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Not saying Mr. beast content isn’t valuable to millions of people, but I think “It makes money so it must be valuable” is a terrible benchmark.

It’s also the case that people can succeed in spite of their management philosophies. If you only look at the people who have made it you miss out on all the people who tried similar approaches and did not, which is needed to figure out the effectiveness of a strategy before adopting it. Classic example are people trying to be like Steve Jobs who are not successful.

And on the value side - There are a lot of exploitive ways to hook people, and you can think something is exploitive / a local minima, without being an elitist.

Mr. Beast specifically seems fine to me in a similar way that porn is fine. I don’t think it crosses over to exploitive, but I don’t think it’s crazy to make that argument and I don’t think people are primarily motivated by sour grapes or jealousy.
Thread on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1fhhh6b/did_chatgp...
Yes Zoho is like odoo. Neeto is trying to be like zoho.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I was speaking about utility models/libraries to compute things like meaning similarity with not just token embeddings but with attention too. I’m really interested in finding a good utility that leverages the transformer to compute “meaning similarity” between two texts.
The economic benefits of doing all of that under much better circumstances

HN crowd should understand the value of positioning your self in a better scenario
Yeah, this is the brilliance of the novel format. Someone presents an insight, and it can see obvious in isolation but then seems obviously wrong in context. "Of course we should favor throughput over efficiency" is obvious until you realize it means, for example, allowing idle time on incredibly expensive machines to favor responsiveness, which just seems wasteful.

In the novel, you get to see the characters bang their heads against these "paradoxes" again and again until it sinks in.
It would be nice to also know seven-day actives on BlueSky, but I don’t know where to look or where to ask.
If you really think that, then you should be all the more interested in what it means to execute on that allegedly-harmful effort well vs poorly
Yes I find copilot is nice for things like tansack query. It’s like better snippets.

At my job we have this pretty clean SOA type architecture backed by a mongo db.
Copilot has trouble building the more complicated, domain specific queries on its own, I’ve found.

I do occasionally ask chatgpt how to write a certain query in a general case and apply that to what I’m writing. I also don’t really like mongosh’s docs.
His interviews are just another part of his business, and evidence shows that much of what he says during them is not factual.
Yes, you can only spend your attention on one coherent thing at a time. That coherent thing can be a movie (sound and video synced to create coherence), sex in the dark (tactile + sound), or a podcast (only sound - no correlation to other stimuli). All the things you aren't focusing on, kind of run on auto pilot. Why would that mean they're subject to different, separate consciousnesses? I'd just call them separate clusters of attention, running in low power mode, but connected to the same single consciousness nonetheless. The different clusters obviously influence each other, especially when an unexpectedly strong sensation triggers one of them, e.g. a beeping alarm makes you look for the source. According to the author, upon hearing an alarm, the acoustic consciousness must now expand itself to become the main consciousness, which then somehow also integrates with a bunch of previously different consciousnesses (e.g. the one to observe your surroundings) to solve a new problem. We just call that attention.
It wasn’t even to push people to the military, but literally to ensure “the wrong people” had more difficulty getting a university education—Reagan’s people came up with it as a reaction to Vietnam War protests.
Well, at the very least Black Mirror will have plenty of ideas for next season.
Great find! And a bit creepy as well...
KOTOR, both of them but especially the 2nd are built on concepts (post-nihilist existentialism amongst other, to me it's the most obvious) that drive the story. I feel like nowadays, AAA games want to avoid philosophical stuff, or rather keep it way too simple, and we have shit stories (fallout 4/Skyrim. An exception though for Fallout 4 Far harbor DLC).

But we still have good non story-driven AAA games.
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Until 2028, when the new EU regulation on replaceable batteries comes into force.
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I certainly hope the irony of this exchange isn't lost on the both of you, the mass produced Criterion products being seen as the saviors against the wave of mass produced products.
Literally the same argument could be made for easy user replaceable batteries.

A vanishingly small fraction of users take advantage of replacing their battery and instead just pass it along either in trade in, or in passing down to a family member/friend. This wasn’t any different when batteries were easily user replaceable.

You’re optimizing for an event that happens every few years instead of optimizing for something that is felt every single day (form factor, ergonomics, etc).
> Why don’t you do the computation

This was your response to my question about children being shot at school. It's clear we have a very different set of values here in Europe.
Exactly... it feels weird that someone like Simon would fall for this and not see through it for what it is... someone spending his life being very efficient at building shit to sell it to an audience who's too lazy to consume anything but shit, all that paid by a capitalist system running on oil to allow all this shit to happen and enrich the shitster...

We don't need to falsely pretend that those guys are interesting in any way... we should teach our kids to see through the bullshit, and ask to be less efficient, and more kind
I’m with you on the management vibes - it doesn’t sound like a culture that I’d enjoy.

That’s one of the things I find so interesting about this document: it does feel very honest and unfiltered, and as such it appears to be quite an accurate insight into their culture.

And that’s a culture that works if you want to create massive successful viral YouTube videos targeting their audience.

How much has that specific chosen culture contributed to their enormous success in that market? There’s no way to know that, but my hunch is it contributed quite a bit.
And did it?
Are the police going to verify their identity? How are you going to verify that someone is not also committing identity theft?
From personal experience, a bunch of Norwegian banks. I’ve had transactions that are equivalent to $5k trigger such events. And you get grilled.
>>> These Hi-Tech Bifocals Improved My Eyesight but Made Me Look Like a Huge Dork

Okay, but I wonder if there are any negative aspects. ;-)

Disclosure: Dork.
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Chromium doesn't support hardware decoded video though right? While Firefox does, so you're killing your battery life with extra cpu cycles.
My impression is that transmission capacity is often the limiting factor, so you can’t really think of eg solar energy as being fully fungible. At least in the US, there are frequently multi-year delays on solar deployments because the transmission capacity to where it could be reasonably used isn’t there. The interconnection queue is extremely long in many places.

As something that’s eminently portable, I think crypto mining might actually have a use in derisking building out solar deployments, as a sort of buyer of last resort.

It might be nice to have other very portable energy sinks to eat up temporarily cheap locally available electricity. I think this might be part of the dream of the hydrogen proponents.
I found these online and added them to my gitconfig at one point... I can't take credit for them. Integrating fzf with git makes working with branches even better (with fuzzy matches for checking out as well as deleting branches)...

cob = !BRANCH=`git recent --no-color | fzf` && git checkout ${BRANCH}

db = !BRANCH=`git branch --no-color | fzf` && git branch -d ${BRANCH}

dbf = !BRANCH=`git branch --no-color | fzf` && git branch -D ${BRANCH}
> I had to buy goddamn chocolate bars at Walmart because of him.

Nah, you didn't. You're the parent, if you don't like the content, don't let your kids watch it.
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Idk much about him but stacking school busses on top of each other with a crane or driving a train into a sinkhole seem like pretty interesting things to do. Better than geeking out over the bloodiest Mortal Kombat fatality or whatever I was doing at that age. What's an example of the more "crap" content?
Yes!

Any time you are doing anything with AWS, set up billing alerts. You likely will never need them, but it is free insurance.
Isn't that a large part of what makes Ubuntu Ubuntu?
And if neither fixes nor selling deficient phone aren't expected to yield decent profit on used phone market, many won't hassle with it.
that's exactly the problem... why the fascination with "money" and "big"?

The world has real problems... called environmental collapse and climate change. Why not working on those

It's actually EASY to make money selling shit. It's HARD to solve a real problem to make everyone's lives better
I like your perspective but I don’t think liking coffee is the right comparison. It’s closer to reading a manual for a successful casino, where a lot of it is about manipulation rather than creating value. Obviously Mr. Beast isn’t as far out ethically as casinos, but IMO more in that direction than coffee tea preferences.
The difference between swatting in the US and Germany is pretty shocking. No one was forced to the ground, the developer had a calm chat with the police and the whole incident didn't look all that terrifying.

I loved how the police explained that the live stream had to be shut down due to an ongoing investigation, but he might resume it soon, because the issue might get resolved quickly.

Still a horrible and dangerous thing to do to somebody, but I'm glad the police were calm, polite, and professional.
This is just moving the goalposts. The post I replied to was claiming that models "have the truth baked in". Real people in the real world are misusing them, in no small part because they don't know that the models are unreliable, and OP's claims only make that worse.
I am a skeptic. What would you say would be the easiest way for me to change my mind?
The defect math is interesting, but process uniformity is more of a killer than the author gives it credit for. Fantastic amounts of ingenuity go into showerhead design, chamber design, and minute changes to process conditions, not to mention maintenance practices. We’d like to pretend the pattern and the process are orthogonal, but they’re coupled, and you might need to run 5C colder for one product versus another simply because the material exposed by the pattern loads the chamber differently. And how about water spots? Wet processing leaves water spots, just like you might see after washing your dishes. Huge source of defects, and once again pattern dependent. Patterning usually leaves alternating areas of hydrophilic and hydrophobic material, and you have to somehow prevent water from beading up anywhere. Sure, it starts out deionized, but it’s got plenty of junk in it after rinsing your wafers off.
I personally deeply disliked the semi-cult like explanation that anyone moving out was basically not good enough to be there in the first place.

Apart from that, it's the good old Netflix playbook: empower managers to remove adequate team members with good severance to give space to good team members. The danger is letting it deteriorate into stack ranking if you are not careful with the deleterious effect on team work associated.
Interesting -- I'll have to read The Goal! I've only read the reference material around ToC, so this sounds additive :)
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what "unsolvability" means. What I'm saying above is that humans can identify undecidable statements, i.e. we can recognise them as undecidable. If we couldn't, Gödel, Church, and Turing would not have a proof. But we can. We just don't do it algorithmically, obviously- because there is no algorithm that can do that, and so no computer that can, either.
Score is 5 but factor in racism which is not accounted for in the test.

I decided age 6 I wanted to be Captain Picard or maybe phrased better: I decided to replace the absent positive male role model with idealised humanist diplomat/scientist.

It worked out very well for me. My net worth is less than it could be because I decided to prioritise happiness over wealth, but I habe a great live.

What saddens me is that, kids today do not even get stories that look positively in the future. Sometimes it feels all modern sci-fi is dystopian.
That's the thing. You have to love that, and that's probably something only people who grew up watching YouTube can feel at a deep level. Generational divides happen like that often.
I don’t disagree, but surely it’s even easier to bemoan that other people aren’t doing enough of the right things than it is to devote one’s own life to those kinds of problems.
Interesting perspective, thanks. I can’t help but feel they are still missing a major part of cognition though which is having a stable model of the world.
It’s defined in the link at the end of the post.
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SWAT doesn't have a lot to do. So it's going to be exceptionally difficult to establish a working "graduated response" system within that department. In reality there should be two separate sources of information that suggest a SWAT response is necessary before they're dispatched, otherwise, standard police response to verify the information first.
In general in Rust, lifetimes enforce that references to a thing do not outlive the thing itself.

Even in unsafe code, it is possible to tie the lifetime of the allocations to the lifetime of the thing handing out the allocations, meaning that if you ever attempt to "escape" the scope, e.g. storing a shorter lifetime allocation in a longer lifetime allocation, that outer item can now only live as long as the shorter lifetime (even though it derives from the longer lifetime allocator). Any violation of this becomes a compile time error.

For example, within a function, you can have a Vec of references to local items, and although the Vec is an allocation, and COULD live forever/as long as necessary (allocations have 'static lifetime), that Vec MUST be dropped at or before when the references it contains would become invalid.
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I don’t personally want to do that, but I’m still interested in what I can learn about organizational design and culture from their success in their chosen field.
I read this post because I was curious about how these operations work. What I found is:

- Making good YOUTUBE videos is paramount, not quality videos

- Be quirky and crazy in videos using a blank check

- If something goes awry or you need it faster, also use a blank check

- Some advice related to thumbnails and titles (relying on YouTube's current algorithm which could change the next second)

The only thing I found semi useful is how he classifies employees using the A, B and C system (e.g. A is top tier, B can be trained to be top tier, and C is dead weight)
>what does it bring the world, literally?

I'm betting over 90% of what we do, collectively, really doesn't offer any true "value" to the world for however you're defining value.

Which means that your measurement is bad because it's based on your opinion.

Just like your comparison to Hitler. For supporters of Hitler, the things he did were amazing. But that was just their opinion.
"For example, adjustments have been made to increase privacy in washrooms and sleeping areas and improve access to top bunks and overhead valves."

The privacy aspect makes sense. I've stayed on a carrier with a LOT more space and things were.. close.

But "improve access to top bunks and overhead valves" implies some sort of size, strength, or ability difference between men and women.
Why watch youtube at all? It's not obligatory.
The car EVs try to be in a price class above a Toyota subcompact so I think they can't really compete for the taxi volume, etc, before any logistics.

EVs would be fine with a few hours of outage here and there, but the light EVs are going to be easier to move to battery swapping if needed and are price competitive with vehicles in classes that already sell well in the Philippines.
Presumably you get told you're gifted by the education system following some assessment.

Personally, I'd never even heard of the term "gifted" until I left home for university, it wasn't a thing that existed in the rural location where I grew up.
I agree it’s not moral but it seems like it’s been pretty sustainable so far. As in, we’ve had a hierarchical class system for millennia and it doesn’t look to be going anywhere that soon. So I don’t think it’s fair to say that that(‘s what) makes it greenwashing.
But we have to admit also that LLMs may become (or maybe even OpenAI-01 already is) smart enough that they can not only write the code to solve some task but understand the task well enough to also be able to write even better Unit Tests than humans ever could. Once AI starts writing Unit Tests (internally even) for everything it spits out we can probably say humans will at that point be truly obsolete for writing apps. However, even then, the LLM output will still need to be computer code, rather than just having the LLMs just "interpret" English language all the time to "run" apps.
At some point some "serious" accounts need to take these emerging new decentralized social media seriously and setup shop there.

You cant claim any sort of moral integrity when you engage with your audience on platforms that treat them as product.
Are you saying it would be better if there weren’t a second-hand market? I’m not sure I really understand why that would be better. Maybe there’s a story one could tell for how someone’s situation would be better in such a world?
Although I usually rail against Wikipedia math articles being gleefully esoteric jargon describing concepts in the most aggressively arcane way possible as if it's a competitive sport, the convex function article is fine. People have clearly done work on it

(People might say, well isn't it obvious what convex means. My response is no, it's dealer's choice)
That's because this wasn't a swat team.
What did I fall for here?

I think this is a really interesting document, despite having very few lessons I would adopt for my own work (as I said at the bottom of the post).

I would be thrilled to read documents providing a level of cultural and operational detail like this from ANY company.

Another one I find really interesting is the 37signals handbook: https://basecamp.com/handbook
While there's merit to the "know your enemy" approach, I wouldn't expect everyone to take it.
these sonehow look like.. US.
> Infer topics of interest from the site URL

Isn't this just naive and may not actually produce useful results for most sites?
Emphatic agreement.
> Here the result was mildly disappointing: Essentially the model proposed the same strategy that was already identified in the most recent work on the problem (and which I restated in the blog post

This was my concern when the first post hit HN.

Tao seemed excited that “this time around” the “new” model proposed Cramer’s Theorem:

> This time around, Cramer's theorem was identified and a perfectly satisfactory answer was given.

All I could think was, well of course it did now, it has likely since been trained on Tao’s blog posts talking about its failure to suggest Cramers Theorem.

I’m unsure why Tao is allowing himself to be an advertisement for this company and its paid product.
I don’t know about on disk, but you can look at it in Setting > Privacy and Security > Ad Privacy > Ad Topics.

When I look at mine, Ad Topics always been very generic and boring. “Site-suggested ads” seems more worrisome because some domain names are very specific.
you can just blacklist amdgpu and use EFI/VGA buffer provided by bios
Bingo.

I do not understand the attraction of nearly all YouTube creators and celebrities. I don't get the appeal. All the videos sound the same and have the same stupid looking tag lines to get you to watch them. Outrageous actions for attention are deeply troubling to me.

And I'm also SUPER aware that it's because it's not for me. I'm not the target demographic at all, and never will be.

At some point you have to realize that the world moves on, and that's just part of getting older. It feels awesome when you're 18-24 and everything is relevant to you. It feels way less awesome when you're over 40 and everything seems to be out of control.
It's not only difficult to verify the identity from phone companies or ISPs (worst case you'd need a court order), depending on the nature of the report and the situation, it might also be straight up dangerous for the caller.

Besides, it's pretty damn simple to just a stolen phone or compromised computer to do this sort of thing. If you really were to get the identity this way, you now likely have two victims instead of one...
Cells in parallel don't really need to be matched, within reason. So long as one isn't failing it generally doesn't matter. Arguably if you mixed energy cells with power cells that can cause problems, but only if you're in a high power application, which this isn't.

That being said who knows how bad these cells are.
>much the same way that a doctor in $FOREIGN_COUNTRY cannot practice telemedicine in the USA...

U.S. retired doctor here. This is a fascinating possibility that never occurred to me until I read your comment. Could a foreign doctor not set up a system whereby she/he could appear to be in the U.S. while being in a country that's essentially unreachable by U.S. authorities? And take payment in cryptocurrency?
The police apparently chose to do this based on an emailed tip, not a phone call. If the attacker was the least bit competent there will be no way to uncover their identity at all. Even NSA-level traffic and timing analysis would not necessarily be effective against a well-constructed anonymous email setup.

Unless there was something specific about the email's contents justifying it, the police seem very much at fault here for attacking someone based on an entirely unauthenticated, unverifiable, untraceable message. Society readily holds people who fall for obvious phishing attacks responsible for their negligence, and this seems similar.
I wonder how German police would look if Germany had similar rates of gun ownership, homicide, and gangs as the US?
While less dangerous than a US SWATting event, it is still absurd that he was taken away for questioning. They could have made a reasonable observation of the scenario and then given him an invitation to come to the station at a given time the next day.

Taking someone in shouldn’t happen unless there’s an obvious crime and/or the target had a police record which would suggest they were a threat or were likely to flee instead of coming for an interview the following day.
> With the limited resources they have, it only makes sense to pursue the most egregious offenders for complex crimes.

With few resources the wrong people are targeted and I think that’s well established

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2023/01/29/the-irs-...

With more resources, there’s every reason to believe that more of the wrong people will be targeted. Why would you believe otherwise?
Did ChatGPT just message me first?
This is real, link to the actual chat: https://chatgpt.com/share/66e718e5-c934-8001-8ffa-ef7ca1f165...
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