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by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 18:32:18+00:00
I think there is really not enough good data to draw conclusions yet. The EV market is so young, and Tesla was basically the only non-compliance EV for several years. At this moment the expected value on my 2024 Lightning is way closer to what I paid for it than the expected value on my 2023 Model 3 is compared to what I paid. But that could just be situational.

I have been telling people, though, on the Model 3 forum that they should be leasing unless they are extremely sure they'll keep the car for a lot of years. Tesla's residuals have been way more optimistic than what the used car market suggested reality would look like. Only a problem if you sell at about three years, but maybe worth hedging your bets.
by vunderba | 2025-10-17 18:32:18+00:00
I'm inclined to agree. I've read through the Skill docs and it looks like something I've been doing all along - though I informally referred to it as the "Table of Contents" approach.

Over time I would systematically create separate specialized docs around certain topics and link them in my CLAUDE.md file but noticeably without using the "@" symbol which to my understanding always causes CLAUDE to ingest the linked files resulting in unnecessarily bloating your prompt context.

So my CLAUDE md file would have a header section like this:

# Documentation References - When adding CSS, refer to: docs/ADDING_CSS.md - When adding or incorporating images, refer to: docs/ADDING_IMAGES.md - When persisting data for the user, refer to: docs/STORAGE_MANAGER.md - When adding logging information, refer to: docs/LOGGER.md

It seems like this is less of a breakthrough and more an iterative improvement towards formalizing this process from a organizational perspective.
by MojaveTech | 2025-10-17 18:32:22+00:00
The goal with REDR isn't to replace content-layer security but add a flexible, lightweight access layer at the link layer.

It adds a lighweight, link-level control layer for cases where you can't modify the target app or file. For example, you can password protect or set IP limits on shared dashboards, third-party docs or demo links - even if the destination itself does not support access control. It's basically a flexible security and tracking wrapper around any URL. This can help in a few key cases:

- Sharing sensitive internal resources where you do not control the hosting layer - Setting temporary or expiring links for contractors, demos or limited-access content. - Enforcing IP or Password restrictions on public or third party URLs without touching the underlying infrastructure.

IN short, REDR lets you apply access control on any link, even when you don't own the backend.
by pmontra | 2025-10-17 18:32:23+00:00
Maybe $30k or $40k are nothing for the average car owner in the USA but that's 3 or 4 times what a small car used to cost here in Europe, even 5 times. Small cars are going extinct or their price doubled because they are transitioning to electric too. The result is that they are selling few EVs and a lot of used combustion engine cars. The EV transition is derailing here because of price, not because of second hand market value.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-17 18:32:27+00:00
I think we have a vocabulary problem here, because I am having a hard time understanding what you are trying to say.

You appear to be comparing apples to oranges. A generation task is not a categorization task. Machine learning solves categorization problems. Generative AI uses model trained by machine learning methods, but in a very different architecture to solve generative problems. Completely different and incomparable application domain.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-10-17 18:32:43+00:00
When I was in anthropology, many of the cultures I studied had very vague concepts of time (sunrise/sunset, passage of stars and constellations, different seasons). One of my professors spent two weeks about how time was a Western construct and how people want to go to such great lengths to have such precise measurement of it.

The very lengthy discussion around the concept was fascinating to me as a 23 year old college student who only knew it from one perspective.
by ksec | 2025-10-17 18:32:52+00:00
Thank You, not only for RubyGems and hosting it, but for replying all the accusation and comments that to me are simply bending truth. Such as they wrote RubyGems and somehow Bundler belongs to them. And despite you correcting them multiple times, they still continue with the same narrative.

It may be best in the future direction to have Ruby Central's role on RubyGems and bundler completely eliminated and simply just hand them over to Ruby Core and Ruby Foundation in Japan. I will gladly donate just to avoid any more US politics and drama.
by mattlutze | 2025-10-17 18:32:53+00:00
> exotic topics [...] I don't know how much

We also don't know, in situations like this, whether all of or how much of the research is true. As has been regularly and publicly demonstrated [0][1][2], the most capable of these systems still make very fundamental mistakes, misaligned to their goals.

The LLMs really, really want to be our friend, and production models do exhibit tendencies to intentionally mislead when it's advantageous [3], even if it's against their alignment goals.

0: https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/oversigh... 1: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/australia/australian-lawyer-so... 2: https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/09/chatgpt-la... 3: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18058?
by kbelder | 2025-10-17 18:33:11+00:00
I want to expand on that, because ColorForth is crazy in the awesome way.

From Wikipedia: "Coloring in colorForth has semantic meaning. Red words start a definition, and green words are compiled into the current definition... Yellow words are executed. The transition from green to yellow and back again can be used while defining words, to transition between compiling words into the current definition, executing words immediately (manipulating the data stack during compilation), and back again (adding the top of the data stack to the current definition) – in other words, precomputing a value during compilation (a functionality that other languages use macros or optimizing compilers for)"

If you're defining 'SWAP', you type it in red. If you want to execute it immediately, type it in yellow. If you want it to be compiled and executed when the code is ran later, type it in green.
by aksss | 2025-10-17 18:33:17+00:00
I believe there are more slaves today than ever in the history of the planet simply due to population growth. While everyone WE know thinks slavery is morally evil, most of the world does not hold that view. In fact, I would say the default human view (looking at all cultures across time memorial) is that slavery is the rule not the exception. That doesn't go away with modernity, it goes away with culture.
by sim04ful | 2025-10-17 18:33:17+00:00
I don't see why this idea is controversial at all; of course intelligence would evolve to leverage every possible physical mechanism and property inherent in matter, from classical structures like dendritic nanotubular networks facilitating intercellular communication, to potentially quantum effects that support intricate computation and the emergence of thought, since that's the nature of evolution: massively exploring the possibility space.
by omidsa1 | 2025-10-17 18:33:55+00:00
I also quite like the way he puts it. However, from a certain point onward, the AI itself will contribute to the development—adding nines—and that’s the key difference between this analogy of nines in other systems (including earlier domain‑specific ML ones) and the path to AGI. That's why we can expect fast acceleration to take off within two years.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-17 18:34:16+00:00
The other thing that's tiring is talking about how AI is a bubble as if that's an indictment of AI.

Being a bubble is a statement about the value of the stock market, not about the technology. There was a dotcom bubble, but that does not mean the internet wasn't valuable. And if you bought at the top of the dotcom bubble you'd be much wealthier now than you were when you bought. But it would have taken you a significant time to break even.
by SirMaster | 2025-10-17 18:34:41+00:00
That's never been my experience...

I just got a repair on my 2023 Camry that I bought used. It was covered under the 36,000 mile bumper to bumper warranty.

I have had previous cars repaired under manufacturer warranty and I always buy used.

I just take it to the nearest certified dealer for that brand of car and they take care of it.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 18:35:08+00:00
> has TSLAQ ever been right? Maybe short term but never long term.

Any rational view of TSLA's business and future prospects suggests that TSLAQ is right, but that the timeline for proving it out may be extended (and there's a saying about that, right? Something about the market staying irrational longer than you can remain solvent). TSLA is a meme stock at this point. I wish it were not part of the S&P500, because I hate to be exposed to that volatility.

But I'm often wrong, so maybe this is yet another example.
by fair_enough | 2025-10-17 18:35:32+00:00
It seems the once "Great" Britain cannot let go of its grandiose delusions of ruling over and "civilizing" the entire known world.

I've always held onto the suspicion that the distinction between left-wing and right-wing social views is more aesthetic than philosophical. All you have to do is tell a leftist "no", and they turn into everything they hate about their parents.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-17 18:35:41+00:00
I can always retypeset the text... but I'm not a professional editor/typesetter. You often lose parts/phrases/words the author wanted emphasized with italic and bold. Blockquotes can be gone. Even paragraph indentations in the worst offenders. I couldn't recreate that if I tried. Lord forbid there's a list/table/figure (even in some of the fiction I've read, they'll have those... weirdo science fiction novels, after all). I've gotten pretty good at fixing epubs with Calibre's editor, some of these are salvageable. Just finished with one where they split the chapters wrong (not at the chapter headings, but in between for some reason). And I'll often go get a high-res cover image off the publisher's website; they like to use bad sized-for-favicon scans off a random google image search for some reason.

But for me, the bad OCR ebooks can be painful to read.
by imglorp | 2025-10-17 18:36:22+00:00
I like their observation that you don't need the currency part of blockchain to solve (or help) this. The scam-laden coin/wallet/currency part of blockchain could be dropped if you just want a global, distributed ledger with some proof of work or proof of stake -- plus the usual private key cryptography to establish identity, sign messages etc -- to add a block to the chain.

So it's conceivable a non-currency blockchain could be a path forward.
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-17 18:36:22+00:00
I think your read is right. There are a few people who want to be trillionaires and aren't too picky about to get there: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Trump, Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, Putin. Maybe Bezos and Zuckerberg.

Of course, there wouldn't be many people who don't want to be trillionaires. Rare exceptions[1]. But these are the people with means to get there.

[1]: No means NO - Do you want a one million dollar answer NO!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWC4X628Ek
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-17 18:36:39+00:00
It's going to perhaps sound nuts, but I'm beginning to wonder if America is actually a giant Ponzi scheme.

I've been thinking about American exceptionalism - they way it is head and shoulders above Europe and the developed world in terms of GDP growth, market returns, start up successes etc. and what might be the root of this success. And I'm starting to think that, apart from various mild genuine effects, it is also a sequence of circular self-fulfilling prophecies.

Let's say you're a sophisticated startup and you want some funding. Where do you go? US of course - it has the easiest access to capital. It does so presumably because US venture funds have an easier time raising funds. And that's presumably because of their track record of making money for investors - real, or at least perceived. They invest in these startups and they exit at a profit, because US companies have better valuations than elsewhere, so at IPO investors lap up the shares and the VCs make money. It's easy to find buyers for US stocks because they're always going up. In turn, they're going up because, well, there's lots of investors. It's much easier to raise billions for data centres and fairy dust because investors are in awe of what can be done with the money and anyway line always go up. Stocks like TSLA have valuations you couldn't justify elsewhere. Maybe because they will build robot AI rocket taxis, or maybe because the collective American Allure means valuations are just high.

The beauty of this arrangement is that the elements are entangled in a complex web of financial interdependency. If you think about these things in isolation, you wouldn't conclude there's anything unusual. US VC funding is so good because there's a lot of capital - lucky them. This thought of circularity only struck me when trying to think of the root cause - the nuclear set of elements that drive it. And I concluded any reason I can think of is eventually recursive.

I'm not saying America is just dumb luck kept together by spittle, of course there are structural advantages the US has. I'm just not sure it really is that much better an economic machine than other similar countries.

One difference to a Ponzi scheme is that you might actually hit a stable level and stay there rather than crash and burn. So it's more like a collective investment into a lottery. OpenAI might burn $400bn and achieve singularity, then proceed to own the rest of the world.

But I can't shake the feeling that a lot of recent US growth is a bit of smoke and mirrors. After adjusting for tech, US indices didn't outperform European ones post GFC, IIRC. Much of its growth this year is AI, financed presumably by half the world and maintained by sky-high valuations. And no one says "check" because, well, it's the US and the line always go up.
by nradov | 2025-10-17 18:36:51+00:00
It's not a loop hole: this was an intentional move by Congress and the FAA. Ultralights have been a legal category for decades. The operating limits in terms of altitude, speed, weight, and airspace are strict enough that when one crashes it usually only kills the (expendable) pilot and there is minimal risk to innocent bystanders.

The Pivotal BlackFly and similar aircraft are merely toys for wealthy thrill-seekers. Which is fine and could make for a viable niche industry. There is no viable path yet for "flying cars" to see widespread transportation use.
by rectang | 2025-10-17 18:36:59+00:00
Hmm, I’ve had a highly successful career in software despite getting derailed and starting late, so maybe not the best example haha.

I agree that resilience is important, but in my experience it emerges from a complex mix of temperament, environment, structural advantages, and mentoring, rather than being intrinsic to the individual. For illustration: I’ve trained a bunch of people from nothing on software and I always prioritized helping them find a project they cared about, because that motivation was what would power the through the inevitable frustrations.

Maybe if the Atari manual had taught me how to write a branching adventure game rather than a checkbook-balancing program, I would have stuck with programming back then. But I’m not dissatisfied with the path my life took.
by watwut | 2025-10-17 18:37:17+00:00
No, he never intended that nor done that. He wanted to make it more biased toward right wing then it already was (and it was already biased toward conservatives in its moderation). Twitter did not became more open for all point of view. It became exclusively more far right friendly.

Elon Musk censors and suppresses whatever speech he does not like whole his life.
by ctoth | 2025-10-17 18:37:22+00:00
His "$400B in next 12 months" claim treats OpenAI as paying construction costs upfront. But OpenAI is leasing capacity as operating expense - Oracle finances and builds the data centers [1]. This is like saying a tenant needs $5M cash because that's what the building cost to construct.

The Oracle deal structure: OpenAI pays ~$30B/year in rental fees starting fiscal 2027/2028 [2], ramping up over 5 years as capacity comes online. Not "$400B in 12 months."

The deals are structured as staged vendor financing: - NVIDIA "invests" $10B per gigawatt milestone, gets paid back through chip purchases [3] - AMD gives OpenAI warrants for 160M shares (~10% equity) that vest as chips deploy [4] - As one analyst noted: "Nvidia invests $100 billion in OpenAI, which then OpenAI turns back and gives it back to Nvidia" [3]

This is circular vendor financing where suppliers extend credit betting on OpenAI's growth. It's unusual and potentially fragile, but it's not "OpenAI needs $400B cash they don't have."

Zitron asks: "Does OpenAI have $400B in cash?"

The actual question: "Can OpenAI grow revenue from $13B to $60B+ to cover lease payments by 2028-2029?"

The first question is nonsensical given deal structure. The second is the actual bet everyone's making.

His core thesis - "OpenAI literally cannot afford these deals therefore fraud" - fails because he fundamentally misunderstands how the deals work. The real questions are about execution timelines and revenue growth projections, not about OpenAI needing hundreds of billions in cash right now.

There's probably a good critical piece to write about whether these vendor financing bets will pay off, but this isn't it.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/openai-first-data-center-in-...

[2] https://w.media/openai-to-rent-4-5-gw-of-data-center-power-f...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/nvidia-openai-data-center.ht...

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/amd-to-supply-6gw-of-compu...
by fluoridation | 2025-10-17 18:37:23+00:00
>"That's a mistake" sounds right but if the market is willing to pay, then was it really a mistake?

But it's not willing to pay. That's my point. That's why those postings sit unsold.

>If the average price were a good deal, it would by definition not be a good deal.

Let me clarify: I mean "good deal" in comparison to just buying new. Take headphones, which is something I've bought used a few times. I found a pair of SHP9500s for like 20% of the price of new ones; they had some visible wear, but they weren't broken and they sounded perfect. That's what I'd call an excellent deal. Another time I found a pair of HE400ses for 60-70% of the price of new, and they looked mint. That's a good deal and how the used market should work. The buyer pays a little less with the risk that the item might have some latent defect that's building up, and the seller gets to recoup some of his money.

A bad deal is paying 90% for that same risk and uncertainty, which is what I see most often. Yeah, maybe the product is even verifiably in good condition, but at that point the difference is so small that why would someone even bother?
by autoexec | 2025-10-17 18:37:23+00:00
> It's better to focus, instead of on shame, on making the cities that already exist more attractive to people you think should want to live there.

This is exactly what's needed. People should stop trying to convince others that they should be forced out of their homes and into high density apartment complexes where no one drives and instead demonstrate an alternative to having private homes and backyards that's actually more attractive. If it's actually better, people will go there naturally and demand more developments like it.
by Amezarak | 2025-10-17 18:37:31+00:00
I’m skeptical that thinly sliced potatoes crisped in olive oil are bad for you.

I don’t believe unsweetened yogurt is bad either, although some people would say so because of the saturated fat content. Certainly very few people are going to eat any real amount of unsweetened yogurt, except perhaps as a dip.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-17 18:37:37+00:00
> but cost isn't typically a major concern of the US govt

tell that to any project that has had their budget slashed or out right canceled because somebody thought their project was a waste of money. every contractor is bidding unless your name is Halliburton. what's the famous astronaut quote about sitting on top of a rocket built by the lowest bidding contractor?
by cmurf | 2025-10-17 18:38:01+00:00
I disagree.

There’s significant amounts of airspace set aside for military use. They can turn off the transponder there.

When operating in congested terminal area airspace they need to follow the same rules general aviation, air taxi and airlines follow. They aren’t performing unique maneuvers in these areas.

It’s particularly important for low flying aircraft to have transponder enabled, sometimes referred to as secondary radar. It’s more effective than primary radar, which has limited low altitude coverage. And only ATC can track a target by primary radar.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-17 18:38:05+00:00
You're not wrong, but none of this answers the question I have: What will the capacity be at 15 years?

My current car is 22 years old. I paid a whopping $3.5K for it, and have not spent much in repairs.

My prior car - used it till it was 17 years old. Would have used it longer but someone totaled it. I paid (in today's dollars), about $12K for it. Spent very little in repairs.

The car before that - used it till it was 16 years old. I know the person who bought it from me and he used it for another 3-4 years. I paid $5.5K for it (today's dollars). Spent very little on repairs.

So anyone who's buying a 6-8 year old EV needs the following answers:

1. How long will the battery be good for?

2. How much will replacing it cost?

3. Will the savings on gas more than compensate?
by nitwit005 | 2025-10-17 18:38:08+00:00
I agree with the premise, but some of the examples are iffy. A lot of these design decisions are tradeoffs, not pure benefit.

Notion's idea of having blocks that can be shared between documents is very cool, but that has an obvious access control problem. What access do you need to see a document with information from multiple other documents? It was easy to find confused users: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/12iqsc2/synced_bloc...
by watwut | 2025-10-17 18:38:12+00:00
> Pre Elon, any non progressive opinions were heavily weeded out by moderators.

This is 100% a lie. Open nazi advocating violence were suppressed, but back then there were people who claimed they are conservatives or right wing who were not nazi.

Funny enough, open communists advocating violence were suppressed too back then. In fact, left was policed more strictly then the right.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-10-17 18:38:31+00:00
I'm trying, not sure you are as completely in good faith as you are thinking you sound.

This is the first you mentioned China as a problem.

How am I supposed to take a comment about Rise of the Machines, and extrapolate your whole argument about how conflict with China is being misrepresented in AI 2027?

How am I promoting antagonizing China? In todays world, isn't the threat of conflict with China in the news constantly? Am I supposed to scrub any reference to any publication that references this very common variable or be accused of promoting it?
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-17 18:39:03+00:00
I completely support voting with your wallet. Where the anti-Tesla people lost me was when they decided that anybody who owned a Tesla was nazi/fascist/whatever by extension, and it would be totally okay to abuse them or their car.

Fortunately that has subsided a bit, I haven't heard as much chatter about it in the last few months. And anecdotally, there are still quite a lot of "just got my new Tesla" threads on the Model 3 subreddit -- I think sales totals have still been a disappointment, but they haven't tanked.