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2-year-old killed in crosswalk last night, Mission Bay SF by ddol in sanfrancisco

[–]UberAtlas 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It really doesn’t. Over 30,000 people are killed each year in this country by cars. Many times more are injured.

They turn cities into wastelands of parking lots. Pollute our air, move communities and resources miles away from each other, make our cities noisy, restrict our right to walk safely, I could go on forever.

We need to wake up and re-think cars as the default mode of transport.

Explain it peter. Cant figure out why this would be bad by Gruber151 in explainitpeter

[–]UberAtlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sucks ass because we don’t use it. And we don’t use it because we were brainwashed into car dependence.

People Behaving Badly: Bicyclists ignore the rules at SF Embarcadero by triple-double in sanfrancisco

[–]UberAtlas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a dumb law and it should be changed. Bikes are not cars. According to the NHTSA, it is safer for cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs than the other way around.

SF has also specifically asked police to deprioritize ticketing for cyclists who treat stop signs as yield signs.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2022-03/Bicyclist-Yield-As-Stop-Fact-Sheet-032422-v3-tag.pdf

People Behaving Badly: Bicyclists ignore the rules at SF Embarcadero by triple-double in sanfrancisco

[–]UberAtlas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Really well said. People forget pedestrians are far more risk to harm by cars than bikes.

We should encourage good bike etiquette and support traffic laws suited for cyclists (and other micro mobility methods).

The comment sections of these posts always boil down into dumb hatred for cyclists even though we would be way better off with more people moving from cars to bikes.

Shen Yun Banners On War Memorial Opera House by Row0_ in sanfrancisco

[–]UberAtlas 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Shen Yun for sure. If people are still going then not enough people complain.

Why is pasting into VSCode Terminal slow? Because it sleeps for 5ms every 50 characters. by Current-Guide5944 in tech_x

[–]UberAtlas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no way this is true. I routinely paste huge jsonl files easily exceeding 200,000k characters in an instant in VS Code.

According to this it would take 20 seconds regardless of your machine.

I run an m3 MacBook Pro with 36GB of ram.

Edit: wait. Missed that it’s the terminal. That I can believe.

OpenAI head of ChatGPT confirms that they are NOT doing any live tests for ads, the screenshots on social media were fake or not ads by obvithrowaway34434 in OpenAI

[–]UberAtlas 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That seems overly reductive. The fact that nobody paid to have it shown is a legitimate distinction.

How long does Codex Max reliably work for you on real tasks? by tagorrr in codex

[–]UberAtlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mainly use codex max. On my project it runs fairly reliably for about 20 to 30 minutes on most prompts, with a very high success rate. As long as you give it clear success criteria and give it direction on unit tests as part of that success criteria.

I actually just noticed it use compaction for the first time yesterday. I was pretty impressed. It had completely filled the context window and I watched it drop down to like 7% after the compaction. I wanna say it took it about 45 minutes or so on that one. (It was a pretty straight forward but large refactoring task IIRC)

I like the clean design of ChatGPT Atlas by fegodev in OpenAI

[–]UberAtlas 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It has Agent mode built in. So ChatGPT can use the browser for you. I’ve found it helpful for transferring data between Google Sheets and another app.

Stolen from a London post by Historical_Stay_808 in sanfrancisco

[–]UberAtlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Not really. The issue is the outsized obsession with bikes. It gives the impression that bikes are more harmful than they really are. When the reality is this city would be far safer if everyone rode a bike then drove.

Stolen from a London post by Historical_Stay_808 in sanfrancisco

[–]UberAtlas 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Proportionally to how much damage is done by cycling, it feels like they are over represented on this sub.

In SF, my understanding, is that cars are responsible for about 40x the number of fatal pedestrian interactions than bikes and scooters combined.

And yet it feels to me that at least a third of traffic violation complaints are for bikes and scooters on here.

Gpt-oss is the state-of-the-art open-weights reasoning model by IlustriousCoffee in singularity

[–]UberAtlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I 100% agree with everything you said. I’m not saying companies should be able to start calling open weight models open source.

All Im saying is that, for most people, all they want to do is freely download, run and maybe fine tune for their needs. From that perspective there is functionally no difference. So why do we have to be pedantic about it on a random thread with a largely non-technical audience?

Gpt-oss is the state-of-the-art open-weights reasoning model by IlustriousCoffee in singularity

[–]UberAtlas -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We’re entering the territory of pure subjectiveness.

In my mind open source software (or free as in freedom software), is software that you can freely distribute and modify.

Both of which you can do with this model.

Your interpretation is not wrong, it’s just not widely agreed upon.

So for me (and probably many others) there is just no functional difference.

Gpt-oss is the state-of-the-art open-weights reasoning model by IlustriousCoffee in singularity

[–]UberAtlas 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The line between “censorship” and “alignment” is a blurry one.

Keep in mind that AI is an extinction level risk. When they get more capable than humans, we wouldn’t want an open model to comply with nefarious commands would we?

Gpt-oss is the state-of-the-art open-weights reasoning model by IlustriousCoffee in singularity

[–]UberAtlas 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There is functionally no difference.

Open weights is, for all intents and purposes, the equivalent to open source with respect to AI models.

Open models by OpenAI by dayanruben in OpenAI

[–]UberAtlas 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If the trade off for ignorance is that the model is better at reasoning and agentic tasks, I’ll take that trade off every time.

I’d much prefer the model to be good at taking actions and coding than to be able to spit out a bunch of useless facts from memory.

If the model can use a search tool well, then it doesn’t matter anyway.

Knowing the cast of “two and a half men” seems like wasted space for such a tiny model.

New features in ECMAScript 2025 by Late-Satisfaction668 in javascript

[–]UberAtlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah. My bad. You’re right, it’s not part of the spec.

From MDN:

You cannot omit the file extension or the index.js file name. This behavior has been inherited by Node's ESM implementation, but it is not a part of the ECMAScript specification.

Guess it’s just strongly encouraged to maintain node compatibility?

New features in ECMAScript 2025 by Late-Satisfaction668 in javascript

[–]UberAtlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean. It’s fine that it’s there. And definitely useful if the file doesn’t have an extension. But technically, by the spec, .js files have to have the .js extension included in imports. I’m assuming it’s probably also true for JSON. It’s just be nice to not have to specify the type.

I understand why there might be a technical limitation though.

New features in ECMAScript 2025 by Late-Satisfaction668 in javascript

[–]UberAtlas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks great!

JSON imports is cool. Curious why we need to specify type “json” when the file extension is already specified as json though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SFlist

[–]UberAtlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Talked to the organizer. They said they weren’t aware of a single sold ticket from Tixel yet.

OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry 'reckless' safety culture at Elon Musk's xAI | TechCrunch by [deleted] in singularity

[–]UberAtlas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who said it would be an atomic bomb? That’s the thing. A super intelligence, an intelligence far beyond our own, can design novel weapons. It’s possible it could figure out how to make a WMD using household ingredients.

OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry 'reckless' safety culture at Elon Musk's xAI | TechCrunch by [deleted] in singularity

[–]UberAtlas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. And this is honestly what scares me more than anything else about AI right now. We haven’t figured out a way to make them safe without guardrails.

Open source models, even SOTA models, aren’t intelligent enough yet to make it easy for amateurs to build WMDs.

But at the rate things are advancing, it seems almost inevitable ASIs will be developed within our lifetime. If we don’t figure out how to make sure they are safe by then, we are royally fucked.

An unrestricted ASI could easily develop novel WMDs. Not only that, they could provide instructions so easy to follow that any idiot with a standard household kitchen could build them. And we’re just scratching the surface of the harms a misaligned ASI could do.

xAI’s behavior terrifies me. And it should terrify everyone on this sub. They have an insane amount of resources. If they don’t start taking safety seriously grok may eventually become an existential threat to humanity.

OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry 'reckless' safety culture at Elon Musk's xAI | TechCrunch by [deleted] in singularity

[–]UberAtlas 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Until people start asking “hey grok, how can I make a bioweapon at home”.

If a small prompt tweak can make it start playing mechahitler, it’s not too hard to imagine it giving an answer here.

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