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100 percent agree... PR stunt to assist acquisition of Tesla so Musk can gain control of Tesla
Re:Deep Learning Overview on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:46PM (#49313176)
These are my notes over the years on machine learning and deep learning. I recently tuned them up with AI and removed some inaccuracies. They are mostly notes from Stanford classes. There is also a lot of notes on different terms for the same things in the real world and notes and updates from projects.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:51PM (#48886537)
It really is useful.. If you add your favorite places... it will give you pretty good suggestions using the ai wrapper when you travel and it is good at giving joint recommendations for you and your friends.
Re:Show HN: Lykly.ai on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:03PM (#46683037)
The basic idea is: 1. signup up 2. add favorite places 3. ai gives suggestions based on favorites.
Probably Orbital composites. The image at the top is from them.

https://www.orbitalcomposites.com/

Re:How I overcame my addiction to sugar on Saturday June 29, 2024 @08:07AM (#40829802)
I think the author read atomic habits. Even the story about vietnam is in there.
Re:Duolingo Sucks, Now What? on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:49PM (#39374318)
I recently wrote a langauge app... my approach has been.. 1. start with ear training. (minimal pairs) 2. learn some vocab (anki) 3. then use social media. tik tok specifically.

https://www.oohwoo.com/

Re:Show HN: Name That Nation on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:45PM (#39281908)
I am adding Mauritius
Re:Show HN: Name That Nation on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:37PM (#39281809)
It does keep a list of countries you got wrong and you can go through them again.
Re:Show HN: Name That Nation on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:13PM (#39278078)
I have tried to get this to work. The problem has to do with the material UI Select component used. I think the problem is that the return key is already used to select an item from the select.
Re:Show HN: Name That Nation on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:58AM (#39275808)
That is correct. It is a feature. It is a challenge how to make it more clear to the user.
Re:Show HN: Name That Nation on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:42AM (#39275529)
That is correct about the green colors work. Most of the maps are from wikipedia and that's how they do show contested areas in light green. I think I will change them though to another source because it is confusing.
I agree... the speculation is becoming less on the market and more on whether these companies can execute. Everyione knows it's in their long term interest to make EVs.
In the near term (1-3 years), no role in a traditional oems has incentives to make evs.

dealers make money from maintenance. evs have less maintence.

car salesmen are trained to negotiate, not educate consumers about evs.

factory workers/unions: evs require less factory workers.

many engineers have the wrong skills for evs.

executives also have the wrong skills. they are trained to negotiate with suppliers and focus on core competency. core competency changes from manufacturing engines to battery and electric drive train. innovation may require insourcing if suppliers fail.

investors want dividends and not to speculate on evs.

imho, it makes more sense for startups and tech companies to make evs.

Re:GPT Spiritual Avisor on Friday February 24, 2023 @10:12AM (#34925223)
are you saying it's just gpt3 and you only add a prompt for the religion?
Re:GPT Spiritual Avisor on Friday February 24, 2023 @10:11AM (#34925213)
how did you train it?
Re:Remotely Controlled Lawn Tractor on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:06AM (#32649892)
That is awesome. I have wanted to do this for an electric mower. And maybe eventually train it to drive itself with ML. You could even start a service to cut yards and use the public records of the lots to set a boundaries for the yard.
It's not false advertising. I think there is a misconception among the public about what autopilot means. Autopilot is assistance, not replacement for human operators.

"An autopilot is a system used to control the path of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle, allowing the operator to focus on broader aspects of operations (for example, monitoring the trajectory, weather and on-board systems)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot

Re:Debunking our narratives of the late 70s and early 80s on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @03:45PM (#29099394)
Regarding the cold war and military spending... Everyone in the 80s thought Reagan was nuts because he wanted to build "Star Wars" a system that would shoot down all the Soviet Nukes. So the Soviets wasted money trying to compete with it. So at least in some cases, it wasn't about us spending more on the military... it was about tricking them into spending more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

Re:Ephemeralization on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:14PM (#28991868)
Smartphones... yes. tvs are also an example. I have a flat screen from 2005 and one from this year. the weight difference is hard to believe.
If I could filter all politics out of hacker news that would be great. the comments especially are filled with "useful idiots"

I have filtered a lot of politics on twitter by blocking prominent politicians and mute words.

Re:Why didn’t auto-braking stop these crashes? on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:49PM (#28791862)
> Tesla does not have a media relations department and Chief Executive Elon Musk did not respond to attempts to seek comment.

Tesla has ongoing response to this.

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

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