A lot of bias against startups in the comments. These are missing (1) how terrible the working conditions in bigco have become in the meantime (2) truly good startups (they exist) that pay solid base salaries
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whiplash451 commented on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth twitter.com/premqnair/sta... · Posted by u/rfurmani
Aqui-hire. The modern-day labor union (get more for your skilled labor than you would otherwise)
Meh. Being acqui-hired by Caterpillar or John Deere can’t really be a dream of theirs. Plus the financial upside would be limited as these giants would tie it to tough long term milestones. Does not sound like a great deal.
whiplash451 commented on François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] youtube.com/watch?v=5QcCe... · Posted by u/sandslash
I feel like I'm the only one who isn't convinced getting a high score on the ARC eval test means we have AGI. It's mostly about pattern matching (and some of it ambiguous even for humans what the actual true response aught to be). It's like how in humans there's lots of different 'types' of intelligence, and just overfitting on IQ tests doesn't in my mind convince me a person is actually that smart.
You're not the only one. ARC-AGI is a laudable effort, but its fundamental premise is indeed debatable:
"We argue that human cognition follows strictly the same pattern as human physical capabilities: both emerged as evolutionary solutions to specific problems in specific evironments" (from page 22 of On the Measure of Intelligence)
whiplash451 commented on AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced theconversation.com/shit-... · Posted by u/lr0
The two crops are corn and soybeans. Everything else is decimal dust. I'm not sure how much sense it makes to mix them within a plot, as opposed to mixing them by crop rotation.
Also, all of the crops have to be herbicide resistant to coexist with corn and beans.
Now, for things like veggies, sure.
> The two crops are corn and soybeans.
Well, that's mostly because this was convenient for mass monoculture.
We've killed crop diversity as a byproduct, but polyculture could open up opportunities to fix that.
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Given the 'single swipe' restriction, it's impossible not to extend that argument to changing the radio, adjusting your seat or turning on the AC.
You can manipulate all these with minimal or no disruption of the driver. There are designed to be so.
The same laws should extend to the 18” tablets many cars seem to be going towards.
Many cars have functions that are disabled on the screen when the car is moving. The carmaker can enforce that on the car’s screen. It can’t be enforced on a phone.
I hate being cynical, but in LA this ruling means nothing. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone pulled over for a traffic offense.
If you’re engaged into a serious accident and your phone history shows that you were texting while driving, this law will get you under a pile of trouble.
Mounted phones, and drivers operating them with a single swipe, are exempted, according to the decision, but looking at a map while holding the phone would violate the current law, the court ruled.
Makes sense. It seems they're considering the distraction as being caused by trying to hold the device, and not merely its use.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but this sounds absurd to me.
Operating a phone while driving - whether it is mounted or not - is irresponsible. Period.