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And we're officially going down the drain with linux / command line:

``` #!/usr/bin/env claude-run --permission-mode bypassPermissions ```


Claude Code supports a set of flags to control behaviour such as permissions, and both `--permission-mode bypassPermissions` and `--dangerously-skip-permissions` are examples of those.

The claude-run helper supports passing in those flags supported by Claude Code itself that are relevant to a shell-scripting like context.

It also adds a couple of convenience flags (`--aws`, `--azure`, `--vercel`, `--vertex` for cloud API key use).


I'm very skeptical of any company that just 'pops up' and makes a bunch of claims that will shake up the industry.

I doubt they'd sell to endusers, but not having any partnerships with established brands with sales figures is a big red flag.

No mention of manufacturing capabilities either so I think it's just hype (or worse a rug pull for early investors)


if you look at the history of the lithium ion battery [1], this is exactly what happened, except from a single man. none of the existing manufacturers could stomach the shift to something new, except for sony, which needed a better battery for their camcorder, eventually resulting in a nobel prize.

[1] https://youtu.be/AGglJehON5g


No company involved in lithium ion batteries just popped up out of nowhere.

Whittingham worked for ExxonMobil. Akira Yoshino worked at a joint venture of Toshiba and Asahi Kasei. And Yoshio Nishi worked at Sony.

They were all giant well-established companies.


Plus, every major battery and car company is chasing solid state battery technology as the holy grail. And lots of startups.

When I was buying lithium ion cells a few years ago for a custom off-grid battery build, CATL cells had the best reviews and testing results around.

They were founded in 2011 as a spin-off from ATL, itself founded in 1999 by a Chinese billionaire (Robin Zeng). They definitely didn't pop up out of nowhere.


Some poking around suggests it's a subsidiary of "Verge Motorcycles", which are electric and have much more of a web presence.

Agreed. But you can supposedly book a test ride on a Verge motorcycle with this battery.[1] Verge has three stores in California, two of which are in Silicon Valley.

Base price $35,000 with the good battery.

Solid state batteries have been working for a while now, but they're still far too expensive. Mercedes has one demo car. Ducati has one demo motorcycle. Maybe they just decided to accept the high cost and sell a high-end product.

[1] https://www.vergemotorcycles.com/


Yeah, I’m wondering if it could be a Tesla strategy of starting with the something imperfect but niche.

If the product is on the market and you can buy one and walk out the door, I feel like claims can easily be validated or invalidated with a tear down.


Not even a teardown. Just a few charge + discharge cycles, measuring the energy.

I'm not sure the test rides are for the version of the bike with this battery. The bike already exists with a more conventional battery pack.

I've had a brief test ride on a pre-production version of the Verge TS. All seemed OK but I thought the handling seemed weird - maybe due to the rear tyre size and geometry.


Let's wait until Q2 when the first bikes with ssb would roll out

They didn't just pop up. Oems & their sister company Verge are already using their axial flux motors. And you can order the latest Verge motorcycle with the solid state battery today.

Um... Did nobody see the Verge motorbike which is now shipping as standard with this battery? And the three companies which are also deploying the new battery tech? If this is a scam, it's definitely a very very sophisticated one.

The Verge was discussed at least 2 times, most recently yesterday, on the Wheel Bearings podcast (which I enjoy for the simple motorhead banter). https://overcast.fm/+AA7tJqdxHkE

Robbie from SAE International, who is of the hosts, and an avid motorcyclist, is impressed with the bike and the promise of SSBs. I only ride bicycles, can’t comment on the bike itself, but thought to share and widen their audience. It was kind of a mini shallow yet “deep dive”. It doesn’t seem to be mentioned on their own site for this episode, but the chapter in Overcast is the last one, linking to https://sustainablecareers.sae.org/article/donut-lab-verge-s...


"Now shipping?" I do not see evidence of that. I am not even convinced the one you can test ride has this battery tech. They announced this same bike at least a year ago with regular LIon batteries.

I don't know about a scam, but the EV skateboard they're using has been available for other companies to use for a few years, while the other two companies share the same leadership as Donut/Verge and appear to be founded within the last few months. The battery may be great, but the multiple company launch seems a bit of a marketing gimmick.

not too sure of your point. The skateboard has been available with conventional lithium ion batteries. What they're saying here is they've just upgraded it to the new solid state ones. Fairly logical.And I'm totally mystified by the shared leadership comment. What shared leadership?

According to press releases, the CEO of Donut/Verge founded Cova and ESOX in October/November. They're newly formed companies that haven't done anything yet, so I don't really think it would require much sophistication to say that three companies have already adopted this technology. Again, this doesn't say anything about the "realness" of the battery technology, I just wouldn't rely on the idea that multiple companies adopting it means that the technology is real, since right now it's tending to look more like businessmen throwing out multiple shell startups in different industries to lend weight to the announcement.

Hmm..not really. Cova Power is a joint venture between Donut Labs and Ahola which is a huge Finnish freight company formed in 1955 - which makes sense since they are both based in Finland. The involvement of the University of Oulu suggests that this is clearly a Finnish project. I wouldn't be surprised to find some Nokia money in there as well. ESOX is just the military product arm of Donut Labs, which I guess has connections with the Finnish military.

How would you do it, instead?

One thing that most people have missed is that in the Verge small print they discuss the range of the motorbike as being 217 miles for around town driving, which plummets to 127 at 56 mph per hour on the highway. That seems quite a big drop to me, but there again I'm not a battery expert.

Not necessarily a scam, but it smells like more hype that reality. For example, the web page boasts "2000+ test rides complete", which basically says nothing.

I hope this battery tech and the statements on the web page are true (370-mile range from an electric motorcycle!), but I'm not writing any checks just yet.


See you in 2027 with the same prediction!

I don't think this is how it would have played out at all.

I'm no expert on IPv4 or IPv6, but if they had designed IPv6 to be able to route fine to IPv4, we'd be OK.

It would at least give people an upgrade path where their old stuff that couldn't be patched / updated and were stuck on IPv4 could be slowly killed off in the path of least resistance down the dependency line.

This 'dual stack' approach doubled up on everything up front and meant we all had to do both during the transition (which has taken 30 years).


IPv6 explicitly supports all sorts of transitional technology, including being able to map v4 addresses to v6 that are used with translation gateways connecting from v6 to v4 (widely used in mobile networks to provide any v4 access).

That still requires that if you have used BSD Sockets before getaddrinfo was added (or like many, didn't learn about it for years) then you had to rewrite the parts of your application that are responsible for handling connections.

So the very thing you're advocating for exists


Yep I suspect this too from the benchmarks. The linux kernel doesn't send the instructions to the right cores and likely sees them all as the same and not 'high power' vs 'low power' cores

Article quotes `40 megawatt-hours of installed capacity.` - Surely this can get you pretty far from Tasmania to South America.

apparently, 40MWh of capacity is enough to travel 40 nautical miles. The distance between Tasmania and South America is around 6,500–7,500 nautical miles.

For comparison, a wide body airliner needs ~0.15MWh to travel 1 nautical mile.

A wide body airliner doesn't carry "up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles".

It also does so in a medium where the main drag force is induced by air rather than water, which is probably a comparably significant factor

It also needs to beat up that air enough to make the resultant forces overcome gravity acting on the airliner whereas the ship just gets to float there.

Apples to orages.


Yup.

Or to structure it a the earlier comment: for comparison, it takes me about 0.000065 MWh to cycle 1 nautical mile.

That's a couple of apples.


You also aren’t doing so while carrying 2100 passengers sms 225 cars, I imagine.

Plus they are going to get very waterlogged cycling that nautical mile.

Some dedicated cyclists will cycle in any weather.



I would be extremely surprised if the ship were designed to use 100% of its capacity in one way of its intended route.

The drag on a vessel is orders of magnitude larger than the drag on a car.

_continue without supporting_ is a button i like to press

As is disabling javascript on a site to get past this FE non-sense.

Otherwise, i'll just get the information / content elsewhere.


As it should be with all things.

I pivoted away from google search (duckduckgo instead primarily) but even then, the majority of "information" I'm looking for goes instead to chatgpt.


There are a lot of AI generated shorts around animals.

A common thing I see is a baby animal needing rescue by a human (which it does) and it comes back later on and rewards the human with a gift of some kind it thinks is valuable.

I watch a few podcasts as well and there are more that have their scripts generated and voiced by AI


It's awful :(

I saw a video I wanted to share with someone, but it was part of a compilation. So you just search for it, right?

So I searched "cat lets brick fall onto mouse" and got... 100000 AI generated videos of cats with bricks? And cats with mice and cats being rescued by people (like you said). But not the video I was looking for.

We've totally passed the point where real information is impossible to find anymore. Video generation was really out of reach / delayed for a long time, and honestly all of those probably have a digital watermark in them that could be detected. YouTube could have prevented this if they'd have just been more proactive with detection and filtration. A simple "AI generated" and "not AI generated" filter would have prevented this.


Detecting AI is and will always be reactive.

It will always be subject to the delay in detecting the bypasses of the latest AI techniques.


> I saw a video I wanted to share with someone, but it was part of a compilation. So you just search for it, right?

There's something with these compilations. Almost as if deliberately AI slop is mixed in to numb the public to it, or for some AI startup to testdrive on an unaware public how good their stuff is.

Take compilations of lightning strikes for instance. There's always a couple that are just too spectacular or just unbelievably. Like a ball lightning going across the street.


It’s mostly content farms based out of Asia - Vietnam, India, Bangladesh etc pumping out these stuff to make a quick buck. It’s like 5 min crafts but now easier and faster due to AI and no personal overheads.

I see a lot of educational animal videos that copy the content of BBC Earth only to replace David Attenborough voice with AI, and it unreasonably irritates me.


That's an improvement as before people would abuse real animals to fake seemingly wholesome "before-after" videos by showing snippets in the wrong order.


Source?


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-fake-...

Another common theme is to kill rare animals to stage cool photographs. However, I don't assume AI slop will (fully) replace that cruelty, unfortunately. But maybe using AI slop will be easier than animal abuse/killing so that those business models run dry for the most part.


Thanks. That’s horrible, I didn’t even think about the possibility before seeing your post.

My feed is full of AI generated shorts summarizing books, animes, movies. The original piece name is never mentioned, and it tells the story in a very descriptive way, such as "The man was alone in the woods when...".

> My feed is full of AI generated shorts summarizing books, animes, movies. The original piece name is never mentioned, and it tells the story in a very descriptive way, such as "The man was alone in the woods when...".

I've seen these, but I don't think the ones I've seen are AI generated (except sometimes for the video thumbnail). They tend have appropriate clips from the movie matched to what's being described, and I'd be surprised if an AI model could do that.

My guess is they're human generated attempt to profit off a movie while avoiding copyright enforcement from the movie's owners.


I think you need to start clicking "do not recommend similar" or whatever this option is called.

> A common thing I see is a baby animal needing rescue by a human (which it does) and it comes back later on and rewards the human with a gift of some kind it thinks is valuable.

I've posted an article on this matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121555


Cats getting totally excited to see their owner, because they dearly missed them. Cats filmed in night cam dropping weird animals from the forest on sleeping boss. Olympic athletes, gorgeous, but not real. Countless disasters where people die, generated. Youtube shorts is a pile of steaming garbage. As long as it sells, your brain may rot.

Worst are imho on the regular long vids side, the geopolitical advisor deep fakes, giving background to the news. Some with well over a million followers. Many of those have the same "we are a fan of the real person" disclaimer, many have no disclaimer.

And no one in the comments, of which many look fake too, notices it is AI. That is the most scary part.


> And no one in the comments, of which many look fake too, notices it is AI. That is the most scary part.

Many who notice won't bother commenting, because most who notice know how pointless that is (counterproductive in fact: a comment is an interaction, any interaction is a positive for the "content"). Those that do notice and comment are either drowned out by

• those too numbed on the brain to care, let alone notice, who lap it up, and praise it

• bots (either those being used to interact with the clip to drive it's interactions counters, or more general spam bots)

or if there is anyone/anybot monitoring the negative comments are removed.


Ohh the deep rabbit hole I went on this. There are so many variations of this like using trademark toys like Labubu, Spider-Man etc. I don’t suggest anyone looking for these unless they want their short feeds to be populated with AI nonsense.

Imagine our human ancestors claiming IP infringement when one guy copied fire making from another.


A perfect illustration of why IP should never be regarded as a moral right. It exists for the benefit of society as a whole. Thus the laws creating it need to be tuned with that as the explicit (and only) goal. Mickey Mouse law must not be permitted.


Maybe this is just me, but the second I read your comment I envisioned a “caveman” sitcom.


Well during prehistoric times (1960's) The Flintstones had Zippo lighters that rubbed two tiny sticks together to light their Winston cigarettes. The tobacco brand of their major sponsor.

Naturally that could never have been legitimate until the patent on the Zippo had expired ;)


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