Night_Thastus

That's the world we've built. It's not a world for humans.

At this point, I think it would be more noteworthy if they cross X days with it working without issue. "Github actions remains online after 180 days" would certainly be a headline.

Toyota has been very slow on the EV front, and it turns out that was a stroke of luck - demand has cooled off for EVs massively. (especially after the tax credits were killed in the US)

They make some of the best hybrids in existence. Their transmissions, due to being just a planetary gearbox, are essentially unbreakable and require no real maintenance. They're also very, very gas efficient.

It makes sense to keep doing what they know, when they do it well and the US lacks a lot of good EV infrastructure. (Not even fast charging stations, just like simple slow chargers around businesses and parking)

I regret going for a '23 Corolla gas instead of the hybrid, but at the time I was short on cash and didn't know as much about hybrids as I do now. In my mind it was more complicated and failure prone, which isn't the case.

They say in the article:

"We will learn prices closer to launch, but according to Car and Driver, the gas version will likely start at around $25,000, the hybrid around $27,000, and the EV and PHEVs will likely be priced in the $30,000 range."

As far as prices go, that is not that bad for an EV. (These days)

On the one hand, I 100% want AI-generated videos, images, text, etc to come with some kind of 'spymark'.

On the other hand, no matter how robust that solution is, inevitably someone will come up with a way to bypass it, strip them out, etc - so would it really be useful in the long run?

This is also why I view advertisement, in general, to be an invasive and incredibly dangerous. TV, online or elsewhere. It's all bad. It doesn't just let people know a product exists. It shapes the way we think about ourselves and the world around us. I view it like a cancer that we need to cut out.

Everyone likes to think they're 'immune' to advertisement. That they're somehow mentally above the whole concept and it doesn't affect them at all. Total nonsense.

I know the post mostly already says this, but related, this is also part of the danger of modern social media algorithms. Negative, outrage-inducing topics tend to get more attention in the short run. However, if someone watches it even once, that causes the algorithm to send a more of that kind of content. Before you know it, some people are getting fed and endless stream of the worst possible news, the most depressing takes, over and over. It can aggravate existing mental health issues or give them to people who did not have them before. The algorithm isn't 'designed' to do this, it's just trying to maximize metrics like time spent. It doesn't 'care' if the topics are negative or positive. But they have to be reshaped to consider the damage they can do when you start multiplying that by hundreds of millions of people.

Consumers, fundamentally, care about two things:

* Price

* Features

Those are tangible, obvious things. They are not subtle. They do not take months or years to discover or become obvious. They are (mostly) not vague or ambiguous. Does this car have lane assist? Yes or no. Will this car last me 20 years? ...maybe? That's a very hard question to answer. It's messy and complicated and has a lot of clauses to it.

So, consumers buy whatever is the cheapest available with the features they want, or the most feature-rich they can with their budget.

This demand forces manufacturers to respond. They find a way to cram more functionality in, at a cheaper price. If they don't, they will simply get eaten up by those who do, overseas or otherwise.

You can say you want quality and reliability all you want - it changes nothing. At the end of the day, the vast majority keep voting with their wallet - and they want CHEAP.

I like the idea, but have a couple problems:

* It filters out things that are clearly not AI related (like the one titled ' Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization ') - or maybe it's just slow to update (that post was 3 hours ago)

* No ability to go to the next page

* Order is often different than on HN, even account for the missing posts. It's mostly the same, but not quite, which always throws me for a loop to see if something else is missing.

Are they totally unrelated?

I do have a big box 'o cables, though organization is getting difficult. I need some way to organize them into broad categories (USB, audio, power, ethernet, etc).

I've never seen Firefox use more memory than Chrome on modern versions. They're pretty on par.

It's far more likely that one of the many addons/extensions you had was the cause.

As for 'Refresh Firefox', it does exactly what it says it does - wipe a lot of your configuration to bring it closer to stock. It's intended as a way to show people new defaults and help clear out old, bloated configs. It shouldn't be used unless you know what you're doing.

You say that, but out of the remaining users of FF, I severely doubt even 1% would pay. Any attempt to paywall would kill whatever they have left.

I know Firefox's share of browser share has dwindled to almost nothing. I know sooner or later, well within my lifetime, it will be gone.

But I will keep using it until they pry it from my hands. And if they do, I'll use forks until those break down too. I can't stand Google, or what Chrome has become. No single company should have such unilateral control over the internet and its information.

As far as I remember it handled it fine. I think the page turn transitions were slightly slower, but not in a way that hurt the reading experience.

I think those are CBZ/CBR archives, which should hold ordinary image files (JPEG/PNG) within. I'm not sure on the details though.

I got the Libra Color awhile back. I rediscovered my love of reading. Chewed through dozens of Star Trek books (some are quite good!). And a comic, which surprised me with the color and resolution the Libra offered.

The store seems to work well and the prices are pretty cheap, but you can also load them manually through something like Calibre if you already have a collection of ebooks.

I love how thin and light it is. I originally thought the small size would be a downside, but being able to fit it almost anywhere has made it great for plane/train rides or any kind of trip.

The battery lasts quite a long time, though it seems to discharge quickly if you don't use it for a while.

I think my favorite part is that it's just super intuitive. It feels purpose-built and does everything in the way I expect it to.

Overall, highly recommend. Very good product.

An app is a way to bypass the privacy protections that a browser might layer on top, and gather yet more data about you, show ads, etc, etc. That is the real motivation.

I am very grateful for LibreOffice. Writer and Calc got me through college, and I use Calc on a nearly daily basis for keeping track of finances.

Years ago they felt unpolished and a bit pet-project-y, but now they feel like proper tools that stand up well.

I think for the business scene Excel will remain dominant for shear backwards compatibility, but for typical users there's no reason not to use it.

Reminder that US taxpayer money was handed to the ISPs by the truckload on the promise of fiber. They took that infrastructure money and ran with it.

HN has been strongly adverse to tags for quite some time - for legitimate reasons. I don't think we'll see it anytime soon.

I really wish there was a way to filter out discussions about AI on HN. It feels like lately they take up a good 1/3 of posts on the front page. I don't want to hear about some new AI startup.

Features expand to fill all available hardware. Both the OS and apps got more features, got more flashy, got more complicated. If you were able to run those old original apps, they would likely be VERY fast on your newer device.

I felt the same way. I think we were on Hamlet, and reading it alone just felt so confusing and lifeless. I couldn't tell when characters were upset, sarcastic, ecstatic, etc. It drained it of all character.

But then later on I saw a play version of it and suddenly it all made sense! Even if the words were identical, the context made it much easier to follow the story. I could piece together what it meant even if it wasn't modern English. You could hear the emotion in the voices and better follow what they're reacting to. I really appreciated it!

It's not like it would have cost the school anything...it was freely available online!

Context is everything for art and literature! It's not to say they can't be enjoyed out of context, but a lot can be lost without it, especially for a teenager.

I'm tempted to say that history and literature classes should just be combined, gradually working in books from (or about) the period and place being taught!

In a typical ion exchange setup, there isn't all that much. A big tank filled with resin to attract the minerals, and a big tank of salt to wash the resin clean.

Eventually, the resin will break down and need replacement, or the valve on the tank will fail. But neither of those are insurmountable to fix, and will tend to last many years.

Now, if you go with RO, that's different. Then you really need a pump and multiple filters which need regular changing. Those can be a bit more maintenance. (Not to mention all the wasted water)

At the end of the day, LLMs are text prediction machines. No memory, no understanding, no learning.

If you ask it for time off, it's going to answer with whatever sentence seems most likely to follow 'May I please have tomorrow off?' given a minor amount of context window. It can't count the number of employees in the store. It can't understand busy periods or holidays, it can't look up or predict anything itself. It can't remember how often you've asked before. It can't judge if the reason for time off is justified. It can't consider budget.

You can add more context to the questions to steer it towards giving a specific reply, but it's not actually thinking about the problem.

LLMs have no path towards a true intelligence. We'd need a completely different technology built from the ground up. Every effort to shoehorn them into being one is either marketing and hype building to try to keep the grift going, or people who do not understand how this works.

I'm exhausted from having to say it over and over. I've been saying it since these LLMs first existed. Half the articles on HN are LLM related. My god what I would give for an 'LLM' tag we could filter out.

Companies like Mars, Inc don't care a hoot about what the level of inflation is. They care about their shareholders, who care about stock growth. Anything else is completely and totally irrelevant for them.

Higher prices -> customer unhappy -> less sales -> stock price go down

Smaller bars -> hopefully customer doesn't notice -> same sales -> stock OK

That's the only logic in here. The prices of the ingredients have gone up, so they're forced with that choice.

Yep. People blame companies, but ultimately they are doing what the customer 'wants'. Same with things like separate fees for credit cards, or shipping. Customers don't like seeing an extra fee, so companies roll it all together - even if it often means they end up paying more in the long run.

They're being sarcastic.

It would certainly help if it could taste what it produced. Or see, with its eyes, how the result is changing as its process changes. Or learn, from first principles, what is happening at each step and make deductions about how they will affect the result.

All it can do is randomly shuffle around the steps and ask if the customer likes it. If they don't, shuffle them around again and hope it's better this time.

It can't 'learn' on its own. Models only get better with mountains of RnD for data, training, and lots of fine tuning.

So the moment investment dries up, models stop improving.

However, it's likely we'll get good 80/20 solutions where you get most of the performance of the then-unsustainable high end models for significantly less compute.