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No one is assuming printing costs are the only costs to produce the catalogue. The point of pricing the catalogue at printing costs is to cover the marginal cost of offering the catalogue for sale. The fixed costs of producing the calendar are incurred either way.

That eval hasn't been relevant for a while now. Performance there just doesn't seem to correlate well with real-world performance.

It's because those markets are based on the LLM Arena leaderboard (https://lmarena.ai/), where Claude has historically done poorly.

That eval has also become a lot less relevant (it's considered not very indicative of real-world performance), so it's unlikely Anthropic will prioritize optimizing for it in future models.

Call that tip to tip efficiency ;)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwYxLaaQ5s (reference - which really fits this whole thread)

Hi Simon. Do you recommend aider over Cursor? I've always used aider, and like it, but it just seems like Cursor is overtaking it in terms of features, and I wonder if sticking with aider still makes sense.

Most people use Cursor. Aider and Cline are other options. All of these work with all of the popular LLM APIs. Even among people using Claude, I would bet more of them are using Claude through Cursor than through Claude code.

I use the Xreal for coding while traveling. It's not as nice as a monitor, but it's definitely good enough for coding IMO.

Just note that you will also need the Xreal Beam if you want the virtual screen to stay fixed in space while you move your head (it's too uncomfortable to use without it IMO).

I got mine for $60 shipping incl from HONS VR. And they work well.

You can plug them directly into your laptop (as long as it supports DP Alt mode, which I understand is common - my Thinkpad does). But, the virtual monitor will be in a fixed position relative to your head. Which is really not comfortable. In order to get the virtual screen to stay fixed in space while you move your head, you need the Beam.

I use the Xreal Air 1 with the Beam on my Thinkpad X1 and it's great. I really recommend it for flights. I don't understand why it hasn't gotten more popular. I can use my laptop comfortably for many hours, which makes long flights a lot more tolerable.

I only use them for laptop productivity. Not sure about VR stuff.

It depends on your device. If your device doesn't support the Nebula app, you need the Beam.

I strongly agree. That's what the European system is like, as others have mentioned. Even the 2 years of fundamental science preparation. In Spain, what I would say is the academic equivalent of high-school ends at 16. 16-18 is then spent in "baccalaureate", an optional university preparation program, which is more rigorous and ends in nationally-administered university preparedness exam. A prospective medical student would need to do the science-based variant of this program.

Wow, that seems so short then. In Europe medical school is 6 years, with a 7th year spent on preparing for residency. At least in Spain. And it doesn't start off easy. All student are required to have spent the last 2 years of high school in a science-focused baccalaureate program, which in my experience is similar to early American undergraduate in terms of academic rigour.

Obviously no one is talking about "stopping matrix multiplication globally". But setting limits on the supply of and access to hardware, in a way that would meaningfully impede AI development, does seem feasible if we were serious about it.

Also, Eliezer is not claiming this will definitely work. He thinks it ultimately probably won't. The claim is just that this is the best option we have available.

> There is no such thing as "English pronunciation". English does not have a regulatory body like Spanish or German have.

Oh come on. The fact that there is no regulatory body doesn't mean we can't meaningfully talk about "English pronunciation" in a general way. And Spanish and German have different dialects , accents and pronunciations too.

> The English spelling is guided by meaning, not by sound

How is the spelling guided by meaning?

I moved from Spain to the US, and I often find myself trying to explain to people back home just how miserable and even humiliating the pedestrian experience is here.

Here are some other examples of things that I think contribute to the hostile walking experience in the US:

* Cars parked in short driveways often extend all the way across the sidewalk. Even if you can easily step off onto the road to walk around them (not all pedestrians can), it just feels like a slap in the face to have to do that.

* Cars have much higher and stronger headlights, with the high beams often left on, and drivers are generally much less mindful of them. As a pedestrian walking at night on under-lit streets, you are constantly getting blinded.

* Tinted windows (even the mild level of tint that most cars in the US have). The whole experience of being a lone vulnerable pedestrian among a sea of cars is made even worse when you can't see the people in the cars (but you know they can see you).

* Often the only option to get food late at night are fast food places, which become drive-thru only after a certain time. Having to go through the drive-thru on foot is obviously a terrible experience, and they will often refuse to even serve you.

I'm skeptical. I feel like any startup for whom 100k is "huge" is not at a stage where they'd be spending anywhere near that amount on cloud infrastructure.

I'm not surprised! Everyone is talking about the technical suitability of EVs as rental cars. But I don't think that's the main motivation.

On Turo (like Airbnb for cars), Teslas are unique in how disproportionately expensive they are relative to their purchase value. When I last checked, a Tesla Model 3 worth 50K would rent for up to $200/day. Compare that to a comparable $50K BMW which might rent for $80. I imagine the reason is that people just want to rent a Tesla to see what all the hype is about.

Also, rental companies only keep their cars for about a year, so this situation doesn't have to last long for it to be profitable for Hertz.

I've searched the whole thread for an answer to this. I'm so curious now...

What? Doesn't 20/20, 20/15 etc. refer to visual acuity (how much detail you can see from a certain distance)? Are there people who prefer anything but the highest possible visual acuity?

The "experiment" was testing whether these bogus papers would make it through peer review and get published.

Fascinating, thank you for sharing. I can relate.

> It won't do anything for you if you just take it in your bedroom with no other changes happening in your life

Interestingly, that's the way many people have reported having their lives changed by it. And that's roughly how it's being used in the latest breakthrough clinical trials (for MDMA and psilocybin). There is a therapy component, but it seems to be play a relatively minor role. https://maps.org/news/multimedia-library/2379-can-a-single-p...

The vast majority of the water usage that's attributed to beef is from growing the crops that feed the cows. The amount of water that the cows drink directly is probably negligible in comparison.

> This is exactly why I've concluded trying to go my own way is the best long-term plan for me. Before learning about YC and HN and such, the thought never really occurred to me.

Interesting. It also didn't really occur to me that being an employee might just not be for me, until I read this comment on HN over a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22520709. Although the reasoning is a somewhat different from yours. Excerpt:

> The reality is that if you care about your craft a tiny bit more than average, you will most likely end up feeling that you are overpaid for trivial work, that you could do so much more for the company, that your coworkers and hierarchy are apathetic to things that do not directly affect them (and will seek to avoid any change as much as possible). The more you stay in this situation, the likelier you are to burn out.

> If you are that kind of person, then you need to GTFO and start your own thing - have your own skin in the game

I agree. I did exactly this just last week. I got a refurb gen 8 (2020 model) from Lenovo for about $950 after tax (16GB, i5, 1080p). It looks brand new, not a single sign of use. I set it up with Ubuntu 21.04 yesterday and everything worked right out of the box. Much better experience than with the Dell 5530 I had previously.

Weight is 2.4lbs, 0.4 less than the Macbook Air. Some other people are recommending the T4xx series. My impression is those are a better deal if you don't care about the weight.

It's not fiction. The author did actually work at a SF startup, even if she's now a novelist.

I think this comment is saying "here is something that some of us can do that might help prevent these kinds of situations in the future". In my opinion, that's a productive contribution to the conversation, and does not imply that Jon is any less guilty.

Note that is 25mg of psilocybin, not mushroom. Dried mushrooms contain about 1% psilocybin, so an equivalent dose of dried mushrooms would be around 2.5g, an amount that's definitely high enough to cause hallucinations. Not sure if this is what you mean by purified vs non purified.

My understanding is that he _did_ communicate to his friend that he was lost and his battery was dying https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382381870134951938/phot....

I just mean that a disproportionate amount of the danger created by bad drivers is to themselves. I don't have a source, but I think this is obvious.

My point is that, even if we lower the total death count, the safest drivers could still end up at greater risk, because a disproportionate amount of the reduction in deaths will go to bad drivers.