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_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

I agree. Also, many modern diesels, like Mercedes Blue-Tec, power down completely when they come to a complete stop, like in a traffic jam. (I don't like the idea, and I frankly find it a bit annoying, but Mercedes does make solid and reliable equipment.)

_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

It will take quite a long time to charge an EV on solar power (or off a portable generator). The power density is just very inefficient compared to the huge mass of the batteries.

_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

Yes, unless they've had the foresight to want it and seek it out.

_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

That is true, but a gas or diesel vehicle can get refilled in 10 minutes, without consuming much power (a small generator is enough to run pumps at a gas station).

And there are 4x4 diesel trucks like Excursions and Suburbans that can carry 8 to 12 people in leather comfort for 700 miles, even over rough terrain (rough terrain shortens your range, just like anything.)

_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

I was in a disaster zone without internet (or electric, except for my car) for two weeks. You are right, but neighbors end up sharing information pretty quickly when their preferred means of communication (ie internet, mobile phones) stop working. (AM radio still worked and could be received from a great distance, and TV might have been working, but I'm not sure because I didn't have a generator for the first ten days and after that it was for refrigerator and clothes washer.)

_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

Still useful today. I still use an Avantree (https://avantree.com/collections/bluetooth-transmitters-rece...) on my visor everyday to broadcast from my bluetooth phone to my early 2000's vehicles with "vintage" AM/FM/CD stereos that I think are really cool and I'm quite unwilling to downgrade just to get bluetooth.

_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

I know you're being sarcastic, but it seems like EVs should probably also come standard with a glass breakage device for fast escape.

_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

AM antennae are simple affairs -- usually just a stick of carbon with a tiny spool of wire around it. Seems like you could just relocate it to an end of the vehicle and put a bit of shielding around it. If that doesn't do it, then the car is a massive emissions vehicle. (pun intended)

_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

Still expensive, but now a solved problem. Funny how everyone's focused on satellites and nobody's talking about the society-ending EMP that would probably be triggered here on Terra though.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/there-path-counter-russias-spa...

_hyn3on Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars

Exactly. We are on Hacker News, after all. If there's any place that should be understanding of the need for ears on amplitude modulated frequencies, it should be us.

_hyn3on It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

> The technologies never quite work out like the Altmans of the world promise, but the stories keep regulators and regular people sidelined while the entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors build empires. (The Atlantic recently entered a corporate partnership with OpenAI.)

Hilarious.

_hyn3on Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

you can xargs your files and even parallelize (read the xargs man page) before you ssh.

_hyn3on Starbase: SQLite on the Edge

This is pretty cool. Great artwork too. Building edge DBs on top of S3 or R2 had interested me for a long time. Thanks for writing it!

Update: bug in redirection: https://starbasedb.com/blog/blog/blog/blog/blog/blog/develop...

_hyn3on Show HN: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

   xargs

_hyn3on Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?

   cat filename > /dev/null

Reads the entire file into the OS buffer.

_hyn3on Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

In the U.S., civil cases are litigated by opposing attorneys in front of a judge, often without a jury, which differs from criminal cases led by prosecutors. Prosecutors (e.g., local DAs, AGs, DOJ) handle criminal trials, not civil ones like (usually) IP infringement.

If people are exploiting your work unfairly, it's on you to take legal action in civil court. Just be aware the statute of limitations is short (often 1-4 years depending on the state), so consult a real attorney quickly. (I'm not a lawyer, so this isn't legal advice!)

_hyn3on Cloudflare's new marketplace lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

_hyn3on GitHub notification emails used to send malware

The tremendous number of attacks delivered via trusted package repos versus the number of widespread attacks via curl | sh (probably roughly zero) means that, theories aside, one of these is far more commonly abused than the other.

_hyn3on S6 – Skarnet's small supervision suite

I personally am a fan of runit

https://smarden.org/runit/

But s6 is excellent as well.

_hyn3on Thomas Massie runs off-grid home using wrecked Tesla Model S battery

Anyone have more technical details, as well as what his typical load is, how long the panels will/are lasting, the price for all of this, and what he does when the sun isn't shining in Kentucky, and especially how the controller software works?

_hyn3on Thomas Massie runs off-grid home using wrecked Tesla Model S battery

I'm so glad no one said that to Nicola Tesla or Thomas Edison. I wonder if they were aware that they might have injured themselves!

_hyn3on Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)

This is a very serious issue for founders in California, Texas, and other community property states.

Looks like Gust has the same issue:

https://gust.com/blog/startup-founder-83b-election/

_hyn3on Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)

How is that relevant?

_hyn3on Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging

Interesting, so Red Bull is actually healthy?

_hyn3on Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet

We don't usually carry Windows everywhere we go, though and look at it at 3am.

_hyn3on UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content

Are you asserting that the American Revolution was launched by "regulated state militias", as in: regulated by King George, or indirectly by his governors in the American colonies?

_hyn3on Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem, one library at a time

Apple's app monopoly gets stronger when the browser gets weaker.

_hyn3on Twitter has fired more software engineers

> Who is judging the code not being satisfactory? Can we see example of the code in question?

Why should you see the code, or learn who the judge is, or be the judge yourself? Are you qualified to judge someone else's $44B acquisition? If you haven't recently purchased a social network for $44B, then you are not qualified to look at things from their perspective either.

Go start your own company and then you can do what you want with yours and your investors' money, but Elon Musk doesn't owe you a shred of explanation for anything he chooses with the company that he bought that he clearly believes was on life support, at best.

_hyn3on Twitter has fired more software engineers

How many engineers did Instagram have when it was acquired by FB? (answer: 6 engineers with 30 million users: https://www.fastcompany.com/3047642/do-the-simple-thing-firs...)

Obviously, those were highly competent engineers, but perhaps Elon Musk is just trying to get to roughly the same proportion (~60?).

If so, he's still got a long, long way to go, so expect a lot more cutting.