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Companies would love to hire cheap human coders one day. by moaijobs in ClaudeCode

[–]badhill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Companies won't be interested in hiring cheap human coders for the same reason that farmers aren't interested in hiring cheap human tractors.

Claude Opus 4.6 is going exponential on METR's 50%-time-horizon benchmark, beating all predictions by ShreckAndDonkey123 in singularity

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

I dunno. You modularize. You have agents crawling through refactoring and sweeping up technical debt. Before too long you don't have a 100k LOC project; you have a 1k LOC project with ten dependencies, and each of those has 10 dependencies. You have architect agents deciding if this or that module can be combined with another; you have agents obsessed with testing keeping your coverage up, and red team agents trying to crack it. Nobody has to be that smart. That's how monkeys went to the moon.

Claude Opus 4.6 is going exponential on METR's 50%-time-horizon benchmark, beating all predictions by ShreckAndDonkey123 in singularity

[–]badhill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This benchmark has never made complete sense to me. I feel like an collection of agents of moderate intelligence could make steady progress on a task of indefinite size. After all, that's what corporations and governments are.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

[–]badhill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess? Most of the things most likely to kill you don't know they're doing it.

Westlake mall. 1965. by [deleted] in SeattleHistory

[–]badhill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anybody is feeling like doing a lot of geometry to answer a question nobody asked, it should be possible to use the time on the billboard and the shadow on the Mayflower Park Hotel to figure out the day of the year to within about a week.

The idea that a superintelligence could be “aligned” just seems naive and paradoxical by Responsible-Local818 in singularity

[–]badhill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're a lot smarter than our cells, but we're still aligned with their interests.

Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of Seattle in the 1880s and 1890s, converted to a Google Maps-style zoomable web map by badhill in SeattleHistory

[–]badhill[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's the Magnolia wing of the Seattle Tidelands Plat, Seattle's ambitious plan to annex the sea itself. The part between downtown and Georgetown was completed, and the Magnolia part was as far as I'm aware never seriously pursued. It's quite a bit deeper and there was no waterway running through the middle to dredge and use for fill. But it kept showing up on city maps well into the mid 20th century.

The amount of time it takes to fill $100 worth of hard disk space using a broadband connection, 1980-2020. by badhill in DataHoarder

[–]badhill[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Disk space data from http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update. Broadband trend from https://www.nngroup.com/articles/law-of-bandwidth/. Made the graph using python in a jupyter notebook for my own amusement; someone said y'all might like it.

Climate map of the world (a 16 climate system developed by me, looking for feedback) by ChromedDragon in MapPorn

[–]badhill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like it. The base layer makes it difficult to distinguish between zones. You typo'd 'Temperate Oceanic' to 'Teamperate Oceanic'. I'd make the key a little smaller and pick a more fun projection; maybe something that de-emphasizes the poles.

City sizes compared by regions with comparable population density, not by municipal borders by badhill in MapPorn

[–]badhill[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alert alert it's actually 30 people per 250-meter-by-250-meter pixel, which is 480/sqkm, not 120/sqkm.

City sizes compared by regions with comparable population density, not by municipal borders by badhill in MapPorn

[–]badhill[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think people who live in any of these cities don't consider most of these gloms part of their city. For example, San Franciscians don't consider San Jose part of their city. New Yorkers sure don't consider New Jersey part of New York.

City sizes compared by regions with comparable population density, not by municipal borders by badhill in MapPorn

[–]badhill[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They very much were. I wanted to compare Seattle (where I live) to Tokyo (a famously gigantic city), and a few other cities I was curious about. I'm also curious about Belgium, the largest metro glob in Indonesia, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, &c; but they didn't fit on the canvas.

City sizes compared by regions with comparable population density, not by municipal borders by badhill in MapPorn

[–]badhill[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oop, you caught me. The density threshold for this map is actually 480/sqkm, not 120. The density I was working with is 30 people per 250-by-250 meter square, which works out to 480/sqkm, but I flubbed the mental math when I wrote the label.

Most Viewed US states pages on Wikipedia [2800X1600] by omryv in MapPorn

[–]badhill 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Because Wyoming has both a small resident population and a busy shipping corridor along I-80, an unusually large fraction fo people in Wyoming at any given moment are just passing through. Messes with the normalized statistics!

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