It says "Weather: Partly cloudy, 72°F". Normally, I'd ask "where" (not here in New England!) ... but in this case, "when"? Is this the weather from 40 years ago also? (and if so ... I guess "where").
Readit Newslsllc commented on Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay forty.news... · Posted by u/foxbarrington
lsllc commented on Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier drfeifei.substack.com/p/f... · Posted by u/mkirchner
Also good context here is Friston’s Free Energy Principle: A unified theory suggesting that all living systems, from simple organisms to the brain, must minimize "surprise" to maintain their form and survive. To do this, systems act to minimize a mathematical quantity called variational free energy, which is an upper bound on surprise. This involves constantly making predictions about the world, updating internal models based on sensory data, and taking actions that reduce the difference between predictions and reality, effectively minimizing prediction errors.
Key distinction: Constant and continuous updating. I.e. feedback loops with observation, prediction, action (agency), and once more, observation.
It should have survival and preservation as a fundamental architectural feature.
> taking actions that reduce the difference between predictions and reality, effectively minimizing prediction errors
Since you can't change reality itself, and you can only take actions to reduce variational free energy, doesn't this make everything into a self-fulfilling prophecy?
I guess there must be some base level of instinct that overrides this; in the case of "I think that sabertooth tiger is going to eat me" you want to make sure the "don't get eaten" instinct counters "minimizing prediction errors".
lsllc commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
The Ring (Doorbell) App isn't working, nor is any the MBTA (Transit) Status pages/apps.
lsllc commented on Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday? viewfromthewing.com/did-s... · Posted by u/sipofwater
When TWA Flight 800 went down over Long Island in 1996, there were at the time multiple witness statements of a "streak of light" which had been reported (and later discounted by the investigation) as a possible missile.
Although the odds are incredibly slim, I wondered around the time if it could have actually been a meteorite striking the aircraft, passing through the fuel tank and causing the explosion. Presumably it would have been moving very quickly, might have looked like a missile to an observer, and wouldn't have left any shrapnel debris/marks in the wreckage.
I would imagine that the space debris mentioned in the article would be a lot less dense and moving much more slowly (relatively speaking) than a meteorite at the impact with the aircraft.
why would anyone work in startups as early devs anymore. Tell me what is the upside? There seems to be only downsides.
Startup Fails , you loose - Gets acquired - you loose
What is the motivation to perform .
So "heads I win, tails you lose!"
lsllc commented on Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016) magazine.uc.edu/editors_p... · Posted by u/ajuhasz
Couldn't they split it into "Oil platform part 1" "part 2" and so on? Or "Oil platform metal parts" and such. Kinda seems like one object being too large in some measure for a single message is a predictable edge case.
I think Customs is on to that -- that was how Saddam Hussein got the precision parts of his "supergun" out of Europe into Iraq, the parts were all labeled as oil industry related.
lsllc commented on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/danielhanchen
How does one keep up with all this change? I wish we could fast-forward like 2-3 years to see if an actual winner has landed by then. I feel like at that point there will be THE tool, with no one thinking twice about using anything else.
I think in 2-3 years, it'll be the same story except it'll be bigger/better/faster.
As Heraclitus said "The only constant in life is change"
(and maybe Emacs)
lsllc commented on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google theverge.com/openai/70599... · Posted by u/rcchen
the founder is on a vesting schedule set with the vc. walking away forfeits his ownership in the company (not sure of the specifics of this weird deal, but this is true in 99% of situations) which returns his ownership to the VCs either directly or functionally.
the only reason he'd walk away is because he thinks other opportunities are higher EV. if he believes this, a) the investors investment is likely worth virtually 0 anyway and b) if it's not, removing a leader who doesn't want to be there probably increases P(success) for the company and further increases the value of the investment.
founder departure isn't good for the narrative, but it's a symptom of an investment going bad, not often a cause.
Presumably the founder(s) is/are getting a better deal by walking away in this case. If they've been through a few round of funding, they may have been diluted to the point when this sort of exit is better (for them).
lsllc commented on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google theverge.com/openai/70599... · Posted by u/rcchen
This might be the beginning of the end of tech VC startups in general.
High interest rates make VC funding more expensive and now bigtech can swoop in, poach all the necessary staff and deprive investors of an exit.
What is the point any more?
Isn't there not some contractual agreement between the VCs and the founders? (I understand that a non-compete might not apply [in CA], but taking VC money is a little different that simply getting hired).
Were I a Windsurf investor, I'd be pissed right now and calling my lawyer.