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>We should get old, underpowered stuff (and be required to use it by law) and be forced to make do.

Why not both, a fast and a slow one? In Hollywood film making, the colorist uses a $40k professional mastering monitor to make sure the work is accurate, and also a $100 Walmart TV in parallel to make sure the movie will still look good in your average home and not just on the studio monitors.

Same should be in SW dev: Develop on fast HW but test on slow HW.
Clip Meets Model Zoo Experts: Pseudo-Supervision for Visual Enhancement
Confluent must put this guy to the trial for using their project's fair name to get cheap publicity.
They are inaccurate, but it's not simply that they are cherry-picked. It is just extremely difficult to give an estimation when one of the main factors is grade. No matter how much grade you pick to use for your benchmark, it is going to be wrong for a lot of people.

Epa standards for MPG have had the same problem for many years. It definitely improved for most people when they stopped using a completely flat area and started having some grade changes, but it is still just a matter of where you fall on the averages for where you live and drive.
It is not just bandwidth or latency, and is not just for Antarctica. Not in all places of the world you have the best connectivity. Even with not so bad connectivity, you may have environmental interference, shared use or be just far from the wifi router. You may have a browser running in a not so powerful CPU, doing more things chewing processor, or the available memory, so heavy JS sites may suffer or not work at all there. You don't know what is in the other side, putting high requirements there may turn your solution unfit for a lot of situations.

Things should be improving (sometimes fast, sometimes slowly) in that direction, but still is not something guaranteed everywhere, or at least in every place that your application is intended or needed to run. And there may be even setbacks in that road.
Companies don't have a fixed amount of media coverage. Rawlinson saying that Tesla has lost its way is a headline. Him saying that Lucid makes great cars is not.
They keep calling them 1-bit LLMs, but they're really 1-trit LLMs. If you can have 3 states, it's not a BInary uniT, it's a TRInary uniT.

I don't think that this is just a nit, it implies a real mismatch between how these models work, and how modern computing hardware works. People have built ternary computers in the past, but to the best of my knowledge nobody's made a serious attempt at it in half a century.

You can always use two bits to store a ternary value, of course. But then it wouldn't be a 1-bit LLM, now, would it? And that doubling in compute resources required would make a tangible difference in how one has to think about potential efficiency improvements. Also, ternary tritwise logic implemented on binary hardware is unlikely to be anywhere near as efficient as binary bitwise logic on hardware that was specifically engineered for the purpose. This leaves me thinking that the research teams involved continuing to refer to these as 1-bit LLMs must be interpreted as knowingly engaging in dishonest marketing tactics.
Brave search has been so terrible for me. I’ve very quickly been conditioned to append “!g” to all omnibar searches, even in non-brave browsers! (This tells brave to use Google)
Fine, "LLMs generate certain numbers more frequently".
> If I ever go to another restaurant and they tell me to order on my phone, I will just leave.

100%

Those systems are actively hostile to customers. There are three restaurants (that I've been to) in my town that starting doing this, and I won't go back to them as long as they keep it up. Which might mean forever, as I don't think I'd know if they stop using them in future.
No, teleportation, duh.
Of course I don't have a plan for eliminating all dirty politics, nor do I think it's possible.

But we can certainly remember that dirty politics exists and be wary of it.
Substitute "china" for "japan" and roll back the clock a few decades. Even though Toyota, Nissan and Honda are top-selling brands, Detroit spiffed up its quality controls, and a bunch of those manufacturers set up factories in the US anyways.
> He’s elevated a particular kind of speech which historically was cancelled but has, since Trump’s election in 2016, had zero problem gaining mainstream access.

Musk has allowed conservative voices on x.com which were systematically banned from Twitter and other Big Tech sites.

I'd highly recommend reading the Twitter Files to get an understanding of how the public square was politically manipulated prior to Musk's takeover of Twitter.

It's important we all understand that free speech is one of the most fundamental parts of the American Constitution. The Founding Fathers came to America with the knowledge of what society looks like when people's speech is controlled. They wanted America to be better than that.
I know you've said you've looked at off-the shelf tools, but in that did you consider https://www.transkribus.org/? It's a tool designed for reading historical, hand-written documentation—gets used a lot in archives and historical studies. Might be worth an evaluation to see if your handwriting is not great in similar ways to Dutch bankers from the 18th century.
The new processor isn't sold yet.
What Russia is doing is further isolation itself from the rest of the world and their allies like China (who seems to be completely against the use of nuclear weapons). Russia should just give up and withdraw from Ukraine. There is no way they can win against US support and further escalation will only make their recovery more difficult.
> AI will lead to more queries because I search differently with AI results than an index/page rank result.

If you do 1000 queries a day, it would take you twenty years before you expect to hit a problematic query, assuming such errors are random. First, almost no one makes that many queries a day, and second, the errors come mostly from being silly, not when trying to find accurate information.

> Also, it’s not about the unique queries, but the number of users running them. This seems like “data waving” where google is giving some not relevant number hoping to distract from the issue they can’t or don’t want to solve.

I actually want to know once per 7M unique queries more than 10M users (or w/e the number is). Memes spread, so users don't tell me what their failure rate actually looks like.

> The measure should be impact of bad queries and bad info. Or amount of garbage responded.

Most stuff on the internet already is garbage advice and bad info. Much of this is due to SEO spam, but it's also because there are far fewer experts than bloggers (e.g. on the topic of AI). Now, I think the best solution would be for Google to start punishing SEO spam again so I can actually search for the right information by myself, but it seems possible that the AI Overview could be helpful in the sifting process.

> Or even better, confusion created in people based on AI responses.

I mean, this is a pretty difficult measure to figure out, even through polling. People aren't really trained to notice when they're confused, and it's pretty difficult to know you saw misinformation when you were looking up the information for the first time.
Thank you, that’s parsimonious and makes sense.
I’d say about the most interesting difference between me and everyone else on this subject is that I have never been upset by other people enjoying things that once only I had access to.

It seems quite common that people want to “keep their spot”. People in San Francisco want “transplants to leave”. People in the UK want “no more immigrants”. People in Mallorca want “no more tourists”. “Cupertino is full”.

And all my life I have enjoyed seeing other people enjoy the things I’ve liked. There’s fun in discovering something new. And a long hike in Patagonia without seeing someone is a lot harder now than it used to be. But it’s just more people experiencing the things I like.

Things like “it’s too crowded there” seem more like just a property of the Universe as a location approaches the equilibrium crowd that it can support.

My sleepy home village now has tall towers to house people. The home I grew up in and played with animals is gone. But it feels better that it is this way, with homes for humans. Denser rather than sprawled. This isn’t even a rational position I’ve brought myself to. I just don’t have a negative emotional reaction to it.

I wonder what factors place one on this side and what factors place one on the other side. And which one is adaptive. Them or me.

Am I unbelievably unique? Or is it that folks like us just keep quiet?
Take a look at the Euro NCAP safety ratings - https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ra...

For 2023 there are a number of Chinese models in the top 10.
Some amount of micro-management is key to being a good manager. If you're not directly involved in what your reports are doing, it's difficult to know whether they're doing a good job or not.

Most IC engineers are cowards that refuse to give negative feedback about a peer even when it's anonymous. In order to really know how your reports are doing, you need to get down into the details with them. I've seen way too many low performer engineers survive for years just because their manager doesn't know enough about their work to know they suck.
Capitalization isn't part of grammar. Those examples are different strings of characters altogether.
sorry for not expressing myself clearly. by not buying the argument i was referring to the idea that we can be more or less dependent on levels of government. i believe we are always 100% dependent on all levels. but in some ways we are always less dependent on local levels of government because we can move. but i have the impression we are applying different definitions to terms here, especially to what it means to be dependent.

for the most part i actually agree with you. i too favor a localist/federalist approach. and where i said you can't escape the levels, i might have added: nor should you want to. because as you say, the levels need to exist.

one of the problems i see in the US is that while the system is doing relatively well at the federalist approach, not enough is done to protect the weaker individuals from those with power over them. especially at the local level.

so while i agree that experimentation is good, certain basic rights need to be safeguarded.

another thing is fixing vs replacing HOAs. again that comes down to what fixing or replacing mean.

it is important to me that organizations that govern my life in a community are actually considered government.

an HOA currently only involves homeowners, but not those who rent there. that's the first thing i would fix. so HOAs become neighborhood councils. and beyond that it is just a matter of levels. so if you mean that replacing local HOAs with a community council covering a larger area is a bad idea, then i agree with you. i mean to replace it with a different democratic structure at the same level, with largely the same responsibilities but with more clear restrictions to protect individual rights and freedoms.
Yeah, but it is so much work to litigate and it takes so much time, even for small claims. We can’t really expect a reasonable fraction of the owners of these devices to sue Spotify, then maintain the wherewithal to bring that suit to a judgement, then actually collect on it. The other legal mechanism, class actions, often just enrich the lawyers litigating them.
Alone Again, Unnaturally: Thoughts on Solitude
you would probably be fined for bringing a gun to school
Cloudflare only gives you the country
China massively subsides its automotive OEMS. To the point that the whole thing might as well be considered a public sector endeavour. The only way the US can counter this is with tariffs or subsidising way beyond what they currently are. If US customers stopped buying SUVs OEMs would stop making them.
I don't think it's that people don't care, it's that the hurdles of traveling feel high when you have no experience.

How do I plan logistics, like flights, hotels, transportation, and activities? How do I get around when I don't speak the language at all? And, of course, how can I afford this trip for my family, reaching a balance between comfort and cost?

Sure, anyone can learn to do these things, but it's definitely intimidating to do it the first time.
This article is claiming that the Ticketmaster breach from a few days ago was actually a much broader hack affecting 400+ companies, all through a Snowflake employee's stolen credentials. This seems like a pretty big story that's only being reported on hudsonrock.com now.

I haven't heard of Hudson Rock before, does anyone know if they are a reputable source?
IDK what Microsoft though, it could just be some trigger happy lawyers justifying their paychecks the same way Nintendo's do by aggressively defending any an all IP even if it's obsolete, since I doubt Microsoft and anyone there really cares that much about that V-Chat.
> As much as people hate this QR stuff, it's generally better, provided it works

I can see it being better for the restaurant. I don't see how it's better for the customers, even if it works.
This sounds fascinating. Do you have some articles describing your setup?
Do you have any reason to believe that "open unsupported hardware" would be a bad law? Resolving this in court every time a company decides to drop support seems worse.
unless the bots have been trained on outsourced support worker chat threads?
I prefer camping.
You can format disks in MacOS to be case sensitive.
for better or for worse, japan is a geopolitical puppet of the US, where as china is big and powerful enough to be uncontrollable now
> If you truly do have the best knowledge, build support for your ideas through dialogue. […] Good managers build consensus.

This sounds like good ideas. And also sounds a lot like what I just read in the article…

I don’t think there was any presumption that eng leaders are the “best” source of ideas. But there is a presumption he tried to communicate that they should participate, because they have experience, rather than recuse themselves from technical decisions.
It has a 65 l tank and official consumption is 2.9 l / 100 km.
Do you know many Americans who think "capital F Freedom" means laws don't exist? I've lived here a while and never met anyone who think that way. Most of the time when Americans I know talk about their freedom, they're referring to the 1st and 2nd amendments. I've never really understand freedom to mean "freedom to do whatever you want without impunity."

Is that how other countries perceive American's idea of freedom?
This isn't something new right now. Tokenism is there - and has been decried non-stop - since the 60's.

The problem is not inserting minorities, it's a whole entertainment industry that is still hardly able to make them whole characters despite decades (!) of pointing out the problem.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/america-ferrera-breaks-down-t...
That’s a bit different buying sorted boxes, it’s not the same thing as buying pallets right from them.
Note that it's a hybrid. So the 1,300 miles isn't just electric. In which case, I think the problem of range anxiety is less relevant since refueling the gas engine is likely relatively easy just about anywhere.
> charging a battery up to 1,300 miles

it's a PHEV, not a BEV
Printing menus only costs about 2 minutes of a dev's time, anyone in the restaurant can do it, there's no need to involve a third party who may not be responsive, and the fact it never fails to work is huge. We tech people often ignore the sheer amount of grief we go through because we're used to fixing things and confident we can. A restaurant owner will experience far higher cognitive load and frustration - and if the site goes down in business time, it's total hell. Not easily worth it.
Apart from the engines (specially high performance and the diesel ones - forgetting the emissions scandal), and brand German cars do not have any real competitive edge. If you are willing to pay the price tag you can find craftsmanship, driving dynamics, safety, reliability elsewhere.

In an EV world where software and electronic quirks are the main demand drivers (ev power trains cannot offer differentiation), Chinese are very well positioned to take over the lead.
But the gps point is that assuming you know the semantic meaning of the case and if retention is enough is silly.

Assuming case insensitivity is bizarre.
Even if that is the case today, how long will it stay like that, and how much will it increase the cost to get it too comparable quality? It's only going to get better, and likely it'll get better faster than other manufacturers can get their products cheaper to compete.
If Rawlinson wanted to trash his rivals he could have done it in a creative and original way, which also emphasised the value of his own product.

Like when Tesla released a video of the Cybertruck outperforming a Porsche 911. While towing a 911.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyrTLYyIvNI&ab_channel=Tesla
especially camping in a foreign country!
My understanding when I looked into this a couple years ago is the optional wider scope search is only possible to enable for one's own posts/account and while logged in[1], but still limited. At a server level the only search possible (using the regular Mastodon) is for user-added tags on posts rather than full text and this was an intentional decision[2].

I'm not familiar with indexability outside Mastodon instances, though can't really recall coming across them naturally in search.

[1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/elasticsearch/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/yv1cl4/global_sea...

Edit: updated with links from my prior research.
Eh? It's public domain, as the article mentions. They're allowed to do that and there's nothing wrong with it.
Germany goes the same way and instead of supporting EVs and infrastructure drastically, they discuss how to roll back the phase out of combustion engine cars.

Sad to see how a country, which is so proud of their car industry, fails so spectacularly.
It’s stored in and calculated using a floating-point value, and uses log(2) bits. So it’s ~1.2 bits with float packing over 32m parameters.
I write this as a top level to avoid targeting anyone specifically but also, my rage is so hot that I have to say it: I think this thread sucks and am appalled by most of the things people are saying.

AI is fine. iTerm2 is awesome. You are a bunch of ingrates complaining about living in an age of miracles and wonder.

Could things go badly some day, sure. Is it ok to have ethical concerns about where AI fits in, sure. Is it reasonable to whinge like this? Only if you are a dogmatic fool.
"they" Nintendo doesn't. But "they" random people from the internet make FPGA motherboard of Gameboy that is compatible with factory buttons, case and accessories.
That's the neat part, you won't!

But in all seriousness, there's a current of irrationality flowing under that movie that is oddly satisfying. Why does Augie burn his hand on the quickie griddle?

I feel like Anderson has honed his craft so much that for the people who aren't instantly turned off by his antics, he can create these incredibly emotionally evocative nonsense scenes. I'm not entirely sure Anderson understands how he does it. He's tapping into something deep in his subconscious that resonates with some select set of other people. I guess that's art!
A nuclear warhead by post with a very very very angry letter explaining that, you also have a "legal Basis to stop you using my personal stuff".

Apart from that, forget about it and go off grid and accept that you have been a muppet!

Do people not think about the future, take responsibility or consider the consequences of their actions.

Like sharing all that data in the first place!
I haven't seen a US made car in ages in my country, US cars are too big and unsafe. They all are European or Japanese.
Less attractive to whom?
I had ~30 direct reports and didn't do 1on1s at Tesla and imo it was great
If you work in one of those places, quit.
Yeah, I don't think it's useful (except to score [office] political points) to read the least generous interpretation you can. Trying to understand a position lets you better decide whether or not it actually makes sense, e.g. Chesterton's fence.
Although, if we tried to fairly assess every argument we see, we'd spend all our time doing that instead of being productive, so I get why it's often wise to dismiss things out of hand, at least initially.

You can disagree with the article, but I think your parent comment is not a fair summary, e.g. w/ respect to bullets 1 and 2:

> At first, I thought, ‘This is a really unreasonable person.’ But later as I dug into it, I discovered he was right...This process of conflict mining served Larson a key lesson. “I could have just ignored him, But then I would have missed the key learning, which is that I was the one who was missing context, and needed to refine my approach.”

Maybe the parent comment was "conflict mining" itself. Often the quickest way to learn about something is to make a statement about it and then let others correct you if you're wrong.

On the other hand, "what is a power dynamic" is a fair counterpoint to that. Jeff Bezos, in contrast, said he generally withheld his opinion until the end so others wouldn't be afraid to contradict him; a powerful person sharing their idea can prevent others from sharing better ones.
We live in a time where AI chatbots speak way better English than most native English speakers.
Well it won't be your SUV.
> You scanned the QR code and could finish the payment online. Way better than the waiter going back and forth three times.

I disagree that it's better, and especially if you have to set up an online account to do it.

But I also short-circuit the back-and-forth thing by handing the server my card at the same time as I'm telling them I want the check. Then there's only one trip involved.
I think there's a huge mix of things:

1. People who don't travel because they can't afford it
2. People who don't travel because they're intimidated by it
3. People who don't travel because they don't see it as important

These groups definitely have some overlap -- you may not be able to afford it because you don't prioritize it -- but I think most people wouldn't self-identify as being part of Group 3.
For reference, renting a condo in lower-tier cities can easily be as low as $300-$400 per month in many countries
There are a whole bunch of "Right" things to do. How does one choose? By listening to the people who they represent in real time.

Otherwise, how can they possibly set priorities once during election season for the whole term for any possible future issue?

Democracy is closed-loop control. You need a feedback signal. It's a feature - not a bug.
Yeah this is a good point. I have never had range anxiety on the road, but have had a bit more when I get to certain destinations.

But we also haven't been to any place in the US yet where we were hundreds of miles away from a supercharger.
No, courts don't just make up precedent out of thin air.

Courts follow laws as written, and make decisions and establish precedent whenever laws are vague, in edge cases, or when laws conflict.

But for stuff like this new laws are absolutely required. Why would you prefer unelected judges to be making stuff up, instead of democratically elected lawmakers whose literal job it is to decide these kinds of policies with input from constituents?
Out of curiosity, you mentioned in a a parent comment that there wasn't any good examples until recently; what do you think is a recent good example of a gay character in media?

I'm a straight dude, so I'll admit that I might be a little out of touch with some of these things, but I do think that representation is really important, so I'd like to know an example that you think is a positive depiction.
And a CEO who got $379 million in comp in 2022, more than half of their revenue for the year.
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