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runlevel1 commented on Compassionate Curmudgeon: Why we must root ourselves in the real world   theamericanscholar.org/co... · Posted by u/lermontov
runlevel1 · 19 days ago
As George Carlin said: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

While knowing that can help you have compassion for them, it doesn't make listening to them any less exhausting.

runlevel1 commented on Winamp clone in Swift for macOS   github.com/mgreenwood1001... · Posted by u/hyperbole
randomgermanguy · a month ago
I started using https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor a while ago.

Though design is more akin to the default Apple Music app than WinAmp.

runlevel1 · a month ago
I've wanted a music player like the early versions of iTunes for a while, and this looks like it might fit the bill.

Those who've only known Music.app and later iTunes versions might be surprised to learn that there was a time when iTunes actually had a clean, intuitive UI: https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/itunes-app

runlevel1 commented on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/akyuu
dns_snek · 2 months ago
All iPhones were vulnerable according to the last available iOS support matrix.
runlevel1 · 2 months ago
That's not quite correct, but you're not a million miles off: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833832-cellebrite-...

To calibrate your sense of time, the iPhone 15 had been released in September 2023 and that doc is dated April 2024, so ~6 months.

And just for completeness, here was the Android doc that leaked at the same time: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833831-cellebrite-...

runlevel1 commented on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/akyuu
jojobas · 2 months ago
How come not a single Cellebrite device got "lost" and thoroughly analyzed? Surely quite a few police depts are rather lax.
runlevel1 · 2 months ago
One did "fall off a truck" and into Moxie Marlinspike's hands back in 2021: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

A bunch of their software was also leaked in a hack back in 2023: https://ddosecrets.com/article/cellebrite-and-msab

runlevel1 commented on Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zerosizedweasle
diabeetusman · 2 months ago
It's 3 years old, but this video [1] goes over Tesla's electric brake booster (and its lack of vacuum)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRZ8XDNz2vU

runlevel1 · 2 months ago
Well that was more entertaining than I was expecting...
runlevel1 commented on Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zerosizedweasle
cowsandmilk · 2 months ago
+1 Toyota Sienna recall earlier this month was national news and was mentioned on my mother in law’s local news broadcast causing her to call us.

Hacker News seems to post Tesla recalls, but national news websites that publish recalls seem to do it for every single recall, not just Tesla.

runlevel1 · 2 months ago
And Tesla, in general, is of particular interest to the HN community for a variety of reasons. So Tesla news of all sorts gets posted here.
runlevel1 commented on Starcloud   blogs.nvidia.com/blog/sta... · Posted by u/jonbaer
runlevel1 · 2 months ago
Their numbers strike me as very optimistic:

    *Table 1. Cost comparison of a single 40 MW cluster operated for 10 years in space vs on land.*

    | Cost Item                     | Terrestrial                     | Space
    |:------------------------------|:--------------------------------|:----------------
    | Energy (10 years)             | $140m @ $0.04 per kWh           | $2m cost of solar array
    | Launch                        | None                            | $5m (single launch of compute module, solar & radiators)
    | Cooling (chiller energy cost) | $7m @ 5% of overall power usage | More efficient cooling architecture taking advantage of higher ΔT in space
    | Water usage                   | 1.7m tons @ 0.5L/kWh            | Not required
    | Enclosure (Sat. Bus/Building) | Approximately equivalent cost   | Approximately equivalent cost
    | Backup power supply           | $20m                            | Not required
    | All other DC hardware         | Approximately equivalent cost   | Approximately equivalent cost
    | Radiation shielding           | Not required                    | $1.2m @ 1 kg of shielding per kW of compute and $30/kg launch cost
    | Cost Balance                  | $167m                           | $8.2m
Source: Page 4 of their whitepaper https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf

runlevel1 commented on AI coding   geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/abhaynayar
anabis · 3 months ago
I also had a compiler related description come to me after using Copilot. It allows you to partially generate imperative code declaratively, by writing a comment like

//now I will get rows X, Y, Z from ContentsProvider

then tab tab complete. You can then even tweak the generated code, very useful!

runlevel1 · 3 months ago
There's the rub: AI coding is like super tab complete. It's a useful tool. Full stop.
runlevel1 commented on AI coding   geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/abhaynayar
pityJuke · 3 months ago
> It’s why the world wasted $10B+ on self driving car companies that obviously made no sense. There’s a much bigger market for truths that pump bags vs truths that don’t.

Did geohot not found one of these?

runlevel1 · 3 months ago
Before he deleted his Twitter account, he claimed AI was already being better than humans and that singularity was only a few years away.

He's confidently wrong a lot. (Even if I happen to agree with his new, more sober take on AI coding here.)

runlevel1 commented on NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose   npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
ck2 · 5 months ago
There is no way he came up with this horrific idea

Who did? Russell Vought is anti-science but he doesn't know satellites

I doubt Musk has any communication or influence anymore

Someone quietly behind the scenes taking a sledgehammer to society

runlevel1 · 5 months ago
There are too many suspects. This administration campaigned on climate denial and anti-science rhetoric, so it could be anyone.

What the Sea People were to the Bronze Age, these people are to the Information Age. At least in the West.

u/runlevel1

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