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Meegulon How far back in time can you understand English?

The revolutions podcast is perhaps one of my favorite podcasts of all time. The American, French, and Russian revolution seasons are all incredibly enlightening to the world that we live in, while plainly also being just so entertaining.

Meegulon Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow

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  / "We report here our experimental        \
  | demonstration of flexible egocentric     |
  | tooling in a pet cow (Bos taurus),       |
  | Veronika, who uses a deck brush to self- |
  | scratch. Across randomized trials, she   |
  | preferred the bristled end but switched  |
  | to the stick end when targeting softer   |
  | lower-body areas. This adaptive          |
  | deployment of tool features reveals      |
  | multi-purpose tool use not previously    |
  \ reported in non-primate mammals."       /
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Meegulon A simulation where life unfolds in real time

Very interesting to watch, though I don't really have a great idea of what's going on most of the time. Performance seems to be fairly poor despite my system being pretty beefy (Ryzen 9 7950x3d). I see the performance monitor and notice that the render loop seems to fairly regularly exceed the latency for 60fps, despite this being a 'simple' task by modern standards. I'd give more helpful feedback as to why, but the minified code makes it hard to say.

Do you plan on monetizing this somehow? If not, open sourcing some, if not all, would be pretty cool, even if it weren't necessarily licensed in a way that others could 'take' it, if that's your concern. Nonetheless, a very cool project.

Meegulon Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss

Ha, good catch. I stared at that sentence for a few too many minutes as I wrote it because I knew it just didn't sound right.

Meegulon Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss

The battery pack contactor is one of the only, if not actually the only, moving pieces in a battery pack. A solenoid connects or disconnects the battery pack from the rest of the car's electronics. In this case, it seems to fail in the open state, meaning the battery was not able to power the car. Either there was simply a bad production batch of these particular solenoids or a change in supplier for this part.

Model Ys still have a separate, standard 12V battery that power many of the car's non-drivetrain related parts. So in this case, the battery pack contactor failing open would cause the car to lose the ability to drive, but the doors/windows/lights/screen would all still likely be working.

Meegulon Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows

This is only true on the energy and transportation sides of emissions. Some processes like the creation of cement and refining of steel create CO2 through chemical processes, regardless of the energy source.

Meegulon Why I use Firefox

357 - Chrome with extensions

511 - Chrome without any extensions

433 - Clean firefox install

500 - Clean edge install

On an AMD Ryzen 7950X3D / 5600MHz RAM

Interestingly, I got substantially different results depending on whether I used chrome with my typical extensions or not. Looking at the flamegraph, I don't seem to see the full picture of why there's such a substantial difference. Bitwarden/React Developer tools (the 2 primary extensions I use) don't seem to make enough of an impact to account for the roughly 40% performance increase seen without them. The browserbench javascript accounted for ~38.6% of the overall time taken for the benchmark, but the sum of my extensions was only 6.5%. I'm not incredibly familiar with browser performance profiling, so there's probably more to the story.

Meegulon OpenAI is too cheap to beat

Are you doing this profitably? If so, does that entail owning your own hardware or renting from cheaper services such as Lambda?

Meegulon The first conformant M1 GPU driver

I understand where that sentiment comes from, especially looking at the slew of mid-sized companies that have never turned a profit despite paying multiple hundred K TCs, but if you look at the profits of the giants, it paints a different picture. The labor of thousands of very highly compensated engineers is still a drop in the bucket of the revenue generated by their labor. Alphabet seemingly employs somewhere between 20-40 thousand engineers, and it is their labor that produced all (?) of their revenue generating products. Spreading last year's revenue (~$282B) across their engineering staff would yield a revenue in the ballpark of $9M per engineer.

We all know that their engineers are paid well, but that's still potentially more than an order of magnitude off of the value they generate. Of course, there are many other expenses to running their business, but to claim that broadly developers are overvalued when one of the most prolific employers of developers is generating 10x+ the revenue of what they spend on them, is likely no more than only occasionally correct.

Meegulon The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

I don't think OP is being overly negative in relation to the tone of the rest of the comments here. Nobody else up until this comment had mentioned anything about the actual important performance characteristics that the paper's authors' are claiming, and this does put it into perspective with the current state of the art. And OP does even end on an optimistic note anyway. No need to resort to personal attacks.

Edit: I appreciate you toning down the more combative part of your comment.

Meegulon The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

I think the excitement around this is partially people overestimating the properties of this particular material, but also partially people excited that if this is true, the method by which it works might result in the discovery of materials with even better properties.

Even this paper doesn't claim to have a particularly good superconductor as far as overall performance is concerned. It's not particularly close to the state of the art in critical field or current. But if it does turn out that their hypothesis claiming that the internal stress of the material allows it to bypass the current need for extremely high pressures / low temperatures, then perhaps there can be new materials developed that are better superconductors while still overcoming the current limitations presented by REBCOs and other leading superconductors. Also, that's not even mentioning that LK-99 has no particularly exotic materials. REBCOs rely on rare earth elements like Yttrium, but this just uses lead, copper, and phosphorus.

Meegulon Regent – Electric coastal travel

Hey Billy, very small nitpick on your site: The "Mission Sets" nav button is broken on the Viceroy page, and it looks like it's just down to the href missing the correct target (# instead of #mission-sets).

Tiny bug aside, I hope you find success in this venture. I'm sure there'll be a lot of naysayers, but I find it inspiring that someone is actually trying to do something in the sustainable air travel space with technology we have today rather than putting all of their eggs in the basket of yet to be seen technology.

Meegulon SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

That source only lists contracts where the price is known or can be reasonably estimated. Naturally, US government entities which have a semi-public bidding process are much easier to obtain a price estimate from. There's a large amount of foreign government contracts and private commercial contracts that are omitted from that list. Just from 2020 alone, SkySats 16-21, ANASIS-II, SXRS-1, SAOCOM 1B, GNOMES 1, Tybak-0172, SXM-7, and NROL-108.

Edit: I did unreasonably make the assumption that you were making the case the SpaceX was receiving subisidies for "nothing" and I see that you weren't now.

Meegulon SpaceX closing in on first Starship Super Heavy launch

SpaceX undoubtedly does have US government agencies as some of their biggest customers, but 98% must be a gross exaggeration. The Falcon 9/Heavy have made nearly all of their launch revenues, and from just perusing the lists [1][2] of all launches, the US government can't be more than some low double digit percentage.

SpaceX does receive other funding as part of various NASA contracts, but that funding is also related to providing services to them, not just receiving money for nothing.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...

Meegulon App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee

It's not about having to manage your own payment system, it's about being allowed to. You may not want to, but others might.

Meegulon Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/

"With the LTSC servicing model, customers can delay receiving feature updates and instead only receive monthly quality updates on devices. Features from Windows 10 that could be updated with new functionality, including Cortana, Edge, and all in-box Universal Windows apps, are also not included. Feature updates are offered in new LTSC releases every 2–3 years instead of every 6 months, and organizations can choose to install them as in-place upgrades or even skip releases over a 10-year life cycle. Microsoft is committed to providing bug fixes and security patches for each LTSC release during this 10 year period."

Meegulon Alphabet reports Q1 earnings

AWS does this too, also to the tune of 100k iirc. You just need to show that you are funded by a known VC, and then each subsequent funding round gets you additional credits.

Meegulon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

Vigtory was founded one year ago to tackle the most strategic challenges that sportsbooks face: how to build the greatest betting experience all at the best possible price. We're building and reimagining what it means to bet on sports by making sports betting pricing as fair as possible. We are the innovation leaders in our space and are looking for the right people to join us and make an impact in the market.

Tech we're using: React, React-Native, Redux, GraphQL, Typescript, Node.js, Kafka, Python, Postgresql, AWS.

We're in the process of building our core engineering team and are looking to fill the following roles:

* Backend Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/Vigtory/b0934925-68b3-4e19-9721-7d8b68...

* DevOps Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/Vigtory/ad207af9-d2ff-4715-8304-82c132...

* Frontend Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/Vigtory/d901cfc9-f9d1-4006-842c-fb7303...

* Mobile Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/Vigtory/8016249d-931d-4b2d-9951-2b3068...

* Senior Frontend Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/Vigtory/71c24920-f062-418b-a92a-8ba43c...

Must be authorized to work in the US without additional visa sponsorship. Relocation assistance available.

If you're ready to get in on the ground floor of a promising, funded startup, apply using one of the links above, or just check out our public-facing site at https://betvigtory.com

Don't see a good fit? Feel free to reach out to me at the email on my profile with a resume and your strengths.

Meegulon Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?

Great response. If my startup weren’t in such a regulated industry, I’d be checking you guys out. Maybe next time.

Meegulon Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?

What's your business model? The product looks outstanding, but I, like many others here I'd imagine, am somewhat skeptical of a product that sells itself as nearly completely free for the user.

Meegulon Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incident report

I recently led the project completely rewriting the incident reporting system for one of the top 3 (by size) police departments in the country. This report wouldn't have even come close to passing client-side (or server-side for that matter) validations upon submission. An incident classified as a death with no medical information submitted? Usually the systems have some basic checks in place to ensure that, for example, if a theft occurred, property marked as stolen is present in the report. Likewise for any incident with some sort of physical harm: there's always a medical incident listed too. And a (nearly) blank narrative?! Even if that's due to Louisville PD policy, it still wouldn't have flown in the city I worked in. A simple assault (not battery, no injury) on public transit where the offender ran away and nobody could identify them would've produced a more thorough report than this one.

If this is standard in Louisville and there are no safeguards in their reporting software, stringent incident reporting software ought to be added to the list of reforms we ask of them.

Meegulon The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10500K CPU Review

And interestingly enough, the 10600k has a 20% higher base clock than the 4670k (4.1GHz vs 3.4GHz), and a 26% higher boost clock (4.8GHz vs 3.8GHz). That alone probably accounts for the majority of the difference. It's a shame that Intel has barely been able to increase IPC at all in the past decade or so.

Meegulon Age Reduction Breakthrough?

Absolutely, just dressing differently and changing a few things has helped. Facial hair is a big one. I'd rather look young than be balding at 23 like some of my peers.

Meegulon Age Reduction Breakthrough?

I'm only 23, so I understand that I am young, but looking young is, without a doubt, a serious disadvantage when it comes to people trusting in your ability.

I recently worked on overhauling the reporting system for one of the largest police departments in the US, and every step along the way I was asked who was in charge, how did I enter the workforce so young, how I got an internship while attending high school (I had already graduated college), etc. I even got those types of comments from other employees at companies where I worked full-time. Of course, I don't really have the luxury of getting too offended by it all the time, otherwise I'd be really bitter, but the classic "Oh well you'll be glad you look young when you're older" gets tiring.

Meegulon Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]

I can attest to this. I got an application this week for my company's senior software engineer position from someone whose only experience has been in residential flooring. And dozens more with similar qualifications from all over the country despite it being an onsite position in Chicago.

Meegulon Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

Given the current situation, this is something we'd be flexible about until things settle down. Longer term, we allow WFH but prefer to maintain some onsite days every week.

If you're interested, you can apply using the links above, or email me directly: michael @ linelibrary.com

Meegulon Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

LineLibrary | Senior Frontend Engineer, Software Engineer | Chicago, IL | Full Time | Onsite

LineLibrary is an early-stage startup whose mission is to create advanced sports betting trading applications. We're on our way to disrupting the sports betting market globally with our disruptive tooling and business model. We have recently closed a seed round led by SeventySix Capital. You'll get equity, competitive pay and benefits, and the opportunity to work/develop with technology usually found in fintech.

Tech we're using: React/Redux, Typescript, Node.js, Kafka, Python, Postgresql, and AWS.

We're looking to fill the following roles:

* Senior Frontend Software Engineer. Expertise in React is a must. Apply here: https://forms.gle/gsjRFmZY6Z6H8pue8

* Full-Stack Software Engineer. Experience with React/Node preferred. Apply here: https://forms.gle/vZs3dNdTQttizv386

Must have authorization to work in the US. We are not offering VISA sponsorship at this time. Relocation assistance available.

If you're ready to get in on the ground floor of a promising startup, apply using one of the links above, or just check out our public-facing site at https://www.linelibraryexchange.com/

Meegulon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)

You're correct that our intention was to convey that we are not sponsoring visas. Unfortunately, we cannot update the post at this point.