skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only tangentially related, but I wonder what the expected battery lifetime drops to when you factor in crashes. You mention that the cells might last 500,000 miles but is that really relevant if you're likely to have your car totaled before 200,000?

Are there diminishing returns if you are a company working on a million mile battery since virtually no vehicles will make it that far?

I am speaking as someone who has had three cars totaled before 100,000 miles (none of which were my fault!)
Yeah, the EU has pretty much no competing companies unlike Russia + China.

And it is now completely reliant on the US for LNG imports, meanwhile the Euro is collapsing since it has to be sold en masse for USD for those imports, and also for Rubles for Russian gas now that Russia only accepts Ruble payments.

Turkey is also on the verge of complete collapse and is currently holding over ten million refugees for the EU.

This winter through next spring looks like it will be a complete disaster.
Too many people identify as non-persons.

I'm not sure if I'm joking either.
I've done both, decades ago one of my college friends had the theory that, "If it doesn't fit in your car you don't own it". Moving cost was absolutely determined by the price of gasoline.

And I've spent what, $5,000 to send a couple pieces of furniture across the country for a move because they weren't replaceable, and I had the money.
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Again, most NATO counties and leaders are US sycophants. That they acquiesced to an obvious absurdity to do the bidding of the USA is not surprising, and definitely not evidence that the arguments weren't absurd. Most of the same countries beleieved the CIA fabrications about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as well.

Look outside the NATO sphere and very few countries actually agree with the US justification for the war.
Even at 25% stock, it's actually closer to $120K take home based on tax bracketing.
The first link I mentioned says in 2017 the conviction rate of crimes referred to the Justice Dept. by the FBI was 47%. Of course I am guessing the differences here are definitional, regardless the stat was just used as a broad proxy for how successful the FBI is in getting people they think are criminals convicted.
Why in the US should one pay down their mortgage more aggressively in an inflationary environment? Their debt is getting cheaper.
It's already banned around here.

$ grep facebook /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 facebook.com www.facebook.com
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Probably depends on where.

Here in Germany I suspect it would be mostly met with shrugs and "good riddance". Sure there would be some teenage tears, but that's to be expected.

>Not to mention WhatsApp is used by a lot of mid-sized companies as a method of rapid communication

They'll move to something else within a day, while regular people will need two.

All this stuff is easy and fast to replace - and it will be replaced almost literally over night. It has happened to messaging services and social networks in the past, and it will again. MSN and ICQ disappeared incredibly fast, as did social networks like schülerVZ/studiVZ/meinVZ in Germany.
I think its all good because Cassevah is a willing percipient! If we forced someone to do this against their will I don't think there would be much excitement... He is going for the world record so I don't think there is much misery involved.
Has your trusted friend ever said "no, that's not a good reason"?

Because, if not at least few times by the 100+ people, they are probably not providing the service you think they, but instead just agreeing with what they think you want to hear.
I am not looking forward to my gas bill indeed. Still hard to forsee that nuclear could come to the rescue in any way. Even in France they have scaled back eletric heating and will face hard times when cold weather strikes.
> environmentalists are advocating removing this capacity without accounting for the fact its replacement will be coal, oil and gas.

Could you identify any broadly accepted environmental analysis that says this? It's easy to make accusaiont

> Waste disposal is a solved problem: you put the spicy rocks back where they came from.

The waste rocks are not at all like the ones removed from the ground, in critical ways (radioactivity). Who says anything about putting them back in the original mines? Why would the original mines happen to be suitable for nuclear waste storage?
Most likely derived from the developer phrase "RTFM" (read the fucking manual)
I personally think it's a good thing. The downsides are minimal when compared to the upsides of catching criminals. Though I do hope politicians would require detailed numbers on how many crimes were prevented as a result of using such systems.
Interesting idea but you need someone to enforce land contracts and distribute person-hood contracts, so it becomes centralized.

Also it would suck for mennonites who don't want to use technology.
Me (for a client). I got it in January 2021 and deployed a few weeks later. At 10 below zero F in a fairly stiff wind natch, quite memorable :). Deployed up near 45°. This was of course a generation 1 circular unit, which actually turned out to be superior IMO since it has zero need for their router though it does have a fixed cable. I used an SFP<>ethernet adapter to bring the signal the rest of the way to our OPNsense router and bypass any grounding issues in that respect, it's functioned continuously ever since. First few months as warned there were occasional dropouts, but I could watch those steadily become rarer and rarer as the weeks went by, and the bandwidth go up as well as more sats came online. There was nothing significant long before it went officially public.

Less anecdotally, Starlink passed 400,000 customers as of a month and a half or so ago [0]. I wouldn't be surprised if it was pushing towards the half million mark now or fairly soon. They're limited now in terms of terrestrial cell density primarily, and that cannot be solved without more and more powerful sats which can actually shrink the physical cell size and improve beam count and bandwidth. Mobile/RV is therefore useful for them because it's lower priority with no guarantees, but that's ok for that usage model. The times where it will tend to be very important are in remote areas where cells are not full, and the times where cells are full there is also more likelihood of LTE, and RV can by definition move around if necessary. Maritime (or aircraft for that matter) obviously also fits those current limits, the oceans are near empty of Starlink right now and it's high revenue per user given the competition.

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0: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/25/spacexs-starlink-surpasses-4...
I'm a flight attendant for Lufthansa – we’re on the verge of collapse
Already posted this above

“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-...
You don't need a course.

Save money from each paycheck. If you're just starting, put this into an emergency fund (savings account) until you have 6 month's take-home pay saved.

Then start savings in equities. You should diversify this, i.e. in low-fee index funds. Do this in an IRA or other tax-advantaged plan your employer might offer. Don't watch this too closely or try to time the market. Just invest with every paycheck.

Understand the time value of money. Don't go into long term debt for short term needs or consumables. Live below your means so you can save more and maximize compounding gains in savings/investments.

Do these things and you are well ahead of most people. If you want to get more sophisticated at that point, look for courses or professional advice, but remember pros rarely beat the market.
This is a great way to put it. People here are bashing SOC2 because it doesn't go in-depth enough, it's just checking for the basics, it doesn't actually stop hackers from accessing insecure AWS buckets or ransomware attacks, etc etc, and they're absolutely right.

But it's meant to be a minimum. It verifies that there isn't one copy of the source code on a dev's laptop. It verifies that a dev who gets fired won't be able to log into the production server and delete all data in retaliation. It verifies that an intern isn't able to completely destroy the business by accidentally deleting the production database (because you have routinely tested backups and a documented RTO/RPO, of course). Being able to demonstrate this level of minimum competency is extremely valuable when you're in the B2B world and trying to sell your product to a larger client.

The paperwork is a hassle, but if your company is following best practices for development and operations, there shouldn't be much of a step change in what you're actually doing on a day-to-day basis.
Viasat while it has a lot of consumer facing exposure (and contracts to do things like build teleports for the DoD) is not a major player in the market of actually owning geostationary satellites. Look at entities like Intelsat and SES.
Yep, he didn’t waive due diligence he signed a contract to buy the company, impulsively and as a terrible business decision. Tech stocks crashed and now he’s holding the bag and lost funding to do the deal. While Musk’s net worth is high, he’s relatively illiquid, and 50 billion is a lot of money. Look what happened to Tesla stock when he started selling at the end of last year.

It’s unclear why Musk bought Twitter, but given his history of getting into petty spats that a CEO should be above, it seems very unlikely that it was altruistic. I wouldn’t be surprised if the only reason for buying it was to shutdown the criticism he’s been frequently the target of the platform.

Add to it his political fights, recent news that he’s fathered 9 children with 3 women, one of whom is his subordinate, fights with regulators, and news that he may have requested an erotic massage from another employee, and Musk’s behavior looks less and less befitting of a CEO, no matter how well the stock has done under his leadership.
Nim is compiled, so a dependency on a runtime or a VM is not an issue there, at least.
Most EV manufacturers are offering around 8 year/160,000-200,000km warranties on the batteries.

So not 200,000miles. But definitely covering the average usage pattern.

And not all will last that long, but the majority will. And potentially the worst case is just degradation - I.e. 200km range instead of 400km range, so still quite useful for a variety of use cases even outside of cars.
For latency and bandwidth, LEO beats GEO hands down.
Thank you! That was very observant of you and exactely the thing I was looking for.
Electron isn't that revolutionary - it's basically just shipping applications in containers. It just happens that the container is a web browser, but it could just as well be the JVM or any language runtime with a GUI layer.

The "interesting" part, if anything, is using a document-based paradigm to build a GUI-driven application, with separation of concerns between code, layout and semantics. But none of that has to be done with webcode.
It can be used as a CRUD boilerplate for Go projects (where you extend it), alternatively you may use it as a standalone REST(-ish) API backend that integrates auth and storing & retrieving state from some other app in any language. It's similar to DjangoREST which can bw used in both modes (as a base for a project written in the same language, or purely as data layer interfaced via REST)
You and a bunch of others in the thread are starting from the presumption that these people were very well compensated. But we don't have to make _only_ assumptions, you can look up some perhaps stale and perhaps biased self-reported numbers. The most convenient of these to access for recruiters at twitter (who seem to be the ones impacted) guess a median compensation of 137K, with around 94k of that as base. I think that base is just about at median income for SF for a single earner (though of course they could live elsewhere).

Other people in this thread are talking about what I understand to be hypothetical engineers with 400k compensation, and it sounds like that doesn't describe this situation.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Twitter-Recruiter-Salaries-...
https://sfmohcd.org/sites/default/files/Documents/MOH/BMR%20...
Systemd went against the whole philosophy of linux. The philosophy is to be able to choose which software you use. Systemd may have improved a lot of things, but it was a huge step backwards in terms of freedom of choice. Its creator admires Windows and the way it is designed and has tried to turn Linux into a Windows. And not to mention the careless way systemd is developed. I do not trust.

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You are not getting a mortgage in that range on that house unless you're putting 600-900K down.
What if you have no talents?

"Emerging talent"?
3d renders might win in the cloud because the default could be a render farm.

they could also be running on the top GPUs where you might locally have some low-end notebook.

I haven't used it but as one example there is Clara.io and even if Clara.io isn't perfect it at least shows a path
This was winding down about 12 months ago, unsure of the current status of it.

It's the same model they use for operating in China.

From an operational perspective this makes things very hard - as you don't actually get access to the services - you need to run an operator from the independent company through the troubleshooting / mitigation for any incident.
Now I want to know on what date and time the lowest percent of the world's population will be in sunlight.
It’s incredible to behold. Can you imagine either being a satellite comms service provider or space vehicle provider trying to acquire or raise capital to acquire your compliment to vertically integrate and reap higher margins? You’ll get laughed out of the board room or the investment bank office. And instead, SpaceX knocks it out if the park with reusability such that they say to themselves (or rather, Musk tells the board) “well, we’re about to cannibalize the launch market and we’re running out of TAM, can we launch our own satellite constellation and consume another TAM with these F9s we’ve got laying around not being productive?”
If someone needs to work to make ends meet, then yes they're working class. The capitalist class are those that make their income from the labor of others (The working class).
Plausible deniability is a thing. The CEO isn't going to be responsible if, say, some low-level employee is doing insider trading. Obviously not the case here, but it is still possible that Elizabeth Holmes and Balwani are both guilty of different things, and the latter incriminated himself more in the process.
I work on an Electron app that has multiple windows interacting with each other in all kinds of ways. It's quite possible.
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The thing with human exhalation is that this CO2 comes from the food we consume and gets captured again when food is produced thus having netzero influence on the actual CO2 in the atmosphere. Same basically applies to biodiesel. Of course that ignores energy spent to produce crops and other issues like fertilizer.

The problem is the fossil fuel that is concentrated carbon from millions of years of plants and now just adds to the CO2 in the atmosphere without a corresponding mechanism to take it out again.

If we create gasoline by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere there isn't a CO2 problem with using it for fuel. Processes exist, but all have some (major) inefficiency issues.
It would be one thing if billions and billions lead to success, but we are nowhere near a politically acceptable solution for nuclear waste.
$200K in a HCOL area with a family is middle income and you’d be hard stretched to save much if anything.

So you live like a poor person does until you've saved up enough money to deal with emergencies. Then you can live the lifestyle you desire.

It's what people have done for generations and generations. This isn't rocket science.
It also helps readability if the ! is before a function name that doesn't follow the right naming convention for it. One of my pet peeves in C is "if (!strcmp(a, b))". "!strcmp" I read as "not string compare" and I would expect it to mean that the strings don't compare when it means the exact opposite. This is true of anything following the "0 means success, anything else is an error condition" error handling scheme. So I use "if (strcmp(a, b) == 0)" instead because the "==" makes look at what value it's being compared to specifically and I make fewer assumptions.
Good question. So many of these jobs all you to work pseudonymously but your legal identity is still shared with some members of the organization (like execs/HR/finance) for onboarding purposes. Some just pay out in cryptocurrency to a wallet address.
Vigilantism without oversight, checks and balances quickly devolves into posses terrorizing and brutalizing people they simply don't like. The US has a long history of this.

Vigilantism is not the same thing as community-led policing from members of said communities.
Didn’t they do that already?
You might want to temper that with a sense of proportion.

Typically downtown locations are quite compact and it doesn’t really take a lot of gas (or electricity as the case may be) to drive around the city once in a while.

Also I imagine very few people actually do this.
France and Germany tried their hand at a publicly funded Google (search engine) competitor [0]. It is also worth reading up on EU projects such as Galileo and Gaia-X. If history is any guide, it would not likely go according to plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero
How about slow compared to Discord?
TBF Twitter kinda did tell them to live there.
> If you're running earnestly, I would argue that the hardest thing about a SOC2 is ensuring that you stick to your guns on approaches that work for you and not adding cruft that you don't care about. If you let the latter happen, you will invariably end up a box-checker, and being a box-checker eventually contaminates a robust engineering / security culture.

That's spot on, not only for SOC2 but for many, if not most, relevant certifications. The most important part is "not adding cruft". Nothing sucks like being stuck in a ISO9xxx certified process because you over-specified your processes even though you'd get the "ISO9xxx-certified" label for 10% of what you did. Suddenly you cannot react with common sense anymore because doing so would violate contracts you made with exactly those big customers you got the certification for in first place.
> It's almost a cliche at this point, but the prefrontal cortex isn't mature until between 25 and 30 on average.

That's a myth, there was a hn article on it a few months back. Could just as easily have selected 12 iirc.
>The first thing was the marriage of Barney and Robin, which was built up over the last one to two seasons and then undone within 15 minutes (and without good reason!).

First half of S5 and all of S8 and S9 depict in detail why Robin and Barney are horrible together.

>The worst thing, however, was bringing the mother in and then killing her off with basically no screen time. I mean, the whole series was about meeting her!

Nope. The kids themselves tell their father otherwise. Ted tells the story of "how I met your mother" to his kids to justify to himself why he should move on with his life and again pursue a relationship with Robin; his kids tell him that they have no problem with this, and are happy that he is interested in "Aunt Robin", who has already been a substitute mother figure for them (see "Little Boys").

>And what really killed the series for me were the last 15 minutes. I was pretty sad seeing everything that was built up over 9 seasons killed within not even two episodes and then it ends with "just kidding, the whole point of this story was just to date Robin after all".

Rewatch the show. Not just "Little Boys"; every single episode, from the first one onward (which I saw the day it aired, in September 2005), contains clues that lead the patient and observant viewer toward the ending.

Apparently 19 year-old Redditors are not the only ones who believe in TV-style 'shipping "true love", which means that the girl the guy fate says is meant for him in S1E01—in this case, the Mother—must be still The One in S9E22; any variance must be punished. They haven't yet learned that in the real world heartbreak and heartache and sad things do happen, and sometimes it's possible for two lonely old friends to find love again later in life.

To put another way: Most people are lucky to meet the love of their life.

Ted is luckier. He meets two loves of his life.
What I really want is hardware that is mounted on RV roof and can be deployed and folded with a press of a button. While I don't care if it works in motion, I do care about setup convenience, and I'm not getting current version because setting it up is just too cumbersome.

Or even better: just flat beam-forming antenna on the RV roof. Once thing there is enough on the roof is space.
Upside of working for Tesla: Build cool machines. Musk sees the upside of systems, automation, and metrics as potentially unlimited.

Downside of working for Tesla: Be treated like an obsolete machine which must be deeply manipulated in order to work like the needed object. Musk demonstrates that he sees humans as fundamentally lacking and suspect, _especially_ insofar as they represent themselves as serving his aims.

Musk is also continually caught demonstrating that he respects renegade iconoclasts and their opinions more than the rational needs of his own hardworking employees.

This is a really dangerous dichotomy for his businesses right now, since the world is rapidly changing its opinion on manipulators, and tech is a really convenient place to start with that, since it is mechanistic by default and must build on a foundation of broad ethical agreement. Once the ethical agreement fades and the group is mistreated, that foundation is gone.

IMO Musk should immediately take steps to demonstrate that he can build and support ethical community frameworks. They should be directly informed by those who help him make all of his systematizing dreams come true. (If this sounds boring or silly to him, he should find his place of best fit in the overall system of business development, probably focusing on continually starting projects from the ground up with simpatico groups.)

The rest of his ethics focus (support for individual values, freedoms, & positions) is way too personal and will continue allowing group-ethics blind spots to go neglected. It's long-term drawing way too much goodwill from his employees, their families, drivers of his cars, the investors, etc.
you can enjoy The City & the City by China Miéville then
Or it's an incentive to use cheaper energy. In my area gas is cheaper than electricity, but policy tries to push folks to use electricity. It would make more sense to drive down the cost of electricity so that it is the economic choice as well as the environmental one.
In Quebec the health system (RAMQ) is culture. Everyone is incredibly proud of it (much like the NHS), while also understanding that it is underfunded and struggling. Immigrants understand they will never get a GP unless they move to the country because GP places are gerrymandered, but locals rarely experience this problem.

In Quebec, a few restaurants with foreign sounding names is enough to trigger the anti-multicultural police. God forbid they should have menu items with arabic or Chinese names.

The immigrants do all the shit jobs with low pay. But without them critical services wouldn't happen. I don't call that an immigrant problem. If you count building schools for their children a burden then yes, growth is a burden. Rich people snort cocaine like hoovers but no one counts them as part of the drug problem, but the entire Haitian ethnic group gets called drug dealers.
It's true that sometimes $5k is pocket change when owning a boat :(