into less of these.

But yeah, there's a whole new set of drawbacks.
>a popular PDF reader

What's the most popular, Chrome browser I'd have thought?
I get the sense that the author is somewhat toxic in the workplace and his managers didn't have the power to fire him, so they gave him as meaningless a job as possible to get him to quit.

I'm also surprised he isn't more concerned with anonymity. I know if he applied for an open role at my current company, based on this post he would not be hired.
Yup. You can't think of Reddit as a single forum. A subreddit is a community. By size, shape and behavior, Reddit itself is a privately owned Web inside the public Web, with its own, centrally controlled DNS.
IIRC I read somewhere that Rebol is homoiconic but not sure.
> Portions of the brothers’ vast archive are on display at the New York Transit Museum through January 21, 2021.

They should put all these photos on-line.
I agree to some extent.. only the point being here from what I gather is that they deliver sub par software, defraud their customers and just straight out lie.

This is very toxic and can be very depressing and when I see posts like this I salute them because everyone who reads this will think twice before working for that company.
It makes me suspicious of a person who passes up $50k because they would rather write a rant on their blog. What type of personality does that?

Sure the agreement was one sided, and maybe it even had questionable legal basis and would be unenforceable, but guess what, so do many other contracts consumers sign every day, and those don't usually net us $50k!
Ditto. Taking into consideration average salary in US it is just asking for rather uncharitable read.

And that is not taking into consideration in demand skill set that could land him another like job with relative ease.

I don't often go for dismissive, but cry mich ein river.
> "the danger in the particles comes from their size with smaller particles being more dangerous for humans. And that road particles were something like an order of magnitude larger than exhaust fume particles from diesel engines."

Exactly. It might look bad when you compare the mass of particles, but if you compare the particle counts, it's exhaust emissions that produce the big numbers - of really tiny (sub-PM2.5) particles.
An important reason to try it from scratch first is that it helps your understanding of the problem. That way, you can either confirm that it's better not to take on a dependency, or leverage the experience to find, evaluate, and appreciate the right dependency when one turns out to be desirable. Just like people build their own web frameworks before they settle for an established one. That's a good thing, in my opinion.