skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, I think there is a long term market in social exercise at home that they can tap into and keep going. However it isn't nearly as large as their current market. Enough to be profitable by having a few trained staff (people with actual exercise degrees using the latest research to run a good class as opposed to your typical gym personal trainer who doesn't have formal training in that) so that a class is starting every 15 minutes. (and some classes can be re-runs so long as they don't fall into the trap of stale content because it is all reruns).

However the above is enough to support a small company with about a dozen full-time staff who are doing well for themselves, and a few part time staff. That is one CEO who also does basic HR and a few other tasks, 2 IT support people, 6 personal trainers (some who always work nights/weekends), a few other staff because other functions are needed, and part time is seniors at the local college who are getting a relevant degree. Once in a while they will need to outsource design of a new bike as parts on the old model go obsolete, or some new software feature (every two years at most - partially so they still remember how to get this done). Nobody will get rich doing this, but all will have a nice middle class life. And of course all the venture capitalists who funded the wild ride up will be disappointed.
> The two men glide through Tokyo’s bustling Ikebukuro district in full-length samurai outfits, while wielding objects that look like swords.

I didn't know samurai wore denim coats, leather boots and fedora hats!
There will come at time you will not be ridiculing this anymore...
The subscription is what gives a lot of people issues. The price is in line with other high-end exercise equipment (and, as you say, things like road bikes).

(I use my Concept 2 off and on. I've gotten pretty good value from it over the years but I'm not paying $49/mo for the periods when it's gathering dust.)

I have no doubt many people like their Peleton though and find the subscription a reasonable value. That said, the company was pretty much pre-ordained to crater post-pandemic relative to during unless you believe that a lot of gym going people were going to decide this gym thing is for the birds relative to my Peleton at home.
Well, this is toxic then.
Here is the OG source of those numbers: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of....

Skimming the thread, they made "assumptions" for cases like taking off from bodies with atmosphere.

Here is more on how they came up with the number for Venus, including some actual math: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1ktjfi/deltav_map_of....

The OG image mentions that there are assumptions being made. The image linked by GP is a derivative work, improving on and crediting the work of /u/CuriousMetaphor, however it omits some of the caveats in the legend.
> That's ad hominem

Pointing out overt political activism by the founders is pretty important context when discussing the "apolitical" nature of their ventures.

> Yes, so?

Edgy != good. The journalistic value of interviewing a "cartel" member with 0 verifcation, sources or journalistic codes is not good journalism. It is just titilating porn for middle class people. The person being interviewed might just be a kid with a mask, an airsoft gun talking about how much heroin he sells and how many people he tortures.

Or worse, they might actually be in a cartel and try to impress the kid with the camera and shoot someone to shock them. (Something close to this happened while they filmed cartel members doing coke at a bar in mexico). Absolutely no journalism happened that night.

> while there's nothing wrong with any of that.

Shitting all over the word journalism, ignoring lessons learned by countless of better, braver, more talented men and women and going for shock over reality is all pretty good reasons.

I only used buzzwords because I think the naivete of rich kids pretending to be journalists being exploited for profit by a company founded by a wannabe neonazi is too obvious to have to spell out.
Ripping the bandaid could potentially cause fatal bleeding. Keep in mind these stacks are calcified on a lower layer of stack and other higher ones depend on.
Well, the Japanese (at least at the “old-fashioned” company I worked for) are big on making sure that every action item has a person responsible, along with dates of milestones.

Their basic philosophy is “QCD,” which stands for “Quality, Cost, Delivery.”

I think it actually was popularized by W. Edwards Deming, but it is likely older. Much of the stuff he introduced was regurgitated older techniques.

“Quality” isn’t just about “is it good?”.

It’s about how is the result measured? What are the measurement points? What are the units? What is the required bar? Etc.

“Cost” is not just dollars (or Yen). It’s also man-hours, resources required, impact on/coordination with other projects, legal liability, risk assessment, etc.

“Delivery” is what is to be delivered, and when? Accepting the delivery requires that it conform to the goals in “Quality.”

Every action item has a person assigned, and they always need to be able to do a QCD report of their charge, at any time.

They leave you alone, but the flip side of that, is that you are expected to be self-sufficient, and personally invested in/accountable for the task. If you drop the ball, you will be replaced.

Frankly, it’s a pain in the ass, but stuff doesn’t fall through the cracks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality,_cost,_delivery
Is there an actual technical reason for doing this besides the subscription model success? Better analytics?
Because if you want someone with skill to enter and run (or recover) your company, he won't do it for the sake of an adventure. He usually gets offered a big reward for achieving a goal he cannot fully judge yet, and a small compensation in case he fails (and ultimately leaves).

If such a person chooses the "golden parachute", the "golden rocket" he had to commit on hiring was maybe unachievable in first place...
I have tried several combinations of converting one programming language to another. One combination that worked OK, with some manual corrections, was Common Lisp to Clojure. I think Python to Common Lisp worked OK for pure code
You’re paying the same or more for a regular gym membership. My wife pays $200/month+ for Pilates.
Before morning coffee:

Over an indefinite period of time, I'd expect that all planets are on average placed in the center of the Sun, and equally far away.

Now:

Oh, right. It's not the distance to the average, it's the average of the distance.
you-do-need-dashes-between-the-words-in-the-domain-name-of-your-one-page-pedantry-because-then-you-can-clearly-communicate-your-message-without-actually-requiring-people-to-click-on-the-link-or-even-bothering-registering-the-domain-or-putting-up-a-web-site-unless-of-course-you-are-just-publishing-click-bait-to-sell-ads-in-which-case-fuck-off.com
Written by a confusing developer who love to reinvent the wheel all the time.
I had no idea that was a thing!
The iraq war was based on lies and financial interest. Do you really want to pretend, Saddam was the primary goal? And that nation building was accomplished, sir!

And gaddafi was toppled over french/sarcozy interest.

One who doesn't know history is doomed to repeat it. Post hoc justification of own atrocities is exactly the sort of cognitive failure that patriotic delusion (and thus the future of such) can cause.
I can understand the confusion. I thought I could remember more technology companies with names ending in "com" (or "comm"), but all that come to mind are 3Com (now Cisco) and Worldcom (MCI). Others I can find are: Microcom, Freecom, Eurocom, Gericom, DASCOM, GENICOM, Dexcom, Omnicom, Paycom, Swisscom, Vodacom, Millicom, Mediacom, Bulsatcom, Escom, Vivacom, Classicomm, JCOM, and Finecom, but most of those I've never heard of.
Hmm, you need smaller landers, longer legs or engine at the top (with multiple nozzles), wire lowering of payloads or something...
Moving stuff into a closure is a perfect example of that. Try to capture an arcmutex to a bunch of threads in a closure? The compiler will note that arc can't be copied and to try moving it. It will then say you are trying to move the same arc to multiple threads, so you clone the arc. And if you try to just use an Rc it will tell you that can't be sent between threads (not thread safe) use arc instead. Those messages can absolutely guide you a long way before you realize your whole concept won't work, and that is frustrating, but those steps usually make you understand the whole issue.
Which planetary orbit is closest to Earth’s? That’s what I think people are meaningfully thinking.
Halley's Comet might fit that description.
What's the difference between a cheaper good bike and a mobile app?
Jesus. One would think the social relationship with the students would override the greed, but apparently not.
There's a cattle vs pets argument here.

When naming "pets", thematic names are nice: Tolkien characters, words-starting-with, deities, elements, plants, animals, etc.

When naming "cattle", schemes that have fairly intricate coded meanings and numerical elements generate things like LDW21-0743 (London, Desktop, Windows, 2021, number 743).

Somewhere between 50 and 100 machines and you need to transition, and it can be surprisingly traumatic.
A while back we had a skunkworks project that needed to pass CISPR 11 but also had ~0 budget. Initial testing in a rented chamber revealed a grossly-failing amount of energy emitted that had a clear peak but covered a fair bit of spectrum. The solution was to head out to a nearby field and set up a Yagi antenna at one end and an easy-up and generator to power the device at the other. This allowed a few months testing for ~free, and with a fast loop of "iterate design" -> "retest" -> "repeat". It wasn't great testing, but suitable enough to tell if the frequency we cared about was improving and by how many dB.
Although you may not have been implying it, saying the capital is being "lit on fire" makes it sound like the money vanishes into thin air, when that's not technically the outcome.

Even if the capital is given to/spent by a failing company, that money is at least still mostly spent on either materials or labor, which means it ends up back in the economy but somewhere else.

Obviously not the most efficient use of that capital if its being invested in poor companies, but it's not vanishing into thin air.
No ad hominem if you reread both your post and mine. But okay let's shift the goal post back, remove the need for new algorithms and ask chat gpt to make you the code to compete with Google. Might not be a billionaire but still could be a millionaire.
2000 and SimTower. And SimCopter! Oh the good ol' days.
Practice being bored.

Do things that require your focus without reacting or scanning for threats or stimulus

Like meditation, long, boring exercise, like a walk or long jog, or many kinds of tedious manual labor. These activities require focus, but generally, they are not stimulating.

They'll help you bootstrap work in the early, boring part. Eventually your work will become engaging enough not to need it. But often getting started is the hardest part.
(Haha, I did include the cheese sandwich in my comment, but edited it out to stay on topic and stay a bit less politically ranty on HN)
The "just a job" people have always been there. You don't notice them because they just get shit done and then go home without making a big deal about it.
> Note that an acquire load of p would have prohibited this reordering, since acquire loads block all future memory access, even if unrelated to the value being acquired.

I don't really get this part. The docs for acquire say:

> memory_order_acquire A load operation with this memory order performs the acquire operation on the affected memory location: no reads or writes in the current thread can be reordered before this load. All writes in other threads that release the same atomic variable are visible in the current thread

The prefetch is already ordered before the load in the same thread.
Thanks, very informative article! Definitely clarifies things like the move keyword, Fn and related traits and how closures are different from function pointers.
You can say what you want but from my vantage point there’s nothing “fad-ish” about the peloton. Do people buy it like the latest kitchen gizmo and then store it away and let it gather dust? Sure. But that’s not at all my experience.

Note, before the peloton I bought a Concept 2 rower. I used it routinely for a few months, then periodically, and then not at all. I still have it and going to try to use it again in conjunction with the peloton rowing classes now that they’re available in the app.
DNA can now be collected from beach sand or even the air
Thanks for this info! It had to be installed and working rather promptly, which meant I didn't have the time I'd usually like to acclimate to a new operating system. I'll look into WinBox.
This showcase looks at arethetypeswring.github.io, a project that attempts to analyze npm package contents for issues with their TypeScript types, particularly ESM-related module resolution issues.
I like the azure portal solution, where everything opens in a modal, in the form of a panel. When the link is followed, the panel opens as the main window.
That is an infomercial script right there. Great that it worked for you, but most people don’t become health nuts after buying a Ronco or a bow flex. Plus, it’s actively unhelpful advice for the majority of people who could never afford such an expensive way to stay fit when it could be trivially replicated with a free Craigslist exercise bike and a phone playing YouTube.
The first big Unix workstations site I worked at, at the same time as this RFC, the head sysadmin started naming SPARCstations after vacation destinations she liked (`cozumel`, `stcroix`, etc.).

I guess it brightened up the all-gray cubicle farm.

My hostname idea was to name network printers after trees (e.g., `pine`, `elm`).

You can also make the hostname work with the FQDN. I once got the hostname `ilove.mit.edu`. I later got them to rename it to `ihavealovehaterelationshipwith.mit.edu`.
I've seen people posting about it on a few message boards. Most of them sound like they e lost their minds or are under the influence being completely honest. I could try to dig up posts if you want but it's more sad than interesting.
Interesting - any other manufacturers in that area with checking out?
Well, I would question the notion (as others have) that union activity is anti-company or company-undermining. The company managers may perceive it that way, but that doesn’t make it the case.

There seems to be an underlying assertion embedded in the question. Namely, that both parties in an adversarial relationship should be treated equally under the law. This ignores power dynamics in favor of philosophical cohesion. Practically, though, we know this results in the exploitation of the individuals with less power. That’s why the NLRB was created, in response to worker exploitation. Indeed, creating a framework to settle disputes between individuals of disparate power is one fundamental reason for the existence of governments, the rule of law; it separates societies from anarchy.

“Fair” does not always mean “equal.” There’s a reason that people who are rich pay more both nominally and by percentage of their earnings.

It’s disappointing that this question continues to be raised. The position that the question implies was refuted almost a century ago, at a time when young men died of typhus from poor living conditions, a time when children regularly worked 12 hour shifts in mines and slaughterhouses. It took a massive movement to convince the lucky few who governed the exploited that human life is worth more than economic value that can be extracted from it. Yet here we are —- people who are not more than three generations away from almost certain exploitation questioning why employees should be allowed to hang posters on the cork board and talk about their own interests on the property of a company founded by a man with a private rocket company.

It’s not that I think it’s a moral imperative that you have solidarity with Amazon workers, or even reflect on your own possible complicity in their exploitation. I doubt a person capable of asking this question is interested in such a reflection. You should, however, come to the table with a modicum of historical understanding.
Better integration with the classes and metrics and the leaderboard. I use power zone classes only and the metrics are key for that.
Venus by that measure.
1Password won't accept my payment
Hi!

I've completed the process of transferring all my passwords over to 1password. I'm loving 1password from the start, as a developer myself they did such an amazing job on the usability part that it's a no brainer to use. I even managed to convince my non tech girlfriend to use it and she does!

Now the tedious and bad part:

I've been trying to subscribe to 1password for over 12 days now and my card keeps getting "declined". I contacted support explained them the issue and they told me its my card and I need to verify with my bank. So I did and the bank is telling me the transaction is getting declined because they are not properly validating the CVC number on their end. Fast forward a bit and I'm in contact with 1password support again. They ensure me nothing is wrong on their end yet I'm showing them proof that there is.

I'm lost here because in about 2 days I'm getting locked out of my account and I need it for work. As a potential customer I'm at the end of what I can do and this whole deal has been a very frustrating experience.

So please 1password (if any of you reads this) help me out, because you are making it really difficult for me to spend my money.
Heat pumps extract additional heat from a "cold source" like ambiant air. They do output more heat than resistive heating.
You're seeing demographics at work, rather than the upthread theory of "demand destruction."

If you look specifically at the prime-age labor force participation rate (25-54 years, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=15nxN), the current figures match pre-pandemic highs, which in turn match the 2004-7 level (pre-financial crisis).
Two things can be true at the same time: Peloton is a great product that customers love, and the true value of the company is a fraction of what was imagined just a few years ago.
I name for expected performance. A remote server named Arnie should be strong, reliable and always come back. A music server named Elvis serves music with elements from multiple genre and not mind being told what to do by someone who knows a lot less about how it does what it does (that'd be me) than it does. A back-up server named Methuselah should not die for a very, very, very long time. So far, it's been a successful scheme.

Edited for missing words.
I have reached this resolution: <a href="javascript:void(0)"> is never acceptable. If you have no reasonable value for an href, then you shouldn’t use an <a href> element, but probably a <button>.

As for <a href="#">, it’s in the same boat, with the sole exception of jumping to the top of the page.
> you can't fight a country like Russia, they have 7000 nukes, it's like thinking Mike Tyson is losing against you because he's too nice to punch you in the face... eventually he will.

Russia likes to rattle there nuclear sabre about everything regarding Ukraine (and beyond) because that is all Russia is capable of doing with there nuclear weapons without causing the quick, fast and hard collapse of there entire country.

7,000 nukes doesn't make a country win a war instantly, Russia lost in the first Chechen war even with all there nukes, they lost in Afghanistan with all the nukes, the US lost in a whole number of wars (Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc) whilst having shit loads of nukes.

Russia is throwing everything they have at Ukraine including mad max inspired franken vehicles and T-54 tanks, to pretend they are fighting with one hand behind their back is disingenuous.

It may look like Russia is fighting with one hand behind their back, but the reality is, that this is all Russia has.

> The arguments used today are the same as ever (we're freeing the Vietnamese, the Iraqis, etc.), if you look at it as it really is, less dead people is better than more dead people, eventually Ukraine will be destroyed and the US will not even help to rebuild it, if you think they will then look at Iraq.

The only one who has the power to decide the number of dead people is Russia, when Russia leaves the killing stops, until then the Ukrainians have to kill Russians until enough die and they decide to go home.
Commenters may wish to note the last section of the article:

> Modal windows can be used for views that don't constitute a "resource" or correspond to a domain entity:

> Alerts

> Confirmation dialogs

> Forms for creating/updating entities
Yeah “someones offering me 100% equity for the same idea, see ya later!” springs
to mind!
Shades of Go
> IATA code (3 characters)

What do you do if there's no airport?
> This will worsen the UX more often than not. Guaranteed.

The article states very clearly the use cases for which modals make sense:

Modal windows can be used for views that don't constitute a "resource" or correspond to a domain entity:

- Alerts
- Confirmation dialogs
- Forms for creating/updating entities

As soon as something is a resource, that is, an article to read, a picture to watch, a diagram to open, a sound to play, in short anything for which it makes sense that it should be reachable via an URI, a modal is the wrong choice.
My simplified understanding is that mainframes take vertical OLTP scaling AND system redundancy to the absolute extreme.

In any other computer your small number of general purpose CPUs have to handle all the business / application logic plus disk IO, network IO, cryptography, system housekeeping, etc. On a mainframe all those other things are offloaded to specialized coprocessors and the actual business logic gets nearly 100% of the cycles on hundreds of special purpose high frequency water cooled business logic CPUs running at 5+GHz.

Also any component can fail and be replaced without downtime or lost transactions. CPUs, RAM chips, entire motherboards, anything at all. You can rebuild it online while your transactions continue. Transactions can be run in duplicate across multiple hardware paths to ensure they are never lost and also verify output correctness.

If you set out to build a database server that handles 100 million transactions per hour and never ever goes down, you would end up with a mainframe.
Not an Extraterrestrial Signal. This Is Just a Test
This is SO cool. I hate pointless zoom meetings so I'm definitely going to check it out. Thanks!
If I set my piece of crap Hotpoint oven to 230 C then it will eat to 260. So thermostat inaccuracy also has to be considered!
I want it to close when I click outside of the window.
I know 99.99% is just an example, but that's a pretty high estimate. I'm seeing estimates for vision impairment at 2% and color blindness at 4% [1] of the US population.

I'm also reminded that people use screen readers or other assistive tech for non-disability reasons. Like increasing font size when tired or when using a website in a foreign language. Plus, building assessible websites may be required by law, such as ADA requirements in the US.

[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/57340/percentage-of-s...