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For a while now, even before the latest AI models. Paid services exist (~2$/1k solves https://deathbycaptcha.com/)

I know quantizing larger models seems to be more forgiving but I’m wondering if that applies less to these extreme-MoE models. It seems to be that it should be more like quantizing a 3B model.

Cloud providers aren’t though.

Transformers can definitely solve captchas. Not sure why you think otherwise.

AI models don’t care if the electricity comes from renewable sources. Renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels at this point and getting cheaper still. I feel a lot better about a world where we consume 10x the energy but it comes from renewables than one where we only consume 2x but the lack of demand limits investment in renewables.

That's for an 8B model.

I don't think you want a vacuuming robot. Those already exist, its called a Roomba, and they have a lot of limitations that are completely intractible in their given form factor. You have to modify how you use your house to make it actually useful enough. Some examples:

1. Stairs. Roomba's can't vacuum stairs, so you still need to do those yourself.

2. Stairs, Roomba's can't traverse stairs, so you need one for each floor.

3. Doors. If you want the Roomba to vacuum the whole house, you have to have all the doors open for it.

4. Can't have anything on the floor, the Roomba will either get stuck or avoid it. But I shouldn't have to never leave a backpack on my floor if I want it vacuumed.

5. Corners. Roomba's can't vacuum in corners or in tight areas between furniture and walls. or any other weird geometry. ie: I have a wire shelf. Roomba doesn't fit under it but its easy to use a stick vacuum to get between the wires and to the floor.

And this is before we get to the limit on suction and capacity in that form factor.

all squares are rectangles

Could sell two classes of tickets, one that is garunteed and one that might be overbooked. If you show up and find out you're overbooked you get a credit for another show (maybe even at some multiplier?). Basic Supply/Demand suggests that reducing the price means more demand, ie: more people going to go see shows, but would need to see it in practice to know for sure.

Yeah looks like the calculation doesn't renormalize the final thrust vector after adding together the component inputs. A simplified example for a 2d game would be like this:

    var playerX_input = Input.GetHorizontal(); // float in range -1 to 1
    var playerY_input = Input.GetVertical(); // float in range -1 to 1

    var playerVelocity = new Vector2(playerX_input, playerY_input);
    // The player can now move 1 unit/frame in X and 1 unit/frame in Y, which means that if they're moving diagonally, the length of their velocity vector is the length of the vector (1,1) which is sqrt(2) (~1.41)

    // This can be corrected by doing something like
    if(playerVelocity.length > 1)
    {
         playerVelocity = playerVelocity.normalized();
    }

Data doesn't say anything. You need to interpret it correctly. For example, any time you see 'average', you should probably run away quickly, because it is almost certainly full of monsters.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...

just some quick things that jumped out at me:

- of homes actually built, hides that there's a lot of demand for smaller starter homes or housing in cities

- the average household can get smaller if there's a bimodal distribution, ie poorer households growing in size. or people not having kids because they don't have and can't feasibly afford a spare bedroom.

- "the average individual living in a newly built home" im leaving this one as an exercise for the reader

> I'd be curious to hear the cynical take here.

afaik the patent was basically expiring in the next couple years anyway, even the small ancillary ones. They've been making and selling SawStop saws for the last 20 years and already made their bag. So, since SawStop has the experience designing and building the systems they want to wring out some good will and see which Big Saw manufacturer wants to pay them to get ahead of their competition.

Anytime you see a plot that is just a parking lot with an attendant in a dense city, that is just a land speculation play. That parcel is still extremely underused, but putting a parking lot on it lets the owner extract some rent in the mean time. A land value tax would ideally be high enough that the owner of that plot would be losing significant amounts of money even with that parking lot there, and would be incentivized to sell it to someone who wants to actually develop it immediately.

Why does the address bar go to a search engine?

When you use an LLM, you provide it context. Where do you usually get that context from? Some service, JIRA, whatever, in your browser.

Why not just throw a SteamVR/Vive laser tracker onto the end of the arm and use that to close the loop? They claim sub-mm precision at room-sized distances, so it should be even better if you had it basically mounted on the base. If you wanted to get fancier you could build it into the end effector w/ one of these? https://tundra-labs.com/products/tl448k6d-vr-system-in-packa...

Actually, it kind of does. If you have to keep adding edge cases, that tends to imply that your foundation is bad.

You're thinking of Grok. Not Groq. Blame Elon for this naming catastrophe.

Are you making full use of the items you find, or are you dying with an inventory of wands/scrolls/potions that you were saving for a rainy day? One of the things to do is to identify items when you have some safety. One way to do that is to use the wands on enemies. Sometimes you do end up wasting a charge or empowering the enemy, but then you know what the thing does. And after a few runs you'll have a sense for something like "I've identified a lot of the 'good' scrolls, so its more likely the unidentified ones are 'bad' ones"

I am endlessly frustrated every day that this is not a thing yet. I also don't want to send all of my emails to OpenAI though.

There's probably a ton more unlicensed repos than licensed. It isn't weird, its capitalism.

Stock-buy backs are basically just dividends with a better tax treatment.

I understand assembly too.

> that can pick an object out of an image

You have to do it in real time, from a video feed, and make sure that you're tracking the same unique instance of that object between frames.

> "Replacing Wikipedia" strikes me as one of the least essential ideas on making the web better these days, but "developing an alternative news/information thing that anyone can work on and edit" seems cool? Something between the very authoritative "Wikipedia" and the mostly "single-creator" things like githubs awesome lists, rentry's and so forth?

I read a comment here on HN recently, wish I could find it now (I think it was in one of the threads on the 'missing datatype (graphs)'). The gist was that we do large things pretty well: Operating Systems, standard libraries, etc and small things pretty well: single header file libs, specific open source projects, etc, but medium size things are missing. This seems to be the same kind of thing: you have enough complexity that coordination is hard(tm) but you don't have enough scale to build up an institutional inertia to overcome the bus-factor-of-one-ness that--- uhhh

What I'm trying to say is that the support system around that project, like if you have a medium sized project, its going to have individual experts for the parts that make it up, but they're all single points of failure.

If I had more time I would have written a shorter more coherent comment.

Yeah, the actual outcome is now that many businesses close their bathrooms to the public unless you’re buying something.

That isn't the system prompt for chatgpt, that's some random's prompts.

Why settle for the 2nd best flea market?

I would be more concerned about this scenario if Amazon was also capable of discovering that because I purchased 1 door mat, does not mean that I want acquire a hoard of door mats, for my house made entirely of exterior doors.

> But the central authority, a third-party, will get a heads-up every time someone - whether child or adult - logs into the social media site. That's a privacy violation.

Why would you do age verification on login? It only needs to happen once on account creation.

A drone is just some electric motors, batteries, RF control and a gyroscope/accelerometer. I'm not exactly sure how you could halt the progression at this point.