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topper-123··on Every company should be owned by its employees
True, but could the incentuve be structured around the individual employee’s coffee shop (which would mean divulging the i individual coffee shops financials? That could make each employee look better out for the profitability of their coffee shop.
topper-123··on Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]
I looked at the leftmost chart on page 20.
topper-123··on Tesla Q2 2024 Update [pdf]
Well, the growth rate for vehicles is negative (q2-2024 compared to q2-2023), so batteries having higher growth rates is not saying much...
topper-123··on What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)
Yeah, I was not talking about this case in particular. For example, various international treaties are often very vaguely formulated, which has the concequence that practical law making gets done in the courts (which is too undemocratic). I would prefer the judiciary in such cases to e.g. rule that the parliment needs to make clearer rules and until that happens, the court adjourns the legal case.

This would move both power and responsibility to the parliament from the courts, which IMO would be healtier for democracy long-term.

topper-123··on What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)
Not specific to the Chevron deference, but I’ve always felt that judicial interpretation should be conservative, i.e. legal rulings should aim to not change society without a previous law change by the parliament. This would mean that the power to change how society works should lie with the parliament, not the judiciary.

I’m aware thus would also block some changes that I agree with, but longer term I think this would be much healthier for democracy.

topper-123··on Study implying divorce more likely when wives fall ill gets axed (2015)
Not OP, but to me it sounds line p-hacking aka bad science as well: If you slice a dataset en enough subsamples you will very likely find random correlations. That’s the nature of these kinds of analyses and we should be sceptical of conclusions that are based on suce analyses.
topper-123··on Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
Negative prices do incentivize storage, because storage will alliw sellers to sell at a time with higher prices (i.e. when demand is greater relative to supply).
topper-123··on Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
Isolated this is a zero sum game in favor of buyers (someone has ti take the electricity), but longer term, this shows there needs to be better greater electricity storage solutions available, i.e batteries or similar.
topper-123··on NumPy 2.0
Yeah, operating on strings has historically been a major weak point of Numpy's. I'm looking forward seeing benchmarks for the new implementation.
topper-123··on Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
One aspect of that time period is they absolutely idolized the romans. A lot of education at the time consisted of learning latin and at the same time people were well aware that only a fraction of the classical texts had been preserved. I find it very believable that they understood the significance of preserving and potentially unlocking these scrolls.
topper-123··on Tesla battle with Swedish unions spreads to Denmark
I agree. In general, european companies accepts unions, but in return requires its competitors are also be unionized. Tesla not being unionized is a problem for european car manufactorers as Tesla will have lower costs/more flexible work force.

Anyone know if the german Tesla factory is unionized?

topper-123··on Evaluating M3 Pro CPU Cores: General Performance
All true, but the same apples to the M1 to M3 comparison, and the architectural differences are likely even greater than between the M2 and M3.
topper-123··on Evaluating M3 Pro CPU Cores: General Performance
Still, the M3 is the first 3nm processor. It would be interesting to see it compared to the latest 5nm processor (the M2) to see the gain from die switch.

Perhaps not showing it means there is little benefit from going from 5nm to 3nm?

topper-123··on Sweden (Not Switzerland)
It’s more likely in spanish, where it’s Suecia vs. Suiza.
topper-123··on The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022)
The Let it be album is also from this session, thought Abbey road was the album that was released by the Beatles. Let it be was released later (after the band broke up) as a money grab from the studio without autorization from the Beatles (except maybe Lennon). Paul really disliked it because of the bad mixing and post-production applied by Phil Specter.

Some years ago they re-released Let it be, renamed as Let it be Naked. This time it was remixed and authorized by the remaining Beatles and ... it's really good. Much simpler, much clearer and without the soul-less violin sounds from Phil Specter.

I can recommend giving it a listen and compare it to the original Let it be album.

topper-123··on Conversation with Zuckerberg, this time we talked as photorealistic avatars
They should have waited for this and skipped the legless avatars.
topper-123··on China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan
Yeah, if you buy a house when you have little equity, your equity can go up manyfolds from the purchase, but at the risk that if you time the purchase badly, you’re in a bad spot for many years.
topper-123··on Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts
> If it's not a superconductor, it's the most diamagnetic room temperature material ever seen, by orders of magnitude.

If it’s not a superconductor, can it still be used for e.g. maglev trains?

topper-123··on Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery
IMO people mostly want longer battery span because current batteries take a long time to charge. Toyota has claimed that this battery will charge very fast, in which case range will not be as important as it is now.
topper-123··on Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery
What are you on? Having battery with 3x battery capacity will be an absolute game changer. This will do a lot of good, if it gets into production. For one thing, it will make EVs competitive with diesel, which will be s huge win for getting us of oil.
topper-123··on Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project
Can someone explain how cheating is avoided is this setup? Can’t people just give fake biometric data to this system?
topper-123··on LK-99
Lots and lots of CI is cpu limited, for one thing.
topper-123··on WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
A red flag for the employer should be that this means that Microsoft can also see what their employees are doing.
topper-123··on School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘mental health crisis’
IMO social media should age check by law. The problem with parental control is that it’s very difficult to say no, if the child’s friends are on socal media. Let the social media do age controls, by law.
topper-123··on Russia’s Nukes Probably Don’t Work – Here’s Why
While true, an interesting data point is that prewar Rissian spend less on its military than did Britain. This is in non-ppp dollars terms, but interesting nonetheless.
topper-123··on Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians
Yes. A good example of this is “Love me tender” by Elvis Presley. It’s melody is from the mod 1800s.
topper-123··on Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web
Korean can be written left to right or top to bottom, which is very cool.
topper-123··on CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg
Someone should do a followup on all the batteries break-troughs on the front page of HN over the last 5 years and count how many got into production.

Still, an announcement from a big company like this is a lot more credible than from research labs or small start-ups, IMO.

topper-123··on I wish GPT4 had never happened
> you need the human to figure out when that's the case.

Yes, but you will need fewer people. And thas is with the current level of GPT. If the GPTs proficiency increases, fewer and fewer people will be needed. That’s a problem.

topper-123··on How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps
I read that article. After a few paragraphs it goes:

“ And here’s 275 words about printers I asked ChatGPT to write so this post ranks in search because Google thinks you have to pad out articles in order to demonstrate “authority,” but I am telling you to just buy whatever Brother laser printer is on sale and never think about printers again…”

Cheeky, I like it (here, nor generally).

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