jmyeet

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Knowing what you don't know is such an important skill in life and your career. And I 100% agree with you that the author is, well, off their rocker. Let me give an example: I could take Goldeneye from the N64, extract the binary and t
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The primary product of AI is labor displacement and consequently wage supression. This is what OpenAI and Anthropic are really selling. It didn't start with AI but AI is accelerating it. This is what layoffs have been about since the p
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The unemployment rate is cooked. It doesn't capture underemployment, people who want full-time employment and don't have it and people who don't make a living wage. Long gone are the days when the vast majority of people just
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You can't draw any conclusions based on "job openings" without dealing with, or at least addressing, "ghost job listings". There are several issues here: 1. AI ATS systems have made posting jobs "cheap", s
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I 100% agree SpaceX (and Tesla) is a bet on Elon, completely divorced from the fundamentals. But I don't think people realize just how risky this is. Tesla is only one administration change away from going bankrupt. Ask yourself what w
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This isn't even a theoretical concern and it goes well beyond unfettered control of a single company. Look at the history: 1. One of Elon's companies (Tesla) bought out another of Elon's companies (Solar City) that was going
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From SpaceX's S-! it bases its valuation on the total addressable market of 3 markets, which is made up of: 1. Space operations: $370 billion; 2. Connectivitiy: $1.6 trillion, roughly split between mobile and broadband; and 3. AI: $26.
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People forget how we got here. Whatever your philosophical stance, history has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that giving most people complete control over their device has been an unmitigiated disaster. Scams, stealing credentials, steal
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Apple updated their compatibility list. The Series 9 is compatible with WatchOS 27 [1]. Still, Series 8 was released in 2022. Less than 4 years old and incompatible? That's quite a departrue from Apple's long-compatibility. [1]:
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Yeah, I'm shocked at this [1]. The Series 9 was released in September 2023, not quite 3 years old. Apple is normally very good with long-term support. This is surprising to say the least. I bought a 10 last year when it was current-gen
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I've been trying to find this out. I suspect it was dismissed because they lacked standing. Because there were a bunch of transfer, likely only the last seller has standing to sue for ignoring a deed restriction and of course they don&
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Google, as one example, uses a bunch of information including profile information and behavioural data in sophiticated ML to imply demographics [1]. This is what I mean when I said they already do it. The suggestion I'm talking about d
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I believe we could solve a lot of these problems by making it illegal to advertise to minors. I'm reminded of the settlement with Facebook where it was illegally allowing racial targeting in ads for housing, which is illegal [1]. If pl
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This sort of thing needs to be illegal. We saw a similar thing wtih RealPage. So many corporate landlords use it that it essentially becomes anticompetitive price-fixing. I've heard a claim that an issue with these ATS AI Systems is th
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by jmyeet 5mo ago
This is kind of a winding, long-winded way of saying that AI models are going to be commoditized, mostlikely by the Chinese. This has been my position ever since DeepSeek came out. It is a national security interest for China for an America
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So in industrial agriculture, monocultures are a real problem. Every banana is essentially a genetically identical Cavendish. It used to be the Gros Michel until a fungus basically killed it. The same fate awaits the Cavendish. This is true
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There will be a handful of people who make stratospheric compensation, a bit like we have now. Everyone else will have extreme job uncertainty, getting laid off multiple times, losing compensation as a result (ie equity vesting) with compen
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That's an extraordinarily rosy view of the future. I'm old enough to remember the dot-com crash, specifically the years afterwards. In 2002-2003, the unemployment rate of software engineers was something like 40%. In fact, the onl
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> Only roughly half of evangelicals in the US actually support the state of Israel. I'm not sure where you're getting the info on evangelicals but from what I can find, support is closer to 82% [1]. Zionism in the US isn't
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This is a hotly debated topic. The John Mearsheimer view is that "The Lobby" [1] has effective control over US foreign policy. There's a lot of evidence for this such as AIPAC indirectly unseating anti-Israel candidates. The
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> Doing it covertly is the core of the problem for an elected. Oh I'm sorry, are all these politicians registered under FARA as registered foreign agents for Israel? > And for what it's worth, Israel has become toxic in the
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Former Arcadia mayor, Eileen Wang, plead guilty to being an illegal foreign agent [1]. She faces up to 10 years in prison. What did she do? She allegedly promoted Chinese propaganda and communicated with the CCP. If Israel was treated to th
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Apple offers relatively affordable options for a high-memory workstation that uses unified memory. They previously offered 256/512GB Mac Studios (both discontinued). Because of this they can keep larger models in memory. BUT you just
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Unified memory is only a feature because NVidia so aggressively uses VRAM for market segmentation. The 5090 ($2k MSRP but realistically $3-3.5k) is almost the same as the RTX 6000 Pro (~$10k). Same memory bandwidth (1800GB/s). Slightly
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I'm reminded of the 2010s fight over net neutrality. That clown Ajit Pai was brought in to kill it at the behest of the national ISPs. He's now the head of the CTIA. That's so weird. Anyway, Pai as FCC Commissioner argued the
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This is the RTX Spark [1]. The obvious comparison here is the M5 Max where you can buy a Macbook Pro with 128GB of also unified memory. Obviously CUDA cores are specific to NVidia so it's hard to directly compare but I've seen cla
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Sparta and Rome suffered from the same problem, actually. They approached it differently. Rome survived. Sparta didn't. The problem was that citizenship or social class was based on inheritance and it was essentially a closed system. A
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The only product of AI is labor displacement and, by extension, wage suppression (as the duties of the displaced become free labor from those who remain and those who remain aren't asking for raises). So ahy are so many on HN anti-AI?
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Here are the figures by group in Israel [1]: - As of 2022, the fertility rates in Israeli cities dominated by specific demographic groups were: Haredi 6.1, Bedouin 4.4, Jewish non-Haredi 2.4, Arab 2.2, Druze 1.8 So the GP's characteriz
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How? The banality of evil, cognitive dissonance and violence. The "banality of evil" [1] is term coined by Hannah Arendt when covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann who killed over a million Jews in the HOlocaust. She described Eich

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