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> SFP rates are equal to Amazon MF rates, which are better than public rates but certainly aren't Amazon's own rates being passed through.

Refer to your original comment: "This is false. You do not get Amazon rates for shipping using SFP."

I took this mean that you do not get any discounted rate from Amazon for shipping using SFP. If you're now amending your claim to say that a SFP seller has access to "Buy Shipping" rates, then yes we agree. And if you're conceding that "Buy Shipping" rates are cheaper than those available to other businesses, then we agree again.

At no point did I claim that an individual merchant is getting the exact same quote to ship a package as Amazon would. UPS/FedEx wouldn't allow this, since pickup points are different, etc. But, it is certainly because of Amazon's volume that merchants who want to sell with a Prime badge can now get deeply discounted shipping rates. This is what I meant by "negotiated rates for UPS/FedEx/USPS that Amazon has access to".

> I'm not even the only one replying to you that disagrees with your claim

At the time of your comment, who else is disagreeing? This comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18695969) is saying that Amazon's negotiated rates "aren't better". Better than what? Even you agree that buying through Amazon's "Buy Shipping" services are better than the baseline rate tables from UPS/FedEx. What I'm saying is that these rates are better than even the ones available to a merchant doing significant volume.
> there is so often not a reciprocity of empathy from the other side of the discussion

Being part of an open source community must be a two-way street. I have contributed a little bit back and weigh in sparingly. I am shocked how demanding and entitled some people can be, especially those who have given nothing back.

> the community has no defined boundary of membership

I realize having the time to contribute to open source is a privilege and we should be wary of silencing voices who may have good ideas but not the time to contribute. However, I also believe that the amount of noise is drowning out the signal. I am in complete agreement that we desperately need to define what membership means.
I don't fully fit your target audience but will try to provide info. I was a tech writer (software) for a number of years but became unchallenged at the end and so am in my transition to programming. If you have any API programming experience, I think you would have a good niche documenting for programmers. I started writing for users, administrators. Then around the end was transitioning towards API docs.

Not sure if this is relevant now but I found a first job in a newspaper. There is a trade group, Society for Technical Communication. You might try to network with them. Each chapter usually has a regular weeknight meeting (monthly). But membership is not free and usually the meeting is not free.

I was fortunate that my first company was small and treated me as if in a startup. They gave me a software product, gave me a license for help authoring tool (RoboHELP) and expected me to figure it out. Right now I'm not sure what the industry tool is. Some jobs just require using MS Word and some places have their own in-house help publishing tool. It was handy to edit HTML/CSS for small issues with the final HTML output (bad nested list formatting usually).

I'm not sure about the happy part. As a tech writer, I liked having a variety of things to learn but found after 6 months at a new company, the job would feel a little stale. The things I liked were having autonomy. But the downside was typically I was the one person department and usually I wished I had a team for belonging.

After working over 10 years, I think I felt my salary capped out about mid 70K (I think that was including bonus and raise for that job). But the main concern for me was I felt the opportunity for learning significant new things was capped out and I did not feel ready to be in a retirement mental frame.

These were my observations about differences with release for tech writer vs developer. On the release weeks I still stayed late but where programmers might stay until 11p or past 12a, I would typically go home latest about 8 or 9p. At the smaller companies with less process, I still got a bit of stress during release time b/c I would have to find the product changes that programmers snuck into the QA build and update the docs for.

At the end, I got a little burnt out b/c during majority of my career, I was working overtime regularly and doing long commutes but felt like my work was a necessary evil rather than impactful to the company or the product. So that has been my motivation to switch over to programming. Overall I think the main thing I felt wrong with tech writing was I did not feel a lot of job security because maybe it was not as hard as programming or some product managers assumed anyone could do it. The exception was when I had one very good tech writing manager. But if you are strong at selling yourself/marketing within the company then this is probably less of an issue. Best wishes and I don't log in here often but if you have any follow up questions, let me know.
Correct me if I'm wrong, by all means, but I recently read somewhere that Firefox is genuinely trying to improve it's MacOS performance in one of the new releases.

No sources, it was just in passing somewhere, but I distinctly remember it.
I didn't say the concerns are wrong, just that repeating them again and again, mostly within an echo chamber of tech people, will do nothing to change the facts.

I don't think people should sit there and go meh. They should just be realistic about what actions will and will not make an actual difference.
This is exactly the type of pointless bureaucracy that causes USA to fall behind China. Rural areas are dying because of centralization and consolidation of corporations which primary are headquartered in large cities. Those large cities then oppose residential construction but not commercial construction which causes a massive imbalance of jobs to homes. The ensuing increase in real estate prices makes people consider their house as an investment first and they try to prevent further construction to the point where they mandate that even existing buildings may not be rebuilt.

This situation is equivalent to a city investing in an electric bus fleet but then the federal government sues the city and sentences them to reinstate the ICE bus fleet. Nobody will disagree that this is crazy. Meanwhile, in this HN thread people argue in favor of the "historic" value of a random building.

Obviously this is an extreme example but just think about how less severe situations are invisibly slowed down by excessive bureaucracy in the very successful cities and how this causes massive inefficiencies on the scale of an entire country which is highly dependent on those cities.

Lost your job in <town>? Well, you're not welcome here in <city>.
> something they could do as a reward for all pages that have a reduced page weight

This would leak information to sites that came up in your search results but you didn't visit. Webpackages should make it be possible to safely prerender sites without AMP though: https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-webpackage-u...

(Disclosure: I work at Google, on making ads AMP so they don't get to run arbitrary JS anymore)
> I find it kind of hilarious that people seem to think the solution to the Chrome monoculture is them personally switching to Firefox and then writing a blog post / comment / tweet about it.

That's how change starts. "First they laugh at you..."

> nowhere amongst the significant forces and trends will you find "there are insufficient nerds evangelising Firefox".

Were you around when nobody knew what Firefox was?
Firefox has one feature the other browsers will never have - privacy.
Put another way, very little in all of this accounts for consumer needs/wants/experience. Force me to use pantry or buy larger quantities at higher unit prices? Nah. I’ll just use target’s drive up and have it in the quantity I want in two hours or less. At the same time, as Amazon slips in service and shipping times, other smaller online retailers are getting much faster and cleaner experiences that also avoid the numerous fake reviews.

Amazon seems to be acting as if they have a stronger position with a more loyal or locked in customers than they do - and I’m happy to start looking at other options.
I think think when this was written, that number-1 was the largest known mersenne prime (which are the prime numbers that can be written as 2^something - 1). Some more context on this particular prime here: https://primes.utm.edu/notes/756839.html
TIL I'm one of those millennials people keep complaining about.

I thought it was people born after the turn of the millenium.

What happended to "gen Y"?
There is no coherent point being made in the article, which is instead filled with vacuous weasel words like "many on Twitter [called out Dorsey for being tone deaf]". It's sad to see this popping up in the NY Times. You could take that as a hint to scrutinize every article on this page a little more: https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-ives
> therefore you shouldn't do anything.

No, it's actually: therefore you should exercise extreme caution before making any irrevocable change.

Mother earth is checked into no revision control system, and every change is comitted live on the production system. Caution is advised in such circumstances.
> I liked the commentary about preppy white guys.

I'm just going to eat the downvotes, but surely I'm not the only one who's tired of the groundbreaking too many white people commentary on everything? It really doesn't improve the conversation in any way, on any subject.

Edit: less than a second for the first one. Is there a bot?
I hate that moniker and I hope it dies in a fire but it's nothing more than using the same thinking devices used by designers (contextual inquiry, making assumptions explicit, mapping journeys and outcomes) by people that are not professional designers. The thinking is teaching the fundamentals can help teams of non designers achieve better outcomes in collaboration with a designer.

IMHO design thinking is just... thinking.
(background: my expertise/degree is microprocessor design and digital logic, although I've done a butt-load of firmware in C and C++ in my career)

One time (long time ago) when I worked at Motorola (this was back pre-2K when working at Moto actually meant something). There was a systems level problem, and I was brought in as a systems engineer to diagnose a problem (think "big system with tons of FPGAs, fiber optics, embedded CPUs, firmware, etc.)

Pretty soon I delivered my suspicion that the real issue was a hardware problem (this after looking at network data on a capture)

The hardware director said (I wrote this down in a notebook, I'm quoting verbatim): "I stake my career that this isn't a hardware problem. It's either a firmware problem or a misunderstanding of the requirements."

It was a hardware problem. I demonstrated it a few weeks later and the chip vendor confirmed it (it could take up to 2 weeks to reproduce the problem)

After that my name was shit. That's when I learned that office politics are very fucking real, and sometimes you have to decide if you want to be a lifetime corporate employee.

I left less than a year later, hung out a shingle as a consultant and life has been great since then.

You can try to bend the world (or your employer) to your will, but it isn't going to end well. If my life goal had been "work for Moto for 40 years then retire", that wouldn't have worked out so well, for multiple reasons.

I'll always bet on myself before I'll bet on BigCo. I'm contacted every month on LinkedIn by Google, Amazon, etc. (I've trained lots of their employees) and my answer is always the same: "thanks but no thanks"

Apologies if this sounds self-aggrandizing. 100% not the intention. Just a lesson that you gotta look out for yourself, and the real world is complicated. Own your career, don't put it in the hands of BigCo. BigCo doesn't give a shit about you.
How does the next default Windows browser being forked from Chromium mean Google controls it?

You know what open-source is, right?

People threw their arms in the air because IE was substantially behind other browsers in stability and capabilities, and all their new features were IE-specific APIs that didn't work anywhere else.

Chromium is an open-source project that largely follows IETF/W3C/ECMA standards.

The two are not even remotely comparable.
My numbers aren’t wrong. They’re the plea deals he was offered. Two deals, 4 months in prison or 6 months and opportunity to argue for a lower sentence in front of the judge.

You’re the one giving incorrect numbers, he couldn’t possibly have been sentenced to 50 years.

According to his attorneys, the prosecutors believed that the most they could achieve at trial would have been 7 years. A very different number from 50 years.

I suggest you look into the case a little before making statements like this. Techdirt may not be the best source either.
Pixel 3 call quality issues
Yeah it's odd that Green Apple Smirnoff Ice can continue to exist and yet flavored JUUL is banned.
Yeah I'm not so sure Juul is that special.

There are tons of competitors in what is effectively a new and disruptive space with tons of potential upside by re-legitimizing nicotine addiction.

For whatever reason, they're winning, but there are so many factors beyond design that I'd be very reluctant to postulate this was the decisive factor.

Marketing, branding, operations, access to large markets, talent, social proximity to 'free press', soft lobbying (i.e. close relationships to various institutions through hiring or serendipity etc.).
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Current Egypt, and especially the ruling class, is mostly Muslim. Their historic MO has always been to conquer and eradicate other religions and pretend they never existed. Heck, some fundamentalists even like to pretend that some more moderate forms of Islam never existed (the Wahabbi Saudis have destroyed a lot of older Islamic architecture in Saudi Arabia). Ancient Egyptian ruins are only there to make money, in the eyes of most of the Egyptian government.
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It seems like there is a software bug - likely related to noise canceling Mic in the phone app.
Sometimes I still browse Digg (it's different now). Since the last Firefox update from a week ago which disabled Symantec certificates the site doesn't work anymore. I bet the day Chrome disables Symantec certificates they will immediately notice and fix it.

It's sad that in one week not even one of their people opened it in Firefox, and not many of their users either (there was just a couple of mentions on Twitter about this issue)
Markets reward useful uniqueness. Long-term focus yields mastery few have achieved.

A path even more likely to lead to success is combining two types of expertise in a fruitful way. In today's global economy, it is very hard to be among the world's top 100 or 1,000 for a particular skill, even with years of practice. It is quite possible to be among the top 1,000,000 in each of the two skills that, when usefully integrated, result in a fairly unique output or skill set.

To elaborate on YC's motto:

Creative integration toward things people want.
Brave seems to go for the same, but with a Chromium base (currently in beta). They seem to de-claw whatever's left by Google.
[comment about x509 being bad]
This feels wayyy smoother than I remember this game being.
If you really wanted to do this, I reckon the way would be to have one set of magnets on the moving shaft and another set surrounding it, so the the repulsion tends to keep the shaft centered. Then you make the shaft surround taper towards the top, so that the further the pole is pushed in, the closer together the magnets are forced. You should be able to achieve any force curve desired with this setup by making the taper non-linear.
> A good example (but probably too mathy) is the work of Tamas Matolcsi:

Good examples as cautionary tales, or worth a look as how it should be done?
Ironically, portability was one of the main drawcards (well, that and being able to embed it in web pages) when I first learned it, but I quickly found that a Java application was far less portable, in reality, than an i386 Windows executable. That one friend with a Mac might be able to run it but nobody else could without downloading 65MB of JRE.
You made your original post in a very misleading way, then.

When you say "ship at the negotiated rates" that Amazon has access to, it's really hard to interpret that as anything but the amazon warehouse rate.

Backing down to "some negotiated rate that Amazon has, but not even close to the best one", is a very different beast.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was having to do manually!
Try selling books and convincing others that you are a thought leader with plain old thinking though.
nothing happens on mobile
(iOS, tap and hold on reload button to request Desktop Site)
How to GDPR “compliance” in ASP.NET Core
Gen Y == Millennial

This is why there is a Generation X/Millennial "transition" group of people that is sometimes referred to a Xennials[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
I'm not 100% sure of what you are trying to argue here and whether you are for or against this sort of inequality.

Either way, I would prefer UBI. If the employees had a backup plan and weren't reliant on their jobs to live, then you'd see the majority of them did out the second the employer tried to renegotiate on bonuses and severant for them like what has happened with Sears.

At that point youd start seeing the company give more money to employees instead of saying that the executives are the only one keeping the company going rather than the people doing the actual work that brings in revenue
It's great that it follows all these standards, but the browser (due to recent changes) and the company behind it doesn't seem to follow some necessary ethical standards.
> I mean that's like saying Star Wars isn't a reliable source; you're judging something on the basis of something it isn't meant to be in the first place.

You described the channel as "pretty good at covering the latest ancient history news". It is being judged in part on the description that you gave. Unless you also describe Star Wars as pretty good ancient space news, then your comparison is extremely weak.
The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet
Come on, man. Stop posting these conspiracy videos around this thread. They really don't have a place here.
60 Years Ago Today: The First Missile Launch
Working fine in Firefox Android
No data but last week when I was there, I pretty much only remember seeing BYD busses and electric fleet. BYD is headquartered in Shenzhen iirc
As the author says, it's a matter of taste. The author's good taste is "right" in the same sense that e.g. 0-indexed arrays are "right": it avoids problems that not including zero causes. How many elements are in the empty set? Why shouldn't the natural numbers be able to answer that question?
My library processes it. Or does it have to both store and process? So my SaaS analytics service that only stores and gives it back out unprocessed is ok? It's less about specific hypotheticals and more about the general ambiguity around the risks.
Yes, my first browser was Mosaic, and I've been working as a professional web developer since before Firefox existed.

Firefox benefitted from years of stagnation and neglect of IE by Microsoft. And even then, when it was clearly the superior product, it took years to gain a significant portion of the browser market, and it still never managed to get much over 20%. Only Google, with the most popular website on the planet, and billions of dollars to spend, managed to actually dislodge IE.

As things stand, Chrome is not stagnating or neglected. Firefox is a good browser, but it is by no means a clearly superior product. There is a vastly larger number of deployed PCs, using Chrome as their default browser, than there was in the early 2000s. Mobile has replaced the desktop as the dominant consumer computing platform, where installing and using a replacement browser is far less likely. There are far more apps and content optimised for Chrome than there ever was even for IE, and the quantity is expanding all the time.

For all these reasons, and more, I am convinced that advocacy and evangelism alonge will not succeed to change the situation, and such efforts, while noble-minded, are mostly a waste of time.
Just use current designs which, I would think, mechanically constrain the pogo stick except in one direction. Replace spring with powerful magnet (pair), and make sure there's a stop pin or something similar to keep the magnetic pogo stick from disassembling itself.

I think you're making things too difficult and expensive if you're trying to magnetically suspend and stabilize the pogo stick in multiple/all directions.

Also, magnetic radial stabilization would be stable only in a rough sense. The pogo stick handle would still wobble and be disturbingly/unexpectedly unsteady. I think for pogo sticks you'd really want a mechanically confined, piston-like design. You could still have magnetic stops on both extremes.
I wasted hours on these types of games back in the flash era, people were constantly releasing new ones with more types of sand and various effects and combinations, its a shame that whole segment of internet history was deprecated along with flash, good times.
Firefox on iOS checking in, all systems nominal.
Intel-Tensorflow-course with my solutions
Boots Riley on Sorry to Bother You
> Damnit, America.

Hey now, they're based in Bratislava.
It's open source, the recent changes you mention (which I'm not aware of, a reference to these changes would be nice) can be reverted and the ethics of the company behind it aren't really relevant because it's an open-source project, the only way Google really benefits from it's use is if they receive contributions back to the Chromium project, which also benefits everyone else.
"write once, debug everywhere"
"1200-bit modem". Good job, geek.com, I'm sure the rest of your breathless reporting is just as accurate.
Unless the city is pitching in $$$ for the effort, this seems legally questionable. Insurance will only pay the market rate (and barely that), and the cost of such a process would surely run higher.
Wind effect is beautiful and looks like a Julia set.
The article is wrong, the advantage of bytecode is not portability; but memory allocation, failure handling and dynamic classloading. A Java SE process never crashes unless you leak memory, which is super easy to avoid and profile with a heap dump, so you can sleep when you release code on servers. That's the real reason for Java's success. I would never code C for servers. And if I code for a hydroelectric dam, I would use Java SE! Not kidding!
This website really should be free of all discussion of those matters. Unfortunately only one half of the people who make political remarks are silenced.
This is the most satisfying thing I've ever seen on HN!
If a coordinates are given, then they will be given with respect to a basis. However, it's entirely possible to do things more abstractly without introducing coordinates and bases to begin with, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_(intrinsic_definition)
Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of Jsoup III: The Tree and the State Machine
But without healthy competition it's quite possible that Chrome will also start stagnating..
Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of Jsoup II: Traverse a Tree Before It Was Built