skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ok so just to be clear, that's an entirely different and unrelated argument from the one I responded to.

It honestly made no sense what you were saying so I didn't respond to that directly as I assumed it would be clear from my explanation as to why animals can be intelligent and LLM are not.

> LLMs can learn within their context window.

They don't learn from the context window as much as they use what is in the context window to define a probabilistic path. If you put something in the context window that it was never trained on, it would spit out BS or say it doesn't know.
I dunno if the birthday video ad is really, like, gross. I guess the main character is sort of dishonest, but it isn’t a huge thing really.

It is pretty depressing though. The main character is just kind of tired and sad.
How the @javier IG handle was stolen after 14 years
The problem with the ad that no one is touching on is that it makes the consumer look like an idiot or a lazy, disingenuous person.

"You need AI because you are lazy and stupid and do not care about honesty and accountability."
Not sure if it is relevant but after firing 500 people, the stock price is almost up by 2 dollars between 29th and and 30th October.

Next - we have to raise our prices.

Probably lazy money invested for gains takes its toll on the rest of the society.
Related to the subject, can anyone recommend a book about timezones? Not a technical, programming book, but one with the history of time zones and curious use cases?
If the legal precedence comes out as "yes, it is legal", as many countries have already done (e.g. Japan), would GP really change their mind and become okay with it? (Note: the Copilot lawsuit have also mostly been dismissed, so this is already close to reality.)

I doubt it. I think the GP will still be concerned about it, and would petition to change the law. So it has nothing to do with the legal precedence either, unless the GP concern genuinely comes from legalities, instead of using it as an argument. But why would the GP continue to be concerned?

The first possible reason I can think of is automation. That is, "no one cared until the models became good enough". The GP might fear for their job, or have "artist envy".

The second possible reason is a distaste for corporations, and wanting one's due for contributing to it in any way, regardless of what the law says (note: assuming that the training is legal as aforementioned). So this is more of a personal morals issue, one that I disagree with but must acknowledge. I must also point out that open weight models exist.
Solve the problem at a high-level in your head, ask the LLM if your concept is correct, and then instruct the LLM to build the solution step-by-step.
Marketing yes, product development no. Jobs was a salesman, not an engineer or designer. He didn't contribute to the product of Apple despite his reputation for doing so.
That’s a great combination that I’ve been using up until very recently. If you have it up and running, I don’t see huge benefits in switching to uv today.

In contrast, I had to use pipenv recently and I’d forgotten how terrible its UX was. I wanted to upgrade one of the deps in a smallish project and it took 43 seconds to resolve the change. If anyone reading this is using pipenv, switch to uv right now and thank me later.
I agree unlike other commenters here that the apple intelligence ads try too hard to be quirky and appease this weird flavour of incompetence being popular. Theres nothing inspiring or awe inducing about the ad that induces excitement about technology
Exactly!!!
I stopped being a customer when they lost touch with their customer base. They decided to become something else, adjust plans however they thought, introduced useless featured and all these while riding the money train.
I feel sorry for those being laid off, it’s not immediately/directly their fault. It’s the management and the product responsible that should take the blame.
I see. But that's still like doing your job. I do my job for being on-call by having my laptop with me and phone on, etc. If do my job badly I get fired.

So this CEO is saying, "if I do my job poorly I understand I could get fired."

But, did he/she do their job poorly? That's the thing I can't figure out quite yet. It seems it was bad for the laid off people, but maybe not for Dropbox?
Overly techie people can’t comprehend marketing and think it shouldn’t even exist. Most Linux users probably think advertising should consist of a bulleted list of features and bugs (set in a standard, easy to read font — none of that hipster shit) followed by the price, perhaps conveniently divided by the expected lifetime of the product.
> If I showed that video to someone who isn't

...the target audience, it wouldn't work. Same with the AI stuff.

Show that to someone with no understanding of Apple and it's products, or AI, and you'll have someone equally confused.

The understanding here is that in both cases the marketing is targeted at a certain group.

More interestingly, you admit that one story promotes interest in the product, while the other promotes the viewer being, as you put it, a schlub.

Maybe you can explain why you being a schlub is better than wanting to learn more about a product (or how quickly you try to pretend like that's not what you mean/said and move the goal post, lol)?
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No, leaking is explicitly safe in rust: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/leaking.html
But I really need to know who Brad Pitt is endorsing before I head into the voting booth
I think the write up seems to bring the indirect point that AI has limited use cases currently. So instead of taking the traditional Apple approach with showcasing the technical aspects of the product (an example being Apple has highlighted photography and video a lot in the last few generations of iPhone), instead Apple falls back on cheeky ads, which to be fair, are also not new to Apple marketing.

I do think that Apple's "white lies" series of ads are awkward, however. Apple has seemingly paused ads around privacy and security and are now targeting Apple Intelligence - they seem to be somewhat at opposite ends of the target market in a way.

It does feel as though Apple is conflicted here and I'm curious to see how it plays out for them. I'm, personally not a fan of the current generation or implementation of AI and do not want to use it. If AI could hook apps for more hands free operations at a deeper level I could see usability improvements for hands free environments which might be nice. Beyond that I really don't want it.
Maybe if you put what your working on at the top of the screen and only looked at that one thing it would be a problem, but realistically you use a bigger screen the same way you'd use a bigger desk: you dont put what you're working on out of reach, you just have more room for the tools for what you're working on.
You had me with the linter, but you lost me with the package manager.

Yet another package manager is not what Python needs.
I think you are confusing "dieting" and "sustainable lifestyle". Dieting is starving yourself to lose weight. That's not sustainable and those drugs help a lot. But once you are on target weight, you can switch to a sustainable lifestyle where hunger is much less of a problem, just resisting the temptation of the oeros. But that's not hunger, that's gourmandise.
Embeddings are what encode the “meaning” of a given text. Similarity search works by computing the angle between your query vector and the rest of the vectors already stored.
DuckDB (and columnar stores in general) is great at aggregation. It’s particularly well suited because DuckDB is a single file. There’s no server to muck with.
This is a bullshit package because of the healthcare.

I was laid off from a different company with access to 18 months of COBRA. Dropbox is offering a third of that. Lots of job searches take longer than 6 months, so the employees are going to be left high and dry right when they need it the most.

For the non-Americans, my COBRA expenses are about USD$2,000/month for me and my partner. I’m paying as much for healthcare as I am for rent. Even so, it’s still financially better to take COBRA than pay out of pocket for my prescriptions.
But destroying editorial independence of a newspaper is, at least if you have any real interest in the credibility of the newspaper.
I said I believe 30k is possible

You are free to argue against whatever strawman you desire... Chasing your own shadow though
It's funny the video is celebrating 20 years of Ubuntu yet the editing style and music choice feels like it should have been for the 10 year anniversary. Real early-2010s chic.
Why would that look insane at all? It's like saying that letting everybody everywhere be able to say "I work from nine to five" is insane. Or that saying that the date changes to the next day when it's midnight is insane.
Most companies have a bunch of people who are literally doing nothing.
I think society will take care of those dystopian feelings in time through non-tech means. Society will always adapt and people can clearly tell a gift or message that is made using AI. So if you want it to be thoughtful you will make it without AI. We are in the cusp of the next phase of growth and so we are seeing/feeling it, but in time it will become seamless
Same with Somali. The first hour of daylight is hal saac (Hour 1)

7 AM is 1 Saac ( Hour 1)

6 PM is 12 Saac ( Hour 12)

7 PM is 1 Saac

6 AM is 12 Saac
My understanding is DropBox was trying to transition from sync and share to being a multi-product document-centric company (look at acquisitions like HelloSign).

One possibility is they staffed up a bunch of projects on bets that ultimately didn’t turn into viable products, and are now pulling the plug.
> What if managing the company correctly requires hundreds of people losing their jobs?

It occurs to me that there is no failure of performance a CEO can produce and be held responsible for. Are these CEOs really so irreplaceable that when they bet incorrectly they can't be replaced?

20% of employees have been fired. The CEO directly cited mismanagement as the cause. And yet, its impossible to fire him because "its a learning experience" or "think of the upside!".

A CEO being fired does not mean the company falls into the abyss. The company still exists and can hire a new CEO. I'm certain there are plenty of fools more than willing to risk the livelihoods of 20% of Dropbox's staff in exchange for a mansion in Miami.
I suspect GLP-1s will find their way into the gym as well. I'm currently on a cut. It takes some pretty rigid discipline and some overhead for doing things like meal prep and whatnot. Ozempic is basically the perfect cut supplement. When you hop off it, after a bit your appetite comes back and you can easily go into a bulk. It's perfect.
> pretty much torpedoes your implicit suggestion that this would not be too much of a change.

You did that on porpoise I hope.
The common argument against relying on natural turnover rate is that the most competent workers are also those who are the most likely to leave because it is easier for them to find a new/better job. So if a company just freezes hiring instead of doing layoffs it will experience a reduction in the competence of their workers.

I don't know if this is empirically true or not, I haven't seen any statistics. But I don't see any obvious logical errors in this reasoning.
I work at a startup in the AI space.

We've been working with it for over a year now and I'm of the mind that AI, in it's current state, really isn't a tool meant for an end user to interact with.

It feels like it's the most useful when it's transparent and you -- as an end user -- don't know that there's an LLM in the process. The best use cases seem to be those that don't require an end consumer to directly interact with an AI, but their journey through some process is assisted by an AI instead.

The problem is that a lot of the marketing -- like these examples and Google's very misguided "Write me a letter" to an Olympian -- exists because companies keep trying to make "fetch" happen; the AI becomes the journey instead of being an assistant in that journey.

Amazon's Rufus is a prime example. It's tucked away as a button that one has to activate explicitly. But it would almost be better if it could just clean up the search results when I do a search and a bunch of junk is returned.
Steve Jobs didn’t contribute to the product of Apple? Are you sure?
Pesticides found in 80% of air samples from California farm communities
It was exactly like every other enterprise animated product video. Random words with some electronic music. I was actually expecting "synergy" to pop up.
I'm sure that they did their research before making the big move.
Are you saying the way to contain plasma is the shape of a double helix
I recall working on some calendar software and finding that at some point in the past (you have to deal with all the rules from the past) a country (Saudi Arabia?) had an offset like every day to keep solar noon in line with civil time.
Word. If CEOs were to actually take responsibility, they would fire themselves.
That AMD P/E ratio is artificially high because of some accounting adjustments after a merger with some other company.
Connecting the various electrical grids together makes each part dependent on the grid as a whole, which transfers the dependencies and risk to each nation. When supply in the grid is low, everyone rushes to bid on the limited resources and prices spikes, leading to high instability in prices. Last time that happened the collective nations of EU spent ~800 billions in subsidies during a few months to bail citizens out, and multiple elections was won or lost based on the willingness to spend subsidies. Following that, grid taxation increased steeply in order to both cover the subsidies and build out new fossil fueled power plants and fuel supply chains in order to handle the next time supply drop.

It is not a perfect way to deal with fluctuations, and it was proven beyond doubt that voters will not accept power prices to run unchecked in a EU connected grid.
Yes, fired. Just like a head coach of a sports team.
It's always amazed me how much leeway and clemency leadership gets. I worked at a company that was always fairly intentional about their performance review process being a meat grinder, and they also did something that didn't look nearly dissimilar enough to good ole microsoft forced curve / stack ranking.

So if you were an IC and were on a project that failed (or even just didn't succeed enough), God help you. Many folks just quit when they saw a project going sideways, or tried to escape/transfer. Alternatively, people would report green statuses and hope someone else fell over first so they wouldn't be the root-cause.

Obviously this caused many problems. It was very hard to execute projects with lots of people or teams, and/or that took a long (>3mo) time. It came to a head when finally a major initiative missed another deadline "just barely" and it finally tripped circuit breakers and someone went in and did a full Inquisition. Yeah no the project was f'd and they basically just gave up ("pivoted") to an adjacent goal. Their official diagnosis/RCA was "people were too scared to report red, so everyone prettied up their status reports a bit, and that was compounded by each roll-up status report also prettying up the status.

Literally no leadership changes happened as a result of this. Then I got laid off. (Unrelated, just the big layoffs of 22. I was not directly involved in this, I was in big data and this was all happening in the main product infra stuff).

So yeah. Your project fails? Bye. But your f'd up performance grinder culture causes literally hundreds of people to behave so out-of-alignment with the actual company goals? Nah man stick around for 2 more years and leave at your leisure over some other petty squabble.
I wonder how many staff they need just to keep the lights on. I bet it's not more than a tenth of what they have now.
My bad, it seems YouTube guides me towards other ads. Might be because I'm in eu or not using their app.

I managed to find the ad elsewhere
I wonder how long we could make an RTG last today
If there is a crash or sudden braking the child can aspirate formula or milk and suffocate or develop lung infection.
> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?

If you bet on growth/new features but your current and future customer base are going out of business or downsizing and you have to switch to more of a survival strategy.
Seems it is the visitor's phone scanning the QR code, which means whatever mechanism sends the text has all the identifiers of the phone which scanned the QR code, right? If it protects the visitors' numbers from disclosure, that's great, but there is no assurance (and none that could be given and absolutely trusted) that they are not disclosed.

OK, maybe the point is to not install any hardware (beyond a sticker), but it seems people are pointing out that a QR code introduces more problems than it solves (trust, spoofing, copying, misdirecting, inconvenience, etc.). If he wants to install no hardware and get a text on his phone, perhaps the easiest thing is to post a sticker with "pls text me at [mobile number]" at the location of the doorbell or QR code?
Ops margin for AMD is in 3-ish %, for Nvidia 63%. I wonder if that changes anything.
> As compared to the "schlub writes an email" video, which was compelling, funny

OP is right, though. What you're calling "compelling" and "funny" seems very much also like messages telling you to that it's ok to lie to everyone around you including your family and friends. That's not a funny message to me. It's an appalling one.
I feel there's a lack of respect for the person being interacted with in these ads. They all end too soon to show the consequences of transparent AI use and imply the other character has never heard of AI.

More accurate endings would be:

- "I thought we told Warren to stop uploading company emails to chatgpt."

- "A photo collage?!, after I spent a week building you that new console table for your birthday."
This is interesting. What I would have sold me the idea is a screen recording of someone programming and playing a few examples.
That was actually the norm prior to 2010. Tech was never supposed to be a stable career due to inherent innovation risk
They were (I think) first to market with fast, cheap cloud storage but at this point there's just too much competition and not enough differentiation. I have only the vaguest awareness of them trying to build some value adds to make Dropbox more of a collaboration tool, but I've never seen it get any adoption. I'm guessing those are the LOBs getting cut with this announcement.
> What does the Ubuntu ad say to the user? How does it capture someone’s attention?

Exactly. Contrary to the article, it doesn't tell a story at all. It's just some slick-ish graphics with a few words overlayed on top. They're nice words. But they didn't really embrace "show, don't tell".
Contrast with old OnStar commercials would be more fruitful.
I saw your reddit comment, but I couldn't find the source for the TCL 65 inch? For me im tempted to go from 43" 4k to 55" 8k, my only concern is the edges being too far away unless its curved.
Same here.

The newsgroups were much more _sane_ too for almost all types of discourse.
No way! There are definitely legitimate use-cases for all of the features demoed in these ads, but Apple's marketing took a darker path.

Email to boss: could've been someone who had a genuine struggle with language using it to finally get their boss to notice the effort they put into their work.

Remembering a name: could've used it to get the name and left it at them being impressed rather than making it a lie.

Summarizing email: could've used it when in a hurry at work whilst someone sent an extremely long email.

Video memories: could've used it for two people to share a nostalgic moment together without making it a lie.
The point is really that as long as we don't live on Discworld we have to divide the world into time zones. Either using different local time zones, or using local awake/sleep zones. Either way you have time zones.
How is net profit margin calculated? Some weighted average or is it net profit of every company divided by revenue of every company?
I don't think it will be possible to ignore it, the bad comparison makes the author seem confused and unreliable
It's probably worth adding that his goal is to replace federal income tax with tariffs as he discussed on Joe Rogan [1]. I would love to see this happen. Other countries can pay my taxes.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY [video][3 hours]
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