Readit NewsArodex commented on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/andsoitis
> They are also tied for first for having the highest cost of living.
Who cares?
Absolute savings rate and net worth are what matter.
Any European will gladly live in America for US$1 million/year income even if the cost of living is US$300k/year.
Americans at every wealth level live shorter lives than e.g. Brits.
https://www.ft.com/content/653bbb26-8a22-4db3-b43d-c34a0b774...
Arodex commented on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/andsoitis
I don’t know about that. The poor from just about every other country in the world seem desperate to live in America. While American capitalism has many faults, oppressing the bottom quintile is not one of them. The US median income is consistently top ten globally.
>The poor from just about every other country in the world seem desperate to live in America
Immigration to the USA, both illegal and legal, has cratered.
Arodex commented on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/andsoitis
I don't know about for all perpetuity. If history has shown, anyone that reaches the pinnacle eventually becomes complacent, technology improves by becoming faster/cheaper/smaller. That just means it is prime to always be susceptible to a new something coming along that stands on the shoulders of what came before without having to pay for it. They start where the current leader fought to achieve.
The idea behind self improving AGI is that it will "get" every "new something coming along" before everyone else.
Arodex commented on You are dating an ecosystem razor.blog/2025/12/you-wi... · Posted by u/razor_blog
Again an article painting an idealized picture of the past that never existed.
Arodex commented on Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight karpathy.bearblog.dev/aut... · Posted by u/__rito__
One of the few use cases for LLMs that I have high hopes for and feel is still under appreciated is grading qualitative things. LLMs are the first tech (afaik) that can do top-down analysis of phenomena in a manner similar to humans, which means a lot of important human use cases that are judgement-oriented can become more standardized, faster, and more readily available.
For instance, one of the unfortunate aspects of social media that has become so unsustainable and destructive to modern society is how it exposes us to so many more people and hot takes than we have ability to adequately judge. We're overwhelmed. This has led to conversation being dominated by really shitty takes and really shitty people, who rarely if ever suffer reputational consequence.
If we build our mediums of discourse with more reputational awareness using approaches like this, we can better explore the frontier of sustainable positive-sum conversation at scale.
Implementation-wise, the key question is how do we grade the grader and ensure it is predictable and accurate?
This is wrong, just look at this comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222523
LLM can't grade reliably human text. It doesn't understand it.
Arodex commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil
Good - Calibri is not open, badly supported on Linux et al.
HN should rejoice in the US gov using a font that is open and truly cross platform.
Yeah, we got it, you hate accessibility and dyslexic people.
Arodex commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
Rust in the kernel feels like a red herring. For fault tolerance and security, wouldn’t it be a superior solution to migrate Linux to a microkernel architecture? That way, drivers and various other components could be isolated in sandboxes.
Then you can try the existing microkernels (e.g. Minix) or a Rust microkernel (Redox). You already have what you wish for.
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I see Fuji GW690 bodies with a 90mm lens on various sites like keh in the $1200 range.
I have a Hasselblad 500 series camera from the 1980's that my father bought at a pawn shop near a military base. In the early 2000's professionals were dumping tons of medium format gear as they switched to digital cameras so he got a wide and telephoto lens. The problem is I never use them. They are big, heavy, klunky, and slow to operate. I've never liked print film. I used to be able to get 2 hour development of E-6 slide film but now I have to mail it off and wait over a week so I don't bother. I look at digital backs but most of them are for studio setups.