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Do they struggle with the basics, or do they just not care?

I'm in a similar situation with my own 'C-suite' and it's impossible to try and make them understand, they just don't care. I can't make them care. It's a clash of cultures, I guess.
Thanks for making me feel old :-)

There was a palpable change when Andy Grove retired. It was like the elves leaving Middle earth.
> GPTs were a dramatic shift

IT was a massive leap forward for a 50 year old idea.

IF it takes another 50 years to make a leap of equal size, we might get to AGI before the heat death of the the universe.

> I don't see how AI, quantum and block chain are at all equivalent.

If we shut them off tomorrow what do YOU need to replace in your life without them?
It is good that you are already thinking about it.
My wife and I have separate bank accounts but we operate as a single entity.

We are both completely aware of each other's incomes and expenses (we maintain a common expense manager).

When we got married, there was an immense difference in our incomes (I earned 10x more than her), so we decided that I would bear all the expenses and she could save her income for her future business plans.

Since I left my job to focus full-time on my startup last year, our incomes have been almost equal. Now, I pay the rent and the bills, and she handles all other expenses (groceries, appliances, travel plans, gifting and other purchases).

We transfer money to each other's accounts whenever there is a need (it's mostly from her to mine). Transparency is the key to happiness here.
My reply - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734834 - here I wrote more detail in a comment higher up that give some credibility to the idea-sentiment, even if factually the Freedom Convoy was never officially classified as terrorists - in short they did [illegaly] have the Emergencies Act invoked against them which gave them perhaps the same or even more powers to be executed against peacefully protesting Canadians [of which even a judge said they could continue their protest in Ottawa itself, where it can't honestly be called an "occupation" that the mob wants to attempt to demonize the largest peaceful protest in Canadian history - as part of Trudeau's effort to guilt by association paint them all as "dirty" Nazis - using the "disgust" tactic on them].

Re: "The Nazis' Big Lie was in the Weimar Republic being illegitimate. (Lying, and then making anyone who corrects the lie out as an enemy of the party was another common tactic.)"

Perhaps the big lie, starts as, that the Freedom Convoy are dirty Nazis - having the leverage and reach, power, of the state-funded media like CBC et al - to propagate and train-teach people to believe that, to then avoid anyone associated with the Freedom Convoy - or

For example, have you heard about the National Citizens' Inquiry and testimonies that have been being collected, on video and published, starting in 2023 and continuing in 2024? These testimonies include whistle blowers from various Canadian government institutions [medical and otherwise] - and also CBC - as well as those who were harmed/permanently injured by the COVID mRNA shots [and gaslit by the government institutions]: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/
Even if it’s meant as tongue-in-cheek, it comes off as dismissive and carries a certain smugness that I find particularly irritating.

And the smugness feels especially unfounded because the author clearly has decided to double down on their views even though it’s not at all evident that they’ve taken the time to interact with the tech as an end user (which millions upon millions have, last time I checked). They’ve just not gotten it, or: yes, it is you, not me.

This is just another form of rote, unthinking (anti) hype. It reminds me of the smugness that Balmer had towards the iPhone.
+1.

What happened to ML? With the relatively recent craze precipitated by chatgpt, the term AI (perhaps in no small part due to "OpenAI") has completely taken over. ML is a more apt description of the current wave.
> The Industrial Revolution devalued manual labor.

Only some types. It caused a great number of people to be employed in manual labour, in the new factories. The shift to knowledge work came much later as factory work (and farming) became increasingly automated.
Physical distribution is actually less profitable. Obviously you're going to invest in the creation of your piece of software or media but now you have to pay someone to press a certain number of discs, find a distributor willing to sell them for you, and then pay someone to go out to stores to convince them to buy discs from the distributor and sell them to customers. Product doesn't sell too well? Well you're still on the hook for the pressing and paying all the people who got it into stores. Product sells too well? Now you've got to get more pressed ASAP before a competitor can drop their version. For better or for worse, there was no margin for major bugs or exploits. You couldn't easily issue a patch without wasting money on another pressing. Once the Internet got fast enough and storage space got large enough, it really didn't make sense to rely on physical copies as the sole distribution method. Games can now be sold cheaper. Developers can take home a bigger cut of the profits. CD-ROMs made perfect sense for the era. It followed the music distribution system which again made sense because how else would someone buy music? You could distribute 700MB per disc of content to someone that might not even have dialup.

One problem with what you're suggesting is that everyone has a different steam library. If Valve offered a service where they could send you an update pack for your library every week or month, it would require a custom build for each customer. Is that something that would even be affordable?
One reason of them being banned is they are very good and hence very popular.
On other side, when you think what we make. What does not tolerate some amount of some type of contaminants? Integrated chips is one of not that many that come to mind.
I Kind of Like Rebasing
If your definition of "limited" is the near-entirety of SF, most of central Phoenix metro, and the bits of LA between Santa Monica and downtown, I suppose you can label Waymo that.

Personally, I don't consider it remotely similar to a trolley. Aside from the obvious, there's not many differences between a Waymo and a good Uber within the service areas. You call a taxi and it shows up to drive you, unprotected lefts and all.
No, please don't! At least, not if you aren't equipped to handle the fallout yourself and not until these tools are further refined!

I'm a fish-shell developer and I just dealt with a user that was getting bizarre test failures. Turns out the developers didn't account for basic things like the normalcy of `cat` having its output fd closed mid-stream (e.g. you are piping cat to something and that something exits before cat does) and their vesrion bails with an exception dumped to stderr instead of silently closing with a non-zero exit code.
oh jeez stop it, its embarrassing.
This looks cool. However, anybody interested in a cross-platform option can look at https://www.tagspaces.org/
"rust belt" is often used collectively to describe all of the decay in the region, not just the decrease in industry. As industry pulled out of the region, a lot of infrastructure deteriorated with it.
The point is it makes you tests nondeterministic which is a huge problem with large fluid teams and thousands of tests. They need to be deterministic.
Blockchain is used as a stand-in financial system for those who don't or can't use the incumbent ones (for banking, commerce, gambling, and so on).

AI is nowhere close to delivering on its promises. But it's pretty useful for many tasks.

Quantum computers are vaporware. Quantum sensors are already here and game-changing. But just like AI, has failed to live up to hype.

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Crypto is already here and makes good on its promises: decentralized finance.

Full disclosure: I do not own any crypto besides negligible sums in forgotten wallets.
Yes, but not always - in the case it goes in the opposite direction, they will write 'investors priced it in already' :D

There are of course tangible things that can help explain movements, but truth is - very very rarely those writing the articles know what's going on on the market.

Another funny thing in the market, mostly recently, is that earnings are announced after hours - and most of the movement happen in those after hours - which doesn't really make sense, since the liquidity is very very limited. So how come that just following the earnings, the price of say Tesla will go +10% in the after hours, and then stay pretty much at that level the next day, when real investors and big funds start trading ? Who knows...
No one that has fought him is here to tell the tale.
> I don't see how AI, quantum and block chain are at all equivalent.

It's not that there is any claim to equivalency, its that these are the technology trends that are most useful - the trend itself, nevermind any sort of usable technology - for those who grift.
> In the case that the technology continues to make incremental gains like this, your company does not need generative AI for the sake of it. You will know exactly why you need it if you do, indeed, need it. An example of something that has actually benefited me is that I keep track of my life administration via Todoist, and Todoist has a feature that allows you to convert filters on your tasks from natural language into their in-house filtering language. Tremendous! It saved me learning a system that I'll use once every five years. I was actually happy about this, and it's a real edge over other applications. But if you don't have a use case then having this sort of broad capability is not actually very useful. The only thing you should be doing is improving your operations and culture, and that will give you the ability to use AI if it ever becomes relevant. Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit.

This is purely wishful thinking. We're good at making rigorous well-organised stuff and we hope that will somehow continue to be a useful skill. But actually there's no evidence that a half-baked bullshit generator isn't going to outperform carefully written documentation, to the point that carefully writing documentation becomes a waste of resources.

> I swear to God, I am going to study, write, network, and otherwise apply force to the problem until those resources are going to a place where they'll accomplish something for society instead of some grinning clown's wallet.

Bet. Go on, actually have a go at doing this. You'll find it's much harder than you think and what looks like success will usually turn out to be actively counterproductive.
You deserve credit for saying that so even-keeledly. Usually people just do the same thing back.
Ah didn't realize you modified it. That makes sense.

Since the original author submitted I thought it was misleading.
> every single interaction requires a separate round-trip HTTP request

Why? It's not like JavaScript stopped existing. If you need something more interactive or dynamic, use JS. The two approaches are not exclusive. Some things can go to the server and some stay in the client. Your use case determines the balance. Easy.
I’m more disappointed in people using flag instead of hide. Hide it from yourself, but not others, if a bit of uncouth is too off putting. Everyone here is supposedly an adult.
SoftBank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI
Safety techniques require you to understand your product and have deep observability.

This and safety techniques themselves can improve the performance of the hypothetical AGI.

RLHF was originally an alignment tool, but it improves llms significantly
Strong disagree. The only way to get to the simplest, truest, most elegant, and most performant solution to a problem is to try a lot of things iteratively, write a ton of code in the process, (and throwing almost all of it away in the process). Then once you’ve understood the domain fully and realized what the simple, true, elegant solution is, THEN you can settle on a couple hundred lines of the right code. But in the process you wrote ten thousand lines.
Discussion (73 points, 5 days ago, 92 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682403
> and have rage titles, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968457

Uh yeah that's a bit like telling the same joke over and over. In fact it is the same joke.
I don't feel that much has changed in the past 10 years. I would have done the same thing then as now, spent a month captivated by the crystal ball until I realized it was just refracting my words back at me.
Ditto. Whenever I messed up, dang always did a great job listening to my explanation and helping to correct. Honestly, he's more lenient in posts that are negative to YC companies to prevent any chance of favoritism (I've experienced this directly when bakinyg posts or comments that are critical of one of them)
If its tech and they want a 30-45 minute interview with live coding on something like hackerrank - especially if whatever brain teaser they've chosen has absolutely nothing to do with the field they operate in - I'd put the chances around 80%.
Nvidia's Explosive Growth Masks AI Disillusionment
If you're trying to suggest Tesla will win, you're off base. Waymo does the hard stuff would major problems. Tesla does the easy stuff while killing people.
Ask HN: Why is Microsoft omnichannel (chat widget) over 6MB of JavaScript code?
We where going to add Microsoft omnichannel to our webpage but we discovered that running it, a small chat widget takes up a staggering 6MB of pure javascript code.
Anyone known what is going on?

See this example from microsoft.net: https://csimplreslivechatsamples.blob.core.windows.net/$web/AddCustomHeaderButton.html

And the results here: https://i.imgur.com/I77JvjO.png
Which countries will become authoritarian dictatorships on a 25 year timeline is not easily foreseeable.
> In the right environment, our burgers, like most other foods, could decompose.

Uh, that first line really should read, “In most environments, our burgers, like most other foods, will decompose.

The fact that it doesn’t, and that “100% USDA inspected beef” only legally means “muscle and connective tissue from cattle the USDA has jurisdiction to inspect” is telling.

Especially in an America where there never have been enough USDA inspectors to ever come remotely close to setting eyes on, never mind meaningfully inspecting, even just 100% of the “beef” that enters the McDonald’s supply chain.
it is refreshing, whether you agree 100% or not, the runaway hype of AI entraps many.

edit: those knocking his style i think may miss the point that hes acting. its a show. noone is like that. (i hope)
Predicting Blood Glucose with Regression
It's broadly accepted by "shut up and calculate" guys.
I like the fact this applies to the comment you are commenting on since it is now the top comment :)
> you do not need AI for anything

I'd so have preferred this to be true, and to ignore the AI thing (mainly to avoid any effort to change any of my habits in any way). But as an end user I can say that this is wrong. I definitely need LLMs for one critical thing: search that works.

Google has become clogged with outright spam and endless layers of indirection (useless sites that point to things that point to things that point to things, never getting me to the information that actually fucking matters), but I can ask the best LLMs queries like "what's the abc that does xyz in the context of ijk" and get meaningful answers. It only works well when the subject has a lot of "coverage" (a lot of well-trodden ground, nothing cutting-edge) but that's 80% of what I need.

I still have to check that the LLM found a real needle in the haystack rather than making up a bullshit one. (Ironically, Google works great for that once you know what the candidate needle actually is—it just sucks at finding any needle, even a hallucinated one, in the first place.) For shortest path from question to answer, LLMs are state of the art right now. They're not only kicking Google's ass, they're the first major improvement in search since Google showed up 20+ years ago.

Therefore I think this author is high on his own fumes. It reminds me of the dotcom period: yeah there was endless stupid hype and cringey grifters and yeah there were excellent rants about how stupid and craven it all was—but the internet really did change everything in the end. The ranters were right about most of the battles but ended up wrong about the war, and in retrospect don't look smart at all.
So what about:
1. vector search
2. RAG pipelines with your data
3. Semantic, image, video, object, detection
4. Robotics
5. Code generation /Review
6. AI language translation
7. AI research agents
8. ChatGPT

Clickbaity article aside there’s tons of legitimate uses of LLMs for corporations of all sizes

Now blockchain on the other hand…
> they note they’re clearly better than most of their competition.

Yup, I've noted that three times. Are we still claiming he wrote libraries in C in a cave with scraps? Or just moving on?

Poorly written? Maybe. Poorly read? Equally likely. Maybe we should just ask the guy, he'll know.

Did the downvoter see me as their "competition"? "Clearly better"? Both? I don't have enough karma yet to respond in kind, so they're right about something at least.

lol they did it again. mods!
Totally get not wanting to depend on a closed source cloud provider. Glad to see FreeCAD is becoming easier to use but you did point out its most fatal flaw imo: the kernel that drives the geometry is just kinda broken right now and is buggy and crashes a lot. Good discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24514191
TL;DR: This is intentional hyperbole and satire

1. "ludic" means playful[1].

2. The blog's tagline implies this is satire:

> "Wow, if I was the leader of this person's company I would immediately terminate them." [2]

It seems like most of the comment thread failed to pick up on this.

That's understandable. The post's humor is a style which won't make sense if you're not fluent in both English and online culture.

Even if you understand the style, you also might not like it.

1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ludic

2. https://ludic.mataroa.blog/
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> We don't want to get it on us while spraying it, but then we'll eat it and it'll be fine?

I suspect that a big part of the issue is the amount of exposure.

Dental x-rays aren't dangerous to the patient, but they are dangerous to the dental technician, because they're (potentially) exposed to many x-rays every day.

Same deal here - if you consume say... 100 lbs of rice a year that's not that big of a deal. But if the worker is spraying entire fields - they're just in contact with a lot more pesticide. And that's beyond the fact that white rice has the husk removed, etc.
I too want to be informed but have been very disappointed with the sensationalism of news sites.

One solution I found is this service that texts one sentence, fact based summaries of 8-10 current events every morning [1].

An alternative free solution is the Wikipedia current events portal [2].

[1] https://thenewpaper.co/

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
There's so much about this guy's work that just flies over most peoples' heads, but that's fine by me. Most people don't get it, regardless of what _it_ is.

This is the only blog that I actively look forward to reading.
Are photos staged? sometimes, yes. But also, sometimes, no. They just represent opportunistic events in front of the shutter.

I assure you, the "mounted police charging striking miners" picture was not posed.

I think "renaissance drunk man in the street" is not posed. Nor, "lovers kissing in the riot"

On the other hand "Italian men go ooga-wooga-booga as pretty girl walks by" was totally set up.

"pretty hippy girl puts flower in riot police gun" was probably a repeat, of something started spontaneously.

"dancing man" at the end of WW2.. unclear. "kissing couple at the end of WW2".. unclear. "2 seconds before the ramp opens on D Day" not posed. "Lee Miller in hitlers tub" -posed

"lee harvey oswald shot by jack ruby" is probably not staged. Ask the Warren Commission.
Similarly, Github Pages are great. You get rudimentary dynamic support by using a static site generator if you need it.
> power-hungry

That has nothing to do with intelligence.
Good to hear, I didn't realize they covered that much area now. I'm in Austin and hoping they will get service to my house.
> Maybe it's too early to start shipping metaphors in wetware

I have some bad news for you, we've been at it for a long time.

> but developing general heuristics for

Oh God please no, we have too many already.

I'm also generally speaking not a fan of apply principles from physics to metaphysics.

I suspect I'm mostly misunderstanding you though, so take the above accordingly.

(HN search can uncover/surface some very interesting phenomena, it is a very underappreciated tool.)
The problem is not that one useful app demands <$10.

The problem is that for some reason "everyone" down to creators of alarm clock apps think subscription is the right monetization model.

Many of us are tired.

Please note that I personally at least am not against usage based: tokens are fine with me.

It is the stress of having to remember to unsubscribe (or feeling like a fool when I realize an unused app has been siphoning off money from my account for months) that bugs me.
> Even if it’s meant as tongue-in-cheek,

It is not this.

There is actual anger there, he's pointing out WHY he's pissed.

> it’s not at all evident that they’ve taken the time to interact with the tech as an end user (which millions upon millions have, last time I checked)

He covers this point, in depth in the article. From a few angles.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682403
As opposed to the rampant _passive aggression_ that permeates every discussion and meeting of every workplace.

This entire comments section is exemplary of the industry at large. We're doing fucking _engineering work_ "professionally" and the bitching is 50:1 on his tone versus his actual ideas.

The entire professional class has been brought to its knees by a culture that demands we tiptoe around everyone's insecurities.
> Exclusively use the App Store. Your preferences should not impinge on my freedoms.

I understood you to be arguing that the canonical App Store should allow use of private APIs.

If your argument is simply that there should exist other ways to get apps on your phone, then we agree. I wouldn’t touch an alternative App Store with your ten foot pole, but go nuts.

But you originally said,

> If an operating system feature is accessible from user space, then it should also be documented, supported and legal to use.

And it was this that I disagreed with. Apple has every right to test APIs without committing resources to documenting and supporting them.

ETA: also, as far as I know, you don’t need to pay $99 to compile and build locally. I did just that the other day and it seemed to work just fine.
The laborers spraying the pesticides get an order of magnitude more exposure, repeatedly and in its raw, most harmful form.

While we do consume some amounts of them it’s minuscule, more so when the food is prepared after proper washing and boiling/fried etc.
I empathize with it, but ultimately it's fruitless. This happens with every big tech hype. They very much want people to keep talking about it. It's part of the marketing, and tech puts a lotta money into marketing.

But that's all it is, hype. It'll die down like web3, Big Data, cloud, mobile, etc. It'll probably help out some tooling but it's not taking our jobs for decades (it will inevitably cost some jobs from executives who don't know better and ignore their talent, though. The truly sad part).