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New comment by s08148692 in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

s08148692 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:50:06 +0000

The fact that the whole thread has basically devolved into debates over if it is or isn't an LLM written article is proving well enough that it doesn't really matter one way or another

New comment by s08148692 in "Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)"

s08148692 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:37:12 +0000

Capitalism certainly is hugely flawed and yet it is far less flawed than any other economic system we know of. Experimentation with the foundations of society is about as risky as it gets. You could end up with a utopia or you could end up with another USSR. History tells us which outcome is more likely

New comment by s08148692 in "Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round"

s08148692 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:11:50 +0000

For a foundation AI lab with a world famous AI researcher at the helm though, it's not so impressive. Won't even touch the sides of the hardware costs they'd need to be anywhere near competitive

New comment by s08148692 in "How will OpenAI compete?"

s08148692 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:28:32 +0000

As a counter anecdote, my wife stopped using it because it is quite terrible when you ask it about current events. She almost exclusively uses the Grok app now because it has the "best" internet search and current events results

New comment by s08148692 in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

s08148692 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:02:31 +0000

> Wait what? when did they actually enter mass production?

"mass" is a strong word but the first one came off their production line 5 days ago

ramp to high volume will probably be extremely slow

New comment by s08148692 in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

s08148692 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:51:59 +0000

I don't think they meant literally cameras only can create reliable distance measures. At the risk of putting words in their mouth, I would guess they meant "cameras as the only input to a distance model". the "model" doing all the heavy lifting, covering the points that you quite rightly point out are needed

Several companies, most notably Tesla, have done this well enough to drive in all manner of traffic. I'm not going to comment about if lidar is strictly needed or not to achieve better-than-human safety, that's yet to be proven one way or another by anyone. The point is that cameras + local inference can do a pretty good job at distance estimation

New comment by s08148692 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

s08148692 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:28:18 +0000

Shame, shopping there felt like magic. I hope the technology is developed in future without having to rely on remote workers validating transactions. Definitely felt like the future of shopping

New comment by s08148692 in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

s08148692 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:10:22 +0000

First my mind went to Phoenix (elixir framework), then to X (twitter) before it clicked what this was actually about. Some very overloaded names

New comment by s08148692 in "Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025"

s08148692 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:26:29 +0000

If someone is printing their own rather than buying official models I don't think it's safe to assume they're buying the digital assets

New comment by s08148692 in "This is not the future"

s08148692 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:43:55 +0000

The irony of naming this post "This is not the future" and leaving no room for the possibility that this is actually probably the future.

Whole post just reads as someone disgruntled at the state of the world and reeling that they aren't getting their way. Theres a toxic air of intellectual and moral superiority in that blog

New comment by s08148692 in "Inside the university AI cheating crisis"

s08148692 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:36:42 +0000

Imagine an oral c++ algorithms and data structures exam

This isn't just essays, AI will happily output any known algorithm you ask for in a few seconds. CS coursework can be almost entirely automated in many cases

New comment by s08148692 in "Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before"

s08148692 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:40:48 +0000

https://www.starlink.com/gb/business/direct-to-cell

New comment by s08148692 in "Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before"

s08148692 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:38:33 +0000

Split across all countries the satellite flies over, proportional to the amount of time spent over each country

Good luck

New comment by s08148692 in "A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar (2021)"

s08148692 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:00:44 +0000

I see a lot of these posts about how Tesla UI (and touchscreens in cars in general) are unsafe and cause accidents. Intuitively it makes sense, but I haven't actually seen any evidence that Teslas or other touchscreen-heavy cars are actually involved in more accidents per mile. Would be curious if there's any studios on this to back up these claims, or is everyone just making intuitively true claims without evidence?

New comment by s08148692 in "Grok-2 Beta Release"

s08148692 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:40:27 +0000

A simple search of twitter for "cisgender" shows that the word is not banned

New comment by s08148692 in "Grok-2 Beta Release"

s08148692 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:30:57 +0000

I think you'd struggle to find a human on this planet that isn't biased one way or another when it comes to Musk

New comment by s08148692 in "Tesla deliveries set to fall YoY for second straight quarter"

s08148692 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:45:49 +0000

I'm anywhere between indifferent and disgusted by Musks political views, depending on the issue.

Does that make me bearish on Tesla? Absolutely not. On the contrary I'm more bullish now than ever. I see so many people lose all objectivity and reason when they look at any Musk enterprise because they don't like the man

New comment by s08148692 in "What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner"

s08148692 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 11:53:46 +0000

> when Postgres picks a stupid plan and can't be convinced to do something reasonable.

In my experience it can always be convinced to make a reasonable plan, but it's not always trivial. Sometimes it's just adding an index, sometimes it's entirely rewriting a query

New comment by s08148692 in "Ask HN: Ex-Googlers, why do you write "Ex-Google" on your profile?"

s08148692 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:43:37 +0000

"Lay-off means that they are laying off people regardless of their performance as a change in their strategy"

Sure, if a whole team or department is let go. If 10% of a team is cut though it won't be by random dice roll

New comment by s08148692 in "Toxicity at Wikipedia"

s08148692 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:13:32 +0000

"Despite the fact that anyone can edit any page"

This couldn't be further from the truth. Anything even slightly controversial or popular is heavily gated