Hacker News: correlator

New comment by correlator in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

correlator — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:27:18 +0000

Does this mean that when you disable, all labels are deleted, and when you turn it back on it has to re-scan all of your photos? Could this be a cost-saving measure?

New comment by correlator in "Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas"

correlator — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:00:36 +0000

That sounds really cool. The background does provide a lot of perspective on your views. It makes a lot of sense. Thank you for keeping us safe on the road!

New comment by correlator in "Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas"

correlator — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:36:56 +0000

Out of curiosity, have you ever attempted to create something from scratch and bring it to market? Not as an employee, but as someone trying to figure it out?

Your work history will impact the way you view this issue IMO.

New comment by correlator in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2025"

correlator — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:25:19 +0000

Definitely agree! It's just strange seeing Devoret without Schoelkopf!

New comment by correlator in "Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners"

correlator — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:52:01 +0000

The company would have more cash in the bank when he exercises those options.

They also wouldn't have to pay to create a new pay package to replace the voided one. This process is surprisingly expensive to create and implement a CEO pay package.

There were more reasons that shareholders voted for the package in the revote, but omitting others as I don't think they are related to financials

New comment by correlator in "Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners"

correlator — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:36:45 +0000

As of December 31st, 2024, Tesla has around $17b in cash and cash equivalents, $122b in assets, and $49b in liabilities

It doesn't seem likely the government will have to bail them out.

New comment by correlator in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

correlator — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:36:40 +0000

This is a great point. I often ask LLMs which coding language they are most proficient in, and Python is the most typical response. This has makes me want to write more Python.

New comment by correlator in "Stimulation Clicker"

correlator — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:59:42 +0000

reminds me of cookie clicker!

New comment by correlator in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

correlator — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:38:04 +0000

Wow that must have been a wild experience 10 years ago!

Today, I think they should do this. It is rare I need to touch the wheel or pedal these days and people should experience it.

New comment by correlator in "GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house"

correlator — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:35:47 +0000

I love the tesla service. Bought my car without talking to a single sales person, they come to my home to rotate my tires on my schedule. Only complaint is cosmetic service tends to have a long appointment wait time, but things like a cracked windshield were immediately serviced.

I don't know how I will switch to another car brand after this.

New comment by correlator in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

correlator — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:57:37 +0000

I met julian touring UCSB as perspective grad students. We sat together at dinner and he was really smart, kind, and outgoing. Great to see him presenting this work!

California business push back on state taxes with proposed bill

correlator — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/california-business-taxes-governor-newsom-e24f80ce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39971174

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by correlator in "I Tried Tesla FSD"

correlator — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:11:38 +0000

TLDR They drove down narrow 1-lane streets and had to disengage once. While this sounds quite impressive, the article spends a lot of time focused on fear of FSD. There's even a hypothetical comment that he will surely be hit by an FSD enabled car.

Americans are confused, frustrated by new tipping culture, study finds

correlator — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:48:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/11/09/american-tipping-confusion-culture-study/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38222827

Points: 25

# Comments: 23

New comment by correlator in "EU's concealment of secret 'expert list' on CSAM regulation is maladministration"

correlator — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:52:37 +0000

Any citations?

New comment by correlator in "YouTube's ad blocker crackdown escalates, aggravating users"

correlator — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:26:13 +0000

I can just close the popup and play the video. Does that not work for anyone else?

New comment by correlator in "My Unhealthy Relationship with Keyboards"

correlator — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:50:29 +0000

You get used to the layer keys for arrows within a day or two.

New comment by correlator in "Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic"

correlator — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:56:37 +0000

I would think that AWS also offers a lot of distribution opportunities for Anthropic.

New comment by correlator in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

correlator — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:54:17 +0000

There is clearly a lot of information to share. It's worth considering this could be step 1 of n as opposed to assuming the worst possible intention.

New comment by correlator in "Launch HN: Metal (YC W23) – Embeddings as a Service"

correlator — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:44:33 +0000

Very interesting project, congratulations on the launch! I've been playing with embedding search/clustering on larger documents, and I find that segmentation strategies can be quite tricky and heavily impact results. Do you offer any segmentation strategies via API, or do you expect this potentially personalized feature will be handled by devs on their own servers?