skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, yes.

There are a variety of lithium battery technologies, so it's important to recognize that there are differences, and that the state-of-the-art does change with some frequency. But, if nothing else, the metal inputs to battery production can be smelted and recovered, and Lithium is plentiful.

"Good" recycling of batteries would involve recovering the electrode materials directly and easily 'refreshing' them. This would make batteries very sustainable. Work on developing this process for various chemistries is ongoing, but not yet ready. Research and development of recycling-friendly chemistries and production is just beginning. https://cen.acs.org/materials/energy-storage/time-serious-re...

The batteries themselves will be getting much more durable. A JES article was recently published that made quite a few headlines as a 'million mile' car battery, but it's not hype. http://jes.ecsdl.org/content/166/13/A3031 This is extant technology (indeed, at least 3 years old) that's proving to be exceptionally durable. This gives batteries at least two decades of nearly-full capacity, with the potential to last much longer with useful capacity.

We're not there yet, but there's no physical or chemical reason that Lithium battery technology can't be sustainable.
It was and still is very poorly optimized with terrible UI.
According to the 76ers, it was a venue decision

Very rarely does a venue make a decision like this. The team leases the arena for the event, the venue does what the team wants.

If "verbal confrontation" were a blanket policy of the venue, then it could never hold another rock concert, monster truck rally, or other high-energy event.

This sounds more like, "We didn't throw anyone out, our hired goons did. We're clean!"
I love iTerm2! Thank you for your hard work!

I updated a machine i am partially responsible for that was two patch versions behind and at first it only updated to the one previous to this patch. It strikes me that the update check should always go to the most recent version, no? I actually don't know what the normal behavior is here, I was just quite surprised that i had to do the update process twice.
Context clues in English? Why do we need “the”, “a” and stuff then?
A Chemistry Nobel we can use: Lithium-ion batteries
Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Testify Before Congress on Libra
How do you know these prices? I generally find these companies do not publish them on their websites
Probably too politically divisive.

Nothing gets Norwegians arguing more than wolf politics.
Sounds like a great time to 'accidentally' break production
In fact there was massive support across the US for Kaepernick. Nike saw a big net public benefit to using his position in its advertising. The parent comment is ignoring the widespread support that Kaepernick received in the stance that he took, including from a very large number of active NFL players, celebrities, other sports players, and Americans in general.

Now contrast that actual reality in the US with what's going on with China where there is zero allowed room for dissent. The US comes out universally, overwhelmingly favorably.

Kaepernick made money on his settlement with the NFL and is practically becoming a folk hero in the sports world (see the Betsy Ross flag shoe matter). He'd be in prison or executed in China for an equivalent stance.
Graphpipe solves a very unique problem when building ML model serving system, although BentoML is trying to solve a very different problem. We think it would be interesting to support GraphPipe's flatbuffer format in BentoML's REST API model server down the line if people are interested in that.
Please provide some first hand accounts. No one has done so yet. I've seen plenty of second hand rumors etc but no one has put their name to any of them as the originator.
The problem is you might technically incur a lot of loss which you will have to carry on for unforeseeable future.
I'm not the gamer I once was but I find sticking to Nintendo for family friendly stuff, and know good independent devs has worked for me.
The original 1984 Mac used toolbars in MacPaint and MacWrite, just that I can recall. I wouldn't be surprised if they dated back further to Xerox PARC's GUI research in the '70s.
Regenerative Agriculture
That's a really good point and not one I had considered in the context of everything that's happened recently.

McKinsey has been involved with a lot of bad stuff internationally over the last decade or two. Monitor's work with Gaddafi was also really gross. There's an odd dichotomy though - the ex-McKinsey employees I know personally and work closely with are all very thoughtful, ethical people.
Why iPhone 11 Is Apple’s Least Innovative iPhone Yet
Yes. The smugness in the exclamation mark is quite funny in a way that keeps me grinning for way too long. It's a bit like a three-year-old declaring "I've got shoes on!"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tempe-arizona-police-officers-s...
Indeed, as you would incurring a capital loss in any other asset class.

As such, you should recognize that loss in the same tax year as the fork occurred, which is why I believe the selling pressure would be towards the tail end of the tax year whether the price goes up (to cover taxes on the distribution) or down (to recognize and true up losses). If you did that in the same tax year as the fork, you'd never have to carry forward the losses. Both the gain and the loss occur in the same year and cancel out (i.e. you'd never lose more than you gained from the fork).
Indeed, another factor to consider is that in a medium like this, "top earner" is going to change constantly. The attention of podcast consumers is going to shift constantly, $50K or $100K in a month hardly guarantees that on a continuing basis.

Anyway, "passion" is usually/often code for "doing what you love instead of being paid", which may be fun but doesn't have a good retirement plan.
Puppeteer is a NodeJS API for Chrome (and I've read tentative support for Firefox), it lets you browse via code and doesn't even need a visible browser window. This makes a defacto API out of any human-interface web site.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
Correct. A judge just ruled that Google (I think?) did have to apply GDPR to countries outside of the EU
Thanks, that was not my intention.
For that, you need to know all the quick navigation shortcuts a screen reader can use. Otherwise you're not doing it very efficiently.
>"Apple shares user encryption keys with the Chinese government, for example, giving the Chinese government access to all iCloud pictures, messages, documents, videos, etc."

Is the full sentence with context, meaning access for all the iCloud data for the encryption keys being shared. Don't mince words because you misunderstood the sentence.
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong
Pretty unfair comment.

He was asked. He answered.
Corrected. Sorry for any confusion caused.
I used to think like that, then I realized that even the famous offshoring shops now also get projects done in those languages, with the same quality you would expect from their typically enterprise project deliverables.
How did they disrespect your culture?
Reminded me of the phenomenon about starting a fire from moonlight and the conservation of étendue. https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/
Just a slight correction, the subreddit has no affiliation with Blizzard, one of their mods went rogue and made it private, but it's open now and mods are in full support of the Hong Kong movement.
Unlike Blizzard, Epic Games says it won’t ban players for political speech
What is being said about RMS is easily hitting the UK standard for libel including actual harm being inflicted.

Please provide any first hand accounts of actual behaviour that justify what you said. I've yet to see any.
You can never say never. But you can often say "not at all likely".
I'm glad Silver took his time and got it right. The response was perfect -- de-escalating, respectful, yet firmly refusing to get into policing their employees, as you say.

The NBA shouldn't be the vanguard of American foreign policy.
Fair point, I withdraw any assertion that in published papers economists over extend their numbers. It has been my experience that in the reporting on those papers I have seen much less restraint. And yes, I'm aware that survivor bias may mislead in this regard.
What about the Australian bars that were also urinals? No need to stop drinking.

This photo has a rail AND is a urinal: https://orhistory.com/archives/2524 . The article says it was in Oregon; I don't know if it was simultaneous invention or traveled from one continent to the other.
And? Companies here are legally required to respect NDAs and hand over large swaths of personal information. "bUT iT'S LEgAL" is not a valid excuse for anything, at any given time.
Projects are found using the GitHub API, searching for projects first on whether they have issues labelled for new contributors and then also by language, topics, etc. After that you can write a bit more code to get metrics like percentage of first time pull requests accepted, median time until a maintainer responds to a new contributor, etc. Results are then placed on an Algolia index (stored in Postgres first) which is what powers the search + Algolia React components.

For the interviews, I write/edit them with a self hosted version of Ghost and then use their webhooks to sync them with my own Postgres database (I need to add extra fields like for projects/people and Ghost doesn't allow you add custom fields yet).

Backend is Node.js/Express, I just use EJS templates for the other less interactive pages since I think React would be overkill there.

I was until this morning hosting it on Heroku but switched over today to Dokku + DigitalOcean (mainly because I have a load of free credits and didn't want to end up with a large bill in case this hit the top of HN). First time using Dokku and it's pretty great.

Besides the GitHub API, which I need to get the project info, I wouldn't say anything else is indispensable. Heroku/Dokku is pretty important because I'm not much an expert with managing servers.

Glad you like the design, I think the search UI could be better. For the interviews I just tried to focus on typography first and foremost. Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography is a great book for reference.

That's a lot of info, hopefully not too much. Hope it's informative!
the IRS sees it differently.
Why would the web server need to be running macOS? From my understanding an admin could be ssh’d into a server and tailing/gripping the logs there while using iTerm. If the malicious input was in the logs, then the attacker could take over the admins machine, and by extension, possibly any machine the admin had access to.
little known fact. when you flush a toilet, "the poop spreads out like a gaussian". so if multiple people flush at the same time, you have to deconvolve the results using a gaussian mixture model
Cosmetic+Surgery
Very cool.

I have played with COM in Go to a lesser extent. It’s not too bad actually. My intent was to write Go wrappers around all of the TSF COM interfaces, but I burnt out after getting basic IME working - TSF is enormous!
In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail
> China in 2019 is a simple fascist dictatorship.

The discussions I've seen point more towards Legalism, a Chinese theory of governance that's similar to fascism. I guess "Fascism" is a decent analogy, but its probably more accurate to just call it Legalism. Especially because China has a long, cultural history with Legalism (while Fascism would be associated with WW2 Germany or Italy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy)
> 1) Cellphones don't just last 2 years; lots of people have older models. Sure, a bunch of people get rid of theirs after 2 years, but then they go to the secondhand market,

Increasingly less so. On one side, you have cheap subscription plans that bundle usable (not too decent) phones, on the other hand, phone life is shortened by a combination of planned obsolescence, software bloat, and lack of security updates. Short sales cycles is what manufacturers plan for and actively work towards.

> Frequently, older phones eventually find their way to developing nations where people can't afford the latest iPhone.

I might be wrong, but I'm not convinced. Shipping costs money, phones are cheap, and both battery and flash memory have pretty short lifetimes now. A good chunk of phones are barely operational after 2-3 years.

RE benefits of smartphones, it's all true, but you can't run economic growth on it forever. Smartphone transformation happened. It's mostly done. Itself it won't fuel further growth. Production of hardware and software might, but that is not free in terms of energy/resources.
Patents are national. Is this also patented in the EU, or could EU use this supposed technology completely free?

(Of course, in all likelyhood this is all a lot of nothing.)
It requires a thermal reservoir and radiative cooling. This doesn’t sound better than a battery to me.
I read those and conclude "Physics is not a particularly relevant constraint on economic growth."

His energy analysis concluded that at 2.3% growth rate and current technology, we would need to use the entire energy supply falling upon the earth's surface within 275 years. Improving technology might be able to stretch that to 400 years. Within 1400 years, we would need to use the entire energy of our solar system.

But we have a number of more pressing demographic constraints. As countries develop, fertility falls; fertility rates are currently below replacement in the entire developed world [1] with all regions other than Africa falling below replacement rate by 2050. Within 80 years, population is likely to start falling, with some studies predicting this within 30 years. Worse, there's a worldwide demographic bulge of 18-30 year old males that's hitting just about now; such demographics have been associated with a higher likelihood of war in the past.

There's plenty of other problems that these bring: if you don't get killed in war and manage to find a mate, you're not likely to see your social security or 401(k) worth all that much, nor will you find health care unless your rich or lucky or both. But they'll happen way before we reach physical limits on growth. Our threat model should be stupid politicians doing stupid things at the behest of frustrated populations, not the laws of physics.

[1] http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/total-fertility-r...
"The Proud Robot", Henry Kuttner, Astounding 1943

https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article863
Tencent also owns Riot Games and a portion of Reddit. Tik Tok, etc... We are talking one massive boycot, here. Besides Reddit (of which a boycott doesn't make much sense without an alternative), I don't use any service which I know Tencent has stake in.
Boeing’s 737 in another pickle, Part 2
Same in Hungary. Everything has price / kg or litre shown next to the item’s price.
Why exclusives are bad?
> Who is disputing that? I am 99.9% certain that this is true.

Well, the general horror story that is being told is that intelligence and the ability to use it go hand in hand. As soon as machines surpass our intelligence, all hell breaks loose and there is no turning back. The focus is very much on the individual (both human and machine) and not on the structure.

> They have to have the same motivation, interests, emotions and needs like us.

Here is where I need some more convincing. In my view, nature is full of systems and groups of species living in symbiosis. Due to the slow development of the thought framework, we will co-evolve with the machines, or become part machine ourselves. In a certain way, we already are.

Perhaps I don't really have the word for it and I am sorry for that. Our understanding of intelligence, whether mechanistic or biological, is mostly as points on a linear scale (IQ). I think this misses the big picture: we are not biological systems, but have lived in symbiosis with our child teknos since we made our first tools. In this regard, there is no subject nor object: they are one. I am fundamentally with Heidegger on this one.
How is an oppressive and/or corrupt environment any more welcoming to innovators in a longer time horizon?
2 or 3K really isn't enough for Seattle.
We have known for over twenty years that most problems with software come from the requirements phase.

We need to stop accepting that we are the guilty party and trying to get our house in order while the one next door is engulfed in flames.

The problem is not in how we track our time. In how we organize tasks, in how we deal with technical debt, long-term maintenance, engineering disputes. Documentation.

Our problem is in being ill-informed consumers of requirements information. In accepting it instead of sending it back to be done over and refusing to start on anything other than basic R&D until it's sorted. If people aren't told in a clear manner why what they've done is wrong how will they ever improve? And if they know we'll do it anyway, why would they bother changing?
Show HN: FVM – Flutter Version Management
DL4J and the ND4J library are a good start and at a high-level offer equivalent functionality to tensorflow, pytorch, and pandas: https://github.com/eclipse/deeplearning4j
Whales ‘whisper’ to keep young safe near predators
In early 2018, Apple forced their users to opt-in to migrating iCloud encryption keys and data to Chinese data centers:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

Chinese government nationalized the data centers six months later, gaining access to all the encryption keys and user iCloud data at rest. Apple complied:

https://mashable.com/article/china-government-apple-icloud-d...
> gamers can't boycott to save their life

Yep, frankly I'd guess part of the logic here is "Have you seen what EA gets away with? We'll be fine." The further removed the offense is from the purchase, the harder boycotts are to organize. And AAA game boycotts seem tricky to manage even for "this specific game is ripping off its players in these specific ways", so "this company did something shady around a tournament that casual players will never even hear about" is a pretty tough target. Plus, "don't buy" and "don't microtransact" are much easier targets than "don't play WoW/SCII/Hearthstone after you're already invested".

On the other hand, boycotts for any popular product don't tend to have their impact through actual lost income. There's already media focus on the story, and if a boycott influences devs, streamers, modders, etc. then it's not just a question of direct sales losses.
This is especially funny given that the "basic HTML view" is clear and relatively clutter free. I find it superior in almost every way, yet it's posed as the lesser alternative you have to cope with if you don't have JS or a fast connection.
Apple Removes Quartz News App from Chinese App Store
A cautionary tale, both of being hasty and then the lessons learned.

BSD sockets really reflect the standard PDP-10-based models of internetworking, somewhat re-adapted for the Unix world. Probably not an appropriate model to expose in 2020 or later.
My ideal statement would have gone something like this:

"I (Adam Silver) support the principles of democracy and human rights, and stand with the people of Hong Kong in trying to secure those for themselves. The rest of the NBA stands with them as well. We apologize for responding to this incident incorrectly initially, we were deeply worried about losing the Chinese audience for many reasons. Our revenue and growth as an organization is certainly one of them, and additionally we feel that exposure to other cultures, even through the limited lens of broadcasted basketball games, can only be a positive thing for any people. But after some reflection, we've decided that the principles Daryl Morey was expressing support for when he tweeted are ones that we cannot in good conscience shy away from supporting as well, even at potential financial cost."

I realize that this is a pipe dream, and the NBA will never do it. But since you asked =)

You say that the NBA shouldn't be the vanguard of American foreign policy, and I don't disagree with that statement. But if the NBA were to hypothetically make a statement like the above, is that really them being the vanguard? Or is it a group of private citizens (organized under the banner of a for-profit corporation) deciding that there are certain principles they stand for as a company? And what's wrong with that?
OP here: One of my favorite articles which combines analysis of a management theory gospel (innovation, disruption!) with an incisive falsification analysis and how the myth persists.

This article led to an epic twitter rant by @pmarca which has since disappeared.
Capturing Luck with “Or” Instead of “and”
What about the (unlikely) case that a wallet is shared between 2 or more individuals? Could I then "share" my private key with a trusted person (e.g. a parent) and claim _not_ to have complete dominion over the gains, thus no gross income?
Thank you for saying that. Conditioning on this being accurate information, I just lost that much trust in the community of scientists.

This is how "hacking" the public policymaking fucks up society. And then people are surprised antivaxxers are a thing. They are a thing because we're all being constantly manipulated, and some people just don't have the capacity or patience to separate the truth from bullshit.
Afaik energy use being correlated with economic growth depends on how much of the economy is based on energy-intensive industries, like manufacturing.

The US, as many other developed countries, has been shifting out of manufacturing economies to service economies for a while now.

Case in point: Nothing at Disney stipulates a correlation between their "economic output" and their energy consumption.

Meanwhile, a steel/aluminum plant in China will have a pretty direct correlation between economic output and energy input.
Yep that’s exactly it for me. I’ve made 3 really close friends in the past 4 years and tons of other acquaintances/ friends through my local music scene.
I don't think that was even a lie - disease doesn't respect tidy social boundaries of guilt and innocence. Especially with unscreened blood at the time.
if you can pay them back the revenue they would lost from Chinese market, they can do whatever you ask them to do
Cameo, but for Product Engineering
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It's at least law in Sweden since a while.
Nuclear is an economic un-reality.

In theory, with large-scale cooperative government support, nuclear can happen. We can develop the next generation of nuclear infrastructure and have safe and affordable generation. Without that, nuclear is an un-economic pipe-dream that gets more expensive as renewable generation gets more affordable.

Realistically, with over-provisioning, grid upgrades, and modest lithium battery storage, renewables can and will scale.
Cameo, but for Product Engineering
I'm sure you're joking, but if there is a massive body of research on 10 year olds having sex I'm not going to go googling for it at work, but I think it's safe to say that more women in their 30s are trying for babies than 10 year olds.