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Ask HN: Is Lithium a Limited Resource?
From what I've read, lithium batteries have a limited life span and eventually need replacing.

I'm noticing Tesla's and other EVs are selling out as fast as they can make them.

I've been wondering: are we trading out oil as a finite resource for lithium?
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There aren't as many blogs now as there used to be.
Digital "jitter" is actually a thing that can measurably degrade quality.

The DAC clock and the source clock need to be in perfect sync or else the quality of each sample will effectively degrade.

Higher end CD transports have a "clock link" that lets you sync their data stream with an outboard DAC.

Gets harder with audiophile-level sample rates (24 bit, 192Khz).

https://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/KB/BitPerfectJitter....

https://blog.teufelaudio.com/jitter/
People don't want to search anymore. they want to see well-categorized data. For example, instead of searching for cheap vacuum cleaners, I think they want a site that lists vendors that sell cheap vacuums.
That's not really Zen though. Zen is expanding your awareness of the present moment to experience it without interpretation, including emotional interpretation, to experience it as it is. Zen is freedom from the constant need to assign meaning and experience feelings about where you are right now. Zen is the calm eye of the storm without attachments to thoughts or emotions, especially those that we use to identify who we are. Zen is a hot cup of tea and the sounds of birds singing.
But CR did review them, so why can't someone complain that CR recommended a bad service
Why does this always come up? Maybe the author does need the SPA. This comment does not seem particularly relevant to the contents of the article.
I am a leftie, but the only radio station I listen to is CBC. I have to admit that I get irritated by the organizations narrow focus these days.
This will only continue. Single family zoning laws perpetuate the housing inequality all throughout major US cities. "Housing is a human right." Is great to hear but in practice we don't even abide by that in governance.
If I had to pay $10/month for good search results, I absolutely would. I think most people would. Get rid of the ads and spam, and you have a service worth a premium. The solution is to make it user-centric instead of advertiser(spammer)-centric.
I do still think we could adapt this model on top of content silos... assuming we can index them! Consider that one could also, rather than just ingesting Reddit content, we ingest new posts from particular users who write quality posts on Reddit.

Assuming a method also existed for an author to authenticate themselves with the search engine, one could also enable an author to help identify their content across multiple platforms, as well as suggest other quality authors to consider.
> > Capitalism killing innovation by making it another homogeneous device that doesn't respect you doesn't surprise me.

> What is this weird fascination with capitalism on HN?

"Comments on the internet" make a lot more sense to me now that I've started reading "capitalism" as "unbridled pursuit of profit". It's a shame that the general internet population seems to think those concepts are one and the same but I'm not sure I have the energy to try to do anything about it.
Intel doesn’t seem to have enough capacity, there are no in stock intel fpgas under $2000 at Digi-Key. Try and get any cyclone v or max 10 chips.
> I'm not a cryptographer - but I don't think there's anything wrong with XOR encryption

When cryptographers and security professionals talk about XORing the keystream output of a pseudorandom function with plaintext to encrypt it, we don't call it "XOR encryption", we call it a stream cipher.

When we talk about XORing with a random pad of equal length to the plaintext, we don't call it "XOR encryption", we call it a one-time pad.

When we say "XOR encryption" we invariably mean "silly insecure thing with a repeating keystream no longer than a few bytes".

> XOR with a sufficiently large key is absolutely fine

It isn't. XOR with any key ever used more than once or looped around isn't not just "not unbreakable", it's demonstrably insecure. There is no "sufficiently large key" other than "same size as the plaintext and used only once for that plaintext" (a one time pad). To use smaller keys you need real cryptography, not XOR. Military radios absolutely do not work like this. They use stream ciphers, which can produce ~arbitrary length keystreams without repetition from a small seed key.
> Though it does seem a little odd to me to object to the comment on the basis of a definition you introduce yourself

Notice that I always talk in terms of the question being asked. And your response to me was phrased in the same terms. You didn't say 10% was "the false negative rate", you said it was "the share of the time for which, when the test says 'no', the answer is 'yes'". You didn't say "the false negative rate is the inverse of the true positive rate"; you said "your changed-order definitions are just inverses [of each other]". Those claims are wildly false regardless of what you think "the false negative rate" means, for the simple reason that they make no reference to a "false negative rate".

> It's hard to read your table on mobile.

The table has four cells, eight if you count the labels. I have every confidence that you can do it.
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Despite the implication otherwise, I have been a software engineer for 30 years. This is speaking as an active consultant in the embedded space. There is shit code everywhere, in nearly every single system. Some code may be "written that way for a reason", but it can simultaneously be utter shit. Working shit, but still shit.
I enjoy the coffee experience. Fitness people seem to enjoy the euphoria of Gyms and exercise. So that whole thing seems out of left field for me.

BUT, we generally need to eat a lot better, exercise more, spend less time on TV for the sake of wasting time..

But i can't generalize it all. There are lots of computer games that exercise the mind, relieve stress, offer creativity like nothing before. Minecraft is that for me - from the music to the expressiveness and the simple joy of playing.

I watch a lot of youtube videos on making music, improving my coding/development skills and history... so its not like i'm just wasting my time there.. but i have to do it in the right doses and not ignore my family/day to day life

so it's all about balance

and its so hard to balance when you work 40 hours a week, have a family, have kids and have dependencies that playing a game for 3 hours on friday is nothing compared to the rest of it.

And that's what causes the depression/burnout i see...
Most things in interviews are wildly overrepresented compared to their usage though. I haven’t done any shortest path, binary search, topological sort, or many other things in most of my time in industry. I would have a hard time remembering even one instance for many algorithms.
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How do you measure consumption with this granularity?
i mean do you speak from experience or is this just more conjecture? what people on the outside fail to realize is that while individual projects might not seem complex (maybe frontend engineering on FB is less complex than pytorch) it's the scale of the systems you have to orchestrate that is incredibly complex.
I would suggest that this is actually more efficient.

When people use the toilet on planes, the design of the toilets uses so much less water than a toilet on the ground, in the airport, and how much a flush of water takes.

So if you assume that people were going to use the bathroom regardless, they just saved the processing of a lot of water by doing it on the plane. Probably ounces versus gallons. (~100 mL vs. 1-2 L)

(parenthetical note, sometimes I wonder if a vacuum toilet would become available for home use, it's so effective!)

Now certainly, flying around to use the bathroom used up a lot more energy, but regardless... Also, you might ask whether people tend to drink more than average because they're offered drinks on a plane.

I used to wonder, considering the hundreds of pounds of water/soda/etc loaded on a plane, as people drink and consume it all, wouldn't it be efficient for the plane to dump that water in flight and save the weight and extend the range. Turns out (of course) that is so negligible compared to the overall weight of the plane...
This also makes the component prone to lights. All in all, very exotic and interesting.

Recently I opened up a Mitsubishi Electric power steering unit, and while mine looked a bit like a parallel world Enterprise, this one looks like Enterprise with a suffix couple alphabets later than the one in the intro. Mine was just a two PCB build of a logic board with Fujitsu microcontroller and a power board with an H bridge and input/output emergency isolation MOSFETs.
You know what's not exciting? Clicking on an interesting title to be pay walled. Why is this crap allowed on HN?
imagine a quickly moving but congested highway. anyone even tapping the breaks will cause a massive slowdown. I think the chip supply chain is similar.
If it's consented to, it's not infidelity.
Ask HN: How do you get a job after a 2-year gap in your work history?
Imagine you haven't worked at all since the pandemic started. How would you deal with that in your resume and in interviews?
The numbers in that tweet are based on this (pre-print) paper which reports a higher rate than the CDC does, and doesn't give a figure for Moderna specifically, so doesn't really work as a source for that "known fact" if that was your intent.

I don't see how body mass and aspiration can possibly explain the presentation of vaccine associated myocarditis we're seeing. i.e. increased incidence in pubescent boys and young men. They should tend towards lower body mass than older men, and the people administering vaccines don't aspirate in general, not just for some demographics. This demographic is just generally more susceptible to myocarditis from any cause.
We should be clear that we force people onto the street, it's a collective choice. Need proof? Simply pass a constitutional amendment that no elected official shall be eligible for re-election if the annual count of homeless individuals exceeds 100 people statewide. We would have emergency shelters built for every homeless person within a month, street teams sweeping back alleys 24/7, and hotlines for reporting encampments.
Inflation is the real reason. If you pay enough, there is no shortage of anything
Not sure how you're seeing that as the site is getting plenty of traffic ...
These English subtitles are masterpiece indeed.
I'm down with banning or regulating bitcoin.

I'm invested in Monero which is one of the untraceable options that everyone will switch to once the crackdowns begin.
I'm reasonably confident I've seen a cyoa implemented like this get posted to HN, but I can't find the link offhand.
Telling people to move away might be good individual advice, but it isn't a "solution" to managing a city, and it's bad for the national economy as a whole if people can't live in productive metropolitan areas.

Statistically, there are always going to be some growing cities and some shrinking cities, because a stochastically generated distribution like population movement should have a nonzero standard deviation. If growing cities are consistently unaffordable, that's a national problem.
Tell HN: Current WFH trend (part 2)
I wanted to follow up on my previous post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696235

My latest observation at my current company which is "fully-remote": 75% of the new headcount is out of US. Total compensation offered in foreign countries is much cheaper (35-60% lower depending on Canada vs EU vs LatAm vs Asia) than even the lowest pay-tier US regions. Bulk of the gains are flowing to the company's revenue bottomline, and thus to the biggest shareholders (Capital class). A small fraction of those gains is coming to the rank-and-file's pocket via the increased value of their meagre RSUs.

To address a big point raised in the previous thread about outsourcing, when we have been trying that since 2000's and why is it a big deal now - with previous rounds of outsourcing, entire project was shipped to a different country. There were neither any "remote-first" culture nor any tooling to support collaboration. Integrating an entire team from an entirely different culture was very hard. Compared to that, today we are onboarding one foreign employee at a time and onboarding someone from Mexico City is as easy as onboarding someone from Miami. Because it happens one team-member at a time with an enhanced level of support, current WFH trend is very different from the 2000's outsourcing one. I have first-hand experience with both of those trends.

Finally, another recurring theme in the previous thread was spreading out the privilege from SV to other corners of the world. My fear, backed by hard data I am observing, is that this will greatly benefit the Capital class in the US along with the middle class in the developing world. But it will be devastating to the middle class in the US.
search ads responsible for the rise of google search[1], content ads (seo spam) responsible for google search's fall?

my guess is the rate of spam content production far outpaces the rate of original content creation. so the power law concentrates even further in the tiny percentage of OC and a moat forms around them (highest ad $, highest authority/authenticity).

where do we end up 5 years from now? further consolidation and the continued return to aol style portals (telco/media giants and fast-lane to own content?) pay-to-access silos dominating the internet?

[1] oversimplifying a bit of course, there was a novel ranking method that was more than accurate enough, and it scaled, which allowed for the search ad business to go gangbusters.
And we call that a stream cipher, not "XOR encryption", even though it uses a XOR operation. You're programmatically generating a keystream, which is not the same thing as a key.
That's like saying airports have to deal with x number of planes taking off and landing. No shit (heh), that's the point of being an airport.
Why would they allow more housing to be built? That would reduce the value of their real estate assets in places like SF and LA. Discard any notion that all but a very small minority of policymakers are truly motivated by ideology.
When I saw that editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth is from UC Berkeley, everything made sense.

Edit: I'm not trolling. The people I know from UC Berkeley are much more primed to see racism (including where it doesn't exist) than the people I know from other Universities. Certainly, this is anecdotal and I could be wrong, but I would put money on this being a real pattern (if there was such a place to put money it).
I did not say Romania was the richest eastern bloc state. It was relatively wealthier amongst them. Poland, Ukraine, n Korea- all of them were poorer.

I gave a citation as well. You can also look here to see the strong per capita gdp growth rate pre 1989 in the 70s and 80s. Romania started off very poor.

https://countryeconomy.com/gdp/romania

https://countryeconomy.com/gdp/romania?year=1990

Romania grew to a per capita gdp of ~2600$ in 1988 from ~600$ in 1970, while N Korea has a gdp per capita of $600 today - after 50 years.

Also, I didn't comment about Ceaușescu. So, I am not sure what you are responding to.
I recall the watch had two-way voice. Did it also have video?
Fair points - there is a large dose of cynicism in my comment and cynicism is rarely an accurate reflection of reality.

> I also don't know what you mean by founders having a smaller network or less experience

I'm insinuating that if founder demographics skew young they will have less experience and smaller social circles.
self diagnosis casues a lot of our issues in modern society and its sadly turning into a popular thing to do - especially for young women.
There are still good reviews. For TVs, RTINGS produces high-quality reviews (although they're not listed super straightforwardly). For computer internals, AnandTech does even better. You don't have to talk about the absolute latest product out that same day for you to have quality reviews of other options in the meantime.

Everyone just makes blogspam because its far less work than actually buying products and developing expertise and testing them and writing out a whole thorough review. Google's algorithms just can't tell a quality review from a surface-level, uneducated take.
One company that employed me has ops based in the Philippines. Doesn't matter how much you pay, if there's a typhoon the grid is going down and ops will be unavailable.
My anti-vax relatives refuse to even test for covid. Now if this behaviour is multiplied across all the antivaxers, then could this be the reason for the skewed results?
Ah, for some reason I thought it ran RTE as well. I think maybe because the 3000 and 2100/1000 both had SPL compilers and I’ve never seen that on any other arch.
Is the West Becoming Pagan Again?
Dura is a background process that watches your Git repositories
Thanks for the response! Might be something I need to explore at some point since I'm struggling with overall purpose for life.
I was quite burned out by the end of this last summer. It was part work, part pandemic parenting but I was done in a way that I've never experienced before. I would open my laptop and just stare at the screen like the characters had no meaning. Half the time I would just close it and lay down. I had been flirting with it for many months but it really hit hard in July/August.

The thing that really helped for me was knowing I had control over the situation. Like you, we had enough saved so I could take a long period of time off and my S.O. supported it (maybe start with that). I started taking steps to leave but thought that it would be better to start with a big block of time off. I ended up being able to take ~6 weeks off total from October - today and that helped in a big way. I'm not fully recovered but I'm in a much better place.

I think feeling trapped in a situation is either the main issue or a massive aggravator. Once you discover and accept how much control you truly have, you're able to make better decisions, including GTFO if you need to.
> This would all be very much a breach of inviolability of diplomatic missions from Vienna convention. Lawsuits are underway apparently.

I don’t quite understand, are the CIA and London police not allowed to work together? I figured the CIA (and the equivalent in other countries) would often work with other powers.

Edit: oops, I think I misunderstood. It would be a breach for them to interfere with the embassy, not for them to work together.
Agreed. I work in medical imaging, and people in the industry are very weary of existing technology that does have theoretical guarantees. Upscaling via bicubic/lancoz, or lossy compression (even if it has guaranteed 0.99 SSIM or NCC). Then they go ahead and do reads on 512x512 pixel CT scans. Even with a theoretical guarantee on bounded error ranges, you still have the cultural perception problem to deal with. Only if the improvements from a feature perspective are an order of magnitude better will it see any adoption imo.
Jumpstation History: The Internet’s Forgotten Terminology (2019)
"Animated website backgrounds in a few lines of code."

https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/three.js/r121/three.m... - 631.12kB
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vanta@latest/dist/vanta.globe.m... - 15.20 kB

Few lines where?

That said, I love it, reminds me of the long gone http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/ projects. I would never, ever actually deploy it though, it's grindingly slow.
Is it really a problem? I don't understand this mindset. If a person offers value to a company (and vice versa), there's a mutual benefit. Why should either party be forced or coerced to stay in business with one another? Employees may just as much leave on a whim as they could be fired or laid off. There are bad people all over the world. The best option is for this employee to start looking ASAP. Once they have a solid job lined up, they could then submit their resignation. In the letter, write a detailed response as to why they're leaving.

Jobs are not hard to come by right now. Outside of tech, there are places hiring left and right. It's a madhouse, and not only minimum wage things people criticize. There are some great paying jobs out there in the trades. People are needed badly.

> Please consider most people aren't in that position.

Many people could (and should) plan, but choose not to. It's wise for anyone to set aside an emergency fund. The concept isn't hard, but the discipline is, whatever the cause may be.
How to Beat Google Search
It's really hard to get people to use something other than Google. If you were to launch such a product, it would have to be so much better that people recommend it organically to other people.
>A dark aspect of Tarkovsky’s critique of industrial modernity manifests itself: the reversion to a pre-modern order brings with it a reinforcement of male dominance.

Yeah, it wouldn't be the New Yorker without at least a touch of cliché 2022 preoccupations and Zeitgeist, no matter how tacked on and forced it is...
Starlink is basically a 6000 km big radiotelescope.
It's similarly true about Soviet propaganda. The people living in Soviet territory commonly believed the propaganda about the US and West as well. Even the highest tiers, including eg Yeltsin, believed some of the false propaganda (which is why Yeltsin couldn't believe his now famous 1989 visit to Randall's grocery store in Houston Texas wasn't wholly staged). Yeltsin was on record admitting that even the upper echelons of Soviet power believed a lot of the false propaganda they were fed.

You can still see a river of false propaganda common among the Russian people in their beliefs about the US. It's all over YouTube in interviews-on-the-street type videos. The Russian people still live under a totalitarian regime that directly controls all media, all democratic actions and tries to control all information.