skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LIDAR sensors are significantly more expensive than 10k. There are a lot of them on it too. Additionally, I expect that the GPUs or other compute requirements are an extra 10+k at least.

While I'm sure the prices can come down with mass production, the estimated BOM for a Waymo are speculated to be >200k per vehicle. Maybe we can that down to 100K, but I'd be very suspicious of a 50k vehicle anytime soon.
This sounds like a great tactic. It’s a little concerning that they may not be developing employees to step up and take on roles when people retire or want to leave
20MW: China installs ' largest single-capacity' offshore wind turbine
It's not only that. Roads have to be resurfaced periodically because of weather damage regardless of how many vehicles drive on them. For any road that sees predominantly/only car traffic, this will be the dominant effect and the cars are irrelevant.
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Most services are connected through SSO, so those won't have passwords and are automatically shut down when the user leaves the company.

All employees also have a 1password account for which we can store individual passwords for the services that are not connected through SSO.

For some services we only have a single token/service account which we need to share within the team. Often they were stored in a `.env` file, but that tend to be a burden for onboarding and quite a bit of maintenance for each individual.

Within my current team we share them using direnv and https://github.com/tmatilai/direnv-1password. Secrets are loaded as environment variables whenever the dev enters the projects directory. They are loaded from 1password which is unlocked using fingerprint scanner. This way the secrets are not actually stored on disk.

People leaving the team does still require manual password rotation, but at least not everyone in the team needs to update their `.env` file this way.
It is already much easier to turn someone into a vegetable or to mentally incapacitate people
Never use LastPass even if it works. It has a disturbing history with many hacks.
By paperclip optimizing loop did you by any chance mean https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html?
This is all from pre tea bags, when everyone used teapots, I'd assume.
Well, it's according to paramedics....
Exactly; if you wish I replied below. That is exactly the point of staying in such organizations, especially if you wish to be on the edge, and especially if you wish to publish, yourself.
Is this a tragedy of the commons, or am I misapplying this term? At an individual level it makes complete sense to put your family into the safest car possible - your thoughts are with you and your family, not the strangers around you.
The point is that their dedicated servers in EU are not VPS:es. They are dedicated servers, not virtual private servers. This usually means better performance (at the same pricepoint but dedicated have a higher starting point) among some other pros.

A VPS with dedicated vCPUs is not the same as a dedicated server.
Years ago I tried to point out some inconsistencies in an IEEE standard. I failed to reach anyone who cared and eventually gave up, disgusted at the absolute pay to play nature of the entire thing. I certainly won’t join or review for this unnecessary, unhelpful organization.
This is correct by misses a lot of nuance. E.g. China has an enormous renewable generation, yes. Only it is mostly in the uninhabited deserts of north west, while the bulk of population lives close to the coast. And the their power delivery is both suboptimal and deliberately sabotaged for political reason. I don't remember full explanation (I think Economics Explained did a video about it) but it is much better for some regional head of a high population province near the coast to fire coal plants IN his own province, than to get renewable energy from some far away province. And other issues, mostly economical, meaning coal will be a major factor in China and all other countries for long time.
A friend bootstrapped his fastfood tiny chain to 5 locations and a couple of mill in revenue in two years. Low financial leverage, happy customers.

An expert told him to hire experts to keep growing it. Now he's down to two locations, high in debt and uncertainty.

Corpo bois are not founders, they know nothing of growing a startup. The have never produced value from thin air. They are just good at playing the corpo role. Job security is their main concern.
What happens when Google stops giving unlimited cloud storage to educational institutions. This was answered yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404530

Top comment: "If [the university computer science department's] cluster somehow ever runs out of disks, I'm happy to donate a terabytes worth, but like hell I'm giving money to big-G for cloud storage."
Some will use the very first image found in your page, or generate a preview that may not look good. If that doesn't bother you, then you shouldn't worry about it. You might be better off just having a logo for your website, or something that represents your "brand" or "identity" where it's the same for all pages, just so you avoid having a bot creating something for you in the future (which may not align with your ideas).
I primarily use an iPad pro. Hardware-wise, I think it’s a superior paradigm. Most of the time I’m using it with the magic keyboard. I love that if the keyboard is damaged, it’s totally removed from the device.

We don’t need to talk about the OS!
Are you moving to the bay area?

Also, as someone who's been in SF for over 12 years, I can assure you it doesn't "rain and rain and rain"
Thoughts on the News Feed
That's interesting! If we value an existing species over one forth millenia gone, then that would be a negative. Quite a lot of discussion possible there.

For instance, existing elephants are already obnoxious destructive animals to have roaming a landscape inhabited by people. It's only fair to include that in the analysis. All part of the equation.

Somebody wanted to reintroduce wolves to Iowa but that got squashed by popular objection. Everyone would have been at risk.
"Mammoth burgers" are basically here (and have been for over a century). Siberian explorers have eaten frozen mammoth. The Atlantic, "What Happens to Meat When You Freeze It for 35,000 Years". And a startup demo'd a mammoth meatball last year.[2]

1. [archive link] https://archive.is/QkS7J
2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-massive-meatb...
I have read that claim before.

I deployed and supported Windows 2.01 in production. IMHO, it's not really anything like a taskbar, though. It looks a bit like it if you only know Win2 from screenshots, but if you used it, it's not.

It's just an area of the desktop. Windows minimize to icons on the desktop. (The only icons on the desktop.) They zoom down into icons at the bottom of the screen, that's all. If you manage to keep Win2 running long enough to fill the bottom row, it starts a 2nd row above it. You can, if I recall, also pick them up and move them if you so wish.

In a tiny echo of the tiling windows in Windows 1.x, normal-sized windows avoid covering up that bottom area, but if you minimise all windows you can see: it's not a strip or bar or anything. It's not contained in any way. It's not a special region and nothing else goes there simply because Win2.x doesn't put anything else on the desktop itself.
There's a lot of tools you could use for this (I'd personally recommend OpenBao), but in my opinion proper SSO, permission and group management is way more important.

If you make an effort to define granular groups for every team, and role you have in your company it makes the management of access to resources (and not only secrets) a lot easier.

In the example you describe, the newly promoted hire would automatically be added to new groups which will have the right to access the needed Secrets. Similarly, whenever a person leaves your company, simply remove them from the groups they are in and they (almost) immediately loose all access.

It's not a small feat to built, maintain and reconfigure all your tools to use it, but if you do it really pays dividends
Code is primarily for execution. It is very important that it also communicates to people, for the sake of the business that the code supports, but the main thing is the execution.
Bacteria make thermally stable plastics similar to polystyrene and PET
Interview with Chesky. Talks about this around -57 https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-...
Poorly documented? Surely you jest, the K8s documentation is _excellent_.

For basically every core resource type, there’s a user-guide, examples, a tour of it, in-depth docs and then the api docs themselves.
All of the optimisation work in this article is done for Linux aarch64 ELF binaries.

Besides that, microcontrollers have megabytes of storage these days. To be restricted by a dozen or two kilobytes of code storage, you need to be _very_ storage restricted.

I have run into code size issues myself when trying to run Rust on an ESP32 with 2MiB of storage (thought I bought 16MB, but MB stood for megabits, oops). Through tweaking the default Rust options, I managed to save half a megabyte or more to make the code work again. The article also links to a project where the fmt library is still much bigger (over 300KiB rather than the current 57KiB).

There are microcontrollers where you need to watch out for your dependencies and compiler options, and then there are _tiny_ microcontrollers where every bit matters. For those specific constraints, it doesn't make a lot of sense to assume you can touch every language feature and load every standard library to just work. Much older language features (such as template classes) will also add hundreds of kilobytes of code to your program already, you have to work around that stuff if you're in an extremely constrained environment.

The important thing with language features that includes targets like these is that you can disable the entire feature and enable your own. Sharing design goals between x64 supercomputers and RISC-V chips with literal dozens of bytes of RAM makes for an unreasonably restricted language for anything but the minimal spec. Floats are just expensive on minimum cost chips.
> let’s live on the moon or terraform mars instead of fixing our mess on this planet!

Why not both? We are 8 billion on this planet, we can fix our mess and do all these crazy things.

And I don't think "de-extinguishing" species is particularly unsafe. Generally, the risk with messing with biology is that things can get out of control, but here, we are talking about extinct species, they went extinct because they were not adapted to the environment we thrive in. By far the most likely result if we screw up is that the specie become extinct again.
Thanks for the response. I do think there is a big difference between routine checks of a mole and daily quantifying of a biometric signal that is of questionable use outside elite sports or specific illnesses. My point about nocebos is that people can take data, knowledge of potential side-effects for example, and cause themselves ill effects by worrying about them. I can easily imagine some of my friends checking their perfectly healthy but noisy glucose levels and worrying that there is something wrong. I guess it's about mindset (mostly curiosity?) for self-quantifiers.
>Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs. Sounds great when it's described that way, doesn't it? Except in practice, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground.

Not to be that guy but if you're hiring fakers than you're not hiring good people to do their jobs.

The reason why you can't hire good people is because they don't care about money, and from what I've seen bringing money into the equation actively drives them away.

This is not something that a company like YC wants to hear because it means that their whole raison d'etre is flawed. I'm willing to bet that if the Paul Graham who wrote On Lisp met the Paul Graham who wrote this article, he would have some pointed questions about what went so spectacularly wrong in his career that he sold out so completely.

God knows that the me from 10 years ago would have similar questions and he'd be deeply unhappy about the answers.
> If people haven’t, they should read about the “business plot”
This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Unwarranted perspective from someone who is not a founder, but works with and has a lot of respect for them

I think the common thread between the two blogs is context and detail are important. I kind of think “Founder mode” is just doing your own diligence on your decisions rather than trusting heuristics or outside third parties. The “HR lawyers” or the “professional managers” are probably not nearly as tied to the company as the founder, and therefore unwilling to wade into the details and rely on such heuristics or “playbooks” for decision making or advice giving.

Tim does raise a salient point though in that finance functions are often overlooked or under invested, and siloed division. The whole company probably does not need to know the daily cash balance of the company, but team members should maybe think a bit more carefully about relative rates of return on their invested time or money, and “finance” is a good framework for doing just that. The best CFOs (or people more generally) look for that context (and help others do so too), so they can understand intuitively the impacts of potential decisions. Meanwhile, the professional managers run away from the detail and prefer to rely on playbooks and heuristics like the Conjoined Triangles of Success.

I don’t think it always has to be that way though, you just need people to care enough to wade into the depths of detail and care as if they were a founder.
Disappointed that Nigel Pennypinch is missing from the acknowledgements.
That cow is already out of the barn. There's precious little ecosystem left on this tired old iron ball that hasn't been radically upended.

Funny how any effort to arrest the runaway catastrophe that's been caused is met with resistance that calls it 'further damage'. Like we aren't already facing tremendous risks by leaving it unchecked.
DHH - We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals
How familiar are you with historical geopolitics?
Yeah I wish they'd included it when they named that library! But they do mention it at the very end: "Joanine Library at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal"
With so many trained mathematical / theoretical physicists around even the slightest experimental hint from nature would bring about a scientific revolution and new paradigms - like in real time.

The lack of news from the "deep" frontiers of fundamental physics might end tomorrow or might last a millenium. Its impossible to tell.

The pace of our increasing understanding of universe is not particularly predictable beyond these periods that benefit from simple scaling rules (ever bigger detectors etc.)
It varies widely within the US too:

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/us-states-electric...
I have Bitwarden Enterprise deployed and authenticate via our IDP. It's been working well for us, each team has their own collection that they manage. From an IT admin perspective, it's pretty hands off. Any changes to password are automatically synced between users.
It removes the implicit subsidy for buses, but we want to encourage people to use buses over cars and SUVs. Also, the damage from cars/SUVs is so small that the cost of collecting the fee would exceed the amount of the fee.
My story is very similar. Have had tons of pain and muscle related problems for decades - played a ton of sports like you when i was a kid, and did a lot of physical risk-taking too (skateboarding, bmx-style biking taking them off jump-ramps...) and also had lots of injuries.

On top of chronic pain, I had (and still have but is greatly reduced) muscle clenching on the left side of my body - for some reason my body on the left side is clenching up, with this constant pulling on my head, pulling down and to the left. I also have severe TMJ, again on the left, and constant headache, light sensitivity, difficulty focusing and fatigue. It was truly horrible - imagine going through life with an extremely strong pull on your head and body. Your posture is messed up so physically, you look like a wreck, and sitting is painful as is standing. Also, you are just fighting this pull every second of the day. It never ends and you constantly have to think about it and ways to reduce the pull and the pain.

I worked with physical therapists and orthopedists for decades to try to figure out what was going on, but nothing worked. So about 8 years ago (I'm 50 now, so it was around my 42 birthday), I finally realized that I needed to look beyond the obvious causes of these types of problems, and explore almost everything, really ramping up the number and types of doctors I was seeing. Saw many types of docs: pain specialists, TMJ docs, gastroenterologists, ENT's (I have throat tightening and stomach issues too), neurologists...

Eventually, like you, found that many of my issues were from compressed nerves. And yeah, it's a struggle for you and the docs to find the right ones, but once you do, it makes a big difference. I'm not 100%, but I'd say I'm 60% there, and it's definitely changed my life, and is visible both physically and socially.

Of course, every person's body and causes of health-problems is different, so what helped for me may not help for you, but seems like you're on the right path. Keep searching, and would suggest being scientific about the process (this really helped me). I may write about my experience one day, so if you have any questions, let me know. And best of luck
I expected a real working clone of the Ryzen chip. Calling it mindblowing is a bit exaggerate since it's basically a piece of metal/plastic with no electronics in it.
I agree that accurate carbon pricing would be great. However it's so politically infeasible (and widely known to be so) that fossil fuel companies have been caught faking support as a foot-dragging strategy.[1]

In the inevitable absence of carbon pricing, such "bridge solutions" get enshrined as special case regulations, resulting in zombie solutions that hang on far beyond their expiration dates. We see this today, where European biofuel zombie regulations are directly causing the clear-cutting of Canadian old growth forests... in the name of "the environment." [2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-cau...

[2] https://www.nrdc.org/bio/elly-pepper/bbc-reveals-drax-loggin...
Not intended to be pedantic or contrarian, but I think this falls apart when the code is making sure a signal is sent somewhere (aka communication). If I write a module that allows IPC am I focusing on execution or communication?
I understand one can say they were “executing the communication” but at that point we ought to remove execute from the phrase if it has to preface anything you do.

To fully disprove my point, at what point do we never execute something with code so the distinction is even worth mentioning?
I wonder if there's something in our food and/or environment that effectively does that over long periods of time, ultimately causing some forms of dementia?
I think if you want terrifying, look for the "Devil's Breath" or Scopolamine. This has been actively used by robbers and can ruin a life forever.
Yes. I recently had to debug my gf’s entire work computer setup getting fubar’d from installing a pip package at a user level that conflicted with the name of some package used internally by the 10k+/seat/year software the company devices have installed. Proximal cause? The installer “helpfully” failed over to installing at the user level when she didn’t have permissions to write to the place she told it to. Root cause of course is that million dollar fancy fancy enterprise software somehow being unable to give itself an isolated python package namespace, or provide any relevant errors when conflicts occurred.

The python packaging system has to be used in case studies of worst design decisions of all time.
A Real Life Off-by-One Error
> Thankfully almost no one is the best in their field :) You probably can't afford the best, you probably don't need the best, you probably can't keep the best happy, you definitely don't have problems that need the best.

You don't need the single best, you just should aspire as high a concentration of n * x for n>1 (2x, 10x, ...) as your talent to raiase funding permits.

But don't forget it's not all about "best coding"; you want people best in different things (PM, UX, architecture, security, databases, algorithms, compilers, documentation, networking etc. - also depending on what the product is about) - a diverse team of rock stars.
It was, but the NeXTstep beta 0.8 was after Arthur 1.20, and the icon bar concept was in Arthur. RO's version is less sophisticated, yes, I agree. Highly functional, though.

I moderated a talk and discussion by the surviving members of the original RISC OS core team a couple of years ago. I wrote it up here:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/how_risc_os_happened/

You can watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SDL0IwbCc

The claim is from the team lead, Paul Fellows. To paraphrase him: One of the programmers got a job with NeXT, quit, went to California, and took his Archimedes. Lo, the next beta of NeXTstep had an icon bar!
Can the S.S. United States Be Saved?
You might have issues with sites behind Cloudflare, or similar type services.
What an interesting example of symbiosis! I wish there were more ways that humans could work together with the animals in our environment in ways like these -- it's a win win for both species! Now if only they could be trained to go the washroom...
I think it was confusing people because pro sports players are often paid by an org or team that will fire them if they don't show up for the endless hours of training. They also get huge amounts of resources to make that training more effective.

Versus, say, a touring rock band that gets a cut of the performance revenue. I don't think there's anyone paying them a multi-year contract salary.
This was a popular strategy ages ago and it can work if you sell a whale or two. Most of the names will have no buyer and, of course, it's impossible to know which if any will be valuable to someone. It's casino gambling with domains.
> I have heard that LastPass is about as good

I am shocked how you could've possibly heard this. Basically everything I've heard rounds to "LastPass is the worst available option" and "1Password is the best available option." I use neither.
Clojure Interactive Development 101
You're being downvoted for understanding the issue perfectly. Classic HN.
Precisely. I used to rent dedicated servers in the early 2000s that gave me such options.
how much have you donated?
Much of this hinges on what the company does.

AirBnB is basically a web site and a customer service operation. They don't own or run hotels.

Netflix started like that, but now they also create content. The web site part is basically operating a server farm with a halfway decent interface. The negotiation with content providers part is crucial to success. Netflix also creates content. That works more like a VC operation.

Movie making is interesting as a management problem. Strip away all the glitz, and it's a project business where a new team is formed for each project, they do a complicated one-off, and then disband. This works partly because of standardized roles and tasks. Sometimes it doesn't work, and whoever's funding the thing has to be funded for failures.

These are all industries where the question of what to do dominates the mechanics of doing it. Compare, say, a railroad, an auto company, or an aircraft company, where ongoing execution dominates.
YC tends not to fund that type of company.
I think they meant the percentages were wildly inaccurate. 99% at 290 miles would give a 100% range of 292 miles. 260 miles should be 89% remaining, not 70%.