Hacker News: Epicism

New comment by Epicism in "Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash"

Epicism — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:58:33 +0000

That’s not the point. The point is if Teslas marketing led the driver to over estimate the car’s capabilities leading to him engaging in reckless behavior. He admitted on the stand that he was acting careless, that autonomous mode required supervision; however, he also admitted that he thought that the car would drive better than a human and intervene when required _based_ on Tesla’s marketing. When you look at Musk’s tweets and the Paint it Black video the jury agreed that it was not an unreasonable belief that was factually _not_ true and found Tesla 33% guilty of the accident.

The fact that Tesla purposely mislead the investigators and hid evidence was why the jury awarded such a large sum.

New comment by Epicism in "QuantumAccel: A High Performance Quantum-Inspired Logic Library in Rust+Python"

Epicism — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:00:22 +0000

Very cool!

New comment by Epicism in "Show HN: RustTensor: a Rust Library for Tensor Computation and ML Learning"

Epicism — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:59:05 +0000

Very cool!

New comment by Epicism in "Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search"

Epicism — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:36:17 +0000

Try LanceDB https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb

It’s based off of the data fusion engine, has vector indexing and BM 25 indexing, has pipes on and rust bindings

New comment by Epicism in "Rhai: An embedded scripting language for Rust"

Epicism — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:19:35 +0000

That’s very cool! I appreciate how you can simplify interacting with rust applications without rust programming skills.

New comment by Epicism in "Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object"

Epicism — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:52:53 +0000

More constraints?

New comment by Epicism in "M4 MacBook Pro"

Epicism — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:08:24 +0000

Steve Jobs was historically against gaming on apple devices and, I believe, went so far as to try to remove them from the Apple Store. Apple is only recently starting to introduce gaming seriously back into the platform.

New comment by Epicism in "Americans will be able to renew their passports online"

Epicism — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:46:09 +0000

Americans have passports?

New comment by Epicism in "Random access string compression with FSST and Rust"

Epicism — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 01:45:52 +0000

Thanks for the reply!

New comment by Epicism in "Random access string compression with FSST and Rust"

Epicism — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:30:48 +0000

Super interesting! I’m curious how this differs from InfluxDB’s German strings implementation https://www.influxdata.com/blog/faster-queries-with-stringvi...

New comment by Epicism in "A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters"

Epicism — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 01:59:47 +0000

Very cool! I was going to read up on bloom filters and this popped up the next day!

New comment by Epicism in "Vector: a Rust-based lightweight alternative to Fluentd/Logstash"

Epicism — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:12:40 +0000

I really want to like vector, but its lack of basic support for things like Windows logs is painful.

New comment by Epicism in "Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal”"

Epicism — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:49:22 +0000

Calling each new disaster the new normal is now the new normal

New comment by Epicism in "Startup CEOs learned engineering management from captain kirk"

Epicism — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:29:31 +0000

Agreed 1,000%. I recently re-watched the next generation with my wife, since I was a teenager and could not believe what an excellent leader Picard was. I am a Director at a big fork, consulting company, and I found myself using techniques that I saw in the show with my team to great effect.

New comment by Epicism in "Peter Zeihan hour+ presentation, geopolitics, ramifications on the world order"

Epicism — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 01:00:41 +0000

Thanks for posting. I watch everything Zeihan.

New comment by Epicism in "Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?"

Epicism — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:38:23 +0000

The end of the world is just the beginning by Peter Zeihan. It is an amazing walkthrough of the modern global economy and how it is changing based on changing demographics and politics. Highly recommended.