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Vvector··on Font-size-adjust Is Useful
Just brainstorming here, why can't we have "browser fonts" shipped with the browsers?
Vvector··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
None of that ever happened before AI. Right...
Vvector··on Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think
I calculate it at 52 cents per panel (40 lbs a panel)

Source for the cost:

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/74124.pdf one study found that disposal tipping fees at non-hazardous landfills ($26/U.S. ton) can cost less than $1 per module and less than $5 per module at hazardous waste landfills ($175/U.S. ton)

Vvector··on A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up
Last time I checked, spheres are shapes.

But the article references a "pyramid-like shape"

Vvector··on AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'
Chip speed isn't as important as good software
Vvector··on If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
It's a simple question of weight ratios.
Vvector··on LumoSQL
Every open source project has the possibility of litigation. Can't always live in fear of the bogeyman
Vvector··on LumoSQL
The "plan" is to take out the contaminated code and rewrite it.
Vvector··on AI can't even fix a simple bug – but sure, let's fire engineers
He laughed. “AI makes my team unstoppable. Why would I want fewer unstoppable people?”
Vvector··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Try "1/3". The calculator answer is not "100% accurate"
Vvector··on How University Students Use Claude
My point is that the necessary skill set required by society is ever-changing. Skills like handwriting, spelling, and reading a map are fading from importance.

I could see a future where pioneering might be useful again.

Vvector··on Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
It's not stealing when the original still exists. And art style is not copyrightable.

Our current laws are made to handle AI

Vvector··on How University Students Use Claude
Do you have the skills and knowledge to survive like a pioneer from 200 years ago?

Technology is rapidly changing humanity. Maybe for the worse.

Vvector··on How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
But the cost of buying and holding inventory goes up. If a store has 10k shoes in inventory @ $50/each, they are carrying $500,000 in inventory. If the shoes now cost $75, they need $250k more for inventory. Capital for inventory isn't free.
Vvector··on No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
SCOTUS recently defined corporations as people, so why not AI?
Vvector··on No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
Whats your definition of "properly compensate" when dealing with hundreds of millions of artists/authors and billions/trillions of individual training items?

Just a quick example, what's my proper compensation for this specific post? Can I set a FIVE CENTS price for every AI that learned from my post? How can I OPT-IN today?

I'm coming from the position that current law doesn't require compensation, nor opt-in. I'm not happy with it, but I dont see any easy alternative

Vvector··on No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
* You cannot ethically use a tool that was produced by appropriating the labor of millions of people without consent. You are a bad person if you use it. *

I disagree. When you publish your work, I can't copy it, but I can do nearly anything else I want to with it. I don't need your consent to learn from your work. I can study hundreds of paintings, learn from them, teaching myself to paint in a similar style. Copyright law allows me to do this.

I don't think an AI, which can do it better and faster, changes the law.

Vvector··on Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
Those are mostly hardware engineers, not software engineers, right?
Vvector··on Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
OP said "Even if they needed to hire a few thousand engineers at a few million in comp each". That's where the number came from.

Nvidia seems to pay the bulk of their engineers 200k-400k. If the fully loaded cost is 2.2, then it's closer to 440k-880k per engineer. Probably 500k would be a good number to use

Vvector··on Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?
Back in 2015, they were a quarter or two from bankruptcy, saved by the XBOX and Playstation contracts. Those years saw several significant layoffs, and talent leaving for greener pastures. Lisa Su has done a great job at rebuilding the company. But not in a position to hire 2000 engineers x few million comp (~$4 billion annually) even if there were people readily available.

"it'd still be a good investment." - that's definitely not a sure thing. Su isn't a risk taker, seems to prefer incremental growth, mainly focused on the CPU side.

Vvector··on Ask HN: Have you ever seen a pathfinding algorithm of this type?
IMO, sounds like you want A* with JPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_point_search
Vvector··on We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
That was addressed in the article.
Vvector··on Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power
"But 2 hours in 2030 against a year's demand today is still a nudge."

How much battery storage do you think we need? Surely not a year's worth.

For solar, we'd likely need 10-16 hours of storage to power stuff overnight. Maybe a little more to cover a few cloudy days. Sounds like we are about 5% of that now?

Vvector··on I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)
He's paying $95 per shirt, $13 for a undershirt, $10 per underwear.
Vvector··on How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?
Did you watch his races?
Vvector··on Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500
I cannot think of a more annoying way to present this information
Vvector··on Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program
I've read recently (here on HN) that branch predictors are right 99% if the time. Is that inaccurate?
Vvector··on AMD's MI300X Outperforms Nvidia's H100 for LLM Inference
Nvidia just started shipping the H200 to selected companies two months ago. Too late for this benchmark.
Vvector··on Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either
My understanding is that beneficiary trumps a will, and definitely trumps the default when there is no will.

What would be the point of a beneficiary if it gets ignored even without a will?

Vvector··on Remember When You Named Your Girlfriend as a Beneficiary? He Didn't Either
There was no will, no spouse, no children.

"He died at 59, single and childless, with no will and no guidance on who should inherit his assets."

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