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There is so much confusion, misinformation and naive testing about this topic.
I've only learned about this "80% battery thing" when researching EVs recently and it seems to have been (maybe) spawned by the Nissan Leaf many years ago.

And now it's appearing on HN seemingly once a week. What has changed? Is someone running an information(or disinformation) campaign? Blog or app to promote?

I've not spoken earlier for fear of being downvoted into oblivion: I am sorry to say, but this 80% nonsense is just ... terrible advice and is 90% wrong. Like "skipping a daily coffee will let you retire 10 years sooner" wrong. (And all these lovely graphs I see thrown around are from poorly setup and poorly controlled tests using small samples or maybe even they're faked idk).

To be horribly simplistic about it, the biggest factor in battery ageing is thermals. So if you want actionable advice on increasing the longevity of your battery (in the mobile phone context):

Don't let it get hot, which means things like:

* Take off that awful plastic insulator you call a phone case. (But we need phone cases)

* Charge it slowly. Lower charge rate = less heat = happier battery. (But people love charging their phone in 1 minute)

* Charge at human ambient temperature. (But on my bed, in the sun is easier)

I guess those are inconvenient and poor sound bites. I'm sorry, but consumer devices (especially phones) have poor thermals and the environment they're subjected to sucks. That's just a fact of life (and economics and physics).

Very simplistically, the only way "charge to 80% only" *might* be helping you is by keeping the battery cooler (In which case the above advice is much better).
Out of curiosity how do you guys mentally interpret the data size when reading about a hack/leak story? 45GB? Do you think 10s of millions of text files? A few DVD rips? a server backup?

It seems so useless but is always portrayed as the "wow look at that number!" part of any leak/hack story
And that's without power saving mode? Impressive!

Have you configured anything like "disable background network activity"?

Do you force close the apps?
> The use of environmentally damaging gases in air conditioners and refrigerators could become redundant if a new kind of heat pump lives up to its promise. A prototype, described in a study published last week in Science [1], uses electric fields and a special ceramic instead of alternately vaporizing a refrigerant fluid and condensing it with a compressor to warm or cool air.

"High cooling performance in a double-loop electrocaloric heat pump" (2023)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi5477
Now try to explain that to a person in their 70s that are thrice removed from tech industry while they're trying to check their bank account balance.

I agree with you 100%, I wish we went for much secure way. Unfortunately UX friction and pre-established ideas will make it way harder to roll out to the general public.
It is interesting how this works out over time.

I've had my 6.7kW grid-tied array for about 3.5 years, long enough to be fairly confident that it generates between 90 and 95% of our annual electrical needs.

However, we heat with electricity (heat pumps), and so our array generates 3x what we need in the non-heating season, and 1/3rd of what we need during heating season.

In the first year, I paid very close attention to stats about the system. Now, I know if makes no difference, really. It doesn't matter when I run appliances, when I recharge batteries etc. Nothing is going to change the basic facts I've just mentioned.

HOWEVER ... jump ahead a little into the future. It is possible that it may make a lot more difference to a smart grid when and how I feed the excess generated power and suck the extra power I need, and they may well want more control over that. For example (as described in TFA), they may want me to have batteries on-site to hold the daytime excess and let it dribble back to the grid overnight. Or the opposite, because they have their own commercial scale storage. It's not hard to envisage a future that moves from "I (the owner) doesn't care much about timing" to "We (the grid) care a lot about timing".
How many motherboards did you need to supply PCIe lanes to all of those P40s?

I have a similarly-sized pile of MI25s and recently managed to get a eight of them running in a single plentiful-on-ebay supermicro motherboard (custom bifurcating fanout-riser, x8 to each card). It was a "learning experience".

Falcon 180B, 4-bit quantization fits in VRAM and works, but
at under 10tokens/sec because llama.cpp's support for multi-GPU on AMD is kind of an afterthought.
To me, its just a jobs creation program and not an energy reduction strategy by the US government. The incentives are around 55% (state in Federal combined where I live) at this point until 2033, and what program gets subsidized like that, unless its an absolute failure to start with?

I get solar, technically. I don't get the business of it ...
I had a quick look and it seems that the Brisbane claim is contentious (like these things often are), according to Australian Geographic:

Brisbane claims the earliest jacaranda tree in Australia, planted in 1864, but the Sydney Botanic Garden jacaranda is dated at “around” 1850, and jacarandas were listed for sale in Sydney in 1861.

Either way they've been here quite a while, and longer than many family lines that consider themselves Australian. The midwife story I mentioned is also contentious because there are a few myths going around about North Sydney in particular, but I think the one from Sutherland had some facts backing it up, including a man who remembered gathering them as a child.
IIRC the limit right now is per CPU socket memory bandwidth and inter-socket bandwidth. There just isn't enough bandwidth available to treat dual socket Xeon or EPYC systems as a single node ans the networks colocating their appliances aren't able to steer connections to the NICs in the same NUMA domain as the NVMe storage holding the data users want.
And my point is that "Muslim communities bombed Israel" is not an obviously reasonable statement. If Reuters or AP posted an article with that phrasing, I'd wonder if some party other than Hamas was fighting Israel now. At that point, why not just say "Muslims bombed Israel"? It's technically true but also wildly disingenuous. You'd have to qualify it with a bunch of details in order to make it an honest, good-faith statement.
That's a joke, right? The battery held a charge for 6 years?!
> USDC doesn't pay interest

Coinbase, who co-founded USDC, absolutely pays interest on USDC: https://www.coinbase.com/usdc

(they call it rewards instead of interest in an attempt to avoid regulation, but it is functionally the same thing)
Bro. Literally We do not have an honest statement about the details of WHY he's fired. We are all in the dark.

The logical answer is to be neutral. But everyone is exploding and thinking the board is full of mentally retarded simpletons.

Like seriously. Tell me which is more likely? That the board is mentally retarded or that there's some reasoning here that we don't know about?

HN is a mob. And I like the mobs take: The entire board of several people is coincidentally ALL mentally retarded and we should make them all resign. That's clearly the most rational and most likely analysis of what happened here.
I wouldn’t normally post video content featuring myself but this video was particularly well received.

Since it was published, people pointed out two mistakes I made:

1. Go has been able for a while now to export dynamic libraries. My knowledge was from before that time and I also got confused, thinking that you could not export C ABI functions at all, while in fact you can. That said, having a runtime still makes Go not a viable C replacement in the most direct sense of the expression.

2. Zig used to only support pointer arithmetic by converting the pointer to an int, applying the operation, and then converting it back to a pointer. Since a few months ago, `[*]T` (and related) started supporting arithmetic. That’s a pointer type that you don’t touch directly often, as you normally would use a slice (ptr + len).
Public Libraries on the internet need to be static websites where anyone can read a book in the browser. Which means you need one more static website that knows which book is hosted at which library.

Obviously all of these sites need to run without JavaScript and the funding has to come from Companies interested in hiring educated folks who have read a few books. Every book needs to be in the language it was written in and in the public domain but that goes without saying.

People will figure out how to find and read a book from one of these online libraries if they want to.
Turns out probably not, because the grid infrastructure is quite expensive.
Hmm, that contract revision _would_ have been grounds for dismissing Sam, if only the board had known...?

The current story is that the board scrambled to find unconvincing grounds when explaining themselves to employees instead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38356534
Try Orbstack:
https://orbstack.dev

It’s amazing.
Already addressed in another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38358542
They found a monolith, but are saying it’s an epidemic
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/12/greek-finance-...
Save your time. This pseudo-journalism is based on three tweets from musk which don't support the clickbait headline.
I wouldn't focus too much on current battery specs. Any sort of mass-rollout is going to take long enough that battery tech may be very different when it happens. There's a lot going on with improvements to existing tech as well as new chemistries and designs.

I generally think the same was as you do, but for solar installs. While I think it's great that people choose to add solar to their homes, I think society shouldn't be subsidizing it until we've done more to cover commercial rooftops and other, more maintainable installation sites.
Where is the state of the art at with self-driving two wheeled vehicles?
Yes, and many of those DMVs share those photos with upstream agencies, which reduces the problem.
> Sure, it all seems to work for now... and then a customer signs up from Tuvalu, and performs a billable action at 11:59PM on the last day of the month, and your whole billing system falls over because they now have a split invoice generated for next month while it's still this month.

Then you issue a refund and fix the problem, not lock everyone out of the system.
Irritates the shit out of me that my Solar Edge inverter cannot give me a data feed without talking to the company. I want to run the data collection and presentation service locally, not on their cloud.
Most of the world does SMS 2fa without an issue. It is only a problem in the US where anyone can pretend to be anyone else, take over their identity, SSN, mobile number, take a loan in their name etc etc.
it's weird how much i love the fonts from my childhood. these new fonts are cool but i dont have that weird emotional connection
Mistral have created a docker image which hosts their model in vllm. Vllm creates an openai like http API interface.

https://docs.mistral.ai/quickstart/
Where is the comparison with markdown? Coming from a quarto/Rstudio background here
Yes, 15 minutes or less. There's like 3 screws to undo on the battery clamp and 4-5 for the camera or whatever. That's it.

I suppose yes it was a not stuck together as well as a new phone.. I wouldn't know since a certified Google place had fixed it prior. So if it was stuck together like new, it would have taken me a few extra minutes with a heat gun. Still much much faster than having a pro do it for me.
I'm wondering if full Desktop Excel (with VBA) will be compatible with this.
You forgot to mention that error messages suck and that the standard workflow of invoking latex twice, then placing chicken feathers one the picture your first love, running bibtex, and finally running latex three more times ( or four if it's a full moon ) also sucks.
Written by: Mike Judge
No one assembles hunter-killer squads to specifically take out enemy tanks with such a crappy weapon. Instead, you provide them because its "better than nothing" if you happen to run up against an enemy tank.

Furthermore: there are lesser vehicles, such as Humvees and IFVs that have thinner armor where these anti-tank guns would work better against.

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Actual anti-tank hunter-killer groups used guided missiles even as early as the 1960s (with Nazi designs from the 1940s!!!), and today use automated fire-and-forget homing missiles.

Guided missiles have far more range and reliability. Early guided weapons were just a radio (or even a wire attached to the rocket in the earliest designs).
I am firmly on the side of Ilya and the Board on this. Yes it could have been handled better (easy to say for us who have no "emotional baggage" nor "skin in the game") but it is what it is. There must have been a precipitating factor which we still don't know. Somebody needs to standup for them.

When i look at the various comments across the various posts on this topic i am ashamed of the people in the Tech. Industry. There is just unbridled greed where it seems folks would sell their own mother for money. While i am no better than most of my fellow humans when it comes to love of money, i hope i have some moral/ethical compass which will allow me to make better decisions when it comes to societal altering technologies. Ilya and his team stood for something and we need to encourage such moral/ethical stands in the industry.

Sam Altman is just a business schmoozer and hustler who seems to have only gotten to where he is due to patronage by other well-established folks and not due to any inherent technical vision/mastery/knowledge. He is replaceable but the brains behind the technology is not.
What you've likely seen of executives is 15 minutes of face time after 7 weeks of vicious Game of Thrones behind the scenes. It's a curated image.
Key is that Microsoft will let them run as a seperate company like Github and LinkedIn
As an advertiser, I'm not sure that I care about "brand damage" for fake accounts that only follow nazis, with fake traffic generated; just don't charge me for it.
depending on where you live, that's where grid pricing comes from.
I live in Italy and in my solar panels I have a kind of net-metering (not quite, since I need still to pay transports costs for the energy I buy back from the grid). In a year, they will phase out this regime and every person with a solar array will become a "producer". Energy company will pay the gross market price for the energy that you feed to the grid (and this price it's updated hourly if not more often). That will essentially do what you suggest: owners will start caring more about timing, and the grid will benefit. If you still don't care and want to feed the grid at the time when everybody else is also.. well the energy won't be paid much. And viceversa
The batteries are too expensive. Buying the batteries in the form of a tesla model 3 costs almost the same as just an equivalent kWh in powerwalls.
Yes, but what surprises me is that HR is not that smart usually like you are saying, they don't think out what is in the best interest of the company but rather usually just side with a middle manager's opinion, at least with big companies. With smaller companies, execs are more in touch with line managers and employees, they still look after the company period but at least it is not a wasteful kelptocracy.
Much longer lasting and more easily recyclable batteries do exist, iron nickel batteries for example, which are extremely robust, last for decades, and can be melted down and rebuilt when they do fail. But of course have the downside of costing a lot more for the same amount of energy storage because nickel is pretty expensive.

I wouldn't bet on them being that common of a battery in the future, but if I wanted a battery that would last me the rest of my life and I had the money to put down for it, I would probably put my money on an iron nickel battery.
It's part of a broader objective because many of these projects are fueled by both private organizations and public for-profit organizations. Yes, this is indeed part of a broader objective to sell more of this technology. Lots of ARPA money out and about right now.
If you do a board coup, surely, you then use the best fake reasons you can muster to justify your decision. Why would they hold back giving answers they know wouldn't satisfy anyone and just inspire further anger?

First thought: buying time? Maybe something has to happen first, and they don't want to commit to any irrevocable slander they can't
go back on before that? Or maybe, something was supposed to happen but fell through?
Emmett was a part-time YC partner.

So there might be bad bad blood and he's doing it to spite YC, or it could be that he's in the loop with the insider chat and is stepping up to rescue what money they can and the VCs will pat him on the back?
Yep! There's even a term for it -- this is called a bit-paired keyboard.
I can highly recommend ACC (and the ACCA app [1] for setup). It lets me limit my phone to 90% charge with the ability to ignore the limit temporarily when I need to. That's very useful for fixing the battery calibration, which can go bad when using ACC.

It has reduced my battery wear by 40-50% according to Accubattery's capacity graph.

[1] https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA
That makes kinda sense, a Tesla is mostly batteries anyway.

Jokes aside, how much batteries do you need? A Tesla Model 3 has 60kWh. That's a lot of battery. For my residential needs (I have solar panels) I would be looking at maybe 10kWh.
As someone whos home is directly underneath two of them: their flowers somehow get through 2mm gutter guard mesh, and rot (which is annoying as heck and slippery if you're not paying attention).

They're pretty, for sure, but they're not without their detractors
It's always nice to have options.
100% agree. I've seen this type of thing up close (much smaller potatoes but same type of thing) and whatever is getting aired publicly is most likely not the real story. Not sure if the reasons you guessed are it or not, we probably won't know for awhile but your guesses are as good as mine.
> If you think people in oppressive regimes get due process in court then I have a bridge to sell you.

Plenty of respected countries with strong civil liberties don't have US-style free speech laws. Holocaust denial in Germany is a crime, but you'll absolutely get full due process first.

> I think you will concede that there is a speech line which can be crossed beyond which you will be fired. Otherwise people could just be cruel and mean to everyone around them and face no consequences.

Merely ten or twenty years ago it would've been very mainstream to say that people have every right to be as cruel or mean as they like as long as they don't cross from word to action, and that while private individuals might well shun someone who was known to be cruel and mean in their private capacity, it would be a bizarre overreach for an employer to fire them because they were cruel and mean off the clock, or a business to refuse to serve them because they were cruel and mean outside of their relations with that business.

> Even if we’re not talking about official action and are talking about group vigilantism, I think we’d agree that if someone had well documented nazi and racist activities outside of work that it would be ok for people to ostracize that person?

I think it's obviously ok for people to not want to be friends with a person like that, and to not allow them in their social clubs. Equally I think it would obviously not be ok to lock them up, confiscate their property, or deny them medical treatment - certainly not without full due process, and even then, political opinions (again, as long as they remain opinion and don't pass from speech to act) are something explicitly recognised as a human right in the UN charter. In a country with a strong social safety net, refusing to employ someone doesn't come close to any of that - but in a country where no job means no medical coverage and a real risk of losing access to food and shelter...
Probably need to dig up those info, because I keep remembering they were on Dual Socket 64core Zen 3 with PCI-e 4 and DDR 4. The 128Core Zen4C with more memory channel and DDR5 should be able to push further.
Agreed! Yet in 2014 Sam Altman accepted Quora into one of YC's batches, saying [0]

> Adam D’Angelo is awesome, and we’re big Quora fans

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch
The best way to run docker is on Linux ;)

The reason it sucks on Mac is because docker uses underlying Linux tech. So to get around that docker on Mac runs in a lightweight Linux VM.
How is this any different than my using my own AWS Account and spinning up an EC2 Windows instance in a pinch like I’ve done before?

(Yes I’m self aware enough to know that this might end up being my BrandonM moment)
maybe they have their own 'good' reasons to sabotage openAI
Why is a 50 seater trying ti compete with 737s when 737s have 120-150 pax capacity. It seems like you should compete with ER175s and other regional jets instead. If you’re aiming to compete for thin MH routes then wouldn’t slots at airports be an issue for such thin routes?
That's what a board of a for-profit company which has a fiduciary duty towards shareholders should do.

However, the OpenAI board has no such obligation. Their duty is to ensure that the human race stays safe from AI. They've done their best to do that ;-)
Ilya has is own pocketbook to worry about. The independent board members have a duty to the non-profit’s vision, mission, and ethical bounds. M$ needs how many board members to flip positions in order to put their ROI before all of that?
If you want to automate FreeBSD deployments on Hetzner Cloud you can try:

https://github.com/paulc/hcloud-freebsd

(Allows you to provision instances using either the hcloud utility/web uni with ssh key/user-data support)
No single person owns Tesla. It's a publicly traded company, Elon does not have majority ownership nor control of the board. Anyone can buy shares and take ownership or run for the board.
SIM swapping is a problem in most countries.
It's not as though the TeX algorithms are secret and can't possibly be recreated elsewhere.
What's the alternative? Government-issued FIDO2 keys? Good luck with that.
Not sure what you mean; OpenGL is still alive and kicking. Apple doesn't like it, but on Linux it's still the dominant way of interacting with the GPU. Vulkan will likely overtake OpenGL at some point, but I think we're quite a ways off from that.
A classic rant by Rich Hickey: https://youtu.be/aSEQfqNYNAc?si=XBVI4cAtUlSPSU-v

I say this even though I don’t usually code this way: I think the big benefit for business code is sort of a constrained flexibility.

Objects tend to get really big (the alternative is you have a ton of classes). Think about all the data that makes up one Uber ride. So if I want to do anything with a Ride, I need everything. An even the many classes thing doesn’t really solve that because maybe what I want is cross-cutting. So either way, I just end up having to supply a bunch of stuff I don’t need.

The maps-first approach is more incremental. Every function takes what it needs and gives what it can.
So? A lot of software doesn't use file compression, should we remove these libraries?