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CardenB··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
For this operating domain the latency comparison is human reaction time and not arduino reaction time.

Also the process that’s running at 16MHz is not the same as a full VLA. VLA is much more expressive. You think the processor that is running the VLA system is running at 10Hz or some GHz?

CardenB··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
AFAIK NVidia has a VLA running on their chips with 2B params at 10Hz. They’ve openly published a .5B model running at 10Hz
CardenB··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
Big customers usually use GHE served on prem due to security concerns, no?
CardenB··on Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now
I know it isn’t your question exactly, and you probably know this, but the models for coding assist tools are generally fine tunes of models for coding specific purposes. Example: in OpenAI codex they use GPT-5-codex
CardenB··on Basic Facts about GPUs
No because he was able to achieve the speedup without changing the GPU.
CardenB··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
It's perhaps noteworthy that OBBBA is not the first bill to attempt to revert this tax law. It's simply the latest. There have been other attempts to revert section 174.

Other attempts that come to mind: 1. Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 (H.R. 7024) 2. American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2025 (H.R. 1990)

This article is informative: https://www.cebn.org/media_resources/section-174-sign-on-let...

CardenB··on Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
The motivation to try drugs, especially initially, is often social. I would wager that’s really what OP means
CardenB··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)
long enough to pass on genes also includes living long enough to make sure your child survives, so there is that as well.
CardenB··on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
Here’s some code: https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip?tab=readme-ov-fil...
CardenB··on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
Probably better to use openclip
CardenB··on NeRF-Supervised Feature Point Detection and Description
Interesting, but can't help but question if there's some way to leverage nerf to estimate the keypoints directly, rather than supervise with nerf. It seems a bit likely to be redundant.
CardenB··on Open source AI is the path forward
Do you have some information to share to support your bias against leasing especially with a depreciating asset?
CardenB··on Open source AI is the path forward
Doubtful that GPUs purchased today would be in use for a similar time scale. Govt investment would also drive the cost of GPUs up a great deal.

Not sure why a publicly accessible GPU cluster would be a better solution than the current system of research grants.

CardenB··on New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
you are shifting the burden of proof and failing to make a good argument here.
CardenB··on A first look at Europe's alternative iPhone app stores
They likely would not be in this position if they weren’t abusing it for an egregious fee. If they were noble, they wouldn’t have the fee. I think it’s more about holding profits captive than anything else.
CardenB··on The True Rate of Unemployment
I think you’re totally right. My big mistake facepalm

Still trying to make time to play with the data myself but I suspect it won’t really contain the information I want.

CardenB··on The True Rate of Unemployment
True metric of an economy is not just poverty rate.

I can have 3x the income of monthly food budget (poverty threshold). What happens when housing per month is also 3x the cost of food per month?

Poverty threshold is a poor indicator of the economic health. Poverty can lower while the ability for the average citizen to support a family continues to drop.

> Are you arguing there's not increasing mobility, with this new fangled internet and the series of tubes and what have you?

That's not an argument. Technological improvements can result in consolidation of capital and rising inequality. Something like that would be indicated by... top 25% of wage earners outpacing inflation while bottom 25% continue to stagnate or fall behind.

EDIT: The last poverty rate publication showed the supplemental poverty rate rising (taking into account more factors that traditional poverty rate). Previous to the pandemic, they were largely correlated. We will have to wait until the 2024 results to see if the inversion holds true.

source: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

CardenB··on The True Rate of Unemployment
So you are arguing that there is increasing mobility?

Or do you argue that people are bouncing between jobs with lower wage growth and higher wage growth, so the bottom 25% of wages are getting worse and worse, yet they are only temporary?

It seems pretty clear that 25% of earners experience no growth or negative growth YoY while 25% of earners see wage growth that outpaces inflation. Unless they are swapping places constantly, it's not really healthy for this to occur over a long period of time (as it has).

CardenB··on The True Rate of Unemployment
Bottom 25th percentile has been zero or negative growth at least back to 1998. This would include minimum wage and support the original argument. This doesn't seem to correct for inflation, so zero or negative wage growth is punished completely by inflation.

source: https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker#Tab3

CardenB··on Show HN: Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application
This is basically what HOOBS markets. They've really fallen to the movement of open source though.

I think there's still a world in which you can buy an rPi with software preinstalled and updaters packaged without much effort though.

If that could take off, you could easily have this type of service. However, I think it falls apart because you need to govern the app store and that is expensive and difficult.

CardenB··on 2024 could be the year the PC dumps x86 for Arm, thanks to Windows 12
You have to admit, “secret Apple sauce” does sound rather tasty.
CardenB··on LLM Visualization
I doubt any.
CardenB··on The U.S. Needs a Million Talents Program to Retain Technology Leadership
It would result in PHD mills, wouldn’t it?
CardenB··on Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia
Agree, HF is more similar to docker than it is to GitHub
CardenB··on Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia
What do people think separated GitHub from docker?

Docker also had DockerHub, but it wasn’t as necessary as GitHub and didn’t catch on as well.

I think HF is more like docker than GitHub. GitHub had the wide scope to be huge. Docker was too niche (in comparison) and didn’t catch on so much to be necessary for every single project like Git did.

Similarly, HF is also niche in the sense that docker is. There’s no need to host your model on HF, it’s just a convenience for some projects. It’s effectively a package manager for ML models.

It seems that if there’s a way to make models more easily runnable, HF would not be necessary at all. They have a community there, but it’s not something that can be monetized well.

CardenB··on Cruise told by CA DMV to reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash
It was by 4th and king station right? Cruise cars drive there all the time.

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-king-st-crash-driver-arre...

CardenB··on S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’
> It's not my problem whether Waymo makes progress on their technology, but they make it my problem when they hit me with their car.

Have they hit anyone with their car? If they have, have they done so at a rate higher than a human driver?

What if they make it less likely for you to be hit by a car? Doesn’t that give you a benefit rather than a problem?

CardenB··on Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
So wait do you actually know how thunderbird is different or are you just speculating?
CardenB··on Git and Jupyter Notebooks Guide
Simply write the outputs to a formatted file and keep it separately?
CardenB··on More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
I’m pretty sure you have to install the launcher through wine and then install it. Then you have to configure the right capability layer through the steam launcher IIRC
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