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lfshon Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

100% agree. When you need this tool it is time to look for a job at another company.

Maybe it is very useful for the movie industry or something.

lfshon Show HN: Web Audio Spring-Mass Synthesis

If you like this you might also like Anukari's 3D Physics Synthesizer.

It is also a spring-mass synth but with Midi and audio and much more options.

https://anukari.com/

lfshon Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

Thank you for your answer.

lfshon Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

Serious question: are you bothered by Elon's behavior?

lfshon Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

"Tesla was the only EV that was somewhat affordable"

I don't think this is true. For example the Nissan Leaf has always been more affordable. But the range of the first Leaf models was very low. Tesla was the first EV company that offered a range comparible to ICE cars.

lfshon Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck

I think the main reason Tesla became popular is range. The build qality has never been as good as other brands.

lfshon Gemini Robotics

I use CNC machines and know how powerful stepper and servo motors are. You can ask yourself what will happen if your motor driver is controlled by an AI hallucination...

lfshon Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

As I understand 'reasoning' is a very misleading term. As far as I can tell, AI reasoning is a step to evaluate the chosen probabilities. So maybe you will get less hallucinations but it still doesn't make AI smart.

lfshon Happy 10k Day

Serious question because I am interested: why do you say it is nowhere near as good as the latest FSD?

We still see movies of the latest FSD crashing into stationary objects. So I wonder how Comma compares to other camera-only-systems.

lfshon Carlos Slim cancels Starlink orders

I never understood why people think Musk is some kind of genius man.

He absolutely is a very good salesman and marketeer but that's about it. Everything he sold that was successful was created by others. The moment he starts to interfere things go wrong. The Cybertruck is a great example.

It is also known that people at SpaceX hate it when he is around telling people what to do because most of it doesn't make sense.

Now he is in politics it becomes clear to a lot of people who he really is. A greedy salesman.

lfshon Carlos Slim cancels Starlink orders

Canada cancelled a $100M Starlink deal. So $22B also seems like an extreme amount.

Other news sites say Slim was willing to invest 22B in better communications. So maybe Starlink was a part of this investment but I have a hard time believing Musk lost a $22B deal.

lfshon Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)

You assume the battery conditions stay the same.

But what if the battery heats up a lot during a climb and is still hot while going down? It is know batteries charge slow when they are hot.

lfshon US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

As far as I know all cheap drone tech is provided by China (to both Russia and Ukraine).

lfshon How much are LLMs boosting real-world programmer productivity?

As search engine LLMs are nice. But for code generation they are not. Everytime it generates code there are small bugs that I don't notice directly but will bite me later.

For example a peace of code with a foreach loop that uses the collection name inside the loop instead of the item name.

Or a very nice looking peace of code but with a method call that does not exist in the used library.

I think the weakness of AI/LMMs is that it outputs probabilities. If the code you request is very common than it will probably generate good code. But that's about it. It can not reason about code (it maybe can 'reason' about the probability of the generated answer).

lfshon AI tools are spotting errors in research papers

I am using Jetbrain's AI to do code analysis (find errors).

While it sometimes spot something I missed it also gives a lot of confident 'advise' that is just wrong or not useful.

Current AI tools are still sophisticated search engines. They cannot reason or think.

So while I think it could spot some errors in research papers I am still very sceptical that it is useful as trusted source.

lfshon Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer

'Pleaing guilt' means 'taking the blame'. It is not a proof of guilt. So the answer to your question should be: no.