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by kulahan | 2025-10-17 22:30:03+00:00
Does anyone else hate busses, and the only response you ever get after mentioning this is "NUH UH BUSSES CAN BE GREAT"?

A bus will pretty much always be inferior to a car. Mathematically impossible to run on time. It never gets you where you want to go, just kinda close usually. If one doesn't show up, there is no real feedback without an extensive background metadata system. Never as clean as your own car (unless you're one of those carbage-loving people I suppose, but then you're just going to litter on the bus anyways). Obnoxious, loud, smelly, or crazy people you have to deal with.

I'll never understand the crowd so desperate to have them, but I'll still support the cause if it cleans up the highways for me I guess.
by lurk2 | 2025-10-17 22:30:23+00:00
Related: U.S. Consumers Are Collapsing: Cars, Credit, & the Chaos Ahead | The Weekly Wrap - Steve Eisman (Steve Carell’s character from The Big Short) interviews Lakshmi Ganapathi. Uploaded 2025-10-03.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd7akdDtPXA
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-17 22:30:30+00:00
> What I'm really nervous about is the infotainment system, eventually it is out of date but unless you are maybe driving a Tesla, only the original model will work in your car!

tbh, it's kind of baffling to me how it seems like nobody else is interested in offering software updates to infotainment without needing to take it to a dealer's service bay, if it's even offered at all.

When I bought my Tesla, at the time, "Streaming" (Which was silently powered by Slacker Radio) was the only music streaming integration, but Spotify was added shortly after my purchase. They've since added YouTube Music, Apple Music, and Tidal integrations.

Map data is fetched on the fly. No need to manually install updates. Hell, how many cars even make that an option? My in-laws have an old Prius (I think first gen, maybe second gen?) with built-in Nav, but has never received a map update. Their nav doesn't even know their home street exists.

It doesn't help that so many cars have lackluster infotainment systems. I had a Subaru BRZ in 2016 and was kinda stoked that I could play MP3s from a USB drive, since back then I actually somewhat maintained a collection. I figured I'd get a thumb drive with all my MP3s on it. But the interface completely flattened the directory structure and put them in alphabetical order. There'd be no way to play a single album in sequence if I had multiple albums by the same artist. My folder organization became worthless.

But I've digressed...yeah, more car manufacturers should offer software updates for their infotainment.
by felarof | 2025-10-17 22:31:27+00:00
Ohh man, this definitely hurts. We were a team of 2 until recently and we've been working hard to get through the backlog of feature requests as fast as possible.

I think we've definitely improved the product a lot since we launched, you should try it out!

The BrowserOS-as-MCP server we believe is a nice useful + differentiated feature that other browsers don't have. You can use BrowserOS with claude-code, claude-desktop or gemini-cli for many useful things!
by aj_icracked | 2025-10-17 22:31:27+00:00
I have a 2020 model X as well and I love it. I have no plans on upgrading which oddly is because it doesn't have the interior review mirror cam for FSD to yell at me for silly things like looking at a passenger to talk while on FSD and it still drives like it did on day 1 (60k miles ago, have only done tires and minor warranty calls). Honestly a fantastic car and now that it's paid off I'm like yep I'll keep this for years more. Keep the car it's great!

Actually to edit this comment - the main (only?) reason I bought the car is because if I'm in an accident I want to try to be in safest car possible and if my sig other is driving I want them to be in the safest car I can find. I thought that paying a premium at release in model X 2020 was well worth the premium if people I love are in it.
by itsme0000 | 2025-10-17 22:32:12+00:00
I’m basically saying the lying is going one way because equally absurd claims by the left are suppressed as crazy, but only because they aren’t allowed to become as ubiquitous as crazy right wing claims.

Left wing people suppose it’s a free speech issue, but it’s just the normalization of criminal behavior. I can accuse the government of anything and they can’t respond, but the Republicans will always they can retaliate against lies. If I said about a CEO what they said about FEMA employees I’d go to jail.
by autoexec | 2025-10-17 22:32:25+00:00
> Sometimes companies just want to make money.

Companies never just want money, because more power means more money. Regulatory capture means more money. More control means more money. Polluting the environment and wasting natural resources means more money. Exploiting workers means more money. Their endless lust for money causes them want all sorts of harmful things. If companies were making billions and nothing was being actively harmed by any of it no one would care.

These companies do want your money, but once you're locked in you are no longer the customer. If these AI companies had to depend on the income they get from subscriptions to survive they'd have gone out of business years ago. Instead AI is just shoved down people's throats everywhere they look and the money these companies live off of is coming from investors who are either praying that the AI becomes something it isn't or they're hoping they can help drive up stock value and cash out before the bubble breaks and leave somebody else holding the bag.

0% of AI tools include the option to not train on my data. They've already stolen it. They've scraped every word and line of code I've ever written that's been transmitted over the internet. It's been trained on photos of my family. It's been trained on the shitty artwork I've sent to my friends. By now it's probably been trained on my medical information and my tax records.

AI is controlled by some of the most untrustworthy companies and people on earth who have been caught over and over lying to the public and breaking the law. They can promise all day long not to steal anything I voluntarily give them, but I have zero trust in them and there is no outside oversight to ensure that they will do what they say.

The people behind what passes for AI don't give a shit about you beyond whatever they can take from you. They are absolutely not your friend. AI is incapable of being your friend. It's just a tool for the people who control it.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-17 22:32:37+00:00
I once clicked on a YT video about irresponsible debts, apparently it's a popular genre there, don't do it or you'll get a flood of these for a few weeks minimum. The interesting note I saw there was that apparently in USA car credits are now reaching into 7 and 8 years length (from typical maximum of 5 or so) and their rates are reaching well into 20% or higher. And that's not on a housing, that's on depreciating expensive cars. Another new idea for me was the fact that people with car debt, are doing "trade-in" of sorts, giving up old unpaid car for a newer better one, with an even bigger total debt. That was really eye opening stuff.
by exoverito | 2025-10-17 22:32:55+00:00
Psychologically perhaps, but to say physically addictive is not precise.

The government in general has been becoming increasingly authoritarian and centralized far before social media, see the abuses of the CIA and MK ULTRA, Operation Mockingbird, COINTELPRO, the War on Terror. You use the term neonazi, yet I hope you're honest enough to recognize the left also has dark authoritarian impulses. It was only a few years ago that we had ruinous lockdowns, widespread censorship, illegal mandates for experimental medical interventions, mostly peaceful riots, a 30% spike in homicides, anarcho-tyranny with the prosecution of Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny, etc.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-17 22:32:58+00:00
Sounds like a communist planned economy, to me. Why can't Americans vote with their dollar? Nobody should be forced to pay higher prices for everyday goods simply because American businesses are apathetic. It's the economy, stupid.

If we're going to play the "authoritarian economics" card, it makes much more sense to start building what you want now. The game of hot potato trying to make Intel worthy of Apple's business is a waste of American taxpayer dollars that could be going towards a nationalized fab that doesn't suck Satan's ballsack. It's a national embarrassment now that SMIC can beat American-owned fabs on transistor density and yield.
by nxobject | 2025-10-17 22:33:08+00:00
The PS3 was used a few time in clusters – some NN work was done on it back in the day. My understanding (somewhat echoed in TFA) is that when programming Cell, you really needed to think about communication patterns to avoid quickly running into memory bandwidth limitations, especially given memory hierarchy and bus quirks.

https://open.clemson.edu/all_theses/629/
by mgh95 | 2025-10-17 22:33:11+00:00
That operates on calendar year. That is primarily due to the rapid appreciation of the USD vs global based after Trumps election on the perception that tariffs would be far higher and more continuous than they actually were.

The truth is, the currency markets are roughly where they were about a year ago, with the exception of EUR, but thats a special case which I think is a symbol if a misstep by the ECB.
by the_gipsy | 2025-10-17 22:33:32+00:00
> It is the condition where a person does not have an internal monologue.

These people are just nutjobs that misinterpreted what internal monologue means, and have trouble doing basic introspection.

I know there are a myriad of similar conditions, aphantasia, synaesthesia, etc. But someone without internal monologue simply could not function in our society, or at least not pass as someone without obvious mental diminishment.

If there really were some other, hidden code in the mind, that could express "thoughts" in the same depth as language does - then please show it already. At least the tiniest bit of a hint.
by Natsu | 2025-10-17 22:33:58+00:00
It'd have to make a false statement of fact. The problem with that is, according to the article, Schumer actually did say the words and the video has a disclaimer that it's AI, though it could be more visible since it seems to get partially hidden by video controls. From the article:

> A small disclaimer tucked in the corner acknowledges its artificial origins. ... > The video has bewildered those who watched it online, given that the quote itself is real and on the record for Punchbowl News. In the original interview, Schumer explained that Democrats had prepared their healthcare-focused shutdown strategy well in advance, adding: “Their whole theory was – threaten us, bamboozle us and we would submit in a day or two.”

The part that's false here, the idea that it's a real video, would be hurt by the disclaimer of it being AI generated in the corner. And it's not a misquote of him, so it seems hard to make a defamation case out of this, even if it feels wrong.
by sethops1 | 2025-10-17 22:34:03+00:00
I just upload the file I want to change and the file with associated tests. Anything more than that and the ROI goes way down on slop generated. But I'll admit Gemini at least is getting good at "implement the function with a TODO describing what needs to be done". No need for anything but the Gemini file uploader, and copy pasting the results if they look good.
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-10-17 22:34:05+00:00
TIL - yeah the 20C saw millions killed vs 19C and hundreds of thousands. I mean obviously that was industrialisation. Seems to be mostly meat, fats for cooking and a fair amount of TNT production - as well as lubricants for planes …

But in 1986 the whaling moratorium came in, and numbers killed have been hundreds or few thousand since.

Yay Star Trek
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-17 22:34:57+00:00
It is.

I mean, keeping it closer to 50% might be better, but the returns are so diminished by that point that it's a rounding error of a rounding error.

I keep my limit to 75% unless I have a long drive planned, and nearly all my charging at home. I'll probably have <5% degradation after 100,000 miles.
by subscribed | 2025-10-17 22:35:01+00:00
It takes 10 minutes of clicking "Next" to install GrapheneOS on the pixel. It's the least of the problems.

They problem was always getting a hardware secure by design (like pixels) and with years of firmware updates.

I really wonder which vendor it is, because up until now there was NO alternative to pixels because of lousy hw security. That suggest the big vendor and really great relationship.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-10-17 22:35:23+00:00
This world model talk is interesting, and Yann Lecunn has broached on the same topic, but the fact is there are video diffusion models that are quite good at representing the "video world" and even counterfactually and temporally coherently generating a representation of that "world" under different perturbations.

In fact you can go to a SOTA LLM today, and it will do quite well at predicting the outcomes of basic counterfactual scenarios.

Animal brains such as our own have evolved to compress information about our world to aide in survival. LLMs and recent diffusion/conditional flow matching models have been quite successful in compressing the "text world" and the "pixel world" to score good loss metrics on training data.

It's incredibly difficult to compress information without have at least some internal model of that information. Whether that model is a "world model" that fits the definition of folks like Sutton and LeCunn is semantic.
by moomoo11 | 2025-10-17 22:35:24+00:00
If you’re gonna do stuff just for the sake of doing stuff..

You should learn software architecture design patterns so you don’t get rekt by having AI “build stuff” because then you’ll end up with “shit” not “stuff”.

Usually you learn that over a period of time when you do actual professional work but now you might have to dive into it immediately.

Start with basics. Use distinct layers. A service layer for business logic that calls a repository layer that deals with only data. Use single responsibility principle so your methods do one thing only. AI will happily jam a bunch of shit into one method.

Once you have some ground game, then you can have AI go crazy because you’ll be able to define some documentation for it to follow. You’ll end up with a sane, testable, and manageable codebase. If you’re smart about it you’ll probably learn a ton too and become far more effective.
by xzjis | 2025-10-17 22:35:36+00:00
> Like other open spectrum technologies rising in its wake, Wi-Fi is a way to use the handful of frequencies set aside for unrestricted consumer use. That's true of the old CB radio, too, but unlike the trucker channels Wi-Fi is digital and smart enough to avoid congestion. After 100 years of regulations that assumed serious wireless technologies were fragile and in need of protection by monopolies on exclusive frequencies (making spectrum the most valuable commodity of the information age), Wi-Fi is fully capable of protecting itself.

It’s true that, unlike other wireless transmission technologies, Wi-Fi allows any company to make a product that can transmit or receive on all frequency bands authorized by a country, whereas for mobile networks, for example, each operator acquires exclusive rights to a frequency band.

That shows that open standards work well and enable healthy competition.
by nijave | 2025-10-17 22:35:42+00:00
Have you tried redirecting the bot in a loop? That should allow it to keep making a ton of requests and hopefully generate traffic they'll have to pay for.

Another idea is replying with large cookies and seeing if the bot saves them and replies with them (once again, to eat traffic)

The idea is to increase their egress to the point someone notices (the bill)
by jeffbee | 2025-10-17 22:35:51+00:00
Eh, that discourse is usually being advanced by people who never ride the bus, don't intend to start riding it, and have a personal interest in selling you a car. In real transit preference surveys, and historical outcomes, it is clear that people would ride a bus that goes to their destinations, comes often and reliably, and is reasonably priced, without regard to how many mental cases are aboard. So if a transit agency faces a choice of spending limited resources on policing the inside of the vehicle for lunatics, or adding a bus to the schedule, they should always choose the latter.
by dkarl | 2025-10-17 22:36:44+00:00
Side note, it's interesting how common it is for tech-savvy people to wire their homes for ethernet (more common now than 10-15 years ago) and how it is still common, or at least not rare, for people reliant on wi-fi to suffer from video streaming issues. The underlying technology keeps getting better, so maybe the improvements will outpace the growth in congestion at some point -- fingers crossed that makers of apps and household appliances don't eat up all future gains and keep us stuck in the same place.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-17 22:36:46+00:00
this is in the same category as "the law in its majestic equality forbids both beggars and rich men to sleep under bridges".

DHH advocates "no politics at work" because as a powerful guy that's organized politics potentially directed at him. He advocates blogging because he knows perfectly well that he has a large audience and his employees or critics don't. That's why the rich tech bro class loves getting politics out of the workplace and getting it onto the platforms they own.
by louthy | 2025-10-17 22:36:47+00:00
State can also be managed using the pure functional paradigm (using recursion to provide an updated state as an argument or using a State monad, for example).

Logging is a side-effect and should be treated as such by using a declarative side-effect type, like an IO monad, or could be tracked for later persistence with a Writer monad.

The oft repeated “Functional core, imperative shell” is just nonsense when you try to do it for real. It’s one of those dogmatic statements that gets dragged out in these types of discussions and adds nothing. This is why effect monads are so useful: there’s no need to create arbitrary boundaries to have effectful and pure code.

Alan Turing already proved the equivalence between lambda calculus and the Turing Machine: anything imperative can be done functionally. There really is no need to create arbitrary boundaries.

In languages like C# it may be pragmatic to do so in certain circumstances, like making ASP.NET request-handlers invoke pure functional computations and return the result of the invocation. This is pragmatic/preferable to writing a competitor to ASP.NET. Outside of situations like that I don’t see any value to an ‘imperative shell’, whatever that actually means.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-17 22:37:36+00:00
>A few decades ago, people could have political views without ostracizing roughly 50% of the global population

This is ahistorical.

Not only was it the norm forever to ostracize entire sections of your society (protestant vs catholic and lots of other religions, black vs white, any form of non-hetero behavior, the Roma people and any form of outsider)

It often was the law

Americans shot their family members over whether we should own black people or not.

My french and white ancestors were expelled to Louisiana, intermarried with black people, and then when the US bought the french land, they introduced laws that made such families illegal.

Reagan made a hobby of publicly claiming his coworkers were communist. Thought that maybe we should be allowed to form unions? 100 years ago that was enough to get you investigated by the senate. Americans voted for him so hard the Democratic party is still floundering to have support. "We should allow unions" or "we should regulate companies" is still half-verbotten.

Do you know how many kids are still kicked out of their homes for the crime of being born gay?

This idea of "You used to be able to hold diverse opinions in public" is outright wrong. This past never existed.

Weird Christians in the US have tried to cancel things like Harry Potter and halloween for gods sake. They took a teacher to trial for teaching evolution. They made playing pen and paper RPGs a sin! When preachers molested kids, they shunned the kids

Being too chummy with another guy in public was a scandal! Being a woman who wanted an education was a scandal! Getting pregnant out of wedlock was a scandal that would tear apart families. Getting divorced was verbotten. Expressing support for social policy could get you fired, or murdered

Bush Jr literally said "You're either with us or against us" about supporting a criminal war and America pitched a globally public fit when other countries did not pledge allegiance.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-17 22:37:48+00:00
The best I can gather quickly is that this guy was a Democrat donor in the 2010s, then turned into a Trumper more recently, and now he's walking back the Trumping due to backlash? Am I reading it correctly that he's just empty/beliefless and sucks up to whoever has more power at a given time?
by _heimdall | 2025-10-17 22:37:56+00:00
The standard recommendation of taking out sent so you can invest your money and "make it work for you" frustrates me to no end.

Yes, on paper I can accrue more wealth if I mortgage my house and invest that same amount elsewhere. No, I would not trade owning a house outright for having a house that will be taken from me if I can no longer pay, strict insurance requirements, and a pile of someone else's debt that I call money and ignore the risk implied in investing in someone else's gamble.