HN front page is about 25% LLM written blog posts at any given time.

There’s no rule against submitting LLM-written—ahem, “cleaned up my notes”—articles, just comments.

Badly-written articles are still unwelcome on HN, wether AI-enhanced or not, and obvious LLM smell is definitely lowers the quality of an article. But it's true, we don't ban every article with any evidence of AI-assistance.

Since we're 10 years on at this point, I feel pretty confident saying the plateau to my eyes landed somewhere between the PS4 in 2013 and Pascal (GeForce 10-series) in 2016.

I've kept playing games and upgrading my GPU every other generation, and they're still fully utilized, but I can't really see where the additional compute and money is going. My biggest visual upgrade during that time was actually going from LED to HDR OLED which is something that requires virtually no additional processing power.

A bicycle and moderate fitness is the ultimate in self-reliance but you never heard them promoting that either.

Bicycle doesn't carry a family of 4, or carry loads of dirt or pick up lumber or tow a trailer.

Also my e-bike needs more maintenance than my EV. Go figure.

carry a family of 4 where? if you rely on that other location exisiting, you are not self-reliant.

tow a trailer where? see above.

Pick up a load of dirt or lumber-- how did those materials get to the pick-up point?

And the road you are driving on, where did it come from?

Being conservative doesn't mean I don't want roads or businesses to exist.

I was very pleasantly surprised at how much my single cargo e-bike can handle. It is big, nearly the size of a tandem bike, but it served me well for 5 years of not having a car.

Curious about your maintenance needs. I have a guy that comes out once a year for service and tunes it up for me. After 3 years, I replaced the chain. I've upgraded to hydraulic brakes by the same guy. Other than that, it's been smooth riding. Or are you saying your EV needs so little maintenance that even the low maintenance on a bike seem high?

I haven't had to do any work on my EV in the 2 years I've had it.

I'm due for a cabin air filter change in another couple years.

So yes the bike is costing me more in maintenance! It is hard to compete with 0.

Does the eBike have a monthly payment plus a required insurance policy? The EV still costs way more to own which is the most important factor

Definitely, the car costs more.

But speaking purely in terms of maintenance, costs are nearly 0.

Assuming I don't but a pot hole, the tires will last me 7-8 years at minimum (I drive a bit under 3000 miles a year).

Brakes are barely used with an EV.

Insurance + tabs is my largest cost.

I bought my EV cash a few years back when prices were super low thanks to hertz offloading their fleet.

Maintenance should be amortized. The first time you do brakes and tires it will cost more than 5+ years of ebike maintenance. It adds nothing to the conversation to pretend otherwise.

It does carry a family of 4 in a lot of places. I've seen entire clothing stores set up on bicycles in places like Thailand.

>carry a family of 4

Why are you carrying them? They should be self-reliant too.

2 bicycles can.

You have an old Steam.app stub, download the latest one and rosetta will not be necessary.

If you had rosetta it would be able to self-update to the new universal binary, without it you have to do this one update manually.

I downloaded from here and I instantly get a pop-up about requiring Rosetta.

https://store.steampowered.com/about/

Odd if true. It's clearly a universal binary, not sure what's going wrong for you.

$ file steam_osx

steam_osx: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64]

steam_osx (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

steam_osx (for architecture arm64): Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

Not the OP, but I just downloaded the latest stub from an M2 MacBook Air using Safari and it appears to be an x86_64-only binary:

  % file /Volumes/Steam/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx 
  /Volumes/Steam/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx: Mach-O universal binary with 1 architecture: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64]
  /Volumes/Steam/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

This appears to only be in the Steam beta - the version available for download still requires Rosetta. There doesn't seem to be a direct download for the beta - you have to opt into it after installing Steam.

CMD+I on Steam.app says: "Application (Intel)".

% file steam_osx

steam_osx: Mach-O universal binary with 1 architecture: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64]

steam_osx (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

And how we ended up feeding roughly a third of US-grown corn to cars.

Here's a CLI plugin that automates this: https://github.com/wowu/docker-rollout

Another vote for this - we’ve been using it for years without issues.

All the top smartphone manufacturers hit that bar, at least for their mid and high end phones. The focus on apple is misleading and weird.

This will only impact bottom barrel phones.

Exactly. Apple and Samsung phones account for 90% of the market and are exempt fro mthis bill. So just how much ewaste will it prevent?

Remember ios 10.2.1? Batterygate?

"Remember the time Apple fixed iOS so the iPhone would run instead of crashing under low voltage conditions" remains, to me, the most inexplicable of HN's mass psychoses.

Remember that they did it secretly and denied it for ages, only to backtrack and use this excuse when it was actually proven they were slowing the devices.

Dont let the marketing spin white-wash your long term memory of an event.

That was 10 years ago. Are there any other instances similar that are more recent?

Same here. I can see why LLM-driven voice assistants makes sense to product people in the abstract, but introducing non-deterministic behavior into a device I primarily use to help with timekeeping and control lights is nothing but a regression.

She does herself a disservice by outsourcing that skill. One day she might have to actually talk to one of these people.

She's 50 years old has a doctorate in pharmacy and has worked as a hospital pharmacist for two decades.

I don't say this as a "gotcha", but more that even with all that experience she still finds it beneficial and helpful.

That makes it more sad, to me. Someone with those credentials should be able to communicate with their colleagues effectively. I wonder if she used to be able to.

It appears Hacker News disagrees that social skills are valuable skills. Mea culpa, I should have guessed.

There's something ironic about complaining about other people's social skill while you couldn't be bothered to make a point without sounding dismissive and condescending.

Navigating tough conversations takes time, attention, and mental energy. I’d rather a pharmacist spend that time on catching another dangerous contraindicated combo of drugs for a different patient. Actually, AI should soon be checking for that, too.

Looks like a complicated and expensive way to avoid running copper. "Up to 1Gbps" is not confidence inspiring, if you really can't put holes in your walls I'd try a powerline kit first for 1/5th the price

I used powerline before. From my experience its really bad, unstable, slow.

What did work pretty well though is MoCa, basically reusing coax/antenna cabling. I get a pretty stable connection roughly equivalent to 2.5G.

It depends on the topology of your circuits. If you can get both adapters on the same circuit that is ideal, same phase is often okay at reduced speed. Different phases or having other complicated stuff in the way like subpanels is probably what you were dealing with.

MoCa is fine, but if the coax was retrofit replacing it with proper ethernet cable isn't too hard.

This is the YT video I saw about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2FbzCyiNr4

He used different transceivers and got 10Gbs

That is an ad, I'm not surprised he had good results.