skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Amazon has been paying federal taxes fairly regularly."

Dude, the chart gives you the 5- and 10-year effectives rates, they're 2.2% and 3.0% respectively.
"essentially small businesses and lower/middle income folks will pick up the slack on the missing revenue"

This is objectively untrue. The wealthiest taxpayers, who overwhelmingly make their money off of investments in companies like Amazon, pay nearly all of federal taxes. Just because Amazon doesn't pay taxes doesn't mean the people profiting off Amazon aren't paying taxes. A big reason why corporate taxes are dumb, since the money either grows the business or goes to individuals who pay taxes.
> Having built this kind of thing natively

As have I :)

> you actually might! macOS, for instance, has a few race conditions that can (easily) occur when using the built-in spell/grammar-checking functionality on text field/view instances.

That forces it to load the wrong dictionary (one which differs from the system dic) and do so repeatedly each and every time you use the application? That doesn't sound much like a race condition to me...

> This myth that you get these things for free with native apps is just that: a myth.

Is that actually a myth though? Because I've never heard anyone suggest that - least of all uttered that nonsense myself.
Foolproof method of preventing more victims - just put all the people guilty of those 2 crimes in prison for life. That way, they can never get out and re-offend.

There's already too many cases of someone getting a sentence of only a few years for one of those crimes, and then upon getting out, reoffending in the same or worse way within a few months.
The lede isn't just buried here, its almost unmentioned. At the end of this war the Athenian empire was no more and Athens was reduced to being a vassal state and didn't recover its prominence until the Greek revolution in the 19th century. Bad judgement, exceptionalism and overreaching driven by demagoguery lead to the end of an empire--not for the last time.
20 years of dev experience, yet people stick their head in the sand when the topic switches to why Electron is so successful. ;P

So yeah, it does rub me the wrong way. The people who argue against Electron are the programmer's programmer: they like tinkering, they care about the code, and so on. Most businesses don't. Users never see the code. If you want better, you need to beat Electron and stop ignoring or decrying why people opt for it.
I liked Reddit but I think it's too big now, the format just doesn't work for such a big website, I can't imagine the data they have though, I'm sure you can make some crazy psychological profiles with some of the data in there.
How about this example: a corporation buys a yacht that the CEO has exclusive use of and lives on. Now the CEO gets full food & board & luxury sea transportation provided. The CEO's salary is $1.

The CEO is taking untaxed value out of the corporation but paying no income tax. If the corporation pays no taxes either, then the staff of the yacht will be paying more taxes than the CEO & corporation combined!
It happens to me occasionally and I am basically blacklisted from the internet. I have to solve 5 in a row and if I screw up its idea of what a streetsign is, I have to start over. It has made me cut out usage of most sites that use this broken and abusive tech. Welcome to the digital ghetto.
"Don't spend money you don't have to impress people you don't like."
Physics gives us some tools to meaningfully talk about "unbreakable" without perfect secrecy. In particular, we can currently reason about "unbreakable on any classical computer operating in an ambiant temperature no less than the cosmic microwave background, and consuming no more energy than exists in the universe".

Physics still has some backdoors (notably reversable computing which, as far as I am aware, has no fundamental limit), but the bigger problem is that complexity theory has not advanced to a point where we can make meaningfull use of this. (The most I have ever seen is computing the lowerbound on energy to enumerate all keys. )

This is probably a solvable problem, but is going to be harder than p vs np.
Don't give up just yet, guys! Get one of the new rovers to find some water on mars, take a microfiber cloth...maybe a squeegee...
Only if you've never built a GUI in anything other than a web stack (which is about the most awful environment for GUI I've ever had to deal with). Java GUIs can be done with WYSIWYG designers FFS.
> Also, having both inputs already be gasses mean they mix better. This will have a tiny benefit in them burning more completely. But more importantly they'll burn better across a wider range of thrusts, which could be important for throttling down the engine for landing.

Also, and importantly for the design of the engine, it's much much easier* to computationally model the mixing of two gases, to ensure complete mixing and no combustion instability (especially when the reaction components are limited to ch4, o2, and partial- and complete-reaction products like c02, c0, h2o, oh-, ...).

* by much easier, i mean less impossible
This is absolutely horrible and MEPs voting for this do not have EU citizens best interests in mind.
This is a thing that's really specific to web-design, though. People writing desktop apps want it to "just work", which is why Electron is a godsend (in this regard).
It'll buff out.
I know that docking using GPU is about an order of magnitude faster than CPU (see today's Schrodinger 2019-1 release notes, https://youtu.be/K4AYdBvuOe4?t=90). Is there a way of doing GPU accelerated precomputation though?
I see..the goal of ARGON2 is not to be expensive, but to be hard to parallize. Anyways the other points that you wrote make sense.
I was thinking of web apps like MS Teams that just simply do not allow to open a new tab on click for whatever reason. I can open the app in two windows just fine, but I can't right/middle click on something to tell it to open in new tab. Why would I not want be able to open a Word Online document in a new tab directly?

There are other apps, that are even worse. Allowing something to open in a new tab/window but identifying that there are multiple windows open and just disabling all but the main window...

I don't understand developers that do this. I always felt that multiple tabs is a strength of the web. They worsen it somehow.
And it was supposed to last 90 days...
you are of course right. there is no stopping anyone from doing that. in fact the university which initially developed the backend i am using has been doing just that, using the backend like a database, creating "frontends" in PHP.

though that doesn't negate the point of SPA which enables building clients that run directly on the users devices and are not hampered by the difficulty of emulating stateful clients on a server.
I'm sorry I said that.. to each their own. Had no intention of making anyone feel bad about something they enjoy.
I think they do exactly that. For example disabling browser fingerprinting in firefox and not being logged into Google causes the majority of sites to display the captcha, especially when using a VPN.
Stop using hardware to solve software problems
A small percentage of bad actors using automaton can produce a lot of traffic. So although it may be true that a large portion of the requests coming from TOR exit nodes is malicious, it would be unwise to conclude that most users of TOR have bad intentions.
Forget Bitcoin, Try Your Mattress
You "can", however case law in the US is very deeply anti-plaintiff, due to centuries of supreme court justices voting in favor of free speech. A joke would not satisfy the criteria for libel.
Installing PWAs as standalone desktop apps (2018)
What makes you think that? There's a lot of people that would prefer money go to social programs rather than the military, but would prefer the spending on both be reduced by spending money more effectively. The Pentagon Wars is a prime example of how many people think the government spends it's money, "yes, that billions, with a B".
The Most Popular Health Articles of 2018, a Scientific Credibility Review
Any politician promising to raise corporate, capital, and estate taxes automatically has my vote
I'm not OP but I hate that everything occupies space (tabs) in my browser. I'd rather use a separate application.

Apps such as discord & slack run in the background for me all the time. If all of them were in the browser each one needed a single tab for itself.

It has other benefits such as switching between windows via alt+tab and co.
I value Facebook at zero. People who would only quit for a payoff might not see that they are the product and their personal details are fueling Facebook. To them I would say take control of your privacy and leave.
Let's imagine you were a federal prosecutor. Who specifically would you indict for the 2008 crisis, and on what specific charge?
We have no particuarly good reason to believe in the exsitence of a good PRNG. Worse, we have no good reason to trust that any particular PRNG is good.
I see a State level complaint. I'd like to see a Federal investigation also.
Ruby Quiz – (Crypto) Blockchain Contract Ed. – Challenge #1 – Create Tic-Tac-Toe
Etrade through where I worked wouldn’t do it. This seems like something that should be tool protected tbh.
Deep Learning AI Generates Realistic Game Graphics by Learning from Videos:

https://thenewstack.io/deep-learning-ai-generates-realistic-...
Looking at the list of cycles on Wikipedia, I'm surprised that nobody seems to have used preburners to pressurize the tanks. Use a fuel-rich preburner to pressurize the fuel tank, and an oxygen-rich preburner to pressurize the oxygen tank.

Mixing should be limited even if nothing special is done, due to the temperature and phase of matter and short timeframe. One could of course pay the weight penalty of a piston (need not have a perfect seal) or collapsing bag.

Doing a heat exchanger (to boil and thus pressurize) is another option, but then you're back to needing a place for the exhaust. It would let you do a sort of full-flow engine without turbopumps however, which is great. All those issues with cavitation and lubrication and stress cracking just go away.
I can also just not write the software.

It's not like I don't get the pain of slow tooling. I cut my teeth on C++. However, it's not a laziness issue, it's trading performance in one place for functionality in another. Case in point, at the time I chose C++ because I was trying to do game development in the pre-unity days. These days I'd choose Unity in a heartbeat because it's fast enough and saves me a lot of busywork. I could write more performant code from scratch, but it's really not worth the extra months spent wrangling polygons because the game never gets made.
> You won't see a bit of wasted space

Ahem...

"How Medical Tech Gave a Patient a Massive Overdose" https://medium.com/backchannel/how-technology-led-a-hospital...

> Do you spot the problem? Perhaps not, since it is hiding in the middle of this dense screen,

(that quote is from part 2 of the series of posts)

Of course that's not the only reason this incident occurred, but it likely contributed to it.
These projects are admirable, but people severely underestimate just how much work goes into building a true GUI solution. The insane amount of stuff required to wrap is bonkers-level crazy - you cannot easily match the millions of developer hours poured into the APIs used by MSFT/Apple/Linux, or the sheer complexity of a web browser.

You hands-down could not build Slack, Spotify and so forth in a solution like this. You would end up refactoring it very quickly when users start walking away because you can't have a feature they want (playing video, gifs, etc).
Haha, having to work around the computation limits are welcoming! It feels like building web apps back in the late 90's again. These days we have so much memory and disk space at hand it doesn't even feel like a challenge anymore.

That is, until Graphcore delivers their IPU.
"But you can definitely buy their time. That's exactly what you sell when you're employed."

The relationship you have with your employees is the inverse of the relationship you have with your users. I think you don't understand the idea of entitlement anymore than stealing.

They aren't entitled to spotify if spotify doesn't want to do business with them but they are entitled to have a negative opinion about spotify and or spotify's actions.

The fact that an increasing share of spotify's users neither want to pay them or watch their ads is a failure on Spotify's part to capture those potential users and reliance on a business model that is fundamentally stupid.

The fact that ad supported multimedia worked for so long is not an indication of future longevity. Horses were a great method of transportation for longer.
My google skills turned up absolutely nothing, and my common sense tells me that you're incorrectly applying a "corporations is bad" heuristic.

What'll be fun is trying to watch you prove Amazon lobbied for a law that's older than it is.
Their key size is effectivly halfed. Not a big deal, but if quantom computers reach near parity with classical, we will need to increase our key sizes.
You're projecting real hard. The left has become insanely pro-war. It's really sad what the media is doing to Tulsi Gabbard, who's the only anti-war presidential candidate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlXhRBsOwpA
Looks very interesting, are you investing in Sweden?
Many people pay zero income taxes. And individuals can also carry forward certain losses from previous years, just like Amazon and other corporations.
I didn't know that. Good to hear it was at least a partial success!
In many contexts, it's not forced.
Much of international commerce, for example.
“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow risk of capital.. the ease and difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.”

— President John F. Kennedy, 1963

Myopic egalitarianism on taxes would have ruinous affects on all levels of society. The incentive structures that determine how we allocate capital determine how dynamic our economy is and thus the opportunities for working and middle-class Americans. Lower capital gains taxes encourages skilled investors to reallocate capital to promising projects, ensuring capital goes to the companies most likely to create jobs as they innovate and scale. Better investment of capital literally results in higher wages, superior goods, and a more sustainable tax base. The maximum capital gains tax in the US is already one of the highest in the developed world. It should be zero, like Singapore, Hong Kong, and a dozen other OECD countries.

Taxing capital gains as ordinary income would freeze long term investments in place. This is the “lock-in effect.” When capital gains taxes are high, the tax penalty discourages investors from moving their money to potentially better investments.

Obama said raising capital gains taxes was “fair.” However, that sounds good to voters that don’t know any better while it would be disastrous in practice. His statement was catnip to the economically ignorant just like “build the wall” is catnip to the right-wing. Both ideas are of questionable benefit while the potential for unintended consequences are somewhat infinite. Of course there are those that actually want the US economy to get worse in order to bolster anti-capitalist arguments. So perhaps the negative effects of taxing capital gains as ordinary income is a desirable outcome for those who suggest it. A bit cynical, however, how else could it be explained: if raising capital gains taxes is bad for the economy as Kennedy and economists say, why would anyone support it? They’re either badly informed or perfectly informed and malicious.
Congresspeople make $174,000 a year which, while more than most Americans, is certainly not outside the norm for senior-level professionals in a variety of "normal" careers. Plenty of people you would consider "middle class" make 174k or more.

To me "wealthy class" means people who have saved enough to never have to work again, which is by no means certain on a 174k salary.
Well certainly, if a bunch of other employees of other corporations can live a just and equal life, and those employer-corporations pay more than 0% tax, you can imagine that you can be part of a corporation that merely pays more taxes?
Corporations don't write trade deals, corporations don't write laws, and corporations don't control the media, unless your definition of corporations is "any group of people", in which case yes, groups of people do literally everything on this planet.
> What title would you suggest in roughly that amount of space?

I'll try! something like this would be my offer:

> Canadian forests net carbon emitters due to biomass loss

vs the original

> Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb

close enough for me
The EFF released a short tweet with additional information https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1095775278683512832

If this really applies to everything it's going to drastically change the internet.
Google should just cut off YouTube and other impacted platforms for 24 hours in the EU with a message telling them that the service is against Article 13. It might sound absurd but it would be effective, and this is the real danger with article 13.
It wasn’t supposed to last only 90 days, the initial mission specifications were for a 90 day mission.

While it’s an engineering marvel no one thought that it would last only 90 days if it successfully landed and deployed, the 90 days was a minimum figure for the design and also the initial operating budget for the mission.
> But it adds the whole second gas generator and turbine. No, it doesn't lower part complexity as a whole :) .

Because the fuel side and oxidizer side typically have a very different flow rates, many engines have separate pumps and turbines for them on separate shafts even if both sides use same fluids in the preburner. For example, see the SSME.

With FFSC, each of the turbines have no sealing requirements. This means, among other things, that bearings become easier and safer, as you can afford larger margins in your design. In many ways, FFSC allows the individual parts of the engine to be simpler.

The main cost of doing it over gas generators (other than oxidation-resistant superalloys...) is that all parts of the engine sort of circularly depend on each other -- when the Merlin engine was in very early development, they drove into the desert and ran the gas generator and fuel pump on it's own with basically no support infrastructure. Testing Raptor in a similar way is just not possible. It would have never gotten built without the NASA Stennis facility that can provide all the intermediate fluids at the pressures required.

I fully agree with the rest.
Methane also means they can refuel in-situ on Mars, provided the infrastructure is there.
And despite these losses Jeff Bozo is the richest man in the world. Clearly these companies are abusing the tax laws to avoid paying their share of taxes.

Amazon depends on the roads that our tax dollars fund. Amazon depends on intelligent people to run its business, funded by the US government through various mechanisms such as research grants. Amazon depends on the protection of the US military. Amazon and companies like Amazon need to pay their share
I don't know. High-volume cheap cars can certainly be more reliable than low volume, expensive high-end cars, simply because that's how manufacturing works.

Corollas and Civics can last forever.
of course we are not in EU but how will this effect our ability to even use HN at all if this mentality spreads here.
would it be an offence to post articles from EU resources?

{adde} russia is apparently experimenting with some sort of xenophobia net, so if perfected could we even see internet partitioning based on nation of origin and destination, perhaps even internet passport and visa type of procedures complete with excise and inspection procedures to simply use the internet across international borders.
If you are looking for a moral/ethical imperative to stop eating animals, then the IPCC report covers enough of the carbon and ecological costs of animal agriculture that it is something that you should quit.

If you are looking for an expansion of "The Subject" of ethics, if you will, then that's something you have to do for yourself. To consider non-human animals for consumption regardless of the ecological externalities is an ethical choice, not an ethical demand. I have expanded my personal considerations ethically to include other life on this planet, as their success is required for my continued survival.
>Religion is also dogmatic and static and to make it relevant to modern society often requires lots of obviously inconsistent double think.

I think this is a narrowminded view of religions in general, based solely on how various regressive factions have co-opted certain Abrahamic religions to justify their regressive politics. Other religions exist, and the even the ones in question can be "relevant to modern society" by allowing them the be less "dogmatic and static". Conservatives are drawn to religion because it's traditional, not because accepting religion forces to to be conservative. Plenty of scientific and liberal minded people are able to see the value in a belief in some greater order to the universe that comes with a strong community of individuals with shared beliefs.

I recognize that religion has hurt a lot of people, but that doesn't make it useless or inherently evil.

>We're replacing religion with science and the rule of law.

The good parts of religion, the ones which guide your life philosophy and contribute to your "Sense of Direction and Fulfillment", are totally separate from those two and can easily coexist.
> Already today, a luxury EV is probably more mechanically reliable than a mass market ICE car.

Tesla is among the least reliable car brands at the moment:

https://www.consumerreports.org/media-room/press-releases/20...

But I think that says more about the relative immaturity of Tesla's manufacturing than it does about EVs generally.

It will be interesting to see how Volkswagen's modular MEB electric car platform goes in the long term. The MEB platform designed to be used across multiple VW brands (VW, Audi, SEAT, and Skoda) and Volkswagen is interested in licensing it to other manufacturers so it will be widely used.
Call it any thing you want it's greed. I can understand a developer with $100k worth of stocks trading in desperation because they want to pay off their student loan or buy a house. But this guy had around $10 million. What desperation?
I'm pretty convinced they're not really using these for ML, but that their ML algorithms have already run on these and they already know these difficult (read: ambiguous) enough to make you give up. These cases specifically only come up when they seem to think you're probably a bot (based on cookies or IP or whatever). They seem to deliberately put the photo boundaries such that they slice through whatever object they want you to look for. And they intentionally make the delays extremely long. These don't happen when they think you're probably a human and just want to throw an extra hurdle (like if you're Googling a little too frequently from your usual browser/location).
I too get annoyed at seeing this fun fact.

It's really hard to engineer something that will last 90 days. It's much easier to overbuilld it, which fulfills the requirement of 90 days.

It was designed to last as long as possible within the given weight and size budget.
I don’t think disclosing user names of requests would be in the interest of those users.
that doesnt answer my question
Switzerland offers cash to hackers who can crack its e-voting system