Does PyTorch support other acceleration? I thought they just support Metal.
You can convert a PyTorch model to an ONNX model that can use CoreML (or in some cases just convert it to a CoreML model directly)
Readit Newsjoshuabaker2 commented on Apple M5 chip apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mihau
Yeah I came here to say the same thing. It seems like it would simplify things. They do say:
"I initially considered training a single end-to-end VLA model. [...] A cable-driven soft robot is different: the same tip position can correspond to many cable length combinations. This unpredictability makes demonstration-based approaches difficult to scale.[...] Instead, I went with a cascaded design: specialized vision feeding lightweight controllers, leaving room to expand into more advanced learned behaviors later."
I still think circling back to smaller models would be awesome. With some upgrades you might get a locally hosted model on there, but I'd be sure to keep that inside a pentagram so it doesn't summon a Great One.
I was surprised it pinged gpt-4o. I was expecting it to use something like https://github.com/apple/ml-fastvlm (obviously cost may have been a factor there), but I can see how the direction he chose would make it more capable of doing more complex behaviours in the future w.r.t adding additional tentacles for movement and so on.
joshuabaker2 commented on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/bakugo
Hi everyone! Boris from the Claude Code team here. @eschluntz, @catherinewu, @wolffiex, @bdr and I will be around for the next hour or so and we'll do our best to answer your questions about the product.
Hi Boris, love working with Claude! I do have a question—is there a plan to have Claude 3.5 Sonnet (or even 3.7!) made available on ca-central-1 for Amazon Bedrock anytime soon? My company is based in Canada and we deal with customer information that is required to stay within Canada, and the most recent model from Anthropic we have available to us is Claude 3.
> I think the Canadian mortgages linked to Chinese accounts will likely all be paid.
This is a "heads, I win", "tails, you lose" type of scam. The mortgage holders are all judgement proof. They have no income or assets to go after. So if the housing market crashes, the banks have no recourse.
It's the same as taking out a mortgage and instead of buying a house, you go to the casino and bet double or nothing. Sure, the intention to pay back is there. But it is contingent on the investment performing, and the bank is taking on unknown risks.
Mortgages in Canada are different than mortgages in the US in that they are full recourse. If the sale price during foreclosure doesn’t cover the costs, the banks can go after you personally for the balance. So you’d have to either a) leave the country, or b) declare bankruptcy. So, not exactly a risk-free option.
If you have information that contradicts what multiple banks have told me I would love to know it, since it would be very nice to have that information available to my Canadian bankers.
In the 3 banks I've worked with in Canada, all were completely unable to access my American credit history.
The governments do share tax data, but AFAIK the banks have no way to link "John Smith SSN:123-45-6789" to "John Smith SIN:098-76-54321". They even have my US SSN number since Canadian banks report to the IRS.
Edit: here's experian explaining it: https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/u-s-credit-histo...
Yes this is accurate. I work at a lender that operated in both Canada and the US and the credit bureau integrations were with totally different companies and had different APIs (even for Equifax on both sides of the border)
Are US banks just a lot more strict about source of income than Canadian banks?
Yes, but it’s partly the government’s fault. There’s literally no way for mortgage lenders to pull your tax records in order to verify income. There used to be some third party services to connect to the CRA but they got shut down and replaced with… nothing.
joshuabaker2 commented on Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption · Posted by u/jmoorebeek
> Wind power is totally underutilized in the shipping industry
The shipping industry was 100% wind powered, with very mature technology developed and tried during centuries, and thousands upon thousands of experts in the area. Why do you think the whole industry switched to engines?
Predictability, speed, cheap fuel, a lack of understanding of climate change, etc.
We also used to have windmills to grind grain and then switched over to mills that use electricity or fossil fuels. But of course, windmills to generate electricity have become quite popular. What's old can be new again when combined with modern technologies.
joshuabaker2 commented on Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption · Posted by u/jmoorebeek
Did you work with Greg Wong?! I worked with him after he graduated and heard quite a bit from him. Awesome project. :)
I did! He's awesome. I was on the software side of things and he was the mechanical but our paths crossed quite frequently.
joshuabaker2 commented on Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption · Posted by u/jmoorebeek
This looks amazing! Wind power is totally underutilized in the shipping industry, I've been waiting for something like this for ages.
I used to be part of a team back in university making autonomous sailboats [1] and one of the things that I was surprised by when working on this was that there are a TON of hurricanes out in the middle of the ocean (we were working to build it to cross the Atlantic). We built a system to take in weather prediction data to try to avoid hurricanes, but we were building a relatively tiny boat—do large shipping vessels do this as well? I'd assume they can sail through pretty bad weather. If so, do you have ways to lower the sails easily to protect them?
Additionally, do you have any software to help inform the vessel operators how to best sail into the wind or are the net savings not worth it considering most of the propulsion is still coming from fuel-based sources?
Overall, this is super exciting and best of luck!
[1] Now at (https://www.ubcsailbot.org/)