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The claim that Peter Thiel's connection to Trump has somehow benefited Palantir is completely absurd. According to Alex Karp, it takes ten years to build the kind of customer base with governments that they have built, the majority of which was built under the Obama administration.
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Hello! I've dual axis laser micrometer which has a sampling rate of 100 of times per second.

I can use microcontroller to read the measurements and want to dynamically change the puller roller speed. (It's a geared down stepper motor)

Pinch roller (puller) is very simple, it uses steel rollers which have sandpaper pasted (with epoxy) on it for gripping fimament - it can pull with force of 10kg before it slips.

I want to achieve tolerance range of +/-0.02mm in diameter
> http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ is made bad on purpose...

Really? I don't like them either, but what's specifically bad about this? It's among the least-bad implementations of a carousel I've seen:

* Next/Previous buttons so I can override the timing

* Auto-progression timer resets when you click next/previous

* Loops round to the beginning when you reach the end and click "next"

* Has a clickable progress-indicator underneath, so you can skip by >1

In fact the only "fault" I can find in it is that I can't swipe left/right on a touchscreen - and that's defensible as a stylistic choice (to prevent accidental motion), given the presence of the next/prev buttons.
> As someone who worked in defense consulting/IT contracting many moons ago, let me clue you in on a simple fact: there is an INSANE amount of money wasted on these contracts.

I've always wondered, considering massive amount of waste in Western military budgets, it makes me wonder what the real amount of money being invested compared to other military powers such as Russia and China.
That's a good point. As testing technology advances, many of these will be mitigated. Although until the tests get to the point where they can give results within minutes, like the flu tests have progressed to, it will not be a complete mitigation. Another issue is cost, as once testing becomes common place, I would expect the fees to be passed onto the consumer. Also, people may not want to put up with constant testing, e.g. once every 2 weeks, unless it's a condition for employment, which might be the case for any job which requires high contact with the population.
There’s also Pitcairn Island, which has been in the news this century for some unfortunate reasons
I’d be surprised if there is any legal mechanism to ban it in Australia either.
You might as well ban gameboys by that logic. I think there are probably better reasons to ban it.
It's time to do what China has been doing to "us" for years and make western knock off versions of Tik Tok and Zoom
It also means that their real clients - IPO subscribers - got the stock at huge discount.
Hey! I'd love to compare notes if you have some time! Couldn't find an e-mail for you though... mine is in my bio now if you want to reach out
A huge portion of the money twitch streamers via donations make isn't currently monitizable.

Amazon doesn't see money that flows through streamlabs, though they do get a massive cut of subscriptions. Gifting subscribers was a brilliant move to raise revenues, but what Amazon really needs is to offer a seamless way to process the donations that provides a good value proposition.
Cannot agree more. Another general tip I want to share to people who are bad at design:

* {
transition: 0;
}
the changes are so minimal it's almost embarrassing. basically none within SQLAlchemy or anything else. you run in a greenlet and everything is normal. when you get down to the driver, it's asyncpg, oh OK then we use await_().

if you look at https://gerrit.sqlalchemy.org/c/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/+/2071, and scroll down, the Gerrit display shows you a listing of files. next to each file is a bar that is a combination of green and red. Green means lines that are added, red means lines that are removed. at the bottom, you can see the total score, as of revision 13 it's 1581 lines added, 90 lines removed. That is an insane ratio meaning literally nothing was changed, the vast majority of the code is the new asyncpg dialect where I had to replicate the DBAPI and a lot of other details that DBAPIs usually provide up front.

it's been several days now and it's looking more and more like the issue of switching between asyncio and blocking style code is really easy to solve, unless I'm in some kind of hallucinatory fugue state for the past three days and all of these passing tests aren't really there.
I wouldn't take anything that Peter Thiel "says" he's thinking about doing too seriously. He also said this in 2016:

>I think one thing that should be distinguished here is that the media is always taking Trump literally. It never takes him seriously, but it always takes him literally. … I think a lot of voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously but not literally, so when they hear things like the Muslim comment or the wall comment, their question is not, ‘Are you going to build a wall like the Great Wall of China?’ or, you know, ‘How exactly are you going to enforce these tests?’ What they hear is we’re going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy.
The attacks are different, though. Under Certificate Transparency, approximately no one can issue a microsoft.com certificate and get away with it. Under a DNS-based system, the domain registry can do whatever, and there's no effective way to distrust them - if Verisign (who still manages .com, but who was too incompetent to run a CA and sold it to people who have been hard at work trying to clean up the mess) does something unreasonable with .com, the only option is for Microsoft to find a different TLD.

Given that most of the problems with the CA system historically have not been active attacks but incompetence, I don't think we win much from moving to a system where we can, in fact, kick TURKTRUST out of the pool to one where the question is whether .tr remains part of the internet or not. If Verisign screws up with .com in any way short of revealing a letter from the FBI saying "Please help us MITM Windows Update," there will be immense pressure to allow Verisign to continue being the .com registry and continue holding the .com signing keys.

For similar reasons, I'm not convinced that moving from "Hundreds of unqualified companies could issue a bad cert, but hopefully they won't" to "One unqualified company could issue a bad cert, but hopefully it won't" is a meaningful benefit. It doesn't reduce the theoretical bounds on the attacks, and again in practice, these hundreds of companies haven't been misissuing. (The present story is about mis-delegating the power to issue revocation/non-revocation responses, which is certainly a problem, but only relevant in practice if there are actual end-entity certs that are misissued in the first place.) So while it certainly feels better to have fewer entities that can sign - and to be clear, I am all for distrusting many if not most of them - I don't think it addresses either the fundamental theoretical problems nor the actual real-world attacks.
> If I were Palantir I'd be worried about the funding from my primary customers (defense, law enforcement, ICE) in the likely coming very Democratic federal government.

Why? Palantir grew to be a unicorn (not just a unicorn, but a decacorn) under a Democratic federal government.
Or even just Emacs.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Old...
That same old panel is still the best display you can buy.
Yeah man, my e-mail is in my bio now!
The same can be said of FB and related apps they own.
The comment didn't even say "overblown" which - as an opinion - could be debated. Their comment was "the largest item in the federal budget" which takes near-zero effort to determine if it's true or not.
You're one of those people actively driving away otherwise decent people from a worthy cause. Congratulations.
Thanks, you’re right. Still standing by my point, no one touches that stuff.
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Wasn't the whole point minimal means-testing to get this done quickly? Plenty of small businesses would have had to lay off employees while waiting for someone to decide if the application was good enough.

Construction is an interesting outlier, I know of plenty of people in service industries who at least got something rather than just being completely screwed.
I saw Mixpanel, Getaround, Bird, a16z, Index ventures, foundational Capital all listed. The VCs are claiming they didn’t receive money on twitter...some think it’s one of their portfolio cos but very strange nonetheless
I'm right on the older limit of zoomer. I understand perfectly and think it would be a good idea to ban it. But I also think every privacy destroying social media app should be shut down.
Perhaps not the best example for how abstract something is. The 18650 battery cells that most electric vehicles use looks very similar to an AA battery. You certainly couldn’t tell them apart from an icon.
Secretive data startup Palantir has confidentially filed for an IPO
How so? I don't know much about Argentina, but I figured it was doing pretty well compared to most Latin American countries.
Russia has its own "leaks"(money wise).
This is true, I muddied the waters to no benefit.
Say I'm a company and I have 100k in the bank. I take the loan for 100k and the company I own makes 100k and it pays out 100k in salary.

Now I have 200k in the bank where otherwise I would have had 100k. In a sense isn't this going into the owners pocket?
Completely agree, I left out the "other side" of leadership, working with other departments and senior leaders as it seemed out of scope of the question.

I put "optics" in quotes to use it as a pejorative as I only seen it used as a strawman. eg. "Your team is never at their desks... it creates bad optics". I prefer to file that under transparent communication between all sides of a company.

In one particular case it was a team that 19 times out of 20 hit every goal and expectation on the product roadmap on time to near 100% ask. As a snarky and sarcastic asshole my response was of course "Do you want to potentially sacrifice the fact that we nearly hit every roadmap deadline and OKR in order to make it "seem" like they are working harder?".

Note: This is based on the startup world... Its never senior management who does things like this as often all they are about is the company they put their blood, sweat, and tears into is successful and cant afford the luxury of ideal "optics". This is an argument/toxicity that comes from less experienced "leaders" who needs to find fault to make up for their lack of success or are micromanagers themselves.
sure, lets race to the bottom with the bad guys.
Are you in the US?

Nimby is a fickle mistress, though we can see in China as well as the US that property ownership is part of a warped mating ritual/tradition and has distorted "occupant owned" dwelling statistics (just as much as reits have). 3 for me, none for you was a different economic experiment afaic.

Are you listening to "I don't want to be you anymore" by Billie Eilish? The pressure you speak of may have a gender imbalance, but most guys are cool with a smooth operator (being good at what you do) and tend to avoid lip service.
My wife's family does the same thing, but with cash and checks and sometimes gift cards. Cracks me up.
Politicians often call for things that they know will never happen.
Education is already a big business in Australia, those universities love the foreign student revenue so much that they even lower the bar for English requirements so that more students can come over.

https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/cash-cows/11084858
But the point that Palantir will still have a big pool of money to play with regardless of who is in power is completely valid. Over 80% of Democrats (in both the House and Senate) voted to approve the 2020 defense budget. I believe the numbers were similar in 2019 too. They may talk a big game about cutting funding, but I will believe it when I see it.
Australia is unique amongst its peers in that it has no bill of rights, and instead largely relies upon common law to determine what can and cannot be done; making rights subject to legislative authority.

Kind of similar, kind of, Canada has a notwithstanding clause that allows the Government to temporarily override protected rights with legislation.
worked great for me... with javascript turned off. just scrolled down the page and read all the content at my leisure.

the only glitch was the sticky footer that fixed itself in the middle of the page instead of at the bottom of the viewport.

so my takeaway is, use good markup for carousels, in case users have js turned off, and sticky footers should use css (position: sticky), not js on top of position: absolute.

(like others, i think image carousels with galleries are fine)
and yet it worked in Taiwan, in Vietnam, in Japan, in New Zealand...

ridiculous huh
Rotational energy goes up worth both the square or the radius and the speed, so it is much better bang for your buck to have a the mass centered on an outer rim connected to a hub by spokes and spinning really fast rather than just something uniformly heavy. The mass close to the centre doesn’t do anything for you.

The heavier it is also requires bigger more expensive bearings and accompanying system to get the thing spinning in the first place.

I looked at a flywheel that spun at 12,000 rpm. It was going to be located in an underground vault in case it ever got off its pedestal bearings it wouldn’t mow people down.

Like anything that stores energy but doesn’t generate the economics aren’t great.
That's not true, though. The current administration is attempting to get the ACA struck down, which would boot millions off Medicaid.
At least if you’re going to (or forced to) at least use a good well tested library. I’ve written more than I want to count myself over the years and they’re just such a pain to get right.

https://swiperjs.com/ Is probably one of the best out there.
Are there any online grocery delivery services that accept crypto currency like BTC or ETH?
I think in a lot of the cases it is a combination of how the jobs have sucked a lot more out of folks and having family/kids/responsibilities etc. The latter was always present but the former has just gotten worse over the years.
Alert me on the web page the first time I log into my account after the policy goes live.
I work at a company where tech is an unrespected cost center. There is also a ton of useless bureaucratic and middle management crap that impedes actual work getting done. My boss handles all of that and does his best to shield the team from all that stupidity so we can get our work done. He's one of the best managers I've worked for.

I still don't like the company and work environment, but when I do leave this place, I'll genuinely miss my boss.
I work at a design agency. Most of my coworkers have seen this site before, and generally agree with it. But we still propose designs with carousels to clients.

A lot of our clients are obsessed with what content is "above the fold". Never mind that "that fold" doesn't really exist on the web given different screen sizes, and never mind that users are more likely to scroll down than click slides. Every executive simply must have their all-important tidbit at the top of the page.

A carousel is a way to solve this perceived problem. As long as no one actually needs to see the content anyway, they at least aren't actively detrimental to the overall user experience.
I would expect anyone younger than 35 to know how to interact with a carousel

Interesting viewpoint, as a middle manager in my company requested a carousel specifically for content aimed at older users. She said that younger people don't need the carousel because they know how to scroll.
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"Palantir software is a Java-based platform for analyzing, integrating, and visualizing several types of data, including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. In addition to accessing all natively connected data sources, such as ... Palantir's import process allows Warfighters to easily draw in any other types of data, such as unstructured message traffic, structured identity data, link charts, spreadsheets, phone data, and documents.

Palantir has a link analysis tool similar to Axis-Pro, Analyst Notebook (ANB) and the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) Standard Cloud (DSC), which are currently used in theater. The Palantir platform uses advanced database technologies, combined with a sophisticated front-end GUI that enables extraction, transformation, and linked of varied datasets. Palantir uses a revisioning database, also known as version control, to documentall modifications performed on objects and entities in the database. Users of Palantir can perform dynamic modeling scenarios in which they manually create links between unrelated objects and entities that update across all datasets in the repository without permanently changing any of the original data"

Essentially a graph database that plays well with geospatial polygon and route searches along with time series', useful for trawling through all your surveillance data and putting together who-did-what to decide who to, erm, target

There's a few screenshots and also pretty interesting user reviews in this Operational Assessment Report published by US Army April 2012

Actually here's my favorite user report on how they use the software, page B-6: "Look for bad guys. Find out who and what those guys are connected to."

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/08/1830_0...
> So, it's true that the WHO said that, although they've since clarified that by 'no evidence' they mean "we don't know", not "it doesn't happen". ('no evidence' is one of those phrases that people misunderstand). However, _pre-symptomatic_ cases are contagious, and there's no way to know if you're negative, asymptomatic, or pre-symptomatic, so as public health advice "asymptomatic people may not be contagious" is not useful (it's somewhat useful from and epidemiological standpoint).

I understand this, but curbing on fundamental freedoms based on "no evidence" is a hard sell for many of us. I have the luxury of playing it safe because I'm a remote working software engineer, but if I still worked in a shop like I did a few years ago I could be homeless now.

> Who claimed that?!

There was "reasonable" (reasonable looking) evidence that locked down states did worse numbers-wise, but this obviously doesn't control for population density. My point is that nobody knows what's going on anymore.
H.265 is patent laden. H.264 is much better in avoiding getting sued.
By making a spyware app, isn't China doing to us what we've been doing to them for years?
Sure, and let’s ban TV, movies and video games for the same reason.
As I recall, Walmart fills their meat with water, increasing the weight and decreasing their costs.

Found it. "Wal-Mart, for example, says a majority of its fresh offerings are enhanced with a 6 to 12 percent solution of water, salt, sodium phosphate and natural flavorings."
It's very easy to misunderstand things due to phrasing. I wouldn't take it personally, nor would it surprise me if a 30 year old friend of mine got confused.
So... Vine?
He had me at this door hinge mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8M-3dK4h1Q

And the steerable, retracting landing gear is phenomenal.
Assuming you're willing to pony-up the money, Walmart offers a wide variety of USDA Certified Organic goodies. From meats to beets. And I personally take great comfort in knowing that only carbon-based compounds appear in my comestibles...
Indeed, I was happy to find out that in the USA the FDA checks your work prior to approving a new medicine.

https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/center-drug-evaluation-and-res...
Every time I do UI stuff, I tell my boss that timers are a code smell.

They're either too long, and the user gets bored or confused, or they're too short and the program bucks the user off and runs on without them.

"Skip" buttons don't work. If you can have a Skip button, just make it a Next button and kill the timer.
Software is over coupled. Everything tries to be the platform and split the user base, so it control the tribe, the resources of the tribe and the focus of the tribe and most of the time, not intentionally.
Hydroxychloroquine: Then(1658) and Now
Pope Urban VIII sought a cure for malaria b/c in 1623, while being selected as Pope, he was stricken by it. For months he was too weak to work. Eight cardinals who selected him as Pope died from the dreaded disease. He sent Jesuit missionaries to learn all they could of medicines in the new Americas. A Jesuit apothecary in Lima (Peru) noted that the Quecha natives of the Andes used cinchona bark for chills. Doctors in Rome discovered that the bark was a cure for malaria. The active ingredient was quinine, still used today to fight the disease.

The powdered bark was sometimes called "Jesuits' Powder". Association of the remedy with the Jesuits made it controversial. Considerable anti-Catholic sentiment existed in Northern Europe and England and many suspected anything associated with the Church. Oliver Cromwell hated all things Catholic and was an example of this. When he fell ill to malaria in 1658, he refused to take the 'popish powder' and died as a result.

https://www.scientus.org/Jesuits-Bark.html

Fast forward to today:

Chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine are derivatives of quinine. The mere mention of hydroxychloroquine by a Republican president put the medicine on a "hate list" for Democratic party opponents of Donald Trump. From President Trump’s first mention of the drug there was a major effort to portray hydroxychloroquine as dangerous quackery.

http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/hydroxychloroquine

Note how the two situations parallel each other:

Cromwell <-is like--> liberal press and media

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hated hates

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Jesuit's Bark -----------------hydroxychloroquine

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associated with---------------- associated with

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Roman Church <--is like-> President Trump

Can we say that we are any better at making judgments as a society today than we were in 1658?

It appears not.
After studying [3], I came to the conclusion that the specific CRDTs they attempted to use for Xi editor might be too low level to be useful in building a text editor directly, but that this is not an intrinsic shortcoming of CRDTs. Rather, the kind of automerging behavior of the CRDTs they used didn't match the design needs of the editor.

(btw, check out chronofold, designed for text: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09511v4 )

Anyhow, I've come to see CRDTs as very low level primitives that can assist in creating decentralized applications. Their strength is not that they automagically solve the inherently subjective problem of merging asynchronously edited, divergent data. That problem is more of a design problem that needs to be solved on a case by case basis. The strength of CRDTs is in that they have extremely well defined behavior and aren't fundamentally reliant on a central coordinator or leader. Of course you can design in a leader if you want, or multiple leaders. But that has nothing to do with CRDTs. So I imagine them being more useful in composing higher level data structures and smooth interfaces for users to make inherently difficult decisions about merge conflicts themselves.

My favorite kind of CRDTs are "delta state CRDTs". They're very cool. I wish the paper about them was easier to understand.
Home routers are riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched Linux
Those 3 fewer zeros do make a bit of a difference. ;-)