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ClassyJacket··on Tesla Q3 2024 Financial Results [pdf]
The Model Y needs the same refresh the Model 3 got. Strange they haven't announced it yet. I suppose it just takes a while to change over a production line?

As an Australian I'm really looking forward to getting automation features like Actually Smart Summon outside the US. And hopefully a subscription for it, instead of a one time 5000$ fee that then can't ever be transferred to a future car. You'd have to be dumb to buy it in its current form. Making that more reasonable will be a way they can immediately extract more money out of me. As long as the price is reasonable, and not bonkers which it sadly probably will be.

ClassyJacket··on Show HN: Open-source Counter-Strike-like game
The opposite is true. Even if you publish the source, if you don't add a licence, you still have full copyright and all rights to it.
ClassyJacket··on 'When Dams Fail, People Die': The Race to Save Thousands from Potential Disaster
Thank god for reader mode. What an obnoxiously laid out article. Separating it into tiny little sections adds nothing.
ClassyJacket··on Please do not write below the line
Because it's government. People in government jobs often sit around half the day doing nothing because they have so much spare time. Case in point: me, right now.
ClassyJacket··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
I think it's stupid to have a country where guns are legal.
ClassyJacket··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
How are you verifying you're correct? How do you know you're not finding false positives?
ClassyJacket··on The IPv6 Transition
What ISP is that? Name and shame. I'm Australian and want to know to avoid them.
ClassyJacket··on Kennedy, Merkley introduce bill to end TSA facial recognition (2023)
This is a logical fallacy. Bring unable to stop 100% of something doesn't mean you should give up. If they're stopping over 90% that's reason to keep going.

The same argument can be used for almost any risk reduction techniques, including air bags and seatbelts, and it's wrong there too.

ClassyJacket··on Idea stolen during an interview. What should I do?
Send them a very large invoice for consulting with a letter attached explaining why.
ClassyJacket··on Show HN: Free Image Upscaler – The Ultimate Image Enhancer That Works Like Magic
I tried it on this image of a gravestone [1], saved the low res version from the google image search results page, and it's obvious which parts it's recognized and which parts it hasn't. It did great on the flowers, but made the gravestone and the grass worse.

[1]

https://media.wired.com/photos/5926a817cefba457b079aba4/mast...

ClassyJacket··on We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
Well, it's just a genre that's immensely popular and easy to cheat in.

If you have access to the game's memory etc, it's pretty easy to create an aimbot or thing that lets you see thru walls et cetera.

How you gonna cheat in a moba? It's a strategy game, you need, like, cutting edge AI to beat the best humans at it. In fact OpenAI specifically worked on an AI to play Dota 2, it was that hard.

ClassyJacket··on Efficient high-resolution image synthesis with linear diffusion transformer
This argument is only fair if you also think human artists should be banned, from birth, from ever looking at any other art. After all that would be training on stolen copyrighted work.
ClassyJacket··on Efficient high-resolution image synthesis with linear diffusion transformer
Image generation models don't do that either
ClassyJacket··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
I agree. In Australia we have much better banking than the US (instant free transfers between all banks), but you still can't cancel a recurring payment thru your bank like that. I had trouble cancelling a gym earlier this year.

When I lived in the UK and I wanted to cancel my gym, not only can you cancel the recurring payment thru your bank app, but the gym's website said that's how you should cancel.

ClassyJacket··on Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera
It's just a matter of time until half of us are having an LLM deepfake voice clone of us attend "meetings" so we don't have to.
ClassyJacket··on Meta's open AI hardware vision
Aren't they basically safe as long as future AI models are still basically multiplying tensors of floats?
ClassyJacket··on Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
An edge to edge screen is entirely technically feasible tho. The iPhone has it.
ClassyJacket··on Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
I was just thinking the same thing. Why couldn't they give it a tiny bezel, with a software option to put a virtual bezel if you want to hold it in a way it matters.

They could even give it only the virtual bezel on the left and right sides, in whichever orientation you're holding it, since you don't really hold it on the top or bottom.

ClassyJacket··on MS Flight SIM 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of bandwidth in flight
This is great for me as an Australian because the past government changed the NBN from fibre to copper and instead of gigabit the fastest I can get is 25mbps that doesn't work when it's raining.

But no it's okay because they told me nobody would ever need more than 25 megabit ever. No possible application for greater speeds would ever be thought up, they assured us.

ClassyJacket··on Tesla Robotaxi
It must already have one.
ClassyJacket··on Tesla Robotaxi
Show me proof they are doing it without being in the cars.
ClassyJacket··on Electric vehicle safety via crash test
The number one selling car in the world is electric.
ClassyJacket··on Electric vehicle safety via crash test
Nuclear, wind, solar, and decreasingly coal.
ClassyJacket··on Electric vehicle safety via crash test
Exactly. The weight of EVs is so overplayed, as if there was no difference already between a Corolla and a Camry.

Look at those gigantic utes\trucks Americans drive. Suddenly weight is only a problem if the car is electric?

ClassyJacket··on The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)
You should solve this problem by simply writing every page backwards from end to beginning.
ClassyJacket··on A fun watch for the engineers in the room [video]
I was amazed how many people fell for this.

It's just obvious. To make a 1sq km area of sunlight, you need a mirror at least 1sq km in size - in practice, probably far more. This idea is so absurdly implausible it concerns me anyone over the age of 12 believed it.

ClassyJacket··on US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case
They biggest web advertising company definitely shouldn't control the world's most popular browser. Just like we all knew they would, they're blocking ad blockers, and this problem will only get worse.

Tell your friends to use Firefox, people.

ClassyJacket··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
That's the only reason I can think of for this - like, Alfred Nobel or some other dead donor set rules that they aren't allowed to change now. But I haven't seen anyone confirm it.
ClassyJacket··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
These people obviously did amazing work, but shouldn't a physics prize go to... physicists? It's not as if there aren't physicists doing active work. While the foundation can do whatever it wants, I do feel awards and prize categories should be honest.

Like if there weren't many good movies they wouldn't start giving the Oscar for Best Picture to a videogame.

ClassyJacket··on The real data wall is billions of years of evolution
The fact that they don't work like the human brain is the point. They're suggesting that to make AI better we could consider learning from biology.
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