It's good that there are still empathic humans in the decision and build chain when it comes to AI systems...
Readit NewsCan someone explain to me what is so special here? It seems to be just a simple binary abstract syntax tree, which with varying syntax can represented by almost any programming language
2.4ghz isn't great at detecting small obstacles like wires. There's a smartphone mounted device that can do this with 60ghz: https://walabot.com/
it seems to be optimized for dry walls. not sure how it would perform on concrete or other stone walls. Also I could not find a technical description how it works.
very interesting... here is a comparison of the community and enterprise offering
who is actually behind this?
yayr commented on Bashbro – Make Any Comp a Web-Based File Server github.com/victrixsoft/ba... · Posted by u/ReversedChaos
In a slightly more heavyweight category I've settled on dufs for my single binary file serving / uploading / password-protecting needs.
rare to see such a useful and popular project with NO open issues.
Congrats!
yayr commented on Scientists re-emerge after a year in Mars simulation project dw.com/en/scientists-re-e... · Posted by u/_____k
As somebody who has spent a lot of time with high-quality academically pedigreed humans in far out places, I assure you that they're very capable of dumb drama. And, again tho I hated the show, everyone will be watching just as they were in for all man kind.
maybe it should be mandatory to watch all episodes of "Big Bang Theory" on a trip to mars for educational purposes ;-)
yayr commented on Scientists re-emerge after a year in Mars simulation project dw.com/en/scientists-re-e... · Posted by u/_____k
I could not really find a TLDR or dive into the mission results... Is there something already?
yayr commented on Scientists re-emerge after a year in Mars simulation project dw.com/en/scientists-re-e... · Posted by u/_____k
I've been following these efforts closely. For these projects, crewed endurance space efforts, I strongly believe the most difficult component is the human. It's really difficult to be isolated in a high stress environment. And we don't adequately simulate or study what that might truly be like. I know that this was about nutrition but I just don't think nutrition is going to be the hard part of these missions.
I say this with experience. Living and working doing science in the Arctic and on ships is grueling. It's grueling, and not anywhere near as difficult or unpredictable as being in space. The things that happen in that pressure cooker are really hard to explain to people who haven't lived it.
It's not ethical or easy to do the kinds of simulations that would actually be useful. How do you simulate "your colleague is gravely wounded and on life support. now you have to work for 90 hours straight to fix whatever mamed them". Oh, also, you have 9 months of mission left with one less crew.
It was mediocre at best but "for all man kind" highlights just how weird things might get in these places. The only analogous efforts I can imagine are the adventures of sea-fairing people of centuries past. Maybe we should invent time travel and do some sociological studies.
there is this review of "for all man kind"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7772588/
why should it be any different on mars than on earth?
> This show has a cool premise, that being what if the space race never ended. It's a sort-of alternate reality and it does a good job of weaving in actual historical events with where the timeline diverged. The main problem is that I feel like the show is being pulled in two directions. In one direction, there is the tension of the space race, engineers scrambling to be the first on the moon/mars and dealing with all manner of technical issues in a realistic-ish way. That part of the show I enjoy. Then, for some reason, the show also throws in a bunch of trite interpersonal drama and stupidity. Like inter-marital affairs, people leaking NASA secrets to the soviets, and a CLEARLY unstable drug-addicted astronaut being given solo control of a super important mission. It's like the showrunners thought the show couldn't stand on it's own without dumb drama, as if there couldn't organically be issues and drama in the context of Frigging SPACE. The first season does this better, but by the 2nd/3rd seasons most of the issues come not from unforeseen difficulties of life on the moon/mars but idiots. It really makes me wonder if they just aren't sure who their audience are. The people who like the technical stuff are not going to like the artificial drama, and vise-versa. Pick a lane, show, and stick with it.
Something I don't think is well understood on HN is how driven by ideals many folks at Anthropic are, even if the company is pragmatic about achieving their goals. I have strong signal that Dario, Jared, and Sam would genuinely burn at the stake before acceding to something that's a) against their values, and b) they think is a net negative in the long term. (Many others, too, they're just well-known.)
That doesn't mean that I always agree with their decisions, and it doesn't mean that Anthropic is a perfect company. Many groups that are driven by ideals have still committed horrible acts.
But I do think that most people who are making the important decisions at Anthropic are well-intentioned, driven by values, and are genuinely motivated by trying to make the transition to powerful AI to go well.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963#47149908
https://notdivided.org
But the final decisions made usually depend on the incentive structures and mental models of their leaders. Those can be quite different...