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videogames have to overcompensate

And yet somehow we can understand videos and photos just fine.

Videogames have to overcompensate when they're missing lots of other important cues, but the closer they get to realism the less they have to overcompensate.

considerably more than the $200/m I pay the frontier labs.

This is a very rich / developed country privilege perspective.

Where I live, it's not unusual for a monthly wage to be around $200. Of course developer wages are much higher, maybe as much as $1000 a month, but $200 is still a huge chunk of that so it doesn't really matter how much "value" you get out of it if you're no longer able to pay rent or buy decent food.

Even in developed countries, $200 a month is out of reach for all kinds of people who would benefit from it (students without rich families, entrepreneurs, etc.).

I guess it's easier when it's pc to pc although it's cool that you can do it from Windows to Ubuntu. But I always understood the main reason was to be able to do it to a portable device so that you'd use your phone as a mini steamdeck basically but via streaming from a pc.

I was quite excited by that, I even got a controller that could clamp on to the phone. Just couldn't get it to work reliably.

I spent quite a while trying to set up streaming from my laptop to my phone using Sunshine/Moonlight. I never got decent results despite following tutorials that were supposed to make it all very easy.

Gaming is something I do to relax and I eventually decided it wasn't worth it since I had spent a week of my limited downtime messing around with codecs, latency, wifi settings, trying different apps, etc. and not gotten any kind of usable results.

I guess it was about three years ago. Have things improved since then?

it isn't noticeably worse at least

That's what I thought about RTK and Headroom too but when I did some fairly basic evals across a small set of tasks (a matrix of RTK, Headroom, both, or off) it came back very clear that off was best. I didn't dig into why too deeply due to lack of time, but it looked like the token reduction per turn was being replaced by the model needing more turns.

That and building my own pi extensions made me realize there's a lot of subtly here. I can build a tool that on paper works perfectly but tuning the system prompt to get it used correctly takes time and evals.

The problem is, nobody is doing them, or not well, and not reproducibly.

This looks especially hard for something designed for very long running tasks. We'd need to set up one version using normal compaction, one using this, across several tasks, leave them running for hours (burning tons of tokens) and then repeat at least a couple of times. If we don't do that, we're just guessing.

That looks interesting, have you found it useful in practice? I'm a bit burnt out on these wildly ambitious big plugins (headspace, RTK etc.) because in each case when I've done personal evals they come out worse than the default.

This is one of the advantages of pi. I made a /protect command that protects the message from compaction. I also protect skills automatically.

So for long running tasks I'll do

    /protect your goal is...

It's an American company polluting the night sky for the entire world, for a service that will ultimately be access gated by the US government/private industry. That's where the negative sentiment is coming from. Who cares which of the many equally shitty US billionaires/oligarchs is funding it?

Hard to know what this is about from the headline alone, and I can't read the article.

I remember ~20 years ago upgrading my house line to get something crazy like 0.5mbs and the sales guy telling me that I didn't really need it and was wasting money upgrading from my current ~0.2mbs.

Those numbers are fudged of course, I don't remember exactly how long ago or from what to what I was upgrading. My point is that we've always been having people say you don't need faster internet. And yet, I still want, and use, faster internet. 200mbs I would consider fine. But I'd still feel the difference at 500mbs or 1gbs.

On the other hand I could also believe that they live in such a bubble they genuinely don’t understand how it comes across

Yes, at least until ~6 months ago that was my reading too. I felt they were part of the EA/less wrong crowd. Earnest, convinced they were smarter than everyone else, paternalistic, massively lacking in real wisdom.

Now, I think maybe they're still struggling with that but they've had a real taste of power and like everyone smart but lacking in wisdom, faced with the real world, all their idealism has become lip service and pandering to their previous in group while their real target (which they probably haven't even admitted to themselves) slips further and further towards gathering more power.

As another example of a tech company where something similar happened, see Google. Although at least they never started out with this condescending "we're here to save you from... us" vibe.

I know what an early adopter is. Should we call this HNsplaining?

I'm saying that Ghostty, which is ~5 years old, cannot be called an early adopter of GitHub, which is 18 years old.

Which early adopters exactly? The most prominent example they gave is ghostty which has existed for just a couple of years, notwithstanding the fact that the owner published a spiel about how he's personally been using it for longer.

If there's a trend

That's the point being made. Is there a trend? How do we know?

There's always some repos moving between hosting providers for all kinds of reasons. The burden of proof is on the author here to show there's been an increase and they don't do that.

I've been working on something related - extracting tons of data from various formats to allow searching them - and the solution I chose for xlxs and xls files was headless LibreOffice to convert them to CSV. There's also exceljs but I found it didn't work for many old xls files.

I didn't find screenshotting of spreadsheets worked well, vision wasn't very accurate on them. I do use it for PDFs though. For docx it's probably fine either way but I went with LibreOffice -> markdown.

Coding contains many subtasks analogous to counting letters in a word accurately.

I think you can be sure they would have done that if it showed their model on or very close to the top.

some portion of people are always going to be particularly forceful about putting forth their opinion. Maybe it's a bad day, maybe it's habit, varies from person to person and day to day, etc.

I have no problem that someone had a bad reaction to this and needs to vent, I have a problem that the community deems it the most noteworthy comment and keeps it voted to the very top of the thread.

The quality pass:

1. Merges in the dev branch

2. runs the various tests and static checks

3. Fixes any small issues with the context of what was fixed on this branch

4. Stops and reports if there's any major issues

Or

5. Handles the merge back to dev if all is green.

The problem is that he's a tech influencer first, a tech expert second.

That's his motivation, influencing. Not teaching.

I'm not so against him as the previous commentor but I feel basically all YouTubers who have succeeded in building a brand have the same problem. They have to present their opinions as unassailable truth, they can't allow nuance. Within reason of course, they also have to play the game of appearing considerate and understanding of other people but it will always boil down to proving they are the real experts, their ultimate goal is always to get you watching more of their content.

If they don't do this, they appear less trustworthy and their brand wouldn't have grown as much as it did. They might genuinely have some expertise to share, and even contrary or downright wrong takes could teach us something if they were only presented in a way that encourages critical thinking. But as the person above said, their real deep expertise is in brand building.

Not the above person, and I usually max out around 5 although I have definitely had 10 or more at some point.

Assuming I'm working on one repo, I'll have different worktrees, each for a related area. For example, one worktree for each of: ui, small bug fixes, feature A, feature B, and so on.

Each worktree will have one active write agent, but I have a special docs/plans folder where I can have additional agents doing research and saving their findings. Agents in "plan mode" are write restricted to just that folder.

So look at a bug fix worktree. I could easily have 5 agents doing RCA into various bugs, each in plan mode. One at a time will get promoted to write mode to fix its specific bug while I continue discussion/RCA with the others. After fixing several bugs I'll spin up a "quality pass" agent that will make sure all tests/lint etc. pass and then give me a list of touched surfaces to manually verify before merging the branch and closing the worktree.

Note, I'm working solo at the moment so there's no PRs needed, but it would look quite similar if I had to make a PR for each bug fix, just probably with more worktrees.

Yep, both of those things actually happened, what's your point? I'd love to say we were just unlucky but unfortunately I think it's par for the course when running a small business these days. At least when I was researching how to fix these I found a lot of other people with similar problems and a while industry of YouTubers and bloggers claiming to show you how to fix it.

We got back on Google maps after a few weeks and haven't had any problems since. We never got back on Instagram and had to make a new account, although to be honest we've barely used it since our business pretty much all comes from Google maps.

So I'm trying to get some of them to update their own shop information. But I'm really struggling to find good arguments.

I did that for my business (a bakery). Spent ages on it, put in all the details I could think of. At the end of the process there seemed to be a requirement to send it you review so I did that. This was several months ago (probably six months), and it's never showed up.

I'm busy, and I have a thousand more useful things to do for my business. I'm very unlikely to try again.

On the other hand, if the process had been easier I'd probably have then gone on to adding other businesses in the area.

The actual business is listed, but with a slightly wrong name. But I can put that exact slightly wrong name into the search on openstreetmap.org right now and there's zero results.

Then I can manually zoom to the location (which is correct), see my business, tap on it... And nothing. It doesn't open. So given all of this, why would I bother with openstreetmaps as a business owner?

I'm looking at this on Brave Android and I see a very dark butterfly made out of square gridlines. I think it's much less impressive than what I'm supposed to see, because I saw several loading messages at the bottom, but when they completed, nothing visibly changed.

ignored all the studies that show honey performing similarly or slightly worse than Dextromethorphan, or studies where honey showed no measurable effect.

To be fair, you're doing pretty much the same by claiming these studies exist without proof.

Opus will fake out, say everything is done, and then you see that half of the plan was deferred, half of the functions are ridiculous stubs, ...

Doesn't Claude Code have a /loop command? Give it a message to keep it on track overnight, send every 20m, make it track progress in a doc, reread the doc after every loop. I've found this works well for a certain class of problems, most importantly where the actual work is getting done by very narrowly focused batches of subagents, with the main session just coordinating and keeping the doc updated.

Does viewing them via this blog add to the view count?

GPT 4/5 etc. are just marketing names though.

Why? There's a thousand component libraries, what makes this one stand out?

I also live in Vietnam and that's utter bs, sorry. People in Vietnam are generally chill and lovely, until they get onto the road where they become selfish, entitled, noisy assholes. They honk to avoid having to look, wait, or slow down. Trying to be a pedestrian in Vietnam is extremely stressful, nobody will ever give you right of way even on a sidewalk, instead they'll just drive directly at you while honking until you get out of the way.