I'm a liberal and I've lived in Texas (Austin) for 20 years. It is infuriating when I am on some liberal-oriented forum, someone says we should force Texas out of the union or whatever, and everyone cheers. ~40% of Texans didn't vote for Trump, and in absolute numbers are a greater number of liberals than most other states in their entirety ... yet my supposed fellows want to write us off. Ugly indeed.
Am I saying they should be disenfranchised from the country? Have I said they I have no empathy for their concerns and hope the worst for them? No.
What I said was it was infuriating when they are doing those things to the ~40% of Texans who are liberal. I didn't say it happens on all liberal forums, I'm complaining about the cases where it does happen. And please don't shift things because I said "everyone cheers" because it should be obvious it is a common phrase and doesn't literally mean I checked and every person on the forum commented.
Would you even call HN a liberal forum? It is full to the brim with profiteers who have no ethical framework except making money for US-based VCs.
The past years have shown that many have no problem to change affiliation with the zeitgeist. I feel many Americans are secretly pro-Trump as long as they make money. If there would be more liberals in US tech we would see much more leaks coming from companies such as Apple, Facebook, Reddit, Google, about how the senior leadership is supporting the government policies.
For example with Facebook it needed a woman to get sexually harrassed out of her job and write a book called "careless people" so that it is reported that Facebook engineers were actively embedded with the Trump campaign while at the same time democrat voters (black people) were shown literal fake news ads to keep them away from voting.
I have not seen one Facebook senior engineer being ostracized on HN for working on the trump campaign. Everbody made their millions and joined the next big thing, with us worshipping their amazing FAANG credentials.
If the people who worked on DOGE do a "SHOW HN:" nobody would call it out.
I just look at the patterns of things that are downvoted to death. Comments that would come out of Peter Thiel or Elon Musk's mouth any day of the week are regularly downvoted to hell here.
It's not a matter of 'liberal' vs whatever anymore, it's a matter of expertise and basic ethics versus corruption riding upon anti-intellectualism, cloaked in naked bigotry. Say what you will about the prevailing value system among HN commenters, this place isn't that bad.
My observation over the last 10-15 years here has been this is partially true. But what's more true is the Overton window has shifted. To use your example, the things that would come out of their mouths, especially Elon, has taken a decidedly right wing turn over time. So keep in mind you're also seeing people who have largely stayed the same discussing a culture that largely has not.
The article doesn't mention the energy costs directly. The fluid is good for at most 100 cycles, probably less, to release the captured CO2 requires heating the fluid to 70C, and then you still have the problem of disposing the CO2 in some way. All cost energy.
A given locale has some metric, based on local generation sources, for grams of CO2 emitted per kWh or whatever. How much CO2 is released to capture 1 gram of CO2? If it is close to a gram or more, this is not worth considering. Maybe one day zero-carbon energy sources become so inexpensive we could contemplate wide-scale CO2 capture, but we aren't anywhere close yet.
> The SpaceX docking simulator ported as an in-vehicle game, playable on the infotainment screen
Really? People want that? I know that Elon Musk would think that it would be great to play a video game about Elon Musk's companies, but are Tesla owners similarly afflicted?
Yup, and I played it back when it was new. at an arcade, not in my car.
To me it is like someone saying, "Honey, I'll be on the garage watching Football in my Tesla all afternoon." Yeah, you can do it, but is a car really where you want to do that? The second aspect is it is a game glorifying Elon's "genius". What is next, a FPS for your Tesla where you have a chainsaw and you run through federal buildings trying to get the highest body count?
Honestly, i know a few Tesla users and at least for them their Tesla is more than just a car. Its like a gimmick.
Driving to tesla meetups, adding certain accessories for led light stuff, its (sry to say) just weird.
I get the basic idea of telling the internet about some issue and getting faster feedback than from the manufacturer, but I never had the feeling i needed any of this for my non Tesla EV.
And as i mentioned in my comment: I would hate all the regular updates. As long as everything works as expected, pls do not change anything.
This is a thoughtful piece, and I'm surprised that most of the comments here are focusing on the evangelicals who are thirsty for the Rapture. While misguided, those people aren't much of a problem, as they are mostly waiting for the end times, grandiosely sure that they are among the chosen.
All that discussion of evangelicals is really a setup for the real focus of the article: people like Yarvin, Musk, and Theil, who have the power to actually have the influence and money to cause significant damage to society. And they are acting on it. Although there are cranks on the left who think the solution to the problems of capitalism is its demise, they are not in a position of power. It is ironic it is the so called conservatives who are actually trying to destroy society as we know it.
This is definitely the problem - it has spread from being just "hope for hopeless" (aka opiate for the masses, a way to pacify those over-affected by inequality) to it now being acceptable for the rich/powerful to actively steer the ship TOWARDS Ragnarok with the expectation that they will survive / come out more powerful.
That is a fun exercise, but I imagine the time to evaluate the conditional expression is a tiny fraction, just a percent or less, than the time it takes to make the file system calls.
For many cases you don't even need to make stat() call to determine whether or not the file is a directory (d_type specifically can tell it: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readdir.3.html). That's what allows find(1) to be so quick
Well, it definitely does _something_, because on NFS the subsequent stat() calls after reading the directory names do indeed complete instantly :), at least in my testing.
I mean, readdirplus as a local filesystem API. Ultimately unix programs are just invoking getdents() (or equivalent) + stat() (or statx, whatever). Linux nfsclient probably caches the result of readdirplus for subsequent stat.
I don't think it is that simple. I would wager $$$ that dead drivers tend to skew younger, mostly young men who think they are great drivers, drive way too fast, pass with little margin, etc. Young people probably skew higher for THC use as well.
Having said that, I think that effect explains only part of the 40%, but can't explain all of it.
In the same way that Shazam can identify songs despite the audio source being terrible over a phone, mixed with background noise. It doesn't capture the audio as a WAV and then scan its database for an exact matching WAV segment.
I'm sure it is way more complex than this, but shazam does some kind of small windowed FFT and distills it to the dominant few frequencies. It can then find "rhythms" of these frequency patterns, all boiled down to a time stream of signature data. There is some database which can look up these fingerprints. One given fingerprint might match multiple songs, but since they have dozens of fingerprints spread across time, if most of them point to the same musical source, that is what gets ID'd.
I use moises frequently for track separation for learning songs. It does pretty dang well. I was shocked that the score of moises is ranked way worse than just about everything else, including lalal.ai, which I also used before buying moises. Perhaps lalal.ai has gotten better since I last tried it.
Maybe I'm totally misinterpreting, but the chart I'm looking at says "Net Win Rate of SAM Audio vs. SoTA Separation (text prompted)", so perhaps a lower number means that the alternative model is better?
Now that I go back and read it again I agree with you. Presumably "win rate" means what percent of the time did the SAM model (Meta's new one) beat the other tool over some set of examples.
and there is a linked article about Waymo's data reporting, which is much more granular and detailed, whereas Tesla's is lumpy and redacted. Anyway, Waymo's data with more than 100M miles of self-supervised driving shows a 91% reduction in accidents vs humans. Tesla's is 10x the human accident rate according to the Austin data.
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