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I feel HN has a decent balance of world events and tech. This is one of those occasions where I do want to engage in a conversation and hear the diversity of opinions.

Sure, obvious flame wars ought to be banned, but I’ve learned a ton about the strategy of different candidates and how it panned out. Various hypothesis on why things went a certain way and the permutations of what-if scenarios.

As you say, it’s a beautiful thing.
It's amazing how many people came out to dispute this point -- often in the most 'I am very smrt' way possible.

Ammonia concentrated for use as fuel (or other industrial processes) is not the same thing as window cleaner, just as hydrogen peroxide concentrated for use as rocket fuel is far, far more dangerous than the hydrogen peroxide diluted for use in first aid kits.
If using a password manager then memorization is less useful while fully random passwords are considerably stringer.
I think this is a good segment to move into as Atlassian is moving away from the on-prem products starting next year.
When you have an openly racist candidate, shouldn’t that outweigh a voters political party loyalty? Cause that’s basic human decency.
The article covers some of the alternatives below, so take this rant with a grain of salt.

I don't understand the need to connect a massive linear power supply to a class D power amplifier. That seems completely backwards to me. If you're going class D, then why not eliminate what is often one of the biggest and most obvious expenses and replace the linear power supply with a switching power supply?

Typically in these projects you spend some chunk of the BOM cost on a few nice transistors or an amp chip, another big chunk on the transformer, smaller chunks of money on capacitors, then miscellaneous ICs/amps/hardware/etc. There's some variation here between components, but it just seems bonkers to pay for a big hunk of metal for a 1960s era solution for your power supply, when you are already using super fancy high-speed switching circuits in the amp.

There is no reason that these devices should have any appreciable mass beyond the heat sink. If you've got a massive transformer, you're building an amp like you've traveled in time back to the 1980s, before class D amps existed (well, before they were feasible for these applications). Nothing wrong with that, it's just that the linear power supply adds a lot of cost and mass for no reason.
Trying to understand first is futile when there is no good faith way to see 'real, legitimate, reasons ... believe what they believe'

Th 'rhetoric they get caught up in' is so wildly insane it's like looking at a falling apple. Except half would go wow look at that gravity! the other half would say, oh that's a secret sign from Q about an underground pedophilic sex ring funded by selling pizza.

that may seem like an extreme example, but part of my state elected a CONGRESSWOMEN who believes this.

I can't attempt to understand first - because it's absolutely bonkers and detached from reality.

And that's just one of the more extreme examples I could spend all night typing more
In an election with (currently) 146,592,751 votes. I'm sorry but 4 million is _not_ "overwhelming". It's a difference of less than 3% of total voters.
The average person's working vocabulary is 20,000 words, do you expect a layman to be able to produce a perfectly random combination out of the paltry 20000⁴ possible sequences. Will they reach into the outer edges of their vocabulary to use obscure words? Surely it would be biased towards common words, making even bcrypt pointless.
Exactly. Run into this problem all the time on Mac with things like Youtube TV and Stadia.
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Dude, there actually are Twitter bots every where. I see multiple accounts posting the same exact tweet over and over. You look at their profile and its a obvious its manufactured history. Have you even tried looking?
It withdraws those suggestions if you make it long enough. For example, "horsecardoghousemailglassplate" has no improvement suggestions, but until that final "plate" is added it says not to use words, and to add symbols and upper case.

Another example is "195884873718293401958657". Until that last 7 is added, it suggests avoiding dates (1958), repeating sections (1958), and having very common passwords (718293) is part of your password, but when that last 7 is added the suggestions go away.
I don't know that it has any actionable information for you (or anyone, really...), but what you describe sounds a lot like the situation in The Phoenix Project.
The answer is to push the "application vendors" back into the browser. None of them are really writing anything that needs to be running natively, it's almost all just a front end to some service on the internet.

Real computer applications are almost universally developed by researchers and the open source community and look exactly like this. No "application" just tools you install into your system that are watched by the community for breakage/malware or worst case offered as a git repo/tar for free.
The people who really want XLR are usually commercial, theatrical, etc. In those applications, you have a whole bunch of sources, a whole bunch of sinks, a whole bunch of devices and, critically, a lot of wire. RCA is single-ended, generally not isolated, and, no matter how much you gold-plate it and how much money you throw at silly cables, it will couple to 60 Hz AC, AM radio, and pretty much anything else. The effect in a large system isn’t some mystical loss of “airiness” — its obvious horrible garbage. I have personally listened to AM radio by accident — a theater setup had a little nonlinearity somewhere, and AM radio was being pickup up on a microphone wire, inadvertently demodulated, amplified, and it came out quite clearly from the speakers.
When I was growing up, Conservatives were the ones much more proud of US institutions, like the courts, universities, and even the free media, while Liberals and Leftists such as Chomsky were always criticizing these institutions, e.g. the media in the book Manufacturing Consent. (They criticized it as being too much a mouthpiece of the government.)

I find it interesting that four years of Trump's usual blame-shifting, together with his fan base, has resulted in Trumpists blowing way past the Leftists in their distrust of all US institutions. This is far beyond the Tea party's displeasure with government spending. Sure, Republicans distrusted scientists before, but now Trump supporters distrust the following for partisan reasons:

Media

Polls

Election

Scientific establishment

Medical establishment [1]

Universities

Courts (so-called judges[2], Mexican heritage[3] etc.)

FBI

CIA

IRS

and much more.

Are the institutions perfect? No. Is there fraud and corruption? Sure, but comparing to other countries relatively little, and probably less than in the past. But destroying Americans' trust in these institutions can be dangerous. I can understand dissidents doing it, but the President?

1. https://ctmirror.org/2020/10/18/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc/

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/04/tr...

3. https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/jun/08/donald-trumps...
>many successful games come to iOS because it is a controlled environment, with negligible piracy.

How does that make sense when all of those games were originally developed for the PC platform, which has rampant piracy, even above that of Android?
Or you know protesting to stop counting votes!? Talk about freedom. I'm happy we won but my god I don't how we can move forward from here
i dont think donald trump did that. he called for the death of people that were seen as guilty by pretty much everyone thanks to the same media craze than the one he was victim of and that is actually backing up my point that people are not rational and don't allow to debate once emotions are turned by the media. race didn't really play something to donald trump in particular they could have been white he would have said the same thing (and i am not saying the media would have treated them same). but the people in jail for posession of weed that kamala arrested actually paid a price of several years of their lives.
This would be a nicer summary if it wasn't, you know, quite so wrong... or so hard to read....

To pick just one example, Philips Semiconductor disappeared two corporate reorganizations ago, and was never all that interested in making the 2N2222... they have always preferred the BC series.

And the guy's name wasn't "Wlater".

I'll stop there, lest my blood pressure rise too high.

This should not be on the front page. It's garbage.
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It might help to know that the perceived ranking is President >> VP > US Senator. Though a “more honest” ranking would be President > US Senator > VP (since they only ever vote in ties in the senate or sit around until the sitting President can’t serve.)

But if you read the constitution of the US, it’s more like SCOTUS > House Speaker > President > Senate leader > US Senator >> US House Rep. And then there’s the state governments. The ranking of the House Speaker is because that person actually has the power of the pen and can in large part dictate what happens. The genius move is all the rules and political factors make being the House Speaker essentially destroy a politicians political clout, standing - everything. The oddball is that you don’t have to be an elected official to be voted in as House Speaker - you just have to get a majority support in the House and not be otherwise disqualified (I.e. no former 2-term Presidents).
This is a really good post for the most part, but I strongly disagree with

> enforcing an arbitrary quota of half blue hurrah/half red hurrah would lead to a better flow and balance

This forum isn’t meant to represent the American electorate. We’re a global community of hackers with unique interests and values, and there’s no reason why we should be forced to reflect a divided America if we ourselves are not nearly as divided.
Let's not forget that Otzi also killed at least two individuals before his death (one of the arrow heads has traces of two different types of human blood, and he managed to retrieve his arrow both times)
It was 7 counties identified by the previous admin as high risk. Lots of Muslims were still allowed to enter. I should know, I’m middle eastern myself.
I think the pressure mostly comes from the value that if you're in favor of an outcome, you should be in favor of the prerequisite actions to that outcome. If your favored actions are counterproductive to your favored outcome, then it strikes others as irrational.
Audiophiles may know that, but audiophiles are amazing at knowing things that aren’t true. A good modern codec at a moderate rate is indistinguishable from uncompressed audio. Bluetooth, sadly, isn’t one of these.
If he doesn't give a concession speech, we could be in for a world of hurt. There are plenty of ways for a stubborn incumbent to legally (albeit unethically) retain power.

1) 12th amendment
2) war
3) disease
4) other forms of chaos

We should be actively preparing for the worst case, fighting to defend our children against it. Worst case, assets acquired for future use.
Put together one thousand of the most fit young people on the planet, what do you expect to happen ? :)
I am not alone in arguing that the Senate is not representative of the country, just as the electoral college is not. And it will increasingly become less and less representative as more and more people move to a few cities in a few states.
IMO one of the great things about eg semantic forms in HTML is that instead of building a GUI you essentially write a machine readable description of an API that a GUI gets generated from in a way that allows for optional styling.

When used correctly it's hard to imagine a better way to provide access to a remote service. Of course it's rarely used correctly when money is involved but I think that's a human thing that happens and the technology can't change it.
The democratic party is the impeached the president during his last year, over circumstantial claims that didn't pan out. It was at that point that the gloves came off. Game set match.

Hillary Clinton herself has said so, something along the lines of "you must fight like your life depends on it for your values." The left was doing it, now the right is doing it.
Although they are conceptually related, it is harder to engineer switching power supplies than it is to engineer class-D amplifiers, so I could sort of understand a hobbyist drawing up a design that uses 1960s technology to make DC to go in to 1990s technology.
Self-inflicted? No. The cutoff at that point is merely formalizing the destruction of social niceties already achieved by supporting people who literally want to kill one of my friends.
> If you're shipping multi-megs of JS to a client don't then pretend that micro-optimisating the API call waterfall is your KPI, it's just disingenuous at best.

It absolutely is the bottleneck in almost every web app that relies on Ajax fetches. The latency is an absolute killer.

On every app that I've optimised, I have to get people to stop going with their gut and look at the traces (both synthetic and real-user). People generally think they should be optimising their JS execution. But in fact the most important thing is usually sequencing loading correctly, followed by minimising JS bundle sizes.

Modern browsers are getting really good at parallelising loading and parsing JS and other resources. But if you're whacking some fetch in there that happens as a result of JS execution then you're generally looking at a wasted 300-500ms for most endpoints/device combos.
the closer you get to saying you want to have a beer with them, the longer my eyes will roll
I'm glad it's not just me who thinks this. I think Trump is an absolutely foul human being, but "stand by, stand back" was clearly a fumbled response to the moderator's request that he call on them to "stand down".

Painting it as some siren call for white supremacist supporters to rise up and take the nation by force is just as disingenuous and hypocritical as Trump himself.
Well, communism usually ends in killing the working class it try’s to advocate for
I know we're in like, mystical "follow the science" land, but any study on this matter can really only make projections based on a model.

It certainly can't say what Biden would have called a "reasonable response" at the time, whether he would have followed through on it, etc. We actually know what Biden was saying to do in the early days of the pandemic, and Trump's earliest actions were roundly criticized by Democrats.

My theory is that if Trump had come out hard for lockdown early on, Republicans would be pro-lockdown and Democrats would be anti-lockdown. I view the partisan divide on COVID handling as...well, purely partisan.
This is false. Google has the ability to create true PWAs on chromebooks with ChromeOS. Why did they include the play store + app model instead of embracing a true PWA experience? Google has enough influence that if they could build a showcase PWA experience on the chromeOS/chromebook platform, they could get web ecosystem adoption. They were able to do this with AMP for instance.
> That's why being a politician takes some skill.

The only skill required is managing to pull the cover over the eyes of your constituents while you take money from invested interests.
As Chris Wallace is asking him Trump says “sure” three times. He’s interrupting, which is unfortunate, but the goal posts on this have moved endlessly. I’ve never seen you, hedora, condemn white supremacy. Does that mean you support it? By the way, if you condemn it, I’m going to be the arbiter on whether you did it well enough or if you’re still tarnished in the court of public opinion.

Honestly I expect more from HN than to fall into Kafkaesque arguments about these things but perhaps the problem lies within my own expectations.
> Tesla is the last company I would look to for advice about the future of the market for haulage.

Funny then that many large companies disagree with you have have order literally 100s of electric trucks from Tesla.

> If you try to tell me that your load-bearing conformal battery packs that are critical to making the truck move

For a truck, you are gone have body-on-frame anyway so the battery would probably not be structural. And it wouldn't be 'critical' to make the truck move, it would be a weight optimization.

> If my truck are loading/unloading they are probably doing it at customer facilities so charging is unlikely to be an option.

Lots of companies transport thing between their own facilities and lots of companies have long term costumers. Adding the charging equipment is relativity cheap and could be built to you.

> If they are loading/unloading at my facility then I can swap the battery pack at the same time.

Go check out how complex these battery swapping robots actually are. Having those at your facility is very costly and need a lot of space. The are prone to break down because they mechanical machines are moving around heavy batteries.

Also, so far nobody has even demonstrated this type of battery swap device for a large truck. Current system drop the battery from under the vehicle, this however is not possible in a body-on-frame construction, and a different method would have to be found. Non of the electric truck vendors have announced or even talked about such a system.
You're splitting the line quite finely
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Why do you keep saying the labels don't matter than insist on using labels to say these parties and candidates are something else? The redefinitions are coming from you. So far you've offered three variations: (1) Left-vs-right as based on "outcomes of lives", (2) as opposed to 35 years ago, and (3) as opposed to some international comparison.

The first makes no sense and still lacks any explanation. The other two are arbitrary.

These parties are left-vs-right as of 2020 American politics. The definitions are dependent on the context of the time and place because politics change over time. They are also relative to each other; Left means left of the right, and vice versa. And center means in the middle of both. It's the current era that determines where the spectrum is actually anchored.

Why are you so insistent on using some other scale to label everything differently? What purpose does that serve? Is that not meaningless semantics?
Also there's still no official way to listen on AArch64 Linux, which an increasing number of my computers run.
These things you say aren't even true. He's condemned white supremacists at least 27 times. Listen to the entire speech post Charlottesville speech. You are an example of the problem you just believe what you hear with out checking out facts. Trump has a lot of faults. Stop making stuff up. Also you might want to look at the "white" supremacists proud boy membership roles you might be surprised at how diverse it is.
Those are some good examples that demonstrate the subjectivity. You know it, that's why you ignored them.

Keep poking Whites. Please. We're waking up.
Seconding Trazodone. It is not addictive but does have a rebound effect if you discontinue it without weaning yourself down.
It was very very bad up and down the ballot. No shit one of our clients their poll was - i'm rounding here because this is my real name - +15%. They barely won <1%.

I wish pollsters would move towards very very large digital samples. You can't get a 15 minute survey but head-to-head you can get a huge sample for not a lot of money. And don't try to weight it to what you THINK the turnout will be. Break out likely voter or not. Do not add any inference or opinion or 'math'
Can you give a high-level description of the error without doxxing yourself? Sounds interesting.
My experience with pretty complicated web development (interactive graphical tools built in webgl, synchronous behavior across hundreds of active clients) was that Safari was responsible for massively more bugs than any other browser we dealt with. IE11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Chromium, across OSs from a decade back through modern ones - all of those permutations combined.

Most commonly we'd see just weird things. Every other browser could handle "render this circle lightly colored, put some text inside it." But random versions of Safari would draw "solid black circle" with illegible text. Update the OS (the only way to update Safari) and the bug goes away. So we wrote work around after work around to make the same code that ran everywhere else run on Safari. And before you ask, all of our devs were on macs, but they weren't running random versions of the os where the bug was present. Or worse, the simulator in xcode wouldn't show the error but it would on a device. At one point over 90% of browser-specific bugs (and almost all customer-reported ones) were due to Safari or Safari mobile, despite making up less than 20% of our traffic.

Plus Apple keeps trying to stop people from running test infrastructure of every permutation of os and hardware. It's a nightmare and we just eventually put up a "safari may not work" warning on all our help docs.

For our team Safari was worse than ie6, because at least there everyone shared workarounds and knew how to handle the MS foolishness.
It's hard to engineer a good class D amplifier, but you don't have to do that, you just buy a chip and read the application notes. Same reason why you don't need to engineer an SMPS, you buy a module (if you are a hobbyist) or buy a chip and read the application notes (if you are making a product).

If you are just gluing modules together, then just get the SMPS module and save yourself the weight. If you think you need a linear power supply, then why do you need a linear power supply if you don't need a linear amplifier? Just seems odd.
> Streaming apps arrives are a way to bypass the App Store.

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> That’s why they are banned unless the individual apps or games are submitted individually.

Spotify is a streaming app. Spotify didn't submit and Apple didn't approve every song.

Shadow is a remote game streaming app. Apple allowed them in the App Store when they removed the ability to launch directly into a game. [0] They won't allow Moonlight to do the same. [1]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357771/apple-cloud-gamin...

[1] https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-ios/issues/417