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euLh7SM5HDFY··on Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft
> space

Speaking of which, if SpaceX announced today that they are going to put people on Mars in 5 years, I still would find that more believable than Tesla getting anywhere close to Waymo, in the same time frame.

euLh7SM5HDFY··on Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
If that happened I would expect the same success story as with Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
It already gives kinda creepy "You use this server, why not support it … or else" vibe all over interface.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/YouTube-TV-Ro... - this is best case scenario, 2 whole thumbnails fit on the screen. And depending on category (selected on left) it might be just one - just imagine it truncated at the place right support bracket is.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
It was mostly panic. As in: it didn't apparently affect revenue in any way, but content creators always check view stats/graphs for their own videos to see how well each of them is doing. So sudden drop made YT the main suspect. It didn't help some changes to video visibility for "children" profiles was pushed at same time.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
You are a bit late with that idea: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lithuanian-man-sentence...
euLh7SM5HDFY··on Europe is locking itself in to US LNG
Nuclear is as dead as a great technology can be. A few more incremental improvements in solar and battery industry and nuclear won't be profitable even in theory, to say nothing of construction cost overruns.

Reactors are only good at providing baseload but that isn't how grids operate anymore. Renewables are too cheap, if a power plant can't drop output fast enough it is punished.

euLh7SM5HDFY··on How People Use ChatGPT [pdf]
Yes, but only if the users can't move to competition. Just look at YouTube, there were relatively few ads until all other video sites were dead.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year
Linkedin lost their anti-scrapping suit: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharysmith/2022/04/18/scrapin... but it seems since then they were able to successfully appeal that decision.

Regardless - requiring an account to read anything, even a "free" one, totally changes whole situation. Even when sites terms of service are limited by local law.

euLh7SM5HDFY··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
I choose to believe HN flame wars are still 100% organic. It is "just" immigration from Reddit. Ars Technica also has more trolls in comments under any Musk related topics.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on Why our website looks like an operating system
> Firefox only recently gained an option to put tabs on the side

regained. And I don't think it was a long break at all. tree organization for those side tabs, now that took a lot of time to regain, after they ripped API used by TreeStyleTabs extension.

euLh7SM5HDFY··on iPhone Air
I searched the gsmarena and it only lists 3 modern phones:

- Sony Xperia 10 VI

- Sharp Aquos sense8

- Ulefone Armor Mini

With the last one being the only one that is actually small, the former are just "not that big".

euLh7SM5HDFY··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
> that we should lower the speed limit until there are 0 deaths from vehicle accidents

We totally should. I mean it isn't even controversial idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero . If we start with "all traffic related deaths are excessive" then trying to get rid of them in any way possible is only natural. Shame that 2nd amendment fans will be against any requirements for gun owners, event if they are similar to European commercial drivers tests.

Psychological test before buying a gun? What a heresy.

euLh7SM5HDFY··on We all dodged a bullet
The sheer volume is the issue. Recent XZ backdoor shows it can happen to everyone. I am pretty sure JS has most packages, updates and contributors - and it makes it the best ecosystem to target. That anemic standard library doesn't help of course, but 2FA and package signing is required for all package repositories, here and now.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on No adblocker detected
> Websites are willing to host and organise a vast number of content because that'll attract an audience for ads.

That hasn't been true for decades. In a way the race to bottom has already finished, we are at "100% clickbait" stage. I checked it very carefully and both Android build in "news" page and Microsoft's equivalent in Win11 Weather&News Widget are just that.

euLh7SM5HDFY··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Sometimes the answer really is: it is a monopoly and it doesn't matter what they do.

They have all the eyeballs. All creators that got fucked over YT stay on the platform if their accounts are restored. And who can blame them, where are they going to go, Vimeo?

euLh7SM5HDFY··on Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru
Sadly many restaurants already make same assumptions with QR code menu replacements. And the worst thing is they keep them despite everybody hating them.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot
It isn't just code, all AI models need to train on equivalent of low-background radiation steel, before the nuke was detonated(or ChatGPT was released to public).
euLh7SM5HDFY··on No place in children's hands: <16s in UK to be banned from buying energy drinks
Poland issued similar ban with 16mg/100ml as limit - matching coffee and Cola/Pepsi. Most energy drinks on market were at 32mg/100ml level, with few uncommon ones at 40mg/100ml.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on No place in children's hands: <16s in UK to be banned from buying energy drinks
Well parents were talking about sugar rush for decades, while no research supports existence of such effect (hyperactivity) in children.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on Anthropic raises $13B Series F
Bubble will only burst when market runs out of money or new model releases provide little to none improvements. Or someone actually creates a real AGI. No matter how low that chance is, the FOMO among investors must be crazy.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on Salesforce CEO confirms 4k layoffs 'because I need less heads' with AI
Word `headcount` is from 1913, it is nothing new.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on Israel committing genocide in Gaza, scholars group says
That "for this news" qualifier is important. I trust their reporting on most topics, but hating Israel is probably only thing that Muslim countries have in common and it will have an impact no matter how much they claim independence from Qatar government.

Still, I guess any source is better than Israel paid "There is no famine in Gaza" ads, that YouTube displays between investment scams.

euLh7SM5HDFY··on Search engine referral report for 2025 Q2
This is total domination, other engines are literal rounding errors. And this isn't a new thing. So it is weird that anti-monopol investigations into Google were so anemic so far.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s
I was under wrong impression that it doesn't. They really muddied the water with those other "game-key cards".
euLh7SM5HDFY··on Intel Patents 'Software Defined Supercore'
As bad as it worked out I don't think Itanium tried to break Amdahl's law. And that is how I understand this magic multicore execution of single-thread code.
euLh7SM5HDFY··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
> Everything from banks to Netflix and others

I have unlocked bootloader. That's it, I don't even have enabled root account. One app refuses to work anyway: McDonald’s. I actually can't decide if it is more funny or scary.

euLh7SM5HDFY··on Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address
Isn't that actually worse option? I mean, I don't know about BTC but there are multiple instances of attacks with fake QR codes placed over parking meters. And last time I was looking for QR code generator for some random website the first one I found one "looked to be working", but actually quietly replaced the URL with own link shortening service.