skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the well of information for AI to train on starts to dry up

and WRT to the eddy-like model-self-incestuation - I am sure that the scope of that well just becomes wider - now its slurping any and all video and learning human micro emotions and micro-aggressions - and mastering human interpersonal skills.

My prediction is that AI will be a top-down reflection of societies' leadership. So as long as we have these questionable leaders throughout the world governments and global corps - the Alignment of AI will be bias to their narratives.
Look at comparable profit margins before and after. A lot of these layoffs are coming to companies that are still maintaining a healthy margin.

The layoffs might prop up the margin in the short term, but I think there becomes long term lasting damage that would show as underperformance.
I keep trying to talk myself out of wanting to do this. I live in a very small studio-style home with a total of four lightbulbs in it. It takes fewer than 20 steps to get from any one corner of the house to any other.

But every time I read an article like this, I can't help but think how cool I would feel if my house could tell I was coming and turned my lights on and my heat up, or dimmed and then turned everything off once I got in bed.
I’m near certain they fail compared against the original Pixar movies. Pixar used to make surefire films for the whole family. Now it’s just more Disney nonsense, the soul has been lost.
It doesn't even have to be a totally "random" (unrelated) motorcycle accident.

If he panicked after the Stuxnet attack, as his family is reported to have said, then it's likely he has behaving erratically and was fearful for his life.

That could easily translate to circumstances where he rides a motorcycle in a particularly dangerous manner - e.g. fleeing from someone he thought was Iranian/Dutch/US/Israeli intelligence (even if they weren't).
Huh? Salaries are that low in Israel? That's cheap even for some African countries lol
> how the fuck is Kathleen Kennedy still employed

I don't think it can be on any one person. The CGI in some of these latest marvel movies (looking at you, Multiverse of Madness and Wakanda Forever) looks about as good as what I see when I play my PS5 which isn't terrible, but it looks cheap and lacks physical weight you normally associate with strong acting. You don't get that kind of product without the entire pipeline fouling up and then getting pushed out overtime rather than going with delays + reshoots. Add on to this that, for instance, the creators of Multiverse of Madness weren't even aware of the plot of the Scarlet Witch and allegedly it went over the same ground as her TV show (not that I've seen it), so it seems a lot more like studio dysfunction. I've got to imagine the problem is much, much larger than just one producer—one who has been attached to some of the largest Spielberg movies of the 20th century like ET and Jurassic Park.

Anyway, I'd think Kevin Fiege is far more closely tied to the decision making that appears to be hurting them right now—occasionally princess or Pixar movies miss, but they've sunk a lot of money into MCU movies that were not popular among their own fanbase, mostly due to his planning and, as I understand it from loyal fans, a lack of beloved characters returning.
You’re not entitled to a job. It’s a fair market. I for one would not want this kind of environment.

Healthcare is a different story.
I bought a small box aquarium and the snail in it died. I wrote to the company and they replied by mailing me a snail in a bag. IIRC, it was clearly labelled "live animal".

(over the years, I've come to enjoy snail-quariums a lot. They outlive all the fish and keep the walls clean of algae)
> Taking out your displeasure on...

Laughing is not taking out one's displeasure on someone.
Up until recently there was also Bombardier, but it seems like they basically bankrupted themselves and ceded all of their commercial plane production to Airbus. Now they just do business jets.
Egress bandwidth costs have been discounted for years. Including GCP. Bandwidth Alliance... Like 10 years ago traffic cost was a real problem with the cloud. Today there are other areas that are expensive.
*He would have had better odds of being able to get legitimate drugs in a system that utilizes blister packs.
> - We're in a recession (at least if you aren't upper middle class or above)

I'm sorry, what recession?

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/workers-paychecks-a...

> In the year ending in November, real wages grew by about 0.8 percent for all workers and 1.1 percent for the 80% of workers who are production and non-supervisory workers. Further, wage inequality fell. The ratio of wages at the 90th percentile compared to the 10th percentile fell by nearly 6 percent over the year.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/12/19/...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/strong-wage-growth-gave-ameri...
Slightly offtopic but for a browser there's Chromium Legacy which is basically Chromium with compatibility patches for older macOS/OS X. Works on 10.8 or higher.
> When firing employees becomes too hard, hiring is risky, giving people broad latitude is risky, and compensation suffers because high comp is risky.

I don't follow this conclusion at all.
> What do Teslas do?

Teslas do aggressive regen braking when you lift your foot. And it's not possible to disable that behavior, unlike other EVs.

So-called single pedal driving isn't very familiar to most drivers, making it unsuitable for rentals where users would prefer not having a learning curve.

Also if you ask the community how to disable regen braking you'll be told that you're driving it wrong, see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/zswnhi/anyone_...

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/s3xy-buttons-regener...

https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/14r90q6/disabl...
All of the independent animators have their own IG/TikToks.
How is this something that no one else thinks?

> Being a couple years out of college is not experienced.
No kidding. Those lists go on forever.
> Is it really that cheap?

The fuel economy is driving the switch. The 737MAX was created to compete with the a320neo. For airlines, especially with rising fuel prices, even a small % improvement in fuel efficiency gives huge returns.
Very cool. Would be lovely if you paired this with some of the auto-recognition and ID libraries out there so we can listen to the sounds of the forest AND see in real-time which birds are currently making noises. That'd be really cool. Then if you want to ruin it all, you add gamification where you learn to train your ear based on bird sounds and test your skills within all sorts of forests around the world.
I don’t think it’s about motivation. I thinks it is about saying employees have been making too much noise past couple years with their union talk, WFH, pay inequality, etc so this is going to be the year of fear for your job.
Maybe someone who doesn't like Sourcehut or Drew for some reason.
How do we measure productivity?
Eh, you could just have used a Tesla Supercharger
You also have to serve an alternative. Source: I've worked with French schools in a previous life.
lol. I love how people can't believe it costs intelligence $1B to do this.

I suspect they don't understand that intelligence and the military function by pouring money on a problem until it gets solved despite profound, systemic failures.
If you're a fan of elegant prose, I can't recommend Epicurian Dealmaker[1] enough. Sadly, the blog hasn't been written to in 8-ish years now. But I suspect that most of the information is still probably reasonably accurate.

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1. https://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2013/02/table-of-con...
> All After School Satan Clubs … emphasize a scientific, rationalist, non-superstitious world view

And the people protesting the club can't have that, can they?
I haven't done a lot of home automation, but I did set up some Amazon Dash buttons to play some music on our house speakers, which was fun.

When Amazon discontinued them and actively pushed an update to brick the devices, it was a nice inexpensive wake-up call to not trust phone-home IoT devices.

Sometimes the phone-home comes in the guise of over-the-air updates that are supposedly good for security or add features. But sometimes they actually remove features.

I think the author of this article has it right — the best security and most trustworthy IoT setup is to host it yourself; never connect things to the internet at large. If your gizmo doesn't support that mode of operation, don't buy it.
No it's not.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174

> (3)Software development
For purposes of this section, any amount paid or incurred in connection with the development of any software shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure.
I would argue the notion of "it stops working" is something acutely unique to computer software (and hardware to a significantly lesser degree).

Think about it: A computer is a tool, but most tools never "stop working" per se. That screwdriver? It used to work when it was first invented and it will still work a thousand years from now. That car? Keep it maintained and it will take you places for at least the better part of a century. That boat? We can keep boats floating forever.

Computers are one of the few, if not only, piece of tool that demands it be replaced every few years, and it probably hasn't even broken down yet which would merit a replacement.
It was included.
Has this been benchmarked or something? How does it compare to chatgpt3.5?
Most of those good movies listed are from 20+ years ago. Perhaps she's lost the touch. Hard to stay sharp forever.
Rumor has it Victoria Alonso was fired over the pressure and mismanagement of the VFX on these (to be fair) many, many MCU projects.
Glad you like it! If you have any other suggestions or feedback, feel free to share. Aloha
Exactly, people constantly debate this but it's a solved problem. Don't tax input, tax output.

It also gives you a better scalpel. Instead of trying to wrangle the different income structures (blends of w2, 1099, stocks, bonds, real estate, etc etc), differentiate via the purchases:

- superyachts: very high tax
- luxury cars: high tax
- vacation homes: high tax
- clothes: low tax
- staple groceries: no tax
As someone with professional reasons to be interested in Wi-Fi 7, it's been a really weird ride. At home I'm still leaning on a consumer 802.11ac (sorry, "Wi-Fi 5") router that I bought in late 2016. I'm very much itching to upgrade to the latest and greatest.

The big sign I've been waiting for is solid availability of commercial/enterprise Wi-Fi 7 access points, because I assume that the customer base for that product category demands a baseline of maturity/stability that I wish applied to consumer-grade products. But it's been frustrating.

The norm that I've seen thus far has been for every goddamned AP vendor on the planet to put up a painfully condescending "What is Wi-Fi 7?" page (with an obligatory "cars driving on a wider highway" analogy, never mind that 320 MHz was introduced with Wi-Fi 6E) and paper-launch an AP product. I gather that Ubiquiti is shipping (or at least about to ship) a surprisingly midrange product for this early in a new tech generation, and Zyxel has a higher-end one that can currently only be bought from what looks like a scalper for about $250 over the intended MSRP.

At some level, I was already sold on Wi-Fi 7 a year ago. I just wish someone could actually fucking deliver it as something other than a $1500 consumer mesh bundle.
I mean, I've never used Godot, but from my usage of Unreal, Unity, and a couple of proprietary engines: while I hate webdev and the way Javascript evolved, every game engine's UI solution has shown me that the US workflow is still way ahead of games'.

Maybe Scaleform or other flash based UI frameworks solved this problem elegantly for games, but it died ahead of my time.
Nice, if the background image would slightly zoom in and out slowly that would add a more realistic feel to it, but nice work!
There's also stuff like this, where a bad repair 20+ years ago eventually leads to structural failure:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611

This one only took 7 years from a bad repair until catastrophic failure though:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_123

So "repair stuff properly" seems to be the important thing there. ;)
Offline by default is great. It lets me decide which devices are remote controllable (thermostat) and use a VPN to access my home network for everything else.

I’ve got a mix of Lutron and Phillips Hue devices with a Honeywell Thermostat tied together with Home Assistant on a raspberry pi. (Lutron needs a hub. The hue devices connect directly to the pi.)

It’s been absolutely rock solid. I’m using Lutron Pico remotes as switches. I haven’t had to replace a battery in over a year after installing everything. Hue motion sensors just work.

Lutron switches are absolutely critical to my setup. They work (and paired remotes work!) when the network is down, which makes automation a progressive enhancement. Same with the thermostat, it’s offline first. Wifi connectivity is optional.

I tried living with smart bulbs but they get really expensive if you’re doing a whole house. And rebooting light switches is absolute insanity. I do not want automation bad enough to make my light switches less reliable to get it.
I know exactly the type of flea market and antique mall you're talking about, and that's the best analogy for current-Amazon and always-eBay I've heard. Ha!
Of course it was trained on public data, including academic papers and journals. Your point is demonstrably false. Go try it yourself.
> You don't get that kind of product without the entire pipeline fouling up and then getting pushed out overtime rather than going with delays + reshoots

I have also done poor quality work before. It’s always managements fault for prioritizing speedy crap to meet some internal goal instead of prioritizing the end product.

Managers need to be judged on customer satisfaction not internal OKRs and metrics.
Some random ideas

- run open source LLM models as an API, sell access at a steep discount

- run video comprehension service, sell at a discount

- run a remote build Service at a discount

If you actually want to use the credits as leverage to enter an actual SaaS market. Pick a commodity SaaS service, add a small twist on it and sell at steep discount to gain market share

- dropbox alternative

- YouTube alternative

- S3 / backblaze alternative

- Vercel / Netlify alternative
80:20 is simply one parameterization of the Pareto distribution; there's nothing fundamental that implies it ought to be.
Beneficial ownership of companies is the primary distinction between owner and employee. When you have taxation that targets companies but impacts rank-and-file employees while essentially benefitting owners and executives is consider regressive by definition.

I don’t know how much inequality needs to be to “qualify” as regressive but it’s not inappropriate to assign it to working class employees vs multimillion dollar salaries and 20-30M dollar comp packages.

A regressive tax is simply a tax imposed in such a manner that the tax rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases. Regressive taxes affect people with lower incomes (and everyone has a comparatively low income vs executive and ownership classes these days) more severely than those with higher incomes because they are applied uniformly to all situations, regardless of the taxpayer.

I’m not perfect and I might be misapplying it somehow, but that’s my understanding.
That's certainly how they may see themselves, but the hardware isn't what I buy Apple products to access. It's just a nice perk that the hardware is so well-manufactured, frankly—it's the software that I actually interact with day in and out. I'd be ecstatic running macOS on a thinkpad.
Not exactly, but you can combine unicode glyphs for a simulacrum: Ƭ̵̬̊

For an explaination, see https://parkerhiggins.net/2013/01/writing-the-prince-symbol-...
One does not simply buy Apple to violate the One Apple Way(tm).
Microsoft hosted agents aren’t charged by the minute on ADO, IIRC. You pay for a certain number of parallel agents per month.

Unless you’re booting build servers on demand on your infra, you aren’t paying more for more minutes. Just waiting :(

(Unlike GitHub, where they do charge per minute.)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/187076/tickets-sold-at-t...

US and Canada movie tickets sold in 2019 was approximately 1.2B. In 2020, it was down 80% to 223M, to 499M in 2021, and to 813M in 2022. Onward was the 7th highest grossing film in 2020, Lightyear was 15th in 2022. (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2020/?grossesOption=total..., https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2022/?grossesOption=total...)

Weren't Soul, Luca, and Onward direct to Disney+ because of the covid pandemic?

Your analysis is missing the elephant in the room.
> new knots, never before tied, were invented some ~100 years ago.

No. I don't believe that. The archeological record has evidence of humans making rope for tens of thousands of years. I can believe that nobody alive had seen and named those particular interlocked pairs of overhand knots; that no written record of them existed until recently. But your claim that those knots had never been tied is quite presumptuous.
git over ssh or an email interface are both core sourcehut features that seem like they wouldn't fit into cloudflare's standard https only model
I do really like it as a paper-sized replacement for handwritten notes and sketching, but the folio keyboard is junk (material starts peeling quickly, and the whole thing stopped working not long after the one year warranty expired).

Maybe the magic keyboard is better built, but that's another $350 on top of an expensive tablet. My bad experience with the cheaper (but still $200) keyboard accessory has probably had an outsized effect on how I feel about the product as a whole.

If you want to draw and watch movies and read emails it's great for that. I've given up on using it much for productivity, where its most powerful function is having a remote desktop client if I need to connect to a real computer.

Personally I spent the extra money thinking "I could do some real work on this" but unless your work is mostly marking up PDFs (it's really great for that) and sending plaintext emails I can't recommend it. The only work tasks I use mine for regularly anymore are quick sketches/markups (synced via OneNote and screenshot into an email that I'm writing on the computer) and quickly flipping through my inbox to either deleting or flag new messages, again for me to actually deal with on the computer.
> Ethically speaking, ads simply shouldn't be manipulating us at all, just informing us of something that might be useful.

Sure, if that existed in a vacuum, and not in a capitalist economic system where you are rewarded by doing unethical things to generate more profit. In reality, there is no way to successfully deploy ethical advertising. Even if one tried, it could never compete with the ones not being ethical, since they will have higher returns, and infinitely more budget as a result, to make it so your ethical ad is never even shown to a single human eyeball
> but forming a run-of-the-mill labor union would almost certainly lower SWE salaries and benefits across the sector in the end.

How would that work? Wouldn't reasoning about incentives here point in exactly the opposite direction? Not to toot our own horn too deeply, but while a SWE might be fungible, we're in a line of work that's difficult to scab through. Google really doesn't have much leverage over their employees compared to other labor conflicts I've read about throughout history....
> They may just hide their opinions a little better than Musk.

Isn't that better? Even if it's not /good/, it seems /better/.
I will grant you that Accessibility is not handled well.

But I don’t find any of the other arguments compelling.
Here's a little help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89cto-IvD98
In my case, not hitting the deductible is the wrong metric.

You are still benefitting from the insurer's negotiation of lower rates for all procedures. For example, your insurer may have negotiated $0 for standard bloodwork.

The parent's acknowledgement that "this is how insurance works" doesn't change the fact: that IS how insurance works. Coverage of a risk has a value, even if that risk does not materialize. (This is easier to understand from the point of view of the finance markets, but it's the same everywhere.)
The thing I dislike the most is the keyboard shortcuts and workflows are just different enough in iOS that its not quite interchangable enough.
Ok that's reassuring. The way it was worded made me think that GCP was headed to the Google graveyard, as wild as that would be.
Amongst other things, because nurses and doctors are paid very, very highly in comparison to other countries.
If we all stop reproducing, that will indeed be the Final Solution to the Human Question.
BMW is well known for their poor longevity with electrical systems. I wonder how this will play out in their EV lines, or if because they've removed the ICE related electronics and things such as engine bay heat if matters will improve.
If you want to check an application that runs on Electron and is quite speedy, try Obsidian.md. I didn't even know performance like that was possible in an Electron app. Unfortunately this example is the exception instead of the norm.
>Microsoft would be equally dead without Office and Azure revenue.

Would they? Microsoft also own other stuff they monetize like GitHub, Linkedin, X-Box, and a shit tonne of gaming IP inclusing Activision Blizzard, plus other things I'm surely forgetting.

Looks pretty diverse to me comapred to a company who's revenue stream is limited by the ammounts of walled garden phones it can sell and who's grasp over its walled garden can be regualted away by the EU waving their wand the same way they lost the Lightnig cable revenue stream.

Can Apple keep up this momentum in the long run and keep growing by getting people to buy more expensive stuff, or will they slowly loose steam and stagnate?
The book I have on my bookshelf is called "The Forgotten Books of Eden", subtitled "Lost Books of the Old Testament". This one is a 1980 re-printing of the 1927 book edited by Rutherford Platt. This free PDF looks like a replica: http://www.evreninsirlari.net/dosyalar/155-156_s04_04.pdf

The first two chapters "The First Book of Adam and Eve" and the second, directly deal with their conflict with Satan.
It is very common, but this is a lot different than some company based out of the Bahamas trading MILF coin. It’s going to be okay!
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ampere-64-core-arm-worksta...
The US Fed monetary policy has everything to do with it. Money is especially valuable right now. As well as the proliferation of new "AI" tools that increase worker productivity by 10x-1000x.

Between the Fed tightening demand and the AI tools simultaneously heating up supply (productive output), it's no surprise these layoffs are happening.
If money is being allocated away from tech, where is it going to?
Is nuclear power a solution to climate change?
The problem with thinking you know everything is that you miss genuine opportunities to learn things -- I wasn't trying to shame you, I was pointing out the irony of your crusade in this thread (which is completely apparent to everyone) and urging you to self-reflect on things that could improve your life.

Even if you think I am an asshole, self-reflection can only be beneficial. One thing that may be helpful is to take a look at your actions over the thread and think about it from the other perspective, and seeing how you may appear from someone else's point of view. I do that often and though it isn't always pleasant, it does give a reality check in some key areas.