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s1mon commented on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday   campedersen.com/singulari... · Posted by u/ecto
s1mon · 4 days ago
Many have predicted the singularity, and I found this to be a useful take. I do note that Hans Moravec predicted in 1988's "Mind Children" that "computers suitable for humanlike robots will appear in the 2020s", which is not completely wrong.

He also argued that computing power would continue growing exponentially and that machines would reach roughly human-level intelligence around the early to mid-21st century, often interpreted as around 2030–2040. He estimated that once computers achieved processing capacity comparable to the human brain (on the order of 10¹⁴–10¹⁵ operations per second), they could match and then quickly surpass human cognitive abilities.

s1mon commented on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?    · Posted by u/publicdebates
csours · a month ago
I don't have a full answer, but a couple thoughts:

1. Volunteer. Somewhere, anywhere, for a good cause, for a selfish cause. Somebody will be happy to see you.

2. Stop trolling ourselves. As far as I can tell, all of the mass social media is trending sharply towards being a 100% troll mill. The things people say on social media do not reflect genuine beliefs of any significant percentage of the population, but if we continue to use social media this way, it will.

Disengage from all of the trolls, including and especially the ones on your "own side".

s1mon · a month ago
I would also argue that even people who I like a lot and have known for many years can be very different "people" online than in person. It's sometimes shocking the dichotomy. I try to remind myself and others to ignore some of the online weirdness and focus on the in person interaction.
s1mon commented on I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it   medium.com/@cristi.baluta... · Posted by u/cyrc
s1mon · a month ago
As someone who's been doing mechanical product engineering for 30+ years, doing this as a first project is way more than jumping off the deep end. Impressive.
s1mon commented on All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)   idiallo.com/blog/all-ai-v... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
s1mon · a month ago
All? Yes, there's a lot of garbage and outright dangerous, malicious stuff out there, but there's also moving art. It may take a while to drown out the stupid and evil stuff, but there are examples that amaze me:

https://www.youtube.com/@kellyeld2323/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@alffx123/videos

s1mon commented on Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations   alexschapiro.com/security... · Posted by u/bearsyankees
mattmaroon · 2 months ago
Major? Avelo?
s1mon · 2 months ago
Agreed. I read the headline as "... US Airlines' ..." not "... US Airline's ..." and it seemed much more concerning. Instead it's a single airline I've never heard of. Looking them up, they are more established than I might have guessed (started as Casino Express Airlines 38 years ago, but current incarnation is only 4 years old), but also pretty small - roughly 1/100 the staff and 1/50 the fleet of United.

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

s1mon commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
dboreham · 2 months ago
Shouldn't OpenAI be paying Disney?
s1mon · 2 months ago
That was my first thought. When I saw 'Disney' and 'OpenAI' in a headline together I assumed the money was flowing the other way around. Certainly other rights holders like the NYTimes are looking for the cash to flow the opposite direction (they're suing because of allegations that OpenAI trained on copyrighted material which can be reproduced through prompting). Unless this investment somehow is structured so that Disney gets stock which will potentially be worth orders of magnitude more later...
s1mon commented on Size of Life   neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil
prmph · 2 months ago
Cool visualization, but I also noticed the switch from SI units to imperial. From micrometers to inches, which was jarring and hard for me to compare.

I'd suggest keeping the SI unit , or at least having both once we get to the level of inches.

s1mon · 2 months ago
I found that jarring as well. There's a toggle in the upper right to switch to metric.

Even with setting it to metric, it progresses through units based on the scale. I realize that scientists love to work in scientific notation, and progressing from nanometers to micrometers, mm, cm, and finally meters sort of follows that kind of logic. I wonder how it would feel if the whole thing was in constant units or at least there was an option for that.

s1mon commented on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA   alpranalysis.com... · Posted by u/sodality2
s1mon · 2 months ago
I understand why these statistics may be interesting, but all I really want to see is a map of the locations of the ALPR cameras. I would add an easy link to that data on this site.
s1mon commented on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio   bruno-simon.com/... · Posted by u/razzmataks
s1mon · 2 months ago
HN hug of death? I couldn't get it to load (beyond the grid/circle background) on Safari/Mac, but eventually it loaded in Chrome. Seems to just be a game - use AWSD keys. Not sure why this is "coolest 3D website" in this day and age.
s1mon commented on OpenAI enables group chats in ChatGPT   openai.com/index/group-ch... · Posted by u/s1mon
s1mon · 3 months ago
In retrospect, an obvious feature, but a good example of OpenAI focusing on productizing AI rather than just adding more power/accuracy to LLMs.

u/s1mon

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