Hacker News: tintor

New comment by tintor in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

tintor — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:41:37 +0000

How come they didn’t ablate encoder? OpenAI GOT models are decoder only.

New comment by tintor in "Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers"

tintor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:16:34 +0000

There are non-polluting ways of launching. SpinLaunch

New comment by tintor in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

tintor — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:31:43 +0000

"World War III was the last of Earth's three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053."

New comment by tintor in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

tintor — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:15:15 +0000

Real Estate can't move out of New York. Someone else would have to buy it.

New comment by tintor in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

tintor — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:20:05 +0000

"we have 4 engineers working on your project" (and also on 5 other projects)

Does it matter how many engineers work on supplier's side?

Supplier is tasked to deliver the project. It is up to them to figure out how many people would they need, and to manage them.

New comment by tintor in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

tintor — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:35:25 +0000

It is not about the look. There are small solid state lidars that Tesla could have used.

New comment by tintor in "Ferrari Luce"

tintor — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:44:05 +0000

Is this an April 1st joke?

New comment by tintor in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

tintor — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:09:40 +0000

Happier? In a city? Have you been to big US cities? Angry people, crime, homeless, mentally ill people, lack of police.

New comment by tintor in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

tintor — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:43:01 +0000

That is awesome!

New comment by tintor in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

tintor — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:38:28 +0000

... but their World Model said it was ok to drive through the flood.

Slide 3 in "Extreme weather conditions and natural disasters" section: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-f...

New comment by tintor in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

tintor — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:23:22 +0000

"assuming the self driving cars don't do something stupid"

This is a big assumption.

This requires that all cars are self-driving cars capable of complex reasoning on in-car compute without relying on network connection, as network connections can't be assumed reliable in hurricane conditions.

New comment by tintor in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

tintor — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:19:04 +0000

The biggest issue with using both camera and lidar is how to properly resolve conflicting returns from different sensor types.

New comment by tintor in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

tintor — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:16:34 +0000

The main reason Tesla's don't have LIDAR is hardware cost and maintenance cost, not improved safety.

New comment by tintor in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

tintor — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:09:55 +0000

There is noise on LIDAR returns too. No one considers a single LIDAR point to be a collision hazard.

New comment by tintor in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

tintor — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:13:38 +0000

HR isn’t there to protect or help or serve employees.

New comment by tintor in "Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital'"

tintor — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:00:58 +0000

Humans employees are neither resources, nor capital.

New comment by tintor in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

tintor — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:41:57 +0000

“balkanized” is offensive term

New comment by tintor in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

tintor — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:23:39 +0000

Gov will always have access if they really want to, but my suggestion above prevents Flock and private companies from connecting vehicle location data to vehicle owner.

New comment by tintor in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

tintor — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:55:51 +0000

You can replace Newton with Leibniz.

New comment by tintor in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

tintor — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:45:16 +0000

How about digital license plates? That change the code displayed daily. Not unlike authenticator phone apps.

Police can still use them to identify the vehicle, and verify registration, but mass surveillance and repo companies can't use them to track vehicles for more than a day OR to identify vehicles.