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dartos··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
> To move the goalpost of what is acceptable

Not just that. They’re gish galloping the courts and the news.

So many things, some dumb, some dangerous, some contradictory.

The goal is to make it impossible to o keep track of what’s going on.

dartos··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
Ignoring details has been very lucrative for Musk.

Remember when he said self driving is coming next year… every year… since 2017

dartos··on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'
I paid $100 for a canon laserjet printer from walmart, had it for about two years, still prints on the first included toner cartridge.

I run dnd games and my players like having printed maps and props, so I use it more than once a year, but I’ll never buy inkjet again.

dartos··on DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days
Is media literacy for tech marketing.

I wish it was easier to learn about media literacy

dartos··on Users don't care about your tech stack
> No, it means that product quality is all that matters

But it says that in such a roundabout way that non technical people use it as an argument for MBAs to dictate technical decisions in the name of moving fast and breaking things.

dartos··on Teslas spotted autonomously driving from Fremont factory to loading dock
I mean… does it matter what’s legal in this case?
dartos··on How browsers really load web pages [video]
I’d expect an SRE to know about all that.
dartos··on New junior developers can’t code
> LLMs can be deterministic if you set the temp to zero.

At which point, you the major benefit statistical models like of LLMs…

A lot of performance is lost if you fix the sampling step like that as well.

That’s why nobody does it…

dartos··on Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
Using matrix isn’t enough to support the foundation, sadly.
dartos··on Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
It seems that neither user interest nor commercial interests are enough to keep protocol development going.

It’s kind of sad.

dartos··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
> The end result is that executive departments will have a much harder time overstepping the bounds of authority granted to them by Congress.

You could’ve fooled me.

dartos··on Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control
Hopefully in the next decade we’ll get there.

Vision+language multimodal models seem to solve some of the hard problems.

dartos··on USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them
What a mouthful of pretty rhetoric

“Slush fund” “crooks” “cookie jar” “parasites”

But not a single meaningful point brought up or data pointed towards.

It’s a nice easy way to feel like something makes sense without thinking about it.

What are you doing just spouting rhetoric at people who, you know, don’t agree?

> reducing military spending

This needs to happen. It dwarfs non military spending.

But that’ll never happen in the US.

dartos··on Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents
What do you mean by fluidly?
dartos··on Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby
For one, NodeJS doesn’t have concurrency. It’s a single threaded event loop.
dartos··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
He didn’t found Tesla, The Boring Company or Twitter and got ousted from PayPal.

… also I was looking at your comments, your rate of Elon glaze per min is really impressive.

dartos··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
Why do you attribute all those things to Elon? Didn’t he buy into all of his companies?

What a weird way to say that. He “gave” us spacex or Tesla.

dartos··on Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
My point exactly
dartos··on Doge Claimed It Saved $8B in One Contract. It Was $8M
I wondering why HN had so few posts critical of Musk and Trump
dartos··on Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
Tbf, everything is mostly low quality or noise.
dartos··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
> It required the judicial to completely defer to the executive branch in cases where the laws around executive departments (generally relating to the the limits of their regulatory power/authority) were ambiguous.

Why doesn’t congress do its job and write laws that do things?

dartos··on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
Elon Musk’s entire net worth is tied up in stocks.

If Tesla crashed, so would Elon’s power.

dartos··on A New Oral Culture
That’s what my VP messaged me with right before laying me off with 0 notice.
dartos··on USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them
> Everyone on both sides knows the other side is full of criminals so anything against them is OK

Yet only one side is literally dismantling the country, department by department, and selling off chunks to the richest man in the world.

The richest man in the world, who keeps appearing next to the president in interviews besides not being elected by anyone for anything.

dartos··on USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them
That’s what cults do.

Cultivate in-group bias so that any dissenting opinion are from people not in the know or who can’t be trusted.

Works every time.

dartos··on USDA fired officials working on bird flu, now trying to rehire them
School shootings are usually committed by children… children have little access to politicians and little interest in politics.

> Why is the 2nd amendment sacrosanct even to politicians who get the dangerous end pointed at them?

Sounds like a zinger, but isn’t really.

dartos··on Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze
I chose my words very carefully
dartos··on The Generative AI Con
> it’s honestly not much worse than a junior dev and 100x faster. And if the code is bad you throw it away and try again 10 seconds later. The amount of speed up I see as a very experienced dev is astronomical

Personally, I find that waiting for the code to generate, then reviewing the code carefully, then deciding if I need to rewrite it to be more painful, more error prone, and much slower than writing the code correctly.

Especially since this AI junior never learn from it’s mistakes.

I think it speaks to different approaches to how individuals write code.

> How great is it gonna be in a year or two?

I would bet that it’s about the same (not great code, generally), but the tools fail to generate responses less often and likely would have more context.

Hopefully they become fast enough to run offline or at least feel more instantaneous.

dartos··on India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System
> The main appeal of H1B abuse is cost effectiveness

Yeah but the official purpose of H1B is for companies like to hire highly skilled workers which they can’t find in the US.

Not to hire the cheapest indentured junior devs.

dartos··on Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it
Yes… I have…

I was working for my university’s assistant dean.

He was using school funds to have us make an Iranian real estate app. Pulled together a team of 5 students working 4 hours a day.

It was all sorts of weird and he was nuts.

One day at standup my laptop speakers weren’t working, so I asked them to wait for me to reboot.

When I got back he said “your computer problems are wasting our time” to which I responded “these hour standups are wasting our time.” He then said “okay, we no longer need your services and I was fired on the spot”

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