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I am not American, and I would agree with you if most of the operations were things like Stuxnet or Bin Laden's killing. But many of the most atrocious things committed by the CIA were totally gratuitous not helping one iota to the safety (perceived or real) of the American populace.
My take as well. At the end of 2019 the financial spam changed from "TESLA IS SINKING! SELL!" to "TESLA IS AWESOME! BUY!".
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Didn't downvote, but they probably came because you asked a very tangential question to the subject.

I'll try to answer it: I think you just want to move units around so h (Planck's constant) has units of Joules instead of Joule-seconds. While this works mathematically, it doesn't really make sense physically, where we care about the energy of a photon because that's the value that is conserved (along with momentum, also relating to h) during any interaction (e.g. the quantity gained by an electron if the photon is absorbed). It really doesn't make sense to want to quantify the "power" of a photon, which doesn't have any physical meaning, in favor of a simpler constant.

You are right about the constant 'h' having a "hard-coded" 1-second built in, but so do ALL derived physical constants . If we, say, changed it to two seconds, the number would be cut in half to reflect the scale change and preserve the energy of the photon (or any action) because that does not depend on scale.

As to "why is it Joule-seconds?": that's the discovered law of nature. If the energy was proportional to frequency squared, h would be in units of J*s².
Does anyone else feel like HN is somewhat ironically a highly risk adverse community? (I say ironically because you'd think a community of those working in new tech would be more risk seeking than your average person)

Seems like every time an individual stock is brought up there's 10 people claiming you're "gambling" with a disproportional amount of risk if you do anything but buy the index for every person that dares buy a company stock.
Buried in the middle of the story:

> Still, recent textbooks have come a long way from what was published in past decades. Both Texas and California volumes deal more bluntly with the cruelty of the slave trade, eschewing several myths that were common in textbooks for generations: that some slave owners treated enslaved people kindly and that African-Americans were better off enslaved than free. The books also devote more space to the women’s movement and balance the narrative of European immigration with stories of Latino and Asian immigrants.

> “American history is not anymore the story of great white men,” said Albert S. Broussard, a history professor at Texas A&M University and an author of both the Texas and California editions of McGraw-Hill’s textbooks.

So, in short, all the textbooks are moving toward a more multicultural worldview and ideas traditionally associated with "the left," but California is moving that direction faster than Texas.
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Writing textbooks is political, but the battle starts much earlier, already in hiring - University of California requires all new hires to submit a political litmus test [1]. A story which, I couldn't help but notice, the New York Times failed to cover.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/mathematician...
I think that you are close, but its more like Tesla is Apple now and the rest of the industry is trying to be Android. Where Tesla dominates the US with a proprietary charging network, others are slowing inching (or millimetering?) forward with open charge networks and a variety of new designs.

Eventually they are bound to catch up on volume. But by then, might Tesla have a significant desirability advantage? And in the auto-market, desirability is an amazingly effective proxy for assessing margin advantages.
This video is better, IMHO (same author):

Have we really measured gravitational waves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTvNlfkvoI
Totally agree. These exercises suck because they are obvious wastes of time that are often ignored, but cannot be done frivolously as they have impact on real things sometimes.

As a manager in one particularly toxic org, you had to strike a balance where you showed constant forward motion, but not too much. Too little and you'd be tortured with meetings with a PMO, too much progress, you'd be declared a genius and the PMO would either appoint you as a "champion" to get shit done or take your people away.
> Anne Sacoolas has diplomatic immunity

Others would beg to differ, I suggest you have a read of:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/jonathan-sac...

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/10/the-foreign-...
Enterprise Value is absolutely not the “value” of the company. The Enterprise value is the actual amount a company will cost you if you buy it at Market Cap.

IOW, if you buy a company for a $100bn but it has liabilities of another $100bn that means it’s cost to you is actually $200bn, because you will also have to pay that additional $100bn. That’s why cash reduces the EV of a company, because if you pay $100bn for a company that has $50bn in cash, you effectively paid only $50bn (which is the EV).

Market cap is the value of a company.
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What a shitshow. The entire thing is graft, and the US government turned a blind eye because it's deemed an important industry.
The Creative Independent is an example: https://thecreativeindependent.com/
What kind of guidance tech would we need beyond lights, lines, and signs?
How come you decided to buy the IPace? By all accounts it seems to be a terrible car.
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In the common integration-style way we’d have to alter and somewhat complicate the modules that are responsible for these changes.

In this new Behavioral Programming style we can instead map these changes quite naturally to new modules that can be swapped into the program without touching or even seeing how the system works.
</quote>

If it's so natural, where's the example?
If they make it semi-lattice instead of trees it could work https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.northwestern.edu/dist/6/...
In theory, the electric car should require less long term maintenance as well, as there are dramatically fewer moving parts. These items wouldn't emerge in the first five years (and you probably have less to worry about in a Toyota) but eventually things just start going a little wrong, even with a healthy maintenance schedule. These mechanical failures are less likely in a simpler vehicle.
> NflxMultiSubs is still working. I wrote a patch to fix it, and took over maintence on Chrome.

That's great! It's a shame that it's (apparently) no longer open source, though obviously given the MIT license you're allowed to stop disclosing the source.
> I _hate_ the fact that I'm too terrified to let my kids cycle on city streets, or suburban streets, or country roads, and they're completely trapped on a small patch of land surrounded by asphalt ribbons of death on all sides.

This is an irrational fear. In 2016, there were about 245 children under 14 killed by cars as pedestrians in the entire year: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/.... There are about 75 million children under 18, so let's say 40 million between ages 5 and 14. That's 0.6 child pedestrian deaths per 100,000 ambulatory children. That's about 1/5 as likely as the risk of a white person being killed in a homicide in any given year.

Moreover, about 332 children ages 5-14 were the victims of homicide in 2017: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/LeadingCauses.html. Us urbanists ridicule suburban parents for worrying that their kid will be shot if they live in an urban neighborhood. Your child being killed by a car while playing in the street is even less likely, and having any special anxiety about it--apart from the general terror of parenthood--is equally irrational.

We could certainly do better on this front. I'm pretty lucky to live in a pre-zoning code suburb with narrow little streets and houses close together, where I can let my seven year old play outside with my one year old as long as they're more or less within visual range. Neighborhoods like mine are illegal to build today. But, I grew up in a standard suburb, and we played on standard suburban streets starting at age 6+. It's pretty common outside big cities and pearl-clutching millennial parents.
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Forgive me my ignorance but isn't this scemantically how branch prediction and pipelining in cpus work ? As in when you are writing code that looks like 'isMultipleOfThree(n) && isMultipleOfFive(n)' in a lower level language, the compiler and cpu work together to produce the logic that computes both and sync()s on the answer ? I do not see the benefit of pulling this complexity upwards into the problem domain or the manner we model solutions to real-world problems.

OTOH, if one were to think about it, we do anyways build software in the manner described -- the only difference being that we 'sync()' on a different layer of abstraction -- the OS, the network, the libraries, the apis ..etc. Building software to be modular, pluggable, extensible, swappable at those layers has always been considered to be good practice. Is the benifit of creating additional absraction layers within the software itself really worth the complexity ? I'm not convinced.
This is going down a political and/or ideological track that isn't really contributing to the comments in this thread.
Absolutely.

Enterprise Value is a metric used for acquisitions to determine the real cost of acquiring a company (that’s why cash lowers enterprise value, since it helps pay off some of the cost of acquiring the company, and liabilities increase the enterprise value because those are additional amounts of money you will
Have to pump into the company).
That's a great idea, I'll have to try it. As a student, what helps me with similar is calling something a "zeroth draft" and just writing whatever crap comes to my mind along with my opinions on the whole process (plenty of them contain lines like "this prompt is so dumb..."). I've found once I have a few pages of crap I'm not paralyzed by where to start anymore. Plus I've never been good at outlining, so I have to write to see how to structure what I'm writing. The zeroth draft is ideally completely thrown out, but in the worst case it can be tweaked and improved and handed in if there's no time left.
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h (Planck's constant) has units J*s, and f (frequency) has units 1/s. Therefore E=hf has units of Joules. E is the energy of a single photon at that frequency. It's not a measurement of power.
I'm guessing directional drilling techniques. I'm not sure exactly how they work, but I know that they are often used when drilling oil and gas production wells so that you can penetrate a reservoir laterally rather than drilling a bunch of more or less vertical wells. Especially useful if your reservoir is fairly thin but wide.
See the "Product Info" section: http://www.spectrum-soft.com/demo.shtm

And there's a Feature Tour with screenshots: http://www.spectrum-soft.com/demo/schemati.shtm
I swear there's a subset of designers who are just blindly wrecking tons of what we collectively as an industry know about UX. "Overwhelming the user with too many options," or "Can't find the option I want" are both discoverability issues that design needs to take accountability for. Hamstringing your product by removing options because you don't know how to properly set up your discoverability is just insane to me.
I disagree, Google and Motorola branded phones most certainly DO come with bloatware. The Google app is not necessary for the phone's functionality(this is, if you don't use google assistant) and I can not uninstall it from my Pixel 2. This is true for many Google apps that Google would have you believe is necessary for the functionality of the phone. These are all the google apps that came preinstalled on my phone that I can't uninstall normally that are absolutely non-essential to have on a phone:

Google Chrome( I use firefox)

Google Drive (Fastmail)

Google App (I can use Firefox as a search provider on
android)

Google Play Movies and TV

Google Play Music

Google Play Services for AR

Google VR Services

Playground

Youtube (Frankly, with the amount of advertisements on Youtube these days, Firefox on android with ublock origin installed is a few better user experience then the actual YouTube app for android)

These are just the apps that I personally have disabled, I am a fastmail user, so Gmail is getting disabled soon as well as Google Calendar.

Even Google's "stock" Android on the Pixel phones has plently of blaotware. LineageOS has much less bloatware.
That code is using the C-Script assembler prototyping macros. It will produce VP assembler output, but lets you work without worrying about registers while you're getting stuff going.

Have a read through the docs/ASSIGNMENT.md file to see how this all fits together.
Second the comment about ingress. By the way, if you have any idea how to get ingress to work without taking down the services that are in it while it updates that would be amazing. I think it would obviously work if we used a separate ingress/load balancer for each host, but that seemed kinda wasteful since we are ok with doing downtime in off hours scheduling with our project.
Which one do you pick?

I have a belief that our nation is so large and its people so vast in difference of opinion we are technically different social nations. I would not be able or want to live in a place like California- their laws are incompatible with my way of life. From my firearms collection to my automotive hobbies. Things that make me happy are illegal in California. And that is OK!

See I am happy to visit the nation of California- and will will act in their way when I am in their land. When they come to Texas they can choose to hang out with us and enjoy our local customs and culture.

What unites us is our common bond in the fact that we are all Americans. I may not want to live in California, those are still my fellow countrymen and I hope that they will find continued success in their ventures despite of difference in ways of life.

Why does one view have to be wrong?
Different strokes?

My artsy pals moved to Portland to hang with their kind in an art community. My Alone in the woods friends who wanted to be more alone moved to remote Idaho.

Why does anyone have to be wrong, in the end they are all just seeking happiness and moving to where people around them share their values, culture and belief systems.

America is a divided nation, unified by an ideology of individual liberty and personal autonomy. I find it no surprise, nor do I see it as a problem that our textbooks reflect this fact.
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I'm surprised people advocate in favor of nuclear energy when waste disposal is still an unresolved issue. Even if it's a modern reactor that has much less waste, it still needs to be safely handled for generations. If modern reactors are successful and their usage scales up, well that is more waste.

Both the state governments of Nevada and New Mexico have pushed back on long term storage plans, and the federal government appears to have no current solution.
Indeed! And that's exactly why I think programming feels so unnatural. Sure it is natural for us as we have years of experience modifying the structure of programs - where the structure is dictated by the nature of how computers mechanically work with memory/storage and others parts of the processor. Programming is this way because the actual computer structure demands it to be that way.

Hinting at solutions that are closer to how we generally think or at least closer to how "non-coders" interact with computer systems should be more mainstream. For instance, this approach is much more similar to how non-coders write down requirements: when we discuss with people "clicking the button should stop the door from opening" we don't open a bunch of other documents and modify them accordingly to satisfy such statement. Instead we just "pile-on-top" such fact that might overwrite, contradict or replace other pieces of requirements.

The whole point of this article is to make programming similar to the way we write requirements.
> Medical procedures are ideally one-time affairs.

Sure, but so are a lot of other things we have markets for. Ideally you don't have to buy a car more than once every five or ten years, by which point the models on the market have been redesigned and your experience may not be relevant. You also have no basis for comparison; if you buy a worse car, how do you know the competition is any better?

The answer is that you rely on the experiences of other people and independent reviewers, or the advice of professionals. If you ask your doctor which provider is better, they may have some information about that -- either be able to tell you they're all the same so choose the cheapest one, or they're all good except this one which should be avoided, so choose the cheapest from the remainder etc.
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>Wealth is always "stolen". Behind every great wealth is a great crime.

No, my last boss started with absolutely nothing after escaping the genocides in Cambodia with his family and built his company and wealth through work.

>Bill Gates didn't generate his wealth. His workers generated the wealth, he and the shareholders just siphoned the largest part of it.

I struggle back and forth with my views on this. You're not wrong, but it ignores the fact that without the capital provided by the company, there'd be no workers to generate wealth. As sad as it is, a group of independent workers isn't going to generate as much wealth as an organized company.

I though about this a lot as I worked. In a couple hours of work, I would bring in anywhere from $10,000-$20,000 for the company. My wage was far lower. But in the end, it would be impossible for me to do this without the couple million dollars worth of machines and computers I used. I could run my own shop, but I'd need customers, I would be doing a significantly lower volume of jobs and would be probably lucky to bring that much in after a few months. My expenses would be lower, I'd have to do everything by hand, but my ability generate wealth would be almost non-existent for years and years.
Can you name a big ambitious investment Tesla has made with a nebulous goal?
Not only that, but it was eye opening for Bernie supporters at the time.
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There are two possible responses to your suggestion...

1. The company has an inherently bad culture and should be shuttered.

2. The leader of the company is responsible for that bad culture and should be punished (in some way).

1 is a non starter, because Boeing is "too big to fail".

We can argue about the correct punishment for 2, but "go home with $60 million" probably isn't sufficient.
If the expectation from intelligence services is that they are there to misbehave so that "the free world can stay free" then I doubt things would change. Distributed (national) conscience has the distinct advantage of not putting any pressure on any particular individual. Look no further from you local corporation where moral people will take immoral actions in the name of the company.

Regular people sharing the burden with many others will not feel it. How do the actual people involved in this deal with it I have no idea. They might be a special breed and either don't see this as a moral failing, or simply can withstand huge pressure from their own conscience.
I'd say the car's build feels much better than the other similarly priced EVs or better than a Camry.
It's probably under what you would find for similarly prices gas car. I don't see entry level Tesla's as luxury cars per se, but the driving experience is definitely luxury.
You are right about infrastructure, but I'm not convinced it's going to be a deal breaker for many people living in condos.

Even a level 1 charger (1.4kW) can add >50 miles worth of charge overnight (12h) and people living in condos tend to have a shorter commute.

And it's going to get better - for example Ontario mandates 20% parking spaces have charger installed and remaining 80% be ready to have one installed since 2018. IIRC the requirement is 200A per parking spot.
This actually feels very unixish. `form | sheet; crontab: zapier | airtable`. Simple tools that can be simply combined - I feel similar about Tasker, where I can combine various building blocks without worrying about compiling an app. (It does get cumbersome without an IDE)
And related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13132688
Some startup is going to create a condo/apartment charging network by sharing profits with landlords.
Is there a list of such cases where diplomats were prosecuted?
I am writing a futuristic version of Italo Calvino’esque Impossible Cities. I started with coming up with designs of fully automated farms and then figured it was also fun to imagine cities and towns and futuristic village.

I have so far written 17 chapters of Jellicles farms, villages and cities. I am doing city design now. Any inspirational material to read would be much appreciated.

During farming season, I spend most of my time writing about imaginary future automated farms as I am in the zone already. Off season now and I have more time to read and write about new cities. I have been reading old archeology finding reports, JBS haldane and Sci fi..old will be new again. Only better.
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Video is an Onion parody of info-tainment shows done by investigating a "big hole."

I hadn't seen the Onion video parodies before, so I'm glad someone is holding a mirror up to that crap, but truth be told, it is as equally unwatchable as the originals.
I am pretty sure the case was real (the names of the accusers leaked and I have no reason to think they were on the payroll of any government), but I also find it very likely that the case was dragged on to an absurd degree to harass Assange. Sweden wanted to drop the case already in 2013.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/11/sweden-tried-t...
Eh? I have Spectrum and use my own modem and router... It's even advertised as something I can do.
2000 people on 175 acres is a very modest density.
It doesn't make us go down that slippery slope. Those who slide down it are deliberately choosing to do so.
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I think the CIA was after him rather because of the diplomatic cable leaks, which is 100% in their purview.
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To me ramp up is more a function of org. grows than specifically new model.
Wow, that is pretty damning.
Hammurabi's code probably isn't a great example when looking for precedent on appropriate punishment. Another example from your link is 210: "if a man kills a pregnant woman, the punishment is that the man's daughter shall be killed".
haven't we seen the auto industry hiding from environmental regulations like Volkswagen and emissions standards?
Hi, I just saw this now. My email is in my profile, the last line.

Anyway, my experience went terribly! lol

Not much learning though. I stayed there for only 5 or 6 weeks because of a very toxic work environment, with a workaholic culture and a very micromanaging boss that did not trust me (not sure why I was hired in the first place). After that, I decided to study fulltime to learn to code and now I am a happy frontend developer.

But if you want to email me with details of your position, I do think I can help you.