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Ferrari Luce: Engineering(ferrari.com)
2 points by big_toast 5mo ago|0 comments
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by big_toast 5mo ago
I believe some of Ray Madoff's points are that the tax code and most tax intuitions kinda differ. There's the idea that "wealth" gains tend to not be taxed for a variety of reasons. The common parlance of "Buy, Borr
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by big_toast 5mo ago
"Mr. Musk or his affiliates may become aware, from time to time, of certain business opportunities ... and may direct such opportunities to other businesses in which they have invested." "Under our charter, Mr. Musk and his a
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by big_toast 5mo ago
Is there any risk to SpaceX that the Musk brand pulls the market cap too far ahead now? It's not a risk factor I see in the prospectus but seems plausible to me. Just like with the AI company vesting, I imagine a scenario where a compa
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by big_toast 5mo ago
The paper references some threat models they considered. They suggest someone might "possess paired information (both original and watermarked content)" and therefore be able to undo watermarking. Presumably it's fairly easy
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by big_toast 5mo ago
I guess the SynthID-Image paper from Oct 2025[0] was an encoder-decoder for which they tested checking a flag or a 136 bit payload in 512x512 images and the watermark's robustness after various transformations. Presumably the deployed
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by big_toast 5mo ago
What information is included in the metadata or SynthID? How many bits can be encoded in a SynthID? Can it be used to create something like nutritional labels for synthetic content? 10% synthetic text, 30 synthetic images. Your reality was
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by big_toast 5mo ago
Musk leaves the board in 2018 I think. And something happens in DX-754 where they've pivoted to AI in SpaceX around then too. I had a lot of trouble telling what "AI" meant in late 2017 at Tesla. --- Sept 1, 2017 DX-669: Fund
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Reddit Is (Mostly) Shuttering R/All, but There's Still a Way to Access It(lifehacker.com)
4 points by big_toast 5mo ago|0 comments
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by big_toast 5mo ago
I love Robin's newsletters (and the books etc) and love "opinionated operator decisions make the internet go round". Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like if i go gmail -> via a Robin Sloane Newsletter -> w
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by big_toast 5mo ago
People need a mental bucket for 'stochastic software' for a while. Or hot mess, a fast food meal that you can expect to mostly be bad in some sense, but serves a purpose, and can be really good in that case. Conflating the new sty
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by big_toast 5mo ago
Ya! So many posts with clear presentations of css/svg/canvas. The Daily Sketch series or 'CSS Animation with offset-path' are equally fun.
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by big_toast 5mo ago
The AI bothered me less, but I got a little frustrated with less than substantive comments on the front page. Oddly I made an extension* to use the site more the way I wanted and now I find it a little easier to get a higher SNR past the fr
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by big_toast 6mo ago
I think one of the main goals of NASA QueSST program[0] is contributing to making commercial supersonic air travel happen. And there's a lot of private companies contributing[1]. But makes me wonder where Boom/Hermeus/Astro M
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by big_toast 6mo ago
This footage includes a landing this time. And I guess something akin to the cockpit HUD? A post[0] from a couple days ago says they've reach ~0.95 Mach, ~43k feet, 10 flights, 11.7 hours of flight time with the longest flight at 1.7 h
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NASA's X-59 Shows Off Early Flight Test Maneuvers(nasa.gov)
8 points by big_toast 6mo ago|4 comments
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by big_toast 6mo ago
I've been aware of Bbedit but never really used it. Are there things it does better than more recent editors or is it more of a devil you know? Like a WordPerfect situation.
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by big_toast 6mo ago
The page about the earnings[0] is interesting. The Amazon share for kindle edition is higher than I expected. [0]: https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design
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Also Liked(foryou.club)
3 points by big_toast 6mo ago|1 comments
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by big_toast 6mo ago
spacecowboy runs a 'For You' bsky feed powered by matching your likes to similar user likes. He added a way to traverse posts via the like graph[0]. (The backing architecture was posted previously at [hn].) [0]: https://
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MQ-25A Stingray achieves successful first flight(navy.mil)
1 points by big_toast 6mo ago|1 comments
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by big_toast 6mo ago
"The MQ-25A Stingray is the U.S. Navy's first operational, carrier based unmanned aircraft system, designed primarily to serve as an aerial refueling tanker." And youtube promo video[0] of the flight. [0]: https://w
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by big_toast 6mo ago
Interesting history. From the wiki: "A Senate bill was introduced in February 1947 to create the National Science Foundation (NSF) to replace the OSRD. This bill favored most of the features advocated by Bush, including the controversi
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by big_toast 6mo ago
Having a "Recovery Mode"/"Safe Boot" flag to disable our configurations (or progressively enable) to see how claude code responds would be nice. Sometimes I get worried some old flag I set is breaking things. Maybe
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by big_toast 6mo ago
Do you have additional information about this? I'm having trouble finding reporting or discussion on it.
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by big_toast 6mo ago
Ya. I could imagine a browser extension performing some form of verification loop for simpler webpages. Maybe too niche.
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by big_toast 6mo ago
I found a link that said they were discussing the testing schedule with media, but haven't found a timeline for when they might go supersonic. First X-59 post on hn was 8 years ago!
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by big_toast 6mo ago
"The X-59’s thin, tapered nose accounts for almost a third of its length, and will break up the shock waves that would ordinarily result in a supersonic aircraft causing a sonic boom." [1] The video with the wheels up must be real
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NASA's X-59 Completes First Wheels-Up Flight(nasa.gov)
9 points by big_toast 6mo ago|3 comments
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by big_toast 6mo ago
Ya, I don't understand the calculus. If it's important enough for a big website, why not promote the site for a week first. Too many applications seems more desirable than missing the right people who are 'heads down building

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