Wow, I didn't know that was a thing. Been driving nearly 30 years, and never had a windshield chip.
Grow up in a place where roads have gravel on the shoulders and are made using coarse-chip seal and you’ll get them regularly.
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Hmmm. If, rather than flying close to sea level, you flew at high altitude (above commercial airliners), and kept it relatively small, I suspect that you could do this and no one would notice unless you told them.
Though at high altitudes the winds are such that it would be less of an airship and more of a steerable balloon.
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It's only discussed in a similarly ambiguous way - like that they know noise is a potential problem that they're working on. Though to be fair, the designers probably have no idea themselves, since apparently nobody has built a prototype engine that could be run at the rated thrust level in a way they could check the real-world noise and vibration on.
I would assume that these days you can simulate that increasingly accurately before you need a full-scale prototype.
They could also use active noise cancellation, which is already used in some turboprops like the Q400.
Could you expand on that?
Numerous critics pointed out that the only application where cryptocurrencies had any real advantages over conventional finance was crime.
The critics were right, and the cryptocurrency ecosystem in which Silicon Valley was a not insubstantial part were wrong.
As such, and combined with the ills of social media, Silicon Valley has blow’ any public trust it may have had in the past.
It's funny how many years of "X found to be effective in fighting cancer" stories have filtered through HN and then you never hear about it again.
The research at treating mouse cancer has been making great strides--people cancer still has a long way to go though.
As a rule of thumb, if you’re not a researcher in the area ignore any media reports of a study that include the words “in mice”.
Also, there’s a tendency on HN for commenters (mostly software engineers) to think that they are smarter than the scientists who work on this stuff day in, day out. Let me tell you, you, random HN reader are not smarter than random biomedical scientists.
I can't think of many other reasons to create voice cloning AI, or deepfake AI (other than porn, of course).
There are legitimate applications - fixing a tiny mistake in the dialogue in a movie in the edit suite, for instance.
Do these legitimate applications justify making these tools available to every scammer, domestic abuser, child porn consumer, and sundry other categories of criminal? Almost certainly not.
> There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society
The article is certainly interesting as yet another indicator of the backlash against AI, but I must say, “exists to scam the elderly” is totally absurd. I get that this is satire, but satire has to have some basis in truth.
I say this as someone whose father was scammed out of a lot of money, so I’m certainly not numb to potential consequences there. The scams were enabled by the internet, does the internet exist for this purpose? Of course not.
My hypothesis: Generative AI is, in part, reaping the reaction that cryptocurrency sowed.
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Machinery made farmers more efficient and now there are more farmers than ever.
Key difference being that there is only a certain amount of food that a person can physically eat before they get sick.
I think it’s a reasonable hypothesis that the amount of software written if it was, say, 20% of its present cost to write it, would be at least 5x what we currently produce.
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