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>but it is harder than it looks and mass appeal isn't something to scoff at.

counterpoint : cinema designed to key in on adult nostalgia for the sake of safe and easy to acquire financial backing has ruined any quality output that Hollywood once had, and destroyed entirely the indie scene and the chance of acquiring money for any project that is outside the scope of the 600 Superman or Batman movies.

It is easier to make something decent with billions of dollars shoveled at you than it is to do so on a shoe-string budget, and if the environment has proven itself to be either mass-market appeal or decent quality cinema -- which has so far been shown to be the case -- then yeah, mass market appeal is a criteria worth criticism.

if "to scoff at" you mean "You must be impressed with the financial money making power of super hero movies." Then yeah, absolutely , I wish I could make that kind of money -- Super hero movies, however, have yet to impress me as cinema.

This happened before, by the way.

Hollywood kept shoveling money into super hero dreck until Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction made financiers realize that weirder indie shit could also make a buck, so we got things like boogie nights and grifters and the big lebowski getting funded after a long run of yearly Tim Burton hero movies.

As much as it pains me to say it, I hope some new neo tarentino pops up and makes a billion with something weird so we can get out of this lock-step

do you really consider the current MVP to be a one-shot answer?

if so: do you think people would be happy with the performance , reliability, and gameplay already?

imo you're glossing over every important element of an MMO that creates its' success and being impressed with a very nice polished MVP.

I get asked to unlock my dev laptop every single time I go from the US to Montreal. The TSA person sits there and waits for my WM to boot before waving me past.

It seems more like they're trying to determine that it is in fact a laptop and not something resembling one.

if you're just trying to interface a bunch of pins to a usb port you can buy a pack of 3 USB-C ESP32s on amazon for like twenty bucks now.

Things get more expensive with specific ADC needs/etc

good future HN headline.

my turn :

"2029: Using JEV to decide which bunker dweller is next on the menu."

the gallows mockup was one of the reasons for the reaction to the Jan 6th stuff.[0] , although as far as what political party the owning group is using it for or against is sort of up for grabs.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/us/politics/jan-6-gallows...

imo the same reason it hasn't happened on the moon, it's not lucrative.

old world exploration was caused/fueled/triggered/made-possible by opportunity and commerce.

aside from the obvious answer (money and power, stupid!) why the fuck does anyone listen to any of these people post-Epstein?

Need a technical reason?

Why would anyone listen to Gates' technical opinions post-Windows?

Let's ask Ibrahim Traoré about what he has to offer with regards to warnings about social policies, let's bring in Javed Iqbal to talk about childcare.

Oh wait, they're not worth billions and they don't clean up well with a cardigan so it'll be harder to convince the audience that they're not predators.

>You need to be rich enough to have fast internet and pay an expensive subscription yet poor enough to fail to afford a GPU at home

that sounds like a broadening market to me.

>Another piece of evidence on the pile that the sudden panic and desire to "slow down" is because they're hitting the plateau on capability

if true then LLM related AI (post-post AI winter AI?) is probably one of the fastest inception-to-plateau tech sectors to have ever existed.

We're still improving transistors on a somewhat routine basis.

VOS is a parallel lockstep OS. You drop nodes and replace them to keep the whole operational.

this is why I find comparing mostly-solid-state stuff with big mechanical contraptions a frustrating exercise.

it's more impressive to me that the electric fans within the Stratus server still operate than it is that the chips still work, and if we're going with the plane metaphor it's the silicon that puts the thing into the air, not the simple fans.

So really it just boils down to "well, the planes work is harder." as to why it fails, which is of course abstract and unsatisfying; comparing the comparative lifetime workloads of a chip that has shifted trillions of bits versus some jet engines that have moved millions of kilograms around the world.

and then another layer comes and makes it even weirder : the vast majority of hardware around the world that has been EoLd and replaced has been in that situation due to software, not the hardware itself; a paradigm that really doesn't exist in the physical engineering world in the same was as it does CS.

I think the X cant do Y arguments require strict definitions of X and Y.

w.r.t. this post : let's define 'reasoning' here, because there are definitions of 'reason' and 'reasoning' that would fit to a simple condition comparison let alone a massively complex llm.

as for the meta cognition bit : show me a human that can accurately affirm when they know something. These kind of things aren't binary, nor can they be.

bmw I3s were this type of hybrid as far as I remember.

the ICE extender was an option.

it was recently moved.

it was a tremendously technical and expensive feat.

getting a strong warning suggests you're reading the brian herbert books, which I think sucked.

his dads' books didn't give any strong warnings other than we may grow 'overdependent'.

the sentient evermind enslaving millions thing was his sons concept.

I was worried somewhat until it become really apparent that small models that run locally can handle 99% of technical computer crap when given a decent tool set harness and net access.

so, to answer your question more practically, during this outage a luna agent of mine fell back to a local bonsai 2 model hosted on my desktop, and the work still got done just fine, just took longer.

>If it’s not worth writing, it’s not worth reading.

that's why I keep all logging thoroughly disabled across all systems.

Saves a lot of room.

I don't get these new logic statements everyone is coming up with against AI systems.

If the excuse is "I meant literature!" well then I argue that where that line is drawn in the sand is exactly the question these kind of black and white expressions strolling entirely past.

(and that's actually the important question; where does it become neglectful for a human to throw an AI into the drivers seat wrt human read media?)

I prefer the Fran Lebowitz suggestion : a separate plane with no seats for children, they can float round the whole trip from takeoff to landing. also let's option the adult plane with opening windows so we can smoke again.

here's the /s for those of you who are tonedeaf.

>they're not single board computers.

what's the meaningful distinction now? It isn't all SoC anymore and it has had a linux capable MMU since S3, even if it required a lot of work.

The only real difference at this point is pure numbers, and i'm not that keen on defining microcontrollers as "those things with less ram than an SBC.", and if it's a microcontroller because it requires bare-metal flashes; well then I point to the older S3 MMU boards running busybox.

it's not just literary authorship, it's pretty easy to spot LLM driven programming paradigms too, especially if you look at the test suites of a given package.

I want a glasses-with-puck style like this with a great fov and resolution good enough for crisp text work and nothing else. for sound I just want it to be small enough to wear with headphones. It would be fantastic if I could run a real OS on it. I just want it for productivity, I dont care about the latest 3d gimmick movie or VR apps.

The closest thing so far is a Bigscreen Beyond 2 w/ a laptop if it wasn't for the fact that you need a base station for the damn thing.

I know my request is a fantasy right now, but I put this our there in case someone that could make it less of a fantasy reads this.

i've never had the luxury of buying a cheaper dev kit. Ever.

ive seen that a lot in recent gpts and bonsai/qwen models when they invoke their vision system/modality , or when they ask their harness to do so for them.

I understand the axe to grind, but what about their spy tech hurts durability or warranty prospects; the thing your comments' parent was talking about?

>Yeah, that's anecdotal but I haven't really found the part where buying something more expensive really helped with expanding its lifespan, rather the contrary where "high tech" broke earlier or more often.

buy professional stuff that's expensive, not consumer gadgetry expensive.

a samsung fridge is expensive because of the gimmicks and high tech integrations.

a sub zero fridge is expensive because of the build quality and manufacturer network , part re-use and larger consumer part availability and market.

> ...if Anthropic can keep it up with this level of service...

fuckin laughable, literally invoked a laugh from me in real life.

I hope customers aren't so stupid that they think a chatty developer on twitter/hn/mastodon/screaming-in-the-wind/wherever (or any other public-facing-place) means shit about customer service, and that goes towards ANY company where the primary customer service is an LLM.

Anthropic is the only company where it took (!) 9 weeks (!) to convince to hand over a 4 dollar refund for book-keeping errors on their side that caused an inappropriately early account deactivation due to time zone issues on their end, while all the while telling me that they don't offer refunds. It took stacks of evidence and argument, and that was after spending two weeks in their system trying to convince every level that I was worth a human.

For me personally it'd require Dario to resort to armed mugging to see another buck out of my wallet. I'm not alone.

tl;dr : being able to convince the powers that be on highly active industry forums (hacker news, twitter, mastodon..?) to act right using the power of peer shaming doesn't good customer service make. That said -- I do appreciate the direct response/statement from mpoteat;

..I just don't appreciate the good actions of a decent individual being too broadly interpreted as the do-good customer-centric nature of Anthropic .. an element I do not believe exists there.

the weight of an llm is 21 grams, I think.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment

>Also the time limit is stupid and pointless.

it's harder to tell at a glance rather than pulling out a magnifying glass and counting the fingers of everyone in each group; the time limit pressures the player into making underqualified guesses..

it's not pointless.

>I also mentioned a bank

if you're not in the US. revolut in the US is a fintech group with a bunch of bank partners.