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> It is very strange to see a grayed out comment on top of a thread that has about 160 non-grayed out comments. I thought that highest rated comments go to the top and grayed out comments are rated below zero.

I don't mind, I have internet points to spare. I think it's more important we have a proper discussion in this place.

> Regarding your points. First the thing about used evs not selling has more to do with the rapid pace of innovation of evs rather than lack of demand. In the 90s it was very difficult to sell a used PC because PCs improved so quickly. That did not mean that PCs were not doing well, in fact PC sales were growing exponentially. And evs do improve fast.

I disagree. I spoke to several dealerships and they simply cannot sell even a few year old EVs, despite them being able to sell 'new' EVs of that manufacturing date. From what I can tell it's that if you've got the money to spend £30k on an EV, why would you take a risk and buy a used one for £20k? There will be limited warranty and no 'classic' mechanic will touch it. If it's out of manufacturer warranty and you develop a battery fault, the battery and fitment can be comparable to the cost you paid for the entire vehicle. This is extremely unlikely to change soon.

> Your second point is silly. Basically you are saying that EVs are doomed because EVs are already selling too much. Thats like the old joke that nobody goes to this restaurant anymore because it is too crowded.

I'm not making that point at all. Whatever the market force is, there appears to be a saturation on the near horizon for percentage of sales. It's not an opinion, it's what the numbers suggest.

> Your third point is about rising electricity costs. That sucks for sure, but electricity costs tend to rise together with gasoline costs. It will be very difficult for those two to diverge so that a gas car all of a sudden becomes more economical. The fact that one can make electricity out of oil and oil products tends to mean that electricity costs will not rise very much in comparison to gasoline costs in a short period of time.

Without taxes, combustion engines are more economical (we're not discussing efficiency). Fuel duty and VAT in the UK represents over 50% of the overall cost of fuel [1]. Some portion of that tax is then used to subsidise green energy projects such as wind turbines and solar panels, further reducing the cost of electricity.

[1] https://www.racfoundation.org/data/percentage-uk-pump-price-...
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> Love to see negative results published, so so important.
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> Please let's all go towards research procedure that enforces the submission of the hypothesis before any research is allowed to commence and includes enforced publishing regardless of results.

Grounded theory? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounded_theory
Yes, potentially a very bad thing if it accelerates isolationist policies and further erodes US/world relations.

The sentiment I’ve seen increasingly that goes something like “but they’re freeloading” completely misses the nuance of decades of foreign policy and why the interdependence between allies and enemies alike has maintained relative peace.

If you’re worried about world wars, you should worry about the US undermining itself.
Experts Say Lobbying Skewed the U.S. Dietary Guidelines
Yet they’re different-enough that the one-party state would be more comfortable if they didn’t exist.
Stable driver API and open source/GPL'ed drivers are orthogonal.

They are both significant for some companies in deciding whether to support Linux, but they are independent from each other. If Linux ever had a stable driver API, the GPL requirement would still cause some vendors to not provide drivers for Linux. If Linux dropped the GPL requirement (such as it is), but did not promise a stable driver API, some vendors would still choose not to provide drivers for Linux.
I had friends that raved about Dune. Think they actually read the book.

Later saw the movie and kept thinking there would be a twist. Was largely disappointed but the mother starting a holy war was a bit intriguing.
It has always been true throughout history in every country that political engagement skews heavily toward the old and the rich. I don’t know how to fix it, but thankfully Kurzweil is a hack and was wrong about most things and deserves no apologies; life expectancy might have increased a little since 2001 but human longevity isn’t really budging at all, so there is very little increased risk of a geriatric Armageddon.

I have special beef with Kurzweil’s life expectancy BS because he misrepresents facts in his essays. His famous “Law of Accelerating Returns” essay has an incredible number of misleading plots and conflated arguments, but the life expectancy graph at the bottom is a pure lie, and Kurzweil knows it. It conflates life expectancy with longevity, and it left out data from before 1840 and from between 1940 and 2000 that he already had. If you include that known data and explain what longevity is, it ruins his plot and his argument, but he wanted to pretend there’s a trend that doesn’t exist so he intentionally left it out. https://www.writingsbyraykurzweil.com/the-law-of-acceleratin...
initially also cannot, but now can.
open wallpaper setting > choose + in color section, choose any color, close popup, (IMPORTANT) close setting panel.

now reopen the wallpaper setting again, click on top right custom color and do this, somehow the behavior is different. Now it change the wallpaper color as you drag over the colors rather than mouseup. My guess is clicking on + button at the bottom is triggering the popup config to update on mouseup, while opening it fresh will configure it to trigger on update, until the + button is clicked.
There is no part of the agreement that US didn't uphold. That is not lawyer speak, that is reality. If you think I am wrong cite the part they are not upholding.
That's why you need 5 - 6 bombs - 1 to nuke Moscow, the rest to nuke Berlin, Paris, London, Tel Aviv if they don't help you out before it gets to this.
You can allow foreign laborers to work on farms without giving them a pathway towards citizenship that will lead to their becoming fiscal liabilities.
I think it's probably aimed at people using them to create digital art.
For the same reason I bought the cheapest 10" Android tablet with external memory slot. I don't know what it's like now, but in the past Apple tried very hard to offer entry level models cheap, but for anything usable in terms of storage you had to pay a big premium.
>Intermittent sources are baseload

This statement is about as incorrect as it is possible to be, as even a cursory attempt to check this before posting would show.

It is difficult to understand why anyone makes claims such as this, unless they are consciously or unconsciously attempting to redefine a word that already has a well-understood meaning.
One minute into it, the article says, "The dmac and smac are pretty self-explanatory fields"

This immediately turns off anyone reading it who doesn't know what those things mean. The thought process will be, "Oh, this article is for those for whom these fields are self-explanatory. Since it's not for me, I'll stop reading"
Also the petroleum industry.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...
The US tariffs hurt US consumers and Canadian companies. The counter tariffs do the reverse. However, the US seem to be all-product while the Canadian ones seem tailored to "encourage" selection of a non-US alternative (and are geo-located as it were). Is the US ready to experience some pain, as those outside the US have been prepping for this sh*t for a while.
Incus 6.10 has been released
Guess what.

It’s also a common misconception that NATO article 5th means immediate military action by rest of the alliance. It actually says that an armed attack against one shall be considered an attack against all, but crucially, the assistance provided is “what each of them deems necessary”

With the current administration I’m not convinced the US assistance that it’d “deem necessary” would amount to anything more than a call to Vladimir Putin to see how best to help him.
> The fabs anyways don’t ship chips to the devices they go into, they do to a separate site where they get tested, packaged and then are sent off.

I see, but I think you are still skipping the major point that the chips need to be installed in a device to be useful. That device assembly is largely in Asia, and the US does not have the ready capacity to suddenly start assembling devices.

> not about scale but process capability and adding security to supply chain in case Taiwan gets in a conflict

> Samsung and Intel could run a similar fab but their yields, efficiency and process development

If we don't need scale, then why couldn't Intel just produce the chips inefficiently in case of conflict? Or if this is about protecting the supply chain for consumer goods as well, then I am back to my initial question about siting chip production far from the places the chips are installed into devices.
I love this. Well done. I've looked in the past for an ultra portable full sized keyboard (with a nice aesthetic) that I could throw in my pocket. I wonder if I could actually do any real work (not coding, of course) at a coffee shop with my iPhone in a stand and with a keyboard like that.
https://archive.is/qancZ
How much nuclear? The nuclear lobby "recommends" 10-15% of the mix, but when a country has that (Spain 20%) they keep asking for more.

Also... nuclear cheap? Come on, it's the most expensive energy source of the mix, except maybe peak gas.

Nuclear is big in France, has always been big and favoured. Still no "better research" and no magic disposal, after decades of investment. We are asked for religious levels of faith but they don't deliver.
But that's the thing: if we want to optimize both machine and human experience, we should create a 1:1 dual format, one which is machine-readable and one which is human-readable. A standard tool easily converts one to the other. This should not still be a problem. Yes, we have computers and should offload work onto them. But exactly what that work is is still important. Two approaches aren't equal because they both put the burden on the machine.
What discretionary action suggested by the memo does the US not uphold. All I am asking for is specifics here.
>Modern toasters are generally way less reliable than older toasters. I think it is very difficult to buy a new toaster today that you can be confident will have a 50-year lifespan.

On the flip side, modern toasters cost $10 and last nearly as long. Not everything needs to last forever, but I've never had a modern toaster wear out. You only think the old ones were reliable because they cost enough that people would pay to have them repaired. That and a huge helping of survivorship bias.
So? Refinement doesn't have a dependency on a particular location. This is like saying nuclear energy in Germany is dependent on France and other countries. Currently it is but only because we choose to not do it locally - it doesn't have to be this way.
I think it's the same issue as with deficits. The issue isn't that it's a forbidden subject but that people are put off by arguments that don't fully address the causality.

With deficits it's not just spending but also how much revenue you're raising which is instrumental to understanding the problem, and anyone who tries to tell you it's only one or the other is not a reliable narrator. It is similarly the case that access to housing has every bit as much to do with housing policy as it has to do with population dynamics.

>Immigration has benefited the very wealthy and upper-middle classes

A great reason to make more housing and to make housing more accessible to lower and middle classes. Your comment was so rich with pro housing policy subtext that I just want to bring that to the foreground.
Official post: https://news.microsoft.com/2025/03/03/microsoft-dragon-copil... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243065)
It's been a core tenet of Republican ideology for as long as I've been politically aware (30+ years now). People voting for Republicans are absolutely aware of this - they either explicitly want it, or are willing to accept as a cost of some other policy. Maybe 2026 mid-terms will prove me wrong, but if there isn't a wholesale turn away from the Trump-led GOP, it's safe to assume they're explicitly ok with this stuff.
Yet we're still sending truck loads of money and gear to Israel.

This is purely about Trump helping Putin.
That's terribly unfair.

It could mean the British government too (the UK legal implementation is even worse. At least Australia commissioned a report on age verification. The British government just assumed it was fine because the trade body told them it was, and Ofcom have actively washed their hands of any responsibility for safe implementation at all).
They are good for music production with a Logic Pro subscription, the touch screen interface is great for virtual instruments, mixing sliders, etc. With powerful chips you can add more tracks and effects.
Another Verge [dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43254714
How Well Do LLMs Compress Their Own Chain-of-Thought?
The US seems determined to beat that record.
Perhaps, but in the event of a conflict, I have trouble imagining him insisting that US must send more weapons to Taiwan to continue fighting. I will be very curious to see the next polls on Taiwanese opinions re. unification as they face the fact that the US security umbrella is now leaky...
They still age out, my mum has had excellent success with iPads, after somehow killing a litany of laptops.

Shes a consumer through-and-through, and an iPad is great for that- and occasionally calling people.

Unfortunately she’s had her current iPad for about 8 years, so it has aged out of security updates- so I am looking to upgrade her. Battery still holds charge though, at least enough that she doesn't complain.
>Also true, but how many people are buying toasters in 2025? I would bet that air fryers and toaster ovens outsell toasters 10:1.

More houses probably have toasters than all the others combined, but toasters don't really wear out all that often. You buy one for $10 when you setup your household and it lasts a decade or more.
I think a lot of non-technical users really don’t understand the distinction between how the OS vs. how any given app can spy on you. Even in technical circles, this issue gets confused. Is Android or iOS better for privacy? Well, modern Android (arguably) gives you better privacy controls for apps, however Android OS itself performs an order of magnitude more spying that iOS does.
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Recently, I thought Maps was the app that tracks me everywhere I go.
I put Maps in Incognito mode just as an attempt to disable it, but guess what?
It still tracked me all the time. The only difference Incognito made was not remember my search history
>Isn't an air fryer already the poster child of a "can't have a regular oven because I have no space in the kitchen, I'm renting the apartment, or both" appliance?

I suppose it's that for some people but everyone I know with one also has a fullsized oven. They are used for different purposes and often you don't want to heat up your whole oven to warm up some fries for 10 minutes.
"Intern" (job) -> staying at a workplace for some time to be trained and do some work

"Intern" (software) -> staying resident in memory to be referred to canonically

I find that often words do come about with a surprising amount of sense.
Charity ≠ one side of a quid-pro-quo was worthless.

The US gave/gives something that is fairly easy for it to provide, and valuable to the other side.

In return the US receives something that is of great value to it and fairly easy for the other side to provide (as long as the US keeps its side of the bargain).

If US security guarantees turn out to be worthless, you will see a lot more nuclear powers as well as a drastic increase in conventional capabilities.

The US will then be one power among many, rather than a mostly unchallenged superpower.
In Java I always see exceptions being used for stuff like validating HTTP requests
He is a dictator who has surrounded himself with yes men and purged everyone else.
Nice write-up.

For something so thin, your soldering woes aren't surprising. The standard way to manage that would have been to solder everything in one go on a hot plate (reflow soldering).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QarizoUnRfk
> Does this mean their nominal GDP grew by 15% in one month?

If they could keep selling in rubles without a fall in exports or prices then the month's contribution to GDP was 15% higher than the previous one. That doesn't seem very confusing.
> both sides have to agree to the "limited" part for it to stay limited

It’s more that each side has to moderate itself. That’s true if both have nukes or just one. And it’s much easier to moderate oneself when it’s in one’s own interest, e.g. to avoid getting nuked.
Wouldn't that be an example of brigading, rather than astroturfing?

Or is brigading considered a kind of astroturfing?
No idea. They obviously don’t tell you anything about that but there are people who’ve waited the full year. I don’t know what happened to them.

Meta has very few openings and does a lot more interviews than necessary to fill seats.

There aren’t even that many spots open in the Bay Area either. I had been open to the Bay Area for a few months and never got a single call there either.

I never got a match from Meta. I expect this is more common but it’s just not spoken about.
Really odd that everyone is mad that the US is supposedly breaking an agreement that nobody can actually point to.
Really well done! Looks great
This is beautiful. I'm a "Let's Split" style keyboarder as well so this made me giddy! There's a distinct lack of solid cases out there for this layout style.

You mention possibly mass producing the next round. Please add a notify email list or something. I'd be all over this.
Or a 12” MacBook - Apple is missing both 11” and 12” options.

Or let us run Mac apps on the darn iPad.
>In the long run, society goes to 100% electric transportation due to global warming.

This is Western-centrism. In the long run 4 billion people do not go electric because poverty problem solving more important for them, then the global warming problem solving, and another 4 billion people do not consider global warming as a problem at all, the wormer - the better. And under this conditions what the remaining 2 billion people will do is not important at all.
Exit polls from the November elections don't bear this out.

The lowest income voters trended towards Harris. As did the highest income voters. Trump's support lies solidly in the middle class.

If somebody is middle-income and thinks they aren't benefiting from a stable government and economy, I'm not really sure what to say... could we collectively do better? Absolutely. Is burning it all to the ground even remotely sensible? No, not even close.
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Toasters are one of those appliances you unplug when not in use (classically, anything that gets hot must be unplugged when not in use or supervised). They are a large source of fires, my mother knows someone who just lost their house to a toaster fire. So all that cord manipulation can take a toll on it.
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That or more was the gap.

Also, "cooling" is relative - the highest power draw of a 21164 Alpha is around 40-60w, which is normal to low these days, but was huge back then.
Lol, no, I hope not.* But here's something that did happen:

I applied to an insurance data entry job to fill the gap. It was Q4 2019 and I'd been in the workforce since 2008. Lots of tech support including big-boy serious-business firewall stuff. I think the application asked if I had a high school diploma, but I figured it was just a cursory formality. Naturally, the background check company pops up, wanting to "verify" my high school diploma. It was a home school diploma, in Texas, where home schooling is completely unregulated except for a one-liner statute declaring home school diplomas equivalent to normal high school diplomas. There's nothing to verify.

In the end, I had to get my mother on the line with these people so she could . . . tell them she really did home school me. And they were like, "cool thanks" and pushed through my background check. I mean, she could have been anybody! It's not like they validated anything. If they were checking something that was actually a big deal, that could have been mildly scandalous or something.

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*but, well,
Round 23 of Framework Benchmarks has been released after 3 years
Why? He didn’t spy for China. He could have provided them a pretense for invasion that wouldn’t trigger other nations during or after.
Quite neat result and presentation! Can you estimate what did your research and final product cost turn out to be?
I have the Chuwi Minibook X. I bought it because it fits on an airplane tray table and I can do real work on it (since it runs Windows 11). I flew a lot last fall and my iPad simply didn't work with Github and Notion - mobile Safari just didn't cut it (multitasking killed everything due to page reloads on iOS).

Running Firefox on the Minibook X works ... it's not great, but it works.

That said, I would pay top dollar for an 11" MacBook Air for sure.
So exactly what Biden/Mayorkas did at the DHS when they simply decided to stop doing their jobs and let millions of illegals in?
>Well, modern Android (arguably) gives you better privacy controls for apps

compared to iOS? in what way?
I never said they are breaking the word of any agreement. I just told you what they are are all thinking. And there is nothing you can do to stop it now.
"The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause."

Citing a correct fact about the world is not propaganda, as facts are neither doctrine nor "reflect views".
Agreed. This was also the first thing I searched for when clicking on the article. 60Hz screens should not be a thing in 2025.
Apple sells roughly double the number of iPads vs. MacBooks, so there’s that.
Maybe the modern equivalent is an fpga? It is a flawed analogy but it is an environment where you program on the bare metal and there are limited resources and you may have to make every one count.
Plus oil geopolitics
When developing my web server, I spent some time "fighting the borrow checker".
I get your point about a click cycle - but I think papers like the mail and telegraph are a bit more intentional than that.

BTW I was talking about offshore farms - they are typically only just visible if you are at the coast on a clear day.
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