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I use another nickname on the Internet.

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darkwater··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
Mmmh no? 90kWh battery packs are not that common. An M3 or MY LR AWD have an 82kWh. Some Mercedes and some Chinese model have a 100+kWh battery but the most common setup is between 60 and 70.

Anyway I agree that in emergency conditions it can go a looong way for a house.

darkwater··on Show HN: A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights)
This would imply they have infinite development capacity
darkwater··on Goodbye from Salon
Have you studied a master degree in every field you read casual information about? For hard science matters, sure, they should, or at very least be very connected to the field to have a very good understanding of it, critical thinking to smell out the bullshit revolutionary researches and a network of actual PhDs working on the field every day that can help them getting to the core of the topic. Apply the same concept to all the other fields, even the not hard science ones, and you may end up with a web of news and information outlets that you can believe.

Again, this is an ideal scenario, I know, but IMO there is nothing that makes it technically impossible to achieve.

darkwater··on Goodbye from Salon
> How do you expect journalists to be able to figure out the truth?

And how are YOU expected to figure out the truth? Journalists should be akin to scientists and researchers: specialized in their field, with better connections and expertise and be able to follow a trail to reach ground truth. Now, can and will be they fooled? Absolutely, and there should be still some peer-review of what they publish.

Also this is an ideal scenario, and it's not what happening right now, or at least it happen only for a handful of media outlets all over the world. This model still support (and expect) having biased publications - I mean, it's just how we humans are - and you as a responsible citizen are still required to look at least at a couple of sources and form your own opinion.

I do agree with you that the truth tends to come out at some point because it follows the path of least resistance, but sometimes the lie can be so well written that it takes decades for the truth to come out.

darkwater··on Goodbye from Salon
> Now if you want to read about e.g. Ukraine/Gaza/Iran/etc, you can read first person accounts from people on the ground, get imagery of things seconds after they happen, and so on.

That's the good side of the Internet (and smartphones) and what all of us early adopters always said the Internet will be great for. But then there is the other side of the coin: fake news, fake account, coordinated disinformation campaigns from foreign state actors, bad taste pranks etc. Some of those existed before with classic journalism as well but the scale at which things are now done was simply impossible before.

So, having journalism and journalists as a trusted source, and filter, that can already digest and filter out the fake from the truth are still needed. Or even more than before, I dare to say. The issue is that there are too many monetary incentives to not act like that.

darkwater··on Show HN: A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights)
I bet they do that as well but I also think that if they have to choose between inference speed or "intelligence" they would choose the latter.
darkwater··on Search for everyone
Thanks, I always mix them up!
darkwater··on Search for everyone
Looks like a shortcut (shebang) in the search text to send the search to Google Maps instead of Kagi Maps
darkwater··on Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out
You can have subscriptions up to 150 seats with Anthropic.
darkwater··on Kitty 0.50
I mean, I share the sentiment, and IMO they should support at least the BSDs (there are official FreeBSD ports for both Kitty and Ghostty but no mentions of them in both websites)
darkwater··on Kitty 0.50
Automated session restore might make me go back to Kitty from Ghostty.
darkwater··on Kitty 0.50
> Also funny/sad: both call themselves 'cross-platform', but then don't support Windows (only various UNIX variants).

This still qualifies as cross-platform though. Cross-platform doesn't mean "all the platforms" or "all the platforms with the biggest market share in the segment of the application".

darkwater··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Jody Foster?
darkwater··on Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
Which IMO can also be stated as that saying that goes by "If you want to go faster, travel alone. If you want to go farther, travel together".

There must be a middle ground between setting the bar so high that you will find only the diamonds and setting it so low that almost every rock out there will pass.

darkwater··on OccupySaaS
Wow, it really looks like a cat jumped on my keyboard :( sorry for the typos/missing words.
darkwater··on OccupySaaS
And how you need to accommodate your business to work with it, learn a proprietary too, do training, ask for new features or bug fixes and hope at some point they will be implemented, or create workaround them, all while paying each month a hefty fee. Oh and pay somebody to tackle negotiations when the contract expire comes in, or throw away everything and spend even more human hours to migrate off it when the price is really draconian.

But hey, it gives a living to many HNers so it's good!

darkwater··on Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
Where? I had a xyz for a few bucks in PorkBun and it just renewed for 15$ now. Also, a domain is an ongoing expense.
darkwater··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
I don't think this apply to most UST projector nowadays. I mean, operating lifetime is probably still an issue, fan noise while higher than a TV (which doesn't have it) is not an issue anymore, heat.. well, come close to my (old, ok) OLED LG TV and you can still warm your hands (although not like the previous plasma one I had, that's true). For the setup I don't know exactly but there are online shops that gives you the 1st setup for free (at the cost of doing the unboxing for you). Also probably nowadays with an LLM almost anybody that care enough to research and buy a projector can do it, I guess.

Yes, I want to buy a projector this Black Friday (Hisense PX3-Pro).

darkwater··on Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM
The linked interview in YouTube has sama saying basically what the article states, you can go and watch it. And I think it sparks a discussion worth having, here on HN.
darkwater··on Sam Altman Thinks You're Wasting DRAM
Why has this been flagged?
darkwater··on Infinite Mac: BeOS
Which model are you using? If Anthropic/OpenAI aren't you tripping any "cyber" blockage?
darkwater··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Isn't store of value something that keeps up with inflation? I put 100$ today, which can buy X, in 20 years I can still buy X with that, while 100$ can buy just X/2.

Otherwise I just use the dollar bill as the store of value

darkwater··on Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal
Saving one memory...

I took note of your suggestion, next time I will write the README in the voice of da-luce/astroterm README.

darkwater··on Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS
Can you tell me which division (i.e. 2.1) and specific point you are referring to? Sections seems to jump 3 by 3 from one page header to another
darkwater··on If IPv4 Were Land
As an Italian, I'm astonished by Italy.
darkwater··on Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS
The issue seems serious but the part about Australia and 000 that would ban an attacked device seems the typical LLM-being-too-anal paragraph, and completely lacking common sense.

Maybe I'm wrong and naive but given that the AU law was done to force people move forward from 3G only phones because the network was being shutdown and 000 moved to 5G (I believe), it's a law for operator to contact their customers still using an old phone and migrate them to a newer one. I doubt they will block automatically the number if you are under that DOS for a few days in a row.

darkwater··on The Last Deploy
Hey this is really impressive! Just played for 15 minutes and even if it's probably vibe-coded it's really well done! Congrats whoever did this!
darkwater··on We won't "just hang out"
The original poster actually talk about their singular experience, rather than a general overview. Even worse, they apply their feeling about how the future would be on their own past experience, arriving to the conclusion that the future will then be bleak.
darkwater··on We Won't "Just Hang Out"
What you say can be in the right direction, but that doesn't mean that the linked piece has a really, really oh but REALLY narrow perspective, even among the developer/HNer type of person. Because not even for the average person here the only way to meet people is due to the code they (or other) write.
darkwater··on Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok
Yes, there are. A popular protest (and even riots!) should come entirely or at least in the vast majority from a sentiment spread across the people. If it's 500 youngsters that come out of the blue following a campaign orchestrated most probably by a foreign state actor, then it's not legitimate.

Yes, we could start doing verbal and mental gymnastics about how an external actor could be legitimately interested to try and drive the political landscape of a country one month before elections, sure. But it's not the point here.

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