skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discerning the Dominant Out-of-Order Performance Advantage: Is It Speculation O [pdf]
Here's a difference: you or I could get on a boat with little difficulty besides sea sickness and wobbly legs. On a rocket, you or I would die or suffer from other physical ailments caused by simply being in space and in different gravitational environments for extended periods of time. This isn't an unknown, it's a known.

On the ocean, you could land on a island, fish at sea, or be lucky and have rain provide water. In space, you have nothing, and guaranteed nothing for weeks, months at a time. Again, this is not an unknown, this is a known.

We're just simply a large number of significant innovations behind where going to Mars is unfeasible, physically and monetarily (namely, human physical/mental limits in space travel, time, supplies/oxygen, emergency response, funding (think of how expensive a single un-manned mission is), etc.)

It would be akin to telling the vikings to make an airplane. They would first need to discover engines, improved metallurgy, electricity, and a thousand other things before it would be possible and practical. The idea of a flying machine has been around for thousands of years, but only in the last hundred or so was it actually possible, and only the last 75 or so practical for an average commercial person. And even then, airplanes can always get more oxygen because they're within Earth's atmosphere.

To make one thing clear, I'm excited about the prospect of interspace travel (how could anyone not be?!) But, Mars as a goal is _so_ far off that it obscures and hides the reality of the steps and innovations that we'd need to make along the way before we can seriously make an effort to do anything productive on Mars that wouldn't be easier, cheaper, safer, and more effective closer to Earth.
I was commenting on @TheChaplain saying they'd do their "absolute best up to the minute I have to leave" and offering an opinion asymetric loyalty in tech businesses. Thats all I was commenting on. I think thats pretty clear.
This conversation isn't in the context of the concept of prisons, or even crime and punishment in general. It's specifically about solitary confinement which, along with corporal punishment, is torture that does permanent damage to someone. If you're going to countenance torture (or capital punishment), the very least you can do is is consider the likelihood of them being innocent.

Yes, the scene you describe is appalling. And, from reports, not uncommon in the States. Would I be in the right state of mind to make effective policy or humane decisions after that trauma? No. Would a reasonable person want revenge? Probably. Would a systematic revenge-based system lead to more or less miserable outcomes?

The US has the highest rate of incarcerations in the world. Is that working?

Putting so much effort into punshiment and so little into prevention smacks of revenge rather than wanting to actually improve things.
Yep, base 20 with a "sub-base" of 5.

I was more surprised that it is a fairly recent system. Apparently it was developed by 9 students in 1994.
Wiring for me has been a waste of time. I spent a good amount of time wiring the house with cat 6 cabling. I had our TV on a hard wired network which felt great, no drop outs, no wifi noise. I then bought a roku box and left on wifi for a while. Its still on wifi, works great and kept it there. Family mostly uses wifi now, no PCs using the hard-won ethernet jacks.
> And iron flow batteries exist at the same price point (or significantly lower if we pretend your $500/kWh comparison was an accurate representation of medium term price trends

This was the net cost of storage, including construction, power transformers, etc. Batteries are around $150 of that cost. Note that even zero cost batteries won't eliminate more than about a third of the total cost.

What are the production figures for iron flow batteries? Also, can you point me to a market that sells them? I can see places that sell lithium ion and lithium iron phosphate batteries[1], but no such results for iron redox.

And we'll see how far sodium ion batteries go. Scaling from literally zero to 400 GWh in the span of two years is rather optimistic to put it lightly.

1. https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwioxYW9y4j7AhW9MK0...
It’s great for you that you can move on so quickly, but I think it’s a mistake to assume others can or should. Your experience is not the same as others, and your situation isn’t either.

In my case, I have pets and a young child living with me. The dogs may get over the violated sense of safety quite easily, but my little girl likely wouldn’t. It’s imperative to her healthy development that I be able to provide her a safe, secure place to live that also feels safe and secure.

Call me selfish but that overrides my concerns for the chaotic state of other peoples’ lives: their problems do not entitle them to harm my family.
This is nothing new, I remember an episode of “That’s Incredible!” from the early 80s that featured a bunch of college students that created a car that got 100 miles per gallon. The problem has always been that advancements in clean power get bought up by the oil companies and buried. That sucks for consumers in the hear and now, but it is a really smart move by big oil - if the petrol gravytrain ever runs dry big oil can fall back on their extensive patent portfolios and continue to be front and center in the energy game no matter where it is played.

I wouldn’t be surprised if all those wind farms that have popped up in the mid-west were actually owned by some subsidiary of an oil company.
Aesthetics aren't the same as quality, right?

Also, I would say writing bad code makes the code very inaccessible...just like burying important infrastructure in a wall.

Did that water leak last year cause mild growth in the wall? Don't know without some demolition! Want to upgrade your piping or electrical? Gotta destroy some wall, hooray, and then do more work to hide it again. Lunacy.
This is an entirely different battery chemistry, it's not even using lithium.
There was a German General who classified people into 4 categories based on if they were hardworking, lazy, smart, or stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Cl...

Interesting read of his wikipedia.

He is regarded as "an undisguised opponent" of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

As far as epitaphs go, you could certainly do worse.
Fair - it would be more accurate to say "If I paid for treatment and it's effective then I don't care whether it's treating ADHD or some other issue - or if it's treating nothing but I have the impression that it is"

i.e. The outcome is important to me regardless of the how and why.

I wonder if there's a term for that? Feels like there must be.
Slave labor continued - the 14th amendment clearly spells it out : "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States[...]"
One thing I think people often forget is the HUGE economic loss by having these people in prison. There are 5.5M people in the US correctional system. The vast majority of these are probably capable of contributing maybe $50k per year in productivity. That's $250B/yr in lost economic productivity! That's about 1% of GDP! HUGE!

We would all have 1% more stuff, on average, if these people were working instead of in prison.

This may not seem like a lot, but recall that in antiquity growth rates were much less than 1% annually, and in modern times we hope for ~2% growth, and might get zero or negative growth this year. 1% more would be a huge boost, especially after compounding that over many years.

This also doesn't account for the cost of actually keeping them in prison, which is higher than the cost of them living as free people.

All that to say, our prison system has an absolutely massive opportunity cost that must be taken into account. Obviously for some criminals this is a cost that must be paid. For most, it's probably not worth it.

https://www.statista.com/topics/1717/prisoners-in-the-united...
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp
From what I've learned on YT, using quick drying mud and mixing it yourself (not using the premixed stuff in plastic containers), is the key to smooth finishes. Mostly because it hardens quickly and doesn't shrink. I used the 40m quick dry and it was quite easy to work with. You're right, feathering correctly... no sanding needed.
This is nice but misses one vital step IMO: Do your basic web surfing in a disposable VM.

The article mentions using a disposable VM to view email attachments but considering how much malware is delivered through the web I like to keep my web activity highly comparmentalized by default. The trick is to configure the browser and set your bookmarks etc first in the disposable app vm template. You can even have some accounts pre logged in, ideally using Firefox's container tab system for extra security.

For a more advanced setup: I have one dispvm template for general web surfing and another for my social activity, with container tabs and live logins for various social platforms, and then a third dispvm template where I'm logged in to some things I care more about like Google Docs. Then all my really sensitive stuff is in a fourth, non disposable vm where I only use it for things like bank, mutual fund, 401k, credit cards, etc (all in container tabs for extra security). No web surfing ever in that vm.
I probably wasn’t clear. I’m putting developers and ops people all in the same “skilled computer people” pot. And I think so would Musk and Ellison.
But then how do you decide when to let people out again? Why do we have time limits on sentences?
PoE is a huge reason why CAT-x cabling will be around for a long time.
"Legality" is going to vary wildly - if you are carrying fuel in the trunk, you're probably pretty restricted, but you may be able to get away with various other mounting options - and I'm sure you can buy them even if you can't run them.

I'd also search out "off road" people and forums, though they may not specialize in your vehicle, they probably know the various rules and regulations.

https://www.zuksoffroadcanada.ca/Gas-Tank-15-Gallon_p_997.ht... does exist, so I'm sure there's things out there. People modifying vehicles for Nunavut or the Australian Outback would be places I'd start.

So do things like : https://masterhitch.com/catalog/truck-suv-accessories/auxili... but I'd be a bit wary of bolting gas tanks to the rear bumper/trailer hitch myself.

And many rules will stop applying once you are "off road" whatever that means in your area.
NASA and ESA Agree on Next Steps to Return Mars Samples to Earth
I have never seen coax running in a conduit in a residential setting in the USA.
What I had more in mind was e.g. linking between different documents, images, tables, footnotes etc. I guess most of these are possible (depending on your Markdown flavor), but largely very awkward.
Surely you could save some money by doing the painting yourself? Is it all or nothing there? In the States drywall and paint are two separate crews.
I use Bluetooth every time with my car and I never have a connection problem. I use an old iPhone and my car is 5 years old.

It may be an issue with GP’s car rather than the protocol itself. Turning your car off and on for Bluetooth sounds particularly stupid. I can unpair and pair my car without restarting it.
This is like saying you should be able multiply 4-digit numbers without a calculator. Is it possible? Yes. Is it something anybody uses outside of school? No. In practice it's a skill that's pretty much useless because using a calculator (or debugger in the case of OP) is both faster and easier. I myself got very good at mental arithmetic during math competitions, but 20 years later I find that I've forgotten most of the tricks because I never use it.
I've never been somewhere that won't let you fall back to some kind of manual method if something is wrong with the internet. But as long as it's up, it's nice to just pay on your own rather than flag down a server.

This is especially the case if you have kids. You don't have total control over when a meltdown is going to happen, so it's nice to be able to pay quick and bail. If you're just a couple adults, the extra time isn't as big a deal.
Doesn't that become a transactional approach. "If I rob this bank I have a 50% chance of getting away with $1m and 50% chance of going to jail for 5 years, that means the value is $200k/year"
Definitely -- bullying, off the cuff insults, etc. However, that seemed pretty common for most inmates regardless of what they did.
I'm having trouble seeing where the two of you actually disagree. You're both arguing for a middle approach, what the Greeks would call "moderation"; neither of you care about every detail about what others think, but both of you do track their possible responses in order to fit in at least some of the time in "low cost" situations. Both of you go your own way when the stakes seem higher to you. I think it's more the word-tags you tend to prefer when describing boors that divides you, which is to say, semantics (of a kind.)
You are unlikely to need to retire a 10 year old EV. Aside from the early Nissan Leafs, EV batteries are easily lasting more than 10 years. That gives you several years on the used car market. Remember that by 12 years, half of ICEVs are scrapped.

There have been pilot projects that take batteries from EVs where the range has dropped too far to be useful and put those into stationary installations. The batteries are used in buildings to store power from solar panels.

One problem cited by people working on recycling batteries is that the batteries are lasting a lot longer than initial estimates and the number of batteries that have degraded significantly or have failed outright is rather small. It’s hard to setup a reuse or recycling industry if the supplies are so small.

As more cars get to be 10, 15, or more years old, more will degrade to where they are no longer fit for vehicle service or the batteries will fail. That will feed back into the resume/recycle processes.
Do you think the economy is zero sum? Go back 50k years, all the current wealth must have been distributed among a mere 50k cavemen. Were they all billionaires? Quality of life must have been amazing for them.

When you go into the woods and stack rocks into a house, you created value. What part of the economy shrank?
This point has already been made several times in this thread, but you typed “if” several times in that comment.

Nobody on here knows the details, this is just a rorschach test.
Anyone interested would enjoy reading about John Boyd, head of the Fighter Mafia:

https://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/031...
"So is prison meant to reform or punish?"

I think it's meant to remove.
Have you ever used a manual focus lens on a mirrorless camera with focus-peaking[1] on? It's so easy to focus, it feels like cheating. It makes a 50mm usable wide open. (This is assuming your subject is relatively static or at least cooperative. Small children and animals really benefit from autofocus or a smaller aperture.)

1. For those unfamiliar with the term, focus peaking is a feature of most mirrorless cameras that highlights areas of the image that are in focus, usually in bright red. It makes it very intuitive to adjust the focus precisely, so much so that you soon find yourself subconsciously making fine adjustments by leaning slightly forward or back, rather than manipulating the lens.
Twitter trolls bombard platform after Elon Musk takeover
I do not see what point you are making. Care to reformulate?
I like Black and Pylance, which is backed up pyright. Pylance and VS Code for dev time analysis (even though it has a few annoying issues like auto-importing the wrong paths) and pyright for "build" and test time analysis.

I set black to a longer line length like 100 or 110 depending on who I'm working with. Black makes sure everything has consistent formatting.
Yes, batteries are in short supply. We have been increasing battery supplies, energy density, and reducing nickel and cobalt for a decade. Theres's basically endless demand today.
I'm sorry but your comments are basically standard and inccurate fud against EVs.

Tesla already announced they were going to make their us charging network support the us ccs standard for charging. In Europe they have been rolling it out to all cars (that all use the same standard plug) for a few years. Tesla chargers in Europe that are already working for competitor cars are not ruinously expensive. The reason tesla got so much market share was their competitors are very threatened by the transition to a completely new drive train, making their billions of dollars in investments in design of ICE engines, but also the entirety of mufflers, alternators, emissions controls, spark plugs just worthless scrap over time. Of course they all wanted to keep doing something like an ice engine, Toyota wanted hydrogen, etc.
I'm admittedly American, but I've literally never heard "megameters" used outside of a classroom. I know what 1000km is like without thinking, but I have no immediate intuition for a megameter is unless I think about it.
Are they also blocking 5061 SIP-TLS?
The compile time function execution enables allocation with `new` and it handles initialization, etc.
Whether PII is publicly available or not doesn't matter, they are still processing and storing it without consent. This works differently from "expectation of privacy" in the US, for example, where often anything is fair game as long as you can trace it back to a public space.

You could literally staple your business card to your building's front door and they can't use it without explicit consent. Heck, the other day I called my legal insurance and the lawyer they referred me to initiated the conversation with reading out a GDPR disclosure because he needed my insurance number and needed to sync it with the insurance company (a third party), which meant transferring PII.
Thanks for correcting, still extremely slow.
> Where I am, we used to have a different, "nerdy" ISP [Xs4all]

I remember Xs4all, sorry to hear they went under.

I also miss the brief moment when we had line sharing on copper telco networks in the United States. Most people were perfectly happy with the standard offerings from their local telco, but those of us who wanted more could connect with an ISP who offered service via a dry pair DSL connection. I loved my time on Speakeasy, for example.

I remember all of the flaws with the line sharing system, too, but it actually worked for the short time we had it, in spite of the problems. Asking a niche ISP to build its own facilities-based network is an exercise in futility for many deployments. Of course, cities or counties or public utility districts could do it but the incumbent providers don't like that.
'Minority Report', in addition to throwing in a whole bunch of filler, flips the whole point of the thing into something deeply Hollywood.
Probably for the sweet, sweet 6GHz.
agreed, they're the only ones doing something about it.

My line should have been not paying enough attention to, in my opinion of course.

I'm just thinking out loud here, but a project that starts with federation onto it's core, might beat them to delivering best UX/DX with it.

Maybe it's worth exploring the fork option, but I really wanted a clean slate for this. Found gitoxide (git implemented in rust) which could be a good base.
There are lots of things I want, there's nothing I really need. The problem with an unlimited budget is that you don't have unlimited space to put it in.

I want more plywood. So I can build more cabinets.

I want a new Jura. Because my current one is approaching 12 years.

I want to find a cheaper source of IPA. Because a Form3 WashL drinks more alcohol than an Irishman at the bar on payday.

I need every job I've ever had to understand that more management of my time, or more meetings to discuss the issue, doesn't get the problem solved any faster.

I need my dog to not have terminal cancer.
May also be time to look for another boss if that is the case.
This is bad, but what Tesla has done is much worse, not least because they will probably lead the way for bad decisions industry wide, and anything "novel" they do is probably a sign of things to come from other manufacturers trying to be "hip".

There is no longer anything useful on the dash above the wheel. No speedometer, odometer, battery level indicator, repair lights, nothing. All of it is integrated into the infotainment unit on the dead center of the dash. Similarly, there are no knobs or real buttons anywhere on the center of the dash; it's all touch screen. All of it. I wanted to moan about it the entire time I was in the car, but I didn't want to just complain about my friend's nice new vehicle.

The F-150 lightning I test-drove similarly has all of the climate control and music controls stuffed into infotainment center with no physical knobs or dials to be found. If you read online, you will also find that its infotainment center is notoriously slow. Otherwise, it's a very nice truck.

Tesla is basically the Apple of EVs right now. Leading the way in some really interesting technology and features while causing potentially irreparable long-term damage to the health of the industry overall (think storage-tier pricing and the removal of all but USB-C ports/headphone jacks).

Edit: found this video in the Twitter thread linked in the article 1. Actually what the Cadillac is doing here (particularly with the doors) is aggregious. Tesla has added an additional step to opening doors from the outside (you push your thumb in first and then grab the handle) which is something you can become accustomed to in one fluid motion. At least it looks kind of nice and is only mildly less convenient than traditional handles. The push-to-release-pull-side-of-door-because-theres-no-handle mechanism on the Cadillac is absolutely braindead.

Seeing this video and multiple other new cars in person, I've also noticed a disturbing trend of changing the hatch opening mechanism. Before: manually open the hatch assisted by hydraulics which prop the door open until manually closed. Now: automatically open the hatch (slowly) on a button press and close it (slowly) on a button press. What's the problem here? Apart from being actually worse UX once the novelty wears off, the second mechanism is much more failure prone over the lifetime of the vehicle. The nice salesman at the Ford dealership actually told me off for trying to manually close the frunk on the Lightning because he was afraid I'd break it!

My honest opinion is that these changes all point in one direction but cut two ways. 1. Increase revenue by increasing standardization and eliminating many pieces from the manufacturing process (at the expense of UX/longevity) and 2. Mitigate the lost recurring revenue due to how much more reliable EVs are than ICEs by introducing new failure modes masked as modern features for plausible deniability.

1. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/sirCpkqvpE0?feature=share
I won’t speak to the extent that oil/fossil fuel business has suppressed clean energy (not that I’m disputing it, I think it’s more complicated though and don’t care to comment on that in this context). But I will say I’ve seen huge wind farms built atop huge, now-idle oil operations eg across large parts of central Texas. Never looked into whether they’re owned by the same oil companies but it sure wouldn’t surprise me.