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unreal6 commented on Jules, our asynchronous coding agent   blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
rvnx · 21 days ago
It should be illegal to say "> Highest task limits" or change them retroactively like Claude or Cursor did
unreal6 · 21 days ago
In the middle of a billing cycle (which could be a month or year, in some cases), I would agree
unreal6 commented on How to bike across the country   brooks.team/posts/how-to-... · Posted by u/benjbrooks
seizethecheese · 4 months ago
Of interest for the HN audience: the founder of grubhub has a memoir that tells the stories of biking across the country and starting grubhub in parallel. I found it an enjoyable read.
unreal6 · 4 months ago
name/link?
unreal6 commented on Waymos crash less than human drivers   understandingai.org/p/hum... · Posted by u/rbanffy
barbegal · 5 months ago
Of course it's not worse, these numbers have huge error bars. Statistically the two statistics are not significantly different. But trying to explain that to most people with no knowledge of statistics is tough.
unreal6 · 5 months ago
One would hope that a writer on this subject would have at least a cursory knowledge of statistics

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unreal6 commented on A $1k Wheelchair   newmobility.com/not-a-whe... · Posted by u/bo0tzz
andybak · a year ago
My bike cost £75
unreal6 · a year ago
was it new?
unreal6 commented on Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations?   arxiv.org/abs/2405.05904... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
mvkel · a year ago
It seems like few shot prompting and providing some examples to LLMs with large context windows vastly out performs any amount of rag, or fine tuning.

Aren't rag and fine tuning fundamentally flawed, because they only play at the surface of the model? Like sprinkles on the top of the cake, expecting them to completely change the flavor. I know LoRA is supposed to appropriately weight the data, but the results say that's not the solution.

Also anecdotal, but way less work!

unreal6 · a year ago
I've also found (anecdotal) significant success in just throwing in available context before prompting. I've written multiple automations in this way as well.
unreal6 commented on The wealthy are cutting the line at the airport, Disney World and ski resorts   cnn.com/2024/02/08/busine... · Posted by u/rntn
j-j-j-j · 2 years ago
Disney & sky resorts are private and are free to charge who they want how they want. You don't like it? Don't use it.

But the TSA thing is ridiculous, because it is mandated by the government and their responsibility is to make sure the service is good enough so there's no need to pay to avoid it.

Populace keep voting for the same set of kleptocrats, so they get what they vote for. Subsidizing stuff only rich people can afford (electric vehicles, house improvements), taxing income more than capital gains, tax code with loopholes like tax free "charity foundations", etc.

unreal6 · 2 years ago
> Disney & sky resorts are private and are free to charge who they want how they want.

Many ski areas, while private bushiness often operate on public lands through long-term leases [1]. Some amount of public access (eg free uphill access to the lands) are often requirements as a part of the lease; I don't see why certain business terms shouldn't be able to be regulated in the interest of the general public.

[1] https://www.snow.com/info/colorado-forest-service-informatio...

unreal6 commented on uBlock Origin 1.53   github.com/gorhill/uBlock... · Posted by u/archo
TheRealDunkirk · 2 years ago
So many people so concerned about CO2 emissions from computing devices... all the way down to Microsoft setting the default timeout for Bluetooth on Windows 11 to ONE MINUTE. It took me 2 weeks of hair pulling and updating everything before I realized why my mouse and keyboard would stop working, because it NEVER occurred to me in my WILDEST dreams that an OS developer would be given the insane task of creating a timeout like this, and writing a UI to control it. Then I realized that some middle manager in the guts of Microsoft probably got a bonus by being able to tell his management that "Microsoft" was now saving a collective million pennies a year of energy costs by crippling this basic feature. Well done, guys.

Where's the outrage from the colossal carbon footprint of the overarching, advertising-based economy? Does anyone have any idea what the electrical costs or carbon footprint per dollar of ad revenue is? It surely must be one of the lowest returns per environmental impact in the entire spectrum of capitalism. Sure, complain about cryptocurrency "setting the earth on fire," but Google gets a free pass for much the same thing to make their trillions?

unreal6 · 2 years ago
Or, for that matter, any incremental call Microsoft is making to any GPT-based model. The power consumption from these inferences are immense, and appearing with increased frequency.
unreal6 commented on uBlock Origin 1.53   github.com/gorhill/uBlock... · Posted by u/archo
TheRealDunkirk · 2 years ago
So many people so concerned about CO2 emissions from computing devices... all the way down to Microsoft setting the default timeout for Bluetooth on Windows 11 to ONE MINUTE. It took me 2 weeks of hair pulling and updating everything before I realized why my mouse and keyboard would stop working, because it NEVER occurred to me in my WILDEST dreams that an OS developer would be given the insane task of creating a timeout like this, and writing a UI to control it. Then I realized that some middle manager in the guts of Microsoft probably got a bonus by being able to tell his management that "Microsoft" was now saving a collective million pennies a year of energy costs by crippling this basic feature. Well done, guys.

Where's the outrage from the colossal carbon footprint of the overarching, advertising-based economy? Does anyone have any idea what the electrical costs or carbon footprint per dollar of ad revenue is? It surely must be one of the lowest returns per environmental impact in the entire spectrum of capitalism. Sure, complain about cryptocurrency "setting the earth on fire," but Google gets a free pass for much the same thing to make their trillions?

unreal6 · 2 years ago
Or, for that matter, any incremental call Microsoft is making to any GPT-based model. The power consumption from these inferences are immense, and appearing everywhere in their interfaces.
unreal6 commented on Stolen van Gogh painting returned in an IKEA bag   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
lamplovin · 2 years ago
It's like a real life adaptation of the book, Goldfinch
unreal6 · 2 years ago
One of my favorite novels of all time

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