I'm not sure if this is saying people were given a task and the option to consult an AI. When they did they were influenced by its answer.

Which is kind of duh? Of course. They have some cool language like calling the AI system 3 and calling taking advice 'cognitive surrender' but I'm not sure how this differs from asking your mate Bob and taking his advice?

That's one possible interpretation. Another possible one is people don't want to see HN become Trump, Trump, Trump and maybe some other story like the rest of the news.

Not sure how credible but iranintl.com has

>36,500 killed in 400 cities... Our Editorial Board has now obtained more detailed information provided by the IRGC Intelligence Organization to the Supreme National Security Council.

they are an Iranian opposition outfit funded but the Saudis. (https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198)

iranintl, yah that's an instant rejection.

There are zero verified sources of any mass killings by the Iranian government. In fact all evidence points to Mossad agents committing the mass killings of Iranian government officials as caught on video, including the wrestler that was just executed for killing a police officer with a machete, on video.

Any links to the on video bit? Most stuff on the internet seems to say he didn't do anything except protest.

It's not really that low end though. Cheap Windows laptops and Chromebooks start at less than a third of the price. It's more mass market.

I remember taking my Mac OS 7 laptop to the dealer because it wouldn't start up and they said it had crashed 273 times. It was a few months old.

Putin could have frozen the frontline a month or so in and declared victory. That probably would have been a smarter move there.

I'm not so sure in Iran.

Also I guess they could put a large battery at the charging station so it can take say a steady 200kw from the grid and be able to kick out 1500kw for ten minutes occasionally. That could also charge from cheap off peak electricity.

This is what everyone is already doing, even for relatively small and slow dispensers.

It's simply cheaper to have on-site batteries. It makes installation work with a smaller connection to the grid, and makes it possible to install chargers in more places without upgrading the grid connection.

Energy arbitrage is profitable on its own, so EV charging stations are almost just an excuse to get some land and a grid connection for more batteries.

> guess they could put a large battery at the charging station

BYD's megawatt charging does exactly that.

Tbe best part, the "large battery" uses the same battary on BYD cars. The same electric components, cooling system, etc.

Traffic congestion costs for electricity is going to get wild if we start stacking all sorts of random >= 1.5 MW demands scattered everywhere.

Imagine if we had a parallel information network that could coordinate the charging times of all these things in real-time.

This is what they already are doing, the article is behind a paywall so no clue if they say it there but you can for example see this article about it: https://www.etechvolution.com/p/byd-megawatt-flash-charging-...

Supercaps are viable for this sort of short term charge and discharge. The much maligned donut labs is suspected to be a license built Nordic hybrid supercap battery model

Much of the UK's decline from 1910 to 1950 was from spending its money funding WW1 and WW2. Hopefully we don't get world wars soon.

Plus the Japanese beating the British so badly all over Southeast Asia. This gave a lot of momentum to independence in Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and eventually India.

Thailand? From whom?

Quite.

Living in one of the alleged backsliders, the UK, I can't say things seem much different.

Did you submit any ID for the numerous services that now require it? Regardless of your answer, the fact they’re now asking for it is a problem.

The article seems a bit silly. Andressen has said he's not introspective, I guess as in "the active, conscious examination of one’s own mental, emotional, and psychological processes". The article jumps from not thinking about your processes to "lacking conscious experiences altogether" which is quite different.