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NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars

Tommstein — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:23:38 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-01-nasa-regains-contact-mini-helicopter.amp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078669

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# Comments: 141

New comment by Tommstein in "1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets"

Tommstein — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:58:59 +0000

Reminds me of seeing Putin bragging a few months ago about how Russia has more nukes than the US/NATO/whatever. Well yes, you better hope so, because if shit hits the fan, you have to take on basically the entire free world by yourself, whereas the entire free world is aiming everything they've got at just you.

New comment by Tommstein in "1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets"

Tommstein — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:43:46 +0000

Do the trajectories between fixed locations change very often?

New comment by Tommstein in "Mistral looks set to challenge AI frontrunners Google and OpenAI"

Tommstein — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:35:23 +0000

chat.lmsys.org has a zillion models you can use.

New comment by Tommstein in "An Indian airline just place an order for 150 more 737 MAX planes from Boeing"

Tommstein — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:53:01 +0000

Gotta imagine Boeing is giving some pretty massive discounts on them at this point.

New comment by Tommstein in "Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat"

Tommstein — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:38:20 +0000

Yup, I too use Phind sometimes, and it's amazing. Plus if I want to chat with approximately any model known to man, there's chat.lmsys.org and labs.perplexity.ai. Microsoft thoroughly shit the bed by taking a narrow opportunity to get people to move to Bing as an opportunity to instead go "hey, let's blow this on trying to force people to use Edge!"

New comment by Tommstein in "My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4"

Tommstein — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:18:54 +0000

Considering all the open models that already exist and are yet to be created before all the rulings and appeals are done, that toothpaste ain't going back in the tube.

New comment by Tommstein in "Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat"

Tommstein — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 01:44:26 +0000

Too late, they blew their one shot. Ain't no one who tried it when it was new and hyped and was told that they couldn't use it since they weren't using Edge setting reminders to go back occasionally and check whether Microsoft has finally pulled their head out of their ass, it just instantly ceased to exist for them.

New comment by Tommstein in "Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat"

Tommstein — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 01:30:17 +0000

I remember going to check it out, and them refusing to let me try it unless I used Edge and/or a Bing account (don't remember exactly and don't care). And that's how they blew their one shot to get me and hordes of others to give a flying fuck about it.

New comment by Tommstein in "OpenAI is working with the US military now"

Tommstein — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 01:04:49 +0000

It's unlikely that any of them are Ukrainian.

New comment by Tommstein in "OpenAI is working with the US military now"

Tommstein — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:54:48 +0000

> The military forces of Russia are not paper tigers.

If there's anything that their gloriously failed sneak attack on Ukraine has shown us, it's that yes, yes they are. Imagine if the most advanced weaponry they were facing wasn't small amounts of slow-coming ancient hand-me-downs employed by people who have barely even trained to use them . . . .

New comment by Tommstein in "OpenAI is working with the US military now"

Tommstein — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:36:44 +0000

> USA is a large closed economy. China is a large open economy. I’m simplifying, . . . .

Yes, "simplifying" to the point of getting it completely backwards.

New comment by Tommstein in "Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement"

Tommstein — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:21:20 +0000

> This cannot be repeated enough. It’s harmful to almost everyone to allow sideloading on iPhone. Power without the knowledge to use it responsibly results in actual real world harm. This may sound paternalistic but it’s what it is. I’m all in for a developer mode with a knowledge/competency check, choke full of warnings, make the user wait x days before it is enabled, whatever. But don’t allow it, not in a way a scammer could tell my grandma “oh yes we need to use that feature behind the warning to refund the funds to your bank account, now please tap accept…”

Most people don't want to live in a lowest common denominator world dumbed down to the point where even the stupidest/most gullible person one could ever imagine can't possibly screw up.

New comment by Tommstein in "Is There Any Benefit to Multivitamins?"

Tommstein — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:34:38 +0000

Yeah, because once you're exposed to food that's actually tasty, who the hell wants to eat vegetables.

New comment by Tommstein in "Is There Any Benefit to Multivitamins?"

Tommstein — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:27:37 +0000

> Veggies are great. Tasty . . . .

You will find that that is . . . not a universally held opinion. Otherwise everyone would stuff their faces with them.

New comment by Tommstein in "OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon"

Tommstein — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 06:25:28 +0000

> Ok? What's so bad about speaking Russian? English isn't my first language, I have no attachment to it. If Russian had become the lingua franca of the world I'd have learned that instead.

whoosh

New comment by Tommstein in "OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon"

Tommstein — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 04:11:24 +0000

> I just don't have faith in US political and cultural stability anymore, and as such I don't have faith that the constitution will be upheld . . . .

You can have faith or lack thereof in whatever you want, but I would like you to provide one single example in history where the President decided to give the military unconstitutional orders (as in legally acknowledged at the time to be unconstitutional, not "I don't like it so it's unconstitutional") and the US military sided with him instead of the Constitution.

New comment by Tommstein in "OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon"

Tommstein — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:59:50 +0000

> To counter this polemic comment with a more serious one: the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 attacks was a central watershed moment in history that lead to a massive shift in the public opinion concerning the US military politics in many countries (and has stayed quite critical of it since then) - including lots of allies of the USA.

Nice try, but no. Iraq was bullshit, and even we protested it ourselves, but Afghanistan had the support of basically the entire world. Many of those allies you claim don't value our military anymore pee themselves a little at the thought of being left to fend for themselves by us leaving NATO and ceasing to massively subsidize their defense (e.g., the wailing and gnashing when Donald Trump was threatening to take us out of NATO).

New comment by Tommstein in "OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon"

Tommstein — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:13:05 +0000

Then you will be pleased to learn that the US military takes an oath to the Constitution, not to whoever happens to be the current President. Exactly because the dangers of assholes assuming the Presidency isn't some kind of genius insight that you're the first person to ever consider.

New comment by Tommstein in "OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon"

Tommstein — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:08:32 +0000

"10 out of 10 dictators disapprove of the free world improving their defense capabilities!"