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> I'm not sure how an index of comments would be useful... What would they be indexed by?

By index, I mean a threaded list of messages that one can scroll through without having the message body present. In an email/news client, you would typically see something like:

Subject Some Author Date
Re: Subject Another Author Date
Re: Subject A third Author Date
Re: Subject A fourth Author Date
Re: Subject A fifth Author Date
Re: Subject Some Author Date

in one window pane. Then you could click on one of the the messages and the body would be displayed in another window pane. Scrolling through that index is much faster than having to scroll through a lot of comments on reddit or Hacker News. And finding a new message was simply looking for ones that were in bold font.
> The end result was demonstrably better for the vast majority of users (Microsoft had hard numbers to back their design decisions).

I'd rather believe their studies/methodology is flawed than that the ribbon interface makes sense. It's the most illogical and confusing interface I have ever encountered since I got my Sinclair ZX-81 as a birthday present. I still cannot use Word without googling where to find a function in the Ribbon interface, and I have no problem with any other GUI anywhere. (To be fair, I'm mostly using Linux so I'm not Word very often.)
To put this in perspective, the F-1 engine of the Saturn V (one of the biggest rocket engines ever made) only put out about 3.5 times more thrust (6.7 MN or 1.5 Mlbf) than the Raptor (1.9 MN or 0.43 Mlbf).

Also some people might not realize how much liquid is being pumped by rocket engines (the Saturn V F-1 could drain a 30,000 gallon swimming pool in 10 seconds):

Each second, a single F-1 burned 5,683 pounds (2,578 kg) of oxidizer and fuel: 3,945 lb (1,789 kg) of liquid oxygen and 1,738 lb (788 kg) of RP-1, generating 1,500,000 lbf (6.7 MN; 680 tf) of thrust. This equated to a flow rate of 671.4 US gal (2,542 l) per second; 413.5 US gal (1,565 l) of LOX and 257.9 US gal (976 l) of RP-1. During their two and a half minutes of operation, the five F-1s propelled the Saturn V vehicle to a height of 42 miles (222,000 ft; 68 km) and a speed of 6,164 mph (9,920 km/h). The combined flow rate of the five F-1s in the Saturn V was 3,357 US gal (12,710 l) per second,[4] or 28,415 lb (12,890 kg). Each F-1 engine had more thrust than three Space Shuttle Main Engines combined.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1#Design

So the methane-oxygen Raptor at 380 SI is almost as powerful as the hydrogen-oxygen Space Shuttle SLS at 453 SI, if I have the math right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)#...

The tradeoff is reduced price and improved safety with the choice of methane over hydrogen, but with a reduced specific impulse.
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OpenSSL 3.0 and FIPS Update
What makes you a senior software engineer anyway?
I thought college was pretty much free in Europe?
> based on current sentiments going around....the taxes on businesses are only going higher

They literally just slashed them.
I don’t think the survey takes into account the differing expectations of the buyers of the different brands. Someone buying a Mercedes has different expectations than someone buying a Corola and this would strongly influence issue numbers.
Well, if you're charged roughly X per kwH for energy, and Y for each # of waste your company produces, this encourages cutting those costs beyond the costs of those parts alone. This would have a more direct effect than simple income tax incentives and be more direct.

There's still an incentive, it's just it's not tethered to income which has MANY ways to work around in other ways with the current structure and the companies wind up not reducing pollution and waste.
Cities shunned by Amazon revive hopes for HQ given New York opposition
I always figured the main point was behavioral profiling on mouse and keystroke trajectories.
They're increasing a lot faster where healthcare isn't socialised...
Wow, emergency disclosure request compliance went from 10 in 2017 to 162 in 2018, with a near-tripling in the ratio of produced:total requests.

I wonder if their compliance policy changed, or if the requesting parties just got better at making actionable requests, or something else?
Interpropellant seals require an entirely separate inert fluid to be continually injected into the seal. That's a lot of added complexity.
My Slack instance is averaging 0.5% CPU usage at the moment. If you consider the 15 W TDP of this CPU we assume that Slack is using no more than .075 Watts of power. Probably much less, since there's no way a nearly-idle 15W TDP CPU is using 15W of energy.

How much extra energy does allocated RAM use vs. unallocated RAM? RAM has to be powered as long as your computer is on. I don't think there's any difference.

It's fine to be passionate about the environment but it's also important to be realistic and fact-driven. It really doesn't make sense to be telling people to make the most minuscule adjustments to carbon footprint instead of the easy low-hanging fruit (eating less red meat, buying fewer disposable products, being mindful of unneeded purchases, reusing and repairing possessions and purchasing them pre-owned).

Turning your screen brightness down, banning Electron, or running Lynx instead of Chrome isn't going to save the planet, even if all 7 billion people in the world did it.
op only cites it as an example. but there is empirical evidence -- MS holds enterprise market-share even for products google is otherwise competitive in, and privacy impact is absolutely one of the reasons
More to jfengel's point, it's not just UX, you have more knowledge of what is technically possible. People will often come up with very convoluted solutions to problems because they don't have a good view of what is technically possible.

It also happens that people only take their own needs into account and not those of the other users they're indirectly interacting with via the app. They'll tell you that certain app objects should have certain constraints, that certain things should be impossible, and that such assumptions can be used as foundations for other features. Then you go visit another user and they'll tell you very plausible conditions under which those things should be possible and even required. Talking to users is good, but you also need to observe them as a group and sometimes weigh their needs against each other.
TFA is not very clear about what it's describing.

It is describing how the checkbox is collecting your browser's characteristics (eg they go to great length describing the webGL fingerprint) and your own characteristics (eg mouse behavior), such that when you click the box, you are determined to be a person or a bot. If they think you are a person, you don't have to do the CAPTCHA.

The whole bit about a double encrypted "VM" is overstating the case. The "VM" is "just" a bytecode interpreter, which at the end of the day can't do anything the browser's javascript engine can't do itself. Yes, it's some heavy obfuscation, and what's more interesting than the interpreter itself is the decision to spend what must have been lots of time/resources to develop it. It's security by obscurity, and in this case it is delivered to the client so obviously it's reversible. Maybe there's a deeper purpose.

EDIT: ah. the purpose is not to obfuscate. it is to fingerprint the CPU characteristics. by running their own interpreter, and changing the opcodes on the fly and such things, they can defeat JIT and learn something about the CPU itself. if they have user info (google cookie) they can know what CPU/CPUs that user typically uses and if "the checkbox" records something different it's a signal.
Yeah since this is Hacker News, we tend to focus on the software engineers, who have lots more negotiating leverage compared to say, a PFX artist.
In addition, she also won 3 million more votes and still lost.

Seems a little bit more relevant here.
For those wondering how amazon is able to do this it is from using excess stock-based compensation deductions and accelerated depreciation deductions. They also have $600 million net operating losses being carried forward and $1.4 billion in tax credits resulting from R&D spending. The operating losses and tax credits can be carried forward to future years but eventually they will run out of them.
I think that the main point of the blog post, is that instead of an exact match in O(N) worst time, you change the algorithm in order to replace the entry when adding, so that the lookup time also is always O(1) and the size is bound. The cacheline thing is just an optimization in order get the best out of the single cache miss you incurred. The table offset I use is the manual version of what you would do with a struct, no differences in the generated code more or less: the entry and the timestamp are stored at sequential addresses.
I've heard a corresponding principle in both game design and writing expressed as "When people tell you what needs fixing, they're almost always right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're almost always wrong." Feedback is great, but feature requests and proposed changes aren't actually feedback, they're new ideas.
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I've had a small (nerdy) dream of converting current generation Pokemon sprites into older palette and size constrained sprites using techniques similar to this.

Anyone have any suggestions on how I might start?
>Electron is only the best way to do something when someone knows only javascript and web dev but doesn't want to learn a new language.
More like Electron is only the best way to do something when you're a business that's in dire need of developers and needs a cross-platform solution.
This is business 101 stuff. As in I literally remember talking about this in Business 101.

You sink a bunch of dollars into development of a new product. You sell it at a premium when it's new to start to pay back those costs (and marketing attaches cachet to the product during this time). The idea is to be making net profit off of the product before you hit the middle of the adoption bell curve. Boost efficiency to improve margins and ride the curve down. Middle and late adopters are pure profit.

From a tax perspective, things are going to look pretty dire until you hit the first inflection point in the adoption curve, and probably for a while after.

I mean, I am starting to loathe Amazon, cancelled my Prime membership a couple years ago and have been giving my family non-Amazon wish lists for at least that long. They don't treat people well (even in the bad old days of Monopoly Microsoft, they took much better care of their people). It's a shit place to work, which makes me wonder how it is to work for one of their suppliers. Zero love lost here. But this whole line of inquiry just seems like a red herring or sour grapes even to me.
Taxes will always get collected directly or indirectly as a function of funding a determined government budget. If you remove taxation from an area you need to counterbalance it on another area. For instance Texas, which doesn't have income tax, has one of the highest property tax rates and a fairly high sale tax.
My 2006 Prius is at 388k. I've promised myself I wouldn't get another car until this one quits. But, it just won't die.
I've also priced out getting an EV for my 42 mile commute but the ROI is not there compared to a used-paid for high mileage Prius.
Familiarity?
Cool, I'll try it out the next time I have a problem with using TOR. You're right that ARGON2 doesn't help if CPUs/RAM are free, it just makes parallelization hard.
I'd argue that a lot of folks care about the opinions of non-experts.
Well, sanity check.

In 2017 the SLS launch was about 2 years out, but likely to slip: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/sls-managers-troops-...

In 2019 the SLS launch is a bit under 2 years out, but likely to slip: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/nasa-still-working-t...

This strongly reminds me of the fact that late software projects are promised to be on time until about 6 weeks before launch, and then launch keeps getting delayed. And this is true no matter how late it eventually turns out to be. The reason why 6 weeks is the magic figure is that for a software project, that's the point where you can no longer paper over the inevitability of failure with wishful thinking. Rockets have slower schedule, but it is strongly looking like 2 years is a similar magic figure in that industry, for similar reasons.

In that light, the money quote from the second article is this:

However, the agency and its prime contractor for the core stage, Boeing, are on a tight timeline that has little margin for technical problems that might occur during the structural tests of the tank or the green run tests. Historically, during this integration and test process with other large rocket programs, major problems have often occurred.

I am generally a believer that what happened historically shouldn't be ignored. There is therefore no way that the SLS will launch in 2020. Or 2021. In fact nobody really knows when it will launch. Furthermore the upper stage, aka Orion, is apparently in even worse shape. Right now they are going back to the drawing board to try to find a design that gets costs down.

Admittedly SpaceX itself is promising the BFR in about 2 years, and also had a history of overruns. I don't think that they will launch on time. But they have a better history of getting launch vehicles up.

I will therefore happily take your bet for $100, but I would like to formalize it a bit. I win if Falcon Super Heavy+Starship or whatever it gets renamed to gets successfully launched to orbit first OR if SLS+Orion gets canceled first. Vice versa you win if SLS+Orion gets successfully launched first OR if Falcon Super Heavy+Starship or whatever gets canceled first. Note that "SpaceX goes out of business" counts as canceled, even if someone else (eg Bezos) buys the remnants and then launches something based on the work.

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Those aren't necessarily mandatory, but it certainly seems a lot of the safety tech is not available unless you also get things like that.

For reference, my wife and I bought a 2014 Mazda 6 Touring, which seems to be one of the few cars with a well-balanced mid-tier that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and still has good safety features (and did not come with heated/cooled seats).
get this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captch...
Wikipedia. And late night misreading. Sorry for causing confusion!

Now re-reading it, the article clearly states that development started in 2001, and that it has rudimentary SMP support.
Gtk is mostly annoying to work with because the documentation is poor.
> the entire idea of a representative democracy

I think the problem is that our politicians, by and large, don't really represent us. That is, the "template" if you will, of a politician, tends to not fit what the general average person is.

For instance - how many politicians are middle class? I'd wager that none of them are, for even if they were prior to being elected, after they are elected they would get a salary that is much larger than a standard middle-class salary.

Instead - our representatives (mainly federal - state level is a different story, but there are analogies) all are of the "wealthy class" - not the middle class, which is kinda who you would expect to represent everyone (that is, the "average").

Note that I am speaking from a US-centric perspective, but I bet it's the same elsewhere.

So why do we keep electing the same template of people to the same positions, and expect a real change?

I don't know. Part of it may be the whole "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" thing. Part of it may be corruption once they get into power (that is, why would a middle-class person, upon obtaining a much larger salary that bumps them out of middle class and into wealthy - change that?).

This is really the heart of the matter; it isn't that our representatives only represent companies, but rather that they don't represent us (that is, the average American) period - as people we can really relate to, that they can relate to - because of the wealth discrepancy.

And it's not likely to ever change; I can't think of a way to do it that doesn't involve violence - and even if it did happen, how do you keep it from changing back (what incentivizes people to continue to stay representative of the people they represent)?
That's exactly how the industry works. I've spent more than a decade in it. We're talking about IDs, not tracking other information.

IDs are needed for 2 primary reasons: controlling ad frequency and attributing clicks and conversions to an ad impression.

Cookies worked for a long time but they were always considered loose short-term and anonymous identifiers. Apple had a opportunity to offer a better device-level option that had the same privacy but much better efficiency, and yet decided to break APIs and user experience instead, while also entrenching the big companies at the detriment of everyone else.
I wouldn't read too much into it. If you asked the same question, but in reverse and made it about how much people would pay, it's going to be a very different outcome.
ANY website can record and analyze all this. Not just google. There are only 2 countermeasures available:

1. turn off javascript (effective for all websites)

2. block access to google in your router/firewall. (effective only for google)
Toyota 4Runner? I mean, the Entune thing is crap, but the whole vehicle doesn't run off of it.
The Frustrating Success of Our Best Theory of Physics
> Studies have found that people almost always age out of crime

This is in the local news today, DNA matched on a rape from 1990, the suspect was in jail already on another case. https://www.wxii12.com/article/dna-evidence-helps-winston-sa...
Oh, because I'm a hypocrite. But my hypocrisy has nothing to do with whether or not I'm right in saying that Amazon has an outsized influence on our elections. Fortunately the truth does not depend on whether or not I'm a hypocrite.
I agree with this 100%. GCP documentation is not useful when attempting to solve specific problems. It’s good for gaining a general idea of how things work. But how specifically does one bind an ssl cert and key to a load balancer? How specifically should one create a service account to read a secret encrypted with kms?
GCP documentation is pretty, it reads well. It’s utterly useless for the intended purpose which is helping people use the google cloud platform.
I'm reminded of this entry in the wikiwiki: "Just" is a dangerous word.

http://wiki.c2.com/?JustIsaDangerousWord
It seems likely that the dominance of American tech could be due to how they pay their engineers. It is not as clear that America dominates game development, nor that it is due to paying devs rockstar level compensation.
Actually I was talking to the Bloomberg people at a conference and parts of the terminal are web based now.

Also how are monospaced fonts "the right decision"?
That's not how that math works, _at all_.

Besides, you have an asymmetric opportunity, since you can interview, get an offer, and decline it if you don't like the new option. You don't need to quit before interviewing. In fact, that post-offer woo phase can give you a huge chance to get more information about the new gig.
Google Cloud has a DPA if I remember correctly, that would cover Firebase usage?
The impact of the profit motive
So no, you're not aware of anyone actually being successful in such a suit. Good to know.
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Can Arm Survive the RISC-V Challenge?
I've worked at a lender that did loans to small businesses somewhere in between categories 1 and 2.

The major thing that's changed is the availability of data. A $100k loan used to take several hours of expensive analyst time to process manually, and since most would be rejected, it wouldn't be worth it. Now a business can, e.g., securely share real bank account data.

That makes the whole process much faster, which reduces the cost per loan, which makes smaller loans profitable.

I imagine something similar can apply for small business equity.
Just because Hillary’s campaign contributions were not as effective at persuading voters enough to win a electoral college majority does not mean that Trump (or other politicians) are not influenced by those contributions. It seems clear to me that businesses are getting a return in investment for the money they are spending in politics, otherwise they wouldn’t do it.
The Declaration of Freelancer Independence
No one got arrested for 2008. Has anyone been arrested for the Opiate crisis?

Oligarchs don't have the same laws as the rest of us.
Defer to OP but that feels like bit lazy apologist framework for status quo.

A few (unsubstantiated) guesses at reasons to counter:

1 - Medium risk medium reward opportunities exist (a currently unprofitable but otherwise promising startup addressing a 25m niche can't get bank debt or venture funding)

2 - Could decrease risk holding reward (avg. multiple of investment) constant by having small funds with managers that have deep knowledge of particular niche deploy smaller checks in markets they are better at evaluating (v. large fund managers needing to cast net wider than their "lane")

3 - Size expectation can be correlated with risk. Can decrease risk holding reward (avg multiple of investment) constant by just having smaller funds writing smaller checks for smaller companies that be happy with smaller exits or alt. upside capture (v. forcing companies that could work with small exits into chasing big inflexible exits). Sure no 100x-ers but theoretically could see higher blended fund returns

4 - Opportunities generally continuous on risk and reward calling for equally diverse approaches to capitalization
No. Once it gets too cold, sensitive parts start to break. Opportunity's movement served, in part, to keep it warm enough to continue functioning.
It’s not a mystery when you see what their stock has done in the past couple of years. When the stock more than doubled, the company gets to deduct the difference between exercise and strike price. But employees then have to pay that difference. So most of this is a non-story around Amazon transferring it’s tax burden to its employees by awarding them lots of stock.

The bigger issue here is the fiction that stock option compensation should be taxed as investment rather than employment compensation. Bill Gates even brought it up whe Colbert asked him about a 70% marginal tax rate and said something to the effect of, “The vast majority of these billion dollar fortunes weren’t built with ordinary income.” We need the tax code to separate profits made from buying stock for money only from profits made from buying stock that one is only offered at that price because of one’s employment status. Until we do that, those 70% marginal tax rates will only hit entertainers and others not able to structure their compensation using stock and leave open the huge loophole that the richest use to pay themselves in a way that allows them to pay an overall lower percentage of income than most of us commenting here.
Self driving terraforming robots would be an excellent testbed for AI technologies. What is the reason for pushing humans again?
>This isn't an extraordinary claim and I would put the ball in your court to disprove it...

That's not how this works. You make a claim, you back it up. If you don't, you're just adding noise.
the answer is basically wrong. robots can and do. captcha has become an AI training tool and it now blocks humans as a consequence. the convenient side-effect being a nudge to those humans to change their behaviour in such a way as to never need captcha and thus support google's business: enable cookies, login to google, use unique identifiers (IP), etc
Well approximately 45% of Americans pay no federal income tax.