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> 17,800 supercharger stations.

Did they mean 17,800 supercharger units or 17,800 locations with super charger units. Because I've seen those numbers interchanged before.

The problem with chargers (and I say this as an EV owner) is that many people mostly charge at home, so they aren't using them even weekly. However, everyone goes for a road trip say around memorial day, and the EV chargers are PACKED. It is just a huge disparity between normal and peak usage. Or you go on a road trip and you need one in the middle of nowhere Idaho on the way from Seattle to Yellowstone.

Thankfully L3 charger units at least are cheaper to buy/install/maintain (in theory, if people didn't think the coords had copper worth scrapping) and can be installed in more locations than gas station pumps (like super market parking lots).

Given the disparity in peak usage, it makes sense, at least, to compete on availability rather than price, since even if you are paying $60 to charge up, it is only a few times a year. It is much more important that the chargers be where you need them, and to have free units when you need them, oh, and they should be working! ... than to be the cheapest price.
> If every major APM vendor and dozens of startups release agents in the next year, it will be difficult for customers to tell what’s snake oil or what’s actually useful. One approach, also seen in the financial space, is having open benchmarks for assessing how well agents can answer questions and show domain-specific knowledge.

IME benchmarks, though valuable, don't fully reflect the real world, often only reflecting the easily quantifiable. The best way is to be able to quickly try out an agent to see how it performs on your work environment. Sort of like having a private test set you can try different agents on to see how they perform in the real world quickly.

Disclaimer: I'm building MinusX, a data science agent (github.com/minusxai/minusx)
...and have worse quality, which makes the idea of caring about using real-time transcoding to give the best quality pretty silly.
> the US Navy

Tor was made for spies. But you know what's really bad for spies? If accessing a certain IP/protocol/behavior reliably reveal your spy status.

For Tor to be effective for hiding spies it has to be used by the public. Even if it's only nefarious actors (say spies + drug dealers + terrorists) it adds noise that the adversary needs to sort through.

What I fucking hate about many of these conspiracies is how silly it is once you ever work with or for any government entities. You can't get two police agencies in neighboring cities to communicate with one another. The bureaucrats are fucking slow as shit and egotistical as fuck.

It's important to remember that the government and even a single agency (like the NSA) is just as chaotic, disconnected, and full of competing entities as any big tech company has (if not worse). Yeah, most of the NSA is focused offense, but there's groups working on defense. Those groups are 100% at odds. This is true for the 18 intelligence agencies. They have different objectives and many times they are at odds with one another and you bet each one wants to be getting credit for anything.

The US involvement should warrant suspicion and with any technology like Tor you should always be paranoid. But it's not proof. Because guess what, the US wants people in other countries to use high levels of encryption to hide from their authoritarian governments while the US can promote democracy movements and help put a friendly leader into a position of power. AT THE SAME TIME they also want to spy on their own people (and there are plenty of people in the gov that don't want this). Inconsistency is the default because it's a bunch of different people with different objectives. So the US gov both wants Tor to be secure and broken at the same time.
With no malign intent, I would probably fall short of this standard. Ah well, perhaps neutral salty english is going to die in the hands of tone-checker s/w

Actually, I think a lot of people will. If however it becomes tolerant of wazzock, cockwomble and bellend (three of my least favourite attempts to get round bad word detection, they are really very twee), it's a short road to "the aristocrats"
I swapped to Revanced on mobile and a combo of UBO + sponsorblock on desktop after the most recent price increase. Definitely not regretting it after hearing this.
I agree completely. SRE/Ops/Livesite is an incredibly hard problem and very easy to make shiny demos for products that will not reproduce those results when you need them most.

The article talks about moving past “copilots” and moving right to “agents”. There’s probably some semantics to decipher there, but we haven’t even gotten copilots to work well! At their core, they are essentially the same problem, but I feel a lot safer with a chatbot suggesting a mitigation than just going and performing it.
No, the example isn't about IP address octets, it's about IPv6 zones — we're talking strings like "eth0".
I'm using simplified language here, not writing a legal document. The first use was also supposed to be "storing/sharing", but it's processing in practice. But here you go:

> GDPR does not regulate “sharing,”

13.1.e requires at least the notification of the recipients of the data. With the requirement about the purpose of use, it effectively regulates sharing.

> since you must process IP addresses in order to serve a website

That's right and that places the IP in the 4.1.f "processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller" area which doesn't require consent.
I tried the reverse recently, charging my Model 3 at third party CCS chargers with adapter (and CCS compatibility retrofit). It is bleak out there. The chargers are few and far between, half of them are broken, and even the ones that aren't broken have compatibility issues so they may not work anyway. The required apps are unreliable and annoying.

I remember 5+ years ago Superchargers were a lot less common and also frequently broken. But those days are long gone. Tesla has really figured out reliability and maintenance, and there are plenty of stations for all but peak times. And the charging experience couldn't be simpler, park and plug in, unplug and go. No tap, no app. Crazy how no one else could figure this out.
What is this title? Google Wallet?

Anyway, I find it interesting their 4th listed use case is covid vaccination cards, which I haven't needed to travel anywhere in the US, Canada or Caribbean.

I hope it works well with transit cards, I hate the CTA app and having to pick up transit cards.
" They let a company with less resources, fewer engineers, no fab trounce them"

Which company are you referring to?
Don't forget Google's adsense rules which penalized useful straightforward websites and mandated websites be full of "content". Doesn't matter if the "content" is garbage nonsense rambling and excessive word use - it's content and much more likely to be okayed by adsense!
No, you can't create a business with a few lines of code. Developing and marketing an app is so difficult that it is called "fullstack" and most people that call themselves fullstack developers aren't capable of doing the full stack.
> The policy is to move all the dirty work to someone else's back yard.

Whose policy? Like, which politicians and what exactly is their policy?

Because that sounds more like the kind of thing people say they are trying to do, while hiding the fact that they are doing something different.
> They owned less than ten percent of Mandatory Palestin that they had purchased from Arabs

If relations between the two sides hadn’t deteriorated to the point of civil war then the split would never have been proposed in their first place. Left alone the Jews living in the mandate probably would have continued living there as a minority like they were in many Arab states.

The Palestinians fear of Zionism has turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I read that “might” sarcastically.
I found an edition of lesser known short works by Flann O'Brien in an australian university's library (I worked there) with a stamp on the lending sheet to the effect: "pulped if not loaned within the next 6 months" and I promptly borrowed the book on the strength of it.

I was not disappointed. A strange tale of solving Irelands famine problem with Sago palms, and a very odd story of a heroin-addict carpenter who walls himself up inside the panelling he is lining a room with.

There was another uni I worked at in the UK which had a complete set of monographs published by NASA in the 60s, including guidance to emergency operations in space and prep of a corpse for re-entry. They really did their planning before the moon landings. Also all sitting there, not being read.
The capture mechanic was introduced all the way back in the first Pokemon game, which was released in 1996.

As patents only last 20 years, it should have expired years ago.

My understanding is that the patent must be filed before public demonstration (aka, the release of the game), or within a 1 year grace period, otherwise it's invalid.
Specifically what I chose US (allies implied), China, and Russia. These should be three competing factions.
This is such an interesting thing to read about!! Thank you for posting it! I have epilepsy following hemmorhaging to the parietal area affecting my motor movement, planning, and sensation. Much like the patient described, specific things in cognition 'space' will cause me focal sensations. Full tonic-clonic seizures are quite rare for me, but those smaller focal moments still occur. The feeling is one of my left side moving away from me, where my arm no longer feels mine, and I cannot move it as easily, the limb fades to a blur in my head, and moves in slow motion out of sync with my good side. These auras/focals/feelings occur most intensely when I'm overextending my brain cognitively, usually because I'm having a high-bandwidth conversation or am trying to solve a complex programming problem. When these onsets occur I know I need to stop and step away. Floppy arm = time to stop.
I am pretty sure there is no hypervisor. I am pretty sure the processor supports EL2 but it doesn't get used for anything to my knowledge.
It certainly raises questions about the not-Pokemon-wink-wink Digimon franchise. Or the recent Cassette Beasts[0] which has a lot more mechanical similarities to a Pokemon game than Palworld.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1321440/Cassette_Beasts/
What copyright did they infringe?
> Did they mean 17,800 supercharger units or 17,800 locations with super charger units.

They mean 17,800 DC fast charging plugs open to GM cars (and say so in the article). Tesla has 2,397 DC fast charging sites (or stations) in the US and a total of 27,711 plugs.
Titan disaster hearing upends earlier expert theories on crew deaths
The light reflecting boardgame patent is surprising. It is literally laser chess which is a computer game that came out in 1987.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Chess
I'd be more willing to bet that it's because my GPS location is in Japan, which is the strongest signal of my physical location. Nevertheless, my home IP is used by multiple people, they probably know who they are and that they're not in Japan. My own signals are a mix of VPN'd/non-VPN'd apps on my phone and laptop (not strict about the VPN, some Japan sites require a Japanese IP), and I do often NoMachine back to my home machine and access google services just like I do at home.
30 years of stifling innovation will do that to you.
"Now with Nintendo in short of revenue and late with a new platform for Christmas with their stock taking a beating, I guess this is how they'll make up some difference and feed their wild herd of lawyers hungry for some action in the mean time."

Mate, Nintendo aren't worried. They have enough money to operate at a a loss for decades without sweating. They're still selling Nintendo Switches by the millions.
Intel is a dog. It needs to be burnt and rebuilt from the ashes at this point. Too much legacy bloat in the org. Would be nice if my local police force went through this sort of thing every once in a while.
Wait to they hear about that one "Lock-picking Lawyer" then they'll always be scott free.
The processes that involve interacting with external parties, which has long been something Apple has been really bad at.
This paper explains why this is (and likely will be for some time) the case: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
They have 125,000 employees and 13B in revenue. TSMC, Nvidia, and AMD combined (fab, GPU, CPU) have around 88,000 employees on 710B in revenue. Intel may honestly have far more headcount than they need.
Penetration of 450-480MHz through the shell of an airplane would, on the ground,require a transmission strength of approximately .4dB/m at a distance of 1 kilometer, which is doable by most measures, but would quickly become unrealistic as the plane gained altitude.

https://pure.tue.nl/ws/files/68269081/560768.pdf
I never knew emoji variants and stuff worked like that.. Fantastic tool, intuitive interface.
> I wonder: if my sentiment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41587866 is correct and Intel is essentially giving up on innovation in chip fabrication

Ignore HN. Almost every commenter on here is well outside of their depth.

Intel's been putting a significant amount of money into adopting High NA EUV in 18A, which is bleeding edge enough for a decade.

Furthermore, even though TSMC and Fabrication have become hot words on HN recently, it has been a financial dead end for almost 15 years now. This is why TSMC, UMC, and Samsung cornered the chip fabrication market - the margins are very very low and the upfront costs are very very high.

There are 3 core processes to bringing a chip to market

- Design: high margins, low capex, this is where American players like Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, etc really shine as well as their Israeli and Indian offices. This is also basically software at this point, as almost all design is done via EDA/ECAD

- Fabrication: Fabricating the aforementioned designed chips. low margins, high capex, commodified due to Taiwanese and South Korean industrial policy along with recent advances in China for 28nm processes, recently prioritized in the US due to COVID era chip shocks

- Packaging and Testing: packaging fabricated chips. low margins, high capex, commodified due to Malaysian, Thai, Chinese, South Korean, Japanese industrial policy, recently prioritized in the US due to COVID era chips shock.

Before the mid-2010s, American companies like AMD, Intel, and IBM Microelectronics used to do all 3, but the low margins of Fabrication and Packaging caused players like IBM Microelectronics and AMD to almost go bankrupt, forcing both of them to divest their fabrication and packaging capacity to a spinoff called GlobalFoundaries. Intel kept their packaging and fabrication capacity, but it has a negative impact on Intel's R&D capacity in the 2010s.

Now with CHIPS Act money, Intel is modernizing it's fabrication and packaging offerings, and splitting them off into "Intel Foundary Services" while keeping design under "Intel".

There are a lot more intricacies as well (bleeding edge nodes vs lagging nodes, analog chips, memory chips, the entire EDA tooling chain, etc) with entirely distinct market dynamics that deserve a paper unto themselves, but that's a long story and I really really hate HN.
amd + nvidia + qualcomm too why not, I guess arm too
I mean, I'm SRE/Ops but every company I've joined, I've been brought in to manage the infrastructure from ball of wax some dev got operational enough to limp into prod. When I mean limp, they are truly limping and couldn't run to save their life.

You need someone to be disconnected from getting birthday to display on the settings page and make sure Bingo, Papaya, Raccoon and Omega Star are just up and running. Esp since Omega Star can't get their shit together.
The 13 Mini was also a nice size. Impossible to find nowadays.

Apparently 95% of users want big phones.
How does bogus clickbait trash like this make it to page 2…
If your data retention period is less than your response time (which has to be less than a month), can you not say "everything we had at the time of request is deleted" and be done with it?

A reminder that we're talking about passing visitors without accounts here, and for logging and analytics there shouldn't be a need to store anything longer than a couple days.
On mainline youtube, for now at least. Just look at how unusable youtube shorts are. Want to rewind? Too bad for you.
The disaster under discussion is a power outage during a heat wave.

I've thought a little about how to prepare for such a disaster, and the most viable-seeming solution is a freezer full of ice. Then when the power goes out, you mix the ice with water, then pump the chilled water through a flexible hose that snakes its way through a vest worn by the person to be protected.

Fire departments use such systems (vests connected by hoses to a pump and to a large cooler filled with ice and water) to cool firefighters down "in the field" (at the site of a fire) to reduce the amount of time needed before a firefighter can re-enter the fight against a fire. I.e., such cooling systems are available for purchase now (for a few thousand dollars IIRC for a system that can cool 4 people at a time).
I don’t think it is a bad analogy, it is just separating out the issues.

If the thing required breaking the law to make, it just shouldn’t have been made. But, in that case, Facebook should not accept liability for how their users use the thing. They should just not share it at all, and delete it.
I, for one, am humbled that LinkedIn AI has selected my content to model further engagement with other stakeholders.

I learned this while considering watching a video from MIT. Accordingly, I’m adding “AI Training Coordinator — MIT Inspired” to my skills.
Tesla’s entire business revolves around batteries. They have a huge opportunity to install batteries onsite that spread usage over times when high demand charges don’t apply. There’s some loss in that, but still could make sense if demand charges are really high. I’ve been waiting to see Tesla roll something like this out, but presumably it’s not pressing right now.
Yeah and lots of videos expects you to pause and read some texts.
I also just read both companies are in Japan, so Japanese patent law applies, which I have no idea what that looks like.
B2B multi-tenant Postgres for AI
Disappointed not to find a list of ideas with scores.
> Our AI investments—including continued leadership of the AI PC category, our strong position with AI in data center

I had a lot of hope that Pat Gelsinger being an engineer would lead Intel to a revival. But this is total delusion. Intel isn't even a remote player in AI.

If they can't admit the dire situation that Intel is in, having missed the AI boat almost entirely and even managed to fall behind Apple somehow, they aren't going to find a way back.

They have nothing to offer over Nvidia for AI. They have nothing to offer over TSMC when it comes to their fab aside from being a US based alternative (and taking billions from taxpayers). x86 has nothing new to offer; their insane moves with AVX have fragmented the platform terribly. It's not even easy to ship high performance x86 code these days.

Looks like all this is, is an announcement that they're going to fire a lot of people soon to make their financials look good while the ship continues to sink.
Must be an internal combustion engine, because it's moved by discrete firings.
Thanks for the feedback! I like the sound of all of those:

- clearer messaging
- more tutorials
- one-click deploys
- clear & upfront costing

We have plans to add other runtimes (like Typescript) in the future but Python is our focus for now.
To my eyes, especially at small sizes, Comic Code has way more ‘Courier’ to it than Comic Mono.
when placed at head height a downward opening door would impede more for heavy items, even if split in half. Serving short customers is better as both tall & short people can move to either side easily. The split doors just saves room in small spaces and gives options.
I cannot really take this piece seriously if it posits that it was "reasonable" to believe in AGI within 5 years in 2017. Thats a proposition all of it's own demanding a bit of discussion.

No, it was not reasonable. It was highly conjectural, ill-informed speculative crap from people like Ray Kurzeweil (who has been predicting AGI in <5years for the last 4 decades).

It was not reasonable. it was stupid, and an article which takes it at face value to argue to beliefs and rationalism has a really weak foundation.

Nice writing otherwise. I enjoyed reading it. would read again. 3/10.
When I’ve had to take over maintenance of code that isn’t mine, and is poorly commented and documented, which is usually the case, I work through the code and comment it. That eventually leads to refactoring, adding unit tests as needed, and so on…and eventually the code that wasn’t mine is now mine.

But there’s no time in the schedule for that? Either that’s not true (the long way round is usually the shortest way home); or it’s time to find another project. And if you’re the sort of person who has the skills Graham describes, that shouldn’t be hard.
Write Once Run Anywhere, but for GPUs [video]
Even then, you generally need someone smart enough to figure out what is causing the error.

Node is throwing EADDRINFO. Why? Well, it's DNS likely but cause of that DNS failure is pretty varied. I've seen DNS Server is offline, firewall is blocking TCP Port 53, bad hostname in config, team took service offline and so forth.
Problem is that most people don't care :( they just want to play Zelda.

As long as exclusive games exists people will flock to their hardware. I personally dislike Nintendo as a company but I can't deny that some of the games they produce are the ones I enjoy the most.
Wonderboy (1986), by Sega has both
> pump the chilled water

What powers the pump?
I'm against war.

But when there is war - well, I've picked my side.

You're probably American, as am I, and you're definitely from a country that has attacked and militarily dominated other countries. (Because they almost all have.) Get off your high horse.
Or to put it another way…clean architecture is how you arrange the code so that you don’t need to keep ALL of it in your head at once, just the big picture and this bit here.
A style is not legally protectable though, so frankly, that doesn't matter.
I think we have the same perspective on this. I should have been more specific about my snark - what I was really calling out was the GDPR considering IP address as PII, which is widely lauded on this forum.
> do they even have a chip fabrication plants

They had, but divested[1] as they couldn't keep up. GloFo stopped chasing the cutting edge, but does have 12-14 nm capability thanks to deals with ST and Samsung.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries
You listed just one slightly onerous requirement: allowing people access and agency over their data. If you don't store their data, you don't have to do that.

It's a bit hyperbolic to say that you're, "not even half way through the article and I'm skipping over tons of what it's saying needs to be done", when you've literally only listed one thing.
>710B in revenue

it seems you're a 0 off.
I don't really understand the win with an oven. French doors IMO work very well in a refrigerator/freezer but the freezer compartment is obviously at a different temperature from the refrigerator. I find it does a much better job of giving visibility into things than my old side-by-side did.
They are entering their IBM phase.
The server-oriented aspect of Mastodon was the second-worst decision ever (the first one was the name). Mainstream social media doesn't ask you to pick a server (nor deal with the consequences of it going down), its replacement shouldn't either.
It won't be that bad. Adapters are simple for this case.
Don’t repeat yourself…but don’t obfuscate the code either.