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The candidate that wins the most votes in a democratic election shall get the office. That principle should not be up for debate, and It's absolutely terrifying how many people are rejecting democracy in this country right now. It's the system we have for nonviolent transfer of power, and if we let those in power just ignore the results of election, we could find we have no peaceful mechanisms for replacing elected officials.

I think it's unquestionably better to just accept the results of the vote, regardless of what you think about the candidate.
Well, the very quotation treats classical mechanics as a reference.

Q2 minus Q1 is much more interesting: why this specific theory (i.e. quantum mechanics), rather than anything else.
It’s probably a 50-60 ft ravine and the bridge was probably 200ft long (these are guesstimates from just being around it).

Edit: I just checked - it was 447 feet. Height is probably right, but I might be under by a bit.
> Don’t forget Reddit. Reddit’s login pop-ups are more aggressive than Twitter’s for me.

Try old.reddit.com (or i.reddit.com on mobile).
Also, there is no public transit in a lot of America. You drive your car to a mall that might be a good distance away in a lot of the country, so you need the vast parking areas. Or you did, before online shopping, pandemic, etc.

On "main streets" in many towns, there have been apartments above stores since the beginning of the towns, and still are in many cases. Malls came about as a result of sprawling suburbs.
I have some general advice for you - please assume that people argue in good faith.
"In 1991, Linus Torvalds announced his work on Linux, and "the rest is history"."
Contact media, arrange TV crew/press to show up on the next Township meeting with you.
A Google image search for each will probably be best. They are relatively technical terms within highways, most people wouldn't be able to describe them as well as the person you replied to, so there aren't all that many good diagrams comparing the types.
I don't think it's reasonable to believe they are ignoring the law just because they are lazy or think the accounting firm makes the auditors unnecessary. If they didn't care, they would just swear in auditors and let them preform their other duties as the law requires.
> It looks like saving a billion dollars in redundant work, which is a net societal gain. Now consumers have two companies to choose chips from instead of one functional monopoly due to a trade secret moat... Win for consumers. ;)

But looking at it from the company point of view.

- Company A spends 5 billion $ researching a new fab, from which better chips can be made.

- Company A expects to sell those chips as <cost> + <margin> + <an amount extra to pay off the 5 billion that was spent>

- Company B steals the plans for the fab

- Company B sells the chips for <cost> + <margin>

At this point, it is impossible for Company A to recoup the money they spent researching the technology, because people will buy from Company B if it costs less from them. That's a pretty huge loss.
Documentation like that is written by specialist technical writers in cooperation with engineering.

Corporations found out that they can skimp on that and still get paid.
A 150+ ft deep ravine, according to the article:

> Jones estimated that rescue crews had to rappel 100 to 150 feet down the ravine to rescue motorists.
Before attempting to crack the copy-protection on a game, one might think something similar.
The empire returns: Russia, Ukraine and the long shadow of the Soviet Union
Ask HN: Monitoring for HTTPS Certificate Issuance?
Hi HN,

I've been using Let's Encrypt for HTTPS certificates and I think it's great. However, the ease-of-use means that anyone who can get my DNS pointed to them (briefly) could request a certificate. Alternately put, if anyone can become a MITM (cose enough to my end of the network topology), they should be able to request a valid certificate to hide that fact.

I don't know if this is a real concern. In practice it means Cloudflare, or Amazon, or my ISP would probably need to be complicit.

Are there any services that monitor issuance of HTTPS certificates? For example, if the CAs (Let's Encrpyt and DigiCert and Comodo etc) all publish a firehose of issued certificates, then this service could take the domain that I own, send me an email whenever anyone issues a cert for my domain. I imagine the publishing side of this might not even exist, and I don't know how you would audit that _all_ CAs are publishing.

Do any of you know if something like this exists? Or is this another solution in this space that people rely on?

Thanks!
I think many of the qualities mentioned have nothing to do with “clean” code (like performance).

My metric for cleanliness has become simpler over the years: Mean Time To Comprehension. The less time it takes for someone else (or future me) to understand how and why my code does what it does, the cleaner that code is. This is surprisingly accurate and actually useful.
This kind of comment is not appropriate for hacker news, if you are really worried send an email as explained in the guidelines:

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
Only if you consider favors corruption. I'm guessing you are imagining pretty different situations
If the batteries are a significant percentage of the ev's overall value, what happens to the entire goddam car when you have to replace the batteries?

Some people blow them up
Spending sometime thinking about this I think I have a better description of the problem.

Apple should charge for access to their software IP, but not for access to their customers.
I think this could happen at a small or large company. It sounds like instead of blindly choosing a company, you need to figure out how to pick teams and projects where you can grow.

Some things to look for include senior engineers who are happy to mentor (not teach or guide or instruct but to mentor), look for companies that are growing or making new products, and if all else fails look for a place with some sort of educational stipend you can spend going to industry conferences or what not.
The article says

> It was last inspected in September

So hopefully that's been addressed by now?
Hi. Wow that's a spelling mistake, I meant tricks. Thanks.
Malls wanted people with cars.
https://archive.fo/sBRfD
Some of these are pretty wild. Makes me wonder if similar mischaracterized/illustrated of animal depictions were the source for the belief in dragons and other monsters
I'm not sure I trust any migration for something this important. I think I'd much rather just pay the $6/mo for my user.

I've always found it's best not to have a "special" kind of account and something tells me a legacy G suite -> consumer account is going to have some holes/inconsistencies that would be hell to deal with.
Since the phrase is an article title it follows the capitalization rules. It does get confusing with proper nouns sometimes, so there is a slight ambiguity. In this case it's probably also confusing that the ending of collapse is the same for plural and different tenses.
What Happens to Amazon Returns
Either traffic participants of all forms are required to avoid causing a higher speed traffic flow to take evasive action or they're not.

I don't care if you're jaywalking, opening a car door, incapable of using the skinny pedal in sufficient quantity when entering the street, whatever, don't do it in front of other faster moving shit that will have to take evasive action regardless of what that type of traffic that other shit happens to be.

You wanna jump into a traffic flow that you have no business being in on account of your speed, go ahead, but whatever happens after that is on you. A cyclist is no more at fault for hitting a car door extended 0.2sec of distance in front of them than a train is for hitting whatever tried to beat it to the crossing.
If you find your local municipality corrupt, you can appeal higher, or move, or run for office. They answer directly to the local voters.

Congress as a whole? Not so much.
I am confused.

It seems like there are two definitions of "user" here: someone that uses something, and someone that has an account. It's possible to use Twitter without an account (reading tweets seems like the primary use case of Twitter), and it's possible to have an account that you never use. People in the second case are counted as "inactive users" or, in other words, users that don't use Twitter.

When people talk about the UX or UI of a website, they usually aren't talking about whether you have an account or not. It's possible for a website's UX to be bad before you even make an account, e.g. if the sign up page is bad.
This reminds me of Splatoon 2’s deep sea metro. Can’t help laughing lol
If you take this reasoning seriously you get the Everettian / "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics. If a human experimenter is treated as a fundamentally quantum object then they end up entangled with the particle they're measuring.

This is (to me) a highly appealing model for what is going on, but we still don't really know how to go from this viewpoint to what we observe in experiments, which is the Born rule.
This isn't really a fight between corp and startups. I have seen the smallest startups more organized than the biggest corps. It's always about the people.

Personally, I believe starting at a bigger company has many benefits, even though I would now never join one. Considering you never worked there, I don't think a short experience wouldn't be enlightening. Just to learn the rights and wrongs. Be vary about the teams you're joining, though. Sounds to me like you need to figure out first what kind of dynamic you're looking for.
I keep hoping Lloyd Center will go the way of The Arcade in Providence https://www.arcadeprovidence.com/
That's an incredibly English (speaking) centric view of machine design. Why should our 26 letter alphabet with only two cases be the restrictive set of characters that everybody in the world has to write terminal commands and filenames and code in? Are you saying that all code should be written in English? Even without bringing up languages with different writing systems, 7 bit ASCII doesn't allow you to correctly write words in many western languages.
Pory – No Code Platform
Same for me. Windows PowerShell now conveniently comes with PSReadLine, that enables to just hit on CTRL+R, write some keywords (and maybe after few more CTRL+R hits), and that historical command pops out whenever I need it.

Even better, newer versions support predictions [0] - which, whenever you type any text, it immediately lists multiple commands where it finds a match.

Of course, that addresses only myself, but not whoever touches the project. As well, I may not know in what context that command was ran. So I appreciate some suggestions here that guide toward making scripts and providing useful info in README.

[0] https://youtu.be/VT2L1SXFq9U?t=2594
Try it out! You're still young. If it's not your cup of tea, you can pivot back.

My FOMO issue was wanting to work in one of the sexy Silicon Valley style tech companies, after having only worked in big enterprise non-tech companies for my entire career. Recently made the switch last year. In my case, the grass was indeed greener on the other side.
I'm curious on the approach taken. Are the arrows based on known derivation/influences, or based on perceived similarity? It's a master's thesis.

This here:

https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/soloelephan...

Does not seem to be an elephant to me. Maybe a vomiting deer, or with a bad case of worms of serpentitis. (:
I used to use the rxvt-unicode terminal, but switched to lxterminal for emoji support.
Nuclear power and renewable energy both associated with national decarbonization
Really a cool project. Thinking about how to describe and elephant: like a giant ox but with big ears a long protruding nose and tusks (not not for female Asian elephants). Can easily see how that game of telephone would go sideways.
I know that CUDA is faster than OpenCL for many tasks, but is there something that is not possible to achieve in OpenCL but possible in CUDA?
Imagine you live in a country where there is no democracy. The easiest and most likely thing to happen will be said government pretending there is democracy.

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Stalin.

So even if you believe you live under democracy. You may not.

In this case, OP's FPV discovered he doesn't live under democracy. Obviously this is just local election, which is often more powerful and more corrupt than a larger government.

You now have to hope that the corrupt non-democractic government allows you? lol good luck.
Sprawl has thinned out development to the point that tax revenues from low-density cities can't support the crumbling infrastructure that has been built for it.

Over the past 50 years, Pittsburgh and other similar cities have tripled their developed areas while the region's population remains flat. That's a lot of additional infrastructure - roads, sewers, power, water and gas lines - to maintain without new revenue to maintain it.

Strong Towns has referred to this as the "growth ponzi scheme" and it's only going to get worse as population growth slows in this country.

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme
> Encycla is a git repository containing Markdown that you can clone, edit independently of the Encycla website, push to other services

Can I also clone, edit, and then push the changes back to Encycla?
Yes. some features are just best tested incrementally
It isn't outlawed in most places, it's just that profit-driven property developers, often building outside city limits threw up malls quickly so they could rake in the greater immediate profit from retail spaces vs housing. They'd have been permitted in most of the USA to include apartments from the start if they'd deemed it profitable enough.
The team uses them. Outside of looking for bugs I still have not been convinced that it is useful to check if blue versus green button has useful conversion rates.
I've taken to looking at the first derivative of code quality rather than the zeroth. I don't necessarily sit and worry about the absolute, current quality of my code; rather, I strive to ensure that every time I do something, I'm generally improving the quality of the code rather than degrading it.

If this sounds trivial, you may be underestimating the extent to which your fellow developers, and, perhaps even you, casually "spend" code quality to attain something in the short term. It's even little things, like adding the 7th parameter to a function that has become what really ought to be three distinct functions in one (very common problem). Adding that seventh parameter is degrading the quality of the code yet further. Working out what you need to do to extract the three separate functions out correctly, and propagating that back to all callers, is improving the quality of the code.

We like to look at the sweeping refactorings, but a lot of times, it's very little things, as small as "Hey, I understand this variable better now that I've been in the function for the third time this month and it ought to have a better name, let me go ahead and use the IDE rename feature now". The quality of your code is much more determined by the sum total of all those little decisions than the big refactorings.

You also don't have to "maximize" your positive impact at any given point and do all the possible improvements. That's paralyzing. Just make sure every interaction is just a bit positive, and the cumulative impact is huge.
Yes.

Put simply it disconnects merge and deploy from launch. This is very useful when your changes rely on other teams or third parties having gone live. Having a feature flag (we call them toggles) lets you get it into production turned off, without having to coordinate deploys with other systems.

The downsides are it is extra development overhead and adds tech debt (you should go back in and remove the toggles after a successful launch). Generally we try to devise a solution that can be deployed safely without a feature flag but they are often required.
> A fun side-fact is that they use Bromite (great version of Chrome) as the default browser without crediting the author, just calling it "Browser". As a techie I don't like this obfuscation, but for non-techies it must be great.

They seem to have that issue with a lot of things.

At one point they were stripping existing copyrights out of the apps that were taken from other projects.

Changing the display name of an app definitely is one of the more innocent things to do, and most developers likely wouldn't even object. As an example, LineageOS uses Etar as the calendar app (with their permission of course), which is named "Calendar" in the app drawer.
Skepticism is fine but dismissively throwing it out and mocking people that want to know more because it's a politically divisive topic is not. Science is not political and should not be influenced by politics. We should be throwing more studies at this, especially if you don't trust the current researchers.
Please read about the Cultural Revolution. To call this “equivalent “ is laughable.
If you don't trust local municipalities to fund it properly why would you trust the federal government to do so. The federal goverment is just as politically motivated as a local government and even further removed from the problems than your local municipality.
The term refers to "amateurs" in the sense that they did not study at a university or get a degree. AFAIU, the term "citizen" is preferred because "amateur" these days carries a connotation of "doesn't know what they're doing", while citizen scientists have made (and continue to make) meaningful contributions to astronomy. (Possibly other fields, too, but I don't know one way or the other.)
There's also nifty Windows application called Ditto - basically a searchable history of the system clipboard. Any time there's any complex command or a snippet, I intuitively just highlight it (in Putty) or CTRL+C it

Log in to our Postgres? that's `psql` something something. CTRL + ALT + V, type psql - there it is

PGPASSWORD=pass1234 psql -h our-database-dev.abcdefg.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -U acme maindb

Press Enter to automatically enter it in currently active window
Curious - why would it be an "internal FU" to him?

Also as an addendum regarding the homework - as usual, homework is always in addition to the leetcode interview, almost never instead of. Which is another reason I tend to make it a point to reject any homework.
>You don't even need images — just use unicode arrow or triangle characters. e.g. ▲

I see, personally I'd prefer this for aesthetic reasons as well!
7% a year means doubling every decade, 3% means doubling every two. Fossil fuel efficiency isn't moving at nearly that rate.

If current rates continue, battery powered jetpacks should be compelling within 60-120 years
Exactly my experience with polymorphism. It starts out looking super clean but then the business requirements shift and each has its own edge cases that turn it into a giant mess, often ending up as a mix of both polymorphism and convoluted if statements.
https://www.google.com/search?q=aave+"negative+concord"
You can't be serious about opsec and not take seriously the risk of an internal bad actor with access to your systems.
Glassjaw are another band I'd add to the list. Though its been many years since they're produced a track.

Edit: wow, they never broke up. Off to the rabbit hole I go.
Wut? Chinese American scientific collaboration is one of the most the strongest on Earth. You'll have ten of thousands of folks in scientific community having ties to China.
see, e.g., Roppongi Hills. I lived there for a year when I was based in Tokyo. It is very much as you describe; there are several residential buildings within a mixed-use complex that includes a large office tower, a bunch of retail, restaurants, a small supermarket, a hotel, a movie theater etc.

https://www.roppongihills.com/en/
You are just wrong. Its 15% until you have more than $1M in revenue.
Magisk v24.1 drops with reduced capabilities after Google hire
I disagree with the people who say you're not missing anything working at large companies. Of course it depends on which, but there's great learning opportunities supporting a product used by millions (hundreds of millions).

It's a shock to go from this edge case will most likely never happen because we have at most 5 request per second to this edge case is happening every minute because we have 5000 requests per second. Your approach to monitoring, deploying, and writing software changes.
Pittsburgh, by population, is 6 times smaller than Hamburg (300k vs 1.8m). I'm not sure about size, but Pittsburgh is pretty small and the bridge density is pretty high. I think that's where the "city of bridges" title comes from.
> In most cases, cybercrime groups sent funds to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, from where they converted the stolen funds into real-world fiat currency.

So it's more easily traced if it touches exchanges then. Fiat has serial numbers which are trivial to tie back to specific transactions. Just hold the cryptocurrency and spend it as you would fiat, don't exchange it for fiat as you get caught that way.
A quick search indicates that a 'puffin crossing' is defined by having smart sensors to detect the presence of pedestrians, rather than a pelican's timer-based system. So you may scurry across the crossing and then sensors immediately clear it for road traffic again. Across multiple sites, this seems to be consistent and it makes no mention of the location of the cross/do not cross indicators.

Like I intuitively understand what you're talking about, and have seen them, but many sites don't seem to support that definition

edit: I have found one site that describes them as you do: https://www.driving-lessons-kettering.co.uk/driving-tips/dif...
Drivable aircraft would need to be more convenient than cars.

Does anyone do a pre-drive walk-around and engine test of their car, or do they just turn it on and go? If you're in a city do you request permission to begin a trip from a DMV controller via local frequencies, or just go wherever? Does every home have a runway or just a driveway?

These aren't insurmountable challenges but there are chasms on the way from possible to safe to convenient.

(Also to your point 6, I'd add to the Kzinti lesson: any energy storage device is a weapon effective in proportion to its stored power—gas tank, flywheel, Li+ battery, dammed hydro, you name it.)