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paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

no, he literally said 25,000. it's even on video: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/18/elon-musk-tesla-could-produc...

I mean, this is just another case of Elon issuing totally unrealistic claims to pump his stock since it isn't a formal press release. but much like all of his rantings and ravings on Twitter and I'd rather treat them as concrete promises since they have realworld economic effects and wide-ranging consequences

paimapion Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models

also the 'humans' are just scapegoats for organizational and institutional pressure to shorten judgement time to the minimum amount possible. you set someone up for failure, they will fail, and if you put all the blame on them, allowing organizations and leadership to continue as they are then you're guaranteeing that it'll happen again

Americans have a hard time thinking about problems and issues without making it all about individuals. no systems-level thinking to be found for miles (and I say this as a somewhat regularly frustrated American)

paimapion Allow Carriers on Planes

I mean, you're right about side crashes but I'm reading that the NHTSA didn't implement this until 2022. and regardless, if all that were true the infant mortality rates per capita from car crashes would prove your point

so what do those stats say vs Germany, Sweden, the EU average? all very easily searchable, no mechanistic theorycrafting required. how does the US fare? certainly not multiple times worse across the board, right?

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

I love the pro-Tesla crowd's selective memories. There was a $25,000 model they promised in 2020 - that's $32k in today's money.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-promised-25-000-ev...

if the $4k difference in today's money is nothing to you, I've got a Venmo you can donate to. I'll even ship you a decade-old GTX 1080 that's still functioning :)

paimapion Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models

I feel like any AI regulation passed wouldn't have enough teeth to rein in the NSA because not even the Fourth Amendment seems applicable to the agency. let's not forget the ex-post-facto legalization of mass wiretapping and surveillance [0] with both establishment political parties supporting it on 'national security' concerns [1]. whatever monitoring or testing they're doing today will be similarly hand-waved away in the name of security theater

this is just how the empire has always operated - we have always been at war with Eastasia

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/fact-check-obamas-misl...

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

this is a really good point. dealership lobbying is so weirdly under-covered and yet affects so much of our lived experience - from crash safety, to pedestrian experiences, to lemon laws. when I worked for the state consumer protection agency many moons ago, we had a drag-out fight with dealerships in the state legislature trying to advocate for having at least a nominal lemon law on the books. the original proposal would have protected consumers quite a bit - but it was quickly defanged with enough money flowing into the campaigns for the right rural legislators who sat on the right committees. I imagine this is the case everywhere with our legalized corruption system

paimapion Allow babywearing carriers on planes

I think this is very true. the general consensus from NCPS techs we've talked to is that the most likely fatal injury to a child is spinal - their heads are extremely heavy relative to the rest of their body in infancy so the 'safest' seats tend to be the ones that distribute kinetics away or absorb it (like rear-facing seats where the sudden 'stop' pushes into the seat rather than having the baby's head fly forward)

that said, I've also heard that the US standards for car seats is piss poor relative to the rest of the world's. something about how they only test one head-on crash at 35mph and then extrapolate all the data from there. Germany's ADAC is supposedly the gold standard and I can see why - their tests are intensely comprehensive and granular, in the way you'd actually want them to be, and many of the seats rated safe by American standards fail ADAC: https://www.besafe.com/en/safety-tips/tests-awards/adac/

if there were to be a plane-oriented solution, the last place I'd trust it to be taken forward is in the USA especially given how easily corruptible safety-oriented institutions are here

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

Teslas started out at 40k USD in mid-2010s money promising more affordable options that we're still waiting on (even companies like Slate will probably eat them up when they're able to ramp and gain a fanbase)

Chinese manufacturers are starting far below even the base of contemporary economy ICEs, this is another game entirely

one of the biggest reasons why they haven't taken over the US is because our infrastructure is decades behind. for most people to get a fast charge at home means they either need a new house or an electrical upgrade whereas chargers are everywhere in Chinese cities (even fast battery swap shops). given how balkanized transport authorities are (State's rights-to-not-work-together being in effect here) I suspect EV growth will mostly happen in urban centers willing to spend a little extra money on electrification rather than outfitting their police departments with milspec armored trucks

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

their total ledger might be fine but it's not like their R&D just came free out of the good will of thousands of people

paimapion Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

this is a classic confounder problem. I'm assuming the vast majority of parents who can afford 40k annual for their kids are relatively well off, have a lot of other disposable income, and the kid is never really lacking for any needs. put them in a public school and it's likely they'll turn out equally ahead for their grade

socioeconomic status (SES) is very often a huge confounder when it comes to anything from health issues, educational outcomes, and many other things. rich kids do better - the SES of the parents of Nobel Prize winners [0], young athletes [1], etc are all indicators of this

[0] https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/nobel-prize-winners-far-...

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S14668...

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

what's your objection to EVs? what are the alternatives?

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

so you'd treat an academic reference text on chemistry as just as prone to bias and as worthless as a reddit comment?

if you have other sources that talk about how great Toyota is, that'd be wonderful

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

you read the articles, correct? the ones where they are actively supporting climate-change denying, pro-January 6th Republicans who are actively working on repealing CAFE, emissions standards, and other climate protective standards?

also the accusation of 'vested interest' is very funny to me as someone who is proverbially hiding all his liquidity under a mattress (ie bonds) until this AI bubble pops and whose sources are 1) a non-profit and 2) a Union of Concerned Scientists blog

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

please, I beg of you HNers, maybe read the news instead of just going by your brand sentiment

https://www.citizen.org/article/driving-denial-how-toyotas-u...

> Over the last three electoral cycles, Toyota has become the top auto industry financier of climate deniers[4]. It has helped to finance campaigns of 207 climate-denying congressional candidates, more than twice as many as Ford and nearly 50% more than General Motors, the only other automakers with federal political action committees (PACs)

> [Toyota] is bankrolling an army of climate denying lawmakers and lobbying aggressively against emissions and fuel economy standards

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

at first, sure, but they've since donated large amounts of money to climate-change deniers who fight hard against electrification and emission standards

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/toyota-scrutinized-after-rest...

I do feel like y'all need to read the news more instead of just going by brand rep

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

https://blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmuth/why-does-toyota-oppose-c...

it's sunk cost on their hydrogen cell R&D - they want there to still be room for that instead of going with electrification but they have to diversify their portfolio to keep up with markets

> "Toyota in particular has been vocal that they are uninterested in making ZEVs available in California. [...] Toyota has invested in hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles [instead]."

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

based on what? there's so many sources noting their anti-EV lobbying

https://chargedevs.com/newswire/toyota-actively-lobbies-agai...

https://thedriven.io/2026/06/17/japan-car-giants-still-pushi...

https://blog.ucs.org/dave-reichmuth/why-does-toyota-oppose-c...

and here's their CEO going on a tirade about Japan's EV-adoption mandate: https://evannex.com/blogs/news/puzzled-by-toyota-ceo-s-anti-...

paimapion Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

and all it took was two decades and millions of spend in anti-EV lobbying before they finally gave in, huh

(also kind of wild to me that an EV focused blog wouldn't mention this a single time since Toyota is (was?) arguably one of the staunchest and most stubborn anti-EV manufacturers out there)

paimapion Fertility rate dropped over 50% within 10 years in Argentina

I'm looking at my screen making love to my partner with the express purpose of making a baby

- Sent from my Lovesense Gush 3

paimapion Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

Looks like approx 7 years ago was DeepL's first Series A - https://tracxn.com/d/companies/deepl/__mTFDDSjOlFbUE5DY_w1NW... - they got funding from btov and Benchmark

Benchmark is very AI-pilled: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-is-replacing-j... and is very bullish on it, too: https://gtmnow.com/benchmark-ai-startup-investing-chetan-put...

it also looks like DeepL went from using a CNN engine to an LLM in 2024 (coinciding with its $2 billion valuation and Series C) which is likely why it seems to hallucinate a lot more now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator#Translation_m...

paimapion DoorDash reaches $131.5M settlement with NYC for failing to pay workers

except this establishes case law and creates a template for other states to pursue similar cases (which looks like it would include actual reports to labor agencies for monitoring)

> The settlement goes beyond compensating for past violations. Going forward, as part of the settlement, DoorDash must submit detailed data reports to DCWP every month for three years, which the agency will use to monitor the company’s compliance with the law and the terms of the settlement.

paimapion 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

it's Oracle, 99% chance it's a 0-day lol

paimapion Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

*anti-social coping mechanisms

you can also develop pro-social coping mechanisms like open-mindedly talking to someone who opposes you and trying to understand their worldview because you trust that it might expand your own

but, yeah, I doubt pro-social traits are common at the top of any hyperstrict hierarchical organization like the USAF

paimapion Claude Opus 5.5

see what we need is another technocratic priest class that unaccountably decides who deserves access to salvation based on how much cash is paid out and how powerful the patrons are

paimapion AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

because the tooling is struggling to catch up and adapt. there's still no vetted all-in-one solution that does code review, charts quality metrics, ingests incidents, and writes tests. there could be but each solution would necessarily need to be so bespoke to a codebase that you might as well hire some AI-pilled QAs and come up with it yourself (which is my current job, more or less)

smarter companies are coming up with internal tools that dogfoods on itself which means vendors can't match specificity. but those are the companies where the CTO codes and contributes regularly, and are able to pull the strings across the company to get something like that running

I compare that to the last place I worked where the CTO hadn't coded in decades and was throwing spaghetti at the wall trying to figure out how to use AI. this meant we had designers/PMs shipping directly to prod and but for the sake of a very stressed out Staff Eng and I, they would've force pushed everything with zero testing. but even still, there were TPMs building out a central TPM dashboard to help with cross-team collaboration. and that was largely because their director was very good about getting all of TPM to buy-in, set up their specific configs, and adopt consistent roadmap templates

it all depends on if your leaders actually know what to do with AI or if they listen to some dumbass podcast by a barely-know-anything influencer to drive how they approach things and are looking for hail mary throws

paimapion MiMo v2.6

don't worry, we're prolonging retiring coal plants and building a lot more gas turbines to meet (and really exceed) capacity needs on a state-by-state basis and just completely abandoning the Paris Agreement and any clean energy goals

https://www.wabe.org/utilities-in-georgia-southeast-may-be-o...

https://cleanenergy.org/news/psc-approves-georgia-powers-dan...

https://www.smarterdigitalvirginia.com/post/the-big-bottlene...

just to name a few, there's a lot more I list out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700743

paimapion I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB

quite literally the fifth sentence:

>There were also SSH key files.

paimapion Grok 4.7

it's not truly tested until it plays a match or ten in Brood War imo

paimapion [dead]

if someone were to set up a little script to auto-populate emails with auto-discovered open-records laws per state and/or municipality, this effort might be all the more easier and have less friction :)

paimapion Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

I love this idea but I think the PE angle also means suppliers and vendors will charge them far less for bulk order and those suppliers/vendors themselves may be a horrible little mix of MBA-brained owner practices that actively upcharges small businesses who have far less negotiating leverage

I think the only way to do it is to have your neighborhood actively being okay with seeking local services something that a lot of neighborhood groups I frequent seem to be a big fan of (farmer's markets are an indication of this - if there's strong and regular FMs being hosted, there's people willing to burn a little extra disposable income for better, more reliable products)