Readit Newsgooob commented on FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons github.com/FFmpeg/asm-les... · Posted by u/flykespice
Tried it out.
1. First authentication didn't work on my headless system, because it wants an oauth redirect to localhost - sigh.
2. Next, WebFetch isn't able to navigate github, so I had to manually dig out some references for it.
3. About 2 mins in, I just got ``` ℹ Rate limiting detected. Automatically switching from gemini-2.5-pro to gemini-2.5-flash for faster responses for the remainder of this session. ``` in a loop with no more progress.
I understand the tool is new, so not drawing too many conclusions from this yet, but it does seem like it was rushed out a bit.
not working for me either. getting "too many requests". my own CLI tool i wrote for gemini last week works better lol.
maybe i have something configured wrong? though that really shouldn't be the case. my api key env var is correct.
> It’s clear to everyone now that this kind of infrastructure is going to be the backbone of future economic growth and national development.
Well, OpenAI, I think you are mixing up your own backend for economic growth with everyone’s!
i'm wondering what's going to happen when AI tells us to stop pursuing "economic growth" and instead seek "health and sustainability"
gooob commented on Evolving OpenAI's Structure openai.com/index/evolving... · Posted by u/rohitpaulk
The insidious part is it doesn't have to be so blatant as adverts, you can achieve a lot by just slight biases in text output.
Decades ago I worked for a classical music company, fresh out of school. "So.. how do you anticipate where the music trend is going", I once naively asked one of the senior people on the product side. "Oh, we don't. We tell people really quietly, and they listen". They and the marketing team spent a lot of time doing very subtle work, easily as much as anything big like actual advertisements. Things like small little conversations with music journalists, just a dropped sentence or two that might be repeated in an article, or marginally influence an article; that another journalist might see and have an opinion on, or spark some other curiosity. It only takes a small push and it tends to spread across the industry. It's not a fast process, but when the product team is capable of road-mapping for a year or so in advance, a marketing team can do a lot to prepare things so the audience is ready.
LLMs represent a scary capability to influence the entire world, in ways we're not equipped to handle.
>LLMs represent a scary capability to influence the entire world, in ways we're not equipped to handle
replace LLMs with TV, or smartphones, or maybe even mcdonald's, and you've got the same idea. through TV, corporations got to control a lot of the social world and people's behavior.
gooob commented on Evolving OpenAI's Structure openai.com/index/evolving... · Posted by u/rohitpaulk
It's somewhat odd to me that many companies operating in the public eye are basically stating "We are creating a digital god, an instrument more powerful than any nuclear weapon" and raising billions to do it, and nobody bats an eye...
have they started hiring people to make maglev trains and permaculture gardens all around urban areas yet?
gooob commented on “Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps support.google.com/google... · Posted by u/pk97
Why does it seem like Google is trying to kill Android, or at least their app ecosystem.
- They now require a DUNS number to submit an app
- You now need 10-15 people to "QA" your app before submitting
- Now this.
It just seems that Google wants the "major" apps and nothing else.
what do you think the solution is? should we just all use fdroid?
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
how's that going? what are your current options?
Edit/Append: I've had this idea [1] forever (since the 1990s, possibly earlier... don't have notes going that far back). Imagine the simplest possible compute element, the look up table... arranged in a grid. Architectural optimizations I've pondered over time lead me to a 4 bits in, 4 bits out look up table, with latches on all outputs and a clock signal. This prevents race conditions by slowing things down. The gain is that you can now just clock a vast 2d array of these cells with a 2 phase clock (like the colors on a chessboard) and it's a universal computer, Turing complete, but you can actually think about it without your brain melting down.
The problem (for me) has always been programming it and getting a chip made. Thanks to the latest "vibe coding" stuff, I've gotten out of analysis paralysis, and have some things cooking on the software front. The other part is addressed by TinyTapeout, so I'll be able to get a very small chip made for a few hundred dollars.
Because the cells are only connected to neighbors, the runs are all short, low capacitance, and thus you can really, REALLY crank up the clock rates, or save a lot of power. Because the grid is uniform, you wont have the hours or days long "routing" problems that you have with FPGAs.
If my estimates are right, it will cut the power requirements for LLM computing by 95%.
[1] Every mention of BitGrid here on HN - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...