skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Zeihan (formerly of stratfor) is a big name in the world of geopolitical risk analysis, and provides consulting services to various industries. He's published three books concerning the current global order, its collapse, and the winners/losers of the next hundred years.

If you're familiar with his work, the first quarter of this presentation will be old hat to you - very much an abridged version of his typical conference presentation.

He then segues into discussing the current status of the coronavirus epidemic globally, as well as how its progression may impact the future he's previously modeled.
> All major LFP cell makers seem to run a cartel to cut off small distributors from preferential pricing. Anything you can buy in small wholesale/retail is at least 2x the price of what companies making EVs are getting.

That sounds like an easy way to make money. Buy large quantities, sell them in smaller batches at only 1.5x the price.
Just to report that it isn't necessarily/solely cultural myopia at work here: I live in Ontario and have family in London, Ontario, and while visiting them with location services on have both asked for and googled "what is the temperature in London, Ontario" (notice that I said the region!), and gotten results for London England. I left angry feedback with Google over it once, but it's happened many times.
> The only problem is she doesn’t really learn this for subsequent requests, although that is a different problem IMO.

That's kind of the 'how do you take your tea?' problem, which I think really annoys users.

(context: the first or second time you make tea for someone, you ask milk/sugar etc. Ask it after that and they're going to think you're pretty rude)
It's no different from sending an email to the wrong address. Disclaimers to the contrary, it isn't the responsibility of the recipient to ensure the address (phone number, in this case) is right.
Effect of Intel's power management on web servers
Documentation is TODO

Why do people do this? If you're going to bother to make a project public with a big page demonstrating what it can do, why would you skip the part where you tell people how?

It really comes off as amateur. I have other things to do with my time than reverse-engineer your code.
I love that the "Initial commit" is timestamped to 1983 :)
If you're not trolling, you're delusional to think that the western intelligence agencies provided anything more than a spark to pre-existing fuel.
He’s really not
12 AM and 12 PM are only meaningful by some arbitrary convention, and I'm not sure if that's even very consistent.

I try always to use 12 noon and 12 midnight instead.
.NET magazine to cease printing
The cathode material is pretty much the sole contributor to material cost. Plastic, anode, casing, current collector plates/terminals all make less than a quarter of the price.

Main contributor to the cathode powder price is cobalt, and its unpredictable price: bad weather in Congo? Prepare to see the price increase n-fold within few weeks. Nickel comes second, to much lesser extent.

LFP cells use radically different cathode chemistry from common cell types, and use no cobalt, or nickel at all, hence the low price. We dump phosphates on in the fields by gigatonnes after all.
this is his article in the princeton companion to mathematics

https://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timot...

a great (even if expensive) math book
Do you have a model number?

It's most likely a synchronous modem meant for 4 wire leased lines, which don't really exist anymore.
Have you looked at openxava (https://www.openxava.org/)
> The global lunacy community — anti-vaxxers, science-deniers, Russian agents — has spread so many conspiracy theories regarding Gates that misinformation about him is now among the most widespread of all coronavirus falsehoods.

This is true, but I think this minimizes the size of "the global lunacy community". It is truly baffling to me how Gates has now become a huge boogeyman when it comes to the pandemic, right up there with George Soros.

I don't know how to fix this - crazy is crazy. But the sheer size of this crazy shouldn't be underestimated.
There's an abundance of lithium in the oceans, but it's heavily diluted, so currently there's no large scale process in place to obtain it.

But it is possible in principle, just expensive using the technology of today.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins

When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,

The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
saw a comment in a readme, like:

> the initial reputation for the first author becomes negligible as time goes

curious, how do you handle automated author creation and reputation farming?
Yes, but that set of criteria to establish a metric is context.
Agreed - really wish more people would use ISO date format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
Not just price and speed. The original motivation behind RISC was to make a chip that was simple enough to fit all the functionality onto one die. However, chips have been on a single die for many years, so that's no longer an advantage.

The actual instruction set design is much less (but still) important these days. There aren't many "pure" RISC designs left because the universal demand for accelerated encryption, decompression, vectorization etc outweigh the ideological need for a pure design.

IMHO what's more relevant today is having an instruction set that compilers can fully exploit, rather than having an instruction set that's optimized for human understanding. In other words, it's no longer a decision between complex and simple.
Cake brings a Swedish take on e-motorcycle design to the U.S.
Half the world already hates him and the rest are learning why they possibly should. I guess his PR spend just went up quite a bit.
It's usually held to be Latin: ante and post meridiem[1].

But surely the whole point is that midday itself is neither before nor after midday, while midnight is precisely equally both before and after?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock
they're hoping to keep the business running

A company that isn't paying employees is not continuing to run.

If they fail to pay me, is that breach of contract

I am not qualified legal consul and if the fine points of law are really important, I recommend hiring competent legal consul experienced in these matters.

That bullshit aside, if they are not paying you find another job. If the company raises a fuss, I recommend the "fuck you, sue me" (FYSM) approach. It's simple. If the company can't afford to pay employees, it almost certainly does not have money to pursue legal action in regard to your contract even if it thinks it has a case.

Usually, employee salaries are the last expense that a company keeps paying because without employees things go down hill faster and there is less chance of recovery. But if the company isn't paying you, then it almost certainly is not paying other bills. And those creditors have lawyers and any money for legal fees within the failing company will be directed at that problem first.

I have some savings so I might be able to survive for a few months on those

A CEO who expects you to do that (or even asks), doesn't give a shit about you. People of character are uncomfortable exploiting other people. The CEO already has exploited a month of free labor to keep their hope of making money alive. You are already out a paycheck. The CEO knew when the money would run out a month ago. Instead of allowing you to get your affairs in order, the CEO mislead you.

Misled you over money.

Good luck.
> That sounds like an easy way to make money. Buy large quantities, sell them in smaller batches at only 1.5x the price.

They will figure out who you are, and you say bye bye to your EV business.
Show HN: V.O.B.S. – Virtual Online Broadcast System
This has nothing to do with age, being an adult, being in US, etc.; sure, you have a set of assumptions, but they apply at best to you, not the world.
I found this article extremely interesting, AI-resistant captchas might be possible with this, created by humans and not by algorithms.
More systems level stuff than you'd ever use Java for. Google/Nest hardware devices (display assistant devices, other stuff).
Screen readers read SVG's.

https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/12/using-aria-...
Agreed. This is nice work. Recently dropped in Chart.js for an internal rails application to throw up some charts for users to get a better view of their data on their dashboard and they were blown away. A few simple bar charts and graphs can do wonders.
Then there's also the whole can of worms that (I'm not a lawyer but if I understand it correctly) the NSA can collect as much data about you as they like but it is not considered to have been collected until someone actually requests it
Don't be serious with that guy.
One thing people have to keep in mind when running these kinds of tools is they make tons of API calls. Depending on how you have things set up, use these tools can drastically increase your CloudTrail bill.

Also, they'll often make calls against non-existent resources or run into permissions issues. So it can clutter your CloudTrail with API errors, making actual API errors harder to locate.
Also, 0.05% sounds like a tiny number, but is larger than mortality probability of all other causes in the USA for people in the 1-21 age bracket, still is half of it at age 33 and about a quarter of it at age 45 (https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html), and that’s even with those statistics including people with comorbidities.

Looking at it another way, if the entire population were healthy, that’s 160.000 deaths. That’s four times the number of yearly traffic deaths, double the number of overdose deaths (both already high for comparable countries)

Those 160.000 might not return every year, but if this behaves as a typical virus, it could mutate enough to return every few years.
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Yep, just regret and misery.

Back in 2010 when the MongoDB hype was high, the well-known company where I was working at the time decided to build the next version of the product using MongoDB. I was on the analytics team and had to code a whole bunch of intricate map-reduce jobs to extract summary data out of Mongo. I'd repeatedly head to the product team and ask them to explain the edge cases I was seeing in the data and they would not be able to give me an answer because the data was on the third or fourth version of their mentally-stored schema and no one knew anymore. All in all, misery.
I get occasional emails meant for my mom as we have similar email addresses. It's a common mistake made by many of her contacts, what is she supposed to do about it?
The world will be awashed with people wanting employment. I don't know where people get the idea that hiring will be difficult in a 20% unemployment environment.
Start-up Coder touts benefits of cloud-based dev environments
I've a number of screenshots concerning conversations, documents, and pii I don't necessarily trust in the hands of third parties, as well as don't feel I'm at liberty to share with third parties.

Beyond that, as exceptional as Gsuite is, I've been making a conscious effort to excise Alphabet/Google services from my life - it's just not a company I trust.
I have a fairly common surname and get a bunch of stuff meant for other people. My suspicion is that their legitimate username is just one or two extra characters after mine, e.g. "ab.normal@gmail.com" vs "ab.normal2@gmail.com". People probably think that, as long as they are careful about communicating the right username, it will be fine; but communication requires skills on both sides, and it's easy to miss a single letter or digit in common conversation or in poor lighting.
Fastest way to calculate the integer square root exposed
There are many methods to calculate an integer square root, out there on the inter-waves, dating back as far as the 60's and 70's. Intricate bit-manipulation is thrive. But is it necessary [there is code with which I came to this disillusioning conclusion]?
They do. CPUs tend to run at pretty high core voltages to achieve their high clock speeds compared to GPUs, so GPUs consume even more current: 300 W at ~1 V = 300 A.

In AMDs case the CPU is supplied with a common core voltage that's regulated by a per-core ultra-fast LDO. There is also a power capacitor (mimcap) on the core die.
Probably depends on location? I’ve never heard of Bain or BCG.
TerraGoat, a “vulnerable-by-design” Terraform training project
ES2020 Has Been Finalized. Here Is What I’m Excited About
Redpill: Tool to to create games for Amiga without programming knowledge
An in depth, but paywalled, article about this: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/out-of-home-advertising-bi...
I know nothing about what it'd take to extract elements from seawater, but I've heard people say similar things about gold and uranium. I wonder if the economics for "mining" seawater become more favorable if you try to extract multiple types at once, maybe in a pipeline. Extract the uranium, then the gold, then the lithium, etc.
Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health
You seem to be talking about battery cell price and the article is talking about battery pack price, which last I checked tends to be at least 30%-50% higher. For EVs it might be more if they also add cutting edge cooling systems, etc.
Hasura is amazing, glad to see it featured here. The author never got around to any specific downsides (only a general complaint for some reason), does anyone have examples of where it struggles? I use it daily and have never run into a limitation.
.md and .css together like peanut-butter and jelly. good job :)
This is likely because US imperial/standard isn’t the same as the old UK imperial. Height and weight were the same (though I don’t think the US uses stone) but volume is different; a US pint is not the same as a UK pint.
If you don’t need a dm, I recommend Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It’s been a joy to use so far. GUI applications can run via X11 server (I recommend VcXsrv).
Was thinking this exact thing! All these companies are hugely US-centric.

It's like this on maps too (apple maps is the worst) you can search for something fairly straight forward that should be local and it'll find you something in California.

But I agree with the general theme of Siri being the dunce of the personal assistants. Mostly can't even hear its own wake word. You have to whisper Alexa's name when talking about her to prevent activation and in the same environment shouting at Siri produces nothing but silence.
Please, tell me more about all the ways in which you are helping to save the world from its most pressing problems.
skin care consulting at Sephora is competitive?
It's one of those things where you relatively quickly get used to a specific way of thinking, and while we didn't have instantaneous communications of papers, we did have endless numbers of computer magazines with actual listings in them that often also discussed fairly in depth algorithms.

Mostly it boils down to learning patterns for common things, and things like basic trig replacement was a staple of the demo scene.
I think you're proving my point here a little bit.

Fox News have an identity tied to their media output, therefore if they consistently put out bad faith or incorrect representations of information then they will be identified and mentally blacklisted.

Fox News in particular has a wikipedia page dedicated to it[0]

The idea that "Snopes and media fact check are biased and inaccurate" is bordering on the insane.

If you can't trust the media _and_ you can't trust the people who keep an eye on the media, who can you trust?

Deplatforming all media sources and those that seek to keep them in check just leaves you vulnerable to people who do not identify themselves feeding you biased information.

I don't trust myself, I can apply some amount of critical thinking to new information as it is presented but I can't be everywhere at once nor can I be an expert on all things. If you depose all your information sources you will be left with information coming from unofficial sources, and that is not better because "unofficial" generally just means "unaccountable".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies
Life was so simple back in the 1970s, when I began to program. Processor manuals for CPUs had a table of instruction timings, and you could just add up those times for each instruction and figure out exactly how long a code segment would take to execute. No branch prediction failures, no cache misses, no pipeline quirks...
Heavy template base code uses inheritance all the time. But here is no expectation of is-a relationship there, it is purely for code reuse. In template code, the is-a is better expressed as modelling a concept (which is done mostly via structural typing, not nominal typing).

It is unfortunate that there is no explicit way to distinguish OOP is-a from code reuse, other than the presence of virtual functions in base classes, but in my 15 years of professional use of c++ I can't remember it ever being an issue.
But, to rephrase your earlier comment: You're saying "maybe we should avoid saving millions of lives a year because someone might feel sad that they don't want to save lives after they die".

It's not clear to me why that would apply to the earlier comment, but not to yours. Unless it's because of the part I left out about them not feeling strongly enough about ticking a box, but then I don't see what the problem is with the original suggestion of making that box-ticking obligatory.
An Advanced Android Spyware Framework That Went Undetected for 4 Years [pdf]
I believe the Pebble smartwatch used such a display.
Corporates Tend to Look for Generalist Data Scientists, Says This Data Scientist
Eventually they're doing speed runs and finding odd magnetic anomalies with the ball and plungers
> How cute... telling yourself off.

Reality is what remains after all beliefs have been stripped away.

I did not respond to your comment as the grandparent made no sense - neither management, nor boss nor god in the sky works for you.

Only you work for you and they work for them.

Naivety is believing it works any other way.
Nothing is stopping you from passing different -std=c++XY arguments to different compilation units in your codebase. I don't know about other compilers but object files compiled with msvc, gcc and clang (the ones I happen to work with) using different -std values (starting with c++11) are compatible* and the respective teams working on these compilers reportedly make conscious efforts to make sure this remains the case.

CMake for instance makes this very easy with its set_properties() call.

* Of course there are caveats and corner cases. See eg. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46746878/is-it-safe-to-l...
But these seem like they could easily be avoided in real-world use-cases.
If you're "over-optimizing" in a way that makes your code depend on platform endianness, you're definitely doing things wrong. Even then, it's quite possible to make compilation error out if targeting the wrong endianness. This isn't something that the C++ standard should be concerned with.
Nytimes loves to toss salad. Specially rich salad.
My Facebook page has 2K Likes. Average reach per month – 40K. Cost?
The mortality rate is not the only consideration. People don't want to die, sure, but they also don't want to spend a couple of weeks in the hospital. And that risk, even for those under 65, is much, much higher: at least 1 in 100 (Source:https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page).

Not only do individuals not want to spend time in the hospital, we as a society don't want them there either. Assuming we need 60% of the population to recover in order to achieve herd immunity, and assuming we somehow isolate all of our 65+ year olds from the virus, that would mean almost 2M hospitalizations in the US.
Are you proposing to do that for every update that comes in, for every extension? Far from ideal.
Plenty of fantastic suggestions in the comments, any one of which looks like it could do the trick. Not having any experience in the problem domain, I'm afraid I don't have much to contribute in response, but I look forward to evaluating each framework/service.
There’s a subreddit for that too. https://old.reddit.com/r/ISO8601/
Lazy person’s guide to better Content Marketing and SEO
CRTP is a common use case. Also inheritance is often used to implement type level recursion (although this is significantly less needed now that we have argument packs).
Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs
Activation words are fuzzy by design.

Siri is easy enough so we never looked much into it, but “OK Google” for instance looked like a real PITA, so we did some research before buying an assistant.

It appears a ton of people just intentionally say “Ok GooGoo”, “Ok Boogle” etc., whatever is easier for them to pronounce and it works perfectly fine.
Sometimes with these incredibly specific SO questions that have incredibly detailed and knowledgeable answers I start wondering what the likelihood is that they happened organically vs the likelihood that they were teed up Quora style to improve content quality.
Your example join output at https://imply.io/post/introducing-apache-druid-0-18-0 has the incorrect answers for the join.
Yeah you can copy and paste this story and these comments at least once a quarter. Same story “IBM lays off thousands” same comment “IBM isn’t even a company and this will surely be the death of them”. Literally ever since I first heard the letters IBM I’ve heard these same headlines and comments.

And yet my clients keep buying IBM products and hiring IBM consultants. There is a huge enterprise world outside of Silicon Valley that HN is completely unaware of.
I've never even considered before that some people might pronounce it "zee index" - do they really, or is that also part of the joke?
Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to pivot to video?
Reorganized app development with automation tools to save business in Covid
He's a lot more human than Steve or Bill. That is, his flaws are a lot more apparent, his emotions are more fragile, and he's always ready to speak his mind. It feels like you know him.
A Qualitative Study of DevOps Usage in Practice [pdf]
Perhaps with desalination can produce other materials besides drinking water?
The Case for Letting the Restaurant Industry Die
A local hospital put up some motivational signs, in crayon. One reads, "Medical workers: not all heros wear capes". But it's written on three lines in three different colors, so it reads like "Medical workers: Not All Heroes. Wear capes!"
Alternate Histories [interview with author/journalist John Nichols]
Best Hacker I Know
I don't know if its okay to recommend a hacker, but i'm dropping the contact of this hacker Albert Vadim who helped me hack 2 cellphones belonging to someone who had some bad pictures of me and was blackmailing me. If you need a reliable hacker, contact Albert on
EMAIL- Vadimwebhack ATgmail,com WHATSAPP +17025301177. He granted me access to both cellphones and up till now, I can access both phones at will without the owner knowing what is going on. He also helped my uncle fix his credit report and boost his scores from low 400s to over 800. The list goes on but I will just stop here.
Ouch!

That’s even worse than a pre-smartphone fail I encountered ~15 years ago.

I was on a train from London to Liverpool Lime Street Street, and somewhere around Nottingham one of the fellow passengers asked me when it would arrive in Liverpool Street Station.
"Charing Cross (Glasgow)" Station in Glasgow is the true Charing Cross. I can only applaud Google Maps there.

You were looking for the vastly inferior "London Charing Cross"