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> One of the enduring myths about Apple's late entry into product sectors is the idea that they're waiting to "get it right". The first iPhone was a joke, it took them until the 3GS to get it right.

I don't agree that this is a myth.

If you look at the first generation iPhone in a vacuum, it was limited, perhaps (but I think there are plenty of arguments that the first gen iPhone was pushing envelopes - name one other phone that had a fully functioning web browser at the time, and pinch/zoom felt magical), but nitpicks about functionality aside, I don't think this framing makes sense for other reasons.

A product line is not just its initial release. It is a process, an organizational discipline, a manufacturing and logistics pipeline, an ongoing upgrade cycle, an ongoing engagement with customers, an understanding of the market, etc.

When the first generation phone was released, plans for the 3GS were already well under way. The 1st gen phone was a necessary step to get you that 3GS. When operating at Apple's scale, at least a decade of roadmap if not more was already planned in depth. The 3GS was not a reaction to the success of the 1, it is the real product Apple envisioned and planned to ship before we even knew the iPhone would exist.

If the 3GS got it right, so did the gen 1, in a certain sense.

And as an aside, I have to say I really liked my 1st gen iPhone compared to everything else I'd had up to that point, and I was a gadget junkie who had owned quite a few of the other "hot" phones at the time.
So what happens to the mom and pop hardware store that's been running for 30 years when mom and pop want to retire? They just have to shut their doors?

Banning all M&A would run into a brick wall of unintended consequences. If no one can sell their business, then a significant percent of potential small business owners just wouldn't start businesses.

Then what would happen? Those people would go get jobs. Instead of them owning the things they create, those things would be owned by their employers. Instead of having the issue where someone goes and creates Goodreads but it gets bought by Amazon, nobody would ever create Goodreads. All you've done is save Amazon the acquisition cost.
Oh look, an unfalsifiable claim in service to your predetermined position. How novel.

You can believe there's a high chance of what you're working on being dangerous and still be unable to stop working on it. As Oppenheimer put it, "when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it".
"Something went wrong, try reloading"

And even then, I've never had a Twitter account, so not sure I'd be able to see it now anyways.

Sure seems inaccessible to me.
I really liked Hunter S Thompson's gonzo journalism take in that regard.

It went along the lines:

"The defence secretary said that we're fighting a righteous and humane war in Vietnam. The defense secretary is full of shit!"

Nowadays they send their spokes drones and have the spin masters cook up even more ridiculous shit.

Hunter S Thompson (RIP) must be spinning in his grave.

e: added quotes around Hunter's fictious statement
Yes, I got bitten by this and will never forget- FDB abruptly shut off public access in mid-2015. Fortunately for me, it only cost half a day to migrate my system to Postgres.
What is clear depends on context, familiarity, and expectations. It’s not an objective measure when those vary (and they often do vary). In addition, some amount of redundancy is useful for guidance and to avoid misinterpretations. It’s more an art than a science.
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Appliances that actually use energy should have this. I'd love to be able to put a wet load of laundry into my drier and press "make sure it's dry by tomorrow morning".
> The computer could easily solve the problems without displaying this, while it provided a back-up version of the system for us, so that we could continue to work with our tasks undisturbed"

How could this work? Teorically, the OS could detect that an application crashed and start it again. But to restore the state the application was in before it crashed, it would need to scan the application's memory and derive the state from it, hopefully without also recreating the conditions that lead to the crash. While this could maybe be done, it would require the OS to know the application's internals extremely well, so it isn't feasible to apply this at scale. Or am I missing a simpler way to do this?
Maybe the OS could save snapshots of the application's status. This way it wouldn't need to know the application's internals, but there would still be the problem of how to know which is the last good status that will not cause a crash a few moments afterward.
yea i think i jumped passed the instructions and thought all the pictures were different places

got 64 (i think it's the rusty bridges...)
> If only the AIs will stop hallucinating or can consistently comply with policies

I'm starting to wonder how much this matters.

People do crazy shit on the clock all the time. Company reps do not always adhere to policy 100% of the time either. People engage in office politics, coworkers accuse others of whatever, mistakes get made. LLMs happen to emulate all of this behavior.

In theory, we could replace everybody with AI and not much would be different. Productivity increase is debatable but cost savings would be immense. The question is how much insanity we're willing to tolerate as a result.

(...and seeing what fun ensues when there are more people than available jobs.)
Most content that is paywalled is instantly archived by someone who isn't even a HN user. You can go to Archive.is and click the 2nd form on the page (the one that checks if a link has been archived), and you're done. It takes a few seconds but it's better than not having these stories submitted to HN at all.
> Company A is 6 days away from going out of business...But then Company B agrees to buy them for $1...Ban it?

versus scenario 2, Company A is profitable. Company B is smaller, but up and coming. An announcement is made that A will buy B and everything will be better. Layoffs ensue, product lines are dropped, employees and customers are very unhappy, but prices and profits are up.

Since scenario 2 is quite common today, and scenario 1 is relatively uncommon, yes, ban it, that's a better way to run markets.

We're conducting a thought experiment here. So we think through the implications and try to figure out if there is a way to achieve benefits for all, benefits that we know exist. Don't be scared of a single negative scenario, have to look at the big picture, what is better overall. I'm glad billionaires have the freedom to build kooky submarines that other multimillionaires can climb aboard and go on dangerous adventures, sometimes ending in the ultimate sacrifice. Why a whole bunch of other people who were uninvolved engage in weeks of hand-wringing, I can't grok at all.
… and it a common delusion for people with schizophrenia. I just submitted it.
We will have general AI when we find someone simple minded enough to understand their own thoughts.
> My experience of Domain-Driven Design has been that it is extremely effective for driving conversations about the domain throughout the product life-cycle, but it produces frustrating codebases that are poorly attuned to the world outside the running process.

The DDD blue book by Eric Evans consists of two parts: Strategic Design and Tactical Patters. Is it accurate to summarize your comment as that the strategic design works very well, but that most of the information out there leads one to then learn about the tactical patterns in a particular OOP contexts, which isn't a universal approach, and in many cases shouldn't be the way to elaborate findings from Strategic Design?

Note that searching the web for "DDD" yields mostly OOP-related tactical patterns guidance, and this is why I think many people are so sceptical about DDD. It is the strategic parts where most of the (low-hanging fruit) value is.

Other non-OOP 'tactical' guidance, such as functional / functional-reactive / actor-driven, etc. DDD is harder to come by.
>Then again how much time do computers save?

This is honestly a good question to ask at times. I remember back when I was trying to get into weight lifting. I was searching for apps and tools that would help me track milestones and progress, setting up routines and all that. I remember going through some options, then making a spreadsheet, and refining the spreadsheet and just hating the whole process.

So then I opened a notebook and just wrote down my lifts for the day. At the top I wrote my 1 rep maximums for the big 4 lifts and had a page for my program that denoted the rep#/set#/1RM% and done.

What did it lack? Maybe some categorizing or search tools. Maybe some graphing to visualize progress over large spans of time? Well I don't need any of that. What matters is what I'm doing now.

There's probably several examples of things like that. I can't count the number of times I've tried using organizers for things like groceries or maintenance that have me spending more time fiddling with settings and formats than just doing the task. At my job I create a new text file daily to note what I worked on and shit that came up. I date it and save it to a directory and just use grep to recall info when I need to look back over large spans. No awkward TODO lists or planner apps. No updates or UI changes. No subscription fees or "Share" buttons.

Sometimes, asking how much time you save with a computer/app/whatever is the right thing.
Crypto makes extremely expensive space heaters.

On the positive side, they are just as efficient as regular space heaters in producing heat from electricity.
Someone commented below that with enough batchnorm/layernorm/etc. and/or gradient clipping you can manage it, but BF16 just makes life easier if you can live without some precision.
Yeah, I agree completely. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts and to contribute to this community, that we all hold so dear, with a soft touch.
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Not to mention reviewers with 3k+ reviews. Who in their right mind properly read and review 3k books?
Twitter rate limit may be due to unpaid Google Cloud bill
AI could unlock the ability to destroy ourselves and we've commercialized that highly advanced technology but it sure didn't stop the majority of people from wondering "should". :P
The helicopter view says that I need to implement my change and move on before the shit hits the fan. The next person to take over will blame everything on "the previous guy", quite rightly, but I won't care as I'll have taken my promotion and be to busy blaming everything at the new company on the previous guy.
A lot of little things can be big
Quasar 'clocks' show the universe was five times slower soon after the Big Bang
Can you elaborate on what you mean by expression trees for lambdas?
Which is why founders should have a network where one creates good reads and sells to Amazon and then one of the others starts a better good reads right away. Then when founder A's handcuffs come off he goes and makes a new version of the most recent thing that sold to one of the FAANGs.
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I don't even need to know what unintentional consequences of this will be, but I know that they will be catastrophic.
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The fact that so many people have expressed concern about recent changes by Red Hat suggests to me that the company has failed to communicate effectively and/or many people no longer trust Red Hat.
Absolutely terrible for usability though, which is why no one has one in their kitchen.
> We contacted approximately 4271 researchers who published at the conferences NeurIPS or ICML in 2021... we found email addresses in papers published at those conferences, in other public data, and in records from our previous survey and Zhang et al 2022. We received 738 responses, some partial, for a 17% response rate.

Anyone who has reviewed for, or attended, or just read the author lists of ICML/NeurIPS papers is LOLing right now. Being on the author list of an ICML/NeurIPS paper does not an expert make.

Anyone who has tried to get a professor or senior researcher to answer an email -- let alone open an unsolicited email and take a long ass survey -- is laughing even harder.

I think their methodology almost certainly over-sampled people with low experience and high exuberance (ie, VERY young scientists still at the beginning of their training period and with very little technical or life experience). You would expect this population, if you have spent any time in a PhD student lounge or bar near a conference, to RADICALLY over-estimate technological advancement.

But even within that sample:

> The median respondent believes the probability that the long-run effect of advanced AI on humanity will be “extremely bad (e.g., human extinction)” is 5%.

Ie even lower than my guess of 90% above.
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Yeah sometimes you just have to write a megapatch. I’d be very sad if I had to work on a project that didn’t allow that.
One thing to remember is that there’s a multibillion dollar industry trying to drum up outrage for political reasons or, in the case of social media, ad impressions. Much of that is bad faith repetitions of old talking points and I think a lot of people who’ve been here for a while know that it’s unlikely to have anything insightful but will generate plenty of rancor.

I think there is room to discuss these topics but it has to be carefully set up not to look like that: not just a link to partisan media, showing some original thought and research, and not bashing one camp as a hook. On that last point I’m not just talking about “$name owns the libs” stuff but also things like the genre which was popular a decade or so back where someone would write a book about how an entire field could transformed by an Econ 101 exercise, inevitably showing no awareness of all of the hard problems in that field which real experts have been wrestling with for decades and often relying on anecdotes, unreplicated studies, or massive extrapolations (e.g. Freakonomics, “nudge theory”, etc.).
It’s not like there was anything that similar to the first iPhone. But yeah it was arguably closer to a tech demo and a toy than a real device. Apple and Jobs himself weren’t even exactly sure which way they wanted to go with it.
And here is the punchline. People don't pay Redhat to mess with the source code themselves, they pay Redhat so that they don't have to mess with it.
This has been an issue discussed for a long time. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989, as linked to from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, for some context as to why things are the way they are.

I personally agree with the decision. The discussion generated is still valuable even when I can't read the whole article. A lot of the paywalled sites are generating content that's more valuable than the average blog, which is why they're able to survive behind a paywall to begin with.
>If these people were so concerned, they'd by shouting from the hilltops and throwing their entire life savings into stopping us. They would organize workplace walkouts and strikes. There would be protests and banners. Burning data centers.

I think we underestimate the intoxicating lure of human complacency at our own peril. If I think there's a 90% chance that AI will kill me in the next 20 years, maybe I'd be doing this. Of course, there is a knowing perception that appearing too unhinged can be detrimental to the cause, eg. actually instigating terrorist attacks against AI research labs may backfire.

But if I only think there's a 25% chance? Ehh. My life will be less-stressed if I don't think about it too much, and just go on as normal. I'm going to die eventually anyways, if it's part of a singularity event then I imagine it will be quick and not too painful.

Of course, if the 25% estimate were accurate, then it's by far the most important policy issue of the current day.

Also of course there are collective action problems. If I think there's a 90% chance AI will kill me, then do I really think I can bring that down appreciably? Probably not. I could probably still have a bigger positive impact on my life expectancy by say dieting better. And let's see how good humans are at that..
When discussing populations, stating that a certain outcome should never happen isn’t reasonable. We need to look at the current rate and try to improve upon it.
Your second paragraph makes intuitive sense to me. For every knowledge worker that got 2x as productive in the past decade thanks to new tech alone, there's a person who left their job where they were doing productive (perhaps grindy) things to do gig work because of the flexibility it provides. It might be nice burning VC money so someone can drive you home when you've had one too many (instead of taking public transit), and having someone shop for your groceries and walk your dog and do your laundry, but the individuals doing these tasks would probably accomplish more in terms of raw productive output if they were doing more traditional jobs.
Because Good UX cost development time that has to be paid by someone. Nothing can compete with the lock-in and network effect these megacorps have. We have four choices to deal with that:

* Close your eyes, cry about bad UX and continue to be treated like literal cattle by them.

* Push for legislation that forces these services to be paid only thus making competition on the grounds of how they treat their users possible again

* Collectively decide to use and finance free, federated, semi-selfhosted open alternatives (see crying about bad UX on that front)

* Stop using them at all

And even youtube premium is just paying to be a cattle. Youtube has enormous lock-in power already and I can't even count the amount of fuckups, anti-consumer features and violations of their users and "partners" they have commited.

I am done regarding the petty complaints of the cattle users that don't want to understand, can't be bothered to consider the effects they have.
I have been starting from the bottom for quantum and was hoping for an internship of the like, but this seems very promising. Just applied!