Lord-Jobo

Why does coordination and leadership require my boss to be 15 feet from me, locked in his office 95% of the day, instead of tethered much the same through Teams?

Yep. I love valve but let’s not forget that they are making 17+ BILLION dollars a year, 50+ million per employee. Gabe seems like a pretty good guy but he bought a $70m mansion and builds yachts as a side business…

If they want to increase or keep market share they need to eat costs somewhere in this. Maybe they are positioned to do that soon if they anticipate another doubling of ram prices like Microsoft does, we can’t know their plans for future price increases.

Reports I’ve seen suggest that they are making a roughly 10% profit per Gabe Cube right now, which is considerable.

Valve will cite the idea that Sony/nintendo/xbox can sell at a loss because they are bundling in the profit from sold games on their digital stores, but there’s no guarantee Cubers will do the same. But that’s bullshit, we all know 99% of cube users will be buying shit through steam, it’s a weak defense.

Is this something that is more true of a Chinese model than any other model of a different national origin?

Genuine question: generalized up from individual models to “models from country X”, is there any country that doesn’t have this exact risk?

Jmap is a desperately needed upgrade, but email as a whole needs to be rebuilt. The fact that it’s so core to our current infrastructure, but is really poorly suited for maybe 75% of its usage, is a bad situation that’s only going to get worse.

Of course it’s ridiculously hard to change something that’s so foundational, and I don’t trust any of the players with enough juice to pull it off (besides Google if they actually put their whole ass into it)

This is so hilariously stupid, the invasion of Ukraine is so completely impossible to defend that all of these talking points smell like a third grader wrote them. In a rush, at the beginning of class.

“The moral dimension is illusory“

Yeah maybe if you glue your eyelids shut and pretend millions of dead people are actually totally fine, and definitely WORTH expending for… wait what is it that Russia has gained from this invasion?

Disgusting effort, I hope you never have control over a single ounce of power.

Amazon and Microsoft have shown considerable decay in their most visible products. Maybe it’s AI, maybe it’s just momentum, maybe it’s something else. But they AI clearly isn’t helping them and they have near infinite access(compared to me anyway), so why should I expect it to help me?

The whole miniseries is (or was very recently) free on YouTube. I recommend it, it’s very unique and interesting

Yup. If solar panels are good enough and cheap enough, if grid storage and battery density improve fast enough, the economic costs of staying on fossil fuels will create huge pressure in the political space and economic competition. You can overwhelm the issue.

We shouldn’t HAVE to do this, our politicians should represent our desires and our long term necessities. But that’s clearly not an easy problem to solve, and it sure doesn’t seem to be going in the right direction.

So RND to push the economy makes perfect sense to me as a way to fight this from the other direction.

The economy is deeply weird and irrational too. In many of the same ways as politics.

Certainly I think it’s something worth actually trying in the modern age. We’ve had quite a long run now of the representative democracy, I think we should all be open to talking about and trialing these “okay so what’s next?” Options. Before crisis or collapse makes the decision for us.

We have a very large Amazon warehouse/center in town, and during my last prime trial I received maybe 5/25 items listed under “2 day shipping” in actually 2 days. Nearly all took 4 or more.

Cannot even imagine 1 day.

It’s insanely impressive and I’m so glad that the space has actual competition

I would say about 99% of the population views software corporations as these monolithic inhuman cubes of pure shitanium. What these posts are important for is

1: reminding the average population that corporations are just abstract human pyramids and made up of normal people.

And

2: doing that through a very human, biased, and filtered perspective that can provide some genuine insight into the function of these opaque systems.

Now, does the average consumer of hacker news get all that? Probably not, but I do think insider perspective is still valuable.

They KEEP adding utter cancerous garbage to the homepage/new tab page. I recently installed Firefox from scratch for a coworker who was having chrome-only issues(yes, they do exist!) and was blown away by how insanely gross the default settings are now. It’s straight up adware junk bullshit

Yup, perfect software for like 20 straight years

Yeah if they double down and keep investing in the tech improvements required, I genuinely think Apple AR can become the next big hardware form. Nothing will beat the iPhone but this could easily stand beside their laptops as a major accessory.

Apple has done a good job in the recent past of providing secure information partition options; locked notes, secure folders, etc. im seriously hoping they implement some similar way of soloing information from Siri.

Is revenue the only metric we care about for this? Seems like stability and p-e ratio should at least be a factor? Which you can’t get until the ipo has actually settled.

Nerds are a group that have a separate definition of social peer and “cool” but aspire just as much as other groups to achieve social status or coolness.

It’s exceptionally rare to encounter any person, adult or otherwise, that genuinely holds no value in any opinion of another. And even those people hold to their own self evaluations which do not spawn from pure noise.

The question is whether or not those industry professionals are speaking in their own interest, in the interest of all stockholders, in the interest of the economy as a whole, or any mix of the above.

This is why non partisan financial institutes like the FED and consumer protection groups like the CPB are important and we should have them as non corrupt and robust as possible.

Because it just doesn’t seem wise to trust asset managers with these kinds of things without a lot of evidence and transparency. The 2008 crisis should have taught all of us that much.

Investment and finance in general, at this scale, is far more geopolitics than it is math. It’s self evident.

We’ve all seen how the “math” on so much of the AI business sector literally doesn’t check out, and here there are: still ballooning, still making deals, still directly crafting laws through political influence, still taking over damn near every user space.

Politics at a high enough level lets you play a different game with different rules.

Politics at a low enough level lets you do the same actually, but we usually call that civil unrest, guerrilla warfare, or collective action depending on how many of which group is defying which “rules”.

It’s very easy to get used to the guardrails and guidelines around us when they persist and succeed for decades, but they are much more fragile than they appear.

Yes, an AI making massive gains in bug finding is hugely important and good, it may even lead to a net neutral with the amount of bugs introduced by other AI coding processes, but it’s a far cry from how mythos is portrayed most of the time: a automatic super hacker.

Bullshit work has hit escape velocity, won’t be long now before we have huge warehouses filled with people doing sudoku for their daily food allowance, and that’s just how our entire economy functions.

How are we sliding face first into “snowpiercer but dumber”?

Gueman might be the only leaker in tech who, so far, doesn’t seem to fuck around. Low miss rate, rarely exaggerates. Of course that could change and he could always get insider info that is wrong.

The decline in quality of both investigations and information/studies by the FBI over the past year and a half has been extremely noticeable.

This is just not a serious organization anymore, and the lack of such a thing at the federal level leaves us insanely vulnerable to our own criminal operations.

The same thing happened with the IRS even earlier, multiple rounds of intensive they just cannot pursue criminals of a certain type, and the criminals know it. So they can run basically unchecked, looting all of us for billions.

It really does have some disgusting inline behaviors. I’ve also seen it do some really bizarre stuff with SQL

If you have to pass the bouncers vibe check to get in, and your dancers have to pay him a 30% tax to work there, do you own the strip club or does the bouncer?

There will be very dramatic growing pains with this switch, especially for A: nations manufacturing renewables but still running that manufacturing on oil and B: nations that face political and economic barriers for renewables.

Also C: nations that are both A and B, needlessly causing oil volatility with unplanned military dickheadedness.

Unified hardware helps some and hurts some. See: same gpus for gaming and for AI.

Watching a full video of A and B comparisons shows the massive weaknesses of the tech central to people’s complaints. (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YjvZMbsjEhY) skip to 3:46 and mute. You’ll see in the hogwarts examples, especially the last one with the dark background, that the lighting changes from something ‘logical’ to something nonsensical. In that, the character has multiple points of lighting on their face tied to NOTHING in frame and nothing in the scene. It goes from a dark image to a weird surreal tableau. In the assassins creed example you will see the complete deletion of key shadows, namely the ones cast from clouds moving overhead. This is purely a loss of detail, hard to argue the value for that. In oblivion you’ll see how it makes very bold guesses about textures for people’s faces and uhhh misses pretty bad with the high elf shown. In ALL examples it absolutely blasts contrast and crushes shadows to reduce dynamic range. For scary atmospheric games like resident evil this has a substantial impact on how they feel. In MOST examples, including the headline image of grace from RE9, it’s doing quite a bit more with the input data that simple upscaling. Her lips are a different size and color, her eyes have a different proportions. It’s not normal makeup and lighting changes(makeup alone is very controversial, her written character not wearing makeup literally makes way more sense she is a deeply traumatized antisocial introvert), the sizes of her features are literally different. It’s way more obvious in oblivion with the guy on the docks: his eyes are completely different textures. Looks like a distant relative of the original dude. The reason that last part is a problem even if you think the dlss5 version looks better, is how much impact you are ceding as a developer over to nvidias black box when you enable this. It’s a strong reduction in artistic clarity, from drawing board to people’s displays. And nvidia pushes REALLY hard for developers to use this stuff, at multiple levels. Game devs are artists who do not need even more pressure to sacrifice their art, that’s for sure. And finally, nvidia seems set on this, they are bundling this with their dlss version numbers. But there is nothing else in their dlss suite doing anything like this, in terms of impact. Bundling it is a deceptive tactic, many people like myself enjoy the upscaling even the frame gen sometimes, but would NOT tolerate this effect. If nothing changes, devs are going to be forced to choose between a) old worse upscaling/frame gen or b) newest best version of those, with the ugly “instagram filter” effect.

I am not an AI hater at all, I just like pretty games. And this is an absolutely wild misstep from nvidia. But a fixable one, if this model is tuned way down and retrained not to touch faces the way it does, I can see the appeal.