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> if you extrapolate this out several decades then you end up with companies far less competitive on the global scale

Just look at how Google is doing lately...

Which season is that? I have to watch it.

The obvious fix (which people are already working on) is to allow the system to look up information. E.g.: give it access to wikipedia.

For dynamic libraries, does it mean a program running inside of blink can make calls to dynamic libraries installed on the host system? If so, cool!

Could make a nice alternative to something like Electron...

> If I could have one single wish fulfilled in this world, it would be that every single human being gain a natural and instinctual revulsion for advanced technology. If someone asked me what disease was the worst that ever plagued humanity, it would not be smallpox or the flu or COVID, it would be the tech company.

Time to go live in a cabin in the woods and go write your manifesto on a typewriter...

PowerPC is big endian, but it seems like the world has been standardizing/converging on little endian for a while now. It's not just Intel and AMD, it's also all ARM CPUs and RISC-V.

To me, this seems a bit similar to the 8-bit byte. We take that for granted nowadays, of course memory is divided into bytes, but it wasn't always so. There used to be machines with memory that was addressable only in 36-bit or 40-bit words. There also used to be machines that uses one's complement to encode negative integers, before everything became two's complement.

I hope that eventually, all CPUs are little endian. It's easier to interoperate without these arbitrary distinctions.

It's very different from the approach taken by Waymo and Cruise. Tesla's FSD uses vision only, and it's available everywhere in the US and Canada. The fact that it can complete most drives successfully (~90% of the time) without intervention in any city in the US or Canada is pretty impressive IMO.

The parent poster is right, I've been watching the progress and it's gotten probably 20 to 50 times more reliable in the last year.

Tesla already has a very long order book for these. There is no doubt in my mind that they will sell as much as they can make.

The main savings come from fuel costs and maintenance. Eventually from autonomy as well.

With a bit more refinement, if it had the ability to generate graphs, etc, it might be able to generate very believable papers. At least, believable enough that you can't tell without reading the paper attentively.

> Generated text looks like the person crafting it is having a constant stream of micro-strokes while writing in their third language.

NVIDIA seems to have solved that problem: https://the-decoder.com/nvidias-ediffi-is-an-impressive-alte...

The tech is improving extremely rapidly, which makes sense considering how much excitement and interest there is.

The difference is that it can effectively turn someone with very little artistic training into an artist. Sure, it's not usable for every use case, but it would be usable for album cover, or just to have nice illustrations to draw people to a website, and some cases of concept art.

> This tech is currently barely usable for any real work outside of concepts

I take it you haven't been keeping up. Stable Diffusion 2 and Midjourney are getting really, really impressive. Probably a 10x increase in quality over the original DALL-E already.

Take a look at Jodorowsky's Tron (Tron in the style of Jodorowsky's Dune): https://www.djfood.org/fantasy-jodorowsky-tron-visualisation...

You could probably already get people to pay for a subscription to generate images. Wouldn't be surprised if someone is already working on it.

Stable diffusion is able to draw images of bears wearing spacesuits and penguins playing golf. I don't think it actually needs that kind of input to generate it. It's clearly able to generalize outside of the training set. So... Seems it should be possible to generate that kind of data without people being harmed.

That being said, this is a question for sociologists/psychologists IMO. Would giving people with these kinds of tendencies that kind of material make them more or less likely to cause harm? Is there a way to answer that question without harming anybody?

In the mean time, stay away from 4chan.

Interestingly, a discharged lithium ion battery still has electric potential in it, it's just that we stop discharging it after it hits a cutoff voltage to protect the battery's lifespan.

I wonder if a truly 100% discharged battery (down to zero volts) would actually be basically inert, and not even smolder if you poked it.

Do you know what kind of efficiencies they get and how close to practical or not this is?

80% isn't amazing, it's not ideal for an electric car, but it's not terrible either. IMO, to switch to 100% renewables, we're going to need grid-scale batteries, but it might also help if we had a mechanism to achieve seasonal energy storage.

I know hydrogen is hard to store, so I think it would be best if we could somehow use electricity to produce ethanol directly from CO2 and water (is that feasible with reasonable efficiency?). But just imagine if we could, in the summer, we could turn excess solar power into ethanol and stockpile it for the winter. We could also use that fuel to power jet airplanes and cargo ships without using any fossil fuels.

IMO the real problem is that FB/Meta lacks game development expertise and creating attractive/fun VR universes seems like it's fundamentally a game development problem.

Creating a successful game is not easy, it takes a certain skill set, and the vision that Zuckerberg has demonstrated (virtual offices, museums and meetings) seems completely boring.

I think there might also be a branding problem because a lot of the stuff that people might actually want to do in VR (guns, violence, sex, tentacles, unsavory avatars) can't really happen under the FB/Meta umbrella because they need to remain family and business-friendly, but that stuff obviously has huge revenue potential, so others will beat them to it.

I'm also wondering if VR will continue to remain niche all the way until we have direct brain interfaces where things actually look and feel real.

People also generally agree that smoking is bad for your health, that doesn't mean that smoking is actually good... Being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian usually doesn't work out, you have to make the right bets.

They also own 2/3 of the US EV market (with all remaining automakers combined making the remaining third), but people love to shit on them all the time. Tesla is driving the EV revolution while the rest of the auto industry drags its feet.

I do feel neutral/indifferent about it. I was just wondering why I see so much negative sentiment towards it.

Why do people hate endless scrolling so much?

The images definitely look good enough to serve as ideas/inspiration IMO. A sketch doesn't need to look photorealistic to inspire you.

I think a clear example of this would be The Orville.

Example space battle scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKepuFEzFAI

It's obviously inspired from Star Trek TNG and they want you to know it, but it has different characters and details. It's not Star Trek, but it's also true to the original than any recent Star Trek TV shows or movies.

So yeah, I would say, just change character names and make changes to your designs. Make it be its own thing and have fun with it.

I think that's a good step but it's still a very brittle ecosystem IMO. Needs time to mature.

As someone who's almost certainly used MDMA longer than you have, just no... MDMA is know to commonly cause depressive crashes. It's no panacea, it's a drug with it's own tradeoffs just like antidepressants. Do a google search for "suicide Tuesday".

That's a big if. The initial set up is a pain.

And even once the initial set up is done, ML software is constantly changing/breaking. You're forced to reinstall a new proprietary Nvidia driver, which is then incompatible with the old version of PyTorch the model uses... But that other model requires a newer PyTorch... It's a pain... The fact that there's a dependency on GPU driver versions is ridiculous.

You have a legal responsibility to share the information you know with the SEC. Do what's right and don't be afraid of these tech bros, they're probably busy pissing their pants right now anyways.

There's this narrative going around that antidepressants bad because medication bad, psychiatric industry evil, modern medicine bad, yadda yadda yadda.

The problem is, everybody's brain chemistry is unique and different, because our genetics are different. Some antidepressants work for some people and not others. I've personally tried 5 of them. Only one of them worked on me, and it had some unfortunate side-effects (messed with my sleep). My ex-girlfriend used a different antidepressant (Zoloft). Personally, I've tried Zoloft and all it did was make me sleepy all the time, but I've found Lexapro was quite effective and useful for getting my life back on track.

The way efficacy studies are done right now is, we measure the average effect on a group of people. That's doesn't really make sense when you think that everyone's genetics are unique and the antidepressant could be making some people better and some people worse, right? Maybe half the group feels better, but a quarter of the group becomes suicidal. Then on average, you see scores going up, you see the drug is beneficial on average... It would be kind of like giving everyone in a group a prescription for eyeglasses, all with the same prescription, and measuring that on average, participants can read better with the eyeglasses than not.

In some ways, modern medicine is still very primitive. Flooding the whole brain with a chemical and hoping that it interacts with the right receptors and has a beneficial effect without too many side effects if you have the right genetics is very primitive. It's the best we have right now though, and antidepressants in general are probably more helpful than not, but yes, people SHOULD be aware that they might very well not work on them.