There is no quick decoupling from the USD. Everyone holds long term USD instruments. Nobody wants to lose their money. The US is still the world's largest economy - by a lot.

Gold isn't that much more expensive than it was in e.g. 1980. It is pretty much just saying there's risk in other places at the moment and people are nervous. You should buy gold if your prediction is a complete collapse of economies along the lines of the great depression. I think this is extremely unlikely.

Short gold ;)

I've always wanted to get some physical gold just because it's so nice and shiny. But I'll wait for the price to go a little down. Maybe Costco selling gold bars is what's pushing up the price/demand?

Cursor is weird. They have a basically unused GitHub with a thousand unanswered Issues. It's so buggy in ways that VSCode isn't. I hate it. Also I use it everyday and pay for it.

That's when you know you've captured something, when people hate use your product.

Any real alternatives? I've tried continue and was unimpressed with the tab completion and typing experience (felt like laggy typing on a remote server).

JetBrains' local single-line autocomplete model is 0.1B (w/ 1536-token context, ~170 lines of code): https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/04/04/full-line-code-co...

For context, GPT-2-small is 0.124B params (w/ 1024-token context).

I really hope this works out. Death to tokenizers!

Interesting that it's a hierarchical structure but only two levels of hierarchy. Stacking more levels seems like an obvious direction for further research.

Note: I posted this comment on another related story[1] and the author replied:

"Author here :), I do think it’s a good direction to look into! That said, aside from it being a bit too much to do at once, you’d also have to be careful about how you distributed your FLOP budget across the hierarchy. With two levels, you can make one level (bytes/local encoder) FLOP efficient and the other (patches/global encoder) FLOP intensive. You’d also need to find a way to group patches into larger units. But ya, there are many directions to go from here!"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413430

Nah thats old. They now use https://www.sony-semicon.com/files/62/pdf/p-15_IMX490.pdf and they run multiexposure on every frame. Stupid high dynamic range

Apparently they have been surprised at how few photons are required to see for these sensors. They are skipping the image computer vision step and going from photons to car control in as few layers as possible.