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Trolley bus wiring is infrastructure that has an ongoing maintenance cost that many places probably don't want to pay for. (In addition to the initial CapEx.)

I think that series hybrid buses would be better: battery runs e-motor, and have a range extender (generator) that kicks in when needed.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle_drivetrain#Seri...
The current version of firefox for android works very well and doesn't feel noticeably different from chrome on a several year old phone.

The newest version mentioned in this article actually feels faster than chrome although I'm not crazy about the new ui it is usable without difficultly and a work in progress.
Why Science Can Be So Indecisive on Nutrition
Thank you so much. Love hackernews sometimes. I saw this man’s videos many years ago and the various ideas always kinda stuck. While wanting to spin up a new project I attempted to find him and his videos again, but it was very hard to find such a niche topic. I’m am absolutely ecstatic I have this resource for my week off coming up.
One of the big differences is that gas chambers are only useful for killing prisoners while there is no indication whatsoever that railguns will be used to kill prisoners.

(That said, if it were my execution and the choice were given to me, I would of course chose the railgun! Suffocating on cyanide gas doesn't seem like much fun, I'd rather be vaporized by a hypersonic artillery shell, if it's all the same to you...)
How much Silicon Valley tech workers make
Fully-justified text is also generally harder to read for everyone, but for dyslexic folks especially. On the web, this is exacerbated by browsers' relatively poor support for fine, print-quality type layout.
You can each have an ejector seat.
Seems like misguided faux environmentalism, like banning plastic straws but keeping the longtail of plastic waste. Electric buses are good, of course, but a well-designed and highly utilized bus network, even with the dirtiest diesel engines, is going to get you serious wins over GHG/CO2/VOC emissions from automobiles if you can replace those trips.
GraphQL Authentication
Yep. This is officialy the sickest joke I ever made on an internet forum. Sorry if it offends anyone, feel free to ban, but I couldn't resist at the moment.
It's satire playing on the fact that the entire Node.js ecosystem is built around 1-liner packages that in any other language this would just be code snippets you'd find on stack overflow.

Look at: is-windows (seems archived now for some reason) or https://github.com/jonschlinkert/isobject - 2.6million dependencies

These packages started out as a good idea to make a standard library for javascript, but after event-stream, left-pad, and other controversies, it's becoming apparent how much of an anti-pattern small 1-liner packages have become.
It's just a logo, I think the Railgun only can get to 100 miles or so (at the moment).
I hate to say the "R" word, but, I think we need more regulation. It's clear that manufacturers and consumers aren't trending in the right direction here in protecting all members of society on the streets (not just those in vehicles), so the government needs to step in and mandate it. The increasing prevalence of large pedestrian-unfriendly vehicles is a terrifying trend.

Another change in concert that might help is much higher gasoline taxes. Gasoline can cost upwards of $8 per gallon in many parts of Europe. When fuel is that expensive, you really don't want to get a vehicle any larger than necessary. By contrast, fuel here in the US is way too cheap, and way too many people get large vehicles who have no real need for them, and aren't charged nearly enough extra for the privilege.
This story about Drew Houston meeting Steve Jobs for acquisition talks pretty much confirms the supposition in your edit.

“'You either got Chill Steve or Very Mean Steve': Dropbox founder remembers being summoned to Apple by Steve Jobs — then told his startup would be killed”

https://www.businessinsider.com/drew-houston-dropbox-steve-j...
Sounds like they paid a highschool student to play a muted version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRh-dzrI4Z4
Is there a widespread lack of funding for bridges and roads infrastructure in the US?

The bridges and roads around me in middle TN are well maintained. These are funded by local government resources, right?
"Wonder what Europe is doing differently than us. Are we having more pedestrians on our streets and roads?"

It's definitely about being used to it. In Munich there were pedestrians and bikers everywhere so you quickly learn to always watch. In California now I see a bike maybe once a week so I often don't look anymore.
The only thing I can think of is to start with the districts we have and then produce an algorithm that uses a random number generator to redraw lines. The algorithm can fuzz the current boundaries making a district larger or smaller or it can choose to split a district or combine two districts. Just keep randomizing the districting for each election starting with the output of the last time it was randomly fuzzed.

Sometimes the randomness will work in favor of one party, sometimes against it. In the long term, it adds in some non-partisan non-determinism, which is probably good for justice long-term.

This sidesteps the question of values entirely.
DIY videos by armed service members often use over-the-top soundtracks. I bet the intent of that video wasn't to be PR or marketing, just a fun recap of work done.
Could be the starting plot of an amazing "Black Mirror" episode!
This is for embedded Linux devices with a set of proprietary applications (small volume commercial/industrial control, no consumer device). Mostly non networked, so we have to distribute application updates via USB (in the networked case, we a use VPNs separated by customer groups to deliver updates, so this layer provides the encryption without requiring the update archive to be encrypted).
I wonder what OpenStreetMaps shows for the detour. I find OSM often more detailed than Google Maps.
It sure is. Are you implying that a railgun is equally or less humane as chemical weapons?
How do you explain the difference with Europe? European pedestrians presumably are just as likely to be on their mobile phones...
I’m more concerned that they’re designing the next version of the Web right under our noses than that they know what kind of sneakers I’m 8% more likely to buy.
> created to astonish patriotic five-year-olds

In other words, the current POTUS?
We’re Updating Our Terms of Service to Better Explain How Facebook Works
China has over 400,000 electric buses in operation. Can’t we simply follow their lead?
I think the proximity and ultimate fact of death first around us and then ultimately happening to us is sufficient deprivation to appreciate life.

Suffering is more likely to stunt then enrich.
Thanks for the warning, I hoped it was the embeddable desktop Gecko engine that I need, not the Android component.
yes. "reputation" and "outcomes" are part of many other decision-making efforts we engage in.
from a local article on this, "enlisted the help of experts" means they called the local locksmith and asked if they remembered what the combination was. the answer was no.
I was confused by that for a minute, but I don’t think it is in anyway related to the rest of the comment. He was just pointing out a mistake and making a separate point about being a good open source Citizen
Do you have any links that explore this?
Authentication with GraphQL can be done in loads of different ways. I've created an example of one way that I like.

If anyone is interested, I have used my own GraphQL Server library for Python. This meant the entire implementation is less than 500 lines. You can check it out here:

https://gitlab.com/kiwi-ninja/objectql

I also have made a few other GraphQL examples which you can check out here:

https://gitlab.com/kiwi-ninja/example-projects
It’s worth noting that even though walking is far more common in Europe, and streets are generally narrower, and in older cities, there aren’t sidewalks, but pedestrians share the roadway with cars. Despite these factors, Europe now has a lower pedestrian death toll per capita than the US.

We walk less, but we die more.

I think it's because of these factors, not despite them. We die more because pedestrian traffic has dropped so low that drivers no longer look for foot traffic.

I have lived without a car more than a decade. Driver's frequently are shocked to notice me. I do all I can to catch their eye and make sure they see me. Otherwise, they just make their turn/ go through the crosswalk like I don't exist.
The moral equivalent of "admin,password" happens all the time with physical locks.

With physical goods, the key is often sold with a default bitting. (Which is the data embodied in the key equivalent to the password.) That's because just ordering the default is often cheaper, and the contractor will often just opt for the cheapest option. It wouldn't surprise me if this also happened with combination locks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9b9IYqsb_U
Unless he's worried about a drone strike while in his Moscow apartment, I can't see there'd be a problem.
> leading buyers to think SUVs are safer, when that safety comes at the expense of other users of the road, including people on foot and bike.

Oh, I don't think that's misunderstood at all. Safety is generally measured with respect to the occupants of the vehicle only, everyone else be damned.

Heck, there used to be a myth that in an impending head-on collision you would speed up because that would put most of the force onto the other car and reduce your own damage. (That's not really how that works, of course)
Policy and investment recommendations for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
the punks were certainly the most health-toxic sub-culture in post-hippy California.. definitely early pain-killer abusers, plus glue or extreme alcohol, etc. not uncommon to hear of deaths, treachery or jail.. SF Fab-Mab ruler Dirk was later found to be sexually using adolescents pretty regularly .. lead singer of Fang on America's Most Wanted national TV for killing a girl over heroin, things like that .. freedom has a price ! and if the songs regularly invoke violence and madness, guess what, it actually results in violence and madness.. who would have guessed
Google is negligent in failing to block malware ads. They chose how to build their system, and they could have build a system without this vulnerability (but it would be less profitable). Just because they are the biggest certainly doesn't mean they are ethically innocent here.

They choose to maintain a business model that requires third party scripts - which is a conscious decision to harm the audience at the expense of their patrons. Their greed needs to be called out, or else people will continue using them as a shield against any critical call for improvement in the fraud-rampant online ad economy.

Google may be the best there is, but that says more about the lack of morals in the ad industry than Google's high-ground.
Yes, that's what "viable" means. Viable for big flashy announcement.
By building new cities and exerting political will over eminent domain? Probably not.
I was vague with the meaning of "liberal." Otherwise I completely stand by the post.

* Re: abortion. You reversed the "all circumstances" and "some circumstances" labels: only 29% say the former, 50% say the latter. It's not in my original post, but when you dig in to what people mean when they say "some circumstances," they imagine more restricted access than we have now, not less [1]. To emphasize: more people want to restrict or ban abortion than want to expand access (the "liberal" position).

* Re: immigration. I'm not sure why you're staking a claim on the "stay the same" slice; their legislative desires are evidently not being thwarted. Otherwise, more people want to decrease immigration than increase it (the "liberal" position).

* Re: guns. I've never seen super-majority to mean anything other than 66% or 75%. Support for restriction (the "liberal" position) doesn't clear the threshold. And if we adopt a more realistic liberal position like "ban assault rifles"--well, a majority oppose that [2].

* Re: drug laws. I acknowledged the marijuana bit right there in my post. Besides that, legalization is wildly unpopular [3].

If there's a point to all this, it's that liberal positions see little legislative success not because of gerrymandering or voter suppression or whatever other boogeymen--it's because they're unpopular.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730183531/poll-majority-want-...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/243860/snapshot-majority-oppose...

[3] https://www.vox.com/2016/3/15/11224500/marijuana-legalizatio...
The Next Silicon Valley Is Los Angeles?
Last time I checked, Raymond Hill's website didn't even have a donation button. This is an incredibly generous stance for him to take but if he doesn't want money himself maybe he could collect funds for a charity. I really feel I owe someone for this software.
If by "origin" you mean "box Netflix has root on"... yes, I do think that?
There's a near-exact correlation with the rise of smartphone use in the US. Anecdotally, I've almost been hit more often in recent years here in NYC and it's almost always due to absolute morons staring at their cell phone while behind the wheel.
Yep, this has been pretty widely reported, in fact when I was looking for an article that covered this the first one I found (from April this year) talked about a bridge in TN which collapsed: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/710364158/report-finds-more-t...
China’s battle to keep internet addiction in check
If the data is open and federated (as it should be), it will still be available for ingestion by other future (and past) attempts at the idea. I don't see any fundamental problem with the idea, but understand that it's important to get the details right.
don't do it. my roommate has an HF rig and looks boring af. couple grand worth of gear so they can key down, say "K2185B6 broadcasting from $LOCATION_1", 5 seconds later someone else says "hi K2185B6, lound and clear. This is K8407W4 from $LOCATION_2". rinse, repeat
yawn. you probably violate hundreds of federal laws. this one is practically unenforceable and I doubt anyone really cares or gets in trouble for it.
I will not say Haskell, I will say the category theory, is all right there :)
The Staggering Cost of Training SOTA AI Models
Behind the Overlay, and uMatrix as well. My favorite quadfecta of extensions.
People buy large vehicles more than they otherwise would because these are the least regulated so they have less compliance costs baked into their price and there are less compliance based trade-offs in their design so dollar for dollar you're getting more car than you do with something small (which has to meet more stringent fuel economy and emissions requirements and has a larger proportion of it's cost made up of mandatory safety equipment).

When it comes to safety manufacturers are optimizing for tests. Change the tests and you'll change what they optimize for.
"I drive, I ride my bike, and I walk places, but when I do one, I hate the other two"
Not fond of the bottom address bar, I guess I'm not used to it because I always tap the top-right corner to switch tabs... I just need to get it in my muscle-memory, not a big deal. I still cross my fingers this will be configurable at some point.

My main gripe is that I feel like bookmarks are now a second-class citizen in Firefox Preview, they're not as accessible. I could see my mobile bookmarks right on the new tab screen in Firefox, now I have to press ⋮ > Your Library > Bookmarks and then click the bookmark I want.

4 clicks, while it took only one (or two) before with bookmarks as the default panel on my homepage on Firefox "classic".
Gas taxes disproportionately affect the poor though. I agree with your premise that we have too many large vehicles and there's no good incentive to pick a vehicle that's "just" large enough for your uses (so of course everyone picks these enormous trucks and SUVs), but I just think there has to be a better way of regulating than a gas tax.
"(Europeans have high rates of car ownership and as many smart phones as Americans)

[..] at the same time pedestrian deaths have been soaring the US, they’ve been dropping steadily in Europe."
I think an apolitical philosophical framework would be better than _biased_ (however good their intentions) groups who have the mostly the well being of their interest group in mind. An advocacy group isn't a group which will take a balanced approach. Naturally, if they are advocates, they would represent their position _fully_ and uncompromised.

An apolitical (not advocating anything outside a framework) would be better and more neutral way to manage these differing opinions.
An example from another comment: bots checking stolen cc numbers which then results in high numbers of charge backs and the potential for getting blocked by visa/mastercard.
I walk and drive as part of my commute. When I'm walking I swear I'm the only person who doesn't wear headphones, and this is a very busy urban area with lots of cars, people, and narrow streets. I would imagine it's the same in Europe though, what do I know?
I am starting out by using what's available so that I can apply the lessons later. As I'm in that phase naturally there are no answers.

Does that make it clearer?
Until Taiwanese start becoming the product, then Japanese, then westerners.
Netflix runs a fleet of their own CDN boxes, that they put in ISP data centers.
Protection in layers.

Pi-hole at the DNS level, ublock origin and fingerprint protection at the browser level.

If the latter two are missing because I'm testing a beta browser which is very likely to a) deliver them and b) help defend against a chrome monoculture, I feel alright about sshing into a VPS to update pi-hole and then taking it for a spin.
I'd be curious to know if there's any link the use of automatic vs manual transmission cars. In Europe 80% of cars sold are manual, and in the US 3.9% are manual.[1]

That alone probably doesn't mean much because that was still the trend 10 years ago. But the use of smartphones may have increased. Long story short, does a manual transmission reduce distracted driving because it's harder to use your free hand for other activities?

[1] https://www.thezebra.com/insurance-news/2805/manual-vs-autom...
Rust for C++ developers – What you need to know to get rolling with crates
I think SOLID is appropriate for the public interface parts of your code but the internals should strive for YAGNI/KISS.

So the vast majority of your codebase should aim to minimize lines of code and abstraction. Of course there are exceptions - sometimes you really do need to encapsulate complex sub-systems with abstractions but you should have a clear justification.
- Talks about introducing a browser more focused on privacy

- Comes with Google search suggestions enabled by default on first run

(has a Google logo prominently displayed in the middle of the screen on first run in fact)
Finding Your Market and Brand
Yeah, it's not like CIA agents would kidnap him or something. Would never happen, right?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/beyond-...
Small tip: please avoid giving time estimations using seasons "coming this fall", as in the other hemisphere it is going to be spring.
Ah, that is a good point. They aren't comparable on that aspect.

I would argue they are still comparable in terms of "autonomy of attention".
Twitter will now hide – but not remove – harmful tweets from public figures
No, all you need is to observe things. Be it a simple detector or conscious observer, you've extracted information from the environment. The observation implies existence, what observed it is inconsequential.
Political ideologies are lenses to view the world from. Some make more sense than others.

When non-violent drug crimes result in 30 year prison sentences while violent sexual crimes against minors result in no prison sentences, it is clear that the rule of law does not exist.
>For instance, if a user with a high risk score attempts to log in, the website can set rules to ask them to enter additional verification information through two-factor authentication.

This defeats the purpose of using 2FA: to require a second factor every time you login. This completely negates the benefits of 2FA if a hacker has gotten my username/password through a keylogger. It's easy enough to get a good score if you just disable tracking protections and login to a Google account, then a hacker can easily break into your account. I was thinking it had to be the author not understanding how 2FA worked, but Google is actually advocating this ([0]):

> login With low scores, require 2-factor-authentication or email verification to prevent credential stuffing attacks.

You would think the people behind recaptcha would understand how 2FA is supposed to work.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3#score
I tried something similar and was astonished at the amount of variance caused by stoplights and weather. Because of that, it's hard to get a good dataset for comparison.

In the end, because of the variance caused by external factors, there was no clear winner in my case, so I now use an app from random.org to flip a coin and follow the results accordingly. That's not because either way is better, but this way if I have a long delay for some reason, I can blame it on a bad coin flip.
No company since at least 2016 has made a flagship Android phone under 4.5". The iPhone SE made news for being the only small phone with up-to-date internals. It's not surprising small Android phones have seen limited success.

That's like observing that small cars don't do well with luxury buyers. Well, true -- because carmakers have chosen not to make small high-end cars. I've had friends tell me they wanted to buy a smaller car but the interior wasn't nearly as nice so they bought a bigger model. They'd rather have a car that's too big than get a second-rate dashboard and seats.

So I'm not sure why you're pointing to supply and claiming that it's indicative of demand of one particular attribute. Even more than with cars, the history of cell phones is companies making the wrong thing, and then having their lunch eaten by some other company. 15 years ago, all my friends had Blackberrys or Palms, but today nobody would say "The market had spoken" and everybody wanted hardware QWERTY keyboards and styluses. People didn't have a choice. These companies were seeing exponential growth, right up until a better choice was available.

Also, the desktop display comparison is out of left field. My desk is plenty big enough for two big displays, while my pants pockets aren't big enough for even one 'phablet'. I don't have to move my fingers across every pixel of my desktop displays to use them. It's completely different -- ergonomics, use cases, hardware, OS, apps, and so on.

Whenever there are fewer companies C than the exponent 2^R of the number of relevant attributes R, consumers don't have a sufficient number of axes of control to communicate to product designers purely through market forces.

(There's a name for that law, in the context of systems control theory, but I can never remember what it is.)
Wealth Should Trickle Up, Not Down
Not sure why you were downvoted. This is the best answer I've ever received to my question.
I am not sure where you've seen anyone advocate you to "denied access to content". We are talking about a recommendation system. Those are pushing content, and as such include believes, values, etc. This makes companies have a responsibility on what they advocate for and what effect that will have on our societies. If you're talking about opportunity cost: Well, an imaginary flat earth'er or science denier would say the same about getting recommended stuff beyond his bubble.
There's also a trend in the US where people are moving out of suburbs and into big cities. And there are far more people walking and biking to work than ever. So there's definitely more pedestrians than 10 years ago. I can't speak for Europe's trends.