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The top 1% of people make 20.7% of the country's income. Given progressive tax rates, they should be paying a lot more than 40% of Federal income tax revenue, but rates don't scale enough, and aren't lax enough on other classes.
It wouldn't be doing this: https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-a...
It wouldn't specifically brag about doing it, while leaving out that they were specifically dealing with Palantir, because they know what they're doing is unethical: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-access-to-claude-fo...
Being available for use by militaries is incredibly irresponsible, regardless of what scope is specifically claimed, because of the inherent gravity of the situation when a military is wrong. The US military maintains a good deal of infrastructure in the US; putting into their hands an unreliable, incompetent calculator puts lives at risk.
It would be structured as a non-profit (there are no teeth to a PBC; the structure is entirely to avoid liability, and if you have no trust in the executive body of an organization, it has zero meaningful signal).
It would have a different leadership team.
It would have a leader who could steelman his own position competently. Machines of Loving Grace was less redeeming than Lenat's old stump speeches for his position, despite Amodei starting up in an industry significantly more geared for what he had to say, and Lenat having an incredibly flexible sense of morality. Its leader would not have a history working for Chinese companies and jingoistically begin advocating for export controls.
It would have different employees than the people I know who are working there, who have a history of picking the most unethical employers they can find, in a fashion not dissimilar to how Illumination Entertainment's "Minions" select employers.
Complaints =/= Crime
The subway has millions of riders in a day. One hundred and fifty complaints per precinct (which is a generous estimation) is nothing, and the NYPD is a failure of an organization that pays over half a hundred million dollars a year on misconduct lawsuits. NYPD officers have a higher crime rate than the people of New York.
Luckily, similar to how they made a choice for these constraints, you also chose yours. Both are artificial constraints; nobody is forced to solve problems in an esolang, and very few people are forced into having kids. You could have chosen their constraints instead. You chose a constraint set difficult for you; they chose a constraint set difficult for them, and the wonderful thing is that you both can work on the problems at your own pace, under the constraints you've chosen for yourselves.
It was proposed by Thom Tillis, a Republican who has previously defended Donald Trump: https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2023/3/tillis-statement-on-the...
It was proposed by a North Carolina Republican: Thom Tillis.
Lots of things are wasteful. Punishing a bad actor who is actively infringing upon your legally-enshrined rights is better than buying a sportscar with that money.
As it says in that link, the author of said link applied for a software patent after the initial GPL violations (that even in your article, he doesn't apologize for; he simply points out that he was a jerk about it while not meaningfully accepting guilt). If you look at the actual events of that situation, Pearson acted far worse than what you would imagine from just reading his own words, years later:
https://wordpress.org/book/2015/11/thesis/
Pearson never made amends; he continued his bad actions long after being called out (and possibly still does).
The correct solution to bad actors is to raze them to the ground; Matt isn't wrong in this. He has the means and is doing something principled with them: Destroying a bad actor.
This should be encouraged; it is how capitalism is supposed to work.
Police are gangs, though, definitionally.
Have you ever been pulled over by a cop and given a warning? Many people have.
As long as there's any amount of leeway in enforcement of the law, things like courtesy cards will exist. All it is is a little nudge to say, "Hey. I'm one of you and yours. Let's let it slide."
That will continue to exist even if the cards entirely disappear.
There's nothing sexualised about it. The person is of an ambiguous build and facing away from the camera. The article does more sexualising than the photo itself does, in the typical way that British media likes to oversexualise and play scandal to sell papers.
It obviously can. My first sentence was "uBO already runs on iOS." You asked if Orion was compatible with "normal desktop Firefox and Chrome extensions." There's no distinction between desktop Firefox extensions and mobile ones! Addons on both are just standard WebExtensions, and I've already noted that it runs both Chrome and Firefox extensions.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions
Your lack of understanding of what browser extensions are is exactly why it would be better if Apple explicitly banned browser extensions from the App Store. Ignorance is a malware vector, and even you, a commentator on Hacker News, do not understand the browser extension ecosystem. Instead, they're taking a bunch of flak for something they aren't even doing, all the while iOS has had a browser supporting uBO for years.
Chrome on Android doesn't support browser extensions. Google is an advertising company. They are not incentivized to allow extensions. Extensions block their ads, and are a risk vector for mobile users, who are often young, inexperienced, and running outdated systems software.
What's Orion
A web browser, using the same Webkit as everybody else on iOS, with support for browser extensions.
People give Apple too much flak for the mismanagement or warped incentives of browser vendors. Lack of extensions in existing browsers isn't their fault to any degree.
and is it compatible with normal desktop Firefox and Chrome extensions, or with the mobile ones?
There's not a separate spec for "mobile" Firefox extensions and desktop browser extensions. Google WebExtensions. It's an open standard that desktop Firefox follows and that Chrome almost does.
uBO already runs on iOS. Orion is compatible with Firefox and Chrome extensions. The lack of extensions in mobile browsers is a sign of Mozilla's decay, not a sign of Apple being unnecessarily restrictive. They also don't care about you having extensions on Android; their most recent redesign left Android Firefox users without extensions for months.
Mozilla is an ad-supported company from every angle: Pocket, search deal, the ads built into Firefox. Why don't they get more of the blame for the current state of the browser ecosystem?
This is also something (anecdotally) common with Gen X parents. That being said, deadbeats have been a relatively common trope since the Silents or before. Is it really that surprising that, now that it's possible for both parties in the parenting equation to be deadbeats, they're taking that option?
This doesn't seem like a new aspect of moral decay: People have always been terrible, and neither sex is inherently morally superior or magically more empathetic or responsible.
It becoming equitable is just another side effect of suffrage and no-fault divorce, something decided upon by the Silents, Boomers and Xers. It's still probably better than the prior situation, but acknowledging the fact that it's a consequence of the legislative choices of society is probably better than just randomly blaming Millennials for something that isn't unique to them.
Saying that as a non-Millennial.
Pretty well, actually; Quest has outpaced this generation's Xbox.
Meta obviously has the money; $135B revenue, $88B in expenses, $18B in debt.
Even assuming the current push toward general AI is a bubble, which is not unreasonable, the company can afford to throw away billions of dollars. It doesn't matter at all; they own the money printer and can make as many bets in as many markets as they want.
The same GPUs that are presently being used to create semi-open AI projects can just as easily be repurposed to power a public launch of their Codec avatars, which are lightyears ahead of what Apple has, or for better prediction engines in what are quite probably the best sales engines of all time: Their websites.
Their data centers will be useful for the future of selling products to gullible consumers: Short-form video, which is the first chance in years that they've had to meaningfully take market share from Google.
Even assuming it was all vanity, Zuckerberg has earned the right at this stage in his career to make vanity plays. He still has majority control over his company, which shareholders have insisted upon, and he has an almost untarnished record of making incredible long-term bets that seem irrational at the time (Instagram acquisition, Whatsapp acquisition, arguably the Oculus acquisition).
He's earned drastic amounts of money for speculators, who have done little to deserve any of it. It would be a strange thing to argue that the speculators suddenly have a better grasp of what he's doing than he does; there are millions of speculators, but only one person with a track record like Zuckerberg.
There are other countries, ones where it's legal to do medical experimentation upon any consenting party. Unsurprisingly, they don't create significant amounts of novel drugs. Why? Because the US system is more profitable, and, similar to how writing proprietary software is the most common way to earn a living as a software engineer, people like money.
Similar to platforms that claim to "democratize" a given hobby while at the end of the day being proprietary SaaS, people can claim as good of motives as they want, but at the end of the day, they want to make enough money to sit on their heels. The government strongly incentivizes drugs that are economically worthless without it.
The US system ensures that everyone gets paid. Laissez-faire drug development wouldn't. As better in theory as it may be, just like free software, in practice, you'd probably get fewer returns than the controlled system, just because people aren't altruistic, and nobody cares about niche diseases that doesn't have direct motive.
It is more than a petabit, though. A petabit is a hundred and twenty five terabytes.
Sure. But I draw the line when people try to force their anti-American agenda on people.
This doesn't happen, though; there are a lot of universities that love pro-American sentiment in professors. A university deciding to be anti-American seems fine, and quite American. As an employer, it should be able to choose who it wants to offer positions. No one is forced, they just fail to incentivize prestigious universities in maintaining their employment under conditions they desire.
On the other hand, if being anti-indoctrination is the goal, it might be a good idea to turn the same lens toward universities that see an oversized volume of alumni participating in the defense industry, something seen as pro-American (albeit against many of the criteria you list off). Historically, some universities have been extremely fond of propaganda in this regard, going as far as to creating direct pipelines from school to participation, like Caltech's participation in the V-12 program, JPL, or Project Vista.
If that isn't indoctrination, I'm not sure what is.
Indoctrination isn't bad, and students should be able to have a choice between whether they want to get indoctrinated by the types of people who created the nuclear bomb, if they want to get indoctrinated by hippies, or if they want to get indoctrinated by a church-funded university.
Education is inherently ideological, and the market is really leaning toward hippie faculty at the moment. Allowing market forces to do what they will seems fine. It'll come back around eventually, and in the meantime, state school kids are doing what prestigious university students are too good for. Look at Anduril, which is far more impressive a defense achievement than anything that's come out of Caltech since before you were a student.
It's not Google (Google isn't Google anymore), but if you search around for the winners of the intern competitions they hold every year, you'll find a surprising amount of intensely competent people who have done very interesting things in the years since.
We constantly tell children Santa is real. I fear for your parents.
Much of what you actually see in Empire is written by entirely different people.
George Lucas initially hired Leigh Brackett, the sci-fi novelist who also wrote screenplays for Howard Hawks—including The Big Sleep (1946)—to write the sequel to Star Wars (1977). Brackett died in March 1978 while the film was still in pre-production, though, and Lucas wasn't satisfied with her script. Lucas wrote the next draft himself, which established structure and twists close to the final film, but suffered from dialogue. When Kasdan delivered his script for Raiders, Lucas asked him to rewrite The Empire Strikes Back. Kasdan suggested he read Raiders first, but Lucas reportedly said: "If I hate Raiders, I'll call you up tomorrow and cancel this offer, but basically I get a feeling about people."[9]
Brackett was a sci-fi author, Kasdan was a screenwriter by trade.
Despite seeming like similar tasks, screenwriting and book-writing actually have pretty distinct skillsets in some ways.
I love controllers, personally. I think the actual solution is a lot closer to making controllers into hands than the other way around. For now, though? People are going to incessantly bask in the Sony-Apple approach.
Also, no one using WMR devices on Windows wants to bother with Linux. Most of us were using the device with things not available on Linux, and even if they were we don't want to run Linux on a desktop.
Cheaper headsets for Linux users, then! It's a solution in one way.
Works pretty well as in, "Install Monado using your distribution's package manager, set it as your default OpenXR runtime, hit three buttons to get Valve to begrudgingly respect system defaults instead of the closed-source 'Open'VR runtime."
Optically-tracked WMR controllers work, depending on how new of a build your distribution has and the type, but WMR controllers are generally considered to be pretty bad to begin with. You can use a different style of controller with a WMR headset if desired.
That said, building Monado isn't hard if your distribution doesn't currently have a version that supports WMR controllers. The repo lists all of the dependencies you need, and what they're called for popular distros. It also tells you the exact things you need to run to get it to build; you can just copy and paste the build instructions after installing its dependencies. You can probably get it done within ten minutes.
Actually, my view is extremely influenced by history prior to 1950. You cite Nazi Germany, but Nazi Germany was actually a new occurrence. It wasn't from tradition. Hitler was a modern politician, and fascism a new movement. It lends credence to my point, it doesn't take away. The culture that replaced the Nazis, too, was not representative of the culture prior to the Nazi government.
Languages have died prior to 1950. Internationalization comes for all.
Even the Catholic Ireland you cite is a relatively new concept, part of the internationalization of the region. Christianity has a rich history there, but it's only a relatively recent happening that they cared about Papal supremacy; it wasn't a great deal of generations ago that the Church of Ireland was by far the largest, and prior to that, papal supremacy never got that much of a foothold in the region. Presently? 69% of people in the Republic of Ireland believe in God. It's a plurality, but the trend is still down.
Cultures die; any view other than this is ahistorical. Prior to 1950, much of the dialects of French within North America were dead, or close enough that it didn't matter. Quebec is left, but Quebec is considered an oddity. There are a few dialects that are hanging on by a single speaker, but is that really a living culture? Those will be gone in a generation.
Wales was oppressed similarly to Ireland, and Welsh is on the path to dying, too; reactionary pushback won't save it. Try and save the language all you want; it will die. Scots will die, too, despite the pride stereotypical to the region. It's basically already dead; its Wikipedia was written in a fake pidgin of Scots for years, and it took years for anyone to notice.
The failing of civilizations and internal slaughter is inevitable. I agree with that. There's no avoiding it. I think it's funny when people try to avoid it. They will lose, inevitably. My position is without regard for the quality of culture, without concern for what culture is going into, but rather, with full enthusiasm over seeing things turn over, and the reactionary, exclusionary attitudes that come when cultures are near death.
A subculture that will survive for another century isn't filled with people trying to keep it small, it wins via numerical superiority. There's a reason that Latin is the basis of most language in most continents. Californication, in a century, may be known as a Mandarin Shift, or Hindufication. California isn't eternal, but tiny cultures being subsumed by larger ones is.
Certain conservative cultures will stay around, at least for a while. It's likely they'll get bigger, even. Geographically-insular ones rooted in exclusion rather than proselytizing won't, though.
For what it's worth, on the off-chance that anyone at MS who worked on this views the thread, I thought it was cool. I liked what you did. I'm sure that seeing people review the Vision Pro is frustrating, seeing how many things you already did being declared revolutionary. I'm sure it's like that for Oculus developers, too.
In retrospect, people like John Gruber and Tim Urban will mock the industry prior to the Vision Pro for not Getting It Right, or for fundamentally-flawed interaction models, ignoring where things were right. Eye-tracked selection was already a thing in the Sony headset. Tracking windows fixed throughout your environment has been a thing in the Oculus inside-out devices since release, good enough to keep track even on different floors. Varjo does reprojected AR better than Apple, for a cheaper price point (though still a steep one).
Microsoft, for their part, captured a sort of mundane magic:
They've been in the process of pulling out since before the Vision Pro was announced; HP was the canary in the coal mine, firing or moving around everyone they had working on WMR devices a year or two ago. When HP pulls out of a Microsoft initiative, it's over.