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by kllrnohj | 2025-10-02 15:51:33+00:00
> why automakers continue to refuse to put CarPlay/Android Auto support in their vehicles.

Most aren't refusing, and only GM is attempting to backtrack on support right?

Even some of the fancy pants all technology automakers are putting it in their cars, like Lucid: https://lucidmotors.com/knowledge/vehicles/air/lucid-air-in-...
by Kirby64 | 2025-10-02 15:51:42+00:00
It’s awful if the vendor makes it awful. Know that this is deliberate lack of investment and not that it’s impossible. To my knowledge, there’s a few companies doing it right:

Tesla, whose nav is pretty great and responsive

Rivian, who appears to have copied a lot of the Tesla UI elements (and, has lots of former Tesla employees) and the snappiness and great nav is part of that.

Any car using Android automotive (different from Android auto) such as the Polestar lineup. Basically gives you an Android tablet with Google Maps, so nav is great, and it seems to be all held to a certain level of responsiveness.
by pantulis | 2025-10-02 15:52:07+00:00
The miracle is when they put a _graduated_ lens and you get cured of cataracts and myopia in a procedure where you are awake and can perfectly ntoice how while the lens is being inserted the blinding lights on top of you become more and more defined.

It's nothing short of a man-made miracle but I have to say it's also very umconfortable and stressful for the patient.
by r2_pilot | 2025-10-02 15:52:17+00:00
I did not know that, but I'm basically using this as a bridge to either fully use Linux more than I already do, or switch to windows 12 when it becomes a thing, if it's not worse, so I don't care about very long term support at this time. Plus I get access to a different ecosystem to help keep things fresh in the meantime.
by TomasBjartur | 2025-10-02 15:52:25+00:00
No. The joke there is "Ardent Voice", and the slight connotations of Vox populi: as he is both acting unilaterally for everyone and thinks they are him. And of course this famous phrase: Vox populi, vox Dei – "The voice of the people is the voice of God".

Esther is just a reference to the novel I Smell Esther Williams, which I was reading when I was writing the story. And it is referenced in the DFW essay the protagonist inverted the message of.

As for Krishna, I just thought the line "granting me an unwariness that allows me to ask such things of Krishna" was amusing, so named him Krishna.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-02 15:52:40+00:00
You don't have an argument either btw, we're just discussing our points of view.

> Why do we assume that we know better and people with far more knowledge and insight would all be wrong?

Because money and power corrupt the mind, coupled with obvious conflicts of interest. Remember the hype around AR and VR in 2015s ? Nobody gives a shit about it anymore. They wrote articles like "Augmented And Virtual Reality To Hit $150 Billion, Disrupting Mobile By 2020" [0], well, if you look at the numbers today you'll see it's closer to 15b than 150b. Sometimes I feel like I live in a parallel universe... these people have been lying and overpromising things for 10, 15 or 20+ years and people still swallow it because it sounds cool and futuristic.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/06/augmented-and-virtual-real...

I'm not saying I know better, I'm just saying you won't find a single independent researcher that will tell you there is a path from LLMs to AGI, and certainly not any independent researcher that will tell you the current numbers a) make sense, b) are sustainable
by manquer | 2025-10-02 15:52:46+00:00
Thank you for the detailed breakdown with reference.

I just wanted to show what would be the motivation in this line of research of building fine tuned light-weight foundation models like this , I didn’t mean to imply this paper already achieves those goals.

The tech and hardware is not yet ready as you point out both in terms of performance and what it can actually do currently , but the key thing to be excited about is that gap is within the realm of possibility to close in next few years with the right funding.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-02 15:52:53+00:00
Y'all are missing the point. Yes, the OEM nav is crap. Yes any normal person would just use Carplay or whatever. This is targeted at fleet customers for whom letting employees use carplay/phone nav is a non-starter because it causes too much hand wringing among management, insurers, etc, etc. due to some no-phone policy (as if literally every gig driver isn't using phone nav).
by metalman | 2025-10-02 15:52:57+00:00
grass, like many many life forms, exists in narrow climatic environments, which for grass is governed (mainly)by there bieng insufficient rain for trees, and in some special cases, too much wind for trees. much of modern pasture is artificial in that tree's have been eliminated and mowing and other continued maintenance kills off tree seedlings, which if stopped results in spontainious re-forestation. grass dies off when it gets too hot and dry, or becomes weak and prone to damage from live stock or other mechanical damage and then errodes. in any case climate is most definitly what creates different ecological nitches, forest, grasland,desert, rainforest, tundra, muskeg, etc ,etc
by jfengel | 2025-10-02 15:52:58+00:00
Some sites do give you that option. But they're still going to track you everywhere else, so opting out of one doesn't really solve the privacy problem.

There's also an economic problem with the pay-or-ad model. The users who won't pay are the ones with the least money, so your remaining advertisers won't pay as much. They may not even break even with the ads, but persist just to annoy you into subscribing.
by eawgewag | 2025-10-02 15:53:02+00:00
Politics involves understanding the hierarchy though. And understanding when you are overruled.

If the hierarchy is saying "it's time for GenAI", you have the option to participate in a way that raises your profile and positively influences the company (involving politics), if you hate GenAI so much you can leave, or you can stay silently and opt out of the process. These are all choices. Personally I'm fine with my VCs making strategic decisions since they trust me to make technical decisions. So we can do GenAI, we'll just do it in a way that works and is sustainable for the codebase.

You should realize that as a technical person your domain is not business strategy. Similarly I'd be shocked if any VC ever came in and told me "to use PostgreSQL" or some other nonsense. If you want to be the person deciding what we build, go into Product.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-02 15:54:09+00:00
I can understand if people can't pay for subscriptions. I am not talking from first world citizen and I understand that, this is very real.

If I can be honest, in an ideal world we would have something like patreon and the likes and people sharing their videos on something like peertube and other mechanisms.

I don't want to gatekeep content behind a subscription so that people would be unable to access a community or content when the economy might be out of their hands and they don't want to pay for a subscription but I just wish if more people who do have the means to help and wouldn't be financially impacted much by donating actually do that more often / more as that would be the ideal world but maybe the question is if we can ever reach that or would that always remain an ideal and that we are just stuck with the things in current form.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-02 15:54:17+00:00
> The problem with those roles are that they are easily commoditizable and were even before AI

There are pros and cons about being in a "commoditizable" role. I honestly am not worried at all about AI.

> It’s also harder to stand out from the crowd if (the royal) you has as your only vector of competition is an ability to do coding interviews.

Which is why I said that the best skill I ever acquired was "how to be interviewed".

> But if you look at the leveling guidelines of any major tech company, “codez real gud” only gets you to a mid level role.

I just wanted enough that I could afford a house and raising a family. Mid level role provides that, and it is what I optimized for.
by Sharlin | 2025-10-02 15:54:22+00:00
This is a point I see discussed surprisingly little. Given that many (most?) programmers like designing and writing code (excluding boilerplate), and not particularly enjoy reviewing code, it certainly feels backwards to make the AI write the code and relegate the programmer to reviewing it. (I know, of course, that the whole thing is being sold to stakeholders as "LoC machine goes brrrr" – code review? what's that?)
by graemep | 2025-10-02 15:54:27+00:00
> None of those things require W11 to operate, but I can see why they needed to make it look fancier than W10 to convince people that it’s somehow ‘better’.

It has the opposite effect. People do not like the fancier look.

It also depends on what you mean by progress. if it is genuinely better for customers why do you have to force them to use it?
by sigmoid10 | 2025-10-02 15:54:36+00:00
It's unclear if this commenter has read more than just the headlines. Maybe they try to argue for the sake of controversy and outrage culture. Maybe they just don't have a brain.

But seriously, the article text doesn't follow up with any speculation and highlights it is a developing story. According to the latest news on TV, someone actually was insured and is now at the hospital. The details are still unclear however. This is very based reporting for the world we currently live in and I would like to see more news stations follow this style instead of jumping to conclusions.
by mayhemducks | 2025-10-02 15:54:40+00:00
I cannot understand this sentence: " isn't 'masking' just a way of shifting blame by juvenilizing impulse control ?"

shifting the blame of what? what is being juvenilized? Impulse control? How does masking make or keep young or youthful; or arrest the development of Impulse control?

The whole point of masking is to try to hide things that others would find socially uncomfortable or inappropriate for the context. Masking is the continuous effort you pour in to maintaining decorum and professionalism. And I have worked for many bosses, managers, and clients who have utterly failed at both on several occasions, but nobody would call their behavior some sort of failure in impulse control. That would only happen for people with less authority and influence.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-02 15:54:43+00:00
That's your insurance provider that told you no - not "Big Pharma".

Which is what TFA points out as well:

"The bulk of the rents is captured instead by providers of health-care services such as hospitals and the system’s true money-makers: insurers, pharmacy-benefit managers and other middlemen taking advantage of its opacity. They have higher costs of capital than drugmakers, but they also clear our 10% hurdle much more comfortably (chart 3)"
by parineum | 2025-10-02 15:54:52+00:00
The economics of restaurants are pretty unique. I'm all for not tipping and paying a normal wage to wait staff but picking out restaurants fail at an incredible rate.

Using Waffle House as an example is hard because it's a private company but food service profit margins aren't typically super high. A Waffle House, in a good location, I'm sure makes a good amount of money but the owners of those restaurants are often the hardest working employee there (and they are there, at least in the beginning) if they are going to succeed. Plus, those owners have loans to pay off at the beginning. It's a tough business.

There's more I could say but, the TL;DR is that most businesses aren't making the profits of a Google or Apple and don't usually have tons of spare cash around to give everyone a raise, as much as most (small) business owners would like to. Especially newly established restaurants, paying off business loans takes a big chunk of the revenue.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-10-02 15:54:58+00:00
I've thought about this with roads and automated driving--today automated driving seems somewhat insane because, even if the system can do the right thing on the overwhelming majority of roads, there is an enormously long tail of roadways that have surprises that these systems will not have encountered and automated systems can't easily handle. In the future, it may seem insane that we would allow roads to be built that aren't accommodating of automated driving systems (or maybe we will just develop AI that is not simply "pattern recognition" but which can actively solve somewhat "complex" problems?).
by pixl97 | 2025-10-02 15:55:05+00:00
>Why do our current jobs exist? Because somebody is paying for what we produce. Then we take our pay and buy what other people produce.

Because ample property and resources exist that require your (human) labor to turn into products.

If for example pumping water to AI data centers is more profitable than using it on crops and drinking water "the economy" would gladly watch you dehydrate and die. Economic short circuits such as war or governments have to step in and ensure basic human needs are met or a collapse of society can occur, and such things have occurred in the past, so this just isn't some kind of hypothetical.

Just remember there is no need for you in the post labor economy. If rich robot owners get the labor they need from other sources they'll gladly exterminate you and live in a much less populated planet.
by looping__lui | 2025-10-02 15:55:09+00:00
I accept Fraunhofer’s technical modeling: they explicitly size ~500–750 GW of PV+wind by 2050 (≈6–9× average load) and still keep ~100–150 GW of flexible gas turbines plus sizable batteries for reliability (pp. 5–7). They target ≥95% cuts in energy-related CO₂ vs. 1990, but that still leaves a non-zero footprint—nowhere near France’s nuclear-heavy intensity (p. 11). Where I part ways is economics: today’s ~40 ct/kWh retail reality makes their rosy cost outlook look detached from how this overbuild-plus-backup approach plays out on the ground. I can appreciate Fraunhofer’s technical simulations—they’re excellent at that—but I’m street-smart enough to separate modeling optimism from economic reality, and that’s a distinction worth keeping in mind.

Maybe some street smart and “nuanced” thinking is something to consider? :-)
by shawndrost | 2025-10-02 15:55:23+00:00
I have loved Cormac's books since I was a child, but never read Larry McMurtry until recently. If you're in the same boat, I implore you to give one of the below a try.

Lonesome Dove -- A great story about washed-up Texas Rangers with achingly beautiful writing.

The Last Picture Show -- More tonally similar to Cormac's stories. Coming of age in a dusty Texas town.

Leaving Cheyenne -- I have never in my life recommended a romance novel until this moment. I'm literally crying as I write this, remembering the closing scene.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-02 15:55:24+00:00
Hosting services drop them in. You sign an agreement with them and they have agreement with advertisers who drop their spots into your show using DAI. Often it’s a straight up bid-system but the podcasters are not part of the process, or the podcasters can do the read and hand it over to be inserted. This means that podcasters in a lot of situations don’t actually know what ads are being run on their show.

These ads are not just not baked into the audio file, they are legitimately a mystery to the people running the show sometimes. And I think that that’s kind of unconscionable tbh. Podcasts (especially early on) owe a lot of their success to the feeling of “authenticity,” they feel more personal and less “corporate” generally. Whether that’s reality or not we can of course debate, but it’s how audiences perceived them. The reason on air reads have been generally successful for podcasts is because of the trust between the podcast and the audience that has been built over time. This runs directly counter to it.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-10-02 15:56:27+00:00
MIG is low, the exploit would be exotic.

MPS should only be used where all the workloads trust each other. It is similar to running multiple games on your computer simultaneously.

You cannot use NVLink with MPS or MIG, it is not isolated, and malformed NVLink messages can be authored in userspace and can crash the whole GPU. Some vendors, like Modal, allow you to request NVLink'd shared GPUs anyway.

MIG only makes sense for cloud providers. MPS only makes sense for interactive (read: not ML) workloads. Workloads needing more than 1 GPU cannot use either.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 15:56:31+00:00
Yeah it's gotten better than it used to be recently (outside of Tesla and GM).

Rivian, Tesla, GM.

But within the other manufacturers it's model dependent, it's still not universal across all models. Toyota and Nissan both have a large line up without CarPlay in the base models. Same with Honda, some trims won't have it.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few as well, though I wouldn't be surprised to see BMW back out like GM with the direction BMW wants to go with subscriptions as well.
by dali99 | 2025-10-02 15:56:43+00:00
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by jtwaleson | 2025-10-02 15:56:46+00:00
One of my best friends is a corneal surgeon at a university hospital, and does cataract surgery when there are other special complications. This is in Western Europe.

He told me about a work trip to India he did and how amazed he was by the routine, efficiency and lack of waste there was over there in regular cataract surgery. Literally one doctor would handle 5x to 10x as many surgeries per day as their western counterparts. Where each surgery here requires full sterilization from scratch, there they kept their wrapping etc between surgeries, and had two beds side by side. The surgeon would do one surgery while the other patient would be changed. Then he turned around and did the next cataract surgery.

We have a lot of waste in our medical practices.
by jlouis | 2025-10-02 15:56:46+00:00
I'd say the major switch happened at the point where you lost control over your feed. It's not populated because you opted in to updates from a specific person or organization. It's populated by algorithm. Furthermore, at no point in time were any of these new features opt-in. Instead, they were enabled without your consent. Facebook has a long history of enabling features for people which is not in their interest in the slightest.

I should also say that it's more general than Meta. Google are also notorious for doing stuff like this. About time we start legislating against it.
by em-bee | 2025-10-02 15:57:24+00:00
which choice are you talking about? there is no choice. there are no alternatives to facebook if all your friends are on it. there is no alternative to youtube, and for other products, the alternatives take a lot of effort. (hence despite the existence of linux, there is no choice to windows for example, because it comes preinstalled on every device. same for google infested android)

this is even worse in smaller and in less developed countries. they are most certainly being conquered.

and i don't get what you are trying to say. i am terminally coddled because i view google and facebook as conquerors? what does that even mean?
by progval | 2025-10-02 15:57:29+00:00
> - They got rid of the heavyweight compression and just stuck with the Delta/Dictionary/RLE stuff. Heavyweight compression never did anything anyway, and was super annoying to implement, and basically required you to pull in 20 dependencies.

"Heavyweight compression" as in zstd and brotli? That's very useful for columns of non-repeated strings. I get compression ratios in the order of 1% on some of those columns, because they are mostly ASCII and have lots of common substrings.
by CapmCrackaWaka | 2025-10-02 15:57:48+00:00
My wife and I recently decided to do IVF. The doctor specifically told us that we needed to order the medicine (menopur, Gonal F, etc) from an American pharmacy. That alone made me suspicious, so I looked at foreign options. Altogether, the medication required would have cost us about $5000 from American pharmacies. We found out that we can just buy the exact same stuff from a German pharmacy for about $1000. So yes, Americans get wrecked by drug prices.
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by culturestate | 2025-10-02 15:58:02+00:00
I’ve always wondered why manufacturers don’t just bump the sticker up by whatever the estimated LTV of these subscriptions would be. If you want to buy a new F-150, there’s functionally no difference between paying e.g. $52,500 instead of $51,250 and as a bonus Ford gets to avoid headlines like this.

Maybe the long-term goal is to push more people toward direct leasing?
by m_dupont | 2025-10-02 15:58:25+00:00
I think there is some room for debate here about the political bias of wikipedia, and there is some evidence to suggest a left wing bias.

However this article is pretty venomous and the author doesn't even make an attempt at masking their disdain for the other side. It's not written in good faith.

I'd prefer if someone shared a more cool-headed article on the subject
by dylan604 | 2025-10-02 15:58:33+00:00
I recently purchased a used car, but one of the criteria was to not have all of this subscription/telemetry nonsense. The in dash head unit is new enough to have bluetooth connectivity, but no navigation or anything. It wanted to sync my contacts, but at least gave me the option of not doing that. I'm assuming it was to be used for displaying the caller's name instead of just the number on the display, but anytime someone asks to sync contacts it is a hard no on principle. As you said, just use the phone. Being in the holder I can see it before the in-dash display anyways.