skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But why would you set that as a pre-requisite?

Well, the argument in his video is that there are multi-day gaps in the ability to rescue astronauts off the moon. Balancing that out with a few very small relay satellites, I would pay for a couple Electron launches for the relay, and have a lifeboat capability 24/7.

> The Gateway is also, as I understand it, a staging ground for testing habitation for a vehicle to Mars.

I have heard that as well, but what I don't understand is how a higher orbit simulates a Mars trip much better. I mean, either way you are not inside a magnetosphere, right? I guess in low-lunar orbit you are more shaded from solar wind by the moon half the time?
The article describes package failures mostly near TSVs and solder bumps presumably at the connections between chips not the oxide layers. In my experience these BEOL are a few micron metal min feature size for the routing/vias and larger for bumps.

I haven't seen the latest stuff so maybe things have change significantly with the new MCMs in the last 3 years, but I'm doubtful.

If I had to guess, these failures are at the power connections and so the solution is just more connections since the migration is very nonlinear with temp & current.
American actually has the largest freight rail network in the world. In theory electric trucks would pair great with our freight rail network though. Still need to get from rail to stores and homes
chromium arrives on windows to take on chromium and chromium
I imagine it improves aerodynamics a fair bit. Also it means they don't need separate LHD/RHD designs.
The dancing robot has to be more than a 4D chess move. That's gotta be at least 7 or 8 D chess.
Then either your point is the same as the one I made, or I don't get your point.
> The false positives never led to actual breaking, just to the loud peeping before the breaking starts

Interesting. The one we had would not give any warning until it slammed on the brakes. I suspect it sometimes triggered on trees and signs but I don't really know what it detected in most cases.
I downloaded Wikipedia months ago so I would have access to only-slightly-tainted information during the information winter.
I think this is a pretty clear misrepresentation. The entire point of those forum posts is that software engineers are angry at managers promising timelines that aren't connected to reality: they want the unpredictability of the task to be transparent. That is actually entirely consistent, and arguably the exact same frustration, that they have with Musk -- a manager-type promising outrageous deadlines, repeatedly, with apparently zero ability to learn from past misses. The anger is with continuing to promise these outrageous deadlines, and furthermore the frustration of being called out if you are skeptical of them, not with the fact that he misses them. It's a one-to-one, 100%, absolutely identical complaint.
Thanks for writing this all those years ago. It made for a fun demonstration when I was learning genetic algos in college.
Better to get this information out there to as many people. Heightened awareness of the problem is always a good thing.
A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon
>it's just that the electric part is generated by a diesel engine

while technically correct, not a useful observation
Don't even buy one of these devices. I love picking up old micro Optiplexes.

For example, take the Optiplex 7060 Micro. On eBay for $180, you get:

- i5-8500T (35W version) [According to Passmark, about 50% faster than an N100]

- Power Supply

- 16 GB RAM across 2 RAM slots

- 500 GB SSD (two bays, one M.2 and one 2.5" SATA)

- Windows 11 Pro

- 2 DisplayPort Out, 1 HDMI out, Gigabit Ethernet

All in a nice metal case that opens with a single screw. Can't beat that deal.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155685037292

There's also other versions, like this 8GB / i5-8400T / 256GB configuration for $120.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/326086160071
Same for senior level and mid level. There needs to be less "demonstration of work" that fits the career ladder document but more autonomous work that provides value. That's it.

As an example, if a senior engineer spent last 3 months trying to fix dev environment issues at the expense of RFCs, commits, bug fixes (but at the direction of management) - This is fine and should be recognized.

Recognizing only activities enumerated in some BS levels document is a fools errand that fails to recognize that different stages of different teams and different projects may require different behaviors.
From the article, it seems the problem is not with the technology of the Semi. It's the battery production. So solvable I feel.
Does it? They say the risc-v support “is discontinued”, which seems to imply something much stronger than what you say.
Not really though because the money from fuel tax doesn't actually go into helping the environment.
Python pickles are bytecode programs, but different bytecode than the Python bytecode compiled from .py files. https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickletools.html#pickletoo...
Way easier to get a buyout offer when you have bunch of juicy user account data.
Personally, I haven't found them useful. They make subtle mistakes and you'll spend longer debugging and iterating than just doing it yourself. If you're completely stumped, asking an LLM can give you direction. But you'll need domain knowledge to validate and fix the generated code.

LLMs solve the easy problem (writing code) but don't help with the hard problem (domain knowledge).
This is why all service will go to pay per use
There are plenty of other cars, but most of them look a lot like normal cars so maybe you don't notice them.

Statistics for the EU, EV sales in January 2024: https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/general-i...
Software estimates also need to be hit, but Sales, Product, and Engineering leadership will fight to prevent the brunt of that from hitting ICs, but at some point if a large contract does churn, plenty of IC engineers will have their head on the chopping board.

I've been on both sides so I get it, and the only solution is to have blunt and honest communication from all sides - Field Facing teams need to not overcommit, and Internal teams actually need to execute and COMMUNICATE why they cannot.

As an employee, we are all working to make the company more money. That's the only goal.
They already answered that when he said "he is not affiliated with Sourcegraph"
Skip.tools is an interesting solution for writing SwiftUI and generating a kotlin Compose project
I got fed up with a font being off-centre on a design I was trying to develop and I ended up using this descent-override CSS property on the @font-face block which works rather nicely: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/...
That way you can control the vertical position of the whole font.

Looks like it's not supported in Safari yet.

There's also ascent-override.
Ssssshhhh!!!!!!

Those are the best ones; stop telling everybody about it or they'll get flooded with losers from that orange site I keep hearing about.
> I keep hearing about competitors, but I never see any of their EVs, new or used. I see Teslas everywhere.

Around these parts, we see a lot of non-Tesla electrics. Many of them are not obvious at all, until you realize that an SUV has a Clean Pass sticker, and no tailpipes.

But there are also many 3s and Ys. I think, for a time, Tesla was the biggest-selling brand in the US.
I think a bot posting content is no worse than a human posting comments in their own echo chamber. I see a lot of snootiness from HN, but HN is also heavily in decline due to certain political agendas preventing free discussion.
Orion was supposed to be operational in 2016, it's readiness for 2026 looks questionable due to heat shield issues. SLS is similarly late.

Everything on Artemis is late; Starship is less late than pretty much everything else.
Space radiators, I believe, are still having some space to evolve, particularly liquid droplet radiators.
Anyone with more background information on Arc Browser? I like it a lot, especially on mobile, but who are the people behind it? Are they trustworthy?

As you know, if the browser is compromised everything is compromised. Where the buzz is coming from? Is it an organic fan fare or what's going on?
Here's the actual law: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/46
In the truck we had with it, it couldn't be disabled. We tried pulling the fuse but then the truck wouldn't start.
If you approach it from Fagin’s Theorem, which provides that NP == the set of existential second order boolean queries, NP = SO∃. Even when the first order part is universal...you will see how the P=NP question will probably never be solved.

To be clear, we absolutely need optimists to keep looking at it and learning more.

But the way it is taught often makes it seem like proving or disproving P=NP is just a matter of time, when the safe bet is that it will never be solved.
> 16-21%

That seems very low and not really worth it. Does it really make that little difference?
You're welcome

I've been working on some AI related stuff lately, part of the reason for the slowdown. And actually using hof myself for real work

Code gen is pretty stable. I've been meaning to fix the TUI keybindings on mac before releasing the current beta. Was also hoping the the evaluator improvements would land upstream, but that hasn't happened yet...

I'll take a stab at releasing a new version this weekend, per your inspiration
It seems to me that the concept of shill is slowly eating the concept of enthusiast or fanboy in the public perception. They are similar and hard to discern from one another. I'm not sure if one is more trustworthy than the other.
> Musk needs to come back to earth. OTR (over the road, long hauls of 1800 miles) is a non-starter and will never work with current technology. professional drivers can not lose 30 minutes every 400 miles on these routes to charge, they will miss all their drop times.

Would it help if instead of charging, do what you do with a toy car - replace the batteries?

They could then charge and be ready for the next truck.
Is there any compelling reason to run 32-bit code these days? If so, then 4GB might be a good fit. But nevertheless, these were originally intended as low-spec hobby machines, though they obviously grew way beyond that.
Whatever you are describing I want to run a node
Kube Shepherd
Recessive genes, essentially.
> The chad reaction would be to reduce regulation

Pro tip to any aspiring politicians out there; if you characterize a certain position as "the chad reaction", you will be rightfully ignored.

Nevermind the fact that this is just another plainly wrong comment that demonstrates how shallow the average VC 'moon or bust' mindset is. You'd ignore ARM and STMicroelectronics and TransferWise and Siemens and the rest of the globally-influential European businesses? Just so you could rally support behind businesses the Department of Justice says is anticompetitive?
Fair. How about: "How long Musk continues to be CEO of Tesla, whether because he is replaced or because Tesla goes out of business."
PostgreSQL: The database that ate the world
Show HN: I made an accountability app for entrepreneurs
Hi HN! I'm the co-creator of VenturePals, an App for entrepreneurs to find an accountability partner. Entrepreneurs use it to stay more accountable toward their weekly tasks and goals to increase the chances of reaching their goal.

If you're like me, and you've experienced some sort of struggle in entrepreneurship like feeling overwhelmed, loneliness, or procrastination - chances are a lot of these things can get solved by having an accountability partner with whom you can relate to.

Back when I tried to find my partner, I thought it would be as easy as going on a business forum and posting a thread.

Boy was I wrong...

It took me around 3 months.

8 months in the partnership and we both saw how much we've progressed compared to before this partnership. We decided to team up and create VenturePals, to make it easy for entrepreneurs to find such a partner.

We launched 3,5 weeks ago on PH and got 4th product of the day. It's still a work in progress and we keep iterating fast! :D

Any feedback is very much appreciated as we're continuously improving it! Looking forward to your reactions! :)
This is awesome

I'm genuinely convinced startups with a story like this will minimally grow to at least 100M Burritos in ARR within a few years
Is it really hard to just ignore those types of people? I would say it’s a 1 in 200 interaction (unless the project was recently hyped up somewhere)

I have just closed issues where the reporter or “user”, as you put it, is just unhelpful, rude, or non responsive.

No response needed most of the time.
Ask HN: Is SpiderOak One Backup Dead?
Backups stopped working a week ago. A visit to their site shows the message: 'We have a planned maintenance event that will impact the availability of SpiderOak One and SpiderOak Groups beginning Tuesday April 23.'

However, there's no indication of how long this maintenance will last, and there's been zero communication from the company.

HN seems like a good place to ask since, once upon a time, SpiderOak was the go-to recommendation for secure backups. Disappointing to see it fail due to neglect, but given the lack of updates, it was a long time coming.

Suggestions for alternative backup services appreciated.
Here in Germany it is more like 40cents/kwh so that is some serious money down the drain for some people.
Show HN: I made a simple tool to get P&Ls and valuation for projects
Hey HN,
In late March, I tried to have a quick overview of the profit of my 9-5 (boring) company, and it was a nightmare. I had to ask my accountant to have an extraction, that unfortunately, was 99% complete (8 invoices were missing) so : no extraction, no overview, and nothing was possible.
So I learned to code and made super easy to use tool to plug income, expenses in seconds, and have a P&L (with company valuation).

Hope you'll find it useful.

Greg
The first software written for the first microprocessor - the Intel 4004 - powering the Busicom calculator, included a Bytecode VM.

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/bytecode-and-the-busico...
An employee isn't going to change Google to exit the mass surveillance and mass propaganda businesses any sooner than they're going to change Raytheon to exit the missile business. It's fundamental to what the company does.
But how much power does it use?
Depends on what the use case is. You can't possibly fit that chonker in lots of spaces that a Pi 5 or an N100 will easily fit, and they're much lighter to carry. And the power consumption is atrocious in comparison for battery use.
Because this specific browser extensions are named WebExtensions[1].

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/webextensions/
The only solution to the charging time lag is swappable batteries: truck pulls in, drained battery lifted out with automated crane, charged battery swapped in. It would take some logistics and coordination, as well as a universal standard for heavy truck batteries, but that's what's making it work in China, although also as you note, long-haul trucking is the hardest sector.

> "The second storyline is that battery swapping is also helping electrifying China truck sales. BNEF analyst Siyi Mi recently compiled data on all the battery-swappable vehicles sold in the country and found that while swapping remains a niche technology for passenger vehicles, almost half of all heavy battery electric trucks sold last year in China had swappable batteries. That’s up from 34% in 2021. Many of these trucks are operating in industrial sites, port warehouses, mines and steelmaking factories. Lighter commercial vehicles with swappable batteries also are being used in urban deliveries, an area where BNEF expects to see more growth as better economics and tightened emission requirements draw more attention to electric models. Long-haul trucking will be the last, and most difficult, segment to tackle."

https://about.bnef.com/blog/chinas-clean-truck-surprise-defi...
They have it at 2022. And we dont really see so many EVs at 600KM mark. If they have it in 2024 with 1000KM, it would have been prevalent in China already. This kind of bold claim, plenty. I wait and see the actual implementation on the road.
In this case that's not enough. When an incredibly good consumer product arrives 5 years late, consumers can buy something else in the meantime. They have freedom of choice in an open market. When a B2B product shows up 5 years late (and TFA indicates it's over 7 years late), it causes actual damage to the purchaser - and arguably to humanity.

These contracts typically include exclusivity clauses. They lock PepsiCo in, preventing them from purchasing electric semis from other companies that ramp up production sooner. PepsiCo has to lawyer up and nullify the contract with Tesla in order to purchase electric semis from companies other than Tesla. Meanwhile,

So Tesla is locking companies into contracts, failing to deliver, and leaving them in the lurch in the meantime. Cleaner transportation and fewer emissions is good for humanity - so let's celebrate the companies that are actually bringing us electric semis. The Freightliner eCascadia, Volvo VNR, Kenworth EV, and BYD 8TT are all in production. The eCascadia and the VNR are each being produced in higher volumes than the Tesla Semi.
I've been working on an API spec language where state changes can be modeled with linear logic: https://apilog.net/docs/why/ It doesn't have "schemas" yet though. Which may seem odd given they are a crucial part of this type of languages. :-) But it is because I am experimenting with different designs on that front.
>We won't know who of them are "businessmen"

AFAIK there isn’t a clean answer to that question.

The lines between businessperson, gangster, intelligence agent are very fluid.

If you gain some success at one of those in Russia you need to start ingratiating yourself with the others because they will come and find you.

It’s like a more brutal version of businessperson / lobbyist in the US. If you want to excel in one you need to be both.
You can have forums in discord now as well, not just chat rooms.
The article says:

> Android will continue to support RISC-V. Due to the rapid rate of iteration, we are not ready to provide a single supported image for all vendors. This particular series of patches removes RISC-V support from the Android Generic Kernel Image (GKI).

There is some more context in the android SIG: https://lists.riscv.org/g/sig-android/topic/105816077#msg389
The door handles probably shave a percent or two battery life due to aerodynamics; most EVs have recessed door handles of some sort now.
And classic - Quake VM https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/qvm.php
Kube Shepherd is a Kubernetes controller that manages the DNS configuration of workloads, ensuring efficient and reliable way to configure DNS within your Kubernetes cluster.
The James Leininger Case Re-examined (2021) [pdf]
I've made the same prediction. It was blatantly obvious to me what would happen as soon as I saw GPT 3.5 producing decent quality responses. I had hoped the finger problem of image generators would last longer, but there are a lot of people with absolutely no foresight on the potential downsides of technology. SORA and other video generators are absolute madness.
It's likely down to the fact that once the proverbial Polish Plumbers left, a lot of people realized that there's nobody here who actually wants to do that work, no matter the price. So we have no nurses, we have no truck drivers, we have no electricians. And the list goes on.

And it's impossible to import these people anymore, because a) the wages in the UK are low - lower than in most of the EU and much lower than in the US, and b) many of these professions are not really classified as high skill, even if they take a lot of practice.
His all time favorite car (except teslas now i guess) was the MacLaren F1, which also has center-seating. Not saying this is the actual reason, but i thought i'd mention the coincidence.
> The myth is not in 2nd chances; our ability to adapt is sometimes hard but doable - ex: 1st time immigrants searching for the American dream.

Isn't that an example of a 2nd chance? A person fails in his own country and gets another chance (2nd chance) in another country?
Amazon Q Developer now generally available
People complain and call censorship when Google pulls down or removes some results. People complain when Google doesn't hide or pull down some other results.

This may be the first time in a while that I defend Google, but it can't be Googles fault that people seem to want both freedom and censorship at the same time. And those same people usually have entirely different, if not totally opposite, definitions of freedom and censorship.

What's the solution? A search profile customized to every single individual based on personal preferences and a TikTok-like personality learning and profiling algorithm that would display only results that person wants to see. What a wonderful world would that be.
Also Tiktok's backend:

https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1
Spotify is getting serious about its enterprise and dev tools business play
How do you feel yours compares with (say) SQLCipher, which is a very popular C based one, and keeps fairly close to the upstream SQLite releases?

* https://www.zetetic.net/sqlcipher/

* https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher

Their most recent release (v4.5.7) is based upon SQLite v3.45.3, which is the latest version of SQLite:

* https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/releases/tag/v4.5.7
But you can verify that the app does not use the network at all, right?
For the T-series chips which have a 35W limit, the power adapter is 90W.

For models which have 65W CPUs, it's a 130W power adapter.

I don't know what the power draw at the wall is though - these are just the highest upper boundaries.

(To be fair though, I live in a place with 11 cents per kWh electricity with 13 cents during June-September, so it's not much of a concern for me.)
His all time favorite car (except teslas now i guess) was the MacLaren F1, which also has center-seating. Not saying this is the actual reason, but knowing him it doesn't seem far fetched.
Another reason to avoid it, it is a VC buyout vehicle.

On the record I'll give it less than 10 years (definitely under 6 years) for a buyout.
Some regional routes could work. So long as they are short and involve charging while loading/unloading.

But yeah, long haul was a stupid plan that would have never worked. Not without some massive batteries to kick the range way up to something like 800 miles and infrastructure to allow these trucks to charge overnight.

I just don't think the power density is there currently for trucks.
I got in the beta a month or so ago. I installed it and I guess I don't get what people like about it.
You actually get those speeds?
There have also been (possibly AI-generated) comments that are simply rephrasing prior comments or even comments on the same post and piggybacking onto an already upvoted comment. It's not as common as the straight copy and paste comments but it is obvious by the same limited user history and rephrased comments that don't quite make sense in context.
I think that isn’t it, because it would be easy to say something like “we can’t verify the claim that it is privacy respecting so we should assume otherwise.” Which is a totally reasonable position to take.

I think it is important to be specific, clear, and to have evidence if one wants to call somebody a liar, though.

Or maybe it is something else, it could be interesting if they have some other definition of “privacy respecting” that precludes closed source apps, for example. That is, to “respect privacy” could be understood to actually be to provide users with verifiable evidence that their private info isn’t compromised. I think this isn’t the conventional definition definition of privacy respecting but I’m definitely ready to be pulled on-side if anybody starts pushing it.
You have nothing to say.