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What the author is describing is the logical conclusion of the Bitter Lesson applied to software development. To quote the essay: "We have to learn the bitter lesson that building …

I think the miserable state of cellular modems ultimately comes from the power dynamics of private spectrum. The 3GPP protocols are complex because they're not really beholden to t…

Sure, but the probability would be low-ish of that happening, and the other system could either switch frequencies or beamform a null in the direction of the interferer if they wer…

I feel like limits on EIRP are overly conservative and restrict the usefulness of phased arrays. If the limit were on total radiated power, then your 1 watt WiFi router could have …

Good point. To my knowledge most of these radars are MIMO, which are more capable than phased arrays but it's a different architecture. Also these radar systems usually have on the…

Starlink doesn't get enough credit for their phased arrays terminals, I think. They've managed to make a performant antenna for 10 to 100 time less cost than the competition. Witho…

Step two is not even necessary if you use zero-to-nix's installer. https://zero-to-nix.com/start/install

Greenerwave | https://greenerwave.com | Paris, France | Full Time | VISA | ONSITE Founded in 2015 and spun-off from the Langevin Institute (CNRS and ESPCI), Greenerwave is a missio…

Greenerwave | https://greenerwave.com | Paris, France | Full Time | VISA | ONSITE Founded in 2015 and spun-off from the Langevin Institute (CNRS and ESPCI), Greenerwave is a missio…

I live pretty far from my parents, and I really want to set them up with a nice video conferencing setup so we can chat as well as in person. I started to spec out a nice setup wit…

Having just skimmed the linked tutorial, it looks like GFlowNets could be useful for automated theorem proving. Anyone with more knowledge know if this is possible?

I found some answers here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4r-yc-and-hard-tech-star...

It's easy to see how this advice applies to a SaaS company, but what about a more capital-intensive startup? Like a startup with an innovation in manufacturing, energy, telecoms, h…

Not only that, but the matrix scanning could be done via interrupts instead of via polling as is typically[0] done. An interrupt could fire on a level shift of any of the column GP…

They at least need to incorporate in the US, Canada, Singapore, or the Cayman Islands. https://www.ycombinator.com/faq#q25

There was an article on this in The Economist recently. Apparently what you're describing is no longer the case. https://www.economist.com/business/2021/08/14/one-way-to-mak...

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: "À mesure que le principe de la division du travail reçoit une application plus complète, l’ouvrier devient plus faible, plus borné et plus dépendant. …

Would this have been possible outside of the Bay area? Is it possible to raise this amount of money for just an idea (a good idea from a knowledgeable founder, but no POC or tracti…

Both great points. Regarding your second paragraph, note that this isn't so bad for multi-core processors. For randomly scheduled processes, the (expected) maximum response time is…

I've been wondering recently to what extent formal verification could be used to simplify CPU hardware and ISAs. For example, MMUs are unnecessary if the OS verifies that all progr…

Ah good catch! The reason I thought the patent was assigned to the Smart company was because they list it in their Wefunder page[0] (under the heading "Key Accomplishments"). But a…

So the article says the technology was developed at NASA and then licensed to Smart via the "Space Act Agreement". It looks like the company has three patents already, one of which…

Can someone explain how block timing works in proof-of-stake systems? As I understand it, with proof-of-work the mining difficulty increases or decreases to maintain that each bloc…