93po

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Comment · 1 hour ago
It loses on accounting if you assign zero cost to the million+ lives that carbon emitting power generation takes every year, and the long term, possibly irreversible damage it does to the planet. If you factor in those two things even 1%, nuclear wins hands down
Comment · 2 days ago
Good!
Comment · 2 days ago
I respect that most people wouldn't and I don't blame them. However the security of my personal information and data, while absolutely nothing interesting or noteworthy, is not a compromise I'm willing to make - mostly for reasons of principle. I don't use this laptop often, maybe at most an hour a day, and I never need it much outside the house. If it was my main driver I'd find another solution.
Comment · 2 days ago
There is no evidence Tesla has or will done this, and suggesting as much as much basically school-yard-tier levels of rumor mongering.
Comment · 2 days ago
This captures just how spectacularly out of touch Stanford types can be. Here’s a respected, successful professor at one of the world’s most prestigious universities. A baby boomer who has benefited enormously from one of the most prosperous periods in human history and, crucially, a straight, cis white man.

For someone with that much privilege to characterize the alleged infringement of his book’s copyright as having to endure a form of slave labor takes a staggering lack of self-awareness. It’s “you can’t write this shit” levels of obliviousness, and possibly the dumbest, most out-of-touch horseshit I’ve read all year.

And by Stanford types I mean privileged, successful people in general that one can associate with many other highly selective schools and employers.

Comment · 3 days ago
the primaries where the person who won dropped out and was replaced with someone that literally no one voted for
Comment · 3 days ago
> fundamental limitation of "object permanence" remains if objects can evolve chaotically as soon as they are blocked from view by another object.

they got this working decently well for video over a year ago, maybe closer to two years ago at this point, time goes fast. so i assume it'll translate to progress in Genie too

Comment · 3 days ago
It's basically all manufacturers aside from Tesla. Tesla does not sell user/driver data, and only provides info to police when they have a warrant.

"Tesla never sells or rents your data to third-party companies. This includes your personal data and driving history."

Most manufacturers either sell this to brokers which cops easily consume, or only require subpoenas instead of warrants.

Comment · 8 days ago
if you factor in how private industry exploits negative externalities, the mystically infallible free market is quite bad. a great example is people saying nuclear energy doesn't make sense and never will when compared to fossil fuel burning energy production, but that's entirely ignoring the million+ people who die every year from illnesses directly attributable to pollution from fossil fuel energy. and the whole irreversibly killing the planet thing.
Comment · 13 days ago
I installed Asahi Linux on my Macbook Air recently and while it definitely took more effort than your grandparent would be capable of, it wasn't too bad. Getting FDE working was a pain for sure though.

The overall experience is good, aside from a few big areas: sleep mode still drains battery a ton, like 20-30% a day or more. And battery life in general while using it is pretty bad. And Firefox constantly runs out of memory and crashes.

Hopefully it improves soon. Even despite these issues I'm not going back to MacOS or Apple ecosystem again despite being a big fan of it and user for the last 7 years.

Comment · 14 days ago
I'd repeat the question, according to who is this even likely a materially different car? Why does a wheel cap mean it's a different car? You could make this argument by pointing to literally any difference, like a sticker - it doesn't add an credibility to it.
Comment · 14 days ago
I mean he's been called a nazi, a pedophile, and a scam artists multiple times in this HN comment thread. Not sure how much more slanderous it can get.
Comment · 14 days ago
All 4 wheels and tires on modern teslas are a combined 200+ pounds. The roadster has massive tires and guaranteed they weigh more.

For current performance motors, they each weigh between 100 and 150 pounds. It's very likely the roadster ones will weigh more.

The "gearbox" equivalent is about 200 pounds on modern teslas, and again the roadster will need a beefier one.

So literally just the essentials of motors and wheels and "gearbox" is now at a bare minimum of 600+ pounds. This isn't including the actual frame and structure itself, the battery, the wiring and electronics, and literally the entire vacuum/cold gas system.

I would like anyone to comment how the demo unit could possibly be under 500 pounds "guaranteed".

Comment · 16 days ago
I also get generic errors trying to check out, not exaggerating, like 25% of the time on anything that isn't amazon. I think Firefox and resisting fingerprinting and VPN together means places really don't want my money. I know fraud prevention etc etc, but I can still be annoyed at the state of the internet.
Comment · 17 days ago
Yeah this article is confusing for me. The one a few days ago was basically saying "this is a slippery slope", which the post today acknowledges, then goes on to say "These passkeys don't give websites an attestation statement at all, and though a site can ask, what comes back is none" as though it invalidates the post a few days ago.

The whole point is that once everyone is accustomed to passkeys, they ARE going to ratchet it up to "you need attestation".

This is the browser wars all over again. Google spent something like 20 years winning the browser wars, and once they felt snug and secure, slowly started eroding users' abilities to control the content they see (making features adblock relies on increasingly ineffective).

At the same time the current authentication horseshit of the internet in 2026 is awful. I routinely spend 3+ minutes trying to log into a site - first it blocks logins because of my VPN, then it requires a password reset, then it requires me to login with new password, but then it needs email verification, but then I don't get the email so I have to click resend, then I type in the verification and then it asks for blah blah blah.

I am grateful that LLMs are going to be doing 95% of my browser usage very soon.

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