BugsJustFindMe

I'm going to start with a link to the Pretti video analysis. If you don't trust the Times, feel free to ignore their assessments of motives and you can just look at the analysis of what events happened and when which are factual details: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010668660/new-video-a...

In Pretti’s case he brought a pistol to a protest (illegal in his location)

I think you should know that the claim that it was illegal for him to carry that pistol is false and is a lie being told to you to deceive you into letting them sweep his death under the rug. Minnesota's concealed carry law (Pretti had a permit) does not restrict carrying in public or at protests. You can easily look that up if you care to. They don't think you will.

inserted himself into a detainment attempt

This is also clearly false from all of the videos. There was no detainment attempt being made. What is shown in all the videos is that an agent shoved a woman backward hard with no detainment attempt being made. The woman was not part of any detainment attempt at that time. At that point she was merely a common victim of assault.

and struggled with officers

Is that before or after he was being beaten while his hands were pinned down?

He may not have fired the shot that startled the officers surrounding him, causing them to fire

The shot you're talking about was fired by one of those same border agents. It wasn't a magic bullet that came out of nowhere.

They say stupidity should be painful

I hope you don't say it too, because only an asshole actually says things like that.

I wish I could just buy one of these as a commercial product. I'll never be able to make this and it's too cool to not be able to buy.

If your objection to registering ammo purchases is that they are legal to own, well, I will remind you that so are credit cards.

None of them would want ICE to have that information.

And that's even ignoring for the moment the fact that things which are obvious weapons and things which are not obvious weapons pose different fundamental risks to society and that therefore it's always a stretch to lump them into the same category.

I don't know about you, but I still live in a world where if people don't do work then they soon after don't have a place to live or enough food to eat.

"often" and "always" are two different words that mean two different things

If I know I'm only going to get a few hours of sleep, I'll ... drink plenty of water

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21517-dehydra...

You're probably right, and yet here I am.

Specific recommendations:

1) None of the animations are useful. None of the scroll gates are useful. They all get in the way. Remove them. All of them.

2) Don't make a person scroll so goddamned much. It's maddening and unnecessary.

3) Have a persistent table of contents on the side if your section headers actually matter.

4) Don't ignore Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for content readability. Your tiny low contrast text hurts my eyes.

5) Don't ignore user preference for dark text on light background.

What makes you think "Texans" as a category even know on average? Or are accurately informed enough to understand the full breadth of consequences?

That's fine. It's fine to do the thing that brings you joy.

In fact humans get paid to create SVGs of all kinds of things.

they're comparing to similar capability llm models, not humans

25 cents is 10x the cost of 2.5 cents, but it's still extremely cheap for the product. It's very much the wrong comparison for a world where the primary competition is still humans who need to eat, and it treats percentage differences as more important than absolute differences when the opposite is true.

This is expensive—the pelican cost 25 cents!

Engineers get unbelievably silly about evaluating costs of things.

"The tokens are so expensive!" Oh my sweet child, how much would even the least capable human effort cost? This is what the executives properly understand that the programmers don't.

Every single worker that has been laid off due to "increased AI productivity" is working less

This isn't a useful definition of working less in the thread context and is not the kind of working less that I meant.

If it helps, imagine that I had asked for "when increased productivity translated to workers personally reaping the benefits of the increased productivity by being able to thrive while doing less instead of either being laid off or just being expected to do more".

Name one time in all of history when increased productivity translated to workers working less. I'll wait.

I'd love to hear about them if you don't want to keep them secret.

Oh, I fully agree

Everyone trying so hard to do something "useful" that they don't recognize when all they've done is make art.

Had this been described as a font that contains two overlapping messages for fun effect, everyone would understand and love it.

Instead, we get this zero-introspection take: "Decoy font is...more difficult for AI to read. If you’re having a hard time seeing the hidden message..."

It's difficult to read period and has zero effect on current SOTA or future AI. But it does show two overlapping messages that can be read in different ways.

You could, but is that what they've done?

And when an LLM runs up costs for a small company by getting them to lease a bunch of infrastructure they don't need, who can they sue?

This question is completely disconnected from reality. If you try to sue a human for proposing something more complex than what you need you will waste a lot of money and then lose the lawsuit.

Also the annual cost of too much small company infrastructure is less than the cost of even a single good human engineer.

I don't understand what you mean.

If you had psychic mindreading powers you would understand what I mean.

Are you suggesting that psychic mindreading powers are real?

How would they know

How would you? The answer is the same.

but they can't read minds

I don't know who needs to hear this, but neither can humans.

You've implicitly assumed here that AI systems will always be worse at contextualizing and framing questions than the average engineer. I'm not sure that it's even true now let alone in the nebulous future.

You haven't narrowed the fundamental myopia of the assumption here, just dressed it in slightly different clothing.

On the one hand, because it is easy to build products, more and more people will build.

And those people won't need to be software engineers.

but they get stuck, and then they will need engineers

You've implicitly assumed here that the AI systems will always be worse than the average engineer. That is IMO myopic. I'm not sure that it's even true now let alone in the nebulous future.

it came out to be north of $1000 (I paid them $20/month in that period)

Yeah. My $200/month subscription would easily cost $5000/month or more if I were paying per token.

It's also in, if you'll pardon my saying so, located in a shit-hole place to live. Look at the building across the street on google street view.

Price per token is meaningless for more reasons than this, because all of the provider monthly subscriptions price tokens _extremely_ differently than their per-token billing rates. It's stupid to look only at what you get when paying more than you need to for a given service.

"Model map visualizes these strengths and weaknesses"

No it doesn't.

"Is this useful?"

No.

"Is it fun?"

Also no.

You pay more for LaCie because you get a premium enclosure

Oh darn. I hate paying more for a more premium thing.