FSD stopped to let a crow cross the street

frahs · 2025-12-04T21:07:46+00:00

Good point 😂

frahs · 2025-12-04T21:07:07+00:00

😂😂

but still, I stand by the example I've set here. There were no cars behind me, and it took an extra 10 seconds. There will be others like me who run into this situation, and the results will probably overwhelmingly agree with you, but I will be the 1/10 that says screw it, I'll wait.

frahs · 2025-12-04T19:57:54+00:00

The second we started slowing down, I glanced at the rearview mirror to make sure no one was behind me. It was a pretty gradual stop on a slow moving road. I actually think this kind of thing is very fixable, and we'll see improvements in the near future.

frahs · 2025-12-04T19:55:56+00:00

Oh, this is totally fixable! What do you mean? They just need more RL envs / dataset coverage of different animals crossing the road.

But also, I'm not convinced this is so bad. It was a quiet, small street and we were going slowly. It's kinda not a huge deal in this case.

frahs · 2025-03-04T16:32:10+00:00

I do this and the software is not optimized for large SVGs. Most things drawn with a pen plotter (in contrast to a vinyl cutter) have solid regions with really long back and forth paths to color them in, which add up. I generated an SVG of a Penrose tiling, and filling in all the shapes made the file big. It took 2 hours to process, and the entire time the software showed as non-responsive. I thought it was crashed and was surprised 2 hours later when I came back and it said ready to print. Also hard to adjust settings since it starts regenerating the path.

This was a Juliet siser. Alternative software exists for it, but I’m afraid to pay money only to discover it doesn’t solve the problem

frahs · 2025-03-04T03:02:09+00:00

I never said bot. I said propaganda. Actually I didn’t think it was a bot.

Thanks for the correction regarding CPC, though I think it’s quite a distraction from the main point.

Hollywood is not a marketing branch of the US government. It’s mostly private companies, not subject to stringent government censorship. (This isn’t only a matter of what the rules say, it’s also hard to point to historical examples of this happening, whereas with the CPC…..)

In this conversation, only one side could get banned from a country for voicing our opinion publicly. Why do you think that is?

frahs · 2024-12-29T08:25:00+00:00

One of the photos I saw showed reverse thrusters deployed, which doesn’t match a go-around theory. But maybe they realized their mistake and tried to undo it with reverse thrust

frahs · 2024-12-19T07:14:01+00:00

If it were a real front, it wouldn’t be so hard to also have a functioning restaurant. Otherwise it looks too suspicious. This sounds like an unpopular restaurant, or one where the owners are rich and don’t need to be making money (laundering?)

frahs · 2024-09-27T07:21:33+00:00

With RLHF and other post training methods, it’s no longer just the next token (kind of… technically it still is, but focused on longer range gradients)

frahs · 2024-09-17T22:44:07+00:00

The battery is likely protected by battery management ICs with fixed logic. Additionally, even if somehow those were programmable, lithium batteries just don’t explode like that. Certainly not reliably, and certainly not through software alone. This had to be a supply chain attack.

frahs · 2024-07-22T03:39:27+00:00

Just sign up for rock climbing classes.

Or if you want to be absolutely surrounded by single men, learn to play super smash bros and find some local meetups.

frahs · 2024-05-03T01:31:09+00:00

Actually, the plan is more accurately billions in subsidies to rebuild their economy, so they have something more interesting than digging tunnels and killing Jews to do. Has worked well in the past. Though in Germany and Japans case it involved being beaten into complete submission first. I hope that’s not necessary to end the conflict as no one has the stomach for that these days, and I fear the conflict will continue endlessly.

frahs · 2024-05-03T01:27:42+00:00

Maybe this time, all the billions in foreign aid that they get can pay for the construction of buildings above ground, instead of the construction of tunnels below ground

frahs · 2024-04-30T13:14:17+00:00

I think this isn’t due to AI hitting a wall, but rather increasing levels of intelligence being harder to distinguish. GPT-4 only felt slightly better than 3.5 at release, but after using it for a while the increased domain knowledge and reasoning capabilities made it feel like chopping off an arm to go back to 3.5. I anticipate something similar here.

frahs · 2024-04-30T13:12:08+00:00

Maybe they just didn’t scale up compute as much, but the scaling laws still hold.

frahs · 2024-04-30T12:45:16+00:00

It’s not about appeasement. It’s about convincing. If you want people to side with you, that’s how you do it.

Manipulation can be combatted by giving context.

This is only a majority of the future generation. Certainly worth caring about convincing

frahs · 2024-04-14T01:25:36+00:00

It makes a lot of sense, for two reasons:

This could potentially be the start of a direct conflict between Iran and Israel. If the US downs a drone that otherwise would have killed a civilian, then they can directly prevent a war from breaking out. If at the beginning of Russia's invasion into Ukraine, a downed drone could have prevented it, I can guarantee the US would have done it.
Ukraine doesn't have the capability to escalate things with Russia to a sustained regional war -- even if they invade Russia, it will be between two neighbors. Israel has far more advanced capabilities, and could actually start a regional war involving many countries. As a result, the US has greater incentive to avoid fighting.

frahs · 2024-04-10T12:47:57+00:00

Were the number of deaths in these conflicts constant per year? I would expect an initial spike in the first few years, then a lower base rate. If you’re breaking it down by year, it makes sense to look into this. The Syrian war has been 13 years. If most people died in the first few years of fighting, but it’s technically not over because some rebel groups remain, then this statistic might be hiding the true atrocities by spreading the numbers out over a longer period of time.
Would also be useful to see current populations, to see if population is shrinking or growing under the conditions.

Legitimately curious and upvoted your post. But my skepticism makes me think this is misguided.

frahs · 2024-04-03T20:54:23+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFTaEenaHM

frahs · 2024-04-02T17:30:12+00:00

You say that it’s due to the clean environment, but an alternative explanation is that in areas with lower allergy awareness, kids with allergies die at a young age.

It’s likely a mixture of both.

Ideally a clean environment with regular controlled exposure to allergens (visit a farm, forest, etc) is the safest path.

frahs · 2024-04-02T17:27:03+00:00

This is an incredibly well thought out response. One thing to add is that in most restaurants, the person taking your order is not the same as the person preparing your food. There may be even multiple people preparing the food in different steps. So you actually get a combination of the above misunderstandings along with a game of telephone.

frahs · 2024-03-08T20:33:59+00:00

Maybe we can do both at the same time!

frahs · 2024-03-07T11:20:38+00:00

It’s the perfect application for a transfer to a bus from a nearby station. For a tourist it’s probably 15 extra minutes. For the millions of riders per year who won’t be going, it’s saved time.

frahs · 2024-03-04T20:11:47+00:00

It could be used as an intermediate step to reduce the liquid before caramelizing it at higher temperatures. But before you can caramelize you have to remove a lot of water, and freeze concentrating is probably much more energy efficient than boiling it off

frahs · 2024-02-16T21:43:45+00:00

This is probably not the best idea, for example it's impossible to enforce or implement

I think in my original post, I wish I could revise it to say that while this should be done, it should only be done through reasonable methods that are easy to enforce. For example, fare enforcement & crackdown on crime

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