BYD isn't in charge of road infrastructure to be able to fix it. That's the government's job.
What's the connection to Xiaomi here? (honest question)
Readit Newsvertis commented on BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes drive.com.au/news/byd-yan... · Posted by u/geox
vertis commented on BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes drive.com.au/news/byd-yan... · Posted by u/geox
"they", as if we didn't have potholes in the us/eu.
I've never seen as many potholes as when I visited Canada FWIW. I'm a Kiwi and I've driven all over AU/EU/UK (Little bit of US, but only really CA and Maine).
I didn't drive in China, but I've been driven multiple times and the highways and main roads seemed solid.
vertis commented on BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes drive.com.au/news/byd-yan... · Posted by u/geox
Absolutely wild that it's been linked to a french government fund. I mean it's hard to believe the potential political fallout could be worth what they would get out of it, so one presumes the top doesn't know what the bottom is doing.
vertis commented on Former Bayesian captain on sinking, vessel ballast and stability sailingscuttlebutt.com/20... · Posted by u/walrus01
Is this article on HN because of the word Bayesian?
I don't think so, I think it's a genuinely interesting piece of information and loss of a yacht. Most smaller (e.g. 36ft) yachts are very hard to sink, often with human error being the most likely problem (i.e the vessel itself is safe and seaworthy). Bigger yachts with commercial crews have to reach an even higher bar.
This becomes interesting from a number of facets. Engineering failure, human error, weather.
He was in Field of Dreams too, another baseball flick.
Every startup founders favourite movie.
Just read on his Wikipedia page that he made it through Ranger school in the Korean War era. That's an accomplishment. Several readers here will know that's not really an easy thing to do. Overcame stuttering as a kid. Went to Ranger school (as an African American in the 50s.) Performed Shakespeare and contemporary plays and worked in film. A true dude. Lifting one in his honor this evening (though I'm old enough that it has to be a non-alcoholic one.)
old enough <=> smart enough
vertis commented on Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5 old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLa... · Posted by u/apsec112
vertis commented on Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5 old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLa... · Posted by u/apsec112
When they were using the Sonnet 3.5 API, they censored the word "Claude" and replaced "Anthropic" with "Meta", then later when people realized this, they removed it.
Also, after GPT-4o they switched to a llama checkpoint (probably 405B-inst), so now the tokenizer is in common (no more tokenization trick).
Yeah I managed to get it to admit that it was Claude without much effort (telling it not to lie), and then it magically stopped doing that. FWIW Constitutional AI is great.
vertis commented on Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5 old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLa... · Posted by u/apsec112
Who is Sahil Chaudhary? Why he doesn't announce such a great advancement himself? Why Matt Shumer first announces it only because -- according to a later claim on X.com -- he trusted Sahil, does that mean Matt is unable to participate most of the progress? Then why announce a breakthrough without mentioning he was not fully involved to a level he can verify the result in the first place?
As far as I can tell he's the founder of GlaiveAI. There were messages suggesting Matt was an investor, but I haven't been able to confirm this.