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> We typically distinguish UNIX® which is everybody who has money and wanted to say they're Unix, from just Unix, meaning the things that in practice behave like Unix.

From what i've seen Apple gets every Mac Os release UNIX-certified, which is somewhat cool.

But frankly, is it of any actual relevance ? Nowadays it's gnu/linux in (probably) 95-98% of the industry and the rest is likely to be shared across FreeBSD and a few other players.

But in general, I'd say any "POSIX implementation" that's not been certified should not be taken any seriously: as an example, i had a friend that was working with the Zephyr RTOS which claimed to have some kind of posix compliance... Except it wasn't full and it broke in subtle ways. Still a good RTOS (it seems, not my area of expertise) but the "posix compliat" claim should be taken with many grains of salt probably.
Surely you don't have the backup in the same machine as the NAS? It should at least be in another building entirely.
I think I must be looking at this wrong, how are "Photographic plates and film, exposed and developed, other than motion-picture film" the most complex product? Surely CPUs are harder to make than that? Maybe it is old categories and there is where new things like CPUs are found?
Can they be accessed and indexed without being invited to the channel?
Hi HN! I built this with OP. We built this to help developers maintain clear structure in their projects, even if they're scaling the team quickly. It fits into CI, so you can establish how packages should relate to each other, and then be sure that your mental model matches what's in the code.
I will defend EU here.
Life is not only about technology companies.
Bad for people != Bad for Companies

Standard of life in EU is better than US.
> Why did they decide to be different here?

A lack of anyone to stop them from doing otherwise.

And to think, people demonize standardization and regulation...
There is the possibility of reducing the number of lanes.
By 'giving his opinion a weirdly large amount of attention relative to its value' I'm not saying that his opinion has little value due to his lack of specific space credentials (else my opinion wouldn't matter either lol). I'm saying his opinion has little value because the issues he's pointing to have been discussed to death already by other rocketry enthusiasts and anyone interested would've found those discussions easily.

Sure, the debates aren't fully settled yet, but they're certainly comprehensive enough to make it obvious that the criticisms are kind of weak, such that even if Starship isn't the one to establish all the necessary tech for meeting Artemis' stated goals, it's by far the most promising attempt to do it, as the others weren't even trying.
I mean, technically you could swap out the entire cab every time it needed to be charged. The goal is to get the trailer to the destination, not the cab.

There are several problems with that, you end up with a lot more idle equipment than just the battery pack, you've got to either be constantly switching drivers or drivers have to be constantly switching cabs, you need facilities to swap trailers and charge cabs, etc etc etc.

But tractor trailers already have a convenient modularity built in, is all I'm saying.
> Retrying makes sense because LLMs aren’t deterministic even at temperature zero.

This is news to me. I'm trying to think where non-determinism would come in at temperature zero, but coming up with nothing. What am I missing?
Yes from a place of massive privilege, just like you, fellow hacker news user.

One that comes at the expense of 1000's of years of marginalized and disenfranchised groups. One that comes at the elimination of entire branches of the family tree.

It's a coin toss that you have neanderthal and densoivan DNA. Those ancestors that we raped and murdered off the face of the earth. And then did that to each other for 1000's of years...

Regardless of what political or social values you believe the reality is that no matter how you envision the world working we're going to have to get in line. Be that for food or iPhones. And a line means there is someone at the back.

It's poor form to complain about the millions of people in front of you when there are billons of them looking at your asshole.
I've read this trope many times but honestly I don't buy it. At highway speeds conventional door handles, which are absolutely tiny in frontal area and have fairly low drag shape to begin with, are behind the side mirror turbulence anyway. I wish some high budget Youtuber would test this in a wind tunnel so we can put it to rest.
If your server is on AWS, then the egress cost should be identical whether the transfer originates from S3 or EC2. But if your server is on premise and your host charges for egress (or has impactful bandwidth restrictions), I can understand where you're coming from, as you could end up paying twice.
A neat idea, but peeling back into the computations, one has to worry. The details of calculations are suspiciously “mathy” - they are embarrassingly simple, but dressed up in fancier language that seems intended to impress and confuse.

For example, take the computation for (product) “Diversity”: https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/glossary

“Imagine a matrix, M_c,p, in which rows represent different countries and columns represent different products. An element of the matrix is equal to 1 if country C produces product P (with RCA greater than 1), and 0 otherwise. We can measure diversity (and ubiquity) simply by summing over the rows (or columns) of that matrix. Formally,

Diversity = k_c,0 = ∑_p (M_cp)”

This is an abstruse way of just saying “diversity is the number of unique products a country exports”. Which is fine! But why not say that?

This is a common thing in economics, and it should raise our suspicion that the systems are far less sophisticated, and just supposed to bamboozle us to see past the underlying poor assumptions.
I suspect horse drawn wagons need maintenance more often than you think: Roads were much lower quality in that era, and wagon wheels and axles are a huge failure point, especially when repeatedly driven over bumpy rocks.
A lot of software doesn't need to be good. I could see using this to prototype internal tools fast.

Also, it doesn't need to be good yet - whoever has the best tooling infrastructure when the models get better will win.
The main difference is that in the US I could walk away with semi-fuck-you money if I held a similar position. In the EU I have a comparatively minuscule salary, due to lack of competition among other things.
So it's Chromium, but instead of Google having all of your data the data goes to The Browser Company and Datadog and somehow also still Google (via GCP Firebase)? And the FAQ link for why you need an Arc account goes to a missing page (https://resources.arc.net/hc/en-us/articles/19401542261911-B...)?

Is the pitch really just that it's not Google and a rearranged sidebar? What am I missing?
From yesterday,

Default passwords in 'smart' devices now banned in UK (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40195841) - (no comments)

-> https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/smart-devices-law
>the only informational resource on the web that's still unscathed is Wikipedia

Ask a conservative about that opinion. Do it before you do exactly what I'm accusing you of and downvoting the bad man who said the thing against "your side".

EDIT: Yea, thanks for the gaslighting but Wikipedia's organized effort to remove conservative editors to shift a left bias in the content is well documented. I'm the crazy one injecting politics into "fair and unbiased wikipedia" lol
N100 is probably the best CPU Intel has now, completely demolishing the low end. I have an N100 firewall, an N100 ASRock mini ITX board for NAS, an N305 CWWK NAS/home server board and they are all unbelievably good compared to older Atoms or RPis. Only 7840U is significantly better but also consuming much more energy.
What about this? https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event

Or maybe those weren't production cars?
Yet no iPadOS version.
> Like a new car company making a new kind of vehicle. The first time I heard he wanted to build a new car company that would sell EVs, I dismissed it as crazy. Tesla now sells close to 2M vehicles a year, roughly comparable to BMW.

Martin Eberhard and JB Straubel came up with that idea. Elon Musk's contribution was suing them so that he can be called a founder.

> Like a new network of EV charging stations. The first time I heard about it I thought the company would never recoup the capital cost.

You're literally commenting on an article where the ENTIRE supercharging team was just fired, presumably to save money at Tesla.

> Like Dojo, which is now online. There's a picture of it on the last quarterly deck: https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/... -- though I don't know if it will be able to keep up with Nvidia's offerings, which are always improving.

Dojo is a 7nm design while NVidia's is a 3nm design. It won't keep up at all, despite costing Tesla likely a $Billion+ to produce (between $100M mask costs, large software teams working for multiple years, etc. etc. it wouldn't surprise me to see Dojo's total cost be well in excess of a $Billion).
The PSTI Regulations that the bill gives legal effect to are here:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1007/schedule/1/mad...

(2) Passwords must be—
(a)unique per product; or
(b)defined by the user of the product.
(3) Passwords which are unique per product must not be—
(a)based on incremental counters;
(b)based on or derived from publicly available information;
(c)based on or derived from unique product identifiers, such as serial numbers, unless this is done using an encryption method, or keyed hashing algorithm, that is accepted as part of good industry practice;
(d)otherwise guessable in a manner unacceptable as part of good industry practice.
> He's doing fine … Unfortunately, resources are naturally constrained

His entire job is understanding those constraints and ensuring they don’t get in the way of creating an actual shipping product. When they do, he is not fine, he’s failing.
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Then you don't need to worry about it either way?
I moderate a niche subreddit, we were focused on information backed by science. The mod team is doctors, chemists, and devs. However, as we are growing we are noticing a lot of new people are spreading myths and since our average user is becoming dumber wrong opinions often end up at the top.

This is what made me realize that reddit is actually an awful platform for information, while there is a lot of good stuff there the average user is NOT educated, and the average users outnumber the individuals educated in a particular subject.

I have been downvoted to hell many times even though my information was backed by multiple studies and factual.
And the device also shouldn't work until they do, right?
Anyone know power draw figures between the two? That’s historically been one of the strengths of the Pi’s, although the 4 started shifting that a bit.
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+1 for fanless. I got one of these optiplexes as they were recommended everywhere. They are indeed more powerful but very closed down. For example one cannot even control the fan speed on them and I hear it whine at idle all day long. If I try to unplug the fan from the motherboard, the whole computer won't boot.

Also, what I could gather from a youtube presentation is that they are electricity hogs (compared to a 5W Pi) unless you get a >9th gen box which has some better low power states (which may or may not be supported by your distro).
I know it is a bit of a trope at this point, but another solution is of course just not to do long-haul trucking. Use trains to get to distribution hubs and then have lot tenders and local delivery that just travels less than one battery worth per day.
Yep agreed! The storage solution is so much better, more memory, and it’s supported by regular Linux forever (x86).
Repost spam has been a problem on reddit for a lot longer than LLMs have been accessible to the public. I'm always confused when I see people on HN marvel at how amazing reddit is, most of the top subreddits are filled with regurgitated garbage.
The decision to put the driver's seat in the center of the cab
Hell we just accept xlsx and xls natively. It sucks but it solves many issues. Also causes some, but you'll never get it out of users' heads that Excel files are not a data exchange format.
I don't know if there will ever be a "right time" for electric semis. They need to be banned. They're super heavy death machines, far too dangerous to have on the road in instances of driver incapacitation.
When I moved to the UK, I figured this out and used this for a month or so of free internet while waiting for my own internet connection to be set up.
> When one starts gluing together a lot of data pipelines full of JSON trash and from all kinds of systems with incompatible data types (whether or not “lol what’s an integer?” JSON is involved), one quickly comes to appreciate why things like Protobuf exist and look the way they do.

And then one proceeds to spend days trying to mash that JSON mess into a protobuff and debugging segfaults, rather than just getting the job done with HTTP.
My notifications are always off. When I do have time to respond, if someone has sent me an actual question, I can just send them an answer. If all they've said is "Hello," now I have to send them a message asking what they want, which they may or may not receive and respond to while I'm still available to actually answer their question.

What's more likely is that they won't receive the message right away, and when they finally do get it and respond, I probably won't be staring at messages anymore, so there will probably be another delay, only to FINALLY reach the point we could have been at initially if the other person had just started with asking the question.

That's the delay on both sides that is needlessly introduced by sending a message with no value.
I think I mostly agree that, given current trends in generation and grid investment, it is pretty unlikely that CA can meet the goals. But also, I am pretty confident that CA _won't_ just let everything completely collapse into anarchy. One of a few things will happen:

1. Trends in generation/grid investment will change such that the EV transition _can_ happen.

2. The EV mandate will get walked back before much of anything changes.

3. The EV mandate will _start_ to get implemented, slowly, begin making things terrible proportionally to how far it has progressed, then, when things reach some (pre-total collapse) level of badness, get reversed, and things will go back to normal-ish after having wasted a bunch of money and having made some things somewhat worse.

4. And, I suppose for completeness, I should include the possibility of: nothing changes, nothing gets rolled back, and the grid utterly collapses under the overwhelming burden and the CA economy goes up in smoke and fire.

I do not think that last one has a significant chance of occurring. I think the most likely options are 3 and 2, followed somewhat distantly by 1, and much, _much_ more distantly by 4. If trend lines seem to point towards utter calamity, and any of the trend lines are under human control, the safe assumption is that something will change before total calamity.
> One significant downside of is-y programs is that in general they run slower than
corresponding do-y programs.

I wonder about this. It seems like the ultimate in declarative programming is prompt engineering: just describe the problem and let the computer decide how to break it down. As of now, humans can still find more efficient ways to break down problems than computers can.
> In my experience this hasn't been the case at all. I've also noticed that if you click the profile of people that end up on the front page, they are often new (or suddenly active) accounts with a certain pattern:

You make a great point. It's highly unlikely that a newly-created account just so happens to post content that's engaging enough to be featured in Reddit's frontpage. It's far more likely that these "less popular Reddit users" are sock puppet accounts used to post special-purpose content which is then subjected to industrial-grade boosting to force it onto everyone's first page.

Changes of this magnitude are practically impossible without the backing of either Reddit itself or marketing companies intending to control the flow of information.
Musk's companies do great stuff but I wouldn't be caught dead working under him. An unwise decision in so many ways.
> Man the critics here about deadlines is astounding.
> I wonder how many deadlines that people miss here, and that's usually just pure software, no materials.

Look... I'm an investor in the Tesla IPO ($4k -> $200k+). I own a Tesla vehicle.

Current Elon has run off the deep end into conspiracy theories and utter nonsense. Buying Twitter because he was butt-hurt over some of his tweets being punished is just asinine. It is also a massive distraction on something utterly trivial.

There was absolutely a massive whisper campaign to say that EVs would never work. Elon did a lot of great things in the beginning. Some of those things include making lofty promises even though delivering on those promises took a lot longer than he thought. The most important thing in the beginning was proving EVs could work to the early adopters, ensuring Tesla could survive long enough to reach volume ramp-up. Volume means parts suppliers start returning your calls and economies of scale improve everything. Doing things differently got them noticed. Making cars fun was a brilliant marketing strategy... does anyone really need the Toy Box stuff Teslas can do? No... but it makes a lot of people (me included) smile. (My kids think Emissions mode is hilarious on our drive to school drop-off and now consider all other cars to be inferior because those cars can't make fart sounds. That's mind share you can't fucking buy even with unlimited money.)

Passing into the volume phase has killed a lot of companies. There are many more opportunities for things to go wrong and mistakes cost you a lot more. Your company also transitions from "we need exposure at any cost" to "we are a brand leader who has set expectations".

During this critical time Elon has failed to change his messaging. He is still in "we need exposure" mode, making outlandish promises and starting too many projects at once. In the end it is all a self-own. There was no need to get into semi-trucks. They have enough trouble scaling up Model Y and even shipping the Cyber Truck. They still haven't really delivered on FSD, despite charging for it and continuously increasing the price. It was 100% unnecessary. Focus on execution, leave the semi-truck idea for a few years down the road. You have enough irons in the fire. Your #1 focus should be a Model Y refresh since it is by far your top seller and is what is generating all that cash making Tesla an ongoing concern.

tl;dr: Tesla is no longer in survival mode but it is in a critical phase of its growth. Elon should have stopped making outlandish promises some time ago and focused on execution. His thin-skin about Twitter, resulting in trying to get a board seat, on a whim turning into buying the company has been a massive distraction that hurts Tesla at a time when it needs strong leadership and the traditional automakers are still fumbling on EVs.
Seems like that might have the impact of doubling the money outlay for trucks, though it would work.
What do you propose we do exactly? Because it sounds like you’re basically saying nothing.

At the bare minimum, keeping this driver locked up behind bars prevents him from doing the same thing again someday.
well... you just gave me a reason to rebuild my Bluesky extension from scratch, without a dependency from the original extension I used to get my base opengraph running. Bluesky OGraph Poster
Huh, that just put a new perspective on facebook's huge push for open LLMs. The less useful anonymous stuff becomes, the more useful content made by people you know IRL is. And that's facebook's/IG's original value proposition.
agreed. not everything that's true is wise.
But where! I only hear the rumors I haven't found the code. :)
I was thinking the same thing. Worst case just sell off the CPUs and RAM.
> Of course, some products will be a success and some will flop, but the successes can only happen so long as someone keeps trying and keeps improving it.

No argument here, I just was questioning the assertions because, and maybe I misread it, it seemed like you were suggesting the success was implied, which I disagreed with.

> Then you should be happy companies are trying to improve them. This is a good thing that Tesla (and others) are trying to make the semi work. It may eventually result in better outcomes for you, vs the alternative where nobody tries and it is guaranteed that nothing gets better.

Yes, I am glad companies are trying to fix them, but I don't blame other companies for not using them in their current state. They simply do not solve the problems that current corporations have to deal with for the reasons I listed.

What bothers me is that a lot of the electric car advocates seem to look at the future at the expense of the present. It's like saying "Everyone should use the Apple 1 computer right now because the Apple II will probably be better", and I don't really think that parses. Yes, it's good that Tesla and other companies are running the necessary experiments to make these things not suck, but that doesn't really change anything.

> last week Consumer Reports listed Tesla as the lowest cost of 10 year ownership of any brand.

I'd be interested in seeing the numbers corrected for the Cybertruck launch.

Also, I don't know how that squares with the thing I linked that indicates that as of December of last year Teslas were considerably less reliable than Lexus, Toyota, Buick, and Honda [1]. Consumer Reports is generally pretty good but I suspect that they're measuring different numbers for each article. It doesn't seem clear-cut to me.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s... Transitively linked in my previous post but figured I'd put a direct link.
Mostly happy to agree to disagree on this!

But I also think that it is mostly in the last few years (after your example) that his judgement has become especially questionable. There are examples from earlier on that I think can now be seen as a through line to where he's ended up today, but I think it is only in the last few years - basically, as his social media involvement has increasingly become a distraction - that he seems (to me) to have lost the plot with respect to managing his companies day to day. And I'm also not saying that every decision he makes is bad, but to me I think the recent track record is bad enough that these kinds of decisions deserve to be evaluated on their own, rather than given the benefit of the doubt.
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We can theorize all day and go down the rabbit hole of "was this a competitor trying to make us look bad?", "is this HN post stealth marketing for ReplyGuy", etc, but I don't think that would really lead anywhere productive.

I do fully agree that people need to be wary of anything posted on the Internet and take it with a grain of salt and whenever possible verify the facts themselves.
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Advice for future Musk employees: Do a somewhat shitty job, otherwise you'll get fired as soon as you build a stable product.