skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically the whole telco industry runs off 48V, and has for a very long time. You'd have a rectifier box that would take the AC and output 48V, and then everything would run from that.

A lot of the satellite and wireless equipment I've worked on has inherited that and runs off 48 too.
The reason to not keep going higher is purely practicality because stepping down bigger voltage gaps for lower voltage applications begins to become less efficient/more waste heat.

If you design 100v computers, monitor, headlights, seat adjustment motors, window/windshield motors, pumps, etc. you could cut these 48v wires in half again but if you end up stepping everything down anyway it loses its utility.

The safety rules about voltage and the human body are often poorly overstated, as is the addage that 'its the amps that kill you, not the volts.' in reality it takes a whole lot of both [0].

As further research, here[1] is styropyro touching 2 contacts which have more current than the largest bolts of lightning (enough to almost instantly vaporize a crowbar) with his bare hands, but because it is 12V it is not able to pass through him.

[0] https://youtu.be/BGD-oSwJv3E

[1] https://youtu.be/ywaTX-nLm6Y
I'm confused - you posted on a thread about EVs, the problem here is a long term ramp up of demand over the span of years or decades as more and more people swap their ICE vehicles for EVs. This is a problem to be solved by the building out of more power production capacity over the long term. Dealing with short term load spikes with existing infrastructure is a different problem that isn't really relevant in this context.

Power demand from EV charging is pretty predictable too - the bulk of it happens overnight when demand is usually lowest from everything else.
Yeah, no Android Chrome support for something in the code...
9 days ago:

Files Suggest UN Climate Summit's Leader Is Using Event to Promote Fossil Fuels

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38449630
Just because it’s getting mentioned around here a lot lately: Tolstoy was a convert to Georgism (the philosophy backing Land Value Tax). It’s interesting to see a very specific idea suddenly win a person, and see it reflected back in their output.

Interesting piece by Tolstoy’s son on how big an influence George was: https://cooperative-individualism.org/tolstoy-ilya_leo-tolst...
Indeed! Daniel Lanois, musician and grammy award winning producer (U2, Neville Brothers, Emmylou Harris, etc.) uses the Omnichord extensively in his own music. He used it throughout the soundtrack for Slingblade. He even named one of the songs, Omni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7HME3-TROg

And it's a big part of his song, The Maker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-JtAcpKtYQ

(The rest of the soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw_cbSkhe5w&list=PLtDcokwpri...)
Stanford is very into diversity these days. Try emphasizing how not taking AP classes allowed you the time and energy to do what the other candidates did not do, and that this makes you unique. Point out that your differences means you are especially well suited to enrich the pool of ideas and experiences at Stanford that makes Stanford itself unique. Just don't over do it. Stanford will not be impressed if you do. Strive for a balance.
That’s certainly a very valid viewpoint but it sounds like some form of social anxiety. I’m pretty introverted and rarely make smalltalk with anyone unprompted but I still enjoy going to certain restaurants and kind of nursing a drink while zoning out. I usually avoid the bar while alone because some bartenders think you want to chat.
Two-way string-matching algorithm
Northern Norway. But it isn’t snowing right now — and also I’m in Ireland — so can’t do.
Can I eject the result into Terraform or something?
how do you connect to the internet from your home?
The report from TechCrunch has more details - https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/googles-best-gemini-demo-w...
Yes. Those two factors are completely irrelevant for calculating the source of electric power used to charge new EVs. Gasoline demand and efficiency differences are instead captured in the carbon footprint estimates.
Yes, and becoming a professional in a domain is a heuristic for tiering skill. The reason why OP is so dismissive to the top 1% is because they're not good to break into the industry.
> This is a pretty fundamental disagreement that I have with a lot of people. Just for example, I recently got into a discussion with an authority who insisted that it wasn't possible for me to reasonably disagree with them (I suggested we agree to disagree) because they're an authority on the topic and I'm not. It happens that I worked on the formal verification of a system very similar to the system we were discussing, but I didn't mention that because I don't believe that my status as an authority on the topic matters. If someone has such a weak argument that they have to fall back on an infallible authority, that's usually a sign that they don't have a well-reasoned defense of their position. This goes double when they point to themselves as the infallible authority.

That can just be a sign of someone who is tired of arguing with you and they're ending the argument. You also haven't offered the information that you have any expertise, so they're assuming that you're another not-even-10%-ile person who is probably making a basic mistake. You also still may be making a basic mistake even though you're a 95%-ile person on this subject -- for the exact reasons put out in this article.

They're being a bit of a dick, but their time is finite and you probably annoyed them.
There's physically not enough room. It's not a matter of technology.
It's glass because it needs to be transparent for the wireless charging coil. There is a hole in the aluminum frame for this coil.

The options are basically just plastic or glass. At least with the current phones it's now possible to replace this glass if it breaks.
The way you feel is justified, but it takes intentional effort to not allow that to consume you somewhat. Focusing on the hurt can make you vulnerable to negative feelings toward the mother, and as a child of divorce I can advise that you do your best to not speak ill of the mother around or to your daughter. The bar for what a child will understand as negative depends on the child, but even small frustration based complaints can hurt.

There is always a chance the mother will experience a reversal of whatever mental health change may have precipitated this behavior, and wish to come back. As you mentioned, it's not like she picked her mental health condition. It sounds like you've been very patient with the situation, for a while, so good on you :) I hope the situation improves.
Wouldn’t you just start the car if the HV was flat and the LV was charged?

If they’re both flat I agree, I’m curious what you do.
Tell HN: If you buy a domain on Google Workspace, DNS is held hostage
Happened to a client.

Did you know people who signup for Google Workspace for the first time, can buy a domain?

However, with the madness going on between Google and Squarespace, it now becomes inaccessible.

If you try to manage DNS, you get thrown around:

- Google Workspace: Will say it is managed at Google Domains.

- Google Domains: Will say it is managed at Squarespace.

- Squarespace: Will say it is managed at "Google".

Unfortunately, I have independently contacted all 3 team's support who repeat the above. No one is claiming access and delaying until Squarespace can "migrate" at an unscheduled time.

Other funny info:

- Invoice/Purchase - Google...

- Registrar - Tucows...

- NameServers - SquareSpace...

Just a warning. Not sure how this is legal or ICAAN allows this.
I mean it was quite clearly designed for water traffic first. I wouldn't describe it as designed for cars in comparison to say Los Angeles or Kansas City.
Despite Tesla's boastings, large casting machines have existed before. Automotive use is the new part.
I have my issues with EA, but I don't think the "cult" description is accurate. For example, in 2022 they handed out $120K in prizes to the best criticisms of EA: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YgbpxJmEdFhFGpqci/...

I'm doubtful that the "childish idealist" description is accurate. But even if it was, given the choice between having existentially dangerous AI developed by a childish idealist vs a slippery machiavellian like Sam, I would choose the childish idealist.

The big risk with a childish idealist is that they become the pawn of a slippery machiavellian. Choosing the slippery machiavellian just seems like speedrunning failure.
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I checked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400-series_integrated_circuit... and gate delay (tpd) for 74HC is 15 ns.

I wouldn't expect more than 1 MIPS, which is what the DEC VAX 11/780 was doing around 1980.

(Awesome one-man project, if that's the case.)
Yeah, it’s certainly a time investment. Back when I originally read it, I was still in university, I remember lying in bed, reading, and my alarm went off telling me to get up …
Hardware can just fail, but just from what I've seen, Apple stuff seems to randomly fail the least. I've had so many other brands just randomly die without any damage. While the only time I've had this happen with Apple was a macbook SSD that died. I took it in to the store and they replaced it for free out of warranty.
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> Spending 2 hours to go to the grocery store and back

That usually indicates your city is a huge suburbia with a few skyscrapers in the middle.

Bad city design leads to bad results, and a higher speed limit won't solve your problems.
Not sure if it's a US vs Norway thing but Google Maps keep confusing me by saying "keep left at the fork". Like what fork?! Oh, you mean don't exit the freeway...
EVs are actually a nearly ideal load for load-scheduling to match net grid draw to times of overcapacity. If anything, they have the potential to vastly improve grid stability, which would otherwise become a concern as an increasing amount of power is supplied by fluctuating renewables.
300k miles per battery, that sounds reasonable to me.
that's less extreme than seeing a psychiatrist? interesting.

the paranoia was part of why I suggested the psych, though. tampering with a submitted CL would require access to the SCM's database, then to rewrite history, as well as changing the code. that requires a conspiracy. and for what? to undermine someone's career? I could see a major intelligence agency pulling it off to sneak in a backdoor or something, not some coworker trying to get ahead.
twoplustwo.com is a great example from the poker world
The logo is from Doordarshan, a state owned Indian TV broadcasting firm
Sorry I meant the people who privately supported the board but were peer pressured into signing.
> On the contrary, it would simply put both companies and workers on the same standard.

If by “same standard” you mean equal footing, then I don’t see how you’d square that circle.

By definition an employer-employee relationship is asymmetrical, so is landlord-tenant, corporations-consumer, doctor-patient, teacher-student, etc.

In all those relationships one has more leverage than the other.
Which is why, in most developed nations, there are guardrails in an effort to equalize that relationship.
Strangely, it appears to decide this based on IP geolocation. My account is listed as US-based but the site does not work when using non-US VPN.
+1 to these books - they have some really interesting worldbuilding. Even the later books have some good parts (quite a good Moria-like sequence, some more exposition on the current state of the insane remnants of Cunuroi society), but they definitely do lose the plot a bit. I'm still not sure myself what really happened in the end.
30km/h is doable with some minor effort, sure, but it's not exactly common. You'll be held up by other bikes constantly on most roads this applies to.

50km/h is for athletes or going down steep hills. If you're training for the tour de france in some random neighbourhood in Amsterdam, I think you're doing something wrong.
This is totally wrong. Nuclear has a very low marginal operating cost and to maximize return on investment Nuclear plants run at 100% of their allowed output irrespective of demand. Increases in the price of baseload power are unlikely as intermittent sources like wind and solar contribute a higher fraction of power. In particular, midday solar output will lower the baseload far below the current low point at night.
Its a byproduct of the electricity. No use case. Authors were turned on to try it because this is already a lab technique in a much more controlled manner to get some nucleic acids into some cell. They wanted to see if there is an example of this in nature and the electric eel seemed like a good potential source of the electricity.
1 The concept of Wasm and WebAssembly System Interface (WASI)
2 Usage outside the browser
3 Running Wasm workloads with Podman
step-by-step instructions for setting up on Windows/ macOS
Mercedes introduced their 48V hybrid in 2016. Kia in 2018. Peugeot just introduced theirs this year.

Jalopnik was talking about the "48V revolution" in 2017:

https://jalopnik.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-u...
In my mind a Java is the main language that shares the same niche as C#, and I think for a long time C# came out ahead while Java stagnated, but in many ways I think Java has now pulled ahead imo.
OSS C# was a day late and a dollar short. Fundamentally, why would you ever pick it over Java? Theoretically it has a nicer IDE and some usability improvements, and better reflection. But that nice tooling was only ever available on Windows, recent revisions of Java have closed the usability gap, and people are finally realising what a bad idea reflection was (other than the Spring Boot nutters). Meanwhile library availability and general platform/tooling support for Java is orders of magnitude ahead.

It's kind of a shame, because in isolation C# is a pretty well-designed language. But people don't switch to better-designed languages, they switch to languages that have a killer feature that their previous language was missing. C# never managed that.
People that buy $7 pink frappuccinos from Starbucks. And Sonic customers.
Tim Henson also wrote some of Playing God on one he has.
TBH, the repairability concerns seem to be overstated so far. There are still conventional crash structures in front of and behind them. It takes a lot to damage the casting beyond repair.

You are right, though. The jury is still out in that they haven't really been used in the real world for long.

> Audi did in 2016 with the SQ7 TDI, no?

I didn't know about that one, but it was still a dual architecture. Going full 48V is a bit different, assuming Tesla really did that.
BRB I’m gonna go build a new coal plant because my neighbor got a polestar.
Is there a good primer to this topic?

This sounds like an area I would enjoy a lot but am barely a beginner in React. Any working examples that might give me the right direction / inspiration ? Thanks
Seems like the problem with targeting a niche market is that the buyers all have some very specific hard requirements.

It has to have a headphone jack, it has to have wireless charging, it has to have cameras as good as the iphone, it has to have an AV1 video decoder, etc.

Same problem with the Framework laptop. Everyone has a different set of obscure hard requirements.
Volvo makes EVs in South Carolina. But...well, they are Chinese owned even if the design is coming from Sweden.
Thanks for pointing that out.. Maybe 35km/h is a more reasonable ceiling.

The reason I mentioned this number is because I found this article of some Norwegian middle aged woman saying she is reaching 50km/h explaining something with the speed limit of bicycles in Norway.

However she meant that she reaches that speed downhill, which makes sense..

https://elbil.no/lovlig-elsykkel-i-508-km-t/
He also did much of the soundtrack for Red Dead Redemption 2 I believe
That's why I hate wireless charging trend. Manufacturers adopt heavy and fragile glass due to this, and its heat is bad for battery health.
Some version of this comment has been smugly posted on every single discussion about Chinese food since the beginning of time.

If you are living in America, and you want the food made by the people in your community who are Chinese, would it make sense to call it Chinese food?

Chinese food, as in: the food the Chinese people make.

Italian food, as in: the food Italian people make.

Indian food, as in: the food that Indian people make.

America is a country made up of immigrants from other countries, so when they are here making the foods that they used to make in their home countries, we call it "Chinese food", "Italian food" etc.

I understand why this can be confusing to people who aren't used to living in culturally diverse countries. It is normal in The United States to interact with people from all over the world. Saying "Chinese food" does not literally mean food from China, it means food made by Chinese immigrants to The United States.
I remember C# being great a few years back when I used it. I am surprised that it doesn't have better discriminated unions since languages like TypeScript, and F# have them.

Is the interop between C# and F# not good? I've never used it myself, but I remember (and this is validated by a quick web search) that it's possible to just directly call F# code.
You did a great job on the text animation code, Adi! I've found myself falling into a trance watching the flickering candles.
Los Angeles was also not designed for cars. It was demolished for cars, as the saying goes.
Oh, long before google drive existed?

I don't remember the "increasing forever" ever being particularly fast. I found some results from 2007 and 2012 both saying it was 4 bytes per second, <130MB per year.

So it's true that the number hasn't increased in ten years, but that last increase was +5GB all by itself. They've done a reasonable job of keeping up.

Arguably they should have kept adding a gigabyte each year, based on the intermittent boosts they were giving, but by that metric they're only about 5GB behind.
Pretty sure my Radeon R9-285 would work if I force gfx802 offload arch when building for ROCm, but...what are you going to do with decade-old VRAM support? 2gb is not enough for anybody.
"plasticky" is one of the most widespread invalid criticism for me. It's a feature, like we can throw GameBoy to the bed.
yes but they're missing the take-the-radio-apart or take-the-computer-apart or fit-whole-instruction-set-in-one's-head advantage that earlier eras were granted.
Which means anyone who isn’t engaged in the hype cycle looks bad by comparison.

Still I would distinguish between genuine optimism and cynical exaggeration. If you go back and read what was being said in and around the 70s about technology and watch the demos they gave…it always makes me feel a little sad for them. People really thought so many things were right around the corner, e.g. if a computer can beat a human star chess player, surely understanding natural language or driving a car will be easy. There were so many things being made like primitive robots that could follow a line painted on the floor, that in a controlled environment seemed so promising but the realization of the vision would take decades longer than predicted. Without their efforts we would not be where we are today.
Volvo EVs are made in Dorchester county South Carolina, which is red by 9 or so points.
Paywalled.

At any rate, seems to mostly align with my thoughts: weight loss is simple, eat fewer calories than you burn.

Exercising will burn calories, but far fewer than a diet adjustment can possibly account for. Running for 15 minutes only burns one can of soda.

Generally though, more muscle = more baseline calories burned. So, gaining muscle through exercise can have benefits beyond the workout itself. People tend to feel hungrier though, and so over time they return to their set point of pounds of fat.
I tend to agree, TBH. People bring up fly-by-wire, but even that is simpler. AFAIK, those systems aren't variable ratio the way CT is. CT literally will have different steering ratios depending on the speed, so one steering wheel angle will have different effects on the actual steering angle depending upon the speed.

How will that work in the real world? Could there be bugs? Will people get used to it or will it lead to mistakes?

I'm looking forward to getting a chance to try it, TBH.
There's nothing inherently wrong with lambda/serverless platforms, but I feel like most people are better suited by a regular app server running somewhere "normally".

I'm not going to pretend I'm a domain expert here, but from my own experience I see several common themes: Serverless has the potential to increase complexity and potential problem points. Scaling isn't as simple. Debugging backend issues can be more complicated. Extra latency when bolting together lots of different serverless things to make one cohesive application. Increased vendor lock-in.

I think they're best for certain types of workloads (simple POCs or small side projects with little load can be run virtually free on any serverless platform these days, very bursty/erratic workloads, or workloads run seldomly/ones where a cold start isn't a problem), but not for most use "regular" use-cases.
Most of Tesla's problems are solved via OTAs, but they still count as "recalls". Dealerships aren't allowed to charge for OTAs, so they don't make money off it unless they get an elder who needs them to install it for them.
That's why we need internet standards for IM. Sadly, not many people seem to care about if their messenger is XMPP compatible or not.
Reduce the speed to 5 so that an estimated 99.9% of pedestrian accidents are survivable and the city is silent.
Adding the charging demand, some of which will inevitably occur at peak-demand, is not going to improve the stability of the grid compared to a gas car that never places any load on the grid at all. EVs will only improve grid stability if owners chose to feed the grid during peak demand.
I don't think that's what the short story is about.
There have been several times I've been outside with my phone, apple watch and airpods, and it suddenly starts pouring down with rain. 10 years ago this used to be a really stressful event. I used to carry around a zip lock bag in case this happened. Today I can comfortably just accept being drenched knowing all my tech is waterproof.
>Terrorism is objectively wrong, but it is a predictable outcome of abusive and dehumanizing colonial behavior.

And abusive and dehumanizing behavior is a predictable outcome of Terrorism. How do we break the cycle?
Yeah, I guess I did. It would not break if it actually landed on a sweatshirt on a rug. That much is pretty obvious.
Viral infection is an example of another example of horizontal gene transfer. Some bacteria have developed other ways to take advantage of this process easily. Darwin might be surprised by this, but the experiments that first showed evidence for this are nearly a century old now so its nothing new for the field today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
I've just started using ProBiora3 to try to reduce my gingivitis levels. I would love a one-application solution and will be watching this closely.
As a backdrop for reading this, electroporation is one type of transfection, which is a method to "artificially introducing nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) into cells, utilizing means other than viral infection."

You can also basically squeeze cells to do this, as well as put them under higher hydrostatic pressure.

I also think I know the internal project name for something...
That's right, the switching concern was in older cars where they were switching the 12V straight up, so that is a reasonable point for why they never switched to higher voltages, but yes, in most modern cars (and basically all EVs) buttons and switches would mostly all just be signalling electronic units to do the actual switching.