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It's standard US military terminology and part of US culture and language.

Just imagine all the idioms they have to account for in these voice algorithms. I know in German they also handle "halb neun" correctly as 8:30.

Great idea! We could also add some AI and then connect it to the power grid, and people could earn something while watching virtual worlds on their screens and providing baseload generation to power all the machines.

What could go wrong?

I believe that the "direct" path of one color and "alternating" path are just a choice of the graphing and not dictated by the data. If you make different node selections, you could make the reverse. Same for the layout of the nicely ordered trees and those that seem more chaotic--it's just a matter of adjusting the layout of the nodes to determine the angles of the edges.

But the electors of the electoral college are still not aligned with equal representation because of the various state populations.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would turn the mechanism of the electoral college into a result equivalent to a national popular vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

The wikipedia article doesn't go into details about resolving issue around disenfranchised voters and vote counting, such as hanging chads or uncounted mail-in ballots. In other words, the compact states are binding themselves to a popular vote count that non-compact states have no incentive to get accurate.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes_Canal

"a navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, built by king Xerxes I of Persia in the 5th century BCE. [...] The total length of the canal was two km, its width was 30 meters, and it was three meters deep, enough for a trireme to pass."

Yup, I have seen on forums that you can even hook a trailer up to a Nissan Leaf. That would get you light and local towing (no big loads, no big hills).

Exactly, this number is conspicuously absent from any stories about this. Googling for this information ("hummer preorders") only finds a bunch of similar articles about being sold-out, or reserved-out, with no numbers either.

The following article credits Electrek.co with the info, but no mention of it on their website.

https://www.motor1.com/news/450123/hummer-ev-edition-1-sold-...

I wonder if there will be vocal GM short-sellers now too.

I think the subsidies helped in the beginning for the non-Tesla buying segment. The Leaf and the Volt/Bolt are overpriced for their size, and the subsidies made them reasonable.

I totally agree with utilities incentivizing EVs for grid stability. I think the missing piece is also installing 2-way charging stations at office parks. Employees plug in and charge during the peak solar-producing times, and with some basic contract agreement, let the office park draw from their batteries in case of a brown-out.

If we ever go back to working in the office that is.

Which is why, in retrospect, Tesla building a luxury sedan that was the fastest production car for a while was the right way to start the business.

Not to pick on you, but this statement shows what hurdles of habit and misconception that electric vehicles have to overcome. But it cuts both ways: I think the EV community could do a much better job of communicating and normalizing the EV ownership experience.

Previously (or perhaps in an alternate timeline): https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

The original article is more like a pneumatic cargo wagon. Pneumatic posts of much smaller diameter existed all over Europe before and after the larger one described in the OP:

https://www.warwickandwarwick.com/resources/articles-library...

Keeping the hands on the keyboard would really increase productivity and reduce repetitive motion injuries. I know that editors like vim and emacs let you keep your hands on the keyboard, but interacting with anything else requires the mouse/touchpad.

At least 10 years ago, I imagined that the mouse could be replaced with something like a brainwave reader. You can train your brain to emit simple patterns that can be picked up either with a headband or remotely. It would take individual training, but with a few basic patterns, one should be able to do mouse movement and clicks. The eye tracking seems like the next best thing, especially since it is already implemented.

Clearly, I was mimicking the TV network model in my proposal, but the "Utube" naming was meant to imply they all follow the YouTube model (free video hosting website) not become broadcast media with all the elitism that entails. There would be 3 choices when you create your own videos, each offering different ad/placement deals (as opposed to accepting YouTube's or perish).

As the sibling comment states, Twitch is an alternative, but I think that however big the gaming and live video market is, it doesn't generalize to most YouTube content. I'm not sure if Vimeo has ever reached the same level, every time someone on HN mentions them, a creator has said they tried and got no traction/views on Vimeo.

Patreon is odd, they host some exclusive content, but it seems nearly all creators retain their YouTube channel for discovery and Patreon is mostly for processing the donations. I guess in a way, they have siphoned off some YouTube functionality, taking the cream off the top (paying subscribers), and letting YouTube do the expensive part of hosting the content.

I suppose that short of the feds swinging the anti-trust hammer and breaking YouTube into 3 equal companies that compete in the same market, the YouTube monolith is here to stay by market forces alone.

I love the fact that the Youtube ideal has let independent creators make so much good content for the world. And after some haggling, Youtube has let the creators retain full ownership.

But the various de-monetization and search algorithm changes show that Youtube retains full control over distribution (and ability to make said living). The creators are totally at the mercy of Youtube and their advertising.

Imagine if there were Utube, Vtube, and Wtube, and a creator could shop around for the best placement and ad deal. It would not be better for the viewer (more like which network now has my favorite show, and do I have to subscribe to all 3), but it would be better for the creators.

Come to think of it, I'm surprised Netflix hasn't gone after some of the big YouTube channels or that Patreon hasn't expanded into curated video hosting. Imagine if Netflix Community had 100's of what we now call Youtube channels--all the respectable ones and none of the dreck.

One of the other comments mentioned how Tom Lehrer's song have remained relevant. This song is a gem, but I'd forgotten the last lines (from the video in sibling comment):

"In German oder Englisch, I know how to count down And I'm learning Chinese, says Wernher von Braun."

Hate to say it, but iPad: I have a non-internet cell phone (still have a small data plan, just pretend I don’t) so during the day, it’s just calls and text messages (SMS or iMessage) and useful stuff like camera, music (offline) and calculator. I will turn on location data for maps if I’m traveling (so not much, especially recently)—otherwise those stay off. At night, I have an hour or 2 with the iPad, airdrop and post a few photos to social media, catch up on local news, watch a few select YouTube channels. All my internet and social media happens on the iPad that never leaves the house, and my phone is locked down and disabled as much as possible. Benefits are no tracking, no distractions, no notifications, and all my social media and video is on the larger iPad.

The tool I use the most at home: bench-mounted vise. I’ve owned a home for 15 years and try to fix everything I can myself, so I had lots of other tools (cordless everything) but never a vise until getting one as a gift. Now I clamp (almost) everything for cutting, drilling, sanding, whatever, and I don’t know how I managed before (I remember straining to hold things and getting upset when they slipped—or even injured).

Ditto, I discovered this a few years ago, and 90% of the time I don’t need my wallet. I just take my driver’s license (ID in the US), ATM card, transit card, and a $20 bill.

Seconded. It’s not as common in the US to have a trailer with a car (as opposed to a pickup truck), but you can do so much (and replace an expensive truck with a cheap car). Dump runs, green waste, buying appliances or bulky items, cleanups, helping friends, etc.

I’m not even sure my car is rated for towing (the hitch is for a bike rack that I also use) but as long as the load is small (under 1000 lbs) and the road is flat, it’s fine (I do have the lights harness and safety chains). I can’t tow a boat or a horse trailer over the Rockies, but I could take a jet ski to the local lake.

In the SF Bay Area, we found a company selling natural latex mattresses, no flame retardants added. The showroom was on University Avenue in Palo Alto, so the price was high (at least $3K for a queen). But the factory was in Marin, so they could do custom sizes, and then we asked about replacing all our couch cushions, and we could special order those too. So we replaced all our mattresses and couch and chair cushions with natural latex. For covering and waterproofing, we also bought a natural wool mattress cover.

Sorry, I don’t remember the names of the businesses, but this was 10 years ago when the flame retardants were mandatory for synthetic materials. I don’t even know if they are still in business.

For chairs that had built in padding, we bought 1960s and 70s furniture from thrift stores with the hope this was before flame retardants were in use. We did all this after my partner and our female cat developed Hashimito’s, had years of low energy, and needed daily thyroid medication.

Ummm, IMAP? Reading the article, this was my first thought: email applications like IMAP clients that work offline are the perfect example of this philosophy.

If you can't access your mail provider, you still have all the data from the last time you did, you can search old emails because they're stored locally (you can set how much you want to keep for these situations), and you can write an email and it will be stored in the outbox to be sent when connectivity is restored. In other words, your email experience is exactly the same as with connectivity, except for a banner that reminds you that it hasn't been able to download new mail since HH:mm.

Closest "outdoor place" to SFBA is Tahoe, and indeed it has been flooded with transplants, driving up prices everywhere, and displacing residents:

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/bay-area-transients...

I've been following the situation in Hawaii too. It seems like it is a different situation from continental travel, since like many island nations, they shut down visitor arrivals and thus airline travel with the 14-day quarantine you mention. You can't do that at Tahoe or Mammoth. It seems like each island has different requirements now, or at least each island wants a stricter 3-day negative retesting protocol.

And the locals were really vigilant, they were reporting any quarantine breakers on Facebook and to local authorities. In some cases, people who refused to cooperate got flown back off the islands.

And from what I read, even though the local economies are decimated by the lack of tourist dollars, a lot of locals are really happy to not be overrun with tourists at their favorite beaches. There is also talk of less tourist numbers, to be made up for with higher value tourists--less budget options. I wonder if things will ever go back to what they were before, because a lot of people didn't like it before.

I’ve been reading strongtowns off and on for a few years. You’re correct that they try to have a left-leaning approach (densification) based on right-leaning principles (fiscal responsibility). But I haven’t seen them “asking for a big pile of federal dollars.” They seem so be saying that the pile of federal dollars that the towns and cities are already getting should be spent more responsibly, ie on projects that can be sustained by the tax value they create.

The TED talk that is linked in other comments debunks this too. All the CO2 exhaled by humans is short-term carbon that was recently taken out of the atmosphere by a plant. All plants and animals are short-term carbon sinks. The damage is caused by burning fossil fuels.

I suppose there might be a few artificial ingredients that are made from petroleum feedstock, and thus human metabolism cause it's first release as CO2, but it's tiny compared to the sugars and fats we consume from plants and animals.

Obviously, they are different, and the length of sentences reflect that. A murderer is in prison for 10-20 years and a really bad racist joke makes you unemployable for a year or 2.

There's also a problem with the verb "to rehabilitate" because much of the rehabilitation comes from the subject themselves and can't be imposed by society. The murderer who serves time, shows remorse, and studies programming to reintegrate society is different from the racist who doesn't apologize sincerely or believably for the bad joke and complains that nobody will hire them.

Finally, look at the environment that the rehabilitated person gets put into. Someone who got into drugs and gangs as a teen, went to prison, and then turned their life around is not a threat in an office environment. A racist or sexist may still cause disruption in a diverse and gender-equal work environment. The ex-gang member can't go back to the 'hood, but the racist or sexist has made it much more difficult to work in any office--or with people so that's pretty much any job. Though like I said, if they apologize and repent, I think the racist should be given a second chance as well.

> people perceived as racist are permanently marked as being ideologically dangerous.

I don't think this is necessarily true. We just haven't seen many racist people make amends and ask for forgiveness. I believe people can change and if they do, they should be reintegrated into the workplace.

I hadn't given it much thought before, but I asked myself if I would hire or work with a former criminal qualified for the job. It's a touchy subject, but I decided I would if they are rehabilitated: shown remorse, served a sentence, and working to integrate society.

And I realized the same goes for a racist statement (or sexist or anti-LGBTQ). Racism get tried in the court of public opinion, and then there is a sentence of being shunned in the form of unemployability. But if the formerly racist person shows remorse and publicly states they have changed, I would be willing to hire/work with them.

I liked the technical content of both articles, but wow, those are a lot of words to cover their respective content. I get it that it is like long-form journalism, it adds personality and humor, but I also find that (for me) it takes away from the learning.

Also, after skimming through the second article, I had to wonder: if the first article found dropped cameras and other problems in flange-to-sensor data, wouldn't they also find mount tilt if they looked for it? Given that drops don't usually impact the camera exactly orthogonal to the plane of the flange, it seems like flange-to-sensor distance won't be their only problem. But maybe replacing the flange on these also fixes any tilt. Then again, there may be damage that affects the tilt but not the flange-to-sensor distance.

Someone posted technical illustration of the Denz measuring equipment, and I wonder if they couldn't make a similar apparatus with 3 or 4 pairs of measuring beams (or 2 in a cross pattern), thus it could measure the distance at several points and thus the parallelism of the 2 planes.

I wanted to say the same. I will add that because "prêt-à-porter" is a fashion term, it would be somewhat familiar to London city office workers, especially the upscale demographic they target with their prices and marketing.

I've noticed several articles about Ada and Rust here on HN recently. Summarizing one comment I saw: Ada has a subset that is provable and certified as such, and Rust is close but not provable nor certified.

Thank you for posting this. At this level of organizations, it is enlightening to see how different countries handle similar situations.

Surprisingly, they also have lines that are 80-100 years old. I hadn't been following this story before, but upon first reading, I was shocked that infrastructure from 100 years ago was still in-place, original, and in operation. Now that seems normal.

My guess was that equipment would be replaced every 40-50 years, or at least renewed. The graph implies that the French policy is to replace after 45-70 years of service, but to allow older ones in limited cases. And they are saying the ones that are 70 years old need to be replaced in 5-10 years, so they allow up to 80 years.

I suppose that if the infrastructure is tested and maintained, and still cheap enough to maintain safely, there is no reason to replace it. As this story shows, you have to know your equipment and it's state of maintenance, and of course actively manage it safely and efficiently.