skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Employees are mercenaries, it's up to management/leadership to enforce the mission and make sure employees contribute to it positively. The employee becomes forcefully aligned with the mission because that is the key to their personal enrichment. They are paid to contribute, their personal beliefs are not all that important.

I think that might be the norm, but it's sounds like an awful dynamic.

It's also unfortunate if you want to do something better. We have many mercenaries companies that have appropriated some of the language we might use to characterize something better.

So, say you're trying to found a company with grand ideals, made up of people who care about the mission, you actively want a diversity of ideas, etc., and almost every sentence you can think of to communicated that a bunch of candidates nodding, "Yeah, yeah, whatever, we've heard this a hundred times, just tell me what the TC is, for the 18 months I'll stay here".
It has been optimal to run accessories electrically for ICE already for several reasons. It has been difficult based on some of the loads on a 12v battery (agm has really helped this)

- Start stop is smoother (and more available) without accessories

- Cooling a turbo after the motor is off - true for the engine as well, heat soak on water pump off can go ~20f over the thermostat

- Brake Boosting without a vacuum (Valvetronic or Hybrid)

- Air Conditioning at idle
> 1. Always sad for me to know how much popular are wireless chargers, wasting 47% more energy aprox for charging the same as a wired charger.

Lots of sibling replies pointing out that the absolute energy loss is negligible and reasonable price for the convenience.

That’s fine.

But there’s a bigger point. This convenience is being used as a justification for sticking with big brand phones. Which maybe tips the balance on the reasonableness, and, more broadly, raises the general issue of how much buying for convenience is a slippery slope. Maybe just charge with a cable?
I used ChatGPT twice today, with a basic question about some Linux administrative task. And I got a BS answer twice. It literally made up the command in both cases. Not impressed, and wondering what everybody is raving about.
Tesla loses legal action in Sweden as dispute with Nordic unions escalates
I was at MS in 2008 September and internally they had a very beautiful and well functioning Office web already (named differently, forgot the name but it wasn't sharepoint if I recall correctly, I think it had to do something with expense reports?) that would put Google Docs to shame today. They just didn't want to cannibalize their own product.
Hey, thanks for answering!

So in regards to security let me first refer to this thread: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/7208-8y-security-updates-on...

And it might sound unfair to compare the fairphone to a pixel device or a pixel device with grapheneos but the practical reality is that if this is going to be my one phone, than it will be the hub for all my private conversations, my bank forces me to use an app based authentication so basically my entire finances are on that device, e-mails, including those with doctors, etc.

It has to be secure and it has to up to date. And I am aware that my Pixel 3a currently isn't but I'm literally between buying the fairphone or the pixel 8. And I really don't want glued in batteries.

Now, let's see what the current state is for the fairphone 4: https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/440585822094...

Release date: 3rd Nov 2023
Security Patch Level: 5th October 2023

According to the Android Security Bulletin there are two more bulletins out right now: https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2023-11-01

In November and December each there is at least one Critical System CVE, with google noting:

> Note: There are indications that the following may be under limited, targeted exploitation.
> CVE-2023-33063
> CVE-2023-33107
> CVE-2023-33106

So...Those aren't patched right now on the fairphone 4, are they? Now I'm not arguing most other companies are doing better, but that doesn't make it a good situation.

> And you would even prefer Lineage OS? Isn't that still more or less mandating userdebug builds and entirely open?

As far as lineage is concerned, i'll be waiting for an official release to even be there before evaluating the security but I am aware of the userdebug issue.

Though let me say that "abhorrent" is propably not the best adjective to describe it here. Unsatisfying would be fairer. As for the rest of the software... I just have to look at the forums dude...
IMHO, today, Google takes the cake for slowest. Meta is still probably the most agile, and Amazon is super hit or miss (so most variance)

Idk where Microsoft would fit in that hierarchy, like Amazon it's kind of hit or miss but with less variance and extrema. From what I've seen and heard, both Gaming and Azure are pretty darn competent these days from an engineering and product perspective. Not perfect of course, but nothing is.
Doubling again to 96 is not safe, however. I’m not sure why they settled on powers of two. Something perhaps to do with noise filtration, and fewer new tricks to learn?
i don't even think it would have been necessary to name the person. the comment was clear enough.
Thanks. I looked at that, but I don't have the maths background to follow the real explanation. I get the four bar magnets or four coils stuck together, as an example of the charge state, but that looks simplified to the point that it's maybe not real. I think I'm trying to bridge a gap in my understanding between "this is a convenient way to refer to a complex interaction between multiple magnetic fields", and "this is a object (constructed? naturally occurring?) that I can hold in my hand".

Or, maybe that's not even a reasonable mental model / distinction - magnetics be freaky.
That'd probably have a lot of conflicts with people's LANs.
So I’m completely out of the loop on the whole de-googling your Android phone thing.

How workable is it today and how well would it work on a phone like this?
Ultra shitty corporate interests win again...
He had the good sense to hire someone who understood fun. Did Atari have someone like Shigeru Miyamoto?
Can you elaborate on what he gets wrong?

Or is it an insensitive message/delivery?
I drive a model 3 but had sporty cars in the past (WRX/STI, corvette, etc).

Acceleration is great and it's fun to get up to speed fast. The car doesn't feel nimble and doesn't feel glued to the road like an AWD gas car.

In four years (50k miles) I've replaced the tires, replaced the 12V battery, and put windshield wiper fluid in the car. Almost no maintenance.

I used to have to stop and get gas every 5-6 days, now I just plug in every night. Having lived with an EV for a few years the thought of going back to driving to a gas station to get gas just seems so inconvenient.

My electricity rates are pretty cheap (flat $0.15c/kwh), so I'm paying ~$0.04/mile to drive my car. About $600/year in fuel costs.

I find trips more than a few hundred miles are inconvenient. I would love to have an EV with a 500+ mile range so I can use it for road trips and trips to remote areas.

At this point I'm 100% sold on EVs, I can't imagine my next vehicle not being an EV.
Fragmentation of AI research: a blog series
You're much more likely to be already using 10/8 as a part of your setup, whereas 100.64/10 has only really been a thing for residential/mobile ISPs. (I have no idea what happens to Tailscale when your carrier gives you a 100.64/10.)
Most all-you-can-eat places I've been to have rules against food waste.
I've been seeing a lot of job postings mentioning rails recently
How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth
For battery-powered systems the nominal voltage is used. Telephone "48 volts" is 55.2 volts in practice, only falling near 48 if there's a power failure and the office generators don't autostart in a timely fashion.

That's never caused any regulatory problems for Ma Bell, despite OSHA saying 50v is the cutoff. And personally having spent roughly a decade of my career crawling all over such systems, 55.2 doesn't bother me one bit.

Span-powered T1 at 130VDC, on the other hand.... that'll poke ya. That gets little plastic covers over all the terminals, but they have been known to fall off. So there is a meaningful threshold, and 55.2 is solidly below it.

Which suggests to me that there's a good bit of leeway built into the standards, perhaps specifically so they don't have to wheedle about whether a battery system should be measured at its nominal voltage, its float voltage, its absorption voltage, its peak/equalization voltage, its....
Ever since the "stochastic parrots" and "super-autocomplete" criticisms of LLMs, the question is whether hallucinations are solvable in principle at all. And if hallucinations are solvable, it would of such basic and fundamental scientific importance that I think would be another mini-breakthrough in AI.
Are there any Smil books that are suitable for children?
It's not a language barrier, English is their first (and only) language. This is part of why it baffles and frustrates me so much that this is even an issue.

The cofounders knew this person and so it was an easy, friction-free hire when they really needed someone.

Thanks for the feedback and point about the difference between my and HN/PG's interests, it makes sense.
>As for being scientifically correct, Commodore was infamous for cutting corners so resistances (and prob other parts of fabrication) varied wildly so at best you can probably compare to specific chips (even if families of fabrication are closer,esp w.r.t to 8580 vs 6581 behaviours).

It would be really neat if Chipsynth were capable of emulating those different resistances, to tweak them a bit to get a 'warmer' sound or something different, to allow further tweaking of the sound. I'm not sure if Chipsynth is emulating at the silicon gate level, or the analog circuits within the SID. Would be cool if it were.
The Plogue stuff is really high quality, though I wonder how it compares to their own chipsounds which already did the SID - I guess it's more all-encompassing of the different SID variants? Anyway, will give it a look later, this is neat! (Good to see they're explicitly calling out PWM, that's one of the key parts that made so much of the sound work so well on the machine)
Does anyone use paid GSuite for anything other than docs/drive/Gmail ? In all companies I've worked at, we've used GSuite exclusively for those, and used slack/discord for chat, and zoom/discord for video/meetings.

I know that MS Teams is a more full-featured product suite, but even at companies that used it, we still used Zoom for meetings.
Show HN: PyGAPE – A Simple Generative AI-Augmented Program Execution Library
GAPE (Generative AI-augmented program execution) is an idea I had recently: Mix execution logic of your software code with "common sense reasoning" done by an LLM. The entire approach is more a paradigm than a specific technology. So far reactions reach from fascination to bewilderment. I am curious to get more feedback.

I've created a very simple implementation called PyGAPE here: https://github.com/fkostadinov/pygape

Would love to get some feedback, ideas, etc.
The end of your comment “or use Tailscale” sums up why I would use Tailscale here.
Real Talk: Why Is Datadog So Expensive?
There's been a lot of chatter about this lately here, on Reddit, and on X. Since I have a background in both FinOps and O11y, this is my best vendor neutral attempt at breaking down the reasons that Datadog is so expensive. DISCLOSURE: I work for a DDOG competitor.
I think you could just jam anything you need in pipeline yaml from the dotenv file into outputs/variables then do something like this https://stackoverflow.com/a/71575683/2751619
You see this alot in business... its why there are business cycles.

The bad thing about "boom" markets is that you easily run the risk of building product the market doesn't need. You think it needs it, but it doesn't. So you overbuild without knowing it.

Once the market figures this out, it is usually the same story. Something along the lines of "I don't need any more product, I have enough product on the shelf to last a year" etc.

At this point you can't build anything more until the market recovers and the excess inventory is cleared out. This shuts down plants and is why people get laid off.

The more you overbuild the longer the recovery. We're dealing with the recovery due to overbuilding due to COVID right now.

In the case of 1983, it was a heck of a lot of overbuilding. Atari should be a case study in business school.
Star at Heart of Milky Way Appears to Be from Alien Galaxy
It's convenient to build things in multiples and powers of 2 and 3. A nice two-tier or four-tier battery rack full of 2-volt cells just works out nicely.
Please stop framing your own personal cynicism as a grand narrative revalation.
The Vito pizza voice doesn't sound like a normal person--it might sound like a "real" person, but at best a real person who is reading from a script.

Should def replace current automated phone systems that use voice and ask callers to sound like idiots screaming phrases like "MY ACCOUNT" or "BILLING" in the phone.
> No, not all companies try to exploit their strength in one area to make me use some other product that I have no interest in.

I'm not sure of any large one that doesn't. The incentives are aligned such that it's hard for them not to. It's easy to find examples of similar (sometimes almost identical) behavior from most large companies.
Bloomberg link in Xeet is 404 for me (Bangalore).
It's a nice tech demo. I like the bot builder UI, and this format as a way of testing an idea, curious to see you post about your waitlist numbers.

Especially given I doubt this audience I doubt is your ideal audience.
What does small mean? We have puddle jumpers (few miles between islands) already in service, like 5-10 miles. I expect it to creep up over time as efficiency slight increases but battery energy increases at the battery moore's law like rate it has. Prices go down and capacity/weight goes up.

I agree it will have limits, I doubt I'll see long flights like 200 miles. But I see no reason it can't improve by 10% a year just like the batteries. I believe the ones in service are using lfp batteries, which are safer than lithium batteries, but also have lower energy density - and these have gone up over time too in energy density.
What’re you talking about?
I assume USA is a rich country. 95-percentile salary is 170k per year. Not sure this salary will allow you to retire in your 40s.

Unless you are living alone in depressed city with low costs of living.
Teams will likely still be around in 20 years. I doubt gsuite will exist in 5... or even 1.
The Lie That Helped Build Nintendo (2019) [video]
No samples? Damn.

That was done by using 4bit sample data and using those values to set the audio level.
Ethernet can be used as a bus (see CSMA/CD), but if there are more than 2 nodes, performance of whole bus will go to complete shit and there is no guarantee that an ECU will transmit a single packet during its run, because that CD has no automatic arbitration, it is just random disconnection and try again. Not good for critical things like ABS. That's also whole reason why FlexRay was spawned, because even that FR is inflexible abomination of a protocol it actually guarantees that every ECU on the network will get a time window to transmit its own data.
No. In telco, the -48V is referenced against ground, like the physical ground. If you're isolated, you can do this. but they would still need to be referencing the 'ground' to something ... likely the negative side of the main battery pack.

The reason why -48V is used is because it is provided as a bias voltage to give wiring cathodic protection, to prevent corrosion of telecom infrastructure. If you used 48V, it would not work. You need a negative voltage referenced against ground.
Heavy trucks damage roads much more than cars. It depends on the weight but it’s exponential. The weight difference between an EV and an ICE of the same category is not a big concern to have in terms of road damage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
What modern phone charges at 12v?

Most phones charge at 5v. Modern USB-C chargers can charge between 5v and 20v based on configuration.

Buck converts and regulators are cheap and small these days.
I don't think you need Tailscale for this.

You need tailscale when:

1) You have a lot of road-warriors

2) You need decent ACLs that isn't just IP based.

3a) You don't ability to directly connect to a site (just one needs to be accessible)

3b) You can't add 3rd site to relay traffic or punch holes in NAT.

4) You're afraid of terminals and/or text editors.

Here is a good write-up on the subject: https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2021/11/wireguard-nftable...
Google's Gemini was indeed powerful. The use of deceptive marketing tactics was unnecessary.
What impact has she made? What has she built? Did she actually make AI safer? If so, how did she do it? Are current AI models safer because of her?

It sounds like someone who talked a lot but didn’t actually create anything, change anything, or make anyone’s lives better.

Happy to revise my perspective if someone can provide any concrete data on her impact.
While it is crazy, it's not too surprising. Google has become as notorious for product ineptitude as they have been for technical prowess. Dominating the fundamental research for GenAI but face planting on the resulting consumer products is right in line with the company that built Stadia, GMail/Inbox, and 17 different chat apps.
Thanks. I want to learn but feel like I can only learn significant stuff from one founder, and not particularly from anyone else on the team.
There's a weird left-wing slant to wanting to completely control, lock down, and regulate speech and content on the internet. AI scares them that they may lose control over information and not be able to contain or censor ideas and speech. It's very annoyting, and the very weaselly and vague way so many even on HN promote this censorship is disgusting.
And it's been uploaded https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/stablelm-zephyr-3b-GGUF/tree...

Getting 20toks/s on M1 mba where as LLaVa I ground to a halt. Very impressed
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Let's say you post an image, and I learn something by viewing it, then you delete the image. Is my memory of your now deleted image wiped along with everything I learned from viewing it?
Regarding deterministic latency, the Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) [1] set of IEEE standards address this. The IEEE P802.1DG project [2] in particular defines a TSN profile for automotive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Sensitive_Networking
[2] https://1.ieee802.org/tsn/802-1dg/
It seems to be maybe a bit less compact in terms of absolute number of bytes, but faster to parse. That is, parsing is just one-pass validation, and then data can be read directly from the buffer without an intermediate structure, with random access. It also has a notion of "pointer" so you can introduce sharing (a smart-ish encoder might use that to reuse common keys or strings, making the result smaller).
+1 for Yumi and Tress. You don’t have to be deep into the rest of his books to appreciate them. (Unlike Sunlit Man) The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England was a total hoot—if you want something light and silly, go for that.
Plenty of people have tried that approach, none have been able to prove that it's robust against all future attack variants.

Imagine how much trouble we would be in if our only protection against SQL injection was some statistical model that might fail to protect us in the future.
Thanks for clarification.

What’s messing with me is that you seemed to have a computer that drew hex colors. Also, you knew the hex value you wanted. Kinda hate second guessing your actions from the 20th century but why did you walk?
Interactive code examples for fun and profit
42 is special, though, as the longest cycle that requires a its own solution. 43+ can be made as a Snark Loop.

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/P43_Snark_loop
D6 is the first chord in Beatles - Fool On The Hill. It's the second moment in Neil Young - Harvest Moon.
> I like Tailscale, but I'd much rather use real wireguard and eliminate a dependency on tailscale, but I can't find guides/tutorials/etc.

You could use Headscale, which is an open-source/self-hosted reimplementation of Tailscale control plane, so you can eat your cake and have it too.

Curious to know, why does distrust towards Tailscale come up so often around here? They seem extremely transparent about their strategy and incentives.
Of all the things which should be accessible without internet, government services should pretty much be number 1 on the list. Especially unemployment benefits, because how is someone without a job going to afford a device which can access the internet plus the corresponding internet access?
In cases where they're using a proprietary 48v part I wonder if Tesla would consider becoming a parts supplier to other manufacturers?
How CPU intensive is it?
There's a conveyor belt hot pot by me which does it both ways. You choose whether everyone at the table will do the normal method where they count up your plates and price based on the color, or pay a flat rate for however much you wish to eat. In the case of the latter, they reserve the right to tack on a fee if you're wasting food.
No one is talking about getting paid only becoming skilled in some domian.
I wouldnt go that far.

There is a difference between telling someone something directly versus pointing them in a direction to make their own conclusion.
I especially liked that like. There's always a bit of space for comedy.
Is it clear that humans can think nonverbally (including internal monologue) continuously? As in, for difficult reasoning tasks, do humans benefit a lot from extra time if they are not allowed internal monologue. Genuine question
Okay, but then Real Median Income still goes down from 78,250 in 2019 to 74,580.

You probably shouldn't go too far before Covid. People aren't going to think back to how things were ~5 years before Covid, they are going back to a couple years before.
Wow - my first thought was I wonder what framerate they're sending video at. The whole demo seems significantly less impressive in that case.