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> they will not be able to obtain non-immigration visas in the future

Why? Aren't L1 and H1B "dual intent" visas?


I should have been more precise, yes. But the majority of non-immigrant visas are single intent. H1B requires 100K and if you can’t first enter to see people and attend interviews, chances seem slim in these circumstances, if H1B program is not altogether scrapped.


It made a big difference when it first appeared on the battlefield. Russia has adapted since then, so it's no longer a game changer. But systems like these helped Ukraine hold on, and they continue to do so today.


> Their capabilities should saturate at human or maybe above-average human performance

LLMs do have superhuman reasoning speed and superhuman dedication. Speed is something you can scale, and at some point quantity can turn into quality. Much of the frontier work done by humans is just dedication, luck, and remixing other people's ideas ("standing on the shoulders of giants"), isn't it? All of this is exactly what you can scale by having restless hordes of fast-thinking agents, even if each of those agents is intellectually "just above average human".


Is this a joke? If it's not trainable / differentiable when why do it in the first place? It's just as inefficient and inflexible as it gets compared to tool calling — you have to statically bake programs in the weights, model cannot introspect it and modify, it has very limited IO capabilities, bad performance, bad everything. Its like a weird brainfuck-esque VM — cool that you can do it, but for what except some lulz?

But maybe it's just too genius and I don't understand it.


I'd tend to agree, the only good points I've seen were made by @hedgehog [1] here in this thread:

    I'm not sure about the rest but a significant problem with high frequency tool calling (especially in training) is that it breaks batching.
and then later by @ACCount37 [2]:

    I'm less interested in turning programs into transformers and more interested in turning programs into subnetworks within large language models.
In theory, if you can create a very efficient sub-net to replicate certain tool calls (even if the weights are frozen during any training steps, and manually compiled), this might help with making inference much more efficient at scale. No idea why in general you would want to do this through the clunky transformer architecture though. Just implement a non-trainable, GPU-accelerated layer to do the compute and avoid the tool-call.

[1] https://hackernews.hn/item?id=47367986

[2] https://hackernews.hn/item?id=47363909


We at Avride are hiring in Austin for a full-time, onsite position.

In this role, you'll help build state-of-the-art 3D data annotation tools that advance autonomous driving.

We're looking for a seasoned UI engineer with a strong React background and relevant experience building highly stateful, low-latency interactive applications. Experience with 3D graphics is a plus.

Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/avride/jobs/4012877009


Hi, I'm Kibru senior React engineer with strong experience building complex, highly stateful UIs. Is there any flexibility on remote for this role?


Unfortunately, no. We allow hybrid work, but only if you're willing to relocate immediately (U.S. only).


> Tesla is famously anything but a car company because their cars are mediocre in every way except the battery range

I can't say that I'm a big fan of this guy... But I can tell you this: I learned to drive only after moving to the U.S. recently, and when I had to choose my first car, I found Tesla to be the best among many I tried. It's just awesome, and I don't even use their FSD, the car itself is superb (at least the latest "3"). Minimalistic, no BS, drives well, quiet, comfortable. The same feeling I had with the first iPhone, compared to other phones.


sqlite with extensions, scales to millions of docs easily


can you tell me more


A similar project of mine (generated back when GPT-4 was out, along with comment threads and articles):

https://crackernews.github.io/


> What are some examples?

"Weaponizing Wikipedia Against Israel" https://aish.com/weaponizing-wikipedia-against-israel/


Using that site as evidence is about as credible as linking to a Ben Shapiro vlog


Why not use actual Ethereum as a base layer? If you want speed, build (or use) an L2 on top of it.

I can hardly see any value in "yet another private blockchain" — just use a database, duh.


Greed. There's no technical basis. I am pretty sure they considered it and even though L2s do not pay much rent to L1, Stripe wanted absolute control (which goes against decentralization) and all the fees in their pocket. Just hoping this doesn't become another trend.


ethereum is expensive, and there's scaling limits, see all the posts coinbase puts out for their base chain.


Those scaling limits are temporary though. PeerDAS in the next hardfork should increase scalability even more on the rollups.

Most of these L1s will likely end up becoming L2s in the near future, especially if they can rake in revenue via sequencers


Probably 50 years ago, some skeptics were saying, "Why database, just use a pen and a notepad, duh".


exactly my thought. i have next to zero interest in yet another l1


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