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1R053 commented on We put a coding agent in a while loop github.com/repomirrorhq/r... · Posted by u/sfarshid

keeda · 7 months ago

> After finishing the port, most of the agents settled for writing extra tests or continuously updating agent/TODO.md to clarify how "done" they were. In one instance, the agent actually used pkill to terminate itself after realizing it was stuck in an infinite loop.

Is that... the first recorded instance of an AI committing suicide?

1R053 · 7 months ago

I guess pkill would rather be a sleep or koma. Erasing itself from any storage would rather equate to aicide

1R053 commented on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-g... · Posted by u/olieidel

eqvinox · 7 months ago

> And then your exit tax is calculated by taking the average of the past 3 years of earnings of that company, multiplied by 13.75 (which is crazy), and then taking 60% of that which is taxed at your personal income tax rate (likely 42%; Teileinkünfteverfahren)

This does not match the results from 5 minutes of googling, not for individuals at least. What is being taxed is the shares you're holding, as if you're selling them, which results in a tax on their increase in value compared to when you've bought them. [disclaimer: I just did a quick search on this, I'm not a tax consultant or lawyer.]

I haven't looked for the regulations on companies moving their headquarters away from Germany. It's possible those rules are the above, and the author confused them with the rules for individuals.

Either way, if the author believes they're right, they should dig up some citations. There are none in that article. Is this based on advice they've received? Did they do their own research? Are they a tax consultant or lawyer? 13.75 is a very "spottable" number, how about a link to the law that has that number?

1R053 · 7 months ago

While that number seems to be not a general value, the "Wegzugsbesteuerung" still is significant.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wegzugsbesteuerung

Essentially, it assumes you sell your assets at market value and taxes the difference to your expenses for it.

1R053 commented on Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics anukari.com... · Posted by u/humbledrone

1R053 · 10 months ago

I think to be useful it needs a mode of playing, that is always musical / in tune.

Not yet sure how to really do it, but one concept I like from NI plugins is that you have multiple keyboard zones: one zone is for notes, others are e.g. for patterns or styles. Imagine a guitar where one zone is for the chord type and tone, another for the striking pattern...

The challenge here is probably the resonance algo for multiple systems based on multiple notes... Maybe the piano concept would be handy here... imagine instead of having 3 strings like on the piano the instrument to be one system for each key... that excite each other via air or direct resonance points... the systems should be automatically tuned based on one reference system (e.g. using automatic string length or tension scaling)

Anyway, amazing work and having it on GPU allows this really to scale.

1R053 commented on Apple M3 Ultra apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/ksec

1R053 · a year ago

are you comparing the same models? How did you calculate the TOPS for M3 Ultra?

1R053 commented on AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data elenaverna.com/p/ai-is-ki... · Posted by u/corentin88

johnfn · a year ago

Hm, not sure I agree with you about SO. The experience I have with SO 99%+ of the time is that I google my question, get a result on SO which has a correct and decent quality answer, and I'm back to work. That's a pretty great experience, and I certainly wouldn't say that it misses the bar to be a 'quality platform'. I do agree the moderation is overbearing at times, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here. The utility of SO - getting answers to questions - is basically unmatched websites that aren't LLM wrappers.

While you won't hear me bemoaning the death of Quora, I'm quite a bit more concerned about SO. After all, where is GPT 5 going to scrape the next set of answers for new libraries and frameworks..?

1R053 · a year ago

I think it depends a lot on how research AI generated traffic counts towards these stats.

Also, if there is no answer yet on the web the AI may also not know it. Then these questions should still end up on SO.

I might add, that SO also could build their own chat / research UI. It would need to have some benefit over others, but I guess the community aspect of it alone would suffice...

1R053 commented on LIMO: Less Is More for Reasoning arxiv.org/abs/2502.03387... · Posted by u/trott

1R053 · a year ago

I think the title of the paper is misleading. Obviously the result shows an impressive performance with just few training examples. However, I cannot see that while keeping the same method reducing training data leads to more performance. They have simply shifted the performance curve (impressively) to lower thresholds. Still also with this new method more training data should give better results. It would be interesting to see a full performance curve for the method based on training data amount (and potentially quality).

1R053 commented on OpenAI: Out of Ideas wq6e.com/posts/2025-02-02... · Posted by u/robbiet480

nickv · a year ago

just like Bell Labs UNIX gave way to BSD UNIX which gave way to SunOS/Solaris which gave way to Linux... this is a tale as old as time. The question is will this end the same way?

1R053 · a year ago

depending on whether the incumbents will keep the ability to ride new S-curves...

as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

1R053 commented on OpenAI: Out of Ideas wq6e.com/posts/2025-02-02... · Posted by u/robbiet480

buyucu · a year ago

OpenAI is not relevant in a world where DeepSeek is open source.

1R053 · a year ago

not sure if there would be a deepseek open source model if there were no leading models from OpenAI et al

1R053 commented on Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs youtube.com/shorts/2ntx91... · Posted by u/m348e912

user568439 · a year ago

Long Covid (probably a form of ME/CFS triggered by Covid) is one of the worse diseases one can get. It invalidates you as a person physically and mentally and there are no solutions around. At the same time you are gaslighted by doctors and people because there is no clear diagnosis.

My wife is already on her 3rd year and I just could witness first hand how shallow is the knowledge of most doctors, how they have zero curiosity or enthusiasm to help and especially in Europe, how are they extremely averse to try anything with the "do not harm" in mind.

They think that doing nothing is better than trying a non-approved treatment and I'll put an example. My wife had a respiratory tract infection back in October which probably got while going to the GP by the way. With Long Covid her immune system seems very compromised, she never leaves home if it's not imperative because even with a wheelchair is too much effort. I don't attend almost any social event and I take a lot of precautions. Anyway, with the infection she was coughing blood for 3 days and then she was unable to breath properly, having drops of oxygen saturation down to 86% and waking up breathless in the middle of the night.

She documented her symptoms very well including her saturation measurements. The GP just told her to wait for a few weeks for full recovery and everything will be back to normal and he literally said he had no time to read her notes. She asked please to get an oxygen concentrator or at least be sent to a pulmonologist. This request was denied and of course the only option she had was to buy the concentrator on her own which helped a ton. Probably if she got it the 1st year she would be much better by now.

She is taking like 10 supplements and medications, she is using infrared light, oxygen concentrator, wheelchair, special pillows, asthma inhaler, etc... All this helps her to have a bearable existence but guess what, not a single thing was proposed and prescribed by the doctors. Almost everything she takes is based on small studies from internet and experiences from patients. Mostly from the USA where doctors are much more open minded and willing to take risks which is necessary when your default baseline is almost like being a tetraplegic with dementia and chronic pain.

She has to get pretty harmless drugs like Sulodexide (a blood thinner) from other countries in a shady way because the Doctors in the Netherlands won't even prescribe this.

There is some progress in diagnosis or biomarkers detection and some promising studies for cures like monoclonal antibodies, antivirals and others. But meanwhile it's a pure nightmare to live with Long Covid.

1R053 · a year ago

that is a horrible way to be treated by a doctor. In Germany you have free choice of your doctors. Although sometimes you have to wait quite a bit to get appointments... I am not sure, but with a a European health insurance card you should be able to also go to doctors in other countries and be at least partially covered by your insurance.

1R053 commented on Mathics 7.0 – Open-source alternative to Mathematica github.com/Mathics3/mathi... · Posted by u/adius

1R053 · a year ago

one of the annoying things about Mathematica is that all functions are crammed into the same namespace and that there is no overloading with different parameterization options...