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by NavinF 2y ago
Yikes. I was sure this was an April Fools article till I got to the end. Has any other vehicle lost 6DOF control with humans on board?
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by NavinF 2y ago
> Linux power management is pretty good > defaults favor desktop and server performance Desktops are in S3 half the day consuming ~0 power. During use, electricity costs are so much lower than hardware costs that approximately nobody
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Adam Savage Tests the Apple AirPods Pro Hearing Aid [video](youtube.com)
10 points by NavinF 2y ago|0 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
That hasn't been an issue for me. Link to example?
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by NavinF 2y ago
Try their Deep Research or grok's DeepSearch. Both do many searches and read many articles over a couple of minutes
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Why Do I Keep Finding Padlocked Playgrounds in New York City?(reason.com)
9 points by NavinF 2y ago|0 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
This was announced yesterday so I'm kinda surprised it hasn't been submitted to HN yet: https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1896675400916566357
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Grok-3-Preview-02-24 tops lmarena Leaderboard; GPT-4.5-Preview within 95% CI(lmarena.ai)
3 points by NavinF 2y ago|1 comments
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DoD is planning to test Rocket cargo delivery to Johnson Atoll(federalregister.gov)
2 points by NavinF 2y ago|0 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
>You can't have it both ways. You can't say "I want to have nothing to do with Rust", and then in the very next sentence say "And that means that the Rust code that I will ignore cannot use the C interfaces I mai
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by NavinF 2y ago
Compared to the other 99.9% of the company that doesn't use SPARK. It's all tests and static analysis
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by NavinF 2y ago
That hasn't been my experience. I've mostly seen fake stories along those lines. Eg https://gwern.net/tank
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by NavinF 2y ago
I don't believe that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042166
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by NavinF 2y ago
"is begin" and "end;" are the opposite of nice/modern
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by NavinF 2y ago
Article doesn't say what parts of Nvidia's stack use SPARK. Considering Nvidia is a huge software company with ~30,000 employees, "There are now over fifty developers trained and numerous components implemented in SPARK"
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by NavinF 2y ago
Pretty much all high end monitors have a little joystick under/behind them, have decent UI latency, and come with vendor software for changing settings without physically touching the monitor. This is done over I2C so it should be pret
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by NavinF 2y ago
> This seems the least likely to me So you think there's a >50% chance that one of your scenarios will happen? Would you like to put some money on that bet?
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by NavinF 2y ago
I doubt judges would take your side on this interpretation of the law. Wanna put some money on this bet?
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by NavinF 2y ago
Oh I've noticed that, but the 1080p bitrate is horrible. Looks more like upscaled 480p DVDs
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by NavinF 2y ago
I used pirate streaming websites as a kid, but I thought fewer people use them today because the video quality sucks. Any stats on the percent of people using them over time?
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by NavinF 2y ago
In the 2024 report file sharing was #4 in downstream volume. 9% of total compared to 39% for video. Youtube was 16%, Netflix 12%. Piracy is still way less common compared to streaming, tho I do enjoy the unbeatable quality of a 50GB bluray
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by NavinF 2y ago
Not hyperbole. The researchers saved millions of lives while Henrietta did nothing. She gets $0
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by NavinF 2y ago
Pretty sure I've seen this article on HN before 2024. Is the date incorrect? Personally I like "just". It's reassuring and often accurate. You can just do things
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by NavinF 2y ago
He gave many examples of people treating her as a her as a hero. Eg: > United States Rep. Kwesi Mfume (D-Md) filed legislation to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Henrietta Lacks for her distinguished contributions to s
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by NavinF 2y ago
> people are suddenly posting all sorts of spicy things I don't think this is particularly spicy. What posts are you thinking of? pg has criticized woke for at least a decade so that's not a new thing either.
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by NavinF 2y ago
Why so confident? I would never try to extort people who cured a bunch of diseases using cancer tissue from me or my parents. I also wouldn't want society to treat me as a hero for something I didn't do: > Some people are going
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Henrietta Lacks Seems Like a Nice Person, but Not a Scientific Hero(astralcodexten.com)
16 points by NavinF 2y ago|18 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
Oh I talked to some guys who started a company that does that. This was at an AI meetup in SF last year. They were mainly focused on making $/token cheaper by directing easy/dumb queries to smaller dumber models, but it also incre
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Laser Speckle Eye Test [video](youtube.com)
3 points by NavinF 2y ago|0 comments
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How NEPA Will Tax Clean Energy(ifp.org)
2 points by NavinF 2y ago|0 comments

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