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New comment by minhazm in "Internet in a Box"

minhazm — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:55:13 +0000

What would they be plugging these USB flash drives into? Underdeveloped countries / regions have very low penetration with traditional laptops / desktop computers. But nearly everyone has a smartphone of some kind, which has WiFi. That's the reason the form factor of these are mobile hotspots.

New comment by minhazm in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

minhazm — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:03:09 +0000

> Hard to compare that to a level 4 company where the car can go hundreds of thousands of miles without disengagement

This is nowhere close to being true. The latest numbers I could find for 2022 are 17,060 miles per disengagement[1] for Waymo. And even then the definition is not quite clear, because these are safety disengagements from what I can tell, and not disengagements for things like getting stuck because the road is closed or something else.

[1] https://www.eetimes.com/waymo-cruise-dominate-av-testing/

New comment by minhazm in "Show HN: I scraped 3.2B TikTok profiles and 9B posts to build this search engine"

minhazm — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:52:21 +0000

It may not be quite that simple, see hiQ Labs vs LinkedIn[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

New comment by minhazm in "Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees"

minhazm — Wed, 22 May 2024 23:25:49 +0000

Can you find any specific examples? I've only seen that apply to severance agreements where you're being paid some additional sum for that non-disparagement clause.

Never seen anything that says money or equity you've already earned could be clawed back.

New comment by minhazm in "Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants"

minhazm — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:23:40 +0000

Samsung is expected to get $6 billion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-15/samsung-p...

New comment by minhazm in "Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say"

minhazm — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:40:43 +0000

Even if a human sees the bike slightly sooner, the reaction time is so much slower that it's either a wash or the self driving car is likely still faster. Median braking reaction time for humans is ~500ms[1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26376036/

New comment by minhazm in "Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day"

minhazm — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:44:09 +0000

Number of hops definitely matters more usually. For example I'm about 150 miles from Azure East US 2 (richmond, va), and at the speed of light that should be sub 2ms round trip, but actual latency to it is ~30ms. But I'm sure I'm going through dozens of switches/routers to get there. What Starlink buys you is that you get to go straight to a satellite, then a laser in a vacuum to other satellite(s) and then a ground station that's likely already at an IXP or very close to one.

New comment by minhazm in "Building a high performance JSON parser"

minhazm — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 15:05:33 +0000

For json schema specifically there are some tools like go-jsonschema[1] but I've never used them personally. But you can use something like ffjson[2] in go to generate a static serialize/deserialize function based on a struct definition.

[1] https://github.com/omissis/go-jsonschema [2] https://github.com/pquerna/ffjson

New comment by minhazm in "SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site"

minhazm — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:15:07 +0000

What happens if the tree dies on its own?

New comment by minhazm in "SpaceX files for new 29,988-satellite W-band network"

minhazm — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:19:45 +0000

The federal government is incapable of efficiently allocating resources at scale, it's just the reality. Take a look at the defense industry. I have a friend who worked for a 3 letter agency, left and joined a private contractor and was assigned to the same team and project again but at 2x the pay. In practice the actual cost to the government is likely 3x factoring in the profits the contractor makes. Government pay scales also make it so that it makes no sense to work for the government if you're in a high demand / high pay field. That means the government tends to get the bottom of the barrel talent & then they end up massively overpaying for "butts-in-seats" contractors who do the same exact job at a way higher cost.

That's why we have things like the FCC, FAA and DoD who oversee things like telecommunications and rocket launches hopefully without putting too much of a damper on innovation and progress while also protecting lives.

New comment by minhazm in "California governor vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin"

minhazm — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 02:03:35 +0000

The $35 is a cap on co-pay, not the actual cost paid out by insurance.

New comment by minhazm in "Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization"

minhazm — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 02:40:33 +0000

There's a setting "Suggestions matching public code" that can be set to "Block" that I think is sufficient for most people's usage. But many companies don't want to involve themselves in any sort of liability.

New comment by minhazm in "Llama 2"

minhazm — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:35:28 +0000

They're going to license it to cloud providers and make money from that. This lets them avoid all the other headaches associated with becoming a cloud services provider while still getting some income to pay for this work.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/18/microsoft-and-me...

New comment by minhazm in "Maker Faire Bay Area Returns"

minhazm — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 01:56:43 +0000

There's another maker event in the bay area called Open Sauce, newly created by William Osman (Maker & YouTuber). I think Maker Faire being cancelled for the last few years was a large motivator for this event. The event is this coming weekend, July 15-16, though it appears to be sold out already. https://opensauce.live/agenda/

New comment by minhazm in "Real-time messaging"

minhazm — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:12:54 +0000

Slack started out on LAMP stack, so a lot of their choice of technologies stem from there. There's a mention of using Hack in this article, which is a PHP dialect. People frequently reach for things more complicated than MySQL, but the truth is that there are likely very few use cases that won't work with MySQL. Vitess makes MySQL manageable at scale (YouTube uses it too) as long as you invest in getting the tooling & automation ready. Vitess itself is fairly straight forward to understand and operate. It's ultimately just MySQL + a side car service and a query layer that handles reading/writing to shards for you, and some other admin tools for managing shards, migrations, etc. If you need to debug something you can just SSH into a host and connect directly to the mysql instance. It uses standard mysql replication and you can tune it the same way you would tune mysql normally. There's no shortage of resources available when it comes to dealing with mysql.

New comment by minhazm in "Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – 180W Power Adapter"

minhazm — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:06:55 +0000

I have several Anker 100 watt USB C cables scattered throughout my house and they've all lasted a over a year now with no signs of any issues.

Apple's cables work fine too but they of course eventually get worn down at the ends and eventually need to be replaced. I also tried Aukey, but their cables stopped working for me after a month or two. I had them replaced under warranty twice and all three times it stopped working within a month or two.

So at least for cables I use with higher wattage adapters I exclusively use Anker & Apple USB-C cables now.

New comment by minhazm in "Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs"

minhazm — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:33:14 +0000

I wasn't referring to the cells, but the products themselves. CATL produces cells, and yes Tesla uses cells from many of those companies. But a battery storage system is more than just the cells. I was specifically referring to Tesla's PowerWall & PowerPack/Megapack products, which has been growing at a fast rate. Just in the last ~3 weeks there were two several hundred million dollar battery storage projects announced that use Tesla Megapack[1][2].

In terms of cell technology, it's really hard to say whether those press releases announcing major break throughs actually matter or not. Tesla is also producing its own cells, but they'll happily buy whatever cells are available since at this point they're constrained by cells.

[1] https://electrek.co/2023/06/20/tesla-megapack-2xl-power-new-... [2] https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/tesla-power-massive-500-milli...

New comment by minhazm in "Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs"

minhazm — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:24:38 +0000

I guess I should have been specific that I'm referring to the last quarter. Tesla's sales growth has been ~50% YoY so comparing to 2022 numbers won't be so accurate going forwards.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23738581/tesla-model-y-ev...

New comment by minhazm in "Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs"

minhazm — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:15:41 +0000

> At present, Tesla really feels like a bit of a "Jack of all trades, master of none" job.

That's an odd take. Model Y is the best selling vehicle in the world, and the second best selling vehicle in the US after the Ford F-150. It outsells the Corolla, Camry, Rav4, Civic, etc. Look at Mercedes, BMW and Audi sales, they've been plummeting because everyone is buying a Tesla instead.

They're also the leading battery storage company and their battery storage business has been growing like crazy.

> But the cars themselves as a whole. They feel like what they are. Cheaply built, but sold at a premium price.

This has become such a meme that I think anyone who says it has never driven a Tesla for more than a few hours. The interior quality is not on par with Mercedes/BMW and maybe there's a few panel gaps, but every other part of the car is significantly better. The handling, infotainment system, performance, efficiency, autopilot, maintenance, etc. A $50k Model Y competes with $70-80k cars, but has the interior of a $35k car. Most people are more than happy with that trade off and that's why it sells so well.

New comment by minhazm in "Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts"

minhazm — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 03:01:28 +0000

> It's quite a bit higher than comparable social media sites

What site besides Twitter even has paid API access for something like this? I haven't seen anything to indicate Facebook charges for API access. Even then, you can't build a full facebook replacement with their public API's. I agree that the execution in terms of timeline was awful by reddit. But the pricing makes sense when you realize their goal is to kill off third party apps. Reddit charges $5 a month for Reddit Premium, so allowing a third party to charge less than that and deliver the same feature set is silly.