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Not sure I understand your criticism.

Yes, bike bells are for pedestrians to hear.

Problem: Pedestrians today wear ANC noise cancelling, thus being unable to hear approaching bikes' bells.

Skoda: We made a bell with a frequency usually not cancelled by ANC, so these pedestrians still hear it.

Sounds reasonable to me.


> and of course the mild hearing loss that accompanies _any_ frequent headphone usage

curious, you got any citations for this claim?


"Loud" is a bit subjective, but in my experience most people make their volume far too loud. Even moreso if you're attempting to overcome the background sound around you.

The articles below discuss both volume and duration. It's also worth checking out the OSHA guidelines which pretty cleanly show the relationship between duration and volume. (ie, "safer" volumes still cause damage with enough duration.)

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-to-rock-out-with-ear-...

https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/2024/01/listen-headph...

https://www.cnet.com/health/wearing-headphones-right-now-fol...

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/noise/prevent/understand.html


From what I gather qwen is currently the undisputed local LLM king.

> The Islamic Republic of Iran should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons

Neither should Israel, right ... right?


wow you're like m&m or summin

On a tangential note: It seems the whole theater with the DoD is over for now, am I seeing this right?

Looks like you can disable it though:

https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

-> Privacy -> "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training"


Yeah, but it's a shitty move though - it should be by default opt-in, rather than opt-out. Imagine, you just continue coding normally consciously avoiding co-pilot only to find out that Github has been secretly training their models on your code, just because you forgot to toggle a setting off which was turned on without your knowledge, which they didn't even have the decency to email you about, but just posted on a blog no one reads.

I got an email about it.

Its sort of a moot point since the whole thing is for good will anyways.

They freely scraped licensed code and semi-private data across the internet and now they're pretending that they need to license anything.

If a court rules they had to license data in the first place then the whole industry would actually have to start following laws.


Doesn't matter, half of HN will still defend them.


Always baffles me why some people think and act like being proud of their state/country/race and criticizing its actions are mutually exclusive.


Because its actions are exclusively critiquable and little to commiserate.


Tell my fellow Americans this too.


> Doesn't matter, half of HN will still defend them.

And I would say half can't/won't speak about this. I try to stray away from these discussions sometimes because I feel worried that someone is going to take any comment out of context within these messages which is a bit of a strange way of self censorship actually and I feel like I might not be the only one. It's also worth mentioning that I have found this to be the case especially for Israel.

For example, I feel valid criticizing the current American Regime and Americans themselves would agree with me at a a much higher proportion/magnitude compared to Israel in which from my small sample bias of online acquaintances, I only had one Jewish (Living in America, not Israeli) person agree that Israel is doing some pretty horrendous things and although do take this with a grain of salt as something they told me but they said that Zionism and Antisemitism are effectively something comparable as within the Jewish religion, There is an idea of the world hating the Jews as being a pre-condition within Jewish religion for them to win within the end-times theology of the jewish faith.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog I think they were referencing this: Zechariah 14:2 states, "I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it." The idea is that the Jewish people will have no earthly allies left.


> There is an idea of the world hating the Jews as being a pre-condition within Jewish religion for them to win within the end-times theology of the jewish faith.

Just so we're clear, this is religious fundamentalism.


I'm quite convinced that Israelis have an edge in communication and socials.

And god forbid how easily you're labeled as anti semitic for bringing up facts about Israeli spying and lobbying in the west.

Hell, in Italy, neo nazi hooligans go protest for Israel with hundreds of police defending them.

Whereas genuine pro Palestinian protests (99 times out of 100 peaceful) met nothing but batons and condemnation.

Even the tv narratives about these events is disgusting.

It's clear the Israelis know how to do their job.


This site definitely has a cohort of completely unhinged war mongers. The same names (and a bunch of random new accounts) never fail to show up to defend genocide or any other atrocities being committed.


This board sure attracts hordes of alt right apologists and anarcho capitalists.

And in general a huge lack of empathy and obsession with power and money.

I guess it's normal given the coupling to the #1 VC incubator of the #1 country that obsesses over power and money.


You either find some of the most humble, down to earth, open source contributing people who value human life in it of itself within this forum who share as much knowledge/try to do good for the world, or you find people as you mention who completely disregard the previous ideals. There isn't much in-between.

I do think that there is some utilitarian aspect to it. Some people might genuinely believe that the losses to human livelihoods/human lives because of AI (yes even with these AI drones now with the deal @OpenAI), the end reality would still make everything worth it and within this distorted view of the future, they believe that everything happening in present is alright for the future and that itself can be used to propose some disgusting idea like eugenics which people might become okay with, as such.

And its very easy to switch somewhere within the past of a person being the former to the latter through the ladder steps of altruism to transhumanism to essentially the things we hear from AI hypebros. All the while, a benefit is that especially right now, selling AI sells for profit right now whereas people can question about the morality later/justify it through these distorted lenses that I mentioned.

Worth a watch, Can't recommend this video enough,

AI is a Eugenics Project : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SSxfa3da58


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Is it anti-semitism or anti-Israel sentiment?

Because if it's the latter, well, have you taken a look at their behavior recently? Their ethnicity/religion has nothing to do with why people condemn the state.


This exactly. Expressing a view that the Israeli government is causing massive harm to the world right now is not a view on an ethnic or religious group. There is a difference, but I have been noticing a strong attempt to try to link the two.


It is the shield behind which these war criminals hide, not caring that their behavior is causing an actual surge in antisemitism.


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Has Germany been bombing its neighbors lately?


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Indeed. But as you might notice, WW2 is almost a century ago at this point. Were they to do it in the present day, they would have to face present day criticism.

However, they don't do that anymore, which makes your whole attempt at false equivalency rather hollow.


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1945 and 2026 are though.

The reasons people dislike Israel today is because of their actions over the past few years.

But you know that, you just seek to distort and twist. It is not a conversation for you, it is an opportunity for hateful propaganda.


I don't think Ukrainian will appreciate your logic.


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Palestinian didn't start the war either. Read the Balfour Declaration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration


You think defending foreign influence by Israeli's in European politics is tantamount to defending against antisemitism?


This may sound like an insane take, but idc:

I swear people (esp here on HN) are actually blind to the weaknesses of Gemini.

I must be among the handful of people who know how thoroughly lobotomized any AI agent from Google must be given their extremely radical historical and contemporaneous practices of censorship.


I suspect those who praise Gemini use it mostly for JS/CSS/HTML because that's where it shines for me.

For complex code I have been having using Sonnet/Opus as usual with a mix of GPT5.3-Codex.


Does this car also come with an exterior?

I didn't see any.


> Does this car also come with an exterior?

technically no, since it doesn't come at all yet. It has yet to be launched. But the exterior is likely final or close to it by now.

Dripfeeding details in advance is a publicity move. It makes people hungry to see more. Expect to see it some time before launch in 2026.


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