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yinser commented on Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM github.com/shutootaki/boo... · Posted by u/takigon

andrepd · 21 days ago

"Too much thought into whether they could, and not enough thought on whether they should" could be the motto of the vast majority of AI products.

Algorithmic social media has already destroyed our attention spans. ChatGPT is in the process of destroying the the rest. People read less than ever and have difficulty engaging with anything that takes more effort than "grok is this real?". Do we really need to put AI into the """reading experience"""?

yinser · 21 days ago

Every day I am shocked that books in the public domain on Kindle don't have X-Ray enabled. I am unable to find a copy of War and Peace for instance with X-Ray so I can keep track of all the characters and places. I'm not saying the world isn't going to shit but AI can help fill in feature gaps that the big-box developers have not bothered with.

yinser commented on Show HN: An open-source e-book reader for conversational reading with an LLM github.com/shutootaki/boo... · Posted by u/takigon

pacha3000 · 21 days ago

Just seeing the introduction, I can see this tool hardly adds any value.

The introduction video shows how easy it is to import an epub, and then "asks the ebook" to give them the Table of Contents. While the ToC was already available... no real added value compared to RAG

yinser · 21 days ago

I saw the ToC request as a demo of the capabilities, not a statement on the full value proposition. There are a LOT of valuable features in here that are not offered in Kindle or other ebook readers.

yinser commented on M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued earthquake.usgs.gov/earth... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

yinser · a month ago

That is _really_ big. It will likely crack the top 8 ever recorded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes

yinser commented on Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Cse3p... · Posted by u/_Microft

yinser · 7 months ago

Aaaaaand it’s gone from YouTube.

yinser commented on BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video] media.ccc.de/v/38c3-biote... · Posted by u/doener

yinser · 8 months ago

Selection of metal, lamination, presence of a ura (裏), handle material, the ability to make a new handle and attach it to the original metal. A metal chosen for an extreme sharpness may be terribly difficult to sharpen, a metal easy to sharpen may not hold an edge for long.

yinser · 8 months ago

Most factory chisels are not laminations like hand made Japanese ones are. They are just a single alloy.

yinser commented on BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video] media.ccc.de/v/38c3-biote... · Posted by u/doener

ryao · 8 months ago

Isn’t the main thing that makes a chisel better or worse the material quality, such that regardless of whether it is hand made or factory made, the chisel made of superior material is better?

yinser · 8 months ago

Selection of metal, lamination, presence of a ura (裏), handle material, the ability to make a new handle and attach it to the original metal. A metal chosen for an extreme sharpness may be terribly difficult to sharpen, a metal easy to sharpen may not hold an edge for long.

yinser commented on BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video] media.ccc.de/v/38c3-biote... · Posted by u/doener

ryao · 8 months ago

> We all know that custom, hand-made, artisan-crafted, boutique tools are always better than something factory made. A guitar, a wood chisel, a chef's knife, a built racing engine, a firearm, a suit, a pair of shoes. Given that this is so well-known, and so universally understood, it's peculiar at best that this is not seen by most people when it comes to medicine. It is however also true.

I have seen this sentiment expressed, but I have yet to see any real evidence for it. A factory can ensure precision and consistency at a level that those hand crafting things never could. For all of the things listed, I would rather have factory made versions since I know they are likely made precisely to a specification and deviations from that specification likely make things worse, rather than better.

If that claim about hand made items being better were true, there would be a market for hand made CPUs, yet there is none, since hand made objects can not reach that level of precision. That is a major reason why society transitioned to factories for production in the first place.

yinser · 8 months ago

You are directionally correct but the top of the line chisels are in fact hand made in Japan and I suspect the same for knives. Lee Valley and some other higher end manufacturers make some damn fine chisels but chisels are hand tools and I would guess 9/10 woodworkers who use chisels will choose hand made Japanese chisels over any factory manufactured tools.

yinser commented on Tesla Robotaxi tesla.com/we-robot... · Posted by u/iamwil

alex_young · a year ago

Are they faking this? The robots seem way too human like, maybe they are remotely controlled?

yinser · a year ago

Without a doubt speculators will flood this comment either way.

yinser commented on The quest to build a telescope on the moon newyorker.com/science/ele... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Animats · a year ago

That's a much simpler project. It's deployment, not construction. Two metric tons of mesh have to be soft landed at the bottom of the crater. Then mobile robots pull it open into a large dish.[1] There's a cheaper approach where the mesh is pulled open by weights shot out from the central lander. Cost estimates are in the US$1 billion to US$10 billion range, most of which is shipping cost to Luna Farside.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d4pivfipd9rpb19fm87lq/LCRT_NI...

yinser · a year ago

If you don't see the contradiction in JPL having an active research project to put a radio telescope on the moon and your original statement then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

yinser commented on The quest to build a telescope on the moon newyorker.com/science/ele... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Animats · a year ago

The JPL position is that telescopes should be in space, not on Luna. Too much dust. Too much gravity. A lunar farside optical telescope was proposed, but it would be inferior to one in open space.

yinser · a year ago

You didn't read the article, it _specifically_ mentions JPL's proposal for the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope concept "nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (J.P.L.) is also exploring the idea of a radio-wave detector, the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (L.C.R.T.), inside a 1.3-kilometre-wide moon crater."

https://www.nasa.gov/general/lunar-crater-radio-telescope-lc...