- jjcobI've worked with an organisation that was on the receiving end of a popular charity, and they definitely got something (new playground equipment for disabled children). Can't say how efficient the charity was, but there are definitely charities that don't keep all the money for themselves.
- I'm still waiting for the tech world to wake up and realise that the online ad machinery and user tracking software that the brightest minds of our generation have been working on are just a way to efficiently connect scammers with their unsuspecting victims.
- Pretty impressive work. I always wondered what all those correspondents do that news organisations employ all over the world. I guess that's one of those things.
- Corporations aren't people, but in the end it's still people that are responsible for this crackdown on liberal content. It's someone at Facebook making these decisions, someone who is a person, we just don't know who the responsible person is.
- > fringe networks that are off the radar and will take them to very dark places very quickly
Soo... we already have a problem with some youths running into extremist content on Facebook, TikTok, Telegram ... no "fringe" network needed.
- The jokes are not new. If you read Philip K Dick or Douglas Adams there's a lot of satirical predictions of the future that sound quite similar. What's amazing about LLMs is how they manage to almost instantly draw from the distilled human knowledge and come up with something that fits the prompt so well...
- I think it means encoded in such a way that you first have low res version, then higher res versions, then even higher res versions etc.
- > Where do you collect feedback?
Using every possible channel. Feedback button in the app, email, Github issues, ... I make it as easy as possible for people to tell me what they want.
> How do you prioritize it?
When multiple people independently request the same thing I start working on it.
> Do you use public roadmaps or keep everything internal?
I think public roadmaps are stupid because I never know how much effort something is ahead of time. It often happens that I realise after starting a project that it is way harder than I thought. I also often realise after some time has passed that something I thought was useful is actually not necessary and I remove it from the roadmap. I don't want people to buy my product expecting feature X and then I strike it.
- Can you expand on that? Do you have any knowledge about those parts except their part numbers?
- My son started walking at 8.5 months. He's got a 3.5 month head start on those 12 month walking late bloomers. I have very high expectations. I wonder where his walking skills are going to take him one day, but this comment worries me because he has so far not shown any interest in the Korean alphabet.
- And performed by researchers that received free education in their home country before moving to the US because they hope for a better career there...
- Might be a result of using LLMs to evaluate the output of other LLMs.
LLMs probably get higher scores if they explicitly state that they are following instructions...
- You are missing inertia!
The state of each ball can be described by 9 parameters: the current location of the center of mass (x,y,z), the current linear velocity (vx, vy, xz) and the angular velocity on 3 axes.
I don't think the forces acting on the rails need to be similar -- they just need to be such that the acceleration of the ball is always parallel to the track. Unfortunately the equation of motion will look pretty ugly and optimizing the system will be quite a challenge.
And finally, the system has to be stable, ie. small perturbations should be cancelled rather than grow - if a ball gets a little too fast there should be something like a bend that slows it down, but that bend should at the same time not slow down a ball that is already too slow...
- > Is everything 3% cheaper in the eu?
No, because in Europe sales tax is higher and included in the displayed price, so stuff is generally more expensive. But obviously everything is 3% cheaper than it would be if businesses still had to pay 3% fees. (credit card fees used to be really high before EU regulation came in -- the minimum fee was so high that merchants sometimes paid more in fees than they made in profit when a customer swiped a credit card instead of a debit card).
But the much bigger advantage is that reward cards aren't a thing, and credit card usage is much less common. Most people just use their debit cards. Credit card debt is much less of a problem because credit cards aren't advertised like they are in the US. People spend less if they don't always have $3000 of credit available.
- Credit card rewards are not good for consumers. Low fees are good for consumers.
- I looked up that Impulse Labs induction hob. Holy Shit, 10kW peak on a single burner is ridiculous!
I already managed to ruin a pan with just 3.7kW (heated it while empty), and I tought that was a lot.
However, I think the cost is probably mostly the battery. Our induction hob (max power per burner 3.7kW / 7.2kW total) costs only 10% of the battery powered stove.
Also, at the low cost, induction is a non-starter. Resistive heating elements are dirt cheap, and the efficiency is not much less than induction. Induction is just way nicer :)
- > So you are looking at powering DC only appliances!
Is there anything you actually need AC for? The big advantage of AC is that you can easily transform it for long range transmission. If you don't need that, AC is not really necessary, is it?
I guess the bigger issue is the limited power -- you probably can't use a small scale solar installation for cooking or washing, not because it's DC, but because it just wont offer 1000W power.
- It works best if you don't reply immediately. I recommend successively increasing the response delay. Keep it short enough to make sure that they don't start bugging you on other channels, but long enough to make sure they have time to cool down and question if the continued effort is really worth it.
As long as the response delay increases at least geometrically, there is a finite bound to the amount of work required to deal with a pull request that you will never merge.
- You don't approve it. You just slowly grind the submitter down with minor feedback. At some point they lose interest and after a year you can close the PR, or ask the submitter to open a new PR.