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bennyhill··on Thousands More Teslas Are Piling Up in Parking Lots
Tesla has more than double the P/E of the rest of the industry so this had better be a logistics problem that means they are moving to a lot more sales and not just tapering demand.
bennyhill··on Proposal would have motorists pay by miles driven instead of per-gallon gas tax
For (2) registration being weight per year seems good enough to me, it should just be a lot more, especially if a vehicle is oversized for its axels or license class.

I don't like parked trash and I believe the disposal/recycling process will have environmental impacts proportional to weight in terms of energy, etc.

bennyhill··on Yubikey 5.7
The problems described sound like they have more to do with government interference. How would yubico be responsible for delays multiple shipment companies have and are unable to talk about?
bennyhill··on 52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes
The DEA has to do with this topic since you are contradicting a federal decision.

Your use of statistics here is meaningless. 52000 is not the number of guns they put on the street.

The market impact is real and covered in the article. People specifically search for police guns because they are cheap relative to other properties that make them appropriate for human on human violence.

bennyhill··on 52,529 guns once owned by police departments have been later used in crimes
I find it rather humorous to suggest that an agency like the DEA, with no actual function besides getting marketable goods out of a market should marginally lower their costs because market impact is a pipe dream.
bennyhill··on Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East
There's no people who deny travel reimbursements that use Saudi gas.. Does that mean we all need to fly to Saudi Arabia to plan future businesses and garrison death squads in our houses?

I think there's a difference between doing the minimum that is not a disadvantage and making a relationship with an ethical discount country your competitive advantage.

bennyhill··on GPT-4o
It's equivalent to "nothing to see here" which is exactly the TLDR I was looking for.
bennyhill··on People who won't give up floppy disks
The flash drives give an interesting sense of reliability since the controller will keep freshening and error correcting. I havent dared to leave one unplugged for a few years with data I wanted.
bennyhill··on Obesity Rates by Gender and Country
Kuwaitis are a minority within the actual population in Kuwait. Seems kind of like measuring only at the golf club.
bennyhill··on EA CEO: "Real hunger" among developers to use AI to speed up development
Seems like the difference between cell phones and landlines implies things like self driving cars will be spread without relying on most people in a region affording them before construction starts.

The fully automated vehicles may be a lot more dangerous in some places than others, but you'll probably be able to get run down in the middle of nowhere.

bennyhill··on In medieval England, leprosy spread btwn red squirrels/people, genome evidence
When we are only talking about a few samples in each group, 4 cases every few years seems fine.. I would hypothesize that many of the symptomatic cases are people who are foreign but exposed to UK endemic leprosy. Of course to establish how true that is means there are more data points to collect for cases with foreign contact and the involved lands.
bennyhill··on GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs
Are you saying it exclusively has lidar? If not then I don't understand your comment.
bennyhill··on GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs
With cameras alone it seems pretty easy to trick them into dismissing road signs as nonexistent.. I think Lidar alone should be telling you there is a sign, so your camera is faulty or someone is putting up blank signs.

Lidar as I was told to use it would be in conjunction with a database of way points like signs, so the trouble would be knowing if the sign was updated.

bennyhill··on The largest carbon removal plant is here, and bigger ones are on the way
Probably worthless as a solution, but it seems to me like a good quantitative tool to start fining at a realistic cost. I.e. VWs fines for emissions falsifications were at best based on first estimating with fantasy offset costs instead of a hypothetical build out cost.
bennyhill··on European Accelerationism
You are saying that Europe is rich because it has recently become a melting pot similar to the US' role when it became rich?
bennyhill··on Balsamic vinegar is likely fake
Sounds more like wine and fortified wine to me..
bennyhill··on At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down
Right, something that runs on windows is the periphery from an OS engineers perspective. "You don't have to leave the company, but you can't stay here."
bennyhill··on At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down
My impression was that they did a hard switch to proper Secure OS engineers for Windows about 10 years back.. I kind of wonder if that pushed engineers and managers with the worst habits out to periphery things from the OS perspective..
bennyhill··on Ask HN: Those of you who don't use AWS/Azure/GCP, what do you use for hosting?
I wouldn't use scaleway since they tried to copy AWS.. But in general, I'd say simple is a real data center layer node without all the strange contraption ideas to bill you by the byte for a filesystem that isnt a filesystem on top of a webserver that needs a filesystem..
bennyhill··on NixOS Foundation board: Giving power to the community
It seems to me like the primary claim is that no one is providing people management. I'm not really convinced that anyone wants to do that for free or that anyone technical wants to spend free time engaging with an organization that organizationally identical to an employer.
bennyhill··on Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs
Interesting, but wouldn't using only natural rubber result in a huge amount of land clearing and then a monoculture, similar to the environmental issues of palm oil?
bennyhill··on GPL all the things?
It seems like a perfectly good topic to me (and I'm not sure why we would expect more in an OP than in a ask HN topic).

The OP may not understand why but it is very common to have gaps when relicensing because collecting CLAs, etc, is often allowed to slip to the minimum for the current license terms.

bennyhill··on GPL all the things?
That's not a very charitable take for a message on a short form platform. A company like Terraform may have had to make harder decisions or never be able to do a rug pull if more of the community refused to submit code under CLA or non-GPL style licenses.
bennyhill··on Burn After Wearing
> quickly copying catwalk trends and getting them to consumers quickly

That's not much morphing, the goal is to have clothes that are quickly obsoleted for people who can now immediately keep up with the trends. Those people can be a minority of their customers but buy far more by volume, don't wear clothes until they wear out, and need to dispose of out-of-date clothes. If they push enough consumers to fast fashion then there is a vast excess of used clothes that need to be thrown out.

bennyhill··on Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
I don't see how a work around for an intentional shortage can be acceptable if you are saying the AMA kills people and I think that you are.
bennyhill··on Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics
> It's not about saving tax dollars ... Yes, there's 1% fringe rightists in there. But seriously? It's not about that.

That's missing the point about money. Buying the murder weapon is not in the same category as all the inactions that may go into knowing a murder will happen and not ultimately stopping it.

bennyhill··on Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight
I assume any congress person who voted for surveillance has a horrible kink and received photos of it shortly before the vote.
bennyhill··on UN plastics treaty: don't let lobbyists drown out researchers
I'd like to see graphs connecting politicians, lobbyists, geos and tainted policy proposals and a sufficiently large political/social group bringing awareness to such graphs, getting experts talking about them, etc.

IMO the goal is not one treaty, it is to make the cost of selling out sufficiently high that every treaty round improves every future round instead of so low that every round adds to the percentage of participants who are sell outs still participating in the political system.

bennyhill··on Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)
I see it as depressing that this is gaining traction it doesn't deserve. TCP doesn't need one hack at a time and then to make us choose combinations that sort of work in half the use cases in the modern world, it needs to be replaced with SCTP.
bennyhill··on Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds
You mean if you don't have a doet that is artificially high in fructose and sucrose?
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