<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: vel0city</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vel0city</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:44:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vel0city" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vel0city in "Honda Civics and the Evil Valet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A number of other cars' infotainment systems are also based on ASOP. I remember downloading updates for my Hyundai which were also essentially Android images</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:24:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523890</link><dc:creator>vel0city</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523890</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vel0city in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There are 45 million Spanish speakers in the United States - in 1950 there were effectively zero.<p>This is either a bald faced lie or demonstrates an <i>extreme</i> ignorance of history. There have been tons of Spanish speakers in the United States for a loooong time. Before Texas joined the United States, Spanish was an official language, as in 1837 a law was passed to ensure all laws were translated into Castilian.<p>> Be it resolved, by the senate and house of representatives of the republic of Texas, in congress assembled, That in justice to that numerous portion of our fellow citizens who understand only the Spanish language...<p><a href="https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth45355/m1/99/" rel="nofollow">https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth45355/m1/99/</a><p>You think all these Spanish speakers just <i>disappeared</i> when Texas became a state?<p>You think there were also <i>no</i> Spanish speakers in the rest of the Western territories? No Spanish speakers left in the parts of Florida Spain originally conquered? No Spanish speakers left <i>at all</i> in the lands that became the state of California or Nevada or New Mexico?<p>> In 1980 the US was 95% white<p>More like 80% white. Even in the 1950s the black population was ~10%. If the black population is historically ~10%ish, how is the white population going to be 95% when we also break out other ethnicities? Strange how you're consistently overrepresenting white English speakers in your falsehoods. Interesting pattern you've got there.<p><a href="https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_101.20.asp" rel="nofollow">https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_101.20.a...</a><p><a href="https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/pc-14/pc-14-13.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/...</a><p>> The root of all western Ethnic issues are Zionists.<p>Ah, I see now. Hunch confirmed. Makes sense about why you tend to lie in a consistent pattern.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:55:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522313</link><dc:creator>vel0city</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vel0city in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If you let an LLM do all of your translation you're letting it interpret huge amounts of intent and context it doesnt (and probably cant) access.<p>Assuming lots of material local to the context one is wanting to translate is included, why <i>couldn't</i> it potentially access that additional context?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:21:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509569</link><dc:creator>vel0city</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vel0city in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right? Why didn't we think to just use Android Auto or Carplay in the 90s/2000s. We were all such idiots back then.</p>
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<p>The biggest negative about having slow clients using older, less efficient wifi generations is they end up making the network slower for everyone else who <i>could</i> be faster on that same channel.</p>
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<p>The minor wouldn't be the actual person entering a debt contract here, the parents are agreeing to be responsible for the debt. The minor is only an authorized cardholder.<p>Think business accounts. The name on the card might be some agent of the company but they're not directly responsible for paying the debt. The business is responsible for the debt.</p>
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<p>Its almost like there's some kind of risk in carrying around a pile of easy to use high energy materials, who would have thought.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:26:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495945</link><dc:creator>vel0city</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vel0city in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You must be confused with the Jeep recall where even parked cars just spotaneously catch fire.<p>It's insane to me how so many people bring up the idea of EVs catching fire when ICE vehicles are <i>constantly</i> having recalls for spontaneously catching fire.<p>I've had multiple recalls on multiple ICE cars advising me to not park the car near my house. I haven't with my EV.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489768</link><dc:creator>vel0city</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vel0city in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:55:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482586</link><dc:creator>vel0city</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vel0city in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I guess I'd rather it be used for this than just flared<p>I doubt this is really reducing the rates of flaring and leaky wells. Its just additional demand.<p>The biggest problem I've seen is they tend to build these somewhat close to residential areas with generation on-site. Often these power generation centers aren't right next to residential areas due to both air and noise pollution. But governments are often seeming to turn a blind eye.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:12:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481983</link><dc:creator>vel0city</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vel0city in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microsoft had trialed datacenters in tents nearly 20 years ago. I remember hearing about their trials at some talks back in the day. Crazy to look back on the dates here, felt like it wasn't that long ago.<p><a href="https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hyperscalers/new-from-microsoft-data-centers-in-tents" rel="nofollow">https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hyperscalers/new-from-mi...</a></p>
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<p>Yeah, there's ~40 of them in Dallas, and they're <i>highly</i> geofenced.<p>Seems pretty small for a platform they're so confident about.</p>
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<p>Its so good that's why they've got <i>tons</i> of robotaxis all over the place.<p>Oh, they only have a tiny fleet in a few cities which are still mostly monitored? Strange.</p>
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<p>> The Tesla Model Y maintained its title as the world's best-selling vehicle in 2025 across all powertrains<p>No, the RAV-4 won that title. Its also pretty easy to make that claim when you're only making practically two models of vehicles compared to most other companies with several models. A single car selling well isn't necessarily telling the whole story.<p>> Even the CT is the best selling EV pickup<p>Easy to do when 20%+ are being bought by the ownership's other companies.<p>The CT is a <i>massive</i> failure measured by their own stated expectations. They stated they'd sell somewhere between 250,000-500,000 units a year. They ended up selling only a bit over 20,000 last year.<p>FWIW, the F-150 Lightning outsold the CT for 2025.</p>
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<p>> If they were able (highly unlikely) to capture that market in the US alone through Satellite Cellular service, it would be huge revenue stream<p>There's practically no way there's enough RF spectrum to handle that many clients from even LEO. There's a reason why carriers are moving to smaller and smaller and smaller cells, and places like sports venues have highly directional antenna arrays to handle the number of active clients. Will there be customers? Sure. Probably a lot! Will it be an actually massive chunk of the overall subscriber base mostly using their networks? Not a chance.<p>They can't even get capacity up enough to support their rural customers on practically idealized antenna array hardware.<p>> Setting up data centers in orbit (easier said than done) would be another huge revenue stream.<p>What applications demand that kind of premium on cost of running? Why choose that instead of terrestrial datacenters? What's the overall use-case for why one should bother deploying their applications into a space datacenter? I'm genuinely asking. Aside from needing to ensure low-ish latency to the most remote parts of the world and being willing to pay whatever to have that, I don't get it.</p>
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<p>That sounds more like an issue with your relationship with your IT guy than OneDrive as a product.<p>Not necessarily blaming you for the relationship fault, but someone forcing using the software improperly isn't really a failure of the software.</p>
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<p>> Network drives mean no local retention<p>Technically speaking, Windows does support client-side caching on network drives. I've used it in the past for <i>a highly limited number of users</i> (read: me, on a personal share) and it works kind of like OneDrive/Dropbox/other cloud platform. But it's really rough and doesn't handle conflicts well.<p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/web-hosting/configuring-servers-in-the-windows-web-platform/offline-files-for-shared-configuration" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/web-hosting/configurin...</a></p>
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<p>Debris from space. Lots of rocks are constantly falling from space from all over. Sometimes they're big and make pretty lights in the sky as they fall, often they are practically invisible.</p>
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<p>Are Pringles in a can really <i>that</i> much more unhealthy for me than if I make the potato paste at home, fry them in oil at home, and toss them in lots of salts and seasonings at home?</p>
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<p>I'm not against state-run groceries, one of the best grocers in this country is operated by the federal government. Food deserts are a problem, and we already have tools to solve them.<p>But you're putting far too much weight on food deserts on "why do Americans eat so much junk food". 6% of Americans live in food deserts. I imagine <i>way more</i> than 6% of Americans regularly eat junk food.</p>
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