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by snek_case 7mo ago
Mostly water, actually.
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by snek_case 7mo ago
That's the direction the field is already going with "agents". People want autonomous AI agents that are capable of acting independently and that have more and more capabilities. For example, something like Claude code, but t
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by snek_case 7mo ago
First, believe it or not, 3 years is not that long. It's also not a given that LeCun was given the resources he needed to work on this tech at Meta. Zuck wanted another llama. Second, AMI Labs just secured a billion in funding, and whi
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by snek_case 8mo ago
LLMs are super efficient at generating boilerplate for lots of APIs, which is a time consuming and tedious part of programming.
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by snek_case 8mo ago
This would be an expensive benchmark to run on a regular basis, though I guess for the big AI labs it's nothing. Code quality is hard to objectively measure, however.
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by snek_case 8mo ago
Maybe not a particularly astute observation, but what I've seen in 10 years of investing is that the stock market seems to like to do the opposite of what most people expect. There's probably a game theoretic explanation to this,
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by snek_case 8mo ago
There is the Model YL now in China, which is longer and has 3 rows of seats. Apparently they're also about to release a Model YL+. Now that they are going away, there's maybe an opportunity to produce some more premium 3/Y mo
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by snek_case 8mo ago
3% is considered a "safe withdrawal rate" for stock investments, not so much if you have the money just sitting in a bank account, but you're right nevertheless. You can do whatever you want with that kind of money.
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by snek_case 8mo ago
Another thing that people fail to remember is that Woz designed the Apple II, which is what made Apple a highly profitable company for many years, but instead of embracing that success, Jobs repeatedly tried to kill and replace the Apple II
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by snek_case 8mo ago
They're clearly not failing, but if you read comments here or on reddit, lots of people want them to, and have wanted them to for a decade.
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by snek_case 8mo ago
> Add why should anyone look past their opinions about the leader? Because it's the most advanced car manufacturing in the US... Virtually the only successful EV maker outside of China, and it provides over 100,000 jobs worldwide.
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by snek_case 8mo ago
Part of it is they wanted that factory space at Fremont for the Optimus production line. That's because the Optimus team is located there, in Silicon Valley.
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by snek_case 9mo ago
I agree. I think the local models you can run on the "average computer" are not quite good enough yet, but I have hope that we will see much better small local models in the future.
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by snek_case 9mo ago
In the early 2000s Wikipedia used to fill that role. Now it's like you have an encyclopedia that you can talk to. What I'm slightly worried about is that eventually they are going to want to monetize LLMs more and more, and it&#x2
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by snek_case 9mo ago
You can work on building LLMs that use less compute and run locally as well. There are some pretty good open models. They probably be made even more computationally efficient.
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by snek_case 9mo ago
Cursor is in the business of selling you more tokens, so it makes sense that they would exaggerate the capabilities of their models, and even advertise it being used to produce lots of code over weeks. This would probably cost you thousands
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by snek_case 9mo ago
I've had AI write some very nice, readable code, but I make it go one function at a time.
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by snek_case 9mo ago
I found the codebase very hard to navigate. Hundreds (over a thousand?) tiny files with less than 200 lines of code, in deeply nested subdirectories. I wanted to find where the JavaScript engine was, and where the DOM implementation was loc
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by snek_case 9mo ago
Ubuntu also tried this with Unity. They were hoping that Ubuntu would become more popular on tablets if they had a more tablet-friendly UI... They imposed this on desktop users even though nobody asked for it and basically nobody used Linux
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by snek_case 9mo ago
The thing is, a lot of the time, politicians make decisions that don't reflect majority opinion. They act against the will of the people... But people are forced to choose between two extremes because of the two party system. That&#x27
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by snek_case 9mo ago
Weekend project?
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by snek_case 9mo ago
Another big issue is that policy is based on politicians trying to get (re)elected. Their focus is doing things that make them look good, rather than actually doing good. There isn't a ton of long-term planning because elections happen
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by snek_case 9mo ago
It's probably very true for exposure therapy as well.
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by snek_case 9mo ago
I would argue that there's obviously value in having your company/team use well-known languages and tools if they do the job well. Same as using open standards and well-known design patterns. If you choose a lesser known language,
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by snek_case 9mo ago
Without wanting to sound overly pessimistic, I subjectively feel like comments on Hacker News have become more negative and cynical over the last 10 years. It often seems like the prevailing attitude is "let me try and point to a perce
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by snek_case 10mo ago
Sometimes it's possible to take an unpaid leave for six months or a year and then come back if you want to. If you perform well at your job, no reason they wouldn't want you back.
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by snek_case 10mo ago
The problem is going to be how to control those models to produce a universe that's temporally and spatially consistent. Also think of other issues such as networked games, how would you even begin to approach that in this new paradigm
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by snek_case 10mo ago
You could also try to replicate something like the Monster 6502: https://monster6502.com/ It's not lithography, but you can build a working processor out of small surface mount chips, and you can solder these chips wit
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by snek_case 10mo ago
It's probably true that free enterprise helps a lot, but China has that in large part. Even though the CCP calls itself communist, China is very capitalist in a number of ways. But I guess China is showing us that capitalism can exist
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by snek_case 10mo ago
"Windows 3.1 primarily used palette-based color modes, common modes included 16 colors (VGA/EGA) and 256 colors (SuperVGA)"

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