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by ActorNightly | 2025-10-24 18:41:42+00:00
Nope.

Every single time this exact thing happens, its the same story. Musk fans/conservatives get proven wrong, get quiet for a bit, and then act like nothing happened and repeat the same bullshit again.

The reason why that happens is because you don't actually listen to what he has to say. If you truly believed what he said was accurate, you would be able to repeat it, and explain why its accurate in your own words, without referencing anything he said. Instead, you are just simply an ideological fan of his, so no matter how many times he gets proven wrong, its not going to change your mind about him.

Overall in general, he and all the other conservatives have done enough damage to their credibility with straight up lies that are so easily verifiable to such an extent that, its totally fine to just discredit anything the say right off the bat. The onus is on them to provide extraordinary evidence if they wanna convince people otherwise.
by vict7 | 2025-10-24 18:42:27+00:00
Yep, as someone whose brain is biased towards a higher verbal IQ and thinks primarily in words, a lot of the replies to this post are amusing.

I have genuine curiosity about those that claim to think in “pure abstract thoughts” or whatever. I don’t believe my way of thinking is superior. I’m certain that my constant internal monologue is strongly correlated to my tendency to ruminate. Or, I struggle with concepts that do not translate well into a verbal format.

People apparently can’t pass up the opportunity to disparage those with a different thinking style.
by hinkley | 2025-10-24 18:42:36+00:00
There’s a really straightforward way to avoid a parabolic trajectory with a black hole. But data retrieval gets a bit difficult.

More seriously, it floors me how often and consistently people forget that the accretion disk is essentially a partial accelerator and crossing or entering it will probably pulverize you to radioactive dust. Possibly before you could hit the event horizon.
by lapcat | 2025-10-24 18:42:59+00:00
> The response to every new overreach by Trump is "this is just more of what's been going on"

This is a strange take on my comments. To be absolutely clear: I object in the strongest possible terms to the crimes of the Nixon and Reagan administrations and to the subsequent pardons of Nixon and Reagan administration officials. I have no desire to legitimize those pardons, and indeed I think the pardon power should have been eliminated or at least strictly limited a long time ago. Moreover, I objected to your attempt to minimize those past scandals, which you described as "nothing".

Thus, my comments are in no way a defense or legimitimization of Trump. They become a defense of Trump only in your own mind when you insist on discounting the past, which I do not. And when I suggested that previous pardons set the stage for Trump, I meant that shielding the executive branch from the legal consequences of their crimes only emboldens someone like Trump to act without any fear of legal consequences for his own crimes in office. The terrible precedents set in the past have come back to haunt us in the present. Again, that's not "legitimization" in any sense.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-24 18:43:20+00:00
Hmm, I wonder what happens if you let them manipulate their own context symbolically, maybe something like a stack machine. Perhaps all you need is a "delete" token, or a "replace" flag. That way you don't have context full of irrelevant information.

I guess the challenge is, where would the training data come from? Data on the internet is in its final form so "next token" is never a delete.

Edit: I guess in essence, that's what reasoning LLMs already do. IIUC the thought blocks are ephemeral, and only the response is maintained for the chat. Maybe there'd be some benefit of doing this recursively? But that's also kind of what subagents are for. So, perhaps nothing new here.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-24 18:43:30+00:00
> What a crappy worldview that is, and while it may have been true in the past, times have changed, and it no longer is the case. People can and will expose and report fraud rather immediately.

If you don't think plenty of liars get away with repeatedly lying to the same people, then you aren't paying much attention to the real world around you.

Yes, some people will notice that they have been lied to the first time, and some of them will report it if that is something along the lines of fraud.

> Let me sum it up by saying that those who reject the truth have far shorter lives than those who accept it.

Even if that is true, that’s a very different thing. "Lying" and "rejecting the truth" are not the same thing.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-24 18:44:16+00:00
> So then how do we fix it if not by adding laws and rules? We don't elect people like Trump, who think they are above the law. That's it. I know it seems kind of glib but it's not a high bar to just avoid malignant narcissists.

Right but he is the President. I didn't vote for him. I donated and canvassed for the Harris campaign. But Trump won. So what are we getting by making 1000 internet comments of which 800 are about how bad Trump is?

This whole exchange reminded me why I don't participate in politics on HN. It's all just venting. I'll stick to doing things like canvasing and not reading the anxieties of HN commenters.
by Leherenn | 2025-10-24 18:44:50+00:00
Isn't it the modern equivalent of "let me Google that for you"?

My experience is that the vast majority of people do 0 research (AI assisted or not) before asking questions online. Questions that could have usually been answered in a few seconds if they had tried.

If someone preface a question by saying they've done their research but would like validation, then yes it's in incredibly poor taste.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-24 18:45:14+00:00
Could also check out the Auto Rig Pro ( https://artell.gumroad.com/l/auto-rig-pro ) plugin in Blender, as it does corrective shape-keys and makes exports to Unity/Unreal trivial. Also, FaceIt ( https://faceit-doc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) uses the iPhone Lidar with the Unreal App, and makes facial expression capture less buggy.

Keep in mind most motion capture files are considered live-performances, and must be licensed by the original rights holders:

https://www.mocapclub.com/Pages/Library.htm

https://github.com/MattiasFredriksson/io_anim_c3d/releases

This project sort of works for basic mocap (calibration needs ChArUco board):

https://freemocap.org/

Or if you have the resources and athletic actors around:

https://www.rokoko.com/

Or for student projects could try:

https://www.mixamo.com/

Hope you make something awesome and fun =3
by helicone | 2025-10-24 18:45:17+00:00
I'm interpreting from this that you have more data than you have time to process, so you go after the signals in order of how close they are to the user's complaints (user convos, etc).

And this implies to me that your ideal scenario is one in which the amount of data coming in from user convos, surveys, complaints, tickets, etc is equal or greater than the amount of time you have as a team to process it, such that you can focus on that and keep yourself productively at capacity.

But what if the amount of such high-priority signals is much higher than what you can deal with? Is it worth clustering that to get a smaller list of actionable trends?

Furthermore, if this is the highest quality data, is there even any need to go in and 'process' ALL of the sessions and bin them regardless of their high-priority signal status? Am I reading you right?
by cyberax | 2025-10-24 18:45:55+00:00
> As we pointed out, PV is still trouncing nuclear in China. So if the difference is smaller there, it's still in favor of solar.

Sure. Solar is easy to scale when you don't care about reliability, nobody is arguing with that. But it's another issue entirely when you need a stable grid.

I'm not aware of any countries (even tropical ones) that managed anything close to 100% renewables with solar. E.g. Hawaii has to pay for extremely expensive diesel generation even though they have plenty of solar potential.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-24 18:46:39+00:00
Did you look at the data? Over 150 years prices literally never once increased (relative to the baseline of 50) more or less than 50%. And outside of the Civil War and World Wars annual changes would have hardly been noticeable. In fact in the overwhelming majority of years there was no change at all! The CPI was so stable that I was even able to pinpoint a major event I had forgotten about (war of 1812) when looking at the data because it was one of the relatively rare periods of instability.

Then in 1971 things went insane and we went from a base index of 121 to 942! And yes this does directly cause inequality in a wide array of different ways! The most obvious is the 'gush up' effect as already mentioned. Another way is that it makes it much easier to undermine labor. So for instance many people would be relatively happy to be earning 25% more than they were 5 years ago. In reality? They've been given a paycut because that's not even enough to keep up with inflation, and there's 0 chance of it going any direction but up from here. So they've gotten poorer with a smile on their face. Hence why real wages are practically flat since 1971.

It also turns money itself into a somewhat toxic asset and motivates the hoarding of things. For instance Bill Gates is the largest private owner of farmland. By contrast lower income types often think starting a saving accounts, or (ugh...) a cd savings account is a fiscally responsible thing to do. And before 1971 this would have been 100% true. But now a days it's basically a scam, because you're never going to get interest rates that beat inflation, because nobody wants your rapidly devaluing money.

They'd be far better off putting their money into precious metals, land, or basically anything to try to escape the inflation trap. But lower income types often need more access to their funds on demand in case e.g. their car breaks down. So it's a system that very much punishes lower income types.
by imiric | 2025-10-24 18:46:56+00:00
This was a few months ago, but mainly Claude Sonnet 3.5 IIRC.

You can't escape hallucinations, of course, but they can be mitigated somewhat. Don't ask it to generate a bunch of code at once. Feed it a snippet of code, and tell it precisely what you want it to do. These are general LLM rules applicable to any language and project, and I've had success with them with Typst. I also used it just to get explanations, or general ideas about how to do something, and then figure out the actual syntax and working code myself. It's strange that you haven't had luck with pasting docs. That has usually worked well for me.

I also think that LLMs don't struggle as much with Typst because the language is relatively simple, and there is little bad and outdated content about it online, so they weren't trained on it. I assume that the API probably hasn't changed as much either and there haven't been many compatibility issues, so it's not as important which version the LLM was trained on.
by spidersouris | 2025-10-24 18:47:00+00:00
To add on what's been said already on slide decks, another great slide creation package in Typst is touying[1]. I've used it to create my own academic theme[2] for courses or conference presentations.

[1] https://touying-typ.github.io/ [2] https://typst.app/universe/package/touying-unistra-pristine/
by JakeStone | 2025-10-24 18:47:02+00:00
I've not had that kind of experience in over 30 years. I'm a bit older now, and I would hope that my response would be something similar to:

Me: "Am I under arrest?"

No: "I would like my attorney present before starting this discussion. Please provide me some contact information so we can schedule this."

Yes: "I wish to have my attorney present. I will not be answering any questions or discussing this matter."

Now, I don't know if I'm actually that brave, but I've at least got a plan.
by postflopclarity | 2025-10-24 18:47:19+00:00
typical entitled oblivious boomer drivel.

let's take the thought experiment further: $6 latte and $20 lunch, every single day (unrealistic, but let's just play it out) would be $9490 / year.

The median price of a home is now about $410,000. The median down payment is 18%, so that means it would take nearly EIGHT YEARS of foregoing all "comfort" expenses you've identified, e.g. lattes, to save for just the down payment

let's rewind the clock a little? I don't know when you were a young adult, but let's just say 1985. The median home price was $75,000. Using an inflation calculator to scale the latte is a bit weird, since home prices are included in that number, but let's just use the ratio of median incomes.

The median income in 1985 was about $18000. now, it's $40,000. so the same "comfort" expenses in 1985, as a percent of income, would have been $11.7/day or $4270 / year. It would only take just over THREE years, forgoing the daily latte, to save for a down payment.

so please, spare the lectures.
by marssaxman | 2025-10-24 18:47:32+00:00
Funny you mention the C330. I have not done any photography in well over a decade, and long ago sold all my gear, but just a week ago decided to take my grandfather's old Rolleicord in for cleaning & service. I am looking forward to shooting with it again, just for the sake of practicing the art. I might even learn to develop my own film this time around!
by jen20 | 2025-10-24 18:47:36+00:00
> A new battery is DIY, $60, not $250 with a wait for service. Replacing a broken screen is DIY $200, not $700 and a visit to the Apple service depot.

This is a weird assertion to make, if you don't have the parts on hand and can't walk into a store to buy them same-day. A big part of the reason I _do_ buy Apple laptops (besides the fact I do like the OS, battery life and hardware) is that I can walk into an Apple Store in any major city I'm likely to be in and purchase a replacement immediately should disaster strike while I'm traveling.
by cyberax | 2025-10-24 18:47:36+00:00
> Half the country is a mid-latitude desert. What makes you think the whole country has "weeks" with zero solar?

The "whole country" is irrelevant. You can't transmit arbitrary amounts of power across the large geographic areas, most of energy has to be generated in a reasonably close proximity.

> And it does have to be the whole country in this case, because one thing a centrally planned economy can do well is joining up the infrastructure

Transmission lines are expensive, regardless of your ideology.
by js8 | 2025-10-24 18:48:54+00:00
I just had a similar discussion with a coworker, he was advocating that LLMs are practically useful, but I argued they are kinda bad because nobody knows how they really work. I think it's somewhat return to pre-enlightenment situation where the expert authority was to be taken for their word, there was no way to externally verify their intuitive thought process, and I believe success of science and engineering is based on our formal understanding of the process and externalization of our thoughts.

Similar in mathematics, formalization was driven by this concern, so that we wouldn't rely on potentially wrong intuition.

I am now in favor of formalizing all serious human discourse (probably in some form of rich fuzzy and modal logic). I understand the concern for definition, but in communication, it's better to agree on the definition (which could be fuzzy) rather than use two random definitions and hope for their match. (I am reminded of koan about Sussman and Minsky http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html)

For example, we could formally define an airplane as a machine that usually has wings, usually flies. This would be translated into a formula in fuzzy logic which would take, for a given object, our belief this object is a machine, has wings and flies, and would return how much it is an airplane under some notion of usually.

I freely admit this approach wouldn't work for dadaist literary writers, but I don't want lawyers or politicians or scientists to be that.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-24 18:49:21+00:00
Given that we can train a transformer model by shoveling large amounts of inert text at it, and then use it to compose original works and solve original problems with the addition of nothing more than generic computing power, we can conclude that there's nothing special about what the human brain does.

All that remains is to come up with a way to integrate short-term experience into long-term memory, and we can call the job of emulating our brains done, at least in principle. Everything after that will amount to detail work.
by einsteinx2 | 2025-10-24 18:50:11+00:00
Hmm you know I’m actually not sure. I think at least currently you have to do the install from macOS so I guess you have to set it up once at least, but I’m not sure if that actually requires internet access.

I so know that once you have Asahi installed you never need to boot into macOS again if you don’t want to and don’t require network checkins or anything like that to keep using it.

Also unlike Windows 11, it’s trivial to set up macOS without ever creating an account with Apple, so you don’t have to give them personal info or even an email or anything to do the initial macOS setup.
by gyomu | 2025-10-24 18:50:22+00:00
That quote stood out to me as well, but mostly because the 3 images shown by the author have nothing to do with product/interface/communications design.

I guess they’re vaguely cool looking images? If the author had used them to talk about how “concept art” in games/movies was going to get upended by AI there would be a point there, but as it stands I find it very puzzling that someone who claims to teach design would use them as key examples of why design - a human process of coming up with specific solutions to fuzzy problems with arbitrary constraints - was headed in any particularly direction.
by Waterluvian | 2025-10-24 18:50:24+00:00
I mean, yeah, that’s one of those subjective things. I think freedom of speech topics are pretty closely embedded with tech and entrepreneurship whether we like it or not. But I appreciate if that’s not how moderators see it. As long as that kind of choice moderation made consistently. I feel like I see far more off topic posts live longer. And for sensitive topics, a short explanation might be worth it.

Moderation at scale, even HN scale, is hard!
by raducu | 2025-10-24 18:51:08+00:00
>. authentic” their Montessori approach was.

Indeed there's all kinds of Montessori.

I can vouch for my daughter's .

If anybody wants to give it a go, my benchmarks are:

1) find reviews of parents, especially no abuse, shouting, kids in the last year should LOVE the place.

2) observe even for few minutes a class in their focus time -- you will feel almost shocked if you haven't seen this before -- like you entered Santa's workshop -- children should be deeply engaged in their activities. If you haven't seen it before you might suspect abuse (that's why point 1 is so important), no way kids love to wipe the floors, lay tables, prepare food and so on, but they actually do.

And all that done in almost complete silence.

Proper Montessori with good, empathetic, dedicated educators is amazing!
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-24 18:51:11+00:00
Indeed. "S3 compatible" is the state of the art for object storage imho. As long as you can talk to a storage system that supports the basic S3 primitives, longevity is improved and there is no lock in. You can use S3 proper, Backblaze, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, local storage exposing an S3 api, etc. Any replacement is mostly drop in assuming it can read, scan, index existing objects.

Edit: @n3t heard wrt to the turn of phrase
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-24 18:51:12+00:00
I'm not deeply familiar with stellantis's architecture and both of these are relatively new modules for them, but this is baffling to me. I get why the HCP, which orchestrates the power balance, might talk to the TCM. But that interface is inherently crossing a safety boundary and should have been identified as such by systems engineers. Why the fuck (except for disastrously buggy code on the HCP side) would anything on the TCM side cause an HCP reset?

Completely wild speculation, but my initial guess is a memory safety issue that could have been caught with better languages or fuzzing. Neither are as common as they should be in automotive.
by krapp | 2025-10-24 18:51:45+00:00
- Some people will flag any political content they see, believing all political content to be off-topic.

- Some people support the current regime and will flag any content they consider anti-establishment.

- Hacker News is designed so that it takes very few flags to stick, so as to aggressively filter signal from noise, for as greedy a definition of "noise" as possible.

There's no conspiracy here, it's just Hacker News being Hacker News. If you want to be able to discuss these things freely, find another platform. Otherwise just accept that any "political" content will very likely be flagged at some point.
by jltsiren | 2025-10-24 18:51:48+00:00
There is a complicating factor. Universities are not your average top-down hierarchies. While some aspects of the work do belong to the employer, other aspects are yours (or you PI's), and they may follow you to your next job. While administrative matters and sensitive data tend to belong to the university, everything you create as an academic is usually yours.

It's pretty common, particularly among researchers who do not handle sensitive data, to have a burner laptop for accessing university resources and personal devices for the actual work. Many people also use personal email addresses for work. Work email rarely survives changes in employment, making it too short-lived for many purposes.
by Retr0id | 2025-10-24 18:53:00+00:00
Seems like a pretty generic part available as a module https://thepihut.com/products/arducam-imx519-autofocus-camer...

Uses the standard MIPI/CSI interface, which is not authenticated or anything of the sort.

You can also buy HDMI-to-CSI adapters https://thepihut.com/products/hdmi-to-csi-adapter-for-raspbe... - should be easy enough to pipe your own video feed in as a substitute.
by lumost | 2025-10-24 18:53:44+00:00
lot's of columns are float valued, GPU tensor cores can be programmed to do many operations between different float/int valued vectors. Strings can also be processed in this manner as they are simply vectors of integers. NVidia publishes official TPC benchmarks for each GPU release.

The idea of a GPU database has been reasonably well explored, they are extremely fast - but have been cost ineffective due to GPU costs. When the dataset is larger than GPU memory, you also incur slowdowns due to cycling between CPU and GPU memory.
by RandomBacon | 2025-10-24 18:54:13+00:00
I'm trying to recover my Facebook account, not from a TOS violation, but from a name issue.

It seems like people only have success by sending Meta a demand letter. I'm even Meta Verified, but I can't access customer service because I can't login because when I do, it immediately goes to the name issue message. I sent a second demand letter with a deadline of October 31st. If they don't answer by then, I will pay a law firm to send a demand letter, then if that doesn't work, I will sue them in court - I can't even unsubscribe from the Meta Verified subscription because I can't log in!

What's even better is that the 1-800 number on the Meta Verified receipt I get each month goes to a scammer and not Meta!

(If anyone from FB/Meta can help, my email is in my profile.)

Best of luck, hopefully someone here can help you instead of having to go the legal route.
by simonw | 2025-10-24 18:54:17+00:00
How much time have you spent running a coding agent like Claude Code, and have you tried running one in auto-approve (aka YOLO) mode yet?

I've written a bunch about those recently: https://simonwillison.net/tags/coding-agents/ - including a couple of video demos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC6dmPcin2E and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvMLLrFPVI