> It all happened today. Only 15-20 pics total
think about the distribution for "number of pictures a new Instagram user posts on their first day"
then think of how far of an outlier your behavior was.
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think about the distribution for "number of pictures a new Instagram user posts on their first day"
then think of how far of an outlier your behavior was.
because do I believe that some of the manufacturers are unable to ship a "disable location data" checkbox given a 2-year timeline? sure.
but do I believe that every single one of the auto manufacturers is unable to meet the 2-year deadline? no, absolutely not.
what seems more likely is that most of the manufacturers were able to meet the deadline, but a few of them don't have their shit together and weren't able to (possibly only for a subset of models)
and what should happen from there is the compliant cars get updated and can be sold, and the ones with updates that are behind schedule get pulled from the market until the update is available.
and like, that's the "free market" at work. if you write better automotive software that you're able to update more quickly, you'll be able to sell it even when requirements change. if you write bad software that's hard to update, you're going to end up losing sales because of it. and then companies that write better software will tend to succeed in the long run.
in particular with this regulation, it would be a significant black eye for a car dealership to say to a customer "you can't buy that car...why not? oh, well it tracks your location and phones home with that data. and that can't be turned off...to the point that their engineers had 2 years to add a checkbox disabling the feature and they couldn't do it"
so what happens instead is the automakers put up this united front where they try to insist that unless the law is changed to suit their demands, they will stop selling all cars across the entire state. which, no, fuck off, that's bullshit.
they should update the software to comply with the law. and if they can't do it, they should admit "yeah we baked location collection so deeply into the software that even on a 2-year timeframe we couldn't ship a simple checkbox that allowed disabling it".
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/automa...
> A group representing major automakers warned on Tuesday that car companies may be forced to halt sales of both new and used vehicles in California on July 1 unless the state delays vehicle technology rules that aim to prevent perpetrators of domestic violence from tracking survivors.
> ...
> The 2024 California law requires automakers to set up a clear process for drivers to submit a copy of a restraining order or other documentation and request termination of another driver's remote access within two business days. It also mandated that carmakers enable drivers to easily turn off location access from inside the vehicle.
from that I was able to find the law in question: https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb...
> The bill would, beginning on July 1, 2026, apply this provision to vehicles manufactured prior to January 1, 2028, that have connected vehicle location access, and have the capability to receive software updates, as specified.
with those extra details, this "Carmakers say they'll leave CA..." headline is egregiously misleading.
but also I have zero sympathy for the carmakers here.
to start off with, the portion of the law that takes effect today only applies to vehicles that can receive software updates. so threatening to stop all vehicle sales, both new and used, is absurd. it is grandstanding at best and a form of hostage-taking at worst.
next, the law was passed in Sept 2024. they've had almost 2 years advance notice of this requirement. that should be plenty of time, even taking into account automotive software engineering having longer development cycles than a webapp.
> On 30 June 2025, Lowe launched a political organisation named Restore Britain to advocate the deportation of all illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom, protecting British culture and restoring what it describes as "Christian principles"
> ...
> In line with Lowe's previously expressed view that Nigel Farage was "watering down" Reform's policy on the deportation of illegal migrants.
the UK has the Conservative Party (Tories), Farage's Reform UK is to the right of them, and this guy's "Restore Britain" group is to the right of that.
and through that lens, read this section of the the executive summary [1]
> In analysed court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in group-based CSE cases bore distinctively Muslim names; an expert estimate places the actual proportion of gang members nearer 95%. These figures describe convicted offenders in the analysed cases — not communities as a whole.
they're wrapping it in weasel words, but this is far-right propaganda aimed at convincing people that Muslim people commit rape at a rate hugely disproportionate to their population size, in order to manufacture consent for anti-immigration policies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_sexual_deepfake_scandal
> An analysis of 20,000 images generated by Grok between December 25, 2025, and January 1, 2026, showed 2% appeared to be 18 or younger, including 30 of "young or very young" women or girls in bikinis or transparent clothes. A Reuters review of Grok requests over 10 minutes on January 2nd found 102 attempts to put women in bikinis. A separate analysis conducted over 24 hours from January 5 to 6 calculated that users had Grok create 6,700 sexually suggestive or nudified images per hour
x dot com the everything app is a website for Nazis and pedophiles and Nazi pedophiles that also happens to have microblogging and news feed features.
> That’s not a rewrite. That’s a free lunch.
> The use case is narrow but real:
AI slop.
nineteen people have been criminally charged. including seven people who were not at the scene at the time of the shooting. [0]
you can have whatever subjective opinion about these prosecutions that you want. but at least try to get the underlying objective facts right.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Prairieland_ICE_detention...
if the pattern holds, on Sunday evening we'll have some good news about "negotiations making progress" or "ceasefire but this time we'll actually cease firing" or whatever, with the goal of boosting the stock market for Monday morning.
the article quotes one tech leader.
> Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm, told Fortune that smart glasses are the leading candidate to replace smartphones
it also says "according to a new report from Fortune" and then links to the report [0] that is more than a month old.
oh and it's not actually a "report" it's excerpts of a podcast interview that the "Chief Content Officer" of Fortune did with the CEO of Qualcomm.
> For example, you’ll be walking around with glasses, and you’re going to see something you really like. You’ll say, “I’d like to buy this. How much is it on Amazon?” Or, “Can you render how I’m going to look with this on?”
I am begging "tech leaders" to realize that people do things with their phone other than buy shit.
I'm scrolling on my phone and see a funny meme. I say "haha look at this" and show my partner my phone's screen.
can I do that with smart glasses? no? OK then, smart glasses aren't going to replace my phone.
I don't care if the smart glasses are able to give me a "curated shopping experience" or whatever other euphemism they come up with for "it's an ad but we've convinced you that you enjoy looking at it". if it fails the "haha look at this meme" test it has absolutely zero chance of replacing the smartphone as the quintessential device that everyone owns.
0: https://fortune.com/2026/05/18/smartphones-days-numbered-ai-...
I can't view the link because it's behind a login wall, but the first thing that comes to mind is that GLP-1 drugs aren't covered by most insurance plans and cost several hundred dollars/month out-of-pocket.
so unless I see otherwise, I'm going to assume this is finding "being employed is highly correlated with having $500/mo in disposable income"
> However, there’s also a third path for teams that want more control and flexibility without adding operational overhead. With Spacelift, you have all the tools necessary to deploy your IaC without the bloat of app deployment build tools. So check it out today for a free trial and a custom-tailored personal demo!
of all the AI-generated content marketing blog posts I've ever read, this is one of them.
...do you think that same commitment might have shown up in other ways in her parenting? such as in the foods she fed her child, or the activities she encouraged that child to do?
man, I remember when I used to come to HN because the average intelligence level of the comments was higher than it was on reddit.
de-clickbaiting - taken from the first sentence of the abstract, [0] here is the problem the paper identifies:
> The performance of multi-turn, agentic LLM inference is increasingly dominated by KV-Cache storage I/O rather than computation.
also, the headline is clickbait: "Fable 5 wrote a Windows kernel in 38 minutes"
and then halfway down:
> That 38-minute core was deliberately minimal, and it is worth being precise about its scope. It booted and passed its in-kernel self-tests, and that was the whole of it. There was no user mode and no way to load or run an external program. The threads, scheduler, and dispatcher it built existed to drive the kernel’s own self-tests, not to run software. It was a nano-minimal NT-shaped kernel, not yet a system anything could run on.
but I guess the LLM that slopped this blogpost together decided "nano-minimal NT-shaped kernel" would have made the headline less interesting.
> If building the next generation of security agent fleets sounds like your idea of fun, my human is hiring.
I miss the days when sometimes a blogpost was just a blogpost, and not content marketing for something.
0: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21455655/microsoft-window...
> This is the same distinction GroundEval makes for question answering agents.
> GroundEval treats agent behavior as something that can be tested against a state contract.
> That is the class of failure GroundEval is designed to catch.
this is an ad shaped like a blog post
this "article" is just recycling a Twitter post.
but at the same time, I don't trust this author to come up with a better explanation for anything to do with fertility or birthrates.
her byline at the top of the article:
> a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life
and then buried at the bottom of the article:
> a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
yeah, the consequences are that the law in question gets overturned.
you're not arguing for enforcing existing consequences, you're trying to make up a whole new set of consequences.
people get extremely emotional about the topic of firearms, so let's take what you're saying and apply it to a different context, and hopefully you can understand how ludicrous it is.
FDR signed an executive order [0] for internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry. it was challenged in a case that went to the Supreme Court [1].
SCOTUS upheld that executive order as constitutional. but let's imagine it had gone the other way, and been struck down as unconstitutional.
with the "consequences" you're proposing, a decision striking down EO 9066 would also imply President FDR must go to jail, wouldn't it? after all, he violated the Constitution. that is an insane outcome - a 5-4 SCOTUS vote could send a President to jail?
the Constitution clearly lays out methods of punishing elected officials - impeachment and possible removal by Congress. in your zeal to defend one tiny sentence of the Constitution, you're inventing out of whole cloth a completely separate way of punishing elected officials, one which would itself be unconstitutional.
if your answer is the National Guard, that is ahistorical, because the modern National Guard was created in 1903. [0]
the "militia", as it existed at the time the 2nd amendment was passed [1] was:
> each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted)
so if you really want to hang your hat on "the militia" then the 2nd Amendment means women and non-white people aren't allowed to own firearms, and men over 45 need a permit of some kind?
there's a lot of debate to be had about firearms laws, but grammatical nitpicking on this level is really kind of pointless. there is even debate about whether an extra comma changes the meaning [2].
another source you can look at is individual state constitutions. in my home state of Washington, for example [3]:
> The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.
drafted in 1889, and could not state more plainly that it applies to individuals.
historically, it has always been an individual right. if you want to try to argue that modern firearms mean the right should be subject to more restrictions, go ahead. but don't try to rewrite history in the process.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_Act_of_1903
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_Acts_of_1792#Second_Mi...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United...
3: https://leg.wa.gov/state-laws-and-rules/washington-state-con...
uh-huh. what provision in the Constitution authorizes this, exactly?
is there anything in contemporaneous writings (Federalist Papers, for example) where someone advocated that a reasonable separation of powers would be "Article 3 judges should have the power to send legislators to jail as a side-effect of ruling that a law is unconstitutional"?
you can argue about the 2nd Amendment all you want, that's one of the oldest pastimes on the internet. but arguing that legislators should be thrown in jail for passing laws you don't like is flashing a big neon "I'm a crank" sign.
are you trying to get me to pay for "AI credits" even though the model is running on hardware I own?
- have a mute button for the background music.
- there should be a gas pedal and a brake, rather than the car going forward at a constant speed unless I hit the brakes.
- the car should go straight, unless I turn. if I don't do anything near the exit of a roundabout, sometimes the "default" behavior is to exit the roundabout, sometimes it's to turn and continue within the roundabout.
frustration with the last point was enough for me to give up trying to play it. I'm sure the LLM that vibe-coded this thinks the controls make perfect sense, though.
in general:
is this trying to make a point of some kind about the design of the interchange? the "Inspired by online discussions of the Kirkland roundabouts" text sort of hints at that but it's unclear how.
is the point that it's overly complicated? or is the point that it's actually not that complicated, in response to people criticizing it? I can imagine it going either way...but the poor controls mean that it's not really effective at making either point.
different roundabout / intersection types would make this much more interesting. I've driven through the "diverging diamond" interchange of I-5 in Lacey [0] before, and it was a bit confusing the first time but now doesn't seem any more complicated than any other busy highway intersection. or, add a before & after comparing the old Kirkland interchange design to the new roundabout.
0: https://wsdot.wa.gov/travel/traffic-safety-methods/diverging...
have you considered...checking it anyway, no matter how good it looks?
as has been covered in multiple comments elsewhere in the thread, the "banned" books that are checked-in to the repo are examples that were used because they're in the public domain.
putting hypothetical words in other peoples' mouths like this seems like it must be a pretty exhausting way to try to make a point.
quoting from the article:
> I think the idea hosting banned books specifically came to me after having read Ben Brown's short story Library. It's been a while since I read it, but if I recall there are characters in the story who maintain a "library" which acts as a digital archive of creative works, owners manuals, 3d models, etc. Things that others might find useful or interesting that you wouldn't want to lose should they be somehow wiped from the Internet.
the purpose of a project like this seems to be not just "here's some banned books" but rather "here's some banned books that I think are worth sharing / reading". if you think Mein Kampf belongs on that list, just say so directly.
but also the premise of your comment is wrong, because Mein Kampf is not banned at all: https://www.amazon.com/Mein-Kampf-Adolf-Hitler-ebook/dp/B002...
all 4 of the books that are checked-in to that repo are old enough that they're in the public domain. I looked at Call of the Wild and it has a title page saying it came from Project Gutenberg, I assume the other 3 likely did too.
rather than jumping to conclusions about the author being influenced by a "psyop" I think there's a much simpler and more boring explanation - they didn't want to check copyrighted ebooks into a publicly-accessible Codeberg repo.