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What does it matter to me that Boeing is an American firm, owned by a bunch of international institutional investors, as opposed to a Korean one, owned by a bunch of international institutional investors? Is it because there used to be a Boeing factory in my town, before they moved all the jobs to somewhere cheaper?

To put it another way - why should I care that a few private companies in {my_country} own these industries? Their owners aren't paying me dividends, I'm not going to pay for their R&D. If you want to sink this money into building a state-owned industry, where the profits are distributed between the people, sure, that's another story, we can talk about that. If not, appealing to nationalism is a poor motivator for me to fund your cottage industry. If you want my money, make me a shareholder.

> From a US perspective, there's billions wasted on make-work programs (TSA) and corporate handouts and subsidies that would greatly increase the tax base and develop local markets by reinvesting instead into new tech.

So, the solution is corporate handouts for industries that you like? Handouts for people growing corn, or groping your junk when you cross borders are bad, but handouts for people making graphene are good? (Unlike corn, the jury's still out on whether or not it will actually be useful. Maybe it's the next plastic. Maybe it's the next beanie baby. Maybe it's the next asbestos. It's too early to tell, and "Let's manufacture tonnes of it, before anyone has any use for it" is a solution in search of a problem.)

I mean, sure, our current allocation of spending is probably not optimal[1]. I do think, that the onus is on you to demonstrate that sinking a billion dollars into building a graphene fab is better then sinking a billion dollars into killing fossil fuels, or shrinking classroom sizes, or providing free early-age child-care, or free flu shots[2], or any one of a dozen other things we should be doing[3].

[1] To be fair, I am 100% certain it is not optimal.

[2] http://info.totalwellnesshealth.com/blog/bid/190040/How-to-M... - The ROI of a flu shot is >200%.

[3] Not to mention that a lot of the time, being the first mover in an industry is unnecessary. Let someone else figure out if something is worth doing. If its that important, a sovereign state can always catch up, and develop a local industry, through incentives and tariffs - once the field is proven.
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Consumer Skylake and derivatives didn't get AVX512; that's reserved for the server parts that arrived two years later.
Blender has always been ran with a strong priority of being/becoming a software that is used by many professionals world-wide, and Ton Roosendaal has been there since day 1 to push for this. They have actively sought to find ways to hire many people to work on Blender - from code, documentation, management and outreach/marketing.

This is quite unlike most other open source projects in the libre graphics community (like GIMP, Inkscape, etc), which are run by a loosely organized group of people doing this primarily as their hobby or side-project. That some GIMP devs now get a bit of money is actually a quite recent development.

So over the lifetime of GIMP and Blender, Blender has had many more manhours (10x?) dedicated to it - and more product/market focus. Though developed very differently, both are quite successful open-source projects, and widely used.

Disclaimer: I got some commits in GEGL/GIMP.

EDIT: Krita, also mentioned here, is developed more in the style of Blender, with Boudewijn Rempt being the key facilitator.
Its really disappointing to me how hard it is to find a featureful/high-end phone that doesn't have USB-C.
I’ve noticed that people like to spout the price for the highest tiered item as a reason for not buying a product. Like the original Apple Watch with the $10k Apple Watch Edition.
It isn't that simple.

>...Seven of the top 10 most profitable hospitals in the United States are nonprofit facilities that each netted more than $150 million from caring for patients in 2013,

>...The study’s main purpose was to determine the characteristics of the nation’s most profitable hospitals. They found that facilities that were part of a system were more profitable because they were able to dominate their local market, which gives them greater clout in negotiating higher prices from private insurers. It also means consumers end up paying more if their health-care provider is out of network, Anderson said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/0...

Also:

>...Nonprofit hospitals have higher profit margins than most for-profit hospitals after accounting for their tax obligations.

http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2017/04/25/the-fairy-tale-...
Probably what the OP meant was that people who don't have that much money to splash around won't be bothered to pay crazy money for the "right" connector cables. For example I just got a new Mac Mini (which I genuinely like until now) and I just checked to see how much a USB to USB-C connector costs on Apple's website. When I saw that it costs $20 I said "f.ck it, I'm going to buy the 4.50 euro no-name connector that I just found online". I suppose I'm not the only user thinking like this.
I strongly believe that lower cost vocational education with group housing for 18-23 year olds is part of a solution to this problem.

You don't need the full college experience, but as the article mentions, getting away from home is a part of it for most.
Probably not, from the approximate sizes noted in the article it sounds like Ultima Thule is a bit bigger than Diemos, which XCKD says you could escape with a bicycle and a ramp.

And just for fun, I also worked out a best guess for the force between the two "lobes": 1.5 x 10^13 N (assuming Ultima Thule is the same density as our Moon), which is about equal to the (Earth) weight of all the ships in the world. [0]

[0]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/33/
My advice is that if components need to release together, then they ought to be in the same repo. I'd probably go further and say that if you just think components might need to release together then they should go in the same repo, because you can in fact pretty easily manage projects with different release schedules from the same repo if you really need to.

On the other hand if you've got a whole bunch of components in different repos which need to release together it suddenly becomes a real pain.

If you've got components that will never need to release together, then of course you can stick them in different repositories. But if you do this and you want to share common code between the repositories then you will need to manage that code with some sort of robust versioning system, and robust versioning systems are hard. Only do something like that when the value is high enough to justify the overhead. If you're in a startup, chances are very good that the value is not high enough.

As a final observation, you can split big repositories into smaller ones quite easily (in Git anyway) but sticking small repositories together into a bigger one is a lot harder. So start out with a monorepo and only split smaller repositories out when it's clear that it really makes sense.
> how else would we describe such a service?

IP-based Geolocation? There are multiple portmanteaus that can be made from the phrase; you could use one of those instead of using the one they made.
If they want users they do.

I get more HTML emails than plain-text. I won't switch to a mail client that can't render the majority of my inbox.
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Google ‘joule thief’.
I've been playing around with the beta for a while, it is really impressive, and my 8 year old loves it. I also got a microbit which you can bridge into the scratch environment with their official plugin

just for peoples interest, their github is https://github.com/LLK/

The new 3.0 GUI is done with react.
It’s petty well established that the entire purpose of forms of humour like satire and charicature is to cut through bullshit.
Anything worth making into an ASIC these days is complicated enough that it is going to take way more than a few engineers and a few months. For 28nm you are paying the fab in the ballpark of a million dollars to tapeout a design.
Its a monopoly that abuses its power to extract money from hapless consumers, most of whom just want a pair of decent eyeglasses to function. I've made a conscious decision to avoid purchasing from them as much as I can, but do continue to buy from Ray-Ban. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM
> If you're unlucky enough to see DP, usually it's pretty basic and memoization is considered fine, unless things have changed very recently. If they required that degree of rigor for regular SWE jobs, a lot of people I know certainly wouldn't be there.

Did you interview in the past two years at the so-called FAANG companies? 'Leetcoding' has raised the bar considerably, even (or especially, in some cases) for senior positions.
How can I do anything but call you ignorant when you say things like "did you somehow miss the complete absence of substance in it?"

You're not following HN rules by refusing to address the best form of the argument, and when you break rules like that, it makes it hard to stay civil.
I'd go even further and say in the absence of any sharing of those tags etc or using it to advertise what's the issue with running them through a neural net like they do?
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> The root issue is not addressed

No manufacturer gives free battery replacements to 3 year old, out of warranty phones.

And even if they did the issue would still be wide spread because most people wouldn't necessarily come in to have it replaced.
What about Bitcoin? Is it not equity based money rather than debt based money?
How are there cable enthusiasts? Either they have a good experience or a bad experience overall.

I've had generally good experiences with Type-C and IMHO is an improvement over buying video out dongles for every device and being able to use a single cable for charging.
"Twistronics" has to be the coolest name I've seen in a while
Given the slower speeds in the outer solar system, especially since they will be rotating in the same direction, so the relative speed will be less, I would imagine that contact binaries would be fairly common. And since they are primarily made of ices, the actual contact event should melt the ice, which will then re-solidify since the impact speed is so little.

I don't know if this is how it actually happens, but it gives a mechanism for this being fairly common. The only information I could find was a short wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_binary_(small_Solar_Sy...
If a center of mass begins to aggregate in an area of space, smaller objects may get captured and will move in an elliptical orbit with the forming object at one of the foci of an ellipse. Because the other foci of the ellipse is also fairly stable, it is also a likely point for smaller objects to aggregate into another larger object. Objects forming in pairs can reinforce each other. Over time when the small objects around the two foci have all aggregated, the objects at the foci will fall together due to gravity.
A lot of people who use containers are also fans of immutable infrastructure, which may be where some of the disconnect is here. Even before containers got popular there were a lot of shops that had disabled SSH into their machines to discourage the "artisan" server mentality.

I also don't know anyone who roles containers manually by hand- generally speaking they're automated (using things like dockerfiles and provisioning scripts, which are often right in the repository storing the code), making rolling a new container easier than trying to upgrade a single library.
I understand the desire to delete FB and IG (I did the same in 2018) but why get rid of WhatsApp? Isn't it just a communication tool rather than a social-media site?
Also, and this is a major oversight on my part - I was specifically looking at fitting data generated by an affine function, not “linearly fitting data”. How I titled this is definitely confusing.

Part of what interested me in writing about this though is how the discontinuities changed a trivial problem into something a bit trickier. If the data could be generated by more complex functions, then I would have forgone looking for an easy solution (as an aside, the problem I was working on had sharp timing and hardware constraints which kept me from using a more general solution).
In addition to any software (especially semiconductor vendor's) being additional attack surface, if you already have connected your device to something it could have already cause damage (Nintendo Switch situation, USB Killers and etc.), not even considering "trusted" devices being faulty. The only thing this provides is DRM.
> Calling that a "discount for causing pollution" when their cost is increased by a need to reduce pollution is absurd.

What if the added costs to ICE vehicles are less than the environmental costs they incur?

I'm not saying that's definitely the case or not, but just because ICEs spend money on mitigation doesn't mean they are not still getting a subsidy. You are acting like it is obviously wrong because ICEs do some things to mitigate pollution, which is clearly not obvious.
The real problem on public outlets is with data attacks, not power. If I can set my phone to ignore all the data at the first hardware level, and it is a simple enough level that no attack is viable (that second one being a large "if"), then there is no large problem anymore.

My old no-name Android phone (not USB C) has such an option, and searching around it seems to be a reasonably common feature, although not present on all devices. It looks similar to this (mine has the same typo, "USB fuctions"):

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7485/16035739946_51d110ea40.j...

In charge-only mode it doesn't even enumerate as a USB device when plugged into a computer with an active USB controller, so I suspect no attacks (besides physical ones like overvolting as others here have mentioned) are possible in this mode --- the USB controller on the device is completely disabled.
Upgrade Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019
You forgot the important part: mock Apple for doing something (before copying it next year)
The priorities are simple.

GIMP is targeted for hi-end workflows. Your average matte painter or photographer doesn't usually need to draw a rounded-corners rectangle, but he sure needs adjustment layers. Hell, even the CHANDRA X-Ray observatory guys need adjustment layers for coloring their FITS files!

So that gets a priority.

What the 2018 report specifically says though is that most things from the 'Future' section can be done right now by a new interested developer. That includes drawing shapes.
I think even these estimates of Toyotas battery capacity are too high. Here's my attempt:

Prius Prime PHEV: 8.8 kWh
Regular Prius: I couldn't find recent numbers, but 1st gen was 1.2 kWh

All other hybrids seem to have between 1-2 kWh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive#High_volt...

European PHEV sales were 0.3% of all sales and 0.65% of all hybrids [1]

US Prius Prime 2017 sales (I think their only PHEV model) were 21k units. [2] Note that 21k units just in the US out of 1.5m hybrids total gives us 1.4%, so maybe the PHEV prius is not selling as well in Europe.

Let's say we have the following scenarios of 2.5 or 5% of the total 1.5m number being PHEV to be conservative. Further assume that regular hybrids have 1.5 kWh. For the 2.5% scenario, if my math is correct, that yields 550,000 kWh. For the 5% PHEV scenario, that yields 874,000 kWh.

[1] https://insideevs.com/only-0-3-of-toyota-sales-in-europe-wer...
[2] 2017 table from https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
Were you able to complete the problem within reasonable time, otherwise?

As an interviewer, I get frustrated if the candidate wastes time writing excessively prolix text while missing the meat of the question. This is by no means an excuse for hostile conduct, and the additional context here makes it clear the interviewer is kind of a jerk in addition to being narrow-minded.
Student debt, or all debt?

All debt won't happen, because it will destroy a lot of assets - like pension funds.

But student debt... that could happen if it became clear that much of it was uncollectable because the kids didn't have the money, and weren't ever going to have the money. We're not there, yet, but we do seem to be heading that way.

Alternatively, student debt could be discharged through political means if the general public became galvanized into seeing student debt as a huge problem that is destroying many lives. Statistics won't produce that... but a very well-done movie might.
>> because the iPhone camera doesn't take more "beautiful" photos, only more "realistic" ones.

I hear this all the time from friends and family. Such and such camera is so much better.

Most of the time the images really aren't. The brightness is just cranked up or something, the image doesn't look that great. I'm not sure why the iPhone doesn't have better low-light settings, even my 8 Plus doesn't take very good pictures indoors if I don't use a different camera app.
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I have the AirPods, Sony 1000mx3 and Sennheiser Momentum and Bluetooth audio quality is perfectly acceptable to me.
Apple heavily subsidizes battery replacements for everyone

I think the lesson should be to have your battery replacement prices be reasonable to start with and avoid inflating the market for your devices artificially.
Pretty much. The WFH crews all went to doing amazon instead of affiliate marketing as it has a brand attached to it and makes it easier for them to sell the courses.
Thanks for the answer! The question was a bit more general though - not only pertaining to the GM-related side.
well what are tax dollars for then? police? you realize education is a better way to reduce crime. that aside, cant think of a better way to spend tax dollars..
Meta: comments are "faded" when they get downvoted by users. That is not a moderator decision.
Obviously the first question to address is whether you are offering truely competitve pay, that should be addressable with some research and leg work.

The second, harder thing to look at is whether you are encouraging a culture where people can give honest feedback without fearing repercussions. While there may be a myriad of reasons you are receiving from employees on the way out, it is useless to try to respond to that feedback: you've already lost those people.

People leave jobs for tons of different reasons. Some are in your control, some are personal. There are some reasons you should address, and some you should just let go. What matters is that you address the ones you can before it's too late.
> Unfortunately they picked Lua instead of developing their own language like Emacs did.

There was never any Lua in GIMP, you made it up.

> Add twenty years, and GIMP is essentially a giant steaming pile of hacks that never made sense in the first place

Hold on. So GIMP had "potential back in the day" when it was in fact a pile of shit code, but today in the age of proper GIMP code, it's a "steaming pile of hacks"?
People that kill people or commit violent, life-changing assaults such as rape ought not be rehabilitated, but permanently caged. Nobody accidentally rapes and kills a child. There isn't an argument that a killer/rapist was doing it because they were in poverty and needed money -- instead it's just pure evil. Those types of people should be sent away forever.

For non-violent crimes, especially victimless crimes like drug possession, reforms are definitely warranted, but anyone advocating on behalf of convicted, violent criminals gets no respect from me. To get most of the country on board with prison reform, it's not particularly hard: simply exclude anyone who has committed a violent crime from being a part of those reforms. I don't think there are too many rational people out there that want someone to get locked up for 25 years for possessing marijuana or stealing a car.