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would be hilarious if Altman was directly hired by Microsoft to head their AI teams now.

I like how OP commenter is essentially arguing that the government should regulate journalism, which fundamentally misunderstands the role of journalists -- that is, it is a direct check and balance on the government, except that it relies on the free market for competitive regulation. A journalism outlet which consistently gets things wrong SHOULD fail. Trying to regulate journalism massively fails not only in its intent to reduce errors, but also in its implementation.

I love Tim Dodd! I'm actually really surprised to see him show up on hacker news. I've been watching his youtube videos for quite a while now.

Anybody else interested in space stuff should also check out Scott Manley. I also like Marcus House also has some really great stuff.

These guys focus a lot on SpaceX but they also do a lot of other videos on general space stuff.

Marcus House: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBNHHEoiSF8pcLgqLKVugOw

Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg

sure, but what i'm saying, is were all the actual unique positions listed, not were each individual position for each job listed .... make sense?

but were all 30k jobs listed? I'm assuming the positions listed were nowhere near close to the positions they need to hire for. As in, they probably havent even listed for a lot of the roles.

That said, I really didn't read the article :o

just as an fyi, most people take mortgages for anywhere between 2 and like, 5 times their annual salary. I think my mortgage right now is about 3x my salary. So dont worry about that too much. I used to stress out a lot about ANY debt, but i've learned to cope with it a bit better. You're super early in your career (even pre-career), so you've got plenty of time to work these things out. I'm confident you'll do just fine with all of those things. commute can be tricky, but if youre in an area where housing is that expensive, i'm sure the public transportation is decent quality. Buses and trains work great for morning/afternoon work commute.

i seem to recall something about some carbon technology recently that is supposedly the next big revolution in semiconductors, and might revive Moore's Law? I wanna say it was about how carbon nanotubes can be used as an excellent semiconductoer, and because their width is at the atomic scale, they can result in even smaller transistors.

or something to that effect. Not sure where I read it tho. Maybe on here

I mean, to be fair, everyone thought the soviet union was ironclad, and a lot of people were surprised when it fell.

that said, i'm not optimistic that communist china will reform any time soon.

im a little perplexed why the phrase 'oral' was at all used here. It literally means "spread by word of mouth" -- but this is a text format. although this is probably a little bit nitpicky, i guess.

you could make a strong argument that the 'winner-takes-all' electoral votes in states that have winner-takes-all systems is essentially already doing what the proposal to effectively eliminate the electoral college is doing -- it's saying that individual votes dont count, only the collective whole.

if the company was lying to VC's, is it possible for them to recoup their investments outside of a civil lawsuit? I'm imagining some sort of criminal fraud investigation could happen, but dont really know.

hell, or even just good ole 'institutionalism'. "Deep state" sure does imply conspiracies afoot, and it's hardly such a thing. really it's just plain ole bureaucracy

also basically any 'balance transfer' option on pretty much every credit card ever.

towing capacity

what? Electric vehicles are vastly superior in towing capacity. The Model X from tesla can TOW a boeing jet -- 230,000 pounds. Now that has some tradeoffs for range, i believe. but in terms of actual towing capacity, it's leaps and bounds ahead of any other vehicle capable of towing. if you'd said 'towing range', i might be willing to accept that.

range itself is also just not really a concern any more. 300+ miles of range on a single charge is more than enough for the vast majority of drivers.

winter performance is possibly somethign to worry about, but when you can charge overnight at your home, you can still leave every morning with a 'full tank', so it's also just not really a concern any more.

i have a tesla model 3 and i believe that multiple smaller sessions are better for the longevity of the battery. elon has said that 'a plugged in tesla is a happy tesla.'

you're also only supposed to charge to 80 or 90 percent charge unless youre going on a road trip, since charging to the absloute max (and conversely, discharging to near zero) is worse for the battery.

wait, i was literally just reading from something else posted on HN about the 'resurrection' of Linux Journal and how they were bought by some company and had a plan for not repeating their previous mistakes ......

i'm confused af at this point. Is it closed or not ???

This video series singlehandedly inspired me to delve into hardware (i'm a software guy). It's INCREDIBLY well done, and easy to follow.

Fast forward to now, when I've blown several hundred dollars on electronics supplies lol. Plus Ben has a great voice to listen to, so there's also that.

36 yo here. I've found that it is incredibly easy to 'overthink' and therefore overengineer things, and I've seen a LOT of my coworkers fall into that trap. Analysis paralysis is real, and delivering something and then being able to iterate on it is a massive step in overcoming that. Way wayyyy too often I've seen people try to think of all the edge cases before starting work, and that's just not a viable approach to software development in today's world.

Also, disclaimer, I didnt actually read the article :o

this also means that people in china cant afford products from the US, and China is a major consumer of goods, especially for large sectors of our agribusiness.

Also the fact that their yuan is worth less now is increasing uncertainty in the markets, and stocks dont like uncertainty, hence the sellof.

was fortunate to see a Tigress with fresh kill and couple of cubs.

also fortunate you werent the 'fresh kill'!

serious, though, in what kind of context is it possible to see an adult tigress and not totally crap your pants?

Found the wiki page for the project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

so it looks like they'd want to launch by 2036. In the 'technical challenges' section, it does mention that some technologies would have to be miniaturized sufficiently, but it doesnt really mention much about whether that technology has reached viable stages or not, or whether it's a realm they'd have to specifically research further.

So I guess maybe the technology doesn't exist today? Sounds like probably not, but maybe the near future -- or at least they expect it to exist by 2036.

It's worth noting this project has backing by some pretty influential folks, including Stephen Hawking when he was still alive.

there is an effort to put super mini spaceships on missions to other solar systems, and they would travel at something like 20% the speed of light. I think it works by having the probes be like the size of a cellphone or something, and being attached to a solar sail, then using an incredibly high powered laser to pump the solar sail full of energy to get it going so fast. I think if that architecture works they could reach ... proxima centauri? ... in something like 20 years.

just pointing that out to say that i think we have technology that would take less time than 450k years :)

additionally, isnt glass a semi natural occurring substance? Im pretty sure ive heard of lightning strikes in deserts/sand that created glass.

oh wow. that's pretty meta.

how do we report comments like this ? or just downvote them?

`DiableInstallNow` i liked this json key in the api

Indeed, Musk has encouraged competitors from the start. I believe they open sourced a lot of their patents in an effort to encourage competition in the electric vehicle space.

oh interesting. definitely not the video i remember seeing, but that demonstrates the same thing very well, and makes me more confident that the previous video I saw was legit. thanks for sharing!! The cutting action happens around 32:07 for anyone wanting to watch

the new solid state lithium batteries being developed are pretty astounding. i think i saw a video of a phone being powered by one, then the demonstrator cuts the battery in half while the phone is being powered by it and nothing happens -- the phone stays on.

could have been video trickery but I think the demo was legit. Once that technology goes mainstream it's gonna be as revolutionary as the increases in lithium ion energy density. We're on the cusp of some incredible battery breakthroughs in the very near future! The fact that the new tesla roadster (admittedly expensive at $250k) has a 600 mile charge capacity is aboslutely astonishing.

blender can create 3d printable STL files, so if we're "thinking Blender," then that implies we can 3d model for printing, if i understand what you're saying