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> The solution

> - Specify cap height, not em square size.

> - Specify it in pixels.

Specify cap height, really? How does that work for Arabic or Tibetan or Mongolian (or ..., or ...) -- so many writing systems where "cap height" is meaningless, because there are no "capital letters" and no single dimension that is common across most characters in the set? Not all the world uses English.

Specify it in pixels? So if I set my editor font size to 16 pixels, on my MacBook's display, with 226 pixels per inch, the 16-pixel tall letters will be somewhat less than 2mm tall, if I've got the calculation right. Move the window to my external FlexScan display and that same 16-pixel letter will now be 4.32mm tall.
What was the backup for the shuttle?

What was the backup for landing on the moon? What about Mars?
> you also want strong protections against discovering who voted for who.

You also want protection against discovering who voted at all!
> that root cause being that our society requires that some labor in terrible conditions for little pay because it is necessary to maintain profits.

Economic theory would argue that: "little pay" is because they produce "little value".

I know pay and value are not aligned. But better education, health prospectives and stability (not war) tends to improve pay throughout an economy.

Individual acts of charity, especially effective altruism, is more like blow with the wind. Contrary to popular belief extreme poverty is rapidly declining.
That review is pretty obviously a joke. The account has a long history of occasional legitimate-looking reviews on ordinary products -- it's nothing like the pattern that's typical of bot reviewers.
My 2 cents as an implementer of an alternate Python implementation -- I am skeptical about this approach. We tried the "provide a limited API" approach in the past and found the following things:

- People actually use the "hard to implement" parts of the C API

- Moving things from macros to function calls can often be quite detrimental to performance

- C extensions have been co-optimized with the C API, so changing the C API will make things less optimized

- These "check if runtime debugging is enabled" checks are not free

My guess is that this will end up in a tough middle ground where extension writers will be faced with a tradeoff along the lines of making their extension 10% slower for 99% of their users in order to make things 2x faster for 1% of their users.
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> And then leaders of superpowers talked to each other, signed treaties, and decided not to start a nuclear war, because nobody likes dying.

Well, actually the Russians ran out of money.
Similar article of mine from 2013: https://cloudinvent.com/blog/optimize-mysql-count-query/
Agreed. Let me know when China's equivalent of the Supreme Court rules that something Xi is doing is unconstitutional, and makes it stick.
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I think the flip maneuver is a big issue as it happens near ground and if it fails there is not time to recover irregardless if there are other engines that could perform it.
Because it's an accurate sentence?
In the USA, this is Chevrolet/GMC. VW parts you may have to hunt for/pay more for.
Let’s not forget how WW1 started. Had there been no WW1, thee would not have been a WW2.
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It seems more reasonable to me, and with a roughly equal amount of evidence, that lawsuit culture was created by a mixture of media sensationalizing a couple of lawsuits and lawyers capitalizing on the fear.
I would love to hear you define what you mean by this statement regarding Amazon: "produces a lot of value to people"

Just selling cheap shit with no regard for those who produce and deliver your products doesn't equate to "produce a lot of value to people"...
I believe the first is likely true, but I was thinking of the latter: most investing arguments are reasonable and when there is no contradictory it's easy for our brain to be swayed into believing what you're hearing.

I think this is true of all topics. Unless you already know about something you may believe what you're told if it seems reasonable, see also the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
Muhaha.

I can think of other broadcast communications that would get people fired.
Except that most vendors would rather pay the fee than implement crypto payment processing themselves.
Neither would I, but that's the context for this discussion. Major conflict between major powers as described in the article.

One can bike-shed endlessly about definitions, but let's keep it to the context.
Yay, technology and adaptability will allows us all, eventually, to exist drinking dust and looking after termites as pets.
Consequences are one hell of a thing.
> The folks who are making their buys have figured out some winning scheme that just keeps on winning.

I find it highly unlikely that it is about a winning scheme. In my limited understanding of these types of things, it is more likely about a succession of many winning schemes, because these things tend to stop working after a while so you have to find the next inefficiency to exploit.
The problem is not with providing documentation.

They are not providing the missing source codes to put together a self hostable solution. Essentially they are not open source. Otherwise writing documentation is trivial by one of the community members.
If anyone is interested in a rust version (probably the main benefit being you can use it as a rust library) there is a similar tool called skim[1]

It's actively developed and seems to have a non-overlapping set of features with fzf other than the basics (they both have features the other doesn't, and skim copies most of the core ui from fzf)

[1] https://github.com/lotabout/skim
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The shuttle has wings, so it doesn't just drop out of the sky.

The moon lander didn't perform a complex flip maneuver.
Yet, as a whole they will spend over $2 billion in a single weekend at cinemas.
"Civil unrest".
PubSub alone isn't a great replacement for NNTP. (It's maybe a replacement for SMTP.) The reasons for an NNTP 2.0 (as mentioned above) are more about storage/forwarding, if you want access to the back history as opposed to just live updates. You can build such things on top of a PubSub protocol, as ActivityPub is at heart still a PubSub protocol, but has a lot more storage/forwarding concerns added on top, as an example.
Something any proposal of this nature tends to be missing is an inquiry into the implications for non-English langauges.
No, it's just you. SpaceX and its fan community has pioneered real time coverage of their program. There were a dozen publicly available cameras on today's launch (almost all were covered with fog of course, but we still got to see bits of spacecraft raining down), and spacex show live high quality camera feeds from all their missions -- that's why so many people are so excited by spacex.
I mean, the "launched by Hitler" part doesn't seem to bother people, so why would the name?
Only a good union example will invalidate your argument, maybe check history and find such a good example then attempt to reformulate some valid hypothesis or try something not that easy to disprove.

While you try to find some bad example of unions and show us how they ruined some companies consider that I will respond with similar examples where the CEO and the board did even worse stuff - so maybe we skip the examples comments and we can conclude that there can be bad unions and bad CEOs (or board/whatever), the main difference is that one group controls a lot of money and can create a lot of PR to present the other group as evil.
Get a government software job.
> This is a fact, as established by scientific studies.

It's also an incredibly weak claim. It makes an extremely qualified statement about a very broad set of things.

You could just as easily say "any object left on the kitchen counter overnight may poison you" and that would be true even if the incidence of poisoning by recipe card in kitchens is approximately zero. Let alone the meat products that literally exist to be stored in the open.

Something loosely deriving from scientific studies is no more 'science' just for that fact than something deriving from uncontrolled empirical evidence is. In this case the statement is so obvious as to be kind of useless for prediction.
As a current AWS employee, I can say I'm proud to be working for AWS (at least my organization) but incredibly embarrassed to be working for Amazon.

I had written a much more scathing comment about the Amazon side of the business but I'm not sure what is allowed under hacker news's community guidelines.
I guess it's like outlet protections for little ones who don't know any better, or mischievous little devils.

Hahah, nice! That's an awesome office. :D
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The problem with integration is that it is more efficient until there's a problem, at which point it can be catastrophic. The one boat held up 300 other ones, and while 6 days probably isn't a huge problem, suppose the country you outsource all your manufacturing to decides to go to war with you? Now you don't have any manufacturing because it was cheaper to outsource it. Or maybe your supplier of soybeans gets a nationalistic ruler who decides to not ship you any soybeans.

Also, I'm not convinced that maximum efficiency is good for everyone. The US had a lot more manufacturing jobs before outsourcing to China. Sure, stuff is cheaper now, but a bunch of people no longer have decent paying jobs, and the labor market is now minimum wage or requires a college degree. I those people formerly doing manufacturing are a good deal poorer thanks to global integration. And we all are going to be poorer if all the economic-losers elect populists, since I can't think of any populists who didn't ruin their country if in power long enough.
>During this portion, the NLRB will read off each voter’s name and both sides will be allowed to contest ballots, likely based on factors such as whether an employee’s job title entitles them to vote or an illegible signature. Any contested ballots will be set aside.

What kind of job title would disqualify an employee from being allowed to vote to unionize?
Here is the Firefox addon! - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-n...
I have not tried this. I have tried a similar product from Notability/MyScript Nebo and discovered that I have less-recognizable handwriting than average, I guess.
I think his argument that the USDA puts out these really broad rules because they “don’t trust us to be smart enough” is unfair. It isn’t about trust or intelligence. It is about practicality. They can’t put out guidelines for every single possible type of food, combined with every possible temperature and bacterial environment.

They have to make conservative, broad statements that say “do this and you will be safe.” They aren’t saying “don’t do this and you won’t be safe”, just that they can’t be sure.
That's a good (and pithy!) take, although it does seem like a bit of a Dunning-Kreuger tarpit. There's a lot of implicit context packed into that "why", depending on the subject.
>You will only ever get name calling, knee-jerk responses and purely emotional, speculative arguments here

Thank you for so perfectly proving my point
Compared to cash in my wallet, a credit card, or cryptocoins held on chain? Yes.
> Restarting an engine in the middle of a rotation like that, fuel sloshing around is really hard. Just restarting an engine in zero G has always been tricky, because the fuel is floating around and doesn't have gravity pulling it to the pump.

I was re-watching a series of videos doing a walk-through if the Apollo guidance computer over the weekend and one of the cute 'yes, they thought of that' bits that was mentioned was that before the main firing sequence begins on the LEM descent they perform an 'ullage' burn using the RCS to settle fuel in the tanks.
In theory yes, and if worse comes to worse that is an option.

But its not what any rocket designer would want to do. Having a mechanical system inside of a deep cryo liquid methane is hugely complex and very heavy. Even if you put it outside, you still have deep cryo liquid inside and that would make it even heavier.

Consider that 1kg extra weight on the second stage reduces payload to orbit by 1kg and payload to Mars by much more overall.
The description here of using the Clojure REPL for development is one of the best I've seen. I think part of the issue is nomenclature -- Read Eval Print Loop applies to lots of systems in lots of languages that many devs are familiar with that are not really what Clojure devs mean when they say "REPL." The actual experience is closer to something like Smalltalk where you alter a running system and experiment with it incrementally.
From your link:

> Academic analysis of the peer-reviewed studies published at that time shows that most papers examining aspects of climate during the 1970s were either neutral or showed a warming trend.

I'm too young to have read anything about Global Cooling during the 1970s, but I can confidently say that, by 2021, I've seen way more "Ha ha scientists warned about Global Cooling in 1970s which makes the theory of Global Warming invalid!" than actual "Scientist So-and-so warned that the Earth is Cooling." It's basically historical revisionism for selling an agenda.
I for sure could not stop clicking! :)
Thank you for these heartwarming comments :)
That's exactly what I use it for. I have a small program on my laptop that makes a request of my lambda every now and then (and if it senses a change of the network). It triggers a change in the firewall rules for a SSH server.

Between that and Mosh, I barely even notice when I change networks.
To me, it reads like a joke, not a bot.
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Yes, but growing much more slowly than Turkey and with problematic demographics. This could be an issue in a couple decades.
I tried this when it was attached to Myscript Nebo a few years ago and found that it was middling w/ subscripts and superscripts. Maybe the product has improved in the meantime since it's been about three years since I tried to use it.
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If you really believe this will not keep going up, why aren't you short the market?

(Genuine interest: I also debated exiting but then remembered the thing risk takers say about careful deliberation followed by fearless execution and I now have net negative equity exposure.)
I keep them (at least as long as I still have the product that it is the instructions of), since I sometimes refer to them later.

Depending on the product, the instructions might fit on the box, so that you do not need to waste additional paper, though. Some will need many more instructions, though.
I am looking forward to the day that twitter is nothing more than Russian bots arguing with CIA bots arguing with Chinese bots arguing with corporate shill bots. And the only people being fooled are advertisers and twitter investors.
I do not think most (sane) people would disagree that

1. life is not fair

2. there is no such thing as self-made men/women. luck play plays a role in everything, from the country you were born in to the genes you contain.

I was just making an observation about how great and effective compound interest is.
At 1g constant acceleration, you could reach the center of the galaxy in your lifetime (~50 years). Everyone else... not so much.
The flip starts with 3 engines and should work even if 1 of them doesn't start.
everyone supports things they don’t necessarily believe is ‘truth’. it’s why political discussions are often tiresome and distracting. they posit that one side believes a falsehood (like the election was stolen, masks will save the world, or qanon anything) and then argues about that incessantly, rather than understanding the underlying emotions and motivations and then having conversations based on those understandings.

for instance people insist the election was stolen, not because they literally know it to be true, but rather because the outcome, that democrats control national politics, is somehow unacceptable. a productive discussion would start here, with why that’s unacceptable, not quibbling over whether the election was actually stolen or not (it wasn’t).
I feel like most here in the US saw it as an example of lying and cheating, rather than an example of emissions.
Amazon requested similar measures, including tamper-proof tape:

> According to the motion, Amazon asked that the NLRB change or reset the security locks to the storage room’s door where the ballots will be held, provide Amazon and the RWDSU with an electronic or physical log of when the storage room door is opened during the counting process and use tamper proof tape on the ballot boxes or storage room door to “ensure no unauthorized access to the envelopes, ballot boxes, or storage room occurs.”

These measures seem rather basic and in the interest of both sides, to be honest. It's strange that there's so much resistance.
It's also really hard to measure, and just like everything nowadays, there has to be KPIs and metrics everywhere. No one relies on gut feeling or what they think is best anymore, too afraid to stick their neck out without data to back it up, no matter how iffy the data is.
No, it is the downside.

Everyone has 1 million different opinions that are going to be controversial to someone out there.

I don't want it to be easy for anyone who disagrees with people, on anything, to track down someone physically, in real life.

> Deciding who stays in and who stays

Ok and I don't want you to be able to decide who stays in and stays out.

It should be very difficult to keep others that you don't like out.

And for the very extreme situations, that are exceptionally bad, we have the police and court system.

You should only be able to "keep people out" of engaging in speech if their actions are so bad that you are literally willing to lock them up in prison for it.
Presumably being in management.
Never used this Bebop thing, but I'd have definitely preferred it to FlatBuffers back when I was shopping for serialization libraries.
Qanon people thinks it was a message from the military, lol.

Because of this which provides a solution as "Q ACQUITTED":

;l;;gmlxzssaw

http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/cryptogram-solver.php
You are looking at the IP of lumtest.com not the service behind it which is what the OP was referring to.
I could careless that it's on a blockchain. In fact, I suspect the ledger that wins won't be. The claim I was making is that it doesn't matter whether it's a crypto-ledger or a central DB. The winner is the solution with the strongest network. I wouldn't be surprised if FB got into this space.
> I don't think they are making it illegal to go the bathroom they are just making it economically awful. If you miss X minutes in an hour, the whole hour doesn't count. You have to deliver X packages per hour everyday and one miss gets you written up, which can lead to firing.

Which is actually worse. Doing it that way gives Amazon and its apologists deflect the blame back onto the victim (e.g. the worker made voluntary choice to work at Amazon, and a voluntary choice to take the break and accept the cost, Amazon fully supports the voluntary choices of its workers, if the worker is in a shitty situation, it's their fault for making those choices, etc.), even though Amazon is actually responsible for creating the situation and its consequences. If they made it "illegal," at least it would make their responsibility clear.
I think it’s a mistranslation. OF. popon -> pompon -> pompion, meaning a large melon or (later) pumpkin. I guess it was translated as pumpkin rather than melon.
The realest of questions there.
Or how Chinese bought Rover and renamed it to Roewe. It's a China-only brand now.
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Well you claimed that Americans are pronouncing it "perfectly correctly," and Germans might disagree. It's a German word which has been Americanized. The company mostly doesn't care, but there is a single correct pronunciation in their native language. Insisting you are correct mispronouncing a foreign word because the letters look a certain way is just hubris.
I've often thought that using human waste to feed the fastest growing water plants and then composting those plants would be a good way to recycle human waste and render it useful.

Compost also manages to hang around in the croplands a lot longer than chemical fertilizer does.

>Maps Show How Dramatically Fertilizer is Choking the Great Lakes

https://returntonow.net/2020/12/11/maps-show-how-dramaticall...
Well considering we already had a successful landing of sorts with SN10, I think this is a little premature. Yes, it exploded 8 minutes afterwards but it does not seem like that had much to do with the stresses of the landing manoeuvre.

The raptor engine on the other hand does seem like something that they are far from mastering the production of. Being the first full flow staged combustion, methane fuelled orbital ready rocket means that there is less to directly compare to so I'm not surprised that they are having reliability issues with it. I am optimistic that they will eventually overcome these challenges but I'm less certain if they will be able to meet their projected schedule.
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Of course they are, but the more important point is whether out of 100 children of religious parents, 0 or 10 or 90 or 100 are likely to be atheists themselves.

I would expect that in most secular cultures you'll see something like, say, 60/100 children of religious parents becoming atheists, and 90/100 for children of atheist parents.

These kinds of dynamics would still mean that overall, even if religious people are having more children than atheists, the population is still growing more atheist with each generation.
>do we have more data points for these cherry blossoms

Yes, the article includes a nice graphic showing the "peak bloom day of the year". It shows that average peak bloom date has been getting steadily earlier in recent history.
Or (3) the first full-flow staged combustion engine to have ever really flown will require more iteration time to become reliable.

Seems totally reasonable to me. It's a new design of a new type of engine.
>So Bezos is doing the correct thing by being anti union. Unionization is messing with the free market, which never leads to good outcomes historically.

Tell that to Sweden, with its 80% unionization rate and productivity (GDP per hour worked) at 97% of that of the United States.

And since you said "historically" - it's not a recent change of affairs. In the 1970s Sweden's productivity (GDP per hour) was 90% of that of the United States.

Feel free to compare other European nations:

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Labor/Trade-...
https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm
I'm confused. The article says that according to MobiKwik, claims of a breach are FUD.

What are the facts?

EDIT for clarity: The current title on HN is "Mobikwik wallet suffers 8TB breach of 3.5mn user...", which doesn't match.
The union isn't a blanket union for all Amazon employees. It only covers about 5,800 employees who want to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU).

An AWS engineer casting a vote for the warehouse workers to unionize would be invalid, for example.
That is honestly quite funny. I just can't imagine being that delusional in real life. What a Q believer's day-to-day life must look like is a wonder to me.
Very sad to say, there is a massive hole in its upkeep with recent events.

In EU? true
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