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The risks mentioned are not equal. I’d prefer getting locked out of my account to having all my money stolen.

I lived a block away from where he crashed. It’s immediately next to the Santa Monica airport. I saw his mangled plane after the crash. Yes, I suspect he picked the Penmar golf course because it was a safe option, but it’s also under the flight path of the airport.

Yes, but does a computer system or tool or AI need to be provably correct or 100% guaranteed not to cause harm to be useful? Alternative methods (human, simple rules) aren’t either. Perfect can be the enemy of good enough. Just being pragmatic here.

Warning: if you increase the steps per frame it will break your phone. At least with my iPhone and Safari it stalls the entire phone.

I used them in high school in the late 1990s... just to get an extra challenge. I had my dad's and grandfather's and I picked up a couple at garage sales. I still have a collection, but haven't really used them in years. I'll probably break them out again when my kids get in middle school / high school math for fun. They are great for learning the rules of logs.

My sentiments exactly. All the formats were so poorly read that they are all effectively useless.

The momentum behind vibe coding is driven by an underestimation/misunderstanding of what it takes to build software.

So much about this seems inauthentic. The post itself. The experience. The content produced. I wouldn’t like to be on the other end of the production of this content.

So is using an LLM to write SQL for you like using a mitre saw instead of a table saw? I guess the crux is that you still need to do work either way.

We have Woom bikes. This is exactly what they recommend. Each of my three kids learned at different speeds, though. It basically turns your pedal bike into a strider bike.

I lived there between 2004 and 2023 and used to walk along the perimeter of the protected dunes. I didn’t know it was an intentional engineering. I thought it was just natural dunes that were protected. They are really beautiful and you get a sense that there’s a lot of life going on. I always wondered why Santa Monica’s beaches were so barren otherwise compared to other beaches on both the West and East coasts. Good read!

This usually means the military.

What a great example of an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym . This guy's last name is Heersink and he's finding out where all the boats sank.

This is disappointing. I thought Boar’s Head was the high quality stuff.

I was a CS undergrad at MIT and took the fancy math people’s analysis class for a math requirement and they used Rudin and it killed me. We went through like 170 pages of it for one semester. The professor was Sigurdur Helgason. I went into office hours one day and ask him a question. He slowly walked to his window and replied “the ravines in Iceland are deep” and it was at that point that I realized I was an engineer and not a mathematician.

Character 7 is still a bell! I always loved that when you printed ASCII character 7 on old machines it made a sound instead of printing a character.

I wonder if she also did a Google search for the same genre and if this is why she was retargeted.

Right now on HN I see Veo (deepmind.google) in #1, Gemini Flash (deepmind.google) in #3, Model Explorer (ai.google.dev) in #5, PaliGemma (ai.google.dev) in #11. I've never seen so many Google products all listed in HN at the same time before.

I’m sure I’m being naive, but I was expecting at least one “crazy” and interesting graphic in this article.

There’s a game on Apple Arcade called stitch if you want a much larger and more difficult version of this.

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It’s because vulcanized rubber tires weren’t available until the 1840s. There is no sub for inflatable tubes and rubber tires. Without it the ride would be very very bumpy for a light frame with two wheels.

Did anyone else think it was interesting that the difference between the two floating point images looked like a Julia set? It’s probably trivial, but I liked that.

Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm character drives one. He was ahead of his time.

These abbreviations and definitions seem very similar or identical to the charts I’ve used for sailing in coastal waters of the United States.

I like this!

From https://www.trossenrobotics.com/aloha.aspx it looks like it's derived from "A Low-cost Open-source Hardware System for Bimanual Teleoperation" without the S, B or T.

I just talked with a recruiter that said 80% of companies are posting jobs just so they collect the answers to the diversity questions so they can prove to the government that they are considering everyone. You know, the questions about race, gender, veteran status, and disabilities.

No, not necessarily. If it lowers the humidity, then it can take less energy to heat the house after venting. So it can actually save energy.

In the 4th paragraph he describes “the arc of a stone falling to earth” as an exponential function. Is that true? I always thought it was quadratic.