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For great interviews with leading scientists on this and other astronomy topics, see Event Horizon podcast

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz3qvETKooktNgCvvheuQDw/vid...

(I'm just a happy listener.)

The slope of the lines is more telling than their relative levels.

Re "objectively successful" that's debatable. Looking at Google Trends, Go mindshare is low & flat. [1]

I'm writing as a regular Go user who's found it very productive, tho I'm worried about its future

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

But does it also mean you can't start a new thread/reply if your link to the server is down?

SQLite is a fine single-file application file format, but if you want average users to be able to inspect and perhaps fix application data when things go wrong, a tree of JSON-format files is more friendly.

True, this requires care to ensure that such files are updated reliably, but that's not quite rocket science.

You need a recovery step on startup to retry the rename if tempfile is complete, or delete it if it isn't.

That means you need a way to verify that tempfile is complete. I do that by removing filename after completing tempfile. And that requires a placeholder for filename if it didn't already exist (e.g. a symlink to nowhwere).

On crash, rename may leave both files in place.

This technique doesn't work if you have hardlinks to filename which should refer to the new file.

Can you share a link to that web server?

Discussion of supporting this in the Go runtime is here:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31908

TL;DR there's no ETA for it.

This page has a chart comparing S&P 500 to other modes. Looks like VC tracks it rather closely.

https://www.toptal.com/finance/venture-capital-consultants/s...

Sorry, couldn't find a chart giving just the bottom 80% of VCs :-)

High-altitude solar platforms:

http://www.stratosolar.com/blog

You missed the part where she was subjected to systematic intimidation by Uber and private investigators working on their behalf after she left.

Ask Susan Fowler whether you "cannot threaten or bully a tech employee" in a tech hotspot.

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Fowler

Java is mature and regarded as high performance, even if it is a memory glutton.

Go is still undergoing intensive R&D, especially in the runtime. Its releases are quietly tested against internal Google projects, but not formally tested with widely-used open source projects.

Any org that deploys Go apps should designate someone to watch the Go issue tracker, and subscribe to all issues that might affect them.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/

You should use green threads!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads

Off topic on HN.

The solution is not more complex to the developer or user, it's more complex to the browser, which hardly ever complains when you make it work harder :-)

I think the term you're looking for is conventional wisdom vs common sense.

Agreed that conventional wisdom is often wrong.

Ah but individuals are more complicated than national stereotypes!

And that is a very old joke, from the 19th or early 20th century, when the world was Euro-centric.

No employee is simply talented or mediocre or bad. Everyone you meet has strengths and weaknesses. Some people's strengths aren't in demand every day, but crucial when called upon. Others have weaknesses which rarely appear, but are terribly damaging when they do.

And everyone is drawn to the company of others in the workplace based primarily on interpersonal factors, not others' ability or performance or lack thereof.

Certainly, there are toxic personalities which can poison an environment, but they generally have some valuable assets as well.

Deciding to leave an organization because of its people is never a simple calculation.

In the data from Italy, ~14% of the >1M tests done for the virus (not antibodies) were positive. That prob includes ppl tested multiple times, or after recovery.

I wonder why this is so vastly different from the study above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_I...

Herd immunity is derived from R0 and "susceptibility" percentage. The value for the latter also varies with disease and strain.

If you look at the Italian data, their % positive level never crossed ~30%, and overall averaged <20%. That might indicate that susceptibility for this agent is well below 50%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_I...

Has there been consideration of async/await semantics?

The numbers from Italy imply that <25% of the population is susceptible. They've done almost 300K tests as of this writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_I...

Unintended consequences strikes again.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

Reference?

A pilot severely limits the kinds of maneuver the craft can perform, where the craft can be deployed from, etc.

Jacobsen is a mainstream journalist working in the national security field.

I am a skeptic, but there's a fascinating story here.

It looks that way because it's almost certainly been circulating in the US since January [1], and testing was hardly available until recently (and is still ramping).

Despite the long, largely unchecked circulation period, there's no hospitalization crisis here.

And another record-hot Spring/Summer are on the way... take heart!

[1] https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-10/us-coronavi...

Since nested functions don't create new API, amen.