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pixl97 commented on 72M Points of Interest   tech.marksblogg.com/overt... · Posted by u/marklit
RyanShook · 18 hours ago
This was great, thank you for sharing.

The dataset claims there are significantly more Citibank locations than McDonalds worldwide which I don’t think can be correct?

It also lists over 56,000 Wildberries worldwide but a quick Google search shows they are a large online retailer. I wonder what is going on with the brand POIs…

pixl97 · 13 hours ago
At least where I live citi and chase have 2x the number of locations than McD when you count their small branches and stand alone ATMs
pixl97 commented on Selection rather than prediction   voratiq.com/blog/selectio... · Posted by u/languid-photic
fph · 17 hours ago
AI is like XML: if it doesn't solve your problem, you are not using enough of it.
pixl97 · 13 hours ago
Great. You just taught the future AI terminator that AI is like violence
pixl97 commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
A_D_E_P_T · 18 hours ago
Any serious LLM user will tell you that there's no way to get from LLM to AGI.

These models are vast and, in many ways, clearly superhuman. But they can't venture outside their training data, not even if you hold their hand and guide them.

Try getting Suno to write a song in a new genre. Even if you tell it EXACTLY what you want, and provide it with clear examples, it won't be able to do it.

This is also why there have been zero-to-very-few new scientific discoveries made by LLM.

pixl97 · 17 hours ago
Can most people venture outside their training data?
pixl97 commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
ZoomZoomZoom · 19 hours ago
> The difference is that we've more or less hit a stable Pareto front in education and healthcare.

Not even close. So many parts of the world need to be pumped with target fund infusions ASAP. Only forcing higher levels of education and healthcare at the places where it lags is a viable step towards securing peaceful and prosperous nearest future.

pixl97 · 17 hours ago
Then why didn't that happen before GenAI was a thing?

I think some people may have to face the fact that money was never going to go there under any circumstances.

pixl97 commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
zenmac · 19 hours ago
>I've given up tbh. It's like the apathetic masses want the billionaires to become trillionaires as long as they get their tiktok fix.

Especially at cost of diverting power and water for farmers and humans who need them. And the benefit of the AI seems quite limited from recent Signal post here on HN.

pixl97 · 17 hours ago
Water for farmers is its own pile of bullshit. Beef uses a stupid amount of water. Same with almonds. If you're actually worried about feeding people and not just producing an expensive economic product you're not going to make them.

Same goes for people living in deserts where we have to ship water thousands of miles.

Give me a break.

pixl97 commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
uejfiweun · 18 hours ago
I mean yeah, but that's why there are far more research avenues these days than just pure LLMs, for instance world models. The thinking is that if LLMs can achieve near-human performance in the language domain then we must be very close to achieving human performance in the "general" domain - that's the main thesis of the current AI financial bubble (see articles like AI 2027). And if that is the case, you still want as much compute as possible, both to accelerate research and to achieve greater performance on other architectures that benefit from scaling.
pixl97 · 17 hours ago
The other thing here is we know the human brain learns on far less samples than LLMs in their current form. If there is any kind of learning breakthrough then the amount of compute used for learning could explode overnight
pixl97 commented on Stay Away from My Trash   tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh
ThrowawayR2 · a day ago
"America Added 1000 Millionaires A Day In 2025, 40% Of World’s Millionaires Now In U.S." from https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougmelville/2026/01/05/america...

"Altogether, according to an estimate by UBS Wealth Management, the United States is home to ~22m millionaire households — roughly one of every six households." from https://thehustle.co/originals/the-insane-growth-of-americas...

Looks like the Americans have the right idea and Steinbeck ultimately didn't.

pixl97 · 18 hours ago
I mean technically I'm a millionaire because I own a house. This said the scale from the time the quote was written till now would mean I need like 20 million +
pixl97 commented on Evolution of car door handles over the decades   newatlas.com/automotive/e... · Posted by u/andsoitis
cucumber3732842 · 2 days ago
It is not the government's job to enumerate every specific brand of stupid design that may be harmful multiplied by every class of product nor should it be.

If you want to do that stuff, do it with a performance test or criteria, not with stupid whack-a-mole rules. And don't think that weasel wording the test to the same effect is any better. If you want to do this the not stupid way you need to actually do the hard work and figure out what the over-arching general case performance characteristics need to be.

With better styling cues and design that make it obvious how to use the Tesla handles (and all the degrees of copycats) it wouldn't be an issue. But that isn't the kind of sleek sext angular bullshit modern car designers like so it never got made and here we are.

pixl97 · 2 days ago
>enumerate every specific brand of stupid design that may be harmful

As commonly said by the libertarian at heart, right up until the point their loved one gets injured or killed, then they are at the forefront of regulation.

> But that isn't the kind of sleek sext angular bullshit modern car designers like

Who likes safety and security? These features commonly make every day use more difficult. Who needs unblocked fire exits, that takes up too much room in the building. Who needs a common interface for a safety critical device, that removes the 'cool' factor.

pixl97 commented on Evolution of car door handles over the decades   newatlas.com/automotive/e... · Posted by u/andsoitis
amiga386 · 2 days ago
See also: China bans hidden car door handles over safety concerns

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp37g5nxe3lo

> It comes as EVs are facing scrutiny from safety watchdogs around the world after a number of deadly incidents, including two fatal crashes in China involving Xiaomi EVs in which power failures were suspected to have prevented doors from being opened.

You had one job, door handles... but being made sleek and sexy and unlike normal door handles also made you a fucking liability.

pixl97 · 2 days ago
People wonder "Why is there a law for this stupid thing, it's a regulatory hassle", and yet time and time again it comes around there was at least some partially legitimate reason said rule exists.

Simply put vehicles are at the point where we need a rule that says "The doors can be unlocked and open if the battery is dead" Full stop, no ifs, ands, or buts.

pixl97 commented on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing   inpractice.yimbyaction.or... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
WarmWash · 2 days ago
There is a large forest near your local community. You and others often walk in the forest and kids play there. Its calming and has been there forever.

The state wants your community to turn it into apartments, but obviously the community is icey about it.

Then activists from another city dozens of miles away, who have never cared for your town or really been to it, show up at Town Hall meetings and are scheduling meetings with town councilors to push for building the apartments.

Those out of town people jumping into your community to dictate change are the YIYBY people.

If the apartments are built, they'll put another feather in their cap while walking around the forest near their home.

pixl97 · 2 days ago
> large forest near your local community.

Who owns the forest and why do you think you get to say if people build on it or not?

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