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ivewonyoungon Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation

They didn't "invest". The Dems gave Intel free money to invest in fabs. The next President said the US public got ripped off by that and got a 10% stake "for free" to try and make up for it.

It was worth $8.9 billion when the US govt got it "for free". It's worth $23B today, even after the big drops recently. How is the US public worse off?

ivewonyoungon BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant

US car makers can be cheaper too if they put workers in slave-like conditions, even aside the Chinese govt subsidies and investment.

One example from Brazil since that's the topic:

> Brazilian prosecutors have filed a lawsuit accusing electric carmaker BYD of human trafficking and keeping its workers in “slavery-like conditions” in its biggest market outside China.

> The investigation found the Chinese workers were brought to Brazil under false pretences and their visas did not match their jobs.

> Prosecutors said the workers were found working in “slavery-live conditions” and with "minimum comfort and hygiene”, calling them victims of international human trafficking

> The workers were forced to sleep on beds that did not have mattresses and as many as 30 people shared a bathroom, MPT alleged.

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/byd-china-ev-sued-b...

ivewonyoungon Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880

There wasn't really a political angle with Apple, but the coverage of Tesla and SpaceX changed dramatically in most of the media after Musk switched sides during early Covid after a CA legislator told him to get out of CA and said F*k Elon Musk. Since then it's been a constant stream of negative stories and witchhunts that similar companies who do the same things are not subject to.

ivewonyoungon Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880

They do it because it gets clicks and upvotes on places like HN and Reddit, almost never see a positive or neutral news article about Tesla on there. SpaceX successful launch news on Reddit would have like a 65% downvote ratio to suppress it, and it works.

I guess this headline not saying "Elon Musk's Tesla" or "Elon Musk's SpaceX" in a negative news article is a slight improvement compared to places like CNN.

ivewonyoungon "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math

Huh, India was socialist.

ivewonyoungon Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot

It makes it true in court, which is the only thing that matters for this discussion.

ivewonyoungon Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot

And for good reason too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

ivewonyoungon Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot

Wrong. https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/75/00.001.00...

> "Pedestrian." Any of the following:

(1) An individual afoot.

(2) An individual with a mobility-related disability on a self-propelled wheelchair or an electrical mobility device operated by and designated for the exclusive use of an individual with a mobility-related disability.

(3) A personal delivery device.

ivewonyoungon Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot

No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

You couldn't do that to a mute person, an infant or someone's pet, what makes you think it's legal. At least if it was a mute person you could try to claim you didn't know they were a mute, with a robot it's straightforward that you blinded it on purpose because you knew it couldn't respond.

ivewonyoungon Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

Depends, did they actually block mail delivery and did they do it on purpose in your hypothetical?

ivewonyoungon Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

She admitted that her intention was to block the robot and she took actions in furtherance of that, and that she wasn't trying to pass the robot.

ivewonyoungon Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

So you can get a notification when the milk expires.

ivewonyoungon [dead]

This is misleading, according to comments on the earlier HN story.

The Cloudflare data is showing the bot traffic from the Yandex crawler, which identifies itself as a bot(like Google search bot).

The data apparently does not show malicious bot traffic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042093

ivewonyoungon How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

> In areas where theft was particularly rampant and losses were as high as 83 percent, according to Tata, the companies took a different strategy. These pockets of Delhi were predominantly occupied by low-income families. Tata Power, and later BSES, worked to improve the water supply for these residents and provide educational opportunities, such as instruction in reading and writing in Hindi as well as financial literacy. These efforts focused on the women, who were at home more, and paid them to collect electricity payments from their neighbors. Bill payment rates from these areas are now on par with those of other parts of Delhi

This is... interesting on multiple levels.

ivewonyoungon EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon

Those would hurt legacy auto much more than Tesla, which is why the last admin who had a lot of legacy auto union donations banned them. If anything Tesla will benefit from the charging infrastructure created due to a lot more EVs on the roads.

ivewonyoungon Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

> 16GB RTX 9070

What's an RTX 9070? Do you mean the RX 9070 or RTX 5070?

ivewonyoungon Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

The whole point of the plan is to remove some of the incentive for an invasion, thus making it less likely.

ivewonyoungon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

The issue is that it only goes in one direction of partisanship.

ivewonyoungon Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)

I believe that's new public debt per annum.

ivewonyoungon xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout

They actually think Musk bought SpaceX. If you try to correct such facts on Reddit, you get downvoted and/or permabanned by mods. Same on BlueSky. Sometimes even on here, it's a religion.

ivewonyoungon xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout

The issue is only one side of the bias makes the HN front page. Absolute foaming at the mouth nonsensical "articles" about Tesla with terrible predictions, sometimes just outright fake news that someone just made up which BlueSky, Reddit, BlueAnon and HN just lap up, which cheapens HN.

ivewonyoungon Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

There are different kinds of tedium that LLMs automate, being a hobbyist doesn't mean you see value in all of them. Removing tedium that you personally find uninteresting or boring actually accelerates the hobby because now you're able to get past the tedious parts instead of giving up or delaying doing them. That does not mean that everyone finds those parts boring.

Even before LLMs came along a lot of hobbyists were using high level languages, linters, IDEs etc. instead of handcrafting assembly or machine language. Those tools increased the capability of hobbyists to build what they find interesting.

ivewonyoungon Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

>At one point I was collecting posts I found where LLM boosters explicitly mentioned how it interacted with their ADHD.

Care to share it?

ivewonyoungon Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share

Tesla buys batteries from CATL.

ivewonyoungon A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency

That's 102 characters, HN's limit is 80.

ivewonyoungon SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]

The more you accelerate early instead of later, the less fuel you have to subsequently carry to get to the same speed so it's more efficient.

ivewonyoungon Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

They do have some of those.

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-c...

ivewonyoungon Qwen 3.8 Max Preview

> is wildly successful with legions of programmers virtually demanding access while abandoning ChatGPT and Copilot in droves

Do you have a source for that? Codex went from 5 million users to 9 million users in the past few weeks since GPT 5.6 released. It was so popular that Claude was forced to extend Fable access by a week and then permanently for some plans.

ivewonyoungon The Second Life of Sanskrit

Lithuanian underwent fewer changes than other European languages languages from the same root language that begat all the proto-Indo-European languages. So it shares a lot of similar words with Sanskrit which is extremely well preserved.

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C4D22AQGncdnVV2H6Mg/fee...

Other languages like English mutated too much so it shares fewer similarities to Sanskrit.

ivewonyoungon Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee lower stress, depression and impulsivity

That tracks with even decaf coffee having the positive effects in the study.