skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was pretty obvious that the reason why our last wave here in the Netherlands has dropped as quickly as it rose is that we first let go of too many restrictions too fast and then immediately reinstated the biggest ones. Basically all the kids were going to festivals for a week or two before the government finally realized that was a bad idea until we've vaccinated them as well and we should still apply some restrictions.
Musk has actually talked about that before, during the early stages of Raptor development. He said they were downsizing Raptor from the originally planned size, because their analysis showed a smaller size was the sweet spot for maximum thrust/weight ratio.
> I don't know about you, but "week is greater than 2180" sounds more natural than "2180 is less than week"

To you perhaps. To me, I think "if I put both sides on the number line, which way is being questioned? and is that question answered true or false?"

And therefore I almost always do an equals or less-than comparison because that's how I think about the number line: 0 in the center with negatives on the left and positives on the right.

So `if (week < 2048)` is just as valid and easy to think about as `if (!(2048 <= week))`. But then `if (!(2048 <= week))` provides an additional guarantee: that I won't accidentally assign to `week`.
Probably these lockdowns were actually very soft "suggestions" that people didn't follow.

Until we find viruses capable of teleportation, quarantine will remain a very effective strategy.
You did not demonstrate enough navel gazing and bemoaning of original sin all non people of color are guilty of. If I knew were you worked I could have you fired.
The Gribble House Axe Murders
>I think one of the reasons is that it is a market-based solution that allows companies to pollute as long as they are willing to pay for it. Many progressives prefer an approach of behaviour and lifestyle modifications.

I don't see how that hypothesis is compatible with regarding climate change as an existential threat.

I mean, maybe it is potentially the end of the world for practical purposes, and maybe it isn't.

But if it is, then concentrating on behavior modifications that are appealing to impose independently of CO2 levels seems like an expression of either a desire for human extinction or of a disbelief in the problem.
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Best fit: startup/SMB where stuff needs to get done.
$150k salary, 10% super and the rest I get in bonuses.

The bonus break down is:

10% of my salary paid quarterly if I hit my targets and I get around 0.9% profit sharing.

My position title is just SRE. Same rank as the other engineers.

CEO > VP of Engineering > All the SWE/SREs sit here
I'd learn a new language in two different scenarios:

1. If I were paid to do so. What would make me do so? Getting paid, of course. (Note that "getting paid" could mean "I think it's the thing I need to learn for the next stage of my career".) But if the boss doesn't pick a language and say "learn this", then for me to pick a language, it has to be significantly better in some way for writing the kinds of programs that I write to earn my money. That's kind of a high bar. Maybe one language every several years passes that threshold.

2. If I wanted to. This is a completely different set of answers. Here, I want to learn the language for my own project, or just because I think it's cool. To actually do so, I have to want to learn that language more than I want the other things I can spend my free time on. That also is a high bar, because I have a fair number of non-computer things that I really want to do.
Do people use OkCupid on the browser?
> At least we can override UI redesign changes with userChrome.css and userContent.css

Not entirely, unfortunately.
>You simply do not have that in a static world.

I keep seeing lisp people bandy about all of this design by contract/arbitrary predicate validation stuff. Can you give an example of an instance in which static types + runtime checks don't completely subsume this?

My intuition is that almost all of these methods people are talking about would have to be enforced at run-time, in which case I don't see how it's providing anything fundamentally more than writing an assertion or a conditional.
2014, SRE. I don't have any clue the level.
Remember that time a guy printed up certificates for redeemable precious metals then got rectally destroyed by the feds?
FTX Trilogy, Part 1: The Prince of Risk
> Hiring and onboarding are extremely important for a startup.

If you're a small company, you usually cannot afford to hire "mediocre" talent. It is much more expensive to undo the crapola they'd implement. Trying to hire those who are at least interested in learning and using languages like Clojure, Rust, Haskell, Elixir, Elm, etc., is a very good quality filter. ROI from hiring a smaller number of Clojure devs, rather than a few more "regular" engineers - is much higher.

> Finding answers to common questions on Google/Stackoverflow;

Clojure gives you far fewer reasons for Googling things than other language ecosystems. It is dense language and inspires you to write smaller functions, decreasing the surface area for the problem. Most of the time, asking questions in Clojurians Slack sends you halfway through the solution.

> I salute these brave companies for sticking to these obscure languages

They do not choose Clojure for the shtick; Clojure is a highly pragmatic and immensely productive instrument. There are many "success stories" with small and medium-sized companies. A few large companies like Cisco, Apple, Walmart, et al., actively develop in Clojure.

The same can be said about the engineers. They don't choose Clojure because "they hate Java". You can check any Clojure surveys of the past. Most Clojure engineers are experienced and "tired" developers. Seasoned hackers who have seen the action. For most of them - Clojure is a deliberate choice. Many of them landed in it after trying various other alternatives.
On the other hand, dehumanizing people because they refuse to follow the rules is also an excuse that would work for almost any kind of dehumanization.
Then what you're doing right now should be illegal!
Or rather, lying on your CV, claiming you meet the requirements; having someone who knows all the tips tricks and buzzwords edit it for you?

But hey, once you get an interview!
That absolutely does not solve the problem? A grandmaster chess player is going to get tired of playing handicapped games against 1000 Elo noobs.
Costco isn’t usually considered a discount store, it’s usually classified as a “Warehouse Club”.
We're not a trading firm. Relatively small company, 7 software engineers including myself. Around 60~ staff between the Continental US and AU/NZ.

We're in Brisbane.
I've seen amateur programmers produced great code, due to cultures of code review, peer mentorship, high professional standards, and time to think deeply through problems and talk things over.

I've worked in companies where great programmers produced horrible code, due to cultures of optimizing to productivity metrics / features shipped, rushed timelines, and interrupted work schedules with meetings, requirements changes, and people multitasking projects.

I'm not arguing one of those is better than the other. Running a business is about tradeoffs. I am not particularly impressed with anything Google has engineered in the past decade or more. The original search, gmail, Google Docs, Android, Maps, and a few others were brilliant, but those are a long time passing.

On the other hand, I'm not ready to condemn anyone working on those over that. Competence is situational and context-dependent. I also don't have insight into Google business decisions. Google revenues are growing exponentially, so they're clearly doing something right.
Sorry, this is such an absolutely absurd argument.

What are minimal capital and time requirements to do this eggs in more than one basket thing? Not talking about an orbiting space whatever but a real, sustainable ecology on another planet.

The depth of our ignorance even about whole classes of basic science there, notwithstanding the number and scale of engineering problems to solve....

Is there any reality where this isn't minimum a century and thousands to millions of $T?

For someone who believes this is the most urgent problem on which to spend capital and time, the most efficient target of advocacy energy has to be the US military which spends $700B a year, not the effing FAA and the relatively small scale projects of this one company- no matter how exciting and advanced they happen to be.

Even making the case for this program, when one considers what could be done with even a fraction of that scale of capital deployed on this planet....Fusion energy itself is probably a $10T investment, orders of magnitude less in money and time.

Space is cool but not for one femtosecond should anyone entertain any of this eggs in more than one basket nonsense.
The devil is in the details. If you can predict how many miles you drive, it is essentially an agreement to sell your car at a predetermined price.

The main problem is that when buying a car outright, there are two parameters the dealer can screw you with (price and interest rate.), with leasing, there is a third (sell price).
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Of course it's not a concern for all users, definitely the network one, but I think you're underestimating how commonplace RAM upgrades are.

In my own circles (so anecdotally) I've had plenty of conversations over the last 20+ years about helping tech and non-tech people upgrade RAM on their computers, including laptops.. And in the last 5 years I've heard plenty of people be surprised (and bummed) that they can't upgrade the RAM on their Macs post-purchase anymore.

And of course maxing out the RAM at purchase time is a complete rip-off compared to market prices.

Every Mac I've owned (5 machines across desktops/laptops from 2006 through to 2016 I think), I eventually upgraded the RAM myself via aftermarket parts at reasonable market rates and it greatly extended the life of the computer.

Given the premium cost you already pay for a Mac, not being able to do this anymore is a deal breaker, for me at least.
This is a great article that I find myself re-reading and referencing all the time.

I think it's unfortunate that people only skim over it and then use it to complain/defend Linux/windows/m4/autoconf/etc. More important is the main point that "quality only happens when someone is responsible for it". This explains a mistake I see time and time again in all manners of software projects: anything by committee, anything overly democratic, can only aim to be mediocre at best. You need an owner/architect/champion/tyrant if you hope to achieve anything above average (not guaranteed though).
It complies because it's aggregated, no individual's data is involved.
Always bought ours from Costco in fairly large units, even when we lived in a smaller apartment.
It's the only time the candidate has more power than the employer because the latter showed their hands.
> Russians did a much better job in recent decades

The multiple problems with Nauka suggest they've lost their edge and never learned the lessons from docking issues with Progress in the past.
Nobody read EULAs.
No, multiple applications cannot read the same data from a tty device.
I found:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-trac...

...to be quite interesting for covid-19 vaccination information. For example, the state with the lowest rate of at-least-one-dose vaccinations for people 65 and up is West Virginia, at 83.1%. Most states are 90+% or better for that age group.
The rhetoric of American exceptionalism annoys me a lot.

But occasionally I think it has some justification. And I think SpaceX is one of those rare cases. I just can't see a firm like SpaceX existing in any other country. The US offers a unique combination of easy access to capital, relatively low regulation, and high government funding for private space ventures, which I doubt you will find anywhere else.
This is disturbingly similar to how criminal enterprises operate, without regard for operational expenses, alienating customers.
It is like nobody care much about losing easy money.
Related: The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed By Google:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902728

Hacker News discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902728
I think you're spot on, and the author's assessment is accurate: "China may simply see things differently. It’s possible that the Chinese government has decided that the profits of companies like Alibaba and Tencent come more from rents than from actual value added"

In the perspective of Chinese government, it is simply unacceptable that a toilet ordered by the air force cost more than $20k, or the number of ship manufacturers diminishes over years, or the average age of NASA engineers went from below 36 to above 55, or the best minds of the country spends their prime time figuring out how to increase CTR for ads revenue. Manufacturing and advanced research is a key to a nation, and China recognizes it.
> Twenty years ago, all the conformists in my age cohort were obsessed with the Harry Potter books …startlingly puerile and unoriginal mass-marketed wish-fulfillment fantasies.

> Today, those same conformists in my age cohort are more likely to condemn the Harry Potter series … Naturally, then, there was nothing for me to do but finally read the series!

I think this type of smug contrarianism is more in want of a shorthand label than the age-old trope of bureaucracy-abuse. The type of person that feels the need to spend 1/3 of an opinion piece painstakingly justifying the use of a pop culture reference that, yes, he knows, would be outrageously juvenile and plebeian for a man of his station, and must be accompanied by a warning so the sheer dissonance does not distract from his very important point.

Surely a man of his “brilliance and creativity” would realize that “Blankface” will only conjure the image of an emoji in the minds of conformist plebs :|
Instead of typing things into a repl and copying back into source, imagine stepping through your source in a debugger.
you've described wage slavery and class dynamics under capitalism. congratulations. your dystopia is already here.
I've had this happen to me on more than one occasion over several years, so I find it very hard to see it as a "moderation bug"
Ya, there are some interesting ones - looks like they sent videos to their entire batch, at least.
Are you saying without lockdowns it would have turned in a regular cold by now?
I'm wondering if 3/4 replies here ran afoul of a keyword filter and got marked dead? It seems all the replies that used the word that is the subject of the original post are dead, despite not appearing to violate any guidelines and being generally good faith answers to the post.
> What frustrated me more were the comments that appeared to be divorced from reality about what space exploration will bring.

There's not a single comment in this thread that does anything of the sort.

> He's spending his investors' money

All large, institutional investors that invest not because of some hypothetical Mars colonization, but because SpaceX is dominating the launch market, including government contracts, and has a potentially very large upcoming revenue stream with Starlink.

In terms of any sort of GDP comparison, space activities and employee numbers are a tiny, tiny fraction of economic output, so I really fail to understand such complaints.
We Switched to Mattermost
>I know a lot of Americans that do not like apples because all they've ever had were the foamy ones.

We have started getting apples in the UK (Tesco) that are often "foamy", almost powdery in their consistency. I assumed that it was some growing method that produces it as the same variety sold under the same label will sometimes have it and sometime not. I wondered if they're really old apples that the appearance of has been preserved; like we get softer potatoes that are actually last seasons and often have green patches where roots have been cut off. We changed to buying from Lidl and their fruit doesn't seem to have the same issue, so far, YMMV. The kids will squeeze the apples to make sure they're the nice ones, and one claims he can smell the good ones; visually they're identical (to me).
Honest question: what's amazing about it? Am I missing some clever aspect of it?
"Should" sounds an awful lot like "won't, and nobody will actually force them to do so".
This is a tiring argument of opportunity cost for Space Exploration. It has been discussed ad-nauseum on HN. It is not a zero sum game - we can explore space and simulatenously do the things that are immediately in need and urgent.
This mistake also requires that the assignment operator has a result (and further, that the result can be silently coerced into a boolean for whatever reason)

In both Rust and Swift, this mistake doesn't compile, their assignment operators don't have a result and so it can't very well be true (or false) ‡

‡ Technically the result of Rust's assignment operators is the empty tuple, which is the closest to "doesn't have a result" in the type system. I don't know about Swift.
You're absolutely right. My approach has been to take my syllabus, ignore the textbook -- which is often completely theoretical and unnecessarily flooded with greek letters -- and found better course material on YouTube. The syllabus is important indeed. Another approach is to subscribe to lecture seriess on YouTube from other universities with better curation -- and let that university do the filtering.
IANAAstrophysicist, but this is the surface of the sun with a sunspot (the white spot) in a different wavelength, probably UV or infrared.
Also consider an octopi's environment. That environment is not well suited for being able to build lots of things. How do you get to the bronze age underwater? How about even earlier. Land based creatures have pretty similar forms. Snake like, bipedal, quadru/multiped, and flying/winged creatures. Snakes don't have arms and so aren't going to have fine motor control. Winged creatures are going to have a hard time dealing with heavy objects (they have hollow bones to fly and wings are incredibly fragile and I don't see nature creating super materials, plastics, or metal structural systems for animals). Quadrupeds probably aren't going to develop arms like centaurs (more likely legs become arms). So if we want a creature that can have fine motor control, live in an environment that can easily create metals, not be extremely fragile, and is able to devote a significant amount of its energy intake to its brain, you're probably going to come up with something ape like (bipedal). There are other forms here, but we can see that there are some pretty good hints that we learn just from mechanics and aren't so much dependent on specifics of Earth or humans.
I don't think your redundancy is in the cards yet, technologically. You'd need a minimum of a few hundred people living on Mars long term and being able to sustain themselves.

That seems ... very far off. I dont necessarily disagree with setting a science mission up on Mars, but i'd strongly disagree with the notion that Mars is even a top priority for a diversification of baskets.
I've been through two large-scale projects now where we went 100% into hooks, and after a couple years the excitement has faded and I often wonder if it was worth it. It seems to end up making code even more complex than before, even though components look simpler on the surface. Not enough to go back to classes, but doesn't feel as good as those first steps. I absolutely hate the manual dependency tracking and having every single thing be wrapped in a useX() method to avoid unnecessary updates.
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Same experience with my current wife. Has yours remarried?
Sounds more like you ran into a conflict of mental model and language feature, not necessarily that the language couldn’t achieve your goal simply.
"Evolution" as we know it is just a phase

At a certain point, there's no limits to survivability. You can redesign yourself in any way, and not die from it (or have back-ups if you do).
I saw him speak at my elementary school, I immediately bought his book and I'm sure this had a part in me becoming an engineer. It's a good book.
Rust on RISC-V BL602: Is It Sunny?
>at least unless we get a vaccine-resistant strain.

...which will happen promptly. The selection pressures are perfect. You already have a variant with vaccine breakthrough, circulating in a partially vaccinated population.
The real-life efficacy at preventing transmission is waning by the day, it seems.
> Creating a separate account just for using the hardware is not only expressly forbidden, but can result in you being locked out of your device

Wow. That is despicable.
> SEEKING WORK | Portland, OR or REMOTE... (posted by unleashit)

I don't mean to cause any offence, but you have a little bit of shit in your Github and HN username.

You may already know, but just in case, it may impact how you're perceived w.r.t. prospective employers.
I am sorry but this is false.

Toxicity and polluting aspects of Rockets is of a negligible concern, Everyday Astronaut (Youtube fame) gets this so often that he did an entire hour long video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VHfmiwuv4

> Rockets on unplanned trajectories can ruin people's day

Well darn.
Yes it was - "... are sent when a user is navigating to the origin site" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Se...
I want to be able to set my phone down on a table and be able to use it without it seesawing and rocking.
Moebius, of course.

Right now I really love PTSD by Guillaume Singelin.