Hacker News: bardak

New comment by bardak in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

bardak — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:00:55 +0000

The American, and other auto makers, only manufacturers in Canada because the Canadian and American auto markets have been integrated for over 80 years. Removing Canada's access to the American market basically makes Canadian auto manufacturing uncompetitive since Canada isn't a big enough market to sustain a domestic auto market.

New comment by bardak in "My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?"

bardak — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:36:47 +0000

The thing that gets me is that the price of oat milk is so completely divorced from what it cost to produce. It's absolutely wild that oat milk, made with one of the cheapest bulk grains, is as expensive as almond milk, made with an expensive nut.

New comment by bardak in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

bardak — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:54:42 +0000

100% agree and don't think it will come to that but I won't completely put it past this administration

New comment by bardak in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

bardak — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:08:02 +0000

Go after the hosts, 99% of people won't be able to run this locally even if they wanted to.

New comment by bardak in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

bardak — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:05:40 +0000

It would be extremely heavy handed but the administration has sanctioned the International Criminal Court judges such that they basically have no access to the Wests modern financial system. I think domestic US providers would have to deal with different ways but someone like Herzner could easily be cut off from the financial system if the administration doesn't feel that they are adequately blocking the model

New comment by bardak in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

bardak — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:47:19 +0000

They could ban payment processors from processing payments to any hosts of GML 5.2, despite the open weights the vast majority of people will be using cloud providers to get access since it is to heavy to host for 99% of people.

This would be extremely heavy handed and probably end up accelerating the loss of the virtual US monopoly of payment network. The reast of the world isn't going to let the US dictate that only they get the frontier models whether their US made or otherwise

New comment by bardak in "The smelly baby problem"

bardak — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:44:38 +0000

Honestly the hardest part of changing diapers is when they get bigger and insists on wiggling everywhere while you are changing them

New comment by bardak in "Is it a pint?"

bardak — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:00:35 +0000

But usually when that is the case they will use glassware that has a 20oz line on the glass with room for the head.

New comment by bardak in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

bardak — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:55:04 +0000

Their constant treadmill of paid cosmetics, for lack of a better term, that no one was asking for and at least monthly Nitro beg screen is pretty indicative that they are having issues making revue and are desperately throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.

New comment by bardak in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

bardak — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:40:12 +0000

While we should never expect public transit to be self funding removing fares removes the ability for transit funds to scale with ridership, there is a reason that farebox ratios are correlated with ridership.

New comment by bardak in "Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow"

bardak — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:30:55 +0000

I still can't believe that Alberta is charging for COVID vaccines purely for political reasons.

New comment by bardak in "Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering"

bardak — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:21:05 +0000

I was wondering if Casey would end up a mention on this topic.

New comment by bardak in "The Quiet Driving Force Behind Rising Curtailment Costs in Great Britain"

bardak — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:04:35 +0000

> Same could be said for part of bus networks

The only part of municipal/ regional bus network that is suitable for privatisation in a high labour cost country is contracting out operations. Ticketing, route planning andscheduling all should be under a central governmental authority. There is a reason that, outside of London, England has some of the worst bus services in the developed world

New comment by bardak in "GPT-5"

bardak — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:41:32 +0000

I feel like we need to move on from using the same test on models since as time goes on the information about these specific test is out there in the training data and while i am not saying that it's happened in this case there is nothing stopping model developers from adding extra data for theses tests directly in the training data to make their models seem better than they are

New comment by bardak in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

bardak — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:45:36 +0000

The vast majority of "luxury" properties are just regular property that spend a marginal amount on nicer appliances and finishing.

New comment by bardak in "Who has the fastest F1 website (2021)"

bardak — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:59:04 +0000

Same here. It's not so hard, if your image isn't flat colours and has any "noise" use jpg.

New comment by bardak in "A Typology of Canadianisms"

bardak — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:59:00 +0000

The one subtle difference I've noticed between Canadian and American English is on school grades. American say "first grade" where as Canada say "grade one".

New comment by bardak in "What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512"

bardak — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:45:12 +0000

One of the biggest advantages I saw from the Raspberry Pi rp series for amateurs is they they have great documentation.

New comment by bardak in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

bardak — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:10:02 +0000

He would still be unbelievably rich even if Meta went bankrupt. He is in the unique position to have majority control of one of the world's largest tech companies and can pretty much use it to do what ever he wants. I doubt he cares much about Facebook past it's ability to generate money at this point.

New comment by bardak in "Coventry Very Light Rail"

bardak — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 01:29:46 +0000

Unfortunately the Coventry VLRT is all about aesthetics over actually transit benefits. If the they were concerned about being useful transit the vehicle would have capacity higher than an articulated bus. Instead the main benefit of Trams/LRT over buses, capacity, is sacrificed leaving no real benefits. You can see the same thing with the Obama ere streetcars in the USA where most of them proved no real benefits over the buses the run alongside them but at least they retained the capacity even if it was never needed.