> Palantir's secret weapon is the closeness and affinity to the DoD.

Is it a secret? I got an impression that it has been well known. How could you get any big number contracts without former secretaries or retired generals in your board or in your ‘consulting’ team?

I'm quipping about the title, sorry.

Oh I am more than happy to tell people how I took down entire Google Cloud 11 years ago. I mean, of course to the level of details Google is comfortable with to share externally :)

I'll bite; ok, what'd you do? :)

No, sorry, I wouldn't buy EVs from any US company any more until they are matura enough that the model production surpasses at least Tesla Model S+X since released. Their reliability just suck. I don't want to waste my life again and again in those months-long waiting of service appointments, annoying issues every where and every day, hiring Lemon law lawyers and other BS.

Data points:

- one Model X

- one R1s

- My neighbor: one Model X, one R1t

- My collegemate: one Model X

Nice, now you can dd it to your boot sector and ... Wait, it is 2026, there are 1000 ways of booting and memory mapping on so-called unified ARM architecture @,@

These people are not going to take your job, the people who uses tools smartly while having the knowledge and experience in highly reliable distributed systems are. If human in the loop is not required any more, nobody is going to keep their job.

Oh running Linux on a MCU without MMU.

I feel there is a gap between MCU and modern CPU, and also between the software running on top of them. The missing piece is a mid-size computer with: - A processor, single or multi-core, with computing power like 20 years ago, but modern fabrication process. Maybe without MMU for simplicity. - RAM between 100MB~1GB and DDR2/3 bandwidth. - An OS designed and implemented for this type of hardware rather than tailored Linux.

I don't think you can use it for working or your daily entertainment, so I guess not a good business to attract interests.

That was Intel Quark. It was too expensive for the “big microcontroller” use case and too power hungry for the “small Linux” use case.

The marketing was confusing, I’m not sure Intel even knew what it was for, except to show investors they had an IoT play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark

I found some of these boards in a box last year and was unable to do anything with them… Intel has thoroughly erased all documentation and SDKs from the internet. If anyone has those artifacts, please push to archive.org

Making 20 y/o CPU with today's process? It is cool but yeah not really a wise business decision.

For all intents and purposes, the fist raspberry pi is pretty much that, except maybe the tailored OS. Although I'm not sure what would even fit between a fully featured rtos and a trimmed down linux.

There are multiple offers like Allwinner V831, Rockchip RV1108, etc with devboards costing ~$15

My experience: customers with $$$ will always believe they are very important, so important that losing a single bit is the end of world.

So you may not want to convince customers waving huge $$$ checks that their data are not that important. But instead, providing options to keep them once they realize that: their pockets are not that deep, and they are also totally ok losing some data.

Does their status page depend on something that is down already, so the page just fails static now hence no new updates?

Am I the only one who doesn't want to type a lot while browsing? (I comment on HN very rarely too...).

You're not alone. 90% of the examples in this thread I could do faster myself. I honestly feel like I live in a different reality reading through it all...

Killing it so quickly after buying, it doesn’t look like the board were really convinced as the author believed.

Why would the board buy in the first place if it weren't the case?