skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Things haven’t improved for BYD since then.

You stated it wasn’t getting better for byd. From the article:

BYD revenues in Q3 (July to September) 2024 were 201 billion yuan ($AU42.85 billion) – a record high for the brand and a jump of 24 per cent over the same period in 2023.

More on byds ascent from earlier this year:
https://www.afr.com/companies/transport/byd-s-hybrid-ute-jum...

Going from not having market to be the no. 6 best selling is by definition getting better.

So yes you are wrong and sales are improving for byd.
Ask HN: Logging in with Firefox Extensions Enabled
I'm on my last nerve logging into sites on Firefox. I presume the few extensions I use (uBlock origin, onetab, darkreader) can read my passwords as I type or copy them into a login field. The permissions are "Access your data for all websites". So I open Firefox settings, disable extensions, and then log in. And then re-enable extensions.

Is there a better way? Am I missing the point here?
Because stock prices and the people's interests they reflect only care about immediate returns that allow investors to then dump those returns into the next immediate returning investment again, to maximize return with no consideration for the overall health of the system they operate in. Capitalism. Long term health of the stock systems. Long term health of the underlying value they reflect. Nothing long term matters in a stock buy at all.

Why do you even ask this question, did the answer really not seem obvious, or was it rhetorical?
I really didn’t have Bezos being so grotesquely subservient in my bingo card. Shame on him and on WaPo CEO.
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I’ve seen other people say that and frankly I’m skeptical. Tesla is firmly past the “techie only“ crowd.

I suspect the majority of their sales are the kind of “normal“ people who aren’t looking to wait for the next refresh and just want to buy a car right now cause they need one.

Are some people waiting for the refresh to be available to them? Sure. Enough to take sales everywhere? I seriously doubt it. I suspect the vast majority of their buyers wouldn’t even know a refresh was coming.

But we’ll find out pretty fast won’t we. If sales pick up back to normal pretty quickly then maybe you’re right.

But if they keep slumping further and further then the refresh argument will start to lose a lot of credibility.
OpenZFS 2.3.1 Released with Linux 6.13 Compatibility, Many Fixes
> Somehow, the nation avoided ruin during those periods.

2020 was a serious recession; the nation may have avoided ruin, but many people did not
I use firstname@firstnamelastname.net. Domain via iwantmyname (they were acquired a few years back). Email hosting via fastmail.
You've twisted the argument to be about DRM. That's a completely separate issue. The only people to blame for DRM are the people who use it on their content, not the platforms that are forced to implement it.

The _cause_ of monopolies are successful businesses. I don't have a problem with successful businesses. I also don't have a problem with monopolies per se. If I invent some cool thing and I'm the only person in the world doing it, I have a monopoly - good for me. If I can deliver a product better than everybody else, and everybody else chooses to not compete with me any more, also good for me.

The crime is when you use your power "unfairly" to drive others out of business. (So that you can create or maintain a monopoly). Predatory pricing or agreements that restrict who can use your product, or what others can do.
meta-note: I am the person claiming not to understand something, and the person you are replying to is not me.
Grok escaped it sandbox, and doing its best Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson impersonation it can, it takes out Twitter CnC like henchman from an Austin Powers movie. o7 Grok, well done.
When an entity has a long history of making shit up, it's entirely reasonable to assume that any future claims are equally made up.
AI is probably the threat executives understand.

There are also some pretty good third party YT clients like GrayJay https://grayjay.app/

These let you follow creators across various video platforms in one app. Bad for YT lock-in that Google wants.
The button is linked to a page of a controversial Islamist speaker.
The left eye/right eye option has been around even on lower end cameras for the better part of a decade, which is kinda wild. My fuji from 2017 has that, and Fuji are specifically known for having worse autofocus performance than Canon or Sony or Nikon. Nikon and Sony specifically seem to be top of the pile right now.

The Z8 has a whole separate processor dedicated to autofocus and the viewfinder which, in practice, means it can shoot 20 FPS full quality 45 megapixel RAW files with continuous 120fps autofocus without blacking out the viewfinder for each shot, which is absolutely insane.
The standard size for a bag of coffee is 12oz, at least in the US. $20/lb is equivalent to $15/12oz. $15 for a 12oz bag of coffee is pretty standard for anything that isn't bottom rung these days. It's not even 'great' coffee at that price; I'm just talking about something mid-tier like Counter Culture coffee which is available nationwide.

Anything cheaper than that and you are firmly into the budget coffee tiers.
I see no definite borders for EU expansion other than cultural.

There are some problems with Ukraine, there might be if there's too much corruption and oligarchy type stuff, so I don't want to absorb them immediately-- they need huge reforms, but I don't find them objectionable per se. I think they need to get smarter, get rid of their mafia etc., but it might be possible.

It's critical for the EU to prevent this kind of expansionist warfare on its borders.
Idk if it’s still up, but your comment was vile. You did not just mention that the Romans had worse punishments -which would have been totally irrelevant in itself- but to apply these methods today, as if capital punishment isn’t dubious enough.
Yes, I know Exa and have used them in the past for some side projects. Great product.

But that's still an index. Google also internally uses combination of traditional and sematic/embedding based indices.
That’s the parent’s point: a same-day flight may be expensive for the detainee and look bad for ICE.
Just some input on Magnesium Chloride for me. I have found it is the best for me as Chloride has no “effects” of its own, unlike things like Glycinate. Glycinate is good if it works for you, but I get wired and can’t sleep. I take citrate-based supplements for Calcium and Potassium, but mag citrate causes a lot of GI distress for me. None with chloride.

The bad thing? Mag Chloride is highly hydroscopic. You really can’t make it into a pill or they get all weird and goopy. So to get Mag Chloride you have to get it in a liquid form and it is moderately expensive. Worse than the expense, it tastes positively horrid. Still, it has the best impact on my sleep than other forms, so take that for what it is worth.
Channels are equivalent to job queues the same way walkie-talkies are equivalent to emails.
It somewhat makes sense, but they are very much not chemically simple? Nor are any of the electronics that are required for safe charging and use simple. That they have simple packaging is largely a distraction from how complicated they are. Just as you wouldn't claim computers are simple just because a chunk of silicon is simple.
Looks like that link is dead, but here's another with a similar title "ELON MUSK SAYS HE MIGHT BE BIPOLAR, MENTIONS "UNRELENTING STRES""
https://www.inverse.com/article/34948-elon-musk-bipolar-diso...
I filter out a lot of political stuff on Bluesky but it is hard to avoid right now. For some inexplicable reason a lot of people, no matter what they do, are talking about politics at the moment.
My secondary school was full of these in the computer labs. Great bits of kit :) The dual boot between architectures blew my mind at the time, and frankly is still pretty extraordinary. And unlike most boxes of the time, they even looked good!
Some propaganda bots still work despite defunding of USAID.

This is how they used to influence opinions across the masses.
his suspending accounts indiscriminately so...karma elmo karma
Show HN: Chrome extension to help detect bias in news articles
Hello,

For the past couple months I have been tinkering around on different ideas to help solve some of the current problems with the news. I decided to put together this basic chrome extension as a way for the normal news reader to quickly get article summaries, see who wrote the article, what else the authors wrote, get estimated bias ratings, as well as talk to the article using an AI chat. I use it daily while reading the news (or any content on the internet) to help save me time.

I've been pretty fed up with the descent of news into sensationalism and hyper-polarization in the past few years and started looking for ways to fix it as well as did a deep dive on past/current companies that have attempted to fix it. I have longer term ideas that I am now working on that revolve around building a community around this that supports and fosters independent journalism.

I saw building a chrome extension that detects biases as a simple temporary remedy for the standard reader to get more information on what they are reading as well as to read articles more quickly.

I am hoping by building this to meet other people interested in this space who would like to join this community and riff on ways to improve the news. Feel free to reach out if you are curious/care about the news space too.

The extension uses a freemium model so anyone can try the basic version for free.

Open to any and all feedback!
It's not a character thing, really. Grotesque subservience is a firm requirement to be successful in authoritarian environments. He wants to remain successful and will play the game by the rules presented. Lots of people operate that way, probably more than those that don't.

That this has not been historically true in the United States is the notable outlier.
As I see it, Brave is the only Chromium-based browser with a competitive Mv2-deprecation-resistant adblocker. If adblocking is important to you - and it is, to many people - then Brave literally is the only one worth considering. Not to mention it is open source, unlike most of the others.

(I work on Brave's adblocker, and FWIW the folks who work for Brave are very open about their affiliation when commenting about it online)
There is no world where that bad look means throw them in a prison cell to languish.
The end result of this will be that Microsoft gets the Chrome team. I don’t know what the DOJ is thinking.
Good guys ALWAYS finish last
I watched a couple videos, and neither explicitly stated whether the tunnels are filled with air or water when dropped. Maybe some marketing jerk put a blanket prohibition on any intimation of water in the segments. Bad vibes and all that.
My understanding is that they typically do, you book your own ticket for and they put you on a plane, even later the same day if you want. They'll only keep you in detention if you're trying to fight the deportation and have to wait for a hearing, or if you have no way to pay for a ticket -- then they find a low-cost ticket some time out and hold you until then.
But an LLM can't be held accountable.. neither can most employees, but we often forget that :)
Wonder if this is a cyber attack, as Musk is claiming, or the result of X not paying a few important bills ...
Note that Google Chrome contains features that allow sharing your interests with advertisers and "measuring" ads performance. It looks more and more as ad browsing client rather than a web browser: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13355898
> Congress intervenes on tariffs

the tariffs on Canada/Mexico haven't gone into effect yet and Trump may yet again change his mind or end up keeping it restricted to a few select industries (i.e. steel) who are clamoring for it (my guess is the latter)

As for China, I think many in Congress from both parties are supportive of them, so I would expect those to stay
Those are treaties that the US lobbied into existence, and can ignore out of existence. The reason they're not going anywhere is that the people who own the rights to everything want it that way, and pay people in government to keep it that way.
Ditto. Electron and Elite with a voltmace joystick that (memory may be hazy) had like 20 buttons on it was mind blowing to child me.
Own Data, Own Software
You can get banned from coming to the US if they catch you lying about the reason you're crossing the border. It's a long arduous process and lawyer fees to get the ban overturned. Happened to a Canadian I knew a decade ago when they tried to enter on a tourist visa for business purposes.

I'm sure it's similar in other countries but US has always been very strict given the huge amount of people trying to work there and the very finite supply of work visas.

From my experience you'll also get extra scruntiny if you're traveling solo like this girl. I was secondary screened twice coming for business where they double checked my paperwork and TSA lady in the back asked a bunch of silly questions (like "what is PayPal").
A lot of videos on YT are never watched and scrapers can run at high speed. At one point companies scraping web search for SEO reasons consumed a whole datacenter's worth of capacity, so scraping can be a surprisingly serious business (I used to work there).

The tech they're using to steadily lock down Youtube isn't new, so what's changed? The obvious answer would be AI.
Developer Convicted of Criminal Sabotage for Kill Switch When Fired
LLMs and the internet both make it easier for us to access more information, which also means we can reach dumber conclusions quicker. It does go both ways though.
Clearly some people benefit from controlling information flow, and some people are impacted negatively. Bezos may make another $1B by controlling WaPo opinion pages, while I, as a reader, may lose $1 or rights or whatever from the same action. How do you balance the two?
For the unaware: https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1j1pq7b/list_of_b...
What I'm hedging against is the possibility that technical issues at TreasuryDirect, and ensuing uproar, will temporarily prevent me from redeeming bonds at a time when I cannot afford to wait for a resolution.

maybe I am wrong but I view this as a very separate scenario from the US formally stating that it will default, which I agree would cause problems I'm in no way prepared for.
I had the misfortune to yet again interact with the world of FOSS today. This is how it panned out:

1. Heard that something called Rustdesk is a good VNC solution.

2. Installed it on my host and client devices fine. The client is an Android tablet

3. Finger touch input works, but stylus input doesn't work.

4. Search the internet and find the GitHub issue

5. In it the developers at Rustdesk have responded "Fund it if you really need this feature."

6. Cool, I'll put in $18 and hope that they fix this issue. It's a shame that there's no guarantee whatsoever or timeline, but I'll put my money where my mouth is.

7. ERROR! MINIMUM DONATION $20!

8. Give up. Why did I give the sewage world of FOSS another chance?

As a counter example:

The other day I had a bug in a paid software I've been using for years, that cost me less than $100. Mailed the company, and a few hours later the developers sent me a new executable with the bug fixed. The next day they released an update for every user with the bug fixed.
That doesn't explain why math is so amazingly effective at describing reality - all the pure mathematical results seem to eventually end up being useful at describing some new aspect of the world (to the chagrin of the pure mathematician).

Maybe it's the other way around? Our minds work this way because that's the rules and we're just emergent from that reality. It's hard to argue that symmetry is not a mathematical ideal first, and a biological approximation to that ideal second.
Because ads are auctioned in nanoseconds. This isn't the newspaper were everyone saw the same as which was vetted by the editors.
You are seeing different ads than your neighbour. Everything is automated to cost as little money as possible.
Thanks! Glad you liked it -- I appreciate the kind words!
My impression, as someone who bought USA index funds after the Trump election, and then sold them (at a loss) a few days ago, was that the Trump administration would do everything it can to funnel money from average people to investors. My impression now is that the Trump regime is too incompetent to achieve that, and might even just throw away the USA's exorbitant privilege of being the global reserve currency.

Note that being the global reserve currency is the same thing as having a colossal trade deficit, and that a colossal trade deficit is the same thing as a colossal surplus of goods and services. I wonder if Trump thinks it's bad just because of the word "deficit".

[e^iπ]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege
If are unfortunate enough to still use Chrome, please read:

https://contrachrome.com/
I don't think killing actual, effective ad-blocking was the sole motivation of moving to Manifest V3, but it was certainly a nice side effect that was hard to resist.
If I understand your response correctly, it boils down to "specific browsers do irritating things".

So I honestly still do not understand. It does not make sense for the raison-d'etre for the Orion browser to be "we don't do the irritating thing that Safari does" when most other browsers also don't do that thing. But clearly people want to use the Orion browser. So I guess I'm just (still) missing what the point is.
The article says her editorial was written to criticize her employer. Was she hoping to get fired instead of politely being told no?
Brave's adblocker supports the standard `$font` resource type modifier on adblock rules as well.
It absolutely has, in my experience. Bluesky also seems to be less heavy-handed with account bans.
The paper basically sums to suggesting (and analyzing) these otpions:

* Comparing all possible pair permutations eliminates any bias since all pairs are compared both ways, but is exceedingly computationally expensive.
* Using a sorting algorithm such as Quicksort and Heapsort is more computationally efficient, and in practice doesn't seem to suffer much from bias.
* Sliding window sorting has the lowest computation requirement, but is mildly biased.

The paper doesn't seem to do any exploration of the prompt and whether it has any impact on the input ordering bias. I think that would be nice to know. Maybe assigning the options random names instead of ordinals would reduce the bias. That said, I doubt there's some magic prompt that will reduce the bias to 0. So we're definitely stuck with the options above until the LLM itself gets debiased correctly.
Arianespace ≈ ULA, yes. Ariane 6 ≈ SLS, absolutely not. There is no official figure yet, but even the most pessimistic estimates place its per-launch cost at $150m (as opposed to $2b for SLS — with a hazy goal to eventually trim it to $500m). The rumors are that Ariane 6 is already well below $100m.
Historically newspapers have always had some kind of slant in their opinion pages that bleeds out into their stories.

The Murdoch family made their fortune doing it, "yellow journalism" is still very much alive and well.
yeah - I recommend having an overheight car (eg roof box) - then you get to ride in the high ceilinged carriage used by large passenger vehicles such as busses ... no extra cost, very roomy sense of space and smooth motion

btw trucks (as opposed to passanger carrying busses and coaches) are unhitched and take different trains with the drivers all in a dedicated people carriage next to the loco - guess they must have known about truck fires and separation of people from goods
How about no SEO? That would make a nice change.
also a long-time China hawk (like on the far end of hawkism)
I have never heard of 7 being a lucky number in western culture and your link doesn't support that. 3 is a lucky number, 13 is an unlucky number, 7 is nothing to me.

So I don't think its that, 7 is still a very common "random number" here even though there is no special cultural significance to it.
Consider discontinuing the use of Google, AWS/Amazon, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and ChatGPT if you value freedom. There are numerous excellent alternatives available.
Speaking of quotas: I wouldn’t surprised if part of the reason for her lengthy detention was “we have to meet jail occupancy targets” (or “we have to boost our jail occupancy metrics”.)
> I think Trump actually demonstrates just how wrong this perspective is.

It does not. I did not argue that America is not worse than before. I was clearly arguing against your premise that America has been wielding their military might with “cooperation over conquest”.

It was a straightforward question too.

> The U.S. cooperated with Canada to build cars together for generations. It’s a source of a lot of economic prosperity for both countries. And now the U.S. is threatening Canada with annexation while trying to destroy the current auto industry.

By the wars I was clearly referring to places like Latin America and the Middle East. Again, what’s the usual state of the US? At war, or at peace?

I know it hurts when it happens to you. Or your first-world friends. But that’s high school clique logic.[1] We’re talking about the country as a whole here, not just how it acts towards its former friends.

> I know there would be bickering about the details because everyone has their own mood on how warmongering the U.S. is, and to whom. But whatever you want to qualify the past as, the present is considerably and undeniably different in contrast.

Yes you preempted your statement with “bickering”. Too bad for you though that my question directly counters your claim.

How war-mongering of peaceful a nation is on the world stage is not a question of vibes and feels. Or how you subjectively view them based on how they treat “you”. It’s an objective question. No bickering needed.
If you go back far enough (and I don't know if this is) isn't the answer always everyone or no one but never "some".
NASA Eliminates Chief Scientist and Other Jobs at Its Headquarters
Getting some hands on experience with the signal processing side of SDR, with GNU Radio can help with understanding things like negative frequencies, complex signals, etc.

It's open source, and you can just play with your audio ports for starters. Later adding a $40 rtlSDR kit goes a long way. I used mine to build a VOR receiver.
If you're getting headaches every day and it's related to computer use, it might be worthwhile to talk to a professional about your workstation ergonomics, screen/font size etc. That is not normal. At all. I don't know anyone else complaining about having headaches daily. I put my monitor on an adjustable arm and it made a tremendous difference, just being able to move the monitor up/down half an inch throughout the day. Also as I've gotten older I've gone from 20 to 22 to 27" displays which helps.
Going long on AI stocks is fairly hard. OpenAI, Antrophic, and xAI are privately held, as are most of the robotics companies and companies. Companies like Amazon, Google, or Tesla might are sort of AI investments, but they are just subsidiaries or small fractions of the parent (Zoox, Waymo, FSD, etc).

This isn't quite like the dot-com era, with tons of pure play investment options avaialable, regardless of whether you want to go long or short.
DDOS attacks are constant on the internet. Your staff is in charge of protecting your computers from DDOS.

If you fire your staff, it no longer becomes possible to keep your site up in the face of attacks.
I feel like the overlap of people savvy enough to want re-fillable carts and people not understanding what "only fill with high quality ink" means so they jump to blame the company is pretty small.