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Starlink is going to be a cellular company, except instead of maintaining cheap metal frames, they have to physically launch the antennas to space every 5 years.

You can reason it out (in a way that might make Fermi proud) pretty easily: a very large AC unit can be powered by a very small (relative) solar panel, where the solar panel is may…

Wouldn’t someone that has to pay for an AC’s power bill be more aware of the cost-benefit analysis of energy efficiency over someone that doesn’t?

> Here I should note that Python is not the best choice for CPU-bound software. I want to take the opportunity to learn Zig. For optimizing CPU-bound operations in Python, there’s …

There's some good answers here but something important is missed. Militaries spend a lot of time having soldiers shoot rounds down the range to ensure everyone is up to snuff. The …

Even weirder: the Kickstarter campaign says it’s 4 MSPS per channel. 100kHz bandwidth with 4 MSPS per channel just doesn’t make sense. However, they have “verified” 400kHz on their…

The specs on the physical device are quite weak too. 100kHz scope, no mention of # of bits. Power supply isn’t programmable, just +-5V at 200mA. 5V PWM and “sine and triangle” is t…

I would say that there’s quite substantial value perhaps not to the general public but to the general HN user from their reports. I was very excited to see them have a public scan …

Heat is exactly why this is useful. A very large amount of power draw is due to the physical size of circuits. This monolithic 3D stacking should result in smaller wires for decrea…

Malicious maybe, malware no. Not leaving your password as a sticky note on your work computer is presumably also taught in those same courses. I wouldn’t call someone typing in tha…

I have a hard time viewing prompt injection as malware. LLMs are unpredictable and there are many different prompts that can unintentionally cause unexpected behavior. It’s probabl…

It doesn’t read like shaming to me. It’s, in the grand scheme of HN comments, definitely on the more constructive side of the criticism. Maybe it could have been reworded, but I th…

It’s not about preserving a unique writing style. When I see LLM writing my brain automatically discards the content of the writing. To me, seeing LLM writing is equivalent to goin…

I think you confuse long-term planning with long-term success. Just because something is meticulously planned doesn’t guarantee the plan wasn’t flawed fundamentally. Additionally, …

I would like to offer some additional reassurance: I send my friends articles I see on HN that might interest them. A (in my view) very good litmus test is when someone asks where …

This study I feel is misleading at least at a headline. They found 6621 studies and narrowed it down to 51 studies to analyze. This is somewhat fine as meta-studies do need to narr…

CRWD is a member of the S&P 500. Are you truly suggesting that every holder of the S&P 500 should be put in prison? Realistically, this means that nearly every American and a very …

This isn't true. H1 antagonists, which is the group of drugs commonly referred to as antihistamines, contains two subgroups of pharmaceuticals. There are the first generation antih…