skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much all the countries in America have a fertility rate around 2 more or less.
Even Mexico is approximately at 2.1
They will start to lose population in a few decades.

https://www.cepal.org/en/pressreleases/latin-america-and-car...
But are they wrong in this case? They weren't wrong about Nikola.
The US still allows, and has been allowing over the past four years, people to immigrate.
I play games on stadia, including shooters, and latency is not an issue. Latency is the reason you can't launch a Stadia competitor on AWS, but Google has a lot of infrastructure to build on. The latency issue is well handled at this point.

The problem with stadia for me is that gaming platforms are social networks and Stadia is relatively small. No one else I know has Stadia and for many games you can't even expect to find randos willing to play at all. Embr and GetPacked are basically useless.
It basically looks like an "intranet" in any huge legacy company with a hint of social media and "engagement". Given this is related to Teams I'll also assume it's going to be painfully slow and the UX will be terrible.

I wonder though, has anyone actually got any value out of such as "intranet"? Big companies spend lots of resources on them, and software suppliers are happy to capitalize on it (Yammer, Hive, MS Sharepoint & Delve, etc) but ultimately does anyone actually enjoy using those things?
I use RSS daily, and actually wrote my own RSS client for the terminal recently. (https://github.com/lallassu/gorss)

I used Feedly before, but since I'm usually using the computer then the terminal is good enough for me :)
FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin on Non-x86 Architectures
Ok, so now your argument is: If you voted for Trump, you agreed with everything he said, and if you didn't, it doesn't matter because most Republicans did? Still a little out there for me.
> I miss the old goons I grew up idolizing.

I feel exactly the same way. My brother is ten years older than me, so I discovered the Internet at a very young age. It was like a science fiction western, filled to the brim with hackers and webmasters.

Once I grew up and became a developer, I never found a community like the ones I saw when I was a kid. To me, even open-source projects often look like corporate projects in comparison. There was a sense of excitement back then that no longer exists today - or at least, I can't seem to find it.

I am filled with nostalgia whenever I see retro art, like the first edition of Shadowrun books.
Whatever superlative you want to throw on "bad", go ahead. It was very bad, I just wanted to throw that onto the end of what was otherwise an unrelated point.

There's no expectation that I know how to "run a business". That's not how it works.
That is exactly my thought. All this can do in practise is reduce mortgage and other loan rates further and punish anyone holding cash. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, but I don't think any normal people will be able to borrow a billion pounds and then just live off the negative interest rate...
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Yes, plus inflation it will reduce over time
You do not need 90% of the population vaccinated in order to live life again. As soon as you've protected the high-risk demographic and all that's left are the under 50s or under 40s for whom the CFR is 0.3% or 0.1%, you can pretty much go back to normal.

The zero-risk mentality is silly.
like that companies should follow laws like prior to Uber and the other break employment laws as a service companies.

or that advertisers would actually care about click fraud like for google or facebook

that keeping promises and not changing your terms of service after you get bigger would lose you customers.

Like antitrust laws were a thing in the united states.

that congress actually holds business and their executives accountable instead of just extorting them with threats of regulations during campaign season.
What % of the population has already been infected?
What kind of source are you expecting the op to provide?
You don't need to make a finely focussed beam... You simply need to be able to put nulls at each of the planes antennas.

If the attacker has two antennas on the ground, say 1km apart, and the plane is 1km up, then no real precision is required - there exists a phase offset between your two antennas where only one of the planes antennas picks up your signal, and the other antenna picks up nothing. If the plane where stationary, this could be found by a simple sweep of possible phase offsets.

If the plane is moving, it becomes harder to find and track the necessary offset, but if the plane is flying half way between the attackers ground based antennas, the offset is ~constant, so a sweep again starts to look doable...
Woah, so weird to use a site that doesn't have dozens of Javascript dependencies to render a page. Loads so fast!
GitQlient 1.3.0
It's not really possible to have a productive discussion about a reflexive, unsubstantiated claim that the source article is lying.
It takes time and effort and learning to do that.
Dedollarization
1. I think that’s making a guess into their intentions which we’re not qualified to do

2. Even if we take #1 for granted, the $500MM figure is still based on something. The counter-party could’ve settled for $100MM or insisted on $1B but they reached that number for a reason.
For the last few days the rate is much higher than that.

We did 1% of the entire population in a day a few days ago
Obviously not. They contract with cloud providers as well.
sitting at my desk for work is lovely. i will trade that for manual labor and social interaction 1000% of the time.
Do you mean on GKE or directly on GCE? It sounds like you mean GKE (“failed to unregister from cluster”).

We’re looking to fix up the GKE graceful node shutdown, because it’s currently “racy” and doesn’t actually respect the grace period properly (system pods / processes can be shutdown before waiting for user pods, causing you to lose logging or say the kubelet).
> Perhaps RSS icon didn't look good with other social media icons on home page

If web browsers didn't stop supporting RSS, that icon would not be needed in the first place. We used to have a standard HTML header to advertise the presence of RSS feeds, and the RSS icon was displayed by the browser, next to the URL bar, always at the same place, accessible by everyone including Grandma™.
Some of the main "controversies" re McKinsey are outlined in its Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company#Controver...

In the interest of balance, here is what McKinsey has to say about social responsibility in its "about us" section of its corporate website: Our purpose as a firm is to help create positive, enduring change in the world.

https://www.mckinsey.com/about-us/social-responsibility
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https://monkey.org/~dugsong/
- Author of dsniff

- Member of w00w00

- Major contributor to openssh and making it ubiquitous

- Pushed OpenBSD forward back in the day. These guys, back in the day they will drive from Ann Arbor to Windsor, Canada to write code to get around the US crypto export.

- Knows quite a bit about Kerberos

- Oh wait, Founder of Duo security.
When company management wants to make a big change they hire consultants to provide cover and justification for it. The consultants role is to agree to and implement whatever the management's desired change is. The consultants exist to provide an air of authority behind the decision and to act as a smokescreen to the employees facing the change. If the plan succeeds, upper management takes the credit. If it fails, the burden can be shifted onto the consultants.

Companies like McKinsey will say whatever you want them to say, and there is no shortage of conflicting case studies to 'prove' their points.
Show HN: Satellite is a forkable social platform designed for trust and unity
Hello everyone, a few months ago we posted about out alpha release of Satellite

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23558483

After lots of feedback and iteration we are excited to finally show you Satellite's beta release.

https://satellite.earth/

Cheers
I agree it's hard work. Every project seems like it will take an hour at the outset, but ends up taking eight hours due to a wide variety of unexpected real world complications.

I traded in a beautiful city home for 106 acres at the beginning of the pandemic and am still glad I did. People have a fantasy picture of the tradeoff though... In reality, in rural places you have less social interaction and the people are of a lower caliber than urban areas. You can't make money farming unless you do it at massive scale, so I still work just as much online as before. Only now my free time goes into farming instead of golf or restaurants.
That is not really the case. The last poll I saw said 78% of Americans are fine with some immigration.

The exact amount of immigrants and the requirements to come here legally is less uniform in acceptance.

The biggest issue is between legal and illegal immigration.
1) You probably cannot borrow from the central bank.

2) Your retail bank has to make money in one way or another, we haven't seen negative effective rate on personal loans yet, especially on small loans.
After having watched "Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music" by Technology Connections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJqlD9RxD4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7olNiMCz9to I went on a CDROM research binge. Found this on my way https://debugmo.de/2007/07/read-your-dvds-the-raw-way/ Its about DVDs (has data dump plus code), but you can use same mechanism to easily modify CDROM drive using $4 piece of hardware (ebay "EZ-USB fx2lp cy7c68013a board").

There is also LaserDisc preservation by capturing raw rf signal https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=978
It doesn’t make them wrong.
TFA: "Usually, the gripe with short sellers is the business model (i.e.: making money when a stock goes down). We are taking that off the table for this one report so the investing public can more clearly see the work for what it is; deep-dive investigative research."

They are clearly releasing it without a position because they're mad at Chamath. N.b. that it's also labelled as an initial disclosure.
Just mount a ramdisk over your portage TMPDIR (default /var/tmp/portage). You will need a decent amount of ram though for larger packages like LLVM. Disabling debug symbols will reduce the required space a bit.
The only way a business can keep running at a loss year after year and not be declared bankrupt is by raising more capital, i.e. by getting more money from its investors. The price of your existing shares will not fall below zero, but you (or somebody else) will be paying up for new ones.
Your bank is going to start charging you interest as well. They might have a teaser rate that's positive up to a certain balance, but there's limits to the arbitrage here.
Being a short seller in itself does not mean Hindenburg's reports are likely false, anymore than say, a news agency that exists to publish investigative journalism. If anyone has more information about their past track record, that would be great.
Good thing is that segment of population is:

1. Dying out.

2. Not in places immigrants want to immigrate to.
OP is talking about photonic bandgap fiber I think, or perhaps another kind of photonic-crystal fiber. At any rate, whereas in regular fiber guiding light via differences in refractive index the speed of light is only about 70% c, photonic bandgap fiber can reach something like 99.7% c, which is close enough to c in vacuum as to essentially eliminate the difference vs a free space EM link (particularly for space-based ones which face an extra minimum RTT distance penalty). Last I checked though 3-4 years ago they needed fairly frequent repeaters, were harder to mass produce, etc.

I don't know of any being deployed long distance, though in principle they'd be really valuable for intercontinental backbones. Starlink fills a huge gap in existing infra, and there are places that won't see any sort of fiber, let alone fancy microstructured fiber, for the foreseeable future (or ever, obviously in the case of ships/aircraft). But the bandwidth isn't great. Each current sat does I think 20 Gbps, and though no doubt that'll increase over time that's literally orders of magnitude from this single cable alone. Having the sats support direct ground optical links for backbone usage might be interesting someday, but weather attenuation will never stop being a problem with that. Starlink is filling in the gaps for fiber infrastructure, not replacing it. They're complementary.

So I agree it would be great to see more advanced fiber deployed long distances and start to shrink latency for everyone, and interesting to know what technical obstacles remain if any (maybe a lot remain?). A 40% speed boost while still having massive bandwidth isn't nothing.
Stadia would have been a GINORMOUS investment decision. It's not Allo. It is probably thousands of engineering years of work.

Maybe they just couldn't get licensing deals they wanted and refused to let go of the idea until now? It seems like Stadia needs both heroic technical effort and really clever go to market and they just failed outright on the latter.
It's issued by GTS CA 1O1 for me. Umbrella sounds like a security thing on your network: https://umbrella.cisco.com/
1. Inflation: you will have 10 at the value of the currency in 2022, not 2021

2. Negative savings rates:

> There are fears that negative lending rates, which are expected to lower borrowing costs for households and businesses, would force high street banks and building societies to offer negative savings rates.

If you put it in your bank account you will lose some of it. The idea is that the bank is paying you to hold the money because otherwise it would have to pay the central bank more than that to hold (some of) it - or at least, that's how I understand it.
>That was the fastest downvote I have ever received.

Because your comment is nonsensical.

First of all, they claim no position in the stock. Even if you don't believe it, they did research on a company, decided the business looks bad. Do you expect them to be long the stock? Do you think they randomly chose this company to "bring down"?

Where are all the people upset about situations where banks like Morgan Stanley, who have Tesla for a client and own huge portions of ARKK (which in turn owns many Tesla shares) put out ridiculous reports claiming Tesla Insurance is more valuable than Geico, Tesla "parts" is bigger than VW and Tesla autonomy is worth billions, in order to juice the stock upward?

The bias is unbelievable.
One of the things I'm really perplexed about is the general criticism of Elon Musk over really candid statements. It's really refreshing to see someone just say something like this with honesty.

He gets flak for when he posts things like this on twitter because "omg, the stonks!?" but I find the criticism more indicative of systemic problems with the fiduciary duties of publicly traded companies than something Elon is doing wrong.
A mere licensing fee.
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Yes, IBM, Oracle, Accenture

>"pumping people up on the job" sounds like a bad faith way to describe training and investing in your employees.

That's just it: the customers are investing in your employees by letting them learn on their job but never reap the benefit of the experience. It's not a long-term recipe for success.
Especially the linked blog post, as it doesn't render unless you allow JavaScript from gweb-cloudblog-publish.appspot.com (per uMatrix).

Webdevs: is there a reason why a page would be designed so that JS being on is mandatory? Especially for something as prosaic as a couple of paragraphs of text.
When you're traveling at the full speed of light in vacuum, compared to 2/3rds in fiber, even a few extra hops can leave you with significantly lower latency.
If Theranos had done a SPAC, retail investors would've lost a lot of money when it was discovered as a fraud and shorted.

Betsy DeVos and Rupert Murdoch can afford to take the loss and should be sophisticated enough to do their own diligence. If normal people who watched Chamath on CNBC and put their money into an interesting company lose their shirts, that's much worse.
True! Problem is, there are a lot of unreasonable readers too, many of them having strong opinions about natural versus directed processes.
If you click on the profile link it should give you the official link count. If there's a discrepancy, let me know (along with your username) and I'll dig in.
"flawed prototype"? You don't like the economics or a scammer had convinced you they have the same technology with no trade offs?
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Covid plus brexit is a pretty massive recession for us to eat. The current administration is in power for another 3 years minimum and they really have no clue what they're doing so...
Personally I don't know too much about this case. But courts can find corporations liable, even if they did a terrible job. It's the same logic as putting the getaway driver in jail for attempted robbery, even if they dropped the clutch and stalled the car. McKinsey could have done a terrible job but also been liable according to courts (who probably just assume white-shoe consultants did a good job anyway).
Aren't there other great biographies and biographers as interesting as well including the following:

-James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson

-Carl Sandburgs 3 or 4 volume biography of Lincoln.

- Isaac Deutscher's massive biography of Trotsky.(The Prophet).

-Duff Cooper's Talleyrand.

-Tom Cliffs 3 volume biography of Lenin.

- William Taubman biographies of Khrushchev and Gorbachev.

-William Manchester biography of General MacArthur.(American Caesar)

-Barbara Tuchman biography of General Stilwell. (Stillwell and the American Experience in China.)

-Anthony Burgess, Biography of Shakespeare.
Requiring a successful track record pushes people even harder to try to build one by launching new projects.
If you pause the video at 1:24, it's straight out of Black Mirror. Why doesn't anyone care about the dystopian world that we're headed straight toward?

Demand real offices. Demand real human interactions. Demand to not be profiled excessively by your employer, and refuse to excessively profile your coworkers and subordinates. Reject China-style social credit scores.
If anyone enjoys this topic, I would recommend reading "A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable" by John Steele Gordon.
Yes, but many car companies are 100 years older than Tesla.

They'll probably be going through growing pains for years to come. Rapid expansion at the cost of quality. However, they clearly don't have a demand problem as people are willing to tolerate these issues, for now.
Nuclear-powered rocket could get astronauts to Mars faster
They also added Airplay officially pretty recently.

All my TVs have Roku built in and I was surprised a few weeks ago to wake up and see that My MacBook & iPhone started offering Airplay audio/video casting to any of my TVs.

Pretty slick addition to the already great Roku featureset.
I agree, we need to encourage people in power to be honest! Too many aren't, especially public company CEO's. I know lots of these guys and what they say on the golf course is totally different than what they say publicly.
The Dunning-Kruger effect probably is real
The opinions on consultants in the thread is largely negative and it's suggested hiring them is a sign of organisational dysfunction. If you can find information on consulting spend in annual reports you could create a "consultant factor" for stocks and see if big spenders underperform.
I am assuming you want to deter bots from scrapping your website to get your email address and spam you.

I suggest using something like “you can reach me at filipo [at] this domain name.”
California's rainy season starting nearly a month later than it did 60 years ago
Yeah but Nikola stock is shockingly going up.

(Disclosure: I hold puts.)
Why do you think they make this investigation? I doubt because of public goodwill
That said, an ex-McKinsey consultant often ends up getting selected by one of those companies as its CEO.

There’s tremendous value in the repeated problem exposures the consultant received, combined with the rigorous framework thinking.
Quoting from https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/23/parler-llc-...

"As a final matter, multiple members of Parler’s team have come to me expressing both fear for their career and fear for their lives and potentially bodily harm due to the press surrounding AWS’s claims. Many employees want to resign due to the strain and pressure they feel, fearing hostility towards our company and fearing for their own safety. Some have had articles written about them. Many are being harassed by reporters and journalists already. Some have had to cancel their phone numbers, and their family members’ phone numbers, due to harassment."

My guess is that most of Parler's technical staff are either in hiding or have quit. They have 15 million user accounts; I'm sure some of them are irate about their posts and metadata being publicly available. They're also facing harassment from the left but that's harder to quantify.

Just to be clear, I'm not endorsing harassment of Parler employees, AWS employees, or anyone else.
I really don't know how to respond to this sectarian bullshit.

Three is literally nothing in the ability to create another abstraction by finding an isomorphism, which is just a pair of functions.
I guess I'm glad you enjoyed my prose so much.

All I'm trying to convey is that my day to day is listening to client problems, looking at data, talking to employees, and presenting findings. It's neither a conspiracy, nor a scheme, nor a world of wealthy indulgence. I make a healthy wage, but its likely lower than I could get in tech. Like almost every company in the world, its a normal company.
Depends on who you ask. I would be delighted to see a bulls-eye on Facebook for their complicity in what's been going on. I don't see them as significantly better in moral terms than Parler, and Facebook's body count for willingly collaborating with seditionists and genocide instigators is WAY WAY higher than Parler's.

Facebook is bigger, and has power.

That means that (a) they're harder to attack, and (b) they have purposes beyond ONLY fomenting insurrection and genocide. That means they'll operate in more of a gray area by intention, and will in fact try to self-moderate when the cost of fomenting insurrection and genocide risks becoming more expensive than the profit (ideological OR financial) for fomenting insurrection and genocide.

The difference between Parler and Facebook is, Facebook will take your money but then throw you under the bus if you're malicious and endangering their platform. Parler went down with the ship because it was more important to them than just taking the money.