skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the answer is maintenance. Maintenance is the primary reason I am not buying an electric. God forbid something trivial break and I have to spend half the remaining value of the car to make it run again.

My ridiculously cheap KIA won the top award for maintainability by JD Power the year it came out beating out the high dollar brands. I never have to replace anything on it except tires, the battery, and windshield wipers. If I did have to replace something critical, though, I know it would be cheap. The car is 8 years old too.

I know hydrogen has a far lower energy compression compared to gasoline, but the idea that its always clean, even cleaner than electric, is appealing. Its also appealing that it refuels quickly, like gasoline, which is another big turn off for electric.
My education is via YouTube and downloaded service manual, and I’m able to maintain my modern ICE car just fine. My hybrid scares me though. High voltage controlled by computers is nothing to play with.
Blog posts are just random comments that would get torn apart, but elevated as worthy of discussion because its in an app.
The article referenced in there about Lamb Weston and MvCain foods and goes into a lot of detail about how prices get determined in this market.

The “behave themselves” comment was certainly juicy, but the entire multi thousand word article is about how these companies are in an intense competition in a low margin industry. Here’s an example:

> Former VP of International at Lamb Weston
Well, McCain came in at a better incentives than Lamb Weston, and Lamb Weston maybe felt complacent and said, no, we're going to keep this account, and they lost it. That was a blow to their ego. They lost the Wendy's business. They lost the majority of their Wendy's sales to Cavendish Farms, which was 200 million pounds plus. So they've lost some major accounts.
Tegus Client
Because they refused to concede on the price mostly?
Former VP of International at Lamb Weston
That's correct. They could have kept the business if they conceded on the price. But there's a cost to conceding on the price as well. I mean there's a cost, but there's also cost to not to concede. I'm not sure when they're going to get the Aramark's business back or if they ever get it back. They've got to pay us to get Aramark's business again. They're going to have to do exactly what McCain did, try to maintain it.
Tegus Client
Right now, this sounds more like a good competitive market. So how does this tie back to just Lamb being silent on the price increase and McCain like leading again?
Former VP of International at Lamb Weston
Well, they felt that they're not going to give McCain Foods the price increase. The price increase never happened. Even though it did get announced, it never did happen. So this is one of those battles that may be short-lived, but it could be long-lived. It could be a couple of years because McCain, a privately held company, they're not subject to the stock market or the analysts asking them difficult questions, even though most of them don't ask difficult questions to Lamb Weston.
So they're independent. They can do what they want to do. The 2 major shareholders are the second generation, Scott and Mark McCain. Their EBITDA exceeds $1 billion a year, not bad for 2 young men that inherited the business.
So they're not really in any hurry to concede to Lamb Weston or to say, okay, I'm just going to forget this. It could be tit for tat down the road, could be. Or they may just say, let's not go there, let's just try to raise the price.
If Lamb tries to raise their price in September, you asked the reason why would they raise prices if they had a cost reduction on potatoes, they're going to raise prices because inefficiencies in the plant, COVID costs, they're going to mention that. They're going to talk about ingredients, oil consumption, cardboard up and all. So their COGS have increased even though potato prices would have been reduced.

https://app.tegus.co/guest/document/view/67Hf3DiMGQ944SkfpRh...
> Currently it is just luxury for the wealthiest, if we look the global level.

Today, in the developing world, traditional and highly polluting 2-stroke engine powered tuk tuks, driven by quite poor people, are being replaced by electric versions. I asked one such driver recently why he went electric. He said it was cheaper to operate.
> But where I live, winters could be a big issue. These vehicles could coat the roads with thin black ice.

I never even considered this as a problem. Is the exhaust liquid water though? Because my understanding of the process is such that is still creates an appreciable amount of heat, causing the exhaust to leave as a vapour (much in the same way water vapour is already expelled from catalyzed ICE exhaust, or people breathing).
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Can you back up your assertion?

I can go out and buy a BEV at most common price points compared to ICE vehicles, so it’s definitely not a luxury for the wealthiest. Even in very low income countries, there are now EV autorikshaws / tuktuks etc and EV mopeds.

Ignoring the used market of course since that’s a factor of time.

Also what makes you believe that we can’t actually manufacture enough? Would you have credible links to that effect?

Finally, even if BEV was unsustainable, why would hydrogen be the answer? Do you know how difficult it is to produce, transport and store Hydrogen sufficiently to be a worthwhile alternative?

Toyota has been trying WITH massive government funding going back to when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of California and still couldn’t make it happen.
A real world example: wage theft in the US is bigger than all other forms of theft combined. How often do you hear about it? We hear endlessly about shoplifting rings and lax enforcement by lefty prosecutors. When was the last time you saw coverage of workers not being paid what they’re owed? When was the last time somebody went to jail for not paying their workers what they’re owed?
could someone explain how the RL works here? I don't understand how it can be a training objective with a LLM?
> Then, there is a switch to the most traditional of businesses with the most traditional business models. Who, the author argues, are engaging in price gauging. In the second paragraph he claims that apps cause this inflation

He is saying that the traditional businesses use an app that allows for a legal way of price gauging.

> The last paragraph portraits a stunning lack of economic knowledge, as companies raising prices in line with inflation obviously would not lower prices after the source of the inflation is gone.

The author claims, that these companies raise prices more than inflation based cost increases in production would allow for.
Did we read the same article? There are repeated examples of cartels colluding to fix prices which aren't being prosecuted because they're using a third party (app) to coordinate the collusion rather than doing it in a board room.
I noticed you mistook "gouging" for "gauging", which I agree, would change it to an obviously-wrong essay that failed to back up anything.

There's a lot of other stuff that is unclear (questions in the title? the article says inflation goes in reverse?), but that one thing neatly explains the vibe that might have driven the rest.
This is ridiculous. This situation has persisted under all parties, globally.

You think it's left vs right but actually the entire system has been co-opted by this neo-oligarchy.
This was published 17 Jan 2017 - https://www.science.org/content/article/after-criticism-fede... - before Trump's inauguration. The process to reconsider the ban started under Obama.
> Dismissing all LLM assistance because of some purity dance you want to enact is silly

That's not what I was saying. I was expressing surprise at the lack of spell- or grammar-check in a blog post about detecting slop. I think an AI would generate better text than that of the post, and I'm wondering if the errors are purposeful signifiers of "hey this was a human writing. this busted sentence"
<< my boss cares I submitted something that horrible as completed work.

Bosses come in many shapes and sizes. That said, some of the bosses I had usually wanted it all ( as in: LLM speed, human insights, easy to read format, but also good and complete artifact for auditors ). And they tended to demand it all ( think Musk ) as a way of managing, because they think it helps people work at their highest potential.

In those instances, something has got to give.
It's larger than the switch! And the case for the Steamdeck is notably thicker than the Steamdeck, while the case for the switch is not. I think this is because the switch is almost flat, whereas the joysticks on the front of the Steamdeck and the handholds on the back stick out a lot farther, and the Steamdeck case doesn't conform to the Steamdeck; it's just as large as the largest dimension in any direction.

My experience is that chucking the Steamdeck in my backpack for a flight is doable if I don't put it in the case, but if I put it in the case it takes up enough space that it's annoying to fit my laptop / other stuff too.

I normally deal with this by either not using the case or just taking my switch instead. But I respect the author's choice here a whole lot :)
I'm confused as to how you haven't found R1 to be much better. My experience has been exactly like that of the OP's
That’s funny because the concept of a gap or void as a fundamental part of the universe has been around for thousands of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_(cosmogony)
PotatoTrac is an analytics service. Not a farm.
Alternatively, it’s a restatement of the obvious empirical truth that technology tends in improve on an exponential and not linear curve. Seems like a simpler explanation that doesn’t even require insulting people.
> There isn't enough materials on the planet

There is more than enough lithium on the planet for it.

Additionally, there's growing recycling technology and significant advances in battery technology and engineering the vehicle itself to be more efficient with the battery it's tied to. Structural and management systems for example.

There's also growing research and use cases for second-life applications for batteries no longer useful for an automotive application such as additional grid storage. Some key applications for this include grid balancing and lesson length of outages.
Spotify's playlists have altered the music industry in unexpected ways
Normware: The Decline of Software Engineering
> These companies have been hiking prices for years, but really started to turn the screws during the post-covid inflationary period

The only one I found a time series for quickly is Lamb Weston: Their margins steadily went down after 2019, then surged quite substantially, and by the end of 2024 were more or less back at their 21/22 low points [1]

Additionally there's apparently a class action suit against the companies mentioned which was filed in November 2024 [2]

I don't know enough about this market to judge whether something shady happened, but it seems like both of those facts are relevant to this article.

1. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/LW/lamb-weston/pro...

2. https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/frozen-potato-products-antitru...
I think your criteria for "best guy for the job" is pretty lax.

Personally, I think the main criteria for that position is capital, which OP's comment doesn't even broach.
Rampant open air community building for learning how to care for one another. Underground railroads for moving people to safety. Learning armed self defense.

We're literally in a country that is setup to become a prison & the fences may already be built and just not fully turned on yet.
What are the societal benefits of studying this? Seems ethically questionable and likely to lead to something terrible.
https://archive.ph/T0OxX
Oh sure: billions of dollars in cash? Hundreds of lawyers? Lobbyists on Capitol Hill? A buddy at USDA or EPA? Lower unit prices on just about every single thing they need to buy? Brand recognition? Strong negotiating positions in 100% of their deals?
Charisma Is a Costly Signal
Habitracker but Stocks
It’s an issue here in Minnesota; intersections and highways where there’s standing traffic are slick from the freezing exhaust condensate, but, to clarify your statement: it potentially wouldn’t be a bigger issue than it already is.
Upside (of implicit labels) is that there's no more gap and you can avoid the exclusivity of `id` attributes (as you mention).

Downside is that screen readers may not handle the implicit label as well as one with explicit for= on it.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/
Pointing at where you want to go/who you want to attack/which thing you want to build is much less clunky in practice...

I remember a game like you describe: https://store.steampowered.com/app/319740/There_Came_an_Echo... (from 2015, so speech recognition wasn't that good)
I think the classic suggestion is to breakup monopolies and block large mergers. We don't need to have people stop buying Pepsi or Coke, we need the company that sells Coke to not own a giant swath of the entire drink market.

Although specifically here, I think we need new regulations broadly banning the type of data broker price fixing that is discussed in this article.
To be perfectly honest, that erosion of trust is already here.
but you get to keep a distribution infrastructure. I think that's the goal. They still want the 'fuel' company in the middle.
Please cite example of farting in the wrong courtroom.

Either that, or your post is hyperbolic.
That's how it's supposed to work...?
An oligopol often has some kind of moat due to anti competitive behaviour. E.g. the potatoe argument from the article, where McCain makes it hard to buy potatoes from anybody but them as they are part of a packaged deal.
This is what has repeatedly bothered me about Doctorow, he writes quite compellingly on the surface, but the arguments are often sketchy at best, and the pandering to/expression of outrage often dominates any attempts at clear analysis.
Why is it “important to push back”? XKCD 386?
It’s different because they are using data at scale to collectively decide on pricing via Potatotrac, ya know, the title of the article…?

The issue of having four players is that it makes the coordination problem of colluding relatively easier, but they are price fixing via giant data warehouse which is algorithmically suggesting how to price.

It’s like Real Pages for potatoes, or at least this is what the article claims and what is interesting.

In an era where you can have a computer churn through a trillion datapoints to arrive at an optimal price, is it even possible to have competitive pricing as was once conceived of? The elements of uncertainty and risk have been so thoroughly eliminated that inflation seems almost unstoppable as you have such a strong signal for what the market will bear.

It’s an interesting question for the nature of free markets but few seem to have caught on to this dynamic…
What position? That social science is conceptually a thing?
It doesn’t really compare, very different topics and very different content. The Graphics Codex is about rendering, and Projective Geometric Algebra is pure geometry presented in a subset of Clifford Algebra. I think the only ‘conics’ covered in the Graphics Codex might be sphere-line intersection, and calling that conics is a stretch. ;)

Out of curiosity, what kind of conics problem are you trying to solve?
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The argument that you are making is that a single entity controlling the pricing of a good is bad. That's not a counter-argument, it's the same argument. It's bad when a government does it, it's bad when an oligopoly does it. More than one thing can be bad.
Is the retail electric rate really almost $0.30? Here in Maryland, it’s half that, and charging my EV is like $0.11. At $0.30, having an EV wouldn’t be any cheaper than buying gas!
Reconsideration was started under Obama, too: https://www.science.org/content/article/after-criticism-fede... (published 17 Jan 2017)
Sounds like Germany and its people are getting greener and cheaper electricity
I virtually guarantee you will not be arrested immediately.
Why would one choose this instead of DeltaLake?
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
A lot of code is made by people in countries with relatively low incomes, eg eastern Europe. Most of the software in your car is probably written by an offshore team for example.
The level of risk is irrelevant. What matters in access to capital is negotiating power. This isn't a charity. If employees want lower risk then they can go work somewhere else.
My local power company is a monopoly with rates heavily regulated by the state. My electricity is cheap and reliable.

Newsflash: anything can be done badly. Cherry-picking the worst examples proves nothing.
Gas already has lots of hydrogen atoms attached to the carbon chains that in part burn to water. Diesel a slightly lower ratio since it is longer chain but still puts out a lot of water vapor. Why would this make a difference?
Nvidia Maxwell, Pascal and Volta Support May Soon Move to a Legacy Driver
What is stopping from someone just turning all those utility classes into a single CSS file and completely get rid of the post-processor stuff?
I'm curious why you think maintenance of a hydrogen car will be like a gasoline car instead of an electric car.
Nope. Theft and shrink (from employees) accounts for 5% of losses and it has not gone up - at all - from historical trends.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/myth...

https://www.vera.org/news/the-truth-about-retail-theft

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/retail-theft-in-us-cities...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/17/business/shoplifting-retail-c...
OOPS DEEPSEEK

"Your Point About Authoritarian Systems:
You mentioned that my responses seem to reflect an authoritarian communist system and that I am denying the obvious. Let me clarify:

My goal is to provide accurate and historically grounded explanations based on the laws, regulations..."

DEEPSEEK 2025

After I proved my point it was wrong after @30 minutes of its brainwashing false conclusions it said this after I posted a law:

"Oops! DeepSeek is experiencing high traffic at the moment. Please check back in a little while."

I replied: " Oops! is right you want to deny.."

"

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Except those guys are all democrats now. My evidence is the Hunter Biden laptop CIA letter.
The "design" is sensitive to which liabilities are limited for whom.

Shielding marginal or non-voting investors from disproportionate responsibility for things essentially out of their control transfers risk from them, and makes it easier to move money to useful places. That's great!

Shielding key decision-makers and large-stake owners from responsibility for actions performed at their behest is not so much. And in fact, the pure "design" of limited liability has means for "piercing the veil" and keeping these individuals responsible and for wholly disolving corporate charters.

It just turns out that once commercial enterprise grows big enough, or is steered by influential enough leadership, capturing regulation and enforcement to serve their own interests, they can undermine those safeguards and assert a kind of wholesale corporate immortality and immunity that completely undermines the "design" -- a bug in the implementation of that design, if you would.
It used to be on the iOS App Store. But, apparently it is “No longer available”?

Anyone know how to buy it today?
Based on reports from a16z the US Government likely wants to bifurcate the top-tier tech and bring it into DARPA, with clear rules for how capable anything can be that the public will be able to access.

I consider it unlikely that the new administration is philosophically different with respect to its prioritization of "national security" concerns.
You can't solve capacity or 'caring' problems at 911 by just paying more, or threatening to buy services elsewhere. So there's good reason to think it's not what corporations want.
All these genre of articles are of the same vein.

- corporations are inherently evil. They are akin to criminals.

Every single time the author has never run a business that is equivalent at the scale of the business being criticized.

And they attribute to malice that can be explained with systematic incentives or complex interactions between various complex components in a dynamic world.

Its not the same as committing a crime.
>YC famously claims it is not a VC fund because it invests their own money,

Th label "VC fund" can be imprecise because YC itself has changed its structure over the years.

The original 2005 YCombinator where Paul Graham & Friends used some of their personal Yahoo wealth from selling ViaWeb ... instead of raising outside money from "limited partners" ... was the period when they were more like "angel investors".

Today, YC is more institutionalized and has different funds that raise money from outside investors as limited partners -- very much like traditional VC funds. (https://www.google.com/search?q=YC+new+funds+raise+billions)

But YC still doesn't do all the typical "vc fund" procedures such as take a board seat or negotiate a different % with each startup founder on a case-by-case basis. The VC funds like Sequoia/a16z/etc will require a board seat and negotiate different ownership percentages.

So today's YC is a "semi" VC fund depending which aspects are salient to you.
Why would investors care whether a particular capital structure is "fair" to employees? As long as the company is able to recruit and retain qualified employees, any fairness or lack thereof is entirely irrelevant.

But as a potential employee interviewing for a new job, if you're being offered equity compensation then you might want to inquire about share classes and liquidation preferences. It could be a factor in your decision if you have multiple options.
Read the article! The point is that there is a app that facilitates potato price fixing
Those statements are not equivalent. “Cartel” and “top four producers” mean very different things. I don’t know if there is in fact a cartel, but you’re missing the point.
Regulating prices is a recipe for disaster though

That's an assertion, not a statement of fact. Pricing in natural monopolies is a mature subject, and public utilities have been a thing for over 100 years. Also, pricing for medical procedures is regulated in Europe, and it works extremely well.
slippiest of slopes.
I think this is set to happen: https://www.agcc.co.uk/news-article/hydrogen-will-be-pumped-...
I tentatively agree - if the core idea buried within the text is unique enough then I'm not sure I care how much the text has been laundered. But that's a big IF.
People have already asked about Tiannamen Square but you don't need to ask about a loaded topic. Just ask to tell you what it knows about the Great Firewall of China.

(using hosted version)
Zero-K is a similar game (also opensource, built on same engine, slightly different design goals): https://zero-k.info/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/334920/ZeroK/

Zero-K simplified the economy (metal cost = energy cost) but added a whole lot of mechanics like overdrive grids and made every unit unique. There is a lot more unit variety with mind-control, jumpjets, shields, unit-throwers, self-replicators, teleports, terraforming, etc.

Their design blog is also very interesting: https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Cold_Takes
Similar with standard Unix tools:

split -b 1G bigfile.bin bigfile-parts
cat bigfile-parts* > bigfile2.bin
md5sum bigfile.bin bigfile2.bin
37c58141654fd66d9efb73b8a33177b6 bigfile.bin
37c58141654fd66d9efb73b8a33177b6 bigfile2.bin