HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

eagerpace

519 karma · joined January 25, 2012

submissionscomments
eagerpace··on 'Eggflation' sending US shoppers to Mexico – where $300 fines await
It’s an entertainment headline, not news. Could write this about border arbitrage for any item.
eagerpace··on Crew-9 Returns to Earth
Not only did they deliver the commercial crew contract faster than Boeing, they did it for a much lower cost.
eagerpace··on Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI
I don't think the hardware is that easy to source just yet. Musk pulled some strings and redirected existing inventory and orders from his other companies, namely Tesla, to accelerate delivery.
eagerpace··on Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)
The best players in every game, including business, are the ones who bend and push beyond the rules. Sometimes the rules evolve, sometimes you get too close to the sun.
eagerpace··on Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue
Fair. I don't think it needs a recall if it doesn't change the way the car operates. Perhaps there is a new class of change notification between "release notes" and "recall" that needs to be established.
eagerpace··on Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds
Regen braking uses magnets and takes place inside an encased and oil-cooled motor which should eliminate airborne debris.
eagerpace··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
No doubt he needs to distance himself from the company so that his political career stops impacting it so directly. The business is over valued but still very impressive. Yes the software is controversial, but the hardware is fantastic and a decade ahead of what other domestic automakers are doing. They’re also profitable and have a long term vision to innovate unlike many industry peers who chase the government mandate du jour.
eagerpace··on El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
How can anything ever be changed once 51% is abandoned?

I also think there will be a gold rush of hacking old wallets one day when the encryption is broken. Not sure if that will happen before or after btc failure though. You can’t upgrade security on lost wallets.

eagerpace··on Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon
That was Craig's request as a way to close out his series. They will start fresh with a new timeline.
eagerpace··on Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers
Gravity
eagerpace··on Hyundai to offer free NACS DC EV adapters to enhance charging convenience
It’s not your imagination. GM and F are awful about this. They even significantly curtailed their plans for training and updating dealers to support EVs better.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/ford-ends-ev-dealership-prog...

It’s an under-appreciated intangible “innovation” from Tesla that you can order a car as simply as you can order from Amazon. People hate car dealers with good reason.

eagerpace··on Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
How much of this could be resolved if its training set were reduced? Conceivably, most of the training serves only to confuse the model when only aiming to solve a math equation.
eagerpace··on Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013)
I think this applies to anything that is created over more than a single generation. Basically anything the government touches eventually goes this way too.
eagerpace··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
Every clip in that video looks like an aircraft to me.
eagerpace··on AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation
What came first, AGI or Fusion?
eagerpace··on Show HN: Which Animal Shares Your Body Fat Percentage?
I've done a couple DEXA scans recently and they have in fact confirmed that the BMI calculation for me is spot on.
eagerpace··on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users
I’m willing to accept the risk
eagerpace··on Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit
Pay for what?
eagerpace··on Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres
If it means cheaper rates and better reliability, yeah, I am.
eagerpace··on Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings: study
I am not a doctor and this is not advice. This is a standard medical test I have completely given up on any doctor to perform accurately. I do it myself at home once or twice a month. I do it with the same device, in the same chair, at the same desk, the same time of day, after I’ve ate and drank the same thing. Yes, I still let everyone take it because it’s typically a precondition of receiving care but my readings at home are completely different and give me a more accurate data point that actually makes me feel good about the progress I’ve been making on my health.

I’m actively looking for more healthcare I can do this way. I trust my data and it all coming together on the safety of my personal device. We don’t need doctors with extremely limited datasets to do this and try to find obscure correlations for us.

eagerpace··on US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case
Anywhere there are eyeballs, there will be ads. And wherever there are ads there are privacy concerns.

Netflix waited until they had sufficiently killed off cable TV, then went back to creating the same problem it fixed. No ads in ChatGPT today, but soon as it (or a competitor) gains meaningful marketshare, there will be ads.

eagerpace··on Earth Is on the Brink of Breaching a 7th of Nine 'Planetary Boundaries'
It’s hard for me to read an article when the clickbait headline is completely walked back in the first paragraph.
eagerpace··on DOJ accuses Visa of monopoly that affects price of 'nearly everything’
As with many things, it’s a duopoly with Mastercard that has another 30% of the market.
eagerpace··on The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
This is the kind of stuff that goes on for decades without anyone batting an eye at it. I welcome the Department of Government Efficiency if it can read an article like this and take action on it to generate revenue that was accounted for in revenue projections and forgotten about when it came time to collect.
eagerpace··on iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip
I just want to have my computer plug into my monitor and transform into a desktop. I’ll pay twice as much to have one device capable of adapting to every form factor.
eagerpace··on Can LLMs Generate Novel Research Ideas?
Is this how our simulation started?
eagerpace··on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned for $7.5B
I generally agree that the root cause should be addressed first (student debt is a great example) and the good news is that I believe this project is tackling both simultaneously.
eagerpace··on The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
It seems like exactly the kind of thing AI will be better at than humans. If just needs to be trained on the variations instead of the textbook.
eagerpace··on Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
To collect data so they can do marketing and advertising to customers.
eagerpace··on NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues
The only risk returning the capsule unmanned is to their reputation. This is an easy decision.
← PreviousPage 5 of 8Next →